Lull in the storm?

2009-06-04 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Palm Pre Have any of you checked out the Palm Pre? The Wall Street Journal ran an article on it in today's paper. Scott /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

N E 1 here?

2009-06-04 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Is this list still working? Posts have just stopped. What happened? Is that NUSKIN convention there eclipsing everything else happening in Provo? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

RE: Two routers

2009-06-02 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Andrew McNabb wrote: I would also like to point out that the differences are purely in software. You can modify the VLAN configuration to make the WAN just like all of the other ports. Yup. It's all software. Using a LAN port + disabling DHCP just happens to be the easiest to do (least

Slide show

2009-05-29 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I have a friend who is a photographer.. She recently took about 300 pictures for a motorcycle web site. She wants to know how to set these up as a slide show that site visitors can click on to see the pics. Suggestions? Scott /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe:

RE: Slide show

2009-05-29 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
, May 29, 2009 3:12 PM To: Provo Linux Users Group Subject: Re: Slide show Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: I have a friend who is a photographer.. She recently took about 300 pictures for a motorcycle web site. She wants to know how to set these up as a slide show that site visitors

RE: Slide show

2009-05-29 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Here's a further refinement to my question. My friend doesn't want her pictures to be in the public domain, or publicly accessible, only on her web site via password to access protect area, where slides would reside. Will Picasa and Flickr allow such access control? -Original

Alternatives to LinkedIn and other business networking groups?

2009-05-28 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Are there any networking sites rivaling LinkedIn and others for business contacts, running in the FOSS realm? Please Advise! Scott /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Two routers

2009-05-27 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I have two routers, one networked hp 2605dn color laser and one wife. The two routers are wrt54g models. One is plugged directly into my SMC gateway device, with address 10.1.10.1 with the comcast cable plugged into it. This first router is wireless and my wife's laptops usually want to connect to

RE: Two routers

2009-05-27 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I have two routers, one networked hp 2605dn color laser and one wife. The two routers are wrt54g models. One is plugged directly into my SMC gateway device, with address 10.1.10.1 with the comcast cable plugged into it. This first router is wireless and my wife's laptops usually want to

RE: Two routers

2009-05-27 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Group Subject: Re: Two routers On Wed, May 27, 2009 10:02 am, Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: I have two routers, one networked hp 2605dn color laser and one wife. So I have to ask. How does your wife feel about being listed as part of your network? -- Matthew Walker Kydance

RE: Two routers

2009-05-27 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
] On Behalf Of Kyle Waters Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:04 AM To: Provo Linux Users Group Subject: Re: Two routers Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: My question is this.. Can I get the machines on the two routers talking to each other, i.e., my wife's laptop on the first wrt54g wireless

RE: Two routers

2009-05-27 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Waters Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:16 AM To: Provo Linux Users Group Subject: Re: Two routers Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: The SMC gateway device is the cable modem.. The two wrt54g routers

RE: Two routers

2009-05-27 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Kyle Waters wrote: Justin Hileman wrote: The key is to get the second WRT out of router mode and into access point mode. Do this by putting the uplink on a LAN port rather than the WAN port. Then you should disable the DHCP server on the second WRT. This keeps it from handing out IP

LAPTOP 4 SALE - DELL INSPIRON 7125

2009-05-20 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I have a friend with a 7125 laptop. She is wanting to sell it because she wants something lighter. She likes this machine but it's too heavy [for her] and discourages her taking it more places. It has a 17 screen. She is gathering more specs on it. Her name is Jenefer May, and her home email

RE: Need help decrypting word doc

2009-05-20 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Is the file encrypted or merely password protected? If the latter, you could use strings to extract out the data. Otherwise, Nick suggested you find a temporary copy... what about using something like sleuthkit to mine your hard drive? Or you could use some of the tools in Hiren's

RE: Need help decrypting word doc

2009-05-19 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Is it a WORD .doc file? -Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Jared W. Robinson Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:06 AM To: plug@plug.org Subject: Need help decrypting word doc Hey Folks, My grandmother has been working on an obituary

RE: Oracle to purchase Sun Microsystems?

