Re: howto: CVS server on FC2

2004-08-03 Thread Derek Atkins
gt; This little command is not mentioned frequently, but saves you from > having to reboot the machine after changes are made. (I really hate > tutorials that say: "Then restart xinetd" with no mention of how to do > that.) > > - Greg > _

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-11 Thread Derek Atkins
Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Add this to the end of your sendmail.mc > > Anyone know what the postfix fix is? Yeah. Install sendmail. ;) > Seeya, > Paul -derek -- Derek Atki

Re: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge -- InformationWeek

2008-05-15 Thread Derek Atkins
ommands, but at least the Ubuntu package doesn't > actually add those rules to any of the rc startup files. :-D I use swatch for this.. I wrote a set of swatch scripts that automatically block IP Addresses after the first failed login. Works great! (except when real users forget their use

Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-04 Thread Derek Atkins
ble cross-platform. Ideally it would be a stand-alone application > not requiring any installation of libs, DLLs, etc. > > Anyone know of such a beast? Have you looked at Namazu? > Thanks, > > Brian -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Lab

Re: Firefox 3 AwesomeBar

2008-06-20 Thread Derek Atkins
s "special". So typing 'gnh' would pull "www.gnhlug.org" but not, e.g., "home.gnhlug.org". -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIP

Re: mythtv and digital tv

2008-07-24 Thread Derek Atkins
s, either in their on-wire > digital format (very rare) or out the firewire port on an hd cable box > (only slightly less rare than the prior loophole). Unfortunately that's not exactly true either. At least on RCN I can get more HD over-the-air than I can via unencrypted QAM. -der

Re: mythtv and digital tv

2008-07-25 Thread Derek Atkins
encrypt your QAM and you could just plug an HD-Homerun directly into your cable. *sighs* > -- Ben -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/

Re: Looking for people's experience with po files.

2008-09-10 Thread Derek Atkins
uot; msgstr "Hola %s, usted tiene esperar de %d mensajes.\n" Note that I don't know how well this would work in a bash script, but I think there is a gettext(1) that you can use. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Stu

Re: Ubuntu

2008-09-19 Thread Derek Atkins
till need to download and install skype, but according to http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/choose/ you can get skype for Ubuntu 7.04+ > -Bruce -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board

Re: Renaming Directories

2008-09-23 Thread Derek Atkins
'mv' > # mv /mnt/store mnt/store.old would create a new directory full of > files, wouldn't it? Nope, mv is just a wrapper around "rename(1)". > -Bruce -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member

Re: Upgrade guidance

2008-10-21 Thread Derek Atkins
on backtrace? Anyways, I've successfully used yum on multiple systems to upgrade. But I always go one step at a time. Most recently I took one machine from F7 -> 8 -> 9. Unfortunately I suspect I'll have a hard time bringing my FC3 system up to date that way. ;) -dere

Re: Upgrade guidance

2008-10-21 Thread Derek Atkins
mike ledoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:40:50PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: >> But I always go one step at a time. Most recently I took one >> machine from F7 -> 8 -> 9. Unfortunately I suspect I'll have >> a hard time brin

Re: Upgrade guidance

2008-10-21 Thread Derek Atkins
a higher NVR. The one I remember was frysk. IIRC the problem was that the F8 updates had package release -2, but the F9 repo only had -1. It could have just been a mirror timing issue, but it was still a PITA to deal with. Packager errors still happen. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB &#

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-17 Thread Derek Atkins
What are your requirements for business accounting software? What's your definition of "adequate"? > Any opinions? I use GnuCash for my consulting company, and for my personal books. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member,

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-17 Thread Derek Atkins
e payroll or payroll taxes. Those still had to be > done manually. Again, the version which I was using must now be at > least three years old. Wow, yeah, things have definitely changed in three years.. However there is still no payroll automation. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-17 Thread Derek Atkins
Jerry Feldman writes: > GNUCash is not really an accounting system. Others have listed Why do you say this? What makes something an "accounting system"? -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-17 Thread Derek Atkins
Books". > > I'm installing it now. Um, it's had invoicing and A/R support since 2001. So it must've been a long time since you looked. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processin

