Re: Satellite Internet relative security

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:56 AM, James A. Kuzdrall 
wrote:

> Does Linux have any special problems interfacing with the dish
> equipment?
> Is a standard Ethernet connection enough, or must they install software on
> the Linux computer?
>

I had service through Hughes for a couple years around 2010 or so. They
give you a modem, connect a cable from dish to modem, connect ethernet
cable from computer to modem, and it's more or less like having dsl or
cable with horrible latency. You don't need to install anything on linux,
though you may get hassled by customer support if you have to call in.

The latency is bad. You can end up with no service or degraded performance
in heavy rain, snow, and/or if there's any snow/ice buildup on the dish. I
think they still have a daily usage cap, but I'm not sure. It's probably
better than dialup if you don't care about the latency, but I'd consider it
a last resort. If there is still a usage cap, you might look at whether a
mobile data plan and tethering is a viable alternative.

If you're concerned about surveillance I would be paranoid and just assume
that any/all of your physical layers either are compromised already or can
easily be compromised. Focus your efforts on transport/application layer
security instead. If a government actor wants to watch your activity,
they're going to just serve a surveillance order at your ISP and tap your
traffic off the router.
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Re: tech recruiters you like?

[Brian Chabot]

These folks have been good to me in the past:
http://workbridgeassociates.com/

Tell them Brian Chabot sent you.

Brian

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On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Bill McGonigle <b...@bfccomputing.com>
wrote:

> Hi, everybody,
>
> I know some of you have landed good gigs using recruiters.  I have a
> friend who will be relocating to my area who has a couple decades of
> UNIX and, more recently, Linux sysadmin experience, along with
> management skills.  I'm thinking a recruiter is going to be a better use
> of time than filling out job applications, but I know there are lots of
> numbskulls out there (they call me, frequently).  If anybody has
> somebody to recommend, please reply here or contact me directly.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Bill
>
> --
> Bill McGonigle, Owner
> BFC Computing, LLC
> http://bfccomputing.com/
> Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE
> Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com
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Re: Gmail spam solution?

[Brian St. Pierre]

In the gmail web ui, pull down the menu next to "to gnhlug-discuss", choose
"Filter messages from this mailing list", tick "Never send it to spam",
click "Create filter"


On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Matt Minuti  wrote:

> I know this came up a little while ago, but has anyone found a way to
> force gmail to not categorize this making list as spam, no matter who the
> sender is or how proper their SPF stuff is? I imagine the solution will
> also work for the login notifications I have set up on some servers, which
> keep getting falsely marked, too.
>
> You'd think repeatedly marking it as "not spam" would fix it, but no.
> Grumble grumble...
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Re: Boot-to-CLI distro?

[Brian Chabot]

In GRUB, boot to init 1, single user mode.

Brian Chabot

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote:

> Hey, all.  Many's the time I just want to go and fix something stupid --
> maybe wipe a disk, or edit a file -- and all I want is to be able to
> stick in a USB stick and wind up at said CLI.  But most distros these
> days are GUI-based.  And Ubuntu Server (say) boots to install, period,
> which is an
>
> extremely-stripped-down-to-the-point-of-useless-for-anything-other-than-install
> CLI.
>
> Any middle ground someone could recommend?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ken
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Re: Bill Sconce obituary and memorial date (February 13th at Boire Field, Nashua, NH)

[Brian Chabot]

He and I share a birth date... I never knew that.

I met him but I did not know him.  I think we would have gotten along quite
well.

I hope to be able to make it to the memorial.

Brian

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On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 2:11 PM, mad...@li.org <jonhal...@comcast.net>
wrote:

> Bill (William Joseph) Sconce, age 72, Lyndeborough, NH, died on January 5,
> 2016 at Lahey Hospital in Burlington, MA. The cause was a cerebral
> hemorrhage.  He was a good man.
>
>
> Bill was born April 19, 1943 in Indianapolis, IN, and came home to the
> House on the Hill in Edinburgh, IN. Bill grew up there with his brother
> David, who predeceased him. His parents were Eva Mae and Joseph Byce
> Sconce.  Bill soon became a proficient Spelunker and surveyor in the caves
> of Indiana and Kentucky, and a motorcycle enthusiast. Graduating from
> Culver Military Academy, where he earned his Amateur Radio License, he
> received a Fulbright scholarship and rode his Norton motorcycle to CalTech
> in San Francisco, CA where he studied Physics and worked in a
> crystalography laboratory. He was drafted during the Vietnam war protests
> at that school and served in Taigu Korea, where he studied IBM Cobol and
> the Korean language, and rode a Honda 90 motorcycle in the mountains. He
> returned to Louisville, KY and began a long career in computer science and
> founded his company Industrial Specialities.  He met the love of his life
> in Louisville, Janet Levy, and with her encouragement he completed his
> dream of becoming a pilot, holding a Commercial, Instrument, and Instructor
> license. He continued studies at University of Louisville in linguistics
> and computer science. Bill & Janet moved to NH in 1979 for Bill to graduate
> from being Symposium Coordinator for DECUS to assume the position of
> Product Manager for the RSTS Group at Digital Equipment Corporation. Bill
> worked for and was layed off from DEC, Compaq, and Hewlett Packard, at
> which point he revived his corporation, named it In Spec, Inc. and divided
> his time between software engineering and flight instruction.  Bill was a
> devoted supporter of GPL and "free" Linux software and the Python
> programming language. Bill was a member of the Vintage BMW Motorcycle
> Owners, Ltd., the BMW MOVer Motorcycle Club of Vermont, the Contoocook
> Valley Radio Club,  a life member of the National Speological Society and
> the American Radio Relay League. He supported the EAA and was a Regional
> Judge for aerobatic competitions for IAC for many years. He loved aviation,
> including hot air ballooning and skydiving.  He participated in Young
> Eagles at Boire Airport in Nashua, NH and enjoyed teaching young people to
> fly. He taught spins in his Cessna Aerobat. And he was a Quiet Birdman.  He
> was a member of the Rex Stout Wolfepack Book Club and The Wodehouse
> Society.   Bill loved theatre, classical and rock music, and especially
> lately, attending Dr. David Landman's Poetry Nights of medieval poetry in
> Lexington, MA.
>
>
> He loved fixing things and if there were no parts available for a project
> he promptly made them himself on his metal lathe, or just used his
> ingenuity to create something needed.
>
>
> He loved cigars, scotch, butter, reading, airplanes, old test equipment,
> Paris, BMWs, his red convertible Cabriolet with red earmuffs, and his big
> black 4 cylinder 4WD truck, bird watching (outwitting squirrels), camping,
> hiking on Pitcher Mountain, William Blake, and he suffered not fools. One
> of his favorite lead-ins: "As an engineer..."
>
>
> Bill is survived by his wife, Janet Levy Sconce, his sister-in-law, June
> Levy and her family, and many dear friends. Bill was a kind and loving
> "daddy" to Virgil Fox and RDB, the cats of his home. Thanks to "The
> Committee" and especially Donna Shea, Chris Levin, Ken Hamel, Donna
> Giovannini, Tom Steger, Michelle Donovan, Simon Hutchings, John & Cathy
> Gubernat and the surgeons, doctors, and nurses at Lahey Hospital. The
> family is grateful to all of his many friends who offered support and love.
>
>
> There will be a memorial for Bill on February 13, 11:00-2:00  at Nashua Jet
> Aviation located on Boire Field in Nashua, NH. Call Air Direct Airways,
> (603) 882-5606 for more information.
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Re: What Language for a kid

[Brian St. Pierre]

I just recently discovered MIT App Inventor --
http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/front.html

It's Scratch embedded into a web-based environment that updates an app
running on your Android device in real-time. I've only played with it for
about 10 minutes, but it "just worked" to get a quick "hello"
text-to-speech app running on my device.

--
Brian St. Pierre

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Kenny Lussier <kluss...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> My daughter has expressed an interest in learning to code. It's a
> non-specific, very general interest. She doesn't have a specific area of
> interest that she wants to learn (UI, game development, HPC, etc.), she
> just want to learn how to code.
>
> What do people think is the best language for a 12yr old to learn? What is
> most flexible to use for different purposes? What tools are out there to
> teach a kid to code? Code Academy and the like seem to be a little dry and
> never yielded wonderful results for most of the adults I know, so other
> ideas would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Kenny
>
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erratic fairpoint dsl? [was Re: FYI: Comcast...]

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote:

 Last month my Fairpoint DSL service became horribly erratic.  The modem
 reported good DSL connections, but PPPoE just would not stay up.
 Outages sometimes persisted for days.  After three weeks of grief and
 many calls to tech support, I reluctantly switched to Comcast.


I'm glad (?) to hear it wasn't just me. I had three different technicians
visit, with the last one blaming trouble in my house, though all my
subsequent internal troubleshooting hasn't turned up anything. (The
previous two changed various line settings, moved me to a new DSLAM, and
generally blamed recent software upgrades in the CO.)

We're out in the boonies, so Comcast isn't an option.

Have others been having terrible problems with Fairpoint DSL recently? (At
the risk of jinxing myself, it's been slightly better over the past 2-3
weeks.)

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Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations

[Brian Chabot]

I use InterServer for most of my web sites and it meets those
requirements.  Price isn't bad.
http://www.interserver.net/

Brian

Brian Chabot

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hey all,

 GNHLUG's server is being kicked out of our long-time free hosting.  Rather
 than trying to find a new home for the box, I'm thinking I'll just buy an
 account on a virtual machine hosting company, install a new system, and
 transfer to there.  That is the quickest and easiest path, and we do not
 have a lot of time.  Our deadline is JUL 31, roughly two weeks from now.

 I'd like to hear people's experiences, good and bad, with service
 providers.  Who is good?  Who is bad?  What to look for, or avoid?

 Current requirements that I can think of are:
 - Run an SMTP listener on TCP port 25 (receive email directly)
 - Initiate outbound connections to TCP port 25 (send email directly)
 - Run an HTTP listener on TCP port 80 (web server)
 - Run an SSH listener on a non-standard port (SSH remote access)
 - Run a DNS listener on UDP and TCP port 53 (authoritative name server)
 - Install and run arbitrary Linux software
 - Fairly low mail volume,web traffic, and DNS traffic
 - Fairly low CPU, disk, and RAM usage
 - No need for CPanel or other hand-holding software, and prolly better
 if we don't have it

 Lower prices are good, but it has to be reliable, too.  I'd rather pay
 more for a provider that has less trouble, than have to tinker with it
 constantly.

 I think this has been discussed before, but not recently, and I can't find
 the thread.

 Suggestions welcome, but we don't have time for you can put the server in
 my basement or other detours.

 -- Ben


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Re: Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net
wrote:

 There is some sort of directory issue, which generates an error message
 if I attempt to apt-get remove octave3.2-info.
 I think, if I can remove or delete this file (and remove references to
 it) perhaps the rest of the install will go through.  This, of course
 sound 'dangerous' but I have run out of ideas.

 Any suggestions?  apt-get -f install returns the error message. apt-get
 remove returns the same error.  Looking for a few ideas. I'll try to use
 some of them tonight to attempt a fix.  Got to visit Mom now...


If you don't want to nuke it as David and Jerry suggested, I've sometimes
had luck with dropping to the dpkg layer and trying to manually resolve
these problems.

dpkg -S FILE or apt-file find FILE will tell you who owns the offending
file.

dpkg -s PACKAGE will tell you what a certain package depends on.

dpkg-reconfigure PACKAGE will sometimes jiggle a package back into
position.

If you can verify that the file you're about to remove isn't actually owned
by any package, you can try removing it and maybe get unstuck. At that
point I guess the worst-case outcome is that you cripple the system and end
up having to reinstall from scratch... you have a good backup, right?

Sometimes the judicious use of apt-get purge to get stale files out of
the way will get the system unstuck, and then you can reinstall the newer
versions of those packages once everything is resolved.

For what it's worth, I stick to LTS releases and use PPAs for packages
where I really want the latest version. I find upgrades from one LTS to
another to be smoother -- have never had a point-release upgrade go well.

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Re: Network system monitoring tools? Nagios, Zabbix, ...?

