Re: OT: Time for substantive change.

2012-11-15 Thread JD Austin
I'll second that. :) Take away my motivation/reward to do more than I need to and guess what... I'll stop. Health care is expensive mostly because of governmental regulations/bureaucracy. If I created a medical device that would magically cure cancer guess what my odds would be of getting it

Re: OT: Time for substantive change.

2012-11-14 Thread JD Austin
AND once you sign ANY petition there (which has about as much weight as an idea) they spam the heck out of you with more petitions to sign.. no thanks! On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Wayne Davis wayda...@centurylink.netwrote: On 11/14/2012 04:10 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: The

Re: Samba/FTP slow write fast read

2012-10-31 Thread JD Austin
I second the Proxmox VE recommendation; expecially if you use the virtio drivers. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers If you must have USB support then go with Virtualbox though. On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: While I still

Crossover Linux free on Wednesday

2012-10-29 Thread JD Austin
I waffle between whether it's better to run windows in a VM or run the app via wine... Crossover Linux does a decent job of letting you run a lot of Windows Apps in Linux... you can grab it for free on Wednesday: http://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/20121029/

Re: Crossover Linux free on Wednesday

2012-10-29 Thread JD Austin
I prefer Proxmox or Virtualbox :) On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.comwrote: Hi JD, WazUp? On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:44 AM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: I waffle between whether it's better to run windows in a VM or run the app via wine

Re: ot- who do I forward unwanted emails to?

2012-10-28 Thread JD Austin
You're using gmail... mark them as spam. On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: hahaha! good idea! :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.comwrote: Try presid...@whitehouse.gov. :-) On 10/28/2012 3:00 PM,

Re: ot- who do I forward unwanted emails to?

2012-10-28 Thread JD Austin
I want to get this in trouble~! :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 7:22 PM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: You're using gmail... mark them as spam. On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: hahaha! good idea! :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Oct

Re: Chase access w/ linux

2012-10-22 Thread JD Austin
I do have where it wants me to get an email and put in a code but otherwise no issues. I think I use the latest Firefox; if not the latest chrome. On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: Anyone in the group have an account with Chase? If so, are you having any

Re: Driver Install Conundrum

2012-10-15 Thread JD Austin
ok.. so you didn't install it from a repository otherwise I'd recommend you use apt-get install --reinstall *brscan4** *Just like with RPM based distributions installing packages manually can mess up the repository database.* *I have no idea which version of ubuntu you have but I found this that

Re: backup partition

2012-10-11 Thread JD Austin
That's what I do... it is the best of both worlds. Seamless mode is pretty cool though I usually have it full screen on my second screen. I converted a KVM (proxmox) to run in virtualbox recently because I wanted USB support. Anyway... I second the Virtualbox recommendation. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012

Re: chrome vs chromium ??

2012-10-09 Thread JD Austin
If you can run chrome run that.. otherwise run chromium (which is just chrome complied for unsupported platforms usually). On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:11 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: What is the difference between google chrome and chromium? Which is preferable?

Re: O.T. Hostgator Registrar

2012-10-07 Thread JD Austin
I was aghast I first found out that Godaddy doesn't include email with their web hosting. I second the Google Apps recommendation. When I can't do that I usually set up the domain on the second hosting service first (leave the DNS alone initially), either locally or via DNS set up an address

Re: O.T. Hostgator Registrar

2012-10-06 Thread JD Austin
I have used them for hosting for years - great customer support. I haven't used them for domain registration though. On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 12:14 AM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: Am 05. Oct, 2012 schwätzte keith smith so: moin moin, Has anyone used HostGator as a Registrar? I'm

Re: OT USB to PS/2 adapters

2012-10-05 Thread JD Austin
I've had that same experience with ps2 to usb adaptors; It seems the more expensive ones work better (electronics in the middle) but it's hit or miss. I've gradually phased PS2 devices out in favor of usb devices. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net wrote: I have a

Re: dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread JD Austin
Nope and nope :) This is old but covers it pretty well : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=236093 On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.comwrote: I'm thinking of running dns at home on my linux box(kubuntu 8). I don't want a caching server. Would this

Re: dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread JD Austin
An easier solution would be to switch to a public DNS like Open DNS: 208.67.220.220 208.67.222.222 Google: 4.4.4.4 8.8.8.8 I NEVER use my ISPs DNS servers :) JD On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.comwrote: Since I signed up with my ISP I've had trouble with

Re: dns at home

2012-10-03 Thread JD Austin
Heh! Like minds think alike :) On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 1:39 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: I would save myself the grief of running a DNS and set my resolv.conf to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 See:

Re: How to run 'feh' in the background of a script?

