Re: [clug-talk] problem with wrt54g router

2011-09-06 Thread Lance A. Brown
If it's forgotten bits and pieces of its interface, your best option is a full reset and see if it comes back to life. If not, it's probably kaput. I'll second Dafidd' recommendation of Tomato. Fine piece of software that makes your WRT54G MUCH more useful. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B

Re: [clug-talk] ntp time server

2011-11-06 Thread Lance A. Brown
Are either of your machines running ntpd? If so, what ntpd stuff is showing up in /var/log/messages? --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca ht

Re: [clug-talk] ntp time server

2011-11-07 Thread Lance A. Brown
No computer clock is ever perfect, which is why we have Network Time Protocol. :-) If your desktop or laptop completely looses its time when you turn it off, the CMOS battery is dead/dieing and needs to be replaced. I would recommend using ntpd running as a daemon to manage the clock on both your

Re: [clug-talk] thanks for help

2011-11-07 Thread Lance A. Brown
You are most welcome. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://c

Re: [clug-talk] The State of the Art

2011-11-24 Thread Lance A. Brown
Anand Singh said the following on 11/24/2011 1:05 AM: Choice #3. The Linux desktop was here, but was subsequently rescinded because it offered functionality not required by below average users. Honestly, was a minimize button so confusing to most people that it needed to be removed (Gnome 3)? Wa

Re: [clug-talk] Linux article

2012-05-01 Thread Lance A. Brown
On 05/01/12 15:56, Greg Saunders wrote: > Here is why Linux on the desktop is a failure: It's designed by developers > like you and me. Get a top notch design agency engaged, people that understand > "user experience" and UI design, it could be a different story. We, > developers, haven't come up w

Re: [clug-talk] Need a CLI editor with builtin local change logging

2012-05-25 Thread Lance A. Brown
On 05/25/12 09:03, Royce Souther wrote: > I am managing a large network of corporate servers. I am looking for a CLI > editor like vi(m), maybe a wrapper for vi(m) that would generate diff files > and force the user to add a comment line when every they change a > configuration file. I have a scri

Re: [clug-talk] ubuntu 10.10 repositories

2012-06-03 Thread Lance A. Brown
This might help. http://www.warpconduit.net/2011/07/31/apt-repository-for-old-ubuntu-releases/ --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://cl

[clug-talk] Greetings

2010-02-18 Thread Lance A. Brown
Hi folks, I just joined the list from bright and sunny North Carolina, USA. :-) My fiance is visiting at the University of Calgary that has offered her a postdoctoral position and I'm looking to scope out the job situation for linux geeks in the Calgary area. We are both quite excited at the pros

Re: [clug-talk] Greetings

2010-02-20 Thread Lance A. Brown
Thanks Greg, I'll definitely be following up on that one. My fiance's visit in Calgary is going very well; she is going to take the position so I'm officially in the job market! --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer __

Re: [clug-talk] mapping connections

2010-03-16 Thread Lance A. Brown
Chris q wrote: > Hi, > > I'm hoping you guys can point me to some software that will do this. I > have a list of pairs of data that I want to visualize. It's in the > format of two columns, with each row representing a connection between > the two items in the columns. So data would look like t

Re: [clug-talk] OT CLUG membership card

2010-03-26 Thread Lance A. Brown
Mitch Brown wrote: > Dafydd, > > I still have access to the mailing list admin interfaces. Note that I > am not being presented with any options to remove this thread - only > to view the archives. This looks like something that will have to be > manually done from the backend of the server. Yep,

Re: [clug-talk] ubuntu 9.10 won't boot on Intel 3i consumer laptops?!

2010-03-29 Thread Lance A. Brown
Looks like many folk are having problems with the new i3 chips. This might help on the black screen problem. http://www.linlap.com/wiki/toshiba+satellite+pro+u500+-+i3+i5+model --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___

[clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-03 Thread Lance A. Brown
Greetings, Everything is proceeding (relatively) smoothly for our move from North Carolina to Calgary at the end of the month. We are planning on arriving on the 28th and unpacking over the weekend. Finally, some concrete dates for all this! Anyway, I'd like to ask for your input on: ISP Servi

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-04 Thread Lance A. Brown
Shawn said the following on 5/4/2010 6:55 AM: > For Internet, I've been using SHAW's SOHO package for many years and > have only seen a couple of outages (someone hit a telephone pole in one > case, another was a problem in Lethbridge that took out Shaw's southern > Alberta's internet access). Bot

Re: [clug-talk] ISP and Cellular service

2010-05-04 Thread Lance A. Brown
Gustin Johnson said the following on 5/4/2010 7:39 PM: > Officially you are not supposed to run servers on the residential > packages, you are supposed to upgrade to a business package. Having > said that, I have had an https, ssh, openvpn server running 24/7 for > years without hassle. You only

Re: [clug-talk] Bashing Windows out of ignorance

2010-05-04 Thread Lance A. Brown
Wow. Feels just like home back in TriLUG. :-) --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing

Re: [clug-talk] try to find out

2010-08-01 Thread Lance A. Brown
Michael John Walters said the following on 8/2/2010 12:31 AM: > Hello all, > > I will follow the advice on how to change pass word with a live CD as > soon as I figure out how to mount HDD. I hope to do that tomorrow for > Winson. Then perhaps we can change the root password and get into the > s

Re: [clug-talk] Iceweasel problem

2010-09-29 Thread Lance A. Brown
Richard Carter wrote: > For a while after I installed iceweasel on the new box it seemed to work > fine. However, now when I try to start Iceweasel I get an error message > from kde 4.4.5 that iceweasel is already running but not responding and > that I must shut it down or restart my system. I

[clug-talk] Recruiting and/or Contracting agencies

2010-10-04 Thread Lance A. Brown
Greetings, I am visiting my wife here in Calgary this week and look forward to meeting some of you all at the CLUG meeting Wednesday evening. My job search continues and I'd like to ask for more advice from this community. I'm in contact with a couple recruiting agencies by applying for jobs the

[clug-talk] Very cool Arduino based product

2010-12-01 Thread Lance A. Brown
This came across the NC RC Soaring mailing list recently. I just looked at it and found out it is Arduino based: It's a multi-function loggin altimeter w/ low-voltage alarm and remote lost model sounder on board. VERY cool. http://openaltimeter.org/index.html --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 4

Re: [clug-talk] Help with gmail

2010-12-17 Thread Lance A. Brown
One of my faculty members used Gmail for personal email and had her account locked. I'm not sure why. She ended up abandoning that address and starting over with another email provider after failing to get any recourse from Google. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9

Re: [clug-talk] port 25

2011-03-20 Thread Lance A. Brown
Kin Wong said the following on 3/20/2011 3:41 AM: >> So the question is, has anyone else experiencing this problem with >> Shaw? Any better on Telus? Should ISP be restricting port 25 for >> their own email server? I think this should be the case and would >> like to here some of your thoughts.

Re: [clug-talk] instant messenger compatability

2011-03-22 Thread Lance A. Brown
Pidgin, which is available on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, handles just about every instant messenger protocol around. :-) For Ubuntu, in particular: http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/ --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___

Re: [clug-talk] NAS

2011-06-04 Thread Lance A. Brown
Mel Walters said the following on 6/4/2011 6:03 PM: > > Is the perceived licence conflict between Linux GPL and ZFS still a > factor? Yes. ZFS isn't GPL compatible still. --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer __