Re: Frames and Motorola's New Router.

2023-03-14 Thread Thomas Charron
I found this, maybe it will help. https://kevinlocke.name/bits/2019/12/28/checking-802.11w-support/ On Tue, Mar 14, 2023, 4:08 PM Lori Nagel wrote: > > I think that is it. It is a new motorola router. > On Monday, March 13, 2023 at 07:46:17 PM EDT, Thomas Charron < > tw

Re: Frames and Motorola's New Router.

2023-03-14 Thread Thomas Charron
arch 13, 2023 at 07:46:17 PM EDT, Thomas Charron < > twaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > He might mean protected management frames? > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 7:36 PM Ben Scott wrote: > > At 2023 Mar 12 Sun 09:36 PM -0400, Bruce Labitt < > bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net&g

Re: Frames and Motorola's New Router.

2023-03-13 Thread Thomas Charron
He might mean protected management frames? On Mon, Mar 13, 2023, 7:36 PM Ben Scott wrote: > At 2023 Mar 12 Sun 09:36 PM -0400, Bruce Labitt < > bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net> wrote: > >>> Why don't linux machines let me use the Wi-Fi when the router is set > to frames. > >>> It is supposed to be

Re: bandwidth capture question

2018-05-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:09 PM, jsf wrote: > Hi friends, > > I am IT dir. at a small independent school in CT nowadays. I have a > comcast modem. my firewall plugs into a wired port in the comcast modem. > I have an old PC running windows 8.1. I have installed wireshark on

Re: Suggestions: Job boards, listings, contacts? for Senior Technical Writer

2017-09-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: > Pick your recruiters carefully. > A good one will help you find the right fit. > > A bad one will get you ignored by an employer. I once worked with a bad > one and later encountered them from the employer's side (my boss).

Re: Any miners?

2017-06-16 Thread Thomas Charron
You'll use more electricity then you'll get, at least for Bitcoin. Some simple searches and, basic math should set your son strait. Thomas On Jun 16, 2017 6:00 PM, "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" wrote: > My son is investigating crypto-currency mining and seems to think

Re: Multiple default gateways.

2017-04-26 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Then someone on a BBS I'm on > pasted this link: > https://kindlund.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/configuring- > multiple-default-routes-in-linux/ Z0mg! Ken, your not going to believe this, but this message JUST came to

Re: Phone SPAM/SCAM

2016-06-27 Thread Thomas Charron
Hehe, I got that scam as well. Truecaller filtered it out, but they left a message. Thomas On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 4:07 PM, mad...@li.org wrote: > Hi, > > Received this on my answering machine. I do not know what type of scam > this is, but I called > the number

Re: Fw: new message

2016-04-22 Thread Thomas Charron
Go Go Gadget Spam! On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Susan Cragin wrote: > Hello! > > > > *You have a new message, please read* > http://www.buyadrugstore.com/plate.php > > > > > Susan Cragin > >

Re: Opinions on Tor?

2015-09-11 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:43 PM, jsf wrote: > I believe TOR, although it, (like anything) can be used for ill/evil, > is essentially an important tool for good. Thanks for the link to the > EFF petition. Shared it. It occured to me, but, if they're concerned about it's

Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting ideas. Sometime you don't want to go north on 93 on Friday. Rt 3 is less congested... Rt 3 being less bad than anything is scary ... Waze uses the real time traffic data in it's trip planning, and

Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations

2015-07-15 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Matt Minuti matt.min...@gmail.com wrote: I've had bad luck with Chicagovps, you really do get what you pay for with them, and trying to reset a server tends to result in a week of downtime and a few support tickets. Digitalocean has been great and really cheap.

Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations

2015-07-15 Thread Thomas Charron
I use ChicagoVPS, and love it.. Cheap and reliable. http://www.chicagovps.net/openvz.html Thomas 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

Re: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?

2015-01-13 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@hackerposse.com wrote: On January 9, 2015 5:56:43 PM EST, John Abreau wrote: What are your project's needs that explicitly require 4K distinct public addresses and that cannot function using private addresses and NAT instead?