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-17 Thread Derek Atkins
entry method, but it's there. GnuCash also has P&L. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@m

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-17 Thread Derek Atkins
se features. > > /me looks for warlord... /me pops up > Derek Atkins was one of the primary developers of Gnucash, and he used > to be subscribed to this list. Maybe he could shed some light on > this. I'm still here. Just was offline all weekend so just catching up now (as y

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-17 Thread Derek Atkins
rested in this topic (or better yet, interested in implementing it!) to join that list and bring it up there. Thanks! -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/war

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-18 Thread Derek Atkins
er the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1N

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-25 Thread Derek Atkins
ich can be applied to anything which can > have a fluctuating currency value. > > FWIW, 'ledger' makes this fairly simple. And it uses emacs as an > interface to boot, which makes it even better in my mind ;) -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95

Re: Building / Buying a MythTV box

2009-04-14 Thread Derek Atkins
use included. Interesting machine! Inexpensive. Small. Nice design. How quiet is it? Jarod, what do you use for your mythtv remote control on this device? I think that's the only piece of external hardware I'd need. Also, which video output do you use? Thanks, -derek -- Derek A

Re: Mythtv users + Comcast subscribers

2009-06-01 Thread Derek Atkins
Dan Ritter writes: > I compiled it and tried it out, although I'm not on Comcast. It > doesn't appear that RCN uses the same scheme. Last I checked RCN doesn't provide any unencrypted QAM channels, except the local non-HD stations. Not very interesting, IMHO. -derek --

Re: Linux-compatible scanner with ADF

2009-06-08 Thread Derek Atkins
for a SANE price (ha ha), I would much appreciate any pointers! I have an HP All-in-One and it works great. > Thanks! -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://

Re: Make Q's

2009-09-17 Thread Derek Atkins
truct: > > CC=g++ > CCOPTS= > INCLUDES= > DEPS= > > %.o: %.cpp $(DEPS) > $(CC) -c $< $(CCOPTS) $(INCLUDES) > > This will process all .cpp files with the rule? But it would also process all .c files with g++ which probably isn't what you want. >

Re: Make Q's

2009-09-18 Thread Derek Atkins
... -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.edu

Re: Make Q's

2009-09-18 Thread Derek Atkins
d and used 6 > months ago. Where are these three functions defined? Perhaps you need an 'extern "C"' in there so C++ knows how to call the C functions? > Help! > -Bruce -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory

Re: Webmin, was: Re: Linux as a NAS performance questions

2009-09-19 Thread Derek Atkins
icate. It was working for a while but somehow the cert got mangled and now says it's for "*" instead of the domain name in question. I haven't had the time to look into it or try to fix it. *shrugs* -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT

Re: (My) Asterisk bias (Mk. II)

2009-10-16 Thread Derek Atkins
are usually included as a source > package or somesuch.) Have you considered the USB-based POTS interfaces with a Sheeva Plug Asterisk solution? -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)

Re: recording Comcast digital channels with MythTV

2009-11-23 Thread Derek Atkins
ted in receiving digital TV HDTV signals with Linux should > probably take a look at these: > > http://pchdtv.com/ > > These guys are (and have been for a while) actually producing cards > specifically for use Linux. Except it doesn't work with encrypted QAM.. -derek --

Re: recording Comcast digital channels with MythTV

2009-11-25 Thread Derek Atkins
me down in price. Last I was told, > they were in the four figures. Thanks for the link! Keep in mind that even with this device you still need a way to change the channel on the cablebox, so you need an IR blaster or something like that too. > -- Ben -derek -- Derek Atkins, S

Re: recording Comcast digital channels with MythTV

2009-12-03 Thread Derek Atkins
t the IR port works from Linux. I'm glad to hear it does! Does Myth support this yet? -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/P

Re: recording Comcast digital channels with MythTV

2009-12-05 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Jarod Wilson : > On Dec 3, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> Jarod Wilson writes: >> >>>> Keep in mind that even with this device you still need a way to change >>>> the channel on the cablebox, so you need an IR blaster or someth

