Re: ZFS vs btfrs

2022-02-23 Thread Jason T. Nelson
more useful"? -- Jason T. Nelson GPG key 0xFF676C9E ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: IPv6?

2015-01-13 Thread Jason T. Nelson
> - How are you going about determining your IPv4/IPv6 traffic split? My edge device/router is a small FreeBSD box where I'm using the netflow Netgraph node to export netflow data for analysis. I did it originally as a testbed for $dayjob. -- Jason T. Ne

Re: IPv6? (was: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?)

2015-01-13 Thread Jason T. Nelson
is at https://getipv6.info/display/IPv6/IPv6+Info+Home -- Jason T. Nelson GPG key 0xFF676C9E pgp34HqJ5UyN3.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: IPv6? (was: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?)

2015-01-13 Thread Jason T. Nelson
around 25% of my data coming into my network at home is IPv6. (native Comcast IPv6 and Hurricane Electric tunnel as backup) -- Jason T. Nelson GPG key 0xFF676C9E pgpqWtnY1UXxp.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: IPv6

2012-12-14 Thread Jason T. Nelson
having remote IPv6 connectivity, naturally, but this is slowly becoming more commonplace. > HE has really good directions on how to set up the broker on your > particular system. Can't say enough good things about Hurricane Electric. -- Jason T. Nelson GPG key 0xFF676C9E pgpd

Re: (OT) Does anyone use FOSS Virus Scan?

2007-07-20 Thread Jason Stephenson
definitions do on both of my mail servers. Probably one of the coolest features of ClamAV is that it is written entirely in standard C. You can compile it and use it pretty much anywhere you have a C compiler. Oh, and 0.91.1 just came out, so if you're running an older version,

Re: (OT) Does anyone use FOSS Virus Scan?

2007-07-19 Thread Jason Stephenson
there may be something else better suited to your needs. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

The "cent key"

2007-07-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now you have my $.02. (Why isn't there a cent key on the IMB keyboard??) The spot where most typewriters (even those from IBM) have the cent key is taken up by ^ on most computer keyboards. Interestingly, the cent character is not a part of the basic ASCII character

Re: Liberation Fonts?

2007-05-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Marc Nozell wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 11:35 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: >> Is that like "Freedom Fries?" >> >> Anyone tried this? >> >> https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ > > > They are pretty nice. I've installed them on my Ubuntu/Feisty laptop by > just unpacking them into ~/.fonts and runni

Re: [OT] Don't Download This Song - Weird Al

2007-03-30 Thread Jason Stephenson
Larry Cook wrote: Larry Cook wrote: http://www.myspace.com/weirdal/ Interesting!? The trailing slash causes an error. Need to use: I don't know what's worse: the trailing slash causing an error or the fact that MySpace uses IIS. The latter likely has something to do with the former. (Yes

Re: Henniker report - Re: [GNHLUG] A ham radio flea market - tomorrow, in Henniker

2007-03-18 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bill Sconce wrote: P.S. Another anecdote tickled me. It was about a friend of a friend who supposedly took someone's money to intall Vista on their PC. He played a trick: installed Ubuntu instead of The Genuine Advantage, told the client "you'll notice that it looks a little different from XP,

Re: anyone good with exim4 or debian config files?

2007-03-13 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jesse Lazar wrote: [Snippage.] Without seeing your whole configuration file, I can't really tell you if you have a problem with your exim configuration. One way to tell is if the messages hang around in your exim queue for a long time. You can check the exim queue with exim -bp run as root

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: Does anyone know a virtual environment for the PPC-based Macs? I have a PowerBook G4 that I'd like to be able to play with some stuff on. Specifically, I'd like to play around with a couple of the BSDs and possibly some different Linux distros. Have you tried just installin

Re: Emacs: Multiple files in one buffer?

2007-03-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'd like to do is have each function in a C source file appear in different subfiles. But I want to be able to perform text operations over the whole bunch of them... query-replace, isearch-forward, etc. I don't think it would require any extra structure in

Re: Emacs: Multiple files in one buffer?

2007-03-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This message is addressed to all the Emacs gurus on the list... Dunno if I'm a guru or not, but I've used GNU Emacs for 15 years and dabbled with X-Emacs briefly. My .emacs is only about 4K in size, but I've created a couple minor and major modes for various special f

Re: I reallly do not understand what the issue is.....

