HackFest Saturday January 29, 2011 Gangplankhq.com Noon - 3PM Cloud Targets, Rapid 7 and more...

2011-01-26 Thread Lisa Kachold
Please join us at Gangplankhq.com from Noon-3PM for PLUG Secuirity Team Hackfest: Steve Kaplan will be presentating Cloud targets and giving us a view into full-blown registered Rapid7, the scanner by the developers of Metasploit. This will be a one in a million presentation from S. Kaplan, Senior

recommend serial-to-usb adapter?

2011-01-26 Thread Steven A. DuChene
I have a embedded ECU that I have to program and I have been doing it with an older laptop that still has a serial port. I would like to use one of my newer laptops but the last time I tried buying a serial-to-usb convertor at Frys Electronics I ended up with one that I just could not get to fun

RE: recommend serial-to-usb adapter?

2011-01-26 Thread Joseph King
Which brand did you try? I use a Keyspan converter, and although I haven't tried it directly from my Ubuntu VM, it works great with OS X... In Your Service, Joseph King http://www.linkedin.com/in/joking http://www.joking.net http://joking611.wordpress.com/ -Original Message- From: plug-d

Re: recommend serial-to-usb adapter?

2011-01-26 Thread Alan Dayley
The Linux drivers for USB-to-serial converters are pretty robust now days. I have seen ones from Tripplite and others work well. Take care with your connection parameters, however. If you use software flow control (a.k.a. Xon-Xoff) and baud rate above 19.2K you will have issues with long data st

Anyone use Google voice?

2011-01-26 Thread Mark Phillips
Wifi calling on my android phone with T-mobile is not very reliable. Some wifi points connect, some don't, those that connect drop calls, etc. I think google voice is VoIP, so it sounds as if it would be a replacement for the wifi calling app on my phone. But some boards say that T-mobile customers

LibreOffice and PDF's

2011-01-26 Thread gk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone here was mentioning they needed PDF viewing and IIRC modifying. On the CLI pdftk is great, and there is a gui for this app. It's the alphabet soup of doing someting to a PDF that needs to be done. But, my reason for this post was that Lib

RE: recommend serial-to-usb adapter?

2011-01-26 Thread Michael Butash
I haven't hit a random off-brand usb to serial adapter in years that linux *didn't* recognize and *just work*. I prefer the $22 dollar dual usb serial adapter you can get from frys, as I'm typically deploying network hardware in mass and need multiple at a time. I have an 8 port brick usb-to-seri

Re: Anyone use Google voice?

2011-01-26 Thread gk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have had GoogleVoice for over a year now. Just when Google bought GrandCentral. Grand Central was formed to help partly homeless people have a means of having a "permanent" number so they could obtain housing and employment. GV works on landlines a

Re: Anyone use Google voice?

2011-01-26 Thread James Mcphee
I use google voice in a different capacity. The number tied to GV is the one I give out. I can then tell GV where to send that call to, so it acts as a router. I also keep most of my friends and colleagues in my address book, where I put them in a group of GV and customize the response. So when

Re: SMTP proxy for masking credit card numbers

2011-01-26 Thread gk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know people have assisted. But who in their right mind is going to mail out in the open their Credit Card number or have they forgotten AZ is #1 for ID theft. Fax is probably your best idea, that is not sent over the web! At least is somewhat s

Re: Anyone use Google voice?

2011-01-26 Thread Stephen
I use Google voice, but primarily as an alternate number or as a collection point for my Voicemail. But i do have a android phone and to Google voice widget installed ill see if ic an get it to call and connect over WiFI but im not on t mobile. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Mark Phillips wro

Re: Linux - Need Wikipedia Documentation Assistance

2011-01-26 Thread gk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Speaking again of LibreOffice which has a few nifty plugins... check them out. One of those plugins is to not only blog but write to Wikipedia in it markup language without you knowing the markup language. vp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

some kind of search virus; google

2011-01-26 Thread betty
yes i lost my media center that way. i only have stupid ms for photoshop printing. i can do everything else with the gimp but the printing does not come our as high quality. i have never been able to get it to work well. the ms computer is not allowed to play online. go to ubuntu, go now.

Re: some kind of search virus; google

2011-01-26 Thread Ralph Prowell
Photoshop works much better with a MAC. Would never go back to MS. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:44 PM, betty wrote: > yes i lost my media center that way. i only have stupid ms for photoshop > printing. i can do everything else with the gimp but the printing does not > come our as high quality. i