Re: Anyone use System 76's Pop!_OS? Opinions?

[Chris Linstid]

I briefly tried it but I was installing it on my primary machine that I use
for gaming in Windows and it doesn't support dual boot out of the box with
GRUB, you have to use an EFI selector if you want to do that or manually
set up GRUB. I haven't had time to follow up on it yet, but it looks
promising and I definitely want to give it a solid try. I ended up going
back to Ubuntu so I had something working.

 - Chris


On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 12:09 PM Joshua Judson Rosen 
wrote:

> Are there any current or past users of System 76's Pop!_OS here?
>
> Just looking for some opinions rooted in actual use about what it's like
> and what sort of quality-of-life improvements exist for people using it vs.
> just installing upstream Ubuntu and managing that config yourself.
>
> If you tried it and kept it, why--what did you like about it?
> If you tried it and then ditched it for something else, why?
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Re: Old PC 486/P1/P2 ISA slot motherboard/PC?

[Warren Chris]

Thanks Maddog (and all others that have replied to me directly).

After talking to my friend in greater detail about what happened, it sounds
like data corruption on his OS drive (he had two drives in the machine)
probably due to hardware failure.  So it ran along enough for him to get
essential data off of it, now its toast.

Redeveloping the software isn't an option for him, at least that's what he
says.  He wrote the software 30 years ago and doesn't have it in him to
start from scratch...the system failing may be forced retirement. He may
end up buying something on Ebay, I know he visited with someone today but
turns out they didn't have what he needed (which now I understand is a 2
ISA slot board, P1).

We shall see. It's too bad, back in the Resara/Linux days we had lots of
this stuff laying around.  When we closed the office in 2011 we took about
80 computers to the recycling center, now I don't really have any spare
computer parts.

Thanks, have a great weekend!

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:46 PM  wrote:

> Hi Warren,
>
> Assuming that no pack rat answers you with a free motherboard, there are
> some on Ebay in the 25-40 dollar range, tested and guaranteed to work.
>
> You mentioned "upgrading" him to a P1 or P2.   I might suggest you stick
> with exactly what he had before and let him stay with W95 unless you have a
> reason to move him.   Along those lines how are his other components such
> as disks, etc?
>
>
> Someone mentioned a USB to ISA adapter.   I tracked down the company and
> here is the URL for a one slot board:
>
> http://arstech.com/install/ecom-prodshow/usb2isar.html
>
> Here is the URL for a three ISA slot board:
>
>
> http://arstech.com/install/index.php?app=ecom=prodshow=usb2isax3=36o79v9t3624qpggs903m60it3010rs7
>
> However, in reading the web page carefully you might want to to add some
> power supplies, a case, etc. and it appears the software that drives the
> interface requires a newer version of the operating system (Win XP, etc.),
> so there might still be application changes that you would have to make.
>  And the three slot solution would start at 169 USD and probably be about
> 200 USD  by the time you add the case, power supply and cables.
>
> Interesting is the fact that the converter also has a Linux driver (Intel
> 32/64 bit and ARM) and will run on the Raspberry Pi.  I do not know how
> complex the user-level application that feeds the controller is, or if he
> still has the source code for it, but that might be another alternative.
>
> To me it sounds like the more you try to move him to newer solutions the
> more things might have to change and it might be easier and cheaper to just
> try and replace the hardware exactly.You say that "he  built the
> machine" back in the 90s, so he might have an idea of how complex it would
> be to start over from scratch and move everything forward.
>
> Of course he probably has a backlog of disks now, and that solution might
> take too long and be too risky.   I would say the fastest and least risky
> solution is to buy an ebay board that is a duplicate to what he has, let
> him stay with W95 and think about moving him over the long term to another
> solution.
>
> Warmest regards,
>
> maddog
>
> On 03/10/2021 10:56 PM Warren Chris  wrote:
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> It has been years since I last posted here...Alas, I could use some help
> in regards to tracking down some older computer hardware.  I have a friend
> who built a machine to punch out discs for antique music boxes back in the
> 90's that was automated by a computer running Windows 95 (i know, i
> know).  well, after all these years, that computer has failed, and his
> backup computer has failed.  The controller that runs the machine is an ISA
> card, so I am helping him track down an old P1 or PII system with ideally 2
> ISA slots that we can hopefully rebuild his system with so he can continue
> his work.
>
> If you are curious, my friend is one of a handful, or the only person in
> the world depending on the music box, conducting new works and providing
> new discs for these music boxes.   He works out of his basement and has
> been doing this for 50 years, out of Peterborough, NH.
> <http://www.henstoothdiscs.com/Thorens45.htm>
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated in tracking this PC hardware down.
>  ideally we would like to build a system with redundant parts (power
> supply, motherboard, ram, hard drive. cpu) and willing to pay
> fair/reasonable cash prices.
>
> Thanks for your help, best regards!
>
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Old PC 486/P1/P2 ISA slot motherboard/PC?

[Warren Chris]

Greetings,

It has been years since I last posted here...Alas, I could use some help in
regards to tracking down some older computer hardware.  I have a friend who
built a machine to punch out discs for antique music boxes back in the 90's
that was automated by a computer running Windows 95 (i know, i know).
 well, after all these years, that computer has failed, and his backup
computer has failed.  The controller that runs the machine is an ISA card,
so I am helping him track down an old P1 or PII system with ideally 2
ISA slots that we can hopefully rebuild his system with so he can continue
his work.

If you are curious, my friend is one of a handful, or the only person in
the world depending on the music box, conducting new works and providing
new discs for these music boxes.  He works out of his basement and has been
doing this for 50 years, out of Peterborough, NH.


any help would be greatly appreciated in tracking this PC hardware down.
 ideally we would like to build a system with redundant parts (power
supply, motherboard, ram, hard drive. cpu) and willing to pay
fair/reasonable cash prices.

Thanks for your help, best regards!


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Re: Strategy for moving off big tech

[Chris Linstid]

I switched to Google Domains.

 - Chris


On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 5:00 PM Ray Cote 
wrote:

> Since we're talking migrations, where did people go after Oracle purchased
> Dyn?
> I'm looking to migrate off Oracle DNS this year.
> --Ray
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:54 AM jsf  wrote:
>
>>
>>- Browser
>>- https://bfy.tw/Q9RH
>>
>>- Email (server and client)
>>maybe try hey.com from 37signals (makers of basecamp)
>>
>>- Server hosting (web, database)
>>cloudways.com ?
>>
>>- Authentication services (for apps I build)
>>not my area of expertise
>>
>>- Messaging, team communications
>>mattermost.com
>>-
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 9:41 AM  wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, I long for the days when the Internet represented freedom and
>>> open exchange of ideas. I’ve become increasingly disgusted by big tech’s
>>> repression of Free Speech, and I’ve now reached my tipping point. Likewise,
>>> I realize I’ve grown too comfortable and reliant on the Facebooks, Googles,
>>> Amazons and plan to move (back) to open source software and independent
>>> services as much as possible. (So far Microsoft seems to be staying out of
>>> the SJW / cancel culture game). I am wondering what advise you might give
>>> with regard to alternatives for
>>>
>>>- Browser
>>>- Email (server and client)
>>>- Server hosting (web, database)
>>>- Authentication services (for apps I build)
>>>- Messaging, team communications
>>>- Other tools and services that you rely on for development and
>>>operations
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Re: CentOS vs Unbuntu desktop

[Chris Linstid]

Out of curiosity, why did you disable syslog?

 - Chris

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Susan Cragin <susancra...@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>
> I run Debian LXDE which is fast. And I have eliminated syslog and
> pulseaudio.
> FWIW.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Tom Buskey
> Sent: Sep 9, 2016 1:18 PM
> To: Richard Kolb II
> Cc: Gnhlug Discuss
> Subject: CentOS vs Unbuntu desktop
>
> I've tended to use CentOS for the server; at work they want RHEL and
> support.  With CentOS 5 and 6, I've found the desktop widgets to be
> lagging.  With Ubuntu (and Mint and other derivatives) there tend to be
> more desktop tools and they're kept up to date.  Everything is an apt-get
> install away.
>
> On my desktop, I want to play videos, music, talk to a sound card,
> graphics card, office suites, IDEs.  I don't need that on my servers and
> it's ok if things are a bit behind.
>
> I'd check out Mint as an alternative to Ubuntu before going to a CentOS
> desktop.
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Richard Kolb II <richard.k...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Not exactly related, but I just switched from windows 7 on my primary
>> machine to Ubuntu 16.x LTS. I found it horribly slow, which surprised me
>> considering it's a faster machine, more ram, and an SSD, over my 14.x LTS
>> machine. I then tried Ubuntu Mate and I may just jump over to Centos.
>>
>> Maybe I need to poke at what services I have running first.
>>
>>
>> Richard Kolb II
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been working with CentOS 6/7 based Openstack but have some Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> FWIW, I prefer the 16.x Ubuntu with SystemD to Upstart.  I've found it
>>> easier to learn with CentOS man pages than Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> I end up using service and chkconfig to start/stop and enable/disable.
>>>
>>> I've found initctl for Upstart vs systemctl for systemd.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I believe Ubuntu is perhaps one of the lesser-used distros in GNHLUG
>>>> land, but I'm hoping someone here might be able to offer some insight.
>>>>
>>>> I've got an Openstack install on Ubuntu 14.04 host systems, and after a
>>>> hurricane-induced power outage over the weekend, one of our hosts won't
>>>> boot -- it fails (seemingly) at loading an Openstack Neutron service.
>>>> So, I figure I'll go into /etc/init.d/ and just chmod -x all the suspect
>>>> services, see if it boots, and then manually load services.  Not so
>>>> much; that had zero apparent impact on the services loading.
>>>>
>>>> So then I did some reading up on Upstart, and found a whole bunch of
>>>> places that the services *might* be loading from... none of which seemed
>>>> to impact stuff.  I currently have the host booted by some serious
>>>> cheating (I pulled a disk, went to "manual repair mode" when it whined
>>>> about not being able to mount devices, and loaded services from there --
>>>> it completely fails to boot single-user), but how in blazes do I:
>>>>
>>>> * See what services want to be loaded?
>>>> * See *where* they get loaded?
>>>> * Load them individually?
>>>>
>>>> I've found some of the services mentioned in /etc/init/, /etc/init.d/,
>>>> /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/, /lib/systemd/system/,
>>>> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/ and
>>>> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/ .
>>>> I tried playing around with most (all?) of those locations, to no avail.
>>>>   Any insight into what I'm doing wrong would truly be most appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> -Ken
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Re: CentOS vs Unbuntu desktop

[Chris Linstid]

One of the other options is to start with ubuntu server (
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server). It will give you a very clean
starting point and you can just install what you actually need. I don't use
Unity, so I never start with that. I tend to lean towards XFCE or i3. If
you're more comfortable with the RH/CentOS ecosystem, then Fedora Core is a
solid choice. I believe that's what Linus Torvalds uses.

 - Chris

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote:

> I've tended to use CentOS for the server; at work they want RHEL and
> support.  With CentOS 5 and 6, I've found the desktop widgets to be
> lagging.  With Ubuntu (and Mint and other derivatives) there tend to be
> more desktop tools and they're kept up to date.  Everything is an apt-get
> install away.
>
> On my desktop, I want to play videos, music, talk to a sound card,
> graphics card, office suites, IDEs.  I don't need that on my servers and
> it's ok if things are a bit behind.
>
> I'd check out Mint as an alternative to Ubuntu before going to a CentOS
> desktop.
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Richard Kolb II <richard.k...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Not exactly related, but I just switched from windows 7 on my primary
>> machine to Ubuntu 16.x LTS. I found it horribly slow, which surprised me
>> considering it's a faster machine, more ram, and an SSD, over my 14.x LTS
>> machine. I then tried Ubuntu Mate and I may just jump over to Centos.
>>
>> Maybe I need to poke at what services I have running first.
>>
>>
>> Richard Kolb II
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote:
>>
>>> I've been working with CentOS 6/7 based Openstack but have some Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> FWIW, I prefer the 16.x Ubuntu with SystemD to Upstart.  I've found it
>>> easier to learn with CentOS man pages than Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> I end up using service and chkconfig to start/stop and enable/disable.
>>>
>>> I've found initctl for Upstart vs systemctl for systemd.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I believe Ubuntu is perhaps one of the lesser-used distros in GNHLUG
>>>> land, but I'm hoping someone here might be able to offer some insight.
>>>>
>>>> I've got an Openstack install on Ubuntu 14.04 host systems, and after a
>>>> hurricane-induced power outage over the weekend, one of our hosts won't
>>>> boot -- it fails (seemingly) at loading an Openstack Neutron service.
>>>> So, I figure I'll go into /etc/init.d/ and just chmod -x all the suspect
>>>> services, see if it boots, and then manually load services.  Not so
>>>> much; that had zero apparent impact on the services loading.
>>>>
>>>> So then I did some reading up on Upstart, and found a whole bunch of
>>>> places that the services *might* be loading from... none of which seemed
>>>> to impact stuff.  I currently have the host booted by some serious
>>>> cheating (I pulled a disk, went to "manual repair mode" when it whined
>>>> about not being able to mount devices, and loaded services from there --
>>>> it completely fails to boot single-user), but how in blazes do I:
>>>>
>>>> * See what services want to be loaded?
>>>> * See *where* they get loaded?
>>>> * Load them individually?
>>>>
>>>> I've found some of the services mentioned in /etc/init/, /etc/init.d/,
>>>> /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/, /lib/systemd/system/,
>>>> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/ and
>>>> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/ .
>>>> I tried playing around with most (all?) of those locations, to no avail.
>>>>   Any insight into what I'm doing wrong would truly be most appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> -Ken
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Re: What Language for a kid

[Chris Linstid]

AI and Emacs plugins... and there may be some overlap there.

 - Chris

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Alan Johnson <a...@datdec.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Bill Freeman <ke1g...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I can't resist.  There is always lisp.  No indentation.  No semicolons.
>> Format it so that it makes sense to you.  Anyone approaching algebra will
>> get the bonus of learning that parentheses must match.
>>
>
> ​I will second the beauty of the simplicity of Lisp.  Unfortunately, I
> don't know of much in the way of practical application of Lisp outside AI
> researchers... back in my college days at least.  No ideal what AI folks
> use most commonly now.​
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Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations

[Chris Linstid]

I'll throw in another vote for Linode. Their service has been excellent in
the couple of years I've been using them. I used ChicagoVPS before that and
while they are cheap, they are a very small operation and I had a bunch of
accounting issues with them.