2012-10-02 Thread JD Austin
Not sure what E signifies but add a '' to the line to fork it into the background. feh -x -g 400x400 image.jpg; kwrite textfile.txt E ** On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:02 AM, j...@actionline.com wrote: How can I use a shell script to execute 'feh' so that the image that it puts on the screen will

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread JD Austin
You start by recognizing the bias for a variety of news sources (THEY ALL HAVE BIAS) and get your news from a variety of sources. They're all competing for your eyeballs and trying to sway you to their bias. Look at what all three sides say (left, right, and every one else) and make up your own

Re: OT: wireless problem

2012-09-21 Thread JD Austin
Are you connected to the right wireless ssid? Did you mean to connect to upquick instead of the one on the top? On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:29 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Just updated the following link describing the subject problem: http://www.upquick.com/wireless/ What steps could I

Re: Minimum ram for kubuntu?

2012-09-19 Thread JD Austin
Add more memory! http://crucial.com :) On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:21 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: What is the minimum ram required for kubuntu? Some online sources say it should run okay with 512-meg of ram. I'm trying to set up an old Dell for a friend and since I can't seem to get

Re: OT: Internet connection okay, but no access.

2012-09-18 Thread JD Austin
Do this to see if it has an ip address that isn't the Microsoft equivalent to 127.0.0.1 (169.254.x.x) start - run -cmd ipconfig On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Can you ping? On Sep 18, 2012 2:17 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: On my wife's win-xp

Re: OT: Internet connection okay, but no access.

2012-09-18 Thread JD Austin
Many laptops have a hardware switch that turns off the wireless device; ensure that it is turned on. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Media state disconnected means something is unplugged AKA link state is down. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:51 PM,

Re: why /var/log/messages went crazy?

2012-09-15 Thread JD Austin
Try going into your bios and disabling ACPI (power management) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/475704 What I found helped out was going into my BIOS settings at boot-up time with F11. Then going into the Power tab and disabling ACPI. Then I still get about 10 errors like the

Re: OT: Google Voice question.

2012-09-13 Thread JD Austin
To make what Joseph said more concise: 1. Set your no-answer-busy on your first line to go to Google voice instead of your second line. 2. In Google voice set that second line as one of the destinations. You could also have people call your google voice number directly and have both

Re: making PDFs workable

2012-09-12 Thread JD Austin
Haven't tried this but you can probably use cuneiform, and exactimage to create text searchable PDFs from image only PDFs and Tiffs; you can do it via a live cd: http://www.watchocr.com/ On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Joseph Sinclair plug-discuss...@stcaz.netwrote: As noted earlier, none of

Re: making PDFs workable

2012-09-11 Thread JD Austin
If the adobe reader doesn't do it use calibre to convert it to html (I usually do htmlz and then extract the archive to a folder). http://calibre-ebook.com/download On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net wrote: The Foxitpro PDF reader allows text to be marked and

Re: Firefox screen font size too small and unstable

2012-09-03 Thread JD Austin
You can increase the font size using ctrl + and decrease the font size using ctrl -. Otherwise can change the default fonts and sizes in preferences. JD On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 6:25 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: The firefox font sizes on my 20 monitor are too small, unstable, and I can't

Re: How to install an rpm.tar.gz printer driver?

2012-08-30 Thread JD Austin
You have to be root to install packages with rpm; if you have sudo set up add sudo otherwise 'su -' and then when you're in the same folder rpm --install cnijfilter-common-3.70-1.i386.rpm cnijfilter-mx430series-3.70-1.i386.rpm On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:17 AM, j...@actionline.com wrote: The

Re: Cox Cable / Static IP / New Router

2012-08-30 Thread JD Austin
They go off the network mac address that you're sending them; many devices let you spoof anything you want. If you can still boot the old one get it's mac address and spoof it on the new one. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:33 AM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Last night, after 6

Re: dhcp question

2012-08-26 Thread JD Austin
You can change the settings on the printer itself by giving it an address outside of your DHCP range OR do it on your router - IF it supports it. You didn't say what is providing DHCP for your local network. On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 10:27 AM, j...@actionline.com wrote: I have spent more than a

Re: dhcp question.

