Re: [nlug] New to Nashville Area

2013-09-05 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hello Howard, Sounds great - see everyone then/there! - Wesley On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Howard White wrote: > On 09/05/2013 10:49 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Thanks for the updates - glad I haven't missed it this month - pla

Re: [nlug] New to Nashville Area

2013-09-05 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
> > As to what we are going to talk about, no clue. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 5, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun > wrote: > > Hello all, > > Just moved to the area from Asheville, NC. I'm a longtime Linux user, lots > of different roles i

[nlug] New to Nashville Area

2013-09-05 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hello all, Just moved to the area from Asheville, NC. I'm a longtime Linux user, lots of different roles in the software world, now a Technical Account Manager for Red Hat. I'm excited about meeting folks in the LUG. I checked out the http://nlug.wikispot.org/ site, but didn't see an announcem

Re: [nlug] Meeting September 10, 2013; 6PM

2013-09-08 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
I missed the original airing of that NPR piece, I'm guessing this might be it: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=219762746 Interesting to read. Howard, you may be referring to another airing though, this person is an editor at the Guardian not an industry expert. But he does

[nlug] ping amber re: minecraft modding

2013-09-11 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi Amber, Can you send me the minecraft modding presentation link? Thanks, Wesley -- http://www.wesleyduffeebraun.com -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-

Re: [nlug] ping amber re: minecraft modding

2013-09-11 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
el Butler wrote: > >> User error >> Me too please. >> On Sep 11, 2013 11:04 AM, "Michael Butler" wrote: >> >>> >>> On Sep 11, 2013 10:51 AM, "Wesley Duffee-Braun" >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi Ambe

Re: [nlug] centos install question

2013-10-02 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi Howard, What version of CentOS is this? Do you have the /var/log/anaconda* you can pass along? Have you tried using a kickstart file? You mentioned this a VM, what is the hypervisor? - wesley On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Howard White wrote: > One of my LEAST favorite things about Cent

Re: [nlug] LogMeIn & TeamViewer

2013-10-16 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Google hangouts work pretty well. I don't think control can be passed but it is platform independent. I think you can even do a remote session from your phone. > On Oct 16, 2013, at 6:42 PM, RMC wrote: > > I am going to "bite the bullet" and make all the Windows users I support to > Linux.

Re: [nlug] Re: LogMeIn & TeamViewer

2013-10-16 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Gotcha. Not sure how much it would cost for you (and if that cost would be worth it), but Bomgar is awesome for not only screen/control sharing but also collecting information about the remote computer. Saves lots of time looking up system information when the Bomgar app does it for you. >

Re: [nlug] LinkedIn Skills Question

2013-10-17 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
ANSI C On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:18 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > Does anyone have a suggestion on how to indicate C programming as a skill > in LinkedIn? You have to select from a list of predefined skills, and I > haven't been able to locate anything specifically C-related, although other >

Re: [nlug] LinkedIn Skills Question

2013-10-17 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
np :) On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:24 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > On 10/17/2013 10:20 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > > ANSI C > > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:18 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > >> Does anyone have a suggestion on how to indicate C programming as a

Re: [nlug] Re: November 12th meeting + free networking gear

2013-11-08 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Heh, I'll switch out and take 50 if someone else really wants a 24. I just didn't want to be greedy if someone else had a 50-port need :) On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Tilghman Lesher wrote: > Yes, both of those are now spoken for. > > I find it a little humorous that the 24-port switches are

Re: [nlug] Okay southern wimps - meeting tonight at 6PM

2013-12-11 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi Dave, I don't have people's names down yet, but here were the topics (anyone care to fill in the names?) - http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/cat.1.php: presentation on the 'cat' command - https://github.com/appcelerator/hyperloop: next generation compiler for mobile development (but not just

Re: [nlug] continuing struggles with yum on CentOS 6.5

2014-01-03 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hello Howard, How long are you wanting before running the kill? Anything in /var/log/messages related? Thanks, Wesley On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Howard White wrote: > On 01/02/2014 11:32 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: > >> try rebuilding the rpmdb : >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions

Re: [nlug] continuing struggles with yum on CentOS 6.5

2014-01-03 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi Howard, I'm pretty confused too on what has been done and not done. However, going off the errors above (the "Cannot retrieve repository metadata") I did find this article https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/39598 (sorry for being behind regwall, free registration though) - one of its sug

Re: [nlug] January topic?

