Re: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

Ben Scott wrote: > On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Alex Hewitt wrote: >> Apple isn't in the business for their health. > > The goal of a business is to *MAKE MONEY*. > > Never, ever forget that, whether you're buying or selling. > > -- Ben > ___ >

Re: VPN problem...

Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: >> I've seen DSL modems with 2 modes of behavior: >> * bridge mode ... >> * NAT/router ... >> >> I don't know if the cable modems offer similar capabilities. > > It's a bit different in cable-modem-land. DSL is typi

Re: VPN problem...

Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Hewitt_Tech wrote: >>> Any idea what protocols the LinkSys is using? IPsec? IKE? SSL/TLS? >>> X.509? >> It's definitely using IKE. > > Okay, IPsec with IKE can use PSK or X.509 certificates. Which

Re: VPN problem...

Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Alex Hewitt wrote: >> If the router doesn't know the time .. then the VPN >> connection might not work. > > Quite possible. If it's using X.509 certificates (like SSL does), > one can specify effective and expiration dates in the certificate.

Re: Why Linksys routers are so cheap...

Jefferson Kirkland wrote: > On that recommendation, is it not ironic then that Linksys is owned by > Cisco? You would think they would take a product that they bought out > and improve it considering their name is on it. > > Regards, > > Jeff > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2

Why Linksys routers are so cheap...

I would have said "inexpensive" but that would imply that their gear actually delivered value. I have a client who chose to use a pair of BEFSX41 VPN end point 4 port routers. A few years back I got a call from them to help them set up a VPN tunnel between two sites. After an hour or so of twea

Re: [OT] Generator testing

Tom Buskey wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Jerry Feldman > wrote: > > On 09/08/2009 10:18 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > > FWIW, I find this topic fascinating, and quite possibly of interest > > to my professional career, so I'd like to hear the stories

Re: It appears that Cisco has decided to deep six the Linksys line...

Ben Scott wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Alex Hewitt wrote: >> Or at least they've made getting information on Linksys products a lot >> harder by completely changing the Linksys web site. > > Like this is the first time a company's ever done that. As Gerry > Hull says, "Typical mark

Re: Router recommendations?

Ben Scott wrote: > Hi everybody! > > It appears the radio in my WRT54G (ver 2) has gone insane. It > appears in SSID lists but connects are never successful. I've tried > loading OEM firmware and it didn't help. So, I thought I'd ask: What > would people here recommend as a replacement? > >

Re: Dell Studio Hybrid won't work with ViewSonic vx2235wm monitor (DVI)

Thomas Charron wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Alex Hewitt wrote: >> It really does sound like broken hardware. I've noticed that small form >> factor machines (with the exception of the Mac Mini) seem to have a >> higer rate of failure than regular towers. > > But he's able to conne

OT? Shipping issues?

Recently I've noticed that both major overnight package delivery companies have been damaging packages. I've had 3 out of 4 computer cases rendered unusable and packages routinely arrive here (Manchester) with chunks missing out of them. For the most part my parts vendor does a great job of pac

Re: How to troubleshoot wide area network performance problem?

Mark Greene wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Alex Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > I have clients with an interesting network problem. One location in > Bedford New Hampshire using a fractionated T1 has routinely been > transmitting stu

Re: Feisty-Fawn 7.04 install on Acer 5100-5033

Ben Scott wrote: Of the various "live discs" I've tried, I've found I've had the most success with Ubuntu in the "it just works" department. Video, sound, network, wireless, etc. It also has a very "polished" feel to it -- a clean, elegant design to the basic UI, choice of apps, etc. The Kno

Re: Linux Laptop

are reliable. -Alex P.S. A couple of other places to think about - www.emperorlinux.com and www.linuxcertified.com . I haven't dealt with either of these companies but EmperorLinux was at Linux World in Boston recently and they seemed to really know what they were doing. - Original

Re: Linux Laptop

In my experience you want to pay careful attention to the graphics chip set used by the system. I've also had lot's of problems with the ACPI support but newer distros such as Ubuntu and probably anything recent from SUSE, RedHat should be good as well. One other area that gives heart burn is t

Re: Any luck with free SuperMicro boards, me == beep codes

- Original Message - From: "Shawn K. O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GNHLUG" Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 1:48 PM Subject: Any luck with free SuperMicro boards, me == beep codes Anyone have any luck with their SuperMicro boards? I finally got around to trying to bring mine up

Open Source Contact Manager (something like ACT?)

