From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:08:57 -0400
Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark)
Date: 28 Jun 2007 17:22:22 -0400
From: Joe Redshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [NH Jobs List] Job:
If you are interested, please e-mail me a formal resume attached to
a Word Document and then we can set up a time to speak. If you know
Is this a joke? Is this solicitation meant seriously?
By Word Document they usually mean something I can open in Word,
that's formatted, and I can run my
Free software is for everyone, not just nerds and geeks.
If someone can use Word, they can use free replacements such as OpenOffice.org.
For companies, it does not make sense to spend money on proprietary software,
especially when free replacements are already available.
What bothers me about this is...
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Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hope he didn't subscribe our jobs list to nhjobslist.com! (I guess
we'll find out if he did).
No, he did not.
I simply manually forwarded this mail to the gnhlug-jobs list, because
I genuinely thought that somebody subscribed to this list might find
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 05:29 -0700, Lori Nagel wrote:
Free software is for everyone, not just nerds and geeks. If someone
can use Word, they can use free replacements such as OpenOffice.org.
For companies, it does not make sense to spend money on proprietary
software, especially when free
Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hope he didn't subscribe our jobs list to nhjobslist.com! (I guess
we'll find out if he did).
No, he did not.
I simply manually forwarded this mail to the gnhlug-jobs list, because
I genuinely thought that somebody
Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
I think you are free to ignore those ads, but I would hate to block a
potential job for a FOSS person just because the format requested is not
open. I think that choice should be up to the potential applicant.
I will also note that OO both reads and writes .doc
I asked for a quote on a server yesterday from our hardware provider, and the
sales guy told me about a great new deal. For the same price as a Dual Core,
2 Ghz Xeon processor, I can get a Quad Core 1.6ghz Xeon processor. My first
impression was four must be better than two, but is it really?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Looking for help they are indeed. For starters, someone should
(politely, if necessary) inform Mr. R[] that Linux is not a
Windows program...
I volunteer *you* and the other poster who suggested that we should
disallow job postings that asked for resumes in
On 6/29/07, Warren Luebkeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I asked for a quote on a server yesterday from our hardware provider, and
the
sales guy told me about a great new deal. For the same price as a Dual
Core,
2 Ghz Xeon processor, I can get a Quad Core 1.6ghz Xeon processor. My
first
On Friday 29 June 2007 10:08 am, Tom Buskey wrote:
On 6/29/07, Warren Luebkeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I asked for a quote on a server yesterday from our hardware provider, and
the
sales guy told me about a great new deal. For the same price as a Dual
Core,
2 Ghz Xeon processor, I
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A few points:
The Macintosh community had debates in the past about SMP vs single.
Generally they think a dual 500 MHz is roughly like a single 700MHz. From
that subjective information, I'd say more cores that are slightly slower are
better.
This is
Let me add my own 2 cents re comparing FOSS and MS software:
I personally have been using linux on and off since the mid 1990's when I
started attending GNHLUG then MonadLUG meetings 1995-2002 or so...
I now live in western NY near Rochester NY now, after several years spent
moving from
Warren Luebkeman wrote:
I asked for a quote on a server yesterday from our hardware provider, and the
sales guy told me about a great new deal. For the same price as a Dual Core,
2 Ghz Xeon processor, I can get a Quad Core 1.6ghz Xeon processor. My first
impression was four must be better
Warren,
These days the Linux kernel scales fairly linearly for eight processors,
so the real questions are:
o on the eight-core system, how often would you keep the fifth to eighth
core busy?
o on the four-core system, how often would you have processes in the run
queue looking for a processors
Derek Atkins wrote:
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A few points:
The Macintosh community had debates in the past about SMP vs single.
Generally they think a dual 500 MHz is roughly like a single 700MHz. From
that subjective information, I'd say more cores that are slightly
Slashdot just mentioned this review of various processors:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q2/pricevperf/index.x?pg=1
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Are you speaking from theory, or experience?
I've got a good proportion of our company on Mac's now (not linux,
but it illustrates a point). While the transitions have been fairly
painless, even with Office for Mac it is a less than ideal process.
People are used to doing things a certain
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:53:05 -0400
Warren Luebkeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I asked for a quote on a server yesterday from our hardware provider, and the
sales guy told me about a great new deal. For the same price as a Dual Core,
2 Ghz Xeon processor, I can get a Quad Core 1.6ghz Xeon
Quoting Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Most of the previous posts have pretty well answered most everything.
As Maddog points out, Linux scales well up to 8 CPUs, but much work is
being done with 32, 64, and 128 by IBM, HP, and SGI. In your case,
it's not so much that you are going to
On 6/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Most of the previous posts have pretty well answered most everything.
As Maddog points out, Linux scales well up to 8 CPUs, but much work is
being done with 32, 64, and 128 by IBM, HP, and SGI.
Lori Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Free software is for everyone, not just nerds and geeks. If
someone can use Word, they can use free replacements such as
OpenOffice.org. For companies, it does not make sense to spend
money on proprietary software, especially when free
On Friday 29 June 2007 1:27 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:53:05 -0400
Warren Luebkeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I asked for a quote on a server yesterday from our hardware provider, and
the sales guy told me about a great new deal. For the same price as a
Dual Core, 2
On Friday 29 June 2007 11:58 am, Christopher Chisholm wrote:
Derek Atkins wrote:
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A few points:
The Macintosh community had debates in the past about SMP vs single.
Generally they think a dual 500 MHz is roughly like a single 700MHz.
