Re: ZFS vs btfrs

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 11:55 Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > I use the btrfs-send (which, of course, is modeled after zfs-send)... > except, I kinda don't. And this isn't a dig at btrfs (or ZFS), but just > paranoia: I'm afraid that, if there were corruption on the source FS, > using a FS-specific/replic

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 3:45 PM Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Showtime Computer in Hudson now does > custom-built laptops, > as of some time in the last few years IIRC. They look like they're based > on the same ODM kits > as the other Linux boutiques I've shopped, and

Re: How does Linux handle DST/ST? It's all about time...

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:15 PM Bruce Labitt wrote: > "Dumb" machine, while actually computer controlled, is closed source. > No possibility of changing its behavior. > No ssh, no network. It's a data logger to an SD card. I have to use > sneaker net to transport data to my PC. > > Other possib

Re: Simple git question

Dan's way is as good as any. (Could also commit to the local branch instead of stashing, which would let you diff against your config tweaks.) I find that understanding what Git is doing really helps me figure out what i want to do. My preferred intro for this is - Git from the inside out <

Re: update on CIFS SAMBA CVE Re: Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - Crypto News Review, Historical Vignette, and Transitioning from PGP/GnuPG

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 8:39 PM Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 12:40 PM Bill Ricker wrote: > > ... mentioned in my News segment in last night's presentation. > > There was talk of the slide deck being made available online > somewhere. Do you know if that hap

update on CIFS SAMBA CVE Re: Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - Crypto News Review, Historical Vignette, and Transitioning from PGP/GnuPG

Today's Ubuntu security updates has a Debian Security patch Samba/CIFS for CVE mentioned in my News segment in last night's presentation. * SECURITY UPDATE: Unauthenticated domain controller compromise by subverting Netlogon cryptography - debian/patches/CVE-2020-1472 ___

retired & new COBOL programmers being recruited

ntact info https://forms.business.nj.gov/tech/ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: COBOL on HPUX

, but dealt with the problems of transferring LRECL EBCDIC files to CRLF ASCII Unix/Linux hosts and vice versa, as well as App/OS/HW interface/capacity issues on Unix/Linux platforms. Much hilarity with file transfers.) *Eventually = I think they finally finished?? -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.c

Re: The sudden upheaval at the FSF...

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:18 PM Greg Rundlett (freephile) < g...@freephile.com> wrote: > The FOSS community has long needed a better spokesperson and maybe with > luck we'll find who that person is. > The platform for that better spokesperson may well be OSI, no the other one, the Open Source Ini

Signing update -- license^W key revoked

oked: 2016-08-16] > Key fingerprint = BFE3 CE1E 3A50 F8ED 96C8 537D D27E 035F 4193 6952 > uid [ revoked] William Ricker (Boston) > -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discus

Quantum Crypto redux Re: Boston Linux Meeting ... Crypto News, plus ...

Elliott is correct that ECC including Curve25519 as well as NIST P-* curves are more affected by QC (Shor's) than RSA ... in part because our classical factoring technology had such a head start, has gotten so good, that RSA keys have gotten huge, but discrete log remained hard, so ECC remains sma

Re: Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LXV Saturday October 7, 2017

1. Note that Memorial Drive meters may be Mass State meters not Cambridge (since MDC/DCR parkway), and so may differ from Cambridge meters on campus. 2. I will probably bring my Xerox ambulance gurney, usable if we need to move bulky stuff down the block. (We did this for the Ubuntu installfests

Re: Is Amazon AWS/EBS snapshotting just LVM, or what?

The lack of coherence due to OS cave not being flushed should still be a concern. OTOH I saw a storage level replication system propagate corruption to the remote site's copy of the Production DBMS ... So it perfectly replicated the primary's failure. Oops. Easiest recovery was restoring a nightly

Re: [Discuss] Any miners?

