Openmoko rootkit

2010-02-23 Thread Charles Jones
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Re: Lookin at Qwest DSL Service

2010-02-23 Thread Charles Jones
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Technomage technomage.ha...@gmail.comwrote: she might also consider cox biz services. they tend to be reliable and stable (according to DSLreports). Yeah that's what she wanted at first (Cox), but they told her that the building was not wired and she would

Re: RHCE test dates?

2010-02-15 Thread Charles Jones
Wow...looks like I may have to travel out of state just to get the exam over with! -Charles On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.comwrote: No, actually they occur here at most once a year, or did last I checked. On 2/9/10, Charles Jones charles.jo

Re: free long (approx 30ft) ethernet cables

2010-02-15 Thread Charles Jones
FYI I know from experience that recycling places will pay over $1 per pound for scrap cat5 cable (not suggesting this is scrap or should be). Doesn't sound like much but the pounds add up faster than you would think. -Charles On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Ed p...@0x1b.com wrote: Sounds

Re: Lookin at Qwest DSL Service

2010-02-15 Thread Charles Jones
I have Cox residential service, and my fiancee uses Qwest DSL at her business. I have never had any real issue from my Cox connection, but her DSL is terrible in various ways. * Modem always starts out at full provisioned rate and throughout the day gets slower and slower (according to the web

RHCE test dates?

2010-02-09 Thread Charles Jones
I thought the RHCE exams were given monthly. I just checked the RedHat site ( https://www.redhat.com/training/offices.html#phoenix ) and it seems to indicate that the next available RHCE exam date is not until May 14th...the spacing on that seems pretty far? I did notice that the testing dates

Re: Burning Mp3 Music files to cd in linux?

2009-12-12 Thread Charles Jones
Also if the radio can play mp3 discs, some have a limit on the max bitrate they can handle. All of them can handle 128k, but some cant do 256k, and it's hard to find one that can play ogg and/or flac (just ask Hans). On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Bob Elzer bob.el...@gmail.com wrote: You

Re: Google Wave

2009-10-09 Thread Charles Jones
I've watched the long demo video, and over the shoulder of a few friends that have it. Honestly I am not impressed. One of the most ooh-ahh features is the realtime email/collaboration...Oh look you can see someone type char by char as they reply! Maybe I don't want someone to see my typing You're

Re: Time to Trade in My Blackberry

2009-08-31 Thread Charles Jones
On 8/31/09 1:32 PM, David Huerta huerta...@gmail.com wrote: I've been anxiously looking forward to the n900; The prospect of a mobile browser with Flash support will be awesome for making iPhone users jealous. The n900 seems cool. I have a jailbroken iPhone and honestly I have no desire for

Re: Limit logins on a group of machines?

2009-06-17 Thread Charles Jones
Bill Jonas wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anybody might point me in the right direction here. I know that for limiting concurrent logins on a *single* machine, you can set maxlogins in /etc/security/limits.conf. However, this is only good for that single system. Suppose you have three

Re: Xawtv (video capture) problem, BT878 chipset, Video4Linux failure...halp?

2009-06-16 Thread Charles Jones
Jim March wrote: Folks, I have a somewhat complex question posted on Ubuntuforums at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7469310 Basically, XawTV won't work, which is a prelude to getting ZoneMinder working (the latest 1.24.1 compiled from source). It DID work on my initial new

Re: Apache Throttling Itself?

2009-06-16 Thread Charles Jones
fouldra...@aol.com wrote: I've just set up a new (virtual-bla-bla-bla) server for a site I'm working on. The test server was FC6, with Plesk 8.3 and a recent PHP and MySQL hacked on. The new one is CentOS5, with CPanel 11, and a comparably recent PHP and MySQL included with the install.

Re: Apache Throttling Itself?

