Re: Walmart-Xandors

2005-04-19 Thread Neil Schelly
> Is the summary that no one has any experience with Xandros, but the > Microtel PC is probably suitable for an inexpensive desktop? Sounds > like it. Well, I've got experience with Xandros, but not on Walmart PCs. It's a good distro in general - makes lots of things nice and easy. My biggest q

Server for sale

2005-04-28 Thread Neil Schelly
Sorry to spam the list again, but I've brought the price down a lot on this server since getting screwed on eBay. It's an awesome deal on a dual Athlon Penguin Computing rackmount server for $800. I hope someone can find a home for it - it really is a great server. http://boston.craigslist.org/s

Re: Fw: PC Mechanic Tip of the Day: Running Windows Software on Linux

2005-05-06 Thread Neil Schelly
> PC Mechanic Tip of the Day > What do you know about this? How does it compare to Win4Lin (or other > hamburger helpers)? Any actual experience with such things? -Dave E. I know that Crossover Office is the commercial version of WINE. I have experience with WINE, though none recent, so probabl

Re: Is a signon to an SSL site from an http:// page secure?

2005-06-23 Thread Neil Schelly
That's just as secure. The HTTPS in your location bar means the page you're on is secure. In the case of the site you gave, the form itself is submitting to an HTTPS page, so that data is sent with a request to a secure server, after that new secure connection is established. It's usually more s

Re: Some RedHat advice?

2005-07-08 Thread Neil Schelly
I've found the solution on my own - thanks for the help from those who offered. For the curious, essentially, vsftpd has an option called "session_support" and doesn't process PAM session modules unless this is enabled. In every documentation and FAQ I've found, it's enabled by default and it was

Re: Laptop HD help

2005-07-13 Thread Neil Schelly
Have you considered booting the laptop up with a Knoppix disk and offloading the data to a network share? Or is the laptop itself dead? -N > My brother's laptop HD is dying.. Anybody have a 2.5" to 3.5" HD adapter > so I can save the day and get the data off the drive.. > > __

Any experience with ProBIND?

2005-08-30 Thread Neil Schelly
I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with using ProBIND (or similar tools) to manage DNS? We're looking for a more readily manageable solution than the spreadsheet we use now at work. ProBIND seems really close to what we want, but we also want to be able to simulate split DNS with views an

Re: Toll Booths (Was: Re: [OT] NH protest against HP printers with RFID chips Nov. 5th)

2005-10-27 Thread Neil Schelly
> Has anyone been to Atlanta? The EZ-Pass style toll system is what it > should be like anywhere they have an auto-payment type system. You can go > 80mph through the toll plaza. They have two larger lanes on the left side > of the highway and you can zip through like it wasn't even there. Your > l

Re: Toll Booths (Was: Re: [OT] NH protest against HP printers with RFID chips Nov. 5th)

2005-10-27 Thread Neil Schelly
> I don't think this is true. In nearly all the cases I have seen, they are > taking existing cash-only booths and making them cash and Fast Lane. > I have not see one case where they have reduced existing Fast Lane booths > to > dual use. Exits 9 and 10 are often down to only one dedicated FastLa

Re: Linux + Windows install question

2005-10-28 Thread Neil Schelly
> On Thursday 27 October 2005 08:43 pm, Peter wrote: > I do keep a small Win98 partition on my travel laptop for some math > and engineering programs that only exist for Windows. However, I find separate computers to be a much better solution for office work. With hardware so cheap and many v

Re: [OT] Attack of the stupid-bots?

2005-11-01 Thread Neil Schelly
> Anybody else noticed a sudden flurry of bogus email > messages from random IP addrs this week. Malformed > headers, no message bodies, no Subject: line, > no payload. I must have 40 or 50 by now. Weird... Yeah, I've been getting them too... SpamAssassin isn't being fooled though. -N _

Re: MerriLUG meeting -- books!

