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Anyone with Gentoo knowledge?
by Raymond J. Henry 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

Have a pretty nasty problem, and can't get hold of the guy that handles my Gentoo box..... And I'm pretty much lost on it, haven't been able to invest the time to learn it.... Now looks like the box has been hacked.... :/ So if you're up late, bored, want to make a couple of bucks, know Gentoo, email me directly.... :P

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Shaw Business
by Kevin Scott 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

While I don't have a dedicated-rep, Shaw Business customer service and techs are way better then on the Residental side. I call to complain about something, or ask to have something done, on my residental account, No, sorry we can't do that, or thats not possible. On the Business side, they just do it, no 15 min on hold, trying to get someone higher up, or someone who knows how to do a "push" on the modem, or what that even is (resending the config file to the modem). Business Side, I call the Sales or Tech number, no being put on hold, no IVR to wade threw, it just rings right through, sometimes longer when they are busy I suppose, but it just rings... When I was still living in Winnipeg, I had both DSL and Shaw, there was 50ms ping differences between pinging did.voip.les.net. My tests showed the DSL modem itself added 15ms delay in things. MTS with their DSL modems, they are technologly only able to upload at 640kb/s, download at 8Mbps, last time I had service, the fastest plan only used 512kb/s of that. Shaw's modems are 38/32Mbps Down/Up. So if they were to upgrade their infustructre, they could almost match the speed of a DS3. Kevin

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MUUG Meeting, June 12, 7:30pm -- LAMP Performance Tuning
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 12th. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: LAMP Performance Tuning LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) applications are popular for many reasons. As a site grows, some work has to go into maintaining the various components of the architecture so that bottlenecks are eliminated. This presentation by Sean Walberg will go over many of the things to look for in the LAMP components of high volume websites, based on his experiences with b5media.com. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members may be required to show photo ID at the security desk. Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $3.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Shaw Static IPs
by Kevin Scott 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Yeah, depending on the Business plan your on, some of them include Static addresses. Correction, looking at Shaw's site, they have recently changed it (since when I looked at it in May) removing most of their Business plans (used to be 5, now there are 3). Two static IPs for $19.95/month. The reason to stick with Shaw, the reason I went to them in the first place, no need to dial-up with PPPoE, I hated that. Kevin

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info@muug.mb.ca Bounces
by John Lange 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

When I send email to info(a)muug.mb.ca is bounces saying it needs moderator approval but info is listed on the web site as a general contact email address. Just thought someone should know. John

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potential HTML/Flash job
by Trevor Cordes 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

If anyone knows any budding independent web artists, I may need some contract work done very soon for a client of mine. $500-$2000 or so, depending on final requirements and results. The job is a site redesign (mostly just the template / nav), perhaps revamping some of the content pages for a more polished look and integrating (maybe even taking) new pictures. It should be pretty easy / cookie-cutter. May have to submit a couple of mockups first. Also required is one or two Flash presentations integrating pictures and text to highlight new products. Artist must be capable of clean HTML / CSS *hand-coding* (or use a tool that produces neat human-readable HTML without inline CSS). Knowledge of PHP/Linux is a bonus. Site must look good on both IE and Firefox. The look required is clean / professional in both the HTML and Flash. If you know anyone who does small contract work like this, forward this on. Please reply by email. There may be future opportunities as well if I like what I see.

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Blocking Port 25
by Kevin Scott 30 May '07

30 May '07

> Was there any notification of the change? > If there was no notification then I'm very sad and wonder why they have > such terrible administration policies. There was zero notification, just like when MTS did it. Just one day they unilaterally block a port. Awhile back, Shaw one day blocked most of the P2P traffic using packet-shaping technology too, with no notice, no warnings, one day my upload speed went from 100kb/s down to 1kb/s. Shaw didn't even tell the CSR's that they had done this. Repeadly Shaw techs kept telling me it was internet conditions and the network outside Shaw that was causing it. DSLReports is where I was able to find out what was going on. Have they notified their techs this time that they have blocked the port? MTS at least had a service bulletion on this, after the fact mind you, but they still made it public what they had done. Hopefully starting at Shaw soon, hopefully then I'll be able to watch for 'news' such as this in the internal communications so that way at least I know whats going on with things... lol Kevin

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Shaw now blocking SMTP port 25
by Trevor Cordes 29 May '07

29 May '07

Shaw is now blocking OUTGOING port 25 (SMTP) to anything except their own mail server (shawmail.wp.shawcable.net) This is similar to what MTS did about a year ago. This is only affecting one of my customers right now, so you may or may not be affected already. The Shaw rep says that it should be affecting all non-business-class customers. Obviously that's baloney because my personal home system still has working port 25 access. Incoming port 25 appears to be open (unlike MTS which for some retarded reason thinks incoming port 25 is a spam risk). As when MTS did this, I think it's complete nonsense and a clear example of net bigotry. Complain to your Shaw rep today!

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Shaw Internet going away
by Bill Reid 29 May '07

29 May '07

There have been a number of posts about the problems of Shaw Internet going away. It is not clear what the problem is and when Trevor and starting runing scripts which did pings, etc. the problem went away for me. I was installing a new server and of course the MAC address is different. When I powered cycled the cable modem it still would not allow my MAC address to communicate. After fighting this for a while I phoned Shaw tech support. I having the modem reset, etc. I guess the tech went away to consult. It turns out that the arp cache is not updated continuously and is cleared every 4 hours. So a MAC IP pairing hangs around for a while. This potentially could cause the problems I was seeing if someone was using my IP address. It seems a bit far fetched but not updating the arp cache could lead to problems that correct themselves when the cache is clear. My solution was to clone the old server MAC address. This will become standard procedure since if you want to go back to the old server you do not want to wait 4 hours. Of course this is really only a problem with static IPs since if you do a dhcp renew you should get a new IP address. -- Bill

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Re: [RndTbl] Shaw now blocking SMTP port 25
by Trevor Cordes 26 May '07

26 May '07

> The way I got around this issue was by letting sendmail listen on port 25 as > usual, but having a iptables rule that redirected all incoming connections on > port 25000 to 25. Hey, great idea, quick and easy and no sendmail voodoo. iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 27 -j REDIRECT --to-port 25 iptables appears to do the prerouting change first then run the normal port 25 rules on the altered packet. Perfect. Then Outlook Express clients just change: Tools -> Accounts -> <your mail account> -> Properties -> Advanced -> change outgoing mail SMTP number from 25 to 27 iptables is my hero!

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