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Re: [Wlug] PCI IDE card?

by Jeff Moyer

==> Regarding Re: [Wlug] PCI IDE card?; "John Stoffel" <john(a)stoffel.org> adds: Chuck> Most IDE/SATA RAID (especially onboard) is shite and completely not Chuck> worth using, to the point that Linux software RAID is vastly Chuck> superior. Even if I had a so-called "RAID" chipset on my Chuck> motherboard, I'd disable it and use software RAID. [snip] john> I keep waffling back and forth between RAID1 (mirroring) and RAID5. john> And I keep waffling between booting from RAID or not. Part of the If you don't boot from RAID, then you still have a single point of failure. It's quite possible that this is a fine solution for your home setup. john> problem is that to boot off raid, you need to build a intrd image, john> and since I do a bunch of kernel compiles and reboots all the time john> (say once a week or so...) I've been a bit leary of all that. Let me rephrase your reasoning: You don't want to use an initrd because you aren't familiar with the process. Just because you do a lot of kernel builds/reboots (and your definition of a lot is my definition of very few, here), that is no reason not to use an initrd. What distribution do you use? You could simply use the packaging scripts that they provide to build your custom kernels. This, in the end, would be the best solution in my opinion. john> Now that would be a good meeting some evening, talking about and john> showing how to setup a bootable RAID system for the OS and how to john> upgrade your kernel easily and automatically. Two separate issues, I think. -Jeff

20 years, 6 months

Re: [Wlug] OpenWrt

by Jeff Kinz

> Mike wrote: > >At the last meeting we briefly discussed building a Linux Router from a > >single board computer. I was poking around the net and found the OpenWrt > >project. I'm curious if anyone has any experience with OpenWrt? On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 05:05:49PM +0100, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > Yes, excellent distro.. I use it on 12 boxes which are a mix of > Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS. Bad news - Good News: FYI - LINKSYS Model Changes: The Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS lines have moved from Linux to VXworks to reduce the cost of producing the hardware. (VXworks requires less memory, reduces the size of the flash needed for the device, which now doesn't have enough room for Linux.) Fortunately, Linksys had added a new model specifically for Linux hackers, called the "WRT54GL", (presumably the "L" is for "Linux"), which will have a street price of $50-$70, slightly higher than the VXworks models. If you want to hack on one of these boxes, make sure that you get the correct model. Versions 1 thru 4 of the WRT54G and WRT54GS were Linux based but all versions from 5 and up will be VXworks based. If you can't get a v4 or earlier model of the original line, then make sure you get a WRT54GL or be prepared to replace the internal flash component with a larger piece. http://wifinetnews.com/archives/006101.html -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco

20 years, 2 months

Low-spec [Re: Recycling centers]

by Jamie Guinan

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Andy Stewart wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick Sawyer wrote: > > We can always use working monitors, a p1 or p2 may be too old to be of > > any use though. > > We can also give tax receipts for donations. > > Another thought: I've found that machines around 233 MHz can be used as > Linux thin clients (LTSP). The issue with machines of this vintage is > whether or not the video card can display a sufficient resolution to be > useful with modern software. Heh, lately I've been tinkering with my first 32-bit PC, a 386DX/25 with 8MB ram, 1.44MB floppy, and an old SMC Ethernet card. I can boot 2.6.15 on it, with uClibc+busybox from the buildroot project (like Andy's RouterBoard), and still have around 200K on the floppy for apps/data. One thing that bugs me is that /proc/cpuinfo shows only 3.08 bogomips, but according to this I should be getting ~3.92, http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BogoMips/bogo-list.html#AEN244 I should check the overclockers sites, maybe some LEDs would make it go faster. ;) Granted, I wouldn't have use for 10 of these, but I like to keep a few old systems around just for fun. Anyway, I hope to make it to tonights meeting. I saw someone mention PDAs a few messages ago - I picked up an Agenda VR3 from some job lot outfit on eBay a few weeks ago. A failed product in the market, but I had always wanted one in my collection. Haven't really played with it yet, so I can't talk much about it, but I can bring it for show and tell. -Jamie

