Re: [OT] Redemption

2006-07-10 Thread Paul Lussier
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It just seemed like an appropriate > comment at the time, and it's a good quote. I like quotes. :) Quotes are almost like standards; They come in pairs, but usually are more meaningful :) -- Seeya, Paul ___

Re: Gasp. Am I getting old and stupid?

2006-07-10 Thread Bob Bell
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:37:40PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: I found an old copy of binutils that comes with gasp. It still doesn't answer why gasp is gone. As for m4, m4 could be used to write gasp but to start out with m4 would be a huge pain just as it would be to write something in assem

How is Massachusetts using OSS?

2006-07-10 Thread Greg Rundlett
Sorry for the [last-minute] cross-post, but I know there are many on list who would be interested in the following... Mark Withington who spearheads the Boston PHP group has arranged a meeting at IBM in Cambridge featuring Linda Hamel (General Counsel) and Tim Vaverchak (Director, Open Source St

Re: Gasp. Am I getting old and stupid?

2006-07-10 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Monday, Jul 10th 2006 at 09:29 -0400, quoth Bob Bell: =>On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:37:40PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: =>> I found an old copy of binutils that comes with gasp. It still doesn't =>> answer why gasp is gone. =>> =>> As for m4, m4 could be used to write gasp but to start out with

Re: [OT] Redemption

2006-07-10 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Monday, Jul 10th 2006 at 08:42 -0400, quoth Paul Lussier: =>"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: => =>> It just seemed like an appropriate =>> comment at the time, and it's a good quote. I like quotes. :) => =>Quotes are almost like standards; They come in pairs, but usually are =>more mea

Resolution of The LaCIE "Big Disk" issue

2006-07-10 Thread Jon maddog Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > While that will probably give you problems, the probable problems will > probably be different ones... ;-) And with that having been said, Ben found enough information to let me piece together what really happened. > I suspect it's just typical USB/ATA bridge device

Re: Resolution of The LaCIE "Big Disk" issue

2006-07-10 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/10/06, Jon maddog Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: According to the TI documentation, the bridge chip first becomes active and contacts the host USB controller for some firmware. My USB controller could probably not handle this at the time, since it did not have the ehci_hcd driver autoloadin

Re: Resolution of The LaCIE "Big Disk" issue

2006-07-10 Thread jimmy Pierre
>>>Windoze users would be expected to manage loading firmware themselvesI got R&D of LaCie to come over with an osciloscope a few months back to check on site why a BigDisk had decided to become the C: *even* if in the HP ML 330 G4 the boot order said otherwise. They re rewrote the firmware as a re

Re: Resolution of The LaCIE "Big Disk" issue

2006-07-10 Thread jimmy Pierre
>>>Windoze users would be expected to manage loading firmware themselves I got R&D of LaCie to come over with an osciloscope a few months back to check on site why a BigDisk had decided to become the C: *even* if in the HP ML 330 G4 the boot order said otherwise. They re rewrote the firmware as a r

A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

2006-07-10 Thread hewitt_tech
I have a very nice customer that's been putting up with some amazingly bad luck with a Dell SC430 server. 90 days after I installed it the server decided to flash all it's LEDs and become unavailable. Dell responded by replacing the motherboard, power supply, CPU and hard drive. 5 weeks late

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

2006-07-10 Thread Thomas Charron
  Generally, I've had different experiences with Dell servers.  Typically, they work very well, and Dell themselves tends to solve problems fairly well.  Now, in defence, you got the cheapest of the cheapcheapcheap servers that Dell sells.  If this server is supposed to be standalone, and buisness

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

2006-07-10 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/10/06, hewitt_tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But the interesting part of this is that the customer wanted Exchange server to centralize their email, contacts and schedules. With the server down, the email clients don't work and they can't access any of the messages stored on the server (of

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

2006-07-10 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/10/06, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Generally, I've had different experiences with Dell servers. Typically, they work very well, and Dell themselves tends to solve problems fairly well. My experience with Dell servers is roughly the same, although I would call say "work go

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

2006-07-10 Thread hewitt_tech
The SC430 is definitely Dell's entry level server. The customer asked me if it was Dell and all I could say was that I have other Dell servers at other customer sites that seem to be moderately reliable. I say "moderately" because the Dell servers I'm talking about are 2550 and 2640 rack mou

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

2006-07-10 Thread Christopher Chisholm
woah, hang on, back it up... i think i speak for all of us when i wonder, what's wrong with having unprotected hooker sex? ... and that's the story of how i got banned from the GNHLUG. -chris :-D Thomas Charron wrote: Generally, I've had different experiences with Dell servers. Typicall

Re: Gasp. Am I getting old and stupid?

2006-07-10 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Monday, Jul 10th 2006 at 10:58 -0400, quoth Steven W. Orr: =>On Monday, Jul 10th 2006 at 09:29 -0400, quoth Bob Bell: => =>=>On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:37:40PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: =>=>> I found an old copy of binutils that comes with gasp. It still doesn't =>=>> answer why gasp is gone.

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

2006-07-10 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Monday, Jul 10th 2006 at 14:00 -0400, quoth Christopher Chisholm: => =>woah, hang on, back it up... i think i speak for all of us when i wonder, =>what's wrong with having unprotected hooker sex? => =>... and that's the story of how i got banned from the GNHLUG. => =>-chris :-D It's a good thi

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

2006-07-10 Thread Thomas Charron
On 7/10/06, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday, Jul 10th 2006 at 14:00 -0400, quoth Christopher Chisholm:=>woah, hang on, back it up... i think i speak for all of us when i wonder,=>what's wrong with having unprotected hooker sex?=>... and that's the story of how i got banned from t

[OT] All My Life's A Circle - Freescale invents core memory

2006-07-10 Thread Jon maddog Hall
For those who saw my core memory that I brought to the GNHLUG meeting last month and wondered at it, here we go again: Freescale takes wraps off magnetic memory First commerical MRAM promises to be faster than current memory and also holds data even after the computer is turned off. http://ct.zdn

Re: [OT] All My Life's A Circle - Freescale invents core memory

2006-07-10 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:01:06 -0400 Jon maddog Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those who saw my core memory that I brought to the GNHLUG meeting last > month and wondered at it, here we go again: ... first commercial MRAM, or Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

2006-07-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:16:09PM -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: > On 7/10/06, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Monday, Jul 10th 2006 at 14:00 -0400, quoth Christopher Chisholm: > > =>woah, hang on, back it up... i think i speak for all of us when i > > wonder, > > =>what's wrong

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

2006-07-10 Thread Ben Scott
On 7/10/06, Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The bigger question is will Dell notice? Biggest still: Why would they care? It's not like the 430 is their standard-bearer. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org htt

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

2006-07-10 Thread hewitt_tech
- Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:48 PM Subject: Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server... On 7/10/06, Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The bigger question is will Dell notice? Bigge