[SLUG] gunzip 1.3G file over ssh - crawling

2006-02-24 Thread Simon Wong
Hi guys! I'm pulling a compressed (gzip -9) disk image over the LAN and decompressing prior to writing to disk with dd. The command I am using is ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat client.img.gz | gunzip | dd of=/dev/hda1 This seems to work reasonably well until it gets somewhere around

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Query

2006-02-24 Thread Rob B
At 02:09 PM 24/02/2006, Rajnish wrote: After looking at the broadbandchoice website for some weeks now, I've figured that I'd ask the sluggers. What are your suggestions for a modest $50/month commitment, minimum 512Kbps plan from an ISP that does not shy away from Linux (slackware, fedora) ?

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 1, Issue 41

2006-02-24 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi Rajnish, Dunno about ISOs. Have you checked TPGs standard ADSL deals? My current one is $50 per month, 1.5Mb down (I get an average of 1.2) and 20G per month. I'm not sure if they've discontinued the deal to new ADSL members...(?) www.Whirlpool.net.au is a good place to check out what

Re: [SLUG] gunzip 1.3G file over ssh - crawling

2006-02-24 Thread Glen Turner
Simon Wong wrote: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat client.img.gz | gunzip | dd of=/dev/hda1 This seems to work reasonably well until it gets somewhere around the 1G mark at which point everything seems to have slowed down to a crawl. That first 1GB is the oddity. It's just some

Re: [SLUG] How to discover which modules unnecessary

2006-02-24 Thread Glen Turner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually this is mostly just a waste of effort. Config swap and let the system swap out all the bits it does not need. Memory used by modules isn't swappable. Inserting and then removing a module isn't a good idea. Rather prevent the module from being loaded in the

Re: [SLUG] graduate programmers

2006-02-24 Thread Glen Turner
James Purser wrote: Economics 101: A Graduate is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay them. Yep, and a quick look at the stats from the Graduate Careers Council of Australia shows that recent median first year salaries for IT graduates under 25 years of age (ie, no work history) in

[SLUG] Re: graduate programmers

2006-02-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 02:48:02PM +0100, Glen Turner wrote: James Purser wrote: Economics 101: A Graduate is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay them. Yep, and a quick look at the stats from the Graduate Careers Council of Australia shows that recent median first year

Re: [SLUG] gunzip 1.3G file over ssh - crawling

2006-02-24 Thread amanda wynne
Quoting Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi guys! I'm pulling a compressed (gzip -9) disk image over the LAN and decompressing prior to writing to disk with dd. The command I am using is ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat client.img.gz | gunzip | dd of=/dev/hda1 This seems to

Re: [SLUG] Committee Nominations!

2006-02-24 Thread Ken Wilson
Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:37 +1100, Chris Deigan wrote: Ken Wilson for Treasurer I accept Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Query

2006-02-24 Thread jam
On Saturday 25 February 2006 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Rajnish, Dunno about ISOs. Have you checked TPGs standard ADSL deals? My current one is $50 per month, 1.5Mb down (I get an average of 1.2) and 20G per month. I'm not sure if they've discontinued the deal to new ADSL

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Query

2006-02-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I'm very happy with Internode. Their CEO is a Mac user and is very sympathetic towards users of alternative OSs. I haven't tested out their Support yet, but the company claims that they will try to help you no matter what OS you run. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama |

[SLUG] rpc.statd clients

2006-02-24 Thread Simon Males
I'm after a maintained lightweight rpc.statd client like xmeter or pref. Or least source a version that can be built with a modern compiler. -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Query

2006-02-24 Thread Martin Ellison
I haven't had any problems with iinet myself. They don't seem to mind Linux. But then I have an Ethernet modem; also I have dual boot XP/FC, so I just get their technical support to fix the XP side, and then translate to FC. On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 09:22 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Query

2006-02-24 Thread Tony Green
On 25/02/2006, at 5:40 PM, Martin Ellison wrote: I haven't had any problems with iinet myself. They don't seem to mind Linux. But then I have an Ethernet modem; also I have dual boot XP/FC, so I just get their technical support to fix the XP side, and then translate to FC. I've got nothing