Re: OT: Cheapy Mc Cheap Cheap cell phone?

2009-10-21 Thread Ryan Rix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks everyone for the feedback; I'll be pointing my dad at this thread tomorrow evening to see what he thinks. Ryan Ryan Rix wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey guys, > > So, my dad had his cell phone service through

ABLEconf volunteers needed

2009-10-21 Thread der.hans
moin moin, ABLEconf still needs lots of help the day of the event. If you can help, please email i...@ableconf.com and let us know. You can ask for specific duties or just say you'll be available. . registration table staffing .. need at least two people from 09:00 to 11:00 .. after 11:00 t-shir

Re: ot - I got a call today

2009-10-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:25 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, mike havens wrote: > > > This call was from Atlanta, Georgia. 770.999. was the number. After a > > little research I found out about ID Spoofing. Was this a soofed number? > Or > > else is a special number or som

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
Yes, my point with wget was/is that it's on ALL distros, so having package updates is essential. If you actually trust portage; or have you had stellar experiences with gentoo patch updates? In my historical day(s), portage was replaced by the best gentoo admins (Dotster for instance, now replac

Re: O.T. Used iPod?

2009-10-21 Thread fouldragon
You might also consider non-Apple players. I don't like Apple's kit much. The Sandisk E2xx series is very nice for flash-based player; it can run Rockbox, and it's generally very competent. Mine failed after a few years (scroll wheel seized up), but I'd still get another. -Original Mess

Re: O.T. Used iPod?

2009-10-21 Thread Joshua Zeidner
all electronics prices are going DOWN right now so expect to pay a very low price. Phoenix is currently being flooded with second hand gear of all kinds. Current price for a used laptop is ~$200 ( using Tpad r40 as a benchmark ). I suspect many people are selling off their possessions to pay b

Re: O.T. Used iPod?

2009-10-21 Thread Steve Phariss
Battery life? I seem to recall that was a problem, but do not know if it still is. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:13 PM, mike Enriquez wrote: > I see lots of used iPods for sale in the local Pawn shops does anyone > know what to look for > in a used iPod? > Any ideas will be appreciated. > Thanks >

O.T. Used iPod?

2009-10-21 Thread mike Enriquez
I see lots of used iPods for sale in the local Pawn shops does anyone know what to look for in a used iPod? Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks Mike Enriquez --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsub

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Alex Dean
On Oct 21, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Lyle Tuttle wrote: Have you looked at ShadowProtect? http://www.storagecraft.com/ Not for Linux.. Well, rather than 'not for Linux', I'd say it's 'only for Windows'. So it can't back up any of my systems. I got a great suggestion a while back, and have

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 12:49 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > Performance is a nightmare, but if you have a lot of data it is still > viable. And I have been saved too many times from drive failures. "Oh, > drive failed huh, well good thing it kicked in and rebuilt on the hot > spare, I will order a new

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Lyle Tuttle
Have you looked at ShadowProtect? http://www.storagecraft.com/ Not for Linux.. At 12:46 PM 10/21/2009, you wrote: Ah yes, you have pour Internet. For the last company I worked for that had a decent set of local servers (a 1/2 $billion company construction company) I did online backups and

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Performance is a nightmare, but if you have a lot of data it is still viable. And I have been saved too many times from drive failures. "Oh, drive failed huh, well good thing it kicked in and rebuilt on the hot spare, I will order a new one this week and oh look no down time." :) On Wed, Oct 21, 2

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Ah yes, you have pour Internet. For the last company I worked for that had a decent set of local servers (a 1/2 $billion company construction company) I did online backups and it took about ~90min (sometimes more sometimes less) and ran twice a day. In truth, there were a dozen of boxes pushing out

ABLEconf Saturday, pls help with promo

2009-10-21 Thread der.hans
moin moin, ABLEconf is Saturday. We're almost there. Please help us with a final marketing push and appropriately ( no spamming! ) post reminders about ABLEconf to mailing lists, news sites, calendars, etc. The following links have information you can use when posting. Web site: http://www.ABL

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 09:20 -0700, JD Austin wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Lisa Kachold > wrote: > > > > Of course for mission critical data, I recommend RAID 5 or > RAID 1+0 at the very least. > > > AND ALL BACKUP

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Alex Dean
On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: If you want an automated offsite backup plan get a cheep machine, toss in some decent storage, and use rSync over the net. Earlier in this thread I explained why I didn't want to do backups over the internet. Thanks anyway. PGP.sig Descr