2005-11-17 Thread Neil Schelly
> I just landed myself with a bunch o' books that someone was going to > throw out(!!). These include some *nix classics; below is a sampling of > the better-known titles. These will be raffled off this evening. The > books are in good shape, with the former owner's initials being the most > obv

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-13 Thread Neil Schelly
> I recently looked into creating a MythTV box for HD, but unfortunately, there are no cable-ready receiver cards, so all you can do is receive and record OTA (over the air) HD broadcasts, so if you wanted to record say a Discovery HD program, you are SOL. When WinTV or Hauppage etc come out with

Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

2005-12-14 Thread Neil Schelly
> I was thinking of building a MythTV box with multiple tuner cards, one > for cable and one for OTA HD broadcasts (why pay for something which > is just flying through the air and waiting for a net to be stuck out > to catch it :) I have little or no experience with HD, so take this for what it's

Re: New member saying 'howdy' --

2005-12-14 Thread Neil Schelly
> Hello GNHLUG, Hello Adam, > I just found out about this LUG through a contact at the NASIOC.com > boards. I'm neilschelly on NASIOC, nice to meet you. > I still consider > myself fairly new to the area, my fiancee and I have been living here > since May. I grew up in Southern CT, and so far I a

Re: ProBIND2 (Re: DNS: BIND vs. WinDNS)

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Schelly
> On 12/14/05, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Turns out there's ProBIND2, and it's SWEET. > > You might mention *why*... :-) A couple of reasons Travis didn't mention include: The configuration files generated by ProBIND are always checked before they're pushed. That said, if any err

Re: ProBIND2 (Re: DNS: BIND vs. WinDNS)

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Schelly
> On Dec 14, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Travis Roy wrote: > Not to pick on you in particular, Travis, as much to make a general > point: you say you have a "large" number of domains, and I'd be > curious as to the order of magnitude, just to get the big picture. For what it's worth, this is great even if y

RSVP for tonight...

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Schelly
I just wanted to post for sure that I'll be at the meeting tonight. I don't remember who keeps track of that, so I'm just posting it to the list... -N ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: ProBIND2 (was: DNS: BIND vs. WinDNS)

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Schelly
> On Dec 15, 2005, at 09:00, Neil Schelly wrote: > >> It doesn't matter what you consider large. Including reverse >> lookup zones, when I implemented this, I think I managed 2 views with >> about 10 zones in one and about 20 in the other. > > Does it grok vi

Re: Samba PDC

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Schelly
Without wasting too much effort, can't you just put a few objects in your new directory and then try to change it's domain to yet a third unused domain and see what happens? It sounds doable, but I wouldn't try doing something like that without a dry run first. -N > Hi All, > > This is a simple

Re: system no longer dual-boots

2005-12-27 Thread Neil Schelly
>> Local pc repair guy copied Windows disk to a new >> (larger) disk, and replaced that first disk. >> >> However, now system only boots Windows. There no longer is even a >> prompt to choose between Windows and FC4. >> > It is not a serious problem, but I am not sure enough of the > procedure

Re: Follow-up: Red Hat / Fedora dual boot

2005-12-30 Thread Neil Schelly
On Friday 30 December 2005 09:42 am, Zhao Peng wrote: > 1 regular boot up from Knopixx > 2 bring up konsole 2a xhost + > 3 su - > 4 swapoff /dev/hda6 > 5 qtparted& > > For step 5, I got a line saying "qtparted: cannot connect to X server" That will be fixed by step 2a added above. > So I started

Re: Follow-up: Red Hat / Fedora dual boot

2005-12-30 Thread Neil Schelly
On Friday 30 December 2005 09:42 am, Zhao Peng wrote: > 1 regular boot up from Knopixx > 2 bring up konsole 2a xhost + > 3 su - > 4 swapoff /dev/hda6 > 5 qtparted& > > For step 5, I got a line saying "qtparted: cannot connect to X server" That will be fixed by step 2a added above. > So I started

