Attn all snort users

2007-02-20 Thread Thomas Charron
If you use snort, read this ASAP: http://www.snort.org/docs/advisory-2007-02-19.html Sux to have an application which is sniffing traffic get buffer overflowed when all that needs to happen is to have the traffic be read by snort. -- -- Thomas ___

Re: Early-to-middle IBM-PC history (was: End-user uses for x86-64)

2007-02-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/19/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/19/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DOSemu has a software 8086 emulator built in. Reference? The stuff I found at http://www.dosemu.org/ said it did not. Quick google search showed it in the Changelog specifically for 64 bit

Re: Early-to-middle IBM-PC history (was: End-user uses for x86-64)

2007-02-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/19/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/19/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/19/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DOSemu has a software 8086 emulator built in. Reference? The stuff I found at http://www.dosemu.org/ said it did not. Quick google

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-18 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/18/07, Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/18/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That the Linux community pushing 'You now have choice' breaks down when it comes to the general public. And that perhaps we can actually learn from WHY people prefer Windows in general. My

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/17/07, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not really true. 16-bit machines are *very* limited. There is not a whole lot you can do in 64 kilobytes of RAM (all you can directly address with a 16-bit address word). Not quite so. As a programmer of embedded systems, I

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/17/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: machine. They don't understand why, but they know they can play digital music while writing a term paper on their new Dell, while their old Apple ][ or IBM-PC Model 5150 couldn't handle that. That has nothing to do with sized bits I'm afraid.

Re: The relevance of 16-bit systems (was: End-user uses for x86-64)

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/17/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/17/07, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not quite so. As a programmer of embedded systems, I would point out that sales of microprocessors with address spaces of 16-bits (or less) exceed those of the larger machines by orders of

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/17/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/17/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: machine. They don't understand why, but they know they can play digital music while writing a term paper on their new Dell, while their old Apple ][ or IBM-PC Model 5150 couldn't handle

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/17/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And there is quite literally NOTHING you cannot do in 32 bit that you can in 64. Yes there is. You can mmap a single 5 GB virtual address space. Now if you had said that there are no problems that you can not solve, given enough time

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/17/07, Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:01:19 -0500 Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not think a 128 bit address space computer will ever exist, at least not in the silicon technologies that we are talking about. Probably not for a while, but

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/17/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/17/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . The only limitation to a 16 bit processor is being limited to 64 KB of data per page at a time. Right, just as the beggar's only limitation is that he has no money. ... Not quite

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/17/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 21:08 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: On 2/17/07, Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:01:19 -0500 Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People may giggle, but the PS2 Emotion

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/17/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/17/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People may giggle, but the PS2 Emotion processing chip is 128 bit. I believe it has 128-bit floating point/vector data processing capabilities, but the integer registers are 64-bit

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits [was Can't figure out Firefox

2007-02-16 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/15/07, Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Scott wrote: On 2/15/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It may be double the number of address bits, but it is woo more than double the address space. ... Exactly how much more than double is a woo? Quite specifically

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits [was Can't figure out Firefox

2007-02-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/15/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) nit pick Eh-hem. It may be double the number of address bits, but it is woo more than double the address space. /nit pick nit pick Exactly how much more than double is a woo? /nit pick Quite specifically, it's one metric assload. -- --

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits [was Can't figure out Firefox

2007-02-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/15/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/15/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It may be double the number of address bits, but it is woo more than double the address space. ... Exactly how much more than double is a woo? Quite specifically, it's one metric assload

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits

2007-02-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/15/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correction: Windows 2003 R2 x64 supports a full 64-bit address space, and I'm pretty sure Win XP Pro x64 does as well. See my other message in this thread about how support for those sucks, though. Right. I think you actually made my

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits

2007-02-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/15/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/15/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, Microsoft doesn't support a 64-bit address space, even today, in Vista. Hey, it's only been like, what, 14 years since the Alpha came out? Don't rush them... 64 bit OSen: Alpha OSF/1 1993

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits and a bit of Linux History

2007-02-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/15/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timeline: May, 1994 - Met Linus Torvalds at DECUS in New Orleans after funding his trip to speak on Lyenooks. Saw Leenooks for the first time.* *SNIP* maddog, that's an awesome little writeup. :-D Note next reply below, however..

