Monadlug Thursday (tomorrow) Sept. 13, 2007

2007-09-12 Thread Charles Farinella
Who:  Charlie Farinella What: Recording from analog sources to digital Date:  Thursday Sept. 13, 2007 Time:  7:00PM Where:  SAU 1 office, 106 Hancock Rd., Peterborough              http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MonadLUG One approach to converting your old LP's to CD. -- Charles

Re: fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs

2007-09-12 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/11/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded my laptop from fedora 6 to fedora 7. Now I've discovered I can no longer burn CDs or DVDs. In the past, I've had trouble with those auto-media-detect-and-mount daemons trying to auto-mount a disc as I'm trying to write to

Re: fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs

2007-09-12 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:08 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 9/11/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded my laptop from fedora 6 to fedora 7. Now I've discovered I can no longer burn CDs or DVDs. In the past, I've had trouble with those auto-media-detect-and-mount

SSL certs/keys and Apache

2007-09-12 Thread Thomas Charron
Anyone ever use a passphrase protected private key with apache, and found a way to provide the passkey safely to apache without requiring the passphrase be typed in each time the private key is used? -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs

2007-09-12 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/12/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second. That exclusivity error only shows up sometimes. I think the retry succeeds. Right, because the auto-thingies all work by polling the device. So

Re: SSL certs/keys and Apache

2007-09-12 Thread Thomas Charron
On 9/12/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone ever use a passphrase protected private key with apache, and found a way to provide the passkey safely to apache without requiring the passphrase be typed in each time the private key

Re: SSL certs/keys and Apache

2007-09-12 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/12/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the meantime, I have found that you can actually remove the passphrase from the key easily enough with the standard openssl application. :-) Oh. You didn't ask *that*. ;-) -- Ben ___

Re: [semi-OT] Review: Comcast Workplace cable Internet

2007-09-12 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/10/07, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where could you get anywhere close to 12mbps for anywhere close to $1000/month? Like I said, over $1000 month. The key word being over. ) No worries - I just hoped you had a reference for those numbers... I had to jump at the

Re: [semi-OT] Review: Comcast Workplace cable Internet

2007-09-12 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:23, Ben Scott wrote: Oh. I see your point now. :) Bandwidth that is good, fast, *and* cheap. Definitely a sort of holy grail. And equally elusive, I would say. But in this case, even picking 2 doesn't work. The uptime SLAs aren't as important to us.

Re: [semi-OT] Review: Comcast Workplace cable Internet

2007-09-12 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/12/07, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure that something like FiOS would be stable enough for us. Cable seems a little unreliable ... To the best of my knowledge, all the Verizon FiOS and Comcast data services are consumer class. They'll be pretty much similar in

AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs

2007-09-12 Thread Tony Lambiris
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=NjA1Mw Thoughts? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs

2007-09-12 Thread Tyson Sawyer
FWIW, I've not had any problems like this w/Gnome/Ubuntu and it has the automount thingies. the automount stuff does annoy me from time to time, but it doesn't cause failures when burning CDs or DVDs. Cheers! Ty On 9/12/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/12/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL

Re: AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs

2007-09-12 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 16:18 -0400, Tony Lambiris wrote: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=NjA1Mw Thoughts? Well, I have not seen the document, but it seems about 5,700 pages shorter than the OOXML specification. Probably clearer and fewer bugs in the specification. And the

Re: fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs

2007-09-12 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:03 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 9/12/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second. That exclusivity error only shows up sometimes. I think the retry succeeds. Right,

Re: AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs

2007-09-12 Thread Tony Lambiris
I haven't touched an Intel product since the days of them charging over $500 for a processor. AMD came in and stomped them with their K7, and as long as AMD continues to do the Right Thing(tm), they will always have my support. I've already begun liquidating my NVIDIA stuff; even if they start

Re: AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs

2007-09-12 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Tony, As normal, I probably understated my enthusiasm for what AMD/ATI have done. I do find it interesting that it seemed to take AMD buying ATI before this happened. AMD has long been a supporter of FOSS. They were one of the first sponsors of the Linux kernel summit. I also find it

Re: AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs

2007-09-12 Thread Tony Lambiris
I find that interesting as well. My first experience with Linux was on Slackware 3.something trying to get X working with my ATI rage 3D integrated graphics card... I spent many sleepless nights trying to get that to work, so needless to say ATI has always left a bitter taste in my mouth. :) In

Re: fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs

2007-09-12 Thread Frank DiPrete
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 09:08 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 9/11/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded my laptop from fedora 6 to fedora 7. Now I've discovered I can no longer burn CDs or DVDs. In the past, I've had trouble with those auto-media-detect-and-mount

Re: a question regarding the use of Split operator in Perl

2007-09-12 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't need to put parenthesis around arguments to split, and you don't need to explicitly specify the default pattern match target ($_). Unfortunately, you both don't *need* to and *can* do anything in perl. Often at the same time! This is what

Perl best practices (was: question ... Split operator in Perl)

2007-09-12 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/12/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need to put parenthesis around arguments to split, and you don't need to explicitly specify the default pattern match target ($_). Unfortunately, you both don't *need* to and *can* do anything in perl. Often at the same time!

Motherboard capable of supporting over 32 GB RAM

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Jenkins
Does anyone have any recommendations? Preferably with DDR-800 support. It'll run both Linux and Windows XP 64 and is used for simulations. Thanks. -- Dan Jenkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, USA --- 1-603-206-9951 *** Technical Support Excellence for over a Quarter Century

Re: fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs

2007-09-12 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:23 -0400, Lloyd Kvam wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:03 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 9/12/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second. That exclusivity error only

Re: Motherboard capable of supporting over 32 GB RAM

2007-09-12 Thread Dan Miller
The Tyan S2927 Thunder n3600B supports 32GB of RAM. It only does DDR 677 though. More info http://tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=175. Check out Tyan though, they might have what you want. The s2927 is a very nice more. I'm running it with very little issues. Dan Dan Jenkins wrote: Does

Re: [semi-OT] Review: Comcast Workplace cable Internet

2007-09-12 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 10, 2007, at 16:48, Bruce Dawson wrote: I seem to remember somewhere that Comcast's available meant you get a signal. This is generally possible if the wire is unbroken between the last pole and your building entrance. However, this does not guarantee signal quality - which is what

Re: sendmail masquerading question

2007-09-12 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 9, 2007, at 21:25, Ben Scott wrote: What would be needed to configure Postfix on SATURN to rewrite From addresses (masquerade, in Sendmail terms) for Steven's machines to be @syslang.net? Don't forget it has to rewrite mail from PLUTO as well as locally-originated mail. For the

Re: Perl best practices (was: question ... Split operator in Perl)

2007-09-12 Thread John Abreau
On Wed, September 12, 2007 9:37 pm, Ben Scott said: s/^[\x20\t]*//; # trim leading space s/[\x20\t]*$//; # trim trailing space Any particular reason to use [\x20\t] instead of \s ? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL