Re: ext3 vs ext4

2009-02-06 Thread Mike Garfias
Just because its out of beta doesn't mean I want to risk my new 1.3TB database at work to it. I'd rather let it mature for another year or so before migrating. On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:38 AM, Tony E - Jaraeth wrote: Ext4 is no longer in beta as of Kernel 2.6.28.x

Re: Linux Administration

2009-01-02 Thread Mike Garfias
The only fair tax is no tax. Otherwise someone is being hit disproportionately. Of course that someone varies based on how you score it. Thus: fair tax = no tax. On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.comwrote: Abolishing the IRS? Sure, that's got to save a mint!

Re: Linux Administration

2008-12-29 Thread Mike Garfias
What a dork. And expecting good people for that much? Jeez. Maybe if I was a junior guy and needed beer money it might be ok, but no thanks. On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:58 PM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: I see this stuff from time to time. He is in for a rude awakening since they

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

2008-12-04 Thread Mike Garfias
mysqldump isn't a hot backup, it causes locks table and/or row (i cant remember off hand which). There is a myisamhotbackup or something like that for MyISAM tables (why the hell would you use MyISAM?), but for a real table you need the innodb hot backup thing that is commercial, and not cheap.

google closing phoenix office

2008-09-19 Thread Mike Garfias
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10047014-93.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-5 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: lists of bands using ogg/vorbis/flac

2008-09-18 Thread Mike Garfias
Nine Inch Nails has released their last two albums as mp3/aac/flaac The last was was available as a torrent for free too, The first you had to pay $5 to get the download link, or goto the pirate bay. I gave him the the $5 as I wanted to support people doing this sort of thing. On Sep 18,

Re: backup apps

2008-08-12 Thread Mike Garfias
rdiff-backup On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: I'm looking for backup software that doesn't back up the empty space on the drive. Also, I would like it to be able to make incremental backups. Dump (dd) seems to back up everything, empty or not. Not what I'm looking

OT: For Sale: PowerMac G5

2008-08-09 Thread Mike Garfias
2.5GB ram 2x1.8GHz PPC970 Procs 2x160GB 7200RPM drives Geforce5200 Vid card (VGA out through an adapter [provided]) Original Manuals, restore disks, and a copy of Tiger. Missing: keyboard + mouse runs linux great (had deb on it) - I'll even toss in a Linux CD of your choice Asking $700

Re: How to run a script at startup?

2008-08-06 Thread Mike Garfias
to make chkconfig work you need this stuff at the top of the script: #!/bin/bash # # kudzu This scripts runs the kudzu hardware probe. # # chkconfig: 345 05 95 # description: This runs the hardware probe, and optionally configures \ # changed hardware. Why symlinks

Re: Virtual Dedicated Server has not /dev/net - Problem withOpenVPNdev/net/tun

2008-08-04 Thread Mike Garfias
Bryan - I'd look at the lack of the tun driver as your first culprit. Build a kernel if you need to, but I do think you need the driver installed to use ovpn. Mike On Aug 4, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: Sorry if I am spamming the list, but I have a deadline with emphasis on

Re: Stammtische Tue

2008-07-15 Thread Mike Garfias
I won't be able to make it tonight either. I like the idea of wednesdays instead - there is a shooting match i've been meaning to make on tuesdays. On Jul 15, 2008, at 10:42 AM, der.hans wrote: Am 15. Jul, 2008 schwätzte Mike Schwartz so: I regret that I ((probably)) will NOT be able to

Re: Stammtische Tue

2008-07-15 Thread Mike Garfias
I guess I should read the whole thead huh? On Jul 15, 2008, at 3:04 PM, der.hans wrote: Am 15. Jul, 2008 schwätzte Mike Garfias so: I won't be able to make it tonight either. I like the idea of wednesdays instead - there is a shooting match i've been meaning to make on tuesdays. Wrong

Re: OT: OSCON Free Registration Contest

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Garfias
THanks I could easily talk my boss into airfare, but not into paying for the convention. And I've got much better things to do with $1300 or whatever. On Jul 9, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: Anyone interested in the Open Source Convention in Oregon? OSCON You can enter here to

Re: external HD suggestions

2008-07-08 Thread Mike Garfias
I'll add my $.02 here. If you go this route, try for something that has a standard power supply. I recently had an external enclosure's psu crap out (was making hissing noises then just died). Unfortunately I couldnt run down to frys to get one, the thing runs 12vdc and 5vdc from the psu,

