On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Peter Dobratz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I want to setup a linux server at home to do backups from various
computers around the house.
Amanda looks promising ( http://amanda.zmanda.com/ )
If you might be contemplating letting the workstations manage their
The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central NH GNHLUG chapter,
happens the first Monday of most months at the New Hampshire Technical
Institute's Library, room 146, at 7 PM. Next month's meeting is on April
7th at 7 PM. Directions and maps are available at
http://www.centralug.org Open
There are a few notebook drive enclosures on the market that work off
the power of the USB port with a 2.5 inch disk inside. You have to be
careful in the selection of the 2.5 inch drives that you put in the
enclosures to have very low power requirements, but you can find 160 GB
drives that do
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which government has granted the monopoly?
It's usually ... state for Telco.
Oh, it's worse than that. You forgot the whole ILEC vs CLEC
quagmire, where the company owning the
Paul Lussier writes:
Also, by definition, the gov't *is* run by idiots, even when they
get it right. Everyone gets lucky some of the time ;)
If enough people espouse and extol this way of thinking, I'm pretty
sure that this will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Regards,
--kevin
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Peter Dobratz wrote:
So I want to setup a linux server at home to do backups from various
computers around the house.
Amanda looks promising ( http://amanda.zmanda.com/ )
For the backup server, I want to setup a separate box, probably
running Debian. As the primary purpose of this computer
This is all so totally fascinating that I urge you to create
another mailing list (similar to gnhlug-jobs or gnhlug-announce)
on which this discussion can be given the attention it deserves.
After you've created that list and invited all interested
parties to join it, I'm sure the resultant
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are a few notebook drive enclosures on the market that work off
the power of the USB port with a 2.5 inch disk inside.
FYI, from what I've read, some of those devices violate the USB
spec, in terms of power
I'd recommend buying from a
vendor with an easy returns policy, just in case.
I agree with Ben's warning, and perhaps I was not clear enough in my
write-up that this was more or less a study and try scenario for those
that would build their own, ergo easy returns policies and deep study
of
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:37 -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
There are a few notebook drive enclosures on the market that work off
the power of the USB port with a 2.5 inch disk inside. You have to be
careful in the selection of the 2.5 inch drives that you put in the
enclosures to have very
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:14 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote:
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:37 -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
There are a few notebook drive enclosures on the market that work off
the power of the USB port with a 2.5 inch disk inside. You have to be
careful in the selection of the 2.5
Transformer-based wall-wart efficiency: Typically 23 - 28 %
Switching wall-wart efficiency: Typically 80 - 90%
For a device that will be on 24/7, a switching supply pays for itself in
less than a year in New England.
--DTVZ
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe this item,
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/7657/; that measures power
consumption might have been discussed on the list before but the same
folks now offer a more sophisticated model:
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 22:07 -0400, Peter Dobratz wrote:
For the backup server, I want to setup a separate box, probably
running Debian. As the primary purpose of this computer is just to
store the backups, my primary feature consideration is power
requirements. Is there anything out there
The Kill-a-watt loses all data on power loss; the other does not. Also, the
displayed resolution on the kill-a-watt is a bit coarse for things like wall
warts, though it apparently has higher internal resolution. I found it
necessary to run a wall wart off of one for a full 48 hours to get
I'm trying to find an nForce 2 motherboard, but it needs to be one with
onboard FireWire, using the nForce 2's MCP-T (southbridge) for the
FireWire functionality. Unfortunately, such boards are rather hard to
find anywhere these days for a reasonable price. The onboard controller
I'm looking for
The more sophisticated model has a USB interface.
--Bruce
PS: For 220, you can measure the two live legs using 2 separate meters.
But in general, things like dryers and ranges will have the same
readings for both legs.
BTW: You're dealing with deadly power here. I don't recommend cobbling
this
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:53 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe this item,
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/7657/; that measures power
consumption might have been discussed on the list before but the same
folks now offer a more
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please let me know if you have one I could buy/borrow/trade for or if
you would be willing to try some things out on it for me -- it *might*
already be fixed by recent changes made to support another problematic
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:48 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please let me know if you have one I could buy/borrow/trade for or if
you would be willing to try some things out on it for me -- it *might*
already be fixed by
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And, does anyone know of something like this that measures 220VAC as
well? (I'd really like to know what my stove and clothes dryer cost
me :)
If you bought the appliance within the past 20 years or so, it
should have
Isn't the MCP-T on lots of cheap nForce-2 based motherboards?
I believe so, but I'm not seeing very many that actually have the
FireWire functionality wired up. The Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe and Abit NF7-S
v2 are the only two I can confirm have what I'm after. There may well be
a Shuttle board
Ben Scott wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And, does anyone know of something like this that measures 220VAC as
well? (I'd really like to know what my stove and clothes dryer cost
me :)
If you bought the appliance within the past
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Shawn O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The manual for the DFI LanParty NFII Ultra says nVIDIA(R) nForce2TM MCP-T
and Agere FW803 Phy chips, so I guess that's what you mean
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 14:44 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Shawn O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The manual for the DFI LanParty NFII Ultra says nVIDIA(R) nForce2TM MCP-T
and Agere FW803 Phy chips, so I guess that's what you mean
clothes dryer cost me
All I know is that I have never, ever had quite the sensation of burying
my nose in sheets and towels dried in a clothes drier as I had with
clothes right off the clothes line.
The lack of that fresh, clean, natural scent is what clothes driers cost
me.
md
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Jon maddog
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 14:36 -0400, Shawn O'Shea wrote:
The manual for the DFI LanParty NFII Ultra says nVIDIA® nForce2TM
MCP-T and Agere FW803 Phy chips, so I guess that's what you mean
(http://us.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=1524CATEGORY_TYPE=MBSITE=US)
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:53:00AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe this item,
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/7657/; that measures power
consumption might have been discussed on the list before but the same
folks now offer a more
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:27 PM, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have two of the cheap ones that I'd be happy to loan out ...
Yah, if anyone wants to borrow my Kill-A-Watt, same deal.
-- Ben
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PS: For 220, you can measure the two live legs using 2 separate meters.
But in general, things like dryers and ranges will have the same
readings for both legs.
From what I remember of my stove wiring, the heating elements went
directly between the + - 120V legs, and may not have had any
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The dryer (at least mine) has different heat settings, which isn't
reflected in the yellow sticker.
While I'm not an appliance service tech, from what I've seen of that
sort of thing, multiple heat settings usually
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suspect the hard drives will be pushing things. Figure 15 watts
per disk.
Startup watts for the laptop drive I used in my new router was 4.5 watts.
You pay more for a laptop drive, but the power usage is certainly
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On Apr 7, 2008, at 23:10, Bob King wrote:
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I suspect the hard drives will be pushing things. Figure 15 watts
per disk.
Startup watts for the laptop drive I used in my new router was 4.5
watts.
I've got a set of the
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