RE: IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread der.hans
Am 13. Nov, 2009 schwätzte Bob Elzer so: But you're right, if it only affects you then why ban you. If hundreds of people are getting kicked off, reconnecting, getting kicked off, reconnecting, ad nauseum it's a big burden for Freenode. I would hope there's a better solution than just banning

Re: running Linux on odd devices is SOOO COOL!

2009-11-13 Thread Steven A. DuChene
Well, I discovered according to the dslinux docs that the wireless support only works with no encryption or WEP. No WPA or WPA2 support is planned. Unfortunately I have my wireless router setup and working with WPA2 Nuts! I was looking forward to ssh'ing to the the NDS from my desktop system. :-

Re: running Linux on odd devices is SOOO COOL!

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Dayley
What fun! Keep playing and learning. Alan On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Steven A. DuChene wrote: > So I am running a special version of Linux on my son's Nintendo DS Lite > handheld game console! > > It is so cool! > > > --- > PLUG-discuss ma

Re: running Linux on odd devices is SOOO COOL!

2009-11-13 Thread mike havens
that is so cool! On 11/13/09, Steven A. DuChene wrote: > > So I am running a special version of Linux on my son's Nintendo DS Lite > handheld game console! > > It is so cool! > > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoeni

running Linux on odd devices is SOOO COOL!

2009-11-13 Thread Steven A. DuChene
So I am running a special version of Linux on my son's Nintendo DS Lite handheld game console! It is so cool! --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://

RE: IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread Bob Elzer
But you're right, if it only affects you then why ban you. Why aren't they banning the exploiters. It's like saying we don't allow sick people in the hospital. lol -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az

RE: IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread Sean Parsons
Sorry, Guess the resolution would be prudent. According to the Ubuntu council, the exploit is being handled in one of two ways: 1. Upgrade the firmware of the router, but nobody knows what versions are safe, we couldn't agree on this as a resolution. 2. Stop accessing freenode on

Re: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Technomage
Joe wrote: > I realize they have both been reportedly filtering and slowing torrents > for some time (in fact I think all ISPs reportedly do), but I've only > really noticed it since last night. I was chugging along maintaining > about 120-140kBps up as usual and all of a sudden everything dropp

RE: IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread Bob Elzer
So what was the fix ??? -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Sean Parsons Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 5:23 PM To: 'Main PLUG discussion list' Subject: RE: IRC Channel Access I actua

RE: IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread Sean Parsons
I actually used their appeal process to explain my concerns and complaint to the Ubuntu IRC Council and found concerned adults to took my issues and provided the help necessary to "fix" my problem and apologized for the incident, as well as lifting the ban. I'm now back on the freenode servers, It

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Re: IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread Technomage
Sean Parsons wrote: > They say there is some DCC exploit my router is susceptible to, but can't be > specific, so they run some test on my connection and then kick/ban me from > channels. There is nothing wrong with my Linksys WRT54G router, except some > script kiddies on their network flood chann

Re: IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread Technomage
Sean Parsons wrote: > Is freenode the only access to PLUG-AZ? I seem to have been kicked out of a > channel because my "router" is buggy, some exploit they say I am susceptible > to and there for are banned from the #Ubuntu channel entirely. The ops think > its funny to gang up and pelt you with co

Re: OT, ACTA, Secrecy and free software

2009-11-13 Thread Technomage
Eric Cope wrote: > regulation of information? as long as you are the one to regulate it, right? > > As usual, Eric.. you are short, sweet and very much to the point. :) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subsc

Re: OT, ACTA, Secrecy and free software

2009-11-13 Thread Technomage
Lisa Kachold wrote: > > but it is a matter of layers of required security. Since you can't > understand it, (just like with technical troubleshooting) obviously you > either have an incorrect premise, or less than sufficient information about > the threats. > "layers required for security"?

