Re: iButton anyone?

2009-04-14 Thread Daniel Stasinski
> for logging usage. After 30k uses, it prevents the machine > from working anymore. My boss tasked me with finding > out how to get around I could be flat wrong but 30k is close to 32k, which is one of those magical numbers. It could be incrementing a counter that is evaluated as a 16 bit signed

Re: Got a text formatting/database question - the political backstory

2009-04-14 Thread Jim March
Remember that this is a PIMA county problem, but the AZ AG's office has hired the Maricopa county elections office to do the recount in Phoenix. It's the Pima County elections office that has screwed the pooch. Incidentally (and somewhat on-topic) using... cat VHISTORY.csv |awk -F"," {'print $2'

Re: iButton anyone?

2009-04-14 Thread Tim Noeding
Hey all, Sorry about being so vague the first time around, I was just wondering if there was anyone with experience with the iButton. I have been tasked with doing some repairs on equipment that use these as a method for logging usage. After 30k uses, it prevents the machine from working anymore.

HackFest Series: Your Distro Might be Insecure

2009-04-14 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hope you enjoy this Linux Ragazine article that examines Ubuntu right out of the box. excerpt: During the last couple of years, Linux distributions have focused on improving the installation process of Linux in order to make the freely available operating system available to more people. It’s a n

Re: Got a text formatting/database question - the political backstory

2009-04-14 Thread Eric Cope
If you get me more details, I'll put it on my blog, and forward it to a few of my blog-friends. Eric On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > It appears that I've got what I need among the various answers :). > Thanks guys, I'll report back in a bit on how it w

Audigy Soundcard Problem

2009-04-14 Thread Ralph Prowell
Got a message from my daughter in Germany trying to get her soundcard to work with Suse 11.1. The soundcard she is using is an audigy soundcard that she said works sometimes, but it is spuradic. She is using Wine to play games but she doesn't have sound since she updated her Linux kernel. Any id

Audigy Soundcard problem

2009-04-14 Thread Ralph Prowell
Got a message from my daughter in Germany trying to get her soundcard to work with Suse 11.1. The soundcard she is using is an audigy soundcard that she said works sometimes, but it is spuradic. She is using Wine to play games but she doesn't have sound since she updated her Linux kernel. Any id

Re: Got a text formatting/database question - the political backstory

2009-04-14 Thread keith smith
Have you thought of putting up a blog? It amazes me what goes on in this county. --- On Tue, 4/14/09, Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Got a text formatting/database question - the political backstory To: "Tucson Free Unix Group"

Re: Got a text formatting/database question ("bash" it to hell?)

2009-04-14 Thread Eric Shubert
Jim March wrote: > Guys, > > I have an interesting database problem that I think can be solved on > the command line in one shot. But I don't know how :(. > > I have a comma separated values text file. Each line shows a voter ID > number and an election ID number they voted in. NOT who they vo

Re: Got a text formatting/database question - the political backstory

2009-04-14 Thread Jim March
It appears that I've got what I need among the various answers :). Thanks guys, I'll report back in a bit on how it went technically. Politically/legally, here's the backstory: The 2006 RTA election (dated 5/16/06) was fishy from the beginning. It involved a $2bil transportation bond. It smelled

Re: Mapping a wireless network dynamically.

2009-04-14 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Oops... I forgot to say that I don't have the IP address of the attached device. I have ALL IP addresses, but I don't know whom is attached to whom... And yes, I can control the setup, but my ultimate goal is to manage less. The only way I see this possible, is by broadcasting "something" to the

Re: Got a text formatting/database question ("bash" it to hell?)

2009-04-14 Thread Jon M. Hanson
While that is a pretty trivial problem to solve, I don't think you should be asking how to extract data out of something like voter records on a mailing list in an active criminal lawsuit. Has the attorney approved of this method? How do you know the people that reply are giving you the cor

Re: Got a text formatting/database question ("bash" it to hell?)

2009-04-14 Thread Jerry Davis
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:34:30 -0700 Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guys, > > I have an interesting database problem that I think can be solved on > the command line in one shot. But I don't know how :(. > > I have a comma separated values text file. Each line shows a voter ID > numb

Re: Got a text formatting/database question ("bash" it to hell?)

