Fwd: Senior Software Engineer to work on DataLad Team

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Thought this might be of interest.

-- Forwarded message -
From: Yaroslav Halchenko 
Date: Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 4:36 AM
Subject: Senior Software Engineer to work on DataLad Team
To: 


Job ad outlining details and having a link to apply:
https://searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/57748

In a nutshell: DataLad (https://www.datalad.org/) was initially inspired
by Debian as a unified distribution for software, and git-annex
(developed by Joey Hess, a former DD, the original author of
debian-installer, debhelper etc) to provide unified data access to
disconnected data hosting portals.

Since its inception in 2013, DataLad became not only a distribution but
also a complete Data Management platform.  Through all these years, we
have been actively collaborating with Joey Hess so lots of work was done
directly at git-annex level, so we do not re-invent the wheel in DataLad
and so that there is benefit to the wider git-annex based
ecosystem of solutions.

Both "principle investigators" of the DataLad (me and Michael Hanke) are
Debian developers, and we strive to ensure that DataLad and its
dependencies are properly integrated within Debian.

So, if you like Git, interested in git-annex, and verse in Python --
this position might be a great fit for you. Please consider and apply at
https://searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/57748

Cheers,
-- 
Yaroslav O. Halchenko
Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org
Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755
WWW:   http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
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FOSS Experts and Consultants directory

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Hi all,

I've been working on a prototype at
https://wiki.freephile.org/wiki/Local_experts where I've begun to list
local companies/consultants that *primarily* are engaged in sales, service,
and development of Free Software / Open Source Software based products and
services.  The primary feature of the directory is a map-based display.

If you represent one of these organizations, *I invite you to add your
company to the directory*. It's free.  (You do need a Google Account to
edit.)  The site, a personal project of mine, is not ad-based. I do not
sell, share or transfer information to other parties. I'm simply
demonstrating the utility and power of my 'QualityBox' platform which is
based on MediaWiki.

Individual listings are quite simple. Here's mine
<https://wiki.freephile.org/w/index.php?title=EQuality_Technology=formedit>
which
looks like this <https://wiki.freephile.org/wiki/EQuality_Technology>.

I expect the directory to become even more useful and engaging as I work
through implementation details like adding logos and details (services
offered, competencies etc.).  I expect to implement schema.org vocabularies
to make the system both robust and standardized. Collaborators are welcome
to join me in this effort.

Yours sincerely,

Greg Rundlett
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Re: The sudden upheaval at the FSF...

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I had previously discontinued my membership in the FSF for different
reasons. I have come to the conclusion that the leadership at FSF was
ineffectual as much as they were hostile or unwelcoming. I'm glad that RMS
is out. The FOSS community has long needed a better spokesperson and maybe
with luck we'll find who that person is.

Greg Rundlett
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 12:53 PM Joshua Judson Rosen 
wrote:

> Presumably you've all seen the news *somewhere* by now: there has been a
> major upheaval in the free-software community
> over the last day or so, with RMS resigning from the FSF amidst a
> remarkable, uh... "flurry" of controversy.
>
> Regardless of whether one cares one way or the other about RMS per se (as
> an actual person or an icon),
> or whether one thinks the organization or movement needs him in (or out
> of) that position...,
> the way that the events seem to have unfolded (or maybe "mushroomed" is a
> better term...)
> have left many people dazed and confused, and even afraid.
>
> I've taken today off from work to try to make sense out of a number of
> aspects of the whole episode...;
> if anyone else feels like getting together for dinner or something to work
> it out together, in person,
> I'm here in southern NH all day/evening. I'd really kind of like that,
> actually--it's been a while
>
> Some links in case you have managed to miss it so far...:
>
> https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794
> https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns
>
> https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/sep/16/rms-does-not-speak-for-us/
>
>
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Re: Edit over SSH.

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I use Microsoft's atom [1] as an editor, but none of the ssh plugins seem
to work or else aren't maintained. So, I just use sshfs in the background
so atom can see remote files at the local mount point.

Atom tries to be great, and I do like it. But it sometimes seems to leak
memory or otherwise hang my system.

[1] https://atom.io/


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On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 7:38 AM Bobby Casey  wrote:

> I can't imagine any company handling release documentation like that.
> Nope, no way!
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 1:16 AM Joshua Judson Rosen 
> wrote:
>
>> You haven't lived until you've invoked emacs noninteractively from a
>> Makefile to, say... render your documentation
>> into end user consumables.
>>
>> On 2/27/19 4:02 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
>> > I know the feeling.  I've gotten so used to emacs for coding (python,
>> shell) and vi for remote/quick work that I haven't been able to get into an
>> IDE.
>> >
>> > Mostly I'm writing code on my desktop that will run in a VM or
>> container or the code will build it one of those.  I can't/shouldn't put a
>> whole development envivironment let alone emacs on it and the VM/container
>> is ephemeral.  I'm not sure an IDE would help me much beyond what emacs
>> already has.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 8:17 AM Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com > m...@nozell.com>) mailto:noz...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Like this? Been in base emacs for years.
>> >
>> >
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Remote-Files.html
>> >
>> > -marc
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 7:00 PM Dan Garthwaite > <mailto:d...@garthwaite.org>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Bill is correct.  Just stick to:
>> > vim scp://target.host.com/.bashrc <
>> http://target.host.com/.bashrc>
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 4:32 PM Bill Freeman > <mailto:ke1g...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Resistance (like capacitance) is futile. Stay with the one
>> true editor. Whatever nifty feature you saw, there is probably an extension
>> to do it in emacs. (Or you can write one.)
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:52 PM Ken D'Ambrosio > <mailto:k...@jots.org>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi, all.  In Emacs, it's trivially easy to open a file
>> on a remote host:
>> >
>> > emacs /user@host:/path/to/file
>> >
>> > And while I *do* enjoy Emacs, I admit that some of the
>> other IDE/editors
>> > I've seen look kind of nifty.  But opening files via
>> SSH is really,
>> > really handy -- to the point where I consider it a
>> dealbreaker to not
>> > have it.  I found Visual Code can do SSH, but you have
>> to (at least, by
>> > my reading) set up per-host profiles, etc.  Bleh.  I
>> know that vim can
>> > do it, but I'm just not a vim guy.  I'm just not
>> interested in doing
>> > some out-of-the-box thing like sshmount (or whatever it
>> is).  So, at the
>> > end of the day, anyone have an editor they enjoy where
>> it's as easy to
>> > open a file over SSH as it is in Emacs?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any thoughts you might have...
>> >
>> > -Ken
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>> http://www.nozell.com/bl

Re: Kevin D. Clark, R.I.P.

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Indeed he will be missed. I'm so sorry to hear the news.  Kevin was a great
guy!  Carpe Diem.

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On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Ted Roche  wrote:

> I'm sorry to report of the passing of Kevin D. Clark at the too-young age
> of 48:
>
> http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fosters/obituary.aspx?pid=190018995
>
> Kevin was an active member of GNHLUG, several of the satellite LUGs and a
> regular contributor to the mailing list.
>
> He will be missed.
>
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> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
> http://www.tedroche.com
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Re: Need advice on domain management and transfer

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I would recommend that you use a different registrar (better service, nicer
interface, less cost).

If you transfer a domain to another registrar, you will have to pay for
another year, but that gets added to the current expiration.  You generally
don't want to do a transfer if the domain is about to expire in the next 60
days.

I use NameCheap (https://www.namecheap.com/domains/transfer.aspx) and they
are both good and inexpensive.

It is entirely OK to list yourself for all contacts.

The process for changing "Registrant Organization" can be a real pain.

See https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=j3.org for info on your domain
registration.

~ Greg

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On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Tyson Sawyer <ty...@j3.org> wrote:

> I hold a couple of domains.  One is my own that I registered in '96
> and the other belongs to a friend.  The "other" I registered for him
> in '01 to help his small race engineering business.  I have few
> issues.  Well, a few to discuss here, I won't bring up working with
> Bobby Casey at this time... ;-)
>
> - We'd like to transfer the 2nd domain to be owned by my friend
> - They are both registered with register.com.  Is that not the cool
> thing these days?
> - They ended up under two different accounts that I hold at
> register.com with some messed up naming.
>
> The domains are j3.org (mine, Bill Sconce would have understood the
> reference) and smallfortuneracing.com (my friend's).
>
> I'm asking for advice in part because I don't want to make any
> mistakes and lose control of the domains.
>
> - Who should my friend register with, if not register.com?
> - What are the steps to do the transfer?
>
> - Should I move my domain to a different registrar and if so, to whom?
> - If not, is there a way to change or delete the "Registrant
> Organization" and username of the account?
>
> I guess I should also ask about appropriate Tech contacts.  The person
> I have listed at one time hosted the web site on both, is still in my
> contacts list and could call, but someone I haven't contacted in
> years.  Is it reasonable list myself for Registrant, Admin and Tech?
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
> Ty
>
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>
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Re: Need to copy a 200GB directory

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Hi Anthony! Welcome!

You can just reply to the list in general, but it doesn't hurt to reply-all

You should always start a new topic with a new thread ;-). And never top
post (unless you're me and using a phone)

~ Greg

On Jun 27, 2017 8:00 PM, "R. Anthony Lomartire" 
wrote:

> Also sorry idk if there is an intro thread or anything, but I've been a
> lurker for a while this has been my first actual post I think. I don't know
> if I should reply all or just send my reply to the GNHLUG email address?
>
> Anyways just quickly, I'm Tony and I'm in ad tech. We use machine learning
> to help advertisers optimize their ROI. At first I thought it would be
> lame, but at least it was a job, but gradually I have become more and more
> interested in ad tech and it is actually kinda cool. Ok so hiii!
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 7:55 PM R. Anthony Lomartire <
> opensourcek...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No offense or anything but I find it amusing that one of the most active
>> threads on this mailer has been about copying a bit of data :D
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:29 PM Matt Minuti 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My muscle memory always puts the flags "-avz" (sometimes I even remember
>>> to add a P in there), so there must have been one point in time where you
>>> had to specify compression. Might still be the case.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 12:02 PM mark  wrote:
>>>
 My mistake. I wrote encryption when I meant compression, as I belive
 rsync always compresses--but I could be mistaken about that, too!

 Mark
 On Jun 27, 2017 11:55 AM, "Tom Buskey"  wrote:

> rsync doesn't encrypt if there's no remote, as in this case.
>
> To be pedantic, rsync to remotes uses ssh by default but it can use
> rsh which has no encryption.  Some older versions of SSH allowed you to
> specify the encryption.  I recall using XOR encryption for faster 
> operation
> where security was not needed.
>
> Encryption typically does some compression.  If you compress 2x,
> you're doubling the bits through the pipe in the same time.  If the
> encryption/compression computation at either end is faster than than the
> uncompressed bandwidth, you'll have faster throughput.  That's very 
> typical
> on newer multicore, high GHz CPUs.
>
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 4:11 PM, mark  wrote:
>
>> Locally, cp is faster because you cannot make rsync not encrypt, but
>> the restart-from-where-it-stopped feature of rsync makes it worth the 
>> wait.
>>
>> Mark
>> On Jun 26, 2017 3:18 PM, "Charles Farinella" > appropriatesolutions.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We need to copy a large (200+GB) directory from one filesystem to
>>> another, both locally mounted.
>>>
>>> I'm unsure as to what I should use to do this, cp, rsync, dd?
>>>
>>> Any suggestions appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> --charlie
>>>
>>> Charlie Farinella
>>> Systems Administrator
>>> Appropriate Solutions, Inc.
>>> 1-603-924-6079 <(603)%20924-6079>
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Re: Need to copy a 200GB directory

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

rsync -van --stats --exclude images/ --exclude other_big_dir/ /var/source/
/var/destination/

-v verbose
-a archive mode (preserves perms., recursive, etc.)
-n dry-run
Make sure to use trailing slashes if transferring directories
Use excludes to get it working before you move the biggest directories; or
just do a small non-recursive rsync first.

