Re: Most WiFi broken??

virgins...@vfemail.net writes: But here's the odd part: this same exact setup works fine with some other public WiFi (I'd guess about 1 in 5), and works just fine with every access point that I've set up myself (usually OpenWRT on Linksys WRT-series routers). Silly me... following standards

Re: google voice dropping XMPP

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: And this all reminds me..., I liked this comment that I recently found, by Daniel Bo http://slashdot.org/journal/257448/why-so-much-nih: I'm still confused as to why Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google don't agree amongst themselves to use

Re: SSH timeout on password challenge.

Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes: establish, NOT for when a password challenge happens. My script is using the timeout command: timeout 5 ssh -n $host 'blahblahblah' Any bright ideas on how to do this gracefully? How is this the first I've ever heard of 'timeout'? I would have resorted

Re: How to sync Android and Emacs BBDB addressbooks?

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: How do I go about reconciling? I'd really like to have my contacts just synchronised between BBDB and my Android addressbook. Is that possible? How? There's an Org-Mode app for Android that might do what you want. It syncs your desktop org file

modern KVM that works?

Back in my day we had it bad. Uphill to school, analog phones, etc. But our KVMs were simple AB hardware switches and we liked it, by gum. Today, I'm trying to hook up a VGA-only desktop and an HDMI-only Raspberry Pi to a VGA/DVI monitor with USB keyboard and mouse. Many options, but I

Re: modern KVM that works?

Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org writes: The two vendors I avoid like the plague are IOGear and Belkin. I see Richard gave me a link to a StarTech. I don't know IOGear, but I thought Belkin was OK back in the day. I should have come here first. That said other than that, one feature you want to

Re: modern KVM that works?

Richard Kolb II richard.k...@gmail.com writes: Not that it matters, but I use a 12v composite video monitor with my pi. I even upgraded from the 4.3 to 7. I guess that must be what the target demographic is supposed to use. I never got the kids in poor countries + HDMI.

Re: modern KVM that works?

Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: If you're buying a new TV, it's going to be HDMI. Well that's exactly my point. If can buy a new TV, why are you spending only $35 on a computer? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: modern KVM that works?

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Try as I might, I can't seem to get past it: I'm surprised to see raspberry pi and KVM mentioned together. What are you doing with the raspberry pi? I'm not doing anything with it. My 15 year old got one for Xmas a year ago and is doing various

Re: modern KVM that works?

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: * it's running a GUI, in which case one can use x2x, VNC, x2vnc, Synergy, or some combination thereof (depending on what OS the _other_ computer is running, and how many monitors are available) and just connect to the

Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: Aside from coping general documents, photos, etc., back and forth, I have a large collection of MP3 files on my desktop that I want to keep in sync on my handheld -- adds, changes, *and* deletes. rsync does a fine job of this on a filesystem. Then use

HackExeter

Link: http://www.hackexeter.com/ My son heard about this somewhere, probably from the computer club at school. It looks pretty neat, but a pretty long day if you include driving at both ends (I'm in Milford). Wondering if anyone knows anything else about it.

you like Lawrence Lessig, right?

Well, he's at it again: https://mayone.us/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

how dumb is this idea?

My kids and I are 100% Linux at home. (My wife has a Mac, which none of us touch unless we absolutely have to.) At school, it is unfortunately obvious the kids use Windows. Also, starting in middle school, the school expects every kid to carry a USB drive back and forth so they can work on

Re: how dumb is this idea?

Derek Atkins de...@ihtfp.com writes: a) Linux supports FATfs, so just use the USB drives as-is.. They usually come formatted in FAT. This will work cross-platform. b) Why don't you use Open/LibreOffice at home? That can export to Word, Excel, or PowerPoint as necessary. Yes, this is the

Re: how dumb is this idea?

David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com writes: What comes to mind immediately, and this may not be workable for you in that situation; why not a Tails USB stick with persistence enabled? You started off in English and then trailed off. The last word I understood was a...

Re: how dumb is this idea?

Patrick Flaherty pflahe...@wsi.com writes: Have you played with portable apps (http://portableapps.com/)? Libre office works on windows and linux. Past that, maybe something hosted (like google docs, but maybe a bit more Free). This looks interesting, but I'm having trouble turning the

Re: how dumb is this idea?

Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: Or, even easier, portable Libre Office running on Windows. Then the data files are always Libre Office format on a USB drive. Edit on Linux, edit on Windows, always running Libre Office. http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable/ I'd

Re: how dumb is this idea?

Derek Atkins de...@ihtfp.com writes: Another option would be to export your LibreOffice Impress presentation to PDF, and then you can play it on any PDF Viewer. Honestly, this is what I do when actually presenting slides on my Linux box -- I ask the other presenters to send me PDF instead of

Re: how dumb is this idea?

Richard Kolb II richard.k...@gmail.com writes: I also picked up a 32gb usb drive, which I use to run linux on a laptop with a fried sata controller. The issue I would see with sending your kids to school with an OS on a stick is that they might have been smart enough to disable booting off

Re: gnhlug-discuss Digest, Vol 92, Issue 8

David Ohlemacher ohlemac...@gmail.com writes: If you're using LO on Linux, you likely will benefit from installing and using the MS core true type fonts in LO files saved in Office formats and shared with Windows users. Good tip, thanks! ___

time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

I'm on Fairpoint DSL in Milford. My measured down/up speed is about 3Mbps/.6Mbps. I remember hearing good things about G4 from this mailing list, but they said: At 12000 feet from the CO, we would normally estimate speeds in the 5-6Mb. However it looks like your connection goes through

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

John Abreau j...@blu.org writes: Internet speed is a conflation of two different things: bandwidth and latency. Merely increasing your bandwidth won't do anything to address problems with latency. If you combine both of these in your head and call it speed, then you're setting yourself up for

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

Susan Cragin susancra...@earthlink.net writes: I find that latency is a bigger issue than I thought, especially when watching real-time video like the Red Sox games. This is one of the many reasons I don't watch streaming video, other than YT. Basically, I have 3-4 computers (distributed among

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Maybe *I'm* behind the times: I just assumed the reason anyone wants faster Internet is for downloading ISOs-- which obviously makes the issue bandwidth, not latency, unless your 'connection' is something like USPS This is my category of

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

Chris Linstid clins...@gmail.com writes: So, I'm not sure if Milford has Comcast (pretty sure they do), but from a technical standpoint I generally recommend them. No problem with a Linux-only home network? How about ssh tunneling in via a dyndns-like service?

Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: I think FairPoint does have some service in NH that's analogous to FiOS, but I don't see any way to find out from their website how much it costs or whether it's even available in a given area. Yep. I know they have some kind of high speed

wtmp/last weird behavior

First, a disclaimer: Everything I know about wtmp/last I've learned in the last 10 minutes. That said, it doesn't seem to be working as advertised. What am I not understanding? I have a computer that the children use. They each have their own login which they use faithfully (passwords are

Re: wtmp/last weird behavior

You replied only to me. I hope it isn't too gauche to reply to the list. I like these things to be searchable by others in the future. (Ob: http://xkcd.com/979/) Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com writes: But you are probably talking about an Xdm (gdm, kdm, etc.) login. I'll bet that code works

Re: wtmp/last weird behavior

mark prg...@gmail.com writes: What version of Linux is this? Have you looked through /var/log/messages for the corresponding login entries? Try aureport to see what auditd picked up for login behavior. This is Debian 7. I looked in /v/l/m just now and I don't see anything that looks like a

another one gnhlug probably likes

http://www.wadleighlibrary.org/wadleigh-library-presents-lawrence-lessig/ From the title, I assume this is about finance reform, not IP reform, but who knows. And while we are talking about the Milford library, some here may be interested to know they have a 3D printer now. They are in the

Linux + MIDI

My son, Evan, is into computers and music. He's got an electronic piano that he says has MIDI out. All our computers are running Linux. I know basically nothing about MIDI. Does anyone have any experience hooking these up? I decided there must be such a thing as a MIDI/USB adapter, but looking

Re: Linux + MIDI

Mac ussnd...@charter.net writes: Yeah, well, midi on linux...fun, fun, fun. Well there has to be a device available that had the MIDI hardware interface. Then you need something to drive it. I use JACK. But it can be done with ALSA. Best to install UBUNTU Studio, probably, after you get

