Re: What is your system advice? Solved.
On 10/07/2015 07:03 PM, Michael Butash wrote: I slaughter 8gb of ram on the t440 with win7 seemingly like nothing, and the i5 proc will haaang visio forever doing complex edits of groups of shapes for sometimes 30sec. Windoze is still a pig I think, maybe the hardware would be ok with linux. I ended up jiving a virtual image out of them, and simply run it on my linux dell e7240 on the road or desktop as another vm under parent ubuntu, works wayyy better than that i5 t440 lenovo does native. If it's RAM that is killing you, upgrade it to 16Gigs. If it's anything like the T420 I have, it says that it will only take 8gb total, but it will in fact use 8Gig chips with no problem. I added an 8Gig chip to the 4Gigs that it already had and have now have 12Gig in mine, which has been fine so far. If I need more, I'll replace the other 4gig chip as well, but I doubt that I will any time soon for what I plan to use this system for. It sounds to me like Visio is a total pig if it's eating up 8 gigs or ram. It would have to be an insanely complex shape(s) to really use that in any of the vector based software that I have used. Oh yeah, that f'in Fn key should never replace a ctrl in the bottom left-most corner. It infuriates me to almost throw it across a room. They really need to make a not-lame keyboard option. I agree, the Fn key is in a really weird place and it takes some getting used to, especially when you switch back and forth between computers but, Look in your BIOS. If it's similar to mine you can swap the Fn and CTRL keys and make it into a similar layout to most other laptops. Brian Cluff --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: What is your system advice? Solved.
Good point! Actually, it was an extra SSD I had that I was not using. I figured it might make it a little quicker and I won't have to spend any money on it. One of these days I would like to replace that fan. On 2015-10-07 11:34, Stephen Partington wrote: > you bought it an SSD instead of a fan? > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Nathan England wrote: > > I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo support > sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly replaced. It was > originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB of ram and a 160GB 7200 rpm drive. > > The fan went out a week after the warranty ended and I never had the extra 60 > bucks to replace it, so it has lived on with the dual cores disabled in bios > and powermanagement forcing it to run at 800MHz. > > I replaced the hard drive with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and still use it with a > single core at 800 and that laptop is faster than HP zBook with a fancy new > core i7 and 16GB of ram. Well, it was until I put the same SSD in the > zBook... but that's a different story. > > Long live Lenovo Thinkpads! > > On 2015-10-06 16:02, j...@actionline.com wrote: > Thanks again for all the helpful input in response to my > recent question: "What is your advice to update my system?" > > After much research, I finally decided that, for my needs, the best > option was a used T420 Thinkpad. I've had excellent results with IBM > Thinkpads and never had one fail. Now they are all Lenovo, of course; and > I found one from a private party on Craigslist for $200 that looks > absolutely brand new, like it has never been used, and with 8-Gb RAM. > > Lots of them on ebay for as little as $99 with no OS and priced all over > the map up to $500 and even more. > > Now just need to flush the 500-gig hard drive and install Linux Mint and > I should be good to go for the next 5 years or longer. > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] -- > Nathan England (480) 559 - 9681 [2] > nengl...@nmecs.com > http://www.nmecs.com/ [3] > Web Developer, PHP Programmer, Lamp Administration, and > Information Security Specialist > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen Nathan England (480) 559 - 9681 nengl...@nmecs.com http://www.nmecs.com/ [3] Web Developer, PHP Programmer, Lamp Administration, and Information Security Specialist Links: -- [1] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [2] tel:%28480%29%20559%20-%209681 [3] http://www.nmecs.com/ --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
RE: What is your system advice? Solved.
