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On 2017-09-25 2:03 PM, Peter Sjöberg wrote:
I guess it should work but never been playing with asterisk,voip or so
I'm asking for an over all opinion.
Customer has 3 POTS to an old Talkswitch ct.ts001 pbx and from that it
then goes over intranet to a pile of voip phones (talkswitch TS-350i).
The
All:
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On 16-03-19 08:13 AM, James wrote:
Figured out the imap connection, it is expected.
Still have no idea where the 38gigs came from.
On 2016-03-18 11:38 PM, James wrote:
I used 38 gig yesterday which is way higher than usual.
I think my Raspberry Pi has been hacked.
$ netstat
Active Internet co
On 16-02-28 09:10 PM, Bruce Harding wrote:
Hello Bill long time no talk. I'm finally get around to making
backups of my home computer and home server. the first script I'm
looking at is creating backups on the machines which houses original
files. It uses tar to do this.
Next would be th
For a one-time thing, tar is simple. If you are incrementally backing up
the same general data set, rsync will save a lot of time and datathroughput.
I think about the location of data as well - if it is local the
decisions are different than data remotely located across slower and
more expens
On 16-02-01 02:11 PM, Alex Pilon wrote:
> What do you mean by “NCR”?
I would assume National Capital Region (unless you live in Quebec where
prominent signs indicate la ville de Quebec is the National Capital).
Twenty five years ago it would have meant National Cash Register (these
were quaint an
On 15-11-25 02:21 PM, Alex Pilon wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 01:51:51PM -0500, Bill Strosberg wrote:
>> 'sadasdasdasd'
>>
>>
>> Sad as das DASD?Anyone else remember an IBM DASD? Size of a
>> refrigerator. Could now be replaced by a USB thum
On 15-11-25 01:39 PM, Alex Pilon wrote:
> Is it just me or should this work?
>
> $ find -xdev -- foo
> find: unknown predicate `--'
> $
>
> But not this?
>
> $ find -- foo -xdev -name 'sadasdasdasd'
> $
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On 15-05-06 06:45 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> yet another process-oriented question about git ... not long ago, i
> was teaching a 1-day intro git course and, early on, one of the
> students mentioned that one problem they were having with their
> current VCS was too many people trying to check
nullmailer,
> nor how to replace nullmailer by exim, which I believe supports starttls.
>
>
>
> On 2015-05-02 10:30, Bill Strosberg wrote:
>> David:
>>
>> >From what Spamhaus is saying it means you have an open relay - allowing
>> systems external to your network th
David:
From what Spamhaus is saying it means you have an open relay - allowing
systems external to your network the ability to send mail from your
server without any authentication. Basically this means you are
accepting connections to use your server as a "sender" of anything
without making sure
lure impending I promote
one of the hotspares into production and build a new one. Backup
servers are a lot cheaper than data recovery.
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On 14-10-25 08:49 PM, Alex Pilon wrote:
> I have a Seagate Momentus 5400.6 250GB SATA HDD that I removed from a
> dying EEE PC 1015PEM. I haven't touched it in months, and now want to
> copy the remaining data I haven't backed up. Unfortunately, I can't
> probe the partition table, much less read a
On 14-07-19 05:27 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
I've been reasonably happy with my purchases and interaction with Canada
Computers, in particular the Rideau Store, though I've also dealt with
Merivale and Kanata branches.
JN
Same with me, although I'm in the far east (Orleans). Canada Compu
On 14-05-09 07:40 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
strictly from a personal interest point of view, i'd like to see
*some* sort of local (ottawa-based) group devoted primarily to
embedded linux. for the purposes of keeping up to date for my training
courses, i'm constantly buying the latest develop
On 14-01-24 07:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
ok, it's early and i'm tired so i'm sure i'm missing a simple
solution, but i have a moderately lengthy text file i want to convert
to PDF. if it was short, i'd just take a screenshot, then use
"convert" to convert the PNG file to PDF.
but it's
On 14-01-02 02:34 PM, Phil Labonté wrote:
Listen, I do not have a password or a login, don't be a jerk or an a-hole...
I just want off this list
* The Oclug list server does not register people randomly or by accident.
