Re: [META] How to be an expert

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:59:18PM -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > > P.S. Get me drunk, and I'll even quote beekeeper poetry to ya'. ;-) How much of a buzz do you need to have before that happens? mm ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.

Re: QMail help

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:33:08PM -0400, Tom Faska wrote: > If you have not seen it yet go to http://www.qmail.org/ for information > on QMail. Another very useful site is http://www.lifewithqmail.org/. > > I switched from QMail to Postfix several years ago but may still > remember enough to h

Re: How to tell good code from bad...

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:14:21PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.osnews.com/story/19266/WTFs_m > > Ob without mention of: http://thedailywtf.com/ very appropriate.. I like to go there now and then, too. Alth

Re: How to tell good code from bad...

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:45:51PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Mark E. Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ob without mention of: http://thedailywtf.com/ > > > > Although I was unexcited when it was always renaming the locatio

Re: Spam and extra MX records

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:44:35AM -0400, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > 1 - Set a fake MX record for a nonexistent server, or for a server that won't > listen on port 25 for your _highest_ MX value. Since a lot of spam will skip > your lowest MX (primary) right away for a less-loaded backup MX wi

Re: Anti-spam methods (was: Spam-Filter-Free Options)

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:03:50PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > > You can see the rejected mail from my server: > http://steveo.syslang.net/ > > Go down to where it says > "Here's something fun. A list of lists of rejected spammers." > > I wrote a cool tool in python to walk the maillog and sho

Re: Some library and packaging advice please?

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:39:24PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: > Neil Joseph Schelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to build a Kolab server for use at work > > I read that as a 'Kabab' server and thought: sheesh. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailin

Re: Firefox 3 AwesomeBar

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 03:15:44PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:52 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, that version would be named DragonBreath. :^) > > "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and > taste good with ketchup." (unknown) draco dormi

duplex humor

The mini-thread featuring the word "duplex" reminds me of this fortune cookie fortune that somebody at work (hi Rob) got a couple of years back: http://www.mv.com/users/mem/Images/robh-cookie-1-20060111.jpg http://www.mv.com/users/mem/Images/robh-cookie-2-20060111.jpg mm

Appie pie

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 03:50:16PM -0400, Drew Van Zandt wrote: [ ... ] > I would also never insult a perfect apple pie by contaminating it with > whipped cream. Tastes vary. That was my reaction, too :) Just goes to show how almost any slice from one's own perspective does not represent the

FOSS and Manchester Library

A little post on the Manchester Library blog about FOSS. Not too deep, but relevant and a positive blip. One can nitpick a little that some of the things mentioned don't really qualify, but one probably shouldn't :) http://manchesterlibrary.org/read/405 (seen on twitter) -mm- _

Re: IMAP URLs

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:27:31PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:09, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > > ...and I wonder if there's a Linux tool like wget that I can use > > to pull email folders and such from an Exchange server > > I've known folks to use this program: > >

Re: portable music players

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:15:16AM -0400, Stephen Ryan wrote: > > There are other models from other companies that do work with a version > of Rockbox. Sandisk actually requested a port to the Sansa e200 series, > and donated player(s?) to the Rockbox team for it. I'd report on how > well it work

Re: [OT] Job interviews; manhole covers (was: Converting HTML ...)

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 11:45:47AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > > But what can you say about chocolate-covered manhole covers? That the Easter Bunny had a narrow escape? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.or

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 03:09:47PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: Ric Werme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 01:03:01 -0400 (EDT) > > Cc: Greater NH Linux User Group > > > Who invented BASE64 anyway, when uuencoding work just fine already? > > How many times do I have to

Re: portable music players

BTW last week's "FLOSS Weekly" was about Rockbox. I listened to it with rockbox of course.. http://twit.tv/floss43 mm ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: CALL FOR HELP: Video record of the Thr 20 Nov Nashua meet?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:29:06AM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In particular, it would be really good if someone could bring a > > decent quality video camera/recorder. (By "decent" I just mean "home > > movie". Better than

Re: Odd log messages from ISC BIND named

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 12:44:01PM -0500, Chip Marshall wrote: > On February 03, 2009, Ben Scott sent me the following: > > But none of those domain names are even close to valid, and while I > > didn't check each and every one, it didn't look like there were any > > repeats. How would that lead

