[Discuss] unRAID

2011-07-25 Thread Tom Metro
unRAID is "based on Slackware Linux" w/kernel 2.6. Anyone tried out unRAID? Anyone tried building the equivalent with ZFS or some other open source technology? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: ht

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-25 Thread Tom Metro
27;t even support saving notes with a bookmark, which I often use. What's worse is that Chrome doesn't interoperate with FF's bookmark manager - you can't drag a link from Chrome to the FF bookmark manager. So you can't relegate FF to being just a bookmark manager, while

Re: [Discuss] BLU Meeting: Arduino Hacking 101: Importing the Universe

2011-07-25 Thread Tom Metro
ors. If you found this talk of interest, join us on the BLU Hardware Hacking list: http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking I'll be asking Federico some follow-up questions there. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solution

Re: [Discuss] unRAID

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Metro
a hacked version of UnionFS. Reading through the wiki further it also seems that the unRAID approach is far less automated compared to Drobo. Replacing a failed drive or upgrading to a higher capacity drive both require several steps to be performed through the unRAID UI. These ought to be fully a

Re: [Discuss] Firefox vs. Chrome

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Metro
you're not > using it? Yes. At least it did. My solution was to create a separate profile that had FB and other dev extension installed, and run a parallel instance of FF that would be used for dev work. (It takes some trickery, but you can coax FF to run multiple instances.) -Tom -- Tom

Re: [Discuss] unRAID

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Metro
[Forwarding on behalf of Rich Braun, whose list subscription needs adjustment, and apparently the list management UI isn't working yet. -Tom] Original Message Subject: Re: unRAID Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:04:43 + From: Rich Braun Edward Net Harvey opined: > But even losing

Re: [Discuss] BLU Meeting: Arduino Hacking 101: Importing the Universe

2011-07-28 Thread Tom Metro
uino integration essentials of a wide > variety of sensors and actuators. If you found this talk of interest, join us on the BLU Hardware Hacking list: http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking I'll be asking Federico some follow-up questions there. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, Backblaze

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
but any custom enclosure is going to run $200+. What's on the market for small-scale NASs is already cheap by enterprise standards. But there is still a noticeable "server tax" on these small system. At least some of it is justifiable due to lower volumes. So it is a harder problem

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, 2.5" drives

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
data centers" that is 15mm. Probably too think to fit most laptops, and thus the pitch for enterprise markets. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
5-bay units are designed to mount with the 3.5" drives vertically oriented, resulting is less wasted space (.89" - you need some space for the eject mechanism). (They should provide better ventilation, too.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solu

Re: [Discuss] BLU Meeting: Arduino Hacking 101: Importing the Universe

2011-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
James Kramer wrote: > Has a copy of Federico's talk posted on the site? He gave the same talk at OSCON. Looks like he posted the slides there: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/18831 -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions

Re: [Discuss] unRAID

2011-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
, and subject to software faults during steps 5 and 6. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] BLU Job Posting Policy

2011-08-02 Thread Tom Metro
re capable of sending a custom formatted email in response to each form submission.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] SAS drives

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Metro
the personal > computer industry couldn't agree on doing something so smooth in > a hundred years. I hope it was at least amusing to contemplate. Ha! Sadly true. Though the necessary standards are already in place. I'm not sure why some manufacturer doesn't capitalize on it as a

Re: [Discuss] Thunderbird question

2011-08-06 Thread Tom Metro
ension to do that. There may be others, but this is the one I use: Folder Account https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/folder-account/ I see it has been updated to work with TB 5, implying TB 5 doesn't have the functionality built-in either. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

Re: [Discuss] Power consumption

2011-08-07 Thread Tom Metro
s is more probable than a GFI on a common power strip. (Most mid-range power strips contain some sort of filtering. Rarely do they have a GFI.) The filtering circuit contains components like capacitors that are placed across the line. 1. http://www.cor.com/Series/PEM/C/ (see Electrical Schemati

