Re: apache puzzler...

2010-12-19 Thread John Abreau
o why the README.tar.gz and README.txt do show up. > It's got to be caching issue! But I've tried flushing my cache to no > avail > > Cheers. Steve. > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists

Re: security ofwireless keyboards

2011-01-21 Thread John Abreau
t; http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm > > -Tom > > -- > Tom Metro > Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA > "Enterprise solutions through open source." > Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ > ___ > D

Re: querying free space on a dvd-rw disk

2011-01-22 Thread John Abreau
ect query. > > Thanks in advance. > > Cheers. Steve. > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBE

Re: x11 server for windows

2011-02-05 Thread John Abreau
.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix GnuPG KeyID: 0xD5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: New Router Suggestions

2011-02-10 Thread John Abreau
ny suggestions... > > > > > > ___ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss@blu.org > > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Disc

Fwd: UG News: Come out on Tuesday 2/15 for the Code for America Fellows in Boston

2011-02-10 Thread John Abreau
lghhaae50 You are receiving this email because you are a User Group contact with O'Reilly Media. If you would like to stop receiving these newsletters or announcements from O'Reilly, send an email to usergro...@oreilly.com ====

Re: BLU google calendar [Was BLU mtg Wed. Feb 16, 7pm Net Neutrality and the FCC

2011-02-11 Thread John Abreau
> If its not fun, you're not doing it right. (Notable exception: discussing > evolution with people who think the earth is 6,000 years old. :-) ) > _______ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-disc...@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >

Re: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Agile Programming

2011-03-09 Thread John Abreau
he Asgard Irish Pub & Restaurant, 350 Massachusetts Avenue > > This is the first time we've gone to the Asgard so we'd like some feedback. > > > > > > > > > > ___ > > Announce mailing list > > annou

Re: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Agile Programming

2011-03-09 Thread John Abreau
All set. On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:41 AM, David Kramer wrote: > On 03/10/2011 01:23 AM, John Abreau wrote: >> I've updated the topic, but the detailed description still just says >> >>     Details to follow >> >> Can you send me a more detailed abstract of

Re: Sendmail: Make doesn't make sendmail.cf from sendmail.mc

2011-03-17 Thread John Abreau
and, but I'd rather not if i can at all avoid it... > > Thanks for any help, >  -Don Levey > > p.s. Sendmail 8.14.4, Make 3.81 > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/di

Re: mysql and access

2011-04-04 Thread John Abreau
g on windows? If it is, any gottachas > that one needs to be careful of? > > Thanks! > > Steve. > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abrea

Additional BLU videos uploaded

2011-04-22 Thread John Abreau
had recorded the audio separately, so I can always upload a complete audio-only edition. I'll be examining the recordings over the weekend to decide how to proceed. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER j...@jabber.blu.org / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE

[Discuss] Linux kernel 3.0 due out soon

2011-06-02 Thread John Abreau
Linus decided to mark the kernel's 20th anniversary by bumping the version number to 3.0. https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/29/204 -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER j...@jabber.blu.org / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email j...@blu.org /

Re: [Discuss] Happy World IPv6 Day to everyone

2011-06-08 Thread John Abreau
v6 > > The preference is for testing to be done with fully up-to-date Fedora 15 > installs, but there's also a live CD option. > > -- > Jarod Wilson > ja...@wilsonet.com > > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discu

Re: [Discuss] Happy World IPv6 Day to everyone

2011-06-08 Thread John Abreau
scribed in the above link. I've created my tunnel at Hurricane Electric, and I'm about to run the test-ipv6.com web page. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix GnuPG KeyID: 0xD5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com GnuPG FP: 72

Re: [Discuss] Happy World IPv6 Day to everyone

2011-06-08 Thread John Abreau
Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:40 AM, John Abreau wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > >> Note: Red Hat is participating in this as well, and is sponsoring a special >> Fedora Test Day, specifically for IPv6: >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Q

[Discuss] Relevance of PGP?

2011-06-09 Thread John Abreau
giving up PGP for fear of government persecution? -- 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

Re: [Discuss] Relevance of PGP?

2011-06-09 Thread John Abreau
entiment is not widespread. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:59 PM, john saylor wrote: > hi > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:18 PM, John Abreau wrote: >> he said something to the effect that PGP had been >> an important >> fight for our fundamental rights, but that we've alrea

Re: [Discuss] Relevance of PGP?

