Re: [vox-tech] CalDAV
http://www.bedework.org/bedework/ Bedework is an open source calendering server that appears to follow all of the open spec'd caldav stuff and be very compatible. UC Berkeley is rolling it out for the campus. I'm not sure what's involved for getting it up and running though. :( == Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:42:24 -0400 From: Peter Salzman Subject: [vox-tech] CalDAV To: vox-tech Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I'd like to be able to serve calendar events to Google Calendar, iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry users. I did some research and found that CalDAV is the protocol that I need to look at. Ubuntu has something called calendarserver which I think serves up CalDAV data. However, I've also read hints that this would work for Google Calendar users, but not necessarily for mobile phone users because the mobile phones use proprietary extensions. This is totally uncharted territory for me. I was wondering if anyone has done this, and if so, what's the scoop on serving calendars to mobile phone users. Thanks! Pete ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] 50 Mb/s from wave broadband
In NC, Time Warner is launching 30 / 5 and 50 down residential plans. Recent chatter on the lug there, for example: ( http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20110328/063088.html ) For kicks, I wrote my provider's customer support email to ask about faster internet and looks like wow they are doing it. Good news for any Wave customers on the list! (Wave Broadband - aka Charter serves West Sac and Winters) fromCustomer Service sender-time Sent at 15:28 (GMT-07:00). Current time there: 8:51 AM. ✆ dateSun, Apr 10, 2011 at 15:28 subject RE: WaveBroadband.com Customer Service Request - Internet Service - Sun Apr 10 13:18:15 2011 mailed-by wavebroadband.com We are working on launching a 50 Mbps speed in all of our areas. Some already have it. We plan on having it to all of our areas by the end of the year. Thank you, Wave Broadband ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] ubuntu/linux sound problem
sudo apt-get remove --purge pulseaudio Then reboot. :) On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 10:34 -0500, Hai Yi wrote: > Hello there: > > > I am using Ubuntu 9.10. I started a program, amsn with this cute > beeping sound - it works alright. Now I started mplayer to play the > dvd, no sound for the dvd! and I am watching silent movie! > > I think this is a common problem since i ran into it many times, did > some google, still no idea. > > Anyone out there can help me trouble shooting the problem? > > Thanks a lot! > Hai > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Seeking Router Advice
If your router can't do WPA2, chances are it's an 802.11b router. There are speed benefits to having 802.11g or 802.11n router + similarly capable wifi cards in your computers. :) On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:37, Harold Lee wrote: > Another thing you might try: I've installed the open source DD-WRT > firmware on older wireless routers. It has worked well for me. It > supports WPA2 and has a solid reputation. I know it runs on Linksys > and D-Link routers, not sure about your model. > > Harold > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Alex Mandel > wrote: >> On 10/29/2010 11:01 AM, Bob Scofield wrote: >>> I am asking the following questions in regard to a wireless router I use in >>> my >>> home. >>> >>> I recently attended a class where I was told that one should use WPA2 if it >>> is >>> available. I have an old D-Link (DI 614) which is not longer supported by >>> D-Link. It's been good. I've had no problems with it. Right now I've got >>> it set up with WEP and MAC filtering. I could use WPA, but it cannot use >>> WPA2. >>> >>> I saw a discussion on the Internet where people were saying that WPA2 is not >>> really better than WPA. People were saying that WPA2 was just being pushed >>> so that vendors could sell more products. Here are three question: >>> >>> 1) Should I get a new router just to use WPA2? >> Depends, what is the density of your neighborhood? How strong is your >> current router (ie how far outside your walls does the signal reach? >> Would plugging into a wire be acceptable for things that you're paranoid >> about (ie Credit Card transactions). >> Sorry I'm not familiar with the difference between WPA and WPA2. >> >>> 2) How new would the computers in my family have to be to use WPA2? >> WPA2 in my understanding is a software thing, so theoretically any >> hardware could run it if the proper driver is supplied. Doable on any >> recent version of linux, but on other OS's with older hardware may not >> be possible without a vendor provided driver. >>> >>> 3) If I did get a new router, what would be a good one to get? >>> >> I've had good times with Netgear and ASUS routers. My 2 current ones are >> also open source variants that are hackable, and include things like >> OpenVPN etc. >> >>> I've been happy with D-Link, but I've had occasions where my laptop with an >>> Atheros card could not connect with a Linksys router in Linux, but could >>> connect with Windows. >>> >>> Thank you for any advice. >>> >>> Bob >> >> Enjoy, >> Alex >> ___ >> vox-tech mailing list >> vox-tech@lists.lugod.org >> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >> > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Experiences with linode or similar?
