Re: Accessing partitions in drive images
On Feb 1, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: Actually, the IBM-PC was following the Apple ][. Jobs hadn't gotten into his control everything mode yet and Woz put the full schematics and ROM in the back of the user manual. That manual managed to teach new users (who to be fair, were more technical than today's average user) and get into the full technical detail that us geeks want. Nowadays manual are written on drool proof paper and I often wonder if the author developer ever saw the software on anything but a fresh Windows XP sp2 install. Or worse, the daily desktop they used that looks nothing like a standard system. One thing I noticed when I was looking at the manuals for the Sun-1 and DEC systems was that in order to be a normal user of those systems you had to know the hardware. This was true even up to the first two computers I had when I was young. However, when I got my computer for college, documentation was little more than a basic Windows XP guide. So basically in twenty years time we've gone from what goes inside the case as this fun and interesting thing you can do with your equipment, to here be dragons. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
home design + construction + landscape design software?
I can confirm one of my architect friends uses SketchUp, so the pros use it too. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Fwd: http://linuxbeard.com/
One thing I've discovered coming from a family that has been involved some degree in politics is that people being offended comes with the territory. Sometimes you just have to pull out a pair of sunglasses and say deal with it! Also, I can't seem to grow a decent beard. I guess the Unix isn't strong enough with me yet :p On Jun 27, 2011 5:26 PM, John Abreau j...@blu.org wrote: I'm offended at your feeling offended! On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 05:19:56PM -0400, John Abreau wrote: It's good to try not to offend people, up to a point, but you have to draw the line somewhere. I find that offensive! *snrk* -b -- there are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. oscar wilde -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER j...@jabber.blu.org / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Fwd: http://linuxbeard.com/
You can save on manufacturing costs by dual-purposing them as ZZ Top fakd beards! On Jun 27, 2011 5:57 PM, Stacie Andrews sta...@provadomarketing.com wrote: As possibly the only women on this conversation I find this horribly funny. I think I should share this with devchix where we can start a fashion statement with fake beards and cause an unheard of sales spike in the beard market. :-p Stacie Andrews CTO at Provado Marketing Solutions, Inc. Devs. Wanted: http://provadomarketing.jobscore.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/stacieandrews Cell. 207-475-5066 On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:25 PM, John Abreau j...@blu.org wrote: I'm offended at your feeling offended! On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 05:19:56PM -0400, John Abreau wrote: It's good to try not to offend people, up to a point, but you have to draw the line somewhere. I find that offensive! *snrk* -b -- there are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. oscar wilde -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER j...@jabber.blu.org / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?
I am currently running the Flash 10.2 beta on my system right now. I'm not sure how bleeding edge you want to get but this one has hardware acceleration in it if your hardware supports it. I just grab it from Adobe and put it in my plugins folder. Flash is still pretty bad though. Also, I think you can force apt to install a package by running apt- get -f install. -Ryan On Feb 12, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: Hey list, Anyone know of a way to have apt-get (Debian) ignore dependencies and download the frelling package anyway? I've recently reinstalled Debian 5.0 lenny on my PC (after a unfortunate accident involving a package manager, a liquid lunch, and a pair of rubber bands). However, in the meantime, Debian has released squeeze as stable. In the progress of updating for that, debian-multimedia.org broke their oldstable archive (corresponding to lenny right now) and have taken it offline, so only their stable archive (corresponding to squeeze) is available. d-m.org was where I was getting my Adobe Flash package from. They conveniently kept a current release packaged in a real Debian package, not the download-an-executable-installer-for-you package one gets elsewhere. Unfortunately, their package based on squeeze thinks it depends on newer libraries than those which ship with lenny. However, I'm almost positive that's wrong -- Flash is statically linked. It sure as hell ain't built against a particular version of Debian. I'm willing to bet those dependencies are just in the package control file because those were the libraries the auto-dependency-generator thing found when the package was built. One could argue that's a bug in the package, and you'd be right, but one could argue Flash is inherently broken, and you'd also be right. This is the reality I have to deal with, and I can't seem to clue apt-get in to it. (I don't want to upgrade to squeeze because (1) it just came out, and that's always a bad idea with *ANYTHING*, and (2) squeeze has moved to one of those overly-complicated dynamic init systems, which I object to for religious reasons.) Google is full of situations that don't apply. Anyone got a clue they can spare? -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Netflix and Hulu [Was Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap]
