Re: Anyone want to buy a supercomputer?

2024-05-01 Thread Jeffry Smith
jon.maddog.h...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2024 7:53:01 PM To: Jeffry Smith ; gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Anyone want to buy a supercomputer? My first language was FORTRAN, using punched cards on an IBM 1130 in 1969, but when I went to teach at Hartford State Technical College

Anyone want to buy a supercomputer?

2024-05-01 Thread Jeffry Smith
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/us-government-auctions-5-34-petaflop-cheyenne-supercomputer/ Useful for running your Basic programs https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/ Jeff ___

Re: Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

2015-05-10 Thread Jeffry Smith
The -f flag tells apt to try and fix errors. I run Debian. Sometimes either apt-get -f install works. Also, running dpkg --configure -a (which tells dpkg to try configure all the partially installed packages) will unbork it. Without seeing the exact error, I also can't give you better

Re: Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

2015-05-10 Thread Jeffry Smith
The tee means the output goes to both file and screen. Either should work for getting the log file. Jeff On May 10, 2015 9:50 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu writes: Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@hackerposse.com writes: Can you run apt-get install

Re: Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

2015-05-10 Thread Jeffry Smith
On May 10, 2015 9:17 PM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote: The -f flag tells apt to try and fix errors. I run Debian. Sometimes either apt-get -f install works. Also, running dpkg --configure -a (which tells dpkg to try configure all the partially installed packages) will SOMETIMES

Re: Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

2015-05-10 Thread Jeffry Smith
. How do you mount a usb stick when you don't know its name? Then I can copy the file. It's getting to the point of removing the drive, copying /home and doing a new installation. Bruce On May 10, 2015, at 21:17, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote: The -f flag tells apt to try and fix

Re: powerschool webscraper?

2014-10-30 Thread Jeffry Smith
https://github.com/baryon5/powerschool A notification service and client for PowerSchool https://github.com/ksdtech/powerschool-web Custom html and javascript for PowerSchool https://github.com/zacharyliu/mcvsd-powerschool-notify MCVSD PowerSchool notification system, powered by node.js

Re: Modern Linux scanners

2014-06-21 Thread Jeffry Smith
Bruce Perennial used to work for them. On Jun 21, 2014 8:41 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 06/17/2014 10:34 AM, Ted Roche wrote: On 06/16/2014 08:48 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: Anyone buy a flatbed scanner for Linux recently? Looking to scan pages and photographs. Any to buy?

Re: Modern Linux scanners

2014-06-17 Thread Jeffry Smith
I don't know about current HP support, but they used to have great Linux support. I've got an old HP OfficeJet all-in-one that scans prints with Linux out of the box. On Jun 16, 2014 8:48 PM, Bruce Labitt bdlab...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone buy a flatbed scanner for linux recently? Looking to

Re: Raspberry Pi - wheezy / gparted

2013-11-29 Thread Jeffry Smith
I don't know about Raspberry Pi, but with my Linux systems I use parted (sudo parted /dev/mmcblk0). Select each partition and delete. Then exit parted, go to mkfs, and mkfs.(insert whatever fs you want/need here) /dev/mmcblk0. I've used that on flash drives and SD cards for years. jeff On

Re: gps recommendations?

2013-05-18 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:18 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: My GPS is dying. I'm looking for a replacement, but I want a particular...mindset is probably a better word than feature. On a recent long-distance car trip, I found the GPS making opaque decisions. For instance, it has a

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

2012-04-15 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: You have to pick `what kind of business you are' *before* you pick what broad class of device you want to look at. I hate other people's

Tablet recommendations?

2012-03-21 Thread Jeffry Smith
Just got our tax return back, and looking to buy a tablet, preferably Android. Something in the 9-10 inch range, 32-64GB of memory. Anyone have recommendations? If so, why those? jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Tablet recommendations?

