Re: [Discuss] business class ISP recommendations

2014-07-23 Thread Chris P. OConnell
I have Comcast Business in three locations. The service is extremely reliable. I don't think I've ever had the circuit go down in three years at our Watertown location. Our Weston location has more outages due to trees falling on the lines. I've dealt with tech support less than a handful of ti

Re: [Discuss] business class ISP recommendations

2014-07-23 Thread John Abreau
Are any of those three locations a residential location, or are they all located in office buildings? On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Chris P. OConnell wrote: > I have Comcast Business in three locations. The service is extremely > reliable. I don't think I've ever had the circuit go down in

Re: [Discuss] business class ISP recommendations

2014-07-23 Thread Chris P. OConnell
One is an office building in Watertown. The other (in Weston) is a mixed use building, half retirement home half business office. The building in Weston has two Comcast lines, one for the residents and one for the business office. Both lines are business accounts. Generally at this building when

[Discuss] kickstart boot from USB image

2014-07-23 Thread Dave Peters
Hello all, When I used usb flash drive image and ran the kickstart, it installed on usb flash drive instead of hard drive. The kickstart ran fine from the DVD drive. What should I do to avoid install to the USB drive? Thanks, MK ___ Discuss mailin

Re: [Discuss] kickstart boot from USB image

2014-07-23 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/23/2014 11:40 AM, Dave Peters wrote: > What should I do to avoid install to the USB drive? Change your kickstart to use the correct target device. For example: sdb instead of sda. -- Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.bl

[Discuss] rack mountable chassis

2014-07-23 Thread Stephen Adler
Guys, I'm back in my obession mode, this time I'm putting my basement computers into a standard 19" rack. So any recommendations on rack mountable chassis? I have to mid tower systems and the plan is to take the components out of the mid tower chassis and assemble them into two rack mountable chas

Re: [Discuss] any decent NTFS implementations for Linux?

2014-07-23 Thread John Hall
Hi Bill, Interesting problem. I wonder if the severe write performance cut has something to do with using the NTFS drivers and USB. Have you done write tests with internal hardware or even loop-back deceives? I found this report for tests over sata where they got (15MB/s) - still terrible but m

Re: [Discuss] rack mountable chassis

2014-07-23 Thread Joe Polcari
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/rackmount-cases-stands-furniture?isSuggestion =true -Original Message- From: discuss-bounces+joe=polcari@blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces+joe=polcari@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:36 PM To: discuss@blu.org Subje

Re: [Discuss] any decent NTFS implementations for Linux?

2014-07-23 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/23/2014 1:18 PM, John Hall wrote: > I wonder... What sort of write performance folks get from NTFS drives > attached to a gigabit router? Has anyone ever successfully connected a disk drive to router? But seriously, I typically get 70-80MB/s between nodes over GigE with 1500 byte frames. Co

Re: [Discuss] any decent NTFS implementations for Linux?

2014-07-23 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 1:18 PM, John Hall wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Interesting problem. I wonder if the severe write performance cut has > something to do with using the NTFS drivers and USB. Have you done write > tests with internal hardware or even loop-back deceives? The problem seems to be 10

[Discuss] what does this mean: usb 2-2: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci

2014-07-23 Thread Bill Bogstad
[It seems like I'm on a roll of odd low level hardware/software questions recently.] I've been getting messages in the system log for several years now like the one in the subject line. A new one is typically logged every 1000-4000 seconds. The device in question is a USB multi-card reader on

Re: [Discuss] any decent NTFS implementations for Linux?

2014-07-23 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/23/2014 2:02 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > The problem seems to be 100% bad filesystem software. No, it's FUSE. FUSE runs in user space. Disk I/O happens in kernel space. This means that read and write operations require much context switching. The overhead for this is very high. -- Rich P. __

Re: [Discuss] any decent NTFS implementations for Linux?

2014-07-23 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 7/23/2014 2:02 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: >> The problem seems to be 100% bad filesystem software. > > No, it's FUSE. > > FUSE runs in user space. Disk I/O happens in kernel space. This means > that read and write operations require much cont

Re: [Discuss] any decent NTFS implementations for Linux?

2014-07-23 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/23/2014 3:47 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > That certainly sounds plausible. But when I look for benchmarks for > other FUSE based filesystems I see better numbers. NTFS performance comes from caching. FUSE doesn't do caching well. Other FUSE file systems that aren't as cache-intensive will perf

Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality

2014-07-23 Thread Stuart Conner
When we, the consumers band together and demand that our isp's not slow down our, the customer's, net activity and/or change isp's and say why we're leaving. They listen to money. Otherwise they don't care. I'm curious though. If you vpn from work, why doesn't the content stream get crippled upstr

Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality

2014-07-23 Thread Joe Polcari
No. -Original Message- From: discuss-bounces+joe=polcari@blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces+joe=polcari@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Conner Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 4:59 PM To: discuss@blu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality When we, the consumers

Re: [Discuss] any decent NTFS implementations for Linux?

2014-07-23 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/23/2014 4:39 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > NTFS performance comes from caching. I should amend that: NTFS performance comes in part from caching. -- Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality

2014-07-23 Thread Gregory Boyce
On Jul 23, 2014 4:58 PM, "Stuart Conner" wrote: > > When we, the consumers band together and demand that our isp's not slow > down our, the customer's, net activity and/or change isp's and say why > we're leaving. They listen to money. Otherwise they don't care. You forget that the vast majority

Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality

2014-07-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Conner > > When we, the consumers band together and demand that our isp's not slow > down our, the customer's, net activity and/or change isp's and say why > we're leaving. T

Re: [Discuss] tools for dealing with cable company customer service

2014-07-23 Thread Tom Metro
Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > I can't demand anything. As I described in another post, they ripped > out half of my TV channels in the middle of a 2yr contract, told me > if I cancel my service I'll be hit with a $425 early termination fee, > argued with me pointlessly for hours, and eventually