tech recruiters you like?
Hi, everybody, I know some of you have landed good gigs using recruiters. I have a friend who will be relocating to my area who has a couple decades of UNIX and, more recently, Linux sysadmin experience, along with management skills. I'm thinking a recruiter is going to be a better use of time than filling out job applications, but I know there are lots of numbskulls out there (they call me, frequently). If anybody has somebody to recommend, please reply here or contact me directly. Thanks! -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Bridging ethernet over Wi-Fi?
How much "ethernet" on the bridge is working? I happened to run across this topic yesterday where it would have been really handy to bridge a VLAN trunk across a wifi bridge, but almost everything that says that it's "layer 2 transparent" is really just doing ARP proxy/masquerading of a sort, which works OK for stuff that happens to fit into WiFi framing but not other stuff. To do real layer 2 bridging seems to require doing L2 over L3 (L2TPv3, EoIP, VPLS, or eoMPLS) but that requires a cooperating endpoint, which you don't have, so it can't be that. Aside: when I get a chance I'd like to get a config worked out to have an easily deployable L2TPv3 bridge on a pair of openwrt boxes, for when the next thing breaks. -Bill On 11/13/2015 11:39 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > I've noticed that VirtualBox and some other VM packages include > functionality to bridge in-VM network interfaces onto the external > network through a network interface on the host machine. I get how this works > for ethernet, but it seems like they make it work for Wi-Fi, too; > given that Wi-Fi frames don't actually carry enough information to > to do bridging at the station (client) end, how the heck does this > actually work? > > The only technique with which I'm really familiar, for bridging ethernet > through an 802.11(b|a|g|n) client interface, involves running the > radio in a non-standard 4-address mode, which requires support > on the AP at the other end of the wireless link; I'm fairly certain > that's not what the VM systems are doing, because they appear to > work with bog standard APs. So what _are_ they doing? Creating > a second (hidden?) interface on VM host with identical MAC address > to the interface inside the VM, and mirroring traffic between them? > Faking it by sniffing and relaying packets at layer 3? Something else? > Maybe something about this actually did get into a companion IEEE > standard that I'm not familiar with? > -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations
On 07/15/15 16:50, Bill McGonigle wrote: https://servarica.com/ and he forgets the deals link... http://lowendbox.com/blog/servarica-7month-2-5gb-and-4-50month-1gb-xen-vps-in-montreal-canada/ -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: LUG in Concord NH
Hi, Weston, On 05/03/2013 10:07 AM, Weston Phillips wrote: A few of our visitors and staff were interested in starting a LUG to meet maybe once a month or so. I am mostly testing the waters to see if anyone is interested. CentraLUG used to meet right there at NHTI; you can find some of the former regulars off of this page: -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: LUG in Concord NH
Hi, Weston, On 05/03/2013 10:07 AM, Weston Phillips wrote: A few of our visitors and staff were interested in starting a LUG to meet maybe once a month or so. I am mostly testing the waters to see if anyone is interested. CentraLUG used to meet right there at NHTI; you can find some of the former regulars off of this page: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/CentraLUG Others would come on occasion, depending on the topic and drive time. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: FYI (large devices = looooonnngg processing times)
On 04/27/2013 08:06 PM, Curt Howland wrote: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdb or whatever it was, USB3. 6 days later You might have just run out of entropy on the PRNG. That and small writes will kill you. Try: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX bs=2M next time. It should finish in several hours. A 20TB ZFS array will be done in less than a day (the compression ratio is wonderful with /dev/zero...). That and a scrub will let you know which disks got dropping in shipping. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: SpinRite (was: FYI)
On 04/28/2013 11:19 AM, Ben Scott wrote: But badblocks -n will do the same thing, for free. As I understand it, it's not the same (at the block layer VS the ATA layer), but: hdparm --read-sector 27878798 hdparm --write-sector 27878798 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing /dev/sdb will do what SpinRite does. I had a drive on our DVR that kept kicking a disk out of the array. badblocks didn't help it. Grepping the logs for the bad sector (md reports bad reads) and doing the above got the drive to re-map and after re-adding the partition to the array it's been stable for 6 months or so (yay, bash history). I should emphasize that this drive is part of a mirror on a device that plays TV shows to kids and there are nightly backups. Given that, it saved a hundred bucks on a replacement drive. I'm not sure if any of the fistful of dd_*rescue* tools integrate this. If they did, that would be pretty close to a free SpinRite clone. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [GNHLUG] GNHLUG and Drupal BBQ parties: Sept 8 and Aug 25
On 08/16/2012 09:37 AM, Bruce Dawson wrote: The Sep 8 event will need it for potluck (what is needed and who is bringing it), as well as RSVPs. I made an event (took ~10 min): http://www.punchbowl.com/parties/4637200-gnhlug-summer-bbq but it looks like 'multiple admins' is a premium feature, so I wonder if I shouldn't cancel this one and Bruce should create a new one. I don't want to get in the way of managing potluck logistics, for instance. I'm happy to just alter this one if that's preferable too (I didn't see a way to give ownership to another user). -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [GNHLUG] GNHLUG and Drupal BBQ parties: Sept 8 and Aug 25
On 08/06/2012 01:43 PM, Ben Scott wrote: What : GNHLUG party (with all others welcome) Date : Saturday, September 8, 2012 Time : Afternoon/evening (exact time TBD) ... Information on the GNHLUG event to follow Real Soon Now. Would it be useful to set up a Punchbowl to coordinate RSVP's, potluck, etc? http://www.punchbowl.com/learn/ -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Fwd: Re: [DLSLUG-Discuss] anybody else have computer junk to recycle?
In case anybody wants to drive up. -Bill Original Message Subject: Re: [DLSLUG-Discuss] anybody else have computer junk to recycle? Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:52:50 -0400 From: Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com Organization: BFC Computing, LLC To: dlslug-disc...@dlslug.org OK, we're a go for recycling. Location: Ansys loading dock (thanks, Dave!) 10 Cavendish Court, up in the Centerra park. Drive into the park and keep making right turns after you get past the Courtyard hotel. There's a large sign on the entrance to the building. http://g.co/maps/u5cfm Drop-off instructions: Check in with the receptionist, who should page Dave Clifton, and then go to the loading dock on the far end of the building and meet him there. Dave will have a cart or dolly available to move larger and heavier items. Schedule: Monday April 9th 9AM - 5PM. Drop off all free items. Box loose stuff. 5PM - 6PM. Scavenger Hour. Tuesday April 10th - 11AM to 1PM - Pickup by Ken of Computer Recycling of Claremont. Cash transactions at this time for non-free items (directly w/ Ken). Acceptable items: - Free: Computers and laptops UPS Power Supplies cables / cords / wires desktop copiers printers FAX machines scanners keyboards mice telephones cell phones DVD players VCR's typewriters Non-free: CRT monitors: $7 each TV's: $10 each -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Discuss mailing list dlslug-disc...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW: Version Control with git - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2011-10-06
[it's been pointed out to me that it's still 2011, not 2017, so we'll have to go with October 6th] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, October 6th, 7-9PM at:Dartmouth College, Haldeman 125 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Version Control with git presented by mplayer Most people are probably familiar with version control but the git program, written to manage the linux kernel development, works in a distributed manner that may be new to those used to centralized version control systems. We'll watch an hour-and-a-half professional training video that explains the concepts of version control, distributed version control, and then gives the viewer a fast start into managing software projects (or any file tree) with git. 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a Linux/FLOSS question of the group. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] Version Control with git - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2011-10-05
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, October 5th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Room TBD 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Version Control with git presented by mplayer Most people are probably familiar with version control but the git program, written to manage the linux kernel development, works in a distributed manner that may be new to those used to centralized version control systems. We'll watch an hour-and-a-half professional training video that explains the concepts of version control, distributed version control, and then gives the viewer a fast start into managing software projects (or any file tree) with git. 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a Linux/FLOSS question of the group. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: Nifties will Rebuild! - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2011-09-01
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, September 1st, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Nifties will Rebuild! It's Audience Participation Night at DLSLUG - time for you to get up and do something. We'll each take a turn at the lectern, showing something 'neat' or Nifty. It doesn't matter if it takes 2 minutes or 20 minutes to explain, just get up there and show us something. We all know something Nifty that's worth showing. We'll have a linux laptop to use, or connect remotely to your own. The meeting will run until we run out of Nifties, or we run out of time. It can be anything from a utility you just discovered to a Nifty piece of hardware we should know about to a worthwhile service on the 'net or maybe something you wrote that saves you hours of time. If you're new to Linux that doesn't matter - there must be something Nifty about it that got you interested - what is that? Linux is about sharing, and this month it's your turn. Prepare for an extra-varied brain dump and be prepared to learn about all kinds of things. Previous Nifty!'s have run the gamut and inspired many an, intriguing, from the audience. 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a Linux/FLOSS question of the group. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: Btrfs Hackathon HOWTO - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2011-08-04
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, August 4th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Btrfs presented by William Stearns Filesystems are supposed to be boring - you never know they're there. BTRFS, based on a design that supports copy-on-write, provides features like effortless snapshots, built-in data redundancy and checksumming, easy addition and removal of underlying disks and much more. Filesystems have become interesting again! Bill is a System Administrator at Dartmouth College and consultant for Intelguardians. He is a content author and faculty member at the SANS Institute, teaching both the Linux System Administration and Perimeter Security tracks. Bill's background is in network and operating system security; he was the chief architect of one commercial and two open source firewalls and is an active contributor to multiple projects in the Linux development effort. His spare time is spent coordinating and feeding a major antispam blacklist, and assisting the technical community as a volunteer Incident Handler for the Internet Storm Center. Bill's articles and tools can be found in SysAdmin magazine, online journals, and at http://www.stearns.org . 8:05 Hack-a-thon HOWTO presented by Ryan Lewis Do you have favorite project that needs some development love and would like to sponsor an event to do it? Ryan will walk us through a mini-Hack-a-thon, using Xournal https://github.com/ryanlewis/xournal and GitHub as a platform to show how it's done. Your guide on this expedition will be Ryan H. Lewis. He is a Ph.D. student at Dartmouth College. He studied mathematics in Rochester, New York. He uses Fedora linux and thinks writing in the third person nominative case is strange. 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a Linux/FLOSS question of the group. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Label-printers for CUPS/Linux?
