Re: mosh

2012-04-19 Thread Ralph Mack
Chip Marshall writes: > Thought I'd share this: http://mosh.mit.edu/ > > It's a remote terminal program (like SSH or telnet) but designed > to allow for mobility. Rather than sending the whole stream > across the network, it maintains a screen state on the remote > server (like screen) and syncs

Troubleshooting DNS speed and reliability issues

2010-07-27 Thread Ralph Mack
Hi folks, I was just doing a little looking into why a web site I'm working on was a bit sluggish coming up and Firebug informed me that the bulk of the time is getting tied up in DNS resolution. It looks like each resolution is taking either 1 or 2 seconds, even for localhost! Since the web pag

Re: Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-13 Thread Ralph Mack
On 2:59 PM, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > Benjamin Scott wrote: >> It sounds to me like that would enable Wave to be used as a >> collaborative whiteboard, which makes perfect sense to me. > > e.g. mind mapping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map > > - Jim Van Zand Yes, what I have in mi

Re: Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-10 Thread Ralph Mack
On 2:59 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: >Here's what I learned about Google Wave tonight: Thanks for that article, Ben. I just wanted to add my own observations. I attempted to use Wave to do something real in a few different contexts: 1. Virtual table-top role-playing 2. Virtual committee-style mee

Re: Why Linux has problems with proprietary multimedia...

2010-03-05 Thread Ralph Mack
On 3/5/2010 6:27 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > > And, actually..., I saw came upon these interesting articles the other day: > > http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-with-h264/ > > http://www.wedding-day-beauty.com/tag/final-cut

Re: Interesting article

2010-03-05 Thread Ralph Mack
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Alan Johnson wrote: >>> > Well, except MacOSX has specific hardware. >>> >>> >>> >>>Indeed, that's a big part of Apple's strategy. Design the hardware >>> >>> and the software together, and they'll work well together. And there >>> >>>

Re: gnhlug-discuss Digest, Vol 40, Issue 20

2010-01-25 Thread Ralph Mack
gnhlug-discuss-requ...@mail.gnhlug.org wrote: > In my personal opinion: > > I suspect efforts should *not* start with speakers. I think part of > the waning interest in GNHLUG meetings is related to them becoming a > lecture series instead of a *user group*. Get people together first. > I th