Re: tech recruiters you like?

2016-08-31 Thread Brian Chabot
These folks have been good to me in the past: http://workbridgeassociates.com/ Tell them Brian Chabot sent you. Brian Brian Chabot On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Bill McGonigle <b...@bfccomputing.com> wrote: > Hi, everybody, > > I know some of you have landed good gigs using

Re: Boot-to-CLI distro?

2016-02-17 Thread Brian Chabot
In GRUB, boot to init 1, single user mode. Brian Chabot On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote: > Hey, all. Many's the time I just want to go and fix something stupid -- > maybe wipe a disk, or edit a file -- and all I want is to be able to > stick

Re: Bill Sconce obituary and memorial date (February 13th at Boire Field, Nashua, NH)

2016-01-16 Thread Brian Chabot
He and I share a birth date... I never knew that. I met him but I did not know him. I think we would have gotten along quite well. I hope to be able to make it to the memorial. Brian Brian Chabot On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 2:11 PM, mad...@li.org <jonhal...@comcast.net> wrote: > Bill

Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations

2015-07-15 Thread Brian Chabot
I use InterServer for most of my web sites and it meets those requirements. Price isn't bad. http://www.interserver.net/ Brian Brian Chabot On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, GNHLUG's server is being kicked out of our long-time free hosting

Re: Network system monitoring tools? Nagios, Zabbix, ...?

2014-08-13 Thread Brian Chabot
I'm generally a fan of nagios... but PandoraFMS is showing potential, especially where execs want pretty pictures. Brian Chabot On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Looking to set up some system for monitoring systems on the network at work

Re: PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

2014-04-14 Thread Brian Chabot
there. I've never been to these, but I do have extensive experience with WP. Feel free to ping me offlist if you need. Brian Chabot ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

2014-03-26 Thread Brian Chabot
I have an S4 and I feel your frustration I ended up using Astro File Manager for Android and transfering with Linux via sftp. Brian On Mar 25, 2014 11:51 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Work has provided me with a new handheld computer, a Galaxy S4, made by Samsung. It runs

su: cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable

2014-03-10 Thread Brian Chabot
of lost here. Usually the error indicates files or processes over the limit but here... not so much. Any ideas? Brian Chabot ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: su: cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable

2014-03-10 Thread Brian Chabot
perms nsems 0x 0 root 6001 0x 65537 root 6001 0x 131074 root 6001 0x7a000803 262147 zabbix 60010 [user1@cent6.4box ~]$ Nothing is jumping out at me here... Brian Brian Chabot On Mon, Mar

Re: Resume length and history

2013-04-09 Thread Brian Chabot
I just landed a temp-to-perm job at a pretty awesome company with a 3-page resume that goes back to my first computer job in 1999. My resume is heavy on job experience because I only have an AS degree and the jobs I was looking for were Bachelors or equivalent level. If you want to take a peek,

Re: Windows 8 (or, more likely, UEFI) warning.

2013-01-13 Thread Brian Chabot
UEFI is why I switched to Fedora. It was the only distro at the time that supported UEFI out of the box, and even then, it was a little clunky. On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Wouldn't boot to Linux. Well, okay. Let's try Windows 8. Wouldn't boot to

Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Chabot
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: is there *ANY* legitimate reason why anything should be attempting to connect from Facebook to my home IP address, which offers no such services? I assume, of course, that the answer is No. The *only*

Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Chabot
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: When you say nuke the connection attempt do you mean kill the process that's attempting to open the connection? I can't, because it's an inbound connection and that process is (apparently) somewhere inside

Re: [OT] iPad

2010-03-23 Thread Brian Chabot
Alan Johnson wrote: This appears to be made from a review template for all Apple products. You just filled in the blanks with iPad and Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t, a convertible touchscreen netbook/tablet, didn't you? I think it's in Apple's design specs. Take nifty tech only geeks know about.

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Brian Chabot
Chris wrote: I don't agree with all of it, but it does put a few things in perspective. http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7532tag=nl.e539 I do not agree with the author of the article either. His arguments seem only based on a limited experience of what Linux has to offer. I know that

Re: Silly DNS question

2010-01-24 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: The detective in me has to point out that doesn't necessarily prove it's Amazon's *DNS* servers doing that. Their provisioning system might replace potentially problematic characters with dashes when creating DNS records. This distinction is mostly academic, but I

Re: Silly DNS question

2010-01-22 Thread Brian Chabot
Thomas Charron wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: That would generally be considered non-compliant with the requirements for Internet hosts, even though DNS can handle it. Interesting. My nameserver at home ends up telling me to bugger off.