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Mike Garfias
On Jun 29, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Charles Jones wrote: 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 conspiracy. FYI I was living in DC at the time of

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-29 Thread Mike Garfias
Operation Northwoods was the only good thing McNamara did while SecDef: He stopped it. On Jun 29, 2008, at 5:46 PM, 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,

Re: hostap card

2008-06-20 Thread Mike Garfias
Kevin, Do you need an AP or a card just to play with running an AP? If the former I've got a netgear deal (that has openwrt on it) that i'll happily give away. On Jun 20, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Kevin Faulkner wrote: What would be a good wireless adaptor to use as an access point? using the

Re: Open VPN - need some help install/configuring.

2008-06-18 Thread Mike Garfias
On Jun 18, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: Bryon, Verify this subnet mask? It looks like it's a class B address with a C mask. Wed Jun 18 08:42:41 2008 /sbin/route add -net 10.8.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 10.8.0.2 That would certainly cause Error 4. It is the default (as

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

2008-06-10 Thread Mike Garfias
I put my file server in the laundry room. I don't have to hear it, and it doesn't go in the garage. If its in the garage, you'll need to water cool it (all of it). Dust won't be much of an issue then (won't need the airflow it blocks). On Jun 10, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Ted Gould wrote: Hey

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

2008-06-10 Thread Mike Garfias
If i'm doing something like that, I'm going to up my compression ratio to 13:1 and run some water/alcohol injection in the fun parts of the VE tables. On Jun 10, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Charles Jones wrote: Heh I was just joking of course. I've not heard anything bad about them, nor most of the

Re: OT Mobilization Orders

2008-06-09 Thread Mike Garfias
kevin - Any idea what unit you'll be assigned to? And do they give you any time to spin up, or just outfit you and toss you into the fray? Mike On Jun 6, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Kevin Faulkner wrote: Well as the subject says, I got called up from IRR to Active Duty. PS for any... war

Firewire enclosure

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Garfias
Does anyone know where I might be able to find a FW enclosure for a 3.5 sata disk? In town that is. Thanks --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: Firewire enclosure

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Garfias
oh yeah: I already tried that evil place frys On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Mike Garfias wrote: Does anyone know where I might be able to find a FW enclosure for a 3.5 sata disk? In town that is. Thanks --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG

Re: Cox Internet disconnectivity..

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Garfias
I run a dns server on my home net and ignore the cox name servers altogether. Seems to work well. Does qworst really block udp/tcp:53 out bound? On Jun 2, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: Cox used to allow non-authorative DNS queries, and I got some obviously poisoned (phishing)

Re: DD-WRT and Cox-- any warnings?

2008-06-02 Thread Mike Garfias
I've always been able to power cycle the modem to get a new router to work. I think the modem reports the first MAC it sees, and then can resend that if its rebooted. On Jun 2, 2008, at 8:50 PM, Dan Lund wrote: You'll probably have to deal with cloning the current mac on the WAN port.

Re: Replace literal \n with newline

2008-05-27 Thread Mike Garfias
this works for me: cat file | sed -e 's/\\n/\n/g' On May 27, 2008, at 12:14 PM, David Bendit wrote: Hey there, I'm trying to pull useful information out of a nessus report file (which is just XML), and everything works fine except the informational data portions. They're stored with

Re: Should I update NOT AUTHENTICATED security updates?

2008-05-13 Thread Mike Garfias
Normally i'd say no (make sure you have all the deb/ubuntu keyrings though). But in this case, upgrade anyway, and do it asap. On May 13, 2008, at 12:12 PM, koder wrote: Should I update NOT AUTHENTICATED security updates? I am running Ubuntu 7.10 The automatic updater told me that I

Re: House Passes PRO IP Bill

2008-05-07 Thread Mike Garfias
On May 7, 2008, at 12:34 PM, der.hans wrote: Apparently organic farmers in the US are protected in that the organic label won't be taken away if there was accidental contamination. Guess the FDA is only concerned about minimal efforts to keep our food safe and actually having it actually

Re: House Passes PRO IP Bill

2008-05-07 Thread Mike Garfias
On May 7, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Craig White wrote: and it looks like we got a choice between 2 candidates who want to double down on the ethanol solution. As a car guy, I _LOVE_ ethanol. 106 octane means being able to run 13:1 compression on the street. However, the idea of making it

