Re: Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XL REMINDER Tomorrow Saturday June 4, 2011

2011-06-03 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott writes: > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > Boston Linux Installfest XL > > What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones? Are more > attendees expected? I think he's running with LC_NUMERIC=la_RM, in which case `XL' is his localised represent

Re: Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XL REMINDER Tomorrow Saturday June 4, 2011

2011-06-03 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott writes: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > > > Boston Linux Installfest XL > > > > > >   What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones?  Are more > > > attendees expected? > > > >

Re: Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XL REMINDER Tomorrow Saturday June 4, 2011

2011-06-03 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > > Benjamin Scott writes: > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen > > wrote: > > > > > Boston Linux Installfest XL > > > > > > > >   What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones?

Re: Fwd: Linux reference on subs

2011-06-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Jon \"maddog\" Hall" writes: > > On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 07:24 -0400, Jeffry Smith wrote: > > > > http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/archive/331544-196/uss-new-hampshire-surfaces-on-seacoast.html > > > > quote: > > "The $2.4 billion New Hampshire is so high-tech that it has no > > periscope, and uses

Re: Blogging for kids

2011-06-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Mark Komarinski writes: > > It's happened. > > My geek of a daughter (all of 8, with her own digital camera and my old > laptop) asked to have her own website, which I assume means she wants to > post pictures and write a blog. > > Now, now, stop what you're thinking. I have no intention of t

Re: Fwd: Linux reference on subs

2011-06-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott writes: > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:23 AM, wrote: > > "US vessel, the Yorktown"  .."The entire network of Windows NT machines > > crashed. The Navy claims the ship was dead in the water for about three > > hours;" > > There's not much real information on this, but supposedly t

Re: "Do one thing well..." (Flash)

2011-06-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Michael ODonnell" writes: > > "One Year Later: Adobe Abandons 64-bit Linux Again": > > http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/06/one-year-later-adobe-abandons.html "This decision makes even less sense than it did a year ago. 32-bit processors have effectively become legacy technology.

Re: http://linuxbeard.com/

2011-06-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Hardy writes: > > On the Linux beard thing, I grew mine a couple of years ago until, as our > son informed me, I looked like a Civil War general. I was going to keep > growing it until I got a full-time Linux gig finally, and a month ago I did. > So, as it was at the point of getting tangl

Re: http://linuxbeard.com/

2011-06-28 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Hardy writes: > > I would think that if one was both a UNIX/Linux person AND a brewer, they > would cancel each other out and thus no beard. > > But maybe that is only the case if one also takes up amateur radio and/or > astronomy/telescope building. > > And what about home gunsmithing? >

Re: http://linuxbeard.com/

2011-06-28 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Michael ODonnell" writes: >http://linuxbeard.com/ I subscribed to it via identi.ca, so that I can receive timely updates with all of the news in the world of Linux beards. If anyone else wants that (and you can even receive these updates via *SMS* on your *phone*..., though *I'm* not *that*

Label-printers for CUPS/Linux?

2011-07-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I'm looking at possibly getting a label-printer to hook up to one of my Debian machines, and hoping that maybe someone here can give me some guidance because (1) I've never had a PC-driven label-printer and (2) I might be doing something unusual...: I want to use libvisualid to generate tags to ke

Re: TTY behavior during SSH sessions

2011-07-25 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Michael ODonnell" writes: > > > Try the -t option to force pty allocation? > > ...I'm talking about the SSH option, in case it > wasn't obvious. Also, note that sometimes (e.g.: if you're using ssh in a pipeline) you need *two* "-t" flags to indicate "I really mean it, use PTYs!". -- "Don't b

Re: Browsers

2011-08-02 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill Sconce writes: > > Someone has to post this... > > -Bill > ___ > Sent from my virusproofed Linux PC Cute signature :) And, on that note: I made a cute `Made with Debian GNU/Linux' image, mainly for use on the back of greeting-cards, after I got card with `Made with a Mac' on the ba