2014-01-08 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Chiming in on the in-place upgrading. While there are certain scenarios where one will need to be careful of doing 6->7 in-place (especially if you rely heavily on SysV scripting), in-place major versions will be supported. http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2013/12/red-hat-announces-availab

[nlug] Feb 2014 Talk

2014-01-16 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hello, Andrew, if you want to put this up for the Feb 2014 on meetup feel free - "Wesley Duffee-Braun, TAM with Red Hat, will present on GlusterFS. This will cover terminology, best practices and a demonstration to enable attendees to start provisioning and using Gluster volumes immedi

Re: [nlug] Printed Output?

2014-01-18 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi Paul, Have you checked out the PDF::API2 module? http://search.cpan.org/dist/PDF-API2/ It's been a while but I seem to remember it being the one to use. Best, Wesley On Saturday, January 18, 2014, Paul Boniol wrote: > I know in this day of web pages and mobile devices, actual paper output

[nlug] Re: Feb 2014 Talk

2014-01-20 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
AM, andrew mcelroy > wrote: > >> I love it. We need more solid talks. > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >> On Jan 16, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun > wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Andrew, if yo

[nlug] Video recording of presentations?

2014-01-22 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi all, I was thinking about past NLUG presentations and how, although the presentation material is usually available afterwards, the conversation during the presentations is helpful and lost after the meeting (unless someone is taking notes LOL). So - what would people say to having the presenta

Re: [nlug] Video recording of presentations?

2014-01-23 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
the presentations and meetings, > attendance > > would DRASTICALLY drop. > > > > My two cents > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I was thinki

Re: [nlug] Video recording of presentations?

2014-01-23 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
on the nlug site, so others could find them. > > Dave > > On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 12:23 -0600, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > > So...looks like a mixed bag of opinions. > > > > > > Thoughts from others? > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:56 PM, and

Re: [nlug] Video recording of presentations?

2014-01-23 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Real time? H.not sure that is what I meant. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Howard White wrote: > On 01/23/2014 01:25 PM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: > >> youtube would be fine as long as they consistently went to an NLUG >> account that say people could subscribe to. Who knows, it co

Re: [nlug] Video recording of presentations?

2014-01-23 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
: > On 01/23/2014 01:55 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > >> Real time? H.not sure that is what I meant. >> >> > It wasn't. I brought that up from a historical (or as my in-laws always > say - hysterical) perspective. No, I do not wish to real-time stream o

Re: [nlug] Video recording of presentations?

2014-01-24 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi all, Sounds positive overall. I volunteer to process/edit the video if no one else wants to take it. Best, Wesley On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Paul Boniol wrote: > I'm in favor of recording presentations for web distribution. There have > been great presentations when I have either

Re: [nlug] Internet pricing

2014-01-27 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
I've been doing a little searching and can't find anything supporting the limit of two internet providers for a particular area. In fact, in Asheville we had choice of cable, DSL or an over-the-air internet. And horridly laggy options like Hughes.net. Maybe it is no more than two of one particular

Re: [nlug] [Snipe Hunt Alert!] Data recovery task from the netherworld!

2014-02-03 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi Howard, http://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-expert-users/86688-formatting-large-ascii-file.html and http://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-expert-users/75609-file-format.html have links to scenarios where progress was made after the "ASCII text, with very long lines, with no line terminators" file

[nlug] Who was interested in owncloud + glusterfs?

2014-02-14 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi all, There was someone at Tuesday's meeting who was interested in owncloud+gluster - but I don't recall their email address. If it was you, please ping me directly. Thanks! Wesley -- http://www.wesleyduffeebraun.com -- -- You received this message bec

Re: [nlug] ubuntu to move to systemd

2014-02-15 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
I may be missing a step, but can't you do # systemctl start/restart/etc service-name In systemd, and if no systemd service file is found, it will look for a sysv init script? Same functionality, slightly different syntax. On Feb 15, 2014 1:13 PM, "andrew mcelroy" wrote: > Maybe I'm about to sa

Re: [nlug] DNS attack mitigation suggestions?

2014-02-27 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi Dave, Have you looked into Fail2Ban? I've used it in the past to dynamically block random-and-repeating IP's. http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page - Wesley On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 12:29 PM, David R. Wilson wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have had a problem with non resolvable IP addr

Re: [nlug] DNS attack mitigation suggestions?

