Any lurkers left on this list?

2020-01-13 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hail Vaguers! For the past number of years this listserv has been (almost exclusively) a BOSSI announcement forum and  Paul's 1x/weekly post. Any oldtimers still subscribed? Anybody still out there? If so, I'm hoping someone might know of an app dev who has time/interest in being pitched a new

Re: Silly networking question

2015-06-26 Thread Rion D'Luz
Jun 2015 00:05:02 -0400 Rion D'Luz riond...@gmail.com wrote: Greeting Group! I feel awkward asking, but my synapses are at the point of melting from being overloaded by SERPs and my older notes on subject. Here's my thing: A DLS modem on a 192.168.1/24 sub-net (and a wifi

Silly networking question

2015-06-24 Thread Rion D'Luz
Greeting Group! I feel awkward asking, but my synapses are at the point of melting from being overloaded by SERPs and my older notes on subject. Here's my thing: A DLS modem on a 192.168.1/24 sub-net (and a wifi antenna with very limited range) One (cheap) POWERLINK Outdoor Plus PL-2712N

Re: Linux_adult_swim Meeting today 2015-05-04 5-7 PM at Hedding United Methodist, 40 Washington Street.

2015-05-19 Thread Rion D'Luz
Were it not for your regular announcements, this list would be pushing daisies. Keep the announcements coming; Paul (and Chris), you have become keepers of the vague flame! And, regarding frequency, I enjoy starting Monday's with my vague post-of-the-week:) On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 13:49 -0400,

Re: Is anyone going to this: Leahy Announces Witnesses, Details For July 1 U.S. Senate Field Hearing In Vermont On Open Internet Rules (Next Tuesday at UVM)

2014-06-28 Thread Rion D'Luz
I'm interested in hearing how he squares the circle regarding his position on net-neutrality and an open internet (a la telco bashing) and his position on IP protection as the defender of Hollywood interests. I really like the man but have become very critical of the disconnect he maintains

where's Pauldo?

2014-04-09 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi Gang: Either the last breaths of Elvis leaving the building have given up their last gasps or perhaps I've been somehow dropped from the list. Common Flint! I miss your weekly updates. Not necessarily all your wonderful projects, per se; but I get some comfort knowing that you're keeping the

Re: where's Pauldo?

2014-04-09 Thread Rion D'Luz
Sorry Paul, there's nothing 'common' about you. I meant come on! On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 16:02 -0400, Mike Austin wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Rion D'Luz wrote: Hi Gang: Common Flint! I miss your weekly updates. Not necessarily all your wonderful projects, per se; but I get some

Re: HGWT: Soldering Paladin Needed

2014-02-15 Thread Rion D'Luz
Thanks guys! Off to the lab w/me! Civic Cloud sounds pretty interesting, appreciate the link. Anybody else care to share what's driving them or what they're making (besides PaulFlint - our doyen de vague who keeps the spark alive) Rion On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 10:08 -0500, Joe Golden wrote: I

HGWT: Soldering Paladin Needed

2014-02-14 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi All: Sad to see so little activity on this list; specially when the talk of the town is the 'making' of VT into a high-tech, investor-friendly, magnet. I'm surprised there's no chatter on this wire anymore. Nevertheless, I though perhaps before doing the post to CList I'd start my adventure

Re: pronouncements

2013-10-22 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 09:56 -0400, Anthony Carrico wrote: On 10/23/2013, @PLT_Hulk wrote: HULK AM SORRY BUT GIF AM PRONOUNCED PEEENNGEE!!! Must be going around. lets call them pings! Pee-n-Gee sounds far too ailmentary signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: pronouncements

2013-10-21 Thread Rion D'Luz
Thanks for the entertaining link. I try to maintain my contrarian image, but now I'm all confused. Next will be the fallout over GuhNU or gNU Thanks for playing! On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 12:38 -0400, Brian Hunter wrote:

pronouncements

2013-10-20 Thread Rion D'Luz
Greets to all: Current 7days and a few guys at the tech jam got me confused on parlance; not unlike the lynnux vs lyenux In this case its over the word (sic) pwn; which I learned just yesterday is pronounced 'pown' (rhymes w/own). And here I've been calling it pawn'd all these many years (as

Re: Let the sun shine in...

