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JOBOP: Network Security Administrator - Kansas City Area
by Russ Starr 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

I am passing along this position which needs to be filled quickly. Please send resumes and direct any questions to HumanResources(a)cmcmortgage.com. Thanks, -Russ ------------------------PASTE------------------------ Job Title: Network Security Administrator Description: Seeking a responsible individual in the Kansas City area that is looking for a position supporting users on computer and network related issues. The individual must be able to work with minimal supervision have a mature attitude. Additionally, the following skills are required: - Maintain a Cisco Router based Wide Area Network including configuration of routers, security and maintenance. - Maintain Firewalls (appliance based) including rules, VPN connections and maintenance. - Administer and maintain Multi-factor Authentication System for remote users - Manage Site-to-Site VPN connections as necessary - Maintain Web Filter system - Maintain Network/System monitoring system. - Work with other members of IT team for ensuring Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity efforts are successful by utilizing network and security skills. - Should have CCNA at a minimum and capable of setting up and maintaining routing protocols. - Must have experience with UNIX based systems as well as Windows Based Systems - Must be versed in EIGRP, NHRP, IPsec, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and Active Directory. - Must be willing to travel (less than 5% of the time) - Must have 2 to 3 years of verifiable experience in the above areas. Enjoy a relaxed working environment with a great group of individuals who enjoy solving problems for a multi-site bank and mortgage corporation. Corinthian Mortgage offers a full package of benefits including medical, dental, life insurance, 401k, vacation, and more.

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USB flash recovery tools?
by Jon Pruente 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

I've got a 512MB USB flash keychain. Tonight I tried to use it and it didn't work. Ack! So, after some cleaning of contacts and messing around I got it to be recognized on my Mac mini, but with no filesystem. I dd'd the contents to a .iso file so I'd at least have some sort of backup. As it stands, the backup file is smaller than it should be (480MB?) so I'm not too confident in it. Anyway, can anyoe suggest a recovery tool for the drive itself, or to process a block dump? Either Mac OS or Linux tools would be good. I'm fairly sure it was in FAT32. So far Googling tends to bring up demos and trial ware.

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Linux PVR as possible self-control of content for families?
by Oren Beck 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

This morning I saw how commonplace Porno Video of frankly crude conduct has become. The "movie channel" had at 730 am- prime time for kids getting ready for school- a pornfest. Folks- usually we see stuff of this sort on the camslut torrents not on any "non pay" media. Suffice to say it was *NOT* ok for singledigit age kids to be watching. But they COULD if someone were not both aware of the issue- and empowered to control; it! So my porno surprise hatched a question. And let me preface this by admitting that I have never used Tivo or ANY of the PVR type systems personally. So I plead ignorance of their capabilities or limitations. Thus- Can the Linux projects for PVR media centers be used to create a personal content firewall? It's at first an almost oxymoronic application question. Then again- the issues are as usual, in the details. My initial core concept is starkly simple yet nontrivial to make simply easy. I want to have some method of recording kid safe content and -an ability to audit anything questionable if ratings or other rulesets make that indicated. So the only content that the kids see is as censored as practical.. My stepdaughter has 4 kids under 10 years old. So she's become the target customer for my application question. She does NOT have time to either hand censor all the kids'content in real time, nor the computer skills we do to even semi automate the task. Can we offer any help? Let me close with my overwhelming reasoning for posting this. The only person having final veto over what their children watch is their parent in control. And we can create an instrumentality of that control.