2012-08-26 Thread JD Austin
Have you tried the pixma 437 driver already ? MX430 series IJ Printer Driver Ver. 3.70 for Linux (debian *...*http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/contents/ASIA/EN/0100412601.html http://support-asia.canon-asia.com/P/search?model=PIXMA+MX437menu=downloadfilter=0tagname=g_osg_os=Linux I found the

Re: Is there any disadvantage to a static ip address?

2012-08-20 Thread JD Austin
I used to have to have a keep-alive script going all the time with Qworst because the modem would go offline due to inactivity. A cron script that does * * * * * ping -c 5 google.com /dev/null every minute is enough to keep your internet connection from going inactive. As a side effect I got

Re: touch file date problem

2012-08-19 Thread JD Austin
That's the epoc date; it's supposed to be that way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:17 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: When using 'touch' to reset the date of a file, I just discovered that I cannot set a date earlier than 1969. What is the reason for that

Re: how to transfer files

2012-08-14 Thread JD Austin
For me it's ssh. Filezilla (works on linux/windows) is a great scp client if you want a gui. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Hamachi, dropbox, dyndns with ssh/scp, there are many others. On Aug 14, 2012 4:00 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: OT: How to add a second Google Voice number?

2012-08-13 Thread JD Austin
You can via multiple email accounts but one account can't have more than one google voice number. Also you can't tie the same phone number to more than one google voice account. On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:19 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Hope someone can provide some guidance on this

Re: Ubuntu on Android (was: getting rid of android on tablet)

2012-08-12 Thread JD Austin
It seemed a little half baked to me... I'd rather (like the original poster) have a full Linux distro installed than something running on top. Given recent changes with the Linux kernel adding android kernel bits to the main trunk it shouldn't be long. Until then I'll run a rooted Android OS

Re: getting rid of android on tablet

2012-08-11 Thread JD Austin
Ubuntu is getting close to having a linux that will run on some android devices.. but until then I'd recommend you load Cyanogenmod on them. On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Steven A. DuChene linux-clust...@mindspring.com wrote: I have a few 7 android tablets made by either pandigital or

Re: getting rid of android on tablet

2012-08-11 Thread JD Austin
http://androlinux.com/android-ubuntu-development/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-android/ On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: Ubuntu is getting close to having a linux that will run on some android devices.. but until then I'd recommend you load Cyanogenmod on them

Re: DON'T PANIC

2012-08-10 Thread JD Austin
I like vi.. because I've used it long enough not to hate it :) I second ed though... ed was the bomb! l wrote rexx scripts that used ed to do all the heavy lifting on Ibm mainframe. Great editor. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote: Why do people use :wq! ?

Re: Question about rwxrwxrwx files and/or dirs

2012-08-08 Thread JD Austin
The mysql socket permissions are normal; I don't know about the other one. On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:08 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Question about rwxrwxrwx files and/or dirs Lisa's reply to Keith prompted me to wonder if I perhaps had any rwxrwxrwx files or drwxrwxrwx directories on my

Re: firewall

2012-08-07 Thread JD Austin
If you're already behind a router (often dsl modem) you might be 'double natting' if you don't configure it right. I never like to mix uses but it can work though. My recommendation would be to take an older piece of hardware and install SME Server (if you want a directory server/file server for

Re: Remote login... Oh Boy

2012-07-23 Thread JD Austin
Second on Cygwin... If you have to use windoze use an X server that has the GNU tools you're used to :) On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:42 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Xcapable SSH client like Hummingbird. N Cygwin! :) ET Lisa Kachold writes: Set your

Re: anti-virus

2012-07-15 Thread JD Austin
AVG for Linux On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Kenn parabell...@yahoo.com wrote: Seeking recommendations for an anti-virus for Linux ... there aren't many virus/malware/spyware that compromise Linux? But I do occasionally forward files to Mac/Win machines. Thanks!

Re: How to edit ECDSA fingerprint?

