Re: scripting mysql database backups

2014-07-07 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
https://code.google.com/p/mysqlbackup/ Does everything you want. On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Dan Coutu co...@snowy-owl.com wrote: Oooo, mysqlshow I didn't know about. The -B switch doesn't exist on RHEL/Centos 5 machines. Dan On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Tisdell, Dave

Re: motherboard

2013-07-07 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
I typically find long beeps to be indicative of a memory issue (~75% of the time), a component failure (video card, onboard video chipset, etc failure) ~15% of the time, and the remainder is a grab bag of bad power supply which killed the motherboard, capacitor failure on the motherboard, bios

Re: another job posting for Essex Junction via CTG

2013-01-23 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
*You will administer an ETSS file server which bridges FEOL and BEOL* If the Onion had job postings Stan On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:33 PM, s...@noiseplant.com s...@noiseplant.comwrote: Aww, and me already in a great gig: I could be a rockstar at deploying virtual clutter... -sth sam

Re: secure remote rsyslog: Thanx

2012-12-13 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
I've always been curious how frequently the (arguably true) statement that SSH keys are more secure is followed by a and no password. It seems to be trading one security mechanism (what you know, password) for another (what you have, a SSH key). In an instance where your harddrive contents are

Graphite - Extremely simple database/visualizations

2010-12-10 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
I stumbled upon this Blog post at Etsy last evening: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/tag/graphite/ They talk about using the FOSS Graphite system for logging/visualizing system monitoring data in their continuous deployment environment where they push up to 24 builds a day to their production

Beaten by the Intel Marketing Machine

2010-12-06 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Where I work we do RD work that involves 3d modeling; computationally heavy simulations, and the most system intensive of them all; Outlook. Recently while refreshing out fleet of laptops I had quotes for Intel i5 based laptops; and Intel i7 based laptops. My understanding was that i5 = dual

Re: FOSS alternative to Counterpoint?

2010-10-25 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Interchange is more of a development platform for Perl (Access/Filemaker-ish) with an e-commerce framework wrapped around it. Out of the box it does e-commerce fairly well. You can extend it (like anything) to do pretty much what you want; but if turn key is what you are after; Interchange isn't

IBM 704 Manual

2010-08-25 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
For your viewing pleasure. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/images/manuals/IBM_704/IBM_704.html Stan

Re: say it ain't so

2010-08-17 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Rion, Where do you see any indication that list.uvm.edu is serving ASP files? I see you posting links to files on lsoft.com with the .asp extension -- and you can safely assume lsoft is running on a Microsoft operating system (a marketing adventure) -- but what does that have to do with uvm's

Re: say it ain't so

2010-08-17 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Here is why LSOFT knows so much about UVM's mailing lists: http://www.lsoft.com/lists/lastupd.html They do indeed have an optional push/pull mechanism to maintain a central database of mailinglists that are operated by their software. One might assume 'wa.exe' is the Windows version of 'wa'

Large UPS Vendors?

2010-06-07 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Has anyone worked with a vendor to install a large-ish UPS? I'd like to find someone locally who installs APC Symmetra units (~16kva), or comparable. Stan

Re: ubuntu and smartboard

2010-05-06 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Try the suggested fix at the bottom of the page: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1304986.html Stan On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Bjorn Behrendt bbehre...@msjvermont.orgwrote: I am trying to attach a smartboard to ubuntu 10.04. When the board is connected my mouse bounces up

Re: Rootkit story

2010-03-15 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Decent summary of how machines can get rooted. *Part 3: Conclusion and food for thought* *To conclude on what happened:* 1) The attacker used the *zencart* vulnerability to create the * imagedisplay.php* file. 2) Using the imagedisplay.php file he was able to make the server download *

Re: Is This the Open Source Techno Rapture?

2010-03-09 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
. -- Brett Johnson bjohn...@simpleroute.com Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote: Easier to read? State of Vermont Open Source Software and Open Standards Policy and Guidelines SOV - Open Source Software and Open Standards Policy Contents 1.0 Introduction

Re: Is This the Open Source Techno Rapture?