2014-02-27 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi Dave, Here is a link about someone who went through your scenario with a DNS server and DDOS https://www.debian-administration.org/article/Blocking_a_DNS_DDOS_using_the_fail2ban_package Debian, not sure what you are running, but Fail2Ban should be similar setup. - Wesley On Thu, Feb 27,

Re: [nlug] DNS attack mitigation suggestions?

2014-02-27 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Good deal - let me know if you have any issues! On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:33 PM, David R. Wilson wrote: > Thanks Wesley, > > That helps a bunch. In this case it is a Centos box, but I don't think > that is going to cause any problems. > > Dave > > On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 13:19 -0600, Wesley Duff

Re: [nlug] [OFF TOPIC] Comcast ClearQAM is gone. What now?

2014-02-28 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Be sure to check out antennaweb.org - shows the direction and distance of signals reaching your address. On Feb 28, 2014 11:51 AM, "Chris McQuistion" wrote: > We installed an antenna at our office in Nashville, but we're having a > problem picking up the local ABC, though we can get the other loc

Re: [nlug] Java heap space

2014-03-13 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
What version of CentOS are you running? I found this https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/409353 that may be related. On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Howard White wrote: > On 03/13/2014 09:01 AM, Kent Perrier wrote: > >> The first thing that jumps to my mind is the ulimit on memory size

Re: [nlug] Java heap space

2014-03-13 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
; Memory address fragmentation could be a problem maybe? > > Csaba > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > >> What version of CentOS are you running? >> >> I found this https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/409353 that may be >>

Re: [nlug] Help Wanted

2014-03-28 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hello Joe, Vicki - When you say "recover from hardware failure" do you mean "recover with a hardware reboot and/or backups" or do you mean "high availability" ? Thanks, Wesley On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:14 PM, wrote: > I need help. I work for a school system and am trying to accomplish a few >

Re: [nlug] Meeting tonight

2014-04-08 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Howard, Yeah - this has been a big thing for the past day - https://access.redhat.com/site/announcements/781953 for anyone running CentOS/RH 6.5+ - Wesley On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Howard White wrote: > Hey folks, > > Everybody please come to Vanderbilt MRB-III room 1220 (theater lect

Re: Heartbleed; was Re: [nlug] Meeting tonight

2014-04-08 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Yeah, if you are running openssl-1.0.1e-15.el6 through openssl-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.4 then you need to upgrade. The update that Chris mentioned (1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7) is good to go. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Howard White wrote: > On 04/08/2014 11:21 AM, Chris McQuistion wrote: > >> I just ran

Re: Heartbleed; was Re: [nlug] Meeting tonight

2014-04-08 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
I see that still says 1.0.1e though - why they didn't change the 1e to 1g probably has to do with what upstream version was patched by RH, how Red Hat names packages, etc. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > Yeah, if you are running openssl-1.0.1e-15.el6

Re: Heartbleed; was Re: [nlug] Meeting tonight

2014-04-09 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi all, Just to follow up on this - if you have any customers (or yourself!) who are running appliances that can't be easily patched, you can use the following to help secure your environment: IPTABLES rules to log and drop heartbleed requests: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2014/Apr/44 NMAP script

Re: [nlug] 185 TB tape?

2014-05-13 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Coincidentally on this topic - I'm still undecided on my July presentation, but I'm at OpenStack Summit right now and happen to be attending a lot of tracks on storage (including DR). If there is interest, I can present on what I'm picking up here. There are some pretty slick solutions using both

Re: [nlug] How long until the Singularity?

2014-06-12 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
"we ever develop software that can further refine its own programming" sounds like a compiler. On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 2:22 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > However, if we ever develop software that can further refine its own > programming, and particularly if there is an environment where numero

Re: [nlug] db question

2014-06-12 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hello Jack, Do you know which commercial database provided the file? Is the file binary? - wesley On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Jack Coats wrote: > I have a .db file from a commercially provided database. > > How can I import the db to either Libre Base of mysql ? > > I do not have the d

Re: [nlug] db question

2014-06-12 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Alternatively, what does the "file" command provide for the .db file? On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > Hello Jack, > > Do you know which commercial database provided the file? Is the file > binary? > > - wesley > > > On Thu

Re: [nlug] db question

2014-06-12 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
d try the dbview program, and it indicated it is using version 83 of > the db file format (dbase defined the initial versions on DOS way back > when, from my rememberance anyway) > > > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun > wrote: > >> Hello Jack,

[nlug] July Topic?

