Re: [JOBS] Open Source Open Standards

2006-06-07 Thread Greg Rundlett
btw, i know there is a jobs list, but i've posted it there twice, and somehow my message got the wrong encoding or content type, and ended up as a bunch of unreadable characters.  As a last ditch effor to get the word out, I used a different client and sent to the discuss list -- using the obvious

[JOBS] Open Source Open Standards

2006-06-07 Thread Greg Rundlett
Open and freely available technology standards are a good thing. They are especially important to developers of free software. Open standards create wider interoperability and 'freedom' that free software developers like. Free and open standards are critically linked to free and open technol

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 6/7/06, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that what I need to do is disable NAT and firewall on the Linksys. Supposedly, this is possible with some LinkSys routers. My WRT54G v2 with LinkSys firmware 4.20.7 has it under Setup -> Advanced Routing -> Operating Mode. Setting th

UVCIA meeting on June 21 will feature FOSS

2006-06-07 Thread Python
Bill McGonigle is listed as leading the discussion. Ted Roche will be on the panel. http://uvcia.org/ (The meeting has not yet made it to the web site.) UVCIA is the Upper Valley Computer Industry Association. It meets in West Lebanon on a monthly schedule. Breakfast is served. They will char

Re: Linux on old laptop - still trying...

2006-06-07 Thread Jon maddog Hall
Peg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > As a side note... I have been a little surprised at how much disk and > memory I need for a reasonable flavor of Linux... For some reason, > I'd always thought I'd easily find an interesting Linux that would do as > much, without requiring so much effort to get

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 05:03:00PM -0400, John Abreau wrote: > Bill Freeman wrote: > > The chart that I read showed the V4 to have half as much of each > > kind of memory as the V3. No other important differences. Or > > my memory (in my head) may be failing if you have to go back > > further to

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread John Abreau
Bill Freeman wrote: > > The chart that I read showed the V4 to have half as much of each > kind of memory as the V3. No other important differences. Or > my memory (in my head) may be failing if you have to go back > further to get a full memory WRT54G. > Where did you find that chart? The on

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Bill Freeman
> > > > I will probably get around to playing with this on one of my > > personal V4 WRT54GSs, but I'm disinclined to give one of these > > to the company, given how hard it has been for me to find them. > > (I'd really like to own a V3, the last max memory model, but I > > haven't seen one.) >

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Bill Freeman
Lloyd Kvam offered opinions and advice, thanks. > Presumably you are controlling the DHCP assignments so that your Name > Server knows how to resolve names to numbers and DNS is not tied into > those routers. The name server here is "Hey, Jim, what's your IP address today", so it won't have any t

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Travis Roy
I'm interested to hear that you wish you could own a V3 becausewhen I look at the charts shown here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRT54G...I don't see important differences between the V3 and V4.Are the charts misleading? He's probably thinking of the WRT54GS, the memory amounts go down after that

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Python
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 12:09 -0400, Bill Freeman wrote: > Where I'm working we have a Netgear router attached to the DSL modem, > to which all the wired users are connected, with NAT and DHCP serving > up 192.168.0.xxx addresses. > > One of the things wired to the Netgear is the "internet" port of

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 12:09 -0400, Bill Freeman wrote: > Where I'm working we have a Netgear router attached to the DSL modem, > to which all the wired users are connected, with NAT and DHCP serving > up 192.168.0.xxx addresses. > > One of the things wired to the Netgear is the "internet" port of

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
> I will probably get around to playing with this on one of my > personal V4 WRT54GSs, but I'm disinclined to give one of these > to the company, given how hard it has been for me to find them. > (I'd really like to own a V3, the last max memory model, but I > haven't seen one.) I'm interested t

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Tom Buskey
On 6/7/06, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Where I'm working we have a Netgear router attached to the DSL modem,to which all the wired users are connected, with NAT and DHCP servingup 192.168.0.xxx addresses.One of the things wired to the Netgear is the "internet" port of a Linksys wireless

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Neil Schelly
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:09 pm, Bill Freeman wrote: > I think that what I need to do is disable NAT and firewall on the Linksys. > (We would still be protected from the internet by the firewall in the > Netgear.) If that's possible. Then would I be able to configure the > Netgear's DHCP serve

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Bill Freeman
> > > > > > One of the things wired to the Netgear is the "internet" port of a > > Linksys wireless-G router (probably too new to install Linux on it), > > which serves up a wireless network on 192.168.1.xxx. > > > > I would check the dd-wrt website and see if you can install linux on it, you >

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Travis Roy
One of the things wired to the Netgear is the "internet" port of aLinksys wireless-G router (probably too new to install Linux on it), which serves up a wireless network on 192.168.1.xxx.I would check the dd-wrt website and see if you can install linux on it, you might luck out.What I would do is f

Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Bill Freeman
Where I'm working we have a Netgear router attached to the DSL modem, to which all the wired users are connected, with NAT and DHCP serving up 192.168.0.xxx addresses. One of the things wired to the Netgear is the "internet" port of a Linksys wireless-G router (probably too new to install Linux on

Re: Linux on old laptop - memory

2006-06-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 6/7/06, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Toshiba P150 I had could only cache 64MB of RAM in the CPU. If you had more, none of it was cached. However, 80MB, even w/o the cacheing was still better then 64MB. I think the cache issue is a P150 thing. It's actually the chipset (north

OpenOffice and JVM, was Java Speed

2006-06-07 Thread Ted Roche
On Jun 7, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: I think Fedora (and OpenOffice) used GCJ to compile alot of the java apps associated with it. They got a big speedup and eliminated the need for a JVM for those apps. On recent installs of OpenOffice, some members of another forum I hang out

Re: Linux on old laptop - memory

2006-06-07 Thread Tom Buskey
The Toshiba P150 I had could only cache 64MB of RAM in the CPU.  If you had more, none of it was cached.  However, 80MB, even w/o the cacheing was still better then 64MB.  I think the cache issue is a P150 thing. On 6/6/06, Tech Writer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This old Gateway 2100 Solo laptop do

Re: Speed of Java (was: Linux on old laptop in two stages)

2006-06-07 Thread Tom Buskey
On 6/6/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:   I'm mildly curious about things like GCJ (http://gcc.gnu.org/java/),which aim to compile Java-the-language to machine code for the hostplatform (e.g., i386), rather than compiling to machine code for Java-the-machine.  In particular, I'm wondering w

Re: Linux on old laptop - still trying...

2006-06-07 Thread Ben Scott
On 6/6/06, Tech Writer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a side note... I have been a little surprised at how much disk and memory I need for a reasonable flavor of Linux. Most Linux distributions tend to keep pace with technology. Unfortunately, that means their system requirements have risen al