Re: Eee PC hands on?
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:12:56 -0500 Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thad and his fellow borgs are of a completely different ilk than those with BT earpieces. Thad and co. we true geeks, in it for the pure geekery of it all and love the adventure of pushing the envelope of the Human/Computer interface.. The BT earpiece droids do it because they think it's cool to show off that they have a phone that costs way too much, and has more features than they can possibly ever figure out how to use. BT earpieces are now very cheap, and I just bought my wife a BT Moto Razr for $0.0 (plus a 2 year contract). Cell service is expensive, but I learned that it is worth it, from the days I was commuting to Nashua. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Eee PC hands on?
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:52:48 -0500 Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard it told it's a status symbol - it shows how important you are that there are people who always need to get ahold of you. I have a BT earpiece I rarely use, but I did use it when I was driving, but now my car has BT. 95% of my calls are to SmarTraveler. While my commute is only 6 miles today, when I was in Marlborough, Littleton, Ma, or Nashua, I used SmarTraveler to avoid major traffic hassles. Before BT, I had a car kit. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Phone Hands free
On Dec 19, 2007 3:19 PM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Aside: I remember watching the original Star Trek, looking at Uhura's ear piece, and thinking That's so lame. Nobody would ever want to walk around with something like that hanging out of their ear. I guess I was wrong on that call. Truth is stranger than fiction.) I said it then about Uhura, and I find myself saying it now about sales weenies. And, as for the question, Why... I still have not heard a good answer. I use a wired earpiece in the car so I can keep my hands on the wheel when I drive. I've used it while running out of the car to get something keep my hands free. It's nice to be able to do something not have to wait for the call to finish. BT would mean I don't have that pesky wire hanging around. I could see BT headphones being useful instead of wired when I'm doing yardwork, mountain biking and motorcycling. I have something on the motorcycle called a Chatterbox. It's an FRS radio with a PTT and VOX microphone. It's very useful when riding to communicate to your riding partners. It'd be nice to eliminate those pesky wires, especially when I'm riding off road. I could see it in a remote data center. The tech in the center has the BT/phone while using tools as someone else is talking them though it. Of course, it can get out of hand. The other question I find myself asking is: Are you aware of how silly you look? Of course, this time of year, with my wearing my Santa hat, I seldom get a response other than a quizical look implying I ought to see what *I* look like :) A true geek doesn't care what the hell others think about how silly they look. :-) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
An ingenious hack...
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ITAPPMONROBOT.aspx -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Phone Hands free
On Dec 20, 2007 9:14 AM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... original Star Trek, looking at Uhura's ear piece, ... I use a wired earpiece in the car so I can keep my hands on the wheel when I drive. Me too. My current phone doesn't have BT, or I'd probably have gotten one myself. As you say, a true geek doesn't care. I've already got a PDA, a cell phone, and a Leatherman on my belt. (At least I can say I've never worn Spock ears.) What amazes me is that the mundanes are doing it, too. On Dec 19, 2007 4:52 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... really important people have staff instead of earpieces. You're confusing important with wealthy. ;-) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[OT] Aaaarrrr! and best wishes
if only one person shows, s/he might be lonely I'd think that somebody who could be described as s/he would *never* be lonely... P.S. Actually, this posting is at *least* as on-topic as most of the other noise transmitted on this channel lately... P.P.S. Season's Greetings and my earnest wish that you may all be touched by His Noodly Appendage in the coming year. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Meeting tonight; weather (was: Eee PC hands on?)
