Re: [nlug] Single DIN/Double DIN

Size.. Single DIN: 180 x 50 mm Double DIN: 180 x 100 mm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7736 On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 7:58 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > I am considering buying a new car radio. Some models are described as > "Single DIN", others as "Double DIN". What does this signify? Having

Re: [nlug] Decent SIP provider?

SIP Routes/thinQ http://www.thinq.com/ -- Tim On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: > We've been using Teliax as our backup SIP provider for several years, but > they are getting progressively worse. Their customer service department > doesn't exist and every time I get a n

Re: [nlug] Google Fiber?

Google generally IRUs fiber for their inter-datacenter connectivity almost always.. They own and operate a significant long-haul network throughout the US that interconnects their datacenters.. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Mark J. Bailey wrote: > Back in the late 90s (I think it was, maybe ea

Re: [nlug] OT: Cheap way to enter Software Defined Radio ("SDR") (Linux or Windows)

cking up active traffic already?? If so, what > type of aircraft/carriers are you seeing using it already? > > -Original Message- > From: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-talk@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Tim Jackson > Sent: Saturday, February 15, 20

Re: [nlug] OT: Cheap way to enter Software Defined Radio ("SDR") (Linux or Windows)

Check out what I did in WI for ADS-B reception using one of these.. http://imgur.com/a/AoaoE On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Mark J. Bailey wrote: > This may have surfaced on here before, but I paid $15 on eBay for the > Elonics E4000 clone European Digital TV USB receiver in the image and the

Re: [nlug] Internet pricing

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Howard White wrote> > Nobody wanted to see duplicate cable plants constructed, burying even more > copper lines. This is what has opened up the means for WindStream and TW > (International) Telecom and all the other Facilities Based CLECs to buy the > last mile fr

Re: [nlug] Internet pricing

You're still mistaken. There's nothing preventing anyone qualified from overbuilding any other territory. On Jan 27, 2014 5:32 PM, "Howard White" wrote: > On 01/27/2014 06:59 PM, Tim Jackson wrote: > >> That's entirely untrue. There are no federal reg

Re: [nlug] Internet pricing

That's entirely untrue. There are no federal regulations that limit an area to two suppliers... Look at Jackson TN.. JEA for TV, Internet and Phone Charter for TV, Internet and Phone AT&T for TV, Internet and Phone On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Perkins, Jerry wrote: > On 1/27/14 12:44 PM, S

Re: [nlug] Internet pricing

I have a house for rent just outside of Nashville where you can get 300/120 for $129/mo.. It all depends on the ILEC.. On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Curt Lundgren wrote: > My friend in Taipei just Emailed asking if I thought it was worth it for him > to upgrade his service. > > Present serv

Re: [nlug] High def montiro & 4K TV

Also, I think Dell is coming out with an affordable 28" high res monitor: http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/19/campaigns/p2815q-coming-soon-page On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Tim Jackson wrote: > My new laptop is 15.4" @ 2880x1620... > > I'm all for high res and high

Re: [nlug] High def montiro & 4K TV

My new laptop is 15.4" @ 2880x1620... I'm all for high res and high DPI.. 39" seems a little large to use on a desk for something.. On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Jack Coats wrote: > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8430969&SRCCODE=WEBGOOPA&cm_mmc_o=mH

Re: [nlug] Does this mean we will also get Google Fiber connections?

NES has lots of dark around town. Sadly not enough to light GPON for most of the city. But since NES does already have the right of ways it could make such a project way easier. On Sep 25, 2013 9:28 PM, "Amber Adams" wrote: > Yiaway Yeh at the Mayor's new Office of Innovation has already approac

Re: [nlug] Favorite traffic monitoring tool?

