I would have said inexpensive but that would imply that their gear
actually delivered value. I have a client who chose to use a pair of
BEFSX41 VPN end point 4 port routers. A few years back I got a call from
them to help them set up a VPN tunnel between two sites. After an hour
or so of
Jefferson Kirkland wrote:
On that recommendation, is it not ironic then that Linksys is owned by
Cisco? You would think they would take a product that they bought out
and improve it considering their name is on it.
Regards,
Jeff
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Hewitt_Tech hewitt_t
Tom Buskey wrote:
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org
mailto:g...@blu.org wrote:
On 09/08/2009 10:18 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
FWIW, I find this topic fascinating, and quite possibly of interest
to my professional career, so I'd like to hear the
Ben Scott wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Alex Hewitthewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
Or at least they've made getting information on Linksys products a lot
harder by completely changing the Linksys web site.
Like this is the first time a company's ever done that. As Gerry
Hull
Ben Scott wrote:
voice src=The Simpsons char=Dr. Nick RivieraHi everybody!voice
It appears the radio in my WRT54G (ver 2) has gone insane. It
appears in SSID lists but connects are never successful. I've tried
loading OEM firmware and it didn't help. So, I thought I'd ask: What
would
Thomas Charron wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:
It really does sound like broken hardware. I've noticed that small form
factor machines (with the exception of the Mac Mini) seem to have a
higer rate of failure than regular towers.
But
Recently I've noticed that both major overnight package delivery
companies have been damaging packages. I've had 3 out of 4 computer
cases rendered unusable and packages routinely arrive here (Manchester)
with chunks missing out of them. For the most part my parts vendor does
a great job of
Mark Greene wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have clients with an interesting network problem. One location in
Bedford New Hampshire using a fractionated T1 has routinely been
transmitting studies to an
Ben Scott wrote:
Of the various live discs I've tried, I've found I've had the most
success with Ubuntu in the it just works department. Video, sound,
network, wireless, etc. It also has a very polished feel to it -- a
clean, elegant design to the basic UI, choice of apps, etc.
The Knoppix
In my experience you want to pay careful attention to the graphics chip set
used by the system. I've also had lot's of problems with the ACPI support but
newer distros such as Ubuntu and probably anything recent from SUSE, RedHat
should be good as well. One other area that gives heart burn is
Has anyone any experience with an open source contact manager application
something like ACT! ? I searched Sourceforge and got a few hits but I
haven't any idea as to how good any of these projects migh be. One that
sound's like it might fit the bill is CalypsoRCP. The application would
I'm trying to get a Comcast connection working for a customer. They bought the
Workplace Enhanced Static IP package. Comcast dropped an SMC modem/router at
the customer site and I'm trying to get incoming connections to work. I set our
internal router to the external IP address along with the
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From: Jeff O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I beat my head with one of those about a month ago. I remember I had to
setup the network information on my router, which was a linux firewall,
and plug that external interface into the SMC
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From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Traffic shaping/aggregating
On 12/26/06, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Although it would make sense that she would use one modem,
Some of you may recall my tale of woe concerning a customer's Dell 430 SC
server. The system has had most of it's internals replaced 3 times. The latest
issue with the system has been that the system hangs. At first it hung about
once a week but after updating the firmware drivers and OS
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From: Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: GNHLUG Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:11 PM
Subject: Laptop repair
Can anyone suggest somewhere in the greater Southern New Hampshire area
that can perform a simple laptop repair?
I have a client who has a computer mounted on a roll around cart and who wants
to connect using a wireless connection to their LAN. Unfortunately there are 8
strong wireless networks nearby with at least 3 being unsecured. Their
application uses a client/server model and when they get
Fixing the application is really not an option. The application is provided
by a third party vendor and there's no way in the world these people would
allow anyone to touch their code. The most we could do is complain...
-Alex
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From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was invited to an "un-conference" at the Amoskeag
Business Incubator in Manchester New Hampshire. Apparently these ad hoc
technology conferences have been held previously in large cities and Manchester
will be the first held in a smaller city. Anyone can present anything they want
and a
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From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: Something nice to say about Microsoft Server 2003...
On 7/11/06, hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Be sure you create the Fault Tolerant Boot Disk
My problematic Dell server (SC430) got an upgrade
today after most of the electronics were replaced. I added a second 250 GB SATA
hard drive and was surprised at how easy it was to mirror the existing drive in
place. Microsoft Server 2003 allows you to convert an existing "Basic" disk to a
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From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: Something nice to say about Microsoft Server 2003...
On 7/11/06, hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Microsoft Server 2003 allows you to convert
I have a very nice customer that's been putting up
with some amazingly bad luck with a Dell SC430 server. 90 days after I installed
it the server decided to flash all it's LEDs and become unavailable. Dell
responded by replacing the motherboard, power supply, CPU and hard drive. 5
weeks
tomer only has 5 users and is not likely to expand much beyond this
number of users.