Re: Linux + MIDI

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: I don't know if this is useful, but I have an old SoundBlaster Extigy that I'd be happy to donate. It has MIDI, as well as all sorts of other hookups, though I never used them. I was going to turn this down, thinking it was a sound card (he's

Re: Linux + MIDI

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: On the up side, my asking price is zero thalers + you stop by my house to pick it up.  That's exactly as many thalers as I own! OK, it's a deal. Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Wow, you are able to email

Re: Linux + MIDI

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: No. No bluetooth keyboard. Just stoicism. You are way more patient with bad technology than I am. [1] Pictures Under Glass: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/ Awesome essay. I had already figured out the hammer

simulating chorded keyboards

Remember the MIDI son? This is a different son, Kyle, with a different project. He's interested in chorded keyboards. You can find these here and there online, but he wants to design his own. To start, he wants to simulate one with a regular keyboard. We've been looking into ways to let him

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

Matt Minuti matt.min...@gmail.com writes: I'd strongly suggest looking at doing a little bit of hardware hacking via the Arduino Leonardo. It's trivially easy to make it show up as a generic USB HID keyboard, meaning no fancy driver concerns, no matter the OS. The keys could either be a

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

Paul Beaudet inof...@gmail.com writes: I'm more than willing to sit down with and help out anyone with a serious interest in building typing devices to help people communicate more efficiently. Thanks for the tips and the offer. Any time I try to show him other people's starts he waves them

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

John Abreau j...@blu.org writes: Same logic could be applied to programming. Why write in C++, Java, Perl, or Python, when he could have the fun of designing his own programming language from scratch? You say this like it's a bad idea for a 13 year old to make things. Heck, why not take it a

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

John Abreau j...@blu.org writes: If the purpose is to play and learn, rather than to solve a problem, then there's nothing wrong with inventing your own programming language. I agree with the explicit statement above, but I disagree with the implicit statement that other goals mean there is

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

Paul Beaudet inof...@gmail.com writes: USB hid can only report 6 keys at a time and some modifiers, which would be fine for most chorded applications except for the fact that, the keyboards that any given one of us has likely fails to report more than 3 keys at one time depending on which

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: How about MIDI? When I was about to hit reply, I was going to say I dunno, we haven't tried it yet. But as I did, I had a thought (which maybe was your intent): MIDI has a chording keyboard input. Of course, nobody has MIDI

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: Then you need a your chording keyboard to speak MIDI. It's probably ridiculous to require, for instance, school computers to have MIDI just so Kyle can use his NerdTyper (I made up that name just now, but I kinda like it). Instead, an active (in the sense of

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: Does the USB HID simultaneous key limit apply to a MIDI- usb adapter? They adapters are pretty cheap nowadays. Then you need a your chording keyboard to speak MIDI. So this is interesting. Evan, the one commissioned to write the program, reported that he

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

Paul Beaudet inof...@gmail.com writes: You might be able to get 7 if one of the keys is a modifier like ctrl alt meta or shift Still likely the keyboard, one adventurous way to check is to open up the keyboard and see if there is a diode for every key. If not that, well that explains your

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

Matt Minuti matt.min...@gmail.com writes: One of the bonus points of using an arduino is that he can just hook up as many keys as he wants, in whatever kind of layout he wants, and then have the arduino appear to be a keyboard. Yep, this is the plan. I cleaned out a bunch a few weeks ago

powerschool webscraper?

The Milford school district uses this PowerSchool web thing so parents can check on kids' grades (middle school and up). It's pretty useful, for those teachers that update at a reasonable frequency. However, there's no change detection. I guess I have to have memorized all the grades, outstanding

Re: powerschool webscraper?

Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com writes: Not that I know of an existing tool (BeautifulSoup probably doesn't deal with the JavaScript), but it seems like you want to capture the eventual DOM. You need something that you can trigger when the page has settled. Nope. I thought this too, but it's

Re: powerschool webscraper?

Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: I'd look at Selenium http://www.seleniumhq.org/. I heard about it from our QA guys for automation. It's cool, but not really what I want. I'm not automating this because I care how a particular browser works. I'm automating it because I want it automated. I

Re: powerschool webscraper?

