Fedora 9 released

2008-05-14 Thread der.hans
moin moin, Fedora 9 was released this morning. http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/ Hmmm, 15.8 is Free IPA. Maybe Red Hat is planning on sponsoring some ale at nexts week's Stammtische. Caution for those with nvidia cards. A co-worker updated and found that the proprietary

west valley InstallFest this Saturday

2008-05-14 Thread der.hans
moin moin, The Arizona LoCo is hosting InstallFests on Saturday, May 17th. One is in the west valley. First Baptist Church of Peoria Basketball Gym(West Building) 8133 W. Cactus Road Peoria, AZ 85318 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=8133+W.+Cactus+Road+Peoria+AZ+85318 May 17th, 2008 13:00 - 16:00

Re: Installed Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-14 Thread Clayton Stapleton
Used Gparted to try and resize /dev/sdc7 with the following results: GParted 0.3.3 Libparted 1.7.1 Move /dev/sdc7 to the left and shrink it from 225.62 GiB to 5.86 GiB 00:01 ( ERROR ) calibrate /dev/sdc7 00:01( SUCCES ) path: /dev/sdc7 start: 4867758 end: 478030139

Re: Installed Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-14 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, Clayton Stapleton wrote: Dan Lund wrote: Had something to do with the segment it was located on the disk, and the hardware having problems addressing past a certain part at boot. For some reason, hard reset and soft reset have different characteristics.

Re: Installed Ubuntu 8.04

2008-05-14 Thread Dennis Kibbe
Clayton Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Used Gparted to try and resize /dev/sdc7 with the following results: GParted 0.3.3 I suspect that Gparted was trying to e2fsck /dev/sdc7 which is locked and not the new partition! Clay Unmount the partitiona and run the e2fsck command

state $$ to proprietary software

2008-05-14 Thread der.hans
moin moin, anyone know how we can figure out how much the state is spending on proprietary software licenses? I think it would be good to break it down based on some specific types of applications, especially office applications and anti-virus applications. It would also be good to break it down

Re: state $$ to proprietary software

2008-05-14 Thread Shawn Badger
You may be able to find on the state treasures web site under something like IT. On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:04 PM, der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: moin moin, anyone know how we can figure out how much the state is spending on proprietary software licenses? I think it would be good to

Re: state $$ to proprietary software

2008-05-14 Thread Shawn Badger
I found something that looks like it may shed some light on what you are looking for, but it also revels that the budget is broken down by state agency. This means you will probably have to look at each agencies budget to get an accurate number :( On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:04 PM, der.hans

Re: state $$ to proprietary software

2008-05-14 Thread Shawn Badger
Woops, I forgot to include the link: http://www.ospb.state.az.us/ On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Shawn Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found something that looks like it may shed some light on what you are looking for, but it also revels that the budget is broken down by state

OpenSSH Key replacement

2008-05-14 Thread koder
After upgrading my OpenSSH and ancillary files using the Ubuntu update I can no longer use sftp to logon between my desktop and laptop both located inside of my DSL router. It worked yesterday, in fact I just learned to use it yesterday before updating. Now I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sftp

Re: OpenSSH Key replacement

2008-05-14 Thread Eric Shubert
Shouldn't that be 192.168.1.101? Can you ping the address? koder wrote: After upgrading my OpenSSH and ancillary files using the Ubuntu update I can no longer use sftp to logon between my desktop and laptop both located inside of my DSL router. It worked yesterday, in fact I just learned

64 bit computer question, generic

2008-05-14 Thread eculbert
A friend has an amd 64 an 3000 chip cpu on an msi mb. Will a 32 bit live cd boot okay if everything is 'ok' with the system? She upgraded to sp3 on XP ... BEFORE she heard about some registry problem. It will boot, but not connect to cox now and she is burning a puppy linux os to see if possibly

Re: 64 bit computer question, generic

2008-05-14 Thread Jon M. Hanson
A 32-bit OS will work fine. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: eculbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 16:00:16 To:Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: 64 bit computer question, generic A friend has an amd 64 an

