[plug] Help Wanted - Stardust Finders. Experience Not Required.

2009-10-24 Thread Richard Paradies
This site at UC Berkeley is hosted by a group trying to find, with the help of web collaborators, stardust embedded in a spacecraft's cosmic dust trap. Anyone who passes the test on the group's Virtual Microscope can help find the star par

Re: [plug] need advice GPL - control panel software, server hardening/securing methodology etc

2009-10-12 Thread Richard Paradies
For control panels I use webmin, http://webmin.net/ , but take a look at ehcp, http://www.ehcp.net/diger/demo/ How to install http://www.howtoforge.com/set-up-ubuntu-server-with-ehcp-lamp-dns-ftp-mail-p2 For larger networks, there is nagios, http://www.nagios.o

Re: [plug] The Death of Election 2010 Source Code Review

2009-10-09 Thread Richard Paradies
But Note Caution: Not certain if it's the same company. For Immediate Release on 10/29/2008. EAC Announces Intention to Suspend SysTest Labs WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) today not

Re: [plug] Microsoft's vision of the future

2009-09-18 Thread Richard Paradies
Reality trumps vision. Demo in TED March 2009 of Sixth Sense from the MIT Media Labs. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html (Sections of the video were taken on the Charles River, Cambridge, Massachusetts.) On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:59 AM, fooler mail wrote:

[plug] Open-source at The New York Times

2009-09-16 Thread Richard Paradies
Article on how The New York Times converted their 1851-1922 public domain articles available free of charge in PDF format using an EC2 Hadoop cluster - Link from the Sun whitepaper Cloud Computing Infrastructure and Architecture (registration

Re: [plug] Command Line help, how to add a . on the start of each line?

2009-07-15 Thread Richard Paradies
sed doesn't edit in situ. Try $ cat add_dot.txt sex.com blahblah.com weak.com sed 's/^/./gw u.out' add_dot.txt | mv u.out add_dot.txt $ cat add_dot.txt .sex.com .blahblah.com .weak.com On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Kelsey Hartigan Go < kelsey.hartigan...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can us

Re: [plug] Installing Ubuntu development laptop

2009-04-26 Thread Richard Paradies
(coeds), no BS Computer Science, > but I think you had Latin. Did you have debating class in Latin? I did > mathematics (MS 1977-79, PhD 79-82) there. It is good to hear from a 60s > Atenean. > > --- On Fri, 4/24/09, Richard Paradies wrote: > > > The server kernel has t

Re: [plug] Installing Ubuntu development laptop

2009-04-23 Thread Richard Paradies
The server kernel has the deadline io scheduler. The desktop has cfq. Desktop + server applications sounds like the better plan unless you are doing high end database development and need the deadline kernel. But in that case a better solution would be to get another platform for the server. Preem

Re: [plug] alternative to MS Live Meeting

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Paradies
Try webhuddle, "Simple, small, secure web conferencing on any platform that supports Java." [ http://sourceforge.net/projects/webhuddle ] On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Johann Vincent Paul Tagle < johannta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a tool, preferably OS-agnostic, that rivals MS Live Meetin