Sound not working

2011-07-25 Thread Richard Wilson
All, I could use some help on how to get sound working on a new (for me anyway) system I recently rescued (rescued = replaced power supply and overwrote corrupt Windows installation with Linux). This system has an ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard with an on board 8 channel sound controller. I ra

Re: rpm logs

2011-05-16 Thread Richard Wilson
Bryan, I can't comment about additional logs for rpm, but as the commands have to be run as root, you should be able to check .bash_history under the root account for rpm entries. HTH, Richard Wilson --- On 05/16/2011 03:

Re: IPTables on LAMP server in data center

2011-05-11 Thread Richard Wilson
-j SSHACS Then for each IP you want to grant SSH Access to: iptables -A SSHACS -s ip.ad.re.ss/mask -j ACCEPT This is faster because it won't got through each rule for non-SSH traffic. Splitting similar rules like this can be a big help in complex rule sets.

Re: ON Topic Request For Opinions

2011-05-11 Thread Richard Wilson
I recommend the "different widgets" approach. I tried to do this under an earlier version of KDE 4 using the different activity approach and my system performance tanked. (of course I don't have a lot of RAM and was using 16 different desktops under KDE3...) Richard Wilson O

iptables "tricks"

2011-05-11 Thread Richard Wilson
mail relay servers we saw the number of entries in the conntrack table drop to about half what they had been. Of course, they don't drop right away -- existing table entries have to time out. Hopefully this may save some of you some headaches.

VM Utility

2010-03-24 Thread Richard Wilson
ility? Thanks in advance, Richard Wilson --- 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: Why am I getting 100 times more spam than others?

2009-05-28 Thread Richard Wilson
equirements. It then points them at an internal website explaining the policy, which features the CIO's name in the URL. Having this guy's name put in front of them makes them realize that they just can't call us to say they've *got* to have something let th

Looking for compatable SCSI laptop interface

2009-05-14 Thread Richard Wilson
tower with an available PCI slot, but I'm leaning towards getting another laptop if I can get the tapes working again. Thanks in advance, Richard Wilson --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, uns

Setting up Printer in Ubuntu

2008-11-19 Thread Richard Wilson
O of all available Ubuntu updates on a Fedora system? Thanks in advance, Richard Wilson Apache Junction relw at mchsi dot com --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change

Re: Need some SMTP troubleshooting help - Please!.

2008-03-12 Thread Richard Wilson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (wait for response) DATA send something here . QUIT You may get a 4XX ("soft"/temp) or 5xx (Hard) reject on one of the responses that should indicate why they don't like you. HTH, Richard Wilson (yes I have the "privilege" of gett

Re: Setting up encrypted Laptop -- Follow up

2008-03-08 Thread Richard Wilson
Correction: the parm below is vga=773, reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#Linux_video_mode_numbers RW - On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 20:08 -0700, Richard Wilson wrote: > All, > > I have found an article that outlines more or less exactly what I wan

Re: Setting up encrypted Laptop -- Follow up

2008-03-08 Thread Richard Wilson
ideo controller... I may have to switch to using a CRT for teh install. Fedora 8 runs fine on this hardware -- I had it up and running before I got ordered to encrypt (or be forced to run only Windows). I used the text based installer last time. Again, thanks in a

Setting up encrypted Laptop

2008-03-07 Thread Richard Wilson
perimented with Truecrypt as well and that is a decent alternative. Any opinions as to which is "better"? Any full disk encryption tools out there that are Linux compatible? Thanks in advance, Richard Wilson relw at mchsi dot com ---

Re: vpn

2008-01-30 Thread Richard Wilson
I have set up Samba before, but find I can do most of the "sharing" I need between Windows and Linux using Putty (on Windows) and SSH. Putty is a free SSH implementation for Windows and can be found at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ HTH, Rich

Need to do some Video Editing

2008-01-26 Thread Richard Wilson
se it makes any difference. Thanks in advance, Richard Wilson --- 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: MediaCom now accepting PLUG Mail

2007-12-05 Thread Richard Wilson
Bill, No I don't know how or why they got blacklisted. it appears to be a homegrown list -- I did check at DNSStuff.com and the PLUG Mail server IP is clean according to 200+ antispam services. Richard Wilson - On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 06:02 -0700,

MediaCom now accepting PLUG Mail

2007-12-04 Thread Richard Wilson
All, In case anyone else was affected by this, MediaCom (Cable provider in Apache Junction and elsewhere) had the PLUG mail server blacklisted. Thanks to help from Brian, it has now been cleared and you should be able to receive PLUG mail to an @mchsi.com address again. Richard Wilson

Another Early Unix Story

2007-07-02 Thread Richard Wilson
think about what to put into those error messages "that will never be seen...". They will be seen... The Latin error messages are now (appropriately) ancient history. Richard Wilson --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.

Re: Mail Servers and DIY

2007-06-27 Thread Richard Wilson
ut now can include a lot of other connection types, not necessarily dynamic connections). If your IP falls in such a block your provider will ahve to assign you a new address to get around this. HTH, Richard Wilson - On Tue, 2007-06-2

Re: Temporary User map back online

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson Ironwood and Southern Apache Junction 85220 On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 17:04 -0700, Kevin Brown wrote: > Well, the map is back up and working on the PLUG site > (http://www.plug.phoenix.az.us/membermap/). I'm sure there are some > data points that are off now (meeting

Re: which distro for sun netra x1???

2007-06-14 Thread Richard Wilson
Randy, A little over a year ago I retired 4 Sun E450's that I had running Aurora Linux -- they were the only odd hardware pieces in our Red Hat environment. Aurora is a port of Fedora to Sparc -- you can find out more about it at http://auroralinux.org/ I haven't kept up with it lately, so I don'