Re: Who's Hiring?

I'm looking for a good jack-of-all-trades Linux systems admin with a decade or so of experience to help me. I say jack-of-all-trades because you need to be familiar with all TechOps, not just Linux, including networking and coding (at the very least decent scripting skills). It would be best if y

Re: Back to the subject of Cat5e?

I second the RouterBoard suggestion. Mikrotik's RouterBoardline has lots of economical and intelligent solutions, and their RouterOS is Linux at its core, so it has all of the networking features Linux has in an easy to configure, extremely economical package. The suggest

Re: music players

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 08:04 -0700, Stephen Ward wrote: > It has been a long time since I really felt a need to have a good mp3 player > in Linux. Way back when, I used to use XMMS (I've always been, and still > am, a Winamp fan). However, XMMS has apparently been removed from Gentoo > and Slackwa

Re: OT: Free 7017-S7A RS/6000

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 14:38 -0600, Alan Young wrote: > Why not sell the RS/6000 on ebay as a pickup item? The money that it would sell for wouldn't justify the effort required to do so. Also, the money we are spending just to keep it is way more than we would get from Ebay. Honestly, the faster

Re: OT: Free 7017-S7A RS/6000

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 13:05 -0600, Corey Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:50 -0600, Troy Bowman wrote: > > 1 52.1GB disk > > 6 8.6GB disks > > 48 4.3GB disks > > - > > 310GB total > > Wow. That's a lot of disks for not a lo

OT: Free 7017-S7A RS/6000

I posted this once before on sllug a month or so ago, but those that showed interest never panned out. I apologize if you are on the sllug and have to re-read this. I have added a few more details to the original post, however. The company I work for is retiring an older RS/6000 which was purch

Re: Asterisk installed at home. Looking for cool ideas

On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Chris Carey wrote: I've finally got a working Asterisk install at home, and I'm trying to think of how to add some pizzazz. Any suggestions? I know this is late to the game, (I read this list when I get to it), but I've been having lots of fun with Asterisk. A

Re: Detecting SSH tunnels on a linux firewall

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 10:24 -0700, Matthew Walker wrote: > Won't work. I can use Putty to create an SSH tunnel to a server I control > running Squid, and direct my local browser to use the localhost port as > proxy. Actually, you don't even need squid on the other end. All you need is to make ss

Re: Asterisk Configuration

On Dec 21, 2006, at 1:54 PM, Levi Sorenson wrote: I need to find a find a VOIP service and configure an Asterisk server to make out going calls only. This server will be in a Co Location with no access to an analog phone line. What is the best VOIP service to use with Asterisk? I've been

Re: Backup mail server

On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 16:24 -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > The question I have is that there doesn't appear to be any way to > indicate how many attempts the backup mail server should make at sending > email to the primary mail server before giving up, and also the delay > between attempts. Is

Re: mail to root, local only

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 14:53 -0600, Louis Zirkel wrote: > Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > > [ horrid sendmail configuration code snipped ] > > > Thanks for reminding me *why* I dropped it. > > amen to THAT! Why such trollish statements? :\ I like Sendmail. I've stuck with Sendmail over the years b

Re: mail to root, local only

Wade Preston Shearer wrote: It might be helpful to know what MTA you're using so that we don't have to telnet in and discover for ourselves. Sorry, I assumed that that was irrelevant. I assumed it was a standard unix thing; such as with the aliases file. I am using sendmail. Hmm, no one re

Re: Programming Challenge Numbers to Text?

On May 2, 2006, at 5:54 AM, Steve wrote: Hello all, This is prolly a little offtopic, but I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good quick method of converting numbers to text. I suck at C, but here's a stab at it... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./count 1 15 100 393 1938 91283 4918239 2147483647 1

Re: GnuCash and Budgeting

On Sep 19, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Ross Werner wrote: Let's say I get a $10 paycheck ... I enter $10 into the Checking Account, and then I can *also* record somewhere that $5 of that money is earmarked for grocery spending, and $4 is earmarked for ComputerToys. Then later one when I spend th