Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread Joseph Sinclair
The xrandr output you give here shows the laptop screen still enabled. Are you getting the higher resolution of the 22" screen after disabling the laptop screen, or is it still limiting you to what a dual-screen setup permits? Sometimes getting things to work with a VGA port on the secondary scre

Re: OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

2009-05-28 Thread Joseph Sinclair
One thing that hasn't been mentioned is that you can, if you're REALLY motivated, setup a local SpamAssassin filter that uses the IMAP interface to GMail to filter your email. Have SpamAssassin just transfer suspected spam into the junk folder (or delete the message, which actually sends it to t

Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Hoy
> > You could, theoretically use the system|preferences|display tool to set the > screens to clone with a large (matching the larger screen) desktop and just > disable the laptop screen when the external monitor is connected, that would > allow you to fully utilize the larger screen, but you'd only

Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread Joseph Sinclair
With Ubuntu Jaunty and an ATI 9100 IGP, you have a maximum (per AMD) 2048x1536 virtual screen (That's the virtual setting in the xorg.conf). LVDS is your internal screen, VGA-0 is the external. The 1536 max on screen 0 that xrandr is reporting is because it's putting the two screens together vert

Re: OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

2009-05-28 Thread Kurt Granroth
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: > In the past, I have pleaded for help with this issue, and some have > responded with frustration that I brought this up again ... so I > apologize in advance for bringing this up again now. But the problem > has worstened to an enormously frus

Re: OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

2009-05-28 Thread Richard Wilson
Josef Lowder wrote: > In the past, I have pleaded for help with this issue, and some have > responded with frustration that I brought this up again ... so I > apologize in advance for bringing this up again now. But the problem > has worstened to an enormously frustrating extent. > > More than 2,0

Re: OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

2009-05-28 Thread Blake Gonterman
I'm seeing new spam with unsubscribe links that take you to a malware site... be sure you watch the links and make sure they look legit or you may end up with a lot of other spam...Joe wrote:>I can't help you Gmail specifically (their filter works 99.9% of the>time for me), but what I can suggest

Re: OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

2009-05-28 Thread Blake Gonterman
I have to agree with dazed on this one... go sign up for a new account and don't use it for any websites you're not sure about.Even my "spam email box" only sees around 30/weekDazed_75 wrote:>On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Josef Lowder wrote:>>> In the past, I have pleaded for help with this is

Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Oops... Sorry, I am too tired. I meant to point you to investigate that command. xrandr -q will tell you all you need to know about your video, and you don't need to modify /etc/X11/xorg.conf Also, if you have an Intel chip, there is a program (I can't remember the name now) that will create

Question about MAC address in wireless network.

2009-05-28 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Imagine the next scenario: Firewall-AP1 BR2-AP3 BR4 IP1 IP2 IP3 IP4 MAC1 MAC2MAC3 MAC4 Say that I ping them all and take a reading of the arp table in firewall, there are 2 possibilities depending on the settings of BR2: I

Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Hoy
> xrandr > Are you asking me to run that command? If so here is the output if it helps: $ xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 1536 VGA-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 473mm x 296mm 1024x768 75.0*60.0 800x600

Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 23:27 -0500, Mike Hoy wrote: > xorg.conf: > Section "Monitor" > 22 Identifier "Configured Monitor" > 23 EndSection > 24 > 25 Section "Screen" > 26 Identifier "Default Screen" > 27 Monitor "Configured Monitor" > 28 Device "Configured Video Dev

Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
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Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Hoy
xorg.conf: Section "Monitor" 22 Identifier "Configured Monitor" 23 EndSection 24 25 Section "Screen" 26 Identifier "Default Screen" 27 Monitor "Configured Monitor" 28 Device "Configured Video Device" 29 SubSection "Display" 30 Virtual 1024 1536 31

Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread Craig White
Hi - On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 20:27 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > Most cards have a maximum resolution for all screens combined (for instance, > an ATI 200M maxes out at 2048x1536) which is based on how fast it can push > pixels across the (DVI/HDMI/RAMDAC) interface. > I would be surprised if yo

Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread Dazed_75
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Mike Hoy wrote: > I set up Juanty on my laptop and decided to hook up my 22" monitor > (widescreen). It's nice to have a larger viewing area but the screen > resolution for the 22" monitor is exactly the same as the laptop 1024x768. > I'm not that well educated on

Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Most cards have a maximum resolution for all screens combined (for instance, an ATI 200M maxes out at 2048x1536) which is based on how fast it can push pixels across the (DVI/HDMI/RAMDAC) interface. I would be surprised if you actually cannot exceed 1024x768 for a single screen, but getting mult

Re: OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

2009-05-28 Thread Dazed_75
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: > In the past, I have pleaded for help with this issue, and some have > responded with frustration that I brought this up again ... so I > apologize in advance for bringing this up again now. But the problem > has worstened to an enormously fr

Re: first Time DRBL

2009-05-28 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/ :) Matthew A Coulliette writes: > What is DRBL? - MatthewMPP > > Stephen wrote: >> interesting. I have gotten the clonezilla livecd working. so was >> looking forward to having the ability to have a server repository for >> this and not needing anything cept a ne

Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread Matthew A Coulliette
Well, to say for sure I would have to know what laptop, graphics card, and driver you are using. However, I have an IBM T30 w/ ATI graphics card and an open source driver. I know that the maximum external monitor I can run is a 14" 1024x768 @ 60Hz. - MatthewMPP Mike Hoy wrote: > I set up Juanty

Re: first Time DRBL

2009-05-28 Thread Matthew A Coulliette
What is DRBL? - MatthewMPP Stephen wrote: > interesting. I have gotten the clonezilla livecd working. so was > looking forward to having the ability to have a server repository for > this and not needing anything cept a network boot. > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Michael Butash wrote: >

Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Hoy
I set up Juanty on my laptop and decided to hook up my 22" monitor (widescreen). It's nice to have a larger viewing area but the screen resolution for the 22" monitor is exactly the same as the laptop 1024x768. I'm not that well educated on screen resolutions and video cards/drivers so I have to as

Re: OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

2009-05-28 Thread Joe
I can't help you Gmail specifically (their filter works 99.9% of the time for me), but what I can suggest is unsubscribing from any lists you get. That is, any email you get with an unsubscribe link on the bottom, make sure you click it and ask to be removed from all mailing. Someone told me to tr

OT: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

2009-05-28 Thread Josef Lowder
In the past, I have pleaded for help with this issue, and some have responded with frustration that I brought this up again ... so I apologize in advance for bringing this up again now. But the problem has worstened to an enormously frustrating extent. More than 2,000 spam email messages now come

Re: first Time DRBL

2009-05-28 Thread Stephen
interesting. I have gotten the clonezilla livecd working. so was looking forward to having the ability to have a server repository for this and not needing anything cept a network boot. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > I'd installed DRBL on my laptop's vm a while back as

Re: first Time DRBL

2009-05-28 Thread Michael Butash
I'd installed DRBL on my laptop's vm a while back as a cloning tool (clonezilla, uses DRBL), which I found basically never worked in many attempts to clone windows or linux. Wouldn't surprise me if it was my fault, but I could never find the secret sauce to get it properly functional. It always s

Re: HackFest Series: Neat Tricks with IPTABLES

2009-05-28 Thread Shawn Badger
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first Time DRBL

2009-05-28 Thread Stephen
Anyone here have any advice on setting up a DRBL server? I have the obvious Walk through (http://drbl.sourceforge.net/one4all/) but any real world suggestions would be appreciated before i get going. Thanks in advance -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rol