2012-04-19 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hey Flint: I expect a moments' entertainment in your weekly blip and you never fail to deliver. You are a constant in this Vague universe. Your flowering prose shines down on FOSSY-ness like the warm spring sun on croaking dafodils dotting well-fertilized pastures.

Re: wireless

2012-04-19 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Tuesday 17 April 2012, Anthony Carrico wrote: It sounds like the bottom line is there is no problem to running more than one access point with the same essid, but make sure the network services and topology cooperate, and watch out for client side issues. Thanks for all the tips. I don't

Re: Adding memory to Daves Thinkpad...and an invitation to Pellet House

2012-02-06 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Monday 30 January 2012, Tom Kastner wrote: You probably mean *Feb* 1 for your open house. Wish I could make it but, alas, I'll be plugging away on Nantucket. Cheers, Tom Hear any good jokes lately ?? Tom Kastner 11 Atlantic Ave. Nantucket, MA 02554 508-325-4486 H 802-279-5228 M --

questing for an N900

2011-11-01 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi All: Anybody sitting on one of these that they're no longer using? TIA riondluz -- Best of luck, I hope you don't need it And remember you are unique...just like everyone else. web: http://dluz.com/ AIM/Jabber/MSN/:

Seasons greeting

2010-12-24 Thread Rion D'Luz
Seasons' greeting, Merry Xmas, Happy holidays, Kwanza! Hoping all are able to be warm and safe and of good cheer Rion -- Best of luck, I hope you don't need it And remember you are unique...just like everyone else. web: http://dluz.com/

Re: OpenSource music

2010-10-08 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi: I'll checkout the links ASAP, but, if not on your radar, I thought you might be interested in a Music Hack Day link i found searching out mulve4linux (via techdirt). SERP pointed me to Swinger. C2 The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. C2 It does this

Re: soft raid request for opinions

2010-09-25 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi Brett and thanks for the reply: On Saturday 25 September 2010, Brett Johnson wrote: As I recall, you usually can't put /boot in an LVM partition because you need to read /boot to load your LVM driver. Doing so will make your system not boot. I suppose that explains (for non-PXE) why having

soft raid request for opinions

2010-09-24 Thread Rion D'Luz
Howdy doo y'all Elbow deep in WD drives and the particulars of SATA, green,blue,black, TLER (Time Limited Error Recovery), Jumper Settings, etc... to setup a server for LVM over raid, i got to asking myself this question: For simple raid1 arrays created either by distro installers or by

Re: the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

2010-09-20 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Sunday 19 September 2010, Anthony Carrico wrote: On 09/19/2010 07:12 PM, Rion D'Luz wrote: Hail Vaguers: so why not stand on the shoulders of giants? Absolutely! I'd have run with Coherent if it got adopted and became a labor of love, but the way the stars lined up, GNU, torvalds

Re: say it ain't so

2010-08-18 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi Stan Thanks for the note on the .asp thing - there was nothing in the documentation i read that indicated what lang the CGI was; thought having to compile the app suggests C/C++ - The thought that lsoft was caching/hosing/referring or otherwise providing didn't occur to me. Rion On

Re: say it ain't so

2010-08-17 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Monday 16 August 2010, Paul Flint wrote: Dear Paul: Thanks for the info provided. Did you goto the website and look at the archives? Try the cgi-bin/wa?blah and look at the LSOFT stamp. Either a) i am being obtuse or b) the mystery is deeper. google vague list uvm top results:

Re: say it ain't so

2010-08-17 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Tuesday 17 August 2010, Rubin Bennett wrote: Rion, in your first post, the compatibility for the LSoft listserv lists both Linux and Unix. Where's the mystery? Hi Rubin. Thanks for asking; i tried google-searching to find out for myself. The mystery is/was that a supposed unix box is

say it ain't so

2010-08-12 Thread Rion D'Luz
Thinking it's been 'the silentest summer' on record or that maybe I fell out of the goup I paid a visit the listserv's archive - http://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=VAGUE OK, vacations-n-all, summer slump, out living instead of screen-facing, i get that and wish all save/happy sunlight-filled