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Dorian Monroe
My bad! Just did what I always do without reading the whole thread. Too many other emails to read, and to be honest, most of the bottom and in-line posts I just skip 'cause I'm too lazy and impatient to scroll down on the bb. :) Even so, with any type of manual swapping of drives and rsyncing

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Alex Dean
On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Matt Graham wrote: From: "Dorian Monroe" I don't understand how anyone could consider RAID a "backup" plan. 'Cause it's not. You may be misunderstanding my architecture. The system in question exists to make backups of other systems. I'm not using RAID as a

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Matt Graham
From: "Dorian Monroe" > I don't understand how anyone could consider RAID a "backup" plan. > 'Cause it's not. RAID-1 with a hot spare, where you periodically deactivate the spare, then slap a new spare in, then take the old spare and put it somewhere else, could be used as a backup. I believe

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Bryan O'Neal
If you want an automated offsite backup plan get a cheep machine, toss in some decent storage, and use rSync over the net. If you really want to know more about backups come to AbleConf this Saturday and listen to my disaster recovery presentation I will give you a sampling of a few OSS options and

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Dorian Monroe
I don't understand how anyone could consider RAID a "backup" plan. 'Cause it's not. Sent from my blackberry -Original Message- From: JD Austin Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:20:47 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: off-site backup plan --

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Mooring
I definately see what your saying and agree that the most important thing is to use a distro or OS that ou have policies in place to stay current on patches and updates, but I'm not sure I see your point about gentoo security. It looks to me like that link shows a patch in portage where gentoo had

ot - I got a call today

2009-10-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, mike havens wrote: > This call was from Atlanta, Georgia. 770.999. was the number. After a > little research I found out about ID Spoofing. Was this a soofed number? Or > else is a special number or something like that? The call was from > someone verifying an applica

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread JD Austin
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > > > Of course for mission critical data, I recommend RAID 5 or RAID 1+0 at the > very least. > > AND ALL BACKUPS REQUIRE A RESTORE TEST - laugh! You all can appreciate > this point? > > I second the restore test.. we had a wonderful Legato ba

Re: ot - I got a call today

2009-10-21 Thread Stephen
I have seen this from older Mia-configured pbx systems as well On 10/21/09, mike havens wrote: > This call was from Atlanta, Georgia. 770.999. was the number. After a > little research I found out about ID Spoofing. Was this a soofed number? Or > else is a special number or something li

Re: ot - I got a call today

2009-10-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:23 AM, mike havens wrote: > fun stuff! No! It was fun in the old Black Boxing 2600 phone phreaking days. > > > On 10/21/09, Lisa Kachold wrote: >> >> You can trivially set your ANI field information using Asterisk or any >> callerId tools running from your desktop

Re: ot - I got a call today

2009-10-21 Thread mike havens
fun stuff! On 10/21/09, Lisa Kachold wrote: > > You can trivially set your ANI field information using Asterisk or any > callerId tools running from your desktop using a IAX or SIP trunk. > Axvoice allows you to set the callerid field to whatever you like when you > signup for their $9.99 sip ser

Re: off-site backup plan

2009-10-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Alex Dean wrote: > I make regular backups to a software RAID1 disk array. I'd like to > periodically store some backups offsite. Been thinking about buying 2 extra > drives, and adding 1 of them as a hot spare to the RAID1. Then remove it > from the array, stor

Re: ot - I got a call today

2009-10-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
You can trivially set your ANI field information using Asterisk or any callerId tools running from your desktop using a IAX or SIP trunk. Axvoice allows you to set the callerid field to whatever you like when you signup for their $9.99 sip service. Windows based desktop clients allow this also. O

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
Gentoo likewise has problematic patch security and package management. I have built more than a few of those systems. OpenBSD of course has less to patch, if installed without all the X. SLES has inherent kernel security and NX (immunix-style development by Crispen Cowen), and packages can easily

ot - I got a call today

2009-10-21 Thread mike havens
This call was from Atlanta, Georgia. 770.999. was the number. After a little research I found out about ID Spoofing. Was this a soofed number? Or else is a special number or something like that? The call was from someone verifying an application 'I' filled out.I don't think so! -- :-)~MI

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Mooring
I don't know as much about security as you do, but surely your not suggesting that distros like suse or ubuntu or more secure than openbsd. I thought the whole purpose behind openbsd was to make a secure os, as oppose to suse for example which I quit using on firewall servers for the security issue