I am a linode user. It's great! The only 'bad' thing (depending on your use or who you ask) is disk space. You do get 16GB in the $20 plan which is enough for me. Understand these are 15k SAS drives, so it's expensive storage but crazy fast performance. The cpu is a 4 core Xeon. I've never been able to utilize all of the available CPU. Linode has a very good control panel, iphone app, and DNS manager tools. Forum is there and friendly, but not very active. I highly recommend Linode, On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 16:05, Bruce Wolk wrote: > I have a VPS on Slicehost and am very satisfied. I pay $20/mo for a > 256M slice, which is large enough for my Django database app with MySQL > as the back end. I use Nginx as the webserver and gunicorn for the > WSGI. It looks like Linode gives you a bigger slice (512 v. 256) for > the same amount of money though. > > Bruce > > On 10/21/2010 02:08 PM, Harold Lee wrote: >> Hey, >> >> Can anyone share experiences with Linux VPS hosting services like >> linode? I'd be interested to hear about a bunch of different hosting >> providers in that entry-level price range. >> >> Harold >> ___ >> vox-tech mailing list >> vox-tech@lists.lugod.org >> http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >> > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] mod_imap.so in Apache2 on Debian
I think in apache2 mod_imap was renamed to this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_imagemap.html On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 01:44, Brian Lavender wrote: > I have some old server side image map files for my web site. > > Anyone know what happened to the mod_imap.so in Apache2 on Debian? > > It seems to be missing on my system. > > brian > -- > Brian Lavender > http://www.brie.com/brian/ > > "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to > make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other > way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." > > Professor C. A. R. Hoare > The 1980 Turing award lecture > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Need Windows PDF Reader
Foxit is another one. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/index.php Just be sure to disable javascript from the preferences. (Why do PDFs need javascript?? ) -- Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] linode
I just got an account and a dedicated vm at linode.com. So far I'm pretty impressed! Anyone else use linode? They have an iPhone app where you can click to reboot your server, or deploy a new machine. Crazy. More interesting are their distro stats on the right side of this page: http://www.linode.com/about/ * 48% of deployments are Ubuntu * 24% of deployments are Debian * 16% of deployments are CentOS * 4.3% of deployments are Fedora * 3.1% of deployments are Gentoo :) Scott signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] how to find the self-installed libs?
