another frequent problem with TB for those with huge mail folders (mine
if 5GB or so). WHen your deskspace gets close to 5GB left, making a
copy as the folder is compressed or re-arranged will results in warnings.
On 11/6/23 15:51, Judah Milgram wrote:
Lots of mail client out there.
I
I never left Linux, so for me it's always been an improvement (my past
clients include pine, mutt, emacs-mail). But i can imagine it's rude
awakening.
I do go back between the online and thunderbird version of our umd.edu
google access,and generally I cannot find things in the browser
anybody hear something about an IT grant on campus? seems like we should
have a linux center!
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(UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe from this list,
simply send an email to
FYI, our good linux group and been revived, see linuxclub.umd.edu for
details. I attended their meeting last night.
No info on beer yet, surely more to come, or for the old timers, maybe
it's time for a beer outing again.
- peter
PS: realizing that when UMLUG started, the people last
Our "um-linux" mailing list has to be renewed every year. As the
de-facto faculty advisor of this group, I normally do that.
If you receive this email, you are obviously on this list.
best
Peter Teuben
You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM Linux User's
you can get USB floppy drives, i've had a friend 1 or 2 years ago come
to me solving their old data problem. worked just fine.
On 10/25/19 11:35 PM, Howard Sanner wrote:
Is this thing still on?
Does anyone know where I might get a working 5.25" floppy drive,
preferably a 1.2 MB drive?
I am
yurrah! it comes with free beer meetings too.
On 10/06/2016 08:36 PM, Yehuda Katz wrote:
>
> Just wanted to let everyone know that some undergrads contacted me about
> getting UMLUG going again on campus.
> I will likely be sheepherding the club activation process. Let me know if you
> are
one comment: ext2 is ancient, it may not be able to address this kind
of space:-) try ext3 or better yet, ext4, but at least ext3.
Check also with
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
is the partition table looks ok.
On 02/24/2011 06:58 PM, Howard Sanner wrote:
I'm trying to create a linux partition
google returned some promising leads, e.g.
http://rikasanggana.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-setup-cricket-wireless-a600.html
but the hardware might change fast.
Let us know, this sounds interesting (he said after he just got himself
a 2 year
verizon triple play :-(
On 06/26/2010 10:05 PM,
from a pragmatic point of view, i like CVS more than svn. Don't even
mention git or mercurial. don't know about the
latter, but with git you get the kitchen sink. the normal git checkout
gives you a repo which contains each and
every version, which in my view is nice if you travel a lot at 35k
if she has under 3GB (or is it 4GB?) of memory, it doesn't make sense to use
the 64bit version. flash was (was?) one of those items that wasn't working
in 64bit, google that, but i thought i had heard this is (or has now?)
changed.
On [Thu Mar 04 22:44], Jonathan Fraine wrote:
I'm sorry, I
for emacs) which seems
very promising.
Sebastien
Quoting Peter Teuben teu...@astro.umd.edu:
i use emacs, and recently added ECB
http://ecb.sourceforge.net
and gives me useful enough things to get by. But i'm sure
there are a lot nicer and richer environments At some
We've had issues with that as well in our building, but that wasn't the secure.
Making
it really nasty, since there is no guarentee you get the same IP back, and
that's a lot
of extra hassle depending on what you do. Not the least reconnecting your
browser.
I was told that the umd-secure keeps
We did have somebody from OIT visiting us, and confirming this
story that some cards may have a threshold being set low (but we
compared the dB's and the S/N was ok) and that there are cards
that won't play well.
On [Wed Oct 28 10:43], Derek Monner wrote:
I've been experiencing this with the
Any rumors of a first (officers) meeting?
several options:
- take HD out and stick it in an enclosure that allows you to
mount it via USB on any desktop/laptop. investigate if it's
ok, listen to odd squeeky sounds etc., look at fdisk -l
- For about $20-30 you can get these universal interfaces that
allow you to connect
I have a few small issues with chandler, but i've been using it for
about 2 weeks now. Yes, i agree, goes a long way in things i've tried
before. I'm not a good manual reader,so some of my issues may just
be RTFM.
Who/what is talking tonight? Is there a tonight?
