[Eug-lug] Friday Fun: ITAPPMONROBOT

2007-12-21 Thread Matthew Jarvis
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ITAPPMONROBOT.aspx -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/li

Re: [Eug-lug] [ITPRO-ANNOUNCE] Dec 18th -- IT Pro Forum Holiday Social

2007-12-18 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Looks like the reminder didnt go out. Here it is again: Hal Pomeranz wrote: Holiday Social Meeting 6:30pm Tuesday, Dec 18th -- Eugene City Brewery (downstairs) No formal speaker this month, just a chance to spread some holiday cheer with your peers. What high-tech toys would you li

Re: [Eug-lug] monitor

2007-12-14 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Kent Loobey wrote: On Wednesday 12 December 2007 13:48:53 Mr O wrote: If it is a flat tube it is welcome to stay in the garage for LUG use if nobody wants it. I have no interest in non-flat tubes. Speaking of monitors... I gots lots of older CRT's suitable for servers, kids use, target pra

Re: [Eug-lug] eeePC again

2007-11-30 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Jason LaPier wrote: Sorry to resurrect this topic, but did anyone end up buying one of the eeePCs? Used it for any length of time? I'm thinking of getting one because I'd like to have a device smaller than my 15" notebook, but that I can still do word processing on (and occassionally surfing and

Re: [Eug-lug] eeePC

2007-11-16 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Just in case anyone missed it, we are slated to have Mike O. have one of these for demo at next Tuesday's IT Pro Forum (6:30pm @ Rogue). Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Cherba wrote: Personally I

Re: [Eug-lug] small linux box

2007-08-29 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Garl Grigsby wrote: > Anybody seriously interested in one of these? I was until I saw the $40 shipping **up charge**. Then I saw that they are running a summer deal. You can get 4 units for the price of three. With shipping, then come out to ~$88 each. If, I can find a couple of other intereste

Re: [Eug-lug] Q about Sendmail

2007-08-17 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Bob Miller wrote: Matthew Jarvis wrote: This happens before the shell parses the command to break it into words, so it just looks like there are two spaces between "/usr/sbin/sendmail" and the first supplied argument. So, in other words, it's fine. No bugs here... Than

[Eug-lug] Q about Sendmail

2007-08-16 Thread Matthew Jarvis
It's prolly unrelated to a problem I'm having, but I came across this in a bash script that is supposed to send me an email when a certain task is done. # change these to suit your needs SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail # your Mail-Transfer-Agent SENDMAIL_OPTS= # and its required opt

[Eug-lug] Ubuntu Linux's Achilles' Heel: It's Tough To Install On Laptops

2007-07-19 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Ubuntu Linux's Achilles' Heel: It's Tough To Install On Laptops http://www.networkcomputing.com/channels/storageandservers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001502 or http://tinyurl.com/26w3fw -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-048

Re: [Eug-lug] [ITPRO-ANNOUNCE] July 17th, John Sechrest on Drupal

2007-07-17 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Hal Pomeranz wrote: Summer is here. Come beat the heat and learn something at the same time: A Cooks Tour of Drupal John Sechrest 6:30pm Tuesday, July 17th -- Eugene City Brewery (downstairs) Drupal is a popular content management system. John Sechrest has installed several

Re: [Eug-lug] [ITPRO-ANNOUNCE] July 17th, John Sechrest on Drupal

2007-07-17 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Hal Pomeranz wrote: Summer is here. Come beat the heat and learn something at the same time: A Cooks Tour of Drupal John Sechrest 6:30pm Tuesday, July 17th -- Eugene City Brewery (downstairs) Drupal is a popular content management system. John Sechrest has installed several

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: pdf vs png, etc. whats the best format for document archiving under Linux?

2007-06-05 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Brian Gallagher wrote: It seems that the short answer is PDF. I appreciate the expanded discussion, it was informative. OCR is not an issue, at this time, future alien review is doubtful, and legal professional adoption is a strong benchmark. I found this discussion really informative to

Re: [Eug-lug] Interested in a career change?

2007-05-22 Thread Matthew Jarvis
John Sechrest wrote: We have a few ex-Bikee people up in Corvallis. Have you tried the group? Have you tried the community colleges? Have you talked to the SBDC? Have you posted a note on craigslist? Have you considered posters/flyers at the saturday market? I don't know for sure what ave

[Eug-lug] Interested in a career change?

