Re: [clug-talk] Christmas Projects

2011-12-27 Thread Ian Bruseker
I've been rockin' an IPCop box for several years now, but was thinking of picking up a new router and messing around with dd-wrt or tomato. Probably a Netgear. They seem to get some good reviews and appear, on the surface at least, to be friendly to this sort of thing. Ian On 2011-12-25, at 4:44

Re: [clug-talk] Christmas Projects

2011-12-27 Thread Ian Bruseker
firewalls. I now use Voyage Linux instead of one of the pre-packaged > distros (IPCop was just too limiting in the end). > > There is also no chance of bricking one of these SBCs, which cost > about the same as a high end router. > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Ian Bruse

Re: [clug-talk] Christmas Projects

2011-12-28 Thread Ian Bruseker
erwise OpenVPN is the way to go (even on Windows, the GUI > client is decent enough). > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Ian Bruseker > wrote: > > Interesting. I haven't gone for that level of "build your own" yet, but > a > > quick google turned up those

Re: [clug-talk] US IP address

2012-01-03 Thread Ian Bruseker
With the caveat that I only know of these guys because I saw a banner ad the other day and the concept struck me as interesting for the same reasons you mention: https://www.goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn. I don't use their service, it just happened to be in my brain and you asked. ;-) Or, for a free-er o

Re: [clug-talk] Email security / data mining

2014-01-07 Thread Ian Bruseker
You're looking at it from a technical point of view. Technically, you're very right. Of course it's wide open to be read. But think off all those cop dramas you've seen (if you watch those sorts of things) where they go on about how "it's a federal offence to open someone else's mail". To the a

Re: [clug-talk] Calgary Linux Users Group Guild May 7th meeting

2014-05-05 Thread Ian Bruseker
Sam is of course joking, since he will no doubt remember Kari, and should remember that if she had a problem with the term "guild", she surely would have said something to Jarrod about it. ;-) (if you have no idea who I'm talking about, please see http://clug.ca/wordpress/about/executive/executiv

Re: [clug-talk] Disposing of a P-133?

2004-06-15 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On June 15, 2004 11:02 am, Shawn Grover wrote: > Hi gang. > > A contact of mine has an old P-133 they are looking to dispose of. Is the > Computer Recycle center still operating, and does anyone have contact > information for them? Or is there another

Re: [clug-talk] Is telus blocking port 25?

2004-07-14 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 14, 2004 12:14 pm, GRAHAM MONK wrote: > I think that Telus does block port 25 beyond their own servers, I know I > cannot access my own Shaw email account on Telus or at SAIT with Kmail. I > have to use webmail. > > Graham Actually, I think th

Re: [clug-talk] [OT]Is Telus blocking port 25?

2004-07-14 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 14, 2004 1:38 pm, Niels Voll wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Windows doesn't come with SMTP (Mac OS/X probably not either) , that's Drifting slowly off topic here.. MacOSX comes with Postfix, I believe (not at home and my laptop's gone to sleep

Re: [clug-talk] Meeting Place

2004-08-16 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 15, 2004 11:49 pm, Jarrod Major wrote: As a DeVry alumni, I'm all over this. It'd be nice to get back to the old stomping grounds. :-) All bias aside (well, most of it anyway), DeVry's campus is very nice, very new, and not only is the

Re: [clug-talk] Delay in postings?

2004-08-30 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 30, 2004 2:26 pm, Graham Monk wrote: > Why is it that it seems to take such a long time for > my posts to appear? > That last one took almost 2 hours, this one is being > sent at 2.25PM, wonder when it will show up? > > Graham > Graham (and e

Re: [clug-talk] Delay in postings?

