Re: [uug] Advice for a new server

2013-01-08 Thread Steve Meyers
On 1/8/13 1:11 PM, Robert LeBlanc wrote: Atom is a corruption from Microsoft if you ask me. For no good reason they limit the ability of the processor like no virtualization extensions for 64-bit CPUs, only 2 GB of RAM, etc. It seems like Microsoft pressured Intel into creating the lower proces

Re: [uug] Advice for a new server

2013-01-08 Thread Steve Meyers
On 1/7/13 9:56 PM, Phillip Hellewell wrote: Hmm, this really worries me. I can't afford to have my server die suddenly and unexpectedly. And I've heard you're "not supposed to" use RAID with SSDs. Maybe SSD is a better choice with laptops than servers. I haven't heard this. What are the dow

Re: [uug] Advice for a new server

2013-01-06 Thread Steve Meyers
On 1/6/13 12:40 PM, Phillip Hellewell wrote: It sounds like a mix of SSD and regular HD could be smart, but if I have plenty of RAM and a few HDs with RAID, do I really need SSD? BTW, can anyone tell me why 10,000 RPM SATA drives are so much more expensive than 7200 RPM? It depends on your use

Re: [uug] Advice for a new server

2013-01-04 Thread Steve Meyers
I'd pick up a SuperMicro barebones system. Those just require hard drive, memory, and CPU. If it's a fairly light workload (i.e. a Pentium II managed it just fine), then you could save money and get a cooler running system with one of their Atom processor servers. I have one in production, a

Re: [uug] [OT] Quick Test Email

2012-05-30 Thread Steve Meyers
On 5/30/12 2:11 PM, Alberto Treviño wrote: > Let that's just the last straw, sir! How dare you post such filth here! > Stuart may not have responded yet, but I will! > > :-) :-D :-P Please don't post your HTML-laden filth to the list. Steve BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.by

Re: [uug] [OT] Quick Test Email

2012-05-30 Thread Steve Meyers
On 5/30/12 11:37 AM, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > I've received reports of the list being down. This is just a quick > test to validate. This is a test response. :) Steve BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of

Re: [uug] Scheduling that looks like hipmunk?

2012-04-11 Thread Steve Meyers
On 4/11/12 10:23 PM, AJ ONeal wrote: > I want an interface that looks like hipmunk but instead of scheduling > flights, schedules people in an editable fashion (i.e. for UTOSC). > > dimensions of input are > > * duration of talk (30 min, 45 min, 2 hr, etc) > * number of days and times each day

Re: [uug] SSD problems when low on free space

2011-12-13 Thread Steve Meyers
On 12/13/11 7:24 PM, Topher Fischer wrote: > You are using a work that I own the copyright of. The work involved is > the name, “Topher”. I have reserved all rights to this work, which was > first published in June of 1980. Prior art: http://www.whitepages.com/name/Topher-Kurth/North-Bonneville-W

Re: [uug] YVAX1 -> alma.cs.byu.edu interoperability

2011-08-11 Thread Steve Meyers
On 8/10/11 7:29 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > I was just telling my one of my younger friends about how I used to > register for classes over the phone and what a great leap forward the > phone system was, especially for freshmen coming from all over the > world. She was kind of incredulous. I reme

Re: [uug] Anyone interested in a Node.js meetup?

2011-07-22 Thread Steve Meyers
On 7/22/11 2:52 PM, John Shaver wrote: > I don't think he's volunteering to help him, but I'll volunteer him to > do it. It will take alot of time and effort on his part, but that is > a sacrifice I am willing to make. Does it get more noble than this? Steve BYU Unix Users G

Re: [uug] Anyone interested in a Node.js meetup?

2011-07-22 Thread Steve Meyers
On 7/22/11 2:36 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > Yes, although Ryan has been pretty busy lately. > > Are you volunteering to help him? It was purely a curiosity question. I hadn't heard of any lately, and haven't paid enough attention to the PLUG list to know for sure that I didn't just miss the anno

Re: [uug] Anyone interested in a Node.js meetup?

