Re: How to test suspect gmail delivery problems?

2009-01-09 Thread Charles Jones
Josef Lowder wrote: I'm about fed up with gmail. One of the most annoying things is that it is (apparently) impossible to create filters that will actually delete (rather than just move garbage emails to trash). This is ridiculous. I'm still getting 100+ garbage spams plus 100+ emails in

Re: Softraid Multi-dirve Failure

2009-01-09 Thread Charles Jones
Joe Fleming wrote: Hey all, I have a Debian box that was acting as a 4 drive RAID-5 mdadm softraid server. I heard one of the drives making strange noises but mdstat reported no problems with any of the drives. I decided to copy the data off the array so I had a backup before I tried to figure

Re: Softraid Multi-dirve Failure

2009-01-09 Thread Charles Jones
It will be nice when SSD prices come down (and capacity goes up). No more mechanical failures, then just have to worry about when the flash wears out. Still a downside in that even if a mechanical drive fails, you can sometimes still get the data back by swapping the logic board or having a

Re: Softraid Multi-dirve Failure

2009-01-09 Thread Charles Jones
/dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdd1 And I'm back online! Time to copy files off ASAP. I still hear the chirping noise, from one of the drives, but at least it's back up. Thanks again! -Joe Charles Jones wrote: Joe Fleming wrote: Hey all, I have a Debian box that was acting as a 4 drive RAID-5 mdadm

Strange encfs issue

2008-12-24 Thread Charles Jones
I recently decided to encrypt some data that I have on a raid parition. I created an encfs partition, located on the raid partition itself, located at /raid1/enc1 and mounted as /enc1. I then tested moving a couple of files from /raid1/foo to /enc1/foo. And verified that the encrypted files were

Re: Migrating HDs on remote server

2008-12-22 Thread Charles Jones
That will give you the exact same sized partitions as your old drive. You could then expand the parition or just create another partition in the extra free space and mount it. Erich Newell wrote: So...after mulling this over more, I think my best bet is: dd if=/dev/hda of=dev/hdc bs=446

Re: rsync error message

2008-12-19 Thread Charles Jones
Robert Holtzman wrote: Tried rsync -av /home/username /media/disk for the first time. Every thing appeared to go well but there was an error message at the end: rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(977) [sender=2.6.9] Running diff -r /home/holtzm

Re: RadioShack to sell $100 netbook

2008-12-17 Thread Charles Jones
koder wrote: -Original Message- *From*: KevinO ke...@kevino.org mailto:kevino%20%3cke...@kevino.org%3e *Reply-To*: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us mailto:main%20plug%20discussion%20list%20%3cplug-disc...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us%3e *To*: Main PLUG

Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL, was: MySQL premium services?

2008-12-03 Thread Charles Jones
I shall now make a blanket statement such as; It is easier to setup replication with MySQL. :P --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL, was: MySQL premium services?

2008-12-03 Thread Charles Jones
up, but the supported concepts for replication in PostGres are stronger. PG offered this feature very early on. -jmz On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Charles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I shall now make a blanket statement such as; It is easier to setup

Re: PostgreSQL vs. MySQL, was: MySQL premium services?

2008-12-03 Thread Charles Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The final single reason why I went Postgres was backups. Back in the day when I did my research (this may have changed) you could not take a hot backup in MySQL without purchasing a commercial product, as opposite as Postgres that you can simply hot-backup a fully

Re: Sysadmin via a First-Person Shooter lolwut?

2008-11-26 Thread Charles Jones
Tuna wrote: http://caia.swin.edu.au/urp/l3dge/tools/l3dgeworld/ L3DGEWorld 2.3 is a data visualisation utility based on Open Arena, a GPL'd game that makes use of the Quake III Arena (Q3A) game engine. It was initially designed to be a network monitoring and control application, but can

Re: Sysadmin via a First-Person Shooter lolwut?

