Re: Slightly OT: Ubiquiti products

2021-10-22 Thread Daniel Fussell
o like to avoid spending over $100 for something that I'll set the DNS on, add some port forwarding, then completely forget about for the next year when I check for an update to the firmware. My dad bought one in the last year, so I would guess they are still being made. -- Daniel

Re: Slightly OT: Ubiquiti products

2021-10-18 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 10/12/21 7:22 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: My only complaint, is that I haven’t been terribly impressed with its ability to filter unwanted sites. Probably need to just play with it more, but it hasn’t been very intuitive to setup. Yeah, but filtering is getting harder to do anyway with everyone

Re: PXE booting Linux

2020-12-14 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 12/11/20 6:46 PM, Dan Egli wrote: > On 12/11/2020 3:01 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote: >> PXE booting is usually done to install a base image to a machine.  If >> you want to PXE boot and run diskless clients, you may have to shuffle >> some things into the initrd and c

Re: PXE booting Linux

2020-12-14 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 12/11/20 11:12 PM, James Simister wrote: > Maybe I did > something wrong or had something misconfigured, but I had a pretty decent > core i7 machine with 16G ram (fastest in my house) but the KDE desktop felt > closer to my cheapo Celeron laptop from 20 years ago I doubt you did something wrong

Re: PXE booting Linux

2020-12-11 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 12/10/20 8:37 PM, Dan Egli wrote: > I know I asked before about PXE booting windows and the general > consensus was you couldn't. But now I'm looking to PXE boot some Linux > machines, however people are telling me that with Systemd you can't > pxeboot. Is this true? If not, what's the best way

Re: systemd-networkd refusing to masquerade

2020-12-07 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 12/5/20 1:15 PM, Dan Egli wrote: > Hey guys. I've got a question. I can't figure this out. I've got my > systemd set to run the dhcp server and to forward packets on, using IP > Masquerading on ipv4. But when I start networkd, it complains that > masquerading is not supported. I've looked in the

Re: Boot windows from network?

2020-10-28 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 10/28/20 2:33 PM, Dan Egli wrote: > On 10/28/2020 9:17 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: >> I've heard of installing Windows by PXE-booting a WinPE image that runs >> the installer. But I've never heard of running Windows itself through a >> PXE boot, such as is common with diskless Linux setups. >> >>

Re: Telegram group

2019-04-18 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 4/17/19 7:27 PM, sjan...@buscaluz.org wrote: > On April 17, 2019 at 10:55:27 AM, Larry Dewey > (lde...@suse.de(mailto:lde...@suse.de)) wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> Just wanted to let people know that a small group of us decided to >> create a telegram group. If anyone else would like to join, t

Re: BtrFS for five years report

2017-08-28 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 08/24/2017 08:37 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > Anyway, thought I'd give an update, and I'd like to hear of anyone who's > using BtrFS on spinning disk and finds it's working well, or if anyone > knows how to fix my BtrFS problems! There's so much potential with BtrFS. I wish I had good news, but

Re: Servers and network equipment for sale! Need these gone ASAP.

2017-01-23 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 01/21/2017 12:21 PM, Steve Meyers wrote: > HP ProCurve 2824 J4903A - $50 > 24 1GB ethernet ports > 4 can be Mini-GBIC instead of RJ45 Do you still have this switch, and if so, is it the Cisco-like CLI or the COMware CLI? Which OS is it running? Grazie, ;-Daniel /* PLUG: http://plug.org,

ACL disagreement

2016-08-25 Thread Daniel Fussell
After some recent distribution and kernel updates, I've got a few XFS filesystems with ACLs that are messed up in interesting ways. They are normally exported by NFSv3 and recently NFSv4 as well, though only a few clients are mounting with NFSv4. The permissions are messed up on only a few files

Re: iSCSI vs NFS(2,3,4)

2016-05-05 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 05/04/2016 09:57 PM, Ed Felt wrote: > Just looking for comments and general information from anyone who can > further enlighten me on trying to get NFS (whichever version) to be as fast > (or comparable to) iSCSI. Any comments on settings, other research I can > look at, and experience would be

Storage Array due diligence

2016-03-14 Thread Daniel Fussell
Has anyone in PLUG used a Nimble Storage array? If so, what did you like about it, and what did you not like about it? Did you find the Active/Passive controller a limiting factor for multi-path, or was it a no big deal thing? Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on

Re: Debian 8.3 Wheezy: WxWidgets downgrade?

