Re: Frames and Motorola's New Router.

At 2023 Mar 14 Tue 08:07 PM +, Lori Nagel wrote: > It is a new motorola router. What model? -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Frames and Motorola's New Router.

At 2023 Mar 12 Sun 09:36 PM -0400, Bruce Labitt wrote: >>> Why don't linux machines let me use the Wi-Fi when the router is set to >>> frames. >>> It is supposed to be enhanced security, but it only works under windows. >> >> I'm not sure what you mean here. > > Perhaps the router was set to

Re: Debugging linux crashes

On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 12:09 PM Bruce Labitt wrote: > I am experiencing severe Linux crashes ... Long meandering messages with critical details hidden throughout and others omitted entirely will reduce the likelihood that others will give you help for free. (Or even when paid.) In particular,

Re: ZFS vs btfrs

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 11:44 AM Bruce Dawson wrote: > Well, you're more concerned with files than large blocks of data, so I > don't think either matter - other than standard filesystem performance. I wouldn't go that far. In particular, snapshots at the block layer are generally less

ZFS vs btfrs

Hi all, We haven't had a really good flamewar ^W discussion on here in far too long... SUMMARY Btfrs vs ZFS. I was wondering if others would like to share their opinions on either or both? Or something else entirely? (Maybe you just don't feel alive if you're not compiling your kernel from

Jörg Schilling died 2021 OCT 11 (last year)

This is somewhat old news, but it is worth repeating even if it wasn't missed (as it was for me). Jörg "Schily" Schilling succumbed to cancer, about four months ago, on 2021 October 11. Schilling was probably best known for his cdrtools suite, which includes mkisofs and cdrecord. For more than

Review of MNT Reform "fully open" laptop

Submitted for your consideration... "Review: MNT Reform laptop has fully open hardware and software—for better or worse" 2022 JAN 31 by Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/review-mnt-reform-laptop-has-fully-open-hardware-and-software-for-better-or-worse/

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 9:17 PM Curt Howland wrote: >> Say you find a file that has a stored time of 2007 MAR 31 17:00 UTC. > > With GMT as the standard time stamp, one can at least know relative > times of files, even if one does not know such real-world details. There are a few problems with

Re: Kind of puzzled about timestamps

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:57 PM Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > And as a general word of advice from someone whose been burnt way too many > times: > if you're going to put timestamps in your filenames, either just use UTC > or explicitly indicate which timezone the timestamps are assuming. Even

Re: update on CIFS SAMBA CVE Re: Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - Crypto News Review, Historical Vignette, and Transitioning from PGP/GnuPG

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 12:40 PM Bill Ricker wrote: > ... mentioned in my News segment in last night's presentation. There was talk of the slide deck being made available online somewhere. Do you know if that happened? Thanks again for an interesting and informative presentation, BTW. -- Ben

Re: Is your kids' school forcing Zoom on them too?

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 8:49 PM Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > security- and privacy- [which I guess I have to remind people are *not* the > same thing...] OK, I'll bite, how is privacy not part of security? (I suspect what you mean is that "privacy" is security you care about, while "security"

Re: Is your kids' school forcing Zoom on them too?

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 5:52 PM Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > If you haven't heard..., Zoom has turned out to be a complete privacy- and > security-nightmare So has everything else created in the past several years. To paraphrase Larry Niven, it appears that the concept of "privacy" was

Re: upgraded to Fedora 32 from Fedora 30 -- libvirtd no longer runs

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 5:54 PM Lloyd Kvam wrote: > I hope I did not burden you with excessive emails. This is the most interesting thread we've had on this list for months. ;-) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Alex Hewitt, RIP

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 9:47 AM Ted Roche wrote: > Passing on the sad news that Alex Hewitt died on April 18th. Some of you may > remember Alex as the > co-organizer of the Python SIG with the late Bill Sconce, or for his work at > DEC. :-( -- Ben

Re: How was the get-together?

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:00 AM Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hey, all. I'm deeply, deeply sorry I missed the fun. Tow truck finally > got me to Amherst around 7:00, and I still had to walk home from the > shop. But enough about me: I'm curious how things went! Was a good > time had by all?

Re: Reminder/RSVP -- meet *this Thursday* for chat & beer.

