Good source of info re: CD stuff:
http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq.html
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Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Apr 24 at 11:43pm, David Ecklein wrote:
>> My bad impression had only been with Samsung hard drives, and that
>> is dated and limited to my own small computer business activity, not
>> "anecdotes". Failure rate was higher than any other brand I had
>
Michael ODonnell writes:
>
>
> Good source of info re: CD stuff:
>
> http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq.html
Yes, and much more accurate than Ben.
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On Apr 25, 2005, at 21:36, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Apr 25 at 5:59pm, Bill McGonigle wrote:
I've heard people say that dd won't work because dd defaults to 2k
blocks and CD's have 2.3K audio blocks. I can't see how that's
relevant if you're dumping to a flat file but I could be missing
somethin
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 21:54 -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Apr 25 at 3:13pm, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> > Steven: Thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that the
> > milter is called only after the message had been received.
> Obviously, in order to do content analysis or othe
Anyone have recent experience with linux/*BSD on older, smaller systems?
I have an old 386 16MHz/8MB ram [maxed out!]/100MB disk system
(toshiba 5200/100) that I'm trying to get going. I have DOS running
just fine. I don't care about graphics.
It's a luggable (no battery). Flip up plasma scree
Benjamin Scott writes:
>The practical upshot is that
>if you have to pay a professional to "fix your computer", the bill
>can easily come to $300 or $400. When a brand new system costs not
>much more then that, why bother?
One good reason might be because you'd prefer not to see
On Tuesday, Apr 26th 2005 at 10:19 -0400, quoth Bruce Dawson:
=>On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 21:54 -0400, Benjamin Scott wrote:
=>> On Apr 25 at 3:13pm, Bruce Dawson wrote:
=>> > Steven: Thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that the
=>> > milter is called only after the message had b
Yes, and much more accurate than Ben.
That's possible ;)
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On Apr 24, 2005, at 18:03, Fred wrote:
The
Averatec ships with XP home, but the CDs will only allow you to install
XP to factory conditions without the ability to partition the drive --
must be standard to do it that way these days, and completely useless
to
me in any case.
You can get a live CD c
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:48:48AM -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> Benjamin Scott writes:
>
> >The practical upshot is that
> >if you have to pay a professional to "fix your computer", the bill
> >can easily come to $300 or $400. When a brand new system costs not
> >much more then
On Apr 26, 2005, at 11:14, Derek Martin wrote:
That
must be it. or maybe we as a society just enjoy being economically
raped...
I'm guessing that new appliance is shipped in from overseas. There the
"American" company who makes it doesn't have to pay significant taxes
or follow labor regulation
Sorry, I need to clarify. Actually, this particular image wasn't
generated by dd (I had mistaken it amidst all my other image files and
what not). This particular one was an image generated by Nero (a .nrg)
file. I had copied the image.nrg file over to my linux laptop thinking
I could just use n
Cc:
From: Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Original-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:59:35 -0400
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:59:35 -0400
...
I've heard people say that dd won't work because dd defaults to 2k
blocks and CD's have 2.3K audio blocks. I ca
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 11:47:35AM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Apr 26, 2005, at 11:14, Derek Martin wrote:
>
> >That
> >must be it. or maybe we as a society just enjoy being economically
> >raped...
>
> I'm guessing that new appliance is shipped in from overseas. There the
> "American" c
Mostly because the people who admin their systems are completely
ignorant of *ANTHING* related to computers or networking. Take this
exchange for example:
MCSE> I need your SSL certificate
me> okay, here
2 hours later
MCSE> That certificate isn't any good.
me> what d
And people wonder why I don't trust certifications.
(generally) they don't teach you anything, they just teach you how to
pass a test and get a pretty cert on the wall. It's even more the case
when it comes to MS certs.
Hell, I'm a "certified solaris administrator" but because I never really
wo
Jon maddog Hall wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Once there, I tried out a number of laptops on display with Linux. Some
worked, some didn't.
Since you were by default using the 2.4 kernel, some of the laptops that
"failed" may have worked with the 2.6 kernel. Did you try 2.6 on all
of them, or onl
Travis Roy wrote:
And people wonder why I don't trust certifications.
(generally) they don't teach you anything, they just teach you how to
pass a test and get a pretty cert on the wall. It's even more the case
when it comes to MS certs.
