2 more open positions at Siemens PLM in Lebanon

is a little bit.) Anyway, here is the posting: DevOps Compiler Engineer <https://jobs.siemens-info.com/jobs/198778> -- Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com "Don't be nervous about the robots, be nervous about the people with the resources to build them." --Randall Munro

Job postings here or somewhere else? (IT/SysAdmin job in Lebanon, NH)

in Lebanon if anyone is interested in joining: https://jobs.siemens-info.com/jobs/194198 -- Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com "Don't be nervous about the robots, be nervous about the people with the resources to build them." --Randall Munroe; Robots <https://

Re: Suggestions: Job boards, listings, contacts? for Senior Technical Writer

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 5:46 PM, David Rysdam <da...@rysdam.org> wrote: > Alan Johnson <a...@datdec.com> writes: > > Back when I worked for one of the top recruiting companies, the industry > > experts there said indeed.com ...[was] the top resume > > posting se

Re: Suggestions: Job boards, listings, contacts? for Senior Technical Writer

ed Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > ___ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > -- Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com Date Format P

drop the plan to kill net neutrality

=.4887258.1Jtz-O=mailto_sp Thanks. -- Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com Date Format PSA <http://xkcd.com/1179/> ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Amber screen?

ave any ideas on how to make this happen? Or should I give up > now and pay more attention to the keynote speaker? > > Thanks, > > -Ken > ___ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.o

Re: iptables confusion.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Every time I think I'm getting to the point where I might understand IP > Tables, I do something that proves that, no, I really don't. Today's > confusion: I want to set up a virtual NIC to do port forwarding. But >

Re: What Language for a kid

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Ric Werme <r...@wermenh.com> wrote: > PostScript is a Lisp variant. It has some nice visual output. > ​There you have it, Kenny. Teach your daughter PostScript. -- Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com Date Format PSA <http:

Re: What Language for a kid

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Bill Freeman wrote: > I can't resist. There is always lisp. No indentation. No semicolons. > Format it so that it makes sense to you. Anyone approaching algebra will > get the bonus of learning that parentheses must match. > ​I will

Re: What Language for a kid

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Chris Linstid wrote: > AI and Emacs plugins... and there may be some overlap there. > ​ctrl-meta-meta-ctrl-spacebar-up-left-down-right then you just think about the plugin you want and the emacs plugin writer plugin writes the plugin you want

Re: What Language for a kid

> never yielded wonderful results for most of the adults I know, so other > ideas would be welcome. > > Thanks, > Kenny > > > ___ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/

Re: Network system monitoring tools? Nagios, Zabbix, ...?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Looking to set up some system for monitoring systems on the network at work; _vaguely_ familiar with nagios and zabbix What do you guys generally find preferable, and why? Nagios? Zabbix? Something else?

FreeNAS/ZFS woes (was Re: Is bcache ready for enterprise production?)

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com writes: I'm in the process of replacing a FreeNAS install at $WORK with Linux. I I'm curious why you are replacing FreeNAS? I've heard nothing but good things about it, so I'd be interested

FreeNAS/ZFS woes (was Re: Is bcache ready for enterprise production?)

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I've never used FreeNAS, but I've used ZFS quite a bit. I've used it natively on Solaris at work and on Ubuntu with ZFS on Linux at home. I've been very happy with it. There is information out there on tuning/not tuning

Re: Is bcache ready for enterprise production?

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:47 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com wrote: A possibly relevant comment on bcache not being in RH 7 here: http://serverfault.com/questions/616129/centos-7-bcache ​Yes, that's the same post I found about it. That's all I have been able to find so far.​

Is bcache ready for enterprise production?

in the 3.13 kernel? Anyone know any additional details about why RH left it out? Any other relevant information? Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com Date Format PSA http://xkcd.com/1179/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: keepassx

Lastpass.com. not floss but it just works. I have not tried it on a chromebook, but it works everywhere else, mainly as a browser plugin, so I can't imagine any trouble. On Jul 31, 2014 2:29 AM, Karl Hergenrother 33kar...@gmail.com wrote: I just bought a Chromebook. Its a good computer for my

Re: Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)

On Dec 6, 2013 9:33 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Performance comparison: svn checkout single repository on old infrastructure real5m44.100s user0m36.957s sys 0m14.757s svn checkout single repository on new infrastructure, but only using NFS for read