Re: Koolu.com

2007-02-14 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/14/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Koolu's Technical Director: 720p and 1080i will make the box melt. As it stands, it is 480p, also known as DVD resolution (ie: not HDTV). That takes the processor 70-90%, I don't think we can go higher resolution than that. All the

T1 service

2007-02-13 Thread Thomas Charron
Anyone familiar with http://www.isomedia.com/index.shtml ? 389 for a T1 seems way too cheap. -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: httpd lineage

2007-02-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/8/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, yeah, sure, but the http server was the first, and is the most well known project to come from the ASF. It has *always* been referred to as 'apache' when talking about the web server I run on my linux box by Joe Linux-user. There is

When kiddies attack!

2007-02-08 Thread Thomas Charron
I was just doing some debugging on some JSONRPC scripts, so in the true spirit of printf debugging, I had a terminal window open to tail -f /var/log/apache/error.log and out of the blue: [Thu Feb 08 11:59:28 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not exist: /var/www/xmlrpc [Thu Feb 08

Re: When kiddies attack!

2007-02-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/8/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 12:10 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: I was just doing some debugging on some JSONRPC scripts, so in the true spirit of printf debugging, I had a terminal window open to tail -f /var/log/apache/error.log and out

Re: HDTV - Ethernet?

2007-02-07 Thread Thomas Charron
QQ As in, took HDMI/DVI signals and streamed them? I didn't know there was such a beast. On 2/7/07, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to remember from the MythTV presentation last month that there was some dual-tuner HDTV box that then output to an Ethernet stream and was

Re: Logging in via X in multiple places

2007-02-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/6/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, When logging into a UNIX/X system via (g,k,x)dm, said session manager writes stuff to your ~/.Xauthority file using xauth (which seems to be it's own sort of black magic). In an environment where your homedirectory is NFS mounted,

Re: SIP Provider suggestions?

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Charron
http://www.pulver.com/products/sip/ under 'Sip Services' has a long list of possible providers. I can't speak for most of them, but it's something to give you a list of the alternatives. On 2/5/07, jsf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Travis, take a look at ViaTalk (http://www.viatalk.com) and,

Re: SIP Provider suggestions?

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/5/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.pulver.com/products/sip/ under 'Sip Services' has a long list of possible providers. I can't speak for most of them, but it's something to give you a list of the alternatives. One of the providers on the list that is really

Re: No FOSS drivers for Dell e521 / Nvidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/5/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://jrblevin.freeshell.org/weblog/linux/mcp51-alsa Well, heck - all I found when I went searching was people like me griping about how there was no support (even from ALSA) so this is a pleasant surprise - thanks! I'll give that a

Re: No FOSS drivers for Dell e521 / Nvidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/5/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrm, 026c? Must have been an upgraded device since the initial page was written, as the other MCP51's are 026b. Adding: { 0x10de, 0x026c, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, DEVICE_NFORCE }, /* MCP51 */ to the snd_intel8x0_ids array in

Re: No FOSS drivers for Dell e521 / Nvidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/5/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the hda_intel supported it minimally? What kernel version? The changelog to the module seemed to insinuate that it worked pretty well. The hda_intel driver initializes/manages the hardware well enough that RealPlayer or xmms or

Re: winpopup in linux

2007-02-03 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/2/07, Christopher Chisholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply, and everyone else's too! wall seems like it will work for what i need. I definitely agree that winpopup in general has been subverted in its intent, but sometimes it's hilarious to broadcast various things across

Re: DHCP question: dhclient won't request same IP.

