Need urgent help repairing a video file...and yeah, it's a Linux issue...

2012-10-20 Thread Jim March
Folks, I have a broken .mp4 file on my hands that is critically important to a political thing I'm doing. The file is at: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1825088/ScytlBaltimore.mp4 I've tried using a front-end to ffmeg called format junkie to fix this critter and the error it spits out is moov atom

re: Need urgent help repairing a video file...and yeah, it's a Linux issue...

2012-10-20 Thread Jim March
OK. As best we can tell, we've independently proven the point that the video in question was about: that a voting machine company was fraudulently reporting their office location. So the situation isn't critical like I thought it was when I posted this morning. If anybody is still curious,

Re: Slightly OT regarding advanced whois searches...

2012-09-04 Thread Jim March
+1.650253 Fax: +1.6506188571 dns-ad...@google.com +1.650253 Fax: +1.6506188571 dns-ad...@google.com +1.650253 Fax: +1.6506188571 $ cat domains.txt google.com gmail.com On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: ...possibly

Regarding advanced whois searches, question re-phrased...

2012-09-04 Thread Jim March
OK, it turns out Mike Ballon's example won't work. Let me try to re-phrase the question: I have this rogue ISP/Webhost/Webdesign company - call 'em badguycorp. I don't want to say their name. They are hosting websites that are legally and/or morally questionable. I want to find those

Slightly OT regarding advanced whois searches...

2012-09-03 Thread Jim March
...possibly at the Linux command line? I need to know which websites share the same hosts and/or technical contact names/phone numbers. Basically I've got a line on some bad guys doing various websites and putting their own names in the whois data. I need to find out how many other sites are

Re: how to transfer files

2012-08-14 Thread Jim March
Dropbox. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: let's say I'm at starbucks and I need a file off of the computer at the house. Please, how do I do it? condition- I do not have a static ipaddress. :-)~MIKE~(-:

Re: DON'T PANIC

2012-08-10 Thread Jim March
I saw somebody use VI once, and was glad somebody wrote GEdit :). Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Urgent: need to ID some Network Manager icons - STAT!

2012-06-12 Thread Jim March
Folks, I'm observing the counting of the vote in Pima County tonight. On my personal laptop (running Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, Gnome 3 Classic desktop, Network Manager 0.9.4) I'm seeing WiFi somethings with an alternate icon. Screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/1jimmarch/7181962971/

Re: Urgent: need to ID some Network Manager icons - STAT!

2012-06-12 Thread Jim March
Disconnecting from my cellphone helped - can anyone help translate this below? IF those are in fact ad-hoc, that's potentially bad. Jim --- jim@jim-blackthing:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning [sudo] password for jim: wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 7C:61:93:39:1C:FD

Re: wireless adapter

2012-05-18 Thread Jim March
Ok...the fact that you're using terms like wna3100 and N300 tells me you fundamentally don't understand the problem. I'm going to be a little bit harsh here but you need to change the most basic way you look at hardware. Netgear doesn't make WiFi chipsets.  They make adapters, yeah, but they buy

Re: Which linux distro

2012-05-18 Thread Jim March
Yup. There's only one real gotcha with Ubuntu Precise and it involves the NVidia 295.40 driver. With some older cards it stinks. They just came out with 295.49 and it can be found very easily as a .DEB file for Precise. Highly recommended. Jim On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Lisa Kachold

Re: What's the best high speed internet option?

