Re: DD-WRT and OpenVPN

2014-12-03 Thread Michael Butash
I just went through this myself not long ago, it's a pain, but I've sort of got it working (with some caveats). I used tinyca to generate the certs, quick google finds many how-to's for this.  I can give you the rest of the dd-wrt settings I have

Re: Need Linksys Powercord

2014-12-02 Thread Michael Butash
Good tip here, going to expand a bit... I've taught a few non-ee folks over the years this that happen to ask so as not to have to junk something for a lost power supply, but just ensure the power supply puts out as much power as the previous unit to meet the amperage demand (ie. 2A requires

Re: Need Linksys Powercord

2014-12-02 Thread Michael Butash
Hah yes, minor details. If something wants 2A @ 5V, best to find it that or as close as possible with the little bricks. Bigger is ok, but as Rusty says, too big might expect different load expectancies and cook your device, too small it'll flake out with not enough. All this comes with

Re: Drupal LAMP server crash

2014-12-02 Thread Michael Butash
Someone was building their own cloud of compute nodes, just on your hardware without your knowledge. Sounds like most phone and web apps these days pilfering your information, except facebook and legit ones make you accept this in their tos. -mb On 12/02/2014 02:29 PM, Keith Smith wrote:

Re: Personal VPN

2014-12-01 Thread Michael Butash
Openvpn ftw.  Use tinyca with it to generate the certs, simple to advanced functionality, off you go. You can buy a commercial solution if you feel the need to, or want to test something, buy a vendor box on ebay, (I keep cisco and other hardware-ish

Re: The mesh networking alternative from Google/Nest: Thread

2014-11-14 Thread Michael Butash
'According to the Thread Group, “millions of existing 802.15.4 wireless devices already on the market can run Thread with just a software enhancement."' Too bad no home automation/gadget hardware manufacturer is ever inclined to bother updating old

Re: VirtualBox

2014-11-13 Thread Michael Butash
Sounds like your bios is resetting - maybe the cmos battery?  The VT bit is a bios setting, really shouldn't change unless you have a os-level app that controls the bios too.  Seems most newer non-basic boards have this now. -mb On

Re: VirtualBox

2014-11-13 Thread Michael Butash
I looked at the date in the BIOS it wasn't set correctly.  But the date was so I could try that. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net

Re: VirtualBox

2014-11-13 Thread Michael Butash
's updated right now.  Unless you have suggestions. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net wrote: I've never had it flip on and off, few times with a new lapto

Re: sshd time out

2014-11-04 Thread Michael Butash
Add ServerAliveInterval 60 to ~/.ssh/config to keep that from annoying you. You'll know if your data xfer is incomplete. If it didn't exit clean before that, probably not. -mb On 11/04/2014 09:10 AM, Keith Smith wrote: Hi, Last night I shelled into a web server I am working on and

Re: wired network security

2014-11-03 Thread Michael Butash
On 11/02/2014 02:46 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: Dandy, but looking at source code tells a nonprogrammer (me) little. I guess I'll just coast along with https for the important stuff even tho I've read that it can be spoofed. I only read source code when I have to figure out obscure driver error

Re: wired network security

2014-11-01 Thread Michael Butash
Your wireless doesn't initiate any security upstream to the internet, only making sure your neighbors aren't watching what you're looking at on the internet. Trivial without any encryption, gradients harder based on your choice of router and/or encryption. Use wpa2 with aes (not tkip) with a

Re: liksys WRT54G

2014-10-19 Thread Michael Butash
Vlan isolation, inside and outside for simplest of terms.  Vlan 1 is inside, Vlan 2 is outside.  By nature, one cannot reach another, thus Virtual LAN's. In the middle sits a bridge, and iptables mangles packets between them.  This is your nat, firewall,

Re: internet problem

2014-10-17 Thread Michael Butash
It creates two separate Virtual LAN (VLAN) networks, using routing/nat to traverse between them. This is what gives you security, hiding you on private addresses, but making you visible to the network via Network Address Translation (NAT). This is