19 years, 11 months

Re: [Wlug] Extra Hardware

by Adam Keck

Speaking o' which.... I have 4 2.4 gig scsi drives in enclosures. Most have centronix connectors. I have some cables too. They are about to be donated to goodwill, but I will hold them till this month's meeting if someone wants them. Let me know by cc'ing to ghostis(a)myrealbox.com; my procmail filter is on the fritz so your wlug reply may get lost in the shuffle. I also have an axpci alpha board with cpu & memory in a case, but I don't know if anyone would have a use for those things anymore... -Adam On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Brian Niece wrote: > It is with a heavy heart that I make the following announcement: > > After seven enjoyable and educational years, I am shutting down my last > Linux computer. After taking out the parts that I need for my zippy new > Athlon and donating most of the computer to my employer, I will have the > following left over. I don't feel like dealing with Ebay, so I will gladly > give them to the first respondents who contact me and are willing to pick > them up. > > The items are: > > 1 Seagate Medalist Pro 1080, 1 Gb SCSI hard drive > 1 Seagate Medalist Pro 2160, 2 Gb SCSI hard drive > 1 Sony CDU76S, 4x SCSI CD-ROM Drive > 1 50 pin internal SCSI hard drive cable. > > -- > Brian K. Niece, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor of Chemistry > Assumption College > 500 Salisbury St. > Worcester, MA 01609-1296 > 508-767-7209 > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > _____________________________________________ Adam Keck The Mathworks 508-647-7298 Natick, Ma www.mathworks.com FreeNIX/Backup/Unix Administrator _____________________________________________

24 years, 7 months

Re: [Wlug] Picking a distro (was: 1st posting: Worcester ISP? Distros? LAC?)

by Charles R. Anderson

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:43:09AM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: stoffel> So, what do you all think is the next best distro to go with now? Well, Red Hat 9 meets all your requirements above, except the one that says you don't want Red Hat :) You didn't give any good reason why you wanted to stay away from Red Hat other than you "want to change try to stay away from GNOME". Well, Red Hat 9 has KDE too, and you can always get WindowMaker, Blackbox, Fluxbox, XFCE, or something else if you want a ligher weight GUI. http://freshrpms.net/ is a good place to find such addons. The Red Hat Linux distro that we all know an love <g> is turning into the Fedora Core community supported and developed distro. Its direction, shape, package selection, etc. will be very much driven by what the community wants. In this way, it will be more like the Debian Project, which I believe will alleviate some of the reservations people may have had about using Red Hat in the past. E.g. WindowMaker and those other GUIs will be able to come back into the distro if the community desires it. Fedora Core will also support apt-get, yum, and up2date with third party repositories of software. This will include Fedora Core itself, updates, Fedora Extras, Fedora Alternatives, and Fedora Legacy (for those who want an older, more stable distro to be supported for a longer time). See http://fedora.redhat.com/ for more info about the project. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

22 years, 5 months

Regarding M$ enforcement of licenses...

by Stephen C. Daukas

In case you haven't heard, M$ is auditing a dozen or so large school districts for compliance on licensing. Of course, this will be ugly and will run one district an estimated $1,000,000 per year to comply with M$. That's $1,000,000 more then they pay now. M$ is offering a simplified arrangement whereby a school system pays a flat fee for every Intel box (regardless of what it might actually be running) that would run that same district about $30,000. You can see where this is headed! Aside from noting that people's dishonesty about paying the real costs associated with M$ software has gotten them into this trouble (if only because the real costs are not apparent to "management"), I'm wondering what is available as a real alternative to M$ for the great unwashed masses. Of course, the answer I would expect to hear is "Linux!", but... I'm talking about a solution that is useable by those who are not rabid members of a LUG, or Sys admins in their day job. I'm talking about productivity software that will seamlessly read and write M$ file formats (Excel, Word, etc.). I don't know, for example, if Star Office is a real alternative because I don't know how well it interoperates with those who use Word, for example, on a daily basis. Perhaps there is a solution that will reliably run M$ applications without having to buy the OS, but that is only a step in the right direction. I was hoping to hear suggestions about what is out there and if Linux is ready to work seamlessly in heterogeneous High-Tech world. This might be a good topic for one of the WLUG meetings... Steve

23 years, 10 months

Re: [Wlug] Information for Linux newbies?