Bitcoin initially did not require specialized hardware, but as new golden hashes get harder to find, mining costs more in electricity and depreciation without speciality gear (or a huge BITNET running for free). If scarcity drives up BTC value, maybe, but odds of finding one still declining as payo

Re: "investigator hackers"?

as managing director. ( IDK what NH rules are. ) I think it's SANS INST that has an Ethical Hacker certification that would be useful documentation in such an enterprise. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gn

Re: 16.04 SSD Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

x27;ve been adapter limitation. Feels like i'd need to boot Windows and update HDMI firmware, ugh. (Wind/Dos boot flashdisk documented as working for one BIOS option but not for HDMI installer. boo hiss.) But DP port is working fine as 3k5, and one of those is enough ! (Will order a fan lat

16.04 SSD Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

On Sep 9, 2016 23:05, "Joshua Judson Rosen" wrote: > > On 09/09/2016 12:06 PM, Richard Kolb II wrote: > > Not exactly related, but I just switched from windows 7 on my primary > > machine to Ubuntu 16.x LTS. I found it horribly slow, which surprised > > me considering it's a faster machine, more r

Re: CentOS vs Unbuntu desktop

http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/classicmenu-indicator/ ​ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: tech recruiters you like?

The ones i liked retired. Outplacement firm i worked with most recently said % of jobs found through personal network is growing. Getting hired as an internal referral saves them the hassle of dealing with Monster or Zip or ... , and is usually better per-screened by the referrer, for free. They r

Re: Gmail spam solution?

hat's even slicker than the way i made the filter for BLU lists (i used to: instead of list:). Thanks ! -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - MooseFS

raphica flea, and MIT flea all in 3 days.) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: SDHC card locked?

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > How would the command go? mount ​Since mount reported 'rw', 'mount ...remount,rw' isn't needed, wasn't the problem.​ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com

Re: SDHC card locked?

--options remount,rw' should work. Sometimes a specific reader doesn't like a specific card, so try another one. E.g., my USB hub has slots for everything, but the uSD slot isn't reliable. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _

Re: gps navigation project?

ood enough. Haven't tried Waze, when i want traffic i just use Google Maps app. Do you know if Waze will work with mobile WiFi ? ​ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhl

Re: gps navigation project?

are locked ! At least it gives me a choice of who leaks my credit card to the hackers ... Maybe i should get a $20 VISA gift card to use for AppStore credit so i don't care who has it.) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _

Re: gps navigation project?

d but periodically it suggests i detour up an exit just to get back on to route around a mesh defect.) Alas i can't fix them while driving ... -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Google thinks GNHLUG is spam now

is thread, since it was flagged. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Google thinks GNHLUG is spam now

m from outside. Lists probably need a bit more header re-writing to make it happy - or they need to be smarter to see that yes, we did send that to the list, and it's back. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux __

Fwd: Self-signed cert and Pidgin.

Oops, replied direct. -- Forwarded message -- On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > To work around #2, I set up an /etc/hosts entry; based on what I > understand about SSL (or *think* I understand; I'm pretty hazy on > certain parts), that should be okay. Bu

Re: "KIBO" license plate

o-sponsored event!). I don't think he's on this list.​ But if he's still ego-scanning, he may show up in 3 .. 2 .. 1 .. (In which case, Hi Kibo ! -- world!wdr ) I hope the plates are his; iirc he was car-free when i knew him ... where did you see this ? -- Bill Ricker bill

Re: Drill Press Local to Nashua/Amherst/Milford needed

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:15 PM, David Rysdam wrote: > I've been thinking maddog's acrylic is a laser-cut thing he ordered > somewhere and wouldn't have any paper. MDF/plywood backing would > probably work. Likely . -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://w

Re: Drill Press Local to Nashua/Amherst/Milford needed

protective adhesiver-paper cover still on, it helps prevents chipping. If you don't have a cover layer, shelf-paper or packing-tape might temporarily replace it ? -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlu

Re:

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Would you believe if I told you that what I was working on > was a web-based VCR clock? DO IT ! :-) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___

Re: Copyright in FOSS Consulting

ny expecting to enforce patents against competitors must tread carefully with using (L)GPLv3 enabling platforms with their patented IP. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: Perl Tech meeting Tues Oct 14th - Shell-Shocker CGI and Perl DoS bugs

n't affect me.) TOPIC: Shell-Shocker CGI and Perl DoS bugs DATE: Tuesday, October 14 TIME: 7:00 – 10:00 PM ROOM: E51-376 SPEAKER: Bill Ricker (lead) We will examine the implications for the ShellShock BASH bug for Perl -- it's much wider than just about BASH CGI or even Perl CGI scripts --

