[GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 21 Jun, Nonlinear Video Editing by Doerbeck (YouTube Watch Out!)

2007-06-14 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
Who  : Christoph Doerbeck, BLU, Red Hat What : Nonlinear Video Editing on Linux with Cinelerra Where: Martha's Exchange Day  : Thur 21 June **Next Week** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :: Overview     Want to hit the 20K viewer mark on YouTube?  Nonlinear video editing allows y

Non Linux but network tech question

2007-06-14 Thread sean
Hope no one objects to the non Linux question? My small local library has a web site which is hosted for them. On their site there is a link to bring up their catalog online. The system for this database is located inside the library. Here is the problem. The local ISP they use, Comcast, gives t

Re: Non Linux but network tech question

2007-06-14 Thread Drew Van Zandt
The Linksys wireless router may well run Linux, so you might be OK. :-) Dynamic DNS is the proper solution to this, and there are several free onces out there that the Linksys should work with - basically the router tells the dynamic DNS host what its IP is everytime it changes. I think http://z

Re: Non Linux but network tech question

2007-06-14 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
http://www.dyndns.org That's what they do. -N On Thursday 14 June 2007 09:07, sean wrote: > Hope no one objects to the non Linux question? > > > My small local library has a web site which is hosted for them. > On their site there is a link to bring up their catalog online. > The system for this d

Re: Non Linux but network tech question

2007-06-14 Thread Ted Roche
sean wrote: > They did not ask me but I am trying to figure out a possible solution to > try and cure this minor problem for them. I also use DynDNS. They provide a free service, as long as you update your records regularly (do read the site for the terms of service). There are clients they link

Re: Non Linux but network tech question

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 6/14/07, sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hope no one objects to the non Linux question? Trust me, you're a lot more on-topic than a lot of message traffic on this list. :) > The system for this database is located inside the library. > The local ISP they use, Comcast, gives them a free co

Warning: Ubuntu kernel update renames hard drives.

2007-06-14 Thread Scott Garman
Just a warning to folks running Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn. A couple of days ago a new kernel update was released (2.6.20-16). This update apparently includes changes to how PATA drives are named in /dev. My PATA drive used to be /dev/hda before the update. Now it's /dev/sdc. I wish I had known that befor

Re: USB scanner + embedded Linux box = network scanner?

2007-06-14 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: > > We've got an HP LaserJet 3380 All-In-One with a JetDirect card. It > does have "network scan" functionality. The problem is, to trigger > the scan, you have to use a web UI. Which means a computer. Which > means the user has to walk to the unit, load their originals, wal

Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card?

2007-06-14 Thread Tom Buskey
I have a cheap gigabit nic ($20) in my system and suspect it is slowing down throughput so I'd like to upgrade it. I did the google linux thing. Half were error reports, half were from < 2004, half were sales "reviews", etc (yeah, that > 100%). The Linux HOWTOs are 2004 and earlier so there's ba

Re: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card?

2007-06-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
Now that Intel has released the HW specs for the e1000 family (generally having 825nn part numbers) I can recommend it. The driver is mature and in wide use and offers full support for useful features like bonding, ipv6 and huge packets. Esoterica: it even has a (compile time) option that cause

RE: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? OT: PC Gigabit Through put Question

2007-06-14 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
I'm not the best with these bit/byte problems so I might be wrong, but. A PCI bus can pass 1056 bits a second (32 bit, 33 mhz) tcp/ip over head is somewhere around %20 (1056 * .8 = 844.8) What can you reasonably expect a pci gigabit card to give you for through put? PCI Buses are generally

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-14 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 18:49:07 -0400 > From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 5/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OpenWRT was recommended as a way of getting around using Linksys's > > broken DynDNS client. But this system seems just as broken! > > I suspect someth

Organization providing low cost computing pushing Microsoft???

