[PLUG] two post racks for free

2017-03-20 Thread Joe Pruett
we have a number of two post racks available if someone wants them. they are disassembled, and i think i can find all the bolts to hold them together, but you might have to make a trip to a hardware store. contact me directly if you're interested. they'll be going to a scrapper soon.

[PLUG] mini laptop for sale, running ubuntu

2016-04-11 Thread Joe Pruett
dell inspiron 910 2g ram 32g ssd intel 5100 a/b/g/n wifi a/c adapter battery still works well (couple hours under simple load) original us keyboard (have to use function key for lots of symbols) builtin ethernet, vga, usb no camera or sdcard slot great condition running ubuntu 15.10 $100 contact m

[PLUG] anyone interested in some tty paper tape?

2016-03-15 Thread Joe Pruett
i have about 1.5 boxes of it sitting in my basement. contact me directly if you are interested. none of my crazy friends have working teletypes anymore :-). ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] welcome to the new server

2013-04-04 Thread Joe Pruett
it looks like things are happy on the new machine. people on the archive may get two copies today (one from the old server and one from the new). i have fixed the annoying semicolon in the list name problem, so replying from thunderbird should stop being so annoying :-).

Re: [PLUG] Speaking of Intel hardware, anybody got a NUC?

2013-03-03 Thread Joe Pruett
we have one hanging on the wall to run a flat screen for meetings. it is running win8, however. i booted it into centos over pxe to just see that it was happy and all the devices seemed to be recognized just fine. i was surprised it didn't have usb 3.0 in it yet, glad to hear they have one comi

Re: [PLUG] LVM-induced hosage

2012-09-24 Thread Joe Pruett
there are known issues with a pvmove of a filesystem that lvm has lock/control files in. i think it can bite you with /etc as well. it made me cry as well. On 09/21/2012 04:11 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > After the excellent presentation on LVM by Brian at PLUG earlier this > month, and after our r

Re: [PLUG] Top questions

2012-05-22 Thread Joe Pruett
On 05/12/2012 06:49 PM, Russell Senior wrote: >> "John" == John Jason Jordan writes: > John> 1) I can't read the list of running processes easily. I see the > John> application I want to kill, but just as I am about to read its > John> PID, the screen jumps. How do I make the list of running

Re: [PLUG] general list setup whine

2011-12-03 Thread Joe Pruett
well, it's the mixture. the client (tbird) isn't quoting the string with the semicolon, so the server rejects it. can the "powers that be" comment on whether a quick change could be made to the list setup? On 2011-11-25 19:51, Tim wrote: >> would it be possible to have the semicolon removed fr

Re: [PLUG] Virtual Terminal Line Wrap

2011-11-25 Thread Joe Pruett
On 2011-11-15 11:17, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've still not found why urxvt/rxvt-unicode (and now plain rxvt) will not > wrap lines. Instead, it shifts the line off the left edge of the window so I > see only the right end of the line. Quite frustrating since I seem to be the > only person in the

[PLUG] general list setup whine

2011-11-25 Thread Joe Pruett
would it be possible to have the semicolon removed from the long name of the list: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic that semicolon always confuses my mail server, and i'd guess other people run into it as well. a dash would be just fine. ___

Re: [PLUG] Setting ADSL Bandwidth

2011-07-27 Thread Joe Pruett
if you have a fujitsu, that implies frame relay and i don't know that it can go past 1.5m. you may need to get converted to atm (westel boxes, last i looked) to get the higher speed. also, the isp has to update things on their end to send traffic to you at the higher speed, but i'd guess they are

Re: [PLUG] RewriteCond

2011-07-07 Thread Joe Pruett
did you get anywhere with this? you can check the HTTP_COOKIE var in a rewritecond, so something like: RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !BALANCEID= should stop processing if there is already a BALANCEID cookie set. On 07/05/2011 11:34 PM, Carlos Konstanski wrote: > I'm having an issue with apache's m

Re: [PLUG] Colocation reccs?

