Re: [Discuss] Launch Shortcut as Sudo

2013-03-12 Thread Tom Metro
the terminal. -x, --execute Execute the remainder of the command line inside the terminal. So: gnome-terminal -x /path/to/mysecript is one way to do it. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] FOSS email that doesn't suck -- does such a thing exist?

2013-03-18 Thread Tom Metro
. But its usable. Hopefully someday someone will take over the project and rebuild it. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing

Re: [Discuss] FOSS email that doesn't suck -- does such a thing exist?

2013-03-22 Thread Tom Metro
Thunderbird do this? Perhaps not the last item, though I vaguely recall that there is a setting that controls that behavior. I use the functionality of the first two all the time. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] DNS question about DNSENUM.PL

2013-03-25 Thread Tom Metro
to answer this question would be to obtain your zone file from whoever maintains your DNS and look at how the records vary between the ones that Dnsenum finds and the ones it can't. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile

Re: [Discuss] DNS question about DNSENUM.PL

2013-03-26 Thread Tom Metro
in the first place. -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] Security through obscurity

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
-standard ssh port without impacting your users, and you log and monitor attack attempts against it (as you should), switching to a non-standard port will reduce those logged attacks to virtually zero. That's useful. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open

[Discuss] pseudo-off-site backup

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
protect the heads). (I'd say use a Raspberry Pi and notebook drive, but as Mark Woodward pointed out on the Hardware Hacking list, the Pi runs its network and disk I/O through one USB interface, so it'll likely have performance issues.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

[Discuss] DRM in HTML5

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
, Defective By Design is likely correct that DRM shouldn't be formally endorsed by the W3C as part of the standard. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Security through obscurity

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
Rich Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: We're getting a bit wrapped up in dogma. This isn't a black-and-white issue. If you take a broad enough definition of obscurity it could be taken to mean your knowledge of a password - it's obscure, you know it, and yet it's guessable, just like the oddball

Re: [Discuss] port-knocking

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
Rich Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: While I can imagine some implementations of port knocking, where failed knock sequences shut down a service, there are certainly other implementations where that is not the case. That's precisely what I mean. Combine port knocking, automatic IP block

Re: [Discuss] pseudo-off-site backup

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Metro
the idea is a little bit silly compared to better alternatives, like using a proper cloud storage service, but sometimes an imperfect backup solution is better than no offsite backup. Maybe John Dvorak should get out more? Quite likely. :-) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

Re: [Discuss] Sieve

2013-03-28 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: Tom Metro wrote: ...server-size filtering. What technique are you using? The simplest: I observed that people generally spend a long period of time with the same filtering rules, have small bursts of changes, and then continue - so I deliver through mailfilter, procmail

Re: [Discuss] Thunderbird freezes

2013-03-28 Thread Tom Metro
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Re: [Discuss] Thunderbird freezes

2013-03-28 Thread Tom Metro
it? My drafts folder is currently empty. Empty as viewed from with TB or a zero byte file when viewed from the file system? The default draft folder is the local folders draft. Good. And you've verified that the setting isn't overridden in the account you are sending from? -Tom -- Tom Metro

Re: [Discuss] security through obscurity

2013-03-28 Thread Tom Metro
that you've made your point clearly enough that the rest of us have gotten it, and that we're smart enough to conclude which perspective makes more sense, and let the thread drop. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

[Discuss] [Position-available] Hiring Lead DevOps Engineer at Punchey

2013-04-06 Thread Tom Metro
[A posting seen in the Linux Expert LinkedIn group. Reply to original poster. -Tom] Original Message Subject: Hiring Lead DevOps Engineer at Punchey Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 19:47:33 + (UTC) From: Linux Expert groups-nore...@linkedin.com Group: Linux Expert

Re: [Discuss] Sr. Systems DevOps Engineering role at PayPal in Boston

2013-04-06 Thread Tom Metro
software strips out attachments. Postings should be plain text. -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

[Discuss] modifying Android packages

2013-04-13 Thread Tom Metro
is ether unsigned or signed by an unknown key. Shouldn't be surprising at all that if you get an APK from some untrusted source, that it is technically possible for it to be a modified version. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional

Re: [Discuss] network administration tools on tablets

2013-04-20 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: A company that develops open source security hardware and software has bundled a Google Nexus 7 tablet with a custom ROM (which includes a chroot Ubuntu install and a bunch of security tools) and some USB network interfaces (wired, WiFi, and long range Bluetooth) to create

Re: [Discuss] SVN server - What hardware do I need?

