Mike - what version of youtube-dl are you using?
Lisa - same question.
That's my guess as to why it works for her and not for you. I'm
assuming neither of you have anything 'weird' in your network setup...
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in a Debian system, please see
`/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Carruth, Rusty
rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote:
Mike - what version of youtube-dl are you using?
Lisa - same question.
That's my guess as to why it works for her
Some time back I thought the best solution would be to form a co-op. Members
of the co-op would run some sort of program to detect spammers, and then join
together in a DOS attack on the spammer's MTA. Detection should be pretty
easy, I'd think, with minimal false positives.
When I thought
...
Rusty
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Rusty, how did tarpit and that delay time effect non spam users?
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Carruth, Rusty
rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote:
I've tried running that thing that keeps spammers busy trying to
deliver the email (tarpit
Whoa, only $60 normally anyway. I may download the free version then
donate something to them later... Or point my company at them to buy
some copies, or something.
Rusty
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Try:
Foo=`eval echo $file`
echo $Foo
Or something along those lines.
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Subject: Bash
Brscan? In mint (which is sort of ubuntu) I cannot find 'brscan' when
using quick filter on Synaptic. In google I see that it's possibly a
brother scanner driver? I'd download from brother the dpkg file first,
then use either dpkg or apt-get to install (or maybe apt, I forget)
From:
there is a problem.
n 10/15/2012 08:47 AM, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
Brscan? In mint (which is sort of ubuntu) I cannot find
'brscan' when using quick filter on Synaptic. In google I see that it's
possibly a brother scanner driver? I'd download from brother the dpkg
file first, then use
I will guess that this is just as you were shutting down, so the avahi daemon
shutdown is 'normal'.
So, it looks to me like something is funny with acpi. Have you google'd for
all or part of the error message? Did you add or remove some hardware between
the time it always worked fine and
First, if you cannot download stuff using apt-get, you first need to
find out why, or you need to use your web browser to manually download
all the files it wants...
Lets diagnose your network connection and other random things first:
Are you connected to the internet? Why do you give the
to fetch
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/i/imagemagick/perlmagick_6.6
.9.7-5ubuntu3.1_i386.deb
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.190 80]
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On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Carruth, Rusty
rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote:
First, if you cannot download stuff using
Apparently the Ubuntu apt database changed such that the reference was
no longer valid. Maybe they moved where it lived, or something like
that (since I think the package name stayed the same, I'm guessing it
moved paths)
Subject: Re: perlmagick
my BIG (rhetorical) question is: why did it
Unfortunately, once you've deleted /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog (and
/var/log/kern*) any chance of knowing what happened is probably lost, because
those logs contained the spewing that was either the cause of the failure, or
the information about the failure.
Next time I would advise
I don't know if this will fix your running out of space issue (mine is
usually a disk drive spewing error messages at a VERY high rate of speed
- like gigabytes of messages per hour), but:
Your SNMP (simple network management protocol) daemon is complaining
about something - a lot (Google is your
If you want a script to enter data from inside the script as if you had
typed it, you use the '' input redirect like so:
#!/bin/bash
echo Put stuff into a_file:
cat EOFEOF a_file
This line goes in to the file
So does this
This does too, but the next line tells the shell to stop reading
Looks like the DHCP server doesn't do staically-assigned dynamic addresses (it
only SOUNDS like an oxymoron!).
So, you need to tell your printer to have a static ip address. Go to the
printer and set it up with an ip address not inside the DHCP range your DHCP
server gives out.
I've not
First, you need a way to know your dynamic ip. DYNDNS is probably what
you want there. Or scripts on your home machine to email you whenever
the ip address changes, or something. (google for dynamic dns:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=trct=jq=dynamic%20dnssource=webcd=1ved
find / -perm -777 -print
I think that should do it. For more details than any sane person could want,
do 'man find' ;-)
Rusty
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I think Adam meant 'due to the Licensing/piracy excuse' ;-)
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McCullough
Not to be fatalistic, but you're probably going to have a hard time
finding a university that
Tell the computer with the printer to share the printer to other
computers (system/administration/printing then right-click on the
printer and make sure 'shared' is selected)
Then tell the computer without the printer to find a network printer, or
maybe you'll have to give the IP address of the
Yep. Rarely use it - oh, yes, forgot to mention - I have some amount of
storage there and can set up my own web stuff there on their server as
well. That's part of the reason for having the telnet/ssh access. The
public/www (or whatever it was) directory that is your own web page if
you know
Boy, the memory is bad today: I just remembered I also get like 10 email
addresses at speakeasy as well. Don't need them since I run my own mail
server...
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Whichever you want to use. I use ssh, of course :-)
(And I admit to being lazy and saying telnet when I am actually using
ssh.)
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SSH is OK.
Telnet is a self-destructing proposition.
SSH or telnet?
Hopefully SSH...