Re: StartUp Scripts

2014-10-10 Thread Michael Butash
Kill them with update-rc.d service disable, service should tab-complete. -mb On 10/10/2014 05:20 PM, Stephen M wrote: Hi Everybody, This is a problem that keeps bothering me. I have a HP Laptop that I installed Mint 17 a few months ago. When I turn on my laptop, I scan it for open ports

Re: StartUp Scripts

2014-10-10 Thread Michael Butash
CUPS is technically ok, it binds to 127.0.0.1 only by default, only reachable via localhost/loopback. I'm more annoyed by things like skype and banshee that insist on opening wide-open listening sockets on all interfaces. Skype is microsoft, one really can't trust anything they do since the

Re: StartUp Scripts

2014-10-10 Thread Michael Butash
Still upstart as of 14.04, most apps are controlled by rc.d still until then. On 10/10/2014 06:06 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: Try systemctrl disable cups.service Ubuntu is supposed to be converting to SystemD Kevin --- PLUG-discuss mailing

Re: Ubuntu boot problems

2014-10-06 Thread Michael Butash
Sounds much like my weekend rebuilding my desktop after ati/amd graphics driver upgrade apparently broke irrevocably my ability to boot with debian in the initrd. Even single-user would crash prior to boot. :\ Oddly I found a live-cd of mint, fedora, or ubuntu would work ok happily

Re: Having fun with KVM

2014-09-26 Thread Michael Butash
It wants *secure* efi booting likely, not sure windoze8 will boot without it in that capacity. I think not, but I've only ran it long enough to update the bios and wipe my laptop. Wouldn't surprise me if they key the backup to your laptop's efi data the trust is built on. I'd thought about

Re: Having fun with KVM

2014-09-26 Thread Michael Butash
effectively on an old system anyways to be worth the hassle... Rather just stay with my old slipstreamed xp image from 10 years ago as it's only good for visio to me regardless. -mb On 09/26/2014 10:29 AM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: On 2014-09-26 07:59, Michael Butash wrote: It wants *secure

Re: Installation frustrations

2014-09-25 Thread Michael Butash
Nice just lessens its priority, not to clobber more important apps. That said, it'll still consume cpu/power if it's being a hog, so if it's misbehaving, you'll want to fix or bury the carcass. Sounds like either it's trying to index a literal ton of stuff on your system, maybe attacking a

Re: Bash has an exploit - ShellShock

2014-09-25 Thread Michael Butash
Apple is busy trying to figure out how to keep people from bending their new iphones in half... -mb On 09/25/2014 10:53 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: Yes, Macs are also vulnerable! On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Ed p...@0x1b.com mailto:p...@0x1b.com wrote:

Re: Phone apps for setting up personal WiFi hotspots with lots of DHCP addresses?

2014-09-24 Thread Michael Butash
Your best bet is probably to buy a normal home router and get yourself a generic usb cell data stick, most anything that will run dd-wrt will support using them as the wan. Most netgear, asus, buffalo, etc routers come stock with dd-wrt, or some bastard oem version thereof. Just google the

Re: Installation frustrations

2014-09-24 Thread Michael Butash
I've been using 2, 4, or 6 monitors with ubuntu since 7.10, now using lmde. Really more about what your video card supports - I use a 7970 Radeon Asus Matrix with 6x outputs on it for mine, prior a 5880 sapphire with 6x out, or a 6970 asus matrix too. The 6000 series will do a 16384x16384

Re: Installation frustrations

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Butash
I'll second (or forth) for mint debian edition. I've had some quirks, usual crap with i386 vs amd64 architecture, libssl0.98, but most have been pretty easy to figure out with a google search. Far less frustrating than with ubuntu, but a bit of a new learning curve none the less with debian.