Arc Riley wrote: Two of us new guys plan on going (unless they close the roads between Manchester and Nashua). ... so there shouldn't be just one person. Though it'd be funny if we were the only ones :-P That it would! Well, take good notes and let us know how the meeting went. I'll probably still be clearing off roofs! (rooves?) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Phone Hands free
Tom Buskey wrote: I use a wired earpiece in the car so I can keep my hands on the wheel when I drive. I've used it while running out of the car to get something keep my hands free. It's nice to be able to do something not have to wait for the call to finish. BT would mean I don't have that pesky wire hanging around. I could see BT headphones being useful instead of wired when I'm doing yardwork, mountain biking and motorcycling. I could see it in a remote data center. The tech in the center has the BT/phone while using tools as someone else is talking them though it. Of course, it can get out of hand. For safety when driving, a hands-free kit is very important. Only not talking on the phone could be safer. (Or not driving at all, of course.) We used wired headsets for a couple of years. We both kept catching the wires and tearing off the headset or phone. We purchased at least three wired headsets during that time, as we kept destroying them. One phone was held together by duct tape by the end. We only converted to BT headsets this last year when we got BT-capable phones. We would never switch back - dorky as the blinking blue headset looks. I'm geek, so that doesn't matter to me, but my business partner is definitely not geek. The benefits outweigh the appearance aspect for him. I've had my business partner talk me to a destination, giving me street by street directions from Google Maps when I would otherwise have needed to either stop and view a map or, much worse, try to read a map while driving (haven't we all done that). He has also rerouted me around traffic/construction/weather blockages. We have both used headsets when acting as remote techs. Making the phones hands-free made collaborative work possible that was inconvenient or impossible before. Making them wireless perfected it. As we have unlimited minutes between our phones, we can effectively work together while physically separate. We rarely are sitting at computers where IM would be feasible, and voice is more effective for us, so BT headsets have allowed us to greatly increase the amount of work we can get done without detriment to the immediate tasks at hand. They are not status symbols whatsoever, but cost effective tools with safety benefits. begin:vcard fn:Dan Jenkins n:Jenkins;Dan org:Rastech Inc. adr:;;21 Curtis Lane;Bedford;NH;03110;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Director tel;work:1-603-206-9951 x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Website Development Question
On Dec 20, 2007 1:25 PM, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on a site for somebody that does promotion work at trade shows. As a result she wants to have a number of pictures on one of the sidebars on the site. I tried a few javascript apps and some flash apps that just didn't work the way I wanted. She wants them to change randomly on the page. The only other thing I can think of is to just have it pick them randomly when the page loads. Does anybody have any other suggestions or pointers? -- Travis Roy ___ I just googled javascript random image and got: http://www.javascript-page.com/ranimage.html I think that does what you're after. -- America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. --Claire Wolfe ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Website Development Question
I just googled javascript random image and got: http://www.javascript-page.com/ranimage.html I think that does what you're after. Actually, I tried that one. Worked great for one image, but when I tried to do two images on one page with different times that the image would switch (to give a semi-random effect), it fell apart and didn't work. None of the images cycled at all. -- Travis Roy ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Eee PC hands on?
On Dec 20, 2007, at 07:36, Jerry Feldman wrote: I have a BT earpiece I rarely use, but I did use it when I was driving, but now my car has BT. Yeah, that's totally reasonable, we're talking about the folks who wear them in the shower. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Website Development Question
On Dec 20, 2007, at 13:25, Travis Roy wrote: She wants them to change randomly on the page. When the page loads or after the page has loaded? Javascript is probably the best solution for both, though you can manage server-side contrivances for both scenarios. You can get callbacks from the javascript engine on a timed basis, for the latter case. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Phone Hands free
On Dec 20, 2007 1:50 PM, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had my business partner talk me to a destination ... Is his name Tom? ;-) -- B ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
watching all activity on a file?
Anybody know how I can say, Show me all filesystem activity involving filesystem item /foo/bar/baz ? This is on ext3. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: watching all activity on a file?
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 14:25 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: Anybody know how I can say, Show me all filesystem activity involving filesystem item /foo/bar/baz ? This is on ext3. inotify / inotify-tools. If you want to know from the shell or a scripting app, inotify-tools is probably easier. If you want to know inside some other application, inotify is the low-level set of kernel functions that will give you more information than you wanted to know. -- Stephen Ryan Dartware, LLC ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: watching all activity on a file?
On 12/20/2007 02:25 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: Anybody know how I can say, Show me all filesystem activity involving filesystem item /foo/bar/baz ? fuser will show all the users that are using a directory (use -m to specify it's a mounted filesystem). So in your case: fuser -vm /foo/bar/baz That's not always accurate as it sometimes doesn't show things like NFS exports that are on that filesystem that prevent you from umounting it. You can also use lsof to take a look at all the open files on the local system. HTH -Mark ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: watching all activity on a file?
I've written code that used a facility called FAM, which stands for something like File Access (or Activity? Alteration?) Monitor. There's also dnotify, though that may have morphed into the inotify tool mentioned previously. FAM and dnotify could monitor specific files as well as all files in a directory. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: watching all activity on a file?
Bill McGonigle writes: Anybody know how I can say, Show me all filesystem activity involving filesystem item /foo/bar/baz ? Try inotify or fam ... Regards, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And I still have that record alumni.unh.edu!kdc of Little Anthony and The Imperials but someone stole my record player Now how do you like that? -- Tom Waits ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Eee PC hands on?