2007-05-22 Thread Matthew Jarvis
or know someone that might be? We've drained the swamp already and need more people... if you or someone you know might be interested in this, please send them our way... Thanks, -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140

[Eug-lug] Corvallis SAO Tech Pub - May 10th - Dynamics of Building a Software Development Team

2007-05-08 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Thought this might be of interest... -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Original Message Subject:

[Eug-lug] Anyone experienced with 2X thin client package?

2007-04-30 Thread Matthew Jarvis
www.2x.com I'm thinking of trying this out as an alternative to Citrix for running our Win based app. Just curious if anyone has used it before and could say Yes or No as far as suitability to task... -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com

[Eug-lug] Computer Base phone number - is it 349-0404 ?

2007-04-16 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I call and call and no one is answering... -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/e

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: Thursday's Meeting

2007-04-04 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Bob Miller wrote: Matthew Jarvis wrote: Just FYI the Rogue has decent wifi bandwidth and that room downstairs is free to use... I *think* Northbank (minors allowed me thinks) has the same situation... Does Northbank have a private room? Yes Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: Thursday's Meeting

2007-04-04 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Dhosthi Dhosthi wrote: So maybe it would not be a good week, as according to E, two Frats are moving in this week and an internet connection would be nice. --- Dhosthi Dhosthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just FYI the Rogue has decent wifi bandwidth and that room downstairs is free to use... I

[Eug-lug] IT Pro Forum meeting tonight

2007-03-20 Thread Matthew Jarvis
From Hal Pomeranz: - "Be sure to attend the first ever IT Pro Forum meeting! "Wireless Security Basics" Hal Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates 6:30pm Tuesday, March 20 -- Eugene City Brewery (downstairs) You probably have a nagging feeling that you should be doing

[Eug-lug] New Microsoft version of VI editor.

2007-03-09 Thread Matthew Jarvis
http://blogs.sun.com/marigan/entry/how_the_vi_editor_would -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/ma

Re: [Eug-lug] Sys Admin magazine

2007-03-07 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Hal Pomeranz wrote: I'd wager Hal has an opinion on them as well. Darn, Quentin outed me. I was hoping to lurk on the thread and get people's honest opinions on the magazine. For those who don't know, I'm the Technical Editor for Sys Admin (which means I review all the proposals and manuscri

[Eug-lug] Sys Admin magazine

2007-03-07 Thread Matthew Jarvis
These folks are dangling a subscription offer along w/ a CD of 10 years worth of magazine content... Is this mag any good, especially for skill-challenged people like me? -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Eug-lug] PostgreSQL's pgcrypto function

2007-03-05 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Ben Barrett wrote: Does this help, or have you already seen it? http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto/README.pgcrypto?rev=1.18 (current latest version as of this posting) -ben Thanks Ben - no I hadn't seen this... I was hoping for a more clearcut example on ho

[Eug-lug] PostgreSQL's pgcrypto function

2007-03-02 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Does anyone have experience w/ the "pgcrypto" function? Care to walk me thru it? I *did* find some documentation on it, but my Russian is a bit rusty... -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [Eug-lug] New IT Group in Eugene, OR

2007-02-27 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Quentin Hartman wrote: Well, as I mentioned this is something of an "itch" I've had since I moved to the area in 2001 or so. About a year ago it got "serious" during a discussion that I had with Hal Pomeranz. We both saw a need for this sort of group and decided that we needed to do something ab

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007

2007-02-23 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Garl Grigsby wrote: Alternately you can do the following: 1) Update the TZ data files using the procedure I sent earlier. 2) run the timeconfig command and make sure the UTC setting is correct. If you want to switch the hardware clock to UTC do so now. We will adjust shortly. 3) Select the co

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007

2007-02-22 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Matthew Jarvis wrote: Followed the above verbatim and have the same problem the only thing w/ correct lines are /America/Los_Angeles Again, glad I had a backup p.s. this is a slackware distro I'm trying this on... Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Perfor

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007

2007-02-22 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Garl Grigsby wrote: Matthew, Just in case you never got this done, here is what I developed as a procedure for updating older Redhat 7.3 and 9.0 systems. So far, this has worked on all the systems I've tried. Garl Steps to update Time Zone data on older (redhat) systems. NOTE: newer syst