Re: Changing the SSL Cert after hostname change

2010-07-27 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi Is/are your website/s running directly under Apache or as virtual hosts? On Monday 26 July 2010, Joe Golden wrote: Hi All. I recently changed the hostname on my development server: a Debian amd64 stable install. Server used to identify as oldname.sover.net and is now newname.com. I'm

Happy Holidays to Each and All

2009-12-23 Thread Rion D'Luz
Ho Ho Ho fellow vaguerites May you all be safe and well over the holidays and find your stockings loaded w/geeky toys. Pass it forward: May your holy days inspire warmth and tenderness towards your selves and others. May you have moments of stillness in the quiet snow or in the hot bath, in

Re: Truth to power - real-world example

2009-11-17 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Rion D'Luz wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote: A friend of mine applied for over 120 jobs in 2006 and received 6 denials, 1 calls, and 1 interview. Unfortunately its par for the course -- Which is not an excuse! I realize

Re: Scathing self effacement...

2009-10-25 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Monday 19 October 2009, Christian Campbell wrote: (to that which got attached as a p7m file) a former Assistant Chief of a Rescue Squad, Training Officer and Advanced Certified EMT (EMT-I) since 1995 I got my first red cross training before I became a life-guard many years ago; working

Re: Scathing self effacement...

2009-10-14 Thread Rion D'Luz
exercising their better judgment and confines them to lines and signs. That is a management policy, like herding; and those laws is how the Shepard gets paid. On Wednesday 14 October 2009, Anthony Carrico wrote: Rion D'Luz wrote: The subject of speeding is such a straw man. It's unenforceable

Re: Scathing self effacement...

2009-10-10 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Thursday 08 October 2009, Paul Flint wrote: Dear Tony, Maybe this topic is best layed to rest now... On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Tony Harris wrote: This has the potential to become a very fowl discussion.. Here, pullet my finger :) Dave: I've been pulled over by cops in their own cars,

Re: Scathing self effacement...

2009-10-10 Thread Rion D'Luz
the courts will be worth the price of the fine anytime :) Happy to take this off-list if you'd like to continue the conversation. On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Rion D'Luz riond...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 08 October 2009, Paul Flint wrote: Dear Tony, Maybe this topic is best layed

Re: Scathing self effacement...

2009-10-09 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Thursday 08 October 2009, Paul Flint wrote: Dear Tony, Maybe this topic is best layed to rest now... On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Tony Harris wrote: This has the potential to become a very fowl discussion... Are you trying to pullet my finger Dave: I've been pulled over by cops in their own

Re: Local Currency

2009-08-26 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Anthony Carrico wrote: Frequent flyer miles and gift cards are modern examples. Also, North American banks did print their own currencies (before competition was eliminated). I liked my green stamps:) In particular, we could move to peer-to-peer or

Re: Fwd: Vermont Fiber-Optic Network - ECFiber Update August 2009

2009-08-26 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi Frank: Thanks for the update, bad news as it is. I had serious disagreements w/Nulty while he was a BTcom regarding the viability of his plan to enter areas underserved by comcast et. al. But considering that ECfiber was the best/last great hope of a non-commercial alternative, I feel

Re: Local Currency

2009-08-25 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Rene Churchill wrote: Currently there's Onion River Exchange in Montpelier, which is a time bank instead of a local currency. Members donate their time to other members in return for services in return. A bit of a socialist slant in that an hour of garden weeding

Re: Fwd: Vermont Fiber-Optic Network - ECFiber Update August 2009

2009-08-24 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Monday 24 August 2009, Stan Brinkerhoff wrote: Does anyone have insight to this? I haven't heard anything about ECF in months -- and this email sounds like WE ARE READY TO GO!, except it seems as though its life or death is defined by federal stimulus funding? I didnt know it was directly

