Re: testing....

2016-06-13 Thread Tony Harris
Yes? -- Tony Harris Director of Academic Technology Community College of Vermont tony.har...@ccv.edu (802) 828-2975 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean.) --- PRIVACY & CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This mes

Re: Bashists Unite!! The Empire shall Embrace, extend, and exterminate"

2016-03-30 Thread Tony Harris
that the overhead of setting up and running Cygwin just to get a bash prompt ends up being prohibitive in a lot of circumstances. -- Tony Harris Director of Academic Technology Community College of Vermont tony.har...@ccv.edu (802) 828-2975 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually

Re: Testing the Listserver...

2012-08-27 Thread Tony Harris
Swim List Server. Was that intentional? -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont tony.har...@ccv.edu (802) 828-2975 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean.) --- PRIVACY CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message

CCV Job posting

2012-02-03 Thread Tony Harris
background check. Any offer of employment is contingent upon the satisfactory results of this check. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont tony.har...@ccv.edu (802) 828-2975 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean

VT Northern Lights CDC looking for PHP contractor...

2011-08-22 Thread Tony Harris
available applicants need apply. Contact: Maureen Young-McCarthy CCV - Springfield HDEC, 307 South Street Springfield VT 05156 maureen.young-mccar...@ccv.edu (802) 885-8374 -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont tony.har...@ccv.edu (802) 828-2975 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One

And another job posting...

2011-08-22 Thread Tony Harris
...@ksepartners.com Please - no phone calls. EOE -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont tony.har...@ccv.edu (802) 828-2975 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean.) --- PRIVACY CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message

Re: Best Video Card for multihead

2011-06-27 Thread Tony Harris
the average box tends to have. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont tony.har...@ccv.edu (802) 828-2975 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean.) --- PRIVACY CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message

Re: Likely an embarassing personal problem...

2011-06-03 Thread Tony Harris
From what version to what version? I've done some Ubuntu upgrades and not had huge problems. A few small things where it would leave old stuff lying about. The only major issue I had was not having enough space on my netbook to do an upgrade in place, so I bit the bullet and rebuilt it.

Re: OpenOffice =~ s/Open/Libre/, and s/Oracle//

2010-10-01 Thread Tony Harris
Yeah, I can make the IMAP thing work with Exchange, although it is periodically a battle to convince people that we really have to have the IMAP support turned on at all. But Mulberry is very happy with it. It's really the calendar that's the major problem. I have to use it out of

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

2010-09-17 Thread Tony Harris
at the VSC without ever moving towards it, and it would be nice to have a good, solid practical intro with example that I could look at and perhaps duplicate in test. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont harr...@ccv.edu (802) 828-2975 Dwirze ski, evarre kolex. (One by one

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

2010-09-17 Thread Tony Harris
Well, that's a very cool name and I could go with it, but might want us to do the occasional presentation on current populations of mythical creatures in Vermont, or related topics... ;-) --On Friday, September 17, 2010 1:14 PM -0400 Anthony Carrico acarr...@memebeam.org wrote: On

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

2010-09-15 Thread Tony Harris
advocacy. Perhaps if there's enough desire for such a wider group, it might be worth starting another one, and letting VAGUE stay with the more *nix/FOSS hacker focus. My two cents. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont harr...@ccv.edu (802) 828-2975 Dwirze ski, evarre

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

2010-09-15 Thread Tony Harris
I guess my concern is that if we say we're a tech enthusiast group, there probably are a lot more Windows geeks out there than Linux geeks, even today. We could easily find our FOSS focus (which is more the issue than *nix anyway) diluted to the point where we're doing presentations on the

Re: Changing the SSL Cert after hostname change

2010-07-29 Thread Tony Harris
Agreed. Regen the cert with the new name. In essence it's not the server complaining, it's the browser complaining that the address in the cert does not match the address it went to, which is true, and is what the browser is supposed to be watching for. If this is a purchased cert, the

FOSSVT

2010-04-09 Thread Tony Harris
Anyone here besides me attending FOSSVT at Lake Morey today? -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont harr...@ccv.edu (802) 828-2975 Zhe verhs lhong bleyeng, nogza dhon negel nelho sevanan. (The truth is simple, however thinking about it requires eternity

