Re: [Discuss] mouse behavior

2019-02-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
As the OP wrote, the first issue is due to window snapping. The second issue is probably due to *clicking* the map wheel when you're over a link, rather than rolling the wheel when you're over it. XFCE I believe has a setting that clicking on a link with the wheel will visit that link. It's

Re: [Discuss] Running a mail server, or not

2018-06-29 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/28/2018 07:15 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: On 6/28/2018 4:03 PM, Mike Small wrote: client side I think it can be made bearable. Or probably I should just go find the instructions on sdf for setting up an IMAP client and install one on the phone. One of these days. K-9 Mail. Get it. Setup

Re: [Discuss] Running a mail server, or not

2018-06-27 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/27/2018 03:39 PM, David Kramer wrote: Yes.  The problem is with automating that so I don't have to teach my wife ssh and command line. What I have on my old server is a specific folder to dump spam to train on, and a cron job would feed the mail through spamc.  I was hoping there

Re: [Discuss] Running a mail server, or not

2018-06-20 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/20/2018 04:26 AM, David Kramer wrote: Questions: - Are there any other solutions to my end goal (privacy and control over mail routing to mailboxes) that I'm missing, other than running my own mail server? Some other mail platform I can trust and also set up very complex routing rules

Re: [Discuss] Supermicro

2018-01-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch
No experience with their support, but we purchased some of their servers for a data center build out a couple of years back and we never had a single problem with their hardware. (Which I can't say the same for Dell.) HTH, DR On 01/23/2018 02:18 PM, Joseph Guarino wrote: Hello Everyone,

Re: [Discuss] AD/LDAP authentication

2017-12-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2017-12-13 3:20 pm, Richard Pieri wrote: On a completely different topic from document conversion... My employer has two Active Directory domains. I need to set up some Linux servers (RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu) to use both domains for user authentication. Users get accounts on one or the other,

Re: [Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files

2017-12-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
with Windows on the same computer, so long as they are not being used to run servers that provide services to the public or a place of business. (They understandably want to charge extra for that.) But expecting Microsoft to be that sensible is futile. On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 10:56 PM, David Rosenstrauch

Re: [Discuss] Mirroring of files to all nodes in a cluster

2017-11-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2017-11-21 4:24 pm, Richard Pieri wrote: On 11/21/2017 2:20 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm looking for a Linux utility that will allow me to mirror/replicate a directory tree onto each and every node in a cluster, so that the data will reside on the local disk on each machine. csync2

Re: [Discuss] Mirroring of files to all nodes in a cluster

2017-11-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
at the details. For read-write you might look at something like owncloud. (I assume you've ruled out just using NFS...?) On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:20 PM, David Rosenstrauch <dar...@darose.net> wrote: I'm looking for a Linux utility that will allow me to mirror/replicate a directory tree ont

[Discuss] Mirroring of files to all nodes in a cluster

2017-11-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I'm looking for a Linux utility that will allow me to mirror/replicate a directory tree onto each and every node in a cluster, so that the data will reside on the local disk on each machine. However, I'm not seeing anything that quite fits that bill. So far I've found: * DRBD * Gluster FS

Re: [Discuss] Is there a supported browser for Linux that still runs Java applets? (also Flash)

2017-07-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 07/06/2017 05:20 AM, John Abreau wrote: On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 11:35 AM, David Rosenstrauch <dar...@darose.net> wrote: I ran into this same issue with my Lantronix Spider KVM recently, and was pleasantly surprised to find out that the KVM allowed me to run the remote access app as

Re: [Discuss] Is there a supported browser for Linux that still runs Java applets? (also Flash)

2017-07-05 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 07/05/2017 11:23 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: As the web marches on, older technologies fall by the wayside. Java applets seem to be one of them. All the major browsers seem to have stopped supporting them at this point. Unfortunately, this can result in broken systems. For me, my biggest

Re: [Discuss] Recommended Calendar with Popup Reminders

2017-06-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/13/2017 09:51 PM, Nancy Allison wrote: Hi, all. I have Ubuntu 16.04. I would like to maintain a calendar that produces popup reminders the way Outlook does. I don't love the cloud and would rather have something that lives on my laptop. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks in

Re: [Discuss] GPG encryption and gmail

2016-09-01 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 09/01/2016 06:01 PM, edwa...@linuxmail.org wrote: I would not recommend K-9. I found that it would repeatedly hang when trying to connect to either the Comcast or Gmail servers, while using it on multiple mobile networks. And once that occurs, a manual poll of any other account with K-9,

Re: [Discuss] Whence distributed operating systems?