2012-03-21 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:24 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:15:46 -0400, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Just got our tax return back, and looking to buy a tablet, preferably Android.  Something in the 9-10 inch range, 32-64GB of memory.  Anyone have

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-31 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote: There are at least four different meanings of floppy in use here  I started looking into this more today, and quickly rediscovered how much of a giant

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  Next up: Why are console windows traditionally 80 columns wide? Because of the size of the US Dollar. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-07 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Mike Lalumiere m...@faifw.org wrote: You might check out http://www.sweethome3d.com/. It's written in Java and licensed under the GPL. I have not run the program but it looks like what you described. - Mike Lalumiere This discussion got me interested - and

Re: FREE - old Motorola analog cellular flip-phone (new-in-box)

2011-07-13 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Not sure what this now-ancient phone was doing in the back of a closet or why anybody'd want it (except maybe for curiosity) but I'm offering one new-in-box Motorola analog cellular flip-phone

Re: Do one thing well...

2011-06-07 Thread Jeffry Smith
Since Flash sucked still does No need to specify the system or the timeframe - most Flash sites I've found could be programmed with HTML only and be just as good. With HTML5, no need for Flash (IMHO). jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Mailing list addresses (was: Linux reference on subs)

2011-06-07 Thread Jeffry Smith
Thanks. I'll have to wipe that from my contacts list. jeff On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote: bounced for some reason -  It appears you first tried posting to gnh...@gnhlug.org

Fwd: Linux reference on subs

2011-06-05 Thread Jeffry Smith
bounced for some reason - jeff -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu Date: Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:39 PM Subject: Linux reference on subs To: Greater New Hampshire LUG gnh...@gnhlug.org http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/archive/331544-196/uss-new-hampshire

Re: [GNHLUG] GNHLUG.org has a new home at G4.net

2011-05-05 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: As many of you have heard by now, MV Communications in Manchester -- NH's oldest ISP -- is closing its doors. This was sad news to the many GNHLUGers who were past or present customers of MV. MV has also been

Re: [OT] URGENT: Incredibrew

2011-04-14 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Hi, This is not completely a Linux oriented thing, but there will be a lot of Linux oriented people there, and it is about beer 1. I can't make it - unfortunately ;( 2. As I recall, years ago we had a talk about

Re: Re: broke package management (warning long)

2011-02-14 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Lori Nagel jas...@yahoo.com wrote: jastiv@localhost:/var/log$ dpkg -S /lib/modules/2.6.30.7-libre-fshoppe1 dpkg: /lib/modules/2.6.30.7-libre-fshoppe1 not found. then I tried on a file I know was installed by the package manager. jastiv@localhost:/var/log$

Re: broke package management (warning long)

2011-02-14 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu writes: dpkg is failing because update-initramfs is trying to build an initramfs for a kernel that doesn't have modules installed. You can also run update-initramfs manually

Re: I hate apt-get

2011-02-13 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Lori Nagel jas...@yahoo.com wrote: I hate apt-get stuff.  I don't know what kernel you have.  I assume you probably are not using the libre-fshoppe kernel or something since you are installing proprietary software. I want to say go back to a red hat (rpm)  

Re: broke package management (warning long)

2011-02-13 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Lori Nagel jas...@yahoo.com wrote: jastiv@localhost:~/Programs$ sudo dpkg --configure -a [sudo] password for jastiv: Setting up initramfs-tools (0.85eubuntu36) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools

Re: [meta] Re: Open Government Data bill (for comments)

2011-01-11 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org wrote: On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 02:13:16 am Jeffry Smith wrote: My recommendation would be to include (based on IETF procedures) a requirement that any non-NH Government standard be implemented by at least 2 independent

Re: [meta] Re: Open Government Data bill (for comments)

2011-01-10 Thread Jeffry Smith
My recommendation would be to include (based on IETF procedures) a requirement that any non-NH Government standard be implemented by at least 2 independent programs, that can read and write the format interchangably. For NH Government developed ones, the final format/specification cannot be

Re: An Xmas present for you to peruse, comment, and mull..