ET
Warning - what you are about to read is from the king of rechargeable
battery killers, so take it with a few metric tons of salt!
I have recently been told that, for newer-technology batteries:
1 - you do not want to overcharge them - a sure killer
2 - charging to 100% all the time risks
Thank you! I've sent that home for further perusal!
Rusty
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Yeah, I feel your pain, but more than you know - I did a fixed bid deal many
years ago and quit keeping track of my hours when I reached the wonderful rate
of $1/hour.
Yep. $1/hour. Yes, that was 20 years ago, but I had much more work to do on a
fixed bid job, so it went below that
Call me a whatever, but I like the kitchen sink editor. Which is to
say 'emacs'. You can even use it as something of an IDE, if you wish.
(And it has syntax highlighting, all that sort of stuff). To compile,
just 'Macro-x compile' (IIRC, and I think I do), then you can visit each
error/warning,
No need to throw out any editor, use whatever one you like!
Oh, wait, “throw out” as in “throw out to the wolves”. “Never mind” ;-)
And, I certainly see no reason to flame about editors (I am something of an
‘olde pharte’, so I’ve seen some pretty stupid editor flamewars ‘back in the
Agree completely. If you don’t know VI, you’re going to wish you did sooner or
later. (And remember, I’m the one who brought up emacs! J Yes, I can use VI –
I’m no VI expert, but I can hkjl my way around, and even know what :.,$d means
;-) (assuming I correctly remember needing the colon…)
Probably in ~/.ssh/ somewhere (I think known_hosts)
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Subject: Re: networking problem
I think
Can you give us more info? Like, can the print server print to the printer?
Can you get the client to see the server and add the printer? When you say
'print test page' what sort of errors does the server give? (check cups logs
etc)
Without that there's not much I can think of to say to
Actually, Mike brings up a good point - unless your interenet provider is
faster than 100Mb/s then the best you can do from the 'net to the entire rest
of your inside network is 100Mb/s or less.
so a gig switch connected to your firewall/internet router, which has a 100Mb/s
link, is probably
Yeah, I've got one of those netgear routers - too bad I don't need to
run a printer from it J
But that doesn't really solve Joe's problem. He needs to hook the
printer to his current wireless network. Adding another wireless
network probably won't help you, though.
I'd say you've got 2
Oh, yeah, there's a 4th option: get a printer that has wireless
already. I have an Epson workforce 610 that works fine with linux and
has wireless (but I'm not using the wireless part).
Rusty
I'd say you've got 2 options, or maybe 3:
WHOA! I bought mine a few years back for under $100, AFAIR! Wow!
On the inkjet vs laser - I was a died-in-the-wool Laser fan for years
(still have a soft spot in my heart for a good old laser printer - and
indeed I even have a color laser printer at home that someone threw away
some years back.
CAN you get Ubuntu to NOT use that stupid unity interface? (Goodness,
people, this is a desktop computer, NOT a phone!)
I stopped using anything Ubuntu newer than 10.10 as soon as I saw the
disaster that was ALL the window managers that I could find in the time
I had to spend looking (not much).
What does traceroute say?
Do all computers on the network show the same ping stats to that box?
(All this is assuming you didn't return it to Costco yet)
Very interesting to me that it didn't fail during the firmware update
process! I'll bet you didn't check all the networking
Mr kitepilot didn't finish the story, which is: By convention, files
name '.something' are not shown in an 'ls' listing, nor do they match
file globbing on the command line unless you explicitly include the
leading period. (And I may have forgotten other places that leading
periods have an
Oops, typed one glob wrong. Change '.*k' to '.*k*' below.
And of course, those globs MIGHT match more than you wanted, so be
careful with your 'rm' command J
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Carruth
Personal guesses, YMMV, YKWYPFI (you know what you paid for it), etc:
If you don't need NFS, leave it off. When I saw it in there I thought
- oh, my. For NFS clients, I know you can freeze a system when the
server goes unresponsive. Or I think I know that J
Of all those things, are
Well, NFS server is less likely (I think!) to cause momentary freezes
than the client, but samba MIGHT be an idea. Hopefully someone else
here has more experience with the server side of things, or maybe google
would help.
On the upload video thing - if you wanted to go to a lot of work, you
have not seen
anything strange in the logs.
Rsync is a good idea, but I agree - fragile, lots to set up, but maybe
worth a thought if nfs tends to be the problem. Maybe a script to check
if a local folder has changed, and then rsync it
Mark
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Carruth, Rusty
Curious how your test turned out.
You may also want to run an iostat to a file and see if that correlates
to the slow responses.
However, that 'bulging capacitor' thing others have mentioned sounds
like a pretty convincing coincidence, as it were
(I will say that USUALLY I'd agree
Actually, using VNC you can even get GUI access with a 'local' ssh
forward of the VNC port.
Been there, done that, it works.
