[nlug] Re: Need help with Traffic Shaping

2008-09-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would he be able to shape RTP somehow on its Type of Server (TOS) designation of 0xba (dec 184)??? --On Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:18 AM -0500 Steven S. Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Chris McQuistion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill

[nlug] Re: Rating the presentations (experience level)

2008-09-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
I like Curt's point. We all have something to teach and we all have something to learn. Linux, in general, and our user group, as well, is designed to be something that everyone can participate in, from both a learning and teaching perspective. I'll admit that most of last week's presentation

[nlug] Re: Hiring Systems Administrator in Nashville

2008-09-15 Thread Chris McQuistion
It is technically still available, but we have a strong candidate that we are considering. Chris ware wrote: Hey! Just now seeing this post and I was curious if the position is still available? Please let me know, thanks! -Jay On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Chris McQuistion [EMAIL

[nlug] Re: DNS Hijacking(?)

2008-09-25 Thread Chris McQuistion
Do you know about the big DNS vulnerability that was recently unveiled? It required that ISP's update their DNS servers or be vulnerable to some very serious hijacking. I use OpenDNS's servers. They are kept up to date and offer some nice little features like DNS name correction (say you

[nlug] Re: Possible Meeting Location

2008-10-17 Thread Chris McQuistion
What about the Hacker Consortium's place? Do they have the room for a meeting our size? Chris Andrew Farnsworth wrote: We just need to find a rich sponsor who will donate a piece of land and a building big enough to act as a meeting room, training room, server room, etc :-) Andy Bucky

[nlug] Re: State of Open Source Virtualization .. not a rant or flame war

2008-11-06 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've used VMWare, in the past, and I currently use Virtual Iron, because it has fairly simple administration and is far cheaper than VMWare, if you want the bells and whistles. The big reasons to use VMWare or Virtual Iron (in my opinion) is the nice gui administration tools and their ability to

[nlug] Re: Nashville Linux Users Group Meeting Time (6 or 7 pm?)

2009-01-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
I would MUCH prefer an earlier start time, for the reasons you've suggested. Chris John F. Eldredge wrote: Kevin Eldridge wrote: Hello NLUG, It has been said by quite a a few members at the meetings that 7pm is too late of a start time. This is because the meetings usually last until

[nlug] Re: Nashville Linux Users Group Meeting Time (6 or 7 pm?)

2009-01-09 Thread Chris McQuistion
Wow. You commute all the way from Hoptown? That's about 1.5-2 hours each way, isn't it? Don't they have a LUG in Clarksville or something? Don Delp wrote: If I get a vote, I'll take 6pm. I still might not be able to make it often, but it'll get me back to Hopkinsville a lot earlier at

[nlug] Re: Linux from Scratch

2009-01-17 Thread Chris McQuistion
I spent some time with Gentoo, too. Gentoo is similar to Linux from Scratch, in that you have to build everything. I spent more time, just trying to do the basic stuff on Gentoo, then I ever spent with any other distro. Dozens and dozens and dozens of hours, just trying to get a decent, working

[nlug] disregard last post

2009-02-01 Thread Chris McQuistion
Realized problem was that I did NOT have a hot-spare associated with that array (as I thought) so I could NOT afford to have 3 drives fail. I could only afford to have 2 drives fail... I'm hosed... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

[nlug] Re: DSL: Is it worth switching?

2009-02-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
I would stick with Comcast. Their service is MUCH faster than DSL. Here is the trick to getting a lower bill. I just did this a couple months ago. Call Comcast and ask for the customer retention dept. They will try to argue with you and see if they can help you with your problem. Stick to

[nlug] Re: DSL: Is it worth switching?

2009-02-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
cable service up to 16 mbps (and higher, I've heard.) Chris On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Perkins, Jerry je...@jperkins.us wrote: Chris McQuistion wrote: I would stick with Comcast. Their service is MUCH faster than DSL. It has been my experience that DSL is faster. This is from 6

[nlug] Re: Nashville Linux Users Group February 10, 2009 Meeting @ 6:00PM

2009-02-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
Ditto for me. I can't make it tonight, but I am VERY interested in the topic. Chris On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Jim Peterson jim.sokytec...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not going to be able to make it in, and I'd really like to be there due to subject matter. Unfortunately, I have prior

