Re: Let's try this again: 16 February, support software freedom bill HB-617-FN in Concord

[Ted Roche]

I'm not sure this is the most current version of the bill, but there's
some interesting discussion at the bottom.

https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2023=188=html

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:48 PM Ted Roche  wrote:
>
> If you are unable to testify in person (a much more effective option,
> I've been told), you can post your (optional) testimony and/or your
> position in favor or against the bill by navigating to:
>
> https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/
>
> selecting the link labeled, "House Sign-in Form and Online Testimony 
> Submission"
>
> registering your name, location and email, and selecting the bill you
> wish to comment on:
> Date: February 16, 2023
> Committee: House Executive Departments and Administration
> Choose the hearing time and bill: 1:00 - HB617
> Representing: yourself or others
>
> and post whether you are in favor, opposed or neutral and optionally
> upload or enter text testimony.
>
> Submit, review and post.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:58 PM Joshua Judson Rosen
>  wrote:
> >
> > There will be a hearing mid-day tomorrow (Thursday) in Concord
> > regarding House Bill 617-FN, "AN ACT prohibiting, with limited exceptions,
> > state agencies from requiring use of proprietary software in interactions 
> > with the public."
> >
> > Unfortunately I have no transportation tomorrow, but maybe you'd be able to 
> > go and show your support?
> >
> > More details at 
> > <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/new-hampshire-residents-voice-your-support-for-software-freedom-on-feb-16>
> >
> > If you were on this list around this time last year, you may remember that 
> > there was a similar bill put forward then,
> > which failed to become law.
> > This version has apparently been trimmed to hopefully give it a better 
> > chance at doing so.
> >
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Re: Let's try this again: 16 February, support software freedom bill HB-617-FN in Concord

[Ted Roche]

If you are unable to testify in person (a much more effective option,
I've been told), you can post your (optional) testimony and/or your
position in favor or against the bill by navigating to:

https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/

selecting the link labeled, "House Sign-in Form and Online Testimony Submission"

registering your name, location and email, and selecting the bill you
wish to comment on:
Date: February 16, 2023
Committee: House Executive Departments and Administration
Choose the hearing time and bill: 1:00 - HB617
Representing: yourself or others

and post whether you are in favor, opposed or neutral and optionally
upload or enter text testimony.

Submit, review and post.


On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:58 PM Joshua Judson Rosen
 wrote:
>
> There will be a hearing mid-day tomorrow (Thursday) in Concord
> regarding House Bill 617-FN, "AN ACT prohibiting, with limited exceptions,
> state agencies from requiring use of proprietary software in interactions 
> with the public."
>
> Unfortunately I have no transportation tomorrow, but maybe you'd be able to 
> go and show your support?
>
> More details at 
> 
>
> If you were on this list around this time last year, you may remember that 
> there was a similar bill put forward then,
> which failed to become law.
> This version has apparently been trimmed to hopefully give it a better chance 
> at doing so.
>
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Re: Virtual server host with reasonable mail policies?

[Ted Roche]

I've been adminning a couple of boxes on Linode for years, and while
I'm generally not skilled enough to run my own mail server, some of
the client apps need send-only capability (SMTP out, not POP/IMAP in).
Linode has been great for that, but some of the receiving ISPs
(*cough**cough* Microsoft and Hotmail *cough*) have taken to blocking
entire IP ranges on Linode because of a few bad spammers. MS
escalation and delisting is useless. I've had to hop IP addresses a
couple of times (which Linode support is awesome about!) but it's a
hassle. At this point, I don't want to abandon Linode after 15 years
of sterling service, but I may have to route outgoing email through
yet another (paid) service to get the mail delivered.

As for hardware and support, nearly all downtime in the past 15 years
has been pre-planned and notified maintenance weeks in advance. (Once,
a machine failed imminently and I was migrated and up and running on a
new box very quickly.) Tickets submitted have been answered promptly.

Love 'em for ops and support, but email might not be the right platform.

On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 2:33 PM Benjamin Scott  wrote:
>
> Hi everybody!
>
> Can anyone recommend a VPS/VM host that understands people might want to use 
> email?  (VPS=Virtual Private Server, VM=Virtual Machine)
>
> I (and GNHLUG) have been with Digital Ocean for several years now, and 
> they've generally been good, but their attitude towards email has devolved to 
> "Go away" and that doesn't meet my/our needs.
>
> I'm not looking for someone to hold me hand or run a relay for me.  As long 
> as they (1) allow use of mail service ports, (2) don't tell me I don't want 
> to run email, and (3) respond to abuse reports against their other customers, 
> I'm good.
>
> Linode, for example, blocks mail ports by default, but provides a 
> reasonable-sounding procedure to get them unblocked, and claims to care about 
> mail abuse.  But that's one provider of many; I'd like to hear if others have 
> experience.
>
> I/we need to be able to:
> - Receive email directly (run an SMTP listener on TCP port 25)
> - Send email directly (initiate outbound connections to TCP port 25)
> - Run a web server (HTTP/SSL listener on TCP ports 80 and 443)
> - Run an SSH listener on a non-standard port (remote access)
> - Run a DNS server on UDP and TCP port 53 (authoritative name server)
> - Install and run arbitrary Linux software
> - Fairly low volume for all traffic (mail, DNS, web, IP)
> - Fairly low CPU, disk, and RAM usage
> - Hand-holding software like "CPanel" is actively unwanted
>
> All I/we want the provider to do is:
> - Provide some kind of UI for low-level VM maintenance
>- Installation of operating system (canned images are fine)
>- Recovery of OS when SSH can't be used
> - Make sure the VM doesn't go down due to power or hardware fault
> - Make sure IP traffic keeps flowing
> - Respond to abuse reports to keep reputation at least somewhat OK
>
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Alex Hewitt, RIP

[Ted Roche]

Passing on the sad news that Alex Hewitt died on April 18th. Some of you
may remember Alex as the co-organizer of the Python SIG with the late Bill
Sconce, or for his work at DEC.

He will be missed.

https://phaneuf.tributes.com/obituary/read/Alexander-Joseph-Hewitt-108440542


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Re: Monadnock LUG tonight?

[Ted Roche]

Hi, Dan:

Sorry you were left out in the cold.

MonadLUG hasn't been holding meetings for a while. The best way to keep up
on future meetings is to subscribe to the low-traffic announcments mailing
list at: http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce or check
the archives at:

http://mail.gnhlug.org/pipermail/gnhlug-announce/


On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 9:00 PM 54321danfox  wrote:

> Did I get something wrong? 2nd Monday of an odd numbered month; 7 pm
> at SAU 1 offices. Crickets.
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Kevin D. Clark, R.I.P.

[Ted Roche]

I'm sorry to report of the passing of Kevin D. Clark at the too-young age
of 48:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fosters/obituary.aspx?pid=190018995

Kevin was an active member of GNHLUG, several of the satellite LUGs and a
regular contributor to the mailing list.

He will be missed.

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Re: Is Amazon AWS/EBS snapshotting just LVM, or what?

[Ted Roche]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote:
>
> I misspoke about LVM for Glance/Swift.  The backend for the images are on
> top of a filesystem in the POC clouds.  LVM is used for Cinder, the block
> image store.  Ceph is often used to drop in replace LVM for Cinder and files
> for Swift objects.
>

I'm following a disturbing amount of this discussion, but the only POC
acronym I know is not appropriate in this context. Define, please?


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Suggestions: Job boards, listings, contacts? for Senior Technical Writer

[Ted Roche]

Slightly off-topic, your indulgence please.

A friend of a friend  finds themselves at the end of 30+ year career
in a new of a new position. Highly skilled technical writer, worked in
several of the well known high-tech firms. Needs a new placement,
full-time, part- or contractual.

I don't know where I should suggest she look, besides the usual
platitudes of "call all your contacts and exercise your networks,"
which she's already working.

Any suggestions for online services worth the effort, or does anyone
know anyone looking?

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Re: Linux for time lapse and wifi?

