Re: [Discuss] drop box software

2011-08-31 Thread Stephen Adler
Thanks, the issue is that I don't want to use a 3rd party system or service to do my drop box file sharing, I want to use my own servers. I have this thing about putting data on a system I don't maintain myself On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 21:00 -0500, Jack Coats wrote: > It has an option for sharing

[Discuss] 10th Circuit Affirms in All Respects - Novell, Not SCO, Owns the Copyrights, etc.

2011-08-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While SCO is effectively dead, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the previous judgment that Novell and not SCO owns the Unix copyrights. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110830170454743 "Not even Boies Schiller could save SCO. In fac

Re: [Discuss] drop box software

2011-08-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler > > I'm getting a bit confused. I thought drop box was a service where one > could upload a file, give it a password of some sort, and then you sent > the password to

Re: [Discuss] drop box software

2011-08-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler > > I'm getting a bit confused. I thought drop box was a service where one > could upload a file, give it a password of some sort, and then you sent > the password to

Re: [Discuss] drop box software

2011-08-31 Thread Stephen Adler
Boy.. do I feel stupid. I had no idea drop box was basically a repository on steroids. I thought drop box was a service where I could upload a 20 gigabyte file and send a URL with a password to a friend so that he could down load that 20G file, thus working around large file limits in e-mail attach

Re: [Discuss] drop box software

2011-08-31 Thread Matt Shields
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Stephen Adler wrote: > Boy.. do I feel stupid. I had no idea drop box was basically a > repository on steroids. I thought drop box was a service where I could > upload a 20 gigabyte file and send a URL with a password to a friend so > that he could down load that

Re: [Discuss] drop box software

2011-08-31 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 07:39:55PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: Derek Martin [mailto:inva...@pizzashack.org] > > > > I am extremely reticent to house any of my personal data on > > someone else's computers... > > Supposing the data is encrypted, and inaccessible to the 3rd party, d

Re: [Discuss] drop box software

2011-08-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One comment here regarding e-mail attachments. because email has a general limitation of 7-bit ASCII (now other things like Unicode), attachments must be coded in way to convert 8-bit binary to 7-bits. This is usually done by the base64 method. The bo

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-31 Thread David Miller
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Brendan Kidwell wrote: > Joining in late in the discussion, but since no one else mentioned it, > allow > me to endorse DokuWiki < http://www.dokuwiki.org/ >. I'm not sure if > MediaWiki has yet managed to create a clear plugin protocol and API -- last > time I ch

Re: [Discuss] 10th Circuit Affirms in All Respects - Novell, Not SCO, Owns the Copyrights, etc.

2011-08-31 Thread John Abreau
A comment found on Groklaw: Tragedy all round Authored by: FoxyLad on Tuesday, August 30 2011 @ 10:06 PM EDT Sorry, but I can't bring myself to celebrate. This affair is a tragedy on personal, corporate and national levels. First up, Darl (and those who connived with him) get to live happily ev

Re: [Discuss] 10th Circuit Affirms in All Respects - Novell, Not SCO, Owns the Copyrights, etc.

2011-08-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Certainly. Darl actually acquired their mobile business. Caldera's intent (eg Ransom Love) when they bought SCO's Unix business was to enhance their Linux business. SCO had a worldwide support business. But, Ransom was thrown out shortly after that. I

Re: [Discuss] 10th Circuit Affirms in All Respects - Novell, Not SCO, Owns the Copyrights, etc.

2011-08-31 Thread Matt Shields
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:44 PM, John Abreau wrote: > A comment found on Groklaw: > > > Tragedy all round > Authored by: FoxyLad on Tuesday, August 30 2011 @ 10:06 PM EDT > > Sorry, but I can't bring myself to celebrate. This affair is a tragedy > on personal, corporate and national levels. > >

Re: [Discuss] USB speeds

2011-08-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Another benchmark. This is from a 4GB image to a microSD on my home system: At home I tested using the command 'dd if=ph-hc-dualboot-sd.img of=/dev/sdd bs=1M Copied the results from time, but I can't find it in my email. Essentially it took 1 hour clo

Re: [Discuss] 10th Circuit Affirms in All Respects - Novell, Not SCO, Owns the Copyrights, etc.

2011-08-31 Thread Jerry Feldman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/31/2011 03:08 PM, Matt Shields wrote: > > It baffles my mind that this crap has been allowed to go on for so long. > Sometimes legal cases can take a long time. My friend bought a boat, then ended up suing the seller. The case took 9 years. Of

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-31 Thread Brendan Kidwell
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:44 AM, David Miller wrote: > Definitely take your time and vet out a few different wiki solutions before > choosing one. Migrating a wiki from one platform to another is a big pita. > While MediaWiki is probably the most well known in my opinion it falls > short for c

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-31 Thread David N. Blank-Edelman
On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:44 AM, David Miller wrote: > DokuWiki is definitely worth a look if you're taking the time to vet out a > few candidate solutions. So I'd like to speak against this choice. My experience is one or two years out of date, but it is at the center of of my failed projects fo

[Discuss] DIY yousendit (was RE: drop box software)

2011-08-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler > > I thought drop box was a service where I could > upload a 20 gigabyte file and send a URL with a password to a friend so > that he could down load that 20G file, t

[Discuss] recommendations wanted for stop motion software for Linux

2011-08-31 Thread Bill Bogstad
I want to do some stop motion animation with my kids. Does anybody have experience with any of the programs out there for Linux? For example... StopMotion - http://stopmotion.bjoernen.com/ StopMojo?? - http://www.mondobeyondo.com/projects/stopmojo/ Muan - http://www.visgraf.impa.br/muan_os/ Luc

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Some additional information about MediaWiki... On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM, David Kramer wrote: > On 08/28/2011 12:31 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > > Kyle Leslie wrote: > >> Any suggestions on a set up. I have seen some things about TikiWiki and > >> MediaWiki. > > > > My vote is for Twiki (http:/