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On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 3:29 PM, David Rose <prov...@gmail.com> wrote:

> rsync -a source destination is all it should take.
>
> On Jun 26, 2017 3:25 PM, "Dan Garthwaite" <d...@garthwaite.org> wrote:
>
>> Ditto Ken on two points:  200GB isn't that large (I've worked in an
>> animation studio) and rsync is restartable.  I'd go with rsync.
>>
>> It has a dizzying array of options and even more finer points.  You don't
>> need the rsync daemon.  Try to use full paths.  Include trailing slashes if
>> copying directories.  Experiment and then write a bash script.
>>
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Any miners?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

My son is investigating crypto-currency mining and seems to think it's
incredibly lucrative.

I've not delved into it at all.

Comments? Anyone actually making money mining?

>From what I've previously gathered, I thought the amount of computational
power, expense and electricity just about squeezed out anybody but those
with super-specialized hardware.

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Re: What's the strategy for bad guys guessing a few ssh passwords?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Ted Roche  wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Tom Buskey  wrote:
> > As Ted said in the 2nd sentence, it's running on a non-standard port.
> Yes,
> > it helps lot to reduce garbage in the logs.
> >
> > Maybe it's not non-standard enough?
> >
>
> Whadyamean? I'm using the same non-standard port everyone else does!
>
> Oh...
>
>
> : ?

~ Greg who is still on port 22 and uses fail2ban
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Re: what a luck

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Susan Cragin are you there?

Her last post was in Sept.

These SPAM emails don't necessarily originate from her account [1], but
there have been a few of these now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job


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Re: Link checker / Inventory

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Ray Cote <rgac...@appropriatesolutions.com>
wrote:

>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
> g...@freephile.com> wrote:
>
>> Some quick Googling reveals:
>> https://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/
>>
>
> That’s the one we use. Been pretty happy with it.
> —Ray
>

Thanks Ray, I'm using it too now.  It seems pretty good.  I'm also checking
into Google Webmaster Tools - as a supplement and maybe a better way to
present info to 'clients'.
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Re: Link checker / Inventory

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

And I just found the 'database' tool that I've used before: ht://Check
http://htcheck.sourceforge.net/info.html

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On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
g...@freephile.com> wrote:

> It's been a long time since I've run a link check on a website, so I
> forget the tools I've used in the past. I know I've used the W3C link
> checker https://validator.w3.org/checklink (which you can install
> locally)  But there was another tool which I can't recall that stores
> results into a database which you can then use to view various reports on
> your content such as 404 links sorted by most references.
>
> Some quick Googling reveals:
> https://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/
>
> Anyone have a good link checker to recommend?
>
>
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Link checker / Inventory

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

It's been a long time since I've run a link check on a website, so I forget
the tools I've used in the past. I know I've used the W3C link checker
https://validator.w3.org/checklink (which you can install locally)  But
there was another tool which I can't recall that stores results into a
database which you can then use to view various reports on your content
such as 404 links sorted by most references.

Some quick Googling reveals:
https://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/

Anyone have a good link checker to recommend?


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Re: Phone SPAM/SCAM

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> One Center Plaza
> Suite 600
> Boston, MA  02108
>

Great, thanks to Ben I've Google'd the FBI and now I'm probably on a watch
list.  (just kidding)  I thought the address was for the Secretary of
State's Office, but FBI is even better!

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Re: [Discuss] Govt Source Code Policy

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 6:15 PM, John Hall  wrote:

> https://www.usa.gov/government-works
> It would be great to hear from an IP lawyer on this.
>

I am not a lawyer, but I've been educating myself about patent, trademark
and copyright legislation and practice for a long time; specifically as it
relates to the GPL.  I wish there were good IP attorneys contributing to
this forum because it's not my day job.  But, I've got a list of lawyers
related to GPL work at
https://freephile.org/wiki/Free_Software_Supporters#Lawyers  Additions
welcome.

All licenses are attached through copyright laws and federal government
> works cannot have a copyright so can not be released under a license. There
> are literally no restrictions except those noted at the above link.
>

In general, the public domain part is combined with the GPL part. e.g.
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petitions
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MIT Media Lab Changes Software Default to FLOSS

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

"Previously, software releases using free and open source licenses were
approved by an internal committee. But since we’ve always allowed our
developers to open-source their work, we’re eliminating the unnecessary
hurdle: from now on any open source request will be viewed as the default
and automatically approved."

https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/mit-media-lab-changes-software-default-to-floss-4305e478e40#.j69sibke0

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Re: Govt Source Code Policy

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 12:18 PM, David Rysdam <da...@rysdam.org> wrote:

> "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <g...@freephile.com> writes:
> > If the government actually goes through with 'open sourcing' their work,
> > it's actually a giant corporate handout because companies will have
> greater
> > access to publicly funded works that they can then incorporate into
> > proprietary works.
>
> By that argument, roads are a "giant corporate handout" because shipping
> and schools are a "giant corporate handout" because they teach useful
> skills.
>

Software is completely different than roads or schools.  But you already
know that.  So I don't know why you're making this argument.

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Re: Govt Source Code Policy

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Code written by Govt. employees is 'Public Domain', meaning specifically
exempted from copyright.

However, most? government software is written by contractors, and not
published or shared.  I don't know for sure, but I imagine that a large
amount of that work is under a proprietary license.  I think it's a giant
step in the right direction to get the Govt. to publish, and reuse (our)
software because we are paying for it once already.  However, I think that
the primary beneficiaries will be the software ISVs and VARs that will
essentially have another 'github' of govt. software to grab and bring
in-house.  The same problem is reflected at GitHub where the majority of
new projects are selecting non-free licenses now whereas a few years ago
GPL was the most popular license in the world.

See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html
See license list at https://github.com/new
See global license popularity at
https://www.blackducksoftware.com/resources/data/top-20-open-source-licenses
(their data may be skewed or unreliable)
Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government


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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Mark Komarinski <mkomarin...@wayga.org>
wrote:

> I was under the impression that code written by the government was public
> domain.  You and I (and private companies) paid the taxes that generated
> that code, so releasing it in anything less than a public domain is doing a
> disservice.
>
> Back when I worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs there were
> companies that took the VA code, modified it for non-VA hospitals, and
> offered to provide the software and support for a fee.  I didn't find a
> problem with it then, nor do I now.  That's what public domain means.
>
> -Mark
>
> ---- Original message 
> From: "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <g...@freephile.com>
> Date: 3/25/16 3:33 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: blu <disc...@blu.org>, GNHLUG <gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org>
> Subject: Govt Source Code Policy
>
> The US Fed. Govt. is proposing a pilot program to release at least 20% of
> newly developed custom code as 'OSS'.  https://sourcecode.cio.gov/
>  They're accepting comments now.  And since it's hosted on GitHub, you
> "comment" via the issue queue, and you can also fork the project and issue
> a pull request.
>
> I forked it and created a pull request.
> https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/pulls proposing to use
> the term 'Free Software' in place of 'Open Source'
>
> If the government actually goes through with 'open sourcing' their work,
> it's actually a giant corporate handout because companies will have greater
> access to publicly funded works that they can then incorporate into
> proprietary works.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Greg Rundlett
> https://eQuality-Tech.com
> https://freephile.org
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Govt Source Code Policy

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

The US Fed. Govt. is proposing a pilot program to release at least 20% of
newly developed custom code as 'OSS'.  https://sourcecode.cio.gov/  They're
accepting comments now.  And since it's hosted on GitHub, you "comment" via
the issue queue, and you can also fork the project and issue a pull request.

I forked it and created a pull request.
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/pulls proposing to use the
term 'Free Software' in place of 'Open Source'

If the government actually goes through with 'open sourcing' their work,
it's actually a giant corporate handout because companies will have greater
access to publicly funded works that they can then incorporate into
proprietary works.

What do you think?


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Re: Not even a tiny python script could have helped...

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

RIP brother Bill

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On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 6:45 PM, mad...@li.org <jonhal...@comcast.net> wrote:

> GNHLUG family,
>
> I just heard from Marnie MacLean that Bill Sconce has died.
>
> Marnie says that Janet has had time to come to come to terms with Bill's
> death.  Again, if I hear any other news I will pass it along.
>
> Warmest regards,
>
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Re: Bill Sconce

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On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:26 PM, mad...@li.org <jonhal...@comcast.net>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Bill Sconce, one of GMHLUG's longest and most righteous members had a
> stroke on Christmas evening.  He was operated on at Lehey Hospital in
> Burlington, MA and is still under sedation.  It may be weeks before he can
> go home.
>

I am really sad to hear this unfortunate news.  I hope Bill is getting the
best care possible and that all are well!

Peace, Hope, Love!

Card sent.

~ Greg

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Morse Code translator

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote:

.--  ---   -.- -. --- .-- ...   .--  .- -   . ...- .. .-..   .-..
..- .-. -.- ...   .. .-    .-. ..--..

^ not at all fluent in the Morse tongue, I had to look this up.

http://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html

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Re: Looking for an intern to play with a Linux-powered robot fleet

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) 
g...@freephile.com wrote:

 Is this an unpaid internship?


 If so, I'm wondering how different this is compared to:

I'm looking for a musician with some real experience, preferably with
record deals and verifiable quality to play at my bbq.
Ideally will also assist with grilling and cleanup.
Experience mixing drinks a plus.
Entertaining personality is a must.
Please provide own transportation, setup and sound equipment.
This is just a one-day event, and all my friends will be there so please be
punctual.
Thanks, we'll give you good references and since I have a lot of friends,
you might get some work out of it.  And who knows, I could always throw
some more parties in the future so there's a lot in it for you.

ps. this is not a personal attack, I'm seriously wondering if this is what
current CS grads have to look forward to.  My High School son is working
right now for $9/hr and I have to give him good advice on what career path
to follow.


 On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:15 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen 
 roz...@hackerposse.com wrote:

 Guys,

 I'm currently looking for an intern to come play with my company's
 Linux-powered
 autonomous robot fleet this summer: Harvest Automation 
 http://www.harvestai.com
 is looking to give one bright individual some industrial experience that
 includes:

 * Working with actual robots, simulations, testers, operations
 people,
   and developers to help solve issues in the application, network,
   and operating environments.

 * Creating test plans, test cases, and conditions for testing of
   the robot software (both on actual hardware, running around in
   the real world, and in simulation) from information in
 specifications,
   feature descriptions, or bug-reports.

 * Creation of test cases that address software scenarios, system
   testing, regression testing, negative testing, error or defect
   retest, performance monitoring and usability

 * Reproducing and resolving software issues with the database,
   UI, or communication protocol

 * Implementing a software solution from a requirement
   description within the code base using the database, UI, or
   communication protocol

 * Updating test results and requirement descriptions in
   our issue-tracker

 * Assisting in system set-up and software installation

 * Assisting in the installation/configuration of re-creations
   of the software production environments

 We're in Billerica, MA (~14 miles south of Nashua).

 We're really hoping to find someone who's already got a reasonably
 good grasp on what software-development entails; my boss has been
 recruit from the college CS programs around Boston, and is expecting
 to find someone working on a Master's CS Degree; I suspect that
 we'd do well to open up the search a bit--that there's probably
 someone on the list either who knows someone in college or high school
 (or *whatever*) who's already savvy enough to have read some of
 the more interesting compsci literature on their own, spent some time
 hacking on open-source projects, and even has some code/patchsets
 associated with a github/launchpad/ohloh/openhub/sourceforge/whatever
 account that they could show along with trails through mailing lists
 and public bug-trackers..., or who _is_ such a person themselves.

 I'd like to hear from those people.

 Experience with C++ and Python are pluses (and if you're savvy enough
 to grok things metaclasses, that's probably a big plus). If you know
 C# or Java, that's OK too. You'll need to have some background
 somewhere in there.

