Re: [Discuss] Gnome Shell

John Abreau wrote: Bill Cattey wrote: The more I used Gnome 3, the more I've come to believe, They've got it completely wrong and I need to get it off my computer. Indeed. Gnome 3 has been a spectacular failure. That's disappointing. How about Cinnamon? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

Re: [Discuss] Verizon wireless mandatory dataplan

, or 2. all carriers use a common set of national standards and share spectrum bands. #1 is never popular in the US, but cell equipment manufacturers have apparently figured out how to do #2. There's just no motivation for the carrier to adopt it.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

[Discuss] Google's Nexus 7

like Staples was only offering the 16 GB model, but that'll probably get updated.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] OT: a Noplan Phone?

there aren't enough no-data smart phones to justify the effort. Plus, it would prevent them from being able to sell you a plan upgrade from their captive portal when away from WiFi. (Exactly when you'd be most likely to buy such an upgrade.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

Re: [Discuss] T-Mobile pre-paid plans

Steve Harris wrote: Tom Metro wrote: The T-Mobile pay-per-minute plan has no data, but interestingly you can switch to a pay-per-day plan at any time from the handset. Have you actually done this (activated/de-activated the 1-day data plan)? Yes. At least once. As far as I know it worked

Re: [Discuss] T-Mobile pre-paid plans

there aren't any better deals out there. I think it may have more to do with all of the phone costs for a pre-paid phone being paid up front. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Google's Nexus 7

Tom Metro wrote: Available now for pre-order from Google, or it'll be in stores, like Staples, in a few weeks. http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/12/3154733/nexus-7-availability Google has made good on its promise for a mid-July release of the Nexus 7: the company is now shipping orders

Re: [Discuss] Google's Nexus 7

The Nexus 7 and The Cloud Commit Conundrum: Google Wins (For Now) http://battellemedia.com/archives/2012/07/the-nexus-7-and-the-cloud-commit-conundrum-google-wins-for-now.php?utm_source=rssutm_medium=rssutm_campaign=the-nexus-7-and-the-cloud-commit-conundrum-google-wins-for-now ...your choice

[Discuss] XBMC ported to Android

appliances, running UIs that can not only pull video from your local server in the basement, but also stream video from online sources. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Tired of unreliable external drives... recommendations?

if you can.) (Quiet is important.) If it is a backup drive, add some code to your backup script to spin up/down the drive. Then upgrade the enclosure's fan to one that is temperature controlled. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] Tired of unreliable external drives... recommendations?

, and if not, why? For reliability what you want are the percentage of drives that the manufacturer sees RMAed. But of course they don't publish that. Best you can do is infer it from the warranty period, which only gives you a long term average across a product family. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture

Re: [Discuss] Qualcomm's Gimbal context awareness SDK

for functionality that's heading towards mainstream, but that you'll never have the ability to do the long tail things that just never rise to Apple's attention. Scoble really has no business being annoyed with Apple, as this is just the other side of the coin he praises so often. -Tom -- Tom

Re: [Discuss] cloud storage

frequently is still a bit of information leakage. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org

Re: [Discuss] encryption and rsync

granularity.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] encryption and rsync

Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Tom Metro wrote: So you're syncing the encrypted files in the source directory. That makes a lot more sense than using an encryption technology that just creates an opaque image file. I use whole-disk, and file containers, and encfs, all for different purposes

Re: [Discuss] XBMC ported to Android

Internet TV. (Sort of irrelevant as both of those are obsolete. The Review is also discontinued. As previously mentioned there is plenty of off-brand ARM-based set-top-box hardware available, most of which will likely support the XBMC port.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

Re: [Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

in the RedHat business model. They understand that the more machines that exist with Oracle Linux on them, the more support contracts they can potentially sell, if all it takes is a phone call and a purchase order to turn them into licensed machines. Capitalist competition in action. -Tom -- Tom

Re: [Discuss] distribution vendor involvement in GNOME

relationship with GNOME? I assume several must have at least a few engineers dedicated to working on it, but I get the impression that no vendor has all that much influence over the project. The Canonical departure exemplifies this. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions

Re: [Discuss] Oracle Linux, going after CentOs

backhanded leverage over a competitor when it is a much clearer path to simply transition customers from your own free product to your own paid product, and not involve the competitor at all. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional

Re: [Discuss] router configuration UI online

UI for the product: http://obihai.com/OBi110/index.html And I have made use of it as a point of reference when discussing settings with others. More device companies should do this. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile

Re: [Discuss] Cutting the phone line

, rather than the more common SIP, so most ATAs won't work with it.) As with any VoIP service, it is fully dependent on your Internet service, so quality will vary based on your connection. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile

Re: [Discuss] Cutting the phone line

store makes it a necessity to have a credit card affiliated with the same account that you use for other lower security, inconsequential activities. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI: cert revocation

with any of the options, if you are aware of what mechanism is being used, you can fairly easily avoid it on a machine being used exclusively for Linux. The most likely place you'd get tripped up is installing an BIOS update. -Tom 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocsp -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

John Abreau wrote: Tom Metro wrote: ...it doesn't seem right that some outside force (an FTC lawsuit, for example) should compel Microsoft... Let's apply this logic to other areas of commerce: [I]t doesn't seem right that some outside force (a government food safety inspector

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

not aiming for certification is probably not going to bother to half implement Secure Boot. Leaving it out entirely is the easier approach.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

for the (presumably large and high volume) Windows 8 market can be repurposed for low volume applications. You're scenario of a vendor making an identical product with alternate firmware to serve another high volume market (Android) is plausible, but it isn't likely to happen often. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

, and there is no established user base to complain about the change.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

market. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] Fedora 18 to get MATE desktop

The headline makes it sound more significant than it is. They're just adding the MATE (http://mate-desktop.org/) package to the repository. Not making it a default desktop (unlike Linux Mint). But still, it is more momentum behind this non-GNOME 3 option. -Tom

[Discuss] Ouya and XBMC

acceleration hardware and drivers. On the down side they don't expect to have these available until March, which means more likely closer to a year from now, and those specs will be lagging behind by then. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] GnomeOS

apps? Have you tried Mate (2.0 fork) or Cinnamon (3.0 fork)? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: [Discuss] 'nother question

character and type 'cl' and enter to exit. It's a nice simple sanity test that can be ran from just about any client. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] L1-A in Linux, 10GBE woes

that calls upon the inaccessible network file system. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: [Discuss] web server can't see out but others can see in

networking options that let you chose between bridged and NAT connections between the host and guest. One thing Eric should clarify is whether the NAT setup is something set in an external firewall appliance, or was it part of the VM setup. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

[Discuss] hard drive burn-in

it is a USB drive; newer smartctl probably doesn't need it) and ran a long test: smartctl -d sat -t long /dev/sdc prior to starting the burn-in. I'll repeat that after to see if any of the failure counters have incremented. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through

[Discuss] Ubuntu 12.04 install fail

again with 64-bit 12.04.1... -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu 12.04.1 w/Cinnamon install success

Tom Metro wrote: I'll try again with 64-bit 12.04.1... I did have better luck with 12.04.1. When I went to look up the PPA to install the Cinnamon desktop, I ran across mention of: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cinnamon-remix/ The Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix is Ubuntu 12.04.1 with Unity removed

Re: [Discuss] UEFI secure boot pre-loader security considered further Re: Fwd: [linux_forensics] Did you see this ? - Linux Foundation Announces Secure Boot Solution ....

already happened.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Disabling UEFI and dual booting Linux and Windows

Windows was pre-installed on the machine. In the article above it sounds like the author is installing both OSs. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Disabling UEFI and dual booting Linux and Windows

to an independent third party, they'll likely be facing another FTC lawsuit. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: [Discuss] How smart is SMART?

, but that's hardly a reason not to use it. The Google whitepaper on drive reliability has some interesting stuff to say about SMART monitoring. (The paper has been mentioned on Discuss before. Check the archives.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open

Re: [Discuss] Disabling UEFI and dual booting Linux and Windows

the same people and the same design. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman

Re: [Discuss] Disabling UEFI and dual booting Linux and Windows

a private key, malware should be able to just inject its own key. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: [Discuss] Linux bootable tool to clean Windows NTFS infections?

. I never got the absurdity of trying to remove an infection using tools running on an infected machine. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] How to mount an Android device in Linux -- solution

access to the file system, all files are created with root ownership, and you can only set the timestamp on an inode if you own it. I haven't seen a solution, other than telling rsync not to attempt to set timestamps, or presumably rooting. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

Re: [Discuss] Boston Linux Meeting - Building an ARM Laptop with Raspberry Pi

systems. (An audience member pointed out his $250 Samsung Chromebook.) Federico said the value in the Pi is that the low cost makes them disposable, open up new applications that wouldn't be economical for the alternatives that cost 3 or 4 times more. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA

[Discuss] [OT] how to disable Gmail's filtering of duplicate messages?

seen a discussion thread by someone else who wants to disable the filtering. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] [OT] how to disable Gmail's filtering of duplicate messages?

