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by: John F

Fri, 05 May 2006 18:46:42 +0000

Me too! I’m with the Blue Boys….. anything and everything they can do to stop these scum, more especially that big russian scumbag, is definitely OK with me - as they’re ‘off air’ presently I’m saving all my juicy spams for later. Up boys, return fire!

by: Win

Thu, 04 May 2006 16:13:28 +0000

I am with you!! I was so happy when I got the threat from the spammers. I knew I was making a difference. I wrote the BlueSecurity group and encouraged them to take the gloves off. I even looked up a few of these scumbags in the whois databases and reported them directly myself. It is about time the ISP’s shut these spammers down. And as far as taking people off the list that don’t want to be off the list I think is BS. If anyone wants the Viagra/enlargement or low interest rates and priated software they will know how to use Google to find this stuff on their own. Keep up the good work Blue Security!!!

by: Claude

Tue, 02 May 2006 12:53:42 +0000

Blue Security is the best tool available for fighting SPAM. The proof is in the pudding. On May 1st, a few spammers began fighting back by sending emails to all of their standard addressees claiming that they cracked the Blue Security code and that the are increasing the amount of spam to everyone on the Blue Security opt-out list. Then, they follow it up with 20 or 30 additional spam emails. It’s a desperate attempt to have people remove themselves from the Blue Security list.

In reality, they have not cracked the code. They are sending the email to everyone on THEIR list. There will probably be a few who buckle under and remove themselves from Blue Security’s opt-out list but I think most will understand the importance of standing up to these scumbags.

In effect the spammers are saying that if you don’t allow us to send you spam - we’ll send you even more spam. It’s like saying, if I’m not allowed to enter your home and rape your wife any time I want - I’ll rape your entire family. Who would put up with such a threat? As for me - I’ll fight em’ to the death.

They can’t keep up their fight very long. It costs these losers money to send tens of thousands of emails. Stick together people! Don’t be intimidated by these pathetic criminals. Hurray for Blue Security! The spammers attempt to fight back is proof that it’s working!

by: admin

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:08:16 +0000

No, this unit does not have an IR port. But I personally like the RF remotes better. And this is exactly what I have. Using xbindkeys to manage the buttons insread of LIRC… I like it better that way.

by: Bish

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:42:19 +0000

I’m not 100% sure: does that unit include an infra-red port? I don’t think I see it on the unit, and I was most disappointed to find that my travla 137 case’s ‘planned’ IR add-on was discontinued.

Or are you simply hanging/gluing a dongle nearby when you wrestle with LIRC?

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Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:54:04 +0000

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Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:12:29 +0000

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by: admin

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:30:07 +0000

Psypher,

You are almost right. The only difference is that I don’t actualy spawn the application from the terminal server. I share all the NFS from the terminal server - and when a client mounts the NFS - it can start an application right off of it.

Try this if you have an LTSP setup - on the client just do Ctrl-Alt-F1 - and you will get a vterm where you can login locally. So if that image has freevo/mplayer on it - you can start it without using your terminal server resources.

James, Bill, - thanks for the links… Most of what I do on my system can be done with those as well.

by: Bill

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:56:01 +0000

DRBL(http://drbl.sf.net) may be another choice for diskless workstation.

by: James Musil

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:37:51 +0000

Good information. Another way to get ltsp working is to install from k12ltsp.org. The project provides terminal servers for educational situations. I have used this technology successfully. A dual xenon 3.0 server will power at least 12 workstations.

by: Psypher

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:25:37 +0000

This is so cool. Let me just get this straight. Youi have a LTSP Server that loads a TFTP image on a PXE bootable client, this client then map local devices and apps through to the server. So this allows the client to watch tv(with all the recording features of myth/freevo, ie pause, record, rewind), listen to music from an NFS mount using the LOCAL audio player to play the music as it would be too slow through LTPS, watch divx movies from the NFS mount using local app and watch DVD’s using the local app. Have I got that right? Does that mean that even though freevo/myth is running on the ltps server when you launch the music/dvd/movie apps it actually loads the apps locally from the client and plays it no problem. If thats right it almost sound too good to be true. Does that mean that less resources are being used on the client compared to loading myth/freevo completely on the client as some application are not running on the client and only the ones that need to run from client. small example:

server: ubuntu, ltps, freevo/myth, dhcp, tftp, tv cards.
client: pxe booted image, ltsp client, audio apps, video apps, dvd player

let me know if i have lots the plot ;)

by: admin

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:08:15 +0000

Gracias, amigo. Una ventaja del mac excesivo de AOpen MiniPC mini es cerca de $150 de ahorros - y la diversión del edificio él usted mismo.

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Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:02:27 +0000

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by: Steven Roberto

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:58:04 +0000

Would we be able to download this any time soon?

It’s really sweet! Awesome

by: admin

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:47:37 +0000

Well… I have thought about it. The issue is the image I have is hacked to bits. This post seems long, but the actual time and the number of commands that it took to figure out how to do this - is far more.

So, what I should do is create this image from scratch again following my own instructions (D’oh) and post that image.

I will try to do this in the near future… but I am afraid I’ll be stuck supporting it too. Then it will need a configuration wizard, etc… We’ll see… ;-)

by: Martijn

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:17:36 +0000

Any chance of having this image available for download ? This would be a great jumpstart into the LTSP adventure. (Torrent perhaps ?)

by: admin

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:38:38 +0000

Thanks! I digg your blog too.. added you to my list.

Once you try to get this going - hit me up - I plan on making the guide more complete.

-Alex

by: hardwyrd

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 05:54:28 +0000

nice post! hope to put this to work sometime soon. :)

Will link your blog up to mine :)

by: admin

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 05:08:01 +0000

Thanks for the comment.

rsync is grand - but tar is more widely available. A lot of machines don’t have rsync by default.

But rsync does continue uploading if interrupted - so it’s got that going for it. Personally, I use unison for my more-complicated syncing needs.

by: shavenwarthog

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:41:36 +0000

another version:

tar cf - . | ssh user@host tar -C /where xf -

even better:

rsync -avP ./ user@host:/where/

If your connection dies in the middle, just re-run the command and you’re good.

by: admin

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:57:35 +0000

Jonathan,

Thanks for your comment. You are absolutelly right. At first when I wanted to set this up - people told me it wouldn’t work - and they would be right if I wanted to run a video player off of the terminal server. But the trick is using the local resources as much as you can (if you can). LTSP has a whole article on “Local Applications” - it is useful in any TS env. so you can run a local version of Firefox, xmms, etc…

-Alex

by: Jonathan

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 01:47:39 +0000

As long as the terminal server is not doing any heavy number crunching you will be fine (i.e. I wouldn’t do a whole lot of graphics stuff over the network). Having worked with the LTSP before at college, it can become bogged down quickly when users are on thin clients and do not have access to local resources. If you are planning on running LTSP as a true terminal server for several thin clients, then be prepared to have a lot of computing power in that box (dual procs, lots of ram, etc.). If you are using it for one more PC though any decent computer would be good for the server. I love the LTSP and this is a really cool use for it, too bad I didn’t have the chance to try this out at school though, it would have been really cool.

by: admin

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:21:41 +0000

So far I tried 4… but I imagine many more shouldn’t be a problem… The deal is - with my setup I rely on the local resources rather than just the terminal server… The terminal server only really serves nfs for the root fs.

by: Matthew Smith

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:46:55 +0000

really really sweet! something ive thought about but not realised as you have done.

how many clients can the main computer support at one time?