Posts by CimmerianX

What do you mean bypass PPPOE? Did you change service? PPPOE authenticates your device to the service, it's required....

Gawd Almighty, please send me a Valium-Vicoden-Vodka-Latte while I tell this idoit to reboot for the 9th time, tail logs from the Load Balancer, Web host, and Sql host, all the while ignoring the 110 email in my inbox asking for help for their own "red-hot" deliverable of the day.

When can I finally retire and unplug?

Does the VM have an IP on the Host OS's physical LAN subnet?

Keep getting what? Error? AV alert? File not found?

Refuse to develop such an intrusive system that will track students by RFID on security concerns. 
"Psst, hey Jimmy, I want to skip this period, carry my rfid card into class for me please."


1 - At least an rfid reader/scanner and host to run it's software. 
2 - Why a tablet, because it's cool and hip and the latest thing...   Honestly, I have no idea.  Any device that can read a report generated by the host is fine. 
3 - How many tablets are going to review the data??  ?    It's really just attendence data collected by the host and some client will query the report. 

Lol Nice.....

David, we do need a lot more information before we can help you....

What version of VMware? Describe the environment... Is the ISO stored on a local datastore, via iscsi, nfs, etc? Vmware 'removes' the ISO? Does that mean the ISO is deleted from disk, is it not mounted as a cdrom to a virtual guest?

JorgeM is correct. THe windows "shutdown" command can be used to shutdown any remote computer so long as you have admin access to that host. Any computer on the network could be sending that command. Now since it doesn't shut down unless he is logged in, that's a big clue to tell me it is running locally.

My 2 cents would be to start with Hijackthis and have it pull the pc log. http://www.hijackthis.com/hijackthis

This shows you all the startup items and services.

Then you should check the sceduled tasks to look for anything that was running.

If you still suspect a remote machine, you can enable a 3rd party firewall to block and log all ports, or you can use wireshark to trace everything at 9:30 and see what shows up.

Just to add... temperature sensors on the board and cpu will alert the motherboard which will kick in the fans to dissapate the heat. There are many options on how to manage heat from simple CPU fans, heat sinks, water cooling, etc....

Bent pins in the CPU are nearly impossible to repair by hand. I'm also of the opinion that you need to replace it.

Looks like it's coming up as sg6. Tail dmesg as you plug it in to be sure.

Who is managing your boot? During the ubuntu install, you were given the option of installing GRUB. What did you pick here?

Even now, you can get monitors that conect via USB, so it's limited only by the power of the host.

PPPoE that JorgeM is talking about is built into Windows since XP (IIRC). ICS is also built into windows so there is nothing to buy.

Fluke is the best. A little pricey, but worth every penny.

That's a sucky thing for ISPs to do. I use VPN back to my home all the time and I know I would hate it.

I've never heard of an ISP doing this. Seems overly complex for a home connection.

As a sanity check, start with the home server, and do www.icanhazip.com, verify the public ip.
From remote machine, nmap the IP and port, what do you get?
Is the server running iptables/csf/or some other firewall?
What router do you have? Are you using dmz address or a single port forward? Remember you can't use both.

None of this is correct. Whichever account you use to purchase Mountain Lion will have it.

You can certainly sign into your mom's mac app store with your ID (if you purchased it), DL and load the OS if you want.

Grab the ISO or torrent file from http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server

The server can lookup FQDN from his own hosts file. The PC each have their own hosts lacking this entry.

Did you try simply using 8.8.8.8 for each PC DNS?

The keey here is to see what fowarders or external DNS servers your router/server is using. When the lookup is not in local dns cache, the server will query out to its configured forwarder for an answer. Can you change external forwarder to 8.8.8.8 for a test?

There already is a free download on the playstore for 'wifi analyzer' that does everything you need... why not just use that?

Does the non working pc get an IP, does it have an active connection? IF you swap cables does theproblem follow the cable or the PC?

Can the pc ping its own ip?
Can it ping the ip of the working machine?
Can it ping the gateway?
Can i ping beyond the gateway?
Can it ping by hostname (i.e. www.yahoo.com)?

JorgeM is correct.

Also, Is this your home server/router or, perhaps, your parent's? Seems like someone here blocked facebook on purpose. If it wasn't you, you are only going to piss off the person who did by trying to circumvnet the process.

If it is your server/router, then let us know what model/OS it's running. That's a good starting point. IF it is a local Bind on a server or one of the consumer routers, this can be easily fixed.

For about $30 you can buy any consumer based router (netgear, dlink, linksys). These can act as the client for your ISP's PPPOE connection. Each wired or Wireless system will connect to the router. The router will manage sharing the ISP connection using Address translation (PAT). Each machine will have a private address but will be translated to the ISP IP when trying to get outbound.

Sounds like he is trying to use the windows based Debian loader. I've never used it but it creates an image of a clean install on the HD somehow. He must be having issues with that. This was out like 6 years ago... is it still even supported?

IF you have no CD and no USB, you are really in bad shape. If all you want is to have a look at linux, then load Virtual Box in Windows. Create a Virtual Ubuntu installation and learn with that. I use a Virtual Box Mint install on my machine alot and it works just fine.

Caper is right. Does the PC have an HDMI out? Optical audio? DVI/VGA?

What you are describing is some kind of software based RAID since I've never heard of any hardware based solution supporting a setup like that.

I would clone my existing setup to the newer drive with faster RPM. Once that is tested, you can but the slower drive to use as the 2nd data disk. I would forget about the RAID and just stick with a good backup schedule.

I use to game alot, and even though raid0 is sweet, having a single disk never bothered me as it really doesn't come into play when trying to get the most FPS.

Raid 0 is taking 2 drives and making 1 logical volume across the 2 drives.