2010-03-09 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
This document sets the stage for fact based discussions about Open Source. DII has a policy on the books now that *FOSS* is worth looking at, and encourages departments to ask for Open Standards. This is a huge building block and enabler for proposals for FOSS, and the discussion to come down to

CERT154421 / Windows Backdoor in ENERGIZER USB Battery Charger

2010-03-09 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/154421 W-t-f. Thats all. Stan

Re: Open Source Software Bill

2010-02-19 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
with the committee chair. Thanks, Kitty If you read the attachment, you'll note I volunteered you all as informed sources if she had technical questions... Rick White --- On Wed, 1/27/10, Stanley Brinkerhoff s...@vtwireless.com wrote: From: Stanley Brinkerhoff s

VMWare Aquires Zimbra

2010-02-17 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
It appears that VMWare bought out Zimbra. Any thoughts on why? It seems outside VMWare's normal vertical to enter the end user application world. http://www.zimbra.com/about/vmware-acquires-zimbra.html Stan

Re: Open Source Software Bill

2010-01-27 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Thanks all. I had dinner with my state Reps last evening (vt house), and was referring to this bill, and its potential for evaluation as a cost savings tool. I suggest others contact their reps or more importantly legislators with your interest and belief in the savings. Stan On Wed, Jan 27,

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2010-01-22 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/ Stan On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:37 PM, chris yarger cpyar...@gmail.com wrote: Hey All, I need to find a way to upgrade packages or programs when needed, without much manual configuration on each machine(aside from the initial setup), and to be

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2010-01-22 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
be Ubuntu warmest regards, Chris Yarger web: http://YargerDesigns.org skype: cpyarger msn: elfloc...@hotmail.com aim: patyarg yahoo: christoyarg ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign X against HTML e-mail / \ On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Stanley

Re: opinions on an app server distro

2010-01-21 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Since someone else already dropped the closed/propriatary hardware bomb -- how about a QNAP NAS? They run Linux, on a standard PC motherboard, and can support PHP. They are locked/stripped down enough to be dummy proof, and are commercially supported. Protip: You only want the pro-line (Intel

Re: opinions on an app server distro

2010-01-20 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Fedora would be near the bottom of my list in favor of its sibling CentOS, which has a much longer update life. Ubuntu LTS has 3 years of updates. Debian stable builds have good long lives don't they? Stan On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Tony Tambasco tambas...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey guys,

Re: CPU history guide

2010-01-04 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/common_cpus.html That should do ya. But basically; P4 2.0ghz p4 3.0ghz P4D (the d is dual core) p4m (mobile) core solo core duo quad core i5 i7 Celerons are related byh family to their brotherin. Pentium M's are in laptops and outpace the P4's. Good luck

SysAdmin @ Logic Supply, was Re: CERF Technology Manager job description

2010-01-04 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
While we are posting prospective jobs -- Logic Supply also seems to have a systems admin and technical sales listing. http://www.jobsinvt.com/seek/resultdetail.aspx?jobnum=519544kwfhl= Stan On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Phil Marshall p...@signalz.com wrote: I'm forwarding this job to the

MySQL for Dumbies Educator Needed!

2009-12-22 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
All, A local group of individuals is looking for recommendations for a local individual who can preform a day-long SQL for Dumbies against MySQL. I am not entirely sure of the scope of the class, but I would assume it would be a beginner level, this is what a table is, here is how a select

Email that only travels 500 miles, give or take.

2009-12-14 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html Stan

Small Company PBX?

2009-12-09 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
All, What do small companies (5 people, 8 people max within 3 years) use these days for single site PBX systems? Something that uses POTS lines instead of special IP phones would be highly preferable from both a cost perspective as well as a pure simplicity perspective. Something off the shelf

Re: Small Company PBX?