2009-04-14 Thread James Mcphee
awk '$2~/170/ {print}' filename On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Guys, > > I have an interesting database problem that I think can be solved on > the command line in one shot. But I don't know how :(. > > I have a comma separated values text file. Each

Re: Got a text formatting/database question ("bash" it to hell?)

2009-04-14 Thread Charles Jones
$ cat testfile.txt 235,126,Early Ballot 235,143, 235,147,Early Ballot 235,148,Early Ballot 235,170,Early Ballot 235,170,Early Ballot 235,170,Early Ballot 235,147,Early Ballot 235,147,Early Ballot $ cat testfile.txt |awk -F"," {'print $2'} |grep -c 170 Jim March wrote: > Guys, > > I have an inter

Got a text formatting/database question ("bash" it to hell?)

2009-04-14 Thread Jim March
Guys, I have an interesting database problem that I think can be solved on the command line in one shot. But I don't know how :(. I have a comma separated values text file. Each line shows a voter ID number and an election ID number they voted in. NOT who they voted for, and not their names, j

Ssssstammtisch! (Avondale only this week)

2009-04-14 Thread Andrew "Tuna" Harris
It's that time again, PLUG. / 2 This month has made a clean cut between Tempe and Avondale. So only the Avondale stammtisch will be happening tomorrow, at Wings & Rings. Tempe stammtisch in seven (7) days. Avondale stammtisch in about twenty-five (25) hours. Address, Google maps, Drupal (which a

Re: Anyone need a Sun 6500? Or two...or three? yes!

2009-04-14 Thread wayne
Charles, I spoke with "Art" over at EVIT and he has expressed interest in them for the school PLEASE call him at: 480-461-4197 to descuss details... TnX --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe,

RE: Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?

2009-04-14 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 11:54 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > Excuse my squirrely logic here, but what is the difference between > connecting to Goggles imap server and connecting to your own. bandwidth, storage limitations, filtering mechanisms, privacy are just a few that come to mind. The signif

Re: Mapping a wireless network dynamically.

2009-04-14 Thread Tony Wasson
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: > So I want to map my network "on the fly". > This is what I already know: > Radios are Wiligear (embedded Linux) > I have a script that logs in into every radio and downloads its > configuration file, MAC and IP address. > >  From t

Re: Free Linux

2009-04-14 Thread stu w
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 07:49 -0700, Jerry Davis wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:07:39 -0700 > Stephen wrote: > > > I would take a look at fedora or Ubuntu Fedora will be very much like > > what your used to using already with red hat, and Ubuntu is a Debian > > rework, but very very well done. >

Re: Free Linux

2009-04-14 Thread stu w
And in the "Mandrake" flavors there's still Mandriva and PCLinuxOS. On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 06:48 -0700, James Finstrom wrote: > Your free alternitives so remain redhatish are fedora and centos > > On 4/14/09, architect Mike Enriquez wrote: > > I am looking for a free Linux to install? I had Red H

Re: Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?

2009-04-14 Thread Charles Jones
Because we were talking about someone who had never used linux before, so doubtful that they could host, install, and admin their own IMAP server. Bryan O'Neal wrote: Excuse my squirrely logic here, but what is the difference between connecting to Goggles imap server and connecting to your own.

RE: Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?

2009-04-14 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Excuse my squirrely logic here, but what is the difference between connecting to Goggles imap server and connecting to your own. If the client can not handle the amount of mail on a professionally hosted server why could it handle it better connecting to your own server? -Original Message---

Re: Is it OK to associate 1 wireless bridge to 2 APs? (fwd)

2009-04-14 Thread Ed
regardless of your setup, you might want to see how it is done in the OpenBSD world - if you want to set up a group of AP for a wider area of wireless coverage, OpenBSD uses 'hostapd' and looking at it's man page might give you some ideas about the problems you will have to face with your setup. ht

Mapping a wireless network dynamically.