On 07/14/2011 03:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: So, I'm looking for a label-printer that will work with my Linux machine, and that can print arbitrary graphics rather than just text or bar-codes. I have a Dymo Labelwriter 330 Turbo that works with glabels. I'm not sure if I've ever tried graphics, but there are font choices, and I really doubt this thing has a font rasterizer in it, so it's probably all bitmap anyway. Dedicated label makers have a nice speed advantage. I've tried using this thing with OpenOffice and had no luck getting the OOO/CUPS/driver stack to cooperate. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Family Tragedy for GNHLUG'er
Hi, all, I know Seth Cohn has many friends amongst the GNHLUG crowd (and for those who don't know him, you should - he's leading the charge to streamline NH government with open source). But, if you don't use Facebook (and many of you don't), you might not know that his wife, Chris, recently suffered a major injury, and his friends are organizing chip-ins and volunteer efforts to help. Since Facebook requires a login to see Seth's recent update, I've posted a copy up here: http://bfccomputing.com/downloads/sethnote I didn't post it directly to the list, because some day we're going to finally decide to open up the gnhlug-discuss archives to search engines. Please give what you can to help a couple of great people in their time of need. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] no meeting tonight
Hi, everybody, Our speaker canceled and we don't have a room for tonight, so we'll re-group in August. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: Android Hacks - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2011-06-02
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, June 2nd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson L02 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Android Hacks If you've got an Android device, please bring it tonight, and we'll explore what works, what doesn't, and what's really neat. I'll bring my Nook Color ($249 7 tablet computer) and show how one goes about taking a stock system and installing a Free version of Android (Cyanogenmod) on it. 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a Linux/FLOSS question of the group. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: Nifties de Mayo - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2011-05-05
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, May 5th, 7-9PM at:Dartmouth College, Carson L01 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Nifties de Mayo! It's Audience Participation Night at DLSLUG - time for you to get up and do something. We'll each take a turn at the lectern, showing something 'neat' or Nifty. It doesn't matter if it takes 2 minutes or 20 minutes to explain, just get up there and show us something. We all know something Nifty that's worth showing. We'll have a linux laptop to use, or connect remotely to your own. The meeting will run until we run out of Nifties, or we run out of time. It can be anything from a utility you just discovered to a Nifty piece of hardware we should know about to a worthwhile service on the 'net or maybe something you wrote that saves you hours of time. If you're new to Linux that doesn't matter - there must be something Nifty about it that got you interested - what is that? Linux is about sharing, and this month it's your turn. OK, yes, technically this means our speaker cancelled. It's all good, prepare for an extra-varied brain dump and be prepared to learn about all kinds of things. Previous Nifty!'s have run the gamut and inspired many an, intriguing, from the audience. 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a Linux/FLOSS question of the group. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW: LaTeX- DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2011-04-07
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, April 7th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Rockefeller 002 24 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 LaTeX presented by Ryan Lewis This month we will hear about LaTeX. What is LaTeX? LaTeX is a typesetting program for producing high quality documents. It is not a word processor. For more information, see: http://www.LaTeX-project.org/intro.html Your guide on this expedition will be Ryan H. Lewis. He is a Ph.D. student at Dartmouth College. He studied mathematics in Rochester, New York. He uses Fedora linux and thinks writing in the third person nominative case is strange. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: GPL Compliance Lab - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2011-03-03
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, March 3rd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 The GPL Compliance Lab presented by Yoni Rabkin Yoni will start with an introduction to the Free Software Foundation's GPL Compliance Lab, where free software licensing questions get answered. The introduction to the Lab covers who works there, how the work gets done and who uses the Lab's service. Next, he will describe a handful of interesting cases that have come up at the Lab throughout the years. Finally, he will lead a discussion on GPL violations. Yoni Rabkin studied computer science and math and after a stint testing medical lasers and has been a working programmer for the past 6 years. Yoni has been volunteering at the Free Software Foundation's GPL Compliance Lab since 2006. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT - Annual DLSLUG Social Meeting @Salt Hill
[Please RSVP so I can call ahead with a count.] [We get a combined bill, so please bring cash.] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://www.dlslug.org/ *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, February 3rd, 6-8PM at: Salt Hill Pub - Lebanon All are welcome. Agenda 6:00 Eat, Drink, and be Merry! As is our traditional way, the February 3rd meeting of the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group will be at the Salt Hill Pub in Lebanon. Though the topic of conversation will inevitably flow to some geeky topic or other, all are welcome, including significant others. We'll have a table reserved at Salt Hill in Lebanon for dinner at 6PM. There is copious free parking and easy Interstate access. Plus, the #1 request for our meetings has been beer, and Salt Hill has plenty, albeit not free, as in beer. And the iced tea is plenty good too, so our younger and drier friends will find plenty of good food and drink as well. RSVP so we can get a table(s) of sufficient size. - MAILING LISTS There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Open Government Data bill (for comments)
Very well thought-out, Seth. Two nits: (6) If it allows extensions, ensures that all extensions of the data format are themselves documented and have the other characteristics of an open data format; I get the intent here, but this is too high a hurdle with current wording. It could be used to rule out XML since not everybody knows how to part everybody else's CDATA blocks. I think what you mean is that any State data cannot be stored in an undocumented extension. If everything useful is ruled out, then the current proprietary stuff has to continue being used, right? (8) If it includes any use of encryption, provides that the encryption algorithm is usable in a royalty-free, nondiscriminatory manner in perpetuity, and is documented so that anyone in possession of the appropriate encryption key or keys is able to write software to unencrypt the data. 'Encryption' may be too narrow - hashing, HMAC'ing, etc. could also be used to defeat the main purposes (though perhaps the intent is sufficiently clear). -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] DLSLUG January Meeting Canceled
Sorry all, I've been out of town for a funeral and haven't been able to get somebody to coordinate for tonight on short notice. We'll do our social meeting @ Salt Hill on February 3rd. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: New Year's Cleaning
On 01/02/2011 08:20 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: whoever take's Tom's SGI is just going to have to jailbreak it. At one point NetBSD would run on those boxes. Or at least I mailed some out to the guy who said he'd do the port. :) -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Linux has won
On 12/15/2010 10:24 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote: Linux may already be out-shipping Microsoft Windows. I think the one to beat is TRON: http://www.t-engine.org/english/whatistron_en.html They'd shipped something like 40 billion units a decade ago, IIRC. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: NiftyLeaks! - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-12-02
[note: Rockefeller 003] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, December 2nd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Rockefeller 003 24 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. Pizza buffet on Thursdays. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 NiftyLeaks! It's Audience Participation Night at DLSLUG - time for you to get up and do something. We'll each take a turn at the lectern, showing something Neat or Nifty. It doesn't matter if it takes 2 minutes or 20 minutes to explain, just get up there and show us something. We all know something Nifty that's worth showing. The meeting will run until we run out of Nifties, or we run out of time. It can be anything from a utility you just discovered to a Nifty piece of hardware we should know about to a worthwhile service on the 'net or maybe something you wrote that saves you hours of time. If you're new to Linux that doesn't matter - there must be something Nifty about it that got you interested - what is that? Linux is about sharing, and this month it's your turn. OK, yes, technically this means we don't have a speaker. It's all good, prepare for an extra-varied brain dump and be prepared to learn about all kinds of things. Previous Nifty!'s have run the gamut and inspired many an, intriguing, from the audience. 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a Linux/FLOSS question of the group. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW: NiftyLeaks! - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-12-02
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, December 2nd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Room TBA All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. Pizza buffet on Thursdays. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 NiftyLeaks! It's Audience Participation Night at DLSLUG - time for you to get up and do something. We'll each take a turn at the lectern, showing something Neat or Nifty. It doesn't matter if it takes 2 minutes or 20 minutes to explain, just get up there and show us something. We all know something Nifty that's worth showing. The meeting will run until we run out of Nifties, or we run out of time. It can be anything from a utility you just discovered to a Nifty piece of hardware we should know about to a worthwhile service on the 'net or maybe something you wrote that saves you hours of time. If you're new to Linux that doesn't matter - there must be something Nifty about it that got you interested - what is that? Linux is about sharing, and this month it's your turn. OK, yes, technically this means we don't have a speaker. It's all good, prepare for an extra-varied brain dump and be prepared to learn about all kinds of things. Previous Nifty!'s have run the gamut and inspired many an, intriguing, from the audience. 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a Linux/FLOSS question of the group. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW: Makerbot - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-11-04
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, November 4th, 7-9PM at:Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Makerbot presented by Bryant Patten The Makerbot prints three-dimensional plastic objects as big as 4 inches by 4 inches by 6 inches. Users of MakerBots simply create or download a 3D computer file using one of several progÂrams, then set the machine to work. The MakerBot takes spools of spaghetti-like plastic, heats it to 200C and squirts it out in the desired shape. Already the MakerBot has been used to make missing parts for electronics and the casing for new flashlights. Engineers, artists, architects and designers are getting Makerbots to turn the things of their imagination into real, physical objects. When that little knob on your washing machine breaks, you’ll end up using a pair of pliers. But now you can take a measurement, make a model and print it out, and you’ll have a new washing machine knob, said Bre Pettis, co-founder of Makerbot, who’s convinced that people are going to build businesses on this machine. It changes the way you live, from being a mindless consumer to being a creative participant in the marketplace. Bryant will demonstrate the Makerbot he built and talk about its design, the process, and the community built around Makerbots. Bryant is the Executive Director of the National Center for Open Source and Education – a non profit organization advocating Open Source adoption in K-12 schools throughout the United States. He has spent the last 25 years developing educational software for a variety of clients. He has managed the engineering departments for several companies, including his own, and has won several awards for software design. He is currently bringing Open Source software solutions to schools to help maximize their technology dollars and close the digital divide between students of diverse economic backgrounds. Bryant has organized the FOSSVT Open Source and Education for the past several years and has spoken at a variety of conferences around the world. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: About Lisp -or- Lambda, the Ultimate Lecture - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-10-07
