[SLUG] Re: Co-lo, UML & Dedicated servers
Dan Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > Morning Sluggers, > > Just after some recommendations on the above probably in that order. > > Machines don't need to be overly powerful but reasonable traffic > allowance would be good. > > The Co-lo would need to be located in sydney the others I'm fairly > ambivalent about (but if O/S a nice exchange rate helps) > > After experiences both good and bad. > > Thanks, > > Dan. I use Linode in the US. They are a UML based bunch and you can install pretty much any distro you choose. Prices start at $USD20/month. http://www.linode.com/ Very happy with them - they're stable: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uptime 08:45:27 up 348 days, 14:39, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 And give you gigs upon gigs of data transfer (starting at 25G/month). Just watch the contention ratios though - I wouldnt recommend running anything with high load on the cheapest plans. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Co-lo, UML & Dedicated servers
This one time, at band camp, Ben Buxton wrote: > I use Linode in the US. They are a UML based bunch and you can install > pretty much any distro you choose. Prices start at $USD20/month. > > http://www.linode.com/ As the person who tipped Ben off about linode, I'll also vouch for them. Excellent service, excellent support. The user community around it is very good. The guy who runs it, cakers, is very very clueful and constantly working on new features, though just about everything you could need is there out-of-the-box. > Just watch the contention ratios though - I wouldnt recommend running > anything with high load on the cheapest plans. Yes 64 megs RAM is not enough for more than one task: web server, mail server, dns serving. Anything more, you need a bigger plan. I use a 92 meg plan for mail server (writing this on my linode) and web server. It handles Spam Assassin JUST, if I serialize all incoming emails so I don't have more than one thread at a time. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. - Tiger Woods signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Geographic Information Systems and PostgreSQL
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There was a question last meeting with regards to PostgreSQL and the consensus seemed to be that it wasn't up to the job of handling GIS. I did a few performance tests on my laptop and didn't find it all that bad, I guess it would be interesting to race it off against other indexing systems on the same hardware but my results are really just scratching the surface of all the tests that could usefully be done. http://bespoke.homelinux.net/geo/ I did notice that the R-Tree performance is somewhat data dependent although I'd like the chance to go into that in a bit more detail. I'll add to the page when I've run a few more tests... I remember someone saying that they had the loan of a kick-arse server as a test bench (was it Matt? can't remember) if anyone wants to lend me an account on a test machine I can chug my test scripts across and give it a run to produce some comparison graphs (current test is only on my laptop which obviously has its limitations). - Tel ( http://bespoke.homelinux.net/ ) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBQp7QXMfOVl0KFTApAQKUuA//YFAgwEQuiX5VGgdtQ+BXc/G2AlO04o7c E38HwWGg0WRz/4V7GMHv+Fh2YoOQ9di6CaZR8NI7lEHHfbsWDOUTwG8FStQBKlRm aEPCBomykf4Qke1b/DB7VH0FZJwPmKjOTujwwFBDirTY1gmfGm9RvJ0IP4FMMdDO IHYNdZKEKv0WN7df8t9j1xC+bGEB08/zU//60aYauGOtbRbQDEUnChdMFJ5WqyXM Lxnf6oOB35hE14w8LZyc2cYvlwrgsKOtDkVKCQAIFr4Si9Gh5oQLaxIq6Ni+PN6t tzTj22sVhLaCg1VimSnLSLXRWyk3Q7cK2O/vozYkNBCY1kZ/QqpDzLbhiQiSEUY0 aAeJ0oocA0EbnMN6pP+wyXg5A9LLqdXJyhr2PPKAfZhhRCfcMW0ST7Vcn4uZ2uLt YvITQXsxKlf0z2ZdikMifZ1kVXhD7rP2UKWHyyRazmzaSgpeHsUgT/jNySrwIAz7 o1UWB/UPcQ94CdxAzu7LeXg/RzED9flllA+HxWCwYlQ5riMeQ2FTNa8qAK0PoflV dC+cC2m0eVFGDTS8ianSGF8NZowj9mMVHu5cpBnobY2aUtyV5/2G975iGx8BK7Wa jArk4RQvhZILfT1uIPnR9nYyGDJPBD4YVkH6NUVtiahbCPduTFaTcnoSf4u6pOe5 L5UvGVyLxio= =P96N -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Co-lo, UML & Dedicated servers
> Just after some recommendations on the above probably in that order. > > Machines don't need to be overly powerful but reasonable traffic allowance > would be good. www.linode.com -> bloody fantastic - Jeff -- GUADEC 2005: May 29th-31st http://2005.guadec.org/ "PHP, when it first came out, didn't really have any merits, and many claim it still doesn't, but it filled a void where a simple tool to perform a simple task was needed." - Rasmus Lerdorf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] SQL Brain teaser...