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Harrington wrote: > As i mentioned at the meeting this past week I am going to be giving a > seminar for linux newbies and would like to pull from people that > know better then i do on what i should teach people. What i would like > to know is: What are some things that you wish you had known as a > newbie? Think back to your very first linux install and any > short-cuts, tips, tricks, and gatcha's that would make peoples first > experience easier. There is a lot of windows resentment after the slow > trainwreck that is vista, so lets see if we can get a few new > converts! Hi Kevin, When I was a newbie, Linux live CDs didn't yet exist, but they do now! I find the Knoppix CD/DVD useful for testing a new piece of hardware (like a laptop) to see if all of the pieces work with Linux. I believe that the Ubuntu CDs can also boot up in a live mode. In this way, you can try Linux without messing with your hard drive, and also see if your hardware works with that distribution. Note that if something doesn't work with the live CD, that doesn't necessarily mean it won't work with Linux at all, but demonstrating that something *does* work is a good thing. Just a thought... So, when are you resurrecting WPILA?! :-) Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHP8pAHl0iXDssISsRAkIlAJ9jTYAhCb3UkpsR7d1A4AWtufiv4wCgiICP 1T+k0toR3pc9MyRrDjSM2PE= =oBFq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

18 years, 3 months

Spectrum, Recursive dns and interception of root authoritative DNS

by steve＠patternsoft.net

Hey all. I was wondering since were all? Worcester or surrounding and dealing with Spectrum as an ISP, if you’ve run into the same thing I have in the last few months. I used to, as you’ll see soon, run unbound as a recursive DNS server in my home network to cache and limit external DNS queries that was the forwarder behind Pihole. It worked great for a very long time. But a few months ago, my internet went down, and It turned out to be non cached dns queries starting to fail. I realized in logs that unbound was getting errors reaching out to dns servers and disabled it until I could investigate instead forwarding to cloud flare temporarily. Now that I have had time to research and investigate, I have found that at least SOMETHING is intercepting my my queries to authoritative DNS servers when I reset unbound and it throw’s away the response because they aren’t “AA” status responses and it never caches the root dns and therefor won’t resolve anything. I come to find out the “authoritative” servers are responding with a status of RA which means it’s not the actual authoritative service when I query manually, dig @198.41.0.4 . NS +norecurse an actual authoritative, and that this is most likely a change Spectrum has made. Has anybody else ran into this? Is it actually Spectrum. I guess I haven’t dug far enough yet to see if its may be a firmware update to my router, UDM PRO yet. Still working on that, but though I’d ask this group first before I dig into that and save myself the time and go straight to ISP workarounds. Thanks in advance! Looking forward to our next meeting!! Steve

6 months, 2 weeks

Fw: RE: show

by Yury I Vashugin

hi, everyone. since we talked about producing an educational show about linux and putting it 'in-the-air' at the last wlug meeting and i saw a very enthusiastic response so i've reserved the studio for oct.21(see below). there's a problem with a converter but i'm sure we can find a laptop with a video output. for the show we need two cameramen(anyone can do that; very simple duties and can be learned within 3-5 min), a show host and guests. please, bring any suggestions or/and recommendations. thanks. yury --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marc Serra <mserra(a)ci.shrewsbury.ma.us> To: 'Yury I Vashugin' <vashugins(a)juno.com> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:42:56 -0400 Subject: RE: show Message-ID: <A7F72312FF5DB348BE2D037A6FE5F1C1407EC2@selpnt2> Yes. Does anybody in the group have access to a scan converter or can you use a computer with a video card output? Since we spoke about it, our last scan converter was put into service to be used on one of our channel's for our bulletin board. For you to use it, we would have to take a channel off the air. I know that a lot of laptops have video out. -----Original Message----- From: Yury I Vashugin [mailto:vashugins@juno.com] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 11:48 AM To: mserra(a)ci.shrewsbury.ma.us Subject: show marc, can i reserve the studio for half-an-hour show on tuesday, october 21 at 6:30 (actually it will not be a show; just a preliminary stuff- what light, what background, what settings we want for 'linux show', to try a scanner converter etc)? yury ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