Re: state $$ to proprietary software

2008-05-14 Thread Carlos Macedo Gomes
Hi Hans, First, this is great. I need to add it to my infosec awareness pool... :-). On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:04 PM, der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Passwords are like underwear. You don't share them, you don't hang them on # your monitor, or under your keyboard, you don't email them,

Re: state $$ to proprietary software

2008-05-14 Thread Technomage Hawke
We can always file a freedom of information act request with the state. they also have a public records law here as well. On 5/14/08, der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: moin moin, anyone know how we can figure out how much the state is spending on proprietary software licenses? I think it

Re: state $$ to proprietary software

2008-05-14 Thread Mike Schwartz
My 0.02: Trying the networking that C.G. suggested, would not preclude filing (later) a FOIA request, or whatever. However, IMHO the official request should be saved to be done later (only as a last resort, perhaps) since, once that has been done, it might gum up the works of [that

Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread eculbert
That person reformatted the hd, then tried and successfully got xp sp1 to load and it will boot. But the cox connection wont boot from the computer to the cox box. The external box says by the idiot lights that it is talking to the outside world according to her, but the computer no longer

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread Jon M. Hanson
I haven't installed Service Pack 3 but I've heard that there are major problems with it. Perhaps the driver for her network card is missing or wrong in Service Pack 3. Is the link light on next to the ethernet plug on the back of the computer? --- Jon M. Hanson (N7ZVJ) Weblog:

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread Charles Jones
It sounds like the motherboard was replaced? Is she using a PCI ethernet card or the onboard? The reason I ask is because I believe that cox locks your modem to the MAC address of your NIC, so if she got a new mobo and is using the onboard...the MAC address will be different and you have to

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread Jon M. Hanson
You don't have to call Cox if your MAC address has changed. You just have to unplug the cable modem's power for a minute or so and plug it back in. --- Jon M. Hanson (N7ZVJ) Weblog: http://the-hansons-az.net/wordpress/ Homepage: http://the-hansons-az.net/ Jabber IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread Dan Lund
Not always true, I had the issue when I tested the line with a direct network connection to the cox cable modem. I saw it was working, getting dhcp just fine, and I was able to get a web page without a problem. I then unplugged everything, rearranged wires to not be so ugly and balled up like

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread Charles Jones
FYI you should be able to go to http://192.168.100.1 to get to the cable modem interface, where you should be able to see what sort of error it is getting. At least that's the IP that worked for me both when I had a Cox-provided motorola surfboard modem, as well as with the Linksys one I have

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread eculbert
She did that, the modem says with the leds that it is connected, but the computer isn't talking to the modem. Ed --- Jon M. Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't have to call Cox if your MAC address has changed. You just have to unplug the cable modem's power for a minute or so and

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread eculbert
NOT WIRELESS! cabled all the way. Ed --- Dan Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not always true, I had the issue when I tested the line with a direct network connection to the cox cable modem. I saw it was working, getting dhcp just fine, and I was able to get a web page without a problem.

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread Dan Lund
You missed the point of my entire email... MINE was a wireless router, you can remove the word wireless and you'd understand what I meant. On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:11 PM, eculbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NOT WIRELESS! cabled all the way. Ed -- Thanks, Dan Lund

SVN Release Management Best Practices

2008-05-14 Thread Randy Melder
Does anyone in the group have a job as a software release engineer? Or anybody working on an open-source project with a very structured release process? I'd like to compare strategies as to the actual work-flows during releases, how/when you automate, how you deal with conflict resolution, etc.

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread eculbert
Sorry. I have dsl and she has cox cable, but I think maybe the same thing is happening to her cable modem that happens to my dsl every few months. Some how, it gets internally goofy and needs 'basic setup' run again on it. I suggested that she see if either that other person's ip or mine (0)

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread eculbert
She has external cox box and it cycles up. I think that the other guy may have hit it on the head...or me at least when he suggested going into the modem's private ip. My actiontec dsl modem about two or three times a year drops its 'shorts' so to speak and wont allow the computer to get past

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread eculbert
This is the same mobo since she got it and the same EXTERNAL cox modem. It only takes me about a minute to 'wake up' on my external modem after cycling power on/off/on doesn't work anymore. I suggested she 'look' at the modem ip via the computer and see if it is up. Then do a basic setup if