Re: [GNHLUG] DLSLUG - TONIGHT - ZFS: The Last Word in Filesystems

2007-04-05 Thread Michael ODonnell
A decent ZFS writeup can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: a question about GREP

2007-03-26 Thread Michael ODonnell
Do you have a source tree that has already proven to be buildable for the machine in question, independent of these new drivers. That would help during triage of this problem... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Safety Tip: aim caff away from foot before triggering...

2007-03-23 Thread Michael ODonnell
This also often works: stty sane ...and FYI if you've thoroughly confused the xterm you'll need to hit ^M instead of the Enter key to get it executed. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Problem build initrd file

2007-03-22 Thread Michael ODonnell
Did you start with a source tree that was already known to be configured buildable for the machine in question? If not, then kernels built therein are unlikely to work for you with or without those new LSI drivers. Once you've got a tree that you can build working kernels in I'd recommend

Re: Anyone good with dpkg/apt

2007-03-21 Thread Michael ODonnell
man dpkg-deb You might want to use it thus: dpkg-deb --contents youPackageFile.deb ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Anyone good with dpkg/apt

2007-03-21 Thread Michael ODonnell
It's sometimes handy to know that a .deb is really just an archive in ar format; the morbidly curious might find it interesting to do the following: ar tv somePackage.deb # What's in the .deb ? mkdir /tmp/hackery cp somePackage.deb /tmp/hackery cd

Re: Portable audio player

2007-03-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
I hate rebates but one of these (conformance to your reqs: unknown) might be worth a shot: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=382325-5prodlist=dealnews http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/Main.aspx?p=ItemDetailitem=CES11440 ...and there's always:

Re: BitPIM and Razr 3M Success

2007-02-26 Thread Michael ODonnell
I don't own a Razr but I just noticed this article on Linux.com that seemed relevant: CLI Magic: Access your Bluetooth phone via the command line Recently, I upgraded my cell phone to a Motorola RAZR v3 from T-Mobile, a Bluetooth-enabled device. I wanted to copy files to this device using

ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

2007-02-22 Thread Michael ODonnell
Eric Raymond rants: After thirteen years as a loyal Red Hat and Fedora user, I reached my limit today, when an attempt to upgrade one (1) package pitched me into a four-hour marathon of dependency chasing, at the end of which an attempt to get around a trivial file conflict rendered my

Re: Oops. And a brainteaser. Re: The Hosstraders retire

2007-02-20 Thread Michael ODonnell
xargs, specified with both -s and -n, should never fail this way: $ find $spec -print0 | xargs --null -s $s -n $n $command for appropriate values of $s and $n. Depending on circumstances, dramatic speedups can result from judicious use of -l, thus: find $spec -print0 | xargs

Re: Early-to-middle IBM-PC history (was: End-user uses for x86-64)

2007-02-19 Thread Michael ODonnell
Extended memory (CPU-addressable memory above 1 MB) didn't see a lot of use before the 386, mainly because of the aforementioned inability of the 286 to switch out of protected mode once it got in. Aww, shucks! no need to let a little thing like that get in your way:

Re: Package dependency question (on SuSE-10.2)

2007-02-19 Thread Michael ODonnell
...and IIRC deborphan has also been around for a while: NAME deborphan - Orphaned package finder SYNOPSIS deborphan [OPTION]... [PACKAGE]... DESCRIPTION deborphan finds packages that have no packages depending on them. The default operation is to search

Re: Oops. And a brainteaser. Re: The Hosstraders retire

2007-02-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
grep -in hosstrad ~/Mail/...gnhlug.x/* Perhaps the shell did not expand the file names in dated order You're right about that, but that would only be part of the problem; MH msgs are stored in files with simple numeric names like 1, 2, 423, , etc, but although the numeric ordering of those

Re: And the prize goes to... Re: Oops. And a brainteaser. Re: The Hosstraders retire

2007-02-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
Tip: there were LOTS of files, each one with a filename of a string of decimal digits, the values of which grew by +1 with each successive message as it arrived (and they had not been sorted or renamed). For instance, the messages bridging New Year's 2006 were: snip

