Re: [nlug] Latest recommendations for open source accounting?

2010-01-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
For what it's worth I think there is a web based version of quicken/ quickbooks. That's platform agnostic. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Jan 18, 2010, at 7:02 PM, Dave Manginelli dmangine...@comcast.net wrote: I'm considering dumping QuickBooks for open source accounting software again,

Re: [nlug] CentOS 5.4 weirdness

2010-01-19 Thread Chris McQuistion
Are you using an onboard NIC? Is it a Marvell chipset? I've noticed a couple weird things like this with very particular Marvell chips. (instance where things would looks correct and it wouldn't necessarily report problems, but it would not get a gateway or wouldn't pick up an IP from DHCP.) My

Re: [nlug] RE: January 30, 2010 - 2010.02 InstallFest Planning Meeting

2010-01-29 Thread Chris McQuistion
It's hard to say. We won't know what the weather will be like tomorrow afternoon. As for myself, I'm going to check the weather and road conditions tomorrow around 11 or 12 and if it looks fine, I'm going to go to the meeting. If it doesn't, I'll stay home. Chris On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:30

Re: [nlug] The Watkins Super Router

2010-02-09 Thread Chris McQuistion
Hmmm. The slideshow probably doesn't mean much to anyone who wasn't there for the presentation. I really wrote it as a presentation aid, so it is really lean on details because I talked about the details and just used the presentation to show the bullet points. I'd be happy to talk about the

Re: [nlug] RAID question...

2010-02-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
How exactly could this happen in the real world? I imagine that the most recently attached drive would be considered the master by the RAID controller and would be used to rebuild the other drive, but I'm just guessing since that seems to be the logical thing to do. Chris On Thu, Feb 18, 2010

Re: [nlug] Cisco Router/Switch

2010-02-22 Thread Chris McQuistion
I have an old Cisco 2514 that I would like to give away. Someone gave it to me and I've never actually used it. Chris On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Kevin Marker kmar...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking at getting my CCNA and was wondering if anyone had an old router or switch they would

Re: [nlug] Frustrating Apache SSL problem

2010-02-26 Thread Chris McQuistion
We ran into a problem with our SuSE server a while back, when we installed an SSL certficate. The server had two NICs and we had to configure one of the SSL lines to *:443 so it would listen on all interfaces. Perhaps you're having a similar issue? Chris On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Bruce

Re: [nlug] [Query] Setting up web-server + SMTP server on Linux

2010-04-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
Are you looking for a solid base that you can add components to and tweak to your heart's content or are you looking for a system where everything is pretty much already built and ready to roll? I think that's an important distinction to make early on. For ground-up projects, I like to use

[nlug] Thanks to Dave Manginelli for Wubi demo last night

2010-04-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to say thanks to Dave Manginelli for the Wubi demo last night. I came home and immediately installed Wubi on one of my Windows 7 computers and tried to use it to install Mythbuntu (which I've been meaning to try again). Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug with the Mythbuntu

Re: [nlug] Thanks to Dave Manginelli for Wubi demo last night

2010-04-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
If there is a way to edit the grub.conf, I can't figure out how to get to it, from Windows, to make that little modification. Chris On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Chris Faulkner cfaulkne...@gmail.comwrote: Just making sure... seems 64 bit gets no love these days... anyway to edit the

Re: [nlug] multiple Comcast connections

2010-04-20 Thread Chris McQuistion
Curt already chimed in about our setup, but I'll chime in with my two cents... You may want to call Comcast and find out if they have the new DOCSIS 3 available in your area. It recently became available in our neck of the woods and we actually switched from two regular cable modems (16 mpbs

Re: [nlug] Meeting Parking

2010-04-23 Thread Chris McQuistion
I park in the same parking lot as Curt. It seems like just as far a walk to get to the meeting, but it is a little shorter way back to the car from Pizza Perfect. Chris On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote: Where do most people park when coming to the