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 19:59 +1000, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote: > I'm trying to do some metrics on how long it takes to process an order in > our system based on time between printing the picking slip and bagging the > goods for dispatch. The aim is to determin the maximum performance if we > were to have one guy do nothing but pick & pack orders. > +---+-+-+--+ > | ordno | pickslip_printed| docketdate | packmins | > +---+-+-+--+ > | ordno | 2005-06-01 14:32:16 | 2005-06-01 14:34:47 |3 | So the issue is cases like this one where three orders are processed in parallel: > | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:12:27 | 2005-06-01 15:27:26 | 15 | > | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:12:28 | 2005-06-01 15:30:25 | 18 | > | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:12:29 | 2005-06-01 15:21:53 |9 | So, if we want to consider the time each order actually takes to process, and we're allowing parallel packing we need to make some assumptions about what's going on with that parallel processing. Let's make this assumption: in overlapped time periods, it is acceptable to use the docketdate to demarcate time spent on different orders. So the analysis you're looking for then is not how much time can directly be attributed to each order, but rather how much time is spent on each order, without necessarily knowing which order took that time (you don't have enough data there to do direct attributions even if you wanted to). If we can assume that then you can make some headway on the problem -- you can flatten your data-structure to a time-line of events and measure the time between events. Further, you can also ask the database to ignore time when no order processing is occurring. (excuse my SQL here, it's been a few months) select eventdate, eventname, eventdiff from (select pickslip_printed, 'printed', 1 from orders) union all (select docketdate, 'docketed', -1 from orders) order by eventdate asc; Which discards the relationship of times to specific orders, and allows analysis of just the time elapsed between events. In addition, the eventdiff column will allow you to work out how many orders are outstanding at any point in the timeline. I'd make that into a view, and then build another view that evaluates the sum of the eventdiff column up to that row for every row. Whereever that sum is > 0, there are orders being worked on. Once you get to that point, the elapsed time on an order will be the difference between some of the adjacent rows, which is similarly easily calculated. I say "some of", because of course the one second that elapsed between those orders being "printed" does not represent packing time. If you think about it, you can solve that problem but that gets a bit fiddly (you'd need to differentiate between print-print, print-docket and docket-docket scenarios. The latter two would represent order processing time, which is doable, but you need to keep inter-row state, which is slightly tricky in SQL), so you're probably better off employing some kind of heuristic given what you know about the data (eg that you don't believe an order could be packed in < 30 seconds or similar). Not bullet-proof, but it's a start. HTH, James. (recovering SQL abuser) -- My love burns for you A Thermonuclear rose Now lets go make out -- http://www.solardeathray.com/rose.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Co-lo, UML & Dedicated servers
I've got 2 UML machines around the place. one on tektonic.net and one on redwoodvirtual.com. TekTonic are the better of those two, I seem to get more available CPU. Ping time is a bit of an issue, but once connected the speed is good. Support is reasonable but nothing special. I use redwoodvirtual for my personal server. I'm on the $10/mo plan which gives me 20Gb/mo bandwidth. It's far from quick (CPU), but reliable enough (current uptime is 143 days) and capable of running apache/postfix/spamassassin/bind as long as the load isn't high. Download speed is enough to saturate my connections. Support on redwood is pretty ordinary - email them and they get back a few days later. If you're considering UML, check out www.usermodelinux.org. Click the 'Commercial' link on the right hand side of the page to get a list of a few UML providers around the place. My general experience with UML has been great. Just don't expect to run anything diskspace or memory intensive as it quickly gets expensive. Cheers, -Piers. On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 12:04 +0200, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > Just after some recommendations on the above probably in that order. > > > > Machines don't need to be overly powerful but reasonable traffic allowance > > would be good. > > www.linode.com -> bloody fantastic > > - Jeff > > -- > GUADEC 2005: May 29th-31st http://2005.guadec.org/ > >"PHP, when it first came out, didn't really have any merits, and many > claim it still doesn't, but it filled a void where a simple tool to > perform a simple task was needed." - Rasmus Lerdorf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] access ext3 partion from xp dual boot