Funny rant. :) As for this: "Oh yeah, that f'in Fn key should never replace a ctrl in the bottom left-most corner. It infuriates me to almost throw it across a room." Completely agree. But I've found BIOS settings that can swap the Fn and Ctrl key functions. You should take a look around in there and see if you can find that. Cheers. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Butash Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 22:04 To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org Subject: Re: What is your system advice? Solved. My current customer threw me a t440 with a dock to use internally. Decent - light, but sorely underpowered. I slaughter 8gb of ram on the t440 with win7 seemingly like nothing, and the i5 proc will haaang visio forever doing complex edits of groups of shapes for sometimes 30sec. Windoze is still a pig I think, maybe the hardware would be ok with linux. I ended up jiving a virtual image out of them, and simply run it on my linux dell e7240 on the road or desktop as another vm under parent ubuntu, works wayyy better than that i5 t440 lenovo does native. The screen was total low-def crap too on it. Not sure if it was just the working econo-class laptop for employee drones, but anything less than 1080p on a 12" or bigger laptop should be scorned and made fun of. With my vbox vm fo the corp image, I give it 3 virtual monitors I run full screen across 3 monitors, and even win7 runs great under linux in virt with all their bitlocker, virus scanning, with the bloated microsoft os. I have to give it 12gb of my 32 to keep it happy though, causing me to oom more than a few times in my parent system. Before buying my dell, I looked at lenovo, and wasn't terribly impressed to find a powerful, lightweight laptop with a docking station. With dell I found I could get a 12" 1920x1080 touch screen laptop, backlit keyboard, 16gb of ram, i7 (ulv, dual-core, meh), dp/hdmi out, and even with the crappy intel video runs ubuntu great. The t440 sits on a desk now, I'm not at all impressed with it, at least with windoze on it, but the screen makes it a non-starter at all. Oh yeah, that f'in Fn key should never replace a ctrl in the bottom left-most corner. It infuriates me to almost throw it across a room. They really need to make a not-lame keyboard option. -mb On 10/07/2015 10:43 AM, Nathan England wrote: > I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo > support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly > replaced. It was originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB of ram and a > 160GB 7200 rpm drive. > > The fan went out a week after the warranty ended and I never had the > extra 60 bucks to replace it, so it has lived on with the dual cores > disabled in bios and powermanagement forcing it to run at 800MHz. > > I replaced the hard drive with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and still use it > with a single core at 800 and that laptop is faster than HP zBook with > a fancy new core i7 and 16GB of ram. Well, it was until I put the same > SSD in the zBook... but that's a different story. > > Long live Lenovo Thinkpads! --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: What is your system advice? Solved.
Oh yeah - best part was dual ssd in that e7240 dell laptop for being all that and like 2lb too. I'm very fond of raid 1 with ssd's. Great little powerhouse, at least until one with a 4k display comes around. On 10/07/2015 07:03 PM, Michael Butash wrote: Before buying my dell, I looked at lenovo, and wasn't terribly impressed to find a powerful, lightweight laptop with a docking station. With dell I found I could get a 12" 1920x1080 touch screen laptop, backlit keyboard, 16gb of ram, i7 (ulv, dual-core, meh), dp/hdmi out, and even with the crappy intel video runs ubuntu great. -mb --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: What is your system advice? Solved.
My current customer threw me a t440 with a dock to use internally. Decent - light, but sorely underpowered. I slaughter 8gb of ram on the t440 with win7 seemingly like nothing, and the i5 proc will haaang visio forever doing complex edits of groups of shapes for sometimes 30sec. Windoze is still a pig I think, maybe the hardware would be ok with linux. I ended up jiving a virtual image out of them, and simply run it on my linux dell e7240 on the road or desktop as another vm under parent ubuntu, works wayyy better than that i5 t440 lenovo does native. The screen was total low-def crap too on it. Not sure if it was just the working econo-class laptop for employee drones, but anything less than 1080p on a 12" or bigger laptop should be scorned and made fun of. With my vbox vm fo the corp image, I give it 3 virtual monitors I run full screen across 3 monitors, and even win7 runs great under linux in virt with all their bitlocker, virus scanning, with the bloated microsoft os. I have to give it 12gb of my 32 to keep it happy though, causing me to oom more than a few times in my parent system. Before buying my dell, I looked at lenovo, and wasn't terribly impressed to find a powerful, lightweight laptop with a docking station. With dell I found I could get a 12" 1920x1080 touch screen laptop, backlit keyboard, 16gb of ram, i7 (ulv, dual-core, meh), dp/hdmi out, and even with the crappy intel video runs ubuntu great. The t440 sits on a desk now, I'm