From frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Jan 10 16:26:20 2010 From: frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James French) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:26:20 +0800 Subject: [tech] Changes to the way the website works. Message-ID: <560b011001100026n6743359dja0fd20948039662d@mail.gmail.com> Hi All, I've been poking around with HTTP at UCC today. Mussel is now the primary webserver and serves most of its UCC web content directly without being proxied by mooneye. That includes: www.ucc.asn.au .ucc.asn.au Mermaid still proxies few bits and pieces to mussel direct (CVS, MTN), it also still serves the vast majority of member domains (as we don't control that DNS). Mooneye also hosts some things direct such as the Unisfa and UCC wikis and phonehome. It also proxies for a number of domains that it is configured to receive mail for (unisfa, unigames etc). I'm hoping this should get us out of some of the pain we've been having with the reliability of mooneye of late. The job still needs work at this point, but it's a first step that I'm hoping others will progress it further from here. F. From frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Jan 10 16:32:57 2010 From: frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James French) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:32:57 +0800 Subject: [tech] Fwd: More Notes on Hosting In-Reply-To: <560b011001100029p7f5179d3n278e2348b4251260@mail.gmail.com> References: <560b011001100029p7f5179d3n278e2348b4251260@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <560b011001100032w465693e6hab4fae8c646564b0@mail.gmail.com> Forwarded to Tech for archiving at the request of Nick ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James French Date: 2010/1/10 Subject: More Notes on Hosting To: wheel at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Hi All, Ideally mooneye should be relegated to a web proxy and secondary webserver only. To acomplish that a bunch of things still need to change, notably domain hosting. In future, when you setup a domain for a member, please add them to /etc/apache2/sites-available/other-hosting and get the person in question to setup their DNS such that it points at mussel rather than mooneye. Likewise, if you've configured a website for someone in the past, please arrange with them to move it across to mussel at your convenience. Cheers, F. From bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Jan 11 19:20:16 2010 From: bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Bob Adamson) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:20:16 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Machines Retired Message-ID: Hi all, Just letting you know that Nautilus, Novorossiisk, and the old seti machine have all been retired from the machine room. The cameras that were on Novorossiisk and Nautilus have been consolidated onto Camwhore, which should (hopefully) be much easier to debug in future. Bob Adamson UCC Wheel Member |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous | |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and bulldozer when necessary" | | ---Peter's Laws | From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Jan 11 20:05:06 2010 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:05:06 +0800 Subject: [tech] Machines Retired In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100111200506.20831s4n9dzvcydc@secure.ucc.asn.au> I know the Mac's are old But perhaps we could use one as a door stop in UCC :) Quoting "Bob Adamson" : > Hi all, > > Just letting you know that Nautilus, Novorossiisk, and the old seti > machine have all been retired from the machine room. The cameras > that were on Novorossiisk and Nautilus have been consolidated onto > Camwhore, which should (hopefully) be much easier to debug in future. > > Bob Adamson > UCC Wheel Member > > |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous | > |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and bulldozer when necessary" | > | ---Peter's Laws | > From mattman at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Jan 14 22:24:44 2010 From: mattman at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Matt Didcoe) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:24:44 +0800 Subject: [tech] Windows Server licence Message-ID: <52F0E011-655D-41FA-A15B-76E794ACEE25@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Evening all, In rather happy news (as opposed to everything else this week), I've manage to score us a free Windows Server 2008R2 Standard license for use at UCC, provided it remains for non-commercial purposes (a total saving of ~$260 based on the figure previously provided to committee for approval). Thanks must go to Frenchie (who went "why the fuck haven't you asked before we pay money to ITS?"), Deborah Youd at ITS for putting me in contact with