[Discuss] Boston Linux and Unix Annual Summer BBQ XX Saturday, July 26 2013 1:00 PM

2014-07-18 Thread Jerry Feldman
Boston Linux and Unix Annual Summer BBQ XX When: Saturday, July 26, 2013 from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm Where: John and Shelley Chambers' home 33 Cedarwood Avenue, Waltham, MA. BYOF - Bring Your Own Food Boston Linux Unix is holding its nineteenth annual summer BBQ on Saturday, July 26(rain date:

[Discuss] home router hacking competition

2014-07-18 Thread Tom Metro
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/sohoplessly-broken-hacking-contest-aims-to-test-home-router-security/ ...security advocates are sponsoring SOHOpelessly BROKEN, a no-holds-barred router hacking competition at next month's Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas. The contest will

[Discuss] OpenERP and general Linux support for nonprofit

2014-07-18 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Hi all. .. Just wondering in general if there are folks around who could bid on an RFP (when we get around to writing one) for general Linux support and also for OpenERP setup and support for the artisans Asylum, a nonprofit Makerspace in Somerville. I am off the opinion that open source is more

[Discuss] cpu benchmarking and power usage

2014-07-18 Thread Stephen Adler
Guys, Well... I don't know if I'm just in a time wasting mode or not, but I went off and got a Kill-a-watt meter, the P4460 model, and I plugged my UPS system which powers my desktop at home and then went all nuts trying to figure out how much it costs to run my desktop. As usual, I don't

Re: [Discuss] cpu benchmarking and power usage

2014-07-18 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Adler Then I went off looking for some CPU benchmarking tools so that I could run all cores at once thus giving me an idea of how much power the system uses etc. cat

Re: [Discuss] cpu benchmarking and power usage

2014-07-18 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/18/2014 8:54 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: If it's a windows system, just write an infinite loop one-line script in python or something. The Prime95 stress test. It's designed specifically to run CPU cores and RAM to their limits. I don't have any good way to max out the GPU though.