Re: One more bites the dust

2006-01-05 Thread Neil Schelly
On Thursday 05 January 2006 01:15 pm, Jon maddog Hall wrote: > I saw the announcement of the new Palm Treo 700w today, and thought I might > take a look at it. My old phone is getting a bit long in the tooth, so I > thought I might go for a new Treo. They've said they intend to continue both the

Re: [jobs] sysadmin wanted and compensation query

2006-01-06 Thread Neil Schelly
> Systems Administrator, Sr. (base) 25th%ileMedian 75th%ile > Billerica, MA 01821 $72,605$81,916 $91,628 I'd look at the 25th percentile as an experienced Windows admin salary, not a Senior. I'd look at the 82K mark as the experienced Linux/Unix admin or

Re: One more bites the dust

2006-01-09 Thread Neil Schelly
I remember finding this relatively easy to do, once I sat down and followed a 15 minute how-to for the BlueZ package. DUN was a little tougher, but I got that working too and it was mostly a matter of finding the right connect strings for T-Mobile T-Zones, which can be different for different p

Re: Long connection pauses?

2006-01-09 Thread Neil Schelly
On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:06 pm, Brian Chabot wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2006 09:37 pm, Bruce Dawson wrote: > > Ben Scott wrote: > > |On 1/8/06, Brian Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |>I have a relatively new machine that pauses for 20-120 seconds between > > |>SYN/ACK and issuing the b

Re: Software search

2006-01-17 Thread Neil Schelly
Request Tracker immediately comes to mind for the trouble-ticketing system. I've been using it a couple months now and it's great for that. As for the datalogging->graphing program, I don't have any suggestions. But I use Nagios for system monitoring, which can certainly do the datalogging pa

Re: Requesting ProBIND help

2006-01-17 Thread Neil Schelly
How far does it get? When I've setup ProBIND, I've done it with the remote update script. You should be able to follow the steps manually if you use the remote update script too and I imagine a similar sort of logic probably works for the local update script as well, but I'm not familiar wit

Re: umount: device is busy

2006-01-19 Thread Neil Schelly
A little off-topic, but searches like this are also great for forensics after a system breach. Any decent rootkit will change a lot of common utilities like ls, top, lsof, etc to hide the processes that someone would want to hide. Grepping around proc though, you can find a lot of stuff that m

Re: Fonts in Open Office question(s)

2006-01-20 Thread Neil Schelly
On Friday 20 January 2006 01:01 pm, Bill Freeman wrote: > First, thanks to everyone for the insights. > > Jim Kuzdrall writes: > > If you are using SuSE, you can get all the MS TrueType fonts via > > YaST Update. > > No. FC and/or Debian (the HD with Gentoo died). I suppose > al

Postfix/Cyrus/etc help

2006-01-24 Thread Neil Schelly
I'm looking for some book reviews I think. I'm trying to setup a Postfix/Cyrus mail server that will use SpamAssassin, Amavisd, virtual domains, LDAP, etc. I'm familiar with all the parts of this except Postfix and Cyrus already and I'm just wading through the documentation of Postfix and/or

Re: Postfix/Cyrus/etc help

2006-01-25 Thread Neil Schelly
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 11:25 pm, you wrote: > One of us might have setup what you want already. Substitute > MailScanner for Amavisd and that's pretty much what the major installs > I've done look like. I am going to try Dovecot on the next one though. Any particular advantage to mailscanner

Re: Postfix/Cyrus/etc help

2006-01-25 Thread Neil Schelly
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 11:35 pm, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-sarge/ is what I use. Works > extremely great, and I highly recommend it. I found this, but it uses Courier and MySQL rather than Cyrus and LDAP. Normally, I'd be all for that, but LDAP is th

Re: Postfix/Cyrus/etc help

2006-01-25 Thread Neil Schelly
> I know Courier supports public folders, though I haven't used it much > yet. What are the issues with using Courier for public folders that > makes Cyrus the only option? Courier has public folders, sorta, but not in the standard usage that IMAP users expect. It won't store message status flag

Re: NH & OSS.