2004-08-31 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 31, 2004 6:23 am, Mike Roest wrote: > This one is the sticky wicket, it took 50 minutes to get from the line > below till it was delivered to cpweb1.idig.net but that could be caused > by anything. Network problem between shaw and idig, the i

Re: [clug-talk] Log Activity

2004-08-31 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew, That started a few weeks ago, got lots of coverage on the security lists. Some bot wandering around trying for some default accounts to try to get in, just a brute force thing, but not much of a force. Just so long as you don't have stupi

Re: [clug-talk] Installfest

2004-09-08 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On September 8, 2004 11:33 am, Graham Monk wrote: > Timing, I am thinking 25th Sept or maybe 2nd Oct, what > is the general consensus? we were talking about once a month > but is that unrealistic or just counterproductive? > > Graham > As others have

Re: [clug-talk] OT: QuickTransit

2004-09-14 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On September 14, 2004 3:05 pm, Jeffrey Clement wrote: > If it's real maybe. It sounds too good to be true and the lack of > details and secrecy about their clients seem suspicious. Sounds like > a lot of "revolutionary" software that never happens. >

Re: [clug-talk] Microsoft software caused air traffic shutdown

2004-09-23 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:07:39 -0600, Nick W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree. I'm sincerely angry that windows is being used where lives are at > stake. If I was one of the passengers Id be suing someone's arse off. The one > article even said a plane had to take evasive action. Imagine 2 airlin

Re: [clug-talk] help for learming java programming ...

2004-10-18 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:48:55 -0600, bogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > Figured i would spend some time learning a new language, and that one would be > java. I am looking for 3 things. > > -1- Best platform/ide other software to do so under linux. I like Eclipse, but vi and javac are sometime

Re: [clug-talk] [way, way OT] hardware: where to get19" rackmount rails

2004-10-20 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:09:39 -0600, unleashed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had bough something from vfxweb.com last week and have yet to even get > an email is this right? > > Travis R. > Like, bought it online through their website? Ya, I gave up on that a few years ago. I don't think they e

Re: [clug-talk] Re: (Off topic) GMail

2004-11-02 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:17:14 -0700, Nick W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Storage now is <$1/GB, I have 100GB of potential mail space on my laptop. If I > need to send/recieve a huge file I use my FTP server...a GB isn't that big > nowadays. > You're comparing the wrong thing. Congrats, you have 10

Re: [clug-talk] Re: (Off topic) GMail

2004-11-02 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:48:03 -0700, Kevin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what kind of food you prefer, which restaurants and frequency will all be > there for marketing purposes. > Which can also be found out by analyzing my credit card and debit card usage. Nothing new here. > Frequenc

Re: [clug-talk] Re: (Off topic) GMail

2004-11-02 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 14:42:56 -0600, Aaron Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > which is why there ought to be tighter privacy reigns put on these companies > too. just because it's bad in more places than one doesn't make them all > good. > Agreed. > the cost of Google following everyone around make

Re: [clug-talk] Re: (Off topic) GMail

2004-11-02 Thread Ian Bruseker
Ok, so somehow, this went from my pointing out that people use GMail because it's better than Hotmail (based on the storage space given), and that the privacy concerns mentioned don't concern me because of the way I use the account, to "Ian clearly doesn't care about his privacy or anyone else's an

[clug-talk] Gentoo 2004.3 is out, and here I am compiling 2004.2

2004-11-15 Thread Ian Bruseker
So just for kicks today I decided to set up a Gentoo system. I downloaded the 2004.2 minimal CD, set up my environment and started from stage 1. It's in the bootstrap phase as I type this (and might be for a while since it's a 700 MHz Celeron I'm building it on). To kill the time, I'm surfing, a

Re: [clug-talk] Tar file

2004-11-17 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:54:30 -0700, Nick W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't RH have URPMI or is that strictly Mandrake? At any rate, URPMI is > often a pain to find a decent working mirror. > You're thinking Mandrake. Fedora uses yum (I assume RedHat proper uses their own RedHat network), whi

Re: [clug-talk] Gentoo 2004.3 is out, and here I am compiling 2004.2

2004-11-17 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:25:50 -0700, Kevin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect that you'll have compiled all the latest stuff anyway, and there > will be no need to even emerge -u world to move to the new release. > You were right. Thanks. After "emerge system" was done I checked and