Re: Browsers

2011-08-03 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Jon \"maddog\" Hall" writes: > > On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 14:42 -0400, Brian St. Pierre wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Bill Sconce wrote: > > >1. > > >http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,236944/printable.html > > > > > >If you use Internet Explorer, your IQ might be

Re: Browsers

2011-08-03 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ryan Lee Stanyan writes: > > I think it's called "news entertainment" nowadays. Just make a huge > headline libeling someone and then post the retraction weeks later > buried somewhere in the back. Except that `online publishing' means `never having to print a retraction' (since you can just edi

Re: MPD+PulseAudio = cheap+fast+awesome whole-home audio

2011-08-03 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
the last e-mail (like what I needed to do in order to get it working on the plug-computers), and copious hyperlinks to explainations of what the various software-packages are and how to do some possibly-obscure things in Debian. Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > > Derek Atkins writes: > &g

Re: Browsers

2011-08-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Hardy writes: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > > > Didn't know the Internet reached all the way up in Northern Vermont. > > It doesn't, actually.  Many areas up here are still without internet at all, > or they have dial-up/modem, and/or no cell phone access.  A fe

Terminology: FOSS vs. `Legacy Software'?

2011-08-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I originally wrote this as a private e-mail, but I figured I'd send it along to greater GNHLUG--because I realised that I would actually like to engage you all...: maddog has written a blog-post proposing that the terms "closed-source" and "proprietar

Re: Sad news, Philip Sbrogna

2011-08-11 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Charles Farinella > wrote: > > http://www.ledgertranscript.com/article/philip-sbrogna > > So I propose we collect any donations people might want to make and > give to Reading Is Fundamental, per the above. > > Does anyone know any goo

Debian/Ubuntu bug-squashing hackathon, MIT SIPB, Sunday

2011-08-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
An acquaintance forwarded this notice to me, the other day-- Events like these are a great way to `flex your brain' by working on different types of stuff and solving different types of problems that you don't normally work with; to learn new stuff, and also to meet new and interesting people with

Thinkpad repair?

2011-10-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I'm going to call this `on-topic' because there are so many Thinkpads in the Linux community--and because, since our software doesn't just spontaneously `rot', so many of us run them until the hardware just fails irreparably. So, I'm hoping someone can give me some helpful comments on getting my 4-

Re: Without Dennis Ritchie, there would be no Jobs

2011-10-15 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam writes: > > On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:49:57 -0400, Randy Edwards > wrote: > >One last comment/article about Dennis Ritchie. With their deaths so > > close > > together, the contrast between Dennis Ritchie and Steve Jobs seems apropos: > > After rms's statement on Jobs[1] (which

Re: Thinkpad repair?

2011-10-15 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Jon \"maddog\" Hall" writes: > > When I bought my Lenovo Thinkpad W510 through ebay, it was still under > warranty, but one of the LED backlights was not operational, which left > a dark spot on the screen. > > I took it to this Lenovo warranty service provider: > > Computer Hut of New England,

Conversations w/ Computing's historical personages (was: Historical origin of cron's day-of-month/weekday behavior?)

2011-10-25 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
John Abreau writes: > > >> Can anyone point me to the original author's thoughts on this? [...] > I emailed Brian about it last night, and found out that he didn't > have anything to do with cron, despite the Wikipedia articles > that credit him with it. He pointed me to Ken Thompson and > Dou

Re: Without Dennis Ritchie, there would be no Jobs

2011-10-25 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Randy Edwards writes: > > > After rms's statement on Jobs[1] (which I basically agreed with), I was > > a little surprised there wasn't one for Ritchie. > >Good point. I thought rms gave enough of the appropriate disclaimers about > Jobs' death to make his point with the appropriate amount o

Migrating a Remine/VC install from svn to bzr?

2011-10-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Hi everybody, My group at work has been using Subversion for revision-control on our software projects, and we really want to switch to Bazaar; for the most part, I know that this is easy because I'v done it before. However, one thing I'm clueless on: we also have a Redmine installation that is cu

Re: usenet via fairpoint?

