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RE: Dry run Vital Site meeting on for tonight?
by Phil Thayer 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

That's what I understood. Today is the 11th isn't it? ________________________________ From: Philip Dorr [mailto:tagno25@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:27 PM To: Phil Thayer Subject: Dry run Vital Site meeting on for tonight? are we having the dry run Vital Site meeting tonight (Tuesday the 11th)?

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Where to get laptop batteries? Also, Ubuntu deployment at bookstore...
by Chuck 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

Can anybody point me to a reputable place online (or locally) where I can buy a replacement battery for a Toshiba laptop? This is the first time I've had to replace a laptop battery. I also want to share news that we've set up an Ubuntu network at our bookstore and infoshop at 3109 Troost. We're making available a public Internet access terminal that is running Ubuntu. Our other computers in the building are also running Ubuntu. We also offer free WiFi. Our next project is to set up a community computing lab in the building which will mostly be running Linux. We welcome donations of equipment. We mostly need CAT5 cable at this point. Please come by and check us out: Crossroads Infoshop & Radical Bookstore 3109 Troost KCM0 64109 http://www.crossroadskc.org/ Chuck -------------------------- Bread and Roses Web Design serving small businesses, non-profits, artists and activists http://www.breadandrosesweb.com/

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Re: Subject Lines Controversy
by Craig Aldinger 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

Have followed this bit, have come to a (sort of...) conclusion. Aparrently there are a whole lot of folks who can get pretty well exercised over trivia regarding the "Subject Line/Thread" continuity. My only response to this running byte-battle is: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? I suspect that there are many more important issues for which all of us simple readers of the forum would benefit by..... I do know that the good folks at KCLUG have inadvertantly helped me out w/ my learning about Linux just by my reading this forum, keep up the good work so newbies like this old man can continue my education!

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Another Unix related comic
by Brian Kelsay 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

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RE: Road Runner Nonsense
by Julie 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

To Hal and any others who haven't been able to replicate this: I've had RR service to my home ever since they came to KC and I couldn't replicate "it" either until I had Road Runner reset my modem (a Toshiba PCX2600 that I've had for just about four years now). I'd been having trouble with getting onto and navigating the Net. So I called RR to have them 'ping' my modem to see what the problem was (I've gone through about four modems during my time with RR). They reset it, told me I now have four IPs instead of one...for the exact same price; we'll see when I get my next bill... and that it works fine now, which it does. BUT, I _now_ get that advertising page when I run a test to see what I get with a random string. The only way I've found to be able to get to the page to set my "preferences" is through the Slashdot article someone gave here. I opted out of the thing and STILL get the advertising page I had 'supposedly' opted out of. What's up with THAT??? I've saved the changes that I've made but they don't 'take'. In addition, IMHO, I don't really have a 'physical' problem with this since I don't usually manually type in a URL and when I do I make double sure it's correct. However, I'm _quite_ disturbed at the Big Brother aspect of this "Nonsense"!!! Are there any other ISPs in the area that have the speed/quality of RR that don't employ such invasive practices. I've just about had my fill of RR and AT&T, both.Time Warner Cable TV is getting ridiculous in their programming, too, but I don't necessarily want to go the satellite route because I don't need to be out on the roof cleaning the thing in snowstorms just so I can get reception. ;) Julie @};-- >>>Hal Wrote: "Being a RR customer, I was curious to see this, but I cannot reproduce it. What am I doing wrong? [hald@iolo ~]$ lynx -mime_header http://www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com/ Looking up www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com Unable to locate remote host www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com. Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com/ [hald@iolo ~]$ Thanks, -- Hal"<<< --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

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RoadRunner nonsense
by Arthur Pemberton 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

My fellow RoadRunner using geeks have no doubt noticed this themselves by now, but for everyone else, an article is up on Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/26/1741253 ISPs are becoming more and more despicable -- I just wonder what tech guy sold his soul implementing this, surely going against standard networking behavior like this must cause one to lose their geek membership. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )

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Re: DNS alternatives (Was RoadRunner nonsense)
by Leo Mauler 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

--- Billy Crook <billycrook(a)gmail.com> wrote: > http://root-servers.org/ > > Ironically enough, if you don't have any DNS, you > won't be able to resolve that link to a server, > now will you. A quick nslookup fixes that for the future: http://root-servers.org/ is also http://192.71.80.110/ Once you get to root-servers.org, IP addresses are listed for all of the root servers. As the updates list indicates for root-servers.org, the IP addresses for some of the servers changes from time to time, but not all of the IP addresses change at any given point in time. > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Leo Mauler > <webgiant(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > --- Luke -Jr <luke(a)dashjr.org> wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 26 February 2008, cragos(a)gmail.com > wrote: > > > > > > Anyone else got any easy to memorize DNS > > > > server IPs or something of the sort? > > > > > > Root servers work for me. > > > > I haven't set up DNS on a server in awhile, > > though back then RedHat Enterprise came with > > a list of root servers. > > > > Where does one find a list of root servers? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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DNS alternatives (Was RoadRunner nonsense)
by cragos＠gmail.com 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

TW's astandard DNS rollout is despicable and everything, but still: It might be argued that one should no more depend on their ISP for DNS than they would for email. Might I recommend 4.2.2 1 - 4.2.2.6 and/or OpenDNS? Anyone else got any easy to memorize DNS server IPs or something of the sort? -Sean Related link: http://ask.metafilter.com/22161/DNS-servers-with-easytoremember-IP-addresses

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Unix related Dilbert
by Brian Kelsay 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

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DNS gaming -Is it a real money maker or only fantasy dollars?
by Oren Beck 01 Mar '08

01 Mar '08

I suspect that a forensic audit of the profit/loss results from DNS gaming will show a net loss. The "profits" from all total redirects and similar credit per click are not "free money". There are overheads. There also are consequences of being scummy. All things taken as a whole I find it more likely that at fiscal year end an ISP will be ahead by *NOT* playing such games. Do please either confirm or deny my logic and explain your reasons -- Oren Beck 816.729.3645

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