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

[Jason Poulter]

ive tried this in the pass worked pretty well when i tested it.

http://grauonline.de/cmsimple2_6/en/?Solutions:HD_Video_Repair_Utility#download

jason

On 10/20/2012 10:58 AM, Jim March wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have a broken .mp4 file on my hands that is critically important to
> a political thing I'm doing.
>
> The file is at:
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1825088/ScytlBaltimore.mp4
>
> I've tried using a front-end to ffmeg called "format junkie" to fix
> this critter and the error it spits out is "moov atom not found".
>  This apparently means the data might be there, but the video format
> structure does exist.
>
> Some google-fu led me to this page:
>
> http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/~ponchio/untrunc.php
> <http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/%7Eponchio/untrunc.php>
>
> Awesome!  An open-source util that can cope with this.
>
> Problems though...
>
> It needs "libavformat-dev and libavcodec-dev straight from the Ubuntu
> repositories" and the Quantal that I'm running (latest Ubuntu) can't
> load those per Synaptic - not without a lot of dependency hell stuff
> that might break FSM only knows what.
>
> I have a VM copy of Mint 8 that might, but I can't seem to get
> Virtualbox to pass it networking so that I could load those and load
> the build-essentials stuff needed to compile this critter.
>
> Can anybody help by compiling untrunc and then applying it to that
> data file!?  I'd be very, very grateful :(.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
>
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Re: iTWire - More proof of Oracle's disinterest in open source

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 10/14/2011 10:17 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Oracle appears to be taking it's toll on VirtualBox.
> 
> http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/50348-more-proof-of-oracles-disinterest-in-open-source

Or maybe they just have bad coders.
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Re: On Demand VPN

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 09/23/2011 09:17 AM, Kevin Fries wrote:
>   * When I am not in the office, and I try to go to a location (by name
> or IP) that is within a specified range, I want the VPN to activate, and
> route all traffic only for the office over it, while allowing all other
> traffic to go out via the normal, primary, connection.

You will want to turn on the "Use this connection only for resources not
on this network" option in the Routes... dialog box of your vpn config.

As far as the automatic activation of VPN, I am not sure how to do that,
it might be possible using some custom scripts in /etc/network/if*/*.
I've used an if-up.d script to disable the wireless radio and interface
if a wired connection is detected, for instance.
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Re: OT: Netflix and Linux and LAN

[Jason Hayes]

I currently use two Wii's for streaming Netflix in my home (using Cox cable and 
a Cisco wireless router) and they work well. You can watch two different shows 
at the same time with no apparent problems.

I have never been able to get Netflix to work on Linux because of the 
Silverlight plugin issues. I always had to use a virtual machine running 
Windows to make that work. One caveat though - I haven't tried to get it to 
work in several months, so someone may have developed a workaround for that 
since I last tried.

Jason

On Sep 13, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:

> I am thinking of getting Netflix, and I am trying to figure out how to 
> distribute it to several TVs in the house, and I was wondering if anyone else 
> has solved this problem. We currently have cox Internet and cable.
> 
> The options I found revolve around buying one of a variety of "boxes" for 
> each TV and have them access netflix via WiFi. The boxes include googleTV, 
> ROKU, Wii, etc. It looks to me that the ROKU boxes are the least expensive 
> and offer access to the most services. Anyone have any experience doing this? 
> Any major pitfalls to watch out for? Is WiFi fast enough for streaming video, 
> or should I get the more expensive boxes and use a wired LAN?
> 
> Are there any Linux options for distributing Netflix shows over a LAN? I read 
> that the DRM software used by Netflix is incompatible with Linux, so perhaps 
> this is a non-starter? 
> 
> Thanks for sharing any experiences you may have had with Netflix, Linux, and 
> LANs.
> 
> Mark
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Re: hot new PC

[Jason Hayes]

Classic!

"Press play on tape #1"

Jason

On Apr 8, 2011, at 10:55 AM, keith smith wrote:

> 
> Commodore Datasette
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_Datasette
> 
> 
> Keith Smith
> 
> 2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International) : if my people, who are called by my 
> name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their 
> wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and 
> will heal their land.
> 
> --- On Fri, 4/8/11, AZ RUNE  wrote:
> 
> From: AZ RUNE 
> Subject: Re: hot new PC
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" 
> Date: Friday, April 8, 2011, 10:41 AM
> 
> OMG AWESOME where is my 3 and a half floppy I am going to tear it up!!!
> 
> or 5.25 go old school, hmmm tape, decisions decisions 
> 
> :-P
> 
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Jill R  wrote:
> For anyone looking for a new computer, the Commodore 64 now runs Ubuntu!
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/faster-forward/post/meet-the-new-commodore-64/2011/04/07/AFoIvuwC_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_tech
> http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx
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Re: review of openSUSE on TechRepublic.com

[Jason Hayes]

On Tuesday 22 March 2011 11:23:32 am Jason Hayes wrote:
> For the SUSE fans out there. A positive review of the new openSUSE with KDE
> 4.6. Comments afterward are mixed.
> 

Might be more useful if I actually included the URL ...

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/will-new-opensuse-with-kde-46-
bring-distro-back-from-obscurity/2347?tag=nl.e101 
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review of openSUSE on TechRepublic.com

[Jason Hayes]

For the SUSE fans out there. A positive review of the new openSUSE with KDE 
4.6. Comments afterward are mixed.
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Re: PHP Problem

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 02/28/2011 11:57 AM, Nathan England wrote:
> I have a serious problem. I cannot run _anything_ php... 
> 
> I have an LFS system I use for running various test php things. I have
> done a fresh install of php 5.3.5 and apache 2.2.17. I created an
> index.php with 
> 
> 
> 
> and it returns as expected, all looks good. However, when I run the
> following I get a segmentation fault and I cannot figure this out after
> 3 days!
> This has to be s  stupidly simple I am over-looking something. What
> is wrong?

Is the script that does not work in the same directory as your index.php
file and does it have a file extension .php ?

What do your web server error logs say?



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Re: OT: Need help with mplayer

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 02/27/2011 05:30 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I am trying to convert a real player audio file to mp3 for my daughter's
> school project. From what I have read, I need to use mplayer to convert
> to .wav and then lame to convert to mp3. I tried the following:
> 
> mplayer -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:waveheader The_Zero_Hour_08_14_44.rm
> 
> on a 3.4 MB input file and all I get out is a 44 B .wav file.

Is mplayer able to play the realaudio file through your speakers with just
$ mplayer The_Zero_Hour_08_14_44.rm

If so, I'm not sure what's wrong as your command line looks ok. If not,
you might be missing the realaudio codecs. On ubuntu, you can install
w32codecs (32bit) or w64codecs (64bit) for realaudio support from the
medibuntu repositories. I'm not sure about other distros.



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OT: Re: Need Help to Fix Stale NFS File Handle

[Jason Holtzapple]

> There are historical reasons why "NFS" expands to "Nightmare File System"...
> the thing is, it performs faster than Samba or Coda, so it gets used, even
> though it has a number of annoying problems.  Most of the kernel panics I've
> seen have been caused by flaky hardware--but NFS and "don't install this
> kernel module, it's not even beta yet" are tied for second.

To be fair, these were mostly problems in the Linux NFS implementation,
not the design of NFS itself. That said, I push huge amounts of data
over NFSv3 on Linux and haven't had any recent problems.



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Re: Need Help to Fix Stale NFS File Handle

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 02/25/2011 08:23 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have two disks running in a Debian machine ( Linux version
> 2.6.26-1-686 (Debian 2.6.26-13lenny2) (da...@debian.org
> ) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease)
> (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:08:45 UTC 2009). One disk has
> the OS, the other disk has lots of photos and the program gallery3
> (http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_3_begins) to display them on the
> web. The disk controller channel for the photo disk died, but the os
> kept on running. I replaced the controller card, and now both drives are
> running. However, I am getting some stale NFS file handles on some of
> the images on the photo drive. I don't use NFS on this machine, or any
> machine on my network. However, the pictures with the stale NFS file
> handles do not display when I run gallery.
> 
> How should I fix this problem? Delete and re-install the offending
> pictures? Run fsck on the photos drive? Stop taking so many pictures? ;-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mark
> 
> These are the errors:
> 
> hammerhead:/home/mark# du -hs /backups
> du: cannot access `/backups/gallery3/var/resizes/11-01-2010/2010:11:01
> 08:11:50 295.JPG': Stale NFS file handle

This is strange - you shouldn't be getting these errors unless you are
an NFS client. Double check your /etc/fstab and /etc/exports files. If
that doesn't make sense post the output of these two commands to the list:

# grep nfs /etc/fstab
# egrep -v '^#' /etc/exports



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Re: Security-related question

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 02/22/2011 09:06 AM, Jim March wrote:
> One other thing: on top of the Windows guest issue, I've got *something*
> in Linux that's also hitting the wire a lot.  Is there something similar
> to "top" that tracks Linux processes by network traffic impact?  I'd
> like to eliminate whatever that is before I start on the Windows issues.  

You can use ntop, but the tcpdump/wireshark combo should give you enough
information to determine the source.



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Re: Logwatch Filtering for Apache

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 02/09/2011 12:20 PM, Tim Noeding wrote:

> I have servers that I monitor and was hoping to cut the apache sections
> of the logwatch down a bit. These servers have had website changes which
> leave links that people have made to images come up as failed access
> attempts in logwatch. Most of these are a known issue. I do not want to
> add these to the regex ignore file for logwatch, as they may become a
> real issue in the future. The one consistent bit of information that
> defines the true problems from the false positives is the number of
> times the problem happens. Generally, if the failure happens more than
> 100 times, I want to know about it. The rest I don't want in the e-mail.

Disclaimer: I don't use logwatch so I don't know if you can accomplish
what you want there or not. If I need to flag an event that involves a
certain number of errors in a certain amount of time I will usually use
the simple event correlator - http://simple-evcorr.sourceforge.net

There's a bit of a learning curve but it's a useful tool.



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Re: Adobe reader

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 01/21/2011 09:29 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> My W-2s are online and the computer just told me I need to download it.
> How do I apt it?

You didn't mention what OS you are using. If you just want to view or
print a pdf the standard evince reader installed on Ubuntu will work
just fine. You really only need acrobat if you want to fill in pdf
forms. And even, then, you should sandbox any Adobe software in its own
virtual machine so it doesn't !@#$ up your main OS.



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Re: Good/secure wireless router?

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 12/27/2010 10:05 AM, Steve Phariss wrote:
> Any specific reason for the Asus (not knocking it, just want to hear
> what made you change brands)

My favorite 3rd-party firmware is Tomato. I bought the Asus mostly based
on postive experiences from others on the tomatousb.org forum. The
RT-N16 has enough cpu, memory and flash to be able to do a lot of
interesting things (openvpn endpoint, upnp server, torrent client, etc)

One negative is that it does not have dual-band wireless (2.4/5 GHz),
but that feature seems to push devices that can use open firmware over
the $100 price point.

> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Jason Holtzapple  <mailto:m...@bitflip.net>> wrote:
> 
> On 12/26/2010 07:06 PM, Ariel Gold wrote:
> > Recommendations?
> >
> > Small network with 2 wired connections, and at least 1 wireless. Using
> > mac, windows, and linux
> >
> > I'd like to make it as secure as possible (if you can point me to any
> > special documentation to do so that'd be great).  Fast is good too.
> 
> My current favorite is the Asus RT-N16 which recently replaced my
> vintage Linksys WRT-54G. It can use 3rd party firmware like TomatoUSB or
> dd-wrt.



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Re: Good/secure wireless router?

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 12/26/2010 07:06 PM, Ariel Gold wrote:
> Recommendations?
> 
> Small network with 2 wired connections, and at least 1 wireless. Using
> mac, windows, and linux
> 
> I'd like to make it as secure as possible (if you can point me to any
> special documentation to do so that'd be great).  Fast is good too.

My current favorite is the Asus RT-N16 which recently replaced my
vintage Linksys WRT-54G. It can use 3rd party firmware like TomatoUSB or
dd-wrt.

For security, just use WPA2 and a strong passphrase.




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Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 12/17/2010 02:24 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote:
> mplayer works fine, except it opens a huge terminal window with a log of
> lines of technical info scrolling while the video runs. Is there any way
> to make that terminal window not open (or resize it very small) while
> keeping the video window the main attraction?

I think the package you are looking for is gnome-mplayer.



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Re: Mounting Files across virtual machines

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 12/10/2010 11:29 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
>> nfs feels like a graceful solution
> NOO!!!
> DON'T DO THAT TO YOURSELF!!!
> Use sshfs.
> If you can ssh, you can, mount.
> ET
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS

Why the NFS hate? It's a decent solution for this request.

