Re: Has anyone made a solar power setup for a computer?

2009-07-27 Thread Stephen
The computer is DC but you would need t re create the different rails of power And hope your electronics skills are good And your math But quite possible On 7/27/09, Trent Shipley wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Joshua Zeidner wrote: >> I wonder if its possible

Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-27 Thread Eric Cope
I have run virtual box versions of Ubuntu and Windows on my older Macbook pro without issues. Eric On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: > I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it can > dual-boot with most Linux distros. And/or does anyone have experienc

Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-27 Thread Josef Lowder
I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it can dual-boot with most Linux distros. And/or does anyone have experience running Linux in a Virtual box or VM ware setup on a Macbook? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@list

Re: Has anyone made a solar power setup for a computer?

2009-07-27 Thread Steve Phariss
found this short, basic howto for running computer via DC instead of AC. http://www.wikihow.com/Run-Your-Desktop-off-DC-Power On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Joshua Zeidner wrote: >> I wonder if its possible to bypass t

HackFest Series: RouterControl

2009-07-27 Thread Lisa Kachold
RouterControl is a new take on the old browser based attack that tricks the user into allowing exploits of saved passwords to access another site; in this case the "router". Kaminisky demonstrated the specific RouterControl feature at RSA in October 08. Various RouterControl attacks also use CSRF

Re: ABLEconf mtg tonight at 20:00

2009-07-27 Thread Lisa Kachold
I just moved to my new house; my bandwidth is limited. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:35 AM, David Munson wrote: > That makes sense. Similar to what I was thinking, except I didn't account > for the possibility of another network. > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:59 PM, der.hans wrote: >> >> Am 26. Jul

Re: OT: Shirts!

2009-07-27 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > ABELconf Tee shirt idea: > > Sponsorship: (list of all the sponsors for the con) > > 12 Steps of Free Open Source > >    * Step 1 - We admitted Microsoft was powerless over our IT use - > that many IT systems had become unmanageable >    * Step

Re: Has anyone made a solar power setup for a computer?

2009-07-27 Thread Trent Shipley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joshua Zeidner wrote: > I wonder if its possible to bypass the PC power supply? By using an > inverter you are essentially converting from DC to AC and back to DC > again (bound to be inefficient). This hold true only if your system > is specifical

Re: Has anyone made a solar power setup for a computer?

2009-07-27 Thread Joshua Zeidner
I wonder if its possible to bypass the PC power supply? By using an inverter you are essentially converting from DC to AC and back to DC again (bound to be inefficient). This hold true only if your system is specifically for the PC. -jmz On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM, James Finstrom wrote

Re: Has anyone made a solar power setup for a computer?

2009-07-27 Thread James Finstrom
3 Steps to this 1. Use the correct hardware, something atom based and low power. 2. Determine requirements for 12V at about 5A solar panel cells/regulator 3. Add a battery in to the mix matching the same above stats 12V 5A The hardware would run off the battery and the solar panels would charge

Re: Yet another Zoneminder question - and it's a weird one!

2009-07-27 Thread Jim March
Just got off the phone with DLink. Managed to get a list of known subdirectories for the 920 camera: http://192.168.0.55/video.cgi This is the one that supposedly works in Zoneminder 1.23 series with a "?" at the end, with the Dlink 910 camera. Ain't working for me. Certain "regex" tweaks in ZM

Re: Has anyone made a solar power setup for a computer?

2009-07-27 Thread Trent Shipley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joshua Zeidner wrote: > Im interested in this topic as well. If you manage to build this, > please let us know how it goes. > > -jmz > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: >> Have any of you made a solar power setup for your co

Re: Has anyone made a solar power setup for a computer?

2009-07-27 Thread Joshua Zeidner
Im interested in this topic as well. If you manage to build this, please let us know how it goes. -jmz On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: > Have any of you made a solar power setup for your computer system? > > I've recently begun researching this and it seems very feasible

Has anyone made a solar power setup for a computer?