[OT] Early-to-middle IBM-PC history (was: End-user uses for x86-64)

2007-02-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
Apparently, you never had to fight to get 3 KB more out of conventional memory, to load just one more TSR or that much of a bigger program. RAM was indeed precious, leading to some extreme maneuvers. One of the cooler TSRs I used early-on (around 1983) was a driver that implemented a RAMdisk

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-17 Thread Michael ODonnell
Dang! teledildonics.com is already registered: Registrant: Riggs, Roy 1508 BOONE CT MURFREESBORO, TN 37130-5032 US Domain Name: TELEDILDONICS.COM Administrative Contact: Riggs, Roy[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
End users of portable processing may benefit from clock rate reduction. The 64-bit internal and main memory paths double the processor's instruction throughput. If all data paths doubled in width you'd certainly see increased througput/efficiency. But many internal data paths in current

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits [was Can't figure out Firefox

2007-02-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
Are we starting from the assumption that this is a meritocracy where the best (insert your definition of best here) design/implementation wins? If so, how do you explain X? (replace X with Microsoft or whatever else suits your mood). I just bought a system based on a 64bit AMD chip because I

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits [was Can't figure out Firefox Plugin Requirement ]

2007-02-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
Binary: My understanding is that a 32-bit binary can be run under a 64-bit kernel, but you need a 32-bit environment to do so. So any libraries the binary depends on also need to be built (for x86-32) and installed in parallel with their x86-64 counterparts. I could be wrong on this; I

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'm not sure exactly what MH is MH (and NMH - the total rewrite, drop-in replacement New MH) is a mail-handling package distinguished by its use of the filesystem (as opposed to a single flat file or some sort of DB) for the basic message store. Your hierarchy of folders is actually a

TechARP's Desktop CPU Comparison Guide

2007-02-13 Thread Michael ODonnell
FWIW: http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=337 I'd dispute their claim that it's an easy reference or that it allows you to easily compare the various CPUs but it's certainly one of the more comprehensive lists I've seen so it's at least interesting from that angle. As they describe

FOSS app like Hamachi?

2007-02-13 Thread Michael ODonnell
Anybody know of a FOSS app that provides the sort of remote access that Hamachi offers but isn't closed-source and allows you to use your own servers instead of requiring use of Hamachi's servers? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-12 Thread Michael ODonnell
That unpleasant behavior does sound familiar - IIRC it spent approx half an hour busily creating gigantic databases and littering my email subtree with its bookkeeping files when I tried it a few months ago. Next question: What's people's favorite e-mail systems? Mine are EXMH (by far #1)

Re: When kiddies attack!

2007-02-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
[Thu Feb 08 11:59:29 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not exist: /var/www/b2evo [Thu Feb 08 11:59:29 2007] [error] [client 65.98.4.130] File does not exist: /var/www/wordpress Anyone else kinda enjoy seeing someone autokiddiescript attack their servers? Guess it's fun till you

Re: httpd lineage [Was: The new 'Linux Foundation']

2007-02-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
Debian's attempts to do everything the right way, otherwise known as the Debian way, regardless of how others have done it I don't know that be generally true. I'm not sayin' it ain't so, just that I'm not aware of it. Care to elaborate? or were you just painting with too broad a brush out

Re: HDTV - Ethernet?

2007-02-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
Was it this? http://www.silicondust.com/wiki/products/hdhomerun ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: No FOSS drivers for Dell e521 / Nvidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-02-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
Check out http://www.archivesat.com/Linux_audio_users/thread1284163.htm Perhaps it relates to your issue, while not directly. Almost sounds like alsa is saying, 'Yes, I see some kind of soundcard, but I don't know Poo about it', and providing very minimal capabilities. alsaconf may help.

