Re: Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

[Tyson Sawyer]

Mark Komarinski wrote:

Tivo2Go is really nice too.  Along with the HME apps like Galleon.


Anyone get that to work with Linux?  ...its the only OS in our house.

Cheers!
Ty

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Re: Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible

[Tyson Sawyer]

Ben Scott wrote:

The problem is that if you've had a full system compromise
(whether you call your superuser root, Administrator, or
SUPERVISOR), you can no longer trust the computer to check itself. 
The attacker can subvert the system to lie to you about itself.


How about boot disks that have been premade to check your system and 
identify suspect files?  This way the compromised filesystem isn't 
checking itself although the computer is checking itself.


...could avoid a full, from scratch, reinstall.

Cheers!
Ty

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Kubuntu on Mac - printers, gnucash

[Tyson Sawyer]

A friend of mine has a Mac G4 something or other.  She had been
running Yellow Dog on it, but we couldn't figure out how to get a new
printer working.  While reformatting everything anyway, we decided to
try kubuntu.

FYI:  With both Yellow Dog and Kubuntu we ran into yaboot problems,
but seem to have that sorted out.

Printers:

Kubuntu knows about the Epson R220 printer.  On my own PC systems I
configure it as an R300 and it works fine.

The problem is we can't get the system to see the printer properly.
It shows up in /proc/bus/usb/drivers, and we were able to get YDL 4.1
to print complete junk on it, but we can't get Kubuntu to do anything.
Two of the offered drivers refuse to configure (stating something
about a missing driver and/or permission denied) and the other reports
that the printer is disconnected despite what /proc says.

We used a uri to identify the printer: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20R220

This was taken from a PC laptop that works with the very same printer.

I could type for ever about possibly irrelivant or misleading details,
but I'm not sure that would be useful.

Any suggestions?

Gnu Cash:

Any suggestions on finding a gnucash package that will run on this
system?  ...or strategies for finding packages that are not obviously
listed?  I find it easy to google for rpm packages for PCs.  I've been
less successful looking for deb packages for PPC.  rpmfind.net doesn't
do the trick for me. :-)

Thanks!
Ty

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Re: Kubuntu on Mac - printers, gnucash

[Tyson Sawyer]

Stephen,

Thanks for the pointers.  This is my first encounter with a .deb based
system and so I don't know my way around as well.

I'm pretty sure that the printer problem is
cups/foomatic/gimp-print/something or other related and may have
nothing to do with Ubuntu or Mac.

Cheers!
Ty

On 6/28/06, Stephen Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:36 -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
 A friend of mine has a Mac G4 something or other.  She had been
 running Yellow Dog on it, but we couldn't figure out how to get a new
 printer working.  While reformatting everything anyway, we decided to
 try kubuntu.

...
(sorry, I'm no help with the printer; I've switched to a networked laser
after realizing I was spending well over $1/page with the utterly crap
Stylus Photo 820)

 Gnu Cash:

 Any suggestions on finding a gnucash package that will run on this
 system?  ...or strategies for finding packages that are not obviously
 listed?  I find it easy to google for rpm packages for PCs.  I've been
 less successful looking for deb packages for PPC.  rpmfind.net doesn't
 do the trick for me. :-)

Gnucash is part of Ubuntu; you'll need to add the universe repository,
because it's not part of the officially-supported core, then you can
install it either via apt-get install gnucash or searching for it in
Synaptic.

Detailed instructions for dapper:
-

Start Synaptic, click Settings, then Repositories.  That shows a
list of channels; find and select Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (binary), then click
Edit.  Check the Community maintained (Universe) selection, then
OK, Close, and Reload.  After Synaptic downloads the new package
lists, gnucash should be in the package list, easy to install.

Alternative instructions, should work for any version of Ubuntu:

From a command prompt, run
$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
(or run a different editor than nano; I'm not sure what the KDE text
editor is called)

In that file, there should be a line that looks roughly like this:

deb http://(country code).archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ (release name) main
(maybe some other words)

Make sure the word universe appears on that line.

Save and quit nano.  (nano uses Control-O, WriteOut, for save)

Now download the new package lists; alternatively, you could use
Synaptic from here on out; that part of Synaptic hasn't changed as much
as the interface to change the repositories has).
$ sudo apt-get update

...and install gnucash:
$ sudo apt-get install gnucash
(say Yes to whatever the huge pile of stuff it will want to install)

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Evolution sucks??

[Tyson Sawyer]

Hey!

I'm trying to figure out of Evolution sucks or its just a user error.
I've been using Thunderbird and IMAP to connect to an Outlook server
at work.  I've just installed Ubuntu 6.10 on a new laptop and since it
came with a shiney new copy of Evolution all ready to go, I figured
I'd give it a try.

Using Evolution instead of the web interface to calendering seems nice.

However, every time I restart Evolution, it rescans my entire inbox
(6500+ messages) for spam.  This takes FAR too long.  It also seems to
restore the spam that I thought I had gotten rid of in my previous
session.  Thunderbird was always able to remember the summary info of
messages it had seen before and scan just the new messages for spam.
Oh, and I was able to get rid of spam w/Thunderbird such that it
didn't come back,

Can anyone tell me if any of this is a user error?

Thanks!
Ty

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Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

[Tyson Sawyer]

On 3/20/07, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I started using Linux in the summer of '92 (get off my lawn!), so it was
even pre-distro.  IIRC, there has always been an IP stack of some sort,
since I had a Western Digital *mumble* ISA Ethernet controller that I
could use to network with one of my roommates.

PPP (or was it SLIP?) was working then as well.


Thinking that that was about when I started using linux with SLS, I
decided to check you facts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System

Looks like SLS came out in the summer of '92 and it was shiny new when
I first tried it.

...I even managed to toast a monitor while trying to get X running. :-)

SLS sucked.  Slackware was the first distro that actually worked well.
However, tar is not a package management system.  I went from
Slackware to Caldera (yikes!), to Red Hat, to Suse and now I've
recently started using Ubuntu.

Cheers!
Ty

...oh crap!  I replied to a message that came from a list, but when I
was about to click send I see that my reply doesn't go back to where
the message came from.  Now off to edit the To: field before I can
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Re: Open Source BIOS?

[Tyson Sawyer]

On 4/16/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Has anyone got practical experience with these projects? I'd be
interested to hear how they are actually progressing from someone with
on-the-silicon experience.


I developed an early version of LinuxBios which runs on some of the
military iRobot products.  The short version is that it can be a lot
of work.  Chipset documentation is the key to good support.  If you
choose your hardware based on existing good support, you may do well.
If you choose hardware that isn't supported keep in mind that there
may be a good reason  that its not supported.  Some of the setup of
these chips can be very opaque.

LinuxBios takes a very pragmatic approach.  It initializes the chips
that Linux can't or doesn't, loads either a kernel or a kernel loader
and then lets the kernel to the rest.  It attempts to not duplicate
work.