[nlug] Re: WTB various laptop parts

2009-02-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
I have some PC133 SO-DIMMS at the office. I'll check the capacity in a little while. I think they are all 256 MB sticks pulled from old Powerbooks, when they were upgraded. I'll drop you a line, when I've checked them out and you can have a pair for free, if you'll come pick them up. Chris On

[nlug] Re: WTB various laptop parts

2009-02-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe pmigne...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:47:12AM -0600, Chris McQuistion wrote: I have some PC133 SO-DIMMS at the office. I'll check the capacity in a little while. I think they are all 256 MB sticks pulled from old Powerbooks

[nlug] Re: BP Sunday, March 1st, 2009 at Mellow Mushroom Pizza

2009-02-28 Thread Chris McQuistion
I might be able to make it, but it will probably be 6:30-6:45. Chris On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Kevin Eldridge crash...@gmail.com wrote: Hello NLUG, We have not had a BP in quite some time, so let's have one and enjoy some BP at a fairly famous pizza place downtown, Mellow Mushroom,

[nlug] Re: Call For Presenters!!! -- Nashville Linux Users Group March 10, 2009 Meeting @ 6:00PM

2009-03-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
I could do a brief presentation on Clarkconnect, our Linux file/email/ftp/web server that we use a lot, here at work. I could also talk briefly about iSCSI distributions I've used and the pluses and minuses of them (Openfiler and NexentaStor.) I'd love to do a presentation on the super router I'm

[nlug] Re: Call For Presenters!!! -- Nashville Linux Users Group March 10, 2009 Meeting @ 6:00PM

2009-03-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
into a thoroughbred, but if you spend enough time and money, you sure can make a mighty fast pig On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: I could do a brief presentation on Clarkconnect, our Linux file/email/ftp/web server that we use a lot, here at work

[nlug] Re: sharing files without ftp

2009-03-05 Thread Chris McQuistion
One thought is that you could continue to use FTP, but just email your clients with direct links, including ftp://username:passw...@host.com/somefolder/somefile. That makes it easy for them because all they have to do is click the link you sent them. Of course, I don't the details of your setup

[nlug] Re: Bruteforce attack on my sshd

2009-03-05 Thread Chris McQuistion
We used to use some little homebrew project called bfd (brute force detection) that would basically check the logs every 10 minutes, see if there were a lot of invalid logins from a particular IP and then automatically create a firewall rule to drop all packets from that IP. This would remain in

[nlug] Don't forget that tonight's NLUG meeting starts at 6:00 PM

2009-03-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
Don't forget that tonight's NLUG meeting starts at 6:00 PM. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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,

[nlug] Powerpoint from last night's meeting on website

2009-03-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've uploaded the Powerpoint from last night's discussion of Virtualization and iSCSI to the website, for anyone interested. Chris --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this group,

[nlug] Re: Looking for the unlikely consumer grade product

2009-03-20 Thread Chris McQuistion
You may want to consider a typical consumer grade router, like a Linksys, but use one of the open-source alternative firmwares, like DD-WRT or Tomato. I've used both extensively. DD-WRT has more functionality, but is harder to use and (in some cases) less stable. Tomato is has a very good user

[nlug] Re: Solaris or Linux

2009-03-31 Thread Chris McQuistion
I have to agree with Kevin, whole-heartedly. I've seen this situation play out over and over, specifically with trying to get someone with (applicable) Linux experience. Solaris experience is even more rare. One thing that I do lover about Solaris, however, is the ZFS filesystem. That rocks,

[nlug] Re: Building a NAS

2009-04-01 Thread Chris McQuistion
I think you should go with Microsoft Server 2008. I think their having a sale, since it is April 1st. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I'll be the first to say it.. I would change the Operating System. I would also consider moving up to 1 Tb

[nlug] Re: Senate Legislation Would Federalize Cybersecurity

2009-04-01 Thread Chris McQuistion
Resistance is futile... On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:28 PM, crash...@gmail.com wrote: We control your internets. We control your televisions. We control your radios. Please remain calm as we take your home, vehicle, life from you. Do not resist. Do not struggle. The message was paid for by

[nlug] Re: Data security?

2009-04-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
I'll chime in with another vote for DBAN. The only thing I have to add is that DBAN (stable) supports most, but not all controllers. I have a second CD with DBAN beta that seems to support other (AHCI) controllers. Between the two of those CD's, I don't have any problem wiping drives. I

[nlug] Re: Data security?

