Hey all,
Long time lurker here and finally in a career where I'll be using Linux more
frequently so I'll be happy to be contributing to Clug more often.
Does anybody have any ideas surrounding how to use rsync to copy data from
one NAS to another?
I'm going to be moving about 600GB of data from an
Look into Proxmox (www.proxmox.com). It uses KVM so has a solid stability
reputation and has a web UI much like ESXi so it's ridiculously simple to
use. I've got it deployed at two sites and have experienced absolutely
zero problems. The hosts run a variety of Windows / Linux and Unix VM's.
As f
l to a hard drive
> or can it be installed to a USB key like ESXI?
>
> -Original message-
> *From:* Jon Copeland
> *Sent:* Tuesday 17th September 2013 15:04
> *To:* CLUG General
> *Subject:* Re: [clug-talk] Virtualized Server Question
>
> Look into Proxm
That was extremely interesting, and even though common sense amongst the
more security conscientious, still enlightening enough to warrant doing
something about it.
/.j
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Greg King wrote:
> Bruce Schneier, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, spoke at
when do you think they're going to get support for the video/audio
protocols that messenger currently uses?
-j-
Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
On Tuesday 13 July 2004 06:49, Curtis Sloan wrote:
On Mon July 12 2004 22:52, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
Kopete has really shaped up, with file transfers
For MSN? Plea
I'm just a bit curious here. How does an email from somebody in
Scandinavia know how to get to my mail server (if I had one setup) in
Canada? I don't know how the whole concept works. And how can somebody
move mail servers around without causing a problem?
-j-
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Is it possible to upgrade from 9.1 personal to professional by *somehow*
doing an update over the internet?
On a similar note, if anyone has taken a look at the ipkonfig review of
9.1 pro (
http://www.ipkonfig.com/cms/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=142&Itemid=29
) you would notice the r
Hi all,
Sorry to spam the list with this but I URGENTLY need to sell this PC
before Sunday the 25th July for reasons of PARAMOUNT proportions.
I'm completely open to offers but I need to sell it as one unit. How
does $2100 sound?
Computer Specs:
Pentium4 / 3.0ghz HT CPU w/ Stock HSF Unit
1024MB
I'm busy going through the Sybex Linux+ 1st Edition book right now,
"it's all linux" so it should be universal but I'd be interested if
there's other material available to study that doesn't cost a lot to obtain.
-j-
Craig McLean wrote:
Hello.
I'm toying with taking the LPI exams in August. I w
Does anybody know what the big differences are between x.org and xfree86
other than the license? Are there performance improvements etc?
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To all SysAdmins,
Thanks for making the lives of others easier and less stressful.
We are usually blamed for disasters. (Mail Server Crashes / Attachments
that don´t come through). And other FUD by users.
Enjoy the day and have a great long weekend.
Related Link
http://www.sysadminday.com/
http://w
word,
has anyone tried to do the 'wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com |sh'
install of ximian desktop2 on suse9.1 personal? when i execute the
install when logged in as root i get this message "The installer was
unable to identify your operating system", according to the requirements
there's nothi
So I'm using Windows here, got Thunderbird setup, what's a good
encyption app that doesn't stress when a new version of thunderbird
comes out?
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Congrats to Aaron for getting slashdotted ;)
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Has anyone here on this mailing list tried out this service? I'm
curious as to how much of a speed increase it actually is over normal
high speed internet. They say it's a 5mbit down / 1mbit up connection
but I was always under the impression that normal high speed was about
10mbit down / +-7
In case anyone was wondering, Ubuntu is pronounced 'OO-BOON-TOO'. *cough*
-j-
Cameron Nikitiuk wrote:
So f i understand this all correctlythe Ubuntu cd u get is a live cd
that will boot up.. then you can instill from the cd? And is mepis the
same?