2009-12-09 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
monthly line fee. If you don't trust Fairpoint to not screw it up, SoverNet or other companies can resell the local loops so you can buy from them instead. (Runs off the same office equipment though) Rene Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote: All, What do small companies (5 people, 8 people max

1u server box? (Compaq Dl360)

2009-11-30 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Does anyone have a box that fits a 1u server like a Dell R610, or Compaq DL360 they would be willing to part with? Stan

Re: 1u server box? (Compaq Dl360)

2009-11-30 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
that are about 14 deep, but most of the Dell and HP units I've seen are more like 22-24 deep. If it fits you're welcome to have one. Rubin On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 14:42 -0500, Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote: Does anyone have a box that fits a 1u server like a Dell R610, or Compaq DL360 they would be willing

SaaS/GPL

2009-11-18 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
All, SaaS, or Software as a service is a software delivery model where an organization develops a product, and makes it available only as a hosted solution. Examples of this are Google Mail, eBay, Salesforce.com, and thousands of others. Is there any legal precident regarding the GPL and SaaS

Re: Meeting

2009-11-16 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
The HUMCTC cordially invites VAGUE to their space for tomorrow's meeting, which is within walking of the new Barre pub., http://humctc.org Regards, Flint This feels VAGUEly like a trap. Do we return to HUMCTC for step #3 of our induction into AA -- *Made a decision to turn our will and

Re: Circuit board repair?

2009-11-14 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Flint successfully replaced the AC jack on my Dell Vostro 1200 laptop. Stan On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 5:13 PM, chris yarger cpyar...@gmail.com wrote: flint is rather good lol warmest regards, Chris Yarger web: http://YargerDesigns.org skype: cpyarger msn: elfloc...@hotmail.com aim:

Can you be 'Open Source' and not release your source?

2009-11-05 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Nate Herzog wrote a masterfully crafted piece on the Vermont 3.0 blog regarding Open Source Radio at VPR. http://www.vermont3.com/2009/04/open-source-radio-behind-the-sounds-at-vermont-public-radio.html#comments *Hold everything. Open Source Radio? Hear me out. Open source, broadly defined — I

Re: active drictory alternative.

2009-11-04 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/domain-controller BAM. Virtualization for the win. it actually looks like a nice complete little SMB server... It shouldn't be too hard to even write it to disk and boot it un-virtualized. Stan On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Paul Flint fl...@flint.com wrote:

Re: Wheres my $400,000?

2009-10-14 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
, and, of course, higher and much higher levels, just do whatever the hell they want and are apparently unaccountable to anyone for our tax dollars. I think we'll slide by that meeting tomorrow night. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff s...@vtwireless.com wrote: All

Wheres my $400,000?

2009-10-13 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
All, I know this list has members in the Montpelier/surrounding areas. Incase you missed the articles -- apparently Montpelier overpayed a contractor in ~2005 to the tune of $400,000. It wasn't noticed until ~2006, and the city council, nor the mayor have been entirely forthright about its

Re: Wheres my $400,000?

2009-10-13 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Council Minutes are available on the City website once they are approved by the council (generally at the next meeting). No they aren't. City Council Meeting Minutes Page: *New Website:* http://www.montpelier-vt.org/community/314.html *Old Website:*

Re: open-mesh

2009-10-12 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Bjorn, Are you concerned with feature/functionality or cost? If you want the mesh feature, any DD-WRT router and OLSP can (with a bit of effort) do mesh. If you want cheap routers -- there are alternatives to Open-mesh.

Re: dropbox ... ubuntu one

2009-10-10 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
One part disk space, one part bandwidth, a cup of custom software, add ambition to taste. On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:18 PM, chris yarger cpyar...@gmail.com wrote: what would it take to make something similar to dropbox or ubuntu one? and provide the services to other people warmest regards,

Re: foss healthcare?

2009-10-07 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
And by uses you mean wrote. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Paul Flint fl...@flint.com wrote: Dear Chris, There is a small organization that currently uses the Vista Open Source System. It is called the United States Veterans Administration Ever hear of them? Regards, Flint On

Re: Voting a slashdot out of the firehose

2009-10-05 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
I might suggest focusing your inquiry at the people possibly responsible. http://ist.mit.edu/contact or their security group http://ist.mit.edu/security/support/team Stan On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Paul Flint fl...@flint.com wrote: Dear Bill, The point is that with mit.edu you need

Re: using a MS SNTP server for linux

2009-10-01 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
r...@rsrvmon:~# ntpdate 192.168.11.8 1 Oct 13:27:35 ntpdate[7645]: adjust time server 192.168.11.8 offset 0.012268 sec r...@rsrvmon:/etc# locate ntp.conf r...@rsrvmon:/etc# r...@vrsrvmon:/etc# ntpdate -v 1 Oct 13:29:12 ntpdate[7713]: ntpdate 4.2@1.1520-o Wed May 13 21:05:58 UTC 2009 (1)

