Re: Troubleshooting smtp(?)

2009-04-15 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Curtis Sandoval curtis.sando...@gmail.com writes: I agree, ignorance and letting it work by coincidence wasn't the best way to go, but it was on my eventual to-do list, honest.  The thing that gets me is that Roadrunner/Time Warner insist that they don't block anything and didn't change

No MerriLUG tonight, hunh?

2009-04-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Stopped by Martha's tonight in hopes of finding a LUG there (since 16 April is listed on the wiki), but no dice. No big loss, I guess--since I live down the street and the steak is delicious in any case, but -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr.

Re: Keeping private data private WAS: Shifty Shell Prompts

2009-04-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:24 PM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: http://xkcd.com/538/ But really, in this day and age, our personal data can be protected beyond all practical means to obtain it. Again, http://xkcd.com/538/. The weakest link in

Re: No MerriLUG tonight, hunh?

2009-04-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Stopped by Martha's tonight in hopes of finding a LUG there (since 16 April is listed on the wiki), but no dice. No big loss, I guess--since I live down the street

Patriot's Day?

2009-04-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
So, anyone in the (historic?) MerriLUG area (i.e.: anyone in range of Nashua or Manchester) have Patriot's Day off? I'm working down in Lexington, these days, so it looks like they're making me take next Monday off. Anyone else in the same boat? The weather-forecast is bleak, so I guess it's not

Re: Employment Security and Job Searching

2009-04-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com writes:  (Just to be fair: Crypto is useful, and has lots of applications. It's just not a cure-all, and can't help with most of the big security weaknesses one sees in the real world.) humor Does employment security improve if you get

Re: OT: Employment Security Options

2009-04-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com writes: I doubt anyone will go start a guild today. The working conditions just aren't bad enough. American professionals live very well by world standards. What's the System Administrators Guild up to, these days? -- Don't be afraid to ask

Re: tar -x without clobbering directories

2009-05-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com writes: p.s. I read the tar man page (more than once), and those options aren't listed. There is this BUG statement at the bottom: BUGS The GNU folks, in general, abhor man pages, and create info documents instead. Unfortunately, the

Re: [OT] DTV switch-over

2009-05-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
virgins...@vfemail.net writes: In message 51ab7d3a-d3ee-49db-b44f-70bca4f1b...@wilsonet.com, Jarod Wilson wr ites: thereby requiring subscribers to rent more cable boxes... You got it. Selling less and charging more for it has been this company's mantra since... well, when did they

Re: [OT] DTV switch-over

2009-06-02 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com writes: btw, at least in Newburyport, Comcast has been advertising this heavily with automated calls, mailings, newspaper ads. Today they even called me live. In the process, they are also shifting some of the lineup (emphasizing the new channels

Re: Prelink/suspend applications?

2009-06-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org writes: I have some applications that use lots of python and dynamic loading. The load/link stage of startup takes a rather long time. The application is heavily built around dynamic loading of libraries and so I don't think that 'prelink' will work for us. Are

Re: WAP/Router for use with OpenVPN

2009-07-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: Myself, I've never tried to run OpenVPN on a bitty box like a LinkSys router. CPU power would be my concern; crypto takes lots of cycles. You might be surprised how little it takes, actually--I ran a small-corporate OpenVPN server with about a dozen

Re: Finding *unfiltered* free WiFi?

2009-07-10 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Dave Johnson dave-gnhlug-l...@davej.org writes: Bill McGonigle writes: We've got the `open database of general knowledge' (Wikipedia), the open database of maps (OpenStreetMap), the open database of speed-limit signs (Wikispeedia), the open database of GSM cell-sites

Re: Perl vs. Python question...

2009-07-12 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Paul Lussier p.luss...@comcast.net writes: Hi Folks, How do I create dynamically created methods in python classes? For example, if I have a number of member variables which I want to get or set, I don't want to have to create getters and setters for each attribute, since the code would

Re: Legal hazards of WiFi (was: Finding *unfiltered* free WiFi?)

