Re: [nlug] Room Scheduling

2011-02-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
Thanks for checking on this, Paul. Chris On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote: I checked my e-mail and printouts. I requested MRB-III 1220 from 18:00 to 19:55, through the online form (January 2011 through July 2011). The confirmation came back that we

Re: [nlug] [OT] cell phone advice

2011-02-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
As for GSM carriers, I've had T-Mobile and ATT in Middle Tennessee and I can say that I had constant problems and dropped calls for the 7 years I had T-Mobile (on at least 6 different phones). After switching to ATT two years ago, I almost never find myself in a dead zone and I've had much fewer

Re: [nlug] One time web redirect?

2011-02-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
What you're referring to is usually called a Captive Portal. There are a number of different systems out there and some are just built into certain Wifi Access points and systems of that nature. We use two different Captive Portal systems at Watkins, one that is built into our Untangle server

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread Chris McQuistion
I used to use Smoothwall and I liked it a lot but my routing needs outgrew what I could do with it so I'm using pfSense for my routing needs now. What I'd like to implement is a caching proxy that doesn't do any actual routing, it just sits between the router and the outside modem. Chris On

Re: [nlug] Any good how-to's on building a transparent caching proxy server?

2011-02-15 Thread Chris McQuistion
I agree. I love pfSense, it just doesn't have this caching functionality (technically it does, but it doesn't work when you have multiple WAN and LAN connections as we have.) Chris On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Steven

[nlug] Reminder: NLUG meeting tonight at 6:00.

2011-03-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
At this month's NLUG meeting, Paul Weiss from Eucalyptus Systems will present on Ubuntu UEC. Topics will include: -Building a private cloud with Eucalyptus / Ubuntu UEC. -Learn about Ubuntu UEC and how to build your own cloud! -Intro to cloud computing -UEC components -How to install an Ubuntu

[nlug] April NLUG Meeting Presentation?

2011-03-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
Anyone got any suggestions for a presentation topic for April's monthly NLUG meeting? If you've got something you would like to present on OR ideas of something you'd like someone else to present on, please chime in! Chris P.S. On a somewhat-related note, April is the yearly meeting in which

Re: [nlug] April NLUG Meeting Presentation?

2011-03-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
: On 03/14/2011 04:07 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: Anyone got any suggestions for a presentation topic for April's monthly NLUG meeting? If you've got something you would like to present on OR ideas of something you'd like someone else to present on, please chime in! Chris P.S

Re: [nlug] Parental Control Software

2011-03-22 Thread Chris McQuistion
I use Untangle too (at work.) Chris On Tuesday, March 22, 2011, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote: I seem to recall a while back someone who was presenting said they really liked one brand of parental control software.  (Sorry I don't remember much more.)  Does anyone recall what it

[nlug] [JOB] Ruby on Rails Developer Needed

2011-03-23 Thread Chris McQuistion
I know we have a few Ruby developers among us, so I thought someone might be interested in the job, below. Chris -- Forwarded message -- From: Dover, Ray (03930) ray.do...@rht.com Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:55 AM Subject: Ruby on Rails Developer Needed To:

Re: [nlug] Re: Sendmail question

2011-04-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
+1 for Postfix Chris Sent from my iPhone On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Greg Donald gdon...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Greg gpendle...@gmail.com wrote: Switching is certainly an option if it will get the job done. Are there any other votes for favorite mail server before

[nlug] Reminder: NLUG Meeting tonight at 6:00 (and Linux Fest this Saturday!)

2011-04-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to send out a quick reminder that we will be holding our regular monthly NLUG meeting tonight at 6 PM. Also, April is the yearly meeting in which we collect NLUG officer nominations so if you'd like to nominate someone (or yourself) for an NLUG officer position, please come to

[nlug] [JOB] Systems Engineer III - (Windows/Linux)

2011-04-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
The IT any location fulltime Gaylord Job Agent you set up through the Gaylord Entertainment Company Career Center has generated a list of 1 job(s) matching your search criteria. Below are links to the specific jobs generated by the job agent. To access details about a job, click on the link

[nlug] Reminder: NLUG Linux Fest today!

