[clue-tech] See what I mean? was Re: clue-tech Digest, Vol 57, Issue 6

David L. Willson DLWillson at TheGeek.NU
Wed Dec 8 11:37:31 MST 2010


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----- "Philipp Giddings" <phil9x at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Missed it last night and I won't be here next week. 
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> 1. Re: Meetings (David "Barahon" Willson) 
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> 3. Re: TCP/IP and the Bufferbloat Problem (Collins Richey) 
> 4. Re: Meetings (Collins Richey) 
> 5. Re: SME Server (Collins Richey) 
> 6. Re: SME Server (David L. Willson) 
> 7. Re: TCP/IP and the Bufferbloat Problem (Jim Ockers) 
> 8. Re: TCP/IP and the Bufferbloat Problem 
> ( dennisjperkins at comcast.net ) 
> 9. Small Linux distros (Bill Smith) 
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> Message: 1 
> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 07:41:53 -0700 
> From: "David \"Barahon\" Willson"<DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> 
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Meetings 
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> Meetings are on second tuesday. Yesterday was first tuesday. This post seems 
> to be evidence of the unified list might be more useful. 
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> Sent via David's Droid X. 
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> -----Original message----- 
> From: Philipp Giddings < phil9x at gmail.com > 
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> Sent: Wed, Dec 8, 2010 14:37:05 GMT+00:00 
> Subject: [clue-tech] Meetings 
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> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:58:54 +0000 (UTC) 
> From: dennisjperkins at comcast.net 
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Meetings 
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> Maybe. It looks more like someone didn't realize when December started. I started out this week thinking we were meeting this week myself. 
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> From: "David \"Barahon\" Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> 
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 7:41:53 AM 
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Meetings 
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> Meetings are on second tuesday. Yesterday was first tuesday. This post seems to be evidence of the unified list might be more useful. 
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> Sent via David's Droid X. 
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> From: Philipp Giddings < phil9x at gmail.com > 
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> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:03:45 -0600 
> From: Collins Richey < crichey at gmail.com > 
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] TCP/IP and the Bufferbloat Problem 
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> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Jed S. Baer < cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net > wrote: 
> > Fascinating read. Even if I didn't understand a lot of it. 
> > 
> > https://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/whose-house-is-of-glasse-must-not-throw-stones-at-another/ 
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> Most of us have the general impression "lots of buffers - a good 
> thing", but obviously this is not always the case. 
> 
> A second vote for "I didn't understand a lot of it". 
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> -- 
> Collins Richey 
> ? ?? If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries 
> ? ?? of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. 
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> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:06:28 -0600 
> From: Collins Richey < crichey at gmail.com > 
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Meetings 
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> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:58 AM, < dennisjperkins at comcast.net > wrote: 
> > Maybe.? It looks more like someone didn't realize when December started.? I 
> > started out this week thinking we were meeting this week myself. 
> > 
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> I get confused, too. If we get a unified list, it would be simple for 
> an admin to send out a notice first of the month and thus avoid the 
> confusion. 
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> -- 
> Collins Richey 
> ? ?? If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries 
> ? ?? of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. 
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> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:10:07 -0600 
> From: Collins Richey < crichey at gmail.com > 
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] SME Server 
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> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 7:43 AM, David "Barahon" Willson 
> < DLWillson at thegeek.nu > wrote: 
> > Does it do LDAP putts the box? What's on the feature list? 
> > 
> 
> Any RH based distro has ldap client and server, and I would imagine 
> that Ubuntu based servers provide this as well. Since LDAP requires a 
> lot of setup, I doubt that this would be complete "out of the box". 
> 
> -- 
> Collins Richey 
> ? ?? If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries 
> ? ?? of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. 
> 
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> Message: 6 
> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:19:32 -0700 (MST) 
> From: "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> 
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] SME Server 
> To: CLUE technical discussion < clue-tech at cluedenver.org > 
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> > < DLWillson at thegeek.nu > wrote: 
> > > Does it do LDAP putts the box? What's on the feature list? 
> > > 
> > Collins: 
> > Any RH based distro has ldap client and server, and I would imagine 
> > that Ubuntu based servers provide this as well. Since LDAP requires a 
> > lot of setup, I doubt that this would be complete "out of the box". 
> 
> I'm so glad you were able to read what I meant through my phone's "correction" of my use of the slang word "outta". 
> 
> As I understand SME Server, it does exactly that: LDAP, Samba, blah-blah, right outta the box, no rocket (or LDAP) scientist needed. You just pick your site-uniqueness information. I'm saying this without having tested it, though. I sure wish someone would stand up to do a demo... 
> 
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> Message: 7 
> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:51:15 -0700 
> From: Jim Ockers < ockers at ockers.net > 
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] TCP/IP and the Bufferbloat Problem 
> To: CLUE technical discussion < clue-tech at cluedenver.org > 
> Message-ID: < 4CFFC593.80901 at ockers.net > 
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> Hi, 
> 
> Collins Richey wrote: 
> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Jed S. Baer < cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net > wrote: 
> > 
> >> Fascinating read. Even if I didn't understand a lot of it. 
> >> 
> >> https://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/whose-house-is-of-glasse-must-not-throw-stones-at-another/ 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > Most of us have the general impression "lots of buffers - a good 
> > thing", but obviously this is not always the case. 
> > 
> > A second vote for "I didn't understand a lot of it". 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I read this and it's curious that he never mentions anywhere what the 
> MTU size was and whether changing it had any effect on data transfer 
> rates or buffering efficiency. 
> 
> -- 
> Jim Ockers, P.Eng. ( ockers at ockers.net ) 
> Contact info: http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html 
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> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:23:14 +0000 (UTC) 
> From: dennisjperkins at comcast.net 
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] TCP/IP and the Bufferbloat Problem 
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> I agree. I could see how a smaller RTU could cause extra work by forcing received data to be chopped into smaller segments for a smaller RTU size. I don't remember if there is an issue when going from smaller to larger packet size. Otherwise, I'm not sure what negative affect buffers would have. 
> 
> I could see movie downloads having a big impact. Or a slug of spam going thru. Or a switch that resets for some reason. 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Ockers" < ockers at ockers.net > 
> To: "CLUE technical discussion" < clue-tech at cluedenver.org > 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 10:51:15 AM 
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] TCP/IP and the Bufferbloat Problem 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> Collins Richey wrote: 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Jed S. Baer < cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net > wrote: 
> 
> Fascinating read. Even if I didn't understand a lot of it. https://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/06/whose-house-is-of-glasse-must-not-throw-stones-at-another/ Most of us have the general impression "lots of buffers - a good 
> thing", but obviously this is not always the case. 
> 
> A second vote for "I didn't understand a lot of it". 
> I read this and it's curious that he never mentions anywhere what the MTU size was and whether changing it had any effect on data transfer rates or buffering efficiency. 
> 
> -- 
> Jim Ockers, P.Eng. ( ockers at ockers.net ) 
> Contact info: http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html 
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> Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:33:28 -0700 
> From: Bill Smith < wpsmithii at msn.com > 
> Subject: [clue-tech] Small Linux distros 
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> I need some feedback about small linux distros, I don't need a lot of the stuff that the big ones come with. I'm going to use the computer for a weather station. Anybody have a favorite? I'm not good enough for command line only yet. 
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