2007-03-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
Actually, I don't understand what the issue is, either. I manually updated my servers at work by writing a textual zoneinfo file with the proper configuration as described in the manual page for zic. I checked the contents of /etc/TIMEZONE or /etc/localtime and made sure that my input file was

Re: Ripping from CD to FLAC, and then transcoding to lossy (was: More on MP3 and open formats)

2007-02-27 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: On 2/26/07, Jason Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm already planing a nice utility for managing all of that, too. I'm starting to wonder if there isn't something out there already. I wrote my own collection of really bad hacks (shell and Perl s

Re: More on MP3 and open formats

2007-02-26 Thread Jason Stephenson
In reply to Ben's message about ripping to FLAC and then converting to other formats, I believe that is what I am going to do. I'll rip to FLAC and store the results on one of my PCs or possibly even burn them to DVD+R DL discs. Then, I'll convert the FLACs to Ogg when needed for greater file t

Re: More on MP3 and open formats

2007-02-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Not that anyone really cares what I'm doing, but until this Alcatel thing, I never thought that I was infringing on someone's patent "rights" by ripping music to MP3. I did it because it pretty much worked everywhere without hassle, though I knew that Ogg was supposed to be better. Now, I'm lo

Re: ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

2007-02-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Nigel Stewart wrote: Without disagreeing with your points about how open source is "supposed to work", I think doing better repo quality control would be a good direction for things to go. There doesn't seem much point in letting a repo get into a inconsistent state and letting that flow downst

Re: ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

2007-02-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Feb 24, 2007, at 10:02, Thomas Charron wrote: The dependency couldn't be met. The package maintainer screwed up, and had it dependent on a version of a package that wasn't available. Ah, OK, thanks for the correction. Still, if I hit that problem I'd go file a bug

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben's point about the advantages of more memory and the comparison to the 16-bit to 32-bit transition is well taken, but I don't think that changes my main point: Typical end users as defined before don't really care about the differences. As long as they can do more or less what they want to

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
e issues are there, but if it really matter to John and Jane Computeruser, 64 bit computers would have become common place in the market before now and DEC would have bought Compaq. As a friend of mine said in 1992, "I wish they'd stop wasting time with semico

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits [was Can't figure out Firefox

2007-02-15 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: On 2/15/07, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... It may be double the number of address bits, but it is woo more than double the address space. ... Exactly how much more than double is a woo? Quite specifically, it's one metric assload. What's that in imperial as

Re: CD/DVD writer woes

2007-01-18 Thread Jason Stephenson
re that if you had a version that worked in the past, it was Jorg's and not the mangled one that Debian now ships. (I'm not saying that the Debian version is no good, but it clearly isn't working in this case and the version that did work in the past likel

Re: test

2007-01-13 Thread Jason Stephenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XML parse error in line 2: Malformed XML: Entity not closed. Sorry, couldn't resist. :) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/li

Re: OT: Cygwin/X on Windows XP

2006-12-27 Thread Jason Stephenson
it if you install Cygwin with DOS line endings, as I do, but whatever works, right? (I'm also sending this to my work address so I can fix it there in the morning. Never know, I might just forget this over night. ;) Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discu

OT: Cygwin/X on Windows XP

2006-12-27 Thread Jason Stephenson
e useless FAQ link above. Cheers, Jason (WW) /tmp mounted int textmode _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root (II) XF86Config is not supported (II) See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html for more information winAdjustVideoModeShadowGDI - Using Windows display d

Re: SPARC Live CD?

2006-12-20 Thread Jason Stephenson
e.org/ I'm not sure if they support all of FreeBSD's architectures or not. FreeBSD also only supports sparc64, and not sparc. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

OT: Solstice

2006-12-16 Thread Jason Stephenson
ter Solstice is the shortest day* of the year in most of the Northern Hemishpere. The Summer Solstice is the longest. *Day defined as hours of daylight. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Linux and fonts and Firefox and human-factors design

2006-10-31 Thread Jason Stephenson
app does its own thing looking for fonts. Not to mention groff, TeX, and the others. Anyway, just my pseudorandom thoughts while I wait for cvsup to finish updating ports on my server.--I need to update clamav and install cdrtools so I can get a more recent backup of my files off

Re: Spam and mailing lists

2006-10-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
mike ledoux wrote: I'm sure there are some exim fans out there, but I'm not one of them. I have had two experiences with Exim, neither positive. The relevent one was a server that processed 20-50k inbound messages/day, and was ground nearly to a halt under Exim. Replacing with a properly confi

Re: Spam and mailing lists

2006-10-16 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: [repling to off-list message, with author's permission] On 10/16/06, Jason Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Exim ... It's my preferred MTA. Every MTA is somebody's preferred MTA. ;-) True. I will enumerate the reasons that I like Exim: 1.