2011-10-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam writes: > > On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:36:56 -0400, "Michael ODonnell" > wrote: > > ...maybe you could fiddle with your browser's User Agent string. > > The User Agent Switcher plugin is fairly painless to install and [...] > > Oh yeah, I think when the switch first happened a few yea

Re: SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

2011-12-23 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jerry Feldman writes: > > On 12/22/2011 05:38 PM, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: > > > Having just now quickly RTFSC and done a few superficial experiments I > > > conclude that the -t option (mnemonic for "to"; there's also a secret > > > "from" > > > flag -f) is not suitable for use by humans. It te

ZaReason (was: gnhlug-discuss Digest, Vol 64, Issue 1)

2012-01-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Ohlemacher writes: > > For xmas, we now have two new zareason systems.  A desktop and a laptop, both > with mint 12. [...] > Zareason was great by the way.  It was me that asked for Mint 12; there were > several choices.  I appreciate 24/7 support with someone that speaks American > English

GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) writes: > > > > My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE. > > > > Me, too - I switched to the XFCE-based Xubuntu. > > I couldn't figure out Gnome3 when I upgraded to Fedora 16. It just > threw me for a loop. I tried out LXDE and then

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Michael ODonnell > wrote: > > most filesystems do normally reside on partitions > > but that's not actually inherent in the design of the system ... > > Not inherent in the design of *nix systems, certainly. Or computers > in general. B

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > I've always wondered: why do the little USB flash sticks, > > SD cards, etc. all include a partition-table with one > > partition? Why don't they just use whole-device fi

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > >> Flash drives wouldn't work as floppies, so they're treated as fixed > >> disks. > > > > What does this mean? Why wouldn't USB sticks or MMC/SD cards work

Re: ipv4ll fallback

2012-02-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Thomas Charron writes: > > Is there any easy way to configure dhcp to fallback to a link local > address, should dhcp requests fail? I'm not sure to what extent this is a Debian vs. upstream thing, but the version of avahi-autoipd that Debiain 6.0 ships includes an `exit hook' script that it re

How to fix Thunderbird's quoting?

2012-02-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Is there some way to fix Mozilla Thunderbird so that, when composing plaintext replies, it *doesn't* condense multiple levels of quoting down to ">>> " (with no interleaved spaces)? I want to just consistently prepend "> " to quoted lines, without being `smart'--is there some way of making it do t

Linux `all-in-one' touchscreen computer?

2012-02-12 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I just came across this recently: http://us.shuttle.com/barebone/Models/X50v2Plus.html All-in-one touchscreen PC with an explicit `works with Linux' label. Looks like the online retailers are selling it in a barebones configuration (no RAM or HDD) for ~$300. I haven't been able to find much

e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-20 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Dear GNHLUG, A couple of (non-technical) friends of mine have expressed a desire to move away from Google's services in response to the latest publicised privacy/security gaffe. The big question is "where do I go from GMail?"--I don't think I'm familiar enough with the options for me to be comfort

Re: Protecting privacy

2012-02-21 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Michael ODonnell" writes: > > > Here's the problem I ran into: I wanted to be logged out when > > using Google as a search engine. [...] I don't even use them > > for that anymore, so it seems kind of moot, but with their web > > bugs and trackers all over it really isn't. > > I use https://du

Re: Linux `all-in-one' touchscreen computer?

2012-02-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
y wake up today, and see if they'll authorise a swap. Presumably it's not a `they all do that' issue -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr." Bill Freeman writes: > > On 2/12/12, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > I just cam

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Brian St. Pierre" writes: > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:41 AM, David Rysdam wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:32:43 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen > > wrote: > >> Maybe you guys can suggest other providers, or just provide > >> some thoughts o

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Thomas Charron writes: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > Dear GNHLUG, > > > > A couple of (non-technical) friends of mine have expressed > > a desire to move away from Google's services in response to > > the latest p

Re: Vendor independent certifications?

2012-03-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Mike writes: > > A friend of mine is looking for a career change and asks what sort of > vendor independent certifications (that is, not another college degree) > would help them get in the door in programming, web design, or system > administration? She is not mainly asking about actual educat

Re: Tablet recommendations?