2011-04-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
In the I should have sent this email out yesterday department... I just wanted to send out a reminder that we are holding our quarterly Linux Fest today from 10 AM to 4 PM at Watkins College (2298 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37228). Howard White will be presenting a Linux 101 session for

Re: [nlug] Starting salary

2011-04-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
I would recommend he check with a local IT staffing company. They will know what the going rates are in that area. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2011, at 8:09 PM, Curt Lundgren verif...@gmail.com wrote: My nephew is being offered a job as a help desk person at a SAN company. They've

Re: [nlug] Starting salary

2011-04-16 Thread Chris McQuistion
Another thought. Robert Half publishes an annual IT Salary Guide broken down by position and region. That might be a good place to start. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2011, at 8:09 PM, Curt Lundgren verif...@gmail.com wrote: My nephew is being offered a job as a help desk person at a

Re: [nlug] Wanted: iPhone 3GS

2011-04-19 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just to add my two cents to this conversation, http://www.ifixit.com has fantastic repair guides for all kinds of Apple products, including the iPhone (and other brands/models). You may already know this, but they are THE resource for complete teardowns and repair information and parts. They

Re: [nlug] disk drive issues

2011-04-23 Thread Chris McQuistion
+1 vote for Spinrite. I use it all the time and I can't recommend it highly enough. Chris On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Richard Thomas r...@dicksonlife.comwrote: 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

Re: [nlug] Why does nlug.org have dreamhost dns?

2011-04-25 Thread Chris McQuistion
Andrew, I'm in the process of migrating that DNS over to our new DNS registrar. I just got too busy to get to it this weekend. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Apr 25, 2011, at 7:17 PM, andrew mcelroy sophri...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, As I try to get a handle on all things legit, legal, and

[nlug] [off-topic] Nashville Spiceworks Users Group (SpiceCorps) starting May 13th

2011-04-26 Thread Chris McQuistion
This isn't exactly Linux-related (though I do use Spiceworks to monitor our Linux servers and everything else on our network). Spiceworks is a free (though not open-source) network management software with Helpdesk, PC Inventory, IT Reporting and more. I've been using Spiceworks for a little

Re: [nlug] password management

2011-04-26 Thread Chris McQuistion
For what you're asking for, I highly recommend (and use) LastPass. Chris On Tuesday, April 26, 2011, Russ Crawford russ.m.crawf...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I was not clear. Like pretty much all of you, I have a scadgillion accounts/usernames/passwords.  Well, maybe not quite that many. NOTE:

Re: [nlug] password management

2011-04-27 Thread Chris McQuistion
I prefer LastPass because they work everywhere and have clients for almost everything (smartphones, etc). Chris Sent from my iPhone On Apr 27, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Russ Crawford russ.m.crawf...@gmail.com wrote: I kept searching and found this:

Re: [nlug] password management

2011-04-27 Thread Chris McQuistion
I agree that time limits don't help with brute force password cracking but I think implementing time limits actually helps mitigate two other problems. First, people sometimes tell other people their passwords. They don't think anything about sharing their password with their co-worker but six

[nlug] [JOB] FYI: Job opening Linux/Unix Administrator II-1100345 @ CHS corporate HQ

2011-05-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
Job Description Linux/Unix Administrator II-1100345 Description Source: http://chs.net/career_openings/ats_apply_online.html POSITION SUMMARY Maintains, monitors, and supports IT Unix/Linux infrastructure to support critical system reliability and maximum uptime. Position is responsible for UNIX

[nlug] Meeting topics for June 14 NLUG meeting

2011-05-24 Thread Chris McQuistion
Our next monthly NLUG meeting will be June 14th. At the May meeting, there was some interest in seeing a presentation on one of the following topics, perhaps: -Arduino http://www.arduino.cc/ http://www.arduino.cc/-The Hacker Consortiumhttp://www.hackerconsortium.com/ -Linux LVM

Re: [nlug] ClearOS

2011-06-07 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've been using it for many years (from Clarkconnect version 2 to the most recent versions of ClearOS.) I've run it on a lot of different hardware over the years. These days, I have it running on VMWare. Chris On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:00 AM, df9 df9...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone using

[nlug] FYI: Today (June 8) is World IPv6 day!