2011-06-10 Thread John Abreau
up deviously clever people, human existence is in for some > serious change. Read Philip K. Dick "The Dead Past." Not a direct > analogy, but pretty similar. >>   -Tom >> > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org

[Discuss] Issues with blu.org mail

2011-06-12 Thread John Abreau
We're having some issues with the BLU mail server. This message is to check whether the list is working. Sent on Sunday, June 12 at 9:40 AM. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix GnuPG KeyID: 0xD5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0

[Discuss] Postfix errors and backlog from discuss@blu list

2011-06-12 Thread John Abreau
i" > TMP=/var/tmp/out.$$ > > # Clean up when done or when aborting. > trap "rm -f $TMP" 0 1 2 3 15 > > Temporarily make this a dummy filter, to flush out postfix queue > cat > $TMP > $SENDMAIL "$@" < $TMP > exit $? Can anyone familiar

Re: [Discuss] Issues with blu.org mail - SOLVED

2011-06-12 Thread John Abreau
I've disabled SELinux again, and that seems to have fixed the backlog. On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 9:39 AM, John Abreau wrote: > We're having some issues with the BLU mail server. > This message is to check whether the list is working. > > Sent on Sunday, June 12 at 9:40

Re: [Discuss] Small Form Factor PCs

2011-06-12 Thread John Abreau
ve > > 4. Should run Windows well. > > And unlike many SFF systems, this one uses a standard NEMA/IEC power > cord. No power brick to deal with. > _______ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Discuss] Relevance of PGP?

2011-06-12 Thread John Abreau
n 12, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Anthony Gabrielson wrote: > > > On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:50 PM, John Abreau wrote: > > If you don't like the web-of-trust model at all, then instead of extending > it, > you can replace it entirely. Either way, I'm just saying that a distributed >

[Discuss] BLU Annual BBQ is July 30

2011-06-16 Thread John Abreau
We've got confirmation that July 30 is OK, so the BLU annual BBQ will be held on Saturday, July 30, 2011. Details are in the BLU calendar. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER j...@jabber.blu.org / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email j..

[Discuss] CentOS 6.0 finally passes QA testing

2011-06-17 Thread John Abreau
Looks like CentOS 6.0 is finally being released. According to the QA calendar at http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/ it's due to be pushed out to the download mirrors on Monday, and I assume this means it should be generally available on Tuesday. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, B

Re: [Discuss] CentOS 6.0 finally passes QA testing

2011-06-20 Thread John Abreau
ilson wrote: > On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:37 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: >>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 12:27 PM, John Abreau wrote: >>> >>>> Looks like CentOS 6.0 is finally being released. According to

Re: [Discuss] doxygen

2011-07-13 Thread John Abreau
> >> The doc target helps with devs being able to test their in-line >> documentation, and if you've got developers outside a firewall or are >> otherwise difficult w.r.t. the intranet server. >> >> HTH, >> Matt >>

Re: [Discuss] doxygen

2011-07-13 Thread John Abreau
well > defined in the C and C++ standards. > The // comments do not nest either. > > On 07/13/2011 03:18 PM, John Abreau wrote: >> One common gotcha with the /* blaaa */ style comments is that >> they don't nest. So if you have a block >> >>  

[Discuss] Problems with mailing lists on the BLU server

2011-07-26 Thread John Abreau
. He says he'll look at it after the BBQ this Saturday when I give him the hard drives from the server that just locked up. In the meantime, David and I will be putting out fires as best we can. Also, I added the lists to the backup scripts on the loaner machine. -- John Abreau / Executive Di

Re: [Discuss] Problems with mailing lists on the BLU server

2011-07-26 Thread John Abreau
at address. After that, you should be able to fix things like digest options, etc. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:43 PM, John Abreau wrote: > The BLU server locked up on Thursday evening, and when I went > to the ISP on Saturday to reboot, it wouldn't come up again. > > I brought a l

Re: [Discuss] To catch a thief

2011-07-28 Thread John Abreau
eras with ZoneMinder software is a nice solution, but >> might be overkill for a single camera/short term use. >> ___ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@blu.org >> http://blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > _______ > Discuss m

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures, Backblaze

2011-07-29 Thread John Abreau
volumes. So it > is a harder problem to solve. > >  -Tom > > -- > Tom Metro > Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA > "Enterprise solutions through open source." > Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ > ___ >

Re: [Discuss] BLU Annual BBQ is July 30

2011-07-29 Thread John Abreau
tomorrow. > > > -- > Give someone a program, frustrate them for a day. > Teach someone to program, frustrate them for a lifetime. >   _' >   O >  <:#/>  John Chambers >   +   >  /#\   >  | | > ___ > Discuss

Re: [Discuss] PGP key signing party registration is not working for me.

