Re: [Discuss] Interesting rant about Gnome 3

2013-01-19 Thread Tom Metro
s happening as seen by a specific developer, and not necessarily the big picture view from 10,000 feet. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/

Re: [Discuss] Interesting rant about Gnome 3

2013-01-19 Thread Tom Metro
edHat, or other top distributions on board. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Interesting rant about Gnome 3

2013-01-19 Thread Tom Metro
stable across at least several minor revisions (3.6 was released in September; the article was posted in December, 2012, so the author was presumably aware of newer versions bring available). -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Profe

Re: [Discuss] data caps

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Metro
ir benefactor, the cable companies, that fund the majority of their budget (which of course comes out of our cable bills). He just didn't get that his real mandate was to make the programming as accessible as possible to the residents. Broken incentive systems are at the heart of many problems we

Re: [Discuss] data caps

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: > Matt Shields wrote: >> While I would love to punish the companies that abuse datacaps in >> favor of profit. Some people do not have much of a choice when it >> comes to what service is available. > > That was the point of my question.

Re: [Discuss] Cinnamon

2013-01-22 Thread Tom Metro
F. Ozbek wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> F. Ozbek wrote: >>> There is no default desktop concept on Linux Mint. >>> You can use Mate, Cinnamon, KDE or Xfce. >> >> I see. And the project doesn't recommend one? > > As far as I know there is no "

[Discuss] core competency

2013-01-23 Thread Tom Metro
e team.) Wouldn't the startup be better served by outsourcing engineering to an experienced manager with a tuned team and process, and instead spending its resources on a product manager - or, seeing as that's a role the founders will likely handle themselves, more generally product desi

Re: [Discuss] webmin

2013-01-25 Thread Tom Metro
can be resolved. With other OSs you are more likely to encounter GUIs that are complete black boxes - no automation and no insight into what they are doing (or failing to do). -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-30 Thread Tom Metro
ool_unix/xinitrc.html which will be ran as the target user and is executed after the X environment is up and running. If you want the behavior to be global, presumably you'll need to modify the system default scripts, like /etc/X11/Xsession. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, M

[Discuss] updating hard drive firmware from a VM

2013-01-30 Thread Tom Metro
#x27;t exactly want to be guessing at where the loader ends and where the firmware data starts, and send bogus code to the drive. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___

Re: [Discuss] Fedora MP4 Plugin

2013-01-31 Thread Tom Metro
aldo albanese wrote: > What would you suggest as of a program to play MPEG-4 in Fedora. VLC, mplayer, ... -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.ven

Re: [Discuss] Encouraging Children to Explore Open Source

2013-02-03 Thread Tom Metro
you described, but obviously there are an infinite choice of activities to get into open source software development that are purely software. How about learning how to create games for Android? https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/theTechTrek/entry/creating_a_simple_android_game

Re: [Discuss] Disk recovery utilities - dealing with deleted files

2013-02-04 Thread Tom Metro
s most files on an actively used drive will be fragmented. (This was always a big limitation of the recovery tools (once you were beyond simple undeletes) on FAT file systems.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Prof

[Discuss] sshuttle, a pseudo-VPN built on ssh

2013-02-04 Thread Tom Metro
mance boost over simple ssh tunnels. (I've bcc'ed the author and will forward his reply, if any, to the list, with his permission.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Ext4, ugh! Re: Disk recovery utilities - dealing with deleted files

2013-02-04 Thread Tom Metro
27;ll eventually get flushed from the journal and then you'll need a different strategy. Perhaps they figure your deleted files will be overwritten by then. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source."

Re: [Discuss] Linux Magazine

2013-02-15 Thread Tom Metro
than I'd like. The teasers ought to be expanded to article summaries so you don't have to click through on every vaguely intriguing headline to see what it is about. (Obviously they do that by design to boost ad impressions.) I think there is still a UK-based paper Linux Magazine. -Tom

Re: [Discuss] updating hard drive firmware from a VM

2013-02-18 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: > What I'm wondering is whether this sort of FreeDOS image could be booted > (as an emulated floppy or CD) in a VM (VirtualBox), which would be > configured to pass through the target disk as its primary drive. > > Will the VM adequately "get out of th

Re: [Discuss] rsnapshot, "Back In Time"

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Metro
In Time" as well, though it does play a few games to make the file storage more portable to less capable network file systems. It stores the original permissions for files in a separate database stored with each snapshot. -Tom -- Tom Metro Ventu

Re: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Metro
ckups from a given machine. For example, after 5 days with no new files, trigger an alert. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

2013-02-21 Thread Tom Metro
ns as multi-disk file systems have become more common. You get similar weird behavior if you try and use hard links on NTFS.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/

Re: [Discuss] Server won't boot kernel. initramfs problem?