2010-12-25 Thread Jeffry Smith
DoD Guidance on Open Source Software: http://cio-nii.defense.gov/sites/oss/2009OSS.pdf DoD FAQ on Open Source Software:

Re: Dual boot

2010-10-09 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:13 PM, David Rose dr...@proviss.com wrote:  John, does fdisk -l /dev/sdb wipeout the OS?  I don't seem to have anything on my XP drive anymore. That should just list (-l) the partitions on /dev/sdb. Another option is to use cfdisk (cfdisk /dev/sdb), which will

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Jeffry Smith
I've been using fetchmail with the -k option (keep on server) for years. jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Software Patents

2010-07-17 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 07/17/2010 10:17 AM, Bruce Dawson wrote: Software patents are bad for the industry - its one reason I retired early rather than spend all my time fending off patent trolls instead of innovating. US Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8: [congress shall have the power ...]To promote

Re: And we thought they were dead :-)

2010-07-10 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: I have not looked closely at the contract SCO has with Boies, Schiller and Flexner or Hatch, James and Dodge. BSF signed up to handle all the legal cases for a what amounts to a fixed fee - tSCOG's appeals are paid for. Of

Re: And we thought they were dead :-)

2010-07-10 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: Actually they have 2 law firms, BSF, and Hatch, James and Dodge (Utah). Yes they did pay in advance. BSF are the ones handling the lawsuits. They signed up through the appeals process. Recall, when the jury said that Novell

Re: And we thought they were dead :-)

2010-07-10 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 07/10/2010 09:13 AM, Jeffry Smith wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: Actually they have 2 law firms, BSF, and Hatch, James and Dodge (Utah). Yes they did pay in advance. BSF

Re: And we thought they were dead :-)

2010-07-10 Thread Jeffry Smith
Forgot to add - should any code be identified, I anticipate the Linux community would recode around the issue within weeks, if not days. jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: sourceforge what is going there?

2010-06-15 Thread Jeffry Smith
One option would be to try FF with user-agent-switcher. I've logged into many sites with FF that claim to require IE, but when I use UAS to set FF to claim to be IE, they work fine. jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: SCO loses, Novell wins finally

2010-06-12 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 6:51 PM, mark prg...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed; however, IBM could realistically take control of the company as compensation for what it is owed.  The value to be had, I think, is in SCO's remaining customer base, which IBM could then convert over to it's own product

Re: SCO loses, Novell wins finally

2010-06-11 Thread Jeffry Smith
SCO has this amazing ability to come back - they're worse than the Mummy, Dracula, and Dawn of the Dead combined. Hopefully someone soon will put a stake through their heart, cut their head off, fill their mouth with garlic, put silver coins on their eyes, then burn them, cover them in holy

Re: SCO loses, Novell wins finally

2010-06-11 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: They certainly could, but there is virtually no management left. Judge Cahn (the Chapter 11 trustee) is running the company, and the only ones left are the staff. It would be cheaper for IBM to buy SCO stock at 4.5 cents per

Re: [GNHLUG] Hey, Wiki, you're so fine... CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-07 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote: Extra credit: on another list where I posted this announcement, we are having a good discussion of what defines a wiki versus a blog or a CMS Opinions welcomed. Venn diagrams for extra, extra credit ;) 1. The page IS the

Re: Bluetooth telephone interfaces (was: Nokia N900 // bluetooth)

2010-05-01 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  My biggest beef with Bluetooth headsets is that they almost never have user replaceable batteries.  It's hard to justify spending for quality with the device is guaranteed to die after a year or two or regular usage.