Re: Solved: Problem with bash login.

2006-08-05 Thread Jason Stephenson
manager.) At the bottom of your .xsession you exec whichever one you want. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

2006-07-27 Thread Jason Stephenson
You seem to have already gotten answers on your problem and I hope that they work for you. Something I'll add is that when building UW Imap (boo hiss! I hear you jeer), I've had to use the WITH_NETSCAPE_BRAINDAMAGE option to get IMAP to work properly with Mozilla and Mozilla-based mail progr

OT: Whirled Peas (was Re: Malware "best practices")

2006-07-27 Thread Jason Stephenson
Fred wrote: Humans will never learn to live in peace (I pray that I am wrong here). Oh well. Perhaps the way to induce peaceful living would be to give the cyber-equivalent of the thermonuclear bomb to everyone. Kinda like giving everyone a lit match whilst standing in a pool of petrol. Idi

Re: Malware "best practices"

2006-07-27 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: The MySpace "worm" does highlight something important: Programmers keep making the same stupid mistakes, over and over and over and over and over again. As a programmer, I can tell you why. Most programmers are not well versed in the art or the science (if there really is an

Re: Problem with bash login.

2006-07-15 Thread Jason Stephenson
. ~/.bash_profile elif [ -f ~/.profile ]; then . ~/.profile fi exec blackbox It is that easy and everything I run later seems to have the proper environment. Cheers, Jason "Prof. Cockiasse" Stephenson ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhl

Re: What's a developer to do?

2006-04-20 Thread Jason Stephenson
t of the post-install. That just might fix a lot of the problems. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Free web-based email?

2006-04-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
se and outputs either http or https. 'Course it might just work if you configure Apache to force SSL on that directory. Frankly, if you don't trust Google with your email, then I don't think you could really trust anyone other than yourself, could you? Says the guy who has had

Re: Question about GPL issue.

2006-04-06 Thread Jason Stephenson
are some prominent GPL projects that do this, too. (MySQL comes to mind and Qt, but Qt is a more complicated story.) To some extent, that is what OSS is about. Stallman doesn't like it, but he's not God, merely a saint ;) Cheers, Jason __

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-04-03 Thread Jason Stephenson
Kevin D. Clark wrote: Another thing to be aware of (but which hasn't come up...yet...in this thread) is that all of the test code that I see here uses signed integers for the bit operations (~ << etc.). The C spec. specifically states that the results of such expressions is system dependent (an

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-03-31 Thread Jason Stephenson
rror on IPv4 net masks that are not between /8 and /30 inclusive. The reason being that < /8 and > /30 don't really give valid IPv4 networks. Cheers and thanks, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-03-30 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: Yes, more or less. Between you and Jason I've been able to come up with exactly what I need. Thanks a lot for all your help. Why I couldn't see this for myself is beyond me. Of course, this week has been full of me "missing the details" to the p

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-03-28 Thread Jason Stephenson
ade slightly longer, I'd suggest looking up how to configure VLANs on whatever you're using for a router.--I know you mentioned a FreeBSD firewall earlier. Cheers, Jason "Can't-the-network-for-the-wires" Stephenson ___ gnhlug

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-03-28 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: Jason Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It seems to me that the answer is that your IP addresses are limited to the range of 10.0.32.0 to 10.0.63.255 with 10.0.0.0 being the network address and 10.255.255.255 being the broadcast address, no? Err, you've

Re: perl and network addresses

2006-03-28 Thread Jason Stephenson
he range of 10.0.32.0 to 10.0.63.255 with 10.0.0.0 being the network address and 10.255.255.255 being the broadcast address, no? Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: FTP, proxies, firewalls (was: Fedora ftp install without a name server?)

2006-03-23 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: Perhaps, an upgrade or a switch to a different firewall software is in order. What are you using now? Currently, it is a relatively old release of IP Filter (ipf) from http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ that was hacked up by the OpenBSD folks before the licensing "clarif

FTP PASV & IE

2006-03-23 Thread Jason Stephenson
) I just wanted to admit my mistake before getting publicly trounced. ;) OK, I'll go back to playing with the packet shaper at the office Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailma

Re: Fedora ftp install without a name server?

2006-03-23 Thread Jason Stephenson
d FreeBSD. They all worked just fine. I believe I had to tell one of them to use passive mode, but I forget which. Since you're having trouble burning coasters, maybe someone could burn you an image? Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mai

Re: Firefox crashes on a bad .gif?

