Re: Satellite Internet relative security

2017-08-25 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:56 AM, James A. Kuzdrall wrote: > Does Linux have any special problems interfacing with the dish > equipment? > Is a standard Ethernet connection enough, or must they install software on > the Linux computer? > I had service through Hughes for a couple years around

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 wrote: > Hi, everybody, > > I know some of you have landed good gigs using recruiters. I have a >

Re: Gmail spam solution?

2016-02-23 Thread Brian St. Pierre
In the gmail web ui, pull down the menu next to "to gnhlug-discuss", choose "Filter messages from this mailing list", tick "Never send it to spam", click "Create filter" On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Matt Minuti wrote: > I know this came up a little while ago, but has anyone found a way to

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 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 in a USB s

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 wrote: > Bill (William Joseph) Sconce, age

Re: What Language for a kid

2015-12-24 Thread Brian St. Pierre
quot; to get a quick "hello" text-to-speech app running on my device. -- Brian St. Pierre On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Kenny Lussier wrote: > Hi All, > > My daughter has expressed an interest in learning to code. It's a > non-specific, very general interest. She does

erratic fairpoint dsl? [was Re: FYI: Comcast...]

2015-07-17 Thread Brian St. Pierre
arious line settings, moved me to a new DSLAM, and generally blamed recent "software upgrades" in the CO.) We're out in the boonies, so Comcast isn't an option. Have others been having terrible problems with Fairpoint DSL recently? (At the risk of jinxing myself, it's been

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 wrote: > Hey all, > > GNHLUG's server is being kicked out of our long-time free host

Re: Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

2015-05-10 Thread Brian St. Pierre
m unstuck, and then you can reinstall the newer versions of those packages once everything is resolved. For what it's worth, I stick to LTS releases and use PPAs for packages where I really want the latest version. I find upgrades from one LTS to another to be smoother -- have never had a poin

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 wrote: > Looking to set up some system for monitoring systems on the network at > work; _vaguely_ fa

Re: how dumb is this idea?

2014-05-22 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:59 PM, David Rysdam wrote: > However, I just had an idea. You can get 128GB USB drives on ebay for > ~$20 now. Why not install an emulator-based (as opposed to bootable) > "live CD" image on there that they can then mount the rest of the USB > drive with and edit their w

Re: PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

2014-04-14 Thread Brian Chabot
ast. You might want to join > their Meetups and get some expert help 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" wrote: > Work has provided me with a new handheld computer, a Galaxy S4, made > by Samsung. It runs

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

2014-03-10 Thread Brian Chabot
, so /etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf over-rules /etc/security/limits.conf Good to know. I raised the nproc limit and the su- worked. Thanks again to all of you. Brian Brian Chabot On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Mark Komarinski wrote: > > On 3/10/2014 10:20 AM, Brian Chabot wrote: >

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

2014-03-10 Thread Brian Chabot
Also, disk space and RAM are aplenty... Is there any way to tell *which* resource is unavailable? Brian Chabot On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Brian Chabot wrote: > [user1@cent6.4box ~]$ ipcs -m > > -- Shared Memory Segments > keyshmid owner perm

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

su: cannot set user id: Resource temporarily unavailable

2014-03-10 Thread Brian Chabot
;m kind 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: USB video?

2014-02-04 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Anyway, I really like the > two monitor thing I have going with the laptop, and the one thing that > the Intel box doesn't have is a VGA port. Does anyone have any > experience with USB video adapters under *nix? Any suggestions? That lis

Re: Resume length and history

2013-04-09 Thread Brian Chabot
ake a peek, it's online over at http://brianchabot.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bchabot.pdf Brian On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Kenny Lussier wrote: > Hi All, > > Not specifically Linux-related, but I was wondering what other people are > seeing/doing with resumes these d

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

2013-01-13 Thread Brian Chabot
> I think that may be vendor specific and possibly even windows installation specific. At the moment UEFI documentation is junk. Cross platform implementation is even worse. Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

used laptops to donate?