On Dec 19, 2007 8:07 PM, Brian Karas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been wanting a Nokia n810 for a while, but all this talk of the Eee got me more interested. So, I stopped by Micro Center at lunch today to pickup a 4GB eee. Seems pretty cool so far, can't wait to void the warranty on it. Latest from Asus is that putting in more RAM does NOT void the warranty: http://www.google.com/url?sa=tct=rescd=10url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pchardwareforum.com%2FNews%2FEee_PC_Warranty_Update%2Fei=ZMpqR9msMoG-pgSRtphAusg=AFQjCNHJOcUidPcaJ8lwRUitNSZ03RoK0wsig2=92eOkPcp9AsEYHoBUDyvxQ http://www.i4u.com/article13439.html http://www.google.com/url?sa=tct=rescd=4url=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2Fgadgets%2Fgood-news%2Fasus-eee-pc-is-no-longer-voided-by-memory-upgrade-331714.phpei=ZMpqR9msMoG-pgSRtphAusg=AFQjCNEX7K1-tdwzX1LNb8Qcy2QU4AXBqQsig2=O9rhNhlEPoVivkTpQ1KY5A Are you talking about something else? --- Social Engineering. Because there is no patch for human stupidity. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Eee PC hands on?
Yes, I was talking about something else, but nothing specific. I just meant voiding the warranty in a general sense. On 12/20/07 3:05 PM, Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 8:07 PM, Brian Karas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been wanting a Nokia n810 for a while, but all this talk of the Eee got me more interested. So, I stopped by Micro Center at lunch today to pickup a 4GB eee. Seems pretty cool so far, can't wait to void the warranty on it. Latest from Asus is that putting in more RAM does NOT void the warranty: Are you talking about something else? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
BT Drones (was: Eee PC hands on?)
On Dec 19, 2007 10:12 PM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BT earpiece droids do it because they think it's cool to show off that they have a phone that costs way too much, and has more features than they can possibly ever figure out how to use. I don't know about that... I just got a nice little enV phone for free (with 2 yr contract) that has stereo bluetooth with music player that is pretty sweet. The phones, like the headsets, have come down quite a bit unless you really want a UMPC level smartphone. The keyboard is pretty good for texting, and the battery life is much improved. Let's hope so, and let's hope they also figure out how to make it less dorky! :) Dorky is in the eye of the beholder. --- I wish my grass was emo, so it would cut itself. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Phone Hands free
Hahaha. Not me. I get lost walking back from the mailbox at home. While using a GPS. On Dec 20, 2007 2:24 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 1:50 PM, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had my business partner talk me to a destination ... Is his name Tom? ;-) -- B ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Phone Hands free
On Dec 20, 2007, at 14:24, Ben Scott wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 1:50 PM, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had my business partner talk me to a destination ... Is his name Tom? ;-) First and last? -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: watching all activity on a file?
On Dec 20, 2007, at 14:31, Stephen Ryan wrote: inotify / inotify-tools. inotify looks like currently useful kernel facility. inotify: is the replacement for dnotify needs a 2.6.8+ kernel Get/build (if not in your repos): wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/inotify- tools/inotify-tools-3.12.tar.gz tar -zxvf inotify-tools-3.12.tar.gz cd inotify-tools-3.12 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make check make install What does it do?: for: mkdir ~/testdir ls -l ~/testdir/ file ~/testdir/ mv ~/testdir ~/nottestdir mv ~/nottestdir/ ~/testdir rmdir ~/testdir #/usr/local/bin/inotifywatch ~/testdir/ Establishing watches... Finished establishing watches, now collecting statistics. total close_nowrite open move_self delete_self filename 6 1 1 2 1/home/ bfccomputing/testdir/ #/usr/local/bin/inotifywait -m ~/testdir Setting up watches. Watches established. /home/bfccomputing/testdir/ OPEN,ISDIR /home/bfccomputing/testdir/ CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR /home/bfccomputing/testdir/ MOVE_SELF /home/bfccomputing/testdir/ MOVE_SELF /home/bfccomputing/testdir/ DELETE_SELF /home/bfccomputing/testdir/ IGNORED This is useful, but I was hoping to also get the PID that was piddling so I could find out why a certain file was being messed with. None of the API's I looked at have such a field. I haven't read the kernel source yet, but I assume it's not there based on none of the API's including it. It could be that the filesystem isn't aware, I'm ignorant here. If that is the case, I assume a higher- level API would be required to catch the whole transaction. In the meantime I'll probably try to use the Perl API and process auditing to come up with a decent guess. FAM looks like it was designed with the same goals in mind, but appears to not be currently maintained (they're 'working on' dnotify support...). FAM is portable to IRIX, though. FAM doesn't have 'responsible PID' either. Thanks, all! -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Website Development Question
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 13:25 -0500, Travis Roy wrote: I'm working on a site for somebody that does promotion work at trade shows. As a result she wants to have a number of pictures on one of the sidebars on the site. I tried a few javascript apps and some flash apps that just didn't work the way I wanted. She wants them to change randomly on the page. The only other thing I can think of is to just have it pick them randomly when the page loads. this will work fine - just put the pic bar in an iframe and have the source for the iframe refresh itself every minute or so. meta http-equiv=refresh content=60 or to make it hurt the eyes, put all the images in their own iframe and have them refresh at different times ;) Does anybody have any other suggestions or pointers? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Phone Hands free
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Dec 20, 2007, at 14:24, Ben Scott wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 1:50 PM, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had my business partner talk me to a destination ... Is his name "Tom"? ;-) First and last? Which would make him a GPS. However, his name is not Tom, neither Tom Tom nor Tom Bombadil. begin:vcard fn:Dan Jenkins n:Jenkins;Dan org:Rastech Inc. adr:;;21 Curtis Lane;Bedford;NH;03110;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Technical Director tel;work:1-603-206-9951 x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: An ingenious hack...