Re: Odd log messages from ISC BIND named

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 04:55:22PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > > It's possible that somebody's testing using random query names instead > > of "." -- "." is pretty easy to look for in the logs

Re: Odd log messages from ISC BIND named

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:11:51PM -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote: > Is it possible those strings are I18l names? (I seem to remember there > being a movement "a while back" trying to international-ize the DNS space.) Like punycoded? Seems like you'd just see ASCII names starting with xn-- for that; t

Re: [GNHLUG] Reminder of "UNIX Time" event: Today, Friday 13th, 18:31:30 EST (that is about 6:30 P.M. for Microsoft users) - Marthas Please RSVP

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:06:27AM -0500, Chris wrote: > Not to be too pedantic about this, but 11:31:30 UTC is 16:31:30 EST there > is only a 5hr time difference. Only if you add instead of subtract :-). 23:31:30 minus 5 is 18:31:30 I only mention it so that I can post the other niffty time

Re: [OT] We Choose The Moon

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:15:42AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > This year is the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 -- the first time a > human being set foot on another world. > > ? The JFK Presidential Library has a website which is providing a > real-time simulation/recreation, complete with CGI mode

free sunfire box

Hi, There's a Sun Fire V880 box sitting here that isn't wanted by the owner. They would like to give it away if somebody is interested in picking it up. I thought somebody here might be a Sun user and have a need for such a thing, so I figured I'd mention it. The main catch is that for security

Re: free sunfire box

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 03:48:17PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On 09/02/2009 02:46 PM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > > for > > security reasons they don't want to give away the 6 hard drives > > FWIW: > > http://sansforensics.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/overwriting-h

Re: Sansa, Rockbox, Free Software for antiques (was: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux)

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:59:21PM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Luckily, the Sansa devices seem to be nigh indestructible--so if you > get one onto which you can load Rockbox, you shouldn't need to worry > much about how you'll never be able to replace it when it breaks :) I've been using

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:19:42PM -0500, Arc Riley wrote: > I'd like to encourage everyone to choose the free software microblogging > service http://identi.ca/ Gee, and you didn't even say who you are there. Not that it's hard to figure out :-) I've been there since July

Re: FOSS multimedia (was: ORPF - One Radio Per Family)

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:22:26AM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > On that note, for anyone else like me who missed this because they > were spending 180 hours a week with their heads buried in code...: > > http://sitasingstheblues.com/ I saw that quite a long time ago, but it must hav

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 07:33:35PM -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > > Twiki, written in Perl, running gnhlug.org (http://twiki.org) > MediaWiki, written in PHP, storage in MySQL, which runs Wikipedia.org > (http://mediawiki.org) > Dokuwiki, also in PHP (http://www.dokuwiki.org/) > Redmine, written in Rub

Re: [GNHLUG] "Hey, Wiki, you're so fine..." CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 10:47:39AM -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > On 06/07/2010 10:34 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > > No moinmoin? (python based, flat storage) > > Yeah, moinmoin rocks, too. That's one of the problems - I think there > are hundreds of wiki applications. And I&

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:36:10AM -0400, Gregory Smith wrote: > French! yep :-) (got it before I saw this tho) mm ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

> > But it was more more fun to find via google->imbd->some french movie with > sept in the title. funny, I had a more serendipitous connection (I had actually been using the word just yesterday) > OK, smarty, how do I get to "14" then? (please, please, please) That's the one I am sitting on

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:27:05PM -0400, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > I'm stuck there too... the only thing that comes to mind is > > "guilty by association" I kept thinking that, too. > but I haven't expressed that in a form that works, so it's probably wrong. ditto. still, it seems that the "..