2016-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/21/2016 12:38 PM, Mike Small wrote: David Rosenstrauch <dar...@darose.net> writes: On 04/21/2016 12:50 AM, Mike Small wrote: "Sadly it seems that we now need to either wait for Linux or Windows to catch up with the 1980s state of the art in distributed systems (think Locus or

Re: [Discuss] Whence distributed operating systems?

2016-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/21/2016 12:50 AM, Mike Small wrote: After the meeting I was discussing this issue with a friend. It's not an original criticism I didn't suppose, so I found someone with better words to sum up my reaction: "Sadly it seems that we now need to either wait for Linux or Windows to catch up

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Dreamhost is pretty cheap. It's not a virtual server, but they give you web hosting. (You can ssh your HTML up to your web directory.) DR On 04/10/2016 12:58 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: Thanks to everyone who suggested birthday gifts for my 9-year-old nephew. I wound up getting him a

Re: [Discuss] live streaming needs flash?

2015-07-27 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Netflix now can do streaming on Linux without Flash. (Though it doesn't look like all streaming services work this way currently.) It looks like Netflix uses the NSS (Network Security Services) libraries to do this. (See

Re: [Discuss] Does anyone here know someone who's been victimized?

2015-02-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 02/19/2015 02:21 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: I have spoken with two IT people, whose servers had been compromised and used to deliver some sort of illegal content, presumably sold from malicious person 1 to malicious person 2 on the black market (silk road or whatever). Of course

Re: [Discuss] Start ups?

2013-09-04 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 09/04/2013 07:19 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: What is a good [web] resource for learning about Boston-area startups and possible positions they may have? I've used Boston Business Journal's web page and its Mass High Tech link, but there must be a more expansive resource. I also actively use

Re: [Discuss] Simple server monitoring

2013-08-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/22/2013 11:00 AM, Tim Callaghan wrote: I need to add basic monitoring to a server and am wondering how I can easily accomplish the following: 1. Keep track of CPU, Memory, and Disk IO / Space. 2. Allow me to set alerts and send emails if certain thresholds are passed. Thanks, Tim

[Discuss] Inoperable RAID-10 array

2013-05-10 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Been having a problem with a RAID-10 array on a 3ware card, whereby a drive died, but even after replacing it the array remains inoperable. Problem is almost exactly what was described here: http://serverfault.com/questions/335280/rebuilding-array-on-3ware-9690sa-8it It sounds like this might

Re: [Discuss] Inoperable RAID-10 array

2013-05-10 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/10/2013 11:32 AM, j...@polcari.com wrote: This was also in 2011.Maybe update your firmware?- Original Message -From: quot;David Rosenstrauchquot; ;dar...@darose.net Yup, already done. First thing I tried. Tnx for the suggestion! DR

Re: [Discuss] Weird awk processing

2013-05-02 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/02/2013 03:52 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 05/02/2013 01:11 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Just stumbled upon the most bizarre awk problem. mawk and gawk are showing 2 different results for the same code. Can anyone shed any light? TIA! DR I get the same results from the 2. The first

[Discuss] Weird awk processing

2013-05-01 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Just stumbled upon the most bizarre awk problem. mawk and gawk are showing 2 different results for the same code. Can anyone shed any light? TIA! DR --- se...@ip-10-98-190-45.job:/sense/work/feature-summary/debugging$ cat sample.txt 32e49398e024dcb79a319c62ceb213ae3e824f772

[Discuss] Any current/former network ops from residential ISP?

2013-04-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Just wondering if anyone on the list has ever worked in net ops at a residential ISP - or know someone who has. If so, I'd really appreciate if you could put me in touch with them to ask a quick question or 2 (off-list). TIA! DR ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] AWS Linux server scaling question

2013-03-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Couple of suggestions: 1) We don't really use Micro instances for anything in production. Smallest instances we use generally are m1.large, and most of our boxes are m1.xlarge or bigger. 2) IIRC, most of the AMI's out of the box are not configured with swap space. So if the box starts to

Re: [Discuss] Tiny Tiny RSS

2013-03-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/14/2013 12:59 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: Does anyone reading this have experience setting up Tiny Tiny RSS? http://tt-rss.org/ Not that I need it, but others I know want something to replace Google Reader in their lives. I used it for a while. Worked well. Was an adequate replacement when

[Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
We've got some machine (or machines) sucking up a lot of bandwidth on our network. I'm trying to pin down exactly what, but not having much luck so far. The network's got about a dozen machines, behind a firewall. What I'd like to see is a high-level view of the whole network's bandwidth

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:11 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.netwrote: We've got some machine (or machines) sucking up a lot of bandwidth on our network. I'm trying to pin down exactly what, but not having much luck so far. The network's got about a dozen machines, behind a firewall. What I'd