[nlug] Fwd: Senior Linux Position

2010-05-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
-- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Edwards medwa...@provisionsgroup.com Date: Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:51 PM Subject: Senior Linux Position To: I have a Brentwood Based client that's interested in a *Senior* Linux Engineer to review some of their infrastructure and provide

Re: [nlug] OT: help

2010-05-07 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've got an LSI U160 SCSI card (long, 64 bit PCI) and a cable and a couple 36 GB 15K Seagate drives, if you want them. They've been sitting in storage for years. Chris On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Chris Faulkner cfaulkne...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone have a Ultra 320 68 pin card and cable

[nlug] Anyone know what these httpd log messages might mean?

2010-05-07 Thread Chris McQuistion
I been getting the following messages in my Logwatch emails for a few weeks, now. These started after I took this RHEL 4 server and did a physical to virtual migration over to VMware. I then upgraded it to CentOS 4, since the RHEL subscription ran out. This server primarily runs as a web

Re: [nlug] Anyone know what these httpd log messages might mean?

2010-05-07 Thread Chris McQuistion
in east Tennessee does and has been pleased with it. I have been considering it myself but just have not had time yet to really dig on it. *From:* nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-t...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris McQuistion *Sent:* Friday, May 07, 2010 1:31 PM *To:* nlug-talk

[nlug] NLUG Meeting tonight

2010-05-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just a friendly reminder that tonight is our monthly NLUG meeting. Please go to www.nlug.org for more information and directions. As a reminder, annual NLUG Officer elections will take place at tonight's meeting. If you want to vote, don't miss this meeting! If you would like to nominate a

Re: [nlug] NLUG Meeting tonight

2010-05-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
Fortunately, they did not discover my secret allegiance to the Sith or my plan to dominate the galaxy and establish a new galactic empire. The new NLUG officers are: Chris McQuistion: President Howard White: Vice President Andrew McElroy: Treasurer John Eldredge: Secretary On Wed, May 12

[nlug] Fwd: PHP Referrals Needed, Fulltime Nashville, TN

2010-05-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jones, Angela (03930) angela.jo...@rht.com Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:15 AM Subject: PHP Referrals Needed, Fulltime Nashville, TN To: cmcquist...@watkins.edu cmcquist...@watkins.edu *Good morning. I am seeking referrals for a Senior PHP Developer

Re: [nlug] NLUG Meeting tonight

2010-05-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
. I am sure many members had no idea he is Sithy. This ofcourse all depends on what the definition of is, infact is. Andrew Bill On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:24 PM, andrew mcelroy sophri...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu

Re: [nlug] new members

2010-05-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
Meetings start around 6:00 and are usually about an hour and a half (then a lot of members go to the pizza joint down the street for BP.) Meetings are pretty informal with some introductions, a presentation, and chit chat about whatever topics people are interested in or need help with. Chris

[nlug] Free book worth checking out

2010-05-19 Thread Chris McQuistion
After the Software Wars by Keith Curtis. You can download the book in a number of formats, including a free PDF version. www.keithcu.com/SoftwareWars I heard of this book a while back, but just stumbled onto it, when I was searching through an eBook app. So far it seems really interesting and

Re: [nlug] Surviving the move to Windows from Linux

2010-05-21 Thread Chris McQuistion
Right clicking on the application in the task bar to move it doesn't work in Windows 7, because there are new jump lists for applications, when you right click on them. Windows 7 does have some nice shorcuts to place your windows, though. Click on a Title Bar and drag and drop at the very right

Re: [nlug] Surviving the move to Windows from Linux

2010-05-21 Thread Chris McQuistion
There's a similar product called katmouse, in case that one fits your needs any better. Chris On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Don Delp nesma...@gmail.com wrote: Found an application that fixes the ability to scroll a window that isn't focused.  It's a little different, in that the window

[nlug] June Linux Fest on 4th Saturday?