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:16:55PM -0400, Brian Chabot wrote: > Gregory Smith wrote: > > >OK, I got it, y'all are close, but it's a different phrase, not very well > >known (to me) > > > > > > What number was that again? > > I'm still stuck on 14... > > I'm thinking I got the syntax wrong, b

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:04:30PM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote: > > Anyone else get to 20? I'm guessing that's the end. 20 is not the end :-) mm ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gn

Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:18:45PM -0400, mike ledoux wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:59:30PM -0400, Gregory Smith wrote: > > >> I'm stuck there too... the only thing that comes to mind is > > >> > > >> "guilty by association" > > > > >I kept thinking that, too. > > > > OK, I got it, y'all are

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:00:15PM -0400, Gregory Smith wrote: > > >***On Thu 11:57a Jul 13 Mark Komarinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote*** > >Michael Costolo wrote: > >> If anyone has any hints about how to get to 23 (solving "has_9"), I'd > >> love to hear them. > >Same here. > > > >-Mark > > hin

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:36:32PM -0400, Travis Roy wrote: > >We (here at work) made it to 30 yesterday. I gather that others on the > >list did, too. > > Is there a good payoff at least? I wish there was a fountain of youth, or a rainbow. All I got was a little unecessary smugness. Does it s

Re: Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:16:06PM -0400, Dan Jenkins wrote: > Fred wrote: > > >Thanks to both you and John. It is definitely using the mbox format. I'll > >have to switch it to using Maildir, but wonder about converting the mbox > >to Maildir in the many existing folders across many existing ac

Re: Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:50:58PM -0400, Fred wrote: > > What is it that KMail is doing that the other clients are not? KMail has no > problem creating subdirs though IMAP. So -- presumably -- there must be > something in the IMAP protocol that allows KMail to deal with the mbox > limitations.

Re: Time flies when you're chasing bugs and LARTing lusers

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:35:53PM -0400, Bill Mullen wrote: > > That's right, it's here again ... > > Happy SysAdmin Day to everyone in GNHLUG! > > http://www.sysadminday.com/ How self-serving :-) (wait for it ...) mm ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing

Re: UPSes - MinuteMan, others?

I used to, for some reason, insist on using online UPS rather than standby; this led me to Intellipower: http://www.intellipower.com/ I dunno if I ought to mention them though. We bought a number of rounds of them over a few years (from, say, 1991 through 1997). The ones we bought worked pre

Re: helpful amanda script

> > I used to write while-loop wrapper scripts like that to monitor > various things, until about a year ago when I discovered the watch(1) > command, which clears the screen and then runs a command repeatedly > forever. Yet another thing that keeps getting re-implemented :) I think I first saw

Re: Latest shenanigans with rcn

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:06:58AM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > > I am routing all the email that I send that will not be accepted from my > server through RCN's smtp server. So yes, the 400 series code is coming > from RCN. RCN has no limit on the number of messages per day that are > being se

Re: Help with sed script?

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:33:39PM -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > I'm trying to use sed to rewrite lines in a config file that > have a target string 'xyz' in them surrounded by whitespace > and which are NOT commented out with a hash sign and which > may or may not have leading whitespace. T

Re: missing GNHLUG mail/GMail/SpamCop/SpamAssassin

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:33:53AM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On Sep 11, 2006, at 13:00, Seth Cohn wrote: > > >Spamcop, like most of the anti-spam trackers, have ended up on > >the wrong side of cautious, and blacklist sites for the most minor of > >infractions. > > While figuring out what wa

Re: Sendmail 'Too many connections' problem

On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 08:58:40PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On Saturday, Sep 9th 2006 at 20:17 -0400, quoth Jeff Macdonald: > > =>On 9/9/06, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > => > =>> Can someone please tell me what the incantation is to limit the number of > =>> simultaneous connect

Re: Spam and mailing lists

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:42:44PM -0400, mike ledoux wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 07:16:05PM -0400, Travis Roy wrote: > > >Since I suggested it I should probably explain why I suggested this > > >change. It's very simple... I perfer that mailing lists have the name of > > >the list in the sub

Re: Spam and mailing lists

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 07:26:55AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On 10/16/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello, world! > > I'm a bit surprised we haven't heard from any Postfix or qmail fans > in this thread. Perfect holy war folder here, people, come on. :) Choices are fun, and not j

Re: Evolution sucks??

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:27:06PM -0500, Tom Buskey wrote: > > Well, they all suck. > > EXMH doesn't work well over a remote low bandwidth link > MH doesn't do graphics well > Neither works well with IMAP severs > Gmail leaves all your stuff on Goggle and won't sync contacts/calendar well > Yaho

Re: Evolution sucks??