Re: [clug-talk] Gentoo 2004.3 is out, and here I am compiling 2004.2

2004-11-18 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:35:02 -0700, Niels Voll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious - how long did the whole process and up taking? > Kevin is running on a far more powerful machine than I am. :-) I'm using a Celeron 700 MHz with 512 MB RAM. I started emerge system before going to bed one n

Re: [clug-talk] Gentoo 2004.3 is out, and here I am compiling 2004.2

2004-11-18 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:27:37 -0700, Kevin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OTOH, I had a P-200 laptop with 32 megs RAM, and each stage took about 36 > hours. I didn't bother trying KDE. > That was my very first experience with Gentoo, probably 2 years ago (Gentoo 1.2, perhaps?) - a P266 lapt

Re: [clug-talk] Gentoo 2004.3 is out, and here I am compiling 2004.2

2004-11-18 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:34:01 -0700, Jason Louie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I;m not saying I don't like getting my hands dirty, its like > building your own coffee table,) it will take longer to make but the > end result is so much more satisfying. What I am saying is that for > something sim

Re: [clug-talk] [OT] Sait

2005-01-05 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:15:41 -0700, Kevin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They simply make the useless courses "mandatory" so that teachers with tenure > can teach useless subjects that are no longer relevant rather than being > expected/required to stay current, which happens to their studen

Re: [clug-talk] [OT] Sait

2005-01-05 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 15:39:58 -0700, Kevin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the people here is taking a comp sci course at SAIT. Last semester, he > took C++, and Java. He's looking forward to Pascal (not even Turbo), Fortran > and Qbasic this semester. Now really, ESPECIALLY given the

Re: [clug-talk] [OT] Wireless "A" or DualBand routers?

2005-01-14 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:08:44 -0700, Niels Voll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just noticed this: http://forcefieldwireless.com/defendairadditive.html > > :) > So, am I supposed to paint over my windows too, or will the standard "I can't afford curtains" tinfoil do the trick? Then at least my c

Re: [clug-talk] Corporate Groupware Solution (Windows/Linux)

2005-01-20 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:16:37 -0600, Jim Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > software package which is not cheap. We have found that the web based CRM > packages work best as it allows clients to access the crm info from any > internet connected PC. Nice for people on vacations, etc. If they dont

Re: [clug-talk] SUSE 9.2 Desktop Switch Command

2005-01-28 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:35:11 -0700, Dave Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Who can switch quickly when the Boss approaches!!!" :-) In KDE, as well as the Ctrl-Tab mention, Ctrl-F1 through Ctrl-F? (however many desktops you have) takes you directly to a given desktop.

Re: [clug-talk] lurker de-cloaking. [zzzzzzzzzzttttttttppttt!]

2005-02-18 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:10:19 -0700, bogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow. > Welcome. > I do have some memories of softlanding linux, and the floppy only installs... > Good old days :-) > Cheers > Szemir > Ok, I skipped most of this thread, but your "floppy only installs" got me thinking "I can to

Re: [clug-talk] FOSS for Asset tracking ?

2005-03-08 Thread Ian Bruseker
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:06:24 -0700, Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Goodmorning List: > > Anybody knows a good FOSS app for tracking of > hardware (& software) ? > Peter, I tried out IRM (http://sourceforge.net/projects/irm/) a few years back. Can't really tell you what it's like now, as I

Re: [clug-talk] Re: Electronics recycling round-ups

2005-04-22 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 4/22/05, Dave Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Recently I had a discussion with the President of the company that runs the > "Recycling" facility at Currie Barracks. I was curious about what they did > with all the stuff that's being dropped off. In no uncertain terms I was > to

[clug-talk] [Friday] more funny/possibly actually useful

2005-04-22 Thread Ian Bruseker
This is probably old news to the real serious Star Wars fans, but I only just say it today on Fark. http://www.geeksquad.com/absentee.asp ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guideli

[clug-talk] Electronics recycling round-ups

2005-04-22 Thread Ian Bruseker
I was just thinking about some junk I have laying around my computer room, and it popped in to my head that it was about this time last year that the city had a recycling event for electronics. I checked their website and found that there are round-ups tomorrow and the next weekend, and again at t