Yeah you may simply need to install this: libx264-dev On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 12:32 -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > Configure scripts usually require -dev packages in order to work. -- Scott signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] ssd and swap
Anyone using an SSD? I've got one on the way to use as a boot drive, and am pondering not having swap at all. Is this crazy? In the Windows world I see persons advising turning off the Windows page file when using an SSD. I have a lot of ram: 8GB. :) But is it risky to not have a swap? Thanks for your input, -- Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Looking for a Sunbird (Google Calendar) replacement
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/download.html Yeah looks like sunbird is not in development anymore. Their site says "This is the last public Sunbird release by the Calendar Project. We recommend upgrading to Thunderbird 3 and Lightning 1.0 beta1." :/ On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 04:47 -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > Somehow, Tony replied to "vox-tech-bounces" rather than "vox-tech". :^? > > -bill! > > - Forwarded message from mailman-boun...@lists.lugod.org - > > Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 23:10:52 -0700 > From: mailman-boun...@lists.lugod.org > Subject: Uncaught bounce notification > To: vox-tech-ow...@lists.lugod.org > > The attached message was received as a bounce, but either the bounce > format was not recognized, or no member addresses could be extracted > from it. This mailing list has been configured to send all > unrecognized bounce messages to the list administrator(s). > > For more information see: > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/admin/vox-tech/bounce > > > Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 23:00:47 -0700 > From: Tony Cratz > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Looking for a Sunbird (Google Calendar) replacement > To: vox-tech-boun...@lists.lugod.org > > Alex Mandel wrote: > > It was never "supported" by canonical and could have been dropped simply > > because no one maintained the package. It remains available just not in > > the default repositories from Ubuntu. Binaries are on the mozilla website. > > > > You might also find a build on Launchpad or try the Lightning extension > > for Thunderbird (which is very linked to sunbird development). > > Yes I know I can download it from Mozilla but I really > would like to have it as a package so I don't have to worry > about updating it myself. > > Right now I'm taking a look at Osmo. It may do some of what I > need but it is not really what I want. > > > Tony > > > - End forwarded message - > -- Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] my site was hacked
You can alter a site's home page (or do more) with types of injection. :( This random article has pictures of an example: http://www.technicalinfo.net/papers/CSS.html (See: Putting It All Together) So depending on the site's places of 'input' - (search boxes, comment boxes, even the address bar can be used) it is possible to inject code and potentially do whatever you want. Depending on the situation it may or may not be a security problem of the hosting company but could be a vulnerability in a specific site's code. Especially with PHP. PHP calendars, guestbooks, blogs, etc are constant targets. If this was an injection, and if you have access to the apache logs you can see what exact ip address made the injection, and such. Look for POST in the logs. A lot of times hackers will try again and again for several days (weeks) posting random scripts until they get it. So there can be a long track record recorded in the apache logs. On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:31, Hai Yi wrote: > Gandalf: Thank you for the detailed explaination, I'll read it again. > I checked my pages, only index.html was replaced, what really upset me > is that now it's 48 hours after I sent the request to the ISP, still > no response; I can understand now hacking does happend and I can fix > the problem myself, but their services disappoint me. -- Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] grub boot recovery image
The Dell Ubuntu PCs come with a recovery partition - with an Ubuntu image. :) Scott On Dec 23, 2009, at 21:44, Jim wrote: > Greetings: > My boss had a laptop that would not boot into vista because of a > virus. > I was about to pop in a live cd but found that this 'dell' laptop gave > me an option for recovery. It let me rewrite the hard drive with an > image that was fresh from factory i.e. day 1 configuration. My boss > didn't have anything important so I did just that and it worked like a > charm. > > Intrigued with this I was wondering if this can be done with linux. > Lets say that I built a pc w/ oh I don't know, ubuntu, and I wanted to > have the same setup as my bosses pc had. Can this be done and be as > user friendly with linux? Could I somehow make grub boot into some > sort > of gui script that can have a presaved image file of a fresh install > on > that pc? Mind you this should be simple to use for the masses out > there > that aren't computer savy, like me :) > > I know quite a bit about cars, I know very little about computers. > > Jim > > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] wavebroadband