2012-07-12 Thread JD Austin
I never edit that file.. but I do delete lines from it. Delete the line for the host that has been rebuilt (usually the reason) and then say 'yes' when connecting to it for the first time. On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 3:38 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: I got the warning message shown below and

Re: OT: Is it possible to make a printer wireless?

2012-07-05 Thread JD Austin
I like the Netgear WNCE2001 devices to make a device with a Ethernet port a wireless device. Printer - USB Ethernet Print server - WNCE2001 http://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-WNCE2001-Universal-Internet-Adapter/dp/B003KPBRRW The cool thing about the WNCE2001 devices is that once you configure them

Re: My messages to the list

2012-07-04 Thread JD Austin
You can see any messages you've sent to PLUG by searching for: from:me to:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Wayne Davis waydavis.phx.li...@gmail.comwrote: Ahh Now I TRULY see. Thank you On 07/04/2012 10:51 AM, KevinO wrote: On 07/04/2012 09:10 AM,

Re: Strange Server Behavior

2012-06-25 Thread JD Austin
I've had servers that act like that.. usually they're over heating, completely I/O bound, or swapping due to low available memory. On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.bizwrote: Nope - everything just stops - ping waits for a response, web services just wait

Re: (username) is not in the sudoers file.

2012-06-18 Thread JD Austin
That would work. Alternately add yourself to the wheel group and uncomment that line in the /etc/sudoers file. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:45 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: When I tried to use sudo, I saw this message: (username) is not in the sudoers file Searching the 'net for a solution,

Re: Android file creation permissions

2012-06-12 Thread JD Austin
You can deal with this on the server by marking a directory setgid (g+s) will make new files inherit the group ownership of the directory I believe. On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: While I am totally unable to answer your question, there is an obvious

Re: joomla

2012-06-04 Thread JD Austin
If you have the typical apache/mysql/php stack installed on your machine Joomla is pretty easy to install. 1. install apache/mysql/php if you haven't already 2. create a database for it in mysql 3. extract the joomla zip file to your web-root folder (often /var/www/html) 4. fire up a web

Re: libre calc

2012-05-15 Thread JD Austin
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ http://www.learnopenoffice.org/calccontents.htm On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: How do you associate two fields together? What i mean is you have an entry on one page and you want the same entry on

Re: libre calc

2012-05-15 Thread JD Austin
, May 15, 2012 at 5:41 AM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ http://www.learnopenoffice.org/calccontents.htm On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: How do you associate two fields together? What i mean

Re: OT : Need help with a CAPTCHA in ASP

2012-05-03 Thread JD Austin
I am also not an ASP guy.. but these looks promising: http://www.mondor.org/captcha.aspx http://captcha.codeplex.com/ On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:59 AM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: This is off topic. I'm helping a friend with his site written is ASP. I'm a PHP programmer with

Re: Need help ripping out an nvidia binary driver installed...

2012-04-26 Thread JD Austin
rmmod will only remove it from memory.. it isn't persistent across reboots. I'm not an ubuntu guy but that's based on debian.. Get the list of packages installed and look for the nvidia one: dpkg --get-selections | grep -i nvidia Then remove it with apt-get : apt-get remove package name

Re: ot

2012-04-19 Thread JD Austin
API=application program interface... aka a way to incorporate other things into your own programs. On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 20:37, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: api? what is an api? On 4/19/2012 15:29, Alex Dean wrote: They have a great API for this data also.

Re: Linux teacher @ emcc

2012-04-18 Thread JD Austin
I did a search of class schedules at EMC and it shows Larson and Jones teaching that class. Then I searched the Maricopa directory for them. Randol Larson randol.lar...@emcmail.maricopa.edu EMC Computer Information Systems Instructional Computing Div EST 111 Tel: 623/935-8077 Fax: (623) 935-8135

Re: website hosting

2012-01-22 Thread JD Austin
I second Hostgator On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 20:18, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: Go to HostGator. Better deal. GoDaddy is solid, however I like HostGator better. I host both places. Keith Smith --- On *Sun, 1/22/12, Bryan O'Neal

Re: dell inspiron e1505

2012-01-19 Thread JD Austin
1. Power it off 2. unplug it 3. Open the case 4. Remove the CMOS battery (be careful) 5. Remove the Ram 6. Reinstall the Ram 7. Reinstall the CMOS battery 8. try again. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 17:31, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: One of my friends has a dell