Re: No FOSS drivers for Dell e521 / Nvidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-02-05 Thread Michael ODonnell
http://jrblevin.freeshell.org/weblog/linux/mcp51-alsa Well, heck - all I found when I went searching was people like me griping about how there was no support (even from ALSA) so this is a pleasant surprise - thanks! I'll give that a whirl... Turns out those people were right. The audio on

Re: No FOSS drivers for Dell e521 / Nvidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-02-05 Thread Michael ODonnell
Hrm, 026c? Must have been an upgraded device since the initial page was written, as the other MCP51's are 026b. Adding: { 0x10de, 0x026c, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, DEVICE_NFORCE }, /* MCP51 */ to the snd_intel8x0_ids array in sound/pci/intel8x0.c will cause the intel driver to

Re: No FOSS drivers for Dell e521 / Nvidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-02-05 Thread Michael ODonnell
{ 0x10de, 0x026c, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, DEVICE_NFORCE }, /* MCP51 */ to the snd_intel8x0_ids array in sound/pci/intel8x0.c will cause the intel driver to recognize and handle the card. Yeah, you'd think that might be a reasonable shot-in-the-dark, [...] But the hda_intel

Re: off-topic security alert - Super Bowl XLI / Dolphin Stadium site hacked

2007-02-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
should carefully examine their systems for possible infection - or upgrade to Linux... Hey - yeah! Just like the SuperBowl's flying camera: http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/firstandten.ars (Heh. in a previous life I knew a FOAF who developed the same sort of gizmo using

No FOSS drivers for Dell e521 / Nvidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-01-30 Thread Michael ODonnell
Just a heads-up to anybody who might be tempted to buy (as I did) the heavily promoted Dell e521 for use as a Linux box: it turns out that the motherboard has a lot of Nvidia stuff on it, and we know how those people don't play nice w/FOSS. I knew in advance that it'd have the Nvidia graphics HW

Re: No FOSS drivers for Dell e521 / Nvidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-01-30 Thread Michael ODonnell
http://jrblevin.freeshell.org/weblog/linux/mcp51-alsa Well, heck - all I found when I went searching was people like me griping about how there was no support (even from ALSA) so this is a pleasant surprise - thanks! I'll give that a whirl... ___

Re: No FOSS drivers for Dell e521 / Nvidia MCP51 High Definition Audio

2007-01-30 Thread Michael ODonnell
Also: Please forgive me, but I can't resist pointing out that you bought a $450 computer and got exactly what you paid for. ;-) That's debatable, though it's true that I could have had a fine machine for the same (or marginally less) money if I'd purchased the components separately and

Re: Request for a Good Intro to Linux / UNIX

2007-01-29 Thread Michael ODonnell
Does the term forensics imply after-the-fact analysis when something bad has happened to the computer, or is some other incident being analyzed and it's hoped that info on the computer will help with that investigation? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing

Windows-executable Debian installer

2007-01-27 Thread Michael ODonnell
No CD or USB required - http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/01/msg01083.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

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

2007-01-26 Thread Michael ODonnell
Hey, DDM - are you still on this channel? Can you confirm what's claimed in this article: http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s#003095 ...which describes how the vaunted South Korean networking infrastructure *requires* Microsoft products if you want to do anything like

Re: Linux on Compaq Presario Laptop...

2007-01-19 Thread Michael ODonnell
Here are some drivers that have at least a shot at recognizing that card: 8139cp 8139too r8169 ...so it might be interesting to see the results of this: modprobe thatDriver ...for each one. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Linux on Compaq Presario Laptop...

2007-01-19 Thread Michael ODonnell
Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN My HP zd7000 has a wireless chip that until recently had no Linux supported, no thanks to the super-geniuses at BroadCom. However, I just upgraded the Debian distro on that machine and was pleasantly surprised to see that there is now a native driver, so I guess the

Re: Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

2007-01-19 Thread Michael ODonnell
Whichever calendar we end up using I hope (assuming we'll be accessing it via HTTP) that the following are true: - No Flash. (it's ridiculous to have to say this but these days it seems to be necessary) - As little Java as possible, ideally none. - As few frames as possible, ideally

Re: Vonage vs. Verizon [was: Anyone had experience with Comcast SMC modem/router? ]

2007-01-17 Thread Michael ODonnell
the 911 concerns are not about *if* calls can go through, but whether calls will *always* go through, and properly It probably doesn't pay to be too arch about it - even the conventional land lines can have their problems. One icy night in southern Chelmsford approx 10 yrs ago my wife spun

fstab mount option kudzu

2007-01-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'm working with a system that has an entry in its fstab that looks like this: /dev/sdd1 /mnt/flash auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 ...and I can't find documentation for that kudzu option in the man pages for mount, fstab or kudzu. Anybody know where it's documented?

