Re: [brlug-general] expanding Europe's Linux Presentation Day to the US

[Shannon Roddy]

Haven't thought about CC or Computer Heaven in a while.  I think I go back
to around 1995 or 1996 with Clickers, and I spent way too much money with C
Heaven.  Looks like both are still around.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Karthik Poobal  wrote:

> Yup. I started with BRLUG by attending one of those events. I remember
> going to few of these at Cajun Clickers Computer Club years ago.
>
>
> Karthik Poobal
> kart...@poobal.net
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Dustin Puryear 
> wrote:
>
>> Back in the early days of BRLUG we used to hold events like this! I
>> remember we had a few events at Computer Heaven actually if anybody
>> remembers. Karthik, weren't you there?
>>
>>
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>> -Original Message-
>> From: General [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On Behalf Of Hauke
>> Laging
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 4:33 PM
>> To: general@brlug.net
>> Subject: [brlug-general] expanding Europe's Linux Presentation Day to the
>> US
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> in May 2015 Berlin's Linux user group (BeLUG) has started a new type of
>> event which has spread quickly all over Europe: the Linux Presentation Day
>> (LPD)
>>
>> 2015.1: Berlin only
>> 2016.1 & 2016.2: 120+ cities in 15 countries
>> 2017.1: first locations outside Europe (Canada, New Zealand, probably
>> more)
>>
>> I contact you because we intend to expand the LPD beyond Europe next year.
>>
>> The aim of the LPD towards the general public is to provide biannual and
>> comprehensive information events about Linux for private users who would
>> like to get a first impression of Linux.
>>
>> The aim towards the media is to make the event so big (both nationally and
>> internationally) that the nationwide non-IT media cover it regularly.
>>
>> The aim towards the Linux community is that an LPD event can be so small
>> and easy to organize (even without costs) that really everyone can try to
>> organize an event with good chances of success. The local organizers decide
>> on their own what their event shall be like; we just make suggestions and
>> offer support.
>>
>>
>> You can find a longer description of the concept here:
>>
>> http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/idea/
>>
>>
>> Are you as an organization interested in participating in the LPD? If
>> not: Are any of your members interested in helping us bring the LPD to the
>> US?
>>
>> This event is very useful for finding new LUG members.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> (Mr.) Hauke Laging
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>> http://www.linux-presentation-day.org/
>>
>> International phone contact for the Linux Presentation Day:
>> tel:+49-30-55579620 <+49%2030%2055579620> (13:00–23:00, German and
>> English)
>>
>> XMPP (Chat with OTR): linux-presentation-...@jabber.ccc.de
>> OTR: 91626899 1C06F2BD 75EC2441 35C696CE 38F75997
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Re: [brlug-general] Does OpenOffice still have a role to play?

[Shannon Roddy]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Karthik Poobal  wrote:

> Another OpenSource project tainted by oracle.
>

  This.
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Re: [brlug-general] Everybody here use Perl for general scripting or.. ?

[Shannon Roddy]

Don't feed the trolls!  ;-)

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Tim Fournet  wrote:

> https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Joey Kelly  wrote:
>
>> Perl. Lots of it. A little ansible too.
>>
>> --Joey
>>
>>
>> On 09/20/2016 07:56 AM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [brlug-general] Everybody here use Perl for general scripting or.. ?

[Shannon Roddy]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Joe Fruchey  wrote:

> I use Bash when I can. When it gets unwieldy, I switch to Python.
>

My answer would have been identical.
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Re: [brlug-general] So.. CentOS, RHEL, or SuSE?

[Shannon Roddy]

CentOS when I can't use debian/devuan.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Dustin Puryear 
wrote:

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Re: [brlug-general] Are you using MySQL or.. have you moved to something else?

[Shannon Roddy]

That's what I was thinking.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Dustin Puryear 
wrote:

> I hope he enjoys his life of squalor with $20m.
>
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> *From:* General [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] *On Behalf Of *Ray
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 6, 2016 3:05 PM
>
> *To:* general@brlug.net
> *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Are you using MySQL or.. have you moved to
> something else?
>
>
>
> Monty Widenius is the original guy that started MySQL and sold it to Sun.
> He actually left Sun shortly before Oracle bought them, due to his
> differences with Sun management. (After the billion dollar purchase, he
> supposedly only pocketed $20 million).
>
>
>
> He actually started the MariaDB fork back in 2009 when he left Sun.  It
> didn't get a lot of traction at first. I believe it was Redhat that became
> unhappy with what Oracle was doing with MySQL.  Since MariaDB had matured
> into a superior product, and Oracle was a direct competitor of Redhat's
> (with Oracle Enterprise Linux, itself a clone of RHEL), they decided to
> ditch MySQL and go with MariaDB with RHEL 7. Other clones like CentOS and
> Scientific Linux followed suit.
>
>
>
> So there's your MySQL history lesson for the day. :)
>
>
>
> Ray
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:23 AM, B. Estrade  wrote:
>
> Yes, a fork more like it. It's superior in everyway, with the bonus goal
> of being a drop-in replacement.
>
> The original develops had concerns about Oracle's stewardship of the
> product, so they continued developing it. This is after Sun paid over a
> BILLION for MySQL AB.
>
> Brett
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Dustin Puryear 
> wrote:
>
> That’s the split off of MySQL?
>
>
>
>
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> *From:* General [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] *On Behalf Of *Ray
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 6, 2016 9:46 AM
> *To:* general@brlug.net
> *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Are you using MySQL or.. have you moved to
> something else?
>
>
>
> Switching to MariaDB as systems are upgraded from RHEL/Centos 6 to 7. It's
> a pretty seamless transition.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Tim Fournet  wrote:
>
> MariaDB when the application needs MySQL. Otherwise the preference is
> postgres
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Jeffrey Lee  wrote:
>
> Most of my applications are using PostgreSQL because of the GIS functions.
> I still have a few applications using MySQL but rarely spin up a new app
> with it.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Dustin Puryear 
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [brlug-general] Are you using MySQL or.. have you moved to something else?

[Shannon Roddy]

There are pockets where MySQL is in production at $day_job.  There is some
desire to move away from it in certain use cases.  Alternatives have been
discussed, but inertia is hard to overcome here.  Most major stuff is
Oracle.  I'll hold my tongue on that...

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Dustin Puryear 
wrote:

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[brlug-general] Web templates/CMS

[Shannon Roddy]

What are folks using for GPL'd web templates and/or CMS nowadays for self
hosted websites?  I haven't done much HTML editing in years and don't
really have the time to get into it.  I would rather not use wordpress...
I just need a basic CMS for a typical static web site that doesn't look
terribly dated.  I know there are places like Wix, etc. but looking for
something GPL, CC, etc.

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Re: [brlug-general] PHP web-based ini file editor?

[Shannon Roddy]

http://coolwanglu.github.io/vim.js/emterpreter/vim.html

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Dustin Puryear 
wrote:

> Hi there-
>
>
>
> Have a need for a simple web-based editor. Would be nice if is written to
> edit ini-syntax files specifically, but if not a simple notepad type editor
> is fine.
>
>
>
> PHP based is best.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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Re: [brlug-general] SPAM (was wall mounted windows)

[Shannon Roddy]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Paul Rushing  wrote:

> email is constant cat and mouse game.  It’s the next unknown attack that’s
> always the concern, the one we don’t know to block yet.  Have to try and
> push as much egress filtering / content scanning for data loss prevention
> as feasible.
>


AV is dead, long live AV!

Have you ever submitted a sample of malware to virustotal that has gotten
through all the AV & SPAM filters?  Usually, if it makes it through
relatively good defenses, it takes days for it to be detected by most of
the AV vendors.

Heuristics are more important than file matches nowadays.  Companies like
fireEye make their living on opening up samples in a sandbox, then alerting
after the fact that something got through.
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Re: [brlug-general] Anybody have a all-in-1 PC that I can hang from a wall?

[Shannon Roddy]

>  Google Apps is doing a damn good job of filtering these messages out of
> us.
>
>
I almost never get spam or malicious attachments to my gmail account.  In
fact, it's kind of a novelty now when I do.
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Re: [brlug-general] Anybody have a all-in-1 PC that I can hang from a wall?

[Shannon Roddy]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Edmund Cramp  wrote:

>
> I suspect cryptoware - Dustin will probably be looking for people to help
> recover corporate PC’s in a week to two…
>

It's a windows tax... just cough up the bitcoin.
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Re: [brlug-general] Cox Residential and IPv6

[Shannon Roddy]

Yeah.  I was looking at those.  But, $500 seems a bit steep for a home
router.  I can roll my own atom system for less.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Edmund Cramp <e...@motion-labs.com> wrote:

> ➢ I'd like to go to a lower power system some day.
>
> https://www.pfsense.org/products/product-family.html#sg-2440 - pulls 7W
> at idle with 4 network interfaces - in an emergency you could run it off AA
> batteries.
>
>
>
> From: General [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On Behalf Of Shannon
> Roddy
> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 7:55 PM
> To: general@brlug.net
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox Residential and IPv6
>
> Glad it's working... been a while since I looked at pfsense.  Forgot it
> was based on FreeBSD.  I might have to consider it next time I change my
> router out... I'd like to go to a lower power system some day.
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Keith Stokes <ke...@digital-gurus.com>
> wrote:
> Color me embarrassed. All these open browser windows for
> configuring/testing IPv6 have been open for months and I hadn't done
> anything in awhile.
>
> Google-Foo served up this link from back in November when I tried again:
> https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=102339.0
>
> Follow directions, add an outbound IPv6 LAN-->WAN outbound rule and here I
> am:
> Good news! Your current configuration will continue to work as web sites
> enable IPv6.
>
>
> Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have IPv6 Internet
> access.
>
> Your readiness score
> 10/10
> for your IPv6 stability and readiness, when publishers are forced to go
> IPv6 only
>
> On 1/24/2016 7:24 PM, Shannon Roddy wrote:
> I'm on Comcast... YMMV.  I have a debian box that is running as my
> router.  I couldn't get v6 to work with comcast with the ISC client.   I
> had to install the wide-dhcpv6-client package and go from there.  That was
> for the WAN connection.  Google around for the wide dhcp package and there
> are some howto docs out there.  I had to cobble together some scripts to
> get it all to work.
>
> For the internal network, I chose to support auto config so that all my
> devices would work... so, I'm running radvd on the internal interface of my
> debian router.  Comcast supposedly will delegate larger than a /64, but I
> gave up on getting that to work.  Seemed like the route wasn't getting set
> on their end.
>
> I ran into a number of issues getting it set up... and it's a bit hazy now
> because it's been a while and I didn't keep good notes.  But, if you need
> further info, I can look on my running system and let you know how I have
> things here.
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Keith Stokes <ke...@digital-gurus.com>
> wrote:
> Has anyone worked with Cox Residential in BR/Laf/NO on IPv6? Support told
> me a few weeks ago it's been deployed in our area.
>
> I've learned that I get the best tech support from them on Sunday so today
> I hit them up in web chat for instructions or methods they use. Anything to
> get me started.
>
> They want me to call their Home Networking Group. Since I'd rather pull
> out my fingernails than try to explain how I'm running a PfSense box with
> static and dynamic VPNs, a handful of creative rules, Macs, Linux (see
> there's a link in here somewhere to the list) and Windows, plus everything
> else I can think of to make life harder for them, I'm hoping someone else
> has done this before and is willing to share.
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Re: [brlug-general] Cox Residential and IPv6

[Shannon Roddy]

I'm on Comcast... YMMV.  I have a debian box that is running as my router.
I couldn't get v6 to work with comcast with the ISC client.   I had to
install the wide-dhcpv6-client package and go from there.  That was for the
WAN connection.  Google around for the wide dhcp package and there are some
howto docs out there.  I had to cobble together some scripts to get it all
to work.

