Re: [brlug-general] Cox and P2P

I want to say that the eff released a tool or procedure that will let you know if your isp is shaping your traffic -Original Message- From: Petri Laihonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:06 AM To: general@brlug.net Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Cox and P2P I've bee

[brlug-general] Help me buy a used laptop

Hang out in the hot deals forums on www.fatwallet.com If you hang out there long enough, you will find a deal on a new laptop for around $500. My girlfriend got one about a year ago, core duo, gig of ram, all that niceness, and widescreen, for $600 (the dell 1405 i think). Joe Fruchey wrote: > Ok

[brlug-general] Dell chooses Ubuntu

I checked it out, its true. He also has like 6 computers listed though, so it might just be a sort of gimmick. --mat Chris Johnston wrote: > I heard on a recent TWiT podcast that Michael Dell is running Ubuntu "Feisty > Fawn" on his own machine at home. It is apparently noted in the corporate

[brlug-general] Ubuntu Feisty (Was: "Chat Feature")

> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Andrew Baudouin wrote: > > >> I have them disabled now, I'm just whining for no good reason. :D >> >> On 5/1/07, Mathew Branyon wrote: >> >>> beryl and compiz are stil

[brlug-general] Ubuntu Feisty (Was: "Chat Feature")

beryl and compiz are still alpha I believe, maybe beta. Try disabling it and seeing if it works. I forgo hibernation for the wobbly windows --mat Andrew Baudouin wrote: > yeah, but now that I have a Core 2 system for my main system, I can > finally go to pure 64-bit on the Athlon 64 box that wa

[brlug-general] [brlug-newbies] Dell gives the go-ahead for Linux

m still > says "Dell recommends Microsoft Vista". > > ray > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org > Systems EngineerSoutheastern Louisiana University > IBM Certi

[brlug-general] [brlug-newbies] Dell gives the go-ahead for Linux

Posted to General because its good news :) Here is the news straight from Dell's mouth: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/ideastorm/ideasinaction?c=us&l=en&s=gen Here is Dell's pledge to GPL drivers. http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/03/28/9655.aspx I really like the fact

[brlug-general] sco environment

Is there a way to get binary compatibility with SCO on a BSD or Linux machine? I have a client with an old server and I would like to know some options for migration or backing up the software. Thanks, Mat Branyon

[brlug-general] Email passwords are.. special?

I have an idea... Input isn't accepted into the devices unless the fingerprints are actively being read, i.e. fingerprint scanners on all of the keys on a keyboard, or on the back of a cell/pda, something like that. RFID tags under the skin could also work. If you want, I can help inject those in

[brlug-general] Email passwords are.. special?

That would work fine for lost or stolen devices, or whenever the user *knows* that their password has been compromised. What about cases when the user does not know that the password is compromised. I think in those cases it would be easier to have multiple passwords. There can still be one pla

[brlug-general] Email passwords are.. special?

The admin isn't the only user that has valuable information. I don't think we are talking only about network security, but data security as well. --mat Kevin Kreamer wrote: > Dustin Puryear wrote: > >> What are your thoughts on whether email accounts should be separate >> from normal network

[brlug-general] Email passwords are.. special?

lot of websites do is just a hint. > > - Original Message - > From: general-bounces at brlug.net on behalf of Mathew Branyon > Sent: Wed, 2/14/2007 11:23am > To: general at brlug.net > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Email passwords are.. special? > > > I a

[brlug-general] Email passwords are.. special?

I am going to assume the position of a consultant (since that is my perspective). I think it depends on how secure your clients want to be. I have some clients that will actually change their passwords to their usernames. I know some that when I am working on their computer, and ask them to put

[brlug-general] [SPAM] Re: More LSU Campus Spam, Fwd: IT Expo and IT Commons Grand Opening

Meh, I'm at the end of my second year as president. Too late for luck :) --mat Dustin Puryear wrote: > Haha.. Sucker. I mean, good luck! > > --- > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author: > "Best Practices for Managing Linux a

[brlug-general] More LSU Campus Spam, Fwd: IT Expo and IT Commons Grand Opening

Starting a campus organization isn't easy. I tried to start an open source group here at UL a few years ago. I ended up president of the ACM instead :) --mat Chris Johnston wrote: > Why don't you start your own student organization? Then you would > satisfy their requirements. There are hundred

[brlug-general] Removing Icons on Gnome Desktop

Maybe it's just me, but I have always found SuSE, and in particular YaST to run really slow. --mat Sean Guidry wrote: > Either Fedora or SUSE, I haven't yet decided which one > I want to stick with. > > michael dolan wrote: > >> What distro are you using? This will probably work >> > no

