On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:02:07PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> The second-hand CardScan is working with Linux. The craigslist
> seller advertised it as Mac compatable. He gave me a copy of the
> Mac software installer cardscan.pkg, which allegedly runs with
> this scanner. However, it complai
Hey Chaz,
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Chaz Sliger wrote:
> I would like to build a system that has removable mirrored drives.
I think you will have a hard time doing this the way you envision.
> I'm thinking of having 3 drives - 2 in the system, 1 on the shelf, and
> rotating them daily.
Ahhh, memories of PCs stepping the floppy head at 30msec or some other
similarly brain dead rate instead of what the drives were capable of.
Talk about buzz saw! :)
> It is from a PC.
Is it a 1.2M or 360K disk?
You can read either in a 1.2M drive but you can't read a 1.2M disk in
a 360K drive. I
On 11/26/2012 06:20 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:19:21 -0800
> "Richard C. Steffens" dijo:
>
>> Is it possible that the BIOS doesn't support 5-1/4" drives? Or did I
>> miss something else?
> It is not only possible, but likely. One of the advantages of the
> (then) new 3-1
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:19:21 -0800
"Richard C. Steffens" dijo:
>On the Advanced menu page there is an entry called Floppy
>Configuration. When I go to that page, there is an entry called Floppy
>Type. There are only two options, <1.44MB> and <2.88MB>.
>
>Is it possible that the BIOS doesn't suppo
I just installed a 5-1/4" floppy in a Gateway box I got from Free Geek.
When I try to read a floppy disk, the disk drive spins, the pilot light
lights, and then I get a message that says:
Unable to mount location
No media in the drive
I remembered that I had not done anything in the BIOS after
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Dale Snell wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:39:27 -0800
> C W wrote:
>
> > Is it wise to add other DEs once Ubuntu 12.04 is installed?
> >
> > Hey Everybody,
> >
> > I have a friend who installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on his work desktop PC.
> > He's spent the last mon
Its totally fine to run multiple desktop environments on one install in
fact the Lightdm Logon Screen fully supports multiple desktops and will
show a icon for each one.
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:39 PM, C W wrote:
> Is it wise to add other DEs once Ubuntu 12.04 is installed?
>
> Hey Everybody,
>
I *may* have time to put together a short talk on OWASP, what it is
all about, what our chapter is doing locally, and introduce FLOSSHack,
(a hacking competition designed to audit open source apps).
Or if that isn't technical enough, I could give a talk I recently gave
at BSides PDX on an open so
Hey all,
The holidays have proven disruptive for everyone and no one has stepped
forward for the December slots. I offered a plan-B of me giving my BHyVe
hypervisor talk but that's a bit niche.
The person who recently came up about physical security is interested
but looks like they will need
I would like to build a system that has removable mirrored drives.
I'm thinking of having 3 drives - 2 in the system, 1 on the shelf, and
rotating them daily.
Q: Is there a motherboard with good hardware mirroring support?
Anyone done anything like this?
~chaz
c...@bctonline.com
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.pkg files are actually .xar archives. This Stack Overflow post has the details
on how to get at stuff inside of them:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11298855/osx-how-unpack-and-pack-pkg-file
Look for .plist files and see if there are tags inside of those that specify a
specific OS version.
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