2013-04-21 Thread Tom Metro
as well, based on what I've heard. (I don't have first hand experience comparing svnserve to Apache hosted SVN.) But it sounds like the SVN hosting aspect is a comparatively small part of this project, and not where you need to do your initial optimizations. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton

Re: [Discuss] Remote builds

2013-04-23 Thread Tom Metro
of whether your development environment is a VM or a one-off server, it's generally a good idea these days to have a VM image for deploying your product to facilitate QA, as you mention. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile

Re: [Discuss] encrypted basic cable

2013-04-25 Thread Tom Metro
that the FCC are either chumps, or are willingly doing what's most profitable for the industry they supposedly regulate, rather than in the best interest of the public. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] Aereo available in Eastern Mass, streaming TV sources

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Metro
. -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] The broader impact of Google Fiber

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Metro
is seeing anti-competitive bullies get their comeuppance after years of bribing politicians to protect their regional little uncompetitive fiefdoms. It's just a shame Google Fiber isn't in oh, about a thousand more markets. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise

Re: [Discuss] The broader impact of Google Fiber

2013-04-27 Thread Tom Metro
Google used this control technique to gain adequate control over the wireless phone market, and is now using a similar strategy for wired broadband. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

[Discuss] HTML5 DRM protest on Friday

2013-04-29 Thread Tom Metro
Looks like the DefectiveByDesign guys are organizing a protest against DRM in HTML5 this Friday outside W3C headquarters. (Not something I plan to attend, but this might be of interest to other BLUers.) -Tom Original Message Subject: Next Friday: join us for the most glamorous

[Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

2013-04-30 Thread Tom Metro
with setting an appointment to have this upgrade performed will say, Landline? We still have one of those? Lets just cancel it. Anyone else received such a letter? Other than if you're still using DSL, any reason to hold on to copper? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise

[Discuss] Protecting Networks and Systems Thursday May 2 at 7pm

2013-04-30 Thread Tom Metro
ACM/IEEE talk on network security. Not really clear from the description what the depth of the talk will be. Network security basics implies introductory material. -Tom Original Message Subject: Protecting Networks and Systems Thursday May 2 at 7pm Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013

Re: [Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

2013-05-01 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Today I received a letter from Verizon regarding my residence in Newton saying Verizon is replacing telephone wires and removing obsolete equipment to ensure long-term service reliability for our customers. To avoid future service interruptions we'll need

Re: [Discuss] Publish or Perish - coming to sw dev IT operations

2013-05-03 Thread Tom Metro
in these companies. Then again, there are plenty of companies that don't offer training and other career advancement opportunities and they still find plenty of employees. But they tend not to attract the top candidates. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open

Re: [Discuss] apt-get vs aptitude

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Metro
party repositories, however I don't think it restores everything post-upgrade, -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

[Discuss] sharing Jabber between desktop and mobile devces

2013-05-06 Thread Tom Metro
, which breaks end-to-end security, but if I'm controlling the proxy and I have an SSL link between my clients and the proxy, I'm OK with that. Has anyone cobbled together a solution to this problem? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] CLECs

2013-05-08 Thread Tom Metro
falls on a wire. -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] Verizon phasing out copper

2013-05-08 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: Today I received a letter from Verizon regarding my residence in Newton saying Verizon is replacing telephone wires...we'll need to move your telephone service to our new fiber network. ... FYI, this note was also published in the Telecom Digest: https://groups.google.com

Re: [Discuss] Home Routers

2013-05-10 Thread Tom Metro
this, with similar performance and price points. Hopefully someone will release an ARM board with a fast CPU and interfaces (2 Ethernet and possibly a switch w/VLAN) designed for routing. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