That said, VMWare probably has a VirtualBox shared folder-like feature
that would be ideal for this.

> Stephen writes:
>> nfs feels like a graceful solution
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Mark Phillips
>>  wrote:
>>> I have a Debian testing amd64 running Ubuntu 9.04 as a virtual
>>> machine in
>>> VMPlayer. Is it possible to access a directory (read/write files) on my
>>> Debian host from the Ubuntu vm? How do I do it?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark



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Re: rsync help the gramma

[Jason Holtzapple]

You might also check out the Déjà Dup tool. It also does incremental
backups correctly (it is a front-end to duplicity).

As long as you don't need some of the more advanced features of
duplicity, rsnapshot, rdiff-backup, etc, it works quite well on the desktop.



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Re: what is nagios 'SECURITY information'?

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 11/30/2010 07:52 AM, Alex Dean wrote:
> 
> On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Jason Holtzapple wrote:
> 
>> On 11/29/2010 12:45 PM, Alex Dean wrote:
>>> I have Nagios running on a local server, and I occasionally get some emails 
>>> from it with the subject "*** SECURITY information for ***".  The 
>>> body of the message is just a few characters.  I've done some searching in 
>>> my Nagios logs and online, and I have no idea what these emails are or what 
>>> they mean.
>>>
>>> The latest instance was last night.  I had my local network torn apart for 
>>> a few hours, and when I reconnected everything, I had about 40 of these 
>>> emails waiting for me.
>>>
>>> The Nagios I'm using is from Ubuntu 9.10.  I'm using only a very few HTTP, 
>>> ssh, & ping monitors.  Nothing complex at all.
>>
>> sudo creates emails with subjects like that if there are security
>> issues, but the body of your mail is not typical of sudo. Do any of your
>> nagios checks use sudo as part of the check?
> 
> Nice fine.  My checks using check_ide_smart do use sudo.
> ... pruned...
> /etc/sudoers
>   nagios ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ide_smart
> 
> 
> For the example SECURITY email I sent (dated Nov 28, 21:29:59), 
> /var/log/auth.log has a record:
> Nov 28 21:29:59 artichoke sudo:   nagios : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; 
> COMMAND=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ide_smart -d 
> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD6401AALS-_WD-WCASY7715793 -n
> 
> As far as I can tell, that looks normal.  The smartd checks were never in 
> error while my network was down.  I'm only using local passwd/group/shadow 
> files for authentication, no LDAP or yp or other external authentication 
> service.

This looks fine to me. The only thing I can think of is that sudo might
be complaining about permissions on /etc/sudoers (usually root:root,
perms 0440). But if that were the case you'd get an email every time the
check ran.

You might try becoming the nagios user and run the check from the
command line exactly as nagios would do it

$ /usr/bin/sudo /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ide_smart -d
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD6401AALS-_WD-WCASY7715793 -n

and see if you can learn anything interesting from the console output.



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Re: what is nagios 'SECURITY information'?

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 11/29/2010 12:45 PM, Alex Dean wrote:
> I have Nagios running on a local server, and I occasionally get some emails 
> from it with the subject "*** SECURITY information for ***".  The 
> body of the message is just a few characters.  I've done some searching in my 
> Nagios logs and online, and I have no idea what these emails are or what they 
> mean.
> 
> The latest instance was last night.  I had my local network torn apart for a 
> few hours, and when I reconnected everything, I had about 40 of these emails 
> waiting for me.
> 
> The Nagios I'm using is from Ubuntu 9.10.  I'm using only a very few HTTP, 
> ssh, & ping monitors.  Nothing complex at all.

sudo creates emails with subjects like that if there are security
issues, but the body of your mail is not typical of sudo. Do any of your
nagios checks use sudo as part of the check?



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Re: How do I free swap

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 11/04/2010 03:26 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Please no debates on why I need to clear swap...
> 
> If I have a box with 20% free ram and 5% free swap but no paging
> activity - how do I force linux to release the allocated swap? I have
> ~ 2x as much allocated swap as free memory so simply turning swap off
> seems like a bad idea.

As far I know, you can't. Set up a maintenance window and terminate the
process, then make any system adjustments you need.



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Re: Need Recommendation for web photo album software

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 10/23/2010 02:37 PM, AZ Pete wrote:
> It sounds like Gallery is exactly what your are looking for.
> Excellent application, highly customizable.
> http://gallery.menalto.com/
> 
> I built my photo site with Gallery and a standard template. If you want
> to check it out:
> www.sonoranphoto.com 
> 
> Peter

> Mark Phillips wrote:
>> I am looking for a simple web photo album app with the following
>> attributes:
>> * No database needed

Gallery is great, but all except the most ancient versions require a
database.
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Re: Need Recommendation for web photo album software

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 10/23/2010 01:40 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I am looking for a simple web photo album app with the following attributes:
> 
> * Open source
> * Linux, Apache, Java or PHP or Python, or ...
> * File system/directory hierarchy
> * No database needed
> * Display thumbnails, click on thumb to see larger picture
> * Right click on image and download full size image
> * Users add comments and/or ratings
> * Clean user interface - no adds
> * Don't need a complicated admin page (probably don't need one at all!)
> command line OK
> * Rotate images (losslessly) for those pics that are sideways
> * Drop the pics in a directory and the app does all the work..(generate
> thumbs, etc)
> * Slide show mode
> * Search based on title or tags
> 
> If you have used something like this, please let me know. There are so
> many out there I am getting swamped by the endless choices!

Several years ago I went looking for software with similar features and
started using phpalbum. http://www.phpalbum.net/

I think it does most of what you want except lossless rotation and slide
shows.

Interface is sparse and a bit clunky, but my family is able to use it
without problems. It also hasn't been updated in a while. If you
discover something better please tell the list.
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Re: Android/DroidX account sync to Linux

[Jason Hayes]

On Friday 01 October 2010 01:28:07 pm Stephen wrote:
> Someone posted a desire to sync to Linux, its not an over the wire
> solution, but this is one service that Ubuntu has put forth
> 
> one.ubuntu.com
> 
> and i just did a contact sync to the service. and it worked.. in
> android it comes up as another linked profile.. beware this may
> require some edits and tinker to get to work cleanly. but it does...
> 
> It looks like they are using Funambol's product for this to work.
> 
> now how much do you trust Ubuntu and Funambol with your data.


That was me. Thanks! I'll take a look.
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Re: syncing email - KMail & Droid X

[Jason Hayes]

Thanks.

Interesting links. I may set something like the Google IMAP up for work email 
and calendars.

Not 100% sure that I want to give Google all my personal email though.

I'll keep looking for a USB-based sync for personal stuff.

Jason


On Wednesday 29 September 2010 03:29:47 pm Stephen wrote:
> Well as long  as it syncs to google your golden as far as sync to your
>  phone.
> 
> Kmail IMAP would be the best bet (so says google too:
> http://www.google.com/sync/linux.html)
> 
> but contacts are a different story.
> 
> but there is rumor of enabling an LDAP style of API
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/google-apps-for-your-domain-ldap-sync/
> 
> and maybe their exchange emulation for windows mobile might do
> something for you?
> 
> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=47f74dd6e780
> 841f&hl=en
> 
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Jason Hayes  wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 September 2010 12:53:41 pm Jason Hayes wrote:
> >  ... I just picked up a Droid 2 ...
> >
> > Sorry was reading something about a Droid 2 when I typed that. Should
> > have said Droid X
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Re: syncing email - KMail & Droid X

[Jason Hayes]

On Wednesday 29 September 2010 12:53:41 pm Jason Hayes wrote:
 ... I just picked up a Droid 2 ...

Sorry was reading something about a Droid 2 when I typed that. Should have 
said Droid X
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syncing email - KMail & Droid X

[Jason Hayes]

Still Googling around to find an answer and thought I'd check with the group 
here.

Have any of you been able to sync your email/contacts between KMail and an 
Android phone? I just picked up a Droid 2 and am still doing the set up thing.

URLs to helpful websites are fine too.

Thanks!
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Re: What's #...@$& wrong with X and/or VirtualBox? :(

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 09/24/2010 09:22 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:

Just a guess, but the VirtualBox command is suid root and VBoxManage is
not, so that might account for your X forwarding issue.

I don't know what your workflow is, but that's not what I would do. I
would be using VBoxHeadless to start the vm and then use RDP (virtual
box calls it "remote display server") to connect to the virtual machine.
You can tunnel RDP with ssh if necessary.



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Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 09/13/2010 08:13 PM, Stephen wrote:
> There is Ldap actually which is quite good, just need to determine how
> to set it up.

>  wrote:
>> Otherwise linux does not have (to the best of my knowledge)
>> easy central account management.

I think the key word here was "easy" for which LDAP doesn't qualify,
especially for someone new to Linux.



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Re: battery overcharging

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 09/12/2010 06:55 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> It really is best to regularly run on battery and not just run
> continusly on AC with the battery in.  My HP battery life is down to
> seconds because I did that.
> 
> That said, I understand more modern systems have better charge control
> circuitry to reduce that effect.

I have an HP DV 6000 laptop from around 2007 and had issues with a
shorter battery life than was expected. When I contacted HP, their
official line for that model was to remove the battery when you are
plugged in to AC for 2 weeks or longer. I never saw this in the
documentation provided with the laptop. Perhaps they want to sell more
batteries.



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XBMC presentation slides

[Jason Holtzapple]

I've posted the outline for the XBMC is not an XBox Media Center
presentation here:

http://bitflip.net/presentations

There is a little bit of information about some things I didn't get to
cover (remote controls, apps) and a link to a demo of the Mythbox MythTV
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Re: Reverse Proxy

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 09/10/2010 09:36 AM, Mike Ballon wrote:
> I have the need to setup a reverse proxy to front-end some websites for
> security reasons, but I can't decide whether to use Apache or Squid. The
> only real requirements are to having something "more secure" than your
> standard IP based firewall, something like an application proxy that
> supports load-balancing. 

If those are your only requirements, then Apache should be fine and I
use it for this purpose. Without knowing your setup it is hard to
recommend Squid, which might be overkill. There are also a few other
alternatives like Varnish or Nginx, but those are mostly used for
high-volume sites.



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Re: OT - (maybe) Recovering a Zip File

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 08/30/2010 06:51 PM, Eric Cope wrote:
> I transferred a zip file off of an infected Windows machine via FTP.
> That file was determined to be corrupt (after I wiped the drive of
> course). I suspect the corruption took place because I transferred the
> file using ASCII mode, not binary mode. Is there anyway to "repair" a
> zip file, like search and replacing the "\n" with a "\r\n" or some other
> tool, Linux based or otherwise?

The fixgz program does exactly that.



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Re: OT: Alternatives to Tivo? Thanks.

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 08/26/2010 01:23 PM, Kevin Fries wrote:
> I have been watching this thread, but have not commented until now.
> 
> Has anyone tried XBMC as an alternative to Tivo?

XBMC has no recording capability. There is work ongoing that will allow
XBMC to drive a MythTV back end.



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Re: Changing sftp user's home directory

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 08/17/2010 12:58 PM, keith smith wrote:
> I'm running centOS 5 something. I configure SFTP and removed FTP.  Now I
> need to add a user, lets say billybob.  By default his home directory
> would be /hone/billybob.  I need to remove that and give him access to
> only one directory within the docroot of a vhost.  Say the directory
> /home/someVhost/public_html/documents/

Unfortunately the version of openssh included in Centos 5 doesn't have
the functionality you need (specifically ChrootDirectory and friends).
One way to solve this by installing a newer copy of openssh and
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Re: OT (slightly): SSL Requirement

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 08/13/2010 01:51 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Is the following statement true or false?
> 
> "SSL requires a distinct outbound IP for every distinct certificate
> (different domain name)."

I believe this is still true for SSL. With TLS, there is an extension to
include the FQDN in the request. I am not sure of the current
browser/server support matrix though.



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Re: OT: solid, linux-friendly color laser printer

[Jason Hayes]

Thanks to all for the comments and helpful hints on color lasers.

I went with the Brother MFC-9320CW. I like that Brother appears to be ready 
for linux and Mac systems and this printer is getting good reviews. 
(Networkable, wireless ready, affordable toner, easy setup)

I'll be interested to see how the LED technology works (as opposed to laser). 
It is supposed to produce good quality text and not-quite photo quality 
graphics.

