Re: [vox-tech] Possible rootkit

2013-09-23 Thread Peter Salzman
Nice catch, Rod! Boy, though... what an unfortunately named process! On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Rod Roark wrote: > rtkit-daemon is a normal process: > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/rtkit > > Rod > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 06:52:01 -0400 > Ken Bloom wrote: > >> Do a clean reinstall. I

[vox-tech] Broken video? Poor frame rate

2013-08-12 Thread Peter Salzman
Hi All, I recorded a Skype video chat with Evaer The chat was with someone in Italy, so the quality of the chat was poor, but the video recording is horrendous. Much poorer than the chat. While chatting I could discern the individual frames. It kinda sorta looked smooth if I didn't scrutinize

[vox-tech] Hard drive Reliability

2013-07-22 Thread Peter Salzman
For the past couple of years I've been buying 2TB drives because they're so cheap. But I think I've lost more drives in the last 5 years than I've ever lost in my entire life. I haven't been keeping records, but I swear it feels like many of my drives last 2-3 years. Are others finding the same

Re: [vox-tech] frustrating laptop problem

2012-12-18 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Norm Matloff wrote: > > So, I recently "inherited" an Acer Aspire One, model 722. (My daughter > had been using it but she then bought a Mac.) Naturally, I wanted to > install Linux on it. > > I began with my distro of choice, Ubuntu (in this case 12.04). > Insta

[vox-tech] Rescuing NTFS partition

2012-03-19 Thread Peter Salzman
Hi all, A 2GB Hitachi drive holding one NTFS partition got hosed. The drive is literally one year old, and my belief is that this is a hardware failure, not a filesystem hosing. I see the drive in BIOS, so perhaps not all is lost. Windows fails to even acknowledge the drive's existence, so I'm

Re: [vox-tech] Graphical Remote Login to Linux/KDE from WinXP

2011-12-25 Thread Peter Salzman
PM, Gilbert Coville wrote: > Take a look at NX.  (www.nomachine.com).  That gets you a new session, > different > from what's happening on the console. > > Gilbert > > On Dec 25, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Peter Salzman wrote: > >> Sometimes when I work on my WinXP box I wa

Re: [vox-tech] Graphical Remote Login to Linux/KDE from WinXP

2011-12-25 Thread Peter Salzman
Which VNC do you use? There appears to be tons of them. I've read weird things on Google like some don't support cut and paste (?!?!) On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Norm Matloff wrote: > VNC works fine for me.  There are others. > > Norm ___ vox-t

[vox-tech] Graphical Remote Login to Linux/KDE from WinXP

2011-12-25 Thread Peter Salzman
Sometimes when I work on my WinXP box I want to use my Linux box without being in front of the computer. What I'd really like is to graphically remote login to Linux/KDE from WinXP, as in, open up a window containing a KDE login session from my WinXP box. I'm already running MingW, and can use re

Re: [vox-tech] CalDAV

2011-07-06 Thread Peter Salzman
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:15:37PM -0400, Peter Salzman wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Rick Moen wrote: >> > I wrote: >> > >> > And that's just not happening.  Everyone wants

Re: [vox-tech] CalDAV

2011-07-06 Thread Peter Salzman
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Rick Moen wrote: > I wrote: > > And that's just not happening.  Everyone wants to make a groupware suite > that does absolutely everything, wants to take over the world, and has > incredibly picky and incredibly extensive requirements.  I cannot just > drop Bedework

Re: [vox-tech] CalDAV

2011-07-01 Thread Peter Salzman
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Peter Salzman (p...@dirac.org): > >> Actually, this looks absolutely fantastic.  I can't figure out why >> it's not practically an industry standard.  The main design goal is >> interoperability wi

Re: [vox-tech] CalDAV

2011-07-01 Thread Peter Salzman
ollow >> all of the open spec'd caldav stuff and be very compatible. >> >> UC Berkeley is rolling it out for the campus. I'm not sure what's >> involved for getting it up and running though. :( >> >> >> == >> Date: Mo

Re: [vox-tech] CalDAV

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Salzman
ery compatible. > > UC Berkeley is rolling it out for the campus. I'm not sure what's > involved for getting it up and running though. :( > > > == > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:42:24 -0400 > From: Peter Salzman > Subject: [vox-tech] CalDAV > To: vox

[vox-tech] CalDAV

2011-06-27 Thread Peter Salzman
I'd like to be able to serve calendar events to Google Calendar, iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry users. I did some research and found that CalDAV is the protocol that I need to look at. Ubuntu has something called calendarserver which I think serves up CalDAV data. However, I've also read hints