ArChon - Running Android apps in chrome under linux (and *others* too)

2014-09-22 Thread Michael Butash
I'm hoping this works - would love to introduce some android apps as desktop apps. Installing now... http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/09/20/archon-hack-lets-you-run-almost-any-android-app-on-chrome-os-and-chrome-for-windows-os-x-and-linux/ -mb

Re: ArChon - Running Android apps in chrome under linux (and *others* too)

2014-09-22 Thread Michael Butash
. but that was a whopping 10 min of reading and poking about. Will try again later. On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net mailto:mich...@butash.net wrote: I'm hoping this works - would love to introduce some android apps as desktop apps. Installing now

Re: (OT) Questions About SSDs for a Laptop

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Butash
drive has about 420 GB of data in /home, about 9GB in /opt, and some misc stuff in /var, all of which I need to transfer that to the new system. Thanks, Mark P.S. One benefit of using both LVM and RAID1 is learning something new! ;) On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Michael Butash mich

Re: (OT) Questions About SSDs for a Laptop

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Butash
Not to discourage your learning, but here's how I build my ssd's on both my desktop and laptops now universally (assuming I can cram 2 disks in). This I've built over several years of trial and error with ssd's and various os. I made a variation for uefi booting too my asus that wouldn't do

Re: Linux from scratch section 8.3

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Butash
You need modules unless compiling everything static, which usually is good in theory, but bad in practice unless a very embedded, specific hardware use. Is that what you're doing? If so, maybe lfs wants/expects modular kernels for its build tools. Seems like those are likely dependent on

Re: (OT) Questions About SSDs for a Laptop

2014-09-03 Thread Michael Butash
On 09/02/2014 10:23 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: I am looking at a new Linux laptop, and I have the option of a mSata SSD drive or a conventional drive. I am considering a 1 TB Samsung 840 EVO mSata SSD for the OS and all my partitions. 1. Are there any reasons not to use a SSD for the full disk,

Re: (OT) Questions About SSDs for a Laptop

2014-09-03 Thread Michael Butash
I really never hit any io constraints on disks honestly since using ssd's. I watch gkrellm like a hawk and tend to notice if something is amiss, and disks are never it, unless one dies. I tend to abuse my system with 32db of ram and chrome and firefox each have seen using 10gb of ram each,

Re: Large Infrastructure question

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Butash
Best bet is anycast routing. BGP peers distributed among the world, all advertising the same block of addresses brings natual geographical proximity as long as bgp as-path hops are somewhat valid. Done in a /24 or larger (2+ for disparity), that becomes your anycast subnet, advertising to as

Re: crypto lock

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Butash
Maybe they'll only keep a copy of it as their price. I would have figured someone would release an app to unlock it for poor bastards, but you have to send them the data? Ugh, yeah no. Side note, their sister company is now huge in marketing data and porn, with some ties to wikileaks and

Re: crypto lock

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Butash
in on this. -mb On 08/07/2014 01:00 PM, sean wrote: You only have to send one file. They are able to retrieve the decryption key from just that file. On Aug 7, 2014 12:54 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net mailto:mich...@butash.net wrote: Maybe they'll only keep a copy

Re: Kubuntu or Ubuntu and RAID 1?

2014-07-28 Thread Michael Butash
This is one of the main reasons I stopped using Ubuntu actually, they've actually gone out of their way to make raid assembly now difficult, purposely removing mdraid capability from the default desktop kernel initrd for no discernible reason. This leads to major caveats doing raid1 in just

Re: Kubuntu or Ubuntu and RAID 1?

