On 07/12/2015 10:27 AM, Richard Harke wrote:
I did install Thunderbird (icedove) but I'm stuck ay impoting my existing
emails. I created a folder to match one from kmailm planning to import
one folder
at a time. Select the folder and go to tools - import Then I choose
just mail
to import,
On 07/11/2015 05:41 PM, Richard Harke wrote:
Does any one do email anymore (as opposed to webmail) ?
I have used kmail for years but now it is badly broken. Many sites
discuss problems, none have solutions. I decided to try thunderbird
(icedove on debian) but can't seem to make a folder to
On 03/16/2015 11:56 PM, Wes Hardaker wrote:
This is fine:
# dig lugod.org mx
;; ANSWER SECTION:
lugod.org. 3600IN MX 10 www.lugod.org.
This is not:
# dig www.lugod.org.
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.lugod.org. 3600IN CNAME
On 09/16/2013 01:13 PM, Brian Lavender wrote:
How is it that attackers inject false information into DNS?
https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/DNSSEC
This prevents hackers from injecting false information (aka DNS cache
'poisoning'), in an attempt to re-direct people trying to access a real
website
On 09/16/2013 04:08 PM, Tony Cratz wrote:
I will attempt to answer you question by giving a very high
level overview.
I see I made a number of small mistakes which could have been
corrected if I would have read over my message before I hit
send
On 09/15/2013 05:17 PM, Brian Lavender wrote:
It seems that DNS has been under attack lately. I get a ton of stuff I don't
even quite understand in my log files. And, I see that Sonic, my ISP, has had
various issues. I also see that the NY Times was subverted using a DNS attack.
Who is our
Hello,
Before my friend Hugh Daniels passed away he mention there was a
way to fork/exec/chain a new kernel to replace the current
running kernel. Due to his passing, I never did learn how.
The plan was to have a small OS on either a USB flash drive, or
an
On 09/14/2013 09:24 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Tony Cratz (cr...@hematite.com):
Before my friend Hugh Daniels passed away he mention there was a
way to fork/exec/chain a new kernel to replace the current
running kernel. Due to his passing, I never did learn how.
ksplice
On 08/06/2013 05:21 PM, Hai Yi wrote:
thanks but nope, tried those 3 commands - it didn't work. The same error.
Will updating the source list help? BTW, my computer is 64bit.
What I suggest is you first remove the package you were trying
to install with:
apt-get
On 08/06/2013 06:04 PM, Hai Yi wrote:
thanks Tony, it seemed /etc/vga can't be written in my case. I renamed
it and circumvented the problem. I'll try your suggestion though.
Now I need to just make sure, you were running all of these
commands as 'root' correct?
If not
On 07/22/2013 09:38 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
On 07/22/2013 09:02 PM, David Spencer wrote:
What brand are you buying and what rotational speed? I've had good luck with
Seagate at 7200RPM. But that's just me. I always mirror whatever drives I
get.
-- Dave Spencer
On Jul 22, 2013, at 7:58 PM,
Brian,
On 01/06/2013 02:32 PM, Brian Lavender wrote:
I would like to build an access point with a page where the user has to
accept the acceptable use policy before they have access. Any good
HOWTOs or packages on this?
I would suggest in this case use software which already have
Hello,
I'm still use Thunderbird and have added Lightning for
calendaring.
Now I want to be able to share my private calendar with myself
on other computers, so I'm trying to get WebDav working in
Apache on my webserver.
It seems I have Apache
On 06/12/2012 12:57 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
A friend of mine asked me if I could help him with a project: building
an internet kiosk machine running some flavor of Linux. The computer is
to be used by the public in his volunteer organization. I said I have no
real exerience with that, but I
On 06/12/2012 05:51 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
I was guessing that this would be a common thing and would have a simple
tutorial somewhere. And I was thinking that using a major distro like
Ubuntu may not be the way to go. Would it not be easier to secure a
lightweight distro, because you can
On 06/12/2012 05:58 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
I will take a look at the freecode site you mentioned.
They kiosk will be used to access the internet. I am not too concerned
with restricting what sites that they visit. Rather, I want to prevent
permanent damage/corruption of the host
Hello,
I'm having issue with a preseed file.
The Debian installer allow for you to a 'preseed' file to answer
questions during the install process.