Re: Resume length and history

read the rest and probably want to talk to you. ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com Date Format PSA http://xkcd.com/1179/ On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Not specifically Linux-related, but I was wondering what other people are seeing

Job: Senior Development Tools Engineer, Lebanon, NH

-senior_development_tools_engineer.html on our web site. Also, we are still looking for the right fit for the second of the 2 positions mentioned below. Let me know if you apply for anything and I will see about putting in a good word... or maybe a few bad ones. ;-) ___ Alan Johnson

Re: Routing fun?

only for resources on its network. You can confirm it is working with route -n on the box running the client. It should have an IP address on your VPN as your default gateway. ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Routing fun?

and just want to keep other machines from accidentally getting through your VPN link, this would be fine. ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: On 2012-12-28 11:26, Alan Johnson wrote: There should be an option

Job: 2 Systems Administrators, Lebanon, NH

, and software development tools is valued. ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: World's largest web comic panel

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: Personally, I don't think something that tries to walk to the end is all that brutish. =) It's not so much the walking to the end, but the walking

Re: World's largest web comic panel

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.comwrote: Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com writes: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote

Re: World's largest web comic panel

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: With all due respect, this programming mumbo jumbo is fine and all, but it overlooks a much more serious issue with the comic: a complete and utter

Re: World's largest web comic panel

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: ... thwarted by the unholy amount of hole-iness in the map: you can't just start at the center, walk until you hit `the end' of the

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Currently downloading/installing Big Blue Button (almost typed Big Blue Marble); I'll let youses [sic -- I'm from Jersey] know how it goes. Last I knew, BBB was using flash as the default client (Java for anyone looking to

Re: New Android tablet from ZaReason

purchase. ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: New Android tablet from ZaReason

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.comwrote: Is `use Ubuntu on the android while it's still in mobile mode' actually a part of the `Ubuntu for Android' plan ...? That's what I had come to understand: full access to all Android and Ubuntu apps whether docked

Re: I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

is for you. Though, I'm not sure about the touch of their new keyboards (like new macbooks), but I have not used it much. To each his own, so worth playing with. Also, you will probably want to check for the model on http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ before you buy anything. ___ Alan

Re: Tablet recommendations?

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I bought an ASUS Transformer (TF101). I just bought the same with doc for my grandmother-in-law who is laid up in the hospital with a broken leg and so won't be using her desktop for a while after returning home either.

CLVM + DRBD dual primary? (was Re: replicated file system?)

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.orgwrote: As pointed out before, DRBD can do active/active, so long as the filesystem on top support it (GFS2 and OCFS2). The DRBD team even has documentation to get you started: http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/ch-gfs.html

Re: CLVM + DRBD dual primary? (was Re: replicated file system?)

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: However, being a hot copy means any filesystem metadata would be in whatever state the failed node left them, which may or may not be an acceptable risk in some situations. Some sort of distributed

Re: replicated file system?

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: There *are* distributed filesystems -- btrfs has ceph, which has come a long, long way. Lustre and Gluster also come to mind. Caveat: I've not used these, I worked with the good folks at Gluster at my last job, fall of

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.infowrote: On Tue 14 Feb 2012 05:06:24 PM EST, Alan Johnson wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info mailto:step...@sryanfamily.info wrote: Deja Dup is the default backup app

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Ralph A. Mack ralphm...@comcast.netwrote: If backup (or any act of maintenance) is something I need to remember to do, it will never happen. If it's something I can set up once and then forget about for a few years, that'll work. I know that's not the attitude

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Ralph A. Mack ralphm...@comcast.netwrote: Yeah, I probably didn't say exactly what I meant, just what I wished I could mean. :) The key thing is that I can be reactive at need rather than proactive. Email is a good tool to tell me I'd better take a look.

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

have not see a way to uniquely identify a server other than by name/IPA. ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.infowrote: On 02/14/2012 03:16 PM, Ralph A. Mack wrote: I don't want to take a lot of time studying the problem or fiddling with a lot of options. I'd rather do my creative stuff than spend my life doing IT. (I switched from

Re: VPN only session.