I haven't used Ubuntu before, but if I'm not wrong, for any Linux distribution, editing the fstab file to mount the partition always work. linleycaetan wrote: > I have just installed ubuntu as dual boot on my sony vaio. > Is there a straighforward way of accessing the linux patition from > windows ? > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] access ext3 partion from xp dual boot
I haven't used Ubuntu before, but if I'm not wrong, for any Linux distribution, editing the fstab file to mount the partition always works. linleycaetan wrote: > I have just installed ubuntu as dual boot on my sony vaio. > Is there a straighforward way of accessing the linux patition from > windows ? > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Co-lo, UML & Dedicated servers
On 6/2/05, Piers Wren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use redwoodvirtual for my personal server. I'm on the $10/mo plan > which gives me 20Gb/mo bandwidth. It's far from quick (CPU), but > reliable enough (current uptime is 143 days) and capable of running > apache/postfix/spamassassin/bind as long as the load isn't high. > Download speed is enough to saturate my connections. Support on redwood > is pretty ordinary - email them and they get back a few days later. Thanks for that. I think redwoodvirtual might do just what I need for my personal domain. I am sick of the shared hosting. I'd like to control my box with a rootshell, as I am sick of the hosting firm doing changes which breaks my online gallery cause they did some to php or something similar. The price is reasonable, as long as I can run a http/email with spam protection etc.. Then I think it will do the job nicely. > > If you're considering UML, check out www.usermodelinux.org. Click the > 'Commercial' link on the right hand side of the page to get a list of a > few UML providers around the place. > > My general experience with UML has been great. Just don't expect to run > anything diskspace or memory intensive as it quickly gets expensive. > But it handles the personal domain well right? With no extra costs? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Co-lo, UML & Dedicated servers
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 07:06 +1000, Michael Fox wrote: > Thanks for that. I think redwoodvirtual might do just what I need for > my personal domain. I am sick of the shared hosting. I'd like to > control my box with a rootshell, as I am sick of the hosting firm > doing changes which breaks my online gallery cause they did some to > php or something similar. > > The price is reasonable, as long as I can run a http/email with spam > protection etc.. Then I think it will do the job nicely. I'm currently running apache/postfix/spamassassin/bind/mysql/wu-imapd. You have to be careful in setting up spamassassin to get its memory footprint down, ie, don't run it through procmail ;) Since you mentioned you'll be using it for an online gallery, I have linpha (linpha.sf.net) running on mine indexing about 1gig of photos and it works. If you're on a quick connection you can notice that it's slow in rendering pages, but when I put up my wedding pics and everyone was hitting it to check those out there was no stability issues. > But it handles the personal domain well right? With no extra costs? Correct. I spent US$100 for 12 months hosting and haven't had to spend a dorrar more. The only thing I would consider changing next time is to go for more than 64meg RAM as that has been the main thing limiting me doing Cool Stuff. -Piers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Perl Training Australia offer for SLUG members
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[SLUG] Linux System Administrator Wanted
* Major Responsibilities * Career Development Role * Attractive Remuneration Working in North Sydney Skills needed: - Expert Linux skills - Redhat or Mandrake - Sound knowledge of Qmail and Vqmail - Sound knowledge of MySQL - Sound knowledge of FreeRadius - Sound knowledge of NFS - Sound knowledge of Apache Background - Worked in a service provider environment - 3 years experience as system administrator minimum Scope of Work - Take responsibility for 24 production servers - Ensure 100% availability of all production services through monitoring and timely intervention - Plan upgrades to services as needed - Manage upgrade migrations - Plan and install new services as needed Ideal Candidate - Is fanatical about system administration - Has worked for an ISP in System administration for the last 18 months, taking on all work and responsibilities - Can demonstrate competence in all 'skills needed' areas - Is now looking to take a lead role - Is a reasonable person Remuneration -Up to $84,000 commensurate with experience. Please send your resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.4.0 - Release Date: 1/06/2005 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] [computerbank] Casula Working Bee This Weekend & Next