2008-11-26 Thread Charles Jones
Charles Jones wrote: It's a UNIX system! I know this! (Quote from Jurassic Park Guess I should have read the entire thread first...someone beat me to it already. Well played! :) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss

Re: OT: Free OpenSource JAD/J2ME WAP SSH Client for Phones

2008-11-25 Thread Charles Jones
I have this installed on my Sony K850i and is quite handy. I once fixed a problem from the movie theatre :-) -Charles --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: OT: Free OpenSource JAD/J2EE WAP SSH Client for Phones

2008-11-25 Thread Charles Jones
James Finstrom wrote: On the original note, locking down to white listed IP addresses... I have a blackberry through ATT over their EDGE network and not through BES. I get a new IP every connection. I thought a compromise between wide-open come have your way with me and no soup for you

Re: OT: Free OpenSource JAD/J2EE WAP SSH Client for Phones

2008-11-25 Thread Charles Jones
Lisa Kachold wrote: He's going to be stuck between usability and security with a two tierd approach? Plus we have not even started to dissect the web SSL/Apache exploits (which is another HUGE subject)! Very true, but I'd almost rather have a second layer of auth than to allow an entire class

Re: OT: Free OpenSource JAD/J2EE WAP SSH Client for Phones

2008-11-25 Thread Charles Jones
James Finstrom wrote: Port knocking from a blackberry not overly realistic Eh, could easily be done if you can program your own java midlet to do so :) -Charles On 11/25/08, James Mcphee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Port knocking? http://www.portknocking.org/

Re: Quad Monitor in Linux

2008-11-25 Thread Charles Jones
Kurt Granroth wrote: Joshua Zeidner wrote: Has anyone successfully done a Quad Monitor setup in Linux? Ubunutu? Gnome/KDE? Not quad, but I was successful with a tri-monitor setup. I see no reason why four wouldn't work. One of my co-workers had a quad setup for awhile,

Re: Quad Monitor in Linux

2008-11-25 Thread Charles Jones
Kurt Granroth wrote: Charles Jones wrote: Kurt Granroth wrote: Joshua Zeidner wrote: Has anyone successfully done a Quad Monitor setup in Linux? Ubunutu? Gnome/KDE? Not quad, but I was successful with a tri-monitor setup. I see no reason why four wouldn't work

Re: Das Keyboard

2008-11-21 Thread Charles Jones
Joe Fleming wrote: If the keyboard is anything like the original DiNovo (http://www.mrgadget.com.au/catalog/images/logitech_dinovo_media_desktop.gif) then I can recommend it highly. I own 2 of the original ones and absolutely love them though the spacebar on the one is kind of flaking out

Re: Hallmark E cards attack

2008-11-20 Thread Charles Jones
What all is involved in the fix? One of my co-workers apparently got his laptop zapped by it. From what he said it infects the winlogon.exe, so not only do you have to clean the virus from loading, but you have to replace the winlogin.exe with a known good copy. What a pain. Personally I

Re: Hallmark E cards attack

2008-11-20 Thread Charles Jones
the AV signatures before doing a scan and clean. Pretty handy for fixing winblows issues. -Charles Stephen wrote: a bootable AV screen is probably going to be needed, you may find some specific tools on mcaffe and symantec sites. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Charles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Disk wiping recommendations

2008-11-07 Thread Charles Jones
Jon M. Hanson wrote: I'll repeat what I recommended to Hans just earlier today: Darik's Boot and Nuke: http://www.dban.org. DBAN works nicely. I think hans also tried using the shred utility that most distros come with. Be aware that doing a secure of a hard disk that is 40GB or larger

Re: Off topic kills value of the list and group

2008-11-05 Thread Charles Jones
Joshua Zeidner wrote: On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Josh Andler [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Dayley wrote: I know several high quality people that either use Linux or want to learn more about using Linux. They were on the cusp but all had a

Phoenix Area Hosting Providers

2008-10-27 Thread Charles Jones
Can anyone recommend any local hosting providers that have the following services: * Management of a few windows boxes including a PDC, and Exchange server. So, active directory management, exchange accounts, etc. * CoLo space w/ internet bandwidth for our own external linux servers *

Re: make cd bootable with Record Now!

2008-10-21 Thread Charles Jones
Hi Mike, Burning as a data disc just puts the file on the disc, not what you want. I assume you have an .iso file. What you want to do is, from the main menu, click Backup Projects, and then Burn Image. Then browse to the .iso file, and click the Add button. Make sure your writer is set as the

Re: Reselling a machine

2008-10-17 Thread Charles Jones
Note sure what you are proving there...that machine is slower, half the RAM, almost half the storage, a crappy 250watt power supply, crappy integrated graphics, and with shipping is $388.43, without speakers, keyboard, and mouse! Who would want that one over Seans machine? :P [EMAIL

Easy Wine+IE6 setup (was Re: FW: On topic message about Off topic messages Various Solutions)