Re: dell inspiron e1505

2012-01-19 Thread JD Austin
waiting a minute or 5 should be more than enough. Eric On Jan 19, 2012, at 5:37 PM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: 1. Power it off 2. unplug it 3. Open the case 4. Remove the CMOS battery (be careful) 5. Remove the Ram 6. Reinstall the Ram 7. Reinstall

Re: RHEL-6.1 system with 4 CPU sockets and 1TB of memory

2012-01-10 Thread JD Austin
Likely one reason - support. I haven't found a significant difference between CentOS and RHEL. On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 16:49, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: On 01/10/2012 04:48 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: On 01/10/2012 03:59 PM, Steven A. DuChene wrote: So I am working for a benchmarking

Re: Linux Games

2011-11-23 Thread JD Austin
There are games; some are pretty good.. a lot are free.. certainly enough to keep you busy when you're bored (Google search 'best Linux Games'): http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080510052539217/Games.html http://www.penguspy.com/#/All/free_and_commercial/open_closed/sort=1/view=1/limit=0

Re: ide ata hard drive cradle not above USB 2

2011-11-22 Thread JD Austin
Sata and ATA are different interfaces. If you have a choice get a Sata drive Mike as ATA/IDE/EIDE drives are on their way out. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:39, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Eric, will sata work on ata? On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com

Re: external hard drive

2011-11-19 Thread JD Austin
Some OS's don't boot well from an external drive but Linux does just fine. On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 15:41, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I was just looking at my startup devices menu and the first in line is 'Removable devices.' Does an external hard drive not count for that? On

Re: external hard drive

2011-11-19 Thread JD Austin
? On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:56 PM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: Some OS's don't boot well from an external drive but Linux does just fine. On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 15:41, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I was just looking at my startup devices menu and the first in line

Re: ide-eide

2011-11-19 Thread JD Austin
IDE, EIDE, and PATA (Parallel ATA) have the same interface. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA Older motherboards may have trouble recognizing larger drives. IDE/EIDE/PATA is on it's way out get SATA if you have a choice since it's unlikely you'll find a motherboard with EIDE on it.

Re: OT: Weirdness With WiFi Access Point

2011-09-21 Thread JD Austin
I used to have those kinds of issues until I switched to wireless N... I will NEVER go back! I had occasional interference from our 2.4Ghz digital spread specrum cordless phone with 802.11g but have no issues with signal strength with wireless N at all. It's so much faster than I decided not to

Re: Speakers For PG Day 2011

2011-08-25 Thread JD Austin
I've always meant to get more into PostgreSQL especially now that Oracle owns MySQL. I do a lot of Oracle related work and when I first saw PostgreSQL's pl/pgsql it shocked me how it looked almost exactly like Oracle's pl/sql. I don't know which came first though. I'm hoping now that Oracle owns

Re: Thinking about a new low-power, cool-running cpu.

2011-08-17 Thread JD Austin
You could always go this route: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ Try a live distribution first to test for driver issues then go for it :) JD On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 19:21, j...@actionline.com wrote: Some time ago, I bought a Lenovo net-top computer because of its advertised low-power

Re: Wireless Errors

2011-06-27 Thread JD Austin
Are you positive you aren't getting interference from other 2.4Ghz devices? Cordless phones and other things operate in the same spectrum and tromp all over 802.11.b/g connections. One of the reasons I went to Wireless N. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 16:38, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: My

Re: securing a system

2011-06-15 Thread JD Austin
Be sure to install mod_security on Apache; it helps a lot. It is important to know how it got compromised so that you don't move that to the new system. Common methods are sql injection and using pages with poor input validation to run external code. I don't know how big your databases are but

Re: Looking for Ideas to facilitate group communication on the road

2011-06-05 Thread JD Austin
it isn't difficult to send email that gets converted to sms you just need to know how to format the TO address (#@address.com); this should cover it (will require some imput from the people you want to send sms/email to ( quick google search...):

Re: Php developer positions

2011-06-05 Thread JD Austin
I don't think it's that.. if you know Perl.. PHP isn't a big stretch. PHP steals a ton from Java/C/Perl; hard core zealots get upset that PHP is loosely typed but a bad programmer can produce junk equally in Java/C/Perl/PHP. I started out doing Perl then went to PHP where it works best (web); I'm