2016-03-07 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/05/2016 09:50 AM, Charles Curley wrote: > I have an old program that uses WxWidgets 2.8, and compiles fine on a > Debian Wheezy 8.3 with WxWidgets 2.8. However, 2.8 is no longer > available in the Wheezy repos. The replacement, 3.0, breaks this old > program. > > So: how do I downgrade WxWidg

Re: Tiling window manager

2016-03-03 Thread Daniel Fussell
multiple monitors would be a nice feature. > > Thanks! > > John Shaver The only thing I tile is my clusterssh xterms. But clusterssh tiles them for me. Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: DVR Questions

2016-02-22 Thread Daniel Fussell
count with them) > I used MythTV for a few years, and it was alright. The only issue I ever had with it directly was the annoyance of having to upgrade the frontends every time I upgraded the backend. Only really an issue if you didn't have time to upgrade the frontends before

Re: iSCSI booting?

2016-02-22 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 02/21/2016 06:33 PM, DAN EGLI wrote: > Hey folks, > > Anyone come across any good tutorials on setting up iSCSI to on the > Workstation side? I've read the tutorials for Gentoo's iSCSI, and that's > great for setting an iSCSI SERVER up. What I'm looking for is how do I > configure something l

Re: What should I look for when buying a laptop?

2015-11-30 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 11/28/2015 10:00 AM, Nicholas Stewart wrote: > Thanks everyone for the advice! I will definitely checkout Lenovo. > And I may have to increase my budget from $400 to something a bit > higher. > Thank you, > Nicholas Stewart > > A few months ago I got one of these from megalo-mart for about $29

Re: Defrag a HDD on Linux?

2015-10-20 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 10/20/2015 04:43 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 10/20/2015 04:24 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote: >> In the past, it was best to have a UPS. That was long ago, and was >> largely because (PATA/SATA) drives would lie about completing writes. >> In which case, you disabled the wr

Re: Defrag a HDD on Linux?

2015-10-20 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 10/15/2015 08:53 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > XFS is the default file system in Red Hat EL 7 as it can scale beyond > ext4 volume sizes. I used XFS some years ago, but I found that power > outages could sometimes corrupt files that were open. I'm not sure if > this is still the case with XFS, b

Re: Defrag a HDD on Linux?

2015-10-20 Thread Daniel Fussell
ance has been slow on XFS in the past (deleting/modifying attributes of millions of small files), but I've heard this has changed in newer kernels. I haven't tested it though. Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Defrag a HDD on Linux?

2015-10-13 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 10/13/2015 02:44 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had heard of any utilities that would allow one > to defragment a Linux Native file system (i.e., ext4, btrfs, etc...)? > Considering how much mechanical HDD performance falls due to fragmentation > I'd think there would be at leas

Re: username locations

2015-08-12 Thread Daniel Fussell
way the local account needn't be modified when > other principals are created or deleted. I tried using */admin@DOMAIN with .k5login to map admin users to a local admin account, but it turns out wildcards aren't supported in .k5login. How did you set it up with pam and nss to do the

LinuxCon

2015-08-05 Thread Daniel Fussell
Is anyone planning on going up to LinuxCon? Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: BYU UUG

2015-06-23 Thread Daniel Fussell
the more seasoned members. > > I'd be great to try and breathe some new life into it. > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote: > What was the attitude issue? Resistance to change, too many vim-ers, too many sarcastic remarks on the list, or no new members becau

BYU UUG

2015-06-23 Thread Daniel Fussell
I'm semi-curious. Who in PLUG is/was a member of the BYU UUG. How many people here care to see UUG continue, and would participate if it did? How many think it jumped the shark after the McNabb dynasty, and would not be sad to see it go? How many just don't care either way? Grazie

Re: Using rsync to backup over ssh

2015-04-13 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 04/13/2015 05:30 AM, Victor Villa wrote: > Sorry Dan, you did say automated. Here is the step to achieve this. > > (which addresses supplying the password, whilst invoking the command.) > > rsync -ave ssh u...@someserver.com:/path/at/remote/ /path/local > Just to clarify, if you need some funk

Re: StartSLC and a 1/4 million dollars.