2014-06-13 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi all, I'm slated to talk on July 8, and I'm considering two topics. One is an overview of OpenStack - components, use cases, how to deploy at home, etc. Other topic is system monitoring and tuning. sar vs nmon vs collectl, and the various tuning packages out there (tuned, tuned-ubuntu, etc).

Re: [nlug] July Topic?

2014-06-13 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
at PhreakNIC? I'm guessing not everyone would necessarily want to hear about something so vendor-specific for a monthly meeting, so a PhreakNIC spot could be make more sense? So that's one vote for OpenStack! On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Howard White wrote: > On 06/13/20

Re: "RedHat" at phreakNIC; was Re: [nlug] July Topic?

2014-06-13 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Nice, thanks :) I'll definitely pass along the PhreakNIC info to any nearby Red Hatters as it gets closer. On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Howard White wrote: > On 06/13/2014 10:55 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > >> Hi Howard, >> >> Regarding a preso, m

Re: "RedHat" at phreakNIC; was Re: [nlug] July Topic?

2014-06-13 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Howards, thanks for the clarification. Yes, I'm planning on coming as a member of NLUG, nothing more. I'll certainly spread the word to other RH people in the area to come as attendees, but that's about all I can do from here :) What about a Jeopardy style game on Linux topics - command syntax, hi

[nlug] Tuesday's Talk

2014-07-05 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi everyone, Not sure if I ever shared this to the whole list, but on Tuesday night I'll be talking about OpenStack, a "collection of open source software for building private and public clouds." thanks, wesley -- http://www.wesleyduffeebraun.com -- --

Re: [nlug] Tuesday's Talk

2014-07-06 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
heh, can do :) On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 8:51 PM, Howard White wrote: > On 07/05/2014 01:56 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Not sure if I ever shared this to the whole list, but on Tuesday night >> I'll be talking about OpenStack, a

Re: [nlug] lpoptions question, maybe????

2014-07-08 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Have you tried setting tabs differently? I wonder if lp picks up whatever the terminal settings are. You can do tabs -8 to reset to "standard" and see if that helps? But I haven't heard of any differences in tabs between 5 & 6 I could be way, way off on the above though :) On Tue, Jul 8, 20

Re: [nlug] lpoptions question, maybe????

2014-07-08 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hmmmis it any tab, or just the first one on a line? On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Howard White wrote: > On 07/08/2014 11:47 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > >> Have you tried setting tabs differently? I wonder if lp picks up >> whatever the terminal settings are. >

Re: [nlug] lpoptions question, maybe????

2014-07-08 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
I am out of ideas :( On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Howard White wrote: > On 07/08/2014 11:51 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > >> Hmmmis it any tab, or just the first one on a line? >> >> > Any tab. > > Just tried on a different printer from CentOS 6. Go

Re: [nlug] ~!@#$%^& CentOS 6.5!!; was Re: PXE install from CentOS 6 instead of CentOS 5

2014-07-15 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
not to go too far into the weeds, but I'm not sure I agree with "puppet is for people that can't rsync" and while I get the gist of that statement, having a standard toolkit (puppet, chef, whathaveyou) scales much better. It's the "who will run our shit if you get hit by a bus" situation. or the "l

Re: Standard implementation engines; was Re: [nlug] ~!@#$%^& PXE install

2014-07-15 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
2014 at 3:25 PM, Howard White wrote: > On 07/15/2014 03:16 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > >> not to go too far into the weeds, but I'm not sure I agree with "puppet >> is for people that can't rsync" and while I get the gist of that >> statement, having

Re: [nlug] What's your favorite...

2014-07-18 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
inkjet or laser? do you have a preference? On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Howard White wrote: > We've all deployed umpteen gazillion printers over the years. > > I've gotten kinda bummed out on the market leader - HP. The single digit > HP LaserJets were tanks (the LJ 4si/Mx was awesome) but

Re: [nlug] SplunkLive Nashville

2014-09-05 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
You can make both events (that's my goal anyway) - the splunk workshops are over by 3:30 and then happy hour. So plenty of time to enjoy the f&b and then make it to NLUG! On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Howard White wrote: > On 09/05/2014 10:52 AM, Allen Minix wrote: > >> I don't know how many

Re: [nlug] PHP versions

2014-09-23 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
May be worthwhile to look at openshift https://developers.openshift.com/en/php-overview.html - wesley On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Perkins, Jerry wrote: > On 09/22/2014 03:38 PM, Bruce W. Martin wrote: > > I have a server running CentOS 5.10 that we use as a test server for our web >

Re: [nlug] SSH login with publickey stopped working

2014-10-10 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
"We have another server that's identical except it's a physical machine, it's working perfectly." So what is working on that machine? is that the machine you can connect to without issue, or is that the machine where the authorized_keys live and you can ssh out of that box to others without a pass

Re: [nlug] Tuesday's Talk

2014-10-15 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Every second Tuesday of the month. http://nlug.wikispot.org/ On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Floyd Mullins wrote: > Hello there, > > Would like to know when are the scheduled meetings? > > Thanks > Floyd Mullins > > > > Floyd Mullins > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Amber Adams < > amberad

Re: [nlug] Install New Host OS, Keeping VM

2014-11-14 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Where do you keep the actual VM image? You'll want to back that up as well. You can examine the xml to find that path. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Paul Boniol wrote: > I know probably very simple, but somehow I'm not finding any instructions > online. > > In my case the VM only runs when I

Re: [nlug] Install New Host OS, Keeping VM

2014-11-14 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Oh wait, nm - I see - looks like you WILL be keeping that out of /home - so that's good. Sorry for the unnecessary! On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > Where do you keep the actual VM image? You'll want to back that up as > well. You can examine the

Re: [nlug] Install New Host OS, Keeping VM

2014-11-14 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
:33 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > Oh wait, nm - I see - looks like you WILL be keeping that out of /home - > so that's good. Sorry for the unnecessary! > > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun > wrote: > >> Where do you keep the actual VM

Re: [nlug] local establishment being extorted with DDOS

2015-02-17 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Fail2ban and call the fbi On Feb 17, 2015 7:41 PM, "Howard White" wrote: > Okay intrepid network magi, > > An acquaintance of mine is being bombarded with a DDOS and being told that > for $ the problem will go away. Said acquaintance is manually blocking > IPs and IP ranges as they make them

Re: [nlug] Fwd: wikispot.org is shutting down April 1st

2015-03-01 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
+1 to free solutions. However, as Amber said, if we are going to have expenses (which it appears we already have wrt meetup and there could be more) I would see it as appropriate to spread that cost around somehow. That does get potentially complicated (is there a bank account? would one have to b

Re: [nlug] Local hosting providers?

2015-04-22 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Not sure if they offer what you want, but Silex (http://silexdata.com/) had an event at Corsair I attended a few weeks ago and they seem sharp. On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: > WIsh I could help you. I work for a web hosting provider in Ashburn, > Virginia. I could ge

Re: [nlug] Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

2015-05-01 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
A bit of a convoluted route, but I see at http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=R260736 that it is a broadcom 4322 and they do provide drivers from source at http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php But I don't run ubuntu so I can't say for sure if i

Re: [nlug] Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS

2015-05-01 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Just re-read your post and I realized you may have tried those already. Have you checked out https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx ? On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > A bit of a convoluted route, but I see at > http://www.dell.com/support/h

Re: [nlug] Fwd: Invitation: Using the Unshare Utility by Wesley Duffee-Braun

2015-05-12 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
essage -- >> From: Nashville Linux Users Group >> Date: Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 12:38 PM >> Subject: Invitation: Using the Unshare Utility by Wesley Duffee-Braun >> To: sophri...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> [image: Meetup] <http://www.meetup.c

Re: [nlug] MythTV vs Reboot

2015-08-25 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Was the message displayed "A power failure, I can forgive things not being exactly right. A reboot command should have shut things down nicely and not had any issues." or is that your text? Sorry if my reading-fu is weak :D On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Paul Boniol wrote: > I had a power fa

Re: [nlug] MythTV vs Reboot

2015-08-25 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
s. If the system clock is local time, > and Myth is using UTC, and it briefly thought local was UTC in some startup > script... but that doesn't make a sense either as we are behind UTC not > ahead of UTC. > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun > wrote: &

[nlug] Free Event Oct 6: Splunk Live Registration Open

2015-09-08 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hello all, Check out http://live.splunk.com/Nashville - I went a couple of years ago (and am registered for this one), it's a great event with awesome use cases and stories. Plus free lunch, t-shirt and happy hour. I can't make the meeting tonight - hope to see everyone next month at $subject or

Re: [nlug] calling database admins - (WAN / VPN) Replacement for old database app? (LAMP stack?)