2011-07-22 Thread Steve Meyers
On 7/22/11 1:03 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > If UUG is dead for the summer, I'm sure Plug would love to host a > meeting. Does PLUG have meetings anymore? Steve BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their au

Re: [uug] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-07-08 Thread Steve Meyers
Oops... On 7/8/11 11:20 AM, Aaron Toponce via LinkedIn wrote: > > LinkedIn > > Aaron Toponce requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: > > Alexander, > > I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. > > - Aaron > > Accept >

Re: [uug] Home directory permissions on reinstall

2011-07-04 Thread Steve Meyers
On 7/4/11 10:58 AM, Liam Brown wrote: > just run something like this: "chown [options] user.group /path" Technically, the "." format for user/group is deprecated, so you should use ":", like "user:group". Also, according to the man page, you can do "user:" with no group, and it will select the

Re: [uug] Home directory permissions on reinstall

2011-07-04 Thread Steve Meyers
On 7/4/11 9:20 AM, Matthew Gardner wrote: > There's only one user, and that's me. If the filesystem previously had > a user matt which owned /home/matt, and I create a user with username > matt, will that set up the permissions right? Not necessarily. Didn't they change from 500 as first UID to

Re: [uug] Best way to make configuration files

2010-04-28 Thread Steve Meyers
On 4/28/10 10:20 AM, Stephen M. McQuay wrote: > My question is this: what is the best configuration file syntax? Easy answer: the Apache config file format is the one true configuration file syntax. BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this me

Re: [uug] Pick of myth

2009-12-19 Thread Steve Meyers
I recently bought one for work as a video player, and also one for home use for MythTV. It rocks, btw! I tried to get it working with Fedora, but was unsuccessful. The video worked fine, but I never got the sound working over HDMI. I found a tip somewhere that mentioned it worked out of the

[uug] Mobile/Web Application Developer

2009-04-02 Thread Steve Meyers
Avantar is one of the top 10 iPhone development companies. We are looking for an experienced developer with a knowledge of Java, PHP, MySQL, Javascript/HTML, and optionally Objective C and Cocoa. Some experience with Linux server administration would be desirable, but not necessary. Flexible

Re: [uug] Alternative to Quickbooks

2007-04-22 Thread Steve Meyers
Robert LeBlanc wrote: > So I create all these sub accounts, move my budgeted amount into each, > but in the general account, I can see how much money is aggregated from > each of the sub accounts and I can balance my checkbook, even though the > sub account don't' really exist at my bank. Any ideas

Re: [uug] SSH, SFTP, FTPS, security, and the like

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Meyers
Alberto Treviño wrote: > Has anyone implemented an SFTP server where the SFTP user could not get > to a shell or execute any arbitrary command via SSH? If you have, will > you tell me your secrets? Have you tried rssh? http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/ BYU Unix Users Group

[uug] IT Job Opening

2006-06-08 Thread Steve Meyers
Linux System/Network Administrator Position We are looking for an IT SysAdmin with Linux install/configuration experience, troubleshooting skills, and networking experience. The SysAdmin will help maintain and enhance the infrastructure to automatically install Linux and various applications and

Re: [uug] Apache, universal page

2006-06-05 Thread Steve Meyers
Trevan Richins wrote: > Brent Thomson wrote: >> Is there any way to make Apache always send the same page when I ask for >> something in a certain folder, no matter what it is I actually ask for? >> I know I can do this with a custom 404 page, but is there another way >> I'm "supposed" to do it? >>

Re: [uug] Internet Filter Suggestions

2006-03-29 Thread Steve Meyers
Adam H. Peterson wrote: > By the way, what is pf? (Port forwarding?) I think it's short for "packet filter". I believe it's the equivalent of Linux's iptables/netfilter on BSD. BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the respon

Re: [uug] He's dead, Jim (why the elections aren't up yet)

2006-03-27 Thread Steve Meyers
Erin Sharmahd wrote: > For future reference, letting the magic smoke out of a hard drive is not > a good idea... Who damaged the smoke seals? Anyone who lacks a basic understanding of the importance of smoke seals in electronics shouldn't be allowed to touch the server, that's for sure.