I have got almost everything working the way I want except for
the vary last step. After all of the install
On 05/29/2012 10:49 AM, Tony Cratz wrote:
d-i preseed/last_command string \
in-target echo wget http://192.168.1.1/preseeds
/preseed_post_install.sh /home/install.sh bash /home/install.sh
Thanks to Steve Wormley who provided the solution for me I now
have a working
On 05/29/2012 11:58 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
I don't know anything about this, but...
I suggest you take a good look at the
URL:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization
a) you really want to download a shell script and run it automatically as
root? From such simple
On 05/29/2012 06:03 PM, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8) CD that I can borrow for a couple of
days. We have a machine that failed to re-boot due to disk errors and I need
to run fsck.
First you did not specified if you want Sparc or
On 05/11/2012 10:21 AM, Rod Roark wrote:
DBAN looks like it will do what you want:
http://www.dban.org/
There is also the program 'scrub' which can do a full secure
wipe of the drive.
Tony
On 04/23/2012 12:41 PM, Richard Harke wrote:
This morning when I went to print something, the print menu showed two
extra printers that apparently belong to a neighbor. Since my wi-fi is
secured with WPA2, if even if the neighbors isn't, how is this possible?
When trying to print, what
On 12/29/2011 01:13 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
I spent all morning searching for motherboard schematics, without any
luck. This is the most information I could find regarding a
replacement MB:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/510553748/Laptop_motherboard_for_DELL_Vostro_1500.html
Does
On 10/22/2011 05:06 PM, Bob Scofield wrote:
Earlier this year I noticed that my computer clock was slow so I put in
a new battery. Recently I noticed that the clock still runs slow.
Sometimes the clock is at the right time when I turn the computer on.
I've Googled this problem and
On 10/15/2011 10:31 PM, Rod Roark wrote:
Wow, lots of comments from unhappy Ubuntu users there.
Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote:
Since this one is likely to bite a few people very quickly.
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/08/installing-using-classic-gnome-desktop.html
On 10/03/2011 03:56 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:
Google [1] says you can use ImageMagick mogrify -strip imagename.jpg [2]
or something I hadn't heard of before: jhead -purejpg /path/to/image.jpg
[3],
for example.
After install 'jhead' I did that command. And it worked great.
On 09/26/2011 06:24 PM, Brian Lavender wrote:
Is there a way to use the old style menu with Ubuntu 11.04?
Yes. At the time you have your login screen, before you
enter your password, at the bottom select Classic for the
style. That will give you back the Gnome manager.
On 09/12/2011 10:23 PM, Jason Snyder wrote:
I am trying to install Netcdf and am encountering problems with the
installation. Can someone give me some guidelines on how to
successfully install netcdf on UBUNTU? I tried looking at this website:
On 06/03/2011 11:19 AM, Dr. Denny Scronek wrote:
Can I ssh to it? Doesn't compute. Try again please.
--- On *Thu, 6/2/11, Bill Broadley /b...@broadley.org/* wrote:
From: Bill Broadley b...@broadley.org
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] I'm the guy with the infinite login problem
To:
On 05/25/2011 11:50 AM, Hai Yi wrote:
I first asked this question to the support of my web host, and they
redirected me to this link:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=437549
and the snippet on that page looks like:
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent ^Wget bad_bot
Limit GET POST
On 04/23/2011 11:09 PM, Brian Lavender wrote:
If you can still find the HDHomeRun box (ethernet box with
2 tuners) that would be what I would suggest.
Is it this one? It looks like it goes for $129
http://www.silicondust.com/products/models/hdhr3-us/
Yes that is the one.
On 04/23/2011 10:41 PM, Brian Lavender wrote:
I would like to capture over the air TV with an antenna on top of my
house! What is a good capture card? It looks like that HD broadcasts
are already encoded so that the video stream can be save directly.
If you can still find the
On 03/12/2011 06:56 AM, Bob Scofield wrote:
So I mounted it to see what it was. It's an empty directory
called lost+found.
What is that there? What does lost+found do? Why do I need it?
All Unix base systems create a .lost+found partition. The
idea is during fsck if a
On 03/09/2011 11:56 AM, Ryan Northrup wrote:
What program is it? There may be other software now that can retrieve
the data.
First thanks to all who reply, I have not had contact with
the person since I said I would ask to see if someone had
a disc.
The
I came across a person today is has a program which only works
on Win-95 and he would like to get the data from the program.
So the question is, does anyone have a Win-95 disc or working
system?
Tony
On 01/24/2011 01:27 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
In the example use case I want to copy my Apache logs over to a 2nd
machine to run awstats on it without putting much of a load on the
actual web server. I was thinking of creating a backup user,
generating a passphraseless key and then rsync on a
Hello:
I'm in a position again to set-up an FTP server. I'm looking
for a good server which will support anonymous connections but
limit what they can do. Both Pureftp and Proftp can solve this
problem.