[Eug-lug] SAO - Tech Brew Pub tonight

2007-02-22 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Tech Brew Pub Thursday Feb 22 Time: 5:30 - 7:30pm Rogue Tap House, Downstairs Room, 844 Olive Street Cost: Free Topic: "Web Application Rapid Prototyping" Michael White and Paul Berger, Rapid Path Inc. Michael White and Paul Berger will discuss their new startup consultancy, Rapid Path (www.rapi

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007

2007-02-16 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Bob Miller wrote: Matthew Jarvis wrote: That's what I would have thought, but I also don't recall having to deal with DST as it went on/off... Better check my OS patches Here's the easiest way to check. $ date --date=3/12/2007 Mon Mar 12 00:00:00 PDT 2007 Se

Re: [Eug-lug] Translate file name to Postgres DB name

2007-02-09 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Matthew Jarvis wrote: I've solved my problem but never figured out how to match the cryptic dir names to DB names... The answer: start postgreSQL, then select * from pg_stat_database ; Gives you the list of dir names (OID's) along with the names of the databases Matthew

Re: [Eug-lug] Translate file name to Postgres DB name

2007-02-08 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Matthew Jarvis wrote: Rob Hudson wrote: Is there a way, from within Postgresql, to view the filesize usage of its databases and tables? That might be the best approach and sounds easier than looking at the raw data directory. -- select size of tables and indices in random order SELECT

Re: [Eug-lug] Translate file name to Postgres DB name

2007-01-31 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Rob Hudson wrote: Is there a way, from within Postgresql, to view the filesize usage of its databases and tables? That might be the best approach and sounds easier than looking at the raw data directory. -- select size of tables and indices in random order SELECT relname, reltuples, relpages

Re: [Eug-lug] Translate file name to Postgres DB name

2007-01-31 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Rob Hudson wrote: I think Matt's asking if you can determine which files related to which tables... Ya, what _he_ said... Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [Eug-lug] Limit size of log files?

2007-01-31 Thread Matthew Jarvis
te the log when it hits that size. Example: # sample logrotate configuration file /var/log/messages { rotate 5 weekly size=100k postrotate /sbin/killall -HUP syslogd endscript } On 1/31/07, Matthew

[Eug-lug] Translate file name to Postgres DB name

2007-01-31 Thread Matthew Jarvis
On my web server I have a bunch of files named something along the lines of this: /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16982/492470 They are eating up my backup allowance on my hosted service and I'm curious which DB's and/or tables they are. -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance t

[Eug-lug] Limit size of log files?

2007-01-31 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Is there a way to globally set how big log files can get? i.e. maillog, maillog.1, maillog.2 I was hoping that this global setting would also control apache, postgres etc but that's prolly asking too much... -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefrid

[Eug-lug] [OT] Rebooting Times Square

2007-01-22 Thread Matthew Jarvis
http://www.yearinthelife.org/images/timessquareBIOS.jpg -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailm

Re: [Eug-lug] Free to a good home: NCD Explora 701 Terminal

2007-01-17 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Rob Hudson wrote: I picked one of these up long ago and I figure if I haven't done anything with it at this point, I never will. I don't have the power supply (or it's burried somewhere). One of the best descriptions online I can find is this cached page from Ebay: http://72.14.253.104/searc

Re: [Eug-lug] dns (?) problems

2007-01-11 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Bob Miller wrote: Matthew Jarvis wrote: On an otherwise reasonably functional network, I see that sometimes I can get out on the net, other times not, and sometimes it's fine one minute then almost instantly - poof - nadda... Do you have a caching DNS server in the building? (If not

[Eug-lug] dns (?) problems

2007-01-10 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I'm having the oddest thing going on... On an otherwise reasonably functional network, I see that sometimes I can get out on the net, other times not, and sometimes it's fine one minute then almost instantly - poof - nadda... For example, to test I might do something like: ping. www.red.com

Re: [Eug-lug] ftp package w/ "throttle control"

2007-01-04 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Bob Miller wrote: Matthew Jarvis wrote: It could be done by carrier pidgeon for all I care... Maybe Bike Friday could build you a bike made of USB pen drives and you could pedal your backups across town. But seriously, Ben called it when he suggested rsync. Rsync can also be stopped

Re: [Eug-lug] ftp package w/ "throttle control"

2007-01-04 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Quentin Hartman wrote: You can use wondershaper to throttle the speed, but that will affect everything on the interface so it may not be a good solution. Using rsync over ssh as Ben suggested is a very good idea if it's possible. You specifically mention FTP. does that imply that it has to be don