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Charron
I wonder if dhclient or whatever client it's using is crashing, and the init script is bringing it back up On 1/31/07, Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Garman writes: To test things further, I placed both machines behind a Linux DHCP server so I could look for any unusual

Re: BioAPI and networks

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/1/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:26, Thomas Charron wrote: What I'd LIKE to be able to do is have Samba or some other authentication server for network based authentication without having to individually enroll fingerprints to each Windows laptop

Re: BioAPI and networks

2007-02-01 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2/1/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/1/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, I may have to fall back to just using plain old passwords, becouse I can't really find much information on doing ANYTHING beyond local authentication. Can't you just find out

BioAPI and networks

2007-01-31 Thread Thomas Charron
Before I start searching the nooks and crannies of the net, has anyone ever implemented a method to authenticate with any sort of network services via biometric devices? Here's the 'simply' part of what I'm hoping to do, if at all possible. In my house we have several laptops/computers with

Re: BioAPI and networks

2007-01-31 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/31/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Before I start searching the nooks and crannies of the net, has anyone ever implemented a method to authenticate with any sort of network services via biometric devices? I'd say store

The Linux Foundation yummies

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Charron
Ok, earlier I wasn't sure about the OSDL merger, but now it would seem to have bore a fruit which definatly deserves applause. http://www.kroah.com/log/2007/01/29/#free_drivers -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: No FOSS drivers for Dell e521 / Nvidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/30/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://jrblevin.freeshell.org/weblog/linux/mcp51-alsa Well, heck - all I found when I went searching was people like me griping about how there was no support (even from ALSA) so this is a pleasant surprise - thanks! I'll give that a

Re: The Linux Foundation yummies

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Charron
for the 'good of linux' like Microsoft can, without bias towards a given commercial entity. On 1/30/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 30, 2007, at 10:27, Thomas Charron wrote: Ok, earlier I wasn't sure about the OSDL merger, but now it would seem to have bore a fruit which

Re: Webmail suggestions

2007-01-25 Thread Thomas Charron
IMP, or squirellmail, recomendations in that order. On 1/25/07, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks, I was wondering if y'all would be willing to weigh in on web based email clients. I'm looking to set one up for my virtually hosted clients. Requirements: Must be able to

The new 'Linux Foundation'

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas Charron
Was just reading thru slashdot, and found this interesting.. http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007012113540789 Basically, Open Source Development Lab and the Free Standards Group are joining forces to create 'The Linux Foundation'. Now don't get me wrong, it's

Re: The new 'Linux Foundation'

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/22/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/22/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it bothers me that KDE = Linux, ProFTPd = Linux, exim = Linux, OpenOffice = Linux, if you catch my inference. Even BSD = Linux, to some people. Linux != Linux, which is confusing

Re: Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

2007-01-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/19/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's first figure out which we want and then evaluate platforms on features, maturity, maintainability and reliability. No, No, NoI much prefer arguing issues around arcane languages. What about using SNOBOL? :-) But, Jon...

Re: Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

2007-01-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/19/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 21:43 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: On 1/19/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, No, NoI much prefer arguing issues around arcane languages. What about using SNOBOL

Re: Reliable wireless APs?

2007-01-10 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/10/07, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had any good experience with spending in the range of $100 or so on an access point or router that offers something in the way of reliability more than the cheap $30-40 range equipment? I'm not overly concerned with features,

Re: Need help with new monitor

2007-01-02 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/2/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1440x1440 1280x1024 EndSubSection Does anyone have any clue where to start with this beast? Is it safe to assume 1440x1440 is a typo

Re: Need help with new monitor

2007-01-02 Thread Thomas Charron
On 1/2/07, Drew Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need a *modeline* for 1440x900, not just a mention of it in the Display subsection. Random googled modeline (put with the rest of the modelines. *** Use at your own risk, YMMV, do not eat, may incur the wrath of the elder gods, do not