2011-07-29 Thread John Abreau
he problem behind this script? Maybe > using a different key server would work. > > Thanks for looking into this, > -Andrew > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > --

Re: [Discuss] BLU Meeting: Arduino Hacking 101: Importing the Universe

2011-07-29 Thread John Abreau
; "Enterprise solutions through open source." >> Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ >> _______ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@blu.org >> http://blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >

[Discuss] Added a BLU group at groups.google.com

2011-07-31 Thread John Abreau
I created the Google Group "bostonlinuxandunix" and subscribed it to the BLU Discuss list, in order to test it with Google+. If I've got the settings correct, the group should be connected bidirectionally with the BLU Discuss mailing list.

Re: [Discuss] Testing list

2011-08-02 Thread John Abreau
PGP key id: 537C5846 > PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB  CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 > > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > -- John Abreau /

Re: [Discuss] Testing list

2011-08-02 Thread John Abreau
Messages never arrived in the Google group. Turns out when you restored the pickle files from pegasus, you unsubscribed the Google group from the list. I've just re-added it. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:49 PM, John Abreau wrote: > Seems to be working. > > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011

Re: [Discuss] Python script question

2011-08-03 Thread John Abreau
/usr/bin/env python > > > This has proved very flexible and versatile system for us when dealing > with multiple tools, both internal and those from external vendors. > You just have to spend some time initially creating the modulefile for > each tool. > > Hope this helps,

Re: [Discuss] TrueCrypt with SSD

2011-08-14 Thread John Abreau
I tried bitlocker on Windows 7 for a few of my colleagues last year. But the IT director at the main office in Europe made me rip it out and replace it with TrueCrypt in an effort to make all company laptops worldwide share the same configuration. On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Edward Ned Harv

Re: [Discuss] TrueCrypt with SSD

2011-08-15 Thread John Abreau
wrote: >> From: John Abreau [mailto:abre...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 11:49 PM >> >> I tried bitlocker on Windows 7 for a few of my colleagues last year. >> But the IT director at the main office in Europe made me rip it out and >> replace it with T

[Discuss] Fwd: Relevance of PGP?

2011-08-18 Thread John Abreau
Just noticed that I forgot to Reply-All on this. -- Forwarded message -- From: John Abreau Date: Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Discuss] Relevance of PGP? To: Anthony Gabrielson If average users didn't understand the reason their front doors have locks,

[Discuss] Fwd: Relevance of PGP?

2011-08-18 Thread John Abreau
Another missed Reply-All -- Forwarded message -- From: John Abreau Date: Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [Discuss] Relevance of PGP? To: Anthony Gabrielson Sometimes people assign power of attorney to their lawyer or accountant. A similar thing could be done to

[Discuss] Fwd: Relevance of PGP?

2011-08-18 Thread John Abreau
Yet another one... -- Forwarded message -- From: John Abreau Date: Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [Discuss] Relevance of PGP? To: Anthony Gabrielson If you don't like the web-of-trust model at all, then instead of extending it, you can replace it entirely. E

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: Relevance of PGP?

2011-08-18 Thread John Abreau
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> John Abreau writes >> >> If an average user wants to delegate his PGP keysigning to his lawyer, >> he can configure his PGP settings to trust all keys that the lawyer > trusts, >> and then the

Re: [Discuss] Relevance of PGP?

2011-08-18 Thread John Abreau
gt; that for free managed not to compromise security while doing it, but that's > rather less likely. "Easy, Secure, Free, pick two" isn't guaranteed the way > quick, good, cheap - pick two is, but ... > -- > Bill > @n1vux bill.n1...@gmail.com > > -- Joh

Re: [Discuss] PGP key signing party registration is not working for me.