2006-03-16 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bair,Paul A. wrote: Found it: http://icons.wunderground.com/graphics/360arrows-r-nogray.gif I'm running Firefox 1.5.0.1 on FreeBSD 5.4 and the gif above does not cause problems in my browser. I'm running Mozilla 1.7.12 on FreeBSD 6.0 and it doesn't cause the browser any trouble. Makes my v

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-14 Thread Jason Stephenson
without completely redoing the network architecture so that it resembles a virtual police state (read: "prison or public high school"), then all bets are off. We're just going to have to deal with things as they are, unless someone has the cajones to pony up a better solution, a

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-14 Thread Jason Stephenson
is still breathing within me, doesn't like that. I'm also thinking that I might as well get rid of the mail form and just put a mailto link on my site. It's actually safer, and my address is already in whois, anyway. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Passwords: does size matter, what characters?

2006-03-10 Thread Jason Stephenson
Drew Van Zandt wrote: Also... what drives me crazy is that requirements conflict on websites where security isn't important anyway, so I can't use the same password for all the ones that don't really matter. PASSWORDS ARE NEVER GOING TO BE THAT STRONG, get over it and use real authentication (2

Re: Used Laptops (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL)

2006-03-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
I'm CCing my reply to the list because it sounds like Christopher meant for his question to go to the list. Christopher Chisholm wrote: I've been keeping my eyes out for an old laptop HD for a while.. I really want one of those USB 2.0 enclosures on a small drive, but the ones they sell are

Re: Used Laptops (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL)

2006-03-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
u can get a brand new, low-end notebook, or you can get a mid-range notebook that is one or two years old that has better specs than the brand new one. I'm definitely going the used route this time around, as it is not going to be my primary computer system. Cheers, Jason ___

Re: Passwords: does size matter, what characters?

2006-03-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
ing Apache) manage the passwords for you. Anyway, that's about all I can think of that you haven't mentioned. I wouldn't impose too many restrictions on their input, but I wouldn't allow Joes (the user name as the password), and would probably require a

Used Laptops (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL)

2006-03-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
h Linux or FreeBSD.--If the crappy winmodem won't work, I won't care, so long as the hardware is still functional and it has working ethernet or PCCARD slot for my ethernet card. I'm wondering if anyone knows of good sources for working, use

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
ss that address on to your friend, Drew. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: asset management tools?

2006-03-01 Thread Jason Stephenson
duct may never "arrive," at least not in a final state. Anyone waiting for it to be finished would be like the two characters in the play who wait for a Godot who never comes. Well, I'm being bellowed at and must run. Cheers, Jason _

Re: using make to convert images to thumbs

2006-02-26 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jason Stephenson wrote: ## Makefile example starts here. ## IMG_BASE = /img THM_BASE = /thumb/img IMG_PROC = /path/to/image/processor IMG_PROC_OPTS = # default options for image processor TARGET = # undefined. define on command line thumbs: if test "${TARGET}" = ""

Re: using make to convert images to thumbs

2006-02-26 Thread Jason Stephenson
it is a script. Along the same lines, a fancier solution would run a shell loop over the files in the TARGET directory, and process each one with IMG_PROC if you don't have a script to do everything in a directory in one go. HtH, Jason ___ gnhlug-d

Re: "Standard" Unix utilities

2006-02-22 Thread Jason Stephenson
x27; filename" works just about as well for what I usually needed the other one for. Generally, I write a program for anything that I have to do more than once, particularly if it involves a lot of complicated steps. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discu

Re: change file names

2006-02-21 Thread Jason Stephenson
pages it would be, but I'm sure it would be a lot! ;) Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: "Standard" Unix utilities

2006-02-21 Thread Jason Stephenson
e first things that I often do when setting up a new Solaris machine is to install the GNU fileutils, gcc, and several other packages. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: LUA language

2006-02-07 Thread Jason Stephenson
Larry Cook wrote: I have not used it myself, but I know that http://www.freepops.org is using it for modules and plugins. Lua is also the scripting language in several F/LOSS, 3-D game programming toolkits. I have no personal experience with it myself, though it looks interesting. _

Re: A rant about ZendPlatform

2006-02-05 Thread Jason Stephenson
Randy Edwards wrote: (Forgive me for stating the obvious. :-) > Well, folks, I'm peeved. For a $1000 product, I expected *much* better > than what I saw. I was shocked at all the stuff it added to my system, and > fuming at the fact I had to undo all of their crap by hand. Isn't that th