[Discuss] [OT] Apple is the AOL of consumer electronics

2011-08-07 Thread Tom Metro
x27;t necessarily in one's best self-interest in the near term. On the other hand, avoiding a siloed environment does potentially reduce frustration, if you are the type of person who wants to be able to do anything with the hardware you own, even at the price of using a less polished end-pr

Re: [Discuss] Copy MAC address list from on Linksys router to another

2011-08-09 Thread Tom Metro
ch of other options to explore. Google returns plenty of links. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Disc

Re: [Discuss] Thunderbird 5.0

2011-08-12 Thread Tom Metro
Jerry Feldman wrote: > Every once in a while Thunderbird freezes. Have you turned off indexing? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.ven

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-28 Thread Tom Metro
ode. Like Dan said, wikis need maintenance, and a wiki that lets you automate some of that helps. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/

Re: [Discuss] ZFS

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Metro
eeNAS. (Or OpenSolaris, or Solaris-kernel-based Nexenta.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] The America Invents Act

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Metro
Rich Braun wrote: > The America Invents Act of 16-Sep-2011 is about to make things a > whole lot worse for future open-source dev, I fear. I haven't read the details of the act. Can you elaborate on that? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise soluti

Re: [Discuss] LVM Re: A really interesting chain of functionality

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Metro
the low-level file system architecture. Generally speaking, the whole LVM concept seems quaint and requires a lot of manual management. I haven't deployed it on a system since 2006. Unfortunately, there aren't good alternatives for it on Linux. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton

Re: [Discuss] ZFS

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Metro
ct. Ain't software patents grand?) CDDL might cover "a", but unlikely it covers "b." In any case, it is due to the licensing, and not the patents, that keeps ZFS out of the Linux kernel. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions thr

Re: [Discuss] ZFS

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Metro
en source, as there are no deep pockets behind the project (or defensive patent portfolio) to fend off attacks. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/

Re: [Discuss] ZFS

2011-10-02 Thread Tom Metro
ation, the performance difference between ZFS and Ext4 may be indistinguishable (or not? need to see some benchmarks), or at least a justified cost for a more self-maintaining storage appliance. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through

Re: [Discuss] more on software patent

2011-10-02 Thread Tom Metro
etween a "professionally" written patent and an inventor's self-written patent.) Anyone here tried building or coding something based on the description in a patent? Occasionally you'll see one that is straight forward, but clearly if the objective was disclosure, t

Re: [Discuss] ZFS

2011-10-04 Thread Tom Metro
ust the inherent differences in file systems due to architectural differences, but also the impression that these newer file systems (ZFS, Btrfs) are ether immature or immature on Linux, and as such haven't been optimized for the platform. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

Re: [Discuss] Is MythTV dead?

2011-10-09 Thread Tom Metro
been sloppy, without good separation between the two halves. What should have been there is a MythTV protocol feature that lets the front-end negotiate with the back-end for supported video formats, and employ VLC-style on-the-fly transcoding. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

Re: [Discuss] open protocols for IP-TV

2011-10-09 Thread Tom Metro
ort - licensing and DRM. A sort of pointless endeavor. The best bet is to create a big enough audience using open clients that the commercial content providers will be compelled to support the format.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open

Re: [Discuss] open protocols for IP-TV

2011-10-09 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> The glaring obvious >> absence here is an open protocol for IP-TV. > > Yeah, we have that. It's called DVB-IPTV. I see. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-IPTV Is this the IPTV protocol that MythTV supports? (I know it has had e

Re: [Discuss] Server Room Power

2011-10-13 Thread Tom Metro
t range is a byproduct of the switching regulator design: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching_regulator -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ __

Re: [Discuss] Server Room Power

2011-10-14 Thread Tom Metro
> other. If the former, and you're using a true RMS meter, I wouldn't expect it would matter whether to two current waveforms are in sync. The meter would just see it as a waveform distortion, and should still give you the RMS power. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA,

Re: [Discuss] Econonomic contribution

2011-10-15 Thread Tom Metro
edly failed, so you can argue that cell phones and tablets would likely not be at their current state for another 2 to 5 years without his vision (comparatively the easy part) and execution of his business strategy (the hard part). -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA &q

Re: [Discuss] Econonomic contribution

2011-10-16 Thread Tom Metro
Tech[1] they touch on this topic, and conclude it is the popularizer of the technology that gets the credit in the history books, not the inventor. 1. http://twit.tv/show/this-week-in-tech/322 -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] Do you know of a Dynamic DNS service that doesn't demand I install software?

