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Mini-ITX case recommendation?
by Kevin McGregor 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

There are lots of knowledgeable hardware folks out there, so I think it's fair to ask here. ;) I've got some EPIA-5000 mini-ITX boards. What's a good case+PSU for them?

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SunFire V490 remote access
by Kevin McGregor 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

At work we have a Sun SunFire V490 test machine (with dev/production coming late summer). I'd like to access the console (e.g. for boot PROM access) remotely via network. Is there a built-in way to do that, similar to HP's iLO (integrated Lights-Out) management port? Or do I need some kind of serial->LAN adapter? Or just set up a PC running Linux beside it? :-) We've got lots of those kicking around!

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Change Win Command Prompt Font Size
by Montana Quiring 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hello, Sorry, I realize this is not *nix related but it's shell related so that's gotta count for sumpin, right? :) I want to increase the font size of the command prompt shell from within a batch file. Does anyone know the command for that? My googling hasn't returned any useful results. :( Regards, -Montana Quiring CTO of QMTS http://qmts.ca

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MUUG Meeting, April 12, 7:30pm -- UNIX Certification -- why bother?
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 12. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: UNIX Certification -- why bother? Many UNIX professionals come from unusual backgrounds: geology, mathematics, music performance, etc. Given the inward-looking nature of the UNIX job market, why bother getting certified when no-one cares about your education? Yet with over a dozen current designations available, someone must be taking these courses and writing those tests -- training course development is expensive! Find out what's available, why it matters to you, and what difference it makes to employers. Adam Thompson will be our presenter for this topic. Also up, Gilbert Detillieux will present an RTFM on sudo(8), one of the most used (or abused) commands in a sysadmin's toolkit. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members may be required to show photo ID at the security desk. Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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05 Apr '11

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card readers - CF
by Trevor Cordes 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

I'm looking for opinions on internal card readers, like the ones you install in 3.5" bays. Particularly I'm looking for ones with tight and deep CF slots. At my customer sites, staff often bend the CF slot's pins all the time and a tighter/deeper slot might help keep the CF card better guided into the pins. CF is sure a junky format for frequent insertions. Thanks!

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libEAT-MY-DATA
by Adam Thompson 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Just came across this: libeatmydata. http://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/ Disables fsync, open(O_SYNC) and friends. Can speed up certain applications by a factor of 100x or more under certain circumstances. Library so named (libEAT-MY-DATA) because of the obvious danger. Use at own risk. Interesting concept, possibly a valid option when you *know* you can recreate the data trivially (and crash-consistency therefore doesn't matter), or where maximum possible performance is substantially more important than complete loss of data. If you use it just to "make my database go faster", well, you deserve what you get. -- Adam Thompson <athompso(a)athompso.net>

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Portable email gadget
by Montana Quiring 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Hello, I'm looking for a handheld gadget that just does email VIA WiFi. It needs to have a little Black Berry-esk keyboard. The screen can be black and white. I'm looking to pay < $50. Running embedded Linux would be preferred. It would need to be battery powered. Anyone seen anything like that? Regards, -Montana Quiring CTO of QMTS http://qmts.ca

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why GNU grep is fast
by Bill Reid 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

I have always wondered why grep was so fast. Interesting email by the original GNU grep author. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html Enjoy, Bill

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Fwd: TaPP '11 Submission Deadline Approaching
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: TaPP '11 Submission Deadline Approaching Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 14:36:29 -0700 From: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj(a)usenix.org> To: info(a)muug.mb.ca, gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca We're writing to remind you that the submission deadline for the 3rd Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '11) is quickly approaching. Please submit all work by April 8, 2011, at 11:59 p.m. PDT. More information and submission guidelines are available at http://www.usenix.org/tapp11/cfpb TaPP '11 will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of provenance. With the deluge of digital data we are currently experiencing, it has become increasingly important to capture and understand the origins and derivation of data--its provenance. Provenance provides important documentation that is an essential part of the quality of data, and it is essential to the trust we put in, for example, the data we find on the Web and the data that is derived from scientific experiments. The workshop may cover any topic related to theoretical or practical aspects of provenance, including but not limited to: provenance in databases, work flows, programming languages, security, software engineering, or systems; provenance on the Web; or real-world applications of or requirements for provenance. The Program Committee is determined to make TaPP '11 a real workshop at which new ideas are discussed and developed and where the participants can learn how other subjects make use of provenance. While the workshop will have online proceedings, the Committee does not want the workshop to become another "mini-conference" that has nothing but paper presentations. The Committee is eager to receive short papers and vision papers describing challenges for provenance research, brief descriptions of new applications, proposals for mini-tutorials, pie-in-the sky research ideas, and anything that will create a successful workshop. While brief and readable descriptions of research are encouraged, recycled conference submissions are strongly discouraged. TaPP '11 will take place June 20-22, 2011, in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, the week after the meeting of ACM SIGMOD in Athens. We look forward to receiving your submissions! Sincerely, Peter Buneman, University of Edinburgh Juliana Freire, University of Utah TaPP '11 Program Co-Chairs tapp11chairs(a)usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ TaPP '11 Call for Contributions 3rd Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '11) June 20-22, 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece http://www.usenix.org/tapp11/cfpb Submission deadline: April 8, 2011, 11:59 p.m. PDT ------------------------------------------------------------------

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