2012-09-03 Thread Brian St. Pierre
A friend of mine works with a nonprofit helping Cocoa farmers in Grenada. She asked me for help finding 3-4 used laptops to outfit a learning center she is opening there. If you have an old laptop you can donate, please let me know. -- Brian St. Pierre

Re: Computer show Saturday, in Manchester

2012-08-21 Thread Brian St. Pierre
ng to connect to an overburdened campus unix server, worry about the connection dropping, etc. -Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Chabot
mewhere inside Facebook. I only have control > over the response at my end which, in my case, is nothing at all > since the port is blocked, with failed attempts logged as shown. Nuke as in (continue to) deny the connection attempt. Brian ___

Re: HTTPS connection attempts from Facebook?

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Chabot
son Facebook should be contacting you this way is if you have an app set to pull data from there. Possibilities that come to mind include RSS feeds and HTML embeds in Page info plus, of course, any custom stuff you may have written. It's *just* a home connection? No services? Nuke the

Re: StatusNet, anyone?

2012-06-18 Thread Brian St. Pierre
Thanks for the detailed response. I guess I'm going to have to play around with this a bit. On 06/18/2012 12:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > "Brian St. Pierre" writes: >> I used facebook for a while but deleted my profile. (Some key friends >> have also deleted

Re: StatusNet, anyone?

2012-06-18 Thread Brian St. Pierre
) Partly because it's a hassle for me. Partly because it's a hassle for them, and certain friends & family are unlikely to use it, or will bug me to remind them how to log in every time something new is posted. (C) I'd ideally like a platform that allows posting by multiple users, w

Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

2012-06-07 Thread Brian St. Pierre
.com/hungtruong/LinkedIn-Password-Checker It's not really surprising that the hashes were leaked, but it is sort of (ok, not really) surprising to me that a big site like LinkedIn can be storing passwords so poorly: they were just hashed with SHA-1 and no salt. -Brian

Re: I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

2012-04-15 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On 04/12/2012 03:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > I know people who enjoyed their dealings with System76, also: > > http://www.system76.com/ I'm one of those people -- writing this on one of their laptops. I also own a netbook. The laptop has been good. No major complaints. It's heavy and

Re: Am I 32-bit, or 64-bit?

2012-04-05 Thread Brian St. Pierre
d relevant advice will disappear pretty quickly when it EOLs. (9.04 was a pain to work with by January 2011...) I'd recommend either pinning to 10.04 LTS or 12.04 LTS (due on the 26th), but that's just my $0.02. If you really want to stay on 10.10, grab a copy of the DVD torrent now. -- Bri

Re: Vendor independent certifications?

2012-03-09 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:03 PM, David Rysdam wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:17:05 -0500, Tom Buskey wrote: >> I'm a sysadmin and have hired some in the past.  In the dot com era, we >> would sort resumes by "lots of certs" and experience.  Then we looked at >> the resumes with experience.  The ce

Re: Vendor independent certifications?

2012-03-08 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Mike wrote: > A friend of mine is looking for a career change and asks what sort of > vendor independent certifications (that is, not another college degree) > would help them get in the door in programming, web design, or system > administration? She is not mainly

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-27 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > It seems like > the obvious next line of questions, though, is: is going through > a the digital version of changing your address a significantly- > greater ordeal than the `real life moving' version? And, > if it is..., then why is it?

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-24 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:41 AM, David Rysdam wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:32:43 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: >> Maybe you guys can suggest other providers, or just provide >> some thoughts on the two I've listed above. > > I think a reasonably protective feature should be something li

[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] November 2011 Meetup

2011-11-16 Thread Brian Turnbull
Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 21 November 2011 at the NH-ICC for the regular NHRuby meetup. This month, Brian Cardarella finishes our series of learning Rails with a talk titled, “So You Want to be a Rails Developer?” Ruby and Rails is built on many open source technologies and has so much domain

Re: VPN only session.

2011-10-18 Thread Brian St. Pierre
it so you don't accidentally send traffic in the clear, but it won't auto-restart your VPN session. You might be able to do something with a script that runs when the interface goes down, but I'm foggy on the details. -Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] October 2011 Meetup: Hackfest!