[brlug-general] Learning the command line

if you want some of those fancy gui things back, give xfce a try. its fairly minimal, with the ability to add any of the gnome or kde niceties to it. --mat Joe Fruchey wrote: > I have a 900MHz laptop with Fedora 6 installed. Gnome and KDE both > slog it down. Not the the point of unusability, mi

[brlug-general] Faster than gedit

Yea, I tried turning off beryl, and had the same issue, maybe its broken in the ubuntu repositories :( --mat Joe Fruchey wrote: > Edgy with no aiglx... I have a FC6 laptop right here... lemme try yumming it. > > On 2/2/07, Mathew Branyon wrote: > >> Funny, I just installe

[brlug-general] Faster than gedit

Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) > Major opcode of failed request: 70 (X_PolyFillRectangle) > > > On 2/2/07, Mathew Branyon wrote: > >> nedit is pretty basic, and fast. >> >> I am surprised no one has said this, but if y

[brlug-general] Faster than gedit

nedit is pretty basic, and fast. I am surprised no one has said this, but if you just want to peek at a file, use cat :) I use gedit for most tasks, I haven't noticed it to be too slow. I just ran it command line and noticed that in the second it took to start up, I got a few gnome-vfs messages

[brlug-general] Help with PEAP, TKIP, WPA and wpa_supplicant

I have been fighting at UL with our campus wireless network requiring a vpn setup. I think i just found a solution (pptpconfig), and I will test it out tomorrow. My home network has WPA, and I use it with no problem at all. Check out the program NetworkManager (and nmapplet). It's in the reposi

[brlug-general] mailing list

il/general_brlug.net/ > > On Saturday 02 December 2006 13:40, Mathew Branyon wrote: > >> 36 >> >> Chris Johnston wrote: >> >>> what is a bunch? 2,3,10 >>> > > ___ > Gene

[brlug-general] mailing list

36 Chris Johnston wrote: > what is a bunch? 2,3,10 > > Chris Johnston > > On 12/1/06, *Mathew Branyon* <mailto:mat.branyon at gmail.com>> wrote: > > maybe its just me, but did anyone else just get a bunch of emails from > the list (that weren'

[brlug-general] mailing list

maybe its just me, but did anyone else just get a bunch of emails from the list (that weren't previously delivered)? --mat

[brlug-general] New LAMP server

I doubt you would notice a difference in either machine. I have used ubuntu as a server (simply because I had install disks lying around), and it is very easy to use. I specifically set up lamp with drupal (content management), which was very straight forward. As far as books, I've always fou

[brlug-general] Linux workshop

ring" on the > bottom! All the info but the class picked was filled in, causing some > confusion on my part. > > I apologize if registering multiple times causes problems. > > -Nick. > > On Fri, October 6, 2006 6:59 pm, Mathew Branyon wrote: > >> Well, I a

[brlug-general] Linux workshop

nks for the heads up! > > -Nicholas Istre > > On Fri, October 6, 2006 4:13 pm, Mathew Branyon wrote: > >> Hey everyone. I know I haven't been active in a while (but I still >> read). I am still here in Lafayette, as the Chair of the student ACM >> (the A

[brlug-general] Linux workshop

Hey everyone. I know I haven't been active in a while (but I still read). I am still here in Lafayette, as the Chair of the student ACM (the Alpha Chapter). We have decided to start a weekly Linux Workshop at the University, and of course, it's open to the public. If you know anyone thats i

[brlug-general] Introducing Dustin Cooper Thomas Puryear

Holy crap, you spawned!? Congratulations! Way to point him in the right direction as soon as humanly possible. Does he have a login on one of your computers too? --mat Dustin Puryear wrote: > http://photos.yahoo.com/cooper_puryear > > --- > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > Baton Rouge,

[brlug-general] Backup mail hosts?

One of the issues with that, is that they are probably still on the same pipe. Louisiana doesn't have that much bandwidth flowing through it. --mat Kevin Kreamer wrote: > Joey Kelly wrote: > >> I'll answer a few of the points made in the various threads. >> >> >>> One possible suggestio

[brlug-general] Ticket system..

http://www.bestpractical.com/rt ?? Tim Fournet wrote: > Trac is a great tracking system for software development. I find it's > not as well suited for general requests as RT is. > > I've been using RT (http://www.bestpractical.net/rt) for a long while > now, and it's wonderful for handling tasks

[brlug-general] caller ID?

http://www.callthefuture.org/#plue I love how digg always ends up giving me information when its relevant. --mat Brad Bendily wrote: > Does anyone know of a way that I can get a phone number but be able to > change the outgoing caller ID on that number any time I want? I looked > at Skype, the o

[brlug-general] caller ID?

