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Fwd: 7/15 Technical Focus Group Invite for Boston-Area User Groups

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA5ZHgHl0iXDssISsRAowmAJ4qJ8X27UV0GrnHYX/uL+uDysx0DQCcDb3a 4A7tSaYQdiWpX+9GLRU+Oj8= =Frww -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

July 2, 2004

Re: [Wlug] stuff

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 July 2004 11:00 am, orbitz wrote: > And then? > > J Schonberg wrote: > >Hi Andy. > > > >I guess if you are reading this, you made it home safely. > > > >I stepped off the train . . . and a bunch of us waited for the train > >to move forward to cross the tracks. Then the conductor indicated > >that we could cross infront of the train because the train wasn't > >going anywhere. > > > >When I crossed the tracks, I saw the first of three poliece cars . . > I met Jason and a couple of other WLUGers at the MegaLUG meeting in Boston on Thursday evening. Jason and I ended up riding the Lowell train at midnight to get home. Jason exited at N. Billerica, and the train sat idle for about 5 minutes. I wondered why. Suddenly, the conductor and 2 Billerica police officers boarded the train and walked past me to the rear of the car. One "gentleman" was escorted off of the train for offenses unknown to me. As the train left the station, I saw 3 police cars in the parking lot. The train proceeded to the Lowell station without further incident. I guess the suspense was better than the real story.... :-) Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA5YdyHl0iXDssISsRAhuLAJ42/MCqxWRccbSnxamWcQO18bNkxgCeIF9R /j7jcekZxYruLqaRxlIV5bc= =nkta -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

July 2, 2004

Re: [Wlug] stuff

by orbitz

And then? J Schonberg wrote: >Hi Andy. > >I guess if you are reading this, you made it home safely. > >I stepped off the train . . . and a bunch of us waited for the train >to move forward to cross the tracks. Then the conductor indicated >that we could cross infront of the train because the train wasn't >going anywhere. > >When I crossed the tracks, I saw the first of three poliece cars . . > > >

July 2, 2004

stuff

by J Schonberg

Hi Andy. I guess if you are reading this, you made it home safely. I stepped off the train . . . and a bunch of us waited for the train to move forward to cross the tracks. Then the conductor indicated that we could cross infront of the train because the train wasn't going anywhere. When I crossed the tracks, I saw the first of three poliece cars . . . Eithere they were expecting a lot of trouble of it was a quite night elsewhere in Billrica. The individual they removed from the train didn't look like you and I guessed that the train would eventually go to Lowell. -- Ok, the web link that ISPs can now read your e-mail http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64043,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 -- When you have a chance, send me the info about the folks that re-did your windows. Thanks. Jason. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo

July 2, 2004

External Harddrive Cases and Such

by sageman＠WPI.EDU

> From: "John Stoffel" <stoffel(a)lucent.com> > Subject: [Wlug] Firewire/USB2.0 case recommendations? > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Message-ID: <16609.39769.539479.557377(a)gargle.gargle.HOWL> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > Folks, > > Anyone know of a good FireWire and/or USB 2.0 external Hard Drive > case? It's got to have a builtin powersupply and be durable. Any > suggestions appreciated. > > John On a different, although related note, was wondering if anyone has had success with a Maxtor OneTouch brand external harddrive. I've read in howtos and in the kernel that you need to enable SCSI to access external USB 2.0/Firewire harddrives, and I assume that the Maxtor OneTouch will go off without a hitch. Right now you can get a 300 GB one off newegg for roughly $270, which is only about $20 more than the internal one. I was thinking of setting up a cron job to backup certain files to the external harddrive. Right now I have a RAID 5 system set up but think this is overkill; additionally, an external harddrive makes sharing between computers that aren't on a network much easier and is mobile to go with my laptop (setting up my laptop to play oggs through my car stereo is something I plan on doing, and instead of backing up my music collection on the laptop I could simply do it on the external harddrive and get a power inteverter to power it via the cigarette lighter plug). Additionally, I can just do striping over my harddrives instead of RAID 5'ing them and increase the preformance (why not? hehe). I was thinking about doing the external harddrive case deal but for backup at least this doesn't seem like a good alternative, since the external harddrive is only $20 more and the external harddrive case is much more than that. In less you plan on buying four or more harddrives to swap into the case, its not really cost effective. As for the long run, an external harddrive case isn't viable anywho, since a couple years from now its going to be nothing compared to the new ones, plus external harddrive technology will advance and speed up tremendously; look at Firewire 800 right now, already out, and one sees that 'investing' in an external harddrive case just doesn't pay out. Just my $.02.

July 1, 2004

connections

by doug waud

Hi Just a thought/comment (couldn't resist!) From: Keller, Tim <Tim.Keller(a)stratus.com> if((get_cur_temp("Fahrenheit") >= 70) && (osha_violation("electric_fence") == OFF)) { pool.occupants.add(Tim); } I gather, Tim, that you are not enamored of firewire! :-) doug

July 1, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Firewire/USB2.0 case recommendations?

by John Stoffel

John> Anyone know of a good FireWire and/or USB 2.0 external Hard John> Drive case? It's got to have a builtin powersupply and be John> durable. Any suggestions appreciated. Well, I didn't get any replies, but I went and looked around a bit and found a "Speed Metal Box" at a local store, but which I didn't like because it required a wall wart to use. Plus, it didn' have a builtin fan, it relied entirely on convection only. So I ended up ordering (for a cheaper price!) an ME-320 5.25" enclosure with builtin power supply and USB 2.0 and firewire interfaces. I'll let people know how it works once it comes in. It will be holding a 120gb disk for backups and data transfer uses. I'll let people know how it works out. John

July 1, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Website updated...upcoming activity

by doug waud

> -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@comcast.net] > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:19 PM > To: Worcester Linux Users Group > Subject: [Wlug] Website updated...upcoming activity > > Also, an early reminder about the annual WLUG BBQ , which will be held in > Shrewsbury, MA USA at Doug Waud's house on Wednesday, July 21st at 6:00 PM > (yes, that's 6:00 PM and its not a misprint (is it Doug??)). I don't think so. The reasoning was to time it so nobody had to wait around twiddling thumbs for a 7:00 start date. doug

July 1, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Firewire/USB2.0 case recommendations?

by Doug Geiger

Laptop hard drive or full-sized? The lab I work in has a couple of these portable Firewire/USB 2.0 enclosures: http://www.cooldrives.com/25firmobexen.html It needs external power (there's a picture of the adapter on the page) only for plugging into the mini-Firewire connections (i.e. most laptop firewire connections), but works fine with a full-sized firewire, or USB without external power. It's just large enough for a laptop drive, so very portable (we fit the whole kit including all the extra connectors into one of those 25-CD nylon cases). -- Doug Geiger runexe(a)ece.wpi.edu runexe(a)ieee.org doug.geiger(a)gmail.com dgeiger(a)alum.wpi.edu Surface Metrology Lab Manager -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of John Stoffel Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 12:40 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Firewire/USB2.0 case recommendations? Folks, Anyone know of a good FireWire and/or USB 2.0 external Hard Drive case? It's got to have a builtin powersupply and be durable. Any suggestions appreciated. John _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

June 29, 2004

Firewire/USB2.0 case recommendations?

by John Stoffel

Folks, Anyone know of a good FireWire and/or USB 2.0 external Hard Drive case? It's got to have a builtin powersupply and be durable. Any suggestions appreciated. John

June 29, 2004