RE: [OT] UNIX license plate

2009-05-17 Thread Michael Pelletier
Sorry, I didn't realize Facebook did that. Here's a replacement link via Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mvpel/2471341618/ I'd inline it in an HTML e-mail, but I'm sure that would annoy even more people on this list than Facebook does. :D -Michael Pelletier. -Original

Re: OT? Shipping issues?

2009-03-17 Thread Michael Pelletier
by a tractor trailer into oncoming traffic where it was hit by a dump truck and knocked into a swamp where it sank. They did not dispute the claim. I'm shocked. They didn't argue over whether the packaging met their specifications? Amazing. -Michael Pelletier

Re: OT? Shipping issues?

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Pelletier
- the Styrofoam gave its life to save the printer. If there's any alternative to UPS shipping when I'm ordering online, I jump on it, even if it costs a bit more. -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http

Is anyone hosting/organizing a party for February 13 23:31:30 2009 GMT?

2009-01-16 Thread Michael Pelletier
It's a Friday evening, so it'd be a perfect time for a little get-together of Linux enthusiasts. -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug

RE: Ubuntu Server Administration Classes

2009-01-16 Thread Michael Pelletier
as the Ubuntu course in Portland). At the basic level, the differences between RedHat and Ubuntu would probably not be too significant. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org [mailto:gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of Robert

RE: Timing file read/write over NFS

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Pelletier
some risk of inconsistency since a server write failure might already have been acknowledged as complete to the NFS client. -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman

RE: Timing file read/write over NFS

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Pelletier
... -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

RE: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2008-11-14 Thread Michael Pelletier
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/ The original Windows Refund Day, February 15, 1999. I'm not sure if I made it into one of those photos - that might be the back of my head at the upper left of the photo of Eric Raymond. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From

RE: shell, perl, performance, parallelism, profiling, etc. (was: Upgrade guidance)

2008-10-22 Thread Michael Pelletier
programming career where it was worth the trouble of implementing it. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:09 AM To: Greater NH Linux User Group Subject: Re: shell, perl

Re: shell, perl, performance, parallelism, profiling, etc. (was: Upgrade guidance)

2008-10-21 Thread Michael Pelletier
frankly shocked to see a shell script operating faster than a Perl script in any case, but maybe Bash is more clever than I'm used to. -Michael Pelletier. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Charset: UTF8 Version: Hush 3.0 Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify

RE: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Michael Pelletier
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVlNIUhHUI8 -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

RE: Renaming Directories

2008-09-23 Thread Michael Pelletier
/sda; mkdir /mnt/store.old; mount /dev/sda /mnt/store.old ... Same idea as with mv on a single filesystem - you're changing the label for the directory, not the contents. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce

RE: comcast strikes again....

2008-09-22 Thread Michael Pelletier
Comcast ditch Usenet than throttle my competing VoIP phone service, frankly. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete Snider Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 10:00 AM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: comcast

RE: fairpoint fiber rates?

2008-09-16 Thread Michael Pelletier
I would simply LOVE to have the pain of paying $45 a month for internet service - currently my only option is Comcast, and they charge $61.80. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Labitt If the rate above

RE: UPS disposal options?

2008-09-15 Thread Michael Pelletier
, but you can give them a call to find out. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Joseph Schelly Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:04 AM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: UPS disposal options? RST

RE: nslookup alpine-usa.com

2008-09-10 Thread Michael Pelletier
the page finishes loading Firefox displays http://www.alpine-usa.com/; in the address box. Check a tcpdump or Wireshark trace to see this behavior first-hand. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Wednesday

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

2008-09-10 Thread Michael Pelletier
into the foreseeable future. You could probably write a Perl script to do most of the conversion for you, for that matter. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven W. Orr Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:06 AM

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

2008-09-10 Thread Michael Pelletier
compliant by default. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 1:08 PM To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Looking for people's experience with po files

RE: Linux network behavior wierdness

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Pelletier
on different systems. I'd also suggest you double-check your netmasks - a packet to 192.168.128.255 won't be responded to unless the receiving system's netmask is such that the left half of the origin address matches its idea of the network, and the right half is all-1. -Michael Pelletier

RE: Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

2008-09-05 Thread Michael Pelletier
. Or perhaps you could run power over another pair of the old copper, if available, to power multiple units from a larger DC power supply in the datacenter. Ah, the joys of legacy hardware... -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

2008-09-04 Thread Michael Pelletier
, but it looks like a practical option. Of course, it depends on the Westermo extender pairs costing less than new wiring. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 8:39

RE: Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

2008-09-03 Thread Michael Pelletier
these cost, and they operate in pairs, of course, but it may very be cheaper than rewiring with modern cable. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:35 AM To: Greater NH

RE: (OT) Laptop Repair

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Pelletier
laptop price that HP wanted to charge me, so I'd start there for a replacement screen. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:46 AM To: Greater NH Linux User Group

RE: OpenSSH logging with GMT on Connection close?

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Pelletier
... But you'd think that'd leave you an hour off during only a few weeks of the year, not at GMT. Puzzling. -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

RE: Laptop external power from batteries (DC/DC)

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Pelletier
system on which to run PowerChute. -Michael Pelletier. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

RE: Laptop external power from batteries (DC/DC)

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Pelletier
) and until I made the update every power glitch resulted in a deafening racket echoing through the house. My wife is much happier now. -Michael Pelletier. -Original Message- From: Bill McGonigle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:33 PM To: Michael Pelletier Cc

RE: OpenSSH logging with GMT on Connection close?

2008-08-19 Thread Michael Pelletier
of GMT, but it actually meant US Eastern Time without daylight savings, and so the system in Bangalore was running backups in the middle of the day. It was supposed to be Asia/Calcutta to get the proper local time and daylight savings rules. In NH, you'd want US/Eastern of course. -Michael

RE: not good news for ODF :(

2008-08-18 Thread Michael Pelletier
100% compatible with Office 2007 documents, with no pesky compatability or rendering quirks, right? It's not like Microsoft was ever going to fully adopt ODF, in any case - they're Microsoft, after all. IBM should know that personally, given their experience with OS/2. -Michael Pelletier