2006-01-26 Thread Neil Schelly
On Thursday 26 January 2006 08:27 am, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > The problems that a state needs to solve are oftentimes niche problems > with no information on the solution required available to the "public at > large" that is open source hackers. However, I am sure that given a list > of requir

Re: Man, they'll try anything to hack your system...

2006-01-27 Thread Neil Schelly
On Friday 27 January 2006 01:13 pm, Ben Scott wrote: > Anyone else seen this? Is it just net.stupidity on the part of some > mail server operators somewhere, or are spammers/attackers trying > something new? I can imagine a scenario where this may be helpful to people. Can't imagine a way to

Re: Man, they'll try anything to hack your system...

2006-01-27 Thread Neil Schelly
On Friday 27 January 2006 01:30 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On Jan 27, 2006, at 13:13, Ben Scott wrote: > > Anyone else seen this? Is it just net.stupidity on the part of some > > mail server operators somewhere, or are spammers/attackers trying > > something new? > > Now that you mention it, I'

Re: "Connection Reset By Peer" on ssh sessions

2006-02-05 Thread Neil Schelly
> I've got an annoying problem with the new Verizon Fios service. > > If I leave an ssh session open and sits idle for longer than 2-5 minutes, > it > is killed with a "Connection Reset by Peer" error message. This may not be a Verizon issue at all. I have always had this problem with connections

Re: Windows-like registry for Linux?

2006-02-14 Thread Neil Schelly
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 01:24 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote: > A cow-orker is tasked with implementing a lean- > and-mean registry thingy that's maybe similar > to the Windows registry, or maybe not. The real > goal is for multiple processes/threads to be able > to perform attribute lookups cheap

Re: Windows-like registry for Linux?

2006-02-15 Thread Neil Schelly
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 09:11 am, Paul Lussier wrote: > > I guess I'm a little idealistic - I'd love to see LDAP more > > mainstream because it really does a lot of things really well, > > Like what? It's got a horrendous schema architecture, it's not easy > to configure, insert data, access

Re: HB1197 Status

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Schelly
On Thursday 16 February 2006 02:14 pm, Ed Lawson wrote: > Well, this is a password sniffer that has been around for five > years and no doubt has been in anti-virus software for nearly as > long yet they were running a windows box without running > anti-virus software and it was a server containing

Re: Unkillable processes?

2006-02-17 Thread Neil Schelly
On Friday 17 February 2006 01:58 pm, Dan Coutu wrote: > Okay, here's a strange one. > > On a Red Hat 9 system I've encountered a situation where there are two > processes that I cannot kill when using kill -9 (or any other value, for > that matter.) The processes could be in an IO Lock, maybe tryin

Re: Bypassing DNS?

2006-02-23 Thread Neil Schelly
On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:41 pm, Paul Lussier wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to tell the resolver libs that if you can't connect to > the DNS service, to just abort and return? Setting /etc/nsswitch.conf to > > hosts: dns [unavail=continue|return] files > > still seems to result in a s

Re: Host-based intrusion detection (was Pre-deployment security)

2006-02-27 Thread Neil Schelly
On Monday 27 February 2006 11:16 am, Bair,Paul A. wrote: > If you have any questions on ftimes, you can email me directly. I > support and contribute to the project. I've always used AIDE myself. I remember looking into it a few years ago and found it to be preferable at least to Tripwire, thou

Re: peertech.org -> localhost ?

2006-03-03 Thread Neil Schelly
On Thursday 02 March 2006 09:49 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote: >http://www.peertech.org/ > > ...I was presented with the default page from the WWW > server on my own machine. WTF? But then I notice that > the DNS is in fact resolving that address to 127.0.0.1 > which, at least in my experience,

Re: Asset Management

2006-03-03 Thread Neil Schelly
> There are tons of FOSS projects that do asset management > and they have many of the features you seek. Note the common > vein in the urls. =) Not to be rude, but I can search too. The results of a search aren't always all that useful though (see below). > http://sourceforge.net/projects/

Re: asset management tools?

