From srcfoo at gmail.com Fri Dec 1 18:09:40 2006 From: srcfoo at gmail.com (Eric Peterson) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:09:40 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] everydns.net foobarred Message-ID: <579c6fd30612011609t78569d24k1e1b483714e1346d@mail.gmail.com> Not sure if anyone else was using everydns.net for their domains but I am/was and they've been down for the last 2 hours. That includes all 4 of their name servers and their website. Looks like I'll need a new plan. Doh! From tclug at natecarlson.com Fri Dec 1 18:35:11 2006 From: tclug at natecarlson.com (Nate Carlson) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:35:11 -0600 (CST) Subject: [tclug-list] everydns.net foobarred In-Reply-To: <579c6fd30612011609t78569d24k1e1b483714e1346d@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612011609t78569d24k1e1b483714e1346d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Eric Peterson wrote: > Not sure if anyone else was using everydns.net for their domains but I > am/was and they've been down for the last 2 hours. That includes all 4 > of their name servers and their website. Looks like I'll need a new > plan. Big DoS. If you need some temp DNS hosting, send me a zone file.. http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg03419.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From tclug at freakzilla.com Fri Dec 1 18:52:33 2006 From: tclug at freakzilla.com (Yaron) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 18:52:33 -0600 (CST) Subject: [tclug-list] Kernel hang Message-ID: So I'm building a new machine, and I put ubuntu on it because, what the heck. I was planning on just using the stock kernel (it has 2.6.17) but I need too many custom-patched modules, because I had to go gamble and get an ATI-based motherboard. So I'm trying to install 2.6.19 on it. Kernel boots and it hangs right after "Freeing unused kernel memory:" I did some googling and the closest thing I can come up with is that the kernel arch is not compatible with libc. This is an x86_64 machine, so I built the kernel for x84_64. I've tried "generic x86_64" and the AMD-specific one (it's an AMD CPU). Still hangs at this point. Now, I've got the machine booted into it's default kernel. Anyone have any idea how I can figure out what the heck arch libc wants me to use? Or have any other ideas? -Yaron -- From srcfoo at gmail.com Fri Dec 1 22:38:54 2006 From: srcfoo at gmail.com (Eric Peterson) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:38:54 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] everydns.net foobarred In-Reply-To: References: <579c6fd30612011609t78569d24k1e1b483714e1346d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <579c6fd30612012038s2139a363m7a42b724e92b68c5@mail.gmail.com> On 12/1/06, Nate Carlson wrote: > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Eric Peterson wrote: > > Not sure if anyone else was using everydns.net for their domains but I > > am/was and they've been down for the last 2 hours. That includes all 4 > > of their name servers and their website. Looks like I'll need a new > > plan. > > Big DoS. If you need some temp DNS hosting, send me a zone file.. > > http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg03419.html Well that sucks for them and us. Wouldn't want to be in their shoes right now. Thanks for the offer, but for now we'll tough it out. If something changes, I'll let you know. From webmaster at mn-linux.org Sat Dec 2 14:27:17 2006 From: webmaster at mn-linux.org (TCLUG Classifieds) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 14:27:17 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] New TCLUG Classified Ad Message-ID: <200612022027.kB2KRHf23210@crusader.real-time.com> New TCLUG Classified Ad Category: Computer Type of Ad: For Sale Subject: 4 WD2500YD Serial ATA drives I just got a large order in from newegg.com and noticed I fscked up and ordered the wrong drive type on four drives I ordered. I have 4 250GB Next Generation Serial ATA drive (model WD2500YD) by Western Digital - 7200 RPM, 16 MB Cache. OEM You pay what I paid minus shipping - $69.99 each... Seller Email address: john dot meier at gmail dot com http://www.mn-linux.org/cgi-bin/classifieds/index.cgi From admin at lctn.org Mon Dec 4 14:04:21 2006 From: admin at lctn.org (admin at lctn.org) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 14:04:21 -0600 (CST) Subject: [tclug-list] Best DMS Message-ID: <54567.64.8.148.12.1165262661.squirrel@lctn.org> We had been using the free version of Knowledge Tree for a DMS, but had let it go by the wayside, because of little interest. Looks like we have some users who would find value in a DMS now. Is there an open source solution people are sold on that is full featured, and easy to use? Raymond -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From admin at lctn.org Mon Dec 4 17:04:48 2006 From: admin at lctn.org (admin at lctn.org) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 17:04:48 -0600 (CST) Subject: [tclug-list] Best DMS In-Reply-To: <500663.42292.qm@web53803.mail.yahoo.com> References: <54567.64.8.148.12.1165262661.squirrel@lctn.org> <500663.42292.qm@web53803.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <56918.204.212.34.10.1165273488.squirrel@lctn.org> > For those of us that are TLA challenged, what is DMS? Document Management System. The free version of Knowledge Tree is OK (www.ktdms.com), but they stuck all the cool features into their pay for versions. I don't want to start over two years from now to gain more features. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. From bhartm at visi.com Mon Dec 4 19:11:07 2006 From: bhartm at visi.com (Bob Hartmann) Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:11:07 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Best DMS In-Reply-To: <56918.204.212.34.10.1165273488.squirrel@lctn.org> References: <54567.64.8.148.12.1165262661.squirrel@lctn.org> <500663.42292.qm@web53803.mail.yahoo.com> <56918.204.212.34.10.1165273488.squirrel@lctn.org> Message-ID: <4574C72B.8040804@visi.com> maybe I'm a dope, but (maybe?) I recently worked at a place that used texinfo. THAT's dms, not cms. Now, I admit I don't know what TLA is... wth is TLA? I've attempted to use Xpedio under pressure. hecka bad. I went TWiki. Polar opposites. Texinfo. admin at lctn.org wrote: >> For those of us that are TLA challenged, what is DMS? >> > > Document Management System. The free version of Knowledge Tree is OK > (www.ktdms.com), but they stuck all the cool features into their pay for > versions. I don't want to start over two years from now to gain more > features. > > > > > > From mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu Mon Dec 4 19:33:16 2006 From: mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu (Mike Miller) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 19:33:16 -0600 (CST) Subject: [tclug-list] Best DMS In-Reply-To: <4574C72B.8040804@visi.com> References: <54567.64.8.148.12.1165262661.squirrel@lctn.org> <500663.42292.qm@web53803.mail.yahoo.com> <56918.204.212.34.10.1165273488.squirrel@lctn.org> <4574C72B.8040804@visi.com> Message-ID: On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Bob Hartmann wrote: > maybe I'm a dope, but (maybe?) I recently worked at a place that used > texinfo. THAT's dms, not cms. Now, I admit I don't know what TLA > is... wth is TLA? > > I've attempted to use Xpedio under pressure. hecka bad. I went TWiki. > Polar opposites. Texinfo. You are writing in a kind of secret code that I cannot understand. Maybe I'm the only one. I am interested in the topic, so I found some stuff here: DMS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system CMS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system ECM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_content_management RM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_Management DAM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_asset_management I guess those are all TLAs, except for RM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA_%28disambiguation%29 (Three Letter Abbreviation.) Mike From bhartm at visi.com Tue Dec 5 16:15:02 2006 From: bhartm at visi.com (Bob Hartmann) Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:15:02 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Best DMS In-Reply-To: References: <54567.64.8.148.12.1165262661.squirrel@lctn.org> <500663.42292.qm@web53803.mail.yahoo.com> <56918.204.212.34.10.1165273488.squirrel@lctn.org> <4574C72B.8040804@visi.com> Message-ID: <4575EF66.5020602@visi.com> Mike Miller wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Bob Hartmann wrote: > >> maybe I'm a dope, but (maybe?) I recently worked at a place that used >> texinfo. THAT's dms, not cms. Now, I admit I don't know what TLA >> is... wth is TLA? >> >> I've attempted to use Xpedio under pressure. hecka bad. I went TWiki. >> Polar opposites. Texinfo. > > > You are writing in a kind of secret code that I cannot understand. > Maybe I'm the only one. > > I am interested in the topic, so I found some stuff here: > > DMS: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system > CMS: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system > ECM: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_content_management > RM: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_Management > DAM: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_asset_management > > I guess those are all TLAs, except for RM: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TLA_%28disambiguation%29 > > (Three Letter Abbreviation.) > > Mike > Oh, and I'm also insane. After further thought, I went here-- http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=document+management Lots of options. I have no recommendation, however. Xpedio is rather Xpensive and it's too admin centric. And it's probably Windows only. From hewhocutsdown at gmail.com Tue Dec 5 18:17:35 2006 From: hewhocutsdown at gmail.com (Jordan Peacock) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 18:17:35 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Redundant server with data replication. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for the information everybody; it's equipped me well. The links for High Availability Linux were really beneficial as well. -- Jordan Peacock hewhocutsdown at gmail.com hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061205/8d299759/attachment.htm From hewhocutsdown at gmail.com Tue Dec 5 21:56:17 2006 From: hewhocutsdown at gmail.com (Jordan Peacock) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:56:17 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Fwd: LAMP administrator/hosting - local businesses? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Sorry, forgot the reply-all. Heh heh. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jordan Peacock Date: Dec 5, 2006 9:55 PM Subject: Re: [tclug-list] LAMP administrator/hosting - local businesses? To: "Mark J. Kroska" The potential client in question is as yet unaware that I'm looking into this; I wanted to pull together some information prior to our meeting to be equipped for it. It would be a for-profit website, requiring Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpmyadmin and the ability to run osCommerce ( http://www.oscommerce.com/). If possible, having someone available for troubleshooting/administrating the box (whether a pay-for-hours-support or just leaving the box entirely in your hands) would be great. Would require backups periodically and is interested (peripherally, not necessarily pursuing) a High Availability setup long-term. Thus the prior question regarding HA implementations for Linux (thanks to all who responded on that). Hope that clarifies a bit. -- Jordan Peacock hewhocutsdown at gmail.com hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com -- Jordan Peacock hewhocutsdown at gmail.com hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061205/4ea40cf2/attachment.htm From tclug at freakzilla.com Tue Dec 5 22:51:09 2006 From: tclug at freakzilla.com (Yaron) Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:51:09 -0600 (CST) Subject: [tclug-list] ATI Display drivers Message-ID: Hi there. Are any of you guys using the ATI closed-source display drivers on a Linux box? I just spent like 4 days trying to get the thing to run correctly and it just refuses to get to the point where there's any kind of hardware acceleration... has anyone had a /positive/ experience? (for reference sake, I'm trying to use a built-in display on a mATX motherboard because I'd rather not put a video card in my media computer. But I would like OpenGL visualizations. And yes I regret gambling on an ATI-based motherboard, but I couldn't find a nforce mATX board with optical spdif and component-HDTV output for this cheap). -Yaron -- From chewie at wookimus.net Wed Dec 6 08:25:51 2006 From: chewie at wookimus.net (Chad Walstrom) Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:25:51 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Fwd: LAMP administrator/hosting - local businesses? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20061206142551.0AD302ACD@skuld.wookimus.net> Bob won't toot his own horn on the list, but you should look in to Real Time Enterprises: http://real-time.com. I know the guy who runs it. ;-) -- Chad Walstrom http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ From chewie at wookimus.net Wed Dec 6 08:27:27 2006 From: chewie at wookimus.net (Chad Walstrom) Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:27:27 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] ATI Display drivers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20061206142727.D78A32ACD@skuld.wookimus.net> Can't say I have anything positive to say about ATI binary drivers. Sorry. -- Chad Walstrom http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ From tclug at freakzilla.com Wed Dec 6 08:50:46 2006 From: tclug at freakzilla.com (TCLUG) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 08:50:46 -0600 (CST) Subject: [tclug-list] ATI Display drivers In-Reply-To: <7bdea6e30612060348i6ccc7d1bu3cd225776646a92f@mail.gmail.com> References: <7bdea6e30612060348i6ccc7d1bu3cd225776646a92f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Dave Sherman wrote: > Bit of a pain in Fedora to setup, but worked "out of the box" with > Ubuntu, I believe it. Sadly the sound card on this thing needed kernel patch that's not available out of the box, and I just couldn't get my self-built kernel to boot in Ubuntu. So I went back to regular deba. Too bad, I was quite impressed with ubuntu and everything else (intalling mythtv for instance) would've been MUCH easier. -Yaron -- From josh at joshwelch.com Wed Dec 6 08:27:44 2006 From: josh at joshwelch.com (Josh Welch) Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:27:44 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Best DMS In-Reply-To: <4575EF66.5020602@visi.com> References: <54567.64.8.148.12.1165262661.squirrel@lctn.org> <500663.42292.qm@web53803.mail.yahoo.com> <56918.204.212.34.10.1165273488.squirrel@lctn.org> <4574C72B.8040804@visi.com> <4575EF66.5020602@visi.com> Message-ID: <20061206082744.orhwrcvgqr6s0ssc@bullwinkle.joshwelch.com> Quoting Bob Hartmann : > Oh, and I'm also insane. After further thought, I went here-- > http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=document+management > > Lots of options. I have no recommendation, however. Xpedio is rather > Xpensive and it's too admin centric. And it's probably Windows