Re: OLPC Crisis: Customer Data Lost

2008-02-22 Thread Kent Johnson
Bill McGonigle wrote: > Update. I got this e-mail: > >> Dear Donor, >> >> Please accept my apologies for the delay in receiving your XO >> laptop. Give One Get One was such a phenomenal success that we >> over-taxed our order processing and payment systems. Demand >> exceeded supply.A

Re: Lower power portable Linux

2008-02-22 Thread Bob King
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:08 PM, mike ledoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had scripts to successfully 'hibernate' (suspend to disk) > my laptops for years, working at least as far back as 2.4-series > kernels. I have yet to see suspend to RAM work on Linux anywhere. > > I fit that descripti

Re: OLPC Crisis: Customer Data Lost

2008-02-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
Update. I got this e-mail: > Dear Donor, > > Please accept my apologies for the delay in receiving your XO > laptop. Give One Get One was such a phenomenal success that we > over-taxed our order processing and payment systems. Demand > exceeded supply.Additional XO laptops are being b

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:00, Arc Riley wrote: > msnbot accesses robots.txt more than any other > search engine (seconded by Yahoo! Slurp). I had an e-commerce client DoS'ed by MSNBot during the holiday season. It was downloading 40GB of dynamic pages per day, for a site with 4GB of possible da

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-22 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 08:00 -0800, Bayard Coolidge wrote: > So, I went back and attempted to configure Fedora 8 for wireless. > After > a couple of weeks of poking around, I came to the conclusion that it > ain't gonna work - it seems that that the 2.6.23 kernel series just > won't > work with ndis

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-22 Thread Bayard Coolidge
I've been fighting ndiswrapper problems recently as well. My laptop is an HP dv9000z (2GHz AMDx2, 2GB memory, two 80GB drives, GeForce 6150 [I think]) and its wireless card is the infamous Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN MiniPCI (rev.01) which uses the Broadcom 4311 Chipset. I have GRUB stuffed on my fir

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-22 Thread andrew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From: "amc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:15:59 -0500 >> > > >> yes ndiswrapper is patched the /usr/src/linux from the gentoo ebuild. >> when you emerge ndiswrapper it looks at the kernel source and patchs it to >> the kernel. >> then you ca

Re: kernel bug

2008-02-22 Thread VirginSnow
> From: "amc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:15:59 -0500 > yes ndiswrapper is patched the /usr/src/linux from the gentoo ebuild. > when you emerge ndiswrapper it looks at the kernel source and patchs it to > the kernel. > then you can load the ndiswrapper as a module Yuck. _

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week

2008-02-22 Thread Bill Sconce
Hello fellow Pythonistas - Next Thursday is cookie ^h^h, er PySIG night once again. Specials are in the works, I'm told. Agenda to follow. Rumor has it, CSVs with Ray, maybe, Data Types redux with Bill (only kidding), debrief on the Presidential primary recount (Howard still lost), a source for

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-22 Thread Ted Roche
Paul Lussier wrote: > "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> In particular, remember Hanlon's razor. > > Does that have more or less blades than the competing Occam's Razor? > And how do either of those compare with Vipul's Razor? > > And are *any* of those better than the Motorola Razr?