[ Note: technophiles on this list may appreciate the Indur Goklany lecture, The Improving State of the World, occurring prior to our dinner/meeting, across the street. More info: http://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/events/programs.html] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, October 7th, 7-9PM at:Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 About Lisp -or- Lambda, the Ultimate Lecture presented by Yoni Rabkin Yoni will first introduce symbolic, conditional and meta expressions and their recursive definitions with the λ-notation. Then he will briefly describe how such expressions might be represented by a computer. He will introduce the Lisp REPL and use it to explore a number of basic Lisp paradigms such as closures, functional programming, and Lisp macros. Finally, we shall look at the past and present of Lisp as a language. Yoni Rabkin studied computer science and math and after a stint testing medical lasers has been a working programmer for the past 6 years. Yoni has been volunteering at the Free Software Foundation's GPL Compliance Lab since 2006. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] About Lisp -or- Lambda, the Ultimate Lecture - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-10-07
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, October 7th, 7-9PM at:Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 About Lisp -or- Lambda, the Ultimate Lecture presented by Yoni Rabkin Yoni will first introduce symbolic, conditional and meta expressions and their recursive definitions with the λ-notation. Then he will briefly describe how such expressions might be represented by a computer. He will introduce the Lisp REPL and use it to explore a number of basic Lisp paradigms such as closures, functional programming, and Lisp macros. Finally, we shall look at the past and present of Lisp as a language. Yoni Rabkin studied computer science and math and after a stint testing medical lasers has been a working programmer for the past 6 years. Yoni has been volunteering at the Free Software Foundation's GPL Compliance Lab since 2006. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: e-mail sync options?
On 08/30/2010 11:14 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: I've tried Thunderbird, and it doesn't look like a viable option-- partly because I can't stand the lousy built-in text-editor (though I guess there are extensions that'll kluge-in support for spawning an external editor), and because it doesn't have any functionality for cleaning-up the broken formatting in some of the messages that I receive (Gnus does). Its Maildir support is also even worse than Gnus' (there is none!) I use Thunderbird against an IMAP server for what mostly seems like the same problem, but perhaps I misunderstand. For instance: Why do you need Maildir on your remote machines? I know why it's important on the server, but all I ever do with offline mode in Thunderbird is read, reply, and sort messages. What kind of broken messages are you getting? I don't have this particular problem, but perhaps one of my server-side mail filters is doing clean-up for me. Fixing messages before they get to you might make more sense than worrying about it offline. procmail/formail/etc. I don't seem to find myself needing emacs in mail windows, but I do have an extension or two to tweak the editor's behavior - there may be ones that scratch your same itch. Offline mode seems to work really well in 3.1, finally, except you still have to manually trigger a send (it doesn't do it when it finds network) and IMAP folder delete isn't supported. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW: Building a Sheet Music Publishing Platform - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-09-02
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, September 2nd, 7-9PM at:Dartmouth College, Location TBA North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Building a Sheet Music Publishing Platform presented by Dan Grover This talk will show how open source software (specifically GNU Lilypond and a python backend) was used in the creation of Etude, a sheet music reader for iOS tablet devices. It will also touch on the ways closed and open source developers can work together, and finally, how proprietary formats threaten the growth of electronic sheet music. Dan Grover grew up in the Upper Valley, studied Computer Science at Northeastern University, and moved to San Francisco to build the software startup that made Etude. 8:50 New York Minute By popular request: bring your ideas, questions, advertisements, job offers/searches, etc., we'll go 'round the horn and make introductions and announcements. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] Building a Sheet Music Publishing Platform - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-09-02
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, September 2nd, 7-9PM at:Dartmouth College, Location TBA North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Building a Sheet Music Publishing Platform presented by Dan Grover This talk will show how open source software (specifically GNU Lilypond and a python backend) was used in the creation of Etude, a sheet music reader for iOS tablet devices. It will also touch on the ways closed and open source developers can work together, and finally, how proprietary formats threaten the growth of electronic sheet music. Dan Grover grew up in the Upper Valley, studied Computer Science at Northeastern University, and moved to San Francisco to build the software startup that made Etude. 8:50 New York Minute By popular request: bring your ideas, questions, advertisements, job offers/searches, etc., we'll go 'round the horn and make introductions and announcements. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: Revolution OS - Movie Night @DLSLUG - 2010-08-05
[note room] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, August 5th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Rockefeller 001 24 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Revolution OS - Documentary Movie Screening Discussion Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary film which traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement. Directed by J. T. S. Moore, the film features interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs including Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf. We'll watch the movie streamed in by an embedded Linux device. 8:50 New York Minute By popular request: bring your ideas, questions, advertisements, job offers/searches, etc., we'll go 'round the horn and make introductions and announcements. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments Popcorn will be generously provided by William Stearns! RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW: Revolution OS - Movie Night @DLSLUG - 2010-08-05
[note room] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, August 5th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Rockefeller 001 24 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Revolution OS - Documentary Movie Screening Discussion Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary film which traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement. Directed by J. T. S. Moore, the film features interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs including Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf. We'll watch the movie streamed in by an embedded Linux device. 8:50 New York Minute By popular request: bring your ideas, questions, advertisements, job offers/searches, etc., we'll go 'round the horn and make introductions and announcements. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments Popcorn will be generously provided by William Stearns! RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Software Patents
On 07/18/2010 09:02 AM, Bruce Dawson wrote: I can't think of any evidence that will prove the opposite - unless a lot of software businesses are willing to open their books and their legal papers. Well, you can't make a reasonable policy decision absent data on available alternatives. Given that the patent system is an impingement on the liberties of 300,000,000 people (telling them what they may not do with their own property) to benefit one person or a small handful of his cohorts, the hurdle to prove the case ought to be set very, very high. Absent overwhelming proof, there's not even a utilitarian case (a principled case against patents can be made without such studies). -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: Open Source Software at Symscape
[I screwed up sending the announcement last week, apologies] -- Open Source Software at Symscape I will discuss the use of open source software at Symscape, primarily in relation to Caedium. Caedium is a cross-platform, unified simulation environment for Computational Fluid Dynamics, which uses a number of open source components including wxWidgets, VTK, OpenCascade, and OpenFOAM. For more details on Caedium try: http://www.symscape.com/product/caedium Bio I founded Symscape, the company responsible for Caedium, in 2006. I'm the sole employee, primarily focused on software development. Education I graduated from UMIST (now University of Manchester), England with a degree in mechanical engineering, followed by an EngD (PhD combined with MBA courses) in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) - thesis: Automatic Grid Generation for Compressible Navier-Stokes Solvers in Aerodynamic Design for Complex Geometries, May 1996. Industry My 15-year industrial career spans both the application and development of CFD at leading companies including BAE Systems, Fluent (now part of ANSYS), CD-Adapco and Advantage CFD. For a more detailed biography try: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richjsmith -- -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: bcache: A New Cache Module for Linux - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-06-03
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, June 3rd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 bcache: The best performance boost for hard drives under Linux! presented by Bill Stearns Bill Stearns will be introducing bcache, a new cache module for Linux. This code uses Solid State Drives (think flash thumb drives on serious steroids) to act as a cache for existing hard drives. In some early testing, bcache has shown the ability to double, triple, and even quadruple the drive performance of existing disks. We'll look at how it works and where it would be useful, discuss its current pros and cons and will also do a live demo. Come to hear an old hard drive scream! Bill is a System Administrator at Dartmouth College and consultant for Intelguardians. He is a content author and faculty member at the SANS Institute, teaching both the Linux System Administration and Perimeter Security tracks. Bill's background is in network and operating system security; he was the chief architect of one commercial and two open source firewalls and is an active contributor to multiple projects in the Linux development effort. His spare time is spent coordinating and feeding a major antispam blacklist, and assisting the technical community as a volunteer Incident Handler for the Internet Storm Center. Bill's articles and tools can be found in SysAdmin magazine, online journals, and at http://www.stearns.org . 8:50 New York Minute By popular request: bring your ideas, questions, advertisements, job offers/searches, etc., we'll go 'round the horn and make introductions and announcements. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] bcache: A New Cache Module for Linux - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-06-03
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, June 3rd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 bcache: The best performance boost for hard drives under Linux! presented by Bill Stearns Bill Stearns will be introducing bcache, a new cache module for Linux. This code uses Solid State Drives (think flash thumb drives on serious steroids) to act as a cache for existing hard drives. In some early testing, bcache has shown the ability to double, triple, and even quadruple the drive performance of existing disks. We'll look at how it works and where it would be useful, discuss its current pros and cons and will also do a live demo. Come to hear an old hard drive scream! Bill is a System Administrator at Dartmouth College and consultant for Intelguardians. He is a content author and faculty member at the SANS Institute, teaching both the Linux System Administration and Perimeter Security tracks. Bill's background is in network and operating system security; he was the chief architect of one commercial and two open source firewalls and is an active contributor to multiple projects in the Linux development effort. His spare time is spent coordinating and feeding a major antispam blacklist, and assisting the technical community as a volunteer Incident Handler for the Internet Storm Center. Bill's articles and tools can be found in SysAdmin magazine, online journals, and at http://www.stearns.org . 8:50 New York Minute By popular request: bring your ideas, questions, advertisements, job offers/searches, etc., we'll go 'round the horn and make introductions and announcements. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: OpenCV any Users on List?
