On 01/17/2018 01:35 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote:
> I'm looking for some sort of single login server. Not single sign-on.
> That's something this could enable in some cases, but it's not my goal. I
> just want to have one account that isn't a social media thing. Ideally it
> would fulfill these:
>
>
On 06/08/2016 01:00 PM, Jeff wrote:
All,
I live in American Fork and get my internet through AFConnect which
gives me aprroximately 15 MBit for $39.99. I know they have a faster
tier (30 MBit for $69.99) but are there any other options that anybody
knows about in the $60 or below per month level
Hi PLUGers,
I thought you might appreciate this job announcement from my company.
If you have the skills and interest, please take a moment to learn about
WingCash and the cool tech we're building.
Shane
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On 10/08/2012 02:03 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 10/08/2012 01:30 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote:
>> The large current requirement (10A) and the need for a middle position
>> make the circuit interesting and difficult to achieve using low cost
>> analog components. An analog H b
On 10/08/2012 11:57 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 10/08/2012 11:36 AM, Hugh Clark wrote:
>> Perhaps I don't fully understand the problem, but couldn't you use an
>> H-bridge to control the motor (only needing 1 DC power supply) and an ADC
>> on the Arduino to measure the position? The code in the
On 10/25/2011 10:10 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote:
> Again, I'm not trying to sound like a jerk but the job description is
> vague, the requirements unclear and the pay seems well below the
> market average for entry level. If you can clear any or all of these
> up you'll find better qualified candidat
On 09/16/2011 02:38 PM, Richard Esplin wrote:
> I have no hands-on experience with Plone. Before responding to your question,
> I spent a few minutes brushing up on the features. I was surprised that Plone
> has a lot more document management features than I was previously aware of.
> Alfresco a
On 09/16/2011 11:19 AM, Richard Esplin wrote:
> I should have been more precise and said open source content
> management system for unstructured content.
>
> Drupal, Wordpress, and Plone are web content management systems that
> focus on presentation management.
>
> Alfresco is a general content m
On 09/16/2011 10:29 AM, Richard Esplin wrote:
> Alfresco Community Edition is the most widely adopted open source
> content management system.
Just curious, but how do you figure that? It seems like Drupal,
Wordpress, and Plone (among others) are more widely adopted than Alfresco.
Shane
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On 08/23/2011 12:45 AM, S. Dale Morrey wrote:
> However I've made up my mind, after looking at the overall support and
> talking to customer service at both Microchip Direct& Mouser, it
> looks like the clear winner for speedy development with lots of
> community support is going to be an Arduino,
On 08/01/2011 02:17 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote:
> I have no life (literally)
You might not qualify for the position because, by your own admission,
you are dead.
;-)
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On 06/10/2011 06:13 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote:
> Anyone have any up-to-the-moment opinions on any digital SLR cameras?
> Looking to get something that I can do some nice photos and possibly HD
> video here and there. I don't want to do any lock-in formats like the
> Sony Memory Stick (tm) or whatnot,
On 06/01/2011 08:51 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> On 06/01/2011 02:27 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote:
>> Similar proofs can be constructed for any countable set:
>
> Related to this, I've been wondering why irrationals are not considered
> countable. Is it not true that for a
On 06/01/2011 02:27 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> Similar proofs can be constructed for any countable set:
Related to this, I've been wondering why irrationals are not considered
countable. Is it not true that for any irrational number, a computer
program can be written that converges to that numb
On 05/26/2011 07:39 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 05/26/2011 07:32 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote:
>> Thoughts?
>
> For the Jakes on the list, do cosmologists agree that the universe is
> not infinite in size? Just wondering. While my own personal religious
> beliefs accommodate almost all of science
On 05/26/2011 07:32 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 05/26/2011 02:56 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
>> While we are contemplating deep questions... do you think it is
>> possible to use regressive hypnosis to "remember" what your
>> experience was like in the womb?
>
> I have memories of when I was very
On 05/24/2011 03:52 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
> I love technology. Just like any tool, it can be used for good or
> evil. I think Social Media is amazing. Of course, the more
> amazingly helpful a tool is for "the good guys" the more amazingly
> helpful it is to "the bad guys". Just because so
On 05/24/2011 03:19 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote:
> On the other hand, some folks seem convinced that their facebook
> accounts are wonderful places to discuss the upcoming vacation where
> they won't be home for two weeks. Oh and uncle Otto! Lets not forget
> him, uncle Otto Beoutajob, he's such a h
[Re-sent with a better subject and more trimming]
On 05/24/2011 02:08 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote:
> My advice to everyone is to stay the heck away from social media period.
