JaxLUG March 2011 Meeting
When: Tuesday, Mar 15th 6:30pm
Where : Peak 10
Topic : Intro to Linux Kernel Firewall
Presented By: William L. Thomson Jr.
http://wiki.jaxlug.org
http://wiki.jaxlug.org/index.php/Peak_10
Perhaps someone could set this recording and streaming up to capture one
meeting and do a presentation for that meeting on all of the details on
how he/she did it?
Andrew
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Laura Hartwell wrote:
I would love to attend a meeting but they always conflict with my work
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 23:13 -0400, me...@aol.com wrote:
That is not bad idea. I too also miss to many meetings and it would
nice to have it live or better yet recorded and posted to the wiki.
Anyone is welcome to do such, my focus tends to be on making sure we
have a meeting, topic, and
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 23:22 -0400, Michael Potts wrote:
It was attempted at a previous meeting, however permission needs to be
obtained from the presenter (and the corporate sponsor if any). Due to the
late notice at the meeting where this was last attempted, this was unable to
be obtained.
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 09:45 -0400, Andrew Henderson wrote:
Perhaps someone could set this recording and streaming up to capture one
meeting and do a presentation for that meeting on all of the details on
how he/she did it?
Now that I really like! Do it and then present on how you did it!
I ended up on the page due to random clicking for no real purpose.
Though some what found the humor I wasn't looking for intentionally.
I must say I found the following to be quite laughable and
entertaining ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Tweet_contents
Let's also not forget that
Group,
I have Googled high and low to find an answer to this question with no
luck. I am trying to install the drivers for a Dell V313 3-in-1 on a
machine running Ubuntu 10.10 x64. The problem is that the installer
crashes because of the x64 architecture. Apparently, the installer
checks the
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 11:30 -0400, Michael A. Knox wrote:
Maybe a way to extract the .deb package?
dpkg --unpack foo_VVV-RRR.deb
dpkg-deb --extract foo_VVV-RRR.deb
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkgtools.en.html
--
William L. Thomson Jr.
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
Mike,
I downloaded and ran the installer - it appears to extract the deb to /tmp:
/tmp/selfgz10063/pkg/files/dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb
John Patterson
http://www.henrygis.com
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Michael A. Knox
michael.k...@knoxandassociates.com wrote:
Group,
I
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 10:26 -0400, Nathan Hamiel wrote:
Let's also not forget that Twitter and Facebook just helped overthrow a
couple of governments, so not all babble is pointless ;)
Pretty sure the concept of coup d'état was well established long before
Twitter or Facebook. People
I downloaded and ran the installer - it appears to extract the deb
to /tmp:
/tmp/selfgz10063/pkg/files/dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb
It's extracting to /home/rknox6245/lua_DwLX3M but it cleans itself up
when the installer shuts down:
rm -rf /home/rknox6245/lua_DwLX3M
Is there a way
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 09:38 -0400, Neo Taoist Techno Pagan wrote:
It's time to rebuild the firewall since I am still running IPCop stable -
and no updates since 2008. I have looked at many of the firewall distros and
have not really found one that I just want to use immediately.
I used to mess
It's the ultimate of elitism to say that the reason someone finds no value in
something is that they are not doing it right. I at one point had 4 Facebook
accounts and 4 Twitter accounts. I canceled most of them due to a lack of value
regarding my time.
The network as William says is a medium.
Mike,
I was able to grab the .deb out of /tmp with the installer waiting on the
Exit screen. the lua_ folder is removed by that point but /tmp is still
intact.
John
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Michael A. Knox
michael.k...@knoxandassociates.com wrote:
I downloaded and ran the installer
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 12:19 -0400, Nathan Hamiel wrote:
Oh wow, you do live in a bubble.
Not sure I would go that far, but we all live in some form of bubble one
way or another.
I am not sure why you threw the papyrus reference in there, you have
to know that is complete BS. First of all in
It's the ultimate of elitism to say that the reason someone finds no value
in something is that they are not doing it right. I at one point had 4
Facebook accounts and 4 Twitter accounts. I canceled most of them due to a
lack of value regarding my time.
That is not what I said at all.
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
Though doesn't have to be same meeting. We do have 9 more
months/meetings to go for this year. Volunteers for presenters and
suggestions for topics are wanted!