Microsoft, Claire Jorgensen (national account manager at Microsoft) and most importantly, Andrew Parsons, who is the Dreamspark coordinator for Australia and one of Microsoft Australia's Academic Evangelists, who approved using a Dreamspark licence for a purpose it wasn't intended. That money can now potentially go into getting Windows 7 on the few boxes in the clubroom that are capable of handling it. Anyone have a preference which machine it gets installed on? Cheers, Matt Didcoe [MRD] UCC Wheel Member From frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Jan 14 23:08:25 2010 From: frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James French) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:08:25 +0800 Subject: [tech] Windows Server licence In-Reply-To: <52F0E011-655D-41FA-A15B-76E794ACEE25@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <52F0E011-655D-41FA-A15B-76E794ACEE25@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <560b011001140708x2a412d52o9dfd99d75fa7663f@mail.gmail.com> And a big thanks of course has to go to Matt who spent a fair bit of time actually chasing this down. F. 2010/1/14 Matt Didcoe : > Evening all, > > In rather happy news (as opposed to everything else this week), I've manage to score us a free Windows Server 2008R2 Standard license for use at UCC, provided it remains for non-commercial purposes (a total saving of ~$260 based on the figure previously provided to committee for approval). > > Thanks must go to Frenchie (who went "why the fuck haven't you asked before we pay money to ITS?"), Deborah Youd at ITS for putting me in contact with Microsoft, Claire Jorgensen (national account manager at Microsoft) and most importantly, Andrew Parsons, who is the Dreamspark coordinator for Australia and one of Microsoft Australia's Academic Evangelists, who approved using a Dreamspark licence for a purpose it wasn't intended. > > That money can now potentially go into getting Windows 7 on the few boxes in the clubroom that are capable of handling it. > > Anyone have a preference which machine it gets installed on? > > Cheers, > Matt Didcoe [MRD] > UCC Wheel Member > > From maset at ucc.asn.au Fri Jan 15 15:43:37 2010 From: maset at ucc.asn.au (Anil Sharma ) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:43:37 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Windows Server licence In-Reply-To: <52F0E011-655D-41FA-A15B-76E794ACEE25@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <52F0E011-655D-41FA-A15B-76E794ACEE25@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Matt Didcoe wrote: [snip] > Anyone have a preference which machine it gets installed on? Can we run it in a VM on mylah? Maset the Grandiose. ------------------------------------------------- Without suffering, how can one appreciate happiness? And how would we mark the depths of our sorrow, without the light of hope? From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Jan 15 16:05:01 2010 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:05:01 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Windows Server licence In-Reply-To: References: <52F0E011-655D-41FA-A15B-76E794ACEE25@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Anil Sharma wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Matt Didcoe wrote: > [snip] > > Anyone have a preference which machine it gets installed on? > > Can we run it in a VM on mylah? With Xen, no, as it doesn't have hardare virt support, but yes if we run VMWare Server. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sat Jan 23 20:22:57 2010 From: bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Bob Adamson) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:22:57 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Patience/Magicarp Message-ID: Hi all, Patience has been retired from the clubroom, and the HP that was in the kiosk has been put in its place with a nice 19" LCD. Thanks [FEL] for donating both of those. The box hasn't been named yet, nor set up properly - though it does run kubuntu at the moment. More details to come. Any requests for *useable* operating systems other than kubuntu? Bob Adamson UCC Wheel Member PS: anyone know a good, high, out of sight window we can use to make Patience go faster than it ever has? |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous | |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary" | | ---Peter's Laws | From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sat Jan 23 21:58:41 2010 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mitch Kelly) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:58:41 +0800 Subject: [tech] Patience/Magicarp In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <000c01ca9c34$2de64aa0$89b2dfe0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Windows 7? -----Original Message----- From: tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [mailto:tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] On Behalf Of Bob Adamson Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 8:23 PM To: tech at ucc.asn.au Subject: [tech] Patience/Magicarp Hi all, Patience has been retired from the clubroom, and the HP that was in the kiosk has been put in its place with a nice 19" LCD. Thanks [FEL] for donating both of those. The box hasn't been named yet, nor set up properly - though it does run kubuntu at the moment. More details to come. Any requests for *useable* operating systems other than kubuntu? Bob Adamson UCC Wheel Member PS: anyone know a good, high, out of sight window we can use to make Patience go faster than it ever has? |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous | |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary" | | ---Peter's Laws | From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sat Jan 23 21:58:41 2010 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mitch Kelly) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:58:41 +0800 Subject: [tech] Patience/Magicarp In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <000d01ca9c34$2f235e80$8d6a1b80$@gu.uwa.edu.au> The roof sounds good, Can someone open it and we can throw it into a skip :) Failing that... The window.. Mitch -----Original Message----- From: tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [mailto:tech-bounces at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] On Behalf Of Bob Adamson Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 8:23 PM To: tech at ucc.asn.au Subject: [tech] Patience/Magicarp Hi all, Patience has been retired from the clubroom, and the HP that was in the kiosk has been put in its place with a nice 19" LCD. Thanks [FEL] for donating both of those. The box hasn't been named yet, nor set up properly - though it does run kubuntu at the moment. More details to come. Any requests for *useable* operating systems other than kubuntu? Bob Adamson UCC Wheel Member PS: anyone know a good, high, out of sight window we can use to make Patience go faster than it ever has? |"Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous | |attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary" | | ---Peter's Laws | From fryers at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Jan 24 01:38:06 2010 From: fryers at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Simon Fryer) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:38:06 +0800 Subject: [tech] Patience/Magicarp In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100123173806.GA5259@rcpt.to> > A while ago Bob Adamson tapped: [...] > PS: anyone know a good, high, out of sight window we can use to make > Patience go faster than it ever has? The physics department roof has always been attractive for dropping things off. Maybe we could recreate classical experiment by dropping two computers of different architectures off the top of a building and seeing which one hits the ground first! This will of course answers the question as to which architecture is faster! Simon -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is the utility of the final product." Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh From fryers at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Jan 24 01:38:06 2010 From: fryers at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Simon Fryer) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:38:06 +0800 Subject: [tech] Patience/Magicarp In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20100123173806.GA5259@rcpt.to> > A while ago Bob Adamson tapped: [...] > PS: anyone know a good, high, out of sight window we can use to make > Patience go faster than it ever has? The physics department roof has always been attractive for dropping things off. Maybe we could recreate classical experiment by dropping two computers of different architectures off the top of a building and seeing which one hits the ground first! This will of course answers the question as to which architecture is faster! Simon -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is the utility of the final product." Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh From ian at mckellar.org Sun Jan 24 01:42:15 2010 From: ian at mckellar.org (Ian McKellar) Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:42:15 +0200 Subject: [tech] Patience/Magicarp In-Reply-To: <20100123173806.GA5259@rcpt.to> References: <20100123173806.GA5259@rcpt.to> Message-ID: <83cf34411001230942k3320010cu81244e0107c848a2@mail.gmail.com> I love benchmarks! On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Simon Fryer wrote: > > A while ago Bob Adamson tapped: > > [...] > > > PS: anyone know a good, high, out of sight window we can use to make > > Patience go faster than it ever has? > > The physics department roof has always been attractive for dropping things > off. > > Maybe we