Observium On Apr 16, 2013 3:56 AM, "Curt Lundgren" wrote: > We're looking at monitoring bandwidth through Untangle and pfSense. I > played with MRTG a few years ago, haven't played with Cacti, and don't know > what all is available. Free is a good word here…! > > A gentle learning curve is alwa

Re: [nlug] Home router is dieing ... suggestions on a good home router?

http://routerboard.com/RB751G-2HnD On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Jack Coats wrote: > I have been hunting to find something 'better' to replace my o'l WRT54Gv5 > router > with. I tried to change the WEP key to WPA and it won't let me. I at > least tried to update the key string and it wo

Re: [nlug] Satellite Communication

Ubiquiti On Apr 6, 2013 2:01 PM, "Bill Woody" wrote: > Since this is all pretty basic stuff... but, maybe nobody mentioned it to > him. > About ten mile east of Fort Stockton, highway 67 splits and proceeds > north. I am guessing that is the area. If so, this is far simpler than any > uplink. Mak

Re: [nlug] Local co-location

http://vijaygill.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/cloud-economics/ This is something to look at, it's a couple of years old, but probably still very accurate. On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Greg Donald wrote: > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Howard White wrote: > > I asked the boss "how cloudy" h

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

5, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Tim Jackson > wrote: > > Virgin was a Sprint MVNO, now wholly owned by Sprint. > > > > So Sprint Coverage == Virgin Coverage.. > > Great! For everywhere except in my office, but that could just be my > aging cell phone. > > -- > You rec

Re: [nlug] T-Mobile vs. Sprint (for data) in Mid-TN?

Virgin was a Sprint MVNO, now wholly owned by Sprint. So Sprint Coverage == Virgin Coverage.. -- Tim On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Mark J. Bailey wrote: > I had wondered about that myself. While not a Big Four, I had read several > posts that suggested VM had some good value plans. But the

Re: [nlug] Local co-location

Not sure if the guy I used to work for are still doing it, but check them out: iRis Networks: www.iristransport.com On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Howard White wrote: > The boss says get me three quotes for locating a half rack of servers with > a 20 amp circuit and 8-10mbs network. We'll be

RE: [nlug] [JOB OPENING] magicJack is seeking an experienced Linux Administator

Anybody can get Allison to do prompts. Lots of companies use asterisk. It's usually a bad choice anyway. They've actually turned their product into a real soft switch. Prompts != asterisk. On Sep 2, 2012 8:48 PM, "Mark J. Bailey" wrote: > I am jumping in blind here, but has anyone ever noticed

Re: [nlug] Wireless Networking WDS Mode

Wds is pretty much just some extra fields added to the 802.11 frame to make wireless mesh/ptmp wireless easier. Includes the source and dest AP MACs as well as the user ones. http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Wds http://gregsowell.com/?p=2862 On Sep 2, 2012 12:24 PM, "Jack Coats" wrote: > I am loo

Re: [nlug] DHCP question

http://www.fingerbank.org/english/about.html On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Howard White wrote: > Actually, I know what and how I want to do in DHCP.  What I need from all > you iPhone users is what are the MAC address blocks for the various releases > of iPhones that I might pool the iPhones i

Re: [nlug] Perl SOAP Question

+1 Way easier.. On Aug 29, 2011 8:13 PM, "Allen May" wrote: > I don't have a book: I can tell you this: SOAP::Lite is pointless. The > best approach is to treat the transactions as HTTP messages with an XML > payload. > > Allen May > aem...@gmail.com > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Paul Bo

Re: [nlug] MIFI / 3G HotSpot advice

VZW is expensive, but they work all over TN. Like, on the side of the mountain in Spencer, TN... 2-3mbps down on 3G svc.. >From what I know, VZW LTE should cover most of Tennessee within the next year or so. Right now it covers most of Middle TN, almost all the way down to Huntsville (and then you

Re: [nlug] Using Postfix to Spool mail for Exchange rebuild

Maybe using some of the things made for archiving mail to fork it to a secondary mail server that is authenticated against LDAP? Then the primary would still spool and deliver to Exchange after it's back online? On Jul 12, 2011 5:47 PM, "Gibson Prichard" wrote: > My office uses Exchange 2007 for o

Re: [nlug] Re: Burning Custom Audio CD's

Put all of the .wav's in 1 folder: for i in *.wav ; do cdrecord -v -pad -dao -eject ../intro.wav $i ../outro.wav ; echo "Insert new CD" ; read blah ; done On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Kale wrote: > I think this way is better although I didn't think of it at first. > Would definitely save

