Re: What benefit .png over .jpg?

2012-10-08 Thread James Dugger
Yes PNG is not Lossy, it is a newer format than most of the other formats. It was design to be a replacement for GIF due to copyright infringement issues with the use of GIF. And yes it has the capacity to go to 24-bit (8bit/chan) and even 48-bit(16bit/chan) color rendering. But where do you

Re: What benefit .png over .jpg?

2012-10-07 Thread James Dugger
Having photographed professionally for over twenty years and digitally for 12 of those, my rule of thumb is to always shoot with the best equipment and film/settings as possible. An 8 mp camera with a better cmos sensor with better lenses can give you better images than a cheaper sensor and

Re: programming

2012-08-21 Thread James Dugger
A good book for entry level programing is Head First Programing by O'Reilly books you can get it in pdf form through O'Reilly. It is easy to follow and is designed for people with little or no formal training in programing. I gave it to my 13 year old son this summer and got him to use it to

Re: CenturyLink/DirectTV

2012-07-26 Thread James Dugger
I'm on CL DSL with a static IP, (Residential plan, in Mesa, East Valley). My plan is 5Mbps up and 40Mbps down (These are theoretical max's), in speed tests I would say it averages 2.3-4.3Mbps up and between 21-34 Mbps down. CL DSL claims 40Mbps as their max download bandwidth. I believe Cox

Re: ubuntu 12.04 intel fake raid

2012-07-24 Thread James Dugger
I also recommend software RAID on Linux using mdadm over any fakeRAID. I have setup several NAS boxes with older motherboards (Pentium III and IV) where SATA was very limited and and used cheap SATA/RAID controller cards to use the latest SATA drives. I have always deactivated the fakeRAID

Re: networking problem

2012-07-11 Thread James Dugger
directions again. Yipee! Thank you so much. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:32 PM, James Dugger james.dug...@gmail.comwrote: Type: dpkg --get-selections | grep openssh-* to find out if Openssh is installed on the system. If it is you should see the following: openssh-client install

Re: networking problem

2012-07-10 Thread James Dugger
Mike, A few questions - which box is client and which is host (for purposes of ssh)? On which box is the rsync program running? Are you using static IP addresses for both boxes? On the client box do you have a known_hosts file in ~/.ssh If you see known_hosts file type cat known_hosts

Re: networking problem

2012-07-10 Thread James Dugger
Also you mentioned networking problems with the address that you are using in for Openssh can you ping the box? try pinging the host box from client using ping -c4 host ip address check for packet loss. If you are losing packets and/or the host cannot be reached than you have a network problem

Re: OT: Software Licensing Fees

2012-07-10 Thread James Dugger
I agree with most of the comments here. However regarding contracts, I won't tell you not to check with an attorney however that can get really expensive for $15 /hr.worth of programing work. If you have a written contract with the business and it does not a have any recitals in it that require

Re: networking problem

2012-07-10 Thread James Dugger
*1- I'm embarrassed to say, but I don't know. I think they both are client. rsync and ssh work from the laptop to the desktop but I can do neither the other way. *My apologies, let me clarify. Openssh installs as both server and client on each machine, so both computers are both. However the

Re: OT: Android Dev Questions

2012-07-10 Thread James Dugger
My brother has 2 partners that started developing for the iphone. Their clients started screaming for Android versions within a year of the success of their iphone apps, and they can't port fast enough. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Android is way to

Re: networking problem

2012-07-10 Thread James Dugger
The laptop can both pull and push the data. The desktop can do neither. T issued command is: rsync -vva --exclude=.*mozilla* --exclude=.*chromium* ~/ bmike2@192.168.0.3:/home/bmike2/;rsync -vva --exclude=.*mozilla* --exclude=.*chromium* bmike2@192.168.0.3:/home/bmike2/ ~/ looking at your rsync

Re: networking problem

2012-07-09 Thread James Dugger
Mike, First reinitialize the known_hosts file by the following from your ssh client box: cd ~/.ssh rm known_hosts ssh username@IP address of ssh host box - Ubuntu will ask you for confirmation of your request to setup a key on the server - Type yes or 'y' which ever it asks for type in

