ableconf in Prescott?
At the last ableconf, there was talk of an ableconf in Prescott around the March/April (soon) timeframe. Is there going to be one? I'm wondering about presenting (again). -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: ableconf in Prescott?
Am 01. Mär, 2010 schwätzte Eric Shubert so: moin moin, At the last ableconf, there was talk of an ableconf in Prescott around the March/April (soon) timeframe. Is there going to be one? I'm wondering about presenting (again). We had a local committee working on it, but unfortunately the committee fell apart. I would still love to have an ABLEconf outside the valley, but we need a local committee with several people in the area. We do have volunteers in Phoenix and Tucson to help the local committee, but they can't take care of all the local issues. ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/Classeshttp://www.TwoGeekTechs.com/ # Director of Engineering, FonWallet Transaction Solutions, Inc. # This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put # him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this # country. -- Theodore Roosevelt, Memphis, TN, 25Oct1905--- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: OT: go-default screens.
what he said. :-) On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Shawn Dowler shawn.dow...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming you don't also have vertical black bars on the left and the right, then it is because your TV has an aspect ratio of 16:9 (also called 1.78:1) and most movies are filmed at even wider aspect ratios (1.85:1 or 2.35:1 are both very common) so there are still black bars on the top and the bottom because the movie is wider than your HDTV. This is normal. http://www.practical-home-theater-guide.com/image-files/ivideo-formats.gif Anything wider than 1.78:1 will have black bars on the top and the bottom. Anything narrower than 1.78:1 will have black bars on the left and the right. The only ways around this are either stretching (yuck!) and cropping (eww!). Shawn Dowler Information Designer shawn.dow...@gmail.com http://walkingtowel.org On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 19:48, Nathan England nat...@paysonlinux.org wrote: The subject of this thread is mis-leading as my HTC Hero spell correction changed my hi-def subject to go-default, go figure.. ha ha Anyway, I realize the difference between widescreen and fullscreen displays. I have long prefered the widescreen or letterbox formats to a regular fullscreen as I like to see the whole image, even if it is a little smaller on my screen. What I am wondering about is why all the movies I have that are wide screen format movies still have horizontal bars (top and bottom) on my new wide screen 780p lcd hdtv. I thought when I switched from my computer with a non-hidef resolution to a real tv with the proper resolution for widescreen that those lines would go away and it would fill my screen. Nathan On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: The horizontal space is not 780 lines but 768 On 2/26/10, Nathan England nat...@paysonlinux.org wrote: I recently bought a so called hi-def tv screen and despite its 1360,768 780p resolution my movies still have the black borders! What gives? I thought having a hi-def wide screen would fix the black borders issue. If I hook up a hdmi connection to a new dvd player, is it still going to have the annoying black borders? Funny when we were all full screen we wanted to be widescreen, now we are widescreen and we want to have a fullscreen! -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 14:32 -0700, Stephen wrote: This is actually something i have been planning for a few weeks now... More incentive to set this up, but it will likely go on its on VM on my server than locally. Im not sure if i want to use DHCP on my server or DHCP on myGateway yet. I have yet to see any appliance DHCP server approach the feature set you get on a full ISC DHCP server including... dynamic dns, retention of lease addresses (so they don't keep moving around), Windows specific features, etc. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?
It seems to me that the gateway is a more logical place to put dhcp, thinking of your gateway as a network server (which provides network services). To be honest though, I can't think of a reason why it would really matter one way or another. Stephen wrote: This is actually something i have been planning for a few weeks now... More incentive to set this up, but it will likely go on its on VM on my server than locally. Im not sure if i want to use DHCP on my server or DHCP on myGateway yet. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Running your own caching resolver is pretty trivial on RHEL/Fedora. Just need to install the caching-nameserver package (which pulls in deps when you use yum to install it). You then need to have: nameserver 127.0.0.1 first in your /etc/resolv.conf file so it gets used. If your computer is directly attached to the cox modem, that'll be a pain as dhcp resets your resolv.conf file. If you're using cox, you really should have a router with nat between your computer and the cox modem though, so your computer isn't sitting on a public address. I don't know off hand how to set up a local resolver on Ubuntu. I don't really need one myself because my IPCop is my resolver. ;) Brian Cluff wrote: I've always found that cox's DNS server have been less that desirable. I was actually surprised to find that I was using their dns at all. I've usually setup my own, to get around their DNS problems. Now with cox hijacking all the typos, I would recommend more than ever that people setup their own DNS servers. Brian Cluff On 02/28/2010 07:53 AM, Steven A. DuChene wrote: Yes, I am using cox but I guess the bigger question is WHY is cox reporting an incorrect IP for the plug web server? -Original Message- From: Brian Cluffbr...@snaptek.com Sent: Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM To: Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the wrong address for the plug server. If you simply remove that nameserver from your resolv.conf, you should be able to get to the server again. Brian Cluff -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?