2009-06-16 Thread Charles Jones
fouldra...@aol.com wrote: The signature of the server is Apache/2.2.8 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 *mod_bwlimited*/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.6 Server at (snip) Port Also check the settings you are using for mod_bwlimited, it is

Re: sortof OT: wiki software

2009-06-15 Thread Charles Jones
Jason Hayes wrote: I foresee that being a big block to the wiki's use. As I said, most of the people using the wiki will be non-tech types. They're also doing this project as an add on to their normal work duties, so if there is a steep learning curve for the markup, they may grow weary of

Re: OT: Hardware free to good, bad, or indifferent home

2009-06-10 Thread Charles Jones
I had trouble getting rid of some old monitors and computer cases. I finally put them out in my front yard for big item pickup, and my pile was raided before dawn. They took literally everything except things that were pure junk (pieces of wood, etc). It's one way of donating equipment to

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

2009-05-29 Thread Charles Jones
Bob Elzer wrote: Nobody has asked what your email account is, is someb...@gmail.com ??? Or Do you have gmail receiving the j...@actionline one ? That makes me wonder, If you configure gmail to pull from other POP/IMAP accounts, maybe it just pulls whatever is there and does not spam filter

Re: mysql_connect won't when run from web server

2009-05-24 Thread Charles Jones
Do you have php-mysql installed? Did you restart httpd after you installed it? Matt Graham wrote: After a long battle with technology, Steven A. DuChene wrote: But if that was the problem then the command line invocation on the Apache server should not work. I.E. if it was a port or

Re: HTTP Access Logging

2009-05-18 Thread Charles Jones
On 5/18/09 11:14 AM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm running a CentOS LAMP server and it appears that access logging has discontinued. I'm thinking there is a messages log file some place that might shed light on what or how the access logging was turned off. I've looked

Another small embeddable linux platform (OpenRD-Client)

2009-05-16 Thread Charles Jones
I'm still trying to find time to experiment with my SheevaPlug (http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-22-sheevaplug-dev-kit.aspx) It looks like they have released another, called the OpenRD-Client which is larger and more features and interfaces:

Re: Format

2009-05-15 Thread Charles Jones
Shouldn't it be TP? ;-) Ryan Rix wrote: and... why isn't this OT? On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Bishmer Sekaran bish...@sekaran.net mailto:bish...@sekaran.net wrote: Matthew A Coulliette wrote: The toilet paper should come over the top of the role, so that it hags down

Re: Truly Free phones?

2009-05-15 Thread Charles Jones
Just thought I would mention the Apple IPhone. It is far from free or open, out of the box, but once jailbroken, they are unlocked and you can install any apps you want, including ones that you write yourself. There is also a free online course from Standford University that is teaching iphone

Re: Home Directory as the Desktop?

2009-05-15 Thread Charles Jones
Dazed_75 wrote: What genius decided that the users home directory should also BE the [gnome] Desktop? Doing so means that every file and directory in a users home directory appears on the Desktop. One does not notice it on finishing the install because there are no visible files there.

Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions

2009-05-12 Thread Charles Jones
If you never want to have to worry about problems with it. Get a Dell and the Complete Care warranty. You can literally throw your laptop against a wall and they will fix it good as new. Things I have seen them fix, while having to support some employee laptops. * Replaced shattered LCD -

Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions

2009-05-12 Thread Charles Jones
). Great hardware. Its light, it works with iTunes, Office or OpenOffice. The best deal is refurbed from Apple's site. 13.3 Macbook white - $849. http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB402LL/A?mco=MjE0NDk5Mw Don't curse her with Windows... Eric On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Charles Jones

RE: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Charles Jones
-Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us on behalf of Donn Sent: Sat 5/9/2009 11:22 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Grub problems On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Mike Hoy mho...@gmail.com wrote: I'm working on a relative's computer. It was

Re: Linux Twitter Command Line Updates

2009-05-09 Thread Charles Jones
Lisa Kachold wrote: Easy Twittering: In Ubuntu, install curl with |apt-get install curl|, then create a file paste the line below into it, modify the username and password strings: |curl --basic --user username:password --data-ascii status=`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'`