David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: I had this problem with htmlunit too. It wanted to fire up a browser GUI. No, bad tool! Probably there are no GUI-less, javascript-capable, scriptable tools out there. There's probably some way to cobble one together now that guile supports javascript

Re: powerschool webscraper?

Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: Powerschool also has an API and there are tools that hook into it. For example: https://github.com/powerapi/powerapi-php Ah, this is interesting. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: BLINK

Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Or maybe I could actually make an _Internet VCR_. I just need to figure out what that even means Something that records your web browser and takes screenshots of what you

Re: Parenting and PGP

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: What's the right age or developmental milestone at which to introduce (or help them learn about--or _let_ them learn about, depending on your perspective...) strong crypto like GnuPG? Isaac (7) asked me about prime numbers the other day. We

Re: powerschool webscraper?

David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: However, there's no change detection. I guess I have to have memorized all the grades, outstanding assignments, etc for each child so I can see what's different when I check the next time. Huh...it's 90% now. Was it 91% yesterday? Maybe I should click

Re: lowering hits to processor

Susan Cragin susancra...@earthlink.net writes: This is probably mostly a wine problem. But I do what I can to help out: I have a fast machine with a solid-state drive and plenty of RAM, I have installed Lubuntu with the low-latency kernel, and disabled the zeitgeist logger. I don't open any

Re: Drill Press Local to Nashua/Amherst/Milford needed

mad...@li.org jonhal...@comcast.net writes: If anyone has a small drill press in the greater Nashua, area .that I could use I would greatly appreciate it. I will show up with paper patterns made to show where to cut the holes. I can help with this. I've got a mini-machine shop in my basement

Re: Drill Press Local to Nashua/Amherst/Milford needed

mad...@li.org jonhal...@comcast.net writes: There are two parts to it. One part is a set of four shelves (2' long and 8 wide) of acrylic (not PVC), each shelf is 1/4 thick and has a covering of thin plastic clinging to protect it from scratching, not paper. My thoughts on these are to clamp

KIBO license plate

I've seen this twice in the last few years. Which one of you is it? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: KIBO license plate

Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com writes: I hope the plates are his; iirc he was car-free when i knew him ... where did you see this ? In Milford most recently, but I don't remember the other one. I don't know if it's him either, it could easily be an unrelated vanity plate.

Re: Web-based photo/video album?

Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes: Hey, all. It's the holidays, and I've decided it's time for me to get my family stuff organized. I've used Gallery (http://galleryproject.org/) before, but it looks like it's gone into moribund mode -- and, honesty, the format was great back in Web 1.0

Re: Local inexpensive media destruction?

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: If I had a *lot* of media, I might build a nice, hot fire, and toss things in one at a time. Or just do the above over time. Sounds like a good time. I haven't been to a party like that in a while

Re: poking around for opportunities

Ric Werme r...@wermenh.com writes: Oh heavens, haven't you ever seen a kiosk with a BSOD? Yes, of course I have. The point was that I never dreamed that putting a computer into a second box would be considered embedded. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: poking around for opportunities

Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org writes: I'm not sure what area you looking for, and it's in Woburn, but levantpower.com is hiring. We are a well funded start-up developing an active suspension system for cars. Milford/Nashua area. This place looks OK in general, but doesn't fit for a reason

RE: poking around for opportunities

Kevin French kfre...@gmilcs.org writes: While I am quite happy working in the library profession, it's not one where getting absurdly rich is a concern. Wow, you aren't kidding. Thanks for forwarding the posting. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

poking around for opportunities

I've been at my current position for almost 11 years now and I'm thinking about moving on to something fresh. I'm looking for some ideas in the Milford/Nashua area. The kind of thing I would be looking for would ideally be some kind of non-vanilla-business-app thing (engineering/scientific, for

Re: poking around for opportunities

Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org writes: I've seen a good number of systems with plenty of memory and CPU. However, they don't have a keyboard/monitor and updates or normally a significant PITA and crashes/visible bugs are unacceptable. ...so don't write crummy code. ;-) I've written plenty of

