Re: PXE booting Linux

The pre-baked way to do this is the Linux Terminal Server Project: https://ltsp.org/ Of course, it's also possible to network-boot Windows via PXE and iSCSI, although I personally have no experience with this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/iscsi/iscsi-boot-overview Good

Re: x64? x86_64? amd64? Will the real 64-bit cpu arch please stand up?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 5:55 PM AJ ONeal (Home) wrote: > > Is there a solid, canonical, correct name for x64 architecture? Nope. > Or operating system name? (i.e. windows vs win32 vs NT-5.1) Nope. > Or is there literally no standard way to represent these things? Of course there isn't. Who

Re: Windows' Linux

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 3:14 PM Dan Egli wrote: > > Has anyone had any experience with the Windows Services for Linux? How does > it compare to a full fledged distro? I'm really curious, but not in a > position (yet) to experiment for myself. I haven't really experimented with it myself, but

Re: This doesn't smell right to me

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > Yeah the folks who chose the picture to go with the article got it > wrong! A digital clock on a microwave or stove would be timed from > quartz crystal and wouldn't care about A/C line frequency. After a bit more

Re: This doesn't smell right to me

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:16 PM, Barry Roberts wrote: > 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: >

Re: Do I really need Plex Premium?

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: > I have tried it because a family member is using it. It is a great idea. I > currently already rip all my movies to a local drive and view them through > iTunes. But that limits me to Apple viewing. I have been

Re: Anyone using Backblaze B2 cloud storage for backup?

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Riley Loader wrote: > > > Anyway, to avoid going off-topic, I've never used or heard of Backblaze B2, > but I do use Duplicity (with the Duply wrapper/frontend) and it seems to > work great. I can't vouch for the massive amount of storage

Re: Anyone using Backblaze B2 cloud storage for backup?

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > Now that Crashplan is eliminating their home user plan, and also the > free peer-to-peer system, I'm in the market for some new cloud backup. > Most solutions are about double the cost of what CrashPlan home was. >

Re: Entry level events?

Not that I’d recommend doing web stuff in C these days, but it’s still done on occasion. I used libmicrohttpd to add a web interface to an embedded system I was prototyping not too long ago. I did embed Lua as well so I didn’t have to do it all in C, but I have done similar things entirely in

Re: Entry level events?

Tod and I have had this discussion before, but I think there’s still a place for makefiles in the world today. It’s a Linux Users Group after all; C and Make are part of the foundation of this thing. If you’re developing outside of a C on Unix environment, though, or even if you’re starting

Re: Industrial embedded Linux systems

> On Jul 18, 2016, at 1:02 PM, Matt plug.org wrote: > > Long story short, I want something that's more flexible and powerful to use > as a platform for this project. I'm familiar with PLCs and hobbyist level > microcontrollers/embedded systems (Arduino, Raspberry Pi,

Re: [OT] printer not found on wired network

> On Jul 16, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Wade Shearer wrote: > > My house is wired with CAT 5. I have a certain room where a printer can’t be > seen. If I move the printer to any other room, it can be seen. Computers > plugged into the same jack can be seen and operate on the

Re: Gumstix (Like RPi) boards + Accessories - Free to a good home

> On Jun 30, 2016, at 4:35 PM, AJ ONeal (Home) wrote: > (and much cheaper dev boards for > non-industrial use like Beagle and RPi have long since dominated the > general consumer market) Based on the web page you linked, the Beagle series of boards uses the same MCU

Re: Tiling window manager

> On Mar 3, 2016, at 5:09 PM, Frostyfrog wrote: > > I first tried out xmonad, then I switched to subtle, and now I'm using dwm. > > xmonad was a bit bulky from my experience. All > configuration was done in haskell and you need to have ghc in order

Re: Looking for cheap (surplus?) server hardware

I've got some network equipment in a desk rack something like this at my desk at work: http://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=10669 Will fit great in just about any trunk once you take the equipment out of it. :) On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:05 PM, John Shaver wrote: > As

Re: username locations

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 1:12 AM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com wrote: That's ESPECIALLY complex for those of us who have never LOOKED at Kerberos. And how would you use something like that for a root FS on NFS? I'm all for security, even in a home network. But I don't know that anything else

Re: username locations

At the moment, I'm actually suspending the Samba setup because it occurred to me that no one is using Samba anymore. So we'll see. The MySQL also has other applications that I use it for, so it's handy that way, too. Thanks for the tips, though. Why did it occur to you that no one is using

Re: Recommendations: USB to Wireless 802.11 b/g/n

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: Any recommendations for a USB to Wireless 802.11 b/g/n adapter? This is to work with Debian 7.8 (wheezy) and 8.x (Jessie). I tried a NETGEAR G54N150 WiFi USB Micro Adapter WNA1000M, and could not get it to

Re: OT: Overlapping WiFi access points with the same SSID?