[uug] Problem with MythTV/HDTV/nVidia

2006-02-17 Thread Steve Meyers
I've got a Pentium 4 2.8GHz with an nVidia FX 5500 in my frontend machine. I'm having a little bit of trouble playing HDTV on it. If I don't enable XvMC, but use libmpeg2, I can play 720p without many problems, but 1080i stutters every 1-2 seconds. Even 720p stutters once every 10-15 seconds

Re: [uug] Exchange server

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Meyers
hat a new version > could have been released fixing those problems (Though I looked around a > bit and couldn't find an up-to-date changelog anywhere. Then again, I > didn't look very hard or long.). I'm using v2.4.1. > > -David > > > Steve Meyers wrote: &g

Re: [uug] Exchange server

2005-11-16 Thread Steve Meyers
Bryan Murdock wrote: > Good luck with connector. Its performance was pretty bad last time I > tried (a few months ago). They might have imap turned on, in which > case you can use pretty much any mail client you want, including > evolution. We tried the Evolution connector at my office for a few

Re: [uug] MySQL Cluster -- any experience

2005-03-29 Thread Steve Meyers
Jaron Jones wrote: We tried to go to MySQL clustering this last January, and had issues. For now we've decided to stick with replication which as you previously mentioned isn't the most robust thing there is. Part of our problem is the people prior to me used MyISAM and we need to convert to Inn

Re: [uug] List Policy Ideas

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Meyers
Stuart Jansen wrote: A simple "dude, that isn't cool around here" and a link to the policy (I still prefer an inline copy with the specific requirement in the policy that it be copied inline) is hardly a public flogging. That's a good point. However, I think it would be better to give a public

Re: [uug] List Policy Ideas

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Meyers
Andrew McNabb wrote: 2. I would also add a line that decisions are made by the secretary (mailing list admin) in correspondence with the president and vice-president. Appeals are made to the faculty sponsor, who is the final authority on the matter. It's definitely good to have an avenue for appea

Re: [uug] List Policy Ideas

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Meyers
Scott Paul Robertson wrote: The list has a zero-tolerance policy in relation to swearing and inappropriate language. This should probably be taken out, since you then say that a first offense will only generate a private warning. That's not exactly what people think of as "zero-tolerance". You

Re: [uug] Kick-banned / last request (fwd)

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Meyers
jb wrote: words in inproper contexts. Should acronyms, like RTFM, WTF, IDGARA, etc., be considered vulgar? (I guess it could be, "What the FRICK!?!"). I personally find those types of acronyms offensive. 3. Because I have only maintained lists for the classes I teach - and I have absolute author

Re: [uug] Kick-banned / last request (fwd)

2005-03-26 Thread Steve Meyers
Lloyd Brown wrote: from the list, any concerned member of the list could contact the UUG leadership individually and could verify that the procedure was followed in that particular case. It protects me as a member, since it lets me know what to expect for inappropriate action, and it protects the

Re: [uug] Kick-banned / last request (fwd)

2005-03-26 Thread Steve Meyers
Ross Werner wrote: But I really don't know. Maybe it's just me who likes things to be out in the open as much as possible rather than decisions made and executed in private. Anybody else have strong feelings one way or the other? I think there are valid points on both sides. One problem is that th

Re: [uug] Kick-banned / last request (fwd)

2005-03-26 Thread Steve Meyers
Ross Werner wrote: "The community" may not have been opposed to the action as a whole, but the decision was discussed, made, and executed by only a few people without the community even being told. I think it's abhorrent that a spammer gets a post to the list explaining why we've banned his address

Re: [uug] Kick-banned / last request (fwd)

2005-03-26 Thread Steve Meyers
Stuart Jansen wrote: 1) It is not published policy anywhere. It was the whim of the presidency. It's a BYU club. BYU clubs are expected to uphold the honor code. I agree that the mailing list needs some sort of "official policy", but I think it's just silly to think that profanity would be allo

Re: [uug] Kick-banned / last request (fwd)

2005-03-26 Thread Steve Meyers
jb wrote: Second, I think a lot of the problem here was because action was taken against a community member without community support for the action. How do you know? Just because a few of the more vocal people in the community opposed the action doesn't mean the community as a whole was agains

Re: [uug] Kick-banned / last request (fwd)

