b connection, and am finally able to print
> but only from the stupid gui. neither lpr nor lp seem able
> to find it, though hplip and cups both see it as the default
> printer. it is really frustrating.
Sorry, I missed the original: what printer is being referred to?
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s bad as it looks. (Although fake CID is getting very common
> these days.)
There's a different system, automatic number identification, that is
used to allow toll-free lines to identify the calling line for billing
purposes. It's completely se
On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 09:38:06 -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 11/23/2017 7:36 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> Bit of a difference there, you agree?
>
> Yup. Although the "we have no idea" bit is hyperbole because the reality
> is we do know how unique fingerpr
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 23:37:10 -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 11/22/2017 10:42 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> With that much leeway, there's more chance for collision, right?
>
> It depends on a lot of factors. Leeway -- the degrees of deviations
> allowed for a match --
On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:55:32 -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 11/22/2017 1:44 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> And voices do change, both short and long term. What happens with
>> voice ID when you have a respiratory infection, blocked sinuses, what
>> have you?
>
s are unique. In principle, voice identification
>>can be a good authentication system. In practice, it depends on how many
>>retries and how much deviation from a given user's baseline the system
>>permits.
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:11:36 -0400, grg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 10:36:40PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
>> On 9/13/2017 10:13 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> > This is 1000Base-T, with standard cat 5e cable. scp isn't much slower.
>>
>> You're using
150-Accepted data connection
150 2357995.9 kbytes to download
100% |***| 2302 MiB 96.71 MiB/s00:00 ETA
226-File successfully transferred
226 24.191 seconds (measured here), 95.19 Mbytes per second
This is 1000Base-T, with standard cat 5e cable. scp isn't m
On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:36:51 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 9/13/2017 11:44 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:38:36 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
>>> 1080p video streams (MPEG-4) need about 5-8 Mbps burst bandwidth.
>>> Gigabit Ethernet has practic
with fast enough disks.
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 19:58:14 -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> On 09/04/2017 05:55 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> > Congratulations! Sounds like a hardware problem. (Unless it is a
>> problem in scp!)
>> Not likely, since I've seen it with ftp and socat. This has all the
>
On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 16:45:43 -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> On 09/04/2017 04:08 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 15:56:06 -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
>>> On 09/04/2017 02:10 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 13:59:48 -0400, Frank DiPrete wrote
On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 15:56:06 -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> On 09/04/2017 02:10 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 13:59:48 -0400, Frank DiPrete wrote:
>>> What us the NIC in the laptop ?
>>> I've had this problem before using the open source driver for a net
Original Message-
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+fdiprete=comcast@blu.org] On
> Behalf Of Robert Krawitz
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2017 1:12 PM
> To: discuss@blu.org
> Subject: [Discuss] Linux on Lenovo P70 -- data corruption
>
> I'm about at my wit&#x
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> Subject: [Discuss] Linux on Lenovo P70 -- data corruption
>
> I'm about at my wit's end here.
>
> I bought a Lenov
not), 32 GB RAM (yes, I've tried each of the two DIMMs
separately, in different slots), 4K display, two separate eSATA M.2
SSD's. The BIOS is up to date with the hyperthreading fix, and in any
event it happens even if I turn hyperthreading off. Right now it's an
expensive white eleph
nces of it hitting several is practically nil.
>
> Unless it hits Topeka.
>
> That 150km^2 power station? That's the size of Topeka which got
> clobbered by a sequence of tornadoes in 1966.
If a tornado takes out one part of a solar power station, the rest is
still usable.
r:
>
> Maybe good on small scales like homes and offices. Not so good for large
> scale like replacing global dependence on fossil fuels.
Actually, it scales both up and down pretty nicely.
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On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 00:23:26 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 7/22/2017 8:56 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> But it's considerably more than 10% in practice, right?
>
> It depends. It's as much an ideal as Musk's asserted 90% efficiency for
> Tesla and Powerwall w
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 20:08:24 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 7/22/2017 12:22 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> 10x? Battery charging isn't that inefficient -- 85% for lead-acid
>> batteries, for example
>> (http://www.solar-facts.com/batteries/battery-charging.php).