Re: recording Comcast digital channels with MythTV

2009-12-06 Thread Derek Atkins
it also drives the IR part on the HVR-1600 and > HD-PVR) and significantly updated in my lirc git tree. So I just need to use the lirc_zilog driver, and the version in F11/F12 is already patched for the HD-PVR, so there's nothing I need to build myself? Excellent. That makes my c

Re: recording Comcast digital channels with MythTV

2009-12-15 Thread Derek Atkins
8 > >> Thanks, Jarod > > No problem, always happy to try to help. Ooh, that looks really sweet! So this, an HD-PVR, and a MCE remote! Looks like a great frontend/slave machine! -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Stu

Re: office multi-function printer recommendations

2010-03-15 Thread Derek Atkins
ing via CUPS? > -- Ben -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.edu

Re: another reason to use adblock and noscript... or just use Linux

2010-03-24 Thread Derek Atkins
work out-of-the-box; they need to find a priviledge escalation attack in addition to the user attack in order to hook in. I do agree that we'd see more Linux-targeted attacking if Linux were more prevalent on the desktop, but I think Linux does start as a more secure platform that Windows, s

Re: another reason to use adblock and noscript... or just use Linux

2010-03-24 Thread Derek Atkins
break in, and (when you are not looking) is > going to piss on you. Given a standard-configuration fully-updated Windows box and compare it to a standard-configuration fully-updated Linux box.. The windows machine has significantly more holes in it during standard use. > md -dere

Re: another reason to use adblock and noscript... or just use Linux

2010-03-24 Thread Derek Atkins
ntly more holes in it during standard use. > > You only need one hole. I'm not missing the point. All holes are not created equal. > md -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-05 Thread Derek Atkins
eful >> (and probably nonexistent) Wireshark plugin... > > Yeah, this was tedious. I'm still trying to figure out to generalize > my process. > > I am glad I did this analysis though. Will you share the results once your analysis is done? > Regards, > > --kevin -dere

Re: bogus emails looking for money

2010-04-27 Thread Derek Atkins
t actually do > some good? > > I'll start with ab...@msn.com, but would love to find out about better > alternatives. Mostly you should just tell your friend to change their password.. And check the email addresses linked to their account. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB &#

Re: [OT] CableInside possible spam/scam?

2010-05-14 Thread Derek Atkins
lly if you ever get the "cashier's > check" which is pretty clearly fake. Thank you for your overpayment. I will apply it to the next contract/order. Or I will return it after the work has been completed. Why wire the results back if they didn't wire the funds in the first pl

Re: Web browsers, plugins, stability, processes (was: Recommendations...)

2010-06-16 Thread Derek Atkins
running it since it was in > the "nightly build" stage, for this feature alone. It seems quite > stable at this point -- prolly even more so than 3.6.3, precisely > because of OOPP. Recommended. Unfortunately the vmware-server administration web-console does not interact with

Re: Recommendations...

2010-06-18 Thread Derek Atkins
vironments in order to run (and test) code. Using a cross-compiler doesn't cut it. I also run VMware (Workstation); I'm not sure I could run 64-bit OSes if my host is a 32-bit system. In *general* the 64-bit desktop seems to work okay Except for the fact that it's hard to f

Re: Spam and mailing lists

2006-10-17 Thread Derek Atkins
ry RBL has false positives on there. For example, every once in a while MIT's outbound mailservers get onto an RBL. Good Luck, > -- Ben -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Process

Re: The final solution

2006-10-23 Thread Derek Atkins
liant, either. > Seeya, > Paul -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EM

Re: Tivo vs MythTV (was: *pout* HDTV No Recordee....)

2006-11-07 Thread Derek Atkins
to record my HD programs. I'm hoping that this will improve the experience. We shall see. But I've got nothing but good things to say about it.. And as everyone else has said, having a DVR will totally change the way you watch TV. Hrmmm. -- Ben -derek -- Derek At

Re: MythTV hw question

2006-11-10 Thread Derek Atkins
output a 1080p signal? If so, what EPIA board? If not What do you recommend instead? -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://w

Re: MythTV hw question

2006-11-11 Thread Derek Atkins
ds/mini_itx/epia_en/ > > They've specifically built the board above for HD signal processing, as well > as 5.1 sound. > > Thomas > > On 11/10/06, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Thomas Charron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: MythTV hw question