[Eug-lug] ftp package w/ "throttle control"

2007-01-04 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I've got a few large files (backups) that I want to upload offsite. I had originally thought that I needed to do so within an 8 hr timeframe so as to be a good netizen and not interfere with daytime bandwidth usage... Then the idea came up yesterday of feeding the files a portion at a time to

[Eug-lug] Windows 98 MPREXE error

2006-12-26 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Just thought I'd throw this one to the Collective and see what might come of it... I have a few boxes around here that throw an error shortly after startup (but after login) of the 'MPREXE' variety. It's just a nuisance dialog box, and pressing a button gets past it... My research has found

[Eug-lug] Looking at the 'free' command

2006-12-22 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Learning something new... I'm trying to determine if a web server has enough RAM for the load. I was advised to use the ''free -m' command and to pay special attention to the Swap value. Been watching it since last night and it Swap was at 96 then, 100 now. Here's the latest:

Re: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007

2006-12-19 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Bob Miller wrote: Time servers all speak UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, nee Greenwich Mean Time) so they don't care about local variances in daylight saving rules. That's what I would have thought, but I also don't recall having to deal with DST as it went on/off... Better check my OS p

[Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007

2006-12-19 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I got a letter from IBM talking generally about the new DST changes that are going into effect March 2007. They say "In 2007, US Daylight Saving Time is changing and will begin on the 2nd Sunday in March and end the first Sunday in November". This is more just FYI for folks, but I'm curious w

[Eug-lug] HOWTO: "Setting up a software developer's workstation on Fedora Core 6"

2006-12-12 Thread Matthew Jarvis
An associate of mine posted this on another linux related list.. I thought there might be those around here that would find it useful. If you do - please let Whil know... Whil Hentzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The HOWTO is here: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/wp/fc6_devws.htm -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT

Re: [Eug-lug] PHP Mail Object - syntax for 'To' or 'CC' fields

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Jarvis
larry price wrote: try $headers['Cc'] = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; been there, done that... but for you Larry I'll try it again... this form doesn't have a public interface - for internal use only mm, and this will always be true? Yes, always true... unless we want the genera

Re: [Eug-lug] PHP Mail Object - syntax for 'To' or 'CC' fields

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Jarvis
this form doesn't have a public interface - for internal use only On 11/22/06, Matthew Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Today's struggle is wrestling with an old program to get it to CC someone when it sends out emails. User is in a form, selects "From" and &quo

[Eug-lug] deal at Best Buy on Toshiba notebook $249

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Jarvis
http://www.notebooks.com/?p=296 -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

[Eug-lug] PHP Mail Object - syntax for 'To' or 'CC' fields

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Today's struggle is wrestling with an old program to get it to CC someone when it sends out emails. User is in a form, selects "From" and "To". Enters text into a text box. Hits the Send button. This all works. Trying to CC our Service manager on these things and can't get it to work. Here's

Re: [Eug-lug] crontab - last day of month

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Jarvis
horst wrote: > b) cron jobs that come with packages (log analysis/rotation, backup,...) have the tendency to start at the hour, or 15/30/45 min. You don't want to interfere with those, or compete for resources. Secondly, if your cron job starts at 5:37, and some odd issues also start at 5:37 it

Re: [Eug-lug] mysqldump equivalent for MS SQL 2000?

2006-10-31 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Quentin Hartman wrote: I'm needing to copy all of the contents of one MS SQL 2000 server to another. In MySQL, I'd just "mysqldump --all-databases" and get on with life. However, there doesn't seem to be an equivalent tool for MS SQL that will do everything on the server and get the stored proced

[Eug-lug] How was SAO last week?

2006-10-31 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I couldn't make it as I was working late on a server upgrade w/ Intechgra... How'd it go? Decent turnout? Good subject? Most importantly - any new beers on tap down there?? -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PRO

[Eug-lug] RealBasic

2006-10-26 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Anyone here have any experience with RealBasic ? (http://www.realbasic.com) I'm looking for a new GUI dev tool... -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG

[Eug-lug] Mozilla mail oddity

2006-10-26 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I just noticed that the View filter in Mozilla Mail seems to be a fuzzy search rather than doing a literal string comparison. Or else it's not working right regardless of the technique it's using... Might be useful to know that in case you want to do a bulk move or delete out of a folder..