2013-02-23 Thread Tom Metro
to do a single pass that memtest would do in minutes. The bigger question is whether anyone will be sufficiently motivated to build such a tool. It requires the combination of being sufficiently concerned about memory errors and not wanting to pay the premium for ECC RAM. -Tom -- Tom Metro Ventur

Re: [Discuss] USB thumbdrive, Linux only usage: FAT vs NTFS vs other? TRIM support?

2013-02-25 Thread Tom Metro
Linux. NTFS has file ownership issues which can be even trickier to deal with when moving disks among Windows machines. FAT32 has a 4 GB file size limit (2 GB for FAT16), which can sometimes be a problem. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterpr

[Discuss] Open Compute Hardware

2013-03-01 Thread Tom Metro
ompute] and restructure them into physical designs that fit into their server slots," Frankovsky said. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] Cinnamon update

2013-03-04 Thread Tom Metro
background color that makes it > blend in to the panel too well. I'd like to be able to try out > persistently named workspaces, which are available in some other modern > desktops. I still haven't fund a better workspace switcher. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton

Re: [Discuss] [OT] Smart Phones

2013-03-05 Thread Tom Metro
and would bring to light the real costs of smart phones. A $300 unlocked Nexus 4 will look pretty good compared to most alternatives. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/

[Discuss] LibrePlanet 2013 -- free software conference in Cambridge, MA

2013-03-09 Thread Tom Metro
Original Message Subject: LibrePlanet 2013 -- free software conference in Cambridge, MA Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:38:43 + From: Peter Olson To: disc...@artisansasylum.com LibrePlanet software freedom conference announces line-up BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Friday, March 8,

Re: [Discuss] Migrating m...@gmail.com to m...@mydomain.com?

2013-03-10 Thread Tom Metro
ains UI as well. (You'll need to login to the mail UI as the individual user. It won't be in the domain administration control panel.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venture

Re: [Discuss] [OT] Smart Phones

2013-03-11 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: > White House: It's Time to Legalize Cellphone Unlocking > http://allthingsd.com/20130304/white-house-its-time-to-legalize-cell-phone-unlocking/ > > The actual more troubling aspect was that carriers were leveraging the > (horrid) DMCA "anticircumventio

Re: [Discuss] Launch Shortcut as Sudo

2013-03-12 Thread Tom Metro
Execute the argument to this option inside the terminal. -x, --execute Execute the remainder of the command line inside the terminal. So: gnome-terminal -x /path/to/mysecript is one way to do it. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solut

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

2013-03-18 Thread Tom Metro
is hacks page: http://www.jwz.org/hacks/ Links? > Never mind that the UI has been a train wreck since version 3. Agreed. But its usable. Hopefully someday someone will take over the project and rebuild it. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton

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

2013-03-22 Thread Tom Metro
xt subscribed folder. Doesn't Thunderbird do this? Perhaps not the last item, though I vaguely recall that there is a setting that controls that behavior. I use the functionality of the first two all the time. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through

Re: [Discuss] DNS question about DNSENUM.PL

2013-03-25 Thread Tom Metro
in verbose mode it'll tell you a bit more about what queries it is performing. The best way to answer this question would be to obtain your zone file from whoever maintains your DNS and look at how the records vary between the ones that Dnsenum finds and the ones it can't. -Tom -- Tom

Re: [Discuss] DNS question about DNSENUM.PL

2013-03-26 Thread Tom Metro
something like vpn2013 might be enough to do the job. Appending a string of random characters would be better, but it obviously defeats the purpose of using a name in the first place. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." P

Re: [Discuss] Security through obscurity

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
ble, and avoid alarm fatigue. You're merely filtering out the nuisance. For example, if you can use a non-standard ssh port without impacting your users, and you log and monitor attack attempts against it (as you should), switching to a non-standard port will reduce those logged attac

