Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
People have different requirements around that, too: I was somewhat
surprised, for example, to find that Nokia's N810 (GPS-enabled) tablet
comes with a dashboard-mount... that *screws into* the dashboard.
*cough*
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On 05/12/2010 01:46 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
This is why I'm dubious of these `N810's GPS receiver is slow' claims--
because coupling them with `... so I never use it' is actually a
vicious cycle.
Are the claims peculiar to the N810? If not, perhaps you are right.
What other
On 05/12/2010 06:13 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
Cold tests
were performed when both Pocket PC and GPS receiver were
powered off (if GPS receiver has a separate power source, the
GPS receiver was unplugged) for a period of between 8 to 12
hours
On 05/13/2010 08:19 AM, David Rysdam wrote:
On 05/12/2010 06:13 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
Cold tests
were performed when both Pocket PC and GPS receiver were
powered off (if GPS receiver has a separate power source, the
GPS receiver was unplugged
On 05/16/2010 09:56 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote:
This may be stating the obvious, but it tripped me up when I was
trying out my Garmin Etrex. You have to be still in order to get a
fix.
All of my tests had the GPS sitting on the ground or on a bench. At the
very most, I picked it up as in the
On 05/17/2010 09:39 AM, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
I was outside, I was still WiFi'd in to the house so it was using AGPS.
Result: Invalid.
[...]
Conclusion: The N810 GPS hardware and/or software definitively sucks.
Though
On 06/10/2010 05:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com writes:
I haven't had as much luck with Fedora and Centos, though I didn't
really try to; just gave the folk network cards which did work and put
the Broadcoms in Windows laptops. (I had a surplus of laptops to
On 06/15/2010 06:40 PM, Joseph Smith wrote:
On 06/15/2010 06:30 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
Pressure from advertisers. Sourceforce could not survive by charging
users/projects for the hosting, they would just go elsewhere, so they're
reliant (heavily) on Microsoft and other proprietary software
An agent or agents purporting to be Ralph Mack said:
I've had other problems where DNS drops out entirely for minutes at a
time but the network otherwise
appears to be fine - pings to IPs, etc. work. Since it affects all the
machines here, I figured it was either my
router or Comcast DNS.
An agent or agents purporting to be Ralph Mack said:
All of my DNS resolution is through Comcast. I have no DNS inside the
firewall.
I'm an idiot. NM.
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An agent or agents purporting to be Tom Buskey said:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
(Oh, and: is there a better shorthand than PMP? I keep reading
android
An agent or agents purporting to be Greg Rundlett (freephile) said:
I liked this post which in summary is a reminder of the Unix Philosophy
http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
~95% of my coworkers would benefit from reading this essay.
Right now they are busy setting up a
An agent or agents purporting to be Steven W. Orr said:
I have a stupid question in tcl that I'm just not getting. I'm hoping to get
lucky here.
I have a script in tcl/expect that spawns su and needs to pass its arguments
to su.
argv in tcl has the command line args. I lop off the first
An agent or agents purporting to be Bruce Dawson said:
On 11/04/2010 11:09 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
On 11/4/2010 11:41 AM, David Rysdam wrote:
An agent or agents purporting to be Steven W. Orr said:
I have a stupid question in tcl that I'm just not getting. I'm hoping to
get
lucky
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:26:43 -0400, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net
wrote:
Had an interesting conversation this evening. A snipped
version basically was:
op: You like to use a lot of Open Source Software don't
you? Don't you know it is not 'standard' here?
me: Hmm. What
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:33:29 -0400, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote:
But really, nobody got fired for buying the standard,
i.e. what everyone else is buying.
People get fired because the project does not work...it makes little
difference if the failed solution is standard or not.
I
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:09:20 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
As such, I intend to place an order for a second NanoNote
in the next couple of days (so that I can give it to her
for as a Mothers' Day present), so anyone else who's interested
in getting one is again
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 08:05:15 -0400, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org
wrote:
Now, now, stop what you're thinking. I have no intention of this going
to the outside world, and that means I need to set it up on my Debian
server in the basement so she can do whatever she wants. I need to
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:38:43 -0400, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com
wrote:
The hackerspace I volunteer for has a marked lack of through-hole resistors
with values above 100k, and it occurred to me that one of you guys might
have a crate of them floating around his basement in need of a
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:49:57 -0400, Randy Edwards redwa...@golgotha.net wrote:
One last comment/article about Dennis Ritchie. With their deaths so close
together, the contrast between Dennis Ritchie and Steve Jobs seems apropos:
After rms's statement on Jobs[1] (which I basically agreed
I'm on my bi-decadely I should be reading Usenet kick and I'm having a
bit of trouble. news.fairpoint.net asks for a username and password and
then...nothing. Does anyone know if it actually works?