Re: wireless broadband

2008-05-02 Thread Mike Garfias
I pay $62/mo (with taxes) w/Sprint for unlimited EVDO. Its really unlimited, unlike verizon's. On May 1, 2008, at 7:35 PM, Michael Havens wrote: what about internet for a laptop? On Friday 02 May 2008 1:38 am, Jon M. Hanson wrote: On May 1, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Michael Havens wrote: On

Re: Proprietary elegance good enough? (Was: Re: OT: notebook shopping)

2008-04-24 Thread Mike Garfias
On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:34 PM, Craig White wrote: As for the hardware...until you need repairs and then you have to confront a revolutionary new business model...PreferredCare. $100 extortion fee and they repair in 2/3 days. If you don't pay the fee, repair in 1/3 weeks. Warranty is not

OLPC

2008-04-23 Thread Mike Garfias
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/04/23/olpc-scrap-linux-windows Looks like they're going to ditch linux and run windows. Ugh. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to

announcement

2008-04-21 Thread Mike Garfias
http://www.sphere.com/blog/2008/04/15/aol-buys-sphere/ So this is a bit late (1 week or so) due to illness. Working for a big company again is going to take some getting used to. Mike --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: E side meetings for April, May (was: Re: W Side ... 26-Mar-2008...)

2008-03-28 Thread Mike Garfias
On Mar 28, 2008, at 7:32 AM, Geek Girl wrote: What equipment do you use? I can provide any type of hardware needed...If you would like to use a server grade install? I am sure I can also get sip phone break out boxes I can even bring in channel banks to simulate an actual telco line...=-)

Re: east side tonight

2008-03-13 Thread Mike Garfias
The presentation + bootstrap script + puppet configs are available at: http://garfias.org/plug/index.html http://garfias.org/plug/install_box.pl http://garfias.org/plug/puppet.tgz Enjoy. http://garfias.org/plug/ On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:42 PM, der.hans wrote: Topic: Puppet. This month's

Re: Anti-virus for Linux - is it time? Will it ever be?

2008-03-07 Thread Mike Garfias
Huh? I've got 100+ servers that don't run any form of AV. Why in the world would I run it when there is no vector for a virus to get onto a system? On Mar 7, 2008, at 5:56 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote: This attitude is fine for a personal system but I don't know anyone running a public facing

Re: vpn

2008-01-30 Thread Mike Garfias
If you're doing that, I recommend looking at OpenVPN. Compared to something like FreeS/WAN its a freaking cake walk to setup. It still takes time + effort + reading, but its not THAT bad. And it works on windows, mac, and linux. On Jan 30, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote: On

Re: hairline crack

2008-01-27 Thread Mike Garfias
On Jan 27, 2008, at 7:12 AM, Wayne Davis wrote: Michael Havens wrote: there is a hairline crack in the laptop where the latch is any advice on how to fix it? it was there before I got it I just don't want it to get worse) ---

anyone ever hear of

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Garfias
A Company called GNi - supposedly have a huge data center in chandler. If you have, do you know anything about them? Thanks Mike --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your

Re: Oracle Woe's - Pam Issue?

2007-12-12 Thread Mike Garfias
Bryan - In my experience you'll be far better off NOT relying on one killer database box (or even a cluster) to handle all your data. HW only scales so far before it gets too expensive. Currently our most loaded DB box is doing 2-300 queries per second (a bit over 17M per day for those

Re: Oracle Woe's - Pam Issue?

2007-12-12 Thread Mike Garfias
, or even oracle. I'm suggesting he change the way he looks at the databases which in the long run could save lots of pain. On Dec 12, 2007, at 9:39 PM, Dan Lund wrote: On Dec 12, 2007 7:43 PM, Mike Garfias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan - In my experience you'll be far better off NOT relying

Re: OT: iPhone for Christmas

2007-12-10 Thread Mike Garfias
I just got a nice fat gift card from work at the apple store. Enough to get an iPhone. But then I'd have to give money to ATT. Think I'll buy something else. On Dec 10, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Derek Neighbors wrote: While I realize that an iPhone doesn't run GNU\Linux and is far from open

Re: OT - Server spec's, need opinion.

