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want to get started with, or any other hardware you want to hack - join
up and post your questions.
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work around by correcting URLs in the address bar. The web browser will
escape form field data for you, so to manage to pass an unescaped email
address takes some creative bad programming.
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that the + character itself isn't a universal
standard. (On my own Postfix installation I have it set to -.)
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recommended here. Dnsmasq will periodically speed
test the servers and pick the fastest.
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they provided when the
extended basic channels went digital: all subscribers can get up to
two DTAs for free, with no rental fee.
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Rich Braun wrote:
Tom Metro wrote:
If you use MythTV as a front-end, have you tried XBMC? If so, why do you
prefer MythTV's front-end?
Thanks to your posting, I just did. It was a F R U S T R A T I N G waste of 2
hours of my life. The bottom line is summed up at
http://forum.xbmc.org
Rich Braun wrote:
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And the best way to break free of the old-world TV model that the
existing studios, networks, and cable companies are clinging to is to
reduce barriers for the new upstarts to reach our living rooms.
Go to Best Buy and take a look at their TV
Dan Ritter wrote:
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If you run a Debian-based distribution on your servers, which flavor,
and why?
My company runs Debian because the stable branch is both stable
and well-supported...
You don't buy-in to the idea of Ubuntu LTE (long term) releases as being
well supported
of the thread a
user reports being able to successfully run Snort on an RT-N16, but they
didn't report whether they ever got custom rules working.
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by installing it on a separate computer?
This is what I was speculating about.
Is there a mechanism to do this?
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a curiosity factor in seeing reports of what attacks are
happening against the router, which the router is successfully fending
off. That can be interesting, but generally just amounts to useless noise.
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Both require a fair bit of customization and configuration to make them
minimally noisy. (A noisy monitoring tool quickly gets ignored.)
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like you are pretty close to the NIST definition. (Distributed could be
argued is required if you count the fact that user's location and the
server's location are different as being distributed. I wouldn't.)
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That's not to say there wouldn't be value to a separate certification
for life-critical software engineering for those working in fields
where that is applicable.
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with our visual centers, while I had to make up a word
for the auditory equivalent.)
(See the recent network monitoring thread (Visualizing LAN traffic).
Apparently the word is auralizing. At least according to the author of
the project mentioned.)
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this limitation). See:
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with
diagnosing network problems and spotting optimization opportunities, but
they typically show you only a few metrics at a time, and require the
use if multiple tools to get a fuller picture.
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with the mediocre to
bad reviews they seem to get on NewEgg. Enterprise vs. consumer drives?
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offers over traditional coolers.
Anyone tried these out? Can you hear the water gurgling? :-)
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?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203920204577197390303185550.html
For Verizon, wireless is more profitable than building new fiber plants,
so this makes sense for them.
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With about 500 votes, the results are:
33% Ubuntu
26% Windows
20% Other Linux
13% Mac
5% Linux Mint
So Mint still has a ways to go to catch up.
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better overall community support for your overall OS
by using Ubuntu with Cinnamon, or does such a franken-OS leave you in
an even smaller minority than just using Mint?
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Bill Horne wrote:
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On the BLU LinkedIn group ...
No offense, but...I don't think using it for groups is a
productive exercise.
No offense taken. I think the LinkedIn discussion forums are pretty
poorly implemented, and regardless, I don't believe in fracturing
discussion
Canonical is adequately self
sufficient with its own developers, and is prepared for a decline in
community participation.)
Perhaps they'll roll out a Cinnamon option as a 2nd tier, but still
officially supported, desktop option in order to keep us.
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With about 500 votes, the results are:
33% Ubuntu
20% Other Linux
5% Linux Mint
This is a poor poll because it leaves out two major distros, Fedora and
OpenSUSE.
I agree that the poll should have split out those common Linux desktops
wouldn't base
a large scale purchase on that data.
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], previous self-test completed without error
Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], previous self-test completed without error
Need to update logwatch?
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I hope I can post here.
FYI: http://blu.wikispaces.com/job+posting+policy
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-top-box (or TV) just has video decoding hardware
and a network API so the UI on a tablet can tell it what content to pull.