RE: OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request

2009-05-07 Thread Charles Jones
. Keith Smith --- On Wed, 5/6/09, Charles Jones charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org wrote: From: Charles Jones charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org Subject: OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Wednesday

Re: OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request

2009-05-07 Thread Charles Jones
my registrations (and my customer's) to a different registrar. I highly doubt that I'll ever use them again for anything. I realize this doesn't help with your current problem. Sorry. Charles Jones wrote: It shouldn't take days to get a simple $29 SSL Cert (It's not even one

Re: OT - Opera KFC free meal giveaway, ends today

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Jones
I havn't tried visiting the site, but some of my coworkers are wary because they get prompted to download and install a coupon printer...sounds like malware? I can't even get to the site I get HTTP Server Too Busy error. The domain registration appears legit, owned by yum.com Stephen wrote:

Re: OT - Opera KFC free meal giveaway, ends today

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Jones
The problem I always have trying to use a free coupon or even an advertised special is the store simply says they are not a participating location. :P On 5/6/09 1:48 PM, James Finstrom jfinst...@rhinoequipment.com wrote: Just went there 45 min wait so bring a laptop or somethin On 5/6/09,

OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Jones
Has anyone ever had issues with GoDaddy SSL certs? We have several with them and on Tues I purchased a cert, and after submitting the signing request I got this email: /*Due to filters in our system your certificate request has been flagged for additional review. In order to proceed with your

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: HackFest Series: TrueCrypt is Now Detectable

2009-04-30 Thread Charles Jones
Jim March wrote: In the US you generally don't need to hide encryption. The 5th Amendment usually protects any key stashed in your head. In these days of the Patriot Act and such, I'm not certain how well that would work. I'm sure they would at least charge you with obstruction of justice or

Re: OT: Failure of Cox, Google, IMAP and port 993?

2009-04-26 Thread Charles Jones
Alan Dayley wrote: This morning our email clients could no longer reach our Goggle Apps mail accounts. Connection to the Google server is via IMAP to imap.gmail.com on port 993. Mail applications simply time out reaching the server. Cox support claims it's not their problem. Google gives

Re: How to properly re-establish users after a reinstall?

2009-04-21 Thread Charles Jones
* waits for Hans to suggest using RCS * :-) Lisa Kachold wrote: Learning to edit systems files is an advanced process. While I never limit my teaching to a dumbed down level, with NEVER admonishments, I did not give you the safety net rap reserved for the best and brightest fledgling

Re: Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?

2009-04-14 Thread Charles Jones
Because we were talking about someone who had never used linux before, so doubtful that they could host, install, and admin their own IMAP server. Bryan O'Neal wrote: Excuse my squirrely logic here, but what is the difference between connecting to Goggles imap server and connecting to your

Re: Got a text formatting/database question (bash it to hell?)

2009-04-14 Thread Charles Jones
$ cat testfile.txt 235,126,Early Ballot 235,143, 235,147,Early Ballot 235,148,Early Ballot 235,170,Early Ballot 235,170,Early Ballot 235,170,Early Ballot 235,147,Early Ballot 235,147,Early Ballot $ cat testfile.txt |awk -F, {'print $2'} |grep -c 170 Jim March wrote: Guys, I have an

Re: Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?

2009-04-09 Thread Charles Jones
My only suggestion is that Thunderbird is 3x more stable than Evolution in my experience. In fact, I have NEVER had Thunderbird crash or hang, just take a long time downloading headers of a huge mailbox, which you cannot really avoid unless you have a GbE connection to the mailserver. I

Re: Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?

