Re: E-reader web-based back-end?

2014-12-07 Thread Roger H. Goun
I think Calibre can do what you want. It supports many book formats. http://calibre-ebook.com/about There is a plug-in that can remove the DRM from Adobe ebooks, allowing Calibre to convert them to other formats. https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/ However, the de-DRM procedure requires Adobe

Re: Best RAW photo editing tool?

2014-08-26 Thread Roger H. Goun
In one way, I wish I was just getting started in digital photography today rather than eight years ago. Now there are good free software choices. Back then, I fought a losing battle with ufraw to get the results I wanted from my Canon 20D. confession/When the non-free Adobe Lightroom version 1

Installing Ubuntu on an EFI-based Intel system

2013-08-22 Thread Roger H. Goun
I've installed Ubuntu (and other Linuxes) on various workstation-class systems for years, but I've never done an installation on one of the new EFI-based systems before, and this one did not go well. I need help recovering. I stuck four large SATA hard drives, a SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCA-F-O Server

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I've already contemplated such a move... (my service would be called Greg'sList... it's Craigslist, only better :-) But, their TOS explicitly limits any such possibility. 5. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS AND

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Roger H. Goun
Fortunately, the nerd points that Ben lost by committing an elementary sysadmin mistake he got back through the form of his apology. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Kyle Smith askr...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else just get

Re: Prebuilt/turn-key PC options

2012-08-19 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:33 PM, wileop wil...@gmail.com wrote: His web site is www.frostbitesystems.com. Deprecated: Function set_magic_quotes_runtime() is deprecated in /home/frost/public_html/includes/application_top.php on line 18 Damn PHP. :-) -- R.

Re: Computer show Saturday, in Manchester

2012-08-18 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: I got my first Linux distro from Jon maddog Hall and DEC when Linus Torvalds came to speak to UNH. :-D Red Hat Linux 2.1. I was there, and I got one, too, but I can't remember if it was my first distro. What year was

Re: Computer show Saturday, in Manchester

2012-08-18 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org wrote: '96 Ah, OK, I'd been using Yggdrasil in 1993-94, so it wasn't. But it was when I started a long run of using Red Hat. -- R. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Build advice sought

2012-06-13 Thread Roger H. Goun
I'm looking for advice on components for a new server that will run Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Most of the workload will be Postfix, Apache, and MySQL. Web and database activity will be light. The mail server will support a couple of dozen users. Storage will be a RAID 1 with 2 TB of mirrored space and an

Re: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?

2011-02-12 Thread Roger H. Goun
Is the source package available? If so, you could remove the errant dependencies from the control file and rebuild the .deb. -- Roger ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-19 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 20:28, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:  I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some 'backup'.  I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'.  It looks not too hard - this worries me.  :) Anyone have a good/favorite tutorial on rsync that talks

Re: Troubleshooting DNS speed and reliability issues

2010-07-27 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Ralph Mack ralphm...@comcast.net wrote: 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

Re: Facebook-like apps?

2009-08-30 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Kenny Lussierkluss...@gmail.com wrote: Facebook already does everything that you want. This may be literally true: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_introduces_private_groups_for_families.php Except for the caveat about the privacy of events

Re: CMS

2009-03-24 Thread Roger H. Goun
2009/3/24 Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com: Using Joomla currently; it seems to work well.  Some plugins were required to make it do what we wanted, though.  In particular the built-in file upload tool is crap, and there are form submission and tabbed-page plugins that are quite handy. 

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text This should be decode to 8-bit clean plain text. * Replace any common Unicode characters with ASCII equivilents * Replace unhandled non-ASCII characters with an

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Roger H. Goun
2008/10/7 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Roger H. Goun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text This should be decode to 8-bit clean plain text. Nope. Not if you're talking strict RFC-821/822 compliance

Re: Photo gallery sw with tagging?

2007-12-29 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Dec 29, 2007 3:17 PM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd ideally like something which allowed me to tag photos with random strings so I can then search/sort based on those tags. This is for home use, so I don't really want a service like Flickr, etc. I used KPhotoAlbum for a while,

Apt dependency hell

2006-11-29 Thread Roger H. Goun
I have a Ubuntu dapper server that runs a lot of Web sites. It hasn't had it's mysql packages updated since early in dapper development, when mysql4.1 was the default version. Trying to apt-get upgrade to the mysql5 versions broke the system and I can't figure out how to get back to a working

Re: Apt dependency hell

2006-11-29 Thread Roger H. Goun
Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: This doesn't look like APT dependency hell, whatever that would be. It looks like Dapper no longer has a package for MySQL 4.1. This system was originally installed early in Dapper development, when MySQL 4.1 was what you got. Later in Dapper development, MySQL 5

Re: Apt dependency hell

2006-11-29 Thread Roger H. Goun
We're back in business. We hand-edited /var/lib/dpkg/available to eliminate MySQL 4.1 dependencies, hand-installed an up-to-date mysql-common deb snarfed from another dapper system, apt-get installed the rest of the current MySQL packages, and enabled MySQL in PHP5. Simple. Going back to 4.1

Re: Apt dependency hell

2006-11-29 Thread Roger H. Goun
Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:26 am, Roger H. Goun wrote: E: Package mysql-common-4.1 has no installation candidate It sounded to me like MySQL 4.1 is not in Dapper anymore. Which is it? -N Apparently it's both. mysql-common-4.1 is missing. The other 4.1

Re: Laptop Suggestions

2005-08-24 Thread Roger H. Goun
On 8/24/05, Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for an extremely Linux-friendly laptop to set up as a traveling demo system. The laptop has to have a wireless card, as I will need it to run in ad-hoc mode so that it can act as a wireless AP for other devices. I have a

