Re: [OCLUG-Tech] FYI: Phone Scam for Windows Support

2014-08-10 Thread Steve La Rocque
I got a chuckle out of this guy's approach: (See https://plus.google.com/+ChrisBlasko/posts/GzCuzTyUXNq) Today is a good day. I just had a call from a telemarketer. Did I yell and scream at them, you ask? Certainly not. Like a good IT administrator I put my skills to use for their bene

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] RHEL/Centos compatibility for new chipsets

2014-02-06 Thread Steve La Rocque
> -- > Rob Echlin, B. Eng. > 613-266-8311 - Ottawa, ON > http://talksoftware.wordpress.com - > http://picasaweb.google.com/coderoller > > > > > > On Monday, February 3, 2014 3:23:00 PM, Steve La Rocque > wrote: > > Hi guys. Maybe someone can help po

[OCLUG-Tech] RHEL/Centos compatibility for new chipsets

2014-02-03 Thread Steve La Rocque
know if I made an expensive mistake buying this hardware for a CentOS KVM-hypervisor for a few CentOS VMs we'll use to support our operations (production system)? Thanks. Steve La Rocque ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclu

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] curiosity involving output of "pvdisplay" command for LVMs

2013-11-18 Thread Steve La Rocque
When I look through the sources, it looks like that is only displayed via the "# vgdisplay -v " command. On 11/18/2013 10:46 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Steve La Rocque wrote: > >> Hi Robert. >> >> On my fedora 19 and CentOS 6.4, that

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] curiosity involving output of "pvdisplay" command for LVMs

2013-11-18 Thread Steve La Rocque
Hi Robert. On my fedora 19 and CentOS 6.4, that line is also missing. Steve On 11/18/2013 10:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > prepping to teach a first-level red hat admin course here in town > next week and, for the sake of efficiency (and laziness), i'm going to > use some of red hat's super

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] ssh, X11 forwarding not working (CentOS 6.3) [SOLVED]

2012-10-02 Thread Steve La Rocque
ink sshd should have this effect on IPv4 connections just because IPv6 is disabled on the machine, but perhaps there is some subtle reason it must be so. Cheers, -Steve On 02/10/12 11:58 AM, Steve La Rocque wrote: > Yep, that's set. > > [root@dz ~]# grep -i X11Fo

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] ssh, X11 forwarding not working (CentOS 6.3)

2012-10-02 Thread Steve La Rocque
gt; mh > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Steve La Rocque <mailto:slaroc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi everyone. For years, I've been using ssh -X just fine to > connect to > our various remote machines and interact with X applications on the > r

[OCLUG-Tech] ssh, X11 forwarding not working (CentOS 6.3)

2012-10-02 Thread Steve La Rocque
Hi everyone. For years, I've been using ssh -X just fine to connect to our various remote machines and interact with X applications on the remote machines via the display in front of me, but recently I installed a fresh CentOS 6.3 x64 on real hardware and it isn't working. The DISPLAY environment

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] ports

2012-08-19 Thread Steve La Rocque
Hi James. Can you do a $ telnet [destination] 25 from the other lan to the machine? If you can, then at least it shouldn't be a network firewall issue. If not, can you ping the mail machine from the other lan? If not, perhaps you have a routing problem. Also, you may have smtp configured such

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Hybrid cloud+private virtualization for CentOS servers - recommendations?

2012-08-15 Thread Steve La Rocque
Thanks Paul. I'm very much interested in OpenStack and CloudStack both from a centralized management perspective and for extending our infrastructure to CSPs. I'll look into them more deeply. Your description of using puppet for your Asterisk systems was very helpful. Another person yesterday a

[OCLUG-Tech] Hybrid cloud+private virtualization for CentOS servers - recommendations?

2012-08-14 Thread Steve La Rocque
Ms up to date without worrying about breaking systems? Is extensive testing environments the only option? Thanks guys! Steve La Rocque -- When everybody thinks the same, no one thinks at all. -Anon. ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how does current email protocol support mail receipt verification?

2012-01-06 Thread Steve La Rocque
My MUA has an fMRI headset which compares brain imaging to message content and then uses digital signatures to return a "message read" receipt to the sender. Naw On 01/06/2012 11:00 PM, Glenn Henshaw wrote: > 99% of the email users in the world don't understand filters, MUAs or > Exchange

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to mount a filesystem *inside* an SD card image?

2011-12-11 Thread Steve La Rocque
I use kpartx for this kind of thing pretty successfully. On 12/11/2011 02:08 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i may regret asking this if i suddenly realize how to do it after i > hit ENTER but i still don't see a simple way to do this. > > for booting beagleboards and pandaboards, one normally

[OCLUG-Tech] Linux world map

2011-05-13 Thread Steve La Rocque
just for entertainment, thought others might enjoy this. A Linux World Map http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-world-map.html -Steve ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Waterloo ISP

2011-04-15 Thread Steve La Rocque
I too use a dry loop through teksavvy locally in Ottawa and have had no complaints until recently. They changed their "Terms of Service"/"Privacy Policy", etc. from 10K of legalese text to 100K of legalese text. To me, that's an abuse and I'm looking for alternatives that don't require an uninfo

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Problem

2011-01-30 Thread Steve La Rocque
Neil - try booting the box with a linux "live" cd and see if it recognizes your hard drive. You can download such a CD here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD (although there are many other variants of course) -Steve On 01/30/2011 12:09 PM, neil wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a problem loo