2011-07-05 Thread Joe Pruett
as co-owner of spiretech.com, i guess i can vouch for myself :-). we're small and friendly. hopefully this info isn't too late in your decision process... On 06/28/2011 11:05 AM, Aaron Burt wrote: > Howdy. > We're renting a rack at a colo near downtown Portland, from a colo that > started out in

Re: [PLUG] interface and IPv6

2011-05-13 Thread Joe Pruett
yes, link local is just that, local to that link. so unless you tell it which interface, it has no idea which one to try. On 2011-05-11 15:41, Russell Senior wrote: >> "Paul" == Paul Heinlein writes: > Paul> Just playing around with IPv6 at home and wondering why ssh -6 > Paul> fe80::200:

Re: [PLUG] Caps Lock Toggle Backwards

2011-05-13 Thread Joe Pruett
i'd suggest switching to another virtual screen (ctrl-alt-f1 to f6) and back again. that might reset things. On 2011-05-08 20:37, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > On 05/08/2011 05:51 PM, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: >> On 05/08/2011 01:48 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >>> <...>Is there a way to reverse

Re: [PLUG] Qwest wifi

2010-10-28 Thread Joe Pruett
i actually tried this over a year ago and it worked for me, even though i don't use qwest.net or msn (i run spiretech, so i'm my own isp :-). all it wanted was the dsl phone number and the account code (i think). but i only used it once just to test. i haven't ever really needed it, free wifi is

Re: [PLUG] bash question

2010-04-02 Thread Joe Pruett
bash 3.2 on my system doesn't show this problem. are you sure the full path and relative path actually get to the same script? could you be accidentally running two different scripts? or maybe it is some odd bash bug, what version do you have? On 04/02/2010 11:44 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: >

Re: [PLUG] let's get momentum for Portland...

2010-02-12 Thread Joe Pruett
> I've done this as well as contacted my ISP (Spiretech) and urged them > to submit something as well, since I figured it would carry more > weight. If you're using a small mom&pop ISP here as I am, you might > want to do the same, since these would be the direct customers of the > Google pilot. >

Re: [PLUG] Top is lying

2010-02-12 Thread Joe Pruett
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: be warned, killall on some unices (ok, i know that aix 3, but i have vague recollections about older solarises) does not do the same thing and will in fact kill all processes running under the userid that runs killall.  doing a 'sudo k

Re: [PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: February PLUG AT Meeting

2010-02-12 Thread Joe Pruett
for the clueless (and people off the list that i forwarded this to :-), which day is this happening? ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Pine

2010-01-25 Thread Joe Pruett
the option you want to change is the rsh-open-timeout. set it to 0 and it should stop trying rsh. On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Michael Robinson wrote: > >> How do I disable pine's attempts to access TCP port 514 which according >> to /etc/services is the shel

Re: [PLUG] MFC Printer

2010-01-14 Thread Joe Pruett
> Well, i guess should have expected this: The nice folk at Printer Place > tell me that they consider the OfficeJet (my 6120 cost under $150 new) > "not repairable" 'cuz HP doesn't sell replacement parts, and because > they can't provide assurance they'll be able to fix the problem > (especially p

Re: [PLUG] spamassassin bug

2010-01-10 Thread Joe Pruett
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > >> OK, so I haven't upgraded spamassassin for a while, just distro updates. >> I just learned it has been throwing out many emails dated 2010 . >> Fortunately, there is an easy fix: >> >> In /usr/share/spamassa

[PLUG] aracnet/spiritone down?

2010-01-07 Thread Joe Pruett
does anyone know if this is from the power outage? or something else. i find it hard to believe that they'd not have enough backup systems to cope with an outage, so i'm wondering if something worse has happened. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxli

Re: [PLUG] xorg.conf does not listen to rgb.txt?

2010-01-06 Thread Joe Pruett
> I'm not, really. I'm trying to create custom colors. The custom colors > need to have unique names to identify them. > > I want the custom color because there is no built-in X server color that > corresponds to an RGB value of { 0, 0, 63 }, which corresponds to a very > dark blue that I liked t

Re: [PLUG] Local ISPs and Home Hosted IP Services

2010-01-04 Thread Joe Pruett
> I noticed that EasyStreet no longer offers what was once called the > "Enthusiast" ISP package. I'm looking for something similar for a small > volume, no e-commerce, web site that I'll host on my own box. as a co-owner of spiretech.com, i'll throw our name out there. all dsl accounts have st

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting DHCP...

