Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?
by John Stoffel
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
3 weeks, 1 day
Re: [Wlug] Meeting topics
by Jeff Moyer
Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU> writes:
> I've noticed that not too many people have putting in meeting topic requests,
> so I thought that if anyone's interested I'd volunteer to throw together some
> slides on BtrFS.
>
> For those of you who haven't heard of it, BtrFS is the next generation linux
> filesystem. Though still in heavy development, it was included in the
> mainstream kernel last year. It promises to scale to filesystems well beyond
> what any of the current offerings can handle (including ext4), as well as
> offering far greater flexibility and better data security for data admins.
>
> If you have anything else that you'd like to hear about, either instead of or
> in addition to BtrFS, chime in, and hopefully someone else on the list will be
> able to make it happen!
If anyone is interested in a talk on SSDs, chime in. I can present my
experiences with these devices. I've evaluated the performance of
several vendors' products, ranging from the poor to the exemplary. I
can talk about the modifications made in the block layer to accommodate
for these devices, and the current implementation of the block discard
support (which maps to ATA TRIM, which is important for device lognevity
and performance) and how that is wired up to file systems such as ext4.
Cheers,
Jeff
8 years, 7 months
Job openings: web developer, application support specialist
by Brian Conway
Hi folks. My company is looking for a couple people for openings.
Background: We're a two year-old startup located in Worcester that
produces a high-performance, bidirectional messaging infrastructure that
encompasses voice, SMS, email, IM, social networking, and more. Current
customers include a number of restaurant chains, sports venues, and state
agencies. The positions are full-time with health benefits. Pay has some
flexibility, but geared towards entry level and recent grads.
Web developer: PHP, Ajax, SQL (Oracle), XML, Linux (of course).
Additional responsibility/salary is available for partial system
operations support.
Customer support/application specialist: Customer-facing, non-programmer,
will become an expert in our applications. Responsible for initial setup
and configuration of new customers in our applications and
troubleshooting. Additional roles as they appear.
Let me know if anyone's interested and I'll pass it along, thanks.
Brian Conway
8 years, 8 months
Re: [Wlug] Meeting topics
by Keith Wright
> From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU>
>
> (I guess this mean I have to actually finish up the slides now...)
To quote my boss: no need to hurry, just start it now...
and finish before you go home.
-- Keith
8 years, 8 months
Re: [Wlug] Meeting topics
by Andy Stewart
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Frank Sweetser wrote:
> I've noticed that not too many people have putting in meeting topic requests,
> so I thought that if anyone's interested I'd volunteer to throw together some
> slides on BtrFS.
>
> For those of you who haven't heard of it, BtrFS is the next generation linux
> filesystem. Though still in heavy development, it was included in the
> mainstream kernel last year. It promises to scale to filesystems well beyond
> what any of the current offerings can handle (including ext4), as well as
> offering far greater flexibility and better data security for data admins.
>
> If you have anything else that you'd like to hear about, either instead of or
> in addition to BtrFS, chime in, and hopefully someone else on the list will be
> able to make it happen!
>
HI Frank,
I think that would be a great topic for our next meeting. Shall I
update the website accordingly?
Thanks,
Andy
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Andy Stewart (KB1OIQ)
Founder: Worcester Linux Users' Group
Founder: Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group
President: PART of Westford, MA (WB1GOF)
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8 years, 8 months
Meeting topics
by Frank Sweetser
I've noticed that not too many people have putting in meeting topic requests,
so I thought that if anyone's interested I'd volunteer to throw together some
slides on BtrFS.
For those of you who haven't heard of it, BtrFS is the next generation linux
filesystem. Though still in heavy development, it was included in the
mainstream kernel last year. It promises to scale to filesystems well beyond
what any of the current offerings can handle (including ext4), as well as
offering far greater flexibility and better data security for data admins.
If you have anything else that you'd like to hear about, either instead of or
in addition to BtrFS, chime in, and hopefully someone else on the list will be
able to make it happen!
--
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
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8 years, 8 months
[OT]Seeing SCSI devices in Solaris
by Chuck Noyes
Hi All,
This may a bit [OT], but ...
At work we have several Sparc servers running Solaris 10u8 that are connected to storage arrays via fiber cables and switches.
Some of these hosts can have thousands of connections and can take hours to boot!
Does anyone know a way to view the scsi connections in Solaris? In RedHat, I can do a cat /proc/scsi/scsi and see the connections.
How can I do this in Solaris? devfsadm doesn't seem to give me what I want, and Google doesn't provide too much help.
TIA,
-Chuck
8 years, 8 months
Greetings
by Klene, Matthew
Hello,
As a recent subscriber to the user group I was hoping to make my first
user group gathering this evening. I was writing to confirm that the
meeting scheduled this evening was still a go, and the information on
the website containing time and location (room next to Morgan Hall
dinning center) was correct.
Regards,
Matt Klene
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8 years, 8 months
Upcoming meetting reminder
by Andy Stewart
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HI Everybody,
I've just updated the website...sorry that I let it get so out of date.
We have a meeting coming up on Thursday, February 11th in that meeting
room next to the Morgan Hall dining center. It is very close to the
former Access Grid room where we used to meet.
If anybody is interested in leading the discussion or giving a
presentation, please let me know, or just bring it to the meeting. If I
know in advance, I'll announce it on the website - this often attracts
more people to the meeting.
Our last meeting was rather lightly attended, perhaps because I didn't
get the reminder out in enough time. I pulled together a talk about how
I used libHaru to generate PDF output from a program that I wrote.
I could bring in another program (Perl script) that I wrote to get data
out of a ham radio related piece of test gear. It is the very first
native Linux program in the world to talk to this device. I know
because I asked for (and received!!!) a previously unpublished
specification from the vendor. Sweet! I will be releasing this program
under the GPL v3 shortly.
I'm looking forward to seeing lots of people at the next meeting.
Of course, we'll go out after the meeting for pizza and socializing.
See ya later,
Andy
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Andy Stewart (KB1OIQ)
Founder: Worcester Linux Users' Group
Founder: Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group
President: PART of Westford, MA (WB1GOF)
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8 years, 8 months