> For those of you who don't there are social media "erasers" but they
> are run by lawyers and cost accordingly.
OTOH, you ar
On 05/24/2011 02:08 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote:
>> Not different. I think they are creepy too.
>>
>> Cool technology. Immensely valuable for my local photo collection. But a
>> globally searchable database has lots of sinister implications.
>>
>> And to be clear, I don't think it takes a jerk to cre
On 05/22/2011 01:25 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote:
> I also collect them up a few times a year and use them to build
> computers for kids here locally who's families might not be able to
> afford a new computer for school work etc.
Cool! Do you have a page somewhere that lists what parts you need?
Sh
On 05/13/2011 01:44 PM, Merrill Oveson wrote:
> big-O?
The Wikipedia article makes it sound complicated. Here it is in a nutshell.
Let's say you have two algorithms that do the same thing but in a
different way, and you need to choose one. Big-O notation is a good way
to compare the theoretic
On 05/10/2011 01:45 PM, hatem gamal elzanaty wrote:
> my question is what development packages i need to start c programming
> on linux and what is not can you help in that please give me detailed
> instructions and syntax i'm a new to c on linux
Once you have your compiler installed, type this:
On 05/04/2011 02:19 PM, Spencer Gibb wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Matthew Walker wrote:
>
>> Stick with UUIDs, for sure. They eliminate several possible headaches.
>>
>
> So, UUID's don't change with the new hardware? If that's the case, great!
Correct. Even better, if you're runnin
On 04/30/2011 11:39 AM, Eric Jacobs wrote:
> On Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Ryan Byrd wrote:
> Everybody uses GoDaddy. Seriously, everyone does. You should too.
> I can't stand GoDaddy, personally. Their ads are annoying and they have the
> 'mega-corporation' mentality. They are huge, an
On 04/26/2011 04:08 PM, Steven Morrey wrote:
> My point is that passwords no matter how secure are only as secure as
> the person answering the phone who is always more than willing to go
> the extra mile to help!
Amen.
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On 04/23/2011 04:35 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Wade Preston Shearer
> wrote:
>> If it were me, I'd set them up on everyDNS
>
> Isn't EveryDNS (as we know it) going away? I deleted an account that
> must have been around for a decade or so (I can't be sure, but
On 04/17/2011 04:47 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote:
> Experience has shown that the majority of people do not want to think
> much about security. Instead of pursuing a theoretic, mathematic ideal,
> it's time to acknowledge human psychology.
Yes, to acknowledge human psychology, passwords should be usab
On 04/17/2011 07:22 AM, Charles Curley wrote:
> One way to deal with this problem is to scramble the password when
> writing it down. Unscrambling it will be invisible to an observer
> because the password entry widget will only show asterisks.
Most people would not be very creative in the way the
On 04/16/2011 05:53 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote:
> They're all physical objects that are easy to steal, yet you (hopefully)
> realize immediately that because we keep them physically close they're
> sufficiently secure. Write down a password and it becomes the equivalent
> of of a physical security tok
On 04/16/2011 03:49 PM, Andy Bradford wrote:
> Thus said Shane Hathaway on Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:41:31 MDT:
>
>> I want to include this idea in the password meters I create for web
>> applications. I need a better password scoring algorithm. I don't want
>> to *re
On 04/16/2011 01:19 PM, Joshua Marsh wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:48, Nicholas Leippe wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Ryan Simpkins
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> When dealing with Qwest, caveat emptor!
>>
>> I coulda told ya that. :)
>>
>> Hope you get it worked out.
>>
>
> So, who does e
On 04/16/2011 02:21 PM, AJ ONeal wrote:
> More importantly, why isn't SSO being used instead?
Let's say you're developing a public web site and you want people to
access it more securely than they would access a blog. What kind of
authentication would you use? I doubt it would make sense to us
On 04/16/2011 08:40 AM, AJ ONeal wrote:
> This is near and dear to my heart so I had to evangelize:
> http://www.baekdal.com/tips/password-security-usability
I want to include this idea in the password meters I create for web
applications. I need a better password scoring algorithm. I don't wan
On 04/12/2011 11:57 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> I am looking for a tool to help me simulate a badly behaved TCP/IP
> network connection. I want to simulate a network with high latency, low
> bandwidth, frequent bit errors, and occasional drop-outs. This will help
> me test some software I'm writing.