[Eug-lug] Zod arrives

2006-10-24 Thread Matthew Jarvis
From another Linux list I belong to... -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From the Fedora list * Original Message -

Re: [Eug-lug] Any Mailman guru's out there?

2006-10-19 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Darren Hayes wrote: You were not previously moderating the list? Wow spam filtering must be doing very good for you. Mailman lists can be inundated with spam if moderation is not on. You must be lucky or spam filtering is working well. ;-) That would not be the case with the old version of Mail

Re: [Eug-lug] Any Mailman guru's out there?

2006-10-19 Thread Matthew Jarvis
horst wrote: So what did The Guru find out ? -- maybe we can all learn from it, both strategy and solution. - Horst Actually, I managed to Stump The Jock... at least for now... we're waiting for the user to try and post again... turned on the Moderate flag hoping to catch his incoming

Re: [Eug-lug] Any Mailman guru's out there?

2006-10-17 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Darren Hayes wrote: - Original Message - "Matthew Jarvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wtote: BTW I did search the mailman archives and posted my Q to the mailman list, but ironically my message hasn't shown up... i.e. I have the same problem my user does...Oh we

Re: [Eug-lug] Any Mailman guru's out there?

2006-10-16 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Darren Hayes wrote: Hi Matt- To answer your easiest question, yes you posted the list on this issue previously and a number of folks offered up ideas. Did not any of the responses help you narrow down the issue? Which version of Mailman are you running? v.2.19 is latest, released last month. A

[Eug-lug] Any Mailman guru's out there?

2006-10-13 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I may have already posted this or maybe I'm just too braindead right now to remember, but... I'm stumped, and everyone I've already asked is stumped... We use Mailman to run a user list called the Yak for our customers. One user can't post to the list. He used to be able to, but not anymore.

[Eug-lug] Job: PHP and SQL programmer at Abacus Research LLC

2006-10-06 Thread Matthew Jarvis
This from Stephen Jazdzewski at Abacus: mj -- Learn more: http://www.linkedin.com/e/pFj7jqUYBnuxtSMBdk9bWEl4/blk/9025792/0Tc3wVdz0PbP0Mdj4UdzcLczATdj8MeiYUej4Uc34LqmRSbOYWrSlI/ --- If you have a moment, I'd appreci

[Eug-lug] First Lego League Tournament in Eugene

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I was asked to help spread the word on this, so here it is! John Sechrest, from SAO, referred me to you. I’m hoping, as a member you are familiar with First Lego League (www.FLL.org) and Oregon Robotic and Tournament Outreach

Re: [Eug-lug] I need a TV...

2006-10-02 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Ben Barrett wrote: You could also use this as an opportunity to test the 4-port video card that EUGLUG has been offered! Then you can view the output from any of up to four channel on a CRT/LCD, fullscreen or in a windows. Mass flexibility... cheers. Ben Rob said he was gonna hook me up

[Eug-lug] I need a TV...

2006-09-29 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I've got a low end security system going in and need a TV as the monitor. Anybody got an old black and white TV (I guess color would do) that I can get cheap? -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [Eug-lug] meeting mixup

2006-09-29 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Neil Parker wrote: Is there anybody reading this list who knows the SAO schedule, and can post announcements about SAO meetings, preferrably several days (at least) in advance? I guess that would be my bad... I had taken it upon myself to post SAO announcements here but when I stepped down fr

Re: [Eug-lug] Problem with Mail/Postfix

2006-09-25 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Jim K wrote: Is anybody else with a hotmail address able to post to the mailing list. If there aren't any hotmail subscribers how about setting up a test account with hotmail to test out the theory. Sorry but I am somewhat cynical. Jim K hotmail works Matt _

Re: [Eug-lug] Problem with Mail/Postfix

2006-09-25 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Jim K wrote: Is anybody else with a hotmail address able to post to the mailing list. If there aren't any hotmail subscribers how about setting up a test account with hotmail to test out the theory. Sorry but I am somewhat cynical. Jim K Ya know, that thought occurred to me but I would have

Re: [Eug-lug] Problem with Mail/Postfix

2006-09-25 Thread Matthew Jarvis
---- From: "Matthew Jarvis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:57 AM Subject: [Eug-lug] Problem with Mail/Postfix I have a user that belongs to our YAK mailing list run by Mailman. For some reason his

