Re: Friday afternoon hardware questions

2008-01-23 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 23, 2008, at 22:05, Ben Scott wrote: > Perhaps not. From what I've read, there is a standard way to > connect multiple logical devices in a single SATA cable. This > facilitates a device called a "SATA port multiplier". You have run a > single (e)SATA cable from the host adapter to the

Re: Friday afternoon hardware questions

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Jan 23, 2008 6:07 PM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've also heard of multiport(path?) where 1 SATA port goes to 4-5 devices. > > Yeah, like Jarod said, this is just 4x4 (e.)SATA. Perhaps not. From what I've read, there is a standard way to connect multiple logical devices in

Re: Friday afternoon hardware questions

2008-01-23 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 23, 2008, at 08:42, Tom Buskey wrote: > I've also heard of multiport(path?) where 1 SATA port goes to 4-5 > devices. > Does Linux have device drivers for it? I know Solaris does not and > MacOSX > does. Yeah, like Jarod said, this is just 4x4 (e.)SATA. I think I've seen a multilan

Re: Transparent SMTP proxies?

2008-01-23 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 23, 2008, at 08:41, Ben Scott wrote: > You could configure your SMTP relay to accept any authentication > attempt (regardless of credentials) from IP addresses on/behind the > router. Hmmm. Thinking further on it, though, it would have other > problems. In particular, it breaks SPF, Se

Re: Friday afternoon hardware questions

2008-01-23 Thread Chip Marshall
On January 23, 2008, Jarod Wilson sent me the following: > On Wednesday 23 January 2008 08:42:10 am Tom Buskey wrote: > > I've also heard of multiport(path?) where 1 SATA port goes to 4-5 devices. > > Does Linux have device drivers for it? I know Solaris does not and MacOSX > > does. > > Are you

Re: Friday afternoon hardware questions

2008-01-23 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 08:42:10 am Tom Buskey wrote: > On Jan 22, 2008 3:47 PM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not too bad - I have a 6' e.SATA cable on one of my drives. The > > connectors are the worst of any technology I've ever seen - has > > anybody here solved this?

Re: VMWare alternative.

2008-01-23 Thread Tom Buskey
On Jan 22, 2008 5:19 PM, Scott Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With all this discussion of VMWare, I thought I'd mention that there is > a fully open source alternative to it that I just discovered. It's > called VirtualBox: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/ > > I've been using it alongside with

Re: VMWare alternative.

2008-01-23 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:19:27 -0500 Scott Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With all this discussion of VMWare, I thought I'd mention that there is > a fully open source alternative to it that I just discovered. It's > called VirtualBox: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/ > > I've been using it a

Re: Friday afternoon hardware questions

2008-01-23 Thread Tom Buskey
On Jan 22, 2008 3:47 PM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not too bad - I have a 6' e.SATA cable on one of my drives. The > connectors are the worst of any technology I've ever seen - has > anybody here solved this? I think the multilink cables are better - > infiniband connect

Re: Transparent SMTP proxies?

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Jan 22, 2008 8:53 PM, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Use IPtables to intercept all >> TCP/25 traffic and redirect it to your existing SMTP relay server. > > I think this will hose up anybody configured to do SMTP AUTH if it > runs through a 'regular' SMTP relay. You could config

Re: VMWare alternative.

2008-01-23 Thread Sarunas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Garman wrote: > With all this discussion of VMWare, I thought I'd mention that there is > a fully open source alternative to it that I just discovered. It's > called VirtualBox: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/ > > I've been using it alongside

[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2008-02-07 - Where Penguins Dare to Roam

2008-01-23 Thread Bill McGonigle
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