Re: Old rackmount equipment?

2008-10-20 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:47:39PM -0400, Ed lawson wrote: Confess Ben. You just cannot bear to part with all that old hardware. Old? Old? Its not old. Its ah.. um... Its mature ... (like some of us... ;-) ) Jeff Kinz -- ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: Low Power User Squeaks Up

2008-08-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
... ;-) ) Jeff Kinz ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Quick DNS perfromance measurement trick

2008-07-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
! That IP above is not known to me - here is my /etc/resolv.conf: ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script search hsd1.ma.comcast.net. nameserver 68.87.71.226 nameserver 68.87.73.242 Jeff Kinz ( ... OR his evil twin ) -- When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying

Linux/FOSS cons?

2008-05-18 Thread Jeff Kinz
I have nephew who is interested in attending Linux/Open Source conventions, but not the ordinary business oriented ones. He is looking for any that are organized more along the lines of a Science Fiction con. (created by and put on by the fans themselves) Anyone heard of such a thing?

comcast does it again Port 25

2008-03-31 Thread Jeff Kinz
anyone? Thanks in advance. Jeff Kinz (Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord no comcast creep will walk across the street in front of my car. The temptation would be difficult to overcome... :-) ) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: comcast does it again Port 25

2008-03-31 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Kinz wrote: So I am looking for reccomendation for SMTP mail relay services. There are some guys in Manchester who do this, and donate services to GNHLUG. :) http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop

Re: comcast does it again Port 25

2008-03-31 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Chip Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On March 31, 2008, Jeff Kinz sent me the following: I would have already gone with them except I can't figure out if I will be able to configure sendmail correctly to work with their system. (I'm surmising

Re: comcast does it again Port 25

2008-03-31 Thread Jeff Kinz
Ben, This is very useful info and is deeply appreciated. (You can have my porcupine if you want it... :-) ) Thank you. Jeff. On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that's right,

Re: Laptop repair

2006-12-06 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:11:12PM -0500, Tech Writer wrote: Can anyone suggest somewhere in the greater Southern New Hampshire area that can perform a simple laptop repair? I've got an older HP Pavilion that I just finished loading Linux onto. It was working great until the dog ran by,

Kill-a-watt devices

2006-11-28 Thread Jeff Kinz
Hi everyone, my local electric company has what they call test metering equipment for appliances. I went down to their offices last week and borrowed one of these devices. Imagine my surprise when they passed over the counter to me, an actual power meter, mounted on a nice gray utility box

Re: Spam and mailing lists

2006-10-17 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:22:28PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: [repling to off-list message, with author's permission] Baring other solutions, applying SpamAssassin to the Mailman hold queue might be useful, and is in fact something we were doing before, thanks to some magic by Jeff Kinz

Re: COX blocking own users outbound email

2006-09-03 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:36:47AM -0400, Jeffrey Creem wrote: Jeff Kinz wrote: A few years ago there were heated discussion about whether or not ISP's should be blocking SMTP traffic (port 25) from dynamically assigned IP addresses. Things have really gotten out of hand. Real

Re: COX blocking own users outbound email

2006-09-03 Thread Jeff Kinz
here, its really neat that you are interested in discussing it. Especially (IIRC) you work inside the ISP business you are bound to have specific technical insights about why these things can't be done. From: Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gnh gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org, blug [EMAIL

COX blocking own users outbound email

2006-09-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
customers legitimate outgoing email, routed over Cox' own mail routers.. And isn't even telling them when they do it. This is one more brick in the wall. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail

Re: Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

2006-07-27 Thread Jeff Kinz
consolidating the accumulated cruft of a decade's worth of email across a dozen accounts onto a single server. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent

Re: Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

2006-07-27 Thread Jeff Kinz
. The one I've used is called mbox2maildir. But how do you know what it does? :) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: [OT] The China-Russia-US Geopolitical Dynamical System (!!!)

2006-07-27 Thread Jeff Kinz
gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: Looking for Open Source in Education resources.

