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When Mitt Romney asked for an apology after the president's campaign team called him perhaps -- -- democrats' response.
Stop -- governor Romney.
So what's the governor's response he joins us live from.
New Hampshire thank you for joining us governor so when you hear pres Obama's former chief of staff say to you -- -- stop whining.
What he -- back to him.
What I think good people accused of a crime.
You have every reason to go after the pretty hard and I'm gonna continue going after him.
I'm very proud of the record that I had in my business career.
Helping turn around the Olympics and as the governor of the state of Massachusetts but what is -- state say about a president.
Whose record is so poor that all they can do in this campaign is attacked me I think it's finally time for us to talk about his record.
The kind of failure he's had a -- able to create jobs to get rising incomes again this is a time when the people of America wanna know who can make things better.
And the president's policies have made it harder for the American people to find work and they have a brighter future and that's -- this campaign's about.
-- some people find it ironic governor because they accuse -- president apologizing for nations all the time but he has also said now that he won't apologize to you.
For apparently calling you a possible talent he did an interview with a local station in Virginia here's what he said.
We will not apologize.
Romney claims he's mr.
fix it for the economy because of his business experience.
So I think voters entirely legitimately want to know what is exactly his business experience.
So mr.
fix it -- -- What would -- say -- -- to the president.
You know I I'd say the president wouldn't it be interesting Mr.
President if you spent some time looking at your record.
If you spent some time looking at what you've done over the last three and a half to four years they're 23 million people that are out of work and stop looking for work.
Median income has dropped by 10% over the last four years Mr.
President this is about the United States of America and my record is pretty clear to see.
I helped turn around a business started another one.
Turned around the Olympics with the help of a lot of great people letter states got our unemployment rate in my state down to four point 7%.
I got a pretty solid record.
Let's look at your record Mr.
President and the American people I think I don't have to try and convince them about his record.
The American people know -- things are better now -- they were four years ago I think we all know that answer this president.
He he he just hasn't been able to do the job he told us he was gonna try and do.
When you were your campus on the defense for the end of last week you -- about Aaliyah allegations but now -- on the offensive.
And your your.
I -- in the Washington Post this morning that your you wanna draw attention to Obama's political payoffs.
Vs the middle class layoffs.
Where you say that you know if you're a donor to the Obama camp you're gonna do just fine however if -- in the middle class -- your camp says.
You gotta worry about your job.
Well there's no question but that win billions upon billions of dollars.
Are given by the Obama administration.
To the business is -- campaign contributors.
That's a real problem.
Particularly at a time in the middle class is really suffering in this country.
I don't know whether you watched over the weekend -- report that was in the the New York Times about families really struggling particularly those that are that single parents.
They're just having a hard time making ends meet this is a tough time for the people of America.
But if your campaign contributor to Barack Obama your business may stand to make.
Get billions of dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars in cash from the government.
I think it's wrong I think it stinks to high heaven.
And I think the administration has to explain how it is they would consider giving money to campaign contributors businesses.
But what about campaign strategy -- governor because obviously the Obama campaign has had a long time to set up their assault on you.
Even when we would interview Debbie Wasserman Schultz months ago when they -- still five Republicans in the primary she would always focused on view.
So they pretty much knew that you -- gonna be the candidate or at least maybe they hoped for that because they have this long line of assaults ready to go.
Some people have said that they want you to fight back to be on the offensive instead of always on the defense -- respond.
Well that's the best offense -- to look at the president's record I mean I really think the American people are gonna tire and probably have already tired.
Of all the attacks.
And and misdirected as they are one after the other and their attacks has been shown by independent fact checkers to be dishonest and false.
-- a campaign based on false and and dishonesty does not have long legs.
In my opinion the issue people care about is who can get the American economy going again.
To help people have a brighter future with rising wages and more capacity to care for their kids.
And and I know that their kids -- good good jobs when they come out of school that that's what this campaign is about.
I've laid -- a number of ideas to do that.
-- the plan I called my jobs recovery plan to get America working again the president on the other hand has only one thing going and that is constant attacks on me and you know they're dishonest they're misdirected and I think the American people recognize that kind of politics is something of the past it -- work in Chicago but it's not gonna work across America.
