[Eug-lug]Current PLUG Speakers Schedule?? Also - MORE PLUG SPEAKERS WANTED

2002-12-24 Thread David Mandel
Hello, It will soon be a new year and I'm a bit confused about our speaking schedule. I gotten my books screwed up. In any case, let me know if you have volunteered to speak to PLUG and I haven't scheduled you or if you haven't volunteered but would like to volunteer to speak to PLUG.

Re: [Eug-lug]Deleted? // topic bind/sendmail grub

2002-12-24 Thread Horst
Hhm, sounds like interesting material for an open-format LUG topic. I'd love to see that conversation between the two of you 'on stage' at EFN HQ. I have one client where I have to make sendmail/bind configurations, eventually getting it done somehow, never w/o bruises, never with sufficient

Re: [Eug-lug]Movie Thread: Bowling for Columbine

2002-12-24 Thread Joseph Carter
Well, due to the short notice and the impending holidays, there was a remarkably small crowd present for Bowling for Columbine. A crowd of just three, in fact. I cannot recommend this film enough. It is truly a thing to see! I think the three of us have concluded that we're all going to move

RE: [Eug-lug]Mirroring a drive (all partitions and the MBR)

2002-12-24 Thread Dexter Graphic
I will try it again tonight before bedtime. I figure it will take several hours to duplicate my 40 GB drive. Which block size do you think I should use to improve the speed? Is bigger better? It should take 1-2 hours, if you have all the right hdparm settings. Using Debian's

RE: [Eug-lug]Mirroring a drive (all partitions and the MBR)

2002-12-24 Thread Mike O
For those of you who don't mind something a tad proprietary, Symantec's Ghost works rather well with ext2/3 partitions and I ghosted my 20 to a 60 and a few days later to an 80 and all I had to do each time was use my Linuxcare CD to run lilo and I could be up and running again. Total time for the

Re: [Eug-lug]Mirroring a drive (all partitions and the MBR)

2002-12-24 Thread Ralph Zeller
On 12/24/02 06am, Dexter Graphic wrote: I will try it again tonight before bedtime. I figure it will take several hours to duplicate my 40 GB drive. Which block size do you think I should use to improve the speed? Is bigger better? It should take 1-2 hours, if you have all

Re: [Eug-lug]Deleted?

2002-12-24 Thread Bob Crandell
Jacob Meuser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 05:28:30AM +, Bob Crandell wrote: ;; ANSWERS: ocicat.crandell.net.7146CNAME sd1.mailbank.com. sd1.mailbank.com. 1426A 64.15.175.5 It looks like ocicat and sd1 are the same machine. I don't know

Re: [Eug-lug]Two Towers

2002-12-24 Thread Linux Rocks !
On Monday 23 December 2002 09:07 pm, Bob Crandell wrote: Being exclusive with your popcorn or should I offer my condolences to it? Jamie : You bite your tongue if you're talking. I guess you're right about the : hotdogs. You aren't smelling my popcorn. : : Linux Rocks ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [Eug-lug]Two Towers

2002-12-24 Thread Bob Crandell
The picture that formed of your proboscis hanging over my popcorn would gag a maggot, so yes, I am being exclusive with my popcorn. Merry Christmas. Linux Rocks ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: On Monday 23 December 2002 09:07 pm, Bob Crandell wrote: Being exclusive with your popcorn or should I

Re: [Eug-lug]Two Towers

2002-12-24 Thread Linux Rocks !
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:22 pm, Bob Crandell wrote: well.. I could see how that would be disturbing... specially when you look at this: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~phyl/proboscis.gif However... you can smell popcorn from quite a distance (theyby not requiring noses to be hanging over

RE: [Eug-lug]Mirroring a drive (all partitions and the MBR)

2002-12-24 Thread Dexter Graphic
Dexter, Your drive is still taking way too long. Use hdparm if necessary to set (turn on) the speedier features of your drive. You should be able to read and write your drive a whole lot faster than 4 hours. Ralph Well, that would be nice but I tested all the options you suggested

[Eug-lug]Hard Disk Performance Optimization with hdparm

2002-12-24 Thread Dexter Graphic
Here are some tests I just ran to see how various hdparm options affected my system's hard drive throughput (aka data copy speed or drive performance). Note: hdparm can do terrible things to your hard drive and your data so read the manual and be very careful what you type when you use this