For the internal network, I chose to support auto config so that all my
devices would work... so, I'm running radvd on the internal interface of my
debian router.  Comcast supposedly will delegate larger than a /64, but I
gave up on getting that to work.  Seemed like the route wasn't getting set
on their end.

I ran into a number of issues getting it set up... and it's a bit hazy now
because it's been a while and I didn't keep good notes.  But, if you need
further info, I can look on my running system and let you know how I have
things here.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Keith Stokes 
wrote:

> Has anyone worked with Cox Residential in BR/Laf/NO on IPv6? Support told
> me a few weeks ago it's been deployed in our area.
>
> I've learned that I get the best tech support from them on Sunday so today
> I hit them up in web chat for instructions or methods they use. Anything to
> get me started.
>
> They want me to call their Home Networking Group. Since I'd rather pull
> out my fingernails than try to explain how I'm running a PfSense box with
> static and dynamic VPNs, a handful of creative rules, Macs, Linux (see
> there's a link in here somewhere to the list) and Windows, plus everything
> else I can think of to make life harder for them, I'm hoping someone else
> has done this before and is willing to share.
>
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>
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Re: [brlug-general] Cox Residential and IPv6

[Shannon Roddy]

Glad it's working... been a while since I looked at pfsense.  Forgot it was
based on FreeBSD.  I might have to consider it next time I change my router
out... I'd like to go to a lower power system some day.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Keith Stokes <ke...@digital-gurus.com>
wrote:

> Color me embarrassed. All these open browser windows for
> configuring/testing IPv6 have been open for months and I hadn't done
> anything in awhile.
>
> Google-Foo served up this link from back in November when I tried again:
> https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=102339.0
>
> Follow directions, add an outbound IPv6 LAN-->WAN outbound rule and here I
> am:
>
> *Good news!* Your current configuration will continue to work as web
> sites enable IPv6.
>
> Your DNS server (possibly run by your ISP) appears to have IPv6 Internet
> access.
> Your readiness score
> 10/10 for your IPv6 stability and readiness, when publishers are forced
> to go IPv6 only
>
>
> On 1/24/2016 7:24 PM, Shannon Roddy wrote:
>
> I'm on Comcast... YMMV.  I have a debian box that is running as my
> router.  I couldn't get v6 to work with comcast with the ISC client.   I
> had to install the wide-dhcpv6-client package and go from there.  That was
> for the WAN connection.  Google around for the wide dhcp package and there
> are some howto docs out there.  I had to cobble together some scripts to
> get it all to work.
>
> For the internal network, I chose to support auto config so that all my
> devices would work... so, I'm running radvd on the internal interface of my
> debian router.  Comcast supposedly will delegate larger than a /64, but I
> gave up on getting that to work.  Seemed like the route wasn't getting set
> on their end.
>
> I ran into a number of issues getting it set up... and it's a bit hazy now
> because it's been a while and I didn't keep good notes.  But, if you need
> further info, I can look on my running system and let you know how I have
> things here.
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Keith Stokes <ke...@digital-gurus.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone worked with Cox Residential in BR/Laf/NO on IPv6? Support told
>> me a few weeks ago it's been deployed in our area.
>>
>> I've learned that I get the best tech support from them on Sunday so
>> today I hit them up in web chat for instructions or methods they use.
>> Anything to get me started.
>>
>> They want me to call their Home Networking Group. Since I'd rather pull
>> out my fingernails than try to explain how I'm running a PfSense box with
>> static and dynamic VPNs, a handful of creative rules, Macs, Linux (see
>> there's a link in here somewhere to the list) and Windows, plus everything
>> else I can think of to make life harder for them, I'm hoping someone else
>> has done this before and is willing to share.
>>
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Re: [brlug-general] We are looking for contractors for the following -- let me know if you or somebody you knows matches!

[Shannon Roddy]

Hmm Still no sign of Linux in that list.  ;-)

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Dustin Puryear 
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> We have a lot of work on our plates and we want to ensure we have access
> to qualified people in the future when/if we get super booked. So lining up
> people now for 2016!
>
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>
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> ·   MS CRM guru
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> ·   Salesforce CRM guru
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> ·   SEBD certified instructions for IT classes
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Re: [brlug-general] Security contract work

[Shannon Roddy]

I'm afraid this place couldn't withstand any serious (or even casual)
pentesting.  LOL

As an aside, what is your opinion of the Hailstorm web app scanner as a
product?  I'm not a user of it... but must be subjected to it.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Jarred White jarredwh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all! A quick note to all that I've got bandwidth for security
 consulting work, primarily in the area of penetration testing. Right
 now I'm seeking remote work - web application or external network
 testing - but if you can find a way to get me onto a local network
 (such as a jump box or SSH reverse tunnel), or if you're interested in
 flying me out for a short duration, I can handle some onsite work. I'm
 less interested in, but can do, onsite/remote social engineering, risk
 analysis and vulnerability assessments.

 If you or anyone you know is interested, let me know and we can
 discuss rates/availability privately.

 Thanks,
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Re: [brlug-general] Spearfishing

[Shannon Roddy]

It appears to me to be Cisco IronPort.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/19588

Yuck.


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Jarred White jarredwh...@gmail.com wrote:

 It looks to be legit, but what an awful freaking idea BofA.

 http://securemsg.bankofamerica.com/Secure_Email_Recipient_Guide_en.pdf



 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Keith Stokes ke...@digital-gurus.comwrote:

 Yes, unfortunately it is this easy.

 On Dec 4, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Edmund Cramp e...@motion-labs.com wrote:

 A user received an email that purports to come from one of our customers
 with the instructions:

 Click the securedoc.html attachment to open (view) the secure message.
 For best results, save the file first and open it from the saved location
 using a Web browser.

 My email system, very sensibly stripped and quarantined the file, and
 stored it with  a couple of hundred of assorted New Order.zip and payroll
 report.xls files in the quarantine directory.  Opening the file with
 notepad shows it to be mostly javascript with various references that make
 it appear to come from the Bank of America.

 My immediate reaction was unprintable but hell, assuming that it's real
 and that's not certain yet, these people want me to let users open any HTML
 web page that floats into their inbox?

 This has got to be a gift from the gods if you are up to mischief - just
 email everyone a securedoc.html file and they will open it and enter their
 password ... which javascript (love that stuff) will promptly send to the
 web site of your choice.

 Spearfishing is this easy?

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[brlug-general] Fwd: [Nolug] Network Engineer job at Cox

[Shannon Roddy]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Jeremy list...@unix-boy.com
Date: Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:28 PM
Subject: [Nolug] Network Engineer job at Cox
To: no...@nolug.org


Good afternoon,

If there is anyone interested, Cox is looking for a Network Engineer for the
New Orleans area.   This position would mostly be focused on networking
tasks related to video and the video services.The position announcement
is below:

https://ccirecruit.cox.com/**psc/RECRUIT/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/**
HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_**CE_JOB_DTLAction=A**
JobOpeningId=37914SiteId=1https://ccirecruit.cox.com/psc/RECRUIT/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTLAction=AJobOpeningId=37914SiteId=1

If possible, could someone please forward this to the BRLUG list since I'm
not subscribed to that list.

Jeremy
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Re: [brlug-general] Extending cell phone coverage

[Shannon Roddy]

I'm not a fan of the microcells or any solution that uses the network.  That
said, I've never used any of them.  That could be a topic for a long
conversation one day, but I'll spare everyone.

All that said, if I were to do something, I would use a true
repeater/amplifier with an external directional antenna, powered amplifier,
and an internal non-directional antenna unless you just want coverage in
certain areas of the building.  Typical cost seems to be $400-700 for the
true bidirectional amps, coax, antenna, etc.

Just my 2 cents.  I'd be interested to hear how it works out for your
customer.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Bret Esquivel besqui...@immense.netwrote:

 We have a client that is shared with Access Communications in Gonzales.
 They are providing them a solution for this.. involving roof antennas.

 ** **

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 *BRET ESQUIVEL **MCSE, CCNA***

 President**

 besqui...@immense.net

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 11944 Coursey Blvd., Suite 100

 Baton Rouge, LA 70816

 *Phone:* 225-754-9005

 *Fax:* 866-850-7519

 *Web:* www.immense.net

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 Behalf Of *Dustin Puryear
 *Sent:* Thursday, September 01, 2011 10:58 AM
 *To:* general@brlug.net
 *Subject:* [brlug-general] Extending cell phone coverage

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 We have a customer in a building that has proven a nightmare for cell phone
 coverage. We’ve tried a third-party extender and a ATT Microcell, but of
 which failed. We’re looking for a company that has a specialty in this as we
 do IT, not mobile telecommunications. Any recommendations?

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Re: [brlug-general] Eatel wants in Baton Rouge

[Shannon Roddy]

I've always liked Eatel as a company.  I wish they served my area.  I know a
very good network guy that went to work for them a couple years ago... I
think they both benefited from that deal.

I had eatel dialup for many, many years

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Byron Como bc...@cox.net wrote:

 **
 U-verse still not available in Tigerland. Eatel would bring some
 appreciated competition.


 On 8/18/2011 3:21 PM, Ronnie Gilkey wrote:

 U-verse is here, they've come knocking around my neighborhood a couple of
 times

 ronnie

 On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Ray rdej...@gmail.com wrote:

 Is ATT not deploying its U-verse fiber network in EBR?  They are in
 Hammond and on the west bank, and other areas around here.   So I
 wonder what happens when Eatel approaches a parish and says we want to
 run fiber all over your parish, and ATT says nope we already did
 that.

 ray


 On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:42 PM, mat branyon mat.bran...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Who are you kidding? You still had those business ISDN lines well after
 it
  stopped being cool.
 
  I remember having eatel dialup in livingston parish almost 10 years ago,
 and
  them helping me try to get it working on my linux box.  Nice guys all
  around.
 
  On Aug 18, 2011 10:06 AM, Edmund Cramp e...@motion-labs.com wrote:
  Let's face it, COX does not want any competition because otherwise COX
  would have to start offering competitive rates.
 
  As for the build-out clause - I can see the reason for it, essentially
  it's social engineering but I think a better way of encouraging
 universal
  service would be to simply tax the service areas differently - this
 would
  give all of the companies an incentive to support the less densely
 populated
  areas. Otherwise build-out becomes a monopoly for COX preventing
 smaller
  businesses from entering the market.
 
  Does anyone remember the maneuvering when the Lafayette decided to offer
  internet service locally? Both COX and ATT fought tooth and nail to
 stop
  them.
 
  As a business I was with EAtel when they did service Baton Rouge and
 they
  were a pleasure to work with - this is back in the days when ISDN was
 cool -
  and they knew how to provision a line in one visit. I've love to give
 them a
  try again. I don't like monopolies.
 
  Regards,
  Edmund Cramp
  --
  Motion Lab Systems, Inc.
  15045 Old Hammond Highway, Baton Rouge, LA 70816 USA
  Tel: +1 (225) 272-7364 %2B1%20%28225%29%20272-7364 | Fax: +1 (225)
 272-7336 %2B1%20%28225%29%20272-7336
  Web: http://www.motion-labs.com
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: general-boun...@brlug.net
  [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On Behalf Of Brad Bendily
  Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:52 AM
  To: general@brlug.net
  Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Eatel wants in Baton Rouge
 
  On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Byron Como bc...@cox.net wrote:
   I think its a good thing.
  
  
  http://theadvocate.com/home/619880-79/eatel-asks-to-offer-services.htm
   l
  
 
  strange. they used to be in BR years ago.. .now they want back in?
 
  I have mixed feelings about the controversy that Cox brings up.
  One the one hand, they should be held to the same standard as
  everyone else, but on the other hand, i would like to see
  local businesses get some advantages over national business.
 
  what do you guys think?
 
