Re: Fedora Eight is out on the streets!

2007-11-09 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:04:36 -0800 (PST) From: Bayard Coolidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or be a Comcast customer, unless you're VERY patient. Took 7.5 hours using BitTorrent, average d/l speed purportedly 145 kb/s. Started at 10:21 AM EST, and finished just a few minutes ago. D/L behaviour was

Re: Fedora Eight is out on the streets!

2007-11-09 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 09:11 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:04:36 -0800 (PST) From: Bayard Coolidge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or be a Comcast customer, unless you're VERY patient. Took 7.5 hours using BitTorrent, average d/l speed purportedly 145 kb/s. Started at

Re: Fedora Eight is out on the streets!

2007-11-09 Thread Ted Roche
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard, somewhere, that Comcast is actually being sued for violating net neutrality. I don't believe that net neutrality is the law of the land. There are many who argue it may not even be a good idea, but that's beyond this thread about Fedora by far...

Re: Power supply monitoring in Linux?

2007-11-09 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you strike out with the onboard stuff and really need it, one of the booths at LinuxWorld a year or two ago had smart power strips with SNMP. I assume there was some kind of trapping on electrical characteristics. We've got them. APC sells them.

Comcast [ was Fedora Eight is out on the streets!]

2007-11-09 Thread Paul Lussier
Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard, somewhere, that Comcast is actually being sued for violating net neutrality. Try googling for it as Ted did. There's plenty of new available about it. Even Congress is aware of it (someone must be up for re-election

Ignition (was Re: tftp config problem (ltsp))

2007-11-09 Thread sean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My advice? Just forget about the maze of directories you've created: Just stick all the files in $TFTPROOT, edit all the directory names out of your config files, and try booting. Then, once it works, you can try doing fancy things like $(((play tada.wav)) using

Re: Comcast [ was Fedora Eight is out on the streets!]

2007-11-09 Thread VirginSnow
From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:26:25 -0500 Subject: Comcast [ was Fedora Eight is out on the streets!] Oops, yes. I ought to have changed the subject line. Sorry. Comcast (and other CATV providers) *still* seem to think of themselves as a TV provider first

Re: Comcast!?!?

2007-11-09 Thread Joseph
Hello Ted/everyone, Ted, I respect your opinion but I beg to differ. Comcast is no longer on a vendor list of mine. First it was banning servers, then bandwidth caps and now this. Net Neutrality is important to me and I make my choice know with my $$'s and thats my perogative. Consumers

Re: Comcast!?!?

2007-11-09 Thread Tony Lambiris
Can anyone recommend a good broadband provider in the Manchester area? Im with Comcast right now, refuse to go to Verizon due to their company practices, curious if anyone out there is using something else? On Nov 9, 2007 11:44 AM, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Ted/everyone, Ted, I

Re: Comcast!?!?

2007-11-09 Thread Cole Tuininga
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:52 -0500, Tony Lambiris wrote: Can anyone recommend a good broadband provider in the Manchester area? Im with Comcast right now, refuse to go to Verizon due to their company practices, curious if anyone out there is using something else? I've worked with Worldpath

Re: Comcast!?!?

2007-11-09 Thread TARogue
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Tony Lambiris wrote: Can anyone recommend a good broadband provider in the Manchester area? Im with Comcast right now, refuse to go to Verizon due to their company practices, curious if anyone out there is using something else? MV Communications offers DSL for rates from

Re: Comcast!?!?

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 9, 2007 11:52 AM, Tony Lambiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a good broadband provider in the Manchester area? Contact MV Communications (http://www.mv.com/). They provide GNHLUG's Internet hosting, and are one of the best companies I've ever dealt with. I know they

Re: Power supply monitoring in Linux?

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 9, 2007 10:08 AM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need to monitor it in the OS to detect the failure on one of the redundant power supplies (it would be tough to detect the failure the second :) Nonsense, that's *easy* to detect. Kind of impacts availability, though. ;-) --

Microsoft caught bribing Nigerian official; Mandriva back on Nigerian-bought Classmate

2007-11-09 Thread Michael Kazin
As mentioned on this list a few days ago, at the end of the board meeting, Maddog showed us the Classmate - the small Intel-based box being developed to compete with OLPC. It turns out Microsoft had used a bribe to compete with Linux which was originally supposed to come on these systems. I

Re: Comcast!?!?