 Knowing SQL is a plus.

 If you've ever programmed with a video game engine, that's a plus.

 Understanding of network architectures and how Wi-Fi actually works
 is a plus.

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Re: Google thinks GNHLUG is spam now

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
 g...@freephile.com wrote:
  Anyway, I'm using GMail here and received your Google thinks GNHLUG is
 spam
  now msg in my regular inbox.

   Interesting.  I presume you mean the original message?

   Do you have any filters configured to exempt any gnhlug lists from
 spam filtering?


I mean I did receive your first message (not marked as spam), and the only
filter I have for GNHLUG is to apply a label.
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Re: DKIM (was: Google thinks GNHLUG is spam now)

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Thanks Joshua, now I know a lot more about DKIM!

(Let's not do what Yahoo! did.)

And by the sounds of it, we really don't have to do anything.
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Re: Wiki Report: What's that wiki running?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
 g...@freephile.com wrote:
  I'm very interested in your feedback and beta testers.  What's your
  favorite wiki running?  https://freephile.org/wikireport

   I keep seeing the word Array appearing, in red text, between the
 CAPTCHA and the big blue submit button.  To me, this suggests internal
 data leaking into the UI.  Firefox on Linux, with all manner of weird
 stuff done to the browser.


Thanks for the feedback.

I'll have to check on that  ReCaptcha... I tested it early and then
whitelisted myself :-)  I tried on a mobile and there was no test.


   It doesn't recognize TWiki, which doesn't surprise me.  :)

   It doesn't recognize the WikiWikiWeb (*the* Wiki), which is kind of sad.

   It does work with the English Wikipedia for me.


(tongue in cheek) Yeah,  it's a racist tool that only sees the world in
shades of WikiPedia white.  I have no plans to immediately expand it to
support other wikis, but that would be good... especially recognizing
Ward's wikiwikiweb.


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Wiki Report: What's that wiki running?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I created a tool that reports on wikis, by leveraging the API in
MediaWiki.  The tool also uses the API in CiviCRM which I use as a backend
data collection system.  The tool is written in object-oriented PHP with a
Bootstrap UI.  Since CiviCRM runs on top of a CMS (I'm running Drupal), I
also created a Drupal module to create custom data tokens for use in the
CiviMail component.

I'm very interested in your feedback and beta testers.  What's your
favorite wiki running?  https://freephile.org/wikireport

The project is AGPL licensed.

And, if you or someone you know could use this type of technology, please
get in touch.

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Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I used to enjoy Linode, and really have no complaints about them except
that their 'stack scripts' are old and out of date, so everything is
roll-your-own.

More recently I've used Digital Ocean and _really_ like it.  The fact that
DO has all SSD drives is awesome.  Reboots in under 60 seconds.  They do
not try to wrap everything in some new-fangled proprietary experience,
they just provide a lot of help to do things the right way.   And their
(FAQ/how-to) content is accurate, intelligent, and current.

One thing not to do is use the free (for non-profits) service at
DreamHost.  It's really not worth the price -- painfully old software
powered by hamsters.  Also, I used to host at WebFaction because somehow I
was led to believe that was a good option.  It's not.

I agree with others that the best short-term option might be pay for a
cage, and then migrate. It really depends on what they're asking and how
much goes into the migration (and who's gonna do it). I've personally been
really swamped (so sorry not it).  In setting up my new services, I had
aimed to publish a whole guide on ansible and service automation but that
has taken a back-burner.  If this effort produces any good talks, or
how-tos that would be great!

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Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) 
g...@freephile.com wrote:

 More recently I've used Digital Ocean and _really_ like it.


 [snip]

I had aimed to publish a whole guide on ansible and service automation but
 that has taken a back-burner.


I forgot about this wiki page I started about Digital Ocean
https://freephile.org/wiki/Digital_Ocean
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Re: PC Build

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thanks for all the feedback and comments!  Much appreciated.  Going to
check out those refurb systems and barebones kits.

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PC Build

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My 13-yr-old wants to build a PC and came up with a parts list.
https://freephile.org/wiki/PC_Build

He's big into playing and hosting Minecraft, plus creating Minecraft
graphics customizations with blender and gimp.  He currently uses a
chromebook, plus crouton for a chrooted Ubuntu.  (The minecraft _server_ is
on another host in a VM -- not on the chromebook.)  Although the chromebook
is good for portability, it's not very powerful when it comes to 3d
rendering in blender.  And actually, he broke it (he is a 13 yo boy).  So
he wants to upgrade to a entry-level gamer system using his own money.

I put his list at https://freephile.org/wiki/PC_Build and also referenced a
system build that the blogger Canton Matt (Peteris Krumins) put
together.  There are also a short list of the resources I've found for
compatibility checking.

I hardly know anything about hardware and mostly buy from newegg or
tigerdirect.  It's been years since I built my first linux box from
scratch.  Any comments, advice from regular or recent builders?

Thanks

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Html2Wiki

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I'm happy to announce that I've completed what I think is a really nice
free software project: Html2Wiki  With a few keystrokes and a click, you
can import zip/tgz archives of HTML and images into your MediaWiki wiki.
That means a single blog post or entire websites.  If importing a Google
Doc, it will strip out the tracker URL embedded in all the links.

Read about it at
http://equality-tech.com/content/html2wiki-here
and at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Html2Wiki

I'm already looking forward to the first bug report and the next release.
:-)

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Re: [Discuss] Libre Planet this weekend

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On Mar 20, 2015 5:30 PM, Jerry Natowitz j.natow...@rcn.com wrote:


 Just a double check.  Is that really 9:45 am EST or is it 9:45 am EDT?


My mistake, we are indeed in EDT (Eastern Daylight Time).
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Re: Libre Planet this weekend

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) 
g...@freephile.com wrote:

  the free live streaming setup at http://libreplanet.org/2015/live/
 Keynote with Richard Stallman starts tomorrow at 9:45 am EST


Here is the 'who' and 'when' for those following at home
http://libreplanet.org/2015/program/speakers.html
https://libreplanet.org/2015/program/grid-schedule.html
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Libre Planet this weekend

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

It's Libre Planet time... if you care deeply about technology freedom, but
you can't make it to MIT, then watch the free live streaming setup at
http://libreplanet.org/2015/live/ Keynote with Richard Stallman starts
tomorrow at 9:45 am EST

Also, I'm driving in solo from Salisbury, MA.  If you're north or south of
me and would rather ride-share then let me know.

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Brian,

Please read the instructions below to unsubscribe. (Works like every
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Re: FSF LibrePlanet conference coming up--will I see you there?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I'll be there.

Greg Rundlett
'freephile'

Member number: 10743

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On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@hackerposse.com
 wrote:

 FYI: the Free Software Foundation's annual LibrePlanet conference is
 coming up next month; I've gone the last couple of years, and am
 planning on attending this year. I know I missed meeting one or two of
 you there last year; wondering who'll be there this year.

 More info: https://libreplanet.org/2015/

 (PS FYI: if you have a paid-up Associate level FSF membership, then your
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Re: My first contribution to MediaWiki

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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:

 Nice!  I'm surprised there isn't an HTML import already.


Yeah, me too.  But it ain't easy.  Thanks to Tom Metro, I've rediscovered
Pandoc which will probably be a lot more useful as a conversion engine than
my original plan which was to use the node.js Parsoid service.  Anyway,
it's a work in progress.  At this point it's working, but I know that the
code can be improved a ton.



 One of the beefs I have with wikis I've used is importing (and exporting)
 existing documents that already have markup.

 I used to download all the Solaris documents in HTML to CD for use w/o
 internet connection.  It might've been useful to build a local wiki server
 to import them into.


Exactly, there are lots of cases where you have existing HTML, and would
want to import it into a wiki.

And not just for 'pure knowledgebase wikis'. Think about a satire site that
captures existing webpages and then lets users go to town correcting or
annotating the contents of the original :-)
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My first contribution to MediaWiki

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

The project page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Html2Wiki

Code is hosted on Wikimedia Foundation servers, but also co-located on
github (https://github.com/freephile/Html2Wiki)

It's an extension to MediaWiki that lets you import a website or web page
into your wiki.

There is still a lot to do, which is why I'm working on it all weekend.  I
hope it gains some traction because I think it could have a tremendous
amount of users.  In any event, I'm proudly announcing my first extension
to MediaWiki.

p.s. Collaborators welcome!


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Is your (free software?) cell phone spying on you? (was embedded systems)

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Ric Werme r...@wermenh.com wrote:

 Someone told me that one of the quadcopter drones uses a Raspberry Pi with
 the control software in Python.


I'd be interested to know more details about how these systems are built...
But I guess DARPA and BAE are not at liberty to say.

Argus surveillance drone
1,000,000 TB of video / day
HD video camera with imaging borrowed from 368 cell phone cameras
1.8 billion pixel video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGxNyaXfJsA
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/rise-of-the-drones.html (about 30
minutes in).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARGUS-IS

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Re: Stupid vanity question.

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

If you're near me (in Salisbury, Mass) or Cambridge, you can get an FSF
sticker.
On Dec 12, 2014 1:39 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:

 So.  I recently underwent a technology refresh at work, and opted --
 gad-zooks -- for a Mac, because it had substantially better specs (e.g.,
 16 GB RAM vs. 8 GB).  Needless to say, I immediately installed Linux on
 it.  I'm heading to Philly next week for a meeting, though, and would
 truly like to let it be unambiguously known that I'm running the
 premiere FOSS OS, and not OS X.  Which brings me to stickers.  Does
 anyone know of a store or somesuch where I could grab, say, a Tux
 sticker?  Failing that, I'd be willing to settle for Debian, or one of
 its variants (Ubuntu, Mint).

 (Yeah, I've got some on order, but they ain't here yet.)

 Thanks for understanding my rather pitiful form of rebellion; back when
 I wore ties, I'd just wear my Tux tie and companion shirt (all hail
 Think Geek, c. 2000), and be done with it, but we're a fair bit less
 formal.

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MediaWiki contributors wanted

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I've long been a fan of MediaWiki for what the project has accomplished.
It's obviously a leading global website, but it's so much more than that.
It's become the shining example of the participatory free culture movement
as well as an outstanding free software project.

As loads of organizations everywhere use MediaWiki software for their own
knowledge sharing and wiki systems, I'm getting lots of interest from those
organizations that want paid support, extension development, integrations
and other consulting opportunities.  As such, I really need to add depth to
my pool of MediaWiki talent.  If you know MediaWiki inside and out
(extensions, API, MW foundation, developer community, tools, etc) or have a
yearning to, I'd like to make your acquaintance and hash out our plans for
world domination in the wiki way.


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Copyright in FOSS Consulting

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Are you a contractor who develops or supports GPL software for clients?
I've been working on clarifying the best practices and boilerplate
contract language that addresses Copyright in a GPL world.
https://freephile.org/wiki/index.php/Copyright Feedback/Contributions
please.

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Re: [Discuss] Copyright in FOSS Consulting

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

[meant to reply-all]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Marcia K Wilbur ai...@faqlinux.com
wrote:

 Hi Greg,

 You may or may not know this but I am always eager to jump into any
 licensing/copyright discussion or review. However, I cannot seem to access
 this document at this time. Is there another avenue?