RE: OT: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Sean Parsons
Perhaps 2Mb/384 is slow, but for mail, and web surfing it works fine, run 2 mail servers on it and life is good. Never been down in 2 years, and when something gets flaky tech guys are on it and fix ASAP, delivered and install a new modem when mine was getting hot, so the service is worth the price

[Advocacy] BEL Project. Business Edition Linux

2009-11-13 Thread Stephen P Rufle
http://linuxgeeksunited.blogspot.com/2009/11/where-linux-stands-to-make-huge-gains.html http://belproject.org/ Read and comment. Seems oriented at the same demographic as ABLEConf. I think the idea of having a business oriented site might be a really good idea. Would you contribute if you had yo

Re: Kubuntu 9.10 - I HATE KDE 4.X

2009-11-13 Thread Wayne Davis
I have the time - name the place/time, etc TIA AZ RUNE wrote: > What are you doing next week? I will load up something and give the > tutorial you need. > Brian > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Wayne Davis > mailto:waydavis.phx.li...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > What I REALLY need is for

Re: OT: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Stephen
"If you want a stable connection with static IPs consider DSL with a local ISP like Deru. You don't need a local ISP if you don't want to run services, but you should go with a local ISP anyway :)." Only downside here is you have to deal with qwest, even if it is the local ISP doing the dealing. -

RE: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Bob Elzer
It's because you are talking about them :-) They're trying to censor you, use code words. Cox = Wally. Wally is throttling P2P LOL -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Mark Phill

RE: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Bob Elzer
They may also only throttle when you've hit a certain limit. For quest, I know they're only throttling P2P, because I can still do FTP at the full 150k. I've tried forcing encryption on the P2P with a little success, but I'm not fully sure about that yet. Could be because I took a break and used f

Re: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Eric Shubert
That sounds very much like they're "working on the network". Hold on tight. ;) -- -Eric 'shubes' Mark Phillips wrote: > This may be a complete coincidence, but yesterday and this morning my cox > service has been going up and down. I had 3 outages yesterday and one this > morning. Each lasted

Re: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Mark Phillips
This may be a complete coincidence, but yesterday and this morning my cox service has been going up and down. I had 3 outages yesterday and one this morning. Each lasted for 10-30 minutes. Mark Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Eric Shubert Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2

Re: OT: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread der.hans
Am 13. Nov, 2009 schwätzte Stephen so: I have been tempted to get their business service, and they guarantee those up/down rates and include something like a 99% uptime or very near to it. and you get x number of IPs and no blocked ports. They give you x number of IPs, but will yank them and g

Re: Kubuntu 9.10 - I HATE KDE 4.X

2009-11-13 Thread AZ RUNE
What are you doing next week? I will load up something and give the tutorial you need. Brian On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Wayne Davis wrote: > What I REALLY need is for someone who is fluent in the new interface to > spend 10-15 min face time showing me how the new gui works. > As I said, it

Re: OT: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Stephen
I have been tempted to get their business service, and they guarantee those up/down rates and include something like a 99% uptime or very near to it. and you get x number of IPs and no blocked ports. Maybe if my income gets better or i can get some steady side work. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:20

Re: OT: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Joe
2Mbit/384kbit?! No thank you! I might as well be paying for their value residential line. Unless that's a guaranteed MINIMUM bandwidth or something. I'm paying $60/mo right now and getting 10 times the down speed and 5 times the up speed. And aside from this one (isolated?) case, I do actually

Re: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Eric Shubert
Most likely them I would guess. (Not that that's worth a hill of beans). -- -Eric 'shubes' Joe wrote: > I realize they have both been reportedly filtering and slowing torrents > for some time (in fact I think all ISPs reportedly do), but I've only > really noticed it since last night. I was chu

Re: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Joe
I realize they have both been reportedly filtering and slowing torrents for some time (in fact I think all ISPs reportedly do), but I've only really noticed it since last night. I was chugging along maintaining about 120-140kBps up as usual and all of a sudden everything dropped off and I could

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RE: IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread Bob Elzer
OK think of freenode like a radio, freenode would be the band like AM or FM, and the channels would be the radio stations. Just because you were listening to KCBS (ubuntu channel) and they did something you didn't like, you wouldn't say I'm done with the FM (Freenode) band. You would just change

