[LUAU] does computer guts program still exist?

2011-03-02 Thread Dave Burns
Web page looks like nothing has happened since 2006. I wanted to recommend it to someone. Does computer guts still exist, or anything remotely like it? mahalo, Dave ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/lis

Re: [LUAU] FW: Linux/Unix on iPad? Yes you can!

2010-10-02 Thread Dave Burns
Why shouldn't my boss want me to be able to do remote admin work from my ipad at home? I might even talk him into paying the 15 bucks. TDB On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Bryce Groff wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Bryce Groff wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Brian Chee w

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Pizza - Tuesday, January 20

2009-02-02 Thread Dave Burns
Scott, mahalo for making the video. It is great for me, because I now have a conflicting commitment with my son that prevents me from attending on Tuesday nights. Please note that the audio was pretty bad. I have no idea how to improve things, other than to say the probably mike needs to be closer

Re: [LUAU] boring test, do not read

2008-07-07 Thread Dave Burns
? > > v/r > ralph > > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just got messages that I got kicked off the list, so I am testing to >> see if this bounces. There is probably a more apropriate way to find >> out, but I am b

[LUAU] boring test, do not read

2008-07-04 Thread Dave Burns
I just got messages that I got kicked off the list, so I am testing to see if this bounces. There is probably a more apropriate way to find out, but I am being lazy. Sorry, but it's not like this list gets much traffic any more, but I don't want to lose it. Dave On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Vin

Re: [LUAU] HOSEF ?= LUG

2008-03-29 Thread Dave Burns
Michael, thank you for the very positive input. On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Michael Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for eWaste, I think HOSEF, the foundation, should stop taking in > computer trash for money and go back to a standards based approach. Only > take in P3+, 19+ CRT, any

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-28 Thread Dave Burns
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been warned away from the Hawaiian Studies group(s) at UH. Actually this does not much surprise me and it would not surprise me much if it turned out that teaming with them ended up being counter-productive or impossi

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is HOSEF

2008-03-27 Thread Dave Burns
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > >> I'd like to reach > >> out to the Apple community (Jordan Hubbard is an acqaintence, and he > >> was spun up to speak at TPOSSCON/PFOSSCON this year, though that > >> didn't happen.) There is a good local m

Re: [LUAU] Hello - My Name is Scott

2008-03-26 Thread Dave Burns
> > what is the "right" alternative you propose instead? > > A fundamental refocusing of HOSEF away from eWaste and back to > advocacy and education about Free and Open Source. This answer is pretty vague. Vince and I have both asked similar questions on the list, which were also dismissed. HO

Re: [LUAU] Mail Back: USPS to recycle (some) e-waste free of charge

2008-03-26 Thread Dave Burns
Too bad it is not happening in Hawaii (except apple - great if you have a mac). It looks like the USPS one may ultimately come to Hawaii, but it is only for cell phones, toner carts, other small stuff, no PCs. I wonder if they'd let you take out a circuit board, break it in half, and stuff it in t

[LUAU] iptables question

2007-11-17 Thread Dave Burns
I am sort of fiddling with iptables and can't seem to get even something simple working. The config below was intended to just make a little blacklist containing two ip addresses and a mac address. I wanted the firewall to drop anything from those three places, otherwise just accept everything. It

Re: [LUAU] help on port 25

2007-11-09 Thread Dave Burns
firewall settings? /etc/hosts.deny? Or most probably the default config of your mail daemon is set not to relay. Any of these could be what's up. If you want to test your mailer, why not just send yourself some email? echo 'testing 123'| mail -s 'testing123' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not sure where suse

Re: [LUAU] Recommended FOSS network backup tool

2007-11-02 Thread Dave Burns
There are several at sourceforge. Amanda looks interesting. Why don't you tell us about your experience after you get something set up? Wish I knew more. Dave On 11/2/07, R. Scott Belford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julian Yap wrote: > > Normally I use command line tools to do network backups. e

Re: [LUAU] all your GPU are belong to us

2007-10-26 Thread Dave Burns
> You're assuming that they can't get in and read /etc/shadow. If they can, then either you've got a broken configuration and they will own you in 5 minutes, or they have root already and ordinary user-level passwords aren't really stopping them from doing much. I suppose this situation deserves s

Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-22 Thread Dave Burns
On 10/21/07, Tom Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a little unclear now - what isn't working? Well, my brain. I'm a bit confused. Also, I was not actually working on it today, just gathering intel for the assault. > If your default runlevel is 3, > prefdm (and thus gdm) this will not be r

Re: [LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-21 Thread Dave Burns
Mahalo everyone for the helpful suggestions. But I'm still not clear on what area of expertise I should be polishing here - init, X, bios? Headless servers are probably more standard than headly ones, is it really so simple that no one has bothered to write a specific howto? I must be missing somet

[LUAU] headless fedora

2007-10-21 Thread Dave Burns
Trying to RTFM, but can't seem to find the right FMTR. I've installed fedora on a dell. I want to unplug the monitor at least, maybe keyboard and mouse also, and have it still boot. I tried just unplugging the monitor, but it will not boot that way as currently configured. Googling indicates that

[LUAU] Re: [HOSEF-managers] Helping HOSEF and Seeing Thunder(birds)

2007-09-16 Thread Dave Burns
http://tinyurl.com/29xswj On 9/15/07, R. Scott Belford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the google map link is a bit long, so I leave it to you to map it. > ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau

Re: [LUAU] the OSI is a danger to Software Freedom

2007-08-25 Thread Dave Burns
Sounds like it is bad news for the GPL too, or were you just lumping GPL together with OSI? On 8/25/07, Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From the blog of the General Counsel, (pro bono), of the Open Source > Initiative: > http://lawandlifesiliconvalley.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-open-sou

Re: [LUAU] Google calendar?