2006-11-12 Thread Derek Atkins
ted 1920 x 1080 x 4 x 120... -derek Quoting Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I believe the maximum resolution out the VGA pot is 1920x1080. But out of curiosity, what exactly are you asking for? It can easily handle standard HD resolutions. Thomas On 11/11/06, Derek Atkins <

Re: MythTV hw question

2006-11-12 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Jeff Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 11/12/06, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some VGA outs can only get up to 1080i and can't get the throughput of 1080p, especially since I'm asking for nearly 995328000 B/s (unless I've miscalulated 1920 x 1

Re: MythTV hw question

2006-11-13 Thread Derek Atkins
o because I don't own anything HD yet, do most HDTVs > have a VGA port on them? I don't know about "most", but the ones I've been looking at do. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Inform

Re: QEMU ?

2006-11-22 Thread Derek Atkins
#x27;t do. It's limited to 3 hds and a cdrom. Yes, I'm pretty sure you can do this provided you use SCSI emulation for the HDDs and not IDE emulation for the HDDs. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student

Strange PPP Disconnect errors?

2006-12-01 Thread Derek Atkins
1 11:27:47 cliodev pppd[26520]: Waiting for 1 child processes... Dec 1 11:27:47 cliodev pppd[26520]: script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 26630 Dec 1 11:27:47 cliodev pppd[26520]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 26630), status = 0x0 Dec 1 11:27:48 cliodev pppd[26520]: Exit. -- Derek Atk

Re: Strange PPP Disconnect errors?

2006-12-01 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 12/1/06, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dec 1 11:27:47 cliodev pppd[26520]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x19] Dec 1 11:27:47 cliodev pppd[26520]: LCP terminated by peer LCP = Link Control Protocol. The peer (the other end, the

Re: Strange PPP Disconnect errors?

2006-12-01 Thread Derek Atkins
wants but the other doesn't like. -- Ben -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NW

Re: Strange PPP Disconnect errors?

2006-12-01 Thread Derek Atkins
ermAck id=0x3b] Dec 1 14:13:01 cliodev pppd[28921]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 29067), status = 0x0 Dec 1 14:13:01 cliodev pppd[28921]: Modem hangup Dec 1 14:13:01 cliodev pppd[28921]: Connection terminated. Dec 1 14:13:02 cliodev pppd[28921]: Exit. -derek -- Derek Atkins,

Re: Strange PPP Disconnect errors?

2006-12-01 Thread Derek Atkins
that would help any more than the existing PPP debug info. Regards, --kevin -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAI

Re: Strange PPP Disconnect errors?

2006-12-05 Thread Derek Atkins
it's CBCP? Maybe I need a newer version of PPP? I've currently got 2.4.2-6.2.1 on FC5; I can try building the FC6 version which I believe that CBCP support Suggestions? -derek PPP-log2.pcap Description: XP PPP Pcap Log -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM 

Re: Strange PPP Disconnect errors?

2006-12-05 Thread Derek Atkins
huh.. I added the "nomagic" and "noendpoint" configuration options and now it seems to be working. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.

Re: Strange PPP Disconnect errors?

2006-12-05 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting "Kevin D. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Derek Atkins writes: I added the "nomagic" and "noendpoint" configuration options and now it seems to be working. Intellectual curiosity forces me to ask: did you ever check out a pppd that handles CBCP?

Re: Strange PPP Disconnect errors?

2006-12-07 Thread Derek Atkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) writes: > Derek Atkins writes: > >> I was just guessing that CBCP had anything to do with it. The PPPD >> I've got installed theoretically supports CBCP. Yes, the windows capture >> had it, which is why I thought about it.

Re: Looking for an PATA controller card

2007-01-11 Thread Derek Atkins
not to. > > Any help would be great. > > Dan > ___ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Labora

Re: [Fwd: don't we all just love vista?]

2007-01-25 Thread Derek Atkins
convince her to just get the new laptop now and not worry about Vista, but their marketting department is doing a great brainwashing job! > -- Ben -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processin

Re: Linux not allowed to engage in online banking in South Korea?