2010-05-26 Thread Chris McQuistion
Normally, our Linux Fests are on the third Saturday of the month, every 3 months. I'd like to recommend that we change to the 4th Saturday of the month so we can use our regular NLUG meeting (the 2nd Tuesday of the month) as the planning meeting for the Linux Fest. What do you think? (This month

Re: [nlug] June Linux Fest on 4th Saturday?

2010-05-28 Thread Chris McQuistion
of the event. I would appreciate it if someone (or a few someones) would volunteer to work on publicity. Any takers? Chris On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Russ Crawford russ.m.crawf...@gmail.com wrote: Chris McQuistion wrote: Normally, our Linux Fests are on the third Saturday of the month

Re: Re: [nlug] top posting - bottom posting

2010-06-07 Thread Chris McQuistion
Bottom-posting may be correct in some people's opinion, but look at it this way. How do 99% of the email users in the US reply to emails? Top posting. If almost everyone does top posting (for whatever reason, whether it be good or bad) then isn't top posting not only acceptable but basically

Re: [nlug] top posting - bottom posting

2010-06-07 Thread Chris McQuistion
Email and legality are two different things. There is no legal or illegal way of posting, so I don't think your example of people driving over the speed limit has any bearing on this topic. We aren't talking about something being legal or illegal, but just things that are social norms or

[nlug] NLUG meeting tonight at 6:00

2010-06-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
On my way... Chris Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more

[nlug] Presentation volunteers for Linux Fest needed

2010-06-09 Thread Chris McQuistion
Would anyone be interested in making a presentation at the Linux Fest (on June 26) about one of the following topics (or any other topic you're interested in)? - Getting Started with Linux (or something along those lines for beginners) - Using ndiswrapper to fix wireless problems (or other common

Re: [nlug] Samsung R620 Laptop wlan

2010-06-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
I'm not sure what security issue you're referring to. Do you mean that you had to configure your router to not use WPA security? Chris On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Jim Fuqua jimfu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the help Tuesday night concerning non-functioning wlan on my new laptop.  We

Re: [nlug] GRUB 2 Questions Possibly Answered

2010-06-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
That's really good to know. I've used REFit on dual-boot Mac/Windows systems. I didn't realize you could use that for dual booting to Linux, too! Chris On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Jim Peterson jim.sokytec...@gmail.com wrote: EFI is already used by Apple, and if you want to dual-boot one

Re: [nlug] GRUB 2 Questions Possibly Answered

2010-06-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
if that makes a difference. Jim On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 12:51 -0500, Chris McQuistion wrote: That's really good to know.  I've used REFit on dual-boot Mac/Windows systems.  I didn't realize you could use that for dual booting to Linux, too! Chris On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Jim

Re: [nlug] Presentation volunteers for Linux Fest needed

2010-06-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
So can I put on the website that we will have a presentation called Linux 101: Getting Started with Linux at 2 PM, by Joey and Andrew? Chris On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Howard White how...@usit.net wrote: On 06/09/2010 04:41 PM, JMJ wrote: On 06/09/2010 04:13 PM, andrew mcelroy wrote:  

Re: [nlug] Presentation volunteers for Linux Fest needed

2010-06-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
Excellent! On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:58 PM, JMJ roadr...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/10/2010 4:55 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: So can I put on the website that we will have a presentation called Linux 101: Getting Started with Linux at 2 PM, by Joey and Andrew? OK... got the work-related rumors

Re: [nlug] Presentation volunteers for Linux Fest needed

2010-06-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
Joey, what's your last name, so I can put your name on the site, along with Andrew McElroy, as the presenters? Chris On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:58 PM, JMJ roadr...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/10/2010 4:55 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: So can I put on the website that we will have a presentation