On 05/21/2010 08:22 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: However, I don't think in C++. I had the same problem when approaching Java for the first time. Bruce Eckel's book Thinking in Java was a godsend for me, and it's fabulously written (for the audience defined as me anyway). He's also written a Thinking in C++ book which I haven't read, but would certainly buy without thinking twice if I needed to learn C++ (I had to do that in the first four weeks of CS5 in College, when gcc support was terrible...). -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: LUG meetings and topics
On 05/07/2010 05:03 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: I'm told that in some other LUGs, it's the norm to just gather to help each other and network (people networking, not computer networking). Check out the DLSLUG-announce archives. Last few months: November: Keysigning Party (I did the prezo, coordinated) December: Doug McIlroy talk (Doug volunteered) January: Social Meeting @ Salt Hill (I made reservations) February: Unmeeting (by suggestion, totally free-form) March: Awesome (James Murdza whipped up a demo) April: OpenHatch (Parker Phinney reported on his internship) May: Movie Night (Kurth Bemis sent me a hey, this would be good, Arc Riley sent playback advice) Only one of those required serious planning on my part. Usually, if there's not a speaker, we'll do a Nifties!, which is audience participation night. 5-10 minute mini-demos from the crowd. Somebody set up a machine on the projector. Just marginally more structured than an unmeeting, but often with delightful results. The important thing is consistency. People drop in without checking the -announce list, if they know they can count on it. The few times I've done a hard-cancel I've always received negative feedback. This aspect holds true for any community with regular meetings, nothing LUG-specific. At the last meeting I had a member show up for dinner but not be able to find the meeting afterwards because we got assigned a different room - the beer notwithstanding, he hadn't bothered to look at the announcement 'cause he didn't feel the need to. If we listened to maddog's advice (the allegory of the Scoutmaster in the rocking chair) we'd delegate the speaker, facility, communications, etc. tasks effectively and make that nobody-has-any-time problem into an everybody-has-five-minutes problem. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] Small business/SOHO accounting
On 05/10/2010 03:06 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: For this user, traditional software and web services are both acceptable. maybe QuickBooks online then? They've got just one computer, running MS Windows Vista, so it has to work on that. If it works with Linux too, great (seriously), but it has to work for 'doze, too. Postbooks has a Windows GUI and runs on PostgreSQL. I've only run the database on Linux but it doesn't require any backend scripts or anything that should preclude the correct version from working on Windows. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: Patent Absurdity - Movie Popcorn Night @DLSLUG - 2010-05-06
[note room change] [note popcorn] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, May 6th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Rockefeller 001 24 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Patent Absurdity - movie screening a new movie from the Free Software Foundation Patent Absurdity explores the case of software patents and the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy. The film is based on a series of interviews conducted during the Supreme Court's review of in re Bilski — a case that could have profound implications for the patenting of software. The Court's decision is due soon... With interviews from Eben Moglen, Dan Bricklin, Karen Sandler, Richard Stallman and others. 8:50 New York Minute By popular request: bring your ideas, questions, advertisements, job offers/searches, etc., we'll go 'round the horn and make introductions and announcements. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments Popcorn will be generously provided by William Stearns! RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW: Patent Absurdity - Movie Popcorn Night @DLSLUG - 2010-05-06
[note room change] [note popcorn] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, May 6th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Rockefeller 001 24 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Patent Absurdity - movie screening a new movie from the Free Software Foundation Patent Absurdity explores the case of software patents and the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy. The film is based on a series of interviews conducted during the Supreme Court's review of in re Bilski — a case that could have profound implications for the patenting of software. The Court's decision is due soon... With interviews from Eben Moglen, Dan Bricklin, Karen Sandler, Richard Stallman and others. 8:50 New York Minute By popular request: bring your ideas, questions, advertisements, job offers/searches, etc., we'll go 'round the horn and make introductions and announcements. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments Popcorn will be generously provided by William Stearns! RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Nokia N900 // GPS
On 04/30/2010 08:33 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote: I was rather disappointed. I used the 2.5mm jack wireline version once (thanks, Bill McG!), and it was much better. Apparently they skimped on the electronics in this one. Yeah, I thought I'd 'upgrade' to the bluetooth version and it's not the droid I was looking for. I mostly use an old Plantronics 2.5mm 1-ear headset these days if I have to use the cellphone for long. My LG phone does great managing the gain, the previous Motorola didn't. The wire is unfortunate but I've tried a variety of bluetooth headsets on several phones and they've all failed at the basics, like simple noise rejection. The cheap headset uses a plastic mic boom, not DSP's, and sounds great. If anybody actually wants the bluetooth retro, understanding its limitations, just shout - the LUG sneakernet can probably find a routing solution. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Bluetooth telephone interfaces (was: Nokia N900 // bluetooth)
On 04/30/2010 09:48 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote: Geeks are less likely to accept crap when they it could be done better, and TG is certainly willing to charge a premium for quality on other items. But not willing to put up a customer reviews system... -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: du(1) for FTP sites
On 05/02/2010 12:29 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote: It's still very susceptible to differences in FTP directory format. I've confirmed a Microsoft FTP server will cause it to choke horribly. Did you look at FUSE mounting the directory and running 'du' on it? -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: du(1) for FTP sites
On 05/01/2010 08:30 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: fuseftp mount then du? ack, IMAP just pulled in Alan's message. :P -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?
