Re: Laptop OS Virtualization?
On Monday 10 April 2006 4:29 pm, Richard Soule wrote: Add me to the VMWare crowd. I use it every time I do a demo. My laptop came from Oracle with WinXP on it, I run Linux, WinXP and Win2K Server VMs depending on which demo I want to run. I am planning on running Xen (SuSE 10.0 or 10.1) on my laptop since I wiped out the Windows XP partition. I may possibly load VMWare server temporarily since my NEU class starts in a couple of weeks and I want to be able to run 2 or 3 distros simulataneously. If I can get Xen running with a second distro quickly then I'll opt for that. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Monadnock Linux User Group - April 13th
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:23, Warren Luebkeman wrote: If you want a presenter this thursday, we might be able to bang something together! Take at look at our website, www.resara.com Since Guy has put me in charge of this particular meeting, I am going to say yes please, that would be terrific. Thank you. :-) --charlie Warren L On Monday 10 April 2006 2:48 pm, guy Pardoe wrote: The next meeting of the Monadnock Linux User Group (MonadLUG) will be this Thursday, April 13th, 7:00pm, at the SAU 1 Superintendent's Office behind South Meadow School in Peterborough. For directions, visit http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/OurChapters#monadlug AGENDA 1. Announcements. 2. Due to some unavoidable issues, the presentation that was planned for this meeting is being postponed. So there is no formal speaker this month. Bring your questions problems for some open discussion. * We're also looking for topics for future meetings. If you have a suggestion or would like to present a topic yourself, please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please forward this announcement to anyone you think may be interested in attending. Thank you, Guy Pardoe MonadLUG Coordinator ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Laptop OS Virtualization?
I'm doing this on two laptops.. One is running Fedora Core 5 x76-64, and occasionally hosts 32bit WinXP-pro VMs using VMware's free beta server. It works well, and has good network options, albeit with some command-line configuration. The other is running WinXP-pro 32bit, and uses Microsoft's Virtual PC and (now a no-cost download) Virtual server. This is easier to use, but restricts you to using windowsXp (or more realistically Server2003/Server2000) as the host. Virtual Server allows linux guests, but Virtual PC does not support Linux well, although there are reports that people have got it to work. Both VM product families work well for me. I think the VirtualPC and VirtualServer interface is slicker, but has less features and slightly worse performance in apples to apples comparisions. Both products have betas that can be downloaded and used for no cost (although the no-cost license may expire in the future) For both, the VMs consume a lot of memory. Both my laptops are maxxed out at 2GB. Disk Space is also important for VMs, if you want to keep historical copies, multiple versions, etc. I picked up a 160GB high performance and silent seagate laptop drive from newegg that I can recommend. I haven't used Xen yet, because at the moment my guest VM needs are primarily related to running MS systems. Charles Farinella said: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:39, Ted Roche wrote: Has anyone got multiple OSes running simultaneously on their personal machines? I've got a laptop I dual-boot between WinXPPro (client work) and Linux (more client work, home hobby), and I'd like to be able to toggle between the two rather than a slow reboot. VMWare has released it's server software as a free download, http://www.vmware.com/products/server/. I have it on a couple of machines (not laptops) and it works very well. --charlie Anyone doing this? What VM manager are you using? What host OS? Tips? Reviews? Pans? Warnings? Ted You've got answers? I've got questions! Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Laptop OS Virtualization?
On 4/11/06, Darrell Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both products have betas that can be downloaded and used for no cost (although the no-cost license may expire in the future) Given that Virtual PC is a Microsoft product now, you can replace may with will for that product. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Meeting Report - Seacoast - Python - 10 Apr
Hi all,
My thanks again to Rob Anderson for last night's SLUG (Seacoast LUG)
for a very educational meeting on Python (along with occasional brief
side trips for COBOL, LISP, Pascal, and other stuff). I also
expressed my annoyance with Rob, because I'm too {lazy, busy,
stubborn} to learn another language right now, and after a brief
introduction, Python looks very interesting to me.
(SLUG website: http://slug.gnhlug.org/slug)
It was a very interactive meeting. Rob had a set of slides, but he
frequently jumped over to Emacs to show some code, or an xterm running
Python to show how some code *worked*. I, at least, found this very
neat -- immediately after telling us about something, we got a chance
to see it work in practice. This is doubtless more time consuming
than a simple talking presentation, but I think it really reinforced
what we were learning.
(Slides:
http://slug.gnhlug.org/slug/Members/rea/SLUG/talks/python-intro.pdf/view)
Rob finished up by talking about a Python toolkit called SQLAlchemy
(which I will abbreviate SA). SA looks *very* cool. It lets you
use Python code to model data as objects, and handles all the database
interfacing for you. This is much more than a simple database engine
abstraction -- you write Python code, not SQL code. Possibly even
cooler, you can point SA at an existing database, and it will create
the Python objects for you from the database. So you can use Python
code to manipulate a database, or use a database to create Python
code.