Re: Emacs

2006-01-26 Thread Jason Stephenson
Tom Buskey wrote: What version of emacs do you prefer? GNU or X? I started with GNU Emacs, and I currently use GNU Emacs. I tried X Emacs for a while, but found it a bit odd in places. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Emacs (was Re: a question about evim)

2006-01-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: Jason Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Fred wrote: ... I use emacs extensively, and get annoyed with the backup files too. So I wrote a bash script I run peroidically to copy *all* the backup files in the directory tree to /tmp. All you need to get rid

Re: a question about evim

2006-01-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
Fred wrote: ... I use emacs extensively, and get annoyed with the backup files too. So I wrote a bash script I run peroidically to copy *all* the backup files in the directory tree to /tmp. All you need to get rid of the backup files in emacs is the following line in your .emacs file: (set

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-15 Thread Jason Stephenson
year-old Compaq Presario for testing things. I need a new laptop anyway. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-14 Thread Jason Stephenson
Tom Buskey wrote: SMP and journaling file systems. BSD belives in FFS and doesn't think journaling is the way to go. Yes, but with UFS2 and soft updates one does not need a journaling filesystem. Don't ask me for the details right now, I'd have to look it up again. :) NOTE: I am NOT a kerne

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-10 Thread Jason Stephenson
Martin Ekendahl wrote: Does anyone know of any BSD user groups in NH or the greater Boston area? I've been a long time user, but always get drawn back to BSD bases systems for some reason. BLU? at http://www.blu.org/ might fit. However, it seems rather Linux-centric. I hang out on this list

Re: Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros

2005-12-24 Thread Jason Stephenson
Ben Scott wrote: On 12/21/05, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't mean to turn things into a Gnome-vs-KDE thing, but I'm a KDE guy and options are good. Pick your preference. Awww, c'mon now fellers - make up your minds. Is it Gnome vs. KDE, or KDE vs. Gnome...? ;->

Re: any good light shareware/freeware to detect hardware configuration?

2005-12-16 Thread Jason Stephenson
s and pieces and then start Googling for the stuff that I've not seen before. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: any good light shareware/freeware to detect hardware configuration?

2005-12-16 Thread Jason Kern
Information Center will probably tell you > everything you want to know. You might also try http://www.ultimatebootcd.com. Tons (107) of utilities and such it should tell you everthing you need to know plus help you configure once you do. They'll sen

Re: set default file permissions for a directory

2005-12-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
In your first post, you said that you can set the umask to 002. Have you tried that? I'm pretty sure that even using scp actually "logs in" the user enough so that the shell environment is set up and things like the umask set in .profile or whatever for their shell is sourced and does work. At

Re: call to arms

2005-12-05 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bruce Dawson wrote: OOo.org and XML are good steps in the right direction because they allow quick and easy analysis of documents, and provide structure to new documents. But screen readers aren't the solution that's needed. That is a key point! A FLOSS "screen reader" doesn't actually have to

RE: Odd email problem

2005-12-02 Thread jason
ptions too. Explore "smtp after pop3", SMTP Auth or if he has a dedicated IP address, allow his IP alone in your /etc/mail/access. I have entries like this 64.222.187.34 RELAY Does that answer? Jason Kern KernBuilt.com 603.823.5150 > -Original Message- &

Re: where to buy a new system.

2005-11-29 Thread Jason Stephenson
I generally build my own for home and home business use or use used PCs that others are throwing out. I buy my parts generally from MicroSeconds in Salem, the CompUSA in Salem, or from www.computergate.com In doing price comparisons online, Computer Gate usually has the "best" price on name

Re: SOHO Backups?

2005-11-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
John Abreau wrote: Jason Stephenson wrote: I have heard that you can burn a tar file raw to a CD-R and then treat it like a tape. I've never gotten that to work, so I assume this is an urban legend. You can burn *any* file to a CD-R, assuming it's small enough to fit. The probl

Re: SOHO Backups?

2005-11-16 Thread Jason Stephenson
snapshots. I made them when I thought I was doing something that might cause me to lose files that I might later want to retrieve. They're on a variety of media, and so far I've been able to read them all, and some are now four+ years old. Granted, I don't look at these very ofte

Re: SOHO Backups?