 
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Re: [brlug-general] Programming certification.

[Shannon Roddy]

That has been my exact experience.  Worse, one of the night classes I took,
the instructor was a Unisys employee by day and an instructor by night.  He
not only didn't know lots of material, he was factually incorrect on a lot
of it.  The worst part was this wasn't just a CE certification course.

Overall, my experience with LSU was certainly not worth the money I paid for
it, but I fear that it is the situation with many degree granting
institutions.


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 The last CE course I took at LSU (Advanced Excel) the *actual 
 instructor*answered all my questions with, Well if you figure that out, get 
 back to
 me.  Based on my experiences in several courses, there I wouldn't given
 anyone credit for having a certification.  Did anyone see the recent
 catalogue from LSU asking for a similar amount of money to learn to use
 Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn?

 For the amount that they charge, you'll learn more if you lock yourself in
 a room with a couple of decent books and manuals for a couple of days - and
 you'll save money.

 Edmund Cramp
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 *Sent:* Tuesday, June 28, 2011 1:26 PM

 *To:* general@brlug.net
 *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Programming certification.

  Oh. Ha. Well, LSU has actual instructors, no? I think the other link you
 had was for web-based training.

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 *From:* general-boun...@brlug.net [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] *On
 Behalf Of *Byron Como
 *Sent:* Tuesday, June 28, 2011 12:35 PM
 *To:* general@brlug.net
 *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Programming certification.

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 I protest the $495.
 Heh.

 On 6/28/2011 8:15 AM, Dustin Puryear wrote: 

 You protest what? That LSU is offering those classes? They seem useful to
 me. 

   

 *From:* general-boun...@brlug.net 
 [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.netgeneral-boun...@brlug.net]
 *On Behalf Of *Byron Como
 *Sent:* Monday, June 27, 2011 4:04 PM
 *To:* general@brlug.net
 *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Programming certification. 

   

 LSU Continuing Education Courses:

 Web Design Basics/Introduction to HTML - $395

 PHP / MySQL for Web Developers - $495

 I doth protest, sir.


 E-Learning Center:
 http://www.e-learningcenter.com/web_design.htm

 PHP  MySQL - $69




 On 6/26/2011 11:39 PM, Joey Kelly wrote: 

 On Sat June 25 2011 9:52 pm, Byron Como wrote:  

 Is w3schools a legit certification?  



 No. You take a test online, then they market a certificate to you. I've   
 

 taken a couple of their quizzes, they're based on their tutorials and only   
 

 ask the most basic of questions. Don't waste your money.  



   

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Re: [brlug-general] Sharepoint Certification

[Shannon Roddy]

Maybe for you and Dustin.  Others of us are happy to work in a mostly M$
free world.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Andrew Baudouin andre...@gmail.com wrote:

 M$ has alway$ paid the bill$.

 Sent from my iPhone

 On Jun 9, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Byron Como bc...@cox.net wrote:

  Well, yeah. Monster.com has 7 job listings for Sharpoint in Baton Rouge
 and 1,000+ nationwide. Seems relevant to a lot of people. I need employment.
 I can't afford to be a snob.
 
  On 6/9/2011 6:06 PM, Tim Fournet wrote:
  Sharepoint? Relevant?
  hrm, ok
 
 
  On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Byron Comobc...@cox.net  wrote:
  There are several Sharepoint Certification tests available from
 Microsoft.
  Which test should I begin with? I'm learning new skills that are
 relevant in
  today's business environment.
 
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Re: [brlug-general] CentOS

[Shannon Roddy]

I've been bashing CentOS/RHEL for several years now, and everyone cried foul
for me doing so.  We have experienced serious breakage due to stale packages
as already mentioned before.  Not just feature issues, but breakage... as in
bugs that should be fixed with a simple package update.  Like syncrepl in
OpenLDAP being broken and no hope of a patch release.  Works fine on other
platforms.  Known bug... no patch or update from Red Hat.

Platforms at $DAY_JOB are now Debian or SL - CentOS no more.

I wish they could find a happy medium between stability  patches.  They
haven't found it yet IMO.

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Joshua Frugé jfru...@lsu.edu wrote:



 On 05/12/2011 07:01, Ronnie Gilkey wrote:

 On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Ray rdej...@gmail.com wrote:

 Any of you following the current CentOS controversy?  Management
 issues, lack of communication, lack of manpower, timeliness of
 releases and security updates.   Ie, after RHEL 5.6 was released, it
 took 3 months to get CentOS 5.6 released.   And a full 6 months after
 RHEL 6 was released, there is still no CentOS 6.

 A lot of the community is migrating to Scientific Linux.  Just
 wondering if any of you have, or are considering making the switch.

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 I haven't been following the controversy, but I've moved away from CentOS
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 I understand that RHEL/CentOS drive toward stability and not being on the
 bleeding edge, being several minor releases back on packages like PostgreSQL
 and Ruby was really keeping some of the functionality/improvements I
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 releases patches were listed numerically in the repos, so building (reverse
 engineering) was easier.  A coworker seems to feel the 5.6 release seems
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Re: [brlug-general] SATA cards

[Shannon Roddy]

When in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago, I didn't have much choice and found
an eSATA card in a Best Buy.  I'd probably go to a local shop here in Baton
Rouge (Tim's, C. Heaven, etc.) before I'd go to Best Buy, but if you *have*
to have one same day, they probably have them there.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.comwrote:

 Anybody know of a local retailer that sells PCI SATA cards?





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[brlug-general] Low power, compact linux box

[Shannon Roddy]

Hi Folks,

I have a need for a low power consumption linux box.  Anyone using something
like this?  I'm thinking some of the small nettops or mini-itx boxes.
I've googled a bit, but if anyone has direct experience with this sort of
thing, input would be appreciated so I don't re-invent the wheel.

Something like this would be nice...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856119032

or this:

http://www.hacom.net/catalog/openbrick-e-intel-600mhz-celeron-m

Has anyone been down this road before?  I would like low power consumption
so that it can run on a UPS for a long time for its intended use.  Doesn't
need much drive space (compacFlash or SSD is fine).  It will basically serve
as a network device to jump off to other devices.  Think like your typical
home linux NAT router or something along those lines.

Anyone have any product suggestions?  Tips?

Thanks,
Shannon
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Re: [brlug-general] pieces parts?

[Shannon Roddy]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Joey Kelly j...@joeykelly.net wrote:

 On Tue September 21 2010 11:29 am, Joe Fruchey wrote:
  What are you looking for? Bulk purchases, or you need a place where
  you can run down and pick up a power supply and a stick of RAM? If
  it's the latter, there's Computer Heaven just off Florida.

 Does that place sell new parts? ISTR they sold scrapped parts out of bins
 back
 in the 90s (but maybe I'm confusing them with another shop on Florida
 Blvd.).


They sell both new and used... at least last time I went there 'round 2004
or so.




 New retail parts are nice if that's what that place sells, but I'm looking
 for
 a wholesaler, since I own a service company.

 --Joey

  (computerheaven.com)
 
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   Guys,
  
   Is there a computer parts wholesaler in Baton Rouge? We have a couple
   here (Priority 1 and MicroPC) that I buy from, but I occasionally need
   stuff when I'm in the big city.
  
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Re: [brlug-general] High-speed Internet access in Baton Rouge

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The state of so called broadband in the US is pretty depressing.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Dixon Cole dixonc...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Brad Bendily bend...@gmail.com wrote:
  sneakernet.
 

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[brlug-general] Anycast

[Shannon Roddy]

Anyone here ever administered an anycasted service?

Thx.
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Re: [brlug-general] Anyone seen my 3TB disk?

[Shannon Roddy]

Seagates have become junk IMO.  For a long time we used seagates exclusively
when ordering bare drives, but the failure rate became like 20% around the
time when they hit 2 TB in size.

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.comwrote:

  I know I left it around here somewhere.



 http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/5/17/exclusive-seagate-confirms-3tb-drive/



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Re: [brlug-general] Microsoft more secure than Apple and and Adobe..

[Shannon Roddy]

Trolling your own list, huh?

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.comwrote:

  Thought everyone may enjoy this read:



 http://www.pcworld.com/article/194686/hacker_says_microsoft_secure.html



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Re: [brlug-general] Yay! Jury says Novell owns Unix copyrights!

[Shannon Roddy]

I don't remember.. do they still have umpteen appeals going?  Or is this
it?

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 Jury says Novell owns Unix copyrights
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Re: [brlug-general] FW: [ale] SCO loses again: jury says Novell owns UNIX SVRX copyrights

[Shannon Roddy]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.comwrote:

 You almost have to admire SCO's insane persistance..


Umm... No.



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 copyrights

 SCO loses again: jury says Novell owns UNIX SVRX copyrights
 http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/03/sco-loses-again-jury-say
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Re: [brlug-general] Digg.com dropping MySQL

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On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:55 PM, -ray r...@ops.selu.edu wrote:


 Awesome... I had a stack of Linux Journal's from 95-00 for a long time but
 I think I was a dumb ass and threw them away.  I still have a stack of old
 SysAdmin mags though.  Both of those magazine's were the shizz.


I really miss SysAdmin mag.



 Oh, what's IRC?


It's one of those really old protocols... like Gopher.  :P



 On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Jarred White wrote:

  Wow Linux journal. I have a magnet on my fridge from them that I've had
 for
  like 12 years or something. I haven't heard that name in a lng time.
 
  Which network is the channel on?
 
  Sent from my iPhone
 
  On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Warren \Tray\ Torrance 
 torran...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Heh, I'm a LinuxJournal subscriber, and frequent their IRC room... just
  yesterday we had a discussion on the vague notion of the cloud.
 
  Warren Tray Torrance
 
 
  On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:03, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.com
  wrote:
  You know, it's.. the cloud. Thing.
 
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  Behalf Of -ray
  Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:07 PM
  To: general@brlug.net
  Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Digg.com dropping MySQL
 
 
  That is my new answer to every server, database, network, security,
  application, email, or web problem that we run across.  In the meeting
  I'll say, Let's just push it to 'the cloud' and be done with it.
 
  Everyone thinks I'm a genius for saying that, but no one will admit that
 
  they don't exactly know what it means.
 
  ray
 
  On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Dustin Puryear wrote:
 
   Seems to happening at a number of places. I know Amazon pushes it in
   their cloud solution.
  
  
  
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   Behalf Of Tim Fournet
   Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:10 PM
   To: general@brlug.net
   Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Digg.com dropping MySQL
  
  
  
   The interesting part isn't that they're getting away from MySQL. It's
   that they're getting away from a relational database and moving to a
   key/value type database.
  
  
  
  
  
 
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Re: [brlug-general] Digg.com dropping MySQL

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On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:42 PM, -ray r...@ops.selu.edu wrote:


 Sorry... it was a joke. :)


I knew that.  :D

But, did you know there are still gopher sites around?  Ex:  gopher://
gopher.floodgap.com/



 On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Jarred White wrote:

  serious or is that a joke? sorry hard to tell through text.
 
  On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:55 PM, -ray r...@ops.selu.edu wrote:
 
 
  Awesome... I had a stack of Linux Journal's from 95-00 for a long time
 but
  I think I was a dumb ass and threw them away.  I still have a stack of
 old
  SysAdmin mags though.  Both of those magazine's were the shizz.
 
  Oh, what's IRC?
 
 
  On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Jarred White wrote:
 
  Wow Linux journal. I have a magnet on my fridge from them that I've had
  for
  like 12 years or something. I haven't heard that name in a lng
 time.
 
  Which network is the channel on?
 
  Sent from my iPhone
 
  On Mar 12, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Warren \Tray\ Torrance 
  torran...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Heh, I'm a LinuxJournal subscriber, and frequent their IRC room...
 just
  yesterday we had a discussion on the vague notion of the cloud.
 
