Re: [Discuss] ISP costs for higher data rates? (20-50 MBit/sec.)

2012-05-06 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:54:40PM -0400, Gordon Ross wrote: > I've been looking into the costs of "business class" internet service > (20-50MBit/sec) and I'm surprised at the wide range of prices quoted. > I'm curious, what areothers paying for this class of service? > > What I've found so far:

Re: [Discuss] How can I resume from S1 (STR) mode in Ubuntu?

2012-05-17 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:08:28AM -0400, Kurt Keville wrote: > on a headless server node; i.e. no K, V, or M and no reset button... is > there some old weird trick discovered by a housewife in Cambridge that > will allow me to wake up via LAN, USB or serial or something? Note that > WOL is spec

Re: [Discuss] Mozilla freeze ups

2012-05-25 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:26:16AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > For quite a while I have had Thunderbird freeze up for a period of time. > But more recently I have found the firefox is doing a similar thing. ... > While there are some features of Firefox I prefer over Chrome, I > might simply swit

Re: [Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

2012-07-27 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 01:47:23PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 7/23/2012 1:07 PM, Guy Gold wrote: > >They don't really leave much room for questions :) > > Just two. For now. > > 1. Do you want to give Oracle the market share? :) > > 2. How badly does it break Scientific Linux? CentOS and

Re: [Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

2012-07-27 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:19:59AM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 7/27/2012 10:17 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > >"The base SL distribution is basically Enterprise Linux, recompiled > >from source. > > I am aware of what Scientific Linux is. I been running an SL shop >

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

2012-07-28 Thread Chuck Anderson
To be fair, it isn't UEFI per se that is the problem, it is Secure Boot. My current laptop works just fine in UEFI mode and doesn't support Secure Boot. Most current servers also support UEFI without Secure Boot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface On Sat, Jul 28,

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

2012-07-28 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 02:43:00PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 7/28/2012 1:59 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > >To be fair, it isn't UEFI per se that is the problem, it is Secure > >Boot. My current laptop works just fine in UEFI mode and doesn't > >support Secure B

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

2012-07-28 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 06:23:33PM -0500, Jack Coats wrote: > I am guessing someone will either come up with a crack, or will buy a > 'certificate' and it will be 'leaked' or otherwise subverted before > long. > > I could envision a boot program could have it installed, and just be > used as a sys

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

2012-07-28 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 06:23:12PM -0400, Guy Gold wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > > > 1. Disable Secure Boot in the firmware. > > The horror stories I've heard, informed, that there will not be such an option > to disable, one the

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

2012-07-30 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 03:33:03AM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > Even on x86, where Microsoft doesn't prevent the hardware vendor from > allowing Secure Boot to be turned off, you can bet than many lazy > vendors simply won't implement an option to turn it off, because they > can't be bothered supporti

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

2012-07-30 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > Chuck Anderson wrote: > > It is ironic that in this case, making sure the hardware you buy is > > Windows 8 certified ensures that you will be able to turn off Secure > > Boot... > > We're talking x86 her

Re: [Discuss] can one safely login multiple times to the same user on a modern Linux desktop?

2012-09-05 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 01:04:01PM -0400, Rich Pieri wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:29:11 + > "Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" wrote: > > > VNC might not do well at supporting audio or video, but I'm quite > > sure NX does. And Exceed onDemand. And GoGlobal. (All commercial > > products.) And Ci

Re: [Discuss] can one safely login multiple times to the same user on a modern Linux desktop?

2012-09-06 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 08:05:32PM -0400, Rich Pieri wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:09:49 -0400 > Chuck Anderson wrote: > > > Spice looks like a promising technology for audio & video support: > > > > http://spice-space.org/home.html > > Sure, but Spice is

Re: [Discuss] web server can't see out but others can see in

2012-09-25 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 05:05:08PM -0400, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an odd problem. > > I have an unbuntu web sever in virtualbox. We're sitting behind a > small business cisco router. > > I did the following: > 1. I gave the server a static ip in virtualbox and on the router

Re: [Discuss] web server can't see out but others can see in

2012-09-26 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:55:37PM -0400, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > Hopefully this will provide some clues. Note that I currently have > the server set up as one to one nat. I've tried a bunch of other > configurations but this one appears to function as desired. The > server has ufw enabled to a

Re: [Discuss] Disabling UEFI and dual booting Linux and Windows

2012-12-10 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:29:35AM -0500, Will Rico wrote: > I've been trying to following the UEFI / "Secure Boot" conversation > on this list and can't say I'm successfully following it. Here are > a couple of observations / questions: > > 1. If very smart and experienced people on this list a

Re: [Discuss] Patch/Server management software

2013-03-27 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 02:30:35PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I've got about 30 Linux servers (RHEL 5.9). I looked at Puppet. No > one in our organization was using it, and it is only free for 10 > notes, and I don't want to go through the additional paperwork to > buy it While there is a Puppe

Re: [Discuss] CLECs

2013-05-09 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:58:05PM -0400, Seth Gordon wrote: > The Right Way to run the telecom system, IMHO, would be to “delaminate” it > (h/t David Weinberger). Have the ILECs be responsible for maintaining the > network infrastructure that shuttles bits from place to place, and let them > rent

Re: [Discuss] Geoff Huston's talk at NANOG53

2013-05-11 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 02:48:26AM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > He lost me, though, we he started to describe how they would use the > IPv4 to IPv6 transition points like a toll bridge and extract money from > content providers. Doesn't tunneling provide a bypass to reach > competitors who can provide

Re: [Discuss] gracefully shutdown guests

2013-06-02 Thread Chuck Anderson
> I never heard of this "libvirt" thing before today. I spent > something like an hour looking into it, couldn't figure out what the > heck it's supposed to do, or how it's supposed to do it. Decided to > quit wasting time and move on... It seems many people haven't heard of the built-in native

Re: [Discuss] KeePassX

2013-07-31 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 08:11:44PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: > >A password safe could use strong encryption to protect the keys used by > >the one-time authentication algorithm. Ideally, you'd want to have the > >option to have that info encrypted using a different password tha

Re: [Discuss] GNU/Linux Distro for Mac?

2013-08-03 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 06:41:29PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > I recommended Yellow Dog in the PowerPC days. Today I recommend > FreeBSD over Linux on Mactel kit for two reasons. > > Reason one: Linux desktops suck. All of them. Please name a FreeBSD desktop that doesn't suck. MacOS is not a F

Re: [Discuss] Avaya partner in Boston

2013-09-07 Thread Chuck Anderson
Integration Partners Corp. We've used them since they established their business 14 years ago. On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:27:52AM -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have recommendations on an Avaya partner in the Boston area > who provides managed services? > > Thanks, > > Ryan _

Re: [Discuss] file permission exucute questions

2013-09-29 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 04:27:41PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne > > > > Got a basic question for you. On web servers I usually set files to 644 > > (-r

Re: [Discuss] ssd's in linux

2013-11-08 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 06:15:32AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote: > I'm thinking of upgrading my linux system by adding an SSD drive to > use as my system disk. Has anyone done this? Any pros and cons > regarings using SSD's? I'm more intrested in the cons. I'm worried > about the life expectancy sinc

Re: [Discuss] NTP Gone Crazy?

2014-01-11 Thread Chuck Anderson
Probably you were used in an NTP reflection DDoS attack. The problem is the "monlist" command that ntpd provides. Upgrade to ntp-4.2.7 which removes that command, and/or add "noquery" to your default restrict config. http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/hackers-spend-christmas-break-launching-l

Re: [Discuss] SELinux & IPTables

2014-04-03 Thread Chuck Anderson
Turn on auditd so the SELinux AVC messages go to /var/log/audit/audit.log. Then to see what the SELinux messages mean, run: audit2why < /var/log/audit/audit.log To create a local policy to allow whatever is being denied: audit2allow < /var/log/audit/audit.log (There is another step to turn tha

Re: [Discuss] End of the line for Obi100/110

2014-04-15 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 07:35:40PM -0700, Rich Braun wrote: > Do I finally say screw it, I've had a "landline" phone for too many years, and > cut the cord? Or is there something about as good as Google Voice that I > should consider switching to? Frankly, GV just simply *blows away* all rivals >

Re: [Discuss] network connection

2014-07-10 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:29:52AM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 7/9/2014 8:33 PM, j. daniel Moylan wrote: > > messed around with my network connections > > NetworkManager is running > > You can't mix NetworkManager with manual configurations. If you try then > NetworkManager will put your inte

Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality

2014-07-24 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 02:25:06AM +, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Conner > > > > When we, the consumers band together and demand that our isp's not slow > > down o

Re: [Discuss] selecting a subnet

2014-09-10 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 04:04:12PM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote: > Guys, > > I'm setting up a small network at work behind my own firewall. Typically > I would use a 192.168.1.0/24 network but I'm afraid the IT people at > work have used that for something in my work LAN environment. Is there a > wa

Re: [Discuss] selecting a subnet

2014-09-10 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 06:59:51PM -0400, Bill Horne wrote: > If by "Firewall" you mean Network Address Translation-enabled > wired-only router, then it's a non issue. You plug the "WAN" port > into your corporate network and set it for DHCP (or whatever fixed > address your IT guys assigned to the

Re: [Discuss] basic fiber optic phone service vs. Fios phone service

2014-09-15 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 07:05:24AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:46:06PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > > But then he went on point out that Verizon is offering two different > > products. One being Fios phone service, and the other being basic fiber > > optic phone service. As w

Re: [Discuss] Monitoring your AWS instances

2014-09-28 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 01:56:07PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > I would really like to hear from anybody else who has AWS machines, and > alerting/monitoring of those systems (by a system other than Amazon's own > monitoring system). > > The number of alerts I'm receiving about system

Re: [Discuss] selinux nightmare

2014-09-28 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 04:25:06PM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote: > P.S. this is the kind of stuff I'm confronting > > [root@mipdata0 ~]# sealert -l dd884c85-199f-49c5-b44c-a595ce3cec43 > SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python2.7 from read access on the lnk_file . First, I recommend reading Dan

Re: [Discuss] selinux nightmare

2014-09-29 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:59:49AM +, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler > > > > rtfming So... can anyone suggest a good selinux for dummies web site > > A co

Re: [Discuss] Wire tester (like a tone tester)

2014-10-03 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 09:28:06PM -0400, Bill Ricker wrote: > Back in the days of 10BaseT coax runs with BNC T-couplers and > terminators, I used a BNC-banana plugs adapter on a cheap VOMeter to > check if visibility was to one terminator or two. (50Ω if one, > broken, or 25Ω=2 in parallel if pro

Re: [Discuss] code for hacked USB drive (BadUSB) released on Github

2014-10-06 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 03:06:44AM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > If these drives look like an ordinary USB storage drive when first > attached, I wonder what they are using as a trigger to have them switch > into malicious keyboard mode? I don't think it can pose as both > simultaneously. The switch mi

Re: [Discuss] New to VMWare DataStores

2015-01-14 Thread Chuck Anderson
It is seeing the 4 TB disks as 1.8 TB each? Sounds like the well-known 2TB limitation related to MBR partition tables and 512-byte sectors. Does VMWare support 4096-byte sector format disks? Does VMWare support GPT partition tables? Perhaps this may help: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micro

Re: [Discuss] Home server

2015-01-26 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 05:14:08PM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 1/26/2015 4:05 PM, Joe Polcari wrote: > >I have quite a few FreeNAS boxes in service right now and that is not how > >they work. > > Hm. Probably a change some time between FreeNAS 7, which is built on > top of m0n0wall (more or l

Re: [Discuss] Raspberry PI 2 vs. ODROID-C1

2015-02-22 Thread Chuck Anderson
There is also the ODROID-C1 with similar specs, but some additional features like eMMC, IR receiver, GigE, USB OTG, real-time clock, and the ability to run Android. Another plus is that it isn't based on Broadcom (not very OSS friendly), it can decode more codecs in hardware, and it doesn't requir

Re: [Discuss] perl/Tk

2015-02-27 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 02:26:54PM -0500, dan moylan wrote: > > running fc21 on acer aspire E1-472P-6860 > trying to install perl/Tk -- i needed two other installs > first, and did those: > > yum install libX11-devel > yum install gcc > cpan -i Tk > > the cpan installation went on for quit

Re: [Discuss] SSD lifespan & monitoring

2015-05-28 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:12:55PM -0700, Rich Braun wrote: > Rich P wrote: > > Also, I suggest changing that pledge to doing regular backups. > > Ever since a 1998 burglary, dual-redundant fully-automated offline, local, and > cloud backups, with continuous saves of every modified file, have been

Re: IPv6 and Firewall traversal

2011-03-30 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:09:10AM -0400, Rob Hasselbaum wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Richard Pieri > wrote: > > Anyone who relies on NAT for security has almost no network security (see: > > source IP spoofing). NAT is not, and never has been, about security. It > > exists to addr

Re: How do hard drives handle bad blocks nowadays?

2011-04-03 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 05:00:27PM -0400, MBR wrote: > It's now two decades later, and I'm trying to understand what's changed > since then. In particular I recently cloned a laptop drive (IDE) to a > new drive. When I did so, I encountered 2 bad blocks on the new drive. > Based on my recolle

Re: Android Tablet

2011-04-06 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 01:08:29PM -0400, Gregory Boyce wrote: > Now OS install over the internet. That would be feasible since it is > a much more infrequent process. Linux/Unix can do this today with gPXE and these cool services: http://boot.kernel.org/ http://boot.fedoraproject.org/

Re: GNOME 3

2011-04-06 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 03:45:07PM -0400, Rob Hasselbaum wrote: > Anyone tried it and have an opinion? Reviews seem mixed. I'm a KDE guy > myself, but I'll probably install it somewhere to see what the devs have > been up to all this time. I've been playing with it on and off for the last few mont

Re: kdepim source

2011-04-23 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:28:16PM -0400, Anthony Gabrielson wrote: > Hello, >I'm trying to make a few modifications to kmail for a paper I would like > to publish. Anyway, I want to do as little work as possible and I would like > to start with the Fedora 14 source package and I'm having a

Re: Email migration script

2011-05-09 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 08:58:17AM -0400, Matt Shields wrote: > Does anyone have a script that will either POP3 or IMAP to a source mail > server and copy to a destination mail server? Normally I've done this by > just using the client's credentials to copy mailboxes one at a time with > Thunderbi

Re: help desk software

2011-05-11 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:38:49AM -0400, Matt Shields wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Eric Chadbourne > wrote: > > I need to create a tech support dept for a medium size non-profit. What > > ticket software would you suggest? > > > > Thanks! > Just to name a few off the top of my head

Re: [Discuss] Home backup disks: USB vs NAS

2011-06-02 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:09:11PM -0400, Doug wrote: > If one wants the ethernet port, the device becomes a Network Attached > Storage (NAS). I have 100base-T Ethernet in the house, along with > 802.11n. Those should provide 100mbps connections to a NAS. It should be pretty cheap to upgrade go 1

Re: [Discuss] fedora 15 doesn't start (some) server processes?

2011-06-13 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:47:50PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > In one case I couldn't get Sendmail to start. In the other case it was > squid. In both cases "systemctl is-enabled foo.service" reports > "enabled" (for foo == sendmail and squid). running 'chkconfig' shows > that the services are

Re: [Discuss] 108.0.0.0/8

2011-07-15 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 04:11:51PM -0400, David Kramer wrote: > A friend is having trouble accessing my web server but not ping. I > noticed his IP address which starts with 108.20 in my messages > log. I use Firestarter, and see 108.0.0.0/8 in > /etc/firestarter/non-routable. But that range is ow

Re: [Discuss] Dell

2011-07-18 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 08:48:14PM -0400, Chris O'Connell wrote: > 3. For those Windows users among us, there is a neato application called > Dell OpenManage that allows full bios control, error reporting and > configuration that can be accessed via the desktop. There is a Linux version of OpenMa

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-21 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:15:30AM -0400, Rich Braun wrote: > Has anyone else gone through this switch? What steps could have been taken to > troubleshoot Firefox to avoid having to make this switch? I basically > disabled all plugins, flash, Java, everything--and it still took over my whole > sy

Re: [Discuss] To catch a thief

2011-07-28 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 07:48:39AM -0400, Doug wrote: > We will set up a simple honey pot, a ziplock bag of coins right where > we know they have looked before. Has anyone setup a motion detection > camera for the home? I figure we just need to cover the bedroom. We > are going to change the locks,

Re: [Discuss] TrueCrypt with SSD

2011-08-12 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:30:30PM -0400, Chris O'Connell wrote: > I bought my boss a really awesome computer and specifically wanted to use an > SSD for the many benefits (sound, speed, power consumption). Which one? I compared the OCZ (and all the other SF2281-based ones) vs. Intel 510 (marvell