2011-06-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
http://www.worldipv6day.org/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit

Re: [nlug] Egads!

2011-06-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
Alright, let's wrap this discussion up before it falls into a potentially divisive political discussion, shall we? I think we can all agree that politicians suck but once we start pointing at a particular politician or political party, that's when conflicts start. Know what I mean? Chris On

[nlug] Reminder: monthly NLUG meeting tomorrow night (Tuesday)

2011-06-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to send out a reminder that we are holding our regular monthly NLUG meeting tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 6 PM. We don't have a specific presentation scheduled this month, so it will be a bit of a hodge-podge topic de jour. If you have any discussion topics or presentation ideas that

Re: [nlug] Reminder: monthly NLUG meeting tomorrow night (Tuesday)

2011-06-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
Sounds great! Chris On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Howard White how...@usit.net wrote: On 06/13/2011 04:08 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: Just wanted to send out a reminder that we are holding our regular monthly NLUG meeting tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 6 PM. We don't have a specific

[nlug] Reminder: NLUG monthly meeting on Tuesday, July 12.

2011-07-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
At this month's meeting, Curt Lundgren will be presenting on the process of creating dhcpd.conf from a forward DNS zone (as requested by Russ.) Curt is my DHCP/DNS hero. His DHCP/DNS system at Watkins has been a godsend! (as well as all the other cool systems he's built) Also at this month's

[nlug] Reminder: NLUG Linux Fest this Saturday (July 23)

2011-07-19 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to send out a reminder that we will be holding our quarterly Linux Fest this Saturday, July 23, from 10 AM to 4 PM at Watkins College of Art, Design Film (2298 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37228). Paul Weiss from Eucalyptus Systems will be coming down to do a complete

Re: [nlug] Linux Boxee Vudu

2011-08-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
Netflix and Vudu are apples and oranges. Netflix is a subscription service where you get access to all of their streaming content for one flat monthly price. Vudu is a rental/purchase model where you pay for every single movie that you rent or buy. The quality on Vudu is fantastic but the cost

Re: [nlug] MIFI / 3G HotSpot advice

2011-08-09 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've got a couple of the CLEAR devices and the speed is basically 3G around middle Tennessee and not much better than low speed DSL in most cases. Also, the latency is HUGE. Most of the time it is over 500ms. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT)

Re: [nlug] Router upgrade problem

2011-08-22 Thread Chris McQuistion
You may just have to change the file extension to do the firmware upgrade. In my experience, DD-WRT is more feature-rich and Tomato is more basic and user-friendly. Each has their place, though I prefer to have more features and flexibility, therefore DD-WRT. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Aug

Re: [nlug] Updating the NLUG wiki

2011-08-24 Thread Chris McQuistion
, Chris McQuistion wrote: So once you're logged in, you should see an Edit, Info, and Talk icon at the top of each page next to the title (the front page is titled Front Page for instance.) Are you seeing that? If so, you click on Edit and that takes you to an edit window where you can make your

Re: [nlug] Spring 2012 Room Request

2011-09-01 Thread Chris McQuistion
Thanks! Chris Sent from my iPhone On Sep 1, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote: FYI: I received notice today that Educational Support Services has opened requests for Spring 2012. I will be putting in the request shortly. Paul -- You received this message because

Re: [nlug] Re: Router upgrade problem

2011-09-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
For what it's worth, I've been doing some VPN work on DD-WRT routers, recently, and I'll share one bit of info that may be helpful. At home, I have a Netgear WNR3500 router. I tried DD-WRT on this router, as well as an old Linksys WRT54GS. The Linksys router, with it's lower speed CPU could

Re: [nlug] Re: Router upgrade problem

2011-09-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
I believe this is the exact Netgear model I have (NETGEAR WNR3500L) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122334Tpk=Netgear%20WNR3500 Chris On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.eduwrote: For what it's worth, I've been doing some VPN work

Re: [nlug] Problem with Google Docs

2011-09-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
Try unsharing it from her, log pit and back in, hen share it with View permissions, log out, back in, and change it to Edit and have her log off and back in. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Sep 8, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: Yes. Wife uses IE on her laptop, but the same

Re: [nlug] Problem with Google Docs

2011-09-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
can't see it. Generated a new doc on my ID and she can't see it, with sharing set by the document owner in both cases. ... Grumble... Whine... grumble... Is there somewhere I can report an issue to Google to try to get some help? ... Jack On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Chris McQuistion

Re: [nlug] Problem with Google Docs

2011-09-09 Thread Chris McQuistion
Go into your Google Apps Manage this domain page and go to Settings - Docs, and look in the Sharing Options section. Chris On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: Hmm... I bet that is it. I shot myself in the foot again by not completing setting up the google apps

[nlug] Computer Recycling Event at Watkins, Sept 28 and 29

2011-09-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
FREE COMPUTER RECYCLING DAY Hosted by: Watkins College of Art, Design Film 2298 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37228 September 28 29 9AM – 5PM Event Coordinator: GREEN EARTH COMPUTER RECYCLING SERVICES LLC 1015 W. Kirkland Ave. #102 Nashville, TN 37216 Phone: 615-262-9279

Re: [nlug] [OT] Computer recommendations for family.

2011-09-20 Thread Chris McQuistion
I will agree with Kevin and Andrew on this. While I'm not a Mac guy, I work with Windows, Mac, and Linux every day. The Macs have FAR less technical support issues than the Windows desktops and they do generally just work and have far less security vulnerabilities/issues than Windows. If I were

Re: [nlug] File Server

2011-09-22 Thread Chris McQuistion
Do the users need LAN access or access from the Internet as well? In addition to FreeNAS, I would consider ClearOS, Openfiler, and NexentaStor. I've used all of those as File Servers. (ClearOS has a lot of different functionality, if you need more than a File Server, OpenFiler is basically

Re: [nlug] Microsoft, Red Hat spar over secure boot-loading tech

2011-09-27 Thread Chris McQuistion
I think this is kind of a non-story. There are plenty of systems with UEFI BIOS' now. They run Windows and Linux. The problem with UEFI is that computer manufacturers (ie Dell or HP or Lenovo) ~could~ lock down the UEFI BIOS so it could only run the operating system it shipped with (Windows.)

[nlug] Reminder: Computer Recycling Event at Watkins (Today and Tomorrow)

2011-09-28 Thread Chris McQuistion
FREE COMPUTER RECYCLING DAY Hosted by: Watkins College of Art, Design Film 2298 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37228 September 28 29 9AM – 5PM Event Coordinator: GREEN EARTH COMPUTER RECYCLING SERVICES LLC 1015 W. Kirkland Ave. #102 Nashville, TN 37216 Phone: 615-262-9279

[nlug] Reminder: NLUG Meeting tonight at 6:00

2011-10-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to send out a reminder about our monthly NLUG meeting, tonight at 6:00 PM. Tonight, Howard White will have an Asleep at the Prompt session and I will have a presentation on implementing multiple WAN connections for higher bandwidth and reliability, using Open Source software. As

Re: [nlug] Once upon a time...

