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Matthew Walker wrote:
> On Thu, December 11, 2008 4:08 pm, Brandon Stout wrote:
>>> I recently ran powertop on a laptop and noticed that the webcam and
>>> bluetooth devices (both of which are connected via an internal USB hub),
>>> are always on. The
On Thu, December 11, 2008 4:08 pm, Brandon Stout wrote:
>> I recently ran powertop on a laptop and noticed that the webcam and
>> bluetooth devices (both of which are connected via an internal USB hub),
>> are always on. They are both sucking power, and the webcam is also
>> hitting the CPU with a
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Andrew McNabb wrote:
> I recently ran powertop on a laptop and noticed that the webcam and
> bluetooth devices (both of which are connected via an internal USB hub),
> are always on. They are both sucking power, and the webcam is also
> hitting the C
--- On Thu, 12/11/08, Doran L. Barton wrote:
> And what topics could you use to professionally grow?
Offhand, how about:
- Geographic distribution for applications -- particularly
- Partitioning users between data centers,
- Data replication between data centers, and
- Failover, in case so
Nicholas Leippe wrote:
> The feeling I get from the plug, is that most of us here are compentent, very
> resourceful people, and getting help from someone else is usually a last
> resort--we've already researched for ourselves and hit dead ends. Or, we know
> the research is going to be long an
Some more ideas:
- lighttpd
- djbdns
- qmail
- assp
- kvm
- livecd/bootable usb creation
- nagios alternatives, what are they, can we see demos,
example configs, scalability/usability comparisons...
(my relationship with nagios is a love/hate, with mostly hate)
small tricks/advanced topics:
-
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Josh Coates wrote:
> yeah, i thought google had a solution - but i dont *think* they do. i
> signed up and got instantly confused, redirected and sent between google
> sites, google page creator and google apps and back and forth and kept
> getting 404 errors on
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Hans Fugal wrote:
> For me, it would take a plane ticket, but pretending I lived nearby...
... generous snip
> Oh, and I know a failsafe way to keep people far away from meetings:
> talk about how to get more people to come to the meetings every time.
>
> There'
>
>
>
> I'm confused now. All I want to know is whether I can have a Google
> Site that is transparently under my own domain name.
>
>
>
yeah, i thought google had a solution - but i dont *think* they do. i
signed up and got instantly confused, redirected and sent between google
sites, google pag
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:36:48PM -0500, Daniel C. wrote:
> I'm confused now. All I want to know is whether I can have a Google
> Site that is transparently under my own domain name.
Yes, you can. You can have your own email hosted by Gmail, your own
"jabber" chat through GTalk, and just about e
I do not believe so.
-Will
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Daniel C. wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Spencer Gibb wrote:
> > You can sign up for google apps just for sites though, you don't have to
> use
> > it for email, etc...
>
> I'm confused now. All I want to know is whether I
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Daniel C. wrote:
> I'm confused now. All I want to know is whether I can have a Google
> Site that is transparently under my own domain name.
You can you just have to sign up through google apps
http://www.google.com/apps
It's a service google offers stand al
On Thu, December 11, 2008 11:36 am, Daniel C. wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Spencer Gibb wrote:
>> You can sign up for google apps just for sites though, you don't have to use
>> it for email, etc...
>
> I'm confused now. All I want to know is whether I can have a Google
> Site that
For me, it would take a plane ticket, but pretending I lived nearby...
Doran L. Barton wrote:
> There was some discussion after last night's awesome SELinux presentation by
> Stuart Jansen (don't worry- we'll be making the audio and video available)
> about what gets people out to a PLUG meetin
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:19:54AM -0700, Kyle Waters wrote:
> Aaron, you should email the sllug people about a bind meeting :)
At a request of another, I'm willing to present to SLLUG on DNS or
packet filtering (or both), as I offered the same to PLUG. If
interested, let me know.
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Spencer Gibb wrote:
> You can sign up for google apps just for sites though, you don't have to use
> it for email, etc...
I'm confused now. All I want to know is whether I can have a Google
Site that is transparently under my own domain name.
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Matthew Walker wrote:
> Outside Google Apps, you have to use their domain.
>
You can sign up for google apps just for sites though, you don't have to use
it for email, etc...
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On Thu, December 11, 2008 11:27 am, Spencer Gibb wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Daniel C. wrote:
>
>> That's pretty cool. Do they let you use your own URL, or does it have
>> to be sites.google.com/whatever?
