Boston Linux Installfest XXVII Saturday November 10, 2007 Reminder today

2007-11-10 Thread Jerry Feldman
Boston Linux Installfest XXVII When: Saturday, November 10, 2007 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061 Parking: parking is available in front of the building with a ramp. Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further information and directions. Parking

Re: Power to the Pedants

2007-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 9, 2007 11:29 PM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why on Earth did you take *that* remark seriously? ;-) IOW, I was trolling for more pedantry :) Oh, well. That's different. Carry on, then. ;-) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing

Re: Fedora Eight is out on the streets!

2007-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 9, 2007 3:47 PM, mike shlitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I'm pretty much stuck with Comcast for TV and Internet. I've had nothing but issues with their internet service ... My experience has been that consumer Internet performance varies tremendously by locale. So one guy can love

Re: Power to the Pedants

2007-11-10 Thread Bill Ricker
IOW, I was trolling for more pedantry :) Oh, well. That's different. Carry on, then. ;-) My wife custom-ordered a button for me I'm not Pompous, I'm Pedantic There's a difference -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-11-10 Thread sean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2007-11-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
Did some research and found this sometimes occurs when the speed of the server nic is so much faster then the client nic. Apparently this showed up with the 2.6 kernel. [...] Could not find where I saw the original write up. But it has to do with the NIC in the server box being 1G

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

2007-11-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
As a programmer, I find your faith in computers amusing. Considering that computers have the ability to transition into an infinitude of wrong states (eg. Texas) I daily give praise and thanks that His Noodly Appendages somehow keep most systems operating more or less within spec. But that's

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

2007-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 10, 2007 4:05 PM, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... you're unlikely to see errors due to overruns because the protocols in question (DHCP, TFTP, etc) are designed to prevent that ... As a programmer, I find your faith in computers amusing. (Well, I'm more of a sysadmin

Re: Fedora Eight is out on the streets!

2007-11-10 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:27:52 -0500 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] The classic example is BitTorrent on an asymetric feed. The feed can suck down a lot, but can only send out a little; meanwhile, the rest of the swarm is trying to suck a lot from you. If you don't properly cap the

Re: Comcast!?!?

2007-11-10 Thread mike miller
The problem is that they are local. It's still not available in this part of Goffstown, but cable is so I'm stuck with Comcast. I guess that's not entirely true. I could go back to dial up. Mike Miller - Original Message - From: TARogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Comcast!?!?

2007-11-10 Thread VirginSnow
From: mike miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:20:48 -0500 The problem is that they are local. It's still not available in this part of Goffstown, but cable is so I'm stuck with Comcast. I guess that's not entirely true. I could go back to dial up. What is meant by

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

2007-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 10, 2007 5:05 PM, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all I said was that problems like bitrate mismatches at the PHY level or receiver overruns due to protocol errors are unlikely to be the culprit. They may be unlikely, but they sure do happen a lot. When these problems

A plague of daemons and the Unix Philosophy

2007-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
Okay, so I installed Fedora 8 today. As is my custom, I turned off the various and sundry magic daemons that Fedora's been shipping for years and years. These are daemons which do various magic things, like detect my hardware, mount my disks, and so on. I've never liked those things.

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

2007-11-10 Thread Ric Werme
Did some research and found this sometimes occurs when the speed of the server nic is so much faster then the client nic. Apparently this showed up with the 2.6 kernel. [...] Could not find where I saw the original write up. But it has to do with the NIC in the server box being 1G and

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

2007-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Nov 10, 2007 11:14 PM, Ric Werme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would love to get my paws on the marketroid that suggested people should sell Gbe for a corporate backbone and servers with 100 Mb to the workstations. It makes sense at first glance. Multiple clients, one server, 10 clients can

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

2007-11-10 Thread Drew Van Zandt
It makes sense at first glance. Multiple clients, one server, 10 clients can pull their full feed from the server. But you need some kind of flow control to make such a scenario work well, and Ethernet flow control is an inconsistent mess. It's more that you need to make sure that