2014-12-17 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 12/17/2014 09:09 AM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Daniel Fussell wrote: >> On 12/16/2014 02:11 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: >>> There's this: >>> >> https://beehivestartups.com/blog/what-convertible-note-and-how-does-it-work/ >

Re: StartSLC and a 1/4 million dollars.

2014-12-17 Thread Daniel Fussell
n Nov 20, 2014 12:18 PM, "Daniel" wrote: > > So they want the gains of stock with the guarantees of a bond. Sounds like a great business model for the capital provider, and a hamster wheel for the start-up. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubsc

Samba VFS module

2014-12-11 Thread Daniel Fussell
I've got an itch to scratch in Samba. Specifically, I'd like to implement quota checks on sub-directories of the share's root, as opposed to (or in addition to) the volume quota checks normally done at the share's root. I've skimmed through some of the vfs module docs enough to know the API is th

Re: Configuring binfmt for Windows

2014-11-07 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 11/07/2014 03:42 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > I know that it was said that this wasn't potentially safe, but I figure for > a single workstation that's not running any internet services and has no > listening ports beyond SSH that it should be safe enough. Safe enough for now; but you'll forget, life

Re: Need recommendation for good MFP

2014-09-30 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 09/30/2014 01:39 PM, Joel Finlinson wrote: > I've installed 5 or 6 of these units in the past couple of months: > > http://store.hp.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/us/en/hp-laserjet-pro-200-color-mfp-m276nw > > They've been working well. > > I like that they have separate toner for each color (ye

The lighter side of sysops

2014-06-24 Thread Daniel Fussell
What's the difference between a Sys Admin and a Scooby Doo villain? The Scooby Doo villain says, "...and it would have worked too if it wasn't for you meddling kids.", but the Sys Admin says, "...it would still be working if it wasn't for you meddling kids." Don't forget to tip your waitress! ;-

Re: 404 and banned?

2014-03-21 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/21/2014 01:24 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Would there be an issue with just accepting the connection then streaming > something horrible for instance something like this? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm368W0OsHo > Thanks a lot Dale, now I have to scrub my eye sockets out with bleach. I

Re: 404 and banned?

2014-03-21 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/21/2014 12:55 PM, Joshua Marsh wrote: > I've used fail2ban before, but it's been a few years. It looks like people > have used it though for what you are wanting: > > http://xplus3.net/2013/05/09/securing-xmlrpc-wordpress/ > > > I use a combination of fail2ban and an outright blacklist (somet

Re: Cluster computing with Linux & Beowulf

2014-02-28 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 02/24/2014 09:01 AM, Lloyd Brown wrote: > You'll definitely need to > distribute the connections among a pool of servers in some fashion. The > trouble is, especially if you're using a hardware network load balancer > like LVS, it's going to have a very hard time keeping up with that > number o

Re: Diagnosing slow disk write performance

2014-02-28 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 02/27/2014 06:11 PM, Mike Lovell wrote: > Hey everyone, > I have a co-worker that just got a new system and is having some > trouble with the write performance of both of the drives in his > system. One is a large hard drive and one is a SSD. On both drives he > can read sequential data at over

Re: Anyone here still read slashdot?

2014-02-07 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 02/06/2014 06:35 AM, Barry Roberts wrote: > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: >> Or am I the only one who still habitually wastes time with the >> occasional slashdot addiction? If I had resgistered my username when I >> first started reading slashdot my id would probably b

Re: Anyone here still read slashdot?

2014-02-07 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 02/07/2014 04:41 AM, Jeff Anderson wrote: > I read it every day. The old style feels better to me. > > > I like the old-old 2002 version better. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Ridding myself of root passwords?