Re: TIP: yum hangs on futex()

2007-01-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
(what's the emoticon for 'bangs-head-on-wall' ?) http://tinyurl.com/y3xz5p ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: TIP: yum hangs on futex()

2007-01-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
Doing an strace revealed the hang was after opening the files in /var/ lib/rpm and yum was waiting on a futex() call. The fact that some process is blocked in futex() is probably a red-herring, a second-order effect of whatever the *real* problem is, one of those situations where the waiter

Re: Fw: linux newbie

2007-01-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
When I type import Cheetah in Python, I don't know what debian packages I'm depending on -- even if I were to look in obvious places, i'ts likely I'd miss something. Debian has apt-rdepends, which can recursively show the dependencies for a given package. Example results for bash:

Re: linux newbie

2007-01-10 Thread Michael ODonnell
I used to have a skanky old WD8013 card and the Linux driver needed to be told where to find it in I/O space and which interrupt to use or it would claim that I didn't have a NIC, so that might be the sort of problem you're having. If the Windows driver is able to find it then you can probably

Re: linux newbie

2007-01-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
It might also be helpful to see the output of the following commands: lspci-v lspci -n -v lsmod ls -laCFRl /sys/class/net ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: can't foreground job (Suspended (tty input))

2007-01-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
I was actually surpised by the original post, since I've never seen that behavior before... Paul, if you re-read the original post: http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-discuss/2007-January/017578.html ...you'll see that you're not talking about the same behavior described by

Re: can't foreground job (Suspended (tty input))

2007-01-05 Thread Michael ODonnell
sudo will have executed the setuid(0) syscall and then exec'd emacs, which consequently runs as a privileged process rather than retaining your credentials - the whole point of using sudo in the first place. That sudo kill %1 fails because that % notation only makes sense in the context of the

Re: Need help with new monitor

2007-01-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
People discussing (what appears to be) the same problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-203905.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

KVM

2006-12-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
Given recent discussions of virtualization, I found this article Finally user-friendly virtualization for Linux (which describes the virtualization improvements possible with the 2.6.20 kernels) relevant: http://linux.inet.hr/finally-user-friendly-virtualization-for-linux.html

Re: Hardware lockup - need suggestions for diagnosing

2006-12-12 Thread Michael ODonnell
Weird. Every time I've had a machine with a dead CMOS/NVRAM battery it would be obvious because it would reload default settings after every power cycle and bring up the BIOS config screen - other than that I never saw any flaky behavior like you described.

Re: Moving data from one server to another

2006-12-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'm not familiar with the app(s) in question or whether they involve support for specific HW (like maybe some sort of telephony gear?) but is it possible that you might be able to just copy the whole filesystem (either as a single filesystem image or filewise) from the old box to the new one

Re: Apt dependency hell

2006-11-29 Thread Michael ODonnell
You should be able to get a sense of which MYSQL-related packages are currently installed thus: function dgrep () { COLUMNS=300 dpkg -l | tr -s '[:blank:]' ' ' | grep $*; } dgrep -i mysql ...and you should be able to get a sense of which packages are available to you in the

Re: License finder?

2006-11-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
However, it also appears that dpkg does not maintain a copyright or license field in the (installed) package information. I've looked into this a little more, and I'm more confident I'm correct. The control information in /var/lib/dpkg/status does not contain license information, nor

Re: LMV Snapshots

2006-11-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
This seems like a case of the system working as (the designers) intended. You asked for a snapshot (i.e. the current state of all bits on that device) and that's what you're getting: that snapshot is pretty much the same as you'd get if you reset the computer on-the-fly without unmounting that

Re: resetting saved lines in an Xterm?

