I never thought I'd see such techno-luddism come from this mailing list.
I'm not going to do any kind of pitch but if you're interested in tech
to any degree, you owe it to yourself to check out what's happening in
the crypto-currency space (and I don't just mean all the bad BS).
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Should be just plug and play these days. I'd try a different mouse and
usb ports and check the logs.
Rich
On 06/22/2011 06:52 PM, Greg Donald wrote:
I have this Debian server that was providing nat/firewall.. minimal
install, no X or window manager, etc. Now I'd like to use it in more
of a
Why does it seem with Perl that the likelihood of entering dependency
hell is inversely proportional to the length of the script you want to
write?
I have a 10 liner which requires one simple module. Which requires 3 or
4 modules from cpan. Which themselves require another dozen modules
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I believe another advantage to the mod_perl approach was that the group
membership was not retained anywhere in the HTTP vars I think. The
mod_perl (may have been mod_auth_perl?) script was easily modifiable to
allow that.
On 06/04/2011 09:18 AM, Curt Lundgren wrote:
If Apache were written
It's about time we ended having strong passwords be a requirement for
access to stuff. Two-part token/password authentication is the way to
go. I'm also fed up with all the passwords required for websites,
needing to sign up just to make a one-shot comment on something that is
only to the
But if ever there was a URL that was at risk of being blocked by web
filters... :)
On 04/27/2011 01:08 PM, Timothy Ball wrote:
i use http://keepass.info/
there's an osx version too:
http://www.keepassx.org/
features : never talks on the network . there's even a mobile version .
and you can
On 04/23/2011 06:47 AM, Jack Coats wrote:
Any suggestions on making this easier? I am using crashplan, but it
doesn't do 'bare metal restores' where an image from Clonezilla would.
Again, Thanks to all who replied!
I've recently had a WD green drive start going bad. Excessively long
access
On 4/7/2011 4:08 AM, Paul Boniol wrote:
I just made a global find/replace on a set of files and preserved the
atime and mtime for the files. I am wondering if there is a simpler way.
What I did was:
grep --recursive -l '//foo' . filenames.txt
Deleted a few file names that are backups, etc.
On 4/7/2011 10:10 AM, Greg wrote:
I am trying to figure out how to configure sendmail on my standalone
work linuxbox to send mail for only a certain domain to an exchange
server and interpret what exchange sends back into individual users.
Here is what I mean: if I as root send an email to (not
On 3/27/2011 3:47 PM, Don Delp wrote:
ND=/bin/su
Did sudo work after that? Also, does that uid exist in your passwd file?
Sudo worked exactly as it was supposed to, even that time.
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On 3/27/2011 3:47 PM, Don Delp wrote:
Did sudo work after that? Also, does that uid exist in your passwd file?
Um, and no, that user is not in the password file.
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I went to sudo on my Mythbuntu box today and received an error message
on the terminal, also echoed in the logs:
Mar 27 13:59:40 mythtv sudo: user : /var/lib/sudo/user/0 owned by
uid 16640, should be uid 0 ; TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/user ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/bin/su
My immediate thought
On 02/19/2011 06:20 PM, Robert Simpson wrote:
I am currently running Ubuntu 10.04 and Slackware 13.1. I have always
liked Slackware but stopped using it because it would lead you into
dependency hell every time you wanted to add a program. I am running
the current version of Slackware in
and I believe Windows required a
driver. It's a little confusing as there is also a raid controller on
the board which is most definitely fakeraid and it's been a while
since I set it all up.
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On 1/1/2011 7:44 PM, ./aal wrote:
Just got back with my replacement today
it has already shut down 5 times
I went ahead and installed Captivate Keep Alive on it
now to figure out how to get me a new, new one
All the shacks in my area are out
Mine is a refurb but I'm OK with that. Looks like
On 12/29/2010 10:28 PM, ./aal wrote:
Have you had it power off on it's own too?
I have. New/refurb one should hopefully be arriving today. The person on
the warranty line stated it was a software issue but I'm not convinced.
Rich
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On 12/14/2010 09:15 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
An example of tiered Internet would be pay $10 more a month and get
full speed access to Facebook, or use some other site instead, favored
by Comcast, for the regular price. Same thing with the search engines.
Maybe Yahoo will get preferred
the appropriate commands over the serial interface.
Rich
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On 10/20/2010 10:57 PM, Paul Boniol wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Jim Petersonjim.sokytec...@gmail.com wrote:
I must state here that I am not an expert in these matters, but the way it
seems to work with our scanners is the scanner reads the barcode and
automatically inserts a
with the remaining 400 on the second
un-mirrored and used for junk that I don't care about losing. Of course,
if I wasn't cheap, I would have just bought 2 500GB drives and had done
with but there you go.
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Just stay away from Poland and we should be good.
On 10/17/2010 5:02 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
Godwin's Law kills us all! :P
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 17:01,sophri...@gmail.com wrote:
You know who else rolled Their eyes over FUD. Hitler.
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On 10/17/2010 8:01 PM, Richard Thomas wrote:
That was, hopefully common sense and, if required, a little
community correction can occur.
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That way, hopefully, common sense, and, if required, a little community
correction can occur.
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to power and flexibilty. But in
this case, things are simple enough that whatever works is probably
the mantra here.
If you wanted to get flash, you could even make an intermediary
web-server that would handle joining the card info with whatever other
data it is you need to submit.
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On 10/01/2010 07:33 PM, Curt Lundgren wrote:
If the card scanner can appear as a serial port, you could use
Device::SerialPort, at which point you should have a discrete source
for the card data and I'd think it will be straightforward to direct
the data where it should go.
The very limited
On 9/4/2010 3:47 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote:
but his lawsuit claims that he suffered permanent brain damage
Obligatory How could they tell?
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On 8/17/2010 7:54 AM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
Need to point out proper unix tools do 1 thing and do it well.
Tar is very happy punting its creation to STDOUT. You could then do any
number of pipes to throw the data through encryption apps that take STDIN
as a source. I believe there are
On 8/17/2010 9:32 AM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
Seems if that was the way you did backups, you would probably have deeper
problems. Backups of system files should be in different backups for
data. How often do you change the system, and how often should you backup
data?
It's kinda hard
On 8/17/2010 4:10 PM, Howard White wrote:
A couple of months ago at the monthly NLUG meeting, I showed a 2.5
drive caddy that mounts in a 3.5 bay that allows me to insert and
eject a naked (no frame or nonsense) 2.5 SATA drive. There are
similar caddies available for 3.5 drives but I find
On 8/17/2010 7:17 PM, Steve wrote:
I think many people confuse Archival with Backups. Archival is data
you need that will be unchanged for a long period of time. Backups are
current living data which represents any number of systems at a
certain state. No one should just stick something on a
On 8/12/2010 11:06 PM, JMJ wrote:
That's not silly, this is
Use your social networking skills to get someone to accidentally
kick a power cord loose or otherwise kill power to the server you need
access to. Then, when you just happen to find out that the server
went down, say Hey,
What has that got to do with ... Damn! I just realised I am dancing
for a troll!
...
I cannot believe you are that slow. Carefully read the part Where I
suggested no grid.
Bill, this group has got into some very heated discussions in the past
but I believe you're stepping over the line
I don't know if it helps but I believe when I looked into log rotation
under Apache on Windows, the recommended way was to have apache send the
output to another process that would handle the rotation of the logs.
That process may be able to allow you the access you need.
On the other hand,
Rich,
Great minds think alike! unfortunately type just gets part way and
dies with an error when apache grabs the file for writing. Xcopy does
the same. I cannot change the configuration of apache in any
reasonable amount of time (i.e. months) so I consider that a
non-viable solution.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Richard Thomas r...@dicksonlife.com
mailto:r...@dicksonlife.com wrote:
I'm going to start calling you Psychic in a minute. Sorry, it doesn't
work either because it is not possible to copy the entire 1Gb+ file in
the time between writes... it just fails
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Richard Thomas r...@dicksonlife.com
mailto:r...@dicksonlife.com wrote:
I'm going to start calling you Psychic in a minute. Sorry, it doesn't
work either because it is not possible to copy the entire 1Gb+ file in
the time between writes... it just fails
Can you speed it up by copying to a ramdisk?
(I don't know whether I'm thinking outside the box, or just reaching :-)
Use mirrored raid and yank one of the drives (I'm just being silly now)
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Don,
Thanks for the suggestion but it is not an option. If this was for
normal log rotation then it would be, but it is not. It is for
troubleshooting and we cannot move / rename / restart the log file for
this, we need to just copy or even tail it but even the tail might be
too long
On 8/11/2010 9:15 AM, j...@coats.org wrote:
I agree, the 'Intel Architecture' is not the same old architecture.
It is the same old architecture with bolt-ons.
It has been enhanced through evolution.
In many ways IBM has done the same to the IBM 360 instruction set,
that has been bolted on-to
On 8/10/2010 4:44 PM, j...@coats.org wrote:
The Intel processor is getting a bit long in the tooth, but no one has
been able to come up
with a different architecture for mass market use that catches on in
quite a while.
Though, to be fair, it's not really factual to say that what Intel is
On 7/29/2010 11:28 PM, Paul Boniol wrote:
The .so file is there. The perms on the file are -rwxr-xr-x. I'm at
a loss.
Do you need to run ldconfig?
Rich
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On 7/12/2010 8:22 PM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
Quick look around google shows thermoelectric mechanism, guessing Peltier.
Also not that they only have the ability to effect a 33 degree farenhiet
change in temp from ambient. So not quite to freezing in normal room temp,
and room temp in the
On 6/21/2010 7:26 PM, Don Delp wrote:
having wget use your cookie file from your browser after you've logged
in. It's possible that it isn't keeping your session for some reason,
but that static cookie might work.
Also consider use of the header option to present the cookie like so:
On 6/22/2010 9:29 AM, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
Don,
I have already tried using the cookie file from the browser and it
didn't work. I am talking about user/password, not https / ssl. I
get the warning from wget about not being able to verify the
certificate, but I use the flag
Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
Actually, the FM Transmitters for iPod / iPhone work great... provided
you live in Pyote Texas... almost anywhere else, cow poo sounds good
compared to the FM Transmitter.
One like this.
http://www.opentip.com/Electronics-Computers/Fm-Modulator-p-1264756.html
The
Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
- Richard Thomas r...@dicksonlife.com wrote:
I couldn't find an answer to this, possibly because it would be a
retarded thing to do but I was just wondering...
Say you had mirrored (say hardware) RAID with two drives. Reboot the
system with one drive
Howard wrote:
Amen, Greg.
Was a long time Mandrake / Mandriva user with KDE. Also had FVWM2 on
a multi-monitor system for a long time. Switched to Ubuntu a few
years ago and became comfortable with that Gnome.
But now I am trying to renew / revive my five monitor system(s) and
these
A colleague at work has a relative who has a small php/mysql project
they need help with. The overview is to have an application that allows
people to take small tests and store the results and allow the
administrator to change the tests from time to time. The budget is not
huge but I don't
Steven S. Critchfield wrote:
Check your configs for an option called bind. You want to bind to a specific
ip address instead of 0.0.0.0 so you only respond to the one nic.
I think the default tftpd (that I've run across) uses inetd. So it'll be
in /etc/inetd.conf
From the man page for
Curt Lundgren wrote:
If you do !se you'll execute the most recent command that starts
with the letters se. I find I use this more than re-executing by
number.
Curt
I use this one quite often but it can be the source of problems if the
last command you typed beginning with that text was
Mark J. Bailey wrote:
I have Google Voice already (just signed up) and wanted to send a GV
invite to my cousin. I am WANTING to get on Google Wave so I need an
invite. :-) So, though confusing, I am actually deal with both.
Are they even doing invites any more? I requested directly and
I'm trying to install the latest Bind with Debian. That seems to end up
depending on locales which depends on glibc-2.7-1 when I try to install
glibc-2.7.1, that ends up advising me to install kernel 2.6. When I try
to install that, I end up again with a dependency on locales which
depends on
Well, it appears I was able to install kernel 2.6.18 as opposed to
2.6.26. With this, I got an updated libc and bind9 upgraded to the new
version and is now running without requiring a reboot so far. I'll
reboot later when the time is right and take it from there.
Jack Coats wrote:
I am trying to get an 'appliance build' rather than 'roll my own' just
to keep down
the re-development issues that come with the 'propeller head'
installs. I'm not against
them, but my frustration builds to quickly.
I've found the Knoppmyth worked pretty well for me.
Sometimes when I'm using Firefox on my netbook, I'll somehow mash some
key combination and text inputs will go weird. Text typed in an input
box or the location bar will be in a different font and appear double
spaced. It only appears to affect Firefox and I have not been able to
duplicate
Karl Haines wrote:
Rich,
What distribution are you using? Was the installation of Firefox compiled or
was it a package?
