On 07/24/2012 07:57 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:52:52 -0700
> "Brian Martin" dijo:
>
>>> I am waiting for a confirmation from a speaker for the August first
>>> Thursday meeting. Please let me know if you have a talk you would
>>> like to offer as a backup.
>> At OS Bridg
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011 21:32:15 -0700
Daniel Pittman wrote:
-- snipped --
> Y'know what? I have better things to do with my time than hang about
> a "Linux" list that will do nothing to prevent trolls making a mess of
> the place. If I wanted to watch trolls destroying community I already
> know w
Massoud and jan say hi!
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From: "Mel"
To: "PLUG" ,
Subject: [PLUG] Sequent parts
Date: Tue, Oct 4, 2011 3:42 pm
I recently acquired some spare parts for a Sequent S500/SE30. I have
processor, memory, CSM boards, some PBay disks, and power supplies. A
dumb terminal, a
Is the vga port coming from onboard video, while the dvi is coming from a
separate graphics card? If so, you may need to disable onnboard graphics in the
bios. I've been bit by that situation before...
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From: "Rich Shepard"
To:
Subject: [PLUG] Monitor Hardware Question
Just out of curiosity, have you looked at using any of the dns blacklists
offered by sorbs or spamhaus? They're really easy to implement, anddo exactly
what it seems like you're trying to do. These are my only spam protections
built into my postfix +dovecot setup, and they work great.
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It was my impression that linux+ got merged with LPI 101. IBM has excellent LPI
training documentation
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From: "jen montserrat"
To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help,civil and on-topic"
Subject: [PLUG] linux+ certification
Date: Tue, Aug 2, 2011 10:38 am
Any
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4
maybe not super helpful, but kind of relevant, and awesome.
On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 17:29 -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> I was browsing around (looking at some bike sites) when a window popped up:
>
> We have something for you
> Leave this page?
> cancel
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On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:07:03 -0700 nathan w wrote:
>
> Why? This query reminds me of an article i read describing the
> process of dns poisoning by pushing "updates" to a dns server at the
> moment it updates... So again... Why do you wan
Why? This query reminds me of an article i read describing the process of dns
poisoning by pushing "updates" to a dns server at the moment it updates... So
again... Why do you want this?
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From: "wes"
To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help,civil and on-topic"
the hplip site says that this printer is supported in versions 0.95 or
newer, and the current version of hplip is 3.11.5. ubuntu already has
the 3.11 branch... it'd be a very outdated distro indeed that did not
support this printer with the hplip package already in the repo.
i vote for hardware
On 07/13/2011 07:31 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 05:49:02PM -0700, nathan w wrote:
>> On 07/13/2011 07:13 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
>>> Who here using Boxee and what kind of hardware do you have it installed on?
>>>
>>
>> i use b
On 07/13/2011 07:13 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> Who here using Boxee and what kind of hardware do you have it installed on?
>
i use boxee on my laptop, and i also purchased the D-Link Boxee box.
question?
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On 07/06/2011 12:10 AM, nathan w wrote:
> there's been enough buzz around ipv6 lately that i figured i'd better
> start playing with it right away to be fully prepared for later.
>
> i got a tunnel from hurricane electric, and set up my nas with radvd to
> lease out a
t the routed traffic...
any advice on what may be going wrong?
thanks in advance,
nathan w
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ases was an 8 DVD
box-set of Charlie Chaplin flicks, which i'm fairly sure is old enough
to be out of copyright, and could certainly have been obtained for free.
yet i paid happily for the convenience and charm of a full set with the
liner notes intact.
your rules sound good to me as well,
On 06/06/2011 07:05 PM, nathan w wrote:
> Maybe a quick php script to send mail to the sms gateway for the phone
> providers? I can send sms msgs from email via 5038675...@sms.sprint.com...
> most other phone carriers offer the same service, u just have to research
> what the sm
Maybe a quick php script to send mail to the sms gateway for the phone
providers? I can send sms msgs from email via 5038675...@sms.sprint.com... most
other phone carriers offer the same service, u just have to research what the
sms gateway is, and know the carrier for each number in your group.
ising
storage devices connected through USB, even if it doesn't recognise the
exact device type.
hope that helps somewhat.
nathan w
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On 05/13/2011 08:59 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2011 08:41:59 -0700
> Marvin Kosmal dijo:
>
>>> Try this:
>>>
>>> http://www.coolutils.com/Formats/EML
>
>> That is a DOS/Windows executable. I don't run Wine..
>>
>> That was the problem I was having.. There are A LOT of sites, wh
On 04/28/2011 06:37 AM, wes wrote:
>>
>>
>> If anyone who regularly attends the PLUG Sunday Linux Clinics is
>> reading this thread, I'd be curious to know how
>> many people are showing up with netbooks and asking about some of the
>> more obscure distros like Arch. It's always fun to sit
>> at ho
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:01:46 -0700 John Jason Jordan wrote
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:23:22 -0700
> "Nathan W" dijo:
>
> >there's gonna be a shindig on Saturday at Backspace in downtown PDX
> >for the Natty release.
