Re: [nlug] Stuck on a windows workstation

2012-03-13 Thread Timothy Ball
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 06:45:38AM -0500, Kelly Brown wrote: Hi all: I'm looking for advice from any linux admins that are stuck with windows as the OS on their workstation. I've never been in this boat before and it's painful to me. I miss my Mac. Any tips/tricks that you've used in

Re: [nlug] Limiting I/O load for a process

2012-02-22 Thread Timothy Ball
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:59:46AM -0800, tocsa wrote: I've seen numerous articles on disk quotas, network bandwidth tuning, some on CPU load tuning, but no I/O load tuning. so everyone else's suggestions have been good , but my suggestion will be different . the issue is you have a process

Re: [nlug] df says partition is full but du numbers don't add up

2011-06-26 Thread Timothy Ball
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 03:34:53PM -0500, Bruce W. Martin wrote: I have a 4.6TB partition on a RAID array that is reporting as 100% full but running du on the partition only shows 3.5TB worth of files. What gives? Is there some way to fix this short of rebooting? I am not sure of the right

Re: [nlug] Cloud file server?

2011-06-03 Thread Timothy Ball
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 04:30:38PM -0500, Michael Chaney wrote: I have a customer who has an office in NYC and an office in LA. Right now, they have a server in NYC and VPN in order to share with LA. They'd like to have a cloud solution. Does anybody have experience with file servers online?

Re: [nlug] Re: password management

2011-05-05 Thread Timothy Ball
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 03:04:13PM -0500, Kent Perrier wrote: In case anyone made the jump to lastpass, you will want to read this blog. http://blog.lastpass.com/2011/05/lastpass-security-notification.html I have not been able to log in to change my password yet, due to the load on their

Re: [nlug] password management

2011-04-27 Thread Timothy Ball
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 aes encrypt the db file on disk . builtin passwd generator . --timball -- GPG key available on pgpkeys.mit.edu pub

Re: [nlug] The Real Time Congress API

2011-02-11 Thread Timothy Ball
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:17:34AM -0600, Evan Brown wrote: This looks pretty cool, plus looks like timball had a part in it possibly. http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2011/the-real-time-congress-api/ sure did !! and be sure to check out what the sunlight foundation has done for your

[nlug] [OT] sunlight foundation fun fundraiser TONIGHT

2010-12-09 Thread Timothy Ball
[ .. This is severely off topic BUT for a good cause .. ] My office, The Sunlight Foundation, is throwing a fundraiser tonight (in dc unfortunately)! Direct link to buy tickets: http://sunlightrocks.eventbrite.com Link to facebook event (does not = a ticket):

[nlug] nifty *sh aliases/function tricks

2010-07-20 Thread Timothy Ball
[pardon the cross posting but i felt this was plenty nifty enough to post to the three lug lists i'm on] to use simply add this to your ~/.profile, .bashrc, .zshrc or what have you. this should work for bash, ksh, zsh, and possibly others. --snip--snip--snip-- function scrssh { screen

[nlug] Re: google wave

2009-10-05 Thread Timothy Ball
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 03:32:01PM -0500, Jack wrote: Anyone using it yet? ... Jack I've had an account for the last month or so. it's interesting. the current wave host (instead of the sandbox) seems slow but maybe it's because the bot we coded @ work needs app engine to rebuild it... or

[nlug] Re: Mobile system suggestions needed

2009-09-08 Thread Timothy Ball
uh i read the thread and was shocked *shocked* that no one recommended the road warrior weapon of choice: thinkpads (either lenovo or the real IBM ones) any of them are great. but if you're looking for ultra-kick-ass go for the T500 (or wait for the T500s) the T400s are worthwhile too

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread Timothy Ball
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:03:01AM -0400, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: I am curious to know why someone would choose to use BSD rather than Linux and vice versa. I have read several articles talking about BSD being carefully thought out as a whole and designed and tested to rigorous standards

[nlug] apps for america 2: the data.gov challenge

2009-05-21 Thread Timothy Ball
I know it's not linux specific but... over here @ sunlight we're doing another contest worth big money check out the details @ http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2009/05/21/apps-america-2-datagov-challenge/ the rules: http://sunlightlabs.com/contests/appsforamerica2/ and of course

[nlug] Re: Things not to do...

2009-05-13 Thread Timothy Ball
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:53:42AM -0400, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: Just thought I would post this one... /bin/bash ~/.bash_history bwahahahahahahahahaa --timball --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[nlug] Re: [OT]Windows security?

2009-05-06 Thread Timothy Ball
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:37:13AM -0500, Drew wrote: Yeah, it's off topic. However, in my experience the amount of knowledge readily available on this list is huge, and I have a lot of respect for most of the opinions expressed in matters technical here. But lets suppose, that even though

[nlug] Re: Off Topic - Pictures

2009-04-20 Thread Timothy Ball
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:53:23PM -0500, sophri...@gmail.com wrote: Alright ... You totally busted me. Page 2 holding the ninaground.com sign. The BIS has way more going on then the fed. [please reply to me off list] this list is a totally inappropriate place to ask but: why do

[nlug] [OT: sys admin position @ dnc]

2009-03-25 Thread Timothy Ball
email me if you have strange questions... - Forwarded message from Timothy Ball timb...@tux.org - Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:54:15 -0400 From: Timothy Ball timb...@tux.org Subject: [Dclug] OT: sys admin position @ dnc To: DC Linux Users Group dc...@tux.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Message

[nlug] Re: [OT: sys admin position @ dnc]

2009-03-25 Thread Timothy Ball
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:49:58AM -0500, Evan Brown wrote: I was actually wondering if they were ok with a libertarian applying? political affiliation has nothing to do w/ the hire. nothing. seriously. --timball -- GPG key available on pgpkeys.mit.edu pub 1024D/511FBD54

[nlug] Re: What has hostname got to do with md0??

2009-01-28 Thread Timothy Ball
[frustration deleted] /etc/nsswitch.conf be sure that: hosts: files dns also edit hostname and edit /etc/hosts w/ new hostname. I don't know if ubuntu uses the dumb mdns stuff but that's also where a lot of blame goes. --timball ps) i'll give anyone $1M to fix DNS properly and securely...

[nlug] Re: What has hostname got to do with md0??

2009-01-28 Thread Timothy Ball
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 02:19:04PM -0600, Howard White wrote: system still barfs when running file system check on boot. Where the ~...@#$% is software raid checking hostname??? Did I write down the steps I took to create the software raid or bookmark the howto in web browser?