Re: RFC please

2009-08-24 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Sunday 23 August 2009, Tom Kastner wrote: Rion, I've mostly been out of Stowe for the last many months, but I believe there is a local committee working to secure Stowe's place near the top of the list of connected communities. Maybe that's why your inquiries are being

Re: RFC please

2009-08-21 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Friday 21 August 2009, Tom Kastner wrote: Rion, Most of the questions cannot be answered appropriately by variations on Likely. Lots of Y/N and other choices. To help illuminate, I have completed the survey with bona fide answers. You may also want to ask what their service

Re: Open Source, F[r]ee Software

2009-08-20 Thread Rion D'Luz
Zimbra comes to mind of a decent FOSS community app that's free and good 'nuf for 90% of their market, if you like tomcat and jsp. Rion On Thursday 20 August 2009, Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote: How do people feel about community editions and crippled FOSS releases in general? I understand you

Re: RFC please - clarification

2009-08-19 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi Chris: My original plan was to seed a square mile with 100 ($100 sponsored) meraki repeaters, connected to 4-6 landline drops, with $50 base-stations available for resale. but I now believe that there are better options, including using DSS as a primary backhaul with a few DSL drops in the

Re: RFC please - clarification

2009-08-18 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi Dave and thanks for the input. See below for comments: On Tuesday 18 August 2009, David Storandt wrote: Any business plan should look at current needs and any gaps... there are a bunch of competitors specifically in Stowe already (over?)serving the area, covering the range of typical

Re: RFC please

2009-08-18 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi Stan and thanks for the questions. On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote: Rion, How do successful *community wireless* projects fair compared to *community fiber* projects? I don't really know altho I've come across (and bookmarked) some (kinda DIY) projects including a

Re: RFC please - clarification

2009-08-18 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Tuesday 18 August 2009, David Storandt wrote: The state offers super-cheap rooftop rent to WISPs (like $5/mo?), _if_ you can find a state building to camp out on. That's state-wide by the way... You'll have to fill out a stack of paperwork 2 thick to secure such a lease - insurance, state

Re: RFC please - clarification

2009-08-18 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Tuesday 18 August 2009, David Storandt wrote: AOT = Agency of Transportation. Like, state guys in large, orange trucks. =P Thanks for that! I needed to get a good laugh while hitting self w/duh-stick:) Try this: http://bgs.vermont.gov/facilities Click on the East, Central, and West

Re: IPcop -- load balancing?

2009-08-17 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Monday 17 August 2009, Nick Floersch wrote: While the $300 router might solve the problem, and looks nice, it is sort of a black-box. If it doesn't do what you need, or behaves oddly, you'd have to hack it to get inside and figure out what is going on, probably voiding warranty, and

Re: Adult Swim today at Hedding 4-7 PM

2009-08-17 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Monday 17 August 2009 9:30:34 am Paul Flint wrote: Greetings List Lurkers, Additionally, if you could, please review the proposal I shared with House Speaker Shap Smith last Friday. Hi Paul - here's my .03 Seat licensing is different, and should be differienated from other costs, like

Re: Adult Swim today at Hedding 4-7 PM

2009-08-17 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Rion D'Luz wrote: Hi Paul - here's my .03 who has enjoyed an 18 monopoly in Operating Systems. 18 year monopoly... sorry -- 3010 Rte 109 Waterville, VT 05492

Re: Intro...

2009-06-20 Thread Rion D'Luz
welcome aboard! Cannot much speak to all the world's a nail, but being one who often gets lost in the depths of cpan, following mazes of twisty little passages, and collecting mods like so many magic wands to add to my bag-o-tricks sure makes me linger longer and come back often. PM's and CLI

Re: Full Disk Backups

2009-06-20 Thread Rion D'Luz
For enterprise-like, i'd go zmanda, http://hostlibrary.com/Remotebackupusingsshtarandcron-how-to.html http://layer0.layeredtech.com/showthread.php?s=a42bdff81fcf2405ea7e551965026da8t=5 This document will teach you how to configure your system to do automated backups to a remote server using