Re: [Discuss] TrueCrypt with SSD

2011-08-15 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 07:45:26AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Incidentally, what *is* the problem with TrueCrypt anyway? It seems to me, > a hard drive looks like a hard drive whether it's a HDD or SSD. I would > expect it to be fine. Do they have any details anywhere, what is the > probl

[Discuss] Linux dm-crypt TRIM support for use with SSD

2011-08-15 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:45:30AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > TrueCrypt and many other full disk encryption packages cannot tell the > drive which sectors are actually free (and hence maintain them as > zeroed sectors on the SSD) because they don't support TRIM. Many of > t

Re: [Discuss] TrueCrypt with SSD

2011-08-19 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:53:03AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Derek Atkins > > > > Personally I've never encrypted my laptops before, but I started > > encrypting my curren

Re: [Discuss] dm-crypt overhead (was Re: TrueCrypt with SSD)

2011-08-30 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:59:45PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warl...@mit.edu] > > > > This is a spinning disk, not SSD, but as you say it should be able to > > sustain 1Gb/s. It's not. I'm only getting 400Mb/s to the disk through > > dm-crypt. > > Well, I

Re: [Discuss] Extra splitter (OT)

2011-09-06 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 05:53:30PM -0400, edwa...@linuxmail.org wrote: > The recent thread regarding RCN, reminded me of the AT&T BB installation > 10 years ago. They installed an additional splitter (two-way) with one > cable going into the cable modem and the other cable going into another

Re: [Discuss] Verizon home "business" ?

2011-09-06 Thread Chuck Anderson
> Does anyone here have experience with this, and know what magic words > we need to know to get a reasonable price without all the zillions of > extra channels that we'd rather not pay for? How about "I'd switch from cable to FiOS if only I could do the same thing I can do on cable (light web ser

Re: [Discuss] Gnome 3 Compatible Video Card

2011-09-10 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:04:47PM -0400, Chris O'Connell wrote: > I'm at the point now where I'm willing to invest a small > amount of money in getting Gone 3 to work correctly. > > Can anyone recommend a specific graphics card that can be used to properly > run Gnome 3? All the integrated Intel

Re: [Discuss] Verizon network issues

2011-09-23 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:27:58PM -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote: > Hi. > > Anyone noticing any issues getting to or from Verizon's network? > > Having a few problems with my users accessing some (but not all) resources > on our network. All are on Verizon in the Boston area. I do not have any > pr

Re: [Discuss] Server Room Power

2011-10-15 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:08:05AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> We are running 2 208VAC circuits. We have 7 old Intel Whitebox systems ... > (http://goo.gl/L3GpJ). I preferred the 5-20R because all of my systems > can plug directly into it without me having to add additional cables. 5-20R ar

Re: [Discuss] Server Room Power

2011-10-15 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:55:31AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:08:05AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > >> We are running 2 208VAC circuits. We have 7 old Intel Whitebox systems > ... > > (http://goo.gl/L3GpJ). I preferred the 5-20R because all of

Re: [Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

2011-12-07 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 10:38:04AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > Hey, Bill, > > Bill Cattey writes: > > > We have a DLNA server at home that talks to our BluRay player. > > > > Sadly the first DLNA server we tried was not seen by the BluRay player. > > The second one is seen but won't see new con

Re: [Discuss] Bourne Shell variable assignment question

2011-12-15 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 05:16:32PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Thanks guys. > I have several workable solutions for him. The underlying issue is that > he wants to prevent malicious code. In the context he is working on, I > don't think that is a risk, but using egrep to reject any lines that ar

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption

2012-01-02 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 08:12:28PM -0500, Chris O'Connell wrote: > BitLocker claims a "single digit percentage hit." Personally I've not > noticed it. > > ALSO, NO FULL DISK ENCRYPTION should ever be used on an SSD drive. > Performance will drop by 30% and the drive's wear-leveling system and TR

Re: [Discuss] New SMART disk errors reported

2012-01-24 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Doug wrote: > > Reallocated sector count has increased in the last day. > > Disk 2: > Previous count: 54 > Current count: 58 > > Growing SMART errors indicate a disk that may fail soon. If the > errors continue to increase, you should be prepared to