Thanks again.
Jason Hayes


On Wednesday 11 August 2010 07:56:39 pm Kurt Granroth wrote:
> On 8/11/10 5:22 PM, Jason Hayes wrote:
> > Looking to pick up a sub $500 all-in-one color laser printer
> > (print/scan/copy/fax). Anyone out there have any suggestions?
> >
> >   - Compatible with Linux always a plus (currently using Kubuntu 9.10 -
> > planning to upgrade to 10.04 in a few months)
> > - wireless would be nice, but isn't essential
> > - network ready
> > - low cost toner replacement is big too
> >
> > Have read good reviews so far on HP CM1312nfi and the Brother MFC-9320CW
> > and Staples has both on sale right now.
> 
> Brother has typically had good Linux compatibility.  I have  Brother
> MFC-9420CN that has worked 100% in Linux "out of the box".  It's also
> rock-solid.  I actually dropped the printer from a distance of 3 or 4
> feet and all 40-50 or so pounds of it came crashing to the floor!  Some
> of the plastic bits snapped, but the machine itself showed no ill
> effects.  Everything still worked perfectly.  Amazing!
> 
> Still... dunno that I'd get a color laser again.  It's just too
> ponderous.  It takes a good minute or so to get going and makes quite
> the racket while doing so.  Sure, it can print quite a few pages per
> minute once you get going... but if you only want to print off 1 page,
> it's pretty inconvenient to have to wait so long for that page.  Also,
> it sucks down electricity like you wouldn't believe.  If you don't have
> it on its own circuit, then it'll rob the power from everything else on
> the circuit.  Lights dim; UPSes beep; computers falter; stuff like that.
> 
> So my next printer is going to be an all-in-one wireless auto-duplex ink
> jet.
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OT: solid, linux-friendly color laser printer

[Jason Hayes]

Looking to pick up a sub $500 all-in-one color laser printer 
(print/scan/copy/fax). Anyone out there have any suggestions?

 - Compatible with Linux always a plus (currently using Kubuntu 9.10 - 
planning to upgrade to 10.04 in a few months)
- wireless would be nice, but isn't essential
- network ready
- low cost toner replacement is big too

Have read good reviews so far on HP CM1312nfi and the Brother MFC-9320CW and 
Staples has both on sale right now.

Thanks!
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Re: perl or sed s/// problem

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 08/05/2010 10:44 AM, David wrote:
> 
> I'm having a problem with perl *and* sed with a particular replace line.  The 
> lines I'm trying to search for, and replace, both have "/" characters, which 
> is completely killing me.   
> 
> line="passwordrequisite /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3"
> newline="password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so minlen=8 
> dcredit=-1 ucredit=-1 lcredit=0 minclass=3  retry=3"
> 
> I need to maintain whitespace, too.
> 
> perl -p -i -e s/"$line"/"$newline"/  file
> 
> That tosses out all kinds of errors, since perl believes the first "/lib" 
> line to be the next delimiter.  Even using the magical \Q and \E things 
> doesn't work.  AARRGGHH!!!   
> 
> Sed seems to have the same problem.   Anyone have any ideas on how I can get 
> this to work?  And yes, unfortunately, I need to use the variables.

Try something like

$ sed -e "s|$line|$newline|" file

You probably also want to define your variables like line='password ...'
so that the shell preserves the literal value of $.



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Re: Running Tar from a Shell Script.

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 07/27/2010 01:54 PM, keith smith wrote:
> If I create a shell script with two lines, as follows:
> 
>   #!/bin/bash
> 
> /bin/tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/
> 
> 
> I get the following output:
> 
> : command not founde 2:
> /bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> /bin/tar: /work/dev/\r: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> : command not founde 4:

Just taking a guess from the "\r", but was the script created on a
Windows or Macintosh computer and transferred to the current machine?
Check that it has unix line endings (newline only).



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Re: Why is %#$& X11 failing to authorize this SSH connection? :(

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 07/26/2010 04:27 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
> So I do:
> kitepi...@beechjet:~$ ssh -vvv -fCX ay...@turbocommander VirtualBox >
> /tmp/junkX11-VirtualBox.log 2>&1
> And I get my Virtual Box screen up and I can do whatever I want except
> to star a VM because:
> When I do this:
> kitepi...@beechjet:~$ ssh -vvv -fCX ay...@turbocommander 'VBoxManage
> startvm Unum' > /tmp/junkX11-VBoxManage.log 2>&1
> X11 fails to authorize!
> IT IS $%#!&* DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!   :(
> This has ALWAYS worked before, I just moved my machines to a different box.
> And *ANYTHING* else that I "ssh -fCX" works flawlessly
> beats me...   :(
> The logs can seen at:
> http://www.kitepilot.com/junkX11-VBoxManage.log
> http://www.kitepilot.com/junkX11-VirtualBox.log
> They are essentially identical until you hit the line:
> "debug1: confirm x11"

Make sure your disk on the remote side isn't full. Your .Xauthority file
should be permission 600 on the remote side. You might want to remove it
and let it be recreated. Also, I don't think VBoxManage is an X11
program so you might be able to run it without X forwarding turned on.



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Re: How to report Internet Abuse

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 07/26/2010 12:10 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have a server running a school newspaper site. I keep getting hit from
> a server in Belgrade with a bad request, which creates an error and
> causes my database to grow by 1MB/hit. I am trying to track down the bug
> in the database, so my question is really about getting the guy to stop
> hitting my server with this request.
> 
> The IP for the request is 212.95.54.48, and I think it is a spider as I
> get other requests from this IP for my site map, contacts page, etc. I
> looked up the IP and I got this from Whois:
> ...
> 
> What is the best way to handle this? Send an email to ab...@inferno.name
> , or am I just inviting more abuse? Is there
> a way for apache to block these addresses before it hits my site (apache
> is in front of a plone/zope combination)? I have a robots.txt file at
> the root of my site...

You can block this at your gateway router, your server's firewall
(iptables), or in apache's configuration file. See the Allow and Deny
directives: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authz_host.html

Personally, I've never had much luck with abuse addresses except with
large reputable companies.



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Re: Syslog question

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 07/12/2010 03:40 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
> # Don't log private authentication messages!
> *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none/var/log/messages

*.info is going to catch a lot of stuff. I don't have a redhat server
handy to check, but if it doesn't have advanced filtering capabilities,
you might need to replace *.info and break it into its individual
facilities - minus your local0-local7.

auth.info, cron.info, ... , etc - see the man page for the full list.



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Re: Syslog question

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 07/12/2010 03:25 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I hope no one makes me hand in my linux geek card on this one but...
> I am setting up a remote syslog server to collect information from
> various routers across my network. I can prepped local0-7 to the
> syslog information and thus direct it to an appropriate log. However I
> have set up only one and I am having trouble. While it does go to
> /var/log/my.router.log all the information is also going to
> /var/log/messages
> 
> How do I stop the duplicate messages? This server is a "comprehensive"
>  monitoring server so I have a number of applications writing to
> var/log/messages and I don't want to have to hunt through a tun of
> router traffic if I have problems.

Please post your syslog.conf and flavor of syslog (rsyslog, syslog-ng, etc).



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Re: Perl subroutines

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 07/09/2010 09:54 AM, Paul Mooring wrote:
> I'm working on a perl script, and I have a lot more experience in ruby
> than I do in perl.  As far as I can tell there is no way to explicitly
> define arguments for a subroutine in perl, for example
> 
> sub addNums(number1, number2) {
>   sum = number1 + number2;
> 
>   return sum;
> }

perl does support prototypes for functions, probably more loosely than
you are used to though.

> sub addNums {
>   number1 = shift;
>   number2 = shift;
>   sum = number1 + number2;
> 
>   return sum;
> }
> 
> is there anyway to do this, and if not does anyone have some advice on
> a way to make this a bit more readable in perl?

You could write it like

sub addNums {
sum = $_[0] + $_[1];

return sum;
}

I'm not sure how much more readable that is. There are also ways to
raise an exception if you have the wrong number of arguments.



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Re: Rotating apache logs

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 06/25/2010 04:03 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> It appears that there are 2 ways of rotating apache logs.
> 
> Logrotate can be used, in which case apache needs to be restarted after
> the logs are rotated.

Yes, but this is usually a graceful restart, at least.

> There is also a rotatelogs program included with apache that controls
> log rotation (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/rotatelogs.html).
> 
> Does anyone have a preference, or know which is considered to be best
> practice? I'm inclined to lean toward the later.

I've always used the system log rotator (logrotate, logadm, etc). If
you're concerned about the effects of a restart you could try
logrotate's copytruncate option.



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Re: how to reference bash variables inside perl script inside bash script?

[Jason Holtzapple]

On 06/23/2010 09:44 PM, Steven A. DuChene wrote:

> My problem is I want to be able to pick up $2 from the command line invocation
> of my bash script for the desired password and then pass that into the one 
> line
> perl piece. But with all of the single quotes, double quotes, back ticks and
> etc. I am not able to get the password value in the $2 to be correctly passed
> into the perl one line part of the bash script.
> 
> The core part of the script I am having a problem with looks like:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> OPASS=$2
> 
> PASS=`perl -e 'print("userPassword: 
> {CRYPT}".crypt("$OPASS","frat-salt")."\n");'`

I'm sure there is some way to get the results that you want with a one
liner, but there's always the option of writing a separate perl script
that takes OPASS as the argument and outputs the encrypted string, which
you can then include in your bash script with command substitution.

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Re: 9.10

[Jason Hayes]

On Friday 18 June 2010 11:00:48 am Eric Shubert wrote:
> Jason Hayes wrote:
> > On Friday 11 June 2010 04:09:04 pm ericall...@juno.com wrote:
> >> Is anyone else using ubuntu 9.10 ?
> >> --
> >> Eric
> >
> > Restarting an old thread here.
> >
> > Any general comments on how the 9.10 install went? Any issues that people
> > noticed?
> >
> > Considering doing the upgrade here soon and wanted to double check for
> > problems before I take the plunge.
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
> If you're considering installing 9.10, I wouldn't. I'm going with 10.4,
> which has LongTermSupport. Just waiting for the dust to settle first. ;)
> 


Sorry, brain dead here.

Meant 10.4 - (already running 9.10). Didn't install initially because I wanted 
to make sure there weren't any hiccups in the weeks after the initial release.
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Re: 9.10

[Jason Hayes]

On Friday 11 June 2010 04:09:04 pm ericall...@juno.com wrote:
> Is anyone else using ubuntu 9.10 ?
> --
> Eric

Restarting an old thread here.

Any general comments on how the 9.10 install went? Any issues that people 
noticed?

Considering doing the upgrade here soon and wanted to double check for 
problems before I take the plunge.

Thanks!
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Re: How to shrink a windows partition to make more room for Linux?

[Jason Holtzapple]

j...@actionline.com wrote:
> How can I shrink the ntfs file system /dev/sda5 shown in the following
> screen capture:
> 
> - - - http://upquick.com/linux/gparted1.png - - -
> 
> to make room to increase the size of my Linux home partition /dev/sda8 ?
> 
> I've used ntfsresize to reduce the size of the sda5 partition from 158 gig
> to 67 gig, but gparted will not allow me to shrink (resize) sda5.  The
> "Resize/Move" option in gparted is grayed out as shown in the screen
> capture.
> 
> So what else can I do to shrink sda5?

Have you booted from a gparted live cd? The only time I've seen locks
like that is when running gparted when there are mounted file systems.

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Re: Lenovo

[Jason Hayes]

I've been using my T61p for about 2.5 yrs now and have really liked it. I run 
Kubuntu on it with Win XP virtual machine on VirtualBox and have a small dual 
boot Win Vista partition for when I go to conferences and have to run a lot of 
PowerPoint presentations.

Other than some troubles getting Mandriva 2009 installed about a year ago 
(which is why I went to Xubuntu), it has run pretty much flawlessly from day 
one.

I used to use only Acer, I won't buy anything but Lenovo now.

Jason Hayes


On Thursday 03 June 2010 12:10:03 pm Nathan England wrote:
> I bought a T500 in February and I have to say this has been the greatest
> laptop I've ever used. No where near my first Thinkpad, but my first
>  Lenovo. I also bought a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 netbook for my wife and put
>  xbuntu on it and she loves it.
> 
> Windows 7 never saw the light of day on either of these pcs and everything
> has worked right out of the box without any complaints.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Jason Hayes  wrote:
> > Just got an email from Lenovo - they're having a Father's Day sale right
> > now.
> > The ad says "up to $510 off" their 15" lap tops.
> >
> > Just FYI - if anyone is looking for a new system, you might want to check
> > them
> > out.
> >
> > And, no, I don't work for Lenovo - nor do I receive a percentage of any
> > sales
> >
> > ;)
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Lenovo

[Jason Hayes]

Just got an email from Lenovo - they're having a Father's Day sale right now. 
The ad says "up to $510 off" their 15" lap tops.

Just FYI - if anyone is looking for a new system, you might want to check them 
out.

And, no, I don't work for Lenovo - nor do I receive a percentage of any sales

;)
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'net neutrality' ruling

[Jason Hayes]

I've seen discussions on this issue here before. Thought that some might be 
interested.