2012-03-31 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jeffry Smith writes: > > I've thought about the Toshiba Thrive - full size USB ports, powered > (so I could plug my movie HD in and watch movies) - but it 's heavier > and thicker[...] This must be the one I my wife and I saw when we stopped into Best Buy, a few weeks back--thick and covered in r

Re: Tablet recommendations?

2012-03-31 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam writes: > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:15:46 -0400, Jeffry Smith wrote: > > Just got our tax return back, and looking to buy a tablet, preferably > > Android. Something in the 9-10 inch range, 32-64GB of memory. Anyone > > have recommendations? If so, why those? > > I think we are go

Re: Tablet recommendations?

2012-04-01 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Jon \"maddog\" Hall" writes: > > > `Oooh--how ergonomic!' is a tough first impression to give, though. > > Unless you're presenting to ergonomists, maybe :) > > How about "how easy to use"? "Ease of use" encompasses a lot of things beside the ergo aspects, though; and the non-ergo aspects can b

Re: Am I 32-bit, or 64-bit?

2012-04-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Brian St. Pierre" writes: > > On 04/05/2012 09:20 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > > But... i386 seems to be missing as a possible architecture. The closest I > > could find was x86. But this concerned me, because x86_64's bzImage is a > > soft > > link to x86's. Anyway, "What the hell," I thought

Re: Am I 32-bit, or 64-bit?

2012-04-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Ken D'Ambrosio" writes: > > Brian: I'm gonna pull the whole repo. I really like btrfs, and anything > pre-10.10 isn't recent enough to support it for an installation. And I ain't > doing 12.04 because, well, it ain't the epitome of the Linux user experience. > ;-) Ken, Have you considered upg

Re: Am I 32-bit, or 64-bit?

2012-04-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Ken D'Ambrosio" writes: > > On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:40:35 -0400 Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote > > > Have you considered upgrading to Debian 6.0/Squeeze? It really sounds > > more like what you want...: > > > > http://www.debian.org/News/

Re: Am I 32-bit, or 64-bit?

2012-04-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > You think you're joking, but it worked for ATM: > > > >    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode> > > ATM didn't work for ATM. I do n

Re: I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

2012-04-12 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill Freeman writes: > > My Acer is scaring me. Sometimes at startup it goes into an infinite > reboot loop. The way out seems to be to force power off, flex the > case and whack it a few times, after which it boots. > > So, I'm considering replacing it. Last round I insisted on an AMD > CPU,

Computer Show in Nashua, next Saturday

2012-04-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Apparently the Internet *didn't* kill computer shows, because there's one coming up at Crowne Plaza in Nashua, next Saturday (21 April), 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM: http://www.ncshows.com/ Given the recent discussions about trying to scope out laptops, tablets, whatever to spend tax-rebates on..., ma

Re: I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

2012-04-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > > Can anyone offer personal experience stories on the Dell Inspirons? > > For what I expect you expect in a laptop, I recommend the Latitude > line instead. Inspiron is their consumer line, designed for people > who

Re: I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

2012-04-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > > Ben Scott writes: > > > > For what I expect you expect in a laptop, I recommend the Latitude > > line instead. Inspiron is their consumer line, designed for people > > who buy based on price and the color of the lid. Latitude is t

Re: mosh

2012-04-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Chip Marshall writes: > > Thought I'd share this: http://mosh.mit.edu/ > > It's a remote terminal program (like SSH or telnet) but designed > to allow for mobility. Rather than sending the whole stream > across the network, it maintains a screen state on the remote > server (like screen) and sync

Re: I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

2012-04-23 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Brian St. Pierre" writes: > > On 04/12/2012 03:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > I know people who enjoyed their dealings with System76, also: > > > > http://www.system76.com/ > > I'm one of those people -- writing this on one of their

Re: USB linux rescue disk

2012-04-23 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Chris writes: > > Is there a way for forcing the USB stick to emulate a SB CD-ROM or USB > floppy, which might take preference over the onboard flash? SanDisk made some USB flash sticks with some functionality called "U3", quasi-recently, which I think is exactly what you're describing: http

Re: USB (*gasp*) modem?

