Re: Scriptable speedtest for network connection?

2014-11-24 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I am with Chip. Speedtest-cli works just fine: > speedtest-cli > Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... > Retrieving speedtest.net server list... > Testing from Fairpoint Communications (72.71.243.183)... > Selecting best server based on latency... > Hosted by Towerstream (Boston, MA) [53.42 k

Re: Resume length and history

2013-04-09 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Kenny: Having been forced back into the job market back in October of last year, I was afforded training by my last company in the most recent resume trends. Longer is not necessarily better, and the standard these days is anywhere from 1-3 pages, depending on the job and amount of experience tha

Re: Electronic Health Records (EHR) or PHR software

2013-01-03 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Greg: Funny you should pose this. I am a member of a Python group on Facebook and one of the members of that group is a Doctor who has taken it upon himself to write an Open Source health records software. I was showing it to my wife last night, as she works in the medical field, and while she s

Re: Cataloging media - books, CDs, DVDs

2012-12-27 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I don't have any links for you (sorry), but in reading your post, Ben, my first thought was, "Let's draw up the spec, work out the details and start coding!". On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Mark Komarinski wrote: > On 12/26/2012 12:47 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > > Hello, list! > > > >Happy Fe

Re: Free Stuff To Good Home(s)

2012-11-03 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I just wanted to follow up and thank those who took some items. I am certainly glad they have found homes. The rest of the available items are going to be donated locally. Regards, Jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org ht

Re: Free Stuff To Good Home(s)

2012-10-26 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
The 2 - Seagate drives are gone, but the rest is still kicking around. If you want anything, please speak up as I am looking at donating it soon. Thanks! Regards, Jeff On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Jefferson Kirkland wrote: > Hi Everyone! I find myself in a position where I have to

Free Stuff To Good Home(s)

2012-10-23 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Hi Everyone! I find myself in a position where I have to get rid of a lot of the build up of hardware that I have accumulated over the years. Anything not taken will simply be tossed, but I would like to see the stuff go to a good home and get lots of use if possible. Please know that anything

Re: [OT] Adding recruiters to LinkedIn connection list?

2011-07-14 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
That is quite the point you have made, Kenny. I had a couple recruiters in my LinkedIn until this morning and after reading your post, i have removed them. They were only in there because back in 2009 when I was unemployed, they were in contact with me every other day. Seeing as how I have been

Re: SLUG (meeting tonight): jQuery JavaScript library

2011-07-11 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Wow, that would be an amazing talk as I recently dove head first into jQuery. Unfortunately there is no way I could make that meeting. If he has slides from the presentation, would it be possible to put them up on say slideshare and send everyone the link? Thanks! Regards, Jeff On Mon, Jul

Fwd: ssh + svn - pam

2011-07-07 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jefferson Kirkland Date: Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:24 PM Subject: Re: ssh + svn - pam To: Kenny Lussier I am not sure how you would set that up without either having a user account on the box or in the LDAP type system used for the network. Every

Re: Fwd: Linux reference on subs

2011-06-06 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
that they are quite unmatched. Some day that may release more information, but whatever we find probably won't be to the detail level we would all like. Sorry to be the buzz kill. Of course I would love it if I were proved wrong on that, but am not holding my breath. Regards, Jeff 2011/6/6 Je

Re: Fun 404 page.

2011-04-04 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Very nice. Its even in Morse and Semaphore. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:50 AM, John Abreau wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > > I clicked on a link in a c. '99 Linux article, and wound up here: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/LDP > > > > I especially enjoy the Unix(6)

Re: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?