Re: Prebuilt/turn-key PC options

2009-10-06 Thread Brian Chabot
Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: `Open Systems FTW'? So..., I just recently heard about these guys: http://www.system76.com/ Anyone here have experience with, or opinions of, them? Nope. But I do have (intimate you might say) experience with a *local* provider of Linux

Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Chabot
jim.mcginn...@att.net wrote: If a price around $150 is in your range, In that range, I've been happy with this one: http://www.music123.com/Musicians-Gear-MUSICIANS-GEAR-HANDHELD-STEREO-DIGITAL--RECORDER-58-i1432656.Music123 (In case the link breaks, try this one: http://bit.ly/1U1W7N )

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-21 Thread Brian Chabot
Alan Johnson wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com mailto:pyt...@venix.com wrote: http://www.intermapper.com is a local product that is worth considering. I looked at Internapper years ago when I was running a Wireless ISP and it looks very nice

Re: OT: green vehicles

2009-07-30 Thread Brian Chabot
Bill McGonigle wrote: On 07/28/2009 12:48 PM, Brian Chabot wrote: Their Air Pod looks nifty. Wow, the range is more than I would have guessed. The secret seems to be a combination between a super-efficient engine and multiple 175 liter carbon-fiber composite air tanks that can each

Re: OT: green vehicles

2009-07-28 Thread Brian Chabot
Alan Johnson wrote: For now, my dream is to build a tiny one-seater car with electric bike parts and my neighbor's welding skills. If I could get 40Mph, and 20mi/charge, it would be the perfect car for my commute. I'm still holding out for an MDI Air Car: http://www.mdi.lu/ Their Air Pod

Re: Finding *unfiltered* free WiFi?

2009-07-10 Thread Brian Chabot
Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Actually, it looks like OpenBmap http://www.openbmap.org/ has already expanded their scope to include WiFi hotspots; it seems like access-restrictions might be just the sort of data that they'd want to include in their database--I don't know whether they've

Analog Modems?

2009-06-22 Thread Brian Chabot
This is going to sound odd, but I have a friend who lives in the boonies who only has an analog phone line for internet access and word has it they won't have broadband (or most cell signals) for a couple more years. I was wondering if anyone here might know of an affordable, stand-alone device

Re: ARTICLE - openwrt/dd-wrt based modem/router vulnerability?

2009-03-28 Thread Brian Chabot
Tom Wittbrodt wrote: I admit I didn't read the fine print when I signed up with Verizon for DSL service but I wasn't aware the company providing my DSL service could push changes like this to my router without my involvement. For what it might be worth, when I signed up for Speakeast

Re: CMS

2009-03-25 Thread Brian Chabot
Dan Coutu wrote: Lori Hitchcock wrote: Working with a company developing a website in a LAMP environment and starting to look at CMS. Hearing good and bad about both Joomla and Drupal. The needs to be very simple for non-techs to add content. For clients with simpler needs I

USB Question...

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Chabot
I recently got a (rather nice otherwise) sound recorder that connects via USB to a computer. When I plug it in, I get this in my /var/log/messages: Mar 5 04:14:35 ono-sendai kernel: usb 2-1.4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 64 Mar 5 04:14:35 ono-sendai kernel: usb

Re: USB Question...

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Chabot
Thomas Charron wrote: What version of hal do you have, as well as what kernel? There where USB mass storage size issues fixed in both newer kernels, and hal, specifically for large storage devices. Hal is hal-0.5.10-0.rc2.4mdv2008.0 and I'm running

Re: USB Question...

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Chabot
Alan Johnson wrote: I've definitely seen some older hubs cause problems with devices on Linux boxes. Silly question, but did you try plugging in directly to the machine (assuming it has 2.0 ports)? The USB ports are not trivial to reach, so I'll try that later (or on a system at work)

Re: USB Question...

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Chabot
Thomas Charron wrote: There where fixes in both in newer versions. 2.6.24 included USB fixes size issues, as well as hal 0.5.11. I'm trying to keep this system as close to stock as possible, so I'll integrate those as soon as Mandriva's normal update repositories have them... What

Re: USB Question...