[Brian Chabot]

I'm generally a fan of nagios... but PandoraFMS is showing potential,
especially where execs want pretty pictures.

Brian Chabot


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:

 Looking to set up some system for monitoring systems on the network at
 work; _vaguely_ familiar with nagios and zabbix

 What do you guys generally find preferable, and why?

 Nagios? Zabbix? Something else?

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Re: how dumb is this idea?

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:59 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
 However, I just had an idea. You can get 128GB USB drives on ebay for
 ~$20 now. Why not install an emulator-based (as opposed to bootable)
 live CD image on there that they can then mount the rest of the USB
 drive with and edit their work in Linux *even at school*?

To me, it seems like a lot of effort when there are perhaps easier
solutions -- maybe you've already considered these and they don't work
for some reason or other?

* if school provides network access during in-class work sessions,
edit in google docs at both locations
* if school's admin policies let you run an emulator executable off
the USB, then you could put a windows version of Libreoffice on that
USB drive and run LO in both places
* you mention printing as a problem -- just generate pdf and print
from windows at school?
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Re: PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

[Brian Chabot]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 04/14/2014 09:50 AM, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
 Wordpress seems to embed the sites URL in EVERYTHING. WTF!  What is
 wrong with leaving the host name out to access the files from the
 current host?

Like many things in WordPress, there is a plugin for that:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/any-hostname/

 How screwed are we?

Depends on whether the plugin uses the domain/FQDN length, etc.


 Well, if you have a clean backup from before the period that you started
 searching-and-replacing, there's a number of plugins that can do the job
 properly for you.

 If you don't have a backup, well.

 Make one now.


Seconded, emphatically.


 There are two NH groups that specialize in WordPress, one in Manchester
 (that meets tonight) and one on the seacoast. You might want to join
 their Meetups and get some expert help there.

I've never been to these, but I do have extensive experience with WP.
Feel free to ping me offlist if you need.



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Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

[Brian Chabot]

I have an S4 and I feel your frustration

I ended up using Astro File Manager for Android and transfering with Linux
via sftp.

Brian
On Mar 25, 2014 11:51 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:

   Work has provided me with a new handheld computer, a Galaxy S4, made
 by Samsung.  It runs Android 4.3 plus whatever unspeakable horrors
 Samsung and Verizon have inflicted upon it.  There's a microSD flash
 memory card mounted inside, and I'd like to be able to copy files to
 and from it, from my Linux home desktop.  This is proving unreasonably
 hard.

   Aside from coping general documents, photos, etc., back and forth, I
 have a large collection of MP3 files on my desktop that I want to keep
 in sync on my handheld -- adds, changes, *and* deletes.  rsync does a
 fine job of this on a filesystem.  My previous handhelds let me plug
 in the USB cable and access the mem card as a USB Mass Storage Class
 (MSC) device.  In other words, like a disk drive.  Block device
 appeared, I mounted it, I did filesystem things, I unmounted it, done.
  Apparently that's not an option for this device.

   Difficulty: I can't root the device.  Corporate policy.  Whatever I
 do has to play by the rules.  Apps are generally OK, but not apps that
 attempt to circumvent security mechanisms.

   It appears the Galaxy really wants to speak MTP (Media Transfer
 Protocol).  I've been playing with MTP stuff on Linux.  My desktop is
 running Debian 7.4 wheezy, kernel 3.2.0-4 package version 3.2.54-2.

   There's some issue that causes libmtp to hang for 20-30 seconds
 whenever it opens the device.  That's maddeningly irritating at best.
 If you're wanting to run a bunch of commands in sequence, it's
 basically a showstopper.

   I've played around with the mtp-tools package from Debian (package
 version 1.1.3-35-g0ece104-5).  It lacks a command to create
 directories.  It can't transfer more than one file at a time (see
 showstopper, above).  The commands lack any documentation or help.
 I think they're actually just example skeletons from the libmtp
 sources that were packaged up and passed off as utilities.  :-p

   I tried the mtpfs FUSE filesystem (1.1, built from source).  I found
 it couldn't create directories.  That's a problem if I want to
 replicate a directory tree (see MP3 collection, above).

   I tried gmtp (pkg ver 1.3.3-1).  It suffers from the libmtp hang
 issue, but at least once it's connects is responsive.  It can create
 directories.  But it can only transfer files in one directory at a
 time.  (Ibid.)

   I could, of course, take the mem card out of the handheld, plug it
 into my desktop's card reader, and do the I/O that way.  Problem there
 is, I've got a fancy sealed protective case for the handheld.  Opening
 it repeatedly is bad for it.  And annoying.  And exposes the handheld
 to damage.

I've seen some suggestions of using cloud storage, like Dropbox
 or Google Music, etc.  It seems silly to have to send many gigabytes
 out my netfeed only to have to immediately download it again, on the
 same feed, just to copy between devices which are six inches apart and
 connected via USB cable.

   Anyone got a better idea?  Bluetooth?  Wifi?  Floppy disk?

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su: cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Brian Chabot]

I'm trying to su to a user on a CentOS 6.4 x86_64 box and get the
error in the subject:

[user1@cent6.4box ~]$ sudo su - user2
su: cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable
[user1@cent6.4box ~]$

The limits.conf file has the following entries:
* soft   nofile  10
* hard   nofile  10
* soft   nproc   8192
* hard   nproc   32767

The current usage for pengine is:
[user1@cent6.4box ~]$ ps -eLF | grep user2 | wc -l
1108
[user1@cent6.4box ~]$ lsof | grep user2  | wc -l
1558
[user1@cent6.4box ~]$

While these are the majority of the processes and files in use on the
system, they are nowhere near the limits.

I even increased the limits 10-fold and that has not worked.

I'm kind of lost here.  Usually the error indicates files or processes
over the limit but here... not so much.

Any ideas?



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Re: su: cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Brian Chabot]

[user1@cent6.4box ~]$ ipcs -m

-- Shared Memory Segments 
keyshmid  owner  perms  bytes  nattch status
0x6c000803 98304  zabbix 600995952 5

[user1@cent6.4box ~]$ ipcs -s

-- Semaphore Arrays 
keysemid  owner  perms  nsems
0x 0  root   6001
0x 65537  root   6001
0x 131074 root   6001
0x7a000803 262147 zabbix 60010

[user1@cent6.4box ~]$


Nothing is jumping out at me here...


Brian

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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote:
 Check shared memory and semaphores. Its probable that some other
 application is swallowing the resource sudo needs. This is a common
 method of DOS attacks and 'bot nets.

 --Bruce

 On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 10:05 -0400, Brian Chabot wrote:
 I'm trying to su to a user on a CentOS 6.4 x86_64 box and get the
 error in the subject:

 [user1@cent6.4box ~]$ sudo su - user2
 su: cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable
 [user1@cent6.4box ~]$

 The limits.conf file has the following entries:
 * soft   nofile  10
 * hard   nofile  10
 * soft   nproc   8192
 * hard   nproc   32767

 The current usage for pengine is:
 [user1@cent6.4box ~]$ ps -eLF | grep user2 | wc -l
 1108
 [user1@cent6.4box ~]$ lsof | grep user2  | wc -l
 1558
 [user1@cent6.4box ~]$

 While these are the majority of the processes and files in use on the
 system, they are nowhere near the limits.

 I even increased the limits 10-fold and that has not worked.

 I'm kind of lost here.  Usually the error indicates files or processes
 over the limit but here... not so much.

 Any ideas?



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Re: USB video?

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
 Anyway, I really like the
 two monitor thing I have going with the laptop, and the one thing that
 the Intel box doesn't have is a VGA port.  Does anyone have any
 experience with USB video adapters under *nix?  Any suggestions?

That listing shows HDMI and mini displayport.

This QA leads me to believe that it drives the HDMI and mini
displayport independently:

http://www.amazon.com/included-Display-monitors-extended-display/forum/Fx3RFT8X5J67QEL/TxN2YCBB7MXQXD/1/ref=cm_cd_dp_aar_al_a?_encoding=UTF8asin=B00F3F38O2

I'm running 3 monitors from my laptop - HDMI, mini displayport, and
the builtin, and it works nicely. You can get HDMI-VGA adapters if
your monitors don't have HDMI inputs. I had to get a miniDP-HDMI
adapter to connect the mini displayport to the HDMI input on my
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Re: Resume length and history

[Brian Chabot]

I just landed a temp-to-perm job at a pretty awesome company with a 3-page
resume that goes back to my first computer job in 1999.  My resume is heavy
on job experience because I only have an AS degree and the jobs I
was looking for were Bachelors or equivalent level.

If you want to take a peek, it's online over at
http://brianchabot.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bchabot.pdf

Brian


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi All,

 Not specifically Linux-related, but I was wondering what other people are
 seeing/doing with resumes these days. I have seen everything from a 2-page
 resume for someone with 20 years of experience to a 15-page resume for
 someone with 2 jobs over 3 years (it looked like the output of cat
 ~/.bash_history). How far back should a resume go? How long should it be
 before you stop reading it? I'm seeing absolutely no consistency in
 resumes, and the ones that come from recruiters seem to be the worst
 formats.

 C-Ya,
 Kenny


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Re: Windows 8 (or, more likely, UEFI) warning.

[Brian Chabot]

UEFI is why I switched to Fedora.  It was the only distro at the time that
supported UEFI out of the box, and even then, it was a little clunky.

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:


 Wouldn't boot to Linux.  Well, okay.  Let's try Windows 8.  Wouldn't
 boot to *Windows*.  First it tried to do a repair of some sort -- failed
 miserably.  Then it wouldn't get further than the Dell splash screen.
 Eventually wound up disabling UEFI secure boot, which allowed it to go
 into Windows -- whereupon I gave it back to the by-now very nervous
 laptop owner, and let the damn WiFi be.



Lucky you!

I bought a new system from Best Buy (I know, I know...) and tried to dual
boot it to Mandriva.  Somehow I ended up bricking it.


Bottom line -- I think we, as Linux weenies, are gonna have to play
 with damn UEFI and get a feel for it.  Is it uniform across vendors?



Yes, we will.  Right now, I know of no decent boot editor utilities and
none at all that run from within Linux.



 Can I always go for the disable secure boot option (which would,
 presumably, allow me to boot Linux)?


I think that may be vendor specific and possibly even windows installation
specific.

 At the moment UEFI documentation is junk.  Cross
platform implementation is even worse.

Brian
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used laptops to donate?

[Brian St. Pierre]

A friend of mine works with a nonprofit helping Cocoa farmers in
Grenada. She asked me for help finding 3-4 used laptops to outfit a
learning center she is opening there. If you have an old laptop you
can donate, please let me know.

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Re: Computer show Saturday, in Manchester

[Brian St. Pierre]

On 08/18/2012 08:49 PM, Bayard Coolidge wrote:
 Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name said:
 I was at the same UNH with Linus too.

 Me, too... And still have the autographed CD here in my collection.

Me too, me too! Though I didn't think to get my CD autographed. I 
thought it was fall '95? (Pretty sure I was still living in what was 
basically a converted broom closet in Devine Hall, but maybe I'm 
counting wrong.) I think by 97 (definitely by 98) they had ripped out 
the VT220s from the engineering labs and installed linux PCs.

I remember spending most (all?) of the night following Linus' talk and 
the following day defragging windows, repartitioning, installing, 
rebuilding a kernel, getting drivers to work, (re-)re-partitioning so 
everything fit... I was pretty psyched about actually having *unix* in 
my room -- with gcc and everything! -- without having to connect to an 
overburdened campus unix server, worry about the connection dropping, etc.

-Brian

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Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

[Brian Chabot]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
  is there *ANY*
 legitimate reason why anything should be attempting to connect
 from Facebook to my home IP address, which offers no such
 services?  I assume, of course, that the answer is No.

The *only* reason Facebook should be contacting you this way is if you
have an app set to pull data from there.

Possibilities that come to mind include RSS feeds and HTML embeds in
Page info plus, of course, any custom stuff you may have written.

It's *just* a home connection? No services?  Nuke the connection attempt.

