If some variation of that sleazy hack doesn't work and you can't
find some some source for the info you want (maybe something like
https://isDSTactiveInMyTimezone.com/ :) then you'll have to determine
if DST is active on your own.
That requires a timezone file for your locale and some source
You can mess around with DST and such but this slightly sleazy hack
might serve an alternative: find some way to get your "dumb" machine to
tell your "smart" machine what time it thinks it is currently, and then
force the smart machine to that time. For example, if SSH works from
the smart
Posted from Linaro Connect 2018, Hong Kong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZMA3Ge144U
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A former cow-orker on another list says:
> Trello is usually what I start with recommending as it is
> very visual, uses sticky notes, and you can try it for free
> (although it charges at group and enterprise level).
>
> For open source versions of trello, you should check out
> this link:
I shouted with joy when it was announced that the completely vile
practice of prospective employers demanding that you reveal your
compensation history will (at least in MA) become illegal next year:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/business/dealbook/wage-gap-massachusetts-l
Debugging postfix - sorry for the noise...
--M
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I worked at Data Precision (Analogic) and one of our guys wrote a
BASIC interpreter (in 68000 assembler!) for incorporation into a
product (D6000 Waveform Analyzer) as embedded code. I can't remember
whether it was Kemeny or Kurtz but one of them visited circa 1982
to give it a test drive and
Another vote for strace. Depending on circumstances I
sometimes first startup a separate session thus:
script /tmp/tediousDebugSession.log
...and then just allow the strace+program command to let
fly via stdout. It can be a mess but having program output
intermixed with the resultant
I'm a generalist looking for work (SysEng/SysAdmin/other?)
within reasonable commuting distance from Chelmsford, MA.
Please email me if you have any leads or want further info...
Thanks,
--Michael O'Donnell
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I'm running Ubuntu 12.4 on a dual boot laptop. I have a
Chromcast dongle on my TV. I am unable to cast to it.
I received a Chromecast as a gift but haven't messed with it
much; I, too, am disappointed but not surprised at Google's
refusal to support Linux users.
I think the Chromecast
Pardon the noise - just verifying that I can post
to the GNHLUG list using my non-ComCast email address..
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Could I start the process with fifo-buffer.txt and then
when I want to check the output, run a tail -f fifo-buffer.txt
If your fifo-buffer.txt is a plain file that isn't managed
(log rotation, etc) then the risk is that it wastes or
exhausts disk space. If it's a named pipe any writes to
Ah! forgot about that screen/tmux approach (screen, in my case) -
I, too, have had good results with it, circumstances permitting...
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I don't know what the current crop of WD Desktop drives
is like but when I was evaluating them for inclusion in
a product about 4 yrs ago they didn't make the cut.
In addition to mediocre xfer speeds their design seemed
to indicate unfamiliarity with (or disregard for)
basic concerns like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJ-NSPES9Y
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I'm sure some would not be displeased to see the
term open source get Embraced And Extended and
turned into a pejorative the way hacker was...
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You may find witches, ghosts and zombies at your door this
evening but this discusses something even more horrible:
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html
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My understanding is that mobile phone service providers
are required to transmit/relay all 911 calls regardless of
whether the originating device is registered/subscribed to the
provider in question. If so, what kind of (preferably minimal
and unobtrusive) HW/SW would a generic laptop (running
Halfway through the install the machine signaled an overheat
condition and stopped. Turned out I hadn't installed the CPU
heat sink correctly. Doh! With this fixed the machine seems
OK, but I can't figure out how to boot the CD again.
If you were trying to perform the installation on an
Seriously? That WWW page renders (at least on my Android phone
and on Firefox on my desktop box) as small-print, low-contrast
grey font on dark purple background...
I spoke to Jonathan last night about it. You need to remember
that Jonathan is blind, and is not able to view his websites
Abstract
Sonar aims to be an accessible GNU/Linux distribution to people
of all needs. Its goal is to bring awareness of Free accessible
software to people that depend on assistive technology.