I'm looking for arguments why I should choose one
On 01/07/2011 02:30 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/ftp-daemons.html
Consider vs-ftpd.
Thanks Rick. I just found and was looking at vs-ftpd as you sent
this.
With the list of sites who use vs-ftpd it does cause me to lean
more
On 12/23/2010 11:58 AM, Chris wrote:
Try skype.
Thttp://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux.
Skype can be a good solution. It does have limits. Depending on
what you use plan requires.
If your use plan is where you have your own PBX then maybe a
On 11/16/2010 01:29 AM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
I have a windows 7 install disk that I would like to make into a
bootable USB key so that I can install the OS on a computer without an
optical drive. I have tried a number of different tutorials/methods on
my kubuntu 10.04 laptop (64 bit), but so
On 11/16/2010 03:24 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:
FYI, I'm going to zap those torrent URLs from our list archives. :^/
Which is fine. They may not be valid in the future anyway.
Tony
On 10/21/2010 11:21 AM, Ken Bloom wrote:
That's why I suggested GNU mailutils. It has a sieve command that
looks like it's a standalone filter (procmail replacement).
I would like to come back to this and ask a question just
in case I did not see what I should have.
Do
On 10/23/2010 06:01 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote:
A quick googling suggests it doesn't know how to do it in-process, but
you could use the GNU mailutils pipe extension to do such things (in
conjunction with a program like formail or reformail, or of course a
spam filter like spamassassin).
On 10/21/2010 09:59 AM, Brian Lavender wrote:
Does this move the email to my mailbox IN.olpc-social if it is To:
olpc-soc...@googlegroups.com?
:0
* ^To:.*olpc-soc...@googlegroups.com
IN.olpc-social
I see some recipes that have the following on the first line.
:0:
It should.
On 10/21/2010 10:54 AM, Ken Bloom wrote:
Yes, but people should be encouraged to use something with more sane
syntax if possible. For example, sieve (from GNU mailutils) uses a
standard syntax that is understood by many IMAP servers.
My question is, is there a stand alone package for
Ken:
On 10/21/2010 11:21 AM, Ken Bloom wrote:
That's why I suggested GNU mailutils. It has a sieve command that
looks like it's a standalone filter (procmail replacement).
Thanks.
I'm doing some research now into Sieve. While the rules seem
a bit cleaner and easier to
On 10/21/2010 12:33 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:14:40PM -0700, Tony Cratz wrote:
On 10/21/2010 11:21 AM, Ken Bloom wrote:
That's why I suggested GNU mailutils. It has a sieve command that
looks like it's a standalone filter (procmail replacement).
I'm doing some
Hello:
For a few years now I have been using Neostats (an IRC services
collection) on a couple of IRC servers I run. On one of my
servers, I just updated my IRCD (Inspircd) to the latest
version along with the main IRC services package (Atheme) I
have used.
On 09/01/2010 10:03 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
I am thinking about 2x 2TB actually, one on-site and one offsite cloned
with something like drbd. Since I always seem to be expanding my photos
and science data, I easily see the need for additional 2 TB drives in a
couple of years (another reason why
On 06/30/2010 04:34 PM, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote:
-rw--- 1 auser auser 3.7K Apr 12 10:11 auser/folder/new/127109228.file
-rw--- 1 auser auser 16K Apr 12 12:32 auser/folder/new/127110076.file
I would like to write either single-line perl command or a nano search and
replace to
On 06/24/2010 10:58 PM, Bob Scofield wrote:
Can someone recommend a PDF reader for Windows? I need one for my business.
And I need one soon.
I've just had an Adobe nightmare. I was reading business email (Thank God
I'm
in Linux now where I feel safe) and Kaspersky AntiVirus said Adobe
On 06/13/2010 11:14 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
Tony,
Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry, but I am not a very sophisticated
Linux user. Could you be a little detailed with your answers?
I have tried to Google how to boot in single user mode without much
luck. So far I have found two
On 06/13/2010 11:42 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
Just to be painfully clear as to what I am doing:
(1) power on, hold down shift key
(2) highlight boot option, Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic
(recovery mode) and press 'e' to edit the commands
(3) from the recovery menu, choose 'root' drop
On 06/13/2010 11:47 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
after typing fsck /dev/sda1 I get the following:
WARNING!!! The filesystem is mounted. If you continue you ***WILL***
cause ***SEVERE*** filesystem damage.
