Re: Yes, we have no hibernate today

2010-06-24 Thread Brian Simons
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:26 -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote: It sounds like you're using hibernation with an encrypted swap device. Is that even possible? ;-) Has it worked before? I've got encrypted swap on my laptop and I can hibernate just fine. Ubuntu alternate install with dm-crypt and LVM

Re: Virtual COM port on Linux

2010-02-23 Thread Brian Simons
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 09:04 -0700, Dave Smith wrote: Has anyone gotten a USB device that requires Virtual COM Port support to work in Linux? I don't know if this works the same way as what you're looking at, but I've got one of these and it works perfectly right out of the box:

Re: Long uptimes.

2009-11-18 Thread Brian Simons
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 09:46 -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: Steven Alligood wrote: But even on linux, a kernel update requires a reboot. Often the kernel update is critical because of a local exploit that it fixes. Why do we have to reboot just to patch a kernel? Sure it sounds complicated to

Re: Bluetooth Accelerometer

2009-07-14 Thread Brian Simons
Any reason why a wiimote wouldn't work? http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Connect-your-Wiimote-to-your-PC-via-Blueto/ On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 14:24 -0600, Sasha Pachev wrote: A little off topic, but I believe more on topic than WiFi on Southwest :-) I am looking for a 3-D accelerometer

Re: getting mysql query browser to work

2009-04-24 Thread Brian Simons
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:15 -0600, Kyle Waters wrote: You'll need to change that in the mysql conf files. You can set the server to listen on all interfaces (on a debian-based linux distro) by commenting out all 'bind-address' lines in the configuration file. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah

Re: getting mysql query browser to work

2009-04-24 Thread Brian Simons
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:08 -0600, Merrill Oveson wrote: I get the MySQL Error Number 2003 Can't connect to MySQL server... Probable causes are that the server isn't listening on the right interface, there's a firewall in the way, etc. When things are set up correctly this command should

Re: need a hosted file server solution

2009-02-05 Thread Brian Simons
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 16:16 -0700, Merrill Oveson wrote: What I'd like is a hosted filer server solution, say via the internet? This solution would allow users to map network drives, and have access based on passwords. Payment would be subscription based. I'd be happy with a very simple u

Re: Encrypted drives on an Asus EEE 1000

2009-01-23 Thread Brian Simons
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 09:42 -0700, Barry Roberts wrote: Right now I'm running easypeasy and there are lots of packages available (cryptmount, ecryptfs, loop-aes, easycrpt/truecrypt), but I'm not sure which of those the eee kernel supports. I tried stock Fedora 10 and the encryption

Re: Device Question...

2009-01-22 Thread Brian Simons
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 13:32 -0700, Matt Nelson wrote: What happens when you hit /dev/sdz? Does it use /dev/sdaa or what? It varies across distributions, but for Red Hat you are correct. Check out the tip most of way down this page:

Re: How to pronounce Avahi

2008-10-24 Thread Brian Simons
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 13:53 -0600, Dave Smith wrote: How do you pronounce Avahi? Well, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_(software) the software is named after the Wooly Lemur. Avahi is the name of the genus to which the Lemur belongs. It's Latin and most likely follows normal