Governor there's a lot a lot of people -- making a lot of why you won't return release more of your tax return you released 2010 you said 2011 is on its way.
But why -- more Bill Kristol.
Had this to say.
You have to defend it he can't hit this is what he did for most of us about life he is proud of what he did.
Here's what he should do he should release the tax returns tomorrow is crazy you gotta release 6810 years of back taxpayers take the hit for -- to.
They get a serious speech on Thursday in which he says.
Okay we've had this ridiculous -- debate that went and I took relief from beta when I didn't and you can look now look -- tax returns.
-- some would say that be a good way to go on offense what about it.
You know.
John McCain ran for president and released two years -- tax returns John Kerry ran for president you know his wife who has hundreds of millions of dollars.
She never released her tax returns somehow this was an issue.
The Obama people keep on wanting more more more more things to pick through more things for -- opposition research to try and make a mountain out of and to distort.
And to be dishonest about.
We're gonna put out two years attacks and terrorism put out one already soon -- the most recent years complete.
We'll put that out.
It's hundreds of pages of documents about the way.
None of those tax returns are required by law to be put out.
What is required by law the financial disclosure has already been made.
And -- let's just stop for a moment if we wanna talk about transparency.
The real issue is why has this president.
Used his presidential power and executive privilege to keep the information about the fast and furious program from being explain to the American people.
That this is not -- personal matter that this is this is the action of his administration.
This is that an administration which is shown a a very serious a departure from that but for the transparency -- which they suggest that we have -- I think the American people should be calling for for that -- transparency.
Governor Mitt Romney today joining us from New Hampshire thank you for the ten minutes with a --
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Radio Wars: There's a Newcap in town
For years, the Kelowna radio waves were dominated by two corporations, the Pattison Group (Power 104, Q103) and Astral Media (Sunfm, EZ Rock and AM1150).
This year a third player entered the marketplace, Newcap. They concluded the purchase of K96.3 and Great Valley Radio in Penticton (now Country 100.7), and they are making waves.
Newcap, based out of Dartmouth Nova Scotia, has moved both properties up the radio dial in less than a year.
According to numbers released by BBM (Bureau of Broadcast Measurement) both stations have made significant gains in listenership compared to ratings periods in the spring of this year and fall of 2011.
While every radio station programs to a different demographic be it females, males, younger adults or older, Castanet has always used a broad range of measurement, adults 18 to 64.
Numbers also take into account a full week of listening.
Using these numbers, K96.3 moved into second place in Kelowna's 10 station market with a 12.6 audience share. That's up two spots from both the spring and fall of 2011.
The biggest gain came from Country 100.7. The Penticton based station has continually languished in the number nine spot, just above CBC 2 with a market share of about 4.0.
Country 100.7 boot scooted five spots to fourth in the market with an 11.2 share.
Sunfm, the flagship Astral station continues to dominate the Central Okanagan airwaves with a 16.2 share of the audience.
EZ Rock slipped from second to number three in the 18 to 64 demographic with a 12.1 share.
AM1150 took the biggest tumble dropping three spots to number nine with a 5.4 share.
Over at Pattison, Q103 jumped three positions to number five with an 8.7 share while Power 104 fell from third to seventh with an 8.0 market share.
The Juice, the only stand alone station left in Kelowna fell one spot to number eight with a 5.8 market share.
The publicly funded CBC 1 and CBC 2 finished sixth (8.5) and tenth (3.2) respectively.
Castanet contacted each station in the market asking for comment concerning the ratings.
Newcap, Astral and The Juice took the opportunity to state their case.
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Astral Radio is pleased to announce that 99.9 Sun FM, AM 1150 and 101.5 EZ Rock continue to garner top tuning in Kelowna according to Fall 2012 BBM results. Astral Radio stations 99.9 Sun FM, AM 1150 and 101.5 EZ Rock are #1, #2 and #3 in *Adults 12+ in Kelowna radio tuning.
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TJ Connors says, "In key demos for The Juice, we did have some gains in Market Share. We're continuing to work hard as an independent station in a highly competitive market place."