Re: networking problem

2012-07-09 Thread James Dugger
Mike, By default the sshd_config file in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (If that is what you are using Debian and Mint should work the same) in /etc/ssh should have the following defaults set under # Authentication: StrictMode yes RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes You should not have to change

Re: networking problem

2012-07-09 Thread James Dugger
One other quick item, in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file check to see of the following line is comment out or not: AuthorizedKeyFile%h/.ssh/authorized_keys (default is commented out) If it isn't commented out and you still can't access simple ssh then comment it out and restart ssh. Once you

Re: Looking for Router Suggestions

2012-07-06 Thread James Dugger
MSI Micro ATX board with Athlon II processor w/ 4 PCI slots (or 2 PCI and 2 PCIE) 2 GB RAM 4 gigabit NIC cards IDE or SATA to Compact Flash Adaptor Compact flash 2GB memory - install Linux or Router based distro on CF card or USB memory stick External power 120v to 12v transformer w/ mono power

Re: Looking for Router Suggestions

2012-07-06 Thread James Dugger
Maybe re-task one of your unused laptops by adding by a second usb gigabit NIC (assuming your laptop onboard NIC is gigabit) and do as Eric suggested and ad another switch. Remove or deactivate the screen and run it headless to save power use. Add a cooling plate during the summer. On Fri, Jul

Re: OT Verizon Smart Phones

2012-06-24 Thread James Dugger
left sis-in-law without phone or internet for 4 days..guess what she has now!!? At 02:12 PM 6/22/2012, James Dugger wrote: I have been with Verizion ever since our other carrirer was buoght by them in the mid nineties. I have had a Driod and currently have a Droid X. I can't really

Re: OT Verizon Smart Phones

2012-06-22 Thread James Dugger
I have been with Verizion ever since our other carrirer was buoght by them in the mid nineties. I have had a Driod and currently have a Droid X. I can't really compare the difference between carriers in dropped calls but we get are share of dropped calls as well. My wife and son have the iphone

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-14 Thread James Dugger
04:20 PM, James Dugger wrote: I have inherited a Dell PowerEdge 2450 and want to re-task it somewhere in my network running as a linux server. It was being used two months ago as a VPN server running Windows 2003 Server. Here are the secs: 2 - 866 MHz Pentium Processors Bus 133MHz cache

Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-12 Thread James Dugger
I have inherited a Dell PowerEdge 2450 and want to re-task it somewhere in my network running as a linux server. It was being used two months ago as a VPN server running Windows 2003 Server. Here are the secs: 2 - 866 MHz Pentium Processors Bus 133MHz cache 256 KB 2048 MB ECC SDRAM built in

Re: Suggestions for re-tasking a Dell PowerEdge 2450

2012-06-12 Thread James Dugger
RAID controller spins up the boot drive. Any thoughts/recommendations on re-tasking this beast? On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 2:20 PM, James Dugger james.dug...@gmail.comwrote: I have inherited a Dell PowerEdge 2450 and want to re-task it somewhere in my network running as a linux server

Re: 50% O'Reilly ebooks today

2012-05-04 Thread James Dugger
I love O'Reilly book deals. Get an account through safari books and any ebooks you purchase you can go back and re-download in any new formats available. What does everyone think about the new announcement from Barns Noble to spin off Nook to Microsoft. I see MS trying to jump into the ebook

Re: Win 2k3 co-located server and Linux Samba Mirrors

2012-04-10 Thread James Dugger
Stephen, Matt - As far as delta - 10 people spread between three work centers, Use of or calls to the same files (except for CAD) will be light, however the calls to the main directory for a project will be heavier. An typical example would be: On one Engineering project: 1 -2 Engineers working