Cheers!
Ty

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USB 2.0 CD/DVD?

[Tyson Sawyer]

Hey folks!

I'm interested in an external USB 2.0 CD/DVD that works with Linux.
...I'm currently using Ubuntu 6.10 and expect to update soonish.  I
definitely want to be able to burn CDs.  If reasonable on performance,
OS support and cost, I'd also like to be able to burn DVDs.

Any suggestions on what to look for or look out for?

Thanks!
Ty

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Re: USB 2.0 CD/DVD?

[Tyson Sawyer]

NewEgg had a nice, slim external Plextor drive.  It wasn't as cheap as
the LiteOn stuff, but much smaller.  ...and since I will sometimes be
carrying the thing around, size matters.

Thanks for the advice!
Ty

On 4/26/07, Tyson Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hey folks!

I'm interested in an external USB 2.0 CD/DVD that works with Linux.
...I'm currently using Ubuntu 6.10 and expect to update soonish.  I
definitely want to be able to burn CDs.  If reasonable on performance,
OS support and cost, I'd also like to be able to burn DVDs.

Any suggestions on what to look for or look out for?

Thanks!
Ty

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Re: A question about rsync

[Tyson Sawyer]

On 7/23/07, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On another note, if you're using rsync to make backups, cannot more
 highly recommend using rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/)

Huh!  I'm using:

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

And I highly recommend it.  I just glanced at rsnapshot and after a
very quick glance it looks like the same thing.  Anyone have
experience with or knowledge of both these packages?  I'd be
interested to know the differences.

I have been very happy with Backuppc, esp. since I had already started
to write some scripts to do the same thing. ;-)

Cheers!
Ty


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Re: fedora 7 on laptop no longer burns CDs or DVDs

[Tyson Sawyer]

FWIW, I've not had any problems like this w/Gnome/Ubuntu and it has
the automount thingies.  the automount stuff does annoy me from time
to time, but it doesn't cause failures when burning CDs or DVDs.

Cheers!
Ty

On 9/12/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 9/12/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively (Device or resource
  busy)... retrying in 1 second.
  
 
  That exclusivity error only shows up sometimes.  I think the retry
  succeeds.

   Right, because the auto-thingies all work by polling the device.  So
 if they happen to be polling the device when wodim tries to open it,
 you get the warning.  Then they close the present poll, and wodim
 retries, and it works.  Then, during the middle of the write, they
 poll again, and kablooie.

   At least, that's my theory.

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Re: GOTCHA in Ubuntu - broken shell

[Tyson Sawyer]

On 9/28/07, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 (And remember to not trust Ubuntu. They don't think things through
 to the consequences. They don't listen, either. See below.)

How about the consequences of using the syntax of one language and
asking the shell/interpreter/compiler of a different one to run it?
Bill, I have to disagree with you on this one.

If you say '/bin/sh' then you should speak '/bin/sh'.
If you say '/usr/bin/python' then you should speak '/usr/bin/python'.
If you are speaking '/bin/bash', then you should say, '/bin/bash'.

Don't use bash syntax in a script that is configured to be run by /bin/sh.

of course, if dash is failing on correct sh syntax, then Ubuntu
screwed up and the above comments don't apply.

Cheers!
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Re: Desperate for deb docs

[Tyson Sawyer]

OK, that was helpful.  But there is still a big picture thing that I
don't understand:

How does one re-build a .deb package?  Where is the equivalent of srpm packages?

What if I want to rebuild a package on a different architecture or
with some minor change?

Thanks!
Ty

On 10/16/07, Star [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I need docs on how to build .deb files. I do not want docs on how to build
  .deb files for a debian distribution. I do not want docs on debian policy.
  I need to understand the intricasies of how to write control files (e.g.,
  control, preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm, etc...)

 I found the IBM docs very useful at
 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-debpkg.html

 But my packages tend to be very basic with little in the way of
 dependencies.  You may have already exceeded what this is telling
 ya...

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Re: Desperate for deb docs

[Tyson Sawyer]

On 10/16/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 10/16/07, Tyson Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  What if I want to rebuild a package on a different architecture ...

   There's an architecture that might use .deb packages but the Debian
 distribution *doesn't* support?  Come on, Debian is the NetBSD of
 Linux distributions.  :-)  Just use apt-get(1) to install the binary
 package from the repository.

Not quite.  ...or so it seems to me.

It seems that a 64bit G5 Mac needs to run a 64 bit kernel.  it also
seems that the mainstream distributions prefer to provide 32 bit user
libraries and applications.  I don't know if that's because enough
libs/apps are not 64 bit clean or what, but that seems to be the case.

Gentoo may be the exception, but I really wanted to use Ubuntu.  I
started using Linux with SLS and then Slackware.  ...but I have better
things to do than configure and setup linux boxes.  I very much prefer
to spend my time using my computer rather than build/administer it.
...so I wanted a strongly mainstream distribution that just works.

The problem is that a 64 bit kernel supports 32 bit apps by having a
special syscall entry that converts from 32 bit to 64 bit and then
chaining the call to the 64 bit handlers.  The problem is that the
32/64 bit conversion is not straight forward and in some cases may not
be possible (or something like that) and so not everything is
supported.  Quite specifically, printing to USB printers is not
supported from 32 bit apps.

I should note that this limitation is not well publicized and it took
quite a bit of sleuthing and a bit of browsing in the kernel sources
to figure it out.

I spent some time first trying to figure out why printing didn't work.
 Then I spent some time trying to figure out how to rebuild enough
packages as 64 bit to have 64 bit print services (cups, etc).  I had
no trouble building a 64bit app, but there where very few 64 bit libs
and so the task of getting everything that I needed in 64 bit was
quite large.  ...esp. since I was unable to find anything that seemed
like the equivalent of srpm packages and the Maximum RPM book/docs
that I once used to learn RPM.  In general, I could find lots of stuff
on how to install/manage packages, but little to nothing on how to
create/rebuild them.

I finally gave up and bought a small x86 box to be a print/file
server, installed Ubuntu and was done with it.  ...but I'd still like
to know how to create/rebuild .deb packages.  This thread has given me
lots of starting points for the next time I get into this.

Thanks!
Ty


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Fwd: Lower power portable Linux

[Tyson Sawyer]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Tyson Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Nov 20, 2007 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: Lower power portable Linux
To: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]


S3 w/Ubuntu 7.04 on a Dell Latitude D820 is pretty good, but not
perfect.  Sometimes wireless or something like that might not recover,
but its definitely good enough to configure the computer to suspend to
ram instead of crash or power-down if it runs out of batter while
unattended.  That way I don't loose the state of my apps.  Its also
good enough that I sometimes use it.   ...but since I don't fully
trust all devices to work correctly after a suspend, I normally power
it off.

