Re: Any Mono Developers on this list?

2009-11-04 Thread Darrell Michaud
I've actually been impressed at how stable and featured it is, in the limited window where I have interacted with it. I ported a C# app which needed to use a specific .net DLL library to ironpython on mono, and it went smoothly with no platform issues. I used standard text editors and occasionally

Re: VPN over SSL /w UDP?

2009-10-09 Thread Darrell Michaud
I suppose I am confused why your VPS provider would charge 10$ more for openvpn access. If it is a real VPS, just run openvpn yourself in UDP mode, on a non-standard port if you have to. If you're not allowed to do that, it's not much of a VPS! ___

Re: Enabling Virtual Machine support

2009-09-28 Thread Darrell Michaud
Just to round out the thread.. As people have already stated, the intel VT optimizations are not required to support virtualization, or even hypervisors. Vmware ESX is an example of a decent hypervisor that does not require these CPU capabilities to be present. KVM on the other hand requires

Re: Enabling Virtual Machine support

2009-09-28 Thread Darrell Michaud
That's a good clarification. I thought it was important to stress that there are well-performing 32bit x86 guest virtualization hypervisors out there that do not require intel VT or AMD-V, such as VMware's ESX 3.5, ESXi 3.5, workstation products, and current versions of Sun's Virtualbox. For

Re: Tuning ext3 for a FC SAN?

2008-12-09 Thread Darrell Michaud
With that much performance difference, it's unlikely the filesystem is responsible. You might try making a single LUN available with one of the disks (not the 96 disk RAID) as a reference point and run raw bandwidth tests again. HBA Drivers, switch configuration, and fiber cables are normally

Re: YDL (RHAT) etc/sysconfig/desktop

2008-11-14 Thread Darrell Michaud
You may wish to consider not using a window manager at all. You may be able to do everything you need on an ssh console. Or if you must run something graphical, you may be able to use X11 forwarding over SSH back to your normal desktop. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get vnc-server

Re: ethtool/nic question

2008-10-07 Thread Darrell Michaud
, is there a way to set the NIC's back to their normal mode. Are the setting for ethtool persistent? # ethtool -s ethX autoneg on ? Anything else? -Bruce Darrell Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/06/2008 01:45:09 PM: I'm sure there's other advice out there but I'll throw in: Don't

Re: ethtool/nic question

2008-10-06 Thread Darrell Michaud
I'm sure there's other advice out there but I'll throw in: Don't change the linux broadcom or intel gig-E ethernet drivers from their defaults without a specifically documented reason. They will autonegotiate to 1000 when possible under normal circumstances. Check your wiring, your switch, your

Re: How do I diagnose this?

2008-10-03 Thread Darrell Michaud
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I first used my browser in linux, it challenged me. I provided the correct credentials and was able to access the net. As others have said a clean fix is to configure your services like yum and ftp (use a graphical client for easiest configuration) to use

Re: Questions about Ubuntu

2008-09-18 Thread Darrell Michaud
Bruce Labitt wrote: Ubuntu uses a different package manager, does it really matter? My feeling is that too much is made of this. I use RPM based distributions and DEB based distributions interchangeably during the day. From a high level user's perspective there is no real difference. There's

Re: Ubuntu

2008-09-18 Thread Darrell Michaud
Bruce Labitt wrote: Seriously, now. Why Ubuntu vs straight Debian? Ubuntu has worked at making the average-user experience easier, is that it? I seem to recall you were unsatisfied with a RHEL derived distribution because of the slower release cycle and difficulty accessing late-breaking

Re: Fedora

2008-09-18 Thread Darrell Michaud
Fedora is very much a bleeding edge distribution. It usually has the most late-breaking versions of packages. It is not unheard of to find pre-release or beta versions, sometimes against the original upstream source's wishes. It also tends to be a showcase of ideas

Re: Is this a good idea - upgrade python?

2008-09-15 Thread Darrell Michaud
I've had excellent luck installing new versions of python alongside whatever comes with the distribution. This insures nothing in the distribution breaks, while giving you as a developer access to late breaking features. Redhat-esque distributions have a pattern of renaming the python executable

RE: Linux network behavior wierdness

2008-09-05 Thread Darrell Michaud
There also might be a tiny possibility that the infrastructure switches are filtering or otherwise interfering with the broadcast ping. It might we worth testing with with a single dumb switch, or even a crossover cable. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Lan + DMZ + LargeNumOfFiles = headaches AKA: plz halp and donate ur brain!!

2008-09-05 Thread Darrell Michaud
Using rsync or unisom or any of the improvements on top of rsync as a direct replacement for FTP would be a low-hanging fruit improvement. Tunneling it over an encrypted layer such as SSH improves security as well. You're absolutely right that if you have a cluster of machines in the DMZ, a more

Re: experimental xserver q

2008-08-29 Thread Darrell Michaud
Is there something that you're looking for that hasn't been packaged yet in a mainstream distribution? It saves a lot of time if you can just upgrade your distribution's binary packages instead of custom compiling. If you must compile a custom version, use your distribution's source packages and

Re: Gimme that old time interface...

2007-11-14 Thread Darrell Michaud
Star said: ... My question here is this: What are users here using if they shy away from all of the main-stream (can that be said with Linux yet?) desktops and go for that One Off style ... It's still probably too mainstream compared to fvwm, but I just want something simple with a low,

Re: RFC: VMWare talk for MerriLUG Nov meeting

2006-10-20 Thread Darrell Michaud
Shawn K. O'Shea said: The comments I'm requesting are for exactly what things people about VMWare and/or virtualization that people would like to here about so I can tailor the talk. It may not be technical enough for the audience, but IMHO the killer feature of the free VMware solutions

Re: Spam and mailing lists

2006-10-19 Thread Darrell Michaud
I'm now using postfix + blacklists + spamassassin in daemon mode for server side filtering. I've found that the blacklists are moderately effective, the strict verification rules you can put into postfix are very effective, and spamassassin out of the box is not that effective. On the client side

Re: Laptop OS Virtualization?

2006-04-11 Thread Darrell Michaud
I'm doing this on two laptops.. One is running Fedora Core 5 x76-64, and occasionally hosts 32bit WinXP-pro VMs using VMware's free beta server. It works well, and has good network options, albeit with some command-line configuration. The other is running WinXP-pro 32bit, and uses Microsoft's

Re: Bootable partitions

2006-03-13 Thread Darrell Michaud
I think that the bootable flag is used to help the BIOS guess where to look for boot code if it's not in the MBR. If you put a boot loader on the MBR, you can ignore this flag. Paul Lussier said: Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think it matters, not if you have LILO or GRUB