2011-10-16 Thread Brian Turnbull
Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 17 October 2011 at the NH-ICC for the regular NHRuby meetup. This month ... Hackfest! Bring your code, questions, and experience to share with your fellow Ruby developers. --- Directions to NH-ICC and more information at http://nhruby.org _

[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] September 2011 Meetup: Backbone.js

2011-09-18 Thread Brian Turnbull
Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 19 September 2011 at the NH-ICC for the regular NHRuby meetup. This month, Jason Morrison of Boston web development and design firm, thoughtbot [1], introduces us to Backbone.js [2] -- client side MVC. Jason will also cover integration of Backbone.js with Rails. -

[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] August 2011 Meetup: Rails 3 in Practice

2011-08-15 Thread Brian Turnbull
Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 15 August 2011 at the NH-ICC as Brian Turnbull, an infrequent Rails user, takes us through the creation of a small (only three models) real world Rails project. This talk is targeted at the new or occasional Rails user. This talk is a "do-over" for la

Re: Browsers

2011-08-03 Thread Brian St. Pierre
9430 Draw your own conclusions about IE users -- that "study" was a hoax... -- Brian St. Pierre ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Looking to get lucky again with another expect question.

2011-07-25 Thread Brian St. Pierre
ll have to be careful of quoting since this will "eat" a layer of quotes. I think an even more general-purpose method would be to use the -t flag of ssh (if you're calling it directly) or something like paramiko.Channel.get_pty(). -Brian ___

Re: [GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] Rails 3 in Practice

2011-07-18 Thread Brian Turnbull
The Ruby SIG meetup scheduled for tonight at 7:00pm is cancelled. The speaker (and organizer) has a family emergency. On Jul 17, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Brian Turnbull wrote: > Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 18 June 2011 at the NH-ICC as Brian Turnbull, an > infrequency Rails users takes us t

[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] Rails 3 in Practice

2011-07-17 Thread Brian Turnbull
Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 18 June 2011 at the NH-ICC as Brian Turnbull, an infrequency Rails users takes us through the creation of a small (only three models) real world Rails project. This talk is targeted at the new or occasional Rails user. --- About Brian Turnbull Brian is

Re: ssh + svn - pam

2011-07-08 Thread Brian St. Pierre
mand that will be executed; the --tunnel-user option tells svnserve to assume that the named argument is the authenticated user. Without --tunnel-user, it would appear as though all commits were coming from the one shared system account. Gitolite uses a similar technique with git: http://sitaramc.

Re: tcl/TK question

2011-06-30 Thread Brian St. Pierre
s to check for zombies" after 3000 close $f # (And now it's not.) puts "Press ctrl-z now and do a ps to check for zombies" after 3000 # Closing the file descriptor from this `open` will cause an error. # (See the man page.) if [catch {set f [open "|/bin/false"]} in

[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] May Meetup: ClientSideValidations and Capybara

2011-05-14 Thread Brian Turnbull
*** Note - Different date than usual *** Join us at 7:00pm on Tuesday, 31 May 2011 (day after Memorial Day) at the NH-ICC for the regular monthly meeting of NHRuby! As promised wy back in March, Brian Cardarella returns with his refactored ClientSideValidations gem originally developed for

Re: My Gnome (registry) is b0rken.

2011-04-22 Thread Brian Shaver
files' is set by default. Here's the bug I found which referenced the issue and includes more detailed steps to resolve it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/667071 Hope this fixes your problem. Brian .. On 04/22/

Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit -> 32-bit)

2011-01-26 Thread Brian St. Pierre
t; >        sudo apt-get -o 'RootDir=/usr/unstable' update > >  That problem I have is that I haven't found the magic needed to > initialize an apt installation.  It rightly complains that its data > files are missing, but I don't kno

Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

2011-01-19 Thread Brian St. Pierre
API for Google Spreadsheets: http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/data/3.0/developers_guide.html and a python client library: http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/ -Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.g

Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

2011-01-19 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: > Right now, everyone is using Excel from windows to add their entries. I don't > actually know if using anything else (OOO, gnumeric, etc,) would cause > unintended ripples to the files. > > All the devel work that I deal with is done from li

Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

2011-01-19 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I have this horrible spreadsheet that needs to be accessed by lots of people > from all over the galaxy. Adding entries to the spreadsheet is painful because > it's manual. > > What I'd like to do is to use a command line interface to add en

[GNHLUG] [NHRuby SIG] January Meetup: OmniAuth

2011-01-10 Thread Brian Turnbull
Join us at 7:00pm on Monday, 17 January 2011 at the NH-ICC as your humble organizer, Brian Turnbull, takes the stage presenting an Introduction to OmniAuth. OmniAuth, created by Michael Bleigh of Intridea, is a Rack-based authentication system for multi-provider external authentication. In this

Re: Computer part recycling [was: New Year's Cleaning]

2011-01-04 Thread Brian St. Pierre
evably short amount of time. -Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Current compensation conditions

2010-11-22 Thread Brian St. Pierre
ong enough, you can think about disability insurance. As Mike Nolin mentioned, consider what you'll have access to for retirement accounts (Solo401k, SEP, etc). I'd agree that W2-no-benefits is the worst of both worlds. -Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] November Meetup: (Geo)Spatial Programming

2010-11-10 Thread Brian Turnbull
Join us at 7pm on Monday, November 15th at the NH-ICC building for the regular monthly meetup of NHRuby. This month, we have New Hampshire’s newest resident rubyist, Peter Jackson, presenting “Introduction to (Geo)Spatial Programming”. Location-based applications are everywhere, yet most modern

Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-19 Thread Brian St. Pierre
you may want to take a look at rsnapshot. It uses rsync under the hood, so if rsync works for you, rsnapshot should too. I've been using it for a couple of years now, and it has been a lifesaver more than once. http://rsnapshot.org/ -Brian _

Re: dual pci nic with bridging

2010-08-18 Thread Brian St. Pierre
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Brian St. Pierre > wrote: >> Anybody have experience with a PCI-based dual-interface NIC that does >> hardware bridging?   This would be for a traffic monitoring application ... >

dual pci nic with bridging

2010-08-17 Thread Brian St. Pierre
Anybody have experience with a PCI-based dual-interface NIC that does hardware bridging? This would be for a traffic monitoring application, so the host cpu must be able to snoop traffic. Software bridging is not feasible. Thanks for any pointers. -- Brian St. Pierre

[GNHLUG] Ruby SIG: August 2010 Meetup

2010-08-11 Thread Brian Turnbull
Join us on Monday, August 16th at 7:00pm for the next meeting of the New Hampshire Ruby Users Group. This month we have Brian Cardarella talking about his client_side_validations gem: The client_side_validations gem is an extract from a Democratic National Committee project. It quickly

[GNHLUG] [Ruby SIG] July 2010 Meetup: Redis and Resque

2010-07-08 Thread Brian Turnbull
Join us at RMC Research (1000 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH) Monday, 19 July 2010 at 7pm for the July edition of NHRuby. We meet and share projects and questions surrounding Ruby, Rails, and related technologies — all are welcome. This month, we are thrilled to welcome Nick Plante back to the po

Re: [OT] CableInside possible spam/scam?

2010-05-13 Thread Brian
and wire the difference before the forged check has been determined to be fraudulent. I've seen this scam tried on me twice now. It starts out sounding legit and quickly becomes obvious. Especially if you ever get the "cashier's check" which is pretty clearly fake. Brian

Re: [OT] iPad

2010-03-23 Thread Brian Chabot
sign specs. Take nifty tech only geeks know about. Make it shiny. Reduce the functionality. Increase price. Market the hell out of it. I love Apple. They steal the niftiest stuff. Brian -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http

Re: OT? - Broadband Troubleshooting

2010-03-08 Thread Brian St. Pierre
em you may be able to get some help from the ISP. -Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Linux for "cloud computing": Request for Input

2010-03-05 Thread Brian St. Pierre
w.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/more-choices-fewer-sales.htm -Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Brian Chabot
- http://www.mandrivausers.org Confusion about distro differences - OK, I'll give him that one. Brian -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and Web Sites that JUST WORK

Re: Using xmlstarlet and OpenOffice

2010-03-03 Thread Brian St. Pierre
text:span/text:text-input' content.xml Luckily it passes the namespace declaration through to the XSLT unchanged. You only need to declare the namespaces used in the XPath query. -Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://ma