Re: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?

2015-01-13 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Matt Minuti matt.min...@gmail.com wrote: Aren't there IP blocks reserved for exactly this kind of VPN use? I've never seen reserved public IP ranges for this sort of thing. There are reserved block ranges for private networks, but if I understood the OP, the

Re: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?

2015-01-13 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@hackerposse.com wrote: And what subnet would you put all of your fixed infrastructure on to guarantee that hosts coming in through all of those VPNs can actually route to it? And to each other? This sounds lame,

Re: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?

2015-01-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: I had not realized that ARIN was still distributing addresses. I had thought they had pretty much given them all out. https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_countdown.html Thomas

Linux Memory Fragmentation, ideas..

2014-10-10 Thread Thomas Charron
Hello everyone, This is a very interesting road, so I'm calling out to see if anyone might have idea on how to minimize an issue I am having on an embedded imaging system. This device is performing an insane amount of image processing from two firewire cameras. We're talking on the order

Re: Linux Memory Fragmentation, ideas..

2014-10-10 Thread Thomas Charron
at the capability of modern linux mmap), then a custom device driver should be able to allocate such buffers at boot time and map them. Bill On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, This is a very interesting road, so I'm calling out to see if anyone

Re: Device Tree vs. Device drivers

2014-07-18 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote: Does anyone have experience with device drivers and how they interact with the new Device Tree methodology? I've got a project using a BeagleBoneBlack and need to modify the serial driver (6530/16550A) for some *very*

Re: Device Tree vs. Device drivers

2014-07-18 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote: Thanks for replying Thomas! Basically, I need to store the time (to the sub-nanosecond) on the first serial interrupt. (Don't need it for every byte, just the first in a stream.) I'm not really interested in speeding up

DHCPd providing dhclient information

2014-06-27 Thread Thomas Charron
For not wanting to implement something on my own, does anyone know of a way to configure dhcpd to provide DNS which was configured via dhcp to an external address? I have a device which is going to have another system internal to it, and will be doing NAT for that device, but would like to

Re: Fifo buffer question

2014-02-06 Thread Thomas Charron
Use the right tool for the job. multilog is a utility which you pipe your stdout/err to, and it maintains logs, including log rotation, etc.. So it can be spewing out all the time, but you can have say, 3 logs based on 100k each. On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com

Re: SAS controller

2014-01-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Shawn O'Shea sh...@eth0.net wrote: +1 for LSI controllers. Dell has OEMed these for years and on their high-end desktops are moving from Dell PERC (special OEMed LSI) controllers to the straight LSI controllers. I have some of the 9211 cards installed in a

Re: SAS controller

2014-01-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Richard Kolb II richard.k...@gmail.comwrote: How about if I just want to hook one drive up long enough to copy data off of it? Anything specific I should know? I've seen some cards on ebay for under $50, and I like the idea of being able to use it for SATA

Re: SAS controller

2014-01-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Richard Kolb II richard.k...@gmail.comwrote: How about if I just want to hook one drive up long enough to copy data off of it? Anything specific I should know? I've seen some cards

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-07-30 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote: But LTE is the data network, not the telephony network. VzW is still a CDMA network, ATT and T-Mo are still GSM, and Sprint is still PCS/GSM. So, unless the phone is data-only, and uses no telephony protocol, it needs to

Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

2013-07-30 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote: Sprint is a mix of both CDMA and PCS. In not sure what their Nextel phones are using these days. But the use of LTE has nothing to do with the telephony transport. There is also TD-LTE, but that is mostly APAC. Might

Re: *sigh* I guess I'm going mobile (Linux-compatible smartphones?)

2013-06-14 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: OTOH, if by connect you mean use the phone as my computer's Internet connection (AKA tethering) that's a much more interesting - and usually expensive - matter. I've been curious about Clearwire as a

Re: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?