2009-12-30 Thread Joe Pruett
> On a hunch after verifying that it still works when I use a 10Mbit hub, > I replaced the hub with a crossover coupler. That is, I used something > that is almost equivalent to a 100Mbit hub with 2 ports. It isn't > working where I'm seeing the same symptoms. > > What could be making this work a

Re: [PLUG] Font sizes on pixilla (QXGA T60)

2009-12-14 Thread Joe Pruett
> After some initial euphoria with the QXGA 2Kx1.5K T60 laptop > (two page 12 point text in OpenOffice looks wonderful!), I am > running into font problems, mostly browser related. > > Google gadgets are clipped. Some flash content comes in Really > Small. Some use 5x7 fonts, the line spacing is

Re: [PLUG] Small script webapps

2009-12-13 Thread Joe Pruett
>> i think what you want is: >> Reg1: >> >> which makes an input box prefilled with deadbeef. >> >> of course with a cgi you would get the real value to put there. > > Yes. Exactly. Precisely. But what does _that_ look like? It's been > way too long to recall anything about this issue so please f

Re: [PLUG] Small script webapps

2009-12-13 Thread Joe Pruett
> Ok, say you want to do a debugger using a web browser. You have a box > with, say, memory or register contents. How do you initialize that box > with what's currently in the item of interest? i think what you want is: Reg1: which makes an input box prefilled with deadbeef. of course with a cg

Re: [PLUG] Small script webapps

2009-12-12 Thread Joe Pruett
> Speaking of apache/HTML, I would really appreciate it if someone could > point me to the HTML CGI verbiage needed to call a function to return > the _initial_ contents of a user-changeable text/numeric box. I found > many many functions for calling a function on this, that, the other > thing, but

Re: [PLUG] What is POE?

2009-12-11 Thread Joe Pruett
> Power over Ethernet and how is it implemented? I'm tempted to grab 2 > Invictus wireless outdoor WAPS, but I'm concerned about what POE is > since they use it. > > http://www.invictuswireless.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=NS2 poe is quite nice. it lets you use the standard ethernet twiste

Re: [PLUG] Progress Report -- Desktop Sharing on Ubuntu, Not

2009-12-11 Thread Joe Pruett
> Have you looked at wrapping VNC inside of an ssh connection? You can use > something like: > > ssh 5912:timslaptop:5901 t...@laptop.local > > and then connect using VNC and connecting to localhost:5912. > > I'm going off the top of my head for the commands, so you might have to > play with it a

Re: [PLUG] Temperature and routers...

2009-12-10 Thread Joe Pruett
> Every time we get a heavy rain and my internet craps out in my office I > think that I should bury a cable run. To date I've been concerned about > lightning discharges, which can (I am told, maybe) be picked up by long > runs and cause problems. The best information I've been able to get is >

Re: [PLUG] Running ntpdate at boot

2009-11-30 Thread Joe Pruett
> More info. I found entries in daemon.log: > Nov 30 08:06:04 R2D4 ntpdate[3330]: step time server 69.63.177.217 > offset 0.894285 sec > ... > Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 ntpdate[3434]: can't find host > http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/us > Nov 30 11:57:14 R2D4 ntpdate[3434]: no servers can be used, exitin

Re: [PLUG] Vfat USB drive mounts read-only

2009-11-30 Thread Joe Pruett
> If that doesn't work, I suspect that your thumb drive has gotten > corrupted or is going bad. Try copying everything off and > reformatting. If that doesn't work, you're probably stuck with buying a > new one. :-( Fortunately, they're not very expensive these days. some thumbdrives have a rea

Re: [PLUG] Potential Solutions to Low Power Wireless Radio on Laptop?

2009-11-20 Thread Joe Pruett
>> that is very odd. wireless in laptops have been pretty good for some time >> now. i'd pop open the little door on the bottom and make sure that that >> the antenna connections are solidly attached to the wireless card (most >> like a mini pci-e card). > > Joe, > > It certainly took me by sur

Re: [PLUG] Potential Solutions to Low Power Wireless Radio on Laptop?

2009-11-20 Thread Joe Pruett
> It appears that the built-in wireless radio in the Toshiba Satellite model > L455-S5975 we just bought is exceptionally weak. While it works well while > on the desk in the office next to the AP (88-100%), it does not work 30 feet > away in the den (44% at best). It apparently also does not con

Re: [PLUG] What permits apache to write files?