Newcap Program Director David Larsen says the audience growth and the increased time spent listening to both stations is gratifying and really important to local advertisers. "We don't take this success lightly and as we do every day on both stations, we want to say thank you for listening to everyone who has chosen our stations."
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4 large red beets, trimmed
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 red onion, chopped
2 tablespoons chopped leek
4 cloves garlic, chopped
4 cups vegetable broth
5 bay leaves, broken in half
1 pinch ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon dried oregano
1/8 teaspoon dried basil
1 pinch ground cumin
1 pinch dried tarragon
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Congratulations President Obama on another historic win. Now get ready for more historic GOP obstructionism, smears and extremist ranting.
...and please Romney supporters, no whining:
- "Romney was not a true conservative."
- "The GOP had a brutal primary that damaged Romney"
- "The media did not cover Benghazi enough."
- "The media portrayed him unfairly (too much fact checking)."
- "Romney should have released those tax records."
- "It was hurricane Sandy that stopped his momentum."
- "It was Gov. Chris Christie's fault."
- "It was voter fraud."
- "Too many black voted for Obama out of racial loyalty."
- "Too many poor people voted."
- "Too many Obamaphones were issued."
- "It was ACORN and the New Black Panthers fault (somehow.)"
- "It was George Soros fault."
- "Ryan was a bad choice."
- "Romney's budget balancing plan really didn't add up."
- "It was the union thugs fault."
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- "Where was Kathleen Harris when we needed her?"
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Secret 7" is an exciting project combining music and art in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust. Seven bands and recording artists (Florence + The Machine, The Cure, DJ Shadow, Ben Howard, CSS, Noah and The Whale and Bombay Bicycle Club) are inviting creatives to design the artwork for a seven inch vinyl sleeve inspired by one of their songs. The project will culminate in 700 unique vinyl sleeves displayed in Idea Generation Gallery in London in the week leading up to Record Store Day 2012. On that day, each of the vinyls at the gallery will be available to purchase with all of the profits going to Teenage Cancer Trust.
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It was fun, insightful and a long eventful day at the MTV Youth Marketing Forum 2012 held recently in Mumbai. MADHUMITHA SRINIVASAN picks the highlights…
If you were a part of a brand that sells products to youngsters, somebody who worked with youngsters, or a youngster wanting to know how consumer giants see you, a curious learner or just somebody with lots of free time on a Friday, then the MTV Youth Marketing Forum 2012 was the place to be.
The aim was to "explore the power exuded by the youth and the strategies deployed by the marketing gurus across the world to harness this youth power". For this purpose MTV had flown in experts from across the world and brands — Henri Holm from Rovio Entertainment Ltd (the makers of Angry Bird), author Chetan Bhagat, Simon Smith of Interbrand, Andy Ridley, co-founder Earth Hour and Angela Barkan of Sony Music Entertainment, besides others.
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- "Since all our original speakers couldn't make it, we found four foreigners staying at the hotel to make do with."
- "Come on! You all paid good money for this, so you better ask some questions!"
- "Owing to a budget cut, the caterers are making money serving a wedding party, so lunch will be delayed."
- "As the camera pans across the room to project your faces on the screen, kindly refrain from digging your noses."
- "Introducing the Vikram Malhotra, COO Viacom 18 Motion Pictures; also Vicky Donor by night!" "MTV; we are the people known for our ads and very little music."
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Just as you though Cyrus was to be the only "entertainment" at the event, there was Sorabh Pant making things ranging from CSK's team name, the desi GPS system and Chinese accents the butt of his jokes. Unfortunately, he earned only a few laughs from a hungry audience as his act was scheduled right before lunch. Meanwhile, MTV VJ & actor Ayushman Khurrana of "Vicky Donor" surprised the audience by rendering a song from his movie earning himself more brownie points from the girls in the audience.
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No-more-chocolate-boy Imran Khan was the apple of the media's eye. His session towards the end of the day saw camera men and photographers descend on the venue from nowhere. He seemed to match his answers to his bearded serious face. "He's become quite the diplomat!" exclaimed one journalist after the interview with MTV VJ Anusha Dandekar on "how films are pushing creative boundaries and how youth icons are constantly reinventing themselves." By the way, Imran's red Ferrari was another attraction at the event.