2009-07-13 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: On 07/13/2009 12:40 PM, Michael ODonnell wrote: I confess that I'm happy to use free wireless on occasion but I worry that if I make my own AP similarly available then somebody is going to use it to post kiddy-porn or make threats and it'll be

Re: Openmoko/Neo FreeRunner, nanocomputing (was: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter)

2009-07-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com writes: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)g...@freephile.com wrote: Moving to a new employment position, I'm once again faced with purchasing some computer equipment.  I'm wondering what hardware, software and combination people like

Re: Power management

2009-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com writes: For now, my dream is to build a tiny one-seater car with electric bike parts and my neighbor's welding skills. If I could get 40Mph, and 20mi/charge, it would be the perfect car for my commute. Will it run Linux? :) -- Don't be afraid to ask

Re: OT: green vehicles

2009-07-31 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
John Abreau j...@blu.org writes: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Ben Scottdragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  All this talk about fuel efficiency has convinced me I should do something to help fight global warming.  So I'm going to start leaving my refrigerator door open for a few minutes every

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: Still, all kinds of providers go through leadership changes and ousters all the time - this one is being done open-source style. That seems to have some media people freaked out. The whole `open-ness' idea still seems to be `new and unsettling' to

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: Still, all kinds of providers go through leadership changes and ousters all the time - this one is being done open-source style. That seems to have some media people freaked out. The whole

Re: Facebook-like apps?

2009-08-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Kenny Lussierkluss...@gmail.com wrote: Facebook already does everything that you want. You could just use the FB platform which is already OSS: http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php How much of the

Re: [OT] Re: Software Freedom Day 2009 - Sat 19 Sep

2009-09-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Mark Ordung ord...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Ben Scottdragonh...@gmail.com wrote: To whom it may concern: Software Freedom Day is this month. Saturday, 19 September, 2009. I know some people in the area do stuff for SFD. How can I help?

Re: Make Q's

2009-09-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
bruce.lab...@autoliv.com writes: There are two files that need to be compiled with gcc, and five with g++. One could set up two objects lists, OBJ1=file1.o file2.o== use gcc OBJ2=file3.o file4.o file5.o file6.o file7.o== use g++ SRC1=file1.c

Re: Make Q's

2009-09-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu writes: Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: project_SOURCES = file1.c file2.c \ file3.cpp file4.cpp file5.cpp file6.cpp file7.cpp # (NOTE: project_SOURCES should also include # any corresponding header-files) Actually, no, you

Re: Make Q's

2009-09-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
bruce.lab...@autoliv.com writes: gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 09/18/2009 12:16:15 PM: Derek Atkins writes: Perhaps you need an 'extern C' in there so C++ knows how to call the C functions? To cut to the chase, Bruce probably should make sure that all of his

Sansa, Rockbox, Free Software for antiques (was: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux)

2009-09-23 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org writes: It's worth shopping around for these, too: NewEgg offers Sansa products, refurbished, at quite a bargain. They've got a 2Gb Clip in today's mailing for $24.99. Woot! often has refurb Sansas at good prices. Also, consider installing Rockbox

Re: VPN problem...

2009-10-01 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Hewitt_Tech hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote:  Any idea what protocols the LinkSys is using?  IPsec?  IKE?  SSL/TLS?  X.509? It's definitely using IKE. Okay, IPsec with IKE can use PSK or X.509 certificates. Which

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

2009-10-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jefferson Kirkland numberw...@gmail.com writes: Ok, I linked the wrong one, sorry.  The dual core was about $100 more, but that's still way less than the $599 low end price of the mini.  Plus, I really don't care about the size of the thing, but since it was brought up, why would I want to

Prebuilt/turn-key PC options (was: How Apple makes more profit on their systems...)

