Re: [nlug] Let's see who gets the reference

2014-05-27 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
I didn't build a tesla coil and I got it. Of course it might be more telling of age though. - Original Message - Pretty obvious, it seems. Did anyone else build a tesla coil as a kid? Mine would throw an arc 2' in length. Curt On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:10 AM, John F. Eldredge

Re: [nlug] 185 TB tape?

2014-05-14 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:08:04 PM UTC-5, Kent Perrier wrote: And have it replicated across data centers so that when a DC pukes on itself (power outage, backhoe incident, act of God, Godzilla vs. Mothra) its No Big Deal(TM) to business as usual. I think

Re: [nlug] 185 TB tape?

2014-05-14 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Domain_%28corporation%29) On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Steven S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.comwrote: - Original Message - On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:08:04 PM UTC-5, Kent Perrier wrote: And have it replicated across data centers so that when a DC

Re: [nlug] Help Wanted

2014-03-31 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - I really need to set up a mail server just to handle the mail from PowerSchool and our internal list serv. I somehow got one up and running, but how do I harden it so that someone doesn't relay from it? How do I keep everything backed up in case we have hardware

Re: [nlug] Why won't my server do DNS lookups??

2014-03-27 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Shall research what to do with NetworkMangler to get the search line in resolv.conf +1 on the NetworkMangler name. Can't stand that service on a non mobile device. -- Steven Critchfield cri...@basesys.com -- -- You received this message because you are

Re: [nlug] Why won't my server do DNS lookups??

2014-03-26 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Have you checked the entries in /etc/nsswitch.conf - Original Message - One of a whole mess of CentOS servers does not resolve DNS addresses. I've set this up like so many others. DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static DNS1=192.168.21.1 GATEWAY=192.168.21.254 HOSTNAME=dev2

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [nlug] Java heap space

2014-03-13 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
While I would possibly cheer lead for Puppet, I don't think I would have specified anything down to the specific kernel version. I would have looked at dependencies for the tools, and specified all of that, but the kernel is just supposed to work. - Original Message - Puppet is great,

Re: [nlug] [OFF TOPIC] Comcast ClearQAM is gone. What now?

2014-02-28 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - I've received some letters from Comcast lately, explaining that they were no longer going to be broadcasting any analog channels over the wire and clients would need cable boxes (DTA's) to tune in channels. I (foolishly) believed that they were going to leave the

Re: [nlug] DNS attack mitigation suggestions?

2014-02-27 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Hi guys, I have had a problem with non resolvable IP addresses hitting my DNS server (running BIND9) and eating up bandwidth. I am sure there is some instructions on how to assure the IP numbers resolve, but I apparently missed the instructions. Some of those

Re: [nlug] How to limit bandwidth to a particular device

2014-02-19 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - I found that the Zonet router I am using (no longer made) has a 'bandwidth' option, where it will limit bandwidth to particular IP addresses, and even on DHCP, you can bind an ether address to a particular DHCP IP adresse, giving a 'fixed' address to equipment.

Re: [nlug] Weird CentOS 6 Bash/Grep issue

2014-02-19 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
tail -f /var/log/pfsense | egrep -e '\.25\:' -e '\.465\:' -e '\.587\:' | grep -v '192\.168\.0\.71' Just a thought, in the final grep, remove the back slashes, and add -F to the flags. -F should turn off the regex matching, therefore do simple string match and not interpret the periods as wild

Re: [nlug] Weird CentOS 6 Bash/Grep issue

2014-02-19 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - OK, the mystery shifts. If I don't setup the real time (sub-level child?) with the '-f' and just do a same level operation such as: tail -500 /var/log/pfsense | egrep -e '\.25\:' -e '\.465\:' -e '\.587\:' | grep -v '192\.168\.0\.71' it works as desired!