2011-08-18 Thread John Abreau
2011 at 5:58 PM, John Abreau wrote: > Hi, Andrew. > > We normally reset the keyring for the keysigning script in early August. > At the moment, however, we're using a loaner machine for the server until > we get the old server either repaired or replaced, and the loaner machine

[Discuss] BLU PGP Keysigning next month

2011-08-27 Thread John Abreau
gning. We cleared the registration list a couple weeks ago. In order to participate in the keysigning, you must add your key to the registration list. A few participants have done so already. The registration page is at http://blu.org/keysignings/keypartyregister.php -- John Abreau /

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

2011-08-31 Thread John Abreau
Kj6w== > =joHn > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AI

[Discuss] Fwd: Windows 8, Bootloader Signing

2011-09-21 Thread John Abreau
h.org/5552.html -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-disc...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER j...@jabber.blu.org /

[Discuss] Script for signing keys for BLU keysigning

2011-09-25 Thread John Abreau
gpg-agent to cache the pass phrase. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix 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 ___ Discus

Re: [Discuss] Script for signing keys for BLU keysigning

2011-09-25 Thread John Abreau
wrote: > Err, I don't use PGP, but I didn't see an attachment at my end. > Perhaps the list software strips attachments? > > Bill Bogstad > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:38 AM, John Abreau wrote: >> Attached is my bash script for signing keys after a BLU keysigni

Re: [Discuss] Script for signing keys for BLU keysigning

2011-09-26 Thread John Abreau
use of port forwarding, and the resulting > shar did not work, so the script I am using uses the mailx client. > > On 09/25/2011 09:36 PM, John Abreau wrote: >> Apparently some people didn't receive the attached bash script I had sent >> to the list, so I've added

Re: [Discuss] LVM Re: A really interesting chain of functionality

2011-09-27 Thread John Abreau
st of nothing but symlinks to the real files, with the exception of > any files that have changed. > > Modified files are written as real files, while unmodified files are > written as a symlink. Minor nit: rsync snapshots use real links, not symlinks. -- John Abreau / Executive

[Discuss] How do I determine what hard drive screws I need?

2011-09-28 Thread John Abreau
rives are Seagate Momentus 750gb 2.5-inch SATA drives. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix 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

Re: [Discuss] How do I determine what hard drive screws I need?

2011-09-29 Thread John Abreau
nd. One of those machines had no drives at all, and the other two each had a pair of 36gb drives. I put all 4 drives into lachesis before bringing it to NEDV, so I no longer have any of the old drives here at home. I do remember that the screws were flat head screws. -- John Abreau / Execut

Re: [Discuss] Script for signing keys for BLU keysigning

2011-10-01 Thread John Abreau
have one > running. > 5. Don't forget about the script until next year like I did :-) > > > On 09/26/2011 04:37 PM, John Abreau wrote: >> Suggestions for other options are welcome. One that just occurred to me >> would be to generate an mbox file instead of a bsmt

Re: [Discuss] more on software patent

2011-10-03 Thread John Abreau
money.  Again, I'll repeat my >> recommendation to you, if you are serious about helping the OSS community or >> the industry in general, donate your time to defend against these trolls. >> >> >> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/03/2236255/Patent-Troll-S

Re: [Discuss] Thumbs Up To Ben

2011-10-06 Thread John Abreau
format >>> they >> >> ___ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@blu.org >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] PGP Basics

2011-10-11 Thread John Abreau
o the corporate key > server (assuming PGP). By having only employees being allowed to upload, you > can establish trust as long as it is being properly managed. If an employee > leaves, then there should be a procedure to decertify his/her key. Same > would apply to ssl certs. I think in the origina

Re: [Discuss] PGP Basics

2011-10-11 Thread John Abreau
our system > here, could I just continue to redistribute that to anyone?  So the next > time there is a key signing I could come with my key I got at my current > position and register it with you all? > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix GnuPG KeyID: 0xD5C7B5D9 /

[Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

2011-10-14 Thread John Abreau
'80's, and I worked with Solaris extensively in the '90's, but I haven't been using either of them recently. So unless they'd be a really big win over CentOS or SL, I think my more current experience would makes CentOS or SL the better choices. -- John Abreau / E

Re: [Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

2011-10-14 Thread John Abreau
xperiment with a hybrid server at a later date, after I've worked with the IPv6-only server for a while. Or are you saying it would be easier to learn IPv6 if I start with a hybrid system? On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM, John Abr

Re: [Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

2011-10-14 Thread John Abreau
more likely to work. > I'm not sure if the various OS vendors have done much testing of an > IPv6 only system configuration. > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix GnuPG KeyID: 0xD5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C

Re: [Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

2011-10-14 Thread John Abreau
ct on hold for now, or find some other way to do it elsewhere. On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM, John Abreau wrote: > I'm thinking of deploying an IPv6-only server at our colo facility so I can > get some practical experience with IPv6. I've got server hardware available > for th

Re: [Discuss] how to manage a bunch of ms boxes?