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 4:23 PM Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com) wrote: > I'll be there too. And as a Red Hatter ;-) Given a relatively recent interest of yours, that's somewhat ambiguous. ;-) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

[GNHLUG] Linux Meeting - TOMORROW - THR 20 FEB - Martha's Exchange

What : Meeting of Linux Users Who : You! Your friends! Total strangers! Date : Thur 20 Feb 2020 (TOMORROW) Time : 6:00 PM to whenever (at least 8:00 PM) Where: Martha's Exchange, 185 Main Street, Nashua, NH It has been a long, long time since GNHLUG got together for Linux, grub, and suds.

Re: Nashua-area folks -- meet up?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 2:08 PM Ben Scott wrote: > >>> Maybe Thursday, the 20th of Feb.? (Safely after Valentine's...) > > Should I send something to -announce and/or post it on the website? For the first time since October 2013, the GNHLUG website has an upcoming even

[GNHLUG] Linux Meeting - THR 20 FEB - Martha's Exchange

What : Meeting of Linux Users Who : You! Your friends! Total strangers! Date : Thur 20 Feb 2020 Time : 6:00 PM to whenever (at least 8:00 PM) Where: Martha's Exchange, 185 Main Street, Nashua, NH It has been a long, long time since GNHLUG got together for Linux, grub and suds. This sad state

Re: Nashua-area folks -- meet up?

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 2:18 PM Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > > Should I send something to -announce and/or post it on the website? > > That sounds like an excellent idea! It seems there is a "Time" field in the announcement template. What should I put there? -- Ben

Re: Nashua-area folks -- meet up?

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 1:23 PM Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: >>> Maybe Thursday, the 20th of Feb.? (Safely after Valentine's...) Should I send something to -announce and/or post it on the website? (I think I remember how...) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: Job postings here or somewhere else? (IT/SysAdmin job in Lebanon, NH)

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 7:26 PM Bruce Dawson wrote: >> It gets around 3 posts per year, almost all from one person. > > Actually, a few went in there in the past month or two. I suspect that may be a statistical anomaly. Or perhaps just nobody will post for the rest of the year. ;-) -- Ben

Re: TECO! was, err, COBOL on HPUX

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 10:23 PM Ric Werme wrote: > Do newbies these days know what LIFE is other than some early cellular > automaton? Is it something else? (I presume you're not referring to the corny board game.) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing

Re: Nashua-area folks -- meet up?

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 2:59 PM Ric Werme wrote: > I remember some almost grown kid named Ben. I wonder whatever > happened to him. Me too. -- some guy ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Job postings here or somewhere else? (IT/SysAdmin job in Lebanon, NH)

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:59 AM Alan Johnson wrote: > Apologies, but I have lost track if there is still a separate list for > posting jobs. There is a gnhlug-jobs mailing list, but I seriously question its contemporary vitality. I suspect it may be something like the walking dead at this

Re: COBOL on HPUX

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 11:19 PM Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > So I, a relative HP-UX neophyte, ordered COBOL for some thousands of dollars. ... > That's a top-five most-frustrating-thing ever. I sincerely hope that things > have changed in the intervening time. Things have changed! They're worse.

Re: Kevin D. Clark, R.I.P.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:53 AM Ted Roche wrote: > I'm sorry to report of the passing of Kevin D. Clark at the too-young age of > 48... This is horrible. Oh my. Kevin has been a member of GNHLUG since just about forever. I remember his astute comments on things far and wide. Perl certainly,

Re: ARP weirdness.

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Ubuntu box acting as a router for some subnets. > > [192.168.200.12] <-1302 VLAN->[switch]<-1302 VLAN->switch<-1302 VLAN-> > [router @ 192.168.200.1] So, to clarify, the Ubuntu box is at .1? What is .12? Can you give a

Remotely exploitable firmware vulnerability in all Intel chipsets

This is potentially very bad for many people, as this is presumably exposed outside the firewall on the computer, and is OS-independent. That means any laptop that leaves a firewalled LAN is exposed to a remote root exploit. The Intel "Management Engine" (ME) runs along side the main processor.