Do you really want to continue (y/n)?
so I aborted.
umount /dev/sda1
On 06/14/2010 12:20 AM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
I noticed in yesterday's instructions to Hai someone mentioned using a
Live CD. I downloaded and burned Lucid 64 bit from Kubuntu.org and
booted from the Live CD. I opened konsole and typed:
sudo e2fsck -C0 -p -f -v /dev/sda1 and it gives the
On 06/14/2010 02:54 AM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
I still can't boot normally. I tried uninstalling (sudo aptitude
remove nvidia-current) and reinstalling the nvidia drivers. That
didn't change anything. I tried purging nvidia. That didn't work. I
even tried uninstalling and reinstalling
On 06/13/2010 09:38 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote:
The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE:
No write access to $HOME directory (/home/thomas).
KDE is unable to start.
Have you tried to come up as single user via Grub? If not
try it. You may find
On 06/12/2010 01:46 PM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
Reboot with a linux boot disk (Ubuntu install disk works well)
Mount disk
make chmod change to sudo file
reboot from hard disk
Or without the Linux boot disk
Enter grub, select the recover option
select 'drop to root
On 06/12/2010 04:10 PM, Hai Yi wrote:
thanks Jeff and Tony. Tony, how can I enter grub when starting the
computer? I don't know what's the hotkey, and google didn't help and
ubuntu takes me directly to the gui...
As Ubuntu boots up Grub starts, you must be watching it.
When
Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Scott Miller (scottli...@gmail.com):
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/download.html
Yeah looks like sunbird is not in development anymore. Their site says
This is the last public Sunbird release by the Calendar Project.
We recommend upgrading to
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote:
While I'm on the subject, why wouldn't Evolution work in offline mode,
without configuring email at all. Each of Evolution's different
functions (Tasks, Calendar, Notes, Contacts, Email) gets equal billing
in the interface -- they're all equally important citizens,
Hello:
I just updated today to Ubuntu 10.04 and found out the
Google calendar program Sunbird is no longer supported.
So I'm now looking for a replacement.
I really like a standalone program and not a web base.
I also don't want it bundle with Evolution
Hai Yi wrote:
Is it possble to install a proxy server on my home Linux server? What
I intend to do is to allow some of my friends back in China to access
some censored website through it (some time they can't even visit
nyt.com ). What software for Linux can help me achive that goal?
Rick Moen wrote:
Hai Yi (yihai2...@gmail.com) wrote:
Tony: I use dreamweaver to edit my files locally and use its
internal ftp to upload them.
So, are you sending your password unencrypted across the open Internet?
Beside sending your password unencrypted as Rick
Norm Matloff wrote:
Following some of the suggestions here, this evening I used the Update
Manager to update all packages. That restored the old R, 2.6.2, which
is the latest version of R among my repositories (which are the ones
that came with the system, no additions by me). So it didn't
Hai Yi wrote:
I thought so too. But it's what's the first line in the script. It's
running on Sun OS 4.
Hai Yi wrote:
#ident %W%
Should that really be?
#!/bin/sh
ident %W%
I just did a refresh of my some of my early programming days.
The %W% is an SCCS keyword. For
Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 06:38:07PM -0800, Tony Cratz wrote:
Do you use an outside person or firm to repair your firms
computers? Have you heard of the news where a chain store
employee copied personal pictures of the family and put them
up
Alex Mandel wrote:
Could you clarify a few things about some of the ideas?
On 3, when you say internal, what where are you referring to?
Should I have been more clear that subnet 2 connects to the outside
world on it's own, it's not an internal network. My 2nd nic is simply
another machine
Bob:
Bob Scofield wrote:
I'm studying everyone's responses, and checking some stuff out on the
Internet. I'm leaning toward buying a commercial disk encryption program and
a firewall. I can now see that my laptop should be encrypted regardless of
whether I am using a wireless connection.
With the discussion we have been having when I saw this posted
to /. I thought that we should include this for background
information.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/12/protect-yourself-from-cofee-with-some-decaf-1.ars
quote
Protect yourself from COFEE with
Bob Scofield wrote:
I've got a dual boot laptop, but I have to use Windows for my legal work.
Supposedly Windows XP has a firewall, though I've never used it. But note
that the opinion talks about having to use both a firewall and an encryption
device. So what is an encryption device
Tony Cratz wrote:
1) Create a static route on the second network to route the
webserver IP to the main server.