Has anyone any experience with an open source contact manager application something like ACT! ? I searched Sourceforge and got a few hits but I haven't any idea as to how good any of these projects migh be. One that sound's like it might fit the bill is CalypsoRCP. The application would probabl

Re: Anyone had experience with Comcast SMC modem/router?

-- Original message -- From: "Jeff O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I beat my head with one of those about a month ago. I remember I had to > setup the network information on my router, which was a linux firewall, > and plug that external interface into the SMC

Anyone had experience with Comcast SMC modem/router?

I'm trying to get a Comcast connection working for a customer. They bought the "Workplace Enhanced Static IP" package. Comcast dropped an SMC modem/router at the customer site and I'm trying to get incoming connections to work. I set our internal router to the external IP address along with the

Re: Traffic shaping/aggregating

- Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 12:06 PM Subject: Re: Traffic shaping/aggregating On 12/26/06, Bruce Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Although it would make sense that she would use one modem, and I the other; it stop

Dell 430 SC video problem...

Some of you may recall my tale of woe concerning a customer's Dell 430 SC server. The system has had most of it's internals replaced 3 times. The latest issue with the system has been that the system hangs. At first it hung about once a week but after updating the firmware drivers and OS (Window

Re: Laptop repair

- Original Message - From: "Tech Writer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GNHLUG Group" Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:11 PM Subject: Laptop repair Can anyone suggest somewhere in the greater Southern New Hampshire area that can perform a simple laptop repair? I've got an older HP Pavili

Re: Traveling with a big file

- Original Message - From: "Tech Writer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GNHLUG Group" Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:22 PM Subject: Re: Traveling with a big file Thanks for the quick feedback, so far I've noticed that most of these USB portable disks (FIRELITE, etc) are marked a

Re: Reliable wireless?

Fixing the application is really not an option. The application is provided by a third party vendor and there's no way in the world these people would allow anyone to touch their code. The most we could do is complain... -Alex - Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Reliable wireless?

I have a client who has a computer mounted on a roll around cart and who wants to connect using a wireless connection to their LAN. Unfortunately there are 8 strong wireless networks nearby with at least 3 being unsecured. Their application uses a client/server model and when they get disconnec

Fw: Manchester "Un-conference"...

I was invited to an "un-conference" at the Amoskeag Business Incubator in Manchester New Hampshire. Apparently these ad hoc technology conferences have been held previously in large cities and Manchester will be the first held in a smaller city. Anyone can present anything they want and a lo

Re: Something nice to say about Microsoft Server 2003...

- Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 11:19 PM Subject: Re: Something nice to say about Microsoft Server 2003... On 7/11/06, hewitt_tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Be sure you cre

Re: Something nice to say about Microsoft Server 2003...

- Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 8:56 PM Subject: Re: Something nice to say about Microsoft Server 2003... On 7/11/06, hewitt_tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Microsoft Serve

Something nice to say about Microsoft Server 2003...

My problematic Dell server (SC430) got an upgrade today after most of the electronics were replaced. I added a second 250 GB SATA hard drive and was surprised at how easy it was to mirror the existing drive in place. Microsoft Server 2003 allows you to convert an existing "Basic" disk to a "

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

- Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:48 PM Subject: Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server... On 7/10/06, Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The bigger question is will Dell notice? Bigge

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

e a good choice since the customer only has 5 users and is not likely to expand much beyond this number of users.   - Original Message ----- From: Thomas Charron To: hewitt_tech Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 1:15 PM Subject: Re: A possible r

A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

I have a very nice customer that's been putting up with some amazingly bad luck with a Dell SC430 server. 90 days after I installed it the server decided to flash all it's LEDs and become unavailable. Dell responded by replacing the motherboard, power supply, CPU and hard drive. 5 weeks late

Just when you think you've seen it all...