2014-07-28 Thread Michael Butash
On 07/28/2014 08:15 AM, Kevin Fries wrote: Ubuntu has made themselves the self appointed champion of the stupid IMHO. Someone has to adopt the windoze refugees as they flee 20 years of perpetual infection. Friends don't let friends get sucked into apple's walled garden. I dislike the ui and

Re: Introducing myself

2014-07-28 Thread Michael Butash
Indeed, welcome Fred! -mb On 07/28/2014 04:37 PM, Fred Fifield wrote: Hello! My name is Fred and I've been stalking this mailing list for about three weeks now and I thought it was time to come to the surface. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: Debian desktops (Re: SUSE Linux Days Road Tour)

2014-07-26 Thread Michael Butash
Well, the week didn't help that mid-term I had to spend 2 weeks in new york, but all in all it took me about a week to figure out enough caveats throwing errors to figure out that: a) Biggest issue was ati drivers not working beyond 3.15. I forgot how much video card vendors suck when it

Re: Debian desktops (Re: SUSE Linux Days Road Tour)

2014-07-26 Thread Michael Butash
I had some really odd issues with using gnome/unity or anything gtk-based on an asus ultrabook I had my work get me, that finally I resorted to trying KDE. It was actually pretty decent, and have been meaning to try it again on here. It had some usability quirks I just couldn't figure out

Re: SUSE Linux Days Road Tour

2014-07-25 Thread Michael Butash
I was wondering the same thing, are they even relevant still? I can't remember the last time I've even heard a tall tale of a business running SUSE, let alone anyone I know. I remember a coworker being as frustrated with Ubuntu as I've been last year, and trying it out. He apparently ended

Re: setting up file system

2014-07-25 Thread Michael Butash
Don't make your bootable an extended (I don't think this will work if I remember right), and why is swap first? Do yourself a favor, and unless dealing with windoze, just make your bootable the first partiton. Give it 250mb, make it /boot, done. Get jiggy with it any other way from there.

Debian desktops (Re: SUSE Linux Days Road Tour)

2014-07-25 Thread Michael Butash
Ahh, debian lurkers! Just out of curiosity, not to hijack the thread, but don't find a lot of pure debian users... what train of debian are you and/or most people using for desktop, if not just servers? Curious what others are using if not the usual ubuntu flavors of deb, or raw debian even.

Re: can't ssh from host to remote

2014-07-17 Thread Michael Butash
sudo netstat -anp | grep tcp | grep LISTEN -a == all -n == do not resolve dns (slows it down significantly) -p == show the app opening the socket (requires sudo to enumerate) grep tcp == look for tcp-based sockets (most apps won't use udp) grep LISTEN == look at listening sockets, vs

Re: Chromium Browser Vs Google Chrome

2014-07-14 Thread Michael Butash
I've gotten to the point I can't use chromium anymore - it simply doesn't work with most scripted websites I hit. I tend to run a lot of plugins, but oddly if I import the same profile, that sucks in all the same extensions, chrome works on sites chromium simply does not. This has lead me to

Re: Chromium Browser Vs Google Chrome

2014-07-14 Thread Michael Butash
barraged by an onslaught of popups and crap like that. HOw does one install notscript, adblock plus, ghostery. What is ghostery? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net mailto:mich...@butash.net wrote: I've gotten to the point I can't use chromium

Re: How to identify unknown devices on network?

2014-07-12 Thread Michael Butash
Just look up oui mac search. You come back with wireshark's mac search database and others, as the oui vendor table creates the foundation for most fingerprinting engines like nmap too. -mb On 07/07/2014 11:39 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: nmap has a really solid ID system to identifying

RE: Oh boy... We *ARE* criminals!!!

2014-07-11 Thread Michael Butash
We don't get it back. The two party political powers will never give up that grasp, and neither will the corporate entities that pocket them. I won't even pretend to believe things will be made right until something other than a republican or democrat come to power. Until then, it's right

Re: How to identify unknown devices on network?

