Hacking old Vivint Internet gear?

2021-05-01 Thread Barry Roberts
A year after Vivint decided to stop being an ISP, I finally got up on my roof and brought their gear down to look at it. In my dreams, I was hoping for some OTS Ubiquiti or Microtik kit. But nope. I've found the manual online (https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1228787/Vivint-Sr1410.html it runs Lin

Re: BitTorrent Daemon for Linux?

2020-11-01 Thread Barry Roberts
scripts to add, list, and remove torrents. Apparently I don't have those any more, though. On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 5:48 PM Dan Egli wrote: > On Sunday, November 01, 2020 10:18 PM UTC, Barry Roberts > wrote: > > > I've used transmission-daemon and transmission-cli on a he

Re: BitTorrent Daemon for Linux?

2020-11-01 Thread Barry Roberts
I've used transmission-daemon and transmission-cli on a headless server before. It works. Barry On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 3:11 PM Dan Egli wrote: > Hey all, quick question. I'm looking for a program that will let me > download torrents, and has a background process to seed those files to > others

Re: Linux font rendering (like it's 1999)

2020-01-24 Thread Barry Roberts
n the AMD card, HDMI, and this monitor, but switching to DP fixed it. Thanks, Barry On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 3:43 PM Barry Roberts wrote: > > I just got a new Intel NUC at work, and installed Fedora 31 on it. > Same monitors as before (HP 30", and HP 24") but some fonts look >

Re: Linux font rendering (like it's 1999)

2020-01-12 Thread Barry Roberts
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 8:57 AM Michael Torrie wrote: > > > From a cursory search, if your two monitors have a different subpixel > order, there's no way for X11 to change rendering between monitors, > since the desktop (and thus the windows themselves) span the two > screens. I think even Window

Re: Linux font rendering (like it's 1999)

2020-01-11 Thread Barry Roberts
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 8:09 PM Michael Torrie wrote: > > Hmm, hard to tell in that picture. All I can think is that maybe the > two monitors have different subpixel color order. Is one RGB and the > other BGR? I'm not completely sure how Wayland would deal with that. If > you turn off subpixel

Linux font rendering (like it's 1999)

2020-01-09 Thread Barry Roberts
I just got a new Intel NUC at work, and installed Fedora 31 on it. Same monitors as before (HP 30", and HP 24") but some fonts look TERRIBLE on the 24" monitor. If I do a screen shot with GIMP, they look the same. I dunno if that's because a screen capture triggers a different render. But it's ba

Re: CA Cert issue has me stumped

2019-11-15 Thread Barry Roberts
ldd shows curl linking to /lib64/libssl.so.1.1 (openssl), but wget uses gnutls. I suspect if I can get openssl working, I'm good to go. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: CA Cert issue has me stumped

2019-11-15 Thread Barry Roberts
I'm pretty sure Fedora 30 is Linux. I just 'dnf upgrade'd yesterday. openssl s_client, git, and curl all report verification errors. wget works (and I did verify that wget breaks if I remove the pem file from /etc/pki/... and 'update-ca-trust'). /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.n

Re: CA Cert issue has me stumped

2019-11-15 Thread Barry Roberts
Hmm. Well, it appears to be something weird with curl. Adding the chain.pem to /etc/pki makes wget work. But not curl. Scratching my head over that one. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: CA Cert issue has me stumped

2019-11-15 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:32 AM James Simister wrote: > > If you use the --cacert option, I think you need to make sure the pem file > is a bundle of certificates, including the entire chain back to the root > cert. There is also a --capath option where you can specify a directory of > certificat

Re: CA Cert issue has me stumped

2019-11-15 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 11:30 AM Joshua Marsh wrote: > > There is a new(ish) command line tool called trust that can be used to do > this for you. It's possible that the directories or such changed after the > update. The program trust is meant to do it the right way for the right > distro you are

CA Cert issue has me stumped

2019-11-15 Thread Barry Roberts
My employer, in their infinite wisdom, has implement an TLS inspection proxy (MITM attack), and I'm trying to figure out how to get everything working again on Fedora 30. I have a .pem file that I downloaded with firefox. If I use keytool to import that into the java cacerts keystore, that fixes

Re: Looking for the ultimate dashboard solution

2019-08-13 Thread Barry Roberts
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 3:27 PM Jonathan Duncan wrote: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/cpzgdv/one_dashboard_to_rule_them_all/ That's a pretty, ah, minimalist reddit post. [deleted] No comments yet. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/ma