Fwd: PCI FM Transmitter

2009-06-19 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hail Vaguers: An acquaintance forwarded me this email with the hope that this list might provide a tip or pointer. Me, I'm clueless. Rion -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: PCI FM Transmitter Date: Thursday 18 June 2009 From: Stephen Alrich Marshall clu...@gmail.com To:

Re: PCI FM Transmitter

2009-06-19 Thread Rion D'Luz
own the place . . . an FM transmitter might be a nice solution. Asa On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Rion D'Luz riond...@gmail.com wrote: Hail Vaguers: An acquaintance forwarded me this email with the hope that this list might provide a tip or pointer. Me, I'm clueless. Rion

Re: HS: So nobody's interested in a shared space?

2009-05-06 Thread Rion D'Luz
for the course, in pursuing/discussing a viable lead related to actually developing one, has waned. And so it goes. Rion On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Rion D'Luz wrote: Hi All: Just wanted to notify members here who are interested in creating a HS that I have been engaged in a dialog

Re: HS: So nobody's interested in a shared space?

2009-05-06 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Kevin Thorley wrote: Sorry I didn't reply earlier Rion, things have been rather hectic. Yes, I am interested in this opportunity. It sounds like a promising lead. Two questions come to mind. First, have we proven a sufficient interest in projects to warrant the

Re: HS: So nobody's interested in a shared space?

2009-05-06 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Josh Sled wrote: Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com writes: I tend to think that the answer to number two depends on the answer to number one. Right. My take was that there's not enough (collaborative) hacking to justify growing into a dedicated space, or that

Re: HS: Some Food for the Processor

2009-05-05 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi All: Just wanted to notify members here who are interested in creating a HS that I have been engaged in a dialog with the CrashCollective/InfoShop on Bank St in Burl. They are in the midst of deciding what they want to do with their org and whether to keep the lease, and have expressed an

Re: HS: Some Food for the Processor

2009-05-05 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Rion D'Luz wrote: Hi All: Any thoughts? Thought somewhat obtuse otherwise, I should point out that the $400/mo was in toto, not per person. Rion -- 3010 Rte 109 Waterville, VT 05492

Re: Burlington Telcom/Other Muni Provider Question

2009-04-24 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Thursday 23 April 2009, David Storandt wrote: For a government group presumably that group being We the people to compete against private industry, would those be the very same industries that (knowingly or otherwise) received lucrative deals over 30 years on the public dime, only to

Re: Burlington Telcom/Other Muni Provider Question

2009-04-24 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Friday 24 April 2009, David Storandt wrote: Asking for legal protection against direct competition isn't very nice. Unsportsman-like. But hasn't that been the 'model' since ... whenever? democracy has been co-opted by corporatists who hail 'free-markets' while doing everything in their power

Re: Vague meeting, wiki (+web presence)

2009-04-14 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Monday 13 April 2009, Dan Coutu wrote: Why not the domain vague.vt.us for the group? That doesn't seem to be claimed. Just to say I left my mark and since its just collecting dust anyhow, I'd be willing to donate my vague.name domain for the cause of the group Rion Dan Richard

HS: RE: RE: VT Hackers Meetup - Some Input

2009-04-14 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Nick Floersch wrote: In terms of Montpelier... We'll need to organize... who wants to be an organizer first and a participant second? Like you mentioned above re: group of 6 - maybe something like a steering committee which could aggregate all the inputs

HS: What size U-Haul is needed to hold a hackerspace

2009-04-14 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hail Vaguers! If you had to up and move it to another place, how big of a truck would be needed? It occurred to me yesterday that space does not necessarily have to be defined by the walls that delineate it. That maybe it could be setup in temporary spaces (monthly, ephemeral locations) a

Re: HS: What size U-Haul is needed to hold a hackerspace

2009-04-14 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Tuesday 14 April 2009, Josh Sled wrote: Rion D'Luz riond...@gmail.com writes: If you had to up and move it to another place, how big of a truck would be needed? A cargo-van or 10' UHaul could probably do the job. The trick is *owning* the thing, so that you don't need to rent/load