2009-05-18 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Kyle: Excellent explanation. Maybe an explanation of licensing is in order here. It's a very confusing topic. The original purpose of copyright is exactly as it seems it should be a set of laws used to determine who has a right to make copies of something. Now in today's digital age

RE: multiple mail servers for one domain

2009-05-15 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Hans: I know there are man pages and the like, but is there a compendium devoted to helping a simple mind like mine understand email set up and administration, from the ground up? I am happy to dig in and read if I can find the right source on all this. Scott -Original Message- From:

RE: May PLUG Meeting; The Open Source Datacenter

2009-05-11 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I'd love to attend. Alas, I have cancelled two other events, to attend a third on this same night. Will there be any notes taken and shared on the list here after the presentation? scott -Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Ryan

SATA and WinXPPro

2009-05-05 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I realize my question may not fit here, but perhaps I can get some direction. I have an older COMPAQ machine, on which I have to run XP PRO. It's for a program that has no linux port, Lytec Medical. I use it to process claims and keep track of my patients. I have an 80 gb drive in this COMPAQ

RE: Data extraction

2009-04-28 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Charles: Thanks for your help. I attempted all methods mention in this thread to date, and none worked. I am thinking now that my router (WRTP54G) IS NOT ROUTING. I can ping other machines on my LAN, but when attempting to connect using ssh I GET ERROR, socket errors. This seems to happen

RE: Data extraction

2009-04-28 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
-Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Corey Edwards Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:23 AM To: plug@plug.org Subject: RE: Data extraction On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 10:47 -0400, Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: I do have

RE: Bulletproof router

2009-04-27 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Linksys WRT54GL with your choice of third party firmware. This has been brought up many times and that seems to be generally accepted as a solid solution on the cheap. I have had mine since May 2005 (granted it was just the WRT54G then but same device) and has been a champ ever since. I've

Bulletproof router

2009-04-24 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
My router might be dying, but I am unsure. I have a WRTP54G router at home, with 2 phone ports. It's locked by Vonage, with whom I have VOIP. Here's my dilemma: I believe the router is dying, but I hate to toss it if it's just needing some TLC. I am hooked on VOIP, so I need something that

Router upgrade??

2009-04-24 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
How about a suggestion UP to replace my WRTP54G? Scott /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

RE: Data extraction

2009-04-22 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
What do you mean by SEE? You can't get on the network? You don't see it in Places- Network? I'm going to assume the former, because 1) I never use the latter, and 2) you don't want to use Windows networking (aka Samba) anyway. By 'see' I mean, even though each machine can access resources on

Word scrambling

2009-04-22 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Does anything ready to run exist that will take as input several words, and then output a string of those words, punctuated various ways, allowing one to shuffle and randomize the word group and then add words to the group now and then? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net

Two or more webs at home

2009-04-22 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Is it possible to host/serve/run two or more web sites at one location with one static IP? I have my web but my three boys will soon want to set up their own web sites and update and manage each on their own. Can these all run from my home network? These will not likely be commerce sites, but

RE: Word scrambling

2009-04-22 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
-Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Garth Hill Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:06 PM To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List - 100% Unmoderated, High Traffic Subject: Re: Word scrambling Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant

RE: Word scrambling

2009-04-22 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
-Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Mike Lovell Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 3:03 PM To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List - 100% Unmoderated, High Traffic Subject: Re: Word scrambling Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant

RE: Two or more webs at home

2009-04-22 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
, Matthew Walker wrote: On Wed, April 22, 2009 1:45 pm, Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: Is it possible to host/serve/run two or more web sites at one location with one static IP? I have my web but my three boys will soon want to set up their own web sites and update and manage

Data extraction

2009-04-21 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I have a drive in a spare machine, from which I want to copy, over my home LAN, the various folders, /, /var, /usr /home to another machine with a much larger hdd. I have tried booting the machine using a live ubuntu 8.10 desktop disc.. But have trouble getting networking on this machine, to 'SEE'

RE: Data extraction

2009-04-21 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
, High Traffic Subject: Re: Data extraction On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:52:11AM -0400, Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: I have a drive in a spare machine, from which I want to copy, over my home LAN, the various folders, /, /var, /usr /home to another machine with a much larger hdd

Web admin access to home router

2009-04-17 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I am trying to get my mailman server set up, and have run into network issues. I have a linksys wrt54g router, and have enabled web access. Here's my question: If I can access the router remotely, then I should fairly easily get access to my server box established, is this correct? The other

RE: Web admin access to home router

2009-04-17 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
, 2009 11:28 AM To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List - 100% Unmoderated, High Traffic Subject: Re: Web admin access to home router Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: I am trying to get my mailman server set up, and have run into network issues. I have a linksys wrt54g router

RE: Web admin access to home router

2009-04-17 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
-Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Kyle Waters Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:37 AM To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List - 100% Unmoderated, High Traffic Subject: Re: Web admin access to home router Jones, Scott (GE Money

RE: Web admin access to home router

2009-04-17 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Here's my question: If I can access the router remotely, then I should fairly easily get access to my server box established, is this correct? Yes, enabling remote management has that great benefit. You can change port forwards on the fly from any location. The other question: Is it even

RE: Time Lapse WebCam?

