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Feizhou wrote: > I completely disagree with you here since I use grub over pxe to > install/boot my servers and avoid any local bootloading problems. From: Peter Farrow <peter at farrows.org> > In one sentence, grub is poorly documented, over complicated pants, and > lilo ROCKS... At the risk of offending even more people by suggesting a "middle ground" where

On 04/15/2017 04:46 AM, Pete Biggs wrote: > Not wishing to extend this thread further, but ... > >> There are conspiracy theories out there that the NSA is involved with >> bringing systemd to Linux so they can have easy access to *"unknown"* >> bugs - aka backdoors - to all Linux installations using systemd *[1]*. > They're conspiracy theories, and

Hi There, I have approx 4 machines running centos 4.2 and would like to run a local yum repo for them. Is there a quick and dirty way to do this... Thanks in advance Pete

> > There is no doubt that most security agencies have a long list of zero- >> day exploits in their toolbox - I would hazard to suggest that they >> wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't! But I seriously doubt they >> would commission exploitable code in something that is openly >> auditable. >> >> P. >> > > P., I used to think

Dear All, I need some witty computer related proverbs or one liners that some of have used in the past as footers for your emails for example. I particularly remember a PERL based transliteration joke/footer that when run in PERL produces a witty output.... This is to fix a problem internally created by an over zealous salesman at my company pinning up A4 sheets with bullSh*t sales proverbs

Dear all, It seems that wget version has had the -C (cache) option removed when it went from 1.9 to version 1.10, this happened somewhere between Centos 3.5 and 4.2. Does anyone know why the -C option was removed and how I can get it back? Other than regressing wget..... Regards Pete

Dear All, I've tried to upgrade a Centos 3.3 installation to 4.0 using YUM and some instructions I found in a thread on the Centos Forum. The initial problem I had with Python 2.3/2.2 has been resolved, and now I am trying to upgrade the kernel to 2.6 prior to the yum upgrade, unfortunately it bails out at the end with dependancy erros on Xfree86. At this point I decided to use the CDs

All, So that suggests that .GlobalEnv[["X"]] is more efficient than get("X", pos=1L). What about .GlobalEnv[["X"]] <- value, compared to assign("X", value)? Dave On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Peter Haverty <haverty.peter at gene.com> wrote: > Thanks Winston! I'm amazed that "[[" beats calling the .Internal > directly. I

> Indeed. I think the assertion "OSS is somehow safer because of community > audit" is a logical fallacy. How would one go about "auditing" in the first > place? There are tools to audit source code for problems - OSS is safer *because* the source is available and can be audited. > Even if the various Intelligence agencies are not injecting > vulnerabilities

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Hi There, I recently suffered a serious hardware failure on one of my firewalls, (motherboard died), this machine was originally a redhat 9 box, on an Athlon 2200 with 512Megs RAM, this machine was doing the following jobs for a small network at a relatives house: Firewall (IPTABLES) Transparent proxy (squid) Sendmail smarthost IMAP mail server SAMBA file server IPSEC tunnel to my home. The

Dear All, I have two AD domains, one running on Windows 2000 and one running on Windows 2003. Each with XP clients, and no trust. Ihave a linux file server running samba 3 on Centos 4.2, the smb.conf file specifies that security=server, and points the password server to the operations master on the Windows 2000 domain. All clients and 2000 servers on the Windows 2000 domain, (xp or

I just finished my latest contribution, "Open Says Me". http://unspace.ca/discover/opensaysme/ Managing the browser experience using JavaScript, Ajax and a Cookie. It''s built on top of Rails, of course. Feedback is always appreciated! Pete

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 10:49 PM Ebed <ebedsat at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday i tried to install centOS 8 on my little router and server, but > there's no ethernet listed there. I'm using Compaq pressario V3737TU which > come with Marvell PCI-e ethernet 100Mbps. It's an old laptop. > Indeed, that's a low end 12 yr old laptop, based on a core2 duo

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Thanks for the feedback. I do agree with having multiple smaller servers. When I was first approached with this task I mentioned as much. However, the current desire is to work with already existing hardware. That is out of my hands at the moment unless it just can't be done. I will explore Freeswitch a bit soon to compare it as well. I am struggling to find what the bottle neck is in

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Thanks Winston! I'm amazed that "[[" beats calling the .Internal directly. I guess the difference between .Primitive vs. .Internal is pretty significant for things on this time scale. NULL meaning NULL and NULL meaning undefined would lead to the same path for much of my code. I'll be swapping out many exists and get calls later today. Thanks! I do still think it would be

Hello Pete, On Mon, 02 Jul 2018 09:59:17 +0100 Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: > > > > So, service is running but what could happen that makes /etc/cron.* not > > being fired? > > You don't say, but if this is CentOS 7, then cron.daily/weekly/monthly > is run using anacron, not cron. Oops, yes CentOS 7, sorry. For the record: # service anacron