Brian
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Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

[Brian Chabot]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:

 When you say nuke the connection attempt do you mean
 kill the process that's attempting to open the connection?
 I can't, because it's an inbound connection and that process is
 (apparently) somewhere inside Facebook.  I only have control
 over the response at my end which, in my case, is nothing at all
 since the port is blocked, with failed attempts logged as shown.

Nuke as in (continue to) deny the connection attempt.

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Re: StatusNet, anyone?

[Brian St. Pierre]

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.hackerposse.com.

Thanks for the phrasing of that pointer. It looks like it has support 
for private groups. Is it something like what I've seen google's 
circles described as? (I don't use google's social thing.)

Is there support built-in for posting photos? Or would that require some 
add-on app/service?

I used facebook for a while but deleted my profile. (Some key friends 
have also deleted profiles, so the utility that *was* there has fallen 
way off.) I liked the ability to see pix of friends' kids and stuff like 
that. Didn't like the games  spammy stuff.

I'd like a way to share photos, an occasional short video, and status-y 
kind of stuff.

That's all easy enough for *me* to do, but:

(A) I don't want to post everything publicly.
(B) I don't want to have to create accounts for friends  family to be 
able to see stuff behind a privacy wall. (E.g. private posts in 
WordPress) Partly because it's a hassle for me. Partly because it's a 
hassle for them, and certain friends  family are unlikely to use it, or 
will bug me to remind them how to log in every time something new is posted.
(C) I'd ideally like a platform that allows posting by multiple users, 
with the same administrative constraints mentioned in (B).

-Brian
(PS status.hackerposse.com's git is 403)
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Re: StatusNet, anyone?

[Brian St. Pierre]

Thanks for the detailed response. I guess I'm going to have to play 
around with this a bit.

On 06/18/2012 12:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
 Brian St. Pierrebr...@bstpierre.org  writes:
 I used facebook for a while but deleted my profile. (Some key friends
 have also deleted profiles, so the utility that *was* there has fallen
 way off.) I liked the ability to see pix of friends' kids and stuff
 like that. Didn't like the games  spammy stuff.

 Are these `friends with cute kids' all just floating around with nowhere
 to post that stuff, now that they've left Facebook? Or, what are they
 using?

It's fractured. Some people email, some use other photo-sharing (eg 
shutterfly). Some people send dead trees via snail mail. Some have gone 
dark. Some are still on facebook, but since *I'm* not there I don't get 
the updates. Some people I was never really close enough 
(friends-of-friends, we've met a few times at parties, etc) to that we'd 
go to the effort of intentionally emailing each other with photos  
updates, but the semi-promiscuous FOAF-level sharing on facebook was 
mutually interesting. I think a couple of geek friends have their own 
self-hosted photo albums, but I don't necessarily have an easy mechanism 
for seeing/discovering their new stuff.

-Brian
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Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

[Brian St. Pierre]

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 acknowledgement on the LinkIn site.  (I
 just found it buried in the clutter.  Its a link to CBS news??)

Bottom line: go change your LinkedIn password right now.

This post is all I've seen from LinkedIn:

 
http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/06/updating-your-password-on-linkedin-and-other-account-security-best-practices/

This project on github has what appears to be a list of 6.4M password 
hashes and a small bit of code to check if your password hash is in the 
list. My (~20 char random string unique to linkedin) password's hash was 
in the list, so it appears to be genuine.

 https://github.com/hungtruong/LinkedIn-Password-Checker

It's not really surprising that the hashes were leaked, but it is sort 
of (ok, not really) surprising to me that a big site like LinkedIn can 
be storing passwords so poorly: they were just hashed with SHA-1 and no 
salt.

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

[Brian St. Pierre]

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 laptops. I also
own a netbook.

The laptop has been good. No major complaints. It's heavy and drains
batteries fast, which is to be expected since it's got a big screen and
I didn't buy it with the upgraded battery. (The upgraded battery doesn't
appear to be an option on their latest offering. I purchased about 2
years ago.) For me it fills the role of a desktop, but with the
advantage of portability. Probably my biggest complaint is typing on the
keyboard: the mouse pad is positioned so that my right thumb often
brushes the pad while I'm typing, which moves the cursor to some random
location in the text. Moving the pad about 0.75 left would solve this
problem. Most of the time, though, I'm docked and using a separate
keyboard/mouse/monitor so it isn't an issue.

The netbook is just ok. It's small, light, and has good battery life.
I'd hope it's fixed by now (purchased 3 years ago), but the big problem
with this is that the wifi driver has never worked reliably. It was
reported fixed at one point when system76 released new drivers, but I
still frequently had trouble and now I just rely on a USB wifi (i.e.
awkward big wart hanging off the side). A netbook where the wifi doesn't
work is kind of pointless.
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Re: Am I 32-bit, or 64-bit?

[Brian St. Pierre]

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, and compiled it.  
 Installed
 it.  Booted it.  And it works great!  Until I went to install Chrome.  Chrome
 said, You're running a 64-bit OS; here's your 64-bit version.  I tried
 installing that, and no soup.  32-bit version installed fine.  So then I
 glanced at uname -a:

Split the difference and call yourself 48-bit? ;)

I haven't done it recently, or with a far-backported kernel, but have
you considered building a debian/ubuntu kernel package that contains
what you want? It might help make sure everything matches up properly.

E.g.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile
http://wiki.debian.org/HowToRebuildAnOfficialDebianKernelPackage

Speaking from experience, you'll have a harder and harder time working
off an old non-LTS Ubuntu version. 10.10 isn't hard to live with now,
but mirrors, PPAs, and relevant advice will disappear pretty quickly
when it EOLs. (9.04 was a pain to work with by January 2011...) I'd
recommend either pinning to 10.04 LTS or 12.04 LTS (due on the 26th),
but that's just my $0.02. If you really want to stay on 10.10, grab a
copy of the DVD torrent now.

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Re: Vendor independent certifications?

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:03 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
 On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:17:05 -0500, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
 I'm a sysadmin and have hired some in the past.  In the dot com era, we
 would sort resumes by lots of certs and experience.  Then we looked at
 the resumes with experience.  The certs got looked at if we couldn't find
 experience, but we never did.

 Yeah, any resumes that list certificates and have no experience are a
 major warning sign that this person knows nothing. If they've recently
 graduated, that could be fixable. If they haven't, it probably isn't.

Even recent graduates have no excuse to not show some kind of
experience. Except for the hardware, all the pieces are freely
available, and with a bit of creativity/networking/paying attention
you can even come up free hardware. (I'd be willing to bet an old
computer (or sufficient parts to reconstitute same) that a request
sent to this list by a resource-starved student looking for free
hardware to use for learning would turn up more than one offer.)

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Re: Vendor independent certifications?

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Mike mik...@colossus.bilow.com wrote:
 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 education, but
 rather how to prove knowledge in such a way that would convince
^^^

 prospective employers.


As far as programming or web design goes, I don't put much stock in
any kind of certification. I'd be far less likely to want to hire
someone based on a certificate than I would be based on demonstrable
experience. Also, knowledge is fleeting: stuff that I knew 5, 10, or
15 years ago is useless today. Better to be able to prove that you're
smart and capable of learning things quickly.

Build something worth showing off and point to the code on github, or
to a site(s) you've built, as your portfolio.

I was at a Boston Python meetup[1] a few weeks ago, and Michael
Trosen[2] of Lab305[3] talked about how he can't find python/django
people to work for his company. I've heard similar pleas from other
people in similar situations. Jesse Noller talked about how he'd love
to have volunteers to work on PSF projects; PyPi, for example only has
two people working on it. Solve some of the problems there, people in
the community will recognize your name, and you have your foot in the
door for jobs.

Spend six months learning django and related technologies, contribute
a patch or five[4] to django core and you will make connections with
people who will want to hire you. Go to meetups; the Boston Python
Meetup has a large, active membership -- meet people, learn stuff, eat
pizza, find work. (There's always someone hiring when you go to a
meeting.)

Build a portfolio by offering to build small websites -- preferably
with some kind of interactivity -- for a few nonprofits. Get feedback
from people who know their stuff; your first few sites will suck.

Depending on your taste, you can s/python/ruby/g and s/django/rails/g,
or whatever else suits you.




[1]: http://meetup.bostonpython.com/events/48542762/ -- if you follow
the link to ustream.tv and poke around a bit you may be able to find
the video
[2]: http://www.lab305.com/
[3]: http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeltrosen
[4]: http://openhatch.org/ will help you learn how to contribute
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Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
 It seems like
 the obvious next line of questions, though, is: is going through
 a the digital version of changing your address a significantly-
 greater ordeal than the `real life moving' version? And,
 if it is..., then why is it?

If I move to a new house, I have to do address changes with banks,
brokerage, insurance, couple of magazines, and a handful of people who
send me paper mail. I have to call the insurance company anyway to
update coverage. I only ever order from a couple of different online
retailers, and I can update those addresses the next time I place
orders at each place. If I forget to change my address with a personal
contact, they (a) can contact me via email or (b) talk to a mutual
friend who can provide an updated address. Actually, with snail mail,
if I forget to update my address with *any* contact, a
change-of-address order with USPS will ensure that I get mail -- even
junk :( -- for a year.

You *can* do forwarding with GMail (and the others, I presume), but
you can't usually get forwarding if you use your ISP's address and
then change ISPs.

 If I was going to move away from GMail, I'd go self-hosted.

 Is bstpierre.org actually GMail, then?

Yes -- Google Apps. (You can tell by doing `dig MX bstpierre.org`; the
servers listed are a dead giveaway.)
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Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:41 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
 On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:32:43 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen 
 roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
 Maybe you guys can suggest other providers, or just provide
 some thoughts on the two I've listed above.

 I think a reasonably protective feature should be something like getting
 their own domain name in the email address.

Yes to this! Changing service providers is still a hassle, but at
least you don't have to change your address.

However, I'm not sure how feasible this is for non-technical users.
There are a number of hoops you have to jump through to get it set up:
buying the domain, finding a provider that supports hosting for a
private domain, adding DNS entries for the email provider, etc. You
could sign up through an all-in-one provider who can set everything up
for you (looks like namecheap as a $3/yr plan), but then the
non-technical user ends up sort of locked-in again: they *could*
change, if they knew how...

If I was going to move away from GMail, I'd go self-hosted. It just
feels like it would be a hassle to switch -- and I'm already running a
suitable server, I just have to run apt-get and do a bunch of
configuration.

 Here's the problem I ran into: I wanted to be logged out when using
 Google as a search engine[1]. That meant not only no more GMail but also
 no more Google Reader. If these friends 1) subscribe to RSS feeds and 2)
 want to read them from multiple locations, they are going to need a
 solution for that. That's what really drove me to my own hosting
 solution. I needed to be able to install a web-based RSS reader, in
 addition to having an email provider.

Wandering a little OT here, but I've had basically the same thoughts
as you. I wrote about maintaining data silos when the flap about the
new privacy policy started:
http://blog.bstpierre.org/maintaining-privacy-new-google-policy/

If you're willing to share your RSS habits with Google but just want
to maintain RSS as a silo, you could keep a different browser window
open just for Google Reader. You still have the convenience of hosted
RSS but you don't have that data aggregated with the rest of your
data. (At least in theory.)

 [1] 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.

On FF you can use ghostery to kill those trackers (and/or noscript if
you don't mind a bit of extra hassle).
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[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] November 2011 Meetup

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Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 21 November 2011 at the NH-ICC for the
regular NHRuby meetup. This month, Brian Cardarella finishes our
series of learning Rails with a talk titled, “So You Want to be a
Rails Developer?”

Ruby and Rails is built on many open source technologies and has so
much domain knowledge that it can be overwhelming for anybody wanting
to start doing Rails development. Brian will show you HOW to learn
Rails. Learn the Rails stack, learn the terms that Rails developers
throw around and learn where to go and what resources exist to help
you become the Rails developer you want to be.

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[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] October 2011 Meetup: Hackfest!

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Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 17 October 2011 at the NH-ICC for the regular 
NHRuby meetup.  This month ... Hackfest!  Bring your code, questions, and 
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[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] September 2011 Meetup: Backbone.js

[Brian Turnbull]

Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 19 September 2011 at the NH-ICC for the regular 
NHRuby meetup.  This month, Jason Morrison of Boston web development and design 
firm, thoughtbot [1], introduces us to Backbone.js [2] -- client side MVC.  
Jason will also cover integration of Backbone.js with Rails.