2009-11-18 Thread Joe Pruett
> I probably have my apache server set up somewhat incorrectly for > one of my oldest websites. I run a lot of wikis on many websites, > and the wikis permit apache cgi clients to rewrite apache owned > wiki content under some circumstances. > > What is scary is that a couple of my static html fil

Re: [PLUG] Why are PSU network services...

2009-11-17 Thread Joe Pruett
> going to be down on November 20? Shouldn't PSU have a high > availability set up? OHSU for patient records uses a hidden > off site data center that is secured. Why doesn't PSU do this? > > I suppose I and anyone else who is a PSU student got an announcement > that most services are going to b

Re: [PLUG] Linksys WRT54GC Hangs Until Power Cycled

2009-11-16 Thread Joe Pruett
>> just in case you haven't done this, make sure that the firmware is current. > > Joe, > > Hmmm-m-m. I didn't know that I could upgrade firmware in this unit. I'll > look into this later today. well, i just assume it can be updated. i haven't seen anything in that category that couldn't be up

Re: [PLUG] Linksys WRT54GC Hangs Until Power Cycled

2009-11-16 Thread Joe Pruett
> I use this small wireless access point and it tends to quit functioning on > a too frequent basis. Suddenly there's no network connection from the one > portable that accesses the LAN and 'Net wirelessly and we need to unplug the > Linksys and plug it back in. This power cycling resets it and i

Re: [PLUG] i can't believe this hasn't come up before

2009-11-14 Thread Joe Pruett
> Is this realization triggered by the recent Wordpress issue? > > http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Nov/141 > http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Nov/148 > > > The whole concept of placing executable text files in a web root and > then allowing one to mix them with non-executable conte

[PLUG] i can't believe this hasn't come up before

2009-11-13 Thread Joe Pruett
if you use the apache addhandler command for things like php, perl, python, etc it can create a huge hole if you allow uploads into your web space (images for example). the unbelievable behavior is that addhandler (and other friends from mod_mime) look for the extension anywhere in the filename

Re: [PLUG] Crossover Linux Standard and MS Word 2003...

2009-11-11 Thread Joe Pruett
I have a doc file from http://www.mth.pdx.edu/%7Emara/Stat%20451%20%20Solutions%205%20F% 202009.doc that looks like garbage on my CentOS 5.x system in MS Word 2003 run through Crossover Linux Standard, possibly version 7.1.0. I have installed msttcorefonts, didn't make a difference.  Do I need

Re: [PLUG] Manually applying patches

2009-11-11 Thread Joe Pruett
>But, wouldn't patch look for the code in cvsroot rather than the top > directory of the local source tree? no, patch is pretty smart about that. it automatically strips path names, you have to tell it not to do that if you need it to look into subdirectories. __

Re: [PLUG] Manually applying patches

2009-11-11 Thread Joe Pruett
> I found an old patch file for mdbtools-0.5, but it calls source from a > no-longer-existing cvs repository. I guess that my two options are to change > that line to the local source directory or apply the patches manually. > > The latter will not take long, but I'm having difficulty interpret

Re: [PLUG] To bash or not to bash?

2009-11-07 Thread Joe Pruett
>> find . -name \*\.shp -o -type d >> sounds like what you're looking for >> > YES! Thanks for the fast response too. This works just about the way I > want it. Only one more step required and that's to filter out the lines > that have JUST the directory in them. Easy to do though. Just append "| >

Re: [PLUG] Searching Mail List Archives

2009-11-07 Thread Joe Pruett
> The two recipes I added yesterday were these: > > :0: > * ^TO_ .grass-u...@lists.osgeo.org > GIS > > :0: > * ^Subject: .*[GRASS-user] > GIS > > ... and every incoming message since then ended up in ~/mail/GIS, where I > found them a few minutes ago. [] is special in regular expressions. you

Re: [PLUG] Linux RAID1 question

2009-11-02 Thread Joe Pruett
> Not just safe, the only way: you cannot change regular filesystem into > raid1 one, there is not enough room for the raid superblock (the same > partition formatted for raid will have slightly smaller capacity). > > Also, if you want to boot from this raid, you will likely need to > rewrite the i