On 04/26/2010 09:51 AM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote: Does anyone have direct experience with GPS units that work with OSM and are decent? Oh, and the GPS unit is recent enough that I could buy it new? Depending on how much OSM you want to do, you might be better off buying the car GPS based on its features and get a GPS data logger: http://www.buygpsnow.com/Columbus_V900_Bluetooth_GPS_Data_Logger.aspx to do your OSM work. Certainly spending more on an OSM-compatible unit wouldn't be of large benefit (and you always have to make sure it doesn't log the database-corrected coordinates but rather the sensed ones so you're not uploading the proprietary data). Credit to Russ Nelson on both counts from his OSM presentation at DLSLUG. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] Patent Absurdity - Movie Night @DLSLUG - 2010-05-06
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, May 6th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Patent Absurdity - movie screening a new movie from the Free Software Foundation Patent Absurdity explores the case of software patents and the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy. The film is based on a series of interviews conducted during the Supreme Court's review of in re Bilski — a case that could have profound implications for the patenting of software. The Court's decision is due soon... With interviews from Eben Moglen, Dan Bricklin, Karen Sandler, Richard Stallman and others. 8:50 New York Minute By popular request: bring your ideas, questions, advertisements, job offers/searches, etc., we'll go 'round the horn and make introductions and announcements. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: We need a better Internet in America
On 04/07/2010 08:59 AM, Seth Cohn wrote: If we have companies, like Comcast, who abuse their providerships, we route around them, sooner or later. The 'sooner' part is very hard because the government: 1) claims ownership of 'rights of way' alongside roads where telephone poles are placed. 2) grants monopolies/dualopolies to owners/users of those poles (Comcast/Fairpoint). I don't completely dismiss the ideas of natural monopolies, but without potential challenges, they're not proven. Add to that 10-year franchise agreements that guarantee against competition and the outlook is dismal. 3) will not allow small business and/or residents access to those poles (even though most pole contracts in NH allow the option specifically). Disruptive models always start small and those are precluded. It's like they're trying to fight known economics on purpose. A few have taken local initiative to own the network like the sewers, but that's very thinly implemented. Largely the business model seems to not work in practice unless they only own the network and let competitors provide services on it (e.g. Burlington Telecom vs. Ashland Fiber). So, imagine the case where somebody like Comcast is a competitive Internet provider on a local network. They start sending TCP resets for bittorrent and your data stops flowing, but your neighbor's doesn't. This is easy, the free market flows money to those who provide good service and the rest whither (you cancel your account and switch providers). As long as there's demand for a service and there aren't artificial barriers to entry for those who wish to provide it, people will have good options. Personally I think bittorrent ought to be shaped against, e.g. SIP, when traffic is tight, but I should be able to chose a provider who agrees with me (and those who want pure best-effort can chose their provider). I agree in general that government telling ISP's how to pass traffic is a bad idea, but they need to get completely out of the way so the market can function properly. And, just for completeness, it's 2010, and all that's available on the traditional government/monopoly market is 26.4k dial-up at my house, 1.2 miles from a big fiber drop in a CSA of a quarter-million people. I was getting my shoes muddy this morning planning an expensive fiber run through the woods. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Fw: Re: We need a better Internet in America
On 04/07/2010 04:08 PM, Coleman Kane wrote: (ca. 1915): http://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/quackcures/standradiumsolution.htm Sure, today we all are taught that radiation is bad today, and so we all know it is. However, how much of this knowledge is due to government regulation via the FDA, etc... and public standards of education? Marie Curie died in 1934 of radiation poisoning. You'd expect an FDA to know in 1915 that it was dangerous? What alternative to these institutions has a track record of providing sufficient confidence in our consumables marketplace? Underwriters Laboratories is a great example - insurance companies use it to control the risk of the assets they insure, and people buy insurance to control their own risks. A great negative-feedback loop. There's little competition to the FDA in the US because it's hard to compete against a 'free' government program. But I do subscribe to Nutrition Action from CSPI ($12/yr) to get a much more science-based and less corrupt idea of what foods are good or bad for me. In other countries without a strong central food authority there are independent third-party evaluators and certifiers. If they become unreliable/corrupt, they'll lose reputation and be replaced. Not so much with the FDA, even now with Monsanto's chief lobbyist as the FDA's 'food-safety czar'. _Food Inc._ is a great watch for a sub-two-hour summation (on Netflix streaming, BTW). The Stonyfield/WalMart partnership against rBGH is a striking contrast. In a thinly-veiled effort to remain on topic, the same potential applies with the FCC, though I don't know their agency to have such corruption problems. Except that an agency tasked with maintaining radio frequency registrations (a natural scarcity) is busy trying to tell private network operators how to manage their networks. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)
On 04/08/2010 01:10 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: As Mark Komarinski already mentioned, it's always a very good idea to have generic service names for roles, and alias those names to the machines filling the role. And, I've noticed that with the rise of virtualization the role names are once again becoming sensible host names for single-purpose VM's. Hardware can be more interestingly named. I name mine after real-world heroes: borlaug, librescu, stevens, kanzius, randi. For me, it's easier to remember that 'smtp' is on 'borlaug' than 'vm3'. I use DNS to look up my own less-used servers' IP's. But I'm not strongly left-brained, so ymmv. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)
On 04/08/2010 02:51 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: I would think an alias (CNAME) to smtp would be easier still...;-) There's nothing to alias it to, that's all the vm does, so that's what it's called. The physical host will have a different IP MAC. Besides, MX records need to point to A records. ;) -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] Terminal width
On 04/05/2010 11:17 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: My FreeRunner runs at ~280 DPI Wow, that's impressive. How is reading black-on-white text on it? There's a supposition that eInk is better than LCD due to resolution, but your screen easily exceeds FAX and is approaching laser. BTW, screen geeks (readers of this thread) may find a silly little javascript calculator I did a while ago (when 16:9 started coming on the market): http://bfccomputing.com/calcs/screen.html occasionally useful. I suppose I ought to add dpi to it now. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] Terminal width (was: OpenOffice question)
On 03/31/2010 07:22 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: Something which I've long thought should be done but which no mainstream OS GUI I've seen does well is increasing screen resolution to increase quality of rendering while keeping the human information density per inch around the same OSX has been working towards this for a while - in 10.5 most of the plumbing was there, but developers still need to use it. Yet smart UI isn't only about stretching - chat with some folks who are porting iPhone apps to iPad (it does the resolution/stretching thing properly but that also leads to horrifying UI's). Parts of KDE and Gnome can do similar things, but getting apps + renderers + window managers to work together (and then have a reliable KMS EDI to work from...) is a tall order. Windows 7 is also capable, I've heard, should developers wish to program for it. I've seen folks using some of the Dells with 15.4 screens at 1920x1200 (140dpi) with Windows apps and can't understand how they do it. But once all those pieces are working together you'll still view a webpage where the designer has specified everything in 'px'. I try to do my best to use percentages and em's but the large majority of the web doesn't. There are a few edge cases where zooming isn't the right thing to do, but for most it is. But how to get the users to understand? (it's likely not a solvable program algorithmically). Maybe the people who need to understand pixel-perfect content are the type who will know how to switch modes. It was more than 5 years ago that IBM was demo'ing 200dpi LCD screens. But it's not surprising to me that they haven't moved to production with them because the market still has to be really small. Speaking of small, IIRC some of the higher quality handheld devices are up to 170-ish dpi. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: An Open-Source Involvement Engine - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-04-01
[no dinner rsvp's, so skipping it this month] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, April 1st, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 OpenHatch.org: An Open-Source Involvement Engine presented by Parker Phinney Parker Phinney (Dartmouth '12) has just returned to campus after spending the Winter working for the Philadelphia-based startup company OpenHatch.org. OpenHatch is an open source involvement engine--a community website that aims to make open source software development more approachable, friendly, and fun! Parker will talk about some specific areas where participating in open source seems less fun or less exciting, and the things that OpenHatch is doing to remedy them. He wants to hear YOUR feedback about what you think that open source is missing and what sorts of features you would like to see from a site like OpenHatch.org. Also, time permitting, Parker may talk about Pair Programming and the other Extreme Programming techniques that he learned about while working at OpenHatch. 8:50 New York Minute By popular request: bring your ideas, questions, advertisements, job offers/searches, etc., we'll go 'round the horn and make introductions and announcements. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.