Re: HS: What size U-Haul is needed to hold a hackerspace

2009-04-14 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi: I disagree with some of what you posted, but it may be only a matter of semantics. See below: On Tuesday 14 April 2009, H. Kurth Bemis wrote: To start a space you're going to need members that are active in the hacker community. Define hacker community? How about just a community that

OFFTOPIC: intelligence on campus

2009-04-13 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hail Vaguers! I have no idea how many of you may be connected to UVM, StMikes or Champlain but I would like to know if anyone is aware of, within existing student bodies respectively, of any intellectual groups, debate society excepted, which constitute the 'forward-thinking' influences

Re: Samba passwords learning disabilities

2009-04-10 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Friday 10 April 2009, Warner White wrote: By the way, what is a sharename? I've always used the term to mean a shared dirtree identified in smb.conf ;i.e. share for storing user profiles [profiles] such that the stanza contains a dir path path = /var/lib/samba/profile and metadata

Re: VAGUE meeting topics

2009-04-10 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Friday 10 April 2009, Thomas Cort wrote: I like the idea of an occasional working meeting where the members work on a project or projects. - Open source bug fixing party [...] I am open to suggestions for projects. There's a new project, libre.fm, which aims to create a Free / Open

Re: RFA: browsers, scripting and web2.0 - oh my

2009-04-08 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Wednesday 08 April 2009, you wrote: Rion D'Luz riond...@gmail.com writes: Since Safari is Moz based, my expectations are not too anxious for Macs (anyone know of safari4linux?), Safari is WebKit based, an entirely different engine from Gecko/Mozilla, and it does behave quite

Re: RFA: browsers, scripting and web2.0 - oh my

2009-04-08 Thread Rion D'Luz
Thanks for the response Jim, On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Jim Carroll wrote: Hi Rion, Site looks good on both Safari and Firefox on Mac... but not so good with IE6 on XP. Wow, appreciate the png; looks like i have IE6 work cut out for me:) IE6 still has a good percentage of the market by

Re: RFA: browsers, scripting and web2.0 - oh my

2009-04-08 Thread Rion D'Luz
Awsome - thanks Forest On Wednesday 08 April 2009, Forest Bond wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 12:02:16AM -0400, Rion D'Luz wrote: I've just the site on the net, not quite ready for production (code-bloated, unpacked files...) and in need of a serious X-browser checking

RFA: browsers, scripting and web2.0 - oh my

2009-04-07 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hail Vaguers, full of grace: Request for Assistance: A slow spell got me into looking for a (web2.2) CMS that i could call my own; regardless of choice, making one is a commit to countless manhours in a world of myriad components,extensions, whatever.., and each's forums and references.., in

Re: VT could use one of these...

2009-03-31 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Monday 30 March 2009, H. Kurth Bemis wrote: Technology is wonderful and all, but it has created a growing disconnect between the physical and virtual worlds. A hub does its small bit to bridge that gap; and the more it can provide by way of tech the better. This hackerspace, by any other name,

Re: VT could use one of these...

2009-03-30 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Monday 30 March 2009, Andrew Crawford wrote: While I'm not part of the collective, your domain 'riseup' is very suggestive:) the Crash Collective has an interesting space in Burlington, including a small computer lab. http://www.crashcollective.org/index.html I've been a few times and

Re: Routers and Internet load balancing, oh, my!

2009-03-26 Thread Rion D'Luz
Congrats pard! Nothing beats the sound of happy packets.! Sounds like victory More ?'s below: On Thursday 26 March 2009, Rubin Bennett wrote: So in a follow up to the thread of last week about dual Internet connections, I managed to do that which I though impossible over teh weekend

Re: Routers and Internet load balancing, oh, my!