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From:
Thomas Charron
To: hewitt_tech
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: A possible reason to prefer
an open sou
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From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...
On 7/10/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The bigger question is will Dell notice?
Biggest
I had rather rough Monday. One of my clients had
their server blow it's boot/main drive over the weekend. I was on site for a
completely different problem when I heard someone ask "Is Alex here to see why
the server is down?". I opened the case of the Dell SC430 and heard the infamous
I have a client for whom I want to setup a public
hotspot. They are a medical facility so security is of paramount importance. By
security I mean the hotspot can in no way interfere or allow access to their
medical applications. So far the best looking application is something called
Public
The one place I've seen a fair bit of information on liquid cooling is a
magazine called Maximum PC. They've had lot's of how-to articles and
regularly compare the offerings from the vendors who make the kits.
-Alex
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From: Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Try this link:
http://www.maximumpc.com/reviews/casessff/
-Alex
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From: Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 12:40 PM
Subject: Liquid Cooling
I was thinking of trying out liquid cooling and wanted to ask if
Kevin is looking for someone to provide Linux IT support in the Andover
Mass. area.
-Alex
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From: Kevin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 8:02 AM
Subject: Greetings
Good morning Alex,
I met you at LinuxWorld and I
I'm running VmWare and have always been happy with it. Over time the
workstation version has gotten progressively more powerful. For example I'm
currently running VmWare on a Windows X64 (64bit) host laptop. The guest OS
is a 64 bit Ubuntu system. With VmWare I can forget about the problems I
One booth that had an interesting project on
display was the Linux Terminal Server Project. LTSP provides terminal services
support for Linux. This would allow you to setup a boot server and any number of
thin/thick clients. One thin client on display at the booth booted Ubuntu in
about 5
Due to traffic and the weather we got to the booth
at about 10:30 this morning. I was astonished at the number of visitors to the
GNHLUG booth specifically. People mostly wanted to know when/where the various
chapters have meetings. I strongly suggested they join the appropriate mailing
Thanks everyone for the suggestions on how to
capture license plate information. In the end we took a low tech approach. This
past Friday night we moved all our vehicles off the street and my son-in-law and
I sat out in one of our cars waiting to see if the shooters would show up again.
- Original Message -
From: Kevin D. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: Acceptance of OpenOffice.org (was Re: Gov't , economics and
technology (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL
I have a client who got a proposal for a PBX system and I suspect it might
be more costly then necessary. They need something like 20+ phones in their
new facility and I would like to have them have a counter bid. Is there a
local company doing this kind of work?
-Alex
Dang, replied to Jerry directly but wanted the list...
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From: hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Failure
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From: Jerry Feldman [EMAIL
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From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: GNHLUG gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core
4?
On 1/19/06, hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm installing
I'm installing Fedora Core 4 on a Dell SC1420
server that contains a hardware SATA RAID controller and 3 80 GB drives. So far
it appears that the hardware RAID (Dell Cerc /Adaptec) makes the 3 drives
transparent to the OS. That is Linux just saw an ~148 GB drive and installed on
it without
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From: Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core
4?
On Thursday 19 January 2006 07:12 pm, hewitt_tech wrote
There has been some excellent info on the list
recently about Linux with RAID but I was wondering if anyone had any reading
material recommendations? I noticed that Oreilly has a book entitled "Managing
RAID on Linux". According to the Amazon reviews though it got slammed because it
was
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From: Jon maddog Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]; GNHLUG
gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: Rationale for not releasing drivers as FOSS
[EMAIL
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,
then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
- Gerald Weinberg
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allow arbitrarily large numbers of disk devices to be addressed and managed.
-Alex
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From: Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: GNHLUG gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: RAID
I just accessed a web site called www.koders.com which can search most open
source code. I put in the search words "get DMI info" and one hit was for a file
called dmi_scan.c which is part of the 2.6.10 Linux kernel. Look's well
commented and might make a good jumping off point.
-Alex
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From: Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nice web site Bill!
To: Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: GNHLUG gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: Earthlink Cable
On Aug 10, 2005, at 16:34, Travis Roy wrote:
Anybody on
Because we have certain applications that will only
run under Windows, I was thinking about picking up a copy of Win4Lin Pro. Is
anyone using it and if so, what are your impressions?
-Alex
This is probably a very common question. I just
installed a shiny new SuSE 9.3 system and tried to setup printing to a Windows
shared printer. Oddly, although I can see the Windows file shares I can't see
the shared printer. I ran into this same issue with a Mac Mini. Apple's TIger
release
Very easy, continue past the mall exit and then bear left on the highway
about a half mile from the mall where the road splits. Although you need to
make your way across 5 lanes of traffic, take exit 6 at the top of the hill.
At the bottom of the ramp turn right. Proceed past the Wendy's on
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From: Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: PCI wireless NICs
On Thursday 04 August 2005 01:57 pm, Randy Edwards wrote:
The last time I checked, the G version of the
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