Re: [Discuss] port-knocking

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
ort knocking makes you more vulnerable to DoS attacks? I'm not following your logic. While I can imagine some implementations of port knocking, where failed knock sequences shut down a service, there are certainly other implementations where that is not the case. Can you clarify what you mean

[Discuss] pseudo-off-site backup

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
which will also protect the heads). (I'd say use a Raspberry Pi and notebook drive, but as Mark Woodward pointed out on the Hardware Hacking list, the Pi runs its network and disk I/O through one USB interface, so it'll likely have performance issues.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Ventu

[Discuss] DRM in HTML5

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
ont of their viewers. So yeah, Defective By Design is likely correct that DRM shouldn't be formally endorsed by the W3C as part of the standard. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Profess

Re: [Discuss] Security through obscurity

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
Rich Pieri wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> We're getting a bit wrapped up in dogma. This isn't a black-and-white >> issue. If you take a broad enough definition of "obscurity" it could be >> taken to mean your knowledge of a password - it's obscure, you

Re: [Discuss] port-knocking

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
Rich Pieri wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> While I can imagine some implementations of port knocking, where failed >> knock sequences shut down a service, there are certainly other >> implementations where that is not the case. > > That's precisely what I mean. Com

Re: [Discuss] pseudo-off-site backup

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
an one?) Obviously the idea is a little bit silly compared to better alternatives, like using a proper cloud storage service, but sometimes an imperfect backup solution is better than no offsite backup. > Maybe John Dvorak should get out more? Quite likely. :-) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture

Re: [Discuss] Sieve

2013-03-28 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> ...server-size filtering. What technique are you using? > > The simplest: I observed that people generally spend a long > period of time with the same filtering rules, have small bursts > of changes, and then continue - so I deliv

Re: [Discuss] Thunderbird freezes

2013-03-28 Thread Tom Metro
underlying cause. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Thunderbird freezes

2013-03-28 Thread Tom Metro
acted it? > My drafts folder is currently empty. Empty as viewed from with TB or a zero byte file when viewed from the file system? > The default draft folder is the local folders draft. Good. And you've verified that the setting isn't overridden in the account you are sendi

Re: [Discuss] security through obscurity

2013-03-28 Thread Tom Metro
e that you've made your point clearly enough that the rest of us have gotten it, and that we're smart enough to conclude which perspective makes more sense, and let the thread drop. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source."

[Discuss] [Position-available] Hiring Lead DevOps Engineer at Punchey

2013-04-06 Thread Tom Metro
[A posting seen in the "Linux Expert" LinkedIn group. Reply to original poster. -Tom] Original Message Subject: Hiring Lead DevOps Engineer at Punchey Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 19:47:33 + (UTC) From: Linux Expert Group: Linux Expert Subject: Hiring Lead DevOps Engi

Re: [Discuss] Sr. Systems DevOps Engineering role at PayPal in Boston

2013-04-06 Thread Tom Metro
The mailing list software strips out attachments. Postings should be plain text. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discus

[Discuss] modifying Android packages

2013-04-13 Thread Tom Metro
the package is ether unsigned or signed by an unknown key. Shouldn't be surprising at all that if you get an APK from some untrusted source, that it is technically possible for it to be a modified version. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through o

[Discuss] Pwn Pad: A Nexus 7 as a network security testing tool

2013-04-13 Thread Tom Metro
le for the criticisms and conclusion. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] network administration tools on tablets

2013-04-20 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: > A company that develops open source security hardware and software has > bundled a Google Nexus 7 tablet with a custom ROM (which includes a > chroot Ubuntu install and a bunch of security tools) and some USB > network interfaces (wired, WiFi, and long range Bluetoot

Re: [Discuss] SVN server - What hardware do I need?

