Re: Quantum Snap Server - Opinions?

2002-07-22 Thread Ray Cote
Thought it was BSD, not Linux, myself. Regardless, we've been running one for close to 4 years and sharing Windows and Mac systems. Several of the Macs are connected via NFS connections and they have been fine. Ray At 2:29 PM -0400 7/22/02, Hewitt Tech wrote: Has anyone used any of the

Re: collocation service

2002-02-25 Thread Ray Cote
I've not price-shopped in a long time so I cannot compare, but I continue to be pleased with the service provided by Destek in Nashau (www.Destek.net). Ray At 10:28 PM -0500 2/24/02, Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote: Hi everybody, I'm looking for a company that would do collocation service with

Re: PostgreSQL Vs. MySQL

2002-02-18 Thread Ray Cote
My quick rules of thumb: 1: If your data is fairly simple, use MySQL. If your data has complex relationships or you need referential integrity, use PostgreSQL. 2: If you read mostly, use MySQL. If you write frequently, use PostgreSQL. 3: If your queries are simple: select * from a

Re: GNHLUG Tee Shirt spotted in the Carribean

2002-02-12 Thread Ray Cote
At 10:52 AM -0500 2/12/02, jbd wrote: At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=374 is: Can anyone identify who is wearing that GNHLUG tee-shirt? The photo is in the GNHLUG photo gallery at: http://news.gnhlug.org/ modules.php?op=modloadname=galleryfile=index Looks suspiciously like Ben Smith,

Re: VNC experiment for MELBA Wednesday night?

2002-01-19 Thread Ray Cote
So, I was thinking that if a few people could bring their laptops Kind of off topic but for christmas I got an ibook and was wondering if anyone has a PPC distro I could borrow. Available directly from the VNC Download site that has Linux and Windows. Ray --

Re: Knuth, was Python follow-up...

2002-01-09 Thread Ray Cote
At 10:25 AM -0500 1/9/02, Bob Bell wrote: Well, you'll be happy to know that all 6 or so of my fellow Taylor University graduates here at Compaq (all graduating within in the last 4 years) have all read Brooks' _The_Mythical_Man-Month_ as part of a software engineering course, at a minimum.

Re: Python follow-up [modadlug]

2002-01-08 Thread Ray Cote
Bill: Thanks for the follow-up (even though it did manage to trigger the juvenile knee-jerk reaction squad into action). I've just finished reading Eckel's Thinking In Python and look forward to more on the subject of Python and Patterns. who's Eckel? sigh Guess I'll have to add that to

Re: Need help fast

2001-12-21 Thread Ray Cote
At 6:22 PM -0500 12/20/01, Tom Rauschenbach wrote: Disk drives are apparently like computers in general; they run on smoke. When the smoke gets out, they quit working. That's MagicSmoke(tm) and don't you forget it!. Whenever I see it, it brings back memories of my first TO-5 can exploding in a

Re: Need help fast

2001-12-19 Thread Ray Cote
Doubt this is anything that would show up in a log. Sounds like the drive is loosing sync (having trouble reading) so runs out to the end of the drive to reset itself. A stethoscope is probably your best tool in this situation or, since you possibly don't have one of those right handy, a

Re: Code Red math

2001-08-07 Thread Ray Cote
At 4:39 PM -0700 8/3/01, Karl J. Runge wrote: Does anyone know how the worm is generating the IP's it tries? Cert http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2001-09.html has some some notes on the probability of Code Red II creating different IPs. Ray --

Re: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Roswell

2001-08-02 Thread Ray Cote
At 12:09 PM -0400 8/2/01, Rich C wrote: Following those lines, Microsoft should name their XP release Chernobyl. Area51 would be more in keeping with this thread: - big - secretive - nobody really knows what goes on in there. Ray --

Re: Backing talk with action? (was: Re: News from the Mouth front)

2001-07-25 Thread Ray Cote
At 1:19 PM -0400 7/25/01, Jeffry Smith wrote: Dan Jenkins said: This does bring up a point - assuming these folks are currently using Windows (or planning to), how do they intend to do support on that? Through the service organization that installed it. Through their licensed NT-certified

Re: News from the Mouth front

2001-07-23 Thread Ray Cote
At 5:52 PM -0400 7/23/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If any of you are interested in going into human services information systems, the market is growing rapidly, both nationally, and various places around NH. Any links where a person could start to learn what HMIS is all about? Ray --

Re: Tech tip: indirection in a script's magic #! line

2001-06-13 Thread Ray Cote
At 8:37 AM -0400 6/13/01, Benjamin Scott wrote: Of course, one could make the argument that, on a heavily hit site, you shouldn't be using CGI... :-) True enough! mod_perl forever! Ray -- --- Raymond Cote, President

Re: Tech tip: indirection in a script's magic #! line

2001-06-12 Thread Ray Cote
At 2:59 PM -0400 6/12/01, Bill Sconce wrote: Very neat. o This technique incurs the overhead of an additional process (probably a small price, especially for portability). Probably not an issue with hand-run or occasionally-run scripts, but that second process will really

Re: Origin of OS X operating system

2001-06-11 Thread Ray Cote
At 10:33 AM -0400 6/11/01, Thomas Charron wrote: From: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Origin of OS X operating system As a trivia note, it was decided to call it OSX not only as a marketing ploy. Someone owned a tradmark on the phrase 'OS 10'.. :-P Well someone also owned

Re: Origin of OS X operating system

2001-06-08 Thread Ray Cote
At 3:15 PM -0400 6/8/01, mike ledoux wrote: Basically, OS X is based on 'Darwin', Apple's open source kernel, which is in turn based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0. Darwin runs on both PowerPC and x86, but I believe OS X only runs on PPC. Correct. 'Darwin' ends at the shell level (as a simplistic

Re: MS Questions Stallman

2001-06-07 Thread Ray Cote
At 4:21 PM -0400 6/6/01, Thomas Charron wrote: ... Most libraries are released under the LGPL, and *NOT* the GPL. Prime difference is that it specifically allows applications to make external function calls to the library without the GPL indecting the applications. This is a topic near and

Re: Monitoring Website Defacements

2001-05-23 Thread Ray Cote
At 9:24 AM -0400 5/23/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Naturally, you would need access to their web directories if they want you to do the restore portion. Actually, to do this properly, you'd really need access to their directories for the monitoring. Web pages change dynamically all the time

Re: Attrition.org to cease mirroring web defacements

2001-05-23 Thread Ray Cote
At 7:43 AM -0700 5/23/01, Karl J. Runge wrote: and the whole disk (OS + web content) is reinstalled and rebooted every few minutes whether it need needs it or not ;-) Oh, excuse me. I didn't realize this was a Windows-based solution. :} Ray --

Re: A story and some advice.

2001-04-24 Thread Ray Cote
At 2:56 PM -0400 4/24/01, Greg Kettmann wrote: Also, one other vent. I wish those jerks at M1, instead of pulling the plug on my account, would first trace the darn thing and go try to catch the bad guy instead of harassing their customers. Then they can pull the plug and give me a chance to

Re: (non-Linux) web page monitors?

2001-03-07 Thread Ray Cote
Of course you want to be polite about this since hitting somebody's web page every few seconds is going to get them ticked off so You can run the shell script as recommended by Ken, but run it from inside a cron that runs 1 or 2 times per day. You could also write a Perl script that just