September 2007 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by John Stoffel

Sean> Are there issues with regards to guarantee of service when you Sean> go whole hog onto Cable? Sure, there are potentials that I could lose it all. But in the 9 years I've been in the house, I haven't lost cable for more than a few hours, and that was a few years ago. The past results do not predict the future, yadda yadda..." *grin* Sean> Verizon for all their faults is very good about getting you Sean> reconnected if there is a line down. I could be mistaken, but I Sean> believe that they are required by law to do certain levels of Sean> service. They are required to *try*. Also, my neighborhood is all underground lines, so I only need to worry about the other umpteen miles of wires in the air going down. Sean> I have a friend in Leicester, whose street lost the Charter Sean> Cable line last Friday and they restored it Wednesday Sean> morning. That would be a long time to be without phone service. We both have Cell phones, so it would be an inconvenience, but not the end of the world. It would be worse for my wife because she a) roots for the red sox and b) works from home doing web mistress stuff. Sean> I'm in Shrewsbury, so we have municipal electric, cable, Sean> internet connectivity, and they are starting to offer VOIP as Sean> well. Are they required to offer certain levels of service and to get things working again as quickly as Verizon? Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing you here, I'm trying to just point out that noone can guaranttee perfect uptime in any service. In Boylston we have town Power. I'd love for the town to allow Verizon Fios in with full phone, internet and TV support. Then I could shop for the best deal between them and Charter. Competition is good. Anyway, it's an experiment in some ways. Saving money is nice, but if worse comes to worse, I punt and move back to Verizon for phone. Sean> John Stoffel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Anyone on here using Charter Telephone VOIP service? I've currently >> got Verizon, but the wife hates it because our phone lines get flaky >> all the time, esp when it rains. >> >> So I'm thinking to save money and combine all my stuff onto Charter. >> I've already got High Speed internet and regular old cable. Not wild >> about Digital Cable since I'm happy with Tivo and I don't want yet >> another set top box to have to deal with... >> >> So, any horror stories about Charter Phone VOIP quality and service? >> >> Thanks, >> John >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> >> >> Sean> _______________________________________________ Sean> Wlug mailing list Sean> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Sean> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug Sean> !DSPAM:46e18bf595945955411388!

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by Sean Flynn

Are there issues with regards to guarantee of service when you go whole hog onto Cable? Verizon for all their faults is very good about getting you reconnected if there is a line down. I could be mistaken, but I believe that they are required by law to do certain levels of service. I have a friend in Leicester, whose street lost the Charter Cable line last Friday and they restored it Wednesday morning. That would be a long time to be without phone service. I'm in Shrewsbury, so we have municipal electric, cable, internet connectivity, and they are starting to offer VOIP as well. John Stoffel wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone on here using Charter Telephone VOIP service? I've currently > got Verizon, but the wife hates it because our phone lines get flaky > all the time, esp when it rains. > > So I'm thinking to save money and combine all my stuff onto Charter. > I've already got High Speed internet and regular old cable. Not wild > about Digital Cable since I'm happy with Tivo and I don't want yet > another set top box to have to deal with... > > So, any horror stories about Charter Phone VOIP quality and service? > > Thanks, > John > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > >

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Oh my gawd.. What do I do now?

by Chuck Anderson

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:33:21AM -0400, Ken Jones wrote: > The XP side of the machine works fine, but it crashes overnight. > Where do I start? What do I do? Can I save the linux half of the > hard drive? It's probably too late. You already have data corruption due to the failed hard drive. First of all, stop using the drive immediately. Get a new one and only connect the old one for rescue purposes, and only try to read from it, not write. You could try using a rescue utility like "ddrescue" or the other one "GNU ddrescue" (yes there are two with the same name) to copy the good sectors to a new hard drive or file, then use a utility like "foremost" to carve the original files out of it if it won't mount normally. If you want to try modifying the copy, make a second copy and always keep the original unmodified copy in case further modifications, fsck, etc. messes it up even more. Next time, make sure to set up smartmontools (smartd) to email you when a hard drive starts to fail, and perhaps get a second hard drive and mirror it using Linux software RAID. If you use Linux software RAID, setup mdadm monitor (mdmonitor) to email you if you have a failed device in the RAID set. These email monitoring steps are crucial, since if you have redundancy, you might not otherwise notice a single failed device until the second one fails, and by then it is too late. I just had a hard drive fail and lost no data thanks to a RAID 1 mirror and mdmonitor/smartd.