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: I recently set up another access point in my yard to give better wireless coverage to my shop. Currently it's on a different channel and different SSID than my current one. This works alright and my phone or laptop will

Re: Good Linux Voice interview with Lennart Poettering

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Lonnie Olson li...@kittypee.com wrote: Before you call me ignorant, BS'er, or a hater, I am not a systemd lover or hater. Lennart has great technical chops, and has implemented many great ideas into systemd. It is way better than the old sysvinit systems.

Re: Good Linux Voice interview with Lennart Poettering

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/16/2015 01:39 PM, Lonnie Olson wrote: TL;DR Not a good interview, mostly a puff piece that lets Lennart rehash stuff he has already said in blogs, Google+ posts, etc. A few interesting points, but not very good

Re: wifi router

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Tod Hansmann plug@todandlorna.com wrote: It gives you all the networking power you'd want, but without any of the headaches of having to replace a hard drive or waiting for a power supply go bad in your full fledge box. As a data point, I think I've had

Re: Trolling for presenters....

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Brayden Winterton bwinter...@gmail.com wrote: I would not consider myself an expert either, I am sure that there are many people out there who know more than I do, but I do have a good amount of experience with it. Over the past few months I have transitioned

Re: Trolling for presenters....

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Steve Meyers st...@plug.org wrote: Well, I guess that rules you out for our January meeting. :) I don't think we've had a presentation on Docker before, though. Is there anyone who could do one? I think I volunteered some time ago to present on Docker, but

Re: Anyone have experience with Powerline Networking?

On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 4:28 PM, m...@dev-zero.net wrote: Does anyone on the list have much experience using any powerline networking devices? I'm contemplating getting some for my parents place to use as a way to add an access point and a few other devices to the network that isn't close to

Re: USB NICs

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: Well I don't think netbooting will be quite as fast as local SSD. But it might be fast enough. The Linux Terminal Server project has been doing this sort of thing for years. Seems to have worked out fine. They might

Re: USB NICs

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com wrote: On December 16, 2014, m...@dev-zero.net wrote: i did an experiment a couple years ago where i booted a windows machine off an iscsi target connected over gigabit ethernet. loading games and regular desktop usage was

Re: OT: Calculating hyperbola formula based on a certain cone slice

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: What I'm wondering is, given a particular shape of double-napped cone (cone's angle is 180-2*sun_relative_declination, where sun_relative_declination is between 0 and 23.45 degrees), the distance between the points of the

Re: Ethernet Shield for Raspberry Pi?

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Barry Roberts b...@robertsr.us wrote: That TI board looks really cool. If I had known about those before I bought my EverSpring temperature sensors, I might have bought those instead. But I'm not designing a product, I just want sensors that are plug-and-play

Re: Report on Nanostation Loco M5 wireless bridge

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: My only concern is that the proximity of the Loco M5 on the pole near to the WiMaxx transceiver might cause some signal issues on the WiMaxx from RF leakage. There's about a foot separating them vertically, and they

Re: Ethernet Shield for Raspberry Pi?

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Barry Roberts b...@robertsr.us wrote: Pi is designed for an educational tool, maybe a set-top box, which it sucks at, and has been coerced into some arduino-type applications that could use more processing power or easy networking (home control, monitoring,

Re: Ethernet Shield for Raspberry Pi?

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com wrote: On December 3, 2014, Barry Roberts wrote: Less processor and RAM than a pi/beagle/cubie, but considering all the stuff it includes (wirelss, GB switch, GB NICS, power supply, case, etc.), for $78, you MIGHT be able to put

Re: Ethernet Shield for Raspberry Pi?