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Greg Kettmann g...@kettmann.com wrote: On 10/16/2011 11:38 AM, Alan Johnson wrote: Have you considered having your windows client only route traffic for your VPN through the VPN, leaving everything else for the Internet? Not sure if that is quite what you

Fwd: VPN only session.

reply-to-all fail. Sorry. ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com -- Forwarded message -- From: Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com Date: Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:38 AM Subject: Re: VPN only session. To: Greg Kettmann g...@kettmann.com On Oct 16, 2011 10:14 AM, Greg Kettmann g

Video editor recommendations

. Any relevant thoughts are appreciated, but the more specific the better. Thanks! ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Jon maddog Hall mad...@li.org wrote: I still have my old SEARS portable, manual (non-electric) typewriter in my closet. I learned to type on a Royal 10 (a 1919 model, I think). I neevr

Re: VoltDB?

Dunno, but there was a recent FLOSS Weekly about it: http://twit.tv/floss149. I don't remember anything about it really so it must not have been too relevant to us. We run MySQL at $WORK too. Certainly worth a download if you have some drive time or something. ___ Alan Johnson

Re: VoltDB?

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com) noz...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked at the Drizzle fork of MySQL? It is being driven by a number of ex-MySQL folks and focusing on cloud/web architectures and scaling. http://drizzle.org/ -marc Yeah, cool. That one

Re: Resara Server release

Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Warren Luebkeman war...@resara.com wrote: Today, after over a year of full time development, we are launching Resara Server Beta 1, which features: An Active Directory Compatible Domain with Samba 4 User and PC Management File Serving Automatic Drive Mapping

Re: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Ryan Stanyan ryan.stan...@gmail.comwrote: Also, I think you can force apt to install a package by running apt- get -f install. -f will fix stuff, like getting dependences from a failed dpkg -i and finishing the install, but won't force an install of a

Re: Open Webinar Software that runs on Linux

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Hi, I am trying to find some Open Source software that can do a webinar. I heard about Big Blue Button http://bigbluebutton.org/ on a recent eppisode of FLOSS weekly http://twit.tv/floss147. It is only focused on remote

Re: Netflix and Hulu [Was Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap]

there? ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Netflix and Hulu [Was Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap]

they paid good money for. I'm a little annoyed that Amazon's down-loadable option is for windows only, but their lose since I just use their bandwidth to stream my videos in the Flash player, over and over and over... Donkeys. /rant ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com On Wed, Jan 26

SOLVED: Re: Android printer recommendations

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: I vaguely remember topics like this floating around before, but since these things change so much I didn't see much point in digging it up. I'm looking for a new scanner/printer/copier combo and my wife wants to be able

Re: Android printer recommendations

-f HP Officejet 6500 e710n-z HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-one Printer - e709n HP Officejet 6500 Wireless All-in-one Printer - e709q HP Officejet 6500 Wireless e709n HP Officejet 6500 Wireless e709q ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com

Re: Android printer recommendations

Never mind. I found an HP printer that let's you email print jobs to it. No drivers needed, completely OS independent. Probably limited in the format types, but I'll let you all know if there is anything particularly lame about it. ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com On Wed, Dec 15

Re: Linux has won

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: So, while I've been slaving away in the world of corporate IT, it appears Linux has quietly won the OS war. I just didn't notice. Linux may already be out-shipping Microsoft Windows. Work has me shopping for a

Android printer recommendations

. ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Fwd: SAVE THE DATE Dec. 1st: Jared Duval on NEXT GENERATION DEMOCRACY

-- Forwarded message -- From: Denis R. Rydjeski denis.r.rydje...@dartmouth.edu Date: 2010/11/10 Subject: SAVE THE DATE Dec. 1st: Jared Duval on NEXT GENERATION DEMOCRACY To: Denis R. Rydjeski denis.r.rydje...@dartmouth.edu WHEN: Wednesday, December 1st -at 7:00 pm WHERE: Kilton

FLOSS text books (was Re: Representative Seth Cohn)

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org wrote: Yes, I actually mentioned this to Jim Danforth yesterday at the polls (one of the few R Senate candidates who lost his race, but that wasn't a surprise - he knew he was likely taking one for the team), and he said the

FLOSS text books (was Re: Representative Seth Cohn)

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Mike Bilow mik...@colossus.bilow.comwrote: Open source software is all well and good, but if you want to really scare the crap out of people and shake things up in a state legislature, start talking about open source _textbooks_ as well:

[OT] ENERGY STAR Low Carbon IT Campaign

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_power_mgt_low_carbon A good place to start thinking about energy in your organization. If we geeks don't, who will? ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Re: Broadcom WiFi -- for a public library -- in Fedora 13 maybe?

disclosure, this machine was rebuild for my son to use with an Arduino board I got him for his 5th birthday, so it has not spent much time in the on state. So, I can't speak explicitly to stability, but I never had trouble keeping these Broadcoms on line once they were on. (*) 2/22: Wherein Alan

Re: [OT] Small business/SOHO accounting

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote: On 05/10/2010 03:06 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: For this user, traditional software and web services are both acceptable. maybe QuickBooks online then? I've had great experience with QBOE except for the pricing and

[OL] Re: Wanted - SATA/PATA/USB2 SSD with bad sectors for bcache testing (and offer of bcache presentation)

we should have a window where we can play with them before they go into production. Maybe you Bills and I should get together for lunch to see if there is some way we can help eachother out. Let me know. ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:46 PM, William

Re: du(1) for FTP sites

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: I'm looking for something like du(1), except taking an FTP site instead of a local directory path. Trying to scope out disk usage on an FTP site I don't have shell access to. Non-GUI strongly preferred, but I'll

Re: Authentication on the Internet (bogus emails looking for money)

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Lloyd Kvam lk...@venix.com wrote: Do you think it is hopeless trying to educate users to import a certificate and protect it with a pass phrase? Yes, see #5: http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/ However, that's not to say you can't

[OT?] call for info on security professional certifications

are trying to get a feel for concensus. ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: [OT?] call for info on security professional certifications

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: What we are trying to figure out is if we should included any certifications in either the required or desired qualifications. Some

Re: [OT] iPad

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Chip Marshall c...@2bithacker.net wrote: On 23-Mar-2010, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com sent: So any thoughts on the iPad? I think it's overpriced for what it does. For the same cost as the base model iPad you can buy a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t, a

Re: External Monitoring and Alerting (follow-up)

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote: ... very feature-rich monitoring system. It seems to follow in the footsteps of so many other powerful, flexible, highly configurable open source applications. If that's the kind of thing you are looking for, then you

Re: Really old /proc weirdness?

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: While I have no insights -- none -- into what's going on with your /proc weirdness, if triviata of that detail is significant to your system reproduction, I'd probably break down, blow away the (non-boot) files on the new

Re: Ubuntu Server Set Up must haves...

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:57 AM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote: Webmin In case you don't know, this is one of my favorite tricks. After a `dpkg -i webmin...deb` fails, just do a `apt-get -f install` and it will fetch all the dependencies and finish the webmin install. Super slick. Or you

Re: Google Wave?

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: APPLICATIONS OF THE TECHNOLOGY ... One suggestion was that it might be good for a QA or focus group type of thing, where everyone starts off on the same thing, but discussion quickly fractures into a number of

Re: The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Chip Marshall c...@2bithacker.net wrote: Legal DVD playback in Linux is entirely possible, you just have to buy software to do it. Yes, it is worth clarifying at this point that it is not Linux that is the legal whipping boy, but GPL and/or other similarly

Re: The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: I don't know what the terms of the licensing agreements for this stuff are. I wonder if someone could buy a license for a FOSS project? Maybe, but I'm betting the license structure is on a per

Re: Google Wave?

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: ... a large group of people could collaborate on a single document in real time That might work. I'm not sure how well it would lend itself to a large, structured document, though. No real outline/heading

Re: Interesting article,

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: Well, except MacOSX has specific hardware. Indeed, that's a big part of Apple's strategy. Design the hardware and the software together

The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux (was Re: Interesting article)

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Not one Linux distro I've seen does a convincing job with consumer media, an absolutely basic requirement, and something we ought to be able to get

Re: External Monitoring and Alerting

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote: I have looked at Keynote/RedAlert, Gomez, and a few other third parties. However, I can't help but think that I am better off doing it myself. My thought was to get virtual servers from various hosting companies (Linode,

Re: External Monitoring and Alerting

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote: HTTPS POST is the method that we need to use to test our systems availability. However, what we are testing is more than just web site availability or performance. It would actually be testing into an application, gauging

Re: Interesting article,

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: For the TL;DR crowd: Zealotry does not help the cause. It hurts. Reality check time. I suggest zealots take note. The way you and I think is not how most mainstream people think. If you insist on closing your