On [Wed Sep 17 11:13], Tyler
here's a few pictures from the opening fest wednesday evening:
http://picasaweb.google.com/teuben/ACMAWCUMLUGYearOpeningFest
-peter
Przemek (from DCLUG) and I are putting some material together for an
offline lecture series, which I'll dub the Jessup Project. For those
not local to the area, and/or not recalling an earlier request on the
mailing list, Jessup is a town a little north of College Park with a
Correctional
I would also be worried about those ISP terms. However, if Randy plays the
game a little differently, he has no worries. Remember [EMAIL PROTECTED]/BOINC?
They even make a package where you setup your client software, and
have it install.
Also: Randy will without doubt run into accounts where
i'm fine with going slower (which it is most of the time) than 1.6Mbits,
but --within reason-- I don't like the idea of having to track down my usage
and
pay for every GB i'm over the limit.
My understanding is that the capping is driven by an abuse of a very small
minority of users.
- peter
thanks for all the help from the mailing list!
I apoligize for being unclear, but in my message I meant
that I don't have a boot device, not the media. Sony's
used to be special, but some websites seem to describe
booting from a generic USB cdrom with a special lilo/grub
flag.
The other option,
On [Mon May 19 18:21], Richard Matthew McCutchen wrote:
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 16:54 -0400, Ben Stern wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:59:13AM -0400, Peter Teuben wrote:
I apoligize for being unclear, but in my message I meant
that I don't have a boot device, not the media. Sony's
used
a few months ago I installed fedora 7 on my main work laptop, and was
about to go to 9, when I ran into a VERY odd thing, I seem to have a RAID1
running and I never installed it that way. Neither can i find anything
*raid* or *md* or LVM in /etc/ hinting this is going on.
Below is the output of
hmm, i have a copy here now on campus. desktop version. Is there a few i can
put it on our repo?
On [Thu Apr 24 10:41], brian raszap wrote:
well, it's out!
i tried ubuntu.com and it's so bogged down it won't even load...so i'm not
even gonna try actually upgrading untill tomorrow or perhaps
I have FIOS, and although I remember during the install I asked
can i switch my router, and they told me it was transparent, you
still need to get the HW address and pass that to their ISP
staff. Normally that's done with special software, which is windows
and/or mac, but I once had to do this
in addition to distributions, how about a set of the following
packages/programs you often use but are just painful to track down
and remember which ones you want...
Some of them are sometimes included with distributions, and some of
them have pretty good open source alternatives as well:
intel
coincidentally, one of the Gnome hackers wrote about the various
VCS's:
http://blogs.gnome.org/newren/2008/03/01/happenings-in-the-vcs-world/
.
- peter
On [Mon Feb 18 14:34], Peter Teuben wrote:
on my Fedora Core 7 (my daily linux box) there is a vpn installed,
i noted the following packages:
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.6.4-3.fc7
vpnc-0.4.0-2.fc7
openvpn-2.1-0.19.rc4.fc7
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.3.2-7.fc6
and the networking
on my Fedora Core 7 (my daily linux box) there is a vpn installed,
i noted the following packages:
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.6.4-3.fc7
vpnc-0.4.0-2.fc7
openvpn-2.1-0.19.rc4.fc7
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.3.2-7.fc6
and the networking applet is easy to configure. The vpn/cicso passwords
are
slight diversion on the issue:
There's a blind person very active on the dclug mailing list, and
although I don't know what she uses to work on linux, she's very good at
it. She came to the UMLUG afterfest we did in 2000. I'd suggest posting
to the DCLUG mailing list and no doubt she'll chime in
if we have a talk about ssh, we love to heard somebody cover this
authentication stuff with kerberos. I'm too used to classic ssh keys and
firefox remembering my incredibly complicated password, I really only
want to type it in twice per 6 months, when the state required (OIT
implemented) requires
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:35 -0500, Bernie Hackett wrote:
AFS access and how to use it. It's great being able to access your AFS
shares off campus.
I've used sshfs (fuse based), super easy to use. with ssh keys doing the
authentication, never even need a password.
under 8)
Another *good* thing to do is to go over the official tools
people need to be good UMD citizens. Some of this is on OIT
pages, but we should regularly check that linux is well
represented (or else written down on our pages).