US court rules against FCC on `net neutrality': Federal appeals court rules 
for Comcast and against FCC on `net neutrality' case 

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-court-rules-against-FCC-on-
apf-78990100.html?x=0&.v=4
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Re: Routers

[Jason Hayes]

On Thursday 28 January 2010 01:16:58 pm JD Austin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:06 PM, John  wrote:
> > You are brave. I'd be scared I'd brick a brand new router.
> 
> Nah :)  DD-WRT is very stable at this point.
> It's possible but no more possible than it would be later.
> Always do such a thing plugged directly into the router.
> Never do it over wireless.
> 
> Tomato is great also

Would have to give a thumbs up for DD-WRT as well. Had a Linksys WRT54G go 
completely haywire on me about a year ago. No amount of fiddling or reseting or 
upgrading would get it to work. I flashed it with DD-WRT and the router was 
stable and happy for about another year before it completely calved and died.

Haven't had the guts to flash the new WRT320N yet.

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Re: Routers

[Jason Holtzapple]

Lisa Kachold wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Steve Phariss  wrote:
>> DD-WRT allows you to have more control over the OS and other features
>> of the router.  You can get a lot more stability and features over the stock
>> firmware.  Also, at least with Linksys, the bug fixes stop coming after a
>> while with the stock firmware.
>> Steve
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Lyle Tuttle  wrote:
>>> At 10:33 AM 1/28/2010, JD Austin
>>> Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Lyle Tuttle  wrote:
>>>
>>> I need a new wireless router.  any thoughts on the netgear WNR3500L ?
>>>
>>> lyle
>>>
> 
>>> I bought one of those awhile back, no issues.
>>> I immediately flashed it with the DD-WRT firmware though.
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Why, and where would I get it?
>>>
> 
> You can buy it from various places:
> 
> Newegg:  $`149.00
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122334
> 
> You can also setup Tomato?
> 
> Tomato is a router firmware with a reputation for being super stable
> and useful.  It features an easy to navigate GUI, bandwidth monitoring
> features, as well as a whole host of other useful bits.  Read more
> about the Tomato firmware at the official site.
> 
> http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/14430/How-To-Install-Tomato-Firmware-on-NETGEAR-WNR3500L/
> 

+1 for Tomato. I've been using it for a few years after switching from
dd-wrt. It's also newly supported on the Asus RT-N16, another N router
that's about $50 cheaper than the Netgear. I haven't used either one
though so I can't comment on any hardware differences.



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Re: serial port 56k modem

[Jason Holtzapple]

Technomage wrote:
> this is my 2nd e-mail to the list looking for one of these. does anyone 
> happen to have one in
> storage or just laying around? I am in need of one to setup a ppp server 
> for my lan so I can
> dial into my network from any phone anywhere.

I have one. It was working when I put it in a box 10 years ago but I
have no idea if it still works. You are welcome to have it if you can
pick it up or meet me at one of the east side PLUG events.
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Re: OT: shocking Arizona nazi movement

[Jason Hayes]

On Friday 08 January 2010 04:33:11 pm Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>   wow Marco, thanks for that highly inflammatory propaganda designed
> to convert fiscal conservative movements into racism and fascism
> movements.  Well done.  And very on topic.
> 
>  -jmz
> 
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Marco Savo  wrote:
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXFuZwqGrCU&feature=player_embedded

Al-Jazeera reporting on fascism and racism in the US?!? The irony is so thick 
you can cut it with a knife.

Tempted to add more, but I'll stick with "what Joshua said" and go sweat the 
rest out in my Kempo class. Good grief!

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OT: Re: Job Available: Avnet - Associate Technology Consultant

[Jason Spatafore]

On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 05:31 -0700, Jason Spatafore wrote:
> PS: I sent this to this group because, honestly, I have been
> witnessing
> our product mix shift from 20% Linux to around 70% Linux...so I would
> rather we get another Linux guy in the door. 

I wanted to apologize in advanceI shouldn't have used the word "guy"
here...I meant Linux PERSON. Sorry about that...all people are welcome! 

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Job Available: Avnet - Associate Technology Consultant

[Jason Spatafore]

PLUG'ers! 

The company I work for has an Associate Technology Consultant position
open available in Chandler. Basically, the job is to write build
instructions for technicians to follow. You would be creating a
repeatable process and deal with many of the latest technologies like
Bladecenters, racks, and just about every cool thing you can think of.

This is not a heavy administrator style role. You would need to have a
good understanding of hardware and softwareyou'd be the person
putting it all together and supporting the product on the production
floor. After it leaves...you pretty much never deal with it again.

Anyway, I just wanted to get the job out there. It's an hourly
position...not sure what the pay range is by my assumption is that it's
better than any call-center style position.

Apply at www.avnet.com/careers 

You can filter jobs by state and then it will be the Associate
Technology Consultant position.

Have fun!

Jason

PS: I sent this to this group because, honestly, I have been witnessing
our product mix shift from 20% Linux to around 70% Linux...so I would
rather we get another Linux guy in the door. 

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Re: sort of OT: 40 free computers and assorted peripherals

[Jason Hayes]

Ad says,

"Recipient may get all or part."

Jason



On Tuesday 08 December 2009 07:43:37 am Eric Cope wrote:
> are they divisible?
> 
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Jason Hayes  wrote:
> > Just came across this ad on throwplace.com -
> > http://www.throwplace.com/take/item.php?id=3051
> >
> > 40 - PIII & P4 computers and peripherals (printers, routers, etc.) for
> > free -
> > in Prescott.
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sort of OT: 40 free computers and assorted peripherals

[Jason Hayes]

Just came across this ad on throwplace.com - 
http://www.throwplace.com/take/item.php?id=3051

40 - PIII & P4 computers and peripherals (printers, routers, etc.) for free - 
in Prescott.
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OT: Re: Two Questions

[Jason Spatafore]

On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 20:30 -0500, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
> Computers are like women:
> Temperamental,
> Complicated,
> Capricious,
> Unpredictable,
> And they cost a LOT of money!!! 
> 
> AH, Gawd, I'll be incinerated on a bonfire now...
> ET 
> 

lol. I'm sure the majority of the list would agree with you. Except you
left out the following on your list:

Although they appear to be all the items above, there is usually a logic
(flawed or not) that drives the behavior. A mistake made
(programatically, ethically, morally, etc) that lead to the computer
(woman) resorting to the logic that created the perceived problem and
did not function as intended. 

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Re: VOT: A+

[Jason Spatafore]

www.directdeals.com


On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 17:13 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
> (VOT -- very off topic)
> 
> WARNING: MS Windows
> 
> 
> I am taking an A+ class at Rio Salado community college.  It covers the
> 2006 A+ exams which are all about the XP.
> 
> 
> I have a Vista computer I can use for tear down/rebuild.  I'd like to
> multi-boot to Vista, XP Pro, and Windows 2000 Pro, although losing Vista
> would be fine.  Where can I get  licensed copies of XP Pro and 2000
> Pro?  How do I get the think to multi-boot?
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Re: running Linux on odd devices is SOOO COOL!

[Jason Spatafore]

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 13:22 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> I was just about to comment on this. You beat me to it. In all the
> different material I've read, everyone is fond of saying it would
> take  of years to break a strong password. 
> Statistically the odds of the first try being successful are not, as
> you
> pointed out, zero and increase with each combination. Granted, it
> would
> still take a hell of a long time but not the 
> years
> people always claim.   

On top of that, people don't take into account how exponential
inventions reduce that time dramatically.

Okay, let's say it takes 300,000 years to crack a password. That's 1
system...running for 300,000 years.

Now, use the Seti project with distributed computing and hide it inside
of a "useful" application. Do you really think it will take long to get
1 million downloads?

So, 1 million downloads...your distributed password cracking application
is now deployed and people allowed it to connect and bypass all
firewalls because, well, it was trusted.

So, 1 million systems doing a 300,000 year task. What does that equate
to? Now think of what would happen if you got 2 million, 4 million, and
8 million computers?

In short time, you can crack that password in 1 hour. NOW, what if you
made a business out of cracking passwords for the bad guys? 24 passwords
per day...selling at $3,000 a password...think about how good of a life
you can have making $26,280,000 / year for writing a piece of software?
Do you really think it will be hard to pay off a couple network
administrators to mask your IP? Say you pay them 50k each and you need
20 of them...that's only $2mil you give up a year. You're still netting
$24 mil. You do it for one year, you never work again.

Just think of the scenario...and remember, humans are the weakest link
in the whole chain.

Oh, and the scary part...reduce that price per password to $300.00..you
make less money, but you just increased your client base immensely.

It's a scary thought. BUT, ultimately, all this does is make people
think "Then what good is it to fight? I'll just leave admin/admin as my
router password. No use in trying to beat it."


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Re: Security In General (Was running Linux on odd devices is SOOO COOL!)

[Jason Spatafore]

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 12:53 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> I guess I still disagree with your use of the word 'broken'.
>  By that
> definition, gpg is 'broken' as well as *any* encryption system
> that uses
> passwords.  Just because because you can brute force a crack
> doesn't
> mean that the protocol broken.

That is why it is important to use defense in depth...multiple layers of
security. The cracker may get through the first layer...then there's
another he has to crack...then he wonders "How many more layers?" and
oftentimes will quit. 

I thought it was hilarious when I watched Smallville a few weeks back.
Chloe, the computer hacker in the group, had to get through 100
firewalls. She did it...and found a video of the guy mocking her. I
thought that was a very good example. If you can keep the crackers
moving in a direction that ultimately gets them nowhere, that is the
best possible route.

So, will we see tripwire applications that ultimately just keep spawning
chroot'd jails that keep the cracker digging and digging for nothing,
ultimately driving the cracker to non-critical appliances that are
designed just to keep entertaining the crackers desires? THen,
ultimately, if the cracker can lock up the appliance, they have a false
feeling of accomplishment?

Ultimately, a digital smoke screen. The goal: Keep them busy...discover
who/what they are. And harden your own security from the tactics you
observe. Oh, and arrest them if you can. :) 

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Re: Wireless security (was linux on odd devices)

[Jason Spatafore]

On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 14:52 -0500, Steven A. DuChene wrote:
> The whole concept of "wireless encryption security" is
> somewhat moot with airdump-ng etc tools. 
> 
> 
> WEP keys are really easy to break.
> 
> WPA is also easily encroached - but harder with a truely
> unique secure key (which few people use)
> 
> 
> It just exists as part of the big "security" matrix to keep
> the honest people out.  Crackers can get right in anyway!

I read through that and thought...not really a joke. 

When you look through it, there's a lot of "if you can do this" and "if
you can do that". The simple solution for routers would be to
kill/ignore signals from any system after 3 failed login attempts for a
specified time out period...just like you do on SSH. Yes, you can change
the source MAC...and, yes, you would get 3 packets, get shut out..and
would have to keep changing the MAC which would, in turn, just take
longer...eventually, the cracker gets bored and looks for the easier
target...as always...and just does a DoS attack because that's all they
can really do in the end.

I'm pretty sure a firmware update (probably forthcoming) can handle that
aspect. 

And, in the end, we *all* know there is no such thing as perfect
security, just like there is no such thing as a perfect deck of cards in
"Magic: The Gathering" or a perfect character in DnD.

I mean, go ahead, set up a wired network...what's to keep me tapping
into your wall, hooking up a digital signaling device, and using that to
hack your now unsecured network? I'm betting you wouldn't run your
cables securely...and, if you did, who says I can't get past that?

It's the same argument over and over again. :) It's all about whether or
not the cracker is determined and whether or not they really desire to
break the law.

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Re: Why has my Firefox quit working?

[Jason Spatafore]

Drop to a command line and type links www.google.com

Is that working?


On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 14:59 -0600, Josef Lowder wrote:
> Why has my Firefox quit working?
> 
> While I have a solid Internet connection and I can connect
> with either ftp or with my Konqueror browser, I just started
> getting the following error message from Firefox:
> 
> Server not found
> Firefox can't find the server at www.google.com.
> * Check the address for typing errors such as
>   ww.example.com instead of
>   www.example.com
> * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
>   connection.
> * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
>   that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
> 
> I have double-checked that the URL addresses I am trying are correct.
> My network connection is fine.
> I've made no changes in Firefox.
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RE: Linux certification

[Jason Spatafore]

Linux+ objectives are changing this year, so I don't think you could
"cram" for the exam quite yet since the newer books will probably be
heading out to the shelves soon. However, I always place stock in the
exam cram and exam prep books as those seem to help tremendously. (I
used exam cram + exam prep for my exam back in 2003.) 

Other good books that are not exam related would be anything from
O'reilly. 