I
On 03/24/2011 10:34 PM, Daniel C. wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Doran L. Barton wrote:
>> - Moose is a post-modern object system that makes OO development easy and
>> even
>> fun.
>
> What exactly is a post-modern object system?
According to the bottom of the first page of the manual
On 03/21/2011 06:58 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
> Plug,
>
> It's been about two years since I turned to the PLUG for hardware
> advice (I was looking for a document scanner at that time). I was
> pretty darn pleased with the direction I was given.
>
> Fast-forward 24 months... I've done some rese
On 01/22/2011 02:15 PM, Bryan Thomas wrote:
> cheaper alternative if you don't mind refurbished =>
> http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=1248
Nice recommendations, Bryan and Tod. Thanks.
Shane
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I am looking for a simple, reliable server that will act as nothing but
a bridging (transparent) firewall. It will run Linux, it must be rack
mountable, it must have 2 ethernet ports, and I think it should have a
redundant power supply. It's easy to find cheap servers, but the
requiremen
On 01/08/2011 03:03 PM, AJ ONeal wrote:
> Does anybody know where I can find the .deb, .exe, and .dmg for Chrome that
> doesn't require network to install?
Install Chromium instead. It's virtually equivalent and it's already
packaged for Ubuntu (probably Debian too).
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On 01/07/2011 09:29 PM, Make Compile wrote:
> Guys, I need your help on how to block jpeg executing on windows xp,
> meaning, i don't want my users be able to view images ANY images like
> pictures, wallpapers,etc. on their desktop. any ideas how to do this
> on windows xp. I will very much appreci
On 01/03/2011 10:12 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:45:19 -0700
> Russel Caldwell wrote:
>
>> What does it mean if the computer shuts down after memtest86 runs for
>> a few minutes?
>
> It means you have serious hardware problems, likely RAM.
Or, equally likely, a defective moth
On 10/27/2010 06:03 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
> I know there are some web developers on the list. Also, if you know
> of anyone who may be looking feel free to pass this on to them:
>
> http://www.authenticjobs.com/jobs/6647
FWIW, I've been working with Eli Kirk and they seem to be a great
comp
On 10/06/2010 07:35 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 10/06/2010 12:26 AM, Levi Pearson wrote:
>> Did I say it was a spatial dimension? No. I said it was as real as
>> the spatial dimensions, which clearly implies that it is not itself a
>> spatial dimension.
>
> Just as long as no one goes around c
On 09/29/2010 09:03 AM, Joshua Lutes wrote:
> I just moved my domain name away from GoDaddy and I need to move my hosting
> away from them as well. I just use it for my personal blog and file
> transfers and the like. Would Linode be good for this or would anybody
> recommend another hosting serv
On 09/16/2010 02:34 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote:
> A good rule of thumb might be that if you're talking to open source
> purists or linux users from a previous era, trim and bottom post. For
> mixed audiences or just modern email users, they tend to keep track of
> their email conversations better with
On 09/11/2010 03:40 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> I'm creating a very simple web application, and I want to use python.
> My first guess was that mod_python would provide the easiest entry
> point. Boy, was I wrong. All the mod_python tutorials spend 80% of
> their time extolling the virtues of mod_pytho
On 08/27/2010 06:00 AM, Charles Curley wrote:
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
>
> Did you notice the publication date on that?
Yes, but it still seems like a good idea. Switching power supplies
already have most of the circuitry you would need to manage a battery.