From that
On Jun 29, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Paul Lussier wrote:
Lori Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Free software is for everyone, not just nerds and geeks. If
someone can use Word, they can use free replacements such as
OpenOffice.org. For companies, it does not make sense to spend
money on
Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Jun 29, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Paul Lussier wrote:
However, many people use computers to get a job done, and they have
spent 15 or 20 *years* learning a particular environment. It makes
even *less* sense for them to throw out that 15 or 20 years of
This is the motherboard I'm looking at:
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/s5000PSL/index.htm
Here is the info on the front side bus. It says 1066 / 1333ยน MHz dual
independent buses, which sounds pretty good. What do you guys think?
Since we are on the subject of servers, I am now dealing with an issue that I
always face when using a new server configuration: Is the RAID Card
supported in Linux? I usually like to go with Adaptec RAID cards because
they provide Linux driver sources so we can compile the driver ourselves.
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:19:23 -0400
Warren Luebkeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to the salesman the Quad Core has more cache, so I guess I'm good
there.
You can always look up the size either on Intel or the Tech Report
article has some listed.
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:50:43 -0400
Warren Luebkeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is the motherboard I'm looking at:
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/s5000PSL/index.htm
Unless I read it wrong, this board takes a single multi-core CPU.
--
Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boston
On 6/29/07, Warren Luebkeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm wondering if you know of any hardware companies that sell server
configurations that have REAL Linux support, which basically means all
the hardware will work with any Linux distro, vs. just Redhat and
Suse? It would be great to be able
On 6/29/07, Warren Luebkeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since we are on the subject of servers, I am now dealing with an issue
that I
always face when using a new server configuration: Is the RAID Card
supported in Linux? I usually like to go with Adaptec RAID cards because
they provide Linux
Why does their ignorance of file formats constiture them as being a
goof? Can you explain the difference between the EFA and the MSCI
EAFE ? If not, does that make you a goof? Just because someone is
ignorant of something is not a license to deride them or call them
names. Please think
Coincidently I have ordered servers from Thinkmate before, they are who I used
to use. I may just switch back for that reason.
It doesn't look like 3Ware has an SAS RAID card for sale yet. However, from
Thinkmate I can still buy SCSI cards (Bytespeed doesn't sell them anymore),
so I could
At 9:13 AM -0400 6/29/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
I will also note that OO both reads and writes .doc format.
Indeed, it reads .doc format a heck of a lot better than it reads
.rtf format generated by Word.
--Ray
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Raymond Cote
Appropriate Solutions, Inc.
PO Box 458 ~ Peterborough, NH
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On 6/29/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used to be all for hardware raid but my thinking has changed over the
years. I prefer software RAID that the OS supports w/o extra drivers
There's no doubt that both have their pluses and minuses.
On 6/29/07, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why does their ignorance of file formats constiture them as being a
goof? Can you explain the difference between the EFA and the MSCI
EAFE ? If not, does that make you a goof? Just because someone is
ignorant of something is not a
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Date: 29 Jun 2007 16:05:17 -0700
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Ben Scott wrote:
Define access his office network.
After all, it's unlikely your client actually cares about his office
network, per se. What he really wants is probably something like
open these Excel spreadsheets and Word docs, or do QuickBooks data
entry or similar things.
On 6/29/07, Warren Luebkeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have setup a software RAID once in Debian, however I was under the
impression that hardware raid was the way to go because the recovery is
better. I'm using RAID 1, so I need to make sure the system doesn't go
down
if a hard drive
On 6/29/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Define access his office network.
Exactly the response I needed, thanks.
You never did answer my question. What is this guy looking to *do*?
That being said, I find OpenVPN does really, really well. It's
really easy to install.
Define
On 6/29/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Software RAID in Linux handles this quite well.
The process was:
* see the drive fail in logs
One thing I liked about the MegaRAID setups we had was that the steps were:
Hear loud beeping coming from the buzzer on the card
Note flashing red
Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was speaking of my experience of recruiters I've dealt with, both
looking for, and applying for jobs. They tend to have no idea what
they're doing and throw as many people at as many jobs as possible.
These people, in my opinion, are goofs. You talk to
On 6/29/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/29/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Software RAID in Linux handles this quite well.
The process was:
* see the drive fail in logs
One thing I liked about the MegaRAID setups we had was that the steps
were:
Hear loud beeping
Paul Lussier wrote:
Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was speaking of my experience of recruiters I've dealt with, both
looking for, and applying for jobs. They tend to have no idea what
they're doing and throw as many people at as many jobs as possible.
These people, in my opinion, are
On Jun 28, 2007, at 15:45, Ted Roche wrote:
Has anyone got recommendations other than the OpenVPN Ken showed off,
horror stories, great experiences?
I just replaced my DD-WRT box with a pfSense (FreeBSD/m0n0wall-
derived) box last night to accomplish a similar task. I've installed
several
On Jun 28, 2007, at 18:22, Ben Scott wrote:
Tunneling TCP/IP over TCP (with or without a VPN) can be a
performance disaster.
Somebody wrote a considered harmful paper about this once on the
net and everybody believes him. On the other hand, I've built a
product using this kind of
On Jun 29, 2007, at 13:27, Jerry Feldman wrote:
The 1.6Ghz vs. 2.0 Ghz is
minuscule, but make sure you don't get less cache.
Yeah, what Jerry said - and make sure you're not losing memory bus
speed either. I've been shocked how important memory speed is to
tasks like this. I'd probably
On Jun 29, 2007, at 17:06, Tom Buskey wrote:
What if the RAID card dies? Can you get a replacement that can
read the
RAID disks you have now?
Well, that's the real trick, now isn't it?
In high-uptime-requirement sites, I require one of the following:
* cluster of servers
* software
On 6/29/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 28, 2007, at 15:45, Ted Roche wrote:
I just replaced my DD-WRT box with a pfSense (FreeBSD/m0n0wall-
derived) box last night to accomplish a similar task. I've installed
several for commercial accounts. It even does hot failover.
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