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Business Basic BBx Data Extraction
by Michael Sierks 20 Jun '12

20 Jun '12

Hello All, I have an issue with some software that is well before my time and was hoping someone from the muug group would be of assistance. I have been tasked with extracting data from the following program. Assyst Practice Managment (GENIE) Software V8.8.6 an Emergis Inc. Product(STX.EME) This program itself is running on an old AIX 5.1 server and has been written in BBx Pro5, a language I didn't even know existed. This language appears to be an extension of Basic and is know as Business Basic. Written by this company. http://www.basis.com/. Now the trouble is this program has no built in way of dumping/extracting the data. It isn't using Pro/5's built in data storage engine so I cannot simply use ODBC to pull the data out. We have been informed it is storing all its data in a flat file. And the best way to retrieve the data is by reading backups from the tape drive, which we have done so. The data files retrieved mostly end in the ".REC" and ".SUB" file extensions and appear to contain some patient info. But the largest file that seems to contain most data begins with the text "<<bbx>>" and is definetely not stored as flatfile. Does anyone have experience with this BBx language or does anybody have any ideas for extracting the data ? I ask because the company that has written this practice management software has no interest in assisting with exporting the data. Any suggestions are appreciated.

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More announcements by CIRA
by Dan Keizer 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

Continuing on with CIRA's strategic investments, like Bill had mentioned at the prior meeting ... this one was good to see: http://www.opendnssec.org/ Dan.

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Need help with Solaris printing
by Kevin McGregor 11 Jun '12

11 Jun '12

I just upgraded a Solaris 10 server from Update 4 to Update 9, and the main (network) printer it uses stopped working. In /etc/printers.conf, the printer shows up as cowsvpprmom:\ :bsdaddr=192.168.59.113,GENERAL_ENTRY,Solaris: but lpstat -a says cowsvpprmom not accepting requests since Mon Jun 11 11:07:44 2012 unknown reason I checked the destination, and I can telnet to port 515 (lpd), so there's no firewall change. The Solaris print service on this client is running. The trouble is I barely know the first thing about Solaris printing! Can anyone tell me what logs at least I show look in?

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Ubuntu sleep?
by Kevin McGregor 09 Jun '12

09 Jun '12

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop PC, and I've found that I only have the option to hibernate or power off, and not sleep! Is this normal? A motherboard/BIOS issue? Google doesn't show up anything useful. And I have 12 GB of RAM so hibernating is slow, and after hibernating it doesn't come back anyway. :-P Kevin

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What is WebOps? Get the New FREE Radar Report by Mike Loukides
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 08 Jun '12

08 Jun '12

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MUUG Meeting, June 12, 7:30pm -- Ubuntu Mirroring
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 12. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Ubuntu Mirroring Do you have multiple Ubuntu servers in your datacenter which all need regular updates? Are you doing a lot of testing and "playing around" at home or in a lab? Are you tired of waiting for slow Ubuntu archive servers? Why not maintain your own private archive? Kevin McGregor will illustrate two methods of reducing the download wait for, and bandwidth requirements of, regular Ubuntu updates. June's RTFM will feature the ifconfig(8) command, presented by Rob Keizer. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members may be required to show photo ID at the security desk. Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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by Gilbert E. Detillieux 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

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USB Ethernet
by Brock Wolfe 20 May '12

20 May '12

I need to connect a remote PC ( no local network jack in room) to a wireless access point and was looking at USB network dongles. Any experiences/recommendations on using these devices. I've looked and some have external antennas which might help get a little extra range / signal strength that would be big plus. Brock

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Ubuntu Mirror WTF
by Robert Keizer 20 May '12

