Roundtable May 2015

roundtable@muug.ca

9 participants
17 discussions

IBM "clicky" keyboards
by Adam Thompson 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Enough people have wondered/asked/complained to me about this that I'm posting this now as a public service. IBM Model "M" keyboards are still available, *NEW*, today. They are expensive, but they are the original design that you can use as a melee weapon. The catch is that they don't say "IBM" or even "Lexmark" on them. They are available for purchase from the manufacturer, Unicomp, who can be found online at http://www.pckeyboard.com/. You can also find some vintage NIB units from time … [View More]

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SpamAssassin false positives on DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_Q?
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

I mentioned this problem at the last round-table session, but didn't get a solution, so I thought I'd post it here, just in case anyone has any suggestions to offer. I'm still seeing a whole bunch of false positives in SpamAssassin, since an update was installed in mid-September on a CentOS 5.7 system, for a rule called DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_Q, which is only supposed to be triggered when the "Date:" header has a date that is 4 days to 4 month ahead of the date in the "Received" header that … [View More]

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big scanner
by Trevor Cordes 27 May '15

27 May '15

Does anyone have big (like tabloid or bigger) scanner they want to sell? Even an ancient SCSI or parallel one might be ok. I just want *big*. Do they even make scanners bigger than legal or tabloid?

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Book Apart order
by Trevor Cordes 25 May '15

25 May '15

I'm going to make an order for some (print) books from publisher A Book Apart (USA-based) and wondering if anyone wants to go in on the order with me. If I can get 3-5 more books in the order I can save more money (bigger discount) plus split the shipping/brokerage over more books. Win/win if someone else wanted one of these books in print. A Book Apart just joined O'Reilly for Safari/ebooks (but not print) and they seem to produce excellent products. They seem heavily slanted towards … [View More]

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pdf printer issues
by Trevor Cordes 19 May '15

19 May '15

I'm trying to print a 2-page tax-form-like file to a (fairly) modern Lexmark E360 printer, using modern CUPS on Linux. If I print it from evince or xournal PDF viewers, it prints some of page one, then prints a printer error (probably a PS error) on page 2. If I print it from lpr on the command line, it prints out fine! The GUI viewers have no problems printing out other PDFs from what I've tested so far. This setup has no problems printing emails from Thunderbird nor documents from … [View More]

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Re: [RndTbl] $29 dedicated server?
by Paul Sierks 15 May '15

15 May '15

Cheaper / crazier yet... Kimsufi.com & soyoustart.com Regards, Paul Trevor Cordes <trevor(a)tecnopolis.ca> wrote: >https://www.serverpronto.com/accounts/cart2.php?gid=1&pid=446 > >How are these guys doing $29/mo "dedicated server"? What's the catch? >They say it's a Xeon 3040 1.9GHz, so that's older/slower, but say I don't >need speed. RAM 2G is anemic but doable if I don't need much RAM. >Doesn't say ECC or not, so that's one possible catch (but … [View More]

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$29 dedicated server?
by Trevor Cordes 15 May '15

15 May '15

https://www.serverpronto.com/accounts/cart2.php?gid=1&pid=446 How are these guys doing $29/mo "dedicated server"? What's the catch? They say it's a Xeon 3040 1.9GHz, so that's older/slower, but say I don't need speed. RAM 2G is anemic but doable if I don't need much RAM. Doesn't say ECC or not, so that's one possible catch (but usually Xeon==ECC). No RAID, that sucks, maybe it can be added as a cheap upgrade? Network looks very good. Anyhow, that's 10-20X less than Rackspace … [View More]

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another systemd gotcha
by Adam Thompson 15 May '15

15 May '15

sooo... don't remove /bin/plymouth (say, by uninstalling the "plymouth" package) and still expect your system to boot. Oh yeah, there's no warning when you removed the plymouth package a week or two ago. And there's nothing on screen to indicate what the problem might be, you *must* have a root password set (sorry, Debian and Ubuntu users who didn't do that) in order to log into safe mode, run "journalctl -xb" and see the error where being unable to execute /bin/plymouth is a FATAL error. … [View More]

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GoAccess
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 13 May '15

13 May '15

Wyatt, Thanks for your mini-presentation on GoAccess last night. I found the program useful enough that I've now installed it on the various EL6 systems on which I maintain a web server. I also decided to install it on both the old and the new MUUG servers. (There was a Debian package available for it too.) The EPEL5 repository didn't have it, so I grabbed the source RPM from EPEL6, and with 2 trivial changes to the .spec file, I was able to build a binary for EL5. Since it's tiny, … [View More]

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RHEL/CentOS 7 rpm -e
by Trevor Cordes 13 May '15

13 May '15

To follow on Gilbert's RHEL7 firewalld, chrony, etc, questions. I also, on every new Fedora box (except basic single-user laptops, etc), ditch NetworkManager, and change MTA back to sendmail. That last one is tricky as the supported way is a bit weird (but easy when you know the trick): alternatives --config mta Make sure you have sendmail rpm's installed first. After you switch to sendmail you can rpm -e the postfix stuff. Yes, my boxes are all pretty much Redhat 9.0 (*pre-RHEL*!!!) … [View More]

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Roundtable May 2015