CFEngine training materials (Was Re: checking for interest for a free intro class "Introduction to Automating Linux System Administration using CFEngine 3")

Dear Leam,

 Certainly - all my materials are at
http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/cfengine/   -  I'd recommend starting
with the "Getting Started with CFEngine 3".

Very best,
Aleksey

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Leam Hall <leamhall@...> wrote:
> Morning Aleksey!
>
> I'd like to but I'm a few hours away from Atlanta. One of the rural
> bumpkins, as it were. If you have a slide deck or write up I'd certainly
> go over it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Leam
>
>
> On 02/09/2012 02:11 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
>> Hi.  I'm just checking for interest for a free intro class
>> "Introduction to Automating Linux System Administration using CFEngine
>> 3".
>>
>> It would look something like my session at
>> https://share.confex.com/share/118/webprogram/Session10177.html
>>
>> It can be 1 - 2 hours in length, and can be delivered Sat 10 March -

raid suggestions

I've not played with raid stuff of late.  What is the recommended 
configuration for a small business these days?  Definitely want data 
protection, but don't want to sacrifice a lot of speed for that purpose.

Thoughts?

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checking for interest for a free intro class "Introduction to Automating Linux System Administration using CFEngine 3"

Hi.  I'm just checking for interest for a free intro class
"Introduction to Automating Linux System Administration using CFEngine
3".

It would look something like my session at
https://share.confex.com/share/118/webprogram/Session10177.html

It can be 1 - 2 hours in length, and can be delivered Sat 10 March -
Mon 12 March.

Please let me know if you're interested.   Please feel free to forward
this email.

Best,
Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Los Angeles, CA
(visiting in Atlanta that weekend)
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Have some Ortronics 2 post telco racks

Ale'res,

I have 2, 2 post Ortronics telco racks with the 6.5" cable channel.  I'd like to get $100/ea for them.  Also I
have some shelves, patch panels, cable management inserts and a couple of APC upses.  Contact me off list if
you're interested or want pics.

Thanks!

-Scott
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OT: Androd note taking

I'd like to replace a paper notebook with my wife's Vizio tablet :P

I'm combing eBay looking for a capacitive stylus.  

I use my paper notebook to jot down designs, schematics, notes, etc.  Is
there a good app that does this?  Does it sync and possibly allow web
access from my Ubuntu desktop?  I have Evernote, but I've not tried to
use it outside of just typing quick notes.  

Be nice if I could convert notes to PDF.

I'm looking for ways that I can use her tablet productively.  If I can,
I may buy one of the Novo ICS tablets.  This one is hers.

Chris

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Silly browser strings

Potentially amusing little distraction from the monthly Vi verses Emacs 
thread for those who need one.

Registered a domain name over a year ago (unrelated to Linux.) and had to 
settle for my second choice at the time because my first pick was taken. 
Unavailable, but no actual site so I assumed squatters... Last week I was 
registering a name for something else and thought to check again for my 
first choice from back then. Success! Set up a tiny welcome page and 
started monitoring.

Someone, (or some bot?) apparently had a PHPBB2 message board up for 
awhile because I'm seeing quite a bit of traffic looking for it. Most 
amusing so far were 11 hits, from 11 different IPs, in a three minute 
period and all 11 claiming to be Win 98. 
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Update a; AOL 6.0; Windows 98)"

Wayback machine never indexed the site, so I have no clue what was once 
there. Somehow I do not believe it was an antique computer club, but who 
knows
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Linux install breaking windows?

I installed mint side by side on my nephews computer up in NY about 
three weeks ago. I defaulted the boot to windows to not force the issue. 
I had some minor issues on install where the toolbars wouldn't show up 
in the gnome desktop. Installing other desktops appeared to fix the 
issue for some reason. I left him running KDE.

Windows apparently worked for at least a week after I left. For the past 
week however, Windows blue-screens on boot. It also blue-screens in all 
safe mode options. They do at least get as far as the screen asking 
which safe mode option to choose.

Now, if someone described these symptoms to me on a Windows only box I 
would guess hardware failure. However the mint partition is working and 
my nephew is using that in the meantime. He doesn't seem to mind except 
he can't run some of his games.

Now, the only thing that I really 'did' was that I did use the 
repartition tool to make room for mint linux - something that I haven't 
actually done that often so I don't know how common problems are.

There is also the question that maybe the toolbar issue that I had 
relates to an issue with the video card, as opposed to a video driver 
issue which was my working theory.

So- anyone have any issues with repartitioning a windows drive causing 
windows to bluescreen?

Does it seem plausible that it could be a hardware issue- given that 
Mint seems to run OK?

I can see why RHEL people don't use Emacs...

This is the second package I've installed that needlessly is pulling in
lots of stuff.

Either Gentoo is seriously spoiling me, or It Is Wrong.  

	--- Mike

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[LUG <at> GT] LUG <at> GT Meeting - 2012.02.08 - CMake

This meeting announcement didn't go to the ALE list.  I figured that
some of you guys might be interested in it, so, here's the announcement.
Sorry for the short notice...

----- Forwarded message from Thomas Holmquist
<president@...> -----

Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:47:21 -0500
From: Thomas Holmquist <president@...>
To: lug-announce@...
Subject: [LUG <at> GT] LUG <at> GT Meeting - 2012.02.08 - CMake
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686;
	rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1

The Linux Users Group at Georgia Tech presents:

"CMake: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Automated Build
Systems" by Ryan Curtin

February 8th 2012, 7:00 PM
College of Computing building, room 102
Campus Map: http://gtalumni.org/map/index.php?id=50
Building Map: http://lugatgt.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ccb-102.png

  Maybe you've heard of CMake before.  If you haven't, maybe you've
heard of autotools.  And if you have worked with autotools, well, I am
sure your friends have heard your sighs of sorrow.  If you have worked
with CMake, you probably have your own sighs of sorrow too.  Build
systems, or "makefile generators", as CMake calls itself, are never
pretty.  But it's better than that festering mess you call a Makefile.

cannot open -> /proc/####/mem huh ?

What is the significance of this error which is regularly appearing in 
/var/log/messages along with.....

                 kvm_getenvv

failed ?

This is apparently aroused by gnome's "console-kit-daemon"

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I'm also getting what I assume is a sendmail complaint as follows:

     sm-mta cannot write .q###############: permission denied.

How can I resolve this as well, please ?

Appreciatively,

C.Thomas
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Linux wont boot

(I send this message yesterday, but somehow it was not posted.)

Hello alers,

This is a continuation of the saga from two weeks ago when I had a
dead harddrive. I put in a new one, which got a clean bill of health
from several diagnostics. Even so,  I could not get suse  11.2 or even
XP to boot.  In desperation I went to HL computer on West Park Place
here near Mountain Park. I don't know what they did, but they got XP
in there and booting (they wont deal with Linux they said). According
to them the BIOS was blocked, whatever that means ( I did not speak to
the guy who did the actual work). When asked, they said that they did
not reflash the BIOS.

Starting from there I tried to put suse 11.2 in there. The thing (HP
Pavilion laptop) seems to go through the motions for 45 minutes, then
advertises a reboot and dies! Tried again and now it comes up but does
not recognize my name or password.  Tried a repair session to end up
with an enormous amount of error messages.

Faulty installation media? But I had used these same disks several
times on regular PC's without a problem, and why would my XP
installation disk have the same problem. (Note that the HL guys had
their own XP installation disk).

I am writing this from a regular PC which has suse 11.2 from the same
installation disk!

The  frustrating thing is that the installation seems to go smoothly
up the point where the system goes into reboot for the finishing