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Chabot
virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: Does it play back as well as record? If so, do the recordings sound correct when played directly from the device? Yup. Sounds just fine on the device itself. That's not likely to be a problem unless you're playing a high bitrate mp3 directly over USB from

Re: Thunderbird question

2009-03-03 Thread Brian Chabot
Cole Tuininga wrote: I IMAP in under my co...@code-energy.com account and send stuff out by SMTP AUTHing into my mail server and setting the from address as co...@code-energy.com. Then (at least, under Evolution) I have c...@tuininga.org set up to use that same unix account just for

Re: Thunderbird question

2009-03-03 Thread Brian Chabot
Brian Chabot wrote: I think I grok what you're looking for. I may have missed what you're looking for... You may alternatively been looking for: Edit - Account Settings - Outgoing Server (SMTP) I'm hoping one of these was what you were looking for. Brian

Re: FOSS Gaming Survey - Any help is appreciated

2009-02-02 Thread Brian Chabot
Joseph Guarino wrote: FOSS Gaming Survey - http://www.evolutionaryit.com/limesurvey/index.php?sid=72676#9001;=en Someone should have troubleshot this before it went public. Which Video Game magazines do you subscribe to? Cannot answer: No answer. Must fill in Other with something like

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Brian Chabot
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: Evolution supports IMAP, POP and local mail. It also supports multiple identities. I somehow missed the beginning of this thread but... Thunderbird also supports multiple identities, IMAP, and POP as well as GMail natively. Enigmail makes PGP/GPG

Re: Nokia N810 and other handhelds

2008-12-03 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... the ever-elusive 802.11 SD card. ;) Does such a thing actually exist? Google seems to think so, but... there was an 802.11 card for the Sony Memory Stick form-factor, too. They're impossible

Re: Handheld device keyboards (was: Nokia N810)

2008-12-03 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: Aside: I got to try the BlackBerry Storm for a minute. The keyboard was one of the deciding factors in my choice to go with the Blackberry 8130 Curve from T-mobile. It has a raised, backlit, chicklet style keyboard and unlike anything else I've seen on the market today,

Re: Laptop HD repair/recovery question

2008-11-17 Thread Brian Chabot
Ed lawson wrote: Any suggestions of NH repair shops to check system/HD, repair and determine if recovery of bad drive feasible at reasonable price and/or best nearby recovery shop? There have been some great recommendations so far. Go for those if you can. If you can't... I often get

Re: Looking for local mobo suppliers

2008-11-16 Thread Brian Chabot
Michael ODonnell wrote: One of the GNHLUG members runs a computer store: http://www.justworksnh.com/blog/ I don't know if it meets your requirements but there's a thread about it in the April archives on the GNHLUG server. Hi! that would be me. I don't stock many parts... just

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Brian Chabot
Greg Rundlett wrote: I've been through the upgrade process and I'm still getting used to KDE 4. I'm frustrated by not being able to have a customized panel with direct launchers for all my favorite applications. For that matter, although I generally keep a clean desktop, I don't like the

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: portable music players

2008-10-03 Thread Brian Chabot
Jesse Lazar wrote: Hey, Is ipod the way to go for portable music player within Linux. My understanding is that it can be done easily, however I am curious as to what others use... Speaking from a Mandriva perspective... (YMMV in other distros) Syncing an iPod in Mandriva 2008.1 is not

Re: Seamonkey Issue

2008-09-30 Thread Brian Chabot
TARogue wrote: For those who don't know, Seamonkey is the reincarnation of the Mozilla suite. I just upgraded to seamonkey-1.1.12-1.fc8 using yum. I then had to reinstall the add-ons adblock_plus and noscript. Both of these need to write in the seamonkey directory, so need to be

Re: Seamonkey Issue

2008-09-30 Thread Brian Chabot
Bill McGonigle wrote: That seems to be the root cause of your troubles, no? Firefox installs your extensions into ~/.mozilla, so you don't get this problem - is this an open issue on Seamonkey? That reminds me - make sure ~/.mozilla is recursively yours! I seem to recall that having

Re: Price/Performance of time

2008-09-30 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Ric Werme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We used to make comparisons like If the automobile industry had improved at the same rate as computers It's been a long time since that made any sense - a car would travel at Mach 10, seat 1,500, get

Re: Intranet packages?