Unless you want me to present at every meeting in addition to spamming
your
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 12:56 -0400, Nathan Hamiel wrote:
It's the ultimate of elitism to say that the reason someone
finds no value in something is that they are not doing it
right. I at one point had 4 Facebook accounts and 4 Twitter
accounts. I canceled most
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:03 -0400, Andrew Henderson wrote:
Well, for what it is worth, I hope to do another presentation sometime
within the next few months when I have adequate time to prepare for it. I
try to make these things entertaining (video clips, demonstrations, etc.),
which
-Original Message-
From: William L. Thomson Jr. [mailto:w...@obsidian-studios.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:54 PM
Not everyone owns a computer, and some people are still illiterate. More so
when you start talking about third world countries. Think about the majority
of the
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:20 -0400, Mike Rathburn wrote:
Social networking isn't predominantly done on a computer - usually
it's done on a mobile device (yes, a computer, but you get the point).
Yes, and when it comes to vetting leads for like news purposes, that
becomes tremendously harder, as
Not everyone owns a computer, and some people are still illiterate. More
so when you start talking about third world countries. Think about the
majority of the populations of the countries who's governments were
overthrown :)
Yea, that started because of social networks. People who did have
I will say the value of these supposed social connections to someone you can
never meet is very low and nearly worthless. You don't really know anyone
until you meet them in person. Whether you believe that or not is up to you.
In my 17 years of experience with online communities, BBSes,
Exit screen. the lua_ folder is removed by that point but /tmp is still
intact.
Ahh, I wasn't looking at the /tmp folder while the installer was
waiting on the Exit screen, so I didn't see it sitting there. Thanks.
That let me get the .deb file, and now the printer works. I still have
to get
On Monday 14 March 2011 09:38:50 Neo Taoist Techno Pagan wrote:
It's time to rebuild the firewall since I am still running IPCop stable -
and no updates since 2008. I have looked at many of the firewall distros
and have not really found one that I just want to use immediately.
This is for a
William Thompson wrote:
You can always move binaries out of the path and then they cannot be
executed by anything.
The only problem there is that the installer writes it and then removes
it so fast you'd have to be really quick to get it moved in time!
-Original Message-
From: William L. Thomson Jr. [mailto:w...@obsidian-studios.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:33 PM
To: list@jaxlug.org
Subject: RE: [OT] Usefulness of Twitter
I would also hardly classify Egypt as an uneducated third-world
country, where the percentage of
I will say the value of these supposed social connections to someone you
can never meet is very low and nearly worthless. You don't really know
anyone until you meet them in person. Whether you believe that or not is up
to you. In my 17 years of experience with online communities, BBSes,
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:37 -0400, Nathan Hamiel wrote:
Yea, that started because of social networks. People who did have
computers got their neighbors who didn't involved.
They tried to start the same in Iran a few years back, and what was the
outcome of that? Again they just used resources
Nathan's arguments prompted me to create a twitter account.
I am so far behind on everything it isn't even funny. I do not see a
win in my immediate future.
You better get back to work Nathan.
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:37 -0400, Nathan Hamiel wrote:
Not everyone owns a computer, and some
Egypt was educating their people long long long before the U.S. even
existed.
That would be called a touché :)
--
*Nathan Hamiel*
http://hexsec.com
http://hexsec.comhttp://twitter.com/nathanhamiel
blog: www.neohaxor.org
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:44 -0400, Nathan Hamiel wrote:
Its also classified as a developing country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country
For someone who gets hung up on vetting and such you sure do refer to
Wikipedia a lot ;)
Yes because you can see the
Nathan's arguments prompted me to create a twitter account.
I'm glad to hear it. Nothing wrong with at least giving it a try.
I am so far behind on everything it isn't even funny. I do not see a
win in my immediate future.
Ha, yes. Having an open Twitter account means that someone can
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 14:04 -0400, Nathan Hamiel wrote:
Egypt was educating their people long long long before the U.S. even
existed.
That would be called a touché :)
Not really I am half Arabic. While there has been many things that came
out of the Arab world, including education. It
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:56 -0400, Michael A. Knox wrote:
William Thompson wrote:
You can always move binaries out of the path and then they cannot be
executed by anything.
The only problem there is that the installer writes it and then removes
it so fast you'd have to be really quick
Nathan Hamiel wrote:
I will say the value of these supposed social connections to someone
you can never meet is very low and nearly worthless. You don't
really know anyone until you meet them in person. Whether you
believe that or not is up to you. In my 17 years of
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 13:54 -0400, Michael A. Knox wrote:
Exit screen. the lua_ folder is removed by that point but /tmp is still
intact.
Ahh, I wasn't looking at the /tmp folder while the installer was
waiting on the Exit screen, so I didn't see it sitting there. Thanks.
That let me get
Mike, I think William means that you would actually move the 'rm'
executable. That way when the installer tries to run rm -rf the command
fails. Things would get wacky if it didn't get put back though.
