Re: [PLUG] best practices

2009-05-23 Thread m0gely
Ed Sawicki wrote: > m0gely wrote: >> Ed Sawicki wrote: >> >>> a) He claims they are on a "private network"; they are safe. >>> The Web server serves only internal users; it cannot be >>> accessed directly from the Internet. However, their >>> "private network" is not private in the sens

Re: [PLUG] best practices

2009-05-23 Thread Ed Sawicki
m0gely wrote: > Ed Sawicki wrote: > >> a) He claims they are on a "private network"; they are safe. >> The Web server serves only internal users; it cannot be >> accessed directly from the Internet. However, their >> "private network" is not private in the sense of NAT >> and RFC19

Re: [PLUG] best practices

2009-05-23 Thread m0gely
Ed Sawicki wrote: > a) He claims they are on a "private network"; they are safe. > The Web server serves only internal users; it cannot be > accessed directly from the Internet. However, their > "private network" is not private in the sense of NAT > and RFC1918 private addressing.

Re: [PLUG] Portland Co-Lo Experiences

2009-05-23 Thread Quentin Hartman
I've used Easystreet for years. Love em. They just did a bunch of power and cooling upgrades and I saw not a single hiccup. They really take the time to do things right. As mentioned above, they are a great fit for a small / medium org. And yes, they do have biometrics. Whether or not that's a good

[PLUG] Benjamin Franklin - open source hero

2009-05-23 Thread Keith Lofstrom
I wrote a Memorial Day essay, and mashed up a nice picture for it. http://www.keithl.com/ben_open.html Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS -

Re: [PLUG] Portland Co-Lo Experiences

2009-05-23 Thread Brent Jones
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Ed Sawicki wrote: >>>From my experience you have a couple choices.  EasyStreet is great for >> smaller businesses or individuals with bigger budgets.  Access is convenient >> from what I've been told.  The company I used to work for used them with >> pretty good s

[PLUG] I hate Nautilus

2009-05-23 Thread John Jason Jordan
So today I am downloading some distros for my USB disk that I take to the Clinic. Suddenly Transmission announces that I am out of file space. Sure enough, the GUI says there is no free space out of the 140 GB formatted. Now, I know I have a lot of stuff on this computer, but just the other day I k

Re: [PLUG] What does software feel like to a computer?

2009-05-23 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 07:46 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > If computers were sentient, what would software feel like? > > Linux is like making love. > Windows is like prostitution. > Viruses are like rape. > > ... and Mac is a very attractive and friendly prostitute :-) ...dual-booting is like

[PLUG] best practices

2009-05-23 Thread Ed Sawicki
I have an associate who consults for a living. He would like objective feedback from a variety of other IT folks so he can present his customer with recommendations that are considered to be industry best practices. He would appreciate it if knowledgeable IT people could comment on the following it

Re: [PLUG] Portland Co-Lo Experiences

2009-05-23 Thread Ed Sawicki
>>From my experience you have a couple choices. EasyStreet is great for > smaller businesses or individuals with bigger budgets. Access is convenient > from what I've been told. The company I used to work for used them with > pretty good success. When I last visited Easystreet, they had install

Re: [PLUG] Portland Co-Lo Experiences

2009-05-23 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 16:06, John Medway wrote: > I know this is not strictly Linux, but this is one of the few local tech > mailing lists I am on, or am aware of, so please excuse... > > Does anyone have any good/bad/indifferent to report about in-Portland > co-location facilities? I need two c

Re: [PLUG] SOLVED: Virtualbox in Ubuntu, kernel compile fails

2009-05-23 Thread Larry W
Thanks to Bill suggesting that Vbox needed to be updated, I checked and, indeed, I had installed version 1.6. My bad, since I have a copy locally and that's what was installed. Replacing it with the current version solved my problems. Now to delete that old file... Thanks all, Larry __

Re: [PLUG] Portland Co-Lo Experiences

2009-05-23 Thread Joe Pruett
> I know this is not strictly Linux, but this is one of the few local tech > mailing lists I am on, or am aware of, so please excuse... > > Does anyone have any good/bad/indifferent to report about in-Portland > co-location facilities? I need two cabinets of real estate for some Linux > servers (th

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox in Ubuntu, kernel compile fails

2009-05-23 Thread Bill Barry
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Larry W wrote: > Rogan Creswick wrote: > > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Larry W > wrote: > > > >>> /tmp/vbox.1/SUPDRV.h:99:30: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or > >>> directory > >>> > > > > Do you have the kernel headers installed? > > > > (package: li

[PLUG] What does software feel like to a computer?

2009-05-23 Thread Keith Lofstrom
If computers were sentient, what would software feel like? Linux is like making love. Windows is like prostitution. Viruses are like rape. ... and Mac is a very attractive and friendly prostitute :-) Keith ( with a tip'o'the'hat to Linus T., whose "marriage interfering with prostitution" sta

Re: [PLUG] Virtualbox in Ubuntu, kernel compile fails

2009-05-23 Thread Larry W
Rogan Creswick wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Larry W wrote: > >>> /tmp/vbox.1/SUPDRV.h:99:30: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or >>> directory >>> > > Do you have the kernel headers installed? > > (package: linux-headers-`uname -r`, I think.) > I forgot to check for t

Re: [PLUG] Portland Co-Lo Experiences

2009-05-23 Thread drew wymore
I am in a cabinet with Infinity Internet across from the Pittock. They had a few hiccups in the last couple of years with power but it seems to have been fixed. Last blip was over a year ago. I'm happy with the service and access, however they have jacked rates up recently or so I am told by the pe

Re: [PLUG] Portland Co-Lo Experiences

2009-05-23 Thread Nye Walker
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:06 PM, John Medway wrote: > I know this is not strictly Linux, but this is one of the few local tech > mailing lists I am on, or am aware of, so please excuse... > > Does anyone have any good/bad/indifferent to report about in-Portland > co-location facilities? I need two

[PLUG] Portland Co-Lo Experiences

2009-05-23 Thread John Medway
I know this is not strictly Linux, but this is one of the few local tech mailing lists I am on, or am aware of, so please excuse... Does anyone have any good/bad/indifferent to report about in-Portland co-location facilities? I need two cabinets of real estate for some Linux servers (there's th