I had rather rough Monday. One of my clients had their server blow it's boot/main drive over the weekend. I was on site for a completely different problem when I heard someone ask "Is Alex here to see why the server is down?". I opened the case of the Dell SC430 and heard the infamous "click

Fw: Recommendations for Hotspot managment software...

I have a client for whom I want to setup a public hotspot. They are a medical facility so security is of paramount importance. By security I mean the hotspot can in no way interfere or allow access to their medical applications. So far the best looking application is something called Public

Re: Liquid Cooling

Try this link: http://www.maximumpc.com/reviews/casessff/ -Alex - Original Message - From: "Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 12:40 PM Subject: Liquid Cooling I was thinking of trying out liquid cooling and wanted to ask if anyone here has played with thi

Re: Liquid Cooling

The one place I've seen a fair bit of information on liquid cooling is a magazine called "Maximum PC". They've had lot's of how-to articles and regularly compare the offerings from the vendors who make the kits. -Alex - Original Message - From: "Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: S

Fw: Greetings

Kevin is looking for someone to provide Linux IT support in the Andover Mass. area. -Alex - Original Message - From: "Kevin Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 8:02 AM Subject: Greetings Good morning Alex, I met you at LinuxWorld and I

Re: Laptop OS Virtualization?

I'm running VmWare and have always been happy with it. Over time the workstation version has gotten progressively more powerful. For example I'm currently running VmWare on a Windows X64 (64bit) host laptop. The guest OS is a 64 bit Ubuntu system. With VmWare I can forget about the problems I ra

Visit LTSP.ORG booth at LinuxWorld...

One booth that had an interesting project on display was the Linux Terminal Server Project. LTSP provides terminal services support for Linux. This would allow you to setup a boot server and any number of thin/thick clients. One thin client on display at the booth booted Ubuntu in about 5 se

Booth 1035 at LinuxWorld (GNHLUG) amazingly busy...

Due to traffic and the weather we got to the booth at about 10:30 this morning. I was astonished at the number of visitors to the GNHLUG booth specifically. People mostly wanted to know when/where the various chapters have meetings. I strongly suggested they join the appropriate mailing list

Re: Suggestions for capturing license plate info?

Thanks everyone for the suggestions on how to capture license plate information. In the end we took a low tech approach. This past Friday night we moved all our vehicles off the street and my son-in-law and I sat out in one of our cars waiting to see if the shooters would show up again. Sure

Re: Acceptance of OpenOffice.org (was Re: Gov't , economics and technology (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL))

- Original Message - From: "Kevin D. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:32 AM Subject: Re: Acceptance of OpenOffice.org (was Re: Gov't , economics and technology (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL)) [that's what

Anyone locally installing Asterisk based PBX systems?

I have a client who got a proposal for a PBX system and I suspect it might be more costly then necessary. They need something like 20+ phones in their new facility and I would like to have them have a counter bid. Is there a local company doing this kind of work? -Alex ___

Suggestions for capturing license plate info?

Unfortunately my car and my daughter and her husband's car have been vandalized by low life's who are shooting out windows with some kind of pellet gun. They struck last night shortly after midnight shooting out 3 windows. My car had it's rear driver side window shot out and my daughter's Toyota

Fw: Hard Disk Failure

Dang, replied to Jerry directly but wanted the list... - Original Message - From: "hewitt_tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jerry Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 11:20 AM Subject: Re: Hard Disk Failure - Original Mes

Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core 4?

- Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GNHLUG" Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:47 AM Subject: Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core 4? On 1/19/06, hewitt_tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I

Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core 4?