DigitalOcean looks promising as well... if Chip can get you a good deal,
that may be a nice option.

 - Chris

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hey all,

 GNHLUG's server is being kicked out of our long-time free hosting.  Rather
 than trying to find a new home for the box, I'm thinking I'll just buy an
 account on a virtual machine hosting company, install a new system, and
 transfer to there.  That is the quickest and easiest path, and we do not
 have a lot of time.  Our deadline is JUL 31, roughly two weeks from now.

 I'd like to hear people's experiences, good and bad, with service
 providers.  Who is good?  Who is bad?  What to look for, or avoid?

 Current requirements that I can think of are:
 - Run an SMTP listener on TCP port 25 (receive email directly)
 - Initiate outbound connections to TCP port 25 (send email directly)
 - Run an HTTP listener on TCP port 80 (web server)
 - Run an SSH listener on a non-standard port (SSH remote access)
 - Run a DNS listener on UDP and TCP port 53 (authoritative name server)
 - Install and run arbitrary Linux software
 - Fairly low mail volume,web traffic, and DNS traffic
 - Fairly low CPU, disk, and RAM usage
 - No need for CPanel or other hand-holding software, and prolly better
 if we don't have it

 Lower prices are good, but it has to be reliable, too.  I'd rather pay
 more for a provider that has less trouble, than have to tinker with it
 constantly.

 I think this has been discussed before, but not recently, and I can't find
 the thread.

 Suggestions welcome, but we don't have time for you can put the server in
 my basement or other detours.

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Re: Web-based photo/video album?

[Chris Linstid]

I cycled through Gallery 1, ZenPhoto, Gallery 2 and a few others until I
got tired of supporting it myself. I just use Google+ now, especially since
most of my photos and videos are captured with my Nexus 5 and it's setup to
automatically backup all of my photos and videos to Google+. They even do a
pretty fair job of enhancing photos and it's easier to share albums with
specific groups of people. So, if you're ok with using Google for it, then
I do recommend Google+.

 - Chris

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:

 Hey, all.  It's the holidays, and I've decided it's time for me to get
 my family stuff organized.  I've used Gallery
 (http://galleryproject.org/) before, but it looks like it's gone into
 moribund mode -- and, honesty, the format was great back in Web 1.0
 days, but lacked the nifty interaction you get with newer stuff.  I've
 seen some that look decent, but don't appear to support videos.
 Wondering if anyone had any suggestions of applications that support
 both?

 Thanks (and may TuxSanta be good to you),

 -Ken
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Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

[Chris Linstid]

On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:

 I think FairPoint does have some service in NH that's analogous to FiOS,
 but I don't see any way to find out from their website how much it costs or
 whether it's even available in a given area. Their phone robot says to go
 check the website or call back during normal business hours.


It is actually FIOS. The lines were installed by Verizon, but only
partially lit up. When they sold their business in NH (and Maine?) to
FairPoint, FairPoint took it over and as far as I know, they have not
installed anything new (and have no plans to).  So, you either already have
it or you're not going to get it. I have a friend who lives in Hudson and
he has it. He says the speed is good, but their customer service is
terrible.

Where I am in Amherst, my only option is Comcast. I'm too far from a CO for
decent DSL speeds and I definitely don't have have FIOS available.
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Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

[Chris Linstid]

As I understand it, third-party ISPs have to rent the lines they want to
provide service on from the owners of the lines. They must not have a deal
with FairPoint for your area. :(

I'm in Amherst and use Comcast. I love to hate Comcast, but to be honest, I
have had very few problems with them and I get 30 Mbps/5 Mbps for
advertised bandwidth and I actually get that bandwidth most of the time. My
latency is generally really low unless there's a strange route. My example
of that was when I worked at Dell in Nashua who used Verizon for their ISP
and I was routed down through NYC and then back up again. But even then, I
was getting ~80-90ms pings. Good enough for most things, but now that I
work at Dyn who is using Comcast for their ISP, I'm much happier. I
generally get sub-30ms pings. :)

So, I'm not sure if Milford has Comcast (pretty sure they do), but from a
technical standpoint I generally recommend them.

 - Chris


On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:28 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:

 I'm on Fairpoint DSL in Milford. My measured down/up speed is about
 3Mbps/.6Mbps.

 I remember hearing good things about G4 from this mailing list, but they
 said:

 At 12000 feet from the CO, we would normally estimate speeds in the
 5-6Mb. However it looks like your connection goes through FairPoint
 equipment that our connections do not go through. Sorry we couldn't
 help you.

 Does anyone have more information about this? Does Milford have two
 parallel sets of equipment only one of which G4 can use? Or do they mean
 they just don't serve Milford?

 I've been on Fairpoint's site to try to glean anything about anything
 and there's basically no information there. They don't even say what
 speeds or prices their existing products are at, let alone what
 potential upgrades there are or anything about equipment. The bill just
 says HSI - Standard which I assume means High Speed Internet.

 Are there any other options in Milford? Or is this equipment thing
 limiting me? There's always cable, but my vague perception is that cable
 internet sucks for several reasons. Maybe I'm behind the times.
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Re: time for the annual Internet Speed Quest

[Chris Linstid]

No problems at all. I'm all Linux and OS X at home. No special software
required.

They definitely don't block port 22 for ssh. I'm pretty sure they block 25
and maybe 80.

 - Chris


On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 8:53 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:

 Chris Linstid clins...@gmail.com writes:
  So, I'm not sure if Milford has Comcast (pretty sure they do), but from a
  technical standpoint I generally recommend them.

 No problem with a Linux-only home network? How about ssh tunneling in
 via a dyndns-like service?

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Re: SSH authentication bypass?

[Chris Linstid]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:

 This is the article:
 http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/8051/print


I used the same lightly loaded AMD Athlon XP 1700+ CPU with 1GB of RAM and
version 2.4.27-1-k7 of the Linux kernel for all tests.

I'd love to see an update with current CPUs.

 - Chris
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Re: Files - Samsung Galaxy S4

[Chris Linstid]

I've used this ftp server in the past:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=lutey.FTPServer

I've also used AirDroid as others have suggested and it works pretty well.

Now, I just upload all of my music to Google Play Music and I stream most
of it. The albums that I tend to listen to really often (basically music I
play for my 2 year old), I pin in Play Music and it syncs the pinned
albums/songs to my local storage on my phone so I don't have to stream it.

I have a Nexus 5, so I don't even have the option of pulling out the micro
SD card.

 - Chris
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Re: Fifo buffer question

[Chris Linstid]

 I have a background process running from which I would like, from time
 to time, to check the console output. I do not want to dedicate a
 console window to it, and since I start it from a script the console
 output is usually just lost to the akashic ethers.

 I've not played with fifo buffers, but I'm wondering. Could I start
 the process with   fifo-buffer.txt and then when I want to check
 the output, run a tail -f fifo-buffer.txt for a few minutes?

 Since this is not a usual background process with log rotation and
 such, I don't want to fill my disk with a text file dump. But it would
 be nice to check in and make sure it's running without killing it and
 restarting.


I would use a user defined signal handler. So, basically you send the
process a SIGUSR1 signal (kill -SIGUSR1 pid)  and the signal handler
would dump the process status. You could either define an output file to
write to in the app itself or you could use stdout and redirect to a file
as you suggested. Either way, it would only dump text on demand.

What's the background process that you're doing this with? Every language
has its own way of registering a signal handler, including bash. There's a
decent write up about how to handle signals in bash here:

http://linuxcommand.org/wss0160.php

It mostly covers how to do cleanup if you get a SIGTERM or SIGHUP, but the
same would apply to SIGUSR1.

 - Chris
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Re: Fifo buffer question

[Chris Linstid]

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:

   Use the right tool for the job.  multilog is a utility which you pipe
 your stdout/err to, and it maintains logs, including log rotation, etc..
 So it can be spewing out all the time, but you can have say, 3 logs based
 on 100k each.

 If you have any need for logging beyond just checking the status of the
process every once in a while, then that's definitely a better choice than
what I suggested. :)
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Re: Fifo buffer question

[Chris Linstid]

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_cl...@comcast.netwrote:

 Sometimes I leave long-running compute jobs running under screen.
  Start them in one physical location.  Later, in some other location, I
 re-attach and look at my output.


I've done the same at my last few jobs when I had a long build (45 minutes
at my last job and up to 4 hours at my previous job) to wait for. After a
few unexpected ssh disconnects in the middle of a build, I learned my
lesson. Now I use it for pretty much anything (though I use tmux instead of
screen).
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Re: SSH timeout on password challenge.

[Chris Linstid]

Oops, forgot to reply to all.

  - Chris
On Jan 27, 2014 10:44 AM, Chris Linstid clins...@gmail.com wrote:

 If I'm understanding this correctly, it sounds like you just want the ssh
 command to fail if you're presented with a password challenge? If that's
 the case, then you can just add -o PasswordAuthentication=no and the ssh
 call should fail when it can't use one of the other auth methods.

   - Chris
 On Jan 27, 2014 10:23 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:

 Hey, all.  I'm scripting stuff to a zillion (ballpark) servers, and ones
 that are up, but haven't been fully deployed (i.e., don't yet have ssh
 keys) password challenge me.  While there *is* an ssh timeout option,
 it's my understanding that that's for when a connection fails to
 establish, NOT for when a password challenge happens.  My script is
 using the timeout command:

 timeout 5 ssh -n $host 'blahblahblah'

 but that seems to not be doing the trick.  Since my script *does*
 (eventually) e-mail out, I assume it's working... but I've been staring
 at it sitting at this one host password challenge for over 20 min., now.
   Even if it eventually times out, it ain't exactly optimal.

 Any bright ideas on how to do this gracefully?

 Thanks!

 -Ken
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Re: What are you doing for home NAS?

[Chris Linstid]

I've been doing something similar to Tom for almost as long (around 10
years). I started with a Linux server (Debian) with a pile of drives
running ext2/3. I distributed my files by category across the drives
(picture, movies, docs, source code, etc.). However, I got really tired of
that a few years ago when ZFS started getting popular and I put together an
OpenSolaris box with ZFS and pooled all of my drives together.

The Solaris box was all sorts of fun because I originally did that with a
PCI PATA software RAID card (specifically purchased because it had a driver
for Solaris x86) and mismatched disks (250GB, a few 320GB, a few 160GB) but
they will went together in the pool and actually worked reasonably well. I
would have been ok with that, but just like Tom, I was trying to use this
system as more than just a file server. It was a media server, an IRC
client, a VNC host, and a bunch of other things. Solaris's package
management and software availability was not that great. So, I moved over
to FreeBSD and struggled with the ports system (keeping it updated,
resolving conflicts, etc.) for a year or so until I finally gave up on it.

By then I had upgraded to 5x400GB SATA drives. I threw them all in a RAID5
under Ubuntu Server and called it a day until the motherboard on that
server died. At that point, I just cycled my main desktop down and made
that the server with two 2TB USB drives plugged in. One hosts everything
and the other is a backup. All backups are done via an hourly rsync (plus I
backup my home directories on the server to the backup drive). Some day
I'll get back to ZFS, especially now that it's in a stable state on Linux
so I can have the best of both worlds.

 - Chris


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:

 I 1st started running a home file server  12 years ago.  Being a
 sysadmin, I've built my own.  Everything here is for the home user.  I can
 kick my family off the server and deal with a week's downtime.  I probably
 can't do that at a business,

 I've used a Netgear ReadyNAS and a Buffalo TerraStation at work.  They
 couldn't keep up with gigabit ethernet to deliver  40 MB/s because of the
 ARM.  I've heard good things about Synology.

 I used to use RAID5, but I've switched to RAID1 because I only need to
 replace 2 drives for more capacity.  Also, fewer spindles means lower power
 use.  I don't use hardware RAID.  CPUs are fast enough now that the speed
 isn't that much of an advantage.  Dealing with drivers make it harder to
 repair from bare metal.  I've done SCSI, IDE and SATA.

 I'm at home so I don't care about hotswap.  I can power down for a fix.

 I've used Solaris with disksuite, Linux with mdadm + LVM + ext[234],
 Solaris with ZFS, OpenSolaris with ZFS and now Linux with ZFS.  I'd
 considered FreeBSD + ZFS.

 - I run RAID1 for the OS drives.  It's saved me a few times.
 - Put a UPS on it.  When it detects a power outage, do an automatic
 graceful shutdown ASAP.
 - Have your data on another set of drives.  That way an OS upgrade doesn't
 affect it.
 - chunk up your data into separate areas.
 photos
 books/manuals
 downloads
 music
 wife's home
 kid's home

 I've used LVM to set a size for the chunks.  Now I use ZFS.  LVM requires
 a umount to change size.  zfs is zfs set quota=newsize pool/chunk.  I use
 ZFS on Linux.

 I run NFS, Samba and http for access via Unixen, Windows, MacOSX and
 Android.  I've run Appletalk for old Macs I play with. I also run
 mediaservers for DLNA, DAAP, TiVo.  Solaris wasn't good at this.  FreeBSD
 probably isn't as good as Linux.  I know Synology will do this kind of
 thing.

 Once, I had a dual Pentium II w/ 1 GB RAM.  It wasn't enough speed for me
 (I want  40 MB/s on gigabit).  I was happy with a dual core 1.8 GHz system
 with 3 GB RAM.  LVM/Ext3 would be ok with less RAM and ZFS wants more.  You
 don't want an old P4 system because it uses too much power.

 If you need more disks then can fit in the chassis, you can use a 4 port
 SATA card ($20-$40), long cables and an old PC chassis with a power
 supply.  I ran 8 500 GB drives that way until I replaced them with 2 4TB
 drives using half the watts.  Paid for the upgrade in months.







 On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) 
 g...@freephile.com wrote:

 On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Mark Komarinski 
 mkomarin...@wayga.orgwrote:


 Anyway, I ordered the HP N54L, 8GB of RAM, and two 4TB drives.  This
 leaves me with two expansion bays and the ability to use FreeNAS with
 ZFS.  I looked at OMV but it seems to not be as mature as FreeNAS.  If
 anyone's interested I can do another post once it's built and in use.