2009-03-26 Thread Rion D'Luz
Rubin: Thanks for the follow-up to my ?'s Rion On Thursday 26 March 2009, Rubin Bennett wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:22 -0400, Rion D'Luz wrote: Congrats pard! Nothing beats the sound of happy packets.! Sounds like victory More ?'s below: On Thursday 26 March 2009

Re: Vermont Hosting Providers

2009-03-23 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi: I was going to stay off this thread as I know of no local datacenter providers; but after taking a peek at www.slicehost.com I'm curious why it makes top choice? Virtualized hosting has been around for some time. I can understand the appeal of not having to manage all the resources

Re: s/Fairpoint/Flash/ (s/unargueably/debatedly/ sux)

2009-03-15 Thread Rion D'Luz
On my workstation i run FF3 and I noticed sound issues with the libflash hoarding dev/audio. One upgrade of FF3 made gnash the preferred flash player. It works just ok as a plug, but nice stand-alone. So i use switched to using the nonfree libflash plug instead on FF3 and tried both on the

Re: Bug or feature? - the topic of the meeting?

2009-03-15 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hail Vaguers! We could have a script party where everyone brings their fav scripts? A Script-off! But I just wanted to get this out, maybe off-topic and not apropos to the meeting or a presentation: [Prelude] Vermont is slated to get about 1Bn in the coming months and a good chunk is going

Re: Silicon Dairy closes suddenly

2009-03-12 Thread Rion D'Luz
After seeing VOIP - Coming soon for so many months, coupled with the vacancy of the SoBu offices, it shouldn't come as a surprise. Pity is that it ended up falling on the shoulders of its sole officer as Shane was a stand-up fellow, good programmer and always looked for ways for FOSS to

Re: Thanks for the conversion!!!

2009-03-12 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Thursday 12 March 2009, Josh Sled wrote: I'm solid on pine, mutt, and friends and find them highly convenient on remote hosts; but on my workstation I've been using kmail (the only KDE app I use regularly) since forever, mostly because it integrates gpg very well. Evolution is nice too, but

Re: Looking for linux admin help, spam management

2009-02-11 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Anthony Carrico wrote: Courier + RBL works for me, but I'm only the second string on admin. Whatever happened to SPF? 2008FEB01 installing all Sa/Clamav on Www1 as well - no dovecot tho for spamd: yum install perl-Mail-SPF

Re: Help proofread a Letter to the Editor

2009-02-09 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Paul Flint wrote: Greetings List Lurkers, I intend to send this to the Times Argus, which is essentially a large printing peripheral. I would appreciate your input prior... Well I'd be impressed if they walk the walk more than talk the talk. But expecting the

Re: Installing a (windows-friendly) VPN server on an Ubuntu VPS

2009-02-06 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi Sean: I can second openVPN, and I hear good things from openSwan but I'm not into IPSEC. From personal experience, I really have a soft spot for nomachineNX/freeNX/2X client/server:) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology http://www.nomachine.com/ It's not as straightforward as

Re: Publishing platforms

2009-02-06 Thread Rion D'Luz
Ah, so, after all these years, it was just about the recognizing the usefullness of blogging and its market potential! Well, at least your teaser finally got me to visit the whitehouse site and catch up on all the chatter regarding their positions on OSS. Rion On Friday 06 February 2009,

Re: Publishing platforms

2009-02-05 Thread Rion D'Luz
Well thanks, Chris, for this wonderful teaser! Maybe I missed the original post to which you responded, but your sentence got me distracted for an hour to find out what OSS that website was running. But from what I could tell whitehouse.gov, like change.gov, was hand-rolled; gleaned from the

Re: Truth to power - re: Logic Supply

2009-01-29 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Rubin Bennett wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 20:23 -0500, Paul Flint wrote: Dear Forest, I tried to park on State Street in Mont-peculiar, and spent 15 minutes getting unstuck from the snow. Hee... I think I burned about 10k miles off my tires doing same

Re: Truth to power - re: Logic Supply

2009-01-29 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Forest Bond wrote: It doesn't seem reasonable for me to ask my employers to invite someone that has publicly defamed them to come on site for a meeting. Publically defamed? Geez, a little touchy, aren't we? Publically defamed is really, really harsh, legimate,

Re: Design...