Shane
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On 08/26/2010 09:40 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Generators bring some interesting things to the mix. As you say you
> can't have a generator without a UPS. But the UPS has to be pretty
> smart when switching back and forth between line, battery, and
> generator. Not only does the UPS have to car
On 08/16/2010 10:22 AM, Von Fugal wrote:
> [...] HDCP is pretty much dead. It's hard to even find a TV that does HDCP
> anymore, not that anyone would ever want to. There was a HUGE backlash
> from consumers over that fiasco. So basically, you have blueray
> downgrading when it's not HDMI, but HDMI
On 07/16/2010 02:34 PM, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote:
> I needed people with Linux expertise to help leverage people off
> of Windows onto Linux for security reasons. Specifically, I see
> the following two areas as ripe for the picking:
>
> 1. People at home. Many have very little technical knowledg
On 07/16/2010 01:09 PM, Levi Pearson wrote:
> ESR annoys me almost as much as RMS. At least RMS was a real hacker;
> ESR is just kind of a hacker groupie with an inflated sense of
> self-importance. He's had some good ideas, he's made a few code
> contributions, and he's definitely been heavily i
Hi,
I think I need an algorithm to process all this rambling. Here is a
first cut:
# python
>>> input = """[your message]"""
>>> import re
>>> ' '.join(re.findall('[A-Z]{2,}', input))
'AND THE PIPELINE BETWEEN THE TWO OF YOU DSL XP SE GB RAM VERY FAST
PIPELINE ON LINUX HTML RAM ANY RAM GB O
On 06/24/2010 12:54 PM, Jessie Morris wrote:
> On 6/24/10 12:48 PM, Charles Curley wrote:
>> Depends on how long you plan to shut down. If you will exhaust the the
>> battery in suspension, then use hibernation. However, hibernation
>> writes a memory image to a swap partition, where bad guys can r
On 06/24/2010 09:44 AM, Charles Curley wrote:
> I realized that what was farkled was not the kernel itself, but the
> initrd. So I made a backup copy of the fallback kernel's initrd. I then
> purged the hibernate package. In the process of removing it, apt
> created a new initrd -- replacing the fa
On 05/20/2010 01:29 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
> You could give S4 a try:
>
> http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/
Ugh... the site looks real enough to fool some people out of their
money. The site's arrogance is disgusting. Does Jeremy not know that
"write-only" and "write-once" are ofte
On 05/07/2010 01:39 PM, Levi Pearson wrote:
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote:
>> So you're saying Marx said:
>>
>> 1. Acknowledge existing social problems.
>> 2. ???
>> 3. Utopia!
>
> That's clearly not what I'm saying.
On 05/07/2010 10:52 AM, Levi Pearson wrote:
> The endgame of Marxism and anarchism are essentially the same. Marxism,
> however, defines a transitional period including a powerful, though
> democratic, state that is required to reach the goal. The fact that no
> transitional government inspired by
On 05/06/2010 11:23 AM, Joseph Hall wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ken Jordan wrote:
>> Could they use scp instead?
>
> I think you're expecting too much of Alice and Bob. They have a client
> that they like, and they're sticking with it, no matter what we
> recommend.
>
> The world wou
On 04/16/2010 11:11 AM, Doran L. Barton wrote:
> On Friday 09 April 2010, Ryan Simpkins proclaimed:
>> Anyone care to post a rational response to these views?
>
> I have.
>
> http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/politics/2010/04/the-deal-with-net-
> neutrality.html
You dealt with some aspects of net n
On 04/12/2010 11:17 AM, Steven Alligood wrote:
> In fact, the same thing applies to Comcast and blocking any and all
> ports that they deem abusive. If their business model precludes your
> torrents, then find another ISP. And don't argue that you cannot; the
> Internet is NOT a basic human righ
Dave Smith wrote:
> That may indeed be a better option, but the hacker in me wants any
> excuse to setup a relay and a cron job. :)
Amen.
Shane
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Dave Smith wrote:
> Has anyone gotten a USB device that requires "Virtual COM Port" support
> to work in Linux? I'm considering employing this relay[1] to perform a
> nightly reboot of my pile-of-junk Comcast cable modem.
Assuming the serial controller on that board is supported by Linux, when
Eric Wald wrote:
> Could these two be added by a simple wrapper around your real cron job?
> It could start by adding a single line to a log file, then steal all of
> the input and pipe it into sendmail. Rough guideline:
>
> echo `date -u +"%s"` "$@" >> /var/log/jobsrun.log
> ( echo "From: $...@l
Justin Hileman wrote:
> If I were starting a project like this, I would start with launchd,
> not cron.
You mean this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd
It looks Mac-centric and over-reaching. To clarify, I need to run my
scripts on several virtual private servers in different locations.