On Thu, December 20, 2007 10:02 am, Paul Lussier said: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ITAPPMONROBOT.aspx -- Seeya, Paul Ya gotta love the comment at the bottom of the page... Well, add it to the manual. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: BT Drones (was: Eee PC hands on?)
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:10:50 -0500 From: Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED] The BT earpiece droids do it because they think it's cool to show off that they have a phone that costs way too much, and has more features than they can possibly ever figure out how to use. I don't know about that... I just got a nice little enV phone for free (with 2 yr contract) that has stereo bluetooth with music player that is pretty sweet. The phones, like the headsets, have come down quite a bit unless you really want a UMPC level smartphone. The keyboard is pretty good for texting, and the battery life is much improved. Note: You could have all that coolness...build the device entirely yourself with available hardware and open-source software...*BUT ONLY IF* building your own cellular radio wasn't illegal. Because of that ONE reg... we have to buy all this gadgetry which we could otherwise make ourselves. Sigh. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: watching all activity on a file?
Bill McGonigle writes: This is useful, but I was hoping to also get the PID that was piddling so I could find out why a certain file was being messed with. How about: while inotifywait -e modify /file/you/are/interested/in; do lsof /file/you/are/interested/in /tmp/logfile date /tmp/logfile done Regards, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And I still have that record alumni.unh.edu!kdc of Little Anthony and The Imperials but someone stole my record player Now how do you like that? -- Tom Waits ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: watching all activity on a file?
On Dec 20, 2007, at 18:37, Kevin D. Clark wrote: How about: while inotifywait -e modify /file/you/are/interested/in; do lsof /file/you/are/interested/in /tmp/logfile date /tmp/logfile done If it were someone editing a file, that would be a great solution. In this particular case I'm trying to catch an unlink - my hunch is lsof woudn't show anything. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: BT Drones (was: Eee PC hands on?)
On 12/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note: You could have all that coolness...build the device entirely yourself with available hardware and open-source software...*BUT ONLY IF* building your own cellular radio wasn't illegal. It would be nice if there were more unlocked phones for reasonable money, hopefully android or something like it can change the face of the market. We shall see. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Phone Hands free
BT would mean I don't have that pesky wire hanging around. I could see BT headphones being useful instead of wired when I'm doing yardwork, mountain biking and motorcycling. The pair I have works a fair distance away, and has audio pick-ups so you can use it to answer the phone if you want. Even includes track forward/backward, pause and answer buttons. Definitely leaves you free to deal with stuff while working on the call. I was surprised that it could carry through nearly two rooms of my house. The various bits are becoming available. I have read (do not have the citation handy) that there is wireless VGA available, so the matching eye piece would be quite possible. Then you could just carry a unit in a messenger bag or backpack and have access to your system. Voice control is still a work in progress, but we are getting there. Given that arrangement, the old desktop paradigm might not even be the right way to go, but I am sure that the Linux community will be the first to explore such alternatives. I could see it in a remote data center. The tech in the center has the BT/phone while using tools as someone else is talking them though it. That can be problematic given the background noise, but it would certainly be nice with some decent noise cancellation technology. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Cell phone recommendations
I'm thinking of upgrading my phone (currently with ATT) and am thinking of buying a Linux phone (if I can). About the only extra feature I am looking for is BT. I don't want GPS and could care less for internet on the phone, since I won't use that anyway. Do you guys have any experience with Linux cell phones? What one would you recommend. What normal cell phone would you recommend? iPhone is not an option. Dan ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
