Re: [Discuss] RMS in the news

2019-09-18 Thread Randy Cole
It's interesting that the media yesterday was talking about the SNL comedian first, then eventually RMS. * * * When my brother was in high school he got a guest account at the AI lab. Something happened & that person couldn't sponsor guests anymore, so he got one sponsored by RMS, which led to a

[Discuss] Upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04...can't connect to wifi with rtl8723ae driver

2014-04-26 Thread Randy Cole
Worked fine with 13.10. Sees the router, keeps trying but never connects. Driver is rtl8723ae. I assume it is a driver bug. Router is a netgear wgt624v3. Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723AE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter. Haven't filed the bug yet; Can't google anybody

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-24 Thread Randy Cole
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Will Rico wrote: > Meetup.com has been a fantastic way to find new people. I cross-post > mainline BLU meetings when they fall into one of the categories listed > above, and I always list all BLU meetings in our "More Events and > Announcements" section. > > If

Re: [Discuss] cell phone pics

2013-10-21 Thread Randy Cole
There should be a setting for "mass storage mode" for android or even before. This thread might also be apropos http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1215103 On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Charlie Bennett c...@acm.org < x...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > This is not a smart phone? Ca

Re: [Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

2013-05-05 Thread Randy Cole
Without competition or dpu regulation, Verizon might increase the price of fios beyond what you wish to pay. They already "encourage" you to get a package (tying) On May 2, 2013 7:05 PM, "Richard Pieri" wrote: > Jerry Feldman wrote: > > Yes, but maybe you could have copper :-) > > Yes, but why w

[Discuss] can anyone recommend a string editor for xml?

2013-05-01 Thread Randy Cole
I need to edit a few xml files, and would like to do so systematically, ala grep or sed, but aware of xml tags. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] FOSS email that doesn't suck -- does such a thing exist?

2013-03-17 Thread Randy Cole
I used to use Eudora, and really liked it. But it was abandoned (turned over to mozilla folks?) several years ago, so now just use gmail's web client and put up with the UI limitations. On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 09:02:05PM -0400, Rich Pieri wr

Re: help desk software

2011-05-10 Thread Randy
ry at all the pagers going off, even after she asked folks to turn them off. Finally she was told that they were the help desk staff and each page represented a ticket or a phone call that they were required to at least look at the summary or phone number. --Randy ___

Re: laptops

2011-04-20 Thread Randy
I'd have to agree with Irvin about the HP laptops. I've had enormous trouble with the Linux sound drivers and getting it to recognize the microphone for my consumer-grade "HP Pavilion Entertainment PC". The microphone is still a problem. Also it tends to run hot, early battery failure (probably

Re: Boston Linux Meeting reminder tomorrow, Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Nagios, Gnome 3, Genesi's Efika MX Smarttop

2011-04-20 Thread Randy
Jerry, I saw your announcement about the discount at the meeting on the Genesi Efika MX Smarttop. Anyone have one of these already? I thought for a minute you were talking about a Smartbook!! Still 25% off is darn good. Specs look good except for 512MB memory would constrain it to server use ra