2014-02-06 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 02/06/2014 02:22 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > At some point you have to say enough is > enough, I need usability. The best security I can offer for my valuables > is a bank vault, but then again a court order (or even someone flashing a > badge legitimate or not) can cause the bank to cough that

Re: Ridding myself of root passwords?

2014-02-04 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 02/04/2014 09:16 AM, Lonnie Olson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Jima wrote: >> Since I haven't seen anyone address it, you probably don't want to >> completely invalidate root's password, on the off-chance the system ends up >> booted into single-user mode (e.g., in the event an at-b

Re: DNS amplification attacks

2014-01-23 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 01/22/2014 03:29 PM, Lonnie Olson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote: >> The one thing I know is, I'm being continually scanned by what appears >> to be bots, on both tcp and udp, despite my refusal to do the recursion, >> perhaps under th

Re: DNS amplification attacks

2014-01-22 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 01/17/2014 11:26 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Andy Bradford > wrote: >> Thus said Daniel Fussell on Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:17:35 -0700: >> >>> Recently someone started using my DNS server for a DNS amplification >>> attack,

DNS amplification attacks

2014-01-17 Thread Daniel Fussell
Recently someone started using my DNS server for a DNS amplification attack, forcing me to disable recursion for queries coming from outside my network. It works well enough, but I'm now sending a denied packet to the victim instead of a 4 kbyte TXT record, where I'd like to send nothing at all.

Re: apt-get vs aptitude, resolving dependencies

2014-01-15 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 01/15/2014 03:45 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > If any Debian experts could give some some advice I'd appreciate it. My > question is, am I using aptitude wrong? What should I do differently? > > My debian laptop is a bit behind on updates at the moment, but I want to > install certain packages sh

Re: December Meeting: ZFS on Linux (Aaron Toponce)

2013-12-23 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 12/14/2013 12:56 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > But I've also lost a lot of data to XFS quirks as well, mostly due to > truncated files. Apparently that's a feature of XFS. The only time I've had truncated files in XFS is when a windows user connected to a samba share opens a file when near the quo

Re: visual studio and git

2013-11-06 Thread Daniel Fussell
with autotools and gcc in particular? ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

visual studio and git

2013-11-05 Thread Daniel Fussell
and a win for free software. Myself, this looks like an attempt by Microsoft to keep from being marginalized by new kids using a full opensource stack. But I could also see it as an attempt at embrace, extend, extinquish. Thoughts? Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #ut

Re: Invitation to Mozilla event

2013-10-23 Thread Daniel Fussell
s listen to their people these days. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Old Hardware for New Life

2013-10-22 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 10/21/2013 10:10 PM, Todd Millecam wrote: Recycle components off them with a soldering iron and tweezers for use in later projects. I can get most non-surface mounted components at this point, but I think I'll get the surface mounted stuff down soon. It'd probably be a lot easier if I had a

Re: File Compression methods

2013-10-10 Thread Daniel Fussell
will kill you) and sneakernet it. Then use rsync if things needs to be updated periodically. Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Mounting remote directories/shares

2013-09-26 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 09/26/2013 08:32 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: NFSv4 changes things somewhat, if you add Kerberos to the mix. I never quite got around to learning how to set that up, but there are docs and howtos out there. NFSv4 with Kerberos does remove the problem of trusting the client provided uid, but

Re: Explain Shell

2013-09-10 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 09/09/2013 03:27 PM, Alex Esplin wrote: It's a never-ending cycle between people discovering that they don't know something, being told to RTM, not understanding TM, looking for a translation layer (like the website in question) which helps them for a while, realizing that the translation laye

Re: Explain Shell

2013-09-09 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 09/04/2013 12:35 PM, Joseph Hall wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Alan Young wrote: Back in *my* day we had to read the source code. And we *loved* it! None of this namby-pamby crap about documentation! Uphill both ways, in the snow, while dodging dinosaurs and Buicks. And while you

Re: IDS Appliance Recommendations

2013-08-06 Thread Daniel Fussell
is off or rebooting, traffic is still passed through it to the rest of network. Thanks, - Jake I've use Fortigate firewalls/IPS for some time and like them. When I managed vulnerability scans, I used Digital Defense's flavor of Nessus, and it was quite nice as well. ;-Dani

Re: Calculator kit using discrete logic?