If not, or if no one knows, what's the recommended workaround? Pay for
access elsewhere? A better
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:05:40 -0400, John Abreau j...@blu.org wrote:
I believe that Google Groups includes a fairly comprehensive set of
Usenet newsgroups.
I should be more specific:
a) NNTP
b) without having to log into a pervasive, invasive web service
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:10:19 -0400, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
Once upon a time you could pay for pretty decent
NNTP access via:
http://www.giganews.com/
Hm, they seem to have some of the lowest prices for full newsgroup
access. So that's a pretty good deal.
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:36:56 -0400, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
...I got some HTML that looked legit, so maybe you could fiddle
with your browser's User Agent string. The User Agent Switcher
plugin is fairly painless to install and use for such purposes,
though I'm
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:59:25 -0400, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
Actually, what I *really* should do is ask FairPoint why their news feed
is broken.
Did so and heard back:
Fairpoint no longer offers news services or support for news
servers. Those pages are outdated
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:42:16 -0500, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net
wrote:
Should I take the plunge to LMDE? I've never run debian before.
Yes you have. Ubuntu, especially older versions, *is* Debian, but with
shinier graphics.
I'm not looking for which distro is the best ever,
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:27:42 -0500, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net
wrote:
On 01/02/2012 01:59 PM, David Rysdam wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:42:16 -0500, Bruce
Labittbruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:
Getting closer to topic - what are the down sides to Debian? More work
On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:46:17 -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
On 01/02/2012 03:02 PM, David Rysdam wrote:
I actually upgraded directly from Ubuntu 10.04 to Debian 6 with zero
problems. That is, I kept my /home (and dotfiles) and just replaced the
OS and had no issues other than
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 10:19:46 -0500, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
g...@freephile.com wrote:
Is anyone aware of Linux-compatible software for modeling architecture,
landscape and home construction projects? I want to model a basement
finishing project, and I have carpenter friends who would also
On Sat, 7 Jan 2012 10:39:57 -0500, David Miller davi...@gmail.com wrote:
Sketchup may be worth a look. While not open source the free version
is pretty capable and works with Wine. I use it quite a bit for
designing wood working projects.
If we are going to talk actual CAD, rather than home
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:32:43 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
Maybe you guys can suggest other providers, or just provide
some thoughts on the two I've listed above.
I think a reasonably protective feature should be something like getting
their own domain name in the
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:17:05 -0500, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
I'm a sysadmin and have hired some in the past. In the dot com era, we
would sort resumes by lots of certs and experience. Then we looked at
the resumes with experience. The certs got looked at if we couldn't find
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:05:19 -0500, Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.org
wrote:
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:03 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 17:17:05 -0500, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
I'm a sysadmin and have hired some in the past. In the dot com era, we
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:30:19 -0500, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
As I alluded to above, IMHO, certifications tend to be living in the
past. Things change so fast in our industry that by the time a
certification qual is developed and made available, and people take it,
things are already
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:15:46 -0400, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
Just got our tax return back, and looking to buy a tablet, preferably
Android. Something in the 9-10 inch range, 32-64GB of memory. Anyone
have recommendations? If so, why those?
I think we are going to need usage
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:33:03 -0400, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
IMHO, tablets are just starting to transform the portable computer
market. The iPad is currently the top of the line, but some of these
new Androids are making inroads. But... the issue is heat and power.
For the portable
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 21:39:05 -0400 (GMT-04:00), Susan Cragin
susancra...@earthlink.net wrote:
I have since learned that atspi2 is a multitude of small
functions. That file implements some, but not the one I
need. atspi2.el is a client library for AT-SPI2 written in
Emacs-Lisp. It is meant to
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:29:52 -0400, James A. Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com
wrote:
On Tuesday 12 June 2012 04:31:20 Eric Stein wrote:
It's an open source twittery thing. I think. Google knows I'm sure!
Is that the one that gives you a map of the URLs that are receiving
information from
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:07:58 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
James A. Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com writes:
On Tuesday 12 June 2012 04:31:20 Eric Stein wrote:
It's an open source twittery thing. I think. Google knows I'm sure!