2012-05-13 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > If the laptop doesn't have an RS-232 port, one can obtain > USB<->RS232 adapters for small money. The later are a > well-established product with a universal interface (USB serial > communications class. They shouldn't need vendor-specific drivers > under any OS that supp

Re: USB (*gasp*) modem?

2012-05-13 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Hardy writes: > > Well, what was the *other* qualification you and your colleague came up with > the other day?  Enquiring potential nerds wanna know. "Appreciates hoppy beers". > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: &

Re: USB (*gasp*) modem?

2012-05-13 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr." > On May 13, 2012 9:16 PM, "Joshua Judson Rosen" wrote: > > David Hardy writes: > > > > Well, what was the *other* qualification you and your colleague came up > with > > the other day?  Enquiring

Re: USB (*gasp*) modem?

2012-05-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > Oh, you'd be surprised. Apparently there are a zillion different > > USB<->RS232 adapter chipsets, and a zillion different drivers > > required to drive them. > &g

New Android tablet from ZaReason

2012-05-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Just caught this via StatusNet: http://zareason.com/shop/zatab.html ZaReason has added a tablet computer to their lineup. Looks like it's got lots of peripheral interconnects, and ships free of firmware-locks (sad that we have to be explicit about that, these days); runs Android, but I wond

Re: New Android tablet from ZaReason

2012-05-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Alan Johnson writes: > > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > but I wonder if they'll have Ubuntu running on it > at some point > > Ubuntu is working on being available on beefier Android devices soon: > http://www.u

Open, non-DRM HD consumer video standard project on Kickstarter

2012-06-02 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Given some of the conversations we've had here--like how the reason `Linux support for making/watching DVDs sucks' is because groups behind the standards have made the legality of us supporting them questionable at best..., e.g.: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/1908

Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

2012-06-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Brian St. Pierre" writes: > > On 06/07/2012 07:33 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: > > Today's WSJ reported in the Digits column that encrypted LinkedIN > > passwords had been leaked. Decryption efforts have been successful > > against some subset of these passwords. > > > > I was disappointed to see no ac

Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

2012-06-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
John Abreau writes: > > I normally use "apg -m 14" to generate random 14-character passwords > so I have a unique password for each and every website I register > with. Isn't knowing what the class of password we need to guess half the battle? -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))

StatusNet, anyone?

2012-06-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Anyone else doing anything interesting with StatusNet? -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr." ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: StatusNet, anyone?

2012-06-12 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"James A. Kuzdrall" writes: > > On Tuesday 12 June 2012 04:31:20 Eric Stein wrote: > > It's an open source twittery thing. I think. Google knows I'm sure! > > Is that the one that gives you a map of the URLs that are receiving > information from your cookies? I understand that they are not n

Re: Tracking The Trackers

2012-06-12 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Michael ODonnell" writes: > > > > Is that the one that gives you a map of the URLs that are > > > receiving information from your cookies? > > > > Wait--what? > > He might be referring to Collusion - fascinating: > > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/ Aha! See, this is why I originally po

Re: StatusNet, anyone?

2012-06-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam writes: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:29:52 -0400, "James A. Kuzdrall" > wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 June 2012 04:31:20 Eric Stein wrote: > > > It's an open source twittery thing. I think. Google knows I'm sure! > > > > Is that the one that gives you a map of the URLs that are receiv

Re: StatusNet, anyone?

2012-06-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Brian St. Pierre" writes: > > On 06/17/2012 12:13 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > What I will say, and maybe people will notice something in the phrasing..., > > is that you're all welcome to sign up on identi.ca, > > and follow me on status.hackerpo

Re: Capturing file descriptor 3, or alternatives.

2012-06-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Two thoughts: * Use Bash's `process substitution' syntax: "<(...)" and/or ">(...)" to pass the auxiliary process' stdin and/or stdout fd as an argument. If you don't want to have two script-files rather than one, then you may have to do something like...: bash -c '

Trying to remember a quote on SPAM...

