Re: Serial admin console program

2008-09-23 Thread Jared Watkins
Alan Johnson wrote: I've been using minicom (or trying to) to manage some network devices over their serial ports, but it is not pretty. Minicom appears to be too focused on modems to work well with my serial devices. I'm sure there is a better way, but I just can't seem to find it. I'm

Re: Home Audio / Re: SPDIF support

2007-04-09 Thread Jared Watkins
Ben Scott wrote: I'm curious as to what brand(s) you do like. (Just curious what you like. I am not interested in actually getting into discussions about why this or that should be considered objectively better, and I doubt the rest of the list is, either. :) Such discussions usually go

Re: Portable audio player

2007-03-06 Thread Jared Watkins
Cole Tuininga wrote: I've been starting to go to the gym quasi-regularly, so I think it may I don't need something huge - a GB or so would be plenty. Thoughts? I tend to like the iaudio line... easy to use with a great feature set and supported file types. I have the 1G version of this

Re: Racks and servers and HD's, oh my.

2006-06-25 Thread Jared Watkins
For small raid check these out... I've seen others.. but these were the first two I found tonight. http://www.unityelectronics.com/product-product_id/2144 http://www.enhance-tech.com/products/multidrive/q14.html Jared Bill McGonigle wrote: On Jun 22, 2006, at 09:26, Thomas Charron wrote:

OT: Porkfest

2006-06-05 Thread Jared Watkins
I'll be going to the FSP Pork Fest event in a couple weeks... driving up from Manchester. Anyone else planning to be there? Jared ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: car box

2006-03-29 Thread Jared Watkins
Christopher Chisholm wrote: what do you guys think? does anyone know anything about touchscreen LCDs or GPS software? Any comments on the idea in general? Would temperature extremes render an LCD useless in the winter? I'm confident with the right setup the CPU temps wouldn't be too much

Re: Blogging software

2006-01-24 Thread Jared Watkins
Cole Tuininga wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for another software suggestion. I have a friend that's going on a several month trip through Central America and would like to have a fairly simple blog set up for them so they can keep us folks back home up to date with what's going on.

Re: TiVo and VoIP (Was: Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?)

2005-12-12 Thread Jared Watkins
mike ledoux wrote: 9th tee claims their turbonet device will work in Series 1 DTiVo machines. I don't have a DTiVo, so I can't say for sure. However, DTiVo does not require a phone line for guide data, so that isn't particularly relevant to the discussion of Series 1 TiVo without a landline.

Re: Suggestions for SOHO email service

2005-10-17 Thread Jared Watkins
Ted Roche wrote: My current email situation has broken down, and I'd like suggestions on the easiest, cheapest and best solutions for setting email for my small business. Currently, we have Comcast cable and internet in our home and a TDS DSL for the home business. On the DSL, we host

Re: Home Automation Question

2005-07-26 Thread Jared Watkins
Travis Roy wrote: I've had some talkes with Brian (Karas) about this, but I wanted to open it up. Hopefully (now that the seller finally signed the PS) I will soon be a home owner. I've messed with small (firecracker) X10 stuff but in an apartment it's kind of weird and not the best place

Re: Greylisting

2005-06-30 Thread Jared Watkins
Bill McGonigle wrote: Is anybody using Greylisting on their mailservers? It sounds like a great idea. Roughly: * incoming mail gets scanned for envelope sender, envelope recipient, sending IP * if it's the first time the tuple is seen it gives an SMTP 'temporary failure' error.

Re: Recommendations for webcasting/video conferenciing?

2005-06-13 Thread Jared Watkins
Hewitt Tech wrote: I have a new client that wanted to setup a webcast from his hotel room. I explained to him that it is necessary to have control of the firewall/router so that the appropriate ports can be forwarded and that it was unlikely that the hotel chain would be that cooperative. Sure

Re: Recommendations for webcasting/video conferenciing?

2005-06-13 Thread Jared Watkins
Steven Chung wrote: Have you looked at MBONE? http://www.savetz.com/mbone/ I remember it from about 10 years ago... the heady days of CUSEEME reflector sites... and the (ab)use of the campus lan. Things have changed a lot since then though... is it even still an active project..

Re: firewalling scripts

2005-02-01 Thread Jared Watkins
Drew Van Zandt wrote: Any recommendations for firewalling scripts? (Debian package preferred) ... There are lots, and googling doesn't tell me enough about opinions of people who use them unless they HAPPENED to either flame or praise one. It's not a script exactly... but I like the fwbuilder

Re: Cleaning computers after fire

2004-12-20 Thread Jared Watkins
L.B. MCCULLEY wrote: I would second Jared's suggestion that you view the equipment exposed to unknown hazards during the fire and firefighting as being on borrowed time. However, practical concerns may motivate some compromises. Here are some more thoughts on this if the data on the

Re: hot spot managment

2004-12-13 Thread Jared Watkins
Travis Roy wrote: I am working with a client of mine that owns a restaurant in Nashua he is looking to add a free hotpot to his restaurant but does not want people not in the restaurant using it You could try encasing the restaurant in lead.. This really is your only option. Even with

Re: unformat??