Re: [nlug] Weird CentOS 6 Bash/Grep issue

2014-02-19 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
] On Behalf Of Steven S. Critchfield Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 12:02 PM To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [nlug] Weird CentOS 6 Bash/Grep issue - Original Message - OK, the mystery shifts. If I don't setup the real time (sub-level child?) with the '-f' and just

Re: [nlug] How to limit bandwidth to a particular device

2014-02-19 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Right, QoS is about prioritizing packets so that certain streams see a better pipe. It does not however traffic shape. That would require a bit more effort and some work like in the linux kernel. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Traffic-Control-HOWTO/#o-tokens - Original Message

Re: [nlug] How to limit bandwidth to a particular device

2014-02-18 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Last time I looked at this problem, there are a couple ways to deal with it. On linux, you can drop packets from a device into a bucket, and then prioritize the buckets. This will give the bandwidth hogs all the bandwidth that is left over after all other traffic is handled. Of course you can

Re: [nlug] Training systems for OpenStack and/or Puppet

2014-02-06 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Does anyone have some VMs or systems that they wouldn't mind me using to train on these technologies? If it were anything besides these, I'd use my own Linux boxes, or an Amazon EC2 instance. If I remember correctly, openstack uses HP's cloud to do testing. They

Re: [nlug] bash command of the day: column

2014-02-05 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Consider when you type mount ( at least on OSX) $mount /dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled) devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse) map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse) map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse) it gave

Re: [nlug] bash command of the day: column

2014-02-05 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - On 02/05/2014 12:42 PM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: - Original Message - Consider when you type mount ( at least on OSX) $mount /dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled) devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse) map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid

Re: [nlug] OT: ah vengence is a dish served up in Hindi!

2014-01-29 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - I'm sure he thought he had a live one with me. Just as he was trying to get me to bring up Teamviewer so he could help me fix things, I started rattling off down the list of words above. He got very tripped up, and finally let fly a whole barrage of cursing, but

Re: [nlug] Internet pricing

2014-01-28 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Just heard from my friend in Taipei again. He says the Taiwanese people aren't actually very happy with their Internet pricing. Huh? No, they're envious of the people in Japan who have higher speed at a somewhat higher price. 2 Gbps for $50/month? What on earth do

Re: [nlug] Internet pricing

2014-01-27 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - I've always heard the rumor that it's cheaper due to being a smaller country so lower infrastructure costs. But I'd love to have that cheap of service. Just a bit of critical thinking, This is the internet we are talking about. What does the size of ones country

[nlug] Exciting times

2014-01-24 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Anyone else noticing the large number of experimenter boards showing up running ARM CPUs capable of running linux? Most should know of Raspberry Pi, and few have heard of Beagle Bone and the black variant. But recently I have seen the ODROID range, and the latest one I have found is Radxa

Re: [nlug] Exciting times

2014-01-24 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - ARM is great and I love working with it, however, I simply cannot wait to get my hands on an Edison! http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/edison.html The Intel Edison board features a low-power 22nm 400MHz IntelĀ® Quark

Re: [nlug] Video recording of presentations?

2014-01-23 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
youtube would be fine as long as they consistently went to an NLUG account that say people could subscribe to. Who knows, it could become a revenue generator for the club. Maybe work on a stylish nlug logo to overlay into the video to improve self advertisement. Should easily allow for David's

Re: [nlug] Edison

2014-01-13 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - To get wearables to be used, we need some ideas to implement and apps. Everything from health monitoring of various kinds, including personal and environmental. (kind of full body EKG, and temperature / gas monitoring), possibly blood O2 sensors in socks or other

Re: [nlug] Edison

2014-01-10 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
While a cool idea, I think Intel crippled it's offering out of the gate. Edison is only 400mhz. The current crop of wearable arm systems are all multicore Ghz plus beasts in comparison. Intel hasn't proven they are willing to price appropriate for the speed these devices actually run. They are

Re: [nlug] Disaster recovery site

2014-01-07 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Someone mentioned Sunguard. They are decent. In the 10+ years I have had access to their colo, it has become less helpful. They have been good solid network, and space providers. They do have space available in the colo, and they have cube and meeting space for your DR needs. They are a tad

Re: [nlug] Rut Roh! Linux ssh attack.

2013-12-19 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
They don't describe how the initial attack/infection happened. They only describe how after infected, the machine is controlled. Seems useless as a news article. Makes me wonder what kind of traffic they could be trying to get you to filter out. The only seemingly actionable item they gave is

Re: [nlug] Ubuntu 13.10 - anybody noticed?

