Re: More Firefox weirdness

2009-04-19 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 12:13 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > FF3 is VERY buggy. -jmz > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM, stu w wrote: > > Greetings All, > >Paying bills today, which I normally do online, and have never run > > into > > a problem with Firefox on Ubuntu 8.10. After loggin

Re: Does switching from 1.5 Mbp to a faster fiber-optic connection require any system changes?

2009-04-19 Thread Lisa Kachold
Effective communication is the hallmark of the astute socialized human being: 1) Clearly state that you are not requesting "Linux Support" - you can provide that yourself. 2) You are pealing an onion; "I am sorry Sir, we don't support Linux" - "Could you verify connectivity to the "modem" please?"

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-19 Thread Ryan Meldrum
On a slightly different note, I support a large san based off of HP EVA storage (~60tb) attached to a clustered GS320 running Tru64 Unix and another system HP GS1280) attached to the same fabric using an additional 24tb. Also a system running HPUX (two RX8620's) also attached to about 48TB. Th

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-19 Thread Shawn Badger
You could either go with a NetApp or EMC solution and not make a bad choice on either, but be warned that you will be spending over $100K to get it up and running right. Are you going to be editing the video while it directly stored on the SAN or is the SAN just going to be a repository? If you a

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-19 Thread Stephen
Not likely to be doing av edits directly but we will need some fair io The server backend is likely to be a stack of xenservers. The best part is we will be building the datacenter from scratch On 4/19/09, Shawn Badger wrote: > You could either go with a NetApp or EMC solution and not make a b

wireless problem

2009-04-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
I'm having a problem connecting with encryption enabled. My setup is a Desktop and a Dell latitude laptop both running Ubuntu 8.04 and both running wicd (at the moment). The desktop is hard wired to the Linksys WRT54GL router. If I configure the router with the web based utility and don't enabl

OT: OS X Disk Utility vs Linux

2009-04-19 Thread Kurt Granroth
Say you are experimenting with dual-booting OS X (hackintosh) on your existing Linux machine. A word of advice: do NOT let Disk Utility touch your existing Linux drive in any way. At all! Not even to reformat one innocent little unused partition! If you do, then when you reboot, the BIOS won't

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-19 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Have you thought about a private cloud instead? Using something similar to a in house EBS solution you could add space on the fly, aggressively cache for performance, and have it well distributed across your campuses. In addition I believe Ubuntu 9.4 Server even comes preconfigured with Eucalyptus

Re: SAN storage practical list of options

2009-04-19 Thread Stephen
Off site storage is a given once figure that out This is quite interesting to say the least Thanks to all the varied input On 4/19/09, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > Have you thought about a private cloud instead? Using something similar to a > in house EBS solution you could add space on the fly, aggres

Re: OT: OS X Disk Utility vs Linux

2009-04-19 Thread Stephen
Yep been there done that On 4/19/09, Kurt Granroth wrote: > Say you are experimenting with dual-booting OS X (hackintosh) on your > existing Linux machine. A word of advice: do NOT let Disk Utility touch > your existing Linux drive in any way. At all! Not even to reformat one > innocent littl

Re: OT: OS X Disk Utility vs Linux

2009-04-19 Thread Lisa Kachold
I personally have to chime in to say, in the light of such a complete disaster, this is without a doubt, one of the more impressive bungles I have seen in say a month of Sundays! On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Kurt Granroth < kurt+plug-disc...@granroth.com > wrote: > Say you are experimenting w

Re: OT: OS X Disk Utility vs Linux

2009-04-19 Thread der.hans
Am 19. Apr, 2009 schwätzte Kurt Granroth so: Say you are experimenting with dual-booting OS X (hackintosh) on your existing Linux machine. A word of advice: do NOT let Disk Utility touch your existing Linux drive in any way. At all! Not even to reformat one innocent little unused partition!

Re: OT: OS X Disk Utility vs Linux

2009-04-19 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 15:00 -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote: > Say you are experimenting with dual-booting OS X (hackintosh) on your > existing Linux machine. A word of advice: do NOT let Disk Utility touch > your existing Linux drive in any way. At all! Not even to reformat one > innocent little unu