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Is there a local site to download SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso? I've
tried absolutely EVERY single mirror listed at
http://www.novell.com/products/linuxprofessional/downloads/ftp/int_mirrors.html
Out of all of them only 1 link worked (or was fast enough). I started
to DL the iso but it cut off
Has anyone got this service, what are your opinions on it?
Good/bad/faster? You have to get a new docsis modem to use this
service, is there more restrictive port monitoring with it or anything
vaguely like that? Is there a big and noticeable speed advantage?
Your thoughts on this.
-jc-
_
Is there a opensource program available that will allow me to do this:
Have a login for different users. 2 users and Admin.
Be able to add vehicles from different companies to a database and track
the changes made on them on different dates.
Also must be able to generate a quote for the client as
Does anyone know any software which will allow me to accomplish the
following:
I have 2 linux boxes, each in a different geographical location. Each
with only a standard cable internet connection. I want to be able to
create users on one machine and have those users automatically created
on
l of what and why you are trying to do this? We
might be able to offer more then
Shawn
On Sunday 14 August 2005 22:09, Jon Copeland wrote:
Does anyone know any software which will allow me to accomplish the
following:
I have 2 linux boxes, each in a different geographical location.
Dance Monkey...Dance!
-j-
bogi wrote:
> :-)
> Lol
> monkeyboy gets egged :-)
> Szemir
> On May 20, 2008 17:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> URL sums it up quite nicely:
>>
>> http://gizmodo.com/391736/steve-ballmer-egged-in-hungary
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
Hi All,
Just to let you all know that Impi 1.1a has been released and is
available on the IS FTP server. Impi is a new South African distribution
based on Debian with a focus towards the business environment. One of
it's main applications being Cubit, an easy to use but powerful
accounting packag
Does Linux use any form of QoS similar to the one M$ uses?
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Hi Cluggers,
Is there an easy way to make a simple php hit counter for a website. I'm
not overly concerned with unique hits but as long as it increments the
counter by 1 every time somebody refreshes the page, that will do the job.
I've checked out hotscripts.com and their 'simple php hit count
Hi all,
Locally, where's the best place to sign up a cheap but reliable .net
domain ?
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Are there any local places in Calgary that sell the Orinoco Wireless
range of pc cards and pci cards?
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what happened to 2.5? :)
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bogi wrote:
As a matter of fact, a child was born :-)
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.0.bz2
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.0.tar.bz2
2.6.0 is alive, and i live to see it :-))
It is a good day today
Cheers
Szemir
On Dece
Right, shows how much I know. 2.5 was the aborted kernel. And a little
bird told me something about odd #'s and even #'s. ;)
-j-
Jon Copeland wrote:
what happened to 2.5? :)
-j-
bogi wrote:
As a matter of fact, a child was born :-)
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/p
Does anyone know if it's possible to see how many Virtual Hosts an IP
address is serving?
Eg, Lets say my externally accessible IP address was 68.144.x.x :-) and
I were hosting www.x1.ca , www.x2.ca and www.x3.ca using Apache's
Virtual Hosts thing. Would it be possible for someone on the intern
does any1 have suse 9 isos available on local bandwidth in calgary?
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Everyone has a different idea on how they should run linux. For the
pros out there what kind of modifications do you make to your compiles
of linux that customise it to your likes? eg, what sort of utilities do
you use? what windowmanager's do you use? what gadgets do you add-on? etc
i ask thi
thanks shawn, this is going to come in handy. i just started using
gentoo yesterday and i am completely impressed by it :)
i've got just the applications that i need installed, no bloatware. :)
-j-
Shawn wrote:
Just for info to those who are working on Gentoo...
You can do the same thing with
Has anyone got any old monitors that they don't use anymore? I'm not
looking to spend more than $20 on it being the cheapskate I am ;)
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does anyone know if there's a distro out there that has a 2.6.x bootable
livecd? i want to test 2.6 on my main system before i make a commitment.