2012-12-11 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Roger H. Goun ro...@bcah.com wrote: Fortunately, the nerd points that Ben lost by committing an elementary sysadmin mistake he got back through the form of his apology. We all know that it's just a conspiracy, and the emails being held where *actually*

Re: sched_setscheduler(2)

2012-11-09 Thread Thomas Charron
ok good point I think you can disable some of the schedulers at compile time.. I seem to remember seeing that option in there somewhere. On Nov 9, 2012 9:05 AM, Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net wrote: Can you send us the kernel .config that goes along with the kernel that you are

Re: sched_setscheduler(2)

2012-11-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_cl...@comcast.netwrote: Bruce Dawson writes: Does anyone have any experience with this system call? Can you give us some code with your exact setup for sched_setscheduler()? As a secondary note, the permitted message you are

Re: sched_setscheduler(2)

2012-11-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On 2.6.31-11-rt (Ubuntu 10.04 realtime kernel) ./a.out starting... My original scheduling policy is SCHED_OTHER (0) The original minimum scheduling priority is 0, the maximum is 0 sched_get_priority_max(1) returned 99 sched_get_priority_min(1) returned 1 My target scheduling policy is

Re: sched_setscheduler(2)

2012-11-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: On 2.6.31-11-rt (Ubuntu 10.04 realtime kernel) ./a.out starting... My original scheduling policy is SCHED_OTHER (0) The original minimum scheduling priority is 0, the maximum is 0 sched_get_priority_max(1) returned

Re: grub issue

2012-10-23 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net wrote: 4: what happens when you type telinit 5? FYI, Debian and (IIRC) Ubuntu don't use runlevel 5 normally. They normally boot to runlevel

Re: Anyone want a Debian umbrella?

2012-09-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: My broither-in-law is an umbrella wholesaler http://www.umbrellaman.com. Not sure I can do any better as he normally deals with thousands of umbrellas. Also, who owns the Debian trademark. If he were to do it, he would have to

DHCP, Autoipd, fallbacks, fall (forward?)

2012-08-09 Thread Thomas Charron
Quick question for everyone, in case they've encountered a situation like this, or know dhclient and avahi. So, I have a system which comes up, and there is no DHCP server available. Link reverts to avahi-autoipd, which assigns a link local address. Is there a way I can have the system,

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-16 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/19300/match=culture It's not obvious to me that anything's changed

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

2012-02-27 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Dear GNHLUG, A couple of (non-technical) friends of mine have expressed a desire to move away from Google's services in response to the latest publicised privacy/security gaffe. The big question is where do I

ipv4ll fallback

2012-02-06 Thread Thomas Charron
Is there any easy way to configure dhcp to fallback to a link local address, should dhcp requests fail? I am currently configuring my network stack statically via /etc/network/interfaces. The application broadcasts via a built in uPnP stack, so it can function if it doesn't have an IP

Re: ipv4ll fallback

2012-02-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com writes:   Is there any easy way to configure dhcp to fallback to a link local address, should dhcp requests fail? I'm not sure to what extent this is a Debian vs. upstream thing

Re: SCP from STDIN: -t option undocumented?

2011-12-22 Thread Thomas Charron
Not sure about scp, but you could use: ssh 192.168.1.2 cat destFile On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM, John Abreau j...@blu.org wrote: Long ago, I was looking for a way to make scp read from stdin, and I had no luck. Earlier this afternoon, when I was tweaking my validate-rsync script to add

Windows 8, Bootloader Signing

2011-09-21 Thread Thomas Charron
Interesting side effect of security. I'm sure it's coincidence.. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5552.html -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: MV.com is shutting down May 1st

2011-04-27 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com) noz...@gmail.com wrote: As a long time dialup and then DSL customer of MV, I'm sad to see them go. RIP mv for sure. One of the very first providers in NH. Prior to them having POP's in NH, you had to pretty much rely on UUCP

Re: MV.com is shutting down May 1st

2011-04-27 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jonathan Linowes jonat...@linowes.com wrote: The end of an era. I signed up circa 1994, when all the Internet was in its infancy (had to manually download and install mosaic, winsocks, dialup etc). And of course, 'download' back then meant, at least for me,

