Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-13 Thread Paul Lussier
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Jeffry Smith wrote: Next question: What's people's favorite e-mail systems? I used mh/exmh for an extremely long time and loved it's flexibility. It was really nice having a gui based on underlying commands which could also be executed from the command line or from

Study from CMU: Disk failures in the real world

2007-02-13 Thread Python
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bianca/fast07.pdf A detailed study of disk failures and disk life expectancies. I stumbled across this study from a link at http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/linux-nas-raid.html I thought the study would be of interest to a lot of folks on the list. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp.

T1 service

2007-02-13 Thread Thomas Charron
Anyone familiar with http://www.isomedia.com/index.shtml ? 389 for a T1 seems way too cheap. -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: T1 service

2007-02-13 Thread Chip Marshall
On 2/13/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone familiar with http://www.isomedia.com/index.shtml ? 389 for a T1 seems way too cheap. According to these ads that Gmail sticks next to my messages, Cogent is advertising T1s from $350, and Speakeasy is advertising $399. So it

Re: T1 service

2007-02-13 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone familiar with http://www.isomedia.com/index.shtml ? 389 for a T1 seems way too cheap. for the local loop, the connectivity, or both? I'm paying $325/mo total for my T-1 from Cambridge Bandwidth Consortium (a network co-op). -- Thomas

Re: Forcing Pine to reply-to-list (was: Evolution sucks??)

2007-02-13 Thread TARogue
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Ben Scott wrote: On 2/12/07, TARogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except how to reply only to gnhlug, and not everyone else without editing the To: and Cc: lines. [4] We've had this debate on this list already. We voted. No munge won. I know ... that doesn't mean I

TechARP's Desktop CPU Comparison Guide

2007-02-13 Thread Michael ODonnell
FWIW: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=337 I'd dispute their claim that it's an easy reference or that it allows you to easily compare the various CPUs but it's certainly one of the more comprehensive lists I've seen so it's at least interesting from that angle. As they describe

Re: TechARP's Desktop CPU Comparison Guide

2007-02-13 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 02/13/2007 11:40 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: FWIW: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=33 Wikipedia has great guides as well, if you know where to look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_microprocessors At the

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-13 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/13/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben has often asked why I don't use IMAP. I don't think I actually said that. I mainly complain that I can't use MH and friends with IMAP. And go off on long, rambling tangents about IMAP functionality. And continuously reiterate that IMAP

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-13 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 11:59 am, Ben Scott wrote: It is very true that there's nothing like a standard mechanism for the processing side of things (although procmail comes close, at least in the nix world). There's even less in the way of a standard protocol for configuring any such

Re: Spam and bounces - how do you handle it?

2007-02-13 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:36:21AM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: Often, we get spam to list publishing addresses, but on closed lists, these will be bounced with messages like only subscribers may post. FWIW, for this case, I'm in favor of forwarding those sorts of messages to a list

[OT] Nahua page on local.wikia.com

2007-02-13 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I am sure that some of you, particularly those who read slashdot, have read about Jimmy Whales (wikipedia founder) announcing his new wiki magazine type sites. Well, one of the sites listed is http://local.wikia.com . From there you select your state and the city you want and click 'find your

Can't figure out Firefox Plugin Requirement

2007-02-13 Thread Tech Writer
I'm using Firefox in Red Hat EL5, and trying to run a web application that requires a Java Virtual Machine. When I start my application, I get an informational message that additional plugins ar required. When I click the Install Missing Plugins button, it directs me to the java web site,

FOSS app like Hamachi?

2007-02-13 Thread Michael ODonnell
Anybody know of a FOSS app that provides the sort of remote access that Hamachi offers but isn't closed-source and allows you to use your own servers instead of requiring use of Hamachi's servers? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-13 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:59:12AM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: Your example does point out to me, though, that I might well have benefited from using MH as the storage format on the IMAP server, for tricks just like that (much better than mucking around with, say, mbox files). Now I wish you'd

Re: Can't figure out Firefox Plugin Requirement

2007-02-13 Thread Brian Chabot
Tech Writer wrote: I'm using Firefox in Red Hat EL5, and trying to run a web application that requires a Java Virtual Machine. When I start my application, I get an informational message that additional plugins ar required. When I click the Install Missing Plugins button, it directs me to