2009-04-09 Thread Charles Jones
Eric Shubert wrote: Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 17:20 -0700, Jim March wrote: When I mean big, I mean out past 2gig in a matter of a few days. I have somebody who wants to convert who is likely THE biggest EMail volume user that anybody's ever seen. And somebody

Re: Script to rename all filenames in a directory to use ALL CAPITAL LETTERS

2009-04-07 Thread Charles Jones
$ ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-04-07 13:23 2009-4_5_WaDAq_a.Dn.23.f for file in `ls`; do mv -v $file `echo $file| tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'`; done `2009-4_5_WaDAq_a.Dn.23.f' - `2009-4_5_WADAQ_A.DN.23.F' -Charles wayne wrote: Its probably simple, but would take me a week

Re: Plug Computing

2009-04-07 Thread Charles Jones
Steve Phariss wrote: I was looking at these and have a question... does this model have a sata II connecter? the block diagrams seem to say it does, so I am thinking you could interface a faster HD interface (raid???) Steve On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Charles Jones charles.jo

Anyone need a Sun 6500? Or two...or three?

2009-04-05 Thread Charles Jones
I posted this nearly 10 months ago, and still have them. At the time a few people replied, some of them obviously just wanted them to resell them, some for wrong reasons like use them as a game server. I did have one serious inquiry but I was so busy at the time (I was suddenly responsible for

Plug Computing

2009-04-04 Thread Charles Jones
I received my SheevaPlug computer on Friday. Here are some pics of what I got: http://www.the-ownage.com/?p=830 I have noticed that there are several other companies now using this exact same model, and basically re-selling them as fancy NAS devices. Here is some more info on that:

Re: IM ROOT

2009-04-04 Thread Charles Jones
Alex Dean wrote: Charles : Nice license plate! LOL! Thanks :-) The only downside of it is having to constantly explain to MS zombies what root is :-) -Charles --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe,

Re: Cheap NAS or MSI Wind/Eee Box?

2009-04-03 Thread Charles Jones
You could always get one of these plug computers and attach a large external USB drive to it. It only draws 5w of power and runs ubuntu so you could easily setup your own samba and nfs shares, as well as run some kind of media server applications. I ordered the $99 dev kit at

Re: OT: Speed Cams

2009-04-03 Thread Charles Jones
Don't talk bad about the cops, they will come and take all your computers away ;-) http://carlosmiller.com/2009/04/02/phoenix-police-raid-home-of-blogger-whose-writing-is-highly-critical-of-them/ --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: OT Threads

2009-04-03 Thread Charles Jones
Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote: These threads are ok, but when they dominate a list it turns members away. This last OT thread is a great example of a thread out of control. Not only was there an outrageous number of OT posts that I had to wade through, but at one point, one list member

Re: OT: Speed Cams

2009-04-02 Thread Charles Jones
Personally to me the fact whether or not speed cameras save lives is irrelevant. The #1 reason the speed cameras were installed was due to the money they would bring in, not for our safety. Yet when people complain about them, they try to play the safety card instead of just admitting they

Re: OT: Speed Cams

2009-04-02 Thread Charles Jones
Don't forget that the current implementation of the speed cams are not just still-frame cameras that snap a picture if you trigger them, they are HD live-feed video cameras as well. If there were enough of them spread about, your movements could easily be tracked by noting what time you left

Re: April 1st coming up - conficker time

2009-04-01 Thread Charles Jones
Here is some more excellent info on the virus: http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/ http://mtc.sri.com/Conficker/addendumC/ I find it interesting how efficient the logic and coding is. Someone put a huge amount of thought and effort into this thing. Strange how it is coded to not infect machines with

CentOS 5.3

2009-04-01 Thread Charles Jones
In case anyone didn't know, and cares, CentOS 5.3 came out today *looks at clock* I mean yesterday. If you are running 5.2 the upgrade is as simple as yum update. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-April/015711.html ---

Re: CentOS 5.3

2009-04-01 Thread Charles Jones
KevinO wrote: Charles Jones wrote: In case anyone didn't know, and cares, CentOS 5.3 came out today *looks at clock* I mean yesterday. If you are running 5.2 the upgrade is as simple as yum update. Actually, I think that should be: # yum upgrade yum upgrade is depreciated