 -Mark


 /me waving hand

 I'm interested.  Finally getting around to (re-)organizing my LAN-wide
 backups and storage.

 Greg Rundlett

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Re: What are you doing for home NAS?

[Chris Oelerich]

This is still going strong eh? Guess I'll throw in my cheapo anecdote.

I run an atom d510mo board w/ a picoPSU powered with an old monitor DC
adapter, 4g of ddr2 I had lying around, and two 3tb drives in raid1.

It's running FreeNAS off usb flash at the moment. I'm not a huge fan of the
web interface, but once all setup it does what it needs to. Everything I
read up on ZFS said I'd need more ram, but I'm getting ~40MB/s.

The motherboard I picked up for like $30 off a recycler so I think my total
cost was around $220. The DC adapter is only rated for 50w, but I think
with staggered spin ups it should be fine. Not exactly enterprise grade
though ^_^
On Jan 2, 2014 2:00 PM, Chris Linstid clins...@gmail.com wrote:

 I've been doing something similar to Tom for almost as long (around 10
 years). I started with a Linux server (Debian) with a pile of drives
 running ext2/3. I distributed my files by category across the drives
 (picture, movies, docs, source code, etc.). However, I got really tired of
 that a few years ago when ZFS started getting popular and I put together an
 OpenSolaris box with ZFS and pooled all of my drives together.

 The Solaris box was all sorts of fun because I originally did that with a
 PCI PATA software RAID card (specifically purchased because it had a driver
 for Solaris x86) and mismatched disks (250GB, a few 320GB, a few 160GB) but
 they will went together in the pool and actually worked reasonably well. I
 would have been ok with that, but just like Tom, I was trying to use this
 system as more than just a file server. It was a media server, an IRC
 client, a VNC host, and a bunch of other things. Solaris's package
 management and software availability was not that great. So, I moved over
 to FreeBSD and struggled with the ports system (keeping it updated,
 resolving conflicts, etc.) for a year or so until I finally gave up on it.

 By then I had upgraded to 5x400GB SATA drives. I threw them all in a RAID5
 under Ubuntu Server and called it a day until the motherboard on that
 server died. At that point, I just cycled my main desktop down and made
 that the server with two 2TB USB drives plugged in. One hosts everything
 and the other is a backup. All backups are done via an hourly rsync (plus I
 backup my home directories on the server to the backup drive). Some day
 I'll get back to ZFS, especially now that it's in a stable state on Linux
 so I can have the best of both worlds.

  - Chris


 On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:

 I 1st started running a home file server  12 years ago.  Being a
 sysadmin, I've built my own.  Everything here is for the home user.  I can
 kick my family off the server and deal with a week's downtime.  I probably
 can't do that at a business,

 I've used a Netgear ReadyNAS and a Buffalo TerraStation at work.  They
 couldn't keep up with gigabit ethernet to deliver  40 MB/s because of the
 ARM.  I've heard good things about Synology.

 I used to use RAID5, but I've switched to RAID1 because I only need to
 replace 2 drives for more capacity.  Also, fewer spindles means lower power
 use.  I don't use hardware RAID.  CPUs are fast enough now that the speed
 isn't that much of an advantage.  Dealing with drivers make it harder to
 repair from bare metal.  I've done SCSI, IDE and SATA.

 I'm at home so I don't care about hotswap.  I can power down for a fix.

 I've used Solaris with disksuite, Linux with mdadm + LVM + ext[234],
 Solaris with ZFS, OpenSolaris with ZFS and now Linux with ZFS.  I'd
 considered FreeBSD + ZFS.

 - I run RAID1 for the OS drives.  It's saved me a few times.
 - Put a UPS on it.  When it detects a power outage, do an automatic
 graceful shutdown ASAP.
 - Have your data on another set of drives.  That way an OS upgrade
 doesn't affect it.
 - chunk up your data into separate areas.
 photos
 books/manuals
 downloads
 music
 wife's home
 kid's home

 I've used LVM to set a size for the chunks.  Now I use ZFS.  LVM requires
 a umount to change size.  zfs is zfs set quota=newsize pool/chunk.  I use
 ZFS on Linux.

 I run NFS, Samba and http for access via Unixen, Windows, MacOSX and
 Android.  I've run Appletalk for old Macs I play with. I also run
 mediaservers for DLNA, DAAP, TiVo.  Solaris wasn't good at this.  FreeBSD
 probably isn't as good as Linux.  I know Synology will do this kind of
 thing.

 Once, I had a dual Pentium II w/ 1 GB RAM.  It wasn't enough speed for me
 (I want  40 MB/s on gigabit).  I was happy with a dual core 1.8 GHz system
 with 3 GB RAM.  LVM/Ext3 would be ok with less RAM and ZFS wants more.  You
 don't want an old P4 system because it uses too much power.

 If you need more disks then can fit in the chassis, you can use a 4 port
 SATA card ($20-$40), long cables and an old PC chassis with a power
 supply.  I ran 8 500 GB drives that way until I replaced them with 2 4TB
 drives using half the watts.  Paid for the upgrade in months.







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Re: Looking for some memory

[Chris Oelerich]

I have 1 stick of 1G sodimm ddr2, and a few 512M ddr sticks you'd be
welcome to. Unsure of speed. What's it for?
On Dec 7, 2013 5:50 PM, Dan Miller rambi@gmail.com wrote:

 Before hitting up newegg I figure I would ask if anyone has any of the
 following memory types:

 Laptop PC2-4200 Looking for chips 1 gig or greater

 Desktop PC-3200 Prefer 1 gig or greater, but if 512 is available, that
 can be a help.
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Re: DDR3 RAM stuff

[Chris Oelerich]

isn't that where the 'double' part of ddr comes in?


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote:

 The last time I rebuilt my system I forgot to include any swap. As a
 result, I've been paying attention to RAM use, speed, etc.

 I've had no problems. 4GB of RAM seems to be sufficient, but that
 doesn't stop me from using lshw to pull up the mobo, check the specs,
 and see what 16GB costs today on NewEgg.

 Anyway, it's finally gotten to me that the freq given in lshw for my
 DDR3-1600 RAM is 800MHz.

 *-bank:0
  description: DIMM Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
  product: STT-W1600UB2G9
  vendor: Manufacturer00
  physical id: 0
  serial: 
  slot: DIMM0
  size: 2GiB
  width: 64 bits
  clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)

 I know I've fiddled with the BIOS before, and I'm quite sure that I've
 verified that it's correctly detecting the 1600, but it's always said
 800MHz in lshw.

 Today, when giving the issue yet another look-see, I came across this:


 http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/processors/phenom-ii/Pages/phenom-ii-model-number-comparison.aspx

 Support for unregistered DIMMs up to PC2 8500(DDR2-1066MHz) and PC3
 10600 (DDR3-1333MHz)

 Now I always thought that RAM was handled by the mobo, not the CPU,
 and if the mobo was built with that CPU then it would deliver the RAM
 at whatever speed the mobo would deliver it.

 Is this telling me, actually, that the CPU can only handle up to
 DDR3-1333 on that mobo, or do I go by the mobo speed limits?

 Either way, 800MHz doesn't look right.

 Curt-
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Re: Crowdfunding an Ubuntu smartphone (right now)

[Chris Linstid]

I really wanted to be interested and excited about it, but a phone with its
UI coming from the folks who gave us Unity and it's $800? Uh, no thanks.

 - Chris


On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:33 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:

 Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
  Just in case not everybody saw this on Slashdot already:
 
  http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge
 
  The Ubuntu Edge is the next generation of personal computing:
   smartphone and desktop PC in one state-of-the-art device.

 I was already skeptical based on Shuttleworth being involved and it
 costing $800, but that video easily pushed me over the edge.

 He literally comes out and says we are a testbed for his production
 facility...but still wants us to pay almost a grand a head for the
 privilege. Don't Formula One drivers get paid? Which one of us is the
 millionaire, here?
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2 job openings here at work in Manchester

[Chris]

Hope it's OK to post job openings here.

We have an immediate opening for a lead Embedded Software Engineer to
support our DAS product line and also a junior level Embedded Engineer.  In
addition, we are actively recruiting for a Java Developer.  All positions
are based from the office here in Manchester.  Job descriptions can be
viewed on our web site under Careers.

The company I work for is Cellular Specialties, Inc.  website is
http://www.cellularspecialties.com

If you are interested, please let me know so I can refer you.

Chris

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Zero intellectualism + Zero common sense + Zero willingness to think = Zero
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Re: Simple but decent web composition software

[Chris Linstid]

On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Chris Linstid clins...@gmail.com wrote:

 At work I've been generating HTML reference documents for an API and the
 references use CSS and JavaScript. I just take the whole pile of HTML, js,
 and css files and copy them to Sharepoint (it's the only cross-site
 resource we have at the moment, *sigh*). Since it's just HTML, js, and css,
 the browser is able to pick everything up properly and display everything
 as I specified it.


Just to clarify, I mean that I upload the html, css, and js files to a
document library and then go to:
http://sharepoint/path/to/doc/library/api/index.html and access the files
as if they were hosted on any other web server or local files.
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Re: Mother of all xterms?

[Chris Linstid]

I've hopped around from terminal to terminal on Linux for years and I
honestly haven't found one as feature-filled as iterm2 on OS X.

My thoughts so far:

*(u)xterm*: Fast, settings are both a blessing and curse since they're all
in .Xdefaults/.Xresources, so I can save them in a git repo somewhere and
restore them when I want to. I usually end up back here if I get fed up
with another terminal but the settings can be a little cryptic.

*(u)rxvt*: See xterm, but with a smaller user base.

*gnome-terminal*: This is my primary at this point, mainly because its
settings are relatively easy to deal with and I like being able to right
click on a URL (mostly from IRC) and open it and tabs come in handy.

*XFCE Terminal*: Since I tend to use XFCE a lot, I've tried XFCE's
terminal, but it mostly seems like a lesser featured version of
gnome-terminal. The only upside is that it seems a bit quicker than
gnome-terminal.

*konsole*: I'm usually in XFCE or gnome-shell/cinnamon, so I tend to stick
to gtk2/3 apps if I can. Beyond that, it's at about the same level
feature-wise with gnome-terminal.

*terminator*: I like the split screen features and I used it as my primary
for a while, but it's a bit of a memory hog and very crashy.

*Eterm*: Apart from some silly graphical bells and whistles, I see little
to no advantage over xterm.

I've tried using *screen* and *tmux* inside another terminal to get some
extra features. Tmux looks especially promising with both horizontal and
vertical window pane splits, but they both interfere with how I use vim
(which is usually what I'm in if I'm in a terminal). The X11 mouse events
don't always work and I've never been able to get my color schemes to work
properly.

I gave terminology a quick try and it didn't draw vim properly (the status
bar wasn't displayed) and the font was rendered without anti-aliasing
(which is pretty bad on non-bitmap fixed-width fonts). Obviously it's a
work in progress, so it will be interesting to see what it's like in
another few months.

Xiki is intriguing. I'll have to give that a try.

 - Chris
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Nashua MerriLUG meeting today @ 7pm

[chris gagnon]

Join us today for MerriLUG in Nashua!

This month's topic: juju http://juju.ubuntu.com

Who:
Peter

When:
Today at 7pm

Where:
Makeit Labs
29 Crown Street,
Nashua, NH 03060
http://makeitlabs.com/about/map/
*
*
*Makeit Labs is actually located on the backside of the building at 29
Crown St. and can be a bit tricky to find. To get there, you will need to
pass the place the GPS says they are at by at least 200 yards. Take a right
onto the tree lined dirt road after Greenerd Press. The dirt road turns
right to the train yard and Makeit Labs parking lot.*
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Re: Failed ubuntu do-release-upgrade work around?

[Chris Linstid]

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Bruce Labitt bdlab...@gmail.com wrote:

 Since I have the file in question, where can I stuff this file, so that
 the installer sees it, and doesn't have to go to the slow repo to get it
 again.  I think the dist-upgrade saves stuff in /var/log/dist-upgrade

 In main.log the last entries are:

 2013-05-03 10:31:40,603 ERROR IOError in cache.commit(): 'Failed to fetch
 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/texlive-extra/texlive-fonts-extra_2009-10ubuntu1_all.debConnection
  failed
 '. Retrying (currentTry: 2)
 2013-05-03 10:31:40,603 ERROR giving up on fetching after maximum retries

 Does anyone know where the files are saved for a dist-upgrade that hasn't
 finished?


I know that apt-get (under normal circumstances) puts the packages in
/var/cache/apt/archives. I think the upgrade process might do the same
thing. This post seems to think so as well:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/54681/can-i-make-do-release-upgrade-only-download-packages-for-a-later-upgrade

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Re: Embedded Linux Kickstart course?

[Chris]

More top posting, I have worked with Mike in the past, and I highly
recommend him as an instructor, very knowledgeable and a very effective
instructor.


Chris


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Rudolph, Frank rudo...@beaconpower.comwrote:

 Thanks, Drew.

 ** **

 That was a good lead. There is an Advanced Linux course coming up at the
 end of the month. The title is misleading. Upon reading the abstract of the
 syllabus, though, it looks just right.

 The course # is C9. 6 - 9 PM, Tuesdays, April 30, May, 7, 14, 21, in case
 anyone out there is interested. $495 for non-members, $470 for members.***
 *

 ** **

 **-   **Frank

 ** **

 *From:* Drew Van Zandt [mailto:drew.vanza...@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:31 AM
 *To:* Rudolph, Frank
 *Cc:* gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
 *Subject:* Re: Embedded Linux Kickstart course?

 ** **

 IEEE Boston has offered courses like that in the past; you might check the
 instructor and ping him to see if another is being offered via the IEEE or
 other avenues.

 ** **

 http://ieeeboston.org/edu/class_room/past_offerings/past_crs_offerings.html
 


 

 Drew Van Zandt**

 Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld)
 Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D.  Masquerade aVST **

 ** **

 ** **

 On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Rudolph, Frank rudo...@beaconpower.com
 wrote:

 I am interested in locating a rigorous course in embedded Linux.

 Does anyone know of such a course that is hands-on and covers the latest
 in Linux real-time extensions?