2008-10-02 Thread Charles Jones
Just thought I would mention that I've found this to be the easiest way to setup Internet Exploder 6 on linux: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation It has a nice installer that sets it all up for you, including flash9 plugin, etc. -Charles Charles Jones wrote: Lisa Kachold

Re: Easy Wine+IE6 setup (was Re: FW: On topic message about Off topic messages Various Solutions) URI Exploits

2008-10-02 Thread Charles Jones
Exploder 6 on linux: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation It has a nice installer that sets it all up for you, including flash9 plugin, etc. -Charles Charles Jones wrote: Lisa Kachold wrote: Charles, how is that notebook wireless connection and Apache2

Re: FW: On topic message about Off topic messages Various Solutions

2008-10-01 Thread Charles Jones
Lisa Kachold wrote: Charles, how is that notebook wireless connection and Apache2 VirtuaHost SSL issue I helped you troubleshoot for your home DSL Name based virtual hosting during the InstallFest? I believe that was you? That was a really fun day? That wasn't me, but it sounds like it was

Re: On topic message about Off topic messages

2008-09-30 Thread Charles Jones
Kurt Granroth wrote: * ^Subject:.*OT.* The Subject rule will match any instance of OT... even if it's part of another word. I was tempted to put a regex in front and back to limit the matches but didn't, since a) it wouldn't handle things like WayOT and the like and b) I can't think of many

Re: On topic message about Off topic messages

2008-09-30 Thread Charles Jones
Lisa Kachold wrote: No, What question is No a response to? you simply the filtering (beit procmail or simple ciscolearning SharePoint Microsoft Exchange webmail, or Yahoo, MSN, gmail) as :OT [notice space and preceeding colon]. Sure, my response was simply pointing out possible subjects that

Re: problem installing Ubuntu in Windows

2008-09-14 Thread Charles Jones
booting Ubuntu I can get an edit screen like that from your link For Installed Systems That Need Adjustment. Is that where I add that acpi=off? Yep, give that a try. -Charles On 2008-09-13 21:14, Charles Jones wrote: Saw someone have this problem just yesterday...adding acpi=off to the boot

Re: OT: remember

2008-09-12 Thread Charles Jones
Dan Lund wrote: I lived by the Pentagon Pre-2000, and all i have to say is where are the hundreds of people who where on the road driving right past it to say yep, there was a plane! Seriously? Yeah that bugs me too...the plane flew right over the 395 and literally knocked down some

Re: OT: remember

2008-09-12 Thread Charles Jones
Joshua Zeidner wrote: Charles: lets see the pictures. You can end this discussion, along with countless conspiracy theories right now by posting the pictures you claim you have in your possession. you can either post the pictures, or many here will assume you are lying. I never

FOSS Multi-Party Videoconferencing Solutions?

2008-09-11 Thread Charles Jones
I'm currently looking for a solution that will allow multi-party video conferencing. Here are some preferred features: * Ability to hold a video conference with more than 4 attendees * Ability for multiple, seperate meetings with more than 4 attendees (probably max of ~15 people using system at

Re: OT: remember

2008-09-11 Thread Charles Jones
hitting the Pentagon? On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Charles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can be fun sometimes...I was an eyewitness to the pentagon strike, I was *there*, I have pictures, and video, and yet people have actually told me that I

Re: OT: remember

2008-09-11 Thread Charles Jones
Patrick Jacques wrote: Pics/Vid or STFU Considering what STFU stands for, I think your response is highly inappropriate and aggressive. I seriously hope you are just joking, as I am sick and tired of internet tough guys, and especially of being called a liar about things that I saw, so I am

Re: OT: remember

2008-09-11 Thread Charles Jones
Craig White wrote: there are documented moments when such acts (killing innocent American civilians on American soil) were actually contemplated by members of our own government... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods The Northwoods plan, while indeed ludicrous, was purely

Re: OT: remember

2008-09-11 Thread Charles Jones
Craig White wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 18:53 -0700, Charles Jones wrote: Craig White wrote: there are documented moments when such acts (killing innocent American civilians on American soil) were actually contemplated by members of our own government... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: running a pc fan outside of a case

2008-09-05 Thread Charles Jones
http://3btech.net/clgcpusbpodu.html eculbert wrote: Wife has a laptop that needed a fan, got a thermalake one that sits under the vent hole in the bottom of the laptop. I made a tilted plywood base years ago for it. Works fine. Was $14 at Fry's. Ed/ke7feg Hurry up November...enough heat

OT: Microsoft patents 'Page Up' and 'Page Down'

2008-09-03 Thread Charles Jones
Good thing I use ^B and ^F US patent number 7,415,666 describes a method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed.