2013-07-12 Thread Daniel Fussell
nalog way of debouncing uses an RC circuit to buffer the noise, but I've never done so. Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Calculator kit using discrete logic?

2013-07-12 Thread Daniel Fussell
http://wesharenotes.net/kevin/Projects/Adder/adder.html --Levi It's way more fun to do it with an FPGA, though debouncing switches in an HDL is a pain in the asynchronous transmitter. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/op

Re: Times to move to Linux

2013-07-05 Thread Daniel Fussell
ately that quote seems to be so true!* * * *--- Dan* Dan, the phone's for you. It's your _mother_. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Figured out my mailing list issue

2013-07-02 Thread Daniel Fussell
Nazi/Illuminati bacon-eaters in Washington and their favorite past-time of running around beating the living liberty right out of us until we have become comfortably numb. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Most Used Commands

2013-06-27 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 06/26/2013 10:49 AM, Rich wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:14:51PM -0600, Ryan Simpkins wrote: You would like to think that, wouldn't you!? You've beaten my firewall, which means you're exceptionally strong. So you could've put the rootkit in your own tarball, trusting on your strength t

Re: Did Ed Snowden do the right thing?

2013-06-25 Thread Daniel Fussell
oesn't, I'll be happy to tell my rep he should have done so when he comes to get the information, and suggest he return from whence he came and do it right this time. In fact, any program that needs this kind of information, is likely to be the same programs whose very federal e

Re: Did Ed Snowden do the right thing?

2013-06-24 Thread Daniel Fussell
s just going for the sarcastic "I'm going to a better place" motif. I didn't know about the commerce sruvey, but I'm surprised it wasn't also thrown out as invasive. Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Did Ed Snowden do the right thing?

2013-06-24 Thread Daniel Fussell
sites. Granted, writing letters is not likely to quickly return us to the glory days of the late 18th century, but the response I've seen from the untold number of people writing letters has been surprising to me. Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net

Re: Marriage (How the heck did we get here? Was RE: Did Ed Snowden do the right thing?)

2013-06-24 Thread Daniel Fussell
ent person; regardless of orientation, the parents and siblings of the individual are the people most likely to be upset with such a decision. That was much longer than I intended. But now that I got it out, I'm feeling much better. In fact, I think I'll go for a walk. Grazi

Re: Testing

2013-06-20 Thread Daniel Fussell
All roads lead to philosophy, as XKCD was so kind as to point out. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Did Ed Snowden do the right thing?

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Fussell
rity letter to cover the need to acquire your information without your consent. I don't know if the allowed methods of acquisition are limited, but based on the current organizational behavior, I'm guessing it's not limited. One of those "Clear and Present Danger" th

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

2013-06-11 Thread Daniel Fussell
slow. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Did Ed Snowden do the right thing?

2013-06-10 Thread Daniel Fussell
, ed. W.B. Allen (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics, 1989), 521-22.] / If all citizens were as courageous as Snowden in the discharge of their duties, the very power of big government would be shaken to it's core. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsu

Re: Did Ed Snowden do the right thing?

2013-06-10 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 06/10/2013 08:29 AM, Barry Roberts wrote: On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Ryan Simpkins wrote: Why I think this question matters to PLUG: I was just pondering this at the same time. I agree that due to the selective nature of his releases, Snowden is likely a hero. But this article sur

Re: Bitcoins and gold standard dollars -- was Re: Anyone want to make a housecall?

2013-06-04 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 06/02/2013 12:32 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: A conspiracy involving more than 2 people will quickly fall apart, people like to talk to much. In fact the only way 2 people can keep a secret is if one of them is dead. And the other one is missing in action. ;-) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #ut

Re: Bitcoins and gold standard dollars -- was Re: Anyone want to make a housecall?

2013-06-04 Thread Daniel Fussell
onal percentage reduction of their normal stock dividends. Two weeks later, the bank didn't exist. At which point, neither did the stock. Don't underestimate the power of an idiot to destroy value via public forum. They have no sense of self-preservation. ;-Daniel Fussell

Re: Bitcoins and gold standard dollars -- was Re: Anyone want to make a housecall?