Re: FOSSVT

2010-04-09 Thread Tony Harris
--On Friday, April 09, 2010 10:21:35 AM -0400 Michael H. Martel mart...@quark.vsc.edu wrote: --On April 9, 2010 10:13:10 AM -0400 Tony Harris harr...@ccv.vsc.edu wrote: Anyone here besides me attending FOSSVT at Lake Morey today? Not me, i'm being beat up in a Sharepoint Meeting. Wow

Re: Fwd: Amazon, Microsoft sign patent deal

2010-02-23 Thread Tony Harris
Microsoft is a for-profit public corporation, and in today's version of capitalism that means that the bottom line and the resulting stock value takes precedence over everything, including truth, evidence, or ethics. In Microsoft's view, even if they're doing a poker play with patents, as long

[no subject]

2010-01-22 Thread Tony Harris
What distribution (or even OS) are we talking? I script yum and have it set up in a cron job on my CentOS boxes, although I'm cautious about doing that with production systems just lest some bad update come through (I know, none yet, but too many years of occasional Microsoft updates making

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2010-01-22 Thread Tony Harris
I haven't had as good luck with that, although I believe you should be able to script apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade to do essentially the same thing. I messed with it once on my Ubuntu desktop at work but it didn't work right off and I didn't have time to figure what I might have

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2010-01-22 Thread Tony Harris
://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 1:47 PM, Tony Harris harr...@ccv.vsc.edu wrote: I haven't had as good luck with that, although I believe you should

Re: Wheres my $400,000?

2009-10-13 Thread Tony Harris
No kidding. First, we have to assume that the contractor was pretty iffy to begin with since he had to have known he wasn't supposed to be paid the extra $400K, but cashed the check and spent the money anyway. Second, there are supposed to be checks and balances in place, and one would

Re: Wheres my $400,000?

2009-10-13 Thread Tony Harris
I still wonder why appropriate checks and balances, which should be available in any computerized system the city might have been using, missed the overpayment on an invoice for a year. And how the auditors missed it entirely, since that's *why* you have auditors come in, to make sure

Re: Scathing self effacement...

2009-10-08 Thread Tony Harris
This has the potential to become a very fowl discussion... --On Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:28:51 AM -0400 Tom Kastner li...@inbox.com wrote: Nice job Paul. Hope you can pullet off. Tom On Thursday 08 October 2009 9:34:23 am Paul Flint wrote: Dear List Lurkers, Based upon the Times

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

2009-07-29 Thread Tony Harris
--On Wednesday, July 29, 2009 09:43:19 AM -0400 Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of VAGUE topics, how about a mini seminar on emacs use? Maybe the same for vi, so as not to start a religous war separation of church and mailing list and all. I've just started using emacs

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

2009-07-28 Thread Tony Harris
Love Vim. Keep trying to grok emacs because I keep believing with that eLisp programming language in there it has got to be super powerful, but can't quite get past the Wordstar finger-pretzel key combinations. Nano (formerly pico, I believe, from the people who brought you Pine and now

Re: Pool open today

2009-07-27 Thread Tony Harris
Hi Brian, Don't worry about it. Barre isn't far for me at all and I'm still not going! I'm not a big pool person and have other plans anyway. Mainly I lurk on this list. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont harr...@ccv.edu (802) 828-2800 Dwirze ski, evarre kolex

Re: Draft Letter to the Editor, Times Argus

2009-06-16 Thread Tony Harris
You could just keep the goats as pets. I know of people who do that. Just owning a goat doesn't mean you'll have to eat it eventually. ;-) --On Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:02:10 AM -0400 Balu Raman brama...@gmail.com wrote: As someone who has given up one car and riding a foot-pedal bike

Re: [BULK] Re: Mac Cloning

2009-05-21 Thread Tony Harris
. Dave David Tisdell. Music Teacher Browns River Middle School dave.tisd...@cesu.k12.vt.us (e-mail) Tony Harris harr...@ccv.vsc.edu 5/20/2009 3:31 PM If the server OS has the same import your settings stuff as the workstation OS, that would be the way to go as it I believe it brings in apps

Re: Getting someone else off the mailing list

2009-05-21 Thread Tony Harris
However, if you can't send email with a from address that's the same as the subscribed person's address, I don't think that'll work. If there's a web interface to this list, that method would work. Or the listowner could manually remove his address. --On Thursday, May 21, 2009 10:02:06 AM

Re: Mac Cloning

2009-05-20 Thread Tony Harris
If the server OS has the same import your settings stuff as the workstation OS, that would be the way to go as it I believe it brings in apps and their settings. You cannot just image a PPC OS to an Intel. I don't believe it would have the dual-mode (fat) binaries for the drivers and base

Neoware Eon4000I Thinclients - anyone want 'em?