2011-10-16 Thread John Abreau
rver. I believe it's supposed to work much like Solaris Jumpstart. http://unattended.sourceforge.net John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 2011 GnuPG

Re: [Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

2011-10-16 Thread John Abreau
ward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- >> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of John Abreau >> >> Any recommendations for the server OS? > > All OSes support IPv6 natively, very well now.  Every flavo

Re: [Discuss] sed and ANSI sequences

2011-10-16 Thread John Abreau
down side of doing this is that it > can't be copy-pasted; you'll get a literal '^[' string instead of an > actual escape character. > > But if you find that acceptable, then the following should work: > > > b='^[[1m' # Note that the '^[' i

[Discuss] Historical origin of cron's day-of-month/weekday behavior?

2011-10-19 Thread John Abreau
al behavior useful, and I have to wonder why it was designed this way. Can anyone point me to the original author's thoughts on this? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D

Re: [Discuss] Historical origin of cron's day-of-month/weekday behavior?

2011-10-19 Thread John Abreau
hen you'd use both of the fields.  The opposite case, where things > are ANDed -- the intersection of the day of the month with the day of the week > -- is an odd enough set that I don't see it being particularly useful. > > Have I, perhaps, misunderstood something? > > $.

Re: [Discuss] Historical origin of cron's day-of-month/weekday behavior?

2011-10-19 Thread John Abreau
't considered when he came up with the > initial syntax for crontab, and couldn't gracefully retrofit.  That being > said, > everything I just wrote is, obviously, supposition; you could ping Teh Source > [sic]; I imagine he'd enjoy a query as to his rationale: paul-at-vix-do

Re: [Discuss] OT: 8mm to dvd

2011-10-21 Thread John Abreau
iso > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4

Re: [Discuss] OT: 8mm to dvd

2011-10-21 Thread John Abreau
other place I mentioned. Or 18c/foot for if you don't need frame-by-frame scanning, to go straight to DVD or Bluray instead of to hard drive. This cost is just for the scanning, just like the other company; the DVD or hard drive media is an additional cost. On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:49 PM, J

Re: [Discuss] lvm snapshot cloning

2011-10-25 Thread John Abreau
e they hadn't changed. They didn't get erased from the backups, so they're still available for restoration, just like the recently changed files. Did you think that all backups older then one day were somehow erased? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD Gn

Re: [Discuss] mbox questions

2011-10-27 Thread John Abreau
gerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66  C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG K

Re: [Discuss] Security

2011-11-02 Thread John Abreau
it had > camera/microphone, most people talk shop even in the kitchen. > > Speaking of that, I remember a few years ago a company I was at talking > about checking ethernet jacks periodically to make sure no devices were > plugged in that shouldn't be. > > Matthew Shields >

Re: [Discuss] GMail doesn't recognize mailing lists

2011-11-04 Thread John Abreau
the Reply-To matter, you should know that at best, your argument will be ignored by the list admins. We consider the matter to be closed. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E

Re: [Discuss] FYI: We the People...

2011-11-04 Thread John Abreau
esulted and will continue to result in software > which you might benefit from never being produced, or in inferior > products being produced due to the threat of being sued or > unwillingness or inability to pay licensing fees. > > -- > Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizz

Re: [Discuss] foxconn

2011-11-06 Thread John Abreau
paid and not over worked? > > I think this is on topic for Blu Sorry if I'm off topic... > > Cheers. Steve. > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Joh

[Discuss] Fedora 16 released today

2011-11-08 Thread John Abreau
Fedora 16 was just released today. The bittorrent downloads are proving to be the quickest way to download it. 5 minutes, vs an estimated 11 hours for the direct download of the LiveCD image via wget. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW

Re: [Discuss] Need logging help

2011-11-11 Thread John Abreau
t it wrong. > If I can make my existing environment work, I'd rather do that then update > / upgrade. > > Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated. > Scott > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http:/