[Discuss] Geoff Huston's talk at NANOG53

2013-05-11 Thread Tom Metro
is maintained by a telco under contract. At some point Huston mentions that community ran infrastructure might be the solution. That's identical to what Seth suggests, except the ILEC is government ran instead of private. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through

Re: [Discuss] Geoff Huston's talk at NANOG53

2013-05-12 Thread Tom Metro
Chuck Anderson wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Doesn't tunneling provide a bypass to reach competitors who can provide that transition point? Tunneling isn't really a viable solution, since it will always perform worse than native connectivity. Sure, but... If those rendez-vous points and tunnel

Re: [Discuss] Comcast's IPv6 deployment

2013-05-13 Thread Tom Metro
new equipment expenditures, and use IPv4 as a toll bridge as Huston suggests? This paper is another reminder that Comcast's engineering group seems to be in a different universe from Comcast's business people, who are responsible for its public reputation. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

Re: [Discuss] Boston Linux Meeting - BeagleBone Black and Open Source Computing

2013-05-22 Thread Tom Metro
/hardwarehacking@blu.org/msg00866.html Ouya and other set-top-box news, ARM CPU bechmarks http://www.mail-archive.com/hardwarehacking@blu.org/msg00846.html Rethinking LinuxPC Robot -- the Linux PI Robot http://www.mail-archive.com/hardwarehacking@blu.org/msg00840.html -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

Re: [Discuss] rsync v. cp in data migration

2013-05-23 Thread Tom Metro
for the presence of sparse files. -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] rsync v. cp in data migration

2013-05-23 Thread Tom Metro
() for the lower-level function where read() is called iteratively. -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

Re: [Discuss] Help with data migration

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
to be understood and resolved first before resorting to creative solutions. -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] newegg

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
often find more selection, more reviews, and better prices on Amazon. What Amazon lacks is a good parametric search engine designed for computer components. I have to say, I'm converted. No more newegg. Seems wise. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions

Re: [Discuss] choice of hypervisor

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
thousand nodes deployed in Xen in another OpenStack environment and we wanted to make the transition easy, Toman said. We also have a lot of operational knowledge managing large scale deployments of Xen hypervisors. Apparently yes, inertia. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

Re: [Discuss] personal email hosting

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
, you need to create and pay for a corresponding user at the filtering service, so they have a defacto database of valid users in your domain. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] PTR records for email

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
: http://www.prq.se/?p=tunnelintl=1 can get you a static IP and custom PTR starting at $13/month. (Though you can likely get a mail relay service for less.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] Low Cost Internet?

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
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Re: [Discuss] VOIP provider

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
gateway hardware, which physically tied them to the single NYC location. Yet competitors, like voip.ms, that outsourced the gateway part, had far more distributed and redundant infrastructure.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional

Re: [Discuss] VOIP provider

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
in a data center anywhere outside the North East, they could have rode out the storm, with only an impact to the local NYC POTS lines, which many Callcentric customers don't use (I don't). -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional

Re: [Discuss] finding dead code in C projects

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
turn up a pile of previously unknown bugs in the code as a byproduct.) Regardless of what tool you use to identify dead code, you'll want unit tests to give you confidence to hack out the stuff you think is not useful while not breaking anything that matters. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic

Re: [Discuss] Verizon phasing out copper

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: Today I received a letter from Verizon...saying Verizon is replacing telephone wires and removing obsolete equipment to ensure long-term service reliability for our customers. To avoid future service interruptions we'll need to move your telephone service to our new fiber

Re: [Discuss] mini-ITX boards for Haswell CPUs

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: My understanding is that Haswell uses yet another incompatible socket format, so I don't think you can plug an old i3 onto these boards. That's intentional. Haswell's TDP is about half that of Ivy Bridge. If you were to wire a Haswell CPU to a Ivy

Re: [Discuss] mini-ITX boards for Haswell CPUs

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Fortunately the manufacturer's site does have specs on the GPU, showing that the low-end board[8] tops out at 1920x1200 @ 60Hz... That's not the GPU. That's the DAC(s) which sit on the motherboard and are fed by the CPU's integrated GPU. Get better DACs

