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
Less than one week left! http://lopsa-east.org Space still available!
"The most talked about sysadmin community conference of the year! Don't miss it!"
Next week is LOPSA-East 2013, May 3-4, at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. Register "at the door" or on-line. Some sessions filling fast: To be guaranteed your spot, register now!
KEYNOTE: Marcus J. Ranum, Chief Security Officer, Tenable Network Security, Inc. will be presenting the opening keynote address on Friday night. His talk is titled "Wanted: Generalists (because the easy stuff is done)" Computer security has done a fairly good job of picking the "low hanging fruit" with knowledge-bases and engines to execute against them. But that's the easy stuff. Let's talk about what's next.
PRIZES: Three giveaways during the event! Twelve lucky attendees will win a book from O'Reilly, three will go home with LISA tech session passes, and one will leave with a year membership to USENIX/LISA! You must be present to win, and must be registered to be eligible. So register now! http://lopsa-east.org/2013/registration/
TRAINING: Sessions on Linux, Windows, Puppet, Team Efficiency, WordPress, PowerShell, Virtualization, and much more!
Follow us on Twitter! http://twitter.com/lopsaeast
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FRIDAY: An entire day of training offered by world class instructors.
FRIDAY NIGHT: Dinner, Keynote and 'birds of a feather' sessions.
SATURDAY: More training sessions plus 45 minute presentations from invited speakers, 5 minute lightning talks.
Full schedule: http://lopsa-east.org/2013/schedule/
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LOPSA-East (http://lopsa-east.org) is produced by The New Jersey chapter (http://lopsanj.org) of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) (http://lopsa.org). This will be the 4th annual conference, being held May 3-4, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ.
I know someone who is looking for some short term help. They are
looking for someone "whom I can hot-drop into a problem we have with a
production server pair, and have him fix it *within 30* *days*. This
person should be VERY experienced with MySQL Replication, Linux, and
Apache."
Please email me directly if you think you can help them out.
Thanks,
Mike
Sadly, Jim Gettys has been ill and will be unable to speak at
tonight's meeting. We'll still meet and have an informal discussion
and answer any Linux/FOSS support questions people have. We'll also
raffle off some books and go out for pizza afterwards. I hope to
reschedule Jim for a future meeting.
----- Forwarded message from Chuck Anderson <cra(a)WPI.EDU> -----
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 15:02:27 -0400
From: Chuck Anderson <cra(a)WPI.EDU>
To: wlug(a)wlug.org
Subject: [Wlug] Announce: WLUG Meeting Wed 4/10 7PM Jim Gettys on Internet buffer bloat
Precedence: list
Reply-To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
Hi folks,
The next Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG) meeting will be held at
its regularly scheduled time: the 2nd Wednesday of the month, which is
Wednesday, April 10, at 7PM. The location will be the WPI Campus
Center, Mid-Centry Room 331.
This month we will have Jim Gettys from Bell Labs talk about Internet
buffer bloat.
"Internet buffer bloat, by Jim Gettys (Bell Labs)
VOIP and teleconferencing often perform much more poorly on today's
Internet than the Internet of a decade ago, despite great gains in
bandwidth. Lots of fiber, cheap memory, smart hardware, variability of
wireless goodput, changes in web browser behaviour, changes in TCP
implementations, and a focus on benchmarking Internet performance
solely by bandwidth, and engineer's natural reluctance to drop packets
have conspired to encourage papering over problems by adding buffers;
each of which may introduce latency when filled.
The mistaken quest to never drop packets has destroyed interactivity
under load, and often results in actual higher packet loss, as TCP's
congestion avoidance algorithms have been defeated by these
buffers. The lessons of the "RED manifesto" of 1997 have been
forgotten or never learned by a new generation of engineers."
Wednesday, April 10, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
WPI Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331
I will also be raffling off some more items.
Afterwards, we will go out for pizza.
See you there,
Chuck
President, Worcester Linux Users' Group
http://www.wlug.org/
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----- End forwarded message -----
[Note: "Early-bird" price ends in 4 days! Don't lose the discount!]
The LOPSA-East committee is excited to announce our opening keynote speaker:
Marcus J. Ranum, Chief Security Officer, Tenable Network Security, Inc. will be presenting the opening keynote address on Friday night.