- Original Message - From: "Neil Joseph Schelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:48 PM Subject: Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core 4? On Thursday 19 January 2006 07:12 pm, hewitt_tech wrote: controll

Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core 4?

on" Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:41 PM Subject: Re: Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core 4? hewitt_tech wrote: I'm installing Fedora Core 4 on a Dell SC1420 server that contains a hardware SATA RAID controller and 3 80 GB drives. So far it appears th

Are there problems using hardware RAID with Redhat Fedora Core 4?

I'm installing Fedora Core 4 on a Dell SC1420 server that contains a hardware SATA RAID controller and 3 80 GB drives. So far it appears that the hardware RAID (Dell Cerc /Adaptec) makes the 3 drives transparent to the OS. That is Linux just saw an ~148 GB drive and installed on it without c

Linux RAID reading recommendations?

There has been some excellent info on the list recently about Linux with RAID but I was wondering if anyone had any reading material recommendations? I noticed that Oreilly has a book entitled "Managing RAID on Linux". According to the Amazon reviews though it got slammed because it was ligh

Re: Rationale for not releasing drivers as FOSS

- Original Message - From: "Jon maddog Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Komarinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "GNHLUG" Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:21 AM Subject: Re: Rationale for not releasing drivers as FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In cas

Re: [OT] Grand Unified Theory of Computer Suckage (fnord)

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. - Gerald Weinberg ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/list

Re: RAID autodetect?

to allow arbitrarily large numbers of disk devices to be addressed and managed. -Alex - Original Message - From: "Bill McGonigle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "hewitt_tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "GNHLUG" Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 9:34 AM

Re: RAID autodetect?

It seems like software RAID on Linux could easily result in a chicken/egg situation. For example if your system were completely setup (root and all) on your RAID array and you had a failure that necessitated booting from a rescure disk, you might have quite a difficult time getting the configur

Re: direct BIOS access from Linux?

I just accessed a web site called www.koders.com which can search most open source code. I put in the search words "get DMI info" and one hit was for a file called dmi_scan.c which is part of the 2.6.10 Linux kernel. Look's well commented and might make a good jumping off point.   -Alex  

Re: Need assistance with Cisco PIX configuration

Actually, I'd love to hear about it! I've wrestled a number of Cisco routers and PIX is one I'm interested in... -Alex - Original Message - From: "Dan Coutu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "GNHLUG mailing list" Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:39 AM Subject: Need assistance with Cisco PI

Re: Earthlink Cable

- Original Message - From: "Bill McGonigle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nice web site Bill! To: "Travis Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "GNHLUG" Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 6:47 PM Subject: Re: Earthlink Cable On Aug 10, 2005, at 16:34, Travis Roy wrote: Anybody on the list use Earthlin

Re: Anyone using Win4Lin Pro? (V5 I think)

- Original Message - From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "hewitt_tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Anyone using Win4Lin Pro? (V5 I think) On 8/10/05, hewitt_tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bec

Anyone using Win4Lin Pro? (V5 I think)

Because we have certain applications that will only run under Windows, I was thinking about picking up a copy of Win4Lin Pro. Is anyone using it and if so, what are your impressions?   -Alex  

Can't see Windows printers (SMB) from SuSe 9.3

This is probably a very common question. I just installed a shiny new SuSE 9.3 system and tried to setup printing to a Windows shared printer. Oddly, although I can see the Windows file shares I can't see the shared printer. I ran into this same issue with a Mac Mini. Apple's TIger release (

Re: ESS in Manchester (by E. Industrial Park Dr.)

Very easy, continue past the mall exit and then bear left on the highway about a half mile from the mall where the road splits. Although you need to make your way across 5 lanes of traffic, take exit 6 at the top of the hill. At the bottom of the ramp turn right. Proceed past the Wendy's on your

Re: PCI wireless NICs

- Original Message - From: "Neil Joseph Schelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 8:38 PM Subject: Re: PCI wireless NICs On Thursday 04 August 2005 01:57 pm, Randy Edwards wrote: The last time I checked, the G version of the wireless "standard" did not hav