Examples are:
1) phone dialup (now probably totally
neat ways of using rsync with hard links allow you to make timed
backups.
E.g. dirvish:
http://edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/dirvish_backup/
which i found a pain to setup (in fact, still haven't).
I've been using flyback lately,
http://code.google.com/p/flyback/
based on the ideas
On [Fri Jan 25 17:49], Richard Matthew McCutchen wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 17:31 -0500, Shawn Wells wrote:
What do ya want to know? If I can't do it myself, I can pull in
allot of great resources.
I recently did a presentation with Dave Caplan -- he wrote the
SELinux by
just a query: is there a supply and demand for linux admin student
work on campus. Or
phrase it another way: if I was to ask for help administering an office
environment with lots of linux desktops, would there be students on
campus interested working for us?
- peter
Anybody know if FC7-test3 going to be available? I just downloaded it,
and if not, i'll swing by the dept. first and burn it. It's probably the
one i wanted to test, but if it's at the Fest, i'll come straight in.
See you all around 1.
- peter
On [Thu Mar 29 10:25], Joe Murphy wrote:
Speaking of file transfer I've pretty much stopped using FTP and have
instead started using scp and fish, which both operate over ssh and though
a little slower than ftp, are more secure. WinSCP (free and open source)
can be used from Windows
I have the FIOS (15MB) service, so far happy with it. I suspect their DNS
from time to time has small (up to 10 or 20 secs) hickups...
Another thing I hate abotu comcast is their nuisance of connecting
your own hardware as router. You have to call them,and they charge $3 or
so if you want to
oh this is soo true!!
On [Wed Jan 24 22:25], Judah Milgram wrote:
Beware of OPC [1] syndrome.
[1] Other Peoples' Computers
It's not just the install and setup. You'll have to hold their hands
forever, else sooner or later they'll run into a problem they can't
solve and if you're not
On [Mon Dec 18 09:33], Mathias Stearn wrote:
flame-bait
I think that vim is much better than emacs for simple sys-admin text
editing, and kate trounces both of them for programming.
/flame-bait
the problem is: if they stick you in front of a 'good' old unix
(solaris, aix, maybe even macosx,
we do keep on nice history on www.tux.org list, where it was founded
November 1995. Indeed it was Judah who jump-started, i was somewhere
around as well, but the credit goes to Judah.
The first message i have from judah in my possibly not complete email
folder is from August 26, 1996 though.
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Rob Sherwood wrote:
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 05:33:23PM -0500, Peter Teuben wrote:
we do keep on nice history on www.tux.org list, where it was founded
Could you link the history? I spent a little bit of time but I don't see it :-(
it's a one liner on the lug list
On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Rob Sherwood wrote:
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:55:08PM -0400, Bao Trinh wrote:
I use a combination of rsync (for mirroring) and rsnapshot (for
keeping multiple versions) to do most of what you're thinking of doing
below.
You don't use Amanda!? I'll tell Jamie :-)
lets
i have a really cool application in mind, a web registration and court
scheduling system for things like badminton/tennis/squash etc. I've
got all the components in an old system, but am thinking of a new
jacket, maybe using RAILS..
peter
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Pedro Gonzalez wrote:
Hi ;
involved, what others are working on, etc etc - stuff Pedro was
looking for.
On 9/25/06, Peter Teuben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i have a really cool application in mind, a web registration and court
scheduling system for things like badminton/tennis/squash etc. I've
got all the components in an old
you'll have to use port forwarding. There is a way to setup a port
forwarding on the router, i would be hesitent to use port 22 on the
router, since you will get attacked all the time. So, perhaps
would map to port 22 on your machine (it now better have a fixed
IP) behind that firewall.
i doubt it, i sent email to AOL that was received, but that
was from astro.umd.edu, not the main server.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Don Schmadel wrote:
Does anyone know if AOL is blocking email from UMD?
-Don
this is most likely an SSH setup issue. Both the client and server
in ssh can set timeouts.
in your client setup file (e.g. /etc/ssh/ssh_config) you can say
ServerAliveInterval 300
and while you're at it, also do
ForwardX11 yes
There is also a server option
KeepAlive yes
prof google not good enuf?
