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Giant Computer Garage Sale (some Free!!)
by Shawn Wallbridge 19 Aug '09

19 Aug '09

As many of you know, I have quite the collection of computers (Sun, SGI, Alpha's, PC's), but now that I have moved to sunny California, I cant keep all of them. So, I need to sell off/give away most of them. If you want to see what I have, please give me a call (323 420-5817), or feel free to stop by this weekend from 9am till 6pm (425-70 Arthur St, but you will need to call so I can let you in). Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested. thanks shawn

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Fwd: USENIX HotPar '10 Call For Papers Now Available
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: USENIX HotPar '10 Call For Papers Now Available Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:48:18 -0700 From: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj(a)usenix.org> The Program Committee for the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '10) invites you to submit position papers. HotPar '10 will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of parallel computing. HotPar recognizes the broad impact of multicore computing and seeks relevant contributions in all fields, including application design, languages and compilers, systems, and architecture. We request submissions of position papers that propose new directions for research of products in these areas, advocate non-traditional approaches to the problems engendered by parallelism, or potentially generate controversy and discussion. Submissions are due January 24, 2010. More information and submission guidelines are available at http://www.usenix.org/hotpar10/cfpa We look forward to receiving your submissions! Sincerely, Geoff Lowney, Intel David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley HotPar '10 Program Co-Chairs hotpar10chairs(a)usenix.org

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Fwd: User Group News: Help O'Reilly by Answering this Survey
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: User Group News: Help O'Reilly by Answering this Survey Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:15:39 -0700 From: Marsee Henon <marsee(a)oreilly.com> If you would like to view this information in your browser, click here <http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z5bn4qt7ummpl21sahq77f9227t0ahdcok86kfn8>. O'Reilly <http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z2ii27nqg3p9jqqht037olo6p2rdq4pa1arb1n60> Forward this announcement <http://post.oreilly.com/f2f/9z1z21dnbadmfqafbku8ffcppap3jbdllj0ihr1ajeg> Hi there, Can you share this survey with your members if you think they'll be interested? If you've used our popular programming Cookbooks, you know just how useful they can be in helping you solve all kinds of programming problems. (And if you haven't used our Cookbooks, check them out on our website <http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1ztc7sorqcehc3vol0mpju9vvmdoa2nod64oehgt8>. You can download sample recipes by clicking on specific book titles and selecting "Sample Recipes.") We've received many requests for videos that present the Cookbook recipes step-by-step, so we recently created 4 sample clips that are available online. Now we're eager to gather your feedback. All you have to do is watch the sample video and tell us what you think about it. When you complete the survey, we'll automatically enter you into a special drawing.* Three winners will receive the opportunity to select a collection of O'Reilly ebooks valued at up to $200. *The drawing will be held on August 19, 2009. The winners will be notified via email. If we don't hear back from a winner within 14 days, the prize will be awarded to another survey respondent. Winners will have 90 days to make ebook selections. For more information, go to training.oreilly.com/videosurvey <http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z9nvcb02tet5j52j24dg0iegc7ct9qccmgnj8qag> Until next time-- Marsee Henon Spreading the knowledge of innovators <http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z0299751961o00nnh006lsgcrd666q4kmd7gd61o>oreilly.com <http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1ztrmcq7t6fop5tddrsgi3oecbldn4un9jqq5b70o> ... Forward this announcement <http://post.oreilly.com/f2f/9z1z21dnbadmfqafbku8ffcppap3jbdllj0ihr1ajeg>. ... O'Reilly Media, Inc. 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 (707) 827-7000