20 May '12

So I noticed that the default ca.archive.ubuntu.com mirrors were kind of slow.. so I did a quick little traceroute.. Anyone else notice a problem? I'm figuring that it is most likely also because of the time ( see last command ). -bash-4.1# traceroute 91.189.92.154 traceroute to 91.189.92.154 (91.189.92.154), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 * * * 2 rc1nr-tge0-8-2-0-11.wp.shawcable.net (64.59.176.131) 12.396 ms 18.5 ms 11.419 ms 3 rc2ec-tge0-8-1-0.il.shawcable.net (66.163.77.129) 32.12 ms 31.157 ms 32.776 ms 4 xe-11-1-3.edge4.Chicago3.Level3.net (4.53.98.85) 29.527 ms 29.926 ms 34.68 ms 5 vlan51.ebr1.Chicago2.Level3.net (4.69.138.158) 30.685 ms 29.405 ms 27.352 ms 6 ae-6-6.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.69.140.189) 29.658 ms 30.352 ms 39.874 ms 7 ae-2-2.ebr2.NewYork2.Level3.net (4.69.132.66) 49.903 ms 59.498 ms 54.857 ms 8 ae-1-100.ebr1.NewYork2.Level3.net (4.69.135.253) 51.586 ms 57.691 ms 56.904 ms 9 ae-4-4.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.141.17) 56.484 ms 48.880 ms 51.475 ms 10 ae-42-42.ebr2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.137.69) 120.615 ms 116.879 ms ae-43- 43.ebr2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.137.73) 118.230 ms 11 ae-59-224.csw2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.153.142) 121.583 ms ae-58-223.csw2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.153.138) 122.215 ms ae-57-222.csw2.London1.Level3.net (4.69.153.134) 121.284 ms 12 * ae-2-52.edge4.London1.Level3.net (4.69.139.106) 117.938 ms 117.407 ms 13 MNET-INTERN.edge4.London1.Level3.net (212.113.14.198) 119.474 ms 121.152 ms 131.208 ms 14 haetae.canonical.com (91.189.92.154) 613.140 ms 529.832 ms 412.800 ms -bash-4.1# dig A ca.archive.ubuntu.com | grep 91.189.92.154 ca.archive.ubuntu.com. 471 IN A 91.189.92.154 -bash-4.1# date Sun May 20 11:31:50 CDT 2012 -bash-4.1#

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weird md raid situation
by Trevor Cordes 14 May '12

14 May '12

I love linux software ("md") raid. I use md raid1 on a zillion systems. I never has issues. Until today... I get a call that a customer has lost all their emails for about a month and their apps' data appears to be old and/or missing. Strange. I login to the linux server and see: cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md122 : active raid1 sda1[0] 409536 blocks [2/1] [U_] md123 : active raid1 sda2[0] 5242816 blocks [2/1] [U_] md124 : active raid1 sda3[0] 1939865536 blocks [2/1] [U_] md125 : active raid1 sdb1[1] 409536 blocks [2/1] [_U] md126 : active raid1 sdb2[1] 5242816 blocks [2/1] [_U] md127 : active raid1 sdb3[1] 1939865536 blocks [2/1] [_U] That's not correct. These systems should have 3 partitions, not 6. Ah, md has done some really goofball things with this pathological case. It's separated the raid into duplicates and assembled each separately! Woah! They said they had a accidental reboot today (kid hitting reset button). And it booted/rooted off the wrong schizo set (sda). There appears to have been a drive failure/kick a month ago: Apr 4 10:10:32 firewall kernel: [1443781.218260] md/raid1:md127: Disk failure on sda3, disabling device. Apr 4 10:10:32 firewall kernel: [1443781.218262] <1>md/raid1:md127: Operation continuing on 1 devices. And it hadn't rebooted since then, before today. It gets stranger... I rebooted the system trying to test a few recovery ideas (offsite) out. On the next reboot it came up using the good/current sdb drive for boot/root! Huh? It's like it's picking which one to use at random! It still shows 6 md arrays, but it's using the properly 3 this time. So is all this a bug? 1. Shouldn't the system have marked the sda as failed/bad PERMANENTLY so on next reboot it would ignore it. OK, I can understand that if it thought the whole drive was bad, it wouldn't be able to write to the sda superblock to survive the reboot. But couldn't it have written the info to sdb's superblock? If a system can't remember what has failed, then I don't see how this behaviour can be avoided. 2. Why did linux md bring up both sets of arrays? It can see they are the same array. Why on earth would it ever split them? That seems majorly screwy to me. Still, thank God it didn't try to start syncing the stale set to the good set! We had backups, but it's a pain to recover. In the end, just rebooting until luck gives us the current set was all it took. I'll head on-site to replace the bad disk and do a proper resync. I have had hardware RAID systems (ARAID99) in this exact situation go into a schizo state where the disks were unsynched yet both were being used for writes! The problems always seem to revolve around a disk going "soft" bad and then coming alive after reboot.

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