2004-12-04 Thread Jared Watkins
Benjamin Scott wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, at 9:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard stories about some rather interesting installs for people who... lets just say they paint houses... ... and fly around in black helicopters powered by devices obtained from crashed alien spacecraft,

Re: Replacing PBXes with Open Source

2004-08-25 Thread Jared Watkins
Jon maddog Hall wrote: This is going to be HUGE. It will be HUGE in emerging economies, but also HUGE in our own economy. I show you website http://www.asterisk.org/ I'm with you there just last week I picked up their new lite dev kit and am starting to play with this at home... I

Re: GFS and SANs

2004-08-04 Thread Jared Watkins
Jeff Macdonald wrote: Hi, And now for something Linux related. Earlier this year Redhat released GFS as GPL'd stuff. I understand that GFS is a distributed file system with redundancy and all that. What I don't understand is what is meant by SAN. I believe it stands for Storage Area Network. In

Re: OT taxes thread

2004-04-24 Thread Jared Watkins
Derek Martin wrote: Jennifer Connelly's character was complaining hopelessly about her Ok... mentioning such a beauty in a bastard thread about taxes that I was sorta responsible for is just too much... Can someone please make a comparison to hitler or the nazis so we can end this? Ok

Re: On Nh living and commutes..

2004-04-23 Thread Jared Watkins
Thanks for the info and discussion around this subject... After reading what everyone had to say... I'm now not so excited about the prospect of living up there... it seems that if I'm not able to find a good position in NH then it makes little sense from a quality of life and tax

Re: On Nh living and commutes..

2004-04-23 Thread Jared Watkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks moving here discover it is public fiscal policy, and you get what you pay for in quality of services, like public transit and schools. TANSTAAFL. and organize the cooperative services that modern society requires. Solid waste disposal anyone? Or water/sewer

On Nh living and commutes..

2004-04-22 Thread Jared Watkins
Hello all... I've been on this list since october because of my interest in the free state project.. and the ideas behind it... now it seems the goal of moving to your part of the world is a little closer. I'll be coming up there for an interview in Cambridge on the 5th... and while I'm

Re: On Nh living and commutes..

2004-04-22 Thread Jared Watkins
Steven W. Orr wrote: be working outside of the city. Also, if you do work in Cambridge, you might want to think about living west instead of north. (I really have no presumptions about how much you want to spend on living expenses.) But consider living west of Cambridge instead. Something

Re: On Nh living and commutes..

2004-04-22 Thread Jared Watkins
Travis Roy wrote: I've been on this list since october because of my interest in the free state project.. and the ideas behind it... now it seems the goal of moving to your part of the world is a little closer. First let me say that I think the free state project is stupid.. But that's me

Re: Future Meeting? (MythTV)

2004-04-15 Thread Jared Watkins
Travis Roy wrote: I was talking to Ben Scott about this and brought up doing a meeting about this and he seemed interested so I thought I would put a feeler out to see who would be interested. Though it runs only on windows... check out one called Sagetv http://www.sage.tv/ I just started

Re: Photo Album

2004-03-11 Thread Jared Watkins
Cole Tuininga wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 11:08, Drew Taylor wrote: Are you referring to the PHP based gallery? If so, the vulnerabilities have been fixed in a subsequent release. Nope - I'm talking about a fairly obscure one written quite some time ago by a guy I knew. It's called

Re: Network/Server monitoring.

2004-02-16 Thread Jared Watkins
Kevin D. Clark wrote: Travis Roy writes: Pretty charts and graphs are a big plus :) I suggest MRTG and RRDtool. Regards, --kevin One word... Cacti http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/ -J- ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Gnhlug-jobs] Seeking a Linux Systems Administrator

2003-12-31 Thread Jared Watkins
Mark Fancher wrote: *System Administrator* SKY Computers seeks a motivated system administrator to manage its corporate IT infrastructure. The systems administrator will actively manage a variety of Solaris, Linux, and Windows machines in a dynamic environment, as well as manage network

Re: [Gnhlug-jobs] Linux Sysadmin

2003-11-05 Thread Jared Watkins
This position is for a one-person systems administration team Just remember there is no ' I ' in T E A M. J ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: ibm hardware for servers

2003-10-18 Thread Jared Watkins
does anyone here use ibm hardware for their personal servers? (not desktops, but servers..) I started using an IBM blade system a few months ago... the only drawback is that they have 2.5 ata hard drives by default you can add two fiber switches for 2Gb san connectivity... but they are

Re: Allowing remote root login

2003-10-13 Thread Jared Watkins
Dan Coutu wrote: Got a RedHat 9 system that I need to allow remote telnet logins to root from the LAN. I had thought that an entry in What about using sssh? If you can then simply enable root logins in /etc/ssh/sshd_config Using telnet is a bad idea... it continues a bad habit. SSH with

Re: Allowing remote root login

2003-10-13 Thread Jared Watkins
Dan Coutu wrote: First of all, I know this isn't a great idea, but it is required by a specific scenario. Here's the situation: I thought I had made myself perfectly clear that I understand ssh is better than telnet. Due to circumstances way beyond my control I Well... to be fair (to myself)