Re: OT: Speed Cams

2009-04-01 Thread Charles Jones
I should have added an additional P.S. that I heard this on the radio, and they specifically said it was NOT an april fools joke, but they could have been duped, or just trying to make the joke more believable. For our sake I hope so! Charles Jones wrote: Just a note to my fellow phoenix

OT: Speed Cams

2009-04-01 Thread Charles Jones
Just a note to my fellow phoenix drivers. Yesterday it was announced that the federal government has allocated $275 million in stimulus money for the purchase of 350 speed cameras to be put up in the Phoenix area. We all know about the speed cams on the 51 and such, but these are being put on

Re: CentOS 5.3

2009-04-01 Thread Charles Jones
Alex Dean wrote: On Apr 1, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: yum list | grep openmpi # (checking to see if it is installed) yum list | grep lam # (checking to see if it is installed) I think this will only find packages which were installed by yum. If you download an RPM

Re: Psyb0t - the first Linux botnet

2009-03-31 Thread Charles Jones
Jason Hayes wrote: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/The-First-Linux-Botnet-626424/?kc=EWKNLLIN03312009STR1 The main thing keeping Linux desktops out of botnets is the sophistication of their users, but the people who built Psyb0t knew most people don't pay much attention to router

Re: starting by iptable deny all of china is a good start. - Re: OT? Linux-based trojans now targeting WRT and other linux-based routers

2009-03-30 Thread Charles Jones
Andrew Tuna Harris wrote: Excerpts from kitepi...@kitepilot.com's message of Mon Mar 30 05:30:51 -0700 2009: And how do I: starting by iptable deny all of china ? I can figure out the iptable part, it is the china part (and other possible places where I know I will only get spam from)

April 1st coming up - conficker time

2009-03-30 Thread Charles Jones
On April 1st the Conficker.C virus (probably the most virulent MSWin virus to date) is due to activate. By activate I mean that thusfar it has been just spreading itself, but once the host time reaches April 1, it will begin attempting to contact 50,000 randomly generated domain names per day,

Re: Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-27 Thread Charles Jones
I installed and tested out Google Openmeetings today. It does work, but not near as slick as other browser based collaboration tools like WebEx, MeetingPlace, etc. But those other ones are not free either :) It feels very beta-ish, and some of the UI is a bit confusing. One of my testers

Re: Server Logs

2009-03-27 Thread Charles Jones
keith smith wrote: Hi, I am a programmer so my server admin skills are on the basic end. I have been tasked with managing several LAMP servers running CentOS. I'm looking for a simple reference that will tell me what logs to look at, how often to look at them, and what to be looking for.

OT? Linux-based trojans now targeting WRT and other linux-based routers

2009-03-27 Thread Charles Jones
http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/psyb0t_attacks_linux_routers_update Some parts of this article made me LOL. Like: One type of malware connects primarily to a chat system such as IRC, which your ordinary 14-year-old might join for the latest superstar gossip. and: Each IRC network

Re: OT? Linux-based trojans now targeting WRT and other linux-based routers

2009-03-27 Thread Charles Jones
Log in and run ps and look for rogue processes I guess. Or put a sniffer upstream of it. Both are things that the casual hay I got a kewl router from bestbuy user is never going to do. Maybe there is a market for adding router pen-testing modules to AV software :-) Although, at least 3

Re: One of those (few) days that GRUB sucks...

2009-03-23 Thread Charles Jones
Last time I had a weird grub issue like this I fixed it via: * Boot redhat cd in rescue mode linux rescue * As soon as you can get to a shell, chroot /mnt/sysimage (assuming rescue mode mounted your root partition there for you) * grub-install * cross fingers and reboot -Charles

Re: One of those (few) days that GRUB sucks...