On 03/31/2010 01:32 PM, Shawn O'Shea wrote: Red Hat basically took SCO to task for slandering Linux and making false claims of infringement, thereby damaging the good name of Red Hat's flagship product, their Linux distro. That would be a nice one to have some caselaw on, to dissuade future sco-ish folk. Why wouldn't the judge allow the cases to proceed, even into Chapter 7? Does SCO simply have no assets left that could be sold to restitute these alleged aggrieved? -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] Terminal width (was: OpenOffice question)
On 03/29/2010 09:34 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: It's commonly claimed that human understanding significantly increases when the information is fit in to the field-of-view at one time. That has been my experience, both personally, and with others. As one CS instructor put it (paraphrase), Yes, this means you'll be a better programmer if you get a bigger monitor. FWIW, I got a 24 LCD display for this reason, but it turns out to be slightly too large. I have to turn my neck to see the entire screen. I do like the 1920x1200 resolution and phi aspect ratio, but when I can get a 22 (non-glare type) in this resolution, I'll probably 'downgrade'. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: MythTV - HVR-2250 installation problem
I don't have experience with that particular card, but in general you should be able to do: mplayer /dev/video0 or for your 500: mplayer /dev/video1 To see if the hardware and module are working. I have a 500 and it's given me no end of headaches, but for everything else besides the /dev/video0 part, which works pretty well. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] An Open-Source Involvement Engine - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-04-01
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, April 1st, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 OpenHatch.org: An Open-Source Involvement Engine presented by Parker Phinney Parker Phinney (Dartmouth '12) has just returned to campus after spending the Winter working for the Philadelphia-based startup company OpenHatch.org. OpenHatch is an open source involvement engine--a community website that aims to make open source software development more approachable, friendly, and fun! Parker will talk about some specific areas where participating in open source seems less fun or less exciting, and the things that OpenHatch is doing to remedy them. He wants to hear YOUR feedback about what you think that open source is missing and what sorts of features you would like to see from a site like OpenHatch.org. Also, time permitting, Parker may talk about Pair Programming and the other Extreme Programming techniques that he learned about while working at OpenHatch. 8:50 New York Minute By popular request: bring your ideas, questions, advertisements, job offers/searches, etc., we'll go 'round the horn and make introductions and announcements. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: another reason to use adblock and noscript... or just use Linux
On 03/24/2010 01:48 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: For now. Right now, the attackers go after Windows, because 90% of the users run Windows. (With a higher percentage of easily-duped users.) Have you heard that the Windows malware game now involves various packages each trying to disable and uninstall each other? (sometimes breaking the system while trying). They're competing for resources. Given more than nine competing systems, the economics ought to favor one of them going after the uncontested territory. All things being equal, of course - including both ease of compromise and programmer expertise. Still, lots of these are run by definitely-for-profit enterprises, so they would be expected to hire the relevant resources if the investment were worthwhile. I have to admit, none of the commonly-offered explanations really seem plausible without assuming diligent users (who won't just enter their admin password whenever a dialog appears) on the unmolested platforms, and that doesn't seem plausible either. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh
On 03/22/2010 04:13 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: It seems like ssh is overkill for talking to a VM on your own box. You're running two operating systems on one piece of hardware. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh
On 03/23/2010 03:39 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: No. When you take the easy way out and run ssh f...@bar -Y, the established X connection runs through an encrypted tunnel, incurring a performance penalty. Oh. I think I understand the question now, it's not the resource overhead per-se that's the problem but the performance drag it could incur, leading to UI latency or slowness. Yes? Some things that might help: 1) run ssh -C to get compression. Depending on the efficiency of the virtual NIC this may or not help. On a real network, this almost always helps, CPU's are just too fast today. 2) Chose an cipher that's well-tuned for your CPU. 8-ish years or so ago, I benchmarked '-C -c blowfish' at 17Mbps on then low-grade hardware on a 10/100 Ethernet. 2a) possibly run ssh with the null cipher, so you just get session setup. Then you're only talking about stream encapsulation/multiplexing time as a resource drag, and that can be incredibly efficient code (OS's do this all day long, layer upon layer). 3) use NX. This is probably the highest performance remote display, but takes a bit of doing to set up. Hey, this would make a nice LUG talk if we have any well-versed users. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh
On 03/23/2010 06:13 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: This is not possible with any SSH implementation that I am familiar with. Ah, found it: http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/ For some reason I thought it was available as a compile-time option to OpenSSH, but that must've been old ssh.com v1 I was thinking of, 'cause it ain't there. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Google Chrome
On 03/19/2010 11:41 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote: Chrome is*fast*, I will give it that. And there are some benchmarks showing a toss-up among certain browser functions, but the key is that Firefox's entire UI is rendered in a single thread, which makes for awful pauses on the fastest of machines (Thunderbird can suffer similarly). People have been complaining about this for ages (maybe the design made sense in 1999) but now that Chrome is trouncing their UI, they're finally going to fix that in Firefox, in a 4.x release probably. I don't wind up using Chrome much, but the competition is welcome. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?
On 03/16/2010 05:52 PM, Arc Riley wrote: I was going to buy a Sansa Clip+ which supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, but then we got Android phones and I've found it just as adequate for music playing. I did get the Clip and it's great except that it doesn't do playcounts. Which makes it about useless for podcast synchronization. I asked Sansa what it would take to get this added to firmware (either in the MTP database or via date touching) and got crickets in response. Last I looked only the iPod and a handful of Creative devices supported this, but I'd like to find something that did (or that I could hack to do it). I'm trying to avoid buying both Apple and Creative gear. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?
Nice list. Going through it: On 03/16/2010 05:47 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: * The Touchboo ... a little big for foran iPod-replacement agree * The Pandora vapor at this point. They show pictures of mass production from last year but not available until the end of this year? They're sold out of their first run and are not taking any more orders now. * Gizmoforyou.com sells Gumstix-based modular kits called Flow... for $800--ouch. agree * GP2X Wiz: $180, available from ThinkGeek. Poor Wikipedia entry, official page is on Google malware list. Good looking community. * GP2X: No radios. No Microphone. No longer in production Yeah, doesn't seem to be worth putting effort into defunct hardware. Same w/ Roxbox for me. * Dingoo A320: Cheap, and no undesired components. Not expressly FLOSS-friendly, but appears to be non-hostile. Nice Wikipedia page, good review here: http://www.gadgetoid.com/2009/06/06/dingoo-a320-review/ $85. Linux port exists (dingux) and is community focus, but no updates since 2009-10. Lots of game emulators for the kids and apparently pretty good codec support. Yum. I'm not clear what the current userland GUI is in the linux build. There should be an off-the-shelf solution here, but I don't know of one. Dingoo apparently isn't a mainboard shop, but is packaging Gemei gear. Gemei has a similar x760+ unit for about the same price which has somewhat better features for adults. Supported by same linux build: http://www.dingux.com/2009/09/good-news-on-gemei-x760.html but is considered less interesting a device by the retro gamers. I can see Dad having an x760+ and Dingoos for the kids. * Leapfrog Didjhttp://elinux.org/Didj: Like Dingoo? This looks like there might be promise but just a bit of preliminary hacking done to date. * Areshttp://ares.gizmoforyou.com/: Still vapour. Needs funding. Sounds like most of my schemes. ;) -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[SUMMARY] Printing across multiple pages?
On 03/13/2010 10:03 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: I was looking through synaptic for pdftk and saw pdfposter and PosteRazor pdfposter wins! It appears to work on the vector data and happens to be in Fedora already which makes my job easy. Syntax is marginally convoluted, but the EXAMPLES section is sufficient: pdfposter -p2x2Let infile.pdf outfile.pdf Among the downsides, the above actually generates a 6-page PDF with two very narrow pages (with the edges of the chart I wanted to print in my case), which looks like a rounding error. pdfposter also causes my python to emit lots of warnings about deprecated module usage. I did not look for an updated version to see if those are fixed, this is using version 0.5.0-4.fc12. Thanks for all suggestions! -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: DECnet and other dead technologies (was: Linux for cloud computing)
On 03/07/2010 11:01 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: o every hardware support contract received a letter o every software support contract received a letter There are real advantages to knowing who is using your software. The Fedora people have excellent academic debates about using software update statistics to figure out how many people are using their software. They're pretty confident that their models are right, plus or minus two *million* machines. The error bar in their statistics outpaces the size of their participating community by several orders of magnitude. I'd personally run agents on my machines that gave anonymized software usage reports. We have it for hardware, we're just starting to get there for crashes, but nobody knows how much I use any of my applications, and only very rough guesses about any particular features are possible. There's a general thought that nobody would want to provide this data due to privacy concerns. Funny conversations turn up about product X which gets lots of attention and then it turns out that many/most people are actually using product Y instead and just thought that everybody else was using X because of its vociferous proponents. Well, at least among people participating in the community - who knows what the vast majority is using? -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Interesting article
On 03/05/2010 05:00 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: I was looking into what it would take in the way of patent royalties to put Android onto the Openmoko phone. It was a mess, even just paying the royalties on a hardware basis. But people can not afford to pay the royalties on free CDs that they give away and may never even install...or royalties for downloads that may not even make it to CDs. Has anybody here tried out the Fluendo codecs? http://www.fluendo.com/shop/category/end-user-products/ I'd be willing to pay for them if they worked well and broadly. I've heard they only work in gstreamer though, I'd want something that works with ffmpeg/mplayer/KDE/etc. I also note that the codec pack costs about 2x what an OEM copy of Windows costs the big distributors - I'm not sure if that's a poor licensing deal to Fluendo or to its users. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Linux for cloud computing: Request for Input
On 03/05/2010 03:52 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: In this case, because the ZFS license isn't compatible with the GPL in the Linux kernel. And there's no patent grant for re-implementations (you have to use the CDDL code to get patent grants). Without patent problems, I'm confident it would have been re-implemented a couple years ago with GPL code - ZFS was only about 6K LOC. I have some hope Oracle will license OpenSolaris under the same license as all of their other open source projects (GPL). If not, btrfs seems like a good thing to switch to c. 2013. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Linux for cloud computing: Request for Input
On 03/05/2010 02:03 PM, Brian St. Pierre wrote: Virtualization? Yes, and to drive home that point, this is what's being chosen empirically by the extant service providers. Amazon's EC2 is Xen on RHEL. I seem to recall that Rackspace also went this route. And if you don't like Xen on RHEL/CentOS you can switch to KVM on RHEL. Or (heaven forbid) VMWare Server on RHEL or VMWare ESX which was partially based on RHEL. Even Xen started life with a big code import from Linux. And if you go the Xen route and decide you really don't like Linux you can run Xen on OpenSolaris. Open Source is good - you can choose Linux first and still have good escape routes. Any blatant negatives for Linux as a platform? ZFS is only on *Solaris and FreeBSD (albeit an old one). Linux doesn't yet have a stable, consistent COW filesystem. Certainly a combination of the two is a great win. If you assume ZFS for storage virtualization, Linux has the advantage of being able to (p)NFS mount the data, so you can do file-level snapshotting and data de-duplication. You could also run Windows-based clouds with a ZFS backend, but you'd have to use an iSCSI backend which loses the nice snapshotting capabilities and drives everything back to the block device level of granularity because Windows doesn't play nicely with everybody else. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Interesting article, games
On 03/05/2010 12:36 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: But there's a whole slew of custom-google-glue-and-tweaks, which was disappointing. Yeah, Google likes to grab a project, modify it to its own needs, and throw the code over the wall. Same as happens for Chrome. Tom Callaway at Fedora did yeoman's work figuring this all out, building patch files, proper RPM's, etc., but then found that there were licensing violations too and had to abandon it. Google could do this work if it wanted to (it was a part-time effort for Tom) but they choose not to. The Android stuff has been removed from linux for now since their sleep locking stuff was only optimized for time-to-market. The community-friendly project that's most like Android is MeeGo, the merger of Maemo (Nokia) and Moblin (Intel), which is now essentially a Fedora derivative. It would be lovely if Google participated in the community too. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Printing across multiple pages?