Perl Tech meeting Tues Oct 14th - Shell-Shocker CGI and Perl DoS bugs

ROOM: E51-376 SPEAKER: Bill Ricker (lead) We will examine the implications for the ShellShock BASH bug for Perl -- it's much wider than just about BASH CGI or even Perl CGI scripts -- and also a recently discovered/fixed but comparably long-lurking Perl DoS bug in a core module (Data::Dumper

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

n the BLU mailing-list, not sure if he listens here too. He did OpenStack from Scratch: Part ii at OSCON this year, previewed on BLU video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPHquM1PEnU&feature=youtu.be I don't see a video of part i, which is the preso you describe. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1

Re: Best RAW photo editing tool?

a changing when re-writing.) ( A little noise down in the noise may actual help avoid Mach banding during processing, so 'useless' extra precision of 24 bits may actually be helpful too.) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux _

Re: Best RAW photo editing tool?

upload direct from Android or from laptop to the gCloud and they'll awesome-ize it unless you say three times no i know better don't. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-d

Re: Best RAW photo editing tool?

romise if I ever figure it out. For many purposes, RawTherapee would be better for RAW us, if I didn't have Fotoxx to do phase 2 in. Very nice selection of What do you want knobs instead of How To Mash Pixels knobs. I should use it more. 'dcraw' is what Fotoxx and likely everyone els

Re: Fonts Re: how dumb is this idea?

oldstyle font includes ranging figs in at least on variant. ​ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: how dumb is this idea?

​One comment on LO interchange with MSO from recent experience working with MSO-only consultants -- LO Track Changes didn't seem to be as reliably portable when round-tripping doc* files with MS Word users. The changelog was a mess by the time we were done. (I was still on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS at the

Fonts Re: how dumb is this idea?

case interchanging with MSO is already unclean. ​ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

MOD> > I'm sure some would not be displeased to see the > term "open source" get Embraced And Extended and > turned into a pejorative the way "hacker" was... the Intelligence community has had "sources" longer than the computation community has, and they distinguish "open" vs "covert"/"secret".

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

David is correct, "open sources" has been a concept in the intel community in contrast to "covert sources", "classified sources" for longer than we've had computers. It originally meant "reading the foreign newspapers". Among its magical properties of openly-sourced intel is that "we don't have t

Re: Boston Linux Meeting reminder today, September 18, 2013 - PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV

Based on latest news and comments, we should not be signing 1024 bit keys. 2048 or larger. Bruce Schneier's new key is 4096 bits, so that's become accepted. bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailm

Re: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV

KEYSIZE for this year is 2048. Key size 1024 is no longer considered safe for public keys expiring later than Dec 2013. Please use size 2048 this year, whether choosing RSA/RSA or DH/DSA (or RSA or DSA signing-only keys) Folks who have 1024 size keys should make 2048 keys. (You can sign the new 2

Re: Is this normal?

if you Jerry or someone previewed the site with Chrome, Google knows. there are hints that links in email are captured. links in mailing list archives are definitely captured. robots.txt is your only hope. (requires ownership of whole website.) -- Bill @n1vux bill.n1...@gmail.com

Re: Presention software?

there are a number of JavaScript+CSS packages that allow one to write slides - sometimes low verbiage hi punch - in MarkDown and save them as a single page that scrolls though the slides. Not very Tuftian, but lends itself to a minimalism that avoids the worst of bulletmania. Tufte's simplest advi

Re: FYI

If the disk is failing, perhaps what it needs in SpinRight to recover the iffy blocks. Not Free, not Open, but good stuff and not expensive. (And it makes possible the Security Now! podcast.) But even that on 1-3TB will take forever. bill ___ gnhlug-di

"Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, 'early adopter's distribution of Perl 6" MIT 9/14 E51 7pm

onsors CIDC know) but not required, to me bill.n1...@gmail.com or Boston-PM list. (If you have favorite snippets of Perl6 code to share, send them too) Directions - http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections -- Bill Ricker, Boston.pm facilitator http://boston.pm.org/kwik

Re: Nokia N900 // & GPS, again

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > How's the GPS? I heard from someone that the N810's GPS was lacking, I had heard same on N810 and N900, so didn't have high expectations and so haven't tested extensively. I vaguely think it's supposed to be quicker than 810 but still

Re: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

> Depending on how much OSM you want to do, you might be better off buying > the car GPS based on its features and get a GPS data logger: > That may be sensible whether OSM is hi or low. I like the control using a non-car GPS in car gives me, but that is considered abnormal - I have put my unit in