Re: ot: browser

2008-09-03 Thread Charles Jones
They have the same or similar EULA on all their products from Gmail, to Google Apps, etc. They basically say that you are giving them permission to reformat or redisplay your data. For some reason people thinks this means that they own everything you type, which is not true, and they say so in

Re: ot: browser

2008-09-02 Thread Charles Jones
Nadim Hoque wrote: Today Google released a new browser called Chrome (www.google.com/chrome http://www.google.com/chrome). It is apparently open source or at least has open source components such as web kit and some Firefox things. Unfortunately it is windows only, but they are going to

Re: ot: browser

2008-09-02 Thread Charles Jones
Alex Dean wrote: Joshua Zeidner wrote: I have to say the timing is good, as FF3 is pretty dismal. I want to switch back to FF2, but don't know of any easy way. What don't you like? My experience so far is that it renders pages quite a bit faster than FF2, and the 'Awesome Bar' is

Re: Reset root password without alternate boot?

2008-08-23 Thread Charles Jones
Alan Dayley wrote: Any ideas how to get past this without riping the hard drive out? Removing the hard drive on a laptop is not a big deal, at most temporarily removing 2 screws. Then you can plug it into an IDE to USB adapter

Re: backup apps

2008-08-13 Thread Charles Jones
Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Charles Jones wrote: koder wrote: I use rsync I posted a script on PLUG a bit ago that I use in exactly the same environment as yours. In the same thread I believe there were a few alternate suggestions. Just thought that I would

Re: backup apps

2008-08-12 Thread Charles Jones
koder wrote: I use rsync I posted a script on PLUG a bit ago that I use in exactly the same environment as yours. In the same thread I believe there were a few alternate suggestions. Just thought that I would mention that rsnapshot uses rsync, and is bascially just a fancy rsync script,

Re: PPC Linux

2008-08-12 Thread Charles Jones
Jason Ross wrote: Hello all, I will be installing linux on a mac g4. I was wondering if anyone is currently running a ppc linux server and if so any distro recommendations. We have debian running on a few Mac Xserve's. I think you can get PPC builds of most distros these days. -Charles

Re: Depressing IT Job Prospects

2008-08-11 Thread Charles Jones
Bryan O'Neal wrote: ... Even if I was, are they going to let go all of their people? Doubt it. ... I work/ed for a real estate company. We went from over 50 people down to 4 in a bit over a year. It is all about the boom and bust; ride the wave as long as you can and try to bail before

Re: persistent screen saver problem

2008-07-30 Thread Charles Jones
Charles Jones wrote: I have a CentOS laptop that is running firefox in kiosk mode (which rotates various system displays and metrics). I'm having problems disabling the screen blanking. Not only is it blanking the screen, but some time after that is does a DPMS powerdown of the display

Re: FOURCC and PAFF interlacing

2008-07-27 Thread Charles Jones
der.hans wrote: moin moin, still trying to watch these videos. ... Looks like CoreAVC is required to view these :(. Have you tried this: http://code.google.com/p/coreavc-for-linux/ -Charles --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

persistent screen saver problem

2008-07-10 Thread Charles Jones
I have a CentOS laptop that is running firefox in kiosk mode (which rotates various system displays and metrics). I'm having problems disabling the screen blanking. Not only is it blanking the screen, but some time after that is does a DPMS powerdown of the display as well. So far I have

Re: fourcc-ms decoder?

2008-07-07 Thread Charles Jones
I think its the h264 that is giving you the trouble. You need to recompile ffmpeg with the --enable-x264 option. (While you are at it, might as well also do --enable-xvid, --enable-faac. Expect to have to install some -devel package prerequisites. -Charles der.hans wrote: $ ffmpeg -i

Re: fourcc-ms decoder?

2008-07-07 Thread Charles Jones
@ P.S. I suspect you will still need to also add x264 support :( -Charles Charles Jones wrote: I think its the h264 that is giving you the trouble. You need to recompile ffmpeg with the --enable-x264 option. (While you are at it, might as well also do --enable-xvid, --enable-faac. Expect

Re: Icann and new TLD's

2008-07-06 Thread Charles Jones
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25543624 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Icann and new TLD's

2008-07-05 Thread Charles Jones
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7475986.stm Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called top-level domain names... Under the new plans, domain names can be based on any string of letters, in any script. Individuals will be able to register a domain based on their own

windows SUCKS!!!

