Re: OpenWest key-signing party questions

2017-07-11 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 08:26:50AM -0600, Matt plug.org wrote: > I'm trying to wrap my head around the PGP key-signing idea, as I'd like to > participate tomorrow at OpenWest, but I've never really used PGP before. The party is technically Thursday at 17:00.

Re: Server OS

2015-03-04 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 02:01:10PM -0700, Doug Hales wrote: I recently was told by a hardware vendor that Debian is typically used for clients, and CentOS is commonly used for servers. I haven't heard this before, but I suppose there's some truth to it if you take into account all Debian based

Re: Server OS

2015-03-04 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 09:29:51PM +, Lonnie Olson wrote: However, I disagree with your example of Ubuntu. It may be based on Debian testing, but it gets as much focus as Debian stable. Has long term service releases that are supported for 5 years. Can be supported professionally by

Re: Server OS

2015-03-04 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 04:20:26PM -0700, Tod Hansmann wrote: I hear this point a lot, and I find it extremely lacking. Stable and buggy are ambiguous terms, and if we want stability of any extreme definition (like security or conservative in change), we should be talking about BSD or

Re: ZFS on Linux Presentaiton?

2013-07-31 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:42:41PM -0300, Geraldo Netto wrote: I'd come too Aaron except that i live in São Paulo, Brazil :P So, may i ask you to share your presentation on slideshare/add-here-your-preferred-slideshare-alike-site? :P No. I put all my slides at

ZFS on Linux Presentaiton?

2013-07-30 Thread Aaron Toponce
If there is any interest, I would be willing to give a 2 hour presentation about ZFS on Linux. Let me know. -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o o o o . o . . o o o o . o o o pgp0jUFL908HF.pgp Description: PGP signature /* PLUG:

Re: Personal Cloud (was: Did Ed Snowden do the right thing?)

2013-06-12 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:15:08AM -0600, Ryan Moore wrote: On this topic, is anyone familiar with how TOR or Tails could be affected by PRISM or other surveillance techniques? If you control both an entry node and an exit node, the whole Tor system is defeated. You can see which IPs are

Re: OT: Tor Project

2013-03-19 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 04:55:52PM -0600, Eric Olsen wrote: I haven't, but my ISP (XMission) used to have an exit router themselves. It used to be anon.xmission.com, but I don't see it now. I haven't inquired about it, but I wonder if they experienced similar problems to Richard and had to

Re: OT: Tor Project

2013-03-19 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 02:54:03PM -0700, Nathan England wrote: Just curious if any of you have run tor relays for others to use and what network you are on. Have you contacted your ISP to get permission??? What was their response? I ran a middle node on my Comcast connection for years, and

Re: March Meeting: GlusterFS (Aaron Toponce)

2013-03-18 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 04:39:17PM -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote: I should also mention that there is some possibility that I will not be there. My dad is fighting cancer, and his prognosis is days to weeks. It's very possible that I could be dealing with funeral arrangements on this night. If I

Re: March Meeting: GlusterFS (Aaron Toponce)

2013-03-08 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 12:14:33PM -0700, Steve Meyers wrote: Date: Tuesday, March 19th, 2013 Time: 7:30 PM Location: UVU Business Resource Center Presenter: Aaron Toponce I should also mention that there is some possibility that I will not be there. My dad is fighting cancer, and his

Re: March Meeting: GlusterFS (Aaron Toponce)

2013-03-06 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 12:14:33PM -0700, Steve Meyers wrote: GlusterFS is setup using servers and clients, where clients use the FUSE driver to communicate with the servers. Servers communicate with each other, and are setup via exporting bricks to the cluster. It uses eventual

Re: vim YAML highlighting

2012-12-15 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 05:50:45PM -0700, Daniel Fussell wrote: Nevermind, I just found it. My modeline setting filetype=yaml was after the 5th line. As noted in /usr/share/vim/vim73/debian.vim, Debian disables executing the modeline, citing security concerns. So, for Debian, you must :set

Re: User group downturn?