2) Use a static route to route from the internal network
to the second NIC card on the web server.
Damn, I knew I should have read that before I
Bob Scofield wrote:
I connect to a very expensive legal database (westlaw.com). I'm paying $168
a
month for a lighter version of it at home. But sometimes I need the extra
databases you can get at a law library for free.
Westlaw.com provide though an easy to access source data
Rod Roark wrote:
(PS to Rod - A fellow named Daniel is looking to (re)start a LUG down
in the Fairfield area. Thems your parts nowadays, no?)
Them are! If he does, I would surely show up at some meetings.
Please add me to the list of people who wants to know about
a
Hai Yi wrote:
first, i have already had my server running on a ubuntu box at home, i
want to upgrade it to a more reliable solution since my data become
more important.
As to Tony's question, the services I need to have are: web pages,
ssh, ftp, and svn; also as a media server for internal
Scott Miller wrote:
Well any computer will work for a home server. From a random old
pentium laptop, some old donated pentium III machine, or a big
expensive honkin' box.
That particular Dell is ok, but consider it is not quiet nor low
powered. Also it will require (noisy) SCSI drives
Bill Broadley wrote:
Bill Kendrick wrote:
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:07:42PM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote:
Looks like it would be faster to write all zeros then all ones.
all zeros, then all ones? Or faster to write all zeros _than_ all ones?
Something like 01010101 on the first pass and
Bill Broadley wrote:
Well shred is for files, not disks. Erasing files is much trickier. Most
editors make backup copies, undo logs, etc. Not to mention every time you
edit a file the previous version (typically) gets deleted, thus those blocks
are on the free list and floating around your
Hai Yi wrote:
this might be too simple a question to ask, however i am doing it anyway.
i want to run a cron job to back up the dump files from my database
tables on a weekly basis. I've never set a cron job before. So by
following the goolge-search result, I did these:
I create a text
Hai Yi wrote:
kind of embarrassment, where to look?
A good starting place to look for log files is /var/log. Then
you might want to do a 'grep cron *' to find out which file
might have anything from cron in it. For my laptop I see that
/var/log/syslog.
If
Ken Bloom wrote:
There are various GUI tools (gtop) comes to mind that act like top.
ps can tell you the current memory usage of a given program (when used
in conjunction with grep), and as Pete mentioned, the watch command can
get you that information updated continuously.
G/top
Thomas Johnston wrote:
I installed Debian (lenny) on my laptop last week and it is my first
exposure to Linux. I was wondering if anyone had a recommendation for
a utility to image my laptop's hard drive to an external drive. I
would like to perform some kind of complete system backup now
Bill Kendrick wrote:
STATUS=`wget --save-headers http://www.MYSITE.com/ -O - 2 /dev/null | head
-1 | cut -d -f 2`
In other words, hit the site, save the headers, save them out to stdout,
chop off the HTTP/1.1 to get the delicious 200 (hopefully) status.
I guess maybe I need to give
Hey:
Has anyone installed Snort on Ubuntu 8.10 and had it worked?
Or did you have to download and compile?
Tony
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Brian Lavender wrote:
Get virtualbox instead?
Virtualbox has major issues (like it doesn't work) with USB
connectors which is one of the things I need for the GPS routing
software. I did look at Virtualbox earlier in the year.
Hello:
Before I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 I was able to get vmware server
1.0.5 to work. After upgrading to 8.10 vmware once again breaks
and I'm unable to get it working.
Has anyone gotten Vmware server working on 8.10? If so what have
you done to get it
Alex Mandel wrote:
It's odd, but one of my usb sticks stopped mounting automatically and in
fact doesn't want to work at all.
dmesg gives:
[ 724.103868] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Device not ready: Sense Key : Not Ready
[current]
[ 724.103871] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Device not ready: Add. Sense:
Kyle Oliveira wrote:
Hey all,
I installed Gutsy a few days ago and it takes 10-20 minutes to boot. I know
it's a documented problem that has to do with the usplash, but I've
followed all the advice I could find (particularly the instructions given
here:
Brian Lavender wrote:
Is there a way to verify the integrity of binary files in an Ubuntu
system? I just back from Defcon and I was wondering if I can inventory
installed packages to make sure they are still the same.
Brian:
You ask a very hard question which does not have a simple
Hello:
At the last regular meeting it was suggested we try to
get more people to show to the install fest by not only
helping with installs but also having a topic we cover
which might help others learn about Linux.
One of the common issues which always
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