2009-01-29 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Tony Harris wrote: You'll notice that Brad said he did send an acknowledgement of receipt for every applicant. For that matter, I believe we do too. But a quick form email saying Got your resume is a lot different than what I was hearing for feedback desired

Re: Logic Supply - NOT! - Re: hiring processes

2009-01-29 Thread Rion D'Luz
Bitter? spouting venomous rants that clog all of our in-boxes? Are you and I even reading the same emails? For the most part everyone engaged in this thread was making fair observations, attempting to call-it-as-they-see-it; and if wrong, honest enough to stand themselves corrected. But maybe

Re: Truth to power - re: Logic Supply

2009-01-28 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Forest Bond wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:59:51AM -0500, Paul Flint wrote: I would have prefered that Logic Supply be a bit more community accessable. I can't necessarily speak for the owners, but I'd be interested in hearing ideas as to how we could

Re: Truth to power - re: Logic Supply

2009-01-28 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote: Oh come on -- play nice with the locals. This isn't Comcast -- its a local organization with perhaps some flaws that all organizations have. Another play nice post. I really did not think I was being that critical, but you beg me

Re: Truth to power

2009-01-27 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Monday 26 January 2009, Paul Flint wrote: Greetings List Lurkers, The invitation below is to meet with some of the most powerful folks in Information Technology with the attention of the current state administration. I hope you've said above whilst keeping your tongue in cheek. The

Re: Best way to disable an init script?

2009-01-24 Thread Rion D'Luz
I've found sysv-rc-conf is about as useful as it gets on deb/buntu and frankly can't stand their paradyme (of renaming S-to-K blah...) That's why I just chmod. On RH though, chkconfig just plain does it all 'automagically' There's so much about 'untu in the /etc dept. that I find lacking.

Re: Best way to disable an init script?

2009-01-23 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Friday 23 January 2009, Anthony Carrico wrote: Suppose I want to boot with a particular init script disabled. In Debian, I could use update-rc.d to remove the rc.d links, then later use update-rc.d again to bring them back. If I did that, I'd have to note the priority and the run-levels

Re: Xen, kvm, Bochs

2009-01-01 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hello Werner et al: As suggested below, xen is more for servers than workstations. If you get it from a repo it installs a xen kernel, which you select at boot from the grub menu. Then you have to create an image for xen to load. It's really straightforward (compared to what it used to be:),

Re: Anyone seeing sites blocked/unavailable over Comcast?

2008-12-24 Thread Rion D'Luz
Hi Richard: FWIW, no connection issues w/Wildblue.net Was at both slashdot and sourceforge extensively over the last few days with nothing exceptional to report. You are prob having a comcraptastic experience. Happy Holidays to All! Rion On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Richard Lawrence wrote:

Re: Welcome to the list

2008-12-24 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Wednesday 24 December 2008, Warner White wrote: Hi all-- I would like to switch completely to Ubuntu, but I need Quicken for a week or two more, Altho xen is my virtualizer of choice, I've been playing around with virtualbox and am surprised at its ease of use; not that I'd want to, but

Re: VT State Budget Cuts... a time to talk F/OSS?

2008-12-13 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Saturday 13 December 2008, Rubin Bennett wrote: It's older because BSD Unix was around long before 1991 when Linus first began to write a rudimentary kernel (http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/msg/b813d52cbc5a044b). BSD has been around in functionality since the 60's (although

Re: VT State Budget Cuts... a time to talk F/OSS?

2008-12-12 Thread Rion D'Luz
On Thursday 11 December 2008, Chris Moran wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Dave Tisdell dave.tisd...@cesu.k12.vt.us wrote: Hi Chris, It often saddens me to see FUD type comments from FOSS supporters. I am a little baffled by this sentence. Otherwise, I agree whole heartedly with

Re: Analyzing Files

2008-11-04 Thread Rion D'Luz
Below may help On Monday 03 November 2008, Alvin ONeal wrote: I want a graphical way (like xdiskusage or kdirstat, but better) to sort through all files on the system quickly based on criteria such as atime, mtime, ctime, size, owner. For example: I want to generate a list of files sorted

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