2008-07-04 Thread Charles Jones
This is the second time I have composed this email. The first subject was a bit more diplomatic. I was writing an email to share a post ( http://blog.sontek.net/2008/06/30/windows-hater-in-response-to-linux-hater/ ) that I read about the failings of MS-Windows. Ironically in the middle of

Re: OT: Re: windows SUCKS!!!

2008-07-04 Thread Charles Jones
It seems that Bill Gates is just as frustrated as the rest of the windows users: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to

Re: color option for /bin/ls breaks shell scripts

2008-07-02 Thread Charles Jones
Charles Jones wrote: So he learned some valuable lessons: 1. Always call binaries by their full path (use /bin/ls) so you don't get bitten by an alias or something in $PATH overriding 2. bash -x -c 'command(s)' is helpful for debugging command-line shell 3. In some cases it's better to use

Re: Cisco VPN Client for Linux

2008-07-01 Thread Charles Jones
I am not able to find the publicly accessible download link, but I can grab it from the internal site and put it somewhere if you need. -Charles David Huerta wrote: Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone knew where I could acquire a copy of Cisco Systems' VPN Client for Linux, as the Cisco

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-30 Thread Charles Jones
Fritz wrote: So, what I can't figure out is why the gov't just doesn't release the video footage and show everyone that it was really a 757, not a cruise missile (as the conspiracy theorist claim), that crashed into the Pentagon and put an end to this nonsense? I've wondered that myself.

Re: OT - the website is down

2008-06-30 Thread Charles Jones
Craig White wrote: I'm sure that this will amuse many here... http://thewebsiteisdown.com/ I was hoping it was real and not scripted, but was still pretty amusing. -Charles --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Charles Jones
Lisa Kachold wrote: Who can even say what really happened on 9/11, the corruption is soo deep and complete? I've encountered many people who say that 9/11 was executed by everything from the NY Firefighters, to the secret service. I've discovered that some people simply prefer to believe in

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Charles Jones
Fritz wrote: Charles Jones wrote: Charles, would you care to comment on the following? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods If this is really true, it's quite disturbing. Is this just made up Internet gibberish? As James Bamford summarizes in his book Body

Re: changing file system names

2008-06-29 Thread Charles Jones
Robert Holtzman wrote: Just had occasion to look at my /etc/mtab and the file system names had changed from /dev/sda* to /dev/sdb*. My /etc/fstab still shows /dev/sda*. This may have happened when I recently used gparted to create 3 new partitions (which I have yet to designate labels or

Re: INSTALL FEST Today UAT 10:00 - 16:00 = Watch http://live.yahoo.com/obnosis

2008-06-28 Thread Charles Jones
Lisa, I like the idea of the live broadcast. I've recently started playing around with webcast sites like seesmic, yahoo live, etc. I was surprised at how easy it is and how little bandwidth it takes. We considered using Yahoo Live at work for teleconference meetings, but so far we are

Re: which ATI card?

2008-06-25 Thread Charles Jones
Joseph Sinclair wrote: Last I checked Compiz doesn't play well with dual monitors, so you may have to give up that particular requirement. Friday I had compiz working with dual monitors. I didn't try the cube effect, but I had window animations and whatnot working.

Re: which ATI card?

2008-06-25 Thread Charles Jones
der.hans wrote: Am 24. Jun, 2008 schwätzte Charles Jones so: Joseph Sinclair wrote: Last I checked Compiz doesn't play well with dual monitors, so you may have to give up that particular requirement. Friday I had compiz working with dual monitors. I didn't try the cube effect, but I had

Re: OT: ogg vorbis players for sale

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Jones
Just thought that I (the friend, heh) would add that the Pilot model plays video VERY well (full 30FPS). A friend who bought one says he likes it better than his video IPod (especially since he doesn't need iTunes to put media on it). The sport model also plays video, but it has a smaller

Electrical contractor recommendation

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Jones
Can anyone recommend an electrical contractor that deals with large UPS installations? We recently received a donation of some rather beefy UPS units that I would love to enhance our small office datacenter with. I need someone who can come in and figure out if we have enough capacity in our

It's download Firefox day!