I just (3 days ago) updated to Ubuntu 7.10 and it is at least as good.
 I haven't tested it enough to know if it is better or not.

Cheers!
Ty


On Nov 20, 2007 6:03 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   A recent review[1] of the Asus Eee PC stated (paraphrased): Power
 management on Linux sucks.

 [1] http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/16/review_asus_eee_pc/print.html

   Back when I looked into this (years ago), that was largely true.
 During active use, Linux was more power efficient vs Windows, but when
 the machine was fully idle, Linux did little to save even more power.
 Turning off the CRT was about it.  S3 (suspend-to-RAM) was often
 prevented by drivers.  S4 (suspend-to-disk) was experimental,
 unstable, and/or just plain didn't work.

   Can anyone who has played with this more recently comment on how a
 modern Linux distro does on today's hardware?

   I'm especially interested in how it fares for someone like me, who
 prefers to run a traditional *nix window manager and logon, without
 session management and a desktop environment and a bunch of extra
 daemons and so on.

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Re: Lower power portable Linux

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On Nov 21, 2007 12:08 PM, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 06:03:31PM -0500, Ben Scott wrote:

[...]

 I have yet to see suspend to RAM work on Linux anywhere.

[...]

I'm especially interested in how it fares for someone like me, who
  prefers to run a traditional *nix window manager and logon, without
  session management and a desktop environment and a bunch of extra
  daemons and so on.

 I fit that description.

Your two comments are directly related.  Its not quite flawless, but
suspend to ram is definitely working.  ...its just that you prefer the
DIY approach.

Cheers!
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Prelink/suspend applications?

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I have some applications that use lots of python and dynamic loading.
The load/link stage of startup takes a rather long time.  The
application is heavily built around dynamic loading of libraries and
so I don't think that 'prelink' will work for us.

Are there any tools that might allows us to something like start up a
python shell, load/link the core libraries and modules, and then
suspend it to disk where we could then launch multiple instances of
it?  What other strategies might exist to speed up application start?

Thanks!
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Minor disaster recovery

[Tyson Sawyer]

Its been at least 10 years since I have actually done a recovery of
this sort. ...back then LILO was king and floppy drives were still in
use.  I've been lucky enough to not do much sysadmin work in recent
years.

So...

I have a small home server running a not quite up to date version of
Ubuntu 8.10.  It has an 80G main drive that is the OS and
applications.  It has an external USB drive that is our primary data
storage.  It has a 2nd USB drive that is used to backup the rest of
the system, a couple of laptops and an N810.  We use BackupPC for the
backups and occasionally check that it is working and have
occasionally recovered a single file.

The primary drive has gone on the blink.  About 4-5 days ago the
primary system drive reported some sort of complaint and the OS
remounted it read-only.  We rebooted, said, Damn, well we'll have to
replace that and went about life.  This morning we found the system
mostly unresponsive.  The caps-lock LED was about the only response we
could get out of it.

The filesystem on the system drive is (or should be) backed up.  We
would like to recover the system rather than rebuild to avoid having
to figure out all the applications we had installed and figure out how
we had them configured.  There is a reasonable chance that we can
reboot the old drive again, but I have not yet tried.

We will attempt to find a replacement drive today.  We live in
Brookline, NH and work in Bedford, MA.  Any suggestions on stores or
drive brands?

Any suggestions on recovery strategy?  One strategy I had in mind is
(if the old drive still runs) is to boot the old drive with the new as
a secondary.  Shut down all extra services.  Partition and format the
new drive.  Copy the filesystem from the old to the new.  Install Grub
on the new (dont' know how, never done much with Grub) and boot it.
Do some sort of restore from BackupPC to restore any libraries for
files that have been corrupted.

Other suggestions?  ...or fill in the details (specifically the
install of Grub and moving to the primary position) of what I have
outlined?

Oh, the drive is a standard sized IDE.

Thanks!
Ty

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Re: Minor disaster recovery

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Guys,

Thanks for the help.  I wasn't able to go shopping today so rebuild is
going to take a little longer than I had hoped.  Too bad I have a day
job.

Thanks for the suggestions for dd'ing the existing drive.  If I go
with a fresh Ubuntu install, I shouldn't need it as I expect that I
have a good backup.  As I said in the original post, we have BackupPC
running to an external drive.  It runs daily.

I've been getting around to updating my data drives to a RAID
configuration, but now I'm putting a priority on the main system drive
also after considering your comments.  ...not a novel idea, but the
comments bring focus onto good points.

I realize that recovery from the failing disk could result in some
corrupt files, that is why that method included a restore from the
backup once the system was running.  The motivation for starting from
the image of the failing drive is that it is exactly the same OS
version as the backup I'd be restoring from.  I have no idea how to
get exactly the same version of Ubuntu from a fresh install.

However, the system drive contains very little custom data.  I suspect
I'll be best off just doing a fresh, clean install and then digging
config files out of the backup.

Cheers!
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Re: Gnome-terminal tab re-merge.

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On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
 (This is where, in real life, you might go Wups!)

Thanks! :-)

Cheers!
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Re: April fools

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On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
  We interrupt your regularly scheduled off-topic discussions to bring
 you this message:

  http://xkcd.com/ is awesome today.

  I have found several Easter eggs so far (without cheating).

I'm afraid to look.  XKCD doesn't normally post on Thursdays.  If I
look is the joke on me? ;-)

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Re: April fools

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On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org wrote:
 On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
  We interrupt your regularly scheduled off-topic discussions to bring
 you this message:

  http://xkcd.com/ is awesome today.

  I have found several Easter eggs so far (without cheating).

 I'm afraid to look.  XKCD doesn't normally post on Thursdays.  If I
 look is the joke on me? ;-)

OK. I looked.  Its real. :-)


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Re: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

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On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
 FWIW, I have a garmin.

  How do you find it works with Linux?  Or do you?  :)

eTrex work great with gpsbabel.  Newer, fancier units mount up as mass
storage devices over USB and natively support GPX files.  No problems
what so ever.  ...well, except for the salt water that eventually
takes its toll on my GPSs.

Cheers!
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Re: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
 People have different requirements around that, too: I was somewhat
 surprised, for example, to find that Nokia's N810 (GPS-enabled) tablet
 comes with a dashboard-mount... that *screws into* the dashboard.

I'm not sure why they shipped the screw base portion of that.
However, the portion that fits the N810 is removable from the base and
the interface between the two is some standard that you can buy other
bases for.  We purchased a COTS, 3rd party suction cup base that
attached to the N810 adapter and pitched the screw base.  Worked
wonderfully.

We bought Droids a couple of weeks ago and now the N810 collects dust.

Cheers!
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Re: Nokia N900

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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:06 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
 On 05/12/2010 01:46 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
 This is why I'm dubious of these `N810's GPS receiver is slow' claims--
 because coupling them with `... so I never use it' is actually a
 vicious cycle.
[...]
 I will note, though, that when I first unpacked my actual GPS it
 acquired a signal in just a couple of minutes *from inside the house*
 whereas the N810 has rarely done it even standing in the yard for
 significant fractions of an hour.