Hi Sluggers, Just a reminder to all that ComputerBank's Casula premises will be open and having a working bee this weekend and next. Everyone is welcome. We kick off at 10:30am on each of the days and go as long as people are keen. No experience required (although if you do have some it's much appreciated) and all you really need bring is some enthusiasm and maybe a few tools to dismantle machines (screwdrivers etc) so we have enough to go around. Also any people who have a access to a ute/van/truck sometime over the next two weekends if you could email me off list that would be much appreciated You can come anytime and stay as long as you want. However as it starts to get later in the afternoon if you're looking at turning up then call me on 0410526200 to make sure we're still there and not about to head home. Day: Saturday & Sunday (4th & 5th June) Time: 10:30am onwards Location: Casula Powerhouse 1 Casula Rd Casula Turn left off Hume Highway (if coming from liverpool/city direction) at the CheeseCake Shop and follow the signs. It's right beside Casula train station. Hope to see you there, Dan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux System Administrator Wanted
Not hassling out the job or anything, it seems like a good offer. Just one thing I can't help commenting on... On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:48:09AM +1000, Steve Waddington wrote: > Ideal Candidate > > - Is fanatical about system administration > - Has worked for an ISP in System administration for the last 18 months, > taking on all work and responsibilities > - Can demonstrate competence in all 'skills needed' areas > - Is now looking to take a lead role > - Is a reasonable person ~~ Why is it that every job description has to have the word "fanatical" in it somewhere, but at the same time anyone who is a genuine fanatic is treated like an outcast for being unreasonable and hard to work with? Why not just make it clear, "We want exceptional results but are unwilling to suffer any inconvenience in achieving those results." - Tel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] penguin recognition
Just wanted an opinion. Is the penguin globally recognized, would most people know the Linux logo, or is it still insider information. I am working on some Spam ads, and thought of making one for Linux and the one concept work's only if everyone would recognize the penguin. No use when Award judges sit there and wonder what is going on. Cheers, Dimitri -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] access ext3 partion from xp dual boot
Hi have a look on source forge I believe there is a package that allow windows machines to mount ext2 (maybe ext3 ) partitions, been a while since I looked at it A On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 09:36:09PM +1000, linleycaetan wrote: > I have just installed ubuntu as dual boot on my sony vaio. > Is there a straighforward way of accessing the linux patition from windows ? > > -- > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux System Administrator Wanted
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 01:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not hassling out the job or anything, it seems like a good offer. > Just one thing I can't help commenting on... > > On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:48:09AM +1000, Steve Waddington wrote: > > Ideal Candidate > > > > - Is fanatical about system administration > Why is it that every job description has to have the word > "fanatical" in it somewhere, but at the same time anyone who > is a genuine fanatic is treated like an outcast for being > unreasonable and hard to work with? > > Why not just make it clear, "We want exceptional results but > are unwilling to suffer any inconvenience in achieving those > results." I've been called many things where I work: Security Nazi RFC Zealot Unix Pig Linux Whore Rack Monkey Packet Sniffer (I jest you not!) Sneaky Little Bastard Hey you! ... Never been called a "fanatic" though...maybe I'm not qualified? James -- The Czechs announced after Sputnik that they, too, would launch a satellite. Of course, it would orbit Sputnik, not Earth! pgp6je778UXCW.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] RHEL3u4
Hi Installing rhel3u4 on some old hardware, and when the install gets to probing the monitor is locks the computer up. I have tried these options nofb skipddc text noprobe which worked on RHEL4, but seem to make no difference to the rhel3u4 install process. How can I get a totally text only no probing of the monitor install going ? Alex signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux System Administrator Wanted