2009-04-02 Thread Tony Harris
to the Goodwill's computer equipment recycling program, or some equivalent group. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont harr...@ccv.edu (802) 241-3535 Dwirze ski, evarre kolex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean.) --- PRIVACY

Re: FW: VTdotNET April Meeting ... and __Code Camp__??

2009-03-26 Thread Tony Harris
it would be great to have a similar one for Java, or PHP, or whatever. But if we want one of those, maybe one of us ought to make the offer and see if they'd like us to come do one, instead of complaining that they're holding a Microsoft-based workshop. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community

Re: FW: VTdotNET April Meeting ... and __Code Camp__??

2009-03-26 Thread Tony Harris
Well, cool. Even less of a reason for us to wonder about equal time, then. Having them give a presentation on some open source thing would be like expecting us to do a .net presentation at our next VAGUE meeting... --On Thursday, March 26, 2009 02:48:44 PM -0400 Josh Sled

Re: vtSDA Special Announcement (3/12)

2009-03-14 Thread Tony Harris
Actually as I remember HTML was a compromise. They really wanted us to use RTF or some other internal proprietary system, and did that in earlier versions. And they still, I think, tack on that stupid .dat file to include special formatting information or something. --On Saturday, March

Re: New Member

2009-02-17 Thread Tony Harris
touching them, like Welsh mutations only a lot more complicated). Welcome, Ruok! -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont harr...@ccv.edu (802) 241-3535 Dwirze ski, evarre kolex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean.) --- PRIVACY

Re: Local Communications Security: Who are we missing?

2009-02-07 Thread Tony Harris
Perhaps instead of cranks you might use the term pioneers, giving an image of us as pushing the limits into new and important territory, blazing a trail that the less adventurous will follow only after it has been deemed fully safe. --On Saturday, February 07, 2009 12:50:35 PM -0500 Paul

Re: Loss of Alt+#### function

2009-02-06 Thread Tony Harris
What sort of PDA is it? And, what sorts of things do you want to sync? PalmOS based PDAs are, so I understand, not too hard to sync. In fact a lot of Palm functionality is built into Ubuntu, including syncing with Evolution for mail and calendaring. (Now, if you can get Evolution to

Re: Loss of Alt+#### function

2009-02-06 Thread Tony Harris
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Tony Harris harr...@ccv.vsc.edu wrote: What sort of PDA is it? And, what sorts of things do you want to sync? PalmOS based PDAs are, so I understand, not too hard to sync. In fact a lot of Palm functionality is built into Ubuntu, including syncing

Re: Loss of Alt+#### function

2009-02-05 Thread Tony Harris
I thought that was really just a Windows function. Never seen it on a Linux install. But using multiple keyboard layouts so far I can get anything I've wanted to type. --On Thursday, February 05, 2009 08:13:02 AM -0800 Warner White warnercwh...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear Vaguers-- I have

Re: Design...

2009-01-29 Thread Tony Harris
* are a fit. Thanks, Bradley On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Tony Harris harr...@ccv.vsc.edu wrote: --On Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:22:25 PM -0500 Rion D'Luz riond...@gmail.com wrote: A friend of mine applied for over 120 jobs in 2006 and received 6 denials, 1 calls, and 1

Re: Design...