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Metro
//dhis.org/WebEngine.ipo?context=dhis.website.updating.updates -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@bl

Re: [Discuss] Verizon ADSL and port blocking

2011-10-26 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Horne wrote: > If there are other ways to scan my IP, please tell m how. ShieldsUP https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.ven

Re: [Discuss] lvm snapshot cloning

2011-10-26 Thread Tom Metro
to keep the technology a trade secrete? If those don't apply, then why not detail your scheme? Better to idea vetted before you've invested a lot of time into building it. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions thr

Re: [Discuss] lvm snapshot cloning

2011-10-31 Thread Tom Metro
des==blocks, which of course they don't. I haven't looked at the inotify library in a while, but it isn't out of the realm of possibility that in addition to the notification messages identifying the inode, it may also identify the blocks or byte range impacted by the I/O oper

Re: [Discuss] Security

2011-11-03 Thread Tom Metro
ecific ports (via ssh or otherwise), but never got why large corporations were always so willing to completely open their internal networks to their employee's home computers, and always preferred VPNs to port forwarding (which I find far simpler to setup, than a VPN client). -Tom -- Tom Met

Re: [Discuss] Security

2011-11-04 Thread Tom Metro
p this e-mail on their respective servers >> forever? No, not if you delete it. (Though backups are a different story.) Many people don't realize it, but it is possible to purge messages out of a Gmail account. I have a few Gmail hosted accounts, and I periodically purge all the messag

[Discuss] Richard Pieri wrote:, > Android doesn't support S/MIME out of the box, either.

2011-11-05 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: > Android doesn't support S/MIME out of the box, either. Speaking of which, what are people using for an IMAP client on Android? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professi

Re: [Discuss] Linux box for under $20? TRENDnet

2011-11-09 Thread Tom Metro
the vendor's software for OpenWRT Likewise, I ran it stock for the time I had it deployed, but now that it is sitting on a shelf gathering dust, I ought to try loading a 3rd party firmware onto it and put it to some use. I wish Dnsmasq was designed to operate in a master/slave fail-over a

Re: [Discuss] Linux box for under $20? TRENDnet

2011-11-11 Thread Tom Metro
is that TRENDnet used that model number for two completely different > hardware versions. I have the V2 hardware with the 2.00.22 firmware > revision. Could be. According to my notes, I have H/W: V1.1R, Firmware Version: 1.10.14 (came with 1.00b0008). -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture L

Re: [Discuss] Perl OO question

2011-11-16 Thread Tom Metro
ff possible. What you were looking to do is out of the realm of what's typical. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] Postfix Wildcard email forwarding

2011-11-16 Thread Tom Metro
alias_maps or virtual_alias_maps to regexp:/path/to/file. 1. http://www.postfix.org/regexp_table.5.html 2. http://www.postfix.org/pcre_table.5.html -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source."

Re: [Discuss] mbox questions

2011-11-16 Thread Tom Metro
er access via IMAP. I second that approach. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://li

Re: [Discuss] to Ubuntu or not to Ubuntu

2011-11-23 Thread Tom Metro
neither option will not provide a smooth transition if you have a well tuned and customized GNOME2 environment. The question I'd put to the community is: If you have been using Ubuntu since 10.4 or earlier, and you've upgraded or are planning to, what option did you take? -Tom

Re: [Discuss] BLU archive?