2014-07-07 Thread Michael Butash
If using L2 bridging for AP vlan's, it should NOT rewrite the L2 source mac - that only occurs at L3 boundaries, or if the ap is doing lwapp/capwap tunneling on controller-based networks. They just act like yet another switch in path, fowarding mac addresses as it builds a table, not

Re: Google Domains

2014-06-25 Thread Michael Butash
), and know too much of the dirty laundry, as well as some pride in building that infrastructure. :) -mb http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/ What ever happens I cam sure it will be cool :) On Jun 24, 2014 10:44 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net mailto:mich...@butash.net wrote

Google Domains

2014-06-24 Thread Michael Butash
http://domains.google.com/about/ Godaddy is about to have extreme competition, and they're worried. ;) -mb --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: With the Americas running out of IPv4, it’s official: The Internet is full

2014-06-13 Thread Michael Butash
Sad part is most technical implementations are still crippled. Cisco has put on events at the past several yearly ipv6 congress events, and every year they still general client usage to be problematic in a pure ipv6 environment. I think last year was apple ios not supporting dhcpv6 various

Re: Cox Data Usage Notification

2014-05-13 Thread Michael Butash
I'm curious to see the logistics of a company trying to move in and retrofit a city for something like fiber. There's a reason there's really 2 players, cox and $mini-bell, they built before things were covered in concrete. I've worked for cox and seen that cities can take months to return

Re: Another Chrome quirk

2014-05-01 Thread Michael Butash
Yup, same here - gvoice and hangouts extensions both regularly crash under chromium too, where I jumped from 28 to I think 31 when it began. I ended up trying chrome, and while gvoice crashes occasionally, it'll recover and work, and hangouts is much the same, only more crash-y. I've not

Re: Why is Firefox so slow (and degrades over time)?

2014-04-30 Thread Michael Butash
I've said the same thing lately for Chromium, seems most websites are suddenly broken as far as scripting lately since the 30-ish train of chromium. I started using actual Chrome, which seems *better*, but sadly I'm finding myself having to go to firefox to even render/use various sites

Re: How to stop this chrome browser message?

2014-03-26 Thread Michael Butash
el_cutpaste There IS a way to stop Chrome (or Chromium) from showing this annoying prompt. You have to exit browser, locate Preferences file of your Chrome profile (~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences in Linux), find 'download' section that looks like: download: { directory_upgrade:

Re: Apps on Kubuntu keep crashing

2014-03-21 Thread Michael Butash
Check what java you're using (java -version), might try a sun/oracle version if not using one already. Also check what devices you have, and what dmesg says. That sounds like hardware is flaky, and I've had that with various usb/pci devices over the years. Video drivers too. Pay attention

Re: Digital Ocean VPS

2014-03-15 Thread Michael Butash
It sounds like dns response isn't working, so sshd delays while trying to reverse resolve you instead of getting a generic response from the netblock owner dns (or a simple failure). You can disable reverse lookups in sshd.conf too, but it's good to log that sort of thing. You will start

Re: OT: Looking for advice on SSL certs

2014-03-13 Thread Michael Butash
It's still encrypted, it's just not trusted. I usually do this to ssl encrypt a site, but don't care about the cert popup. If it's something you control the clients (think enterprise AD environment), you can always self-sign a ca, push the ca cert to clients as a trusted ca (ie. windoze gpo

Re: Suggestion for wireless access point that supports WPA2 enterprise

2014-02-20 Thread Michael Butash
What enterprise-y features are you looking for - dot1x/eap/radius, role-derivation/vlan mapping, fast roaming/802.11i/802.11r, or...? I've seen lil cheapie linksys-ish routers that support radius hooks for leap/peap-ish function, but not really things like fast-roaming and such else that

Re: Web Hosting

2014-02-18 Thread Michael Butash
I actually use digital ocean, it's a vps, and they're definitely good for the price. I was running a starbound and minecraft server on it, and using it as a remote shell for things, never gave me any issue cept I needed more memory to do both. I ended up have to install some scripts to

Re: security

2014-02-10 Thread Michael Butash
This was one of the biggest reasons I forced myself into using linux full-time for a bit, and back around 2006 there wasn't much. Ubuntu was about the first decent desktop os system I found that worked right out of box, and remained maintainable. For a good while at least, these days not so

Re: need help with RAID1 EFI GPT disks

2014-02-04 Thread Michael Butash
Looks like under knoppix it's not finding the disks you seek in at least the right order, or all the partitions you're expecting: On 02/04/2014 11:00 AM, George Toft wrote: Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes /dev/sda1 * 1 64 512000 83 Linux /dev/sda2