2011-10-18 Thread Chris McQuistion
LOL Sent from my iPhone On Oct 18, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Curt Lundgren verif...@gmail.com wrote: I dunno, I may have missed my calling. I could have diploma in pharmacy or perhaps even class 10th - I'm sure Amit will receive a lot of response to his kind missive. Curt On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at

[nlug] Reminder: NLUG Meeting tonight

2011-11-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
Howard White will present an Asleep at the Prompt session and will go over his Installing Linux using PXE. This is a continuation of his presentation and working session that went on all last weekend at Phreaknic. This project uses FOGProject.org to provide the basic infrastructure. www.nlug.org

Re: [nlug] New Firefox Versions

2011-11-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
No problems here. I was on 7.0.1 and just updated to 8.0 today. Both versions have been opening my previous tabs just fine. Chris On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else having problems with the Restore Previous Session no longer functioning

Re: [nlug] Secure Boot on new machines

2011-11-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
My two cents? I think this UEFI story has been blown WAY out of proportion. Chris On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-heavyweights-develop-secure-boot-strategy It sounds like the evil empire is trying to close

Re: [nlug] Google Apps Mail POP issues

2011-11-23 Thread Chris McQuistion
The default behavior for Outlook when accessing a POP account is to download emails via POP and NOT leave the message on the server. You can override that behavior in Outlook so it DOES leave the messages on the server and then your other Outlook computer can download the messages, too. (There

[nlug] NLUG Meeting tonight

2011-12-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to send out a quick reminder about our monthly NLUG meeting tonight. Howard White will be presenting an Asleep at the Prompt session and we will have other topics and presentations as they come up. Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[nlug] Reminder: NLUG Meeting tonight at 6:00

2012-01-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
Wanted to send out a quick reminder about our monthly NLUG meeting tonight at 6:00. Howard White and Andrew McElroy will each be making presentations tonight. Hope to see you there! Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this

Re: [nlug] I'm still in gallatin wrapping up a a contract...

2012-01-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
Did you mean March? Chris Sent from my iPhone On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:59 PM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: I penciled you in for the May meeting, if that is OK. We aren't having a Feb meeting. ... Jack On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 5:17 PM, andrew mcelroy sophri...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all,

Re: [nlug] Intel motherboards and CentOS 6

2012-01-12 Thread Chris McQuistion
I can't give you specific models that work with CentOS 6, but I can give you two bits of advice. First, when it comes to onboard NIC's, you can never go wrong with Intel NIC's. Most non-server-or-workstation-class motherboards will come with Realtek or Marvell NIC's. Those are hit and miss with

Re: [nlug] Exchange alternative

2012-01-25 Thread Chris McQuistion
Do they have a free version of Kerio? Chris On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: Okay guys, this is the package I want to see a presentation about! http://www.crn.com/news/**channel-programs/232500434/**

Re: [nlug] Exchange alternative

2012-01-25 Thread Chris McQuistion
, Chris McQuistion wrote: Do they have a free version of Kerio? Chris On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: Okay guys, this is the package I want to see a presentation about! http://www.crn.com/news/http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/232500434/two

Re: [nlug] Stupid Google Spreadsheet Tricks...

2012-01-26 Thread Chris McQuistion
I have no idea how to suck data from one spreadsheet to another in Google Docs, but I can make a suggestion on the permissions issue. If you suspect that permissions might be the problem, try exporting the Google Docs out as Excel or OpenOffice files, then delete the Google Docs, then import the

[nlug] Reminder: NLUG Linux Fest tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 28)

2012-01-27 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to send out a quick reminder that we will be having an NLUG Linux Fest tomorrow, Saturday, Feb 28th at Watkins College of Art, Design Film (2298 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37228) from 10AM to 4 PM. Howard White will be doing a presentation on BackupPC and we will have other

Re: [nlug] SSH server client help

2012-01-30 Thread Chris McQuistion
Have you tried a yum erase on the various ssh packages and then deleted the config files (in case yum didn't remove them) and then reinstalled them? Chris On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:20 PM, kwu...@comcast.net wrote: Hello everyone, I'm having a problem with one of my fc15 machines. First it

Re: [nlug] SSH server client help

2012-01-30 Thread Chris McQuistion
I'm not sure. Remove may do the same as erase or it might just remove it from the yum database, without actually uninstalling it. Chris On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:45 AM, kwu...@comcast.net wrote: I've done yum remove. Is there a difference? -- *From: *Chris

Re: [nlug] Suggested brand of Disks...