  Warren Tray Torrance
 
 
  On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:03, Dustin Puryear 
 dpury...@puryear-it.com
  wrote:
  You know, it's.. the cloud. Thing.
 
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  Behalf Of -ray
  Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:07 PM
  To: general@brlug.net
  Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Digg.com dropping MySQL
 
 
  That is my new answer to every server, database, network, security,
  application, email, or web problem that we run across.  In the meeting
  I'll say, Let's just push it to 'the cloud' and be done with it.
 
  Everyone thinks I'm a genius for saying that, but no one will admit
 that
 
  they don't exactly know what it means.
 
  ray
 
  On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Dustin Puryear wrote:
 
  Seems to happening at a number of places. I know Amazon pushes it in
  their cloud solution.
 
 
 
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 On
  Behalf Of Tim Fournet
  Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 3:10 PM
  To: general@brlug.net
  Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Digg.com dropping MySQL
 
 
 
  The interesting part isn't that they're getting away from MySQL. It's
  that they're getting away from a relational database and moving to a
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Re: [brlug-general] Open Source SPAM filtering

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Outlook

Hey... I think I found your problem.

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Mark A. Lappin ma...@lmfj.com wrote:

 Some of it on my end is going to Junk Mail via Outlook's crazy filtering
 rules.  SpamSoap (rebranded mxlogic filtering) is stopping a few of the
 messages here and there.




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 Behalf Of Brad Bendily
 Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:35 AM
 To: general@brlug.net
 Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Open Source SPAM filtering

 Some of the conversation?
 How exactly does it do that?
 bb

 On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Warren Tray Torrance
 torran...@gmail.com wrote:
  Ironically, some of this conversation was marked as spam for me.
 
  Warren Tray Torrance
 
 
  On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 16:10, -ray r...@ops.selu.edu wrote:
 
  2nd the Roaringpenguin.com recommendation.  We used the open-source
  version (MIMEDefang) for years and years.  It worked great.  Never had
 the
  GUI (+postgres backend) or the advanced spam stuff, but i'd tested it
 and
  liked it.
 
  If you just want a blacklist, spamhaus is the best one out there.
 
  If you intend to go total open source (mimedefang, spamassassin,
 clamav),
  I'll say it's doable but it's almost a full time job keeping up with the
  rules and making sure you're watching and defending against the attack
 du
  jour.  For spam fighting, it's definitely not set it and forget it.
  Depending on your mail volume of course.  We ended up going with a
  commercial appliance (IronPort).
 
  ray
 
 
 
  On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Shannon Roddy wrote:
 
  Roaringpenguin.com
 
  GUI-fied open source packages (or debian based appliance) for a
  not-so-bad
  price with good support and feeds for rules.  Customizable per-domain
  and/or
  per-user configurations, etc.  It just works.
 
  On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Tim Fournet tfour...@tfour.net
 wrote:
 
  I was wondering if anyone has any well-working SPAM filters based on
  open
  source software that they can recommend? The combination of solutions
  we've
  been using have worked fairly decently until recently, but fighting
 SPAM
  is
  always a changing war.
 
  I'm familiar with a lot of the commercial products on the market, but
 I
  want to give Open Source a chance before going 100% commercial. I
  wouldn't
  mind a subscription fee for some sort of signature-based service or
  blacklist if there's a good one out there, but I would love to see a
  good
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Re: [brlug-general] password reset - web based

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On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Tim Fournet tfour...@tfour.net wrote:

 I think the problem with a generic framework would be that it would need to
 know how you're storing passwords in the first place. Is it a database,
 LDAP, Active Directory, ??


Kerberos (or LDAP if I must).  But, assuming it is a framework then I can
just replace or modify the relevant function that does the actual password
change and still leverage all the email handling, input sanitization, html
output, etc. that would hopefully come with a framework.



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 Does anyone know of an open source password reset framework out there that
 can be used to aid in password reset via email?  You know... like all of
 those sites that email a link to your email address for reset of a web
 account?  I'd rather not write my own (poorly written) password reset
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Re: [brlug-general] Open Source SPAM filtering

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Roaringpenguin.com

GUI-fied open source packages (or debian based appliance) for a not-so-bad
price with good support and feeds for rules.  Customizable per-domain and/or
per-user configurations, etc.  It just works.

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Tim Fournet tfour...@tfour.net wrote:

 I was wondering if anyone has any well-working SPAM filters based on open
 source software that they can recommend? The combination of solutions we've
 been using have worked fairly decently until recently, but fighting SPAM is
 always a changing war.

 I'm familiar with a lot of the commercial products on the market, but I
 want to give Open Source a chance before going 100% commercial. I wouldn't
 mind a subscription fee for some sort of signature-based service or
 blacklist if there's a good one out there, but I would love to see a good
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[brlug-general] password reset - web based

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Does anyone know of an open source password reset framework out there that
can be used to aid in password reset via email?  You know... like all of
those sites that email a link to your email address for reset of a web
account?  I'd rather not write my own (poorly written) password reset
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Re: [brlug-general] Perhaps Open Source is dangerous..

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Don't feed the troll.  :P

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.comwrote:

  Open Source is the enemy of the State, no?



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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Shannon Roddy]

For me, it's that it just freaking works.  No hardware issues, minimal
install on the server version so I get only what I want.  5 years support
for LTS server.

Don't get me started on Redhat/centos being years out of date... OpenLDAP
bugs that have been fixed for a *long* time are still broken in CentOS
current.  I know their main target is a stable platform on redhat
enterprise/CentOS, but jeeze... fix the bugs.  I don't like having to
compile from source unless I have to, and all too often, using CentOS means
having to compile.  Take postfix... I had to modify the spec file for the
RPM to include MySQL support and rebuild.

Ubuntu does what I want, when I want, and has reasonably current packages.
And it's still debian linux more or less, so I can edit config files to
customize it to do what/when I want the way I want.

Rant over.  :P

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Keith Stokes kei...@neill.net wrote:

 I think the concept is that Ubuntu is dumbed-down and minimalistic to
 the degree that a normal computer user might be able to actually
 install and use it.

 It's got amazing hardware drivers too.  I've had it work on brand-new
 hardware when no other normal distros would work.

 On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Brad Bendily wrote:

  meh.
  before i finished reading the link i was thinking they're changing it
  cause yahoo is gonna give them money.
  but, to me it doesn't really matter. i don't see any person using
  ubuntu caring either. cause anyone using ubuntu
  is going to know how to change the default to what they want any way.
  every time I reload windows I have to change
  the default search to google. i mean, open source projects need
  money too.
 
  ot, what is the deal with ubuntu lately. why is everyone jumping on
  the ubuntu bandwagon?
  it seems a little too dumbed down to me. too minimalistic.
 
  On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Karthik Poobalasubramanian
  kart...@poobal.net wrote:
  Competition should keep everyone grounded but I think as long as
  Jobs heads Apple, everyone there will be working to please him. I
  am happy to see that Microsft, Google and Apple are fighting for
  the Mobile Phone/App market Also, Microsoft and google are having a
  turf war for web search.
 
  Over the past couple of years Apple has become more of a consumer
  electronics company than a computer manufacturer.
 
  So, what do you guys think about Ubuntu's recent decision to change
  the default web search on their distribution from Google to Yahoo! ?
  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-January/030065.html
 
 
 
 
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  On Feb 17, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:
 
  See, we were just talking about Apple and some management styles.
  Look here:
 
 
 http://www.cracked.com/article_18377_5-reasons-you-should-be-scared-apple.html
 
  I do wonder if Apple will turn truly evil one day.
 
  If so, great! We can put them in the thunder dome with Adobe and
  let them slug it out.
 
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Re: [brlug-general] Apple

[Shannon Roddy]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Brad Bendily bend...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Warren Tray Torrance
 torran...@gmail.com wrote:
  I'm inclined to agree with Shannon.

 don't do that, you'll get him all worked up.



Wow... the last year or more, it seems I've been building up some
reputations I have no idea how I generated.
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Re: [brlug-general] Police to get more access to your data?

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On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Keith Stokes kei...@neill.net wrote:

 Funny...I'm on a call with a development group who doesn't quite seem to
 grasp that there are hackers out there and opening up your full business
 application servers to all users on the Internet could be a bit risky.


Yeah... kind of reminds me of a company that peddles backup software that
can't resist a port scan... They have no intention of fixing this problem.



 On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Dustin Puryear wrote:

 And what I think people miss is that if police have access, every hacker
 has access.

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 [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.netgeneral-boun...@brlug.net
 ] *On Behalf Of *Keith Stokes
 *Sent:* Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:22 AM
 *To:* general@brlug.net
 *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Police to get more access to your data?

 It probably doesn't exist.

 On Feb 4, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Tim Fournet wrote:


 So, what exactly is the safe from police way to store data?


 On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.com
 wrote:
 Karthik and I just talked about this yesterday!

 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10446503-38.html?tag=digg2

 Is your web data really safe?

 Uh, no.

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Re: [brlug-general] Police to get more access to your data?

[Shannon Roddy]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.comwrote:

  Shannon- Who does that?


You think I am going to publicly call them out?  I think not  I don't
feel like having a law suit on my hands.





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 *From:* general-boun...@brlug.net [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] *On
 Behalf Of *Shannon Roddy
 *Sent:* Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:23 AM

 *To:* general@brlug.net
 *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Police to get more access to your data?





 On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Keith Stokes kei...@neill.net wrote:

 Funny...I'm on a call with a development group who doesn't quite seem to
 grasp that there are hackers out there and opening up your full business
 application servers to all users on the Internet could be a bit risky.




 Yeah... kind of reminds me of a company that peddles backup software that
 can't resist a port scan... They have no intention of fixing this problem.



On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Dustin Puryear wrote:



   And what I think people miss is that if police have access, every hacker
 has access.



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 [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.netgeneral-boun...@brlug.net
 ] *On Behalf Of *Keith Stokes
 *Sent:* Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:22 AM
 *To:* general@brlug.net
 *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Police to get more access to your data?



 It probably doesn't exist.



 On Feb 4, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Tim Fournet wrote:



 So, what exactly is the safe from police way to store data?



 On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.com
 wrote:

 Karthik and I just talked about this yesterday!



 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10446503-38.html?tag=digg2



 Is your web data really safe?



 Uh, no.



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Re: [brlug-general] White House to use Drupal?

[Shannon Roddy]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Jarred White jwh...@pncpa.com wrote:
 Ew… twitter.

Ew.  Stupid email disclaimers.

http://attrition.org/security/rants/z/disclaimers.html




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 which is why we are implementing
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 Emails with attachments will include a link to a secure web server.  Click
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 The first time you receive a secure email from the firm you will be required
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Re: [brlug-general] White House to use Drupal?

[Shannon Roddy]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Jarred White jwh...@pncpa.com wrote:

 I can't control this, except to get a new job. :P

You could not use your work email for posting to the list.  :P

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Re: [brlug-general] FW: TigerTrap.org

[Shannon Roddy]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Brad Bendily bend...@gmail.com wrote:
 I signed up.
 Should be fun.


I hope the backend scoring isn't as badly put together as a recent
competition I was involved with.  The gov't contractor... well, that's
all I'm going to say publicly.

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Re: [brlug-general] Not everybody thingks that Chrome OS is goingto be all that great..

[Shannon Roddy]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Jarred White jwh...@pncpa.com wrote:



 The communication methods (VPN, SSL, frame relay, etc…) in use can
 certainly provide for a level of trust and security, but the fact of the
 matter is that when your data resides elsewhere (someone else’s data center)
 then you are leaving it up to your service level agreement with that vendor
 to protect the data.

The stored data can always be encrypted in the cloud.  Think FDE for the
cloud.

Personally, I am just happy to see any form of competition for M$.
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Re: [brlug-general] Not everybody thingks that Chrome OS is goingto be all that great..