Is that the one that gives you a
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:20:14 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes:
Is that the one that gives you a map of the URLs that are
receiving information from your cookies?
Wait--what?
He might be referring to
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 19:50:46 -0400, kenta kenta.k...@gmail.com wrote:
We'll be joined by Carol Gardner of TekArts (Milford, NH)
What the. They've sure done a good job of keeping this place a
secret. I've been looking around for a couple years and this is the
first I've heard of it and they
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 19:50:46 -0400, kenta kenta.k...@gmail.com wrote:
We'll be joined by Carol Gardner of TekArts (Milford, NH) and
Christian St. Cyr of MakeIt Labs (Nashua, NH). They'll be talking
about what each of these hacker/maker spaces are about and what they
have to offer.
I couldn't
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:14:33 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
The state of videoconferencing solutions for OSS is pretty sorry. The
landscape is littered with dead, moribund and/or incomplete solutions.
Much like the state of *hardware* videophones were in in the 80s and
90s.
I
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:58:31 -0400, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
I think people just don't like talking to TVs.
Y'know... I kind of agree, and kind of disagree. I can't quite figure
out why the difference.
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:36:46 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
Do you do, or have you considered doing, anything in the way of whitebox
laptops with straight-up Linux installs (i.e. no Microsoft overhead)?
If you want/need a powerful laptop (for, I dunno, portable gaming
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:32:06 -0400, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
If you only want an adequate laptop with no Windows Tax, I suggest
buying one used. I did that recently from Electronics Warehouse in
Nashua. They've got many to choose from.
After someone asked me where this was, I
On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:33:15 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
Anyone else experience FairPoint DNS hijacking, this evening?
Between about 16:00 and 17:00, I got home from the mall and noticed
that all of my DNS lookups had started returning 10.255.255.10,
which was
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:04:17 -0500, Kyle Smith askr...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone else just get roughly a weeks worth of mail from the list at once?
I'm on GMail.
Yes and no. I got some as far back as 11/15.
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:41:20 -0500, David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com
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Same here yesterday morning for an hour or so; Gmail crashed as did
Chrome. It was on their end and made the news.
My delay was non-gmail related as you can see by my address. In any
case, an error for an hour
On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:15:20 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
Start of forwarded message
CROWNE PLAZA NASHUA,NH
THIS SUNDAY DECEMBER 9TH
DON'T
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:25:14 + (UTC), mad...@li.org
jonhal...@comcast.net wrote:
Perhaps because Joshua sent the email on December 7th, but it was held
up in the great gnhlug email server logjam of 2012 and was not
delivered until December 11th, and you then assumed that it was next
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:47:37 -0500, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
Traffic has been light here for some time - hope y'all are well.
Season's greetings, etc...
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chumby-developer-building-open-source-laptop-1771223.html
The
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 20:45:25 -0500, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
The aim, however, is not to produce a cheap laptop for Huang,
it's more about the exclusivity of a handmade product of this
kind and it would be priced to reflect that.
It seems like there's room
On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:59:21 -0500, Neil Schelly n...@jenandneil.com wrote:
If the meetings aren't on Tuesday nights, I'll make a point to come.
I usually can't make it to the ManchLUG meetings because I've almost
always got a commitment on Tuesdays.
I was going to say the same thing, but
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:16:10 -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
Per-process I/O accounting. Every now and then, I see a system load
spike through the roof -- but disk I/O is okay, likewise CPU. Which
really pretty much leaves network. But I'm unaware of any tool that
spits out
Normally, I plug in USB drives (such as my mp3 player) and it just
automounts. Eventually, after some number of months, it doesn't. I have
absolutely no idea what needs to be restarted. I hate rebooting.
The only things google has told me are:
1) nautilus
2) hal
Restarting the former doesn't
On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:46:53 -0500, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 07:19:38 + (UTC), mad...@li.org
jonhal...@comcast.net wrote:
Sometimes there is a zombie process that kept the last device from
completely un-mounting, and therefore the mount point or driver
I used to subscribe to the CL RSS feed. But it's a lot of junk to click
read on. It's even more when you realize how poorly the posters are at
putting things in the right category, so you basically have to subscribe
to everything.
