Re: Fedora firestorm and thoughts

2009-11-19 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:32 -0700, Ed wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: There seems to be a firestorm going on with regard to a change in the newly released Fedora 12.

Re: {Disarmed} Re: Fedora firestorm and thoughts

2009-11-19 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 19:22 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: Sorry, but I don't see that excuses anything. It means that that user/owner now does not necessarily even know whether he is installing system level components. He no longer needs to know there may be impact to even that one

Re: packages for RHEL/CentOS

2009-11-04 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 15:17 -0700, der.hans wrote: moin moin, are RHEL and CentOS really dependent on dag's repo? It seems that the packages I want ( clusterssh and molly-guard in this instance ) are not available via the normal repos. I even enabled the extra CentOS repos ( centosplus

Re: Document Management

2009-11-02 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 08:31 -0700, Matt Graham wrote: I spent 3 or 4 years doing stuff like this on the NYT, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and Boston Globe. You will NOT be able to get decent OCR with free software. Newspapers require a different approach than most OCR

Re: Linux laptop for a pre-schooler

2009-10-24 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 18:54 -0700, James Crawford wrote: I know I'm late to comment but I just installed qimo on an old Dell box that we were not using any longer. My 2 yo grandson loves Tux-Paint and we will be setting the box up at his house this weekend on next. Along with instructions

Re: scp times out

2009-10-23 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 17:12 -0500, Josef Lowder wrote: I last wrote (in part): This scp worked a year ago when I tried it and I've made no changes in this system since. Then Matt Graham wrote: No changes in a year? What? Don't you keep the system updated? That's correct. I have

Re: OT: Do not appreciate the implication that I am pathetic.

2009-10-23 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 19:06 -0500, Josef Lowder wrote: Craig White wrote: I can't quite figure out if this is an indictment on all Linux in general or the specific distribution that he uses but this is pathetic. If the distribution you choose to use breaks because you update, you need

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 09:20 -0700, JD Austin wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: Of course for mission critical data, I recommend RAID 5 or RAID 1+0 at the very least.

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 12:49 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: Performance is a nightmare, but if you have a lot of data it is still viable. And I have been saved too many times from drive failures. Oh, drive failed huh, well good thing it kicked in and rebuilt on the hot spare, I will order a new one

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-20 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 09:22 -0700, Matt Graham wrote: From: JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Matt Graham wrote: From: JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com One gotcha is that depending on where they plug it in it can be sda, sdc, sdd etc. I wrote a script to figure

Re: Free alternative to TimeSlips

2009-10-20 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 16:12 -0700, Paul Mooring wrote: I'm looking for some Time/Billing software similar to what TimeSlips from Sage does. Hopefully something free (as in freedom), as I have to support it once it's put in place. I haven't been able to turn anything up on google, has anybody

Re: looking for redhat-release file from RHEL5Ux

2009-10-16 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 22:34 -0400, Steven A. DuChene wrote: I am trying to write a script that parses a redhat-release file and I need such a file from RHEL5U1 or RHEL5U2 or RHEL5U3 I have the same file from CentOS5 but I need the same thing from one of the actual RHEL5 releases detailed

Re: Horked-up system, Fedora 11

2009-10-15 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 07:27 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote: On 10/14/2009 10:27 AM, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 06:47 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote: I have found SELinux to be much better in Fedora 11 that the problem that it was in F10. Eventually you want to try running

Re: Horked-up system, Fedora 11

2009-10-14 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 06:47 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote: I have found SELinux to be much better in Fedora 11 that the problem that it was in F10. Eventually you want to try running with it enforcing. I need to research SELinux; I'm not very familiar with what it does.

Re: Horked-up system, Fedora 11

2009-10-11 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 04:30 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote: Hello all: Recently I upgraded my main Linux desktop to Fedora 11. Everything was great, until a couple nights ago I was woken by a frantic beeping coming from my office. It was my Fedora machine, which was spewing out weird SELinux

Re: Google Wave

2009-10-09 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 19:52 -0700, Charles Jones wrote: I've watched the long demo video, and over the shoulder of a few friends that have it. Honestly I am not impressed. One of the most ooh-ahh features is the realtime email/collaboration...Oh look you can see someone type char by char as

Re: xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers

2009-10-07 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 10:31 -0700, Wayne Davis wrote: Kubuntu 8.04.2 This happens fairly frequently and the only thing (I) know to do is a reboot. Is there a way to re-init the sound system without rebooting? Any idea WHY this is happening? TIA to all responders :-) pulseaudio

