Feldman wrote:
Another satellite vendor is Starband. Starband is 2-way. A friend of mine
in Holland, Ma loves it. He can't get a local dialup, no cable, no DSL.
Satellite is affected by the weather. My friend PAMs his antenna in the
winter. Marc Evans also has Starband. Marc initially used
XFree86 version 4.2.0:
- 21,153 files under CVS management.
- 7,786,515 lines of code as counted by a simple wc -l.
- Marc
On Wed, 29 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I'm curious if anyone knows the approximate number of SLOC in popular
Free/Open Source projects
On Tue, 7 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Saved it in Gnumeric XML format
Here are the results:
-rw-r--r-- 1 pll pll 16384 May 7 08:26 sync_wr_performance1.xls.orig
-rw-r- 1 pll pll 15360 May 7 08:26 sync_wr_performance1-nosheets.xls
-rw-r--r-- 1
The let command believes that you are tryin gto use an octal value
(leading zero). However octal values can't contain the 9. One could say it
could try to be smarter, or that it is being too smart. Try this instead:
date +%j -d 04/01/2002 | sed 's/^0*//'
- Marc
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002,
The NH ISP Association (www.nhispa.org) lobbied Sununu extensively to get
his vote. My understanding is that attempts to lobby Bass fell on deaf ears.
In seperate news, the NHISPA won a long time battle at the NH PUC
regarding access to dry copper. Verizon was ordered to provide a retail
dry
On 28 Feb 2002, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
In seperate news, the NHISPA won a long time battle at the NH PUC
regarding access to dry copper. Verizon was ordered to provide a retail
dry copper product, which to the knowledge of everyone I have spoken with,
is the first in the nation. Those
Well, for the engineering types, there is a tool known as sting that can
be used to characterize many interresting aspects of your transit link(s).
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/savage/sting/
This is far from point-and-click and not recommended for people that
aren't comfortable
I have posted to this ist before on the topic, so you may want to look
through the archives.
I have use StarBand (aka Dish) for over a year. Throughput has gotten
progressively worse as subscribership has climbed. Latency is always at
least 600ms.
If you aren't running win32 you should think
This isn't an answer to make things happen quickly, but a well
written complaint to the NH Public Utility Commision by as many people as
possible, that have been explicitely turned down by Verizon as not being
loop qualified, will probably help. There is currently at least two
dockets open in the
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Bayard Coolidge USG wrote:
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Geosynchronous orbit is roughly 22,000 miles straight up.
Your request has to go 22,000 miles into space, turn around
and go 22,000 miles...
Actually, it's more like 22,400 miles straight up
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote:
How far are you from your CO (or DLC/SLIC box)? If you are over 18,000
feet or so, DSL is out-of-the-question, regardless.
True for Verizon ADSL. There are however manufacturers of xDSL equipment
that is working to 26000 feet today, that other
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Marc Evans wrote:
This isn't an answer to make things happen quickly, but a well written
complaint to the NH Public Utility Commision ...
Hah! Through sad, hard personal experience, I know that the NH PUC
doesn't give
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Marc Evans wrote:
Starband has their uplink in Georgia. The results of 60 seconds of 80 byte
ping packets without BST to the nearest pingable router are:
round-trip min/avg/max = 660.2/1054.0/2046.2 ms
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Marc Evans wrote:
How far are you from your CO (or DLC/SLIC box)? If you are over 18,000
feet or so, DSL is out-of-the-question, regardless.
The DLC/SLC issue is a far bigger problem ...
It can also be an advantage
In general I have found that repairing monitors is often more then the
cost of getting a good replacement monitor. For example, I have found CEC
Enterprises, 25 Depot Street, Marrimack, NH, 603 424 8300, to be a really
good place to locate such replacement equipment, AND they will properly
Hi -
Is there anyone that has done policy routing with iproute2 on this list?
