Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-19 Thread Mike Small
"Rich Braun" writes: > So, it's 2014 and I'm still in search for an excellent personal-finance > manager that works on Linux, Windows and/or Mac, with sync to/from mobile. And > whose data can be kept on storage media owned by me, not some cloud provider. > (I guess I could go back to my old Windo

[Discuss] Home security & automation

2014-09-19 Thread Matt Shields
I'm considering setting up my own home security system, video surveillance and home automation. I'd rather not go with a provider based system (like Comcast, ADT, Vivint, etc) since I want to control everything and not have to rely on a company for service or pay a monthly fee. Ideally I would li

Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-19 Thread Richard Pieri
Money Manager EX + Unison. -- Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-19 Thread Chris Johnson
On 09/19/2014 02:35 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > For about 2 years, I've been happily using Moneydance as a Quicken > replacement. It's a Java app that runs on any platform, and also has an > iPhone app that (up until now) provided sync capability to my Linux server. > Their 2014 release apparently br

Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-19 Thread William Cattey
Hi Rich (and hello to the rest of BLU), My partner has talked me into experimenting with gnucash. Up to now I've been using a couple spreadsheets that were operating as glorified check registers/stock inventory pages. I don't actually have a lot of experience with financial software. (I compared

Re: [Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-19 Thread Cole Tuininga
On 09/19/2014 02:35 PM, Rich Braun wrote: Your thoughts? Use btsync (https://www.btsync.com/) rather than dropbox perhaps? With btsync, you are your own cloud provider. -- Cole Tuininga Lead Developer co...@code-energy.com ___ Discuss mailing list

[Discuss] Personal finance software on Linux

2014-09-19 Thread Rich Braun
For about 2 years, I've been happily using Moneydance as a Quicken replacement. It's a Java app that runs on any platform, and also has an iPhone app that (up until now) provided sync capability to my Linux server. Their 2014 release apparently broke wifi sync, and it's now deprecated. Here's th

Re: [Discuss] Boston Linux Meeting reminder, tomorrow Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - Crypto News, TOR, and our PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV

2014-09-19 Thread Bill Ricker
I like the extended attribute systems that let one set a default access for new files on a directory. Particularly helpful for uploads, in combination with directory SETUID/SETGID bits. Alas not uniformly implemented. On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:43 AM, John Abreau wrote: > Don'tcha just *hate* when