Re: Fast and Cheap ISP for business

2006-05-18 Thread David B
If you can get Utopia there isnt any more decisions to worry about. Get Utopia! If only ATT would sell us a Business class fiber connection for under 17K a month. Gabriel Gunderson wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 16:11 -0600, Mark Hobson wrote: I use Xmission with Utopia for my busin

RE: Fast and Cheap ISP for business

2006-05-18 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 16:11 -0600, Mark Hobson wrote: > I use Xmission with Utopia for my business needs. First, thanks to everyone for the feedback. Since I first posted with this question, I've found that this business doesn't have quest or comcast as options. I guess that Utopia is the next o

Re: [OT] Cisco 678 serial cable

2006-05-18 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 08:22 -0700, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > Anyone have one handy to loan for a day or so? You can make one. Just google for it. It's super easy. That's what I did after I made a similar request that went unanswered. -- Gabriel Gunderson http://gundy.org /* PLUG: http://plug.o

Re: Better then telnet?

2006-05-18 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 22:54 -0600, Michael A. Cleverly wrote: > I'd guess you're missing a final form feed. (ASCII 12, see: > http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/ascii-characters.html#form) I ended up using nc to get it working. >From the nc man page: netcat is a simple unix utility which reads a

Re: bash checking for multiple files

2006-05-18 Thread Michael A. Cleverly
On 5/17/06, jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In bash: I know that you can use [ -f file ] to check for file, but is there something similar to check if there are any matches to a wild card? i.e. [ -? file* ] Not directly (as a predicate), but you could achieve it with something along the lines

Re: Better then telnet?

2006-05-18 Thread Michael A. Cleverly
On 5/18/06, Gabriel Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to print to a label printer sending the data to the print server's port. The jobs are plain text (ZPL format). This works: cat PrintJob.prn | telnet 10.0.0.184 9100 But, the last 20 or so labels don't print. Any other command

RE: Linux Email Admin

2006-05-18 Thread Sterling Jacobson
We run both a hosted MS Exchange system and a linux system. The linux system was running postfix/squirrel mail. Guess what everyone liked better? So we moved everyone off of squirrel and stared using Zimbra. Now they are happier, except for the ones who's computers now couldn't handle Zimbra (

Re: Home RAID question

2006-05-18 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:53:59PM -0600, Gregory Hill wrote: > > Argh. The whole power supply thing was me wondering aloud if there's > some correlation, which apparently was misunderstood to mean I was sure > that having a good power supply was the solution. That wasn't my > intention; sorry f

Re: Home RAID question

2006-05-18 Thread Shane Hathaway
Kenneth Burgener wrote: My second question is, if I did do the RAID 0 setup, and if I noticed one disk begins to fail, is it possible to somehow transfer the remaining good portions to a different disk without having to rebuild the whole array? The problem is that I am planing on having 4 x 250G

Re: Home RAID question

2006-05-18 Thread Blake Barnett
On May 11, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:39:53PM -0600, Corey Edwards wrote: Interesting, but still not gonna work (for me). GNU ext2resize is a package which allows resizing ext2 and ext3 filesystems (both shrinking and growing). The ext2

Re: Fast and Cheap ISP for business

2006-05-18 Thread Robert Lawrence
On 5/11/06, Gabriel Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do they tend to cap upload speeds like they do for residential users? From my experience with setting up DSL at my apartment building for my landlord I found that most business broadband connections still have a cap on upload speeds bu

Better then telnet?

2006-05-18 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
I'm trying to print to a label printer sending the data to the print server's port. The jobs are plain text (ZPL format). This works: cat PrintJob.prn | telnet 10.0.0.184 9100 But, the last 20 or so labels don't print. Any other commands that might do a better job buffering the flow of the prin

Grey listing

2006-05-18 Thread Michael Torrie
Actually this e-mail is a more of a ping. The plug list has been quiet today and I wonder if this is because my grey-listing is killing it (unlikely, but hey). At least I'm not getting any spam! Michael /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/op

Re: Fast and Cheap ISP for business

2006-05-18 Thread jeff
Your pain will come from Qwest. They disconnected one of our lines and it took 3 days to get it back. Aros, our ISP has been great to work with. Steve wrote: My experience with business class DSL is you have the same problems of residential while still paying 2x as much. snip -- Jeff "Za

bash checking for multiple files

2006-05-18 Thread jeff
In bash: I know that you can use [ -f file ] to check for file, but is there something similar to check if there are any matches to a wild card? i.e. [ -? file* ] -- Jeff "Zathras used to being beast of burden. Zathras have sad life, probably have sad death, but at least there is symmetry.

Re: LUG BBQ

2006-05-18 Thread Lars Rasmussen
On 5/10/06, Jason Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is now a wiki page up [1] for this years LUG BBQ. We'd like to get everybody's input about the bbq so we can get the best turnout possible. Please head on over and give some input, and maybe volunteer for something. 1. http://uvlug.org/wi

[OT] Cisco 678 serial cable

2006-05-18 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Hi, DSL is available in my area now, and I'm looking to switch over since Comcast has been really flakey for me. Unfortunately I followed Qwest's instructions to reset the nvram (http://tinyurl.com/r2le6) and now I can't telnet to it until I set a password first via serial cable. Anyone have one

Linux Email Admin

2006-05-18 Thread kirk
At my place of business, I have setup postfix with spamassassin, clamav virus scan, and squirrelmail with tons of plugins. I have told the owners of the business they can use any email client they wish. After four or five months of them using this system they just started paying for an outsour

[Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, May 15]

2006-05-18 Thread Jason Hall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 O'Reilly News for User Group Members May 15, 2006 - New

Re: Fast and Cheap ISP for business

2006-05-18 Thread Corey Edwards
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 14:42 -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > We currently have ELI as our primary data provider and plan on keeping > them. However, we are looking to off-load our internal web surfing and > off-site backups to another connection. > > I've never been in the market for DSL or cabl

Free RAID Stuff

2006-05-18 Thread Chris Carey
I have some old Adaptec PCI 2940 SCSI U2W cards. They have been collecting dust in my basement for years. If anyone wants them send me an email. Also there's a huge collection of SCSI cables that need a good home. Maybe they will come in handy for someone... Chris Carey /* PLUG: http://plug.org,

RE: Fast and Cheap ISP for business

2006-05-18 Thread Mark Hobson
I use Xmission with Utopia for my business needs. It's 15 MB download/upload (full duplex), although I personally have only seen it at 12 MB, with something like 30 or 40 GB monthly traffic. That's just the personal line. The business line has more throughput (30 MB) and more traffic, something

Re: Home RAID question

2006-05-18 Thread Michael Halcrow
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:02:44AM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > My primary concern is disk capacity, my second is speed, and my > third is redundancy. All it takes is one hard drive failure for you to realize that your primary concern is really redundancy. > My first question is, is there a d