Re: DNS provider

2011-05-25 Thread JD Austin
Ultradns from ultradns.com (now neustar) is the best that I know of. On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:32, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Any recommendations on a DNS provider that you would stake your reputation, job, career, ETC on? I'm looking for a DNS provider for a healthy

Re: Buying a Dell and getting a refund for the OS

2011-05-07 Thread JD Austin
Shop the business side of their website and pick linux for the OS: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/desktops-n-workstations?~ck=anav#116823~0~3611729 On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 13:21, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: I was thinking of buying a secondhand PC for a web server. I hear the

Re: Looking for another Me

2011-05-07 Thread JD Austin
Sounds like me ;) On May 7, 2011 5:46 PM, lkrawc...@amhealthgroup.com lkrawc...@amhealthgroup.com wrote: I am an independent contractor in Phoenix and have developed software (LAMP) for one of my clients that essentially runs the entire business. At the moment I am the only IT resource they have

Re: ubuntu live cd requested

2011-04-26 Thread JD Austin
Have you tried this?: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 08:32, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Where about in the valley would we be dropping off said LiveCD I can burn one and do so unless they are in sunnyslope for example (as i am east valley) I dont think we

Re: [...] another new opening

2011-04-20 Thread JD Austin
Do you have to use Solaris? You'd have more luck with Linux; Redhat is one of the accepted Operating systems provided that you use the commercial version. On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 13:55, Mike Schwartz schwa...@acm.org wrote: FYI (see below) (Forwarded by:) -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ

Re: basic LAMP security 101

2011-04-15 Thread JD Austin
Not sure about the reference you're asking for but minimally do this: 1. Disable root login via ssh (usually in /etc/ssh/sshd_config - PermitRootLogin no) 2. Change default ssh port in same file to something other than 22 3. install fail2ban or denyhosts 4. Disable any services you

Re: Remote desktop support, Bomgar alternative?

2011-04-14 Thread JD Austin
I use EchoVNC from http://www.echogent.com Very cheap for personal use. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:05, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote: Last I checked Yuuguu allows some of this, but not sure if it meets your specific needs. I used to share my desktop with others. Eric On Thu, Apr 14,

Re: How to replicate the old unix chat?

2011-04-09 Thread JD Austin
It sounds a lot like 'talk' on linux ( and most unixes): TALK(1) BSD General Commands Manual TALK(1) NAME talk — talk to another user SYNOPSIS talk person [ttyname] DESCRIPTION Talk is a visual communication program which copies lines from your ter‐ minal

Re: Aleutia's and Other Mini-ITX Linux friendly hardware

2011-03-15 Thread JD Austin
Here is one in the US that I've put linux on: http://www.mitxpc.com/ http://www.mitxpc.com/ On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:21, gm5729 gm5...@cryptoheaven.com wrote: http://www.aleutia.com/products I have been for the past year making a personal major shift over to Flash storage and Mini-ITX

Re: OT: How to put a web page slide show in a window?

2011-02-07 Thread JD Austin
Something like this (picasa)? https://picasaweb.google.com/twingeckos/FortPolkJointReadinessTrainingCenter#slideshow/5386539817710841970 https://picasaweb.google.com/twingeckos/FortPolkJointReadinessTrainingCenter#slideshow/5386539817710841970 On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:00, j...@actionline.com

Re: (OT) Need Some Expert Network Advice

2011-01-28 Thread JD Austin
I recently went from a WRT54G to a wireless 802.11n access point plugged into an SME Server... what a difference between 802.11g and 802.11n! I picked up several of these so I could hook up the DVR and a few other things I didn't feel like running wires for:

Re: Just Sayin'...

2011-01-28 Thread JD Austin
That sounds like way more drama than I want to get involved in :) Perhaps send it directly to your stalker friend? On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:58, Thomas Cameron thomas.came...@camerontech.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Helpful hints: If you take a private

Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread JD Austin
Download the iso image below and burn it to a disk. Boot from it and run scans your from it (super antispyware/kaspersky): http://www.twingeckos.com/TGBootCD.iso When you run kaspersky change the path to 'install it' to c:\ instead of the path it chooses on the ramdisk. When it is done then boot

Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread JD Austin
Sorry about the duplicate messages; I got a message back from googles MTA that the message had been rejected! Of course I tried it again twice... and all of them went through. JD On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:49, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: Download the iso image below and burn

Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread JD Austin
CCleaner will clear out caches/etc On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:39, Technomage Hawke technomage.ha...@gmail.comwrote: manually delete your browser cache directories. its a file being executed whenever your browse. also, get aver from www.free-av.com. that is a good package and will spot some

Re: Dist-hopping experimentation time!