2009-04-14 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
-Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Kimball Larsen Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:38 AM To: Plug List Subject: Time Lapse WebCam? My company is building a new building, as we have outgrown our current digs. The new building is

RE: ZILLION RECIPIENTS

2009-04-10 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I like it, Matt.. That should get 'em talkin.. I would just Reply to all and say something like: I really enjoyed hearing from you it has been a while... how is that rash that you of yours doing? but that is just me :) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe:

ZILLION RECIPIENTS

2009-04-09 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I have a few friends who are nice and fun otherwise, but have no clue about sending email to their vast group of friends. You know, the ones who include all 50 pages of the email which includes the headers with ALL their friends addresses. Is there any fun and yet legal way of passing them a

RE: ZILLION RECIPIENTS

2009-04-09 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
emails I chuckle to myself as I hit delete. - Kimball http://www.kimballlarsen.com On Apr 9, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: I have a few friends who are nice and fun otherwise, but have no clue about sending email to their vast group of friends. You know, the ones

RE: ZILLION RECIPIENTS

2009-04-09 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
RECIPIENTS On Thu, April 9, 2009 11:31 am, Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: You are right But isn't there some text I can keep handy to send them back about netiquette? I know I have reached a few. I'll keep looking. You could just refer them to this: http://www.emailreplies.com

RE: CD-ROM recovery software?

2009-04-08 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Can dd be run on a CD, to image everything over to another drive? -Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Charles Curley Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 10:51 AM To: Provo Linux Users Group Subject: CD-ROM recovery software? I have a

RE: CD-ROM recovery software?

2009-04-08 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
It's funny you mentioned Turtle Wax. For the few times I have taken my son's game disks in to have them resurfaced, that paste they put on the disc looks strangely like Turtle Wax. I have some McGuires. I am going to test that too. -Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org

RE: CD-ROM recovery software?

2009-04-08 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
At least it'll give that CD-ROM drive a cool Boufont hairdo! -Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of David Garcia Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:04 AM To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List - 100% Unmoderated, High Traffic Subject:

RE: CD-ROM recovery software?

2009-04-08 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Just curios.. What is 'flac'? I'm pretty sure they did this in a Mythbusters once. I really think you should copy the CD before it explodes. I rarely use my original cds since I ripped them to mp3 long ago. I'm getting them out to re-rip them to flac so there's no loss of quality. I lost

RE: F/OS OCR?

2009-04-01 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Have you tried this http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr/ I have used it to scan various documents and it works well. Scott -Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Daniel C. Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:08 PM To:

RE: F/OS OCR?

2009-04-01 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
...Or this http://www.linux.com/articles/57222 -Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Daniel C. Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:08 PM To: plug@plug.org Subject: F/OS OCR? Does anyone have any experience using f/os OCR packages?

Safe BIOS upgrade option | Ultimate Ubuntu installation

2009-03-26 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I have two questions: I have a system with a BIOS date of 8/2007. It works, runs, but I believe a BIOS update would let the onboard SATA controller work better. I am nervous about running a BIOS upgrade though. The mobo is from MicroStar Int'l (MSI). Anyone know how to safely a) find the correct

Safe BIOS upgrade option | Ultimate Ubuntu installation - TAKE 2

2009-03-26 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I have two questions: I have a system with a BIOS date of 8/2007. It works, runs, but I believe a BIOS update would let the onboard SATA controller work better. I am nervous about running a BIOS upgrade though. The mobo is from MicroStar Int'l (MSI). Anyone know how to safely a) find the

Mysterious Hard Drive

2009-03-16 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
I really need some help. I recently decided to move a hard drive, from a machine with a failing power supply fan to a newer machine. The drive is an 80 GB SATA, and worked just fine until I powered down on the machine it was in. After installing it in this newer box, I booted up, to find

RE: Mysterious Hard Drive

2009-03-16 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
] On Behalf Of Nicholas Leippe Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:28 AM To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List - 100% Unmoderated, High Traffic Subject: Re: Mysterious Hard Drive On Mon Mar 16 2009 08:11:43 Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: I really need some help. I recently decided to move

RE: Mysterious Hard Drive

2009-03-16 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
What does hardparm -I tell me ? -Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Nicholas Leippe Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:34 AM To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List - 100% Unmoderated, High Traffic Subject: Re: Mysterious Hard Drive

RE: Mysterious Hard Drive

2009-03-16 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Er.. That was HDPARM.. No wonder I kept bumping into parmasean recipes searching for this -Original Message- From: plug-boun...@plug.org [mailto:plug-boun...@plug.org] On Behalf Of Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 9:40 AM To: Provo Linux Users Group

RE: Mysterious Hard Drive

2009-03-16 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
Sasha: Yes, the BIOS sees each drive, listing the drive Model Number, size, all that information accurately. If I boot with a live cd, and run gparted, gparted will show the geometry etc.. All the data about the hard drive, plus the partitions currently on the drive, on each drive. I have just