2005-03-25 Thread Steve Meyers
Stuart Jansen wrote: I know we joke about this being a dictatorship, but that was an inappropriate decision. I thought I'd throw in a contrarian point of view here. I run a rather large message board, and we sometimes delete posts and/or ban people. We usually just do temporary bans on posting,

Re: [uug] MySQL Cluster -- any experience

2005-03-24 Thread Steve Meyers
No, the term he's looking for is "cluster". http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/ndbcluster.html jb wrote: Sasha will be better help, but I did look into this w ahile back. The term you're looking for is "replication". Here's a quick link: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/replication.html --jeremy

Re: [uug] Mail/Groupware Programs

2005-03-18 Thread Steve Meyers
Thomas Wheatley wrote: I'm looking for something small scale that would work for family and friends as well as a separate larger scale solution that would work well for a large business. I've been looking into setting up a little groupware server for family/friends. One of the things I wondered w

Re: [uug] UUG Mirrors

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Meyers
Stuart Jansen wrote: Most people who know me, know that I'm a RH fan. That said, I've been really annoyed by the number of new packages it takes to update an FC3 install. By the time you get done, might as well call in FC3.5. Some of them are actual bug fixes, but many are just feature enhancement

Re: [uug] Favorite Open Source Windows Utilities

2005-02-11 Thread Steve Meyers
Lars Rasmussen wrote: Productivity Software: OpenOffice.org works for this. Just make sure you set the program to default to the MS read/write formats in order to play nice with other people who don't have OpenOffice.org. Also install PDFCreator. OpenOffice.org already has an "Export to PDF" opt

Re: [uug] File won't delete...

2005-02-07 Thread Steve Meyers
Try "lsattr -d /usr/sbin". Is the directory immutable? Ashley Oviatt wrote: Sasha Pachev wrote: I assume the error is Permission Denied ( My son's favorite error message, he gets it often :-) ). Things to check: * is the filesystem OK? * bug in the kernel? * is the HDD OK? * is your RAM

Re: [uug] home backup strategy

2005-01-06 Thread Steve Meyers
Michael L Torrie wrote: I also use rsync. Ed Schaller once showed me a way to use rysnc (to another hard disk) to create hard links which make incremental backups where each day's backup would appear to be a complete, coherent image (ie full backup) while actually taking up only space for new or c

Re: [uug] php regex help

2004-12-22 Thread Steve Meyers
Try this: preg_match_all('/<\?php(.*)\?>/iUs', $string, $matches); The s isn't "single line mode", it just makes the dot match newlines. So it should match when the are on the same line. The U makes it ungreedy, so it will find the minimal match for .* between . By default the * is greedy, an

Re: [uug] Email Tracking

2004-12-08 Thread Steve Meyers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have suggestions on how to track an email that a user swears they sent it and it is confirmed as leaving our mail server and smtp server but never gets there? I hear Bill Gates has such a system. In fact, if you help him beta test it, he'll pay you $425 for e

Re: [uug] Dynamic e-mail white list - help me to not reinvent the wheel

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Meyers
stuporglue wrote: The biggest problem I could see is if you had to confirm an order, or something from a real company. Since the e-mail comes from a company, it might not pass Spamassasin, but since they are a company, there may not be a real return address associated with the e-mail they sent you

Re: [uug] Dynamic e-mail white list - help me to not reinvent the wheel

2004-12-05 Thread Steve Meyers
Phillip Hellewell wrote: I want to use a white list to eliminate spam. But I also want to allow someone to e-mail me that has never e-mailed me before, and isn't in my white list yet. So I was thinking of setting up a procmail recipe that could bounce the message if you are not in my whit

Re: [uug] PGP and Thursday Meeting

2004-12-02 Thread Steve Meyers
Josh Coates wrote: i think this could be the holy grail of authentication - when amazon starts using *real* authentication, you know someone has done it "the right way". (ie. someone has come up with (and deployed) a way to authenticate that is so simple that *any* consumer can figure it out and no