2011-11-24 Thread Tom Metro
-f24859.html FYI, there are more. The definitive list can be found at: http://blu.wikispaces.com/mailing+lists -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _

Re: [Discuss] Competition of broadband

2011-12-05 Thread Tom Metro
tion of public-private infrastructure. Some towns in the US have attempted to build their own fiber plants only to be thwarted by telecom lobbyists getting state laws passed prohibiting anyone but the telecoms from doing such a thing. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterpris

[Discuss] Ubuntu alternatives and upgrading distributions

2011-12-10 Thread Tom Metro
his premise, read the full text first.) While this is talking about web apps running on servers, you should be able to extrapolate the same ideas to the desktop...yet you can't. Surprisingly the core of the OS - the kernel - is actually relatively easy to upgrade without upgrading the full

Re: [Discuss] Off-Topic [IP] BufferBloat: What's Wrong with the Internet?

2011-12-14 Thread Tom Metro
rheads who recognize BufferBloat will ultimately do the > obvious: crank down the buffering and adjust the retry parameters. > And flatten out the number of hops from source to destination. Right. [Thanks to Stephen Ronan for sharing the article. I'd heard about this buffer bloat iss

[Discuss] live podcast BLU meetings

2011-12-20 Thread Tom Metro
e Spreaker app is unique in that it streams audio in 128 kilobits and includes features like live chat and Skype call-in, in addition to social sharing. There's also an online web platform that lets you edit the recording... -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterpri

Re: [Discuss] keeping an eye on congress

2011-12-20 Thread Tom Metro
on the inner workings of congress to make them think twice that they can get away anything thanks to the obscurity of CSPAN. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___

Re: [Discuss] list etiquette for posting links

2011-12-20 Thread Tom Metro
to follow the link, it generally helps to provide some sort of a teaser. (My personal policy is that I rarely follow links posted without explanation. Along the lines of what Dan said: if you can't be bothered to summarize, then I can't be bothered to click on it.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture

Re: [Discuss] live podcast BLU meetings

2011-12-20 Thread Tom Metro
ideo for talks with some regularity. Presumably such permission is already being sought and granted. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ __

Re: [Discuss] keeping an eye on congress

2011-12-20 Thread Tom Metro
cials on key issues. ...sounds spot on. Just filling in your zip code and email. (Note that the site accepts an email address containing a "+" character, but doesn't escape it correctly if you hit the edit link. I reported the bug.) I signed up. We'll see how it goes. Tha

Re: [Discuss] build my own cell phone

2012-01-02 Thread Tom Metro
ve your goal? You best bet might be to start with a purchased phone and mod it in some fashion. I'm not aware of any phones that are designed to permit swapping components. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Profe

[Discuss] [OT] Microsoft's Standalone System Sweeper

2012-01-02 Thread Tom Metro
R is bad, and will it consider alternate bootloaders, like GRUB or Truecrypt, as infected and replace them? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/

[Discuss] Full disk encryption

2012-01-02 Thread Tom Metro
e you using? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2012-01-02 Thread Tom Metro
if it died. Seems like a good deal, if the included drive is useful to you. According to camelegg.com, it is on a downward price trend, so it may be discounted further: http://camelegg.com/product/N82E16859321016?utm_campaign=firefox_ext&utm_source=product_link_ttp&utm_medium=www -Tom --

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Metro
behind. As does swap. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] BitLocker

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: > On Jan 2, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Tom Metro wrote: >> What makes Microsoft BitLocker better than TrueCrypt? > > "... because it protects against more attack modes than other software." Granted, I was being lazy by asking the question rather than looking

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption, why bother?

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> Are you using full disk encryption? > > I don't. I take care of my gear. I made this statement before: I > see WDE as enabler for carelessness. The EFF article I quoted references a prior EFF article on border crossing inspect

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Metro
Daniel Feenberg wrote: > The built-in Fedora encryption is no trouble to establish... What tool do they use? Any other distributions that provide an integrated solution? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption and backups

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Metro
like this are becoming increasingly common. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

[Discuss] Hardware Hacking list

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Metro
want to root, a router you want to load Tomato onto, an Arduino starter kit you want to get started with, or any other hardware you want to hack - join up and post your questions. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Pro

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption and backups

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Metro
t, but it isn't insecure. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Metro
Daniel Feenberg wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> What tool do they use? > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Implementing_LUKS_Disk_Encryption#Introduction_to_LUKS > Fedora 9's default implementation of LUKS is AES 128 with a SHA256 > hashing. I'm assuming they'

Re: [Discuss] Full disk encryption, why bother?