2011-02-12 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I don't know that you actually can. Because of apt-get's nature as a package manager, its whole job is to ensure that things work correctly and that everything is installed that needs to be for the package you are needing. On the other hand, if you can do a wget of the .deb file for the app you w

Re: Drupal Camp NH May 22 SNHU Manchester

2010-04-28 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Nevermind, I found it: http://drupalcampnh.org/sessions Seems to be a standard schedule for all trainings. Regards, Jeff On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Jefferson Kirkland wrote: > First, I have my ticket now, thanks for the information! 17 left. :) > > Second, looking at t

Re: Drupal Camp NH May 22 SNHU Manchester

2010-04-28 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
First, I have my ticket now, thanks for the information! 17 left. :) Second, looking at their site, they happily list the date, as you did, but is there a time to be there and maybe a schedule? Maybe I am just blind and its been a LONG day. Regards, Jeff On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:17 AM, T

Re: [OT] Postal services (was: better Internet)

2010-04-07 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Ed lawson wrote: > Say what you will, but the reality is the USPS does deliver many small > packages very quickly for a very reasonable fee. If you were a > dealer in rare coins worth six figures each your delivery system of > choice is registered mail by the USPS.

Re: Recycled PCs

2010-03-30 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Thanks Cole! I have some old PCs (486 and such) that I have been meaning to offload. I think I need to contact this guy. Of course, question is, can he really use 486's for this purpose? They are a bit aged. I guess I will let him accept or reject them. Anywho, thanks again! On Sun, Mar 28,

Re: Fwd: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

2009-10-04 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
uld rather have a machine like a desktop that I can extend personally. On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:20 PM, OK? Im Deluxe! > wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:12:58PM -0400, Jefferson Kirkland wrote: > > While I am sure the Mac Mini is a nice machine, I can still get more > machine &

Fwd: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

2009-10-04 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jefferson Kirkland Date: Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:12 PM Subject: Re: How Apple makes more profit on their systems... To: Shawn O'Shea While I am sure the Mac Mini is a nice machine, I can still get more machine for less. Take a look at this ma

Re: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

2009-10-04 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
ey're targeting you, but as far as I > can tell, they use more expensive components, and I think that's how > they arrive at a more expensive laptop. > > As for the VGA adapter, disassemble it and see if it is any more > complicated than a simple re-wire. > > On Sun, 2009-10-04 a

Re: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

2009-10-04 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
While I find the Apple OS to be pretty sweet, mostly due to the fact that it is Unix based now, I just don't see any justification for the cost of their systems. Someone I follow on twitter tried to convince me of how cheap their systems are and I ended up halting the conversation with a small com

Re: Upgrade guidance

2008-10-21 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
That's good to know Mike, thanks! Thankfully I don't have a need for gdm as I don't know that it is installed. Even if it is, we don't normally run these systems in desktop mode as its all remote. If I have any issues with the upgrade, I will certainly post them here if I cannot figure (Google)

Re: Upgrade guidance

2008-10-20 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Jefferson Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hello everyone! I wanted to pose this question to everyone as I wasn't > sure the best way to proceed. I have a few machines here at work > (development, testing and Production machines) that ne

Upgrade guidance

2008-10-20 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Hello everyone! I wanted to pose this question to everyone as I wasn't sure the best way to proceed. I have a few machines here at work (development, testing and Production machines) that need to be upgraded to the latest version of Fedora (FC9). The machines are all presently running FC6. I am

Microsoft hides behind Linux...

2008-10-02 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I don't know if any of you here have seen this article, but it sure brought a huge smile to my face. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,100121,39115920,00.htm Regards, Jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://ma

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32? (You don't have to live w/ FAT)

2008-04-21 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I would be interested in hearing if anyone has had any luck with this driver as I loaded it on someone's laptop a couple weeks ago and followed the instructions for mounting and when all was said and done, writing was still not working. Regards, Jeff On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Coleman Ka

[OT] Enigma Machine on Ebay

2007-07-19 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Hi Everyone! Sorry for the severely OT post, but this is such a part of history that I had to throw it up here for others to see. No, I am not sure of the genuine nature of the machine, but it is interesting to see this. If it is truly a real Enigma machine, then this is an incredible find for

[OT] Nahua page on local.wikia.com

2007-02-13 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I am sure that some of you, particularly those who read slashdot, have read about Jimmy Whales (wikipedia founder) announcing his new wiki magazine type sites. Well, one of the sites listed is http://local.wikia.com . From there you select your state and the city you want and click 'find your lo

Re: NH Ruby/Rails Group now has a wiki and mailing lists.