The N810's GPS doesn't seem to be as good as a dedicated GPS when it
comes to an initial fix.  Some of this seems to be about almanacs and
stuff.  Once it has a fix, it seems to work quite well.

The AGPS update/addition frequently helped.  Esp. if the GPS is used
frequently, its time to initial fix is quite quick.  The AGPS update
adds the feature of telling the system approximately where it is on
the map.  This is a useful feature for when it is going to take a long
time.

I've noted that my Droid typically gets initial fixes nearly
instantly.  However, it has the advantage of cell-tower triangulation
for an approximate initial fix.  The N900 should have this ability
also.

Cheers!
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Re: Nokia N900

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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
 A dedicated GPS will have the maps.  On a cell, you download the maps.

 My balackberry gets a fix almost as well as my garmin, but then you
 need to get maps too.

http://www.mapdroyd.com/

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Re: Nokia N900

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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:19 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
 That said, I'll try to test it.  I'll assume the N810 needs a factory
 start by this point and then start doing some cold timings.  Assuming it
 doesn't take so long that I have to terminate the test.

Install the AGPS update.  I think that without it you are doing a cold
start every time.  Adding that update made a world of difference.
...most of the time.

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Re: Nokia N900

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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
 I was outside, I was still WiFi'd in to the house so it was using AGPS.
  Result: Invalid.

[...]

 Conclusion: The N810 GPS hardware and/or software definitively sucks.

Though I agree that the N810 is not as good a GPS is most others, once
the AGPS package had bee installed my experience was much better than
what you are reporting.  You have not indicated if you had the AGPS
package installed.  Last I knew, it was not a standard package.  If
you didn't make a point to install it, its not there.  Without it, it
is my impression that you always get a cold start.

Response to some other comments:

It is well documented that GPS's typically assume that they are
restarted near where they where last used.  The documentation of every
GPS I have ever bought says that if you turn it off and then transport
it a long distance before turning it on again, it will take much
longer to get a fix.  The N810 without the AGPS package seems not able
to do even this simple trick.

Though I've never seen any problem with slow movement,  I have seen
(esp. on the N810) that highway speeds can hinder an initial fix.

Cheers!
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Re: Nokia N900

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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
  Unrelated to the My GPS is faster than your GPS discussion, but
 relevant to the Linux friendliness question:

  It has an apparently standard USB mini B port on the back, which
 serves for both power input (to charge the battery) and PC attachment
 (for software/data updates).  One of the first things I did was (of
 course) plug it into my Linux home PC (Debian 5.0.4, kernel 2.6.26-2).
  The GPS display showed the Garmin logo and a picture of itself
 plugged into a computer, but Linux was indifferent.  Looking at the
 kernel log, it appeared the GPS wasn't playing nice.  I either saw
 nothing at all, or just over-current change on port.  I noticed that
 if I plugged it into the USB hub built-in to my Dell LCD, the hub
 would apparently reset, as the kernel would re-detect my mouse and
 flash card reader.

Reading your entire message, it seems possible that Window's didn't
work without a driver update and neither were able to work until it
had been plugged in for a while and recharged.  It may be that it
draws too much power when the batteries are low?  Removing the
batteries so that it wasn't charging, just powering the electronics,
might have made it work right off under Linux.

  Updating the firmware purportedly requires installing some
 proprietary software from Garmin.

The instructions at this address _might_ work for your Garmin.
However, they are specific to the Colorado:

http://garmincolorado.wikispaces.com/Versions#Colorado Software
Versions-Updates using gcd files

There are links there for some other Garmin GPS's and a lot of
information that is likely useful for more than just the Colorado.

Cheers!
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Re: Nokia N900

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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:47 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
 On 05/17/2010 09:39 AM, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
 On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
 I was outside, I was still WiFi'd in to the house so it was using AGPS.
  Result: Invalid.

 [...]

 Conclusion: The N810 GPS hardware and/or software definitively sucks.

 Though I agree that the N810 is not as good a GPS is most others, once
 the AGPS package had bee installed my experience was much better than
 what you are reporting.

 But only if you start up near a WiFi point, I assume.  When I'm driving
 around, this is rarely the case.  And even if it were the case, 4
 minutes seems like kind of a long time to wait when my Garmin can do it
 in around 10-20 seconds.

In my case, we were sometimes out in the woods not near any WiFi
signal and typically had much better performance than 4 minutes.  The
AGPS package at least knows how to remember where it was last and use
that to help get it started.   I think that the use of last known
point is good for something on the order of 100 miles.

 You have not indicated if you had the AGPS
 package installed.  Last I knew, it was not a standard package.  If
 you didn't make a point to install it, its not there.  Without it, it
 is my impression that you always get a cold start.

 I'm pretty sure it's installed.  I definitely had it installed at one
 point.  When I read that it would improve the GPS performance, I jabbed
 the install button before I even got to the part about but you need
 to be connected to the internet.

 The only reason I'm not sure it's installed is I had to reinstall the OS
 at one point.  However, the backups save your installed app list, so it
 probably went back on.  And the data seem to back that up (heh): there's
 the vast difference in fix times between when the network was and wasn't
 available.

You will not get me to claim or defend that the N810 GPS is as good at
getting a fix as other GPSs.  It is not.  However, my experience was
clearly better than yours and once it has a fix, it does seem to be
just as good.

However, you might double check that AGPS is installed and configured.
 There may have been some relevant setup.  Since the device belongs to
my fiancee, I didn't do the install/setup, but I think I recall there
being a setup/config step/page.

Cheers!
Ty

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Froyo on Droid?

[Tyson Sawyer]

I've read that Android 2.2 is making its way to the original Motorola
Droid from Verizon.  I've also read that it doesn't support a few key
features that I was looking for and are reported to be present in the
after market builds.

I've done a bunch of searching of the 'net and can't find any clear
statements/reviews covering what is missing if I go after market.  I
also can't find any information stating if I can return to the herd if
I find problems with the alternate path.

Is there anyone in this group that has personal experience with an
after market build of Froyo on the original Droid?  ...or does anyone
know of a site/link/post that I've missed that gives a more complete
picture of what life is like on the outside?

Thanks!
Ty

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Re: Froyo on Droid?

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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org wrote:
 I just got Froyo for my Droid on Saturday.  I'm not sure what I'm
 missing, so I guess ignorance is bliss.  I know that tethering requires
 an extra charge,

That is my primary complaint.  I don't use much data and feel that I
already pay plenty for it.  I would VERY much prefer to pay for the
bandwidth that I use and be permitted to use it the way I want/need
to.  But I'm not aware of such a plan being available.