* Of the dozens of list servers I monitor, this is the most on-topic
All:
I've been at this so long that eBooks weren't even a gleam in Tim
O'Reilly's eye when I started. I have a pretty complete "zoo" of
O'Reilly books on my office shelves. I like dead trees for reference.
They run forever without being plugged in. They are available without
connection to
On 13-11-29 08:21 PM, Brett Delmage wrote:
I guess all of these could be suitable if you don't care about having
your subscribers' privacy violated via the U.S. Patriot Act. i.e.
U.S. hosted.
Canadian providers?
If anyone has been following the revelations on Bruce Schneier's blog
and S
On 13-11-27 09:07 PM, Steve Porter wrote:
Hi
I was hoping you could provide me some details on membership. How to join
etc? Was just browsing your site and noticed there isn't a meeting for
December listed yet. Please let me know when you have some free time.
Thanks
Steve
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On 13-11-20 02:40 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:13:33 -0700
"Jean-Francois Messier" wrote:
That makes much sense to
me...:-)
JF
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up - and then was completely blown away when the Sage LanPac
authenticated across the VPN and ran the clients on three different Host
O/S platforms. Cost way less than MS SQL server, needed less hardware
and doesn't require annual ransom payments to Re
here in Ottawa is the original author of
the PPPOE code used all over the world. You could not have a better
resource right in your back yard. Phone and try to set an appointment
to interview him - he's a busy guy.
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On 13-02-27 09:34 AM, ed stuckems wrote:
> actually "parted -s /dev/sd{a,b,c,d,e,f}" is failing to connect to the
> device. I've shied away from fdisk given that I eventually want to
> work with a drive that's been formatted with a GUID Partition Table.
> My understanding is that fdisk doesn't han
On 13-02-27 08:21 AM, ed stuckems wrote:
> My test drive is a 1T drive that's connected to the computer via usb
> and I'm trying to format the drive so that it'll boot in a (u)efi
> machine. The last thing I did with the drive was to try and create
> one large partition formatted with a fat32 file
On 13-01-07 05:19 PM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote:
> In another post, Spencer mentions hot running. Agreed.
>
> About BIOS upgrade, I don't think I did that. I'm not home until
> mid-Feb, so cannot check BIOS version (unit behind firewall). Maybe my
> unit was shipped a bit later than yours. I know
On 12-10-09 02:59 PM, John C Nash wrote:
> Twice this year I've lost some archived messages when moving files from an
> IMAP account to
> local files on Thunderbird. The problem appears to be that the IMAP server is
> slow to mark
> messages, and the "move" then deletes them before moving them.
>
ttle else does, but
only after all else has been tried. Mount the drives ro (Read Only)
while using them. First step is to clone a complete image, then attempt
recovery from the image, not the original. Preserve the original
without running the drive any more than necessary, so Tunstall &a
On 12-03-23 01:48 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> "a few extra minutes" In my case, 120 minutes. What's your time worth?
> Where is the centroid of this region's population? In particular,
> where is the centroid of interested persons without private motor
> transportation?
Time is the most lim
nge if it doesn't already exist.
Thoughts?
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On 12-03-22 10:05 AM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> Another factor to consider is a question of demographics of
> participants. If we are looking at a seniors' club, then parking is
> going to be more important and perhaps not too late. If we are looking
> at a students' club, then centrallity and
I have not attended meetings for years - when the meetings moved from
the Lees Algonquin campus downtown, it became painful enough to not
bother. Subsequent moves westward were just as bad for me. There have
been many meeting topics that were interesting, but not enough to
commute in from th
";
print_r($_GET);
print "
\n";
}
If you load "http://www.yourserver.org/test_page.php?debug=true";, you
will see all the stuff passed to your page by the server. This can
really help you figure out how web applications work. Same thing works
on the comm
a.
Thank RMS (and/or whatever God you choose) for making forking projects a
valid exit strategy.
It isn't the money I object to - I think people should make a profit
from their work. I object to the amount of work it costed me in the
past on changing platforms due to vendor instabili
rs providing different setups to clients. Have
your kids added a router unknown to you?
4)Are you blocking port 53 at the firewall? Or on the internal DNS
server?
These are just a few questions, but the situation is pretty easy to
diagnose by watching traffic on the network with Wireshark or whatever.
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didn't.