2006-11-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
Ctl+middleButton in Xterm gives a menu with the pick that you want. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: resetting saved lines in an Xterm?

2006-11-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
Ctl+middleButton in Xterm gives a menu with the pick that you want. Doh! I didn't read carefully enough to see that you'd already ruled that out - sorry. I don't know of any scripty approach to this - let us know if you find one... ___

Re: resetting saved lines in an Xterm?

2006-11-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
/usr/bin/reset should do what you want here. Nope - that doesn't clear the scrollback history. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: resetting saved lines in an Xterm?

2006-11-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
Nope - that doesn't clear the scrollback history. It does on every xterm I've ever used. It may not if you are using some funky xterm replacement, or if you have TERM set incorrectly as is quite common. I'm using the xterm (and, no - not in the way that Karl Rove had access to the poll

Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
I have no love for ComcCast - I'd drop them yesterday if I had any better (or even comparable) choices - but I can't say that their DNS sucks any worse than anybody else's. They do fsck it up occasionally but (here in Chelmsford) it's working OK at the moment.

Re: OT: XML quote Re: Meeting Notes: SLUG Mon 14 Nov - Google Earth and everything else

2006-11-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
And the mome raths outgrabe! You joke! But, on OSCAR, someone once said youre so grabe to me. To this day, I wonder what s/he meant... *scratches head* My sincere apologies if I damage any illusions you may have been cherishing about the intensely profound significance of that comment, but

ARTICLE - Cheap, hackable Linux smartphone due soon

2006-11-09 Thread Michael ODonnell
Related to Rob L's recent presentation: One of the world's largest computer and consumer electronics manufacturers will ship a completely open, Linux-based, GPS-equipped, quad-band GSM/GPRS phone direct, worldwide, for $350 or less, in Q1, 2007. First International Computing's (FIC's)

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
Follow-up: Picked up a Seagate 250 Gb drive at Circuit City last night for $135. ...and for my follow-up (not that anybody asked) I'm happy to report that I was able to back-port USB support from the kernel.org/2.4.33 sources into the RHEL3 2.4.21-ish sources and, so far, it's looking pretty

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-08 Thread Michael ODonnell
...and for my follow-up (not that anybody asked) I'm happy to report that I was able to back-port USB support from the kernel.org/2.4.33 sources into the RHEL3 2.4.21-ish sources and, so far, it's looking pretty stable. That's great. Now, is this USB for storage devices or for HID (Human

Re: SIP phone suggestions

2006-11-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
Please Please try try not not to to have have gnhlug-discuss gnhlug-discuss on on both both the the To: To: and and Cc: Cc: lines lines in in your your headers headers since since that that results results in in duplicate duplicate messages messages to to the the list list. Thanks! Thanks!

Re: Transportable HDD recommendations or warnings

2006-11-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
The workstations are run-of-the-mill Dell Dimensions, fairly new, so USB 2.0 should be acceptable. I haven't done much with USB storage devices so all I have to go on is my current situation, which isn't much fun. I've just started wrestling with some Dell boxes running RHEL3 (based on

Identifying an ext3 file given a block or inode

2006-10-27 Thread Michael ODonnell
When looking at the output of fsck as it works on a wounded ext3 filesystem I'm wishing I knew which files are associated with the duplicate blocks and corrupted inodes it's reporting. It seems that I recall somebody here recently mentioning a tool that could figure out that sort of thing but I

RHAT down %26 on Oracle news

2006-10-26 Thread Michael ODonnell
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=RHATt=1dz=l ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: DST changes in 2007

2006-10-20 Thread Michael ODonnell
FYI, I've done some digging and it appears that since late 2005 RHAT have been shipping tzdata RPMs which (if you believe the changelog at the RHN site) will do the right thing when the DST apocalypse comes in March 2007. I assume (but have not confirmed) that Debian have been similarly