2013-04-21 Thread Tom Metro
> as well as a lot of protocol overhead. That was my thought as well, based on what I've heard. (I don't have first hand experience comparing svnserve to Apache hosted SVN.) But it sounds like the SVN hosting aspect is a comparatively small part of this project, and not where you need to

Re: [Discuss] Remote builds

2013-04-23 Thread Tom Metro
; operations folks the exact same "Build Now" and "Deploy" buttons. So your idea boils down to "use a private cloud." That's great (and I recommend it) if your organization is big enough to take on that overhead. Regardless of whether your development environment i

Re: [Discuss] Cable Modem Woes / Looking to Compare Notes

2013-04-25 Thread Tom Metro
n down whether the loss of net connectivity is in fact due to poor signal, as you are assuming. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] encrypted basic cable

2013-04-25 Thread Tom Metro
p-box. Showing once again that the FCC are either chumps, or are willingly doing what's most profitable for the industry they supposedly regulate, rather than in the best interest of the public. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open

Re: [Discuss] Aereo available in Eastern Mass, streaming TV sources

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Metro
of prime time, and sure, you'll get a pretty low quality score. > ...the news is a joke, and there are so many commercials there is > almost no actual show. Agree on both points. Without a DVR to skip over irrelevant fluff news stories or commercials, both are pretty unwatchable. -Tom -

[Discuss] The broader impact of Google Fiber

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Metro
nsurprisingly Provo locals have absolutely no sympathy. Part of the beauty of Google Fiber is seeing anti-competitive bullies get their comeuppance after years of bribing politicians to protect their regional little uncompetitive fiefdoms. It's just a shame Google Fiber isn't in o

Re: [Discuss] The broader impact of Google Fiber

2013-04-27 Thread Tom Metro
erogatory way) and first explains how Google used this control technique to gain adequate control over the wireless phone market, and is now using a similar strategy for wired broadband. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source

[Discuss] HTML5 DRM protest on Friday

2013-04-29 Thread Tom Metro
Looks like the DefectiveByDesign guys are organizing a protest against DRM in HTML5 this Friday outside W3C headquarters. (Not something I plan to attend, but this might be of interest to other BLUers.) -Tom Original Message Subject: Next Friday: join us for the most glamorous D

[Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

2013-04-30 Thread Tom Metro
In fact, you have to wonder how many people faced with setting an appointment to have this upgrade performed will say, "Landline? We still have one of those? Lets just cancel it." Anyone else received such a letter? Other than if you're still using DSL, any reason to hold on to copper?

[Discuss] "Protecting Networks and Systems" Thursday May 2 at 7pm

2013-04-30 Thread Tom Metro
ACM/IEEE talk on network security. Not really clear from the description what the depth of the talk will be. "Network security basics" implies introductory material. -Tom Original Message Subject: "Protecting Networks and Systems" Thursday May 2 at 7pm Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20

Re: [Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

2013-05-01 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: >Tom Metro wrote: >> Today I received a letter from Verizon regarding my residence in Newton >> saying "Verizon is replacing telephone wires and removing obsolete >> equipment to ensure long-term service reliability for our customers. To >> av

Re: [Discuss] Publish or Perish - coming to sw dev & IT operations

2013-05-03 Thread Tom Metro
hat in the long run, as developers spending a portion of their career working on open source work their way up the ranks to managers and C-level executives, it will cause a cultural shift in these companies. Then again, there are plenty of companies that don't offer training and othe

Re: [Discuss] apt-get vs aptitude

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Metro
nd disabling 3rd party repositories, however I don't think it restores everything post-upgrade, -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _

[Discuss] sharing Jabber between desktop and mobile devces

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Metro
act as the OTR end-point, which breaks end-to-end security, but if I'm controlling the proxy and I have an SSL link between my clients and the proxy, I'm OK with that. Has anyone cobbled together a solution to this problem? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "

Re: [Discuss] CLECs

2013-05-08 Thread Tom Metro
e equipment. The telco mostly just comes into the picture for installations and when a tree falls on a wire. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _

Re: [Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

2013-05-08 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: > Today I received a letter from Verizon regarding my residence in Newton > saying "Verizon is replacing telephone wires...we'll need to move your > telephone > service to our new fiber network. ..." FYI, this note was also published i

Re: [Discuss] Home Routers

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Metro
, we should be seeing more hardware like this, with similar performance and price points. Hopefully someone will release an ARM board with a fast CPU and interfaces (2 Ethernet and possibly a switch w/VLAN) designed for routing. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise so