2006-07-19 Thread Jeff Kinz
in talking about the virtues of more education-specific applications. Any pointers and guidance are greatly appreciated. Seul/Edu Educational Application Index: SchoolForge! http://richtech.ca/seul/index.php -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used

Re: USB over ethernet

2006-07-17 Thread Jeff Kinz
they boot from an NFS mount rather than a local hard drive. Everything else is the same. (pretty much.. but of course, smaller. :) ) I don't remember the exact names of the tools that do that right now but IRC on freenode #ltsp is a good place to ask. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA

Re: Time sink [was Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?]

2006-07-13 Thread Jeff Kinz
digit trick? -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: A possible reason to prefer an open source server...

2006-07-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
everyone make a link a link named 'Dell SC430' on their web page and have the link go to that posting in the archive. The bigger question is will Dell notice? Thomas -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail

Re: OT: email service - gmail

2006-07-06 Thread Jeff Kinz
time I lose a mail disk I should file a FOIA request with the NSA? :) -Bill Hmm, We know you're joking, but... -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: Last nights MerriLUG meeting, 15-June-2006

2006-06-16 Thread Jeff Kinz
://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman

Re: Last nights MerriLUG meeting, 15-June-2006

2006-06-16 Thread Jeff Kinz
had native speech recognition (er, under MS... ) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology

Re: Dealing with multiple layers of routers

2006-06-07 Thread Jeff Kinz
translated it to 0 thru 4, rather than 1 thru 5. :) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman

sorry

2006-06-03 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 10:14:31AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unable to read your email. Please do not post html email to the Gnhlug email lists, or any technical lists, especially Linux lists. Jeff, while I admire you willingness to help and share

Ethan Zuckerman: Brilliant expository on OLPC

2006-06-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
that gives a very comprehensive review of what/how and why the OLPC. Worth the time. There, a whole email on the OLPC project and I never once said textbook, oops. Doh! -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail

Re: One Laptop Per Child pledge

2006-05-31 Thread Jeff Kinz
by the $100 laptop, no MS Windows ... You could run reader rabbit under wine, but then the wma files might work too. :) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug

Re: OLPC - eaten my homework

2006-05-31 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 07:17:03PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 5/30/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cost of producing a good textbook, even if the licensing/royalties are zero, is very high. Source? Numbers? Hard data? Family in the biz. textbooks are a very different

Re: OLPC - eaten my homework

2006-05-31 Thread Jeff Kinz
, its going to rot anyway. /me shoots Dave E. for top posting.. :) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http

Re: OLPC - eaten my homework

2006-05-31 Thread Jeff Kinz
easier to build infrastructure to print books then it is to build infrastructure to manufacture laptops. A project to help developing nations build printing operations in, coupled with royalty-free text, might be a very practical solution. Jeff Kinz was correct when he emphasized

Re: One Laptop Per Child pledge

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
. Then it will be clear to you. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: One Laptop Per Child pledge

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: One Laptop Per Child pledge

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
that was much smarter about what machine resources it used and how it used them. And one more interesting parallel - neither those old laptops nor the current OLPC's used ANY rotating storage. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e

Re: One Laptop Per Child pledge

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
introduced a bill to distribute an OLPC to every schoolchild in MA. I guess you'd better start a letter writing campaign in NH right away. the OLPC project is willing to work with any agency that wants to put the units in the hands of kids. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech

Re: One Laptop Per Child pledge

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: One Laptop Per Child pledge

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:10:53AM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote: On 5/30/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:26:22PM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote: I've never understood why giving laptops to kids who can't read or add would make them better at reading or math

OLPC ($100 laptop) FAQ

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
Cavallo, Benjamin Mako Hill, Joseph Jacobson, Alan Kay, Tod Machover, Seymour Papert, Mitchel Resnick, and Ted Selker. Design Continuum is collaborating on the laptop design. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail

OLPC Special Design features:

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
-generation unit will use a more power-efficient integrated Geode-based AMD chip (instead of the GX500/5536 set), presuming it is the best alternative available at the time, and probably a next generation wireless chip. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology

OLPC Hardware specs:

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
(1.3mm is typical for most systems). Regulatory requirements: * The usual US and EU EMI/EMC requirements will be met. * The laptop and all OLPC-supplied accessories will be fully UL and is RoHS compliant. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used

$100 Laptop MYTHS De-Mythtefied

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
Great reading for people who think laptops are too expensive or will break or will need electricity http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php/OLPC_myths -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail

Re: OLPC ($100 laptop) FAQ

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
-- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

OLPC - eaten my homework

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 02:34:56PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 5/30/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: Does Cambodia really need to be spending its money on cheap but durable laptops imported from Taiwan? Its a heck of lot cheaper to make copies of bits than

Re: Why *I* want one of these $100 Laptops...

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
it. That is the same rationale the drug companies use on their drugs that are sold overseas and in Canada. Ouch! -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Re: OLPC ($100 laptop) FAQ

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
? http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060111-7.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition

Re: OLPC - eaten my homework

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:22:01PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 5/30/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Books can rot or be damaged; so can equipment. I doubt there's any real data as to which would be more durable in the target environment. Lacking data, we can't say one way

Re: OLPC ($100 laptop) FAQ

2006-05-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
effective.. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Recycled computers

2006-05-29 Thread Jeff Kinz
, they had a scrap dealer collecting stuff. Such dealers usually see this stuff as precious metals and such to be extracted, not components to be reused. List of Demanufacturers/Recyclers/ Precious Metal Refiners in this region: http://www.epa.gov/region1/solidwaste/electronic/demanu.html -- Jeff

Re: [OT] The Internet (that Ben says does not exist) and Net Neutrality

2006-05-22 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:33:44AM -0400, Ted Roche wrote: On May 21, 2006, at 9:06 PM, Jeff Kinz wrote: It seems clear that everyone, except the big pipe owners mentioned above, want the internet to stay with the traditional endpoint only, You pay to get your bits onto the network

Re: [NLC] Drip Dry Phone

2006-04-30 Thread Jeff Kinz
and let it dry out. This is one of the reasons I'd like a small vacuum chamber. That would pull moisture out of the crevices. Just curious - could subjecting a cell phone to vacuum (partial or otherwise) possibly cause things like capacitors to burst? -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson

Re: Question about GPL issue.

2006-04-06 Thread Jeff Kinz
look in the BSD source trees for a module that does the same thing. Then you can do anything you want with it as long as you keep the notice in the comments. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail

Comcast, dynamic DNS service

2006-04-03 Thread Jeff Kinz
, waiting for two minuts to get a DNS request back seemed a bit long.) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Speech Recognition Technology was used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http

Re: Comcast, dynamic DNS service

2006-04-03 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 02:20:28PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 4/3/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody here been getting bugged by comcast to change their DNS settings to accept dynamic DNS server assigmment from Comcast? From what I've been able to gather via Google Groups

Re: Comcast, dynamic DNS service

2006-04-03 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:37:58PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 4/3/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Up on dslreports forums some people are claiming that other ISP complained to Comcast that C. customers where dragging down the other ISP DNS severs since so many were using them

Re: this has to be a bug...

2006-03-24 Thread Jeff Kinz
can be made much simpler with a few simple rule changes. what? oh, It's still March. Sorry, too early. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-16 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 10:09:45AM -0500, Drew Van Zandt wrote: Partial solution to spam: Mandatory death penalty for convicted spammers. ;-) s/death/slow, painful, debilitating, excruciating, grotesque death/ -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-12 Thread Jeff Kinz
there is some overlap, but they are most definitively not the same. It would be nice if it were true, but if that were the case, why did the government put itself in internment camps during WWII? -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-12 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:07:35PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/12/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do realize that the government and us are one and the same, yes? Ben there is some overlap, but they are most definitively not the same. Ben, I've looked this over

Re: Suggestions for capturing license plate info?