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com 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

Re: Ethernet Shield for Raspberry Pi?

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Barry Roberts b...@robertsr.us wrote: If you really need the I/O connections on the duino, and the networking and linux of the pi, I would add something like this to a pi:

Re: Ethernet Shield for Raspberry Pi?

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Barry Roberts b...@robertsr.us wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Levi Pearson levipear...@gmail.com 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

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

Looks very interesting. The game industry tends to have a rather different set of constraints on their products than other software industries, and it's often enlightening to see how best practices evolve differently given those differing constraints. So, I read through the link he had to his

Re: October Meeting: What the heck is systemd?

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com wrote: This sounds like a wonderful meeting, but there's no way I can attend. May I hope it will be recorded and placed online? I was there, and Doran did a great job with it. He did record it, so I imagine it will be placed

Re: Dish Network for ISP?

Considering the logistics of bouncing IP traffic off of an orbiting satellite, I can promise you it will not be a very pleasant experience. Probably fine if you just need to download bulk data in the background, but it will offer a terrible interactive experience (compared to just about any

Re: Running Apache in chroot jail

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Ken Jordan ken.w.jor...@gmail.com wrote: I should've mentioned previously though that Docker is totally dependent on Linux. You can only run it on Linux I mean. Although that was absolutely true in the past, they've apparently abstracted over the container

Re: Running Apache in chroot jail

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:12 AM, James Noble nobleja...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Levi Pearson levipear...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Ken Jordan ken.w.jor...@gmail.com wrote: I should've mentioned previously though that Docker is totally

Re: Need recommendation for good MFP

On Sep 30, 2014 8:26 AM, Tod Hansmann plug@todandlorna.com wrote: Look at Brother for your needs. I've never seen a Brother people weren't still happy with years later, though I'm sure they're out there. They're probably the best bang for your buck in most categories, and a couple MFPs

Re: Finding a location in memory?

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Daniel C. dcrooks...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to analyze a particular table from a core file's shared memory. I have the executable and the code that was used to compile it. What all is involved in figuring out where in that whole mess this particular

Re: Server room voice chat for class

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Lloyd Brown lloyd_br...@byu.edu wrote: Does anyone know of a technological solution that could be used to voice chat with a small group (10-15) people, preferably using wifi, smart-phone apps, etc.? Voice chat between a small group is very popular in the

Re: Server acting as a Wi-Fi AP?

I know from experience with 802.11g cards that there is usually an Ad-Hoc mode where one NIC on computer A talks to one NIC on computer B. But my understanding is that then for computer C to computer A, A would need a separate NIC, or would need to wait until B is no longer associated with A.

Re: Office Hours style meetings

On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Tod Hansmann plug@todandlorna.com wrote: Pluggers (Steve Meyers, this especially means you), I was looking at the Lambda Lounge Utah group *shakes jokingly angry fist at Levi* and reading about Office Hours style meetups. I think they're an excellent idea,

Re: Preventing SQL-injection based attacks in PHP - best way?

Warning: Rant below. Stop now if bluntness would offend you. On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com wrote: PHP - best way? On Tuesday, May 27, 2014, Doran Barton wrote: Don't use PHP. ;-) Very funny. I actually don't appreciate digs like that. PHP may not be

Re: Preventing SQL-injection based attacks in PHP - best way?

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Steve Meyers st...@plug.org wrote: On 05/28/2014 08:06 AM, Stuart Jansen wrote: That's not entirely true. The risk is much higher when you're using an API created by people who think functions like addslashes() are a good idea. snip However, the original

Re: Preventing SQL-injection based attacks in PHP - best way?

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Brian J. Rogers captbrog...@gmail.com wrote: The mysql_* functions are being deprecated. So the recommendation is to use PDO. PDO's prepared statements will help sanitize your input, because even on an update/insert, a malicious user can still wreck havoc.

Re: 16-core Adapteva Parallella for sale (basically a multi-core RPi)

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:23 PM, AJ ONeal coola...@gmail.com wrote: I just don't have time for more hobby projects right now. :'( http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=321390051726 AJ ONeal Looks like a pretty nifty gadget, though it bears almost no resemblance whatsoever to a

Re: listing of files in /proc and /sys?