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:49:25PM -0500, Ric Werme wrote: > > Perhaps the olde ways are best. I wrote an editor I wrote in RT-11's > visual TECO and ported to Mark Mallet's TED on CP/M for my Heathkit H89. Absolutely nothing to do with anything about this list, but since it was brought up: I l

Re: Spam and bounces - how do you handle it?

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:36:21AM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > Often, we get spam to list publishing > addresses, but on closed lists, these will be bounced with messages like > "only subscribers may post." FWIW, for this case, I'm in favor of forwarding those sorts of messages to a list

Re: Evolution sucks??

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:59:12AM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > > Your example does point out to me, though, that I might well have > benefited from using MH as the storage format on the IMAP server, for > tricks just like that (much better than mucking around with, say, mbox > files). Now I wish y

Re: Evolution sucks??

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:24:39PM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > On Tuesday 13 February 2007 11:59 am, Ben Scott wrote: > > It is very true that there's nothing like a standard mechanism for > > the processing side of things (although procmail comes close, at least > > in the nix world). T

Re: ted.asm

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:43:44PM -0500, Bill Sconce wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:40:23 -0500 > Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 14, 2007, at 11:01 AM, Chris wrote: > > > > > Can't remember who it was that was looking for it, but I found this > > > for you, is this what you w

Re: Evolution sucks??

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:19:53AM -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > > My procmail scripts are relatively simple. They pipe messages through my > spam > (spamc) and virus filters (clamfilter.pl). Then they sort messages into > Maildir folders based on finding or not finding headers. Obviou

Re: Portable audio player

If you aren't in any rush, woot (www.woot.com) has cheap mp3 players from time to time. And today they had a two-fer FM transmitter that would have gone well with it :) -mm- (who mainly just likes typing 'woot') ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlu

Re: anyone good with exim4 or debian config files?

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:13:54PM -0700, Jesse Lazar wrote: > hello, > > i am having an email problem on my debian sarge desktop system. it goes > like this: some of my email does not get through to the recipient, some > of my email takes days to get through and some of it seems to do the > righ

Re: Dividing The List Considered Harmful [Was: Re: Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:45:49PM -0400, mike ledoux wrote: > > I have been through this a few times in the past, with different > groups, where the decision was eventually made to fragment the list > into multiple lists with more focused charters. I have, to date, > never seen it work well. Wi

Re: Topic threading tech (not this list in particular) (was: Dividing The List Considered Harmful)

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:15:13PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On 3/27/07, Mark E. Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Oh, and back to a previous subject... simply changing the subject text > >isn't really enough. When a threat mutates, you really want a new one, > &g

Re: I have no words to describe this...

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:56:03AM -0500, mike miller wrote: > It may not be rap, but geek songs have been around for quite a while and > not limited to one coast. The one that I remember best from sometime in > the '80s, don't know which coast, is "On the Xerox Line." > > http://stuff.mit.edu/

Re: I have no words to describe this...

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:02:50PM -0400, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:56:03AM -0500, mike miller wrote: > > It may not be rap, but geek songs have been around for quite a while and > > not limited to one coast. The one that I remember best from sometime i

Re: I have no words to describe this...

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:02:03PM -0500, Dan Jenkins wrote: > mike miller wrote: > > >It may not be rap, but geek songs have been around for quite a while > >and not limited to one coast. The one that I remember best from > >sometime in the '80s, don't know which coast, is "On the Xerox Line."

Re: cpp replaced by m4?

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:07:38PM -0400, Ric Werme wrote: > Thomas Charron may have opened the floodgates: > > > Can we have an example of why you want to do this? > > I had refrained from suggesting (somewhat tongue in cheek) that you > should sit down with the MACRO-10 manual (the assembler f

Re: [OT] Looking for ancient boot media

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:41:19PM -0400, Bill Sconce wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:17:25 -0400 > Warren Luebkeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This reminds me of a discussion I had with Maddog and Bill Sconce earlier > > this > > week, regarding the possibility of a show-and-tell of some

Re: [OT] Looking for ancient boot media

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 06:09:06PM -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > > > > > Oh boy, a place where I can trot this out: > > > >http://www.geezer.org/core-window/ > > > > :-) > > It is missing the "sense wire". And/or the inhibit. (as noted in the caption, actually :) ) mm __

Re: postfix

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:54:15AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On 8/29/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or /bin/mail... Technically it is the LDA which does the > > user-existence verification checks, not the MDA. > > An LDA is a type of MDA. Any LDA is also an MDA. > > If you

Re: High Latency Survival Tactics (Was: Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?)