If so, I am having problems with the traceroute command, such that packets
originated from from a host that has many interfaces and different
policies for each. Other commands such as ping, apache, and others seem to
Maybe he should contact the FBI:
SECTION III - CYBER INTELLIGENCE
FBI MAGIC LANTERN -- According to media reporting, the FBI recently was
forced to reveal another part of its Cyber-Knight project, an effort by
the Bureau to monitor Internet communications. The new FBI program,
called Magic
Hello -
I need to create a bash script (yes, only bash), that logs everything that
it outputs and all user interaction to a file. On the surface I think that
this should be trivial, and on the first line of the script do this:
[ $LOG = '' ] \
{ export LOG=gralog.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S` ; exec
On 19 Dec 2001, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Marc Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since I also have the constraint that this same script must work on common
Linux platforms, I have to come up with an alternative to the script
command. So I think, maybe this will work:
[ $LOG
Sadly, no central whois registry for the .us zone has ever been created.
There are pieces that have whois servers running, but that doesn't really
help if it isn't broadly supported.
- Marc
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
In a message dated: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:35:48 EST
Marc Evans
I don't have the specific experience that you are asking for, but I
believe that the answer is that you and others that are knowledgable and
capable should volunteer to go to the NHPR station, propose exactly how
you will provide equipment and software to create your solution, and then
once
time ifconfig | awk '(/inet/) {print substr($2,6)}'
172.17.156.23
127.0.0.1
real0m0.006s
user0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
In a message dated: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:03:01 EDT
Benjamin Scott said:
ifconfig $IFACE | perl -ne 'print $1\n if m/inet
Hi Jerry -
Is it the end of the world if I am somewhat late? I have a conflict
meeting in Pelham at 7:00PM that shoul dbe over by 7:10 or 7:15, putting
me in Nashua by 7:30. The alternative for me is to leave Nashua by 8:00PM
to be in Pelham by 8:15.
Please advise your recommendations.
Thanks
I *think* that this may be covered in the 802.11Q VLAN software available
for Linux. I am not certain, as I have not actually tried to use it in
this fashion, but I do recall seeing discussion of it...
- Marc
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, if you're talking about what I
The only relationship is that VLANs are frequently used in conjunction
with trunking. Clearly neither of them requires this.
- Marc
On 28 Aug 2001, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Marc Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I *think* that this may be covered in the 802.11Q VLAN software available
now that people have me thinking...
- Marc
On 28 Aug 2001, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) writes:
Marc Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I *think* that this may be covered in the 802.11Q VLAN software available
for Linux. I am not certain, as I have
Yes, I have, but I use the Apachetoolbox compilation kit to help me to
avoid figuring out all of the intricacies. See
http://freshmeat.net/projects/apachetoolbox/ for more details.
- Marc
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Bruce Dawson wrote:
Has anyone been able to successfully get these 3 software
I personally like the HP ProCurve switch series. I have also had good
success with the Intel switches.
- Marc
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Cole Tuininga wrote:
Apologies for the off topic post.
We need to replace our network switch. What we're looking for is
something that has 16 ports, height =
He could probably get by OK by using non-standard ports for each of the
SSL virtual hosts, and mapping them through to the appropriate service on
the actual server. That would avoid the need for multiple addresses.
- Marc
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I apologize for not
No, DNS cannot do that. It can only provide the IPv4 or IPv6 host address.
The protocol and port numbers are application specific.
- Marc
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong, which I probably am. I
don't have the BIND book in front of
I thought readers of this list would appreciate bashing M$, given the
recent history/direction the list has taken.
- Marc
- Original Message -
From: Ronald Kushner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 11:53 AM
Subject: Windows XP to redesign YOUR web
I have made the suggested change to netscape on a linux box which doesn't
use the Starband proxy to access the net. I am not perceiving any
performance differences when browsing the web.
- Marc
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Karl J. Runge wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, Farrell Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It uses an external box that can have either USB or 10BaseT ethernet
interfaces.
- Marc
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People,
I know a couple of you had mentioned using Starband,
(If you haven't left due to flamewars).
I was wondering if it uses internal PIC(?) boards, or an
I regularly use IPSec through my Starband feed without any problems.