I have to admit that I'm as concerned about being subject to arbitrary
restrictions and choices made by Verizon.  All the super special
custom UI's that replace the stock one do nothing for me and I'd
rather not be subjected to them.  One reason I chose the Droid was the
Stock UI/Android 2.0/2.1 install with a big promotion of an openness
and Droid Does.  I fear that with 2.2 they have stepped back from
that.

I'm also interested in being able to install packages that may require
rooting.  The Android Scripting Environment (or what ever the name is
these days) is more limited if run on a non-rooted phone.  I don't
know if 2.2 will be rooted on the Droid, thus locking me out of these
options.

It is worth noting that my phone is currently stock and not rooted.  I
have never installed the scripting environment or anything else that
might enjoy a rooted phone.  I do care about paying obscene prices for
a small amount of data and I just have a reaction (an irrational
reaction?) to being locked out and treated like an Apple customer.

 As for benefits, voice actions is really nice, and moving applications
 to SD lets me free up a lot of space.  Applications seem snappier and
 having the two additional home screens lets me drop in more widgets.

These I am looking forward to! :-)

Thanks!
Ty

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Re: Froyo on Droid?

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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org wrote:
 Is there anyone in this group that has personal experience with an
 after market build of Froyo on the original Droid?

Saphire-1.0.0, ROM Manager and life is good!

Thanks Kenny!
Ty

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Professional GCC support?

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An excerpt from an email exchange where I work:

 A tool I just found out they spent $9k on (two floating licenses) called
 IAR says this about language support:

 _http://www.iar.com/website1/1.0.1.0/50/1/_

  Language and standards

 The C programming language as standardized by ISO/ANSI C94
 with selected features from C99

 Embedded C++ extended with templates, namespaces, virtual
 and multiple inheritance and other C++ features that do not
 cause an overhead in size or speed.

 Full Embedded C++ library containing string, streams etc.,
 as well as the Standard Template Library (STL)

 IEEE-754 floating-point arithmetic

 MISRA C checker for code quality control

 Supports a wide range of industry-standard debug and image
 formats, compatible with most popular debuggers and
 emulators, including ELF/DWARF where applicable

 Obviously there is also GCC for ARM processors. I was told IAR was
 purchased because management wanted to make sure nothing was
 holding up name in his work with the SAM7x camera controller. I'm told
 we can get support from IAR when we pay that much, and this does not
 exist when we decide to use GCC.

It is my belief that that last statement is wrong.  Can anyone point
me to sources of professional support for GCC/G++ on embedded systems
and some idea of what the pricing structure might be?  This would be
for a C/C++ on bare metal environment.  Most of our work is on larger
processors running Linux, but our microcontrollers have only
recently started to be 32 bit systems that we might prefer to use GCC
on.

I'm looking for more than yeah, someone will take your money.  I'm
looking for something that provides a similar result to what is
mentioned above.  It would need to be support that keeps us on
schedules.

Thanks!
Ty

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Re: Professional GCC support?

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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
 Once upon a time, Cygnus Solutions provided support.  They got bought by Red
 Hat and I'd imagine Red Hat will sell support.  Cygnus also developed Cygwin
 and the embedded eCOS OS.

It looks like Cygnus was what I am looking for and Redhat's GNUPro
stuff might now be.

Supported, embedded Linux solutions are in large numbers.  Support for
GNU tools sans Linux seems less common.

 FWIW - gcc works well for cross compiling.  You can put your build
 environment on Linux or any other Unixen and cross compile for your target
 platform.

That's exactly what I had in mind, but they are looking for someone to
hold hands and solve problems.  I'm not a master of configuring and
maintaining a GCC and tool chain build and I don't have time to become
one.

 It should also be easier to switch targets in the future if
 you're not dependent on a specific compiler.  I've seen several sites that
 can't switch from SunOS 4.1.x or Solaris 2.6 because their compiler won't
 work on newer versions of Solaris.

Bingo!  You should see some of the obsolete compilers around here. :-(

Thanks guys!
Ty

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Re: Professional GCC support?

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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Mike Bilow mik...@colossus.bilow.com wrote:
 For ARM, CodeSourcery: http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/platforms.html

 They use the GNU tool chain to target EABI (bare metal), uClinux, or
 GNU/Linux.

Hmmm If they can support AVR cores or I can get us to ditch the
AVR's for ARMs (we are targeting some of both right now) this could be
what I am looking for.

Thanks!
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Re: Backup systems?

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I've been using backup-pc with good results.  I started making my own
rsync scripts and decided that I had better things to do and backup-pc
had already done a better job than I ever would.


On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Chip Marshall c...@2bithacker.net wrote:
 On 20-Oct-2010, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name sent:
 On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:04 PM, mark prg...@gmail.com wrote:
  Or you could abandon the manual rsync approach and use amanda instead.
 
 Do you know of a good tutorial that includes tape backup?

 Also, does anyone have opinions on Amanda vs Bacula? I've been
 idling poking around at off-the-shelf backup solutions to replace
 my own hodge-podge set of scripts, and would be interested in what
 people thing of various OSS solutions.

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Re: TCL problem. Can someone help?

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On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 7:16 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
 It's a subtle Tcl thing that's bitten me a million times, which is why
 I recognized it immediately.

At one time I was very good that tcl quoting and expanding/evaluating.
 ...but then found that Python was a better solution. ;-)

Cheers!
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Re: Android printer recommendations

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On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote:
 I vaguely remember topics like this floating around before, but since these
 things change so much I didn't see much point in digging it up.

 I'm looking for a new scanner/printer/copier combo and my wife wants to be
 able to print from her Android as well as our Ubuntu boxes.  Something stand
 alone (wifi) would be ideal.  I found some rave references to an Android app
 http://www.printershare.com/mobile.sdf and the pay-for version ($5) says it
 will print to wifi and bluetooth printers.  HP has a free Android app for
 their printers but it appears to only print photos, which is not what we are
 trying to accomplish.

 $5 is fine, but I'm hoping some on here has some direct experience with this
 software or had a better, more open, way to print from Android as well as
 some wifi printer/scanner/copier combo that is known to work well with
 either method.  All comments are welcome.

I have an HP something or other Wifi connected printer/scanner.  Paid
about $70 for it.  You need to use windoze or Mac to configure its
networking, but otherwise, its just an other network printer and works
great.  The best part is that the cartridges include the ink heads.
I've been happy with my Epson printers until their heads clog and it
becomes useless junk.

I recently installed printershare.  I've not used it much, but it
seems to work extremely well.

Cheers!
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Re: gps recommendations?

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On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
 One feature that I was not able to get working on the Android version of
 Google Maps is route manipulation by moving the lines like you can on
 the web version. The advantages of a commercial GPS system, like TomTom
 is the screen size.

A Nexus 7 is larger yet and IMHO the price is quite good for the tool
you get.  No cellular data, but I'm not sure that is wanted here.