2006-03-03 Thread Neil Schelly
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 05:02 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote: > IRM (domain specific): >http://sourceforge.net/projects/irm I looked at that too, but it wasn't very flexible in the storage of attributes. It's really more as Paul described in his other reply and I really only want an inventory p

Re: asset management tools?

2006-03-03 Thread Neil Schelly
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 08:53 am, Paul Lussier wrote: > It started out as a means to track hard drive temperature over time. > But since we needed to have all systems and all drives in all systems > in the database, we decided to make it a general asset management > system. From there we decide

Re: asset management tools?

2006-03-03 Thread Neil Schelly
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 08:45 am, Bair,Paul A. wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 20:54 -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > > I'm looking to replace a spreadsheet listing all our servers with a > > web-based asset management tool. I'm wondering what experience all of you > > may have with the availa

Re: asset management tools?

2006-03-09 Thread Neil Schelly
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 05:02 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote: > If you find a clear winner please report back - I see this wheel > reinvented repeatedly. Unfortunately, I haven't found any clear winners by far. It doesn't seem that any of the tools out there are specifically for managing an invento

Re: Intel NICs, Cisco, autoneg, and borken-ness

2006-03-13 Thread Neil Schelly
On Monday 13 March 2006 12:59 pm, Paul Lussier wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Can you try more then just ping? Try tracerouting to another network > > to see where the traffic stops, or where it tries to go. > > If ping doesn't work, neither will traceroute, since the latter is > built usin

Re: Intel NICs, Cisco, autoneg, and borken-ness

2006-03-13 Thread Neil Schelly
On Monday 13 March 2006 01:30 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > For what it's worth the default traceroute on Unix-ish systems > > uses UDP, not ICMP. traceroute -I (capital "eye") would use ICMP. > > Que? How does that work? I only know about that bump-the-TTL-after- > every-hop trick. UDP packe

Re: open source database visualization

2006-03-14 Thread Neil Schelly
On Tuesday 14 March 2006 09:46 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Does anyone know of any open source or freeware project that can graph > relational databases? I'm thinking of something similar to the way MS > Access draws tables, or similar to Visio. I haven't tried it out, but

Re: Bluetooth Serial port?

2006-03-28 Thread Neil Schelly
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 10:50 am, Brian Chabot wrote: > I got my new BT dongle running easy enough... it pairs fine with my BT > GPS... > > ...The BT Serial port monitor sees the data... > > ...but anyone know how I can figure out which /dev/ it's using? I'm at a > loss. In my case, it's configu

Re: People still interested in shared colo?

2006-03-28 Thread Neil Schelly
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 12:50 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote: > What are folks using for serial consoles these days? I have an old > Xyplex box but it only supports telnet. :) > > You'd think a basic linux box with a multiport serial card would > suffice. But building a whole PC for a serial console s

Re: People still interested in shared colo?

2006-03-28 Thread Neil Schelly
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 01:57 pm, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > Oh, that dodge also brings this to mind... > > http://www.servercase.com/miva/miva?/Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Stor >e_Code=SC&Product_Code=CK147&Category_Code=1UE > > Neat, eh? > Definitely has neato factor, but not much utility.

Re: Keystroke questions.

2006-04-03 Thread Neil Schelly
What desktop environment? I know KDE has a whole keyboard shortcuts section in the Control Center (under Regional and Accessibility) that lets you specify all these things. It's plausible that FC4 and Debian are either using different schemes or even more likely different versions of KDE and a

Re: Umask?

2006-04-04 Thread Neil Schelly
I've got a debian system here and most definitely have the umask command, but it's not a binary or a package or anything like that. It's a BASH builtin, so you won't see it anywhere in a package. Anyway, in answer to the question you were trying to answer on the BBS, default permissions are ki

Re: Exim as a secondary MX?