Re: Bluetooth telephone interfaces (was: Nokia N900 // & bluetooth)

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > We tried a Jabra BT5020 for a desk application at work. Audio > quality was mediocre. > I don't like Jabra as much as I used to. > Yes, most wireless is crap. That's why I asked the Frys' guy if any Jabra BT had Plantronics-grade audio,

Re: Nokia N900 // & bluetooth

re bluetooth retro handset I have one. Audio quality sucks, unfortunately. > I was rather disappointed. I used the 2.5mm jack wireline version > once (thanks, Bill McG!), and it was much better. Apparently they > skimped on the electronics in this one. That's more or less true with much of

Re: Nokia N900 // & GPS

>  Both: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/8928/ >  (I have one.  Audio quality sucks, unfortunately.) yeah it sounds gike a1g cellphone ... but it looks good and fits the ear-mouth spacing. uniting threads, OSM2Go field map-editing program works fine with N900 , although i am told the i

Re: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Tyson Sawyer wrote: >>  How do you find it works with Linux?  Or do you?  :) > > eTrex work great with gpsbabel. provided you have right cable. Garmin has made three different cables, two for RS232 serial and most recently USB. Gpsbabel is great. > Newer, fancier

Re: [OT] Luddite Teachings (was OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?)

>>teacher decided to force logs on us... by way of a slide rule. Back in the dark ages, my HS physics & chemistry instructors had us do the formulae with sliderules for weeks before we got to bring in our fancy pricey scientific calculators (HP-25c is 1976). This was NOT to push logarithms on us b

Re: Nokia N900

> I'm looking at upgrading my phone. Even though I won't get 3G, I'm > looking at the Nokia N900. Has anyone used it? What are your thoughts? I really like mine, it have placed my phone & my Zaurus. Works well on T-Mobile 3G, 2.5G (Is that EDGE?), 3.5G (WTF is that?), and WiFi. Internet is not goi

Fwd: Enlightenment desktop API // Boston.pm Tech Meeting - Tuesday, April 13 MIT E51-376 7:15pm

Since the topic is one of the up-n-coming desktops, cc'ing the LUGs . -- Bill, permanent acting temporary facilitator, Boston.pm.org // To Boston-pm-announce at mail.pm.org Next Tech Meeting -- Tuesday, April 13  E51-376 7:15pm Adam Flott - Enlightenment gui api in Perl ** Quick Enlightenment

Re: We need a better Internet in America

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Are you referencing something that happened today? > Yes he was. Court Backs Comcast Over *FCC* on '*Net Neutrality*'‎ > - 44 minute

Re: Linux Android Phone coming to Verizon

The Nokia N900 is a combo upgrade from the N97 smartphone and the N700/800/810 Linux wifi tablet. Due on T-Mobile and AT&T soon i hear. It should be harder to lock down ... and all the apps built for N700/800/810 should be usable. That's what I'll be looking for when my contract is up. -- Bill

Re: wok-key: dealing with keyloggers on net-cafe computers

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: > Boot from a CD or USB key? typical cafe has no accessible CD slot or boot button., and booting will break their time keeping (billing ) system, so you should expect to be evicted -- or arrested for 'hacking' -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@g

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: > >> The Advanced Dock for T60 & W/T500 has slot for pci-mini to add second >> graphics adapter, wwhich would get you the secondd dvi. >> > > What kind of slot? > > I presume its the same Advanced Dock that I have for my T61. The slot is > PCI

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Gordon Marx wrote: > Incidentally, I haven't been able to find a dock that has two DVI > outputs -- while I appreciate that the dock has 1 DVI and 1 VGA, I'd > really rather have 2 DVI, or even DisplayPort (but I'm not sure anyone > is THAT cool yet). > The Advan

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < g...@freephile.com> wrote: > Moving to a new employment position, I'm once again faced with > purchasing some computer equipment. I'm wondering what hardware, > software and combination people like the best for working seamlessly > in t

Re: searching/grepping for words "near" each other

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Dan Jenkins wrote: > I believe this is often called a "proximity search." these days, this would be a job for a search engine. eg, for perl http://search.cpan.org/~tmtm/Plucene-1.25/lib/Plucene.pm -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com _

Re: Very important information!