Re: Nokia N900

2010-04-26 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Dan Miller rambi@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking at upgrading my phone. Even though I won't get 3G, I'm looking at the Nokia N900. Has anyone used it? What are your thoughts? That and the Motorola Backflip are the two that I'm looking at. Would appreciate any

Re: [OT] Postal services (was: better Internet)

2010-04-08 Thread Jeffry Smith
 The USPS *does* receive subsidies -- some Federal tax dollars go to support it (or did, last I knew).  That's something else entirely. Not for years - that's one of their problems in that they have to both deliver anywhere and avoid a debt (not necessarily make a profit). jeff

Re: [OT] Postal services (was: better Internet)

2010-04-08 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote:  The USPS *does* receive subsidies -- some Federal tax dollars go to support it (or did, last I knew).  That's something else entirely

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-04-01 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 03/31/2010 11:37 PM, Jeffry Smith wrote: Well, Red Hat sued them, so they can't make that go away, and the main thing left in the IBM case is the IBM counterclaims.  Whether they're liabilities or not (and they're major

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-04-01 Thread Jeffry Smith
Not entirely true. Novell waived the copyrights. TSOG still holds the contractual rights. While SMP, NUMA, and JFS were developed by IBM (and Sequent) under the strict terms of the original ATT contract these are considered derivative works. IBM needs to prove in court that the derivative

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-04-01 Thread Jeffry Smith
While SMP, NUMA, and JFS were developed by IBM (and Sequent) under the strict terms of the original ATT contract these are considered derivative works. IBM needs to prove in court that the derivative clause does not apply. They signed their perpetual contract with ATT before ATT sold USL to

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-03-31 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 03/31/2010 07:27 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 03/30/2010 08:31 PM, Bruce Dawson wrote: Oh, its not over; SCO plans on suing IBM next. (Or at least SCO's lawyers plan to - I suspect they're the only ones left given that

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-03-31 Thread Jeffry Smith
s/Another get/Another Get out of jail card played/ jeff On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 03/31/2010 07:27 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 03/30/2010 08:31 PM, Bruce Dawson wrote: Oh

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-03-31 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:06 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 03/31/2010 01:32 PM, Shawn O'Shea wrote: I'd also love to see the Red Hat v SCO trial continue (also stayed due to the bankruptcy proceedings). Red Hat basically took SCO to task for slandering Linux and making false

Re: another reason to use adblock and noscript... or just use Linux

2010-03-24 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:   Linux is NOT more secure then Windows.  People RUNNING Linux are *generally* more security conscious then a person running Windows. -- -- Thomas Apache (OK, not Linux, but illustrative). Back a number of years ago,

Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

2010-03-22 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote: I have the Sansa Fuze - playes Ogg Vorbis just fine.  It's picky on the movie format (non-free H.264/AAC with some weirdness), but someone built an app (using libwine, unfortunately) that does the conversion on Linux

Re: The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux

2010-03-09 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  Oh, that's a good point.  I was thinking just of the patent encumbered stuff, i.e., codecs and the like.  I briefly forgot about the copy restriction stuff (wishful thinking, I guess).  Even if they would be willing to

Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-06 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Could it be the community hasn't stood up because you have to assign copyright to MySQL/Sun/Oracle, and people don't like giving their work

The MySQL petition

2010-01-06 Thread Jeffry Smith
Forgot to send to the list On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Seems that no one else does either.  Amazing how Red Hat can get all those folks to contribute, but MySQL can't.  Oh, right

Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-05 Thread Jeffry Smith
What strikes me is his apparent non-belief in Open Source. Basically, he's arguing that you need to force the disgorgement to protect the current proprietary MySQL clients, and they're needed for continuing development, because the Open Source community hasn't/won't stood up to support MySQL.

