[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting: An Open Hardware Case Study: The AK-47

2014-08-04 Thread Michael Dexter
Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement Who: Beth 'pidge' Flanagan What: Open Sourcing the Modern Battle Rifle: Legal and technical implications in home building the semi-automatic AK-47 Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) When: Thursday, June 7th, 2014 at 7pm

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting: An Open Hardware Case Study: The AK-47

2014-08-04 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 12:15:39AM -0700, Michael Dexter wrote: What: Open Sourcing the Modern Battle Rifle: Legal and technical implications in home building the semi-automatic AK-47 I propose we IMMEDIATELY move discussion of this topic to plug-talk. It's gonna get loud ... Keith -- Keith

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting: An Open Hardware Case Study: The AK-47

2014-08-04 Thread Word Wizard
Guns don't kill people. Microsoft Windows kills people. Trying to get it to support legacy hardware nearly killed me. On 08/04/2014 07:09 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 12:15:39AM -0700, Michael Dexter wrote: What: Open Sourcing the Modern Battle Rifle: Legal and technical

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting: An Open Hardware Case Study: The AK-47

2014-08-04 Thread elcaseti .
According to the the initial email in this thread, This already took place on the 7th of June. When is it really taking place? I will be watching the stream from afar. Really looking forward to this one! Thanks, everybody, for putting this together. On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Word

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting: An Open Hardware Case Study: The AK-47

2014-08-04 Thread elcaseti .
If it's ok with you all, I'll forward this announcement to the Black Lodge Research/Defcon 206 mailing list. Several of us will want to watch the stream. On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:30 PM, elcaseti . elcas...@gmail.com wrote: According to the the initial email in this thread, This already took

[PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting: An Open Hardware Case Study: The AK-47

2014-08-04 Thread Michael Dexter
Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement Who: Beth 'pidge' Flanagan What: Open Sourcing the Modern Battle Rifle: Legal and technical implications in home building the semi-automatic AK-47 Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level) When: Thursday, August 7th, 2014 at

Re: [PLUG] [PLUG-ANNOUNCE] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting: An Open Hardware Case Study: The AK-47

2014-08-04 Thread Michael Dexter
On 8/4/14 1:30 PM, elcaseti . wrote: According to the the initial email in this thread, This already took place on the 7th of June. When is it really taking place? Good catch. Yes, my secret is out: I RECYCLE previous announcements and mistakes like this can slip in. I have reposted it. You

Re: [PLUG] Slackware on Virtual Box

2014-08-04 Thread Dick Steffens
On 08/02/2014 06:11 PM, Larry Brigman wrote: For virtual machines, don't do any swap and only one partition. Further reading confirmed that the VM takes care of swap issues. Thanks. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Slackware on Virtual Box

2014-08-04 Thread Dick Steffens
On 08/02/2014 06:12 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 2 Aug 2014, Dick Steffens wrote: Where can I find instructions on partitioning that virtual 8 GB? The tutorials that I've found all tell me to partition the space for a primary partition and a swap partition, and assume that I know how to do

Re: [PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting: An Open Hardware Case Study: The AK-47

2014-08-04 Thread elcaseti .
Excellent. Thanks, Micheal. On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Michael Dexter dex...@ambidexter.com wrote: Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement Who: Beth 'pidge' Flanagan What: Open Sourcing the Modern Battle Rifle: Legal and technical implications in home building the

Re: [PLUG] Slackware on Virtual Box

2014-08-04 Thread Dick Steffens
On 08/02/2014 11:04 PM, King Beowulf wrote: On 08/02/2014 05:45 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: I've downloaded slackware64-14.1-install-dvd.iso, and the md5sum matches slackware64-14.1-install-dvd.md5. I've created an empty virtual box virtual machine with 1024 MB memory and 8 GB virtual drive.

Re: [PLUG] Slackware on Virtual Box

2014-08-04 Thread Dick Steffens
On 08/03/2014 10:11 AM, Damo Gets wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 G'morning Dick King Beowulf. Couldn't help but notice that you both were talking about utilizing VirtualBox here. I just wanted to mention my experiences with this suite. I've been using Virtual Box

Re: [PLUG] Slackware on Virtual Box

2014-08-04 Thread Dick Steffens
On 08/03/2014 02:59 PM, King Beowulf wrote: Sure, Vbox can be a bit flaky. That's why I use QEMU instead. If I ever have some more spare time I'll have a look at QEMU. Thanks for mentioning it. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG mailing list

[PLUG] Raspberry Pi to buy/borrow?

2014-08-04 Thread Dan Pape
Hi List, I'm participating in an internal corporate hackathon this wednesday/thursday. I was planning to use a Pi plus Pi camera that I bought from element14 last wednesday, but two day shipping apparently doesn't mean much because I just found out today that it won't arrive until friday--after

Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi to buy/borrow?

2014-08-04 Thread benjamin barber
I have one that you can buy from me. On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Dan Pape dp...@dpape.com wrote: Hi List, I'm participating in an internal corporate hackathon this wednesday/thursday. I was planning to use a Pi plus Pi camera that I bought from element14 last wednesday, but two day

Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi to buy/borrow?

2014-08-04 Thread Dan Pape
Replying to myself ... (after searching the list archive) I have just learned about http://www.oregon-electronics.com/ I'll try there tomorrow and see what they have in stock. thanks, Dan Pape On 08/04/2014 07:13 PM, Dan Pape wrote: Hi List, I'm participating in an internal corporate

Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi to buy/borrow?

2014-08-04 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
I have a pi unused that I've be happy to loan out in case you don't find something suitable. Unfortunately have no more details handy till late tomorrow night but it has Wi-Fi and is less than 3 yr old On Aug 4, 2014 8:32 PM, Dan Pape dp...@dpape.com wrote: Replying to myself ... (after

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Long Term Support?

2014-08-04 Thread Robert Citek
FWIW, I ran this on my 12.04 LTS server system: $ sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-trusty linux-image-generic-lts-trusty $ sudo reboot Now the message Your current Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is going out of support on 2014-08-07. ... has been replaced with Your Hardware Enablement