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How can the Intel Centrino 1.7Ghz CPU be rated at the same speed as the
Pentium4 3.06Ghz CPU?
And...has anyone dealt with Calgary based Voodoopc? What are your
opinions on them?
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Can anyone recommend anyone in the network cabling field that can wire a
house? I'm looking for someone to come in and install cat5e cabling and
network points throughout the house.
Up until now I've had to rely on a wireless network in the house but
it's getting ridiculously unstable (every
Anything 2.6.x would be interesting but more specifically anything 2.6.x
AND gaming related would be great! Maybe a UT2k3 and America's Army
demonstration with 2.6 would be cool. Even going so far as showing how
an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro would work with 2.6 and games ;)
-j-
Craig McLean wrote:
27;ve chucked at least 3 of
them in the last year or so. Netgear and SMC have proven to be more
reliable.
It might be cheaper for you to try another brand before you wire the
house... just my opinion...
R.
Jon Copeland wrote:
Can anyone recommend anyone in the network cabling field that can wi
address.
Hmmm?
If you like, you can always contact me at home or cell or off-list.
Home: 301-3617
Cell: 819-3215
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Cameron
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Behalf Of Jon Copeland
Sent: January 22, 2004 3:12 PM
To: CLUG General
1. Gentoo 1.4
2. Suse 8.2
3. Tired of the bloatware and programs which I'll never use ala KDE
4. XFCE4 (Lightweight and practically no resources used desktop)
Jason Becker wrote:
Just for fun...
1. What distro are you currently running?
2. What distro were you running before that?
3. Why d
just out of curiosity what is the font used for the line "Basic Linux
Commands" on this page -> http://nube.clug.ca/commands.shtml
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Where do you see the style sheet?
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Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote:
On Tuesday 27 January 2004 21:51, Katrina Kube wrote:
Looks like Verdana to me. Use WhatTheFont
(http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont) to find more. If one character
shows up twice (like i, once for the line and again for the dot), om
I have 2 HD's in my PC, one is a 5400rpm drive and the other is a
7200rpm drive, currently the OS is sitting on the 5400rpm drive and i'd
like to take advantage of the slight increase in speed that the 7200rpm
drive offers. The 7200rpm drive is empty and both HD's are 40Gig's.
Whats the best w
Does anyone know anyone that's selling a laptop for less than $100? I'm
looking for something that's at least 400mhz.
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I've been getting into Shells lately and have been checking out what
they can do and how they can help me. So far I must say that BASH is my
favourite, it's easily customisable and is pretty much standard on most
linux distros.
What Shells do you use? And why?
-j-
oh wait wait, this is one of those guessing games!!! oh wait, i suck at
them :|
-j-
Katrina Kube wrote:
Maybe it's just the invisible ink, but where's the link?
:-)
On 12-Feb-04, at 19:38, Marcel Lecker wrote:
Enjoy folks:
IBM's Linux Superbowl comercials ... plus more
Marcel
--
Marcel
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/13/1551232.shtml?tid=123&tid=141&tid=188&tid=99
I was under the impression that it was LEGAL to download music in
Canada, just as long as you didn't SHARE it.
Your thoughts
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Hi all,
I've been interested to find out all about email security and personal
digital signatures and such for quite some time now and was wondering
where the best place is to learn about such things? What I really want
to do is digitally sign all my emails so that there will never be a "was
Why don't recent linux filesystems (reiserfs, ext2 etc) need to be
'defragged' like it's windows counterparts ntfs and fat?
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Oh wow, I couldn't agree with you more. I eventually got to a stage, in
my 'quest for linux', where I needed to try out as many distro's as
possible to strike gold upon which flavour I prefer. And since linux is
all about freedom of movement and choice, I chose Gentoo. It allows me
to comple
while you'll find one you like better than the others (who cares
why). That may be the one to explore in greater depth and really get to
know.