2009-07-27 Thread Josef Lowder
Have any of you made a solar power setup for your computer system? I've recently begun researching this and it seems very feasible. At one website, a writer claims one can make a solar power generator for less than $300 -- www.rain.org/~philfear/how2solar.html -- in summary he says: 1. Run a lin

Re: DSL

2009-07-27 Thread mike havens
I goy the gel splices (UR) b ut am unsure the phone cable grade. I think it will be fine. It is phone line the cable company uses Superior Essex. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:08 PM, JD Austin wrote: > It runs on the same pair as his voice line and uses frequencies outside of > human hearing ran

Re: DSL

2009-07-27 Thread JD Austin
It runs on the same pair as his voice line and uses frequencies outside of human hearing range. Go to home depot and get gel splicers and exterior grade phone cable and save yourself some grief. -- JD Austin Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC j...@twingeckos.com 480.288.8195x201 http://www.twingec

DSL

2009-07-27 Thread mike havens
I have a guy who wants me to rerun his DSL lines (his neighbor is putting in a pool and it got cut. WHat is the deal with DSL; does it run on the bumble bee pair (black and yellow)? Is there a secret or something special about it? Does it just run on a differant frequency on the christmas tree pair

Re: Yet another Zoneminder question - and it's a weird one!

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Butash
Jim, You might want to check the ZM forums, when I was looking for info on my Airlink IP cameras, I had the same issue, and typically there seemed to be embedded video within the link, such as /video.mpg or /video.asx as the _actual_ video, not so much the .cgi that is generating the content pag

Re: Yet another Zoneminder question - and it's a weird one!

2009-07-27 Thread Jim March
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Bob Elzer wrote: > Where is the video.cgi located ? > > Is the server setup to allow cgi in that directory ? That's on the camera itself. The controls are fairly primitive... > If it's in cgi-bin  have you tried adding /cgi-bin/video.cgi No, this link doesn't w

Re: For all you gamers out there

2009-07-27 Thread Tim Noeding
I sent out 3 beta invites. I'm hoping they will give me more. They were talking about stress testing the servers so keep the fingers crossed. On 7/23/09, Stephen wrote: > wow should check what my blackberry is doing... > > I did the beta for some of the savage stuff and they were neat. i > wouldn

RE: Yet another Zoneminder question - and it's a weird one!

2009-07-27 Thread Bob Elzer
Where is the video.cgi located ? Is the server setup to allow cgi in that directory ? If it's in cgi-bin have you tried adding /cgi-bin/video.cgi > -Original Message- > From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On >

Re: cheese failing silently

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Butash
I've had the same problem with Cheese across several distro's now, and have just given up on whatever being broken being so. I've got a Dell xps m1330 with known cheese issues (dell linux list confirms numerous users with issue) that thus far no one has actually fixed yet, mostly because there are

Yet another Zoneminder question - and it's a weird one!

2009-07-27 Thread Jim March
Folks, I've added two DCS-920 cameras to my setup. Zoneminder box is based off the latest Bluecherry liveCD, ZM 1.24.0 on Xubuntu 8.10. The 920 is a WiFi version of the 910 and I've found very little info on it. I'm running the cameras at 640x480 low-grade JPEG. I can't get more than .65 to .70f

OT: [sorta]: ComputerWorld article -- "Unix turns 40"

2009-07-27 Thread Mike Schwartz
Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OSThis article in ComputerWorld gives some "history" type stories: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/340205/Unix_Turns_40 *Idea: click on "Print"* ((hint: you might prefer the version you get, when you go down below the page s

Re: cheese failing silently

2009-07-27 Thread Matt Graham
From: Dazed_75 > Matt Graham wrote: >> strace and strace -ff can be your friends if the process >> that's failing silently is dying because of a missing file, >> or a file that's not where it's supposed to be. >> The main problem is that this approach won't help much with >> programs that communi

Re: ABLEconf mtg tonight at 20:00

2009-07-27 Thread David Munson
That makes sense. Similar to what I was thinking, except I didn't account for the possibility of another network. On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:59 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 26. Jul, 2009 schwätzte David Munson so: > > Whoops. Didn't reply-all on that last one. >> >> Weird. @ is something I'd expect

Re: cheese failing silently

2009-07-27 Thread Dazed_75
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Dazed_75 > [cheese snippage] > >> Thanks for the info Ted! Sorry I misunderstod. > > So, back to the drawing board. Lordy I do hate silent failures. > > Unfortunately, it is all too common to not convey any useful > > information to th