Re: 'Tis the season

2009-12-25 Thread Jeffry Smith
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the Net, There were hacker's a surfing. Geeks? Yeah, you bet. The e-mails were stacked by the modem with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The newbies were nestled all snug by their screens, While visions of Java danced in

Re: Minor disaster recovery

2009-08-14 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Tyson Sawyerty...@j3.org wrote: The filesystem on the system drive is (or should be) backed up. Don't try. As Jeff Smith said, the more you tinker, the worse things usually get. If

Re: Minor disaster recovery

2009-08-12 Thread Jeffry Smith
Step one - duplicate the drive. Do a dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb (or suitable drive with a new disk). You could also do dd if=/dev/sda of=/var/disk-copy to create a file with the name. One key I've found in recovering bad disks is to minimize the read/writes. Do a copy and work with that. jeff

Re: Out of memory while booting? update

2009-04-06 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Would you happen to be running and Windoze drivers, say via the NDIS wrapper, on this system? I have a notebook which I'm troubleshooting, and it locks up on boot (hangs on the networking phase) and I think

Re: Caching network-aware filesystem?

2009-02-24 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org wrote: Hopefully the rise of netbooks will make this question a bit easier to answer, but here goes. I just returned from a trip where I took close to 1000 pictures with my cameras. My Dell mini was a real trooper during

Re: Caching network-aware filesystem?

2009-02-24 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org wrote: Hopefully the rise of netbooks will make this question a bit easier to answer, but here goes. I just returned from a trip where I took close

Re: [OT] Simple math considered physics

2007-11-25 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 11/24/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That book (unfortunately) has been out of print for many, many years, but here is another book along the same lines that I would recommend: http://www.amazon.com/American-Boys-Handy-Book-Nonpareil/dp/0879234490/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product a

Re: [ means test right? Maybe? (was: Re: GOTCHA in Ubuntu - broken shell)

2007-10-01 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 10/1/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the relevant bash (3.2.9) man page on Fedora 7: string == pattern True, if string matches pattern. Any part of pattern can be quoted to cause it to be matched as a string. With a successful

Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!

2007-09-19 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 9/19/07, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/18/2007 10:17 AM, Paul Lussier wrote: Happy Birthday Linux! Now you can drive :) Thanks for that perspective. Now I feel really old. Gads. -Mark If you want to feel young (or old, depending on which side of 1947 you are) -

Re: Netflix IE

2007-04-15 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 4/15/07, brk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 14, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Ben Scott wrote: On 4/14/07, brk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I had to guess, Netflix probably doesn't really care all that much about it ... Netflix is is a corporation, and as such, is incapable of having caring or

Completely OT - room numbers [Was Re: Dividing The List Considered Harmful]

2007-03-27 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:52:01AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: I'm not just arguing to be argumentative (that's room 12A); these are questions that would need to be answered for anything like a list charter to be drawn up. Isn't that room 3b? jeff ___

Re: Handhelds/PDAs - Palm vs Zaurus vs others - Opinions? Experiences?

2007-03-22 Thread Jeffry Smith
I'll comment again (although I don't own one yet) - check out the N800 by Nokia (http://www.nokiausa.com/N800). Not a cell phone, but a Linux PDA with built-in WiFi, Skype, Bluetooth, 2 x SD slots, 640x480 color display, 128MB RAM, 256MB flash, web camera, etc. Also an active open-source

Re: Handhelds/PDAs - Palm vs Zaurus vs others - Opinions? Experiences?

2007-03-20 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 3/21/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, world! So, I'm thinking about getting a new handheld computer (AKA PDA), before the one I have now finishes crumbling into dust. (For purposes of this discussion, let's assume my handheld and my mobile phone will be two different devices.)

Re: Long stupid debate on OOXML and the year 1900 (was: Ecma responses to ISO)

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 3/11/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems possible that a more accurate depiction of the facts would be that OOXML includes a compatibility mode to support existing spreadsheets that assume a bug that dates back to before Microsoft even had a spreadsheet product. Which brings

Re: Long stupid debate on OOXML and the year 1900 (was: Ecma responses to ISO)

2007-03-11 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 3/11/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/11/07, Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [the backwards compatibility provision in OOXML] ... are all things that should be in a conversion program - not a modern data storage format. I don't think it's that simple, for reasons I've

Re: The Debian Flamewar Strikes Back!