only. > Xpedio does not exist anymore, hasn't for a number of years. There was some sort of copyright issue with that name. Today it is Stellent, soon to be Oracle assuming the acquisition closes. It runs on quite a few platforms, it is Java for the most part. I don't consider it too admin centric, but I'm biased, I work there :) Josh From Bruce.Broecker at toro.com Wed Dec 6 09:57:51 2006 From: Bruce.Broecker at toro.com (Bruce Broecker) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:57:51 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] ATI Display drivers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > > Subject: [tclug-list] ATI Display drivers > > Hi there. > > Are any of you guys using the ATI closed-source display > drivers on a Linux box? I just spent like 4 days trying to > get the thing to run correctly and it just refuses to get to > the point where there's any kind of hardware acceleration... > has anyone had a /positive/ experience? No, not here. > > (for reference sake, I'm trying to use a built-in display on > a mATX motherboard because I'd rather not put a video card in > my media computer. > But I would like OpenGL visualizations. And yes I regret > gambling on an ATI-based motherboard, but I couldn't find a > nforce mATX board with optical spdif and component-HDTV > output for this cheap). I've got the built-in ATI adapter (xPress 200m) in my laptop. The opensource drivers would hang X periodically, so I switched to the closed drivers. That solved my stability issue, but I only have 2D support. This is a known issue with the embedded chipsets. They initialize In a funky manner and even the ATI drivers don't work properly for 3D. Supposedly, if you switch the adapter from dedicated memory to shared memory then it will Work, but I've had no luck with that either. Bruce From cschumann at twp-llc.com Wed Dec 6 09:09:07 2006 From: cschumann at twp-llc.com (Chris Schumann) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 09:09:07 -0600 (CST) Subject: [tclug-list] ATI Display drivers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <23160.168.86.12.2.1165417747.squirrel@alpha.twp-llc.com> > Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 22:51:09 -0600 (CST) > From: Yaron > Are any of you guys using the ATI closed-source display drivers on a > Linux box? I just spent like 4 days trying to get the thing to run > correctly and it just refuses to get to the point where there's any > kind of hardware acceleration... has anyone had a /positive/ > experience? I have a ThinkPad T60 with an ATI X1400 128MB video chip. I used the instructions at ThinkWiki.org to use the Livna repository and it's running OpenGL just fine. Desktop effects and composite rendering do not work, however. Chris From ces.fci at gmail.com Wed Dec 6 10:41:13 2006 From: ces.fci at gmail.com (Clayton Smith) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:41:13 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] ATI Display drivers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I messed around with this awhile ago for my macbook pro, here is the mental I had made about it: "run /lib/modules/fglrx/make_install.sh, after doing "sudo dpkg -i fglrx-kernel-source_8.29.6-1_i386.deb" -- this package can be generated with the ATI installer. edit: if there are still issues and it is modprobe'd successfully etc run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" (this was the only thing that was really fucking me up)" no idea if that helps.. and yeah.. it was a pain. Clayton On 12/5/06, Yaron wrote: > Hi there. > > Are any of you guys using the ATI closed-source display drivers on a Linux > box? I just spent like 4 days trying to get the thing to run correctly and > it just refuses to get to the point where there's any kind of hardware > acceleration... has anyone had a /positive/ experience? > > (for reference sake, I'm trying to use a built-in display on a mATX > motherboard because I'd rather not put a video card in my media computer. > But I would like OpenGL visualizations. And yes I regret gambling on an > ATI-based motherboard, but I couldn't find a nforce mATX board with > optical spdif and component-HDTV output for this cheap). > > > -Yaron > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > From tclug at freakzilla.com Wed Dec 6 10:52:11 2006 From: tclug at freakzilla.com (tclug at freakzilla.com) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:52:11 -0600 (CST) Subject: [tclug-list] ATI Display drivers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Clayton Smith wrote: > edit: if there are still issues and it is modprobe'd successfully etc > run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" (this was the only thing that > was really fucking me up)" That's ther sad part. After I beat it up for a loooong time I actually got it to load and run and everything, the logs show that it's working. But it stll won't give me DRI or fast OpenGL. And you /know/ how important that is for a MythTV box. I've got it working perfectly with an nvidia card right now, but I'd love to not have that supernoisy video card fan in my otherwise SILENT media computer. -Yaron -- From daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com Wed Dec 6 10:53:06 2006 From: daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com (Dan Armbrust) Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:53:06 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] ATI Display drivers In-Reply-To: <23160.168.86.12.2.1165417747.squirrel@alpha.twp-llc.com> References: <23160.168.86.12.2.1165417747.squirrel@alpha.twp-llc.com> Message-ID: <4576F572.7070906@gmail.com> Mine was working with Ubuntu 6.06 - but then I upgraded. Whoops. The newer version of the X server broke something between the binary drivers and the X server - I no longer can get 3D support, and the mouse turns into a 50 pixel box of distortion whenever I put it on the second monitor. The latest version of the binary driver is supposed to fix it - but guess what - ATI discontinued support for my particular video card in the newer version. Tried going back to the opensource drivers, and they don't work right with dual monitors. Its all quite annoying. I have an old machine at work with a cheap nvidia card in it, and it took all of 5 minutes to get the full 3d desktop experience up and running on the latest ubuntu. I'll be buying nvidia graphics cards from now on :) Dan -- **************************** Daniel Armbrust Biomedical Informatics Mayo Clinic Rochester daniel.armbrust(at)mayo.edu http://informatics.mayo.edu/ From webmaster at mn-linux.org Wed Dec 6 22:54:33 2006 From: webmaster at mn-linux.org (TCLUG Classifieds) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:54:33 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] New TCLUG Classified Ad Message-ID: <200612070454.kB74sX823853@crusader.real-time.com> New TCLUG Classified Ad Category: Computer Type of Ad: For Sale Subject: Dell E1505 Dell E1505 For Sale Specs - 2ghz Intel Centrino Duo Core(Not Core 2 Duo) 2gb of Ram 80gb hdd Sony Dvd+/-RW Intel 3945 A/B/G Wireless 15.4 Display 4 Usb 2.0 Ports 1 Firewire(1394a) Upgraded 80watt Battery/PowerCable Windows Xp Professional SP2(With Resore media) All Original Discs included 3 Year Dell Warrenty Asking for $1800.00 OBO Only Certified Check or Cash will be accepted. Seller Email address: blacknight_709 at hotmail dot com http://www.mn-linux.org/cgi-bin/classifieds/index.cgi From webmaster at mn-linux.org Thu Dec 7 21:15:51 2006 From: webmaster at mn-linux.org (TCLUG Classifieds) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 21:15:51 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] New TCLUG Classified Ad Message-ID: <200612080315.kB83Fpa09293@crusader.real-time.com> New TCLUG Classified Ad Category: Computer Type of Ad: For Sale Subject: Linksys EFSP42 Etherfast Print Server Linksys EFSP42 Etherfast Print Server I don't have the manual. I have the power supply. This review describes it pretty well- (Oops! The longest word in the English Language is actually not antidisestablishmentarianism, it's pneumono..... which is 45 letters long. Please don't try to use words longer than that!) whell, google efsp42 and get the review from www dot print-server-reviews dot com/print-server-review ------------ I'll trade for a pair of ps2 KVM cables. ie., I have 2 puters, a 2 port KVM and the requisite monitor cables-- just need to get the keyboard and mouse cables. Otherwise, it's twenty bucks. I also have some cases and parts. Seller Email address: bhartm at visi dot com http://www.mn-linux.org/cgi-bin/classifieds/index.cgi From SDALAN04 at smumn.edu Fri Dec 8 00:30:20 2006 From: SDALAN04 at smumn.edu (SDALAN04 at smumn.edu) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:30:20 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] New TCLUG Classified Ad Message-ID: <20061208063020427eee123a@mail.smumn.edu> Hey, This is a democratic mailing list. What do you mean by "cases and parts" they're not nuclear are they...WTF What stuff? On Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:15 PM, TCLUG Classifieds wrote: > >Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 21:15:51 -0600 >From: TCLUG Classifieds >To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >Subject: [tclug-list] New TCLUG Classified Ad > >New TCLUG Classified Ad > >Category: Computer > >Type of Ad: For Sale > >Subject: Linksys EFSP42 Etherfast Print Server > >Linksys EFSP42 Etherfast Print Server > >I don't have the manual. I have the power supply. This review describes it pretty well- >(Oops! >The longest word in the English Language is actually not antidisestablishmentarianism, it's pneumono..... which is 45 letters long. Please don't try to use words longer than that!) > >whell, google efsp42 and get the review from www dot print-server-reviews dot com/print-server-review >------------ >I'll trade for a pair of ps2 KVM cables. ie., I have 2 puters, a 2 port KVM and the requisite monitor cables-- just need to get the keyboard and mouse cables. >Otherwise, it's twenty bucks. >I also have some cases and parts. > >Seller Email address: bhartm at visi dot com > >http://www.mn-linux.org/cgi-bin/classifieds/index.cgi > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list "Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds" - Einstein "Cuanta estupidez en tan poco cerebro!" From bhartm at visi.com Fri Dec 8 18:34:39 2006 From: bhartm at visi.com (Bob Hartmann) Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:34:39 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] New TCLUG Classified Ad In-Reply-To: <20061208063020427eee123a@mail.smumn.edu> References: <20061208063020427eee123a@mail.smumn.edu> Message-ID: <457A049F.5020908@visi.com> Just some old mid-tower ATX stuff I'd be happy to see no more. 2 with working mobo's + RAM. All of it intended for peaceful means, or in some cases self defense. ;-] SDALAN04 at smumn.edu wrote: > Hey, > > This is a democratic mailing list. What do you mean by "cases and parts" they're not nuclear are they...WTF > > What stuff? > > > > On Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:15 PM, TCLUG Classifieds wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 21:15:51 -0600 >> From: TCLUG Classifieds >> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> Subject: [tclug-list] New TCLUG Classified Ad >> >> New TCLUG Classified Ad >> >> Category: Computer >> >> Type of Ad: For Sale >> >> Subject: Linksys EFSP42 Etherfast Print Server >> >> Linksys EFSP42 Etherfast Print Server >> >> I don't have the manual. I have the power supply. This review describes it pretty well- >> (Oops! >> The longest word in the English Language is actually not antidisestablishmentarianism, it's pneumono..... which is 45 letters long. Please don't try to use words longer than that!) >> >> whell, google efsp42 and get the review from www dot print-server-reviews dot com/print-server-review >> ------------ >> I'll trade for a pair of ps2 KVM cables. ie., I have 2 puters, a 2 port KVM and the requisite monitor cables-- just need to get the keyboard and mouse cables. >> Otherwise, it's twenty bucks. >> I also have some cases and parts. >> >> Seller Email address: bhartm at visi dot com >> >> http://www.mn-linux.org/cgi-bin/classifieds/index.cgi >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > > "Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds" - Einstein > > "Cuanta estupidez en tan poco cerebro!" > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > From hewhocutsdown at gmail.com Mon Dec 11 12:14:30 2006 From: hewhocutsdown at gmail.com (Jordan Peacock) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:14:30 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Fwd: LAMP administrator/hosting - local businesses? 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URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061211/e5ed2e54/attachment.htm From webmaster at mn-linux.org Wed Dec 13 21:16:25 2006 From: webmaster at mn-linux.org (TCLUG Classifieds) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:16:25 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] New TCLUG Classified Ad Message-ID: <200612140316.kBE3GPs24346@crusader.real-time.com> New TCLUG Classified Ad Category: Computer Type of Ad: For Free Subject: Software of Christmas Past I'm cleaning out the basement, and have run across a slew of install media. Could anyone ever want: MS-DOS 3.3 MS-DOS 6.22 MS-Windows 3.1 MS Windows 98 SE Perhaps even just for nostalgia? If you do, it's yours. Otherwise I'm thinking Christmas ornaments. Seller Email address: johntrammell at gmail dot com http://www.mn-linux.org/cgi-bin/classifieds/index.cgi From webmaster at mn-linux.org Wed Dec 13 21:34:36 2006 From: webmaster at mn-linux.org (TCLUG Classifieds) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:34:36 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] New TCLUG Classified Ad Message-ID: <200612140334.kBE3YaG25292@crusader.real-time.com> New TCLUG Classified Ad Category: Computer Type of Ad: For Free Subject: More crap software Back in my pre-wife, pre-child life, I had time to play computer games! Ha! Ha! So I've found the following as-new, never used titles in the bin: Railroad Tycoon II for Linux (Loki) Myth II for Linux (Loki) And these slightly older, well-worn ones: Doom I for DOS (Id) Doom II for DOS (Id) Time to put a bullet in Old Yeller, ya know? Seller Email address: johntrammell at gmail dot com http://www.mn-linux.org/cgi-bin/classifieds/index.cgi From auditodd at comcast.net Thu Dec 14 09:02:37 2006 From: auditodd at comcast.net (auditodd at comcast.net) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:02:37 +0000 Subject: [tclug-list] For those of you that support Windows XP/2k/2k3 Message-ID: <121420061502.22896.4581678D0007E1AF0000597022070215530B0B019B070B9A0E@comcast.net> An off-line Windows update via CDROM. Also handy if you have family members using Windows on a dialup. http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/80682 It uses Windows WSUS software to perform the updates. You will need a Windows computer with about 3Gig of space to create the CD or DVD. If you are only updating Windows XP English, a CD will suffice. -- ========== Todd Young From markmit at comcast.net Thu Dec 14 23:45:21 2006 From: markmit at comcast.net (Mark Mitchell) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:45:21 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Quanta crashing. Message-ID: <200612142345.21781.markmit@comcast.net> mark