2008-06-17 Thread Charles Jones
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord I can't even get to the above URL...I guess they are getting DOS'd by downloads...I wonder if yum update counts :) -Charles --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To

Re: It's download Firefox day!

2008-06-17 Thread Charles Jones
-com.geo.mozilla.com. www-mozilla-com.geo.mozilla.com is an alias for www-mozilla-com.glb.mozilla.com. www-mozilla-com.glb.mozilla.com has address 63.245.209.10 I guess they didn't update all of their cluster nodes or something :P -Charles Charles Jones wrote: They totally botched the launch. If you go to http

Re: FOSS text editor

2008-06-17 Thread Charles Jones
One of my coworkers often uses vim.exe :-) You could always install OpenOffice Suite for windows. -Charles Trent Shipley wrote: Does anyone know of a good FOSS text editor for Windows? I have used Xemacs, but it doesn't come with a dictionary

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

2008-06-14 Thread Charles Jones
Lisa Kachold wrote: Yea the no storage bytes it bigtime! Prolly want to try to snag a iscsi fiber channel card [check carefully that it's not toast and compatible with that chassis] and say an old StorageTek 3310 [and resident drives] from Ebay! The StorageTek's became boat anchors when

(pics) Anyone need a Sun 6500? Or two...or three?

2008-06-14 Thread Charles Jones
Here are some pics I snapped of the servers before I left work today. I shoved an office chair into the frame so you could get an idea of the scale. Note on any of the URLs yhou can s/sized// if you want to see a larger version. Rear view:

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

2008-06-14 Thread Charles Jones
Hmm it looks like I accidentally doubled the RAM estimates...that's what I get for sending emails at 2:30am :) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

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

2008-06-13 Thread Charles Jones
PROTECTED] wrote: Er... Put me on the list, if it's still empty enough. I'm having visions of co-lo'ed game servers. Charles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have some spare Sun 6500's (basically a 4500/5500 racked in its own cabinet). If anyone is interested in them, let me know and I

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

2008-06-13 Thread Charles Jones
. Imagine screaming fast rock solid Linux but with a much deeper tcp/ip stack and actual swapping proc rather than rather than paging memory! Oh, and did I mention dtrace tools? */Charles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: I don't think they would work as game servers. They are Sun servers

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

2008-06-12 Thread Charles Jones
As I said they are full size racks...taller than I am. The machine itself could be an end table, but the entire thing, on its side, would be more like a coffee table :) I will see if I can find out the specs today or tommorrow. I will plug em in and make sure they work. -Charles Lisa

Re: OT: Is that a quad-core in your attic? Or...

2008-06-10 Thread Charles Jones
Ted Gould wrote: Hey all, So I'm in the position where I'd like to have a little more computing power close to me instead of in the cloud. But, I really don't want to put a computer in my office, I'd prefer to hide it in the local cloud. It seems like the two issues now become dust and

Re: check this out (plug... it is way OT but helpful)

2008-06-10 Thread Charles Jones
mike havens wrote: http://www.xcelplus.com/products/printables/Automotive_Testimonials.pdf So how long have you worked for Lubrilon? ;) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to

Re: check this out (plug... it is way OT but helpful)

2008-06-10 Thread Charles Jones
additive (ethos). they've been around a while so. On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Charles Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike havens wrote: http://www.xcelplus.com/products/printables/Automotive_Testimonials.pdf So how long have you worked for Lubrilon

Re: root passwords, formerly 'Best Vista Error ever'

2008-05-23 Thread Charles Jones
When you install, it does warn you that there is no password and it suggests (including showing you the exact command to use) that you set one. I also believe that you can only connect with no password from localhost. -Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or are you saying that the installation

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread Charles Jones
It sounds like the motherboard was replaced? Is she using a PCI ethernet card or the onboard? The reason I ask is because I believe that cox locks your modem to the MAC address of your NIC, so if she got a new mobo and is using the onboard...the MAC address will be different and you have to

Re: Reformatted hd, reinstalled XP, no internet connection

2008-05-14 Thread Charles Jones
FYI you should be able to go to http://192.168.100.1 to get to the cable modem interface, where you should be able to see what sort of error it is getting. At least that's the IP that worked for me both when I had a Cox-provided motorola surfboard modem, as well as with the Linksys one I have

Re: drive recovery

2008-04-30 Thread Charles Jones
Technomage Hawke wrote: ok guys, I am in immediate need of some help here. I just had a western digital WD500ks fail on me. it started with some filesystem errors about 3 hours ago and after I restarted the machine, it failed to be detected in BIOS and makes a loud clack on startup (this