Re: Traffic shaping/aggregating

2006-12-27 Thread Thomas Charron
On 12/26/06, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about using the LinkSys RV042/82 series router which has dual wide area network connections and can do load balancing? Outbound only, I presume, and even that's a good trick. Inbound aggregation/load balancing would require

Re: Traffic shaping/aggregating

2006-12-27 Thread Thomas Charron
On 12/26/06, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My partner and I use VPNs to access our employer sites, and we frequently find that we're bottlenecking on uploads. So we decided to get a 2nd cable modem so we won't collide with each other. Small, but important question. What kind of

Re: Traffic shaping/aggregating

2006-12-27 Thread Thomas Charron
On 12/27/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/26/06, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I actually just looked at my m0n0wall install to see if it could aggregate multiple WAN connection, but it cannot. pfSense, a fork of m0n0wall, *CAN*, on the other hand, do this out

Re: I'm a Mac commercial spoof

2006-12-22 Thread Thomas Charron
On 12/22/06, Christopher Chisholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ahahaha, those were great. what bothers me most about those Mac commercials is I can just see people sitting at home eating it up like candy. Why would this bother you? -- -- Thomas ___

Re: New Linux Installs from long time ago

2006-12-22 Thread Thomas Charron
On 12/22/06, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:36:15 -0800 (PST) Thank goodness for Ubuntu. Without them we might have been faced with having to use the distribution previously known as best for beginners, SuSE. (SuSE did look good, before Novell's decision to become

New Linux Installs from long time ago

2006-12-21 Thread Thomas Charron
A long while ago, I starte a thread regarding trying new distros. Well, I just tried Ubuntu, and oh my gawd am I ever impressed. It isn't even INSTALLED yet, it's just booted from the CD, and it recognized nearly ALL of my Toshiba laptops hardware. I have an up and running basic desktop

Re: New Linux Installs from long time ago

2006-12-21 Thread Thomas Charron
Well, it IS the safest way to ensure anything running is up to date, and any new libraries are also utilized. Thomas On 12/21/06, Charles Farinella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron wrote: A long while ago, I starte a thread regarding trying new distros. Well, I just tried Ubuntu

Re: robots.txt problem with google?

2006-12-13 Thread Thomas Charron
What's it look like? On 12/13/06, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a big dir full of pictures and my robots.txt file excludes it. So now I just noticed that google is crawling through it. Anyone know what I shoul do? -- -- Thomas ___

Re: Stupid Perl/Apache Question

2006-12-07 Thread Thomas Charron
Make sure you have IO::Socket:SSL installed as well. It could also be a socket that was closed prematurely. On 12/7/06, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use a perl script to scrape a site under https. Using perl-WWW-Mechanize-1.20-1mdv2007.0 from RPM.

Re: Stupid Perl/Apache Question

2006-12-07 Thread Thomas Charron
On 12/7/06, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well.. It didn't work, but we must have changed something... as the error is identical. That goes before $mech-get right? ...and from the docs, is it: $mech-credentials (username = password); or $mech-credentials (username,password); ...or does

Re: Reliable wireless?

2006-11-30 Thread Thomas Charron
802.11n. You MAY have to limit the equipment to the same vendor, as there are still cross-vendor 'quirks' here and there. I believe some will also operate in the 5Ghz range, and offers speeds much greater (10x - 50x, depending on who you ask). On 11/30/06, hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Linux, gobs of RAM, RAID and performance suckage...