This gets you more spindles for reading/writing but also doubles your change for a failure since if you lose even 1 disk, the entire volume is dead. This setup is good for gaming rigs that have no valuable data or for a system that is backed up religiously.

You can also do Raid 1. This is a disk mirror that 'mirrors' data from 1 disk to the 2nd. This will slow down writes but speed up reads. IT also will protect you in the event 1 disk fails.

In either scenario, the speed of the 2nd disk won't prevent you from setting this up.

As an addition, a dynamic IP may survive modem resets depending on the ISP. BEst to check with your ISP if you don't know what you have.

Sounds like a problem with offline files in XP. MS attempted to make using files easier 'on the go'. It just really made this more complex than it needed to be.

Have a look here:
http://offlinefiles.blogspot.com/

I would make sure this is disabled on the XP machine and then work from there making sure the connection to the shared drives are good and available, etc...

Do this.

At the top of your php script, add the line
"#!/usr/bin/php"

That will set the environment up so the script 'knows' what it is.

Then in cron, just issue the script.
1 * * * * /var/www/cronjob.php

Make sure the .php is set with execute permissions (as DoRight said above):
chmod +x /var/www/cronjob.php

and you should be good.

Remember that the power supply can pride up to that amount of power. Usually, units require less than the maximum, so lets assume the max for this exercise.

AmpsVolts = Watts so 194.74 = 90.06 Watts.
So up to 90.06 Watts per hour * 24 hours = 2161.44 Watt hours each day.

Hmm... so all those times I ran MAster and slave on same channel instead of Master on separate channel I was actually hurting my speed.... Interesting. Still better than MFM.

IF a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) happens once, then you reboot and keep working and not see it again. Just shrug it off.

If you get a repeated BSOD, then look at the 0x0...... error code. Lookup the error code on google as this can help with troubleshooting.

Any new applications/services installed?
Have you run a full malware/virus sweep on your system?
Have you Run a memtest?
If you suspect memory, try removing half of the mem and running to see if BSOD appears. Now try to the other half. this is a method to ID flakey chips, but a Memtest is better.

IT will involve Downloading a recovery tool and burning it to a CD or loading it to a bootable USB. Like JorgeM said, plenty of them out there.

I think Master/slave was just a label to differentiate HD1 on IDE1 and HD2 on the same IDE1. I don't think there was any functional difference between the 2 settings IIRC.

Depends what you want to do with it. Want to run a headless server with DNS/DHCP and some web services? No problem.

For a desktop GUI, try Mint 13 Cinnamon. Forums state people have it running on low end hardware, albeit some apps are slow, most runs okay.

BEst thing to do is just to try it out. If it's a blank HD, DL the ISO, burn to a USB, install it and try it.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. If you need to recover the key from a current installation, use one of these:
http://www.windowssquad.com/four-best-free-tools-to-recover-windows-7-product-key-activation-key/31/

Otherwise, you need to buy a retail key or for an OEM install, you can reinstall from the original media supplied with your unit that reads the OEM key from the machine.

Lets start with:
1) what system do you have? Windows? Mac?
2) BAsed on the system, you need to give us the current config. IPCONFIG /ALL for windows, ifconfig for MAC.
3) can you ping your own ip?
4) can youping the gateway?
5) can you ping beyond the gateway to 4.2.2.2?
6) can you ping using FQDN like ping www.yahoo.com?

Do you mean join the Domain as in 'having a win client become a trusted domain member'? If yes, then follow JorgeM's instructions on getting subnets working first. Windows clients can join Win Domains regardless of subnets just as long as they 2 devices have ip connectivity. I've joined domains over VPNs and it works just fine.

Can that host trace to any of the canonical? You might have a bad gateway on this server. YOu read the package info from cache but can't hit the repos when you really want to install.

Sometimes, recreating a classic is a good move. We have several devs working here that used a game they developed on the playstore as part of their resume. Usually, it's a game most are familiar with like checkers, card games, othello, something like that.

There is no way you will receive mail on your consumer account's IP. Even if you got it to work somehow, most email admins and blacklist maintainers will block the consumer ip range from the popular providers anyway.

You need a smarthost like JorgeM said that you can use with your send connector to send/receive the email. Perhaps Postini service might help you out here.

The Bios Error may refer to the VT engine not being enabled. Look for VT in the Bios for that one.

VMware ESXi on hardware that isn't on the HCL is a hit or miss. I've never run VM on anything that wasn't on HCL. You should probably contact VMware support to triple check.

If VMware won't work for you, have a look at ProxMox instead. That will run on almost anything, and has alot of the features from VMware even if it lacks the polish.

Cron is the utility that schedules and runs tasks in almost all Linux distros.

crontab -l will list out current items.
crontab -e lets you edit your cron jobs.

There's really not much to improve. Cron is rock solid. Maybe a GUI for the interface would be a good project.

auto-apt get installed into /usr/lib/auto-apt You should see it there.

I can install this on Mint 13 with no issues.

Do you not have this file?

It depends on the situation. But some good alternatives to lookat:
SFTP
FTPS
SCP

vsphere is not the virtualization engine. Esxi is. Vsphere is the management tool to manage multiple esxi hosts and bring together the features like vmotion. vSphere has a hardware compatibility list that you should reference to make sure everything you use is on the list. http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php

exsi can be used for free, but vsphere can't. Is price an issue? Vmware is a great product, but very expensive.

For alternatives, look at Openstack or KVM. I have Vmware, Xen, Proxmox, and KVM openstack. All are great tools

I use mint daily for both graphical applications and CLI terminal access to my hosts.

I don't need a program to force me to look away from my screens every 15 minutes. The end users interrupt me enough anyway.