2012-02-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
I buy a lot of hard disks each year for Watkins, my various side jobs, and my ever-growing storage needs at home (probably 50+ per year.) In the past couple years, Western Digital have been the worst for me, followed by Seagate. I buy mostly Samsung drives, because they are incredibly quiet and

[nlug] Fwd: Welcome to the O'Reilly UG Program

2012-03-01 Thread Chris McQuistion
FYI: I've enlisted NLUG into the O'Reilly User Group program. They are willing to provide some free books to the group, through me (as the current administrative contact) for review purposes, so if anyone would like to get an O'Reilly book to review for the group, please let me know. There is

Re: [nlug] Cloud based web server?

2012-03-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
www.cloudflare.com can help prevent those attacks and the service is free for the basics (non-SSL sites) and pretty reasonable for the fancier features. We use it to protect almost all of our web-based services and it has made a positive difference. Chris On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:40 AM,

Re: [nlug] Cloud based web server?

2012-03-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
Grace Hopper, USN If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate - Henry J. Tillman Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote

Re: [nlug] Linux Remote Desktop

2012-03-25 Thread Chris McQuistion
You can use RDP over a VPN or SSH tunnel. Chris On Sunday, March 25, 2012, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I saw that article, I was hoping for native rather than via CoLinux or anything else. VNC is working fine, but it is rather bandwidth sensitive. RDP over the internet...

Re: [nlug] Don't kill the messanger

2012-03-28 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've been running the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on a test box here at the office for a while. I think it's horrible. They took Windows 7 and added a new interface that makes no sense for a desktop OS and then removed some of the actually functional features of Windows 7! Chris On Tue, Mar 27,

[nlug] Reminder: NLUG Meeting tonight at 6:00

2012-04-10 Thread Chris McQuistion
Just wanted to send out a quick reminder about our monthly NLUG meeting tonight at 6:00. Details and directions are on the website (www.nlug.org). Our main topic tonight will be a panel discussion on Getting a Job with Open Source Technologies. (What does or does not work?) Also, tonight will

Re: [nlug] Useless trivia for today

2012-04-13 Thread Chris McQuistion
Very interesting! Useless, but interesting! Chris On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Curt Lundgren verif...@gmail.com wrote: I was inspired to write a short Perl script this morning: #! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Time::Local; # Restrict years to the Unix epoch my $start_year =

[nlug] Re: Reminder: Linux Fest this Saturday from 10-4 at Watkins College

2012-04-27 Thread Chris McQuistion
One more note about the Linux Fest. We will be meeting in a different room than usual, this time around. We will be in room 705 and there will be signs. Chris On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.eduwrote: Just wanted to send out a reminder about

Re: [nlug] I give up (i guess I will let the moths out of my wallet)

2012-05-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
What's your budget? Are you looking for a desktop system or another laptop, like you had? Chris On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: I am considering purchasing a reasonable new (or nice used) machine with a recent version of CPU that can do 64 bit and run

Re: [nlug] Ritualized systems?

2012-05-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
I'm not a big fan of horror movies, but this movie is a genre-bending one, combining horror, science-fiction, and comedy in a really interesting way! Chris On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Curt Lundgren verif...@gmail.com wrote: If this was just a horror flick I would not recommend it. On

Re: [nlug] geek-practical cell phone service alternative to Verizon?

2012-05-17 Thread Chris McQuistion
For what it's worth, I've had T-Mobile service and ATT service, here in Middle Tennessee for many years. In my experience, ATT has actual 3G service in many places where T-Mobile is only EDGE. Additionally, I've had coverage problems, within Nashville, with T-Mobile (and tried 4 different

Re: [nlug] Command of the Day (or whenever someone has just googled for 20 minutes...)