2012-05-10 Thread Jim March
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Carruth, Rusty rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote: Tmobile has a sort-of unlimited option. You decide how much ‘high speed capable’ internet you want per month 500M, 1G, 2G, IIRC). When you exceed that, you ‘automatically’ fall back to slow (I’m

Got a good one here: Paul's printer paradox

2012-05-06 Thread Jim March
I have a buddy name of Paul. He has a new scanner/printer thing by Brother, an MFC-9325CW. I got all the drivers off of Brother's site - he's running Mint 12 32bit (similar to Ubuntu Oneiric). I have everything working, but there's a quirk in the scanner (USB connected, where the printer is

Re: laptop battery cycling

2012-05-06 Thread Jim March
My VERY limited understanding is, the problem isn't overcharging exactly. It's that Li-Ion batteries are weird. They last longest when charged between 50% and 80% - as opposed to 100%. But bad news: maintaining the battery at a level below 20% is just as bad as keeping it at 100% if not worse,

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

2012-04-26 Thread Jim March
...from an Nvidia .run file. I'm on ubuntu 12.04 and the Nvidia 295.40 driver is a travesty in 64bit. So I got ahold of nvidia's 295.33 driver, killed X and installed it via Nvidia's command-line installer. Big mistake. Fried the hell out of amy graphical use whatsoever. Can't even get

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

2012-04-26 Thread Jim March
. 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 On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 17:15, Jim March 1.jim.ma

Re: LTE Speeds / accessibility

2012-04-16 Thread Jim March
I'm on Tmobile's 4G - which isn't LTE. I hope Tmob stays with the way they're going. While their peak speed isn't as high as LTE can be, it's still not bad and they've done several other things right: * They're hot-rodding their older 3G network, basically - going from HSPA to HSPA+. This has

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2012-02-10 Thread Jim March
OK. So I hate Unity with a passion. Sorry. I'm not going to argue about it, it just isn't my thing. I can deal with Gnome3 set to classic mode - while the menus are a bit annoying plus there's that whole hold ALT to modify the toolbar stuff, there's some quite decent stability enhancements that

TITLE SHOULDA BEEN: Comparing Mint 12 with Oneiric 11.10 when trying to completely dump Unity.

2012-02-10 Thread Jim March
Sigh. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: OK. So I hate Unity with a passion. Sorry. I'm not going to argue about it, it just isn't my thing. I can deal with Gnome3 set to classic mode - while the menus are a bit annoying plus there's that whole hold ALT

Re: TITLE SHOULDA BEEN: Comparing Mint 12 with Oneiric 11.10 when trying to completely dump Unity.

2012-02-10 Thread Jim March
10, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Stu wie...@cox.net wrote: On 02/10/2012 04:10 PM, Jim March wrote: Sigh. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jim March1.jim.ma...@gmail.com  wrote: OK. So I hate Unity with a passion. Sorry. I'm not going to argue about it, it just isn't my thing. I can deal with Gnome3

Odd question: Laptop is acting nuts when transitioning from battery to AC or back...

2012-02-04 Thread Jim March
I won't have mitts on it until tomorrow but has anybody heard of crashes/glitches/etc. when plugging or unplugging a laptop from wall power while it's running? The critter in question has a decent battery in it and is running Mint 12, which is basically the same as Ubuntu Oneiric/11.10. 32bit

Re: oracle virtual machine

2012-01-31 Thread Jim March
The only good reason to use VirtualBox (the Oracle VM manager they got from Sun) is that it works on CPUs that lack hardware virtualization - what Intel calls VT-x and AMD calls AMD-x. A surprising number of Intel CPUs lack hardware virt support. AMD seems to have shipped it on damned near

Re: [Tfug] Got an odd one: laptop AMD CPU stuck at 800mhz, won't jump to 1, 600

2012-01-21 Thread Jim March
).  But it's something to check. --John Gruenenfelder Systems Manager, MKS Imaging Technology, LLC. Try Weasel Reader for PalmOS -- http://weaselreader.org This is the most fun I've had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies! --Sam of Sam Max On Jan 21, 2012 11:20 AM, Jim March 1

Re: [Tfug] Got an odd one: laptop AMD CPU stuck at 800mhz, won't jump to 1, 600

2012-01-21 Thread Jim March
Turned out to be a Dell-specific issue whereby the damnthing didn't like the power brick for some reason and throttled back in response. To be specific, I did this command at the terminal: gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub Took the line that said: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet splash

What to do if you spill liquid on a laptop - OS independent.