Re: [clug-talk] Re: Electronics recycling round-ups

2005-04-22 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 4/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can't you see they are already locked in a raging flamewar in > > another thread? > > [LOL] Are you trying to start another? > > > > :) > > Nick > > Don't worry - I know that "I" can handle more than one at a time! > *leans back in chai

[clug-talk] Re: Electronics recycling round-ups

2005-04-22 Thread Ian Bruseker
> the info for others with similar concerns/wifes. ;-) > /husbands. Sorry, shouldn't discriminate. Maybe Kari is an electronics packrat like me and Jarrod is always trying to get her to clean up her stuff. Who knows. ;-) ___ clug-talk mailing list

Re: [clug-talk] [gripe] KDE dialogs in 800x600

2005-05-04 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 5/4/05, Jarrod Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone encountered problems with KDE dialog windows at lower monitor > resolutions? Here's the scenario: > How about virtual screen resolution? So, you only see 800x600 but it's drawing 1024x768, and it just scrolls around when your mouse

Re: [clug-talk] [poll] Which BitTorrent app do you use?

2005-05-05 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 5/4/05, Alastair Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Azureus is the only one I've tried so far - and that was due to Kubuntu's site > requiring the use of bittorrent for downloading their isos. > > I wasn't impressed. On most downloads without bitorrent, I usually get about > 156 to 160 KB/sec

Re: [clug-talk] [poll] Which BitTorrent app do you use?

2005-05-05 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 5/5/05, Nick W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually the way BT is supposed to work is : > Well ya, that's the way it's "supposed" to work. :-) But I have definitely watched a torrent stall, specifically one that was at that moment linked off the front page of Slashdot. And yes, I had my fi

[clug-talk] IPCop port forwarding oddness

2005-05-18 Thread Ian Bruseker
(starting locally before going to the IPCop user list) I know a few people out there run IPCop, so I thought I'd try the list and see if anyone has any ideas. I'm trying to set up a machine running IPCop 1.4.6 to forward port 80 from red to green (why green? no orange network. why? because the we

Re: [clug-talk] New Website now in Beta mode

2005-06-17 Thread Ian Bruseker
I noticed this yesterday, but thought I'd let it slide in case it was just a temporary thing. Today it's still broke, so I'll mention it. All the dates say "Timezone: -6: US Central". This is the Calgary LUG, right? Ya know, that city by the _mountains_? ;-) Ian _

Re: [clug-talk] Query - Inventory/Resource Management Software

2005-06-21 Thread Ian Bruseker
You mean IRM? http://irm.sourceforge.net, which now forwards here: http://www.stackworks.net/view.php/irm/index.html Ian ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug

Re: [clug-talk] Linux power in Africa

2005-08-11 Thread Ian Bruseker
Now that's the exercise program I need. 15 minutes of pedaling, an hour of computing, then *poof*! Back on the bike, tubby! Let's just hope I wasn't trying to install Gentoo at the time, or I'd be riding for hours! ;-) Ian ___ clug-talk mailing list

Re: [clug-talk] 100% Discount Coupon for Linspire 5.0

2005-08-31 Thread Ian Bruseker
Very nice, Dave. Thanks for the link. Also nice to see Linspire solve a name dispute in what appears to be a rather amicable way. On the subject of free (as in beer) software, Opera is also giving away free registration codes today to celebrate their 10th anniversary. While not strictly a Linux

Re: [clug-talk] Memory Express no longer a CLUG sponsor

2005-09-07 Thread Ian Bruseker
Cool, maybe with a CLUG discount their prices will actually be competitive with everyone else's! Whoa, who hit me with the snippy stick? ;-) Ian ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing Li

[clug-talk] Browsing a Linux network

2007-06-26 Thread Ian Bruseker
Random discussion topic. How do you browse a network in Linux? By that I mean something analogous to a Windows domain. I'm wondering about the whole package: browsing to find the shared resource, authenticating, and transferring. I got to thinking about this last week when I got tired of always