uptime etc... and the extra features is why im thinking about it. however my gateway does dyndns, but im still wnating to replace it with a real firewall and some of those features. but i dont have a graceful replacement of the wireless part of it yet. so im kind of stuck with it. (and i dont mind replacing it with tomato/DDwrt but i want a backup plan first in case i brick it) On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: It seems to me that the gateway is a more logical place to put dhcp, thinking of your gateway as a network server (which provides network services). To be honest though, I can't think of a reason why it would really matter one way or another. Stephen wrote: This is actually something i have been planning for a few weeks now... More incentive to set this up, but it will likely go on its on VM on my server than locally. Im not sure if i want to use DHCP on my server or DHCP on myGateway yet. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Running your own caching resolver is pretty trivial on RHEL/Fedora. Just need to install the caching-nameserver package (which pulls in deps when you use yum to install it). You then need to have: nameserver 127.0.0.1 first in your /etc/resolv.conf file so it gets used. If your computer is directly attached to the cox modem, that'll be a pain as dhcp resets your resolv.conf file. If you're using cox, you really should have a router with nat between your computer and the cox modem though, so your computer isn't sitting on a public address. I don't know off hand how to set up a local resolver on Ubuntu. I don't really need one myself because my IPCop is my resolver. ;) Brian Cluff wrote: I've always found that cox's DNS server have been less that desirable. I was actually surprised to find that I was using their dns at all. I've usually setup my own, to get around their DNS problems. Now with cox hijacking all the typos, I would recommend more than ever that people setup their own DNS servers. Brian Cluff On 02/28/2010 07:53 AM, Steven A. DuChene wrote: Yes, I am using cox but I guess the bigger question is WHY is cox reporting an incorrect IP for the plug web server? -Original Message- From: Brian Cluffbr...@snaptek.com Sent: Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM To: Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the wrong address for the plug server. If you simply remove that nameserver from your resolv.conf, you should be able to get to the server again. Brian Cluff -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?
IPCop has worked well for me for a number of years. I started with an old 333MH celeron pc, added a couple nics, and was good to go. You wouldn't need that much power though. A plain ol' Pentium (win95 box) would do nicely. I run IPCop as a VM these days. I have my wireless router (wrt54G stock) attached to the orange (dmz) network, so wireless is isolated from my lan. Stephen wrote: uptime etc... and the extra features is why im thinking about it. however my gateway does dyndns, but im still wnating to replace it with a real firewall and some of those features. but i dont have a graceful replacement of the wireless part of it yet. so im kind of stuck with it. (and i dont mind replacing it with tomato/DDwrt but i want a backup plan first in case i brick it) On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: It seems to me that the gateway is a more logical place to put dhcp, thinking of your gateway as a network server (which provides network services). To be honest though, I can't think of a reason why it would really matter one way or another. Stephen wrote: This is actually something i have been planning for a few weeks now... More incentive to set this up, but it will likely go on its on VM on my server than locally. Im not sure if i want to use DHCP on my server or DHCP on myGateway yet. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Running your own caching resolver is pretty trivial on RHEL/Fedora. Just need to install the caching-nameserver package (which pulls in deps when you use yum to install it). You then need to have: nameserver 127.0.0.1 first in your /etc/resolv.conf file so it gets used. If your computer is directly attached to the cox modem, that'll be a pain as dhcp resets your resolv.conf file. If you're using cox, you really should have a router with nat between your computer and the cox modem though, so your computer isn't sitting on a public address. I don't know off hand how to set up a local resolver on Ubuntu. I don't really need one myself because my IPCop is my resolver. ;) Brian Cluff wrote: I've always found that cox's DNS server have been less that desirable. I was actually surprised to find that I was using their dns at all. I've usually setup my own, to get around their DNS problems. Now with cox hijacking all the typos, I would recommend more than ever that people setup their own DNS servers. Brian Cluff On 02/28/2010 07:53 AM, Steven A. DuChene wrote: Yes, I am using cox but I guess the bigger question is WHY is cox reporting an incorrect IP for the plug web server? -Original Message- From: Brian Cluffbr...@snaptek.com Sent: Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM To: Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the wrong address for the plug server. If you simply remove that nameserver from your resolv.conf, you should be able to get to the server again. Brian Cluff -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?
