raction, for the same reasons that David mentioned.
>
> On a side note, my father was also working for IBM around the time they
> started outsourcing his job he took an early retirement.
>
> Rich
>
>
> Richard Kolb II
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:46 PM, David Hardy <belov
The malice-aforethought intent, in my opinion, is to actually put American
citizens out of work; I was laid off over two years ago from IBM and our
jobs were offshored to India and Slovakia. Unemployed ever since, other
than occasional contract and temp gigs, despite twenty years of solid IT
I've used Tor on and off and presently for a few years now and it's worth
supporting, and the more users, the better.
Getting questions answered regarding support issues has been a mixed bag,
however; ranging from very helpful to snotty and arrogant, i.e., "RTFM and
become a developer like us!"
We had Fairpoint over here in Vermont for years and their service was
pretty good, net and landline. Then last fall we asked to upgrade to their
business account level in hopes of more speed. Within a couple of days we
had no service at all, zero, and then ensued many weeks of email, snail
mail
+1
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Mark McSweeney mark.mcswee...@gmail.com
wrote:
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
A possibly relevant comment on bcache not being in RH 7 here:
http://serverfault.com/questions/616129/centos-7-bcache
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote:
I'm in the process of replacing a FreeNAS install at $WORK with Linux. I
currently have Ubuntu 14.04
What comes to mind immediately, and this may not be workable for you in
that situation; why not a Tails USB stick with persistence enabled?
Internet would then also good. But will the schools even allow any of
this at all?
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:59 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org 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.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote:
On 4/10/2014 4:42 PM, Ray Cote wrote:
...while blindfolded because IT security had it as a secret route.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
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
I have a couple of HP Pavilion desktop machines that came with
Qualcomm/Atheros ethernet controllers, and RHEL 6 on up and its downstream
clones will not give me net on them; I've been through countless sites,
RH's support tickets, Bugzilla, the elrepo guys, etc., and there is just
not a driver
Just subscribed there; looks very good and very interesting. Thanks for
the tip.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
Okay, so my bias is showing a little. And, yeah, I've even lost data to
it -- but that's kinda what happens when you play with alpha
I've had two Logitech webcams, one cheap, one not so cheap; the latter is
an HD Pro Webcam C920 and works great ($75 on Amazon).
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote:
I've been thinking of picking up a webcam for use in hangouts, skype,
etc, and I don't want
I'm nearly sixty and have had a bunch of jobs over the decades, not all of
them IT and not all of them Linux. So I tailor the resume to the specific
position and keep it to two pages, max. I then expand on whatever in a
cover letter and interview, if I get one. I've seen other peoples' resumes
I have Fedora as a vm and yes, it runs Unity. Takes some getting used to;
I have had various Ubuntu versions from 5 through 12.10, and Fedora from 6
through 18 now; also have tried OpenSuSe, briefly, Mint, WattOS, CentOS,
Scientific Linux, and Red Hat from their desktop distro 6.2 through the
I second Jerry's tip on turning on virtualization in the BIOS, if possible.
Do it before setting up Virtual Box or VMware Player.
My Fedora is a vm in Virtual Box under W8 (I had to have W as a backup for
wife's dying laptop running Vista). I can jack up the RAM to 32GB and run a
whole bunch of
Nice, Greg; congrats on its inclusion in the next issue.
totally irrelevant personal note: my ancestor Thomas Macy was from
Salisbury and left there under a sort of cloud in 1659 and moved to
Nantucket.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
g...@freephile.com wrote:
Same here yesterday morning for an hour or so; Gmail crashed as did
Chrome. It was on their end and made the news.
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Bayard Coolidge n...@yahoo.com wrote:
Me, too - I'm using Yahoo! mail. I've seen the same phenomenon
occasionally on another list that I'm
on
With all due respect to other nerds on this list, from what I have seen of
Ben's information and help over twelve years entitles him to endless nerd
points. He gets a permanent free pass.
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Roger H. Goun ro...@bcah.com wrote:
Fortunately, the nerd points that
Pretty much the same experience here that Ben has illustrated, since 2000.
We run RHEL at work on around 2,500 racked servers and Legal hath decreed
that CentOS ist verboten. Und VLC ist verboten on any system. Among other
things that are verboten.
At home I've got Ubuntu 12.04 on an ancient
Very nice.
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/nvidia-loses-order-due-to-poor-linux-support-20120628/
I believe I speak for many Linux fans when I say: HA HA!
-- Ben
___
Well, what was the *other* qualification you and your colleague came up
with the other day? Enquiring potential nerds wanna know.