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5% Unity
3% MATE
(Clearly not a main stream crowd...)
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Ah, that would explain the survey results.
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not use simple rc files, but it is fully configurable using
text files (largely by tweaking parameters in /etc/defaults).
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power, and price. (I'll be curious to hear how Mark's build goes.)
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the cascading dependencies take it from there.
The Turnkey guys have a version of JeOS packaged as a VM appliance:
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/bootstrap
I'm not sure what the advantage would be to using that rather than what
you'd get directly from Canonical.
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clearly there has been a more pronounced split between the two projects.
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A more in-depth review.
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Is Ubuntu 12.04 a Linux Game Changer?
With improvements in Unity, the upcoming Ubuntu release has much to
recommend it.
http://www.datamation.com/open-source/is-ubuntu-12.04-a-linux-game-changer-1.html
...Unity was a neat idea that needed more time to develop.
Mark Shuttleworth seems to be pretty proud of 12.04, saying:
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1027
For the first time with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, real desktop user experience
innovation is available on a full production-ready
enterprise-certified free software platform, free of charge,
. :-)
But college kids love them.
Vendors are betting that most of the needs of the largest market for
computing devices can be met by the equivalent of a hot plate.
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and glide through the air like you are
touching the content being shown to your eyes, and that controls your
navigation. The display is transparent, so even if you are looking at
something, you aren't losing sight of the outside world.
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tablet, and you
expect your photo manager app to be able to trivially print off your
chosen photos, you might be disappointed. (Maybe it's better in Android
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as being a dead end. They're entropic, which is a fancy
way of saying that they wear out with use. It's inescapable.
Agreed. But the answer is super capacitors. They're doable within the
laws of physics. It's just a matter of material science.
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publicly posted the TDP numbers yet but you can figure it's
rather higher than iPad 2's based on the power consumption.
A lot of it is likely going to the display. They are still the dominant
power sink in portable devices.
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). Filtering rules. And
you can extend it with plugins.
Debian has chosen it as their default logging process.
Looks like they have a Windows client.
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than against some common standard, then you'll get the
most meaningful results by using some actual applications. So for
example, Postfix or Apache or whatever. You'll need some synthetic data
or a stressing tool to create a load.
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that have been
running inn my MythTV server since Fall 2006. :-)
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running a third party firmware on your
broadband router is that you can run tcpdump on it. (Available as an
optware package.) Something you'll likely need rarely on a home network,
but really handy when you do.
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remaining analog channels on their Newton/Needham system (other towns
likely to do likewise). After their digital conversion a while back
they continued to transmit the basic channels (largely local
can write
specific rules to put the messages where you want.
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that most
ambitious people seek in their careers.
This sort of title regression is pretty common for people who were
involved in the first dot-com bubble. I run across a fair number of
former CTOs that are now things like senior engineers.
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good indication that this card is compatible, if this is the card they use.
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pair it with.
In the comments some guy mentioned using one to make an Ikea lamp remote
controllable from an Android phone. So presumably it isn't hard to write
some code on the Android side to talk to it.
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and mechanical parts that can be
used to make robots or 3D printers. Even old floppy drives can have
their motors salvaged.
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device, other than it runs Linux and executes shell scripts.
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in the right
direction.
Next step might be a PAM plug-in or something.
Thanks for the link.
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Strictly an automatic screen lock/unlock. But nice. A step in the right
direction.
Until someone steals your phone
All security measures have a finite space of effectiveness. What are the
attack vectors you are trying to guard against?
Remember
that by having the app trigger an audio alert when an
authentication handshake occurs.
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benefits and be your HR department.
Things like retirement and health insurance would have continuity
independent of your employer of the moment. And the variables being
negotiated between the union and the buyer of labor would be
considerably reduced.
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unilaterally strike, but as long as many
of the tech job markets remain at least slightly tilted in favor of the
employee, knowledge of what to ask of your employer can be power.
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j...@trillian.mit.edu wrote:
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| In essence (but not really) a union is an employee owned corporation
| whose sole service is outsourced labor. In an idealized market, there
| should be multiple labor corporations for any given type of labor, not
| only one.
Hey, I know! We
Richard Pieri wrote:
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could be addressed by having the smartphone app fingerprint the WiFi
access points in the vicinity. Maybe even verifying that the phone has
an active connection to the corporate WiFi, authenticated through your
RADIX server (the laptop/desktop component
learned those lessons.
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on the size of
investment banks, for example.
...and in some cases we do need them...
The strongest argument against not having an upper limit on the size of
corporations is that it would place US companies at a disadvantage on an
international playing field.
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associations tend to be small
and weak, and often don't last long (several I had bookmarked were defunct).
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compositing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_screen
Buy a tarp at Home Depot? :-)
(Probably too textured and shiny to work well.)
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Mostly is seems this is coming down to the issue of whether you can
patent an API...
Not patent an API. Copyright the API.
Sorry, typo. Per the subject line and elsewhere, I obviously meant
copyright.
Guess what, even the title of your book
interested in whether Google prevails on the overall suit than in
the question of whether APIs can be protected by copyright.
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to open source, free to blog about anything and everything,
and never be required to submit a patent that could be used
offensively.
So it seems if you can make yourself attractive to the current crop of
startups, you'd have good leverage to name your terms.
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their
traffic still be carried by them.)
1.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/228017/comcast_rolls_out_metro_ethernet.html
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Mostly is seems this is coming down to the issue of whether you can
patent an API - the names of classes, methods, and their arguments.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/05/jury-rules-google-violated-copyright-law-google-moves-for-mistrial.ars
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than mostly matching them as the
TF300 does.
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through all
those anonymizing mechanisms. That attack script might also run
unattended, at some unknown future date, so having a known fixed URL is
necessary.)
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mitigate
the impact by only allowing scripts to run on a small subset of sites.
The other thing to check is Flash. If you have a vintage of FF that
still uses a separate process for Flash, you can find and kill that.
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The other thing to check is Flash. If you have a vintage of FF that
still uses a separate process for Flash, you can find and kill that.
What version of FireFox are you using? I have 12.0, and have a separate
process for flash:
I'm using an older
Stephen Ronan wrote:
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Apparently you can't copyright an API...
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/google-wins-crucial-api-ruling-oracles-case-decimated/
It's only the code itself--not the
SSD's. You choose the redundancy level of your storage purely by the value
of your data...
Value of your data is a little misleading, as RAID is not backup.
The more accurate statements is value of your data availability.
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The flash they use in USB sticks and SD cards is the same flash
they use in enterrpise hard drives.
Are you sure about that?
He's right. USB flash and SSD flash both use NAND flash as opposed to
NOR flash.
Just because both
. That was the bit I was skeptical of.
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Why not use an error correcting file system on them?
It's difficult for me to build a Mac OSX Installation USB fob (or ubuntu
install fob) that uses ZFS in the backend. ;-)
Sure, makes sense.
What other filesystems do checksumming anyway
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You could always split the Flash drive into two equal partitions and use
them as a RAID1 set. :-) Not only will you get the checksums you want,
but also redundancy to repair the problem.
Except that you don't.
Hint: RAID does nothing for data
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David N. Blank-Edelman wrote:
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http://www.expandrive.com/
Commercial, closed-source implementations of sshfs. Worth a look, as
they might be easier/better. (First one costs $70, the other $40.)
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Agency.
It is not a Linux distribution, but rather a set of Kernel
modifications...
But I believe it started as an in-house NSA distribution, which I bet
they still maintain.
-Tom
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Tom Metro
Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA
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in the mid 20
MB/s range. Backup to an rsync target was also comparatively slow at
19 MB/s vs. mid-20 MB/s.
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-Tom
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Tom Metro
Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA
Enterprise solutions through open source.
Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com
Simple authentication bypass for MySQL root revealed
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Simple-authentication-bypass-for-MySQL-root-revealed-1614990.html
Exploits for a recently revealed MySQL authentication bypass flaw are
now in the wild, partly because the flaw is remarkably simple to
really want to be doing that level of backup on a daily basis?
I would think weekly would be adequate, combined with a separate
file-based strategy.
-Tom
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Tom Metro
Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA
Enterprise solutions through open source.
Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com
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