2012-01-04 Thread Tom Metro
earthquake country, be prepared for your server to reboot on every tremor. :-) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___

Re: [Discuss] box.net

2012-01-05 Thread Tom Metro
validation libraries that all share this bug. (Perhaps some stock PHP library? I know the Perl libraries don't have this bug.) That, and every other web developer thinks they can easily whip up an email validation regular expression from s

Re: [Discuss] box.net

2012-01-05 Thread Tom Metro
redirects that are near impossible to work around by correcting URLs in the address bar. The web browser will escape form field data for you, so to manage to pass an unescaped email address takes some creative bad programming. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise s

Re: [Discuss] box.net

2012-01-05 Thread Tom Metro
lso that the extension separator character is changeable via configuration parameter in most MTAs (at least Sendmail and Postfix), further suggesting that the "+" character itself isn't a universal standard. (On my own Postfix installation I have it set to "-"

Re: [Discuss] Least worst Internet Service Provider in Somerville

2012-01-13 Thread Tom Metro
ones you've seen recommended here. Dnsmasq will periodically "speed test" the servers and pick the fastest. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ __

[Discuss] Comcast gets rid of the remaining analog channels

2012-01-14 Thread Tom Metro
graded to new CableCARD tuners, you've got about 2 months to upgrade. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mail

Re: [Discuss] Comcast gets rid of the remaining analog channels

2012-01-15 Thread Tom Metro
r reiterated the same deal they provided when the "extended basic" channels went digital: all subscribers can get up to two DTAs for free, with no rental fee. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professiona

Re: [Discuss] Is MythTV dead?

2012-01-15 Thread Tom Metro
Rich Braun wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> If you use MythTV as a front-end, have you tried XBMC? If so, why do you >> prefer MythTV's front-end? > > Thanks to your posting, I just did. It was a F R U S T R A T I N G waste of 2 > hours of my life. The botto

Re: [Discuss] open protocols for IP-TV

2012-01-15 Thread Tom Metro
Rich Braun wrote: > Tom Metro suggested: >> And the best way to break free of the old-world TV model that the >> existing studios, networks, and cable companies are clinging to is to >> reduce barriers for the new upstarts to reach our living rooms. > > Go to Best Buy

[Discuss] Debian is now the most popular Linux distribution on web servers

2012-01-15 Thread Tom Metro
tribution on your servers, which flavor, and why? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org ht

Re: [Discuss] Debian is now the most popular Linux distribution on web servers

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> If you run a Debian-based distribution on your servers, which flavor, >> and why? > > My company runs Debian because the stable branch is both stable > and well-supported... You don't buy-in to the idea of Ubuntu LTE (long

[Discuss] Ubuntu TV

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Metro
d supporting ARM in low-power data center servers. What I'm really curious about is how or if they will be supporting MythTV. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _

[Discuss] running Snort on a consumer-grade router

2012-01-18 Thread Tom Metro
ated. On the next page of the thread a user reports being able to successfully run Snort on an RT-N16, but they didn't report whether they ever got custom rules working. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional

Re: [Discuss] running Snort on a consumer-grade router

2012-01-18 Thread Tom Metro
traffic on > said router by installing it on a separate computer? This is what I was speculating about. Is there a mechanism to do this? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Pr

Re: [Discuss] running Snort on a consumer-grade router

2012-01-18 Thread Tom Metro
There's also a curiosity factor in seeing reports of what attacks are happening against the router, which the router is successfully fending off. That can be interesting, but generally just amounts to useless noise. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise sol