2009-10-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Hewitt_Tech hewitt_t...@comcast.net writes: What bugged me about the way [proprietary end-to-end systems provider] sells the [proprietary component of proprietary end-to-end solution] is their deliberate withholding of information from the customer so that the customer would feel obligated

Re: I want my KDiff3

2009-10-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Yes, I can use Meld, but like the song says: lyrics artist=ZZ TopI want my MTV/lyrics I believe the song you are thinking of is Money For Nothing, by the band

Re: Parallel sockets or?

2009-10-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Shawn O'Shea sh...@eth0.net writes: The originators of psock were at cesnet.cz, there is a link to the library at http://www.cesnet.cz/project/qosip The make doesn't finish. Several compile errors. I played about a bit, but did not make much headway... I was curious

Re: FWIW: The bigger picture... Or why I have been asking a lot of questions lately...

2009-10-11 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes: What I'm trying to do: Optimizer for a radar power spectral density problem Problem: FFTs required in optimization loop take too long on current workstation for the optimizer to even be viable. Attempted solution: FFT engine on remote

Chumby, anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Anyone here have any experience with Chumby (the squishy 3.5-inch-tall Linux appliance[0])? Anyone done anything interesting with one? [0] If I'm not making any sense, cf.: http://www.chumby.com/. -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr.

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Coleman Kane ck...@colemankane.org writes: On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 10:59 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now:

Re: Chumby, anyone?

2009-10-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ken D'Ambrosio ken.dambro...@segway.com writes: On Fri, October 16, 2009 9:14 pm, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Anyone here have any experience with Chumby (the squishy 3.5-inch-tall Linux appliance[0])? Anyone done anything interesting with one? [0] If I'm not making any sense, cf

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html Yes, that's right. Rather than fix broken software, the sanctioned course of action is to reboot the system if HAL or

Re: Chumby, anyone?

2009-10-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/linuxjournal/articles/100/10048/10048s3f1.png Hmmm, I would never trust something which uses Cthulhu as a mascot. ;-) Heh--good thing it's Open Source :) It'd fit right in at my house, not only

Re: Linux Android Phone coming to Verizon

2009-10-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
G Rundlett greg.rundl...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone heard anything much about this 'Droid' phone? It's being toated as an open phone, but..  It's from Verizon.  Kinda makes me wonder.

Re: [GNHLUG] 15th birthday party starts 6 PM on Mon 26 Oct @ Milly's Tavern

2009-10-26 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: What : Party for GNHLUG's 15th Birthday Date : Mon 26 Oct 2009 Time : 6 PM ish to whenever Where: Milly's Tavern, Manchester, NH The Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group is celebrating its 15th anniversary this month! [...] RSVP: Please email

Nashua Scrum Club

2009-10-26 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Hi everybody, There's apparently a `Nashua Scrum Club' that just formed recently: http://nashua.scrumclub.org/ I heard about it last week, in time to attend this month's meeting (the second ever); it seems like something that some of the GNHLUG membership might be interested in. Going into

Re: Linux Android Phone coming to Verizon

2009-10-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com writes: The Nokia N900 is a combo upgrade from the N97 smartphone and the N700/800/810 Linux wifi tablet. Ah, yes--I forgot to mention that one :) Due on T-Mobile and ATT soon i hear. It should be harder to lock down ... and all the apps built for

Re: grep, maybe

2009-10-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
mark prg...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Maurice mauri...@cds-cumberland.org wrote: Looking for some guidance; I have several files within several folders (5 files per folder, and thousands of folders) that I need to search a text file within each folder for a

Re: grep, maybe

2009-10-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr. Okay, I'll ask: What does that stuff to the right mean? The other half of the whole habanero pepper. :) More

Re: Upgrade intrepid - jaunty apt-get issues Could not resolve '@localhost'

2009-11-03 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
bruce.lab...@autoliv.com writes: Trying to actually make it all the way to karmic, but stopping at jaunty until this apt-get problem is resolved. apt-get update reports that it failed to fetch blah blah, Could not resolve '@localhost' Is there a reason that you're paraphrasing (and

Re: Does the on-disk image of an executable ever change?