Re: Mouse Jumping Problem

2019-07-09 Thread Barry Roberts
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 12:03 PM Brian J. Rogers wrote: > > Just a shot in the dark, but is it because the trackpad is picking up input? > Ding, ding, ding. I think we have a winner, but for weirder reasons than you might think. This laptop is my desktop. I haven't unfolded it for weeks. So, it

Re: Mouse Jumping Problem

2019-07-09 Thread Barry Roberts
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 12:26 PM Jonathan Duncan wrote: > > It was worth a shot. That has happened to me before. :) And that's the best kind of advice. > It looks like someone posted a similar question very recently over on > StackExchange: > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/527142/mou

Re: Mouse Jumping Problem

2019-07-09 Thread Barry Roberts
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 12:03 PM Brian J. Rogers wrote: > > Just a shot in the dark, but is it because the trackpad is picking up input? > The laptop is closed (external mouse, keyboard, monitors), so I doubt it. But, just to make sure, I just did an "xinput disable 16." Now to use it for a whil

Re: Mouse Jumping Problem

2019-07-09 Thread Barry Roberts
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 10:53 AM Jonathan Duncan wrote: > You appear to be using corded mice. Is the cord perhaps hanging off the > desk and being swatted by a cat, or a foot? :D > I wish it was that easy. Yes, I'm using a usb-corded mouse, but I know for sure the rodent itself is not moving at

Mouse Jumping Problem

2019-07-09 Thread Barry Roberts
I've been having an issue lately that is inconsistent, but is worse now, and it's driving me crazy. I'm running Fedora 30 on a Dell xps 15 9570 with the thunderbolt "dock," so a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile there, and an Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Mobile) built-in. I think this only happens when I'm u

Re: Wifi-friendly automounts?

2019-05-24 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 5:25 PM Charles Curley wrote: > I don't know what the thunderbolt cable is or how it fits into this. That's the "dock" connector for this laptop. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/accessories/apd/452-bcnp The nvidia video card, and the wired ethernet are in the dock. > Ther

Re: Wifi-friendly automounts?

2019-05-24 Thread Barry Roberts
> All of this is in a script, 50ifupdown, which lives > in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d. I use it with Network Manager, but > you can probably adapt it to other connection managers. I've found a few samples of those on stackoverflow. I think that's the direction I'll head. In thinking more a

Wifi-friendly automounts?

2019-05-24 Thread Barry Roberts
I don't un-dock my laptop at work much, it's practically just a desktop. But when I do, it would be nice if the cifs-mounted shares I normally use would handle the switch between wired and wifi better. Some wifi networks at work allow me to access to some of the cifs servers, some don't. And none

Re: How to update Aspell dictionary in Ubuntu 18.04

2019-05-01 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 8:42 AM Swarup wrote: > >I have installed Ubuntu 18.04; although Aspell is installed and I have >installed the Hindi dictionary, but I need to install my personal word >list into the dictionary. I have my custom file hi.cwl, but I am not >certain where to ins

Re: Linux and accessibility

2018-10-05 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 5:19 PM Riley Loader wrote: > Though I'd be interested in seeing if Barry can "get simon, sphinx, or > deepspeech working." Some dictation system in Linux would be cool. > Mycroft was easy to get working, and not hard to add the dictate skill. But I haven't gotten it to wo

Linux and accessibility

2018-10-04 Thread Barry Roberts
So, I broke my collar bone yesterday.I can type some, but I can tell I'll need to limit my typing for at least a week or so. I'm going to see if I can get simon, sphinx, or deepspeech working. I'm on Fedora 28. I don't think a one-handed keyboard is worth it for the time I need it, but the least

Re: Home Wi-Fi recommendations

2018-03-31 Thread Barry Roberts
The spelling nazi in me feels compelled to point out that it's Ubiquiti (not Ubiquity) Networks https://www.ubnt.com/ even though my first gear from them just arrived this week, so I'm not qualified to comment on them yet. Barry /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: htt

Re: This doesn't smell right to me

2018-03-11 Thread Barry Roberts
Well, there it is. I guess I extrapolated incorrectly from the digital clock radios I opened up as a kid. Thanks Levi Barry On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 11:00 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > >> Yeah the folks who chose the picture to go with the a