---
About Jason Morrison

Jason loves to build web and mobile products. He started programming when he 
exhausted his family’s collection of Commodore 64 games at the age of six, and 
has believed in building software to satisfy real needs ever since.  Find him 
on Twitter at @jayunit or at http://jayunit.net(http://jayunit.net).

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[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] August 2011 Meetup: Rails 3 in Practice

[Brian Turnbull]

Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 15 August 2011 at the NH-ICC as Brian Turnbull, an 
infrequent Rails user, takes us through the creation of a small (only three 
models) real world Rails project.  This talk is targeted at the new or 
occasional Rails user.

This talk is a do-over for last month's cancelled meeting.  Hope to see you 
there!

--- 

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Brian is the co-organizer of NHRuby, two time Rails Rumble organizer, and Staff 
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Re: Browsers

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote:
1.
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,236944/printable.html

If you use Internet Explorer, your IQ might be below average--at
least, according to one study.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14389430

Draw your own conclusions about IE users -- that study was a hoax...

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Re: Looking to get lucky again with another expect question.

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote:
 The general solution would be to run an
 expect script that would simply act as a passthrough to guarantee that
 whatever I run would think it had a tty, and would therefore be line buffered
 by default instead of fully buffered. I know it would look something like 
 this:

 #! /usr/bin/expect --
 spawn something
 interact

 It's that middle line I don't know how to craft.

I think you want:

eval spawn $argv

as the middle line. This should work most of the time -- you'll have
to be careful of quoting since this will eat a layer of quotes.

I think an even more general-purpose method would be to use the -t
flag of ssh (if you're calling it directly) or something like
paramiko.Channel.get_pty().

-Brian
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Re: [GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] Rails 3 in Practice

[Brian Turnbull]

The Ruby SIG meetup scheduled for tonight at 7:00pm is cancelled.  The speaker 
(and organizer) has a family emergency.


On Jul 17, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Brian Turnbull wrote:

 Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 18 June 2011 at the NH-ICC as Brian Turnbull, an 
 infrequency Rails users takes us through the creation of a small (only three 
 models) real world Rails project.  This talk is targeted at the new or 
 occasional Rails user.
 
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 About Brian Turnbull
 
 Brian is the co-organizer of NHRuby, two time Rails Rumble organizer, and 
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[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] Rails 3 in Practice

[Brian Turnbull]

Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 18 June 2011 at the NH-ICC as Brian Turnbull, an 
infrequency Rails users takes us through the creation of a small (only three 
models) real world Rails project.  This talk is targeted at the new or 
occasional Rails user.

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About Brian Turnbull

Brian is the co-organizer of NHRuby, two time Rails Rumble organizer, and Staff 
Engineer at ARRIS Solutions.

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Re: ssh + svn - pam

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote:
 Many many (many) moons ago, I had set up an svn server at a company. I
 remember setting it up so that it was svn+ssh, but it didn't require
 local accounts in /etc/passwd, it just used accounts out of the
 repositories passwd-db. I can't seem to remember how I did this, and I
 can't seem to find a way to do it now. This leads me to believe that
 my memory is failing.

Quoting from:


http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.svnserve.html#svn.serverconfig.svnserve.sshtricks.fixedcmd

It's also possible to have multiple users share a single account.
Instead of creating a separate system account for each user, generate
a public/private key pair for each person. Then place each public key
into the authorized_keys file, one per line, and use the --tunnel-user
option:

  command=svnserve -t --tunnel-user=harry TYPE1 KEY1 ha...@example.com
  command=svnserve -t --tunnel-user=sally TYPE2 KEY2 sa...@example.com

This example allows both Harry and Sally to connect to the same
account via public key authentication. Each of them has a custom
command that will be executed; the --tunnel-user option tells svnserve
to assume that the named argument is the authenticated user. Without
--tunnel-user, it would appear as though all commits were coming from
the one shared system account.


Gitolite uses a similar technique with git:
http://sitaramc.github.com/gitolite/doc/gitolite-and-ssh.html

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Re: tcl/TK question

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@gapps.blu.org wrote:
 One possible solution that seems to work. In my wrapper script:
 command --arg1 --arg2 21

 And in the tcl script:

 if [catch {open |$command} input] {

 I still get my zombie on the start command, but I query the open file list in 
 tcl (file channels) and close any open files other than stdxxx.

 It's fun trying to write production code when you don't know the language :-)

The section in the man page for open called COMMAND PIPELINES doesn't
really spell it out. The `open` command returns a file descriptor. You
need to close that file descriptor to wait for the process. Here's a
quick demo:

#!/usr/bin/tclsh

# This produces a zombie, the file descriptor is lost.
if [catch {open |echo foo} input] {
   puts something went wrong: $input
}

puts Press ctrl-z now and do a ps to check for zombies
after 3000

# This does not:
if [catch {set f [open |echo bar]} input] {
   puts something else went wrong: $input
}

# (The zombie is here.)
puts Press ctrl-z now and do a ps to check for zombies
after 3000

close $f

# (And now it's not.)
puts Press ctrl-z now and do a ps to check for zombies
after 3000

# Closing the file descriptor from this `open` will cause an error.
# (See the man page.)
if [catch {set f [open |/bin/false]} input] {
   puts something different went wrong: $input
}

close $f

HTH.

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[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] May Meetup: ClientSideValidations and Capybara

[Brian Turnbull]

*** Note - Different date than usual ***

Join us at 7:00pm on Tuesday, 31 May 2011 (day after Memorial Day) at the 
NH-ICC for the regular monthly meeting of NHRuby!

As promised wy back in March, Brian Cardarella returns with his refactored 
ClientSideValidations gem originally developed for the Democratic National 
Committee and Nick Plante will be talking about using Capybara for integration 
testing.

Hope to see you there!

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Re: My Gnome (registry) is b0rken.

[Brian Shaver]

  
  
Ken,
I had a similar experience recently with places opening mplayer
in the manner in which you describe for vlc.
It is as you suspected a file association issue, or at least it was
in my case.

You basically can fix it by manually starting nautilus and using the
"Open With..." to reset the preference for directory objects to
nautilus.

My problem occurred after doing something with a DVD which caused me
to try to open a folder with mplayer and the option
'Remember this application for "folder" files' is set by default.

Here's the bug I found which referenced the issue and includes more
detailed steps to resolve it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/667071

Hope this fixes your problem.

Brian ..

On 04/22/2011 08:37 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:

  Running Ubuntu; if I go to Places - $MOSTANYCHOICE (e.g., "Home Folder"),
lo! My vlc starts up, and I'm watching Ghostbusters.  And, while
Ghostbusters is not to be sneered at, it's unlikely to offer the directory
listing for which I'm looking.

As I'd prefer to not blow away *all* my settings, I was wondering if
anyone might have any suggestions on how to track this one down.  The
funny thing is, it functions correctly for *some* selections.  Here -- my
current layout:

Home folder: vlc
Desktop: vlc
Documents: vlc
Music: vlc
Pictures: vlc
Video: vlc
Computer: Computer(!)
269 MB Filesystem [from an inserted SD card]: vlc
15 GB Filesystem [ibid.]: vlc
Network: Network
sftp for ken on 192.168.21.100: vlc
Connect to server: connect-to-server dialog

Just noticed two things:
- vlc fires up *different* things, depending on where it's launched
- Not all destinations that launch vlc have playable media, so it's not
like it's triggering on something it's finding.

So, things I'm looking for, in order of preference:
- Way to edit the Gnome menu option associations to find out what's wrong.
- Way to blow away *just* Gnome's settings.
- Random suggestions that might offer insight.

Thanks!

-Ken




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Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
 Hmmm... might be worth looking into.  I mean, what's the worst that
 happens?  I bork my system, and wind up doing a re-install.  Which is what
 I'm looking at, anyway.  So, yeah -- I'll poke around and see what I can
 make happen.

  I have an idea I've been turning over in my head which may be
 applicable here, too: Set up another installation in a directory
 branch.  In your case, maybe under /usr/ubuntu-i386/ or something
 like that.

  The reason I want to do this is so I can get certain things from
 Debian unstable to install (with all their library dependencies)
 without having to run my entire system on unstable.[1]

  One way to do this would be to bootstrap an installation in a VM or
 a chroot, but that's a bit heavy-handed.

I used to maintain a 32-bit install inside of my 64-bit install
(debian) with schroot and instructions similar to these:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/566

https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id292281

I needed it to be able to use a couple of binary-only packages that
were only available as 32-bit.

  I've been fiddling with using arguments to apt-get/dpkg to change
 the root directory for that invocation, e.g.:

        sudo apt-get -o 'RootDir=/usr/unstable' update

  That problem I have is that I haven't found the magic needed to
 initialize an apt installation.  It rightly complains that its data
 files are missing, but I don't know any way to create them.  With RPM,
 it's rpm --initdb.  Anyone know how to do it in APT-land?

Take a look at debootstrap, it might do what you want.

-Brian

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Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote:
 I have this horrible spreadsheet that needs to be accessed by lots of people
 from all over the galaxy. Adding entries to the spreadsheet is painful because
 it's manual.

 What I'd like to do is to use a command line interface to add entries to cells
 instead of having to use Excel. Does such a beast exist?

 I'm thinking of some sort of a command that either takes command args or a
 configuration file to accomplish what I want. For example:

Some possible approaches:

1. Look into OpenOffice macros to achieve this. For example, I used
this recipe in a Makefile to use OO to convert an RTF into MS Word. It
calls a macro that I defined and stored in BriansLibrary:

%.doc: %.rtf
soffice -invisible
macro:///BriansLibrary.Conversion.ConvertRtfToWord(`pwd`/$)

You may be able to do something similar with oocalc macros. If you
really need MS Excel, I'm not sure you can compatibly store macros in
it and still port between oocalc and Excel.

2. Back when I had a windows box I used a combination of
python+win32com to access Word files. You could do something similar
-- with just about any language (VB, python, etc). An ancient example
that I once used to change Word document titles:
http://bstpierre.org/Projects/msword.py
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Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote:
 Right now, everyone is using Excel from windows to add their entries. I don't
 actually know if using anything else (OOO, gnumeric, etc,) would cause
 unintended ripples to the files.

 All the devel work that I deal with is done from linux, but I get there mostly
 (currently) using W7, putty and cygwin X server.

Tom's suggestion to move to a db backend with a web frontend is sound
advice, but will require upfront effort and buy-in from other
stakeholders to achieve.

If you want to stay invisible and you're willing to run from the
windows command line, see
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/573471-update-stock-quote-using-yahoo-finance-web-service/
for an example of manipulating Excel spreadsheets using python and
win32com.
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Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote:
 Or you could just throw the spreadsheet into Google Apps, since they
 seem to have worked out the multi-user document sharing aspects pretty
 well. However, I don't know of a command-line interface to that!

Google provides an API for Google Spreadsheets:

http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/data/3.0/developers_guide.html

and a python client library:

http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/

-Brian
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[GNHLUG] [NHRuby SIG] January Meetup: OmniAuth

[Brian Turnbull]

Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 17 January 2011 at the NH-ICC as your
humble organizer, Brian Turnbull, takes the stage presenting an
Introduction to OmniAuth.

OmniAuth, created by Michael Bleigh of Intridea, is a Rack-based
authentication system for multi-provider external authentication. In
this talk, we’ll cover where OmniAuth fits in the “web” stack, how to
use it, what it does, and what it does not. Then we’ll take a dive
into creating an authentication strategy for integrating OmniAuth with
a custom authentication provider.

See http://www.meetup.com/nhruby/calendar/15900279/ for more
information about the meetup and for directions to the NH-ICC.
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Re: Computer part recycling [was: New Year's Cleaning]

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:59 AM, kenta kenta.k...@gmail.com wrote:
 What I'm trying to find is a recycler, preferably free of charge, that
 will take this legacy hardware (read: junk) off my hands.  I know that
 some companies have recycling days but I didn't see any posted around
 my area (Nashua, NH).