Re: [Discuss] Linux box for under $20? TRENDnet

2011-11-12 Thread John Abreau
NIC cards. I screwed one up, called Netgear and > easily RMA'd it. > > -- > Jerry Feldman > Boston Linux and Unix > PGP key id:3BC1EB90 > PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66  C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 > > ___ > Discuss ma

Re: [Discuss] Postfix Wildcard email forwarding

2011-11-16 Thread John Abreau
.com --> nore...@mymail.com > xxx_s...@mymail.com --> s...@mymail.com > > > Any input or suggestion is appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > - DP > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mai

Re: [Discuss] an "Enterprise" Linux for desktop

2011-11-23 Thread John Abreau
s. > > > > Bill aka n1vux > Most definitively not the opinion of the employer implied by return address > ... > > _______ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD

Re: [Discuss] an "Enterprise" Linux for desktop

2011-11-23 Thread John Abreau
Funny, I run it on Windows 7, and it works fine for me. On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On Nov 23, 2011, at 6:09 PM, John Abreau wrote: >> >> For lightweight X11 on Windows, I personally prefer the free Mochasoft >> X11 server. It's only a ba

Re: [Discuss] BLU archive?

2011-11-23 Thread John Abreau
d but not receive email from this list. I would > prefer to read an archive/group instead. > > Is the mailing list software capable of this? > > Thx. > > Sent from my iPhone 4S > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] an "Enterprise" Linux for desktop

2011-11-27 Thread John Abreau
the electric chair! Kill me now! :-P -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 2011 PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com 2011 PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 5

Re: [Discuss] Howdy

2011-11-28 Thread John Abreau
s Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics & Robotics > * > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com O

Re: [Discuss] Howdy

2011-11-30 Thread John Abreau
in the broadband market, so the companies *have* to provide good service in order to retain customers. Most towns give a monopoly to one broadband provider, who then has no incentive to give adequate service. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / E

Re: [Discuss] Any Subversion geniuses out there?

2011-12-02 Thread John Abreau
n't believe there is any harm forcing svn to use a > specific mime-type since they are both text. I'll check out the > check-mime-type.pl that Greg mentioned. > > Matthew Shields > Owner > BeanTown Host - Web Hosting, Domain Names, Dedicated Servers, Colocation, > Managed Services

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu alternatives and upgrading distributions

2011-12-12 Thread John Abreau
Adding "-Z" to ls(1) didn't come at the cost of removing things like "-l". On the other hand, removing "+1" from tail(1) broke an enormous number of cron scripts. On Dec 12, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- >>

Re: [Discuss] Backing up LVM partitions using snapshots

2011-12-13 Thread John Abreau
ive containing decades of list traffic, I've often discovered that the huge mbox file had silently been corrupted in one or more places. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B

Re: [Discuss] [OT] Google+

2011-12-14 Thread John Abreau
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Re: [Discuss] [OT] Google+

2011-12-14 Thread John Abreau
: > I have no problem turning off notifications, or notifications when I am > mentioned. But I don't see how I can turn off once I receive the > notification. > What I am getting is a notification of the same event over and over again. > > On 12/14/2011 02:35 PM, John Abr

[Discuss] SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

2011-12-22 Thread John Abreau
n". Is this documented anywhere? I don't understand why the option would be left out of the man page. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix 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

Re: [Discuss] SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

2011-12-22 Thread John Abreau
re about scp, but you could use: > > ssh 192.168.1.2 "cat > destFile" > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM, John Abreau wrote: >> Long ago, I was looking for a way to make scp read from stdin, and I >> had no luck. >> >> Earlier this afterno

Re: [Discuss] SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

2011-12-22 Thread John Abreau
ther of them. Where are you finding that text? Which OS has the man page that includes that text? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 3

Re: [Discuss] SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

2011-12-23 Thread John Abreau
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > http://linux.die.net/man/1/rcp Ah, the man page for the Kerberos edition of rcp. OK. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D

Re: [Discuss] SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

2011-12-23 Thread John Abreau
; APIs. Historically, my colleagues find hidden APIs, and use them for > either because they are there or because they might be more efficient. > How many programs have been written to use undocumented APIs > only to crash when the vendor changes the API without notice. -- John Abreau /

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