Group thoughts
There was a panel discussion featuring a versatile mix: director Bijoy Nambiar of "Shaitan" fame; actor Ayushman Khurrana; Avinash Pant, Marketing Head, Nike India; Sumeet Pahwa, DGM, Marketing, TATA Docomo; Vikram Malhotra, COO Viacom 18 Motion Pictures.
Mediated by Sunburn Music Festival co-founder and popular DJ/VJ Nikhil Chinappa, the discussion swung from getting ideas heard, use of social media and frustration at being rejected to why top management should take time off to listen to those lower in the hierarchy, even interns! "We were having a discussion about a certain product/idea for youngsters and suddenly realised: 'Who among us is below age 35?'" said Avinash Pant, highlighting the reality behind many a corporate decision.
The MTV Youth Marketing Forum 2012 was all about the "Power of One"; the one who does not see the actor as his idol, the one who trusts his friends more than he does the marketer, the one who believes he can change the world, the one who is connected to millions of people across the world — known and unknown, the one who defines himself by what he shares online and the one who matters the most today — the youth.
One for the world
While most of us have been in the dark for an hour in keeping with the Earth Hour's Lights Off initiative, little do we know that it was the idea of one man started as a local campaign in Sydney. Now it's observed across 152 countries and territories — 6926 cities and towns, with over 194 million people connected globally for the campaign.
While there are campaigns aimed at those who really care and those who really don't, a large proportion of people fall in the in-between category. Andy Ridley, Co-founder, Earth Hour, said that he wanted to do something that touched this large group. "There are no votes for environment," is a response from politicians, he said.
According to Ridley, the Light Out campaign is a symbol to show that people care and a way of doing something for the earth. "Earlier, campaigns were based on fear. But now the idea is to create hope."
While it is a global campaign, the motive can be local. While in China the Earth Hour is about air quality, in South America it is about the Amazon rainforest. Andy Ridley's session threw light on how a simple idea can impact the world, just through connectivity, courtesy the social media.
The writer rules
"I have been invited to deliver talks for the army, for doctors and as replacement for lunch!" The audience could not have asked for a better replacement than "Paperback King" Chetan Bhagat. He should think of adding "stand up comedian" to his "CB Bubble" that already has books, films, columns, talks, social network and e-commerce; I am not being sarcastic.
Sample this: "I think saying you were involved in the 2G scam is more respectable than a toilet scam!"
"When I mention in my profile 'Househusband (2006 to present)', people ask me what bank is that?!"
"Why do my books work? Because of God, luck and my stunning good looks!"
But the jokes apart, Chetan's talk at the forum highlighted his struggle as a banker trying to get his work read by publishing houses, his diversification into social commentary and films and why people take him too seriously. In fact, he started by playing a video in which Era Pandey talks about Chetan Bhagat, his books and his crafty marketing techniques.
Answering a question from the audience, Chetan Bhagat said that people, especially youngsters, have become more cynical and negative because they are used to being let down by people they look up to. So it is but natural for them to not trust their leaders and not expect much from them, he felt.
"Why my books work is because of the tight plots, humour, simple English, relatable plots and characters." These are what made his session a hit too at the forum and earned him many a fan.
Youth psyche
Angela Barkan, Senior Director of Marketing and Publicity at Sony Music Entertainment, spruced up her presentation on the millennials (youngsters aged between 12 to 30 years), talking about how to be connected with the fans is an important agenda for artists all over the world. She highlighted this point by playing Garbage's I Hate Love, a song that featured art work sent in by their fans on their request. The secret to gaing lifelong fans, she said, was collaboration with them supported by a two-way communication.
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Wow! I must say, earlier this week a remote coworker of mine introduced me to Linux MCE and I am blown away. I have been reading the wiki and watching the youtube\google videos and feel i have a complete project ahead of me now. I've been pretty much a windows only guy with only basic linux knowledge from work and have been meaning to dig a little deeper, so this is a beter reason then not.