2009-04-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
wrote: Interesting... I didn't know IDE did hot swap. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: I'll chime in with another vote for DBAN. The only thing I have to add is that DBAN (stable) supports most, but not all controllers. I have a second CD

[nlug] Re: Experience installing WAP

2009-04-03 Thread Chris McQuistion
Howard, why are you using WEP? WEP is totally broken and can now be cracked within 60 seconds! Please, please, please use WPA. In this installation, if they need two wireless networks, why not just set up one with WPA encryption called Private_Network and another one using no encryption (on a

[nlug] Topics/Presentations for tomorrow's NLUG meeting?

2009-04-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
Has anyone offered to do a presentation at tomorrow's NLUG meeting? If not, anyone got any ideas for presentations or discussions? Chris --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this

[nlug] Re: Wifi Issue

2009-05-06 Thread Chris McQuistion
I'm a big fan of the Linksys and Buffalo routers that are compatible with the open source firmware. We used these all over our campus (at Watkins College) for our campus-wide wireless network. We use the Tomato firmware (a few less features, but stable and simple to set up) and have our whole,

[nlug] Re: [OT]Windows security?

2009-05-06 Thread Chris McQuistion
I like to install Windows Defender on every Windows machine, first of all. It is actually pretty good and is self-updating and runs tests automatically on a regular schedule. Next, I usually install Spyware Blaster which performs spyware immunization of the machine and various browsers installed

[nlug] Re: [OT]Windows security?

2009-05-06 Thread Chris McQuistion
, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: I like to install Windows Defender on every Windows machine, first of all. It is actually pretty good and is self-updating and runs tests automatically on a regular schedule. Next, I usually install Spyware Blaster which

[nlug] Re: backup power advice

2009-05-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
My 2 cents on this topic: If you can do this small scale (and this may not apply to your situation) get a Kill-A-Watt and hook up each of your devices through it. It will tell you EXACTLY how may watts/amps/etc each device is actually pulling from the wall. You can test different devices under

[nlug] Re: LFS or Gentoo?

2009-05-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
I think there are some minimalist distributions, a la Puppy Linux and Knoppix that can be installed on a small USB/Flash drive and can be customized to your needs. That might be a little easier way to go. You will be able to change hardware platforms at will and you won't have to build it from

[nlug] Re: Wifi Issue

2009-05-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've started to see them for sale on Newegg and Amazon just in the past month or two. Chris On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Wayne Fay wayne...@gmail.com wrote: The Buffalo routers seem to have more transmission power, but they are sometimes a bit more expensive. You can get the Linksys

[nlug] Re: E-Waste recycling this weekend

2009-05-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
We're having a recycling event at Watkins, next week on May 21 and 22. The Green Earth Computer Recycling folks will be here with a few tables and such collecting recyclables including computers, monitors, servers, printers, copiers, TVs (limit 1), wires, cell phones, batteries, etc. on those

[nlug] Re: (!!!!READ THIS!!!!) Ideas To Grow Our Group From May 2009 Meeting

2009-05-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
I'm interested in an Install Fest. I think I can get approval to use some rooms, here at Watkins. I don't know how large to expect the event, but I can get 3 or more room that will handle about 20 people computers each. (Each room has Wifi and a projector, as well.) I assume we would hold this

[nlug] Re: (!!!!READ THIS!!!!) Ideas To Grow Our Group From May 2009 Meeting

2009-05-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
in! Jim Peterson Technology Coordinator Goodnight Memorial Library 203 S. Main St. Franklin, KY 42134 (270) 586-8397 www.gmpl.org Library Technology Blog http://jimmythegeek.livejournal.com On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 16:55 -0500, Jonathan Moore wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Chris

[nlug] Re: Multiple line SIP ATA

2009-05-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've got a couple options. Option 1 - Just buy IP phones and use those. Have all of them talk to the SIP provider and be done with it. Option 2 - Buy a VoIP appliance (there are lots of different ones) with enough analog jacks for your phones (or maybe a mix of analog and digital phones) and

[nlug] Re: (!!!!READ THIS!!!!) Ideas To Grow Our Group From May 2009 Meeting

2009-05-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
Good point. Something Russ mentioned to me off-list, was Myth TV. There seems to be a lot of interest in it and a lot of people that would love some hands-on help getting it set up. Perhaps a targeted kind of install fest, like a MythTV Install Fest (as just one example) would be a good idea?