 Thanks - Frank

  

 Frank Rudolph, Ph.D., P.E.

 Software Team Leader

 Beacon Power, LLC

 65 Middlesex Road

 Tyngsborough, MA 01879

 978-661-2803 - Office

 603-689-5366 - Cell

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Re: google interview

[Chris]

Yes, I had an onsite (Mountain view) interview with them a few years ago
and I was there for nearly 6 hours. There were a couple of tricky
algorithmic questions to answer, and what they said was that they weren't
necessarily looking to solve the problem, but they were more looking for
the thought processes involved in looking for a solution. The strangest
part was it turned out that the group I interviewed with was not the 1st
group that I had interviewed with, so I was a little confused as to why
they had asked me certain questions, which fortunately I was able to
answer, but still felt a little odd at the time. It was after speaking to
the recruiter later that eased my slight confusion.

However, like you, my language skills are deep but not wide, more into
assembler and C, and virtually non-existent knowledge of any of the OOP or
scripting languages, but that wasn't a problem, as long as you don't try to
B.S. you should be fine.

Hope that helps if you have any specific questions, I will try to answer.
and no I didn't get the job, but as I said, the interviewers were looking
for a slightly different skill-set from mine.

Chris



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 Out of the blue, Google contacted me this weekend and wanted an
 interview today. My first thought was April Fools, but it seems to have
 been legit.

 I passed the first round, which leads me to my question: Has anyone else
 here been to the second round of Google interviews? Is it as tediously
 grueling as their guide docs makes it sound? You have to know a lot
 about specific languages (Python and C, in my case, as I know basically
 naught of Java and Perl and only the parts of C++ that are C) and
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[GNHLUG] Nashua MerriLUG March 5th - Tri-amp audio system using Jack and FOSS DSP crossover, EQ, and Metering

[chris gagnon]

Join us on Tuesday March 5th for MerriLUG in nashua!

This month's topic, Is a Tri-amp audio system using Jack, FOSS DSP
crossover, EQ, and Metering presented by Mac

When:
7pm

Where:
Makeit Labs
29 Crown Street,
Nashua, NH 03060
http://makeitlabs.com/about/map/
*
*
*Makeit Labs is actually located on the backside of the building at 29
Crown St. and can be a bit tricky to find. To get there, you will need to
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Re: Green screen.

[chris gagnon]

You can do a greenscreen in simplecv (an opencv wrapper)

http://examples.simplecv.org/en/latest/_downloads/green-screen.py

see the bottom of this page for more info:
http://examples.simplecv.org/en/latest/examples/image-math.html

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.comwrote:

 Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
 
  On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
   ... a really solid idea for a fun activity was the proverbial
   TV weatherman green screen.  I have to imagine this would
   be feasible with Linux -- anyone have any suggestions on
   leads to hunt down?
 
I've never worked with it, but chromakey is the generic term for
  that.  Google results show some promise, although it seems to be
  mostly post-production editing, not live:
 
  https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+chromakey

 EffectTV includes a very simple, real-time chromakey tool/toy, and it
 exists prepackaged in Debian and Ubuntu and maybe other
 distributions:

 http://effectv.sourceforge.net/bluescreen.html

 If you want more of a `simple DIY' solution so that you can get into
 *how it works*, I seem to remember someone describing a way of using
 SimpleCV to do chromakey


 EffectTV also gives you a lot of other fun real-time video effect toys
 to play with if you want; I think my favourites, when I played with it a
 few years ago, were...:

 * The `Chameleon' effect that allows someone to walk onscreen and
   then fade into the background like a chameleon:

   http://effectv.sourceforge.net/chameleon.html

 * The `invisiblility effect from the movie, `Predator':

   http://effectv.sourceforge.net/predator.html

 * The `scanning 1-D camera' effect:

   http://effectv.sourceforge.net/1d.html

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Re: Green screen.

[chris gagnon]

Sorry to double post.  I noticed the greenscreen example didn't include
using real time camera, to do that in simplecv

You can use a laptop or usb webcam with the camera class:

replace:
greenscreen = Image(../images/green-screen-person.png)
greenscreen.show()

with:
cam = Camera()
greenscreen = cam.getImage()
greenscreen.show()

I live in nashua, let me know if I can help you out. we can do a google
hangout or something.

I've attached a stupid game I wrote in simplecv to give you a better idea.


On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.comwrote:

 Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
 
  On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
   ... a really solid idea for a fun activity was the proverbial
   TV weatherman green screen.  I have to imagine this would
   be feasible with Linux -- anyone have any suggestions on
   leads to hunt down?
 
I've never worked with it, but chromakey is the generic term for
  that.  Google results show some promise, although it seems to be
  mostly post-production editing, not live:
 
  https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+chromakey

 EffectTV includes a very simple, real-time chromakey tool/toy, and it
 exists prepackaged in Debian and Ubuntu and maybe other
 distributions:

 http://effectv.sourceforge.net/bluescreen.html

 If you want more of a `simple DIY' solution so that you can get into
 *how it works*, I seem to remember someone describing a way of using
 SimpleCV to do chromakey


 EffectTV also gives you a lot of other fun real-time video effect toys
 to play with if you want; I think my favourites, when I played with it a
 few years ago, were...:

 * The `Chameleon' effect that allows someone to walk onscreen and
   then fade into the background like a chameleon:

   http://effectv.sourceforge.net/chameleon.html

 * The `invisiblility effect from the movie, `Predator':

   http://effectv.sourceforge.net/predator.html

 * The `scanning 1-D camera' effect:

   http://effectv.sourceforge.net/1d.html

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Reminder: Nashua chapter is meeting today

[chris gagnon]

MerriLUG meeting is happening today!

Topic:
Joshua Rosen will be talking about taking over an maintaining an open
source project http://www.foxtrotgps.org/ and GPS

He will spend time on `how you can make it easy for upstream to accept your
patches so that you can stop having to maintain them locally,' you may well
want to attend even if you don't have any interest in GPS or in being an
upstream yourself.

Where:
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
7:00pm until 9:00pm

29 Crown Street,
Nashua, NH 03060

http://makeitlabs.com/about/map/
MakeIt Labs is actually located on the backside of the building at 29 Crown
St. and can be a bit tricky to find. To get here, you will need to pass the
place the GPS says we are at by at least 200 yards. Take a right onto the
tree lined dirt road after Greenerd Press. The dirt road turns right to the
train yard and MakeIt Labs parking lot.

I tried sending this message through the announce mailing list, but it's
waiting for moderator approval. I wanted to make sure people see this
before noon, so I am sending it out on the discuss list.
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[GNHLUG] Reminder: Nashua chapter is meeting today

[chris gagnon]

MerriLUG meeting is happening today!

Topic:
Joshua Rosen will be talking about taking over an maintaining an open
source project http://www.foxtrotgps.org/ and GPS

He will spend time on `how you can make it easy for upstream to accept your
patches so that you can stop having to maintain them locally,' you may well
want to attend even if you don't have any interest in GPS or in being an
upstream yourself.

Where:
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
7:00pm until 9:00pm

29 Crown Street,
Nashua, NH 03060

http://makeitlabs.com/about/map/
MakeIt Labs is actually located on the backside of the building at 29 Crown
St. and can be a bit tricky to find. To get here, you will need to pass the
place the GPS says we are at by at least 200 yards. Take a right onto the
tree lined dirt road after Greenerd Press. The dirt road turns right to the
train yard and MakeIt Labs parking lot.
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Nashua's NHLUG meeting has been bumped 1 day to Wednesday

[chris gagnon]

Topic: Joshua Rosen will be talking about taking over an maintaining an
open source project http://www.foxtrotgps.org/ and GPS

Wednesday, February 6, 2013
7:00pm until 9:00pm

29 Crown Street,
Nashua, NH 03060

http://makeitlabs.com/about/map/
MakeIt Labs is actually located on the backside of the building at 29 Crown
St. and can be a bit tricky to find. To get here, you will need to pass the
place the GPS says we are at by at least 200 yards. Take a right onto the
tree lined dirt road after Greenerd Press.  The dirt road turns right to
the train yard and MakeIt Labs parking lot.
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Call for topics for Nashua's next LUG meetings

[chris gagnon]

The first Nashua LUG meeting was so much fun that we've decided to do it
again.

What topics do people want to hear about at the LUG meeting in Nashua? Does
anyone have a topic/project that they would like to present next month or
in the future?

It will be held at MakeIt Labs again on Tuesday, February 5th

29 Crown Street,
Nashua, NH 03060

http://makeitlabs.com/about/map/
MakeIt Labs is actually located on the backside of the building at 29 Crown
St. and can be a bit tricky to find. To get here, you will need to pass the
place the GPS says we are at by at least 200 yards. Take a right onto the
tree lined dirt road after Greenerd Press.  The dirt road turns right to
the train yard and MakeIt Labs parking lot.
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New Nashua users group meeting January 8th

[chris gagnon]

Hi all,

I would like to start up a new Linux users group in Nashua, I have asked
the board members at makeit labs (I am a member), if I could use the space
as a meeting place and they were okay with the idea.

Tuesday January 8th at 7pm
29 Crown Street,
Nashua, NH 03060

I'll be talking about SimpleCV http://simplecv.org/ and Xpresser
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xpresser
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Re: grub issue

[Chris Linstid]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Kevin D. Clark
 kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net wrote:
  4:  what happens when you type telinit 5?

   FYI, Debian and (IIRC) Ubuntu don't use runlevel 5 normally.  They
 normally boot to runlevel 2, and use a service to start/stop an X
 display manager.  So, I think the equivalent command would be:

 /etc/init.d/gdm start

   I could be wrong, this is from memory, and I haven't used Ubuntu in
 a while, either.  IIRC, Ubuntu replaced the standard SysV init with
 some new thing, and it may not even have initscripts anymore.


FYI, Ubuntu 11.10 and up are using lightdm now instead of gdm.

- Chris
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Re: mosh

[Chris Linstid]

I know that one of the major differences is that it provides buffered I/O
with local echo so it can greatly improve a remote terminal experience over
a high latency connection.

 - Chris


On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Ralph Mack ralphm...@comcast.net wrote:

 Chip Marshall c...@2bithacker.net writes:
  Thought I'd share this: http://mosh.mit.edu/
 
  It's a remote terminal program (like SSH or telnet) but designed
  to allow for mobility. Rather than sending the whole stream
  across the network, it maintains a screen state on the remote
  server (like screen) and syncs up the local display as needed.
 
  I've been using it for a few days now, and have been pretty
  impressed, roaming seamlessly between wired and wireless
  networks, between home and work, without losing my session has
  been pretty nice.

 Does this differ dramatically from what graphical remote terminal
 sessions with backing X-terminals on the server effectively do? I'm
 thinking of programs like VNC. I've used several tools of that ilk to
 continue my session from different clients, i.e. several desktops at
 home, desktop at work, some other machine over lunch, etc. Of course,
 operating at the remote terminal level, mosh should be pretty lightweight,
 operate on various enigmatic alien devices, etc.

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Re: Tablet recommendations?

[Chris Linstid]

 Keeping notes, reading e-mail, typing, some video - easier to carry
 than my laptop.  What else is a good question, as I haven't had a
 tablet in the past.  Currently use my phone for e-mail, music, and
 some editing, as well as carrying documents to read in meetings, vice
 printing out.


I tried something similar with a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. It's a 7
dual core tablet running Android 3.2 (Honeycomb, no ICS for it yet). While
it is a pretty good media consumption device,  it's an awful creation
device. So, I grabbed a keyboard dock for it. Unfortunately, Samsung's
keyboard dock for their Galaxy Tab line is pretty terrible. Whatever
they're using to interface between the physical keyboard and the app that
you're trying to input text into is very sluggish. It also has issues with
not knowing when to show/hide the software keyboard.

As far as direct experience goes, I cannot recommend this tablet for what
you're looking for.

However, I have two friends with different experiences. One of the friends
has an iPad (original) and he uses it for pretty much everything you're
looking to do and it's worked very well for him. He uses it a lot for work,
carrying it to meetings so he has documents and presentations on it, taking
notes, etc.

The other friend has an ASUS Transformer Prime and he's mostly happy with
it. He uses it more as a consumption device, but he does also have the
keyboard dock for it. He tried bringing it to work, but he just found he
needed something a bit more like an actual computer and he has a laptop at
work, so he just ended up using that. The ASUS keyboard dock is much better
than the Samsung one in that the software interface for is seamless and it
has an extra battery built in, so it buys you some extra usage time.

The first friend is a manager/director and the second friend is a software
developer, so I think that gives a better idea of how the current tablet
choices work for a few different roles.

My own advice is that you're right to be looking at devices with 9-10
screens. While a 7 screen is nice if you're looking to mostly just read
books on it, if you want to watch video or do much more than just basic
reading, you will really appreciate the larger screen, especially if you're
looking at this instead of a laptop. The only other advantage a 7 screen
has is that it can fit in smaller places. My 7 tablet fits in the larger
pockets on my cargo pants (though I haven't ever felt like carrying like
that, it's a bit uncomfortable).

Also, avoid the cheap (less than $300 at this point) Android tablets.
They will give you nothing but frustration.

The last thing I'll say is that the iPad really is the premiere tablet at
this point. Android tablet manufacturers just really haven't figured it out
yet. Google's Nexus tablet may finally give them a real target like the
Nexus One did for Android phones, so hopefully the Android tablet lineup
will look a lot better in another year or so.

 - Chris
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Re: Vendor independent certifications?

[Chris Linstid]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Mike mik...@colossus.bilow.com wrote:

 A friend of mine is looking for a career change and asks what sort of
 vendor independent certifications (that is, not another college degree)
 would help them get in the door in programming, web design, or system
 administration?


That's a pretty vague description of what she's looking for. System
administration has all sorts of certifications, but they generally don't
mean much without experience to back them up.

For software development, there aren't really any certifications (at least
that I am aware of) that would help her get a job. Most prospective
employers would be looking for a degree or experience or both, even for
entry level positions.


 She is not mainly asking about actual education, but
 rather how to prove knowledge in such a way that would convince
 prospective employers. She would be willing to consider short-term
 classes or seminars coupled with and leading to such certifications, but
 is trying to avoid anything that would take longer than a year.
 Suggestions?


