[PLUG] February Advanced Topics: BSD

2011-02-12 Thread Michael Dexter
Belated Announcement: February PLUG Advanced Topics BSD (Berkley Software Distribution): Enterprise Open Source From Day One W&W: Tuesday, February 15th, 7PM at Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Ave Synopsis: You use BSD software every day. Virtually every packet you send travels through BSD-based rout

Re: [PLUG] Ethernet patch cable alarm...

2011-02-12 Thread Larry Brigman
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:21 PM, wes wrote: >> >> But seriously, if I may, what is the need exactly?  Are the cables being >> unplugged?  Who is unplugging them?  Why are they doing that? >> >> > The need in this case, is to protect a content-filtered Internet > connection's filter from being circ

Re: [PLUG] Ethernet patch cable alarm...

2011-02-12 Thread wes
> > But seriously, if I may, what is the need exactly? Are the cables being > unplugged? Who is unplugging them? Why are they doing that? > > The need in this case, is to protect a content-filtered Internet connection's filter from being circumvented. -wes __

Re: [PLUG] Ethernet patch cable alarm...

2011-02-12 Thread Fred James
wes wrote: > What about having the computer from which you don't want an ethernet cable > unplugged make a noise when it is unplugged? > > -wes > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Michael C. Robinson < > plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > > >> I am interested in a specialty part that should be

Re: [PLUG] Ethernet patch cable alarm...

2011-02-12 Thread wes
What about having the computer from which you don't want an ethernet cable unplugged make a noise when it is unplugged? -wes On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Michael C. Robinson < plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > I am interested in a specialty part that should be easy to make. > The problem wi

Re: [PLUG] Qwest the Qwerst.

2011-02-12 Thread Ali Corbin
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Ken Stephens wrote: > Pete Lancashire wrote: > > looks ok from here did a telnet from withing qwest to gmail > > > > -pete > > > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Ken Stephens wrote: > > > >> Looks like Qwest has blocked outgoing port 25 so if you are not sendin

Re: [PLUG] Promise pdc20246 dma issues...

2011-02-12 Thread Michael C. Robinson
This looks like the solution if I go the modular route. I went the compiled in route so I don't have to have an initrd. I'm having to manually do an hdparm -d 0 /dev/hdg every boot. On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 08:29 -0800, Nathan W wrote: > i recently had to turn dma off for my wlan... not sure if an

Re: [PLUG] Qwest the Qwerst.

2011-02-12 Thread Pete Lancashire
$ telnet mail.aracnet.com 25 Trying 216.99.193.7... Connected to mail.aracnet.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 tungsten.spiritone.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU) quit 221 2.0.0 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. try my SMTP 63.224.252.117 are you sending from cad2cam.com ? On Sat, Feb 12, 2

[PLUG] Ethernet patch cable alarm...

2011-02-12 Thread Michael C. Robinson
I am interested in a specialty part that should be easy to make. The problem with patch cables is that they can be unplugged. I have Internet connected lines going to servers where the lines themselves are filtered by those servers. If the cables are unplugged, the servers are effectively byp

Re: [PLUG] Qwest the Qwerst.

2011-02-12 Thread Ken Stephens
Pete Lancashire wrote: > looks ok from here did a telnet from withing qwest to gmail > > -pete > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Ken Stephens wrote: > >> Looks like Qwest has blocked outgoing port 25 so if you are not sending >> email (;-)), change your outgoing mail port to 587, at least

Re: [PLUG] Qwest the Qwerst.

2011-02-12 Thread Pete Lancashire
looks ok from here did a telnet from withing qwest to gmail -pete On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Ken Stephens wrote: > Looks like Qwest has blocked outgoing port 25 so if you are not sending >  email (;-)), change your outgoing mail port to 587, at least if you > are going to aracnet/spiritone

[PLUG] Qwest the Qwerst.

2011-02-12 Thread Ken Stephens
Looks like Qwest has blocked outgoing port 25 so if you are not sending email (;-)), change your outgoing mail port to 587, at least if you are going to aracnet/spiritone mail servers. YMMV with other ISPs. Ken Cad2Cam.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG

Re: [PLUG] DSL Provider Recommendations Sought

2011-02-12 Thread Larry T
At our office (50th & Division) we were on the outer end of copper reach from the Belmont switch. We recently switched to comcast business and our DSL on that is very good.At home (Near Univ of PDX) I had comcast and switched to CLEAR.They have improved the signal strength and stability gr

[PLUG] GSoC and Scribus

2011-02-12 Thread John Jason Jordan
Google Summer of Code is taking applications for 2011, and the Scribus development team are actively seeking student applications. Students will be mentored by one of the experienced Scribus developers. The program is three months long and students will receive a stipend of US$5,000, with another $

Re: [PLUG] DSL Provider Recommendations Sought

2011-02-12 Thread Richard C. Steffens
On 02/11/2011 11:37 PM, Victor Soich wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Richard C. Steffens > wrote: > >> Ditto. I don't know if Qwest has made DSL possible out my way, > How do I figure out if DSL is available in my area? You can contact SpiritOne via the following page: http://www.spi

Re: [PLUG] DSL Provider Recommendations Sought

2011-02-12 Thread Russell Senior
> "Victor" == Victor Soich writes: >> Ditto. I don't know if Qwest has made DSL possible out my way, Victor> How do I figure out if DSL is available in my area? I live in Victor> S.E. Portland, i.e. 4420 S.E. Nehalem. Every now and then Victor> over the last many years, I try to figure ou