Hi PLUG,
I'd like some suggestions for Unix/Linux software that does just a bit
more than our old standby, cron. I'd like:
- A simple way to add new jobs (like cron)
- A complete report of what was run and when (cron doesn't do this)
- An email even if the job takes a long time (cron apparent
Charles Curley wrote:
> When I run fairly disk intensive tasks, like copying tens of gigabytes
> to this machine, it slows to a crawl. Disk I/O slows down by two
> orders of magnitude.
Are you saying you expect to be able to write 90 MB/s under ideal
conditions, but that when you try to achieve t
Brandon Stout wrote:
> In other words, the longer any discussion is, the greater the likelihood
> that anything will be discussed.
Sure, but discussions often converge toward the Nazi topic specifically.
That convergence is an interesting phenomenon.
As a rule, whenever the Nazi topic comes up
Jessie Morris wrote:
>
Lost your voice? :-)
Shane
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Jessie Morris wrote:
> Stephen Shaw wrote:
>> If there are any arduino[0] gurus out there it would be cool to see
>> something on that.
>>
> I was thinking the same thing, actually. I just received one for
> Christmas. :)
Wow, what a great gift. An Arduino beats just about everything on
Thin
Scott Jones wrote:
> I tried what you said, and there's no change. I have used your
> suggestion in the past to fix firefox issues, but what's weird is, I
> went to linuxjournal.com and the tech tip video didn't display, no
The Linux Journal tech tip videos are flash-based. An easy way to tell
i
Scott Jones wrote:
> I'll try that in a few hours when I am back at that box. If, base on
> my history and experience with this issue, this solution doesn't work,
> would purging firefox and then doing a fresh install of firefox
> possibly help repair this?
Although it's possible that the Firefox
Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
> No really, it's marvelous. Think about it... you get all the
> benefits of a truly enterprise DB (MSSQL) and world-class webserver
> (IIS) without having to leave Linux. And thanks to the Wine project,
> it Just Works.
>
> The best part is that doing a simple "apt-get
Stuart Jansen wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 14:31 -0700, Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
>>> I didn't know MSSQL could run on Linux.
>> Michael, you should know better. I run MSSQL Server & IIS using wine
>> on Linux all the time - it runs wonder
Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Sasha Pachev wrote:
>> How about 17?
Ok, I bothered to search for an 11s rule. It obviously applies to 0x11
just as well.
http://www.jimloy.com/number/divis.htm
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Adam Jerome wrote:
> Excellent point Alan.
>
> It just goes to show that there is no such thing as "base 10".
> Rather, what is commonly termed "base 10" is actually "base A".
> Think about it...
Enlightened people use base e. I have about 102.12 fingers.
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Sasha Pachev wrote:
> I just came up with this while teaching my son about numbers. Let's
> see how quickly somebody figures this out.
>
> If you had a 64 bit number written down in hex, how could you quickly
> tell without the aid of any computational device, including pencil or
> paper if it is
Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Sasha Pachev wrote:
>> Question for EE geeks. I want to have something like this. Sensor A,
>> Sensor B, Sensor C, let's say up to 16 sensors. Each separated from
>> each other by no more than 2 meters at any given time. Each sensor
>> need
Sasha Pachev wrote:
> Question for EE geeks. I want to have something like this. Sensor A,
> Sensor B, Sensor C, let's say up to 16 sensors. Each separated from
> each other by no more than 2 meters at any given time. Each sensor
> needs to be small enough that if you attached it to the body and tr
Stuart Jansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:23 -0700, Andrew McNabb wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:15:45AM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote:
>>> http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Saving_Lives.txt
>> Maybe it's just because I'm on BYU's network, but I'm getting this:
>
Michael Torrie wrote:
> Does anyone know of anything that would fit the bill? MediaWiki does
> offer some of this, but access control is very manual
> (LocalSettings.php) and very coarse. Security and access control is not
> something that MediaWiki was designed to be, which is understandable
> g
Steven Alligood wrote:
> I get tired of home users constantly griping that they cannot constantly
> use their full bandwidth. Let me clue you in. Bandwidth costs money.
> Most ISPs are paying on the order of $10 - $50 per megabit. If you are
> using your full bandwidth all the time, you are
Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 27, 2009, at 12:51PM, "Shane Hathaway"
> wrote:
>
>> How is Rapidwave these days, anyone know? Do they understand that
>> Internet nodes should be peers, not mere consumers?