2011-12-23 Thread Jim March
OK, somebody (probably you!) just spilled something on your laptop. What do you do? *Immediately* yank the power cord, flip it so that the keyboard and screen are both pointed down with the screen open at a normal 90deg angle, and pull the battery out. It should be angled like so: ^ and in that

Re: What is the big deal with 64 bit processing?

2011-12-03 Thread Jim March
64bit OS and CPU together can help you deal with major CPU-intense stuff like video editing, compiling big programs and any sort of massive calculation. It doesn't help you write to the video much faster if at all, so movie playback, games and other consumer uses are usually no big deal. One

Re: SecureDigitaDrive

2011-12-03 Thread Jim March
Yeah, there's a slot somewhere on your new 'pooter that holds an SD camera memory card. Linux sees a socket for it, but with no card in it's not readable. No biggie. It's about an inch wide, and probably has a plastic filler card in there now. Push it in to release. SD is the most common type

Re: What is the big deal with 64 bit processing?

2011-12-03 Thread Jim March
This is good advice re: HTOP and the rest, but...I'd be willing to bet you're going to find that something is going bonkers that turns out to be 32bit code running in emulation. And quite likely, it's flash. Could be your disk access is turd-like though. Jim On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:43 AM,

Re: first tar file.

2011-12-03 Thread Jim March
I thought tar files were used by roofing companies? On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: oh yeah if any of you want the file let me know. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I made my first tar file just a few minutes

Re: first tar file.

2011-12-03 Thread Jim March
Remember never to unzip in public. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, to unzip, just include the same option. As an FYI, gzip is more common, especially on older installations, but bzip is better at compression. Eric On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:15 PM,

Re: OT: SSD and EMP

2011-12-01 Thread Jim March
I know one way to find out: take an SSD full of data out of it's computer and put it between a couple of hard disk magnets... Jim On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: moin moin, discussing things at work and EMPs came up. It was almost on topic :). Anyway, an

Re: phone security?

2011-12-01 Thread Jim March
It still appears to be the most systematic violation of Federal wiretapping by a non-governmental party ever. Lawsuits are absolutely certain. Just for starters they recorded and transmitted usernames and passwords for encrypted web-services like gmail - in the clear. I'm trying to figure out

Re: phone security?

2011-12-01 Thread Jim March
on it. friend of mine did that till he got fed up with T-Mobile service On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: It still appears to be the most systematic violation of Federal wiretapping by a non-governmental party ever.  Lawsuits are absolutely certain. Just

Re: compress pictures

2011-11-30 Thread Jim March
Put another way: some graphic file formats are inherently compressed: .JPEG, .GIF and .PNG for starters. Some aren't, such as .TIF and .RAW. If they're NOT already compressed, then .ZIP or other archive compression will help. If they're compressed already, nope...won't do squat. Another

Re: I'm trying to install LinuxMint

2011-11-28 Thread Jim March
You didn't check to make sure you had a valid connection when running in LiveCD mode first, eh? Jim On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: it seems to hang when it says 'installing previously installed packages'. H this is interesting. It won't accept

Re: I'm trying to install LinuxMint

2011-11-28 Thread Jim March
know. I fought with it for a little before hardwiring it in. It seemed to hang again so now I'm not installing it as an upgrade I hope this works way works! I seem to remember trying it this way already though. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote

Re: oh man! it just crashed again.

2011-11-28 Thread Jim March
Damn. That sucks. Huh. Are there any BIOS updates for the motherboard? Failing that, what about BIOS controls regarding ACPI or similar power management settings? And failing THAT, hell...I'd actually consider going to kernel 3.1:

Re: oh man! it just crashed again.