John
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:16 PM, William L. Thomson Jr.
w...@obsidian-studios.com wrote:
Not really I am half Arabic. While there has been many things that came
out of the Arab world, including education. It has not been what it was
for some time. In fact of most of the Arab countries, guess where the
rich or royalty send their kids to be educated? :)
So being half Arabic gives
-Original Message-
From: William L. Thomson Jr. [mailto:w...@obsidian-studios.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:13 PM
To: Jax-LUG
Subject: Re: [OT] Usefulness of Twitter
Even more so, roads, modern day cities, etc. The list of what other countries
do to take after things we
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 14:32 -0400, Nathan Hamiel wrote:
So being half Arabic gives you a unique view in to ancient history?
No but the educational things the Arab world did for the rest art part
of ancient history. Which anyone can go and learn about, history of
taking a bath, algebra,
William Thompson wrote:
Porting stuff from 32bit to 64bit is not as straight forward as one
might think or assume. Not to mention most any 32bit stuff should run in
64bit, providing the necessary libraries are there.
True, but the problem here isn't porting the drivers to x64, but simply
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 14:41 -0400, Mike Rathburn wrote:
Egypt has roads and electricity where the vast majority of people are,
just like in America. Go to the middle of Death Valley, California
and you'll find about as much electricity as you'll find in the middle
of the Sahara desert.
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 14:50 -0400, Michael A. Knox wrote:
William Thompson wrote:
Porting stuff from 32bit to 64bit is not as straight forward as one
might think or assume. Not to mention most any 32bit stuff should run in
64bit, providing the necessary libraries are there.
True, but
-Original Message-
From: William L. Thomson Jr. [mailto:w...@obsidian-studios.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:52 PM
To: Jax-LUG
Subject: RE: [OT] Usefulness of Twitter
So misleading, Egypt is so far behind the US. Even in Cairo their poverty rate
is higher than in most US
Getting way off topic now even from Twitter ;)
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 15:08 -0400, Mike Rathburn wrote:
Been there twice.
As a tourist, or were you visiting and staying with family and/or
friends? Quite different experiences depending.
How were the roads? How did you travel, rent a car,
Who needs some goodies to play with?
http://jacksonville.craigslist.org/sys/2267217382.html
I've completed my move over to Amazon Web Services, so this behemoth isn't
needed any longer. Interestingly AWS has created their own little flavor of
Linux (Amazon AMI Linux), which looks to be nothing
-Original Message-
From: William L. Thomson Jr. [mailto:w...@obsidian-studios.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 3:50 PM
To: list@jaxlug.org
Subject: RE: [OT] Usefulness of Twitter
Yeah but as you very well know the molecular structure of a monkey cannot
possibly interact
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 16:59 -0400, Mike Rathburn wrote:
Yeah but as you very well know the molecular structure of a monkey
cannot possibly interact cohesively with the data, minus the
aggregate.
We know nothing about everything, we just think we do :)
There's a reason why intelligent life
-Original Message-
From: William L. Thomson Jr. [mailto:w...@obsidian-studios.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:07 PM
To: list@jaxlug.org
Subject: RE: [OT] Usefulness of Twitter
We know nothing about everything, we just think we do :)
Given that its a known fact we know more
On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 17:15 -0400, Mike Rathburn wrote:
We have much to learn from the animal world. Like harmony with nature and
balance, be it on land or in the oceans.
Is that your final answer? Wink.
I was just testing to see if there's an end to this,
Is there a reason it
-Original Message-
From: Steve Litt [mailto:sl...@troubleshooters.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:40 PM
To: list@jaxlug.org
Subject: Geek propaganda: was Usefulness of Twitter
Nice propaganda Mike, but these two websites reveal much more urgent
causes of the Egyptian
Wish I could be there, friend coming in from out of town. You guys have fun
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 9:40 AM, William L. Thomson Jr.
ad...@jaxlug.org wrote:
JaxLUG March 2011 Meeting
When : Tuesday, Mar 15th 6:30pm
Where : Peak 10
Topic : Intro to Linux Kernel
This topic would go under the category of pointless babble? lol
I haven't gotten to read all of this yet (lord knows, my reading skill
has increased by 2 already and I'm not even half way through) but
wanted to say that addiction to social media is a real thing. It
becomes evident in
Tonight I received a few questions about using distcc. Which once you
have things setup, if you want to see distcc in action. A good way to
test it out is by compiling a kernel.
make -j5 CC=distcc bzImage
or for Xen kernels
make -j5 CC=distcc
That will definitely use distcc, and it will let
Michael,
Probably not a help but I run AMD64 Debian Wheezy and also besides
having the 64 libs running, I installed the ia32-libs and ia32-libs for
GTK for any items which need the i386 libraries. Don't know if this
will help or not but worth looking into if you already haven't.
HTH
Whit
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