Re: need help with RAID1 EFI GPT disks

2014-02-02 Thread Michael Butash
If it's partition 3, wouldn't you by trying to assemble the raid on /dev/sda3 instead? Make sure you set the partition to type fd for linux raid autodetection. mb@host:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdi -l Disk /dev/sdi: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total

Re: need help with RAID1 EFI GPT disks

2014-02-02 Thread Michael Butash
lsblk works nicely too. On 02/02/2014 06:48 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: On 02/02/2014 10:59 AM, Brian wrote: I'd also suggest scanning /dev for partitions on your disk. That seems like a little more work than necessary, I usually just do: cat /proc/partitions and that will list all the drives and

Re: need help with RAID1 EFI GPT disks

2014-02-02 Thread Michael Butash
on it. As other people have said, there should be no need to use mdadm to assemble an array out of RAID-1 partitions. mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/somewhere should do something useful if the device node and /mnt/somewhere exist. On 2014-02-02 12:57, Michael Butash wrote: Use gdisk if/when doing gpt

Re: email a folder

2014-02-02 Thread Michael Butash
Built in system archive manager, gnome/kde each have theirs. Gnome's literally named archive manager can use most all types, including tar, zip or 7zip as long as the libraries are installed. Usually highlight the files and right click, add to archive or such. Just zip them and send, just

Re: Blender Site Offline?

2014-01-15 Thread Michael Butash
Their provider has peering issues, or simply got turned off and their provider isn't null-routing their smaller block. On 01/15/2014 01:02 PM, ChasM wrote: traceroute to 82.94.226.104 (82.94.226.104), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.511 ms 0.220 ms 0.130 ms

Re: Why did my Linux Mint system crash?

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Butash
I agree, hardware issue with mobo, or proc (since north bridge memory controllers are usually built in here now). Seems more like a south bridge issue (where pci bus liives), but could be memory corrupting things as well. Remove any external pci card you can, including usb devices. I had a

Re: Why did my Linux Mint system crash?

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Butash
Just let it run a cycle on it - not always clear, I'll find i don't notice where it ends or start at times, but varies with the amount. I'd say maybe a few hours on 8-16gb to run all patterns. I had a video card glitch and cause panics like that before when in death throws. -mb On

Re: Why did my Linux Mint system crash?

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Butash
Yours sounds a bit similar to a situation I had. I had happened to on a m1330 dell laptop with an defective batch of nvidia 9000-series gpus that were popping off the bga on the mobo. Linux would do that to me, basically hit gdm, login, and when compiz kicked in and composited the desktop

Re: Why did my Linux Mint system crash?

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Butash
Actually that was an 8000, 8400m in particular. I had 9600gt cards die for the same defect with nvidia in desktop gpu's die a slower death too. Part why I'm using ATI cards now. On 01/14/2014 09:45 PM, Michael Butash wrote: Yours sounds a bit similar to a situation I had. I had happened

Re: Damn ubuntu.

2014-01-05 Thread Michael Butash
On 01/04/2014 09:56 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: That's very odd that package wasn't on your system already. It's automatically installed with the linux-image-generic package, and that should have been installed when you loaded the system. Without that package your system won't receive kernel

Re: Damn ubuntu.

2014-01-05 Thread Michael Butash
On 01/05/2014 12:14 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: I've managed to do a RAID install a couple of times from the desktop CD, but what a pain in the butt! The only reason that I didn't just reach for a server CD was that I was either behind extremely slow Internet, or didn't have access to it in the

Re: Damn ubuntu.

2014-01-04 Thread Michael Butash
imagining what could be causing your problems. The only problems I have seen were truly minor. On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net mailto:mich...@butash.net wrote: So per a prior comment about odd efi-booting asus laptop, I'm still dealing with getting an os

Re: hard drive going out?

