Re: [Discuss] astronomy suggestions?

2012-07-16 Thread Ricker, William
Local eastern mass astronomy group is ATMoB. They meet at Harvard monthly for talks and have star parties in the NW burbs at a no-headlights facility. MoS.org does some starparty events on their parking garage roof too. BU has open nights on their scope, and Clay Center sometimes has events in

Re: [Discuss] Boston-area green screen? [OT]

2012-04-20 Thread Ricker, William
make sure you have stretched it so there are no wrinkles and you use a backlight to make sure the sheet is lit evenly, backlight or even better two very diffuse sources, one each side. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org

Re: [Discuss] Boston-area green screen? [OT]

2012-04-20 Thread Ricker, William
I don't know if pro photo gear rental shops are even open on the weekend --Original Message-- From: Tom Metro To: Daniel C. Cc: L-blu Subject: Re: [Discuss] Boston-area green screen? [OT] Sent: Apr 20, 2012 16:49 Daniel C. wrote: > Apologies for the off topic message, but does anyone know

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

2011-11-23 Thread Ricker, William
If I were going to have a '"Enterprise" Linux for desktop' at the office, I'd likely use a Fedora variant to match the RHEL/OEL/CENTOS on the servers. (As a numbers guy, likely Scientific would be my first choice. I can wish.) As long as I have Putty/Perl/Ack I'm happy. (though sometimes Humming

Re: [Discuss] REL Mass CORI .exe

2011-11-07 Thread Ricker, William
Sounds to me like how one reconfigures a compromised server to deliver a Trojan. Unless you had actually requested a CORI, highly unlikely the actual origin is the stated return address. Not speaking for $DayJob ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.o

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

2011-11-07 Thread Ricker, William
>> extra "reply list" button. >Exactly Reply-List is nice, but as long as the client has both Reply-Sender & Reply-All, I can live with it. Here at $DayJob, that's the two buttons Outlook provides, same as Gmail. Yeah, it would be nice if I had a third button to not sent Greg and Jerry an ext

Re: [Discuss] OT: what is this cable for?

2011-11-02 Thread Ricker, William
> >So does anyone want to explain the difference between DB and DA? > In theory, DB is 25 pin, DA is 15 pin. > In practice anything "D sized" is called DB: DB9 (serial), DB15 (VGA, three > rows), etc. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-sub ___ Dis

Re: [Discuss] OT: what is this cable for?

2011-11-02 Thread Ricker, William
>  Ribbon cable w/ two (the name escapes me ..) "ring things" to usually used >to fight inductance..  Snap-on Ferrite donuts actually *add* inductance, which rounds the corners of square wave digital signals, to prevent interference (both by and to) and/or induced spikes from lightning EMP. The

Re: [Discuss] sed and ANSI sequences

2011-10-17 Thread Ricker, William
I suspect echo protects youu fromm escapes unless specified with -e \e. The octal is better with sed/perl filter. May need separate parallel macros for generated errors via echo -e and filtered via sed (or perl, which has ansi terminal modules Term::ANSIColor in core lib since Perl 5.6 ). -

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

2011-10-17 Thread Ricker, William
Is Disk-less PXEboot an option for Windows? Bill, typing with thumbs ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] best dual core Linux box

2011-09-18 Thread Ricker, William
> buy a quad core machine and turn off two cores in the bios. Yup or moreso. Same issue with different package here. We're getting HP DL380G7, 2 socket, quad Core, 2.67GHz, and enabling only one core per socket. That will give us 2 cores of IO. Bill, typing with thumbs _