data recovery

2009-05-05 Thread jordi laforge
Can anyone sugest a decent app to undelete files on a Windows partition? Hopefully one that is included on a livecd. Thanks --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail

Re: data recovery

2009-05-05 Thread der.hans
Am 05. Mai, 2009 schwätzte jordi laforge so: moin moin, Can anyone sugest a decent app to undelete files on a Windows partition? Hopefully one that is included on a livecd. Dennis usually rescues system rescue CD. I think there's a Live CD specifically for hitting windows stuff. A package

Re: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

2009-05-05 Thread Joshua Zeidner
O'reilly got a good rep due to the quality books they published during that period. Now they are in the sell out phase. -jmz On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net wrote: I was a mainframe developer who was retreaded as a Unix SysAdmin and worked at that for 10+

B.O.F.H.

2009-05-05 Thread storkus
I can't remember if someone posted a link to before or not, but enjoy! http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html Mike --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

2009-05-05 Thread Gerald Thurman
Oops... I was sloppy when I did a RT (re-tweet) of a tweet by @timoreilly. My PLUG posting was as follows. --- Tim O'Reilly just tweeted this... Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards: Linux in a Nutshell favorite Linux book of all time. I'm honored. http://bit.ly/hhTBH --- It was Tim O'Reilly

Re: OT: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

2009-05-05 Thread Eric Cope
bonus points for mises.org links! On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:28 PM, A. W. Wright diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: (Since we are top-posting) In your opinion! I am more then happy to pay my $10 for 1/500th of a tree planted and harvested and processed by private companies on their

OT: Hijacked botnet exposes startling online habits

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen P Rufle
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/252353/hijacked-botnet-exposes-startling-online-habits.html Thought it was interesting in regards to security. I did not read the pdf linked in the article, but it would be interesting to know what the breakdown by OS is :). Or does it even matter if most info is

Re: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Dean
On May 4, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: On May 4, 2009, at 7:23 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: In general, the print world is in crisis because their value proposal is quickly being invalidated. I don't think

Re: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen P Rufle
I would like to say O'Reilly also has http://my.safaribooksonline.com/ and I have found that to be useful. I got a full subscription, so I could search and review on a monitor. I also sent them an email to encourage them to get other publishers on their site that already provide PDF versions of

Re: OT: Hijacked botnet exposes startling online habits

2009-05-05 Thread Charles Jones
Stephen P Rufle wrote: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/252353/hijacked-botnet-exposes-startling-online-habits.html Thought it was interesting in regards to security. I did not read the pdf linked in the article, but it would be interesting to know what the breakdown by OS is :). Or does it even

Re: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

2009-05-05 Thread keith smith
It is Yahoo web mail. Keith Smith --- On Mon, 5/4/09, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: From: Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com Subject: Re: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book) To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date:

Re: Why Wubi is the stupidest idea in Linux history...NOT!

2009-05-05 Thread Ryan Rix
Or an app that ran from cron once a month saying hey, you're running wubi, switch to a dual boot. Click 'Install to HDD' and we'll do this for you, making sure that Windows is set up in Grub to dual boot. On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: It is true that there

Re: OT: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

2009-05-05 Thread keith smith
What happens when we recycle? I think recycling is an area that needs work. I think most people would rather buy a book than read online or on the computer. I bought a book this last weekend and found it much easier to read than if it had been a PDF and I was reading on the computer. I spend

Re: data recovery

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen
This one costs money, but it is the best data recovery i have dealt with yet: http://r-studio.com/ and i think the base install is 30-40 which is not bad. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:02 PM, jordi laforge laforge.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone sugest a decent app to undelete files on a Windows

Re: B.O.F.H.

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen
HAHA that brings back memories of reading it during dead shifts early in the morning in my callcenter days On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:46 AM, stor...@storkus.com wrote: I can't remember if someone posted a link to before or not, but enjoy! http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html Mike

Re: OT: Hijacked botnet exposes startling online habits

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen
your are correct it would not have made you any better. although it would be fun to hijack one and use it to install free antivirus/anit-spamware and turn their dang updates on. On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Charles Jones charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org wrote: Stephen P Rufle wrote:

Re: Why Wubi is the stupidest idea in Linux history...NOT!

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen
honestly the installer in a wubi shell would be handy, but im not sure how resizeing a partition that your actively running on will work On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Ryan Rix phrkonale...@gmail.com wrote: Or an app that ran from cron once a month saying hey, you're running wubi, switch to a

Re: Why Wubi is the stupidest idea in Linux history...NOT!

2009-05-05 Thread Ryan Rix
ok, here put a cd-r in and we'll burn you a nice automagic installer/data moving thinger. the qubi image is just an ext3 image right? dd, baby :) On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: honestly the installer in a wubi shell would be handy, but im not sure how

Re: Why Wubi is the stupidest idea in Linux history...NOT!