Re: [nlug] Automatically reset your ?cable? modem

On sunsite.unc.edu there used to be plans to build one of these.. Not much to it, it was parallel port powered, had a relay and a few other components. I built a couple of them in HS... Shouldn't be hard to do now.. Could probably build use an arduino and a few relays to automatically do this... P

Re: [nlug] RAM "issue"

Onboard Video (even if you're not using it) ? On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:44 PM, JMJ wrote: > Greetings! > > I think I've finally figured out that the new RAM I installed wasn't being > fully recognized (3.3GB out of 4.0GB) because I'm using a 32-bit Linux > kernel. (Both top and free reported

Re: [nlug] Customer looking for IT systems inventory mgmt package

Observium? We've recently moved to it from cacti for interface polling. Im fixing some of the billing stuff in it soon, and some of the JunOS inventory stuff.. On Mar 17, 2011 1:08 PM, "Howard White" wrote: > Okay super managers, > > Have customer that has the classic "management by out of date >

Re: [nlug] [OT] cell phone advice

Only on GSM stuff... EVDO doesn't have near that much of an issue. I've used my vzw cards/phones to stream stuff while driving without issue... Back to new phones, I just picked up a vzw iPhone and I'm not really impressed, I'm probably going to send it back and end up with a Droid Bionic with LTE

Re: [nlug] Job Billboard

They're hiring everywhere.. No office in Nashville but Austin and Houston.. I know a few people over there if anybody's interested.. On Jan 28, 2011 8:05 AM, "Steven S. Critchfield" wrote: > Figured this was a good place to point out how far Linux has come in Nashville. > > Saw a billboard on I40/

Re: [nlug] Server Suggestion

I have a bunch of those crapbox 1ru servers from geeks.com... Most of the ones I had were rackable boxes, but they all work fine.. $100 for 1ru is hard to beat.. I think most of mine are dual opteron w/ 4g of ram and some drive which I swap out.. On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Mark J. Bailey

Re: [nlug] Server Suggestion

Supermicro A+ barebone chassis + your choice of innards.. On Jan 15, 2011 2:29 PM, "Andrew Farnsworth" wrote: > I'm looking to standup a simple server and want server hardware rather than > just a white box. Performance is not really an issue but reliability and > price are. Any suggestions? I can

Re: [nlug] DHCP daemon problem

Why not just use helper-address on your L3 router between the vlans? Juniper calls it something else, but cisco calls it helper address.. Much easier than spanning vlans around to your dhcp server On Dec 10, 2010 12:45 PM, "Curt Lundgren" wrote: > I'm having a head-scratcher with our DHCP server.

Re: [nlug] terminal servers recommendations?

I still love Digi and their software drivers.. (e.g. making that serial port on the Digi over the WAN show up on your *nix/Windows box as a local serial pt...) Plus Digi makes lots of -48vdc stuff which makes my life easier.. On Dec 9, 2010 10:06 AM, "Mark J. Bailey" wrote: > Which makes/models of

Re: [nlug] [OT] Monitor Recommendations

If you can dump the 1920x1200 requirement and settle for 1080p (1920x1080) things get a lot cheaper.. For the most part, I don't notice the difference at work going from 2x 16:10 24" LCDs to 2x 16:9 23" LCDs at home.. http://www.directron.com/vh236h.html I have 2 of those, they aren't the "best"

Re: [nlug] Powerline ethernet

I guess its good WTVF has a UHF translator :) On Aug 31, 2010 6:32 PM, "Doug Smith" wrote: > David R. Wilson wrote: >> If that is the same as broadband over power line I would avoid it like >> the plague. Find out what spectrum it uses. > > These have been a significant RF noise issue in the U.K.

Re: [nlug] Powerline ethernet

>From what I understand you should be able to have 3 nodes w/ it... I haven't tried it, but I do believe it works :) On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Andrew Farnsworth wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Tim Jackson wrote: >> >> I have those, and they work great.