[nlug] Re: INSTALLFEST (was Re: (!!!!READ THIS!!!!) Ideas To Grow OurGroup From May 2009 Meeting)

2009-05-19 Thread Chris McQuistion
Very interesting. I'm checking this out today! Chris On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com wrote: A great tool for installfests would be the Ultimate Deployment Appliance, a free VMware appliance that has everything you need for PXE booting unattended

[nlug] Re: (!!!!READ THIS!!!!) Ideas To Grow Our Group From May 2009 Meeting

2009-05-20 Thread Chris McQuistion
I think we've got enough bandwidth for Uustream or Stickam. It isn't two way conferencing, just unidirectional broadcasting. The viewers could chat back on IRC. Chris Sent from my iPhone On May 19, 2009, at 10:26 PM, sophri...@gmail.com wrote: On May 19, 2009, at 10:01 PM, Howard

[nlug] Re: Committee/Planning Meeting for InstallFest - May 28, 2009 6 - 8pm at Neely's BBQ

2009-05-27 Thread Chris McQuistion
Watkins College of Art Design. Know where the BBQ is; what time is the planning meeting. I have another meeting at 2000 on Elm Hill Pike. Chris McQuistion and Curt Lundgren are going to allow us to use 2 - 3 classrooms for this event. They are very kind to offer their facility and time

[nlug] Re: ***ATTENTION*** InstallFest On June 20, 2009 at Watkins College of Art Design ***ATTENTION***

2009-06-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
*Please do not worry, it will take that long to install Linux on your computer.* *I think you meant Please do not worry, it will NOT take that long to install Linux on your computer.* * * * * * * On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Kevin Eldridge crash...@gmail.com wrote: Hello NLUG, We have

[nlug] Re: power rating of mobo drive signal led connector

2009-06-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
I just threw my multimeter on the power led connector on my motherboard and it measured 5V DC. Chris On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:21 PM, ./aal aalh...@gmail.com wrote: any idea where one might find that? or if there is a standard level they all meet I have a case with no hdd led on it, but

[nlug] Re: power rating of mobo drive signal led connector

2009-06-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
wrote: thanks, but what is the power rating(watts) or maxCurrent On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: I just threw my multimeter on the power led connector on my motherboard and it measured 5V DC. Chris On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:21 PM, ./aal aalh

[nlug] Re: over-clocked ram

2009-06-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
percentage points. Chris On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: If you are a super-performance enthusiast with money to burn, then yes, overclocked memory is worth the extra cost

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread Chris McQuistion
I'm not a roll-your-own firewall kind of guy. I generally find a distribution that is already tailored to my needs and go from there. Over the years, I've used MANY different Linux-based firewall distros and a couple BSD-based firewall distros. In my experience, the BSD-based systems require

Fwd: [nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
*you can swat flies with a shotgun, but a flyswatter is better you can spread spackling with a flyswatter, but a spackle knife is better* you can kill zombies with a spackle knife, but a shotgun is better. -- Forwarded message -- From: ./aal aalh...@gmail.com

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
LOL! Actually, I really like Windows 7, too. It's no Linux, of course (pardon me, while I put on my flame-proof jacket...) On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Chris Faulkner cfaulkne...@gmail.comwrote: Flame me if you like but I really like Windows 7 so far...lol

[nlug] Reminder: Linux InstallFest tomorrow (Saturday, June 20)

2009-06-19 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to send out a reminder about the Linux InstallFest tomorrow (Saturday, June 20) at Watkins College. More details (and directions) at the NLUG website: http://nlug.wikispot.org/ If you're bringing a desktop computer, please remember to bring a mouse, keyboard, ethernet cable, power

[nlug] InstallFest ideas for next time

2009-06-22 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've been thinking about our InstallFest this last weekend and what worked well and what we can learn from the event and maybe do better next time. I've been passing this around the IRC channel for a little while and this is what I've got so far: - I think we need to do a better job of

[nlug] Re: Wireless (radio) access point question.