2013-12-31 Thread Michael Butash
Can you ctrl-alt-F1 and open up a pty? Log in there if you can and service lightdm restart it. What are you doing when that occurs? Games, graphics, do you have compiz enabled? I second this, I've been through a gambit of x issues, though never quite seen that where x will drop out like that.

Re: ppa file

2013-12-27 Thread Michael Butash
If you have to, they're under /etc/apt/sources*, making sure you get sources.list and sources.list.d directories there. PPA's are usually installed under sources.d, but not all how-to's tell you to manually drop them there. -mb On 12/27/2013 01:21 PM, Michael Havens wrote: well it

Re: vlc media player

2013-12-25 Thread Michael Butash
Correct, i'll just give you a widget to watch your cpu and other resources. Never leave home without it imho, about the second thing I install usually on a desktop. Htop works at the cli as well, apt-get install htop, first thing I usually install with vim. Idea is to watch your cpu

Re: vlc media player

2013-12-24 Thread Michael Butash
Sounds like a codec error, or your cpu can't handle it. Install and run gkrellm, watch your cpu when it plays, see if it spikes or plateaus. What encoding are your videos? Does gstreamer/totem work ok? What video card do you have (ie. hardware decode support)? VLC and gstreamer-based

Re: package manager

2013-12-18 Thread Michael Butash
grep -r 'medi' /etc/apt They're breaking things somehow, remove/comment medibuntu ppa's, apt-get update. -mb On 12/18/2013 11:24 PM, Michael Havens wrote: That did it! What is the recommended sources.list now? This is what is in it presently: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ nadia main

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-17 Thread Michael Butash
a second time. Yeah, welcome to microsoft's sphere of influence - who needs legacy booting when everyone runs windoze! I just feel dirty having to make the boot partition fat32 now... -mb On 12/16/2013 11:18 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 06:22:08PM -0700, Michael Butash

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Michael Butash
I'm curious to see if it's as broken as ubuntu seems to be these days - feedback from adopters here appreciated. I spent 3 days last week trying to get ubuntu working with 13.10 on a fresh install, and since they're forcing use of a desktop cd, and not producing alt installs now, found the

Re: Steam OS was released for all you gamers out there

2013-12-16 Thread Michael Butash
An Asus UX51Vz - no legacy boot option at all, pure EFI/GPT sadly. Sexy hunk of a laptop other than certain inclination toward windoze-only... -mb On 12/16/2013 02:06 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 09:48:56AM -0700, Michael Butash wrote: I'm curious to see if it's

Re:

2013-11-28 Thread Michael Butash
As a generic server, they're probably just dandy. I did that with an old toshiba laptop, that I used no sound, suspend, graphics, or most any other bits of the hardware aside from cpu, memory, vesa graphics, bridges and disk. I think that was even with fbsd. Suspend, sound, having to work

Re: Don't hold your breath

2013-10-31 Thread Michael Butash
More like the idiot contractors screwed up. Probably some senator's nephew owns the consulting firm, didn't know what they were doing, or understanding of the expected load on their application. Probably didn't know what a load-balancer was, load testing, or understand the concept of

Re: ZaTab ZT2 and Vivaldi

2013-10-23 Thread Michael Butash
Kind of a crap display, 1280x800 is pretty meager. I got a refurb asus prime infinity with a 1920x1200 display on a 10.1, I can't look at other tablets with distaste that fall into less resolution. I use it with the keyboard dock, vpn to work, remote desktop, vnc, or ssh to my systems, and

Re: VirtualBox VS Ubuntu

2013-08-31 Thread Michael Butash
The use of amd64 is generic for 64bit (they *were* first), this should work on any proc. Better off just googling virtualbox ubuntu ppa, install the repo and apt-get install virtualbox-4.2 it. Make sure to get the extension pack. -mb On 08/31/2013 05:24 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: Ubuntu's

Re: what to learn

2013-08-27 Thread Michael Butash
Learn some networking too. Please. Far too many devs and sysadmins both stick their head in the dirt, treating networking as plumbing that will never complain and always take their poop. Trusting magical api's to send and return data to some nebulous entity over the network is inviting