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 9, 2007 11:44 AM, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net Neutrality is important to me I'm really starting to hate Net Neutrality. You ask five people about what NN means, and you get at least six different answers. Blech. There's little worse than a popular cause without a

Re: Comcast [ was Fedora Eight is out on the streets!]

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 9, 2007 11:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead, these companies claimed that, in order to provide DSL, they had to line share with Verizon and that (drumroll, please) Verizon had not yet released the rights to line share for dry loop service. Yah, the big telcos are just as evil

Power to the Pedants [was: Power supply monitoring in Linux? ]

2007-11-09 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 9, 2007 10:08 AM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need to monitor it in the OS to detect the failure on one of the redundant power supplies (it would be tough to detect the failure the second :) Nonsense, that's *easy* to detect. Kind

Re: Power to the Pedants [was: Power supply monitoring in Linux? ]

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 9, 2007 1:32 PM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need to monitor it in the OS to detect the failure on one of the redundant power supplies (it would be tough to detect the failure the second :) Nonsense, that's *easy* to detect. Kind of impacts availability, though. ;-)

Re: Fedora Eight is out on the streets!

2007-11-09 Thread mike shlitz
Hi, When I lived on the NH seacoast and had DSL, I had no problems. Here in Temple, NH I'm pretty much stuck with Comcast for TV and Internet. I've had nothing but issues with their internet service (and I pay for their fastest speed burst option). My Vonage conversations , if they go on

Re: Power supply monitoring in Linux?

2007-11-09 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Friday 09 November 2007 10:08, Paul Lussier wrote: Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you strike out with the onboard stuff and really need it, one of the booths at LinuxWorld a year or two ago had smart power strips with SNMP. I assume there was some kind of trapping on

Used batteries, free to a good home

2007-11-09 Thread Ted Roche
I thought a hobbyist might still have use for these batteries. I pulled them out of a client's second-hand APC 900 VA UPS, as they were not the OEM batteries and they were of an unknown capacity. If anyone would like to have them, let me know, otherwise I'll take them to the recycling center.

Re: Ignition (was Re: tftp config problem (ltsp))

2007-11-09 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:07:18 + From: sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] During the boot process was getting error notices about not being able to connect to the nfs server. Did some research and found this sometimes occurs when the speed of the server nic is so much faster then the client

Re: Comcast!?!?

2007-11-09 Thread Jerry Feldman
Why I do agree that Comcast violated Net Neutrality, I do want to mention that Comcast and all their previous cable companies, ATT BB, Mediaone and Continental Cable Vision had a no server clause. One of the original reasons was that cable TV systems had a very low available bandwidth for upload.

Re: Comcast

2007-11-09 Thread Bruce Dawson
Ric Werme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly, I *was* able to find one company (yes, ONE company out of all those listed in the yellow pages under Internet Service) that was able to offer a dry loop at my location (downtown Dover). Even more interesting is the fact that this

Re: Comcast

2007-11-09 Thread Ric Werme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interestingly, I *was* able to find one company (yes, ONE company out of all those listed in the yellow pages under Internet Service) that was able to offer a dry loop at my location (downtown Dover). Even more interesting is the fact that this company, MV Communications,

Re: Power supply monitoring in Linux?

2007-11-09 Thread Paul Lussier
Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If not, there is an easy way to insert a small board between the power supplies with a fly lead off to some interrupt node on the motherboard. All plug-in stuff, no soldering or trace cutting. Costs money, though. Right. That probably won't

[GNHLUG] NHRuby.org Meeting on Monday Nov. 12: Reporting with Rails.

2007-11-09 Thread Scott Garman
This month's NHRuby.org meeting topic will be on reporting using Ruby on Rails. Guest speaker David Berube will cover using ActiveRecord to retrieve data from a database and demonstrate the use of Ruport, Gruff, and css_helper to present it. David is a resident of New Hampshire and the author of

Re: Power to the Pedants

2007-11-09 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 9, 2007 1:32 PM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need to monitor it in the OS to detect the failure on one of the redundant power supplies (it would be tough to detect the failure the second :) Nonsense, that's *easy* to detect. Kind of