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>Date: 2007/06/21 Thu AM 11:00:20 CDT
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> 1. FS: netgear router/802.11/hub; 2 x DSL modem (Jeff Abrahamson)
> 2. PLUG West meeting notes 2007.06.18 (TuskenTower)
> 3. Re: RAM Block Device (TuskenTower)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:18:30 +0100
>From: Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>
>Subject: [PLUG] FS: netgear router/802.11/hub; 2 x DSL modem
>To: PLUG <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
>Message-ID: <20070621141830.GD3980@purple.com>
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>I have a netgear router thing (WGR614 v6), does 802.11g, NAT, hub.
>Free to a good home. (I'm in Univ City, Philadelphia.)
>
>I also have two DSL modems.
>
>All available starting Monday.
>
>--
> Jeff
>
> Jeff Abrahamson <http://jeff.purple.com/> +1 215/837-2287
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>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:28:13 -0400
>From: TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com>
>Subject: [PLUG] PLUG West meeting notes 2007.06.18
>To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List"
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>Attendance: 8 people
>New Users: 1 person (or was it two ...)
>
>We had a very good meeting (I took 3 pages of notes!). Thanks to KS
>Bhaskar for his presentation on GT.M internals (which ran 30 min over
>time because we kept asking him questions).
>
>Paul Snyder confirmed that I will be doing a talk on Linux + HDTV on
>July 26th. We had conversation about HDTV antenna choices, where to
>go to find out more information and where to buy the antennas from. I
>would put this information here, but that would take a way a few
>slides for me. :P
>
>During the discussion, we stopped to talk about CONcast cable. A few tidbits:
>- If you have a HDTV with a good QAM tuner, you can pick up your
>neighbors OnDemand channels and other "digital cable" goodies like
>"Music Choice"
>- CONcast does not advertise the ultra basic cable which gets you only
>the over the air channels. This is the cheapest package
>- If you get the aforementioned ultra basic or the advertised basic
>package with internet, you get all the standard unencrypted channels
>because they can't block those without blocking the internet signal.
>- It actually costs less to get basic cable and internet than it does
>to just get cable internet.
>
>We talked a bit about VZN FiOS. Not having them come to your
>community is a two fold problem. On one hand they are cherry picking.
> On the other, they need local and community (e.g. my HOA) permission
>to dig at the local gov/community's expense. Fred showed his pictures
>of a broken phone line and tales about VZN incompetence in fixing the
>problem.
>
>A reminder to all, the meetings can have discussions about other open
>source projects other than Linux. Anyone want to talk about a BSD?
>Maybe embedded Linux/BSD projects?
>
>We also talked about duplicating talks at both PLUG West and PLUG
>Montco (which I believe is held at the Unisys Blue Bell site).
>
>The GT.M talk was very cool. The true internals part is too hard for
>me to shorten down to a few sentences. So I'm covering the pieces
>that give me the nice warm and fuzzies all over (excuse any
>unintentional omissions):
>- Multi-platform - Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and some others, but no
>Mac OS X :(
>- Multi-arch - Power, x86, PA-RISC, and Itanium with, the first 64bit
>implementation of GT.M
>- GT.M is a non-daemon application. It is a runtime C-library which
>is used by the shell app Bhaskar demonstrated with. You'll need to
>read the presentation to learn more about this.
>- Because GT.M is a runtime library, the app that you create to work
>with it has the potential to cause all sorts of problems like
>deadlocks and other abuses on the DB.
>- It does not re-implement security features (like most SQL style DBs)
>and rely's on OS permissions.
>- Cool DB recovery journaling mechanism
>
>Some stuff skipped past me, like Fred's questions about keys. Anyone
>want to chime in on the parts that I missed?
>
>At the end, we had a lot of questions on how the GT.M team does its
>software testing (considering the wide array of platforms) and
>software development. Bhaskar voted someone else (Srinivas I believe)
>from his team to do this next presentation some time in the future.
>
>Site News:
>None :)
>
>Meeting Information:
>PLUG West is held every third Thursday of the month
>Meeting Host: Paul Snyder
>Site host: Amul Shah (amul.shah@unisys.com)
>Site: 2476 Swedesford Rd, Malvern, PA 19355
>
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>Message: 3
>Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:22:43 -0400
>From: TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [PLUG] RAM Block Device
>To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List"
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>Jon,
>LOL, its not a problem. I happened to remember people whining about
>this a while back, so I knew Google had to have my answer. Do post
>back when you find out what can be done to get /dev/mem and /dev/kmem
>information.
>
>thanks,
>Amul
>
>On 6/21/07, Jon Nelson <lists@linuxnotes.net> wrote:
>> Amul,
>>
>> Thanks for the help. I also Googled my question before posting on the
>> list, but your Google-fu is obviously much better.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:46 -0400, TuskenTower wrote:
>> > Jon,
>> > There's a technote on this very subject.
>> > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/security/chapter_3_section_7.html
>> >
>> > Here's a trick for 10.4
>> > http://www.clusterresources.com/pipermail/torquedev/2006-December/000395.html
>> >
>> > BTW, I Googled your question. :)
>> > http://www.google.com/search?q=Intel+Macs+%2Fdev%2Fmem+and+%2Fdev%
>> > 2Fkmem&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.debian:en-US:unofficial&client=iceweasel-a
>> >
>> > Amul
>> >
>> > On 6/21/07, Jon Nelson <lists@linuxnotes.net> wrote:
>> > > Hi All,
>> > >
>> > > On PPC based Macs you could capture the contents of RAM with:
>> > >
>> > > $ dd if=/dev/mem of=/home/me/mem.bin bs=1024
>> > >
>> > > Now with the Intel Macs /dev/mem and /dev/kmem are no longer there.
>> > > Does anyone know how to track down which block device is associated
>> > with
>> > > RAM?
>> > >
>> > > TIA,
>> > >
>> > > Jon
>> > >
>> > >
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I can put the netgear router to good use in my home if it is available for pickup any weekday prior to 3:00 pm.
Jonathan
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