VMware Server, CentOS 5. Stephen wrote: Running as a vm, what platform do you run it on? (virtualbox, xen, vmware) On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: IPCop has worked well for me for a number of years. I started with an old 333MH celeron pc, added a couple nics, and was good to go. You wouldn't need that much power though. A plain ol' Pentium (win95 box) would do nicely. I run IPCop as a VM these days. I have my wireless router (wrt54G stock) attached to the orange (dmz) network, so wireless is isolated from my lan. Stephen wrote: uptime etc... and the extra features is why im thinking about it. however my gateway does dyndns, but im still wnating to replace it with a real firewall and some of those features. but i dont have a graceful replacement of the wireless part of it yet. so im kind of stuck with it. (and i dont mind replacing it with tomato/DDwrt but i want a backup plan first in case i brick it) On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: It seems to me that the gateway is a more logical place to put dhcp, thinking of your gateway as a network server (which provides network services). To be honest though, I can't think of a reason why it would really matter one way or another. Stephen wrote: This is actually something i have been planning for a few weeks now... More incentive to set this up, but it will likely go on its on VM on my server than locally. Im not sure if i want to use DHCP on my server or DHCP on myGateway yet. On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Running your own caching resolver is pretty trivial on RHEL/Fedora. Just need to install the caching-nameserver package (which pulls in deps when you use yum to install it). You then need to have: nameserver 127.0.0.1 first in your /etc/resolv.conf file so it gets used. If your computer is directly attached to the cox modem, that'll be a pain as dhcp resets your resolv.conf file. If you're using cox, you really should have a router with nat between your computer and the cox modem though, so your computer isn't sitting on a public address. I don't know off hand how to set up a local resolver on Ubuntu. I don't really need one myself because my IPCop is my resolver. ;) Brian Cluff wrote: I've always found that cox's DNS server have been less that desirable. I was actually surprised to find that I was using their dns at all. I've usually setup my own, to get around their DNS problems. Now with cox hijacking all the typos, I would recommend more than ever that people setup their own DNS servers. Brian Cluff On 02/28/2010 07:53 AM, Steven A. DuChene wrote: Yes, I am using cox but I guess the bigger question is WHY is cox reporting an incorrect IP for the plug web server? -Original Message- From: Brian Cluffbr...@snaptek.com Sent: Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM To: Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the wrong address for the plug server. If you simply remove that nameserver from your resolv.conf, you should be able to get to the server again. Brian Cluff -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Share a monitor
Back in the day you shared a monitor, mouse, and keyboard with a KVM. I have two Ubuntu desktops and I need to share a keyboard, mouse, and monitor between them. What is current best practice? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Share a monitor
Take a look at synergy. ET Trent Shipley writes: Back in the day you shared a monitor, mouse, and keyboard with a KVM. I have two Ubuntu desktops and I need to share a keyboard, mouse, and monitor between them. What is current best practice? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Share a monitor
I use IOGEAR at work and at home. They make DVI and VGA, USB and PS2, compatible models. I like the hot keys associated with them. Eric On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:55 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Take a look at synergy. ET Trent Shipley writes: Back in the day you shared a monitor, mouse, and keyboard with a KVM. I have two Ubuntu desktops and I need to share a keyboard, mouse, and monitor between them. What is current best practice? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Eric Cope http://cope-et-al.com --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: Share a monitor
I have an IOGEAR vga/ps2 model. Liked it fine, but don't need it any more. Let me know if you're interested in it. Eric Cope wrote: I use IOGEAR at work and at home. They make DVI and VGA, USB and PS2, compatible models. I like the hot keys associated with them. Eric On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:55 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com mailto:kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com mailto:kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Take a look at synergy. ET Trent Shipley writes: Back in the day you shared a monitor, mouse, and keyboard with a KVM. I have two Ubuntu desktops and I need to share a keyboard, mouse, and monitor between them. What is current best practice? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Eric Cope http://cope-et-al.com -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