On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know where I can find a reference that indicates what each file in /proc and /sys are, and which are actually read from vs. just written to? I'd really like to have such a reference, so I know exactly where to

Re: Optimum search with geospatial coordinates

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:57 PM, S. Dale Morrey sdalemor...@gmail.com 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

Re: Arduino projects

On Mar 13, 2014 9:47 AM, Lance Grover lance.gro...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Tod Hansmann plug@todandlorna.com wrote: I'm fiddling with some *duinos a bit and I thought it would be a good discussion topic. Tell me, what would YOU want to do with a *duino?

Re: Cisco Registered Envelope

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Charles Curley charlescur...@charlescurley.com wrote: Has anyone used Cisco Registered Envelope service? I've been getting emails from what could be a legitimate entity, or could be a scammer. I asked them a question by email, and they sent back a response

Re: PHP Programming (was JOB: LAMP Artisan)

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Joshua Marsh jos...@themarshians.com wrote: On Mar 5, 2014 7:26 PM, Levi Pearson levipear...@gmail.com wrote: Every language has some of these misfeatures. PHP has far more than its share of them. It's hard to argue this point but I think people don't give PHP

Re: PHP Programming (was JOB: LAMP Artisan)

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Joshua Marsh jos...@themarshians.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Levi Pearson levipear...@gmail.com wrote: My issue is that we tend to get emotionally attached to technologies like PHP that we had success with in the past. I don't do most of my

Re: PHP Programming (was JOB: LAMP Artisan)

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Joshua Marsh jos...@themarshians.com wrote: I guess I'm just not ready to totally discount PHP yet. I still think there are perfectly suitable reasons to use PHP from a business, practical, and language stand point. I work for a large company and while most of

Re: PHP Programming (was JOB: LAMP Artisan)

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Barry Roberts b...@robertsr.us wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Levi Pearson levipear...@gmail.com 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

Re: PHP Programming (was JOB: LAMP Artisan)

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Joshua Marsh jos...@themarshians.com wrote: I don't think I'm shrugging it off. I just think that zealots and academics don't typically represent reality. The blog post was clearly inflammatory and he didn't iterate anything that wasn't already known to me or

Re: PHP Programming (was JOB: LAMP Artisan)

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Joshua Marsh jos...@themarshians.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Levi Pearson levipear...@gmail.com wrote: I think that by grouping zealots and academics together, you show that you don't appreciate the connection between the reality of programming

Re: printers that don't suck

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Michael Lovell toelov...@gmail.com wrote: My printer (a mid-range HP all-in-one) just decided to give up the ghost after about 5 years and less than a ream of pages printed. Does anyone have any recommendations for a printer that works easily from Linux,

Re: PHP Programming (was JOB: LAMP Artisan)

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Steve Meyers st...@plug.org wrote: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ Rebuttal: http://forums.devshed.com/php-development-5/php-is-a-fractal-of-bad-design-hardly-929746.html I don't completely agree with all of the points in

Re: PHP Programming (was JOB: LAMP Artisan)

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com wrote: Not quite sure what you mean here. Any project that is going to have user input queried against a database has to allow the user to input that data. Even a simple login form has that need. Of course there's a difference

Building Correct Software (was Re: JOB: LAMP Artisan)

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com wrote: On February 24, 2014, Levi Pearson wrote: This is a reasonable thing to do, and certainly better than nothing, but this sort of testing never offers any sort of proof of absence of bugs. Nothing does, really. I've seen

Re: JOB: LAMP Artisan

On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Matthew Frederico mfreder...@gmail.com wrote: Yes - it's not a perfect programming language like node, Ack! No! Node (and javascript in general) so far from being a perfect programming language that it's not even funny. I'd probably take javascript over PHP

Re: Ghostscript documentation or reference

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:46 AM, John Shaver bobjohn...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried searching for this on the interwebs, but the google has failed me. I was able to find really good references and documentation on postscript, but not the extra commands introduced by ghostscript. Is anyone

Re: Ghostscript documentation or reference

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:36 AM, John Shaver bobjohn...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty certain that they are not specific to the PDF specification (or even part of). The only time I seem them used in online scripts is when people are using ghostscript to process PDF files and try to pull

Re: Anyone here still read slashdot?