Re: SATA drive problem

2009-10-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 10:09 -0700, Mark Jarvis wrote: Since the IDs for the three disks were sda, sdb, and sdc before I added the SATA drive, Ubuntu apparently implements all HD drivers as part of the SCSI code tree. It made sense that channel 0 master was sda, channel 0 slave was sdb, and

Re: DHCP Server Problem

2009-10-01 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 16:59 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: BTW, I send this to both lists (discussion and application) due to renewed interest in getting the application list to be used though I always felt that was more for end user applications. I would be happy to see that clarified. This is on

Re: minimized windows gone missing in KDE

2009-09-30 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:05 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote: On my KDE system, when I minimized windows, their titles always used to appear in the panel (task bar) and I could just click on those titles to reopen them. But recently something happened so that no miminized windows appear in the task

Bulk HTML mailing

2009-09-24 Thread Craig White
I have a customer that thinks he wants to try bulk e-mail to generate sales. I had nothing to do with this. He hired some graphic artist who of course creates a single jpg file which is useless. Now I have to create an html file that we can mail. My limited knowledge of this remembers something

Re: Tape barcode labels

2009-09-17 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 16:46 -0700, Shawn Badger wrote: Has anyone done or have a recommendation on printing the the barcoded tape labels? I need to print some labels for our tape library and I really don't want to have to use a Windows machine (or wine) to print them up so I am hoping someone

Re: RC Service Order

2009-09-16 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 18:38 -0700, Eric Cope wrote: I need openvpn, then samba, and finally pf (packet filter). Its currently the reverse order. I know where the conf file is, where is the script? I don't know enough about BSD but in general, you want the packet filter scripts to run

Re: RC Service Order

2009-09-16 Thread Craig White
? Eric On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 18:38 -0700, Eric Cope wrote: I need openvpn, then samba, and finally pf (packet filter). Its currently the reverse order. I know where the conf

Re: OT: Texting Solution

2009-09-12 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 10:56 -0700, Nathan England wrote: My sister and I text eachother quite a bit. Except I do not have a texting plan, so I email her phonenum...@vtext.com like all verizon phones work. When she sends me an email the message go to a specific imap folder for only her

Re: 4 partitions

2009-09-12 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 14:27 -0700, Nadim Hoque wrote: Hey, So recently I had upgraded my hard drive so I was in the process of installing fedora 11 back on. On my old hard drive I just had 4 partitions /boot, /, /home, and swap which was created easily with the feodora disk, and I want the

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Alpha4 and the Intel video drivers...

2009-08-18 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 14:39 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: Michael Butash wrote: I guess I'm lame in assuming or expecting that if they're going to offer an upgrade function, that it work. Microsoft has punished people for 25 years thinking such heretical thoughts even trying to use their

Re: OT - Web browsing issue

2009-08-09 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 15:27 -0700, Eric Cope wrote: The url still says our blog url. It happens with Internet Explorer and Firefox. It does not happen on my Mac, making me think its her machine versus our router. Any ideas? spybot search and destroy why are we asking windows questions on

Re: OT - Web browsing issue

2009-08-09 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 15:57 -0700, Michael Butash wrote: How often do you actually ask windows-only people for anything helpful even for windoze? :) 100% of the time (Windows questions for Windows users list) Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by

Re: PLUG governance, etc.

2009-08-06 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 08:52 -0500, Alex Dean wrote: This isn't because I don't care about politics, culture, law, and other issues which come up. (I've responded to a few of those kinds of threads, but more often I end up deleting a half-written response which doesn't say what I want it

Re: Horribly OT odious troll food

2009-08-05 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 20:12 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: We used to do that before World War Two and the GI Bill. Very few people went to college. If you were willing to sacrifice any pretense of a knowledge economy and to target a low wage-no tax strategy you could curtail all higher

Re: I need help with IPCop.

2009-08-04 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 08:10 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Once you have a caching nameserver set up on an orange host, any additional servers on the orange subnet can use that resolver as well. You might need to tweak the config a little to allow other machines to query it though - I'm not

Re: I need help with IPCop.