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.comwrote:
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
If the laptop doesn't have an RS-232
to get my inbox down below 600 unhandled messages,
tonight
--
Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr.
On May 13, 2012 9:16 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com writes:
Well, what was the *other
My own day job has me with a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 which has been pretty
solid and fast. It came with XP and is ready for 7 and I have a vm on it
with CentOS 6. The company is now issuing more Thinkpads that come with
8GB RAM and an option of RH, Fedora or Ubuntu. The RH laptop of a
colleague
What Jerry just said.
Working in IT on and off since 1984 and looking at, starting, and trying to
complete, several certification paths during that time, it was more or less
a fool's game. No sooner did we come close to finishing a cert, in Windows
NT, for example, then Microsoft had a whole new
To add to the general levity and amusement here, OS/2 is actually still
extant in some corners of the giant IBM complex up here in northern
Vermont.
And our issue laptops are Lenovo Thinkpads, with XP or 7, but we can, with
permission, put Red Hat, Fedora or Ubuntu on them. IBM is heavy on Red
Not only Dell desktops, but I just ran into the same issue of not being
able to boot from a CD on an HP machine, which boots fine from a USB stick.
Also had problems bringing up the BIOS with the keyboard plugged into a
USB hub but it worked fine when connected directly to the box for some
...@gapps.blu.org wrote:
I actually saw the newscast :-). Didn't know the Internet reached all
the way up in Northern Vermont.
On 08/03/2011 04:08 PM, David Hardy wrote:
I remember the Henning story being broadcast, extremely amusing.
On a somewhat related note, there have been persistent
or me :-)
On 08/04/2011 08:14 AM, David Hardy wrote:
It doesn't, actually. Many areas up here are still without internet at
all, or they have dial-up/modem, and/or no cell phone access. A few
party-line phone systems, too. As late as the 60s, three-quarters of
the roads up here were
Wow, that is kind of unreal. I was in the Chelmsford area a few years ago
for RH cert training and I was under the impression that it is a very busy
and built-up area and I would have just assumed (and we all know what that
spells) that cable and internet service is ubiquitous there.
Up here I
. Even if I have
to milk cows and mow hay.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.comwrote:
David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@gapps.blu.org wrote:
Didn't know the Internet reached all the way up
I remember the Henning story being broadcast, extremely amusing.
On a somewhat related note, there have been persistent rumors, along the
lines of urban legends, that there is either a secret U.S. military base in
the Blue Hills or it is an underground UFO base.
And if one is hiking around in
I would think that if one was both a UNIX/Linux person AND a brewer, they
would cancel each other out and thus no beard.
But maybe that is only the case if one also takes up amateur radio and/or
astronomy/telescope building.
And what about home gunsmithing?
And beekeeping?
Just asking...
On
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:15 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.comwrote:
What both John and md said, concerning how to offend or not offend someone
on this planet. Guaranteed, any of us can manage to do it any time of day
or night, should someone choose to be offended, either by something
Greetings, fellow Linux lovers;
Ran into a little situation today where we need to cycle power/reboot a
bunch of nodes that are down and out, by telnet to the relevant terminal
server ports and the advanced management module. This involves multiple
consoles, windows, command line, GUI, the
I took a typing class in high school back in the late 60s and was the only
boy in the class.
Clever bastard, eh?
But I learned to type real well and to this day can manage 51 WPM, no
errors. Only drawback was
that for years of soldier and cop work, I was the designated report writer.
And the
Without a mouse and without ability to bring up Terminal and with other
keyboard combos disabled, a total show-stopper here, and I am happily back
to 10.10 and Mint 10.0 on an old laptop, all working great.
Thanks for the attempted help; I appreciate it.
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:14 AM, David
Greetings from northern Vermont and our continuing Mud Season!
I just did a little upgrade dance from 10.10 to 11.04 Natty Narwahl on an
older Dell desktop with 2GB RAM. I had burned both a CD and a USB stick
with it but the box would not boot from either one, possibly a corrupted
download, I'm
I know I mentioned that it was an older Dell desktop with 2GB of RAM, but I
should also point out that the Unity desktop was not going to run on that
hardware, which I knew, and on boot-up the first time the system told me
this and also told me I could choose the usual Gnome desktop on log-in.
, Apr 29, 2011 at 09:30:40PM -0400, David Hardy wrote:
I have a list here close by of a half-dozen things we should do after we
upgrade to 11.04 but without the mouse or command line I am stuck right
now.