at aptiva:~$ quanta QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::initiateDrag(QWidget *) to QuantaApp::slotTabDragged(QWidget*) KCrash: Application 'quanta' crashing... This is on a debian testing system, fully updated. I tried to 'apt-get remove' it, but it wanted to uninstall kde., so I aborted. Anyone else having this problem? Mark From srcfoo at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 10:01:34 2006 From: srcfoo at gmail.com (Eric Peterson) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:01:34 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? Message-ID: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> I haven't had to deal with this in a long time and I'm not sure what buy. Looking for something a little more polished than clamwin and I'd like to stay away from offerings that include a firewall. Thanks, Eric From jeruvin at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 10:21:28 2006 From: jeruvin at gmail.com (jason reynolds) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:21:28 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6eb23c4e0612150821q578c38b6s33a34396c2169a3b@mail.gmail.com> You didn't mention if it's for a home or business. I use Avast both on the work network and my Windows Box. The Home version is free. http://www.avast.com Jason On 12/15/06, Eric Peterson wrote: > > I haven't had to deal with this in a long time and I'm not sure what > buy. Looking for something a little more polished than clamwin and I'd > like to stay away from offerings that include a firewall. > > Thanks, > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061215/f18868e5/attachment.htm From Bruce.Broecker at toro.com Fri Dec 15 10:21:50 2006 From: Bruce.Broecker at toro.com (Bruce Broecker) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:21:50 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: > -----Original Message----- > > I haven't had to deal with this in a long time and I'm not > sure what buy. Looking for something a little more polished > than clamwin and I'd like to stay away from offerings that > include a firewall. I had good luck with Avast when I was still running windoze. It is free for personal use, and includes a 64bit version. Bruce From srcfoo at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 10:24:46 2006 From: srcfoo at gmail.com (Eric Peterson) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:24:46 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <6eb23c4e0612150821q578c38b6s33a34396c2169a3b@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <6eb23c4e0612150821q578c38b6s33a34396c2169a3b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <579c6fd30612150824o1a54476bga5e971384ff753ed@mail.gmail.com> Well it's for a small business (10 users). Most are offsite and not regurlarly connected to our domain so corporate products that have domain features would not be required. Thanks. On 12/15/06, jason reynolds wrote: > You didn't mention if it's for a home or business. I use Avast both on the > work network and my Windows Box. The Home version is free. > > http://www.avast.com > > Jason > > > On 12/15/06, Eric Peterson wrote: > > > > I haven't had to deal with this in a long time and I'm not sure what > > buy. Looking for something a little more polished than clamwin and I'd > > like to stay away from offerings that include a firewall. > > > > Thanks, > > Eric > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > From jeruvin at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 10:33:09 2006 From: jeruvin at gmail.com (jason reynolds) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:33:09 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <579c6fd30612150824o1a54476bga5e971384ff753ed@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <6eb23c4e0612150821q578c38b6s33a34396c2169a3b@mail.gmail.com> <579c6fd30612150824o1a54476bga5e971384ff753ed@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6eb23c4e0612150833l5dc8b8era9905c2b4c0abaac@mail.gmail.com> They have trial versions for the managed and professional products. I've got a mix of managed and not managed AV Clients runnings since some are offsite. Jason On 12/15/06, Eric Peterson wrote: > > Well it's for a small business (10 users). Most are offsite and not > regurlarly connected to our domain so corporate products that have > domain features would not be required. > > Thanks. > > On 12/15/06, jason reynolds wrote: > > You didn't mention if it's for a home or business. I use Avast both on > the > > work network and my Windows Box. The Home version is free. > > > > http://www.avast.com > > > > Jason > > > > > > On 12/15/06, Eric Peterson wrote: > > > > > > I haven't had to deal with this in a long time and I'm not sure what > > > buy. Looking for something a little more polished than clamwin and I'd > > > like to stay away from offerings that include a firewall. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Eric > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061215/1c87eddd/attachment.htm From ryan.langseth at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 10:31:06 2006 From: ryan.langseth at gmail.com (Ryan Langseth) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:31:06 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: free.grisoft.com Free for personal use, it works great. Ryan On 12/15/06, Eric Peterson wrote: > I haven't had to deal with this in a long time and I'm not sure what > buy. Looking for something a little more polished than clamwin and I'd > like to stay away from offerings that include a firewall. > > Thanks, > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > From radke at winternet.com Fri Dec 15 10:23:00 2006 From: radke at winternet.com (Joshua Radke) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:23:00 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: If you're interested in seeing in detail what's happening with your kernel, ClamWin/WinPooch (I haven't run this, but it looks like a very fun techie toy/solution). If you're careful, want automated Outlook integration, and known when to scan a suspicious file, ClamWin seems fine. Sorry to put this one last, but my favorite (before I found ClamWin) is AVG Free, available at http://tinyurl.com/kco2f. They also have an anti- spyware component that I'm not familiar with. Best, Josh On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:01:34 -0600, Eric Peterson wrote: > I haven't had to deal with this in a long time and I'm not sure what > buy. Looking for something a little more polished than clamwin and I'd > like to stay away from offerings that include a firewall. > > Thanks, > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Dr. Joshua Radke Gallipot, Inc. Director Analytical Labs Direct: 651-389-0936 From kelly.black at penguinpackets.com Fri Dec 15 10:27:53 2006 From: kelly.black at penguinpackets.com (Kelly Black) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:27:53 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20061215162753.GB15805@localhost.localdomain> You need to have a clued in user, but I have used: winpooch: http://winpooch.free.fr/ It adds on access scanning to clamav (and has a built in clamav scanner to do away with clamav installation plus the ability to use other av scanners). The software is not for folks that don't know what is running on the machine (most users), but can be good for folks who want to know what is going on. It can be tuned via rules to allow the usual background processes to not annoy the heck out of you (otherwise they pop up on schedule to have you allow or deny the process). Kelly Black KB0GBJ From robbyt at robbyt.net Fri Dec 15 10:42:06 2006 From: robbyt at robbyt.net (Rob Terhaar) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:42:06 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1f663090612150842r562d6991o435c6ae7f33db29d@mail.gmail.com> On 12/15/06, Eric Peterson wrote: > > I haven't had to deal with this in a long time and I'm not sure what > buy. Looking for something a little more polished than clamwin and I'd > like to stay away from offerings that include a firewall. > > Thanks, > Eric Check out the "free" (home-use only) version of grisoft AVG that I always install on computers that have expired copies of norton of mcafee. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061215/b5e38aad/attachment.htm From jeruvin at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 11:01:51 2006 From: jeruvin at gmail.com (jason reynolds) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:01:51 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <1f663090612150842r562d6991o435c6ae7f33db29d@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <1f663090612150842r562d6991o435c6ae7f33db29d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6eb23c4e0612150901h3a9df5e3tc157d5ff4428feb5@mail.gmail.com> I'm not picking on AVG as I used it for a long time before switching to Avast for all my solutions and it does a good job. I have had problems with AVG on some computers where once it is loaded the computer will slow down a lot, almost like a spyware infection, and would return to normal speed once uninstalled. So if you load any antivirus and get a slow computer, try another one. Jason On 12/15/06, Rob Terhaar wrote: > > On 12/15/06, Eric Peterson wrote: > > > > I haven't had to deal with this in a long time and I'm not sure what > > buy. Looking for something a little more polished than clamwin and I'd > > like to stay away from offerings that include a firewall. > > > > Thanks, > > Eric > > > Check out the "free" (home-use only) version of grisoft AVG that I always > install on computers that have expired copies of norton of mcafee. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061215/5fc0bfa3/attachment.htm From john.meier at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 11:05:43 2006 From: john.meier at gmail.com (John Meier) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:05:43 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <1f663090612150842r562d6991o435c6ae7f33db29d@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <1f663090612150842r562d6991o435c6ae7f33db29d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <65293fcc0612150905o4174b2efq9a2d8112c386b6fb@mail.gmail.com> On 12/15/06, Rob Terhaar wrote: > > On 12/15/06, Eric Peterson wrote: > > > > I haven't had to deal with this in a long time and I'm not sure what > > buy. Looking for something a little more polished than clamwin and I'd > > like to stay away from offerings that include a firewall. > > > > Thanks, > > Eric > > > Check out the "free" (home-use only) version of grisoft AVG that I always > install on computers that have expired copies of norton of mcafee. > Second that - All family and friend computers that come through my "shop" leave with AVG free version. _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061215/2f29fcce/attachment.htm From srcfoo at gmail.com Fri Dec 15 11:08:22 2006 From: srcfoo at gmail.com (Eric Peterson) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:08:22 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <1f663090612150842r562d6991o435c6ae7f33db29d@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <1f663090612150842r562d6991o435c6ae7f33db29d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <579c6fd30612150908i4b6bf1f7ta1050df83f381d60@mail.gmail.com> On 12/15/06, Rob Terhaar wrote: > On 12/15/06, Eric Peterson wrote: > > > I haven't had to deal with this in a long time and I'm not sure what > > buy. Looking for something a little more polished than clamwin and I'd > > like to stay away from offerings that include a firewall. > > > > Thanks, > > Eric > > Check out the "free" (home-use only) version of grisoft AVG that I always > install on computers that have expired copies of norton of mcafee. This is what we have been using, but due to a misunderstanding we thought they were no longer offering their free version. As it turns out, they are discontinuing the 7.1 version as of January, but you can upgrade to the 7.5 version and continue to use it gratis. Thanks for all the replies! Eric From tclug at beitsahour.net Fri Dec 15 11:21:30 2006 From: tclug at beitsahour.net (tclug at beitsahour.net) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:21:30 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <6eb23c4e0612150821q578c38b6s33a34396c2169a3b@mail.gmail.com> <579c6fd30612150824o1a54476bga5e971384ff753ed@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Eric Peterson writes: > Well it's for a small business (10 users). Most are offsite and not > regurlarly connected to our domain so corporate products that have > domain features would not be required. > the i would definately recommend AVG network edition, costs much less than the Norton/McAfee corporate editions. Management is much easier with the AVGAdmin tool (even does remote installs AND updates, norton will not). If the client does not have access to your server then it can update itself over the internet from the master AVG server. It also has a built in firewall that you can manage from the admin console. Cons: The admin tool gets some getting used to, it is not always user friendly. Also i had to uninstall AVG off of a laptop once and the uninstaller foobared and left the firewall dll registered but removed the dll, breaking networking completely. HiJackThis fixed it though. Could be an anomaly, i had to remove AVG for various issues with this computer. -- Munir Nassar From robbyt at robbyt.net Fri Dec 15 14:00:50 2006 From: robbyt at robbyt.net (Rob Terhaar) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:00:50 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <6eb23c4e0612150821q578c38b6s33a34396c2169a3b@mail.gmail.com> <579c6fd30612150824o1a54476bga5e971384ff753ed@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1f663090612151200q7fa00df5u9403d9bdd43bfc58@mail.gmail.com> On 12/15/06, tclug at beitsahour.net wrote: > > Eric Peterson writes: > > Also i had to uninstall AVG off of a laptop once and the uninstaller > foobared and left the firewall dll registered but removed the dll, > breaking > networking completely. HiJackThis fixed it though. Could be an anomaly, i > had to remove AVG for various issues with this computer. > > I've seen the windows firewall do the same thing. so I fixed it by.......... INSTALLING LINUX :-] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061215/42ccc586/attachment.htm From webmaster at mn-linux.org Sat Dec 16 15:46:39 2006 From: webmaster at mn-linux.org (TCLUG Classifieds) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 15:46:39 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] New TCLUG Classified Ad Message-ID: <200612162146.kBGLkdJ12764@crusader.real-time.com> New TCLUG Classified Ad Category: Computer Type of Ad: For Sale Subject: ViewSonic E70F Hey all, I have a ViewSonic 17inch CRT Monitor, it's about 6 years old, works great. I am asking for $50 for this or best offer. Thanks! Seller Email address: blacknight_709 at hotmail dot com http://www.mn-linux.org/cgi-bin/classifieds/index.cgi From jpschewe at mtu.net Mon Dec 18 05:55:14 2006 From: jpschewe at mtu.net (Jon Schewe) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 05:55:14 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Not enough memory for VMware? Message-ID: <1166442914.11601.21.camel@jon.mn.mtu.net> I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM and 4GB of swap. I'm running 1 guest at 128MB of memory and I want to start another guest (128MB to 512MB, depending on the guest), however vmware keeps telling me that I need to reduce the amount of memory for the guest or increase the amount of memory for vmware. I've already told vmware it can use all of my RAM and have told vmware it's allowed to swap out most of the memory used by the guests and I'm still stuck. This is with vmware server, although I had the problem with workstation as well. I've tried running as myself and root and neither works. Does anyone know of a way to fix this? Thanks. ________________________________________________________________________ Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe If you see a signature.asc file attached to the message this is my digital signature. See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061218/92d12794/attachment.pgp From wdtj at yahoo.com Mon Dec 18 08:37:07 2006 From: wdtj at yahoo.com (Wayne Johnson) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:37:07 -0800 (PST) Subject: [tclug-list] LDAP/ActiveDirectory Interoperability Message-ID: <883750.71486.qm@web53809.mail.yahoo.com> I'm working on a project where we'll have an application that has to authenticate a user via ActiveDirectory. We're going the LDAP route. I have some questions on extending the ActiveDirectory Schema for our application specific user attributes. On another project at school, we're looking at setting up a central authentication authority. This is a homogeneous network with both Windows clients and Fedora Core servers. I was thinking about trying out Fedora Directory Service, but will the Windows clients authenticate off it like it was ActiveDirectory? Or is it better to run Samba's domain controller off of LDAP and then use the PAM LDAP for Linux? Got any good books on the subject? Any recommendations? Any FAQs? I know LDAP pretty well, just need to know the in's and out's of using it with and as ActiveDirectory. I saw an ActiveDirectory Cookbook (O'Riley) at Barnes & Noble this weekend and thought about picking it up. The price made me think twice. Funny how the projects at work always seem to fit in with what we want at school. --- Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061218/1fc5eef1/attachment.htm From andyzib at gmail.com Mon Dec 18 12:52:11 2006 From: andyzib at gmail.com (Andrew Zbikowski) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:52:11 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] LDAP/ActiveDirectory Interoperability In-Reply-To: <883750.71486.qm@web53809.mail.yahoo.com> References: <883750.71486.qm@web53809.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I'm probably going to sound like a Microsoft bigot, but oh well. I'm really not, I'm just in the boat that OSS is not the best solution for every job. Before extending the AD schema, make sure the attributes you're looking for aren't already there somewhere. Extending the schema is usually a last resort type of solution. If you are going to undertake expanding the schema, spend the money on the books. The best way to deal with windows clients is to run a real Active Directory server. Usually you want to have at least two Active Directory servers so you have a backup. If you're running on a SAN and using virtual machines, you can probably safely get away with no backup DC. The actual Windows Active Directory is not really for the authentication, Samba, LDAP, etc. can do that just fine. It's the group policy features that will keep you same when managing Windows clients, and to my knowledge group policy has not been fully duplicated in any 3rd party solution. On the Linux side of things, I use the pam winbind module to authenticate active directory users on my Linux servers. It is very slick and requires no special setup on the Windows AD servers and minimal configuration on the Linux machines. If I was asked to implement a mixed environment, I would have to go with Active Directory. A better solution for dealing with Windows clients simply does not exist. From there, a Mac server running Open Directory in Active Directory integrated mode can provide authentication to Macs, and optionally Unix clients as well. I don't see a need for a Unix/Linux/BSD/Solaris/whatever server as long as the Mac server can handle it, and as long as your flavor of Unix uses pam and the windbind pam module works, you may not even need NIS. Linux servers for the user's home directory would be ideal. I've got my Linux servers configured to create home directories automatically the first time an AD user logs in, and it works well. There could be room for putting some users on a Windows file server. Volume Shadow Copy can be quite useful for things like code and other documents that change frequently. Distributed File System when you're dealing with multiple branch offices via WAN links, but need to share a set of files with all locations. I have my software distribution share in a DFS that is replicated to file servers at the actual locations. It's saved me plenty of time to update an application installation once instead of multiple times. I've been underwhelmed by samba in Mac OSX. On the Mac OSX client OS, it's rather useless. The Mac OS X server platform is much better, but if you want to do anything with samba that isn't supported by the GUI tools you're best bet is to put that configuration into it's own file and add an include line in the smb.conf. The downside of Active Directory is the licenses you have to buy from Microsoft, but if you're organization will be using Exchange you'll already have to buy the required licenses. Lastly, if you're implementing a new AD, go with Windows Server 2003, and go with 2003 native mode. (All domain controllers must be Windows Server 2003 or above.) AD in Windows Server 2003 is a vast improvement over Windows 2000's AD. If you're in a Windows 2000 AD, I highly recommend the upgrade. Having delt with NT4 domains as well as Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 native domains, I would not want to go back from Windows 2003. I hope that was helpful on some level... :-) -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue >0; 0 rows returned From troy.johnson at health.state.mn.us Mon Dec 18 13:21:38 2006 From: troy.johnson at health.state.mn.us (Troy.A Johnson) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:21:38 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] [OT] Re: LDAP/ActiveDirectory Interoperability Message-ID: Andrew, >>> "Andrew Zbikowski" 12/18/2006 12:52 PM >>> >Lastly, if you're implementing a new AD, go with Windows Server 2003, >and go with 2003 native mode. (All domain controllers must be Windows >Server 2003 or above.) AD in Windows Server 2003 is a vast improvement >over Windows 2000's AD. If you're in a Windows 2000 AD, I highly >recommend the upgrade. Having delt with NT4 domains as well as Windows >2000 and Windows 2003 native domains, I would not want to go back from >Windows 2003. Sorry to veer off into OT-land suddenly, but I would like to know more about why W2K3 AD is better than W2K AD. I might have to upgrade if the reasons are compelling. Troy From josh at joshwelch.com Mon Dec 18 19:18:33 2006 From: josh at joshwelch.com (Josh Welch) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:18:33 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] LDAP/ActiveDirectory Interoperability In-Reply-To: <883750.71486.qm@web53809.mail.yahoo.com> References: <883750.71486.qm@web53809.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20061218191833.m522mt2nyko48scw@bullwinkle.joshwelch.com> Quoting Wayne Johnson : > I'm working on a project where we'll have an application that has to > authenticate a user via ActiveDirectory. We're going the LDAP route. > I have some questions on extending the ActiveDirectory Schema for > our application specific user attributes. > > On another project at school, we're looking at setting up a central > authentication authority. This is a homogeneous network with both > Windows clients and Fedora Core servers. I was thinking about trying > out Fedora Directory Service, but will the Windows clients > authenticate off it like it was ActiveDirectory? Or is it better to > run Samba's domain controller off of LDAP and then use the PAM LDAP > for Linux? > LDAP is not Active Directory, and vice versa. AD is an amalgam of protocols of which LDAP is a piece. There is also Kerberos and some other stuff wrapped up in there. You can use an Active Directory server as an LDAP store and authenticate against it that way. A Windows client will not authenticate seamlessly against an LDAP server without some other client software being involved. If you need AD, your best bet will be to use Windows as the authentication server and configure your Linux boxen to authenticate against that using LDAP or Kerberos. Here's an article I found on seting up Linux to authenticate against an AD server, might help: http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/09/2318244&tid=102&tid=101&tid=100 Josh From duff0097 at umn.edu Tue Dec 19 14:20:45 2006 From: duff0097 at umn.edu (duff0097 at umn.edu) Date: 19 Dec 2006 14:20:45 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Robot hacking. Message-ID: Are there any Robot hacking groups in the area? meetup.com doesn't appear to have any. I'm posting on here because I was planning on having it be linux based and would be either building a robot or altering one (like Robosapien). Thanks. Bryan From erikerik at gmail.com Tue Dec 19 14:29:21 2006 From: erikerik at gmail.com (Erik Anderson) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:29:21 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Robot hacking. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 19 Dec 2006 14:20:45 -0600, duff0097 at umn.edu wrote: > Are there any Robot hacking groups in the area? meetup.com doesn't appear > to have any. How's this: http://www.tcrobots.org/index.html -Erik From Vic.Conocchioli at dot.state.mn.us Tue Dec 19 12:17:07 2006 From: Vic.Conocchioli at dot.state.mn.us (Victor Conocchioli) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:17:07 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] LDAP/ActiveDirectory Interoperability Message-ID: If you want nice interoperability with the Active Directory, try looking at Vintela Authentication Services (VAS). It consists of one rpm loaded on to the linux side. This software was recommended to us by Microsoft. (They admitted their own solution is cumbersome and requires a lot of configuration on the AD side). It is owned by Quest Software and has good support. It works nicely with ssh (as well as tectia ssh2), ftp, cvs and they even have an Apache module. Your standard Active Directory Users and Computers program is used on the AD side to manage linux users and groups. We just upgraded from w2k AD to win 2003 AD a couple of weeks ago and no changes needed to be made on the linux side. From jpschewe at mtu.net Wed Dec 20 20:19:11 2006 From: jpschewe at mtu.net (Jon Schewe) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:19:11 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Not enough memory for VMware? In-Reply-To: <1166442914.11601.21.camel@jon.mn.mtu.net> References: <1166442914.11601.21.camel@jon.mn.mtu.net> Message-ID: <1166667551.12176.5.camel@jon.mn.mtu.net> I removed /etc/vmware/config and ~/.vmware and tried it again today and now it's working. I'm able to start up multiple VMs. Must have had some broken settings in there. Although now when I try and change the memory settings and save them vmware says "Unable to save host settings: No such file or directory". I was unable to find this via google as well, has someone else seen it? On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 05:55 -0600, Jon Schewe wrote: > I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM and 4GB of swap. I'm running 1 guest > at 128MB of memory and I want to start another guest (128MB to 512MB, > depending on the guest), however vmware keeps telling me that I need to > reduce the amount of memory for the guest or increase the amount of > memory for vmware. I've already told vmware it can use all of my RAM > and have told vmware it's allowed to swap out most of the memory used by > the guests and I'm still stuck. This is with vmware server, although I > had the problem with workstation as well. I've tried running as myself > and root and neither works. Does anyone know of a way to fix this? > > Thanks. > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe > If you see a signature.asc file attached to the message this is my > digital signature. > See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. > > For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels > nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any > powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all > creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that > is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ________________________________________________________________________ Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe If you see a signature.asc file attached to the message this is my digital signature. See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061220/ca2447a1/attachment.pgp From kevin.lombardo at gmail.com Wed Dec 20 22:03:09 2006 From: kevin.lombardo at gmail.com (Kevin Lombardo) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:03:09 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] device drivers Message-ID: Hello- I have a few quick questions about device drivers. I am using Debian Etch: 1. Is there a way to tell which device drivers have been compiled in to a pre-built kernel? 2. I see a file called /etc/modules, and there are 4 entries in it: ide-cd ide-disk ide-generic psmouse Are these simply modular drivers? And are they in this file because the kernel *always* loads them, rather than relying on any kind of autodetect? 