For development (which I am far more familiar with), her best bet would be
to find an open source project that interests her and start contributing to
it. That would provide her with an experience track record and hopefully
help hone her skills a bit.

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Re: WANTED: temporary use of a zip100 drive

[Chris]

I have one, I am in Manchester.

Chris

Sent from my Garmin phone.

On Feb 11, 2012 11:23 AM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net
wrote:


Hoping to briefly borrow a drive capable of reading zip100
media.  Discovered a small number of zip100 disks in an office
environment where the corresponding drives are no longer
available and want to see if the disks contain any data of
value to the company before discarding them.  Alternatively,
might instead travel to your location (I'm in Chelmsford, MA)
and use your hardware to quickly dd the images to my USB Flash
drive for later analysis.

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Re: SCP from STDIN: -t option undocumented?

[Chris Linstid]

Sorry for dragging up a month old thread, but I was looking into this for
something at work and found this blog post that documents how to use the
scp protocol pretty nicely:

http://blogs.oracle.com/janp/entry/how_the_scp_protocol_works

 - Chris


On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM, John Abreau j...@blu.org wrote:

 Long ago, I was looking for a way to make scp read from stdin, and I
 had no luck.

 Earlier this afternoon, when I was tweaking my validate-rsync script to
 add
 support for scp, I discovered that when running the command

  scp foo remote:/path/to/bar

  the remote end gets invoked as

  scp -t /path/to/bar

 It seems that the scp process on the local machine establishes an ssh
 connection
 to the remote machine, and then invokes an scp process on the remote
 machine,
 and that remote scp process has to read from stdin.
 When I checked the scp man page, there was no mention of the -t
 option, nor is it
 listed in scp --help. A google search for scp -t didn't locate any
 mention of
 the option, and another google search for scp from stdin yielded nothing
 but
 questions of how to do it followed by replies that scp cannot read
 from stdin.

 Is this documented anywhere? I don't understand why the option would be
 left out of the man page.

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Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

[Chris Linstid]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Kevin D. Clark kevin_d_cl...@comcast.netwrote:


 I'll say one really nice thing about LXDE:  if you want to change
 the format of the displayed time in the date/time applet, the docs say
 use the format described in strftime().  Wow, that's minimal, and
 that's awesome too.


You can also do the same thing with XFCE's clock/calendar plugin by
choosing Custom format. However, it does not provide any guidance for the
format codes. Seems like that would be an essential bit of help, especially
for a new user.

 - Chris



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Re: mint

[Chris Linstid]

My solution was to flip gnome 3 the bird and switch to XFCE. I've been much
happier since. It may be missing some of the graphical bells and whistles
you get with gnome 2 plus compositing, but at least I have all of the
functionality that I'm used to from gnome 2.

 - Chris


On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Shawn O'Shea sh...@eth0.net wrote:


 On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net
  wrote:

 snip

 Maybe I'm just looking to hold on to gnome.  It worked well enough.  It
 didn't have too much stupid stuff and was relatively easy to maintain.

 Any insights?


 Who knows how long it will still be available, but if you launch Ubuntu
 Software Center and install the GNOME Desktop Environment package (or
 apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment) you will get GNOME and GNOME
 Classic options in the gear menu on the login screen. GNOME is
 GNOME3/Mutter/GNOME Shell and GNOME Classic (I believe) is
 GNOME3/Metacity/Gnome Panel (Metacity/Gnome Panel being the GNOME2 'user
 experience') as opposed to the GNOME3/Compiz/Unity you get in the
 ubuntu-desktop

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Laptop repair

[Chris]

Hello All,

I remember a couple of weeks ago, one of the list members said he repaired
laptops, and now I am in need of said services.
Would that member please contact me to discuss the problem.

Thanks

Chris


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Re: Do one thing well... (Flash)

[Chris Linstid]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:

 The issue with Flash is that the 32-bit flash library will work fine on
 a 64-bit system with Firefox 64-bit through a wrapper (nsplugin). Or you
 can run the 32-bit Firefox. AFAIK, you can only download 32-but Firefox
 directly from Mozilla although most Linux distros carry the 64-bit version.


I wonder how Google Chrome does it because, as far as I know, they include
their own version of flash with the browser and I see on their download page
for Linux that you can get both 32 and 64-bit packages. I'm guessing it's
just a wrapper of some kind.

 - Chris
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Re: Plug Computers for whole-home audio (was: [GNHLUG] REMINDER: ManchLUG: Tuesday April 19th @ Wings Your Way - Manchester NH)

[Chris]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 09:51, David Miller davi...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com) 
 noz...@gmail.com wrote:

 I've played some mp3s using 'mocp' and sounds a distant on one
 channel(?) but may be something to fix in the alsamixer.  For example
 listening to 'Face The Face' its like I'm next to the chorus 
 keyboards and Pete Townshend is off in the distance.  The settings for
 Master/PCM/Mic are all the same levels in the midrange.

 As for the optical audio out, I don't have thing to plug into it.

 FWIW, I've not been successful using arecord to grab sound from the mic.

 -marc


 The problem with many embedded audio systems, this especially includes
 laptops, is that their power source is typically too close to the audio
 chips and results in a lot of noise.  In a laptop you can hear this by doing
 some experiments of running on power vs on battery.  In something as small
 as a plug computer I would imagine that this would be a problem.  The way
 around this is to use a usb audio interface.  So if you're not happy with
 the on-board sound quality have a look at something like this.
 http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCA202.aspx.  Amazon has these for
 about $30.
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There's a reason that Behringer products are so cheap.
I would personally never use their products in a live situation, they just
don't have the quality of some more professional equipment.
Just FYI and the experience of an audio technician.

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Re: broke package management (warning long)

[Chris Linstid]

I'm pretty sure that this was broken before you issued your first listed
apt-get install command. It looks like you have a kernel package registered
as installed, but one of the directories it installed,
/lib/modules/2.6.30.7-libre-fshoppe1, is now gone. You should be able to
track down the package that contained that kernel, reinstall it using sudo
dpkg -i package.deb to get the directory back. Re-run dpkg --configure -a
to finish configuring the outstanding packages (you might not need to do
that because it may be triggered by the installation of the kernel package)
and then go back to your original apt-get install command.

I'm pretty sure you can figure out which package installed that directory by
running dpkg -S /lib/modules/2.6.30.7-libre-fshoppe1.

clinstid@obiwan:~$ dpkg -S /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic-pae
linux-image-2.6.35-22-generic-pae, linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic-pae:
/lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic-pae

 - Chris


On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Lori Nagel jas...@yahoo.com wrote:

 For anyone interested in how I broke my package management in gNewSense (a
 ubuntu derivative)
 read on the terminal commands that I have tried.
 I still do not understand what I did that led to it not working anymore.

 jastiv@localhost:~/Programs$ sudo apt-get install gtk-devel
 [sudo] password for jastiv:
 E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
 correct
 the problem.

 jastiv@localhost:~/Programs$ dpkg --configure
 dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
 jastiv@localhost:~/Programs$ sudo dpkg --configure
 dpkg: --configure needs at least one package name argument

 Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
 Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
 Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
 Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
 Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
 Type dpkg --license for copyright license and lack of warranty (GNU GPL)
 [*].

 Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or
 `more' !
 jastiv@localhost:~/Programs$ dpkg --help
 Usage: dpkg [option ...] command

 Commands:
  -i|--install   .deb file name ... | -R|--recursive directory ...
  --unpack   .deb file name ... | -R|--recursive directory ...
  -A|--record-avail  .deb file name ... | -R|--recursive directory ...
  --configure|--triggers-only package ... | -a|--pending
  -r|--removepackage ... | -a|--pending
  -P|--purge package ... | -a|--pending
  --get-selections [pattern ...] Get list of selections to stdout.
  --set-selections Set package selections from stdin.
  --clear-selections   Deselect every non-essential package.
  --update-avail Packages-file   Replace available packages info.
  --merge-avail Packages-fileMerge with info from file.
  --clear-availErase existing available info.
  --forget-old-unavail Forget uninstalled unavailable pkgs.
  -s|--status package ...Display package status details.
  -p|--print-avail package ...   Display available version details.
  -L|--listfiles package ... List files `owned' by package(s).
  -l|--list [pattern ...]List packages concisely.
  -S|--search pattern ...Find package(s) owning file(s).
  -C|--audit   Check for broken package(s).
  --print-architecture Print dpkg architecture.
  --compare-versions a op b  Compare version numbers - see below.
  --force-help Show help on forcing.
  -Dh|--debug=help Show help on debugging.

  -h|--helpShow this help message.
  --versionShow the version.
  --license|--licence  Show the copyright licensing terms.

 Use dpkg -b|--build|-c|--contents|-e|--control|-I|--info|-f|--field|
  -x|--extract|-X|--vextract|--fsys-tarfile  on archives (type dpkg-deb
 --help).

 For internal use: dpkg --assert-support-predepends | --predep-package |
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  --admindir=directory Use directory instead of /var/lib/dpkg.
  --root=directory Install on a different root directory.
  --instdir=directory  Change installation dir without changing admin
 dir.
  -O|--selected-only Skip packages not selected for install/upgrade.
  -E|--skip-same-version Skip packages whose same version is installed.
  -G|--refuse-downgrade  Skip packages with earlier version than
 installed.
  -B|--auto-deconfigure  Install even if it would break some other
 package.
  [--no-]triggersSkip or force consequential trigger processing.
  --no-debsigDo not try to verify package signatures.
  --no-act|--dry-run|--simulate
 Just say what we would do - don't do it.
  -D|--debug=octal Enable

Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap

[Chris Linstid]

I pretty heavily use Netflix instant watch and my higher months barely break
200GB, but I think most of that is downloading media from alternative
sources rather than Netflix itself because the ligher months where I'm not
doing much alternative downloading (but my Netflix watching is about the
same), I'm at or below the mid 100GB range.  Granted, I'm watching 90% SD
content using the Wii, but that's still 480p and that's just great for most
TV shows.  Probably averaging around 1-2 hours per day.

 - Chris


On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com wrote:
  Just keep in mind Comcast's 250 GB cap, which we ran up against in
  November. Nearly got shut down until we bought another internet-only
  line (and modem) and divided our traffic between the two. Unfortunately,
  even with a 2nd line we still don't have enough bandwidth to do
  everything we want.

   I've never come anywhere near the cap myself.  I've gotten up to 30
 - 40 GB in a busy month, that's it.

  I suspect 500 GB/month is more than Comcast is really geared to sell.

  How much bandwidth does Netflix/Hulu/... consume? Just to get useful
  data, how much is, say, a typical Mythbuster's show and a 90 minute
 movie?

   I haven't seen official figures, but if it's anything like Tivo, a
 little less than 1 GB/hour for standard definition, and anywhere from
 2 to 8 GB/hour for higher definition.  With smart compression, it
 can vary quite a bit by nature of the program -- the more motion, the
 more bandwidth needed.

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Re: Current compensation conditions

[Chris]

Depends on the job itself.

What type of job?

I am currently working a contract doing embedded development, and I am
getting the same hourly rate that I was 4 years ago. so yes, the current
economic climate has certainly not helped .

Chris


On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 13:23, Michael ODonnell 
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:


 I might be invited to join a team of developers on what they're calling a
 contract basis (tho it'd actually be a W2 rather than 1099 relationship;
 hourly, no benefits) and they've asked me to quote a rate.  As it's been
 a while since I've had to dance this dance I wonder what other people
 are seeing in the market WRT compensation trends - have the generally
 depress{ed,ing} economic conditions affected engineering budgets to the
 extent that it ought be considered a major factor when quoting rates?

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Re: Representative Seth Cohn

[Chris Linstid]

I knew I recognized that name from somewhere!  Congratulations Seth! :)

 - Chris


On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org wrote:

 Thanks Bill!

 And that bill will come back this year, as I reintroduce it myself
 (after 2 tries, neither passing, having others introduce it at my
 request).  I'll get the ball rolling, using the past language, but
 would LOVE both input in changes and improvements, as well as help
 with testimony (both my own and others to give some)

 With the budget hole as large as it is, things like open source (ie
 'free' software) might find the needed support, with the promise of
 saving both now and longer term.

 I'll post more when I find some time (I spent much of the day picking
 up signs and playing catchup after a long long (but good) day
 yesterday.)

 Seth

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 wrote:
 
  For those not watching the races last night, our very own Seth Cohn is a
  new Representative-Elect from Merrimack 7.
 
  The first time I met Seth was in early 2006 at a House Committee
  Hearing.  They were considering a bill to encourage the State IT
  organization to consider Open Source software before buying commercial
  solutions and a small contingent of GNHLUG'ers showed up to offer their
  support.
 
  Now Seth will be on the other side of the table.
 
  Congratulations, Seth!
 
  -Bill
 
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Re: FREE - perfboard

[Chris]

Can they have thru-hole components soldered to them?

If so, I can make use  of them.

Thanks

Chris


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Michael ODonnell 
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:


 On the slim chance that anybody wants the 7 pieces of perfboard
 that I just dredged out of an old box, I'll offer them here.
 Five of them are actually old S-100 board format (approx 12
  x 5) with card-edge connectors and two are approx 8 x 15.

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Interesting article,

[Chris]

I don't agree with all of it, but it does put a few things in perspective.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7532tag=nl.e539

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=7532tag=nl.e539Chris


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Re: Help connecting to two networks (Adding a virtual interface)

[Chris G]

Greg Rundlett (freephile g...@... writes:


 
 I'm learning a lot here, since up to this point I've dealt with simple
 home networking.  Now I'm responsible at
 work for administration of an Asterisk server as well as all the other
 technology infrastructure / software / systems.  The asterisk box is
 on it's own VLAN so as to provide separation from the regular office
 computers and equipment.  I just want to be able to get on the
 Asterisk box from my notebook instead of using the keyboard + monitor
 in the closet (to edit scripts etc.).  Any suggestions on how to do
 this are welcome.   I punted for today and just went in the closet.
 


You could just use port forwarding on the .5.0 router and ssh in to 
user@192.168.5.1:port number you are fowarding to astrisk server's ssh 
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Fwd: New local Linux Kernel Contract...

[Chris]

Just in case anyone is looking for work.

Hope it's OK to forward this type of message.


