anaged switch is probably the
Cisco Small Business 200 series which is less than $200 but if finicky
about matching duplex settings with non-Cisco switches, so it is
not a good buy.
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factor). I don't see them on the website, but if you call and ask they
are available. I don't know about 16 drives, though.
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Can anyone recommend a system with 16 3.5" drive bays?
On Sun, 2014-06-22 at 14:14 +, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
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have never shown up in standards since DNS was defined, but they haven't.
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e that is all that is really
required with nearly all girls and most boys. I wouldn't think of the two
nieces mentioned in the OP as "advanced and determined" adversaries for
whom DNS limitations are nearly transparent.
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tions to run on it invites serious
security risks.
Perhaps they are thinking of load balancing/security/monitoring as the
type of application that a user might run on the router itself. I don't
imagine they expect users to run SQL or Word.
Daniel Fee
plex correctly with the Dell or
Netgear switches in our wiring closets. So that one is out. Does any know
of another?
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7,200 RPM drives.
They were attached to the motherboard SATA ports - would a RAID controller
make any difference? Would more drives make a difference? Would SAS make a
difference? The NAS box is much faster, but I don't want to overload the
network with all the /tmp traffic..
Danie
to turn it off? Am I missing a common threat?
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2013, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 06:15:32AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
I'm thinking of upgrading my linux system by adding an SSD drive to
use as my system disk. Has anyone done this? Any pros and cons
regarings using SSD's? I'm more intrested in the cons. I'
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013, Jerry Feldman wrote:
I've brought this up before. One of the drives in my RAID reports an
unreadable sector. I'm not worried about thisas this otherwise seems to
be a serviceable driveand I take frequent backups. One question I might
have is would I be better served by rem
that software part of RH or Windows?
Any references much appreciated.
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A very nice treatment of the pros and cons of the backblaze pod
is given by the Bioteam at
http://bioteam.net/tag/backblaze/
While the pods are not for every use, it is important not to make the
usual mistakes of newsgroup postings:
1) If A is better than B, then B is no good.
2) If it d
command line tools/config files and then show the user of the
GUIs are nice for once a year tasks, but hell on repeated setups, so it is
good to have both. The problem I see with providing both is that often the
GUI writes over the text file, which disables the
command-line/programmable interfac
ere are other differences, and the firmware differences are probably not
significant.
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for instance,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148902
is $130 rather than $110, for which you get a three year
warranty instead of two.
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Stephen
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On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Jason Normand wrote:
You should be able to setup smartmontools to run as a crown job to check
the drive and send an email if it finds issues. I'm sure there is a free
version available for osx. I'm not sure what other options are available
for osx. However as has been s
o a powered on NIC.
Any ideas for either of these problems?
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Tom Metro wrote:
Richard Pieri wrote:
Secure Boot is a boon to consumers who just want their appliances to
work.
This is a valid point, but almost none of your arguments support it,
because the above can be accomplished on a system that both supports
turning off Secure
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 06:23:33PM -0500, Jack Coats wrote:
I am guessing someone will either come up with a crack, or will buy a
'certificate' and it will be 'leaked' or otherwise subverted before
long.
I could envision a boot program could have it
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Doug wrote:
Can it be done? Should it be done? I saw a 36" Sony WEGA HDTV 1080i
available on Craigs list. My 28" Hanns-G probably roasted a capacitor
somewhere and now the screen washes out for large sections. BIG is
good, but computer monitors stop in the the 28" rang
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 7/5/2012 8:00 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
"cat -v" has acquired something new called "M-" notation. It is
mentioned but not described in the man page for cat,
-v, --show-nonprinting
use ^ and M- notation, ex
"cat -v" has acquired something new called "M-" notation. It is mentioned
but not described in the man page for cat, but apparently tr doesn't
support it. Any suggestions on how to delete all the "M- " characters f
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Shirley M?rquez D?lcey wrote:
On 6/12/2012 6:19 AM, Chris O'Connell wrote:
Hi All,
Can anyone recommend a piece of hardware used to erase hard
disks/tapes/floppies? I've done some googling, looked on Amazon and
NewEgg, but can't seem to find anything that fits the bill.
CAC-restricted websites
I expect there are others, this one is a very thin flashdrive bootable
client and looks fairly interesting, although it apparently supports RDP
rather than X for GUI interactions. It is freely available from the DoD
website.
danie
Will OTPW work with the ftp server? With one-time-passwords encryption
isn't required.
dan feenberg
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Jerry Feldman wrote:
The BLU hosts several guest web sites. One of our sites does not have a
webmaster, and the new webmaster would like to use DreamWeaver, but his
copy doe
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 05/18/2012 06:25 PM, F. O. Ozbek wrote:
What are the best websites to advertise open tech positions?
(This is a Sr. Sys Admin position.)
We will advertise in monster and dice.
Any other suggestions? (linked in ?)
A system administration job sho
nstructions are rarely clear about which port connects to the IPMI, so
you have to experiment. I'd rather have a "whack-on-lan".
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ort of information a salesperson or user manual will
cover, but perhaps someone has experience. If no one answers, I will
probaby just buy one and test it.
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sktop with twice the power of a tablet
won't still be dramatically faster at many tasks (though not at pure media
consumption, obviously)? But perhaps the Hollywood dream that computing
could be reduced to media consumption will come true.