Re: [uug] Mounting a SCSI device

2004-11-28 Thread Steve Meyers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But there must be more to it than that as "mount /dev/sda# /mnt/card did nothing as I moved through a few numbers (0 to 5). You may need to "modprobe usb-storage" before mounting it. For some reason, my system doesn't do that automagically. BYU Unix

Re: [uug] sss cd -- a call for volunteers

2004-11-23 Thread Steve Meyers
wn menu. Unfortunately, I'm much better at critiquing user interfaces than designing them. :) Steve Meyers BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility

Re: [uug] sss cd -- a call for volunteers

2004-11-23 Thread Steve Meyers
ling it. Other than that, it looks exceptional. I love the artwork. Steve Meyers BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BY

Re: [uug] Question on Red Hat Fedora Core 3

2004-11-09 Thread Steve Meyers
Ross Werner wrote: Not exactly a FC3 problem though, you must admit ;-) He never said it was: "Almost tempted to make my desktop a FC3 system since it's been hosed." Perhaps he could have been clearer, but I didn't get the impression he was blaming the hosing on anything at all. ___

Re: [uug] Improving non-majors' accessibility to CS

2004-11-04 Thread Steve Meyers
Michael Halcrow wrote: for (n=0; n<10; n++) { cout << n << endl; } let rec t lst x = match x with 0 -> 0::lst | y -> (t (y::lst) (y-1)) in List.map (function x -> print_string ((string_of_int x)^"\n")) (t [] 9) 10 FOR N = 0 TO 9 20 PRINT N 30 NEXT N BYU Unix Users Group

Re: [uug] Improving non-majors' accessibility to CS

2004-11-04 Thread Steve Meyers
Soren Harward wrote: However, the gap between CS 100 and CS 142 is wide and empty: there is no introductory programming class appropriate for non-majors. Granted, it is possible for a non-major to take 142 and succeed. Some majors, such as information technology and bioinformatics, even require i

Re: [uug] Open-sourcing PAF

2004-10-14 Thread Steve Meyers
It's written in VB, isn't it? Probably wouldn't do a ton of good. I heard the code is hideous. Ben Crowder wrote: Has anyone ever contacted the Church about making PAF open source so that interested parties could port it to Linux (and OS X and other OSes)? If they don't have the resources to p

Re: [uug] Total size of a directory

2004-10-12 Thread Steve Meyers
Andrew Jorgensen wrote: In my case it's because I'm comparing two machines. I'm going to check to size of /usr/local on both and compare them to see if someone has been compiling from source (and hence not registering stuff with rpm). I know that the disk usage is likely to be the same, but isn't

Re: [uug] Total size of a directory

2004-10-12 Thread Steve Meyers
See the "--apparent-size" argument for du. [EMAIL PROTECTED] steve]$ du --help Usage: du [OPTION]... [FILE]... Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for directories. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -a, --all write counts for all files,

Re: [uug] ls woes

2004-08-12 Thread Steve Meyers
Chris Alvarez wrote: 'ls' is a bash builtin? Why make it a builtin command if it exists elsewhere? No, ls is not a shell built-in command. Do 'which ls', it shows where it is. Also you can look up the documentation for the bash shell in the man pages, and you'll see that there is not ls command

Re: [uug] Linux-friendly video cards? ATI vs nVidia

2004-08-04 Thread Steve Meyers
Andrew Jorgensen wrote: I'm one of those guys who figures if I have to do anything special to make it work it isn't friendly. Neither of the cards you mentioned qualify. I've had good luck with older ATI cards though. You can see the status of which ATI chipsets are supported natively in DRI her

Re: [uug] Spyware stuff

2004-08-02 Thread Steve Meyers
Justin Findlay wrote: You know, I've been thinking lately and it has gotten me quite depressed. Why don't I get spyware and worms and viruses, and spiders? I hate to say it, but I think it is because I am an exclusive Linux user. Take heart, friend! You do get spam, don't you?