- Marc
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Greg Kettmann wrote:
Another negative of Starband (or DirectPC) is that they both use (to the
best of my knowledge) a VPN. That is they encrypt and then decrypt all
traffic to and from your
You may find this interesting / helpful as you venture into the netfilter
functionality:
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/kernel-netfilter.html
- Marc
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
Has anyone out there used ipfilter yet? I'm interested in peoples
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 12:22:07 -0400
From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FC: PGP and NSA link arms to create secure Linux version
[Bet y'all didn't see this coming, say, five years ago. --Declan]
I highly recommend discontinuing the use of rpm's and instead use the
Apache Toolbox:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/apachetoolbox/
- Marc
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Charles Farinella wrote:
I am trying to install mod_perl on a computer where Apache has been
installed from an RPM. During
dated: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:55:35 EST
Marc Evans said:
It is true two-way satelite (vsat return @ 128k or 1256k optionally).
Any idea what the performance is like? They quote upto 500k
downstream connection, but what about latency?
Speed is great, but it's the latency that'll kill
Thanks for the correction. I took my color codes from the T568A spec,
whereas you quote the T568B spec. Clearly either will work, though the one
you quoted is probably more commonly used.
- Marc
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Dana S. Tellier wrote:
Hey, all--
I know this is a picky thing, but
Rousseau wrote:
Who is offering the 1256K return speed? I haven't seen that with starband
and directv's newest system isn't quite released yet.
-mark
Marc Evans wrote:
It is true two-way satelite (vsat return @ 128k or 1256k optionally).
- Marc
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote
, 20 Mar 2001 09:55:35 EST
Marc Evans said:
It is true two-way satelite (vsat return @ 128k or 1256k optionally).
Any idea what the performance is like? They quote upto 500k
downstream connection, but what about latency?
Speed is great, but it's the latency that'll kill you. I.e., don't
It is true two-way satelite (vsat return @ 128k or 1256k optionally).
- Marc
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
In a message dated: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:08:23 EST
Hartnett said:
Dish Network does offer two way satellite Internet.
Is it true 2-way satellite or is it a telco-return?
There is a project on sourceforge that could address your questions:
http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/
I am using this with a HP OfficeJet G85 through a Jet Direct 170X on the
LAN. It seems to serve my needs fine, though not all of the features of
the G85 are available through the software
*Usually* today 10BaseT and 100BaseT cables are made from the same cable,
Catagory 5. In earlier times, 10BaseT was often made from Catagory 3
cable, which isn't spec'ed to be able to carry 100Mbps signals reliably.
Yes, both use RJ45 connectors and have the same pinouts. A strait-through
cable
You must be trolling for flames. Having followed the developement rather
closely, and running it on a few systems here, I can safely say that the
changes that are coming from this project are far from a joke. Oh, I
also have OpenBSD and several other OSes here, and regularly contrast and
Locally, consider MV Communication (www.mv.com).
If you want something closer to a fort-knox style facility, consider
UUnet.
- Marc
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Tony Lambiris wrote:
Can anyone recommend any colocation services? If you can also include
any personal experience if it applies as well.
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Well, the NH ISP Association (http://www.nhispa.org) was contacted by the
NH Department of Resource and Economic Development (DRED) and asked what
could be done to help people that will be directly effected by this. All
of the ISP's are preparing to try to handle the needs of these people. You
Just to followup on my own message, upgrading to modutils-2.3.9-6 fixes
the problem.
- Marc
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Marc Evans wrote:
Hi -
I have just encountered the following on a SPARC system that has RH 6.1
installed. I suspect that this simply means that I need to update the
tools
Hi -
I have just encountered the following on a SPARC system that has RH 6.1
installed. I suspect that this simply means that I need to update the
tools, but thought that I would pass this along in case anyone else is
embarking on a similiar exercise.
find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o'
Hello -
I am looking at the possibility of using starband (http://www.starband.com)
for network access for a vacation home I have in the middle of knowhere NH.
