Need urgent help repairing a video file...and yeah, it's a Linux issue...

2012-10-20 Thread Jim March
so that I could load those and load the build-essentials stuff needed to compile this critter. Can anybody help by compiling untrunc and then applying it to that data file!? I'd be very, very grateful :(. Thanks, Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

re: Need urgent help repairing a video file...and yeah, it's a Linux issue...

2012-10-20 Thread Jim March
, here's a similar video from the same camera (Looxcie.com) - in this case shows how a voting machine company feels about people asking basic questions: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1825088/Dominion%20in%20Denver.mpeg Thanks, Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: Slightly OT regarding advanced whois searches...

2012-09-04 Thread Jim March
Perfect :). Thanx! Jim On Sep 4, 2012 8:41 AM, Mike Ballon mike.bal...@gmail.com wrote: for loop? grep for @ or whatever specific contact text you're looking for. $ for i in `cat domains.txt` ; do whois $i | grep '@' ; done Please contact contact-ad...@google.com 1600 Amphitheatre

Regarding advanced whois searches, question re-phrased...

2012-09-04 Thread Jim March
.fds.badguycorp.net ns1.jhg.badguycorp.net So. What I need to do is trawl for whois entries where the name server(s) end in badguycorp.net, and report what those websites are. Is there a way to do this, by any method, Linux command line or otherwise? Thanks! Jim

Slightly OT regarding advanced whois searches...

2012-09-03 Thread Jim March
are involved. Thanks! Jim --- 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

Re: how to transfer files

2012-08-14 Thread Jim March
Dropbox. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: let's say I'm at starbucks and I need a file off of the computer at the house. Please, how do I do it? condition- I do not have a static ipaddress. :-)~MIKE~(-:

Re: DON'T PANIC

2012-08-10 Thread Jim March
I saw somebody use VI once, and was glad somebody wrote GEdit :). Jim --- 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

Urgent: need to ID some Network Manager icons - STAT!

2012-06-12 Thread Jim March
. Are these PCs set to ad-hoc mode, or WiFi printers, or ??? FAST answers a plus... Thanks, Jim --- 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

Re: Urgent: need to ID some Network Manager icons - STAT!

2012-06-12 Thread Jim March
Disconnecting from my cellphone helped - can anyone help translate this below? IF those are in fact ad-hoc, that's potentially bad. Jim --- jim@jim-blackthing:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning [sudo] password for jim: wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 7C:61:93:39:1C:FD

Re: wireless adapter

2012-05-18 Thread Jim March
the surface brand names. Those won't usually tell you crap. In your particular case it does, but only if you know to google it with the word chipset to find out the underlying reality. Jim On May 18, 2012 8:01 PM, Derek Trotter expat.arizo...@gmail.com wrote: Since I'm strapped for cash, my

Re: Which linux distro

2012-05-18 Thread Jim March
Yup. There's only one real gotcha with Ubuntu Precise and it involves the NVidia 295.40 driver. With some older cards it stinks. They just came out with 295.49 and it can be found very easily as a .DEB file for Precise. Highly recommended. Jim On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Lisa Kachold

Re: What's the best high speed internet option?

2012-05-10 Thread Jim March
Android devices for a song if you look around. Their 4G is for me is usually 4mb/s or so inbound, a bit above 1mb/s outbound. Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail

Got a good one here: Paul's printer paradox

2012-05-06 Thread Jim March
BCCed Paul on this :). Jim --- 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

Re: laptop battery cycling

2012-05-06 Thread Jim March
every week or two (or however long it takes for it to naturally drain to about 50%), with the one about to go on the shelf being deliberately drained to about 80% first. Jim On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: For the record, I'm running a Lenovo T420i with a 6

Need help ripping out an nvidia binary driver installed...

2012-04-26 Thread Jim March
Nouveau to start. I think I need to yank out what Nvidia's installer did. I did an rmmod nvidia - no joy. Help? Typing this on my cellphone...sigh. Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Need help ripping out an nvidia binary driver installed...