Re: [Eug-lug] Problem with Mail/Postfix

2006-09-25 Thread Matthew Jarvis
larry price wrote: are his posts being held in moderation? That happens in mailman, you should be able to see it in mailman's web interface. As Ben Franklin said, "all things in Moderation" no, not appearing in moderator interface... You can also do a grep -l of mailmans qfiles/ direct

[Eug-lug] Problem with Mail/Postfix

2006-09-25 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I have a user that belongs to our YAK mailing list run by Mailman. For some reason his posts aren't being sent to the list. If he CC's me on it I get them, and I can see them in the /var/log/maillog file, or at least the headers. At this point my knowledge ends of how to search more thoroughly

[Eug-lug] Webcams in the office...

2006-09-20 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Just got a 'request' that I put in cameras in 4 areas of our office, the first priority is so that our receptionist can find people to receive phone calls, the 2nd priority for security. I'm thinking that I can get away with those cheapo webcams, run the 4 of them into a usb hub and into a com

Re: [Eug-lug] Postfix problem & cleanup user account

2006-09-11 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Michael Miller wrote: Matt, I think what you are looking for is the postsuper command? What does postqueue tell you the status of the mail queues? Mike Miller postqueue -p dumps a listing of 95 requests, from addy's that look like spam and such. I'm a bit nervous about blindly firing of

[Eug-lug] Postfix problem & cleanup user account

2006-09-08 Thread Matthew Jarvis
To make a LONG story short I manually deleted (moved, actually) a bunch of messages from a users 'cur' folder. My main problem is solved, but still seeing some odd behavior w/ phantom messages etc. I am told that there is prolly a util program to run that will have postfix update it's da

[Eug-lug] Make hub go up/down

2006-08-29 Thread Matthew Jarvis
If I had a hub that I wanted to control whether it worked or not, is there a way to programmatically take the interface up and down? I looked at the config thru the web interface and didn't find anything that allows me to control it using a timeframe. I'd like to make this thing available onl

[Eug-lug] funny

2006-08-29 Thread Matthew Jarvis
http://www.schaubnet.org/soapbox/index.php/2006/08/28/heh/ -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mai

Re: [Eug-lug] Cacti tool installation

2006-08-24 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Michael Miller wrote: Matt, Here is my config for cacti. Alias /cacti/ "/var/www/cacti-0.8.6h/" Options -Indexes Order allow,deny Allow from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/24 I just then use this url to get to the cacti interface. http://myserver/cacti/ Mike Miller Thanks Micha

Re: [Eug-lug] Thursday's meeting

2006-08-24 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Mike Cherba wrote: Lets plan to meet up for a casual get together at the Brew Pub where SAO usually meets. We can move on from there as usual. -Mike AFAIK the room is already reserved for the SAO gig, but I was the only one interested in meeting in Aug... I booked it, but ap

[Eug-lug] Cacti tool installation

2006-08-24 Thread Matthew Jarvis
www.cacti.net Probably a dumb question, but... I went thru this installation and it went as smooth as could be - for once the docs were spot on! Okay, one glitch was that I extracted the tar in the wrong folder, but caught my mistake and moved everything to where I really wanted it when i

Re: [Eug-lug] is mySQL CPU expensive?

2006-08-16 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Ben Barrett wrote: Agreed, it was likely rebuilding table indexes and/or verifying data... depending on the system it is running on, the disk might be held up on other tasks. Well, what it's doing in the background just sitting there at a prompt overnight I can't really say... maybe it's incl

[Eug-lug] How many people are on my website?

2006-08-15 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I've always wanted to know the answer to this... If I'm running Apache on Linux, is there a way to find out how many people are currently considered "online" at the website? I thought of counting occurances of "http" or something similar would do the trick... Or would I have to make it hard

Re: [Eug-lug] is mySQL CPU expensive?

2006-08-15 Thread Matthew Jarvis
larry price wrote: What is MySQL doing? Can you tell from the logs (you should be able to turn on query logging if it's not on already) Some versions of the mysql client do auto completion of table and column names, and that can eat a lot of resources, but only for interactive sessions. I di

[Eug-lug] is mySQL CPU expensive?