could recreate classical experiment by dropping two computers of > different architectures off the top of a building and seeing which one hits > the ground first! This will of course answers the question as to which > architecture is faster! > > Simon > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to > philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is > the utility of the final product." > Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh > > -- Ian McKellar +1 415 867 9255 ian at mckellar.org: email | jabber | msn ianloic: flickr | aim | yahoo | skype | linkedin | etc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This will of course answers the question as to which > architecture is faster! > > Simon > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > "Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to > philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is > the utility of the final product." > Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh > > -- Ian McKellar +1 415 867 9255 ian at mckellar.org: email | jabber | msn ianloic: flickr | aim | yahoo | skype | linkedin | etc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20100123/50e5b6a2/attachment-0001.htm From frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Jan 24 02:05:40 2010 From: frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James French) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:05:40 +0800 Subject: [tech] Patience/Magicarp In-Reply-To: <83cf34411001230942k3320010cu81244e0107c848a2@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100123173806.GA5259@rcpt.to> <83cf34411001230942k3320010cu81244e0107c848a2@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <560b011001231005k226095f9j9245632e39c314a3@mail.gmail.com> Especially if we aim it such that the machines really do leave marks on the benches. 2010/1/24 Ian McKellar : > I love benchmarks! > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Simon Fryer > wrote: >> >> > A while ago Bob Adamson tapped: >> >> [...] >> >> > PS: anyone know a good, high, out of sight window we can use to make >> > Patience go faster than it ever has? >> >> The physics department roof has always been attractive for dropping things >> off. >> >> Maybe we could recreate classical experiment by dropping two computers of >> different architectures off the top of a building and seeing which one >> hits >> the ground first! This will of course answers the question as to which >> architecture is faster! >> >> Simon >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> "Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to >> philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is >> the utility of the final product." >> Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh >> > > > > -- > Ian McKellar ? ?+1 415 867 9255 > ian at mckellar.org: email | jabber | msn > ianloic: flickr | aim | yahoo | skype | linkedin | etc. > From frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Jan 24 02:05:40 2010 From: frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James French) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:05:40 +0800 Subject: [tech] Patience/Magicarp In-Reply-To: <83cf34411001230942k3320010cu81244e0107c848a2@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100123173806.GA5259@rcpt.to> <83cf34411001230942k3320010cu81244e0107c848a2@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <560b011001231005k226095f9j9245632e39c314a3@mail.gmail.com> Especially if we aim it such that the machines really do leave marks on the benches. 2010/1/24 Ian McKellar : > I love benchmarks! > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Simon Fryer > wrote: >> >> > A while ago Bob Adamson tapped: >> >> [...] >> >> > PS: anyone know a good, high, out of sight window we can use to make >> > Patience go faster than it ever has? >> >> The physics department roof has always been attractive for dropping things >> off. >> >> Maybe we could recreate classical experiment by dropping two computers of >> different architectures off the top of a building and seeing which one >> hits >> the ground first! This will of course answers the question as to which >> architecture is faster! >> >> Simon >> >> -- >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> "Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to >> philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is >> the utility of the final product." >> Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh >> > > > > -- > Ian McKellar ? ?