Re: [OT] Locating source of FM radio interference

2006-02-16 Thread Thomas Charron
  Personally, in that range?  I turn the heating fan off in my car.  *Wham*  Interferiance is GONE and I can listen to my NHPR.  ;-)On 2/16/06, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Something near our house has recently startedgenerating spectacular amounts of radio intereferencethat's most n

Re: [OT] Locating source of FM radio interference

2006-02-16 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Thursday 16 February 2006 09:09 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote: > Something near our house has recently started > generating spectacular amounts of radio intereference > that's most noticeable around 89MHz. I have no > portable radio equipment of any kind except a humble > little $10 handheld with

Re: [OT] Locating source of FM radio interference

2006-02-16 Thread Bayard Coolidge
If I were still up in the GNH area, I'd offer to come over and help youout. But, I suspect your best bet would be to find a local amateur("ham") radio club and see if they have some folks who could help youtriangulate the source. It can get into a real can of worms - twootherwise innocent stations

Re: Hard Disk Failure

2006-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Neil Joseph Schelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My boss just came to me with a failed hard drive in a personal computer of > his. I'm remembering only that someone mentioned having some experience with > hard disc recovery services recently, but I can't seem to find it in my list > history.

[OT] Locating source of FM radio interference

2006-02-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
Something near our house has recently started generating spectacular amounts of radio intereference that's most noticeable around 89MHz. I have no portable radio equipment of any kind except a humble little $10 handheld with a normal telescoping antenna that seems not to be very directional, or a

Just a Test - Disregard

2006-02-16 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
Does this get posted? I have been trying to send the merrilug meeting notice to gnhlug-discuss all day. I never get through. This is to check if a spam filter is snagging it. Jim Kuzdrall ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlu

Re: HB1197 Status

2006-02-16 Thread Ben Scott
On 2/16/06, Seth Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Cain and Abel is a sniffer program, plain and simple... it took _six_ months > for > them to look for weird traffic???) Well, the article doesn't give enough detail to really know what happened, how, or anything. A simple passive sniffer won'

Re: Windows-like registry for Linux?

2006-02-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
My cow-orker (from the Windows side of the company and maybe transitioning to Linux) thanks y'all for the feedback and is impressed with the GNHLUG. Same here. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mail

Re: HB1197 Status

2006-02-16 Thread Neil Schelly
On Thursday 16 February 2006 02:14 pm, Ed Lawson wrote: > Well, this is a password sniffer that has been around for five > years and no doubt has been in anti-virus software for nearly as > long yet they were running a windows box without running > anti-virus software and it was a server containing

Re: HB1197 Status

2006-02-16 Thread Ed Lawson
> > HB1197 is now up for a reconsideration vote, since the study > committee > > would seek to know how and why this sort of thing happened, and > how/if > > open source could have prevented it. I suppose one could argue that if the production machines required less TLC, the the sys admin folks

Re: HB1197 Status And Freakonomics

2006-02-16 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 16, 2006, at 13:36, Bruce Dawson wrote: Anyways, why is the Executive Committee getting involved in legislative actions? Or, why didn't someone clue the legislaturers that less than 1% of the state's computers are mainframes? Ah, I was similarly confused. There is an Executive Commi

Re: HB1197 Status

2006-02-16 Thread Ed Lawson
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:47:46 -0500 Seth Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Late breaking news... > HB1197 is now up for a reconsideration vote, since the study committee > would seek to know how and why this sort of thing happened, and how/if > open source could have prevented it. (Cain and Abel

Re: HB1197 Status

2006-02-16 Thread Seth Cohn
Late breaking news... Thanks to front page headlines on the computer hack... http://unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=de7276ec-e725-42e4-aa26-123b8d304b36 Choice quote: The program may have lain hidden for as long as six months — the last time computer experts ran a thorough check of the sta