>
&g
On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:59:52 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On 7/21/2017 4:57 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> I question your claim that there isn't enough surface area with
>> sufficient solar exposure to power the world. Your calculations,
>> please?
>
> http://b
needing a lot of surface area to catch the
sunlight. Where are you going to put that receiver, and in what kind
of orbit?
If you're talking geostationary orbit with superconducting cables or
some such, let's just say that there are a whole bunch more problems.
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n after the initial fixed cost
(solar panels basically don't wear out). So as long as the storage
method isn't dirty, that we're wasting more of the energy by storing
it is less of a problem than the cost of burning fossil fuel.
Which itself, when you get right down to it, is simply
c
e
card it replaced developed silent write errors after about 2 years.
And I had had another such that was *ahem* mismarked.
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#x27;s still not
something you really want to do.
I wouldn't go with anything less than 8 GB these days, and 16 would be
better.
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On Sun, 01 May 2016 21:03:18 -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> On May 1, 2016 6:06:15 PM EDT, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>>Are you willing to consider used?
>
> Maybe. Notebooks are a bit like sports cars, best bought new: who
> knows what they have been through? But not always.
>
>
le, no 17" display
> - inexpensive
>
> I think the mSATA bit is the hard part.
Are you willing to consider used?
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:27:11 -0400, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 4/10/2016 5:04 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> What particular clause of the GPL forbids a distributor from doing QA
>> on what s/he distributes?
>
> Freedom 3 in general. GPLv3 Section 5 and 7 in particular but the ent
On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 16:09:37 -0400, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 4/10/2016 2:55 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> That's a project management/governance issue independent of choice of
>> license model.
>
> Imposing quality controls on contributions to a GPL-protected work
and games weren't being served to users because chunks of
> the infrastructure were broken. So, when push came to shove, Facebook
> changed their philosophy. It's now "move fast, stable infra" because
> they don't get paid when production breaks.
Which agai
isting
copies of the work.
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"Linux
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:12:06 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 2/19/2016 2:27 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> True for RMS; not so true for Linus (he delegates a lot but still
>> retains final control). But if they really are that irrelevant, why
>> does it matter what they say?
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 14:18:52 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 2/19/2016 1:22 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>>> How does this solve the problem of RMS and Linus being dicks to everyone
>>> who isn't on board with their goals?
>>
>> By rendering them irrelevant.
>
On Fri, 19 Feb 2016 12:12:35 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 2/19/2016 12:04 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> Fine. Go fork the Linux kernel and GNU userland and do a better job
>> than Linus and RMS. Problem solved.
>
> How does this solve the problem of RMS and Linus being di
ir roles as
> leaders and speakers for the GNU and Linux communities, we grant them
> tacit approval for their behavior.
Fine. Go fork the Linux kernel and GNU userland and do a better job
than Linus and RMS. Problem solved.
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650+ watts for a notebook. *That's* ridiculous. :)
The Eurocom monster? That thing is a beast.
My Dell M6500 takes a 240W brick that has some real heft to it. But
your beats mine.
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://font.ubuntu.com/). It's always a matter of
taste. I guess I'm one of those odd ducks who actually likes the X
bitmap fonts.
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On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 15:43:39 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 1/6/2016 2:02 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> Yes, but 50% linear increase is not negligible.
>
> Neither is wasting the other 50%.
It's not important other than the fact that my display might be a bit
slower. But I
On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 13:52:55 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 1/6/2016 1:24 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> I use a 6x10 (pixel) font in emacs and xterm. Using a 9x15 font at
>> twice the linear resolution would let me get quite a lot more on the
>> screen.
>
> 50% more. Whi
On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 13:13:11 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 1/6/2016 12:53 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> But (at least for me) it doesn't need to be the same size if the
>> resolution is higher.
>
> Perhaps not the same size but close enough. I doubt that you can go from
say, the 4 times greater resolution of UHD is
> wasted if you need to make everything 4 times larger in order to achieve
> consistency.