2006-11-30 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/30/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is bizarre. Spare memory will ALWAYS be used to cache. This is fine and 'normal'. -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Traveling with a big file

2006-11-30 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/30/06, hewitt_tech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: both Linux and Windows systems? If I try EX2/EXT3, with Windows read it? AFAIK there isn't an EXT2/EXT3 file system driver for Windows. I've had good luck with http://www.chrysocome.net/virtualvolumes -- -- Thomas

Re: Kill-a-watt devices

2006-11-28 Thread Thomas Charron
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/review/kill_a_watt_electric_usage_monitor_review Wouldn't turn off after exactly so much usage, but is relatively inexpensive, and would seem to give you the information you're looking for. On 11/28/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if the

Re: LMV Snapshots

2006-11-17 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The backup server here also acts as a warm-spare. If the master server dies, I just change the IP address on the backup server, and it resumes right where the master server died. I have tested this a few times to make sure it all works,

MythTV cards possibly cheap.

2006-11-16 Thread Thomas Charron
I was just perusing around some of the 'blackfriday' sites, and after all of the conversations regarding MythTV, this entry for compusa got my attention: Hauppauge WinTV Go Plus http://www.blackfriday.info/item/3997 - $14.99 No accelerator chips in that model, but apperently works for MythTV.

Re: MythTV cards possibly cheap.

2006-11-16 Thread Thomas Charron
That's the normal price. The price I quoted was the 'black friday' price. Aka, the sale the day after Thanksgiving. Thomas On 11/16/06, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 16, 2006, at 4:30 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: I was just perusing around some of the 'blackfriday' sites

Re: Fios. Was: Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/15/06, Andrew W. Gaunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing I noticed about the action tech is a configuration screen forDynamic DNS updates.This is something I'dbeen meaniung to do for some time so I created anaccount with DynDNS andthe action tech router sent an update after entered the info

Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-14 Thread Thomas Charron
Brace yourself. I don't know the current status, but in the past, I know Comcast has intercepted all DNS queries, regardless or destination, and redirected them to their own. Thomas On 11/14/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the past couple of weeks I've noticed that sites I can get

Re: Awesome...sun to release Java under GPL!

2006-11-13 Thread Thomas Charron
Finally! Debian best get that bad boy in their repositories ASAP, before I do my next install that will require Java. ;-) ThomasOn 11/13/06, Jon maddog Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Sun picks GPL license for Java code After years of requests and debates, Sun is set to release Java sourcecode

Re: Awesome...sun to release Java under GPL!

2006-11-13 Thread Thomas Charron
I've actually not tried in the last few years. I was burnt more then once by the situation where things would install dozens of JDKs that all worked marginally. ThomasOn 11/13/06, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 13 November 2006 11:20 am, Thomas Charron wrote: Finally

Re: MythTV hw question

2006-11-13 Thread Thomas Charron
DVI with decryption capabilities. HD signas can be encrypted end to end to the television. ThomasOn 11/13/06, Chip Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On November 13, 2006, Derek Atkins sent me the following: Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, didn't know that. So because I don't own

Re: MythTV hw question

2006-11-13 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/13/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/13/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DVI with decryption capabilities.HD signas can be encrypted end to end to the television. I thought DVI couldn't do copy restriction stuff, and thus HDMI was invented.HDMI basically being DVI plus

Re: MythTV hw question

2006-11-13 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/13/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/13/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/13/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DVI with decryption capabilities.HD signas can be encrypted end to end to the television. I thought DVI couldn't do copy restriction stuff

Re: MythTV hw question

2006-11-12 Thread Thomas Charron
I believe the maximum resolution out the VGA pot is 1920x1080. But out of curiosity, what exactly are you asking for? It can easily handle standard HD resolutions. Thomas On 11/11/06, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They don't specify the VGA output resolution, and I can't seem tofind that

Re: MythTV hw question

2006-11-10 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/10/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's probably fine for a backend, but may be a bit slow for decoding for the frontend.I've noticed cpu power requirements for playing are perportional to the bitrate of the MPEG2 so you can always crank

Re: MythTV hw question

2006-11-10 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/10/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/10/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's probably fine for a backend, but may be a bit slow for decoding for the frontend.I've noticed cpu power requirements for playing are perportional