2012-06-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
I don't think that command lspci -v -s 01:00.0 is necessarily reliable at telling you the actual video RAM for your card. I just ran it on one of my Atom boxes that I know uses 8 MB of system RAM for the pitiful onboard video. It reported the following: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller:

Re: [nlug] Topic for July LinuxFest

2012-06-19 Thread Chris McQuistion
I'm not going to be available July 14th or 28th. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Jun 19, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: Meant to bring up discussion of what the group wants to work on at the July LinuxFest at the last NLUG meeting, June 12. Everybody available July 28??

Re: [nlug] July LinuxFest

2012-06-25 Thread Chris McQuistion
If there's no demand, I say let's not do it. Chris On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: I asked what folks were interested about for a LinuxFest in July but only heard back from Curt and Chris. Leaders may only lead where people see a need to go...

Re: [nlug] URGENT:Need a ride back home for July 10 meeting

2012-07-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
Yeah, his email was waiting in the Google Group queue for acceptance. I've added him to the always allow group, so his emails won't be stuck in purgatory in the future. Chris On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Steven S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.comwrote: If you check out the headers of his

Re: [nlug] URGENT:Need a ride back home for July 10 meeting

2012-07-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
/2012 03:44 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: Yeah, his email was waiting in the Google Group queue for acceptance. I've added him to the always allow group, so his emails won't be stuck in purgatory in the future. Chris On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Steven S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.com

Re: [nlug] URGENT:Need a ride back home for July 10 meeting

2012-07-11 Thread Chris McQuistion
Yes On Jul 11, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Bill Woody woody39...@gmail.com wrote: Did someone from NLUG help this fellow out? On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:17 PM, JMJ roadr...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/11/2012 03:50 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: Oh, that is funny Professor White I've been working

Re: [nlug] Need WINDERS help ... binary editor for NTFS directory structure?

2012-07-17 Thread Chris McQuistion
Might seem obvious, but have you already run CHKDSK on the disk? If that doesn't help, I'm a big fan of SpinRite. Bought it years ago and I use it all the time to recover drives and do maintenance. Chris On Tuesday, July 17, 2012, Toth, Csaba wrote: Some tips: 1.) Before you go any further:

Re: [nlug] Raspberry Pi Arrives Tomorrow.

2012-07-31 Thread Chris McQuistion
The most recent Tekzilla episode featured some info and links for the Rasberry Pi, too. You might want to check that out. Chris On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Bill petersen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have been signed up to the group for a long time, but have never made a post as of yet.

Re: [nlug] Facebook

2012-08-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
Label me suspicious. I hate Facebook and I've done my best to stay off of it. A few years ago, Facebook *automatically* created two Facebook accounts for me, based on two of my email addresses that they harvested from a distant friend of mine's email address book. It took nearly a month to get

[nlug] FREE COMPUTER RECYCLING DAY

2012-08-06 Thread Chris McQuistion
FREE COMPUTER RECYCLING DAY Hosted by: Watkins College of Art, Design Film 2298 Rosa L Parks Blvd, Nashville, TN 37228 Wednesday August 8 Thursday August 9 9AM – 5PM Event Coordinator: GREEN EARTH COMPUTER RECYCLING SERVICES LLC 1015 W. Kirkland Ave. #102 Nashville, TN 37216 Phone:

Re: [nlug] transition from RHEL 5.2 to current CentOS

2012-08-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
Perhaps a dumb question, but why are you considering upgrading to CentOS 6? CentOS 5 has a LONG supported life, since it is based on RHEL 5 and RedHat is supporting RHEL 5 until March 31, 2017. Chris On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: anybody done this

Re: [nlug] transition from RHEL 5.2 to current CentOS

2012-08-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
: On 08/08/2012 02:36 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: Perhaps a dumb question, but why are you considering upgrading to CentOS 6? CentOS 5 has a LONG supported life, since it is based on RHEL 5 and RedHat is supporting RHEL 5 until March 31, 2017. Chris Not a dumb question at all. I

Re: [nlug] transition from RHEL 5.2 to current CentOS

2012-08-08 Thread Chris McQuistion
hwh...@vcch.com wrote: On 08/08/2012 02:50 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: You could always make a full system image backup with Clonezilla and then try the upgrade to CentOS 5 from RHEL 5 that I told you about. It worked fine for us (but of course we had a snapshot backup in case it didn't

