Re: Quantum Snap Server - Opinions?
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 Quantum Snap Server products to add NAS storage for small office use? I remember them using Linux as the hidden OS. I was thinking of recommending one of these for use in a small office. So far the only deficiency I see in the small one I want to use (the Snap Server 2200) is that it doesn't respond to the UPS shutdown command in the event of commercial power failure. I'm not sure this would necessarily be a big problem since the rest of their office environment would likely already be down at this point and the Snap Server should be pretty much idle. I haven't seen too many problems with Linux systems from power failures when the system was quiescent. Thoughts? -Alex * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * -- - Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com rgacote(at)AppropriateSolutions.com 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: collocation service
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 linux servers. -- - Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: PostgreSQL Vs. MySQL
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 table use MysQL. If you need the power of SQL expressiveness: select * from a table where table.ID in (Select IDs from table2) you need PostgreSQL. All of the above is debatable as to the terms 'fairly simple', 'mostly', 'frequently', etc. YMMV. At present, we use MySQL for close to 100% of our on-line databases. We're starting a new project (customer/order/tech support tracking) that will be PostgreSQL. Ray -- - Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: GNHLUG Tee Shirt spotted in the Carribean
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, captain of the Mother of Perl and founder of MonadLug. Ray -- - Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: VNC experiment for MELBA Wednesday night?
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 -- - Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Knuth, was Python follow-up...
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. :-) Cool! Another classic. Particularly enjoy the latest versions self-reflection on what the original book got right and wrong. Ray -- - Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Python follow-up [modadlug]
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 the 'Who's Knuth?' blank stare I get when I talk about his work. Enjoyed the presentation. Ray -- - Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Need help fast
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 little mushroom cloud of the stuff. Ray -- - Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Need help fast
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 rolled-up tube of paper and sitting in front of the machine and listening to the drives when it occurs. I assume it takes a few seconds to do the resynch so you have a chance of catching it. Are these RAID? If so, you could try unplugging them one at a time until the problem goes away. Not 100% reliable since, if the problem is heat related, unplugging drive 1 may cool down drive 1 sufficiently that it makes the problem go away even though drive 1 is the culprit. Ray One of 4 IDE drives in my system is making strange noises every 5 to 20 minutes. It sounds like its seeking all the way across the disk and hitting -- - Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Code Red math
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 -- --- Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Roswell
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 -- --- Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Backing talk with action? (was: Re: News from the Mouth front)
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 support staff. Through their Microsoft-trained in-house support staff. Through their paid support contracts. On just about every third street corner in town where there's a little computer store. Not saying support is great, but there's a feeling it is at least available. This really is an excellent issue. Are you ready to just evangelize or back it up with a support contract for local organizations? Ray -- --- Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: News from the Mouth front
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 -- --- Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Tech tip: indirection in a script's magic #! line
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 Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Tech tip: indirection in a script's magic #! line
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 start to add up in a cgi environment on a heavily hit site. Ray -- --- Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Origin of OS X operating system
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 OS-9 and that didn't stop Apple. Ray -- --- Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Origin of OS X operating system
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 example) and OS X is the graphical environment built on top of it. There are folks who have made Darwin run on Intel, but there are an extremely limited number of drivers for it. One of the strengths of the Mac environment (at least from the perspective of someone writing Os-level code) is a fairly rigidly controlled hardware environment. Thus, not a lot of drivers as you move to other platforms. Ray -- --- Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: MS Questions Stallman
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 dear to my heart. The difference between GPL and LGPL needs significant more promotion than it gets. I frequently come across an interesting, useful, library, and it turns out to have been GPL'd instead of LGPL'd. That's OK. People can license it anyway they want. But I'm not sure that GPL is truly what is intended. A specific example: I've recently been looking at Unit Testing Frameworks available through some of the Extreme Programming sites. There's a very nice C++ implementation that is available LGPL. This means I can use it in open source projects as well as promote it to my clients who insist on selling their products for millions of dollars. :} A resourceful, helpful, programmer ported the framework over to Windows and Visual C++ and added one or two improvements. Even wrote a note on the site that they hoped the changes would be back-ported to the original code. However, this helpful soul then released the code GPL. This means two things. 1) I cannot use this code in any commercial project. 2) The modifications can never be back-ported to the original project because then the 'viral' effects kick in. Now I don't think this was the programmer's intent -- otherwise they would not have made the comment about back porting to the original source. Understanding the difference between GPL and LGPL (and other open source licenses) is critical. Ray -- --- Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Monitoring Website Defacements
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 -- adverts change, time display, local weather, etc., etc. Would want to see the raw .HTML files. Of course, not every has raw .HTML files (Zope, Manila, etc.). This sounds like an interesting product for tracking, but I sure wouldn't open my site up to any external service. Ray -- --- Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Attrition.org to cease mirroring web defacements
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 -- --- Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: A story and some advice.
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 fix it. These procedures of theirs are doing nothing to fix the problem and just punishing the victims. Rather like punishing someone because their car was stolen. Argh. Perhaps a better analogy than having your car stolen is that the car was left at the top of a steep hill, in neutral, parking break was not set, and some hooligan came by and gave it a push. Yes it is a pain in the butt, but you need to react to these things quickly and swiftly. Ray -- --- Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f) ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: (non-Linux) web page monitors?
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 checks headers to see last time the .html file was changed. This assumes you're looking at a static page and not a dynamically generated one. Either way you can end up with problems: - static pages with dynamic elements you don't care about (time/weather). - dynamically generated pages that are always 'new' but never changed - static pages with dynamic componenets about which you do care. Frames will cause you a headache as well since what you'll see is the surrounding frame and not any of the insets (you can find those with Perl, but I'm just learning how). Ray At 12:00 PM -0500 3/7/01, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Bob, This can be easily done with a short shell script that takes a copy of the original page, and diff's it against the current page. If it is different, it e-mails you, makes a copy of the changed page, then runs the diff against that page. If you want to do it remotely, you set it up to telnet to port 80, do an HTTP GET, then diff the output against a known good copy. FYI, Kenny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, This may have a non-Linux answer, but here goes. I want to monitor some web pages for changes, and be notified when a specified page changes. Are there any notification services on the web, or packages I can add to my Linux box, to email beep, etc. when the page has been updated? Of course, I would love to recommend a Linux solution. Bob Sparks Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity. Never attribute to stupidity, that which can be explained by lack of information. ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug ** ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug ** -- --- Raymond Cote, President Appropriate Solutions, Inc. www.AppropriateSolutions.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079(v) POB 458, Peterborough, NH 03458603.924.8668(f)
