Re: Satellite Internet relative security

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:56 AM, James A. Kuzdrall wrote: > Does Linux have any special problems interfacing with the dish > equipment? > Is a standard Ethernet connection enough, or must they install software on > the Linux computer? > I had service through Hughes for a

Re: Gmail spam solution?

In the gmail web ui, pull down the menu next to "to gnhlug-discuss", choose "Filter messages from this mailing list", tick "Never send it to spam", click "Create filter" On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Matt Minuti wrote: > I know this came up a little while ago, but

Re: What Language for a kid

et a quick "hello" text-to-speech app running on my device. -- Brian St. Pierre On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Kenny Lussier <kluss...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > My daughter has expressed an interest in learning to code. It's a > non-specific, very general inte

erratic fairpoint dsl? [was Re: FYI: Comcast...]

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Re: Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

. For what it's worth, I stick to LTS releases and use PPAs for packages where I really want the latest version. I find upgrades from one LTS to another to be smoother -- have never had a point-release upgrade go well. -- Brian St. Pierre ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: how dumb is this idea?

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:59 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: However, I just had an idea. You can get 128GB USB drives on ebay for ~$20 now. Why not install an emulator-based (as opposed to bootable) live CD image on there that they can then mount the rest of the USB drive with and

Re: USB video?

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Anyway, I really like the two monitor thing I have going with the laptop, and the one thing that the Intel box doesn't have is a VGA port. Does anyone have any experience with USB video adapters under *nix? Any suggestions?

used laptops to donate?

A friend of mine works with a nonprofit helping Cocoa farmers in Grenada. She asked me for help finding 3-4 used laptops to outfit a learning center she is opening there. If you have an old laptop you can donate, please let me know. -- Brian St. Pierre

Re: Computer show Saturday, in Manchester

On 08/18/2012 08:49 PM, Bayard Coolidge wrote: Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name said: I was at the same UNH with Linus too. Me, too... And still have the autographed CD here in my collection. Me too, me too! Though I didn't think to get my CD autographed. I thought it was fall '95? (Pretty sure I

Re: StatusNet, anyone?

On 06/17/2012 12:13 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: What I will say, and maybe people will notice something in the phrasing..., is that you're all welcome to sign up on identi.ca, and follow me on status.hackerposse.com. Thanks for the phrasing of that pointer. It looks like it has support for

Re: StatusNet, anyone?

Thanks for the detailed response. I guess I'm going to have to play around with this a bit. On 06/18/2012 12:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Brian St. Pierrebr...@bstpierre.org writes: I used facebook for a while but deleted my profile. (Some key friends have also deleted profiles, so the

Re: Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

On 06/07/2012 07:33 AM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: Today's WSJ reported in the Digits column that encrypted LinkedIN passwords had been leaked. Decryption efforts have been successful against some subset of these passwords. I was disappointed to see no acknowledgement on the LinkIn site. (I just

Re: I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

On 04/12/2012 03:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: I know people who enjoyed their dealings with System76, also: http://www.system76.com/ I'm one of those people -- writing this on one of their laptops. I also own a netbook. The laptop has been good. No major complaints. It's heavy and

Re: Am I 32-bit, or 64-bit?

...) I'd recommend either pinning to 10.04 LTS or 12.04 LTS (due on the 26th), but that's just my $0.02. If you really want to stay on 10.10, grab a copy of the DVD torrent now. -- Brian St. Pierre ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Vendor independent certifications?

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:03 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:17:05 -0500, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I'm a sysadmin and have hired some in the past.  In the dot com era, we would sort resumes by lots of certs and experience.  Then we looked at the resumes

Re: Vendor independent certifications?

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Mike mik...@colossus.bilow.com wrote: A friend of mine is looking for a career change and asks what sort of vendor independent certifications (that is, not another college degree) would help them get in the door in programming, web design, or system

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: It seems like the obvious next line of questions, though, is: is going through a the digital version of changing your address a significantly- greater ordeal than the `real life moving' version? And, if it is...,

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:41 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:32:43 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Maybe you guys can suggest other providers, or just provide some thoughts on the two I've listed above. I think a reasonably protective

Re: Browsers

-14389430 Draw your own conclusions about IE users -- that study was a hoax... -- Brian St. Pierre ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Looking to get lucky again with another expect question.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: The general solution would be to run an expect script that would simply act as a passthrough to guarantee that whatever I run would think it had a tty, and would therefore be line buffered by default instead of fully

Re: ssh + svn - pam

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Re: tcl/TK question

# Closing the file descriptor from this `open` will cause an error. # (See the man page.) if [catch {set f [open |/bin/false]} input] { puts something different went wrong: $input } close $f HTH. -- Brian St. Pierre ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Re: Ubuntu... downgrade? (64-bit - 32-bit)

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Hmmm... might be worth looking into.  I mean, what's the worst that happens?  I bork my system, and wind up doing a re-install.  Which is what I'm

Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: I have this horrible spreadsheet that needs to be accessed by lots of people from all over the galaxy. Adding entries to the spreadsheet is painful because it's manual. What I'd like to do is to use a command line

Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: Right now, everyone is using Excel from windows to add their entries. I don't actually know if using anything else (OOO, gnumeric, etc,) would cause unintended ripples to the files. All the devel work that I deal with

Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote: Or you could just throw the spreadsheet into Google Apps, since they seem to have worked out the multi-user document sharing aspects pretty well. However, I don't know of a command-line interface to that! Google provides

Re: Computer part recycling [was: New Year's Cleaning]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:59 AM, kenta kenta.k...@gmail.com wrote: What I'm trying to find is a recycler, preferably free of charge, that will take this legacy hardware (read: junk) off my hands. I know that some companies have recycling days but I didn't see any posted around my area

Re: Current compensation conditions

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:58 PM, mno...@embedded-unlimited.com wrote: On Mon Nov 22 13:38 , mark sent: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: I might be invited to join a team of developers on what they're calling a contract basis (tho it'd

Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:  I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some 'backup'.  I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'.  It looks not too hard - this worries me.  :) If you're performing backups with rsync, you may want to take

Re: dual pci nic with bridging

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.org wrote: Anybody have experience with a PCI-based dual-interface NIC that does hardware bridging?   This would be for a traffic monitoring

dual pci nic with bridging

Anybody have experience with a PCI-based dual-interface NIC that does hardware bridging? This would be for a traffic monitoring application, so the host cpu must be able to snoop traffic. Software bridging is not feasible. Thanks for any pointers. -- Brian St. Pierre

Re: OT? - Broadband Troubleshooting

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Greg g...@kettmann.com wrote: What's the best approach to isolating or identifying the details of this problem?  One obvious solution is to log some pings for a day or two.  This is

Re: Linux for cloud computing: Request for Input

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Any other ideas on the topic of Why Linux for Cloud Computing? Virtualization? Any blatant negatives for Linux as a platform? Too many choices. Once you've chosen linux over other options, you've still got a ton of

Re: Using xmlstarlet and OpenOffice

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote: [WARNING: Lots of code here...] Adding the -C option to your command line yields: ?xml version=1.0? xsl:stylesheet version=1.0 xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform; xmlns:exslt=http://exslt.org/common;

Re: Using xmlstarlet and OpenOffice

This is an ugly hack, but it works... xmlstarlet select --net -T \ -N office='urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0 xmlns:text=urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0' \ -t -v 'office:document-content/office:body/office:text/text:p/text:span/text:text-input'

Re: DHCPD and Windows question

and (b) the working request? Then compare the two and change whatever is needed in your config (one thing at a time) to make (a) look more like (b). -- Brian St. Pierre ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http