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Firewall replacement
by Montana Quiring 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hello, I'm trying to replace a proprietary firewall appliance from a company that went out of business. I'm hoping to be able to use IPCop to do the job. I've listed a couple of my issues below, so if you are familiar with the workings of IPCop, or have some suggestions about other firewall packages, please feel free to comment. Here's a couple things that I really want IPCop to do: Transparent Authentication with Logging ============================== Authentication that will allow me to view a authenticated user and the IP associated to them. I would like for the proxying to be transparent and not require the clients to have to alter any settings. I would prefer (Open)LDAP, as that's what I have set up and working already. Unfortunately I can't find the LDAP username that the user logged in with in any of the logs (VIA the web GUI). Am I missing something? A captive portal would probably be a good idea. Any recommendations as it doesn't seem to have it built in and I can't find an add-on for it. Multiple DHCP pools ================= Is it possible to have multiple DHCP pools that aren't necessarily sequential and would have different masks? ie. one pool might be: 140.179.238.68 to 140.179.238.127 with mask 255.255.255.192 and another might be: 140.179.238.130 to 140.179.238.254 with mask 255.255.255.128 -- -Montana

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Odd book title...
by Adam Thompson 16 Jul '09

16 Jul '09

I'm not going to ruin the surprise, just follow the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1894953479?ie=UTF8&tag=lookwhatifoun-20&li… And if anyone has actually read it yet: WTF??? -- -Adam Thompson <athompso(a)athompso.net>

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Rogers Rocket Stick on OpenSUSE 11.1
by John Lange 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

I successfully got a Rogers Rocket Stick (3G cell phone modem) working on my OpenSUSE 11.1 laptop. This method is a bit dirty but works well enough for now until I figure out how to get it working properly under Network Manager. http://www.johnlange.ca/tech-tips/opensuse-and-sles/rogers-rocket-stick-on-… -- John Lange http://www.johnlange.ca

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non-deletable directory but writable inside the directory
by Montana Quiring 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Hello, I'm updating my public machine image with Ubuntu 8.04 I would like for the Desktop directory in the users home directory to be non-deletable but still allow the user to download files to that folder (the files in the Desktop folder get deleted on a reboot). Right now my work around is a script in the runtime directory that deletes all of the files in the Desktop directory and then recreates and chowns it (in case it's been deleted). Assigning the directory the immutable bit stops it from being deleted but also doesn't allow the user to write in that folder. :( I tried all the google results I could find, but couldn't find a working solution. Any suggestions? -- -Montana Blog: http://montanaquiring.info My Friend Feed: http://friendfeed.com/antikx

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Quad core motherboards
by Mike Pfaiffer 27 Jun '09

27 Jun '09

I'm looking to pick up a quad core machine. I've been told some motherboards don't work too well with Linux and BSD. Apparently all other components work fine. The guys I was going to pick it up from said they were going to do some research on the matter and get back to me. This was early May. Looks like I'll have to walk in with a list. So the question is which motherboards work? This is a personal machine which will be retired as a server of some sort when I upgrade again in about five years or so. Also, I'd like to "one up" a friend who just picked up one about a month ago and is running it as a quad 2.5GHz machine. ;-) Later Mike

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The SPARC is dead
by Adam Thompson 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/CDN/News.asp?sub=true&id=53588 The SPARC is dead, long live Sun... uh, I mean Oracle... *sigh* Another half-decent chip architecture bites the dust. PA-RISC. AXP. MIPS. PPC. SPARC. (OK, I know PA-RISC got rolled into IA64... which is nearly dead, itself. And PPC is still alive and well in embedded platforms; I figure IBM's POWER chips have about the same life expectancty as HP's IA64.) So when the dust settles, we'll be left with, what, x86-64 - which it'd be almost more accurate to say *happened* than was *designed*; PowerPC - carefully hidden under the hood, à la Cell processor or in millions of devices; and ARM - also carefully hidden under the hood. Have I missed anything? Are there *any* chip architectures out there other than x86 that aren't dying or dead *in the public's mind*? -- -Adam Thompson <athompso(a)athompso.net>

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Fwd: O'Reilly UG News: InsideMobile Conference--Register Now & Save $150, Create & Market Your Own Mobile Apps
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

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