2012-04-26 Thread Jim March
Cool - that did it. Thanks! Jim On Apr 26, 2012 5:48 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: sh /path/to/nvidia-1.0-.pkg1.run --uninstall On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:30 PM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: rmmod will only remove it from memory.. it isn't persistent across reboots

Re: LTE Speeds / accessibility

2012-04-16 Thread Jim March
is the cheap way to go. Jim On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: So far i have loved the 4g experience in the phx metro area. I get better reception in areas where i had iffy 3g coverage. and the speeds have ranged from 2-10x better depending on where i was. if i

[no subject]

2012-02-10 Thread Jim March
suspect Precise won't change that. Jim --- 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

TITLE SHOULDA BEEN: Comparing Mint 12 with Oneiric 11.10 when trying to completely dump Unity.

2012-02-10 Thread Jim March
Sigh. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: OK. So I hate Unity with a passion. Sorry. I'm not going to argue about it, it just isn't my thing. I can deal with Gnome3 set to classic mode - while the menus are a bit annoying plus there's that whole hold ALT

Re: TITLE SHOULDA BEEN: Comparing Mint 12 with Oneiric 11.10 when trying to completely dump Unity.

2012-02-10 Thread Jim March
, but...honestly, I've proven to my own satisfaction that with some tweaking, I can turn Ubuntu Oneiric into a user interface just as good as Mint 12 and likely I'll be able to do the same with Precise. Mint's lack of support for whole disk encryption alone is, to me, a deal-breaker. Jim On Fri, Feb

Odd question: Laptop is acting nuts when transitioning from battery to AC or back...

2012-02-04 Thread Jim March
on but...if anybody has seen anything like this, sing out. Jim --- 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

Re: oracle virtual machine

2012-01-31 Thread Jim March
, AMD or whatever. Look for VT-x, AMD-x or the like if you've got something oddball. Jim --- 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

Re: [Tfug] Got an odd one: laptop AMD CPU stuck at 800mhz, won't jump to 1, 600

2012-01-21 Thread Jim March
after a cold boot. Jim On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:47 PM, John Gruenenfelder jetpackj...@gmail.com wrote: I would guess that for some reason the kernel has chosen an incorrect frequency scaling driver.  Speedstep proper is only on Intel CPUs, but there are equivalent drivers for AMD Mobile

Re: [Tfug] Got an odd one: laptop AMD CPU stuck at 800mhz, won't jump to 1, 600

2012-01-21 Thread Jim March
over, for me...after four years of daily carry my old one (Inspiron 1525) was visibly falling apart :(. Big thanks to Kdesu on the reddit /r/linux forums: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/oqgu8/got_an_odd_one_laptop_amd_cpu_stuck_at_800mhz/c3jby3b ...for the tip that worked. Jim

What to do if you spill liquid on a laptop - OS independent.

2011-12-23 Thread Jim March
the way though - something like Disk Utility from the latest Ubuntu family (Lucid forward) will do nicely. Jim PS: what if you spill mineral oil on it!? Well other than cleaning the keyboard and letting the majority of it drain, don't worry about it! It's non-corrosive, non-conducting. You can run

Re: What is the big deal with 64 bit processing?

2011-12-03 Thread Jim March
could run 64bit but memory usage would go up and there's some things I still need real Windows XP for running under Virtualbox. Doing so in 64bit on a 2gig box would be a memory usage mess. Jim On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: It is very unlikely you would

Re: SecureDigitaDrive

2011-12-03 Thread Jim March
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIFmKw7F4Bw I wasn't planning on taping that, just said what the hell, went for it. Came out OK. This was a small flip-phone I had at the time - the fumbling at the beginning was me setting it up while still sitting on the panel. Jim On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Michael Havens

Re: What is the big deal with 64 bit processing?

2011-12-03 Thread Jim March
This is good advice re: HTOP and the rest, but...I'd be willing to bet you're going to find that something is going bonkers that turns out to be 32bit code running in emulation. And quite likely, it's flash. Could be your disk access is turd-like though. Jim On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:43 AM

Re: first tar file.

2011-12-03 Thread Jim March
I thought tar files were used by roofing companies? On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: oh yeah if any of you want the file let me know. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I made my first tar file just a few minutes

Re: first tar file.

2011-12-03 Thread Jim March
Remember never to unzip in public. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote: Yep, to unzip, just include the same option. As an FYI, gzip is more common, especially on older installations, but bzip is better at compression. Eric On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:15 PM,

Re: OT: SSD and EMP

2011-12-01 Thread Jim March
I know one way to find out: take an SSD full of data out of it's computer and put it between a couple of hard disk magnets... Jim On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: moin moin, discussing things at work and EMPs came up. It was almost on topic :). Anyway

Re: phone security?