Re: [Discuss] usb thumb drive

2012-02-13 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:58:42AM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote: > I got a new thumb drive, and I decided to check it out on my linux box > before using it. Fdisk shows this: > >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 *80643129343915642688c

Re: [Discuss] N40L on sale for $179.99 at PC Connection Express

2012-02-24 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:54:24PM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote: > I'm seeing it listed at $250 right now. Given the company profile > I'm guessing that they're really a front-end for many sellers and > those sellers set the prices that PCCE displays. $250 is well worth > the price. Other than the

Re: [Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

2012-02-24 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:16:27PM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote: > On Feb 24, 2012, at 7:41 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > > > > ashift=12 (4K alignment) and recreated my RAID-Z pool. The result: > > sustained write performance has gone from 10MB/s to 30MB/s. Not a bad gain > > for a simple fix (and

Re: [Discuss] Home Wireless Routers OT

2012-03-04 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 09:36:52PM -0500, Chris O'Connell wrote: > I'm looking for a home wi-fi router that can broadcast a guest SSID and a > protected SSID. My goal is to let my room mate connect to the guest SSID > while keeping him away from my NAS, XBOX and other network devices that I > use

Re: [Discuss] AMD FX-8120 update

2012-03-06 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 04:27:07AM -0500, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: > The fact that the correct strategy for maximum performance may be > different from the best power management strategy is likely to require > new OS capabilities (changing the scheduling strategy based on power > managem

Re: [Discuss] DIY NAS

2012-04-09 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 07:15:53PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > I looked at the options, and I decided to go with a pre-built box. Look for > the HP N40L threads from earlier this year. In a nutshell: what it delivers > for around $275 is hard to beat even compared to BYO. And it is on Shell

Re: [Discuss] NAS: encryption

2015-07-08 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 10:49:40AM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 7/8/2015 10:23 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > >The problem with internal drive encryption is getting any level of > >disclosure and accountability. > > This is simply not true. > > FIPS security profiles are public record. Her

Re: [Discuss] NAS: encryption

2015-07-08 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 11:53:35AM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 7/8/2015 11:06 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > >I think this whole discussion revolves around choice. With open > >source, I have a choice to audit the code if I so desire, or to hire > >someone to do so on my b

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers | WIRED

2015-10-01 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 03:22:12PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 01:12:33AM -0400, John Abreau wrote: > > Well, this is disturbing. > [...] > > http://www.wired.com/2015/09/hey-fcc-dont-lock-wi-fi-routers/ > > Seems to me you'd get around this by buying a router that had DD-

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: Hey FCC, Don't Lock Down Our Wi-Fi Routers | WIRED

2015-10-06 Thread Chuck Anderson
The current, much reorganized draft is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E1D1vWP9uA97Yj5UuBPZXuQEPHARp-AhRqUOeQB2WPk/edit?pli=1 On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:59:29PM +, Kurt L Keville wrote: > Fwded from Dave Taht... apologies if I am wading into the thread late... >

Re: [Discuss] Profiting from GPL software

2015-11-10 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:53:56AM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 11/10/2015 8:17 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: > >Said GPL software being a key component, obviously. > > Obviously not. Linksys no longer ship any GPL software with their routers. False. Linksys WRT1900ac ships with Linux. See the boo

Re: [Discuss] Dropping obsolete commands (Linux Pocket Guide)

2015-11-10 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:06:03PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > If you want to backup the entire filesystem in such a way that all the above > is unnecessary - you instead boot from rescue media, partition & format the > hard disk, and simply run "restore" and boot back into the restor

Re: [Discuss] Profiting from GPL software

2015-11-10 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:33:11AM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 11/10/2015 11:10 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > >False. Linksys WRT1900ac ships with Linux. See the bootlog for the > >OEM firmware here: > > That boot log is almost two years old. Linksys no longer ship >

Re: [Discuss] Profiting from GPL software

2015-11-10 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:47:50AM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:33:11AM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote: > > On 11/10/2015 11:10 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > >False. Linksys WRT1900ac ships with Linux. See the bootlog for the > > >OEM firmware h

Re: [Discuss] Linux on laptops

2015-11-12 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:19:27PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > I'm looking for a small, light, cheap, laptop to run linux. I prefer either > ubuntu desktop or fedora. > > I know there's a very good chance that any random linux will work fine on any > random laptop I buy, but I certai