ID. > > On 8/1/06, *Mathew Branyon* <mailto:mbranyon at motion-labs.com>> wrote: > > are you suggesting that asterix needs a dedicated t1 to run properly? > > Andrew Baudouin wrote: > > You can do such a thing with the Asterisk PBX system. You'

[brlug-general] caller ID?

are you suggesting that asterix needs a dedicated t1 to run properly? Andrew Baudouin wrote: > You can do such a thing with the Asterisk PBX system. You'll have to > get your own T1 though ($$$) > > On 8/1/06, *Brad Bendily* < bendily at gmail.com > > wrote: > >

[brlug-general] Massive book sale! These rates won't last long!

ed they can come look. > > --- > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > Download your free copy: > http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpract

[brlug-general] Massive book sale! These rates won't last long!

If you can get a list up, I am looking at building up a library. I am mostly interested in programming, operating systems, and security. The more abstract, the better. --mat Dustin Puryear wrote: > Hey, the LUG library has gotten massive. Time to dump it unless someone > wants to store all o

[brlug-general] Portable Applications

Yea, I ran into this site a while back trying to put together an all purpose usb flash device that could handle anything. My idea was to partition a 1gb flash disk, half with this, and the other half, a bootable linux distribution. All that for my job as an IT consultant --mat Richards Jr, Edwar

[brlug-general] Text editor that keeps tabs

gedit kedit pretty much all of them. if you want more functionality, try bluefish or quanta (gnome and kde respectively) --mat Scott Harney wrote: > Joe Fruchey wrote: > *chuckle* vim. > > >> I went away to the Windows world, but I'm back now with Dapper Drake >> RC1. I fell in Love with Not

[brlug-general] new toy

I recently purchased a maxspeed 5200 thinclient. Its specs are: 300mhz geode proc. 64MB RAM WinCE It has a 44pin IDE controller (the kind for a laptop, also might have 2) CF Card reader 2 usb ports ps/2 ports parallel 2 serial The RAM is upgradable (pc100 sdram only, and some sticks are too tall

[brlug-general] bcm43xx

abbott m wrote: > hey matt go check the ndiswrapper website use like the dell drivers or > something they seem to work the best under linux emulation. i ended > up buying a dwl 650 for the whole aircrack thing because of > ndiswrappers inept ways. i heard that they are coming out with a > bcm4

[brlug-general] some activity (bcm43xx drivers on a dell 600m)

thor of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > Download your free copy: > http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices.htm > > - Original Message - > From: "Mathew Branyon" > To: > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 8:53 AM > Subject: Re:

[brlug-general] some activity (bcm43xx drivers on a dell 600m)

le a 15" wide >> screen notebook is a little big from a lugability stand point...I need >> the screen realestate. >> >> --lance >> >> Mathew Branyon wrote: >> >>> worms wrote: >>> >>> >>>> They had the Inspiro

[brlug-general] broadcom wireless?

Brad Bendily wrote: > At work I have a Inspiron 5100. The wireless card has the broadcom > chipset for which there is no native linux driver. However, > I was successful in getting the ndiswrapper to work with it. > It's an ugly process, I just did it to see if I could do it, I > don't use wireless

[brlug-general] some activity (bcm43xx drivers on a dell 600m)

worms wrote: > They had the Inspiron 6000 for $650 which you got a Pentium M, 512mb, > WireLess and DVD burner > That one was too big for me. I like the smaller laptops. This one had gig of ram, dvd burner, built in wireless of course, and 1 year warranty for $479. > On 3/9

[brlug-general] Laptops

Shannon Roddy wrote: > On 3/9/06, Will Hill wrote: > >> If Mepis won't do it, I'd rip the thing out and use a PC card that does work. >> Crappy hardware is just not worth the time. >> >> > > > There is a big difference between "crappy hardware" and not supported > on Linux. Winmodems were

[brlug-general] Laptops

two boxes I've made to move >> around my laptops. For the 600, I used a pizza box, blue foam insulation, >> batting, bubble wrap and duct tape. That worked well for a year an a half >> and the 600 still works like a champ. When the T23 gave me problems, I >> im

[brlug-general] Laptops

ked well for a year an a half > and the 600 still works like a champ. When the T23 gave me problems, I > improved the design to eliminate flex by using masonite and I glued it all > together with silicone caulking. Now only the edge is held in place and > there's a quarter in

[brlug-general] some activity (bcm43xx drivers on a dell 600m)

I don't know if anyone else noticed, but dell just recently had an insane deal on 600m laptops (I think they discontinued the line). I got one. I didn't have the foresight to pay the extra $30 to get the intel 2200 wireless minipci card. Shortening the story a bit, I have the dell wireless

[brlug-general] M$ Update

You can have all the firewalls, software or hardware (although I am not sure how multiple firewalls would help much), but, in the true sense of the word, any service you have that's publicly available to the internet is vulnerable. If you connect to any service you are vulnerable. There are precau