[Discuss] mini-ITX boards for Haswell CPUs

2013-06-23 Thread Tom Metro
.html 7. http://www.techspot.com/review/679-intel-haswell-core-i7-4770k/page6.html 8. http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/B85M-ITX/?cat=Specifications 9. http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z87E-ITX/?cat=Specifications -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] Syncing Android phones directly

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
slice off a fringe of people who bother to load a third part ROM, the community is still fairly sizable. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Syncing Android phones directly

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
for apps, you'll find some apps that can be configured to put the #2-type data onto the SDcard, and some non-root backup tools that can backup the #2-type data, but usually the #1-type data is out of reach. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] Android privacy

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
. These app firewalls accomplish minimizing this by providing libraries that fake the genuine service, and yet this is still enough of a difference to crash some apps. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

[Discuss] reverting apt-get upgrades

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
. It seems like it should be a common need. -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] reverting apt-get upgrades

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: ...I would think it would be a common desire to be able to undo a package upgrade... Debian makes a point of upgrades being stable... This stability is usually one of the reasons for choosing Debian. You are completely correct, but that is also

Re: [Discuss] KeePassX

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
, you'd want to have the option to have that info encrypted using a different password than the one protecting your passwords. -Tom 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOTP -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

[Discuss] Canonical crowdfunding $32 million for phone

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
. (Though the update page has a video from Canonical's CEO.) Seems like they are trying to make this look like more of a community undertaking, than a corporate funding exercise. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] KeePassX

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
safe pass phrase, desktop login, and a few inconsequential LAN-local services, I don't know any of my passwords. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Mass Tax on Software Services

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
risk way to interpret it.) I sent an email to my state rep seeking clarification. I encourage others who think they may be impacted by this to do likewise. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] password strength

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
be performed on your password safe or other encrypted files. -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] paper password safe

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
with 1passw0rd style passwords isn't helping. There are various schemes for dealing with this, such as: Perfect Paper Passwords https://www.grc.com/ppp.htm -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] Android as a password safe

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
inconvenient, but maybe less inconvenient than carrying multiple devices, is to have multiple bootable images on the device. Then you could have an isolated (and encrypted) Android, or maybe Ubuntu, boot image that gets used for your password safe only. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA

[Discuss] Thunderbird has an IM client?

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
being found by Thunderbird's global search... OK, so you can log all your communication in one place, and search through it using a single interface. OK... An extension to search through Pidgin's logs could have accomplished the same thing. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

Re: [Discuss] password amnesia

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
encrypting using both a pass phrase and optionally a key file. It may be possible to use a key file and no password. So stick the key file on a USB drive, and carry that around with you. Bam, no passwords to remember. :-) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through

Re: [Discuss] single sign-on

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
use rsync on my LAN, so my password database never goes into the cloud...at least not without additional layers of encryption.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Android privacy

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
that's pretty close to what we will end up with, except the checkboxes won't be readily exposed to all from the Play app dialogs. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] single sign-on

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
expect someone using an air-gap to be concerned about. -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] eliminating passwords

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
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Re: [Discuss] eliminating passwords

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
Firefox? 2. https://projects.gnome.org/seahorse/ -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] email privacy/security

2013-08-04 Thread Tom Metro
format they suggested using.) -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] [OT] political petitions

2013-08-05 Thread Tom Metro
back from the state rep I wrote, aside from an immediate automated response, which basically said if this is important, call and speak to one of my aids. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] Mass. outlawed independent contractors in software and other creative professions in 2004

2013-08-06 Thread Tom Metro
rights to the employee. So either this argument is a disingenuous red herring, or I'm missing something. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

[Discuss] Bitmessage

2013-08-12 Thread Tom Metro
. Anyone tried this out? -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] NSA capabilities

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Metro
that the NSA will be more inclined to retain data that is encrypted, as it raises suspicion, so you've got a free backup service. :-) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Mass Tax on Software Services and work ownership

