Re: OT: humor

2011-02-15 Thread Technomage Hawke
rofl. I can just imaging apple cussing up a storm. :)( oh wait! I AM ON AN APPLE! and I run Vinux (Linux for the visually impaired) on the other machine. -Eric On Feb 15, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Mark Jarvis wrote: > > This was in an article on The Reg, a British e-list whose motto is "Biting > the

OT: humor

2011-02-15 Thread Mark Jarvis
This was in an article on The Reg, a British e-list whose motto is "Biting the hand that feeds IT". this video, is one of my favorites. The portrayals of Mac, PC, Linux, Google are chillingly true-to-life. Particularly “Unix Guy" ... --- P

Re: Strange Printer Problem

2011-02-15 Thread Steve Holmes
Well in a way, I'm glad you had problems too because I wouldn't wanna be thew only one who had trouble with it. You know, misery makes company. However, though we both seem to be having problems printing from GNOME, it makes me wonder what the deal is. Works great for text. But I was unab

Re: Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen
I like this as well. On Feb 15, 2011 6:11 PM, "kitepi...@kitepilot.com" wrote: >> Example 1: Use NX Free edition to get a desktop on another computer, and >> then run your browser on that. > Man, why so cumbersome... > ssh -fCXY myuser@remotebox firefox > will do... > ET > > > > Kevin Fries writes

Re: Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

2011-02-15 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Example 1: Use NX Free edition to get a desktop on another computer, and then run your browser on that. Man, why so cumbersome... ssh -fCXY myuser@remotebox firefox will do... ET Kevin Fries writes: On 02/15/2011 11:51 AM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: I would assume that he's talking about broa

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2011-02-15 Thread Dan Dubovik
Hi all, I seem to be having a few problems on the main site for the group. I'm am sure these are likely just me having my guy eyes on, and overlooking the obvious, but am hoping I can get someone to point me in the right direction. 1) I'm not able to find where to go to create an account to login

Fwd: [Re: Strange Printer Problem]

2011-02-15 Thread gm5729
- Original Message - From: gm5729 To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 1:05 PM Subject: Re: Strange Printer Problem Today's Topics: 1. Re: Strange Printer Problem (Dazed_75) Message: 1 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:21:57 -0700 From: Dazed_75 To: M

Re: Strange Printer Problem

2011-02-15 Thread gm5729
Today's Topics: 1. Re: Strange Printer Problem (Dazed_75) Message: 1 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:21:57 -0700 From: Dazed_75 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Strange Printer Problem Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Verified the printer I have is a B

Re: Unix admin traits. (humor)

2011-02-15 Thread Jordan Aberle
I read that on slashdot today, good stuff. Veteran Unix admin trait No. 8: We know more about Windows than we'll ever let on Though we may not run Windows on our personal machines or appear to care a whit about Windows servers, we're generally quite capable at diagnosing and fixing Windows problem

Unix admin traits. (humor)

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen
http://www.infoworld.com/t/unix/nine-traits-the-veteran-unix-admin-276?page=0,0 -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss

Re: Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

2011-02-15 Thread Ed
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Tom Ostlund wrote: > Hello All, > > I have my LAMP setup working just fine but I would like to setup dns so that > I can fully test the sites that I am working on locally. This is where > google fails me. I can see all kinds of stuff for Ubuntu Server but not > rea

Re: Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

2011-02-15 Thread Kevin Fries
On 02/15/2011 11:51 AM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: I would assume that he's talking about broad testing within a local network, rather than testing against localhost directly. I often do this because I can insert firewalls, routers, etc... as/where desired to emulate probable scenarios. It's parti

Re: Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen
honestly if i need name resolution i just add the entry in my router, at home. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > I would assume that he's talking about broad testing within a local network, > rather than testing against localhost directly. > I often do this because I can

Re: Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

2011-02-15 Thread Joseph Sinclair
I would assume that he's talking about broad testing within a local network, rather than testing against localhost directly. I often do this because I can insert firewalls, routers, etc... as/where desired to emulate probable scenarios. It's particularly helpful to emulate 4in6 or 6in4 connecti

Re: Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

2011-02-15 Thread Kevin Fries
On 02/15/2011 10:42 AM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: Tom, Are you certain you need DNS and not, say, an entry in your hosts file (/etc/hosts)? Usually when testing I just add a hosts entry for the domain in question to the test client boxes and/or servers and that resolves things without having to

Re: Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen
It would also give him some good learning on DNS... On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > Tom, >  Are you certain you need DNS and not, say, an entry in your hosts file > (/etc/hosts)? > Usually when testing I just add a hosts entry for the domain in question to > the test

Re: Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

2011-02-15 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Tom, Are you certain you need DNS and not, say, an entry in your hosts file (/etc/hosts)? Usually when testing I just add a hosts entry for the domain in question to the test client boxes and/or servers and that resolves things without having to mess with DNS. Tom Ostlund wrote: > Hello All,

Re: Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Ostlund
Ahh, Sweet, I will get to reading then!! Thanks for the help! On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 10:10 -0700, Stephen wrote: > This is the same beastie Ubuntu desktop differs in the applications > loaded having gnome/X installed versus server applications like apache > and mysql > > so for example if they

Re: Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

2011-02-15 Thread Stephen
This is the same beastie Ubuntu desktop differs in the applications loaded having gnome/X installed versus server applications like apache and mysql so for example if they tell you to sudo apt-get isntall package X, Y, Z then that will work, and apt will resolve dependencies. so those Google resul

Ubuntu Desktop dns binding help

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Ostlund
Hello All, I have my LAMP setup working just fine but I would like to setup dns so that I can fully test the sites that I am working on locally. This is where google fails me. I can see all kinds of stuff for Ubuntu Server but not really anything for Ubuntu Desktop. Can anyone send me a link to