Hi Marcia,

Maybe it's the SSL certificate that is causing you access problems.  Does
it work with just regular HTTP:
http://freephile.org/wiki/index.php/Copyright

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Re: keepassx

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I use crouton to create an Ubuntu machine on my Chromebook.  I then mostly
just use Ubuntu, including keepassx.  Two caveats:  you have to put the
machine into developer mode which makes it insecure (as a shared
platform).  I don't care because I'm the only one who uses it.  2) when
booting, the space bar will Erase! Your installation and reset it.  This is
Google's method to allow you to revert from developer mode and there's no
way to change it or circumvent it.  (You either wait 20 seconds or press
Ctrl d).  My son used my Chromebook one day and touched the spacebar while
booting.  Presto! Brand new Chromebook! 
On Jul 31, 2014 2:29 AM, Karl Hergenrother 33kar...@gmail.com wrote:

 I just bought a Chromebook.  Its a good computer for my needs, a tablet
 with a keyboard.  However, I have one major disappointment.  I have used
 Keepass and KeepassX for years to manage my passwords. Chrome has an app
 called Keepass Chrome,but I have been unsuccessful in getting this Chrome
 app to read the old .kdb file.  You would think with a name like that it
 would be able to input the old database file.  I would appreciate any
 suggestions.  Google searches have turned up nothing,

 Thank you for listening to my problem.

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Re: keepassx

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 2:27 AM, Karl Hergenrother 33kar...@gmail.com
wrote:

 I have used Keepass and KeepassX for years to manage my passwords. Chrome
 has an app called Keepass Chrome,but I have been unsuccessful in getting
 this Chrome app to read the old .kdb file.  You would think with a name
 like that it would be able to input the old database file.  I would
 appreciate any suggestions.



 p.s. I wrote a PHP script that can import XML into KeepassX (from
MyPasswordSafe):
https://github.com/freephile/MyPasswordSafe2KeepassX

A person could adapt this script to work with any source XML

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Software Collections for installing multiple (newer) environments on RHEL

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I've been growing my Python chops lately, and discovered this new
development which I thought share-worthy.

If you've ever spent any time with RHEL 6.x, you know how some important
packages are pretty old (e.g. Python 2.6 instead of 2.7 or even 3.x).
 Installing multiple versions of Python is possible, and there are a bunch
of ways to do it - so it's often confusing.  Virtualenv is the 'best' way
to be able to run multiple distinct Python environments on a single host
since it also gives you the ability to load specific dependencies into each
environment.  While that's great, there is also a new option specifically
for RedHat called Software Collections that works kinda the same way as
Virtualenv (environment shim) and allows you to install collections of
packages for Python as well as other systems like Postgres, Nodejs, MariaDB
etc.

With Software Collections, you can build and concurrently install multiple
versions of the same software components on your system. Software
Collections have no impact on the system versions of the packages installed
by any of the conventional RPM package management utilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lcK8L3XDek Ryan White (RedHat) at PyCon
2014
Guide:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Contributor_Documentation/1/html-single/Software_Collections_Guide/index.html




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Re: Max Wi-Fi connections question

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

It depends... At some point your wireless becomes wired, and so the maximum
amount of throughput is going to depend on that infrastructure and your WAN
link.  On the wireless side, it depends on the number and types of clients
and also the type of traffic (VOIP, video, data etc.)  Suffice to say that
higher density in Access Points to clients will result in better
performance (especially considering proximity).  Translation: one access
point per classroom would work well.  If each room can't be serviced by an
Ethernet drop, then it's probably best to get the wiring put in so that you
CAN have an access point in each room.  It also depends on the network
gear.  If you take a consumer grade, restricted, poorly managed device into
a setting where you're connecting a bunch of users to it every day then
you're asking for trouble.Anyway, I'm not a network engineer so
somebody else can give you more specific guidance but you certainly can
create a WiFi network supporting 100's of users.  How you do it is pretty
variable.

Greg

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Ed lawson elaw...@grizzy.com wrote:


 I'm sure someone in the group has a real world answer to this
 question.  My local school is seeking to have Wi-Fi in every classroom
 with each classroom having up to 30 devices using the network
 simultaneously.  I questioned this and was told the appropriate
 commercial grade router is capable of maintaining simultaneous
 connections with 120 devices and throughput is fine.  This sounds a bit
 optimistic to me, but I'm older than gray hair and hardware was never
 something I knew much about.

 Part of my suspicion is based on the school equating an advanced
 computer class with a class where students can learn to use a 3-D
 printer. While that is a neat thing to do, not sure why that is an
 advanced computer class.

 Thank you in advance.
 --
 Ed Lawson
 Ham Callsign: K1VP
 PGP Key ID:   1591EAD3
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Re: Anyone at LibrePlanet this weekend?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I'm here in rm 123
Greg freephile Rundlett

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On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.comwrote:

 Anyone else attending FSF's LibrePlanet conference this weekend?
 --
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Re: [OT] [SOLVED] Python Q: expected string, tuple found

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

It turns out that line 418 had a superfluous comma at the end of the
__build_header() method  Corrected version: http://pastebin.com/gCSpnirN



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[OT] Python Q: expected string, tuple found

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I'm trying to run a python script called crucible.py (from Atlassian, for
their Crucible product.)   While I'm waiting for their support, I wanted to
ask here for help understanding python.

The script is supposed to setup a code review for a local subversion
working copy, but it can't even login to the Crucible server.  Using the
--debug flag, here is what I get:


grundlett@build-svr1:~/work/test/projects/web/trunk$ crucible.py -r test -d
Crucible server: http://atlassian-demo:8060
Crucible username: grundlett
Please enter your Crucible password:
DEBUG:root:No authtoken, trying to get one
DEBUG:root:Trying to encode str as UTF-8
DEBUG:root:RestRequest:
http://atlassian-demo:8060/rest-service/auth-v1/login - {'Content-Type':
'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Authorization': '++SANITIZED++',
'Accept': 'application/json'} -  userName=grundlettpassword=++SANITIZED++
DEBUG:root:Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /home/grundlett/bin/crucible.py, line 493, in _request
response = urllib2.build_opener(HTTPRedirectHandler()).open(request,
data=payload, timeout=self.timeout).read()
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py, line 391, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py, line 409, in _open
'_open', req)
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py, line 369, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py, line 1173, in http_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py, line 1142, in do_open
h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.7/httplib.py, line 946, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.7/httplib.py, line 986, in _send_request
self.putheader(hdr, value)
  File /usr/local/lib/python2.7/httplib.py, line 924, in putheader
str = '%s: %s' % (header, '\r\n\t'.join(values))
TypeError: sequence item 0: expected string, tuple found

So, somewhere a tuple is not being converted to string.  Not sure if it's
the headers, or extra payload since the log message is sanitized by the
logger.  The script is http://pastebin.com/3zeYm2qC and line 493 is where
the problem starts.  Any suggestions?

I think I could do something like

values = ','.join(str(value_list)[1:-1])

but I'm not sure how, and I'm pretty sure that it's the code in crucible.py
that is the problem, not in httplib.py

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Re: What are you doing for home NAS?

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On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.orgwrote:


 Anyway, I ordered the HP N54L, 8GB of RAM, and two 4TB drives.  This
 leaves me with two expansion bays and the ability to use FreeNAS with
 ZFS.  I looked at OMV but it seems to not be as mature as FreeNAS.  If
 anyone's interested I can do another post once it's built and in use.

 -Mark


/me waving hand

I'm interested.  Finally getting around to (re-)organizing my LAN-wide
backups and storage.

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Wanted: CPA who knows software consulting and contracting and is Linux friendly

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Since I started eQuality Technology this year, I am still in the process of
putting my 'team' together.  I've yet to find (mostly because I've been
putting it off) a CPA.  I'd love to work with someone who is 'local' and
knows the software consulting industry as I imaging the tax code is complex
enough to have reams of special conditions for each industry.  Although
I've only had one sub-contractor, I anticipate growing the business in 2014
to include potential partners and many sub-contractors.

Ideally my CPA would be located somewhere between Southern NH to Boston,
although perhaps this is something that can be done remotely.  Also,
although I may end up running Quickbooks, I'd like to think everything will
be handled in GNUCash or KMyMoney so I'd really like to find a CPA who is
Linux-friendly.  Who do you have on your 'team' (legal, tax, insurance)?

As an aside, I just received an email from the founders of Lullabot who are
putting together an invitation-only small-group summit to learn/share
lessons learned in running a distributed virtual team as a technology
company (http://yonder.io/).  I'm probably not attending - but I hope they
will share their conference notes.

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Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)

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We are replacing a monolithic software development IT infrastructure where
source code control, development and compiling all take place on a single
machine with something more manageable, scalable, redundant etc.  The goal
is to provide more enterprise features like manageability, scalability with
failover and disaster recovery.

Let's call these architectures System A and System B.  System A is
monolithic because everything is literally housed and managed on a single
hardware platform.  System B is modular and virtualized, but still running
in a traditional IT environment (aka not in the cloud).  The problem is
that the new system does not come close to the old system in performance.
 I think it's pretty obvious why it's not performing: user home directories
(where developers compile) should not be NFS mounted. [1]  The source
repositories themselves should also not be stored on a NAS.

What does your (software development) IT infrastructure look like?

One of the specific problems that prompted this re-architecture was disk
space.  Not the repository per se, but with 100+ developers each having one
or more checkouts of the repos (home directories), we have maxed out a
4.5TB volume.

More specifically, here is what we have:
system A (old system)
single host
standard Unix user accounts
svn server using file:/// RA protocol
4.5TB local disk storage (maxed out)
NFS mounted NAS for tools - e.g. Windriver Linux for compiling our OS

system B (new system)
series of hosts managed by VMWare ESX 5.1 (version control host + build
servers connected via 10GB link to EMC VNXe NAS for home directories and
tools and source repos
standard Unix user accounts controlled by NIS server (adds manageability
across domain)
svn server using http:/// RA protocol (adds repository access control and
management)
NFS mounted NAS for tools, the repositories, the home directories

Notes:
The repos we're dealing with are multiple large repositories eg. 2GB
43,203 files, 2,066 directories.
We're dealing with 100+ users



[1]
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.prftungd/doc/prftungd/misuses_nfs_perf.htm

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Re: Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)

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Performance comparison:
svn checkout single repository on old infrastructure
real5m44.100s
user0m36.957s
sys 0m14.757s

svn checkout single repository on new infrastructure, but only using NFS
for read (local working copy stored on local disk)
real3m15.057s
user1m18.195s
sys 0m53.796s

svn checkout same repository on new infrastructure, with writes stored on
NFS volume
real28m53.220s
user1m45.713s
sys 3m26.948s


Greg Rundlett


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) 
g...@freephile.com wrote:

 We are replacing a monolithic software development IT infrastructure where
 source code control, development and compiling all take place on a single
 machine with something more manageable, scalable, redundant etc.  The goal
 is to provide more enterprise features like manageability, scalability with
 failover and disaster recovery.

 Let's call these architectures System A and System B.  System A is
 monolithic because everything is literally housed and managed on a single
 hardware platform.  System B is modular and virtualized, but still running
 in a traditional IT environment (aka not in the cloud).  The problem is
 that the new system does not come close to the old system in performance.
  I think it's pretty obvious why it's not performing: user home directories
 (where developers compile) should not be NFS mounted. [1]  The source
 repositories themselves should also not be stored on a NAS.

 What does your (software development) IT infrastructure look like?

 One of the specific problems that prompted this re-architecture was disk
 space.  Not the repository per se, but with 100+ developers each having one
 or more checkouts of the repos (home directories), we have maxed out a
 4.5TB volume.

 More specifically, here is what we have:
 system A (old system)
 single host
 standard Unix user accounts
 svn server using file:/// RA protocol
 4.5TB local disk storage (maxed out)
 NFS mounted NAS for tools - e.g. Windriver Linux for compiling our OS

 system B (new system)
 series of hosts managed by VMWare ESX 5.1 (version control host + build
 servers connected via 10GB link to EMC VNXe NAS for home directories and
 tools and source repos
 standard Unix user accounts controlled by NIS server (adds manageability
 across domain)
 svn server using http:/// RA protocol (adds repository access control and
 management)
 NFS mounted NAS for tools, the repositories, the home directories

 Notes:
 The repos we're dealing with are multiple large repositories eg. 2GB
 43,203 files, 2,066 directories.
 We're dealing with 100+ users



 [1]
 http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.prftungd/doc/prftungd/misuses_nfs_perf.htm

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Re: Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)

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On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Patrick Flaherty pflahe...@wsi.com wrote:

 Most of our devs do their dev work on their desktops. When 1tb sata drives
 are 600 bucks it made more sense to let devs have perishable work
 environments. We're moving some of our compile/testing/deploy to jenkins,
 but that's really just a pilot program. I'm playing with docker/vagrent as
 well for testing environments.