Re: [Discuss] running Snort on a consumer-grade router

2012-01-19 Thread Tom Metro
(log monitoring tool). Both use email as the primary communication channel. Both require a fair bit of customization and configuration to make them minimally noisy. (A noisy monitoring tool quickly gets ignored.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions thr

Re: [Discuss] running Snort on a consumer-grade router

2012-01-19 Thread Tom Metro
ct.aspx?Item=N82E16833122342 (This does port mirroring too. Perhaps the same low cost switch someone mentioned at the talk.) > It seems to run on this reasonably well on it but you still have to > be careful as to what rule sets you enable and which Memory > Performance option you use. Good to

[Discuss] Visualizing LAN traffic

2012-01-19 Thread Tom Metro
I'd expect such a tool to get annoying fast. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.o

Re: [Discuss] Programming vs Engineering

2012-01-23 Thread Tom Metro
ble to management, so they can be appreciated?" -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Programming vs Engineering

2012-01-23 Thread Tom Metro
e do have a whole litany of certifications available. If you dismiss the validity/value of such certifications, what makes you believe that a single industry administered test will prove more accurate at qualifying software developers as being of Professional Engineer quality? -Tom -- T

Re: [Discuss] What Happens when a cloud service shuts down

2012-01-23 Thread Tom Metro
mately that's what any business with critical infrastructure in the cloud needs to do: use multiple vendors. Common APIs, tools like Eucalyptus (http://www.eucalyptus.com/ mentioned elsewhere in this thread), and projects like OpenStack (http://openstack.org/) suggest this may be more pract

Re: [Discuss] cloud computing defined

2012-01-23 Thread Tom Metro
t. > Is it just a way of saying that you have a distributed, parallel app > whose individual nodes can come online (or go offline) dynamically > without interrupting the service? I would say that although many cloud services include those attributes, none of them are strictly required to

Re: [Discuss] Software Engineering redux

2012-01-23 Thread Tom Metro
ides value to the customer is effective and efficient. It does not, however, provide an excuse for not using a good architecture. That's not to say there wouldn't be value to a separate certification for "life-critical software engineering" for those working in fields where

Re: [Discuss] PBX Standards?

2012-01-23 Thread Tom Metro
;audiolizing" (Which is probably why we have a word for thinking > about things with our visual centers, while I had to make up a word > for the auditory equivalent.) (See the recent network monitoring thread ("Visualizing LAN traffic"). Apparently the word is "auralizing.&

Re: [Discuss] New SMART disk errors reported

2012-01-25 Thread Tom Metro
hnique mentioned in the article above, or if you are using Linux RAID, run checkarray (resync). -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___

[Discuss] special BLU meeting Feb 1: single board computers

2012-01-25 Thread Tom Metro
le performance considering this is a CPU that would get laughed out of most modern smartphones. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/

Re: [Discuss] Samba4

2012-01-27 Thread Tom Metro
to deploy Samba on a newly setup network? Have your experiences with Samba been different? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Dis

Re: [Discuss] wiki suggestions?

2012-01-29 Thread Tom Metro
d also consider a hosted solution, unless you need to have it under a domain you control or just want the experience of installing and maintaining the software. For example, Wikispaces, which has a WYSIWYG editor, and is what we use for http://blu.wikispaces.com/ . -Tom -- Tom Metro Ventur

Re: [Discuss] 4-Bay NAS

2012-02-03 Thread Tom Metro
and either manually wire them up, or add a port multiplier backplane, like the hard to find CFI-B53PM used in the Backblaze server (http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/10/07/backblaze-storage-pod-vendors-tips-and-tricks/).) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA &

Re: [Discuss] Network Traffic Visualization

2012-02-03 Thread Tom Metro
ead indicates they've remedied this limitation). See: http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/per-ip-bandwidth-monitoring-how-to.35533/ -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Profess

Re: [Discuss] Network Traffic Visualization

2012-02-03 Thread Tom Metro
ove, there are a number of existing tools to help with diagnosing network problems and spotting optimization opportunities, but they typically show you only a few metrics at a time, and require the use if multiple tools to get a fuller picture. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, U

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