It's an EEEPC which is Xandros. I think the version of Firefox is
whatever came installed (though I have a feeling it may have updated
itself).
Karl
Richard Thomas wrote:
box or the location bar will be in a different font and appear double
spaced. It only appears to affect Firefox and I have not been able to
I should point out I mean horizontally double-spaced, not vertically.
S o m e t h i n g L i k e t h i s .
I'd put my
Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
If this were the UK, every outlet would have it's own switch...
See:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1050931/2/istockphoto_1050931-uk-mains-power-outlet.jpg
Andy
Not every (though this may very well be a recent law. There are plenty
of
Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe wrote:
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:59:16PM -0500, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
[snip]
Andy
Definitely, drop in a *nix router
(IPcop/SmoothWall/ClarkConnect/PFsense), and use their built-in
bandwidth shaper/limiters. Problem solved. Also, I'd suggest
installing
Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
The satellite company does provide an optimizer, however, according
to their FAQ, this just changes settings in your browser to use their
proxy server (which probably compresses everything) and to use http
1.1 through the proxy.
If that's the case, local caching
Don Delp wrote:
Technically, I think he exported it as .exe and renamed it, since
Windows doesn't know the difference.
There really isn't any difference.
Rich
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Don Delp wrote:
Google suggests that rsync is the way to go over slow connections. My
hope is that the client doesn't need to closely examine files on the
server to know what needs to be updated.
The client doesn't examine the files, checksums are generated at both
ends and compared.
./aal wrote:
if no other options work.yes that is it,
except I work from home so I dont have an office computer to host a tunnel
Depending on your need, it might be worthwhile paying for an account
somewhere. Alternatively, you might be able to make something work with
one of the
I have the K8NDL. which I think is fairly similar. From what I
understand (though it's been a while), the Si controller just comes as
part of another chipset used for other stuff on the board and the
NForce3 has hardware assist for RAID (drivers only available for
Windows of course). I think
I'm running into a bit of a hiccup with my RAID setup. I have several
mirrored partitions between sda (SATA) and hda (ATA). Everything appears
to be setup and mirroring correctly but upon reboot, only the sda
partitions are added to the array. I can re-add the hda partitions
manually and
Think I worked this one out. My hda partitions are not type 0xFD. I'll
change them and hopefully that'll fix things up.
Richard Thomas wrote:
I'm running into a bit of a hiccup with my RAID setup. I have several
mirrored partitions between sda (SATA) and hda (ATA). Everything appears
Brandon Valentine wrote:
% rsync -a /my/local/dir/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/my/remote/dir/
This is most of what you need. The -a option turns on most of the useful
transfer options. Other useful options I commonly use are
z - Compress the data. Handy if you have a lot of text or otherwise
, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Richard Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yu haz tu avoyed thayr philterz yu noe.
Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
I don't know what you are saying ! If you're going to troll, at least
be coherent about it ! ;)
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:12 PM, ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
teh
It's worse than I thought. It also appears to be hijacking subdomains of
valid domains. I'm switching to using an off-net DNS server for now.
This is very disturbing.
Rich
$ dig bleepblop.google.com
; DiG 9.4.1 bleepblop.google.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; -HEADER-
Jeff Dimond wrote:
I bet it's your ISP.
Here is a link that may be of interest. Looks like the same thing
happened to Windstream customers earlier this year.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19764165-Windstream-DNS-server-entrynotfoundcom
You could always run your own DNS with BIND.
Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
Tunnel out using ssh and do a local redirect on port 53. Then point
your DNS clients at the machine running ssh... shazam! you are past
the filter.
Andy
Too much hassle and a vulnerable point-of-failure. I'm not sure about
tunnelling UDP anyway (I know DNS can do
Yu haz tu avoyed thayr philterz yu noe.
Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
I don't know what you are saying ! If you're going to troll, at least
be coherent about it ! ;)
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:12 PM, ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
teh guverment iz wathcin ur queerys datumz
Thinking about it, another speed boost may come from the solid-state
disk. I have no idea how throughput compares to a traditional hard-drive
though.
Rich
Douglass Clem wrote:
I'm considering buying an eeePC 900
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220367,
which is
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