Re: [nlug] Powerline ethernet

I have those, and they work great.. On Aug 30, 2010 9:20 AM, "Andrew Farnsworth" wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with Powerline ethernet and suggestions on > what product to get? > > I have just moved and my new apartment is setup so that I have three rooms > that need networking. Being

Re: [nlug] What is?

and wireless kb/mouse).. Theres a lot of good stuff coming out with hw accel for most video and an Atom CPU... < 20watts and enough to play almost any video you can throw at it... -- Tim On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Don Delp wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Tim Jackson &

Re: [nlug] What is?

Acer Revo - $200 Intel Atom box that's actually smaller w/ Nvidia ION for your hw accelerated h.264 playback pleasure.. Spend the other $500 on booze and call it a day... -- Tim On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Curt Lundgren wrote: > It's awfully cute and has nice specs - but $700? That's a w

Re: [nlug] [OT] Seagate 2 TB hard drive

I've actually been setting up some Acer/Asus Nettop ($200 PCs) as HTPCs and other misc stuff... They work great, just make sure you get one with Nvidia ION or some ATI chip built in... Woot.com had another one w/ wireless + wireless mouse last week for $200... Amazon sells the Acer Revo for $200 w

Re: [nlug] OT: Inventory Management

We use RT for internal order tracking & other work-management... Asset-tracker-4rt works well: http://code.google.com/p/asset-tracker-4rt/ But that also depends on if you're going to use RT On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Don Delp wrote: > On Sat, J

Re: [nlug] Command of the Day

+1 On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Greg Donald wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Howard White wrote: > > Just got a blog post discussing the improved utility of vimdiff versus > the > > traditional diff. Haven't had the opportunity to try vimdiff yet but I > > relate to the premise that

Re: [nlug] multiple Comcast connections

In general, having 2 modems from Comcast wouldn't buy you much diversity... You'll probably be hanging off of the same fiber feeding whatever RF amp upstream from your neighborhood, and even further back, probably hanging off of the same CMTS... So there would be multiple points of failure.. Not

Re: [nlug] [non-linux] Best car stereo for iPhone / iPod

Go buy a new VW :)... Great ipod, bluetooth, aux, and sd support in most new VWs now... Outside of that pioneer stuff is good... most all support ipod control... On Mar 21, 2010 4:18 PM, "Andrew Farnsworth" wrote: Hey everyone, Not exactly a Linux question. I am now traveling for work and

Re: [nlug] Issue trackers

FWIW, Jesse and the guys @ Best Practical are very reasonable for custom development... We spent a little money with them getting us started with the software, then finished our own customizations based around what they did... On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Sabuj Pattanayek wrote: > oops, sor

Re: [nlug] Issue trackers

I second RT very flexible and robust.. On Mar 11, 2010 12:25 PM, "Greg Donald" wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Robert Wohlfarth wrote: > I'm researching ... RT http://bestpractical.com/rt/ -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you a

Re: [nlug] [ot]nominate nashville for google fiber

Google's not into this to actually serve customers. This is exactly what they did with the 700mhz auction. Come in, stir things up and push the market segment into the direction that they want it to go on. They come in, shake things up, make the consumer expectation higher and the rest of the indu

Re: [nlug] [REALLY OT!!] Okay Google experts :)

The squeezebox still lives... and it makes a great alarm clock... On Dec 18, 2009 5:27 PM, "Curt Lundgren" wrote: Use-ta-be that the SliMP3 player (and its Squeezebox cousins, now owned by Logitech) could behave as a combination clock/alarm clock and at one time I had mine programmed to play "Mo

Re: [nlug] MySQL Letter to the EC

More reasons to use Postgres. -- Tim On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:57 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > I normally do not forward material to this list, but this is important > enough to do so. > >> I thought I post this link >> http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html >> in case an

[nlug] Re: OT: Online College

I personally don't think certifications are good, or bad, and when looking through resumes, I never actually look at certifications. Unfortunately, that's not how most places operate, and without the proper certifications/degrees you can't make it past HR. Reasons to always find the interviewing m

[nlug] Re: Multiple line SIP ATA

sversal handles this fine... -- Tim On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: > > > - "Tim Jackson" wrote: > >> Most ITSPs and their SBCs will release audio if the 2 endpoints are >> from behind the same firewall/IP... So audio wouldn't a