Re: [nlug] Presentation volunteers for Linux Fest needed

2010-06-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
Great! I'll get the site updated. Yeah, we'll have a projector and a laptop or two (and Google Docs for whatever slideshow format you prefer...) Chris On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:41 AM, JMJ roadr...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/12/2010 8:15 AM, Chris McQuistion wrote: Joey, what's your last name

Re: [nlug] HP ProLiant hard disks

2010-07-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
I have 3 Seagate Cheetah Ultra 320, 10,000 RPM, 36 GB drives that you can have, if you're willing to come pick them up. They've been sitting in a box for years and I'm never going to use them. The model # is ST336753LW. Chris On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT)

Re: [nlug] Online/Offsite backups for home Linux systems

2010-07-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
Something that might be worth adding to the list is CrashPlan. It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and has a couple different operating modes, including a peer to peer mode, where you can backup one of your machines to another one of your machines (on-site or off-site) for free. I've been using

Re: [nlug] dirty tricks from Microsoft

2010-07-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
All this talk about 'free' being possibly bad and having ulterior motives makes me a little confused. Isn't Linux and the Free Software movement all about 'free' (as in beer) just as much as free (as in speech)? How can the same people that applaud Linux being 'free' give Microsoft a hard time

Re: [nlug] Topics for next week's NLUG meeting?

2010-07-09 Thread Chris McQuistion
That sounds great! You want to present at the August meeting, then? Chris On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Greg Jones ci...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Thu, 7/8/10, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: Anyone got any ideas/requests for topics for next week's NLUG meeting? Chris I

Re: [nlug] Video card suggestions?

2010-07-30 Thread Chris McQuistion
When it comes to Linux, I always recommend Nvidia-based video cards. ATI has a very bad history of driver support in Linux. Chris On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Chris Faulkner cfaulkne...@gmail.comwrote: Not trying to sound like a nvidia fanboi, but the 9800's is a pretty good deal in the

Re: [nlug] Re: Comcast internet problems?

2010-07-30 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've got a Motorola Surfboard SB5100 that I bought in 2001 or 2002 and it has been rock solid. Comcast goes down from time to time, but I haven't actually had equipment problems (knock on wood.) Chris On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Chris Faulkner cfaulkne...@gmail.comwrote: Or, you could

Re: [nlug] Sad: Memory prices not dropping

2010-07-30 Thread Chris McQuistion
It might be because DDR3 has been introduced and some fabs are using capacity to make DDR3, instead of DDR2, so supply hasn't gone up, which is usually what makes prices go down. Chris On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote: Just looked at a memory upgrade

Re: [nlug] Topics for next week's NLUG meeting?

2010-08-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
Greg, are you still on for presenting at the August 10 NLUG meeting? Thought I would check in and make sure all systems are go! Chris On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Greg Jones ci...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Fri, 7/9/10, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: That sounds great

Re: [nlug] Room Reserved

2010-08-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
Thank you so much for being on top of this Paul! Chris On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote: I got an e-mail that our request to reserve MRB-III room 1220 (the room we have been using) was approved, from August 10 meeting through the December 14 meeting.

Re: [nlug] Topics for next week's NLUG meeting?

2010-08-03 Thread Chris McQuistion
Yeah, there is a projector and screen and Mac or Windows PC or VGA cable to hook up to. Chris On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Greg Jones ci...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 8/2/10, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: Greg, are you still on for presenting at the August 10 NLUG

[nlug] August NLUG Meeting reminder.

2010-08-09 Thread Chris McQuistion
Wanted to send out a reminder of our August NLUG meeting, tomorrow (8-10) at 6 PM. On the docket, Greg Jones will present on the tools and processes he uses in graphics arts and sculpture, including: Ubuntu Studio, Inkscape, GIMP, Scribus, MyPaint, A Wacom tablet, Agave, PDFs, traditional LAMP

Re: [nlug] the iPad Killing Intel?