not at all impressed with it, at least with windoze on it, but the screen makes it a non-starter at all. Oh yeah, that f'in Fn key should never replace a ctrl in the bottom left-most corner. It infuriates me to almost throw it across a room. They really need to make a not-lame keyboard option. -mb On 10/07/2015 10:43 AM, Nathan England wrote: I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly replaced. It was originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB of ram and a 160GB 7200 rpm drive. The fan went out a week after the warranty ended and I never had the extra 60 bucks to replace it, so it has lived on with the dual cores disabled in bios and powermanagement forcing it to run at 800MHz. I replaced the hard drive with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and still use it with a single core at 800 and that laptop is faster than HP zBook with a fancy new core i7 and 16GB of ram. Well, it was until I put the same SSD in the zBook... but that's a different story. Long live Lenovo Thinkpads! --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: DNS Servers
One thing to keep in mind is the dns lookup on a host is part of the transactional process, and inclusive of total delay. I've seen everything from crappy/slow dns servers causing application latency across clusters to broken dns records causing a good 10second delay in responding to clients due to dns. That is part of the reason developers will hard code things I've found, working around bad infrastructure, sometimes even the dns server's at fault. Using remote dns (not local lan), consider that takes you from microseconds of latency to potentially hundreds of milliseconds remote. This is another reason to have local caching servers, or even at times local to the hosts as well with something like dnsmasq. When dealing with applications that make dns queries as part of their logic tend to dislike remote resources. With distributed applications and/or latency sensitive apps, can cause real performance issues. Another thing - consider the cost of the dns traffic in bandwidth hosting it somewhere. Watching things like netflow at local dns shop was interesting to see just how much dns traffic really does get generated, both from servers, clients, and everyone else in between local lan or internet. Even running dns services for a popular domain on a dedicated hosting bandwidth allowance, I've seen blow out usage thresholds, just in overhead of udp/53 traffic @~64bytes or smaller packets. Probably a poor application too, seen .net code go crazy spewing dns requests at crippling rates of requests when not explicitly disabling lookups as part of a socket response method. Side note: I never realized dnsmasq is as versatile as it is, but using it with my little ddwrt box, it does nice things with automagically mapping dhcp to forward/reverse dns records with a little config grease. It's been good enough that I retired my bind servers for a more compact/embedded solution just on the router itself. Might be worth looking into. -mb On 10/05/2015 12:35 PM, Keith Smith wrote: Thank you Stephen and Michael!! Sense I am running a server connected to Cox, is there any advantage of using Cox's DNS servers? Thanks!! Keith --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: What is your system advice? Solved.
you bought it an SSD instead of a fan? On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Nathan England wrote: > > > I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo > support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly replaced. > It was originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB of ram and a 160GB 7200 rpm > drive. > > The fan went out a week after the warranty ended and I never had the extra > 60 bucks to replace it, so it has lived on with the dual cores disabled in > bios and powermanagement forcing it to run at 800MHz. > > I replaced the hard drive with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and still use it with > a single core at 800 and that laptop is faster than HP zBook with a fancy > new core i7 and 16GB of ram. Well, it was until I put the same SSD in the > zBook... but that's a different story. > > Long live Lenovo Thinkpads! > > > > > On 2015-10-06 16:02, j...@actionline.com wrote: > >> Thanks again for all the helpful input in response to my >> recent question: "What is your advice to update my system?" >> >> After much research, I finally decided that, for my needs, the best >> option was a used T420 Thinkpad. I've had excellent results with IBM >> Thinkpads and never had one fail. Now they are all Lenovo, of course; and >> I found one from a private party on Craigslist for $200 that looks >> absolutely brand new, like it has never been used, and with 8-Gb RAM. >> >> Lots of them on ebay for as little as $99 with no OS and priced all over >> the map up to $500 and even more. >> >> Now just need to flush the 500-gig hard drive and install Linux Mint and >> I should be good to go for the next 5 years or longer. >> >> >> >> --- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > -- > Nathan England (480) 559 - 9681 > nengl...@nmecs.com > http://www.nmecs.com/ > Web Developer, PHP Programmer, Lamp Administration, and > Information Security Specialist > > > > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
Re: What is your system advice? Solved.