[Shannon Roddy]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Jarred White jwh...@pncpa.com wrote:

  That’s true, but if what you’re proposing is encrypting your own data
 before it goes to the cloud, then you had better hope that Google Chrome OS
 applications natively support encryption.


That's my point.  If enough people gripe, then they'll build in support for
encryption.  I'm not saying it's likely, I'm just saying it's possible.  So,
the data is encrypted at rest in the cloud and the data is encrypted in
transit.  Most people don't care... which is perhaps a large part of the
problem.


 So if I pull up Google Word through my Chrome OS start menu and I include
 my tax return information from 2009, then save the file, will it be
 automatically encrypted? Where will the file be saved? Where did the
 encryption occur? Locally or remotely on the server? If the encryption keys
 are gathered, will they work for all users of the application or just my
 document?



 I’m just playing devil’s advocate. There are obviously a lot of issues to
 consider, such as bandwidth constraints, licensing/service level agreements,
 etc…



 *From:* general-boun...@brlug.net [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] *On
 Behalf Of *Shannon Roddy
 *Sent:* Monday, July 13, 2009 12:50 PM
 *To:* general@brlug.net
 *Subject:* Re: [brlug-general] Not everybody thingks that Chrome OS is
 goingto be all that great..





 On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Jarred White jwh...@pncpa.com wrote:



 The communication methods (VPN, SSL, frame relay, etc…) in use can
 certainly provide for a level of trust and security, but the fact of the
 matter is that when your data resides elsewhere (someone else’s data center)
 then you are leaving it up to your service level agreement with that vendor
 to protect the data.

 The stored data can always be encrypted in the cloud.  Think FDE for the
 cloud.

 Personally, I am just happy to see any form of competition for M$.

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 which is why we are implementing
 new email encryption software.  This software inspects all outbound emails 
 from our firm.  Emails that
 contain attachments will require you to enter a password to download the 
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 Emails with attachments will include a link to a secure web server.  Click on 
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 The first time you receive a secure email from the firm you will be required 
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Re: [brlug-general] Yearly What's your IM info? topic -Was: RE:IM fest

[Shannon Roddy]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Brad Bendily bend...@gmail.com wrote:

 See, this isn't nearly as funny if you're doing this over IM!


But it's more fun via IRC than a mailing list.
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[brlug-general] email encryption - Was Re: [Discuss] Dell Mini 10

[Shannon Roddy]

Ok.  This has been bugging me for a while now.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Jarred White jwh...@pncpa.com wrote:


 New Email Encryption Software to Further Protect Confidential Data


 [snip]

Emails with attachments will include a link to a secure web server.
Click on the link to download the attachment.
 The first time you receive a secure email from the firm you will be required 
 to setup a password.  This will
 be your password to access future attachments.

 [snip]

Someone please explain to me how this is email encryption?  Stripping
attachments and placing them on a web server does not make it email
encryption.  Nor does placing a file on a SSL web server make the file
encrypted.

My $.02, probably worth less.
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Re: [brlug-general] .NET programmer

[Shannon Roddy]

What is it with you and these windows jobs?  Who uses windows for anything
serious?  :P


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Dustin Puryear dpury...@puryear-it.comwrote:

 I know someone looking for a short-term contract .NET programmer.
 Available or know someone that is? Shoot me an email at
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Re: [brlug-general] MiserWare MicroMiser Beta Invite

[Shannon Roddy]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Dustin Puryear
dpury...@puryear-it.com wrote:
 Sounds cool. Maybe you guys would like to have a presentation with BRLUG
 about the mechanics of how this all works.




That would assume that we actually had meetings.

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[brlug-general] Bookpool RIP.... technical books

[Shannon Roddy]

Looks like bookpool.com closed up shop[1].  I've been buying books
from them for 10 years... and they were my favorite vendor for tech
books.

Anyone have another source that focuses on computer oriented books?
(besides amazon, barnes  nobles, etc.  I liked bookpool since they
were strictly tech books, I didn't have to filter out all the other
crud, and they had excellent discounts and shipping.)

[1] http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2009-03/msg02570.html

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Re: [brlug-general] IT job

[Shannon Roddy]

It's sad when jobs in Arkansas pay better.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Jerald Sheets que...@gmail.com wrote:
 Wow.  Are salaries really still that low in BTR?
 --j

 On Mar 17, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Dustin Puryear wrote:

 I know of a company looking for Microsoft and/or Cisco peeps. Sounds
 like the pay is $40-$55k/yr if qualified. Email me and I'll forward your
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Re: [brlug-general] [Nolug] slicehost performance

[Shannon Roddy]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Brad Bendily bend...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have a 256mb slice.
 here's my uptime:
 b...@morbos_slice ~ $ w
  13:03:49 up 340 days, 13:00,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00


Heh...   I beat you.

04:40:45 up 353 days,  4:58,  1 user,  load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.00


I use my slice for web hosting, mail, VPN, yada yada...   It has been
completely reliable.  All in all, I am extremely pleased and would recommend
them to just about anyone.   I also host a DNS server on a slice for
tertiary backup DNS.






 It's been pretty stable. About the last time it went down, they sent me an
 email that my slice was found to be on unstable hardware, so they needed
 to down it to move it. Which they did, and it's been up since.
 I can't comment much on the performance per se, I don't really have much
 of a load on mine. But there is a link on their site where you can see
 what other sites are running on a slice. You can maybe guage the
 performance from that.

 http://wiki.slicehost.com/doku.php?id=list_of_websites_currently_hosted_on_slicehost

 For me it's pretty speedy, I have mysql running and my website where I
 upload pictures and such, but I don't have anything that really puts
 a load on it.


 If you don't already have a referral, it would be great (for me) if you'd
 use me as a referral.
 bend...@gmail.com

 Any other questions, let me know.

 Thanks
 bb


 On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Petri Laihonen wrote:

  I assume someone on the list have experience with slicehost
  http://slicehost.com/
 
  While I'm thinking about getting couple of 1Gb slices,
  does anyone have any comments about their performance, reliability, etc?
  In other words, is it good enough to run business applications?.
 
  They seem to be very clear about the offerings and pricing etc.
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[brlug-general] embedded/gumstick/small form factor Linux devices

[Shannon Roddy]

Anyone have any experience using low power (PoE?), small form factor, flash
based linux emedded devices?  I may have a use for a few, but don't want to
blindly start procuring devices and testing if anyone can make
recommendations.

Thanks,
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Re: [brlug-general] Cox prepares to suck more.

[Shannon Roddy]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:28 PM, worms worm...@gmail.com wrote:

 Japan is able to reach such high levels of broadband saturation
 because of the extremely small land mass and high population density.


Yeah.  That's one of the things everyone always forgets about.   However, I
would counter that with the population density in certain cities, there is
no reason why we do not have comparable BW at least in some areas.
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Re: [brlug-general] Cox prepares to suck more.

[Shannon Roddy]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Will Hill williamhi...@cox.net wrote:

  but they are not orders of magnitude denser than the US


Back of the envelope shows an order of magnitude difference.  Even being
generous and assuming that people only live in the non-arable land areas,
it's still an order of magnitude.


In fact, my back of the envelope comes pretty darned close this table:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density


Tokyo has a population density of 4,750/sq km.


Los Angeles: 2750
San Francisco/Oakland: 2350
San jose: 2,300
New Orleans: 1950
New York: 2050
Honolulu: 1800
Vegas: 1750
Denver: 1550
Chicago: 1500
Salt Lake: 1500
Sacramento: 1450
Phoenix: 1400
Riverside: 1350
Portland: 1300
Washington: 1300
San Antonio: 1250
Detroit: 1200
El Paso: 1200
Baltimore: 1150
Dallas: 1150
Houston: 1150
Austin:  1150
Seattle:  1100
Philly:  1100
Cleveland: 1050
Memphis: 950
Boston: 900
OKC: 900
Pittsburgh:  800
Albany: 750
Atlanta: 700
Baton Rouge: 650
Mobile: 600
Pensacola: 550
Knoxville: 500


Our largest cities are generally less than half as dense as Tokyo with the
exception of maybe Los Angeles and Frisco area.  Then you have to worry
about serving all the burbs, bedroom communities, and rural areas too.
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Re: [brlug-general] The demise of Charter?

[Shannon Roddy]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:18 PM, -ray r...@ops.selu.edu wrote:

 On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Will Hill wrote:

  Saw this and remembered the company being mentioned here years back.
 
  http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D960DDN80.htm

 As a Charter customer, excuse me while I go get a tissue to mourn this
 loss.


From what I can tell, they may not go away, just bankrupt.  At least... I
hope they stay around as a provider.  Especially since we have a business
pipe with BGP peering through them.  They were the only game in town

-Shannon
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Re: [brlug-general] Plasma vs. LCD

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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Brad Bendily bend...@gmail.com wrote:


 I also recommend buying from Circuit City. Well, as long as they stay in
 business. I started out looking at buying from Sears, but
 they were out of stock that day. So I ended up at Circuit City for two
 reasons. One, Circuit City matched the price that Sears was
 offering. Two, because the price for warranty at Sears was about 1/3 the
 cost of the TV whereas the price at Circuit City, for my TV, was $180. Much
 cheaper. And the warranty from CC said they would replace the TV even if 1
 pixel went bad. That's what mostly sold
 me. Now, lets hope they don't go out of business, then my fancy warranty
 means nothing.



If no one else has informed you, it seems you fancy warranty indeed means
nothing.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news:
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/16/195203
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Re: [brlug-general] Plasma vs. LCD

[Shannon Roddy]

Heh...  I stand corrected.  :D

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Karthik Poobal kart...@poobal.net wrote:

 Probably not.

 http://www.circuitcity.com/closed.html

 He still has his fancy warranty. Its been covered by Assurant Solutions. If
 Assurant closes, then the warranty is gone.



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 kart...@la.gov
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 On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Shannon Roddy wrote:



 On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Brad Bendily bend...@gmail.com wrote:

 I also recommend buying from Circuit City. Well, as long as they stay in
 business. I started out looking at buying from Sears, but
 they were out of stock that day. So I ended up at Circuit City for two
 reasons. One, Circuit City matched the price that Sears was
 offering. Two, because the price for warranty at Sears was about 1/3 the
 cost of the TV whereas the price at Circuit City, for my TV, was $180. Much
 cheaper. And the warranty from CC said they would replace the TV even if 1
 pixel went bad. That's what mostly sold
 me. Now, lets hope they don't go out of business, then my fancy warranty
 means nothing.


 If no one else has informed you, it seems you fancy warranty indeed means
 nothing.

 Sorry to be the bearer of bad news:
 http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/16/195203

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Re: [brlug-general] transferring large data sets to multiple points

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On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:50 AM, mat branyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Also, is there a reason you pointed to the 3.2 release instead of 4.0?

Nope.  It's the page that google turned up.  Can't ever remember the
homepage for the globus toolkit.


 On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Shannon Roddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/3.2/gridftp/

 The over a VPN part is likely one of many potential bottlenecks.

 On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:04 PM, mat branyon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
  Hey guys,
 
  It's been a while.  Just a quick update, I am in Denver, CO now, getting
  paid for those skills I learned after so many years of hanging out with
  you
  guys and reading the list.  I have an interesting problem to solve, and
  the
  solutions I see kind of suck.
 
  I have a large data set (80gigs or so a week) that I need to transfer
  fairly
  quickly to multiple geographically distinct locations (over a vpn).  My
  main
  restriction is that these points cannot directly access each other (so,
  sadly, bittorrent is out).
 
  I really don't see an option other than multicast ftp/rsync or
  something.
  Is there anything else out there?  I am willing to entertain commercial
  solutions.
 