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Crosspost: MySQL Special Speaking Event ...
by Dave Hull 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Pardon the crosspost, I know it's bad netiquette, but it's efficient. Scolding goes to /dev/null. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeannette Browning [mailto:jbrowning@mysql.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:14 AM Subject: MySQL Special Speaking Event ... <http://na1.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.ImageServer?oid=00D300000000L xW&id=015300000000Oyr> Maximum Velocity MySQL Tuesday, March 20th ~ 1:30 - 4:30pm University of Kansas, Lawrence KS Union-Jayhawk Room Thank you for your commitment to MySQL! Let's face it, no matter how good we are as developers and DBAs, all applications have their breaking points and as a result can cause serious performance and execution issues. Wouldn't it be great if MySQL shared some of our secrets on how to properly diagnose the schema and streamline application code? That is exactly why I have asked Jay Pipes, MySQL Community Relations Manager, North America, to do a special presentation at no charge for you! In this talk, you can learn: * How to diagnose MySQL database performance bottlenecks using a variety of tools. * How to identify and FIX problem SQL code. * Best practices for writing streamlined, efficient SQL code that takes advantage of MySQL's strengths. * About advanced index concepts. * How to build an effective indexing strategy. * How to choose appropriate storage engines for different types of data. * How to adjust MySQL server parameters to squeeze the most performance out of your application. * How to plan for growth, in your code and in your index strategy. * How you can receive automatic preemptive advice & code for improving performance! This free session is for the MySQL Community at large, so please feel free to invite your co-workers, managers, and friends! Anyone, or any company, who attends this session is eligible for a 10% discount on 2+ servers of MySQL Enterprise Gold, or 15% for 2+ servers of Platinum! Regards, Jeannette Browning Sales Executive | MySQL, Inc. 817.491.6042 (p) | 817-288-0736 (f) jbrowning(a)mysql.com <mailto:jbrowning@mysql.com> | Skype: JBinTX | www.mysql.com <http://www.mysql.com/> "The future of the database market will be the standardization on MySQL." - Meta Group Contact me for discounted passes to the MySQL Conference & Expo 2007! ~ http://www.mysqlconf.com/ <http://www.mysqlconf.com/> About the speaker: Jay Pipes is the North American Community Relations Manager at MySQL. Co-author of Pro MySQL (Apress, 2005), Jay has also written articles for Linux Magazine and regularly assists software developers in identifying how to make the most effective use of MySQL. He has given sessions on performance tuning at the MySQL Users Conference, RedHat Summit, NY PHP Conference, OSCON, and Ohio LinuxFest, among others. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Julie, and his four animals. In his abundant free time, when not being pestered by his two needy cats and two noisy dogs, he daydreams in PHP code and ponders the ramifications of __clone(). <http://na1.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.ImageServer> <http://na1.salesforce.com/servlet/servlet.ImageServer?oid=00D300000000L xW&esid=01830000005HPPh>

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Speeding up a machine
by Billy Crook 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I'd like to think I have a decent system. (2.33GHz Core2Duo, 4 Gigs DDR667, 7200RPM SATA drive, nVid Quadro FX2500) I show it to people sometimes when they gripe about the brand new computer they bought that doesn't work because it came preinfected with Vista. For the most part, my system ROCKS! But sometimes, it can just be slow on some things. It takes about two minutes to do a full restart. I've set grub's delay to 1 second, and configured the bios for "fast boot" and skip memory check. Still, I'd like to make it faster. I can run a lean windows 2000 box, and have at work for a long time. On it, I could reboot in less than a minute, and its hardware wasn't half what I have now. I am less skilled with Linux than I am with Windows, but I'd like to change that. I've looked around the web for ways to optimize your Linux system. hdparm was mentioned a lot, but my drive is sata, and my cdrom is set to be recognised as scsi because as IDE, its throughput was too jerky to watch DVDs. When I tried to turn on DMA, hdparm kept throwing a fit about "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device". sdparm doesn't seem to offer the same. For example, I wand to use 32-bit transfer mode with sync, hdparm won't cooperate, and sdparm doesn't know what I'm talking about. My system is fast enough for me. I'm OK with waiting 6 seconds for FireFox to load the first time, 9 for OpenOffice.org Writer, and 2 each subsequent time, but skeptical windows users cling to any excuse to hate it. So far, I've trimmed down what services start at boot, I even have VMWare set not to start automatically, which should shave off a few seconds (No VMs are configured to start on their own, only the service was.) I wish the stuff that starts up on boot could start up asynchronously, or as asynchronously as possible. I'm not holding my breath on that though. Also, my display flickers every now and then. It doesn't appear to affect the applications or the system. It happens with and without beryl and vmware running. I'm using nvidia's latest driver as well. Any ideas?

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Re: OpenOffice
by Jonathan Hutchins 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 02:49:14 pm you wrote: > > Telling someone you don't have a particular problem is the equivalent of > > telling them you don't know anything. Doesn't really contribute much to > > the solution. > It shows that the problem is on your end, and that's where the solution > would need to be as well. No, it shows that I have a combination of settings, software, and circumstances that triggers the problem, and that you know nothing about the problem. See "!works for me" in the #kubuntu irc channel.

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Re: Linux PVR as possible self-control of content for families?
by Michael Brailsford 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Nevertheless, there are those that would prefer to keep their kids from any semblence of porno, whether it gratifies you or not. I know for my kids, who are in the single digits, a lot of primetime stuff is more risque than I care for them to see. -Michael ----- Original Message ---- From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> To: kclug(a)kclug.org Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:08:11 AM Subject: Re: Linux PVR as possible self-control of content for families? Before we all break out the tinfoil hats, I thought it might be a good idea to check the Movie Channel's schedule. I know it wouldn't be the first place I'd look for any gratifying pornography. It appears that what Orin calls a "pornfest" was either "New York Doll", a documentary about the reunion of the glam-rock band New York Dolls (6:20 a.m.), or possibly "Night of the Comet", a zombie flick (7:40). You may safely return your children to their video games. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug(a)kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug

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OpenOffice
by Jonathan Hutchins 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Speaking of unsupported software... I recently added a new Brother laser printer to my network as the default printer. Whether that had anything to do with it or not, suddenly OpenOffice can't open any of it's old documents. It started out by crashing when asked to print, cycling through it's "recovering document", but then it started crashing as soon as the document was opened. Strangely, this behavior happened on two different machines. I joined the #openoffice.org channel on Freenode, hoping for some help in troubleshooting this problem, and followed it for a couple of days. Question after question was asked, and I saw very few answers. An actual dialog appears in the channel this morning, but it certainly seems to be a problem in search of a solution.

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RE: Linux PVR as possible self-control of content for families?
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

>-----Original Message----- >From: Oren Beck >Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 8:22 AM > <snip> >Can the Linux projects for PVR media centers be used to create >a personal content firewall? > <snip> >I want to have some method of recording kid safe content and >-an ability to audit anything questionable if ratings or other >rule sets make that indicated. So the only content that the >kids see is as censored as practical. My stepdaughter has 4 >kids under 10 years old. >So she's become the target customer for my application question. >She does NOT have time to either hand censor all the >kids' content in real time, nor the computer skills we do to >even semi automate the task. Can we offer any help? > >Let me close with my overwhelming reasoning for posting this. > >The only person having final veto over what their children >watch is their parent in control. >And we can create an instrumentality of that control. Most of the newer TVs and cable boxes have parental controls built-in. You can set the parental controls to lock-out individual channels, lock-out anything that is rated TV-14 or TV-MA. You can also combine these with timed lock-out so that the channels are unlocked after a certain time or so nearly all channels are locked-out before Family viewing time starts (time for kids to do homework). I can attest to this system working, BUT beware, it can make it a PITA for you the adult to watch TV. You constantly have to enter the pin code to watch the channel, even if you are just skipping around to find something to watch. One of the easiest things you can do is remove the bad channels from the line-up. Cancel a movie channel subscription of remove it from the remote. That way if the kids are scrolling thru the channels they won't roll thru the baddies, but you can manually enter the channel number. Until MythTV and Freevo get something like Dan's Guardian for TV channels, there are your answers. Or you could just unplug it.

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RE: Speeding up a machine
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

>-----Original Message----- >From: Jason D. Clinton > >On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 16:00 -0600, Billy Crook wrote: >> I've looked around the web for ways to optimize your Linux system. >> hdparm was mentioned a lot, but my drive is sata, and my >cdrom is set >> to be recognized as SCSI because as IDE, its throughput was >too jerky >> to watch DVDs. When I tried to turn on DMA, hdparm kept throwing a >> fit about "HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device". >> sdparm doesn't seem to offer the same. For example, I wand to use >> 32-bit transfer mode with sync, hdparm won't cooperate, and sdparm >> doesn't know what I'm talking about. > >This will happen if the BIOS currently has the device in PIO >mode. See if you can put the device in UDMA mode from within >the BIOS drive view. >You definitely do not want to use SCSI emulation these days. > I thought that Linux completely ignored the BIOS settings and they were just there to get the hardware initialized and spun up. And then once Linux booted that it would assign its own settings to hardware.

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