Re: [uug] On-campus DNS suffix

2004-07-28 Thread Steve Meyers
Michael Torrie wrote: Actually, no. It means you'll have to add an entry to your DNS records. Unless you still need to turn on SMTP AUTH, like I did. :) BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___ List Info: ht

Re: [uug] On-campus DNS suffix

2004-07-28 Thread Steve Meyers
Andrew Jorgensen wrote: Eh, who wants to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] anyway ;-). Cheers. :) Seriously, I agree that SPF and friends need to and will happen, but it would be foolish to suppose that worm authors won't find ways around it. SPF doesn't claim to be the be-all, end-all solution. It o

Re: [uug] On-campus DNS suffix

2004-07-28 Thread Steve Meyers
Andrew Jorgensen wrote: http://corp.aol.com/press/ASTA_Statement_of_Intent.pdf Huh? This doc is a statement of intent that refers to a first draft of a best practices doc which suggests changing port numbers for mail submission so that there will be a clear distinction between MTA and MSA. In the

Re: [uug] On-campus DNS suffix

2004-07-28 Thread Steve Meyers
Andrew Jorgensen wrote: On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:16:18 -0600, Scott Paul Robertson Sending through a remote SMTP server with authentication happens on the same port as unauthenticated sending mail from one mail server to another, so they are both blocked. Not true. It should happen (according to th

Re: [uug] On-campus DNS suffix

2004-07-27 Thread Steve Meyers
Just put an entry in /etc/hosts for mail.app.byu.edu. :) And for the record, I see no reason why they should be expected to ensure that "mail" always works for you. I've never seen an RFC about it, anyway. In any case, you should be using a specific mail server for each outgoing account you ha

Re: [uug] Great LDS music site

2004-07-20 Thread Steve Meyers
Make sure you have Flash 7. I tried it with Flash 6 (I thought I had 7), and it pretty much hung. Flash 7 worked much better. Erin Sharmahd wrote: looks cool, but i finally gave up on getting it working... :( just download the mp3s instead :( for some reason, it puts firefox into a hang every

Re: [uug] OT Community news: iProvo on ZDNet

2004-07-17 Thread Steve Meyers
Michael Halcrow wrote: The government has no business taxing its citizens and using the funds to compete unfairly against private high-speed network providers. Way to monkey wrench the economy, Provo! While you're at it, make sure Orrin Hatch doesn't forget to legislate your shiny new network to

Re: [uug] include in bashrc?

2004-07-12 Thread Steve Meyers
ation is not to be spoken here. On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Steve Meyers wrote: Try: . ~/.dansbashrc BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list

Re: [uug] include in bashrc?

2004-07-12 Thread Steve Meyers
Try: . ~/.dansbashrc Daniel Crookston wrote: Hey all, I work on a number of different machines over the course of a week, and it bugs me that the environments are all different. Rather than rewrite all of the .bashrc files on each machine, is it possible to put a line like this: include .dan

Re: [uug] Verification requested (fwd)

2004-07-07 Thread Steve Meyers
Frank Sorenson wrote: The CS Department hasn't changed anything related to email since June 5th when we did a minor version upgrade. I am unaware of any system changes from last Friday. Are you certain there's a problem on the CS end, and not on phantom or spamwiz? Well, I don't think it's pha

Re: [uug] Mysterious Reboot/Crash

2004-07-07 Thread Steve Meyers
Ross Werner wrote: I live in Orem, just south of University Mall (about as south Orem as you can get). My wife's computer also didn't reboot, but mine did--hence my suspicion. Anybody in this area also experience power flickers? I live in Orem (near Mountain View), and I had the power flicker a

Re: [uug] Verification requested (fwd)

2004-07-07 Thread Steve Meyers
I'm on the phone with Michael Malmgren (the offender), and he's taking care of it right now. Apparently, cs.byu.edu has broken their forwarding so that it uses the header from as the new envelope from. Doesn't that break RFCs? Anyway, Michael unsubscribed, and he'll work on fixing it when he

Re: [uug] [verify@spamwiz.com: Verification requested]

2004-07-05 Thread Steve Meyers
He's on vacation this week, and it looks like his email is acting up. I know how it's set up, and it shouldn't behave like that. Go ahead and unsubscribe him (whoever is in charge of the list), and I'll get him to re-sign up when he gets back. Michael Halcrow wrote: FYI, if any of you are get

[uug] Job Posting (SysAdmin)