[Discuss] Geoff Huston's talk at NANOG53

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Metro
that in the absence of competition, the only answer is to have the ILEC managed (i.e. roadmap of speed improvements) by the community, even if the physical plant is maintained by a telco under contract. At some point Huston mentions that community ran infrastructure might be the solution. Tha

Re: [Discuss] Geoff Huston's talk at NANOG53

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Metro
Chuck Anderson wrote: >Tom Metro wrote: >> Doesn't tunneling provide a bypass to reach >> competitors who can provide that transition point? > > Tunneling isn't really a viable solution, since it will always perform > worse than native connectivity. Sure, but

Re: [Discuss] Comcast's IPv6 deployment

2013-05-13 Thread Tom Metro
people chose to avoid new equipment expenditures, and use IPv4 as a toll bridge as Huston suggests? This paper is another reminder that Comcast's engineering group seems to be in a different universe from Comcast's business people, who are responsible for its public reputation. -Tom -

Re: [Discuss] Boston Linux Meeting - BeagleBone Black and Open Source Computing

2013-05-22 Thread Tom Metro
ng hardware http://www.mail-archive.com/hardwarehacking@blu.org/msg00866.html Ouya and other set-top-box news, ARM CPU bechmarks http://www.mail-archive.com/hardwarehacking@blu.org/msg00846.html Rethinking LinuxPC Robot -- the Linux PI Robot http://www.mail-archive.com/hardwarehacking@blu.o

Re: [Discuss] rsync v. cp in data migration

2013-05-23 Thread Tom Metro
a test you can run to check for the presence of sparse files. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Dis

Re: [Discuss] rsync v. cp in data migration

2013-05-23 Thread Tom Metro
llocated and sparse_copy() for the lower-level function where read() is called iteratively. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discus

Re: [Discuss] Help with data migration

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
allel streams) over WAN links, despite latencies that normally delay ACK packets and throttle throughput. However, it sounds like you had an underlying LAN problem that needed to be understood and resolved first before resorting to creative solution

Re: [Discuss] newegg

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
s later. There is certainly plenty of other places where you can buy drives. In many ways NewEgg has lost its edge in computer parts. I can now often find more selection, more reviews, and better prices on Amazon. What Amazon lacks is a good parametric search engine designed for computer

Re: [Discuss] choice of hypervisor

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
"Our decision to use Xen in OpenStack was largely due to the fact that we already had several thousand nodes deployed in Xen in another OpenStack environment and we wanted to make the transition easy," Toman said. "We also have a lot of operational knowledge managing large scale

Re: [Discuss] personal email hosting

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
MX. (This can amount to a significant volume.) With the services that charge per mailbox this isn't an issue, as obviously for each mailbox you have locally, you need to create and pay for a corresponding user at the filtering service, so they have a defacto database of valid users in

Re: [Discuss] PTR records for email

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
for a price. VPN services, like PRQ: http://www.prq.se/?p=tunnel&intl=1 can get you a static IP and custom PTR starting at $13/month. (Though you can likely get a mail relay service for less.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through

Re: [Discuss] Low Cost Internet?

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
in the Boston area at that time. This may have since changed. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] VOIP provider

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
actually had their own POTS gateway hardware, which physically tied them to the single NYC location. Yet competitors, like voip.ms, that outsourced the gateway part, had far more distributed and redundant infrastructure.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterpr

Re: [Discuss] VOIP provider

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
ever big or small, to > withstand it. If they had a redundant setup in a data center anywhere outside the North East, they could have rode out the storm, with only an impact to the local NYC POTS lines, which many Callcentric customers don't use (I don't). -Tom -- Tom Met

Re: [Discuss] finding dead code in C projects

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
#x27;ll probably also turn up a pile of previously unknown bugs in the code as a byproduct.) Regardless of what tool you use to identify "dead" code, you'll want unit tests to give you confidence to hack out the stuff you think is not useful while not breaking anything that matters.