 Also, your maps are all preloaded. In a smartphone,
 your maps are loaded via your data connection, but there is a way to
 preload your maps before going into an area where you may not have wifi.
 It depends on your cache size. Also look at mapdroyd. I once compared
 Google Maps nav with Lexus nav, and I preferred the Google Maps route.

OSMAnd (Open Street Map Android) had gotten to be pretty darn good,
open source and does a very good job of storing vector data locally
and route planning.   They do charge a small fee for the plus
version that helps support development.  I paid it even though the
limits on the free version didn't impact me.

It seems that the OP is coming close to asking for a nav system that
knows what he wants better than he does. ;-)

My solution to this (and I LOVE to try alternate routes and see other
stuff) is to set the destination and then divert for the suggested
route.  ...the app just reroutes from where ever I take it.

I've not needed to try this, but I believe that one can also insert
intermediate points on the route.

So, not exactly what was asked for, but I believe that I'm achieving a
very similar mission this way.

Cheers!
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Re: gps recommendations?

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On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
 The advantages of Garmin, Magellan, and TomTom is that your maps are
 loaded for the whole country..

...and also with Open Street Maps Android (OSMAnd)

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Re: *sigh* I guess I'm going mobile

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On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote:
 It is a new thing - I'm running a Nexus 4 with 4.2.2; kernel 3.4.0-...

 When I plug in the USB, I'm given two Connect As choices:

 Media Device (MTP)
 Camera (PTP)

This is because some new phones don't have a separate SD card and also
don't have partitioned storage.  USB mass storage only works on a
configuration that permits the phone to unmount the device before
allowing the PC access to it.  New phones with only a single partition
can't do that.

My solution is dropbear ssh server and sshfs.  Once set up, nautilus
can use an sftp:// URL to access data on the phone.  An other solution
is wifi file explorer.

Cheers!
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Re: Password storage?

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On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Peter M. Petrakis
peter.petra...@gmail.com wrote:
 Besides the notebook next to my computer (yup I admit it!) I'm migrating
 to this, https://www.passwordcard.org/en.

If I understand correctly, that system would make brute force easy if
someone got their hands on a copy of the card and knew what to do with
it?  ...i.e. lost wallet.

With things like KeePass, the security isn't in any service.  Its in
the encryption of the database file.  You can optionally choose to use
a DropBox type file share/sync service.  ...but the security is still
in the encryption of the file, not the security of the file share
service.

I use KeePass and KeePassDroid with a cloud based file sync between devices.

Cheers!
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DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

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What is the open source action that she refers to and can be found
in the description of the segment?  Is the meaning of open source
being changed by some groups?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zMOzxdniwM

Ty

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Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

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Thanks!  ...I was hoping it was something like that.

Ty


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:39 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
 Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org writes:
 What is the open source action that she refers to and can be found
 in the description of the segment?  Is the meaning of open source
 being changed by some groups?

 She might be garbling a little. In the intelligence community, open
 source means we didn't have Mata Hari anything, we found it from
 websites, books, newspapers, etc. Open sources.

 So she could be trying to say: We know from open sources that at least
 one group is trying to DoS us meaning something like There is a group
 out there with the stated, public mission to try to DoS us or A recent
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Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

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On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote:
 David is correct, open sources has been a concept in the intel community

...but open sources means something very different to me than (an)
open source action.  I can see how I interpret it from a different
context.

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Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

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I have had good luck with QuickSSHd and using it as a sftp/sshfs server.
It also allows ssh login.
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PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

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My wife and I recently upgraded our web presence.  I've had the
j3.org domain since 1996, but have never done much with other than
post a few files from time to time and routing my email through it.

We chose a hosted Wordpress service since it seems to be so well
supported, mature and have lots of plug-ins available.  The new web
site was first created under a temporary, throwaway domain name.  The
change over to our preferred domain has been a complete disaster from
the Wordpress/PHP side of things.

Wordpress seems to embed the sites URL in EVERYTHING. WTF!  What is
wrong with leaving the host name out to access the files from the
current host?  I admit that I've not played much with web pages
since HTML 2 or so and most of my experience is typing up very simple
pages with emacs, but is this really how it has to be done?

Here is what is potentially the worst part:  We have manually done
some searching and editing of URLs embedded in the mySQL records with
a phpAdmin tool.  I am now finding warnings online saying that some
plugins will embed the URL length in the data and simply editing the
string will break things.

I found this page, but I suspect it is for people who haven't screwed it up yet:

http://pixelentity.com/wordpress-search-replace-domain/

How screwed are we?

Thanks!
Ty

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Re: PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

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Thanks very much for the feed back.  It confirms what we are dealing
with.  I'm not sure when the last back-up was, we will check.  We will
do an other backup so as to not dig deeper.  Then we will evaluate
trying to fix vs. just rebuilding from scratch.  From scratch might be
viable since most of the work into the site thus far was
exploring/learning/trying and should be repeatable with less effort
than the first pass.

Thanks!
Ty


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Brian Chabot br...@brianchabot.org wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 04/14/2014 09:50 AM, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
 Wordpress seems to embed the sites URL in EVERYTHING. WTF!  What is
 wrong with leaving the host name out to access the files from the
 current host?

 Like many things in WordPress, there is a plugin for that:

 http://wordpress.org/plugins/any-hostname/

 How screwed are we?

 Depends on whether the plugin uses the domain/FQDN length, etc.


 Well, if you have a clean backup from before the period that you started
 searching-and-replacing, there's a number of plugins that can do the job
 properly for you.

 If you don't have a backup, well.

 Make one now.


 Seconded, emphatically.


 There are two NH groups that specialize in WordPress, one in Manchester
 (that meets tonight) and one on the seacoast. You might want to join
 their Meetups and get some expert help there.

 I've never been to these, but I do have extensive experience with WP.
 Feel free to ping me offlist if you need.



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Re: PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

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We weighed the effort an uncertainty of fixing what we had with the
effort and certainty of starting over.  Then we tried a few tools for
migrating a Wordpress site's domain/host name and the plug-in that is
supposed to dynamically rewrite the domain name for multi-hosted
sites.  When none of them worked, we started over.  My wife stayed up
way too late last night, but she got most of it put back together (we
hadn't invested much in content yet).

Some of remaining remnants of the test domain were in static pages of
our own.  Those could have been fixed.  However, a couple of css files
kept getting generated with links to the old domain. I suspect that
some of you with more experience would have known just where to look,
but for us, a reboot seemed like the most sure way of making things
right.

I appreciate the help from this list.  It didn't end up pointing to a
technical solution that we used, but did help us decide how to deal
with it.

Thanks!
Ty


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org wrote:
 Thanks very much for the feed back.  It confirms what we are dealing
 with.  I'm not sure when the last back-up was, we will check.  We will
 do an other backup so as to not dig deeper.  Then we will evaluate
 trying to fix vs. just rebuilding from scratch.  From scratch might be
 viable since most of the work into the site thus far was
 exploring/learning/trying and should be repeatable with less effort
 than the first pass.

