On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dazed_75 wrote:
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> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Robert Holtzman
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dazed_75 wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I don't know but I did change to using plain text for some time because
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dazed_75 wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
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>> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dazed_75 wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I don't know but I did change to using plain text for some time because
>> of
>>> the desires of certain people here. The loss of functionality was
You made a good choice.
As you can see on the label, the cards are "Industrial Grade." This
means, at least, they have SLC (Single Level Cell) flash in them. SLC
is more data reliable and longer lived than MLC (Multi-Level Cell)
flash.
SLC = store only one bit per flash cell.
MLC = store two (o
Sequoia Rocks! ;-)
It is/was very cool of them to host the PLUG site for so long. And Thanks to
Deru for having us..
Scott
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Whoops! IRC channel is at irc.freenode.net. Channel #plugaz
>
> Alan
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Alan Dayl
Opensuse can do kde or gnome at the same time easily and generally has
amazing hardware detection
I say give it a try
On 1/29/09, Rhune Lord wrote:
> I have been a Kubuntu fan and 8.04 with most recent updates and (KDE
> 3.5.9) finally acknowledge my broadcom wireless card, but did not find
> th
I have been a Kubuntu fan and 8.04 with most recent updates and (KDE
3.5.9) finally acknowledge my broadcom wireless card, but did not find
the IDT audio (even with ALSA updates) on my Studio17 from Dell.
How is Fedora 10 looking? Will it support Broadcom wireless and IDT
audio after updates are r
Whoops! IRC channel is at irc.freenode.net. Channel #plugaz
Alan
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Feel free to go hang out in the IRC channel during (And after!) the outage.
>
> I also want to give a HUGE thanks to Sequoia for supporting our
> servers for these many years.
Feel free to go hang out in the IRC channel during (And after!) the outage.
I also want to give a HUGE thanks to Sequoia for supporting our
servers for these many years. They have been great to us!
Alan
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
> At approx 16:30 today the PLUG web a
At approx 16:30 today the PLUG web and mailing list server will be shut
down and moved from Sequoia Schools where they have supplied hosting for
just short of 10 years to a location at Deru that they have been very
generous in donating to us.
We expect to have the server back online at approxim
There was an interesting article in Wired about Comcast seems they had
to learn how to be an ISP instead of a dumb pipe Cable TV provider
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-02/mf_brianroberts
We as a group are VERY vocal minority. Most people would not even know
or even be effected b
If you have a router that can run Tomato
(http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato), give that a spin. I have BT running
24/7 and haven't ever had a problem with surfing, VoIP, SSH, FTP,
streaming radio or anything else. I section off about 25% of my
bandwidth for BT as a max and also give it the lowes
For better or worse, I'm usually pushing in excess of 50GB of traffic
(combined up and down) a week on average. I can safely say that BT is
not being "throttled" by Cox. Maybe on the default ports. could be
handy when they roll out the new shaping policy.
-Joe
Sharkscott wrote:
Check
Keep in mind the distinction between bandwidth and latency.
Prioritizing traffic for applications which need low latency seems
like a reasonable goal for an ISP.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
hurtling down the highway."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sn
I only use Cox for the net, and I have to say,
coming from the Chicago area and dealing with Comcast, Cox is
exponentially better. It's great being able to use bittorrent again and
actually download things over HTTP at speeds worth paying $50-60/mo
for. You guys bitch a lot about Cox, and I can
Drupal has all the capability of phpBB and none of the exploits.
I have a few CMS setup on a free hoster at 110mb.com - but the PLUG must use
secure features and be careful that what is enabled meets the provisions of the
group's purpose. A great deal of CMS functions and features must be
mai
Has anyone ever thought of setting up a php2bb or similar forum ?
People could still have it forward email when a topic changes, or just go to
the forum.
On that idea, my other thought was about xchat, has anyone ever thought
about using teamspeak ?
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Well said Enrique
In fact I'm trying to do this on my own home network. (With not so good
success right now)
I have a VOIP Phone, and I like to use P2P, so I'm trying to set up my
network to Give High priority to My Voip, while slowing down the P2P, I also
what my regular browsing to have precede
We have a rather large APC Symmertra SYMSTRF-PD UPS unit + battery
modules that I would be willing to donate (FREE - just come take it
away). If anyone is interested in a *data-center* class UPS unit, please
contact me via email (email only please).
The unit is similar to this one:
http://cgi
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
> >
> > I don't know but I did change to using plain text for some time because
> of
> > the desires of certain people here. The loss of functionality was
> > bothersome so I finally switched back t
2 seconds!! That slow? I had to continually tap 'space bar' to get it to stop!!
And that was on an old P3-800 machine!
73
Ed/ke7feg Now that November is here, April can wait!
On 2/23/2007 the morse code requirement was dropped for getting
a ham license. Now just pass the written exams whi
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Stephen wrote:
> Usually its pretty?
>
> Or maybe conveys information more efficiently?