This doesn't smell right to me

2018-03-08 Thread Barry Roberts
It's not Linux-related, but I'm curious what other nerds think. I was listening to KUER on the way home from work tonight, and they were talking about this: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17095440/europe-clocks-running-slow-electricity-frequency-kosovo-serbia I don't know if I've ever owned a

Re: x server and DE running from a chroot or container

2018-01-16 Thread Barry Roberts
I've run GUI programs (firefox, libreoffice) in containers, but never a DE. But judging from the number of desktops with 100k+ pulls on hub.docker.com, I'm guessing people do it. And I would think running a DE in a container and using VNC or rdp in Centos to get to it would be quicker and less re

Re: Open vim with splits and vsplits

2017-07-06 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Jeff Jibson wrote: > I want to open multiple files in windows in a specific layout. > This is really ugly and takes some thought to get it right. Is there a > more clean way to do this? > > If it matters, I'm using vim 8.0.0386-r1 in Gentoo. Well, there's your pr

Re: Do I need a new hard drive again?

2017-06-28 Thread Barry Roberts
And here I am again. At least (knocks on wood) the SSD appears to be good for now. Can anybody recommend a reliable, quiet 3-5 TB hard drive? Thanks, Barry On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Barry Roberts wrote: > I ran fsck, but it wouldn't finish due to read errors. I'm guessin

Re: Do I need a new hard drive again?

2017-06-25 Thread Barry Roberts
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 7:13 PM, Victor Villa wrote: > quick question, can you tell us what happened recently to the computer? > Power outage or did somebody unplug while the computer was on? None of that, as far as I know. My soon booted into Windows to play games for the first time in months,

Re: Do I need a new hard drive again?

2017-06-25 Thread Barry Roberts
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Robert Merrill wrote: > Would Spinrite work on this? Probably worth a shot if the data is > valuable? #notAnExpert > The drive is still accessible after I manually mount it, plus it's all backed up to crashplan, so I think I'm ok as far as the data goes. Barry /

Do I need a new hard drive again?

2017-06-25 Thread Barry Roberts
The last time I rebooted the computer in the kitchen, it dumped me into emergency mode (I think that's what Fedora calls it). The text mode prompt where I can enter the root password for maintenance or Ctrl+d to try to continue booting. If I enter the root password and 'mount /home ; exit' it boo

Re: [OT] What!? THE HULK backed Daplie!

2016-12-26 Thread Barry Roberts
The filecloud and tonido servers are available for on-premise use. But tonido doesn't sell hardware (IIRC), and at least some of daplie's software is open source. I think tonido is all proprietary. Barr On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Riley Loader wrote: > Tonido it seems is a cloud solution

Re: Open source KB solution

2016-12-15 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Riley Loader wrote: > Another you might look into is dokuwiki > > https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki# > > Flat php (no database) wiki platform. I use it, it does a good job. I use dokuwiki, also. There's even a usable (but not perfect) Docker image that makes try

Re: [OT] What!? THE HULK backed Daplie!

2016-12-09 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 10:21 AM, AJ ONeal (Home) wrote: > https://twitter.com/MarkRuffalo/status/806537635594469377 > That's not the Hulk, that's Bruce Banner. I better buy something from daplie. I wouldn't want to make him mad. I hear that's a bad idea. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.

Re: Search the archive?

2016-10-13 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Lonnie Olson wrote: > > https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http:%2F%2Fplug.org%2Fpipermail%2Fplug%2F > Ah, google does that. Thanks, I should have known. The other two links I had already found. That's why I was hoping I mentioned my PS3 on the PLUG list befo

Search the archive?

2016-10-13 Thread Barry Roberts
Is there any way to search the entire plug list archive? I actually used Yellow Dog linux on my original PS3, and was kinda ticked when Sony removed that option. Now I want my $55. Barry /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't

Re: Linux PHP -> MSSQL

2016-08-04 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Matthew Frederico wrote: > Anyone have any clues on how to get PHP -> MSSQL to work? > > Mostly curious if someone has been successful with the microsoft libs? > I got generic ODBC (unixODBC, maybe?) working years ago. Luckily that project died and I've never had

Re: evince and okular won't display any pdfs

2016-07-28 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Barry Roberts wrote: > > Anybody seen anything similar, or have any ideas on getting evince working > again? > Nevermind. Rust had added a file into /etc/ld.so.conf.d that put /usr/local/lib with Rust's (or something's) poppler ahead

evince and okular won't display any pdfs

2016-07-28 Thread Barry Roberts
So, my desktop at work started out a while back as Fedora 20 or 21. It's been upgraded along the way to Fedora 24. I don't recall exactly when this happened (might have been the upgrade to 23), but evince and okular won't display any pdfs. mupdf and xpdf work just fine. The error message I get