[vox-tech] Filename suffix dependent deletion problem with Samba

2011-03-19 Thread Peter Salzman
Summary: It appears that Samba refuses to delete files with certain types of extensions, but I can't find any mention of suffix-dependent permissions in Samba, so something else must be happening that *looks like* suffix dependent permissions. Setup: My "M drive" on a Windows machine is a Samb

Re: [vox-tech] Netflix

2011-03-08 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:28 PM, jim wrote: > >    how do you know online petitions are not worth...? >    if i were in charge of a company or department, i'd > make sure y group was attentive to incoming electronic > info. i'd at least try to ensure that the filters were > sufficiently granular an

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-22 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:51:13AM -0800, Bryan Richter wrote: > > Unfortunately, it looks like Optimum has a similar policy, depending on what > > type of account you have. > > > > >From http://www.optimum.net/Terms : > > > > > Section 2

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Salzman
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Shwaine wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > > > (bad vibed messaged snipped) > I'm really very disappointed in both these messages. I hope you both have the good sense to not escalate with each other.

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Salzman
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Peter Salzman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Troy Arnold wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:27:01PM -0500, Peter Salzman wrote: >> > >> > But as to why the 3-way handshake isn't being fully established ... &

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Troy Arnold wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 03:27:01PM -0500, Peter Salzman wrote: > > > > But as to why the 3-way handshake isn't being fully established ... > > that would suck because I have *no* idea how to diagnose that sort

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Salzman
> Hi Bryan, > > Good call, but I'm on Optimum Online Ultra.  It's pricey ($85/mo) but > between the 100Mbps down, 15 Mbps up, static IP, and being able to run > servers, I kind of had to get it, so I fall under 22B. > > I called them and verified they don't drop packets to port 80, and in > fact, I

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Cam Ellison wrote: > On 11-02-15 11:31 AM, Peter Salzman wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cam Ellison  wrote: >>> On 11-02-15 08:56 AM, Peter Salzman wrote: >>>> OK, I commented out all the virtual host stuff and changed p

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Bryan Richter wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:31:58AM -0500, Peter Salzman wrote: >> Third time is a charm, perhaps.  I'm trying to get Apache to work. >> >> I can access dirac.org successfully from inside my network; I can't &g

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Orson Jones wrote: >> Unfortunately, Apache is listening to 80 -- I think I know that >> because the webserver is accessible from inside the LAN.  But just to >> make 100% sure, > > Rereading your original post, I misunderstood the setup. > It sounds like the packe

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Cam Ellison wrote: > On 11-02-15 08:56 AM, Peter Salzman wrote: >> >> OK, I commented out all the virtual host stuff and changed ports.conf to: >> >> Listen 80 >> >>      # SSL name based virtual hosts are not yet sup

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Orson Jones wrote: > A couple more things worth checking: > > Use netstat to check to see what IP(s) it is actually listening on. > netstat -tapn | grep LISTEN | grep :80 > If the output of that doesn't match what is in the configuration, there may > be something

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:32 PM, wrote: >> Original Message >> Subject: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0. >> From: Peter Salzman >> Date: Mon, February 14, 2011 10:31 pm >> To: vox-tech >> >> >> Third time is a charm, perhaps.  I&#x

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Rod Roark wrote: > On 02/15/2011 08:05 AM, Peter Salzman wrote: >> and in ports.conf: >> >>       Listen 192.168.0.2:80 >> >>       >>             # SSL name based virtual hosts are not yet supported, the

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Rod Roark wrote: > > Check the Listen directives.  By default it will listen on all > IP addresses, but if one specifies an IP or localhost then only > those specified will be listened to. > > If that's OK, then see if it works without the NameVirtualHost > and Vir

Re: [vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-15 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:31:58AM -0500, Peter Salzman wrote: >> Third time is a charm, perhaps.  I'm trying to get Apache to work. >> >> I can access dirac.org successfully from inside my network; I can'

[vox-tech] Apache: 2, Me: 0.