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Daniel Fussell dfuss...@byu.edu wrote: You can't quantify it? Imagine a beowulf cluster of slashdot-beta. Does that help? Only if Natalie Portman is on top of the cluster and there are some hot grits available. :P I feel like everytime I turn around some poor,

Re: Anyone here still read slashdot?

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Richard Esplin richard-li...@esplins.org wrote: Most designers currently believe two things: * No one reads * Words are bad Again, how is this relevant to the Slashdot redesign? It's now got a reasonable amount of whitespace between lines and a somewhat

Re: Anyone here still read slashdot?

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Steve Meyers st...@plug.org wrote: On 2/6/14 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

Re: UID/GID mapping on NFS

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com wrote: On on Monday, February 3, 2014, Levi Pearson wrote: Either way, that's not an option here, really. The scenario here is that you have public machine #1 that user X logs into. He does all sorts of stuff, which is totally

Re: Anyone here still read slashdot?

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com 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. If any of you

Re: Anyone here still read slashdot?

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: Heh. I can say without reservation that that is not why it's worse for me. I don't read comments on slashdot. Even for free, the price is too high for stupidity. You are indeed a rare person! If it weren't for the

Re: Ridding myself of root passwords?

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 11:18 AM, S. Dale Morrey sdalemor...@gmail.com wrote: Process was running as an unpriviledged user. I'm guessing SELinux might have helped but in as we discussed before I make it habit to shut that off because 99% of the time it's just in my way. Many, many times the

Re: Ridding myself of root passwords?

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:13 PM, S. Dale Morrey sdalemor...@gmail.com wrote: My experience is that SELinux gets in the way far more than it helps. I'll be the first to admit I'm hardly a pro with the tool. However I do have some serious doubts as to the efficacy of a tool that blocks a

Re: Anyone here still read slashdot?

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/06/2014 11:37 AM, Levi Pearson wrote: The off-topic ones are all whines about the beta interface. Sure, interface preferences are a highly subjective thing, but that kind of nonsense in response is just childish

Re: Bob like interfaces?

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:10 AM, S. Dale Morrey sdalemor...@gmail.com wrote: Someone brought up MS Bob http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html in a discussion today. It got me thinking, why hasn't this been implemented as a desktop for Linux? It would be totally perfect for kids and the elderly.

Re: Ridding myself of root passwords?

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:22 PM, S. Dale Morrey sdalemor...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I understand what you are saying. My point is that SELinux gets in the way of what I would consider good security practices. Think about it this way. If you configure SELinux to be permissive, then there is

Re: Bob like interfaces?

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:32 PM, S. Dale Morrey sdalemor...@gmail.com wrote: Nevertheless, a novice driver should probably stick with an automatic or stick shift because that's what is in use by 99% of the automobiles on the road. Learning to paddle shift then would just be pointless because

Re: Ridding myself of root passwords?

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Gabriel Gunderson g...@gundy.org wrote: On Feb 6, 2014 1:08 PM, Levi Pearson levipear...@gmail.com wrote: The process is likely a bit more involved than this, but surely not insurmountable to someone who can learn the somewhat unfortunate dialplan configuration

Re: UID/GID mapping on NFS

In the default case, yes. The uid/gid is written with exactly the same numbers as the ones that belong to the user on the machine doing the writing. For machines where those have no corresponding user/group, they just show up in listings as the bare numbers. They might also map to the wrong

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

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/30/2014 05:05 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: - I think Ruby is hideous (aesthetic, I know) - Until recently Rails performance has been horrendous. It's not great now, mind you, but it is at least competitive. I just have

Re: Print to Digital conversions

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com wrote: I'll have to look at that one, thanks! BTW, What's DJVu? PDF is obvious. I don't think I've heard of DJVu before. :) It's a document archive format optimized for scanned documents. It's a great format, but not nearly as

Re: C++ fu needed

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:43 PM, S. Dale Morrey sdalemor...@gmail.com wrote: Well ok I see your point. A getter and a setter would be irrelevant extra verbage at this point. Nevertheless if it were me I would make the value a const. The point of protecting the variable at all is to prevent

Re: Print to Digital conversions

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com wrote: I was letting my mind wander last night, and I got to thinking about all these older magazines that I have stashed in various places. I kept them because they had interesting articles and the like. I was wondering if there

Re: Good magazines?