New Sonar home page: http://www.sonargnulinux.com/
Seriously? That WWW page renders (at least
I haven't worked with ClearCase in quite a while but have done so
at several different companies. Every source control system and
build/configuration manager has its problems and I certainly had
occasion to curse ClearCase from time to time, but in its (mild)
defense I'll mention some things I
What smartphones will I have the least amount of trouble
with if I need/want to connect them with my Linux computer?
If by connect you mean move photo/movie/sound/ringtone/etc
files between host and phone then I'll echo Curt's response.
My by-now-ancient DroidX2 behaves perfectly with USB
When I plug that into my Linux box, it automounts, but there
is nothing there. Plugging into my work Win7, the iPhone also
automounts, but I get the directory with any photos taken by
the iPhone. [...] A conspiracy?
My phone presents multiple USB mass-storage devices so it's
possible yours
Any suggestion that LUG communication is being specifically and
intentionally monitored by Google or others would be laughable.
So can we please not go there?
I didn't get the impression that specific monitoring of GNHLUG
was suggested, just that it was surprising (disappointing?)
to learn
I don't think we can reach that conclusion. Jim posted a message
to the public GNHLUG mailing list that included a web address.
Hey, right! now that you mention it (duh) isn't that how WWW
indexing is *designed* to work in the first place? ;-
Forgot about the archived GNHLUG postings, and
Would anybody here with an RHCSA / RHCE care to
chat w/me offline about what it's like prepping
for and obtaining the cert?
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Bret Victor (definitely a Renaissance Man) will break your
heart with this video of a tool for creating presentations
that he says he'll be releasing... someday:
http://vimeo.com/66085662
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I watch this thread with bemused interest as I use (am deeply
addicted to) CTWM, which was forked from TWM in order to add
virtual desktops (now more commonly referred to as workspaces)
and I believe that in this case the C refers to the first name
of the guy who did the work, Claude
A subdir in /tmp can certainly have my ownership and permissions.
And I guess they can't delete the directory because it isn't
empty, but with permissions on the parent directory, can't they
move it?
Picky, picky, picky. Well, for completeness I suppose we should
mention the deleted file
It occurs to me (as I wait for the replacement fror my laptop's
WiFi/BT module *) that there may be a use for that WRT54GL of
mine with the blown WAN port. (mod - you had one too, right?)
Yah, the WAN port on mine failed, as well. I believe there's
nothing special about the port marked WAN
there may be a use for that WRT54GL of mine with
the blown WAN port. (mod - you had one too, right?)
Yah, the WAN port on mine failed, as well.
Hey, wait a minute! ;- I think the one you have *IS*
my old one - I offered it on this channel back in 2009
after the WAN port failed and didn't
There's some newfangled thing called Terminology:
http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/terminology-more-than-terminal-emulator.html
I've never used it.
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Note that with bash if you say something like this:
export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%Y%m%d%H%M%S: '
...you'll see your history marked accordingly with timestamps.
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A nicely readable analysis (if you happen to like this stuff)
of the exploit recently demonstrated via semtex.c :
http://timetobleed.com/a-closer-look-at-a-recent-privilege-escalation-bug-in-linux-cve-2013-2094/
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With some now ranking the US down near 30th worldwide (and
falling) in terms of fastest/cheapest Internet availability, and
with our monopolist carriers like Verizon/ComCast/Cox pretending
like it's the Natural Order for things to be the way they are as
they inflict vertical integration on their
Even on just a silly little RAID1 mirror on a multi-Tb
array I dread seeing the various messages announcing
routine maintenance and diagnostic operations as
they take forever and don't come for free, resource-wise...
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kmax=1;
kfactor=(kmax-1.0)/delta/(orderbc+1.0)/delbc^orderbc;
Unless matlab treats floats and ints differently than most other
languages, I'd say its a bug because zero over anything is always zero.