You should always have the command line unless Ubuntu has gone and done
something
For that equivalent in Vermont, it would be the enhanced motor vehicle
operator's license. Which, reading the list down the street at the DMV,
tells us that it is good for quite a few places in the Western Hemisphere
north of the Equator.
Have an enjoyable, safe and productive trip, sir.
On
Hi, Ben, and all;
I saw this news earlier today via DECconnetions email and it is indeed sad
news. He was a pioneer and I was privileged to work at DEC for a while in
the late 80s and also got to meet him once and visit his office and see the
original orange crate desk that he and Gordon Bell
Same here. I've been at it off and on since '84 in a variety of roles from
night shift drone operator to currently, systems engineer. From DEC to EDS
to GE and a lot of other places in between. VAX/VMS, OpenVMS, Windows,
NetWare, UNIX, Linux, etc., etc. I no longer even touch hardware; 80%
dragonh...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:22 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com
wrote:
And we all know, I think, that Windows NT was created for Microsoft by
Dave
Cutler, former developer of RSX and VMS ..
And Cutler moved to Microsoft because DEC just wanted to
maintain
maddog, et. al.
Thanks much for that additional history. I am filing it as notes for my
eventual 'autobiography' accordingly.
I also remember reading Terry Shannon's 'Charlie Matco' columns back then
and I believe I even corresponded with him once or twice. May he indeed,
fellow 'Nam vet (we
Yep, took a long time to load for me, too. Could be on a VAXstation 3100 or
a MicroVAX.
In Heaven he will have his choice of computers and a data center to put them
in and his own printing press to explain it all to the other denizens. Only
a year older than me and already gone these past five
This is doubly sad and disturbing because from what I've seen in the past
few years is that Novell has made huge strides in expanding their open
source solutions and offerings, most often in conjunction with the OpenSuse
projects. And SCO keeps rising from the dead; maybe all those volcano and
*Neutron bombs. Wipe out the culprits while retaining hw and sw assets.*
*
*
***http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb*
*
*
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb
*
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
Hopefully someone soon will put
*Yo, homies;*
*
*
*For those of youse wid multiple electronic devices lying around or in use
and you've gone and stupidly and idiotically, like a complete freaking
imbecile, lost the manual/s for same, go here for freebie manuals (about
100k of them at last count) that you can download for nada,
*And let's not forget EasyNET, people, at DEC, back in the glorious '90s. *
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Actually ARPANET, while a DOD sponsored network, was a way to connect
it great to be one of the surviving dinosaurs?
cheers, from rainy northern Vermont today...
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:13 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com
wrote:
And let's not forget EasyNET, people, at DEC, back
Yes, md, I remember, as do many or all of us, the same bunch of names for
the systems, usually either from the Snow White gang, or Lord of the Rings,
or Hitchhiker's Guide. Them were the daze. Now our brilliant successors
name them with strings of alphanumeric characters the provenance of which
Ben said this: ... trying to get
everyone's bridges and routers configured to properly support IPX,
NetBEUI, AppleTalk, DECnet, etc., etc., etc. My apologies to maddog
and other ex-DECers, but I say good riddance.
Being of Ancient Daze myself, and a former DECoid, I well remember having to
Oh, does THAT bring back the golden oldie memories! My first-ever paid IT
gig was working with, yes, a PDP-11 running RSX-11 (for CAD/CAM engineering
apps) and a microVAX running, I think, VAX/VMS 3.5.
Then, off to DEC itself, in Marlborough and The Mill.
No Linux for me until twelve years
Between everyone here I continue to learn a helluva lot about what's going
on with Linux vs. everything else, and am always grateful for it,
particularly for the input from md and Ben recently. So, while having
nothing much to contribute at this time other than congratulations and
thanks for such
Also Process Software's MultiNET, which we were using circa '98-2000 at one
site here in Vermont.
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote:
Mark,
There is still some good stuff happening with VMS, for example if you
are an hp software partner, you can get ssh
This discussion reminds me of a number of IT job interviews I had where the
tech questions asked of me were delivered in a smug, condescending tone, and
if I didn't know every single facet of their infrastructure when I walked
through their door, then I must be a dolt and a fool. (I only had 13
Same here.
And only five days before...
*All Hallows Eve.*
*
*
*Pumpkin Ale, anyone???
*
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:40 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com
wrote:
Only if maddog sponsors (somehow) Open BAH ...
I
*
*
The Future of CentOS and Criteria For Choosing a Business
DistributionBy Caitlyn
Martin http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2654
August 5, 2009 | Comments:
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You go, Kenny. I know it can be done; it's just the mess one has to go
through to get it all working. If RH support is being paid for, then one of
their RHCEs should have had the experience and training by now to help out.