But (at least for me) it doesn't need to be the same size if the
resolution is higher.
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On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 20:33:29 -0500, Robert Krawitz wrote:
> I've upgraded to openSUSE 42.1 and am having a problem with what
> appears to be ConsoleKit. Specifically, it is showing my session as
> not active and not is-local (the is my user ID):
So a few updates, it looks lik
screen is a waste of money.
I don't agree. Even if you can't easily resolve the individual
pixels, the higher density improves the definition and may allow you
to e. g. use a smaller font or smaller icons and be able to read them
as easily.
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I've upgraded to openSUSE 42.1 and am having a problem with what
appears to be ConsoleKit. Specifically, it is showing my session as
not active and not is-local (the is my user ID):
Session6:
unix-user = ''
realname = 'Robert Krawitz&#x
On Sun, 15 Nov 2015 12:57:50 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 11/15/2015 12:29 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> Only a problem if you modify it.
>
> GPL distribution requirements are in effect regardless of modification.
>
> For example, if I compile GCC verbatim and give you a copy
tarters, they were offered only for operating systems
>
> GCC is /not/ freely distributable. The GPL places a number of
> requirements on how software is distributed.
Only a problem if you modify it.
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On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:11:31 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:21:38 -0500
> Robert Krawitz wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:18:51 -0500, Kent Borg wrote:
>> > On 11/12/2015 09:17 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> >> Another option is to buy a u
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:18:51 -0500, Kent Borg wrote:
> On 11/12/2015 09:17 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> Another option is to buy a used laptop on eBay.
>
> Isn't buying a used laptop a bit like buying a used sports car? Each
> might have had a rough time in its earlier life
then
> return 2 after I decide which one I like best?"
Another option is to buy a used laptop on eBay.
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7;re thinking that if BSD just
> relicensed under the GPL then this wouldn't be a problem.
No, there simply isn't a problem at all unless somebody decides to
make it one.
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On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:53:46 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 11/11/2015 9:12 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> At the expense of your freedom to deny others the same rights you
>> have, to be exact.
>
> Others have no rights to my works other than those that I explicitly
> a
he whole point of it.
(Oh, and by the way, the issue you had with assigning your copyright
to the FSF has nothing to do with the GPL per se. FSF != GNU != GPL.
My understanding is that the copyright assignment does allow you to
continue to use your stuff under any license you choose.)
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On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 23:26:35 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 11/9/2015 10:46 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> No, but they buy commodity home routers, so loading them with GPL
>> software is another way to "sell" the software.
>
> It's selling a product that has GP
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 22:41:13 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 11/9/2015 10:02 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> But in this case, the service is very tightly coupled with the
>> software. I just don't see why the distinction matters.
>
> It matters because consumers as a rul
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 21:58:46 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 11/9/2015 8:27 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> But if you count support contracts bundled with the software, it's a
>> very different picture. And since the support contract wouldn't exist
>> without the un
On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:40:52 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On 11/9/2015 1:07 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> Nothing in the GPL restricts what you can charge for selling the
>> software in the first place. It's only the accompanying source code
>> that you have to provide f
de
that you have to provide for no more than the actual cost of the
distribution.
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license. IANAL, but I don't believe the FCC has that
power.
The answer would simply be what Matthew said -- if the FCC goes ahead
with this, router vendors will either have to establish alternative
security means that would not be touchable through the firmware load
or eliminate al
rashing. The system is perfectly happy to render itself
> inoperative in the service of some lone process sucking up memory.
If you're concerned about that, ulimit is your friend. Look at the
bash man page, not the man page for ulimit itself.
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p, and mount a larger,
> pre-prepared swapspace for the purpose of sleeping. Unmount it
> when awake.
What it really boils down to is that you need enough memory for your
worst case working set, or you're going to get unhappy awfully fast.
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on the M6500 with the intent of keeping it longer, and so
far so good. I'm not sure what I'd replace it with, since the newer
ones have HD screens rather than WUXGA, but hopefully that won't come
up for a while.
I haven't heard such good things about lower end Dells, but I&
ore 2 Duo systems can be upgraded. My wife had one of those
unfortunate ones.