2007-01-26 Thread Derek Atkins
se my Amex for one thing or two. As for the ATM, I did have to find specific ATMs that would accept my US-based Bank ATM Card. Finding those wasn't TOO hard in Seoul.. But this was a few years ago and my memory is a little fuzzy. md -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM &

Re: HDTV -> Ethernet?

2007-02-07 Thread Derek Atkins
-derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]P

Re: T1 service

2007-02-13 Thread Derek Atkins
-- Thomas -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Koolu.com

2007-02-14 Thread Derek Atkins
about both units is their small size, low power, > and fanless operation which might encourage people to leave their > computer on all the time, so they can receive telephone calls, use it as > an alarm clock, etc. > > md > > _______ &g

Re: Koolu.com

2007-02-14 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Jon 'maddog' Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:42 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: So, can this device decode and display 720p and 1080i HD content? -derek This box is being shown as a front end to MythTV. Koolu would normally recommend their box as part o

Re: Koolu.com

2007-02-14 Thread Derek Atkins
V itself then the answer is no, this isn't an HD MythTV Frontend. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL

Re: Koolu.com

2007-02-14 Thread Derek Atkins
, back to more research to find my HD MythFrontend hardware. md -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROT

Re: Koolu.com

2007-02-14 Thread Derek Atkins
ng you down) should have plenty of bandwidth for an HDTV MPEG stream. HD is only about 9GB/hr -> 9663676416 B/hr -> 21474836bps -> 21mbps This is well within the range of 802.11a or g. But it would definitely saturate your network. Hmm, I think I'm going to have to upgrade my netwo

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Derek Atkins
posting annoying in email? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Proc

Re: auto-rebuild RAID mirrors

2007-04-18 Thread Derek Atkins
's tried this > yet, as it doesn't seem all that awful hard and it does seem awful > useful. So, usually that means I'm missing something (often obvious) > and that it's a Bad Idea. But I haven't figure out yet what that > might be. Criticisms require

Re: auto-rebuild RAID mirrors

2007-04-20 Thread Derek Atkins
sable bandwidth of GigE. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: auto-rebuild RAID mirrors

2007-04-20 Thread Derek Atkins
n the solaris box. So it's a Solaris server and a linux client and you see 20MB/s over NFS? For what size files? Have you tried a Linux NFS server? -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing

Re: auto-rebuild RAID mirrors

2007-04-30 Thread Derek Atkins
but it does greatly reduce the CPU > load on the sender and receiver. I'll point out for the record that my 23% number above is: 160/.23 == 695 I.e., I used a limit of 700mbps on a GigE. > -Mark -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Labor

Re: VMWare player under Linux

2007-05-07 Thread Derek Atkins
ow about player, but the VMware Server Console and VMWare Workstation products both have a "View FullScreen" menu option. > --DTVZ -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (S

Re: VMWare player under Linux

2007-05-07 Thread Derek Atkins
keys. Hmm.. I dont recall Server-Console or Workstation leaving a toolbar on the top of the screen when in fullscreen mode.... > --DTVZ -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)

Re: [Humor] Installing Vista in 2 minutes

2007-05-30 Thread Derek Atkins
> > Honestly, I've never heard of these guys, though. I used to listen to Opie and Anthony when I commuted down to New Jersey last decade. Their "Whip'em Out Wednesday (WOW)" campaign was excellent, but got them into lots of trouble. Too bad they've gone t

Re: Windoze laptop address allocation :-(

2007-05-31 Thread Derek Atkins
l- 000 > individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? > steveo at syslang.net > ___ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '

Re: Fun with lirc and streamzap...

2007-06-09 Thread Derek Atkins
mzap > alias eth0 8139too > alias eth1 e1000 > alias scsi_hostadapter ahci > options snd cards_limit=8 > alias snd-card-0 snd-ice1724 > options snd-ice1724 index=0 > install lirc_streamzap /sbin/modprobe lirc_streamzap > > Second Question: Is this correct? > > I guess we'll take it from there... > >

Re: Fun with lirc and streamzap...

2007-06-10 Thread Derek Atkins
remote. That's certainly one option. > I am using Centos 5 for my mythtv setup mostly because who whats the > non-hassle > of a pre-configured working out of the box setup :) I'm using Fedora.. But to each her own. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM

Re: Fun with lirc and streamzap...