Re: Susan, where are you? (was: what a luck)

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: >> Susan Cragin are you there? > > I'm glad I don't admin an email system nowadays. Me too-- oh wait. Crap. susancra...@earthlink.net has been unsubscribed from all GNHLUG mailing lists. If Susan Cragin should so desire,

Re: Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Yeah--it's *stuck*. Maybe if I still had it locked in the socket, > and/or if I'd been running it beforehand and still had it hot..., > though the whole idea of holding the CPU by the pins, using the motherboard

Re: Phone SPAM/SCAM

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Sometimes my friend gives the address of a funeral home, jail or morgue. Oh, I like that. I think I will start offering: One Center Plaza Suite 600 Boston, MA 02108 -- Ben

Re: What Language for a kid

On Dec 24, 2015 12:47, "Paul Beaudet" wrote: > Pointing to the training wheel equivalent here alarms me we may be overlooking the key objective, which is inspiration for a young person. Conversely, if you give a ten-speed racing bike to someone who has not yet learned to

Re: Networking Question

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Greg Kettmann wrote: > For various reasons, including reliability, I have two ISP's. In my > original configuration I had two Gateways, GW1-192.168.1.1 and > GW2-192.168.1.2 on one subnet. You're better off having a single router, as the sole

Re: Looking for an intern to play with a Linux-powered robot fleet

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@hackerposse.com wrote: ... candidates for engineering jobs will show up with _no portfolio_ (especially when we're talking about software jobs: Most of what I've done is work-for-hire, not owned by me, and under 37 levels of NDA.

Re: Google thinks GNHLUG is spam now

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Anyway, I'm using GMail here and received your Google thinks GNHLUG is spam now msg in my regular inbox. Interesting. I presume you mean the original message? Do you have any filters configured to exempt

Re: Google thinks GNHLUG is spam now

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Is there an SPF record? That would depend on the sending domain. For at least one of the affected messages, there is no SPF record for the sending domain, and Google's added mail headers correctly reflect

Re: Wiki Report: What's that wiki running?

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I'm very interested in your feedback and beta testers. What's your favorite wiki running? https://freephile.org/wikireport I keep seeing the word Array appearing, in red text, between the CAPTCHA and the

Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote: install a new system, and transfer to there. That is the quickest and easiest path, when you say 'new' do you mean 'current' as well? Yeah We need to upgrade at some point anyway. This is as good a time as

Virtual machine host provider recommendations

Hey all, GNHLUG's server is being kicked out of our long-time free hosting. Rather than trying to find a new home for the box, I'm thinking I'll just buy an account on a virtual machine hosting company, install a new system, and transfer to there. That is the quickest and easiest path, and we

Re: poking around for opportunities

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: I've been assuming that embedded meant some significant subset of the following properties: 1) realtime 2) re-entrant/parallel/interrupt-driven 3) specialty hardware 4) specialty OS (if there's an OS there

Re: Local inexpensive media destruction?

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Dave Johnson dave-gnhlug-l...@davej.org wrote: Anyone know of a local/inexpensive media destruction service? How concerned are you with nefarious recovery? For example, the US government has fairly strict standards on what counts as destruction for machine

Re: 20 years of GNHLUG

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Did we really miss having a party for the 20th? The big party will be when GNHLUG turns 21. After all, aren't we just a bunch of drinkers with a computer problem? (Rich Soule) -- Ben

[GNHLUG] RIP Chris Gagnon

I regret to report that Chris Gagnon, AKA Chris Case, passed away yesterday (WED 17 DEC). Chris was a local hacker, Linux/FOSS enthusiast, and by all reports, real good guy. He is notable to GNHLUG for running meetings in Nashua for a while. Multiple memorial gatherings are being held:

Re: Can this disk be repaired? Does it need to be?

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Bruce Labitt bdlab...@gmail.com wrote: Have an SSD formatted to NTFS. I had intended to use it between linux and Win7 as a backup. It worked for a while in both OS. Yesterday Win7 asked if I wanted to repair the disk. Windows unfortunately confounds disk,

Re: Can this disk be repaired? Does it need to be?

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: This SSD was to be my carry around disk containing work I've done in the past as reference. My brains so to speak. These days, the common thing to do is store such things in the cloud, i.e., on a server hosted

Re: Can this disk be repaired? Does it need to be?