DST changes in 2007

2006-10-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
Although I think it's unlikely that the Daylight Savings Time changeover coming in 2007 will yield the 3-ring circus we enjoyed leading up to Y2K, I assume there will still be some gotchas. DST is basically just a schedule for when you adjust your offset from GMT, but I'm sure I don't know about

Re: Spam and mailing lists

2006-10-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
We should also mention the date on the Subject: line since my mailer doesn't show it clearly enough, with the unfortunate result that I sometimes read messages out of sequence. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: [Wed Oct 18 22:34:33 EDT 2006] [temp:63 fahrenheit][partly cloudy] Spam and mailing lists

2006-10-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
That would be fairly obnoxious, and has the same problem of obscuring the subject line that having the server munge the Subject: line does. I wish there was some sort of standard for email messages that provided for a special section (maybe near the beginning?) reserved for information about

Re: ReiserFS creator arrested over missing woman

2006-10-12 Thread Michael ODonnell
Is it possible that the publication of this article only a few days ago is mere coincidence? http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/20981 It's about bus-proofing your FOSS project, as in key-contributor-getting-hit-by-one... ___ gnhlug-discuss

ARTICLE - SuSE to switch from ReiserFS to ext3

2006-10-12 Thread Michael ODonnell
http://www.linux.com/print.pl?sid=06/10/12/2120204 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Tapes and close to a quarter-century.

2006-09-18 Thread Michael ODonnell
Speaking of tapes: I have a half-dozen 9-track reels from back around 1993 that I'd love to salvage the bits from before either the oxide deteriorates or this type of equipment becomes %100 extinct - anybody know anybody with a 9-track drive? ___

RAID system recommendations/war stories

2006-09-11 Thread Michael ODonnell
We're currently using Promise M200p RAID units with mixed results and wondering if others might care to share war stories or recommendations. We've had several M200p units running flawlessly for approx 2yrs in our data center, so we thought they'd be good a good choice as components of systems

Re: RAID system recommendations/war stories

2006-09-11 Thread Michael ODonnell
I've been using Winchester Systems for years with great success. I wouldn't call them low-end or cheap necessarilly. These are hardware RAID chassis though, not RAID cards. Probably not what you're looking for, but I thought since we're discussing something on-topic, I might as well get

Re: Help with sed script?

2006-09-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
H. I'd heard that sed's RE parser is a type known as greedy meaning that every expression matches the longest possible string in the input. I therefore can't understand how after all the leading whitespace has been matched there can be any whitespace left over to match the not-a-hashmark

Re: Help with sed script?

2006-09-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
Are you sure that your new regexp does what you want?: echo 'xyz' | \ sed -r -e '/^[[:space:]]*[^#[:space:]].*[[:space:]]+xyz[[:space:]]*/{s/^.*$/REWRITTEN/}' You specify surrounded by whitespace in your original description, but occurs at the beginning of a line might be reasonable too (I

Help with sed script?

2006-09-05 Thread Michael ODonnell
I'm trying to use sed to rewrite lines in a config file that have a target string 'xyz' in them surrounded by whitespace and which are NOT commented out with a hash sign and which may or may not have leading whitespace. This expression: sed -r -e

Re: more secure 3rd-party file sharing?

2006-08-31 Thread Michael ODonnell
This article may be of interest: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115698239989350052-UVfk3ol8fkMATSzIQbYJuJ3P9Po_20060929.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

FREE - cubical ATS road case

2006-08-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
A classic, free to the first taker: one professional quality shipping case with metal-reinforced corners and edges and heavy-duty handles and latches. Dimensions: approx 27 inches cubical. Heavily padded and approx the right size to ship a large CRT in. You could drop it off the back of a truck

Re: [osf_alums] FREE - cubical ATS road case

2006-08-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
The case is spoken for. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: FREE - cubical ATS road case

2006-08-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
The case is taken. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: helpful amanda script

2006-08-24 Thread Michael ODonnell
watch --differences Also, depending on the command whose output you're monitoring, you may want to run it thus: watch someCommand 2/dev/null ...to keep stderr chatter from scribbling onto the screen and rendering it unreadable, or at least un-pretty.