Shame on anybody who'd intentionally code something like
that without also providing a
On several occasions I've heard (from Google insiders) about
open positions inside (regional instantiations of) Google and
even though the work involved was nothing that required the
applicants to have 133+ h@x0r skillzz they still insisted on
inflicting that ritual abuse crap on the applicants
[...] guy sounded like he knew what he was talking about,
Computer Science-wise. Unless they have a rotating thing
where Google engineers have to interview a person every week
or whatever, he knew WAY more than he needed for his job.
Overall, Google's standards seem high - no argument
Just unearthed some Dr. Dobbs magazines from the years
1980 thru 1984 (complete except for a handful of issues)
and also Volume 1 Number 2 from 1976. Anybody want 'em?
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Magazines have been claimed.
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Can that space that the file takes up be overwritten during
this interim? Or does the OS hold the inode sacrosanct until
both references AND processes are no longer making use of it?
Right - the OS's official record of a file's state is the
(in-memory copy of the) inode - the directory entries
IPMI was involved with reestablishing communications with
your Dom-0 ? Interesting. Was that via Serial-Over-LAN?
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Some processes do this deliberately for temporary files:
They create/open a new file and then immediately unlink it.
This yields an anonymous file, which won't need to be specially
cleaned up, even if the program crashes.
Bad Guys do this, too, because such deleted files aren't
easily found
For entertainment puprposes only: a brief (4:18) video poking
fun at corner cases of some Ruby/Javascript operators/syntax -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0EIZa5e9q4
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I've already contemplated such a move... (my service would
be called Greg'sList... it's Craigslist, only better :-)
But, their TOS explicitly limits any such possibility.
Heh. Their interface is so easy to scrape (and the sheer
volume of stuff available so overwhwelming) that various
I got no responses to my previous request, which I now realize
(in light of their impending acquisition by Oracle) might have
had something to do with my use of the term insider.
This is nothing to do with that; just an employment-related
inquiry about corporate culture, work environment, etc,
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2946
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To whomever it was at the GNHLUG presentation last night
that said they're with Acme Packet: please contact me.
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Looking for any Acme Packet employee - I have
a few questions about the company...
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Are there schools in New England that grant undergrad
technical degrees (IT or CS) where the courses and
professors emphasize Linux and FOSS rather than being
thinly disguised proxies for Micro$oft's marketing dept?
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Some corrections/additions to my original post:
It's a 1400 VA unit, not 3000 as implied by my accidentally
pasting the wrong string into my email.
APC Smart-UPS, 950 Watts / 1400 VA
Also, I've seen some search engines return pix of the deskside
freestanding unit when using su1400rm2u as a
Traffic has been light here for some time - hope y'all are well.
Season's greetings, etc...
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chumby-developer-building-open-source-laptop-1771223.html
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The aim, however, is not to produce a cheap laptop for Huang,
it's more about the exclusivity of a handmade product of this
kind and it would be priced to reflect that.
It seems like there's room in the laptop market between cheap
and artisanal.
Yah, I'm happy to enourage his efforts but if
H, semi-repeatable failures to boot all the way up to
a GUI-based login?
My first guess might be:
- Maybe your graphics subsystem couldn't be initialized.
Maybe your adapter has problems after a warm boot?
Maybe driver not allowing enough time for initialization?
You've so far done everything right; ath3k is the correct
device-specific driver for the USB gizmo in question and
/lib/firmware/ath3k-1.fw is the correct firmware file,
in the proper location, and the USB infrastructure even
noticed the device and reported some generic info about it.
This is the second time this week that my firewall has reported
the following:
[DoS Attack: ACK Scan] from source: 69.171.227.60, port 443, Sunday, August
05,2012 20:25:40
The reported IP address is within a range owned by Facebook
and DNS shows a hostname that (FWIW) is at least plausibly in
It's *just* a home connection? No services? Nuke the connection
attempt.
If you're on a network with DHCP (most residential connections),
it's possible someone else wrote an app that points to a DNS
name that points to your IP address. Still safe to nuke it.
When you say nuke the
When you say nuke the connection attempt do you mean
[...]
Nuke as in (continue to) deny the connection attempt.
Cool.