2009-01-29 Thread Tony Harris
--On Thursday, January 29, 2009 05:24:58 PM -0500 Rion D'Luz riond...@gmail.com wrote: Your company is upholding it's end of the bargain by not leaving anyone hanging for their efforts. I wish most other .com did likewise I wonder how much of that is because we're a .edu and not, in fact,

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

2008-12-10 Thread Tony Harris
I rather agree with Chris. The only place you really get serious MS lock-in is, as I said, when you have some other application that's in a niche market and thus has little competition to begin with, and no workable open source competition, is a big, important part of your business, and that

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

2008-12-08 Thread Tony Harris
that organizations are having to invest in training anyway. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze ski, evarre kolex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean.) --- PRIVACY CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE

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

2008-12-08 Thread Tony Harris
--On Monday, December 08, 2008 10:54:59 AM -0500 Paul Flint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Tony Harris wrote: Actually with budget cuts, rollbacks of existing budgets, and renegotiation of software licensing contracts from vendors like Microsoft who are themselves under

Re: holy diff!

2008-09-23 Thread Tony Harris
Watch it... --On Tuesday, September 23, 2008 01:31:58 PM -0400 Rion D'Luz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Dan Clough wrote: Well, not exactly, as that wouldn't be an equivalent comparison. The terms Hussein and MBNA are simply truthful statements regarding Obama's

CCV Burlington seeks Java instructor

2008-08-14 Thread Tony Harris
FYI, if you or anyone you know is interested in teaching Intro to Java. Tony = CCV Burlington is seeking a part-time JAVA instructor for a 3-credit course this fall. The details are as follows: * The course meets Wednesdays, Sep 3 - Dec 10,

Re: Meeting? Wed August 20th?

2008-08-06 Thread Tony Harris
Alas, I will miss this one as well. Got an early morning all-day work thing in Brattleboro the next day, and I'll need to prep (and get rested...) Some one of these months... Tony --On Monday, August 04, 2008 08:40:47 PM -0400 Josh Sled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The August meeting as per

Job Posting: LAN/System Admin

2008-06-30 Thread Tony Harris
letter, resumé, and references to Elmer Kimball (CTO, [EMAIL PROTECTED]), Lisa Yaeger (Dir. of HR, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) or myself. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean

Re: meetings: Jun: UVM datacenter; Jul: open source digital audio

2008-06-16 Thread Tony Harris
. @Brad: Welcome! I lurked for a long time too, and many here would justly comment that I still mostly lurk. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze ski, evarre kolex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean

Re: Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

2008-05-01 Thread Tony Harris
There are a few things the Windows key can be used for, but you're right, not a lot. WindowsKey+M minimizes all windows WindowsKey+L locks the screen WindowsKey+E loads explorer as you say I think there are a few others. And of course there's the ContextMenu key, or whateve you want to call it,

Re: Ten Most Beautiful Computers

2008-04-18 Thread Tony Harris
Actually I always felt that the big iron had the coolest look. The IBM System/370 was big, jet black, and had a front panel covered with lights that flashed as it worked. Only a few of them were *really* useful if you were a sysadmin as opposed to a CSE (hardware tech). But it looked

Re: FOSSVT conference... Anyone here going? Contact info? - TonyHarris

2008-04-03 Thread Tony Harris
--On April 2, 2008 10:25:43 PM -0400 Rion D'Luz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2008 21:10, Tony Harris wrote: I wish I could say that my coworker and I attending this signals some major shift in the Microsoft bias even for CCV, let alone the Vermont State Colleges

Re: April meeting?

2008-04-03 Thread Tony Harris
. We don't have a venue, either. Would anyone like to volunteer one? Does the Mac Lab at UVM work, or can we get the other space at UVM that was discussed a while back? -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO

FOSSVT conference... Anyone here going? Contact info?

2008-04-01 Thread Tony Harris
# and it's not on the NCOSE page. We've submitted a Contact NCOSE form, but I'm not sure how fast that gets read and we're in a bit of a pinch. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Zhë dishthe shthál ñe lhôñ svóná záxá. (The direct path

Re: FOSSVT conference... Anyone here going? Contact info?

2008-04-01 Thread Tony Harris
their FIN, but I expect Brian will get back to you pretty quickly. Rubin On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 11:08 -0400, Tony Harris wrote: Hi all, I and a coworker are planning to attend the FOSSVT conference at Lake Morey Inn on Friday. Anyone here going? And more urgently, does anyone have direct contact

Re: Attention GUI programmers: your advice, please?

2008-03-31 Thread Tony Harris
. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean.) --- PRIVACY

Re: Attention GUI programmers: your advice, please?