Re: Flatpak for RHEL/CentOS 7

2016-07-22 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:31 AM, John Nielsen wrote: > > yum -y install rpm-build > rpm -Uvh > http://mirrors.xmission.com/fedora/linux/updates/24/SRPMS/f/flatpak-0.6.7-1.fc24.src.rpm > cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS > rpmbuild -bb flatpak.spec > [if you are missing dependencies, install them and try again

Re: New laptops with hybrid graphics

2016-04-28 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:14 AM, John Shaver wrote: > Thanks for the advice! > > One last question. I have never tried AMD/ATI graphics in linux. > Does anyone know if the FirePRo discrete card would be easier to get > working than the Quadro in a laptop? > > My options are: > AMD FirePro™ W5170

Re: Selenium IDE Follies

2016-02-25 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > > Finally, is there a way to launch Firefox to run that test case? Or do > I need to re-do this using the "real" selenium? > I've never had much luck with Selenium IDE except as an introduction to the API. In theory, you should be able to

Re: perl mech & Javascript

2016-02-25 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > I have been using Perl's www:mechanize to scrape a series of web pages. > > Unfortunately the web page now includes some Javascript, which > mechanize does not handle. Suggestions? > > All of my code is in shell script and perl, so I'd like

Re: DVR Questions

2016-02-22 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:03 PM, DAN EGLI <11778...@imail.klolk.com> wrote: > I had thought to use MythTV, since that's what everyone seems to have used in > the past. But recent articles in various computer magazines have made no > mention of MythTV, while they have mentioned Kodi (formerly XB

Re: One user database for multiple systems - how?

2015-05-04 Thread Barry Roberts
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > > I know it can be done, but I must admit that this is the first time I've > ever encountered a situation where it would be advantageous to have one > user database on multiple Linux systems. Because of this, I have absolutely > no idea how to go a

Re: Server OS

2015-03-04 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Doug Hales wrote: > I recently was told by a hardware vendor that Debian is typically used for > clients, and CentOS is commonly used for servers. I haven't heard this > before, but I suppose there's some truth to it if you take into account all > Debian based distr

Re: House Design SFW?

2015-02-23 Thread Barry Roberts
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Dan Egli wrote: > > With all the various open source software out there, not to mention > commercial options, I was wondering if anyone had come across a good > software for laying out a floor plan for a house? I haven't used it for years, but one of my kids did

Re: Windows to Linux icon converter

2015-01-03 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Dan Egli wrote: > Unfortunately, writing anything in java beyond a "Hello World" program is > well above my pay grade. Not that I would mind having the experience, but I > don't have the knowledge, or the background experience, to write anything > in java. :( Do y

Chrome audio output device

2014-12-13 Thread Barry Roberts
On my HTPC, I can get vlc and mplayer to play audio over HDMI. For mplayer I have: ao=alsa:device=hw=0.3 in my .mplayer/config and that fixes it. But I want to use vidangel.com, so I'm trying to get google-chrome-stable playing to HDMI instead the internal speaker. I've tried several combinatio

Re: Ethernet Shield" for Raspberry Pi?

2014-12-06 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Levi Pearson wrote: > > You might want to look at some of the new "Internet of Things" chips > that companies like TI and Broadcom are promoting. They both make > fairly cheap development boards that have microcontrollers and onboard > wireless (WiFi, BT, or both)

Re: Ethernet Shield" for Raspberry Pi?

2014-12-05 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > > Many home-brew/DIY projects lack the polished look of the commercial > models. But they are fun to get assembled, and work better than a > commercial model too. Dream on (in this particular case). You ignored the part where I said it wouldn't

Re: Ethernet Shield" for Raspberry Pi?

2014-12-03 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > > As to what I was doing, I hadn't decided for sure. I had a few ideas, but > they all needed more than one NIC available. One idea was a homebrew > router. Of course there are others too, but let's focus on the router idea > for now. One thing at

Re: Ethernet Shield" for Raspberry Pi?