2005-11-15 Thread Jason Stephenson
Jim Kuzdrall wrote: However, I hear CD-ROM is unreliable even over 12 months, so that's out. I have heard this too. Does anyone know the physical mechanism responsible for the deterioration? I seem to associate the tale with a study at a library, and the CDROMs being scratched by handl

Re: Hardware FAQs and the wiki? [ was Alternative to k3b? ]

2005-11-07 Thread Jason Stephenson
Tom Buskey wrote: I've used a Matrox G450 to drive dual CRTs. I'll second the Matrox G450 recommendation. I've used 'em for the exact same purpose back before they were inexpensive. Ran it on a triple boot system with Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD 4.x, and Windows 2000 Pro. Worked great in all

RE: Need assistance with Cisco PIX configuration

2005-09-13 Thread jason
Me too! KernBuilt.com 603.823.5150 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:gnhlug-discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hewitt_tech > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 8:09 AM > To: Dan Coutu; GNHLUG mailing list > Subject: Re: Need assistance with Cisco PIX configur

Re: Attempt at cgi mail exploit

2005-08-31 Thread Jason Stephenson
The funny thing, to me, is that I see stuff like this in my mail logs all the time, both at my day job and at home: 2005-08-30 00:20:36 SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (input sent without waiting for greeting): rejected connection from H=[81.12.246.11] input="POST / HTTP/1.0\r\

Re: Annoying question: Installing W2K or WXP on a Linux-only box

2005-08-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
I wrote in error: Try this: htt://www.sigio.com/articles/win2k.html Yeearrggg! Left a p outta there! http://www.sigio.com/articles/win2k.html The key is to disconnect the "first" hard drive; hook the second hard drive up as the first; then install Windows. Windows wants to be on the first

Re: Annoying question: Installing W2K or WXP on a Linux-only box

2005-08-09 Thread Jason Stephenson
. Cheers, jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Java on Debian (wow that was easy!)

2005-07-22 Thread Jason Stephenson
For some real fun, try installing Java from the source! Warning: This is not for the easily frustrated, and it probably helps if you have a masochistic streak! ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mai

Re: cd burning question

2005-06-20 Thread Jason Stephenson
It has been a while since I last used cdrecord, but FWIW, I don't see any errors in the output that you provided. It looks like a clean burn. I've been having some issues on a different OS with different burning software using CD-RW discs. The odd thing is that if I mount the iso and the burne

Re: Sometimes, I think Zawinski just might be right.

2005-06-20 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: [...] I'm more inclined to blame AbiWord... It sounds like it's generating bad postscript. Especially since it sounds like you can't even export to PS and open it with a ps application (incidently, did you try using gv or ghostview rather than xpdf?). I'm inclined to blame

Sometimes, I think Zawinski just might be right.

2005-06-19 Thread Jason Stephenson
Why is printing such a pain? To be fair, this is not an issue I have with just Linux or FreeBSD or Unix. I have always found printing to be a pain. It's like real voodoo to me. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Particularly in DOS, and sometimes in Windows, too. The only platform where I've ne

Re: ps/pdf to text converter

2005-06-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
Oh! I also overlooked pdftotext when I sent the mesage before. You can get the lates ghostscript here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: ps/pdf to text converter

2005-06-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
converts PDF to PS. I think the first might also handle PDF. I've not used them. I found them by doing man -k pdf HTH, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Linux vs. BSD?

2005-06-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
is largely a question of style, and how you work. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: HD partitions?

2005-06-17 Thread Jason Stephenson
t/www diderot:/usr/home/jason 17G1.2G 14G 8%/mnt/jason linprocfs 4.0K4.0K 0B 100% /usr/compat/linux/proc portal:64651.0K1.0K 0B 100%/p My system is composed of two ATA hard disks, the system disk is 10 GB and I have an 80 GB

Re: [Pedantic RANT] Re: [HUMOR] End Times

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Stephenson
I *SO* want to invoke Godwin's Law on this thread. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Trade show banner

2005-05-24 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bill McGonigle wrote: [insert catchier suggestions here] Code Free or Die! I like this one because it works on a couple of levels if you stop to mull it over. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/ma

Re: Question about spamassassin using MySQL

2005-04-25 Thread Jason Stephenson
the IM2000 mailing list discussions and I'm not sure that anything that I've heard about on there is the FUSSP. Not that I have one, myself. I thought I did, but I must have lost it. ;) So anyway, just some pseudo-random thoughts on fighting spam from someone who has a bit of experi

Re: free software alternative to Access

2005-04-18 Thread Jason Stephenson
you can contact me off list. Cheers, Jason ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

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