2011-11-28 Thread Jim March
at 9:03 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: It has something to do with the battery. It doesn't crash when it is plugged in. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Damn.   That sucks. Huh. Are there any BIOS updates for the motherboard? Failing

Re: panic

2011-11-27 Thread Jim March
Double-click it. Put a blank disk in first and cancel what it wants to do with the blank. On Nov 27, 2011 12:45 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I figured! How do I burn an ISO with Ubuntu? On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: The DVD

Re: panic

2011-11-27 Thread Jim March
It won't burn CDs? On Nov 27, 2011 1:19 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: yep I figured that one out. It seems as if I only have a cd reader and dvd burner. Looks like I need to buy more things! On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Double

Re: I'm trying to install LinuxMint

2011-11-27 Thread Jim March
or something like that (quoting you) means we can't google for an answer. Neither can you. So...dude, you really need to step up your game here, write down exact error messages, and if you can't find anything googling at least we can. Sigh. Look...I just now got Mint12 running myself, using

Linux Mint 12 with whole disk encryption - just got it running...

2011-11-27 Thread Jim March
Folks, The instructions here: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/344 ...work, but be careful. It requires you to run a separate root and /home partition setup, so plot out how you want to break it up beforehand. Also you REALLY need to pay attention with this bad boy, because if you

Re: webcam

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
Mike, just a thought: Linux Mint 12 just officially shipped. I suspect that would be a really nice setup for your new critter. Given your ATI/AMD video card, you want a pretty cutting edge distro...the latest Ubuntu or Mint 12 would do nicely. Jim On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Michael

Re: panic

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
Well something is screwball re: power management. Huh. Scratches head. What version of Linux did you settle on? Oneiric? Which kernel version? There's been some recent work on laptop power management...as in REAL recent. I think it got patched into Mint12 but I'm not certain. Oh, also,

Linux Mint and whole disk encryption

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
, but have all the goodies baked into ubuntu... -mb On 11/26/2011 01:38 PM, Jim March wrote: Mike, just a thought: Linux Mint 12 just officially shipped.  I suspect that would be a really nice setup for your new critter. Given your ATI/AMD video card, you want a pretty cutting edge distro

Re: panic

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I settled for the new Ubuntu.I don't know the kernel version. How do I turn off the screensaver app? On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Well something is screwball re: power management.  Huh.  Scratches head. What

Re: panic

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
? Jim Jim On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I settled for the new Ubuntu.I don't know the kernel version. How do I turn off the screensaver app? On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Well something

Re: panic

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
to 4gig or more, download and use the PAE extension kernel to get access to the extra RAM with a 32bit setup. Jim On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: mint mirror? On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Doubtful.  I'd try

Re: panic

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: As to the screensaver...huh.  I just realized I have no idea, and I'm running the same thing!  See, I think Unity is an absolute turd so I converted it to Gnome3 via the command: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/08/installing-using

Re: panic

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
The DVD files are a bit bigger and contain all the restricted multimedia codec stuff. They won't fit on a CD, need to burn 'em to a DVD. Jim On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: well, I would love to get the /DVD On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Jim March

Re: 32 vs 64

2011-11-25 Thread Jim March
Do a google search on the AMD C-50 CPU and pull up AMD's spec sheet. Odds are vastly in favor of it being 64. On Nov 25, 2011 2:23 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: how do I tell if I have a 32 bit system or a 64 bit? -- :-)~MIKE~(-:

Re: my parents present to me:

2011-11-24 Thread Jim March
, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: But what id 'dual core'? Or is that one of those things that can't really be explained? On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: The C-50 is dual-core.  Still a slow one though. Jim On Thu, Nov

Re: my parents present to me:

2011-11-24 Thread Jim March
. So it will be a little slow. Can't be any slower than my desktop! On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Dual-core means there's really, seriously two CPUs in there.  The AMD Opteron has eight cores - separate CPUs. There's some applications out

Re: my parents present to me:

2011-11-22 Thread Jim March
A laptop should be checked out and bought as a complete working setup - new or used. Jim On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Jim. Are you saying it isn't worth the time to put one together for me? I'll give it a couple of days and see if anyone is

Re: my parents present to me:

2011-11-22 Thread Jim March
You don't want a laptop that's missing bits. Battery maybe. But otherwise, you don't want to start with a needs work special. Jim On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: pray tell, what do you mean by complete working setup? -- :-)~MIKE~(-:

Re: my parents present to me:

2011-11-21 Thread Jim March
See if one of these guys has a T60p for $200 or less: http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/sys/2714775866.html http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/sys/2702549982.html The T60/T60p series have well-supported ATI video cards with good open-source drivers as long as you stay with a somewhat-recent

Re: ide-eide

2011-11-19 Thread Jim March
Let me add some hard disk advice, regardless of whether you do IDE/PATA or SATA. Laptop-class drives (2.5) are smaller and slower than a desktop-class drive (3.5). BUT the laptop drives are much tougher, esp. in terms of drop-resistance, and put out a lot less heat. You'll pay more for the

Re: Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-15 Thread Jim March
County Libertarian Party. Jim March --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: OT; phone argument

2011-10-24 Thread Jim March
(meaning the phones were not used or tethered at all). On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: I've been impressed by Tmobile's coverage in urban areas, and I still get reliable 2G (and even 2G data) in VERY rural areas

Re: OT; phone argument

2011-10-23 Thread Jim March
Let me add a point for Android, specifically the 4G devices on Tmobile. Both the company and the devices are tether-friendly. My HTC G2 did out-of-the-both USB tethering on Ubuntu Oneiric with zero issues, excellent speed. Sweet setup. The other huge plus for a Linux user is Android's handling

Re: OT; phone argument

2011-10-23 Thread Jim March
. Keith Smith --- On *Sun, 10/23/11, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com Subject: Re: OT; phone argument To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Sunday, October 23, 2011, 12:45 PM Let me add a point for Android

Re: OT: Cell Phones without contract

2011-10-06 Thread Jim March
Yeah, I'm looking at Craigslist Tmobile phones now. The HTC G2 was their first 4G phone, can run Android 2.2 officially and 2.3 hacked. Tmobile is by far the most tether-tolerant of the big carriers and their phones can take a voice call while holding a data connection to your laptop. That

Re: rootkits

2011-07-30 Thread Jim March
Doesn't rootkit sound like something a dentist would have around the office? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: Need Help with Wireless Networking on a New Install of Ubuntu 11.04

2011-07-09 Thread Jim March
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing: as long as you're not using a cellular broadband connection or tethered cellphone, rip out Network Manager and drop Wicd in there instead. Wicd is more reliable with WiFi but it didn't have cellmodem support last time I looked. That may have changed for

Re: Linux key Loggers

2011-06-29 Thread Jim March
Hardware keyloggers exist that plug into a desktop's keyboard port and then you plug the keyboard into that. Linux is just as vulnerable as anything else. The CIA and NSA for sure have laptop versions if they can get ahold of your rig. If the TSA or Customs ever takes your critter into the back

Re: ZoneMinder Video - Configuration

2011-06-15 Thread Jim March
Zoneminder...umm... IT'S A TRAP! Seriously, it's the most hideously evil critter around. It's basically the worst form of open source project. MASSIVE dependencies. Not just Video4Linux, but Apache, MySQL and more. Hell, for best efficiency you need to set the disk up as ReiserFS due to the

Re: tablet computer

2011-05-30 Thread Jim March
My problem is, if the computer is so small you can swallow it, losing it would be easy. Right? Jim On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Dan Lund situationalawaren...@gmail.com wrote: I personally absolutely love my ipad tablet as a portable app and web system. It's obviously not a replacement for

Re: Why these mostly empty hidden files?

2011-05-03 Thread Jim March
Yeah, I can confirm the same thing in Ubuntu Maverick. WTF is this stuff? Jim On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:26 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Today, I was shocked to find a thousand-plus empty hidden directories and files on my system and I don't know how they got there or why there are there.