Re: poking around for opportunities

roger.levass...@comcast.net writes: The embedded stuff that I've been working on over the last 10 years have CPUs (ARMs) that in terms of compute power, RAM, and storage that outclass PCs and Workstations that I worked on during the 1990s. It was a big deal when that first 1GB SCSI disk drive

Re: Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@hackerposse.com writes: Can you run apt-get install -f 21 | tee apt-errors.log OT, but why not just: apt-get install apt-errors.log 21 ? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu writes: Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@hackerposse.com writes: Can you run apt-get install -f 21 | tee apt-errors.log OT, but why not just: apt-get install apt-errors.log 21 The -f flag tells apt to try and fix errors. I left the -f out accidentally. I

Re: Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes: Any suggestions? apt-get -f install returns the error message. apt-get remove returns the same error. Looking for a few ideas. I'll try to use some of them tonight to attempt a fix. Got to visit Mom now... I'm always a nuke it from orbit

Re: PC Build

Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com writes: I hardly know anything about hardware and mostly buy from newegg or tigerdirect. It's been years since I built my first linux box from scratch. Any comments, advice from regular or recent builders? I know just enough about hardware to

Re: gps navigation project?

Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: Is this project going to be a stand alone GPS w/no internet like a garmin or something like google maps on a phone? That will drive some of your design decisions. If it has internet access, will it use mobile wireless or wifi/ethernet? Does it need to be

Re: gps navigation project?

Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu writes: Could you explain your distinction between Routing and Navigation here? I'm not sure I really understand the difference, unless you just mean placing a dot on a map and moving the map as you move (i.e. the UI piece). Routing is I think a fairly

Re: Networking Question

Greg Kettmann writes: > Could someone get me pushed in the right direction? Any help is > appreciated. BTW, "you're doing it all wrong and you should be doing > something else instead" is a perfectly acceptable response. I'm not > proud, just curious. I don't understand

Re: gps navigation project?

Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: FWIW - has anyone worked on TCP over text messages? If they can do it over carrier pigeons... I've wondered about this. Another feature I'd like is to be able to share my location with someone. But I don't necessarily want to upload it to a server

Re: gps navigation project?

Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: My car has something else and I can avoid whole roads which is nice. Another planned feature. In fact, this is the first time I've ever heard of any existing GPS/routing system that did this. Another one is avoid area, such as don't go within 100 miles of NYC.

gps navigation project?

I've complained here before about how much I hate pretty much all GPS devices/software. I finally partly-decided to half-heartedly make a feeble stab at doing something about it! There's 3 parts: Maps: OSM is the obvious choice. Routing: There's a bunch of good routers out there, although one

Re: What Language for a kid

Ric Werme writes: > PostScript is a Lisp variant. I don't think I would say that. It's a stack-based thing that's like Forth or an RPN calculator. Lisp is nothing like that. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: What Language for a kid

Paul Beaudet writes: > One thing I really want to recommend against is scratch or mindstorm. I > think they are both really fun and all, but no one that solely uses > graphical code block type systems self identify as a programmer or has > confidence to tackle issues that

Re: Govt Source Code Policy

"Greg Rundlett (freephile)" writes: > If the government actually goes through with 'open sourcing' their work, > it's actually a giant corporate handout because companies will have greater > access to publicly funded works that they can then incorporate into > proprietary

"investigator hackers"?

A friend-of-a-friend is having trouble online. Someone is posting fake reports on various sites, maybe stalking. I don't know the details, but what I heard didn't sound actionable-by-the-police. Our common friend asked me if anything like an "investigator hacker" existed that could look into

Re: Linux for time lapse and wifi?

Ken D'Ambrosio writes: > On 2017-06-28 10:31, Richard Kolb II wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm looking into using a pine a64 running ubuntu mate to setup a time >> lapse photo using a standard digital camera controlled over USB. I >> haven't done a ton of research into it yet, but I

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

Alan Johnson writes: > IIRC, and my info is several years old at best, Indeed.com does not quite > work like that. They are an aggregator that posts your resume on other job > boards and maintain their own internal database as well. If you were > getting lame resumes from

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

Alan Johnson writes: > Back when I worked for one of the top recruiting companies, the industry > experts there said indeed.com ...[was] the top resume > posting services. If this was ever true, it is certainly not now. I was the recipient of some resumes from Indeed.com and

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