Re: Monitoring of Internet connection

2007-06-06 Thread Chip Marshall
On June 06, 2007, Ben Scott sent me the following: > I'm looking to monitor the reliability of our Internet connection at > $DAYJOB, from the inside out. I'm familiar (in concept at least) with > monitoring a bunch of hosts and services with a tool like Nagios, but > here I'm only looking to mon

Re: Inexpensive Linux Laptop

2007-06-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On 6/6/07, Kjel Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just picked up an Everex xT5000T (Made by FIC). I'm running Kubuntu > Feisty. Everything worked from the git go with the exception of the internal > speakers. I have headphones but no internal speakers. Since I almost never > use the built in

Re: Monitoring of Internet connection

2007-06-06 Thread G.O.
On 6/6/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking to monitor the reliability of our Internet connection at > $DAYJOB, from the inside out. I'm familiar (in concept at least) with > monitoring a bunch of hosts and services with a tool like Nagios, but > here I'm only looki

Re: Inexpensive Linux Laptop

2007-06-06 Thread Kjel Anderson
I just picked up an Everex xT5000T (Made by FIC). I'm running Kubuntu Feisty. Everything worked from the git go with the exception of the internal speakers. I have headphones but no internal speakers. Since I almost never use the built in speakers it is not a big deal. For the price ($770) this l

Monitoring of Internet connection

2007-06-06 Thread Ben Scott
Hi all, I'm looking to monitor the reliability of our Internet connection at $DAYJOB, from the inside out. I'm familiar (in concept at least) with monitoring a bunch of hosts and services with a tool like Nagios, but here I'm only looking to monitor one link, and closely. I could just run pi

Re: Inexpensive Linux Laptop

2007-06-06 Thread Fran Fadden
On Mon, June 4, 2007 7:56 am, Alex Hewitt wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 07:16 -0400, Tech Writer wrote: >> If you were looking for an new (not refurbished) inexpensive Linux laptop, >> that would be used primarily to run Firefox, OpenOffice and a DVD player, where would you get it? >> >> Peg >>

Re: Opinions about LaCie wanted

2007-06-06 Thread Fran Fadden
On Tue, June 5, 2007 10:51 am, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > Anybody here ever done enough business with > LaCie that you have a well-founded opinion > about the company or their storage products? Only one data point; it was a 500G USB "drive" that was actually a pair of 250G drives. Unfortunately,

Re: Opinions about LaCie wanted

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Lussier
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't they use the same hard drives everybody else does, i.e., > Seagate, WDC, Maxtor, Hitachi/IBM, etc.? They don't make their own > HDs, do they? If so, the differences between La Cie and > $OTHER_RANDOM_VENDOR would be mainly in the enclosure design

[GNHLUG] Tomorrow - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting

2007-06-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
[note different location] [does anybody have a projector?] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org/ *