Re: [PLUG] Broken Sony Vaio PCG-691L

2011-02-28 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:26:03 -0800, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: While visiting with a couple of friends this afternoon they showed me a Sony Vaio PCG-691L computer that is broken. The problem is that the power connector is kaput.

Re: [PLUG] Broken Sony Vaio PCG-691L

2011-02-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:05:50 -0800 Robert Munro ramu...@speakeasy.net dijo: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:26:03 -0800, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: While visiting with a couple of friends this afternoon they showed me a Sony Vaio PCG-691L

Re: [PLUG] Broken Sony Vaio PCG-691L

2011-02-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote: I searched on eBay and there are at least half a dozen sellers offering DC power connectors for prices under $10. I am guessing that this is a common failure in this particular laptop. I told my friends to shop on eBay and maybe they can fix it

[PLUG] IPTables question

2011-02-28 Thread frankhunt
I want to block an entire class A address set and then allow a few of the addresses within that set to have access. I figured I could block all the addresses in the set then allow the specific address(es) that I want. Like this: iptables -A INPUT -s nnn.0.0.0/8 -j LOG --log-prefix IPTABLES

Re: [PLUG] IPTables question

2011-02-28 Thread Michael
frankhunt wrote: I want to block an entire class A address set and then allow a few of the addresses within that set to have access. I figured I could block all the addresses in the set then allow the specific address(es) that I want. Like this: iptables -A INPUT -s nnn.0.0.0/8 -j LOG

[PLUG] How to Troubleshoot a Dead Machine

2011-02-28 Thread Bill Thoen
My super-cheep China-made PC clone running FC5 died last weekend after a power failure and the disc drive was off for a day or two. It never recovered. When I powered up on Monday, the CPU fan would switch on normally and that's all it would do. No boot, didn't even get to grub. Everybody in

Re: [PLUG] How to Troubleshoot a Dead Machine

2011-02-28 Thread Russell Senior
Bill == Bill Thoen bth...@gisnet.com writes: Bill My super-cheep China-made PC clone running FC5 died last weekend Bill after a power failure and the disc drive was off for a day or Bill two. It never recovered. When I powered up on Monday, the CPU Bill fan would switch on normally and that's