[PLUG] Cascadia IT Conference Early Bird Registration

2016-02-02 Thread Atom Powers
The Cascadia IT Conference is a gathering of IT professionals in the Pacific Northwest who come to attend classes from world-renowned experts and each from other. This is some of the best and most cost-effective training you can get in Seattle. This year our keynote is by Don Crawley,  

Re: [PLUG] Can't understand dmesg

2016-02-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 18:59:42 -0800 Anthony Jeffries dijo: >There is an option to dmesg that converts the time stamp to a human >readable format. 'man dmesg' should tell you what it is. I don't >remember it offhand. Ah. Looking again at the man page I see that it is

[PLUG] Can't understand dmesg

2016-02-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have continuing problems with the optical drive in my laptop, which is /dev/sr0. Just now I tried to see what dmesg said about it, but I can't understand the numbers in front of the output. For example, for 'dmesg |grep sr0' I get hundreds of lines like: [1384105.947297] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] I

Re: [PLUG] Can't understand dmesg

2016-02-02 Thread Anthony Jeffries
There is an option to dmesg that converts the time stamp to a human readable format. 'man dmesg' should tell you what it is. I don't remember it offhand. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 2, 2016, at 6:47 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > I have continuing problems with the

[PLUG] What role could or should the Open Source Software community play in the 2016 election?

2016-02-02 Thread Vedanta Teacher
Blessings, Let me begin by saying that I haven't belonged to a political party beginning in 1985-1989 (?) and have voted independently from that time so I have no ax to grind. There are multiple accusations of vote fixing or manipulation in Iowa by MS through a "free" app. "Free" as in spy

Re: [PLUG] What role could or should the Open Source Software community play in the 2016 election?

2016-02-02 Thread Lou
Well, this has more to do with "Free Software" than "Open Source" that has different philosophies. Releasing the source code is not enough as the licence might be still very restrictive (here is the code, look. You can see it but you can't touch it.)