22 years, 5 months

Re: [Wlug] Converting an iPAQ

by Wesley Allen

On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 16:29, maitre(a)ccs.neu.edu wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:05:08PM -0400, Wesley Allen wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 14:41, maitre(a)ccs.neu.edu wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:31:27PM -0400, Wesley Allen wrote: > > > > For the last few months I've been hoping to save up some money and get a > > > > Zaurus, I don't think that it's going to happen any time soon. So, I've > > > > got an iPAQ that I can't sync, or even connect, with my linux laptop and > > > > it's beginning to get on my nerves. So, even though I've got some > > > > software on my iPAQ that I'll miss (a Bible Reader with the Greek Text > > > > and SimCity 2000), I'm thinking that it's time to take the plunge and > > > > get Linux and Qtopia on my 3835. > > > I would recommend OPIE over Qtopia. Its the fork of Qtopia. It seems to > > > making very good process. Qtopia has been quiet lately. (lately - meaning > > > the last 6 months or so) > > > > > > Bible Reader - i'm not sure there is an alternate app for that, yet > > > SimCity 2000 - There's always xbill! Nope, even did a urpmi xbill and nothing. > > > > I know of an alternative app for a BibleReader, it's the modules I'll > > miss. What's xbill? > xbill is a game that has come with every linux disto that i've tried. > It's kind of a classic linux game. > Try typing 'xbill' in a shell (while in X), and take a look > > > > > Three Questions, > > > > 1. Has anyone on the list done this, especially with this model? > > > i haven't. Mine is a 36xx. But i have gone through the install before. > > > > I know the process is the same, so... > > > > > > > > > 2. Has anyone who has done this used any of theKompany's embedded apps? > > > i have not used theKompany's apps. Which ones were you thinking of > > > using? > > > > Their ogg player for one, and a couple of other things that Shawn Gordon > > says SHOULD run on an iPAQ. I want tKc to stay in business, so I don't > > mind paying some money, for stuff like that. I like their Calendar > > better than Qtopia's or Opie's for example. Though Opie's got the > > "today" screen, great touch! Will qtopia apps run in Opie, how "forked" > > is it? > > ahhh, i see. I would like to see theKompany to stay in business as well. > Good point. > > There are a couple of calendar programs, > - theKompany's (never seen/used it) > - OPIE's and Qtopia's (believe they are pretty simaler) > - korganizer (it was ported to QTe, it has the same code base as > korganizer for KDE So they both look very similar, one is just > smaller than the other). > > Yeah, the ogg player would be nice. > > One of OPIE's goals is to be binary compatable with Qtopia, as well as > the sharp zaurus. So you should be able to run any on either Qtopia, or > OPIE the apps. > > > > > 3. Is there anyone willing to help me do this face to face? I could do > > > > this on my own, but the idea of potentially owning a $599 paperweight > > > > dims my enthusiasm when I think of going it alone. (I'll buy the > > > > coffee) > > > Perhaps, i don't know if i can make it to the next meeting or not. I > > > will be in boston that day. It's hard to say at this point whether i > > > can be back in time. > > > > Actually, I was thinking of just setting up shop in a local coffee house > > with laptop, iPAQ, and mug. How long does the install take? It might > > I'm a tea drinker ;) ... I don't remember how long it takes exacly. It > takes a few minutes to transfer all that data through a serial port. > Also i seem to remember that i took a while to make a backup image of > WinCE (16Mb of files for me, probably 32Mb of files for you). > > > > make a good meeting topic though, an "embedded linux installfest!" > > (Imagine trying THAT outside a bestbuy! > heh, intersting idea. > > -brad > > WARNING: this was not checked for spelling errors. > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > --

23 years, 6 months

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