2008-09-17 Thread Brian Chabot
Dan Coutu wrote: I have a client running on Red Hat Linux 5 that has a home grown gnarly intranet that needs to be replaced with something that's a lot more useful and easier to navigate and maintain. I've been investigating different open source and commercial packages that provide an

Re: Looking for duplex help with my printer :-(

2008-07-19 Thread Brian Chabot
Steven W. Orr wrote: 720 lpoptions -l Duplex/Double-Sided Printing: DuplexNoTumble DuplexTumble *None My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that I should be able to say lp -o Duplex filename and it should come out double sided. It does not and I have no idea what to do from

Re: Looking for duplex help with my printer :-(

2008-07-19 Thread Brian Chabot
Steven W. Orr wrote: On Saturday, Jul 19th 2008 at 21:10 -, quoth Brian Chabot: =I'd try: = = lp -o DuplexNoTumble filename = =Brian I tried that. No go. Also, I don't know what Tumble or NoTumble means. Damn. Tumble/NoTumble I presume means whether you flip the page up to read

Re: Quick DNS perfromance measurement trick

2008-07-11 Thread Brian Chabot
Michael ODonnell wrote: aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is POOR: 26 queries in 3.1 seconds from 1 ports with std dev 0.00 That aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd address seems to be the (possibly NAT'd) IP addr that the target site sees mentioned in the inbound packets; I have no idea about the rest of it... It looks

Re: Favorite distros

2008-06-25 Thread Brian Chabot
Bill Mullen wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:59:32 -0400, David Hardy wrote: Serious question: favorite new Linux distro? Which will do media and amaze and stun the otherwise Winders crowd at various sites of various sizes? Anything from desktop to enterprise level. Mandriva 2008.1

OT: Was: Re: [HUMOR] $500 patch cable

2008-06-16 Thread Brian Chabot
Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (R)Linux International is a registered trademark in the USA used pursuant to a license from Linux Mark Institute, authorized licensor of Linus Torvalds, owner of the Linux trademark

Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-06 Thread Brian Chabot
Well, if we assume the computer is offline (which we've been asked to do)... and the software isn't on the drive... what good is having the search engine data going to do? :) Umm, I don't see that requirement anywhere in the thread. Did I miss something? I probably should have been

Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-06 Thread Brian Chabot
Thomas Charron wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call me crazy, but isn't everything you described Google Desktop itself?!?! I had exactly the same thought. Ooh, neat, didn't know Google had yum repos now... I think Brian underestimated

Offline Search?

2008-06-04 Thread Brian Chabot
Does anyone know of a decent offline, cross-platform search engine? What I'm looking for is something like Google Desktop http://desktop.google.com ...but for offline use. What I want to be able to do is dump a whole bunch of files into a directory (or sub-directories) and have an application

Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-04 Thread Brian Chabot
Derek Atkins wrote: Have you looked at Namazu? Functionally, it looks good... but it's definitely not a stand-alone application. http://www.namazu.org/doc/tutorial.html#prep-make I don't mind if I have to use a specific computer to index the files, but the query tool really needs to be

kded artsd

2008-05-22 Thread Brian Chabot
I've been seeing odd behaviour... When idle (or mostly idle) for long periods, I get an occasional message popping up telling me that artsdaemon is being killed off because of CPU overload. Checking top, I see: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 4985 xxx

Re: Palm vs other smart phones/PDAs

2008-05-09 Thread Brian Chabot
Tom Buskey wrote: IMO, the original Palm UI and apps still hold up very well. I've been using Palm with Unix since I got a Pilot 1000. I have a Blackberry for work and my wife uses an iPhone. I keep an old Handspring Visor Pro handy, myself. I like that I can back it up to a CF card

Re: Computer repair shop

2008-05-04 Thread Brian Chabot
David Hardy wrote: Problem: I scraped the hard drive (or thought I did) completely in anticipation that she'd want the Windows os back. [SNIP] (It would appear to install and then freeze, and on boot-up the XP boot screen appears, despite my reformatting the drive.) Sounds more like

Re: Computer repair shop

2008-05-04 Thread Brian Chabot
Karl Hergenrother wrote: My wife's 3 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop has had intermittent charging problems. I have replaced its battery, but that didn't help. Right now it will not charge at all. I'm fairly sure that the problem is in the socket on the computer which accepts the

Re: Source for DVI/USB KVM switch, cables

2008-04-25 Thread Brian Chabot
Kent Johnson wrote: Hi, I need a KVM switch that will, at a minimum, switch one DVI monitor at 1920x1200 and one USB port between two computers. An extra USB port and audio would be a bonus but not required. http://www.amconnstore.com/products/dvikvm/KVM712DV/ $90 but you supply the

Re: Comcast blocks port 25 incoming, yet again

2008-04-25 Thread Brian Chabot
David W. Aquilina wrote: Other things I've liked about speakeasy: - They have actual intelligent people manning their tech support line pretty much 24/7 My first tech support call to them a few years ago sold me on their service. I was trying to do something non-standard with the way my

Re: New NH computer store selling Linux systems...