>
>
> I use it with google apps and can use whatever URL I want. I haven't
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Doran L. Barton wrote:
> There was some discussion after last night's awesome SELinux presentation by
> Stuart Jansen (don't worry- we'll be making the audio and video available)
> about what gets people out to a PLUG meeting, or, more generally speaking,
> what g
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Daniel C. wrote:
> That's pretty cool. Do they let you use your own URL, or does it have
> to be sites.google.com/whatever?
I use it with google apps and can use whatever URL I want. I haven't used
it outside of google apps.
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Spencer Gibb wrote:
> What he describes is exactly what Google Sites is.
>
> http://www.google.com/sites/overview.html
That's pretty cool. Do they let you use your own URL, or does it have
to be sites.google.com/whatever?
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On Thursday 11 December 2008 11:04:01 am William Attwood wrote:
> Thanks, Aaron. We should get you signed up for one of the upcoming events.
> Another idea is to hand out a Cheat Sheet with items that are being
> discussed, and examples. Maybe, for Bind, there can be a printout of the
> different
William Attwood wrote:
I found that even though Omniture offered the XBox 360 and Rock Band, barely
anyone would go in and use it. Seems like gaming is more for those who know
one another; when we go to meetings, some of us don't know others. It might
work to do a little bit of a social time be
I found that even though Omniture offered the XBox 360 and Rock Band, barely
anyone would go in and use it. Seems like gaming is more for those who know
one another; when we go to meetings, some of us don't know others. It might
work to do a little bit of a social time before the meeting goes on;
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Doran L. Barton wrote:
> I imagine there's a certain portion of the pseudo-membership that would be
> attracted to gaming-related events. Would a meeting about Linux as a gaming
> client/server/platform be attractive?
No.
> Would more people come to other meetin
Thanks, Aaron. We should get you signed up for one of the upcoming events.
Another idea is to hand out a Cheat Sheet with items that are being
discussed, and examples. Maybe, for Bind, there can be a printout of the
different configuration options and their meanings/options, that way after
the me
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:42:44AM -0700, William Attwood wrote:
> IPTables
> -- How to use it, and why
> -- Is it secure?
>
> Bind
> -- Setting up and administering a DNS system for your network
> -- Configuring your DNS server as a primary resource, and the WWW as a
> secondary for your internal
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:37:38AM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote:
> How about this then:
>
> After using Google Docs just once, I broke out in a rash and had to take
> antibiotics for three weeks. Now I can't prove that Google was
> responsible. I'm just saying...
Now, that's just lame. Sorry- could
Nagios-- Basic Setup
-- Basic Administration
-- Hosts, Commands, Plug Ins
-- Using NRPE for Remote Monitoring
-- Logging all updates to a Database
-- Graphing based on above logging to troubleshoot errors after they happen
(random load spikes, Disk I/O, swap usage due to a horrid cron job at 2am)
What he describes is exactly what Google Sites is.
http://www.google.com/sites/overview.html
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On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 10:28 -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:23:40PM -0500, Daniel C. wrote:
> > Because that would be lame. He wants a web site, not just a mishmash
> > of "word" documents.
>
> Yet he described exactly what Google Docs provides, and "lame" isn't
> exactly
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Aaron Toponce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yet he described exactly what Google Docs provides, and "lame" isn't
> exactly a good argument for not using the service.
He said he wants a web site. A collection of Google Docs is a lame
excuse for a web site. Technic
On Thursday 11 December 2008 10:10:55 William Attwood wrote:
> Really, the subject matter and location are the two most important items
> for me to attend. If it's something that I can use to professionally grow,
> and, it's a decent location, I'll attend.
And what topics could you use to profess
On Thursday 11 December 2008 10:05:31 Stuart Jansen wrote:
> What type of food is most likely to induce you to attend meetings? Are
> you one of those boring people who wants pizza? Or are you wise enough
> to recognize the superiority of cookies and warm milk?
I imagine there's a certain portion
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:23:40PM -0500, Daniel C. wrote:
> Because that would be lame. He wants a web site, not just a mishmash
> of "word" documents.
Yet he described exactly what Google Docs provides, and "lame" isn't
exactly a good argument for not using the service.
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Aaron Toponce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe I'm over-simplifying, but why not just use Google Docs in this
> case?
Because that would be lame. He wants a web site, not just a mishmash
of "word" documents.