2011-12-01 Thread Jim March
now if Tmobile is involved. It turns out my HTC G2 is a pain in the neck to fully root and re-ROM but I intend to do so ASAP. What these asshats have done is way, way beyond intolerable. Jim On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:18 PM, betty nicepeng...@webcanine.com wrote: what about this ?  i just figure

Re: phone security?

2011-12-01 Thread Jim March
Once it's auto-updated itself to Android 2.3, the G2 is a stone-cold bitch to root. There's a full firmware update involved that does it's absolute best to block you. Jim On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: The G2 isn't that bad. and Cyanogen runs well

Re: compress pictures

2011-11-30 Thread Jim March
problem with .ZIP archives or the like: a small disk error in the middle of the archive can make the whole stack blow up, whereas if it's just a folder with a bunch of individual files, that same single error would only take out one picture. Jim On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Matt Graham danceswithcr

Re: I'm trying to install LinuxMint

2011-11-28 Thread Jim March
You didn't check to make sure you had a valid connection when running in LiveCD mode first, eh? Jim On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: it seems to hang when it says 'installing previously installed packages'. H this is interesting. It won't accept

Re: I'm trying to install LinuxMint

2011-11-28 Thread Jim March
We really are crossing our fingers :). Sidenote: on your next normal reboot or re-login, try classic mode instead of just Gnome. Works great for me. Jim On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Okay it is loaded and hopefully all is well. I've been

Re: oh man! it just crashed again.

2011-11-28 Thread Jim March
googling for kernel panic issues on battery power in oneiric and I'm coming up blank. Jim On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I was writing an email to you guys when I got it. A PANIC! -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG

Re: oh man! it just crashed again.

2011-11-28 Thread Jim March
Roll the dice, dude :(. You're getting short of options here. There has *definitely* been some power-related tweaks to the kernel of late. Jim On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: you really think upgrading the kernel will fix it? On Mon, Nov 28, 2011

Re: panic

2011-11-27 Thread Jim March
Double-click it. Put a blank disk in first and cancel what it wants to do with the blank. On Nov 27, 2011 12:45 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: That's what I figured! How do I burn an ISO with Ubuntu? On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: The DVD

Re: panic

2011-11-27 Thread Jim March
It won't burn CDs? On Nov 27, 2011 1:19 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: yep I figured that one out. It seems as if I only have a cd reader and dvd burner. Looks like I need to buy more things! On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Double

Re: I'm trying to install LinuxMint

2011-11-27 Thread Jim March
on the Mint12 LiveCD? Jim On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I tried Ubuntu 11.10 but when I am running of the battery it craashes. So I was told to try LinuxMint. I download it and it runs fine from the CD but when I'm trying to install it it hangs  towards

Linux Mint 12 with whole disk encryption - just got it running...

2011-11-27 Thread Jim March
to boot! If you follow those directions though, enter your partition sizes properly in MEGABYTES instead of gigs, it does work. Functions the same as Ubuntu's opening encryption splash screen except for some reason it doesn't put dots in as you type your password. No biggie. Jim

Re: webcam

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
Mike, just a thought: Linux Mint 12 just officially shipped. I suspect that would be a really nice setup for your new critter. Given your ATI/AMD video card, you want a pretty cutting edge distro...the latest Ubuntu or Mint 12 would do nicely. Jim On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Michael

Re: panic

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
, turn off the screensaver app if you have it enabled. There's been some weird stuff there for the last few kernels... Jim On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: My laptop just started to panic after I started running it off of the battery. Any idea what the problem

Linux Mint and whole disk encryption

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
encryption it's a no-go for me. Jim On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net wrote: You know, I read this thread about mint as I burn 11.10 to install on new disks, and thought to grab Mint and give it a go, especially with fussless gnome3 supposedly.  Then I

Re: panic

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
the latest kernel bits for power management and ACPI controls, which is another top contender for why your rig is crashing...they only just got a handle on that stuff, with patches that can be applied to current kernels and if I recall right, Mint12 did so? Jim Jim On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:05 PM

Re: panic

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
will have an updated kernel though over Ubuntu Oneiric. Jim On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I have a copy of KUBUNTU. Do you think putting that on the box instead of Ubuntu would solve the problem of it crashing? On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Jim

Re: panic

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
to 4gig or more, download and use the PAE extension kernel to get access to the extra RAM with a 32bit setup. Jim On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: mint mirror? On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Doubtful.  I'd try