2007-01-25 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Scott, On 1/25/07, Scott Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just wanted to inform my fellow GNHLUGers interested in Ruby or Ruby on Rails that we now have a wiki site and two mailing lists set up: Its great to know that NH now has its own Ruby/Rails user group. Thanks for the info! Regard

Re: Balmer says Linux uses Microsoft 'property'

2006-11-18 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
What kills me is, that unlike the SCO case, Novell never once said, "Ok, so show me the code in question that you say is yours and show me your patent of ownership. Then, we'll talk." No, they just folded and ponied up to M$. Jeff On 11/18/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/17/06,

Re: Job postings

2006-09-29 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Let's not forget about jobsinnh.com if the job is in NH and also, monster.com.Regards,JeffOn 9/25/06, Martin Ekendahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I usually check craigslist also :-)-MartinKjel Anderson wrote:> Hey everyone, >> I am posting a job online, and I am wondering what job boards folks on t

Re: Linux periodicals (was: Two-week alert! Python for 2006 ...)

2006-01-16 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
On 1/16/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/16/06, Jefferson Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> I stopped my subscriptions to LJ quite a while ago when they started> their focus on things like clusters and other highend stuff, including > reviews of high

Re: Two-week alert! Python for 2006 - first meeting January 26

2006-01-16 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
On 1/14/06, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jan 13, 2006, at 23:51, Paul Lussier wrote:> IMO, that series was a lot of> fluff and discussion of various design consideration rather than a> good old-fashioned meat and potatoes HOWTO type article.  More and > more of their "technical" art

Re: OT: Paypal Scam

2003-11-16 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
ion". Regards, Jeff Richard A Sharpe wrote: Got a simular email from a Earthlink scam. You should only go to the company website to make any changes to account info or else you fall right into the scam trap. Rich On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 21:45, Jefferson Kirkland wrote: /Hello everyone!

OT: Paypal Scam

2003-11-14 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Hello everyone! I know this is way off topic, but for anyone in the distribution list that has a Paypal account, it should interest you. My colleague at work received an email with the subject: "YOUR PAYPAL.COM ACCOUNT EXPIRES" The funny thing about this is, he doesn't have a Paypal account,

Re: Meeting on DNS, BIND, WHOIS, etc.? (was: Verizon email problems)

2003-11-12 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Charlie Farinella wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Nov 2003, at 10:12am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe a meeting night that discusses basic Bind as well as how to use host and whois is in order? Some might find this helpful. I could prolly be talk

Re: Building a Linux Distro

2003-11-05 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Paul Lussier wrote: Hi all, At one time I could have sworn there was a HOWTO on how to build your own Linux Distro. Now, even with the help of google, I can't find any such thing. Maybe I'm searching on the wrong thing. Anyway, does anyone know where I can find docs on building a Linux distro?

Re: Can I make a suggestion for a sendmail seminar?

2003-09-09 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Steven W. Orr wrote: [He probably uses vi too.] Hey now, there are others here who use vi, or should I say we were raised on it when learning Unix. Be careful or we will turn your emacs into vi. :-P #jlk ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: Converting a mailbox

2003-08-17 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Tom Buskey wrote: I was reading an article on another mailing list online that was talking about converting between their mailer(yahoo) and an mbox format and that got me to thinking. Is there any way to convert from the hotmail format to an mbox format? I did a google search but have thus fa

Converting a mailbox

2003-08-17 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I was reading an article on another mailing list online that was talking about converting between their mailer(yahoo) and an mbox format and that got me to thinking. Is there any way to convert from the hotmail format to an mbox format? I did a google search but have thus far found nothing.