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[brlug-general] Exchange replacement

[Shannon Roddy]

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/09/19/2023252.shtml

Open source exchange replacement.  Now he who will remain nameless has
no excuse.  ;-)


Over 150 man-years of work were added to the Open Source community
today when Zarafa decided to put their successful Exchange server
replacement under GPLv3. This is not just the typical
mail-server-that-works-with-Outlook, it is the whole package including
100% MAPI, web access, tasks, iCal and Activesync. (The native syncing
works great with my iPhone!) Binaries and source are available for all
major Linux distros.

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Re: [brlug-general] OS Poll Time.

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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Dustin Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Maybe we should have an online poll function on the website. :)

If our leader didn't spend all his time worrying with Winblows, maybe
we'd have one.  ;-)

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Re: [brlug-general] OS Poll Time.

[Shannon Roddy]

Why am I not surprised.

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 28, 2008, at 19:26, Dustin Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 home: XP
 work: XP

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 willhill wrote:
 What is your primary desktop OS?
 1.  At home
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Re: [brlug-general] OS Poll Time.

[Shannon Roddy]

Laptop: OSS with ubuntu/vmware.  XP only when absolutely  
necessary,which is maybe twice a month.
Home: ubuntu
Work: ubuntu/solaris 10
Cell:  read the sig below.  ;-)

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 28, 2008, at 15:27, willhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 What is your primary desktop OS?
 1.  At home
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Re: [brlug-general] email list management

[Shannon Roddy]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM, michael dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I've got a small local business, and twice a month we send out an email to
 our customers announcing sales, specials, etc.  Just to be clear, this is in
 no way spam.  It is 100% opt-in, and I make it really easy for people to be
 removed.

Even with it being opt-in and having easy removal, you probably want
to think about where you send from.  I can't remember where I saw this
lately, but folks that send opt-in messages are getting nailed by
google/yahoo/etc. from people clicking the this is spam buttons when
they decide they don't want to receive their opted-in email anymore.
This can result in the domain or MX being blacklisted.

I'll have to think about it for a while and see if I can remember
where the thread or reference is.  So, you may want to set up a
specific domain for your newsletter just in case.

 The only way people can currently get on the list is to physically
 write their name and email address on a sheet of paper in the store, or
 email us from the account they want added.  We do not offer anything other
 than the information contained in the emails in return for the address (we
 don't offer a discount for members or anything like that).  We never
 require an email address (or even ask for one) for any sort of transaction.
 Right now, I'm managing the list by hand, but the list has grown to around
 1000 names, and It's getting laborious.

 I'd like something that fits the following criteria:
 1. ability to send HTML mail
 2. automatically remove addresses that bounce and fit certain criteria -
 i.e. remove bounced emails because the address is dead, but not if the box
 is full (if the box is full for 2 months, yes)
 3. eventually I'd like to put a form on the website to let people add
 themselves to the list
 4. I can't use listserve software, obviously, because I don't want people
 being able to email the other members of the list
 5. free as in beer (or at least really, really cheap)
 6. free as in freedom would be nice, but I'll look at any suggestions
 7. link at the bottom of the email for people to remove themselves
 8. I just started using google apps (the free version), so if it could work
 with that it would be great

 I'm sure I'm forgetting something, so if anyone has any other suggestions or
 things to look for, please let me know.
 Michael Dolan

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[brlug-general] couple of things - looking for consultant for friend, job opportunities

[Shannon Roddy]

I have a couple of questions for everyone.

1) Know anyone that does consulting for companies that are required to
follow HIPAA guidelines?

2) Know anyone looking for a job which entails the following (each line item
= separate job opportunity):
Unix admin/VxWorks/reflected memory networks, timing systems, etc.
etc.
Operations Specialist (think kind of like plant process operator I
guess)
Electronics Engineer

Thanks!
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[brlug-general] jobs...

[Shannon Roddy]

There are a couple of sys/net admin jobs open at LIGO in Hanford, WA in case
anyone is interested in a job that would require relocation to Washington
state.

-

LIGO Hanford Observatory in Washington has several job openings: one
electrical engineer, one quality assurance engineer, three operations
specialists, and two network/sys administrators. Potential candidates can
view job descriptions and apply at http://tinyurl.com/5jwbys by selecting
the location Washington and job classes Research or IT.
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[brlug-general] Linux box as an iSCSI target?

[Shannon Roddy]

Anyone here running a linux box as an iSCSI target?  What are you using as
the client?  Linux?

Thanks,
Shannon
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Re: [brlug-general] Warflying?

[Shannon Roddy]

Well, I started to think about this again   Anyone interested?  Between
now and mid-May I could go up for a flight around baton rouge.  Anyone have
a good antenna so I can see how many WAPs I can hit at once?   ;-)  Who
wants to ride along?



On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 1:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 That's ok -  let me know the next time you're going up.  I have an hour
 toward my PP-ASEL - need to get back after it.  What's 100LL go for these
 days?  I'd be glad to pitch in on expenses...
 -Original Message-
 From: Shannon Roddy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:44:51
 To:general@brlug.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Warflying?


 Probably next chance I'll have to do something like this will be in
 December.

 On Nov 15, 2007 12:23 PM,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  When's your next flight?  I'm game.
  -D
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Shannon Roddy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:33:52
  To:general@brlug.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Warflying?
 
 
  What!  No takers?  Well, I guess running around sniffing for APs is so
  five years ago...
 
  On Nov 5, 2007 11:56 AM, Shannon Roddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   So, I know a bunch of you have gone wardriving over the years.  Anyone
   interested in doing some warflying?  Could be interesting at about
   2,000 feet over Baton Rouge or surrounding area...  ;-)
  
   -Shannon
  
 
 
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Re: [brlug-general] Slow NFS on GigE

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Find an NFS tuning guide... google.  Most things like block size, etc.
are tunable for NFS, and it may just be that you need to tune the r/w
block sizes.

Eg. for Solaris:

#  Maximize NFS block size

* Solaris 8 has a max of 32k
* Solaris 9 allows up to 1MB! (Solaris 9 NFS Server required)

# Set nfs3_bsize and nfs3_max_transfer_size system parameter on client
and server

* Futher tuning down of blocksize can be done via mount options:
rsize, wsize




On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Dustin Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'm curious if anyone has had any performance issues with NFS over GigE?
   We are bringing up a pretty standard VMware scenario: VMware servers
  are connected to GigE with bonded pair and our Dell NF500 NAS is running
  RAID10. Fast and easy. Only..

  The NFS performance sucks. I need to get some firm numbers, but it looks
  like we can't get NFS to perform better than if it were on a Fast
  Ethernet network. That said, if we change over to mounting our VM
  filesystem using CIFS we can scream at pretty much wire speeds. (By the
  way, if using CentOS 5.0 and mount.cifs, upgrade to 5.1 because the 5.0
  kernel will panic sometimes with a mounted CIFS in high usage.)

  Here's out setup:

  2 Dell 1850's CentOS 5.1 with Intel GigE cards (2 cards each, 2 ports
  per card, 1 card = bonded pair = VMware Network, 1 card = 1 port = Admin
  Network)

  1 Dell NF500 running Windows Storage Server 2003 with 4 disk RAID10 and GigE

  Regardless of whether we use bonding/LAG (Dell PowerConnect 5000+) or
  just simple GigE over one port, our NFS sucks it. CIFS screams though
  and pretty much saturates the connection.

  Right now I've tested Linux -- NAS. When I have time I'll try Linux to
  Linux.

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Re: [brlug-general] Import mail into Exchange..

[Shannon Roddy]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Dustin Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I want to import mail into a user's Exchange mailbox without needing to
  have their password. Possible?



Leave it to you to ask how to migrate something to windows on a linux
user list.  Shouldn't you be trying to get crap out of exchange, not
into it?

Bleh... why the heck anyone would use exchange...


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Re: [brlug-general] Job Opening

[Shannon Roddy]

That sounds like half the job ads I've seen lately.  :/

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Chopin Cusachs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  There's an interesting new job opening described at
  http://tinyurl.com/235cmr
  in case anyone is interested.

  Choppy


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[brlug-general] spam filters

[Shannon Roddy]

Hi Folks,

I've got a couple of domains that receive email directly.  I do not
currently have any spam filters configured on them.  Things have
stayed below the radar... till now.

Does anyone know of :

a) a cheap or free service I can point my MX record to and have them
filter mail for me?
b) a fairly easy to use (free) set of scripts to pre-train something
like spamassassin?  I really don't want to learn the nitty gritty of
configuring it myself.

(A or B are preferable) or

c) a quick easy cheat sheet on configuring spamassassin and clamav on
Ubuntu (6.06 LTS)?

I really am time challenged lately, so I would prefer to point the MX
record elsewhere and let someone else filter the mail for me.

Thanks,
Shannon

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Re: [brlug-general] spam filters

[Shannon Roddy]

On Feb 16, 2008 8:38 PM, Karthik Poobalasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 GoogleApps, if you don't mind google handling your email.

Do you mean google handles *everything* concerning email, or just filtering.

I have mailman mail lists set up on the host, so handing all of the
functionality over to google will not work.

 I use them for
 two of my domains and filter spam through them. Google Spam filter is
 great except for some spam sent in Cyrillic.


 Karthik





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  Hi Folks,
 
  I've got a couple of domains that receive email directly.  I do not
  currently have any spam filters configured on them.  Things have
  stayed below the radar... till now.
 
  Does anyone know of :
 
  a) a cheap or free service I can point my MX record to and have them
  filter mail for me?
  b) a fairly easy to use (free) set of scripts to pre-train something
  like spamassassin?  I really don't want to learn the nitty gritty of
  configuring it myself.
 
  (A or B are preferable) or
 
  c) a quick easy cheat sheet on configuring spamassassin and clamav on
  Ubuntu (6.06 LTS)?
 
  I really am time challenged lately, so I would prefer to point the MX
  record elsewhere and let someone else filter the mail for me.
 
  Thanks,
  Shannon
 

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Re: [brlug-general] spam filters

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On Feb 16, 2008 10:21 PM, Ronnie Gilkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Shannon Roddy wrote:
  On Feb 16, 2008 8:38 PM, Karthik Poobalasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:


  GoogleApps, if you don't mind google handling your email.

  Do you mean google handles *everything* concerning email, or just
 filtering.

 I have mailman mail lists set up on the host, so handing all of the
 functionality over to google will not work.


  The only problem I've ever had with Google hosting is that there is a lack
 of list functionality.  They offer what they call a list, which is really an
 alias that delivers to a group of addresses.  They don't offer a system like
 mailman to manage lists.  They may offer that for a fee, but I've never
 inquired.


What I was getting at was with your suggestion, did you mean use
google as a mail hosting provider, or as a passthrough spam filter.
What I need is a passthrough.







  I use them for
 two of my domains and filter spam through them. Google Spam filter is
 great except for some spam sent in Cyrillic.


 Karthik





 Shannon Roddy wrote:




  Hi Folks,

 I've got a couple of domains that receive email directly. I do not
 currently have any spam filters configured on them. Things have
 stayed below the radar... till now.

 Does anyone know of :

 a) a cheap or free service I can point my MX record to and have them
 filter mail for me?
 b) a fairly easy to use (free) set of scripts to pre-train something
 like spamassassin? I really don't want to learn the nitty gritty of
 configuring it myself.

 (A or B are preferable) or

 c) a quick easy cheat sheet on configuring spamassassin and clamav on
 Ubuntu (6.06 LTS)?

 I really am time challenged lately, so I would prefer to point the MX
 record elsewhere and let someone else filter the mail for me.

 Thanks,
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Re: [brlug-general] shell script help

[Shannon Roddy]

Might you have to launch bash with the -m option?  as in #!!/bin/bash
-m in the head of the shell script?

-m  Monitor  mode.   Job  control  is enabled.  This option is on
by default for interactive shells on systems
  that support it (see JOB CONTROL above).
Background processes run in a separate process group and a  line
  containing their exit status is printed upon
their completion.