Re: panic

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
The torrent links aren't there. Found 'em here though: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1889 Your choice 32bit or 64, CD or DVD. Go with one of the DVDs, whichever you want...I'm doing 32 myself. They'll come in fast as hell via torrent. Jim On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Michael Havens bmi

Re: panic

2011-11-26 Thread Jim March
The DVD files are a bit bigger and contain all the restricted multimedia codec stuff. They won't fit on a CD, need to burn 'em to a DVD. Jim On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: well, I would love to get the /DVD On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Jim March

Re: 32 vs 64

2011-11-25 Thread Jim March
Do a google search on the AMD C-50 CPU and pull up AMD's spec sheet. Odds are vastly in favor of it being 64. On Nov 25, 2011 2:23 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: how do I tell if I have a 32 bit system or a 64 bit? -- :-)~MIKE~(-:

Re: my parents present to me:

2011-11-24 Thread Jim March
cards are usually Atheros. All have re-broadcast support and excellent open-source driver support. Next best is Intel - good drivers but only some can re-broadcast. Broadcoms require connecting up some other way first to download the right firmware, but once running they're pretty solid. Jim On Thu

Re: my parents present to me:

2011-11-24 Thread Jim March
chipset is going to be the showstopper if there is one. Jim On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: You are an absolute wealth of information. Thanks. I found the spec sheet for the computer (http://i.walmart.com/i/rb/0088611205066.pdf) and all seems to be good

Re: my parents present to me:

2011-11-22 Thread Jim March
A laptop should be checked out and bought as a complete working setup - new or used. Jim On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Jim. Are you saying it isn't worth the time to put one together for me? I'll give it a couple of days and see if anyone

Re: my parents present to me:

2011-11-22 Thread Jim March
You don't want a laptop that's missing bits. Battery maybe. But otherwise, you don't want to start with a needs work special. Jim On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: pray tell, what do you mean by complete working setup? -- :-)~MIKE

Re: my parents present to me:

2011-11-21 Thread Jim March
: Intel 7100/7200/7400/7600 series CPUs rock HARD. Jim On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't put any specs because I have no need for speed or lots of memory.  I suppose this would be the minimum because I can get this at walmart for about $200

Re: ide-eide

2011-11-19 Thread Jim March
info. If however you buy a Western Digital external drive fr'instance, you can take it to the bank that there's a WD drive in there. Same concept for all the rest, except that Seagate owns Maxtor and might slap a Maxtor drive under a Seagate-brand chassis. Hope this helps, Jim On Sat, Nov 19, 2011

Re: Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-15 Thread Jim March
County Libertarian Party. Jim March --- 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

Re: OT; phone argument

2011-10-24 Thread Jim March
(meaning the phones were not used or tethered at all). On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: I've been impressed by Tmobile's coverage in urban areas, and I still get reliable 2G (and even 2G data) in VERY rural areas

Re: OT; phone argument

2011-10-23 Thread Jim March
of standard data files over the proprietary crap Apple tries to stick you with. Finally, there's the modding capabilities far beyond Apple's. Jim On Oct 23, 2011 11:47 AM, Ed p...@0x1b.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: Hi Betty! snip

Re: OT; phone argument

2011-10-23 Thread Jim March
around. And that's *without* rooting the phone. Jim On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:07 PM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: How is the coverage? I rarely leave home, however when I do I like my phone to work. I use Verizon because of coverage alone. Very few dropped calls and it works

Re: OT: Cell Phones without contract

2011-10-06 Thread Jim March
. That phone is running as low as $150 used. Walk into a Tmobile store already owning it, you get a month-to-month contract. Jim On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: As an idea if you head to tmoble you can buy a phone outright and not have a contract. Or you can get

Re: rootkits

2011-07-30 Thread Jim March
Doesn't rootkit sound like something a dentist would have around the office? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: Need Help with Wireless Networking on a New Install of Ubuntu 11.04

2011-07-09 Thread Jim March
to a cellphone across Bluetooth via the Bluetooth manager and run that in combation with Wicd. Jim On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/10/replace-network-manager-wicd-network-manager-ubuntu-10-0410-10-maverick-meerkat/ On Sat, Jul 9