Re: [Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: > Today I received a letter from Verizon...saying "Verizon is > replacing telephone wires and removing obsolete equipment to ensure > long-term service reliability for our customers. To avoid future > service interruptions we'll need to move your telephon

Re: [Discuss] mini-ITX boards for Haswell CPUs

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> My understanding is that Haswell uses yet another incompatible socket >> format, so I don't think you can plug an "old i3" onto these boards. > > That's intentional. Haswell's TDP is about half that of Ivy Br

Re: [Discuss] mini-ITX boards for Haswell CPUs

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> Fortunately the manufacturer's site does have specs on the GPU, showing >> that the low-end board[8] tops out at 1920x1200 @ 60Hz... > > That's not the GPU. That's the DAC(s) which sit on the > motherboard and are fed

[Discuss] mini-ITX boards for Haswell CPUs

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
http://www.techspot.com/review/679-intel-haswell-core-i7-4770k/page2.html > 7. http://www.techspot.com/review/679-intel-haswell-core-i7-4770k/page6.html > 8. http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/B85M-ITX/?cat=Specifications > 9. http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z87E-ITX/?cat=Specifications -- Tom

Re: [Discuss] Syncing Android phones directly

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
instream device and a mainstream ROM, support would be pretty good. The Android user base is certainly getting big enough, so that even with you slice off a fringe of people who bother to load a third part ROM, the community is still fairly sizable. -Tom -- Tom Met

Re: [Discuss] Syncing Android phones directly

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
f you look into data backup for apps, you'll find some apps that can be configured to put the #2-type data onto the SDcard, and some non-root backup tools that can backup the #2-type data, but usually the #1-type data is out of reach. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "

Re: [Discuss] Android privacy

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
their app firewall.) The current all or nothing approach removes an important aspect of control from the end user. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ _

Re: [Discuss] ad supported apps

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
is would be sponsorships. Say a VoIP app sponsored by a VoIP service provider. (Aside from games, many apps will have complementary commercial services or products as potential sponsors.) A bit more work for the developer, but more relevant and profitable ads. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, New

Re: [Discuss] Android privacy

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
tart making resources unavailable is that the apps crash. These app firewalls accomplish minimizing this by providing libraries that fake the genuine service, and yet this is still enough of a difference to crash some apps. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise sol

[Discuss] reverting apt-get upgrades

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
ckaging system can do for you, and that's just not the case here. Searches on this topic turned up the suggestions above, but not what I was expecting, which was some apt.conf parameter to enable this behavior. It seems like it should be a common need. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, New

Re: [Discuss] reverting apt-get upgrades

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: > Tom Metro wrote: >> ...I would think it would be a common >> desire to be able to undo a package upgrade... > > Debian makes a point of upgrades being stable... This stability is > usually one of the reasons for choosing Debian. You are complet

Re: [Discuss] KeePassX

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
the keys used by the one-time authentication algorithm. Ideally, you'd want to have the option to have that info encrypted using a different password than the one protecting your passwords. -Tom 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOTP -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Ente

[Discuss] Canonical crowdfunding $32 million for phone

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
27;s team at the bottom of the page. (Though the update page has a video from Canonical's CEO.) Seems like they are trying to make this look like more of a community undertaking, than a corporate funding exercise. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutio

Re: [Discuss] KeePassX

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
uot; your passwords. Other than my password safe pass phrase, desktop login, and a few inconsequential LAN-local services, I don't know any of my passwords. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Pr

Re: [Discuss] Mass Tax on Software Services

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
ntary participation in the remainder of 2013. (But that's obviously a high risk way to interpret it.) I sent an email to my state rep seeking clarification. I encourage others who think they may be impacted by this to do likewise. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "En

Re: [Discuss] password strength

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
line attack that could be performed on your password safe or other encrypted files. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Disc

Re: [Discuss] paper password safe

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
o the paper model is that it doesn't help with strong password generation. A paper log filled with "1passw0rd" style passwords isn't helping. There are various schemes for dealing with this, such as: Perfect Paper Passwords https://www.grc.com/ppp.htm -Tom -- Tom Metro

Re: [Discuss] Android as a password safe

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
made much better than it is today. Another option that's still inconvenient, but maybe less inconvenient than carrying multiple devices, is to have multiple bootable images on the device. Then you could have an isolated (and encrypted) Android, or maybe Ubuntu, boot image that gets used fo

[Discuss] Thunderbird has an IM client?

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
ok and Chat conversations being found by Thunderbird's global search... OK, so you can log all your communication in one place, and search through it using a single interface. OK... An extension to search through Pidgin's logs could have accomplished the same thing. -Tom -- Tom M

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