2009-08-04 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 09:26 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 08:10 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Once you have a caching nameserver set up on an orange host, any additional servers on the orange subnet can use that resolver as well. You might need

Mysql updating dates in a table

2009-08-04 Thread Craig White
I need to update almost all (but not quite all) records in a data table because the dates were imported like '08/04/09' instead of '2009-08-04' I am looking at the mysql reference manual but it doesn't appear that it would be easy to script a line by line 'update' from a csv file. Now I still

Re: Mysql updating dates in a table

2009-08-04 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 15:46 -0700, Eric Cope wrote: how many tables? On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: I need to update almost all (but not quite all) records in a data table because the dates were imported like '08/04/09

Re: Mysql updating dates in a table

2009-08-04 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 16:05 -0700, Austin William Wright wrote: Craig White wrote: I need to update almost all (but not quite all) records in a data table because the dates were imported like '08/04/09' instead of '2009-08-04' I am looking at the mysql reference manual but it doesn't

Re: Mysql updating dates in a table

2009-08-04 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 16:21 -0700, JD Austin wrote: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html You can use Str_to_date to convert it to a date. Date/timestamp data should be one of the date types (Datetime, date, timestamp). I'd do it like this (all sql and won't lose

Re: Mysql updating dates in a table

2009-08-04 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 16:41 -0700, JD Austin wrote: If the current column was a date type there had to be a ton of failures! If you have unique values in the data you can just craft update statements from the csv file. Use excel/OO Calc, perl, etc to parse apart the original file to create

Re: I need help with IPCop.

2009-08-03 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 20:11 -0700, Matthew A Coulliette wrote: Hi Lisa Eric, Questions: Can you just assign an ip number to a computer? Or does something up stream of it, (a computer, router, dhcp server, whatever), have to be made aware of that computer's ip number. Example, when I

Re: ****Re: guess what....

2009-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 19:16 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote: Lisa Kachold wrote: On 7/30/09, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: The 'other' model isn't working any better. My wife works in an Urgent Care; tons of Canadians come here to get the health care they need. I think the

Re: ****Re: Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 21:20 -0700, keith smith wrote: If you are referring to the courts that is one thing the government needs to do. Water Sewer Trash pickup Streets Police Fire Standing Army and one or two other things. Everything else needs to be removed from the government.

Re: Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 14:42 -0700, keith smith wrote: Some think deregulation was a factor. Bailing out thosw who made bad decisions is even worse. We should have let GM and Chrysler go bankrupt at the get go. We should have held those accountable for risky loans accountable not bailed

Re: ****Re: ****Re: guess what....

2009-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 14:26 -0700, keith smith wrote: I think some of your references might be less than accurate. From what I am hearing you would like Health Care run like Social Security and Medicare. Both are failing and bankrupt. And guess who runs them? The government. please

Re: ****Re: guess what....

2009-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 14:46 -0700, keith smith wrote: Canada health care is not efficient. au contraire...it is very efficient Do you offer a source of information about this inefficiency? You have a problem with statements that have no factual evidence to support them. Craig -- This

Re: Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 16:08 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote: At 03:05 PM 8/2/2009, you wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 14:42 -0700, keith smith wrote: Some think deregulation was a factor. Bailing out thosw who made bad decisions is even worse. We should have let GM and Chrysler go

Re: guess what....

2009-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 17:45 -0700, keith smith wrote: Is there a social security escrow account that contains the fund to meet the social security requirements until 2040 the year you said it was viable to? Social security is rutinely taken to fund other projects and the 2040 year you

Re: ****Re: Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 17:33 -0700, keith smith wrote: So pumping trillions of dollars into special interest projects is how we save the economy. Saving GM was about the democrat party buying votes. Look who owns GM now. This is I did you a favor now you owe me a favor type of politics.

Re: guess what....

2009-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 18:22 -0700, keith smith wrote: lets see both are fund by tax dollars and there is no actual fund account. Where does the government get it's money? Why are taxes going up? The government has no money the take it from us and they want more. At some point they

Re: OT: Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 21:43 -0700, Eric Cope wrote: I would examine the free market again. We are /not/ in a free market, and haven't even been close to one for a while. We never deregulated anything, indeed, the pages of regulation haven't decreased

Re: ****Re: guess what....

2009-08-02 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 22:08 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: The list seems to have become more political lately. I think your comments about dishonest people or something set this thread off. Not your fault, if I recall and I'm not worried about going back to find derail point. I kept quiet

Re: ****Re: guess what....

2009-07-30 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 22:33 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote: Perhaps you are looking at the wrong source.we now have a $3 Billion deficit.check out these numbers in bold blue. every state has a major deficit as they clearly were unprepared for such a drastic change in the economy.

Re: ****Re: guess what....

2009-07-30 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 06:43 -0700, JD Austin wrote: I was waiting to see how long until racism was called :) It is a fact that illegal immigration is costing Az and Ca plenty and pointing that out doesn't make him hate filled or racist. I don't blame them for coming here... If I were them

Re: ****Re: guess what....