2014-12-01 Thread Barry Roberts
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Levi Pearson wrote: > Or, use something like the Beaglebone Black instead of a RPi in the > first place. By the time you get your RPi, your board to connect the > Arduino, and the Arduino itself, you've blown through the price > difference between the boards.ilman

Re: Ethernet Shield" for Raspberry Pi?

2014-12-01 Thread Barry Roberts
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > > I was thinking of various uses one could put a Raspberry Pi to, and a > question occurred to me. I know the Model B (and B+) have an Ethernet port > built in. Has anyone ever seen a shield, or other method (besides USB) of > including an addition

Re: Watch a cross-platform game be written, live, from scratch, in ye old ways!

2014-11-18 Thread Barry Roberts
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Levi Pearson wrote: > The idea of a "shared stack frame" is more or less the > definition of a closure in low-level terms. And the concept of a set > of persistent data combined with a set of functions that know how to > manipulate that data is also pretty much the

Anybody need a DSL modem?

2014-10-19 Thread Barry Roberts
I have a Zyxel Q1000Z up for grabs. It was functioning normally 2 months ago when I switched back to Comcast. Minimum bid: Come to Orem to pick it up, and a postcard when you're rich and famous. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plu

Re: Best way to source a USB wifi adapter for master mode?

2014-10-08 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Victor Villa wrote: > I think this is what you're looking for > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YD7UBQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 > It's compatible with 128-bit Windows 7. Does anything else really matter? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on

Re: X on terminal other than 6?

2014-09-22 Thread Barry Roberts
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > Here's a quick question for anyone. It's probably simple to answer, but for > the life of me I can't seem to find it and I can't figure it out on my own. > Your distro/desktop doesn't have "Switch User"? If it's that old, 'startx -- :1' should w

Re: git credential helper

2014-09-17 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:39 PM, John Shaver wrote: > No I am not. Does this feature only work for http repositories? I'm > accessing this repo via ssh. As I understand it, yes, the git credential cache is for http[s] only. I know on windows git just spawns an ssh client and leaves all authenti

Re: git credential helper

2014-09-17 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 4:37 PM, John Shaver wrote: > I may be doing something > wrong, as I've never used the git credential helper before, but from > reading the man pages, it seems like it *should be* a simple setting. > I've setup git's credential helper to use my ActiveDirectory credentials

Re: Email Hosting Alternatives

2014-07-25 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Lonnie Olson wrote: > 3. Low - convenience trumps data control. > Get a third party mail provider. Another option for the "convenience paranoia" level is zoho.com. I have one of my domains set up (free) at namecheap.com and using zoho's free (no-ad) mail service.

Input method not changing on Fedora 20

2014-05-26 Thread Barry Roberts
I've set everything up just like I did on my work computer (I think), but on my home computer, I now have the input method selector on my gnome shell top bar, but it won't change. I have English (US) and Japanese in the list, but if I select Japanese from the menu or Meta+Space (and see the select

Re: OS version of Exchange & Outlook

2014-05-21 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > Ok, that's two mentions of outlook style clients. Great. Now, unless I'm > misunderstanding things, evolution-mapi is a client, so I still need to > find an OS replacement for exchange itself. I don't care if it's merely a > separate package to my

Re: Optimum search with geospatial coordinates

2014-03-19 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:57 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Agreed, an rtree was not what I was balking about and loading into an rtree > is an expensive one time process but it can be serialized to the device > storage for quick loading. > > I was balking at using a full on database solution :D > Al

Re: smoke detectors that don't suck

2014-03-13 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:41 PM, John D Jones III wrote: > On 03/13/14 19:10, Dallin Jones wrote: >> >> The only problem with the nest co and smoke detector is I have 8 in my >> house and at 200-250 each it gets really expensive really fast. I've always heard you don't want to have all ionization

Re: printers that don't suck

2014-03-07 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Ed Felt wrote: > I bought a used business class HP. It just keeps working forever. HP Linux > diver support rules. > I have had an HP Color LaserJet 2840 for a number of years. I have a couple of warnings: 1. Toner is still not cheap, and most HP cartridges now

Re: PHP Programming (was JOB: LAMP Artisan)

2014-03-06 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Levi Pearson wrote: > > So, I don't even care that much about PHP. My pet language to hate is > C. It was a pretty reasonable language for its day and in the context > in which it was developed, just like PHP in its early days. All that C-hating, and not even a

Re: Anyone here still read slashdot?