Has anyone seen/heard/experienced this system? If yes, do you have any
knowledge with how it may work with Linux/FreeBSD/non-win32
The key appears to be to edit the Makefile at the top of the source tree
and change the definition of CC to use egcs. I should note that I did NOT
find running "make CC=egcs" or similiar variants sufficient.
- Marc
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Hi -
I have a Linux system that was root compromised very recently. The person
that did this when trying to clean up overlooked telling syslogd and httpd
to close/reopen the log files they had deleted (i.e. /var/log/messages). I
can see the information about these files through the use of lsof,
Yes, ext2fs.
I have generated a copy of the entire raw device, on which I can
operate. I have also captured the details of the inode and related
information.
This site seems to have some information that looks like it may do what I
am looking for:
Thanks Jeff.
I had already embarked on using the wonders of debugfs, and now have lots
of details 8-)
- Marc
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Jeff Dike wrote:
I think you'll be able to access through /proc/pid/fd. Below, I created
~/foo (from a kernel Makefile), ran more on it to get it open, deleted
This is a function of the browser. A review of the HTTP standard reveals
that there is currently no official standard (to my knowledge) for the
server to inform the browser of the filename for a stream it sends. There
is however a fairly broadly accepted method, which I involves sending
lines as
Is anyone that reads this list using a DPT 3334 (or similiar) controller
to control the boot device? If so, I would like to exchange some e-mail
with you to try to figure out why I can't seem to get this functioning,
failing with:
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8,
Hello -
I am posting this for a collegue. Please, principals only respond. Please
followup via e-mail to Ron Boehm [EMAIL PROTECTED].
- Marc
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5/11/2000
The ValleyNet Senior Systems Administrator is responsible for network
operations and design.
I know that there are several people on this list that disagree with me
about the ability for the recent virus(es) to infect systems even without
executing the VB program manually. Below is a message that I have received
from a reputable source that supports my assertions that in fact there is
a
See http://www.zdnet.com/tlkbck/comment/22/0,7056,88759-421762,00.html to
support my assertions.
- Marc
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jerry Eckert wrote:
Marc Evans wrote:
I beg to differ, but this is hadly the forum. The VB file attached is
immediately executed upon retrieval from the POP box
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
You know, all of this bashing on why Outlook does this and that, not one
has mentioned that *IT'S the DUMMIES WHO RAN IT*'s fault. It didn't run
itself. Someone had to open it.. This is a question of intelligence, which
has *NOTHING* do with
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Jerry Callen wrote:
FWIW, here's a list of setuid programs from an old RH 5.2 system:
[snip]
This is a lot of programs, and there are some I was surprised to see
(like xterm).
xterm is SUID-root because it has
People should really consider running daemons like named in a chroot'ed
environemnt (see http://www.psionic.com/papers/dns/ for example). You
should also consult the INSTALL file in the source distribution, which
discusses the -u, -g and -t options:
User and Group ID
Specifying "-u"
The biggest problem that you *may* encounter depending upon your
configuration is going to be log/status/debug files. Of course, if you
ever decide to be a slave for anything, your problems will be more
complex.
- Marc
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
Today, Marc Evans gleaned
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
It turns out to have been a sub-optimal choice; the collision rate is
phenomenal (not surprising) ...
Keep in mind that on regular, shared ethernet, collision rates as high as
80% are not
You are looking for NTP:
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/
- Marc
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
I know that this program must exist somewhere. I'm looking for a console
app that will set my system clock with the navy clock...the one on
Colorado. I checked of freshmeat
Have you looked here:
http://www.qmail.org/top.html#ezmlm
If you are encountering problems, I suggest that you contact Fred Lindberg
directly. He is usually pretty responsive...
- Marc
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, cdowns wrote:
does anyone know where the ezmlm mailing list that works is?
Hello -
A coworker pointed this article out to me, which I though people on this
list may find interresting, given the recent RPM discussions.
http://www.32bitsonline.com/forum.php3?forum=issues/23/bsdportsmessage=5
- Marc
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Hello -
Does anyone on this list have experience in getting *any* version of Linux
to boot from a drive attached to an AHA-2910Ai / AIC-7855 (BIOS 1.24)? I
have encountered one of these that I am unsuccessfully getting it to
boot. When trying to boot I get "LI" on the top left of the screen, and
I use it regularly, and highly recommend it.
