RE: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman We are running VMWare server for the time being until we get our why not vmware player or workstation? Both work in linux. Player is free. Workstation has free time limited trial. IMHO, either

Re: wireless keyboards

2011-01-20 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 1/19/2011 6:15 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Tom Martinson wrote: ...and it has to have a cord, no wireless. What's the consensus on wireless vs. wired keyboards? I can't bring myself to use a wireless keyboard. I just don't like the idea of broadcasting my passwords out to anyone within

Re: wireless keyboards

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 08:00:30AM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote: On 1/19/2011 6:15 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Tom Martinson wrote: ...and it has to have a cord, no wireless. What's the consensus on wireless vs. wired keyboards? I can't bring myself to use a wireless keyboard. I just don't

Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
After going to the knowledge base, there is a command, vmrun: vmrun -T server -h https://host:8333/sdk -u root -p root's password cmd path to virtualmachine.vmx I have not gotten that to run yet. VMWare documentation is inconsistent in that it specifies the port as above, and in other places uses

Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-20 Thread Derek Atkins
Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org writes: On 01/19/2011 02:26 PM, Jim Gasek wrote: What do u mean The server GUI? The console on the actual server itself? The GUI front end from the actual VM server is very limited. I don't believe you can break out into a shell. If your server screen goes

Re: VMWare server question staring a VM from the Host OS (Linux) command line

2011-01-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/20/2011 07:50 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I only suggested player or workstation as a temporary stopgap until you get your real server. I assumed then you'd be going to ESX or ESXi. Please tell me you're not planning to use VMWare Server instead of ESXi. Definitely ESXi or vSphere or

Re: keyboard trends

2011-01-20 Thread Tom Metro
Jerry Feldman wrote: IMHO, clicks should be configurable. Some people really need to hear the clicks. There is of course software to do that. GRC's ClicKey (http://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm) supposedly does this for Windows. However I would imagine this is more about the feel than the sound,

Re: Tape job notification | completion with mail command

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:02:02PM -0500, stephen goldman wrote: Hello All, I'm looking for a better way to work tape jobs. Seek input from others.. The goal is to put the job in the background and receive an email when the job is complete. Should I be using nohup at the

RE: Tape job notification | completion with mail command

2011-01-20 Thread Palit, Nilanjan
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf Of stephen goldman Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 2:02 PM How can I add mail -s tape job complete sgold...@mit.edu Typical job tar -cvf /dev/nst0 101201_80W2Y_236F.tgz tape94a This might work: $ (tar

Re: Tape job notification | completion with mail command

2011-01-20 Thread john saylor
hi On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:02 PM, stephen goldman sgold...@mit.edu wrote:    The goal is to put the job in the background and receive an email when the job is complete. shouldn't you just write a shell script [and run it via cron]? it could take arguments to be able to handle different

Re: security ofwireless keyboards

2011-01-20 Thread Tom Metro
Matthew Gillen wrote: I can't bring myself to use a wireless keyboard. I just don't like the idea of broadcasting my passwords out to anyone within listening distance. The Security Now podcast has covered the security of wireless keyboards a few times. In episode 269 Steve Gibson says:

Re: Microsoft keyboards

2011-01-20 Thread Tom Metro
Matt Shields wrote: I've been using the M$ Laser Wireless Desktop 6000... Wow, that sounds like a product name taken from an 80's B-movie. I've always been quite surprised how well M$ hardware works. Agreed. Although I've never had any use for their ergonomic keyboards, I've used their mice

Re: Tape job notification | completion with mail command

2011-01-20 Thread Richard Pieri
On Jan 20, 2011, at 2:02 PM, stephen goldman wrote: Hello All, I'm looking for a better way to work tape jobs. Seek input from others.. The goal is to put the job in the background and receive an email when the job is complete. I think that you're on the right track but you don't

Re: Tape job notification | completion with mail command

2011-01-20 Thread Matt Shields
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.comwrote: On Jan 20, 2011, at 2:02 PM, stephen goldman wrote: Hello All, I'm looking for a better way to work tape jobs. Seek input from others.. The goal is to put the job in the background and receive an email

Re: keyboard trends

2011-01-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/20/2011 01:26 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: IMHO, clicks should be configurable. Some people really need to hear the clicks. There is of course software to do that. GRC's ClicKey (http://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm) supposedly does this for Windows. However I would imagine

Re: Das Keyboard Model S Ultimate

2011-01-20 Thread Richard Pieri
On Jan 20, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Tom Martinson wrote: When the fastest runner in the world wears nike, there might be something. Usually a rather substantial monetary compensation for the endorsement. When the fastest race car driver drives an ford, there might be something there.

Re: Das Keyboard Model S Ultimate

2011-01-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/20/2011 07:32 PM, j...@trillian.mit.edu wrote: Bill Horne wrote: | On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 22:14 -0500, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: | On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 09:21:52PM -0500, Bill Horne wrote: | On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 15:30 -0500, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: |For home I think I'll buy the one

Forms-design application builder tool?

2011-01-20 Thread Rich Braun
I've built a hopefully-clever database schema for a sys-admin tool, and have grown a bit tired of manually invoking insert/update commands in raw SQL. Keeping track of the foreign-key indices, etc, manually is an error-prone pain. So I want a reasonably straighforward way of generating a form

Re: Forms-design application builder tool?

2011-01-20 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net wrote: So I want a reasonably straighforward way of generating a form based on my schema, and can't seem to find anything useful. If you were building a database-driven website design today That's what I do for a living. (one

Re: Das Keyboard Model S Ultimate

2011-01-20 Thread Samuel Baldwin
Could Dvorak have benefits from people who suffer from a RSI or similar injury, because it requires your hands to move less? I've been using dvorak for a few years, I definitely type faster but I didn't type properly on qwerty anyways, using dvorak was an impetus to learn how to touch type

Re: Forms-design application builder tool?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom Metro
Rich Braun wrote: So I want a reasonably straighforward way of generating a form based on my schema, and can't seem to find anything useful. One of the most sophisticated ones out there, believe it or not, is the Base tool in OpenOffice--but it's modeled after a 1993-vintage version of MS

Re: Forms-design application builder tool?

2011-01-20 Thread Rich Braun
Tom Metro suggested: Have you looked at Kexi (http://www.kexi-project.org/)? It's described as Microsoft Access for Linux. I'll have to read that one; at first glance it does look like Koffice's answer to OpenOffice Base, both of which are answers to MS Access. The Kexi site even references