2015-09-14 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
One thing that hasn't been addressed (I don't think) is why there is a second system (remote at that) being added to the mix. In terms of a VPN, yes - that's just a tunnel to your infrastructure created as needed to a system can connect securely over otherwise non-secure networks. Once a VPN is est

[nlug] Job opportunities

2015-09-14 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hello, A contact of mine at CHS has asked me to put feelers out for anyone who would be interested in - Data Modeler: http://www.careershealthcare.com/job/Tennessee/CHS-Corporate/1540699 - ETL Developer: http://www.careershealthcare.com/job/Tennessee/CHS-Corporate/1552924 If either o

Re: [nlug] calling database admins - (WAN / VPN) Replacement for old database app? (LAMP stack?)

2015-09-15 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi Michael, It sounds like the database itself doesn't have to be synced anywhere, there is just a need for remote client access. That's going to be tough to do with the policy of keeping the DB physically isolated :) So yes, that security policy will probably have to go if the database user has t

Re: [nlug] Linux server updating for dummies

2015-10-25 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Definitely document what's been described about - backups, snaps, separation of environments (can you have a QA environment - even just 5 kvm VMs?), etc. I would also share a categorization of the updates (and why they get updated when they do) with the requestors. - Security: daily (or hourly i

Re: [nlug] Why do new releases have to be so frustrating

2015-11-01 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Good morning ;) When you say "address two NICs" do you mean assign static IP, gateway, routes, etc to each NIC? What are your outputs for 'ip a' and 'nmcli -p d' ? On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Howard White wrote: > Okay, I admit to being lazy. I am on the course of creating some tools >

Re: [nlug] Why do new releases have to be so frustrating

2015-11-01 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Oh and 'nmcli -p g' On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > Good morning ;) > > When you say "address two NICs" do you mean assign static IP, gateway, > routes, etc to each NIC? What are your outputs for 'ip a' and 'nmcl

Re: [nlug] Why do new releases have to be so frustrating

2015-11-01 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
> connected full enabled enabled enabled enabled > > > No talkey to second NIC. Have tried more than one, thought to be good > NICs. > > Howard > > On 11/01/2015 10:56 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > >> Oh and 'nmcli -p g

Re: [nlug] Why do new releases have to be so frustrating

2015-11-01 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
ifcfg files. > > MAC of the Intel NIC: 0060B06D61DD > > Howard > > On 11/01/2015 11:14 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > >> ok cool, cool. Wondering how the Intel NIC is defined. What's the >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts entry for it? Go on and send over in

Re: [SUCCESS] Re: [nlug] Why do new releases have to be so frustrating

2015-11-01 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
d_lft forever preferred_lft forever >> inet6 ::1/128 scope host >> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever >> 2: enp2s0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast >> state UP qlen 1000 >> link/ether e0:cb:4e:1f:35:b2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >> inet 192.168.222.152/24

Re: [SUCCESS] Re: [nlug] Why do new releases have to be so frustrating

2015-11-01 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
; Howard > > On 11/01/2015 12:55 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > >> I'm a little weirded out by eth0 getting renamed twice in dmesg. >> >> do they NICs it come up as expected through a reboot? >> >> >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Howard

Re: [nlug] Phreaknic Future of Linux Session - Clouds and Containers slides attached

2015-11-08 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Howard White wrote: > On 11/08/2015 11:02 AM, Wesley Duffee-Braun wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Attached is the PDF containing the slides used at Phreaknic19 Future of >> Linux session last night to talk about containers and clou

Re: [nlug] requests for talks for this month ( tomorrow), December, and January

2015-11-09 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi Andrew, I can't commit to anything this year (thanks class that scheduled meetings on Tuesday nights :P ), but unless anyone else wants to present for January I can do a talk on containers on Jan 12. Info could include - What is a container? - Where do I get, and how can I manage, them? - W

Re: [nlug] requests for talks for this month ( tomorrow), December, and January

2015-11-09 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Works for me! Thanks, Wesley On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:32 PM, andrew mcelroy wrote: > That would awesome Wesley. > Can we pencil that in for January? > > Much appreciated. > > Andrew > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun > wrote: > > Hi

Re: [nlug] presentation tonight? Video camera with SD card?