Re: Why these mostly empty hidden files?

2011-05-03 Thread Jim March
the bill. Am I right, Jim? On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I can confirm the same thing in Ubuntu Maverick. WTF is this stuff? Jim On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:26 PM,  j...@actionline.com wrote: Today, I was shocked to find a thousand-plus empty hidden

Re: Looking for a C class

2011-03-18 Thread Jim March
I asked a Mexican IT guy if he was a programmer. C senor! --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: Torrent

2011-02-25 Thread Jim March
Wait...almost all modern TVs have a VGA signal input. Why not wire the computer straight to the TV and use the computer as a player, avoiding the need to burn anything? Any modern distro will have at least one player for .AVI files and tons more in the repos, starting with VLC. Why bother with

Re: Need Suggestions on Improving WifI Reception

2011-02-23 Thread Jim March
Mark, you don't just need a better access point, you also need better antennas. Linksys routers blow chunks because the antennas aren't connected to standard screw-in connections. You want something that takes standard oversize antennas, usually the SMC type. Your Linksys router at best has a

Re: Torrent

2011-02-23 Thread Jim March
Yeah, what you have is the pointer to all the bits of the file. Note the size of the .torrent file - WAY too small to be the actual movie...most of which are 700megs. Once you get the movie, it'll generally be a .mpeg or .avi or one of a few other video formats. Once in a while it'll be a .RAR

Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
appreciated :). Jim March --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
You'd trust a compromised machine to report on the traffic that some known malware is sending out? I have this great deal on Florida swampland for you :-) Also, Jim wanted to do the monitoring from the Linux side. But if you're stuck on a Doze box, sysinternals is a reasonable

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
One other thing: on top of the Windows guest issue, I've got *something* in Linux that's also hitting the wire a lot. Is there something similar to top that tracks Linux processes by network traffic impact? I'd like to eliminate whatever that is before I start on the Windows issues. I've turned

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
. Dangit. I think I have an Atheros mini-PCI-express I can bolt into this Dell I'm using at the moment...will that help? Jim On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.netwrote: Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to figure out what a particular Windows piece

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
I try: --- jim@jim-lappy:~$ sudo tcpdump -s 0 -w file.pca 10.0.1.4 tcpdump: WARNING: eth0: no IPv4 address assigned tcpdump: syntax error jim@jim-lappy:~$ --- On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.netwrote: From: Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com jim@jim-lappy

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
Right, so: --- jim@jim-lappy:~$ sudo tcpdump -s 0 -w file.pca host 10.0.1.4 [sudo] password for jim: tcpdump: WARNING: eth0: no IPv4 address assigned tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes ^C0 packets captured 0 packets received by filter 0 packets

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
examples to tell me how to do this. Dangit...any idea what the exact syntax might be? WAIT, nevermind, on a hunch I tried using Wireshark with sudo. Bingo. Would have been nice to know...sigh. Jim On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.netwrote: From: Jim March 1

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
HA! OK, this is funny :). I got Wireshark working. Cool. I start looking at traffic going by. I see various IP addresses being talked to. OK...cool...go find out what the IP addresses lead to. One of 'em leads to...FACEBOOK? WTF? I don't use it, I don't *think* anything in my VM uses

Re: RAM guru question?

2011-02-08 Thread Jim March
Well...there's been some research done that says standard RAM (the kind that empties when you power it down) can actually hold data longer than we thought - five, even ten minutes sometimes. Longer if you spray it with something very cold! A known attack against systems protected by

Re: My sound stopped working.