2013-10-18 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - On 10/18/2013 12:18 PM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: I think I noticed Wednesday. We where playing a trick on a coworker, putting a ubuntu live disc in his machine for when he cam back from a nearly two week vacation. I took the ISO, used dd to put it on a USB

Re: [nlug] Decent rack mount sever needed

2013-10-08 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Depends on what your friend is looking to actually accomplish by having bought local. Is he looking for support? Is he looking for longevity of the company? It is likely if he went to a local store, they would order the parts for him and put the machine together. Some place like PCDude or

Re: [nlug] Looking for volunteers for Nashville Maker Faire!

2013-09-17 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
But can you make something of it? - Original Message - That's not a problem -- it's an opportunity! On Friday, September 13, 2013 2:02:37 PM UTC-5, Tilghman Lesher wrote: The only problem, Matt, is that it's the same weekend as PhreakNIC. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:11 PM,

Re: [nlug] Signature pad

2013-09-10 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
I though Duck hunt was only interested in hit or miss, so it only flashed a block over the target area. If the gun saw the flash at the time it was supposed to be displayed, you had a hit. It didn't bother with the rest of the screen. You could usually see the block around the duck flash as

Re: [nlug] Unexpectedly learning something new in Linux through typos! :)

2013-07-10 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Haven't looked too deep on that yet, but it looks like it is similar to lsof. Some of the flags in lsof can limit down to TCP or such connections too. - Original Message - Isn't strange how in Linux, a typo or incomplete backspacing will sometimes yield the discovery of a heretofore

[nlug] IPv6, what to do now?

2013-05-29 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
The other night I was updating my Debian install and noticed the addresses started showing up as IPv6. So I once again looked at what the status was for IPv6 in Nashville on Comcast was. I found one sliver of hope that we would have it by seeing someone's googlemap pointing at Nashville. No

Re: [nlug] [OT] several years ago on nlug a unix admin for the traffic cameras posted on this list

2013-03-28 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - On 03/28/2013 02:43 PM, andrew mcelroy wrote: When we were doing the police report, the police didn't particularly seem too interested in any video. I'll give this a shot. Those traffic cameras are not particularly real time. They are more like

Re: [nlug] Changing eth0 to eth1?

2013-03-19 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Under centos/redhat, I know I have seen a few that lock the MAC address to the specific eth device. It was part of a config file. Caused all kinds of annoyance when cloning machines and the mac would change and then the eth would be incremented and the network wouldn't come up. I know that

Re: [nlug] Inexpensive Computer

2013-03-05 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Big deal here to watch out for is what is the possibility of flashing new roms to it. We use one here at the office called a smartstick for displaying our HUD. The HUD was originally driven from a PC in a closet with some really long cables. Then we moved to a raspberry pie, and now the

Re: [nlug] I wanna be a Sys Admin when I grow up...

2013-02-12 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Agree with the no certifications as well. Agree with the learn shell scripting and any other scripting languages. Add learn some of the tools that automate sys admin like puppet and the like. Systems admins, while not always considered developers, must do some development work. If you aren't

Re: [nlug] web site statistics

2013-02-07 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Webalizer is basically the same as AWstat. Those are great at handling the log analysis. Someone mentioned Google Analytics, this is good at knowing something abut the speed of getting all the content out to the client machine. Current employer is also using a tool call New relic to track a

Re: [nlug] Tip Of The Whatever: lsof

2012-12-18 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
So you show two command separated by the semicolon. The second one can be shortened to lsof -i just like you can look for what has control of the http port by doing lsof -i:80 I am not certain the first command does what you report. top is a command to look at processes. In fact, the

Re: [nlug] Tip Of The Whatever: lsof

2012-12-18 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.com wrote: I am not certain the first command does what you report. top is a command to look at processes. In fact, the command as you posted fails at the option to top. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG

Re: [nlug] DIY line level mixer

2012-11-21 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - I have several machines hooked to a KVM. I would like a device to connect all the line level sound outputs to, then feed them to one set of amplified speakers. The only reason for DIY is to keep it 'cheap', but I would consider commercial solutions too.