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e that some Core 2 Duo Macs can be upgraded (mid-2007 and
beyond, aka MacBookPro3,1 and higher).
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Projec
deficit is the first derivative of the debt.
Actually, there's one software case in which I've used the basic
concept of the derivative: in Gutenprint, I've selected algorithms to
try to avoid discontinuities in the first and second derivatives of
could have raised the prices by 5-10% across the board with at most mild
grumbling.
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f 10 and
> completely recognizable by name in the cases where related processes
> have different process groups. But this is thinking more in terms of
> automated management maybe. More below.
My laptop has a few dozen daemons running on it; some of them aren't
that obvious to me.
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gt; from back in the windows days. I do remember that selecting one or
> the other would change the default size of all the window and app
> text sizes larger or smaller uniformly.
You can also change the DPI setting on the X command line.
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On Wed, 21 May 2014 14:06:33 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:30:43PM -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> > Lists setting or rewriting Reply-To headers punishes users of
>> > good, open source mail programs and rewards users of broken,
>> > propriet
han the author, what should the list do to
"encourage" members to honor that policy?
(Don't simply say that it's a bad policy. It may be that the list
owners want to encourage public rather than private discussion, for
example.)
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On Thu, 08 May 2014 10:59:57 -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> On 05/08/2014 10:16 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> I have a few monster spreadsheets (whether at least one of them should
>> be a spreadsheet is a good question, but that's neither here nor
>> there). With 1
y cheap. But I don't know what
> I am going to do with all that. That is a *bleep* of a lot of RAM.
I have a few monster spreadsheets (whether at least one of them should
be a spreadsheet is a good question, but that's neither here nor
there). With 16GB on my laptop, it pages
on of having bugs and failing without warning, I
> am going to stay cautious.
Disks themselves have clever proprietary firmware...
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paid for.
Yes, and you can sell books, offer classes, sell installation and
support services, etc. for GPL software, and charge whatever you
please.
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:37:41 -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> Actually, I'd say that if anything the GPL is weighted toward
>> users-as-developers -- ensuring that users can be developers
>> themselves.
>
> At the expense of the original devel
th end users getting a free ride
> should they choose to take it.
Actually, I'd say that if anything the GPL is weighted toward
users-as-developers -- ensuring that users can be developers
themselves.
I disagree that the GPL is weighted against developers. It's weighted
against *prop
80 as a "feature" (because
you won't have letterboxing while watching a movie).
Wide screens aren't very good for photography, either.
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for the smallest font I could halfway
comfortably read, and just hope that I don't lose the remaining
nearsightedness in my left eye too quickly (my eyes differ a fair bit,
so I use my left eye for near vision and my right eye for distance
vision).
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ow.
> nVidia is finally opening things up which puts the whole thing in flux. I
> expect to see big improvements on that front what with Valve expecting to
> ship nVidia-equpped Steam Machines and maybe ATI-equipped Steam Machines next
> year.
I've run the radeon FOSS d
ent I bought it) that's rated for 3.00 GHz but
I've OC'ed it to 3.60 with no difficulty (the limit was probably how
fast I could clock the memory, plus I didn't try for anything more).
Those processors have always overclocked very well.
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:14:09 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2011, at 7:59 PM, John Abreau wrote:
>>
>> I could instead have made an analogy to locksmiths: when we want to change
>> the locks on our doors, a techie might buy a new lock at Home Depot and
>> install it himself, whereas a no
s 3.3 GB of
usable memory, but I'd be hard pressed to find one now with a WUXGA
display and an ATI/AMD chipset (last time I tried, the open source
nVidia drivers weren't very good even for ordinary 2D stuff and I
flatly refuse to run the proprietary ones). 1920x1080 is not a
substitu
nt 9400/E1705,
and I've never had problems running Linux on them. The only things I
don't like about the 9400 is that it has a limit of 3.3 GB of RAM and
will not enable AHCI on its SATA controller. Otherwise, it's great.
Finding a WUXGA screen (as opposed to 1920x1080) is getting
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