Marcel
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From: Jon Copeland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 12:48 AM
To: CLUG General
Subject: Re:
I'm a bit late in replying to this but I came across two sites that
pertain to what you want to accomplish:
http://www.k12ltsp.org/
and
http://opensourceschools.org/
Might give you a bit of interesting insight into how a school can
benefit from Linux. (Apologies if this has been pasted by so
I'm having some difficulty finding out what could be the problem in the
following scenario.
http://members.shaw.ca/jonno/Images/misc/lan_diagram.jpg
Switch1 is attached to Switch2 via a straight CAT5 cable, the Switches
each have Auto mdi/mdix capability and are both different brands (SMC 5
Po
t. And whether it is possible to connect the 2 switches up (As a
test) sitting next to one another with a very short cat5 cable.
Mike
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:36, Jon Copeland wrote:
I'm having some difficulty finding out what could be the problem in the
following scenario.
http://members.
ous to know what types of lengths we are talking
about. And whether it is possible to connect the 2 switches up (As a
test) sitting next to one another with a very short cat5 cable.
Mike
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:36, Jon Copeland wrote:
I'm having some difficulty finding out what could be t
Well right now I've assigned static IP addresses to PC1 and PC2, as long
at they're on the same subnet they will be able to ping the server, and
after testing this, they can ping the server but it's still intermittent
responses. It's a small *uncomplicated* home network so I don't think
it's a
es. Either with changing the switches (or trying hubs), or
worst case placing repeaters between the 2 switches on both sides of the
home wiring (or replace the switches with repeater hubs).
Mike
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 20:07, Jon Copeland wrote:
Same problem :|
The thing is, up until 2 days ago when I m
Hi all,
I've had a clarkconnect box (CC2.1 Home Edition) setup as the main
household gateway for the past 6 months, it hosts a few low bandwidth
family galleries. Recently I made the decision to setup another box as
the gateway to handle all the internet connectivity issues (dhcp/squid
etc).
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040408.gttwticoll08/BNStory/Technology/
Nicely done fellas. Strike one down for the good guys :)
-j-
Hendrik Schaink wrote:
I read my paper with glee this morning -- the business section features
5 pages on Linux Technology including the Cit
Does anyone know of any code which I can input into an .html page which
will count hits? I know this is possible with Szemirs PHP Counter but
the problem is I cannot rename this file to have a .php extension, it
*must* have an .htm* extension.
Does anyone know how to code anything like this?
http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/no-word/attach.html#tthFtNtAAB
The problem here, which the author seems to be missing, is that everyone
and their secretaries use MS Word for document exchange over the
internet. I would love to send .sxw OpenOffice CV files to prospective
employers but the cha
http://dcl.sourceforge.net/
I've used it extensively and found it to be an asset.
;)
Shawn Grover wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions for an open source Time Tracking system for software developers that runs on Windows?
I'm sure there are some out there, and will be investigating further to
I've got the CD version of Unreal Tournament 2004 if anyone is
interested in buying it. It's about 3 weeks old and the CD's have only
been used once, it's also got a linux installer on CD1 and the $10
rebate coupon. $45? Brand new/sealed it's $52 with GST
I live in Cranston in the SE.
-j-
Smoothwall is pretty good for a very low end machine but Clarkconnect
will run nicely on those specs, in addition to that you can use it as a
FTP/ File/ Mail/ Web server. Clarkconnect has quite a few more features
but if you want just a stock firewall then go with Smoothwall which is
very ligh
Hey everyone, I'm having some weird problem booting up the 9.1 livecd,
the *DESKTOP* system stops responding when trying to load the pcmcia
module, it stops at "Starting PCMCIA", why on earth it wants to load
pcmcia on a desktop machine is beyond me but I've tried a few things to
see if I can
I am just curious as to what the people on this list think about the
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) qualification?
-j-
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I would like to try this out. From A to Z what is involved?
-j-
Mark wrote:
I was speaking with Matthew Rice and some other LPI and CLUE people at Real
World Linux. They interested in hosting LPI Exam Labs for Canadian Lugs.