Hell, I'm a "certified solaris administrator" but because
Kevin-
I'm with you. Computers are hard to recycle properly and cheaply. Why
dispose of something that almost works, if its repair or upgrade is a minor
affair?
If someone comes to me with a computer that looks like it may need a repair
or upgrade more than $100, I am willing to give them a fre
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 04:34:56PM -0400, puissante wrote:
> I could find the info if I needed to, but certifications, along with
> other forms of credentialsim, is largely a waste of time I think. You
> either know what you are doing or you haven't a clue, and a stupid piece
> of paper proves n
One good reason might be because you'd prefer not to see more
perfectly good stuff end up in a landfill. You might come to the
conclusion that a throwaway society isn't sustainable.
While I agree that if it works for SOMETHING you shouldn't trow it away,
but as far as recycling in general, you ma
I largely fall into this camp also, but I think they can be
occasionally useful. An example is someone in my position... I've
got a good amount of experience, and I'm a bright guy, but I've been
away from IT for about 3 years. If I had the cash to get myself some
certs before I re-entered the jo
Yes, I have heard from others about Maxtors having high failure rates
lately. They formerly were my favorite. I still use them, but have been
trying Hitachis lately with good luck so far.
As I wrote before, these various brands wax and wane in quality.
I think one of the problems has been the i
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> P.S. *Grunt* If any of you upgrade to Emacs 21, make sure you (setq
> mail-specify-envelope-from t), or emacs won't honor user-mail-address
> (i.e., you won't be able to post to gnhlug.org).
Hmmm, I don't seem to have that set anywhere in my .gnus.el and I'm on:
GNU
Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think the two greatest underutilized resources for IT people in the
> field are things like this mailing list (or newsgroup, or online
> forum) and IM.. IM has always been a HUGE help for me.
Hmmm, you ought come and hang out on #gnhlug with some of us ;
I did when it first started.. but there's to much chatter for me and a lot of
stuff I either don't care
about, or is distracting. I might pop on later this week since you brought it
up :)
-- Original Message ---
From: Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROT
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:11:07PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I think the two greatest underutilized resources for IT people in the
> > field are things like this mailing list (or newsgroup, or online
> > forum) and IM.. IM has always been a HUGE help
Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In fact I asked, and he said that 5x would be a very conservative
> estimate... It's probably more like 6-10x depending on how
> complicated the device is. A typical example: for him to order a
> replacement control board (i.e. the main circuit board) f
"Travis Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I did when it first started.. but there's to much chatter for me and a
> lot of stuff I either don't care about, or is distracting. I might pop
> on later this week since you brought it up :)
I just leave IRC open in a window and jump on when I have time
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Schmidt) writes:
> I've found it to be invaluable: whether it be #gnhlug, or other people
> in other channels helping me with HTML, or other things like that.
>
> I consider IRC my first place to ask questions, right alongside Google.
> Even if I don't know something
The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central New Hampshire
chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group, recurs the
first Monday of each month on the New Hampshire Institute Campus
starting at 7 PM.
Directions and maps are available on the NHTI site at
http://www.nhti.edu. T
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:44:33PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > In fact I asked, and he said that 5x would be a very conservative
> > estimate... It's probably more like 6-10x depending on how
> > complicated the device is. A typical example: for hi
> Hmmm, you ought come and hang out on #gnhlug with some of us
> ;) IRC is even better than IM, imo :)
Everytime I've gone onto #gnhlug someone named crschmidt harasses me. Plus,
it seemed there were a lot of 'bots in there last time I checked in.
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Derek Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 08:44:33PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> Yup. How many different models of Microwaves are there? How many
> different COLORS of those models are there... You need to do a very
> high volume of business for this to be practical.
"Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Everytime I've gone onto #gnhlug someone named crschmidt harasses me.
I've often said the same about gnhlug-discuss and someone named Ben ;)
(wait, or is is that what he says about me?)
> Plus, it seemed there were a lot of 'bots in there last time I
> check
On Apr 26, 2005, at 17:45, Travis Roy wrote:
Oh, I agree, it's great for that, but for actual ability Do you
think you really could have had more under your belt that you couldn't
have found out on your own for a lot cheaper?
You're thinking about this the wrong way. Certifications are for
Travis Roy writes:
> While I agree that if it works for SOMETHING you shouldn't trow it
> away, but as far as recycling in general, you may want to watch this
> (if you have showtime, or you know where to find it if you don't)
>
> http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=r
>
> Opened my eyes
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