I have a rather complex setup at home and not everything will be able to be dhcp as the wiki suggest, but i think I will be ok. here is a basic outline of my network (excuse the MS Paint)
I renovated the house a few months ago and when i did so, ran cat6 in the walls with cable so each room has a wall jack with cat6 and cable. Currently, All wired devices have a static address including the 2 switches(managed). All Wireless devices are using dhcp (except the Wii which is static). There is a 2k3 server that occasionally hosts ftp and game server files in addition to a sequal server and IIS for playing around with website changes before i upload them to an external server.
I have an Dell optiplex 755 (E6550 - Dual Core @ 2.33 with 4gb RAM and 2x250gb drives in raid1) that I am planning to use as the Core machine. The current XP-MCE is also a Optiplex 755 (same configuration but with a nvidia 8600) which will become a MD along with another small form factor optiplex 755 (ill need to buy a video card for this one) to connect all of the equpment in the Office\Media room.
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Re: I must say... (and Hello from a newbie)
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February 25, 2009, 10:41:33 pm »
Welcome! Glad to have you.
Not sure about your raid question, but you might read up on 64 vs 32 install. Last I heard there were still some issues with the 64 that you wont see with 32 and I have also heard that you won't realize any performance gain by using 64.
Just a heads up, it would be much easier to switch now as opposed to down the road when you have a more complete system.
Disclaimer: I have never used the 64 install personally I am just relaying info that I have read over the last 6 months.
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February 25, 2009, 10:48:59 pm »
Thanks for the heads up.
I know with Windows, your limited to abotu 3gb of ram on 32bit systems, is that not true with linux (ill be googling this in a minute, but remember im not very well versed in linux OS's which is why i do not know).
If the machine is only used as a Core system, would being limited to 3gb cost me anything down the road (assuming above is true)
and thanks for the welcome
Edit: found the 3gb ram limitation holds true, so my questions become:
Do i need more then 3gb of RAM for a Core system? (what is performance like for people that use it with 3gb or less)
Do issues still exist on the 64bit platform?
Ill have to wait until tonight to load the raid controller anyways so ill keep looking for the answers to the 2 questions unless anyone wants to jump in.
Last Edit: February 25, 2009, 11:13:53 pm by Pnuts
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February 25, 2009, 11:21:24 pm »
YAY!! Another Windows guy!!! Welcome, you'll love LMCE and if you're a 'techie' guy (and I think you are), you'll just have a blast learning it.
I also researched the 32/64 bit addressable RAM thing when first getting into LMCE. Here's what I discovered. First, out of the box the 32bit Kubuntu does only support the 3.3GB or whatever it is. 64 bit will address up to 64GB I believe. BUT, I also have been told by guys that know more than me to stick with the 32 bit install for stability. So, I ended up buying a core from Fiire and it only has 2GB of RAM in it. I'm running 4 media directors and it runs flawlessly so I think it's probably not necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit.
Now, your installation looks like it might be more complex than mine so I'd get input from the more experienced guys regarding RAM requirements but I think you'd be fine with 2GB in your core running the 32bit OS.
Somebody correct me if any of this is wrong.
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February 25, 2009, 11:45:27 pm »
A few comments from me:
Yes, use 32bit - the type of processing load that LMCE typically suffers does not lend itself to 64 CPUs ie you really will not get any noticable performance improvement from 64 bit, but you will possibly experience some of the downside instability issues. Its a no-brainer.
You are not using Windows now - simply don't even worry about RAM. A simple core can get away with 512M if you are that way inclined. I would recommend 1-2GB. 1GB is sufficient even for reasonably complex setups, I would challenge anyone to prove they have a setup so large they actually need 3GB!
On the 3GB question, this is a common misunderstanding. Windows can handle a mapped address space of 2GB
for a process
(unless you use the /3GB switch). It is similar for Linux (both 32bit). But note, this is per process. When a process is context switched in, it can own this entire address space. All other processes' pages are not mapped. So there is nothing stopping you having more than 3GB physical RAM, its just one individual process cannot use more than 3GB in its virtual working set. There isn't any process on this system that comes anywhere close to that! As long as you have enough physical RAM so that the total working requirements of all processes are reasonably satisfied to minimise (hard) paging, you are fine.
I have seen nothing in your posts that explains why you cannot use DHCP for everything. Again, this is a no-brainer - on the one side, LMCE depends heavily on its modified DHCP to provide pnp and device re-detection services (among many other functions), and on the other side there is no disadvantage to using LMCE's DHCP.....