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-05 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 21:47, Bruce Dawson wrote: Does anyone have statistics on which politico sites runs what software? It might be interesting. You might even get a few beers (or run out of the bar). --Bruce In a desperate attempt to head off a political flamewar I'm clearly responsible

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-05 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 09:27, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: 04 Oct 2004 21:47:23 EDT Bruce Dawson said: On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 15:36, Roger H. Goun wrote: ... No comment, other than to suggest you run a whois search on nhfordean.com. ... I think Roger is trying to say

Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Roger H. Goun
The John Kerry campaign office in Nashua is in desperate need of a toner cartridge for an HP LaserJet 5si MX printer. HP Part Number: C3909A Lexmark Part Number: 140109A If you have one you'd be willing to donate, please let me know. If you're not in the Nashua area, I'll find a way to get it

Re: Toner cartridge for Kerry office

2004-10-04 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 13:54, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:20:30 EDT Roger H. Goun said: The John Kerry campaign office in Nashua is in desperate need of a toner cartridge for an HP LaserJet 5si MX printer. Are you sure it's an HP? If you ask again, I bet

Laptop rental

2004-02-17 Thread Roger H. Goun
in Southern New Hampshire? I'd prefer an up-to-date machine running Fedora Core with snappy graphics, a well-supported modem, and a DVD drive. But at this point I'd settle for an old Win98 box with a PCMCIA slot that'll accept my old 28.8 modem card. Thanks for any ideas. -- Roger -- Roger H. Goun

Re: reviews of Mandrake 9.2?

2003-10-27 Thread Roger H. Goun
One of the odd little problems it apparently has is that it destroys LG CD-ROM drives during the installation process. Be careful out there. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/25/1737244 -- Roger brian wrote: What I've heard it that is was pretty buggy out of the gate and had a lot of

Re: What's the best way to automatically swap smart hosts (sendmail)?

2003-07-02 Thread Roger H. Goun
agree that other suggestions you've gotten here are better. -- Roger -- Roger H. Goun Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C. Chief Kennel Officer Exeter, New Hampshire, USA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Data retrieval from dead laptop

2003-06-18 Thread Roger H. Goun
would you do it with a laptop? Thanks. -- Roger -- Roger H. Goun Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C. Chief Kennel Officer Exeter, New Hampshire, USA pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Data retrieval from dead laptop

2003-06-18 Thread Roger H. Goun
-- Roger H. Goun Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C. Chief Kennel Officer Exeter, New Hampshire, USA pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Data retrieval from dead laptop

2003-06-18 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:06:14PM -0400, you wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:56:01 -0400 Roger H. Goun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once I figure out how to get the hard drive out (I've removed every screw in sight, but still can't get the clamshell apart) so I can verify that it's

Re: GPG testing...

2002-12-28 Thread Roger H. Goun
H. Goun Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C. Chief Kennel Officer Exeter, New Hampshire, USA msg01974/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Relaying file ops to userland

2002-12-25 Thread Roger H. Goun
suffering some sort of False Memory Syndrome here, can somebody remind me where I might have seen these? FAM? http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ -- Roger H. Goun Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C. Chief Kennel Officer Exeter, New Hampshire, USA

Re: scp to directory w/o execute permissions

2002-12-13 Thread Roger H. Goun
that the contents of SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND is required to be *exactly* what the rsync client sends to the rsync server. IIRC, you can get this by using 'ssh -v' as the value of RSYNC_SSH and pawing through the output.) -- Roger -- Roger H. Goun Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C

Snarfing up a domain name

2002-12-10 Thread Roger H. Goun
they be minimized or avoided? Will I burn in Hell for this, or is it (IYHO) entirely ethical? Thanks! -- Roger -- Roger H. Goun Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C. Chief Kennel Officer Exeter, New Hampshire, USA ___ gnhlug

Re: RH, a wireless network, Linksys and an IBM ThinkPad

2002-12-10 Thread Roger H. Goun
340 PCMCIA card working under Red Hat Linux 8.0, though it works fine on RHL 7.3 -- Roger -- Roger H. Goun Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C. Chief Kennel Officer Exeter, New Hampshire, USA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Snarfing up a domain name

2002-12-10 Thread Roger H. Goun
for all the advice. -- Roger -- Roger H. Goun Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C. Chief Kennel Officer Exeter, New Hampshire, USA ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug

Re: RH update

2002-11-17 Thread Roger H. Goun
to 7.3. -- Roger -- Roger H. Goun Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C. Chief Kennel Officer Exeter, New Hampshire, USA msg01379/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: running Linux at work with Windows apps

2002-11-13 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:04:03PM -0500, Tom Buskey wrote: Roger H. Goun said: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:52:16PM -0500, Tom Buskey wrote: Unfortunately, VMware changed the file format of thier virtual disks going from 2.x to 3.x. This doesn't work with the .vmdk files. The old format

Re: awk assistance

2002-11-13 Thread Roger H. Goun
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:28:38PM -0500, you wrote: find / -type f | while read f; do basename $f; done find / -type f -exec basename {} \; :-) -- Roger H. Goun Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C. Chief Kennel Officer Exeter, New Hampshire, USA

Re: MySQL query [sic]

2002-11-13 Thread Roger H. Goun
) with ESR's bogofilter version 0.8 http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/bogofilter/ with the Robinson modification (-r) turned on. Anyone else tried it? -- Roger H. Goun Brentwood Country Animal Hospital, P.C. Chief Kennel Officer Exeter, New Hampshire, USA