For the "ask and answer" part...I would suggest online communities and
this discussion list. Go to a few install fests. Talk with the
people...most importantly, don't be afraid to sound "stupid"...we all
went through the "Oh crap, I forgot everything is a file" thought. :)

If you feel really ambitious...pick up a book about C programming. Not C
++...C programming. The Linux kernel, and many of the other commands are
programmed in C. This gives you an understanding of the Syntax. Then
there is some knowledge of Perl, Python, etc. You don't need the
advanced knowledge of a programmer, but you do need to get a good hold
on the syntatical differences. This can all be done online for free if
you find the penny pile starting to get a little reduced.

The beauty of Linux...is that experience and community overrules
certification and profit. 



On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 14:08 -0700, Sean Parsons wrote:
> Jason - Thank you for your response.
> 
>   I have spent the last 4-5 months doing the self paced learning, 
> checking out every book I can get but it still falls short of complete as 
> it's one way learning and I can learn faster 2-way, asking questions-getting 
> answers. I have the LPI books on library loan to see if I could pass the 
> test, but seriously I know enough to break a server/workstation better than a 
> newbie.. :)
> 
>   I want to learn more and need to find a place to get that 2-way 
> communication so I can get passed this learning curve. I want to replace 75% 
> of my windows servers in the next 12 months, but want to be more confident in 
> my abilities first.
> 
>   Can you recommend a source for linux+, I have centered on Ubuntu for 
> now as Mandriva and Debian offered me too many challenges, but may be fine 
> after I get up to speed better. So I don't think the distro is a factor 
> yet.
> 
>   I would love to be the guy to figure out how to play my MS games in 
> Linux, as it is now my only reason to keep Windows around in a virtual 
> desktop. Eventually I'd like to use the disks for target practice.. :}
> 
>   Thanks again for your time.
> 
> 
> Sean Parsons
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us 
> [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Jason 
> Spatafore
> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:59 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: Linux certification
> 
> Honestly, get Linux+ and play with Linux day in and day out. If you can
> learn one command, and 3 of that command's most useful options, every
> week, you will start to move forward fast. It's kind of like collecting
> weapons in a video game...the more you have, the more versatile you can
> be. (After 3 years, you'll know 150+ commands...and those 150 commands
> is a HUGE arsenal of weaponry that can make you extremely versatile.) 
> 
> Do not think you can "certify yourself into the industry". Linux is
> beyond an organized structure of system administrationit's a thought
> process. You approach the problem with "what do I need to do?" then "is
> there a command that already does it?" 
> 
> Linux has a community that creates, explores, challenges, and expands.
> If you are going to be a part in that community, you must definitely
> explore...a LOT. 
> 
> That's my advice to anybody who may want to get into Linux. Understand
> that gaming will be your largest challenge...but you could become one of
> the people who will change that drawback. 
> 
> All I have is Linux+...there's also LPI. I, myself, refuse to get a
> distribution specific certification. I want to learn Linux...not one
> company's translation on how it should be. Of course, you could be
> different. If so, Red Hat and Novell (SuSE) have certification tracks as
> well, and they're not for the lighthearted. They're pretty tough, but
> very focused on *their* distributions. 
> 
> Remember, a Linux technician is beyond a guy who replaces a piece of
> hardware or a system administrator who manages systems. A person who is
> known in the Linux community is a combination of hardware technician,
> programmer, and engineer...with a very good understanding of how all the
> pieces mix and match. 
> 
>

Re: Linux certification

[Jason Spatafore]

Honestly, get Linux+ and play with Linux day in and day out. If you can
learn one command, and 3 of that command's most useful options, every
week, you will start to move forward fast. It's kind of like collecting
weapons in a video game...the more you have, the more versatile you can
be. (After 3 years, you'll know 150+ commands...and those 150 commands
is a HUGE arsenal of weaponry that can make you extremely versatile.) 

Do not think you can "certify yourself into the industry". Linux is
beyond an organized structure of system administrationit's a thought
process. You approach the problem with "what do I need to do?" then "is
there a command that already does it?" 

Linux has a community that creates, explores, challenges, and expands.
If you are going to be a part in that community, you must definitely
explore...a LOT. 

That's my advice to anybody who may want to get into Linux. Understand
that gaming will be your largest challenge...but you could become one of
the people who will change that drawback. 

All I have is Linux+...there's also LPI. I, myself, refuse to get a
distribution specific certification. I want to learn Linux...not one
company's translation on how it should be. Of course, you could be
different. If so, Red Hat and Novell (SuSE) have certification tracks as
well, and they're not for the lighthearted. They're pretty tough, but
very focused on *their* distributions. 

Remember, a Linux technician is beyond a guy who replaces a piece of
hardware or a system administrator who manages systems. A person who is
known in the Linux community is a combination of hardware technician,
programmer, and engineer...with a very good understanding of how all the
pieces mix and match. 

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 08:55 -0700, Sean Parsons wrote:
> Hello all –
> 
> I’m new to the group, but have been working in IT fields for longer
> than I want to admit, but I see the error of my ways and I want to
> repent and be saved….. I’m considering getting Linux certification. 
> 
>  
> 
> I am interested in speaking with anyone who has gotten certified, or
> can give me any details about local cert classes or testing.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
>  
> 
> Doorman352
> 
>  
> 
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Re: USB Thumb Drive Issues?

[Jason Spatafore]

Sometimes, you can simply wipe the drive then setup as normal.

dd if=/dev/zero of= bs=512k 

It will wipe with zeroes until completed. Then your drive should be
clean. That will rule out whether there is a chip making it read-only or
the partitioning scheme. 

I do this drive wipe every day on drives and it works pretty well. Those
"secure" drives are a different story as they have a firmware based 1MB
partition you cannot "delete" via traditional means. 



On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 08:17 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:16 PM, mike Enriquez 
> wrote:
> I have a 4GB PNY thumb drive that has issues? It has become
> "Write
> Protected". It is an Optima pro Attache. I searched the net
> and nothing
> that I have found has helped me out.
> Has any one in the group had this happen to them and how did
> you remove
> the write protection.
> I cannot see any special files on it except 2 of my own.
> Any suggestions out there?
> Thanks
> 
> Mike Enriquez
> 
> Hi Mike!
> 
> There are a load of Window$ type repair suggestions here (Since this
> is a known bug in Xp SP2):
> http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-18654-USB-Flash-Drive-Write-protection.html
> 
> Linux solutions are going to be basic drive management:
> 
> plug in usb flash drive and mount (if you don't have automouter)
> 
> dmesg to verify the device:
> 
> # dmesg 
> # mkdir /mnt/usbwork
> # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbwork
> (it might whine that you didn't specify the type if so:)
> # mount -t vfat (or NFS) /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbwork
> # cd /mnt/usbwork
> Copy off your old files
> # cp -r * $HOME  
> # umount /mnt/usbhome
> # fdisk /dev/sda
> 
> Remove all the partitions using  the "d" command.
> create new partitions using the "n" command (you only really need one
> big one)
> set the file type "W95 FAT32 (LBA)"  (or ext3 if making a bootable
> Linux distro) "t" (types will display)
> if this is going to hold a distro set the bootable flag "a"
> check your work:  "p"
> save "w"
> 
> Lay on a file system (that matches your file type):
> 
> mkfs.vfat -I -n USBDRIVE /dev/sda1
> 
> Your drive should work now just fine!
> 
> Reference:  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=346737
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Re: battery problem

[Jason Hayes]

Quick fix if it is running hot - Get one of the cans of pressurized air and put 
the nozzle right up near the heat sink exhaust vents (will be on the back or 
side depending on your model). With the machine off, blow it out - if you get a 
lot of dust coming out, that may have been your problem (impeded air flow = hot 
CPU and/or video card). Most systems that I have seen have an intake and 
outlet for the air flow, so if you blow the air in one side, the dust will come 
out the other.

Once you get it cleaned out, try running it again and see if it runs cooler. 
If not, you may need to pull it apart, give it a real good cleaning, and put 
in some new heat sink compound. I did both with an older Acer laptop that I 
had been using for 3 + years and it ran almost like new. (It had been running 
real hot and shutting down, but after cleaning it out it was good to go.)

The good thing about cleaning the system out before doing the new power brick 
option is that it is free - just your time involved. Bad thing about that 
option is there's lots of little, delicate parts that can cause problems if 
you're not used to pulling things apart and putting them back together.

If you put it back together wrong, you could end up with two non-working 
bricks.

Jason

On Thursday 29 October 2009 01:05:14 pm mike havens wrote:
> Yea, sometimes the fan does seem louder than usual.This is a laptop we're
> talking about though. Do you think I should crack it open and blow it out
>  or just replace the brick. I was further thinking that because the brick
>  seems to fluctuate it's power supply less frequently (the power is more
> consistent) that if I were to replace the battery it would fix the problem
> because the battery has never been replaced and it is about 5 years old.
> 
> On 10/29/09, Dorian Monroe  wrote:
> > Check the fans to be sure they're blowing and there aren't any
> > obstructions or clogged up with dust.  Or if the fans seem to be running
> > on high constantly (or spinning up to a higher rpm frequently).
> >
> > My Thinkpad T60 was overheating and shutting itself down once in a while
> > due to overheating, mostly when playing WoW (windows) or anything else
> > that did a lot of graphics processing.  I opened it up and cleaned off
> > the old heat sink compound and applied some new grease and its been
> > running fine.  I also use a laptop cooler whenever possible, that plugs
> > into the usb port that allows better air circulation than having it sit
> > flat on a table.
> >
> >
> > Sent from my blackberry
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: mike havens 
> > Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:08:50
> > To: Main PLUG discussion list
> > Subject: Re: battery problem
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Re: Linux losing stability?

[Jason Spatafore]

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 21:38 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> On the other hand, I tend to agree with most of what he says taken
> literally.  IOW, it is NOT Linux that lacks stability (I think the
> title was intended to provoke).  And while it would be ideal if the
> ever changing AND improving desktop experience is hugely beneficial,
> the missed details do not help us gain mass acceptance.

The desktop market that Linux is entering into is definitely not stable.
Many packages on the desktop platform are in the 0.x.x phase, meaning
they are not full production releases (take compiz for example). So,
compiz is a 3D desktop and people think "AWESOME!". And it's really
cool...when it works. BUT, it is not stable. Many pieces of software
designed to enhance the user experience are very much in beta phases but
are included in full releases. 

Linux is being hurt by this because people will come to know it as
unstable, which could bleed over to the server market. Look at XSane in
Ubuntu 8.04...release version is 0.995. However, works great for me. But
does it work great for thousands of others? Why is it not full
production release yet after it's been in development for over a decade
now?

Then you got people "jumping the gun" on production releases, such as
the network manager problem people have quoted. We're at 7.x and it's
still not stable? 

But there's another argument that is all too good. You didn't pay for a
Linux distro...you paid for others, and the stability is equal. So, when
you take all that into account, you're not *paying to be a beta tester*
with Linux distros. And that's the key difference. But that excuse will
only last for so long. Remember, Linux has a huge shortcoming on the
Desktop: Gaming. Until gaming is embraced in Linux, the home user is out
of reach. (Although I do remember seeing an advertisement for a
Diablo-like game that is coming out soon. Forgot what that was.)  

That's my take on the whole thing. The author is right..there is
instability. But the author didn't take into account that even on the
desktop, Linux is just as stable as Windows and Mac. The same problems
plague them all. 

And I didn't bring viruses into the discussion yet for a reason. :)


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Re: Flight Simulator

[Jason Spatafore]

Only 1.7 million? That's pretty dang cheap for a full fledged flight
simulator system. Did that include the programming? 



On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 21:47 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/154262,defence-spends-17m-on-ultimate-linux-flight-simulator.aspx
> 

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Re: LAN speed in Ubuntu 9.04

[Jason Spatafore]

You can use ethtool to set the speed of the link. 

ethtool -s  speed 10|100|1000 

And then duplex...

ethtool -s  duplex half|full





On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 14:10 -0700, AZ RUNE wrote:
> Hmm that's what I thoguht (auto-negotiate) I will check with him for
> more info on the speed issue
> 
> > On Sep 5, 2009 12:55 PM, "Eric Shubert"  wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > AZ RUNE wrote: > My buddy has an HP notebook (recent model 14.1 inch
> > screen) that when he > uses th...
> > 
> > What are you seeing that leads you to conclude that "it goes slow"?
> > Ethernet ports typically negotiate the highest speed automatically.
> > Note, GigE ports often don't achieve full speed, due to slower bus
> > speed
> > (the NIC is no longer the slowest link in the chain).
> > 
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OT: Politics/Ethics: Operation PinWale - Obama Administration Seeks Emergency Control of the Internet

[Jason Spatafore]

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 17:16 -0700, Austin William Wright wrote:
> These additional powers being granted to the executive branch must be
> stopped at all costs. We have already seen what happens when we give
> the
> president the (unconstitutional) power to declare war. Do your
> research
> on the bills and write, but especially, phone our senators and your
> representative.

