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Screwdriver
by Kevin McGregor 02 Dec '12

02 Dec '12

Does anyone have, or know where I can get, a small triangle-head screwdriver? I have a long (150-bulb) Christmas tree light set that doesn't work at all. It has a controller to make the lights do different flashy things, and the controller seems to be held together with two screws with triangle-shaped sockets. Not Robertson, not Tor-x. The whole thing worked fine last year, and I'd like to have it working again. I thought I would take it apart to see if there was anything obviously wrong with it (check for voltages, etc.).

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26 Nov '12

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socket 775 motherboard
by Kat 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Anyone have a socket 775 motherboard I could borrow to troubleshoot a problem.... and possibly buy, if mine turns out dead? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Katherine Scrupa Network Technology CCNA, Hons.

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Upstream vendors can harm small projects: OpenBSD dev
by Adam Thompson 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/57589-upstream-vendors-c… Interesting interview with Marc Espie, the ports maintainer for OpenBSD. -Adam

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ThinkPad X300 battery FS
by Trevor Cordes 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

If anyone has an X300 or X301 and needs a brand new battery, email me back. I got stuck with an extra and would sell at a big discount. Thanks

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Re: [RndTbl] resizing an SD card image?
by Adam Thompson 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

One thing you can *sometimes* do is write the smaller image to the card, then use gPartEd (or similar) to increase it. -Adam Grigory Shamov <Grigory.Shamov(a)ad.umanitoba.ca> wrote: >Hi, > >Any easy way to resize a bootable image for SD card? There are ready Linux >images for booting on Android devices, like MK802. The problem is, 1) >sometimes you don't have a card for that size (say 4Gb image, 8Gb card) or >2) micro-SD card come in random sizes, so an image for 8Gb card can be >some kbytes too long for a 8Gb card of another vendor. > >I probably could mount the image, copy the contents and go over the >process of creating a bootable image myself. But is there a way of doing >it with a lesser effort? > >-- >Grigory Shamov > >HPC Analyst, Westgrid/Compute Canada >E2-588 EITC Building, University of Manitoba >(204) 474-9625 > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Roundtable mailing list >Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca >http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable

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time off by 1 hour
by Trevor Cordes 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

I have a rarely-on (media player) linux box that since the daylight savings changeover (I think) always boots with the time off by 1 hour. (I think it thinks it's 1 hour later than it really is.) It's a modern(ish) Fedora 16 with the latest updates. I can set the clock correctly manually or with ntpdate and all is fine until reboot. Then it's wrong again. I am running ntpd on it to set the clock using my own internal ntpd server that does keep correct time. I did check that the timezone was set to Americas/Winnipeg and the daylight savings stuff all looks correct. I use "system clock is set to GMT". Such a silly problem, and I'm stumped!

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resizing an SD card image?
by Grigory Shamov 20 Nov '12

20 Nov '12

Hi, Any easy way to resize a bootable image for SD card? There are ready Linux images for booting on Android devices, like MK802. The problem is, 1) sometimes you don't have a card for that size (say 4Gb image, 8Gb card) or 2) micro-SD card come in random sizes, so an image for 8Gb card can be some kbytes too long for a 8Gb card of another vendor. I probably could mount the image, copy the contents and go over the process of creating a bootable image myself. But is there a way of doing it with a lesser effort? -- Grigory Shamov HPC Analyst, Westgrid/Compute Canada E2-588 EITC Building, University of Manitoba (204) 474-9625

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Virtual machine used to steal crypto keys from other VM on same server | Ars Technica
by Adam Thompson 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/11/crypto-keys-stolen-from-virtual-mac… Some of our members have been convinced this was imminent for, oh, about a decade now. It's finally happened, but as is pointed out, relies on side-chanel attacks on shared hardware. This STILL doesn't mean virtualization itself is inherently insecure... but it does mean public clouds just got a little harder to trust for high-security operations. -Adam

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