Re: [SLUG] Asynchronous Distributed Filesystem

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:46:35PM +1100, Joel Heenan wrote: Hi, [snip] Sorry I didn't mean to say differences I meant to say distances. The DR site is a good 20km away. I have not researched this thoroughly but it was my understanding that GFS was designed for fibre connected volumes not

[SLUG] Fedoara 8 or Suse 10.3

2008-01-16 Thread leei
Hi all, Sorry to bother you again. Would it be better to use Suse 10.3 or Fedora 8 as a distribution to use to study Linux for the LPI exams? Thanks, Lee --- South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za

Re: [SLUG] Fedoara 8 or Suse 10.3

2008-01-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Would it be better to use Suse 10.3 or Fedora 8 as a distribution to use to study Linux for the LPI exams? Whichever you are more comfortable with. The differences are either covered by LPI, or don't matter too much anyway. :-) - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008:

Re: [SLUG] Wireless broadband for Eee

2008-01-16 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:14 +1100, Mark Pearson wrote: One of the doctors I work for has an Eee for travel purposes and has tested his 3G usb modem (I think from Vodafone) and it seems to work OK. I must say that all this talk of the Eee has me interested, especially as it may trigger other

Re: [SLUG] Fedoara 8 or Suse 10.3

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:43:44AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Would it be better to use Suse 10.3 or Fedora 8 as a distribution to use to study Linux for the LPI exams? Whichever you are more comfortable with. The differences are either covered by LPI, or don't

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] If you could ask Microsoft a question what would it be?

2008-01-16 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:35:39 +1100 elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeez Alan, (old joke warning) they used lawyers at my uni...there are some things a rat won't do! And some students became emotionally attached to rats. And (to finish the old joke), there aren't enough rats.

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] If you could ask Microsoft a question what would it be?

2008-01-16 Thread elliott-brennan
Jeez Alan, (old joke warning) they used lawyers at my uni...there are some things a rat won't do! Tish Bum. duck Alan L Tyree wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:08:38 +1100 elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Melissa Draper [EMAIL PROTECTED] At the very least, this is an opportunity to

Re: [SLUG] Wireless broadband for Eee

2008-01-16 Thread Mark Pearson
Sonia Hamilton wrote: I must say that all this talk of the Eee has me interested, especially as it may trigger other companies to produce similar products. I'm travelling o/s with my laptop at the moment, and the idea of having a light weight linux box that's cheap enough to not be totally

Re: [SLUG] Windows Home Servers - the book for children AND the website

2008-01-16 Thread david . lyon
Here is the book, teaching children about Windows home servers: http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/microserveces08/1000446153 And here is the website it comes from: http://www.stayathomeserver.com Watch the videos. They're brilliant! Yeah - the presentations are very effective. Since I am

[SLUG] Domain registrar recommendations

2008-01-16 Thread Ashley Glenday
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, This is a quick and easy one (and not entirely Linux related) but here goes. I register domains for my clients and am looking at another registrar with better pricing and a better interface for me to keep all the domains in one place. Who