2009-03-23 Thread Charles Jones
I forgot to mention to make sure that your /boot is mounted after you do the chroot. Charles Jones wrote: Last time I had a weird grub issue like this I fixed it via: * Boot redhat cd in rescue mode linux rescue * As soon as you can get to a shell, chroot /mnt/sysimage (assuming rescue mode

Re: Cross-platform virtual meetings

2009-03-23 Thread Charles Jones
Some things that I have tried that work cross platform, mostly because they run in a browser: ustream - http://www.ustream.tv - works well for one-to-many broadcasting mebeam - http://www.mebeam.com - multipoint conferencing stickam - http://www.stickam.com - multipoint conferencing Ed wrote:

Re: To have a program to type a username/password for me. How?

2009-03-20 Thread Charles Jones
man ssh-copy-id :) -Charles kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: To have a program to type a password for me. How? Hello widespread wisdom... I want to propagate public keys to several dozens of puters so I can login passwordless. I am not looking forward to typing (or cut'n pasting) a

Re: Router problem

2009-03-17 Thread Charles Jones
Mark Jarvis wrote: Before I spend the $$ for a new router, I decided to try upgrading the firmware on what I have. I went to Linksys.com downloaded a firmware upgrade. I was going to do the recommended backup of the router settings before installing it, but I can't connect to the the

semi-WRT related

2009-03-17 Thread Charles Jones
Just thought I would mention that one of the projects I am working on involves creating a solar-powered wireless mesh. The end application will be used for internet and security (surveillance) in a remote location that has limited power available. The core of this system uses specific

Re: UBCD4WIN

2009-03-02 Thread Charles Jones
. On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Charles Jones charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org mailto:charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org wrote: mike havens wrote: I downloaded it and am unpacking it now. I am, however, unclear

screensaver or APM control via commandline?

2009-03-02 Thread Charles Jones
I have a linux laptop connected to a large screen display that shows informational items (what it is doesn't matter) that are only viewed from 7am-6pm. To conserve energy and reduce screen wear I would like for the display to go to sleep after the PC has been idle for X hours. The GUI

Re: screensaver or APM control via commandline?

2009-03-02 Thread Charles Jones
I think I figured it out (weird how anytime I ask a question I someone figure it out right afterwards). It looks like this will work: xset dpms force off # to turn off xset dpms force on # to turn on This worked from a shell, I don't know if it will work in cron or not.

Re: screensaver or APM control via commandline?

2009-03-02 Thread Charles Jones
Matt Graham wrote: xset dpms force off # to turn off This worked from a shell, I don't know if it will work in cron At the very least, you need to set DISPLAY to :0 , as cron jobs have a really limited set of environment variables. The cron job also must be running as the user who's

Re: $99 plug computer that runs Ubuntu

2009-02-28 Thread Charles Jones
Eric Shubert wrote: Charles Jones wrote: I just bought one of these to experiment with: http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp It is basically a tiny linux box with 1.2Ghz processor, with a gigabit ethernet and USB 2.0 port ( http

Re: $99 plug computer that runs Ubuntu

2009-02-28 Thread Charles Jones
mailto:j...@twingeckos.com 480.288.8195x201 http://www.twingeckos.com Groucho Marx - I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Charles Jones charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org mailto:charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org wrote: Eric Shubert wrote

Re: UBCD4WIN

2009-02-28 Thread Charles Jones
mike havens wrote: I downloaded it and am unpacking it now. I am, however, unclear as to where to get updates and how to install them into the program. What I am going to do is put it onto a flash drive and just update the virus info! Mike, Once you boot the disc (it takes a frighteningly

$99 plug computer that runs Ubuntu

2009-02-26 Thread Charles Jones
I just bought one of these to experiment with: http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp It is basically a tiny linux box with 1.2Ghz processor, with a gigabit ethernet and USB 2.0 port (

Re: ot: virus in MS (what to do)

2009-02-25 Thread Charles Jones
I second UBCD4Win...just had to use it this week to clean a really nasty virus+trojan+rootkit (yes it was all three!) off a machine. UBCD4Win lets you boot a stripped down build of XP from CDROM, and includes a bunch of handy tools including antivirus/antispyware that can be updated from the

Re: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Charles Jones
Agreed. For servers I usually do CentOS. For Workstations I use Fedora or Ubuntu. If you want something to play with there are security-specific distros like BackTrack, etc. -Charles Bob Elzer wrote: You're not going to get a single same answer on this. LOL My favorites are Centos, and

anyone else using Qwest/2-wire DSL service?