On 6/3/05, James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been called many things where I work: > Security Nazi > RFC Zealot > Unix Pig > Linux Whore > Rack Monkey > Packet Sniffer (I jest you not!) > Sneaky Little Bastard > Hey you! BOFH? In an office full of Dilbert fans, I am also referred to as Mordac - The evil-hearted director of Information Services. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux System Administrator Wanted
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:31:59PM +1000, James Gray wrote: > I've been called many things where I work: > Security Nazi > RFC Zealot > Unix Pig > Linux Whore > Rack Monkey > Packet Sniffer (I jest you not!) > Sneaky Little Bastard > Hey you! > ... > > Never been called a "fanatic" though...maybe I'm not qualified? Don't forget you have to also be a "reasonable person" at the same time. Surely a reasonable person is by definition not a fanatic. - Tel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] penguin recognition
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 05:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just wanted an opinion. G'day Dimitri. I've had two reactions to your post. The first reaction was "Hey, perhaps Dimitri can help me source some crack for this weekend" then after re-reading I thought what I might really is a little more elaboration on what it is you intend to do with our beloved Tux. As for recognition, Tux is well recognised in the IT world but only not widely beyond that. -- "Well, we're certainly going to maintain the existing level of funding for labourmarket programs". --John Howard (Address to Youth, Macgregor, 20 February 1996) The Truth: Kerry O'Brien: "Now, for all the people on those labour market programs, I would suggest it to them that would have been a pretty core promise and you've broken it." John Howard: "Well, it is true that we are not spending as much money on labourmarket programs". --John Howard (ABC 7:30 Report, 21 August 1996) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Geographic Information Systems and PostgreSQL
I've run a few more tests... I remember someone saying that they had the loan of a kick-arse server as a test bench (was it Matt? can't remember) Funny story, that. We sent it back, but not before it (helped) take out a power circuits in the office where it was located. :( Before I could do too much testing, either. But we did get a kernel compile in 200s (with fairly conservative make options). Cheers, Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux/Windows shared partition question
Tony Lissner asked me a question in a reply to some questions of mine about the above subject. He asked whether I'd formatted the partition in question in Windows. That question of his triggered in my mind a recollection of the existence of the "Disk Management" facility in Windows XP, so I opened that up to see what appeared there. What I found was two different representations of my hard drives, one textual and the other graphical. (Other drives, optical and flash, were also represented, but they don't matter for present purposes.) What the representations showed for the original hard drive was that it was divided into two partitions, labelled "C:" and "E:". The first one had the name "IBM_PRELOAD". It was described as "Healthy (System)". The second had the name "IBM_SERVICE". It was described as "Healthy". What the representations showed for the new hard drive (the Linux one) was four partitions, with no letters assigned to them at all. Partition 1, obviously my "/boot" partition, was described as "Healthy (Active)". Partitions 2, 3, and 4 were all described as "Healthy (Unknown Partition)". Partition two was obviously my "/" partition; partition 3 was what I'd optimistically labelled as my "/shared" partition, the one I'd formatted as vfat; and partition 4 was my swap partition. I clicked on partition 3 to see what I was allowed to do with it and the only option permitted was "Delete Partition". I assume that I can't access from Windows partition 3 on my Linux drive without, at least, having a letter attached to the partition for Windows purposes. Is there a way for me to do such a thing? Or should I instead be bothering a Windows forum to get the answer to that question? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Telephone recording?