Re: Linux key Loggers

2011-06-29 Thread Jim March
room to suck the hard drive when you're coming across the international border, take that puppy apart down to the last screw before using it! Jim On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:19 PM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: Am 29. Jun, 2011 schwätzte mike enriquez so: moin moin, Does anyone

Re: ZoneMinder Video - Configuration

2011-06-15 Thread Jim March
. But the prices aren't that bad and they have off-CPU processing capabilities that make it worth it. And the software *has* to be better than ZoneMinder. Sharpened toothpics in your eyes is better than Zoneminder. AAAGHH!!! Jim On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:33 PM, James

Re: tablet computer

2011-05-30 Thread Jim March
My problem is, if the computer is so small you can swallow it, losing it would be easy. Right? Jim On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Dan Lund situationalawaren...@gmail.com wrote: I personally absolutely love my ipad tablet as a portable app and web system. It's obviously not a replacement

Re: Why these mostly empty hidden files?

2011-05-03 Thread Jim March
Yeah, I can confirm the same thing in Ubuntu Maverick. WTF is this stuff? Jim On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:26 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote: Today, I was shocked to find a thousand-plus empty hidden directories and files on my system and I don't know how they got there or why

Re: Why these mostly empty hidden files?

2011-05-03 Thread Jim March
Funny. No, it's more like there's a whole pile of tracking stuff of some sort that I for one didn't know about. Jim On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Andrew Harris t...@supertunaman.com wrote: Wow, it's like somebody did work for all those directories and files and they don't want to pay

Re: Looking for a C class

2011-03-18 Thread Jim March
I asked a Mexican IT guy if he was a programmer. C senor! --- 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

Re: Torrent

2011-02-25 Thread Jim March
with optical burning? Jim On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Steve Phariss sphar...@gmail.com wrote: There might be better modern tools available, but I used this link to do some converting. Part of the problem is that .avi is just a container and can hold several diffrent video and audio encoding

Re: Need Suggestions on Improving WifI Reception

2011-02-23 Thread Jim March
antennas rather than directional types for your needs! You MIGHT be able to find adapters allowing oversize antennas on the router you've got, but it's still an N-class device. I'd jump to N-class plus standard connectors to oversize antennas. Jim

Re: Torrent

2011-02-23 Thread Jim March
archive, in which case in most Linux distros you're OK - open the archive, double-click on the lowest-numbered file inside, it will pack 'em all into the actual video format file. Next, why burn 'em to DVD? Play 'em right there on your computer if you want... Jim On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 8:55 PM

Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
appreciated :). Jim March --- 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

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
You'd trust a compromised machine to report on the traffic that some known malware is sending out? I have this great deal on Florida swampland for you :-) Also, Jim wanted to do the monitoring from the Linux side. But if you're stuck on a Doze box, sysinternals is a reasonable

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
off the obvious stuff like Dropbox and Ubuntu's updater, hasn't fixed it yet. Jim --- 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

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
Ummm...it ain't working. I get: --- jim@jim-lappy:~$ tcpdump -s 0 -w file.pcap host 127.0.0.1 tcpdump: no suitable device found jim@jim-lappy:~$ --- So I ran Wireshark and it doesn't see an interface it can use. I've tried two different WiFi cards, one a Broadcom and one Ralink I think

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
I try: --- jim@jim-lappy:~$ sudo tcpdump -s 0 -w file.pca 10.0.1.4 tcpdump: WARNING: eth0: no IPv4 address assigned tcpdump: syntax error jim@jim-lappy:~$ --- On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.netwrote: From: Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com jim@jim-lappy

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
Right, so: --- jim@jim-lappy:~$ sudo tcpdump -s 0 -w file.pca host 10.0.1.4 [sudo] password for jim: tcpdump: WARNING: eth0: no IPv4 address assigned tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes ^C0 packets captured 0 packets received by filter 0 packets

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
Sigh. I've looked the manual over for tcpdump: http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump_man.html I've tried the commands: --- jim@jim-lappy:~$ sudo tcpdump -s 0 -w -i file.pca host 10.0.1.4 [sudo] password for jim: tcpdump: WARNING: eth0: no IPv4 address assigned tcpdump: syntax error jim@jim-lappy

Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jim March
:). Jim --- 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

Re: RAM guru question?

2011-02-08 Thread Jim March
...then we'll have a whole bunch of security issues to deal with. Jim On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote: DRAM won't data longer than a few seconds with refreshing. SRAM won't hold data after power down. There are secondary effects like hysteresis, but that takes

Re: My sound stopped working.