2009-07-30 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 07:28 -0700, Eric Cope wrote: This is the first time I agree with Craig (for the most part). Perhaps if immigration weren't illegal... immigration isn't illegal. staying after your permission/visa expires isn't a crime. none of this has anything to do with Linux.

Re: Fedora rpmbuild direcories

2009-07-15 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 13:17 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Can anyone on the list help fill me in on exactly which FC version changed the rpmbuild directory from /usr/src/redhat/ to $HOME/rpmbuild/ ? I know that FC10 has $HOME/rpmbuild/, but am wondering about FC9, FC8, FC7, FC6. If you're

Re: One more Zoneminder/video question (camera resolution)

2009-07-10 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 15:28 -0700, Jim March wrote: Folks, First, I have ALL my issues with network access, apache security, DynDNS and the like sorted out. Cool. Remaining issue relates to camera resolution: I have two Hauppauge BT878 camera interface PCI cards with a total of 7

Re: Ham list

2009-07-02 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 19:11 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a friend, a belly dancer, who has an opt-in ham list with roughly 1000 addresses. (Of course, with 1000 subscribers a lot of people will consider the mailing spam, but won't ask to

Re: Fedora 11 IcedTea/ javaws errors

2009-06-26 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 07:53 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Francis Earlfrancis.e...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 15:19 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: with IcedTea and OpenJDK youre generally off the beaten path. prepare to do some bushwacking. I

Re: Fedora 11 IcedTea/ javaws errors

2009-06-25 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 16:19 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: That is due to licensing incompatibilities. Most (if not all?) distros do not come packaged with Sun JRE. sun has been in the process of auditing the code in java and turning it into open source which is what openjdk is...the sun

RE: OT: ICANN and NRO

2009-06-24 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:31 -0700, keith smith wrote: I have not. No need to I do not beleive him. --- On Tue, 6/23/09, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: From: Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com Subject: RE: OT: ICANN and NRO To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss

Re: Gore

2009-06-24 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 22:13 -0700, der.hans wrote: Incorrect quotes and flame wars don't help FOSS. Hey, how bout them Penguins!!![0] :) ciao, der.hans [0] Hockey is almost on topic for while :) the 7th game was one of the most exciting games ever. no flame wars Craig --

RE: OT: ICANN and NRO

2009-06-24 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 05:31 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote: I think my point is clear. If you call Al Gore 'Mr. Mis-Information' and suggest that there is no real proof and yet, you have not seen his movie you aren't a bit interested in the proof that he offers. Question: Have you watched

RE: OT: ICANN and NRO

2009-06-24 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 05:23 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote: At 09:14 PM 6/23/2009, you wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:06 -0700, keith smith wrote: I would say Al Gore is Mr. Mis-Information. All he does is try to tell us there is Global Warming while there is no real proof.

RE: OT: ICANN and NRO

2009-06-24 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 05:20 -0700, Lyle Tuttle wrote: At 09:00 PM 6/23/2009, you wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 19:54 -0700, der.hans wrote: Am 23. Jun, 2009 schwätzte Bob Elzer so: moin moin,We didn't create it. Al Gore did. Apprently he didn't make that claim.

Re: OT: ICANN and NRO

2009-06-24 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 08:15 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote: On Jun 24, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Craig White wrote: The polar ice caps are melting at a record pace. Where is it you believe ice is increasing? Maybe at the poles in the next few decades. http://www.scienceagogo.com/news

Re: Slightly OT: Got a weird one regarding EMail logs and ISPs.

2009-06-23 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 22:32 -0700, Jim March wrote: Not exactly Linux but then not exactly not either. Got a friend who got involved in a business deal that went south, now he's suing. The guy he's suing sounds like a real winner and is claiming there's a couple grand worth of expenses my

Re: OT: SOLVED: What Computer to Take to Coilege and Brand new iTouch for Sale

2009-06-23 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 11:14 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: P.S. An amusing side note. We have a wired/wireless network at home. All of our computers have a fixed IP address (many Linux, 1 Windows, now a.mac something). The wired router has DHCP enabled, but not the wireless router.