[nlug] Re: Multiple line SIP ATA

Most ITSPs and their SBCs will release audio if the 2 endpoints are from behind the same firewall/IP... So audio wouldn't actually go out and come back in, just be hairpinned @ the ATA... Might be a good thing to check with the ITSP though... -- Tim On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Don McMorris

[nlug] Re: Multiple line SIP ATA

If you're just looking for basic functionality and want to register the individual lines with a proxy/service there are lots of options... I'd assume all of this is normal FXS/POTS into the phones, correct? I'd never put a bunch of FXS lines in an Asterisk box, but that's just a personal preferenc

[nlug] Re: backup power advice

Another good pount. Don't just crank and run your genset. Put the full load on it at least once a month.. We have automated tests weekly and manual full load tests monthly. On 5/9/09, David R. Wilson wrote: > > One more thing I thought would be worth mentioning to add to this > thread. > > Choos

[nlug] Re: backup power advice

HVAC is a must... Don't forget that :) otherwise you're stuck with lots of servers... er heaters and nowhere for it to go.. You could always go DC for all infrastructure and invert any critical AC power back out... Makes backup a lot easier.. DC genset into your battery string and you're done..

[nlug] Re: Solaris or Linux

I will say, that working in telecom... Everything is developed and supported on Solaris (usually Solaris 8 still)... I've got softswitches that run Solaris on intel inside of the switch... You also see a lot of RTOS' in telecom, LynxOS, VxWorks, QNX, etc... One of the biggest reasons for that is N

[nlug] Re: Asterisk voicemail spool directory

5mins as it is... > > Thanks for the tip > > -- > -Kevin > > "You can't turn a pig into a thoroughbred, > but if you spend enough time and money, > you sure can make a mighty fast pig" > > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Tim Jackson wrote: > >&

[nlug] Re: Asterisk voicemail spool directory

IIRC ODBC for Asterisk VM will only delete the locally spooled files after the first playback... I think there are a number of scripts out there that will go through and clean-up your spool directories... -- Tim On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Kevin Hart wrote: > I know many of you run Asteris

[nlug] Re: at&t u-verse

BellSouth UVerse is all going to be VDSL, no fiber to the home... At least for now anyway... -- Tim On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: > > - "Ken Johnson" wrote: > > has anyone got u-verse at home yet? i'm pondering a move and curious > > to > > know any local e

[nlug] Re: WANTED: Server parts

Check out ITXchange... They've got great prices on IBM parts (used/new) http://www.itxchange.com -- Tim On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: > I'm in need of server parts for several servers, and am willing to travel > to get them: > > IBM eServer xSeries 335: > > IBM C2

[nlug] Re: Good web hosting with Django support

Looks like they buy from Hostdime http://www.hostdime.com/about/ -- Tim On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Douglass Clem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > $1/month for 10GB storage and 20GB bandwidth/month at 3ix.com? Personally, > that sounds too good to be true, aka huge overselling. Am I wrong? > > D

[nlug] Re: Looking for help with high availability SAN system

My experience with trying to do block-level replication using Linux or any other platform isn't good. With the big guys, you're looking at a LOT of money... DRBD supposedly works fairly well, but as you said it's just not really confidence inspiring... Don't expect for any kind remote replication (

[nlug] Re: need a web host

Check into Google Applications for non-profits... http://www.google.com/nonprofits/ -- Tim On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:47 AM, John Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, not just any web host... > > I need a web host that will send invoices in order to allow a small > church to pay by ch

[nlug] Re: Need help with Traffic Shaping

If you can prioritize UDP traffic that is all that you need... Since RTP itself is just UDP traffic... More than likely your problem will be inbound rather than outbound... How often are there large packets being sent up the 3mbps pipe? Downstream you can't control what gets put into queue from Ti

[nlug] Re: Configuring Squid transparent proxy with Shorewall in Webmin

http://www.shorewall.net/Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Douglass Clem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I'll start off by saying that I'd rather not have a bunch of replies about > how horrible Webmin is. You might think so, and may even be right, but it > saves me a few