2009-11-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes: I'm running an rpm --verify --all pass on those machines right now and it's showing quite a few indications of unexpected differences based on the info recorded in the RPM database. Ben is right; that's a very nice feature of RPM. When I

Re: (easy) backups [HALF SOLVED]

2009-11-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote: Ideally, a backup tool should run on a separate device and pull data from the devices that are to be backed up in a way that only it has access too. If you want to get into

[Nashua Scrum Club] November 19, 2009 Nashua Scrum Club Meeting (Nov 19, 2009)

2009-11-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
In case any developers here are interested, the Nashua Scrum Club's November meeting is coming up. Details are attached, below. ---BeginMessage--- All, We're just two days away from the November Nashua Scrum Club Meeting.  This months topic is Scrum and Kanban: Chocolate and Peanut Butter? with

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

2009-12-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us wrote: Are there any alternatives to FairPoint for internet + phone line in Nashua? Your choices are fundamentally the phone company and the cable company. In Nashua, that means

Re: Gaming... for three-year-olds...

2009-12-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info writes: On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 23:31 -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Okay. Kenette 2.0 is approx. 3.5 years in age. She's currently getting into games on her laptop, a Fisher Price doohickey that even has a mouse. Anyway, suggestions on games that

on good software (was: Gaming... for three-year-olds...)

2009-12-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen http://www.softpanorama.org/Bulletin/Humor/hired_interviews_gsg_founder.shtml Not to be confused with: http://codeoffsets.com/ -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr

Re: [semi-OT] configuring DNS, virtual hosting on dreamhost (?)

2009-12-25 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Shawn O'Shea sh...@eth0.net writes: How does dreamhost decide who's entitled to make such changes? First one to configure the domain wins. Agreed. I wouldn't be surprised if they had some kind of common domain filter that screens out people trying to add google or yahoo or

Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info writes: On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 10:50 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: That being said, I can only hope for the quick, and painful demise of both MySql and PHP. -- Paul - who is trapped in a company with close to 1 million MySql databases being

Re: Silly DNS question

2010-01-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com writes: Is an _ allowed in a DNS name? DNS-SD, DKIM, ADSP, and a whole bunch of other parts of the greater internet infrastructure think so--actually, they depend on it. But allowed is a long way away from in general good taste. I take _ in domains as being

Re: Silly DNS question (underscore in hostname)

2010-01-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes: (I detest FUD, even if it's aimed at a target I also dislike.) (sigh) You're right. I could swear that just before I posted my comment I had read (parts of) a rant (with examples) about how Microsoft disregards the DNS hostname rules

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com writes: I'd like to encourage everyone to choose the free software microblogging service http://identi.ca/ Twitter is proprietary, where Status.net (which identi.ca uses) is licensed under the AGPLv3.  Most of the free software community uses identi.ca instead

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-02-01 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ralph A. Mack ralphm...@comcast.net writes: One intriguing characteristic of short messages is that it forces non-live discussion into a give-and-take mode resembling live conversation rather than the lecture-followed-by-qa mode characteristic of blogs and most email. So, in other

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-02-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Ralph A. Mack ralphm...@comcast.net writes: One intriguing characteristic of short messages is that it forces non-live discussion into a give-and-take mode resembling

Re: I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor -- care to weigh in?

2010-02-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org writes: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Susan Cragin susancra...@earthlink.net wrote: I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor. Title:  All NH taxpayer-supported computers and systems should run open-source software. I need examples

Re: I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor -- care to weigh in?

2010-02-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: Yes, we know that it is crap and we know that FOSS is commercial software, but the enemies of FOSS (and this includes free information) have lots of money, hire lots of lobbyists, who takes lots of people to dinner and whisper things in their ear. Man.

Re: [NH LoCo] I'm writing an opinion piece for the Concord Monitor -- care to weigh in?