2009-07-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
Yes on both counts. For ease of use, just use the same SSID on all access points, but use different channels, where possible. Try to just use Channel 1, 6, and 11, as those are the so-called clear channels. If you have some close neighbors using any of those channels, then avoid them. Chris On

[nlug] Re: OT: Liquid Latex

2009-07-15 Thread Chris McQuistion
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Greg Jones ci...@yahoo.com wrote: My first question is what kind of liquid latex? Plaza Art carries a variety of liquid latex for molding and casting and they do have it in a gallon (I think it was $45ish a gallon). Those are from

[nlug] Re: Linus: Microsoft Hated is a Disease

2009-07-24 Thread Chris McQuistion
Very nice read. I have to agree with Linus entirely that Microsoft Hatred really is a disease. To be honest, blind Microsoft hatred and unproductive/unnecessary Microsoft-bashing are the two things that really put me off of the Linux community at times. Is Linux a better option for many, many

[nlug] Re: Blu-Ray on Linux

2009-08-03 Thread Chris McQuistion
Blu Ray (movies) won't play under Linux. It has a bunch of DRM wrapped around it and the only OS that can play Blu Ray movies (right now) is Windows. Mac OS X can't even do it, yet. Chris On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Jim_Peterson jim.sokytec...@gmail.comwrote: My brother is wanting to

[nlug] Re: Nokia N900

2009-08-28 Thread Chris McQuistion
There are some more Android phones coming out in the next few months. If I weren't hopelessly in love with my iPhone, I'd get an Androd, just not the G1. It has terrible battery life. Chris On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Michael Schultheiss schul...@gmail.comwrote: JMJ wrote: Who's

[nlug] Re: Flyer for LinuxFest

2009-08-30 Thread Chris McQuistion
The new flyer looks great! Thanks! Chris On Aug 30, 2009, at 10:46 AM, Curt Lundgren verif...@gmail.com wrote: The flyer for the September LinuxFest at Watkins College is available: http://www.curtlundgren.com/linuxfest_sept09_flyer.pdf (150k) If the PDF doesn't work for you, here's a

[nlug] Re: Mobile system suggestions needed

2009-09-03 Thread Chris McQuistion
Resistance is futile... Sent from my iPhone On Sep 3, 2009, at 6:20 PM, JMJ roadr...@gmail.com wrote: Ken Barber wrote: Two words: Macbook Pro. Sent from my iPhone You've obviously been assimilated. LOL JMJ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[nlug] Re: Mobile system suggestions needed

2009-09-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
7200 RPM *IS* worth it, in almost every case. Chris On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:32 PM, JMJ roadr...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Boniol wrote: Long term, other than having more to lug and keep up with I agree another laptop would be your best option given that the company laptop is a lease.

[nlug] Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
Wondering if anyone out there on the list might be able to shed some light on a problem I'm having with VMware ESX. First, the background... We are currently running what we call the Super Router, which is a CentOS 5 system with VMware Server installed (the free server version.) The system has 3

[nlug] Re: Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
, but it can't ping out to the gateway or any computer on the other side of the Untangle server and no host outside can ping in to the Windows host, either? Chris On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan Moore supermegat...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist

[nlug] Re: Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.eduwrote: That makes total sense. It should work and I tried doing that (creating a virtual switch with no actual adapter attached and connecting both VM's to that switch.) The strange thing is that ~some~ things sort

[nlug] Re: Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jonathan Moore supermegat...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: That makes total sense. It should work and I tried doing that (creating a virtual switch with no actual adapter attached and connecting

[nlug] Re: Need help with VMware ESX problem

2009-09-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
they are plugged into would have those VLANs configured so it could pass data from one host to another on any VLAN if necessary. Chris On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Jonathan Moore supermegat...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote

[nlug] Reminder and Request for Linux Fest tomorrow

2009-09-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to send out a reminder about the Linux Fest tomorrow, from 10-5 at Watkins College of Art, Design Film. There are directions and more details at the site (www.nlug.org). I also wanted to throw out a request for a couple volunteers to help set up and/or tear down. If you are

[nlug] Re: Reminder and Request for Linux Fest tomorrow

2009-09-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
Well that's a problem. Who is responsible for the web site? Chris Sent from my iPhone On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Justin W Elam justin.w.e...@gmail.com wrote: the www.nlug.org domain name has expired please renew at your earliest conveinence cheers justin --

[nlug] URGENT REISSUE: Reminder and Request for Linux Fest tomorrow

2009-09-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to send out a reminder about the Linux Fest tomorrow, from 10-5 at Watkins College of Art, Design Film. There are directions and more details at the site http://nlug.wikispot.org/. I also wanted to throw out a request for a couple volunteers to help set up and/or tear down. If you

[nlug] Re: Topics of interest for the Install Fest?