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of a broadcast/multicast storm was clearly
highlighted. (Its the port that sends lots of packets but receives few).
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but I have never heard of anyone using it. I don't see that it makes
permission or username mapping any easier.
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, Jay Kramer wrote:
Excuse me if this is a stupid question given the email chain. Is it
still possible to compile Fortran IV? Will it run on linux? I wrote a
program in FORTRAN IV that uses overlays but other than that is straight
forward code.
You should try it. I d
f things closer to "change the maximum string
length from 12 to 18".
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On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Matthew Gillen wrote:
On 01/04/2012 04:23 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Matthew Gillen wrote:
On 01/03/2012 05:03 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Daniel Feenberg wrote:
The built-in Fedora encryption is no trouble to establish...
What tool do they use? Any
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Matthew Gillen wrote:
On 01/03/2012 05:03 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Daniel Feenberg wrote:
The built-in Fedora encryption is no trouble to establish...
What tool do they use? Any other distributions that provide an
integrated solution?
Fedora allows you to do whole
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Tom Metro wrote:
Daniel Feenberg wrote:
The built-in Fedora encryption is no trouble to establish...
What tool do they use? Any other distributions that provide an
From
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Implementing_LUKS_Disk_Encryption#Introduction_to_LUKS
e screen (and reestablish decryption), but this
does not seem to be available.
My understanding is that the underlying encryption systems make password
guessing by brute force extremely slow, so that frequent password changes
are not required, not that all agencies
icular item sold. It isn't a accounting-speak for
"non-productive". Is system administration helping the firm reduce costs
and/or raise output, or is it part of the "Department of Information
Prevention"? Whether its support or empire-building, it is overhead either
w
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Rich Braun wrote:
On an impulse, I bought a wifi router at Microcenter a few days ago, thinking
that heck for $25 I wouldn't mind have an upgrade from "g" to "n". Now I see
you can get this for $19.99. It plugged right in and did what I want out of
the box. Why bother p
ired up a WiFi router, and
let them play.
You don't really need a separate uplink - just connect the visiting
hardware upstream of the firewall.
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On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Matt Shields wrote:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
We are in the midst of licensing the SAS software product for a server.
This is an extremely expensive product, and the charge for a quad-core
machine is tens of thousands of
lot of fast local storage.
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point, to support roaming. Most wireless routers I have seen do allow
this, but not all.
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by their stuff... Including the auto destruct...
I have settled on Lok-it, because it is OS independent and does not
require any software to be installed on the computer mounting the drive.
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controller. So the special socket has merely moved the mismatch problem
one cable closer to the controller.
Oh, I see it about backplanes that don't use a cable. So they solve the
problem for a small segment of the market - the segment that has the
skills to do the right thing anywa
te the plastic "bridge" between the signal and power connections on the
SAS drive, compared to the open space between the connectors on the SATA
device. The SATA cable I have won't fit the SAS connector because of that,
even though the electrical pads look exactly the
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Dan Ritter wrote:
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 11:09:09AM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Dan Ritter wrote:
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 10:05:55AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
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On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Dan Ritter wrote:
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 10:05:55AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Dan Ritter
This is bizarre. SATA and SAS use the same cabling,
Sometimes
I have been experimenting with a Promise 4650 SAS controller and 2 2.5"
Seagate SAS drives and as someone who has never used a SAS drive
before I have been surprised by a couple of things.
1) The connector on the drive is a single connector for power and data
and incompatible with the connect
?
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0361137
Not rack-mountable, but otherwise a fine, quiet case with lots of air
movement and space for 12 drives.
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about PGP.
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blocks and therefore the higher the probability of collision.
> This is one of those things that make my brain hurt. If I am
> representing more data with a fixed size number, i.e. a 4K block vs a
> 16K block, that does, in fact, increase the probability of collision 4X,
Only for very smal
ll not provide an adequate remedy to the Company."
>>
>> I mean, jeez, in civil law, money damages ARE the remedy!
>
> So, doesn't that kind of obsolve you of any responsibility? If money
> damages won't provide an adequate remedy, what other recourse do
raightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
but also consider an NX server
http://www.nomachine.com/
http://freenx.berlios.de/
if you can install software on the server side.
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...
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> I really know almost nothing about this. But these google terms might be
> useful... ecmp, lbmp, comstar multipath,
These are for iSCSI SANs, not a direction we want to go.
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote:
>> We would like to speed up NFS traffic between a file server (FreeBSD with
>> ZFS) and a compute server (Linux) and wondered if 10 gigabit ethernet was
>> a reasonable approach. Can anyone report experience? Currently it appears
>> that NFS traf
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf
>> Of Daniel Feenberg
>>
>> We would like to speed up NFS traffic between a file server (FreeBSD with
>> ZFS) and a compute server (Lin
Where would I look for 10 gigabit NICs compatible with that hardware?
Vendor names?
Thank you
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Rich Braun wrote:
>
> All the above problems were solved at a very similar per-port price point
> ($300 give or take) using Dell DRAC or HP ILO cards. Someone already pointed
> out the negative of that solution: you have to build out a separate physical
> LAN, at a cost of
Does anyone in
> our organization have a Linux Foundation membership? Any reasons to buy or
> not to? Is the membership largely a scam or does the foundation actually
> further the use of Linux?
They are Linux Torvalds employer, and Ted T'so also, so I don't see how
y
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