+1 415 867 9255 > ian at mckellar.org: email | jabber | msn > ianloic: flickr | aim | yahoo | skype | linkedin | etc. > From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Jan 24 19:34:42 2010 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mitch Kelly) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:34:42 +0800 Subject: [tech] Dec Server Help!! Message-ID: <005101ca9ce9$39a1f9b0$ace5ed10$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Hey All, I need some assistance. Does anyone know a DEC server that can run from 12v and use Less than 1A, or another way we can do Serial over IP ? Mitch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/tech/attachments/20100124/ebebf5b9/attachment.htm From fryers at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Jan 24 21:28:09 2010 From: fryers at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Simon Fryer) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:28:09 +0800 Subject: [tech] Dec Server Help!! In-Reply-To: <005101ca9ce9$39a1f9b0$ace5ed10$@gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <005101ca9ce9$39a1f9b0$ace5ed10$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <20100124132809.GB1250@rcpt.to> G'Day. > A while ago Mitch Kelly tapped: > I need some assistance. Does anyone know a DEC server that can run from 12v > and use Less than 1A, or another way we can do Serial over IP ? I think certain models of the Dec Server 90s are reasonably small form factor and appear to be lower current. But from 12V - almost certainly not. There are many ways to do serial over IP and lots of COTS hardware. The downside is that the COTS solutions will either work on 24V DC or 230/240VAC. Solutions for 12V are not all that common. My suggestion is a low end PC running Linux/*BSD and python with pyserial[1] or go to 24V. For what it is worth, in Feb I am going to spend a couple of days on Anglesey using COTS Ethernet to serial (RS232 and RS485) converters to interface to some wind turbines. [1] I came across pyserial last night for another project and it looked useful for this sort of thing. Simon -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is the utility of the final product." Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh From alex at theducks.org Mon Jan 25 00:35:05 2010 From: alex at theducks.org (Alex Dawson) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:35:05 -0800 Subject: [tech] Dec Server Help!! In-Reply-To: <005101ca9ce9$39a1f9b0$ace5ed10$@gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <005101ca9ce9$39a1f9b0$ace5ed10$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <90369908-DB7B-458C-BF91-03FC4EE7E58F@theducks.org> Assuming you don't actually need LAT, you can do a dual-serial port mod to the Linsys WRT54GL, many versions of which run off 12V. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WRT54GL_MAX232_Serial On 24/01/2010, at 3:34 AM, Mitch Kelly wrote: > Hey All, > > I need some assistance. Does anyone know a DEC server that can run from 12v and use Less than 1A, or another way we can do Serial over IP ? > > Mitch -- alex at theducks.org -=- http://www.theducks.org/ ICQ:4496760 MSN:passport at splash.theducks.org iChat/AIM: lgmduck at AIM Yahoo!: lgm_duck From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Jan 25 08:10:10 2010 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mitch Kelly) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:10:10 +0800 Subject: [tech] Dec Server Help!! In-Reply-To: <90369908-DB7B-458C-BF91-03FC4EE7E58F@theducks.org> References: <005101ca9ce9$39a1f9b0$ace5ed10$@gu.uwa.edu.au> <90369908-DB7B-458C-BF91-03FC4EE7E58F@theducks.org> Message-ID: <007201ca9d52$c3b5ef80$4b21ce80$@gu.uwa.edu.au> This was going to be my second solution, However.. WRT54GL Uses 9W of power @ 800~mA As do many other Broadcom platforms. And this is too much. What I really need is some form of Ethernet to Serial cable, One thing I was thinking of using was the IP Web server from Jaycar: http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=KC5489&keywords=web+server&form= KEYWORD (based on an AVR with 4 Analog and 4 digital in/outs) Or then again there actually is Serial To Ethernet boxes: http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?URL=index&ID=XC4134&CATID=20&SUBCAT ID=246 Anyone else know what I can use? -----Original Message----- From: Alex Dawson [mailto:theducks.org at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alex Dawson Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 12:35 AM To: Mitch Kelly Cc: tech at ucc.asn.au Subject: Re: [tech] Dec Server Help!! Assuming you don't actually need LAT, you can do a dual-serial port mod to the Linsys WRT54GL, many versions of which run off 12V. http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WRT54GL_MAX232_Serial On 24/01/2010, at 3:34 AM, Mitch Kelly wrote: > Hey All, > > I need some assistance. Does anyone know a DEC server that can run from 12v and use Less than 1A, or another way we can do Serial over IP ? > > Mitch -- alex at theducks.org -=- http://www.theducks.org/ ICQ:4496760 MSN:passport at splash.theducks.org iChat/AIM: lgmduck at AIM Yahoo!: lgm_duck From alex at theducks.org Mon Jan 25 08:52:01 2010 From: alex at theducks.org (Alex