I love Jenkins and am setting it up for a large role in the software
engineering process, but individual devs still have to do compiles before
checking in code - which even that could be handled by Jenkins.



 That being said, what are your mount options for home directories? Sounds
 an awful lot like you aren't async.


home dirs in our environment are not on desktops, as the developers are
(mostly) remote and the compile environment has to be controlled.  Here are
the mount options.

storage-nfs-svr1:/home on /home type nfs (rw,hard,intr,addr=172.16.0.31)
storage-nfs-svr1:/usrlocal on /usr/local type nfs
(rw,hard,intr,addr=172.16.0.31)
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Re: [OT] Comedian rants about passwords/account mgmt

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On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Michael ODonnell 
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:


   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJ-NSPES9Y

 lol
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Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.comwrote:

 cf. these fine articles:

 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=222


 http://slashdot.org/story/05/11/21/1140210/open-source-media-vs-open-source-media-inc


I didn't follow the links, and then 'lo and behold, WBUR radio just
announced that the Open Source radio show with Christopher Lydon
http://www.radioopensource.org/ was back on air starting in January in
Boston.

Dang it! It's NOT Open Source tm


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Have you done a technical book review?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I was asked by Packt publishing to do a technical book review (Apache SOLR
for Beginners)

I'm wondering if anyone else on the list has been a technical reviewer
before and would share your experience.

I was initially excited about the opportunity but it's become apparent, at
least in this case, that the quality is not all there.  The author is
Italian, and I'm re-writing the book in proper English rather than making
quality/style assessments.  I believe the job of a technical reviewer is to
confirm accuracy in the specifics and concepts to ensure that the author's
message is delivered effectively to the reader.

I like Packt for their emphasis on Open Source, but I'm at the point where
I have to decide if this project is worthwhile.  To help in that decision,
I'm interested to know firsthand how other authors and contributors worked
through the publication process.

Best,

Greg Rundlett
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Re: Have you done a technical book review?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.orgwrote:

 I did tech review for Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers, and it
 was an ok experience.


Thanks.



 If you are doing editing of English, then the actual Editor isn't
 doing their job.  You should be only doing tech review, not grammar,
 etc.

 I agree.

I have the feeling that in this day and age of self-publishing and print on
demand, that they may be dramatically loosening their editorial standards
and seeing what projects come out the other end of the pipeline.  But I
can't see how that would be a profitable way to run things.  Unless they
get an editor to work for free (like me).
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Re: I see GNU Make 4.0 is out

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Yo dawg, I heard you like to make with guile so I put a guile in yo' make
so you can make while you guile.

lol

Greg Rundlett


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:00 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:

 This:

 http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Guile-Function

 caused me to say this:

 http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg
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E O insurance

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Anyone have good experience with a particular insurance company getting
their EO + general liability policy?  At eQuality Technology, we do
solutions consulting with Linux and FOSS focused on the software side so
we're primarily a 3rd-party software installation, customization, support
company (at least according to the categories defined by Hiscox Insurance).

Looking at the quote-generating application form for Errors and Omissions
insurance policy at Hiscox Insurance, I found this particular bit of
interest:

Does your business conduct any of the following activities?
* Manufacture, design, or assist in the design of any hardware or
components. (This does not apply if your business is a Value Added Reseller
of third-party hardware.)
* Create, support, or work on software that executes securities
transactions, makes medical diagnoses, or is involved in manufacturing or
process control.
* Own, host, or run any website that contains any pornographic materials or
user generated content.
* Own, or manage a social networking or auction website. (This does not
apply to third-party sites where you offer hosting services only.)
* Operate as a Voice Over IP Service Provider (This does not apply to use
of a third-party VOIP service provider to conduct your own business's
telephone calls.)

Bullet #3 jumped out at me.  User generated content (like comments in a
blog?) are lumped together with porn for insurance purposes?

I can see how user-generated content creates more of a liability than
owner-generated content, but figured in today's day and age things might be
finer grained than user-generated content ~ porn.

Anyone have good experience with a particular insurance company getting
their EO + general liability policy?

Greg Rundlett
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Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) in open source

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I've become interested in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
and comparing or learning more how open source products stand in the
marketplace.  This book http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0071701095 compares
AlienVault OSSIM (which appears to operate on the freemium model)
http://communities.alienvault.com/ with the other big players:

   - Cisco MARS http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6241/index.html
   - IBM QRadar http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/us/en/qradar/
   - HP ArcSight
   http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software-solutions/software.html?compURI=1214365

One not featured in the book, and the project that got me interested in the
topic is OpenVAS http://www.openvas.org/

Are there others?

   - OSSEC http://www.ossec.net/
   - sguil http://sguil.sourceforge.net/index.html


Does anyone have insights to share on leading open source implementations
of Security Assessment, or SIEM systems?  Dr. Anton Chuvakin does.
http://chuvakin.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-no-open-source-siem-ever.html  He
predicted 5 years ago that none would ever truly come to fruition due to
multiple aspects of the domain which do not fit well with the open source
model.


Greg Rundlett

p.s. also rhetorically wondering why these big companies have such bad
information architecture  = ugly URLs
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Re: ClearCase (was: MacOS/Samba not playing nice)

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:

 Our developers want to switch, management doesn't :-/ so we'll probably
 have it around forever.

 I generally don't like it because it's a kernel mod and generates a high
 I/O load.

 What do people switch to?


You can configure and setup workflows where a distributed Version Control
System (VCS) is centralized, but you can't configure a centralized VCS to
be distributed.  And besides the development workflow, git has other
desirable features (http://git-scm.com/about/) so people are switching to
git.



 ClearCase provides a central repository and there's some protection
 against shooting yourself in the foot.  Plus there's integration with
 ClearQuest.
 We are not able to get training in developer tools and our users do not
 check in (1-3 years) often.  I think something designed for multiple
 repositories and lots of checkins (GIT) wouldn't be a good fit, but I'm not
 a developer ;-)


 If people don't checkin for so long, then they effectively are on an
island.  In which case a distributed VCS like git seems to make more sense
than a centralized one.  It should be stated that you can setup multiple
repositories per server in a centralized system, but you can also setup
multiple projects per repository when those projects are in any way
related.  Regardless of the workflow, I've found that merging with git is
1000x better than with svn (and that's with svn having what they call merge
tracking).  ClearCase is one of the few VCSes that I'm not familiar with
but I can say git is simply more powerful than svn.  Because of that there
is more to learn if you want to use those powers.  However, the basic
workflow can be mastered pretty easily.  Gitosis (
http://scie.nti.st/2007/11/14/hosting-git-repositories-the-easy-and-secure-way/)
is a simple yet very effective method for setting up your own Git server to
manage repositories for people.  Git can keep track of your own stuff and
you don't need to setup a server at all.

Speaking of servers, etckeeper (
http://www.serverwatch.com/server-tutorials/keep-configs-under-control-with-etckeeper.html)
is a simple yet effective method for tracking system configuration with
git/bazaar/mercurial.
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Re: MacOS/Samba not playing nice

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

And another reason to go with the 'force directory mode' setting on the
server is that some applications (like Fetch) are user-configurable so
users can be just smart enough to screw up file permissions after you've
explained (repeatedly) how the app needs to be configured.  And those are
the same kind of users who think it's your fault that the system doesn't
work.

Greg Rundlett


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.orgwrote:

 Resist the temptation to go mixed mode NFS/CIFS for your shares.  Go all
 one path as the permissions almost never map properly.  I'd start with
 what Ben recommended and look at the 'force directory mode' setting on
 the server first.  Making changes there will be a lot easier than
 changing every OS X box, and changing it every time a new system shows up.

 If that doesn't work, go NFS, but do it on the Windows systems as well.

 -Mark

 On 7/3/2013 9:27 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
  Another approach would be to use NFS for MacOSX and see how that
  works.  NFS is more native to Linux  Macintosh than CIFS.
 
  It might not be easier and I like Ben's approach of forcing
  permissions a bit better.
 
  FWIW, I've converted a number of Windows 7 systems to using NFS
  instead of CIFS to do away with a Samba server.  Like you, I want 777
  permissions on those shares.
 
 
  On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com
  mailto:dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Robert Pruyne rpru...@rpc-nh.org
  mailto:rpru...@rpc-nh.org wrote:
   I have a Samba server running on it to serve files on our network.
   When our only Mac OS user logs in, and tries to make a new
  directory on
   the Samba server, it creates it with permissions of 0700, and
  the user is the
   owner, effectively disallowing any other user from using the
  directory.
 
My guess is that Mac OS X, being a Unix-like OS under the covers,
  supports the SMB extensions that allow it to specify Unix-style file
  permissions.  Those are thus getting passed from the Mac OS X client
  to the Samba server, and Samba dutifully sets the permissions it was
  given.
 
Assuming that is correct, there are two approaches here: One is to
  adjust the client to do what you want.  In theory, this is the more
  elegant approach.  The other approach would be to configure Samba
 to
  ignore whatever the client is telling it, and just set permissions
  from the Samba config file.  That should work, but it's kind of
  brutish, and if you ever want to apply other permissions, you'd need
  to revisit.
 
I don't know much of anything about Mac OS X, but this seems like
 it
  might be applicable to adjust the client:
 
  http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2202
 
  (found with: http://www.google.com/search?q=mac+os+x+umask )
 
To instead just clobber whatever other permissions might have
  evolved and apply the same thing everywhere, use the force create
  mode and force directory mode directives in your Samba config
 file.
 
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Fwd: [Discuss] Small Business Server - what do you use?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Forwarding to list
Greg Rundlett


-- Forwarded message --
From: Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com
Date: Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Discuss] Small Business Server - what do you use?
To: Steven Santos ste...@simplycircus.com


Thanks for sharing Steve.

It's disconcerting that you're experiencing problems with Zentyal because
the field of choices is very narrow (with some older options either defunct
or unmaintained) and Zentyal looks like the perhaps the most promising.
 Are you using their 3.0 beta, or earlier version?  Have their forums or
documentation not been able to sort out the problems?  I assume you're not
running the paid version so you don't have access to their (paid) support.

Greg Rundlett


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:55 AM, Steven Santos ste...@simplycircus.comwrote:

 SME is about to release a new version (9)
 I am running a Zyntal server right now, but it does not work as
 advertised (Linux clients won't connect, its not letting me add
 additional drives, Kerbose isn't working as expected)

 ClearOS is the next one I want to try.
 ---
 Steven Santos
 Director
 Simply Circus, Inc.
 86 Los Angeles Street
 Newton, MA 02458

 P: 617-527-0667
 F: 617-934-1870
 E: ste...@simplycircus.com


 On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
 g...@freephile.com wrote:
 - SME Server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SME_Server) is based on
 CentOS.  There is
 - Zentyal (formerly eBox Platform
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentyal)
 which is based on Ubuntu.
 - ClearOS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearOS) based on RHEL
 
  These projects provide an out of the box experience that configures
  multiple software packages needed to setup the IT environment for small
 and
  medium enterprises (SMBs) as FOSS alternatives to the Windows Small
  Business Server (
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Small_Business_Server)
  and related required products from Microsoft.
 