They come and visit the lug and setup a test lab(s) in which you can w
Does anybody know what method Shaw use to check if an IP address is in
use and if a PC is attached / switched on? As in do they use ICMP pings
or Multicast packets or IGMP packets etc?
I getting spammed by portscans and it's starting to get a bit ridiculous
but I just want to rule out if Shaw i
Hash: SHA1
Jon Copeland wrote:
| Does anybody know what method Shaw use to check if an IP address is in
| use and if a PC is attached / switched on? As in do they use ICMP pings
| or Multicast packets or IGMP packets etc?
The shaw modems have a IP limitation built in, it doesn't actively
There is a similar problem with the Asus P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard in
which just about *any* linux distribution will not run on it. Obviously
not Fedora related but this implicates a much broader range in linux.
-j-
bogi wrote:
Hi Johnny.
Good footwork.
Hopefully this one will be squashed, it i
Friends of the Pengiun I beseech you. I am in dire need of a 10GB, 15GB
OR even a 20GB HD for use with a linux system. I just had 3 HD's crash
at the same time and all hell is let loose. Can anyone help in this
oppressing circumstance?
-j-
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What Distro are you running?
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GRAHAM MONK wrote:
Hi All
This morning while browsing I notice a lot of HD activity,
i ran top and found someone called "nobody" was running find.
i pulled my network connection and tried to find what was going on.
I have downloaded and run chkrootkit and "top" and
Retort, Counter-Retort & Justification of Counter-Retort! Excellent!
-j-
Dave Bourassa wrote:
Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
On June 4, 2004 01:11, Alex wrote:
I like best of all info about Blaster worm how it shut down Linux
system!
well, what they actually s
Is shaw blocking port 25 for any reason? I'm having trouble receiving
email on my domain. Sending email is perfect.
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Well no, I mean this is my shaw address. I have another domain from
which I can't receive emails. Sending works perfectly.
Robert Campbell wrote:
> I got this email with no problems.
>
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 14:01 -0700, Jon Copeland wrote:
>
>>Is shaw blocking port
I'm pretty darn sure I saw a LinuxFest advert on a streetside bench by a
bus station on Macleod Trail heading North near Chinook. I dunno, it
was something linux related, I thought it was kinda cool.
-j-
Shawn wrote:
> Not LinuxFest - that I know of.
>
> I do know there's a couple of Linux or
Here's the obligatory apology for this most un-acceptable form of
OT'ness. Apologies :)
I figure everyone here is more in the know than most other people about
such things because keeping your computer room cool should be on your
priority list this summer :D I'm looking for tips on where to b
Okay, admittedly I never thought of Costco, but Walmart was completely
sold out, even on fans...crazy!
Mitchell Brown wrote:
> *cough* Costco *cough* Wal-Mart *cough*
>
>
>
>
>
I'm interested in helping setup a free wireless network, I live in
Cranston in the SE. I am a complete newbie about such things but am
willing to learn new things. I don't know anything about the hardware
or software or whats involved but will gladly participate in any kind of
wireless mesh/r
Yes, about that. How do I get connected when I am down in Cranston? Do
I have to wait for other AP's to geographically make their way down here
before I can connect?
Who is the guy behind this project?
Jon
Darren L wrote:
> Has this idea fizzled out?
>
> http://wiki.calgarymesh.ca/
>
>
>
What's the URL of the Calgary Freifunk Wireless network?
I don't have my CLUG archive with me at the moment so I can't look it up and
google isn't helping :(
Thanks
Jon
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Excellent! Love it! I don't know why they don't make some MAC parody
ads ie, "Hi I'm a MAC,... and I'm a Distro", "So Mac what are you doing
today?" "Oh just sitting here trying to blend in with black appliances
in my condo. Sowhat are you doing Distro?" "Oh just sitting around
running mor
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