Re: [clug-talk] Browsing a Linux network

2007-06-26 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 6/26/07, Kevin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, Lets clear a few things... > > Samba isn't the "windows way", it's the SMB way. That can be done on > Linux, Mac and/or Windows. > Ditto for Rendezvous. > Well, yes, they can "all be done" from all these platforms, but I'm not asking wh

Re: [clug-talk] Browsing a Linux network

2007-06-26 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 6/26/07, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use samba/cifs for pretty much all file sharing these days. smb4k is > handy for browsing for shares on any given network. On my own lan I > simply have entries in my /etc/fstab for mounting the usual shares, with > user names and password

Re: [clug-talk] Browsing a Linux network

2007-06-26 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 6/26/07, Nick Wiltshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using cifs on my LAN at the moment. It seems to get the job done pretty > well. I think in a total Linux environment I'd likely opt for SSH. > So what would you use for the single sign-on part? Kerberos, as Gustin suggested? Or just some

Re: [clug-talk] Browsing a Linux network

2007-06-26 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 6/26/07, sgrover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > You're really talking about two different topics here. First is file > sharing, and the various methods this may be done. Second is > authentication (via the single sign on). They are related in that you > only want authenticated/authorized pe

Re: [clug-talk] Browsing a Linux network

2007-06-26 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 6/26/07, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually Active Directory uses Kerberos to do the actual authenticating. >LDAP is a part of the picture but it is not itself an authentication > mechanism. Complicated stuff, but there is more than one way to do it. > Complicated indeed.

Re: [clug-talk] Browsing a Linux network

2007-06-27 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 6/27/07, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, no offence, but this is a silly question. Samba _has_ been > invented. You could say linux brought us FUSE which has a whole lot of > cool things, not the least of which is sshfs. None of this exists in a > vacuum so the question is a

Re: [clug-talk] Word Documents

2007-06-28 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 6/28/07, Jesse Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have some links to some good material on why organizations > should not require submissions in MS Word format? > > Thanks, > > Jesse > Not sure what format you propose to submit it in instead, but the first format that came to mind fo

Re: [clug-talk] Word Documents

2007-06-28 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 6/28/07, sgrover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In this case, I think a PDF might be a detriment. The prof wouldn't be > able to modify/comment the file. > Um, I really don't think the prof should be modifying anything in a student's work. That's one of the reasons I think PDF is a good idea her

Re: [clug-talk] IPcop Usage

2007-07-28 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 7/28/07, Neil Bower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for feedback from people using IPcop to get a comparision of the > differences in usage. > P3-700 or 733 (forget) from VFXweb. Used to be on a P2-233, but the hardware died. I knew the 7xx would be overkill, but it was around $40, so

[clug-talk] RAID resync failure

2009-01-02 Thread Ian Bruseker
Greetings and happy new year to all. Well, happy new year to all expect my RAID that is failing to resync. I have a 3 disk RAID 5 array. Two days ago it was working just fine. Yesterday I transplanted the guts of my computer into a new case that I got for Christmas. On first reboot, no RAID. T

Re: [clug-talk] RAID resync failure

2009-01-05 Thread Ian Bruseker
Dan, Copy from my backup? But, it's RAID! I don't need a backup! ;-) You appear to be right on the money, which sort of annoys me. :-) The whole point of RAID (particularly RAID 5) is it's supposed to bring a level of reliability the system. If a disk fails, data isn't lost. Bringing the wh

Re: [clug-talk] Semi-OT: AppleScript Editor

2009-04-30 Thread Ian Bruseker
2009/4/29 TekBudda > ILYA Khlopotov wrote: > >> Hi >> >> You can try SciTE - free source code editor for Win32 and X. >> It supports a lot of languages including AppleScript. >> It doesn't require installation and can work from USB stick. >> > > I have tried all of the options suggested & nothin