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Can FAT32 support weird aka Linux file names? Maybe. Original FAT only supported a 1 to 8 character base filename, with a very limited character set (monocase alphanumeric, no spaces, a handful of punctuation).

Re: Historical note about two prominent GNHLUG members

On Nov 3, 2014 4:09 PM, Carole Soule c...@codemeta.com wrote: Are we really that old? Age is a number. Youth is a state of mind. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: BLINK (was: powerschool webscraper?)

On Nov 3, 2014 5:44 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: I was pretty frustrated when I saw the hoops one needs to jump through to make blinking text[1], these days, since the browsers finally neutered both blink and text-decoration:blink. Firefox used to have an about:config

Re: powerschool webscraper?

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:29 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: It's also making me depressed how terrible the internet has become. Yes. Why does an extremely simple, automatable task like check if posted grades have changed require a human being to spend valuable time poking

Re: powerschool webscraper?

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:24 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: I don't need or even want a GUI. I want to run it as a cron job and email myself a result when there is one. Have the script start a VNC or null or other similar X server to host the GUI. Ugly, but it's the ultimate

Re: Historical note about two prominent GNHLUG members

Wow indeed. Congratulations to both of you! For those GNHLUGers who do not know, for a lng time, Bruce ran the GNHLUG mailing lists and website, as well as the CentraLUG group. Bruce and Carole have also hosted wonderful parties for us and sister causes, at their farm

Re: GRUB, ISO, and remote boot.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: I know that GRUB can't, by itself, remote boot a live-boot ISO (it needs some help from the ISO, itself, which won't be the case, here). But I also am almost sure I can 1) Mount the ISO on a remote system (and export it)

udevd restart == odd network kablooie

GNHLUG's Internet presence was offline for a few days, after I tried to restart udevd and the system immediately went dead-to-the-net. That was on Thursday. I got the system rebooted today. (The system has been so trouble-free since it was installed that nobody knew exactly where it was, which

Re: Linux + MIDI

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:11 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: ... ISoundBlaster Extigy ... I was going to turn this down, thinking it was a sound card (he's probably migrating to a laptop soon). Turns out it's not a sound card and I don't know what to do because I can't tell what it

Re: Best RAW photo editing tool?

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Paul Beaudet inof...@gmail.com wrote: I have got tired of post-processing because of the time it takes. Sad to say google's auto-awesome impresses me in terms of time efficiency. How do I run that on my Linux box? -- Ben

Re: Best RAW photo editing tool?

Hi Marc! -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: Which was fine, until DSL came along. DSL works by putting equipment in the CO and connecting that to the existing loops. The DSL equipment overlays a digital signal onto analog phone service. That doesn't work when there's

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:28 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: However it looks like your connection goes through FairPoint equipment that our connections do not go through. Sorry we couldn't help you. Does anyone have more information about this? Does Milford have two

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: I think FairPoint does have some service in NH that's analogous to FiOS ... FairPoint inherited Verizon's FiOS system when they bought NH. For at least a few years, FairPoint was contracting Verizon to operate and

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 2:05 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: It's sounding like the upshot is that I should try comcast. Of those two, I'd much rather have Comcast than FairPoint. What does the cable modem consist of? From a black-box POV, I assume it's basically identical to a DSL

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: Video buffering is not necessarily a latency-based complaint. It can be latency, but it can also be pure throughput constraint. Or packet loss, or jitter, or... -- Ben ___

[GNHLUG] Poll on GNHLUG meetings/topics/etc.

Paul Beaudet is running a poll for the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group, to try and gauge interest in meetings, topics, activities, etc. Please feel free to contribute your opinion. http://goo.gl/Xq7sxl

Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:08 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com wrote: We only had sticks to scratch into mud bricks, but there were no trees so we had to organize caravans into the mountains and then carry the logs back ourselves in desert heat and sand. ... uphill both ways. -- Ben

Re: USB video?