2013-06-04 Thread Daniel Fussell
in your ciphers. People will still work till they die, whether middle-aged, or not. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Does anyone have a cheap 1u rack server for sale? and a couple other questions.

2013-05-31 Thread Daniel Fussell
ment not be met then you have a chance of keeping things in-state. You might also try microwave point-to-point connections, but you should verify that using FCC controlled spectrum does not constitute traffic leaving the state. Grazie, Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on ir

Re: Bitcoins and gold standard dollars -- was Re: Anyone want to make a housecall?

2013-05-30 Thread Daniel Fussell
vings are not worth less tomorrow simply from sitting, and which my debt principal is not harder to repay either. Unfortunately, I don't see cryptocurrency being the sweet spot between the two. Frankly, it reminds me a lot of the Tulip Bubble. Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://pl

Re: Killing SPAM

2013-05-22 Thread Daniel Fussell
x27;m thinking of exempting the honeypots from that check as a remedy. In the last month, I've had a couple hundred snowshoe spams from the .pw domains. After the user finally told me about it, I retrained and most are now getting caught. Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: UPS recommendations

2013-05-14 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 05/12/2013 01:11 PM, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > I would still use an APC in a data center environment--mounted in metal > racks above fire-proof floors I wouldn't worry about them venting gas or > getting hot when they fail. But not in my home on my wood floor or in my > carpeted office. > I don't

Re: [JOB] Employment Opportunities at Jive Communications

2013-05-07 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 05/05/2013 12:07 AM, Dave Smith wrote: > On May 4, 2013, at 9:22 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > >> ... > ... > >> Like Sasha says in his 5:01 MST email today, Haskell doesn't "beat" C. At >> what? > ... > > The Haskell-to-C comparison is particularly apt because both Haskell and C > actually compi

Re: [JOB] Employment Opportunities at Jive Communications

2013-05-07 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 05/04/2013 09:22 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > I didn't say it was a waste of time, I said it was asinine. Waste of time, asinine; they both rhyme. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: [JOB] Employment Opportunities at Jive Communications

2013-05-02 Thread Daniel Fussell
on various platforms. I like the language in particular and the API documentation, but overall, it seems the various JVMs fragment memory heavily, killing cache-line performance over time. With that in mind, it seems most of the JIT benefits are a wash. Grazie, ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Utopia talking points?

2013-04-29 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 04/27/2013 11:12 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Also does anyone know what the optimum run length of fiber (single mode) > without repeaters is and if there is any advantage to a long run of fiber > vs using microwaves? Microwave can be a good secondary connection or temporary link for a fiber se

NFSv4.1

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel Fussell
Has anyone tried NFSv4.1 yet? ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: [OT] Google Fiber (probably) coming to Provo

2013-04-17 Thread Daniel Fussell
things can happen... like if a business is struggling that business has > to make changes, one of which is go out of business. Most of the time, that's probably true. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Backing Up Everything to Removable Disks

2013-04-03 Thread Daniel Fussell
member much except rsync/unison-cygwin wasn't the solution I hoped it'd be. I wish there was a decent rsync-based client for windows; I've needed it on occasion. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Quantum teleportation, FTL, and causality; was Re: Cat 5 extended run?

2013-04-03 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/17/2013 10:24 AM, Levi Pearson wrote: > On Mar 17, 2013, at 9:19 AM, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Levi Pearson wrote: >>> Seriously, pi is 4? Do you understand that if this guy was actually right, >>> we wouldn't be able to build a proper bicycle, much less

Re: affordable table

2013-04-03 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/24/2013 10:43 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 03/24/2013 10:32 PM, Dave Smith wrote: >> On Mar 24, 2013, at 10:27 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: >> >>> What happens when one of us goes to Mars though? >> Still a planet. >> >> What happens when one of us moves to an interstellar nebula? > Ya never k

Re: Hypervisors and you!

2013-04-03 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/15/2013 03:33 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote: >> What drama? It just works. > Maybe drama wasn't the right word for this: > > """ > With Citrix getting involved, things have changed; like the m

Re: Disabling Hard Disk caches on individual drives?