A bit far from Nashua, and not free ($0.30/lb), but in this area
there's Wincycle in Windsor, VT (on the NH state line):

http://www.wincycle.org/

I also know a couple of guys who just put the junk in a box on the
front porch, post to freecycle, and it is gone in an unbelievably
short amount of time.

-Brian
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Re: Current compensation conditions

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:58 PM,  mno...@embedded-unlimited.com wrote:
 On Mon Nov 22 13:38 , mark sent:
 On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Michael ODonnell 
 michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
 I might be invited to join a team of developers on what they're calling a
 contract basis (tho it'd actually be a W2 rather than 1099 relationship;
 hourly, no benefits) and they've asked me to quote a rate.

 If you need insurance or other
 benefits, increase the hourly amount accordingly; e.g., if you have an
 opportunity to acquire heath insurance under COBRA, and the premium is
 $1,200 per month, then (1200 x12) / 2080 = an extra $6.92 added to the
 per-hour rate.

 The cost of private health insurance 1000+ per month is only deductible as a
 business expense against business income.. with W2 income you many not even 
 qualify
 for a Health Savings account.

I may be wrong, but I don't think W2 income will disqualify you for an
HSA. See IRS Pub 969. Deductibility of premiums is a separate issue.

If you go the HSA route, the premium is only part of the equation --
be sure to budget extra to cover the deductible. And health insurance
is only part of what you've got to consider for other costs. You need
emergency funds for when you get sick and can't go to work for a week.
If you were on the 1099 side, you need to set aside extra for taxes.
If you were an IC, you may need E+O. If you're self-employed for long
enough, you can think about disability insurance.

As Mike Nolin mentioned, consider what you'll have access to for
retirement accounts (Solo401k, SEP, etc). I'd agree that
W2-no-benefits is the worst of both worlds.

-Brian
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[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] November Meetup: (Geo)Spatial Programming

[Brian Turnbull]

Join us at 7pm on Monday, November 15th at the NH-ICC building for the regular 
monthly meetup of NHRuby. This month, we have New Hampshire’s newest resident 
rubyist, Peter Jackson, presenting “Introduction to (Geo)Spatial Programming”.

Location-based applications are everywhere, yet most modern Rubyists haven’t 
ventured far beyond superimposing a few locations on a Google Map. In this 
talk, the Rubyist will learn about the many spatial programming possibilities 
within the Ruby landscape, including non-location-based applications, 
geographic applications using custom imagery, answering difficult questions 
using spatial queries, Moving Beyond the Dot-On-The-Map, and how to get started 
with Geospatial Programming today.

About Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson is Managing Director at Intridea. He has been building and 
delivering web and mobile-based solutions since 1995. His technical passions 
include geospatial programming, the VoteFu Rails plug-in, anything to do with 
jQuery, and the fanatical removal of cruft. Find him on twitter at @peteonrails 
or read his blog: http://blog.peteonrails.com

Directions to NH-ICC

You can find detailed directions on the NH-ICC site [1] or use Google Maps [2]

[1] http://www.nh-icc.org/about-nh-icc/directions/
[2] http://maps.google.com/maps?q=75+Rochester+Avenue+Portsmouth+NH
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Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt
bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:
  I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some
 'backup'.  I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'.  It
 looks not too hard - this worries me.  :)

If you're performing backups with rsync, you may want to take a look
at rsnapshot. It uses rsync under the hood, so if rsync works for you,
rsnapshot should too. I've been using it for a couple of years now,
and it has been a lifesaver more than once.

http://rsnapshot.org/

-Brian

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Re: dual pci nic with bridging

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.org 
 wrote:
 Anybody have experience with a PCI-based dual-interface NIC that does
 hardware bridging?   This would be for a traffic monitoring application ...

  Not what you asked for, but: Would it be feasible to use a small
 managed switch with a monitor/mirror port?  That would give you much
 greater hardware choice, as you wouldn't need a special network card.

I was hoping to put the bridge in the box, but what you suggested is
the plan b.

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Shawn O'Shea sh...@eth0.net wrote:
 The only host-based thing I've seen for something like that are the Endace
 DAG cards. They tout 100% packet capture since they take all the processing
 off the host CPU. They are not cheap though...I think it was like 6000$ for
 a dual port.

 http://www.endace.com/endace-dag-high-speed-packet-capture-cards.html

Thanks for the pointer, these sound interesting even though that's
10x the cost target.

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dual pci nic with bridging

[Brian St. Pierre]

Anybody have experience with a PCI-based dual-interface NIC that does
hardware bridging? This would be for a traffic monitoring application,
so the host cpu must be able to snoop traffic. Software bridging is
not feasible.

Thanks for any pointers.

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[GNHLUG] Ruby SIG: August 2010 Meetup

[Brian Turnbull]

Join us on Monday, August 16th at 7:00pm for the next meeting of the New 
Hampshire Ruby Users Group.  This month we have Brian Cardarella talking about 
his client_side_validations gem:

The client_side_validations gem is an extract from a Democratic
National Committee project. It quickly and easily allows you to mimc
the validations in a given model on the client-side.

In addition, Brian Turnbull will be presenting his experience interfacing C 
with Ruby:

Ruby is great.  But sometimes you need the speed, control, or ubiquity
of plain old C.  In this talk, we'll examine interfacing Ruby with an
existing C API and also writing new Ruby modules and classes in C.

 New Location 

Mark Galvin of the NHICC is opening his doors to host this month's meeting.  
The NHICC is located on the campus of the Pease International Tradeport at 75 
Rochester Avenue, Portsmouth, NH -- Directions from the NHICC site: 
http://www.nh-icc.org/about-nh-icc/directions/

Google Maps Link to Meeting Location:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=dsource=s_dsaddr=daddr=43.079632,-70.810339hl=engeocode=mra=dmemrcr=0mrsp=1sz=17sll=43.079828,-70.809342sspn=0.005258,0.006963ie=UTF8ll=43.084311,-70.805082spn=0.021031,0.027852t=hz=15
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[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] July 2010 Meetup: Redis and Resque

[Brian Turnbull]

Join us at RMC Research (1000 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH) Monday, 19 July 
2010 at 7pm for the July edition of NHRuby. We meet and share projects and 
questions surrounding Ruby, Rails, and related technologies — all are welcome.

This month, we are thrilled to welcome Nick Plante back to the podium to talk 
about Redis and Resque! Nick is using both Redis and Resque in production to 
power portions of the backend of his UI test and verify service, Mogotest.

Redis is a fast key-value store, like Memcache but with more awesome. It 
features a (semi-)non-volatile data store and access to more sophisticated data 
structures like lists, sets, and ordered sets, all of which can be manipulated 
with a variety of powerful atomic operations. I’ll talk about how we’re using 
Redis in production at Mogotest, what it’s good for, what it’s not good for. 
I’ll also describe how we’re using Resque, a simple job queue system built on 
top of Redis, to handle a variety of asynchronous background tasks.

So join us Monday for an evening of code, conversation, and the company of your 
fellow Rubyists.  Directions and more information can be found at 
http://nhruby.org
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Re: [OT] CableInside possible spam/scam?

[Brian]

On 05/13/2010 05:21 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:

   There's a variant of that attack.  Sometimes the attacker changes
 the prices reported, pockets the difference, and passes along the
 rest.  There's even a special term for that kind of attack: reseller

I've also seen this as a ploy to use an advanced fee fraud.

Scammer: I have [stuff I want to buy from | work I need done by] you.
Victim: OK.  I can do it.  Pay me $PRICE
Scammer: Here is ($PRICE+$3000).  Please take what you need and wire me
the difference.

Victim then is expected to move quickly and wire the difference before
the forged check has been determined to be fraudulent.

I've seen this scam tried on me twice now.  It starts out sounding legit
and quickly becomes obvious.  Especially if you ever get the cashier's
check which is pretty clearly fake.

Brian
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Re: [OT] iPad

[Brian Chabot]

Alan Johnson wrote:

 This appears to be made from a review template for all Apple products. 
 You just filled in the blanks with iPad and Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t, a
 convertible touchscreen netbook/tablet, didn't you?


I think it's in Apple's design specs.

Take nifty tech only geeks know about.
Make it shiny.
Reduce the functionality.
Increase price.
Market the hell out of it.

I love Apple.  They steal the niftiest stuff.


Brian

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Re: OT? - Broadband Troubleshooting

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Greg g...@kettmann.com wrote:
 What's the best approach to isolating or identifying the details of this
 problem?  One obvious solution is to log some pings for a day or two.

  This is tricky because what you're looking for is not throughput,
 and not even latency (Round Trip Time), but rather, Packet Delay
 Variation, AKA jitter.  That is, you don't care how long it takes a
 packet to transit, but you need to characterize *variation* in how
 long it takes a packet to transit.

Before you try to characterize jitter/latency/etc, you need to figure
out if there is any packet loss. Jitter will hurt your connection but
packet loss will kill it.

You mentioned QoS settings. These are probably ignored by your
provider and thus only have an effect inside your local network.

You also mentioned that you have problems just with web surfing. How
frequently does this occur? You likely have some problem either on the
wiring to your house, or inside your house, or possibly with your ISPs
local network. If you can characterize the issue from stats on your
modem you may be able to get some help from the ISP.

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Re: Linux for cloud computing: Request for Input

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote:
 Any other ideas on the topic of Why Linux for Cloud Computing?

Virtualization?

 Any blatant negatives for Linux as a platform?

Too many choices. Once you've chosen linux over other options, you've
still got a ton of decisions to make. You mention choosing between
security models as though this is a good thing. Maybe it's not [1].
Choosing a different platform might mean you have to make fewer
decisions. (This isn't specific to cloud computing.)

[1] For example, see
http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/more-choices-fewer-sales.htm

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Re: Interesting article,

[Brian Chabot]

Chris wrote:
 I don't agree with all of it, but it does put a few things in perspective.
 
 http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7532tag=nl.e539

I do not agree with the author of the article either.

His arguments seem only based on a limited experience of what Linux has
to offer.

I know that Mandriva Linux, even its free version has already overcome
the hurdles he mentions long ago:

No gaming support - Mandriva has an entire product line devoted to
gaming, but the gaming developers didn't work with it and the end users
didn't try it out.  It was subsequently dropped.

Little/no OEM support - Mandriva has had an OEM certification program
for years.

No iPod support - Amarok.  Right out of the box.

No migration tool - Mandriva has has a built-in migration tool for quite
some time now - Transfugdrake - right in the System area of the control
center.

Driver/hardware confusion - For 90% of hardware out there, you don't
need it.  Also, the fact that there’s no such thing as a “works with
Linux” logo...  Yes, there is.  I have a bunch of stickers with the one
I designed and I'm sure there are others.

Free tech support dries up - http://www.mandrivausers.org

Confusion about distro differences - OK, I'll give him that one.


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Re: Using xmlstarlet and OpenOffice

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote:
 [WARNING: Lots of code here...]

Adding the -C option to your command line yields:

?xml version=1.0?
xsl:stylesheet version=1.0 xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform;
 xmlns:exslt=http://exslt.org/common;
 xmlns:math=http://exslt.org/math;
 xmlns:date=http://exslt.org/dates-and-times;
 xmlns:func=http://exslt.org/functions;
 xmlns:set=http://exslt.org/sets;
 xmlns:str=http://exslt.org/strings;
 xmlns:dyn=http://exslt.org/dynamic;
 xmlns:saxon=http://icl.com/saxon;
 xmlns:xalanredirect=org.apache.xalan.xslt.extensions.Redirect
 xmlns:xt=http://www.jclark.com/xt;
 xmlns:libxslt=http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/namespace;
 xmlns:test=http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/;
 xmlns:office=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0
 extension-element-prefixes=exslt math date func set str dyn saxon
xalanredirect xt libxslt test
 exclude-result-prefixes=math str
xsl:output omit-xml-declaration=yes indent=no method=text/
xsl:param name=inputFile-/xsl:param
xsl:template match=/
  xsl:call-template name=t1/
/xsl:template
xsl:template name=t1
  xsl:value-of select=office:*/
/xsl:template
/xsl:stylesheet

Note that only the first -N namespace declaration (office=...) is
emitted in the XSLT. This makes me think the doc lies when it says
multiple -N options are supported. Maybe there's a special trick to
make it work?