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:13:27PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > At that point, the hard part is finding a *terminal* that supports a > local line editing mode. I think there might be an xterm or rxvt > option somewhere for this. Maybe on one of the [CTRL]+click menus? > (I'm not at an xterm right

Re: Shell Quoting. Was: Shell tips and tricks

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:02:37PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On 10/8/07, Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if [[ blah1 && blah2 ]] > > otherwise you'd have to say > > if [ blah1 ]] && [ blah2 ] > > which I'm hoping won't generate a different set of questions. > > (I'm assuming, in the

Re: Linus' visit, was: InkScape

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:13:45PM -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > > Our web-based source of misunderstandings, the TWiki, claims it was > 31-Jan-1996 nneuug agrees. Captured in the beginning of a brief archive window: http://www.mv.com/org/nneuug/mail-archives/nneuug-announce/0001.html mm (who

Re: Linus' visit, was: InkScape

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:47:51PM -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > .. and then traveled over to a UNH establishment at the > time, "Karls", for a local delicacy called "snotties". [1] > [1] French fries covered in Velveeta. Ahh, yes. Karls. The tie that binds. mm (yeah, completely off-topic

Re: [OT] xkcd

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:00:50PM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: > > http://xkcd.com/224/ The LISP/perl ones are fun, this one especially: http://xkcd.com/312/ with a NH connection, even (via Robert Frost). it's probably been mentioned here before, my brain leaks like a sieve. mm (I suppose

Re: [OT] xkcd

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:37:48PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On 10/11/07, Mark E. Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mm (I suppose we could just say xkcd.com/{`seq 1 327`}) > > Doesn't work. You need the comma a separator within {...}. But even Funny, right af

Re: [OT] Verizon/FairPoint sale (was: Comcast!?!?)

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 04:46:53PM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On Nov 16, 2007, at 11:13, Ed lawson wrote: > > Regarding telcos, the one thing I seldom see discussed is the fact > > years ago they got a huge tax break premised on the promise to > > create a > > plant providing broadband that

Re: Ignorant writing [was: MonadLUG November 8th, 2007 ]

Whatever the description, the movie is well worth watching. I saw it a few years ago; another attraction is that it's narrated by Susan Egan, an actress I'm a fan of. There's another one, "The Code," that I haven't caught -- has anybody seen that? Other than, you know, those of you who are in it

Re: managing applications

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:26:59AM -0500, Kent Johnson wrote: > Bill McGonigle wrote: > > > cfengine looks like it might be that tool. I'm going to go do some > > reading. Thanks to Tom & Shawn for the pointer! > > You might also look at Puppet which claims "Puppet could be said to be > the

Re: [GNHLUG] SLUG / GNHLUG Durham - Mon 11 Feb - Rockbox MP3 player firmware

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:14:05PM -0500, amc wrote: > sounds good. I installed rockbox on my iPod and love it. I thought I missed > the last months meeting due to the snow storm. I am glad its been > rescheduled. Also a rockbox fan here: I installed it on my Sansa e260 and it works great. One

Re: [GNHLUG] SLUG / GNHLUG Durham - Mon 11 Feb - Rockbox MP3 playerfirmware

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:03:08PM -0500, amc wrote: > The only bad thing about rockbox is it support for video. it is weak for > video. has anyone had good luck with it for video ? The allure of watching videos on the itty screen eludes me (I must be too old), so I haven't yet tried it. Perhaps

Re: [GNHLUG] SLUG / GNHLUG Durham - Mon 11 Feb - Rockbox MP3 playerfirmware

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:20:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > From: "Mark E. Mallett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:24:03 -0500 > > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:03:08PM -0500, amc wrote: > > > The only bad thing about r

Re: server uptime

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:23:14PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > > And let's not forget that Linux isn't immune to restart-the-world > issues, either. For example, on a Linux server, if you update glibc > to patch a security bug, you pretty much need to restart *everything*. sometimes it's good to

