[nlug] Re: power rating of mobo drive signal led connector

2009-06-17 Thread Curt Lundgren
In general, the HDD and Power LEDs are bare LEDs without current limiting resistors, meaning that the necessary current limiting will be provided by a series resistor on the mobo. Your case LEDs, on the other hand, being designed to be powered by a power supply connector (I'm guessing it's going

[nlug] Re: power rating of mobo drive signal led connector

2009-06-17 Thread Howard White
./aal wrote: (I am having visions of a stuffed monkey crashing cymbals together on top of my case, most annoyingly useless mod ever?!?!) ya know, this would be really funny, for about three minutes... Howard --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

[nlug] my recent question shook lose another idea

2009-06-17 Thread ./aal
Does anyone have an extra socket 939 X2 they would let go cheap for a bro, nothing but Linux will ever touch it (natively that is, there might be a vm of something else)? I am still stuck in single-core-land still, with both my 939 boards being acquired with such. I am currently running a ath64

[nlug] Re: power rating of mobo drive signal led connector

2009-06-17 Thread JMJ
Howard White wrote: ./aal wrote: (I am having visions of a stuffed monkey crashing cymbals together on top of my case, most annoyingly useless mod ever?!?!) ya know, this would be really funny, for about three minutes... But it would be pretty awesome as some sort of emergency alert.

[nlug] Re: power rating of mobo drive signal led connector

2009-06-17 Thread ./aal
your buffer is larger than mine I was thinking it would be funny till the 3rd drive access On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: ./aal wrote: (I am having visions of a stuffed monkey crashing cymbals together on top of my case, most annoyingly useless mod

[nlug] Re: my recent question shook lose another idea

2009-06-17 Thread Jim Peterson
Dude, I'm looking for a 939 board myself! Where'd you get yours? Jim Peterson Technology Coordinator Goodnight Memorial Library 203 S. Main St. Franklin, KY 42134 (270) 586-8397 www.gmpl.org Library Technology Blog On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 08:22 -0500, ./aal wrote: Does anyone have an extra

[nlug] BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
Please, I am NOT trying to start a flame war, this is an honest request for knowledge. I am curious to know why someone would choose to use BSD rather than Linux and vice versa. I have read several articles talking about BSD being carefully thought out as a whole and designed and tested to

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread Chris Faulkner
There are certain cases where BSD prevails over Linux, but in any case, whatever does the job for is fine. However,i've found in my own personal cases that BSD offers much more stability in a production enviroment. My personal choices for OSes are as follows... 1. Gentoo 2. FreeBSD 3. CentOS

[nlug] Re: power rating of mobo drive signal led connector

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
I've always loved the possibility of a system alert on a server triggering a Red Alert klaxon and flashing light, ala Star Trek VI... :) On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Andrew Farnsworthfarn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Howard White hwh...@vcch.com wrote: ./aal wrote:

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread Brandon Valentine
Andy, There's an excellent Salon article from 2000 that covers this pretty well: http://archive.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/print.html Cheers, Brandon On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.comwrote: Please, I am NOT trying to start a flame war,

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread Chris McQuistion
I'm not a roll-your-own firewall kind of guy. I generally find a distribution that is already tailored to my needs and go from there. Over the years, I've used MANY different Linux-based firewall distros and a couple BSD-based firewall distros. In my experience, the BSD-based systems require

[nlug] Re: Nostalgia - Kernel Compile Times

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
I remember on some computers leaving my system overnight to compile a new kernel (I miss kernel tree 2.2 !) On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Andrew Farnsworthfarn...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I just compiled a new kernel... in a VM... on my laptop... in A Very Short Time(tm)  Just made me

[nlug] Nostalgia - Kernel Compile Times

2009-06-17 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
Well, I just compiled a new kernel... in a VM... on my laptop... in A Very Short Time(tm) Just made me remember when my desktop machine would crank away at it for A Very Long Time (tm) before completing. Nice nostalgic moment, but I certainly glad it does not take that long today. Andy

[nlug] Re: my recent question shook lose another idea

2009-06-17 Thread ./aal
ebay On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Jim Peterson jim.sokytec...@gmail.comwrote: Dude, I'm looking for a 939 board myself! Where'd you get yours? Jim Peterson Technology Coordinator Goodnight Memorial Library 203 S. Main St. Franklin, KY 42134 (270) 586-8397 www.gmpl.org Library

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread Timothy Ball
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:03:01AM -0400, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: I am curious to know why someone would choose to use BSD rather than Linux and vice versa. I have read several articles talking about BSD being carefully thought out as a whole and designed and tested to rigorous standards

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
OpenSolaris FTW :) On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Timothy Balltimb...@tux.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:03:01AM -0400, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: I am curious to know why someone would choose to use BSD rather than Linux and vice versa.  I have read several articles talking about

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread Evan Brown
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Michael Chaney mdcha...@michaelchaney.comwrote: 4. My favorite: there is a very clear delineation between the base system and everything else. All the other crap ends up in /usr/local. This comes in really handy for ezjail. But it also makes administration

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread Jim Peterson
I've not played with Gentoo in several years, so I can't speak to it. I can report however, that FreeNAS, built on FreeBSD, is rock solid and non-problematic. The hardware fails before the software even thinks about locking up. Jim Peterson Technology Coordinator Goodnight Memorial Library 203 S.

[nlug] sqlite manager

2009-06-17 Thread andrew mcelroy
Hey All, I know this seems somewhat random. For those who use SQLite, I am sure the command line is fine. However, I recently ran across this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817 Normally, I wouldn't spam about product X or solution Y, but this rocks. It is a full blown SQL

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread ./aal
Gentoo is my Linux choice, I have no exp with bsd (though I did run a SCO sysV rack in 96) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups NLUG group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 04:37:36PM -0500, ./aal wrote: Gentoo is my Linux choice, I have no exp with bsd (though I did run a SCO sysV rack in 96) SCO was part of the System V family, not BSD. John -- Whenever two people meet,

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread Greg Donald
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: Please, I am NOT trying to start a flame war, this is an honest request for knowledge. I am curious to know why someone would choose to use BSD rather than Linux and vice versa. FreeBSD is my first choice for a

[nlug] Re: BSD vs Linux

2009-06-17 Thread Bucky 'Igneous' Wolfe
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Andrew Farnsworth farn...@gmail.com wrote: Please, I am NOT trying to start a flame war, this is an honest request for knowledge. I am curious to know why someone would choose to use BSD rather than Linux and vice versa. Although I'd never consider