2006-03-12 Thread Jeff Kinz
___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail Rumsfeld tells Bush, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq today

Re: OT: Forum legalish question

2006-03-11 Thread Jeff Kinz
that. Ben is right of course. Not disagreeing with you that civil disobedience is a valid at times but your response simply does not address Ben's point that it should not be a first choice. It wasn't Rosa's first choice either. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-11 Thread Jeff Kinz
, it is further redistributed). Are these the same things? -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-11 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 06:39:59AM -0500, Fred wrote: On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:12, Jeff Kinz wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 05:52:53PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/7/06, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't something to get so bent out of shape for really

Re: Gov't , economics and technology (was Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL)

2006-03-11 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:40:50AM -0800, Kuni Tetsu wrote: --- Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several paragraphs of agreement deleted :-) One example - still not much known today, the great crime rate drop of the 80' and 90's was caused not by burgeoning economic times or great social

The Dismal Science's Freaky Side?

2006-03-11 Thread Jeff Kinz
# -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-08 Thread Jeff Kinz
access which increases the number of seats even more. Boston Public library is one of these and they don't mind when its accessed from outside their buildings. Now all we need are $10 laptops for general distribution. :) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-08 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:15:17AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:43:51AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: Now all we need are $10 laptops for general distribution. :) Not quite there yet, but getting closer: http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ Yes, that was my point

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-08 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:51:08AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: Today you can get a really good laptop for $100 ** Should have read: Today you can get a really good laptop for $1000 ** Apparently I have a thing about dropping zero's. :-) Negroponte's project is knocking a zero off that average

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-07 Thread Jeff Kinz
, are they : Blocking? OR Filtering? You've stated it both ways, but they don't mean the same thing to me. If they are filtering for Spam on outbound packets whose dport is 25 then I think its probably a good thing. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-07 Thread Jeff Kinz
have some net access will be (are!) seriously disadvantaged in a way that is roughly comparable to being functionally illiterate has been a disadvantage for the past 100 years. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail

Re: What the heck is a dbus?

2006-03-06 Thread Jeff Kinz
laptop) FWIW some part of these tools use some gnome libraries.. (iirc) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http

Re: What the heck is a dbus?

2006-03-06 Thread Jeff Kinz
{ send_msg } for scontext=root:system_r:unconfined_t tcontext=user_u:system_r:initrc_t tclass=dbus I've never heard of a dbus. So first of all, what's a dbus, and Here's a good intro article: http://www.redhat.com/magazine/003jan05/features/dbus/ -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson

Re: What the heck is a dbus?

2006-03-06 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:51:25AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: IIRC dbus is used to send messages from the hald to user space. Translated that means that dbus is a new messaging system used by the new hardware abstraction layer daemon (hald) which were both implemented as party of a new effort

Re: OT: Forum legalish question

2006-03-04 Thread Jeff Kinz
is to apologize when actually presented with a complaint. That may be all it takes to put this issue to bed. Only you know what you have said about this guy so no one else can really know what the possible offenses are here. (Unless you've related everything there really is above) -- Jeff Kinz

Re: Hard Disk Failure

2006-02-26 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 07:31:28PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 2/25/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A long time ago, working on a contract for equipment destined to be delivered to the NSA I heard a rumor about the procedure that you had to go through to remove the hard drive from

Re: Hard Disk Failure

2006-02-25 Thread Jeff Kinz
was disassembled, the rust was sanded from the platters, the platters were shredded, and all of the rust and shredded platter material were placed in a crucible and melted down.the drive can now be removed from the building. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software was used

Re: HB1197 Status And Freakonomics

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff Kinz
list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well

Re: How times have changed [was Sr. Developer ]

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff Kinz
to be some cross-over between the chaos theory and the automata theories being advanced by Stephen Wolfram in A New Kind Of Science. A great book, but much harder to read than Freakonomics. Also harder to lift. :) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been

Re: Help build the new GNHLUG Internet server

2006-02-15 Thread Jeff Kinz
other attachments? How about source code attachments, how can they be handled? One last question, since mj2 is object oriented, what are the performance issues? How much does it load a system down to run it? What is the underlying technology? -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA

Re: How times have changed [was Sr. Developer ]

2006-02-15 Thread Jeff Kinz
; they don't exist in reality. -- Ben This statement is false Scott ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition

Re: Help build the new GNHLUG Internet server

2006-02-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
, or is it efficient in terms of machine resources, or more secure, or more spamproof? Thanks -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-04 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:37:42PM -0500, Fred wrote: On Friday 03 February 2006 17:49, Jeff Kinz wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 04:29:58PM -0500, Tom Buskey wrote: The US Navy is trying to do (did?) it on ships. My aunt was working on it. They were able to save tons of weight on each

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-03 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:30:08PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sure, if one side is blank, then you've wasted one potential use. The cure for that is 4 or 8 up, duplex as the default setting on *all* Would break the premise of the test run. Has

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-03 Thread Jeff Kinz
rid of it. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism

Re: HTML question (nbst)

2006-02-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious

Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
to be the only thing the Globe has done right. insert muttered imprecations at the Globe of your choice here The Lesson: Its clear that one never really knows how recycled materials are going to be used so confidential materials must always be destroyed rather than recycled. (duh) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:27:48AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:08:08AM -0500, Fred wrote: On Thursday 02 February 2006 09:21, Jeff Kinz wrote: ... The Lesson: Its clear that one never really knows how recycled materials are going to be used so

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:44:31AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:26:59AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: Chris, yes, the toppers ordinarily don't have confidential info on them. They are usually just a delivery list, nothing wrong with having toppers

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
thing as the Wikipedia article on recycling. In fact it's the same, verbatim. Only it says it was written by Marty Meehan hmmm, uh-oh :-) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail The greatest dangers

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:38:05PM -0500, Ray Cote wrote: At 9:21 AM -0500 2/2/06, Jeff Kinz wrote: Everything: Family info, age, birth date, addresses, SSN, phone #'s, emails, all contact phone #s and more. This begs the question of precisely why such a report is needed. Why do you need

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
, and without fail. Computers do not (yet) provide this capability. Examples: Rehab clinic, boarding school, Nursing Homes, private asylums. There are probably more examples as well. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:12:14PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just experienced an interesting incident involving information security practices. At a client's organization I recently, and very gently, urged a DBA to stop their practice

Re: BSD User's group?

2006-01-15 Thread Jeff Kinz
a thousand times slower. ### One solution: (which has other issues) export LC_COLLATE=C export LANG=en_US -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail The greatest

Re: extract string from filename

2006-01-13 Thread Jeff Kinz
3 local Pipe the output into pr -n -T This is not pr's intended use, but it will work. -n option means put numbers on the lines, -T option means No page breaks. The -n option appears to be missing from the FC2 man pages. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition

Re: Emacs PINE -- perfect together. [Don't hurt me!]

2006-01-11 Thread Jeff Kinz
with emacs running in it.. etc... -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - Brandeis To think contrary

Re: Emacs PINE -- perfect together. [Don't hurt me!]

2006-01-11 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:50:13AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:30:50AM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: So I've set up Emacs as my default editor. Nice. But the one problem I have is that I'd really like to have Emacs do column-77 wordwrap if -- and only if -- it's

Re: extract string

2006-01-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
to the double-quote. Shell escapes can get very, very messy. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:01:05PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 1/10/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now your Lug can achieve its financial funding goals simply by charging 25 cents for each shell scripting homework problem answered and 50 cents for extended explanations

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
for knowing the membership. Zhao is a programmer for Dartmouth Medical School. For, or attending? ;-) Hopefully things haven't gotten so bad that programmers are now attending medical school for their next career move. ;-) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition

Re: Homework problems (was: extract string)

2006-01-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990216;-) I have that one on the cover of my Intro to Linux slides -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men

Re: jkinz

2006-01-08 Thread Jeff Kinz
send me an email for things like that.. ;-) -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - Brandeis

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