3. How does the kernel know which other drivers to load? Is it just autodetect or is there a configuration file? 4. If I have a modular driver for an ide disk, and then try booting a kernel with an ide driver compiled with it, which driver will be used, the compiled in or the modular? Thanks! Kevin From florin at iucha.net Wed Dec 20 22:39:49 2006 From: florin at iucha.net (Florin Iucha) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:39:49 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] device drivers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20061221043949.GH22485@iucha.net> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 10:03:09PM -0600, Kevin Lombardo wrote: > I have a few quick questions about device drivers. I am using Debian Etch: > > 1. Is there a way to tell which device drivers have been compiled in > to a pre-built kernel? Look in /boot/config-`uname -r` > 2. I see a file called /etc/modules, and there are 4 entries in it: > > ide-cd > ide-disk > ide-generic > psmouse > > Are these simply modular drivers? And are they in this file because > the kernel *always* loads them, rather than relying on any kind of > autodetect? Correct. > 3. How does the kernel know which other drivers to load? Is it just > autodetect or is there a configuration file? Both. For extra configuration files look in /etc/modutils/ . > 4. If I have a modular driver for an ide disk, and then try booting a > kernel with an ide driver compiled with it, which driver will be used, > the compiled in or the modular? Compiled. florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061220/ede49bb5/attachment.pgp From sac at cheesecake.org Wed Dec 20 22:41:31 2006 From: sac at cheesecake.org (Sidney Cammeresi) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:41:31 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] device drivers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20061221044130.GA28463@cheesecake.org> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 at 22.03.09 -0600, Kevin Lombardo wrote: > 1. Is there a way to tell which device drivers have been compiled in > to a pre-built kernel? not that i know of, in general. you can check a few not terribly interesting things by reading /proc/devices and /proc/filesystems. > 2. I see a file called /etc/modules, and there are 4 entries in it: > > ide-cd > ide-disk > ide-generic > psmouse > > Are these simply modular drivers? And are they in this file because > the kernel *always* loads them, rather than relying on any kind of > autodetect? i believe they'll be loaded unconditionally at boot if the modules exist. it's used for stuff that can't be probed like certain scsi cards. > 3. How does the kernel know which other drivers to load? Is it just > autodetect or is there a configuration file? the kernel passes device info to folks like hotplug and udev. > 4. If I have a modular driver for an ide disk, and then try booting a > kernel with an ide driver compiled with it, which driver will be used, > the compiled in or the modular? the compiled in one will be used. of course, if your ide driver is a module and your root filesystem is on an ide disk, neither will be used..... -- Sidney CAMMERESI http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/ From Vic.Conocchioli at dot.state.mn.us Wed Dec 20 13:16:43 2006 From: Vic.Conocchioli at dot.state.mn.us (Victor Conocchioli) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:16:43 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Fwd: Re: LDAP/ActiveDirectory Interoperability Message-ID: >>>Victor Conocchioli 12/20/06 12:18 pm >>> It basically uses pam and inserts itself in the stack at the beginning. So, what ever application you use must also use pam. Except in the case of Apache, they developed a module (You could also direct Apache to use pam, but there is a little more complexity). It uses kerberos on the AD side, so if you need to go thru a DMZ you need to have 4 ports open. The AD schema does get extended with one program you run on only one domain controller. However, to see the extended schema you need to load an additional msi from Vintela over the normal Microsoftw adminpak.msi. >>>" " 12/20/06 11:11 am >>> On 12/19/06, Victor Conocchioli wrote: >If you want nice interoperability with the Active Directory, try looking at Vintela Authentication Services (VAS). It consists of one rpm loaded on to the linux side. This software was recommended to us by Microsoft. (They admitted their own solution is cumbersome and requires a lot of configuration on the AD side). It is owned by Quest Software and has good support. It works nicely with ssh (as well as tectia ssh2), ftp, cvs and they even have an Apache module. Your standard Active Directory Users and Computers program is used on the AD side to manage linux users and groups. > >We just upgraded from w2k AD to win 2003 AD a couple of weeks ago and no changes needed to be made on the linux side. Ive looked at that a few times, but not been able to learn what I wanted from the site. What does it use? A custom nsswitch module? Kerberos keytabs? Does it modify the AD schema? Jay -- Jay Kline http://www.slushpupie.com/ From droe at real-time.com Thu Dec 21 12:29:54 2006 From: droe at real-time.com (Dave Roe) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:29:54 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] modem for mpls wireless Message-ID: <20061221182954.GA16079@droe-rt-dsl.real-time.com> Can someone tell me what modem US Internet will use for it's hosting of Minneapolis' wireless network and if it is linux friendly? -- Dave Roe droe at real-time.com From jgammons at gmail.com Thu Dec 21 13:01:49 2006 From: jgammons at gmail.com (John Gammons) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:01:49 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] modem for mpls wireless In-Reply-To: <20061221182954.GA16079@droe-rt-dsl.real-time.com> References: <20061221182954.GA16079@droe-rt-dsl.real-time.com> Message-ID: <13f7f6810612211101y2cd365ddg58cfff56b1c09ba9@mail.gmail.com> if they are smart... peplink... but i highly doubt that... but whatever they use, it will be ethernet, so yeah it will work with pc, mac, and linux. if you mean a pcmcia card that they will provide... they probably won't, but if they do, don't bother, get yourself a nice ubiquity 400mw card. it has the atheros chipset, and you can use the madwifi driver. that is a very customizable and easy to use driver set. john On 12/21/06, Dave Roe wrote: > > Can someone tell me what modem US Internet will use for it's hosting of > Minneapolis' wireless network and if it is linux friendly? > > -- > Dave Roe droe at real-time.com > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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John Gammons wrote: if they are smart... peplink... but i highly doubt that... but whatever they use, it will be ethernet, so yeah it will work with pc, mac, and linux. if you mean a pcmcia card that they will provide... they probably won't, but if they do, don't bother, get yourself a nice ubiquity 400mw card. it has the atheros chipset, and you can use the madwifi driver. that is a very customizable and easy to use driver set. john On 12/21/06, Dave Roe wrote: Can someone tell me what modem US Internet will use for it's hosting of Minneapolis' wireless network and if it is linux friendly? -- Dave Roe droe at real-time.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list --- Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. 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URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061221/162c6365/attachment.htm From chewie at wookimus.net Thu Dec 21 22:56:46 2006 From: chewie at wookimus.net (Chad Walstrom) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:56:46 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] device drivers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20061222045646.0D57B74EF@skuld.wookimus.net> "Kevin Lombardo" wrote: > 1. Is there a way to tell which device drivers have been compiled in > to a pre-built kernel? The config file used to build the kernel is always found as /boot/config-`uname -r`. (The `uname -r` replaces the output of your current kernel release into the command line. This is a form of input substitution.) Some kernels are compiled with the config being found in the /proc filesystem (I believe it is /proc/sys/kernel/config, or some such.) I do not know if the Etch kernels do this or not. In any case, the only easy way of finding out what is compiled in, and what isn't is by looking at that file. You could do some detective work and guess based on what you see in dmesg and what you don't see in /lib/modules/`uname -r`. > 2. I see a file called /etc/modules, and there are 4 entries in it: > > ide-cd > ide-disk > ide-generic > psmouse > > Are these simply modular drivers? And are they in this file because > the kernel *always* loads them, rather than relying on any kind of > autodetect? Yes, the kernel always loads the modules found in this file. Some auto-detection can happen, but some does not. If you find a module doesn't load when you need it, then it might be a good idea to stick it in this file. > 3. How does the kernel know which other drivers to load? Is it just > autodetect or is there a configuration file? In new kernels, udev and in older kernels, hotplug. These event watchers can notify scripts, which load drivers. > 4. If I have a modular driver for an ide disk, and then try booting > a kernel with an ide driver compiled with it, which driver will be > used, the compiled in or the modular? This is what the initrd stuff is all about, initial ram disk. You most likely have the package like yaird, initramfs-tools, and mkinitrd installed. These are usually called automatically by your kernel package when it is installed to build a new initrd file in /boot. This file contains a copy of all the scripts and modules you need in order to boot your system and mount the root filesystem. If you need a modular kernel driver, then list it in /etc/modules and reconfigure your kernel package or run the tools manually. For example: # apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-`uname -r` Have fun! -- Chad Walstrom http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ From jus at krytosvirus.com Fri Dec 22 00:48:56 2006 From: jus at krytosvirus.com (Justin Krejci) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 00:48:56 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] modem for mpls wireless In-Reply-To: <13080319.1166727915323.JavaMail.root@sniper35> References: <20061221182954.GA16079@droe-rt-dsl.real-time.com> <13080319.1166727915323.JavaMail.root@sniper35> Message-ID: <200612220048.56875.jus@krytosvirus.com> This is the product getting used. http://www.ruckuswireless.com/ (dont forget to cause a ruckus on their site) This is what they look like http://www.ruckuswireless.com/products/ It is basically like a DSL router where your IP address is on the ruckus and it performs NAT to an ethernet interface. You can plug a PC, switch, wireless AP, etc into it. Think of this service like a DSL or cable, it is just the last mile is wireless. You can (if accessible) directly connect to the network w/o a ruckus via your own 802.11 equipment. On Thursday 21 December 2006 13:01, John Gammons wrote: > if they are smart... peplink... but i highly doubt that... but whatever > they use, it will be ethernet, so yeah it will work with pc, mac, and > linux. if you mean a pcmcia card that they will provide... they probably > won't, but if they do, don't bother, get yourself a nice ubiquity 400mw > card. it has the atheros chipset, and you can use the madwifi driver. > that is a very customizable and easy to use driver set. > > john > > On 12/21/06, Dave Roe wrote: > > Can someone tell me what modem US Internet will use for it's hosting of > > Minneapolis' wireless network and if it is linux friendly? > > > > -- > > Dave Roe droe at real-time.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list From jpschewe at mtu.net Fri Dec 22 06:10:03 2006 From: jpschewe at mtu.net (Jon Schewe) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:10:03 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] device drivers In-Reply-To: <20061222045646.0D57B74EF@skuld.wookimus.net> References: <20061222045646.0D57B74EF@skuld.wookimus.net> Message-ID: <1166789403.21461.14.camel@jon.mn.mtu.net> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 22:56 -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > "Kevin Lombardo" wrote: > > 1. Is there a way to tell which device drivers have been compiled in > > to a pre-built kernel? > > The config file used to build the kernel is always found as > /boot/config-`uname -r`. How does this config file get there? I ask because I've built many a kernel and the only time I find a config file there is when it's been part of the install of a particular distribution. Is it standard that all distributions do this? Should I be doing it when I compile my own kernel? ________________________________________________________________________ Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe If you see a signature.asc file attached to the message this is my digital signature. See http://www.gnupg.org for more information. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Anything in /boot will get there via distribution-specific tools. If you build a kernel yourself, copy it into /boot, adjust your grub config, etc, then obviously the kernel .config isn't going to get copied over there. I don't know how many distributions do it, but it looks like Debian and SuSE do it. I don't think there's any great need to do it yourself when you build your own kernel since you have the .config file right there in your source tree, and it's in /proc/config.gz if you built that support in. -- Sidney CAMMERESI http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/ From kevin.lombardo at gmail.com Fri Dec 22 10:29:59 2006 From: kevin.lombardo at gmail.com (Kevin Lombardo) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:29:59 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] device drivers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 12/20/06, Kevin Lombardo wrote: > Hello- > > I have a few quick questions about device drivers. I am using Debian Etch: > Thanks for the answers guys. One quick question though: if I have and IDE hdd, do I *have* to compile the IDE driver in to the kernel, or can it be modular? And does the same apply for any type of hdd, such as SATA? From strayf at freeshell.org Fri Dec 22 10:29:30 2006 From: strayf at freeshell.org (Steve Cayford) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:29:30 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] modem for mpls wireless In-Reply-To: <200612220048.56875.jus@krytosvirus.com> References: <20061221182954.GA16079@droe-rt-dsl.real-time.com> <13080319.1166727915323.JavaMail.root@sniper35> <200612220048.56875.jus@krytosvirus.com> Message-ID: <458C07EA.1080107@freeshell.org> Interesting looking device. Do you know what they're doing for security? Are they using WEP or WPA? -steve Justin Krejci wrote: > This is the product getting used. > http://www.ruckuswireless.com/ (dont forget to cause a ruckus on their site) > > This is what they look like > http://www.ruckuswireless.com/products/ > > It is basically like a DSL router where your IP address is on the ruckus and > it performs NAT to an ethernet interface. You can plug a PC, switch, wireless > AP, etc into it. Think of this service like a DSL or cable, it is just the > last mile is wireless. You can (if accessible) directly connect to the > network w/o a ruckus via your own 802.11 equipment. > > On Thursday 21 December 2006 13:01, John Gammons wrote: >> if they are smart... peplink... but i highly doubt that... but whatever >> they use, it will be ethernet, so yeah it will work with pc, mac, and >> linux. if you mean a pcmcia card that they will provide... they probably >> won't, but if they do, don't bother, get yourself a nice ubiquity 400mw >> card. it has the atheros chipset, and you can use the madwifi driver. >> that is a very customizable and easy to use driver set. >> >> john >> >> On 12/21/06, Dave Roe wrote: >>> Can someone tell me what modem US Internet will use for it's hosting of >>> Minneapolis' wireless network and if it is linux friendly? >>> >>> -- >>> Dave Roe droe at real-time.com >>> >>> From john.t.hoffoss at gmail.com Fri Dec 22 10:52:05 2006 From: john.t.hoffoss at gmail.com (John T. Hoffoss) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:52:05 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] device drivers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <914f813c0612220852m7689b456g2ea3607c74650d74@mail.gmail.com> > Thanks for the answers guys. > > One quick question though: if I have and IDE hdd, do I *have* to > compile the IDE driver in to the kernel, or can it be modular? And > does the same apply for any type of hdd, such as SATA? I can't think of a situation where I would remove an IDE driver from a running system, so [for me] there is no reason not to compile it in. To answer your question, (IIRC!) the driver to access your root partition must be compiled in the kernel, or you must use an initrd-type solution. -John From tj at kewlness.net Fri Dec 22 11:10:10 2006 From: tj at kewlness.net (T.J. Duchene) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:10:10 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] tclug-list Digest, Vol 24, Issue 20 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <458C1172.5080301@kewlness.net> > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:29:54 -0600 > From: Dave Roe > Subject: [tclug-list] modem for mpls wireless > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Message-ID: <20061221182954.GA16079 at droe-rt-dsl.real-time.