2009-04-14 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
So I want to map my network "on the fly". This is what I already know: Radios are Wiligear (embedded Linux) I have a script that logs in into every radio and downloads its configuration file, MAC and IP address. From the configuration file I can tell APs from bridges. I can login in every AP

Is it OK to associate 1 wireless bridge to 2 APs? (fwd)

2009-04-14 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Hello world: I'm resending this because I haven't seen it pop in the list and I had some server issues after we got hit by a BIG storm. Apologies if I sent it twice. ET -- Forwarded message -- From: "kitepi...@kitepilot.com" To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Is it OK t

Re: Anyone need a Sun 6500? Or two...or three?

2009-04-14 Thread Charles Jones
No hits so far...I guess next I wiill try CraigsList? -Charles Charles Jones wrote: > I posted this nearly 10 months ago, and still have them. At the time a > few people replied, some of them obviously just wanted them to resell > them, some for wrong reasons like "use them as a game server". I

Re: Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-14 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 09:34 -0700, Matt Graham wrote: > > Stephen wrote: > >> I just need the money to afford the laptop i want... cause im weird > >> and want 3 drives. stuff, OS 1 stable and Os 2 multiflavors/testing > >> only one i know does that and the shell is 2k > > Laptops rarely have more

Re: Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-14 Thread Matt Graham
> Stephen wrote: >> I just need the money to afford the laptop i want... cause im weird >> and want 3 drives. stuff, OS 1 stable and Os 2 multiflavors/testing >> only one i know does that and the shell is 2k Laptops rarely have more than one physical disk. It's just too dang expensive to put more

Re: Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-14 Thread James Finstrom
Yeah I posted a bug report, my Aircard 875u is not seen by network-manager but is seen by the bus and was seen by 8.10 Also on my Vostro 1000 I added my name to a bug the system cant come out of suspend.. over all still happy.. James Finstrom Rhino Equipment Corp. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:51 AM

Re: Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-14 Thread Joe
You don't believe in partitions? I played with one of the betas last month and I thought it was awesome. I'm really excited for 9.04 to release. I just hope they fix the network manager PPTP stuff... it was still broken in the beta :(. -Joe Stephen wrote: > I just need the money to afford the la

Re: Free Linux

2009-04-14 Thread Jerry Davis
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:07:39 -0700 Stephen wrote: > I would take a look at fedora or Ubuntu Fedora will be very much like > what your used to using already with red hat, and Ubuntu is a Debian > rework, but very very well done. sound like you need linux mint it is a ubuntu downstream flavor.

Re: Free Linux

2009-04-14 Thread Josef Lowder
PCLinuxOS.com is my favorite distro. It's Redhat > Mandrake > Mandriva based. But a lot more polished. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.

Re: Free Linux

2009-04-14 Thread Stephen
I would take a look at fedora or Ubuntu Fedora will be very much like what your used to using already with red hat, and Ubuntu is a Debian rework, but very very well done. fedora.redhat.com www.ubuntu.com On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:10 AM, architect Mike Enriquez wrote: > I am looking for a free L

Re: Free Linux

2009-04-14 Thread James Finstrom
Your free alternitives so remain redhatish are fedora and centos On 4/14/09, architect Mike Enriquez wrote: > I am looking for a free Linux to install? I had Red Hat and Mandrake but now > they want subscription customers. I want something free. Would it be best to > take my computer to an instal

Re: Free Linux

2009-04-14 Thread James Finstrom
Your free alternitives so remain redhatish are fedora and centos On 4/14/09, architect Mike Enriquez wrote: > I am looking for a free Linux to install? I had Red Hat and Mandrake but now > they want subscription customers. I want something free. Would it be best to > take my computer to an instal

Re: Free Linux

2009-04-14 Thread Mark Phillips
There are many free flavors of Linux. One option is Debian (debian.org). Download the iso's, burn a couple of CDs and run the installer. Be usre to backup your data first. :-)Ubuntu is another choice. If you are uncomfortable doing the install yourself, then come to an install fest. Mark On Tue,

Free Linux

2009-04-14 Thread architect Mike Enriquez
I am looking for a free Linux to install? I had Red Hat and Mandrake but now they want subscription customers. I want something free. Would it be best to take my computer to an install fest and see if anyone has a free Linux I can install. I am tried of paying for subscriptions. Help! Mike Enrique