Re: [AFMUG] The Wall

2017-11-16 Thread Graham McIntire
To be fair, the process of imminent domain is monumentally slow, they discuss it here: https://trumpconlaw.com/8-the-takings-clause On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:12 PM, Steve Jones wrote: > The division bell brings back some fond memories, well, they are more spotty >

Re: [AFMUG] Raspberry pi reliability

2017-11-12 Thread Graham McIntire
Absolutely rock solid as long as you have a decent micro SD card and reliable power. On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Lewis Bergman wrote: > You asked > > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017, 12:38 PM wrote: >> >> Well, yeah but that is not the fault of the pi >>

Re: [AFMUG] Good Weather App/site

2017-11-03 Thread Graham McIntire
I like using this: http://www.usairnet.com/cgi-bin/launch/code.cgi?Submit=Go=KTKI=TX Usually aviation weather sites have detailed wind forecasts that are handy for scheduling tower climbs. On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > I use this: >

Re: [AFMUG] Unbound DNS server with Raspberry Pi

2017-11-03 Thread Graham McIntire
2:04 PM, Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> is there a tool thats good for generating those kinds of graphs in bind? >> and is there a rule of thumb on queries/sec per #subs that is expected? >> >> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Graham Mc

Re: [AFMUG] Unbound DNS server with Raspberry Pi

2017-10-26 Thread Graham McIntire
and just upgraded them to pi3 this week. Here's some graphs to show how heavily they're used: http://g.vntx.net/a72a8dc4-4804-4fe0-b6d1-1cd279b4070e.png And the cpu usage for the same period: http://g.vntx.net/5e0b9e98-f774-4057-a1d0-2b37c15bde37.png Graham McIntire Verona Networks On Wed, Oct 18

Re: [AFMUG] OT cheap and easy website

2016-10-20 Thread Graham McIntire
Squarespace.com -- they are great to work with and the sites don't look remotely close to the garbage godaddy spits out. On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: > Working with WIX. Very similar to the website builder thingy Godaddy tries > to sell. > > From: Lewis

Re: [AFMUG] IOS SSH Client

2016-10-10 Thread Graham McIntire
Prompt - http://panic.com/prompt/ On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Darren Shea wrote: > Thirded – very useful app! > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Joshua Stump > *Sent:* Thursday, October 06, 2016 2:46 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re:

Re: [AFMUG] 3.6 GHz Licenses for Sale?

2016-08-24 Thread Graham McIntire
We have a NN license I'd be happy to part with. It's completely useless in our area around Dallas because of TowerStream. Hit me offlist and I'll make a great deal. On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > I have a suspicion that a certain large WISP aggregator is

Re: [AFMUG] OT: El Paso group promotes Juárez in taco tour.. the real stuff vatos all locos

2016-07-18 Thread Graham McIntire
We have a lot of amazing taco places here North of Dallas -- nearly all of them are in the back of shady gas stations (and they're really good.) On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote: > Taco de ojo...my favorite > https://youtu.be/ZH_RLrx60ok > On Jun

Re: [AFMUG] PowerDNS vs Bind for Resolver

2016-03-22 Thread Graham McIntire
Raspberry Pi. I like they take > up very little rack space and power and with quad cores are pretty fast and > now they support Centos. Have you had any issues with flash dying after > too many writes? > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Graham McIntire

Re: [AFMUG] PowerDNS vs Bind for Resolver

2016-02-28 Thread Graham McIntire
I run unbound on 2 raspberry Pi 2's, and they consistently outperform any other internal or external server I've set up. On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: > +100 on that one … > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Mike Hammett >

Re: [AFMUG] Fiber financing / loans? How are you paying for it.

2016-01-20 Thread Graham McIntire
I'm curious as well as to what equipment we need to go from 100% pure WISP to doing fiber as well. On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:44 PM, TJ Trout wrote: > How are all of you fiber guys paying to get this stuff in the ground ? All > self financing ? > > What is a good estimate to

Re: [AFMUG] AC power redundancy splitter

2016-01-18 Thread Graham McIntire
I have one of these, it works very well: http://www.digital-loggers.com/ats.html On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: > To be more specific, this isn't the exact model we use mostly but gives you > an idea: > > >

Re: [AFMUG] Looking to swap DNS VMs

2016-01-07 Thread Graham McIntire
I moved my DNS to cloudflare a few months ago and it's been great (on the free plan too.) I wrote a little ruby script to add all of the forwards for my reverse DNS via their API. Too bad they don't support reverse zones, I still have to run bind to handle all those. On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 1:43

Re: [AFMUG] 3.5GHz

2015-05-27 Thread Graham McIntire
Does anybody know if the new rules change anything with the ground earth station exclusion zones? TowerStream purchased the (unused) station here in Dallas and has forced other companies to pay them a licensing engineering fees. I've had a nation-wide license since they were available, but can't

Re: [AFMUG] How frequently have you had a price increase?

2014-10-07 Thread Graham McIntire via Af
We're in a JAB area as well. Haven't done a single price increase since we started in 2006, only increased speeds. Our pricing is pretty close to JAB's, but we don't have any of their hidden fees and equipment rental fee garbage. Whatever we're doing seems to work, we get floods of their customers