2010-08-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
I hate reading these kinds of articles. It seems like analysts are always putting out stupid opinions because having an opinion (no matter how ill-informed) is what is expected of them. The fact is, there are more computers being sold every day, around the world, than there has ever been sold

Re: [nlug] Partition Management

2010-08-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
Another vote for Gparted. I've used it many, many times and have never had any problems. I don't usually defrag first. Gparted can move the data if it needs to. It makes partition resizing take longer, but I don't think there are any real data integrity issues introduced by not defragging

Re: [nlug] Blu-Ray support is here!

2010-08-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
Interesting, but this only brings support to BURN Blu Ray discs, not actually play back commercial Blu Ray video discs. Chris On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Jim Peterson jim.sokytec...@gmail.comwrote: Nero Linux 4 supports Blu-Ray now, so this is an exciting development for those with Media

Re: [nlug] [OT] DisplayPort to HDMI convertor locally?

2010-08-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
This isn't local, but we buy most of our adapters and cables from Monoprice. http://www.monoprice.com/products/search.asp?keyword=displayport+hdmix=0y=0 http://www.monoprice.com/products/search.asp?keyword=displayport+hdmix=0y=0 Chris On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Michael Schultheiss

Re: [nlug] Before I install Windows 7....

2010-08-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
When it comes to running Linux and Windows on the same system, it is always best to install Windows before installing Linux, since most Linux installers will detect the Windows installation and setup grub on the MBR appropriately. Of course, in your setup, it sounds like you've already got Linux

[nlug] www.nlug.org website?

2010-08-24 Thread Chris McQuistion
Has anyone looked at www.nlug.org lately? Is that big banner thing legitimate? Is that something that wikispot is forcing on the page or is one of our members behind that cause? Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this

Re: [nlug] dirvish troubleshooting

2010-08-25 Thread Chris McQuistion
There is probably a small mistake from your /etc/dirvish/master.conf or in the individual default.conf files (or their location.) Below is a copy of part of my home server's /etc/dirvish/master.conf (I've simplified the file by cutting it down to one bank and one vault.) *bank:* *

Re: [nlug] NIS/LDAP for Windows XP customer

2010-08-30 Thread Chris McQuistion
We use SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11) to do NT-style domains (because I hate Active Directory) and it uses LDAP so it can be tied into other systems. (You could just as easily use OpenSuSE but we needed Enterprise support, so we went with SLES.) Works fine with XP and Vista. Windows

Re: [nlug] Workstation not booting

2010-09-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
Maybe a bad SATA cable, bad power SATA power connector, or bad SATA settings in the BIOS (set to AHCI, when it should be legacy IDE or vice versa)? Chris On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Howard White how...@usit.net wrote: Likely a hardware problem; soliciting ideas on what to kick before

[nlug] This month's NLUG meeting agenda

2010-09-03 Thread Chris McQuistion
This month's NLUG meeting, on Sept 14, will feature David Krause who will present on IPv6 with a focus on the protocol itself (and less on a specific OS implementation. ) We will also have some brief planning and discussion of topics for our quarterly NLUG Linux Fest, to take place on Sept 25.

[nlug] Fwd: Jacob Lambert - Robert Half International

2010-09-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
Got a call from someone at Robert Half Technology today that is looking to fill several positions and thought someone on the list might be interested. Chris -- Forwarded message -- From: Lambert, Jacob (03930) jacob.lamb...@rht.com Date: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:33 AM Subject:

[nlug] Complete Google Android Guide

2010-09-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
Thought some people might find this interesting. There is now a complete guide to Google Android which you can buy in paper format, e-book format or get the online version for free. http://www.completeandroidguide.com/ (purchase the paperback or e-book)

[nlug] Topics for Sept 25th Linux Fest

2010-09-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
As mentioned at the NLUG meeting the other night, it's time to start coming up with some presentations/topics for the Sept 25th Linux Fest. Several were mentioned at the event, including the following: -Comparison of backup programs (Dirvish, BackupPC, CloneZilla) - (Howard White and I might be