2007-10-09 Thread Mike Garfias
One thing I've done in the past is to grab the various URL paths that are getting hit by my webserver, and dump those to a text file. Next step is to load up siege and have it replay those against the target webserver. On Oct 9, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Jason Hiller wrote: One way to approach

Re: How difficult is it to run your own email server?

2007-10-05 Thread Mike Garfias
I agree with everything Darrin wrote, but would add a few things: On Debian, its all very easy. Make sure you have your apt sources set to download from the security tree, and update it somewhat frequently. Use Postfix/Dovecot - not only are they easy to setup, but they have a good

Re: OT - Server spec's, need opinion.

2007-10-05 Thread Mike Garfias
At work we're going ~ 16 Million hits per day, spread over 3 webservers (Opteron 246s w/2GB raid1 sata). Figure 5Million hits/day/machine. I think you'll be fine. My question is, how are you getting enough bandwidth to feed this at home? On Oct 5, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:

Re: Mac OS/X and Linux

2007-09-26 Thread Mike Garfias
I've been using AFP instead of NFS. On Sep 26, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Jorge Delacruz wrote: I need to set up a Linux (hopefully) file server for an office of Mac's. OS/X is Unix, so I should be able to set up an NFS/Samba file server, right? Everything will just work? Thanks for the help.

Re: SCO in Mesa

2007-09-25 Thread Mike Garfias
maybe we should go heckle him? On Sep 25, 2007, at 11:29 AM, der.hans wrote: moin moin, Apparently Ralph Yarro of Canopy/SCO will be in Mesa Thursday night trying to push for Internet censorship. He's also pushing for stricter 'intellectual property' laws, but I don't know if that's part of

VPS provider recommendations

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Garfias
I would prefer Xen to the other crap thats in use. There seems to be a great variation in the service levels (both price and in what the machines offer). The other requirement is that I have to run debian on there. No rpm- based distros for me. Anyone have any recommendations?

Re: VPS provider recommendations

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Garfias
I looked at unixshell, but they're full up. And tektonic is doing virtuozzo or whatever it is. On Sep 5, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Mike Garfias wrote: I would prefer Xen to the other crap thats in use. There seems to be a great variation in the service

Re: VPS provider recommendations

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Garfias
. Note: They did a year-long beta of a Xen approach and found that it lacked the resource controls that they needed. On 9/5/07, Mike Garfias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would prefer Xen to the other crap thats in use. There seems to be a great variation in the service levels (both price

Re: OT~ Credit accounts....

2007-09-02 Thread Mike Garfias
the credit report shows all open accounts on your SSN On Sep 2, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Michael Havens wrote: I know about credit reports but I want to know what accounts are out there. Like if someone bought a house or a car and is making the payments so I wouldn't know about it. Or perhaps

Re: OT: Security Begginer

2007-08-29 Thread Mike Garfias
_Hacking: the Art of Exploitation_ By Jon Erickson Just had that book recommended to me by a friend in the business (out in San Francisco). His advice was to: read read read read and then read some more. On Aug 28, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Ray Cantwell wrote: Mike, thank you very much, that was

Re: OT: Security Begginer

2007-08-28 Thread Mike Garfias
. But I'm willing to bet by then you'll be employed. On Aug 28, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Ray Cantwell wrote: I think i am leaning more toward the pen-test, network security side of the fence. Mike Garfias wrote: I think it really depends on what you want to do. Simple scanning of client systems

Re: Pointless rant: Red Hat Enterprise Server sucks!

2007-08-10 Thread Mike Garfias
I don't mind tools editing the standard conf files. I do mind some craptastic distro burying the setting in an obscure directory and then making it hard to script (or hand edit) a change. On Aug 10, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Dan Lund wrote: This argument has gone on since the beginning of Red Hat

Re: Pointless rant: Red Hat Enterprise Server sucks!

2007-08-10 Thread Mike Garfias
actually i'm mostly bitching about RH i found suse to be even worse the one time i tried it have since refused to touch it On Aug 10, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Dan Lund wrote: I assume your talking about SuSE. Mike Garfias wrote: I don't mind tools editing the standard conf files. I do mind some

Re: iMac

2007-06-11 Thread Mike Garfias
On Jun 10, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Ben Francom wrote: I had to chime in on this one since I *used* to be an OS X user. Fine again, I would just recommend running Linux on it, not only because this is a Linux list, but also because of the vendor lockin that comes with OS X. Apple is actually