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Mcsweeney
- I heard a story on the radio today about an organization in Manchester and Nashua called Donation Networks. - Their website is: http://www.donationnetworks.org/ - They have a program that they call "Computers in Every Home" with the mission statement of: "The Computers In Every Home Program

Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'm working with some RHEL3 boxes that until recently were kept up to date via subscription to the RedHat Network but that subscription has now expired, so I wonder if there is some repository of freely available packages that are perfectly compatible and %100 sync'd with whatever RHAT is supplyin

Re: Organization providing low cost computing pushing Microsoft???

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 6/14/07, Mark Mcsweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that an organization that is looking to provide low/no > cost computing to disadvantaged citizens would be able to provide the > best service with a FOSS solution rather than by an expensive, > proprietary system. I can't spe

Re: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? OT: PC Gigabit Through put Question

2007-06-14 Thread Tom Buskey
On 6/14/07, Flaherty, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not the best with these bit/byte problems so I might be wrong, but. A PCI bus can pass 1056 bits a second (32 bit, 33 mhz) tcp/ip over head is somewhere around %20 (1056 * .8 = 844.8) What can you reasonably expect a pci gigabit

Re: Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread Tom Buskey
http://www.CentOS.org On 6/14/07, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm working with some RHEL3 boxes that until recently were kept up to date via subscription to the RedHat Network but that subscription has now expired, so I wonder if there is some repository of freely available pa

Re: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? OT: PC Gigabit Through put Question

2007-06-14 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On 6/14/07, Flaherty, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not the best with these bit/byte problems so I might be wrong, but. A PCI bus can pass 1056 bits a second (32 bit, 33 mhz) tcp/ip over head is somewhere around %20 (1056 * .8 = 844.8) What can you reasonably expect a pci gigabit

Re: Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread Matt Brodeur
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 02:47:52PM -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > that subscription has now expired, so I wonder if there > is some repository of freely available packages that are > perfectly compatible and %100 sync'd with whatever RHAT > is supplying as bugfixes and updates for RHEL3. In o

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 6/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem here seems to be that the ez-ipupdate package is > integrated with neither the webif nor the rest of OpenWRT. Hmmm. It was better than that for me. Have you installed the X-WRT extensions to OpenWRT? The webif^2 subsystem

Re: Organization providing low cost computing pushing Microsoft???

2007-06-14 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:50:26 -0400 > From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Which is not to say DN isn't worth targeting for FOSS advocacy. > Contract administration and license management have costs, too. With > FOSS, those just disappear. And there's always the whole "Freedom" > aspect

Re: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? OT: PC Gigabit Through put Question

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 6/14/07, Jeff Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What can you reasonably expect a pci gigabit card to give you for >> through put? > > I thought I read somewhere gig ether should be on the motherboard, not PCI. Many modern motherboards do include one or more gig Ether ports. Sometimes, t

Re: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? OT: PC Gigabit Through put Question

2007-06-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
PCI-32 theoretical maximum throughput would be: (((33 million cycles) * 32 bits) / 8 = 132 million bytes ) per second ...but since that's unattainable for more than a dozen ticks or so I'm guessing that 2/3 of that (88 million) is a more reasonable maximum. Meanwhile, I (think I) have heard

Re: Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread John Abreau
On Thu, June 14, 2007 4:00 pm, Matt Brodeur said: > > I guess that depends on how much you can bend the truth and keep a > straight face. If a package didn't come from Red Hat's build system, > it's not a RHEL package. I don't know of anyone freely redistributing > the RH-built update packages

Re: QuickBooks for Linux

2007-06-14 Thread Paul Lussier
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 6/13/07, Bill Sconce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Intuit has been famous for a rigid attitude of "if Linux is in the >> picture we don't support it". >> >>> Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) announced today that businesses will soon >>> be able to operate Qui

Re: Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
> I guess that depends on how much you can bend the truth and keep > a straight face. If a package didn't come from Red Hat's build > system, it's not a RHEL package. I don't know of anyone freely > redistributing the RH-built update packages. Sorry; I should have been clearer. I'm not out t

Re: Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread Matt Brodeur
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 04:19:47PM -0400, John Abreau wrote: > > How long until Red Hat EOL's RHEL3? I have a RHEL3 server that > was due to expire next week, and I renewed it for another 3 years. > When RHEL3 is EOL'ed, I imagine I'll have to upgrade it to a > supported version, like RHEL5. It'll

Re: Does the White Russian 0.9 DynDNS client suck just as much?