Re: using a MS SNTP server for linux

2009-09-29 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
I can't remember -- but either I used the regkey fix, or I installed another NTP daemon on my Windows servers back when I used them as an authoritative time source for Shoretel IP phones. Stan On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Rick White sysoptio...@yahoo.com wrote: No wisdom here, but idle

Re: Streaming Media Server

2009-09-06 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Boxee is amazing. I ran XBMC (mplayer + other FOSS on top of the original Microsoft XBOX) for years until my 3rd xbox died and have not had any hardware/software that met my need to well until Boxee came out. Boxee is a XBMC port to non-XBox hardware (the XMBC seemed to drop the ball for a good

Re: No ReST for the weary...

2009-09-04 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
I suggest you both review all of the awesome new features that Visual Studio 2008 came with, and that 2010 is supposed to have. Then walk around and tout VIm/Emacs, and how their intellisense uses bayesian probability based on github and similar projects to yours to not only provide a syntax and

Re: multiple pxe servers

2009-09-02 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Windows DHCP can do it via static assignments -- or via a console command. I think what you want is a single PXE server with multiple boot selections, such as : http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/appnote/17752.html Stan On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Bjorn Behrendt

Local Currency

2009-08-25 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
VAGUIANS, There is an idea of a 'local' currency. Burlington has tried it. Montpelier has tried it. I am sure its been done many times -- and it seems to fail (as far as I have causally noticed). Has anyone developed; or has any area implemented; a local debit card system for a

Re: Local Currency

2009-08-25 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
their own bills. Anyhow, just my $0.02 on the subject. Rene Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote: VAGUIANS, There is an idea of a 'local' currency. Burlington has tried it. Montpelier has tried it. I am sure its been done many times -- and it seems to fail (as far as I have causally

Open Source, F[r]ee Software

2009-08-20 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
How do people feel about community editions and crippled FOSS releases in general? I understand you need to make $$, but the whole community edition gig has bothered me. Its almost like tricking me into thinking it wholesome and good FOSS, but then BAM, its commercial software. MySQL is the

/etc replacement system?

2009-08-17 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
All, While researching some power usage information for a standard PC vs an appliance router (assuming that gross power savings would make an appliance essentially 'free' compared to a 'free' pc that uses more power), I stumbled upon the Nokia IP530. Apparently Nokia makes really nice appliance

Re: /etc replacement system?

2009-08-17 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Yarger web: http://YargerDesigns.org skype: cpyarger msn: elfloc...@hotmail.com aim: patyarg yahoo: christoyarg ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign X against HTML e-mail / \ On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Rubin Bennett rbenn...@thatitguy.comwrote: On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 11:40 -0400, Stanley

Re: IPcop -- load balancing?

2009-08-17 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Now you've done it Rion. Do you have experience with Vyatta? I am having an issue with multiple IP's bound to a single interface and port based nat/routing within Vyatta -- and haven't sat down to try and figure them out. Basically I have 5 IP's bound to the adapter, and I can bind 1.1.1.1:80

Re: IPcop -- load balancing?

2009-08-17 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
I was looking on eBay for various things -- and stumbled upon this: http://cgi.ebay.com/m0n0wall-Router-Firewall-Appliance-VPN-VLAN-RADIUS_W0QQitemZ260396068640QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca0d0af20_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 A monowall appliance built from those thinclients a local

Re: IPcop -- load balancing?

2009-08-16 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
I'm not sure if the UVM LISTS system provides archives, but we had a similar discussion on May 17/18. Rene Churchill started by asking something very similar, and concluded that he was going to purchase a $300 router that did everything he needed. http://www.smalldog.com/product/70697 If this

Re: Step 1. OpenPGP Refresh Project

2009-08-07 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:22 PM, chris yarger cpyar...@gmail.com wrote: by going to http://www.gpg4win.org/download.html with my windows server 2008 machine i downlloaded the beta version did a normal windows install and ran the program after a reboot, the program asked me on initial running to

DLT1 + Tapes?

2009-08-06 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Anyone need a two bay internal (scsi I assume) dell LTO1 100/200gb drive with a half dozen tapes? I think its identical to this --

Re: DLT1 + Tapes?