I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly replaced. It was originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB of ram and a 160GB 7200 rpm drive. The fan went out a week after the warranty ended and I never had the extra 60 bucks to replace it, so it has lived on with the dual cores disabled in bios and powermanagement forcing it to run at 800MHz. I replaced the hard drive with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and still use it with a single core at 800 and that laptop is faster than HP zBook with a fancy new core i7 and 16GB of ram. Well, it was until I put the same SSD in the zBook... but that's a different story. Long live Lenovo Thinkpads! On 2015-10-06 16:02, j...@actionline.com wrote: Thanks again for all the helpful input in response to my recent question: "What is your advice to update my system?" After much research, I finally decided that, for my needs, the best option was a used T420 Thinkpad. I've had excellent results with IBM Thinkpads and never had one fail. Now they are all Lenovo, of course; and I found one from a private party on Craigslist for $200 that looks absolutely brand new, like it has never been used, and with 8-Gb RAM. Lots of them on ebay for as little as $99 with no OS and priced all over the map up to $500 and even more. Now just need to flush the 500-gig hard drive and install Linux Mint and I should be good to go for the next 5 years or longer. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Nathan England (480) 559 - 9681 nengl...@nmecs.com http://www.nmecs.com/ Web Developer, PHP Programmer, Lamp Administration, and Information Security Specialist --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
RE: Bind9 / Cox reverse lookup
Bind is working. Thank you for your insight and help!! Now its off to get the mail server running. On 2015-10-06 09:57, Rusty Ramser wrote: "Thank you for your help!!" No worries, mate. If I'm actually providing any help :) you're quite welcome. It sounds like to me you're wanting to use name-based virtual hosts on Apache. Like thus: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/name-based.html If you will have one public IP address for your multiple domains (aka, web sites), then you will need an entry in an external DNS hoster for each. Each domain DNS record will point to the same public IP address (your single web server). And then it will be up to your Apache server to see www.wheresmycar.net, www.dogsmakingfaces.com, and www.localbeerspecials.com serve up the appropriate web site. (Note: I'm just guessing that those are the three web sites you're using; don't know for sure.) Your web server's non-routable internal IP address shouldn't really ever come into play during normal usage scenarios. Sure, if you enter the IP locally on your system you'll get the default page, but that's not really what external users will ever do. Once you have external DNS host records set up for each domain, you should be able to test the name-based Apache functionality. Or, if you want to do that locally before advertising external DNS addresses you should be able to make some temporary /etc/hosts entries on your web server which all point to its non-routable IP, just as a test. Cheers. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Keith Smith Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 12:27 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: RE: Bind9 / Cox reverse lookup Thank you for your help!! Cox provides the public / routable IP which is set on my router / modem. I have a web server that servers several websites. I use NAT for port forwarding to that one box. Without a DNS server, either local or external, how will Apache know which site to server up? If I put the IP in my browser I get the default "website" which is no website at all - it is the default welcome page. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Rusty Ramser Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 12:10 To: 'Main PLUG discussion list' Subject: RE: Bind9 / Cox reverse lookup I'm not sure that's a valid assumption, regarding needing a DNS server even with that functionality. Maybe it is in your specific use, but it doesn't strike me as a guaranteed necessity. The learning aspect of it, however, is something I can't debate. If that's part of your goals, then by all means run wild with it. :) Cheers. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Keith Smith Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 12:03 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: RE: Bind9 / Cox reverse lookup I assume I need a DNS server since the box is a web server and will be hosting a couple websites and there will be email as well. And part of the reason I am doing this is to learn. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Rusty Ramser Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 11:53 To: 'Main PLUG discussion list' Subject: RE: Bind9 / Cox reverse lookup From the scenario you describe, no, I don't see that creating your own reverse lookup zone would be necessary. Your web server has no other internal systems in your environment to look up. And for external reverse lookups using the public information (from Cox, Google, OpenDNS, or whatever your preference) should be fine. I wouldn't create something that would just require extra management/maintenance when there's no real use case for it. (Actually, for just a single box that is only accepting NATed web traffic, I'm not even sure I understand the need for a forward lookup zone on your server. Is there some reason that its client DNS configuration can't just point to your preferred DNS provider? Do you really need a DNS server functioning on the box?) Cheers. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Keith Smith Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 11:14 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: RE: Bind9 / Cox reverse lookup Thanks Rusty. It is one box. It is on a non-routable IP. I use NAT for ports 80, 443, 53... etc. So are you saying I need to make a reverse lookup for the non-routable IP? Thanks!! Keith -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Rusty Ramser Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 11:05 To: 'Main PLUG discussion list' Subject: RE: Bind9