Re: MythTV hw question

2006-11-10 Thread Thomas Charron
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/mini_itx/epia_en/ They've specifically built the board above for HD signal processing, as well as 5.1 sound. ThomasOn 11/10/06, Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/10/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV [was Re: Tivo vs MythTV]

2006-11-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/8/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happauge cards are generally a safe bet, as nearly all of them with the exeption of the 'WinTV' cards are supported.Now I'm more confused.Pretty much *all* of their products appearto have WinTV in the name.???:-) My bad. I was refering to the old

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV

2006-11-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/9/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/8/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cost diference between, say, the PVR-150, 250, 300, 500, etc, is the inclusion of hardware based encoders. That's what I expected, but it's confusing

Itty bitty MB/Processor..

2006-11-09 Thread Thomas Charron
Anyone happen to know of any local places that might sell the VIA EPIA MB/CPU combos? With all of this talk about MythTV, wanted to look at what they may be going for. Perfect little things for setup boxes. MPEG decoder chips, TV Out, and fanless operation. ;-) Thomas

Re: Itty bitty MB/Processor..

2006-11-09 Thread Thomas Charron
!!I swear to god I looked and didn't see it. LOL! ThomasOn 11/9/06, Scott Mellott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Thomas Charron wrote: Anyone happen to know of any local places that might sell the VIA EPIA MB/CPU combos?With all of this talk about MythTV, wanted to look at what they may be going

Re: Tivo vs MythTV (was: *pout* HDTV No Recordee....)

2006-11-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/8/06, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can Myth be used like a PC displaying on the TV?I use Galleon on theTivo to play shoutcast, show weather, podcasts, movie times andlocations, etc.I'd imagine Myth can do that. *nod* It can web browse, minus the Java, etc.. And if the data is present

Re: Tivo vs MythTV

2006-11-08 Thread Thomas Charron
See http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=882sid=790b0250ceaa189090e790e53c445505 Comcast does randomize their frequency usage, which is a big nono for them to do, but they do it apperently. But basically, you just have to find the frequency. There are utilizites that will scan for them,

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV [was Re: Tivo vs MythTV]

2006-11-08 Thread Thomas Charron
The higher end PVR cards will work with MythTV and work well with nearly all major brand motherboards out there. The cost diference between, say, the PVR-150, 250, 300, 500, etc, is the inclusion of hardware based encoders. A 600 Mhz machine can easily recoder 2 channels when a dual input board

MythTV / DirecTV possible solution *FOUND*

2006-11-08 Thread Thomas Charron
Hrm.. It would seem I was partially incorrect. DirecTV USED to have a DirecTV/Tivo HD box named the HR10-250. They dont make them anymore, I'm looking into the differences between the capabilities the HR10-250 providers. It can aperently be hacked as easy as any other Tivo, and hence, get it's

Re: MythTV / DirecTV possible solution *FOUND*

2006-11-08 Thread Thomas Charron
Scratch that. Would kinda work, but can't record the majority of the new HD content beng broadcast from DirecTV's new sats. Guess I just leave 'em at low def and cry. Thomas On 11/8/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrm.. It would seem I was partially incorrect. DirecTV USED to have

Re: MythTV / DirecTV possible solution *FOUND*

2006-11-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/8/06, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Worthless. the HD TiVo box that DirecTV sold only supports premium HDcontent and will NOT support DirecTV HD Local channels.They are encrypted in a different way (mpeg4) that the HD DirecTiVocan never support due to hardware limitations. Yea, I was

Re: MythTV / DirecTV possible solution *FOUND*

2006-11-08 Thread Thomas Charron
Sad part is, if I had a choice, I'd go with Tivo or some other solution. But with no choice, all I can do is complain and eat their PVR solution for HD. I'd rather have something I dislike then nada at all. Thomas ( Going back to pouting and sighing) On 11/8/06, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SIP phone suggestions

2006-11-07 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/7/06, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all - I'm finally foraying into the world of Asterisk.I have a boxto dedicate to it, I have Trixbox (http://www.trixbox.org/) downloadedand ready to install ... now I just need some phones. I was wondering if folks could suggest (or at least

*pout* HDTV No Recordee....