Yes, because "all costs" are defined as "write or phone your senator and
representative". In my book, "all costs" involves murder, mayhem, guns,
armor, and an all out civil war. Be careful about using "all costs" in
any way. 

No, I will continue to demand my right to vote in every election and on
every bill. We are a constitutional republic and I tell you now that I
*do not accept* how this country is being run and how the power lies in
the few. You have provided ample examples already of how tyranny will
continue in this government. I will execute the powers that I have. And
the only power *I* possess is my ability to vote.

And the *few* have already oppressed that enough. 

However, until I am provided the ability to voice my concerns with a
quantifiable result (called a vote), this country *is broken*. I will
not "call my Senator" because, honestly, he isn't going to listen (I'm
not a Republican and therefore, did not scratch his back during the
election). He can't handle all the calls and make the appointments and
take care of his constituents. Sure, when the Constitution was written,
it was possible for a Senator and Representative to keep up with the
1000 constituents he had to report to...but that is not how it is today,
and it doesn't work anymore.

So, continue to bring forth your call to arms and literally *beg* the
elected official to do your bidding. Kiss that butt of Senator McCain
and polish his shoes and maybe he will hear you out. Take him to lunch,
if you can get on his appointment book, and express your concerns, then
hope and pray that he listened. 

And when you find out that all was for naught...that he already made up
his mind long before you came to his office. That you're down a lunch
and the President has the powers (same an granted to him in the Patriot
Act)...when you realize that your Senator didn't even read the bill..and
really didn't care to because he had a golf game to improve..when you
realize that your Senator is *no better* than a direct Democracy, maybe
you'll realize that it's better to have a direct say in the matter and
watch the vote not go your way than beg somebody else to watch the vote
not go your way.

Either way, you may not get what *you* want..but at least in a direct
Democracy, you'll know that your voice was as equal as everybody
else's...and that is saying a lot more than can be said today.




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Re: OT:Re: Politics/Ethics: Operation PinWale - Obama Administration Seeks Emergency Control of the Internet

[Jason Spatafore]

On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 16:30 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> The lobbyists take advantage of said jack asses' laziness.

I can't disagree with that. But you gotta hit the root cause of a
problem, not just the middle man.

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Re: Politics/Ethics: Operation PinWale - Obama Administration Seeks Emergency Control of the Internet

[Jason Spatafore]

On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 16:02 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> How do you deal with the security implications/identity crises that
> computer 
> based voting introduces?

The same way you deal with it with paper voting. You figure out who the
bad guys are and put them in jail. Identity theft is a real threat..but
it really is a minor threat to such a system as a whole. (Especially if
you keep the voting system only routable within the USA boundaries.)

>Who pays for the advertisements and the money that gives the people who
>run 
>for office the power and the footprint to actually get elected? Not me
>or 
>anyone else; the lobbyists who want those people elected, the lobbyists
>who 
>then control those who are in office.

You wouldn't need the elected officials after implementing my plan...so
that would also reduce the lobbyists. (You ban political items from
public airways and setup 3 TV and 3 radio stations across the country
that are political only discussions.)

By the way, I voted for Nader in this election. Yes, he lost...but I did
the right vote for who I wanted. I wasn't blinded by those lobbyists you
speak of. Sorry that I can't believe in the lobbyists corruption theory.
If you're looking for somebody to blame, blame the American people for
being a bunch of lazy jack asses when it comes to elections, not the
lobbyists. Now, of course, I won't succumb to the FUD behind "If people
are lazy now, how lazy do you think they'll be if they had a direct say"
tactic. I wouldn't be scared..because the involved people would rule the
country, and that is how it *should* be.

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Re: Politics/Ethics: Operation PinWale - Obama Administration Seeks Emergency Control of the Internet

[Jason Spatafore]

On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 15:25 -0700, keith smith wrote:
> The constitution provides a limited number of things the Federal
> Government can be involved in. It is the state and the people that
> have all the authority.

Give me direct vote on all laws that are presented to Congress. That is
all I ask. Until then, this conversation is pretty much over. It's going
to be a constant republican vs. democrat vs. independent debate that
constantly occurs every single day. 

Just give me my vote. Don't give the Senator or State Representative my
vote. Give *ME MY VOTE*. 

Until then, everything we say...every action we take, is just rhetorical
and wasteful to our entire society. 

If the people got to vote on national healthcare...it would have already
passed. If the people got to vote on legalizing tobacco sales, they
would be banned. If the people got to vote on legalizing marijuana, it
would still be illegal (by narrow margin). 

But the bottom line is that we don't get to vote. We have to figure out
the smoke screens and guess who the better candidate is. We shouldn't be
figuring out people and betting on them...we should be having our say
and moving on with our day. I propose every Thursday being voting
day..that way, we have our weekends to celebrate and mourn the
results. :) 

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Re: Politics/Ethics: Operation PinWale - Obama Administration Seeks Emergency Control of the Internet

[Jason Spatafore]

On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 15:20 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> > The president is asking for permission...it is up to us to grant it.
> No, it's up to the people who the lobbyists elected.

*YOU* had a direct vote in their election to office and your vote was
just as meaningful as the lobbyists with equal weight. Again, we can say
it's corrupt all we want but *WE* do have a say. We do get to vote. And
we all know that every representative does not represent all their
constituents.

Until the representatives are removed...we will constantly struggle with
this so-called Democracy. Technology has finally caught up to where it
can be used for a direct Democratic country with lower costs than
running elections every two years. Now is the time to start
implementing.

And yes, my first vote is to eliminate paper ballots and bar people
without access to computers from elections. Sorry, a computer is
available almost everywhere you go. It's time to grow with the times and
move on.

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Re: Politics/Ethics: Operation PinWale - Obama Administration Seeks Emergency Control of the Internet

[Jason Spatafore]

On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 13:53 -0700, keith smith wrote:
> Jason you say "Ultimately, there is nothing to fear really.".  There
> is everything to fear and it is illegal.
> 
> Our founding fathers wanted to make sure we were protected from this
> type of thing by giving us the Bill of Rights.

As a government for the people, by the people, things do change. Our
forefather's gave us rights but we, the people, have changed those
rights over the years. Please do not be too focused on a 200 year old
Bill of Rights...things changed, and they were changed in the presence
of the people and were changed by the people. The government is *passing
a bill* for this...that is the proper procedure to make this happen.
Just because it's proposed doesn't mean it is already happening.

The president is asking for permission...it is up to us to grant it. 

Much of what the government is doing is *perfectly legal* according to
the laws. We, the people, just wonder how those laws got in place
sometimes because, well, we have jobs and lives to live.

And I'll tell you now...until I have the ability to directly vote on
every law directly (not representative), I will not rally, testify, or
otherwise engage in our system. I vote. That's the only thing I can
really do. I do not want to sell people on ideas and I do not care to
engage in politics as they are now. 

Give me my right to directly vote on EVERY SINGLE BILL that is going
through the Congress and I will engage. Until then, I snuff my nose at
the layers of bureaucracy and crap in our system. Give me my direct
say. 


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Re: Politics/Ethics: Operation PinWale - Obama Administration Seeks Emergency Control of the Internet

[Jason Spatafore]

On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 09:53 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
> "While the details are unknown, credible evidence indicates that
> billions of everyday communications of ordinary Americans are swept up
> by government computers and run through a process that includes both
> data-mining and review of content, to try to figure out whether any of
> us were involved in illegal or terrorist-related activity. That means
> that even the most personal and private of our electronic
> communications–between doctors and patients, between husbands and
> wives, or between children and parents–are subject to review by
> computer algorithms programmed by government bureaucrats or by the
> bureaucrats themselves. (Cindy Cohn, “Lawless Surveillance,
> Warrantless Rationales,” American Constitution Society, August 17,
> 2009)

Yes, analytics is becoming a very strong force in the market and will
continue to grow. Not only is the government monitoring your
conversations but also private corporations are monitoring your
activities. Turn off third party cookies in Firefox and you'll realize
how much is actually being watched on all the common pages. Have you
ever noticed your browser waiting for something from google-analytics to
finish downloading (say, an invisible GIF?) before a page is fully
loaded? 

Watching your emails is no different than watching your browser, and
your online posts. The good news is that there is no centralized
networking hubs that allow for all data to be analyzed due to the design
of the Internet and it's nuclear holocaust protections. (And monitoring
exit points outside our country is most-likely the goal of the USA's
involvement here.) 

What will happen is that everybody will move to https, the "secure web".
However, there will always be a way to crack and watch that and then
httpss (super secure) will be born...etc. It's a game...always being
played. 

As long as FUD can be played upon, people will be preyed upon. 

My opinion is simple...your government is just as scary as your
corporations. Both of them take the same actions with different
end-games. Governments spy for protection, corporations spy for profits.
Unfortunately, governments are paid for my corporations so you can see
how easily their goals are intertwined.

Ultimately, there is nothing to fear really. People should read the
short story my Marshall Brain called
"MANNA" (http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm). It's almost
"1984'ish" but shows how people need to learn to get the computer to
work *for* people, not people working for the computer. 

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Re: Neighbors Leeching Off Your Wireless? "Try Upside-Down-Ternet"

[Jason Spatafore]

On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 20:16 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> even funnier:  logging the neighbors web usage and showing the log to
> his wife.  lol.
> 
>  -jmz

LOL. That's just pure evil. But yes, that would be damned funny. 



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Re: Neighbors Leeching Off Your Wireless? "Try Upside-Down-Ternet"

[Jason Spatafore]

But it's still funny. :) 


On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 20:00 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
> if I remember correctly, this was on slashdot ages ago...  -jmz
> 
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Ryan Rix wrote:
> > Benjamin Francom wrote:
> >> I came across this pretty amusing link about deterring your neighbors
> >> from stealing your Internet.
> >> It involved splitting the network, iptables, and some redirection.
> >>
> >> http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
> >
> > I tried that last year... my parents were NOT happy :D
> >
> > --
> > Ryan Rix
> > (623)-826-0051
> >
> > Fortune:
> > No one wants war.
> >-- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3201.7
> >
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> > AIM:  phrkonaleash| Yahoo: phrkonaleash
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Re: How to overcome a boot-up endless loop?

[Jason Spatafore]

I doubt it is an application problem. The system worked before and he
didn't mention he had a recent update take place. 

My suspicion is that the partitions on his disk got corrupted. Perhaps
you can grab a bootable Linux and double check your partition tables
then run a fsck on the partition containing root? Probably some screwed
up inode sitting on a bad sector creating the problem. 



On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 23:50 -0700, mike havens wrote:
> what would happen if he just put a comment  character on the line
> 
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Josef Lowder 
> wrote:
> Tried both 'sleep 1' and booting with acpi=off.
> Neither worked.  Still have the same endless error displayed.
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Re: How to overcome a boot-up endless loop?

[Jason Spatafore]

Per this link:

http://fixunix.com/mandriva/250704-boot-i-get-bin-usleep-input-output-error.html

Turn acpi off in boot options. (On booting, type acpi=off into the boot
options.) 

Does that do it?


On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 17:01 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Josef Lowder wrote:
> > Tried changing usleep from 10 to 1
> > and that had no effect.  Still this continuously on the screen
> > until I have to pull the power to stop it.
> > 
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 1333: /bin/usleep: Input Output error
> 
> Change usleep to sleep (no u).
> 

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Re: MySQL DBA

[Jason Spatafore]

Sounds like a good discussion to take place during the next Installfest
since there's really no "agendas" at those. Plus, you may find those
"diamonds in the rough" of people that may be able to enlighten you on
the actual need in the market for such a venture.