I think the Silverlight compatibility in Linux is from Novell's Mono/Moonlight environment. On Jan 26, 2011 2:06 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: From this discussion, I learned a few things I didn't know. I hadn't realized that Silverlight (required for Netflix) works under Linux. That was pleasing to find out. I've had a computer hooked up to my 52 TV for years now, even before I started streaming Netflix. Now I watch Hulu, Comedy Central, Amazon OnDemand and misc content providers, but I dropped Netflix we when I switched our TV computer to Ubuntu. Is there really a Silverlight for Linux? I'd be tempted to renew our Netflix account if I could get it to work without much hassle. I'd be happier if it were not an M$ software, but I see Flash as only slightly less evil and I happily made that concession a while ago. I looked through the previous thread you reference, but I don't find Silverlight in there anywhere. Is it a hack like IEs for Linux, or is it straight up supported by M$? Got a link handy? I don't mind googling on my own, so if it is not handy, don't bother. Netflix online is such a better deal than Hulu Plus right now. I too am annoyed at no public list of exactly what you get with HuluPlus over Hulu (exactly which shows you get full runs of, etc). Also, while I am very pleased with how Hulu has handled commercials so far (way less annoying than most content servers), but paying to watch commercials just doesn't feel right. =) Say, are there any more Linux friendly competitors to Netflix out there? ___ Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)
As far as I know you can't downgrade a 64-bit installation to a 32-bit one. I am not the most current in terms of Ubuntu knowledge but the closest I came to this was reinstalling all my media codecs in their 32-bit form On Jan 25, 2011 10:00 PM, Ken Dapos;Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Hey, all. I've got a big ol' RAID box that I use to store... well, pretty much everything. Threw 64-bit Ubuntu on it, 'cause, well, why not? I now know why not. I'm afraid I've fallen into the portable device rage, e.g., my Droid-X. Nifty thing, it is -- even set it up with VPN, SIP through my job, and all sorts of other fun stuff. Now I'd like to play video from my server on the phone. Unfortunately, its media player is pretty useless -- far better to generate video from the server, and stream it, apparently. But! 64-bit CODECs are also kinda lousy. And it's not like I have a oodles of RAM -- 2 GB -- so dropping to a 32-bit system won't really harm anything. But Googling that doesn't really help much. Any suggestions? What I'd *love* to do is an apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade, and be done with it. Somehow, though, I'm thinking it won't be that simple. I'd really like to avoid a full re-install -- a lot of configuration has gone into this silly thing, and, while I could backup /etc and pray that was enough, I'd prefer not to find out the hard way. Thanks for any suggestions, -Ken ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [meta] Re: Open Government Data bill (for comments)
On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 02:13:16 am Jeffry Smith wrote: My recommendation would be to include (based on IETF procedures) a requirement that any non-NH Government standard be implemented by at least 2 independent programs, that can read and write the format interchangably. For NH Government developed ones, the final format/specification cannot be finalized until there are at least two indendent programs, to ensure that the format is, in fact able to be implemented by anyone. jeff I'm being a bit impractical and redundant here, but I would also like to see all standards be available to the public on request. I know this was covered in the amendment, but I am looking at the ISO website and I'm seeing that for ODF it would cost about 335 dollars to get the specification for it. I'm not sure how it could be implemented without infringing on the ISO's copyrights. I see a lot of standards that NH mandates, but they seem to be set at the RSA- level. -Ryan ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [meta] Re: Open Government Data bill (for comments)
On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 07:25:49 am you wrote: doesn't this cover that? (d) Make readily accessible, on the state website, documentation on open data formats used by the state of New Hampshire. When data in open format is made available through the state's website, a link shall be provided to the corresponding data format documentation. In this case, common use of ODF would mean that a link/download to the ODF documentation (aka the spec) should be posted on the state website. If the spec is copyright to the point of forbidden reposting, I think that fails (4) Has a specification available for all to read, in a human-readable format, written in commonly accepted technical language; That's not really available for all to read, only those with $335, right? I'm a huge public policy buff so I tend to think about the implementation of a law beforehand. My point could probably be fixed by whatever department that manages documents just having copies of it available. The greatest value I am seeing here is that along with the openness of the technology there is an openness of process as well. Rather than betting the farm on a proprietary solution, we also have a record of how it worked out. I am reading the policy that Massachusetts has in place (www.mass.gov/itd/etrm) and the state government can look towards this to figure out where the pitfalls are. [...]would ISO standards be considered Open? I'm reading through the ETRM a bit and I see that ANF considers the ISO open. However, they go with the Ecma and OASIS bodies first, I assume because they are more nimble than the ISO. -Ryan ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [meta] Re: Open Government Data bill (for comments)