Re: [nlug] Adding reverb to audio input

2012-11-20 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - = I use XFCE4-mixer to mix the music and voice input = Voice input comes from an external mic, plugged into the MIC input of the sound card. So... what is my objective? All I want to do is add reverb to the audio input, but not the music. It seems that it

Re: [nlug] Nexus 4 or ???

2012-11-13 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Hi All, I know I have asked on this before, but I am STILL debating all the viable choices. I am a little concerned about the Nexus 4 not having LTE, but really like the sound of the new phone a lot. Can anyone here comment on coverage for T-Mobile's HSPA+42 in

Re: [nlug] Nexus 4 or ???

2012-11-13 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
the nexus4 but lighter and with expandable storage and lte. On Nov 13, 2012 1:18 PM, Steven S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.com wrote: - Original Message - Hi All, I know I have asked on this before, but I am STILL debating all the viable choices. I am a little

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-10 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Not exactly, I have two sprint phones And a virgin mobile hotspot. It seems like virgin used an older iteration of 3g as I can use the phones for data where the hotspot is several miles out of coverage. The coverage locator on their site seems to be fairly

Re: [nlug] Local co-location

2012-10-04 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - The boss says get me three quotes for locating a half rack of servers with a 20 amp circuit and 8-10mbs network. We'll be installing our servers. Looking for Metro Davidson or surrounding so we could be hands on within a couple of hours (i.e. not Knoxville, Memphis

Re: [nlug] Local co-location

2012-10-04 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - On 10/04/2012 07:34 AM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: - Original Message - snip With the cost of actual hardware maintenance, and such. Now days I see more benefit to the cloud offerings. If you don't have regulations saying how your data

Re: [nlug] Yet another plaint from your not so super SysAdmin

2012-09-18 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Csaba is sending you down a good path. There is a rpm command, I think something with a -q option to verify the hashes of the installed files. Start with the package containing a2ps, then work out to anything that it depends on. Back when Rick Bradley and I worked together, we had this happen

Re: [nlug] transition from RHEL 5.2 to current CentOS

2012-08-09 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
I have done fresh installs from software meant for Centos5 to Centos 6, but the Centos5 was already 5.7 or 5.8. Main thing I know about Centos6 is that you get upstart by default. Even with Centos6, I notice they are still in the 2.6 kernels. They are starting to look old even compared to

Re: [nlug] transition from RHEL 5.2 to current CentOS

2012-08-09 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
supporting in the idea that it keeps just working. About to look into building another though. - Original Message - On 08/09/2012 07:39 AM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: I have done fresh installs from software meant for Centos5 to Centos 6, but the Centos5 was already 5.7 or 5.8

Re: [nlug] Raspberry Pi BackupPC?

2012-08-06 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - The Pi has 256M of RAM and works surprisingly well as a graphical desktop. I find it about par with my Lemote Yeeloong 8089 (which has a gig of RAM). The ARM (and MIPSEL) distress are both second class citizen in the Debian world, so you might not find packages

Re: [nlug] Raspberry Pi BackupPC?

2012-08-01 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
While I have a PI available for me to play with, I haven't gone too far down playing with it yet. Belongs to work, and I don't want to take it home right yet. One of the thoughts I had about the memory issue is that the PI has GPIO pins much like an arduino does. It might not bee too difficult

[nlug] Nice upgrades

2012-07-20 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Just had a task to get our daemon here up and running like the others in the system. This gave me a nice excuse to go learn upstart. I know CentOS6 and Newer Ubuntu have it by default. I had been tripping over the init scripts complaining about me accessing them directly. First impressions are

Re: [nlug] Nice upgrades

2012-07-20 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - On 7/20/12 10:54 AM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: Just had a task to get our daemon here up and running like the others in the system. This gave me a nice excuse to go learn upstart. I know CentOS6 and Newer Ubuntu have it by default. I had been tripping

Re: updated terms WAS: Re: [nlug] Re: [libre issue] has cisco cross an ethical line in software?