Re: destroying data

2003-07-05 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Anybody have a good smelter for rent? Jeff Jon maddog Hall wrote: A friend of mine who used to work for one of our government agencies told me how they got rid of old disks. They took the disks apart, ground the platters down to dustthen burned the dust. md

Re: destroying data

2003-07-04 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, at 5:01pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there was a good way to destroy the data on there before I send it back. Most of the data sanitation methods available depend on the drive being operational, so you can write to it. I wa

Re: CSS Question

2003-06-11 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, anyone have any really good links for learning CSS? (Coles ref to w3schools already noted :) Well, one that I found before finding the w3schools page was: http://www.draac.com/css/css1.html It was a good start. Regards, Jeff

OT: Job opening

2003-06-06 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
My appologies to everyone for the off-topic posting, but seeing as people are still unemployed and I know of an opening, I figured I would see if anyone is interested. Here are the skills that are needed: -Solaris Unix -ksh scripting -knowledge of PKI -an understanding of firewalls -excellent pe

Re: PDA Suggestions

2003-06-06 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have yet to see why anyone would *need* one of these Linux based PDAs. They seem like total overkill, and they're expensive. It isn't really a *need* as much as it is a **WANT**. I bought a Sharp Zaurus 5500 off of the Home Shopping Network earlier this year when

Re: FYI: Comcast/Attbi users

2003-04-04 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Ok, what I find really funny is that a couple of months ago, I had an issue with my email and when I called, it was Comcast (as expected). The guy who assisted me informed me that everyone had already been sent email and snail mail correspondence. This was February, and I have STILL yet to see

Cheap price for Sharp Zaurus!!!!!!!!!

2003-03-17 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Everyone, I saw posted on /. today, that HSN has the newest Sharp Zaurus, the 5600, on sale for $300 off. I just went to this site: http://www.hsn.com/cnt/prod/default.aspx?pfid=694341&club_id=694341&sz=6&sf=EC&dept The price is: $198.92 The Zaurus retails for: $499. Also, if you go to th

Mass. Dept. of Revenue Considers Linux

2003-03-10 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I don't know how many people read slashdot, but this is a story that hits close to home. Good news for Linux!!! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/10/2156202&mode=thread&tid=106 Regards, Jeff Kirkland ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PRO

More debian apt-get help

2003-03-08 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Ok, I am looking to install Gnome after finally getting Xwindows installed. I did the following: apt-get update apt-cache search 'gnome' > list and it found a TON of stuff related to gnome. I looked in list, and saw that there were alot of gnome files. Is there any way of easily installing

Re: Hardware vent...

2003-02-20 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I have an older Thinkpad and I have not really had many problems with it, other than the fact that it is a p-166mmx( a little on the slow side ). My advice would be to find something you like, like the Dell's everyone is raving about, and then check out http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ and see

Re: Creating a CA and using it to sign your own certs?

2003-02-19 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Paul, I don't know the answer to your questions, but I just wanted to send you this link to an article at onlamp, that talks about becoming your own CA: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/02/06/linuxhacks.html I didn't know if it would be any help in your quest. Regards, Jeff Kirkland

Debian Question

2003-02-15 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
This question is for those of you out there who are Debian users. I have recently installed Debian and am starting to learn it's ways, but one major thing that I am lacking is Xwindows; it just wasn't installed. I would love to get it and install it, but how do you do that with apt-get? I tr

Re: CD-Rs?

2003-02-12 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I usually look in the Sunday circulars. Somebody is usually selling packs of 100 for about $7 or $8 after rebate. They are typically either generic CompUSA discs, or Imations. I have never had a problem with them myself. Regards, jlk At 04:00 PM 2/12/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok

Re: Today's amusement site

2003-02-07 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Well, you can truly say, with proof in hand, that Unix is extremely versatile!! jlk At 09:40 AM 2/7/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those who do not frequent dmr's web site (or those who do, but missed this page) I pass this link on so you, too, may waste some of the day away while bei

Re: How many folks who use ATTBI realize they'll probably need to change their email addresses *again*!