Re: [PLUG] Linux RAID1 question

2009-11-02 Thread Joe Pruett
> Your assumptions re: disk configuration are correct. I will try it! > The ability to create a broken mirror is key. Thanks. if you hunt around the web, you can probably find a number of howtos (all subtly wrong in different ways :-). ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] Linux RAID1 question

2009-11-02 Thread Joe Pruett
> Is it possible to take an ordinary, non-RAIDed hard drive, and turn it > into a mirror without losing any data, using linux software RAID? i'm assuming you have one disk with data and one spare. the safe way is to create a broken mirror with the spare drive and "missing" as the other piece.

Re: [PLUG] CentOS kernel update puzzle regard grub.conf default kernel

2009-11-02 Thread Joe Pruett
> Thanks. /etc/sysconfig/kernel does not exist on the machine that > defaults to the old kernel. I don't recall manually creating > /etc/sysconfig/kernel on the other machine. Does one of the GUI admin > tools create this file? Obviously I can just copy the file, but I'm > curious how I got int

Re: [PLUG] tar usage question

2009-11-01 Thread Joe Pruett
> I want to tar (to a mounted flash drive) the complete contents (dot files, > directories, and regular files) of my wife's ~/ on her laptop. When I use > 'du -sh' on her ~/, I see that it consumes 1.5G of disk space. Yet when I > tar the same directory the tarball size is only 137M. I'm obviousl

Re: [PLUG] CentOS kernel update puzzle regard grub.conf default kernel

2009-10-31 Thread Joe Pruett
> I have two CentOS 5 machines that I just updated to 5.4. On both > machines the new kernel was inserted into the top of the list in > grub.conf. However, on one machine the default line in grub.conf was > changed such that the old kernel would boot by default. On the other, > default was left

Re: [PLUG] How many domain name servers?

2009-10-30 Thread Joe Pruett
> How many domain name servers can a domain registration point at? > Is there a hard limit or a maximum practical limit? > > Right now, I'm using dyndns for domain name service, which is > expensive. I plan to move DNS to my server hosting company > Rimuhosting, (3 name servers) and add some place

Re: [PLUG] Regular time

2009-10-28 Thread Joe Pruett
>> Or is Tijuana the problem?? yep, that would do it. i really dislike the city centric method for choosing timezones. why is los angeles the choice for us/pacific? why not portland, or seattle, or maybe it should be antelope :-). ___ PLUG mailing l

Re: [PLUG] Regular time

2009-10-28 Thread Joe Pruett
> Why does my computer think we went back to regular time? you probably have not gotten updates for the new timezone stuff. is your distro a current one? ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Laptop as Server?

2009-10-27 Thread Joe Pruett
> My #1 son and I are in mild disagreement. I've got an old Dell laptop > (Latitude 26something) that I've put Xubuntu on and am re-purposing as > a version control server (later internal web server for testing and > probably Dirvish for, well, survival). > > (And yes, using a laptop as a server

Re: [PLUG] Is fdisk/sfdisk lying to me?

2009-10-27 Thread Joe Pruett
> Is "fdisk" or "sfdisk" lying to me? Or both? > > Below is the output of both "fdisk" and "sfdisk". Nobody makes sense. > > Both claim the different geometry (heads, sectors/track) and a differing > number of cylinders. > Yet both pretty much agree on the ending cylinder of sda1. > With the numbe

Re: [PLUG] shell scripting

2009-10-21 Thread Joe Pruett
> The answer to your question is No. > 1. I want to Perform an SNMP request in SNMP agent. return 0 if the > connect succeeded. > 2. I want to be able to see how many times people from outside tried to > get into the devices also > > I know my script is wrong , but her is what I come up with so far

Re: [PLUG] shell scripting

2009-10-21 Thread Joe Pruett
> hello all, > > i want to Perform an SNMP set request in SNMP agent. return 0 if the > connect succeeded. > > here is what i did : > > LIST = 'ypcat hosts|| sort | awk '{print $2}'' > for Devices in $LIST > do > Errorcount=`snmpget -v1 -c privator $Devices snmpInBadCommunityNames.O > |awk '{print