2012-07-06 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Steven S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.comwrote: I need to start using something like Rick Bradleys bill diff to compare TOS upgrades and see what is actually changing. This already exist: http://www.tosback.org/timeline.php

Re: [nlug] Linux Cluster

2012-07-06 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - I was on Skype for a while with a friend last night. He has not really used Linux for very much before, but he is interested in trying out a Linux cluster with six Fujitsu Siemens rx100 s4. He tried CHAOS, but a) it said it didn't detect the network card

Re: [nlug] openstack

2012-05-25 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Somebody set me straight - we've talked some about virtualization and we've talked about clouds (cue the Joni Mitchell / Judy Collins). At some point I'll resume my inquest into tightly coupled clustered virtual systems. Openstack essentially abstracts the

Re: [nlug] trying to single-user boot a system

2012-05-02 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Okay guys, I'm counting on you :) Jack alluded to my having a new job; systems admin in Nashville. We have a Fedora 13 (ominous as a starting point, no?) box that is our primary firewall. Somebody changed the root password and then left. I have complete access

Re: [nlug] trying to single-user boot a system

2012-05-02 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Failing to get to grub will then cause me to boot the machine from a live disk and go at things that way. The custom here seems to be to create a boot partition and then lump all remaining space into lvm. I don't know who's bright idea that was... Howard

Re: [nlug] Update a OpenSSL...

2012-03-29 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
If you know of a newer repo that has the package you need in it, you should look at pinning. It allows you to add new sources but only pull from them if you have to and if you requested them. It lets you partially upgrade systems. So like in Debian you could choose to stay stable or testing,

Re: [nlug] Select XMPP_knowledge from nlug_members;

2012-03-22 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
I know very little about XMPP. I haven't had to admin it outside of what is necessary as part of Zimbra. - Original Message - On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Kent Perrier kent.perr...@gmail.comwrote: Error! No data returned! I know if Critch is still on this list, he has to

Re: [nlug] SSL Certificate Warning

2012-03-01 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Does this help? http://blog.redbranch.net/2010/03/04/certwatch/ - Original Message - Tried that. Nothing there. Bruce On Mar 1, 2012, at 9:22 AM, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: Bruce, Have you tried running crontab -e on the server as both yourself and as root? It will show

Re: [nlug] Suggested brand of Disks...

2012-02-29 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/29/wd_sells_3point5_to_toshiba/ Heh, WD is selling at least some of it's 3.5 HD operations to Toshiba so it can buy Hitachi. Quote from end of article Roughly speaking, the HDD industry will divide into three players in a 40-40-20 split: Seagate will have

Re: [nlug] Accessibility

2012-02-06 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
I always wanted to try out one of these. http://www.handykey.com/ Or any of the other chorded/chordic keyboards. - Original Message - Hey everyone. I wanted to see if anyone had input. On August 27 I was riding my bicycle down highway 31 just south of Spring Hill when a guy feel

Re: [nlug] Backups ... bah humbug

2012-02-03 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Feb 3 07:16:11 nomad kernel: [73036.352152] usb 1-1.4.4: USB disconnect, address 6 Once you are disconnected, you might as well pull the cable. Problems you might be facing could be cheap adapter, or power related. Something caused the adapter to reset and become

Re: [nlug] SSH server client help

2012-01-30 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
a quick google search of conf_def.c makes me think this is openSSL related. Noting there is a bug in openSSL being patched within the last few days, maybe you need to target that as well. - Original Message - Hello everyone, I'm having a problem with one of my fc15 machines. First

Re: [nlug] Stand Up Desks

2012-01-25 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
The only way a tread mill would move by human only is at a fairly decent angle. Otherwise you would need a barrier of sorts to push against. So generating electricity from a tread mill is actually fairly non likely. Go for an eliptical machine or a stair machine and you get the same function of

Re: [nlug] Exchange alternative

2012-01-25 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Zimbra is mostly opensource under the hood. The admin UI is pretty easy to get on with. As for flexibility, that is what the zimlets are for. if you need something programmed, they have an interface for that. - Original Message - As it stands now, the startup I'm working with uses

Re: [nlug] Laptop repairs...