2013-04-01 Thread Daniel Fussell
tried > before) how you can go about disabling write caching to an individual drive. > * > > * * > > *Thanks!* > > *--- Dan* > hdparm -W will let you read and set the drive's write-cache enable flag (assuming the drive actually obeys it, I've heard rumor some don&

Re: Fedora 18 console screen res, help me understand systemd

2013-04-01 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/28/2013 07:43 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 16:58 -0600, Daniel Fussell wrote: >>> Can you even name any of the issues that PulseAudio addressed? >> Yes, network audio; and I've never see pulse do even a half decent job >> of that. If there

Re: Fedora 18 console screen res, help me understand systemd

2013-03-28 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/28/2013 04:49 PM, Lonnie Olson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote: >> And so they chased after an OS that was once again dumbing down the >> interface to meet the intelligence of it's "users". This might work for >> the gen

Re: Fedora 18 console screen res, help me understand systemd

2013-03-28 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/28/2013 08:15 AM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 07:00 -0600, Jeff Jibson wrote: >> "A solution in search of a problem," sounds like PulseAudio... oh, that was >> written by Lennart Poettering too. That should be enough reason to make >> you run in terror. > I love how many peo

Re: Fedora 18 console screen res, help me understand systemd

2013-03-28 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/28/2013 07:00 AM, Jeff Jibson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> On 03/27/2013 08:30 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: >>> What the heck is this new systemd? How is it different? Why is >>> everyone moving to it? >> The downside is that it's a very opaque system t

Re: Fedora 18 console screen res, help me understand systemd

2013-03-28 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/28/2013 02:20 PM, Jared Smith wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: >> Guess with an increasing divergence here in the short term, that >> advice wouldn't be so useful anymore. >> >> Anyway I think I will give Fedora 18 a go on my main workstation and see >> if I ca

Re: Fedora 18 console screen res, help me understand systemd

2013-03-28 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/28/2013 02:22 AM, Levi Pearson wrote: > On Mar 27, 2013, at 9:49 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: >> The only problem with these decisions made by someone else is that many >> of these changes are made to make life easier for the mythical new user >> that Fedora developers and Gnome developers seem

Re: Fedora 18 console screen res, help me understand systemd

2013-03-28 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/27/2013 09:04 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > Revolt is not the right description, all you're seeing is the usual > Linux community moaning when something important changes. Right. Revolt is what you get when Gnome3 happens. Gnome3 happens. Get over it. ;-Daniel Fussell /*

Re: An actual Linux question?

2013-03-27 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/25/2013 05:57 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:17:50 -0500 > "S. Dale Morrey" wrote: > >> I need to dual boot a fairly recent HP laptop into some flavor of >> linux and I need it to have X (because I like GUIs) >> I like Ubuntu but I hate unity and frankly battery life is a

Re: affordable table

2013-03-27 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/25/2013 10:00 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > My brain doesn't retain things quite like it used to I guess. I just > barely read the 6th book within the last six months and I remember none > of it! My mother sees that as a benefit; you can enjoy it again as if it were the first time. ;-Daniel

Re: affordable table

2013-03-27 Thread Daniel Fussell
he night chasing constraint file problems in VHDL projects for a few days, so I'm not even sure what day it is. It must be Thursday; I never could get the hang of Thursdays. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Linux Traffic Shaping

2013-03-20 Thread Daniel Fussell
put much effort into it. I think there was a CFQ for network access something or other being talked about in kernel, but I don't remember an specifics, and I might be confusing it with another project using CFQ. As for ssh and X11 redirection, the biggest killer there is the round-trip times and

Re: Hard Disk IDs in Linux

2013-03-20 Thread Daniel Fussell
walk the line of disaster and spit in it's face. That's why I use dd directly to disk; no filesystem necessary. It's a straight adrenaline rush every time I save a cookie. ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman

Re: What's the latest on laser printers?

2013-03-18 Thread Daniel Fussell
On 03/18/2013 04:02 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Just a thought, a mental exercise if you will. > > If someone were to implement a workaround that didn't require a > firmware update to a dev firmware, they might look very carefully at > each cartridge and realize that the cartridge has a serial numb

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