When I change the XPath expression to only use the office namespace, I
get the following:

$ xmlstarlet select --net -T \
  -N office=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0 \
  -N style=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:style:1.0 \
  -N text=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0 \
  -N table=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:table:1.0 \
  -N draw=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:drawing:1.0 \
  -N fo=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:xsl-fo-compatible:1.0 \
  -N xlink=http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink; \
  -N dc=http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/; \
  -N meta=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:meta:1.0 \
  -N number=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:datastyle:1.0 \
  -N svg=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:svg-compatible:1.0 \
  -N chart=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:chart:1.0 \
  -N dr3d=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:dr3d:1.0 \
  -N math=http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML; \
  -N form=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:form:1.0 \
  -N script=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:script:1.0 \
  -N ooo=http://openoffice.org/2004/office; \
  -N ooow=http://openoffice.org/2004/writer; \
  -N oooc=http://openoffice.org/2004/calc; \
  -N dom=http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events; \
  -N xforms=http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms; \
  -N xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema; \
  -N xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; \
  -N 
 field=urn:openoffice:names:experimental:ooxml-odf-interop:xmlns:field:1.0 \
  -t -v 'office:*' content.xml
Trailer Rental AgreementSomeFarm; 123 Some Road; Town NH
03307603-783-3315I, SomeRenter, hereby agree to use the Keifer Built
horse trailer owned by Some One (owner) for $VerySmallSum/day. Trailer
will be picked up on 1 Jan 2010 and returned on 1 Jan 2010 to qualify
for 0 day(s) rental.I agree that I am responsible for any and all
bodily injury or property damage that may occur while it is in my
possession. Further, I agree to hold the owner absolutely harmless
from any responsibility for any claim whatsoever during the time of my
use.The value of the trailer is hereby agreed to be $2500. I agree to
pay the owner up to $VeryLargeSum for any damage to it. Repair costs
will be determined solely by SomeFarm of Town, NH.The trailer shall
not be moved with other than a 2” ball hitch.The trailer shall not be
moved without its lights in full operation.No one other than the
person signing below will move the trailer.Social Security #
123-45-6789Drivers License # 12ABC000101Copy of Vehicle Registration:
attachedCopy of Certificate of Insurance: attachedCopy of Drivers
License: attachedName/Driver 000 Some Street; SomePlace, NHSignature
___Telephone #
603-555-1234Date TodaySignature of SomeFarm
representative__

Unfortunately, I don't have any hints to help you get multiple
namespaces into the XSLT.

-Brian

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Re: Using xmlstarlet and OpenOffice

[Brian St. Pierre]

This is an ugly hack, but it works...

xmlstarlet select --net -T \
 -N office='urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0
xmlns:text=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0' \
 -t -v 
'office:document-content/office:body/office:text/text:p/text:span/text:text-input'
content.xml

Luckily it passes the namespace declaration through to the XSLT
unchanged. You only need to declare the namespaces used in the XPath
query.

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Re: DHCPD and Windows question

[Brian St. Pierre]

On Fri, January 29, 2010 7:10 pm, Todd Littlefield wrote:
 If I disable the daemon on the server and use the one on the router,
 the Windows boxes are happy...  But that makes me unhappy.  I'm at my wits
 end trying to get it figured out.

Can you get a wireshark capture of (a) the broken request and (b) the
working request?

Then compare the two and change whatever is needed in your config (one
thing at a time) to make (a) look more like (b).

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Re: Silly DNS question

[Brian Chabot]

Ben Scott wrote:

   The detective in me has to point out that doesn't necessarily prove
 it's Amazon's *DNS* servers doing that.  Their provisioning system
 might replace potentially problematic characters with dashes when
 creating DNS records.  This distinction is mostly academic, but I
 think we're in that territory already.  ;-)

Indeed.

I think we can all agree that Amazon *should* NOT be using underscores
in any case, for host names.

 I don't know if Amazon's web server would agree, but their DNS servers
 seem to think they are the same.
 
   Well, both http://thingiverse_beta.s3.amazonaws.com/ and
 http://thingiverse-beta.s3.amazonaws.com/ respond with XML, but with
 different content -- the latter a not found sort of result.  I'm not
 sure if that's the web server proper, or custom server-side software
 running behind it, that's getting confused.

Yup.

Found my reason why I got identical replies from DNS queries:
s3.amazonaws.com seems to have a wildcard CNAME to
s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com:

$ host somenamethatshouldnotexist.s3.amazonaws.com
somenamethatshouldnotexist.s3.amazonaws.com is an alias for
s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com.
s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-1-w.amazonaws.com.
s3-1-w.amazonaws.com has address 72.21.202.194
$


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Re: Silly DNS question

[Brian Chabot]

Thomas Charron wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
  That would generally be considered non-compliant with the
 requirements for Internet hosts, even though DNS can handle it. 

   Interesting.  My nameserver at home ends up telling me to bugger
 off.  :-D  Not sure which one, either our DNS forwarder, or the TDS
 nameservers.  Will have to take a look.

Toying with a piece of trivia who's origin I no longer recall, I seem to
recall that some DNS servers will treat an underscore as a dash.

In an effort to test this theory, I tried doing a host lookup both ways
and indeed the results were identical:

$ host thingiverse_beta.s3.amazonaws.com
thingiverse_beta.s3.amazonaws.com is an alias for
s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com.
s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-1-w.amazonaws.com.
s3-1-w.amazonaws.com has address 72.21.202.194
$ host thingiverse-beta.s3.amazonaws.com
thingiverse-beta.s3.amazonaws.com is an alias for
s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com.
s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-1-w.amazonaws.com.
s3-1-w.amazonaws.com has address 72.21.202.194

Interesting.  A dig resulted in similar answers.

I don't know if Amazon's web server would agree, but their DNS servers
seem to think they are the same.


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Re: Prebuilt/turn-key PC options

[Brian Chabot]

Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:

 `Open Systems FTW'?
 
 So..., I just recently heard about these guys:
 
 http://www.system76.com/
 
 Anyone here have experience with, or opinions of, them?
 

Nope.

But I do have (intimate you might say) experience with a *local*
provider of Linux systems

There's Just Works in Nashua - http://www.justworksnh.com - which sells
Mandriva based desktops and dual-boot laptops and netbooks.

Triple boot on the netbooks if you want - Mandriva Linux, WinXP, and Moblin.

I just thought I'd mention it, 'cause you know... I own the place and all.

Sales have been kinda (!) slow lately.  If you *want* a local provider
who supports the Linux systems an all... Just Works can do it.

If I get enough customers to keep the company in business... which
hasn't been happening lately.  So come on down and support the local
Linux provider!

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Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

[Brian Chabot]

jim.mcginn...@att.net wrote:
 If a price around $150 is in your range, 

In that range, I've been happy with this one:
http://www.music123.com/Musicians-Gear-MUSICIANS-GEAR-HANDHELD-STEREO-DIGITAL--RECORDER-58-i1432656.Music123
(In case the link breaks, try this one: http://bit.ly/1U1W7N )

It mounts as a USB drive with a standard cable.

Upsides: Superb sound quality, compatibility, wav or mp3, comes with
external mics, AAA batteries (included!), SD card slot.
Downsides: Filesystem is ...odd.  Battery life is just OK. Size.

I began recording with the internal microphones and from about 4 feet I
could *clearly* hear a VERY quiet whisper.  It came with 2 lapel mics,
headphones, USB cable, and AAA batteries.  It is much larger than the
audio recorders you normally see.  This thing is a low end Pro Audio
quality recorder meant for bands and it shows.  There are 128 MB of
internal storage and an SD card slot.  The machine saves as 44KHz MP3
files by default, but can be set to save as WAV in 8k-44k sampling
rates.  It boasts a 5 hour battery life in record mode and a 6 hour
playback life. It also comes with a line out and separate headphone jack.

I opened an MP3 file in Audacity and it worked first try with no
hassles, no software to install, no drivers needed, etc.

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Webmin, was: Re: Linux as a NAS performance questions

[Brian]

Alan Johnson wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:17 PM, H. Kurth Bemis ku...@kurthbemis.com
  mailto:ku...@kurthbemis.com wrote:
 
 (Alan - I knew you had to get a plug for webmin in somewhere! :])
 
 
 When the only tool you have is a hammer...  ;-)  Speaking of plugs
 for webmin, have I mentioned how pluggable it is?  w!  ;-p

As Alan knows, I also love Webmin

...but speaking of pluggable, anyone try Usermin yet?

http://www.webmin.com/usermin.html

From the web site:

 Usermin is a web-based interface for webmail, password changing, mail
 filters, fetchmail and much more. It is designed for use by regular
 non-root users on a Unix system, and limits them to tasks that they
 would be able to perform if logged in via SSH or at the console.

If you've got non-techie users on your *nix system, this might be handy.

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Re: Network/System Monitors

[Brian Chabot]

Alan Johnson wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com
 mailto:pyt...@venix.com wrote:
 
 http://www.intermapper.com
 is a local product that is worth considering.
 
 
 I looked at Internapper years ago when I was running a Wireless ISP and
 it looks very nice at the time.  Still, I also suggest you take a hard
 look at OpenNMS.  It has the power or HP Openview, without the price,
 but with some, but not all, of the setup headaches.  Compare Intermapper
 pricing to have the OpenNMS commercial support help you set it up.

I worked with Alan part of that time including the roll-out of
InterMapper.  I'll second his positive review.  I found it incredibly
easy to install and run.

I have worked with Nagios before and while a good system, I found it a
little clunky at the time, though it may have improved since then.

While I don't have much first-hand experience with OpenNMS (I only
played around with their online demo a couple years ago), I've heard
many network ops people rave about how well designed it is.

I'd say definitely look into both OpenNMS and InterMapper and evaluate
which one fits your needs best.


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Re: OT: green vehicles

[Brian Chabot]

Bill McGonigle wrote:
 On 07/28/2009 12:48 PM, Brian Chabot wrote:
 Their Air Pod looks nifty.
 
 Wow, the range is more than I would have guessed.

The secret seems to be a combination between a super-efficient engine
and multiple 175 liter carbon-fiber composite air tanks that can each be
filled safely to 350 bar (over 5000 PSI).

 This would be perfect for my commute except I don't think with my house
 a mile up a hill the 11 ft-lbs of torque is going to get me home.  Like
 they said, urban.  Still, for v0.1, it's very impressive.

Definitely not for everyone, but I think my company logo would look
rather good on one

Looks like the US distributor is updating their web site:
http://zeropollutionmotors.us/

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Re: OT: green vehicles

[Brian Chabot]

Alan Johnson wrote:

 For now, my dream is to build a tiny one-seater car with electric bike
 parts and my neighbor's welding skills.  If I could get 40Mph, and
 20mi/charge, it would be the perfect car for my commute.

I'm still holding out for an MDI Air Car:
http://www.mdi.lu/

Their Air Pod looks nifty.


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Re: Finding *unfiltered* free WiFi?

[Brian Chabot]

Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
 Actually, it looks like OpenBmap http://www.openbmap.org/ has
 already expanded their scope to include WiFi hotspots; it seems like
 access-restrictions might be just the sort of data that they'd want to
 include in their database--I don't know whether they've considered
 that prospect, yet.

Mostly open, but not 100% Free (Gratis), you might want to consider FON.

http://www.fon.com

It works like this:
You sign up and order one of their custom config'd accesspoints.  When
you get it, you plug it in to the 'net, wait for any updates, and
register it.

Now, you can log in at any other FON AP around the world in exchange for
letting any other FON AP owner log into yours.

They used to give away the access points, but now ask you to pay a
nominal price for them.  I have 20 coupons to get them for $20+SH if
anyone wants.

Those who are not FON AP owners can get access by paying a fee.  You can
grant access to up to 5 friends  family on your AP... or give friends
the WPA key for the secure network...

It's a pretty good deal, I think.  But it needs more widespread
accesspoints to really make it worth while.  I own three of these and
they're not too bad. (One at my shop, one on loan and a third
un-configured that I plan to hack at some day.)

You can see a map of the FON locations at http://maps.fon.com

I like the idea, but I want to see more of it, too...

