Re: SOHO Backups?

2005-11-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Nov 18, 2005, at 15:28, Ben Scott wrote: I've read of expensive specialized hardware that tries to make hot-swap parallel ATA work, but if you're gonna spend the money on special hardware, you might as well buy SCA SCSI (or SATA, these days) and get something that's designed for it. You u

Re: SOHO Backups?

2005-11-18 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/18/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the record, I would *not* advise hot-swapping IDE drives on a 2.4 > kernel. For the record, I would advise against hot-swapping parallel ATA *AT ALL*. My understanding is that the spec does not support it, never has, and never wil

Re: [semi-OT] - (somewhat) Free VoIP provider

2005-11-18 Thread Randy Edwards
> I've been seeing some mentions lately of cheap VoIP/Asterisk service, > so I thought I'd put in my $.02--quite literally. > > NuFone http://www.nufone.net provides SIP and IAX2 (with protocol > failover) PSTN access for a flat rate of $0.02 per minute for [...] You've been waiting all da

Re: [semi-OT] - (somewhat) Free VoIP provider

2005-11-18 Thread Travis Roy
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Re: [semi-OT] - (somewhat) Free VoIP provider

2005-11-18 Thread aluminumsulfate
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[semi-OT] - (somewhat) Free VoIP provider

2005-11-18 Thread Travis Roy
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Re: [Fwd: Can I bother you with another Linux question?]

2005-11-18 Thread John Abreau
Jerry Feldman wrote: Note that Red Hat 9 is a bit obsolete, and has been replaced by Fedora releases. Before the Fedora split, Redhat had split their distribution into a "consumer" branch and an "enterprise" branch. Then they essentially spun off the consumer branch and handed it off to th

Last Night's Meeting

2005-11-18 Thread Christopher Schmidt
Had fun with all the MerriLUG folks last night. I also got to experience driving out of the Boston area during rush hour last night for the first time, which was significantly less fun. Some things which were discussed: * Results of the recent quarterly meeting, and location of the next one * G

Re: [Fwd: Can I bother you with another Linux question?]

2005-11-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
WRT: /etc/ld.so.conf This is a file that tells the loader where to find the system shared libraries. You also create an environment variable, LD_LIBRARY_PATH that effectively does the same thing (on a per user basis). On Linux, normally you will see things like (I removed permissions to prevent

Re: SOHO Backups?

2005-11-18 Thread Tom Buskey
On 11/18/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:For the record, I would *not* advise hot-swapping IDE drives on a 2.4kernel.  I tried this (using the bays from aforementioned shop inManchester, specifically marked hot-swappable on the box) and hosed afilesystem.  From what I have read, h