Remember (this is true for most DHCP, but particularly for LMCE's) - once an IP address lease has been handed out by LMCE's DHCP server, that device will stay on that address indefinitely. Another common misconception is that DHCP IP addresses (in this configuration) change ... even infrequently... They do not! Even if you were completely to rebuild your LMCE core - it would still hand out the same IP address to your Windows_PC_1. If you were then completely to rebuild your Windows_PC_1, it would STILL get the exact same address!!! The only circumstances where it will loose the same address are 1) if you were to leave Windows_PC_1 off for a long time (>1week) and another, new device comes onto the network after that time and by bad luck gets that address; or 2) if you were to rebuild both your core and Windows_PC_1 at EXACTLY the same time as each other; or 3) if you change the NIC on Windows_PC_1 and then rebuild it....
ie unlikely. Take a look at this ....
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February 26, 2009, 12:35:43 am »
Regarding your RAID drive
Currently it is not recommended to install LMCE on a software (mdadm) array because of the RAID detection scripts. This isn't normally the case with a fully hardware raid system.
For LMCE, your data and metadata are the most important things to backup. Therefore, the best setup to go with is to have a separate "OS" drive for the operating system, then put media on other drives (raided or not). Then, if your system ("OS") disk crashes, you only need to reinstall LMCE and your data (movies, music, etc) will be re-detected.
Eventually having the root on a raid will be supported, but until then, it may cause you some headaches.
Anyways, good luck, hope your install goes smoothly!
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February 26, 2009, 12:55:59 am »
Thanks for the info, definetely going to go with the 32bit install then. Now to DL it
Also, thanks for the info on DHCP. I was under the impression the addesses would change often as they do with addresses handed out by my linksys wireless router. The main reason i did not use dhcp previously was routing specific ports to different machines, like xbox live to the 360 or web\ftp to the 2k3 server. I had run into issues where the linksys wireless router would give out addresses that another thing used. Like the xbox was off for a week or so and a wireless laptop got the address. Troubleshooting why im not getting connected properly to xbox live was fun the first time this happened. Since this is not going to be an issue, ill just run with dhcp.
As for the raid drive, im holding off on the instal until tonight and use a hardware raid card to mirror the drives, i was never a fan of software raids and wasnt aware until now the 755's did it this way. maybe ill stick a 3rd drive in there, load the OS on that and then just mirror the existing 2. This seems like a good bet to free up 250gb from the nas for more dvd's or something.
thanks for the info again guys
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February 26, 2009, 01:39:19 am »
Quote from: Pnuts on February 26, 2009, 12:55:59 am
Also, thanks for the info on DHCP. I was under the impression the addesses would change often as they do with addresses handed out by my linksys wireless router.
I know that's what you were thinking! To expand a little. The first time a client requests a DHCP lease, the DHCP server picks a free one from the database and allocates it. This is then refreshed based on the lease expiry parameter. Your DHCP client will ask for the least to be extended, and the DHCP server should comply with that as long as you haven't changed its config like changing the range of addresses so that the lease address is now outside that range. End result: the client retains the same IP address indefinitely. In a non-corporate, reasonably static environment you can increase the lease time significantly with no disadvantage.
If you turn off the client for a period so that the lease expires. When it turns back on, it will still ask to renew that lease address, and as long as the lease hasn't been fully expired from the DHCP server (1 week I think, but you can easily increase this), the DHCP server will reallocate the same lease address. End result: the client retains the same IP address indefinitely.
If you rebuild your core so that the DHCP server has no memory of the old lease from the previous install, the client will still ask to renew the same lease address, and as the DHCP server has no reason not to provide that address, it does. End result: the client retains the same IP address indefinitely.
If you rebuild your Windows machine, so that it does not remember its old lease address, it will request a new lease (as opposed to requesting a renewal of an existing lease). However, the DHCP server recognises the MAC address of the NIC on your Windows box, and hands out the same lease address again. End result: the client retains the same IP address indefinitely.
Can't comment on how the Linksys router handles DHCP, but it is entirely possible that it doesn't implement the entire DHCP functionality in this way as it is highly unlikely that it stores the lease info in its flash memory to preserve these things over a reboot...