Re: Using xmlstarlet and OpenOffice

2010-03-03 Thread Brian St. Pierre
below will move the trailer.Social Security # 123-45-6789Drivers License # 12ABC000101Copy of Vehicle Registration: attachedCopy of Certificate of Insurance: attachedCopy of Drivers License: attachedName/Driver 000 Some Street; SomePlace, NHSignature ___Telephone # 603-555-1234Date TodaySignature of SomeFarm representative__ Unfortunately, I don't have any hints to help you get multiple namespaces into the XSLT. -Brian ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: DHCPD and Windows question

2010-01-30 Thread Brian St. Pierre
(a) the broken request and (b) the working request? Then compare the two and change whatever is needed in your config (one thing at a time) to make (a) look more like (b). -- Brian St. Pierre ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.g

Re: Silly DNS question

2010-01-24 Thread Brian Chabot
s.com somenamethatshouldnotexist.s3.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com. s3-directional-w.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-1-w.amazonaws.com. s3-1-w.amazonaws.com has address 72.21.202.194 $ Brian -- --- | br...@data

Re: Silly DNS question

2010-01-22 Thread Brian Chabot
I don't know if Amazon's web server would agree, but their DNS servers seem to think they are the same. Brian -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and Web Sites that JUS

Re: Prebuilt/turn-key PC options

2009-10-06 Thread Brian Chabot
27;cause you know... I own the place and all. Sales have been kinda (!) slow lately. If you *want* a local provider who supports the Linux systems an all... Just Works can do it. If I get enough customers to keep the company in business... which hasn't been happening lately. So come on

Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

2009-09-21 Thread Brian Chabot
file in Audacity and it worked first try with no hassles, no software to install, no drivers needed, etc. Brian -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and Web Sites that J

Webmin, was: Re: Linux as a NAS performance questions

2009-09-18 Thread Brian
fetchmail and much more. It is designed for use by regular > non-root users on a Unix system, and limits them to tasks that they > would be able to perform if logged in via SSH or at the console. If you've got non-techie users on your *nix system, this might be handy. Brian

Re: wok-key: dealing with keyloggers on net-cafe computers

2009-08-26 Thread Brian Chabot
ith a .com in your login? Copy & paste it from the address bar. No software. No cell phone, and no knowledge of Morse code needed. Brian -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers

Re: Network/System Monitors

2009-08-21 Thread Brian Chabot
since then. While I don't have much first-hand experience with OpenNMS (I only played around with their online demo a couple years ago), I've heard many network ops people rave about how well designed it is. I'd say definitely look into both OpenNMS and In

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 composit

Re: OT: green vehicles

2009-07-28 Thread Brian Chabot
DI Air Car: http://www.mdi.lu/ Their "Air Pod" looks nifty. Brian -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and Web Sites that JUST WORK | | Wor

Re: Finding *unfiltered* free WiFi?

2009-07-09 Thread Brian Chabot
ints to really make it worth while. I own three of these and they're not too bad. (One at my shop, one on loan and a third un-configured that I plan to hack at some day.) You can see a map of the FON locations at http://maps.fon.co

Analog Modems?

2009-06-22 Thread Brian Chabot
ing to see if something can be set up so as not to have to use any one computer as the router... Any ideas? Thanks, Brian PS: Yes, it needs to be Linux compatible. -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustW

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

2009-03-28 Thread Brian Chabot
a non-standard port to an other SSH server internally for LAN access from outside. All passwords are at least moderately strong.) Brian -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and Web S

Re: CMS

2009-03-25 Thread Brian Chabot
ny of the top three (Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress will do these to varying extents and varying amounts of ease-of-use and features. Brian -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and W

Re: USB Question...

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Chabot
ve emailed the manufacturer's support dept. to see if I can just re-partition and reformat or if that will brick the device. Brian -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and Web Sit

Re: USB Question...

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Chabot
update repositories have them... > > What does this command show: > > cat /sys/block/sdb/size /sys/block/sdb/sdb1/size > $ cat /sys/block/sdb/size 246864 $ cat /sys/block/sdb/sdb1/size 251937 $ Jives with /var/log/messages and fdisk just lik

Re: USB Question...