Win 2k3 co-located server and Linux Samba Mirrors

2012-04-09 Thread James Dugger
Hello all, I have a Company that has recently co-located their Windows 2003 Server to a datacenter. The system has been in a LAN environment for 15 years. The main file server consists of 2 Dell 2800 poweredge file servers with just under 2 TB of stored files on these 2 servers in an array

drupal or plone

2012-01-25 Thread James Dugger
When I first got into web application development I tried both. Plone was more intimidating to me than Drupal for the following reasons: 1. It was not based on a standard simple AMP Stack. by AMP I mean Apache, MySQL, PHP. 2. I found the web site difficult to find tutorials and help, and the

Building wireless client and wireless accesspoint

2012-01-20 Thread James Dugger
I have an interesting project request to build/configure a linux server as a wireless router/dhcp server for a wireless LAN but which is mobile itself and can negotiate for with other wireless access points (wifi hot spots). This is for a small mobile office in a trailer. The client wants a linux

Bash script - for rsync to backup file server running samba.

2012-01-06 Thread James Dugger
Does anyone know if a Linux server can identify windows users connected to the server through a Samba share, where Samba has not been configured as a domain controller (i.e. samba is resolving user accounts with smbpasswd only). Are the windows users always synced with a UNIX user? I am writing

Re: Bash script - for rsync to backup file server running samba.

2012-01-06 Thread James Dugger
Lisa, Thanks for the code snippets and the direction. Kevin, I anticipated that I might get this response and I appreciate the recommendations. I will look into backupPC. There are some pretty narrow constraints that I am working with that have lead me to this direction. 1. This project is

Re: Problems with RAID build in ubuntu Server 10.04

2011-10-22 Thread James Dugger
and --examine shows no errors in the array. Thanks again for you thoughts. On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.netwrote: From: Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net On 10/19/2011 01:06 AM, James Dugger wrote: fdisk -l gives the following: /dev/sda1 1 121601 976760001 83

Problems with RAID build in ubuntu Server 10.04

2011-10-19 Thread James Dugger
I am trying to build an NAS using Ubuntu Server 10.04. I am using the following system: Intel/Pentium 4 2.6GHz 1GB Ram Silicon Image 4 port SATA/RAID controller (fakeRAID) 4 - 1TB HDD The HDD's are drives I have used in the past to test and build different RAID configs using mdadm. I am trying

Re: Problem with CentOS 6 configuring network

2011-09-23 Thread James Dugger
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Anyway Firefox is working and I just ran yum update from terminal and it just completed in update. Will see. Thanks everyone for the help. On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:56 PM, KevinO ke...@kevino.org wrote: On 09/22/2011 09:25 PM, James Dugger wrote

Problem with CentOS 6 configuring network

2011-09-22 Thread James Dugger
I have tried to install CentOS 6 on an older system. When I get to the prompt screen for the hostname of the computer there is a configure network button at the bottom of the screen which is non selectable. After filling in the hostname for the machine the configure network button is still

Re: Problem with CentOS 6 configuring network

2011-09-22 Thread James Dugger
...@mesacc.eduwrote: bizarre. Looking through that, it would appear you DO have an internet connection. Have you tried firefox etc? My only guess is that your access point is blocking something as what you've shown me seems to indicate all good. Phil W. -- *From: *James

Re: Problem with CentOS 6 configuring network

2011-09-22 Thread James Dugger
things get mucked up. Let us know the results and we can help further. On 9/22/11, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Try a live Ubuntu 11.04? Might it have just bit the dust recently? -- -Eric 'shubes' On 09/22/2011 06:43 PM, James Dugger wrote: Phil, Yeah, I tried Firefox

Re: gedit / permissions problems

2011-09-06 Thread James Dugger
Lisa, Thanks for the help. Everything seems to be back to normal. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.comwrote: Hi James: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:21 PM, James Dugger james.dug...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry, fat fingers I sent before I finished the last bits

gedit / permissions problems

2011-09-05 Thread James Dugger
Hoping someone can help; To copy on old hard drive with multiple user accounts onto a new drive I changed the ownership recursively to all files and folders on the old drive to root. I must have changed the ownership on more than the old HDD because I noticed that Nautilus had locked me out of