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 02/06/2013 12:34 PM, Matt Shields wrote: Also try ntop. Set it up on a standalone computer. 2 network ports, one for management, one where you mirror all your traffic at the switchport to it and have the interface in promiscuous mode. Then it'll give you nice charts to show you who is

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 02/06/2013 02:00 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 02/06/2013 12:34 PM, Matt Shields wrote: Also try ntop. Set it up on a standalone computer. 2 network ports, one for management, one where you mirror all your traffic at the switchport to it and have the interface in promiscuous mode

Re: [Discuss] free up space on a RedHat RHEL 5 system

2012-10-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch
+1 on what Tim said to identify the folder tree that's hogging the most disk (e.g., /home). Next step then would be to take the culprit, move it to a different disk, and tell fstab to mount it at boot. HTH, DR On 10/23/2012 02:24 PM, Tim Lyons wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:12:03 -0400 John

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

2012-05-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Last resort: most datacenters offer a remote hands service, whereby you can get one of their technicians to go on-site and then direct them to do things on your servers. I've found myself having to avail myself of this option a number of times recently, as I've been dealing with a number of

Re: [Discuss] [OT]Discuss - Software Engineering union

2012-04-19 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/19/2012 07:28 AM, Mark Woodward wrote: The IT industry is fairly well paid slave labor. I mean, working on week-ends, no-notice late nights, vacations that have to be canceled because of sudden problems. All without any compensation. When was the last time you REALLY worked 40 hours.

Re: [Discuss] resources for greater NYC?

2012-04-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/13/2012 11:27 AM, Dana Farnan wrote: Hi there...does anyone know any LInux groups/contacts in or around NYC that I could post a job to? Thanks. This is the main Linux group here in NYC: http://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/ Not sure if they have an active job board any longer. They

Re: [Discuss] Justify your existence

2011-12-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/16/2011 12:41 AM, Jack Coats wrote: Here are a few personal truisms about 'overhead'. A long time ago, I found that you are 'overhead' if you are not in the 'Business of the Business'. If you a banker or teller you are in the banking business, if you are in IT, or marketing, or

Re: [Discuss] Richard Pieri wrote:, Android doesn't support S/MIME out of the box, either.

2011-11-07 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/05/2011 09:36 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Richard Pieri wrote: Android doesn't support S/MIME out of the box, either. Speaking of which, what are people using for an IMAP client on Android? -Tom I've found K-9 Mail to be excellent. DR ___

Re: [Discuss] Insight about LVM

2011-10-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/22/2011 08:55 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: I'm looking to hear from people using it, things they like, things they dislike, oddities they've encountered, etc. Only negative I've heard is: If you have a logical volume that spans multiple HDD's, and one of the disks goes bad, the file

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/21/2011 10:39 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: I have a system that has been having heat problems. (Apparently when it was in my boss' home, he replaced the existing cooling fans with whimpy ones, but he kept the original fans so yesterday we did replace them, but I would like to be able to

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/21/2011 11:12 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:47 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 10/21/2011 10:39 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: I have a system that has been having heat problems. (Apparently when it was in my boss' home, he replaced the existing cooling fans with whimpy ones

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
10/21/2011 11:25 AM, Rich Braun wrote: I spoke too soon! Looks like I do now have sensors working on that Core I5-760. I think perhaps the sensors-detect script loads the kernel modules you need. (After detecting which ones are needed.) DR ___

Re: [Discuss] Thermal monitoring

2011-10-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/21/2011 12:14 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: In my case, sensors-detect installed /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors, but did not install a script in /etc/init.d. You don't need it to do either of those things. You need it to a) figure out which sensor kernel module you need to use, and b) load the

Re: [Discuss] disk space analysis tools

2011-10-07 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/07/2011 11:51 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote: Ever tried filelight? It's a pretty cool visualization of disk usage. There's a gnome-equivalent, I can't think of the name... xdiskusage? DR ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/25/2011 01:57 PM, Kyle Leslie wrote: Hi everyone, my office IT group has documents spread out between us, some the same, some different. I was hoping to set up a small wiki type server so that our group could collaborate and share documents with each other. Any suggestions on a set up. I

Re: [Discuss] Large DVI monitor

2011-08-08 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/07/2011 02:33 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: On Aug 7, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Glenn Hoffman wrote: I use a Mac Pro as my principle coding machine and am looking for a good, large, DVI monitor for it. Any suggestions? Depends. Are you doing professional work where things like Pantone color

Re: [Discuss] Skype Replacement

2011-06-20 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/20/2011 04:06 PM, Mark Woodward wrote: I may have asked this before, is there a practical replacement for Skype now that they've been bought by Microsoft? I refuse to give M$ my money if I can avoid it. Skype is free ... DR ___ Discuss mailing