2006-04-19 Thread Neil Schelly
On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:53 am, Mark Komarinski wrote: > Is anyone doing this now or have links to some docs I can read on this? > Once I get this set up, it might make a good meeting topic some month... I'll be migrating our Exim mail server soon to another IP address, so I'm setting up a s

Re: remove linux, and then install Windows XP

2006-04-26 Thread Neil Schelly
It seems you're getting a lot of help with the MBR, but that isn't what you're looking for. You have/had Linux on there and want to install Windows over it instead. As far as I know, you just have to boot from the Windows install disc and it will be more than happy to just take over the hard d

Re: CLARIFICATION: Re: remove linux, and then install Windows XP

2006-04-26 Thread Neil Schelly
've NOT yet got Windows installed. > > Chris Linstid wrote: > > I could be wrong, but I think he already got Windows reinstalled, but > > he still has grub installed in the MBR and grub is looking for his > > /boot partition (which he already blew away)... thus the

Re: IT-type question

2006-04-26 Thread Neil Schelly
I'd prefer 1U just because I don't really see anything in your description to require more. I hate to waste space, but you didn't list your reasons to lean toward 2U, so I can't say for sure. That said, similar products also have sensors to monitor voltages, current draws (assuming that's avai

Re: GNHLUG RSS feeds, was Re: GNHLUG.Www - Automated notification of topic changes

2006-05-03 Thread Neil Schelly
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 03:32 pm, Marc Nozell wrote: > A lot of search sites (google, technorati, MSN search, etc) let you > setup searchs that return in RSS format. For example anytime someone > mentions, say my name, in a blog, it shows up in the aggregator. > Flickr lets you create feeds based o

Re: LDAP from scratch.

2006-05-10 Thread Neil Schelly
Here's a great generic LDAP resource: http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ It's reference material as well as some overview introductory stuff, but most of all, it's got a browseable reference of standard schemas and DNs and all that to make it a little easier to find appropriate ones for your needs

Re: LDAP from scratch.

2006-05-10 Thread Neil Schelly
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 10:20 am, Neil Schelly wrote: > > Here's a great generic LDAP resource: http://www.zytrax.com/books/ldap/ > > Simply reading the intro to this page ("LDAP for rocket scientists") made > me chortle, most especially >There are innumer

Re: Replacement for Yahoo Domains

2006-05-11 Thread Neil Schelly
That's pretty expensive - have you looked at DynDNS.org? They've got a lot of good services along those lines and they are very good at what they do. -N On Thursday 11 May 2006 11:27 am, Kent Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > My domain kentsjohnson.com is currently hosted by Yahoo Small Business > Domain

Re: Replacement for Yahoo Domains

2006-05-12 Thread Neil Schelly
On Friday 12 May 2006 09:54 am, Paul Lussier wrote: > DynDNS.org will handle the DNS for you free of charge for upto 5 > hosts, I think, as long as you use one of their domains. However, I > want to register my own domain, and still have someone deal with the > dynamic DNS mapping for me. Does an

Re: Replacement for Yahoo Domains

2006-05-12 Thread Neil Schelly
On Friday 12 May 2006 10:55 am, Paul Lussier wrote: > Neil Schelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Friday 12 May 2006 09:54 am, Paul Lussier wrote: > >> DynDNS.org will handle the DNS for you free of charge for upto 5 > >> hosts, I think, as long as you use

Re: free notebook memory (256 MB)

2006-05-19 Thread Neil Schelly
The Inspiron 7500 uses standard SDRAM SODIMMs, not DDR. I can probably dig up a 64MB or two if you need memory for a 7500 though. I've got piles of 7000/7500 parts to keep my wife and I's aging laptops running strong. -N On Friday 19 May 2006 09:01 am, Michael ODonnell wrote: > If that noteboo

Re: [xgk]dm hackery.