Larry
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On 1/29/09, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't know but I did change to using plain text for some time because of
>> the desires of certain people here. The loss of functionality was
>> bothersome so I finally switched back to the r
Neat setup to service a lot of visually impaired folks and making it the
default makes sense for that audience. Looks like they have a lot of work
to do to maximize that benefit but they are well on the way. I am not
qualified to test that thoroughly, but here are a few of the things I found
in p
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
> >
> > I don't know but I did change to using plain text for some time because
> of
> > the desires of certain people here. The loss of functionality was
> > bothersome so I finally switched back t
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
> >
> > I don't know but I did change to using plain text for some time because
> of
> > the desires of certain people here. The loss of functionality was
> > bothersome so I finally switched back t
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Judd Pickell wrote:
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>
>> Maybe those folks should just go back to using carrier pidgeons.
>> Alternatives could include changing to using an email client that would
>> support THEIR need to block or convert HTML to text. Expecting the rest of
>> the world to ch
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
> I don't know but I did change to using plain text for some time because of
> the desires of certain people here. The loss of functionality was
> bothersome so I finally switched back to the rich text mode of gmail.
Excuse my ignorance but what functionali
>From the photo on ebay, they look to be Sandisk.
http://tinyurl.com/d9up8f
They have not arrived yet, but the machine I will be testing them on I
just added an Ubuntu partition to, so I do not have to do any testing
in Windoze.
Mike
>-svfw /dev/flashdevice will perform a butteryfly test with
DSL CAN be slow...if the 'other end' is swamped. Take 'news' around 8 am when
all the offices open for programers/etc. They seemingly all check 'the news'
about the same time. Same for yahoomail. But when I access something else that
isn't 'popular', then zoom, it comes in at the subscribed rate
I think this is a "Why Microsoft Suxs" dig, you know?
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:28:58 -0700
Subject: Re: OT: HTML Emails -- Re:
>
> Maybe those folks should just go back to using carrier pidgeons.
> Alternatives could include changing to using an email client that would
> support THEIR need to block or convert HTML to text. Expecting the rest of
> the world to change to do what they want is just wrong and ain't gonna
> hap
HTML (javascript) in email can be used for harmful intent:
1) XSS tunneling
2) URI encoding crafted info/scripts
3) Virus [Microsoft]
4) Worms [RPC]
Most of these issues are trivially scrubbed with clamav (daily updated
signatures based on reported virus), spamassassin on the MTA
(sendmail,exi
Drupal uses Mailman.
There is a web based signup and HTML portal for list message archiving in
Drupal.
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If my info is right, your right. ;-) For cox it only goes down to the node,
half a street or a whole or half a apartment complexes..I think..
Scott
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> I think the problem Cox is trying to address is inherent in their
> technology, namely that
On Jan 29, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote:
Hans is moving the servers to a spiffy new hosting provider.
Drupal is being upgraded by a team of volunteers.
Drupal's mail features can be set for each user in the mailer
functions.
If you don't want your mail to be sent HTML, you can spe
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Judd Pickell wrote:
> Not everyone wants to have change a setting while just trying to view their
> emails. Although to be fair I use gmail so I don't have to be concerned
> about it. But I am sure there are people on this list still using Pine or
> equiv, since t
Hans is moving the servers to a spiffy new hosting provider.
Drupal is being upgraded by a team of volunteers.
Drupal's mail features can be set for each user in the mailer functions.
If you don't want your mail to be sent HTML, you can specify that under your
list manager settings on the PL
I think the problem Cox is trying to address is inherent in their
technology, namely that customers share bandwidth. DSL doesn't have this
issue (DSL has finer grained control). That's my understanding at any rate.
Sharkscott wrote:
> I agree Shawn, I like your idea, I don't download THAT much,
Not everyone wants to have change a setting while just trying to view their
emails. Although to be fair I use gmail so I don't have to be concerned
about it. But I am sure there are people on this list still using Pine or
equiv, since that is and can be done via commandline like ssh from a phone.
Check out what I just found..
http://lifehacker.com/5141758/measurement-lab-checks-if-your-connection-is-being-throttled
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:48 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com <
kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote:
> >> why should my downloads from a P2P network...
> Apologies, I think I didn't mak
>> why should my downloads from a P2P network...
Apologies, I think I didn't make this clear.
My customer can (and do) download whatever they want to, what I stop is Joe
Annon downloading P2P stuff FROM my customer's puter.
>> rate limit your customers to their contracted rate and
>> minimize ov
I agree Shawn, I like your idea, I don't download THAT much, but why 'pay'
for when its someone else watching a thousand videos at once that is causing
the network slowdown..
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Nicely said. I agree.
>
> kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
> > I thi
Nicely said. I agree.
kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
> I think that this is being taken out of context...
> I manage a small wireless network with around a hundred victims...
> er...
> CUSTOMERS!:)
>
> Being a wireless network, we face challenges that wired networks don care
> about, and wh
I normally stay out of these, but I just want to ask why you don't rate
limit your customers to their contracted rate and minimize over selling your
bandwidth? I would that would prevent "joe the hacker" from bringing down
other customers in the first place. I don't have issues with stuff like VoIP
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Nathan England wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2009 11:49:48 Patrick Jacques wrote:
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> >
> >
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> >
> > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Patrick Jacques < > moz-do-not-send="true"
> > href="mailto:patr...@kinetic-computing.net";>
> patr..
I think that this is being taken out of context...
I manage a small wireless network with around a hundred victims...
er...
CUSTOMERS!:)
Being a wireless network, we face challenges that wired networks don care
about, and when the traffic spikes, we have to "manage".
Let me state in here t
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