2012-12-04 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 04:54:56PM -0700, Dave Smith wrote: I've been thinking a lot lately about the downturn in user group meeting attendance and mailing list participation over the last few years. Today I graphed Plug's mailing list activity from 2005 to present (messages per month), and

Re: FW: Overstock Software Developer Openings

2012-07-24 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 06:19:59PM -0600, Sasha Pachev wrote: We have a tradition of posting flames on the PLUG list when somebody posts a job. I must admit I have never been tempted to participate in this tradition until now. But this was just too much to resist: Ah yes, the fanboi flame

FW: Overstock Software Developer Openings

2012-07-19 Thread Aaron Toponce
...@gmail.com To: Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com Subject: Overstock Software Developer Openings *Position:* Software Developer II *Location:* Salt Lake City, UT *Job Id:* sdii *# of Openings:* 1 -- Company: Overstock.com, Inc. is an online retailer

Re: [uug] next cpu for virtualization

2012-05-12 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 03:20:23PM -0600, Daniel Fussell wrote: Does anyone have any experience with the new Opterons that can confirm if they are DOA performance-wise? Or does recompiling with special gcc flags to optimize the multiply ordering restore AMD's standing for threaded server

Re: no degree impedes climbing the ladder, was Re: mysql issue

2012-02-10 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:22:36AM -0700, Steve Alligood wrote: You find that having no degree still impedes your rise up the ladder? Yes. Not just degrees, but credentials in general. If you're already with an existing company, these credentials might not mean much to your employer for

Re: Recommendations wanted: external USB hard drive

2011-12-14 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 03:29:41PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: I don't trust the three external USB hard drives I have now and use for backups, so I am looking at replacing them. I need: 1 terabyte (or larger) USB 2 or 3 No external power supply; must be powered from the USB bus. I would

Re: Impossible Laptop

2011-11-18 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:59:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: I'll stick with Lenovos. My R51 is still going strong. http://charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html. My T61 (BIOS dated 07/01/2008) is doing fine. Both run Ubuntu and Debian just fine, but require proprietary bits for the wireless

Re: Impossible Laptop

2011-11-18 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:45:12PM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: My T61p is starting to show its age, but I'm having a hard time finding a replacement. Is it simply not possible to find a great laptop anymore? The T-serios of Lenovo ThinkPads are still top-notch. I have the T520, and it's one

Re: Impossible Laptop

2011-11-18 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 03:09:58PM -0700, Levi Pearson wrote: I don't get the love for Lenovo laptops. * Superior Linux kernel support for a lot of their hardware. * Titanium roll cages in the display lid. * Consistent, regular, frequent BIOS updates for many years. * They don't look like they

Re: 32 vs 64 bit today?

2011-08-14 Thread Aaron Toponce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Stuart Jansen sjan...@buscaluz.org wrote: On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 06:14 -0600, S. Dale Morrey wrote: I just wanted to take a quick poll and ask what the current state of the whole 32 vs 64 bit thing is now days when it comes to distros. I remember

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-07-08 Thread Aaron Toponce
LinkedIn Provo, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Aaron Aaron Toponce System Administrator at SAIC Greater Salt Lake City Area Confirm that you know Aaron Toponce https://www.linkedin.com/e/-uxqdca-gpvevf70-3y/isd/3474593239/x3-oWTt7/ -- (c

Re: Osama Bin Laden Dead? Something smells fishy.

2011-05-03 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:48:02AM -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: Killing bin Laden is not really a victory in the war on terror so much as it is a necessary closure for the collective psyche of the USA. It is probably too much to hope for that this will represent a point where we can turn

Re: An attack on an American citizen and the spin of the media.

2011-04-26 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:46:19PM -0600, Steven Morrey wrote: The media spin on this? Secure your wifi. Secure your wifi? Are you serious? Ok lets think about this for a minute, none of the encryption standards currently used by commercially available home routers are really designed as

Re: An attack on an American citizen and the spin of the media.

2011-04-26 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 04:20:56PM +0300, Daniel C. wrote: Isn't the real issue here that wifi encryption doesn't actually prevent people from using your connection to get online? If it offered real security it would be a different matter, but if you encrypt/lock down/whatever your wifi and

Re: An attack on an American citizen and the spin of the media.

2011-04-26 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 04:46:13PM +0300, Daniel C. wrote: I agree that this is the best course of action for an individual. But the original email was meant to discuss the way that the police handled themselves. Surely you don't find what they did acceptable? Of course. The police were out

Re: An attack on an American citizen and the spin of the media.

2011-04-26 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:09:26AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:33:13 -0600 Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com wrote: and I won't have to worry about SWAT kicking down my door. Not entirely. * SWAT and cops in general are not noted for computer literacy

Re: An attack on an American citizen and the spin of the media.