2008-03-28 Thread Tony Harris
: Dear Tony, Eric Raymond referred to perl as Write Only http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/python/vsperl.html http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/w/write-onlylanguage.html On the other hand python... Hmmm... Regards, Flint On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Tony Harris wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:59:08

Re: Mar 19 meeting notes

2008-03-20 Thread Tony Harris
. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean.) --- PRIVACY CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain

Re: [BULK] an attempt at heading off the flames (was The real reason we use Linux...)

2008-03-17 Thread Tony Harris
I think the combo you're referring to is actually Cmd-Opt-P-R and resets the parameter RAM on the Mac... On 3/15/08 10:52 PM, sth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | and when I | actually want to accomplish something with the computer instead of |

Re: The real reason we use Linux...

2008-03-15 Thread Tony Harris
it comes down to it, the time I spend using Linux on the laptop is time spent tweaking, tuning, fixing, or whatever, and when I actually want to accomplish something with the computer instead of spending time figuring out *how* to accomplish it, I use the Mac. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community

Re: Last call for names

2008-03-05 Thread Tony Harris
I just sent you my info to add me as well. On a related note, I learned at town meeting yesterday that Worcester is looking to spend money on software this year. I'd like to contact them with an offer to demonstrate that FOSS can be used to do anything they're doing now with proprietary

Re: Last call for names

2008-03-05 Thread Tony Harris
and it works fine, and NEMRC even is OK with it. The NEMRC client, unfortunately, is Foxpro based and thus Windows only :( Rubin On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 16:31 -0500, Tony Harris wrote: I just sent you my info to add me as well. On a related note, I learned at town meeting yesterday that Worcester

Re: March (April) meetings [WAS: Re: Will all the dancing Hitlers please wait in the wings. We're only taking the singing Hitlers.]

2008-02-29 Thread Tony Harris
I think we'r sort of vaguely organized. Which is quite appropriate... --On February 28, 2008 6:25:32 PM -0500 Richard Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wait... VAGUE is about as (formally) organized as the name suggests, I've found. It's something of an anarchist organization, from

Re: Feb meeting followup?

2008-02-29 Thread Tony Harris
Along the lines of this, when the FOSS in Education one happens I'm thinking I'd like to make all of VSC-IT (as in, the IT folks at the 5 State Colleges + the Office of the Chancellor) aware of it, if it'll include stuff useful to higher ed, not just primary/secondary schools. Same thing with

Re: March (April) meetings [WAS: Re: Will all the dancing Hitlers please wait in the wings. We're only taking the singing Hitlers.]

2008-02-29 Thread Tony Harris
and selecting the topics for discussion groups that would be held, and fitting them into timeslots. It actually worked a lot better than one might initially expect. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Zhë dishthe shthál ñe lhôñ svóná záxá

Re: London Calling...

2008-02-28 Thread Tony Harris
issue? That seems to be the real problem here, and I didn't see anything in his comments that actually address the issue we're having. Tony On 2/28/08 8:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Tony, On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Tony Harris wrote: So, here's the story

Re: Did Dell fail math class? Or is good old fashioned fraud?

2008-02-28 Thread Tony Harris
Ah, the wonders of the Corporate World. They probably will tell you that the 25% includes other stuff you won't have to bring now because this new laptop is so *cool*. Yeah, it's not much physically lighter than the old one, but it'll *feel* lighter because it's very cool and awesome. ;-) Tony

Re: Feb meeting followup?

2008-02-27 Thread Tony Harris
Actually the Oracle version is 10g, not 11i, but that's trivial. Excellent discussion of FOSS in education, including the discussion of FOSS in higher ed. I thought the education presentation from Michael wasn't happening until the April meeting. Did I misunderstand that? Tony --On

Re: The horror of versionitus...

2008-02-27 Thread Tony Harris
PM -0500 Forest Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:13:45PM -0500, Forest Bond wrote: Hi, On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 02:45:37PM -0500, Tony Harris wrote: I hear tell that the latest Ubuntu has abandoned using bash as its default shell in favor of dash, which

Re: Meeting Tonight, now with OpenMoko phone and XO Laptop!