2003-01-22 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I had to call AT&T after they turned off all of my email accounts, stating that my accounts were inactive due to a complete screw up on their end. I know, total shocker. It was at that time that they told me that I would be changing as of the first week in February, but I have not seen any no

Re: shell script question

2003-01-20 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
At 12:36 PM 1/20/2003 -0500, Bayard R. Coolidge wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>> Otherwise, if one of your directories contained >>>spaces or other shell meta-characters, it would >>> get mangled by the shell >>>before it got passed to "du". Another damned good reason NOT to have spaces in fil

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-18 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
At 11:38 AM 1/18/2003 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:16:13 -0500 Jefferson Kirkland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to add that I am attending Daniel Webster College here > in Nashua, NH, and they use Linux for any of their *nix classes. I >

Re: Linux/Unix in the classroom

2003-01-18 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
At 11:01 AM 1/18/2003 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 06:19:48 -0800 (PST) Vince McHugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry, > >I took several Unix\Linux classes at the Manchester > Technical college in New Hampshire. It would be nice if I could get Northeastern to do something

Re: Happy GNU-Year!

2003-01-02 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Back at you Ben, and the same to everyone!!! Jeff Kirkland At 10:21 PM 1/2/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, at 9:53pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Happy GNU-Year everyone! Let's call it "Happy Linux Year", just to annoy RMS. ;-) Just kidding! I hope everyone has

Re: AT&T Cable price increase in Nashua, DSL alternative?

2002-12-26 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Actually, I had read a while back that Earthlink had gotten the go-ahead to use AT&T's network to obtain high speed cable internet service. The bill would come from AT&T, but the service was Earthlink. The last I checked, it was around $40-$45 or so for the service and it was available here in

OT: Beer

2002-09-29 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Ok, I know that there are a number of geeks out there who just love their beer (some members of MELBA tend to come to mind). On one of tonights newscasts they mentioned this site: http://www.beeradvocate.com/ The "beer advocate" website contains information about beer, ratings on qui

Re: Slackware Line Numbering

2002-09-02 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Thanks a bunch for the responses. I had played with the PS1 prompt to set it to something different, but will definately try again. Thanks again! Regards, Jeff Kirkland ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailm

Slackware Line Numbering

2002-09-02 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I have an issue with a new install of Slackware 8.0. Upon logging in, I notice that before the PS1 prompt, there is a number. Every time I enter a command and hit enter, the number increases. Is there anyone who knows how to remedy this so that the line number does not appear? I have already

Re: And now for something completely different...

2002-08-29 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
***wave, wave*** I would definitely be interested in the utilities. I don't have any suggestions at this time, but if I do, I will email them to you. Regards, Jeff Kirkland At 02:36 PM 8/29/2002 -0400, Hewitt Tech wrote: >Bill Sconce, Ben Scott and I were discussing the on-going debate betw

Re: [gnhlug-announce] MELBA Meeting Wednesday night

2002-08-21 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
The usual place would be Martha's Exchange on Main St. in Nashua. Here is a link to the directions: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/Marthas_directions Dinner is at 6pm. Go in the front door and turn right. Turn left at the wall and go past the micro brewers. The usual table(s) a

Re: http://www.mslinux.org/

2002-08-19 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I cannot believe someone would desecrate Tux like that, putting the Winblows symbol on him and all. That is a really sick, twisted joke. He he, cool. Jeff K. At 07:40 AM 8/19/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Check out Microsoft's distro of Linux: > > http://www.mslinux.org/ > >_

Re: MELBA meeting 28 August 2002

2002-08-12 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
I don't know about anyone else, but I think an install fest would be great, especially for anyone in our group who has never installed Linux, or may have issues with an install of their own. Just my .05. Jeff At 03:25 PM 8/12/2002 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hey all, > >I don't seem to