 Thanks!
 Ty


 On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Brian Chabot br...@brianchabot.org wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 04/14/2014 09:50 AM, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
 Wordpress seems to embed the sites URL in EVERYTHING. WTF!  What is
 wrong with leaving the host name out to access the files from the
 current host?

 Like many things in WordPress, there is a plugin for that:

 http://wordpress.org/plugins/any-hostname/

 How screwed are we?

 Depends on whether the plugin uses the domain/FQDN length, etc.


 Well, if you have a clean backup from before the period that you started
 searching-and-replacing, there's a number of plugins that can do the job
 properly for you.

 If you don't have a backup, well.

 Make one now.


 Seconded, emphatically.


 There are two NH groups that specialize in WordPress, one in Manchester
 (that meets tonight) and one on the seacoast. You might want to join
 their Meetups and get some expert help there.

 I've never been to these, but I do have extensive experience with WP.
 Feel free to ping me offlist if you need.



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Re: Modern Linux scanners

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I use HP printers and scanners, though nothing high end.  Our WiFi
connected printer/scanner practically prints without setup.

Cheers!
Ty
 On Jun 16, 2014 8:50 PM, Bruce Labitt bdlab...@gmail.com wrote:

 Anyone buy a flatbed scanner for linux recently?  Looking to scan pages
 and photographs.
 Any to buy?  Any to avoid?

 HP G4050 has 'good' sane support  to 2400 dpi, seems stupid to pay extra
 for the 4800x9600dpi.
 Does HP now generally support linux?

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Re: Modern Linux scanners

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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org wrote:
 I use HP printers and scanners, though nothing high end.  Our WiFi connected
 printer/scanner practically prints without setup.

Detail:  After using a Mac to configure the device to talk to our
network, then it took almost no effort with Ubuntu or Linux Mint to
print.  Hit setup, confirm the defaults, and print/scan.

Ty


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Re: poking around for opportunities

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On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org wrote:
 Embedded is just a fancy way of saying “you don’t have a lot of memory or 
 CPU, so don’t write crummy code” :)


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. ;-)


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Re: poking around for opportunities

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You likely are more qualified than many of the people we've talked
with senior embedded software engineer on their resume.


On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:53 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
 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 became available to
 put into a workstation. Now we're swimming in storage with ever larger
 SDHC storage cards.

 I've been assuming that embedded meant some significant subset of the
 following properties:

 1) realtime
 2) re-entrant/parallel/interrupt-driven
 3) specialty hardware
 4) specialty OS (if there's an OS there at all)

 Despite my earlier joke and my Arduino/Pi experience, I don't actually
 feel comfortable putting embedded on my resume. However, now if
 someone asks me I can at least be intelligent enough to ask what they
 mean by that term. If it's just a regular PC running in a kiosk, that's
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Re: poking around for opportunities

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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.

Cheers!
Ty
 On Jan 7, 2015 7:07 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:

 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 instance)
 with a small group where everyone does a little bit of everything (vs a
 cog in a huge machine). I'm a software engineer, but I have done IS/IT
 and don't object to it sprinkled throughout my day. Something where
 knowing a little bit about everything and being able to learn the
 details quickly is more valuable than already knowing everything about
 one thing. Examples:

  - software engineer supporting research scientist
  - programmer/sysadmin at library/school

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Re: gps navigation project?

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On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote:
 Sure, the source is Free as in speech, but unless you have an unlocked and
 rooted phone/tablet, you  may not be able load it even if you can build it.

No rooting needed.  All that is needed is to go into security and
check unknown sources.  Then download the apk using a web browser
and install it.

I see no technical or moral problem with what they've done.  If you
are a user, they appreciate a donation.  I have donated.  If you
want the source as a developer, it is available and you may use it.

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Re: gps navigation project?

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On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:13 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
 Does anyone know of any projects that specifically target (and do a good
 job on) taking a pile of maps and a GPX file and turning that into a
 sequence of in 20 miles, turn left-type directions?


I'm not sure if it qualifies as good, but OsmAnd will do this.  When
navigating a GPX track, it doesn't map the GPX track to the underlying
roads.  Instead it just tells you when and how sharp the track turns.
When using its own routing instead of a GPX track it does a better job
of describing the roads to turn on to.  Its not exactly what you've
asked for, but OsmAnd is probably a useful starting point.





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Re: Bill Sconce

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On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:47 AM, mad...@li.org  wrote:
> A couple of days ago I wrote to tell you that the prognosis for Bill was 
> looking better.  Unfortunately that does not seem to be the case

I will miss Bill.  I first knew him in the mid-80's when he
participated in aerobatic competition with his C-150 Aerobat.  The
competition moved to a different airport and I didn't see him for
decades.  Later I found the python group and was caught off guard when
I saw a familiar name at the center of the action.  I had to send him
an email to confirm if he was the C-150 Aerobat "Bill Sconce" that I
had once known.

I will miss him and his quiet demeanor.

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Mouse event problems

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I can't figure out what regexp to apply to the internet to find an
answer to this.  I am running Mint Xfce 7.3 and it has been solid.
But the past few weeks I've run into a few problems that seemed to
come from nowhere.

I'm finding that mouse events are getting messed up.  The mouse
pointer and keyboard seem to always work.  The mouse events do not.
Sometimes widgets do not respond to mouse-over or clicks.  I've seen
occasional phantom responses in when I didn't click.  I've seen
buttons "depress" when clicked, but there is no other response.  It
will often start as specific windows or specific regions of windows
and or system menus.  It quickly degrades to no mouse functionality
other than the pointer moving.   I haven't seen that the track pad
behaves any different from the mouse.

I can temporarily clear the problem by switching to a text console and
then back to X.

I have tried different kernel versions, older and newer.  The older
and current had been working fine.  None of them work now.  I've tried
a few varying from ~3.13 through 4.4.0.

I tried installing Cinnamon to see if it was an Xfce thing, but the
behavior remained.

I haven't found a error log that provides any hints.

Any suggestions?  If I can't clear this up, I'm going to have to try a
clean re-install which would be a major downer.

Thanks!
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Re: Mouse event problems

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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
 wrote:
> It's an option that could be explicitly disabled or enabled via xorg.conf;
> it or another similar sort of option could be enabled by default and in
> effect even if you don't actually have a config file (most people don't have
> an actual xorg.conf at this point at this point--everything just gets
> autoprobed/auto configured every time, and that *normally* works but
> sometimes doesn't work right...). I *think* you can find the evidence in the
> *logfiles*


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Re: Mouse event problems

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I would have thought hardware if the bad behavior wasn't temporarily
cleared by switching consoles and I didn't get different (good vs.
bad) behavior in different windows and different widgets within a
window.

...still worth trying because it is easy to try.