2011-02-14 Thread Peter Salzman
Third time is a charm, perhaps.  I'm trying to get Apache to work. I can access dirac.org successfully from inside my network; I can't access it from outside my home network. Apache is running on a Linux box on satan: 192.168.0.2 and I'm testing it from a MS Windows machine on lucifer:192.168.0.3

Re: [vox-tech] find not found

2010-10-24 Thread Peter Salzman
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Rod Roark wrote: > On 10/24/2010 01:35 PM, Brian Lavender wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:00:40AM -0700, Rod Roark wrote: >>> A strange thing happened last night around 10:09 pm.  I had just rebooted >>> my home server (running Ubuntu 10.04), and then started

Re: [vox-tech] Webserver Woes: Lost Packets

2010-10-17 Thread Peter Salzman
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 00:07 -0400, Peter Salzman wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom >> wrote: >> > On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 22:18 -0400, Peter Salzman wrote: >> >> > Y

Re: [vox-tech] Webserver Woes: Lost Packets

2010-10-17 Thread Peter Salzman
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 22:18 -0400, Peter Salzman wrote: >> > Your apache configuration has nothing to do with a problem at this >> > level. > >> If it's not an Apache or firewall problem, then

Re: [vox-tech] Webserver Woes: Lost Packets

2010-10-17 Thread Peter Salzman
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 06:04:58PM -0400, Peter Salzman wrote: >> I'm having trouble with Apache running on satan (192.162.0.2).  At >> some point I must have changed something, and it stopped working. >> >

[vox-tech] Webserver Woes: Lost Packets

2010-10-17 Thread Peter Salzman
I'm having trouble with Apache running on satan (192.162.0.2). At some point I must have changed something, and it stopped working. There are two virtual hosts: 1. /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default ServerAdmin p...@dirac.org DocumentRoot /var/www Options FollowSymLinks

Re: [vox-tech] Apache2 problems

2010-08-12 Thread Peter Salzman
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Ryan wrote: > On Tuesday August 10 2010 12:50:00 Peter Salzman wrote: > > From the lack of entries in the log file, it looks like Apache isn't > seeing > > the incoming request. However, tcpdump seems to be showing otherwise. > >

Re: [vox-tech] Apache2 problems

2010-08-10 Thread Peter Salzman
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 03:50:00PM -0400, Peter Salzman wrote: > > I set up Apache2 on home Kubuntu box. I defined one named virtual host > in > > addition to "default" that came with the installation. Wh

[vox-tech] Apache2 problems

2010-08-10 Thread Peter Salzman
I set up Apache2 on home Kubuntu box. I defined one named virtual host in addition to "default" that came with the installation. When I try to access the server from work, Firefox responds with "The connection timed out". When I run tcpdump -i eth0 tcp port 80, I see the incoming request from w

Re: [vox-tech] Wireless Networking

2010-07-30 Thread Peter Salzman
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 15:23 -0400, Peter Salzman wrote: > > > > So you're saying that if the interface can be brought up, say, by > > "ifconfig wlan1 192.168.0.5 up" then I can safely cross driver

Re: [vox-tech] Wireless Networking

2010-07-28 Thread Peter Salzman
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:42:36PM -0400, Peter Salzman wrote: > > I'm having a horrendously awful time getting wireless networking working > on > > my Kubuntu box. I've never played around with wi

[vox-tech] Wireless Networking

2010-07-28 Thread Peter Salzman
I'm having a horrendously awful time getting wireless networking working on my Kubuntu box. I've never played around with wireless networking on Linux before and wanted to consolidate my knowledge and see if I understand it correctly. My two wireless cards are: Edimax EW-7318usg 148F:2573

Re: [vox-tech] LINUX installation question windows Vista

2010-02-10 Thread Peter Salzman
I'm not a windows expert, but I think you can set the page file size to 0, at least temporarily, so there would be no pagefiles to cause problems with partitioning. My Computer | Properties | Advanced | Performance | Settings | Virtual Memory | Change Make the settings and reboot. I believe your

[vox-tech] Samba Password Authentication is failing

2010-01-30 Thread Peter Salzman
This problem has been kicking my butt for a couple of days now. The computer names are: Linux: satan (Kubuntu) Windows: lucifer (WinXP) I want to mount Linux shares into "My Network Places" on Windows. My username on both machines is "p".The security related directives of the global section o

[vox-tech] samba: smbpasswd not working

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Salzman
I'm trying to access Linux "shares" from a windows machine. So I went through this on my Linux server: # cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd > /etc/samba/smbpasswd # smbpasswd -U p New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: The first command created the file /etc/samba/smbpasswd with all the user nam

[vox-tech] [OT] Uploading an image to Wikipedia (licensing)

2010-01-05 Thread Peter Salzman
I'm writing a Wikipedia article, and want to upload an image (the first time I'm uploading multimedia to Wikipedia). I found what appears to be a contradiction in Wikipedia's uploading policy. First of all, the image I want to upload is not mine, but the person who took the photo gave me permissi