For the last couple weeks, I've been just periodically, manually
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:41:43 -0500, kenta ke...@guster.net wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:08 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
I used to subscribe to the CL RSS feed. But it's a lot of junk to click
read on. It's even more when you realize how poorly the posters are at
putting
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:23:46 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
You should turn craigsearch into a web service.
In order to replace the monster, I would have to become the monster.
(Meaning: How do I pay for that?)
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:04:04 -0500, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
g...@freephile.com wrote:
I've already contemplated such a move... (my service would be called
Greg'sList... it's Craigslist, only better :-) But, their TOS explicitly
limits any such possibility.
Do TOSen apply to non-logged-in
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:46:29 -0500, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:21 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:
Do TOSen apply to non-logged-in users? What are they going to do? Revoke
my account?
No, I agree we've got a bit far afield. The TOS concern
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:43:22 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
So, I use LinkedIn. And my resume and professional portolio is the FOSS
projects that I've worked on and the roles that I've held in those
projects (we talked a bit about this `FOSS projects as an important
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 14:08:00 -0500, David Tina Ohlemacher
ohlemac...@gmail.com wrote:
- Color laser
- Not overly expensive to operate
- Cost under $500
Whoa, last I checked color lasers were in the $1k and up range. I'd be
surprised if the toner was reasonably priced, though.
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:37:17 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
LibrePlanet is this weekend--with some neat-looking topics
up for presentation by some pretty neat people:
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2013/Program
Anyone here planning on
Out of the blue, Google contacted me this weekend and wanted an
interview today. My first thought was April Fools, but it seems to have
been legit.
I passed the first round, which leads me to my question: Has anyone else
here been to the second round of Google interviews? Is it as tediously
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:15:41 -0400, Chris fj1...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, I had an onsite (Mountain view) interview with them a few years ago
and I was there for nearly 6 hours.
I think that's step 3 or 4. Step 2 is another phone interview with a
Google engineer(s). But they sent page after page of
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:14:58 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
Well..., do you want to work at (or for?) Google, now that the
suggestion has been planted? If the answer is `no', then you can
certainly tell them to bug off--even if they make like they're
not used to
On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:30:36 -0400, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
On several occasions I've heard (from Google insiders) about
open positions inside (regional instantiations of) Google and
even though the work involved was nothing that required the
applicants to have
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:27:49 -0400, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
g...@freephile.com wrote:
I have a more complicated memory system that includes Google, mediawiki,
drupal and various hard drives :-)
I have a Monte Carlo simulation of a memory.
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On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:46:53 -0400, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
Peer-to-peer is two guys meeting on a street corner and saying Hey,
wanna buy some Bitcoins? :)
What if 100 guys meet on a street corner? And what if that street corner
is then blocked, DoS'd if you will, by a rival
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:03:58 -0400, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net
wrote:
I'm trying to understand a chunk of 3D FDTD code that I downloaded from
the publisher of the book, Computational Electrodynamics.
I can't answer your question, but I may enjoy an elaboration of the
above.
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:34:27 -0400, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net
wrote:
On 04/06/2013 02:21 PM, David Rysdam wrote:
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:03:58 -0400, Bruce Labitt
bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:
I'm trying to understand a chunk of 3D FDTD code that I downloaded from
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:22:23 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
http://thankstextbooks.tumblr.com/
O
M
G
The dinosaur one.
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On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 14:08:49 -0400, Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com)
noz...@gmail.com wrote:
Why mine it yourself when you can have others do it for you?
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/04/06/1448234/new-skype-malware-uses-victims-machines-to-mine-bitcoins
Yeah, I had to laugh at the bullet
There used to be a site out there that was like geektours.com or
engineeringvacations.com or something like that. It had computer
history and science museums, civil engineering projects, factory tours
and all kinds of great stuff listed on it. Does anyone else remember
this thing and know where it
On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:34:56 -0400, bruce.labitt
bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:
It's amazing that they can offer that level of service for that
price. Hmm, 50x + faster for the same price I pay for fiber in
Nashua. What does it take to become an independent ISP these days?
I can't even
On 30 Apr 2013 10:36:39 -0400, kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) wrote:
I don't think this is specifically what you were looking for, but
since I happened across it in the last 24 hours I thought I'd point it
out:
_The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and
Technology
My GPS is dying. I'm looking for a replacement, but I want a
particular...mindset is probably a better word than feature.