2007-07-04 Thread Dave Burns
Next question - why aren't the Saturday McKinley events or computer guts etc. on this calendar? Board meetings? I usually have a conflict on Saturdays, and I have trouble finding out what else is going on. Well, I used to, but I just gave up a while back. Dave On 7/3/07, J. David Beutel <[EMAIL P

Re: [LUAU] Fwd: [honolulu-coders] SysAdmin position

2007-05-30 Thread Dave Burns
Hi Clifton, Honolulu-coders is a small group that meets usually once a month, usually on the 3rd floor of POST at UH to discuss ruby or java or something about programming. We also have a yahoo email list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sam Joseph will present tonight, below is some info about tonight's meeti

[LUAU] Fwd: [honolulu-coders] SysAdmin position

2007-05-30 Thread Dave Burns
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Sam Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 29, 2007 6:07 PM Subject: [honolulu-coders] SysAdmin position To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Coders, We're looking for a full time system adminstrator to work with us at the Laboratory for Interactive Learni

Re: [LUAU] PFOSSCON 2007

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Burns
I'd say it was a blazing success. Two speakers out of three very interesting, the third a bit unfocused but still with something to say. Mahalo to all participants and volunteers! Dave ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bi

Re: [LUAU] s/hosef.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors.hosef.org/g

2006-12-14 Thread Dave Burns
On 12/14/06, Julian Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think we only have Suse and Debian update repositories from what I can tell. Vince, correct me if I'm wrong. What distribution do you use? Fedora core 5 currently. Guess I am out of luck. So if I was a yum expert, what Vince said would b

Re: [LUAU] s/hosef.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors.hosef.org/g

2006-12-14 Thread Dave Burns
Hi Vince and everyone, Is there anything on the hosef wiki or anywhere with specific info about setting up yum to use this repository? I of course can read the friendly man page or online tutorials for general info, but I could use some specific info about the hosef repository and suggestions for

Re: [LUAU] the term "open source" is dead, says Eben Moglen

2006-11-22 Thread Dave Burns
But for communities like Debian, where terms like these determine whether a piece of software is included or not, what the term means is very important. I'm surprised, I would have thought that debian only cared about the actual license that was used. __

Re: [LUAU] the term "open source" is dead, says Eben Moglen

2006-11-22 Thread Dave Burns
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061110_001188.html If Cringely doesn't see the end is nigh, it isn't. This is just not a big deal. ___ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau

Re: [LUAU] the term "open source" is dead, says Eben Moglen

2006-11-22 Thread Dave Burns
Course, one needs only to look at the Microsoft - Novell deal to see just how bad that is. "Open Source" is dead. Microsoft co-opted it for its own use. Film at 11. This is all too metaphorical for me, I don't understand what people think is going on. I am not sure what it would mean for "o

Re: [LUAU] httpd version?

2006-06-28 Thread Dave Burns
Thanks for the extensive suggestions. On 6/28/06, Julian Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fedora is focussed on being very cutting edge and developer driven. If you are installing a permanent server, I'd recommend the Linux distribution CentOS I actually installed this first, but it had a probl

[LUAU] httpd version?

2006-06-28 Thread Dave Burns
Hi guys, My immediate problem is that I want to get apache's httpd working on a system where I just installed fedora core 5. It's just lying there in /usr/sbin, and I don't even know how to figure out what version it is. So how do I figure out what version of httpd is installed here? Go to fedora

Re: [LUAU] more participation

2006-03-24 Thread Dave Burns
On 3/24/06, Julian Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I missed the announcement, and it's not on the HOSEF calendar. > > What/where/who/when? > The HOSEF calendar is for anyone to submit an event to. So if I knew when where and what this event will be, I'd put it in the calendar. But I have ba

Re: [LUAU] more participation

2006-03-24 Thread Dave Burns
> ..is anyone > still up for the Asterisk build this weekend? > I missed the announcement, and it's not on the HOSEF calendar. What/where/who/when? Ah, now I found it, subject line was about MYTHTV, I had skipped it. I just got a copy of knoppsterisk I'd like to try out, but I don't have a PB

Re: [LUAU] LSTP thin client knoppix variant idea?

2006-03-22 Thread Dave Burns
Good point, but the LSTP stuff has to work with older hardware, I'm not sure we're improving things if we use up 700MB of RAM with disk image. The reason this idea appealed to me was that a while back PXE NICs weren't all that common so when we were setting up a lab we had to put in several new NI

[LUAU] LSTP thin client knoppix variant idea?

2006-03-22 Thread Dave Burns
Is there any advantage to using a knoppix-like live CD to make a feeble box into a thin client? I don't know enough about LSTP to know whether this makes sense - if the server isn't serving os & apps, do you still need it for anything? * no need for special NIC, but CD drive or memory stick needed

Re: [LUAU] Re: Computer books for trade? Perl, PostNuke

2006-02-20 Thread Dave Burns
On 2/18/06, Hawaii Linux Institute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would suggest > going one step further by forming a local Linux/Unix co-op library. I can't help thinking a hosef/luau library would involve a lot of work for someone and very little benefit. Why not use the Hawaii public library?