2011-01-24 Thread Jim March
At least it wasn't excessive earwax. :) --- 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

Re: Adobe reader

2011-01-22 Thread Jim March
The problem with Adobe is they should have used a Rottweiler instead. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: Need help w/wifi setup

2010-12-26 Thread Jim March
of either will work in Linux. Jim On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 6:25 PM, eculbert eculb...@yahoo.com wrote: Wife has decreed...wifi! We have an old actiontec dsl modem that has a card hole on the side filled with a plastic insert. Bet I cannot get a card for it as qworst will want to sell 'newer

Re: Good/secure wireless router?

2010-12-26 Thread Jim March
The best you can do is WPA2 encryption with a long, non-dictionary key. You can also go into the router's settings and limit it to specific MAC addresses if you're truly paranoid :). Any decent N-class router will allow both. Jim On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Ariel Gold arielqg...@gmail.com

Re: using a cross compiling back end for gcc

2010-12-25 Thread Jim March
I thought only the Vatican's IT department used cross-compilers? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Have a very Linux x-mas...

2010-12-23 Thread Jim March
http://xkcd.com/838/ --- 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

Re: How do I free swap

2010-11-05 Thread Jim March
Try paying it's bail. :) --- 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

OT: Fairly simple relational database quick job bids...

2010-10-01 Thread Jim March
. There would be a strict non-disclosure on this - nobody is supposed to ever sell this mailing list for commercial purposes. You'll get it in an encrypted .ZIP file and give it back that way, passwords transmitted by phone. What would this cost? Thanks! Jim

Re: libreoffice, good news or bad news

2010-09-28 Thread Jim March
This is a group of Linux adults (Red Hat, Cannonical, others) stepping in to make sure Oracle doesn't hose OO. Without OO the Linux cause is set back YEARS. Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe

Re: New licencing model i found today

2010-09-25 Thread Jim March
As far as I'm aware, I've got the only open-source gun holster design ever :). http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=24417st=0p=155119fromsearch=1#entry155119 Creative Commons non-commercial attribution to be exact. Jim --- PLUG

Re: Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

2010-09-20 Thread Jim March
? I'd be completely hosed... Jim On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Jim March wrote: I've been using GMail through the web interface.  I've just realized it's dropping data.  It lost something important and I can't have that.  I'm going to have to suck it all

Re: Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

2010-09-20 Thread Jim March
enough local disk space to eat it all. Once it's synced the first time, then it's pretty easy to keep up. It's gonna be that first download that will be a complete and utter PITA. :) Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss

Re: Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

2010-09-20 Thread Jim March
Well gmail-backup looked like a good idea but it depends on python 2.5 - I have 2.6, it refuses to execute the shell script on that basis. Sigh. Jim On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote: or this... http://www.gmail-backup.com/download again, just googled

Re: Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

2010-09-20 Thread Jim March
that will suck down my GMail data in one big overnight gulp, that I can take with me on the lappy. It's that simple. Evolution seems to be able to deal with bigger data volumes than Thunderbird. I don't know yet if it'll pause every x messages downloadedguess I'll have to try it and find out. Jim

Re: [OT] android phone, possible to get a good deal?

2010-09-19 Thread Jim March
work, my phone and his Cricket USB critter are around the same speed. He's paying slightly more a month than I am. I'll take my combo any day of the week. He wants to switch to what I'm doing :). Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss

Re: [OT] android phone, possible to get a good deal?

2010-09-19 Thread Jim March
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: I have done voice and data on my droidX with verizon On a WiFi connection? What I mean is, where you talking to Verizon over CDMA or WiFi? The latter can do voice and data mixed, the CDMA connection can't. Jim

Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

2010-09-19 Thread Jim March
. We're talking about almost 6gig. Thunderbird emphatically won't cut it. Dunno about Evolution but I suspect not. I'm on Maverick. I have enough embedded graphics/PDFs/etc. to deal with that I need something GUI vs. terminal interface. Any clue what I should try? Jim

Re: Need a mail app for LARGE volumes of mail...

2010-09-19 Thread Jim March
And I've seen it blow up in spectacular fashion every time a particular user crosses the 2gig mark. NO - THANK - YOU! Jim On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Brian Cluff br...@snaptek.com wrote: Are you just assuming that thunderbird won't handle it?  I've seem thunderbird handle mailboxes

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