2009-09-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
. Would someone mind feeding me for my time? Food and some Mountain Dew perhaps would be all that I'd ask for my time. :) On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 13:26, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: Would you like to present on it? Chris On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT

[nlug] Topics of interest for the Install Fest?

2009-09-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
If you have any topics that you'd like to see demonstrated at the Install Fest (or would like to do the demonstration), please chime in.. There are some pages on there already for recommend a presenter and Brainstorm ideas for presentations. You can edit the website directly, with your ideas,

[nlug] Re: Topics of interest for the Install Fest?

2009-09-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've got ISO's here for CentOS, Fedora Core 11, Linux Mint, Openfiler, OpenSolaris, pfSense, Ubuntu, and Untangle. Chris On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: Anyone who wants a distribution put up on the demo appliance PLEASE BRING

[nlug] Re: Dell Windows laptop quick-boots to Linux - LOL

2009-09-30 Thread Chris McQuistion
It is a very limited, stripped down Linux with only preinstalled apps, no customization. A lot of desktop motherboards have this capability. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Sep 30, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Russ Crawford russ.m.crawf...@gmail.com wrote:

[nlug] Re: Knee in the curve (new desktop)

2009-10-20 Thread Chris McQuistion
I think the new Intel Core i5 systems are the sweet spot. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Oct 18, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Jack j...@coats.org wrote: What is the latest high end desktop or low end gaming system config around that is near the knee in the curve between price and performance? My

[nlug] Re: OpenWRT type technology...

2009-10-23 Thread Chris McQuistion
I use Tomato and love it, but it doesn't have any captive portal functionality, if you're looking for that. Chris On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Wayne Fay wayne...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Don! I'm looking into DD-WRT now, it looks like it might be a bit nicer than OpenWRT I use

[nlug] Re: Another system saved by live disk

2009-10-27 Thread Chris McQuistion
I'm a big fan of Gparted for projects like this. You can very easily and quickly resize that second partition to be smaller, then resize the first partition to be larger. One boot and you can do it all from there. A (we need a bigger hammer) approach is the Windows Ultimate Boot CD, which is a

[nlug] Re: Great turn out at phreakNIC XIII

2009-11-01 Thread Chris McQuistion
Yep. Dec 19th is the plan for the next Install-Fest. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Nov 1, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Howard hwh...@vcch.com wrote: Just a quick note to report we had great traffic Friday and Saturday at our InstallFest table in the phreakNIC vendor area. We did more installs and

[nlug] Re: google wave

2009-11-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
Thought you all might find this interesting, if you haven't seen it already. It's a comprehensive user manual for Google Wave. From what I've heard, Google Wave is really confusing for newcomers, so perhaps this might help. www.completewaveguide.com Chris On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:37 PM,

[nlug] Re: I5/I7 vs Core 2 Quad?

2009-11-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
The i5 series is Intel's newest chip and socket so I wouldn't buy into an older socket, if I were building a system today. Additionally, the performance of i5 is better, in most cases, and future i5 chips will be even faster. Chris On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Mark J. Bailey m...@jobsoft.com

[nlug] Re: Google Voice Invites

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
home screen so I can access it with one click. So it's not ideal, but if you absolutely need to show the google voice number it works. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: It does? I haven't been able to find one. Can you post the name of the app

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
I know that older versions of VMware server would let you do that, but they removed that ability in more recent versions. You can user vmware's free converter to convert an OS off a physical drive into an image file, though. I've done this a few times to do P2V conversions. I even used it to

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
To give more detail, I think what you're asking about is what VMware calls raw device mappings. You can do this under certain conditions on ESX and ESXi but you cannot do this on VMware Server. Chris On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.eduwrote: I know

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
Why don't you just keep doing that? Is the new laptop not a Mac? Chris On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks everyone, Yes, what I am looking at doing is buying a new computer with OS installed and then, before ever booting it, put in a blank

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
* several = 8+ TB of physical disk space. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: Why don't you just keep doing that? Is the new laptop not a Mac? Chris On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks everyone, Yes

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
Well if Windows comes preinstalled on one drive, you could always just leave that drive alone and install your other OS's on other drives. Chris On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist

[nlug] Re: VMWare Question

2009-11-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
I did it with the beta version of Windows 7 and Ubuntu, I believe. No problems at all, just installed Windows first and Ubuntu second. Chris On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: Chris McQuistion wrote: Well if Windows comes preinstalled on one drive, you