Re: [PLUG] Unidirectional Network Commection

2009-10-19 Thread Joe Pruett
> From the server (192.168.55.1): > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > localnet* 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 > loopback* 255.0.0.0 U 0 00

Re: [PLUG] Unidirectional Network Commection

2009-10-19 Thread Joe Pruett
>> my guess is that it is doing routing, and it sounds like it is using the >> same ip range, which is really confusing. > > Why's this confusing? it isn't confusing if the device is bridging between the wireless and the wired side. but when you use the wan port, it does nat routing (unless t

Re: [PLUG] Unidirectional Network Commection

2009-10-19 Thread Joe Pruett
>> is this linksys the main router for everything? or is there another >> device that is your internet router? > > It is the connection between the one laptop and everything else, both > local and remote. There's a Netgear firewall appliance/router to which that > wireless router is connected.

Re: [PLUG] Unidirectional Network Commection

2009-10-19 Thread Joe Pruett
>> is the wireless acting as a bridge or a router? > > I don't know. I tried accessing the unit via the web browser but could not > connect; I cannot ping it, either. Not sure what I did since the last time I > futzed with it. > >> is the laptop on a different subnet than the rest of your network

Re: [PLUG] Unidirectional Network Commection

2009-10-19 Thread Joe Pruett
> I'd greatly appreciate insights from you professional network admins since > I'm out of ideas. > > One host on the network, the Toshiba laptop, communicates via a wireless > connection to both the LAN and, via the router/bridge the Internet. From the > laptop I can ping other LAN hosts as wel

Re: [PLUG] Questions re lpr and imaging

2009-10-16 Thread Joe Pruett
> If anyone knows how to kick lpr in the butt, I'd like to know. Any > other suggestions are also welcome. i'd use ghostscript to convert to pcl and then print the pcl file. that will go much faster as you'll effectively have rip'ed it under linux and then the printer just has to put the toner

Re: [PLUG] Clinic Sunday?

2009-10-13 Thread Joe Pruett
> torrent with a client that supports managing the amount of bandwidth used? so does wget (--limit-rate). ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Date Reformatting in Database Table

2009-10-08 Thread Joe Pruett
> 1993-1|Water Quality|WVR|Yamhill, City of|Yamhill|Hamlin|Holt|Npv|NPDES-Waste > Discharge Limits|7/6/1993|01993-1|Water Quality|WVR|Yamhill, City > of|Yamhill|Hamlin|Holt|Npv|NPDES-Waste Discharge Limits|7/6/1993|0 > > Is there a practical way to apply sed and/or awk to convert the date > colu

Re: [PLUG] Bringing up network on xubuntu

2009-09-29 Thread Joe Pruett
> tony/Joe: > > Yes, one would think this would work, but it's not playing nicely. > > There's no built-in Ethernet on this Tecra 8000, so I put in a PCMCIA > adapter card and wired that to the router. The link and full duplex lights > on the adapter light up. > > In /etc/network I edited the

Re: [PLUG] Bringing up network on xubuntu

2009-09-29 Thread Joe Pruett
>> /sbin/iwconfig eth{$} essid "your ssid" channel auto key $key >> dhcpcd $eth{$} > > Drew, > > That's not what I've used before to restart the networking on that host. > Regardless, iwconfig eth(n) reports 'no such device' so it's something about > the interfaces not being found or networking n

Re: [PLUG] MythTV experiences?

2009-09-28 Thread Joe Pruett
> I'd like to get rid of my tivo/comcast combo. Is anyone here using > MythTV (or similar) to record over-the-air HD broadcasts? > > I have most of the parts I need except for a few important ones (like a > recording card) and I was wondering what experiences people have had > with whatever hardwar

Re: [PLUG] Interesting C problem

2009-09-03 Thread Joe Pruett
> There is a little known non-standard (but common) function in C called > alloca that works for this sort of thing: > http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/glibc-manual-0.02/library_3.html#SEC45 > > I have no idea how old that documentation is, but it seems to describe it. alloca is still on th

Re: [PLUG] Interesting C problem

2009-09-03 Thread Joe Pruett
> I am modifying some C code. One function had a very large automatic > variable. It was the array: > jsProfile offLineProfiles[NUM_JOE_SCAN][NUM_BUF_PROFILES]; > > This array as an automatic variable worked in the older Slackware 9.1 > 2.4.22 uni-processor systems. However, when I moved the code t

Re: [PLUG] Grey listing nightmare...