Re: [nlug] Secondary for Email

2010-09-24 Thread Chris McQuistion
I think Bill is onto something, here. If your IP and DNS and MX records are not all 100% compliant and look above board, then a lot of email servers won't accept mail sent from you and may not deliver mail to you. If you could find a mail relay (for both incoming and outgoing), and you configure

[nlug] Reminder: NLUG Linux Fest tomorrow (Saturday, Sept 25th)

2010-09-24 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to send out a quick reminder about the Linux Fest to take place tomorrow, Sept 25th. It will be held at Watkins College, as usual, from 10 AM to 4 PM. There is more information and directions on the main NLUG sitehttp://www.nlug.org . If a couple people could commit to helping set

[nlug] Sr Linux Administrator position

2010-10-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
Thought someone out there might be interested in this. Chris -- Forwarded message -- From: Lambert, Jacob (03930) jacob.lamb...@rht.com Date: Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:31 PM Subject: Jacob Lambert - Robert Half Technology To: cmcquist...@watkins.edu cmcquist...@watkins.edu Chris:

Re: [nlug] tonight's presentation - GIMP

2010-10-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've got one. (I assume you're referring to the mini-displayport to VGA adapter?) Chris On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:22 AM, andrew mcelroy sophri...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings all, This is just a quick reminder that I will be presenting GIMP tonight. One small note, if anyone has a projector

[nlug] Reminder: NLUG Meeting tonight at 6:00

2010-10-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to send out a reminder about the NLUG meeting tonight, in case anyone missed the email from Andrew this morning. On the agenda will be a presentation from Andrew McElroy on the GIMP and we will discuss the recent Ubuntu release 10.10, Maverick Meerkat (I'll bring a laptop with it

Re: [nlug] Ubuntu for Server

2010-10-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
I'm using it as my offsite backup server (which primarily just runs dirvish backups over SSH). I haven't had any problems with it, but what I do is really basic. I primarily use RedHat based distros at work. Chris On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Dave Tomlin davetom...@gmail.com wrote: Is

Re: [nlug] OBIEE Lead - Columbus, OH - v...@javaji.com

2010-10-15 Thread Chris McQuistion
It's my mistake. I'm the one who approved them in the moderator panel. I saw that they were jobs and didn't pay too much attention beyond that (they are IT-related jobs.) I suppose there probably ought to be a line for the kind of job posting that we consider appropriate on this list. I'm not

[nlug] [JOB] Linux Systems Admin wanted

2010-10-15 Thread Chris McQuistion
-- Forwarded message -- From: Lambert, Jacob (03930) jacob.lamb...@rht.com Date: Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:57 PM Subject: Another Linux position To: cmcquist...@watkins.edu cmcquist...@watkins.edu Hey Chris. Hope all is going well. I have another position available that is

Re: [nlug] Re: Ubuntu for Server

2010-10-15 Thread Chris McQuistion
error from shpchp. Fun stuff! :). This is on two new gigabye motherboards. On 10/15/10, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: I've used Linux Software Raid very frequently on RedHat-based distros, but not on Ubuntu, specifically. Do you have any specific questions or issues

[nlug] Full disk encryption on Linux?

2010-11-01 Thread Chris McQuistion
Are there any nice full disk encryption systems for Linux? (How-To's would be appreciated) I'm familiar with TrueCrypt and it supports full disk encryption on Windows, but I haven't seen any guides for using something like that to do full disk encryption (or full partition encryption) on Linux.

Re: [nlug] Full disk encryption on Linux?

2010-11-01 Thread Chris McQuistion
is there with a disk install. -Charlie On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:58 PM, John Wolfe b...@onwav.com wrote: On 11/01/2010 03:42 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: Are there any nice full disk encryption systems for Linux? (How-To's would be appreciated) I don't have too much experience with full

Re: [nlug] Good i5/i7 MB for ESXi 4.x?