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Chabot
n a system at work) later on... This hub (and the specific port and cable) have worked fine on other devices, such as my video camera and Blackberry. Brian -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | |

Re: USB Question...

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Chabot
-2.6.22.19-2mdv-1-1mdv2008.0 It's a Mandriva Powerpack 2008.0 install with all currently available updates installed. Brian -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and We

USB Question...

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Chabot
x27;s going on here? Is the device not liking my low-speed hub? Is the memory on the device bad? How might I check? FSCK? ...cound be I'm not thinking straight at almost 4:30 am... but I'm at a loss here. Any help would be appreciated.

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

Re: Thunderbird question

2009-03-03 Thread Brian Chabot
hen you're done, and you compose an email, you should have a drop-down list of identities in the From field at the top. Brian -- --- | br...@datasquire.net Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and Web Sites

Re: FOSS Gaming Survey - Any help is appreciated

2009-02-02 Thread Brian Chabot
" with something like "None." "Which FOSS Gaming websites/blogs to you frequent?" Should be Multiple Choice. "Which general Gaming sites do you visit regularly?" Should be Multiple Choice. The

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Brian Chabot
as GMail natively. Enigmail makes PGP/GPG encryption simple (including key management). I haven't used Evolution in a while, but last time I did, I was turned off by the close resemblance to Outbreak. Kmail/Kontact is coming up there as a viable option,

Re: Handheld device keyboards (was: Nokia N810)

2008-12-03 Thread Brian Chabot
patibility parts is that it uses a standard USB connection and acts as just another USB thumb drive. This makes transferring images, videos, and ring tones a breeze. (It uses MP3 format for the ringtones... natively. I love my crackberry. Brian -- -

Re: Nokia N810 and other handhelds

2008-12-03 Thread Brian Chabot
entanglements, failed > promises. Oh, right. Never mind. > > And I want my flying car. These guys are still trying: http://www.moller.com/ http://www.volanteaircraft.com http://www.labicheaerospace.com/ http://www.terrafugia.com/ http://www.urbanaero.com http://www.macroindustries.com ht

Re: Laptop HD repair/recovery question

2008-11-17 Thread Brian Chabot
d him a new HDD and installed it for him.) No, I normally wouldn't try something that questionable with most customers. This was an old friend and I know the work he had saved. I also made sure he knew that this might not work at all. He was OK with that. Like I said... his las

Re: Looking for local mobo suppliers

2008-11-16 Thread Brian Chabot
edit cards right now through PayPal. But the upside: We do have a few mobos in stock... all of one type... with RAM and chips available. They're AMD Sempron based... but I don't have the specs or prices handy. You can call the work number (in my sig) to see if I'm in the shop

Re: Update (K)Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

2008-11-12 Thread Brian Chabot
atest major release of the distro I use, but with KDE4, I'm dragging my heels big time. I'd be happy to hear that things improve... soon. Brian -- --- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proprietor: http://www.Just

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008-10-07 Thread Brian Chabot
e > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Uhh, Ben, is there a reason you're using a Japanese character set here? ...or was it to test us or the mail server? Brian -- ---

Re: portable music players

2008-10-03 Thread Brian Chabot
nd let us know what you end up doing. Brian -- --- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and Web Sites that JUST WORK | | Work: +1 (603) 484-1

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 1,5

Re: Seamonkey Issue

2008-09-30 Thread Brian Chabot
to recall that having once been an issue. In short, look around. I'm pretty sure it's all about permissions. If security isn't an issue, you could chmod 777 your seamonkey's install directory ...but I am

Re: Seamonkey Issue

2008-09-30 Thread Brian Chabot
on a system where I was the only user so I just chown'd it to me. Good luck! Brian -- --- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and Web Sites that JUST WOR

Re: Intranet packages?

2008-09-17 Thread Brian Chabot
t's still under somewhat active development it seems. > - logins should be able to hook into the system logins so that adding an > account to the system also adds to the intranet If you have LDAP authentication working, this should be no problem. Other

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