Re: [FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Why do many large organizations tend to resist FOSS?  Discuss. FUD...utilizing the true definitionof the unknown. Even today there are lots of people in IT management who started after the beginning of Microsoft and

Re: [FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: If everyone uses the same software in exactly the same way, then it is a commodity...but how to you get ahead of your competitor that way? But if someone innovates *ANY TIME THEY CAN* it does from innovation, to being an

Re: [FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:  But if someone innovates *ANY TIME THEY CAN* it does from innovation, to being an oddity.  And not all companies who USE does = goes. :-D -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: [FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: So, do you think I give a snot?  Sorry, I do. The answer doesn't scale. That same 'problem' using a cluster years ago can now be processed in *minutes* on a Xeon quad processor. I'm actually leading a product right now

Re: [FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Thomas, But to the original posters comments, the right solution isn't, by default, 'FOSS'. I do not know what question you are trying to answer, perhaps op: You like to use a lot of Open Source Software don't you? Don't

Re: [FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

2011-04-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: The answer doesn't scale. Sorry, it scaled with the information you gave me. John, *you* provided the information that everyone should always be trying to inovate. If I misunderstood your point, my bad. My point is, when

Re: [FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Had an interesting conversation this evening.  A snipped version basically was: op: You like to use a lot of Open Source Software don't you?  Don't you know it is not 'standard' here? me: Hmm.  What part of

VoltDB?

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas Charron
Anyone looked at this yet? http://voltdb.com/ Just wondering if it's worth the time. I'm really veering away from MySQL due to Oracle, and it seems so shiny and new. :-D -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap

2011-01-28 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ed Robbins e...@erobbins.com wrote: We started bumping into this over the Christmas break.  We streamed Netflix everyday, all day long and I was surprised to see how much bandwidth we where chewing through.  The kicker was the snow days that lasted into the

Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap

2011-01-28 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org wrote: 4800kbps (4.8MB) is the max for HD on Netflix.  No US ISP can sustain that. http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/01/netflix-performance-on-top-isp-networks.html Those are aggregate averages, disregarding variations

Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap

2011-01-27 Thread Thomas Charron
 My response to any company which doesn't want to do business with me is to give them what they want.  I don't need TV to survive. I don't need internet to survive either. :-D But we digress. Their lack of ability to stream live baseball games lies with the problems with broadcast TV

Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap

2011-01-26 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  Mythbusters I have to go to the Discovery website to watch.  I have to go to a friend's or a sports bar to catch the Pats games now.  I can live with that. I'm in the same boat, no cable, all internet based. I was

Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

2011-01-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: Sometimes I get lucky here. ;-) I have this horrible spreadsheet that needs to be accessed by lots of people from all over the galaxy. Adding entries to the spreadsheet is painful because it's manual. What I'd like to

Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

2011-01-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: Sometimes I get lucky here. ;-) I have this horrible spreadsheet that needs to be accessed by lots of people from all over the galaxy. Adding

Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

2011-01-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:13 PM, David Berube djber...@berubeconsulting.com wrote: Alternatively, instead of editing the document, you could edit a CSV text file, tab delimited text file, or database table and then generate your XLS/google doc document from that - which is likely your most

Re: Touch-screens that work with Xorg/Linux? (was: Android PMPs)

2010-09-10 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Is anyone here familiar with using off-the-shelf touchscreens, and able to make a recommendation as what particular devices are most straight-forward to get working? I have recent experience with elo brand

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:07 -0400 Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Anybody know of a (commandline or GUI) utility that I could use to wiggle/sense the individual data/control lines of a parallel

Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-16 Thread Thomas Charron
iptables can do it. One of the options is --uid-owner or even --gid-owner Thomas On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: Does anyone know of a way to prevent a Linux account from accessing the Internet? E.g., setting a [per-user] gateway to nil, or

Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-16 Thread Thomas Charron
Examples: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/block-outgoing-network-access-for-a-single-user-from-my-server-using-iptables.html On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:  iptables can do it.  One of the options is --uid-owner or even --gid-owner  Thomas

Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-16 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: There's no notion of UID associated with an IP packet so once it's in transit it's not straightforward to know who owns it ...  