Re: [clug-talk] Semi-OT: AppleScript Editor

2009-04-30 Thread Ian Bruseker
2009/4/30 TekBudda > Essentially what happens is that we are deploying Mac's on the > network & the laptop need to have the WiFi set-up. One of my > co-workers had created a script that does the whole thing when you hit > run. The only lines that need to be changed are the SSID & the key. > Th

Re: [clug-talk] Semi-OT: AppleScript Editor

2009-04-30 Thread Ian Bruseker
2009/4/30 Ian Bruseker > I'm starting to wonder if my assumption on them being plain text is > incorrect. I just did a little googling and found references to "compiling" > AppleScript files. I'm wondering if that's what you have is the compiled > output.

Re: [clug-talk] Is anyone out there?

2009-06-12 Thread Ian Bruseker
Something I've noticed happening recently is a lot of messages from the list going to my spam folder in Gmail. It didn't used to be a problem, so maybe Google changed something. So all you Gmailers ouut there, maybe check there to see if conversations are happening that your missing. I clued in aft

Re: [clug-talk] Disc scrubbing utility?

2009-07-28 Thread Ian Bruseker
You mean to just totally wipe a disk? DBAN. http://www.dban.org/ 2009/7/28 Graham Monk > Can anyone recommend a disc scrubbing utility that I download to bootable > CD? > > TIA > > graham > > ___ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http:/

Re: [clug-talk] Contact Management server?

2009-09-08 Thread Ian Bruseker
2009/8/22 Shawn > I am starting to get a large stack of business cards and want to set up a > centralized listing for these. I rebuild my workstation on a regular basis, > and don't want to have to worry about backing up my contacts info. Also, I > want to be able to access my contact list if I

Re: [clug-talk] poll

2010-03-23 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 23 March 2010 19:46, : robert-william : lewko wrote: > IE, is this person who has posted a comment to this article really > based in reality? Is Gnome more popular? > > The answer you're going to get to that question really is community dependant, I'd say. By that I mean that a few years ago

[clug-talk] syslog help, I think

2003-11-20 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings all. So I set up SuSE 8.2, and enabled the firewall. I set it to log both drops and accepts, just so I could get a feel for how things were working. But it logs the messages to both /var/log/warn and /var/log/messages. I really don't n

Re: [clug-talk] syslog help, I think

2003-11-20 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 20, 2003 11:38 am, Nathanael Noblet wrote: > Logging is controlled via the syslog program usually. Look at > /etc/syslog.conf. I'm not sure how you can get it to do what you want > but have a look at that as well as man syslog.conf should h

Re: [clug-talk] cpu tests

2003-11-21 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 21, 2003 10:54 am, Evan Brown wrote: > Hey > > Is there a way to test a cpu and find out if its messed up? I'm having > trouble with a Socket A Gigabyte mobo and trying to trouble shoot it. We > know that the onboard video is messed and hav

Re: [clug-talk] RE: Tar Question

2003-11-28 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On November 28, 2003 12:44 am, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote: > I do not think you can specify a driectory in the exclude-from file. You > must list each file. Wilcards do apply however. > > so mydir/* will work > > The file paths need to be relative to w

Re: [clug-talk] OT: Political Correctness has crossed the bounds of stupidity

2003-12-01 Thread Ian Bruseker
On November 30, 2003 1:32 am, Shawn wrote: > Found this while browsing google news: > > http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,222333,00.html > > How stupid can this get? > > Shawn > Really? That's not what it means? Huh. I sure wasted a lot of time finding little leather outf

[clug-talk] OT: Old monitor disposal/getting rid of

2003-12-08 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey, everyone. What does one do with old monitors? I have one that's not very useful anymore (seems almost "out of focus"), so it's been replaced and I'm curious what I should do with the old one. Does anyone know if they can be recycled or somet

[clug-talk] Linux+ certification - is it worth anything?

2003-12-11 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone done Linux+? Is it worth it? The writeup on comptia.org makes it sound like stuff I do everyday. Doesn't seem that hard. I hope that doesn't insult anyone - maybe I'm just being cavalier, but based on what I read it seems pretty easy

[clug-talk] Anything stronger than kill -s 9?