2006-08-15 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Yesterday I was doing some followup work on a box and fired up mySQL to look over some data. I didn't complete my work so left it there overnight... This morning I noticed CPU loads on average much higher than I am used to seeing... After shaking the rubber chicken, restarting Cold Fusion (ou

Re: [Eug-lug] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, August 4

2006-08-07 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Allen Brown wrote: ***O'Reilly Author Gorden Meyer is Available as a Speaker Gordon Meyer ("Smart Home Hacks") gives lively presentations about fun and practical do-it-yourself home automation projects. His talkS appeal to those who want to live the 21st century life, as well as those who just

[Eug-lug] FabTrol Systems job posting for Sr. .Net programmer

2006-07-24 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Just in case someone is interested: I heard that FabTrol is looking for a Sr .Net developer w/ mySQL experience. I used to work there as a developer and could give you the skinny on the company if you are thinking of going for it... -- Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance

Re: [Eug-lug] XP Pro anyone?

2006-07-20 Thread Matthew Jarvis
ear on this... Matthew S. Jarvis IT Manager Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." www.bikefriday.com 541/687-0487 x140 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Jarvis wrote: He paid $179 for it... best offer I guess... He thought about selling it on ebay but I thought I'd try and save hi

Re: [Eug-lug] XP Pro anyone?

2006-07-20 Thread Matthew Jarvis
: What kind of price are you looking at? On 7/20/06, *Matthew Jarvis* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Prolly poor form on my part to even bring this up, but... Guy at work went out and bought XP Pro from VOS in case I needed it to fix his laptop

[Eug-lug] XP Pro anyone?

2006-07-20 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Prolly poor form on my part to even bring this up, but... Guy at work went out and bought XP Pro from VOS in case I needed it to fix his laptop. As it turns out, I didn't. So he's got this new-in-the-box copy of XP Pro he's looking to get rid of. The bastards at VOS won't take it back even th

Re: [Eug-lug] Need a help with linux based kiosk in science museum

2006-07-18 Thread Matthew Jarvis
LinuxRocks! wrote: I wrote, and offered to help if I can, while im in town today... Jamie If you don't mind me tagging along, if you go can you get in touch with me? I've been thinking about doing a kiosk thing and wouldn't mind seeing it in action before I start tweaking it. Matthew S.

[Eug-lug] Sending email to a list

2006-07-17 Thread Matthew Jarvis
One of our vendors has issued a safety recall on one of their components and we are attempting to contact all those who might have that on their bikes. The Plan is to email everyone and those that don't respond or indicate receipt of the message will be sent an (expensive) certified letter.

Re: [Eug-lug] Server load problem revisited - my solution

2006-07-11 Thread Matthew Jarvis
larry price wrote: On 7/11/06, Matthew Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 15 22 * * * kill -9 `ps aux | grep workstation | awk '{print $2}'` or killall -u workstation -s 9 Ya, that's a tad bit cleaner ain't it? I had taken my example from a script I fou

[Eug-lug] Server load problem revisited - my solution

2006-07-11 Thread Matthew Jarvis
A while back I asked for help trying to determine why I would have a server that would, over time, just start going nuts with CPU load and requiring a reboot. For a while now I've been rebooting this thing as a routine precaution pretty much weekly. I never have figured out what the overall is

Re: [Eug-lug] Webpage won't display images...

2006-07-07 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Martin Kelly wrote: The other thing to try would be linking to an external image, say, the google logo. If that shows up, it's a good sign and suggests your problem is with your server configuration or relative/absolute URLs. You can also try viewing the image properties in the browser and see

[Eug-lug] Webpage won't display images...

2006-07-07 Thread Matthew Jarvis
updating a BF dealer page with some new pictures... they just won't display... I looked at permissions and out of desperation went 777 on them, but they still don't show. Originals weren't 777 but the user group permissions had 'x' in there as well... I guess I just don't know how a browser i

Re: [Eug-lug] Lan Party?

2006-07-07 Thread Matthew Jarvis
KI7AY wrote: Hey folks. My son Corey (not yet a Linux geek) is getting bored and wants to have a Lan Party some weekend. Is there a publicly available building with internet access available somewhere that could be used for such a thing? Thanks, Jim Darrough I don't know if they are st

Re: [Eug-lug] Q about where oscommerce stores data

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew Jarvis
Bob Miller wrote: Assuming they are store on the server, what is the name of the table they are in? Almost certainly in the server's database. Those sneaky bastards The audacity of them to store address book info in a table called, of all things - address_book. My struggle was act

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