2008-04-16 Thread Brian Chabot
Frank DiPrete wrote: Sounds great - where in nashua is the store? It's at 419 Amherst St. across from Building 19 and right next door to Boomer's and Dominos Pizza. You can turn in to RJ's parking lot and go around the building to your right if you're coming from the west or miss the

Re: Spam and extra MX records

2008-04-15 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: Personally, I also find these kinds of strategies very rude. You're increasing *my* mail server's load because *you're* not willing to implement a proper anti-spam solution. Don't be a jerk about your mail system. That makes you part of the problem -- not much better

Re: New NH computer store selling Linux systems...

2008-04-15 Thread Brian Chabot
Michael ODonnell wrote: My wife and I drive right past there on our weekly jaunts (in season) to hike Pack Monadnock Saturday or Sunday mornings - might you be open then? I didn't see hours mentioned in your email or WWW site... the current hours are posted at:

Re: New NH computer store selling Linux systems...

2008-04-15 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently opened a computer store in Nashua, NH... specializing in complete Mandriva Linux based desktop systems ... Sounds very cool, Brian. Please keep us all posted on how things go as you get off the

Linux and Smart phones?

2008-03-21 Thread Brian Chabot
It's getting about time for me to replace my cell phone... next month actually is when I plan to do it. So my question to the community is... Is there a (smart)phone out there that can sync ***EASILY*** with Linux (as in user side software NOT beta, RPM/DEB/etc. available, maintained) that can

Re: cron question / process queue

2008-03-07 Thread Brian Chabot
Kent Johnson wrote: I made a combined job that basically does this: if it is the first of the month: run monthly job and wait for completion if it is Saturday: run the weekly job and wait for completion run the daily job The combined job is scheduled for 8pm execution with cron.

Re: Laptop Saved! (was RAM Mapping Script)

2008-03-06 Thread Brian Chabot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still find it easier to open the case, remove the platter (and magnets) and chuck the rest of the stuff in the recycling bin. The platters are actually pretty brittle. You can open the case, save the magnets, and give the platters a good whack with a hammer to

Re: Small business backups solutions?

2008-02-10 Thread Brian Chabot
Brian Chabot wrote: So I've decided on the hard drive back up routine. My server (I'm ordering it in parts now in another window...) will have a 500GB SATA hard drive. I'll be adding a removable SATA enclosure from http://www.cru-dataport.com and getting carriers for a total of 3 more

Re: Small business backups solutions?

2008-02-06 Thread Brian Chabot
Lots of good info... But here's one suggestion for REALLY small businesses How convenient that I, too, am looking for just such a thing... In my case I have a small shop I'm putting together. I can't see my total data that I need to back up exceeding a couple huhundred gigs ...for a

Re: Wireless Problems

2008-01-18 Thread Brian Chabot
TARogue wrote: First question: what is wmaster0? Second question: what does unknown hardware address type 801 mean? As others have pointed out, wmaster0 is likely an alias to the wifi interface. The error seems to be saying that the driver and the hardware aren't talking to eachother for

Linux Based Point of Sale?

2008-01-15 Thread Brian Chabot
Would anyone here have any recommendations on a Linux based Point of Sale system for a small retail store? I've seen plenty of decent small business accounting software, but not much in terms of usable POS... so far I'm looking at: Quasar: http://www.linuxcanada.com/index.shtml (Not free.)