Anyone here locally have wave broadband? Are there any restrictions on ports, or restrictions on using various smtp servers of choice? -- Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Quicktime/mov
Apple started blocking any player except Quicktime from their trailers page. This was on reddit recently. :( Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] home server choice
Well any computer will work for a home server. From a random old pentium laptop, some old donated pentium III machine, or a big expensive honkin' box. That particular Dell is ok, but consider it is not quiet nor low powered. Also it will require (noisy) SCSI drives (). Redhat is great, but unless you need to pay Redhat for a support contract there are other good free options. (Ubuntu!) FWIW my home "server" is a $149 MSI Wind Atom-based box, Scott On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Hai Yi wrote: > I plan to have a stable server at home, as my data center. > Some friend recommended Dell Precision 470, saying it's a workstation > with server configuration and i can get it cheap from ebay; other > recommended to build a machine (if this is a better idea, can i have a > part list?) > I want to have something stable, 24/7 for one month before being > restarted and not very noisy with low electricity consumption. > I am also thinking of installing a redhat on it. > > These are just a few thoughts, tentatively. > > Anyone can give me some good ideas? > > Thanks for all the help in advanced! > > Hai > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Most efficient way to wipe hard drives
http://16systems.com/zero This page used to have a $500 challenge to anyone who could recover data after a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda Maybe someone met the challenge? :P -- Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Linux and video chat
I use skype to video chat on Linux quite often as well and it works great for me. The call and video quality is very good compared to the others esp after doing the 'high quality hack' to your skype config file. Scott On Friday 14 August 2009 22:30:04 Bill Broadley wrote: > Norm Matloff wrote: > > Skype gave a TCP/IP error > > message, which according to the Web is pretty standard for Skype on > > Linux. > > I've been considering alternatives to skype, but I use it every weekend and > it works well for me. I occasionally use video and it works with my random > logitech usb cam. I tried it with cheese then click test in skype and it > just worked. > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Converting video for Facebook
https://launchpad.net/~handbrake-ubuntu/+archive/ppa Yeah there's a PPA though the Handbrake folks most kindly provide a deb right on their site. It took me tons of hunting around to find the command to actually run the darn thing: ghb On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:33, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:29:36AM -0700, Al Lenaburg wrote: >> Hey Bill, >> >> I second what Alex said - Handbrake for Linux is a very cool little app. >> I was really frustrated trying to add video to my new Palm Pre - until >> another >> computer friend of mine suggested Handbrake - Worked like a charm. > > I like simplification, so even though Handbrake isn't in Ubuntu's > repository (yet), I'm downloading it and will give it a go. :) > > I think I've heard of it before, and it looks like the recent version > (from Nov 2008) is pretty featureful. Looking forward to trying it. > > Thanks you two! > > -bill! > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] need a raid card for linux
Hey Ryan for software raid you don't need a raid card. So any sort of regular sata add-on card will do. Anything VIA based works great. Scott On Aug 8, 2009, at 14:39, "Ryan" wrote: > I need a card that fits the following: > > Works in a PCIe 1x slot > 4 ports of SATA II > has stock in-kernel support > decent speed > won't overuse my cpu > > I don't care about: > > Hardware raid... I'm using software raid and it works fine for me. > > Thanks. > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Kubuntu (KDE4) and power button
Hey Bill, That was a bug in a certain KDE 4.something release. There was no correct acpi action with power buttons. If you upgrade to KDE4.3 with a ppa, that will most likely be fixed: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2.98 (That fixed it for me!) On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 15:27, Ken Bloom wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 15:19 -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: >> Ok, I have not figured out where, in KDE4, to tell my system to _NOT_ >> "shut down immediately, no questions asked" when the power button is pushed. >> (Which my son loves to do, so he can see the big kubuntu logo during >> shutdown.) -- Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Large File Server - File System?