(SQLAlchemy website: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/)
-- Ben I'm being attacked by a Python Scott
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Re: Meeting Report - Seacoast - Python - 10 Apr
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 12:05 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
Hi all,
My thanks again to Rob Anderson for last night's SLUG (Seacoast LUG)
for a very educational meeting on Python (along with occasional brief
side trips for COBOL, LISP, Pascal, and other stuff). I also
expressed my annoyance with Rob, because I'm too {lazy, busy,
stubborn} to learn another language right now, and after a brief
introduction, Python looks very interesting to me.
*snip*
Welcome to the wide world of Python. Warning: many of those who enter
find that they really prefer not to leave. ;)
Advocacy aside, python can be a really interesting language to work
with. And for those that have the interest, don't forget our GNHLUG
associated group, the PySIG.
Important points:
o) Meets in Manchester on the fourth Thursday of every month
o) Spearheaded by our own Bill Sconce
o) website at http://www.pysig.org/
o) Anybody and everybody with an interest in Python is welcome
o) (usually low volume) mailing list at
http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/python-talk
--
Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Presentation for Monad LUG
Greetings All:
The Monadnock LUG meeting this week will be a demonstration of Resara
Enterprise Linux. REL is a Linux terminal server/thin client system, but is
not based on LTSP. More info about REL can be found at www.resara.com
This will be a live, hands on demonstration, no powerpoints, and we will try
to keep the sales pitches to a minimum. In other words, it should be pretty
interesting! We look forward to your questions, comments, and/or critisysms!
Please bring your laptops for the best demonstration experience!
Thanks,
Warren Luebkeman
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 9:38 am, Charles Farinella wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:23, Warren Luebkeman wrote:
If you want a presenter this thursday, we might be able to bang something
together! Take at look at our website, www.resara.com
Since Guy has put me in charge of this particular meeting, I am going to
say yes please, that would be terrific.
Thank you. :-)
--charlie
Warren L
On Monday 10 April 2006 2:48 pm, guy Pardoe wrote:
The next meeting of the Monadnock Linux User Group (MonadLUG) will be
this Thursday, April 13th, 7:00pm, at the SAU 1 Superintendent's Office
behind South Meadow School in Peterborough.
For directions, visit
http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/OurChapters#monadlug
AGENDA
1. Announcements.
2. Due to some unavoidable issues, the presentation that was planned
for this meeting is being postponed. So there is no formal speaker
this month. Bring your questions problems for some open discussion.
*
We're also looking for topics for future meetings. If you have a
suggestion or would like to present a topic yourself, please contact me
at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please forward this announcement to anyone you think may be interested
in attending.
Thank you,
Guy Pardoe
MonadLUG Coordinator
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Re: SwaNH InfoXchange, 12 Oct 2006, Wafarer Inn, Bedford
CORRECTION: The date is in 2006, not 2005. Sorry for the typo. Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com On Apr 11, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Ted Roche wrote: SwaNH's (http://www.swanh.org) 12th annual InfoXchange conference takes place 12 Oct 2005 at The Wayfarer Inn, Bedford, NH ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
slony and database replication (info from LinuxWorld)
My two main reasons for using MySQL are: easy administration replication The MySQL replication process works by serving the Master's log out to the replicating slaves over the network. The connection is very loose. So long as the log files have not been deleted, a slave can resume processing even after losing contact for several months. The log file includes time stamp info from the original server along with server ID numbers so that (master, replicator) sets can be daisy chained or even closed into a circle. I asked about replication for postgresql and was pointed to Slony. However, reading the website info, Slony appears to be designed for tightly coupled on-line cluster style operations. If anyone cares, the rules for MySQL replication are: unique ID for each server only one master (source) for each server -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
slony and database replication (info from LinuxWorld) (continued)
(my editor's hot-key for open new line below (vi's lower-case o) is the same as my email's send-it-now key) My two main reasons for using MySQL are: easy administration replication The MySQL replication process works by serving the Master's log out to the replicating slaves over the network. The connection is very loose. So long as the log files have not been deleted, a slave can resume processing even after losing contact for several months. The slaves track their own progress through the log files. The log file includes time stamp info from the original server along with server ID numbers so that (master, replicator) sets can be daisy chained or even closed into a circle. I asked about replication for postgresql and was pointed to Slony. However, reading the website info, Slony appears to be designed for tightly coupled on-line cluster style operations. If any one has experience to contradict that, please let me know. If anyone cares, the rules for MySQL replication are: unique ID for each server only one master (source) into each server many replicators from a server a loop can be as short as two servers replicating each other It is possible to short-circuit a large logical loop and directly combine logs into a common collector. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
