[OCLUG-Tech] RISCy Raspberry and the ARM Revolution: Part Deux

2011-10-18 Thread Paul B
I've been intrigued by the prospects of low power computing for providing essential network services at home. I had enquired about plug computers in the past (say, am I just daft or is searching the mail archive impossible without opening each archive individually). Applause to those that

[OCLUG-Tech] Crash-Proof Code

2011-08-11 Thread Paul B
If you're interested in reliability and security of code, here's a nice little bit about some of the work going on at NICTA, Australia's national IT research center: http://www.technologyreview.com/article/37206/ Efforts to develop a crash-proof kernel will pay huge dividends in the long

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] How to root my Nexus S gingerbread phone for OpenVPN

2011-07-26 Thread Paul B
Sent from a locked proprietary device. I'm working on my freedom and I'll be there one day. On 2011-07-25, at 12:41 AM, Brett Delmage brett.delm...@twobikes.ottawa.on.ca wrote: Having recently acquired a Nexus S phone I'd like to root it so I can install OpenVPN among other things. I'm

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] How to root my Nexus S gingerbread phone for OpenVPN

2011-07-26 Thread Paul B
On 2011-07-25, at 12:41 AM, Brett Delmage brett.delm...@twobikes.ottawa.on.ca wrote: Having recently acquired a Nexus S phone I'd like to root it so I can install OpenVPN among other things. I'm running the latest version of gingerbread, 3.4.3 I'd like to run an OpenVPN client for

[OCLUG-Tech] a sign of the apocalypse

2011-07-04 Thread Paul B
From: Paul B red.l...@rogers.com Date: 4 July, 2011 11:37:07 AM EDT To: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a sign of the apocalypse On 2011-07-01, at 7:21 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: http://i.imgur.com/iYnGb.png rday Cute

[OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: what are the five myths about open source?

2011-06-28 Thread Paul B
Oops, forgot the rest of you. Sent from a locked proprietary device. I'm working on my freedom and I'll be there one day. Begin forwarded message: From: Paul B red.l...@rogers.com Date: 28 June, 2011 9:26:18 AM EDT To: Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] what

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: what are the five myths about open source?

2011-06-28 Thread Paul B
making a nod to those mythical ideals. :-) Sent from a locked proprietary device. I'm working on my freedom and I'll be there one day. On 2011-06-28, at 11:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Paul B wrote: Oops, forgot the rest of you. Begin

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] any ELGG wizards out there?

2011-06-12 Thread Paul B
Forgive my prodding, but what are you building with this, Robert? I'll admit to being totally ignorant of elgg and it's capabilities, but I've been mulling over what a family website might include, and this looks like an impressively complete package. Beats smashing together smarty and ubb and

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Better Than DropBox

2011-05-09 Thread Paul B.
Sylvain, I came across this the other day: http://sparkleshare.org/ It looks like most of what you're after, IF you have your own host. It has hooks to github and gitorious, which are also free when what you're checking in is free to the world. If you're storing personal information and other

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone out there experienced at cyanogenmod'ing their phone?

2011-05-05 Thread Paul B.
My wife just purchased an android phone. It looks like a great little phone. There is a 6th gen beta for her phone, with most of the bugs worked out. Version 1 should be coming shortly. I have one technical hurdle to overcome, though. Seems I'm having trouble with the very first step: Does

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Plug Computers

2011-02-03 Thread Paul B.
to the sempron for home network solutions. On 02/02/2011 11:40 AM, Stephen Gregory wrote: On 11-01-30 09:47 PM, Paul B. wrote: I've been waiting for the ARM revolution to hit my home, and I'm now wondering if it's here. The ARM revolution is here, but it is not much of a revolution. There are many

[OCLUG-Tech] Plug Computers

2011-01-30 Thread Paul B.
Recently, while aimlessly wandering the web, I happened upon the following: http://www.plugcomputer.org/ I've been waiting for the ARM revolution to hit my home, and I'm now wondering if it's here. There's a great forum article at the above URL about installing Debian (yee-haw!) on a plug, and

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Microsoft's Hand in Novell Deal Bodes Ill for Linux

2010-11-23 Thread Paul B.
Another corporate acquisition that Bodes Ill for Linux. It didn't take long for the OOo crew (not Linux) to jump ship when Oracle got involved; the result was a fork, and I hope that the fork shows stability soon. Re branding alone will likely set that project back a year. Think of the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] X windows question

2010-10-16 Thread Paul B.
*crickets* John, have you come to a solution on this? -Paul On 07/10/2010 2:28 PM, John Elliott wrote: Hello, I have an application which requires two monitors. I would like to have KDE opened on one monitor and have a separate X session opened on the other monitor with a simple