ext4 has better large file support in performance and reliability I believe. Don't quote me on that, but I've read that somewhere(?) So if the ext4 development is stable that might be a good option if going the ext route. Sounds like an awesome server. On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 15:44, Ted Deppner wrote: > Cheap insurance against the need to change things. The only overhead > expense that would matter (because CPU and disk won't) would be your > time, differing between learning and using LVM versus having to change > something the hard way later on. > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Alex Mandel > wrote: >> I think I'm missing why LVM would be good in this situation, it seems >> like extra overhead. RAID 6 in this case offers hot swapping of up to 2 >> failing drives at the same time, so I don't plan to do any mirroring >> beyond what the RAID config offers. As for the need to change >> partitions, aside from the OS which might have it's own drives, the rest >> of the drives are all 1 partition of 8 TB. > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Firefox 3.5
This page has good info on new features: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/performance/ On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 08:51, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > http://www.slashgear.com/firefox-3-5-released-faster-javascript-location-aware-new-privacy-features-3048323/ > > Firefox 3.5 brings with it the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, said to > be more than twice as fast as in v3.0 and ten times faster than Firefox 2 > > But it's hard to gauge these kinds of statements - it most likely means > "Firefox 3.5 for Windows". Not sure if this is true for Linux. > > -- Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] download manager c++ code
Can't help with the c++, but there are sites that do this as well like: http://keepvid.com/ Scott On Jun 22, 2009, at 20:30, Ken Bloom wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 22:12 -0400, Hai Yi wrote: >> Hello there: >> >> I am looking for some c++ component or snippet, which is basically a >> download manager. For example, when a url link of youtube is feeded, >> the corresponding video file will be downloaded. >> >> I did some google but unfortuately couldn't find any viable ones. >> >> Anyone out there are able to help me on it? > > Unfortunately, your example (of a YouTube download) is not the same as > the general case of a direct link, because downloading a YouTube video > isn't a direct link. > > If you're looking for software for downloading a YouTube video, look > at > youtube-dl or clive, both of which are command-line programs for > downloading YouTube videos, given the YouTube page URL. (This is good, > for example, when you don't have a flash browser plugin installed -- > the > resulting video can be played as an mp4 using mplayer). > > As for general download mangers here are the choices I see in apt-get: > > d4x - graphical download manager > gwget - GNOME front-end for wget > kget - download manager for KDE 4 > multiget - graphical download manager > wmget - Background download manager in a Window Maker dock app > > kget, in particular has a shared library that must expose an API for > interacting with kget. > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Need Partitioning Advice
Hey Bob you'll probably get lots of different responses, but my two cents are: 2GB swap 20GB / everything else /home Scott On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:15, Bob Scofield wrote: > I'm planning to install Linux on my wife's computer because she does not like > Vista. I'm going to create a dual boot and will have 111GB for Linux. > > I am thinking of a simple partitioning system with separate partitions for: > > / > /home > swap > > My wife has 2GB of RAM, and I was thinking of making swap 4GB. > > My first question is how big should / be? On my desktop it's 8GB, and on my > laptop it's 13GB. I'm not anywhere near using up the space on either of > those machines. How about 13GB? > > I notice that my desktop has a separate partition for /tmp. Should I create a > separate /tmp partition for my wife? If so, how big should it be? > > Is there any special difficulty in creating a dual boot system with Vista? > > Thank you. > > Bob > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] What could be interfering with my wireless
Hey Richard, Try putting the router wifi on either channel 1 or 11. Those are the best to use. This almost sounds like an interference thing. Scott On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:09, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 06:20:46PM -0700, Richard S. Crawford wrote: >> Every so often, the WAP drops its signal, which isn't too surprising. >> What's surprising and extremely annoying is that it appears that some >> process on my own computer -- 192.168.1.110 -- causes the WAP to drop >> its signal, which boots my wife off the Internet. Sometimes the >> problem can be resolved by power cycling the WAP, but sometimes I have >> to reboot my own computer before her connection can be re-established. > > This sounds similar to an issue my laptop and my wife's laptop have been > having now and then. (Though sometimes I swear adding an icepack to my > laptop makes its Wifi more reliable.) If she turns on her computer after > it having been off, I'm suddenly booted from the net. > > We have an all-in-one wireless router (*man i need glasses*) WRT545G, FWIW. > > -bill! > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] rinetd - get around only having port 80