[nlug] Another add-on for tonight's discussion... (DHCP)

2012-08-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
Since the discussion tonight will be around DHCP and DNS, I thought I would ask if anyone has any input on how to set up a failover system for DHCP, so if the primary DHCP server goes down, a secondary server takes over (either active-active, or active-passive)? Thanks, Chris -- You received

Re: [nlug] Another add-on for tonight's discussion... (DHCP)

2012-08-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
' so you don't know one dropped out, but it should recover nicely as dhcp addresses renew. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: Since the discussion tonight will be around DHCP and DNS, I thought I would ask if anyone has any input on how

Re: [nlug] OT - cell phone + pots line remote phones

2012-08-24 Thread Chris McQuistion
I think Howard White was looking for something to do this. Did you happen to notice about how much it cost? Chris On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Jack Coats j...@coats.org wrote: I just hadn't seen it before but a remote phone system that you can bluetooth attach 1 cell phone to, it can

Re: [nlug] How to test ports in a switch?

2012-09-04 Thread Chris McQuistion
At the lowest level, I would start by just plugging a computer into each port, one at a time and see if you get a link light. Next, plug two computers into different ports on the switch, with static IP addresses and see if they can ping each other. Move one of them to a different port and see if

Re: [nlug] Trying to find the disk overhead factor for esxi

2012-10-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
Are you thin-provisioning or thick-provisioning your disks? You should be able to login to your VSphere Client, click on the target host in the left panel, then click on the Configuration tab in the right panel, then click on the Storage section, then click on your datastore. It will show you

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

2012-10-05 Thread Chris McQuistion
For what it's worth, I've got ATT and just got an iPhone 5 that supports LTE. I've seen LTE coverage everywhere I've gone around the middle Tennessee area and I've seen speeds as high as 47 Mbps down and 24 Mbps up over LTE! The average speed I'm seeing over ATT's LTE is around 18 Mbps! Chris

Re: [nlug] typical sysadmin challenge

2012-11-05 Thread Chris McQuistion
I wonder if the network print server on the printer (HP JetDirect, in the HP parlance) has gone bad? We've had a few of those go bad in the past. Chris On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: On 11/05/2012 10:57 AM, ware wrote: had similar issue with

Re: [nlug] typical sysadmin challenge

2012-11-05 Thread Chris McQuistion
Another option might be to hook up the network printer to an old school network *hub* and then hook up another computer, running Wireshark to sniff the packets. Chris Chris On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:45 PM, David R. Wilson da...@wwns.com wrote: Hello Howard, Is there any chance of

Re: [nlug] the continuing saga of the reluctant systems administrator

2012-11-20 Thread Chris McQuistion
What's your disk subsystem with the new ESXi host? How much physical memory and CPU does the box have and how much have you designated to your VM's? Do you VMWare Tools installed on the Guest VM's? Chris Chris On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: You may

Re: [nlug] the continuing saga of the reluctant systems administrator

2012-11-20 Thread Chris McQuistion
If you haven't installed VMWare Tools, that is pretty important. That should be installed on all your VM's. Chris On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: On 11/20/2012 01:42 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: What's your disk subsystem with the new ESXi host? How

Re: [nlug] the continuing saga of the reluctant systems administrator

2012-11-20 Thread Chris McQuistion
The vSphere Client should show you whether VMWare Tools is installed, by the way. It's right there on the Summary tab. Chris On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.eduwrote: If you haven't installed VMWare Tools, that is pretty important. That should

Re: [nlug] [OT] building file system

2012-11-26 Thread Chris McQuistion
Are those drives Western Digital Green drives? Those things are TERRIBLY slow. As for redirecting C:\Users, I don't recommend it. You can use Windows 7's Library functionality to redirect users' documents, music, pictures, etc, over to a network drive with relative safety, but redirecting the

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