2007-02-27 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 2/27/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 27, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Ben Scott wrote: The One True Way is that There Is More Than One Way To Do It. So The One True Way is that there is No One True Way, hmm? Zen-like. No, perl-like (TOTWITTINOTW, translated as TMTOWTDI) jeff

Re: embedded devices and open source

2007-02-23 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 2/23/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/23/07, Python [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the manufacturer's perspective really that grim when trying to support an open source device? As usual, it depends. A common concern is support -- support that the manufactuer gives to people who

Re: embedded devices and open source

2007-02-23 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 2/23/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/23/07, Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then there's trade secrets and patents and such that can prevent companies from following the FOSS route. Some businesses create their own intellectual property and want to sell

Re: embedded devices and open source

2007-02-23 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 2/24/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/23/07, Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A common concern is support -- support that the manufactuer gives to people who buy their stuff. Of course, another concern is THEIR support. Remember most embedded folks don't write their own

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-18 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 2/18/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That the Linux community pushing 'You now have choice' breaks down when it comes to the general public. And that perhaps we can actually learn from WHY people prefer Windows in general. My experience (from putting GNOME/KDE boxes in front

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

2007-02-18 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 2/18/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/18/07, Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/18/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That the Linux community pushing 'You now have choice' breaks down when it comes to the general public. And that perhaps we can

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits [was Can't figure out Firefox Plugin Requirement ]

2007-02-18 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 2/18/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/17/07, Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And don't forget that real Engineers (Professional Engineers) sign their work and take responsibility for failures (reputation, money, etc). Not all real engineers need a PE. In some states

Open Source Medical

2007-02-17 Thread Jeffry Smith
From another forum, I got reminded of a fairly large Open Source project - VISTA, the VA's medical records system. More at: http://www.hardhats.org/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvista http://www.va.gov/vdl/ It's good enough to win awards - Harvard's Innovations Award

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits

2007-02-15 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 2/15/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: **Yes, I did take into account leap years, and unlike Microsoft, I know that every four hundred years we skip one. You might only skip one every four hundred years, but the Internet (Gregorian Calendar) skips 3 - it only adds one if the

Re: Evolution sucks??

2007-02-12 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 2/12/07, Tyson Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure out of Evolution sucks or its just a user error. It's not user error - Evolution sucks. Next question: What's people's favorite e-mail systems? Mine are EXMH (by far #1) and Sylpheed-claws, with occasional use of Balsa.

Re: XML quote Re: Meeting Notes: SLUG Mon 14 Nov - Google Earth and everything else

2006-11-14 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 11/14/06, Kevin D. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Lussier writes: Is there anyway we could foster this into a real discussion on XML, what it is, what it's used for, why it's good/bad/evil/sucks-rocks/better-than-sliced-bread ? Well, everybody has their own view on the world. You

Re: Novell,MS and Xen

2006-11-13 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 11/13/06, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:54:11 +0300 Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/11/06, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to throw cold water on these well-fanned flames but... Prediction: Microsoft will buy Novell/SUSE or otherwise

Re: Novell,MS and Xen

2006-11-11 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 11/11/06, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to throw cold water on these well-fanned flames but... Prediction: Microsoft will buy Novell/SUSE or otherwise acquire all the Unix IP and try to litigate Linux/Unix out of business. Then it will turn its lawyer cannons on the GPL. Only

Re: Linux and fonts and Firefox and human-factors design

2006-11-02 Thread Jeffry Smith
On 11/2/06, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd just say the ability to change clients is not nearly as relevant as changing my access locations. I can check my mail from my Treo, my laptop, my desktop, my webmail if I'm on a public terminal, etc. I am always looking at the same

SANE homepage

2003-06-28 Thread Jeffry Smith
at the last MerriLUG meeting, I was talking to someone about scanners and printers. I couldn't remember the locations of the SANE and HP printer sites, but I knew I had them bookmarked, so here they are: SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy): http://www.mostang.com/sane/ HP OfficeJet Printers (note