> >
> >more info at:
>
harge cover at the
door, but just tell them you're with Ubuntu Oregon and you can get in for free.
hope to see you there!
nathan w
note: this may belong on plug-announce but i wasn't sure if that list is
strictly for plug events.
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:02:03 -0700 Aaron Burt wrote
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:44:41PM -0700, Robert Kopp wrote:
> > This televised application doesn't seem to work with Ubuntu. I downloaded
> > MaxMySpeed.exe and set the execute bit to make it executable under WINE. It
> >
> > loads, runs brie
On 04/23/2011 09:55 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> Regarding the problem of web pages that work on my Linux install of
> Apache and php, but not on my XP install of Apache and php:
>
> It was too nice a day to be indoors, so I didn't get to do any testing
> until this evening.
>
> I created simpl
hey all,
i'm sure most folks who have been paying moderately close attention
already know that gnome 3 was officially released today, but i hadn't
seen anyone bring it up, but in case you've been living under a rock...
hey! gnome 3 wasl released today!
i've been using it in the fedora 15 alpha
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard
wrote
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
>
> > Just discovered a problem with my web site..
> > If I enter www.website.info I get the correct stuff
> > If I enter website.info I get another one of my sites not the right one.
>
>
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 23:32 -0700, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> I'm getting email from fili_o...@yahoo.com .
>
> The emails include lovely pictures of a woman who claims to be Russian.
>
> So far, all I have to go on is that I have received a few emails from
> this person, bot, whatever where the
On 03/15/2011 09:24 AM, Michael wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> nathan w wrote:
>> On 03/14/2011 07:44 PM, nathan w wrote:
>>> the engineering department i work in has been tasked with
> retrieving
>>> registrar data for ~22K domains, as quickly as
>
On 03/14/2011 07:44 PM, nathan w wrote:
> the engineering department i work in has been tasked with retrieving
> registrar data for ~22K domains, as quickly as possible. (i'm not at
> liberty to discuss the details, except to say that it's for our legal dept.)
>
> automa
the engineering department i work in has been tasked with retrieving
registrar data for ~22K domains, as quickly as possible. (i'm not at
liberty to discuss the details, except to say that it's for our legal dept.)
automating the process of whois lookups and regex'ing the registrar name
is fair
On 03/11/2011 05:59 PM, wes wrote:
> I hate netgear and linksys seems to generally get better over time. I'm
> unthrilled with the way cisco (which owns linksys now) kind of shirked their
> open source responsibilities, but that doesn't change that the hardware
> works well.
>
> For clearer perspec
On 03/11/2011 01:24 PM, Kevin K wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What irc server and channel(s) do you all recommend for general linux
> geekery? does plug have a channel anywhere?
>
> thanks,
> kevin
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On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 10:55:54 -0800 "Wayne E. Van Loon Sr."
wrote
> My mistake:
> I was looking at the top of the list thinking that would be the more
> recent and didn't even check the bottom.
> Thanks Nathan.
> Wayne
easy mistake to make, i was thinking maybe you were looking at one of the othe
orly? i see msgs from yesterday evening... try this link instead.
http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug-talk/2011-March/date.html
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 09:21:32 -0800 "Wayne E. Van Loon Sr."
wrote
> I was kind of wanting to look for something recent on the PLUG-talk
> list, but don't want to s
i recently had to turn dma off for my wlan... not sure if an ide
controller's going to take the same approach, so ymmv. somehow showing
sounds easier than trying to explain in english this early...
[nathwill@asgard ~]$ cd /etc/modprobe.d/
[nathwill@asgard modprobe.d]$ cat openfwwf.conf
options b
On 02/08/2011 01:05 PM, Alex Young wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Daniel Herrington<
> dherring...@robertmarktech.com> wrote:
>
>> I use a Verizon usb dongle (USB727) on my laptop (Ubuntu 10.04) when
>> traveling. Not sure if that's 3G or not. I think it's pretty good. I've
>> only had
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:01:55 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard
wrote
> When I log in to the system some messages flash on the console before I
> get the user prompt. One of these messages is a warning of something not as
> it should be. These log in messages are not in /var/log/messages. Where can
> I fin
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 15:49 -0800, Tim wrote:
> > Which method of blocking large numbers of IPs is the least consumptive
> > of system resources?
>
> iptables is most likely more efficient, though it may be harder to
> manage. I also am not sure how well it scales when you have thousands
> of
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 15:49 -0800, Tim wrote:
> > Which method of blocking large numbers of IPs is the least consumptive
> > of system resources?
>
> iptables is most likely more efficient, though it may be harder to
> manage. I also am not sure how well it scales when you have thousands
> of
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:36:22 -0800
David Mandel wrote:
> Two different groups in two different states have recently ask:
>
> Who are the top 10 interesting entrepreneur + open source companies
> in PDX?
>
> Anyone have any candidates?