  SME Server looks a little old in the tooth.  Zentyal looks to me to be
 more
  compelling and complete (and is featured as part of the Ubuntu project).
  ClearOS has a comparison page that shows (of course) more little green
  checkmarks next to their offering but Zentyal is nearly identical even in
  ClearOS' own marketing material
 
 http://www.clearcenter.com/Software/clearos-professional-industry-comparison.html
 
  ClearOS seems to have less out of the box (requiring more setup or
  additional paid apps) but does offer some interesting features like
 Google
  Apps integration (
  http://www.clearcenter.com/Software/google-apps-synchronization.html).
   ClearOS also seems to have more thought put into their website
  demonstrating the solution in various contexts which is good as a way to
  quickly assess their solution in depth.
 
  One of the key criteria that I'm interested in is the complete solution
 in
  place of Microsoft Active Directory.  OpenLDAP is often the 'answer', but
  there are many pieces that need to work together to get a full IT
  infrastructure (certificates, Domain Controller, DNS, etc).  Zentyal
 offers
  a presentation that discusses how they integrated Samba4 which includes
  it's own LDAP server (and explains a bit why OpenLDAP was not possible)
  https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/6793/71711 (registration required to
  view)
 
  Any experiences to share or preferences to describe when it comes to
  deploying an IT infrastructure for the SMB market?
 
 
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Small Business Server - what do you use?

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   - SME Server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SME_Server) is based on
   CentOS.  There is
   - Zentyal (formerly eBox Platform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentyal)
   which is based on Ubuntu.
   - ClearOS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearOS) based on RHEL

These projects provide an out of the box experience that configures
multiple software packages needed to setup the IT environment for small and
medium enterprises (SMBs) as FOSS alternatives to the Windows Small
Business Server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Small_Business_Server)
and related required products from Microsoft.

SME Server looks a little old in the tooth.  Zentyal looks to me to be more
compelling and complete (and is featured as part of the Ubuntu project).
ClearOS has a comparison page that shows (of course) more little green
checkmarks next to their offering but Zentyal is nearly identical even in
ClearOS' own marketing material
http://www.clearcenter.com/Software/clearos-professional-industry-comparison.html

ClearOS seems to have less out of the box (requiring more setup or
additional paid apps) but does offer some interesting features like Google
Apps integration (
http://www.clearcenter.com/Software/google-apps-synchronization.html).
 ClearOS also seems to have more thought put into their website
demonstrating the solution in various contexts which is good as a way to
quickly assess their solution in depth.

One of the key criteria that I'm interested in is the complete solution in
place of Microsoft Active Directory.  OpenLDAP is often the 'answer', but
there are many pieces that need to work together to get a full IT
infrastructure (certificates, Domain Controller, DNS, etc).  Zentyal offers
a presentation that discusses how they integrated Samba4 which includes
it's own LDAP server (and explains a bit why OpenLDAP was not possible)
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/6793/71711 (registration required to
view)

Any experiences to share or preferences to describe when it comes to
deploying an IT infrastructure for the SMB market?


Greg Rundlett
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Re: Interesting documentary on hackers

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Available in Amazon streaming (not Prime eligible).  Not available in
Netflix streaming.  Thanks, I'll check it out.

Greg Rundlett


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.comwrote:

 Just watched this documentary with my wife:

 `Hackers are People Too'
 http://www.hackersarepeopletoo.com/

 I liked it.

 She said, it was OK--I already knew all of that stuff from you,
 and it jumped around a little too much; I need linearity

 Anyone else seen it? Like? Dislike?

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Re: Presention software?

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+1 Eric Meyer's s5 is good.

My notes on the subject
https://freephile.org/wiki/index.php/Presentation

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Smarthosting (Sending mail through Google) with Postfix

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I've just setup a LAMP host which of course needs to be able to send email
for all kinds of reasons.  In addition to notifications sent out by
monitoring systems or cron, my websites (like wikis) and other systems need
to send email, e.g. Subversion commit notifications.

I typically set up Postfix to smarthost (relay) through a Google Apps
account.

I'm curious about one particular aspect:  When setting this up on Debian or
Ubuntu, it seems like you don't need to incorporate an SSL key into the
Postfix setup.  However, my latest install on RedHat6 does need it.  Can
anyone confirm or deny based on their experience.  Explanations also
welcome.

For example: One guide [1] includes the security certificate part which
seems necessary under RedHat but which doesn't seem necessary under Debian
or Ubuntu [2].

[1] https://blog.wormly.com/2008/11/05/relay-gmail-google-smtp-postfix/
[2] http://braiden.org/?p=15

Thanks,

Greg Rundlett
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Re: Smarthosting (Sending mail through Google) with Postfix

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I remember the snakeoil cert now.  Thanks that makes sense.
On May 19, 2013 11:58 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:

 Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com writes:
 
  I typically set up Postfix to smarthost (relay) through a Google Apps
 account.
 
  I'm curious about one particular aspect:  When setting this up on Debian
 or
  Ubuntu, it seems like you don't need to incorporate an SSL key into the
  Postfix setup.  However, my latest install on RedHat6 does need it.  Can
  anyone confirm or deny based on their experience.  Explanations also
  welcome.

 It's been a while since I did this, but, if I recall correctly, Debian
 generates a `snakeoil' key+certificate when the ssl-cert package
 is installed, and other packages that want a key and/or certificate
 (like Postfix) Depend on the ssl-cert package and just use its
 `snakeoil' by default until the sysadmin goes in and reconfigures them
 to use something better.

 cf. /var/lib/dpkg/info/ssl-cert.postinst and /etc/postfix/main.cf.

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SVN server - What hardware do I need?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I'm working on replacing an existing Subversion server.  Does anyone have
specific guidelines for the best hardware configuration for such a service?

http://www.svnforum.org/threads/41227-SVN-server-best-hardware says that a
fast disk and plenty of RAM for Apache are the chief concerns.

Currently running
SVN 1.7.5
RHEL 5.8
22 repositories
~30k revisions
~80 users
33.56GB total in repos
FSFS backend storage
file:/// access method, changing that to Apache over SSL

Of course I'm going to upgrade the OS.  And I'm going to update gcc

Many of the developers are remote, and use VNC to get onto the box, and do
their checkouts and builds locally on that one machine.  One
performance improvement may come from using NX instead of VNC, as I've
heard the former is even more responsive than the latter.  A checkout of
the source to do a build is non-trivial:  it's about 6GB of files.  But,
assuming that a developer has those files, the real performance drag is
waiting for that code to compile for 15+ minutes.  I'm not familiar with
performance optimization in building C code, so I'm all ears for those
tips. I'm even wondering if gcc can tell me what code is unused in the
project (and therefore could be removed).

By separating the build environment from the subversion host, I believe
that we can get better performance and manageability.
CollabNet SubversionEdge on Box A = Apache + subversion + repo browser
Jira Bug tracker on Box B (or possibly on Box A)
Build Server with more CPU+cores on Box C

Thanks,

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Re: Symbolic linking confusion

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You have it right
On Apr 15, 2013 10:02 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net
wrote:

  Recently been playing with GPU computing.  I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 and
 installed the nvidia-cuda-toolkit package.  It seems that the libs are in
 odd places.  Why does it matter?  Because I'd like to build the GPU
 Computing SDK.  So I follow the instructions in
 /usr/share/nvidia-cuda-toolkit,  down load the SDK and type make.

 So it gets part way through and barfs because it can't find libcuda.

 make[1]: Entering directory
 `/home/bruce/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C/src/deviceQuery'
 /usr/bin/ld: error: cannot find -lcuda

 No problem, just edit ld.so.conf.d/cuda.conf add the locations, ldconfig,
 and should be good to go.  Still can't find libcuda.  Must be a link
 issue...

 $ locate libcuda
 /usr/lib/nvidia-current-updates/libcuda.so
 /usr/lib/nvidia-current-updates/libcuda.so.1
 /usr/lib/nvidia-current-updates/libcuda.so.304.88

 $ sudo ldconfig -v
 ...
 /usr/lib/nvidia-current-updates:
 libcuda.so.1 - libcuda.so.304.88
 libnvidia-tls.so.304.88 - libnvidia-tls.so.304.88
 libnvcuvid.so.1 - libnvcuvid.so.304.88
 libOpenCL.so.1 - libOpenCL.so.1.0.0
 libnvidia-cfg.so.1 - libnvidia-cfg.so.304.88
 libnvidia-ml.so.1 - libnvidia-ml.so.304.88
 libnvidia-opencl.so.1 - libnvidia-opencl.so.304.88
 libnvidia-glcore.so.304.88 - libnvidia-glcore.so.304.88
 libnvidia-wfb.so.1 - libnvidia-wfb.so.304.88
 libXvMCNVIDIA_dynamic.so.1 - libXvMCNVIDIA.so.304.88
 libGL.so.1 - libGL.so.304.88
 libnvidia-compiler.so.304.88 - libnvidia-compiler.so.304.88

 So do I just do
 $ sudo ln -s libcuda.so.1 libcuda.so  ?  or the other way around ?

 man ln is not very clear...

 ln -s {target-filename} {symbolic-filename}

 Which is really the target?  libcuda.so.1 ?  Did I get that right?

 TIA,
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Re: new member - introductions

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Welcome to the list.

I have a more complicated memory system that includes Google, mediawiki,
drupal and various hard drives :-)

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Re: Printer recommendations

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Note: There is a big difference between InkJet and Laser printing.

I opted for the Samsung SCX-4623FW Series over two years ago (and although
discontinued, is available today for ~$240).  I offer this info for
reference, since my  model is only Black/White. I bought it at Sam's Club.
 It has delivered in terms of speed, reliability and sharpness/quality.
 The scanning just works (using SimpleScan in Ubuntu) if I'm connected via
USB, although it doesn't work wirelessly (or at least I don't know how to
do it).  I haven't tried the fax, but copy and wireless functionality seem
great.

I just had to do my first laser toner cartridge replacement and the cost
wasn't too bad (about $70) given that it lasted perfectly through 2,500
sheets of paper.  That's less than 3 pennies / page or less than $35 / year
in toner.

I'd say that Samsung supports us Linux users since at least for my model,
they provide a driver right on their product website.

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Re: Printer recommendations

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) 
g...@freephile.com wrote:

 The scanning just works (using SimpleScan in Ubuntu) if I'm connected via
 USB, although it doesn't work wirelessly (or at least I don't know how to
 do it).  I haven't tried the fax, but copy and wireless functionality seem
 great.

 clarification: Wireless setup and printing work great... it's the wireless
scanning that I don't know how to do.

Also, for the toner, I bought the manufacturer's high yield cartridge
rather than try to save with generic.
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Fwd: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com
Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?
To: Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com



On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.comwrote:

 * More confusing: when I add a contact, how should I list
   the connection?

   - `colleague' at the FoxtrotGPS company (and `yes, add
 FoxtrotGPS as a new company')?

   - `other'? (and why, when I select `other', does it ask me
 what the other person's e-mail address is rather than
 asking me to define what `other' actually means???)

   - `friend'? WTF does that mean (and why *doesn't* it ask me
 for the other person's e-mail address if I say that
 he's my `friend' rather than an `other')?

   - `I don't know this person [AFK/IRL?]' (and, again,
 why doesn't it ask me the same thing for this as if
 I said `other')?


I agree that this aspect of LinkedIn is confusing, overlapping, and is not
an effective User Experience.  To me, they are trying to get the user to
answer 'normally' and L uses the response to gauge whether or not you are
trying to 'spam' the system by connecting with people that you don't
actually know.  However, the UX fails because there are many potential
relationship types that don't fit into 'colleague', 'other', 'friend'.  Any
L makes it worse by not telling you that selecting 'other' means you can't
connect with the person without prior knowledge of their email address.  'I
don't know this person' is a cancel button in disguise.  Bad UX.

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Google Apps Scripting (preview article for Linux Magazine)

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I'm going to be revising this to be more 'play by play' narrative, but this
article will be in the next edition of Linux Magazine.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18qplc5P4zYEmbZ289aDgRArsMR3c5aDyUTdcupBjHVk/edit

Comments welcome.  Hope you like it.

