Re: [PLUG] The real yellow pages

2013-08-20 Thread Michael Rasmussen
into the yellow pages for anything. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: Real men program in solder. ~ Keith Lofstrom

Re: [PLUG] Ownerships and permissions mess

2013-08-10 Thread Michael Rasmussen
*/ }; -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: I'm eating slightly green peaches right now - kind of bitter, kind of sweet

Re: [PLUG] Urgent! Lost network connection after upgrade

2013-08-04 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 10:37:00PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 22:08:57 -0700 Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us dijo: #route add default gateway 192.168.0.1 SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable That indicates the first ifconfig did not set up the interface

Re: [PLUG] False mailing list sign-ups

2013-08-03 Thread Michael Rasmussen
filling out the form and then, presumably, attempting further access on the site. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune

Re: [PLUG] Urgent! Lost network connection after upgrade

2013-08-03 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: Discovery is not about seeking new lands. It's about seeing with new eyes. ~ Marcel

Re: [PLUG] Urgent! Lost network connection after upgrade

2013-08-03 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 09:51:33PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 21:34:07 -0700 Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us dijo: #ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 executed without error #ifconfig eth0 up executed without error ifconfig route add

Re: [PLUG] Yum is immortal

2013-07-31 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: Winners are not those who never lose. They are those who never give up. ~ http

Re: [PLUG] python boggle (resolved)

2013-07-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
the suggestion on stackoverflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/275018/how-can-i-remove-chomp-a-newline-in-python -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special

Re: [PLUG] procmail recipe not catching a Dr.Oz - Solution

2013-07-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Thank you, helps a lot. Follow the flow and see Daniel's accurate, complete answer. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:03:00AM -0700, Daniel Hedlund wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.uswrote: A procmail recipe: :0 * ^From:.*Feed Blaster

[PLUG] procmail recipe not catching a Dr.Oz

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
: Revealing the slim, trim body you've always wanted And I have verified that it is Oz and not 0z. (oh not zero) What do your eyes catch that I'm missing? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us

Re: [PLUG] procmail recipe not catching a Dr.Oz

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:25:51AM -0700, wes wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.uswrote: A procmail recipe: :0 * ^From:.*Feed Blaster * ^From:.*Oz.*New * Dr.*Oz * ^From:.*Dr.*Oz * ^From:.*DrOz $MAILDIR

Re: [PLUG] Projection Screen Available

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
had away and miss it. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: Do not wait until all the conditions are perfect for you

Re: [PLUG] procmail recipe not catching a Dr.Oz

2013-07-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:34:14PM -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.uswrote: A procmail recipe: :0 * ^From:.*Feed Blaster * ^From:.*Oz.*New * Dr.*Oz * ^From:.*Dr.*Oz * ^From

[PLUG] The paranoid #! Security Guide

2013-07-14 Thread Michael Rasmussen
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24722 Extensive, perhaps comprehensive, review of what can and should be done to secure your system and net actions. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http

[PLUG] ASUS Laptop with Ubuntu preloaded from Amazon for $300

2013-05-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
-- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: I ride places where I want to go and sometimes those places are 1835 miles away and I

Re: [PLUG] LibreOffice spreadsheet question...

2013-05-11 Thread Michael Rasmussen
of blanks is what makes this a bit more complicated. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: Newer != Better ~ http

Re: [PLUG] Apache virtual hosts not working for ServerAlias names - Solved

2013-05-05 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 12:12:14AM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 08:23:12AM -0700, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Cluestick? Given this configuration: NameVirtualHost *:80 Listen 80 VirtualHost *:80 ServerName default.example.com

[PLUG] Apache virtual hosts not working for ServerAlias names

2013-05-04 Thread Michael Rasmussen
from default.example.com This is on Apache 2.2.22 A similar config is working as expected on an Apache 2.2.8 installation. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx

Re: [PLUG] Unicode mystery

2013-05-01 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 04:24:43PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: I use a lot more than ordinary keyboard characters in my emails, with vim-enabled constructs like CO₂ and E = ½mv² . How many of you can read those? mutt does fine. like always. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland

Re: [PLUG] Windows Question - tax prep software

2013-04-13 Thread Michael Rasmussen
and then fights of acquisition? Sounds great. That quote is from the Planet Money podcast: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/02/15/171955074/mavericks-hot-documents-and-beer Yeah, a story about beer monopolies. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your

Re: [PLUG] welcome to the new server

2013-04-04 Thread Michael Rasmussen
thunderbird should stop being so annoying :-). Yay Joe! If you hadn't mentioned it I wouldn't have noticed. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random

Re: [PLUG] Main plug list civil and on-topic - frontier

2013-04-04 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:32:06PM -0700, Dale Snell wrote: P.P.S. Keith: Frontier hates your domain; says it's not found. :-( 8.8.8.8 - always there for your net needs -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures

[PLUG] An equivelent for a Mac utility

2013-03-16 Thread Michael Rasmussen
tool. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: You can always piss on them. Though some may consider that a waste

[PLUG] If YouTube quit working in Chrome for you

2013-02-02 Thread Michael Rasmussen
/PepperFlash will restore your video access. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: It's the dingdong in shamalamadingdong

[PLUG] Best Selling Laptop on Amazon runs ... Linux

2013-01-07 Thread Michael Rasmussen
And it's not Ubuntu either. A Samsung Chromebook http://www.zdnet.com/amazons-top-selling-laptop-doesnt-run-windows-or-mac-os-it-runs-linux-709433/ -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu: Testing Wired Network Connectivity [SOLVED]

2012-12-22 Thread Michael Rasmussen
discover to do by reading this? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://gplus.to/MichaelRpdx A special random fortune cookie fortune: Karl Marx noted that the existence of paper money

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Screen Freeze

2012-12-20 Thread Michael Rasmussen
precise (12.04.1 LTS) VERSION_ID=12.04 michael@bivy:~/momcal$ uname -a Linux bivy 3.2.0-35-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 5 17:42:16 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity Other Adventures

Re: [PLUG] Video editing software -- recommendations?

2012-12-07 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 11:24:29AM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote: Title says it: I'm looking for video editing software, preferably freeware. I'll be the third to recommend kdenlive. Good community, solid development team, and an all around good editor. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland

Re: [PLUG] gpg question

2012-12-01 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2182938/gpg-warning-unsafe-ownership-on-configuration-file-gpg-fingerprint-on-ubun or https://www.google.com/search?q=.gnupg%2Fgpg.conf+permissions -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity

Re: [PLUG] Web Site Access: Route Broken - Bank DDOS

2012-09-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
-idINBRE88I16M20120920 Or this, http://pastebin.com/yftgau9w pastebin is used for more than IRC code samples The DDOS, aside from making online banking a pita to use, seem to be a diversion ploy -- Michael Rasmussen http://www.jamhome.us/ Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity

[PLUG] Goobuntu - Google's default desktop

2012-08-30 Thread Michael Rasmussen
You need to get special, high level permission to use Windows http://www.zdnet.com/the-truth-about-goobuntu-googles-in-house-desktop-ubuntu-linux-703462/ -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune

Re: [PLUG] Apparent RBL Server Failure

2012-08-10 Thread Michael Rasmussen
? To quote: DSBL is GONE - from http://dsbl.org/ and they've been gone for three years. I'm using sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du courrier: Weird people

[PLUG] Verizon now required to allow tethering w/3rd party apps

2012-08-01 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Which means without paying them for the privledge. http://consumerist.com/2012/08/verizon-must-pay-fcc-1-25-million-fine-let-android-users-tether-for-free.html additional links in the story -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http

Re: [PLUG] 'sort' to find duplicate rows

2012-07-13 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to a sequential starting field and ending field. What I need is to sort on fields 1, 2, and 4. You've a solution and all, but I'm curious. If the lines are identical what difference does the sort key make? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Logo original?