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

2007-11-21 Thread Brian Chabot
Greg Rundlett wrote: Philosophically and sociologically, I'm asking why somebody who worked there wouldn't solve these problems out of curiosity. Because they don't know how? Because they don't care? Because they were conditioned by social norms to believe the subject is too difficult or

Re: Best live CD (DVD) distribution

2007-10-10 Thread Brian Chabot
Karl wrote: I would like to try Linux on this laptop before I blow Vista away or make it a dual boot machine. What live CD (DVD) distribution would you recommend. That's very much a matter of taste. Most current users are siding with Gnome vs KDE or Apt vs rpm. I am leaning towards

Re: Linux Stickers

2007-10-07 Thread Brian Chabot
Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: In the spirit of Linux you could make your own I may end up hiring a print ship to do it for me. So far I kind of like the graphic at http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/linux-hardware-sites-for-newbie/ and with some slight modifications I really like the

Linux Stickers

2007-10-06 Thread Brian Chabot
Does anyone know of a good source for various Linux stickers/decals? I'm looking for anything small, like those Made for Windows or Works with Vista stickers in quantity. I know Ubuntu stickers are around, but I am looking for something not specific to any distribution. Any ideas? Thanks,

Re: Linux Stickers

2007-10-06 Thread Brian Chabot
Thomas Charron wrote: http://www.cafepress.com/buy/linux?CMP=KNC-G-EN-TCHovchn=GGLovcpn=Geeks+Tech+and+Gaming+Basicovcrn=sr2EN1go47097sb5749pi14ai956+Linux+decalovtac=PPCSR=sr2EN1go47097sb5749pi14ai956 ? Not small. Not quantity. Expensive. To reiterate: I'm looking for anything small,

Re: Package management

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Chabot
Charlie Farinella wrote: To do it with RPM's I need to do about a dozen of them which means I have to find out which ones I need, etc. negating any advantage to the package management system. I could build it from source and either run the 2 versions of python simultaneously, or

Re: Handhelds/PDAs - Palm vs Zaurus vs others - Opinions? Experiences?

2007-03-22 Thread Brian Chabot
Jeffry Smith wrote: I'll comment again (although I don't own one yet) - check out the N800 by Nokia (http://www.nokiausa.com/N800). All well and good but Browsing time: up to 3 hours HUH? THREE HOURS?!? Are they %^%%%$[EMAIL PROTECTED] high!?!? That's a limitation not a feature. I

Re: Handhelds/PDAs - Palm vs Zaurus vs others - Opinions? Experiences?

2007-03-21 Thread Brian Chabot
Not too long ago, I grabbed a cheap Handspring Visor off eBay (about $35 with shipping). Linux compatible (mostly), long battery life, AAA batteries, and great PIM. Add a CF adapter and it's actually useful as a text reader. Works out find for me. Now if those ePaper thingies had lower prices,

Re: Handhelds/PDAs - Palm vs Zaurus vs others - Opinions? Experiences?

2007-03-21 Thread Brian Chabot
Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:38 -0400, Brian Chabot wrote: Not too long ago, I grabbed a cheap Handspring Visor I bought a Palm m130 at the last Hosstraders. You know... I'd bet there would be a market for low-end PDAs if we could find a cheap way to build them and a way

Time... in a blender! Get me out of this handbasket!

2007-03-12 Thread Brian Chabot
I think I found out why the keyboard was screwey. The settings were fine. The clock is on amphetamines though, spinning about twice its proper speed, which is why I'm up at this ungodly hour: The alarm went off at 9:10 at 5:20 am. Now, I understand drift, etc. so I figure the system thought my

Re: Time... in a blender! Get me out of this handbasket!

2007-03-12 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: Wow. Neat. I've never heard of anything like that. I guess I'm not the first http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+time+%22too+fast%22+Athlon+64 Is ntpd running? If so, kill it, and see if that fixes it. That was my first thought, too. No joy though. Have you

Setting keyboard repeat rate...

2007-03-11 Thread Brian Chabot
Anyone know how to reset the keyboard repeat rate under a current Mandriva/redhat-like system? It seems that in changing from a 64-bit to a 32-bit system the repeat rate and delay before repeat is a leeetle too sensitive... Thanks! Brian ___

Re: Setting keyboard repeat rate...

2007-03-11 Thread Brian Chabot
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Brian Chabot wrote: Anyone know how to reset the keyboard repeat rate under a current Mandriva/redhat-like system? I got it fixed in KDE... haven't had a need to go into a console yet. It's just... odd that it would get that sensitive. Made typing and passwords awkward

Trying to try Kubunto...

2007-02-27 Thread Brian Chabot
Yesterday I decided it was time to give Kubuntu 6.10 a try. Now the only system I can realistically reload the OS on at the moment is my laptop, so that's my guinea pig. (It is a Toshiba Satellite M45 S359) The online docs seem to indicate this should work:

Re: Trying to try Kubunto...