On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 19:40 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> I agree Trent. I'd be interested in hashing it over.
> 
> Trent Shipley wrote:
> > I just finished the Master of Science in Information Management at ASU.
> >  I guess there's nothing wrong with hiring a junior level JOAT to run
> > LAMP, and there's certainly nothing wrong with doing this early in your
> > career.  The main downside is that unless the customer/employer gets
> > VERY lucky, they won't get the expert service a large firm would get
> > through specialization.  In theory what these little companies should do
> > is outsource the IT department. This is especially true of non-profits
> > and small government departments where IT isn't strategic.  Outsourcing
> > is more problematic for something like a b2c business where the IT is
> > strategic.  Then you need a way to reconquer IT if your company grows.
> > 
> > What this indicates is a need for professional, multi-disciplinary IT
> > consulting targeting small and medium sized businesses, non-profits, and
> > government units.  The big guys don't want it.  You can charge enough
> > and the meals are too small.  The little guys, like Red7 and Data
> > Doctors, started as repair shops and may have trouble getting into the
> > consultant/contractor rent-an-IT-department mindset.
> > 
> > I think there's definitely an itch here.  I think it would be fun to get
> > together and discuss it.  I'm thinking maybe a professional cooperative
> > as an organizational structure.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Michael Butash wrote:
> >> In my experience in big enterprise to small offices, either you have
> >> "the dude that kinda dabbles with everything", or you have quite
> >> separate roles.  Primarily you would have a SQL Admin/Engineer (just sql
> >> performance/operations/engineering), Linux Engineer (os, apache, sql),
> >> and a Web Dev/Admin/Engineer (php coding, cms, site management).
> >> Usually you also have Security and Network folk in the mix too to keep
> >> things sane.  Sometimes you have one person that likes to dabble in
> >> each, and can varyingly admin them all as so to *get by*, but they're
> >> subsequently "jack of all trades", and typically "master of none" kind
> >> of people.  
> >>
> >> Finding an environment where you can "dabble" professionally in
> >> everything is typically going to be a low-pay, thankless job I would
> >> say, as a company wants 1 person to do *everything*, but will pay low
> >> because they don't know what they really need.  They're often trying to
> >> find their magical unicorn employee that will do everything for little
> >> pay.  Government agencies tend to be fond of these roles, but pay low
> >> enough they really have no expectation of finding someone close, so they
> >> settle for the closest that will actually apply.  They learn and cope as
> >> they can, and move on once they pick one of those skills to focus on in
> >> bigger companies that have already learned the value of the separate
> >> skill sets among employees.
> >>
> >> -mb
> > 
> > 
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 16:27 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
> >>> I am used to seeing jobs involving MySQL as part of positions being
> >>> advertised for a LAMP generalist.  I never respond.  Not only am I not
> >>> particularly competent in any of the components, I have a hard time
> >>> seeing myself as competent to manage that kind of stack.  I actually
> >>> doubt many people are really competent at managing a LAMP stack all by
> >>> themselves.
> >>>
> >>> However, I was recently looking for jobs on DICE and I saw
> >>> advertisements for dedicated MySQL positions -- with more emphasis on
> >>> DBA that development.  I can imagine being a competent DBA.  I taught
> >>> myself to work with Oracle and I like database work.
> >>>
> >>> In the early 2000's Oracle was complex, DB2 somewhat less complex, SQL
> >>> Server was almost friendly in comparison, and MySQL pretty simple to
> >>> administer -- almost a toy compared to the big boys.  How much more
> >>> complex has MySQL gotten in the last five years or so?  What would be
> >>> involved in gaining competence.  Do you think you could read up on
> >>> MySQL, then find people stupid enough to let you work on MySQL
> >>> databases, preferably for money so you could get experience?  How would
> >>> you encourage such stupidity?
> 
> 

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Re: Best way to remove gnome?

[Jason Spatafore]

apt-get remove gnome ??


On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 20:21 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Since I can't get gnome to work with my existing user directories,
> what is the best way to remove all of gnome and then reinstall it on
> Debian squeeze?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Mark
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Re: sort of OT: Linksys router blocking certain sites

[Jason Hayes]

Njorl's saga continues two weeks later -- with somewhat less violence, but 
about the same trouble getting the story finished.

The D-Link router wasn't up to the task - constant resets and hassles keeping 
the wireless connected. So, I was all ready to go out and buy a new router and 
thought, I'd give the old Linksys another go, just to see what would happen.

All's well. No problems with blocked sites ... I have no idea why it works 
now.

Jason


On Monday 03 August 2009 06:15:19 pm Steve Phariss wrote:
> I was kind of suspecting the routing tables might be stored in the flash
> chip and suffered from bit rot. When I was having the problem I had a bit
> less knowledge/experience then I do now.
>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Jason Hayes  wrote:
> > I guess that this must be a Linksys thing then. Everything works fine for
> > a few
> > years and then it digs in its heels and refuses to load the site(s) that
> > you
> > have to be able to access.
> >
> > No solutions for the Linksys router, but I had a D-Link WBR-1310 sitting
> > in a
> > box new and unused here at home. I fired it up and, at least at first
> > blush,
> > everything seems to be back to normal. The sites are loading (a little
> > slow,
> > but they're loading.)
> >
> > No idea what caused that problem.
> >
> > Thanks to everyone who commented!
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > On Sunday 02 August 2009 09:58:11 am Steve Phariss wrote:
> > > I had an old Linksys wired router that was acting the same way.  I was
> >
> > able
> >
> > > to access all sites I tried, but one (the web site was was actively
> >
> > working
> >
> > > on)  I could access from a direct connect to the modem, but not from
> > > the router.  I had Cox reset my modem, I even had them reprovision me
> > > and assign a new IP but nothing worked (hmmm now that I think about it,
> > > the reprovision MAY have worked for a couple times, don;t remember). 
> > > On the router side I reflashed the firmware, and moved the ports I was
> > > using.  I even reloaded my network drivers on the PC.  I eventually got
> > > a new
> >
> > router
> >
> > > and all was well again.  the funny thing was I could access the other
> > > domain on hte same host (used bluehost.com with several domains
> >
> > attached)
> >
> > > I do not remember if I could connect using the IP, may not have even
> >
> > tried.
> >
> > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Bryan O'Neal
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > I am sure this is a stupid question, but have you flashed your
> > > > router?
> >
> > Or
> >
> > > > tried accessing on a different port? You may have a nat lock, though
> > > > I have never heard of one lasting through a power cycle on a Linksys,
> > > > I would not put it past it. Flashing (Or even doing a full factory
> > > > reset) should clear that.
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Jason Hayes 
> >
> > wrote:
> > > >> On Saturday 01 August 2009 04:45:02 pm Lisa Kachold wrote:
> > > >> > On 8/1/09, Jason Hayes  wrote:
> > > >> > > Not sure why this is happening.
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > My Linksys WRT54GS router just suddenly (yesterday a.m.) started
> > > >>
> > > >> blocking
> > > >>
> > > >> > > a group of sites that I administer. I was working on one of the
> > > >> > > sites
> > > >>
> > > >> and
> > > >>
> > > >> > > it started getting slower and slower, then finally cut out.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Are you possibly locked out at that hosting provider?  Ask that
> > > >> > they "escalate your ticket" to the highest level you can to rule
> > > >> > out
> >
> > system
> >
> > > >> > firewall lockouts?
> > > >>
> > > >> Can't be that because if I bypass the router and plug my main
> > > >> computer directly into the Cox modem, I can access the sites without
> > > >> any problems. When
> > > >> I do that I can view the site and sign in as admin, add content,
> > > >> etc.
> > > >>
> > > >> > How are you accessing these sites?  Port 22?  VNC?  http/https
> >
> > through
> >
> >

Re: SAP Basis Admin position

[Jason Spatafore]

LOL. It's for both from what I can read. First, they want you to try and
get it right. Then, if you can't get it right, they want you to be able
to sell the idea that you did get it right. 

In the end, that's how every SAP implementation works. Nobody comes out
of an SAP implementation saying "Wow, that worked out well!" 

On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 23:06 -0700, unixprgrm...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is this for a computer scientist or political scientist?
> 
> Lynn
> 
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Jason Hayes 
> wrote:
> Just happened across this job posting.
> 
> Don't know anything else about it or the company offering the
> position, but
> thought that someone on the list might find it interesting.
> --
> Jason
> -
> SAP Basis Admin
> Location: Phoenix, AZ
> Duration: 12 months
> 
> Expert SAP Basis knowledge supporting a large multi-instance
> environment
> - Experience in supporting operating systems such as AIX/LINUX
> - Experience in storage management, backup and recovery within
> an SAP
> platform.
> - Ability to influence in a matrix environment, demonstrating
> insight, tact,
> political acumen, and diplomacy skills sufficient to foster
> effective relations
> and build consensus within operations communities and
> partners.
> 
> More here:
> 
> http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=101&dockey=xml/c/5/c55d5a1600c2911b5d08a3599879e...@endecaindex&c=1&source=20
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SAP Basis Admin position

[Jason Hayes]

Just happened across this job posting.

Don't know anything else about it or the company offering the position, but 
thought that someone on the list might find it interesting.
-- 
Jason
-
SAP Basis Admin
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Duration: 12 months

Expert SAP Basis knowledge supporting a large multi-instance environment
- Experience in supporting operating systems such as AIX/LINUX
- Experience in storage management, backup and recovery within an SAP 
platform.
- Ability to influence in a matrix environment, demonstrating insight, tact, 
political acumen, and diplomacy skills sufficient to foster effective relations 
and build consensus within operations communities and partners.

More here:  
http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=101&dockey=xml/c/5/c55d5a1600c2911b5d08a3599879e...@endecaindex&c=1&source=20



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Re: dual boot

[Jason Spatafore]

Would another option be that he can boot to floppy and use a different
floppy disk for each OS he wants to boot? I haven't done this but I
remember grub supports something like that. Of course, that's if there's
a floppy drive in the system. 


On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 11:49 -0700, Michael Butash wrote:
> Ubuntu will actually use /boot/grub/menu.lst for the os lists and order
> preferences.  When done reordering, just do "sudo update-grub" and
> reboot.
> 
> I agree with the others, try legacy bios emulation in the bios, or make
> sure it even supports usb devices in the bios to begin with, otherwise
> just use a temp ps2.
> 
> -mb
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 11:00 -0700, Jason Spatafore wrote:
> > Again, you need to find a way to get into BIOS to load USB keyboard
> > support. Find an old PS/2 keyboard, plug it in, and change the BIOS
> > settings for it. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 10:50 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> > > thanks guys -- OK, the keyboard works "after" Ubuntu loads up - can I
> > > then assume that it not the problem?  The machine is not in front of
> > > me...
> > > 
> > > Searching the forums, I don't find much, BUT, looks like I could hit
> > > "e" and edit - changing the boot options so that XP is first??
> > > 
> > > Would that work?
> > > 
> > > At 10:42 AM 8/15/2009, you wrote:
> > > > Is your keyboard working at all prior to the menu being displayed?
> > > > This
> > > > could be a situation where you're using a USB keyboard but the
> > > > keyboard
> > > > won't work before the OS loads. If so, you will need to check your
> > > > BIOS
> > > > settings for a "USB Keyboard Support" option and then enable it. 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 10:26 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> > > > > OK, I have a system that had XP on it; I loaded Ubuntu on it in
> > > > the 
> > > > > dual-boot method, and now, when I boot the system, I can't move
> > > > the 
> > > > > selection to start it in XP...it is set on Ubuntu, and that's
> > > > it..
> > > > > 
> > > > > What am I missing?  I just can't move that selection highlited bar
> > > > to XP...
> > > > > 
> > > > > lyle
> > > > > 
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Re: dual boot

[Jason Spatafore]

Again, you need to find a way to get into BIOS to load USB keyboard
support. Find an old PS/2 keyboard, plug it in, and change the BIOS
settings for it. 



On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 10:50 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> thanks guys -- OK, the keyboard works "after" Ubuntu loads up - can I
> then assume that it not the problem?  The machine is not in front of
> me...
> 
> Searching the forums, I don't find much, BUT, looks like I could hit
> "e" and edit - changing the boot options so that XP is first??
> 
> Would that work?
> 
> At 10:42 AM 8/15/2009, you wrote:
> > Is your keyboard working at all prior to the menu being displayed?
> > This
> > could be a situation where you're using a USB keyboard but the
> > keyboard
> > won't work before the OS loads. If so, you will need to check your
> > BIOS
> > settings for a "USB Keyboard Support" option and then enable it. 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 10:26 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> > > OK, I have a system that had XP on it; I loaded Ubuntu on it in
> > the 
> > > dual-boot method, and now, when I boot the system, I can't move
> > the 
> > > selection to start it in XP...it is set on Ubuntu, and that's
> > it..
> > > 
> > > What am I missing?  I just can't move that selection highlited bar
> > to XP...
> > > 
> > > lyle
> > > 
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Re: dual boot

[Jason Spatafore]

Is your keyboard working at all prior to the menu being displayed? This
could be a situation where you're using a USB keyboard but the keyboard
won't work before the OS loads. If so, you will need to check your BIOS
settings for a "USB Keyboard Support" option and then enable it. 


On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 10:26 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
> OK, I have a system that had XP on it; I loaded Ubuntu on it in the 
> dual-boot method, and now, when I boot the system, I can't move the 
> selection to start it in XP...it is set on Ubuntu, and that's it..
> 
> What am I missing?  I just can't move that selection highlited bar to 
> XP...
> 
> lyle
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OT: Microsoft Word Banned?

[Jason Spatafore]

This one has me confused. How does MS fight such a ban of sale of their
product?