2014-02-06 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > > I think I can quantify why I don't like it. The problem is, and this is > something slashdot's owners don't understand, is that the actual content > on slashdot isn't the stories, it's not the pretty pictures; it's the > moderated comments

Re: Anyone here still read slashdot?

2014-02-06 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > Or am I the only one who still habitually wastes time with the > occasional slashdot addiction? If I had resgistered my username when I > first started reading slashdot my id would probably be 5 digits or less. My user number is 8620, and I

Re: Convert output of last to icalendar format

2014-01-31 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Alan Young wrote: > I can use the output I get from my howlong program--actually, I'd > massage the data a little differently--but I wanted to make sure I > wasn't reinventing the wheel. > > What I need, whether it exists somewhere or I need to write it, is a > rep

Re: Ruby on Rails WAS Re: Job Market Awareness Check

2014-01-30 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > That doesn't really answer Richard's question though. Are there > technical reasons to avoid RoR? Did it prove to be insecure, > inflexible, unmaintainable? > I looked at RoR a long time ago when it was all the hotness. So my opinion may

Re: Provo Fiber is in the news.

2014-01-26 Thread Barry Roberts
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Richard Esplin wrote: > > Since when did Republicans decide that giving infrastructure to a private > monopoly is unregulated capitalism? I don't know about Lindon, but in Orem, there has been some seriously poor management of UTOPIA. Millions of wasted dollars

Re: C++ fu needed

2014-01-22 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Barry Roberts wrote: > I wish I could help with the C++, but it's been too long. I don't > remember the precedence rules -- does pstart->nVersion&0xff mean > (pstart->nVersion)&0xff (the lower 8 bits only of the value), or >

Re: C++ fu needed

2014-01-22 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Eric Wald wrote: > > For example: > > git log --oneline -S'nVersion&0xff' origin fork1 fork2 -- > > will show all commits that add or remove that string, in all three > branches. > As much as I love the command line, this type of search is usually more produc

Cheap batteries

2014-01-01 Thread Barry Roberts
I have 2x Rhino SLA10-6 6V 12AH rechargeable UPS batteries for sale cheap if anybody wants them. I don't need them, but they have never been used (it's a long story). The were $18 new. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fea

Re: Fedora 18 wifi weirdness

2013-12-31 Thread Barry Roberts
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Corey Edwards wrote: > > I hate to say it, but it sounds like failing hardware. Either that or the > driver > has issues. I would suggest swapping it out if you can. > Which hardware? This is a a brand new wifi card that does almost exactly the same thing as the

Re: Fedora 18 wifi weirdness

2013-12-31 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Corey Edwards wrote: > > What does "iwconfig" show before, during and after? > It happened again this morning for several minutes and I watched iwconfig. Here it is after: wlp4s0IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"INFECTED_MALWARE" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462

Re: Fedora 18 wifi weirdness

2013-12-29 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Troy Wolfe wrote: > Router? The upstairs machines, tablets, phones, etc. are all using the same wireless router (Asus RT-N16, Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/12/10) mega) and they don't have the same issue. I have tested them while this particular machine is having

Re: Fedora 18 wifi weirdness

2013-12-29 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Corey Edwards wrote: > > What does "iwconfig" show before, during and after? > > Corey > Well, I'm on Fedora 19 now, and the problem is less frequent, and much shorter duration. The only change I see in iwconfig is the "Invalid misc:" count goes up during the out

Fedora 18 wifi weirdness

2013-12-27 Thread Barry Roberts
I have a Fedora 18 machine in the kitchen that has an internal pci 802.11 b/g/n card. For nearly a year, it's been working pretty good. Now for the past couple of weeks, the network just stops working for a few minutes at a time. If I ping during that time, I get no responses. If I keep a ping

Re: What do you use to manager passwords?

2013-12-24 Thread Barry Roberts
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Nicholas Stewart wrote: > > What password manager do you use? (I currently use 1Password on Mac.) > > KeePass(X|Droid) here. With dropbox I have my passwords whenever I need them. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/

Re: When did Javascript become a serious language?