Re: Looking for an App for clipboard management...

2006-08-24 Thread Michael ODonnell
But I'm not looking to save a clipboard history. I need something that I can manually add or remove items. To give you an idea of the use I'm looking for... Imagine working in email tech support. You have a few hundred emails to answer in a day and many of them are the same thing, like

Re: Tuning NFS (and Gbit Enet ?)

2006-08-23 Thread Michael ODonnell
Well, the problem in this case turned out to be an Enet cable(!) I finally noticed that one of the NICs had autonegotiated itself back down to 100MB/S when nobody was looking and it refused to go faster when instructed to do so via ethtool. I haven't yet analyzed it thoroughly but I swapped a

Tuning NFS (and Gbit Enet ?)

2006-08-22 Thread Michael ODonnell
We're upgrading an installation by bringing an existing config forward from some older, slower Dell boxes to some spiffy new Dell 690 boxes with integral Broadcom (BCM5752) NICs and a Dell PowerConnect 2616 (an unmanaged switch) connecting them, all supposedly capable of Gbit rates. The (smp)

HUMOR - Things you might not know about Bruce Schneier

2006-08-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
A parody site about (crypto guru) Bruce Schneier based on a parody site about Chuck Norris: http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/1 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Forcing Linux to recognize NICS in BIOS order

2006-08-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
A network interface can have any name whatsoever; the default (dainbramaged) approach is to let the kernel pick the names, with the result that they end up being of the form ethN where N is the order of registration (which is roughly equivalent to the order of HW discovery, which is roughly

Re: Forcing Linux to recognize NICS in BIOS order

2006-08-15 Thread Michael ODonnell
This persistent naming issue gained importance as interconnect technologies like SCSI, FibreChannel, USB, PCMCIA and HotPlug PCI (to name a few) made it possible for physical configurations to change from run to run or even on the fly. Addressing this issue was one of the goals of udev. I

Re: Solved: Problem with bash login.

2006-08-01 Thread Michael ODonnell
It is more useful to explain the semantics of bash initialization files then it is to call one correct. The authors of the (remarkably complete) man page for bash apparently agree with you, since they made no arch pronouncements about what is right and wrong usage of the files in question.

Pranking wifi intruders

2006-07-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
As soon as I get a wireless rig I wanna do this: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: FOSS benefits the field of computer engineering

2006-07-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
He is with a VC firm, still just as giving and open (and technical) as before. He has offered to come and speak at the group if people would like tips on how to approach a VC for funding, or just to understand more about what a VC would be looking for in a company. I'd be interested in

Re: Gasp. Am I getting old and stupid?

2006-07-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
Gasp is considered 'obsolete'. The bintuils-gasp is the only remnant of it, for applications that require it. Ok, I'll ask the obvoius follow-up question -- obsoleted by what? What do use instead if we want to code Assembler with a F/LOSS tool-chain? If gcc supports the processor you're

Re: Gasp. Am I getting old and stupid?

2006-07-07 Thread Michael ODonnell
Gasp is considered 'obsolete'. The bintuils-gasp is the only remnant of it, for applications that require it. Ok, I'll ask the obvoius follow-up question -- obsoleted by what? What do use instead if we want to code Assembler with a F/LOSS tool-chain? If gcc supports the processor you're

Re: Stupid ebay/amazon question

2006-06-29 Thread Michael ODonnell
And now we get down to the nitty gritty. Am I crazy? In the past the amount of SPAM reaching me used to be fairly constant but in the past year or so it's changed to being very bursty in nature; I'll go for weeks or months getting essentially none followed by periods where several dozens

Re: Security Mailing Lists/RSS?

2006-06-28 Thread Michael ODonnell
http://xforce.iss.net/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: For those who check their email at home...

2006-06-27 Thread Michael ODonnell
http://news.com.com/2102-7351_3-6087680.html?tag=st.util.print Not sure whether the Linksys model in question is the Linux- capable one. Anyway, here's the first part of the article: FON, a Spanish start-up on an ambitious crusade to turn home Wi-Fi connections into wireless hotspots for

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