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219200383&cid=nl_IW_daily_txt

I just got back on the list...it's good to be back. :) 

Jason

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Re: sort of OT: Linksys router blocking certain sites

[Jason Hayes]

I guess that this must be a Linksys thing then. Everything works fine for a few 
years and then it digs in its heels and refuses to load the site(s) that you 
have to be able to access.

No solutions for the Linksys router, but I had a D-Link WBR-1310 sitting in a 
box new and unused here at home. I fired it up and, at least at first blush, 
everything seems to be back to normal. The sites are loading (a little slow, 
but they're loading.)

No idea what caused that problem.

Thanks to everyone who commented!

Jason


On Sunday 02 August 2009 09:58:11 am Steve Phariss wrote:
> I had an old Linksys wired router that was acting the same way.  I was able
> to access all sites I tried, but one (the web site was was actively working
> on)  I could access from a direct connect to the modem, but not from the
> router.  I had Cox reset my modem, I even had them reprovision me and
> assign a new IP but nothing worked (hmmm now that I think about it, the
> reprovision MAY have worked for a couple times, don;t remember).  On the
> router side I reflashed the firmware, and moved the ports I was using.  I
> even reloaded my network drivers on the PC.  I eventually got a new router
> and all was well again.  the funny thing was I could access the other
> domain on hte same host (used bluehost.com with several domains attached)
>
>
> I do not remember if I could connect using the IP, may not have even tried.
>
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Bryan O'Neal 
wrote:
> > I am sure this is a stupid question, but have you flashed your router? Or
> > tried accessing on a different port? You may have a nat lock, though I
> > have never heard of one lasting through a power cycle on a Linksys, I
> > would not put it past it. Flashing (Or even doing a full factory reset)
> > should clear that.
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Jason Hayes  wrote:
> >> On Saturday 01 August 2009 04:45:02 pm Lisa Kachold wrote:
> >> > On 8/1/09, Jason Hayes  wrote:
> >> > > Not sure why this is happening.
> >> > >
> >> > > My Linksys WRT54GS router just suddenly (yesterday a.m.) started
> >>
> >> blocking
> >>
> >> > > a group of sites that I administer. I was working on one of the
> >> > > sites
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> > > it started getting slower and slower, then finally cut out.
> >> >
> >> > Are you possibly locked out at that hosting provider?  Ask that they
> >> > "escalate your ticket" to the highest level you can to rule out system
> >> > firewall lockouts?
> >>
> >> Can't be that because if I bypass the router and plug my main computer
> >> directly into the Cox modem, I can access the sites without any
> >> problems. When
> >> I do that I can view the site and sign in as admin, add content, etc.
> >>
> >> > How are you accessing these sites?  Port 22?  VNC?  http/https through
> >> > auth processes?
> >>
> >> Nothing terribly complex -- Just http. These are simple drupal websites
> >> that I
> >> have set up for clients. I was working on a new theme for one of the
> >> websites
> >> (www.bonnydann.com), when the router started acting up.
> >>
> >> Also noticed that when I'm running through the Linksys router, I can log
> >> in to
> >> the ftp portion of the site for file uploads, etc. without any problems.
> >> I'm
> >> also getting email from the accounts on that hosting package. So I know
> >> it is
> >> just the web portion (http) that is acting up.
> >>
> >> > > I know the sites are working because if I plug straight into the
> >>
> >> modem, I
> >>
> >> > > can
> >> > > access them. (Also family in Canada can access them without any
> >>
> >> issues.)
> >>
> >> > > Also,
> >> > > the rest of the Internet is still out there - I can access pretty
> >> > > much any other site.
> >> >
> >> > So, you possibly can't get a new cox IP address but you can request
> >> > they verify you did not get into one of their traps?
> >> >
> >> > Let's look further:
> >> >
> >> > 1) Can you traceroute from the command line to the server?  If not
> >> > where does it fail?
> >>
> >> From the router Administration --> Diagnostics page on the WRT54GS, I
> >> can ping
> >> to the site, no packets lost
> >>
> >&

Re: sort of OT: Linksys router blocking certain sites

[Jason Hayes]

On Saturday 01 August 2009 04:45:02 pm Lisa Kachold wrote:
> On 8/1/09, Jason Hayes  wrote:
> > Not sure why this is happening.
> >
> > My Linksys WRT54GS router just suddenly (yesterday a.m.) started blocking
> > a group of sites that I administer. I was working on one of the sites and
> > it started getting slower and slower, then finally cut out.
>
> Are you possibly locked out at that hosting provider?  Ask that they
> "escalate your ticket" to the highest level you can to rule out system
> firewall lockouts?

Can't be that because if I bypass the router and plug my main computer 
directly into the Cox modem, I can access the sites without any problems. When 
I do that I can view the site and sign in as admin, add content, etc.

> How are you accessing these sites?  Port 22?  VNC?  http/https through
> auth processes?

Nothing terribly complex -- Just http. These are simple drupal websites that I 
have set up for clients. I was working on a new theme for one of the websites 
(www.bonnydann.com), when the router started acting up.

Also noticed that when I'm running through the Linksys router, I can log in to 
the ftp portion of the site for file uploads, etc. without any problems. I'm 
also getting email from the accounts on that hosting package. So I know it is 
just the web portion (http) that is acting up.

> > I know the sites are working because if I plug straight into the modem, I
> > can
> > access them. (Also family in Canada can access them without any issues.)
> > Also,
> > the rest of the Internet is still out there - I can access pretty much
> > any other site.
>
> So, you possibly can't get a new cox IP address but you can request
> they verify you did not get into one of their traps?
>
> Let's look further:
>
> 1) Can you traceroute from the command line to the server?  If not
> where does it fail?

>From the router Administration --> Diagnostics page on the WRT54GS, I can ping 
to the site, no packets lost

PING bonnydann.com ( 66.116.193.208 ) : 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.116.193.208: icmp_seq=0, ttl=52 times=70. ms
64 bytes from 66.116.193.208: icmp_seq=1, ttl=52 times=70. ms
64 bytes from 66.116.193.208: icmp_seq=2, ttl=52 times=70. ms
64 bytes from 66.116.193.208: icmp_seq=3, ttl=52 times=70. ms
64 bytes from 66.116.193.208: icmp_seq=4, ttl=52 times=80. ms
--- bonnydann.com ping statistics ---
packets transmitted = 5 , packets received = 5 packet loss = 0%
round-trip min/avg/max = 70/72/80

Can also traceroute to the site

traceroute to bonnydann.com (66.116.193.208) ,30 hops max,40 byte packet
1 10.35.128.1 (10.35.128.1) 10. 0 ms <10.0 ms <10.0 ms
2 68.2.1.253 (68.2.1.253) <10.0 ms <10.0 ms <10.0 ms
3 70.169.73.45 (70.169.73.45) 10. 0 ms 10. 0 ms <10.0 ms
4 68.1.0.165 (68.1.0.165) 10. 0 ms 10. 0 ms 10. 0 ms
5 4.69.133.34 (4.69.133.34) 10. 0 ms 10. 0 ms 10. 0 ms
6 4.69.133.38 (4.69.133.38) 20. 0 ms 30. 0 ms 20. 0 ms
7 4.69.144.138 (4.69.144.138) 20. 0 ms * 20. 0 ms
8 63.146.27.33 (63.146.27.33) 20. 0 ms 20. 0 ms 30. 0 ms
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 63.144.63.214 (63.144.63.214) 70. 0 ms 80. 0 ms 70. 0 ms
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 66.116.193.208 (66.116.193.208) 70. 0 ms 80. 0 ms 70. 0 ms
Traceroute Complete.

> 2) If you limit icmp, can you netcat trace to that port?
> http://www.jfranken.de/homepages/johannes/vortraege/netcat.en.html

Looking at his "querying webservers" section and using 

printf 'GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n'  | nc -w 10 www.bonnydann.com 80

I get 

www.bonnydann.com [66.116.193.208] 80 (www) : Connection timed out

When I unplug the WRT54GS and plug straight into the modem, I get

HTTP/1.1 503
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:15:40 GMT 
Server: Apache  
Cache-Control: store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.9   
Set-Cookie: 
SESSd41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e=bfe600d5c18c137cd565b33c1be80cd0; 
expires=Tuesday, 25-Aug-09 06:49:00 GMT; path=/  
Cache-Control: max-age=1209600  
Expires: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:15:40 GMT  
Last-Modified: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:15:40 GMT
Connection: close   
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8  

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>  
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">
  

Re: sort of OT: Linksys router blocking certain sites

[Jason Hayes]

On Saturday 01 August 2009 04:53:12 pm Lisa Kachold wrote:
> Also, DO NOT SAVE YOUR router password in your browser protected cache!
>
> CRSF, MITM ssl, XSS exploits and other javascript naughtiness can play
> havok on your sanity!
>
> Do not do it.  Make sure it's a great number of characters.
>
> Also, DO NOT advertise your SSID; USE WEP2 (just using Mac address
> alone will not be enough) and be sure that your router doesn't have a
> lot of blank 00:00:00:00:00:00 entries, because it's trivial to setup
> your mac address for 6 sets of zeros.


Thanks for the ideas. Have to run out for a few minutes, but will take a look 
at your suggestions when I get back.

Jason


>
> On 8/1/09, Lisa Kachold  wrote:
> > On 8/1/09, Jason Hayes  wrote:
> >> Not sure why this is happening.
> >>
> >> My Linksys WRT54GS router just suddenly (yesterday a.m.) started
> >> blocking a
> >> group of sites that I administer. I was working on one of the sites and
> >> it
> >> started getting slower and slower, then finally cut out.
> >
> > Are you possibly locked out at that hosting provider?  Ask that they
> > "escalate your ticket" to the highest level you can to rule out system
> > firewall lockouts?
> >
> > How are you accessing these sites?  Port 22?  VNC?  http/https through
> > auth processes?
> >
> >> I know the sites are working because if I plug straight into the modem,
> >> I can
> >> access them. (Also family in Canada can access them without any issues.)
> >> Also,
> >> the rest of the Internet is still out there - I can access pretty much
> >> any
> >> other site.
> >
> > So, you possibly can't get a new cox IP address but you can request
> > they verify you did not get into one of their traps?
> >
> > Let's look further:
> >
> > 1) Can you traceroute from the command line to the server?  If not
> > where does it fail?
> >
> > 2) If you limit icmp, can you netcat trace to that port?
> > http://www.jfranken.de/homepages/johannes/vortraege/netcat.en.html
> >
> > http://www.textfiles.com/hacking/INTERNET/netcat.txt
> >
> > 3) Or nmap the server?
> >
> > # nmap -P0 servername
> >
> >> I've talked with my hosting company and they swear up and down that
> >> nothing
> >> has changed and the sites are working as normal.
> >
> > Do you have cookies in place - clear your browser cookies?  Try another
> > browser?
> >
> > Netcat, traceroute and nmap will bypass the browser, but just in case...
> >
> > Also did you change your dns server settings in your /etc/resolv.conf?
> > Check to make sure your nslookup is the same.
> >
> > Did you possibly setup a hosts file hack to work on a mock up of the
> > website and forget it on your own box?  Verify /etc/hosts file...
> >
> >> While fighting with this, I've updated the firmware (to the latest
> >> version -
> >> V
> >> 7.2.06), reset all the settings to factory default, and re-set up my
> >> home network.
> >
> > Are other machines on your network doing the same thing?
> > Have someone come over and fire up their laptop to rule out XSS
> > plugins and other hacks?
> >
> >> Everything is fine except for those few websites. Anyone ever seen
> >> anything
> >> like this?
> >> --
> >> Jason Hayes
> >
> > --
> > http://linuxgazette.net/165/kachold.html
> > (623)239-3392
> > (503)754-4452 www.obnosis.com


-- 
Jason Hayes

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Re: sort of OT: Linksys router blocking certain sites

[Jason Hayes]

On Saturday 01 August 2009 04:06:06 pm Jim March wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Jason Hayes wrote:
> > Not sure why this is happening.
> >
> > My Linksys WRT54GS router just suddenly (yesterday a.m.) started blocking
> > a group of sites that I administer. I was working on one of the sites and
> > it started getting slower and slower, then finally cut out.
>
> Odd.  There's Windows malware in the wild that knows the default
> username/passwords (and IP addresses) for various routers and tries to
> hack them.  Any Windows stations, and did you change the admin
> password for the router?

"Odd" - That was my take on it.

I do have Windows machines that connect via wireless to the router. They all 
have ZoneAlarm and AVG 8.5 protecting them as well.

Additionally, all of the wireless connections are limited by the Wireless MAC 
filter on the router. I have that set to permit access only for those PCs that 
I have listed on the MAC filter list.

And yes, I did change the default admin password.

The problem still exists even after changing the admin password and upgrading 
to the new firmware.
-- 
Jason Hayes

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