2012-07-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
/20020604135303/http://davidmandel.com/util-images/plug-logo.jpg Good show! What are your thoughts on this variation? http://pdxlinux.org/portland-linux-unix-group.jpg Nice rendering. Good image. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http

Re: [PLUG] Flier feedback from the meeting

2012-07-06 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to June to the Lifestyle section? Or perhaps All those lovely shades of gray! :-) More than 50 shades of gray. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du courrier: You're not a DNF until

[PLUG] Journalist Dan Gillmore switches from Mac to Linux

2012-06-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
-- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du courrier: The Omnivore's Dilemma is a book so compelling that reading it changes your relationship to the physical world: Afterward, you simply can't ever again

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: Hosted e-mail recommendations?

2012-06-22 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 04:25:09PM -0700, wes wrote: I use it for free. And the paid version is $50 per user per year. And what you get for that is way more than you get from anywhere else for that price. Heck, why don't they just go to a buck a week. -- Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] Promoting Portland at OSCON

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Better weather than Seattle -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du courrier: Just wait until now becomes then. You'll see how happy we were. ~ Susan Sontag

Re: [PLUG] Blue Video

2012-06-15 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Movie Player, the default on Ubuntu. How do I diagnose the problem? What you describe is what I would expect from a camera balanced for daylight rendering subjects in open shade. This is correctable with any reasonable video editing program. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon

[PLUG] Comcast DHCP Address changing

2012-06-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
I'm doing a bit of research. For those of you who have have bothered to track it, how often does Comcast change your IP address? -- Michael Rasmussen http://www.jamhome.us/ Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG

Re: [PLUG] Download All Specified Files From Website

2012-05-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
this is not the file list you're trying to match. Scanning the directory listing it seems you only want *tgz and *txz files. -- Michael Rasmussen http://www.jamhome.us/ Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] Download All Specified Files From Website

2012-05-24 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. ncftpget won't accept an http:// URL and wget -r gets all files in every subdirectory, including those I don't need, but won't accept wildcards (e.g., *.txz) wget target find . -name \*t.z -exec {} /someplace/you/want rm -rf top of tree of wget'd files -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland

Re: [PLUG] Top questions

2012-05-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
) and enter a new value for refresh updates. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du courrier: People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession

Re: [PLUG] wifi security

2012-04-30 Thread Michael Rasmussen
of flowers, are all available for anyone to use. -- Michael Rasmussen http://www.jamhome.us/ Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Shut up and Hack

2012-04-28 Thread Michael Rasmussen
://www.openbsd.org/songs/songsh.ogg In short, they are a bunch of hikers who refine Unix. So they're hiking hackers? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du courrier: God's original

Re: [PLUG] printing pdf difficulty

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. Two avenues: Does `cat /etc/papersize` return A4 or letter? If A4, your system is not resizing the printed items properly. If letter, when the print dialog is open look for an option to resize the to fit the page. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures

[PLUG] Vim % behavior

2012-04-21 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to the matching ] } ) ( { or [. There's also a plugin that will do the same with HTML tags. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du courrier: We passed through Union City, which has so little

Re: [PLUG] Last Call! The PLUG AT speaker can't make it. Options?

2012-04-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 2012-04-17 08:01, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Michael Rasmussen wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 03:35:03PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: I will show up to hide from the IRS, even if nothing else is scheduled. My attendence is totally dependent on the state of my tax

Re: [PLUG] Sony Vaio Wireless Connectivity: One Step Closer

2012-04-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
time is important, it's not so important as to stop a network connection. Having said that, what might prevent it from being called is lack of network. No reasong to use the Network Time Protocol without a net. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http

Re: [PLUG] Last Call! The PLUG AT speaker can't make it. Options?