>
> I am a satisfied Rapidwa
Alex Esplin wrote:
> Yeah. It's a crying shame XMission can't get in on better service than
> DSL in Provo. I'd switch to fiber in a heartbeat if I could get fiber
> from XMission.
FWIW, fiber to American Fork via XMission would easily save me a lot of
money right now. Therefore I'd be willing t
On 20 Oct 2009, at 11:59, Bryan Sant wrote:
>> My next shot at an MMA fight will be sometime in January.
Good show, Bryan!
Jonathan Duncan wrote:
> Nice work Bryan! Next time, where a Tux. ;)
Like this?
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-22_11-197338-26.html
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Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
> My wife recently went to BatteriesPlus and they wanted 4X as much for
> the same battery found online (same name brand and from 10's of
> different online resellers). This is the kinda thing that makes it
> hard to know if you're getting what you pay for (either way). I
Charles Curley wrote:
> I have a Lenovo R51, which takes a 1 GB PC2700 DDR SODIMM 333 MHz
> memory card. Alas, the memory card I have for it just died, and I am
> down to the 256 MB that came with the computer. Since I am coming into
> Sandy for the UTOSC, I figure I should grab a replacement while
Charles Curley wrote:
> http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/035550.html
>
> The lady makes some very good points.
My solution to her dilemma: I use OpenVPN and x11vnc to be the
"household Linux butler" for my extended family. It works out quite
well and doesn't consume much of my ti
Dave Smith wrote:
> Yes, this question came up about a year ago, and XMPP and IRC were
> considered. I never really pursued those options further because I'm
> somewhat opposed to having a central "broker" (for lack of a better
> word) that acts as a single point of failure, and adds complexi
Dave Smith wrote:
> I already have a good marshaling method: Google Protocol Buffers. Now I
> need some good software for sending messages to and from different parts
> of the system.
I mentioned Twisted. If Python is out, I think I'd use libevent, which
provides something like the core of Twi
Dave Smith wrote:
> For those of you who are writing distributed software that does a lot of
> network communication between lots of processes on different hosts
> (traditional distributed system), I have a question for you:
>
> What software are you using to move data and events between the
>
Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> My server goes down from time to time. When it does, it is still on
> but none of the services respond (no response from SSH, Apache, ping,
> etc). The server is just a web server. Each time, I reboot it and it
> comes back up just fine. I'm trying to figure out what k
Levi Pearson wrote:
> I don't have anything to say about Guru Labs, really, but I can
> recommend throwing things at Stuart. ;)
We should have a session of throwing things at each other at UTOSC. It
would be amusingly unproductive. :-)
Shane
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Matthew Walker wrote:
> Secondly, I have a server that's having major issues with I/O to the root
> partition.
> Twice in the last 12 hours, it's switched the root FS to read-only, and then
> kernel
> panicked. The errors that seem to precede the problem are journal I/O errors.
> The
> partition
Russel Caldwell wrote:
> Let me ask you this. What do you think a teacher needs to do to encourage
> students to work on there own, especially in computer science? One young
> programmer who impressed me very much said that the teacher should encourage
> play which I totally agree with. He said tha
Joseph Hall wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote:
>> Alternatively, is there a good place to get one for cheap? It turns out
>> that the terms are really hard to search for online, and the best I
>> could find was $25.
>
> I have a bunch of generic wall adapters that I k
Jeff wrote:
> Peter (and everyone),
>
> >Did you get any traction on this?
>
> I did find an answer just yesterday (from a different source though).
> Thanks to everyone on the list though, the suggestions were great!
Out of curiosity, what did you decide to do? Did you go the GPS route,
Sasha Pachev wrote:
> A) Tell him he's got it all wrong, he needs a sysadmin to run his
> system. Since he does not have a backup and who knows what his
> application does now after being hacked, he needs to re-install the OS
> on his dedicated server that is 1000 miles a way, and the application
>
Mike Lovell wrote:
> I have a machine that has 4 disks in a raid 10 using md. The machine
> went through an unclean shutdown yesterday and when the box came up, I
> saw errors like the following in the kernel log and the array no longer
> works.
>
> [ 28.575149] md: raid10 personality registe
Jeff wrote:
> I am trying to find a contract electronics design company who can help
> me design a product (the product will run embedded Linux so it's not
> entirely OT). I've talked with a couple of different local companies
> (VPI, Neonics) and based on the discussions I had with them I've
>
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