On Jan 11, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Jeffry Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org wrote: On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 02:13:16 am Jeffry Smith wrote: My recommendation would be to include (based on IETF procedures) a requirement that any non-NH Government standard be implemented by at least 2 independent programs, that can read and write the format interchangably. For NH Government developed ones, the final format/specification cannot be finalized until there are at least two indendent programs, to ensure that the format is, in fact able to be implemented by anyone. While I agree this would be nice, it's the sort of specifics I'm trying to avoid... that's more far policy detail than statute level. I'll put it on my list of 'would be nice' changes, to see if there is enough support to add, once I get general buy in. My concern is if it's not in the guidance, the policy makers will weasel out OOXML is a standard so MS Office is good (ISO 29500) - even though, in fact, there are NO conforming implementations (MS admits MS Office does NOT conform to the ISO standard). The requirement for multiple implementations helps make IETF documents self-regulating, as it does this. How do you know it's open? There are two independant implementations of software that reads/writes the standard, and they can exchange information. No need to worry about definitions (except related to patent/copyright). For better or worse, this is going to have to be a policy maker decision. Trying to craft legislation that specifically excludes a party out(almost like a bill of attainder) is going to be fiercely fought in the courts. Keep it simple and start a process similar to the ETRM that Massachusetts has. Also seeing as how the ISO spec for OOXML covers four separate documents versus ODF's one, some kind of value proposition can be raised. -Ryan ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: New Year's Cleaning
On Monday, January 03, 2011 05:28:23 pm Benjamin Scott wrote: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: For its time, the Indy was pretty cool. SGI was the Unix world's answer to the Apple Macintosh: Physical design is colorful, bold, almost artistic; all the OEM pieces work together very well; oh-so-pretty desktop GUI; utterly incompatible with anything third-party; way more expensive than everything else. ;-) Now, of course, with OS X, Apple has reclaimed that particular niche. There's a strange kind of symmetry there. I can remember seeing Jurassic Park and seeing all those SGI workstations all around the place, with a Connection Machine as a background prop. Coming from a Tandy 1000/Apple II world when I was young the graphics floored me. I think that shaped my mind that Unix was a high-end scientific and visualization operating system rather than the almost purely server world it's in right now. This also drove me to start using Linux as well. I remember Apple having a flavor of Unix in the early 90s. I used it only once and found it somewhat awkward to use. Going with a re-made NeXTStep was definitely the better choice. -Ryan ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: New Year's Cleaning
On Saturday, January 01, 2011 12:06:20 pm Tom Buskey wrote: Both systems have CD and hard drives They booted up last time I used them. I don't remember the passwords. Knowing security on IRIX you don't have to worry about that :P ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Android printer recommendations
On Dec 16, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: (Anyone know why laser printers seem to only run at 600 DPI? Every one I've checked (and I've l looked at dozens of models) specifies 600 DPI as the native resolution. I'm guessing it's something inherent in the technology, but don't actually have any data. (You may see units that advertise higher DPIs, but if you check the specs you'll find that's always enhanced or synthesized or interpolated or some other way of saying not 600 DPI.)) I see the 600 DPI in terms of single dimensional resolution. So I'm guessing that 600 DPI is the current limit for letter-sized paper in terms of horizontal resolution. All I know is that printers are the only real things in computers nowadays that make my blood boil. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?
On Aug 16, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Bill Sconce wrote: Does anyone know of a way to prevent a Linux account from accessing the Internet? E.g., setting a [per-user] gateway to nil, or setting permissions on some node along the path to eth0? It's acceptable to be crude, to prevent such an account from using any network services whatsoever. I can see how to do it brute-forcefully, by wrapping each focus into such a user's process [window] with a script which invokes ifdown eth0, and invokes ifup eth0 on the way back out. But that's ugly; something like a permissions-based approach would be much more Linux-like. (The intention is to quarantine a very-untrusted application, for example a program which runs Flash, or any program which displays PDFs, or any other blobs-downloaded-from-the-'net. Adobe Reader(tm), I'm talking to you.) It all has to do with a talk I should do someday, and which has gotten a fresh kick from Eben Moglen's talk at LinuxCon... Many thanks! -Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ Bill, I don't have anything in particular in mind, but I remember a quick and dirty way to go about this is to use the down option in ifconfig if you have it. e.g. ifconfig eth0 down -Ryan ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Software Patents
On Jul 23, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: ... depending on where the patent is granted. Sorry, this is a fiction. When a USA company creates a device, they typically pay the patents across the board, not just on the units that are going to countries that respect patents. When companies are building products, they make product decisions based on patents, which affect the products no matter where they go. Ergo Ubuntu does not distribute mp3 software already integrated into their products worldwide because of patent laws in some countries. I stand by my statement.6.3 billion people are affected. Furthermore, the issues presented in 1994 by the WTO's TRIPS treaty still haven't been totally decided. The sticking point here in this discussion is Article 27 and technology patents. While the only serious litigation under this has been between the United States and Argentina concerning pharmaceutical patents, the article mandates that signatories provide technology patents without discrimination. So while the EU has rejected software patents for the time being, there come a time in the future where this part of the treaty is understood as recognizing software patents. The vast majority of countries are either signatories to this or have observer status. -Ryan ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