2009-08-06 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Boulevard East Montpelier, VT 05651 (802)223-4448 http://thatitguy.com Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance French author, humanist, rationalist, satirist (1694 - 1778) *From:* Stanley Brinkerhoff [mailto:s

Re: Vermont Chamber Webinar: Know Before You Grow: Aerial Mapping Your Land for Specialty Crops of the Future: Bio-fuels and Artisan Agriculture

2009-08-06 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Be careful what you ask for Flint. I forget whom; but one Government agency requires that all submissions for grants be filled out in some special format. When we called and mentioned that we did not have access to the required platform (our Grant writer was using a Mac) and asked about a

LTO 100/200 tapes

2009-08-05 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
I have a stockpile of ~50 LTO1 tapes that I need to (in priority) 1. Be 100% sure the data is not recoverable in any way 2. Recycle In that order of preference. The data is unknown, but probably backups from systems. Is there anyone out there who recycles these suckers and certifiably wipes

Re: Fwd: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-07-30 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
I'm curious how this will play out -- a lot of managed hosts use CentOS as a default option as it's free and they have staff on board who can administer and support it; if the option goes away, I wonder what free OS with LTS cycles will be used? Debian is a very different beast than RHEL...

Re: Fwd: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-07-30 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
My vote is for Ubuntu. RPM's always made me queasy. Oooh, them's fightin' words! I always give the consultant types a weary eye. Your no different RPM man. Stan

Re: Moment of ecclesiastical brilliance by Vague member...

2009-07-28 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
emacs? VIM? anyone hear of the uper better NANO? warmest regards, Nano is like bringing a golf cart to a tractor pull.I sincerely hope you are joking. If you are not -- have Flint give you an emacs/vi tutorial. Stan

JavaScript Exploit Question

2009-07-07 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Does anyone know what this JavaScript file does? (Warning for IE6/7 users .. I assume it targets you). http:!!222.231.60.19!seraph!door!iisHelp!help.js Replace !!'s with /'s. Stan

Re: Seven Days interpretation of VAGUE meeting announcement

2009-05-15 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
...To play with the boards ... is almost meme worthy (ala .. How is babby formed?) Stan On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote: I finally got around to grabbing this week's Seven Days to see if the VAGUE meeting announcement made it through. It did …

Re: Sooo.... who wants to look at a perl module

2009-05-13 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Post it on the Wiki? :) stan On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Tony Tambasco tambas...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey gang, So I've been working on a perl module that I'm about to submit to CPAN, and I figured I would try to embarrass myself in front of as small an audience as possible. Anyone out

Re: VAGUE Meeting: Wed May 20 2009: Arduino

2009-05-05 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Wish I had one of those Arduino boards... I want to be 'in' too! :)  15 days? Should be enough time to get one ordered. If its not your cup of tea donate it to Flint and let his Barre guys hack at it. Stan

Re: batch replace camelCase with _underscores_?

2009-04-29 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Ooops. Upon review -- [hide|show] should be hide|show. if(/^(hide|show+)Field\(([a-zA-Z]+)\(\)\)/){ Stan On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff s...@vtwireless.comwrote: #!/usr/bin/perl while(STDIN){ $funcname = ''; if(/^([hide|show]+)Field

Re: batch replace camelCase with _underscores_?

2009-04-28 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
#!/usr/bin/perl while(STDIN){ $funcname = ''; if(/^([hide|show]+)Field\(([a-zA-Z]+)\(\)\)/){ $type = $1; @functionnames = split(/([A-Z])/, $2); foreach $func (@functionnames){ if ($func =~ /[A-Z]/){

TCP offloading is for newbies.