, as it depends on your client being perpetually connected to Gmail, and its ability to pull down and delete a received message before its duplicate arrives. I guess the next step is to post to some Google forum and hold my breath waiting for Google to add an option. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

Re: [Discuss] MythTV front-end

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Re: [Discuss] How do Linux guys back up Windows?

backup will cover that, or you're willing to recreate those steps when needed. I'm not sure I've ever restored an ntfsclone image, but I have successfully used it as a faster way to do disk-to-disk clones. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] migrate existing Windows installations to VirtualBox

shortly, following this guide: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows Anyone tried this? Any opinion as to whether VirtualBox or VMWare is more suitable to this task? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] restoring Windows on different hardware

or even enough OS access to setup wireless was allowed, even though you use a net connection (or telephone) to activate. Basically you could activate or reboot. That's it. Gotta love DRM.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile

[Discuss] memtest86+ oddities

version of memtest86+, 4.20. I wonder what the difference is? Corrupt CD? (Both are official, mass produced Canonical CDs.) (The crashing installer was apparently due to the installer not recognizing the SATA controller, rather than a memory problem.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA

Re: [Discuss] DRM

Kidwell wrote: I know I'm preaching to the choir here... Yes, I'm sure there aren't may fans of DRM on this list...just varying degrees of tolerance. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] memtest86+ oddities

the impact of caching. It gives the impression that the plus version should generally be superior. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] GPL and code linkages

you mean Oracle v. Google? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo

[Discuss] end-of-year donations to open source

Several open source and related organizations are seeking end-of-year donations, including the FSF's anti-DRM arm, Wikipedia (not really open source), and a new privacy initiative from GNOME. Some more info below. -Tom

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

, then I'd be looking more closely at it. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

Tom Metro wrote: The holy grail for a home storage server is one in which you can largely treat as an appliance, and easily stick new disks into it to expand storage, without compromising (long term) performance and reliability, and without having to manually grow file systems, or worse

[Discuss] ZFS vs. Btrfs

comparative experiences been? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses

the derivative portion, so that BSD developers would be free to integrate the enhancements. As far as I know, this rarely happens, which is unfortunate, as I do think other projects, regardless of their native license, should contribute back to their upstream sources. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

[Discuss] [OT] iOS from a power user's perspective

are more laggy, but with third-party launchers it can do almost the same stuff as ICS/Jelly Bean. Professional reviewers tend to focus on subtitles that casual users wouldn't notice.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile

Re: [Discuss] [OT] iOS from a power user's perspective

tablets will have Kinect-like hardware built-in, than Microsoft will still be making Surface tablets. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] running GTK+ apps in a web browser

was introduced quite a while ago, yet we haven't heard much (anything?) about it since. Makes me think development on it has either ceased, or was found to be impractical. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] [OT] iOS from a power user's perspective

Rich Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: How is that different from the countless Bluetooth keyboard options available for all tablets, and the Asus Transformer series that has optional keyboard docks? The difference is that those are bolt-on devices. They aren't part of the device like

Re: [Discuss] [OT] iOS from a power user's perspective

John Abreau wrote: Rich Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: I would bet that it is far more probable that 5 years from now tablets will have Kinect-like hardware built-in, than Microsoft will still be making Surface tablets. I don't foresee it. It'll be nice if it happens but I'm not holding my

Re: [Discuss] copyright

) and sharing of it. Both mechanisms have long since been stretched beyond those principles into preserving profits, and effectively hampering innovation. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

[Discuss] data caps

all their profits into lobbying against any laws that set up new last mile rules. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] satellite Internet vs. fixed wireless

, and by the sounds of it, less reliable. Has anyone heard of any efforts to create a community owned fixed-wireless ISP? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] interpretation of GPL 's combined derivative works

Linux with proprietary Broadcom blobs. (They did, however, get sued for not making the modified GPL source available.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Returned to the NVIDIA fold

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Re: [Discuss] The perpetual question: current best HDD?