2009-02-18 Thread Charles Jones
If so, do you have the same crazy DHCP lease schedule that I'm experiencing at a particular site? I don't know what the exact lease time is, except that at least every 15 minutes I get a new IP. It is really annoying as when I ssh into a server that is behind this link, I have a very short

Re: anyone else using Qwest/2-wire DSL service?

2009-02-18 Thread Charles Jones
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Charles Jones charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org mailto:charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org wrote: If so, do you have the same crazy DHCP lease schedule that I'm experiencing at a particular site? I don't know what the exact lease time is, except

Re: anyone else using Qwest/2-wire DSL service?

2009-02-18 Thread Charles Jones
JD Austin wrote: I used to have it. I think there is a 'keep alive' option in the settings on the 2wire modem (I had an actiontec modem). If not have the box you're sshing into ping google every minute or two (ping -c 20 google.com http://google.com) via a cron job. Sadly that wont do any good

Re: going to SCaLE?

2009-02-16 Thread Charles Jones
Please let e know if you are interested off the list. :-P Sharkscott wrote: I am interested too! On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Tameek Henderson tameekhender...@gmail.com mailto:tameekhender...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested Shawn. Is it possible for you guys to pick me up in

Re: 16KVA APC Symmertra looking for a home (free)

2009-02-09 Thread Charles Jones
FYI the first person that responded came and got the UPS+batteries on Saturday. Thanks to everyone who showed interest. -Charles Charles Jones wrote: We have a rather large APC Symmertra SYMSTRF-PD UPS unit + battery modules that I would be willing to donate (FREE - just come take it away

Re: Rescuing laptop HD

2009-02-07 Thread Charles Jones
I keep one of these around for just such emergencies: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=2020 It has saved me a lot of trouble quite a few times. Ryan Rix wrote: Hi, I know the HDD is OK, it's just a matter of getting it hooked up to my desktop computer. Are there any USATA (i don't

Converting ext3 to ext4 - results (Re: ext3 vs ext4)

2009-02-06 Thread Charles Jones
Charles Jones wrote: I'm going to attempt a non-destructive conversion of a 2TB raid parition from ext3 to ext4. I will post the results :) Here's how it went. I did this on a system running Fedora Core 10: This is the partition I'm converting: # df -h /dev/sdc1 FilesystemSize

Re: Converting ext3 to ext4 - results (Re: ext3 vs ext4)

2009-02-06 Thread Charles Jones
...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Charles Jones Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 8:45 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Converting ext3 to ext4 - results (Re: ext3 vs ext4) Charles Jones wrote: I'm going to attempt a non-destructive conversion of a 2TB raid parition from ext3

Re: Decent, cheap SATA controller

2009-02-06 Thread Charles Jones
Ah yes that's exactly what it was. Stephen wrote: Sounds like a siig On 2/6/09, Charles Jones charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org wrote: I got one from Frys for literally $7 and it works great. Even ran a software RAID5 array on it with no problems. I don't remember the brand though, just

Re: Decent, cheap SATA controller

2009-02-06 Thread Charles Jones
I got one from Frys for literally $7 and it works great. Even ran a software RAID5 array on it with no problems. I don't remember the brand though, just that the PCB was red. -Charles Stephen wrote: Look at highpoint they have some that should fit your bill On 2/6/09, Joe Fleming

Re: Converting ext3 to ext4 - results (Re: ext3 vs ext4)