Re: HB1197 Status And Freakonomics

2006-02-16 Thread Bruce Dawson
Well, maybe we can get someone to sponsor a bill that *mandates* Open Source be used. That should get the Executive Committee to stand up and notice that the state has investments in things other than mainframes! Anyways, why is the Executive Committee getting involved in legislative actions? Or,

Re: Crontab entries

2006-02-16 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Thursday, Feb 16th 2006 at 12:54 -0500, quoth Paul Lussier: =>Is there a requirement to place parens around a set of commands =>delimeted by a ';' for crontab entries? => =>At some point I got in the habit of creating entries like: => =>30 02 * * * (foo;bar;baz) => =>But nowhere can I find docu

Re: Crontab entries

2006-02-16 Thread Dan Coutu
Paul Lussier wrote: Hi all, Is there a requirement to place parens around a set of commands delimeted by a ';' for crontab entries? At some point I got in the habit of creating entries like: 30 02 * * * (foo;bar;baz) But nowhere can I find documentation even mentioning the use of parens. Of c

Crontab entries

2006-02-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, Is there a requirement to place parens around a set of commands delimeted by a ';' for crontab entries? At some point I got in the habit of creating entries like: 30 02 * * * (foo;bar;baz) But nowhere can I find documentation even mentioning the use of parens. Of course, I haven't even

Re: HB1197 Status And Freakonomics

2006-02-16 Thread Ed Lawson
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:57:02 -0500 Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My guess is that the resident technology people have no > experience with or interest in Open Source. I trust people know that the main website for the state of NH has historically run on Linux using Apache? There are ma

Re: How times have changed [was Sr. Developer ]

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:22:01AM -0500, Fred wrote: > > I would have to somewhat disagree with this. Whenever a group of nodes > interact in concert, that entire group can be considered a node in its own > right, with its own peculiar set of dynamics. It does not matter whether > the "nodes"

Re: How times have changed [was Sr. Developer ]

2006-02-16 Thread Dan Jenkins
Fred wrote: So, to differ, "organizations" DO exist -- but their efficiency to act is inversely proportional to the number of participants. That is to say, the "collective IQ" of the group, if there is such a thing, will always be *less* than the IQ of individuals. The reason for this is si

Re: HB1197 Status

2006-02-16 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Feb 16, 2006, at 06:20, Seth Cohn wrote: Anyone interested in helping this effort, please contact me, as we can start laying the ground work for next year... Hi, Seth, This list is probably the right place for that. We are, after all the folks in NH interested in working together

Re: How times have changed [was Sr. Developer ]

2006-02-16 Thread Fred
Ah, finally got Kontact (Kmail) to not crash on me. Too many email accounts for it, I think. On Wednesday 15 February 2006 12:16, Ben Scott wrote: ... > Group's are neither clueless nor clueful. People are. Groups do > not do things; individuals do. A group may contain many clueful > people

Fwd: xine Problem

2006-02-16 Thread Lawrence Tilly
D'oh. Sent this to Ben only. Silly gmail. -- Forwarded message -- From: Lawrence Tilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Feb 16, 2006 9:33 AM Subject: Re: xine Problem To: Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for the extra tips, Ben. I have seen some complaints about kernal patches ki

Re: HB1197 Status And Freakonomics

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 06:20:20AM -0500, Seth Cohn wrote: > HB1197 was voted ITL (Inexpedient to Legislate) yesterday by the NH > House. This was no surprise, as the Executive Dept committee voted to > kill it by 15 to 1, and released the following report on it: > > HB 1197, establishing a commi

Re: HB1197 Status

2006-02-16 Thread Ed Lawson
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 06:20:20 -0500 Seth Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Upon checking with the Office of > Information Technology, it was determined that the state does not have > the technical resources to control or support such software. I believe there are some things that should be done

Re: HB1197 Status

2006-02-16 Thread Seth Cohn
HB1197 was voted ITL (Inexpedient to Legislate) yesterday by the NH House. This was no surprise, as the Executive Dept committee voted to kill it by 15 to 1, and released the following report on it: HB 1197, establishing a committee to study requiring state government to consider using open sourc