Chris


 Dear Chris,

I hope all is well.  I just wanted to take a moment and reach out to check
on your availability.  If you're considering new roles now or possibly soon
please let me know.  (please send me a word doc resume)  But I wanted to
reach out in particular on the below contract role available locally.  Are
you qualified and available or can you refer someone that maybe?  We will
pay a referral bonus if anyone you refer gets the role.  Thanks for your
help….

Description: 6 month project
Linux Engineer…. MUST have strong Linux Kernel skills

Experience porting embedding applications from VxWorks to SMP Linux (MIPS)

Strong background in Computer Architecture with an emphasis on the MIPS
architecture

Expert level of knowledge and experience with Linux operating system
internals

Experience with SMP Linux (MIPS)

Extensive experience working on low-level performance critical software
(user and kernel space)

Development of Linux/Unix Kernel modules/drivers

Experience optimizing embedded applications for the Linux kernel
(scheduling, queuing, threading)

Deep understanding of how the applications and OS work with the hardware in
terms of CPU and board architecture, cache, memory, bus throughput

Must be able to analyze a system from the hardware, through the OS and to
the application and identify bottlenecks

Experience porting embedded applications from single processor to
multi-processor platforms

Experience with profiling tools, and build toolchains

Experience with network processors (Cavium, Broadcom)

Thorough understanding of networking protocol stacks

Experience interacting and contributing to open-source software development
projects

 Preference given for experience with Cavium and experience porting embedded
applications from single processor to multi-processor platforms

New NOTES.
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Disk imaging for XP system

[Chris]

Hello All

I have an XP system which I want to migrate from a 250GB IDE drive to a
500GB SATA drive, is there a live CD and package that would allow me to do
that, I have tried Norton Ghost (2003) but that can't see the SATA drive,
and I have also tried Powerquest partition magic image center with no luck
because that barfs on some directory entry.

WIll dd or some other program do the job or will I have to try to find some
other package?

Thanks

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Re: [GNHLUG] Reminder of UNIX Time event: Today, Friday 13th, 18:31:30 EST (that is about 6:30 P.M. for Microsoft users) - Marthas Please RSVP

[Chris]

Not to be too pedantic about this, but 11:31:30 UTC  is 16:31:30 EST   there
is only a 5hr time difference.

Chris


On 2/13/09, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote:

 A gentle reminder of this most momentous occasion tonight.  Remember
 that Ben offered to buy the first (and perhaps only) round of drinks!
 Please RSVP so we can get an area big enough (and so Ben can figure out
 how much money to pull from the bank).

 At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890.
 Where will you be at this momentous second? - from Bell Labs

 This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST (1531 and
 30 seconds PST).

 Now if there was any reason to fear Friday the 13th, I think this is it.
 That many numbers sequentially in a row representative of time?  Who
 knows what will stop working?  Will lex(1) cease to work, will yacc(1)s
 everywhere revolt?  Will the rapture be upon us?

 I remember asking Alan Cox about UNIX (note that I spelled UNIX in all
 capital letters, as it should be) time in 1999.  I was confident that
 most UNIX systems would not be adversely affected by Y2K, but I knew
 about a hidden time-bomb in the year 2038, when the UNIX epoch comes
 to an end.  Alan assured me that Linux was now working on 64-bit time,
 and its roll-over would happen about the time that the sun burnt out.
 And while this upcoming event is not a roll-over, nevertheless this
 coming Friday the 13th I will be holding my breath

 I intend on being at the place where I have the best chance of surviving
 this potential catastrophe and where I can personally do the most good:

 =Martha's Exchange Restaurant in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA=

 While our friends at Bell Labs (er, ah, LucentO.K. Alcatel-Lucent)
 rush to understand this phenomenon, I will be doing my civic duty by
 drinking fine beer, and maybe an Islay scotch.  This is hard to do while
 you are holding your breath, but I will suffer through.  Who knows,
 perhaps the U.S. government will give us a bailout to study this
 issue.

 Who will join me as we watch the time of UNIX line up?

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Re: [GNHLUG] Reminder of UNIX Time event: Today, Friday 13th, 18:31:30 EST (that is about 6:30 P.M. for Microsoft users) - Marthas Please RSVP

[Chris]

DohWhichever way I worked it out, I totally spaced out on the
calculation, I didn't even realize the 'PM' because I am so used to working
with the 24hr clock, I automatically assumed it was AM, but even if it were
AM, then I was still way off the mark   Ignore what I said about the
timing. I hope you all enjoy the epoch, I wil have my own quiet epoch
marking ceremony with a nice glass of 12yr old McCallan.

Chris



Chris


On 2/13/09, Chris fj1...@gmail.com wrote:

 Not to be too pedantic about this, but 11:31:30 UTC  is 16:31:30 EST
 there is only a 5hr time difference.

 Chris


 On 2/13/09, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote:

 A gentle reminder of this most momentous occasion tonight.  Remember
 that Ben offered to buy the first (and perhaps only) round of drinks!
 Please RSVP so we can get an area big enough (and so Ben can figure out
 how much money to pull from the bank).

 At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890.
 Where will you be at this momentous second? - from Bell Labs

 This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST (1531 and
 30 seconds PST).

 Now if there was any reason to fear Friday the 13th, I think this is it.
 That many numbers sequentially in a row representative of time?  Who
 knows what will stop working?  Will lex(1) cease to work, will yacc(1)s
 everywhere revolt?  Will the rapture be upon us?

 I remember asking Alan Cox about UNIX (note that I spelled UNIX in all
 capital letters, as it should be) time in 1999.  I was confident that
 most UNIX systems would not be adversely affected by Y2K, but I knew
 about a hidden time-bomb in the year 2038, when the UNIX epoch comes
 to an end.  Alan assured me that Linux was now working on 64-bit time,
 and its roll-over would happen about the time that the sun burnt out.
 And while this upcoming event is not a roll-over, nevertheless this
 coming Friday the 13th I will be holding my breath

 I intend on being at the place where I have the best chance of surviving
 this potential catastrophe and where I can personally do the most good:

 =Martha's Exchange Restaurant in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA=

 While our friends at Bell Labs (er, ah, LucentO.K. Alcatel-Lucent)
 rush to understand this phenomenon, I will be doing my civic duty by
 drinking fine beer, and maybe an Islay scotch.  This is hard to do while
 you are holding your breath, but I will suffer through.  Who knows,
 perhaps the U.S. government will give us a bailout to study this
 issue.

 Who will join me as we watch the time of UNIX line up?

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Linux taking over

[Chris]

Not sure it's for the right reasons, but

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE51A77S20090211

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Looking for local mobo suppliers

[Chris]

My 7yo Athlon system is dying, so it's time to upgrade...

Are there any good motherboard/CPU/Memory suppliers local that might be open
tomorrow?

Thanks

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Re: Looking for local mobo suppliers

[Chris]

OK, thanks  I have already been there, sorry I forgot to mention that
They don't take AMEX. I was looking for someone that took AMEX.  Minor
detail, but important to me.

Chris




On 11/15/08, Scott C. Mellott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'd suggest Showtime Computers . . . . and yes, they are open on Sundays
 from 11a to 3p . . . according to their web site.

 http://www.showtimepc.com/showtimepc/

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  My 7yo Athlon system is dying, so it's time to upgrade...
 
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Re: Stop by at Software Freedom Day today!

[Chris]

The subject line says today


On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:32 PM, acrosson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 what day is this happening ? That sounds great and i should of signed up for
 this. I have just been very busy. I do read a lot of the GNHLUG but don't
 usually post because of time.

 - Original Message -
 From: Arc Riley
 To: Greater NH Linux User Group
 Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 12:21 AM
 Subject: Stop by at Software Freedom Day today!
 We're going to be setup at the State House Plaza in Concord, the large
 sidewalk area in front of the state house with the war memorials, handing
 out Ubuntu CDs, OpenDiscs, and OpenEducationDiscs while talking to people
 about software freedom from 10am to 6pm.  The weather looks like it's going
 to be great, too!

 We have more than enough people signed up from both GNHLUG and the Ubuntu NH
 Local Community Team to staff the tables, but stop by if you're in the area
 and grab some free stuff or just to see the crowd we get.  I'm sure we'll
 have photos for posting on the website.

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Re: Ubuntu

[Chris]

Not to put too much of a damper on this, but when you run Skype, do
you really know what it is doing with your CPU and network resources?

http://www.csoonline.com/article/220141/Security_Risks_Can_Million_Skype_Users_Be_Wrong_?contentId=220141slug=;

I won't run it on my home system, and a lot companies don;t allow it
on their networks.

Chris

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 Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

   Does Ubuntu run Skype out of the box?  I think Skype requires qt4.  I
   would like to use Skype on my linux machine.  My daughter is overseas
   right now, so it is a handy way to communicate.

  Define out of the box.  You still need to download and install skype,
  but according to http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/choose/
  you can get skype for Ubuntu 7.04+

   -Bruce

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not good news for ODF :(

[Chris]

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/08/15/ap5329380.html

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Re: not good news for ODF :(

[Chris]

You have a good point there, didn't think of it that way round, but
will M$ actually release their document format completely, they have
never been known to be open with any of their stuff.

Chris


On 8/18/08, Michael Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I would think that this would be better news than trying to play catch-up
  with undocumented features, bugs, conversion problems, and
  forward-incompatability in Microsoft document formats every two years.

  With OOXML an ISO standard, it should now be possible to write an editor
  that is absolutely 100% compatible with Office 2007 documents, with no pesky
  compatability or rendering quirks, right?

  It's not like Microsoft was ever going to fully adopt ODF, in any case -
  they're Microsoft, after all.  IBM should know that personally, given their
  experience with OS/2.

 -Michael Pelletier.


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  Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:10 AM
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  http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/08/15/ap5329380.html

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Re: iPhone/Smartphone stuff

[Chris Linstid]

I have a 3G 8GB iPhone and it's been great but I pretty much only use it
as a personal phone.  I do have an exchange email account setup for work,
but I have most of the features disabled because if you sync an exchange
calendar, it disables syncing with your own personal calendars and I don't
want to sync all the contacts because it sucks down all of the contacts on
your Global Address List and that's just crazy.

Overall, I would say it's a great consumer smart phone and it does have some
enterprise level features, but I think it's still got a long way to go to
unseat Blackberry as the enterprise champion.  If I had been planning on
using my phone more for work purposes, I probably would have gone with a
Blackberry.

As far as ATT coverage, I've been very happy with the reception.  Driving
around NH, I've gotten very good signals pretty much everywhere I've gone
(though I haven't been out in the boonies much).  I only get 3G coverage
when I go to work (in Lowell, MA) and there is absolutely no 3G coverage
anywhere in NH yet.

Their EDGE network is pretty good as far as reliability for me so far, but
it is pretty slow.  However, being able to get internet access pretty much
anywhere I have a signal trumps the fact that it's slow.

The applications store is just plain awesome.  There is a ton of good free
content available and managing it is pretty simple.

So, I'm very happy with it, but as for your needs, it depends a lot on what
you're going to try to use it for.

- Chris


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 Does anyone on the list have an iPhone?  We need to renew our cell phone
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 the most capable device for the price.  I am also curious to know if you
 have any recommendations on other smartphones worth considering, and why.

 What do people think about their cell phone coverage area?  We have Sprint
 now and it seems to be alright, but ATT seems to have better coverage, as
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Re: New GNHLUG SIG

[Chris Linstid]

Hmm... non-PC... like a Mac?

I'll shut up now. :)

- Chris


On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



 On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  From: Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:56:17 -0400

  On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 14:18 -0400, Arc Riley wrote:
   As a side note, please stop using the word gay to refer to something
   you don't like, it's offensive.
 
  I'd like to second this.  It's offensive and unnecessary.
 

 Ok, yeah, I can see how that could be non-PC.  If I'd have called


 On the internet, no one knows when to shut up.

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Re: Anyone attend Christoph's Linux Audio Workstation presentation?

[Chris]

Yes, I went last night and found it very informative, He did say that
he would be making the slides available on the gnhlug website.

Chris


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Re: [OT] - bad bad humor

[Chris]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2369tag=nl.e550
and
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2362


On 4/30/08, kenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I looked and it's gone already.  The history indicates that it was changed,
 but then someone fixed it about 54 minutes later which is pretty cool.   :)

 For those of you too lazy to look it was a new feature called murders your
 wife in which YES was selected for the Reiser4 fs.



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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
 
  Go to the Feature Compairison...  Note the last feature column.
 
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Re: Session recording

[Chris]

On 3/31/08, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds to me like you need the kind of security auditing that is found
in DoD administered machines.
 

 ... useful stuff deleted...
 
 
 
 
 
   FWIW and FYI:
 
   The old NSA rainbow book security levels aren't in vogue anymore,
  and tend to be considered obsolete.  These days, it's the Common

More stuff snipped...


What about Secure Solaris  I believe it logs everything by
default, and there is no such thing as root. (Not sure how that
works but)

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Re: ttyUSB monitoring

[Chris]

On 1/11/08, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I bought a GPS tracker (RGM-3800) under the delusion that I would be
 able to collect data from it using Linux.  Unfortunately, it is using a
 proprietary protocol to collect data.  The serial connection is
 115200-n-8-1, but the device does not use the normal command
 sequences.

 The Windows software will sometimes work using WINE.  I expect that I
 could reverse engineer the key features if I could monitor the ttyUSB
 device data stream.  So far I've been unable to google anything useful
 about enabling a serial device monitor (tcpdump for the serial device)
 that showed the data stream.  statserial will show the status pins.  I
 would think that usbserial (pl2303.ko) would have needed a monitor mode
 when it was developed simply because it is such a synthetic device.

 I'm hoping someone here can kick me in the right direction.

 (The tracker connects using a USB cable so I can't use a serial breakout
 box or any hardware based serial debugging facility.)

 Thanks.


If this will run under WINE or you know someone with a windows box,
this is a 14 day trial

http://www.hhdsoftware.com/Products/home/usb-monitor.html

Good luck,


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Re: C complex number usage

[Chris Linstid]

The problem it's complaining about is that mymean and mystdev are
variables of type double and gaussrand() returns a double... and
you're trying to assign the result to g[ii] which is type double
_Complex.  You could try casting the result to double _Complex like
this:

g[ii] = (double _Complex) (mymean*(1+I) + mystdev*gaussrand() + I *
mystdev * gaussrand());

However, I'm not sure if that's exactly what you want because I don't
know what will happen to the value when you cast it as I'm not too
familiar with the complex number support in C.

Hope that helps.

 - Chris

On Jan 6, 2008 12:25 PM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hopefully a simple question.  I'm trying to write a C program that uses
 complex numbers.  (I'm a  C illiterate.  Just wrote my second
 program...)  Reading the header file complex.h hasn't helped too much.
 Can someone give me a hint on how to fix this?  Most of the references
 on C are *ancient* (like me) and don't cover the C99 complex number
 stuff.  Please ignore my awful coding style.

 #include math.h
 #include time.h
 #include complex
 #include fftw3.h

 double gaussrand();
 int N;   /* length of FFT */
 int ii;  /* index */
 N = 1024;
 double _Complex g[N];
 double mymean, mystdev;
 double _Complex I;

 // assign mymean and mystdev here...

 // Create array of complex random numbers
for (ii=0; iiN; ii++)
{
g[ii] = mymean*(1+I) + mystdev*gaussrand() + I * mystdev *
 gaussrand();
}
 // End complex random number generation

 The compiler barfs on the g[ii] assignment...
 41 C:\Dev-Cpp\myproj\main_tb_fftw.cpp cannot convert `double
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Re: can't telnet out port 25

[Chris]

On 11/15/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Nov 15, 2007 11:00 AM, Charlie Farinella
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  My first assumption was that they (GoDaddy) are blocking outward traffic
  on port 25, so I called them, but they say they are not.

   I suspect they lied:

 http://www.google.com/search?q=godaddy+blocking+port+25

   FWIW, I have heard nothing good about GoDaddy, and several gripes.

  I can neither send mail out, or telnet out to another server
  on port 25.

   What happens when you try?  Do you get an error message?  Does it
 just sit forever waiting to connect?

  I am not all that familiar with iptables ...

   If needed, do iptables -L -n -v --line and post the output of that
 somewhere for us to read.

  ... what am I missing?

   A better hosting provider?  :)

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Also found this


http://www.sematopia.com/?p=51

Might not be suitable for your application, but it is a way around the problem.

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Re: can't telnet out port 25

[Chris]

On 11/15/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 11:50 -0500, Chris wrote:
  Also found this
 
 
  http://www.sematopia.com/?p=51
 
  Might not be suitable for your application, but it is a way around the
  problem.

 So the PHP script is installed on some server that can send email and is
 accessible via port 80 which gets around the port 25 block.

 The PHP script looks like it allows the web server to be used as an open
 relay for email.  Web servers with scripts like this are probably what
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Doh!!! didn't think about that..Unless of course, that
particular server requires authentication first.

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Re: Brother, can you spare a couple of SCSI SCA disks?

[Chris]

On 10/30/07, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:46:11PM -0400, mike ledoux wrote:
  On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:17:07PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
 If somebody wants to donate sweet new 1U server with dual 500 GB
   SATA disks, that's fine too ;-)
 
  Not new, and not really all that sweet, but I have a couple of old
  (PIII-era) 1U servers that I'd be willing to donate to the cause.
  If memory serves they've each got SCSI  IDE internally and room for
  three or four drives.  No hot-swap, though.
 
  I'll dig them out of the closet tonight and let you know the full specs.

 I finally remembered to pull these out while I was actually home and
 able to do so.  As it happens, memory did serve.

 Each server has one 700MHz PIII, 512MB ECC RAM (2/4 slots filled),
 onboard Adaptec Ultra2LVD SCSI, onboard video, 10/100 Ethernet,
 PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse ports, 2 USB ports, and 2 9GB SCA SCSI drives
 installed.  The servers support IDE, and each has three drive bays
 total.  NO CDROM or Floppy installed, though it has connectors for
 both.

 Both boot (RHL 6.2!  Wow, these have been sitting for a while!).
 That's about as much testing as I'm willing to do on hardware that
 I'm pretty sure nobody wants anyway.

 The LUG can have them if it wants them.  If not, and someone else
 wants them, they can have them.  In either case, I'll need to wipe
 the disks first anyway, so I'm willing to install a more modern
 Linux on them while I'm at it, if you'd like.

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if no one else needs them for anything.

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Re: List header cancer (was: Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....)

[Chris]

On 10/18/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 10/18/07, Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Au contraire contraire, please do not.  Abuse of Reply All causes
  List Header Cancer!
 
  Couldn't this be solved by the list setting Reply-To: to the list?

   No.  Some MUAs still include all addresses if the Reply All
 function is invoked.

  And yes, I know it considered bad ...

   Some hate Reply-To munging, some like it.  There's no consensus.

 http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

 http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml

   A million years ago, this list took a vote, and the harmful
 faction won.  I'm really uninterested in repeating the debate unless
 there is significant evidence a change in opinion has occurred, and
 AFAICT, no such evidence exists.

  Hmmm... if a message has multiple Reply-To's, why not have the MUA
  reply to all of them?

   RFC-2822 does allow multiple addresses to be specified in the
 Reply-To header, so I suppose list software could add to an existing
 Reply-To, rather than replacing it.  But that just makes the whole
 How to handle list replies picture even muddier, so I'm not sure how
 that helps.  And it still doesn't prevent List Header Cancer.

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What is actually wrong with having the Reply To: as the list, after
all, that is where the message came from. (not originally, but in
essence, we all want to send a message to everyone, where is the harm
in having the reply go to everyone by default), and only when someone
feels that an individual reply is warranted, should they need to
change the reply to address?

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Re: List header cancer

[Chris]

On 10/18/07, Chip Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On October 18, 2007, Chris sent me the following:
  What is actually wrong with having the Reply To: as the list, after
  all, that is where the message came from. (not originally, but in
  essence, we all want to send a message to everyone, where is the harm
  in having the reply go to everyone by default), and only when someone
  feels that an individual reply is warranted, should they need to
  change the reply to address?

 The argument I usually see is that if the mailing list sofware alters
 the Reply-To header, information is lost. If someone see the message and
 wants to reply to just the author, they don't know what the author's
 original Reply-To was, so they may not be able to actually contact him.


That makes some sense, but most mailing lists should reject an invalid
'From' address, because it wouldn't be in the list-member's directory,
IIRC, the only way to sign up to this list is by having a valid email
address from which you originally requested membership, then a
confirmation email was sent to that address, and a reply/confirmation
URL  was expected in return, Only then was the member accepted.


 This assumes that the author's From is not a usable address, which I'm
 sure happens, but not very often in my experience.

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Re: [OT] Charging UPS batteries outside the UPS

[Chris]

Top Reply, bad netiquette etc, but I have a few of those sealed lead
acid batteries, almost new and unused, $10 each if you want to collect
them from Manchester.


Chris


On 8/7/07, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  IIRC, APC UPSs (how's that for an acronym?) generally ship with the
  batteries DISCONNECTED.  When you get it and first open the box, the
  instructions tell you how to hook them up.
 
 U.S. FAA  DOT requests that batteries are disconnected. during shipment.
 It is a voluntary program, as far as I know, but all the UPSes I've seen
 in the last
 few years, no matter who made them, come disconnected. So, it isn't just
 APC.
 In one brand, they had a locking slide switch which made the connection
 rather
 than having to open the unit to connect the battery wire, like APC does.

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Re: IRC (was: threadjacked a lot)

[Chris Linstid]

I also use irssi.  I had been using ircii and then BitchX, but irssi fixes a
lot of the issues I have with BitchX.

I used to use XChat for a while, but now I just run my irc client in screen
on my Linux server at home and I can reconnect to it from wherever I am.

 - Chris

On 7/10/07, Matt Snell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:30:02PM -0400, Chip Marshall wrote:
 Not sure how many other GNHLUGers use IRC, but I'm regularly on EFnet
 and can be on freenode if it's preferred. Why not start a channel and
 see who shows up?

#gnhlug on freenode already exists and was created 2 years 41 weeks 3 days
(23h 4m 45s) ago.

 Out of curiosity, what do people use for IRC clients these days?

I personally use irssi, after finding it I just never looked any further
(converted from mIRC on with Win side)


Matt


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Re: Xeon 64-bit?

[Chris Linstid]

As I understand it, Intel was all about ditching the x86 ISA with the
Itanium and IA64 ISA. However, AMD's 64-bit extension to x86 spoiled their
plans and forced them to take that path.  Basically, potential customers saw
two paths:

1. Entirely new ISA that none of our products are ready for.
2. Extension to existing ISA that our products are already working on and
can be updated as needed to support the new features.

It's no surprise that AMD won that battle. :)

On 7/9/07, Chip Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On 7/9/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  Do I need the ia64, the amd64, or something else?

 Well, who makes the Xeon?  I'd go with the kernel for that chipset.

 Hint:  AMD does not make the Xeon ;)
iaXX stands for Intel Architecture where the XX is number of
bits...

As I understand it, the Intel Xeon 64 bit CPUs are EM64T, not IA64. The
only IA64 CPU I know of is the Itanium. An AMD64 kernel should be
appropriate
on an EM64 machine. To the best of my knowledge, an IA64 kernel won't work
at all.

amd64 = em64 = x86-64[1], I believe it's generally referred to as amd64
because
AMD beat Intel to market with a widely used x86 compatible 64-bit CPU.

[1] for certain values of =

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Re: VMWare player under Linux

[Chris Linstid]

On 5/7/07, Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I have some questions specific to VMWare player that I have not been
able to get answered to my satisfaction yet.
1. Can VMWare player under Linux run Windows XP  as a guest.


Yes, but you need a VM for it (which must be created using either
VMware workstation or server).


2. Conversely, can VMWare player under Windows XP run Linux as a guest.


Yes, and you can get free appliances to download with already
installed distributions, including the VMware tools.  Very hand if you
just want to play around without spending too much time doing the
install.


3. Can VMWare player under Linux run other Linux distros.


Yep, same as 2.


Basically, my impression is that its VMs must be created by Workstation
(or GSX or ESX).


That is correct, but you should know that VMware server is freely (and
legally) available:

http://www.vmware.com/download/server/



Of course, I could easily try it.


I highly suggest it. :)

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Re: is Vista falling flat?

[Chris Linstid]

Even discontinuing support for a version of Windows is not sufficient
to kill it.  90% of the desktops at my company are still running
Windows 2000.  We're slowly migrating over to Windows XP at the
moment, but only with new systems.  We haven't been bothering with
upgrading existing systems to XP.  I think this will be even more
prevalent with transitions from XP -- Vista.

- Chris

On 4/27/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 4/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 John Quarterman (you may remember he worked on ARPANET software at
 BBN and was co-author of The Design and Implementation of the 4.2BSD
 UNIX Operating System) thinks so:
 http://riskman.typepad.com/perilocity/2007/04/abandoning_the_.html

  'nix fan calls Windows a failure!  Film at eleven!  I bet that Mac
guy in the TV commercials doesn't like Vista, either.  ;-)

  Vista is going to succeed the same way that XP succeeded, and 2000
before that, and 98SE before that.  It's going to succeed because it's
going to ship standard on a brazilian new PCs.  Even Windows
Millennium, which everybody (even most of Microsoft) thought was a
mistake, sold plenty of units for this reason.

  Pointing to the continued availability of XP from Dell is just
stupid.  Dell did that before when XP came out, and likewise for 2000.
 (Probably before them, too -- I just can't remember crap like that
from more than nine years ago.)  It's not going to last.  Microsoft is
already curtailing support for XP, just like they did for 2000, and
ME, and 98, and 95.  They're going to EOL it eventually -- they tell
you this in no uncertain terms on their website, and they've never
failed to follow through -- and when they do, it's Vista or no
Windows.  And while you and I and most people here might be quite
happy with the later choice, most people won't be.

  The anti-piracy measures are also the same old game: Microsoft knows
it is better to get people addicted at any price, then let them people
ship for good.  If alternatives to Microsoft gain traction, Microsoft
looses traction.  Their stranglehold on the market is their most
valuable asset, bar none, and they will protect that at any cost.
Even selling Windows at a loss is better than loosing control; it
protects their other markets.

  I don't know how they arrived at the $3 figure, but my guess would
be it is a pittance to justify the don't share with friends rule.
Free is regarded by many people and many laws as different from
something that costs actual money.

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Re: Dell 690 only seeing 3 GB RAM (was: slow last 128MB...)

[Chris]

On 4/19/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



 RHEL 3 is pretty old.  I think it might be old enough that you need
 to install a separate, special kernel package for systems which
 large memories.

I'm building a kernel with the MTRR support disabled and,
just for fun, I've also turned on PAE even tho I should
theoretically not need it for just 4Gb of RAM.

I've just learned that a cow-orker is running Vista on one of
these 690 boxes equipped with 8Gb, and he says Vista sees it all.

And on one machine w/these same symptoms I've installed Debian
running a 2.6.16 kernel.  No joy - `still sees just 3Gb...

[...]

 If you're running Linux on Dell, I highly recommend
 the linux-poweredge mailing list hosted by Dell.  See
 http://linux.dell.com.  It's nominally about PowerEdge servers,
 but a lot of the discussion is either generic and also applies to,
 or is even explicitly about, the Precision line.  There are some
 real smart cookies on that list, including Dell's senior Linux
 engineers (the guys actually writing the drivers).

Good info - thanks.

  --M

UPDATE: just as I was about to send that msg my build completed
so I tested that kernel and ta-d!  we can now see
all 4Gb.  I'm betting it was disabling the MTRR that
did it, not the PAE stuff...

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I have a feeling it was the PAE stuff.  Without PAE, the CPU can only
see the 4Gb. and the BIOS and PCI devices (especially ones that are
only 32-bit aware) are all in the memory between 3-4Gb.   With PAE
(Physical Address extension) the Kernel can use memory above the 4Gb
address range to map the previously unused 1Gb of memory.

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Re: OT: This is a long shot

[Chris]

On 3/28/07, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 03/28/2007 01:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 And I am hoping I am not infringing on the newly installed rules, but I have 
need to install DOS 6.22 in a VM on one of my systems, however, my original 
DOS6.22 install disk (disk 1) appears to be blank. Does anyone have either an ISO 
/dd image of Disk 1 that I could use to recover my original disk.