2009-02-06 Thread Charles Jones
Okay here is the run on the other partition, including a pre-conversion fsck. # df -h /raid1 FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 1.8T 1.2T 557G 69% /raid1 *Pre-conversion fsck:* # time fsck -fp /dev/sdb1 fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) RAID1:

Re: ext3 vs ext4

2009-02-05 Thread Charles Jones
Nathan England wrote: Hello Hello, I have been looking for a review of ext3 vs ext4 since ext4 became official... I can only find older reviews using early or later ext4dev but not the official ext4. Anyone know of any? Am I not digging into google far enough? In short, is it worth

Re: OT: Windows 7 breakdown of SKU's (or how to box yourself)

2009-02-04 Thread Charles Jones
Just playing devils advocate, but I have (was forced to) done the same thing on windows using ICS (internet connection sharing), which is basically windows NAT + DHCP server. Not saying windows is better in any way, just pointing out that it is possible if you are stuck with a windows

Re: 16KVA APC Symmertra looking for a home (free)

2009-02-04 Thread Charles Jones
Stephen wrote: Charles, I work for a museum and would like to get in touch with you about this UPS, if its gone great, but if it is not let me know, For some reaosn i am not able to email you directly via gmail. Stephen I currently have a couple of folks who are interested, but have not

Re: 16KVA APC Symmertra looking for a home (free)

2009-02-04 Thread Charles Jones
Stephen wrote: from the bounceback it was trying to send to ciscolearning.com instead of .org If you want i can dig back throught he bouncebacks On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Charles Jones Wow that is strange. Yes if you could forward me the bounce message that would be helpful. Thanks

Re: going to SCaLE?

2009-02-02 Thread Charles Jones
I'd like to go, but I've never been to *any* conference of any kind, as something always comes up to prevent me from going (plus being 24/7 oncall), so I finally just gave up attempting to go to any of them (plus usually cannot afford to go anyway). I wish they would so a simulcast on ustream

Re: Another reason someone might hate Microsoft.

2009-02-02 Thread Charles Jones
Enables firefox to run clickonce applications. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t71a733d(VS.80).aspx Stephen wrote: My question is: what does the extension do? On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Bob Elzer bob.el...@gmail.com wrote: This hasn't happened to me, but I would be sore if

Re: Google Problem 1/31

2009-02-01 Thread Charles Jones
It's interesting how many haters are jumping into the fray to bash google for what was a simple mistake. Hell my ISP has made way worse blunders including accidentally shutting down their entire network for hours, and it wasn't the top headline on CNN. Google makes one little mistake, admits,

Re: [Article] Cox ready to throttle P2P, non time sensitive traffic

2009-01-28 Thread Charles Jones
Anthony Boynes wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Stephen P Rufle stephen.p.ru...@cox.net wrote: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/cox-opens-up-throttle-for-p2p-non-time-sensitive-traffic.ars --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: Fine DeskTop Background

2009-01-24 Thread Charles Jones
:-) Lisa Kachold wrote: In case you might be nostalgic at all? www.Obnosis.com |  http://wiki.obnosis.com | http://hackfest.obnosis.com | http://nuke.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 PLUG HACKFESTS - http://uat.edu Second Saturday of Each Month Noon - 3PM Windows Live™:

Re: OT: NY Times ('via' acm TechNews): PC worm -- known as Conflicker or Downadup

2009-01-23 Thread Charles Jones
Mike Schwartz wrote: * quotes: (The worm [...] [exploits] a MS Windows vulnerability [...]); http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/technology/internet/23worm.html?hp /New York Times (01/23/09) Markoff, John/ the above news item was summarized (and, linked to) from:

Re: OT: Redmond

2009-01-13 Thread Charles Jones
James Finstrom wrote: I like to imagine it is because I am important or that its because I went to church with many Microsoft cube gnomes when I lived in Washington but none of these things are true simply because I am on a Microsoft Spam list I got an invitation and license to download and

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