Dawson) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:52:01 -0800 Subject: [tech] Dec Server Help!! In-Reply-To: <007201ca9d52$c3b5ef80$4b21ce80$@gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <005101ca9ce9$39a1f9b0$ace5ed10$@gu.uwa.edu.au> <90369908-DB7B-458C-BF91-03FC4EE7E58F@theducks.org> <007201ca9d52$c3b5ef80$4b21ce80$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <1D0CC36F-586B-438F-ADBF-E6184B86D261@theducks.org> A Sheevaplug device with USB to Serial widget then - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug On 24/01/2010, at 4:10 PM, Mitch Kelly wrote: > This was going to be my second solution, However.. > > WRT54GL Uses 9W of power @ 800~mA As do many other Broadcom platforms. And > this is too much. > > What I really need is some form of Ethernet to Serial cable, One thing I was > thinking of using was the IP Web server from Jaycar: > http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=KC5489&keywords=web+server&form= > KEYWORD (based on an AVR with 4 Analog and 4 digital in/outs) > > Or then again there actually is Serial To Ethernet boxes: > http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?URL=index&ID=XC4134&CATID=20&SUBCAT > ID=246 > > Anyone else know what I can use? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Dawson [mailto:theducks.org at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alex Dawson > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 12:35 AM > To: Mitch Kelly > Cc: tech at ucc.asn.au > Subject: Re: [tech] Dec Server Help!! > > Assuming you don't actually need LAT, you can do a dual-serial port mod to > the Linsys WRT54GL, many versions of which run off 12V. > > http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WRT54GL_MAX232_Serial > > On 24/01/2010, at 3:34 AM, Mitch Kelly wrote: > >> Hey All, >> >> I need some assistance. Does anyone know a DEC server that can run from > 12v and use Less than 1A, or another way we can do Serial over IP ? >> >> Mitch > > -- > alex at theducks.org -=- http://www.theducks.org/ > ICQ:4496760 MSN:passport at splash.theducks.org > iChat/AIM: lgmduck at AIM Yahoo!: lgm_duck > -- alex at theducks.org -=- http://www.theducks.org/ ICQ:4496760 MSN:passport at splash.theducks.org iChat/AIM: lgmduck at AIM Yahoo!: lgm_duck From adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Jan 25 09:14:28 2010 From: adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Adrian Chadd) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:14:28 +0800 Subject: [tech] Dec Server Help!! In-Reply-To: <007201ca9d52$c3b5ef80$4b21ce80$@gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <005101ca9ce9$39a1f9b0$ace5ed10$@gu.uwa.edu.au> <90369908-DB7B-458C-BF91-03FC4EE7E58F@theducks.org> <007201ca9d52$c3b5ef80$4b21ce80$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <20100125011428.GB13489@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010, Mitch Kelly wrote: > This was going to be my second solution, However.. > > WRT54GL Uses 9W of power @ 800~mA As do many other Broadcom platforms. And > this is too much. .. do you have the power usage figures for the WRT with the radio switched off and powered down? Adrian > > What I really need is some form of Ethernet to Serial cable, One thing I was > thinking of using was the IP Web server from Jaycar: > http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=KC5489&keywords=web+server&form= > KEYWORD (based on an AVR with 4 Analog and 4 digital in/outs) > > Or then again there actually is Serial To Ethernet boxes: > http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?URL=index&ID=XC4134&CATID=20&SUBCAT > ID=246 > > Anyone else know what I can use? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Dawson [mailto:theducks.org at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alex Dawson > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 12:35 AM > To: Mitch Kelly > Cc: tech at ucc.asn.au > Subject: Re: [tech] Dec Server Help!! > > Assuming you don't actually need LAT, you can do a dual-serial port mod to > the Linsys WRT54GL, many versions of which run off 12V. > > http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WRT54GL_MAX232_Serial > > On 24/01/2010, at 3:34 AM, Mitch Kelly wrote: > > > Hey All, > > > > I need some assistance. Does anyone know a DEC server that can run from > 12v and use Less than 1A, or another way we can do Serial over IP ? > > > > Mitch > > -- > alex at theducks.org -=- http://www.theducks.org/ > ICQ:4496760 MSN:passport at splash.theducks.org > iChat/AIM: lgmduck at AIM Yahoo!: lgm_duck From mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Jan 25 09:37:26 2010 From: mitch at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mitch Kelly) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:37:26 +0800 Subject: [tech] Dec Server Help!! In-Reply-To: <20100125011428.GB13489@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <005101ca9ce9$39a1f9b0$ace5ed10$@gu.uwa.edu.au> <90369908-DB7B-458C-BF91-03FC4EE7E58F@theducks.org> <007201ca9d52$c3b5ef80$4b21ce80$@gu.uwa.edu.au> <20100125011428.GB13489@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <007401ca9d5e$f4524740$dcf6d5c0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Yep, Tested on 3 platforms: WRT54GL: 780mA With Wifi off and 1 Ethernet plugged in. WL520GU: 669mA With Wifi off and 1 Ethernet plugged in. Ubnt NS5: 600mA With Wifi On and 1 Ethernet plugged in. The NS5 has proven the best but the design of the NS5 doesn't allow much in the way of a serial port, And they are too sexy to hack up. I don't want a PC solution, I want a Simple bridge of some sort. It preferably CANNOT crash, so a Embedded device might not be the best idea. Mitch -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Chadd [mailto:adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 9:14 AM To: Mitch Kelly Cc: 'Alex Dawson'; tech at ucc.asn.au Subject: Re: [tech] Dec Server Help!! On Mon, Jan 25, 2010, Mitch Kelly wrote: > This was going to be my second solution, However.. > > WRT54GL Uses 9W of power @ 800~mA As do many other Broadcom platforms. And > this is too much. .. do you have the power usage figures for the WRT with the radio switched off and powered down? Adrian > > What I really need is some form of Ethernet to Serial cable, One thing I was > thinking of using was the IP Web server from Jaycar: > http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=KC5489&keywords=web+server&form= > KEYWORD (based on an AVR with 4 Analog and 4 digital in/outs) > > Or then again there actually is Serial To Ethernet boxes: > http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?URL=index&ID=XC4134&CATID=20&SUBCAT > ID=246 > > Anyone else know what I can use? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Dawson [mailto:theducks.org at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alex Dawson > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 12:35 AM > To: Mitch Kelly > Cc: tech at ucc.asn.au > Subject: Re: [tech] Dec Server Help!! > > Assuming you don't actually need LAT, you can do a dual-serial port mod to > the Linsys WRT54GL, many versions of which run off 12V. > > http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WRT54GL_MAX232_Serial > > On 24/01/2010, at 3:34 AM, Mitch Kelly wrote: > > > Hey All, > > > > I need some assistance. Does anyone know a DEC server that can run from > 12v and use Less than 1A, or another way we can do Serial over IP ? > > > > Mitch > > -- > alex at theducks.org -=- http://www.theducks.org/ > ICQ:4496760 MSN:passport at splash.theducks.org > iChat/AIM: lgmduck at AIM Yahoo!: lgm_duck From harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au Mon Jan 25 10:53:03 2010 From: harrymc at decisions-and-designs.com.au (Harry McNally) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:53:03 +0800 Subject: [tech] Dec Server Help!! In-Reply-To: <007401ca9d5e$f4524740$dcf6d5c0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <005101ca9ce9$39a1f9b0$ace5ed10$@gu.uwa.edu.au> <90369908-DB7B-458C-BF91-03FC4EE7E58F@theducks.org> <007201ca9d52$c3b5ef80$4b21ce80$@gu.uwa.edu.au> <20100125011428.GB13489@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> <007401ca9d5e$f4524740$dcf6d5c0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <4B5D078F.806@decisions-and-designs.com.au> Mitch Kelly wrote: > I don't want a PC solution, I want a Simple bridge of some sort. It > preferably CANNOT crash, so a Embedded device might not be the best idea. Can it be as simple as this (or similar deriv. on sparkfun) ? .. http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9474 Arduino and ethernet shield can be programmed for a more specific protocol and I suspect still less than a watt. Harry From adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Jan 25 16:49:39 2010 From: adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Adrian Chadd) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:49:39 +0800 Subject: [tech] Dec Server Help!! In-Reply-To: <007401ca9d5e$f4524740$dcf6d5c0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> References: <005101ca9ce9$39a1f9b0$ace5ed10$@gu.uwa.edu.au> <90369908-DB7B-458C-BF91-03FC4EE7E58F@theducks.org> <007201ca9d52$c3b5ef80$4b21ce80$@gu.uwa.edu.au> <20100125011428.GB13489@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> <007401ca9d5e$f4524740$dcf6d5c0$@gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <20100125084939.GC13489@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Tried the RouterStation Pro? http://www.ubnt.com/products/rspro.php Adrian On Mon, Jan 25, 2010, Mitch Kelly wrote: > Yep, > > Tested on 3 platforms: > > WRT54GL: 780mA With Wifi off and 1 Ethernet plugged in. > WL520GU: 669mA With Wifi off and 1 Ethernet plugged in. > Ubnt NS5: 600mA With Wifi On and 1 Ethernet plugged in. > > The