2013-08-15 Thread Tom Metro
to do with the new sales tax legislation. Historically if you wrote code, depending on how your contract is written, it was 'free for use' by the client and the programmer could ALSO 'take it with them' as they left. This new tax blocks this ability. It does? Where? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture

Re: [Discuss] Effort to repeal Mass Tax on Software Services

2013-08-15 Thread Tom Metro
(or its incorporation), but instead cease doing business with customers in MA. (Whether that's a smart thing to do is another matter.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] taxachusetts and the future of tech

2013-08-15 Thread Tom Metro
in the transportation bill. A few years down the road (if it still exists), it's introduction as part of a transportation bill will be long forgotten. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] 1 offline uncorrectable sectors detected

2013-08-20 Thread Tom Metro
-destructive mode if you aren't running an ext2/ext3/ext4 family of file system. (See the list archives for my posting on using 'badblocks' to burn-in a new drive.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] payments on the web over 10k?

2013-08-20 Thread Tom Metro
Jack Coats wrote: Tom Metro wrote: ...the successor to its Google Checkout service, which it is shutting down[1] in a few months. 1. https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3080449 Google has a pay feature (unless it is one of the things they did away with). Yes, they are soon to do

Re: [Discuss] job posting policy

2013-09-01 Thread Tom Metro
Work At EditShare wrote: EditShare...s seeking a freelance developer... As a reminder, the preferred procedure for posting jobs available or wanted to BLU is detailed at: http://blu.wikispaces.com/job+posting+policy -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions

Re: [Discuss] Software Development (OT?)

2013-09-09 Thread Tom Metro
the case, I'll know not to post follow-ups.) -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] NVidia 2 screen problem

2013-09-20 Thread Tom Metro
front-end to dedicated hardware. Have an old laptop? If not, you can probably source adequate hardware for under $200. That way you can treat it like an appliance and not worry about it interacting with your general desktop. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions

Re: [Discuss] Comcast goes all encrypted video in Cambridge

2013-09-25 Thread Tom Metro
of marketers and analysis on the payroll would know better, but they seem destined to price themselves out of the video delivery business. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

[Discuss] Cinnamon 2.0 released

2013-10-12 Thread Tom Metro
of the GNOME 3 libraries had to be patched to support Cinnamon, and on Ubuntu that was on top of patches to support Unity.) The project's blog posting on the changes and new features: http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/10/cinnamon-2-0-released/ -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

Re: [Discuss] unreadable sector

2013-10-13 Thread Tom Metro
be an expanding problem. -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] Gwibber

2013-10-17 Thread Tom Metro
widget that shows messages from only one specified category. So you can easily keep tabs on people in your industry, or just your friends, without having their messages lost in the fire hose. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional

[Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-17 Thread Tom Metro
to volunteer to work on any of them? -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] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
?), or it just isn't a group optimized for novices, and we're OK with that. -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] list archive viewer

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
it. Anyone have a suggestion for a good tool? (I'll check the mailman list archives to see what they recommend.) I think many have fallen by the wayside as free hosted services, like Gmane, have become popular. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] list archive viewer

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
. -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] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
, the viewer knows what organization was responsible for 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

Re: [Discuss] list archive viewer

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: A better approach, if they'd go for it, would be getting mail-archive.com to enhance their platform to permit some list-specific [emedding]. I sent an email to mail-archive.com to see if they'd be willing to support this. I see Gmane now offers a form of rudimentary embedding

Re: [Discuss] list archive viewer

2013-10-20 Thread Tom Metro
John Abreau wrote: I've made a first pass at setting up mhonarc. http://blu.org/mhonarc/discuss/ Nice. I gather it had easy hooks to add your own headers/footers? A step in the right direction. Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: ...again no integrated search engine, That's a feature

Re: [Discuss] salt question

2013-10-21 Thread Tom Metro
. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking#Prevention 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_bound_function 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA

Re: [Discuss] open source graphics drivers

2013-10-29 Thread Tom Metro
be motivated to bundle drivers that get the most out of the low-end hardware. -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] ubuntu unmounts my sdcard every time i suspend resume

2013-10-30 Thread Tom Metro
that is responsible for mounting removable media just needs to be tweaked. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

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