2011-01-24 Thread Jim March
At least it wasn't excessive earwax. :) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: Adobe reader

2011-01-22 Thread Jim March
The problem with Adobe is they should have used a Rottweiler instead. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: Need help w/wifi setup

2010-12-26 Thread Jim March
You have Ethernet coming off the Actiontec now, right? Going into the desktop PC? Run that Ethernet into any standard WiFi router instead, which typically will have one Ethernet port in and (usually) four out in addition to WiFi out. So if the DSL modem is near the desktop computer, and you're

Re: Good/secure wireless router?

2010-12-26 Thread Jim March
The best you can do is WPA2 encryption with a long, non-dictionary key. You can also go into the router's settings and limit it to specific MAC addresses if you're truly paranoid :). Any decent N-class router will allow both. Jim On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Ariel Gold arielqg...@gmail.com

Re: using a cross compiling back end for gcc

2010-12-25 Thread Jim March
I thought only the Vatican's IT department used cross-compilers? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Have a very Linux x-mas...

2010-12-23 Thread Jim March
http://xkcd.com/838/ --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: How do I free swap

2010-11-05 Thread Jim March
Try paying it's bail. :) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

OT: Fairly simple relational database quick job bids...

2010-10-01 Thread Jim March
Folks, I need a contract on what we think is a fairly simple relational database problem. What he's got is raw data somebody to chew on. He has two .CSV files. The first is 112megs, listing people and details about them as a single line (record). There's a unique ID number in one field. The

Re: libreoffice, good news or bad news

2010-09-28 Thread Jim March
This is a group of Linux adults (Red Hat, Cannonical, others) stepping in to make sure Oracle doesn't hose OO. Without OO the Linux cause is set back YEARS. Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe,

Re: New licencing model i found today

2010-09-25 Thread Jim March
As far as I'm aware, I've got the only open-source gun holster design ever :). http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=24417st=0p=155119fromsearch=1#entry155119 Creative Commons non-commercial attribution to be exact. Jim ---

Re: Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

2010-09-20 Thread Jim March
? I'd be completely hosed... Jim On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Jim March wrote: I've been using GMail through the web interface.  I've just realized it's dropping data.  It lost something important and I can't have that.  I'm going to have to suck it all

Re: Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

2010-09-20 Thread Jim March
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Alan Dayley aday...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have an answer to your main question, just questions.  In your original post you stated: And it has to allow streaming it all in continuously.  We're talking about almost 6gig. These requirements are not clear to

Re: Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

2010-09-20 Thread Jim March
-backup.php - I just googled it, I can't vouch for quality... Eric On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Alan Dayley aday...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have an answer to your main question, just questions.  In your original post

Re: Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

2010-09-20 Thread Jim March
Guys, Having all my GMail data backed up at home is a no-go. I need access to this stuff while on the road. I never know when I'm going to have to prove a given election official is a lying sack of something-or-other. Doing so next week doesn't cut it, period. I need an EMail client that will

Re: [OT] android phone, possible to get a good deal?

2010-09-19 Thread Jim March
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:22 PM, fouldra...@aol.com wrote: Considered Cricket?  They've been aggressively advertising 'now with smartphones', and obviously it's a no-contract endeavour. No knowledge about tethering; I'm saddled with ATT, and didn't much care for the Android phone I tried, so

Re: [OT] android phone, possible to get a good deal?

2010-09-19 Thread Jim March
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: I have done voice and data on my droidX with verizon On a WiFi connection? What I mean is, where you talking to Verizon over CDMA or WiFi? The latter can do voice and data mixed, the CDMA connection can't. Jim

Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

2010-09-19 Thread Jim March
I've been using GMail through the web interface. I've just realized it's dropping data. It lost something important and I can't have that. I'm going to have to suck it all down locally. I need a mail client that will handle massive piles. And it has to allow streaming it all in continuously.

Re: Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

2010-09-19 Thread Jim March
with 15 to 25 gig in them.  From my experiance it seemed to have more to do with the IMAP server than thunderbird as to how much mail it can handle. Brian Cluff On 09/19/2010 09:17 PM, Jim March wrote: I've been using GMail through the web interface.  I've just realized it's dropping data

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