2007-06-10 Thread Derek Atkins
rsion ? I found a reference to read the > documentation on > upgrading from lirc x.y.z ... but I can't seem to find the actual > instructions... Well, you'll also need the init script to start lircd.. and you might need to edit modprobe.conf to get your lirc module loaded.. But that SHOU

Re: Fun with lirc and streamzap...

2007-06-10 Thread Derek Atkins
24 > options snd-ice1724 index=0 > install lirc_streamzap /sbin/modprobe lirc_streamzap This last line is wrong... It will put you into an endless loop. > Thanks! -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Info

Re: Fun with lirc and streamzap...

2007-06-10 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Bruce Labitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > alias car-major-61 lirc_streamzap Oh, and this line (above) is wrong, too. For one thing it would be "char-major-61" (not "car-...") but I dont have this in my modprobe.conf at all. BUT I do run lircd with -d /dev/li

Re: Fun with lirc and streamzap...

2007-06-10 Thread Derek Atkins
ke I can just email you my dkms-lirc package that builds the streamzap module. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH

Re: Fun with lirc and streamzap...

2007-06-10 Thread Derek Atkins
ake sure you have all the current packages... THEN try running "yum install kernel-devel" > I would greatly appreciate if you could send the dkms-lirc package to me. > Thanks I'll send it shortly. My frontend is currently powered down as I perform some physical maint

Re: Fun with lirc and streamzap...

2007-06-10 Thread Derek Atkins
fc6 > installed > kernel-devel.i5862.6.20-1.2952.fc6 > installed > kernel-headers.i386 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 installed Okay: rpm -e kernel-devel-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 kernel-devel-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 Then: yum install kernel-devel > ??? -derek

Re: Solaris/x86 rant (was: Any advice on Solaris laptops?)

2007-06-21 Thread Derek Atkins
made FUSE filesystem that effectively mirrors the underlying filesystem (i.e., just a passthrough), and the overhead was only like 5% compared to direct EXT2/3 access. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information

Re: Dual Core or Quad Core?

2007-06-29 Thread Derek Atkins
throughput (and lower latency) on AMDs than Intels. I just don't know which applications this effects. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)

Re: OpenVPN TCP vs UDP

2007-07-12 Thread Derek Atkins
I was running ppp over ssh and let me tell you I was SO much happier once I switched to SSH port forwarding! > --DTVZ -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/

Re: OpenVPN TCP vs UDP

2007-07-12 Thread Derek Atkins
vastly outweighs the issues you can get running it over TCP. Just my $0.02, but it was a very hard-earned $0.02! ;) > -- Thomas -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (

Re: Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

2007-09-13 Thread Derek Atkins
from DD to SD directly. I had to go "up" instead of "down" to get "back" to the SD configuration in the video source, but it worked great for me! -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Informa

Re: If you want a really powerful computer....

2007-11-13 Thread Derek Atkins
un Windows? ;) > See http://www.top500.org/lists/2007/11 if you're interested. Ahh, looks like 6. >-Ric Werme -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://

Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap

2011-01-26 Thread Derek Atkins
sh they would publish the lists of shows available before I subscribe to see if I want to subscribe. All I know is that SNL is available. > YMMV. > > -- Ben -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Pr

Re: Netflix and Hulu [Was Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap]

2011-01-27 Thread Derek Atkins
Dan Jenkins writes: > On 1/26/2011 11:07 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> Benjamin Scott writes: >>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: >>>> And interested in any other comments, of course, which is why I'm not >>>> replying off-l

Re: ssh reverse tunnel issue

2011-04-06 Thread Derek Atkins
Seth Cohn wrote: > > Agreed, turn on keep alive, turn off compression.  You want the tunnel to > be fast, not byteslim. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)

Re: Plug Computers for whole-home audio (was: [GNHLUG] REMINDER: ManchLUG: Tuesday April 19th @ Wings Your Way - Manchester NH)

2011-04-25 Thread Derek Atkins
and they certainly still support the SheevaPlug. However I do believe you still need to use a separate kernel and cannot use the Fedora-Arm kernel rpm. > -Ken -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Proces

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