Re: [OT] Getting your developers good harwdare (Was: Apple and dual monitors)

2012-02-14 Thread David Smith
On Feb 14, 2012, at 7:30 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote: > And for non-interactive uses, I really like pssh. I use pssh so much, > in fact, that somehow I ended up becoming the maintainer of the project. Are you to blame for making the internet worse with that pink background!? http://www.theether.or

Re: [OT] Getting your developers good harwdare (Was: Apple and dual monitors)

2012-02-13 Thread David Smith
On Feb 13, 2012, at 10:42 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: > As a windowing system to give you access to remote systems, Windows, > Linux, and even OS X are more alike than they are different. People > are just a bit more willing to put up with the quirks of their favored > platform, and less willing to p

Re: Apple and dual monitors

2012-02-13 Thread David Smith
On Feb 13, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Lonnie Olson wrote: > In order to run two external displays on a laptop you don't have a lot > of options. > Either use the Matrox DualHead2Go (PC/Mac) as previously mentioned, or get a > Mac w/ 2 Thunderbolt displays. Not true. I have used docking stations with Dell

Re: AnyConnect on linux - was Re: Apple and dual monitors

2012-02-13 Thread David Smith
On Feb 12, 2012, at 9:43 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 02/12/2012 09:31 PM, Doran L. "Fozz" Barton wrote: >> I understand their rationale, though. The desktop support folks don't want to >> support lots of different platforms. We use Cisco AnyConnect VPN which is >> kind of hit and miss on Linux,

Re: Apple and dual monitors

2012-02-13 Thread David Smith
On Feb 13, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Lonnie Olson wrote: > Just get the appropriate adapter and you can use any normal DVI > display in a Thunderbolt Mac. > http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB570Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDA5OQ Can you do this with two external displays? --Dave /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on

Re: [OT] Getting your developers good harwdare (Was: Apple and dual monitors)

2012-02-13 Thread David Smith
On Feb 12, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: > > I thought that Thunderbolt *was* basically a docking station port. It > gives access to the PCIE bus, so it could clearly support a docking Indeed. Now that I read up on that, it seems that this is the case. Apple expects you to get a Thunder

Re: Hiring devops and developers

2012-02-09 Thread David Smith
On Feb 9, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: > So, regarding the dogfood factor... are candidates for these positions > interviewed through your own service? Yes they are. > Did you go through an interview that way? Yes I did. > I am willing to be convinced that it's a valuable service, > e

Hiring devops and developers

2012-02-09 Thread David Smith
My company, HireVue, has an immediate need for several devops and developer positions. Full time and interns welcome! * What we do: http://hirevue.com/ * Why it's awesome: http://new.hirevue.com/nowshowing/ * The unofficial job descriptions: * Developers: We're building a new service

Re: US Economy

2005-04-08 Thread David Smith
> 1) OSS has put significant pressure on commercial software producers > this has caused them to a) lower their prices b) produce better > software How about some examples? The Windows OS costs more now than it did in 1995. > Competition is always good - at least for consumers. Monopolies are

Re: US Economy

2005-04-07 Thread David Smith
> On Apr 7, 2005 2:40 PM, Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I do not expect this to be a very popular position to present to this >> audience, since most everyone here finds himself in Bill's shoes, to >> some degree or other. Of course, Bill could always pick up >> landscaping -- af

Re: Encryption

2005-03-23 Thread David Smith
> Working on some encryption schemes and running into a few humps. We > have a great GnuPG scheme for encrypting all of our backup files. > Really digging the public and private key scheme. But now we are > wanting to encrypt specific fields in our database. Reading MySQL docs > and they have s

Re: Problems forwarding port 3389

2005-03-22 Thread David Smith
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 3389 > Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused I hate to ask the obvious, but is anything actually listening on port 3389 on the desination machine? This woulnd't be LDAP would it? --Dave .