2013-12-09 Thread Barry Roberts
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Mike Moore wrote: > Anyone remember this? > > http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html > > I don't know if I read that back in 2007, but it's pretty good. I'm especially inclined to agree with his assessment of D. It is too bad that D hasn't

Re: streaming game

2013-10-29 Thread Barry Roberts
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Russel Caldwell wrote: > Hi, > I am a teacher at AFHS, and I was trying to stream an educational game > called NFL Financial Football on Firefox 24.0 inside of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. > The results are spotty at best; basically, it doesn't work. I then tried to > stream

Re: Wireless LAN bridge

2013-10-27 Thread Barry Roberts
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > Pluggers, > > I live close enough to my parents that we have had a 180 foot cable between > our houses, run through our backyards and over a mutual neighbour's fence. I've been looking at the microtik routerBoards. They look interesting, but

Re: New VOIP pbx setup

2013-10-04 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > > On 10/4/2013 12:36 PM, Barry Roberts wrote: >> >> I'm going to start playing with asterisk and Google Voice just to get back >> into it (I haven't used asterisk for 5+ years), but I'm just wondering >

New VOIP pbx setup

2013-10-04 Thread Barry Roberts
I've long wanted some pbx functionality at home. Just calling extensions and transferring a call to an extension mostly. Now with the price of Grandstream phones and raspberry pi, I think it's about time. Plus our old Uniden 2-line cordless phone system is dying. I'm thinking of getting a Grands

Re: Limited account/kiosk mode in Fedora 18

2013-08-30 Thread Barry Roberts
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Barry Roberts wrote: > My kids' accounts on their computer are time limited using timekpr. It's > pretty much their youtube and minecraft time, so I don't see that changing > much. But what I would like to do is set up an account (or acco

Limited account/kiosk mode in Fedora 18

2013-08-22 Thread Barry Roberts
My kids' accounts on their computer are time limited using timekpr. It's pretty much their youtube and minecraft time, so I don't see that changing much. But what I would like to do is set up an account (or accounts) that have longer or no time limits (that part I've got covered) but that only ar

Re: Anyone want to order a Cubieboard?

2013-08-21 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:32 AM, John Shaver wrote: > I'm going to use the cubieboard to replace my x86 monster of a webserver in > my home(it used to be my gaming machine, back when I had time to play > games!) <10watts of power consumption is much better than 200. > > The SATA really opens up

Re: Anyone want to order a Cubieboard?

2013-08-21 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:29 AM, John Shaver wrote: > I'm ordering a Cubieboard 2 today: > > http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_ > Those look cool. I've got a spare pi sitting around

Re: Hosed yum on Fedora 18 x86_64

2013-08-13 Thread Barry Roberts
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Alan Evans wrote: > # rpm -qa rpm\* | sort > # rpm -qa yum\* | sort > > Look for duplicates. In particular: > rpm > rpm-libs > yum None of those were dupes, but I had 400+, so I did: # package-cleanup --dupes > out then removed one line from out and ran: for rpm

Hosed yum on Fedora 18 x86_64

2013-08-12 Thread Barry Roberts
A few weeks ago we had a brief power outage here in Orem, and the one computer in my house that's not on a UPS was in the middle of a big 'yum upgrade' Now lots of things are broken, and I can't get it fixed, and I don't really want to re-format and re-install (so Windowsy, ew), but that's about w

Re: NSA protest?

2013-07-05 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Doug Hales wrote: > Here's the KSL one: > > http://www.ksl.com/?sid=25870366&nid=148&title=protestors-rally-near-nsa-data-center-for-4th-amendment-rights&fm=home_page&s_cid=queue-14 > > Thanks! I still think the Fox story is better, but KSL has a photo with my son

Re: NSA protest?

2013-07-05 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Barry Roberts wrote: > http://fox13now.com/2013/07/04/protest-calls-for-curse-on-utahs-nsa-facility/ > > I forgot about the "curse" (/me rolls eyes and sighs). This one says 150 at the protest but only 65 marchers: http://www.datacenterknowledg

Re: NSA protest?

2013-07-05 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Barry Roberts wrote: > What did you see in the news? I saw Richard Piatt and a ksl camera, > but I can't find a story on ksl.com. NM. Googled it myself: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56543985-78/data-utah-center-nsa.html.csp http://www.theepocht

Re: NSA protest?

2013-07-05 Thread Barry Roberts
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:55 AM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Wow I wish I could have been there. I heard about it on the news. I was > walking down the stairs last night and tripped or slipped on something and > ended up with some damage to my leg. Not broken, but I won't be walking or > standing f

Re: NSA protest?

2013-07-03 Thread Barry Roberts
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Daniel C. wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Merrill Oveson wrote: >> But what about James Clapper? Shouldn't he be put on trial for perjury? >> When someone lies to congress, that someone has lied to the American >> people. Why isn't the Justice Departme

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