- Marc
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Taylor, Chris wrote:
I know some of you must work in a mixed Windows/Linux environment and have
tried several methods to make this environment work.
Recently I learned about a product called VMWARE (www.vmware.com)
Yes, the more RAM the better. I have 256M on my laptop, and find that I
can run between 3 and 4 sessions, depending upon the workload of each. I
should note that I sometimes run u*ix within a session, particularly if I
am doing any serious debugging. It's much nicer to crash a virtual
computer
I have OpenBSD installed on a few systems, and I find it to be a very good
OS. I believe that it is one of the best suited for shell accounts. For
serving pages (I presume http) and mail, it should be adequate, though if
this is a heavily accessed system (say more then 100 http requests per
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Rich Payne wrote:
I know for ftp you can use Proftpd, that handles virtual hosts (I don't
think wu-ftpd does). As for mail, we've used qmail for that, but I didn't
set it up so I can't really comment on it. It seems to work OK, though
things are a little different if
The experiments that I have run indicate that FreeBSD probably has the
fastest network functionality. The security in FreeBSD tracks very closely
to OpenBSD too...
- Marc
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
At 06:36 AM 2/17/2000 , you wrote:
well we don't get anywhere near that many
, be the inspiration I needed to learn Perl better so
I can write my own. The html isn't hard, it's the backend scripting that
I'll need to figure out.
Kenny
Marc Evans wrote:
There is a package called "mailman" that works pretty well for
this. If you can't find a URL, let me
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, A Page in the Life of ... wrote:
-= I've got two related but separate things I need to do.
-= 1) Recursivly assend into a directory and remove files that are under a certain
-= size (lets just say 5k)
-= 2) Recursivly assend into a directory and move all the files of a
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote:
experiment with this. It was interesting, but now let's speed-up the X:-).
Look at version 3.9.17* of XFree86 for speedups
- Marc
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Have you looked at the Xv extension?
- Marc
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote:
Hi,
Look at version 3.9.17* of XFree86 for speedups
The important stuff is how I draw on X actually. I'm using Qt, and now I'm
gonna implement an MIT-SHM X drawing thing. This seems to be the
as root do something like this:
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
cp lpd apache
vi apache
# change the file to do the right-thing using "apachectl"
cd /etc/rc.d
ln -s ../init.d/apache rc3.d/S99apache
ln -s ../init.d/apache rc2.d/K01apache
ln -s
People interrested in these types of tools will probably find this
interresting too:
http://www.clark.net/~roesch/security.html
Over the last month plus I have been having good success in detecting and
shutting down improper activities flowing through destek.net...
- Marc
On Thu, 10
http://www.fbi.gov/nipc/trinoo.htm
Only binaries there, but a newer version with
source is here: http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/ddos_scan.tar
(I haven't tried it, yet.)
Over the last month or so I have also been utilizing snort, which you too
may find useful:
Here is a quick, non optomized perl script:
while () {
next unless (/^HCA/);
print $_;
while () {
last unless (/^I[XY]\d\d\d\d\d/);
print $_;
}
}
There are more efficient ways to do this then the above perl, but that is
sufficient...
- Marc
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Matt Tilley
I have personally found that using mmap is less intense on the overall
system performance then the open/fopen alternatives. This is particularly
true if you are doing random I/O (seeking back and forth). Sadly, OS
portability is a bit of an issue, which may impact your development plans.
- Marc
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Greg Dake wrote:
For FreeBSD, try ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
For NetBSD, try http://www.netbsd.org/Releases/formal-1.4/
I don't know of any other BSD, but someone else should be able to help you
with that.
http://www.openbsd.org/
Kurth Bemis wrote:
http://www.qmail.org/
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote:
I would be interested in either qmail or exim configuration info. Any
pointers out there?
jeff smith
Scott Garman wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, c. smith wrote:
How about Q-Mail any pros/cons comments??
I
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