Episode 512 of hak5 < http://www.hak5.org/ > gives a brief demo of rinetd. It's in apt-get from ubuntu and debian. It appears rinetd is a way around wifi spots that only allow port 80, for one usage. Check it out! Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Converting to Kubuntu
I'm another Kubuntu KDE4 user here. I think the first offerings of KDE4 were for fanboys and enthusiasts only, but KDE 4.2.x in the current 9.04 release is very solid. The system config menu is a bit of a mess, is my only gripe. Dolphin is a welcome change for a clear and simple way to navigate your system files. I think konqueror was getting too complex and overkill for a simple file manager. *ducks* :) Scott On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 21:29, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 04:11:17PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >> Has anyone here made this switch? Any thoughts or comments about whether >> Kubuntu met/didn't meet your expectations? > > I was running Debian Testing and it was getting insane. I switched to > Kubuntu and was quite happy for a while. My new (well, almost 1yr old now) > Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop came with _U_buntu 7.10 at the time, and > I installed Kubuntu packages and updated to 8.04 to get KDE 3.5. > > At 8.10, I didn't realize I'd be getting KDE 4.2, but it turned out to be > a lot more usable (though not perfect) than KDE 4.0 was, when I had tried > it on my desktop prior to purchasing my laptop. I'm now running 9.04 and > KDE 4.2, with only minor annoyances. More kernel and driver related, than > desktop software related, though. Sigh. > > I am liking K/Ubuntu as a distro, though. > > -- > -bill! > Sent from my computer > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Medibuntu
medibuntu is the preferred way to get things such as dvd playback, etc in Ubuntu. I say it's a must have as well. :) On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 19:44, Bill Broadley wrote: > Aaron Brayton wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I was reading some linux related news articles today and came across this: >> >> http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/11/10-things-you-should-do-immediately.html >> >> Which in turn led me to this: >> >> http://www.medibuntu.org/index.php >> >> What are your opinions of these? I can only assume that I have flash >> and apple codec installed as I watch movie trailers from the apple >> website, and flash applications seem to work. > > They work for me, flash, java plugin, movie playing and related seem to work > well. > >> However, I tried to watch a DVD a few minutes ago and the 20 second MGM >> banner played, but nothing else. > > Umm, which program ran? Pretty sure you can set any to install. Sometimes > playback is separate from menu navigation, not to mention GUI. VLC, g/xine, > g/mplayer, totem, and others are possible choices. > >> I just wanted to get some input/feedback before I downloaded the packs. > > Seems much better than the ugly hacks that people used to run, um, I don't > even remember the name. I'd definitely avoid anything that asks you to run a > script so it can read/write random files on your machine. > > Have you seen https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs? > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Window Managers
*reaches for popcorn* Hey Rod, have you checked out Xfce? It's somewhat between the super-minimal ones and something like Gnome. http://www.xfce.org/about/screenshots I think it is the default desktop of Xubuntu? On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:47, Rod Roark wrote: > I have a hosted server running Ubuntu 8.04 and would like to install > a simple, lightweight window manager for use with VNC. Mostly this > is so I can conduct shared sessions for working with others. Ideally > it would be reasonably intuitive for those familiar with Windows, > Gnome or KDE. > > Problem is, there are too many choices! aewm, blackbox, evilwm, > flwm, fvwm, icewm, jwm, lwm, metacity, tinywm, twm, and more. > > I tried twm and metacity so far. twm is ugly. metacity is nice but > doesn't do much by itself (e.g. no task bar or launcher), and adding > gnome-panel or gnome-control-center brings in a whole bunch of stuff > that I don't want or need. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks > > Rod > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive
Hey yeah FAT32 is not journaling either, so if there is every a power blip or cut of connection there is zero recovery from the file system (if that is a concern). This wikipedia page is one of my favorites, btw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:01, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) wrote: > Hi ken and Matthew, > > Awesome info! I'll give it a try :-) > > Ken: does this answer your question? > > Disk /dev/sdf: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdf1 1 121601 976760001b W95 FAT32 > > By the way I decided to use FAT32 so I can move the drive between several > machines. But.., I may decide to get another one ($150.00 at Fry's final > price) and do the "/dev/disk/by-id/" but with an ext3 partition which > will be much more efficient. > > Thanks!!! > Alfredo > > -Original Message- > From: vox-tech-boun...@lists.lugod.org > [mailto:vox-tech-boun...@lists.lugod.org] On Behalf Of Chanoch (Ken) Bloom > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:03 AM > To: lugod's technical discussion forum > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive > > > That's an assumption the operating system makes because most USB drives are > thumb drives and the like, single-user disks that come and go. You can change > that, though. > > Create a rule to identify the device uniquely in udev and to assign it a > permenant device node (I can't tell you exactly how to do this, it will > depend on being able to find something like a serial number that udev can use > to identify it.), then add that device node to /etc/fstab, with appropriate > mount options. > > Just out of curiousity, what's the block size (the size occupied by a 1 byte > file) on a 1 TB fat32 drive? > > --Ken > > -- > Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. > Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. > http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/ > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] looking for a new video card
Hey Dylan, You can buy a passively cooled video card that cools without a fan and is silent. Here is one, for a random example: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16814150286 It can be hard to find super high-end video cards that are passive, but you can find decent ones. Scott On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 09:52, Dylan Beaudette wrote: > Hi, > > I had been hearing an annoying hum from my machine for a couple days now, and > took it apart this morning to find the fan on the video card buzzing in > place. Cycling the power resulted in a brief attempt at turning on, and then > the system shut off- as if there were an excessive power draw / powersupply > failure. > > Unpluggin the offending fan on the video card resulting in a normal power-on, > although now the video card is running hot. The card is : > > nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600XT] (rev a1) > > I would like to stick to nVidia, as the accelerated hardware is fairly well > supported. Ideally a card without fan would be nice. > > An alternative would be to replace the fan on the video card. Does anyone have > experience in something like this? There are some resources on the internet, > but I thought I would also ask here. > > Finally, is there any potential for melt-down if I operate this video card > without a fan? > > Thanks! > > Dylan > > > > > -- > Dylan Beaudette > Soil Resource Laboratory > http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ > University of California at Davis > 530.754.7341 > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] hosting videos
Hey check out gallery: http://gallery.menalto.com/ gallery2 can host pictures and video. It does take some CPU on the server to process photo and video submissions. It uses ffmpeg to process videos you upload I believe. It's pretty painless to setup on Debian: sudo apt-get install gallery2 It defaults to http://mydomain.com/gallery2 , then you can just start posting videos and photos through the web interface. :) Scott On Sunday 21 December 2008 11:01:57 Gandalf Parker wrote: > Does anyone know what it takes to host videos? > I have a Debian server. > > Gandalf Parker > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] a reboot powers off machine
Ok here's a good one, if you have any ideas. Machine is a circ 1999 Pentium II 400Mhz Gateway running Debian Lenny. Two IDE drives in RAID 1. This is my home server. Issuing 'sudo reboot', 'init 6', 'shutdown -r now', etc. powers off the machine. No reboot. At the end, the last message I see is: Will now Halt Do you have any ideas? There are pretty much zero options in the BIOS. The only thing having to do with power is to enable or disable BIOS power management. I've tried turning that off, but it makes no difference here. All logs seem to look normal and fine. I can't seem to find anything hanging, or that would be causing it to power off instead of reboot. Maybe this thing is too old to have proper power management? Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] INX distro
Hey all, check out this Ubuntu-based live cd: http://inx.maincontent.net/index.html A desktop oriented distro, with no X. :) Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Record my desktop - how to record app sounds?