2006-06-01 Thread Neil Schelly
On Thursday 01 June 2006 09:59 am, Steven W. Orr wrote: > scenario #2: In this case, the computer is configured to run at runlevel 5 > and Freddy logs in on a graphic login (i.e., xdm, kdm, etc...). BB comes > along and hits Ctl-Alt-F1 and gets taken to the mgetty prompt for > screen1. BB (or is it

Re: [xgk]dm hackery.

2006-06-01 Thread Neil Schelly
On Thursday 01 June 2006 10:21 am, Neil Schelly wrote: > Are you an administrator of the system? If so, why can't you login as root > or yourself and use whatever security methods you have (su, sudo, etc) to > do what it is you're trying to do? If you're not an administra

Re: Linux on old laptop in two stages

2006-06-05 Thread Neil Schelly
On Monday 05 June 2006 08:35 am, Paul Lussier wrote: > By what measurement do you determine that Java is slow, and compared > to what? Is it slower for developement, or just running it? Is it > slow compared to C, or Lisp, or Visual Basic? Are you doing systems > programming with it or distribut

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Neil Schelly
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:09 pm, Bill Freeman wrote: > I think that what I need to do is disable NAT and firewall on the Linksys. > (We would still be protected from the internet by the firewall in the > Netgear.) If that's possible. Then would I be able to configure the > Netgear's DHCP serve

Re: Computer part recycling [was: New Year's Cleaning]

2011-01-04 Thread Neil Schelly
I've brought elecronics several times to RST Reclaming in Hudson, NH (http://www.hudsonnh.gov/departments/highway/hazardous) and they've always been free of charge except for CRTs, batteries, and fluorescent bulbs. Their prices for those items have also always been quite fair. That said, I can't

Re: Anyone want a Debian umbrella?

2012-09-02 Thread Neil Schelly
I could use an umbrella. Have you done the math to figure out how many takers you need to get costs into a reasonable range? -Neil On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > It looks like Debian Switzerland is selling these great Debian *umbrellas*, > and the price of the umbre

Re: Anyone want a Debian umbrella?

2012-09-02 Thread Neil Schelly
> I guess I'd be OK with getting a single $50 umbrella (that'd be the same > price as my wife's NHPR travel mug...), but it'd be nice to hit the > `$40 per' mark of 6 umbrellas. > > Now, the question is: does that sound reasonable to you? :) I'll buy a ~$40 umbrella. -N ___

Re: New Nashua users group meeting January 8th

2012-12-23 Thread Neil Schelly
If the meetings aren't on Tuesday nights, I'll make a point to come. I usually can't make it to the ManchLUG meetings because I've almost always got a commitment on Tuesdays. -N On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 5:50 PM, chris gagnon wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to start up a new Linux users group in

Re: Two things: anti-spam and per-process *network* I/O.

2012-12-27 Thread Neil Schelly
On Dec 26, 2012 12:15 PM, "Ken D'Ambrosio" wrote: > Per-process I/O accounting. Every now and then, I see a system load > spike through the roof -- but disk I/O is okay, likewise CPU. Which > really pretty much leaves network. But I'm unaware of any tool that > spits out per-process network uti

Re: Nashua's NHLUG meeting has been bumped 1 day to Wednesday

2013-01-25 Thread Neil Schelly
Nice! A Wednesday! Count me in! -N On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:03 PM, chris gagnon wrote: > Topic: Joshua Rosen will be talking about taking over an maintaining an open > source project http://www.foxtrotgps.org/ and GPS > > Wednesday, February 6, 2013 > 7:00pm until 9:00pm > > 29 Crown Street, > N

Any takers for some computer parts?

2014-10-13 Thread Neil Schelly
I have a pile of parts looking for a home. They are all pretty old, but they are free, and I figured someone in GNHLUG may have an excuse to need something here. I live in Merrimack, NH and work in Manchester, NH, and I can be pretty flexible to drive parts to meet you. I'd prefer not to see any of

Re: [Discuss] Any miners?