Perhaps it is not on by default unless run interactively?

Of course... I am assuming you are talking about bash...

On Feb 12, 2008 5:29 PM, willhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'd like to use a shell script to start two process at once, wait a while and
 then kill them both.  Starting them manually, I'd just use the  redirector
 but I can't figure out how to do the same thing in a script.  When I try it,
 the script waits for one job to be finished.  For example:

 kwrite 
 konqueror 
 sleep 5
 killall kwrite
 killall konqueror

 won't start konqueror till I kill kwrite manually and the sleep does not start
 until konqueror is finished, then I kill processes that don't exist.

 I poked around Google for a while and Linux in a nutshell but found nothing
 but fork bombs.  There has got to be a better way.

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Re: [brlug-general] Cheap commercial internet access

[Shannon Roddy]

Sadly, Will is pretty much correct here.  Not much competition in Baton Rouge.

On Feb 8, 2008 1:49 PM, willhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Move to Lafayette.

 On Friday 08 February 2008 1:37 pm, Bret J. Esquivel wrote:
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Re: [brlug-general] http user manager

[Shannon Roddy]

If you think a document management system will work for you, try
opendocman.com.  Just a very simple document management system with
configurable permissions.

On Feb 6, 2008 9:45 PM, mat branyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Right, but you cant search for download managers. I found a few
 searching for web based file managers... just wondering if anyone out
 there had any suggestions.


 On Feb 6, 2008 8:28 PM, Dustin Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Right. So, yes, you should just drop the request about file permissions.
  I think there are some open source download managers out there. I
  forget the keyword you would use to find them. Basically, they are
  PHP/Perl applications which sit in front of files and allow users to
  download a file based on a login, unique URL which expires, etc.
 
 
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  mat branyon wrote:
   I think that what I am looking for is a web based file manager
  
   I am not worried about filesystem permissions, but about which http
   users have access to which files...
  
   On Feb 6, 2008 6:53 PM, Dustin Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   It sounds to me that you may not be defining what you need very well. Do
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   Is that an accurate statement? If so, there are far better ways than
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   mat branyon wrote:
   Hi from Colorado,
  
   I am looking for an webapp that would allow someone to manage user
   permissions to certain directories.  We are trying to get rid of our
   ftp downloads, and move to an http method.  We would like to be able
   to manage user permissions to certain directories (so a client would
   only be able to download files that they have licenses to).
  
   I have no idea what this webapp would be called, and I am fairly
   awkward and describing it as well.  Can anyone point me in the right
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Re: [brlug-general] Google mail - aps etc... WAS Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

[Shannon Roddy]

Nope... we wouldn't be able to torment you then, oh fearless leader!  :P

On Feb 1, 2008 1:17 PM, Dustin Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Shoot me.

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 Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote:
  What's going on?
 
  Karthik
  ps: I win.
 
  Adam Melancon wrote:
  Go you!
  Oops, last post now.  I win! ;)
 
  On Feb 1, 2008 11:38 AM, -ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 
  Last post!!!  :)
 
 
  On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Dustin Puryear wrote:
 
   Great, now it can be discussed there since this thread is closed.
  
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   Shannon Roddy wrote:
   Well, it'll refuse to die now
   http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/08/01/31/2130251.shtml
  
   On Jan 31, 2008 1:05 PM, Dustin Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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   willhill wrote:
   The reason I reported the problem was to help make people aware
  of it.  This
   thread has documented widespread, if not universal, port
  blocking, message
   filtering and censorship worthy of China rather than a nation
  that is
   cherishes freedom of speech and due process of law.
  
   Attacks on personal liberty are deliberate.  People in power
  want to identify
   and neutralized opposition.  A private example is the HP spying
  scandal that
   we are all familiar with.  I read about some public service
  examples
   yesterday:
  
   http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012208T.shtml
  
   I accept that you did not mean to insult me and think that this
  thread has
   served it's purpose.  Thanks again for the work arounds.
  
   On Thursday 31 January 2008 9:14 am, Scott Harney wrote:
   I feel that this list is a discussion of technical issues
  focused on using
   Linux. I have deliberately and specifically avoided moral or
  other
   non-technical aspects.  I am dealing with the situation as it
  is, not as it
   should be.  And at least there are viable technical
  workarounds, things you
   can do with your Linux machine.
   
   The average user don't grasp that there is a problem here.
   
   I think that for the most part, it's more ignorance than a
  willful attack
   on individual liberty.  The results are the same regardless of
  motivation.
  
  
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Re: [brlug-general] Google mail - aps etc... WAS Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

[Shannon Roddy]

Well, it'll refuse to die now
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/08/01/31/2130251.shtml

On Jan 31, 2008 1:05 PM, Dustin Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 willhill wrote:
  The reason I reported the problem was to help make people aware of it.  This
  thread has documented widespread, if not universal, port blocking, message
  filtering and censorship worthy of China rather than a nation that is
  cherishes freedom of speech and due process of law.
 
  Attacks on personal liberty are deliberate.  People in power want to 
  identify
  and neutralized opposition.  A private example is the HP spying scandal that
  we are all familiar with.  I read about some public service examples
  yesterday:
 
  http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012208T.shtml
 
  I accept that you did not mean to insult me and think that this thread has
  served it's purpose.  Thanks again for the work arounds.
 
  On Thursday 31 January 2008 9:14 am, Scott Harney wrote:
  I feel that this list is a discussion of technical issues focused on using
  Linux. I have deliberately and specifically avoided moral or other
  non-technical aspects.  I am dealing with the situation as it is, not as it
  should be.  And at least there are viable technical workarounds, things you
  can do with your Linux machine.
  
  The average user don't grasp that there is a problem here.
  
  I think that for the most part, it's more ignorance than a willful attack
  on individual liberty.  The results are the same regardless of motivation.
 
 
 
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Re: [brlug-general] Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

[Shannon Roddy]

Get a domain name pointed there you cheap bastard!

Ok... joking aside, if I understand your problem correctly (I only
skimmed this thread so far), Will, you can easily get a free domain
name from someone like dynip, dyndns, or whatever pointed to your home
server.  Cox is just making an effort to protect their mindless
windows users from the latest round of storm virus greeting cards from
the sounds of it.  I'm not going to argue with you which is more
important, allowing you to send a link to your IP address, or
protecting a few thousand clueless users from the storm worm because I
know you would not be willing to concede that anything other than an
unrestricted net is the way to go, damn the consequences.

-Shannon

On Jan 29, 2008 1:02 PM, willhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I tried to send an email.  The email only contained text.  The text Cox
 objected to was http://my_homebox_IP_number/;

 On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:45 pm, Brad Bendily wrote:
  Are you sending an email
  from your cox connection through a linux box to an email address on
  the internet? Or the other way around?


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Re: [brlug-general] Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

[Shannon Roddy]

The vast majority of Cox subscribers are just tickled pink that Cox
filters out the crap from their inbox.  You, being the exception, are
intelligent enough to work around their blocks/filters.  It ain't
going to change.  A minor nitpick, but you pay for an ISP, not
bandwidth.  Totally different.

On Jan 29, 2008 5:02 PM, willhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 My complaint was that Cox was not letting me do what I want with the bandwith
 I pay for.  Competition for ISPs would be a good way to make that less of a
 problem.  Laws against abusive practices would also be helpful.  Scott came
 up with a work around but I should not be forced to go there.

 On Tuesday 29 January 2008 4:21 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote:
  The spam filtering/censorship issue you noted is with the Cox Email
  Service. There is a hugely competitive field for that


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Re: [brlug-general] Cox and P2P

[Shannon Roddy]

On Jan 15, 2008 10:54 PM, John Hebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Facts? We don't need no steeenking facts!


No kidding.  I am on a gig pipe to NLR/Internet2 and 512 to the
commodity 'net with a fully symmetric 10 meg backup pipe with a SLA.
Not exactly a consumer level connection.  Thought I would test this
out and I am currently getting ~10KB/sec.  I know exactly what the
topology between me and the backbone looks like, and there are no BT
filters or floods of RST packets inbound to me.  It just ain't a fast
torrent.  But, everyone prefers the conspiracies.  Oh... and before
someone asks me about utilization on my border router, it is 1-10%
usage on average.  Currently .16% tx and .05% rx. so I know there is
no bottleneck.  Upstream on the commodity backbone is currently ~13%
utilization.

That's not to say I don't disagree with what some ISPs *are* doing,
but in this case, it is not the conspiracy claimed.

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[brlug-general] Anyone seen this?

[Shannon Roddy]

http://www.yoggie.com/

Gatekeeper Pico Pro™
Submitted by webmaster on Mon, 10/01/2007 - 10:08.
Extending corporate- level security to traveling laptops

Gatekeeper Pico Pro™ extends the same level of security enforced
within the corporate network to traveling laptops. All the security
appliances that can be usually found in the corporate server room are
packed into a tiny USB key-size security server with 13 security
applications. Finally the security of the entire corporate workforce,
both inside and outside the network, is centrally managed and enforced
by the IT organization.



The concept behind Yoggie is to provide traveling laptops with the
same level of security as within the corporate network. But how can
one make a server room full of security appliances available to
traveling users?
A powerful security processor

To make this possible Yoggie has invested years in the development of
a miniature security processor. The concept of specialized processors
is not new. During the 80's the mathematical processor was introduced.
According to this concept when complex calculations were needed, a
specialized mathematical processor would perform these tasks,
effectively offloading these specialized tasks from the main
processor. During the last 5 years, the same revolution took place
with the introduction of a specialized network processor that would
free the main processor from networking tasks.

Yoggie has been able to miniaturize the solution into a small device
with a powerful 520 MHz Intel Processor. It continues the trend of
offloading specialized tasks from the main processor, for performance.
But one of the main advantages of the specialized security processor
relates to security. 

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[brlug-general] From Clusters to Games

[Shannon Roddy]

On Dec 20, 2007 8:10 PM, willhill williamhill2 at cox.net wrote:
 I made a little Compton camera.  It was more of a direction finding device
 than an imaging device, but I collected a lot data.

 http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11142007-230454/

 There's more at:
 http://68.225.99.100:1024/classwork/ecrd/log/


You have an invalid tag on that page:

meta http-equiv=refresh content=5; URL=http://;

 On Thursday 20 December 2007 9:04 am, CM Banker wrote:
  What kinds of numbers are you
  crunching and plotting?


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[brlug-general] Monthly Geek Meeting

[Shannon Roddy]

So, is it the 12th or 13th?  And where?

-Shannon

On Dec 7, 2007 3:28 PM, Dustin Puryear dustin at puryear-it.com wrote:
 I can't do any Wed due to family.


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 Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote:
  Can we make it 12th? (wednesday).
 
  Sushi would be fine with me.
 
 
  Karthik
 
 
 
  On 12/7/07, Dustin Puryear dustin at puryear-it.com wrote:
  Sounds like a plan to me. How about a sushi spot? :)
 
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  Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote:
  Alright folks,
  I think its time for another monthly meeting. How about next Thursday
  the 13th?
 
  Whatever place we pick, the most important thing is we can all sit at
  the same table. Any location suggestions?
 
 
  Karthik
 
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[brlug-general] Comcast... was: Re: mythtv box

[Shannon Roddy]

Isn't it comcast that is sending tcp resets to traffic the think is
not appropriate?

On Nov 20, 2007 1:57 PM, mat branyon mat.branyon at gmail.com wrote:
 Yea, but now I can afford all the fancy stuff :)

 I am now trying to decide whether I want comcast or qwest for internet.
 They both suck pretty bad (and I actuallly have them both right now).  I'll
 probably go with comcast since I hear that qwest blocks everything
 encrypted.  It's honestly been insane getting services connected out here.
 I am wish I could send a bill to directv for all the time I wasted trying to
 get their service.