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Can someone tell me what modem US Internet will use for it's hosting of > Minneapolis' wireless network and if it is linux friendly? > > If you are asking about "hotspot wireless" as in radio - aka 802.11B-G, I wouldn't worry too much unless you are using a laptop with a PCMCIA wireless card. Those get tricky if the ISP is running a proprietary protocol like TurboCell instead of standard 802.11, or worse - there isn't a Linux driver You can also solve the problem if you can get an Ethernet converter, rather than using a PCMCIA card. An ethernet converter is basically an external transciever (for 802.11 or whatever protocol used by the ISP embedded in the firmware) with an Ethernet RJ-45 port for hookup to whatever hardware you happen to be using. All PCs and laptops have embedded Ethernet, so it saves A LOT of time and pain because then there are no drivers required and practically no setup - just plug it in like a router or hub - you don't need to worry about your OS as long as you have drivers for your Ethernet card. I'd check with the ISP to see what they are using 802.11B-G or something else - then see if they have or recommend transceiver with an onboard Ethernet converter. They make travel sized converters for laptops! =) Don't accept anything less. I know. I use a 900 series Trango 802.11 transceiver with a theoretical 10 mile range at home, because I live out in the sticks. I absolutely refuse to use anything that isn't terminated with an Ethernet converter. I just plug-in to the Ethernet and go - no drivers or setup needed. No special PPP setup, no XSupplicant, no special drivers, and many hours saved - WEP and everything else is handled by the firmware before the connection hits your laptop or PC. It's just too much hassle any other way. I wouldn't accept USB, either. Those are especially annoying when it comes to drivers. Cheers! T.J. -- T.J. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If it's not compiled in the kernel, and you need it to boot your machine, it needs to be in the initrd image (disclaimer: there may be something cool that I don't know about that defies the laws of booting so don't blame me for my ignorance if such a cool thing should exist :) ). Eric On 12/22/06, John T. Hoffoss wrote: > > Thanks for the answers guys. > > > > One quick question though: if I have and IDE hdd, do I *have* to > > compile the IDE driver in to the kernel, or can it be modular? And > > does the same apply for any type of hdd, such as SATA? > > I can't think of a situation where I would remove an IDE driver from a > running system, so [for me] there is no reason not to compile it in. > To answer your question, (IIRC!) the driver to access your root > partition must be compiled in the kernel, or you must use an > initrd-type solution. > > -John > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > From sac at cheesecake.org Fri Dec 22 12:04:16 2006 From: sac at cheesecake.org (Sidney Cammeresi) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:04:16 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] device drivers In-Reply-To: <579c6fd30612220913o242c0996k4d5f72b3d6409258@mail.gmail.com> References: <914f813c0612220852m7689b456g2ea3607c74650d74@mail.gmail.com> <579c6fd30612220913o242c0996k4d5f72b3d6409258@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20061222180416.GA5257@cheesecake.org> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 at 11.13.15 -0600, Eric Peterson wrote: > The same thing goes for root partitions that use LVM. You need to > build an initrd image that has the lvm module so it can load your root > partition and load the kernel with the module in order to continue > booting. Well you can build LVM into the kernel, but you still won't be able to hit your root filesystem until you do a vgscan, so you need a script with a small ramdisk rootfs that will do that and then pivot_root(8) so you can continue booting normally. (There is a script that generates such an initrd image; google lvm2root.) -- Sidney CAMMERESI http://www.cheesecake.org/sac/ From timo at bolverk.net Mon Dec 25 11:28:25 2006 From: timo at bolverk.net (Tim Oudin) Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:28:25 -0600 (CST) Subject: [tclug-list] Not enough memory for VMware? In-Reply-To: <1166667551.12176.5.camel@jon.mn.mtu.net> Message-ID: <2486357.2591167067705106.JavaMail.root@zimbra> ----- Jon Schewe wrote: > I removed /etc/vmware/config and ~/.vmware and tried it again today > and > now it's working. I'm able to start up multiple VMs. Must have had > some broken settings in there. ...and vmserver continues to function normally? I'm surprised. Is your networking behaving normally? > Although now when I try and change the memory settings and save them > vmware says "Unable to save host settings: No such file or > directory". > I was unable to find this via google as well, has someone else seen > it? Did you ever find resolution on this? I'm curious to hear but have little insight to share. I assume you've already considered permissions on the target directory. Does the .vmx file exist? Also, having just come back from VI3 training, our instructor has mentioned that he's seen odd cases where VMware didn't handle spaces and other non alphanumeric characters well. My own experiences with various VMware products suggest the opposite. cheers. -- timo From rclark at lakesplus.com Tue Dec 26 10:15:05 2006 From: rclark at lakesplus.com (Randy Clarksean) Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:15:05 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: Stable Distributions Message-ID: <1167149705.3256.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Ok ... first off ... I am NOT trying to start any sort of major argument on the list ... so keep that in mind and please send me your thoughts and comments off list if at all possible. I have held off posting this just because I did not want to hear all kinds of arguments on the list. So ... here goes. I am looking for a "stable" "free" Linux distribution. Yes ... yes ... that is relatively vague, but let me clarify a bit as I do have some requirements. I use Linux for just about all of my work - word processing, number crunching, email, etc. I currently have a FC5 distribution on the system and it is just NOT stable enough (yes I realize it is a development platform and knew that going in). I have had to shutdown and reboot several times in the last few weeks - that is just unacceptable for what I need and do. So ... I am looking for a release that is stable, has good drivers, and has plans to be around for awhile - or has been around for awhile ... i do not have time to install several distros and see which one I like either. Current system: Dual Xeon 3.2 Ghz (533 MHz FSB) - motherboard is more of a workstation type board. 4 GB RAM USB - use for printing, would like camera features Networking - built in gigabit 4 250 GB SATA drives (need good drivers for these) - want to have them in a RAID configuration - currently using software raid - not happy with it - probably will go to PCI slot card for RAID - motherboard has hardware RAID (but not for this number of drives) USB and SATA issues SEEM to be my main issues - based on what I can see in my log files or in terminal windows. So ... please ... no flaming or ranting ... just experience or comments relative to different distributions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Randy From joey.rockhold at gmail.com Tue Dec 26 11:15:00 2006 From: joey.rockhold at gmail.com (Joey Rockhold) Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:15:00 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: Stable Distributions In-Reply-To: <1167149705.3256.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1167149705.3256.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <101e49ea0612260915s4bc6f7c6ke91b95167ff00a98@mail.gmail.com> I have been a hard-core user of OpenSuSE, but with the last version Novell released (10.1), it was too unstable for my uses as well. I moved over to Ubuntu to try it out (plus it was more light-weight on the older computer I was putting it on). I will say that after using it for quite some time now, I have no urgency to go back to Novell. If you are a KDE user, go for Kubuntu. - Joey On 12/26/06, Randy Clarksean wrote: > > Ok ... first off ... I am NOT trying to start any sort of major argument > on the list ... so keep that in mind and please send me your thoughts > and comments off list if at all possible. I have held off posting this > just because I did not want to hear all kinds of arguments on the list. > > So ... here goes. I am looking for a "stable" "free" Linux > distribution. Yes ... yes ... that is relatively vague, but let me > clarify a bit as I do have some requirements. > > I use Linux for just about all of my work - word processing, number > crunching, email, etc. I currently have a FC5 distribution on the > system and it is just NOT stable enough (yes I realize it is a > development platform and knew that going in). I have had to shutdown > and reboot several times in the last few weeks - that is just > unacceptable for what I need and do. > > So ... I am looking for a release that is stable, has good drivers, and > has plans to be around for awhile - or has been around for awhile ... i > do not have time to install several distros and see which one I like > either. > > Current system: > > Dual Xeon 3.2 Ghz (533 MHz FSB) > - motherboard is more of a workstation type board. > 4 GB RAM > USB - use for printing, would like camera features > Networking - built in gigabit > 4 250 GB SATA drives (need good drivers for these) > - want to have them in a RAID configuration > - currently using software raid - not happy with it > - probably will go to PCI slot card for RAID > - motherboard has hardware RAID > (but not for this number of drives) > > USB and SATA issues SEEM to be my main issues - based on what I can see > in my log files or in terminal windows. > > So ... please ... no flaming or ranting ... just experience or comments > relative to different distributions would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Randy > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061226/02f2136a/attachment.html From itwontdie at gmail.com Tue Dec 26 11:42:17 2006 From: itwontdie at gmail.com (Ryan R) Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:42:17 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: Stable Distributions In-Reply-To: <101e49ea0612260915s4bc6f7c6ke91b95167ff00a98@mail.gmail.com> References: <1167149705.3256.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <101e49ea0612260915s4bc6f7c6ke91b95167ff00a98@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <79758ac80612260942n1464c801ib60d6197f5c906d3@mail.gmail.com> I would not be so quick to jump into a hardware RAID. Make sure your hardware is supported first. I have a similar system and my hardware RAID is not supported at this time. I am currently using a software RAID. As for most stable GNU/Linux i would have to say Debian http://www.debian.org/ even though i am a hardcore Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org/ fan! You may be interested in some tutorials i have on my site http://infectious.cc/ good luck with the hardware RAID! -- -Ryan From hewhocutsdown at gmail.com Tue Dec 26 11:52:15 2006 From: hewhocutsdown at gmail.com (Jordan Peacock) Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:52:15 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Resuming a lost remote connection - what to use? Message-ID: My friend & I were having problems with wi-fi signals when trying to remotely connect to a headless box. At first we were using a remote x session, but when we lost connection the session would shut down and we were unable to reconnect until the machine was rebooted. Attempting VNC the service would still run if we lost connection, but we could not regain connection to the same session that we were on (:1 for example) and instead got a logon at :2. I have heard of some other solutions, still looking into them, but let me pose the question: is there a remote protocol that allows reconnecting to lost sessions? 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Either distro ships with recent kernels (so good hardware support), and will be around for awhile, with easy updates to any new versions. Etch will also have reasonably long-term support for the current distro. > 4 250 GB SATA drives (need good drivers for these) > - want to have them in a RAID configuration What level? Raid 5, RAID 0+1? > - currently using software raid - not happy with it In what way? > - probably will go to PCI slot card for RAID I'd highly recommend 3ware's 9500SX line, and Adaptec's 2?20SA line. (where X is 4 or 8, depending on port count.) Areca's cards are also supposed to be great, but I have no experience with them.. support for these is included in the 2.6.19 kernel, which unfortunately isn't in Etch yet. > USB and SATA issues SEEM to be my main issues - based on what I can see > in my log files or in terminal windows. I haven't had any problems with either of these devices on recent kernels. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From klieber at gentoo.org Tue Dec 26 12:00:15 2006 From: klieber at gentoo.org (Kurt Lieber) Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:00:15 +0000 Subject: [tclug-list] Resuming a lost remote connection - what to use? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20061226180015.GA4007@mail.lieber.org> On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 11:52:15AM -0600 or thereabouts, Jordan Peacock wrote: > is there a remote protocol that allows reconnecting to lost sessions? The solutions you mentioned were GUI-based -- I'm not sure if that's a requirement, but otherwise, check out SSH + screen. 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I am looking for a release that is stable, has good drivers, and There ain't much out there that's more stable than Debian's "stable" branch, although it's frequently filled with versions of packages that are a year or two old (which is why it's so stable). If you need more current versions, I hear that Debian "unstable" is about as solid as other distros' "stable", but I don't mind the older versions, so I have too little first-hand experience to say whether that's true or not. > has plans to be around for awhile - or has been around for awhile ... Debian's been around long enough to have other distros (Ubuntu, Knoppix, etc.) based off it and I don't see it going away in the foreseeable future. > USB and SATA issues SEEM to be my main issues - based on what I can see > in my log files or in terminal windows. My MythTV box is running the current Debian stable off SATA drives and using a USB keyboard as its primary input device. I've also used an external USB drive with it and that's all just worked for me, no problems at all with either SATA or USB. (It does have occasional audio issues, but I'm more inclined to blame that on using the cheap on-board audio hardware instead of buying a decent sound card for it.) -- I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty than those attending too small degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson From robbyt at robbyt.net Tue Dec 26 13:51:37 2006 From: robbyt at robbyt.net (Rob Terhaar) Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:51:37 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: Stable Distributions In-Reply-To: References: <1167149705.3256.