2007-02-27 Thread Brian Chabot
Tom Buskey wrote: Anyone else have any suggestions? There is an alternate boot CD you could try. Maybe try the Ubuntu or Xubuntu install and add KDE with Synaptic after the install. Was kind of hoping not to have to DL and burn another image here... but if that's the only option...

Re: Trying to try Kubunto...

2007-02-27 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: Have you tried the CD in another system, just to make sure, for sure, that the CD is good? It seems good. Passed the md5 checksum on burn... mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory cp: unable to open '/root/var/log/': No such file

Re: Trying to try Kubunto...

2007-02-27 Thread Brian Chabot
Nigel Stewart wrote: For diagnostic purposes, it might be interesting to try the latest on the development branch, to see if there is already a fix. Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Herd 4 https://wiki.kubuntu.org/FeistyFawn/Herd4/Kubuntu That is exactly the same advice I got from others the

Re: Arabic NON-unicode fonts - Easy Char Mapping?

2007-02-24 Thread Brian Chabot
Thomas Charron wrote: Cheap Arabic keyboard. http://www.crayeon3.com/c3/pc-260-30-.aspx Damn! That IS cheap. I'll pass it on... Thanks! Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Hacking the Razr 3m?

2007-02-23 Thread Brian Chabot
Travis Roy wrote: http://www.hacktherazr.com/ The other method is outlined here in great detail - http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.php/Motorola_V3c_Tutorial:_Flashing_to_Alltel_User_Interface BitPim is also a good place to start. Bah... Might be time for me to upgrade soon... I

Re: Can't figure out Firefox Plugin Requirement

2007-02-14 Thread Brian Chabot
Bayard Coolidge wrote: under nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.2-1 Very strange, indeed... Not really. Mandriva still uses nspluginwrapper-0.9.90.3-1mdv2007.0 ...and according to their web site, a lot of crash behavior was fixed in 0.9.91. Mandriva has always been a little slow on new RPMs when it

Re: Can't figure out Firefox Plugin Requirement

2007-02-13 Thread Brian Chabot
Tech Writer wrote: I'm using Firefox in Red Hat EL5, and trying to run a web application that requires a Java Virtual Machine. When I start my application, I get an informational message that additional plugins ar required. When I click the Install Missing Plugins button, it directs me to

Re: Fw: linux newbie

2007-01-16 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: On 1/15/07, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, rpm -q --requires packagename does a similar thing for RPM-based systems. In Mandriva Linux, urpmi does that (in theory) automatically ... Um, given that Mandriva is RPM-based, I'm thinking rpm will work

Re: Link2VoIP Announcement

2007-01-15 Thread Brian Chabot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have wonder what the Asterisk team (the creators of IAX) think about Link2VoIP calling IAX2 unstable. Looks like BroadVoice still likes Asterisk: http://www.broadvoice.com/support_install_asterisk.html ...but then they also use SIP pretty exclusively...

Re: Fw: linux newbie

2007-01-15 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: FYI, rpm -q --requires packagename does a similar thing for RPM-based systems. In Mandriva Linux, urpmi does that (in theory) automatically (from the man page): The purpose of urpmi is to install rpm packages, including all their dependencies. You can also use

Re: FUDCon Boston 2007 announced

2006-12-22 Thread Brian Chabot
Paul Lussier wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 12/22/06, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/76972 On Friday, February 2nd, Fedora enthusiasts will gather at Boston University... This year's FUDCon Boston will be a little bit different.

Re: Stupid Perl/Apache Question - Fixed!

2006-12-13 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: [regarding two ways of passing vars to a module] Remember, this is Perl, where there are 50 different ways to do anything. Sometimes that's useful, sometimes less so. So I hoped. The problem is neither Learning Perl nor Perl in a Nutshell made it clear and the Mech docs flip

Re: Stupid Perl/Apache Question

2006-12-07 Thread Brian Chabot
Ben Scott wrote: On 12/7/06, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $auth = MIME::Base64::encode($adminuser:$adminpass) || die Error: $!\n; $mech-add_header (Authorization=Basic $auth) || die Error: $!\n; You need to do this: $mech-credentials (username = password); Well.. It didn't

Re: Stupid Perl/Apache Question

2006-12-07 Thread Brian Chabot
Thomas Charron wrote: Your perl skilz n33d working on. ;-) They're the same thing. Learning perl by writing inefficient tools that streamline my job. Wee! Illegal seek? That's very strange. H... um, try the method above first. Maybe we'll get lucky and that will work. :) No

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