 If only speakeasy were an option out where I live :(



 On Nov 20, 2007 12:45 PM, James Kuhns james at kuhns-la.com wrote:
 
 
 
 
  See ? if you would have stayed here instead of moving to the big bad city,
 you'd have had DirecTV and a decent internet connection in no time J
 
 
 
  BTW: hit me off list with when y'all will be back in town, S is itching to
 go bowling
 
 
 
  James
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On
 Behalf Of mat branyon
  Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:42 PM
 
 
 
  To: general at brlug.net
  Subject: Re: [brlug-general] mythtv box
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Don't get me started on the crap I had to go through with getting directv
 in the new house.
 
  Long story short... after almost 4 weeks, I only have holes in my siding
 to show for it...
 
 
  On Nov 20, 2007 12:37 PM, James Kuhns james at kuhns-la.com wrote:
 
  I fully agree, it was fun and informative playing with the
 hardware/software
  but in the end, I realized the time/money I was spending reinventing the
  wheel was costing me more than the 5-10 bucks a month it costs for an
  off-the-shelf box that already did what I wanted.
 
  Now, if DirectTV would just pick up my locals in HD I could dump our COX
  cable package.
 
 
 
  James
 
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  To: general at brlug.net
  Subject: Re: [brlug-general] mythtv box
 
 
 
  On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, James Kuhns wrote:
 
   I gave up on capturing TV on a PC - I've tried MythTV, MS Media Center,
  and
   SageTV with different capture cards - none looked as good as the boxes
  from
   my sat and cable provider. The only thing I use my HTPCs for is to
   watch/listen to the DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray/CD collection stored on my media
   server, granted this is enough, just the ability to pick a movie from
 the
   menu without having to hunt the disk down is great.
 
  I'm in the same boat.  I gave up on MythTV/SageTV/BeyondTV/etc.  Maybe i'm
  getting old.  Tinkering with the hardware/software is fun, and you learn a
  lot.  But at the end of the day, I just want to watch TV.  The Tivo
  hardware is cheap, the software works, and the $10/month is worth it to
  me.
 
  ray
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[brlug-general] open source document management?

[Shannon Roddy]

I'm debating on punting and just setting up a table updated by hand.
It would be *really* nice to find something that would allow other
users to post docs and metadata about the doc...  I guess I just need
to find time to evaluate the ones google brings up.  not enough hours
in the day

On Nov 20, 2007 3:08 PM, Tim Fournet tfournet at tfour.net wrote:
 We're using Plone right now as kind of a documentation repository. I
 like it and wanted to use it as a DMS, but I didn't find it that handy
 for uploaded files


 CM Banker wrote:
  Plone is a CMS but has most of the elements of a DMS with the
  exception of integrated scanning  tagging (ala Paragon Filenet).
 
  It is multi-platform.
 
  On Nov 20, 2007 9:00 AM, Tim Fournet tfournet at tfour.net wrote:
 
  There are a couple that I know of that you may want to consider:
  knowledgeTree and Alfresco. Alfresco is more of a CMS, but is built to
  work well for document management
  I haven't chosen one for myself yet, but it is on my to-to list.
 
 
 
 
  Shannon Roddy wrote:
 
  I can't remember if this has come up before, but anyone know of a good
  open source document management package out there?  Hopefully with the
  ability to specify different access controls per file.  Yes, this
  would be running on Linux/Apache.  ;-)
 
  While I am at it... any suggestions on web based calendaring?
 
  -Shannon
 
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[brlug-general] open source document management?

[Shannon Roddy]

I can't remember if this has come up before, but anyone know of a good
open source document management package out there?  Hopefully with the
ability to specify different access controls per file.  Yes, this
would be running on Linux/Apache.  ;-)

While I am at it... any suggestions on web based calendaring?

-Shannon

[brlug-general] open source document management?

[Shannon Roddy]

On Nov 19, 2007 8:11 PM, John Hebert johnahebert at yahoo.com wrote:
 Shannon,

 I've looked at a few open source Electronic Document
 Management Systems a few years, but nothing was really
 eye-catching then.

 A few questions:
 1. How many total users of the system?

Total possible users is ~500 if you count everyone, however I don't
think everyone in the org will use it.  I can see maybe 20 people
posting docs.

 2. How many of those users will be using the system at
 any one time?

probably max of about 20 possible, more likely only a couple - if that.

 3. Do you have a rough estimate of the number of
 documents you will be putting into the system over say
 a month?

20+?
 4. Any idea how large these documents will be on the
 average?

Everything from a small text file, to word docs, ppt, and pdfs.

 5. What kind of documents will you be storing? Images?
 PDFs?

^^^
 6. How will you be indexing the documents when put
 them in the system? By hand? Automation?


Hmm... probably just user entered metadata at time of posting.

 Windows implementation. I am not recommending to you
 however, as it is $$$.

Yeah... this is a zero budget thing for a 501(c)3.

[brlug-general] C++, C# programmer almost needed

[Shannon Roddy]

On Nov 17, 2007 9:27 AM, willhill williamhill2 at cox.net wrote:
 The most important component of a free market is free flow of information.
 Without it people make the wrong choices and waste their resources on things
 that don't work for them.


People are also free to make mistakes.  I make them every day.  ;-)
This is a linux list, but geez not everyone in the world wants or
needs linux.  People are free to choose a product which doesn't
exactly fit their needs.  Look at all the SUVs around with one person
in them.  I have a boat that I move once or twice a year that requires
a diesel.  The rest of the year, that diesel isn't exactly a good
choice for daily transportation, but guess what... it's my daily ride.

[brlug-general] Warflying?

[Shannon Roddy]

On Nov 15, 2007 1:50 PM, Richards Jr, Edward C. ECRichards at fbd.com wrote:
 What are you flying?

Mostly a piper warrior.  Started out in a 150.

 I have a friend that is involved in a Sport Lite FBO in Hammond and he has 
 been after me to come over there and check out their airplanes,

I hope he's not the sport instructor that does stalls and slow flight
at 1500' over Southeastern University!  Hammond really needs a tower.
I've had to go around several times due to a sport pilot departing 36
with inbound IFR King Air and Falcons on the ILS 18.  There have been
a few times in Hammond where I just loitered outside of the pattern
while the numbskulls got down on the ground.

 When I was actively flying and also an active Amateur Radio Operator, I used 
 to operate Air Mobile some on 2 meters and 440. That always stirred up a 
 lot of activity on the local ham repeaters. With less than 5 watts on a 
 rubber duck antenna you could carry on a conversation on the 440 mhz repeater 
 in Natchez, Ms while flying around Baton Rouge. Fun stuff. This thread will 
 probably wake up another ham/aviator that lurks on this list too. :) Hi 
 Bobby! We need to do lunch AND go to Hammond!

I never really did make the leap to ham beyond a brief stint with 2m.
It's fun hitting the cell towers with a Cingular card and a laptop
though.  Google earth at 110 knots?!  Works that little cell card to
death and I'm sure it drives the cell companies nuts.  So... next time
you have a dropped call on the interstate, look up.  It might be me
creating havoc.  ;-)

[brlug-general] Warflying?

[Shannon Roddy]

On Nov 16, 2007 9:29 AM, worms worm402 at gmail.com wrote:
 What are the flight restrictions over Baton Rouge like?

 Is it fairly open if you maintain 2,000 AGL and stay away from the airport?


Baton Rouge is class C airspace, meaning that you must be in contact
with the controller, but you can just about fly where you want within
reason (since 9/11 over stadiums and large gatherings are off limits).
 It would probably be best to have a plan of where to go first and let
the controller know beforehand what areas/headings would be flown.  Of
course avoiding the approach paths to the runways would be a good idea
too unless the commercials don't mind being delayed due to me putzing
around.  ;-)

[brlug-general] C++, C# programmer almost needed

[Shannon Roddy]

Edmund,

You ever look into doing any of that in matlab?  There is the matlab
compiler which would make your code portable (and if I am not
mistaken, no licensing needed for the client, depending on the
licensing terms for redistributing?).  Just a thought  I know a
bunch of developers fluent in Matlab stuff if you want to compare
notes with someone.  And we do lots of FFTs, etc.

-Shannon

On Nov 16, 2007 2:11 PM, Edmund Cramp eac at motion-labs.com wrote:
 Thanks for the of replies everyone:

 What kind of math?  - the ability to code FIR filters, implement FFT 
 functions to do spectral processing, wavelet analysis and other custom 
 waveform analysis to suite whatever is the flavor of the day from the 
 academics.  Most of the coding is straightforward application setup, GUI, 
 viewport, and process data stuff but there's enough math intensive code that 
 you can't just wing it with a DLL.

 Why restrict ourselves to Windows? Why rob Banks? ... because that's where 
 the money is.  There's some interest in *nix applications but most of the 
 folks who want them are writing them themselves. We open source older 
 applications but realistically you can't feed a good programmer when they are 
 writing scientific applications for a limited market.

 At this point we're needing figures to work into a grant application but the 
 position would be a permanent one.

 Regards,
 Edmund Cramp - eac at motion-labs.com
 Motion Lab Systems, Inc. - http://www.motion-labs.com
 15045 Old Hammond Highway, Baton Rouge, LA 70816  USA
 Tel: 1.225.272.7364 (Central Time Zone, GMT-6)
 Fax: 1.225.272.7336



  -Original Message-
  From: general-bounces at brlug.net
  [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On Behalf Of Edmund Cramp
  Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 5:09 PM
  To: 'general at brlug.net'
  Subject: [brlug-general] C++, C# programmer almost needed
 
  Does anyone have an idea what an experienced C++, Visual
  Studio programmer with good math skills is getting paid these
  days to write applications for the XP and Vista environments?
 
  I'm looking for ballpark $$ here for grant funding - not
  offering a job (yet) although anyone interested with math
  skills is welcome to contact me by email.
 
  And, for bonus points, what are the chances of finding a good
  programmer with a math degree?
 
  Any advice would be appreciated.
 
  Regards,
  Edmund Cramp - eac at motion-labs.com
  Motion Lab Systems, Inc. - http://www.motion-labs.com
  15045 Old Hammond Highway, Baton Rouge, LA 70816  USA
  Tel: 1.225.272.7364 (Central Time Zone, GMT-6)
  Fax: 1.225.272.7336
 
 
 
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[brlug-general] Warflying?

[Shannon Roddy]

What!  No takers?  Well, I guess running around sniffing for APs is so
five years ago...

On Nov 5, 2007 11:56 AM, Shannon Roddy sroddy at gmail.com wrote:
 So, I know a bunch of you have gone wardriving over the years.  Anyone
 interested in doing some warflying?  Could be interesting at about
 2,000 feet over Baton Rouge or surrounding area...  ;-)

 -Shannon

[brlug-general] Warflying?

[Shannon Roddy]

On Nov 15, 2007 11:48 AM, Tim Fournet tfournet at tfour.net wrote:
 come pick me up at LFT and i'll go :)


Actually, I may end up flying to LFT sometime in December.

-Shannon

[brlug-general] Warflying?

[Shannon Roddy]

Probably next chance I'll have to do something like this will be in December.

On Nov 15, 2007 12:23 PM,  dixoncole at gmail.com wrote:
 When's your next flight?  I'm game.
 -D

 -Original Message-
 From: Shannon Roddy sroddy at gmail.com

 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:33:52
 To:general at brlug.net
 Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Warflying?


 What!  No takers?  Well, I guess running around sniffing for APs is so
 five years ago...

 On Nov 5, 2007 11:56 AM, Shannon Roddy sroddy at gmail.com wrote:
  So, I know a bunch of you have gone wardriving over the years.  Anyone
  interested in doing some warflying?  Could be interesting at about
  2,000 feet over Baton Rouge or surrounding area...  ;-)
 
  -Shannon
 


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