2017-06-16 Thread Neil Schelly
I have a coworker who makes money mining. His strategy is to mine for the alternative currencies that are still comparatively easy to mine than BitCoin. Whatever value he earns there gets exchanged for value in BitCoin. From what I gather, he makes a decently steady side income from it, though I ha

OpenSSH vulnerability?

2009-07-08 Thread Neil Schelly
I've been looking around for more information about OpenSSH's rumored vulnerability. I guess I'm just out of the underground loop for security exploits. The best I can find is just the obvious rumor stuff at: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6742 Anyone here have any more information? -

Re: Openmoko/Neo FreeRunner, nanocomputing (was: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter)

2009-07-24 Thread Neil Schelly
On Friday 24 July 2009 07:35:14 pm Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Anyone else have one? Anyone else doing anything neat with it? I've got one and ordered one as soon as I could do so. However, I still only pick it up every few weeks as I've been too busy to really dig into it. The phone has incr

Re: Motherboard/Linux recommendation for an i7-860 running Xen?

2009-09-30 Thread Neil Schelly
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On 09/29/2009 02:14 PM, Gerry Hull wrote: >> He is also a linux fan, and is thinking of putting Xen on the box >> instead...  Which Linux is the best choice for a Host OS? > > For Xen CentOS is probably the most stable.  It's old, though, k

Re: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

2009-10-09 Thread Neil Schelly
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Bruce Dawson wrote: > OK. I'll bite. > > What aspects of that document do you not like? > > --Bruce Ultimately, the document isn't wrong. However, anyone who would take the time to benefit from that document and ask better questions may then shy away from asking a

Re: [GNHLUG] Where should the GNHLUG 15th Birthday party be?!?

2009-10-09 Thread Neil Schelly
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:44 PM, G Rundlett wrote: >>> Who  : You!  Your fiends!  Everybody! >>> What : Party for GNHLUG's 15th Birthday >>> Date : Mon 26 Oct 2009 >>> Time : 6 PM ish to whenever >>> Where: That's the question! > > I'll likely see you all "there" -- but don't have any suggestions o

Re: ldap info sought

2009-10-23 Thread Neil Schelly
<> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > So, my request is this: what resources (books, websites, etc.) do > people recommend to learn more about this subject? I strongly suggest this book to understand the fundamentals of LDAP: http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Deploying-D

Anyone got a spare power supply?

2009-11-13 Thread Neil Schelly
I think I have a failed power supply in a server. I'd like to verify this and for that, I need either an ATX-EPS or an ATX-GES power supply to see if I can get the machine to power up. The ATX-EPS spec is the one that has a colorful 24-pin connector and a black/yellow 8-pin connector. The ATX-GE

Server for sale...

2009-12-07 Thread Neil Schelly
http://boston.craigslist.org/nwb/sys/1499417106.html I'm selling this box from work and thought someone here may be interested. Honestly, the high price is more or less as a deterrent to too many people requesting it through CraigsList, but if you are willing to come pick it up in Billerica or Tyn

Re: Server for sale...

2009-12-07 Thread Neil Schelly
gt; > KoreLogic Security > 603.465.3236 (Office) > 603.340.2498 (Mobile) > http://www.korelogic.com > GnuPG Fingerprint: 688A 79EC B1E5 5748 CE87  1F20 2C45 60E7 0583 23B6 > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:57:15PM -0500, Neil Schelly wrote: >> http://boston.craigslist.org/nwb

Re: Looking for a laptop keyboard

2009-12-23 Thread Neil Schelly
Well, I've got a D-series laptop for parts at work. It's motherboard is shot, but I can part with the keyboard if you're interested, albeit I need a nominal fee since it's my company's property. I pulled it out and confirmed that it's not the same U-shaped ribbon you've got. If you want to try it

Re: Mythweb (php 5.2.10) doesn't work b/c of suhosin - canaries

2010-01-09 Thread Neil Schelly
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > You can't uninstall suhosin because it's compiled into the > php5-common package. I guess I could either build from source [8], or > try to upgrade This is what I'd do. Download the source for the php5-common package. Recompil