>
> Sincerely,
> David Mandel
> Chief Activist
> Po
hi folks,
a little background. the system is a qnap turbostation i flashed debian
arm onto. just fidgeting around (i never learn better...) i install
blockcontrol and moblock, at which point i quit being able to mount nfs
share on the LAN (this despite having all LAN traffic whitelisted in
blockco
ctest==$targetmac ]
then
case "$2" in
up)
$upcommand
;;
down)
$downcommand
;;
esac
fi
exit $?
note: i normally wouldn'
ideas?
i'd be happy to join in on something like this, and i'm also a big fan
of warbooting (rebooting demo models in retail shops to run from live
disc, then walking away), though there's not many companies that smile
on this practice. :)
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utput:
hdparm -t /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing buffered disk reads:4 MB in 5.50 seconds = 745.40 kB/sec
which is right in range with the maximum speeds i'm seeing. seems i've
found the bottleneck. if anyone has pointers from here on ways to
improve this, i'd be stoked, though i have a feeling this may be due to
crappy old USB ports.
ty much for your assistance.
regards,
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I have a home network running off a linksys wrt54g2 (802.11g) router,
and file transfers between pc's on the network over NFS are only getting
~6.5Mb/s...
my understanding is that though 802.11g theoretically supports ~54Mb/s,
that real world experience is around 20Mb/s avg. As there's no other
t
bios to boot from your SATA drive,
you should be able to access the IDE hard drive as a data drive, and not
booting from it.
regards,
nathan w
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On 08/06/2010 11:39 PM, Russell Johnson wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Someone wrote:
>
>
>> I like .pri as a TLD for a private network. I can't tell though if pri
>> is a global TLD or not. I suppose I could use my registered domain name
>> instead of ending private addresses with pri.
Hi everyone,
Thanks for all of your constructive feedback! I've fixed all the
detected errors, added the requested features, for now I'm sticking w/
links opening in the same window... if further discussion concludes that
people disagree, i'd be willing to change it, but my feeling is that the
> Nice looking website. Please check the history page. The first two
> paragraphs are repeated and the fifth paragraph need attention, too.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Stephens
> CAD 2 CAM
wow, thanks for pointing that out, not sure how that happened... fixed
locally, will push out to the dev site with
Support& Hosting since 1995 http://www.tocici.com
>
> - Gregg Berkholtz
> Solid IT Support& Hosting Since 1995: www.tocici.com
> Small Parts Design& Machining: www.berkholtz.net
>
added! thanks for the contribution! i am a big fan
http://nathanewilliams.com/projects/pdxlinux/wiki
>> i've already crash-tested by moving it cross domain and cross-directory
>> after the install and set-up, so this should be a vurry resilient wiki :D
>>
>> yay for the dokuwiki team, i might have to buy a shirt.
>&
pdating the site.
http://pastebin.org/384933
alternatively, this could go into a wiki article, but then i don't know
what i'd put into side-nav... maybe a local it jobs rss feed or something...
thanks for your continued patience and advice/opinions folk
On 07/04/2010 07:40 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> Thanks for the work, Nathan. It's a nice, clean look -- albeit quite
> wordpress-y -- that's easy to understand at a glance.
>
>> regarding WordPress. it is a really nice CMS for getting things set
>> up quickly and making maintenance easy for groups t
On 07/03/2010 11:16 AM, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> Nathan W wrote:
>> looking for feedback on the ongoing dev, ... please review and comment as i
>> am losing
>> momentum w/o some confirmation that what's being presented here would be
>> agreeable to the group
looking for feedback on the ongoing dev, only 1 section and a little
clean-up left, then i'll be putting a .tar.gz file online for whoever's
got FTP access to the webhost. please review and comment as i am losing
momentum w/o some confirmation that what's being presented here would be
agreeable
On 06/29/2010 06:58 PM, Nathan W wrote:
> posting this here in the hope someone may catch something i'm missing.
>
> i'm trying to teach myself rsync, as the other backup solutions i'd been
> using don't do diff's, and thus take too long to backup. i've
On 06/29/2010 06:58 PM, Nathan W wrote:
> posting this here in the hope someone may catch something i'm missing.
>
> i'm trying to teach myself rsync, as the other backup solutions i'd been
> using don't do diff's, and thus take too long to backup. i've
posting this here in the hope someone may catch something i'm missing.
i'm trying to teach myself rsync, as the other backup solutions i'd been
using don't do diff's, and thus take too long to backup. i've come up w/
a functional backup to backup from my laptop to our home network server,
but i
so here's what i'm after:
i have a home file/print/ssh server, looking to add calendaring
functionality so my fiance and i can manage calendars and share our
appointments with each other.
i had installed and configured davical (caldav server) which works
brilliantly with evolution on my linux bo
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 12:30 -0700, Victor Soich wrote:
> The above three items are check boxes and they were all initially
> checked. I unchecked them all. Then
> I tried to check them all again. I am able to check "Installed
> Add-ons", and I am able to check "Search
> Engines". I am not able
mailing list if that would make things easier...
looking forward to your inputs.
- nathan w
"Bona profundere Deum est"
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Though putting the dollars into linux products has obvious social benefits;
there's always the sysadmin's "song of last resort"
fdisk, format, reinstall
Doo da, doo da...
I hear cruncheee and eeebuntu are well suited for these ventures.
Though not an Asus device, one that's intrigued me is the
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