2009-09-03 Thread Joe Pruett
i use milter-greylist with sendmail as well as the greetpause option (delay the initial smtp banner and reject if anything is sent before that). in the greylist config i have it set to accept anything that passes spf, except if the spf passes with my own ip and it isn't me. that keeps out ema

Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

2009-09-01 Thread Joe Pruett
centos is based on redhat enterprise. and very few enterprise shops are going to care about running games or even having opengl. they care about running web, mail, database, etc services. and they want those things to not have interface changes over a long lifetime. so redhat picks a stable

Re: [PLUG] Comcast blocking

2009-08-12 Thread Joe Pruett
Taking a quick google search, I think the problem is that they don't choke outbound port 25 through a central spam-checking service.  So anyone can rent a host, start spewing spam, and not get shut off until the complaints are significant.  If that's the case, I don't have much hope for this kind

Re: [PLUG] href in flash??

2009-08-08 Thread Joe Pruett
> I want "mouse left click" to advance to the next image. > > The obvious reason is for ease of use, the subtle reason is > to provide an href that search engine spiders can use to > find all the images in a slide set. > > So - I have that working for my image slides, which are > imbedded in an: >

Re: [PLUG] Browser window height, javascript, jquery

2009-08-07 Thread Joe Pruett
>> According to the Jquery docs at http://docs.jquery.com/CSS/height: >> >> $(window).height(); // returns height of browser viewport >> $(document).height(); // returns height of HTML document >> >> Is that what you're looking for? > > I do not believe this will give you the right numbers. I ge

Re: [PLUG] Browser window height, javascript, jquery

2009-08-07 Thread Joe Pruett
i think you can use things like: $(window).height() $(window).width() to find the size of the page. window is a literal variable name, not something you replace. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [PLUG] comcast customers beware

2009-08-06 Thread Joe Pruett
> In the slashdot article they were saying that OpenDNS does the same > thing as what Comcast is doing. Is there a way to opt out of the > OpenDNS version as well? Are there other advantages to OpenDNS vs. > Comcast? if you're running linux (which the list somewhat implies :-), just run named on

[PLUG] apropos of the "what is unix" discussion

2009-08-03 Thread Joe Pruett
here is a pretty decent article covering the life of unix. http://www.itworld.com/[primary-term]/72585/unix-turns-40-past-present-and-future-os ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Local biz for server racks?

2009-07-31 Thread Joe Pruett
> Hi - Can anyone recommend a few places where I might be able to a 1/4 height > standard 19" server rack? Preferably one that is designed and suitable for > shipping and moving around at trade shows. i don't think anyone local would have much on hand. they'd have to order it. urs or graybar.

Re: [PLUG] motherboard repairs

2009-07-24 Thread Joe Pruett
> Today after several days of just having this dead laptop not work at all, > I tried to turn it on. The screen activated and the first screen that usually > can up when it worked came up. It started to boot and then it all of a sudden > went dead. > > I have a Knoppix disk in the cd drive, but whi

Re: [PLUG] Mail/DNS Problem

2009-07-24 Thread Joe Pruett
use: whois oregonhba.com and try to contact those people via phone. since mail is bouncing, you may not have another way to contact them. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Using YUM to install RPMs from a text file list

2009-07-19 Thread Joe Pruett
> So I have a file generated by > $ rpm -qa > rpmlist.txt yum install `cat rpmlist.txt` those are backquotes. if the file is too big the shell will whine so then you cat use xargs like: xargs -n 100 yum install < rpmlist.txt to use 100 at a time. __

Re: [PLUG] Jquery was Re: Javascript, Firefox, IE event handling

2009-07-15 Thread Joe Pruett
> However, if you, or anybody else reading this, understands jQuery > and JavaScript well enough to help Eric and me improve our slide > presenters, please come to Advanced Topics Wednesday night at 7pm > and teach us something about it. so is that tonight? i've lost track and the web site isn't