RE: OT: ICANN and NRO

2009-06-23 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 19:54 -0700, der.hans wrote: Am 23. Jun, 2009 schwätzte Bob Elzer so: moin moin, We didn't create it. Al Gore did. Apprently he didn't make that claim. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp I think that anyone who repeats that theory of Al Gore

RE: OT: ICANN and NRO

2009-06-23 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:06 -0700, keith smith wrote: I would say Al Gore is Mr. Mis-Information. All he does is try to tell us there is Global Warming while there is no real proof. just out of curiosity...have you watched his movie? Craig -- This message has been scanned for

Re: Just complete apt-get /update/upgrade and my system is bonked!

2009-06-22 Thread Craig White
Actually, the /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.30 would not likely to have been installed by apt/dpkg but likely by some tarball installation of some package instead. The problem with tarball installations like this is that the shell typically uses files in /usr/local before /usr and in this case, it

Re: west side during the summer

2009-06-22 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 20:08 -0700, James Mcphee wrote: If they block ssh, and you want to get to your home machine for irc, etc. Setup ssh on an alternate port. more likely they are running a proxy server with filtering...that seems to be what Libraries are doing these days. Not likely

Re: Just complete apt-get /update/upgrade and my system is bonked!

2009-06-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 17:48 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: I am running Debian testing on my laptop. Just completed a routine apt-get update apt-get upgrade, and now all my desktop icons are gone and every time I access the menus (Applications, Places, System) the upper and lower menu bars

Re: my router hates me

2009-06-13 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 13:14 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: BTW... You seem to have the router configured for WPA. WPA won't work without some serious tinkering and some other resources, like servers and all sort of ugly stuff. That

Re: NSA's Guide to RHEL5 Security

2009-06-06 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:57 -0700, Tuna wrote: Lookie what I found! http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf A 170 page PDF about securely configuring Red Hat, written by and for the government. If you look around on NSA.gov, you'll find similar things for OS X,

Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-29 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 01:25 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote: You probably need to force the higher resolution, then. You may be able to use the monitor resolution configuration tool to get a higher res, or you may need to hand-modify an xorg.conf file to set the resolution to the native

Re: Dual Monitors Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-05-28 Thread Craig White
Hi - On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 20:27 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote: Most cards have a maximum resolution for all screens combined (for instance, an ATI 200M maxes out at 2048x1536) which is based on how fast it can push pixels across the (DVI/HDMI/RAMDAC) interface. I would be surprised if you

Re: One more question re: daily chron job...

2009-05-26 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 17:29 -0700, Jon M. Hanson wrote: Cron doesn't have a way to prompt for your sudo credentials. You'd probably have to run that as the true root user and not sudo. Cron usually has it's own user that execute things so you could also make it so that the cron user can

Re: corrupted download

2009-05-25 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 17:42 -0700, Matthew A Coulliette wrote: Hi, I ran md5sum on the downloaded file from the command line. The sum was different than the correct one I found on the Internet. It was also different for every download. - MatthewMPP redhat/fedora has been using sha1sum

Re: Error # 13 When booting to XP in Grub

2009-05-25 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 22:54 -0500, Mike Hoy wrote: I just installed Ubuntu on this laptop and when I first looked for XP in the grub menu list it wasn't there. I googled it and the web page said to add the following: title Microsoft Windows XP Professional root (hd0,1) savedefault

Re: Error # 13 When booting to XP in Grub

2009-05-25 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 23:27 -0500, Mike Hoy wrote: root (hd0,6) Results in: Error 22 no such partition On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 22:54 -0500, Mike Hoy wrote: I just installed Ubuntu

Re: Error # 13 When booting to XP in Grub

2009-05-25 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 23:42 -0500, Mike Hoy wrote: That results in: grub error 12 invalid device requested well, since you do not have /dev/sda4, that may very well respond to (hd0,3) but I'm surprised that you didn't try that already. Craig -- This message has been scanned for

Re: Magick

2009-05-20 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 17:37 -0700, Matthew A Coulliette wrote: Hi everyone, I have installed imagemagick, perlmagick, graphicsmagick, and imageinfo using apt-get. They are command line image processing tools. Imageinfo works, however, the others do not. I can access the man page for

Re: Access Log Times

2009-05-18 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 12:44 -0700, keith smith wrote: Hi All, Thanks for understanding of my missed date. I'm looking in the access log and I see the date in this format [16/May/2009:13:18:08 -0700] . This brings up the question. In this case is this the server time or do I

Re: HTTP Access Logging

2009-05-18 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 11:23 -0700, keith smith wrote: Sorry for the confusion. I was thinking it was June not may. Everything is there. Silly me! it feels like June outside Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be