If you read ANY configuration files for Apache, PHP or whatever
scripting languages are in use and do not fully understand the keywords
and directives there, the ball is squarely in your court. Trusting
default settings and permissions
On 11-12-13 12:23 PM, Rob Echlin wrote:
> Hi Bill
> What is an ISO shop?
> Do you mean a manufacturing facility with ISO x000 Certification?
>
> Rob
Yes. They certified (and have maintained) ISO 9000 and onwards since I
did business with them. They built both production and prototype boards
for
ng shop out in Carleton Place (actually
three of them) that can do this at a reasonable price. Call Dan Angell
at HiQA and see if he can handle a one-off soldering job - he's probably
do it for a few bucks or a free lunch with a beer.
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ostfix/Dovecot/SASL/MySQL in an ISP-like
environment for virtual users without local accounts.
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can buy space on a shelf, a rack or a complete cage if required.
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he MX records point to your domain - some email transfers
check to make sure the MX domain matches in reverse lookup to the target
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On 11-09-21 10:58 AM, John C Nash wrote:
> Some of the people teaching 1306 (to call them Profs would be an
> exaggeration, as many are
> contract teachers, mostly part time and not qualified for academic
> appointments, though
> often quite dedicated) have been heard to insist on the use of M$ s
t (Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada) to help solve a spam
problem there.
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On 11-09-12 10:48 PM, Charles MacDonald wrote:
> My generic computer is supposed to have both USB 1 posts and a USB 2
> port. is their an incantation that will tell me which are which (for
> example if I plug in a memory stick, can I get a list that says it is
> plugged into the USB or USB2 port.
On 11-09-09 01:27 PM, Rick wrote:
> Could you attach the image?
>
> If it is of decent quality (probably not if it was in a .doc) perhaps
> you could round trip it back to vector format it with trace in
> InkScape.
>
> Then you could do whatever you want with it.
>
> If it's a musical score, you co
On 11-09-06 07:34 PM, John C Nash wrote:
> I have to spend about 5 weeks in Phoenix this winter.
>
> Does anyone have ideas on a good way to get Internet service in a place that
> doesn't have
> it installed (condo rental)? There should be a phone line there. Possibly
> cable, but
> neither in my
Brett Delmage wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Bill Strosberg wrote:
>
>> Given your long history with the list, did this happen during one of
>> your epic battles with heathens? Did your temper get the better of you?
>
> Please keep your personal attacks OFF THE LIST.
The Linux Doctor wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I broke the screen on my laptop and I have to replace it. I've located a
> company in Canada that can replace it. Their website is
> http://www.laptopscreen.com.
>
> Has anybody here heard of them and have experience with them? I'd like
> some feed back before
s list are professionals that have been dealing with these
issues long before phishing got a cute name. Worry more about what you
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what
they want up front - but they can quickly refine things that are wrong
with stuff in use. You get better product targeting from hands-on users
than you will ever get trying to figure out what they need before they
touch a system.
Best part of open systems software is that you have t
long before apt-get or some
such GUI nonsense.
Also, when it comes to development there is a lot to be said about
stepping back from the edge and working with versions in wide
distribution. Your installable base will be broader, and you won't force
clients into the same problems you are n
All:
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Charles Nadeau wrote:
> All,
>
> We are planning to build a machine to be used to develop programs for
> statistic analysis with OpenCL. These programs will run on either nVidia or
> AMD/ATI video card. In the development machine we would like to use both an
> nVidia and an ATI/AMD video card to te
All:
It's been years since I posted here. I've got a situation that I could
use some help on.
I've got a client who is doing some interesting things. I've got a
firewall with four Ethernet interfaces in that connects to the Internet
via PPPoE.
eth0 - Internal private network
eth1 - Public w
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Taoufik Dachraoui wrote:
> Dear,
>
> I would like to create a Loadable Kernel Module that redirects the file
> operations of a given filename
> to the functions defined in the module such that whenever any process calls
> a redirected file
I can see the appeal of this, but this would certainly incu
All:
It's been years since I posted here. I've got a situation that I could
use some help on.
I've got a client who is doing some interesting things. I've got a
firewall with four Ethernet interfaces in that connects to the Internet
via PPPoE.
eth0 - Internal private network
eth1 - Public wir
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