Re: Sponsorships available

2005-03-18 Thread David Smith
> - ldap to sql gateway >This would be an ldap server which would use an sql (or other arbitrary >backend) as its data store. This would allow contact information to be >stored in a relational database, but then be accessed by mozilla, >evolution, or any other similar frontend.

Re: C++ Template: Table Class

2005-03-17 Thread David Smith
> I would look at tuples for the variable part. > http://www.boost.org/libs/tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html Beautiful! Tuples will work very nicely. Thanks Derek. --Dave .===. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #u

C++ Template: Table Class

2005-03-16 Thread David Smith
I'm looking for a template class that'll let me setup aribtrarily wide tables. Something like this: std::table< int, int, float, int > myTable; ... iter = myTable.find( int, int, float ); Or something like that. The goal is to setup some lookup tables and reuse the same code for each one, e

Re: [OT] Re: health insurance

2005-03-15 Thread David Smith
> A non-traditional way to fund health expenses is to get a Health Savings > Account (HSA) For what it's worth, Health Savings Accounts are recommended by Dave Ramsey. --Dave .===. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC:

Re: Perl: Removing NULL characters (0x00)

2005-03-05 Thread David Smith
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:36:50 -0700, Peter Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> I suggested it because this is what pack/unpack was designed to do... >> extract data from streams. In this case a null terminated string. > > Seems to me a trivial usage of pack, and not as clear to follow up > pr

Re: Open Source C++ Charting Library for Linux/Solaris

2005-03-04 Thread David Smith
> As well as GNUplot-- there's a program called pov-ray. Never used it-- > but it appears to be pretty intense [scientific stuff]. On the simple > side with pie charts-- I'd check out the PERL modules on CPAN. I know > at work we have a lot of charts generated on internal intra-net with > some

Re: Open Source C++ Charting Library for Linux/Solaris

2005-03-04 Thread David Smith
> What about GD? Too low level. I want something with roughly the same level of interface as JPGraph (PHP). --Dave .===. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `

Open Source C++ Charting Library for Linux/Solaris

2005-03-04 Thread David Smith
I'm looking for a decent open source charting library for Linux and Solaris, BSD/LGPL-style license preferred. I need to do simple pie charts and bar graphs, but they need to be pretty. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of options out there, and what I have found is buggy and/or ugly. I found a

Re: Threads and processes

2005-03-01 Thread David Smith
> On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:02 pm, David Smith wrote: >> Here are two process questions for the kernel heads: >> >> 1. I am developing a multi-threaded app in C++ for Linux. Under RHEL >> 3.0, >> when I do 'ps -A', my app shows up just once, but unde

Threads and processes

2005-03-01 Thread David Smith
Here are two process questions for the kernel heads: 1. I am developing a multi-threaded app in C++ for Linux. Under RHEL 3.0, when I do 'ps -A', my app shows up just once, but under Debian Unstable, 'ps -A' shows 10 (the number of threads I have). Can someone explain why this is? I remember study

Perl: Removing NULL characters (0x00)

2005-02-25 Thread David Smith
I wrote a perl TCP/IP client program that talks to a server. The server sends me ASCII over the scoket, but it appends a NULL byte to every string (0x00), which I discovered with file redirection and a hex editor (it was invisible in the shell output). How can I prune this byte off of the string in

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread David Smith
> David Smith wrote: >> I have always loved Debian for this kind of setup. I usually use the >> testing distribution, to avoid the massive updates in unstable and the >> old >> package versions in stable. The install footprint is small for a minimal >> instal

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-23 Thread David Smith
> Which distribution would you say would be the best for a LAMP server. > The machine is an OLD AMD K6-2 500MHz, 128MB RAM system. I want a > lightning fast simple, trimmed down, non gui loaded Linux distribution. > Any suggestions? I have heard that Gentoo, Debian, or Slackware are > the most

Human readable: ls -h for top and ps

2005-02-23 Thread David Smith
When using ps and top, I would like to read virtual memory size and resident memory size in human readable format (like 1.0 M instead of 1032), much like 'ls -h' does for file sizes. So, rather than this: USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 0.0 0.0 1492