2007-06-14 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:05:37 -0400 > From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 6/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem here seems to be that the ez-ipupdate package is > > integrated with neither the webif nor the rest of OpenWRT. > > Hmmm. It was better tha

RE: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? OT: PC Gigabit Through putQuestion

2007-06-14 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
Somebody broke out the slide rule -=] patrick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael ODonnell Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:18 PM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? OT: PC Gigabit Thr

Linux Exchange server replacement.

2007-06-14 Thread Steven W. Orr
Sorry to dredge it all up, but there was a discussion some time back about an app that was supposed to be a drop in replacement for ES including all of the calendaring crap. Does anyone remember what that was? TIA -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0

Re: Linux Exchange server replacement.

2007-06-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 6/14/07, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to dredge it all up, but there was a discussion some time back about > an app that was supposed to be a drop in replacement for ES including all > of the calendaring crap. Does anyone remember what that was? There have been two that I'

Re: Linux Exchange server replacement.

2007-06-14 Thread klussier
The two that I know of off the top of my head are: Scalix http://www.scalix.com Zimbra http://www.zimbra.com Both have their caveates. HTH, Kenny -- Original message -- From: "Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sorry to dredge it all up, but there was a dis

Re: Maintaining RHEL3 after RHAT support expires

2007-06-14 Thread John Abreau
On Thu, June 14, 2007 4:48 pm, Matt Brodeur said: > > [RHEL3] be supported until October 2010 (7 years from its release in > 2003). RHEL2.1 would go until 05/2009, RHEL4 until 02/2012, and RHEL5 > is 03/2014. That's assuming no one decides to extend the support > terms again. > I imagine by 20

Re: Linux Exchange server replacement.

2007-06-14 Thread Travis Roy
I installed and tested Zimbra.. It didn't have support for a few things we needed at the time (like truly shared calendars). It's my understanding that this has been corrected in the recent versions. They have a free demo you can test out. The web interface is very impressive. On Jun 14, 20

RE: OT: PC Gigabit Throughput Question

2007-06-14 Thread Ric Werme
> What can you reasonably expect a pci gigabit card to give you for > throughput? > Anyone have real world answers for that stuff? When I worked on Tru64 Unix (yeah, I know, not Intel, not AMD, not Linux, but was using PCI-??), I was able to saturate GbE with NFS traffic, at least reading from t

Re: Linux Exchange server replacement.

2007-06-14 Thread Drew Van Zandt
There's also PostPath. Here is the extent of my knowledge of it: http://www.postpath.com/ --DTVZ On 6/14/07, Travis Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed and tested Zimbra.. It didn't have support for a few > things we needed at the time (like truly shared calendars). It's my > understand

Re: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? OT: PC Gigabit Through put Question

2007-06-14 Thread Paul Lussier
"Tom Buskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On top of that, if hdparm says timed disk writes are around 40MB, what >> could you see for sustained download speeds? Maybe a static cached >> webpage could saturate a gig connection, sustained 5 gig http download >> couldn't right? >> >> Anyone have rea

Re: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card?

2007-06-14 Thread Paul Lussier
"Tom Buskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It needs to be PCI > I'm running Fedora with Fedora kernels and don't want to compile drivers. > > What do people use, see as fast/compatible? We've standardized on Intel's chipset. Most of these on the motherboard, but a few systems which need 3 nics h