2011-04-26 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:32:28AM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote: Well, it only takes a single 0 pass to sufficiently make the data unrecoverable w/o extremely expensive forensics (you will have to use a microscope directly on the platter and attempt to read residual signal levels--which will

Re: An attack on an American citizen and the spin of the media.

2011-04-26 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 07:39:42PM +0300, Daniel C. wrote: Is it really all that matters to you, full stop, end of story? Or is it all that matters to you enough to get you to actually take action? Obviously not everyone cares enough to actually write their congressman (or what have you) but

Re: An attack on an American citizen and the spin of the media.

2011-04-26 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:03:35PM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote: My conclusion is that if your data is so valuable that whoever, if anyone, has this capability would be willing to use it to get your data, then, and only then is a single 0s pass insufficient to destroy your data while leaving

Re: [OT] Why the password this is fun is 10x more secure than J4fS2

2011-04-26 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:49:36AM -0600, Eric Wald wrote: Over 25,000 reasonable straight-line passwords; double that to include spirals. Certainly with range for a dictionary attack, but it would take long enough that I could re-print the card, print a new card, and change all of my most

Re: [OT] Why the password this is fun is 10x more secure than J4fS2

2011-04-26 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:31:27PM -0600, Joel Finlinson wrote: I like the passwordcard idea..but how do you remember which password goes to which account? Get another card? Easy. You set up a mental map on where the password starts. For example. Say you want to use this card with your

Re: [OT] Why the password this is fun is 10x more secure than J4fS2

2011-04-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 4/16/2011 11:43 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote: Would you actually advise the public to write down their passwords, knowing that people leave their wallets or purses unattended quite frequently? Stealing a written password requires only a glance or a camera. There could easily be no evidence

Re: [OT] Why the password this is fun is 10x more secure than J4fS2

2011-04-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 01:15:18PM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but if your passwordcard is stolen it yields a rather small dictionary for an attack on your accounts. Better than plain text, but still not very secure--enough so that I'm not sure it's worth it.

[kerstin.mo...@rht.com: Linux Administrators Needed for Cloud Computing!]

2011-01-14 Thread Aaron Toponce
I've been in contact back-and-forth with this recruiter for some time. She's determined to get me hired on with someone, somewhere. At any rate, she called me and asked if I knew anyone looking for a Linux-based job. I didn't know of any off hand, but promised to forward this to OALUG and PLUG, so

Re: [kerstin.mo...@rht.com: Linux Administrators Needed for Cloud Computing!]

2011-01-14 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:23:49PM -0700, Alex Esplin wrote: That sounds an awful lot like my company... Any name for this mystery employer? If it is, and anyone is interested, I can make sure your resume gets to the right person. I asked and the response I got was that she's keeping it

Re: [OT] [RANT] Gitting Backwards

2010-12-22 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 09:11:53AM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: Sorry, I've gotta agree with AJ here. All the cool kids are using github these days. If you're not using github, you're either lame or dead. Either way, you might as well not exist. You remind me a lot of my dad. When we would go

Re: Internet

2010-11-17 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 11/17/2010 1:17 PM, Jacob Albretsen wrote: Pfffttt. Chuck Norris wears Jack Bauer pajamas. Chuck Norris is the apprentice to Vladimir Putin. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O signature.asc Description:

Breaking Mailing List Threads (Was: Re: Internet)

2010-11-16 Thread Aaron Toponce
I know I've brought this up before, but when you reply to the list, you break the subject thread, and I'm sure I'm the only one who doesn't find it highly annoying. IIRC, you mentioned that you just read the digests, but you reply often enough that I would think you should just fully subscribe to

Re: Breaking Mailing List Threads (Was: Re: Internet)

2010-11-16 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 11/16/2010 2:58 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: Lost cause. The needs of the individual always outweigh the needs of the many. Speaking from experience? :) -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O signature.asc

Re: RE airport security (was Re: Breaking Mailing List Threads (Was: Re: Internet))

2010-11-16 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 11/16/2010 5:00 PM, Richard Esplin wrote: I think we might have wandered a wee bit off topic. juvenile smirk /me looks at the subject line -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O signature.asc Description:

Re: scripting languages

2010-11-09 Thread Aaron Toponce
From: Eric Hamilton dil...@dilvie.com JavaScript is The Most Important Programming Language on Earth - http://ericleads.com/2010/10/javascript-revolution/ Reads heavily like a press release loaded with buzzwords and fanboy-ism. To use JavaScript as a server side administrative scripting

Re: scripting languages

2010-11-09 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 03:29:53AM -0700, Levi Pearson wrote: Brendan Eich and the supporters of the JavaScript (initially called LiveScript) at Netscape were big fans of Scheme, which is actually how they lured Eich in to work on it. This is why it manages to be a pretty decent language

Re: scripting languages

2010-11-08 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:23:24AM -0700, Victor Villa wrote: As I learn Bash i'm finding more and more that knowledge of a scripting language is needed, though i'm seeing some talk about PERL and some talk Python. If my work environment really hasn't taken advantage of a scripting language

Re: scripting languages

2010-11-08 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 02:02:28PM -0700, Kyle Waters wrote: Since we've gone this route, my company need to pick a new scripting language. We are currently using qbasic. We are switching to perl. There was some thought of python but we settled on perl, just felt it worked better for our

Re: Bringing in the Sheep: the FireSheep firestorm

2010-11-06 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 11/4/10 9:00 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: Well even if you run your own version of firefox, if the public computer has a keyboard logger, all bets are still off. After seeing hacked Gmail accounts even for tech savy folks such as inhabit this list, I've about decided that logging into any

Re: Bringing in the Sheep: the FireSheep firestorm

2010-11-04 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 01:09:54PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: I haven't seen any discussion of FireSheep here. http://www.charlescurley.com/blog/archives/2010/11/04/bringing_in_the_sheep/index.html It's reasons like this I've always used a secure proxy when connected on a public LAN, wifi

Re: Debian 5 Minimal Cd

2010-10-20 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 10/19/2010 10:41 PM, Nano Micro wrote: I have a question, I've setup a debian 5 server using minimal cd. can you give me the sources for debian 5 for me to be able to update and install. Tnx http://debian.org/releases/stable/i386/index.html.en -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . .

Re: irc address

2010-10-18 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 10/18/2010 9:48 PM, Nano Micro wrote: Guys, do this mailling list have also irc address ? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */ Hmmm... -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O

Re: External NAS to samba

2010-10-17 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 10/17/2010 10:51 AM, Derek Carter (aka goozbach) wrote: shameless plug type=goozbach's employer [snip] /shameless plug A plug on PLUG. I'm not sure how I feel about this. :) -- . o . o . o . . o o . . . o . . . o . o o o . o . o o . . o o o o . o . . o o o o . o o

Last chance to participate in the PGP Keysigning party at UTOS

2010-10-06 Thread Aaron Toponce
--export yourem...@domain.tld /tmp/key.asc 3. Any questions you have regarding the keysinging party. So far, these are all the keys that have been sent to me: - Aaron Toponce (myself) - Jacob Albretsen - Corey Edwards - Von Fugal - Michael Holley - Christian Horne

Keysigning party in exactly one week

2010-10-01 Thread Aaron Toponce
As previously mentioned, there will be a keysigning party at UTOS one week from today on Friday, October 8 at 19:30 in MFEC 101 (Auditorium). So far, I only have 6 keys. This is going to be a small party if that's all that shows up. If you want to participate, then I need your key. Required

Re: UTOS Keysigning Party

2010-09-21 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 09:49:12AM -0600, Von Fugal wrote: quote name=Aaron Toponce date=Sun, 19 Sep 2010 at 09:11 -0600 Required Items? 1. Physical attendance. 2. Positive government-issued picture ID. What does 'positive' mean? Does that exclude police mugshots

Re: UTOS Keysigning Party

2010-09-21 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:16:49AM -0600, Jacob Albretsen wrote: What about if your government-issued picture ID has expired? Does that mean your identity has expired and you are no longer valid? I'm not going to get anal retentive about the ID. Bring your driver license or state-issued

Re: Top posting

2010-09-18 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:15:41AM -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Stuart Jansen sjan...@buscaluz.org wrote: You do have to admit, Ryan and Levi displayed exceptional creativity. You'd think the topic would be dead by now, but by shear force of will they managed