>>   The modern rack unit used in computing, i.e. the U in 1U, is by pure >>   coincidence exactly equal to the vershok, an obsolete Russian >>   measurement of length. 1U or RU for Rack Unit, but Russia is .ru Coincidence? You decide. > I'm shocked.  A unit of length it doesn't know about?? "P

Boston time_t party Re: Stop! Unix Time

What - time_t party when - 1234567890 ET Fri Feb 13 18:31:30 2009 UT Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 2009 Where - Westin Boston WaterfrontLobby Bar Why there - Boskone SF Convention Why am i

Re: UNIX vs Unix (was: Time for Linux)

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > Later, dmr tried to get the > spelling changed to 'Unix' in a couple of Bell Labs papers, on the > grounds that the word is not acronymic. He failed, which likely would be due to Bell Trademark lawyers - you have to use it only the way you tr

Re: shell, perl, performance, parallelism, profiling, etc. (was: Upgrade guidance)

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Perl is poor at SMP (gah! perl threads!). > I've never had to worry about Perl MP. Sounds like I should be glad. :-) MP in any language is tricky, but sometimes it appears easy and bites you later. Perl has tried a couple

Re: Questions about Ubuntu

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> and "synaptic" and "update manager" provide 2 bundled friendly front >> ends for desktop Ubuntu users scared of the commandline. > > Which, ironically enough, generally scare the users of the command line. :-D indeed

Re: Ubuntu

> Debian has been struggling to decrease the time between "stable" > releases for at least ten years, and it never happens. Personally, I > think they'd be better off just accepting the long release cycle for > what it is, but that's not really my business. :) Well they *are* making a bit of pr

Re: Questions about Ubuntu

> "apt" is analogous to "yum". > "dpkg" is analogous to "rpm". and "synaptic" and "update manager" provide 2 bundled friendly front ends for desktop Ubuntu users scared of the commandline. -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discu

Re: Linux distro release cycles, upgrades, etc.

> Not Lenny, Testing. Testing and Lenny are synonymous now, but when Lenny > is released, it will become Stable, and you'll track that, while Lenny+1 > will be Testing (forgot the name they have announced for it). Testing will > always be Testing (and what I currently track). d*oh, right, it'

Re: Linux distro release cycles, upgrades, etc.

> wanted me to use Ubuntu. Quite a while ago I switched rom Debian to SuSE > because the release cycles were too slow. Debian had a really rough spot for a while, yeah. They have cleaned up their act. But you could always get the Gentoo continual upgrade effect without compiling by installing. L

Re: Booting NOT-Windows

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Peg Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all of you! You are my heros this evening! Klaus Knopper and Linus Torvalds desrve some share of our collegtive thanks for giving us the tools. In addition to the excellent and intuitive Knoppix, there are other

Boston Perl Mongers seeking speakers

liday weekend early). -- Bill Ricker, incoming Facilitator for Boston Perl Mongers (http://boston.pm.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Boston Linux Installfest XXIX Saturday June 21, 2008

>> Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and >> Ubuntu distributions: >>* Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 7) >>* Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 10.3) >>* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Gutsy Gibbon 7.10) > Does this stanza maybe need a bit

USENIX Tech '08 Boston?

Are the LUGs/LoCo doing anything around USENIX Boston this month? -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

> It was also reported that the NEAR-Fest organizers seemed to be less > receptive to the computer stuff, wanting to focus more on traditional > radio stuff. True. Perception of recent Hoss Traders was there were more big layouts of small buckets of PCI cards and cables than of RF connectors

Re: NearFest

Not what I asked, but way Cool in it's own way! See you there. I'll want to look at your ham stuff too ... if I can get to the Mass Ubuntu LoCo stocks of Hardy or Gutsy CD's, I'll bring piles as freebies. Not sure how early or late I'll get up ... not sure how much if any of Friday I can take off

Fwd: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

Will GNHLUG be at NEARFEST this weekend ? If so, would GNHLUG like Ubuntu LoCo support vis-a-vis the recent 8.04 Hardy Heron release ? I note the recent Ubuntu Newsletter #88 featured a Hamfest outreach by LoCo (see below). If I can get a few boxes of Gutsy 7.10 CDs and some Hardy Heron 8.04 CDs

Re: anyone have a cheap source for pc3200 memory?

