Re: [Discuss] TrueCrypt with SSD

2011-08-26 Thread Derek Atkins
Edward Ned Harvey writes: >> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warl...@mit.edu] >> >> Dell Laptop (E6420) using Fedora's default-install dm-crypt >> configuration. The performance hit was in how long it took to copy >> ~300GB of data from a USB (or eSata) drive. When I did a similar copy >> on an une

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm fairly knowledgeable at MediaWiki, so if you have some questions feel free to ask. When I setup the wiki for our group at Harvard, I even tweaked it so that you could use the wiki as a back-end to publish pages to a public website. You can also set it up to create PDF books - which is great f

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread Gordon Marx
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > documentation.  For products with different models or version releases, you > can maintain the documentation for each version.  Things like theming the What do you do for version-based documentation? Do you have the version numbe

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/25/2011 01:57 PM, Kyle Leslie wrote: Hi everyone, my office IT group has documents spread out between us, some the same, some different. I was hoping to set up a small wiki type server so that our group could collaborate and share documents with each other. Any suggestions on a set up. I

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread Kyle Leslie
Are there any hardware things I need to look out for or is it relatively forgiving as far as needs? Memory, HDD space and so forth? On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < g...@freephile.com> wrote: > I'm fairly knowledgeable at MediaWiki, so if you have some questions feel

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 03:45:20PM -0400, Kyle Leslie wrote: > Are there any hardware things I need to look out for or is it relatively > forgiving as far as needs? > > Memory, HDD space and so forth? Wikis tend to be quite undemanding until you discover that there are a hundred or a hundred thou

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread Richard Pieri
On Aug 26, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Wikis tend to be quite undemanding until you discover that there are a > hundred or a hundred thousand times as many people using it as you had > initially thought. Pretty much. A Wiki is a SQL database, a web server, and some PHP code to glue

Re: [Discuss] chronic cpu spikes - X and kworker have gone mad

2011-08-26 Thread Eric Chadbourne
I ran into this after falling down the stairs with my laptop (ow!) I did some research and found that kworker eating lots of CPU can sometimes be related to hardware problems. I reseated the memory in the laptop and the problem was resolved. I'm not saying it's a hardware problem, but it could

Re: [Discuss] TrueCrypt with SSD

2011-08-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Derek Atkins [mailto:warl...@mit.edu] > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 11:19 AM > > > Simply write a file. Eliminate the possibility of external drive slowdown. > > time dd if=/dev/zero of=10Gfile bs=1024k count=10240 > > I did this a few times with various count sizes and noticed that th

[Discuss] need to set up fax-mail system

2011-08-26 Thread Jeff Kinz
Hi all, posting from a new email address. I want to implement a system that sends faxes by email, whilst keeping the fax contents secure from prying eyes and maintaining some degree of certainty that the claimed sender is the actual sender. Ultimately I just want to see all fax machines go away.

Re: [Discuss] need to set up fax-mail system

2011-08-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:31:28PM -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote: > Hi all, posting from a new email address. > > I want to implement a system that sends faxes by email, whilst keeping > the fax contents secure from prying eyes and maintaining some degree of > certainty that the claimed sender is the act

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Gordon Marx wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) > wrote: > > documentation. For products with different models or version releases, > you > > can maintain the documentation for each version. Things like theming the > > What do yo

Re: [Discuss] need to set up fax-mail system

2011-08-26 Thread jk_xtblug
Hi Dan, thanks for the comments! On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:44:11PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:31:28PM -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote: > > Hi all, posting from a new email address. > > > > I want to implement a system that sends faxes by email, whilst keeping > > the fax conte

Re: [Discuss] need to set up fax-mail system

2011-08-26 Thread Jack Coats
Jeff, At my wifes office (central office for the company), they have an IP phone system. If you call any private extension and send a fax to it, it saves the fax as a PDF, and emails that to the email address of the extension holder. Personally I use eFax (a free service, it prepends an ad on th

Re: [Discuss] need to set up fax-mail system

2011-08-26 Thread jk_xtblug
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:46:09PM -0500, Jack Coats wrote: > Jeff, > > > Personally I use eFax (a free service, it prepends an ad on the front of any > fax I receive), but it works and it is the right price. It seems to be > fairly secure). > > When working for a bank, we sent out lots of faxe