Hmmm, I did end up in a situation recently (and reluctantly)
where I was obliged to install a Firefox add-in involved
with use of MacroMedia's AdobeConnect (grrr! don't
Those who use terms like immune or virus-proof when
discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither
is true.
Ouch.
Ooops. I forgot about your signature line. ;-
I gave careful consideration to adopting my current signature
line, for exactly the reason of the problems of
Those who use terms like immune or virus-proof when
discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither
is true. We are, for now, statistically less likely to be
compromised because there aren't as many of us and because
privilege separation has been more the custom with us than
with
I've thought about this problem during my commute for a week
now, and I haven't been able to come up with a simple solution
that satisfies the constraints.
It's an interesting puzzle. You mention constraints but we
don't really have a clear problem statement.
[...] the problem could be
I can't supply a specific quote but I've previously seen
some anti-SPAM measures likened to Lupus and RA (Rheumatoid
Arthritis) as examples of autoimmune systems run amok.
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What I haven't figured out is how to return the results to the
parent shell. Not because I can't write it somewhere other
than the tty, but because I don't know how to get the shell to
hook up a pipe to that extra fd, to which I can write, and from
which the shell can later read (while
Is something like whiptail ruled out?
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Here is a more complete list of candidates some of which may
handle the fd gymnastics in question for you and then simply
utter the desired results on their stdout:
Python:
python-dialog - Python module for making Text/Console-mode user interfaces
Text:
dialog- Displays user-friendly
Is that the one that gives you a map of the URLs that are
receiving information from your cookies?
Wait--what?
He might be referring to Collusion - fascinating:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/
http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers.html
SEE ALSO:
I believe that if you hold down the Shift key at strategic
points during GRUB2 startup it will present the interactive
menu that allows you to edit the boot commandline instead
of just hurling itself off into the void...
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It'd take some pretty bizarre build errors to generate a kernel
that describes itself as x86_64 when it isn't. Therefore,
(assuming you're really running in the filesystem that your x86
system was based on) what's likely happening is that the exec()
machinery that allows mixed use of x86 and
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:29:23 -0400 Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote
BTW, for recent kernel sources I think the value you wanted to
use for ARCH is i686 rather than i386, even though the latter
may be what the arch command reports.
Well... here's my /usr/src/linux/arch
What does 32bit do that 64 won't? Besides browser plugins,
though that's gotten beter too.
Lack of 64bit browser plugins (particularly Flash) is a big deal
for some. Adobe's official stance on the matter has been all
over the map (I don't know whether their problem is technical
or
but they've heavily favored the 32bit version and seem either
unable or unwilling to produce and support a stable 64bit plugin.
I meant to say ...to *consistently* produce...
In fairness, the 64bit Flash plugin I have running with Firefox
right now has actually been quite stable, especially
In the meantime... is there any possible downside of having
a 64-bit kernel in a 32-bit userspace? Everything -- drivers,
camera, apps -- seems just ducky.
I've seen instances where 32bit apps and libraries disagreed
with some 64bit drivers about the layout of the data structures
that get
I have seen that in 64-bit Linux, 32-bit processes tend to execute
a bit faster. I've seen a number of cases where 32-bit apps run
faster than their 64-bit version, but I've also seen 64-bit apps
run faster than their 32-bit versions.
The 1g/3g memory split I mentioned allowed the kernel
(DRBDLVMiSCSIHeartbeat)
Heh. I suspect that will somehow look familiar to Mr. Lussier... ;-
He did indicate a wish to have an Active/Active rig but I believe
that approach only allows Active/Standby, yes?
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Here's the problem I ran into: I wanted to be logged out when
using Google as a search engine. [...] I don't even use them
for that anymore, so it seems kind of moot, but with their web
bugs and trackers all over it really isn't.
I use https://duckduckgo.com/ in an attempt to at least
Thanks to all.
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Hoping to briefly borrow a drive capable of reading zip100
media. Discovered a small number of zip100 disks in an office
environment where the corresponding drives are no longer
available and want to see if the disks contain any data of
value to the company before discarding them.