On a recent long-distance car trip, I found the GPS making opaque
decisions. For instance, it has a route. I take an unplanned exit for
gas and when I get back on, and the GPS
On Fri, 17 May 2013 23:38:28 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
Actually, the term you *really* want (for the feature you want)
is route-planning, or possibly interactive route-planning
(as opposed to route-finding). And, now that I mention that,
I seem to remember a
On Sat, 18 May 2013 08:08:39 -0400, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
Have you done an open source search for route planning software? (to
bring it into the Linux/FLOSS theme of the list)?
Didn't even occur to me. I'll try that. Could work for longer, planned
trips.
But there are also
On Sat, 18 May 2013 11:49:21 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes:
Helpfully unhelpful: But maybe what this proves is that no GPS has ever
heard it's the journey, not the destination.
I think the point of Tilmann's notes
On Sat, 18 May 2013 14:03:23 -0400, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
On 05/18/2013 01:46 PM, David Rysdam wrote:
On Sat, 18 May 2013 11:49:21 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes:
Helpfully unhelpful: But maybe what this proves
On Mon, 20 May 2013 09:44:23 -0400, Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org wrote:
It seems that the OP is coming close to asking for a nav system that
knows what he wants better than he does. ;-)
No, I think that's the exact opposite of what I want. I'm tired of
computers in general thinking they know what
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
So, it's been something like a million years since I gave a proper
presentation with `slides' and stuff; I have one that I want to
put together, though, now--and I... haven't the faintest idea how
people actually go about doing that, these days.
Twice in the last week we've had incidents where I needed to contact my
wife and couldn't. We have cheap crappy cellphones but they are so old
that they don't work well (e.g. won't hold a charge, terrible coverage,
etc) so we don't ever take them with us.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to get
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes:
What smartphones will I have the least amount of trouble
with if I need/want to connect them with my Linux computer?
If by connect you mean move photo/movie/sound/ringtone/etc
files between host and phone then I'll echo Curt's response.
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
It looks like `Realm of Racket' just went into publication--
and there's a 40%-off coupon code that you can use until
the 20th:
Order placed, thanks for the tip
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TARogue taro...@yahoo.com writes:
I use a piece of paper.
I use an semi-randomized algorithm with a seed of my own brain.
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Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
Just in case not everybody saw this on Slashdot already:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge
The Ubuntu Edge is the next generation of personal computing:
smartphone and desktop PC in one state-of-the-art device.
I was
Chris Linstid clins...@gmail.com writes:
I really wanted to be interested and excited about it, but a phone with its
UI coming from the folks who gave us Unity and it's $800? Uh, no thanks.
Exactly. Plus, I have not been impressed with the *computing* available
in handheld devices. Input seems
Long story short, I'm trying to VNC from a Linux laptop (client) to an
OSX desktop (server). Graphically, no problem, other than the fact I
need a bigger monitor on the client side.
But I'm not getting any sound on the client end. I tried a couple
different software clients and two different
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes:
Long story short, I'm trying to VNC from a Linux laptop (client) to an
OSX desktop (server).
Wait. Maybe I got that backward, given the non-obvious client/server
terminology from X.
I want to sit at the Linux laptop and be seeing the OSX screen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
And you want Mac sounds triggered by non-X11 Mac applications,
running on the remote Mac, to be captured and relayed over the network
and played on your local Linux laptop's speakers. Right?
Right.
If you were running `unix programs' on the
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
In case you guys missed it, there's a board-game project
up on kickstarter right now called Robot Turtles,
designed to `sneakily' teach little kids (3-8 years old)
programming fundamentals:
Awesome. Not so much sneaky as separating computers
This:
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Guile-Function
caused me to say this:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg
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Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
And, now that you've got Guile in your make, you just need
to put a make into your Guile:
http://gna.org/projects/conjure
My question is, if the build system is now turing-complete, when can
automake die?
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes:
In the mean time:
http://smalltalk.gnu.org/blog/bonzinip/all-you-should-really-know-about-autoconf-and-automake
10 lines on how to use it if everything works isn't that
helpful. Where's the decoding
Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com) noz...@gmail.com writes:
Why not just use the 'unmount' button from nautilus rather than 'safely
remove'? That is really want you want.
So this brings up a related question for me: I stick my backup USB drive
into the slot. Nothing is mounted, but I see the device
Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org writes:
What is the open source action that she refers to and can be found
in the description of the segment? Is the meaning of open source
being changed by some groups?
She might be garbling a little. In the intelligence community, open
source means we didn't have
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