2012-01-03 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
or not, it is still your pieces parts. Dave On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 09:54 -0600, John F. Eldredge wrote: Steven S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.com wrote: GF's laptop has been subjected a couple of times to being doused in water due to plumbing problems. Each time we just pulled

Re: [nlug] New listener long time user :-)

2012-01-01 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - In January I will be doing an asleep at the prompt regarding subshells. IMHO they are very under utilized. Consider the following brain hurt. diff (diff foo.txt bar.txt) (baz.txt blah.txt) There are more useful use cases (like git) for subshells, but

Re: [nlug] My distro is better than your distro!

2011-11-10 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - On 11/10/2011 11:11 AM, Greg Donald wrote: RedHat needs to suck it up and switch to apt. Is apt a package format like rpm and deb? No, it's not. So, why does everyone complain about rpm vs. deb package formats when what they actually have an issue with the

Re: [nlug] My distro is better than your distro!

2011-11-09 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
I still don't understand anyone's interest in a rpm based distro. - Original Message - Just loaded Fedora 16 this morning.. so far very nice... On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Will Drewry w...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: To

Re: [nlug] Amazon MP3s

2011-10-19 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
An additional option would to look up pinning on debian based systems like Ubuntu so you could selectively upgrade parts of the OS to install those newer things. - Original Message - Robert had the right answer! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [nlug] Once upon a time...

2011-10-18 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Net booting is nothing special if your netcard supports it. Trouble with a local cache would be how would you know when the central image changed? Essentially, if you cached a local copy and are not the only one accessing the filesystem, you do not know when the remote file changed. Normal

Re: [nlug] TABEL-10

2011-09-27 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Cool, already have plans for that day, but also you have a incorrect date in the lower data. Started to think it was just highly delayed. - Original Message - This Saturday, 10/01 we are planning to launch another high altitude balloon from my house in Mt. Juliet, TN. The plan is to

Re: [nlug] Looking for VPS recommendations

2011-09-21 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
CPU emulation means full OS stacks on top of another OS. VPS if done like vserver or similar setups means 1 OS stack, and partitions to make the one kernel look like it is all yours. Benefit to a partitioned approach is one scheduler for all CPU cores and 1 schedule for all disk IO. Even just

Re: [nlug] Perl SOAP Question

2011-08-30 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Paul, you have left out some key items on what you are trying to accomplish. At my current day job, we used SOAP with SOAP::Lite pretty extensively. What we found though was that if perl was the consumer of the SOAP interface, everything was very loose on complaining about standards. But as we

Re: [nlug] NEVERMIND! Looking for Nagios plugin documentation

2011-07-13 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Reading HTML email ftl... Andrew had that in it but he made it look like a tag to your HTML renderer. Having fun with HTML can be fun - Original Message - And the crowd goes wild!!! -Original Message- From: Andrew Farnsworth Sent: Jul 13, 2011 2:54 PM To:

Re: [nlug] Using Postfix to Spool mail for Exchange rebuild

2011-07-12 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
First of all, if you are trying to provide access to those emails while your Exchange solution is down, you have to replicate the exchange system. Read mail and all. Most users won't be too happy about any messages marked read coming back as unread when exchange spools it all up. While it

Re: [nlug] Cloud file server?

2011-06-02 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Heh, sounds like a marketing droid talked to them. Many of the cloud storage options are geared towards object storage. They are mainly a write once, read many type of storage. Mainly because you don't mount them, you request the object and get it. These are used for OS images and such in a cloud

Re: [nlug] hello, then.

2011-05-01 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - I finally got on the list. Good to be here. Anyway, anyone know some newbie friendly open source perl projects? Your question is not unwanted, but it is odd. Most opensource software is maintained by someone who has an itch to scratch. It is a bug that has

Re: [nlug] disk drive issues

2011-04-23 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
At $89, I would go buy a 1tb or so drive, and play from within linux. Specifically, take dd and clone the drive to a file so you can use loopback device on it. Then proceed with extracting out the partitions if you can. If the filesystem isn't hosed, you can just mount and copy away the files. If

Re: [nlug] Customer looking for IT systems inventory mgmt package

2011-03-17 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
When you mention nagios and cacti, maybe you might consider looking at Zabbix or Hyperic as well. - Original Message - Okay super managers, Have customer that has the classic management by out of date spreadsheet disease; that and a few fragment management packages. We'd like to