Would that all bills before legislative bodies were
that readable and straightforward. Nice work.
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Anything old will have its share of historical accidents, to be
sure. But there's reasonable design failings, and then there's
design by the infinite monkey method.
You have insulted an infinite number of monkeys. IBM used to
publish the source codes for their BIOS in the little 3-ring
Does your strace output show any fcntl() calls? I believe it's
possible (maybe even necessary?) to set attributes like O_DIRECT
and O_ASYNC using fcntl() as well as during the original open().
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I've been assembling computer systems from donated/scavenged
components, installing Linux and then giving them away on
Freecycle to folks who are glad to receive them, no matter how
humble the machine. I naturally prefer to obtain otherwise
functional systems whose only affliction is the
Coincidentally, GigaOM recently posted this:
http://gigaom.com/cloud/grabcad-grabs-4m-for-open-source-cad/
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I'd forgotten that I, too, have a friend (in an NYC architectural
firm) who recommends Google's Sketchup. I've not used it.
I daydream about being able to walk around the house snapping
photos and feeding them to some app where I click on key points
while specifying dimensions and such, from
My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE.
Me, too - I switched to the XFCE-based Xubuntu.
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Having just now quickly RTFSC and done a few superficial
experiments I conclude that the -t option (mnemonic for to;
there's also a secret from flag -f) is not suitable for
use by humans. It tells scp that it's in server mode and
should expect to communicate with its counterpart using some
Use it anyways, no one has ever accused you of being a human -=]
Patrick
[ahem!] Yes, well, on that note, I offer my wishes to the sentient
beings on this channel (and also to Patrick) that this season
brings you all the happiness you might prudently wish for... ;-
Offered is an assortment of phone cords (approx 100 pcs)
fitted with RJ11 (standard 4-conductor) connectors.
Cables range in length from a few inches to approx 10ft,
many still in original packaging. Found these leftovers
from a failed startup while cleaning the basement...
Yah, I had believed that the headers were consulted (rather
than merely updated) as the message was transferred from server
to server, but there's apparently some other (or additional)
conversation taking place between the servers that governs routing.
Yet more stuff to put on my list of
I'm getting much less SPAM in the last year or so (yay!)
and I gather that's at least partly due to the shutdown of some
botnets. And I hate to say anything positive about ComCast but
I think another factor is that their filters are pretty good.
SPAM volume is now low enough that it's
I know nothing about this - just forwarding FWIW.
Contact dkressin if interested.
[ Yes, that date seems stale but headers
indicate the sender's msg got tangled up
inside Yahoo's servers until just now.]
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:12:09 -0700 (PDT) (21:12 EDT)
From: Dan Kressin
The one that customers are apparently supposed to use,
www.myfairpoint.net *won't even display on my computer* and hasn't
for years. I don't know if it's actually empty or what (view
source shows nothing). Firefox on Linux.
Hmmm. When I said this:
wget -O -
Once upon a time you could pay for pretty decent
NNTP access via:
http://www.giganews.com/
YMMV...
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(Note: I hate Flash but since it's hard to function w/o it...)
In our last episode (on 7 June) the word was this:
One Year Later: Adobe Abandons 64-bit Linux Again:
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/06/one-year-later-adobe-abandons.html
This week's episode apparently has them supporting
Holland, MA is roughly only a 90-minute haul from Boston and right
off the Pike, and yet Union, CT is further down in the CT sticks
and they had the cable service. Not much rhyme nor reason to it
up here, either.
There's baffling availability patterns in the `burbs as well
as out in the
If you can, would you please look up hotels around Burlington VT for
Aug 19-20? Anything within a 25 mi radius. Plattsburgh options are
cheaper, but I'm uncomfortable being reliant on crossing the lake
to get to the race. Still it'd be good to know my options and the
ferry times and
Try the -t option to force pty allocation?
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Try the -t option to force pty allocation?
...I'm talking about the SSH option, in case it
wasn't obvious.
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