2016-01-05 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Don't give me the heart palpitations...my presentation isn't quite ready to say the least ;) the meeting is NEXT Tuesday, right? On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Michael L wrote: > Hello NLUG, > The video camera I brought last month will be overkill; AND if anyone has > a smaller one which r

Re: [nlug] Ham Class anyone?

2016-01-17 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Very interesting! I got my tech 20 years ago and have done pretty much nothing with it. Count me in, would love a kickstart of knowledge and enthusiasm. - kc5umb On Jan 17, 2016 10:10 AM, "David R. Wilson" wrote: > Hi guys, and hopefully a gal or two, maybe more, > > I will be putting on

[nlug] Published an article on opensource.com

2016-02-16 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hi all, A quick note - I have an article on opensource.com that was published this morning. It's about a theater company in Nashville that has, on their own, developed a set of open organization principles for running their ensemble. https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/2/becoming-open-org

Re: [nlug] does anyone on this list not use Windows at all?

2016-03-25 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Sounds feasible, what are their workloads? On Mar 25, 2016 12:44 PM, "Michael L" wrote: > One reason I ask is because I have a co-worker whose time gets wasted by > supporting (two older) Windows users. If I can show him a very low > maintenance Linux (maybe Mint 17) system that saves lots of tr

Re: [nlug] does anyone on this list not use Windows at all?

2016-03-26 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
ch 25, 2016, Michael L wrote: >>> >>>> One (older) Windows user surfs the web and answers emails; the other >>>> just surfs the web.- Nothing else. Neither user has the time to learn >>>> anything else, the web/email user has neither time nor interest; no ne

Re: [nlug] Strange router behavior

2016-06-13 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Can you connect to other local systems from the device when your outside connection isn't working? On Jun 13, 2016 2:20 PM, "John Eldredge" wrote: > In my case, I can connect to the router, but not to external sites, until > the router is reset. At the same time, other devices, connected via both

Re: [nlug] security / hosting question for webadmins- Joomla / Rackspace

2016-06-27 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
In terms of auto-updaters: dreamhost will do the autoupdates as well for wordpress (and many other tools you can install via their "one-click goodies" manager). however, wp.org is awesome too! In terms of hosting: Are you storing any of that video in your account? The vimeo and youtube, that's goi

Re: [nlug] home labs on the cheap

2016-08-05 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
AWS? I wonder how much you'd have to spend on AWS for that to be more expensive than the hardware, electricity, time, etc for doing a home lab. You may of course, have requirements that preclude AWS being an option, but it would be zero-heat & zero-noise (at least at the house) :D On Fri, Aug 5,

Re: [nlug] home labs on the cheap

2016-08-05 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
> > Kent > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Wesley Duffee-Braun > wrote: > >> AWS? >> >> I wonder how much you'd have to spend on AWS for that to be more >> expensive than the hardware, electricity, time, etc for doing a home lab. >> >>

[nlug] opensource.com is looking for contributors

2016-11-22 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hello NLUG, I wanted to share an opportunity with NLUG for those inclined to share their thoughts, opinions, expertise, and experience with open source software, hardware, communities, etc. For those unfamiliar, opensource.com "publishes stories about creating, adopting, and sharing open source s

[nlug] Anyone going to the "Storytelling with Open Data" hackathon Saturday?

2017-03-14 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Unfortunately I can't make it tonight (maybe it's been over a year since I've been at this point :( )...every month I think "Maybe this time" but it hasn't been in the cards yet. Anyway - not sure if this has been covered, but there is an open data hackathon in Nashville on Saturday. Details at ht

Re: [nlug] yet more predictions for the future

2017-03-15 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
COBOL is dead. Long live COBOL. On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:19 PM, Jack Coats wrote: > Jokers keep predicting the doom of low level everything. In computers, > the only way to get a new architecture supported is for someone to get down > and become one with the bits. Only if it is so complicated

Re: [nlug] Backup / archive - JBOD, RAID

2017-04-04 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
On the software-defined storage side, Gluster offers "dispersed volumes" which offers 1.5x cost for replication via erasure coding on JBOD (instead of the 2x cost for RAID1 replication). One benefit of gluster is that you can also setup a geo-replicated off-site destination which can act as a backu

Re: [nlug] How to Remove?

2017-04-08 Thread Wesley Duffee-Braun
Hello Dave, There may be context to your message I don't have, but some additional information would be useful I think. - Distribution? - Versions? - Installation method? Are you trying to do a removal, or upgrade, or ? Thanks! Wesley On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 10:11 PM, David R. Wilson wr

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