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Though the RasPi doesn't have VGA because of cost I've read. They wanted to make sure it worked on TV which meant HDMI and composite. So maybe the cost was HDMI/Composite vs HDMI/Composite/VGA I'd suppose so. Plus, the

Re: [OT-IGNORE] de-ComCastification test

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Michael ODonnell mod.gnh...@b0rken.com wrote: Subject: de-ComCastification test Do you get this reply? If so, your de-Comcastification didn't work completely. I'm sending from Comcast. ;-) -- Ben ___

Re: USB video?

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Why do servers still have VGA + PS/2? From what I see, most have VGA and USB, these days. Because most KVMs haven't switched? I'm not privy to their design meetings, but I would suppose: VGA is cheaper, both to build a

Re: What are you doing for home NAS?

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Michael Bilow mik...@colossus.bilow.com wrote: This allows the RAID manager (whether hardware or software) to handle the error appropriately, usually by computing what the sector should contain and writing it, thereby causing a reallocation of the failed sector

Re: ARTICLE - Fixing UNIX/Linux filenames

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: ... perfectly useful on other operating systems but make Windows choke, like all of |\?*:+[]/$ and words like nul, aux, com, con, prn You can't put / in a Unix file name, either. Sounded like

Re: ARTICLE - Fixing UNIX/Linux filenames

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Each can inflict horrors on the other OSen (name a file prn: in Unix for your windows users) An old prank was to get an MS-DOS user to issue the command: TYPE CLOCK$ Which has roughly the same effect as

Re: I see GNU Make 4.0 is out

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:05 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: My question is, if the build system is now turing-complete, when can automake die? autoconf sucks because the world sucks and it's trying to fix that. (For values of the world equal to POSIX portability.) -- Ben

Re: 911 calls from unsubscribed devices

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: I assume that, ideally, a 911 operator would like to have a conversation with the caller to better assess the nature/urgency of the emergency, but I also assume that's not strictly necessary as long as

[OT] Look for IT contractor

$DAYJOB is looking for a competent IT contractor firm from which we can rent clue and bodies. Predominantly Microsoft Windows (sigh), although we use some Linux at the edge, and are usually open to FOSS solutions. Manufacturing company, ~125 employees, ~100 PCs. Work to be done on-site in

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote: Sprint is a mix of both CDMA and PCS. In not sure what their Nextel phones are using these days. I think PCS is/was Sprint's brand name for a GSM-based offering, which they've since discontinued. They're now a strictly

Re: MacOS/Samba not playing nice

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org wrote: I'd start with what Ben recommended and look at the 'force directory mode' setting on the server first. Making changes there will be a lot easier than changing every OS X box, and changing it every time a new system

Re: MacOS/Samba not playing nice

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Robert Pruyne rpru...@rpc-nh.org wrote: I have a Samba server running on it to serve files on our network. When our only Mac OS user logs in, and tries to make a new directory on the Samba server, it creates it with permissions of 0700, and the user is the

Re: Is this normal?

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:44 AM, James A. Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com wrote: Question: How did Google get the link? gnhlug is a public bulletin board, but doesn't Google promise not to search email content? http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/

Re: Office base

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: There is a lady on the BLU list who is converting a client from MS Access to either LibreOffice base or OpenOffice base. Her issue is that the online documentation is either too basic or overly technical. Just like Microsoft

Re: Mother of all xterms?

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:43 AM, John Abreau j...@gapps.blu.org wrote: Personally, I don't care if some committee wants to retcon it. As far as I'm concerned, its proper name remains Tom's Window Manager. Which is all well and good, if one happens to know it started that way. twm was

Re: Mother of all xterms?

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 4:20 PM, John Abreau j...@gapps.blu.org wrote: But, as an FYI, I also found an interview with Mr. LaStrange, where he does state that the tab in the later name change was due to the title bars looking like tabs, and it was done as part of the consortium transition.

Re: Mother of all xterms?

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Hey, all -- I've gotten quite used to gnome-terminal and konsole, and they both work, but I admit I have a little bit of iterm2 (for the Mac) envy -- e.g., being able to search back through the log to a specific timestamp.

Re: Mother of all xterms?