NS5 has proven the best but the design of the NS5 doesn't allow much in > the way of a serial port, And they are too sexy to hack up. > > I don't want a PC solution, I want a Simple bridge of some sort. It > preferably CANNOT crash, so a Embedded device might not be the best idea. > > > Mitch > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Chadd [mailto:adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 9:14 AM > To: Mitch Kelly > Cc: 'Alex Dawson'; tech at ucc.asn.au > Subject: Re: [tech] Dec Server Help!! > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010, Mitch Kelly wrote: > > This was going to be my second solution, However.. > > > > WRT54GL Uses 9W of power @ 800~mA As do many other Broadcom platforms. And > > this is too much. > > .. do you have the power usage figures for the WRT with the radio switched > off and powered down? > > > > Adrian > > > > > What I really need is some form of Ethernet to Serial cable, One thing I > was > > thinking of using was the IP Web server from Jaycar: > > > http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=KC5489&keywords=web+server&form= > > KEYWORD (based on an AVR with 4 Analog and 4 digital in/outs) > > > > Or then again there actually is Serial To Ethernet boxes: > > > http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?URL=index&ID=XC4134&CATID=20&SUBCAT > > ID=246 > > > > Anyone else know what I can use? > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alex Dawson [mailto:theducks.org at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alex Dawson > > Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 12:35 AM > > To: Mitch Kelly > > Cc: tech at ucc.asn.au > > Subject: Re: [tech] Dec Server Help!! > > > > Assuming you don't actually need LAT, you can do a dual-serial port mod to > > the Linsys WRT54GL, many versions of which run off 12V. > > > > http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/WRT54GL_MAX232_Serial > > > > On 24/01/2010, at 3:34 AM, Mitch Kelly wrote: > > > > > Hey All, > > > > > > I need some assistance. Does anyone know a DEC server that can run from > > 12v and use Less than 1A, or another way we can do Serial over IP ? > > > > > > Mitch > > > > -- > > alex at theducks.org -=- http://www.theducks.org/ > > ICQ:4496760 MSN:passport at splash.theducks.org > > iChat/AIM: lgmduck at AIM Yahoo!: lgm_duck From richard.wotherspoon at uwa.edu.au Fri Jan 29 14:25:24 2010 From: richard.wotherspoon at uwa.edu.au (Richard Wotherspoon) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:25:24 +0800 Subject: [tech] [Resnet] Emergency Removal of Loan Equipment In-Reply-To: <43CAE24504F9C646B9437FF6F62D7D2E030B6029@admin-vm17.admin.uwa.edu.au> References: <43CAE24504F9C646B9437FF6F62D7D2E030B6029@admin-vm17.admin.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <94579C86-7E88-43C9-979E-4C967D26DB5C@staffad.uwa.edu.au> Hi All, Our trial period for the loan Packet Shaper device has now ended as of today (Friday 29th January) and there will be a short outage (5-10 mins) as we cut back to the old hardware. As we are still waiting for the new equipment to arrive, unfortunately we will not be able to divide the traffic up fairly between the colleges as the old equipment cant support this. This means RESNet traffic will be shaped like it was prior to receiving the new equipment. We apologies for the late notice and hope this does not cause to much disruption. If you notice anything unusual or sever impact on service, please contact us and we will try to resolve them as best we can. Thanks. Regards, Richard Richard Wotherspoon | Network Administrator Information Technology Services, Information Services Division The University of Western Australia M463, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009 Telephone: +61 8 6488 2574 Fax: +61 8 6488 4751 CRICOS Code: 00126G P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Resnet mailing list Resnet at maillists.uwa.edu.au http://maillists.uwa.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/resnet From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sat Jan 30 23:38:28 2010 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:38:28 +0800 (WST) Subject: [tech] Apache on mooneye Message-ID: Apache got stuck again this afternoon, and after fruitlessly looking at backtraces in gdb, I noticed it had a lot of connections to mussel and martello's web servers in CLOSE_WAIT. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/users/374092 suggested it's fixed in 2.2.10, so I upgraded apache2-mpm-worker to 2.2.14 in testing. Although, I just checked and it's already got 29 connections in CLOSE_WAIT, so I guess that didn't fix it. So for the moment I've downgraded back to 2.2.8 again. It does suggest some sort of problem in mod_proxy though. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Wheel Member http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 /