Does anybody have a favorite tool for spitting a print job across multiple pages (enlargement to be re-assembled / poor-man's large-format output)? I've tried a few tools which claim to do that, but they've all failed to take a run-of-the-mill PDF chart and turn out working output. Last time I tried I wound up using screen-grabs and GIMP, and that was really a dumb way to approach it. Thanks, -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: awesome - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-03-04
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, March 4th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson L01 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 awesome presented by James Murdza awesome is a highly configurable, keyboard oriented window manager for the X Window System. It is a tiling window manager, which means that by default windows are organized into a grid. awesome is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license. It is written in C and Lua and uses the Lua language for configuration. The project's homepage is available at: http://awesome.naquadah.org/ James is a student at Hanover High. He hacks Linux, OS X, the iPhone, and PHP. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW: awesome - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-03-04
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, March 4th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson L01 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 awesome presented by James Murdza awesome is a highly configurable, keyboard oriented window manager for the X Window System. It is a tiling window manager, which means that by default windows are organized into a grid. awesome is very fast, extensible and licensed under the GNU GPLv2 license. It is written in C and Lua and uses the Lua language for configuration. The project's homepage is available at: http://awesome.naquadah.org/ James is a student at Hanover High. He hacks Linux, OS X, the iPhone, and PHP. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [NH LoCo] I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor -- care to weigh in?
On 02/24/2010 09:06 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: If you charge in there like a zealot, you'll hurt the cause, not help it. This was pretty much the strategy last time - get a bill sponsored and try to get it passed mandating it. State IT opposed it and it got marked 'inexpedient to legislate'. A bottom-up approach is needed unless you can prove you know more than State IT about State IT to the relevant House committee. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good
On 02/22/2010 06:28 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: However, looking at the difference above, I think they're different *in the wrong way*. It looks like one of the disks specifies (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf while the other just specifies /grub/grub.conf. That doesn't seem right. Looking at one of my CentOS 5.4 boxes, /boot on raid-1, viewed through the md driver, stage2 is using: (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf 0001020 \0 \0 0 . 9 7 \0 ( h d 0 , 0 ) / g 0001040 r u b / g r u b . c o n f \0 \0 \0 Then taking stage2 from both mirror halves, cmp returns no differences. Although I*did* test booting from either disk before deploying this system. Although again... there was a lot going on though at the time. Maybe I screwed up my tests, too? Hmmm. The theory fits the data, though my understanding of grub innards is incomplete. I'm assuming sda maps to the first BIOS drive and so has been the working one on boot? I'm not sure what happens if you issue a 'repair' - if the RAID headers are both showing the same mtime, which would it pick? Probably better to --fail out sdb1, touch something on the array, and add it back in. If GRUB was installed from Linux, against the RAID device (/dev/md0 or whatever), then I would think the two members should be identical, because the RAID driver in the kernel would have written the same blocks to both members. I'm not sure, I think I've seen the grub-install script detect the BIOS drives of an md array. Again, I don't really know how it works. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: mismatch_cnt != 0, member content mismatch, but md says the mirror is good
On 02/22/2010 03:06 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: Based on what I'm seeing (in particular, the mismatch*only* being in the GRUB stage2 file), I'm going to conclude liberty's mismatch is due to GRUB being installed on both physical hard disks independently (booting from floppy). Whether or not that's the right away to install GRUB is an open question. Did you ever run a 'repair' on the /boot mirror? I'm wondering: 1) what's different about the two stage2's? 2) should they be different? 2a) if not, does it matter if they are? 2b) if so, do /boot's that are in sync have a problem? -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Good USB+802.11/WiFi adapter?
A few caveats: 1) retail brand names aren't terribly useful, they change vendors fairly often 2) IC vendors can run hot and cold between models and revs, some more than others. 3) You should test in your environment. 4) Automatically disqualify any part that comes in a USB form-factor with a swivel-antenna attached to it but when you crack open the plastic case there's isn't anything attached to the supposed antenna, which is really just a piece of plastic, and the USB case is twice as long as the IC board it's holding so the swivel dummy antenna can fold down along its length. That said, I've had the best luck on the linux side with the Realtek-based drivers. My experiments were limited to drivers that could be re-distributed. My portable, an ASUS eeePC 1000HE, came with a Realtek part and works pretty well, at least if you factor out NetworkManager's conniptions (iw* still show the driver/hardware OK in those cases). The computer also came with Windows XP and Windows 7 is supported. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: DHCPD and Windows question
On 02/15/2010 11:56 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: My guess is your /etc/hosts file is misconfigured. And plenty of distros will cheerfully misconfigure /etc/hosts for you. For machines with static IP's, I've found the most reliable setup is like: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 10.1.1.1foobox foobox.example.com -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: DHCPD and Windows question
On 01/29/2010 07:10 PM, Todd Littlefield wrote:
The server in question is running CentOS 5.4 with dhcp-3.0.5-21 running.
I have a similar server running fine for those kinds of clients. The
config looks like:
ddns-update-style interim;
ignore client-updates;
allow booting;
allow bootp;
subnet 10.1.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
authoritative;
...
host ...
host ...
}
-Bill
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[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW: Unmeeting - DLSLUG Monthly [un?]Meeting 2010-02-04
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, February 4th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson L01 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Unmeeting It's been suggested that we not forget that we're a User Group, and that a lecture series isn't always the right meeting format. All manner of other ideas have been floated, so this time around those who attend will decide what the meeting will be. Nifties are fine, but we won't restrict ourselves to that format. Bring ideas to share, questions to ask, stunts to pull, etc. - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Load-balancing an SSL-based server farm?
