Re: Linux RAID management utilities?

2007-09-24 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >"rebuild the raid arrays with missing members based on UUID", etc. > > mdadm seems to have the proper verbs, but needs something to feed it > nouns. Wouldn't it just be something like: mdadm /dev/md0 --assemble --uuid= /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 ... -

GPLV3 webcast

2007-09-24 Thread Don Leslie
BlackDuck software recently did a webcast on GPLV3. It can be found on their web page at http://blackducksoftware.com/resources/presentations . This was done by a Lawyer and should be of interest. It runs 55 min. Don ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gn

[GNHLUG] NHRuby.org Meeting TOMORROW, Sep 25: Live Coding Session, Part II.

2007-09-24 Thread Scott Garman
Tomorrow's NH Ruby/Rails User Group meeting will include a continuation of the live coding project Nick Plante and Scott Garman started during the July meeting. This project was to develop a web application where group members could submit proposed topics for future meetings, and vote on their favo

Re: OLPC: Buy one, send one to the third-world

2007-09-24 Thread Ted Roche
Bruce Dawson wrote: > Or, you can get a Koolu for $300. It has both Ubuntu and OLPC on it. > > see http://www.koolu.com/ Yes, the koolu is already on the Xmas wish list, although not for Sugar, but as a MythTV front-end. I've already got Sugar running on a Fedora ThinkPad via qemu: http://wiki.

Re: OLPC: Buy one, send one to the third-world

2007-09-24 Thread Ted Roche
ill McGonigle wrote: > On Sep 24, 2007, at 10:39, Ted Roche wrote: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org/msg14392.html Yep, I remember that post. I pledged, too. > Sweet, I know what Emma's getting for Christmas! Emma? You mean, they're for kids, too? Hmmm... wonder if

Re: Monitoring memory use

2007-09-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:35:59 -0400 Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 21, 2007, at 09:44, Kent Johnson wrote: > > > I was hoping for a utility that would wrap the process in some way and > > report the high-water memory use of the process. Oh well... > > That sounds something

Re: OOo background color - Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 20 Sep, OpenOffice Styles - for groff fans and real people too

2007-09-24 Thread Tom Buskey
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping Kinda outdated when firefox takes 241MB and systems generally don't swap. On 9/22/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Komarinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1.4MB!?! The Horror! My gnome-terminal (with 4 windows open) is > > 345MB.

Re: Linux RAID management utilities?

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Charron
On 9/24/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mdadm seems to have the proper verbs, but needs something to feed it > nouns. Aren't the nouns you'd use for mdadm defined in mdadm.conf? -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-disc

Re: OLPC: Buy one, send one to the third-world

2007-09-24 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 24, 2007, at 10:39, Ted Roche wrote: > OLPC is trying a new tactic: buy one to keep, send one to the third > world: Ahem... ;) http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org/ msg14392.html > $399 gets you a *really* cute, *really* innovative OLPC, and in > time for Christ

Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?

2007-09-24 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 24, 2007, at 10:16, Thomas Charron wrote: > Sounds like Thunderbird is doing a WHOLE lot of > custom ownerdrawing and the such. Yeah, anything from Mozilla is going to try to control the horizontal and control the vertical. Do not adjust your xorg.conf. :P So, VNC isn't a bad solution,

Re: Cell Phone question, maybe not linux specific?

2007-09-24 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/24/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When we raised these concerns with the manager of the local sales >> office, his response was that we should not be trying to >> nickel-and-dime them on everything, since after all, they've got the >> best network in the country. > > And ba

Linux RAID management utilities?

2007-09-24 Thread Bill McGonigle
Somebody stop me before I start writing some code here I'm getting the itch to have something that understands /proc/ mdstat, /proc/paritions, RAID UUID's, /sys/block/md*, etc., and lets me easily say: "rebuild the raid arrays with missing members based on UUID", etc. mdadm seems to h

Re: OLPC: Buy one, send one to the third-world

2007-09-24 Thread Dan Jenkins
Bruce Dawson wrote: > Ted Roche wrote: > >> OLPC is trying a new tactic: buy one to keep, send one to the third >> world: $399 gets you a *really* cute, *really* innovative OLPC, and in >> time for Christmas. >> >> http://www.xogiving.org/ >> > Or, you can get a Koolu for $300. It has bot

Re: OLPC: Buy one, send one to the third-world

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Charron
On 9/24/07, Seth Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, and they even have a familiar name as CTO: > http://www.koolu.com/content/blogcategory/16/249/ > > Or, you can get a Koolu for $300. It has both Ubuntu and OLPC on it. > > see http://www.koolu.com/ Reading this line: "As Linus would say, "

Re: OLPC: Buy one, send one to the third-world

2007-09-24 Thread Seth Cohn
Hey, and they even have a familiar name as CTO: http://www.koolu.com/content/blogcategory/16/249/ > Or, you can get a Koolu for $300. It has both Ubuntu and OLPC on it. > > see http://www.koolu.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gn

Re: OLPC: Buy one, send one to the third-world

2007-09-24 Thread Bruce Dawson
Ted Roche wrote: > OLPC is trying a new tactic: buy one to keep, send one to the third > world: $399 gets you a *really* cute, *really* innovative OLPC, and in > time for Christmas. > > http://www.xogiving.org/ > Or, you can get a Koolu for $300. It has both Ubuntu and OLPC on it. see http://ww

Re: Cell Phone question, maybe not linux specific?

2007-09-24 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 22, 2007, at 13:39, Ben Scott wrote: > When we raised these concerns with the manager of the local sales > office, his response was that we should not be trying to > nickel-and-dime them on everything, since after all, they've got the > best network in the country. And basically correct

OLPC: Buy one, send one to the third-world

2007-09-24 Thread Ted Roche
OLPC is trying a new tactic: buy one to keep, send one to the third world: $399 gets you a *really* cute, *really* innovative OLPC, and in time for Christmas. http://www.xogiving.org/ -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com __

Re: Monitoring memory use

2007-09-24 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 21, 2007, at 09:44, Kent Johnson wrote: > I was hoping for a utility that would wrap the process in some way and > report the high-water memory use of the process. Oh well... That sounds something like a profiler. Sorry, not a specific recommendation, but perhaps an extra Google keywor

Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?

2007-09-24 Thread Thomas Charron
On 9/24/07, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a quick followup. Ben wrote: > >Use a protocol more suited to high-latency links. > >VNC is a common choice for X stuff. > ...and I want to confirm that VNC is indeed able to > push the bits efficiently enough that Thunderbird is > now

[GNHLUG] CentraLUG, NEXT MONDAY, 1-October-2007, Concord: Michael Kazin on Nagios

2007-09-24 Thread Ted Roche
The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central NH GNHLUG chapter, happens the first Monday of most months at the New Hampshire Technical Institute's Library, room 146, at 7 PM. Next month's meeting is on October 1st at 7 PM. Directions and maps are available at http://www.centralug.org Open

Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?

2007-09-24 Thread Michael ODonnell
Just a quick followup. Ben wrote: >Use a protocol more suited to high-latency links. >VNC is a common choice for X stuff. ...and I want to confirm that VNC is indeed able to push the bits efficiently enough that Thunderbird is now tolerable. As I mentioned, some other X apps seem to work OK