. If it shows 2 years, and you have no printed documentation to back that up, you've then got a different problem if Seagate decides to later redefine the warranty period. Print out the web page and file it away? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] XFCE

X startup and persistence And does it work well? I think around 2007 was the last time session persistence worked decent in GNOME. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] MATE

? Their choice should be a good indicator of their opinion of how ready they think Cinnamon is, and which they see as the future direction. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Cinnamon

. Generally I find Cinnamon to be stable and usable, but as I previously said, unfinished. Good enough for now, but I probably wouldn't recommend it for those not willing to put up with a few bugs. The assumption is that it'll get better, and head in a direction more favorable than GNOME 3. -Tom -- Tom

Re: [Discuss] Interesting rant about Gnome 3

from 10,000 feet. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Interesting rant about Gnome 3

- spread out over 5+ years - so there was no pronounced inflection point to push developers in mass to a single forked project. While Linux Mint is gaining in popularity, Cinnamon probably won't hit a critical mass unless they get Debian, RedHat, or other top distributions on board. -Tom -- Tom

Re: [Discuss] Interesting rant about Gnome 3

(3.6 was released in September; the article was posted in December, 2012, so the author was presumably aware of newer versions bring available). -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] data caps

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Re: [Discuss] data caps

Tom Metro wrote: Matt Shields wrote: While I would love to punish the companies that abuse datacaps in favor of profit. Some people do not have much of a choice when it comes to what service is available. That was the point of my question...what are the alternatives? Coincidentally

Re: [Discuss] Cinnamon

F. Ozbek wrote: Tom Metro wrote: F. Ozbek wrote: There is no default desktop concept on Linux Mint. You can use Mate, Cinnamon, KDE or Xfce. I see. And the project doesn't recommend one? As far as I know there is no recommended desktop. I recently ran across an article mentioning how

[Discuss] core competency

with a tuned team and process, and instead spending its resources on a product manager - or, seeing as that's a role the founders will likely handle themselves, more generally product design activities? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] webmin

automation fairly easily, and it should log operations so things the GUI designer didn't anticipate breaking can be resolved. With other OSs you are more likely to encounter GUIs that are complete black boxes - no automation and no insight into what they are doing (or failing to do). -Tom -- Tom

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

as the target user and is executed after the X environment is up and running. If you want the behavior to be global, presumably you'll need to modify the system default scripts, like /etc/X11/Xsession. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional

[Discuss] updating hard drive firmware from a VM

and where the firmware data starts, and send bogus code to the drive. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: [Discuss] Fedora MP4 Plugin

aldo albanese wrote: What would you suggest as of a program to play MPEG-4 in Fedora. VLC, mplayer, ... -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Encouraging Children to Explore Open Source

to get into open source software development that are purely software. How about learning how to create games for Android? https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/theTechTrek/entry/creating_a_simple_android_game_using_andengine1?lang=en -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA

[Discuss] sshuttle, a pseudo-VPN built on ssh

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Re: [Discuss] Ext4, ugh! Re: Disk recovery utilities - dealing with deleted files

the journal and then you'll need a different strategy. Perhaps they figure your deleted files will be overwritten by then. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] updating hard drive firmware from a VM

Tom Metro wrote: What I'm wondering is whether this sort of FreeDOS image could be booted (as an emulated floppy or CD) in a VM (VirtualBox), which would be configured to pass through the target disk as its primary drive. Will the VM adequately get out of the way enough to pass IDE commands

Re: [Discuss] rsnapshot, Back In Time

. It stores the original permissions for files in a separate database stored with each snapshot. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

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Re: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

common. You get similar weird behavior if you try and use hard links on NTFS.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] Server won't boot kernel. initramfs problem?

would do in minutes. The bigger question is whether anyone will be sufficiently motivated to build such a tool. It requires the combination of being sufficiently concerned about memory errors and not wanting to pay the premium for ECC RAM. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise

Re: [Discuss] USB thumbdrive, Linux only usage: FAT vs NTFS vs other? TRIM support?

among Windows machines. FAT32 has a 4 GB file size limit (2 GB for FAT16), which can sometimes be a problem. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

[Discuss] Open Compute Hardware

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[Discuss] Cinnamon update

persistently named workspaces, which are available in some other modern desktops. I still haven't fund a better workspace switcher. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] [OT] Smart Phones

alternatives. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] LibrePlanet 2013 -- free software conference in Cambridge, MA

Original Message Subject: LibrePlanet 2013 -- free software conference in Cambridge, MA Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:38:43 + From: Peter Olson To: disc...@artisansasylum.com LibrePlanet software freedom conference announces line-up BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Friday, March

Re: [Discuss] Migrating m...@gmail.com to m...@mydomain.com?

be in the domain administration control panel.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman

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