KCLUG July 2011

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Anti-Virus for Windows
by Julie 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Jonathan, I I have had the very best luck with Avast. (I've purposely caroused some of the back alleys of the internet on the rare occasion just to see what it would do. It did protect my computer very well!) It has very strong heuristics and the latest version has added a sandbox feature that gives extra protection when used. Check out Avast here. That way you have something to compare with MSE and the NOD32 to. I think that you know better than to go the AVG route! :p Hope this helps! Message: 1 Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:52:30 -0500 From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> To: "KCLUG (E-mail)" <kclug(a)kclug.org> Subject: Anti-Virus Message-ID: <201107261352.30479.hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Is Microsoft Security Essentials adequate protection for small office systems behind a dd-wrt router? Freedom means you are free to be responsible ~ Russell Means 'Free to be Responsible' Speech: http://www.russellmeansfreedom.com/2009/free-to-be-responsible-a-russell-me… If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them, and what you do not knowyou will fear. What one fears one destroys. ~ Chief Dan George: http://www.indigenouspeople.net/dangeorg.htm Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. ~ Black Elk, Oglala Lakota Holy Man: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Black_Elk

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Anti-Virus
by Jonathan Hutchins 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Is Microsoft Security Essentials adequate protection for small office systems behind a dd-wrt router?

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Re: KCLUG Digest, Vol 84, Issue 4
by Richard Allen 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

There's already several cluster filesystems, but most aren't structured for privacy from everyone else. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_file_system It would also be nice to be able to specify a distribution count, so really important files get more copies. On Jul 23, 2011 12:00 PM, <kclug-request(a)kclug.org> wrote: > Send KCLUG mailing list submissions to > kclug(a)kclug.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kclug-request(a)kclug.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kclug-owner(a)kclug.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of KCLUG digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Greater Kansas City cluster? (Monty J. Harder) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:35:39 -0500 > From: "Monty J. Harder" <mjharder(a)gmail.com> > To: tagno25(a)gmail.com > Cc: kclug <kclug(a)kclug.org>, ccckc(a)googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Greater Kansas City cluster? > Message-ID: > <CAMt0JGwC6xLyJ=zZg_7MK1PPfr12cm7S7fXL12DfD03TiG4e7A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > More like you can back up a specified fraction of what you provide. A > scheme like this requires extra redundancy to make up for potential downtime > of some nodes at any given moment. It also could use pre-transmission > encryption so that the people holding backups could honestly say they don't > have the decryption keys. > > > [Linguistic nit-pick: When used as a phrasal verb, "back up" is two words, > but when used as a noun or adjective, "backup" is one word. You "back up" > data, producing a "backup copy", or simply a "backup".] > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Philip Dorr <tagno25(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Or better a public distributed off-site backup, where you can backup as >> much as you provide. >> On Jul 21, 2011 6:00 PM, "Luis E. Rodriguez" <lrodriguezmail(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Like a hackerspace! :) >> > >> > -- >> > Luis E. Rodriguez >> > Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com) >> >> > >> > On Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 4:49 PM, David Nicol wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> With google fiber on the horizon, one of the opportunities is >> establishing city-wide clustering of various kinds. >> >> >> >> Who would like to meet and discuss the potential for creating >> cluster-based businesses, using the tipjar LLC accounting platform to track >> both used and provided services? >> >> >> >> Please reply off-list. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "CCCKC" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to ccckc(a)googlegroups.com (mailto: >> ccckc(a)googlegroups.com). >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> ccckc+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com (mailto: >> ccckc+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com). >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/ccckc?hl=en. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CCCKC" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to ccckc(a)googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> ccckc+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/ccckc?hl=en. >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> KCLUG mailing list >> KCLUG(a)kclug.org >> http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug >> >

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Re: Greater Kansas City cluster?
by Philip Dorr 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Or better a public distributed off-site backup, where you can backup as much as you provide. On Jul 21, 2011 6:00 PM, "Luis E. Rodriguez" <lrodriguezmail(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Like a hackerspace! :) > > -- > Luis E. Rodriguez > Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com) > > On Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 4:49 PM, David Nicol wrote: > >> >> With google fiber on the horizon, one of the opportunities is establishing city-wide clustering of various kinds. >> >> Who would like to meet and discuss the potential for creating cluster-based businesses, using the tipjar LLC accounting platform to track both used and provided services? >> >> Please reply off-list. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCCKC" group. >> To post to this group, send email to ccckc(a)googlegroups.com (mailto: ccckc(a)googlegroups.com). >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ccckc+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com (mailto: ccckc+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com). >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ccckc?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCCKC" group. > To post to this group, send email to ccckc(a)googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ccckc+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ccckc?hl=en. >

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Greater Kansas City cluster?
by David Nicol 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

With google fiber on the horizon, one of the opportunities is establishing city-wide clustering of various kinds. Who would like to meet and discuss the potential for creating cluster-based businesses, using the tipjar LLC accounting platform to track both used and provided services? Please reply off-list.

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cluster storage use case
by David Nicol 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

I'm working with loopback-mounted image files on a CIFS server. I wonder if I could format those images GFS and then have better simultaneous access for them. That might be easier than creating a NFS server for the purpose, only I don't think it's a supported use case. Thoughts? -- "I sent you three boats, and then a helicopter! What were you expecting?"

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TCP experts - improving dial-up performance?
by Shawn C. Powell 05 Jul '11

05 Jul '11

Hi All, Yeah, so I have dial-up. Stop laughing. :) I would like some advice on making the best of my slow dial-up connection. The behavour I observe when downloading files (http get and ftp both) is: a) Download holds steady for some seconds, say about 30 b) Rate stumbles, falling to zero for a few seconds c) Rate shoots up to 4 or five times nominal d) Rate declines back to nominal over a few seconds e) repeat from a) A wireshark capture, if I am interpreting correctly, reveals that the window ( this is the TCP congestion window cgwnd?) increases during (a), whereupon at (b) a segment or two gets dropped, dup ACKS and retransmissions ensue (some which seem to me to be unnecessary), the window is shortened, progress resumes as normal for awhile, then the whole cycle repeats. So I imagine that packets from the high-speed sender are piling up somewhere in the path until eventually a buffer gets exceeded and a packet gets dropped. Am I reading the situation correctly? Is there any way I encourage the other end of the link to throttle back? Thanks for any comments and education. And really, stop laughing! -Shawn

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YouTube & Hardware
by Jonathan Hutchins 02 Jul '11

02 Jul '11

On the "flash is just a bad format" thread: I do note that my DirecTV DVR manages to play YouTube videos full screen without stalling and jerking. Obviously dedicated decoding hardware, the CPU is pretty low-power.

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