2004-06-11 Thread Steve Meyers
Linux/Windows SysAdmin Position We are looking for an IT SysAdmin with Windows and Linux install/configuration experience, troubleshooting skills, and networking experience. Responsibilities include supporting the internal network with both Windows and Linux computers, configuring and maintaining a

Re: [uug] apt-get (was printable lds.org ward picture directories)

2004-06-11 Thread Steve Meyers
Ashley Oviatt wrote: Ok, so what if for some strange reason, I want imap _and_ mysql? is there a php-mysql-imap-gd-freetype-whatever file I can get? No, you just install php, php-imap, php-mysql, php-gd, php-whatever, etc. BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___

Re: [uug] Freshmeat RSS?

2004-05-16 Thread Steve Meyers
A google for "freshmeat rss" turned up this directory: http://download.freshmeat.net/backend/ Daniel Crookston wrote: Done looked over the Freshmeat FAQ's and whatnot and couldn't find anything about getting an rss feed from them. Does anyone know just off the top of their head whether they have o

Re: [uug] PHP self Documentation

2004-05-02 Thread Steve Meyers
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 21:40, Mark Gardner wrote: > Is there any type of self documenting feature or add on for php. I > really like the way Java has javadoc, and can generate documented pages > from the commented code. I would like to do something like this with > php classes, either internally t

Re: [uug] When RPM's just don't cut it

2004-04-08 Thread Steve Meyers
If you're worrying about upgrading and/or uninstalling, just create an RPM using a .spec file. http://cvs.openpkg.org/getfile?v=1.11&f=openpkg-src/php5/php5.spec On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 02:52, Mark Gardner wrote: > I'm a devout SuSE / Novell User. (yes I even have a netware box > running). Recent

[uug] ActionTec DSL router

2004-03-16 Thread Steve Meyers
ely conked and didn't come back up until my wife rebooted it. This is not making me very trusting of the ActionTec router. Has anyone else experienced similar problems? In the past when I had DSL, I used the Cisco 675/678. Are those better at handling high traffic? Steve Meyers _

RE: [uug] Oops, BYU did it again...

2004-03-12 Thread Steve Meyers
email to my users will be lost, and legitimate email from my users will be lost. Losing email is not an acceptable side effect. Steve Meyers BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___ List Info: http://uug.by

RE: [uug] Oops, BYU did it again...

2004-03-11 Thread Steve Meyers
along the way to your server. To me, that is unacceptable, and thus I will not implement SPF. Eventually, we're just going to have to rewrite SMTP. Steve Meyers 1. http://spf.pobox.com/srs.html BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ _

Re: [uug] ssh through multiple hosts

2004-03-08 Thread Steve Meyers
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 09:39, Phillip Hellewell wrote: > > Then, you can ssh to either host7 or host9 with one ssh call to connect > > to host4 (using different usernames). > > > > It's crazy, but it just might work. > > Yep, crazy :) Too bad I don't necessarily have access to create > arbitrary

Re: [uug] ssh through multiple hosts

2004-03-08 Thread Steve Meyers
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 23:53, Steve Meyers wrote: > I'd use this solution, except use scp for step two. You shouldn't need > the -g though, unless other computers are involved. I hope you're doing > all this passwordless... :) I just had a better idea, that you might

Re: [uug] ssh through multiple hosts

2004-03-07 Thread Steve Meyers
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 22:23, Phillip Hellewell wrote: > Solution 2. Set up port forwarding first and then copy the file: > Step 1: ssh -g -L 9000:host1:9000 host1 ssh -g -L 9000:host2:22 host2 > Step 2: cat filename | ssh -p 9000 localhost "cat > filename" I'd use

Re: [uug] All In Wonder Radeon 7500 <200402101717.56047.jason@infogenix.com>

2004-02-11 Thread Steve Meyers
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 18:11, Adam Augustine wrote: > All the buildings on that campus are owned by Canopy which owns SCO. > Freaky, freaky. It should be noted, however, that Viawest simply LEASES from Canopy. They are not owned by Canopy, even though the building is. Steve ___

Re: [uug] All In Wonder Radeon 7500

2004-02-10 Thread Steve Meyers
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 12:44, Kelly Terry wrote: > I'm looking for a video card that can receive broadcast tv and encode mpeg > video. Video/tuner cards with built-in hardware encoding for the high > resolution I want are one solution but are expensive. I was considering > purchasing a All In W

Re: the term "GNU/Linux" (... flamebait ...) (was Re: [uug] IBM's commercial)

2004-02-09 Thread Steve Meyers
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 09:58, Ross Werner wrote: > - If you have Linux running on an embedded device, and it just happens not > to need or use in GNU tools, is that a different Operating System from the > one that comes with Debian or Red Hat? I think this is the best argument I've seen yet.

