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Where can I buy individual keyboard keys?

I tried using stickers but they end up looking shitty. I need them for a project I'm working on that isn't computer related. They're just gonna end up used as buttons, but I'd like to use keyboard keys for this.
- bobross419
- Post #3
- Feb 9, 2015
- Forum: Keyboards
Where can I buy individual keyboard keys?

I'm trying to get a handful of lower case keyboard keys, but I can't find any place that sells them individually. I found one site that sells individual keys, but you have to know the make/model. I don't care what they keys go to and I don't know what make/model might have lower case by...
- bobross419
- Thread
- Feb 8, 2015
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Keyboards
Any actual good tutorials out there on how to setup SMTP auth?

If its Postfix you can pretty easily get around the ISP blocking port 25 by enabling submission (port 587) in /etc/postfix/master.cf. You can run this along side the regular port 25 SMTP. This is a pretty common fix and I'm sure you should be able to do this on other MTAs as well.
- bobross419
- Post #2
- Sep 10, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Email server problem - Sending email from remote host.

There are a lot of ISPs that block port 25 traffic these days. Enabling submissions (587) on postfix usually works around this. You should be able to do this on just one server though.
- bobross419
- Post #2
- Sep 2, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Efficient replacement for "find"?

As far as a straight speed search I can't think of anything faster than find. Its pretty lightweight as is. If the files you are scanning are spread across multiple disks you could run find's in parallel on each one assuming you aren't CPU bound. With that said, depending on what you are...
- bobross419
- Post #2
- Aug 31, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
nix Blogs?

Thanks, lxskllr. I try to avoid reddit since its so easy to lose half my day over there, but I'll give it another look. Also happened to find this while skimming lxer today - http://fossforce.com/2013/07/whats-your-favorite-foss-or-linux-blog/
- bobross419
- Post #3
- Jul 31, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
nix Blogs?

Was hoping to get some recommendations on some blogs to add to my RSS. I'm mainly looking for stuff that pertains to the administrative side of the LAMP stack... SysAdmin stuff in general is alright, but there seems to be a definite lack of good nix blogs out there right now. Here is the...
- bobross419
- Thread
- Jul 28, 2013
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Open Source
Best remote control software for Windows / Linux connections

I've had good success with Teamviewer... You can use direct IPs if you're just doing it within your network for better latency. Otherwise... like MrColin said... ssh ;)
- bobross419
- Post #4
- Jul 24, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
How do I go about forcibly unmounting a drive?

You could include checks against fuser and the mount point... fuser -vm /mnt/point To wait until it isn't in use. If a process isn't finished with a mount point that disappears it can cause issues where its still trying to hold onto the resources, so the kernel thinks its still in use...
- bobross419
- Post #3
- Jul 17, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Best SMTP solution

Postfix is a breeze to configure, especially for what you state are your needs. From another thread looks like you already have some experience with it, so unless there is specific functionality that isn't available no real point in switching.
- bobross419
- Post #3
- Jul 16, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Postfix question

Dovecot is a pop3/imap server, so no.
- bobross419
- Post #2
- Jul 13, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Just discovered the awesomeness of X forwarding

Its cool, but the only time I've ever found it to be useful is to take advantage of a GUI config for something that takes a bit of tweaking on multiple files... Like configuring Kerberos authentication.
- bobross419
- Post #4
- Jun 28, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Linux Iptables and forwarding all traffic from one IP to another IP

If Server A has no other reason to connect to Server 1-10, you could just add some entries to the hosts file with those hostname associated with the IP for Server B. I should say, if Server A has no reason to connect to Server 1-10 that doesn't need to go through Server B first.
- bobross419
- Post #2
- Jun 25, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Adding 2nd hdd to CentOS

fdisk /dev/sdb n, p, 1, <enter>, <enter>, w mkfs.ext# /dev/sdb1 cp -a /etc/fstab{,.bak} vim /etc/fstab #insert into fstab /dev/sdb1 /data ext# defaults 1 2 mount -a Drive might not be sdb... ext# can be ext 2,3, or 4... Or another file system if you like...
- bobross419
- Post #2
- Jun 20, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Running expect script to send commands in SSH

You'd want to use the -d in the expect call itself: # expect -d scriptname And it will dump out the debugger info. With that said, have you tried replacing the qsub with something else?
- bobross419
- Post #7
- Jun 17, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
What exactly is the point of networkmanager?

NM generally works pretty well as long as you use NM to configure networks. If you prefer to manually hack on files you're better off disabling/uninstalling it as you've discovered. I haven't had issues using it as long as I only make network changes through NM.
- bobross419
- Post #3
- Jun 17, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Want to get into the inner "core" of Linux, where to start

From a functional point of view, you'd probably benefit more from system tuning than anything else. Do some digging into the sysctl settings and figure out what effects changes to them have. In addition to tuning up the performance, do your best to break the system. During the process you'll...
- bobross419
- Post #9
- Jun 15, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Running expect script to send commands in SSH

You should try running your expect script with the -d flag. This will dump out some debugger info so you can see what steps might be failing.
- bobross419
- Post #4
- Jun 14, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Shared Hosting server - should I have access to root?

If its a chrooted environment it may not be the root of server, just of your environment.
- bobross419
- Post #2
- Jun 6, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Apache Tuning -- ExtendedStatus

While reading through the Apache documentation, I found a mention that disabling ExtendedStatus can speed things up by preventing gettimeofday() calls. I deal with a lot of servers that see a lot of traffic and wanted to find out what kind of gains it would give me. Strangely, I actually found...
- bobross419
- Thread
- May 25, 2013
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Open Source
The little things - why Linux still isn't ready for prime-time.