Marcus J. Ranum is a world-renowned expert on security system design and implementation. He is recognized as an early innovator in firewall technology, and the implementor of the first commercial firewall product. Since the late 1980's, he has designed a number of groundbreaking security products including the DEC SEAL, the TIS firewall toolkit, the Gauntlet firewall, and NFR's Network Flight Recorder intrusion detection system.
He has been involved in every level of operations of a security product business, from developer, to founder and CEO of NFR. Marcus has served as a consultant to many FORTUNE 500 firms and national governments, as well as serving as a guest lecturer and instructor at numerous high-tech conferences. In 2001, he was awarded the TISC "Clue" award for service to the security community, and the ISSA Lifetime Achievement Award. Marcus is Chief Of Security for Tenable Security, Inc., where he is responsible for research in open source logging tools, and product training. He serves as a technology advisor to a number of start-ups, established concerns, and venture capital groups.
Conference Summary
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LOPSA-East begins Friday with an entire day of training offered by world class instructors. We have half day sessions on Team Efficiency, Configuration Management, Basic and Advanced PowerShell, IPV6 migration, and much more! The conference continues on Saturday, with more half day training sessions along with 45 minute presentations from invited speakers, 5 minute lightning talks, and 'birds of a feather' discussions on participant selected topics.
(The entire training schedule can be found at http://lopsa-east.org/2013/lopsa-east-training/)
Register now! Save up to $197 by registering during the extended Early Bird pricing! Even larger discounts are available for students.
For more information and to register visit http://lopsa-east.org
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LOPSA-East (http://lopsa-east.org) is produced by The New Jersey chapter (http://lopsanj.org) of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) (http://lopsa.org). This will be the 4th annual conference, being held May 3-4, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ.
Hi folks,
The next Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG) meeting will be held at
its regularly scheduled time: the 2nd Wednesday of the month, which is
Wednesday, April 10, at 7PM. The location will be the WPI Campus
Center, Mid-Centry Room 331.
This month we will have Jim Gettys from Bell Labs talk about Internet
buffer bloat.
"Internet buffer bloat, by Jim Gettys (Bell Labs)
VOIP and teleconferencing often perform much more poorly on today's
Internet than the Internet of a decade ago, despite great gains in
bandwidth. Lots of fiber, cheap memory, smart hardware, variability of
wireless goodput, changes in web browser behaviour, changes in TCP
implementations, and a focus on benchmarking Internet performance
solely by bandwidth, and engineer's natural reluctance to drop packets
have conspired to encourage papering over problems by adding buffers;
each of which may introduce latency when filled.
The mistaken quest to never drop packets has destroyed interactivity
under load, and often results in actual higher packet loss, as TCP's
congestion avoidance algorithms have been defeated by these
buffers. The lessons of the "RED manifesto" of 1997 have been
forgotten or never learned by a new generation of engineers."
Wednesday, April 10, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
WPI Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331
I will also be raffling off some more items.
Afterwards, we will go out for pizza.
See you there,
Chuck
President, Worcester Linux Users' Group
http://www.wlug.org/
Register now and save! http://lopsa-east.org Space is limited!
We have recieved a number of requests to extend discounted pricing from people either waiting on approval from their boss, or who just didn't get a chance to register before today. Considering how many people have contacted us, we've decided to extend our discounted pricing for just one more week. Early Bird pricing has been extended until April 8th for LOPSA-East (formerly PICC) May 3-4, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, NJ. If you were on the fence, or waiting for approval, this is your last chance before prices go up!
You can find out more at http://lopsa-east.org
LOPSA-East begins Friday with an entire day of training offered by world class instructors. We have half day sessions on Team Efficiency, Configuration Management, Basic and Advanced PowerShell, IPV6 migration, and much more! The conference continues on Saturday, with more half day training sessions along with 45 minute presentations from invited speakers, 5 minute lightning talks, and 'birds of a feather' discussions on participant selected topics.
(The entire training schedule can be found at http://lopsa-east.org/2013/lopsa-east-training/)
Register now! Save up to $197 by registering during the extended Early Bird pricing! Even larger discounts are available for students.
For more information and to register visit http://lopsa-east.org
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LOPSA-East (http://lopsa-east.org) is produced by The New Jersey chapter (http://lopsanj.org) of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) (http://lopsa.org). This will be the 4th annual conference, being held May 3-4, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ.