Re: (un)professional e-mail skills -- was Re: JOB: Linux System Administrator

2010-09-17 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 02:48:55AM -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: Grow up, guys. There's a world outside of unixoid operating systems, system administration, and internet tradition. Not everyone cares about what you care about. Nobody has to conform to how you think they should communicate with

Re: (un)professional e-mail skills -- was Re: JOB: Linux System Administrator

2010-09-17 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:49:45PM -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: /me bets this joke flew right past most gmail users because of its annoying attempt to replace threads with conversations I'll give top-posting one serious argument: I don't want to open many emails to get to each conversation. By

Re: Virtues of trimming -- was Re: JOB: Linux System Administrator

2010-09-17 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:32:15AM -0600, Von Fugal wrote: Properly trimmed responses will have the reply, the context to the reply, and even the many generations of context. So what does that mean for our thread, where initially, it started out as someone looking for a job, morphed into

Re: (un)professional e-mail skills -- was Re: JOB: Linux System Administrator

2010-09-17 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:19:14AM -0600, Bryan Sant wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Von Fugal v...@fugal.net wrote: Yet you'd be hard pressed to find a mutt user that doesn't trim. You'd be hard pressed to find a mutt user. Period. No you wouldn't. -- Sent via my iMutt

Re: (un)professional e-mail skills -- was Re: JOB: Linux System Administrator

2010-09-17 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:45:36PM -0600, Jonathan Duncan wrote: I use mutt to check mail when I am on my web servers and just need a quick tool. Used to use Pine, which I loved, until I found Mail.app. Still like Pine though. While my wife and I were dating, she was attending Utah State

Re: Virtues of trimming -- was Re: JOB: Linux System Administrator

2010-09-17 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:39:14PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com wrote: So, now I get to find the email where Levi rebuked the thread, and more if I want to see where Stuart knee-jerked. Oh, Aaron, as a mutt uber-user, surely you know how to search

Re: Debian-CentOS

2010-08-30 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 08/30/2010 06:57 PM, Von Fugal wrote: I have an interview this week with TNI (Noni juice) in which I will be performing 'tasks' on CentOS. I don't know CentOS, but I am a debian genius. Is anybody here familiar with both debian and centos that can give me some pointers on what differences

Re: Certification

2010-08-25 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:55:02PM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: Why are vendor neutral certifications such as LPI and Security+ considered no good? The vendor specific certifications (e.g. RHCT, Cisco, MCSE) may fetch a higher price, but I would think also having the vendor neutral

Re: UPS Recommendations

2010-08-12 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:21:13AM -0600, Bryan Thomas wrote: out of curiosity, why do you say that they all suck? what would make them better? Every UPS I've personally owned, the batteries were crap, or the units themselves. Either the batteries only last a year or two, or they can't

Re: UPS Recommendations

2010-08-12 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 07:26:54AM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: Won't you need a bank of batteries anyway to hold the electricity generated by the solar panels? IE you're going to be dealing with even more batteries now. Yes. I'm looking at SLA (sealed lead acid) batteries for that. Due to

Re: UPS Recommendations

2010-08-12 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:38:18AM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: Regular UPS units use normal, sealed leadacid batteries. Anyway, going solar is a neat idea. Let us know how it works out and how the economics fly. Are you planning, then, an off-grid system? I thought they were gel cells,

Re: trying to find Linux LiveCD for finding MSWindows license key

2010-08-12 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 01:04:59PM -0600, Victor Villa wrote: WindersXP(onUSB) + http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/ or maybe Ubuntu (Wine) + http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/ mj/v http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/ Let me guess:

Re: UPS Recommendations

2010-08-12 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 04:00:57PM -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: As far as solar goes, you might also want to consider solar water heating, which could also reduce your gas bill. It doesn't involve expensive photovoltaic cells, so it could be cheaper to implement. Meh. I'm coverted to tankless

Re: UPS Recommendations

2010-08-11 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 08:33:12PM -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: What's the best UPS for power hungry home server? Why? APC. Because all battery backup solutions suck. APC just sucks less. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O

Re: Jobs?