2012-06-20 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Late last year, I posted this comment: http://status.hackerposse.com/conversation/1012 "The real tragedy of SPAM is not that it's ruined the Internet, but that's it's convinced the users to ruin it themselves." (in reference to various spam-fighting mechanisms preventing legitimate

Re: Capturing file descriptor 3, or alternatives.

2012-06-23 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
t end > of the pipe. I just want the forked shell to dup2 the input of the > pipe to fd 3 (if it > isn't already there, in which case I need it not to close fd3) and > leave fd 1 alone. > > Perhaps I'll just have to count on fd 2 being the tty, and do UI on > that (I c

Re: Capturing file descriptor 3, or alternatives.

2012-06-25 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Kevin D. Clark > wrote: > > I think that a lot of effort could be put into solving this problem > > with these constraints...or...the problem could be solved simply with > > a small temporary file that parent+child agreed to use. > ... > > I'

Re: StatusNet, anyone?

2012-06-26 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Brian St. Pierre" writes: > On 06/18/2012 12:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > "Brian St. Pierre" writes: > > > > > > Is there support built-in for posting photos? Or would that > > > require some add-on app/service? > > > &g

Drawing network diagrams?

2012-06-30 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I recently did some some network diagrams at work with Dia, but I'm wondering if there are other diagramming tools out there that I should consider. What do you all use? Is there a better tool? Is there a more standard digram-format than Dia's? Is there a specific package of icons that I should ge

Re: NVidia looses 200 megabuck order due to poor Linux support

2012-07-01 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/nvidia-loses-order-due-to-poor-linux-support-20120628/ > > I believe I speak for many Linux fans when I say: HA HA! Yeah, basically. Here's esr's take on it, also: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4428 Reminds me of an insightful remar

Options for hosting servers in my basement?

2012-07-02 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I have a couple of web/mail/shell/etc. servers that are currently hosted `in the cloud', but which I'd really like to move to my basement if possible (with the caveat that I don't live/work at a college or an ISP...). Basically, I want: * 2 or 3 static IP addresses. * A fast enough *upli

Re: Options for hosting servers in my basement?

2012-07-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > * A fast enough *uplink* > > Define "fast enough". Well, let's say four StatusNet sites peered with 20 other sites, and with a dozen active users spread between the

Re: [GNHLUG] GPS GPX KML Google Earth - Seacoast/UNH/Durham/SLUG - Mon 9 July

2012-07-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > What : GPS, GPX, KML, Google Earth - Where am I? How did I get here? [...] > For those who don't know, Rob is a motorcycle nut ^W enthusiast. > This means he periodically goes on long trips on a bike for no reason. > When he does, he brings a GPS, which logs his track in

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-13 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Michael ODonnell" writes: > > Those who use terms like "immune" or "virus-proof" when > discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither > is true. We are, for now, statistically less likely to be > compromised because there aren't as many of us and because > privilege separation has bee

Bitcoin meetup tonight in Manchester

2012-07-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
FYI: Bitcoin meetup tonight in Manchester, 6:30 PM at Strange Brew Tavern: http://www.meetup.com/ronpaul-6/events/73091122/?a=md1_evn&rv=md1 Figured someone on this list might be interested. Looks like they're planning on some `bartering for bitcoins' (for everyone who's been saying, `let me

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Michael ODonnell" writes: > > >> Those who use terms like "immune" or "virus-proof" when > >> discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither > >> is true. > > > >Ouch. > > Ooops. I forgot about your signature line. ;-> > > > I gave careful consideration to adopting my current signatur

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey writes: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Michael ODonnell < > michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Since it's likely (inevitable?) that compromised Linux systems > will someday be involved in sensational headlines, I'd think > it would be even more humiliating if so

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey writes: > On 07/18/2012 09:39 PM, Bill Sconce wrote: > > > > What's more surprising, over the past few weeks I've been removing Java > > from all my clients' Windows PCs. At first I was afraid something would > > break, but itt seems THEY'VE never really needed Java either. (I'm sure >