2012-04-16 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 03:35:03PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: I will show up to hide from the IRS, even if nothing else is scheduled. My attendence is totally dependent on the state of my tax preparation. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http

[PLUG] Ruby 1.8.7 on Arch - Segfaulting

2012-04-13 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Anyone here have clues about the (potential) issue? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du courrier: At the turn of the 20th century the principal way of distributing songs

Re: [PLUG] Controling Network Interfaces

2012-04-10 Thread Michael Rasmussen
? No? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du courrier: Being surrounded by cigarette smoke for hours makes everything you own smell like death. ~ Abram Goldman-Armstrong

Re: [PLUG] Domain Registration and Redirection Purveyors

2012-04-05 Thread Michael Rasmussen
the DNS configuration that points names to addresses. Having said that I prefer Gandi because of the EULA and over a decade of positive experience. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune

[PLUG] Laptop Choices - Journalist Dan Gillmore

2012-04-04 Thread Michael Rasmussen
mouse buttons, so i can run X windows apps and get a middle mouse button without chording. My kind of system user. Who's Paul Vixie you ask? I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to resolve that name. rimshot/ -- Michael Rasmussen http://www.jamhome.us/ Be Appropriate

Re: [PLUG] Garmin GPS Recivers Work with Wine? vmware? KVM?

2012-04-03 Thread Michael Rasmussen
freeware versions to run a virtual machine. Of course, this requires a legal license for Windows, since you are running authentic Windows. Did you ever try the Win VM with KVM? I'm about to and if there are things to be aware of I'd like to be aware. -- Michael Rasmussen http

Re: [PLUG] Garmin GPS Recivers Work with Wine? vmware? KVM?

2012-04-03 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 2012-04-03 14:25, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Did you ever try the Win VM with KVM? I'm about to and if there are things to be aware of I'd like to be aware. Don't I need a winduhs licensed OS to install when running quemu-kvm? Rich

Re: [PLUG] Understanding Networking Components

2012-04-02 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. -- Michael Rasmussen http://www.jamhome.us/ Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Understanding Networking Components

2012-04-02 Thread Michael Rasmussen
the time to work this out ... and I'll buy the coffee (or lunch). Until Easter Belgian Abbey beer would count as lunch. At least according to the fasting monks. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune

Re: [PLUG] a bit more information

2012-03-29 Thread Michael Rasmussen
that? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: Pepper has been called 'the gift of the East,' though 'gift' means poison in Swedish. don't let that put you off. ~ label of Scandinavian

[PLUG] Clinic today with PXE OS installs

2012-03-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Yes, I've more or less pulled it together to give a talk on how to set up PXE for OS installs. And my laptop is ready to serve up a limited number of them - which we'll expand as part of the demo. There is a small hub/switch and cat 5 avaiable...right? -- Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] Free distros! - PXE Booting Beyond

2012-03-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
can give an actual talk. [1] When I set up my server/laptop with a static IP and then hopped onto the Free Geek network and ran dhclient to get an IP. It also fetched an eth0 address for itself from itself. All the static addressing failed until that was resolved. -- Michael

[PLUG] Once again Linux has proven to me it is good for the career

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Rasmussen
an infrastructure of scores of servers. A big part will be analyzing traffic, malware samples, and figuring out fraudsters new techniques so we can continue to block their efforts. It's all built on a foundation of skills acquired by running a network of Linux boxes at home. -- Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] Linux Containers - the MOVIE!

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Rasmussen
love to hear about it. Record the audio separately and mix them together with a tool like kdenlive. You can also use this tool to do the format conversion for optimal results. -- Michael Rasmussen http://www.jamhome.us/ Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity

Re: [PLUG] Free temporary online repository question

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Rasmussen
, like the 2,3,4 triangle, since the area of that triangle is not rational. Heron triangles have rational area. See http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_07_28_03.html about tetrahedrons. I have a VM out there with 12G you can use temporarily. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu how-to doc... Stockholm Syndrome

2012-03-22 Thread Michael Rasmussen
and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. Does that sound like what made traditional marriages work? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu how-to doc... Stockholm Syndrome

2012-03-22 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 05:56:24PM -0700, Russell Senior wrote: Michael == Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us writes: Dude. This is called the Stockholm Syndrome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome In psychology, Stockholm Syndrome is an apparently paradoxical

