Re: Three Days with NOOKcolor

2011-02-28 Thread Richard Pieri 
I can tell you this:

Video won't be much different.  The screens have nearly identical PPI (160 for 
Xoom, 170 for Nc).  Both use (nearly) the same hardware decoder for video 
playback.  Xoom can handle higher base resolution on the video but once it gets 
to the screen you'll be hard-pressed to notice any difference other than that 
everything is a little bigger on Xoom.

Storage capacities are practically identical: both do 32gb microSD.

Xoom will be faster; it's running the Tegra 2 vs. Nc's Cortex A8.

--Rich P.



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Re: Three Days with NOOKcolor

2011-02-28 Thread Tom Metro 
Richard Pieri wrote:
> ...of the other options have working hardware acceleration, yet. It
> has some glitches, like resetting USB debug mode on reboot, but other
> than that it is eminently usable.
> 
> A version of Honeycomb is now available as either an SD or eMMC
> installation.  This one is interesting because it is hacked together
> from the SDK version of the OS and drivers from stock.  It is the
> least-polished of the options but it is a nice proof of concept,
> demonstrating that Nc is capable of running Honeycomb. 

The March issue of Linux Journal has a review of the NOOKcolor that
transitions into an overview of what you can do with a hacked NOOKcolor.
(It refers to web sites for the latest details on hacking, which were
just emerging as the article was being written.)

Once Honeycomb is stable on the NOOKcolor, I'll be curious to see a
review that compares it to a Motorola Xoom. I assume the later will be
faster, have better video playback, more memory and storage, and perhaps
a better screen, but will it be enough so to justify paying $800 vs.
$250? The Xoom has a lot of stuff I don't need, like cellular data and
multiple cameras.

I expect there will be a pile of Android tables available in the coming
months with similar specs and price points to the NOOKcolor, most likely
coming preloaded with Honeycomb. So it's still probably worth while to wait.

 -Tom

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Re: list netiquette

2011-02-28 Thread Richard Pieri 
On Feb 28, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> 
> You haven't cared for a very long time... ;-)

Yeah... last time I cared would have been circa 1995.

> mailer does exactly the right thing with a single key press (until
> someone decides to start header munging, but that's almost always
> problematical)...

Not for me it isn't.  See? :)

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Re: list netiquette

2011-02-28 Thread Derek Martin 
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:16:00PM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> > I don't think that's actually fair to say, though.  The number escapes
> > me at the moment, but there's an RFC that defines a number of  headers
> > for mailing lists.  AFAIK all of the mentioned mail clients honor
> > those, i.e. they all conform to the standard.  Some have additional
> > means to decide whether something is or is not a mailing list...
> 
> That didn't exist when I last bothered to care.  

Here:

  http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2369.html

You haven't cared for a very long time... ;-)

Actually while the RFC has existed for a long while, naturally
widespread support for it didn't.  Mutt, AFAIK, was the early first
adopter, having such features in its very first version, I believe,
with Evolution to follow a short while after.  Others picked it up
later, mostly much later IIRC... 

> I've long-since grown accustomed to using Reply All and editing my
> headers appropriately.  It's a good habit.  It avoids unexpected
> unintentions.

I largely disagree.  It's extra time/tedium that I don't need, given
that I typically send dozens of e-mails a day, and given that my
mailer does exactly the right thing with a single key press (until
someone decides to start header munging, but that's almost always
problematical)...  But ultimately whatever works the way your brain
works is probably the Right Thing.

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Re: list netiquette

2011-02-28 Thread Richard Pieri 
On Feb 28, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> 
> I don't think that's actually fair to say, though.  The number escapes
> me at the moment, but there's an RFC that defines a number of  headers
> for mailing lists.  AFAIK all of the mentioned mail clients honor
> those, i.e. they all conform to the standard.  Some have additional
> means to decide whether something is or is not a mailing list...

That didn't exist when I last bothered to care.  I've long-since grown 
accustomed to using Reply All and editing my headers appropriately.  It's a 
good habit.  It avoids unexpected unintentions.

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Re: list netiquette

2011-02-28 Thread Derek Martin 
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:19:36PM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> > 
> > The only sticking point may be your "fully" qualifier... I have no
> > idea what you mean by that.  They all support replying to mailing
> > lists distinctly from sender and all.  Some require appropriate list
> > headers be set (which mailman sets), and others have additional means
> > to identify mailing lists.
> 
> That's it in a nutshell.  Operations are inconsistent across
> multiple mailing lists and alias expansions.

I don't think that's actually fair to say, though.  The number escapes
me at the moment, but there's an RFC that defines a number of  headers
for mailing lists.  AFAIK all of the mentioned mail clients honor
those, i.e. they all conform to the standard.  Some have additional
means to decide whether something is or is not a mailing list...

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Re: list netiquette

2011-02-28 Thread Richard Pieri 
On Feb 27, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> 
> The only sticking point may be your "fully" qualifier... I have no
> idea what you mean by that.  They all support replying to mailing
> lists distinctly from sender and all.  Some require appropriate list
> headers be set (which mailman sets), and others have additional means
> to identify mailing lists.

That's it in a nutshell.  Operations are inconsistent across multiple mailing 
lists and alias expansions.