2003-12-16 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So, I was copying a file from my watch (a USB memory watch), and the process hung. lsof shows me the to and from files still open, which means I can't unmount the drive properly (yes, I could just disconnect the USB, but that's not the point). But

Re: [clug-talk] Anything stronger than kill -s 9?

2003-12-16 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On December 16, 2003 8:46 am, Marcel Lecker wrote: > shutdown -r now > How am I supposed to get a killer uptime if I do stuff like that? ;-) > > -Original Message- > > From: bogi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003

[clug-talk] OT++: Apple dealers (was Re: OT: notebook dealers)

2004-01-22 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On January 22, 2004 1:24 am, Katrina Kube wrote: > Jacob, > > For Apple stuff, I've found Westworld Computers (www.westworld.ca) > decent, they definitely know their stuff and their prices are really > good. They're in the 1000 block of Center St (No

[clug-talk] Fwd: [Full-Disclosure] [TOTALLY OT] Google fun

2004-01-28 Thread Ian Bruseker
From another mailing list. Funny. :-) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [Full-Disclosure] [TOTALLY OT] Google fun Date: January 28, 2004 8:54 am From: James Lay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Full-Disclosure (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LOL...anyone else see this? Do a seach on go

[clug-talk] [OT] ISPs other than Shaw?

2004-02-10 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Everyone, I've been tasked with evaluating ISPs to compare to Shaw's service (we're talking business Internet here). I know there's Telus, and TeraGo. There is also Shaw's Big Pipe, but they don't list any prices on their website, so I'm afraid i

Re: [clug-talk] 300+ "Unresolved Sender Domains" received this weekend...

2004-02-23 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On February 23, 2004 9:41 am, J.Rafael Sánchez wrote: > Hi All, > > I got an avalanche of "Unresolved Sender Domain" messages from my > mailwatch on my mailserver this weekend. I usually get half a dozen ever > couple of day, which I ignore, but in the

Re: [clug-talk] SVCD recording

2004-03-09 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 8, 2004 5:00 pm, GRAHAM MONK wrote: > Thanks for the replies Guys, If I am interpreting the commands correctly > I think you misunderstood me, I want to dump the file to the hard drive, > not burn a copy. > > Thanks > > Graham > > Why not just

Re: [clug-talk] For your amusement: Broken ATM

2004-03-18 Thread Ian Bruseker
On March 18, 2004 9:39 am, Jason Louie wrote: > Of course it ate my > card at the same time and I wasn't able to eat lunch that day but > interesting none the less. > Of course it ate your card. How else do you think they can pay for all those Windows licenses? I hope you checked your statement

Re: [clug-talk] old redhat cds

2004-04-15 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On April 15, 2004 9:12 am, Dave Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for some older redhat cds, probably 7.1, and maybe 7.2, or > 7.0. I have a old unmaintained kernel module that supposedly worked, but > doesn't now, maybe it will on older release

Re: [clug-talk] Any other VMWare Winners having problems with the discount code?

2004-06-03 Thread Ian Bruseker
On June 3, 2004 11:22 pm, Shawn wrote: > Hi gang. > > I'm trying to download VMWare, following the instructions on the license > card I won last night (Thank you very much VMWare, et al). I get to the > step that says "At checkout, enter your discount code and click the 'update > cart' button to r

[clug-talk] Just one more way in which KDE rocks

2004-06-03 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So, this short story starts out with a small glitch - KDE locked up on me. A kdeinit process went berzerk and spiked the CPU to 90-some-odd-percent. I ssh'd in from another machine, killed it and got control back of the machine, but the window man

Re: [clug-talk] Any other VMWare Winners having problems with thediscount code?