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:13:20AM +1000, Angus Lees wrote: > At Fri, 27 May 2005 13:04:21 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > What's the most sensible and reliable way to record a phone conversation, > > assuming a standard phone, using Free Software (and probably a bit of > > hardware)? > > You can get phone audio into a computer by using one of those old > voice-modems with the right AT commands (often not full-duplex, but > that isn't a problem here), or a telephony card with an FXO port. > Whether something like asterisk will make the software side easier or > not, I'll leave as an exercise for the reader -- but even using > asterisk for this step wouldn't require anyone to use VoIP, assuming > you had a PSTN double-adaptor thingy at your end. I have tested this with the Netcomm "Webmaster" CD1800 56k V90 and yes it works and the AT commands are moderately well documented (not by Netcomm, you need to search around). Roughly it is something like: AT+FCLASS=8 AT+VCID=1 AT+VSM=128,8000 AT+VLS=1 AT+VRX Then modem sends "CONNECT" followed by a stream of 8 bit unsigned samples. There are some other bits of stuff encoded in the samples as a DLE (0x10) followed by a single byte so you should strip those out afterwards. To hang up, you send: AT ATH The exact numbers after the "=" depends on the modem and what sort of codecs it supports. The CD1800 is about $70 retail and supports only one codec which is 8 bit unsigned linear PCM at 8kHz. Voice quality is reasonable, not fantastic but better than most mobile phones. You need to split your phone line and feed it parallel into the modem and the handset which seems to make the handset a little bit quieter (but maybe I'm going deaf). This is about the easiest way I can think of for recording a phone conversation to computer and sox will convert the resulting file into something more presentable: /usr/bin/sox -v2.0 -r8000 -db -fu $infile $outfile lowp 2000 or something similar... - Tel ( http://bespoke.homelinux.net/ ) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBQp/lVcfOVl0KFTApAQKZ0Q//dbL9eNDz3whX4Do6q1L6mjn3pO8suZss Wuf3F4VMdS3NGkTYwwBaRhksq6D67knrtyDFFKnCjwmCIpRgI1qW1tMQ6hVSQYX/ eUzveFgQtzoAP2TjtpNXOMvcUb9ChZnjW63aWkLIgXw9Cv4s884TMt6XJYaJoLN7 XkEu73kdGmkxBDVyWtI0I7Xd3fKzyKOnorbhE/3ttVJfomDblnOdf7CpGlVRF0DV yMTzwcgWNfX+pWl2DdPeLVO8ujrmWpaZ02n2gnYigezvYLV2G5KzITU7byc6Ah0j 7BQC3QkBMUXELewHJOoLaoKAh85eeiBIuf06SUZXdmEJHe3lkxDcutukUsLfbJEI Bfy3kc6pGnwuLJbR/r53eivZiFtgGPxMUiIQwUmBVKV63s6LJaKMlh7yjsULQl8j zJVfvbcqDetHsBIcqgkWaT2uVMjWfxjDnFu5u+oV9lj+Eqp8hAaiG7a8BVt/odf4 UnOn/KkGrE8k3qdTLPJjvVgV2lOnyfqRPPi+QO4N3WskMVBRm4Zt0k1bnDmq8qsf YhVf9zRY1nWTP8l6SQd0ah8E+6NCFK9Td3t+4V93ZwboMP6T3UD+dOdMqdIWW0Dq zI9zmZnWjQOJP9uYyx9cKgBTI/PiRzSJmP0929MiZMrc05dACU0WRYqMKVy4cc6V EAcTjVQt6aM= =Mpy8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
AW: [SLUG] penguin recognition
don't know how the "Hey, perhaps Dimitri can help me source some crack for this weekend" came in. it's boring advertising really. But you asked for it. I thought I take a picture of a window in winter time with the typical cross frame. The glass is foggy and just in the right bottom corner you have a little clear circle, obviously made from some one swiping the hand over as you do in winter time, and a little penguin looks out from there. Not tux, a real head of a penguin. Small Linux logo at the bottom, finished.. it would be just for brand recognition, but not much help when i find out that not every one knows tux. cheers, Dimitri --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Datum: 03.06.2005 06:43 Von: TongMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: slug@slug.org.au Betreff: Re: [SLUG] penguin recognition > On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 05:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just wanted an opinion. > > G'day Dimitri. I've had two reactions to your post. The first reaction > was "Hey, perhaps Dimitri can help me source some crack for this > weekend" then after re-reading I thought what I might really is a little > more elaboration on what it is you intend to do with our beloved Tux. > > As for recognition, Tux is well recognised in the IT world but only not > widely beyond that. > > -- > "Well, we're certainly going to maintain the existing level of funding > for labourmarket programs". > --John Howard (Address to Youth, Macgregor, 20 February 1996) > > The Truth: > Kerry O'Brien: "Now, for all the people on those labour market programs, > I would suggest it to them that would have been a pretty core promise > and you've broken it." > > John Howard: "Well, it is true that we are not spending as much money on > labourmarket programs". > --John Howard (ABC 7:30 Report, 21 August 1996) > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] penguin recognition
> don't know how the "Hey, perhaps Dimitri can help me source > some crack for this weekend" came in. I think Tongmaster is referring to your Spam reference. As you explained to me when I asked, that was a typo ... Dimitri said : > Ok, scam ads in creative circles are not very harmful. (Sorry I wrote "spam" > wrongly earlier) > > That's when you make print ads (or TV, radio) your client did not request or > you not even > have the client. Than you enter them into an Award show and hope to get > recognized. I hope you don't mind my quoting your off-list reply to clear up the confusion of your original post. - Rog -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Geographic Information Systems and PostgreSQL