Commercial Distributions

2010-04-14 Thread Thomas Charron
Does anyone have any experience with providing a Linux distribution for a Kiosk sort of device? Thus far, our internal development has been on Ubuntu with a commercial Qt license, however at this stage we need to start looking at this device being 'manufacturable', which means looking at things

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

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Be federal law, anyone competing with the USPS must charge 3x what their charging, no exceptions. I can't find anything on the

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

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Charron
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. Not for years - that's one of their problems in that they have to both deliver

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

2010-04-07 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: The USPS delivers a letter from here to CA for under 50 cents. You couldn't hire someone to lick the stamp for that. No, they don't. They subsidize the entire process by balancing all charges. There's another catch.

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

2010-03-24 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: Given a standard-configuration fully-updated Windows box and compare it to a standard-configuration fully-updated Linux box.. The windows machine has significantly more holes in it during standard use. That is false

Git Help

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Charron
As a git newb, I've got a couple of questions about git which confuse me. Any git users who might be able to explain? If I'm in a directory and have made local modifications, and then I issue a git branch, what does the branch contain a copy of if I check it out? The latest head? Or does

Re: Git Help

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Coleman Kane ck...@colemankane.org wrote: Do't use 'git branch' any more for creating new branches, instead use 'git checkout'. Actually, I already knew that one, I was separating the logic in case it confused things. :-D From your description, I think I

Re: Google Wave?

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: I have had a Google Wave account for some time through a company that I work with. I have found it almost useless, since it does not interact well with regular email, and since you have to be online to really use it.

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: You mean Android right?  Droid is one model of phone using the Android platform.  Yes and no, because... I've read of fragmentation in the Android market.  Exactly.  Droid seems like the first Android phone that's

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-05 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:  Except for the fact that Andriod is pretty much all written in Java.  :-D  And doesn't use X.  And must be run in a VM which isn't the Java VM

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Chris fj1...@gmail.com wrote: I don't agree with all of it, but it does put a few things in perspective. http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7532tag=nl.e539 Chris It's hard to say you don't agree with other users observations. Note, he's not the one the

Re: Interesting article,

2010-03-04 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Brian Chabot br...@datasquire.net wrote: I do not agree with the author of the article either. His arguments seem only based on a limited experience of what Linux has to offer. They aren't his arguments. So, what I’ve done here is gone through the

New Toys

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Charron
So, we're in the process of building a Makerbot Cupcake solid model printer at the house. http://makerbot.com/ Would there be any interest in a presentation at one of the lug meetings? -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: New Toys

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: After you use it to create the next generation Cupcake, can I have this one? :-D If only it was that easy. We got the Makerbot specifically to make a Mendel RepRap, however, it should be noted that it takes a Cupcake

Re: Hacker spaces?

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Charron
The Sommerville one is the closest I know of. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Continuing on the Makebot toy thing, are there any hacker spaces near the NH border? There's one in Sommerville, about an hour south.  I'd like to find one closer to the in the

Re: Multiple X Terminals, One Box

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org wrote: Hi Thomas, There used to be a few hacks floating around for doing something like this. I played with this one many years ago: http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/ That's the one I was familiar with. but I

Silly DNS question

2010-01-22 Thread Thomas Charron
Is an _ allowed in a DNS name? I didn't think so, and my home DNS proxy doesn't think so, but other networks seem fine with it. http://www.thingiverse.com/image:8662 Above is an example, where the image is stored by amazon at

Re: Silly DNS question

2010-01-22 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  That would generally be considered non-compliant with the requirements for Internet hosts, even though DNS can handle it.  Some software attempts to enforce the former despite the later.  It's a matter of opinion who is

Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-06 Thread Thomas Charron
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 - Red Hat GPLs their code, and doesn't (as far as I know) require you to assign copyright to them.