Job: C++, Linux, Solaris, Embedded

2005-02-22 Thread David Smith
My employer is looking for a full-time software developer to do C/C++, Linux, Solaris, and/or Embedded development. We do some pretty cool stuff with embedded and non-embedded Linux and Qt GUIs. We also do FPGA and DSP development if you're into hardware and signal processing. It's a really cool p

Re: Socket select in Perl

2005-02-17 Thread David Smith
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 at 16:58 -0700, David Smith wrote: >> Perl's built-in select() function doesn't quite look like what I want. I >> think IO::Select may be the trick, but it seems like overkill when I >> just >> have one socket (and not a set of h

Re: Socket select in Perl

2005-02-17 Thread David Smith
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 at 16:58 -0700, David Smith wrote: >> Perl's built-in select() function doesn't quite look like what I want. I >> think IO::Select may be the trick, but it seems like overkill when I >> just >> have one socket (and not a set of h

Socket select in Perl

2005-02-17 Thread David Smith
I have a socket that I created with 'new IO::Socket::INET( ... )', which works great for me. Now, I want to do a C-style select on the socket to check if there is data to read on the socket before blocking to read from it. Is this possible? Here's what I'm working for in non-compiling Perl code:

Re: OT: Windows Mailing List?

2005-02-16 Thread David Smith
> Hans Fugal wrote: >> Windows questions from *nix users to "normal" windows admins tend to be >> an excercise in miscommunication. What we need is a list for windows >> admins who wish they weren't. I'd be on it, and I suspect there's a good >> number of people on this list who would too. Maybe

Re: RPM compatibility

2005-02-14 Thread David Smith
> How compatible are RPMs? Will an RPM listed for Suse 9.1 work with Suse > 9.2? Or how about for 7.2? > > Will an RPM made for Mandrake work for Suse? Will an RPM work on any > system that has the same kernel version? It mostly depends on the program inside the RPM. The RPM format is well def

Re: For the record...

2005-02-14 Thread David Smith
> In any case, my point was that we are now at least to the point windows > was 5 years ago. 5 years ago many people would have laughed at the very > idea. Now there's a comment I can agree with, and no, Gabe, my previous comment was not tongue-in-cheek. :P In fact, I'm writing this email in Ubu

Re: Samba share like windows

2005-02-13 Thread David Smith
> Doran Barton wrote: >> Not long ago, Kenneth Burgener proclaimed... >> >>>[global] >>>server string = >>>security = SHARE >>>guest account = samba >> >> >> Use security = user. >> >> -=Fozz > > Although setting "security=user" does make it so I can specify a user, > it al

Re: seeking laptop cd drive

2005-02-11 Thread David Smith
Hans Fugal wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 at 15:02 -0700, David Smith wrote: >> Hans Fugal wrote: >>> seeking laptop cd drive >> No pun intended, right? > Alas, no. Usually my puns are, though. I think in this case it didn't > cross my mind, because seeking is

Re: seeking laptop cd drive

2005-02-10 Thread David Smith
Hans Fugal wrote: > seeking laptop cd drive No pun intended, right? --Dave .===. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==='

Re: Closet cleanout sale

2005-02-07 Thread David Smith
> If you care to know, the cable you have for Cisco 678 is serial to remote > management port, not serial to Ethernet. It is used to console into the > router. I know. Technically, it's serial to RF-45, but only 4 of the wires on the RJ-45 are present. This may be useful for other purposes as wel

Re: Anyone using Skype?

2005-02-04 Thread David Smith
> I use Broadvoice and because I use Asterisk, I don't need to pay them > for a hook-up device. The plan is called BYOD (bring your own device). > $10 a month for unlimited in and out going calls to anywhere in Utah. > It's 2 cents to the other 49 states. Do you have a pointer to a HOWTO for thi