qjackctl is the GUI control for jack. Jack lets you record from one thing to another- internally in Linux. So send sounds from program X into Audacity, and record. It works rather well! You can send midi from one program to another as well. Scott On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 14:56, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 12:58:24PM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote: >> Audacity running at the same time can be tuned to pic up internal sound >> or mic. So you could capture it live as you do it. >> People have used it to record skype conversations, as an example. > > Any clues on how to do that? For example, I tried running Audacity, > then telling Amarok to play a tune, and it told me the audio device is > busy. ;) > > Someone mentioned I should look into jack, so I've installed 'jackd' > package and its deps, and will take a look some time soon. > > Thx, > > -- > -bill! > "Tux Paint" - free children's drawing software for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux! > Download it today! http://www.tuxpaint.org/ > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Running 64 bit Ubuntu
I use 64bit (K)ubuntu. I have had no issues. With the ia32* packages all installed, you can run any 32bit software as normal. The latest Ubuntu will automatically make flash work for your browser, so it is painless. I think 64bit Linux is very mature as far as drivers, packages provided by distros, etc. scott On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:34, Brian Lavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are people's expierence running 64-bit Ubuntu? > > brian > -- > Brian Lavender > http://www.brie.com/brian/ > ___ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] streaming DNC video on linux
You can open any of these streams with VLC to watch CSPAN live: C-SPAN http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan1v.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=.asx C-SPAN2 http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan2v.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=.asx C-SPAN3 http://play.rbn.com/play.asx?url=cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan3v.asf&proto=mms?mswmext=.asx Sometimes the in-browser CSPAN page is not so Linux friendly. Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu Security Software
>From: Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >OTOH, I love Linux malware. Fascinating stuff. The ELF-infector class are pretty pitiful, but tend to be implemented as payloads on other attacks, e.g., as a backup means of keeping a UDP-based backdoor open after the bad guy has entered through other means entirely. Most of the slightly, briefly successful malware were "worms" that essentially were canned attacks against obsolete versions of buggy network daemons. My rundown: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus#virus5 --- Hey Rick, that is very cool stuff. I'm reading through all of those links on that page right now... I do have to ask/mention, is there even Linux anti-virus software to detect the vulnerabilities on that page, for example? (Not looking for a literal answer- just making a point here.) Running clamav or something meant for detecting windows viruses is not going to protect you against Linux vulnerabilities. I think that is where a lot of the 'anti-virus for Linux' confusion is... Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Ubuntu Security Software
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned that anti-virus products for Linux (clam, sophos, etc.) are for searching for Windows viruses. They are mainly for boxes that serve as Windows file shares, or a mail server that is scanning attachments for Windows users. For a desktop user of any OS, if you are behind some sort of NAT router at home, you are pretty darn safe. If however, the machine is wide open onto the internet, then you have to be very careful. Most malware in Windows takes advantage of the fact that 99.999% of users are running with full admin rights, and click on stuff. So when the person clicks to see the pic of 'hot gurlz click now!' that could do a number of bad things, depending on what the malware is. That could be a browser link, you may think you are downloading a particular piece of software that may actually be shady, or you could just be clicking on the scammy 'e-card' link that 'someone' sent you via email. The most current example of this is the phony CNN.com Daily Top 10 email that has gone around, hosing many Windows machines. When clicking a link to 'read' one of the top stories, it actually tricks the user into downloading and installing a trojan. That was last week. So I do agree with the above persons who said don't click links you do not trust, esp if you use Windows. :) In Linux we are safer as we are running as limited users, and also all of the malware is targeted for Windows. A trojan .exe which creates a windows registry startup and fake NIC adapter in the device manager, etc is not going to get very far in a Linux OS. :) /end rant ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Weird problem with Synaptic
Hey Jeffrey: Try starting synaptic from a terminal. That might give some output in the terminal as to what it going on. (?) I think synaptic also logs errors to /var/log/dpkg.log possibly. So that could give some more details. Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] [Semi-OT] Touch-sensitive input hardware
Hey Bill check out Frets on Fire: http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/ A free Rock Band clone for Mac/Win/Linux. You grab onto your standard computer keyboard and hold like a guitar to play. :) I'm sure it would be possible to setup other input devices to work with this. Scott ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