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Re: Lightweight network monitoring program

2011-02-28 Thread Jerry Feldman 
That was certainly an approach. I actually wrote a script that does a
ping test. This was done for a different purpose such as uploading stuff
to systems when I make changes to things like automount. The only reason
not to do this is that it just adds one more homegrown script to the
mix. But also I don't monitor my work email all that much since a lot of
times I'm on my Linux workstation, although if I send it to my gmail
account, my smartphone will beep at me.

 result=$(ping -c $COUNT $HOST)
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  ## log something or send mail
 fi



On 02/28/2011 10:34 AM, Chris O'Connell wrote:
> Jerry,
>
> Here are some step-by-step instructions on installing nagios:
> http://outlookoutbox.blogspot.com/2010/11/nagios-installation-step-by-step_15.html
>
> On another note, it sounds like you just want a ping check to see if
> these hosts are up?  Couldn't you dump ping results to a file, have
> the file searched for UNREACHABLES and then use sendmail to email you
> if one of the hosts doesn't show up?  Seems like maybe 20 lines of
> code or less (far less I would think) would take care of this.
>


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Re: Lightweight network monitoring program

2011-02-28 Thread Jerry Feldman 
On 02/28/2011 10:23 AM, Ian Stokes-Rees wrote:
>
> On 2/28/11 10:18 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> One of my systems at work tends to drop its network connection. What I
>> need is a network monitoring tool. Certainly nagios will do the job, but
>> I'm looking for something more light weight that will simply check a
>> list of hosts periodically. I would like to run the monitoring software
>> from either my Windows laptop of one of the network servers.
> In my (admittedly very limited) experience, you think you just want
> something simple and lightweight and then quickly discover you actually
> need more and more features.  Nagios was designed for exactly this sort
> of thing.  While it isn't a "15 minute" solution, the ~half a day you'd
> spend getting a basic Nagios setup in place is probably worth it.
>
You're probably right. The issue with the single system is that the NIC
seems to die, but none of the logs indicate the failure except that if
cannot connect with the NFS server. I've activated the second NIC on the
MB, but I'm pretty sure that it will die too. In any case, I've just
been putting off the nagios installation, but it is time to bite the bullet.

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Re: Lightweight network monitoring program

2011-02-28 Thread Matt Shields 
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Jerry Feldman  wrote:

> One of my systems at work tends to drop its network connection. What I
> need is a network monitoring tool. Certainly nagios will do the job, but
> I'm looking for something more light weight that will simply check a
> list of hosts periodically. I would like to run the monitoring software
> from either my Windows laptop of one of the network servers.
>
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How about smokeping?  It's perfect for this and it creates nice graphs too

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Re: Lightweight network monitoring program

2011-02-28 Thread Chris O'Connell 
Jerry,

Here are some step-by-step instructions on installing nagios:
http://outlookoutbox.blogspot.com/2010/11/nagios-installation-step-by-step_15.html

On
another note, it sounds like you just want a ping check to see if these
hosts are up?  Couldn't you dump ping results to a file, have the file
searched for UNREACHABLES and then use sendmail to email you if one of the
hosts doesn't show up?  Seems like maybe 20 lines of code or less (far less
I would think) would take care of this.

Chris

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Ian Stokes-Rees <
ijsto...@hkl.hms.harvard.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On 2/28/11 10:18 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > One of my systems at work tends to drop its network connection. What I
> > need is a network monitoring tool. Certainly nagios will do the job, but
> > I'm looking for something more light weight that will simply check a
> > list of hosts periodically. I would like to run the monitoring software
> > from either my Windows laptop of one of the network servers.
>
> In my (admittedly very limited) experience, you think you just want
> something simple and lightweight and then quickly discover you actually
> need more and more features.  Nagios was designed for exactly this sort
> of thing.  While it isn't a "15 minute" solution, the ~half a day you'd
> spend getting a basic Nagios setup in place is probably worth it.
>
> Ian
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Re: Lightweight network monitoring program

2011-02-28 Thread Ian Stokes-Rees 


On 2/28/11 10:18 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> One of my systems at work tends to drop its network connection. What I
> need is a network monitoring tool. Certainly nagios will do the job, but
> I'm looking for something more light weight that will simply check a
> list of hosts periodically. I would like to run the monitoring software
> from either my Windows laptop of one of the network servers.

In my (admittedly very limited) experience, you think you just want
something simple and lightweight and then quickly discover you actually
need more and more features.  Nagios was designed for exactly this sort
of thing.  While it isn't a "15 minute" solution, the ~half a day you'd
spend getting a basic Nagios setup in place is probably worth it.

Ian
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Lightweight network monitoring program

2011-02-28 Thread Jerry Feldman 
One of my systems at work tends to drop its network connection. What I
need is a network monitoring tool. Certainly nagios will do the job, but
I'm looking for something more light weight that will simply check a
list of hosts periodically. I would like to run the monitoring software
from either my Windows laptop of one of the network servers.

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Re: X crashes with SSID Broadcast turned off

2011-02-28 Thread Matthew Gillen 
On 02/26/2011 08:11 AM, edwa...@linuxmail.org wrote:
> My laptop has Xubuntu 10.10 installed (Ubuntu with XFCE desktop).  With the 
> SSID Broadcast turned off at the router (the Netgear I recently purchased), 
> once logged into the desktop, it (X?) crashes and returns to the login 
> screen.  Before the actual crash occurred each time, the network-manager icon 
> did not appear on the XFCE taskbar.
> 
> Once SSID is turned back on and logged in, everything is fine.  Why would 
> having this turned off, cause the desktop to crash, unless there is an 
> obvious issue (bug) in network-manager?  On the surface, it would seem that 
> in order to prevent such a crash, Ubuntu and its variants would require SSID 
> be turned on.

An NM bug wouldn't be able to crash the system, it's got to be either a
flakey driver or faulty hardware.  The latter is hard to determine,
although sometimes you can collect evidence via another OS (i.e. if
Windows/BSD/other flavor-of-linux doesn't crash, then it is unlikely the
hardware's fault).

Don't rule out other flavors of linux for your experimentation.  When it
comes to wireless network drivers there are some big differences in
distro-specific kernel patches.  Usually that works out in ubuntu's
favor (they support more cards out of the box), but when you live on the
edge...

HTH,
Matt
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