Did you submit a bug report?
- bobross419
- Post #2
- May 22, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
What's a good video card for Linux?

Can't help with the video card, but if you're jonesing for some gaming look into ascii based games like Dwarf Fortress or rogue-likes... Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is pretty fun. Most of these games have tilesets available so you aren't staring at squiggles, but low graphics needed. Don't want...
- bobross419
- Post #13
- May 18, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Probably a stupid question but...

"file1 file2..." isn't an option... It was an example of manually entering each file and subfolder at the command line. Given a directory structure: topDir subDir1 file1 subDir2 file 2 subSubDir1 file3 I know that looks like crap. Just running `ls` with no flags...
- bobross419
- Post #4
- May 13, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Probably a stupid question but...

From `man ls` `ls *` is the equivalent of `ls file1 file2 subdir1 subdir2 subdir3 `.
- bobross419
- Post #2
- May 13, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Email server anomaly

Are you sure it isn't an alias issue? This is from a base install of the exim package on CentOS 6.3... ~]# grep /etc/aliases /etc/exim/exim.conf # build-time configuration. The default path is the traditional /etc/aliases. data = ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/aliases}} ~]# grep webmaster...
- bobross419
- Post #8
- May 13, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Linux Admin IRC Channels?

Any recommendations on a good IRC channel to hang out in that is devoted to Linux system admins? Preferably something with a lot of good knowledge and limited bullshit/posturing. Thanks, Bob
- bobross419
- Thread
- May 13, 2013
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Open Source
Email server anomaly

Like Demo24 mentioned... It sounds like aliases might be what you want, but I've got more experience with Postfix too.
- bobross419
- Post #6
- May 12, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
How do you deal with lack of inheritance in the Linux FS?

Since Apache doesn't really need write permissions on most things, setting up a umask so that the other permissions are set to 4 (files) and 5 (folders) should be sufficient. With that said, proper group ownership of the folders in the webroot and group sticky should solve most of your...
- bobross419
- Post #5
- May 2, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
What are some essential linux cmds an admin show know? I have a interview soon

Knowing what a command does (tar creates archives) and where to find info (man tar) is going to be more important for "light linux work". There is no point in investing the time into learning the nuances of a command based on an assumption of what systems you will be dealing with. For minor...
- bobross419
- Post #17
- Apr 25, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Looking for a creative Linux Distro

I was going to recommend Fuduntu. Its still pretty young, so the best thing to do for help like that would be to hit up their forum or IRC. Depending on time of day, IRC response might take a while, but most of the Fuduntu team hangs out in there.
- bobross419
- Post #4
- Apr 5, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Why is /var/log/secure empty?

Check /etc/rsyslog.conf instead... If it isn't present you can just install the rsyslog package. Whatever info you found about syslog.conf should also apply to rsyslog.conf Also, check `/etc/init.d/rsyslog status` and make sure its running.
- bobross419
- Post #2
- Apr 1, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Cloud - quick explanation pleasr

While I agree that its very often just used as a buzzword, the reality of the cloud is actually quite exciting. NIST's definition does pretty well in summing up what should actually be considered to be cloud -- http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf The definition...
- bobross419
- Post #19
- Mar 31, 2013
- Forum: Programming
Cloud - quick explanation pleasr

Cloud also offers the ability to quickly scale your environment. If you normally get 2-3000 hits per day and you find out you're going to be on the Today Show tomorrow, how is your little server going to handle all the traffic sent its way? In a well configured cloud environment you can just...
- bobross419
- Post #17
- Mar 31, 2013
- Forum: Programming
ZFS On Linux Is Now Set For "Wide Scale Deployment"

I'm wondering how ZFS benchmarks against others on Linux and how ZFS on Linux compares to ZFS on Solaris. I'm hoping Phoronix includes the latter in their upcoming tests. Even with a minor speed hit, I think the addition of ZFS is great.
- bobross419
- Post #3
- Mar 30, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
Some distros dropping Mysql for MariaDB

There are ways around package naming issues. Compiling from source and throwing soft links at it usually work pretty well. Realistically though, a migration shouldn't be a major issue. If you are doing things right and testing in a dev environment before moving into prod, you'll find most...
- bobross419
- Post #7
- Mar 28, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
RSS Server Software?

Some alternatives to tiny tiny rss, for anyone interested. Source: http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2013/03/15/google-reader-alternatives/ http://cazalet.org/zebrafeeds/ http://selfoss.aditu.de/
- bobross419
- Post #11
- Mar 24, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
RSS Server Software?

Thats the one. I can't figure out how to add feeds on it, but its not that big a deal to me since I rarely add new ones.
- bobross419
- Post #10
- Mar 23, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
RSS Server Software?

So far I'm enjoying tiny tiny rss. No real issues and the transition from Google Reader was pretty smooth. I found a free ttrss app for android that works well too.
- bobross419
- Post #7
- Mar 23, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
RSS Server Software?

Doesn't look too bad. Quite a bit of configuration options available to get it looking the way I want. I'm a bit disappointed with the lack of documentation available. I'm having a hell of a time getting authentication to work... almost to the point where I'm ready to just institute a...
- bobross419
- Post #6
- Mar 18, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
RSS Server Software?

Someone at work recommended tiny tiny rss - http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki Going through the installation right now. Looks like it might be just what I'm looking for. I'll give an update once I've got in configured.
- bobross419
- Post #5
- Mar 18, 2013
- Forum: Open Source

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