I was just a RHCT and finally deprived of the opportunity to make it
] wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:59:32 -0400
David Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gee, I sure hope room and board was included.
Wait: worked for the IRS for a while?
(dialing favorite hit man...dingding...ding...freaking answering
machine; ain't these people EVER at their desks
that happy
hoss pucky ASAP.
Old Farmer Dave
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:59:32 -0400,
David Hardy wrote:
Serious question: favorite new Linux distro? Which will do media
and amaze and stun the otherwise Winders crowd
, use your networking skills to find some available jobs in your
area. Professional headhunters will tell you how to construct your
resume to hide your age, if need be.
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:20:00 -0400
David Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've done simultaneous sys admin work with Tru64
Gee, I sure hope room and board was included.
Wait: worked for the IRS for a while?
(dialing favorite hit man...dingding...ding...freaking answering
machine; ain't these people EVER at their desks??!!)
May I ask: what county in Maine? Spent six months there in Beautiful Bangor
after
A faster processing would take place by sending that number to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I can guarantee it. The dragonhawk email address
is being investigated by Microsoft agents working through the Better
Business Bureau, Northeast Region. Take heed accordingly.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:21 PM,
And here's another laptop question:
I have custody of an HP ze4200 laptop that originally was bought/owned by
MIL and had XP on it. She didn't want it after awhile and I immediately
took it and threw Fedora Core 4 on it. Now, naturally, she wants it back,
and now, an internet connection.
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David Hardy wrote:
And here's another laptop question:
I have custody of an HP ze4200 laptop that originally was bought/owned
by MIL and had XP on it. She didn't want it after awhile and I
immediately took it and threw Fedora Core 4
I'd like to help out with any of this if I could, as a former HossTraders
attendee at the Hopkinton, NH site. Saw maddog there, but way too shy and
awe-struck to talk, even though a fellow former DEC slave.
Here's the deal: I work and live in Montpeculiar, Vermont, but we have some
Linux shops
I'm up late, kind of, and welcome you to this mailing list, Joshua. And to
New England and the great Granite State of New Hampshire! Compared to
Buffalo, though, you are now in the tropics.
I've belonged to his list for a few years now, and while still a comparative
n00b, I have learned a ton of
We have a POTS line (courtesy of Verizon) and three cells here in
Montpelier, VT, and sometimes on our 7-acre farm we lose the cell
connections, let alone driving north of here into the NEK where cell
coverage is pretty much non-existent, ditto for the ride down I-89 between
Royalton and Bellows
I'd also be interested in a gambit like this; no way could I possibly
afford such wack entrance fees, but I'd be happy to chip in for hotel room/s
and I'd bring down however many cases of Vermont microbrew would be
necessary...
I'd guess this would have to be sorta classified should we go ahead
And, in addition to what BOTH Paul and Ben said, this old IT geezer
appreciates the occasional little trips down Memory Lane, since my own
RAM seems to be fading a bit here and there. Full disclosure: I go
back to the PDP11 and VAX/VMS 3.5.
Regards to all, for the many extremely helpful and
Greetings, all;
We have an older (and ailing) Dell PowerEdge 6300 running RH 9.0 and
overloaded with a ton of (no-longer-sold and barely supported) Telemation
phone system software. This machine is currently part of our network.
We just bought a new Dell PowerEdge 860 and it came installed
backup, use the
backup and restore. Backup your old one and restore to
the new one.
--
Dave
--- David Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings, all;
We have an older (and ailing) Dell PowerEdge 6300
running RH 9.0 and
overloaded with a ton of (no-longer-sold and barely
supported
It has long since definitely been established as the state vehicle of Vermont. Dave HardyBen Scott wrote: In a similar vein, it has been established that Subaru is the official vehicle of either GNHLUG, Hosstraders, or both. I own one,
so does Mike Ledoux, so does Ted Roche, and Matt and Heather
PROTECTED] wrote:
David Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been on the list for a few years now and wouldn't dream of heckling Ben or anyone else here;way in awe of you guys.A, shucks :) I've been running Linux since RH 6.1 but what I know can fit on the
business end of a pencil compared
I've been on the list for a few years now and wouldn't dream of heckling Ben or anyone else here; way in awe of you guys. I've been running Linux since RH 6.1 but what I know can fit on the business end of a pencil compared to you all.
In exile from Vermont (temporarily, I hope) my new gig is in
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