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Alexey Toptygin wrote:
I've got a question about the most efficient known way to solve a particular
problem (randomly pick m distinct integers in the range [0,n-1]) Can someone
familiar with the CS department point me to a good professor to ask
right, chroot might be your friend there
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, J. Milgram wrote:
Continuing on this, can anyone tell me what glibc versions RH 8 and 9 (the
supported OS's) use? Is there a URL where one can see what RH v. X has
for libraries?
Going to poke around and see if I can't get this
to me where I can find such a device. I'm not srue how all this
will integrate, but I would love to get rid of all those dot matirx
printers.
Russ Main
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Peter Teuben wrote:
related perhaps, btu I'm using a Keyspan 4 port USB-Serial adapter, which just
works as advertised
related perhaps, btu I'm using a Keyspan 4 port USB-Serial adapter, which just
works as advertised.
on google i found http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2709
which claims there is a usblp driver, which indeed gives me lots of matches
in the /lib/modules tree's i've got:
yeah, College Perk certainly used to.. haven't been there a few months..
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Wesley Griffin wrote:
Are there any free hotspots around the University? I'm having trouble finding
anything on jiwire.com or any other google site I try. Thanks.
to my surprise i did finally get a notice from Comcast (accidentally read it
last night) thast today, the 12th, they are switching to dynDNS.
Their instructions cover Win and Mac. But what about those poor sobs with
router boxes. I suspect i'm ok. I'm running OpenWRT,and it maintains its own
I'm not sure either. I guess it means that those who hardcode their DNS in their
setup are potentially screwed. they want you to inherit everything, IP and DNS.
So, perhaps they're just over-reacting and we've been doing it right all the
way along. But the email sounded rather threatening that
I'm a comcast customer and I haven't gotten any notice about this, so I
don't know details...
well, i happen to need their tech support for them dropping my connection
(they never gave me a reason, but they blocked me out for some security reason),
and I asked the guy about dynDNS, since i had
i'm planning to say a few words about VPN and various ways to be
on campus from a remote location.
I had to go home in the afternoon to meet up with mr. comcast,
since the modem wasn't behaving so well, and discovered my Mac
(behind an OpenWRT firewall!!!) had been broken into
So, that's
funny you should ask :-) we might cover this at the thursday night meeting.
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Rajat Ahuja wrote:
I'm trying set-up VPN client on my Ubuntu box to connect to the UMIACS
(PPTP) network? Anyone knows a Linux-specific step-by-step?
I tried using the connection info from the
one of our education pillars should be to provide clear instructions
what linux campus users can do to keep on working and not have to
depend on windows for example.
Apart from my VPN from a few ago, i just ran into grants.gov, having
to submit a proposal shortly. Even mac people are going to
i see more and more consumer Gbit switches available in
bestbuy etc. But the big guns like Cisco still sell for
$2-3k. if you're just doing Gbit networking, even in small
groups, do you really need to keep buying them $$$? What's
their advantage? A need for Cisco exams to configure them?
-
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Phil Strong wrote:
I recently upgraded my box with a shiny new Seagate SATA (400GB) a new video
card, processor, etc basically is all new.
I installed a fresh copy of FC4 and everything seemed to work fine. Went to
play videos and/or DVD's and the video is jumpy/slow. I
John,
i got one email from a local NOVALUG guy who would like to
stop by with his laptop to see if anyone could get his wireless
to work.
I sent out email to DCLUG just in case if some wanted to come,
and requested an RSVP if they did.
peter
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, John Demme wrote:
The
a temporary trick is to set the root slackspace back to 0. It's by default 5%
or so. If you have a 100GB disk, and never did that, woohaa, you can suddenly
have 5 GB extra space
So, try this:
df /dev/hdaX
tune2fs -m 0 /dev/hdaX
df /dev/hdaX
where X is your
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, J. Milgram wrote:
Have a new laptop. Had been thinking of simply trashing the XP system it
came with, but now maybe I'll try a dual-boot setup. It's been a long
while since I've done one of these. Will probably just fdisk to make a
couple of new partitions, install
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