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-07 Thread Thomas Charron
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: Are there any alternatives to FairPoint for internet + phone line in Nashua?  We're far enough away from Main Street to miss out on the free Wi-Fi. Too bad TDS doesn't serve Nashua. Kinda funny that out here in the stick,

Re: Fairpoint files for Chapter 11

2009-10-28 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  Well, there were official documents submitted by the Maine Office of the Consumer Advocate that claimed FairPoint did not have anywhere near the capital backing needed to both buy the northern New England PSTN *and*

Re: Fairpoint files for Chapter 11

2009-10-27 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Dan Miller rambi@gmail.com wrote: Needless to say, I am not surprised: http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091027/NEWS01/910279998/-1/OPINION01 My personal opinion is this would be a good time for Verizon to come in and buy back

Re: Reverse pointer axes?

2009-10-26 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: Hey, all.  I've got a daughter in college -- she's up in Burlington, VT. I've also got a daughter who's not yet in kindergarten.  Needless to say, a three-hour car trip with a young 'un can be fairly long (and then back

Linux Android Phone coming to Verizon

2009-10-20 Thread Thomas Charron
Anyone heard anything much about this 'Droid' phone? It's being toated as an open phone, but.. It's from Verizon. Kinda makes me wonder. http://phandroid.com/motorola-droid/ -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Wayback Machine(s)

2009-10-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:42 AM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote: I've been trying to track down a download of psockets that was hosted somewhere on the University of Illinois Chicago website(s).  I used the wayback machine to try it.  I got to the page with the download link - but the link

Re: macro question

2009-10-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:36 AM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote: In a file system_file_ops.c that is in the psocket library there is the statement #define wrap(f) wrap_#f I think this is supposed to do wrap(read)( )  == wrap_read( ) Are there circumstances when this does not

Re: macro question

2009-10-08 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 9:36 AM,  bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote: In a file system_file_ops.c that is in the psocket library there is the statement #define wrap(f) wrap_#f I think this is supposed to do wrap(read

Re: How can I retrieve the mount count for an ext3 volume?

2009-10-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote: My Ubuntu 8.10 system uses EXT3 for the root filesystem and will automatically fschk the volume every 35 mounts.  I haven't been able to find out where the mount count is stored or how that data can be retrieved. I

Re: How can I retrieve the mount count for an ext3 volume?

2009-10-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:  It really suprised me that I couldn't find this information in the /proc fs anywhere.  What do you think this is, MS Windows?  :)  We've got

Re: Re: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

2009-10-05 Thread Thomas Charron
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Joseph ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey Everyone, I agree with all of your assessments thus far.  Woudn't it be great if Apple opened up it's hardware model to allow for 3rd party hardware companies and just sold the OS?    I don't think I would buy it even then

Re: Re: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

2009-10-05 Thread Thomas Charron
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Joseph ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey Everyone, I agree with all of your assessments thus far.  Woudn't it be great if Apple opened up it's hardware model to allow for 3rd party hardware companies and just sold the OS?    I don't think I would buy it even then

Re: Enabling Virtual Machine support

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: Of all the hypervisors, I feel VirtualBox is the easiest to maintain.  I've done VMware Server, ESXi and played with KVM.  I wonder about the performance

Re: Enabling Virtual Machine support

2009-09-27 Thread Thomas Charron
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Not certain I understand what you're saying but processors in this family come out of their power-on Reset state in their simplest, least capable mode - interrupts disabled, MMU disabled, 20bit Real Mode

Re: Enabling Virtual Machine support

2009-09-27 Thread Thomas Charron
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Not certain I understand what you're saying but processors in this family come out of their power-on Reset state in their simplest

Re: cpu processing capabilities

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Charron
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42014 claims that the P7550 supports virtualization which I expect to show up as vmx in the cpuflags. I bought a new HP laptop which featured a P7550 processor and expected to be able to

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