On 01/18/2010 02:29 PM, Paul Lussier wrote: Has anyone here set up LVS (or something equivalent) to load balance across a set of apache servers serving up SSL-protected sites? I have a client using it for their e-commerce application. It's sustained 70-90Mbps days, so it's only medium-sized in that regard. I've googled around, and all the docs I've come up with are at least 4+ years old, and somewhat incomplete. Interestingly, I can't even find a single book about the topic! Yes, don't use the popular web doc, it's terrible. The Redhat guide is good, but not exactly right in some ways (e.g. assigning addresses to server interfaces). The examples I've found tend to be concerned with a basic apache config without SSL being involved, and don't address the scalability of the LVS configuration. The things I'm most concerned with :) You want to use Direct Routing which does clever Layer2 things to make things fast. It's just a packet redirector, it doesn't care what's in them (HTTP/HTTPS). It uses IP affinity, so this can be a problem for apps which require Layer 7 routing. If you have outside customers you'll have AOL clients which come in from multiple un-predictable IP addresses for subsequent requests, even in the same page. Also, DR is broken in RHEL 5.4, and has been since release (I reported it when an update broke said client). There's a fix in dev. - Is LVS the right tool, or is there something better (OSS) ? I haven't found something tougher. Some would recommend Cisco solutions - they start at $40K for something decent. Very not OSS. - Can LVS handle this size of a load ? - How many sites can LVS scale to serving? Good questions - I don't know how big it's been pushed. You might need some kernel mods to get that big. Do they all have to go through the same pair (normal + failover) of directors? - Can the LVS config be updated dynamically, on-the-fly, without restarting ldirectord ? Yes, if you get low enough. The higher level tools, like RHEL's flush and reload, so there's a blip. Otherwise you're manipulating kernel states with userland tools. - Is there any recent (w/in the last 2 years) documentation or are there any books on building such an environment with LVS ? The Redhat guide is the best I've found. I don't think I ever published my deltas from it, though. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] Tonight: LAST CALL, Bring Cash - Annual DLSLUG Social Meeting @Salt Hill
[I need to get the table count in ASAP, RSVP. Thanks to those who already have.] [We get a combined bill, so please bring cash.] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://www.dlslug.org/ *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, January 7th, 6-8PM at: Salt Hill Pub - Lebanon All are welcome. Agenda 6:00 Eat, Drink, and be Merry! As is our traditional way, the January 7th meeting of the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group will be at the Salt Hill Pub in Lebanon. Though the topic of conversation will inevitably flow to some geeky topic or other, all are welcome, including significant others. We'll have a table reserved at Salt Hill in Lebanon for dinner at 6PM on the 7th. There is copious free parking and easy Interstate access. Plus, the #1 request for our meetings has been beer, and Salt Hill has plenty, albeit not free, as in beer. And the iced tea is plenty good too, so our younger and drier friends will find plenty of good food and drink as well. RSVP so we can get a table(s) of sufficient size. - MAILING LISTS There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] Thursday - Annual DLSLUG Social Meeting @Salt Hill
[RSVP so we can give them an accurate table count] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://www.dlslug.org/ *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, January 7th, 6-8PM at: Salt Hill Pub - Lebanon All are welcome. Agenda 6:00 Eat, Drink, and be Merry! As is our traditional way, the January 8th meeting of the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group will be at the Salt Hill Pub in Lebanon. Though the topic of conversation will inevitably flow to some geeky topic or other, all are welcome, including significant others. We'll have a table reserved at Salt Hill in Lebanon for dinner at 6PM on the 7th. There is copious free parking and easy Interstate access. Plus, the #1 request for our meetings has been beer, and Salt Hill has plenty, albeit not free, as in beer. And the iced tea is plenty good too, so our younger and drier friends will find plenty of good food and drink as well. RSVP so we can get a table(s) of sufficient size. - MAILING LISTS There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: The MySQL petition
On 01/01/2010 11:19 AM, Ted Roche wrote: Passing on this email. I'd be interested in your opinions of the issues raised. So Monty want the EU to *force* Oracle to compete against MySQL? Didn't he sell-out already? -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: managing DNS
On 12/30/2009 09:23 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: That plus a good provider like dyndns.com http://dyndns.com looks like the answer DynDNS is good and local. GoDaddy ... I've had to pull out Wireshark to convince their tech support people that they had a problem. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: wanted to borrow: power supply for Mac G4 cube
On 12/28/2009 04:22 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: In fact, my relative is interested in just retrieving a few files from this machine. Assuming you haven't found the rare part yet ... if you're going inside anyway, just pull the drive and hook it up to a USB dongle, connected to a working Mac (or linux). -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: gaming... for a 15-month old
On 12/23/2009 08:06 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote: Is there any way to switch the computer into toddler mode: where every keystroke gives some visual or audible feedback, and the hard drive and network are not written to? For the Mac OS X machine check out AlphaBaby. Point it at your pictures folder and he can see his family as well as shapes and alphabets. It'll randomly sample your sounds folder as well. You can set a pretty crazy escape sequence, as I recall. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: gaming... for a 15-month old
On 12/23/2009 08:06 AM, Peter Dobratz wrote: Is there any way to switch the computer into toddler mode: where every keystroke gives some visual or audible feedback, and the hard drive and network are not written to? For your Mac OS X box, check out AlphaBaby. It samples your pictures and sounds and allows a difficult escape sequence. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?
On 12/22/2009 07:53 AM, Cole Tuininga wrote: For those that aren't aware, Dyn now has a free recursive service Oh, cool. I may have seen the marketing collateral for it but it never penetrated as to what it was. I was going to setup one of my clients (also a DynDNS client) on OpenDNS for some filtering - I'm glad you took the time to pimp! :) -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] Bonded web site developer?
On 12/18/2009 03:07 AM, Dan Jenkins wrote: I do know about EO insurance, bonding, and such, but not the relevance specifically to web site development. I haven't heard of any, but usually one doesn't bother with contract bonds for small projects - if this is a $50K+ project, though, it seems likely that many folks would get bonded to get the work. A few years ago I looked into EO for my business and after calling a couple dozen insurance companies who said that nobody writes policies for computer firms anymore I left it at that. It's possible bonding might be similar. Overall, it sounds like either a general contracting policy being applied to a website project or advice from a web development shop that's managed to get bonded. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: VOIP vs POTS was: Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?
On 12/07/2009 11:21 PM, Ben Scott wrote: On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Gerry Hullge...@telosity.com wrote: Though this lowers my reliability, I still contend it's 59s because of backups to cell, etc. Er, if it's down, it's down. That's what counts. The fact that you have alternatives don't mean it isn't down. Heh, it's funny how two people can read the same thing and have completely opposite but possibly accurate conclusions. :) I took that to mean Gerry had cellular data as a backup route for his network (3G would be fine, but too expensive to use as primary). -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: The Quest for the Perfect Cloud Storage
On 12/18/2009 01:53 PM, Alan Johnson wrote: Why can't you pool the storage resources of the same physical hardware the same way? Can vs. should. I've seen both Xen proper and Citrix XenServer wig out and cause downtime. It's a matter of eggs in baskets. Some folks think drawing the line at applications/storage is worth doing. I've got at least one low-budget setup where Xen is running the OS providing ZFS to DomU's - you have to tweak the Xen scheduler to prevent race conditions and that excludes certain other classes of applications - I'm told some networks switching apps fall into that category. Basically the technology isn't as perfect as we'd like. 2. Ideally, n+2 redundant (like RAID6), but n+1 and mirroring are worth considering. In fact mirroring would be a nice option to have for some write heavy VMs. Even stripping would be useful in some instances. Combining linux RAID with ZFS iSCSI might be an way to do it. You can do some load balancing that way too if you know you systems load characteristics. 3. The node software would run on the dom0 of XenServer physical nodes giving it direct access to the block devices within. From what I can tell, XenServer is a custom distro of Linux with with RPM/YUM package management. yeah (see above), but it's meant to be menu-driven primarily. I don't know how well tweaks are supported, and it's also an older Xen. CentOS 5.4 is worth considering, SuSE has newer Xen than that, and Fedora 12 is just getting the plumbing setup for real new Xen on pv_ops, the real future of kernel virt support. 4. Multilevel storage support within the nodes, so for example, a set of 256GB SSD, 300GB 10K, 500GB 2.7K, and 750GB 5.4K drives will all be used intelligently without need for human interaction after setup. yeah, ZFS has options for planning this, depending on your workload. 5. Multilevel storage across nodes would be a neat concept, but some intelligence about load balancing across identical nodes is certainly desired. Without going with a full cluster filesystem, some of that load is on the sysadmin to set things up right. The closest I can come up with so far is to run one FreeBSD VM on each note that FreeBSD ZFS lags quite a big - you're not going to get block-level dedup, for instance. If you can handle something with a Solaris kernel you're going to track features and fixes faster. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?
On 12/07/2009 01:18 AM, Arc Riley wrote: +1 on comcast business class being awful. I don't have experience with them in NH I'm told it varies by the part of the state, but here in Lebanon the service and support is excellent and the line has been perfect and amazingly fast. I'm paying for the 5-IP package at 16/2 and getting 24/6. I actually use about 1.5/1 on average, no complaints. I previously had a real ISP and VOIP traffic was total crap on it, but without changing my setup there are zero network problems for VOIP on the Comcast line. I'm using OpenDNS with features turned off since DNS has been occasionally unreliable on the residential lines in the area. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW: A Surfeit of Sophistication - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting 2009-12-03
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, December 3rd, 7-9PM at:Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 27 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 A Surfeit of Sophistication presented by Doug McIlroy Hidden complexity in the service of simplicity is no vice. But one's heart sags in the face of complexity that bubbles to the surface in hundred-page man pages and thousand-line makefiles. Software advances more often by sophistication (complication for the benefit of cognoscenti) than by simplification (making powerful technique accessible). Unix began as a great example of the latter, but its proliferation into Linux/GNU mainly illustrates the former. Sophistication, unfortunately, is the easy way to get noticed, while simplification is often subliminal. As an unabashed cheerleader for the underdog, I will try to redress the imbalance by looking at some incidents large and small of the the tug-of-war between these two poles. [originally the keynote speech at the Ohio Linux Fest - ed.] - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: A Surfeit of Sophistication - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting 2009-12-03
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, December 3rd, 7-9PM at:Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 27 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 A Surfeit of Sophistication presented by Doug McIlroy Hidden complexity in the service of simplicity is no vice. But one's heart sags in the face of complexity that bubbles to the surface in hundred-page man pages and thousand-line makefiles. Software advances more often by sophistication (complication for the benefit of cognoscenti) than by simplification (making powerful technique accessible). Unix began as a great example of the latter, but its proliferation into Linux/GNU mainly illustrates the former. Sophistication, unfortunately, is the easy way to get noticed, while simplification is often subliminal. As an unabashed cheerleader for the underdog, I will try to redress the imbalance by looking at some incidents large and small of the the tug-of-war between these two poles. [originally the keynote speech at the Ohio Linux Fest - ed.] - Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