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:36:47AM -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote:
>
> The core USB modules in Fedora are:
>
> uhci-hcd.ko - USB 1.1 for Intel/VIA
> ohci-hcd.ko - USB 1.1 for everyone else
> ehci-hcd.ko - USB 2.0 for all
Oddly, I don't have any of these modules loaded, even when USB is active
(altho
Really, the subject matter and location are the two most important items for
me to attend. If it's something that I can use to professionally grow, and,
it's a decent location, I'll attend.
-Will
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Doran L. Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> There was some discussi
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 09:53 -0700, Doran L. Barton wrote:
> Anything else we discussed last night that I'm failing to include in
> this petition?
What type of food is most likely to induce you to attend meetings? Are
you one of those boring people who wants pizza? Or are you wise enough
to recogn
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:05:29AM -0700, Matthew Walker wrote:
>
> Wouldn't that stop all USB devices from functioning though? I doubt that's
> what he wants.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm at a loss for any other solution, so this may be the only
> choice.
It looks like you can do something like thi
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:04:57AM -0700, Josh Coates wrote:
Maybe I'm over-simplifying, but why not just use Google Docs in this
case? You can share you docs with family or friends, or make them
public. Everything is already setup for you, and adding stuff is easier
than changing your underwear (w
You said you Dont want blog software but sounds luke wordpress pages
would do exactly what you want. You can use wordpress as a light cms
for small sites. It works great.
On Dec 11, 2008, at 8:04, "Josh Coates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i'm looking for something, and it's a difficult thin
There was some discussion after last night's awesome SELinux presentation by
Stuart Jansen (don't worry- we'll be making the audio and video available)
about what gets people out to a PLUG meeting, or, more generally speaking,
what gets people more involved in the user group.
One of the questi
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 08:04 -0700, Josh Coates wrote:
> i want to build a simple website that is made up of articles in a single
> level hierarchy. these articles should be easy to create and edit (where
> 'easy' means something like a wiki markup language).
http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/
If
On 12/11/2008 09:08 AM, Josh Coates wrote:
drupal looks like a little complicated (ie. apache, mysql, blah blah, where
tiddlywiki's single file is the comparison) and "bloggy" and multi-user
oriented, but i'll give install it and see how painful it is to slim down to
do what i want.
I forgot
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:22:06AM -0700, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> In Fedora, it looks like they must compile USB in to the kernel, since
> I'm not seeing any USB-related modules in lsmod.
>
> I was worried that the keyboard and trackpad might be attached to USB,
> but it looks like they aren't. So
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:05:29AM -0700, Matthew Walker wrote:
>
> On Thu, December 11, 2008 8:57 am, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> > What distro? In Debian/Ubuntu, you can just unload the 'usbcore' module
> > or blacklist it. Placing it in your /etc/modprobe.conf or
> > /etc/modprobe.d/ should suffice.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Josh Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> any other suggestions plug peoples?
You can wait for me to finish Raskalnokov, which is a project designed
to do exactly what you're looking for. The only drawback is that I'm
on a Paul Grahamsian timeline with it.
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> Drupal does exactly that. Makes a simple site with a navigation tree
> possible for almost anybody. You still have to do some HTML inside the
> content you create, but drupal can take care of the rest of the layout.
>
>
drupal looks like a little complicated (ie. apache, mysql, blah blah, where
On Thu, December 11, 2008 8:57 am, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> What distro? In Debian/Ubuntu, you can just unload the 'usbcore' module
> or blacklist it. Placing it in your /etc/modprobe.conf or
> /etc/modprobe.d/ should suffice.
Wouldn't that stop all USB devices from functioning though? I doubt that
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:34:27AM -0700, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> I recently ran powertop on a laptop and noticed that the webcam and
> bluetooth devices (both of which are connected via an internal USB hub),
> are always on. They are both sucking power, and the webcam is also
> hitting the CPU wit
I recently ran powertop on a laptop and noticed that the webcam and
bluetooth devices (both of which are connected via an internal USB hub),
are always on. They are both sucking power, and the webcam is also
hitting the CPU with a constant stream of interrupts. Since I'm not
using them, I would l
On 12/11/2008 08:04 AM, Josh Coates wrote:
then there are like 5 millions CMS software packages - but geesh, what a
mess that is.
any ideas? or do i have to built it myself (which i really, really, really
don't want to have to do - i'm a lousy web dev and it doesn't sound fun at
all.)
Drupa
i'm looking for something, and it's a difficult thing to search for, so i
thought i'd ask plug.
i want to build a simple website that is made up of articles in a single
level hierarchy. these articles should be easy to create and edit (where
'easy' means something like a wiki markup language).
e
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