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Open Source Tech Leader (in search of good company)

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Meet Greg Rundlett Open Source, Best Practices and tech leadership:

   1. Meet Greg
Rundletthttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ue5yFOE3ZOmwubwPuridJxXwUPH_Pz2Co7s1b3V4fac/edit

   2. Visual Bio https://www.vizify.com/greg-rundlett
   3. Twitter https://twitter.com/freephile
   4. Github https://github.com/freephile
   5. LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/freephile
   6. Resume http://www.rundlett.com/GregResume.pdf


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Re: grep for craigslist?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I've already contemplated such a move... (my service would be called
Greg'sList... it's Craigslist, only better :-)  But, their TOS explicitly
limits any such possibility.

5. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS AND ACTIVITIES

...

Any copying, aggregation, display, distribution, performance or derivative
use of craigslist or any content posted on craigslist whether done directly
or through intermediaries (including but not limited to by means of
spiders, robots, crawlers, scrapers, framing, iframes or RSS feeds) is
prohibited. As a limited exception, general purpose Internet search engines
and noncommercial public archives will be entitled to access craigslist
without individual written agreements executed with CL that specifically
authorize an exception to this prohibition if, in all cases and individual
instances: (a) they provide a direct hyperlink to the relevant craigslist
website, service, forum or content; (b) they access craigslist from a
stable IP address using an easily identifiable agent; and (c) they comply
with CL's robots.txt file; provided however, that CL may terminate this
limited exception as to any search engine or public archive (or any person
or entity relying on this provision to access craigslist without their own
written agreement executed with CL), at any time and in its sole
discretion, upon written notice, including, without limitation, by email
notice.

Any access to or use of craigslist to design, develop, test, update,
operate, modify, maintain, support, market, advertise, distribute or
otherwise make available any program, application or service (including,
without limitation, any device, technology, product, computer program,
mobile device application, website, or mechanical or personal service) that
enables or provides access to, use of, operation of or interoperation with
craigslist (including, without limitation, to access content, post content,
cross-post content, re-post content, respond or reply to content, verify
content, transmit content, create accounts, verify accounts, use accounts,
circumvent and/or automate technological security measures or restrictions,
or flag content) is prohibited. This prohibition specifically applies but
is not limited to software, programs, applications and services for use or
operation on or by any computer and/or any electronic, wireless and/or
mobile device, technology or product that exists now or in the future.
...

~ Greg

Greg Rundlett


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.comwrote:

 You should turn craigsearch into a web service.

 I have a bunch of 50%-off coupons for new domains-registrations at
 gandi.net, if you want. Looks like craigsearch.com is already taken,
 though, so you'll have to pick another name

 David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes:
 
  I liked, but didn't LIKE like, that solution
 [...]
  Which means that I can now fix that error AND announce the first
  release of craigsearch!
 
  You can't use regular expressions and it would be hard to fix
  that. You'd basically have to download all of CL and search it
  locally. Instead, I'm searching for a term at a time using the above
  URL-based query scheme and then parsing the results. Fortunately, they
  seem to be very easily parseable (for now).
 
  The usage is either
 
  craigsearch term
 
  where term can be multiple words searched for together (i.e. milling
  machine returns hits where both milling and machine appear) or
 
  craigsearch -f file-of-terms
 
  similar to how grep -f works.
 
  This is only part of the solution, of course. The next step is to save
  the output from one run and diff it against the output on another run,
  notifying me of new things. That's pretty trivial[1].
 
  [1] Except for the diff itself. The man page seems to indicate that you
  can get the one-sided differences by using some kind of format thing,
  but my diff won't take any of the options the man page gives for that
  and it's so confusingly written I can't even tell what is *supposed* to
  work. I eventually resorted to just
 
  diff A B | grep \
 
  Am I missing something obvious or is diff just broken? The man page sure
  isn't helpful.
 
 
 
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Re: grep for craigslist?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

You can obviously 'fly under the radar' if you develop/use your own
personal agent.  My specific plan was to build a Drupal module that you
could use to save your searches and have it fetch results for you.  No
problem since although it would technically violate the TOS, they wouldn't
bother with the expense of tracking down and prosecuting the violation (for
possibly no gain).  All that changes when you setup a commercial operation
designed to profit by using their systems and content as a feed.  That
would require making sustained volumes of requests.  I'm sure they have a
monitor/alert for when a particular IP makes a large volume of CL requests
so they can chase those down.

I'm no expert about CL, so I wonder if they've done any agreements with 3rd
parties to create partnerships?

Greg Rundlett


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:21 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:

 On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:04:04 -0500, Greg Rundlett (freephile) 
 g...@freephile.com wrote:
  I've already contemplated such a move... (my service would be called
  Greg'sList... it's Craigslist, only better :-)  But, their TOS explicitly
  limits any such possibility.

 Do TOSen apply to non-logged-in users? What are they going to do? Revoke
 my account?

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seeking sysadmin help (WordPress)

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I'm seeking sysadmin help with a WordPress migration.

If you are interested, please get in touch.

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Electronic Health Records (EHR) or PHR software

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I want to track my health.  Having recently buried my mother I've come to
experience how broken our medical records system is.

I reviewed a list of open source healthcare software at
wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_healthcare_software#Electronic_health_or_medical_record
and
Andy Oram's June 2011 article on Open source personal health
recordhttp://strata.oreilly.com/2011/06/open-source-personal-health-re.html
systems
trying to find a PHR that I can run on my desktop.  Unfortunately there
doesn't seem to be such an option.  The systems such as GNU Health are
intended to run in Health Centers, to take care of the daily clinical
practice as well as to manage the health center resources.

There are some online systems.  Microsoft's Health Vault,
Google's (defunct) Google Health, and
*Dossia*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dossia which
is a consortium of large employers.  Of note, Dossia is based on Open
source 
softwarehttp://docs.dossia.org/images/5/5a/Dossia_Technical_Overview.pdf
and
they released their API http://docs.dossia.org/index.php/Main_Page in
2009, so it's not a traditional tethered PHR service.  Unfortunately, the
system is only accessible to individuals who work for an employer who
participates in the program.  Their FAQ addresses the need for such a
systemhttp://www.dossia.org/for-employers/employer-q-and-a#q3
.

Andy points to *Indivo http://indivohealth.org/* as a possibility.  It's
run by the (Boston) Children's Hospital Informatics Program.  There are
heavy-duty requirements (for an average user) to
installinghttp://wiki.chip.org/indivo/index.php/HOWTO:_install_Indivo_X
and
running an instance of the server and client programs.  I have not gotten
around to that yet.  They have been sponsoring app development, so it
needs to be seen how much functionality you might be able to get if you
were to maintain a server, plus a client, plus any freely-licensed apps.

Others I quickly surveyed include Tolven http://home.tolvenhealth.com/
 and OpenMRS http://openmrs.org/

But I haven't found (I guess they don't exist yet) any personal health log
software.  I've come to find out that even the coding of medical
procedures is not standardarized (The AMA code set is the most used in the
US - but that's the _American_ Medical Association) and not free - meaning
that they're 
proprietaryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_Procedural_Terminologyand
dependent on the system used.

Any suggestions on solutions?  What do you do?  I simply want to log and
record everything about my health in a way that I have access to it; I
might be able to share it; and I might be able to import data from other
systems.

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Spreadsheets Improved with JavaScript

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

A little while ago, I posted here about publishing an article in LJ... Well
here is the final draft:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sPcwM8a3xggOks1TOOuvarDclclsjZxZUFoUqBlI0us/edit#
a
case study and demo on how to take spreadsheets to the next level of
utility by using Google Apps and Google Apps Script (note: GS is way cool.
 It's another example like jQuery and Node.js of how JavaScript is the new
school old school cool kid on the block.)

I'm now going to circulate this to editors, but I also just wanted to share
it here because I think it's pretty useful stuff.

Greg Rundlett
ps. you can also see my post on Google Plus
https://plus.google.com/102649492797665744320/posts/dnaVDHtFAQq
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publishing an article

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I am writing an article about a tech topic that I think could be suitable
for publishing in Linux Journal or other tech publications (the article is
about Google Apps Script and how it's the modern day equivalent of VBA for
creating office applications).  Does anyone have contacts?  Or, anyone who
has published have any advice?

Also, I'd welcome any input on the article, writing style etc.  The article
is open for edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sPcwM8a3xggOks1TOOuvarDclclsjZxZUFoUqBlI0us/edit


Production notes:
I'm still working on putting together an example document/data and then I
plan to put the ensemble into Google Docs and the App store
the code is in a pastebin for easy syntax highlighting

Thanks,

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

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

DFSG-compliant parody:

Happy Freedom to you

Greg Rundlett



On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Jon maddog Hall mad...@li.org wrote:

 On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:15 -0400, John Abreau wrote:
  To be precise, the lyrics are copyrighted. The tune is from
  the 1893 song Good Morning to All, and is public domain.
 
  See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You
  for references.
 
  If you can find, or create, alternative lyrics for the tune,
  then you should be all set.

 How about a parody to the same tune:

 Happy Rip-off to you?

 
 
 
  On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
   On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
   roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
   http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120813
  
   Thursday is Debian's 19th birthday.
  
   Anyone doing anything special? Anyone want to?
  
 Just make sure you don't sing Happy Birthday, as that content is
   not compliant with the DFSG.
  
 ;-)
  
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Re: Advice on giving constructive criticism.

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Hi Ken,

Sounds like you've already drafted the basis of a good constructive
message.  Paraphrasing:

I've got a real project at work to find a video conferencing solution.
 I'm motivated and technical.  I prefer open source.

I researched and tested several solutions, and was impressed that
Openmeetings appears to have a lot going for it:
* active community
* momentum, etc.

But, I was forced to move on to testing other solutions because the
ease of adoption was not there.

* documentation was scattered, incomplete, or missing
* existing documentation was difficult to use  (e.g., pasting from the
PDF, across page breaks, hopelessly broke script files to the point
where I gave up and made my own)
* I was unsure which web site even was the right one -- there's one in
Germany, and two in the USA.

I understand that high-level organization of a project requires
leadership and effort that is often not what developers want to do,
but I hope that you can use this  feedback in a constructive way to
ensure that the development effort does not go to waste.  Perhaps a
recruiting effort would discover that there are passionate users of
the system who given the opportunity to volunteer could and would
contribute to the marketing/documentation/organization aspects of the
project.  Some of the priorities that I see:
* A singular, or at least coherent web presence is critical.
* Up-to-date documentation in an easy-to-use format (HTML)
* Introductory content for new users, new contributors, curious onlookers
* Singular, clear source of source code and binaries

Respectfully,



Greg Rundlett


On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
 Hi, all.  As you've noted, I recently kicked the tires on a bunch of
 videoconferencing solutions.  The one that was the biggest disappointment was
 Openmeetings; it seemed to have a lot going for it, an incredibly active
 developer community, and that it was going places.  But...

 - Its documentation was scattered, incomplete, or missing; that which was 
 there
 was difficult to make use of (e.g., pasting from the PDF, across page breaks,
 hopelessly broke script files to the point where I gave up and made my own --
 clearly, it should be in HTML, or with links to Pastebin, or *something*).

 - I was unsure which web site even was the right one -- there's one in 
 Germany,
 and two domestic ones.

 - Likewise, downloads; the Sourceforge points to the Apache Incubator (which I
 think is hosted on Google Code, IIRC).  But the files there aren't the ones
 they talk about downloading in the docs; THOSE are hosted on a different 
 Google
 Docs page.

 -Etc.

 Honestly, there's even a decent chance it was the better choice, but every 
 step
 felt like slogging through molasses, and when I couldn't figure out the GUI,
 and there was no (apparent) documentation on a bunch of that stuff, I threw in
 the towel.  Which, what with the resources and momentum they have, is a shame.