2009-04-25 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/somniloquy-external-networking-card-lets-pcs-sleep-talk-essent/ Some researchers at UC San Diego http://www.engadget.com/tag/UCSanDiego/, teamed up with Microsoft Researchhttp://www.engadget.com/tag/MicrosoftResearch/, have a novel new method in the works to let

Re: MS Office on Vbox

2009-04-18 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 02:32:38PM -0400, Stan Brinkerhoff wrote: Vbox should be pixel perfect... I believe that, but the DPI is a property of the physical display (which is in this case virtual), and incorrect detection or OS/driver misconfiguration can Windows doesn't support

Re: VAGUE Project Suggestion

2009-04-16 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
should then allow John to alerted to this deduction, and provide a medium for John to comment on the service. Stan Brinkerhoff On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff s...@vtwireless.comwrote: Not that I'm pushing for Java (I do plenty of that already), but doesn't Google's App

Re: VAGUE Project Suggestion

2009-04-16 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
I think you meant promote, not promose Thanks -- just a first draft at lunch while on the phone with the mortgage lady (your lucky it doesn't contain rates!) Anyways, this looks great! I wish some of the product managers I've worked with over the years could write a document like this

Re: VAGUE Project Suggestion

2009-04-15 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Not that I'm pushing for Java (I do plenty of that already), but doesn't Google's App Engine support Java now, as of sometime in the last week or so? It supports a subset of Java with a series of heavy limitations, and you need to likely work within an API. I doubt its a cut and paste

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

2009-04-14 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Getting ad-hoc space is relatively easy. Creating a space in which people can *create things* requires some collection of parts, equipment, kit and tools. The permanence of this collection is a necessary condition of the space, I think. What do used school buses go for these days? :)

Re: VAGUE meeting topics

2009-04-14 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
OLPC runs Windows XP.[1], but even before that, Sugar was a hibotchory of poor design. XBMC is depreciated (and cant run content over 480i) and Boxee is the best branched codebase. Tell Flint hes 6-9 months behind the curve, but I still want to use his soldering iron. Cheers, Stan 1:

Vermont FOSS Design Firms?

2009-04-13 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Hey All, As many of us do -- I have a few groups that I do work with that occasionally want me to help them with some work on their website. One such group works with an out of state Vendor that has locked them in pretty tight, developing everything in their cms that is proprietary and closed

Re: Vermont FOSS Design Firms?

2009-04-13 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
it with proprietary software if they want. We build all of our web applications now on Zend Framework which also uses the New BSD License so this helps keep licensing simple and consistent for our clients. Thanks, Bradley On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff s...@vtwireless.com

Re: Mounting USB port in VBox

2009-04-12 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html See if the device is showing up (but not picked up by Palm..) Stan On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:40 PM, David hac...@gmail.com wrote: Instead of reinstalling the software, could you perhaps reboot the virtual machine? I know this really doesn't

Soldering Iron?

2009-04-08 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Speaking of geeky themed teen centers for adults -- Does anyone have a soldering iron of reasonable quality? I have a junky RadioShack 30w iron that won't heat up the contacts on my laptops motherboard to replace the power jack. Stan

Re: VT Hackers Meetup

2009-04-06 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote: Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com writes: Tomorrow (Tuesday the 7th) in Waterbury at the Alchemist. Shall we say 6:00? Should I call in advance and try to reserve a few tables? As I recall, they don't do

Re: hackerspace by any other name...

2009-03-31 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Flint, This seems overly obvious -- did you try calling his office as an interested tech-citizen? I am sure tehy would love someone who was supporting his efforts right now -- so make sure you end it with some anti-veto gay marriage comment. Stan On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Paul Flint

Re: hackerspace by any other name...

2009-03-31 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Brinkerhoff wrote: Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:06:22 -0400 From: Stanley Brinkerhoff s...@vtwireless.com Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts VAGUE@list.uvm.edu To: VAGUE@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: Re: hackerspace by any other name... Flint, This seems overly obvious -- did you try

Re: VT could use one of these...

2009-03-30 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Freeride Montpelier and the Onion River Exchange (thrift store/office) are both looking for space. I have no idea what is out there in Montpelier for office space/other space. I wonder what sort of (realistic) fundraising we could come up with. I know I would be willing to put $$ toward a place

Lightweight Modern Distro?

2009-03-28 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Any suggestions on a low-footprint Linux distribution that will allow me to basically use it to act as an SSHFS (under fuse) to Samba bridge? Bonus points for every MB under 500mb it takes up. Super bonus points if it comes as a VMWare image. Stan

Re: Lightweight Modern Distro?