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1f663090612261151k5100bed9o933e00c0ed7c1ba2@mail.gmail.com> On 12/26/06, Nate Carlson wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Randy Clarksean wrote: > > USB and SATA issues SEEM to be my main issues - based on what I can see > > in my log files or in terminal windows. > > I haven't had any problems with either of these devices on recent kernels. > > I agree with Nate's post. Ubuntu/Debian is the way to go. Stable enough for a desktop, and more importantly has a newer kernel so most of your hardware will work out-of-the-box. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061226/7f8351ba/attachment.htm From joey.rockhold at gmail.com Tue Dec 26 21:33:44 2006 From: joey.rockhold at gmail.com (Joey Rockhold) Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 21:33:44 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Resuming a lost remote connection - what to use? In-Reply-To: <20061226180015.GA4007@mail.lieber.org> References: <20061226180015.GA4007@mail.lieber.org> Message-ID: <101e49ea0612261933s7f68801di3cd7b412d8357494@mail.gmail.com> Have you tried FreeNX + NoMachine client? I believe it will reconnect you to where you were if the connection is lost. - Joey On 12/26/06, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 11:52:15AM -0600 or thereabouts, Jordan Peacock > wrote: > > is there a remote protocol that allows reconnecting to lost sessions? > > The solutions you mentioned were GUI-based -- I'm not sure if that's a > requirement, but otherwise, check out SSH + screen. It will do exactly > what you're looking for. > > --kurt > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <9d6c82530612270625j5f168907p3ee48b09dd7a5d5b@mail.gmail.com> I've started recommending Microsoft's Defender, for home users instead of Grisoft's AVG because: 1. it will be installed by default in Vista 2. it looks like Microsoft will likely not charge for it, ever 3. most home users just need something that will continue updating definitions (If AVG ever decided to stop offering a free package, then everybody I've recommended using it will probably have the free AVG installed with no current definitions just like the trial versions of Norton) 4. it works smoothly with the operating system (It doesn't work with MS own corporate proxy, therefore I assume that this will only be a consumer product offered by Microsoft to keep people from moving to Mac or Linux because of viruses) -- Jeff Rasmussen GPG public key 0x9686C12F -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061227/34c4858d/attachment.htm From dniesen at gmail.com Wed Dec 27 11:18:07 2006 From: dniesen at gmail.com (Donovan Niesen) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:18:07 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <9d6c82530612270625j5f168907p3ee48b09dd7a5d5b@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <9d6c82530612270625j5f168907p3ee48b09dd7a5d5b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <47f4d5e70612270918p56805bb7w8416cac63edc565c@mail.gmail.com> On 12/27/06, Jeff Rasmussen wrote: > I've started recommending Microsoft's Defender, for home users instead of > Grisoft's AVG because: > 1. it will be installed by default in Vista > 2. it looks like Microsoft will likely not charge for it, ever > 3. most home users just need something that will continue updating > definitions (If AVG ever decided to stop offering a free package, then > everybody I've recommended using it will probably have the free AVG > installed with no current definitions just like the trial versions of > Norton) > 4. it works smoothly with the operating system (It doesn't work with MS > own corporate proxy, therefore I assume that this will only be a consumer > product offered by Microsoft to keep people from moving to Mac or Linux > because of viruses) > > -- > Jeff Rasmussen > GPG public key 0x9686C12F > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > Windows Defender is fairly solid but it is only an anti-spyware solution. Microsoft has their own pay-for anti-virus solution called Windows Live OneCare (http://www.windowsonecare.com). I installed it when it was still in Beta and had some serious performance issues but cannot speak to its current state. Grisoft's free AVG has been around for quite a long time. It seems to be a good vehicle for driving attention to their commercial products; it should be a pretty safe bet to see it stick around long-term. And hey... it runs on Linux. -- Donovan Niesen From robbyt at robbyt.net Wed Dec 27 12:49:44 2006 From: robbyt at robbyt.net (Rob Terhaar) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:49:44 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <9d6c82530612270625j5f168907p3ee48b09dd7a5d5b@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <9d6c82530612270625j5f168907p3ee48b09dd7a5d5b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1f663090612271049uc2034e3x13cac73246a38946@mail.gmail.com> On 12/27/06, Jeff Rasmussen wrote: > > I've started recommending Microsoft's Defender, for home users instead of > Grisoft's AVG because: > 1. it will be installed by default in Vista > 2. it looks like Microsoft will likely not charge for it, ever > 3. most home users just need something that will continue updating > definitions (If AVG ever decided to stop offering a free package, then > everybody I've recommended using it will probably have the free AVG > installed with no current definitions just like the trial versions of > Norton) > 4. it works smoothly with the operating system (It doesn't work with MS > own corporate proxy, therefore I assume that this will only be a consumer > product offered by Microsoft to keep people from moving to Mac or Linux > because of viruses) > > "it looks like Microsoft will likely not charge for it, ever" what? are you kidding? Microsoft is totally planting the seed for future "microsoft bi-annual software subscription service plan upgrades" "get all the latest new cool features! be safe from viruses and hackers! just pay us $49.95 a year" just wait for it! honestly! not to toot the linux horn on the linux user's group mailing list... but linux is pretty darn cool! microsoft is defiantly feeling the pressure from linux (and perhaps even osx!) The reason that vista is and will be such a relative nightmare for upgrades is that microsoft is still shipping software like it's 1993. Discs in boxes at stores? How quant, reminds me of switching out a stack of 42 floppy disks for windows nt 3.51. how about a cd that your computer comes with that connects out to the internet and grabs the latest install every time you run it? How about point releases with real new features? How about small incremental changes, instead of huge scary sweeping changes? ahh but then we're talking cathedral vs. bazaar aren't we? ;) oh and small new features... they can start with making the copy folder clock in winxp/2000 show a less retarded average time left -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061227/bf49379b/attachment.html From cschumann at twp-llc.com Wed Dec 27 12:54:35 2006 From: cschumann at twp-llc.com (Chris Schumann) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:54:35 -0600 (CST) Subject: [tclug-list] OT: Stable Distributions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4804.168.86.12.2.1167245675.squirrel@alpha.twp-llc.com> > Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:15:05 -0600 > From: Randy Clarksean > So ... here goes. I am looking for a "stable" "free" Linux > distribution. Yes ... yes ... that is relatively vague, but let me > clarify a bit as I do have some requirements. > > I use Linux for just about all of my work - word processing, number > crunching, email, etc. I currently have a FC5 distribution on the > system and it is just NOT stable enough (yes I realize it is a > development platform and knew that going in). I have had to shutdown > and reboot several times in the last few weeks - that is just > unacceptable for what I need and do. > > So ... I am looking for a release that is stable, has good drivers, and > has plans to be around for awhile - or has been around for awhile ... i > do not have time to install several distros and see which one I like > either. Personally, I'm using Fedora on three laptops and a server and have never experienced stability issues. I also maintain my company's server that runs RHEL, and another Fedora development box. I'm really surprised at your experience. Since you know Fedora, and it and Red Hat are going to be around a long time, you might look at RHEL, or its clones CentOS or White Box. If by "free" you mean GPL, RHEL may be just the ticket. If you mean no cost, CentOS is a good bet. Ubuntu has not been as timely with security updates as Red Hat or Fedora. Chris From jeruvin at gmail.com Wed Dec 27 10:17:17 2006 From: jeruvin at gmail.com (jason reynolds) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:17:17 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <9d6c82530612270625j5f168907p3ee48b09dd7a5d5b@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <9d6c82530612270625j5f168907p3ee48b09dd7a5d5b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <6eb23c4e0612270817n2a4fdb99r25b7dd789afa3f51@mail.gmail.com> According to Microsoft's website "Windows Defender is a free program that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software." [ http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx] Avast or AVG Antivirus protect against Viruses. You need BOTH. I have found spysweeper to be a pretty decent program for spyware removal if you'd like something additional to the Windows Defender. This is also where I recommend using Firefox for the Internet instead of Internet Explorer. Jason On 12/27/06, Jeff Rasmussen wrote: > > I've started recommending Microsoft's Defender, for home users instead of > Grisoft's AVG because: > 1. it will be installed by default in Vista > 2. it looks like Microsoft will likely not charge for it, ever > 3. most home users just need something that will continue updating > definitions (If AVG ever decided to stop offering a free package, then > everybody I've recommended using it will probably have the free AVG > installed with no current definitions just like the trial versions of > Norton) > 4. it works smoothly with the operating system (It doesn't work with MS > own corporate proxy, therefore I assume that this will only be a consumer > product offered by Microsoft to keep people from moving to Mac or Linux > because of viruses) > > -- > Jeff Rasmussen > GPG public key 0x9686C12F > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061227/b55be04a/attachment.htm From auditodd at comcast.net Wed Dec 27 10:14:21 2006 From: auditodd at comcast.net (auditodd at comcast.net) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:14:21 +0000 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? Message-ID: <122720061614.26703.45929BDD0006BA0A0000684F22058860140B0B019B070B9A0E@comcast.net> I wouldn't recommend MS Defender precisely for reason 1. Just like IE being "built into" the Windows OS means that there is much greater chance of vulnerability. PLUS if you pay MS enough $$$ they will "downgrade" the threat status of your spyware. I can't remember the exact incident (or the company), but it did happen last year. I've been using AVG now for over 5 years and they haven't stopped the free updates. Even if they did, I would simply recommend to everyone using it to simply pay for the subscription as they have done an excellent job so far of protecting my Windows computers (including friends and family). As for #4, since when has anything "worked smoothly" when integrated into an MS Windows OS? :-) -- ========== Todd Young -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Jeff Rasmussen" > I've started recommending Microsoft's Defender, for home users instead of > Grisoft's AVG because: > 1. it will be installed by default in Vista > 2. it looks like Microsoft will likely not charge for it, ever > 3. most home users just need something that will continue updating > definitions (If AVG ever decided to stop offering a free package, then > everybody I've recommended using it will probably have the free AVG > installed with no current definitions just like the trial versions of > Norton) > 4. it works smoothly with the operating system (It doesn't work with MS > own corporate proxy, therefore I assume that this will only be a consumer > product offered by Microsoft to keep people from moving to Mac or Linux > because of viruses) > > -- > Jeff Rasmussen > GPG public key 0x9686C12F -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Jeff Rasmussen" Subject: Re: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:08:03 +0000 Size: 2941 Url: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061227/92a1903e/attachment.eml From jeff.rasmussen at gmail.com Wed Dec 27 10:14:32 2006 From: jeff.rasmussen at gmail.com (Jeff Rasmussen) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:14:32 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Resuming a lost remote connection - what to use? In-Reply-To: <101e49ea0612261933s7f68801di3cd7b412d8357494@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061226180015.GA4007@mail.lieber.org> <101e49ea0612261933s7f68801di3cd7b412d8357494@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <9d6c82530612270814tb3a59a1r51456531097c0c77@mail.gmail.com> I'll second NoMachine and FreeNX but VNC should maintain the session if you specify the screen that was used :1 or :2. Or you can choose the screen by using port numbers like ::5901 or ::5908 vnc ip.address :1 or vnc ip.address::5901 On 12/26/06, Joey Rockhold wrote: > > Have you tried FreeNX + NoMachine client? I believe it will reconnect you > to where you were if the connection is lost. > > - Joey > > On 12/26/06, Kurt Lieber wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 11:52:15AM -0600 or thereabouts, Jordan Peacock > > wrote: > > > is there a remote protocol that allows reconnecting to lost sessions? > > > > The solutions you mentioned were GUI-based -- I'm not sure if that's a > > requirement, but otherwise, check out SSH + screen. It will do exactly > > what you're looking for. > > > > --kurt > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -- Jeff Rasmussen GPG public key 0x9686C12F -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061227/b333a740/attachment.htm From thecubic at thecubic.net Wed Dec 27 13:50:53 2006 From: thecubic at thecubic.net (Dave Carlson) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:50:53 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: Stable Distributions In-Reply-To: <4804.168.86.12.2.1167245675.squirrel@alpha.twp-llc.com> References: <4804.168.86.12.2.1167245675.squirrel@alpha.twp-llc.com> Message-ID: <200612271351.04765.thecubic@thecubic.net> I second that (good) Fedora experience, with 4 servers, one enterprise workstation, a desktop and a few other miscellaneous machines. The only crashing I've experienced is when the workstation's capacitors went bad; definitely not something Fedora could help. Oh, and 380 RHEL servers professionally, which either have hardware problems or application problems but rarely operating system problems. If you're having a driver stability problem, the distribution may not make that much of a difference. About 99% of the core software is the same. What driver are you having a problem with? -Dave On Wednesday 27 December 2006 12:54, Chris Schumann wrote: > Personally, I'm using Fedora on three laptops and a server and have never > experienced stability issues. I also maintain my company's server that > runs RHEL, and another Fedora development box. I'm really surprised at > your experience. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061227/8b69df13/attachment-0001.pgp From chewie at wookimus.net Wed Dec 27 15:20:23 2006 From: chewie at wookimus.net (Chad Walstrom) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:20:23 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <6eb23c4e0612270817n2a4fdb99r25b7dd789afa3f51@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <9d6c82530612270625j5f168907p3ee48b09dd7a5d5b@mail.gmail.com> <6eb23c4e0612270817n2a4fdb99r25b7dd789afa3f51@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20061227212023.C52736827@skuld.wookimus.net> IANAWU, but what about the team of ClamWin and Winpooch? ([1]_, [2]_) ClamWin is the Windows GUI to ClamAntivirus, and Winpooch is the real-time file monitor that enables clamwin to scan files as they are accessed, modified, or created. Add in Spybot-S&D[3]_, and you should have a killer team against SPAM, viruses, trojans and spyware! .. 1. http://www.clamwin.com .. 2. http://winpooch.sf.net .. 3. http://www.safer-networking.org/ -- Chad Walstrom http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ From andyzib at gmail.com Wed Dec 27 15:24:21 2006 From: andyzib at gmail.com (Andrew Zbikowski) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:24:21 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: Stable Distributions In-Reply-To: References: <1167149705.3256.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS would be a good place to start if you're looking at Ubuntu. If you need something newer you can easily jump up to the latest Ubuntu release (currently Ubuntu 6.10) easily. The LTS (Long Term Support) is a release that will be supported by Ubuntu longer than the non LTS releases. (Support meaning security updates and paid support.) -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue >0; 0 rows returned From srcfoo at gmail.com Wed Dec 27 16:02:23 2006 From: srcfoo at gmail.com (Eric Peterson) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:02:23 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <20061227212023.C52736827@skuld.wookimus.net> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <9d6c82530612270625j5f168907p3ee48b09dd7a5d5b@mail.gmail.com> <6eb23c4e0612270817n2a4fdb99r25b7dd789afa3f51@mail.gmail.com> <20061227212023.C52736827@skuld.wookimus.net> Message-ID: <579c6fd30612271402l480266c3xe9b38e57ce51271@mail.gmail.com> On 12/27/06, Chad Walstrom wrote: > IANAWU, but what about the team of ClamWin and Winpooch? ([1]_, [2]_) > ClamWin is the Windows GUI to ClamAntivirus, and Winpooch is the > real-time file monitor that enables clamwin to scan files as they are > accessed, modified, or created. > > Add in Spybot-S&D[3]_, and you should have a killer team against SPAM, > viruses, trojans and spyware! > > .. 1. http://www.clamwin.com > .. 2. http://winpooch.sf.net > .. 3. http://www.safer-networking.org/ Unless ClamWin has significantly improved its performance since 1-1.5 years ago (very possible, 1 year is a long time in the OSS world), I wouldn't recommend it to everyday users. I don't have any real data, but scans were taking significantly longer to run versus commercial products such as Symantec. I also made the mistake of trying the Outlook plugin which brought Outlook to its knees. Hopefully it has improved because it would be great to have a cross platform AV solution that was open source and freely available -- aka clamav. Winpooch looks interesting. Since Chad is NAWU, can anyone else comment on its effectiveness and stability? From shanson at cruiskeenconsulting.com Wed Dec 27 20:12:12 2006 From: shanson at cruiskeenconsulting.com (Steve Hanson) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:12:12 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: Stable Distributions In-Reply-To: <200612271351.04765.thecubic@thecubic.net> References: <4804.168.86.12.2.1167245675.squirrel@alpha.twp-llc.com> <200612271351.04765.thecubic@thecubic.net> Message-ID: <459327FC.8080803@cruiskeenconsulting.com> Dave Carlson wrote: > I second that (good) Fedora experience, with 4 servers, one enterprise > workstation, a desktop and a few other miscellaneous machines. The only > crashing I've experienced is when the workstation's capacitors went bad; > definitely not something Fedora could help. Oh, and 380 RHEL servers > professionally, which either have hardware problems or application problems > but rarely operating system problems. > > If you're having a driver stability problem, the distribution may not make > that much of a difference. About 99% of the core software is the same. What > driver are you having a problem with? > > -Dave > Yes - I've for a long time now been a big fan of using CentOS on my production servers, and using Fedora Core on desktops where I really care about the latest widgets. If you are happy with Fedora from other viewpoints, I'd look at CentOS. On the other hand, I'm REALLY surprised at your stability experience. My main problem with using Fedora on servers is the short lifespan of support, not with its inherent stability (though keeping up with the updates on a recent release is an interesting issue on Fedora). > On Wednesday 27 December 2006 12:54, Chris Schumann wrote: > >> Personally, I'm using Fedora on three laptops and a server and have never >> experienced stability issues. I also maintain my company's server that >> runs RHEL, and another Fedora development box. I'm really surprised at >> your experience. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> From webmaster at mn-linux.org Thu Dec 28 14:15:36 2006 From: webmaster at mn-linux.org (TCLUG Classifieds) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 14:15:36 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] New TCLUG Classified Ad Message-ID: <200612282015.kBSKFaB10126@crusader.real-time.com> New TCLUG Classified Ad Category: Computer Type of Ad: Want to Buy Subject: portable audio player - iriver Want to pick up a flash based iriver (or something with ogg support)... Thought maybe someone might have one that's not getting any use Seller Email address: john dot meier at gmail dot com http://www.mn-linux.org/cgi-bin/classifieds/index.cgi From slushpupie at gmail.com Fri Dec 29 09:51:09 2006 From: slushpupie at gmail.com ( ) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:51:09 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] device drivers In-Reply-To: <1166789403.21461.14.camel@jon.mn.mtu.net> References: <20061222045646.0D57B74EF@skuld.wookimus.net> <1166789403.21461.14.camel@jon.mn.mtu.net> Message-ID: On 12/22/06, Jon Schewe wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 22:56 -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote: > > "Kevin Lombardo" wrote: > > > 1. Is there a way to tell which device drivers have been compiled in > > > to a pre-built kernel? > > > > The config file used to build the kernel is always found as > > /boot/config-`uname -r`. > How does this config file get there? I ask because I've built many a > kernel and the only time I find a config file there is when it's been > part of the install of a particular distribution. Is it standard that > all distributions do this? Should I be doing it when I compile my own > kernel? It has become more or less a standard among kernel packagers to provide the config, and that location makes sense. Some distros provide the config in other ways, I dont think its a standard location. All debian provided kernel packages will have the config there, though. If you build your own kernel, I suggest keeping a copy there for your own reference, but nothing actually relies on it directly. -- Jay Kline http://www.slushpupie.com/ From mattjohnson2005 at gmail.com Fri Dec 29 15:41:40 2006 From: mattjohnson2005 at gmail.com (Matthew Johnson) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:41:40 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] OT: what does everyone recommend for Windows AV? In-Reply-To: <579c6fd30612271402l480266c3xe9b38e57ce51271@mail.gmail.com> References: <579c6fd30612150801w681c794en847ac17abf1f3b04@mail.gmail.com> <9d6c82530612270625j5f168907p3ee48b09dd7a5d5b@mail.gmail.com> <6eb23c4e0612270817n2a4fdb99r25b7dd789afa3f51@mail.gmail.com> <20061227212023.C52736827@skuld.wookimus.net> <579c6fd30612271402l480266c3xe9b38e57ce51271@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <7d3948c70612291341i7ab6bcb2ka37b1db28b1925f3@mail.gmail.com> My notes/pastes for all suggestions windows AVs as of this afternoon Fri, Dec 29th. Free Antivirus/AntiSpyware Software ClamWin Free Antivirus (free, open-source) http://clamwin.com/ Article: Using ClamWin Free Antivirus to replace proprietary anti-virus software http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/clamwin_test/ AVG Antivirus (may slow computer) http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5 I would definitely recommend AVG network edition Avast! 4 Home Antivirus (free for home) http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html Winpooch Watchdog - Anti-spyware and Anti-trojan (open source) http://winpooch.sf.net/ http://winpooch.free.fr/ It adds on access scanning to clamav (and has a built in clamav scanner to do away with clamav installation plus the ability to use other av scanners). The software is not for folks that don't know what is running on the machine (most users), but can be good for folks who want to know what is going on. It can be tuned via rules to allow the usual background processes to not annoy the heck out of you (otherwise they pop up on schedule to have you allow or deny the process) Spybot Search&Destroy - Anti-spyware (free) http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Microsoft Windows Defender - Antispyware (free for now) http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx Windows Live OneCare - Antivirus (pay) http://www.windowsonecare.com Microsoft has their own pay-for anti-virus solution called Windows Live OneCare (http://www.windowsonecare.com). I installed it when it was still in Beta and had some serious performance issues but cannot speak to its current state. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061229/0aae6d29/attachment.htm From hewhocutsdown at gmail.com Fri Dec 29 15:43:52 2006 From: hewhocutsdown at gmail.com (Jordan Peacock) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:43:52 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] Resuming a lost remote connection - what to use? In-Reply-To: <9d6c82530612270814tb3a59a1r51456531097c0c77@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061226180015.GA4007@mail.lieber.org> <101e49ea0612261933s7f68801di3cd7b412d8357494@mail.gmail.com> <9d6c82530612270814tb3a59a1r51456531097c0c77@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Many thanks to all who wrote in regarding remote connections. I'll be checking into them and may post a follow-up when things get working. Thank you -- Jordan Peacock hewhocutsdown at gmail.com hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20061229/a2527968/attachment.htm From webmaster at mn-linux.org Sat Dec 30 09:40:04 2006 From: webmaster at mn-linux.org (TCLUG Classifieds) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:40:04 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] New TCLUG Classified Ad Message-ID: <200612301540.kBUFe4Q05227@crusader.real-time.com> New TCLUG Classified Ad Category: Computer Type of Ad: For Free Subject: Legitimate Online Jobs Legitimate Online Jobs All-In-One Work At Home. Worldwide Home Ad Typers Needed! Make $1000 to $2000 per day http://ourdollars.com Seller Email address: blrbindu at yahoo dot com http://www.mn-linux.org/cgi-bin/classifieds/index.cgi From jus at krytosvirus.com Sat Dec 30 11:18:04 2006 From: jus at krytosvirus.com (Justin Krejci) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:18:04 -0600 Subject: [tclug-list] modem for mpls wireless In-Reply-To: <8014191.1166806296934.JavaMail.root@sniper45> References: <20061221182954.GA16079@droe-rt-dsl.real-time.com> <200612220048.56875.jus@krytosvirus.com> <8014191.1166806296934.JavaMail.root@sniper45> Message-ID: <200612301118.05102.jus@krytosvirus.com> Right now there is no encryption for client connections. There are plans for enabling a client encryted session, most likely using an additional software package/vpn client type thing. On Friday 22 December 2006 10:29, Steve Cayford wrote: > Interesting looking device. Do you know what they're doing for security? > Are they using WEP or WPA? > > -steve > > Justin Krejci wrote: > > This is the product getting used. > > http://www.ruckuswireless.com/ (dont forget to cause a ruckus on their > > site) > > > > This is what they look like > > http://www.ruckuswireless.com/products/ > > > > It is basically like a DSL router where your IP address is on the ruckus > > and it performs NAT to an ethernet interface. You can plug a PC, switch, > > wireless AP, etc into it. Think of this service like a DSL or cable, it > > is just the last mile is wireless. You can (if accessible) directly > > connect to the network w/o a ruckus via your own 802.11 equipment. > > > > On Thursday 21 December 2006 13:01, John Gammons wrote: > >> if they are smart... peplink... but i highly doubt that... but whatever > >> they use, it will be ethernet, so yeah it will work with pc, mac, and > >> linux. if you mean a pcmcia card that they will provide... they > >> probably won't, but if they do, don't bother, get yourself a nice > >> ubiquity 400mw card. it has the atheros chipset, and you can use the > >> madwifi driver. that is a very customizable and easy to use driver set. > >> > >> john > >> > >> On 12/21/06, Dave Roe wrote: > >>> Can someone tell me what modem US Internet will use for it's hosting of > >>> Minneapolis' wireless network and if it is linux friendly? > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Dave Roe droe at real-time.com > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list From bogus@does.not.exist.com Wed Dec 27 12:41:18 2006 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:41:18 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: give back changes - they are happy to do it anyway, because they want those fixes in the next version that you release. And what is gained by keeping your competitors from using your program? You aren't suffering a financial loss, unless you are charging in a different way - such as for support. You aren't losing developers, because the competitors developers aren't going to work on your program for you just because it's GPL. I just don't see any way that the GPL license itself is going to drive more developers to your code.