Fwd: gedit / permissions problems

2011-09-05 Thread James Dugger
Sorry, fat fingers I sent before I finished the last bits of command configuration settings that I did below. Permission settings for Apache: # chmod -R 755 sites # cd/ home # chmod 711 user_name SELinux setting changes: # /usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs 1 # chcon -R -t

ZoneMinder Video - Configuration

2011-06-15 Thread James Dugger
I need to set up a Linux box with video monitoring for a small retail business. I have been looking at ZoneMinder and wanted to know if anyone has used this in the past or has any advice for system hardware and configuration. The following represents what I am trying to hook up to this new

Re: OT: A Little Tip for Canon Printers

2010-10-08 Thread James Dugger
Speaking of Canon printers, does anyone know if there is/was any support for the Canon imageclass mf5750 4in1 printer scanner? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, 64bit server on the machine that I want to turn into a print server (through Samba so Windows machines can print to it). I can't find anything

Re: OT: A Little Tip for Canon Printers

2010-10-08 Thread James Dugger
, but it may have yours. Otherwise you can use the commercial version, Phil W. -- *From: *James Dugger james.dug...@gmail.com *To: *Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us *Cc: *ro...@rdharriscpa.com *Sent: *Friday, October 8, 2010 12:40:44 PM

Re: Looking for October presenters for PLUGdev

2010-09-30 Thread James Dugger
teach it at MCC, along with Der Hans, Dennis Kibbe as well. Let me know if you have any additional questions, Phil Waclawski -- *From: *James Dugger james.dug...@gmail.com *To: *Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us *Sent: *Wednesday

Re: Looking for October presenters for PLUGdev

2010-09-30 Thread James Dugger
Mike, no offense taken ... and yeah hate the Ms office export dance to XML. Aerial, Eric, done the library and the boos store thing. My big problem is time I always carry a book with me so I can make notes and take advantage of my limited time to study. Just a note to all at PLUG. I have

Re: Looking for October presenters for PLUGdev

2010-09-29 Thread James Dugger
I am new to the group and to linux and thought I would give a newbie's opinion here. I am not concerned right now about kernel issues (directly) I am trying to resolve basic fundmental issues. Things like file and directory permissions, configuring your system for network connection (i.e.

Re: Looking for October presenters for PLUGdev

2010-09-29 Thread James Dugger
I am new to the group and to linux and thought I would give a newbie's opinion here. I am not concerned right now about kernel issues (directly) I am trying to resolve basic fundamental issues. Things like file and directory permissions, configuring your system for network connection (i.e.

Re: Looking for October presenters for PLUGdev

2010-09-29 Thread James Dugger
Thanks Steve, You know I was thinking back on the last 3 months and added up how much money I have spent in books on Linux and I can say that I have spent more money than a single user license upgrade to Windows 7 from Vista. Has it been worth it? I would say now, absolutely. However there have

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-14 Thread James Dugger
Bryan, I read through your blog on ACL's and the syntax and options that are available. I am interested in possibly looking at configuring the network this way. I noticed the you indicate that this method may have any impact speed. How much? Anyway below if have posted my current fstab from

Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread James Dugger
I'm new to PLUG and new to LINUX but I have jumped in head first. By head first I mean I have removed XP off of 4 desktops and Vista off my HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop and installed Ubuntu 10.04 i386 on each. I have built an new headless server with and AMD Athelon (tripple core) 64bit chip and

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread James Dugger
Eric, Thanks for your comments. Just as a followup here are responses and a couple of addtional questions and items for clarification. I think you want to disable RAID on the MB, and let Linux handle the raid processing (aka software raid). I'm not sure what happens with the configuration

Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread James Dugger
Bryan, The detail would be great. I would like to learn more about ACL support. Thank you On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Bryan O'Neal bryan.on...@theonealandassociates.com wrote: I agree with everything I have seen in this thread so far. If you are a seasoned windows admin you can use