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:09 AM, justin jus...@justinhileman.info wrote: ᐧ On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 1:30 AM, S. Dale Morrey sdalemor...@gmail.comwrote: Markdown is the new hotness in formatting. Instead of open and close tags like SGML/HTML/XML your markup is done with a single tag and

Re: C++ fu needed

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Eric Wald esw...@brainshell.org wrote: I once used a language with three operators: left := right assigned, left == right compared, left = rightguessed. The guess was generally correct; when used as a statement, it would assign; when used as

Re: C++ fu needed

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:23 AM, S. Dale Morrey sdalemor...@gmail.com wrote: For instance in many places, Origin has... pstart-nVersion but fork1 has pstart-nVersion0xff According to the header nVersion is defined as an int. For the life of me I just can't understand what fork1 is doing

Re: OT: Twin monitors on thunderbolt

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know if it's possible to connect two DVI monitors to thunderbolt? How about thunderbolt hubs? I'm aware of several docking stations that split thunderbolt out into usb, ethernet, etc, but how about more than

Re: Orgcoin, a new open source project to pay it forward!

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Andy Bradford amb-pl...@bradfords.org wrote: Thus said Richard Esplin on Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:33:59 -0700: This was how money worked in the United states until the end of the 19th century. No clear market winner emerged. It was a mess. What were the causes

Re: Orgcoin, a new open source project to pay it forward!

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/18/2014 01:33 PM, Richard Esplin wrote: This was how money worked in the United states until the end of the 19th century. No clear market winner emerged. It was a mess. I assume you were referring to the situation

Re: Orgcoin, a new open source project to pay it forward!

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Andy Bradford amb-pl...@bradfords.org wrote: Thus said Richard Esplin on Sat, 18 Jan 2014 20:15:07 -0700: Here is one example episode that contrasts bank issued currency (their term) with counterfeits, and concludes that the only difference between

Re: Orgcoin, a new open source project to pay it forward!

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:11 PM, S. Dale Morrey sdalemor...@gmail.com wrote: Orgcoin is the super secret project I've been working on. The Orgcoin Foundation was founded to provide a quick, easy and reliable way for people around the world to support causes they care about. The coin itself is

Re: LXC containers to try different distros simultaneously

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/17/2014 03:27 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:36 PM, S. Dale Morrey sdalemor...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked at Docker? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_%28software%29 I have been

Re: DNS amplification attacks

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Andy Bradford amb-pl...@bradfords.org wrote: Thus said Daniel Fussell on Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:17:35 -0700: Recently someone started using my DNS server for a DNS amplification attack, forcing me to disable recursion for queries coming from outside my

Re: Orgcoin, a new open source project to pay it forward!

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Andy Bradford amb-pl...@bradfords.org wrote: Thus said Jonathan Duncan on Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:33:51 -0700: On the topic of crypto-currency, and perhaps currency in general, I am wondering about the benefits of having multiple currencies in

Re: Good magazines?

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: Even without similar restrictions, I prefer some magazines to be in dead tree format over electronic. Unfortunately there aren't many good dead tree magazines left about Linux. I used to get the Linux Journal in print

Re: Odd stress test results, now what?

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Mike Lovell m...@dev-zero.net wrote: Apache2 has multiple methods of doing concurrency called Multi-Processing Modules. You'll might want to look at changing apache to use the worker mpm module instead of the default prefork mpm module.

Re: : What replaces X11

On Jan 13, 2014 12:38 AM, Dan Egli ddavide...@gmail.com wrote: Now that the new year is here and things are becoming a little less hectic, there's a question I wanted to ask about something I saw on the list a few weeks ago. I recall there was some discussion of one thing or another replacing

Re: Merging 2 HUGE documents

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Chris Wood ch...@tincreek.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:21 AM, S. Dale Morrey sdalemor...@gmail.com wrote: I should have mentioned that the data is UTF-8 not strictly ASCII and we need to preserve the encoding. Makes me think of sed.

Re: 24 Million entries and I need to what?

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Joshua Marsh jos...@themarshians.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Levi Pearson levipear...@gmail.com wrote: Is helping someone further along the wrong path really helpful? It sounded to me like he was experimenting, which is great. I don't feel

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