RE: [OT] UNIX license plate

2009-05-17 Thread Michael Pelletier
Sorry, I didn't realize Facebook did that. Here's a replacement link via Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mvpel/2471341618/ I'd inline it in an HTML e-mail, but I'm sure that would annoy even more people on this list than Facebook does. :D -Michael Pelle

RE: UNIX license plate

2009-05-17 Thread Michael Pelletier
7473 Not entirely geeky, of course, but an interesting coincidence nonetheless. -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: OT? Shipping issues?

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Pelletier
slammed by a tractor trailer into oncoming traffic >where it was hit by a dump truck and knocked into a swamp where it >sank. They did not dispute the claim. I'm shocked. They didn't argue over whether the packaging met their specifications? Amazi

Re: OT? Shipping issues?

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Pelletier
the Styrofoam gave its life to save the printer. If there's any alternative to UPS shipping when I'm ordering online, I jump on it, even if it costs a bit more. -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.

RE: Ubuntu Server Administration Classes

2009-01-16 Thread Michael Pelletier
s the Ubuntu course in Portland). At the "basic" level, the differences between RedHat and Ubuntu would probably not be too significant. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org [mailto:gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org] On B

Is anyone hosting/organizing a party for February 13 23:31:30 2009 GMT?

2009-01-16 Thread Michael Pelletier
It's a Friday evening, so it'd be a perfect time for a little get-together of Linux enthusiasts. -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listi

RE: Timing file read/write over NFS

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Pelletier
ock sizes... -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

RE: Timing file read/write over NFS

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Pelletier
o improving your write performance. Of course, it introduces some risk of inconsistency since a server write failure might already have been acknowledged as complete to the NFS client. -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-disc

RE: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Pelletier
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/ The original Windows Refund Day, February 15, 1999. I'm not sure if I made it into one of those photos - that might be the back of my head at the upper left of the photo of Eric Raymond. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message-

RE: shell, perl, performance, parallelism, profiling, etc. (was: Upgrade guidance)

2008-10-22 Thread Michael Pelletier
ast time in my programming career where it was worth the trouble of implementing it. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:09 AM To: Greater NH Linux User Group Subject: R

Re: shell, perl, performance, parallelism, profiling, etc. (was: Upgrade guidance)

2008-10-21 Thread Michael Pelletier
n the Perl executable to cause the OS to leave it in memory after execution is complete. Try doing that and see if the numbers change at all. I'm frankly shocked to see a shell script operating faster than a Perl script in any case, but maybe Bash is more clever than I'm used to.

RE: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Michael Pelletier
party like it's 1985... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVlNIUhHUI8 -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

RE: Renaming Directories

2008-09-23 Thread Michael Pelletier
point - umount /dev/sda; mkdir /mnt/store.old; mount /dev/sda /mnt/store.old ... Same idea as with "mv" on a single filesystem - you're changing the label for the directory, not the contents. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: comcast strikes again....

2008-09-22 Thread Michael Pelletier
s which don't fit todays Internet. --- I'd much rather Comcast ditch Usenet than throttle my competing VoIP phone service, frankly. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete Snider Sent: Monday, September 22,

RE: fairpoint fiber rates?

2008-09-16 Thread Michael Pelletier
I would simply LOVE to have the "pain" of paying $45 a month for internet service - currently my only option is Comcast, and they charge $61.80. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Labitt If the

RE: UPS disposal options?

2008-09-15 Thread Michael Pelletier
with IT departments, but you can give them a call to find out. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Joseph Schelly Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:04 AM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: UPS di

RE: Looking for people's experience with po files.

2008-09-10 Thread Michael Pelletier
library is XSI compliant by default. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:08 PM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Looking for people's expe

RE: Looking for people's experience with po files.

2008-09-10 Thread Michael Pelletier
his script stretches into the foreseeable future. You could probably write a Perl script to do most of the conversion for you, for that matter. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven W. Orr Sent: Wednesday, Septe

RE: nslookup alpine-usa.com

2008-09-10 Thread Michael Pelletier
nd why when the page finishes loading Firefox displays "http://www.alpine-usa.com/"; in the address box. Check a tcpdump or Wireshark trace to see this behavior first-hand. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Pelletier
wart. Or perhaps you could run power over another pair of the old copper, if available, to power multiple units from a larger DC power supply in the datacenter. Ah, the joys of legacy hardware... -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Linux network behavior wierdness

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Pelletier
utcomes on different systems. I'd also suggest you double-check your netmasks - a packet to 192.168.128.255 won't be responded to unless the receiving system's netmask is such that the left half of the origin address matches its idea of the network, and the right half is all-1.

RE: Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

2008-09-04 Thread Michael Pelletier
jumping in whole-hog, but it looks like a practical option. Of course, it depends on the Westermo extender pairs costing less than new wiring. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

RE: Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

2008-09-03 Thread Michael Pelletier
much these cost, and they operate in pairs, of course, but it may very be cheaper than rewiring with modern cable. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:35 AM To: Great

RE: Laptop external power from batteries (DC/DC)

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Pelletier
ment) and until I made the update every power glitch resulted in a deafening racket echoing through the house. My wife is much happier now. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: Bill McGonigle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:33 PM To: Michael Pel

RE: Laptop external power from batteries (DC/DC)

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Pelletier
t you need a Windows system on which to run PowerChute. -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

RE: OpenSSH logging with GMT on Connection close?

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Pelletier
ings time date changes... But you'd think that'd leave you an hour off during only a few weeks of the year, not at GMT. Puzzling. -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

RE: (OT) Laptop Repair

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Pelletier
e "cost of a new laptop" price that HP wanted to charge me, so I'd start there for a replacement screen. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:

RE: OpenSSH logging with GMT on Connection close?

2008-08-19 Thread Michael Pelletier
local time and daylight savings rules. In NH, you'd want "US/Eastern" of course. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin D. Clark Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:12 AM To: Greater NH Linux User Group Su

RE: not good news for ODF :(

2008-08-18 Thread Michael Pelletier
100% compatible with Office 2007 documents, with no pesky compatability or rendering quirks, right? It's not like Microsoft was ever going to fully adopt ODF, in any case - they're Microsoft, after all. IBM should know that personally, given their experience with OS/2. -Michael