Re: List of Command Line Tools

2009-05-16 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 19:51 -0700, Matthew A Coulliette wrote: Hi all, Every once in a while someone mentions that: they use the command line for that, where that means almost anything. Example: someone just mentioned that they use the command line for email. I was wondering if people

Re: Format

2009-05-15 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:12 -0700, Charles Jones wrote: Shouldn't it be TP? ;-) Ryan Rix wrote: and... why isn't this OT? On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Bishmer Sekaran bish...@sekaran.net wrote: Matthew A Coulliette wrote: The toilet paper should come over the

RE: Format

2009-05-14 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 10:48 -0700, Bob Elzer wrote: LOL, I'm a real man, I don't use web email. I like the hard copy on my own disk drive. It's my mail I don't believe someone else having copies of it.lol do you mean aside from the copies that the NSA has? To paraphrase Bill Maher, mail

RE: Format

2009-05-14 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 11:02 -0700, keith smith wrote: G-Mail and others allow you to use your own mail client application anyway so you're not stuck with only having to use their web mail client. Craig I use Yahoo mail for my personal mail. They require a fee to be

Re: Format

2009-05-13 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 05:53 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote: I tend to ignore all such control-versy. Should is a product of the codependent family model that also created: black/white thinking nothing handled in the solution communicating to the wrong source There's a saying, Is someone is

Re: OT : What's a geek?

2009-05-13 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 16:36 -0700, Carlos Macedo Gomes wrote: PC vs Mac: http://twitter.com/Zadi/statuses/1788803337 I don't know who this Zadi is, and can't figure out what she actually does beyond self-promotion but she is clearly adorable and tech savvy and undermines any stereotype of

Re: Format

2009-05-13 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 20:16 -0700, Jerry Davis wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2009 07:28:42 -0700 Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: 2. it might not be laziness as much as time-starved, as in it takes less time to reply that way than other ways. As in their time is more valuable than my

Re: Format

2009-05-13 Thread Craig White
of doing it. I am sorry it sucks for those that don't like it their way. But 'tis the way the world turns currently. On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 20:16 -0700, Jerry Davis wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2009 07:28:42

Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions

2009-05-12 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 06:58 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: My oldest is heading off to college in the Fall, and she needs to take a laptop with her. She has used Linux all her life, but only from Gnome, so Windows, Mac, Linux are all the same to her. She is a journalist, not a computer geek.

Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions

2009-05-12 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:08 -0700, Donn wrote: OpenOffice 3 works perfectly well with OS X without the need for X or NeoOffice. agreed and I have too much history with the slow dog NeoOffice to ever actually install it again. OOo works on Intel based Macs - enough said. Craig -- This

Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions

2009-05-12 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 08:53 -0700, Joe wrote: I couldn't agree less. Sure it'll be powerful enough for her, no doubt, but she's going to be typing up documents for school, and the netbook keyboards are much smaller than a real keyboard. She could get used to it or even use an external keyboard

Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions

2009-05-12 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 08:56 -0700, Stephen wrote: As for jounalism...she should re-evaluate because it is an industry in a death spiral. This is true, but is it because of quality journalism or not... i gave up paying attention because i kept getting bombarded with crap instead of

Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions

2009-05-12 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 20:01 -0700, Greg Furmanek wrote: Hi Mark, As much as I would like to recommend a Linux system at this time the best hardware you can buy is a Mac. I know some say that the premium $ is not worth it but after using one for over 2 years I have nothing better to

Re: Chinese Kiddos with Broken Dicts?

2009-05-10 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 22:35 -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote: That seems... unlikely. I have had thousands of unique IPs hit some of my hosts, many to never repeat after a round of attacks. The more plausible route is that they have a botnet of pwned boxes numbering in the hundreds of thousands

Re: Free Webhost

2009-05-10 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 17:13 -0700, Ed wrote: Would anyone like to start a state initiative that limits our ISPs to managing only the bandwidth of their service as provided to users (enforcing Network Neutrality), require that all customers must be provided only static IP addresses, and full

Re: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 17:29 -0500, Mike Hoy wrote: What is the grub error? Might try these suggestions: http://www.hungry-hackers.com/2009/02/how-to-safely-uninstall-linux-when-dual-boot-installed-with-windows-xp.html error #17. According to that link

Re: Ubuntu Jaunty Update Pop-Under

2009-05-08 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 03:13 -0700, Joseph Sinclair wrote: I noticed a very irritating feature of the new Ubuntu release, I'm posting about it here so nobody else is surprised by it. Let me preface this with a warning, there is some practical information here, that's at the top; there's also

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