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen
back to my idea of a backup tool/image location, CDR/DVDR/USB Disk then boot from the custom boot CD and poof. restore from backup to Disk/Re-Partition... heck that would make fro a nice backup tool in general... On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Ryan Rix phrkonale...@gmail.com wrote: ok, here

FYI: NoScript/AdBlock+

2009-05-05 Thread Ryan Rix
Hi, Just FYI: http://adblockplus.org/blog/attention-noscript-users http://hackademix.net/2009/05/04/dear-adblock-plus-and-noscript-users-dear-mozilla-community/ -- Thanks and best regards, Ryan Rix TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog (623)-239-1103 -- Grand Central, baby! Jasmine Bowden - Class of

Ubuntu 9.04 Run Level

2009-05-05 Thread AZ Rune
I have been trying to edit my inittab file in /etc so I can boot to run level 3 and install the nvidia driver on my XPS M1730 but even with hidden files showing I can't find it?!?!%#$! Gr :-( I tried going to System Administration Hardware drivers and while it shows me the driver 1.73 and

Re: Ubuntu 9.04 Run Level

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen
There is not /etc/inittab file in Ubuntu because Ubuntu uses /etc/event.d/rc-default file You can fix this problem by editing /etc/event.d/rc-default file First backup file, Code: sudo cp /etc/event.d/rc-default /etc/event.d/rc-default.bakup Open vi /etc/event.d/rc-default Code: sudo vi

Re: Ubuntu 9.04 Run Level

2009-05-05 Thread dorian . monroe
I haven't run Linux in a lng time, but can't you just run init 3 from a console session to restart in runlevel 3? Pardon my ignorance... :) --Original Message-- From: Stephen Sender: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To: Main PLUG discussion list ReplyTo: Main PLUG

Re: Ubuntu 9.04 Run Level

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen
i think so, but i think ubuntu gave me some lip about doing that. i recall having to do that myself. On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:59 AM, dorian.mon...@cox.net wrote: I haven't run Linux in a lng time, but can't you just run init 3 from a console session to restart in runlevel 3?  Pardon my

Re: OT: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

2009-05-05 Thread Eric Shubert
Ditto! I'm thrilled to see other folks know about the great content there. Eric Cope wrote: bonus points for mises.org http://mises.org links! On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:28 PM, A. W. Wright diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net mailto:diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: (Since we

System 76, anyone hear of them?

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen
http://system76.com/index.php Anyone hear of these guys, and their support quality? -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen ---

Swine Flu Mask Chic

2009-05-05 Thread storkus
I came across this in an article; as the article states, these people really do appear to be selling these things! I especially love the whole Geocities (R.I.P.) / FrontPage look of the site and the wonderfully edited photo on the 2nd page. You can have 3 of these for only $33.95 with

Re: Swine Flu Mask Chic

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen
Thats Hysterical, but should havve had an OT on it :-) On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:41 PM, stor...@storkus.com wrote: I came across this in an article; as the article states, these people really do appear to be selling these things!  I especially love the whole Geocities (R.I.P.) / FrontPage look

Re: OT: Free Webhost

2009-05-05 Thread Darin Wayrynen
Why not consider a local company that supports PLUG directly? We host the PLUG servers free of charge to the group. Our yearly special is as inexpensive as all the others listed here, yet is local and directly supports this group. Yearly low usage hosting with no ads:

Re: System 76, anyone hear of them?

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Tuna Harris
Oh, yes. I just love them. They do everything they can to get stuff to just work, even write their own drivers, I hear. I ordered the Meerkat NetTop from them for my mom's biz (receptionist's computer), and their website is just... nice! When I use it, I feel like I'm in a classy hall with marble

Re: System 76, anyone hear of them?

2009-05-05 Thread Stephen P Rufle
No direct experience with system76, but zareason has great customer service. Family owned, but I think they are large enough to provide whatever you need even if it is not on their site call and ask. http://www.zareason.com/shop/home.php Stephen wrote: http://system76.com/index.php Anyone

Re: System 76, anyone hear of them?

2009-05-05 Thread Cat Chapman
System76 is wonderful. Shipping took awhile for my first laptop from them (they had to get some parts, but I got a nice LCD and CPU upgrade for the wait!), but it's a fantastic machine. Talked my boyfriend into ordering one for himself as well, and that shipped quickly. Their support is good,

OT: [sorta]; facebook seems to take pride in their OSS contributions [to memcached]

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Schwartz
[quote:] * We are the largest user in the world of memcached, an open-source caching system. Originally developed by LiveJournal, we've since made so many scalability improvements and performance upgrades that we will be the primary contributor of features in the next major release. The above

Re: OT: [sorta]; facebook seems to take pride in their OSS contributions [to memcached]

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Dean
On May 5, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Mike Schwartz wrote: [quote:] * We are the largest user in the world of memcached, an open-source caching system. Originally developed by LiveJournal, we've since made so many scalability improvements and performance upgrades that we will be the primary

Re: OT: Hijacked botnet exposes startling online habits

2009-05-05 Thread Joseph Sinclair
The rootkit (mebroot) and the botnet payload (torpig) used in this case are 100% Windows-only software. All infected machines were Windows machines. That doesn't mean that no botnets infect other O/S platforms, only that this particular botnet is 100% Windows. Stephen P Rufle wrote:

HackFest Series: Linux Botnets - WAS: OT: Hijacked botnet exposes startling online habits

2009-05-05 Thread Lisa Kachold
Yes, the whole concept of researchers hijacking malware is fascinating, especially since they did it by registering unregistered domains, and then spoofing as a C C servers. It's a precarious ethical quandry. The Torpig is a Windows botnet.