Do you have a requirement for 6.22, or just DOS?  If it's just DOS, try
http://www.freedos.org/ .  It has a bunch of similar utilities (and then
some).

-Mark



I have tried freedos, but I couldn't get it to install in a VM, I need
to rebuild some old 16-bit M$ C 5.1 source files, unfortunately, the
library files I am using were originally created for MSC V5.1, and
will not work in a 32-bit environment, nor have I been able to use the
Watcom compiler to re-create the 16-bit application.




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Re: OT: This is a long shot

[Chris]

On 3/28/07, Matt Brodeur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:31:04PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 And I am hoping I am not infringing on the newly installed rules,
 but I have need to install DOS 6.22 in a VM on one of my systems,
 however, my original DOS6.22 install disk (disk 1) appears to be
 blank. Does anyone have either an ISO /dd image of Disk 1 that I could
 use to recover my original disk.

I believe what you're looking for is commonly known as a dos boot
image.  I'm sure if you search a bit you'll find that someone will
have one.

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not really, I have several DOS boot images which will work, it's the
actual installation disk which includes the setp.exe file.


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Re: Anyone good with dpkg/apt

[Chris Linstid]

If you have the package, you can do dpkg -c package.deb.

If you don't have the package, you can do apt-get -d install  
package to get the package (I would imagine that would grab the  
dependencies as well).  And then you can do dpkg -c package.deb.


Debian packages end up in /var/cache/apt/archives.

- Chris

On Mar 21, 2007, at 12:06 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote:

I need to see the list of files in an uninstalled package. The rpm  
equiv would be


rpm -qpl foo.rpm

Anyone know how to do this? Is there anything?

TIA

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Re: SSH to one address, different ports, different hosts

[Chris Linstid]

On Mar 11, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Ben Scott wrote:


 For now, I've written two stanzas in my $HOME/.ssh/config file, one
for each box, and used the UserKnownHosts directive to assign
different known_hosts files to each.  So ssh homegw uses
$HOME/.ssh/homegw.known_hosts and ssh blackfire uses
$HOME/.ssh/blackfire.known_hosts, and everything else uses the
default.

 Anyone else have thoughts or ideas to offer?


I do something similar.  I just have different host stanzas in  
my .ssh/config file with ports listed like this:


host my.home.com
  hostname my.home.com
  port 3

host linuxbox
  hostname linuxbox.home.com
  port 2223

This also has the advantage of being able to type ssh linuxbox  
instead of ssh -p 2223 my.home.com


That took care of the multiple known_hosts entries for the same host  
for me.  Hope that helps.


- Chris
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Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

[Chris Linstid]

VirtualPC is definitely your best bet then.  I've never tried running  
a BSD on it, but I did run Linux on it (also on a Powerbook G4).   
It's not exactly fast, but it's usable.  The key is to give it as  
much memory as you can.


What are the specs on your Powerbook?

- Chris

On Mar 10, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Paul Lussier wrote:


Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


Does anyone know a virtual environment for the PPC-based Macs?


Thanks to all who responded.  I am specifically looking for a virtual
environment.  Partitioning/Dual booting is not in the cards (I don't
have enough space for that, and what I need to can be done in a very
minimal OS install as it is, so doesn't really warrant a full install
of anything.

Thanks though.
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Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

[Chris Linstid]

Actually, QEMU might be a better choice.  Check out Q which is a  
GUI front-end for it for OS X:


http://www.kju-app.org/kju/

- Chris

On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Ben Scott wrote:


On 3/9/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

... VMWare seems to only support the newer Intel Macs ...


 FYI: VMware only virtualizes an x86 machine into multiple x86
machines.  It doesn't provide processor emulation -- that is, it
cannot create a virtual x86 on a PowerPC machine.

 Bochs is a platform-independent FOSS x86 emulator.  I've never used
it.  I've heard it works okay, but is very slow.  The Bochs logo
includes the BSD daemon, so that's promising for your cause.
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/

 If you do have VirtualPC, I'd recommend trying that first, as I
understand VirtualPC is optimized for PowerPC, which should yield
better performance than Bochs.

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Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

[Chris Linstid]

I just gave it a try (albeit on a MacBook Pro) with an OpenBSD Live  
CD and it booted up just fine for me.  I'm using a pre-release  
v0.9.0d64 via Q.


Did the docs mention whether it was only on a PPC system that it  
crashed?


- Chris

On Mar 10, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Paul Lussier wrote:


Chris Linstid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


Actually, QEMU might be a better choice.  Check out Q which is a
GUI front-end for it for OS X:


Yeah, I've got QEMU from Darwin Ports installed, but there's a claim
in the docs that the BSDs all crash at boot, which is exactly what
happens to me.  It can't find the boot media for some reason.

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Re: ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

[Chris Linstid]

Isn't this the same guy that made such a huge deal a few years ago
about getting a phone interview offer from Microsoft?  He wrote some
offensive letter back to the recruiter saying he was an idiot for
trying to recruit such an important big cheese of the Linux community.

   - Chris

On 2/22/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 2/22/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I prefer to read the original source from the original target:
 www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01006.html

  His complaints seem rather vague and lacking in any kind of goal.
More to the point, who cares?  Linux user switches distributions,
film at 11.  Sure, it's ESR.  Whoop-de-freaking-do.  What, is the
Linux community so mainstream now that we need to obsess over every
move of arbitrary celebrity figures?

  What next, Pictures of Linus at a bar make the headlines?  Maybe
Stallman will shave his head... ;-)

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ted.asm

[Chris]

Can't remember who it was that was looking for it, but I found this
for you, is this what you were looking for?

http://www.programmersheaven.com/download/1451/download.aspx

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Re: Evolution sucks??

[Chris Linstid]

I've used evolution on and off a few times in the past, but I always found
it to be more trouble than it's worth.  This is especially true if the
exchange back-end isn't setup correctly to deal with it.

I generally just use Thunderbird for regular email usage (which is 99.99% of
my usage) and run Outlook on a Windows box for the rare calendar usage.  I
suppose that's difficult if all you have is the Linux system.

   - Chris

On 2/12/07, Tyson Sawyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hey!

I'm trying to figure out of Evolution sucks or its just a user error.
I've been using Thunderbird and IMAP to connect to an Outlook server
at work.  I've just installed Ubuntu 6.10 on a new laptop and since it
came with a shiney new copy of Evolution all ready to go, I figured
I'd give it a try.

Using Evolution instead of the web interface to calendering seems nice.

However, every time I restart Evolution, it rescans my entire inbox
(6500+ messages) for spam.  This takes FAR too long.  It also seems to
restore the spam that I thought I had gotten rid of in my previous
session.  Thunderbird was always able to remember the summary info of
messages it had seen before and scan just the new messages for spam.
Oh, and I was able to get rid of spam w/Thunderbird such that it
didn't come back,

Can anyone tell me if any of this is a user error?

Thanks!
Ty

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Fwd: Motherboard Recommendations, and a hello...

[Chris Linstid]

Oops, meant to send this to the whole group. :)

-- Forwarded message --
If you just want to go pick up some parts (yay for instant
gratification!) and you're nearby, you can check out Showtime
Computers in Hudson, NH:

http://www.showtimepc.com/showtimepc/home9.asp

Their prices are pretty decent and they have a pretty good selection
of motherboards.

   - Chris

On 2/2/07, Gary Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Bruce and others -

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I may still have some bootable PDP-11 media kicking
 around, if you'd like to add some variety to your
 RT-11 inventory! :-)

I'll never turn down additional PDP-11 media/software
(especially if it's on RX01/RX02 media)!  I also can
archive some of this media for future use, as many 8
disks are reaching their end of life.  I have an 8
drive that I can run off a DOS machine, along with a
Catweasel board - so I can read and archive some
pretty wierd formats.  If anyone needs a boot disk for
an Osborne or a Kaypro let me know :)

...
 I went with an ASUS P5B-Deluxe WiFi mobo, after
 shopping around it seemed like the best balance of
 feature set, technology and price ($130, a bargain
 from CDW; NewEgg lists it at $195).
...

I wasn't aware of PC-Depot locally.  Good to know, as
I've purchased most stuff from NewEgg or ZipZoomFly.
Occasionally the 3-4 day wait is painful.

I'm trying to avoid a pre-built system.  I don't want
to pay the microsoft tax and I already have several
new cases/power supplies/harddrives etc already lying
around.  I'd like to hand-select components that will
be Linux-Friendly.  I'd also like the option of
overclocking - which the commercial systems or Intel
motherboards typically won't permit.

I had heard mention of the JMicron/PATA issue, thanks
for the reminder.  I'll remember to get a SATA DVD.
Thankfully they've come way down in price.

Good to hear that the ASUS P5B-Deluxe is working well.
 Which distribution have you used with it?  Any issues
with audio or wifi driver support under Linux?

Many thanks!

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Re: Reliable wireless APs?

[Chris Linstid]

I've tried both DD-WRT and HyperWRT (also the thibor version) and one  
thing you absolutely have to do is clear the NVRAM after you flash  
the ROM.  Otherwise, you end up with strange default settings like  
Undefined 1 showing up plus other random oddities.


- Chris

On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:04 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:


Chip Marshall wrote:


 On January 10, 2007, Travis Roy sent me the following:

 Linksys WRT-54G running the DD-WRT firmware.

 I've been using a WRT54G with DD-WRT at home for a while now, it's
 been pretty solid. Under other firmwares I did have problems with  
the
 WRT turning into a brick, requiring a full reset and reflash via  
it's

 modified TFTP recovery method. I don't know if that was something
 going wrong with the hardware or just the firmware being flakey.


I've had similar problems with the factory firmware. I did have a  
couple running
DD-WRT which would partially revert to factory settings,  
specifically changing

SSID to linksys and no security. I switched them to HyperWRT (Thibor)
and have no problems since. (I think the client was tweaking the  
settings.)

The other ones running DD-WRT and OpenWR have been quite reliable.

 I'd stay away from Netgear stuff, by the way. I had horrible  
problems

 with a Netgear AP that would simply decide to stop responding on
 it's wireless device. Needed to be power cycled pretty much every
 time I wanted to go use it. Newer models may be better though.


I have three Netgears on the shelf waiting for someone to get RMAs.
I have had good ones out there, but I've had more flaky ones than
Linksys units.

All of the consumer grade units seem to run too hot. I strongly  
suspect

that is the cause of much of the erratic operation and premature
failure. Too often, I have found the wireless routers stuffed between
books, or in a stack of hubs and cable/DSL modems, seeming way
too hot to the touch. Those which stay well-ventilated seem to last
longer and be more stable. (Anecdotal evidence, I realize.)

--
Dan Jenkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, USA --- 1-603-206-9951
*** Technical Support Excellence for over a Quarter Century

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Re: SPARC Live CD?

[Chris Linstid]

Can't you just install GNU versions of the utilities?

http://sunfreeware.mirrors.tds.net/indexsparc7.html

They have pretty much everything there that you could possibly need  
as far as CLI utils go.  I'd hit up fileutils-4.1 and tar-1.16 for  
starters.


I believe they all install in /usr/local (or you can tell pkgadd  
where to install the packages) then you just need to bump /usr/local/ 
bin to the front of your path and you'll be using the GNU tools.


Hope that helps. :)

- Chris

On Dec 20, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:


On Wednesday 20 December 2006 09:25 am, Kevin D. Clark wrote:

Neil Joseph Schelly writes:
I'm trying to get an UltraSPARC server running Linux, but first I  
need to
get around in the system and ensure no useful data lingers around  
on it.
Since Solaris 7 is paingully lacking modern command line  
utilities, it'd

sure be easier to boot this thing up with a Live CD.


I'm curious:  for the task of ensuring that no useful data remains on
the system, what utilities is Solaris 7 lacking?



It's not that it's lacking utilities, but it's frustrating to  
browse around
the filesystem, trying to tarball up files, parse for interesting  
information
here and there, etc without the GNU versions of common utilities.   
It's not
that it can't be done, but Solaris 7 just 'feels' antiquated these  
days and
I'd much prefer to just be able to boot it up in a modern  
environment to do
the browsing.  That's the place where I know command line options  
and in many
cases, options I take for granted aren't even in the Solaris 7  
binaries for

things like ps, ls, tar, etc...
-N
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SANS training in NH

[Chris Brenton]

Hey all,

After much advocating, I've finally convinced SANS to at least run a
small conference in NH. It will be in Portsmouth from 10/20-10/28. More
info can be found here:
http://www.sans.org/portsmouth06/

About 1/3 of the 502 track is hands-on labs, mostly using a slightly
modified version of BackTrack. The labs cover everything from
deciphering packets to hijacking sessions using (obviously) Linux based
tools. There's even a bit of Windows stuff thrown in for those
folks. ;-)

So if you are looking at picking up face time with some of the better
security tools available on Linux, this might be a good opportunity. One
disclaimer is that I will be teaching the class. Bill Stearns (of
ssh-keyinstall, fanout, modwall, etc. etc. fame) who is also a local
will be there helping out as well.

Hope to see you there!
Chris


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Re: Forcing Linux to recognize NICS in BIOS order

[Chris Linstid]

Isn't the order they come up in determined by the order in which the  
driver modules are loaded?  So, say you have an on-board intel NIC  
and a PCI 3com in one system and an on-board intel NIC and a PCI  
tulip-based card in another, if the module load order is 3com, intel,  
tulip they are of course going to come up in a different order.


I think the way to fix this is to alias module names to network  
interface names in the module configuration files.  Something like this:


http://www.newt.com/debian/thinkpad-t40p/#ethernet

- Chris

On Aug 15, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Paul Lussier wrote:



Hi all,

All our systems have multiple NICs on them.  On some systems however,
Linux brings up the NICs in a different order than the BIOS orders
them.  For example, the BIOS orders an on-board NIC as the first and
a PCI add-on card NIC as the second.  But when Linux comes up, for
some reason it swaps that order and the add-on card is seen by the OS
as eth0 and the on-board NIC as eth1.

I thought there was a way to force the OS to use the same ordering,
but can't remember the details. Anyone have pointers to an
explanation?

fwiw, Debian, 2.4.3mumble, and mostly Intel ee1000 cards
(a few tulips, a few 3Coms, etc.)

Thanks.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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