Re: [Discuss] Dropping obsolete commands (Linux Pocket Guide)

2015-11-17 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 07:15:26PM -0500, Daniel Barrett wrote: > As for the rest of the commands I asked about, I plan to drop finger > and chfn Other than chfn, how do people usually change their Full Name in /etc/passwd? ___ Discuss mailing list Discu

Re: [Discuss] Dropping obsolete commands (Linux Pocket Guide)

2015-11-18 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 09:01:19AM -0500, Bill Ricker wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > Other than chfn, how do people usually change their Full Name in > > > /etc/passwd? > > > > usermod comes along with useradd and userdel. Being able to > > supply everything o

Re: [Discuss] looking for non-cisco router and firewall

2016-02-12 Thread Chuck Anderson
You didn't answer how much capactiy you need. Juniper SRX? http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/release-independent/junos/topics/concept/services-gateway-srx240-hardware-features.html http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=srx240h2 On Fri, Feb 12,

Re: [Discuss] looking for non-cisco router and firewall

2016-02-15 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:22:19AM -0500, John Byrnes wrote: > "Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" writes: > > > You said you need 100Mbit externally and 1Gbit internally. This confuses > > me. If there's an upstream bottleneck of 100Mbit, then why do you need > > >100Mbit on the LAN side? > > Maybe he'

Re: [Discuss] Converting "rich" (MIME) email to plain text

2016-02-17 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:39:22AM -0500, Michael Tiernan wrote: > I'm sure that I'm not the first who tried to find an easy way to > filter a piece of email so that only the plain text comes out. > > I can find lots of things about going plain to HTML but I've not > seen anything that allows you

Re: [Discuss] Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LIX Saturday February 27, 2015

2016-02-18 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 06:46:07AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and > Ubuntu distributions: > * Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 23 Live DVD/USB) That URL has been obsolete for who knows how long. Try: https://getfedor

Re: [Discuss] free email less intrusive than google

2016-03-13 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 03:56:09PM -0500, Bouman MC wrote: > where can I find a free email that won't require me to fork over my name, > address, phone number and social security number; account for the number of > house pets I have and reiterate all the [...] details of my life > before it all get

Re: [Discuss] ssh with rsa keys and ldap

2016-10-26 Thread Chuck Anderson
Most likely all you had to do was fix the labels (or in some cases enable a boolean). I say this because SELinux policy should already exist to allow /usr/sbin/sshd to access authorized_keys--that is a very basic function of a common system daemon that existing policy should cover, not some obscur

Re: [Discuss] AT&T eliminating copper phone lines

2017-03-29 Thread Chuck Anderson
I also recommend porting to Callcentric. On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 08:05:18AM -0700, Rich Braun wrote: > +1 to trying a port to Google Voice. I subscribed to it a couple months before > my move to San Francisco, just so I could get a 415 phone number to give out > to friends before the move. (Wound

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-11 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 09:44:00AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > If you had the ability to future-proof your house (imagine open studs, > so you could run anything you wanted), what would you run. Assume a max > of 6 cables per drop? I personally wouldn't bother with fiber. If you need more conne

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-13 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:16:22PM -0400, Daniel Barrett wrote: > On September 13, 2017, Dan Ritter wrote: > >A field of view about 180 degrees wide, 135 degrees high, 1 arc > >minute in minimum pixel size [...] > >180 * 135 * 60 * 60 * 100 * 48 = 41990400, > >420 billion bits per second. > >Co

Re: [Discuss] Future-proofing a house for networking -- what to run?

2017-09-14 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 10:36:40PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 9/13/2017 10:13 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote: > > This is 1000Base-T, with standard cat 5e cable. scp isn't much slower. > > You're using full-duplex with Cat 5e? You're off spec. And now I'm > wondering if the data corruption proble

Re: [Discuss] Sharing gnupg keyring among computers

2017-09-25 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 11:20:43AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > There are a number of considerations such as encrypted file systems. In the > past I used my personal laptop as an auxiliary system and since I carried > it to blu meetings and installfests I did not put secure stuff on there. > But r

Re: [Discuss] Sharing gnupg keyring among computers

2017-09-25 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 02:17:23PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 9/25/2017 9:30 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > You could use something like YubiKey to store GPG keys. > > You can, but I'm not sure that USB anything is a good idea for GPG keys. > If you trust the compute

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