2004-06-04 Thread Ian Bruseker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The discount code on the card I got was meant to be used at the online store. Once I used it to "pay" for the purchase, they sent me an email with a different serial number to use in the actual product (as far as I understand it - like I said, I ha

Re: [clug-talk] Suggestions: Weddin/Event Planning Software

2005-09-28 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 9/28/05, Tek Budda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was actually my first stop...and I did find 3 projects, none of > which had anything available for download. So essentially..NOTHING! > I did get one link for DMOZ but I didn't find anythuing that sparked my > interest. > > Oh well..search co

Re: [clug-talk] Adobe biting you back

2005-10-06 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 10/6/05, Adil Kodian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A typical corporate website will have a few hundred forms - think of how > many fillable forms revenue canada or immigration canada would have online. > Adobe is going to become either the richest company in the world or is going > out of busines

Re: [clug-talk] The secret is out

2005-10-27 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 10/27/05, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or maybe they could buy clug a new home? with some nice bandwidth and > a group shell/web server :-) > How about a new home, a workstation for each member, and a T1 to each person's house. Oh ya, and a HUGE stack of blanks disks, so there's no

Re: [clug-talk] Try this with windows

2005-11-01 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 11/1/05, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if anyone's ever tried something like that with windows, > but it doesn't like it one bit. The one time I've tried it (just to > see what would happen,) it wouldn't boot past the bad HAL errors. > Well, I think it may have gotten b

Re: [clug-talk] Try this with windows

2005-11-01 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 11/1/05, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oops, I forgot to mention before, but they were all with Windows XP (I > think all pro, at least one had SP1.) > Huh. Well I guess I just haven't tried hard enough to break it. :-) A general lack of using it anywhere but at work probably cont

Re: [clug-talk] Try this with windows

2005-11-01 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 11/1/05, David Grelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah... about that... I'm pretty sure that was me. On the upside, I've > forgotten the activation number as I only work at that shop on saturdays. > > Dave Grelli > *sheepish smile* My public apologies to Dave for forgetting his name. How rude

Re: [clug-talk] 32 vs 64 bit

2006-01-20 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 1/20/06, Martin Glazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If going the 64 bit route, will I experience any compatibility issues with > software applications? > Do the applications have to be written / modified to run under 64 bit mode? > I have an AMD 3000+. When I first set it up, I set up Gentoo 6

Re: [clug-talk] GRUB

2006-03-05 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 3/5/06, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I went into the grub shell and tried to use tab-completion to find what > drives I have available: > > grub> root (hd > Possible disks are: hd0 hd1 hd2 > > Well, hd0 is my main hard drive, and hd1 and hd2 are the sata drive, and the > new(er) sla

Re: [clug-talk] GRUB

2006-03-05 Thread Ian Bruseker
Also, here's a nice long list of grub errors, if it helps. http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/grub/html_chapter/grub_13.html Also, could you post the whole grub.conf? Maybe it's something else. Once I messed up a grub config by making the second entry in the file start with "title Linux" instead

Re: [clug-talk] GRUB

2006-03-06 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 3/6/06, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the full grub.conf file: > > default 0 > timeout 5 > > title=Gentoo > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/kernel2.6 root=/dev/hda3 > > title=Gentoo - Unstable (testing kernel) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/unstable root=/dev/hda3 > > title = Windows 200

Re: [clug-talk] Mail Problem

2006-03-12 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 3/12/06, Jesse Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just an update, > > I received some of the messages that weren't getting to me, but about > an hour after they were sent. Here is one of the headers: > > Received: from priv-edmwaa05.telusplanet.net ([24.71.223.10]) by > priv-edmwes50.telusplane

[clug-talk] OT: Disassembling an e-Vectra

2006-03-20 Thread Ian Bruseker
Evening, everyone. Over the last couple years, VFXWeb has on a number of occasions sold HP e-Vectra small form factor machines. I bought one a couple years ago from them. It has 128 MB of RAM in it, and despite the HP website telling me I can't/shouldn't try to upgrade it, I want to try anyway.

Re: [clug-talk] OT: Disassembling an e-Vectra

2006-03-20 Thread Ian Bruseker
On 3/20/06, Darren L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try this info: > > http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=376008&p=-1 > > THAT GOT IT! Thanks! Ian ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug

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