I am seeing similar issues shopping for 1GB 200-pin CL 2.5 PC2700 DDR for the not-that-old Thinkpad T42. Mobo slots limited to (2) 1GB SODIMMs, no advantage to faster than PC2700/DDR333 but could apparently use PC3200 if I could find it in 200-pin SODIMM (?). -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PRO

Upstart (init.d replacement) Re: New distro question

> > > init-replacement thing in the FOSS world. I forget the name. It's > > Upstart? http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ > > Ubuntu started using it in 6.10 > I'm running 7.04 on my laptop and still see /etc/init.d. Maybe it's 7.10? You're both right - it shipped with Ubuntu 6.10 or so but init.d isn't

Re: New distro question

> IMO, the biggest difference between a RH-based and Debian-based system > is the packaging and tools and the basic sysadmin configuration: > > RHDebian > -- > rpm

Re: New distro question

To simplify scientist self-administration of the workstation, consider WebMin & it's UserMin module. See April Linux Journal review. > scientific calculations. What kind of science? Bio/Genetic, Geo/Soc/Stat, HPC MPPC ? If Clustering, / Hi-Performance Computing, that's a whole different kettle

Re: Setting up separate network question

Definitely keep your paperwork in order. Sounds like what you need is corporate paperwork defining the cluster as a peripheral execution-accelerator of the CentOs box, defining the gig-E or whatever cluster-bus as a cluster-bus not a hidden lan segment. Alternatively, get the Network guys to give

Re: linux hardware inventory program

Another hardware-inventory project is by a Boston Ubuntu-nik - http://dohickey.parsed.net/ I'm not sure how "mature" 9it is. -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Fix for vmsplice exploit...

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I prefer to just let the universe evolve to contain a disk with the > data I want. Luckily, the wait only lasts 6 months each time ... https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: ThinkPad Pointers

Ubuntu at least has user settings that iirc could do that too. when i ipdate my T423 from Gentoo to Ub untu, I'll check. I know putting an outboard USB trackball disables both onboard pointers. On 1/14/08, Kenny Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have to do it in the BIOS, I believe. > > -K

Re: [OT] Simple math considered physics; turns out it's fun, not harmful

> that is in the big leagues. I'm not making fun of the guy, but > physics isn't involved in solving the problem, just regular math. Physics is just applied math. All the world is functions. -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discu

Re: Power to the Pedants

> > IOW, I was trolling for more pedantry :) > Oh, well. That's different. Carry on, then. ;-) My wife custom-ordered a button for me I'm not Pompous, I'm Pedantic There's a difference -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: News from NEAR-fest October 2007, Deerfield

> Neither of us is a Ham, I am. [1] > Did anyone else attend? I was there Friday afternoon/evening, sporting a golf-umbrella from my long-gone start-up. Saturday, I was at First Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo InstallFest. [2] > There were several food vendors as well: the apple crisp smelled > heav

Re: RADIO - Peter Day (BBC) - Wikinomics

On 10/12/07, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > During a bout of insomnia I caught this broadcast > live on the BBC last night and liked it a lot: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/global_business.shtml > > I've always regarded the presenter, Peter Day, as generally >

Re: [OT] xkcd

> If you know what a SQL injection attack is, you will love this: > http://xkcd.com/327/ while xkcd++; And if it doesn't make sense, you NEED to read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection_attack -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: Best live CD (DVD) distribution

> That's very much a matter of taste. True > As it is a laptop, I presume you're looking for mostly desktop > functionality, as opposed to server... Knoppix is quite good for autodetect hardware and see what works. But it's not really a full-service desktop. Ubuntu is a good install and ok "li

Re: Perl best practices (was: question ... Split operator in Perl)

I highly recommend Damian Conway's book of same title, "Perl Best Practices", which recommends a much tamer, consistent readable style within a workgroup than he uses in his own code (depending on context) -- he suggests one style but encourages each group to decide for themselves and take his list

Re: Spreadsheets and precision?

> Oh. I do see that now that I look. This strikes me as completely > counter-intuitive. So, how to people do actual division in > spreadsheets? Does Excel suffer from this as well? Yes. Every spreadsheet since VisiCalc has done floating point division and other basic numeric formuli in formul

Re: a simple question about grep

> Or, if you only have an old grep, but do have Perl, the following should > work: The Andy and the "ack" project have built a better grep with perl. http://perladvent.pm.org/2006/5/ search.cpan.org/~petdance/ack/ack petdance.com/ack/ "ack is pure Perl, so consistent across all platforms. Comm

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