Re: [PLUG] Allow User to Run Shell Script As root

2012-03-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to modify /etc/resolv.conf. -- Michael Rasmussen http://www.jamhome.us/ Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Google search of list archives restored

2012-03-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
-- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed

Re: [PLUG] Google search of list archives restored

2012-03-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 07:38:25AM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.uswrote: Don't recall seeing it announced. What does the above line refer to? Wazzit mean? A few months ago there was discussion about the Plug email list

Re: [PLUG] Once again Linux has proven to me it is only good for non critical apps

2012-03-16 Thread Michael Rasmussen
, HPUX, ... *nix with Linux boxes. Consider that reliability anecdote the next time you're able to get cash from an ATM or use your debit card -- Michael Rasmussen http://www.jamhome.us/ Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] Once again Linux has proven to me it is only good for non critical apps

2012-03-16 Thread Michael Rasmussen
, turn those off for diagnosis. Or... grub's timeout value (/boot/grub/menu.1st on my utility box at work) could be set to 1 so it flashes by with small chance of being interrupted. -- Michael Rasmussen http://www.jamhome.us/ Be Appropriate Follow Your Curiosity

Re: [PLUG] Once again Linux has proven to me it is only good for non critical apps

2012-03-16 Thread Michael Rasmussen
? Better to grok the file and make the .38 the default. On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.uswrote: On 2012-03-16 09:40, Russell Senior wrote: Kirk == Kirk Goins kirkgo...@gmail.com writes: Kirk I will see what I can do over the weekend. The Base OS

Re: [PLUG] No (Electricity for) LUG Clinic this Sunday.

2012-03-14 Thread Michael Rasmussen
for the April net install demo. Since I've volunteered and all... -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: DFL DNFDNS ~ Cecil Reniche-Smith

Re: [PLUG] Is there a non-server way to benefit from include files for web sites?

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
crawl from the wget man page:  Wget can be instructed to convert the links in downloaded HTML files to the local files for offline viewing.  As I recall it uses relative links so you'd be able to forward the tree of goods to them to install on their site with minimal effort. -- Michael

Re: [PLUG] Is there a non-server way to benefit from include files for web sites?

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Richard C. Steffens wrote: On 03/12/2012 11:25 AM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Apache has an include feature: !-- Set the title and slogan!! -- !--#set var=title value=OR Randonneurs -- !--#set var=slogan value=Cycling Further in the Northwest -- !--#set var=pageID value

Re: [PLUG] Free distros!

2012-02-29 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to control the DHCP environment. All we'll need is cat 5 cables. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: Apple pie is a weekend project to slow the baker's hear rate and restore belief

Re: [PLUG] Break in attempt?

2012-02-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Fail2ban:Community_Portal to reduce log file clutter and lower the chance of your attacker getting lucky. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune

Re: [PLUG] Break-in attempt

2012-02-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
-- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: Don't forget to thank your angel. ~ http://someoneoncetoldme.com/gallery/23052008 ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG

Re: [PLUG] namebench

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Rasmussen
? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: When it was colder than -5F I drove to work. I'm getting old and soft. ~ Curt Goodrich, Minneapolis, Minnesota

[PLUG] (...) construct

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
) Riviera has less respect for Ward than I do. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: Of course I believe in luck. How otherwise to explain the success of those you dislike

[PLUG] Quick Bash Reminder/Quiz

2012-02-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
while on #bash I jumped in to help someone: MichaelRpdx mr-green06: or perhaps mkdir -p $var Riviera !umq MichaelRpdx The !umq was a reminder to me because I'd given mr-green06 bad advice. Can you tell what I'd done wrong? at a glance? -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland

Re: [PLUG] Recommendation desired for Open Source project lurking

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Rasmussen
recommendations for what list(s) would be useful in that regard? Another option would be to view the discussion tabs for any article at Wikipedia or the (amazingly civil) Arch Linux wiki. Discussion happens. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us

[PLUG] Great interview with Ward Cunningham

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Though part of the Heroes of Java series it mostly talks about other things. http://blog.eisele.net/2012/02/heroes-of-java-ward-cunningham.html -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune

[PLUG] what does (...) do?