2010-08-05 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:57:03AM -0700, Mike wrote: I have recently received my Linux+ certification, which I know is not much. Have you given thought to your RHCT or RHCE? IMO, these certifications are far more valuable than Linux+ or LPI. They're up-to-date, they're hands-on, and they're

Re: System only sees 8 of 16 GB of RAM

2010-08-04 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:55:35PM -0600, Richard Esplin wrote: Before calling Lenovo support, I decided to test each sodimm alone in the system to rule out the memory. When I saw that each one could be seen, I put them all back in and the system recognized the full 16 GB. I guess one or two

Re: 1080p over component

2010-08-03 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:47:30PM -0600, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: Two different BestBuy associates have now told me that HDMI is the only way to have 1080p. Wikipedia says that component supports 1080p. Are these associates simply trying to sell HDMI cables? Yup. They're lying. Component

Re: 1080p over component

2010-08-03 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:18:26PM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: On 08/03/2010 01:13 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: Which is why most blu-ray players will downsample the image to mere television qualtiy (540p) whenever you try to play the HD video via an analog or non-DRMed output. Yet another

Re: 1080p over component

2010-08-03 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 01:27:42PM -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: I'm sure you'll enjoy your lack of BluRay player with all those reasons you have for not purchasing one. 1. The hardware is still substantially more costly than standard definitation hardware. Both disks and players. 2. It's really

Re: Rchard Stallman vs Darl McBride

2010-07-21 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/21/2010 12:09 AM, Levi Pearson wrote: I'm not sure why you're surprised, as it doesn't really seem relevant. Individual packages within Ubuntu may be GPL-licensed, but the whole distribution doesn't have an overarching license agreement, and I don't think the GPL would work for that

Re: Rchard Stallman vs Darl McBride

2010-07-21 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/21/2010 07:40 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 07/20/2010 10:31 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: Except that 'more liberal' literally means more free. :) But but the tea party says that liberal means socialist fascist extremist baby killer! Doesn't sound more free to me! We're all on to your

Re: Rchard Stallman vs Darl McBride

2010-07-20 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/20/2010 08:34 PM, Jon Jensen wrote: There is nothing in the GPL that says you must distribute any code you write that is derivative of GPL'd code, if you don't distribute it. If you distribute code derivative of GPL'd code, then it must be licensed under the GPL. But you don't have

Re: html5 presentations

2010-07-17 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/16/2010 03:32 PM, Brad Midgley wrote: Hey, Anyone used one of these for doing in-browser presentations that can be easily put online? slidy http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/ s5 http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ jquery presentations

Re: I AM DUMBFOUNDED!

2010-07-17 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/17/2010 03:09 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: Wow, it's been years since we've had one of these. ... and the reason I subscribed. I had heard about all the drama on PLUG (how to spell perl (is it PERL, Perl, etc), vim vs emacs, and Stuart's witty commentary). After subscribing, I was let down. I

Re: I AM DUMBFOUNDED!

2010-07-16 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 7/16/2010 4:59 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: What makes you think anyone here loves Darl McBride? At most, I imagine some people here respect him as a person who has made some poor decisions regarding lawsuits. I imagine a lot of people dislike him almost as much as you seem to. I don't have

Re: Darl McBride [Was Re: July Meeting Ideas?]

2010-07-14 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/14/2010 09:29 AM, Grant Robinson wrote: Ryan, if you really want to invite Darl to a meeting, and Stuart and the Hobbit promise to be civil (hey, that was a joke. :)), I can get you in touch with him. Just let me know. /IF/ Ryan et al is serious about contacting Mr. McBride for a

Re: Darl McBride [Was Re: July Meeting Ideas?]

2010-07-14 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/14/2010 10:21 AM, Levi Pearson wrote: Seriously guys, this is a USERS group. Neither McBride nor Stallman would have anything useful to say about USING Linux. One of them is out to make a buck, and happened to end up on the wrong side of a lawsuit. The other is the leader of a

Re: July Meeting Ideas?

2010-07-13 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/13/2010 04:15 PM, Ryan Simpkins wrote: Does anyone know how to contact Darl McBride? I'd like to see about inviting him for a (CIVIL!) discussion covering a SCO postmortem, Me inc, as well as what he sees for the future. If anyone can pass my contact information to him, I would

Re: SCO rises from the dead (again)

2010-07-10 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 07/09/2010 06:37 AM, Charles Curley wrote: SCO rises from the dead (again) New trial, please Oh brother. More hilarity. Well, at least PJ is still willing to blog their incompetence. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O

Re: Yes, we have no hibernate today

2010-06-24 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 06/23/2010 07:56 PM, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: https://launchpad.net/indicator-applet I assume you meant that it was lost from the indicator-applet menu. You should just be able to message it yourself in a terminal and background it if it gets lost from the indicator-applet menu. What