Re: easy way to create a daemon

2008-03-26 Thread Charles Jones
Just thought that I would add, that if the process is already running (you forgot to run it with nohup), you can still protect it via: 1. Ctrl-Z (suspends the process) 2. bg (runs the process in background) 3. disown %1 (detaches the process from the pty...same effect as nohup) 4. Logout and

Re: OT: For those who cannot take a lunch break

2008-03-24 Thread Charles Jones
Carlos Macedo Gomes wrote: Ooohhh man. I was playing Galaga Mrs. Pacman at Dave Buster's in Tempe and now Sinister :-). Man I recked myself on that game many a weekend and afternoon... I Hunger!!! --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: OT: For those who cannot take a lunch break

2008-03-23 Thread Charles Jones
Josef Lowder wrote: . -- http://www.upquick.com/humor/images/keybrdsnacks.jpg Maybe I should get one of those...I'm one of those people who never go to lunch (as compared to the rest of the office, which seems to have a fixation for trying to find a place to eat lunch that they have not

Multi-Distro Unix Toolbox/Cheatsheet

2008-03-23 Thread Charles Jones
I figure it's time for the quarterly Unix Cheat Sheet email ;-) http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml This one seems pretty decent, and has examples for multiple distros. -Charles --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To

Re: how to convert a pdf fill-in form to fixed content

2008-03-17 Thread Charles Jones
Josef Lowder wrote: . Last year I used the IRS supplied pdf forms to prepare my tax returns. When I finished filling in the fill-in pdf forms, somehow, I converted each one to a new pdf form that had *fixed* data for printing out, emailing, etc. But now I can't remember how I did that.

Re: how to convert a pdf fill-in form to fixed content

2008-03-17 Thread Charles Jones
Josef Lowder wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:07:30 -0700, Charles Jones wrote Josef Lowder wrote: . Last year I used the IRS supplied pdf forms to prepare my tax returns. When I finished filling in the fill-in pdf forms, somehow, I converted each one to a new pdf form that had *fixed

Re: Need some SMTP troubleshooting help - Please!.

2008-03-13 Thread Charles Jones
Just thought I would mention that I know someone whose mail client was malfunctioning (trying to login with the wrong password over and over), and their IP was blocked with the same symptoms that you have. Is there any chance that you did something to trigger their IPS? If so then the solution

Re: Need some SMTP troubleshooting help - Please!.

2008-03-13 Thread Charles Jones
software on servers outside your network for proper testing). After you are reasonably sure your network is secure, please submit your IP addresses to Yahoo! for retesting http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/defer.html. -Charles Charles Jones wrote: Just thought I would mention

Re: Please help me diag a Qworst routing issue..

2008-03-07 Thread Charles Jones
My Fiancee has a POS system and uses Qwest DSL. I just ssh'd into the server and did a test with wget, here are the results: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ wget https://netconnect.paymentech.net/NetConnect/controler --10:41:39-- https://netconnect.paymentech.net/NetConnect/controler Resolving

Re: trying to script a command line

2008-03-05 Thread Charles Jones
Craig White wrote: OK - truly simplifying my issue to a point where someone should be able to explain this to me... # my starting file $ cat test-db.txt A 1 B 2 C 3 # this is what I want $ cat test-db.txt | cat test-db.txt | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | sed ':a;N;$! ba;s/\n/ /g' A\ 1 B\ 2 C\ 3

Re: Laugh, we're funny.

2008-03-04 Thread Charles Jones
Bleh...I was like what pornographic image? so I went back and looked and sadly noticed it this time. At least we weren't goatse'd :P Joshua Zeidner wrote: that site scores high on the raunchy scale... any technical tips on removing that pornographic image from the page you linked

Re: trying to script a command line

2008-03-04 Thread Charles Jones
Give this a try: cat /path/to/filenames_file.xt |xargs pdftk -Charles Craig White wrote: I have an awkward situation with pdftk I have a file with filenames that I want to pass to pdftk as input files. according to the man page... input PDF files | - | PROMPT A list of the input PDF

Re: trying to script a command line

2008-03-04 Thread Charles Jones
I just noticed that you said some of the filenames have spaces, so use the -0 option, which should take care of that (man xargs for more info). -Charles Charles Jones wrote: Give this a try: cat /path/to/filenames_file.xt |xargs pdftk

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