Share on!

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Analog Modems?

[Brian Chabot]

This is going to sound odd, but I have a friend who lives in the boonies
who only has an analog phone line for internet access and word has it
they won't have broadband (or most cell signals) for a couple more years.

I was wondering if anyone here might know of an affordable, stand-alone
device which would server as an analog modem on one side and ethernet or
wifi on the other?

The idea is to set their house up with a LAN where either their main
computer or a laptop could use the device as a dial-on-demand access
device and a router to the outside world while connected.

I'm trying to see if something can be set up so as not to have to use
any one computer as the router...

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Brian

PS: Yes, it needs to be Linux compatible.
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Re: ARTICLE - openwrt/dd-wrt based modem/router vulnerability?

[Brian Chabot]

Tom Wittbrodt wrote:

 I admit I didn't read the fine print when I signed up with Verizon for 
 DSL service but I wasn't aware the company providing my DSL service 
 could push changes like this to my router without my involvement. 

For what it might be worth, when I signed up for Speakeast DSL, they had 
the option of the customer taking control of the CPE.  It technically 
voided any support of it the company was obliged to give (they did still 
give support in practice), but you got FULL control.

With my starting of Just Works, I was forced to use Comcast as the only 
viable ISP available.  (No DSL service, no FIOS available, Cell WANs and 
Satellite systems no viable...)  When I set up my Comcast Business line, 
I was pleasantly surprised that the support guy offered to set the modem 
to route my static IP straight to my WRT54GL.  This gave me complete 
control over my connection to the outside world without having to do any 
extra layers of IANA reserved network space.  I did a happy dance 
knowing I had complete control over my own network.  (And no, the router 
is not accessible from outside... not directly at least.  I set up an 
port forward on a non-standard port to an other SSH server internally 
for LAN access from outside. All passwords are at least moderately strong.)


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Re: CMS

[Brian Chabot]

Dan Coutu wrote:

 Lori Hitchcock wrote:
 Working with a company developing a website in a LAMP environment and 
 starting to look at CMS.  Hearing good and bad about both Joomla and 
 Drupal.  The needs to be very simple for non-techs to add content. 
  

 For clients with simpler 
 needs I often will use Word Press

I've had good results with WordPress for many sites.  It has a lot of 
plugins to add various functions not inherent to the WP platform.

As others have pointed out, a more detailed list of the company's needs 
would be helpful.

Feel free to contact me off-list, as building LAMP based sites with 
various back ends is something I do as part of Just Works.  I'd be happy 
to work with them to come up with a good fit.

 Here are some of the key things I'd look for:

Definitely a good list of questions.  Any of the top three (Joomla, 
Drupal, and WordPress will do these to varying extents and varying 
amounts of ease-of-use and features.


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USB Question...

[Brian Chabot]

 here.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!


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Re: USB Question...

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Thomas Charron wrote:

   What version of hal do you have, as well as what kernel?  There
 where USB mass storage size issues fixed in both newer kernels, and
 hal, specifically for large storage devices.
 

Hal is hal-0.5.10-0.rc2.4mdv2008.0
and I'm running kernel-desktop-2.6.22.19-2mdv-1-1mdv2008.0

It's a Mandriva Powerpack 2008.0 install with all currently available 
updates installed.

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Re: USB Question...

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Alan Johnson wrote:

 I've definitely seen some older hubs cause problems with devices on 
 Linux boxes.  Silly question, but did you try plugging in directly to 
 the machine (assuming it has 2.0 ports)?

The USB ports are not trivial to reach, so I'll try that later (or on a 
system at work) later on...

This hub (and the specific port and cable) have worked fine on other 
devices, such as my video camera and Blackberry.

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Re: USB Question...

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Thomas Charron wrote:

   There where fixes in both in newer versions.  2.6.24 included USB
 fixes size issues, as well as hal 0.5.11.

I'm trying to keep this system as close to stock as possible, so I'll 
integrate those as soon as Mandriva's normal update repositories have 
them...

 
   What does this command show:
 
 cat /sys/block/sdb/size /sys/block/sdb/sdb1/size
 
$ cat /sys/block/sdb/size
246864
$ cat /sys/block/sdb/sdb1/size
251937
$

Jives with /var/log/messages and fdisk just like it should, and shows 
the same error.

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Re: USB Question...

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virgins...@vfemail.net wrote:

 Does it play back as well as record?  If so, do the recordings sound
 correct when played directly from the device?

Yup.  Sounds just fine on the device itself.

 That's not likely to be a problem unless you're playing a high bitrate
 mp3 directly over USB from the device, with lots of other traffic on
 the bus.

It is an older, USB1.0 hub plugged into the same bus as a keyboard * 
mouse, so it shouldn't be an issue.  Other devices on the hub when 
plugged in work fine.

Ben suggested plugging direct into the bus, but ATM that jack is rather 
inconveniently on the back of the box... I'll try it when I have time to 
fuss with it.

 
 Mar  5 04:14:41 ono-sendai kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
 Mar  5 04:14:41 ono-sendai kernel: sdb: rw=0, want=251840, limit=246864
 
 That message is often indicative of a corrupt FS.  Did you specify any
 low-level filesystem parameters when you mounted the device, or did
 you let it autoguess the format?

Completely auto-guessed.

dosfsck initially found a problem, but corrected it.  A current dosfsck 
gives me:

$ sudo dosfsck -atvV /dev/sdb1
dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
Boot sector contents:
System ID MSDOS5.0
Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
512 bytes per logical sector
   1024 bytes per cluster
 38 reserved sectors
First FAT starts at byte 19456 (sector 38)
  2 FATs, 32 bit entries
 500224 bytes per FAT (= 977 sectors)
Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size)
Data area starts at byte 1019904 (sector 1992)
 124972 data clusters (127971328 bytes)
63 sectors/track, 255 heads
 63 hidden sectors
 251937 sectors total
Starting check/repair pass.
Checking for bad clusters.
Reclaiming unconnected clusters.
Checking free cluster summary.
Starting verification pass.
Checking for unused clusters.
/dev/sdb1: 46 files, 5280/124972 clusters
$

The device has an SD slot, so I plan to try that out later today.

What is confusing me is that it is properly detected, according to this:

Mar  5 09:29:17 ono-sendai kernel: sd 52:0:0:0: [sdb] 246864 512-byte 
hardware sectors (126 MB)

...but only miliseconds later, I see:

Mar  5 09:29:18 ono-sendai kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Mar  5 09:29:18 ono-sendai kernel: sdb: rw=0, want=251840, limit=246864

So it already sees that there are 246864 but is still trying to access 
251840 through 252000.

It automatically mounts it wit the following message:
Mar  5 09:29:23 ono-sendai hald: mounted /dev/sdb1 on behalf of uid 500

And a mount -v tells me:
/dev/sdb1 on /media/SMILABEL type vfat 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,flush,uid=500,utf8,shortname=lower)


Googling the issue tells me that others have had luck re-partitioning 
their external drives, but I'm not so sure this thing would recognize a 
newly partitioned internal drive...

Indeed, fdisk gives me:

$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 126 MB, 126394368 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 244 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x

Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *   1 250  125968+   b  W95 FAT32

Command (m for help): v
Partitions 1: cylinder 250 greater than maximum 244
Total allocated sectors 251938 greater than the maximum 246864

Command (m for help): q

$

I've emailed the manufacturer's support dept. to see if I can just 
re-partition and reformat or if that will brick the device.

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Re: Thunderbird question

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Cole Tuininga wrote:
 I IMAP in under my
 co...@code-energy.com account and send stuff out by SMTP AUTHing into
 my mail server and setting the from address as co...@code-energy.com.
  Then (at least, under Evolution) I have c...@tuininga.org set up to use
 that same unix account just for sending ... no IMAP, no POP.
 
 I cannot seem to figure out how to do this with Thunderbird.  There
 doesn't seem to be the concept of a mail account to use for sending
 only, without having an associated IMAP or POP connection.

I think I grok what you're looking for.

I have all my mail on my server as myusern...@myserver.com but I send as 
many addresses... so I think I'm already doing what you're looking for:

Edit - Account Settings - [select your IMAP account] - Manage 
Identities - Add

When you're done, and you compose an email, you should have a drop-down 
list of identities in the From field at the top.


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Re: Thunderbird question

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Brian Chabot wrote:

 I think I grok what you're looking for.

I may have missed what you're looking for...

You may alternatively been looking for:

Edit - Account Settings - Outgoing Server (SMTP)

I'm hoping one of these was what you were looking for.

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Re: FOSS Gaming Survey - Any help is appreciated

[Brian Chabot]

Joseph Guarino wrote:

 FOSS Gaming Survey - 
 http://www.evolutionaryit.com/limesurvey/index.php?sid=72676#9001;=en

Someone should have troubleshot this before it went public.

Which Video Game magazines do you subscribe to?
Cannot answer: No answer.  Must fill in Other with something like None.

Which FOSS Gaming websites/blogs to you frequent?
Should be Multiple Choice.

Which general Gaming sites do you visit regularly?
Should be Multiple Choice.

There was another one, I think, but I forgot where.


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Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

[Brian Chabot]

 Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes:
 
 Evolution supports IMAP, POP and local mail.

 It also supports multiple identities.

I somehow missed the beginning of this thread but...

Thunderbird also supports multiple identities, IMAP, and POP as well as 
GMail natively.

Enigmail makes PGP/GPG encryption simple (including key management).

I haven't used Evolution in a while, but last time I did, I was turned 
off by the close resemblance to Outbreak.

Kmail/Kontact is coming up there as a viable option, too:  especially in 
office environments.


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Re: Nokia N810 and other handhelds

[Brian Chabot]

Ben Scott wrote:
 On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 ... the ever-elusive 802.11 SD card. ;)
 
   Does such a thing actually exist?  Google seems to think so, but...
 there was an 802.11 card for the Sony Memory Stick form-factor, too.
  They're impossible to find these days.  I think they only ever made
 like six of them.  [That being the anticipated market demand for
 Memory Stick 802.11.  ;-)  ]  Worse, the drivers had a tendency to
 crash the OS fairly regularly.

I have one!

I found an overpriced Palm brand SDIO 802.11 card back when I was 
playing around with a Tapwave Zodiac. (Remember those?  Once again, 
remarkable hardware.  PalmOS.  And absolutely NO marketing to speak of. 
  It died a quick death, but remains one of my all time favorite 
handheld systems in terms of capability and ergonomics.)

   How in the name of the FSM's balls Apple managed to convince
 everybody the iPhone is somehow exempt from the above clusterfsck
 remains a perplexing mystery to me.  The iPhone is actually worse,
 because in addition to the carriers wanting everything locked up we've
 got Apple wanting everything locked up.

I see Apple succeeding in community software development where Tapwave 
crashed and burned.  With Tapwave, the Zod ran PalmOS, so it could run 
any of the Palm apps out there - but - some of the more awesome features 
of the Zod's hardware were locked out unless you got your app digitally 
signed by Tapwave.  This, of course, cost Tapwave time to test the apps 
and the developer money.  With the iPhone, Apple controls distribution 
and simply passes the costs on to the users by charging a pittance above 
whatever the developer wants to sell the app for.  It worked.

 
   It would be nice to see some market organization here.  You'd think
 all the various players would want to get behind a common OS that
 doesn't have huge costs, isn't owned by a single vendor with conflicts
 of interest, has a strong community, large existing code base, and
 powerful features. 

Sounds like Linux.

   Yet I've seen several attempts at bringing Linux
 to the handheld world, and none of them could get out of their own
 way.  Poorly managed development efforts, legal entanglements, failed
 promises.

Oh, right.  Never mind.

 
   And I want my flying car.

These guys are still trying:
http://www.moller.com/
http://www.volanteaircraft.com
http://www.labicheaerospace.com/
http://www.terrafugia.com/
http://www.urbanaero.com
http://www.macroindustries.com
http://www.pal-v.com/

Or if you prefer a motorcycle, this might be interesting:
http://www.thebutterflyllc.com/sscycle/sscycle.htm


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Re: Handheld device keyboards (was: Nokia N810)

[Brian Chabot]

Ben Scott wrote:
   Aside: I got to try the BlackBerry Storm for a minute. 