Re: [nlug] Desktop Selection / Firewall

2011-02-19 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - I've been looking/trying different distros as a desktop Linux install for a bit. There are things I like and dislike about all of them. I thought I would ask what you are using these days. (I know, close to inviting a flame war.) Ubuntu - I haven't used it much

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Years ago I put a squid server in to do just that for my family (a very slow connection to the outside world back then). But as Andy noted, there are certain secure and interactive applications that the caching proxy just brakes. Especially banking, stock market

Re: [nlug] Re: Internet kill switch

2011-02-10 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 19:38 -0600, Greg Donald wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Bill Woody woody39...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe we could let the government run the internet provisioning! It could easily be added to Obamacare!

Re: [nlug] [OT] cell phone advice

2011-02-10 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - My cell phone contract with Verizon will be ending soon, and I am considering switching to another carrier, since the CDMA technology used by Verizon does not allow you to use the Internet during a voice call. I am also dissatisfied with my BlackBerry Storm, and

Re: [nlug] git link I was looking for last night at presentation

2011-02-09 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Once you are into git, one of the sites I like using is, http://www.gitready.com/ - Original Message - Thanks Andrew, Your presentation last night was excellent. This is a good addition to the bookmarks. I have used git before, but was not that familiar with it. I appreciate the

Re: [nlug] Curious

2011-02-08 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:49 PM, David R. Wilson da...@wwns.com wrote: I am curious if anyone knows of any legitimate claim DHS has to being able to take down web sites by DNS modification? I don't know about you guys, but this is getting a bit old to me:

Re: [nlug] Internet kill switch

2011-02-08 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I don't want our government to be able to pull this business that Egypt pulled to quell rebellion by shutting off the Internet in the entire country (which is stupid and didn't work, anyway.) On the other hand,

Re: [nlug] Internet kill switch

2011-02-08 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - This is the Internet we're talking about, not smart people ;) There are a lot of systems connected to the Internet (like power grid systems and nuclear power plants) that certainly SHOULDN'T be connected to the Internet but they are... So, if they are connected

Re: [nlug] Re: Looking for the right program

2011-01-31 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Yes I realize the more people that are listening or watching. This is why I was looking for a VPN program. Something you need to consider, VoIP uses UDP because it is better to have a drop out during live voice calls than to introduce further latency waiting for a

[nlug] Job Billboard

2011-01-28 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Figured this was a good place to point out how far Linux has come in Nashville. Saw a billboard on I40/I24 west bound just after Fesslers and before Hermitage Ave. It was for Linux jobs at hostgator.com www.hostgator.com/jobs BTW, I have no knowledge of them other than seeing the billboard.

Re: [nlug] RDP the wrong direction question :)

2011-01-28 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
Remote access seems like maybe the wrong direction. Specifically, remote access will remove things like audio from the mix. Have you thought of installing vmware player(or whatever it's current name is) and a image containing a linux distro? Eliminates the network, yet still uses local hardware

[nlug] cloud services/comparisons -- Stopping the thread jacking.

2011-01-19 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
What I know of cloud services and implementations is really limited. Mostly in what I have had to be somewhat competent in making a opinion for work. Amazon has EC2 and storage via S3. This is for all I know a closed source system probably utilizing some OSS components. There is Eucalyptus,

Re: [nlug] Server Suggestion

2011-01-15 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - I'm looking to standup a simple server and want server hardware rather than just a white box. Performance is not really an issue but reliability and price are. Any suggestions? I can get a Dell T110 for under $500.00. I looked at HP but they are more expensive for

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
I would suggest first and foremost to not use VNC at all. VMWare offers some free options, and they come with a tool for connecting that will be less resource intense. Barring going that route for any reason, I would suggest using Microsofts RDP protocol to support remote login to the Windows

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux machine and you don't need graphical access to the server at all, you just need access to the appropriate ports from a remote machine. You might want to look deeper into that. While the webserver that

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Note that Vmware server appears to be on a sunset track though. With newer versions of linux, vmware server will probably continued to gradually have operational problems as VMware is no longer updating it to keep pace with linux and windows changes on the host

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