Re: I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor -- care to weigh in?

2010-02-22 Thread mark
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Susan Cragin wrote: > > The Concord Monitor has in the past given my articles good exposure, the > state is desperate to cut costs, and this could be a good thing for > open-source. > > The state employs several dozen programmers and the expected accompanying manag

Re: I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor -- care to weigh in?

2010-02-22 Thread Mark McSweeney
Susan > What about schools that you are connected with? Do they run open-source > software? I believe that the Merrimack Valley School District has a lot of Open Source deployments from LTSP terminals to using Moodle and other things. Back in 2006, Steve Amsden, a network administrator at MV, g

Re: [NH LoCo] I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor -- care to weigh in?

2010-02-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
P.S.: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > ... consider Open Source software a via option, to be evaluated in all > cases ... s/software a via option/software a viable option/ (I would also recommend using the correct words, something I sometimes have trouble with. ;-) )

Re: [NH LoCo] I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor -- care to weigh in?

2010-02-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Susan Cragin wrote: > Title:  All NH taxpayer-supported computers and systems should run > open-source software. You asked for opinions. My opinion would be that *I* would prefer that stated along the lines of "All NH government IT systems should consider Open

I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor -- care to weigh in?

2010-02-22 Thread Susan Cragin
I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor. Title: All NH taxpayer-supported computers and systems should run open-source software. I need examples of municipalities, states, and so on, that have switched to open-source successfully, and what they use. Did you use Drupal to put y

Re: Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

2010-02-22 Thread Alan Johnson
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: > > ... Netgear WG111 (11b/g USB2) has always "just worked" ... > > Sorry for the stream of replies here, but do you know if it's using > ndiswrapper or not? From what I can tell, the W

Re: Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

2010-02-22 Thread Alan Johnson
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: > > ... the Netgear WG111 (11b/g USB2) has always "just worked" ... > > Do you have the WG111 v1, WG111 v2, or WG111 v3? Apparently it > exists in three mutually-incompatible versions.

Re: Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

2010-02-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: > ... Netgear WG111 (11b/g USB2) has always "just worked" ... Sorry for the stream of replies here, but do you know if it's using ndiswrapper or not? From what I can tell, the WG111 needed that in earlier releases, but maybe not in current r

Re: Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

2010-02-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: > ... the Netgear WG111 (11b/g USB2) has always "just worked" ... Do you have the WG111 v1, WG111 v2, or WG111 v3? Apparently it exists in three mutually-incompatible versions. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-d

Re: Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

2010-02-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: > I can't speak to all those other specifics because the Netgear WG111 (11b/g > USB2) has always "just worked" ... don't remember having any trouble with > the WG111 on Windows but it has been years. Thanks. When lacking hard data, anecdotes

Re: Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

2010-02-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > 1) retail brand names aren't terribly useful, they change vendors fairly > often I've noticed that. Retail brand names perhaps may be more useful when it comes to determining support/customer service history. Although past performance

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > Did you ever run a 'repair' on the /boot mirror? No. I've been avoiding that until I have a better understanding of what's going on. Heck, I've been avoiding *rebooting* until I have a better understanding of what's going on. :) (Than

Re: Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

2010-02-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
A few caveats: 1) retail brand names aren't terribly useful, they change vendors fairly often 2) IC vendors can run hot and cold between models and revs, some more than others. 3) You should test in your environment. 4) Automatically disqualify any part that comes in a USB form-factor with a sw

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 02/22/2010 03:06 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: >Based on what I'm seeing (in particular, the mismatch*only* being > in the GRUB stage2 file), I'm going to conclude liberty's mismatch is > due to GRUB being installed on both physical hard disks independently > (booting from floppy). Whether or

Re: Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

2010-02-22 Thread Alan Johnson
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > Does such a thing exist? > In an infinite universe, everything exists. If not, can someone at least recommend something that's worked well > for them on both platforms? > I can't speak to all those other specifics because the Netgear WG

Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

2010-02-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
Hello, world! Soliciting opinions on a good model of USB to 802.11b/g adapter to buy. Needs to work well with both Linux and recent Microsoft Windows (XP/Vista/7). 802.11b/g are also called "Wi-Fi" and "wireless Ethernet". 802.11a/n aren't needed but also don't count against. "Good" is de

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: >  I believe the script is . ... >  The control flow of the script seems to be: The operation is only > run if the array is in a clean and idle state.  If the array is > degraded or rebuilding, the operation is skipped for that array.  The > d

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Michael ODonnell wrote: > So far, then, it's looking like every Sunday at 4:22 all the RAIDs > (all types or just RAID1?) in standard x86_64 CentOS5.4 (and RHAT?) > boxes are broken and then resync'd. All types (as I interpret the script source). If the docum

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-22 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: > Anybody else running CentOS5.x ... liberty.gnhlug.org is running CentOS 5.4 with kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 (still haven't rebooted it). liberty$ fgrep -i sync /var/log/kernel* | fgrep -i raid /var/log/kernel:Feb 21 04:22:01 liberty ke

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good (fwd)

2010-02-22 Thread Michael Bilow
On 2010-02-22 at 13:39 -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote: Ruh-rohhh /var/log/messages: Feb 21 04:22:02 sbgrid-dev-architect kernel: md: syncing RAID array md0 /var/log/messages: Feb 21 04:22:02 sbgrid-dev-architect kernel: md: syncing RAID array md3 /var/log/messages.1: Feb 14 04:22:02

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-22 Thread Michael ODonnell
Ruh-rohhh >/var/log/messages: Feb 21 04:22:02 sbgrid-dev-architect kernel: md: syncing >RAID array md0 >/var/log/messages: Feb 21 04:22:02 sbgrid-dev-architect kernel: md: syncing >RAID array md3 >/var/log/messages.1: Feb 14 04:22:02 sbgrid-dev-architect kernel: md: syncing >RAID arra

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-22 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:06:57AM -0500, Michael ODonnell wrote: > Anybody else running CentOS5.x (or RHAT equiv?) care to share the > results from this command: > > grep -i sync /var/log/* | fgrep -i raid Dude. Sweet. 1$ sudo grep -i sync /var/log/* | fgrep -i raid Password: /var/log/me

Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good

2010-02-22 Thread Michael ODonnell
Anybody else running CentOS5.x (or RHAT equiv?) care to share the results from this command: grep -i sync /var/log/* | fgrep -i raid It looks like the RAIDs on at least seven of our (mostly stock) CentOS5.4 systems are routinely getting broken and going through a resync operation on a weekl