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Rasmussen
searching for punctuation isn't findable via search engine. So it's up to Plug and its repository of knowledge. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: It's better to be hated for what

Re: [PLUG] Laptops with three mouse buttons opinions?

2012-02-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
provided by my employer, an HP Elitebook has three buttons below the spacebar and three below the track pad. I use them equally. Linux life without three button mouse is painful in my experience. I paste with it all the time. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures

Re: [PLUG] Using wget/curl to download all files in directory

2012-02-06 Thread Michael Rasmussen
where. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: When the going gets tough remember you've either done worse before or you're setting a new personal best

Re: [PLUG] Sorting Text File By Date [SOLVED]

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
backwards. Clever ... and does the job. And if for some reason tac isn't available perl -e 'print reverse ;' FILE -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: Now to decide

[PLUG] Mini PCIe netowrk card

2012-01-24 Thread Michael Rasmussen
Might any of you have a MiniPCIe Network card, hopefully an Intell 533AN available? Mine seems to be dead or dying and I'd like to swap test before getting a replacement. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Mailing List Indexed in Google

2012-01-17 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:05:31AM -0800, Mike Connors wrote: Daniel Hedlund wrote: The PLUG mailing list is no longer being archived by Google. It appears to have stopped collecting data since mid last year. This was brought to my attention by Michael Rasmussen who mentioned off

[PLUG] Debian and Arch Comparison

2012-01-16 Thread Michael Rasmussen
. I'll be switching to one of those distributions and am doing my research. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: It's strange how speed stops mattering once time has no meaning

Re: [PLUG] Debian and Arch Comparison

2012-01-16 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:56:12AM -0800, Daniel Hedlund wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 07:00, Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us wrote: If any of you have experience running both Debian and Arch would you please provide a quick comparison of the two? It's really going to depend

Re: [PLUG] ISP Changes

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Rasmussen
sitting. Unused, unroutable, and I've never been asked to give it back. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly

Re: [PLUG] ISP Changes

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Rasmussen
are all XEN hosted. https://www.gandi.net/hosting/ -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: The SON28 meets German standards, which require full light output for an old lady pedaling

Re: [PLUG] ISP Changes

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:34:15PM -0800, Galen Seitz wrote: Comcast business: 12M/2M w 1 static IP, $83/month, estimate from web site EULA doesn't allow you to run your own web server. If that's important. Not sure about other service prohibitions. -- Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] ISP Changes

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:02:56PM -0800, Galen Seitz wrote: On 01/10/2012 07:43 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:34:15PM -0800, Galen Seitz wrote: Comcast business: 12M/2M w 1 static IP, $83/month, estimate from web site EULA doesn't allow you to run your own web

Re: [PLUG] ISP Changes - loving to be wrong

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:02:56PM -0800, Galen Seitz wrote: On 01/10/2012 07:43 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:34:15PM -0800, Galen Seitz wrote: Comcast business: 12M/2M w 1 static IP, $83/month, estimate from web site EULA doesn't allow you to run your own web

Re: [PLUG] ISP Changes

2012-01-07 Thread Michael Rasmussen
approach to getting a virtual system hosted somewhere is a way around the dilemma Rich is facing. Especially with the short notice he has. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour

Re: [PLUG] ISP Changes

2012-01-07 Thread Michael Rasmussen
to residential DSL customers in the Portland area via Seattle. That is true. I switched back to them last summer and have a static block. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du

Re: [PLUG] xkcd1k for plug general meeting January 5, maybe?

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Rasmussen
, and spread the word, and see who shows up. It does, we should. -- Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon Other Adventures: http://www.jamhome.us/ or http://westy.saunter.us/ Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour: To understand myself, I must recognize myself in other people

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