Re: [PLUG] Javascript, Firefox, IE event handling

2009-07-14 Thread Joe Pruett
> OK, so the template file I use for WYDIWYS has a problem. > It pulls event keyCodes with firefox, not with Safari or IE. > I can still navigate with a mouse, I just can't use my clicker. > > Here is a bit of the Javascript code: > > -- > document.onkeypress=function(e) { > var e=window.even

Re: [PLUG] Paragraph Counting Script

2009-07-13 Thread Joe Pruett
>> and i just realized that since you don't really care about the data, a >> much quicker answer is: >> >> grep -c '^$' > > Now that's slick! Never would have occurred to me. > > Much grasses for the lessons, btw, that flavor may have a fencepost error if your data doesn't guarantee a trailing

Re: [PLUG] Paragraph Counting Script

2009-07-13 Thread Joe Pruett
> i think that: > > awk 'BEGIN{RS=""}END{print NR}' > > will give you what you want. and i just realized that since you don't really care about the data, a much quicker answer is: grep -c '^$' but the awk magic might be useful if you decided you want to actually do something with the data down

Re: [PLUG] Paragraph Counting Script

2009-07-13 Thread Joe Pruett
> Does anyone have a working script that will count chunks of text separated > by two newlines? > > I have a plain text file with names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. and > I'm curious how many distinct entities are in the file. Each line ends with > a newline, but they are separated by a blan

Re: [PLUG] Email question

2009-07-09 Thread Joe Pruett
> Problem > If an end user were to call you saying they cannot send email through > their local hosted POP3/SMTP server, how would you go about > troubleshooting the issue > > > Reponse: > > 1.. Ask if the mail has ever worked.. > > 2.. If mail has worked ask when was the last time it worked correc

Re: [PLUG] Compatible Fax Modems

2009-07-06 Thread Joe Pruett
> Subject line says it: I'm looking for a compatible fax modem for a Dell > 8300 with Ubuntu. The machine has a Winmodem that isn't supported for > Linux. > > I'd like to avoid as much hassle as possible; my research indicates that > this means I want a Hayes compatible with fax support. I'd kind

Re: [PLUG] Firefox 3.5 x86_64 amd - which java? (2)

2009-07-02 Thread Joe Pruett
> Yeah, it's pretty sad. For several years, Sun was stubbornly refusing > to release a 64bit version of the browser plugin with their 64 bit > JRE, so many users switched back to 32bit FF on 64bit systems. There > may have been other plugins with the same lameness, but I think all of > the 32/64

Re: [PLUG] Thunderbird, Ubuntu, IMAP, timeout

2009-07-02 Thread Joe Pruett
> Thanks. Chalk it up to SUE (Stupid User Error). I was hitting the TLS button > instead of SSL. and for those not knowing the difference between those acronyms: SSL - secure sockets layer this is a mechanism where the end systems negotiate an encrypted connection automatically before any user

Re: [PLUG] Thunderbird, Ubuntu, IMAP, timeout

2009-07-02 Thread Joe Pruett
> This is somewhat frustrating. I'm trying to setup Thunderbird to connect to > gmail to pull down my messages. I'm attempting to do it through IMAP. I > followed the instructions from here: > http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77662 > > Only problem is I get a timeout to ima

Re: [PLUG] Firefox 3.5 x86_64 amd - which java?

2009-07-02 Thread Joe Pruett
> Unless 3.5 can get me more sex, I'll wait until 3.5 is in the Ubuntu repos. if you are a firebug user, you'll probably hate 3.5 anyway. i did a quick test and performance was abysmal. you have to use a beta version of firebug, which may be part of the problem. ___

Re: [PLUG] Parallel port under Xen

2009-06-26 Thread Joe Pruett
> Thanks for the suggestion, Joe. It took a while to hunt up and install a > parallel port card. Once that was done I first verified that it works when > accessed by dom0. I then deallocated it from dom0 and added a PCI entry in > the domU definition. DomU won't start, however, issuing the mess

Re: [PLUG] When mounted doesn't mean mounted

2009-06-24 Thread Joe Pruett
> The problem is, as Keith suspected, that rdiff-backup (or its GUI, > pybackpack), helpfully creates folders if it doesn't see them. Worse, > if the folder already exists it assumes I wouldn't want to overwrite > it, and creates a copy of the folder someplace else. > > Furthermore, if I run rdiff-

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