Re: OT: CRAC

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For small setups (handfuls of commodity x86 servers running in small businesses), Does 300+ still count as a handful? ;) PCs are a lot more tolerant of temperature and humidity then the mini's and mainframes of yore. The ideal temperature for most

Re: OT: OT

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/4/05, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Labeling this OT since it only applies to a server environment, and could even apply to other OS's, though Why would you want to do that?] #ifdef RANT I think it's a damn freaking shame that we can

Hardware FAQs and the wiki? [ was Alternative to k3b? ]

2005-11-07 Thread Paul Lussier
Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the suggestions on a DVD burner... [...] So to the questions: Is there a better program to use for this purpose? Is there something that I can do to get k3b to work better? I'm not too swift at the CLI, but am willing to try about anything

Responsibility for Enet link state

2005-11-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
What entity, if any, on an Enet-equipped system is responsible for seeing to it that the interfaces are live and operating at (somebody's definition of) the proper speed/duplex/etc? I'm asking because we have some systems running RHEL4 with some 10/100 NICs that occasionally wake up confused

CentraLUG meeting TONIGHT, 7 PM, NHTI Library room

2005-11-07 Thread Ted Roche
The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central New Hampshire chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group, occurs on the first Monday of each month on the New Hampshire Institute Campus starting at 7 PM. This month, we'll be meeting in Room 146 of the Library/Learning

Re: Responsibility for Enet link state

2005-11-07 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Michael ODonnell writes: What entity, if any, on an Enet-equipped system is responsible for seeing to it that the interfaces are live and operating at (somebody's definition of) the proper speed/duplex/etc? ifup, nowadays. ethtool is wrapped in there too. Try adding something like

Re: CentraLUG meeting TONIGHT, 7 PM, NHTI Library room

2005-11-07 Thread Jon maddog Hall
Ted, I can't attend the meeting tonight, I am off overseas again, but if anyone can talk a bit about what is happening with OASIS in Massachusetts, and (actually more important) the movement of IT selection from the executive branch to the legislative branch, that might be worth discussing a bit.

Astute observations about MSFT v ODF

2005-11-07 Thread Greg Rundlett
Stephen Walli makes some astute observations in his recent blog post[1] about how and why the Open Document standard in particular is forcing the hand of Microsoft. He likens the current battle to those that other major market leaders like DEC have faced in the past, and predicts a similar fate

Re: CentraLUG meeting TONIGHT, 7 PM, NHTI Library room

2005-11-07 Thread Greg Rundlett
On 11/7/05, Jon maddog Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted, I can't attend the meeting tonight, I am off overseas again, but if anyone can talk a bit about what is happening with OASIS in Massachusetts, and (actually more important) the movement of IT selection from the executive branch to the

Mass Open Document Format

2005-11-07 Thread Greg Rundlett
Apologies if you read this twice. I should have changed the thread topic before so that people could see this in it's own thread. Forwarded memo from Tom Rabon Executive Vice President Corporate Affairs at RedHat Original Message Subject:Massachusetts Open Document

Re: Responsibility for Enet link state

2005-11-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
Try adding something like ETHTOOL_OPTS=speed 100 duplex full autoneg off That looks promising. Thanks! ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: OT: OT

2005-11-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/7/05, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, it goes to prove there's more interest in the technically-related political threads ... You incorrectly perceive a few people making a lot of noise as widespread interest. I'll also dispute the technically-related claim; most of this

Upper Valley Computer Industry Association meeting Linux does Windows

2005-11-07 Thread Ted Roche
Searching for other computer-related groups in NH, I happened upon this one, and thought a cross-posted announcement of their upcoming meeting would be appropriate. Note that the times are AM! Wednesday November 16, 2005 Fireside Inn Suites, West Lebanon, NH (I89, exit 20) Continental

Re: Upper Valley Computer Industry Association meeting Linux does Windows

2005-11-07 Thread Randy Edwards
On Monday 07 November 2005 14:40, Ted Roche wrote: Searching for other computer-related groups in NH, I happened upon this one, and thought a cross-posted announcement of their upcoming meeting would be appropriate. Note that the times are AM! [...] 7:30 Registration, networking, and

Re: Hardware FAQs and the wiki? [ was Alternative to k3b? ]

2005-11-07 Thread Tom Buskey
On 11/7/05, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, with that in mind, can anyone recommend a decent,not-too-expensive video card that has digital-output for driving LCDpanels and works well with linux?Since this will be for a sw-dev environment, gaming and refresh rate are not the focus, but

47% off O'Reilly book sale at bookpool.com

2005-11-07 Thread Donald Leslie {74279}
www.bookpool.com is running their once per year 47% off sale on all O'Reilly books . I do not know how much longer it runs. Don Leslie ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Hardware FAQs and the wiki? [ was Alternative to k3b? ]

2005-11-07 Thread Jason Stephenson
Tom Buskey wrote: I've used a Matrox G450 to drive dual CRTs. I'll second the Matrox G450 recommendation. I've used 'em for the exact same purpose back before they were inexpensive. Ran it on a triple boot system with Debian GNU/Linux, FreeBSD 4.x, and Windows 2000 Pro. Worked great in