Re: OT: Exchange strips formatting off of messages via IMAP

2010-09-13 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I have never seen this as a default and I have been administrating exchange servers for a very long time. That said there are ways you can make exchange do this. It is a performance option but to the best of my memory it is not a user option - your exchange administrator will have to fix it for you

OT: Exchange strips formatting off of messages via IMAP

2010-09-13 Thread Kurt Granroth
I need to connect to an Exchange server for email at work but, having a Linux desktop, I do so via IMAP using Thunderbird (or KMail and, every so often, Evolution). This works mostly okay. The one part that doesn't work is that the IMAP server part of Exchange completely strips off all format

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread Bryan O'Neal
ACL's or Access Control Lists show up in every corner of the digital world Here we are looking at file ACL's which have been built in to linux for at least half a decade (and optional well before that) First thing you need to do is enable them by editing /etc/fstab and appending acl to your partit

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I second that! But if some one who does find LDAP easy wishes to put together a how to I am more then willing to try and change my mind on that. On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Jason Holtzapple wrote: > On 09/13/2010 08:13 PM, Stephen wrote: >> There is Ldap actually which is quite good, just ne

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread Jason Holtzapple
On 09/13/2010 08:13 PM, Stephen wrote: > There is Ldap actually which is quite good, just need to determine how > to set it up. > wrote: >> Otherwise linux does not have (to the best of my knowledge) >> easy central account management. I think the key word here was "easy" for which LDAP doesn't

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen
There is Ldap actually which is quite good, just need to determine how to set it up. On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > I agree with everything I have seen in this thread so far. If you are > a seasoned windows admin you can use Active Directory for central user > authenticati

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread James Dugger
Bryan, The detail would be great. I would like to learn more about ACL support. Thank you On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Bryan O'Neal < bryan.on...@theonealandassociates.com> wrote: > I agree with everything I have seen in this thread so far. If you are > a seasoned windows admin you can use

Re: SFD 2010 tour of Local Motors micro-factory

2010-09-13 Thread Shawn Badger
Just as a note, the burgers event is tomorrow night. If you want to go please use the following link to make a reservation http://www.eventbrite.com/event/818812089 Please feel free to attend both events as they are gear for different crowds, tomorrow night is more for the people that into cars a

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I agree with everything I have seen in this thread so far. If you are a seasoned windows admin you can use Active Directory for central user authentication and file level access with only about 10 -15 min worth of work. Otherwise linux does not have (to the best of my knowledge) easy central accoun

SFD 2010 tour of Local Motors micro-factory

2010-09-13 Thread PLUG Announcements
Local Motors hosts the Software Freedom Day (SFD) Phoenix area event by providing a tour of Local-Motors' Chandler Micro-Factory on Thursday, September 16th at 18:30. Local Motors uses Creative Commons licensing for car and part designs giving owners and third party parts manufacturers full so

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread Eric Shubert
James Dugger wrote: I checked the RAID configuration again and it is controlled with Ubuntu and not the MB. I configured the RAID as a part of the installation of Server 10.04. Good. You should see your array status with: $ cat /proc/mdstat > SMB and CIFS are pretty much the same thing. I

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread James Dugger
Eric, Thanks for your comments. Just as a followup here are responses and a couple of addtional questions and items for clarification. > I think you want to disable RAID on the MB, and let Linux handle the raid > processing (aka software raid). I'm not sure what happens with the > configuration

Hackfest Presentation Tuesday JCL Hosp. Cowden Center 6:00 - 8:00 Defcon 18 Videos

2010-09-13 Thread Lisa Kachold
PLUG Linux Security Team will be presenting Professional Videos from Defcon 18 over the next 10 months, The Videos are excellent quality purchased at the con and include speaker and overheaf with high quality audio. http://plug.phoenix.az.us See you there! -- Office: (602)239-3392 AT&T: (50

Re: Reverse Proxy

2010-09-13 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Mike Ballon wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have the need to setup a reverse proxy to front-end some websites for > security reasons, but I can't decide whether to use Apache or Squid. The > only real requirements are to having something "more secure" than your > stan

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen
I have seen Ubuntu do freakishly well in running on these on-board raid configurations, My first experience was with an Intel matrix storage IF on my Intel mainboard, ansd it works like a champ. I do not know the ins and outs of it as i went back to windows (long story best left for another thread)

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread Eric Shubert
James Dugger wrote: I'm new to PLUG and new to LINUX but I have jumped in head first. By head first I mean I have removed XP off of 4 desktops and Vista off my HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop and installed Ubuntu 10.04 i386 on each. I have built an new headless server with and AMD Athelon (tripple co

Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread James Dugger
I'm new to PLUG and new to LINUX but I have jumped in head first. By head first I mean I have removed XP off of 4 desktops and Vista off my HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop and installed Ubuntu 10.04 i386 on each. I have built an new headless server with and AMD Athelon (tripple core) 64bit chip and 2GB