Apple and Italian trains (was Re: Interesting article,)

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: But low cost? Freedom? You never really own a Mac -- you're just renting it from Steve Jobs. As someone said to me recently, There can be more than one evil empire. http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp

Re: Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: Does such a thing exist? In an infinite universe, everything exists. If not, can someone at least recommend something that's worked well for them on both platforms? I can't speak to all those other specifics

Re: Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: ... the Netgear WG111 (11b/g USB2) has always just worked ... Do you have the WG111 v1, WG111 v2, or WG111 v3? Apparently it exists in three

Re: Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: ... Netgear WG111 (11b/g USB2) has always just worked ... Sorry for the stream of replies here, but do you know if it's using ndiswrapper

SonicWall hardware: good for anything?

such boxes? ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: SonicWall hardware: good for anything?

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: I've got 4 3060's and 2 2040's. Decent hardware for firewalling ... but the software sucks, IMHO. Good to know SonicWall hasn't changed since I

Re: gaming... for a 15-month old

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: The suggestions for games for 3-year olds last week got me thinking about my 15-month old son. We've got a table set up at home with a computer running Ubuntu next to a computer running Mac OS X. the 15-month old is tall

Re: managing DNS

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote: On 12/30/2009 09:23 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: That plus a good provider like dyndns.com http://dyndns.com looks like the answer DynDNS is good and local. I too like DynDNS. I don't know the state of

Re: [OT] Bonded web site developer?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: I do know about EO insurance, bonding, and such, but not the relevance specifically to web site development. Bonded Web developers have studied an extensive 20 minute training cartoon where they learn such all-too-uncommon

The Quest for the Perfect Cloud Storage

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Re: The Quest for the Perfect Cloud Storage

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I had run the VMs on an ESXi server with the same NFS server. From what I've read, for gigabit ethernet, NFS vs iSCSI speed is a wash. VMware ESXi will hapily use either. I was thinking about paying for VMWare ESXi until

Re: The Quest for the Perfect Cloud Storage

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Dana Nowell dananow...@cornerstonesoftware.com wrote: Another choice is to do the same thing but use NFS instead of iSCSI (allowing ZFS underneath). I did some tests and iSCSI out performed current NFS solutions (on Debian at least). The NFS network

Re: Gaming... for three-year-olds...

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Okay. Kenette 2.0 is approx. 3.5 years in age. She's currently getting into games on her laptop, a Fisher Price doohickey that even has a mouse.

booting from software RAID (Re: Software RAID issues)

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: I have a Ubuntu 9.10 box that boots a RAID6 with GRUB2. I expect that is very new

Re: Software RAID issues (was Re: Suggestions solicited, server bring up)

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote: On 23-Nov-2009, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com sent: Nope. As I understand it, when you do an iSCSI export of a ZFS pool, you're getting a block device with the advantages of the ZFS storage mechanism without any

Re: Software RAID issues (was Re: Suggestions solicited, server bring up)

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I think the RAID 5 write hole refers to the slowdown on writes with RAID 5. In order to lose data, a 2nd drive needs to fail (as opposed to only 1 drive on a RAID 0 or JBOD). According to

Re: Software RAID issues (was Re: Suggestions solicited, server bring up)

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote: I know of a computer company over in Lebanon that's selling 16 and 24-bay Nexenta-based ZFS storage servers that'll do iscsi, nfs, smb with impressive ease. ;) OpenSolaris kernel, Ubuntu userland, block-level dedup

Re: Software RAID issues (was Re: Suggestions solicited, server bring up)

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote: yeah, NFS and databases aren't really a great mapping - not enough semantics are supported even if they were fast enough. But there is not a lot of meta data manipulation for DB files, mostly mtime as I turn off atime

Re: Software RAID issues (was Re: Suggestions solicited, server bring up)

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Bill, why not RAID-5? Isn't RAID-5 supposed to be ultra-reliable? As in hot swap disks? Or does this just apply to software RAID-5... Wow, a lot of good stuff has been said on this thread. Most of which is

Re: Software RAID issues (was Re: Suggestions solicited, server bring up)

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: Would you agree that there are plenty of SATA and SCSI drivers that work with most or all correctly implemented devices? I'm talking about software

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