2008-02-20 Thread Tony Harris
That's fine with me. I wasn't sure I wanted to wait until 7pm or so to eat anyway. On 2/20/08 4:43 PM, Rubin Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, all... Since I haven't heard anything more about pizza, I'm planning on coming to the meeting without food and running on the assumption that

Re: Regionalization/ useability question...

2008-02-05 Thread Tony Harris
rbTechnologies, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thatitguy.com (802)223-4448 Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Ben Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community

Re: Wednesday Feb 20th

2008-02-04 Thread Tony Harris
PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Tony, Congratulations!!! BTW you get to pick up the tab... Where do you want VAGUE to express mail the Pizza? (I got me an unmarried daughter myself! :^) Mazel tov and... Kindest Regards, Paul Flint On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Tony Harris wrote: Date: Mon, 04 Feb

Re: GNU in schools?

2008-01-31 Thread Tony Harris
believe they're capable. On 1/30/08 4:17 PM, Tony Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to add to this picture, there is also the bundling effect. For example, we migrated away from Sharepoint to Blackboard's Content System (built on Xythos and Lucene) because we had it, and it integrated

LAN/Systems Admin position at CCV

2008-01-25 Thread Tony Harris
FYI, all... We have a new posting for a LAN/Systems Administrator in Burlington. http://www.ccv.edu/about/jobs/lansystems_administrator._burlington_or_waterb ury/index.html If you know anyone interested. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241

Re: GNU in schools?

2008-01-24 Thread Tony Harris
in the post-secondary world be a lot more flexible about using Open Source products in our teaching. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean

Re: Inspirion (w/ Ubuntu 7.10) Laptop Purchase Decision

2008-01-21 Thread Tony Harris
available), that I could easily get a whole lot of PC computer for the cost of a Mac. Unfortunate, but true. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean

Re: Next Meeting

2008-01-14 Thread Tony Harris
now. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Zhë dishthe shthál ñe lhôñ svóná záxá. (The direct path is not always straight.) --- PRIVACY CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is for the designated

Re: Dual booting

2008-01-10 Thread Tony Harris
For what it's worth, we do not install Windows on any of our Linux servers, and we have never had a problem getting support from Dell, Compaq/HP, or IBM on them. Admittedly there have been things that are a bit more awkward, such as managing RAID controllers. But the big players seem to know

Re: Relentless plugging of Linux at CCV

2008-01-09 Thread Tony Harris
balance it with the amount of time we have (3CR course means 39 hours of class time). -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean

Re: Relentless plugging of Linux at CCV

2008-01-07 Thread Tony Harris
hours of class time). -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean.) --- PRIVACY CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is for the designated

Re: Linux at CCV

2008-01-02 Thread Tony Harris
Cool! I had a feeling whoever was teaching that might be on this list. Good to know! -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean

Re: Linux at CCV

2008-01-01 Thread Tony Harris
an Intro to Linux course, done in Burlington by D. Tisdell this semester (I don't know him/her, I'm afraid). But by all means, come, and steer anyone else towards these too! Tony -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze skí, évárre

Re: Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 (live CD) has arrived via snail mail...

2007-12-06 Thread Tony Harris
For what it's worth, I did the upgrade on a machine from Feisty to Gutsy and had no problems. That said, I should qualify that the machine in question isn't one I use extensively. I always used to be a rebuild/reinstall, never upgrade person, and doing upgrades I've run into the app X was left

Re: Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 (live CD) has arrived via snail mail...

2007-12-06 Thread Tony Harris
Upgrade, in my experience, means it'll roll through the packages you have installed that are upgraded in the new version, plus add any packages it considers to be part of the new version. It usually won't uninstall anything at all, which was my problem with the RPM oddities going from CentOS 3 to

Re: upgrade dapper2edgy - or a sharp stick in the eye?

2007-11-05 Thread Tony Harris
. OTOH, upgrading is a whole lot faster and easier than backing up what you need, formating and doing a fresh install, and rebuilding the settings you need. Especially when you have a short window in which to accomplish this. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: System Documentation with Wiki's

2007-10-26 Thread Tony Harris
didn't find images to be impossible. But admittedly I think someone who's a low-end basic user who isn't used to any sort of upload stuff like that would have a problem. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one

Re: VAGUE meeting 7:00pm, Tuesday, September 18

2007-09-17 Thread Tony Harris
, Paul Flint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Tony, Two Questions: 1. Are you going to the Montpelier library Geek-athon this Tuesday? 2. Can you bring the keyboard to the RT with you? Regards, Flint On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Tony Harris wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:18:12 -0400 From

Re: Hmm... - Imagine

2007-08-09 Thread Tony Harris
On 8/9/07 1:56 PM, Ernie Buford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forest Bond wrote: Using ISP-provided e-mail addresses ties you to that ISP. There's already a significant lack of choice when it comes to ISPs, isn't there? I'm not sure that is true if you mean tied to the ISP as a

Re: Hmm... - Imagine

2007-08-08 Thread Tony Harris
Personally I think the problem is more unrestrained capitalism, i.e. capitalism where there is no check or balance on those with wealth using that wealth to crush others, lock down the market, and then charge abusively for their good or service. This is especially true where the good or service

Re: Hmm...

2007-08-08 Thread Tony Harris
It's certainly way more active than the list tends to be normally! On 8/8/07 3:24 PM, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First we go from a funny read that I thought you guys would geta chuckle over, and now were acting politically, maybe I should do this more often? =P On 8/7/07, Josh Sled

Re: Hmm... - Imagine

2007-08-08 Thread Tony Harris
FWIW, Yahoo also comes to mind. For that matter, I assume you have an ISP? Most if not all of them also provide email. I don't happen to *use* my comcast.net account, but it's free with the service if I wanted to. On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 19:38 -0400, Bradley Holt wrote: On 8/8/07, Richard

Re: Hmm... - Imagine

2007-08-08 Thread Tony Harris
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 20:23 -0400, Forest Bond wrote: Hi, On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 08:05:44PM -0400, Tony Harris wrote: FWIW, Yahoo also comes to mind. Their Javscript client is a bit of a nightmare. You mean the beta Yahoo mail? It's not that bad, but you also don't have to use

Re: Would not be a memeber of a club that would have me...

2007-08-03 Thread Tony Harris
We're doing this on our student web server as well. No student IDs are actually defined on that box, rather the box uses the Active Directory as the authentication source, and lets people in by looking up the ID and password there. On 8/2/07 10:18 PM, Tom Cort [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of

Re: Would not be a memeber of a club that would have me...

2007-08-02 Thread Tony Harris
the VAGUE list not become an Ubuntu list, so to speak. I personally prefer CentOS. Although I did just download the Puppy Linux someone mentioned earlier. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets

Re: Would not be a memeber of a club that would have me...

2007-08-02 Thread Tony Harris
everything they want *legally*, that would help I think. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Dwirze skí, évárre kólex. (One by one droplets, eventually an ocean.) --- PRIVACY CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE

Re: an 'out there' inquiry

2007-05-22 Thread Tony Harris
then. It was four years ago... Nick On May 21, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Tony Harris wrote: As a matter of fact, yes, we here at CCV do a reasonable amount with Linux. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Zhë dishthe shthál ñe lhôñ svóná záxá

Re: an 'out there' inquiry

2007-05-21 Thread Tony Harris
for most of those courses for that same reason (we do have some Macs, but mainly for graphics arts courses). And some of the software we use for administrative staff and faculty may run on a Unix back end, but will only talk to a client piece running on Windows. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO

Re: RHEL (or CentOS) 5

2007-05-17 Thread Tony Harris
We've been using CentOS for all our Linux servers (other than those where vendor software requires us to use RHEL in order to get support), and have a couple of systems on CentOS 5 now. No problems at all. Seems nice and stable. -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont

Meeting Thursday, March 16th?

2006-03-15 Thread Tony Harris
? And, are there directions how to get to where the meeting will be held? Thanks! -- Tony Harris Assistant CTO Community College of Vermont [EMAIL PROTECTED] (802) 241-3535 Zhë dishthe shthál ñe lhôñ svóná záxá. (The direct path is not always straight.) --- PRIVACY

Re: March 16th meeting

2006-02-23 Thread Tony Harris
Actually if you're doing an LVS presentation, I'll definitely come to that. I've had it on my to-do list for a while to set that up for a system (array of systems) we use here at work. The Heartbeat one sounds cool too, and something on Cacti. When will the list of topics be finalized? Tony

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