2010-02-26 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: Ben, Tom, et. al., Thank you for the kind words. I meant it when I said: I hope I have partially answered your question. There is actually a lot more to this, but I am tired tonight. and I do intend on writing more about itand then

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Star nhs...@gmail.com wrote: Then there's the Sound integration...  You've got Pulse over here, eSound on that guy, he's playing with ALSA, and OSS ... http://www.trilug.org/~crimsun/linuxaudio.png Oh, not this

Re: Interesting article, games

2010-03-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Star nhs...@gmail.com wrote: Then there's the Sound integration...  You've got Pulse over here, eSound on that guy, he's playing with ALSA, and OSS ... http

Why Linux has problems with proprietary multimedia... (was: Interesting article)

2010-03-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: Not one Linux distro I've seen does a convincing job with consumer media, an absolutely basic requirement, and something we ought to be able to get right. Well, please ask the DVD people not to used royalty bearing patents in their codecs, and

Re: Why Linux has problems with proprietary multimedia...

2010-03-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: [...] H.264? Mpeg3/4/2? Have your friends send you Ogg Vorbis stuff. Plays fine. Apple and Microsoft have paid up royalties on these things (or at least Microsoft thought it had paid up

Re: Why Linux has problems with proprietary multimedia...

2010-03-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Apple and Microsoft have paid up royalties on these things ... ... which has me wondering: how does Ubuntu get away with shipping all of the stuff necessary to do

Re: DECnet and other dead technologies

2010-03-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: 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

Fixing homogeneous, faceless avatars (was: Google Wave?)

2010-03-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: Here's what I learned about Google Wave tonight: [...] BASIC INTERFACE [...] Contacts list. Mine appeared to default to people from my Gmail contacts who had Google user accounts with Wave access. It picks up the user icons (avatars) from

FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

2010-03-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I'm looking for a new music-player to replace my iPod Video, which died over the weekend. The reason I bought that iPod was that, at the time, iPods were not yet particularly hostile toward projects like Rockbox or iPod Linux, and the hardware was nice. It looks like that line of iPods was the

Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

2010-03-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: I'm looking for a new music-player to replace my iPod Video, which died over the weekend. Oh--of course I forgot to include in the `candidates' list, below: * NanoNote http://sharism.cc/products/ben-nanonote/: Cheap, expressly hacker

Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

2010-03-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: I'm looking for a new music-player to replace my iPod Video, which died over the weekend. The reason I bought that iPod was that, at the time, iPods were not yet

Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

2010-03-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote:    - *Several* radios    - Microphone    - Camera Just curious, why the opposition to those? I would think that, if we're talking hacker-appeal

Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

2010-03-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: 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

Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

2010-03-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
it's time to back out before I get sufficiently vendor-locked to make backing-out really hurt. Also, in reply to Tom: On Wed, March 17, 2010 9:01 am, Tom Buskey wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com

Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

2010-03-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: If you'd be content with something that has RF transceivers, microphones, and/or cameras ... The market for devices without at least one of those is fast

Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

2010-03-23 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: ... people working in government or industry where there is a concern about espionage, accountability, privacy, or fodder for blackmail or public criticism (so: G

Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

2010-03-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote: 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

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

2010-03-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu writes: Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:02 PM, G Rundlett greg.rundl...@gmail.com wrote: So, it seems that you're saying: Don't switch to Linux because even though it will prevent you from getting 99% of the malware

Re: Souhegan High School

2010-03-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: Two weeks ago I went to Souhegan High School in Amherst to vote, and while there I looked up their computer technical person (they are mostly a windows shop, but also have MACs) and offered to do a presentation to the students and faculty on FOSS and

Re: Git Help

2010-03-28 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com writes: As a git newb, I've got a couple of questions about git which confuse me. Any git users who might be able to explain? If I'm in a directory and have made local modifications, and then I issue a git branch, what does the branch contain a copy of

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-03-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Ric Werme ewe...@comcast.net wrote: ... I find myself sticking to emacs and its fill paragraph function and 80 column lines.  It's amazing how much influence IBM cards still have on me and other right-thinking

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-03-31 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote: On 03/29/2010 09:34 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: Yes, this means you'll be a better programmer if you get a bigger monitor. FWIW, I got a 24 LCD display for this