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:45:13PM +1000, Matt Moor wrote: > >I've run a few more tests... I remember someone saying > >that they had the loan of a kick-arse server as a test > >bench (was it Matt? can't remember) > > Funny story, that. > > We sent it back, but not before it (helped) take out a power circuits in > the office where it was located. :( It's actually still (at least as of yesterday afternoon) still sitting in the same office, although the power problems remain. It's still there because nobody has yet plucked up the strength to heft the damn thing back into it's packaging to send it back (it is an absolute fscking tank of a machine). - Matt signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: AW: [SLUG] penguin recognition
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 07:12 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > don't know how the "Hey, perhaps Dimitri can help me source some crack for > this weekend" came in. Having read Roger's email, it makes much more sense :) I spent some trying to work out whether or not this was a genuine email, an address harvest effort or a troll :) Doing a Tux scam ad as opposed to SPAM ad will get very different responses :) > I thought I take a picture of a window in winter time with the typical > cross frame. The glass is foggy and just in the right bottom corner you > have a little clear circle, obviously made from some one swiping the hand > over as you do in winter time, and a little penguin looks out from there. > Not tux, a real head of a penguin. Sounds like a good image. > Small Linux logo at the bottom, finished.. it would be just for brand > recognition, but not much help when i find out that not every one knows > tux. Do you get to put any accompanying notes with the image for the awards? -- "There has never been, in my lifetime, a more serious deceit in the Western democracies, including our own, by our leaders, than the argument that was put for the invasion of Iraq." -- Greens leader Senator Bob Brown, October 3rd, 2003. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
AW: [SLUG] penguin recognition
"Do you get to put any accompanying notes with the image for the awards?" Unfortunately not, so if Mr.. judge don't get it in 3 seconds it's gone to the bin. By what I've got so far is that I can't really use it as no one outside the IT room knows little tux... thanks, guys and sorry for the scan spam confusion... --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Datum: 03.06.2005 07:46 Von: TongMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: slug@slug.org.au Betreff: Re: AW: [SLUG] penguin recognition > On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 07:12 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > don't know how the "Hey, perhaps Dimitri can help me source some crack for > > this weekend" came in. > > Having read Roger's email, it makes much more sense :) I spent some > trying to work out whether or not this was a genuine email, an address > harvest effort or a troll :) Doing a Tux scam ad as opposed to SPAM ad > will get very different responses :) > > > I thought I take a picture of a window in winter time with the typical > > cross frame. The glass is foggy and just in the right bottom corner you > > have a little clear circle, obviously made from some one swiping the hand > > over as you do in winter time, and a little penguin looks out from there. > > Not tux, a real head of a penguin. > > Sounds like a good image. > > > Small Linux logo at the bottom, finished.. it would be just for brand > > recognition, but not much help when i find out that not every one knows > > tux. > > Do you get to put any accompanying notes with the image for the awards? > > -- > "There has never been, in my lifetime, a more serious deceit in the > Western democracies, including our own, by our leaders, than the > argument that was put for the invasion of Iraq." > -- Greens leader Senator Bob Brown, October 3rd, 2003. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: AW: [SLUG] penguin recognition
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 07:57 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Do you get to put any accompanying notes with the image for the awards?" > Unfortunately not, so if Mr.. judge don't get it in 3 seconds it's gone to > the bin. > By what I've got so far is that I can't really use it as no one outside > the IT room knows little tux... Sounds like an image worth creating though. -- Journalist: "Will the number of pages in the Tax Act be reduced by the introduction of a GST?" John Howard: "Yes it will". --John Howard (interview Alan Jones Radio 2UE, 14 August 1998) The Truth: ". . . the Tax Act has grown from 3,000 to over 9,000 pages and an additional 2.5 million words have been inserted into the Tax Act, since 1 July 2000." --National Tax & Accountants' Association, 15 August 2002 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