2009-03-28 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
for...@alittletooquiet.netwrote: Hi, On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:37:26AM -0400, Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote: Any suggestions on a low-footprint Linux distribution that will allow me to basically use it to act as an SSHFS (under fuse) to Samba bridge? Bonus points for every MB under 500mb it takes up

Re: Vermont Hosting Providers

2009-03-22 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
There is a local ISP in Bellows Falls (Sovernet) you might want to get in touch with -- except their rates for colo-servers (last time I checked) were more expensive than someone like RackSpace or ServInt (I have 3 server w/ ServInt and love them!). Back when I was doing some work with Rene I had

Re: Vermont Hosting Providers

2009-03-22 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:09 PM, H. Kurth Bemis ku...@kurthbemis.comwrote: I will second, third and fourth slicehost. I do work with two clients who have slicehost -- and being able to buy 1/8th a machine and migrate seamlessly to 1/4th or 1/2 has been amazing. They have great customer

Re: Stan is mean...

2009-03-22 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Paul Flint fl...@flint.com wrote: Dear Stan, You got a point, but I like IBM - er... SUN, and I am fond of Warner... Also, who knows what he will be using when I leave? Love, Paul You mean EMC? Are you suggesting your smuggling in a Vista CD? In

Re: apache ssl configuration question

2009-03-18 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Named cert = Each site on different IP Wildcard cert = Multiple sites (under same domain) on same IP, different domains different IP's. Our setup has three SSL hosts going to a single IP, but we map them all to one apache vhost entry and break them out with mod_rewrite. Stan On Wed, Mar 18,

Re: Router recommendations

2009-03-17 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Wow -- Did I really setup SmoothWall over there! I would recommend segmenting your network -- I believe you had more than one IP on the T1. 192.168.x.0/24 (servers) -- T1 192.168.x+1.0/24 (dmz servers, inbound) -- T1 192.168.x+2.0/24 (workstations) -- T1 Route all traffic from x.0 through the

Re: vtSDA Special Announcement (3/12)

2009-03-14 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
This thread is like a throwback to 1990. I love it. If I knew of 8-tracks and vinyl as anything other than counter-culture I would make VAGUE (see what I did there!) reference to preferring them over inferior digital mp3s. Stan On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Paul Flint fl...@flint.com

UVM (Xen NOT VMWare) Blackboard

2009-03-14 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Can someone remind me what the problem was with Blackboard @ UVM that Xen solved and VMWare was not able to do? I remember something about an iscsi volume, two servers, and not being able to access the data store on both servers? Or such? Stan

Dell Perc5 SAS Raid - Read/Verify Errors

2009-03-14 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Thoughts? I've never monitored a raid card status before -- are a few errors normal? (See the verify tot/corr line) -7hrs ago a0 PERC 5/i Integrated bios:MT28 fw:1.03.10-0216 encl:1 ldrv:1 rbld:30% batt:good/4014mV/24C a0e8s2SEAGATE ST3300555SS279GiB a0d0 online

Re: Silicon Dairy closes suddenly

2009-03-11 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
“We’d received an email about a month ago, telling us they were going to close on Friday the 13th,” said Bethany Silva, the technologyhttp://burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090311/NEWS02/90311037#coordinator for King Street Youth Center. “They shut down on Monday.” Caught off guard? I

Re: Authenticated Print Server

2009-03-10 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Can you define the operating systems, general scenario and use case, and goal you are trying to achieve? SAMBA wont fix this as neatly as it sounds like you want it.. The printer will just appear offline to a windows client until the user authenticates with the server -- which will NOT happen

Re: FOSS Voting

2009-03-02 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Buying votes requires money... Or FOSS powered voting machines. I see what your doing here. Stan

Re: annc: unix UG meeting, Tue 2/17 7-9pm; sipX: an Open Source VOIP PBX

2009-02-17 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
I'm not sure what the libraries food/drink policy is, but I would kick in 10 towards pizza if someone took it upon themselves to have vegitarian friendly pizza present. Stan On 2/7/09, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote: Monthly meeting of the Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts. A

Re: New Member

2009-02-12 Thread Stanley Brinkerhoff
Welcome! I hope to see a new face at a VAGUE meetup! Stan On 2/12/09, ruokblah blah ruokb...@gmail.com wrote: Ello Everyone, I just joined the mailing list and figured I would say Hi. So, Hi, A little about me. I am a computer user from a young age installed my first Linux opperating

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