Check out these 2 ssh command lines:
ssh -L 5902:there:5902 me@overthere
This will ssh into 'overthere' as 'me', and once you are logged in
'overthere' it will forward
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On 06/19/2012 09:13 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
So yeah, no raid is perfect...
...
-mb
I use software raid strictly on servers, which are headless (of course).
...
I don't know
Disclaimer time: I work for an SSD manufacturer. We sell high-end
'enterprise' SSDs.
However, while some of what I say is based upon my experience there, NONE of it
is official, and all of it is my personal opinion. Just remember what you paid
for it! ;-)
There are at least 2 levels of
There is a windows app for reading kindle docs on windows. I don't know
if there is a linux app, but I'd hope so. Oh, wait! Google is your
friend:it looks like you are stuck with reading it in your browser
(Amazon Cloud Reader, see
http://techlaze.com/2011/08/linux-users-kindle-cloud/) or
Well, if you're going to trash it, at least give it to that recyle place
- azstrut I think - or some place like that.
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Yeah, I'm still at ubuntu 10.04 *entirely* due to Unity. Gag me - I have a
COMPUTER, people, this is NOT a phone!
Oh, sorry, I'm back on that soapbox! :-)
But, anyway, yes, I *can* use just about any distro, but I use Ubuntu because I
want it to work and I don't need to prove I can do hard
Or simply tar -czvf output.gz *.jpg, to replace the gzip example
below.
Why not use tar.
tar -czvf images.tar.gz image1 image2 image3
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM, joe wrote:
Is there a way to gzip multiple image files into a single .gz file?
I found this example online, but it
Huh? Unlimited is 2.5GB??? What happens when you try to use 2.5GB + 1K? If
it fails then that's not unlimited, IMHO!
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I have Virgin mobile no contract, I signed up and still have the $25
rate which has now been changed to $35
You get 300 minutes a
that sound right?
Which is the most recent?
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Carruth, Rusty Rusty
mailto:rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote:
You should see syslog.0, syslog.1, etc. (possibly with .z on
the end). Those are your older logs.
rusty
Tmobile has a sort-of unlimited option. You decide how much 'high speed
capable' internet you want per month 500M, 1G, 2G, IIRC). When you
exceed that, you 'automatically' fall back to slow (I'm guessing 56K).
Beware that even if you force your phone (or whatever) to slow speed
TMobile still
You should see syslog.0, syslog.1, etc. (possibly with .z on the end).
Those are your older logs.
rusty
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The thing that MH said, without explicitly saying it, was that having
the / at the end of the source 'file' tells rsync to sync the
directory's CONTENTS, not the directory.
That is to say that this:
rsync -av ~ someone@somewhere:/home/someone
And this:
Yes, but does it recognize the keyboard as a keyboard?
My LG G2x will pair with a wireless keyboard, but won't take keystrokes from it.
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Subject: Re: hacking an android tablet to single function device
I know usb and bluetooth device support was added as of
Cannot answer the question, but I can tell you where to look to see why
the system is no longer on the network.
On the box which is no longer seen by the rest of your network:
First, check to see that the Ethernet device you are connecting to the
network is up and configured. Use ifconfig
One quick way to tell if any partition is currently 'dead' is to do an
ls of each mounted directory (e.g. if /dev/sdb2 is mounte on /mnt/foo,
then ls /mnt/foo)
Let us assume you have 10 partitions mounted, spread all over the
various disks, but they are not all someplace handy like /mnt.
Bummer. You need to install smartmontools. Sourceforge is your friend
there, if your package manager doesn't have it...
(http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/Download)
Rusty
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First, edit your .ssh config file to allow x11 forwarding.
Then, 'ssh -X me@overthere'
Done. Just do NOT change 'DISPLAY' on the remote machine (which will
look something like localhost:10.0 IIRC).
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First, edit your .ssh config file to allow x11 forwarding.
The remote machine's /etc/ssh/sshd_config file must have X11Forwarding
yes
in it, I thought. sshd's default is to set that to no, isn't it?
Then, 'ssh -X me@overthere
Fast answer:
ssh me@foosystem 'cat the_Remote_file' localfile
Explanation:
On system 'foosystem' (as me), cat the file. On this
system, append that stream of bytes to 'localfile'.
Should you want to 'tail -f' the file on 'foosystem', change 'cat' to
'tail -f'.
with scp
thanks for the quick responses what I meant is like to have
duplicate files on two systems and then make the files the same.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Carruth, Rusty
rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com wrote:
Fast answer:
ssh me@foosystem 'cat the_Remote_file' localfile
I know someone who needs a company to spec, design, configure, and
install a Linux server (19 rack mount). They need a 'real company' to
do it, not us non-company folks who could do it better for less (oops,
bias showing!).
So, I figured I'd ask the collective wisdom of the PLUG. Email me
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