Sept. 7, 2007

EEProm Programmer

by Tom Misilo

Hey, I know this isn't completely linux related, but I was wondering if anyone happened to have any information on a Omni 64 EEPROM programmer.The Model is "Omni 64" And was manufactured by Oliver Advanced Engineering, Inc. (OAE). What I really want to do is be able to use the programmer to program some EEPROMs and make them boot eeproms for a few network cards so I can use LTSP (Thin Clients) on more computers I have and not have to attempt to boot from cd or floppy. Thanks, Tom Misilo -- Tom Misilo AIM:Tmisilo FL Jabber:tmisilo@jabber.org http://tmisilo.ath.cx

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Oh my gawd.. What do I do now?

by Lee Keyser-Allen

My knee jerk reaction would be to get a replacement drive. Install Linux on it and attempt to mount the failing drive and see if you can pull off the information that you care about before the whole drive goes casters up. Good luck! On 9/7/07, Ken Jones <kjones(a)ziplink.net> wrote: > > > > I have a single 120 Gig hard drive dual booted XP and Fedora Core 6 machine. > > Recently Linux had been running slowly. I restarted, selected the linux > side and was shocked to have it fail into a fix disk mode. It suggested > that I use fsck. I did and answered "yes" to seemingly thousands of > questions. Once finally done fixing errors I rebooted. Now it fails > completely. > > It complains about multiple "dma-intr: error" and {uncorrectable error} > > The last gasp before terminating says: > "not syncing: Attempted to kill init!" > > Then it hangs indefinitely. No keyboard input has any affect. > > The XP side of the machine works fine, but it crashes overnight. Where do I > start? What do I do? Can I save the linux half of the hard drive? > > Ken Jones > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > -- Lee Keyser-Allen (lkeyser(a)alum.wpi.edu)

Sept. 7, 2007

Oh my gawd.. What do I do now?

by Ken Jones

I have a single 120 Gig hard drive dual booted XP and Fedora Core 6 machine. Recently Linux had been running slowly. I restarted, selected the linux side and was shocked to have it fail into a fix disk mode. It suggested that I use fsck. I did and answered "yes" to seemingly thousands of questions. Once finally done fixing errors I rebooted. Now it fails completely. It complains about multiple "dma-intr: error" and {uncorrectable error} The last gasp before terminating says: "not syncing: Attempted to kill init!" Then it hangs indefinitely. No keyboard input has any affect. The XP side of the machine works fine, but it crashes overnight. Where do I start? What do I do? Can I save the linux half of the hard drive? Ken Jones

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by John Stoffel

Frank> Yup - I got the whole triple play bundle, with a fedora 7 box Frank> as firewall. I've just sprung for the bundle as well. I'm going to save a bunch of money, even on international (rarely done) calls, since they're just 6 cents a minute. If they haven't lied to me. :] John

Sept. 7, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by Frank Sweetser

Tal Cohen wrote: > I have Vonage and have been using them for a few years no. No problems at > all running over a Verizon DSL connection. I've heard mixed reviews about Vonage. For some people, it's flawless. A handfull I've talked to, though, have had a problem where there's no audio for the first 10 seconds or so of a call. Most people, hearing nothing, just hang up on the other end. One guy in particular, when his wife couldn't get through to the doctor when the baby was having problems, ditched Vonage very quickly. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC

Sept. 6, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by Frank Sweetser

John Stoffel wrote: > Frank> John Stoffel wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Anyone on here using Charter Telephone VOIP service? I've currently >>> got Verizon, but the wife hates it because our phone lines get flaky >>> all the time, esp when it rains. > > Frank> I use Charter VoIP server at home. Basically, unless you > Frank> looked at where the wires ran or peeked at the bill, you'd > Frank> never know that it wasn't a regular phone. > > Cool. Do you have also have Charter's high speed internet? I've got > that currently and I run m0n0wall (http://m0n0.ch) as my firewall. Yup - I got the whole triple play bundle, with a fedora 7 box as firewall. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC

Sept. 6, 2007

Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by Tal Cohen

I have Vonage and have been using them for a few years no. No problems at all running over a Verizon DSL connection. Tal -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Waite Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 10:40 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Cc: Brett Russ Subject: Re: [Wlug] Charter Telephone reviews, boylston? On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Brett Russ wrote: > On 9/5/07, John Stoffel <john(a)stoffel.org> wrote: > > So I'm thinking to save money and combine all my stuff onto Charter. > > I've already got High Speed internet and regular old cable. Not wild > > about Digital Cable since I'm happy with Tivo and I don't want yet > > another set top box to have to deal with... > > I know nothing about Charter's VoIP because I use VoicePulse VoIP and > highly recommend it. Half the price of charter for the plan I use > ($15/mo) and I'm very happy especially with their service department. > If you have any problems you'll talk to and hear back from intelligent > service people who call and/or email you to discuss the issue. > > -BR > http://www.voicepulse.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug For VIOP alternatives check out GalaxyVoice. http://galaxyvoice.com For a MA phone number there is no montly fee and 60 mins free. The oer minute costs are free after that. Of course the features are all there too 3 way/call wait/caller ID/voicemail/hunt group/find me followme/etc Vmail is nice as you can setup an email with wav attachment I use it and am pretty happy. Thanks Brian _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Sept. 6, 2007