2010-11-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
We use Supermicro Server motherboards (Socket 1366) with onboard Intel Gigabit ethernet. This is the really important feature because VMWare doesn't have much support for Marvell or Realtek or any of the common (cheap) ethernet chipsets, except Intel. Chris On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:34 AM,

Re: [nlug] Good i5/i7 MB for ESXi 4.x?

2010-11-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
We use the Core i7 920 in our VMWare ESX/ESXi servers. It was the cheapest Socket 1366 CPU, at the time we purchase them. Chris On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Mark J. Bailey m...@jobsoft.com wrote: Which processor chris? Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: We use Supermicro

Re: [nlug] Good i5/i7 MB for ESXi 4.x?

2010-11-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
Generally speaking, Xeon's have more cache and more cores than their desktop equivalents and they sometimes have server-specific features before the desktop CPU's get them. Many server architectures require Xeon's for 4 way SMP and features like that. Those architectures involve a specific

[nlug] Cheap network cable tester

2010-11-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
No idea on the quality, but the price is right ($3 with free shipping) http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/41811/network-cable-tester-rj11-rj12-rj45-ns468 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: [nlug] Encryption

2010-11-17 Thread Chris McQuistion
+1 vote for TrueCrypt (on Windows systems, I haven't used it on Mac or Linux). Chris On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:28 PM, andrew mcelroy sophri...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Nathanael Ries nathanael.r...@gmail.com wrote: Our university is looking into encryption

[nlug] Off Topic - Anyone out there using Spiceworks?

2010-12-07 Thread Chris McQuistion
This isn't really Linux-related, but I'm wondering if anyone out there is using Spiceworks for network management or trouble-tickets? I'm considering it and would love to pick someone's brain. Please reply off-list. Thanks, Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[nlug] [JOBS] 2 SQL and 1 PHP Resource Needed

2010-12-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
Not sure if anyone on our mailing list fits this bill or is interested, but here are a few SQL/PHP jobs Chris -- Forwarded message -- From: Dover, Ray (03930) ray.do...@rht.com Date: Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:58 AM Subject: 2 SQL and 1 PHP Resource Needed To: cmcquist...@watkins.edu

Re: [nlug] Meeting Tonight

2010-12-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
Yeah. Sorry. I mean to send out a reminder this morning and got swMpes all day. We ARE meeting tonight. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Dec 14, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Justin W Elam justin.w.e...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote: I am assuming

Re: [nlug] NN and what it started as. (my opinion)

2010-12-15 Thread Chris McQuistion
I understand where you're coming from and I think I agree with most of what you're saying, but the part that worries me is the idea that this problem could be self-correcting by consumers voting with their feet, so to speak. Most Americans have 1 or 2 choices for broadband. That's it. I'm

Re: [nlug] Re: After the Meeting Tonight

2010-12-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
The first rule of NLUG is, you don't talk about NLUG! (Wait. That's not quite right) Chris On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Bill Woody woody39...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Bill Woody

[nlug] Need help with Logwatch errors from RHEL/CentOS Virtual machines

2011-01-03 Thread Chris McQuistion
For the past month or two, I've been getting the following excerpt in the daily Logwatch emails from two of our servers. *- Kernel Begin WARNING: Kernel Errors Present hda: task_in_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStat ...: 2 Time(s) hda:

Re: [nlug] tomorrow's meeting???