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February 26, 2009, 08:46:36 am »
on the DHCP issue. There are some Windows versions, which will ask the DHCP server for a new IP address each time (Win2k is known for that). Also, if you reinstall lmce and another PC has received the IP address before the original PC connected to the network, the original PC will get a new address.
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February 26, 2009, 04:30:17 pm »
DHCP clients don't request specific IP addresses. They simply ask for an address, any address. The DHCP server assigns the first available address if it's a new network device. The DHCP server checks for the MAC address of the requesting device and if it has an existing lease it will assign that IP address. If that device's lease has expired there will be no record and it will be assigned the first available address (this may or may not be the same one it got before).
The way to get psuedo-static IP addresses is to change the lease time in your DHCP server. Essentially this will simply not let the lease expire and there will always be a record of the MAC to IP address in the DHCP table, ensuring you always get the same IP. If you change the NIC in a machine it will be assigned a different IP address (new MAC address means new network device as far as the DHCP server is concerned).
I realize that you guys are right and there is no need to statically assign addresses on a stable DHCP network, but I can't sleep well if my Win Servers don't have static IP's (just a throwback from when DHCP servers sucked). I simply address my servers outside the DHCP range.
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February 26, 2009, 04:35:41 pm »
Quote from: Dale_K on February 26, 2009, 04:30:17 pm
DHCP clients don't request specific IP addresses.
Well, it depends. If it has received an IP address, it will ask for a renewal.
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February 26, 2009, 05:42:57 pm »
Quote from: posde on February 26, 2009, 04:35:41 pm
Quote from: Dale_K on February 26, 2009, 04:30:17 pm
DHCP clients don't request specific IP addresses.
Well, it depends. If it has received an IP address, it will ask for a renewal.
Maybe this is a Windows/Linux difference. Windows clients don't include option 50 in the DHCP discover. Only during the DHCP Request is it included and is set to the IP address sent by the server during the DHCP Offer.
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February 26, 2009, 06:06:15 pm »
btw: If you always want your Windows servers on the internal network to have the same IP address, add them as File Server devices with MAC address and IP address to the database (they should have been detected already anyhow). That way, a static lease is put into the dhcpd.conf file.
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February 26, 2009, 06:16:38 pm »
If you're new to LMCE, know this: LMCE is very easy to use once set up. It's the setup process that is difficult. It took me a good year of trial and error, quiting and coming back later to get a stable system. But now that it's up and running, I love it. So, you'll have a long and sometimes frustrating road ahead, but once you get your servers setup properly, you'll be able to impress everyone.
Also, I've made some videos on youtube that can just help you get your mind around this project. Sounds like you might already have found them, but I'll post the link anyway.
Finally, you'll probably find out that LMCE has some picky hardware requirements. Check the wiki (hardware section) and especially the user setup areas for compatible hardware
As to your raid question, the dvd install is only capable of installing on 1 entire harddrive. If the options it gives you are inadequate, you'll need to use the install cds. In that method, you'll download the kubuntu 7.10 live cd, install it on the proper harddrive/partition, and then use the LMCE install cds to overwrite kubuntu. It takes me about 2 hours altogether to use the cd install. Make sure you don't do any updates when installing kubuntu.
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February 26, 2009, 07:46:10 pm »
Well, I have the raid problem resolved. Basically the motherboard in the optiplex, dispite being set to RAID in the BIOS, is not actually raid. It forces windows to do a software raid during installation. The LMCE installation see it for what it is and prompts me which drive to install it on. I have a promise PCI card that im going to use instead of the supposed onboard raid. LMCE will only see the 1 raid drive this way instead of 2 seperate drives.
As for the install itself, im going to be delayed a little while. I decided to go with the DL dvd for the extra's, but it seems its taking a lot longer then anticipated to get it. im only downloading at about 20kb but uploading what i've already got between 60-80kb, only at 19% so far. I might just start the regular dvd to speed things along here.
I decided to just run with the DHCP as long as it works like it should. I figure if i have any problems i can resolve them as it comes.
Thansk everyone for the input, now to just finish the download, lol
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