[uug] Contract work needed

2004-02-03 Thread Steve Meyers
ry of your relevant qualifications Thank you! Steve Meyers BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list

[uug] Cisco console cable

2004-01-27 Thread Steve Meyers
have it in stock). Thanks! Steve Meyers BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list

Re: [uug] Suse linux 9.0 install disks?

2004-01-27 Thread Steve Meyers
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 12:46, Bryan Murdock wrote: > This is going to sound really silly, but am I just buying a license to > the RedHat trademarks on the RHEL CDs? Is it a license to only install > it on one machine? The reason I ask is I'm still not clear on their > policy, or what substantial t

Re: [uug] ssh paranoia

2003-10-24 Thread Steve Meyers
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 19:52, Ross Werner wrote: > My question is: is there a way to store multiple keys in > ~/.ssh/known_hosts, so that ssh won't whine at me every time I want to > connect to a different host through a different port on the same machine > Q? Yes, I do this all the time. I use an

Re: [uug] No sound for "Return of the King" trailer

2003-10-03 Thread Steve Meyers
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:29, Soren Harward wrote: > On Wed 01 Oct 2003 at 16:48:41, Tony Vance said: > > Here is a plight all uugers will be sympathetic to: I've downloaded the > > latest "Return of the King" trailer, but when opening the file using > > Xine I can view the trailer, but there is no

Re: [uug] domain name do I really need one? <200310012142.02097.bbeck4x4@sfcn.org>

2003-10-03 Thread Steve Meyers
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 22:08, Steve Dibb wrote: > Ack! GoDaddy is evil. There's no way to point it to your IP. :( > > That's why I use Stargate. www.stargate.com. The service is sucky, but > hey, it's part of the deal to point the domain to any IP. > > That's how I do it for a lot of mine. R

Re: [uug] Fascinating supposed rumor about SCO and Microsoft

2003-10-03 Thread Steve Meyers
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 16:32, Daniel Crookston wrote: > I'm either going to marry a girl who's sensible enough to realize that we're > talking about a piece of carbon, or get so whipped that I'm not thinking > straight. I know a family of many daughters whose father has instructed each of them not

Re: [uug] (OT) beards (was: free beer)

2003-09-20 Thread Steve Meyers
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 17:51, Steve Meyers wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:20, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > > "When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the temple was one of the targets and > > the bomber couldn't see it and. now he's a member of the church." &g

Re: [uug] (OT) beards (was: free beer)

2003-09-19 Thread Steve Meyers
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:20, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > "When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the temple was one of the targets and > the bomber couldn't see it and. now he's a member of the church." Actually, I think I saw this one in the Church News, so apparently its documented. I'd look

Re: [uug] Linux friendly free dial-up ISP

2003-09-14 Thread Steve Meyers
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 21:50, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Sadly the day of real free Internet Service is no more. The most Juno > will offer you is 10 hours per month, which isn't much, and almost no > one offers it to Linux users because free really means ad-supported and > they don't write their

Re: [uug] running a script not on a website

2003-08-15 Thread Steve Meyers
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 23:49, Brent Thomson wrote: > Either way you choose to run it from the command line, you'll probably > want to use the -q switch as it supresses the HTTP headers that PHP > sends out by default. Only if you're using the CGI version. If you're using the CLI version, which you

Re: [uug] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Meyers
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 21:45, District Webmaster wrote: > True -- but the tins of food are all metric, the petrol is sold by the > litre (as is the Ribena, if memory serves). To be fair, they do use a > lot of metric in Britian -- but I think they serve as an example of how > difficult it is to chan

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