Re: NFS stops responding

2010-04-01 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes: Oops. I wrote: So, if I'm reading these tea leaves properly it's as if that lost the ability to recognize the reply to that request. [?!] ...but meant to say, [...]it's as if that client lost the ability[...] But, then, how could

Re: Hot New OSS projects

2010-04-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: I am writing an article for the Linux Foundation about the 10 Hot New OSS Projects, but because I have a warped and twisted view of things in the world, I know that my ideas* of Hot, New OSS Projects may be a lot different than many other people's

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-04-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: 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

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-04-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: 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? Not bad, actually :) However: There's a supposition that eInk is better than LCD due

Re: We need a better Internet in America

2010-04-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org writes: [...] But this list isn't for debating library history. My overall point was that looking toward governmental regulation of the net, even for 'good reasons', as with all 'governmental regulation' in general is a mistaken approach to whatever

Re: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

2010-04-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: And *then* we discovered just how much better the OSM maps can be than the proprietary ones ... which makes perfect sense to me, since there's actually a way

Re: bogus emails looking for money

2010-04-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org writes: Even worse is the hijacking of from addresses. I'm not sure how to prevent that. There are some partly technical, partly social things like DKIM that you can deploy on your domains to try to help improve the system as a whole (not your system, *the*

[OT] machines that think for you (was: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?)

2010-04-28 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org writes: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: On Wed, April 28, 2010 12:07 pm, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: It is the same thing as learning how to add, subtract, multiply and divide before you start using a calculator.

Re: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

2010-04-30 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Route finding and estimating is useful if you're already on the road and want to make an unexpected change. Audible turn-by-turn directions are useful if you

FOSS GPS systems (was: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?)

2010-05-01 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: The reason that I suggested the Touch Book, specifically for GPS use, is that I'd heard from other people

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Just curious if there will be a meeting on Monday at SLUG?  If so, is there a topic or is it more of a round-table meeting? One thing I've been wondering

Re: Nokia N900

2010-05-12 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info writes: On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 22:12 -0400, David Rysdam wrote: On 05/11/2010 09:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: How's the GPS? I heard from someone that the N810's GPS was lacking, though I'm still somewhat suspicious of his specific evaluation

Re: Nokia N900

2010-05-12 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: 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

Re: [OT] CableInside possible spam/scam?

2010-05-13 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Warren Luebkeman war...@resara.com writes: Actually I have seen this before...They are using a legit company and posing as employees of the organization. I saw one like this a while ago where they actually cloned a businesses website on a slightly different domain. Clever clever.. Or

Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

2010-05-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Reviving undead threads of weeks and months past This is a response to a message that Jim accidentically sent privately to me--posted with his permission: Jim Sheldon jim.shel...@gmail.com writes: On Mar 16, 2010 8:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Joshua Judson

Re: network monitoring of firewalled/NAT'd systems

2010-05-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes: I wrote: We want to monitor (from a central server at HQ) the health and performance status of multiple machines [mostly Windows -( ] at each of multiple customer sites despite them being NAT'd/firewalled. ...and then mentioned a

Re: OpenCV any Users on List?

2010-05-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org writes: The issue with C++ (and other OO languages) is that it is important that you think in OO. Stroustrup and Stepanov both disagree with this, .cf.: http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#Object-Oriented-language

Debian Swirl umbrella

2010-05-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Saw this, today, and thought it was pretty neat: http://blog.fortytwo.ch/archives/84-The-Debian-Swirl-Umbrella-Order-it-Now!.html Summary: he's apparently selling umbrellas with the Debian swirl logo spanning the entire outer surface of the canopy. Anyone else want one? :) I note that he

Re: [GNHLUG] Hey, Wiki, you're so fine... CentraLUG, 7 June 2010, Hopkinton Public Library

2010-06-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Martin Ledoux mdled...@gmail.com wrote: Any thoughts on including MindTouch (DekiWiki) in the mix? Sure! If you're coming to the meeting, I'd like to hear about it. I just chose a few I had worked with recently and would

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