Re: FYI: NoScript/AdBlock+

2009-05-05 Thread Lisa Kachold
Ryan! Great post! Ethics are such a huge part of everything we do. It's similar to being a scientist or medical practitioner (first do not harm). All of Firefox's Ad-ons have VERY LOSE trust verification. When installed, we exclude Firefox and state that we trust the developer, but mostly

Re: Ubuntu 9.04 Run Level

2009-05-05 Thread Lisa Kachold
Upstart replaced inittab: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ All the things that you used to have in the /etc/inittab is ported to upstart's /etc/event.d/. It might take some of time to get used to the way upstart manage things in your computer, For example, the settings for 'tty3' is located in

Re: data recovery

2009-05-05 Thread Lisa Kachold
Knoppix is the tool of choice: http://lifehacker.com/software/disk-recovery/geek-to-live--rescue-files-with-a-boot-cd-192982.php If you need windoze - How about this: http://3d2f.com/programs/56-295-fat-partition-undelete-download.shtml On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:02 PM, jordi laforge

Re: Free Webhost

2009-05-05 Thread Lisa Kachold
Well, server under Linux is vague (since a desktop is certainly as powerful), however the business use stipulations also are unreasonable, unenforceable, and the description certainly doesn't cover home business or remote access for work purposes, as well? Many people run Windows MSN

TechShop

2009-05-05 Thread Lisa Kachold
A good idea for Phoenix? http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/28/boing-boing-video-re-2.html Anyone want to invest? Okay, well if not for profit TechShop workshop membership, how about a nice FreeGeek recycler endeavor? Well, yes, it might not work, since one can toss out anything here without

Re: OT: Free Webhost

2009-05-05 Thread Technomage
hey guys, aztecfreenet.org is looking for a new hosting provider that can handle dialup. they are a non-profit and don't have a lot of funds to spend. any recommendations? I did point them to deru but there may be other alteratives I don't know about yet. Darin Wayrynen wrote: Why not

Best way to setup at MAC ADDRESS firewall

2009-05-05 Thread wayne
I have a situation where I will want to prevent individuals from connecting to my server based on their MAC id. I've not selected ANYTHING yet... suggestions?A nice GUI frontend would be cool. :-) (Kubuntu 8.04.2) --- PLUG-discuss mailing

Re: Best way to setup at MAC ADDRESS firewall

2009-05-05 Thread Jon M. Hanson
MAC addresses don't propogate beyond a subnet so they aren't useful for firewall rules. Sent from my iPhone On May 5, 2009, at 5:30 PM, wayne wayda...@cox.net wrote: I have a situation where I will want to prevent individuals from connecting to my server based on their MAC id. I've not

Re: Best way to setup at MAC ADDRESS firewall

2009-05-05 Thread Lisa Kachold
Use iptables: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/iptables-mac-address-filtering.html GUI tools and scripts exist to help you with the configuration of ipchains. See: - EasyFw http://www.linux-kheops.com/pub/easyfw/ - Tcl/Tk - RPM available from web site. RPM installs command:

Re: Ubuntu 9.04 Run Level

2009-05-05 Thread AZ Rune
Ok, == There is not /etc/inittab file in Ubuntu because Ubuntu uses /etc/event.d/rc-default file You can fix this problem by editing /etc/event.d/rc-default file First backup file, Code: sudo cp /etc/event.d/rc-default /etc/event.d/rc-default.bakup Open

Re: TechShop

2009-05-05 Thread Mark Phillips
I think there is one already in Phoenix - TechShop 3144 Grand Ave Phoenix, AZ 85017 (602) 222-9220‎ No web site, but an address. Mark On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.comwrote: A good idea for Phoenix?

Re: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

2009-05-05 Thread Joshua Zeidner
looks like weve got a drama queen here... :) -jmz On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: On May 4, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Alex Dean a...@crackpot.org wrote: On May 4, 2009, at 7:23 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote:

hacking Kindle

2009-05-05 Thread Joshua Zeidner
some interesting articles on hacking the Kindle: http://igorsk.blogspot.com/search?q=kindle apparently, you can get a shell prompt with a little work. -jmz --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe,

Re: TechShop

2009-05-05 Thread Lisa Kachold
I don't think so. I think their names are just similar. If you check out the article, it's like a club, a brain calestenics for nerds, where you can hack, engineer, build and happily access all manner of others doing the same things, with complete access to tools, labs, etc. 2009/5/5 Mark

Re: TechShop

2009-05-05 Thread fouldragon
What I'd like to see is a combined donation/thrift shop approach. I could see going somewhere where I could drop off my evol old rubber-dome keyboards, the Umax SuperMac which won't run OSX, and that 66MHz Windows NT PowerPC workstation, and dig through a pile of everyone else's equally