 I have a strong suspicion, though, that the developers are suffering from
 can't-see-the-forest-for-the-trees-ism.  They're so used to what they're used
 to (if you will) that they don't realize just how hard it is to break in as a
 newbie.  I'd like to bring their attention to some of these issues, but when I
 started drafting the e-mail in my mind, it began to sound an awful lot like
 Your product sucks so I went with something better, which might, shall we
 say, be counter productive.

 Suggestions on how to approach this?

 Thanks,

 -Ken





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router configuration UI online

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Pretty good idea:

Linksys / Cisco has a website where you can view the User Interface of
all of their router models interactively:
http://ui.linksys.com

You can find the model, and version and get the exact UI that your
friend is asking you about when they can't connect or setup their
router.

e.g. this is the E1200
http://ui.linksys.com/files/E1200/1.0.00/index.html


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Re: Malware for Linux

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
   /cue the little girl from Poltergeist: They're here...

 Multi-platform backdoor malware targets Windows, Mac and Linux users
 http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/11/backdoor-malware/


Gist of the story, you need to use anti-virus because you could visit
a compromised/intentionally nefarious website that asks your
permission to execute a Java program that *if you give it permission*,
will download malware onto your computer.

I think simple education (don't download or execute programs when you
don't trust the authenticity or origin) works better than anti-virus.
I also marvel at how Microsoft has CONTINUOUSLY trained their user
base to click furiously at any given opportunity in order to get
things done.  So, I still believe the best thing for security
conscious people to do is to use GNU/Linux exclusively.

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Re: Slashdot: NH Passes Open-Source bill

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Seth Cohn you rock!

Greg Rundlett
my public PGP 
keyhttp://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x5E07A26B877CEBF6


On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Coleman Kane ck...@colemankane.org wrote:

 On 02/05/2012 04:49 PM, Jon maddog Hall wrote:
  On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 15:13 -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote:
  Kudos to Seth...
 
 
 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/04/2259227/new-hampshire-passes-open-source-bill
 
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  days that is questionable, this is a good example of helping
  government make the right choice, in both the use of Free Software,
  and (even more importantly) Open Standards and Open Data.
 
  md
 I've since moved back to Cincinnati, but I've reconnected with many of
 my successor evangelists at the University here. I try to explain to
 them that, no matter how hopeless or cynical the system appears, there
 is a pretty big ideas vacuum. That same vacuum that allows silly ideas
 like SOPA and PIPA needs to be taken advantage of more by our community.
 In this case, it has really helped having a person on the inside. If
 we make sure to be part of the process, by working toward contributing
 to it, we have plenty of opportunity right now to be influential in
 lawmaking.

 Good work, Seth! I'll make sure I pass this along to my local reps here
 in Cincinnati. I know the new city council that was elected last year
 has placed on this year's agenda a plan to look into Open Source
 solutions for long-term planning (to overcome recurring licensing 
 support costs for proprietary closed-source legacy systems).
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Re: drive recovery of dual-boot system

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On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Mike Bilow mik...@colossus.bilow.comwrote:

 Filesystems (and therefore fsck targets) reside on partitions of the
 disk, something like /dev/sdc3, rather than the entire device (or an
 image of it). This is inherent in the design of the system and is
 independent of the types of filesystems or how they are mixed.


Thanks Mike, I knew that, but somehow thought that there was some magic
that I didn't know or understand that would make the computer do what I
wanted as opposed to what I told it to do :-)


 In order to access partitions within an image file, you want the kpartx
 utility:

http://linux.die.net/man/8/**kpartx http://linux.die.net/man/8/kpartx


Ahh, that's the part that was missing from all the tutorials/manpages/faqs
that I've read.



 Also, those annoying Dell machines that will not boot from CD will boot
 from USB Flash memory, and it is easy to make one up with SysRescueCD:

http://www.sysresccd.org/**Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_**
 install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_**USB-stickhttp://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick

 Thanks, I plan to give that a try and I'm also going to investigate
setting up a computer on USB stick for my kids.


 On 2012-01-26 00:47, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:

 I have an internal hard drive that won't boot.

 [snip]

 The bad drive in question is 250GB and has a number of partitions and file
 system types:

 [snip]

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
 /dev/sdc1   1   7   56196   de  Dell Utility
 /dev/sdc2   81966157286407  HPFS/NTFS
 /dev/sdc3   *19665881314539617  HPFS/NTFS
 /dev/sdc45882   30401   1969569005  Extended
 /dev/sdc55882   29402   188932401   83  Linux
 /dev/sdc6   29403   30401 8024436   82  Linux swap /
 Solaris

 I succeeded in creating a copy of the Linux partition using ddrescue
(also called gddrescue in Ubuntu).  There were a few errors found and
corrected by fsck.  I'll post more details later but at this point I'm
pretty happy to have my data.

~ Greg
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drive recovery of dual-boot system

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

I have an internal hard drive that won't boot.

The system (Dell Studio Hybrid) also will not boot from CD-ROM (regardless
of what I do with the boot sequence, F2, BIOS settings etc.)  In fact it
doesn't seem that BIOS settings actually get saved.  But that's another
matter.  I'm concerned with recovering data from the failed drive.  And
obviously using a bootable CD like the System Rescue CD won't work.

I bought an enclosure so that I could read from the drive using my laptop
as the working host.

The bad drive in question is 250GB and has a number of partitions and file
system types:

Disk /dev/sdc: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5000

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   1   7   56196   de  Dell Utility
/dev/sdc2   81966157286407  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc3   *19665881314539617  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc45882   30401   1969569005  Extended
/dev/sdc55882   29402   188932401   83  Linux
/dev/sdc6   29403   30401 8024436   82  Linux swap / Solaris

At first I tried dd_rescue to copy the entire device to a file on an
external 1TB drive.  The device is a dual-boot setup so it has a Windows
partition and a Linux partition (plus factory-installed recovery and
utility partitions).  dd_rescue copied a lot of data but it complained when
I ran fsck on the resulting file:

# fsck -y /media/disk-a/backups/hybrid/backup.img

fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
e2fsck 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks...
fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open
/media/disk-a/backups/hybrid/backup.img

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 device


This leads me to think that I can't create a backup of the entire device to
a single file if the device is partitioned into multiple file system types.
 So, I'm back to square one.  I'm going to try gnu *ddrescue *and create a
copy of just the Linux partition into a file on the external USB drive.
 Then I'll try mounting that file as a loop device to see if I have my
data.

Is my understanding correct, or should I be able to backup the entire,
multi-filesystem, multi-partition device.  In the latter case, I was going
to restore it to a new drive (still in the mail) and hope that I'd still be
able to dual-boot the system.  If I can only do one OS at a time, then I'm
hoping I won't run into problems trying to install my licensed copy of
windows onto a new hard drive from media that I don't have.


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Re: [Discuss] home design + construction + landscape design software?

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Great input on this thread.  I wanted to post a follow-up.  This is an
example of what you can do with Sweet Home 3D on Linux:
http://youtu.be/XDZP5rxYv1I

I created a model of what I'd like to do with my basement.  And then the
software allows you to save points of view and compiles those into a
virtual walk-through of the created 3-D space.  Pretty good.

I've started to checkout Google Sketchup.  I was able to successfully
install it with winetricks and then run it with wine. The biggest thing I'm
excited about with Sketchup (aside from being able to use the software) is
the fact that manufacturers are putting their products (models) onto the
Google 3-D warehouse which presumably means that it's easier for
builders/designers/homeowners to create realistic models of home
construction or renovation projects.  That's what started me on this path.
 I also hear that middle schools or high schools are using Sketchup for
projects too.

If all this 3-D stuff is interesting to you, this one webpage
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-excellent-free-3d-model-websites/ summarizes
all the places you can go downloading free models.

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home design + construction + landscape design software?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Is anyone aware of Linux-compatible software for modeling architecture,
landscape and home construction projects?  I want to model a basement
finishing project, and I have carpenter friends who would also enjoy such
software.

I've used store-bought software many moons ago on Windows, but don't know
of the current options.  And when I go looking at them (e.g.
http://home-design-software-review.toptenreviews.com/better-homes-and-gardens-home-designer-review.html)
I haven't seen any that either say linux or else are online services that
can be accessed through the browser.

p.s. http://brlcad.org/d/about is a cool CAD/CAM FOSS package - but it's
not at all what I'm looking for.

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

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.comwrote:

 In case anyone's interested, I've expanded some on the response
 that I gave Derek about doing whole-home audio with MPD+PulseAudio,
 in my online journal:

http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/chronicle/whole-home-pulseaudio.html

 [snip]

Thanks for sharing this detailed write-up.  Much appreciated.

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SLUG (meeting tonight): jQuery JavaScript library

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Just posting to the list in case some people who otherwise would be
interested but didn't know about the meeting
http://slug.gnhlug.org/Members/rea/SLUG/talks/jquery-javascript-library

quote: At UNH RCC we've been using jQuery for quite some time.  It just
keeps getting better.  Not only does it handle all that messy browser
dependent stuff that nobody wants to do, but it provides CSS like hooks for
JS.  If you haven't looked lately it now does a whole lot more.

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Migration Environment Survey (host profiling) HOWTO

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 it's contents with sudo crontab -l
You might also find other user's crontabs by inspecting /var/spool/cron
Finally, on any production host, I prefer to put cron jobs into the
/etc/cron.d directory and disallow user crons.  Your System
Administrator may too, so check there

10. Do any of the website(s) use an SSL certificate?

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11. Will you require migration of existing email records and/or setup
of email accounts or other user-based services (i.e.
FTP accounts) at the new server?

Greg Rundlett

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Re: [Discuss] Migration Environment Survey (host profiling) HOWTO

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Matt Shields m...@mattshields.org wrote:


 2. Missing quite a few common languages, ie Java.


agreed


 3. DotNetNuke is a framework not a language, but for a site survey they
 could add a separate question asking about what frameworks are used.
 PHP - CakePHP, Zend, CodeIgniter...
 Perl - Catalyst...
 Java - Spring, Strusts...
 Python - Django, Pylons, TurboGears...
 .NET - are there any?

 I noticed that too.  And you're absolutely right.  If you don't know the
frameworks involved then I think it's going to be risky to do a migration.

I should Google for Data Center Migration Risks to see what I can come up
with in terms of wisdom, best practices etc.



 Another category missing is which application/web servers are used?
 Apache
 Lighttpd
 Nginx
 Tomcat
 GlassFish
 Resin
  and the list goes on


Yep.


 4. For MySQL you can use the following query
 SELECT CONCAT(sum(ROUND(((DATA_LENGTH + INDEX_LENGTH - DATA_FREE) / 1024 /
 1024),2)), MB) AS Size FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES where TABLE_SCHEMA
 like '%YOUR_DB_NAME%' ;

 Thanks - worth bookmarking.


 Matthew Shields
 Owner
 BeanTown Host - Web Hosting, Domain Names, Dedicated Servers, Colocation,
 Managed Services
 www.beantownhost.com
 www.sysadminvalley.com
 www.jeeprally.com




Matt (or anyone else) if you're interested in providing a quote for our
migration project, please email me off-list

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[JOB] Postgres + PHP + Drupal needed

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I'm looking for an advanced / Sr. -level consultant who would be immediately
available to assist on a project.  This is NOT for a beginner.

Must have Postgres 8.2 experience - database reverse-engineering, design and
re-factoring especially familiar with Data cleaning and reorganizing a
database
Must have PHP programming experience with 5.2.9 and 5.3 - especially with
Drupal 7 and custom module development
Must have Subversion and/or Git experience.
Bash scripting and Linux (Ubuntu) server experience helpful
Real Estate industry experience a plus

Please send rates, resume, references to greg.rundl...@beangroup.com

Location is in Portsmouth, NH

Greg Rundlett

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