Re: going M$ free

2010-09-13 Thread Technomage_Hawke
I quit using M$ after my eyes became unusable for even large print. I Haven't tried NVDA (an open source speech synth for windows) yet. However that doesn't matter now as I use a mac with voiceover. I spent just under $400 for a used Imac intel machine and purchased snow leopard for $29.00 from

Re: going M$ free

2010-09-13 Thread Jim March
It gets better yet. With Vbox, when Windows is running (and eating some system resources), it's getting it's internet feed from Ubuntu which in turn is acting like a software firewall from hell. The XP (or whatever version you want, XP is really best though) virtual machine lives on a single file

Re: going M$ free

2010-09-13 Thread Tim Bogart
This is great. I'll tell you the same thing I tell others. Using M$ is like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer. It just feels so good when you stop. I kicked the M$ dust off my shoes years ago and never looked back. And never regretted it either. Good luck, man. My $0.02. Tim B.

Re: going M$ free

2010-09-13 Thread keith smith
That is cool!! So you are only using the apps you can only run under windows, like IE.  You do all your browsing and email using Linux so you are less vulnerable to malware, rootkits, and all the other junk that is our there. Nice!! Keith Smith --- On Mon, 9/13/10,

Re: going M$ free

2010-09-13 Thread Kevin Fries
Even better, VBox has a mode called seamless mode. I need Vision every so often, so I have XP in a vbox instance. I have an icon on my desktop that uses the command line interface to start the Windows instance on demand, otherwise why waste the resources. When I first set ut up, Windows came up

Re: going M$ free

2010-09-13 Thread keith smith
So basically I install my favorite distro of Linux.  Download and install the compatible version of virtualbox.  Then install XP in the virtualbox. Would I be able to open an instance of XP in a window?  Like opening multiple browser tabs?  That way I would be able to go back and forth between

Re: going M$ free

2010-09-13 Thread Ariel Gold
I also run virtualbox for IE testing. I run tinyxp, which runs blazing fast (not that i've done any benchmarking...) 2010/9/13 Roderick Ford > I keep a WinXP box running in a vm on my Fedora 7 (yes, due to be > upgraded), then anytime I need windows I can just use KRDC to show the > desktop and

Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD

2010-09-13 Thread JD Austin
Nope. You do need the kernel headers/devel installed though. I love the import/export appliance feature.. running the same XP Virtualbox clone on 4 machines [Corporate Edition] :) The main difference I see between the community edition (in rpm repository) and the non community edition is USB sup

Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD

2010-09-13 Thread keith smith
Very interesting idea.  Does virtualbox requires a 64bit CPU? Keith Smith --- On Mon, 9/13/10, Roderick Ford wrote: From: Roderick Ford Subject: Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Cc: "keith smith" Date: Monday, September 13, 2010,

Re: going M$ free

2010-09-13 Thread Roderick Ford
I keep a WinXP box running in a vm on my Fedora 7 (yes, due to be upgraded), then anytime I need windows I can just use KRDC to show the desktop and test all the browsers there. Roderick Ford keith smith wrote: = I'm really getting tired of these windows problems.  2 viri

Re: OT: and not OT: Avira Rescue CD

2010-09-13 Thread Roderick Ford
Best option would be to keep Windows relegated to a VM ... virtualbox/qemu/vmware ... so when these problems occur, you can just "rollback" to the snapshot and keep on working, within a minute! There is no use wasting good hardware. Roderick Ford keith smith wrote: = Hi

Re: battery overcharging

2010-09-13 Thread Jason Holtzapple
On 09/12/2010 06:55 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > It really is best to regularly run on battery and not just run > continusly on AC with the battery in. My HP battery life is down to > seconds because I did that. > > That said, I understand more modern systems have better charge control > circuitry to re

Re: going M$ free

2010-09-13 Thread Stephen
Id go with virtualbox on linux if web compatability is all you need windows fot On Sep 12, 2010 10:09 PM, "JD Austin" wrote: I use a combination of RH13, Crossover Linux (I have v8... not sure if it's worth paying to upgrade o v9), and Virtualbox with XP installed (rarely needed). On Sun, Sep 1

Re: battery overcharging

2010-09-13 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 06:55:33PM -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: > It really is best to regularly run on battery and not just run continusly on > AC > with the battery in. My HP battery life is down to seconds because I did > that. I'm running an old Dell Latitude 600 and I wonder how many charge/disc

Re: Staying Ubuntu or Getting minty.

2010-09-13 Thread Jim March
I'm pondering the same thing. In my case, with a vintage but potent ATI X1700 card, I'm on Maverick now due to the late-era kernel - the open-source ATI drivers including kernel support is a rapidly-evolving thing. Right now Mint/Debian is significantly behind Maverick. If that starts to change