Re: server uptime

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:46:04AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:38:52 -0400 > "Mark E. Mallett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > sometimes it's good to reboot a system just to make sure you can. > > That's very old scho

Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:58:41PM -0500, Ted Roche wrote: > Before I toss them up on Craigslist, then Freecycle then the local > transfer station, I wanted to give folks a shot at this stuff. No > reasonable offer refused. Pick up in Contoocook, ship at cost or > rendezvous at a LUG meeting. >

Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:59:13AM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote: > > And interested in any other comments, of course, which is why I'm not > > replying off-list .. > > I canceled cable TV and watch all my TV vi

Random junk at MV

Hi- We have some junk at the old MV office that we were recently given the OK to take or dispose of. Much of it has already been spoken for, and so there's really not a lot of things of general interest, but I figured I'd mention it in case anybody is interested in what remains. It has to go ASAP

Re: Web-based IMAP mail client.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 05:23:41PM -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hey, all. I know that this is a bit of a dead horse -- between > (expletive-deleted) Outlook/Exchange in the workplace, and Gmail out of > the workplace, an awful lot of people just don't bother with > do-it-yourself mail any lon

Re: Web-based IMAP mail client.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 05:37:04PM -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > > I liked roundcube a lot the last time I tried it, but it didn't have > > very good (if any) support for virtual domains. Has that changed? I > > suppose I should just go look ;) > > > As a matter of fact, it does. Their "Howto

Re: Cataloging media - books, CDs, DVDs

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:47:54AM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > Hello, list! > > Happy Festivus. > > ABSTRACT > > I have decided I need to catalog my purchased media (books, CDs, > DVDs). I'm seeking solution(s) to this problem. I figure other > people here have already solved this problem.

Re: "Green screen."

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 08:13:13PM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Good evening, all. I must be getting responsible or something, but I'm > getting roped in to the Amherst PTA's "Math and Science Night" activity. > (Except that this year, it's gonna be in the day.) This year's theme > looks as

Re: USB video?

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 07:51:00PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: > > Why do servers still have VGA + PS/2? > > From what I see, most have VGA and USB, these days. > > > Because most KVMs haven't switched? > > I'm not privy to their design meeti

Re: Bill Sconce

So sorry to hear - it's very sad news indeed. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: systemd and search domains.

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 05:58:24PM -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Ha! An inotify monitor actually seems like a pretty elegant solution to me! > (though maybe I should point out that I got some of my aesthetic sense > from growing up watching The Red Green Show...). But you can change. If yo

Re: COBOL on HPUX

On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 10:44:13PM -0500, R. Anthony Lomartire wrote: > So I recently landed a job working in COBOL on HP-UX. It's been a trip! > This stuff is from before my time but it's been really interesting to > learn. Have any of you folks worked with this stuff? We're looking to > migrate a

Re: Reminder/RSVP -- meet *this Thursday* for chat & beer.

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 03:17:36PM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hey, all! Just a reminder that we're going to get together at Martha's > Exchange this Thursday at 6:00. Nothing formal, though Maddog has > threatened to bring a PiDP-11. (Note the add'l 'i' for those wondering > if he needs h

Re: Alex Hewitt, RIP

On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 08:11:45PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 9:47 AM Ted Roche wrote: > > Passing on the sad news that Alex Hewitt died on April 18th. Some of you > > may remember Alex as the > > co-organizer of the Python SIG with the late Bill Sconce, or for his work > >

Re: Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting reminder, tomorrow Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Amd Ryzen

Shoot, I wish I had paid more attention. I to skip or defer messages when the subject is for a remote area (Boston, Nashua ;) ). I'm fairly interested in Ryzen and JTSi seems like it would be good to see also. I only noticed after the fact -- when the topic turned into a thread in mutt, it kinda s

Re: Anyone want to buy a supercomputer?

On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 07:52:37PM -0400, jon.maddog.h...@gmail.com wrote: ... > So BASIC has a lot of detractors, mostly due to the infamous "GOTO". FORTRAN's "computed goto" put that to shame ;) > So here is to you, BASIC! You moved a lot of people forward. Indeed. -mm- (no thanks on t