The keyboard was one of the deciding factors in my choice to go with the 
Blackberry 8130 Curve from T-mobile.

It has a raised, backlit, chicklet style keyboard and unlike anything 
else I've seen on the market today, it has haptic feedback in the form 
of a click you can feel, as well as a tit on the 5 key, so you can 
find the number pad by touch.  The keys are almost square, but still 
slightly vertical with space between them.  You can feel them easily 
enough and the click helps let you know if you hit the wrong one.

There is Linux software to backup  restore, but my greatest finds were 
that it can sync over the air to your Gmail account's calendar.  Google 
also has a pretty decent set of their more widely used services you can 
download.

One of my favorite Linux compatibility parts is that it uses a standard 
USB connection and acts as just another USB thumb drive.  This makes 
transferring images, videos, and ring tones a breeze. (It uses MP3 
format for the ringtones... natively.

I love my crackberry.

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Re: Laptop HD repair/recovery question

[Brian Chabot]

Ed lawson wrote:

 Any suggestions of NH repair shops to check system/HD, repair and
 determine if recovery of bad drive feasible at reasonable price and/or
 best nearby recovery shop?

There have been some great recommendations so far.  Go for those if you can.

If you can't...

I often get customers who are so po they can't pay attention.  One had a 
hard drive failure and it was relatively minor by comparison to the 
stories others have told.  The partition in question usually wouldn't 
mount no matter how I tried (Win, Linux, various recovery CD's, 
different machines, etc.).  Sometimes though it would mount.  Once.  I 
could get one file or so and then ...nothing.  The customer was clear 
that I was his last resort, as he couldn't afford any of the outside 
services I recommended to him.  If I couldn't recover his data (6+ years 
of work, some 15 years of archived emails...), that was it and he'd have 
to start over.  He was quite devastated at the prospect...

As a last resort I tried the old wives' tale of freezing the drive.  I 
stuck it in the freezer in my shop for an hour.  Then I took it out, 
immediately wrapped it in a towel so it would stay cool and not form 
condensation.  I rapidly plugged it into a physical drive copy machine 
and started a raw partition copy to a known-good, blank HDD of slightly 
more size.

Miraculously it worked.  I burned the data to a DVD and off he went. (In 
the mean time, I sold him a new HDD and installed it for him.)

No, I normally wouldn't try something that questionable with most 
customers.  This was an old friend and I know the work he had saved.  I 
also made sure he knew that this might not work at all.  He was OK with 
that.  Like I said... his last resort.

Just something else to think about.


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Re: Looking for local mobo suppliers

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Michael ODonnell wrote:
 
 One of the GNHLUG members runs a computer store:
 
http://www.justworksnh.com/blog/
 
 I don't know if it meets your requirements but there's a
 thread about it in the April archives on the GNHLUG server.


Hi!

that would be me.

I don't stock many parts... just the ones that go into the computers I 
have for sale... which at this early point is pretty slim.  I've been 
having a hard time selling Linux PC's in this economy, and making about 
90% of my income fixing Windblows PCs for people. (I can't afford to 
stock things I can't sell...)

We're open by appointment on weekends... I'll be there this evening 
doing some work.  Not sure what time, but my sleep schedule is all 
messed up right now and I'm about to go to bed after a LONG day.

The other drawback:  We only take credit cards right now through PayPal.

But the upside:  We do have a few mobos in stock... all of one type... 
with RAM and chips available.  They're AMD Sempron based... but I don't 
have the specs or prices handy.

You can call the work number (in my sig) to see if I'm in the shop.  If 
so, stop on in.  If I'm there, we're open, no matter what the sign says.

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Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

[Brian Chabot]

Greg Rundlett wrote:
 I've been through the upgrade process and I'm still getting used to KDE 4.
 
 I'm frustrated by not being able to have a customized panel with
 direct launchers for all my favorite applications.  For that matter,
 although I generally keep a clean desktop, I don't like the fact that
 KDE4 won't let me put _any_ icons/shortcuts on my desktop except for
 the plasma widgets.

You can use the icon widget.  In my Mandriva 2009 install on my laptop, 
I can drag a folder (from the default file manager only) onto the 
desktop and choose create icon from the menu.

I hate it.

KDE4 destroyed the concept of the desktop as most people today know it. 
  Personally, I keep a pretty clear (computer) desktop and use the open 
space as scratch room: a place to put files and folders I am currently 
working on.  With KDE4, it is no longer drag and drop, and the idea of 
using a folder contents widget for this is both redundant and 
counterintuitive.

It might as well have reverted back to the Windows 3.1 interface for all 
the good it does. (AKA: it is actually not bad for a very limited subset 
of what most of us do, but lacks most of the functionality most of us 
expect today.)

 
 I can't do compiz or anything else advanced in the eye candy
 department (not even transparent konsole) because both my systems use
 nvidia or ati cards that are not supported yet (although they were
 supported under kde 3.x)
 

Good luck.

 If I get a chance, I'll add to this list of issues.

I'm hoping someone forks KDE3.x or actually gets their head out of their 
rump and makes KDE4 useful.

I usually keep most of my systems running the latest major release of 
the distro I use, but with KDE4, I'm dragging my heels big time.

I'd be happy to hear that things improve... soon.


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Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

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Ben Scott wrote:
 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
 Subject: Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail
 In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 MIME-Version: 1.0
 Content-Disposition: inline
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Uhh, Ben, is there a reason you're using a Japanese character set here?


...or was it to test us or the mail server?


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Re: portable music players

[Brian Chabot]

Jesse Lazar wrote:
 Hey,
  
 Is ipod the way to go for portable music player within Linux. My 
 understanding is that it can be done easily, however I am curious as to 
 what others use...

Speaking from a Mandriva perspective... (YMMV in other distros)

Syncing an iPod in Mandriva 2008.1 is not plug-and-play, but isn't too 
difficult.  RTFM and follow the directions and you'll be fine.

Moving files back and forth IS trivial and Plug-and-Play if you use 
Amarok as your Linux side music player.

For true simplicity, I like RCA's line of inexpensive mp3 players.  They 
connect as simple USB drives and require no drivers in any OS.  Sync is 
by your preferred method of file moving/copying/etc.  I got one from 
Walmart a few years ago with an SD card slot and more recently for a 
(now amicably ex-)girlfriend.  Both require no drivers.

Good luck and let us know what you end up doing.


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Re: Seamonkey Issue

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TARogue wrote:
 For those who don't know, Seamonkey is the reincarnation of the Mozilla 
 suite.
 
 I just upgraded to seamonkey-1.1.12-1.fc8 using yum. I then had to 
 reinstall the add-ons adblock_plus and noscript. Both of these need to 
 write in the seamonkey directory, so need to be installed as root. 
 (Which is a whole nother issue I won't get into now.)

Not sure if it'll work, but I ran into this in earlier versions of 
Seamonkey...


Find the install directory where adblock and the other plugins are 
located.  I think it's called chrome.  (It's been a while and I'm 
doing this from memory, so bear with me... YMMV)

Chmod/chown that recursively so that it can be rwx by the user running 
Seamonkey.  I can't recommend 777 obviously for security reasons, but 
that would work.  I used to use Seamonkey on a system where I was the 
only user so I just chown'd it to me.

Good luck!

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Re: Seamonkey Issue

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Bill McGonigle wrote:

 That seems to be the root cause of your troubles, no?  Firefox  
 installs your extensions into ~/.mozilla, so you don't get this  
 problem - is this an open issue on Seamonkey?

That reminds me - make sure ~/.mozilla is recursively yours!

I seem to recall that having once been an issue.

In short, look around.  I'm pretty sure it's all about permissions.

If security isn't an issue, you could chmod 777 your seamonkey's install 
directory

...but I am sure there are better ways.

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Re: Price/Performance of time

[Brian Chabot]

Ben Scott wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Ric Werme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 We used to make comparisons like If the automobile industry had improved
 at the same rate as computers  It's been a long time since that made
 any sense - a car would travel at Mach 10, seat 1,500, get 500 mpg, and fold
 up and fit in your shirt pocket.
 
   But Linux cars wouldn't be able to travel on Macintosh roads, and no
 two cars would put the steering wheel in the same place...

At least with the Linux car, you can put the steering wheel wherever you 
want it.  Or redesign it into a drive-by-wire joystick if you prefer.

At Mach 10, with 1,499 passengers and the safety system being optional, 
that can make a world of difference.


B

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Re: Intranet packages?

[Brian Chabot]

Dan Coutu wrote:
 I have a client running on Red Hat Linux 5 that has a home grown gnarly 
 intranet that needs to be replaced with something that's a lot more 
 useful and easier to navigate and maintain. I've been investigating 
 different open source and commercial packages that provide an 
 out-of-the-box type of intranet and thought I'd ask here about people's 
 experiences, recommendations, and ideas.

In the (longish) past (circa 2001) I've had good results using PHProjekt 
under a secure web connection:

http://www.phprojekt.com/

It's still under somewhat active development it seems.

 - logins should be able to hook into the system logins so that adding an 
 account to the system also adds to the intranet

If you have LDAP authentication working, this should be no problem. 
Otherwise, it seems to fit your stated requirements.

Brian

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Re: Looking for duplex help with my printer :-(

[Brian Chabot]

Steven W. Orr wrote:

 720  lpoptions -l
 Duplex/Double-Sided Printing: DuplexNoTumble DuplexTumble *None


 My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that I should be able to say
 
 lp -o Duplex filename
 
 and it should come out double sided.
 
 It does not and I have no idea what to do from here.


I'd try:

 lp -o DuplexNoTumble filename

Brian
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Re: Looking for duplex help with my printer :-(

[Brian Chabot]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
 On Saturday, Jul 19th 2008 at 21:10 -, quoth Brian Chabot:

 =I'd try:
 =
 = lp -o DuplexNoTumble filename
 =
 =Brian
 
 I tried that. No go. Also, I don't know what Tumble or NoTumble means.

Damn.

Tumble/NoTumble I presume means whether you flip the page up to read the
back or flip to the side.

Brian
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Re: Quick DNS perfromance measurement trick

[Brian Chabot]

Michael ODonnell wrote:

aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is POOR: 26 queries in 3.1 seconds from 1 ports with std 
 dev 0.00
 
 That aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd address seems to be the (possibly NAT'd) IP
 addr that the target site sees mentioned in the inbound packets;
 I have no idea about the rest of it...

It looks like a responding DNS server to me... whether the authoritative
or (more likely) a cached one.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Here are my results: 
 z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net.
 209.244.7.43 is POOR: 38 queries in 1.9 seconds from 2 ports with std dev 
 0.94

$ host 209.244.7.43
43.7.244.209.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer keynote2.Phoenix1.Level3.net.
$

My results:
$ dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT
z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net.
216.231.41.2 is GOOD: 26 queries in 0.6 seconds from 26 ports with std
dev 18409.11
$ host 216.231.41.2
2.41.231.216.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ns-legacy.speakeasy.net.
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by
resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 216.254.95.2
nameserver 216.231.41.2
search datasquire.net
$


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Re: Favorite distros

[Brian Chabot]

Bill Mullen wrote:
 On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:59:32 -0400,
 David Hardy wrote:
 
 Serious question:  favorite new Linux distro?  Which will do media
 and amaze and stun the otherwise Winders crowd at various sites of
 various sizes? Anything from desktop to enterprise level.
 
 Mandriva 2008.1 Spring PowerPack. 

I'll stand up and second this.  I use it extensively at Just Works.
(Shameless plug:  http://www.justworksnh.com - come visit and say hi!)

 The various Mandriva One 2008.1 live CDs

I have a few that I got for an install fest that never got off the
ground.  I can NOT recommend the Mandriva ONE 2008.1 for the general
public.  It has too many bugs and I have seen a different one crop up on
every system I've installed it on.  Most were minor, but big enough that
a clueless noob will be frustrated and give up.

My recommendation for the Powerpack stands though.  It is amazing,
robust, slick, and has some outstanding hardware compatibilities built
in.  I have licenses for sale for 2008.0 if anyone wants.  Mention
GNHLUG to me (2pm-close) and get a discount.

Brian
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