HP-UX virtualization

2009-11-13 Thread Shawn Badger
I was talking to someone last night after the Eastside Plug meeting about what options are available for virtualizing HP-UX and you gave me your name. I failed to write it down and by the time I got around to calling Source Direct my memory failed me. Please either send me your name so I can pass

Re: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Eric Shubert
I have qwest, but haven't really noticed this. I was getting steady 600+mB/s down yesterday. 100+mB/s up today. I think I have 7mb plan. That's asymmetric though, and I don't really know what up BW is supposed to be. Bob Elzer wrote: > It's not only cox, I have qwest, and my torrents have gone

RE: IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread Sean Parsons
Daniel, I don't know who they work for, they wouldn't identify who I speak to on appeal, nor would they give me an e-mail address to correspond with. So I have no idea how much of the network these "kids" run, and I frankly don't want to spend time playing their game. I didn't l

RE: IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread Sean Parsons
They say there is some DCC exploit my router is susceptible to, but can't be specific, so they run some test on my connection and then kick/ban me from channels. There is nothing wrong with my Linksys WRT54G router, except some script kiddies on their network flood channels and I will apparently lo

Re: IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread Daniel Stasinski
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Sean Parsons wrote: > Is freenode the only access to PLUG-AZ? I seem to have been > kicked out of a channel because my “router” is buggy, You're leaving the entire network because some chanops (who are not affiliated with the network itself) booted you from a sing

RE: IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread Bob Elzer
It's kind of like a web page, it's only on the one server. But unless you have a static IP, I'm not sure how they could ban you. You could try loggin on with a different name, and even a different client. _ From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-b

RE: OT: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Sean Parsons
I signed up for a Cox Business account at my home and I don't get any of their residential restrictions. I have 2Mb/384Kb backed with an SLA and it costs a few dollars more than residential (Approx $60/month), but the support is stellar and I can run servers on my dedicated connection. Worth a look

RE: OT: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Bob Elzer
well qwest is doing it all the time, I schedule my torrents for overnight, and they were always finished by morning, now they run all day the next day. I can understand, when there is lots of traffic, and I support the changes to bittorrent to use only the closest peers, but it shouldn't be a blan

IRC Channel Access

2009-11-13 Thread Sean Parsons
Is freenode the only access to PLUG-AZ? I seem to have been kicked out of a channel because my "router" is buggy, some exploit they say I am susceptible to and there for are banned from the #Ubuntu channel entirely. The ops think its funny to gang up and pelt you with conflicting answers and when y

RE: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Bob Elzer
It's not only cox, I have qwest, and my torrents have gone from 150k to 50-20k It seem to have started in november. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Friday, November 13, 20

Re: OT: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Dorian Monroe
Yup its Cox, not you. One of my friends ditched cox for that reason, and they owned up to it. --Original Message-- From: Joe Sender: Plug To: Plug ReplyTo: Plug Subject: OT: Cox slowing torrents? Sent: Nov 13, 2009 8:28 AM I'm on Cox cable for internet and paying for their Premiere pa

Re: OT: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Stephen
Note, I think cox has rolled a policy to slow down certain traffic during peak load/times to prevent a detrimental effect on the network. then at off peak times will go back up (or supposed to) On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Joe wrote: > I'm on Cox cable for internet and paying for their Premie

Re: Kubuntu 9.10 - I HATE KDE 4.X

2009-11-13 Thread Wayne Davis
What I REALLY need is for someone who is fluent in the new interface to spend 10-15 min face time showing me how the new gui works. As I said, it is all probably VERY simple, but JUST outside my grasp to BIG PICTURE it. I'm a "BIG PICTURE" guy. AZ RUNE wrote: > > I have disk for pclinuxos 2009.

OT: Cox slowing torrents?

2009-11-13 Thread Joe
I'm on Cox cable for internet and paying for their Premiere package (20MBit down, 2MBit up). Over the past day or so I've seen my torrent uploads go from respectable to abysmal; I'm lucky if I can upload at over 10kB/s now. I've reset both my model and router several times and that hasn't helpe