2011-01-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
It's official, then. We will cancel this month's regularly scheduled meeting tomorrow night. We will still plan to hold our January Linux Fest on the 22nd, assuming it has stopped snowing by then:) Chris Sent from my iPhone On Jan 10, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Howard White how...@usit.net wrote: On

Re: [nlug] Reminder: no NLUG meeting tonight

2011-01-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
tune-up. Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: Just wanted to send out a reminder that we will NOT be holding our regular NLUG meeting tonight, due to weather concerns. Paul Weiss, from Eucalyptus Systems, will do his presentation on Ubuntu UEC at our February meeting instead

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
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. Chris On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 14,

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
It does give you access to open a console. You may have to install a browser plugin and/or java, but you can open your virtual machines console with nothing more than a web browser. I used VMWare Server for years this way. Our VMWare Server didn't even run a GUI. Chris On Fri, Jan 14, 2011

Re: [nlug] Re: Server Suggestion

2011-01-19 Thread Chris McQuistion
Alex, is there any way you could do a demonstration about Amazon EC2/S3 some day? (Sorry to thread-jack, but I find Amazon's hosting really interesting and I'd love to see someone really lay it all out and show how it would work, from A-Z.) Chris On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Alex Smith

Re: [nlug] Flyer for Saturday's LinuxFest

2011-01-19 Thread Chris McQuistion
Excellent work as always! Chris On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Curt Lundgren verif...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, sorry this is so late. You may download the PDF at http://www.curtlundgren.com/NLUG_winter2011_flyer.pdf, and it's also linked on the NLUG site. See you Saturday! Curt

Re: [nlug] LinuxFest January 22!!!

2011-01-21 Thread Chris McQuistion
Yeah. We will be open. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Jan 21, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Howard White how...@usit.net wrote: Hey guys, Haven't heard any yellow bellied southerners complaining that they can't travel around Nashville. I am operating on the assumption that we are still on for the

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-21 Thread Chris McQuistion
Virtualbox is pretty decent for that sort of thing but I don't know what the status of that project is since Oracle bought Sun. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Jan 21, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist

Re: [nlug] Forgive me if this is in a FAQ...I'd like to post a position....

2011-01-24 Thread Chris McQuistion
That's fine. You can post here. Just put [JOB] at the beginning of the subject line. Chris On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 3:32 PM, bshore1998 br...@rrg11.com wrote: ...for our software company in Cool Springs on the board. Can anyone offer a link to do's and don'ts or should I post away? I'm

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

2011-01-28 Thread Chris McQuistion
We used to have this problem regularly and have minimized it to a very small number of incidents per year (out of dozens of Windows boxes) by making the following changes. First, we use Untangle (free) as a transparent filter between our network and the Internet and have the following free

Re: [nlug] Looking for the right program

2011-01-29 Thread Chris McQuistion
Skype is about as good as they get for VoIP applications. If Skype doesn't work well, I don't think a different VoIP app will work much better. Chris On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:28 PM, df9 df9...@gmail.com wrote: I used Skype to talk with my daughters overseas but I was not happy with the

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

2011-01-31 Thread Chris McQuistion
Along those lines, you could even try something like Ventrilo. It is very simple to set up. The server component will run on Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. The client software is Mac and Windows only. Chris On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Andrew Farnsworth

Re: [nlug] Internet kill switch

2011-02-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
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, what if we had some kind of

Re: [nlug] Internet kill switch

2011-02-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
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... Chris On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Steven S.

Re: [nlug] Internet kill switch

2011-02-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
While I agree with your assessment, you have to consider that a serious cyber attack could (and probably would) include multiple vectors and have multiple delivery mechanisms. We can't just blame the guy with a 10 year old Windows XP machine with no firewall. One thing Stuxnet taught us is that

Re: [nlug] Internet kill switch

2011-02-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
Your opinion is contrary. Your argument is invalid. Chris :) On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:46 PM, David R. Wilson da...@wwns.com wrote: I thought it was amusing yesterday when I tried to send one of my Congressmen a note about this legislation and how wrong it really is. The web site said my

Re: [nlug] Internet kill switch

2011-02-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
Very good points Tilghman. If there is one thing we can (probably) all agree on, it is that making more laws doesn't necessarily make things better! Chris On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Tilghman Lesher tilgh...@meg.abyt.eswrote: On Tuesday 08 February 2011 13:18:41 Steven S. Critchfield

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