2006-11-07 Thread Thomas Charron
Getting DirecTV setup, and I don't know why I never noticed, but.. There's no way to record HD from a satalite provider. *le pout* Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: *pout* HDTV No Recordee....

2006-11-07 Thread Thomas Charron
I MEANT in a way I could get to it from Linux. ;-) I KNOW DirecTV offers HD PVR.On 11/7/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Getting DirecTV setup, and I don't know why I never noticed, but.. There's no way to record HD from a satalite provider. *le pout* Thomas

Re: *pout* HDTV No Recordee....

2006-11-07 Thread Thomas Charron
Yes, we're on the waiting list for them. Which annoys me, because apperently, DirecTech, the contractor in the area for DirecTV, has *6 PALLETS* of them sitting in nashua. But they cannot give them out without DirecTV saying that they have them officially. The installer just tried to do me a

Re: *pout* HDTV No Recordee....

2006-11-07 Thread Thomas Charron
I'm actually having them install 2 extra non HD receivers for MythTV. :-) Specifically, we want them so we can wander around the house streaming TV. ;-P ThomasOn 11/7/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/7/06, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Tivo HD-DVR can do it ...The Series 3

Re: *pout* HDTV No Recordee....

2006-11-07 Thread Thomas Charron
*Nod* The Linux HDTV card can only record terrestial HD signals. HD encrypts the signal end to end, all the way to the TV when it's encrypted. ThomasOn 11/7/06, Drew Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Linux HDTV card won't do it?(Encryption, I assume?)--DTVZ

Re: Tivo vs MythTV (was: *pout* HDTV No Recordee....)

2006-11-07 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/7/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/7/06, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm actually having them install 2 extra non HD receivers for MythTV.:-) It's a tough decision for me (TiVo Series 3 vs MythTV).I'm not that interested in high def TV right now.Most of the programs

Re: Wonderful world of new dists..

2006-11-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:02:26 -0500 From: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED]Guru?Maybe not.But pixie dust?That I migt be able to manage. ;)Try merging your targets individually, instead of all at one shot in asingle merge---that way

Re: Wonderful world of new dists..

2006-11-04 Thread Thomas Charron
Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:02:26 -0500 From: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED]Guru?Maybe not.But pixie dust?That I migt be able to manage. ;) Try merging your targets individually, instead of all at one shot

Re: Wonderful world of new dists..

2006-11-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/4/06, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can add the application to /etc/portage/package.unmask and/etc/portage/package.keywords This will make them appear to be a normalunmasked app. Also browse the forums, see what solutions are out there. Aye, figured out the format which I had

Re: CPUs with variable speed clocks ?

2006-11-03 Thread Thomas Charron
Aye, the Intel Core 2 Duo's have 'Advanced Intel Speedstep' capabilities. The clock can be dynamically modified by multipliers, I believe up to 8 different speeds. I'll give you more info as I investigate it, as the kernel I built last night I enabled for it. ThomasOn 11/3/06, Paul Lussier

Re: Wonderful world of new dists..

2006-11-03 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/2/06, Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes KDE will take awhile, a few hours or so. One benchmark I've done: Not too bad on mine, took me like an hour max. Compile X on 266Mhz: 8+ hours X took about maybee a half an hour, but that included download times. Yes compiling will take time,

Wonderful world of new dists..

2006-11-02 Thread Thomas Charron
Ok guys and gals, I'm looking at dists that are out there, and I'm really leaning twards Gentoo for my laptop dual boot/VMWare. This is a brandy spankin new laptop, Toshiba P105-9722, Intel Core 2 Duo 7400, 2 gigs ram, blahblah. What are people opinions of the 'state of distros' right now? I

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