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Ken D'Ambrosio" writes: > > Hey, guys. I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution > in-house, by strong preference Open Source (for both philosophical as well as > financial reasons). [...] > I'm completely open-minded as to an OSS solution so long as: > > - It's not overly har

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > >> Hey, guys. I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution > > > > If I say "Jabber/XMPP", "SIP", or "H.232"; or "

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Ken D'Ambrosio" writes: > > > >> Hey, guys. I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution > > > > > > If I say "Jabber/XMPP", "SIP", or "H.232"; or "Ekiga", "Pidgin", > > > "Empathy", > > > or "Jitsi"..., does it mean that I've misunderstood the question? > > > > I expect so,

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > >>> If I say "Jabber/XMPP", "SIP", or "H.232"; or "Ekiga", "Pidgin", > >>> "Empathy", > >>> or &quo

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Ken D'Ambrosio" writes: > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:02:01 -0400 Ben Scott wrote > > > Please clarify "server side". Do you mean you're looking for > > recommendations on central server software to coordinate traditional > > video conferencing client software, or do you mean you're looking for

Re: [GNHLUG] What day should the GNHLUG BBQ be?

2012-07-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > http://doodle.com/aymvdxbgbcq8ftde > > Whoever voted as "Participant 18", your entry has been deleted. > Verifiable names only, please. I wish e-mail had a `like' button. (though, to be fair to P. 18: I went the `send e-mail to Ben' route because I wasn't entirely sure

Re: [GNHLUG] BBQ dates and decisions

2012-07-30 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > Results from the poll are in (names and votes are published now; if > you're missing, let me know): > > http://doodle.com/aymvdxbgbcq8ftde > > The clear loser is Sept 8. > > It's a veritable tie between Aug 11 and Sept 1. Both had 9 "no" > votes. Sept 1 had 9 "yes", w

Re: Advice on giving constructive criticism.

2012-08-01 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
"Ken D'Ambrosio" writes: > > Hi, all. As you've noted, I recently kicked the tires on a bunch of > videoconferencing solutions. The one that was the biggest disappointment was > Openmeetings; it seemed to have a lot going for it, an incredibly active > developer community, and that it was going

Looking for a new Linux router. Buffalo AirStation?

2012-08-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
After 13 years, I think it may finally be time to replace the PC that's been acting as the router/firewall between me, the Internet, and people looking for Wi-Fi in my neighbourhood. I've heard that Buffalo Technology ships DD-WRT pre-installed on their devices, so maybe that's what I want. But I

Re: Looking for a new Linux router. Buffalo AirStation?

2012-08-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
hem to my firewall. > On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:59:06 -0400 > Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > > After 13 years, I think it may finally be time to replace > > the PC that's been acting as the router/firewall between me, > > the Internet, and people looking for Wi-Fi

Re: Looking for a new Linux router. Buffalo AirStation?

2012-08-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott writes: > > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > Will the device do 3 separate networks without the need for vlan tagging, > > though? > > VLAN tagging is how pretty much all devices are going to implement > this. You really

Happy Birthday to Debian (turning 19 on Thursday)

2012-08-13 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120813 Thursday is Debian's 19th birthday. Anyone doing anything special? Anyone want to? -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr." ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://m

Re: Prebuilt/turn-key PC options

2012-08-15 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
with another company like ZaReason or such? e.g.: they handle R&D, you showcase and sell it (optionally (co-)installing Windows, if people want it, I guess)? Anyone else running a business that sells Linux computers, feel free to jump in, too :) Brian Chabot writes: > > Joshua Jud

Re: Prebuilt/turn-key PC options

2012-08-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam writes: > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:32:06 -0400, David Rysdam wrote: > > If you only want an "adequate" laptop with no Windows Tax, I suggest > > buying one used. I did that recently from "Electronics Warehouse" in > > Nashua. They've got many to choose from. > > After someone asked m

Re: Happy Birthday to Debian (turning 19 on Thursday)

2012-08-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Mark Komarinski writes: > > On 08/13/2012 05:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120813 > > > > Thursday is Debian's 19th birthday. > > > > Anyone doing anything special? Anyone want to? > > Somewhere I

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