2011-01-07 Thread JD Austin
I stick with the ones that will keep me sharp for work: Fedora/Mandrake/Centos = redhat or Suse (many more use rh based) On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 09:17, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Well all I'm getting weirdly antsy in my preferred distro again... not that i dislike using Ubuntu, but

Re: Looking for Cheap Calling to Canada

2011-01-05 Thread JD Austin
Can you get a prepaid cell phone there and use something like google voice to send calls to you? On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 13:04, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.bizwrote: I need to spend a few days in Canada, and I was looking for technology to help reduce the cost of calling home...hey,

Re: Looking for Cheap Calling to Canada

2011-01-05 Thread JD Austin
You could call forward your existing number to google voice or skype *72# then turn off the cell phone *73 to deactivate On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 13:19, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: Can you get a prepaid cell phone there and use something like google voice to send calls to you? On Wed

Re: Opening, blocking and changing ports on RedHat

2011-01-04 Thread JD Austin
Yes however you can open the port from the GUI under system- administration - security level and firewall if you don't want to poke around on the command line. Likely the reason you don't have to open the special service for ssh is that sshd is a trusted service. JD On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:52,

Re: Opening, blocking and changing ports on RedHat

2011-01-04 Thread JD Austin
I believe Centos uses /etc/sysconfig/iptables /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config and scripts in /usr/share/system-config-securitylevel/ for the GUI to set open ports. The file that matters is /etc/sysconfig/iptables it generally looks like this (I grabbed this from a centos5.5 box): # Firewall

Re: How to ssh copy a file from local to web host when logged in?

2010-12-20 Thread JD Austin
Or filezilla for either On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 21:31, John jhari...@yahoo.com wrote: I don't know what side you're coming from linux or windows. For linux, you can use nautilus File - Connect to Server change type to ssh then enter server and username and then connect. If you're coming from

Re: How to repair the file system within in a ISO file

2010-12-09 Thread JD Austin
Can you mount the image in loop back mode and get the files out? assuming it is iso9660: mkdir /tmp/iso mount -o loop -t iso9660 /tmp/cdimage.iso /mnt/iso Another alternative is to use unstoppable copier assuming you can read the directory structure/etc from http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html

Re: Don't remember password.

2010-12-09 Thread JD Austin
Assuming it is linux you can usually boot into single user mode and then change the password. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 18:14, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I don't remember the password to mycomputer. Could the gentleman that gave it to me email me (bmi...@gmail.com) and tell me what it

Re: Booting from a USB Drive

2010-11-30 Thread JD Austin
Usually the drive must have more than one partition and grub/lilo on it to fool the OS into treating it like a normal disk. unetbootin works well to create such things: http://sourceforge.net/projects/unetbootin/files/UNetbootin/494/unetbootin-linux-494/download On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 03:23,

Re: Booting from a USB Drive

2010-11-30 Thread JD Austin
Or better get.. get a newer and bigger drive for the laptop and put the original on a shelf for such times :) On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:24, Ed p...@0x1b.com wrote: Around the Holidays it amazes me how many drives need swapping! - just don't forget to image/ghost your Windows drive before

Re: Booting from a USB Drive

2010-11-30 Thread JD Austin
I've used clonezilla before but it has been awhile.. is it faster than just using DD ? On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:25, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: or for a Foss equivalent look at clonezilla (clonezilla.org) :-) I like it better than ghost anyhow ;-) On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:24

Re: FreeNAS

2010-11-24 Thread JD Austin
I've had good luck with SME Server (CentOS based); if you have Windows 7 clients get the Beta version. JD On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:43, gm5729 gm5...@gmail.com wrote: STOP DON DO IT MARIO!!! Okay, seriously, my experience with F/N has been nothin gbut negative. EXT2 is the only common

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