Re: [nlug] question about which Linux OS to put on old computer

2009-11-20 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've got a really old P4 Williamette system around here with 1.5 GHz P4 and ~384 MB PC100 SDRAM (not sure about the exact amount, it might be 512 MB.) If you're interested, let me know and I'll wipe the drive. Chris On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Chris Faulkner cfaulkne...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: [nlug] Processor question

2009-11-21 Thread Chris McQuistion
The Pentium D's and some of the really low end Core 2's do not have hardware virtualization on the chip. Intel calls this Intel VT, AMD calls it AMD-V. There are some programs that do software (para) virtualization and don't require this built into the CPU, but most virtualization software

Re: [nlug] Recommendations for econo cert providers?

2009-11-23 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've been using RapidSSL for several years and have no complaints. Even when I've screwed up the certificate generation, they have been pretty good about helping out. Chris On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Mark J. Bailey m...@jobsoft.com wrote: In particular, GoDaddy and/or Comodo? If not

Re: [nlug] Wireless distribution system or other wireless mesh implementations

2009-11-24 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've used it with DD-WRT and Tomato firmware. What are you trying to achieve? Specifically, do you need to extend a wireless network with wireless access point to access point communication or do you have the capability of running ethernet to each WAP? Chris On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:12 PM,

Re: [nlug] Wireless distribution system or other wireless mesh implementations

2009-11-24 Thread Chris McQuistion
as experience with that, please speak up as well!! Thanks ;) Karl *From:* Chris McQuistion [mailto:cmcquist...@watkins.edu] *Sent:* Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:15 PM *To:* nlug-talk@googlegroups.com *Subject:* Re: [nlug] Wireless distribution system or other wireless mesh

Re: [nlug] map to tomorrow night's meeting place

2009-12-07 Thread Chris McQuistion
According to all I've heard, we are NOT having a regular Tuesday meeting this month. We are having a Linux Fest at Watkins this Saturday from 10 to 4, but no regular meeting this month. (This has been posted to the NLUG site.) There is some conflicting information on the mailing list,

[nlug] Volunteers for Linux Fest?

2009-12-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
Could I ask a couple people to volunteer to come out to Watkins for the Linux Fest a little early, this Saturday, to help set up tables and such? I think the building opens at 9:30 and the event starts at 10. We probably only need a few helpers (2 or 3 is probably enough.) Thanks, Chris --

Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls

2009-12-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've got several Untangle servers at work and have been using it for years. I love it, but it dies require some resources to run well. I use a lot of modules and it takes at least 768 Mab of RAM to run well for me. What kind of hardware are you using? Chris On Sunday, December 13, 2009, Steven

Re: [nlug] Home Content-Filtering Firewalls

2009-12-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
Prichard gibsonprich...@gmail.com wrote: I've got it on a box with a Sempron 1800 /768mb ram/ 20gb hdd with only a few modules. The nics are 1 onboard and a cheapie no-name nic. Should I run it on something beefier? Gibson Prichard On Dec 13, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist

Re: [nlug] [OT] My day job doesn't use Vista

2009-12-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
You can run that command in lower case. Case doesn't really matter on Windows. They just put it in uppercase in the documentation so you know that it is a command to run. Chris On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Howard

Re: [nlug] Google Apps

2009-12-17 Thread Chris McQuistion
Curt Lundgren and I are in the process of migrating everyone at Watkins to Google Apps. We love it. It took a whe to figure everything out but we have been doing a phased migration for the past couple weeks without any problems. I can give you more specific information and advice if you like,

Re: [nlug] Google Apps

2009-12-17 Thread Chris McQuistion
and the one's we're using. (We use the desktop app for Outlook users, because it also grabs their contacts and calendars and local folder emails.) Chris On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist

Re: [nlug] Google Apps

2009-12-17 Thread Chris McQuistion
version has a max mailbox size of 25 GB/user, compared to 7.25 GB/user for the other versions. Chris On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: You're exactly right. You can sign

Re: [nlug] Re: HTML emails.....

2010-01-05 Thread Chris McQuistion
Manoj, you're being very rude. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.orgwrote: On Sun, Jan 03 2010, VampirePenguin wrote: I prefer to top post because I'm answering questions. People don't want to go thru 18 pages of email, oh and heaven forbid chain letter

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