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-13 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:24:39PM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: On Tuesday 13 February 2007 11:59 am, Ben Scott wrote: It is very true that there's nothing like a standard mechanism for the processing side of things (although procmail comes close, at least in the nix world). There's

Re: TechARP's Desktop CPU Comparison Guide

2007-02-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 13, 2007, at 12:22, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: The only hard part I've had in picking processors in the last few years is remembering which models have hyperthreading or dual-cores and which ones have the virtualization instruction sets. The rest is pretty useless - any new

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-13 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2/13/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben has often asked why I don't use IMAP. I don't think I actually said that. I mainly complain that I can't use MH and friends with IMAP. And go off on long, rambling tangents about IMAP

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-13 Thread Paul Lussier
Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 13 February 2007 11:59 am, Ben Scott wrote: It is very true that there's nothing like a standard mechanism for the processing side of things (although procmail comes close, at least in the nix world). There's even less in the way of

Fairpoint Communications speaking at UVCIA 2/21

2007-02-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
I'm distributing this widely as everybody seems to be interested in last-mile telecommunications around here, and if this deal goes through Fairpoint would be the ones who could bring modern services to area homes and businesses, where Verizon has chosen not to. Mark Scarano's talk should

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-13 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 02:41 pm, Mark E. Mallett wrote: Sieve is exactly that standard mechanism. It's well documented, but unfortunately not well implemented. Do you mean not widely? That's what I meant - yes. http://sieve.info/ I think I've plugged my own implementation here

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-13 Thread Tom Buskey
On 2/13/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, IMAP and mail processing (filtering, sorting, scripting, folding, spindling, mutilating, etc.) are really about two different things. IMAP is for accessing mail once it's processed. Yep. Procmail will feed most IMAP storage types also.

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 13, 2007, at 15:01, Paul Lussier wrote: How many ISPs run an IMAP server for their customers. Most ISPs I know of server POP3. Yahoo! and AOL would be the notable large ones. Google is the glaring counter-example. I have no idea if either of these two support Sieve, but I doubt

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 13, 2007, at 17:22, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Doesn't Paul's example presume that the script has direct filesystem access to the mail/files that are about to be deleted? It does - procmail usually does have that r/w access to your mail store (though you can pipe/forward in some

Koolu.com

2007-02-13 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hi, For the past year or so I have been dealing with a company up in Toronto named Koolu. The CEO, a person by the name of Andrew Greig, has a vision of using thin clients in lots of places where thin clients have not really gone before. I liked his vision, and I have joined the company to help

Re: FOSS app like Hamachi?

2007-02-13 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/13/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know of a FOSS app that provides the sort of remote access that Hamachi offers ... I don't really get the appeal of Hamachi. I've encountered quite a few people who seem to think it's doing something unique, but the feature list

Meeting Report - SLUG/Durham - 12 Feb 2007 - Music throughout the ages

2007-02-13 Thread Ben Scott
I was pleased to be able to attend last night's SLUG (Seacoast LUG) meeting, at UNH Durham. 8 people were there; Rob Anderson led the discussion. The primary topic was working with MP3 audio under Linux, with a follow-on digression into player pianos and reed organs. Rob related his

Re: Koolu.com

2007-02-13 Thread Bruce Dawson
This looks like a box I've been looking for a long time now. When/where can I/we get a demonstration? --Bruce Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: Hi, For the past year or so I have been dealing with a company up in Toronto named Koolu. The CEO, a person by the name of Andrew Greig, has a vision of

Re: Koolu.com

2007-02-13 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 22:37 -0500, Drew Van Zandt wrote: The Kool-u looks sort of neat, but pricey... for kiosk-type stuff I'd be looking at things like this instead: http://www.norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html Yeah, not as beefy a CPU, but power consumption similar and a LOT cheaper

Re: Koolu.com

2007-02-13 Thread Bruce Dawson
I'm looking more for a workstation for classroom use (and use in various places around the farm). The norhtec unit appears to be limited as far as memory and display heads. I'm also concerned they have an IDE connector and not a unit with a hard drive pre-installed (makes me think their power