On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote:
> That *VERY* much sounds like hardware.  Like, a lot.
>
> 1) If it's a wireless mouse, change the batteries.
>
> If it's *not* wireless, disable the trackpad and switch to a different
> external mouse.  Assuming the issue goes away (which I bet it will),
> re-enable one, then the other, and see who's at fault.
>
> -Ken
>
>
> On 2016-03-25 11:37, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
>>
>> I can't figure out what regexp to apply to the internet to find an
>> answer to this.  I am running Mint Xfce 7.3 and it has been solid.
>> But the past few weeks I've run into a few problems that seemed to
>> come from nowhere.
>>
>> I'm finding that mouse events are getting messed up.  The mouse
>> pointer and keyboard seem to always work.  The mouse events do not.
>> Sometimes widgets do not respond to mouse-over or clicks.  I've seen
>> occasional phantom responses in when I didn't click.  I've seen
>> buttons "depress" when clicked, but there is no other response.  It
>> will often start as specific windows or specific regions of windows
>> and or system menus.  It quickly degrades to no mouse functionality
>> other than the pointer moving.   I haven't seen that the track pad
>> behaves any different from the mouse.
>>
>> I can temporarily clear the problem by switching to a text console and
>> then back to X.
>>
>> I have tried different kernel versions, older and newer.  The older
>> and current had been working fine.  None of them work now.  I've tried
>> a few varying from ~3.13 through 4.4.0.
>>
>> I tried installing Cinnamon to see if it was an Xfce thing, but the
>> behavior remained.
>>
>> I haven't found a error log that provides any hints.
>>
>> Any suggestions?  If I can't clear this up, I'm going to have to try a
>> clean re-install which would be a major downer.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Ty
>
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Re: Mouse event problems

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Would HWCursor an option in /etc/X11?

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
 wrote:
> Alternately, maybe a problem due to the use of "HWCursor" option in Xorg? I
> somewhat doubt that's something that can actually mess w/ behaviour other
> than rendering, but maybe?

Is HWCursor an option in an /etc/X11 file? I don't seem to be using it.

tyson@STOL:X11$ pwd
/etc/X11
tyson@STOL:X11$ ls
app-defaults rgb.txt  xkb   Xresources  Xsession.options
default-display-manager  XXresetXsessionxsm
fontsxinitXreset.d  Xsession.d  Xwrapper.config
tyson@STOL:X11$ grep -r HWCursor
tyson@STOL:X11$

I'm not as close to this stuff as I used to be.  ...I don't see an
XF86Config or xorg.conf file there.

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Re: Mouse event problems

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On Mar 29, 2016 18:51, "Joshua Judson Rosen"  wrote:
>
> *D'oh*:
>
> http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Coffee-Beats-Wireless

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Re: Mouse event problems

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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio  wrote:
> That *VERY* much sounds like hardware.  Like, a lot.
>
> 1) If it's a wireless mouse, change the batteries.
>
> If it's *not* wireless, disable the trackpad and switch to a different
> external mouse.  Assuming the issue goes away (which I bet it will),
> re-enable one, then the other, and see who's at fault.

This is looking like the cause.  I haven't had a chance to use a
different mouse (track ball), but:

- Changed the batteries: no improvement.
- Unplug it or turn it off when problems arise and use the track pad:
much improvement.

It appears to be a problem with the buttons.  I'm not sure exactly
what is going on, but the ability to "clear" the problem by switching
to a VC and back (and other behavior apparently more complex than a
pointer device can "know about") may be something along the lines of
causing the UI to "forget" that a button down event had been inflicted
on some widget on the screen.

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Re: Mouse event problems

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On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Tyson Sawyer <ty...@j3.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote:
>> That *VERY* much sounds like hardware.  Like, a lot.
>>
>> 1) If it's a wireless mouse, change the batteries.
>>
>> If it's *not* wireless, disable the trackpad and switch to a different
>> external mouse.  Assuming the issue goes away (which I bet it will),
>> re-enable one, then the other, and see who's at fault.
>
> This is looking like the cause.

I had originally considered and rejected that the problem was
hardware, and I think with good reason.

...the problem was hardware.  I have replaced the track ball and the
problem is gone.

Thanks!
Ty



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Need advice on domain management and transfer

[Tyson Sawyer]

I hold a couple of domains.  One is my own that I registered in '96
and the other belongs to a friend.  The "other" I registered for him
in '01 to help his small race engineering business.  I have few
issues.  Well, a few to discuss here, I won't bring up working with
Bobby Casey at this time... ;-)

- We'd like to transfer the 2nd domain to be owned by my friend
- They are both registered with register.com.  Is that not the cool
thing these days?
- They ended up under two different accounts that I hold at
register.com with some messed up naming.

The domains are j3.org (mine, Bill Sconce would have understood the
reference) and smallfortuneracing.com (my friend's).

I'm asking for advice in part because I don't want to make any
mistakes and lose control of the domains.

- Who should my friend register with, if not register.com?
- What are the steps to do the transfer?

- Should I move my domain to a different registrar and if so, to whom?
- If not, is there a way to change or delete the "Registrant
Organization" and username of the account?

I guess I should also ask about appropriate Tech contacts.  The person
I have listed at one time hosted the web site on both, is still in my
contacts list and could call, but someone I haven't contacted in
years.  Is it reasonable list myself for Registrant, Admin and Tech?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Ty

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Re: Need advice on domain management and transfer

[Tyson Sawyer]

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
 wrote:
> I would recommend that you use a different registrar (better service, nicer
> interface, less cost).

That's what I thought I had understood from random bits.

> If you transfer a domain to another registrar, you will have to pay for
> another year, but that gets added to the current expiration.  You generally
> don't want to do a transfer if the domain is about to expire in the next 60
> days.

smallfortuneracing.com expires Oct 2nd, so I guess I will renew it as is first.

> I use NameCheap (https://www.namecheap.com/domains/transfer.aspx) and they
> are both good and inexpensive.

Awesome!

> It is entirely OK to list yourself for all contacts.
>
> The process for changing "Registrant Organization" can be a real pain.

yeah...  Besides renewing the domain that will expire soon, I need to
unlock transfers first.  However, transfering both domains will give
me a chance to clean up all the name issues on the accounts.

Thanks!
Ty

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Re: Amusing "Wups."

[Tyson Sawyer]

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio  wrote:
> On 2017-12-08 09:11, Mark Komarinski wrote:
>> Is it C you're looking for?
>
> Upon reflection, I realized it would've been amazingly awesome if it had
> replied:
>
> #include
> void main()
> {printf("Hello, world.\n");}

What was the reply?


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Re: A NH project...

[Tyson Sawyer]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:38 PM Bobby Casey  wrote:

> I've written a few Python scrapers before, but those were all years ago
> and one-offs.
>

Back when you used to be a software engineer, before you became a meeting
attendee? 

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