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote: [1] twm, confusingly, does not do tabbed windows. ;-) IIRC the t stands for Tom's, not Tabbed It depends on who you ask. It can stand Tom's or Tab. I've seen man pages for either and both. My Debian box uses Tab in

Re: FYI

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: FYI, running badblocks -w on a 3 terabyte hard disk takes a long time. For those of you keeping score at home, the final tally was 68 hours, 21 minutes. -- Ben ___ gnhlug

Re: FYI

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Jim McGinness jim.mcginn...@att.net wrote: Tell me about it. I've been running a ddrescue for over a month now trying to recover what can be recovered from a failing 1TB disk. It averages under 200KB/s when it's not getting stuck because the disk is failing.

SpinRite (was: FYI)

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: If the disk is failing, perhaps what it needs in SpinRight to recover the iffy blocks. Not Free, not Open, but good stuff and not expensive. Oh boy. This is going to get into religious territory. I am of the opinion

Re: Talk topics

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:33 PM, kenta ke...@guster.net wrote: Personally I'd be interested in SIP as I have little to no exposure to it ... +1 on the above. I can (in theory) give talks on: DNS and BIND; Samba; Sendmail; IPTables/netfilter/policy routing; Squid HTTP proxy/cache; OpenVPN.

FYI

FYI, running badblocks -w on a 3 terabyte hard disk takes a long time. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Symbolic linking confusion

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 and installed the nvidia-cuda-toolkit package. Side note: Make sure you install any related -dev or -devel packages, too. $ sudo ln -s libcuda.so.1 libcuda.so ? or the other way

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:27 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: Peer-to-peer is two guys meeting on a street corner and saying Hey, wanna buy some Bitcoins? :) What if 100 guys meet on a street corner? Umm... then there's more of them? :) It doesn't inherently affect the

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Peter Petrakis peter.petra...@gmail.com wrote: If you can buy puts against this then it's easy money. Why don't they suspend trading during a DoS or an institute an uptick rule? I thought one of the big things about Bitcoin is that there is no they, it's all

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Peter Petrakis peter.petra...@gmail.com wrote: I thought one of the big things about Bitcoin is that there is no they, it's all peer-to-peer. Yes/no? stock exchanges are also peer to peer in a sense ... No, they are not. They are centralized clearing

Re: new member - introductions

Welcome! There's a group doing a meatspace meeting (meating?) in Nashua every month. Announcements usually get posted here, although I don't think they've discovered the web site yet. :) There's also regular meatings in Manchester, both Linux and the Python SIG. Prolly other groups.

Re: new member - introductions

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I have a more complicated memory system that includes Google, mediawiki, drupal and various hard drives :-) I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere! (traditional, Fidonet) -- Ben

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:08 PM, kenta kenta.k...@gmail.com wrote: MerriLUG is having a meeting on Bitcoin this Tuesday! I happened to be around a TV showing CNBC (one of the financial news channels) today. Bitcoin was making headlines. Apparently the total value of the Bitcoin money supply

Re: Printer recommendations

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I recently (November) got a Konica-Minolta 1690mf for somewhere around $200 on a deal (!) from Adorama We have one of those at work. A VIP demanded color, print, scan, copy. I demanded laser (I won't buy a desktop inkjet

Re: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: So, I use LinkedIn. And my resume and professional portolio is the FOSS projects that I've worked on ... The question is: how do I tell that to LinkedIn? Have you tried asking them? :) In theory, that should

Re: Files, unloving, access, oh my.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Ric Werme ewe...@comcast.net wrote: It looks like my original reply didn't copy to the list due to me sending from my other Email account. The list server rejects post from email addresses it doesn't recognize. We get way too much spam to do otherwise. One

Re: Files, unloving, access, oh my.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Ric Werme r...@wermenh.com wrote: Remember, in *nix, one doesn't really delete files (inodes). One unlinks directory entries. The kernel deletes files once all references are gone. Well, FS writers generally keep the link count and open count separate

Re: Files, unliking, access, oh my.

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: If process A is reading from a file, and process B deletes it, process A can continue to read from it until... well, until it stops reading from it. It can also seek it, write to it, etc. This condition persists until the

Re: [OT] Corner cases in Ruby/Javascript (WAT!)

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: For entertainment puprposes only: a brief (4:18) video poking fun at corner cases of some Ruby/Javascript operators/syntax - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0EIZa5e9q4 That reminds me of: If

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