Re: local place to purchase outdoor-rated cat 5

2010-06-16 Thread Aaron Toponce
I'm actually surprised there has not been a single mention of Ra Elco in SLC: Ra Elco, Inc. 2780 South Main Salt Lake City 801-487-0571 Radio Shack is child's play compared to this. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O

Re: [OT] HAM Radio License

2010-06-11 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 4/23/2010 2:19 PM, Matthew Walker wrote: And, callsign received! I love computers! May still get a vanity callsign someday, but KF7JLF isn't too shabby. It's got some patterns that make it easy to remember at least. Mine took 8 days to come down the pipe. KF7KPM. And they spelled my last

Re: Fwd: [Krebs on Security] New Comment On: Using Windows for a Day Cost Mac User $100,000

2010-06-10 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 06/09/2010 08:44 PM, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: But I have found in my reading that approximately 90% of people using Mac OS-X at home are running their machines from their admin accounts. This is bad news! Why? I'm all for educating people about not logging in as root, but if someone is

Re: Mac or Linux / Unix versus Windows

2010-06-10 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 6/10/2010 7:39 AM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: Your message also reminded me why I am still so adamant about despising HTML email. As handy as HTML is in email, it is too handy. Like giving a hand grenade to a toddler. It is only a matter of time until they pull the pin. What sort of pin

Re: Mac or Linux / Unix versus Windows

2010-06-10 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 6/10/2010 11:07 AM, Nicholas Leippe wrote: Unless your client is smart enough (like kmail and gmail, and I imagine others) to, by default, not load any external references. But that's reality. We're fantasizing here. But if you think your email client is a security sore:

Re: Make group in Provo

2010-06-03 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 06/03/2010 05:41 PM, Ryan Simpkins wrote: It might be nice to note that The Transistor (http://thetransistor.com/) also has regular Arduino nights every Saturday, as well as weekly meetings for members. Membership is $90/mo for non-students. Maybe I don't understand these things, but

Re: [OT] HAM Radio License

2010-05-29 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 04/22/2010 12:29 PM, Matthew Walker wrote: Somewhat off-topic, but I just had to announce that last night I passed the tests to get my General Class License for HAM Radio. Went in to test for Technician Class, and they encouraged me to take all the tests. Almost passed the Extra Class

Re: [OT] HAM Radio License

2010-05-23 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 05/22/2010 04:06 PM, Matthew Walker wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2010 2:59 pm, Dennis Muhlestein wrote: Did you get any equipment yet? I was inspired by your original post to go ahead and take the tests. I've been wanting to do that for some time but just hadn't got around to it. So, I went

Re: [OT] HAM Radio License

2010-05-21 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 5/20/2010 9:57 PM, Alec Shaw wrote: This link is to an interesting Wall Street Journal article about morse code: http://online.wsj.com:80/article_email/SB119161604206850468-lMyQjAxMTEwOTExNzYxMTc2Wj.html I shared this in #utah yesterday. Rather entertaining:

Re: btrfs expertise

2010-05-17 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 05/17/2010 01:09 PM, Ryan Simpkins wrote: Does anyone out there have any experience with btrfs in a production setting? No. What do you think of it? How do you use it? I think that it's not ready for production yet. Still marked experimental in the kernel, and being on the development

A small change for Debian, large leap for Debian-kind

2010-05-13 Thread Aaron Toponce
I made a suggestion to the debian-devel mailing list to change the default umask from '0022' to '0002' seeing as though Debian GNU/Linux is using user private groups (UPG) [1]. A couple days later, after much discussion and at the request of one of the developers, I reported bug 581413 [2]. It

Re: A small change for Debian, large leap for Debian-kind

2010-05-13 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 05/13/2010 05:00 PM, Doran L. Barton wrote: Very cool. Don't tell them that Red Hat was the first to implement this in their distribution. ;-) [citation needed] I know that Fedora/RHEL/CentOS/OEL implement UPG correctly, but I can't find anything that says they were first, not that it

Re: Another Group Question

2010-05-07 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 5/6/2010 3:05 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: Where do you get the idea the Marxism is defined as total authoritarian state economic control? I would say that Marxism is defined by a critique of capitalism that describes how it divides the people into social classes based on who controls the means

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