Re: OT: Windows Virtual Machine Software

2013-08-15 Thread Michael Butash
My work laptop was windoze originally, and ran ubuntu 12.04 under virtualbox. It was iffy for real use in my case running ubuntu desktop inside of it. My intent was trying to basically full screen and forget windoze was there. Not so much, tons of quirks, especially using dual display

Re: possible solution

2013-08-13 Thread Michael Butash
I've hit a few systems over time, not in many years, but leave it to HP to put the buggiest bios possible into their hardware. I've had to do apic and acpi flags on a few systems to even boot properly, usually either old smp intel boards or amd's. Usually indicative of buggy bios or bridge

Re: Switched off Ubuntu

2013-08-01 Thread Michael Butash
Try using a touch os on a 6-head display and a mouse (now trackball). It's effectiveness becomes almost instantly null, or at least that's what I find with unity. A central dock on one display makes way more sense, as I don't need a top systray bar for every screen. I'd rather see working

Re: @@@ Pre-order your UBUNTU EDGE convergence phone today :) @@@

2013-07-29 Thread Michael Butash
I agree, I bought in on one - I really hope they come though. I'm super stoked for this... I've tried with android phones running linux atop their kernel, but ui is always a bit clunky/unusable (unity just simply never worked). I'm keen to see just how functional they or I can make the

Re: Looking for Linux Equivalent Program

2013-06-19 Thread Michael Butash
I've been working on a wireless project for months, and looked around for things oss like heatmapping, rtls function, etc, and there's nothing too well baked to use production-wise aside from some half-baked, minimally existing projects on sourceforge. Seems commercial software like Aruba

Re: hosts file

2013-06-07 Thread Michael Butash
I use ghostery, adblock plus, and no(t)script - blocks most of anything nefarious through the browsers. Android adblockers tend to dump things like adblock eazylist into a hosts file to do that, only they're more comprehensive and up to date with bad sites. I'd start with those vs. building

Re: OT: NSA story keeps getting bigger...

2013-06-06 Thread Michael Butash
This really isn't anything new or surprising if you work at or around isp's - providers have been giving raw optical tap data from internet peering to government sniffers the likes of Procera Networks and various others for most of the last decade for ready harvesting on a whim. This amounts

Re: Arizona Internet Speed Test

2013-05-09 Thread Michael Butash
Cox has had a full circuit between here and their peering to LA for probably 6+ months, so this accounts for why you're seeing the latency. Run an mtr to google and you'll see a good 60-90% packet loss at their peering hop to LA. Their useless support says it's not real, but it is. I've

Re: Wifi PIN

2013-05-09 Thread Michael Butash
Use wpa2-psk, make sure it uses aes/ccmp, about all that holds true for consumer-grade right now. There are proprietary pin or pair methods, but wpa2 with a large/complex pre-share key is much better standard than trusting poor vendor implementations of crypto. About anything else is

Re: SSDs

2013-04-20 Thread Michael Butash
So I bought a samsung 840, I'll be using it on a single-disk system, requiring encryption (luks), and lvm/btrfs. Might actually try btrfs finally now, but this is for work. Just curious your opinion about the firmware side to expect these days losing trim support with fs layers, but relying

Re: SSDs

2013-04-20 Thread Michael Butash
to adjust fs/partitions, not sure any really do yet, or..? -mb On 04/20/2013 12:53 PM, Stephen wrote: there is no cylinder alignment really in a SSD anymore... On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net mailto:mich...@butash.net wrote: So I bought a samsung 840, I'll

Re: reiserfs reliability

2013-04-16 Thread Michael Butash
I'd used reiserfs on production (well, every desktop/laptop I owned and dozens of vm's to play with) for a good 4-5 years, and had no incidents that I simply could not recover all data from. Worst case I had to fsck a few times, but in maybe the 2 years or so I've used ext4, gotten far more

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