[Ted Roche]

Also, gphoto2 is a cool commandline tool to capture pictures from USB
cameras. I played around with this for a wildlife capture camera using
an old digital camera we had. Of course, you need a power supply for
the camera as well as the computer.

http://gphoto.org/doc/manual/ref-gphoto2-cli.html

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Richard Kolb II <richard.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Marc Nozell wired up a camera with a mechanical release, using Arduino
>> and then converted the resulting .JPGs into videos:
>
> I forgot he did that, I should look into it.
>
> Richard Kolb II
>



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Re: Linux for time lapse and wifi?

[Ted Roche]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Richard Kolb II
<richard.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm looking into using a pine a64 running ubuntu mate to setup a time lapse
> photo using a standard digital camera controlled over USB. I haven't done a
> ton of research into it yet, but I wanted to see if anyone else has done
> something similar and had some advice/opinions

Marc Nozell wired up a camera with a mechanical release, using Arduino
and then converted the resulting .JPGs into videos:

http://blog.nozell.com/2013/02/sony-alpha-100-dslr-shutter-control.html

and

http://blog.nozell.com/2012/12/time-lapse-photography-using-arduino-to.html


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Re: What's the strategy for bad guys guessing a few ssh passwords?

[Ted Roche]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote:
> As Ted said in the 2nd sentence, it's running on a non-standard port.  Yes,
> it helps lot to reduce garbage in the logs.
>
> Maybe it's not non-standard enough?
>

Whadyamean? I'm using the same non-standard port everyone else does!

Oh...



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Fwd: What's the strategy for bad guys guessing a few ssh passwords?

[Ted Roche]

Agreed. However, now that the kiddies have bot armies of millions of
machines, they just scan all the ports. I've been running non-standard
ports on most servers, and I am seeing similar traffic on many of the
machines (with unrelated domains, IP ranges, geography, CIDRs and
ISPs) makes me think they're approaching 100% coverage.

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Dan Garthwaite <d...@garthwaite.org> wrote:
> If you can change the port number it does wonders against the script
> kiddies.
>
> Just remember to add the new port, restart sshd, then remove the old port.
> :)
>
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Ted Roche <tedro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, all for the recommendations. I hadn't seen sshguard before;
>> I'll give that a try.
>>
>> I do have Fail2Ban in place, and have customized a number of scripts,
>> mostly for Apache (trying to invoke asp scripts on my LAMP server
>> results in instaban, for example) and it is what it reporting the ssh
>> login failures.
>>
>> I have always seen them, in the 10 years I've had this server running,
>> but the frequency, periodicity and international variety (usually
>> they're all China, Russian, Romania) seemed like there might be
>> something else going on.
>>
>> Be careful out there.
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Mark Komarinski <mkomarin...@wayga.org>
>> wrote:
>> > sshguard is really good since it'll drop in a iptables rule to block an
>> > IP
>> > address after a number of attemps (and prevent knocking on other ports
>> > too).
>> >
>> > Yubikey as 2FA is pretty nice too.
>> >
>> >  Original message 
>> > From: Bruce Dawson <j...@codemeta.com>
>> > Date: 6/11/17 10:58 AM (GMT-05:00)
>> > To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
>> > Subject: Re: What's the strategy for bad guys guessing a few ssh
>> > passwords?
>> >
>> > sshguard takes care of most of them (especially the high bandwidth
>> > ones).
>> >
>> > The black hats don't care - they're looking for vulnerable systems. If
>> > they find one, they'll exploit it (or not).
>> >
>> > Note that a while ago (more than a few years), comcast used to probe
>> > systems to see if they're vulnerable. Either they don't do that any
>> > more, or contract it out because I haven't see probes from any of their
>> > systems in years. This probably holds true for other ISPs, and various
>> > intelligence agencies in the world - both private and public, not to
>> > mention various disreputable enterprises.
>> >
>> > --Bruce
>> >
>> >
>> > On 06/11/2017 10:17 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
>> >> For 36 hours now, one of my clients' servers has been logging ssh
>> >> login attempts from around the world, low volume, persistent, but more
>> >> frequent than usual. sshd is listening on a non-standard port, just to
>> >> minimize the garbage in the logs.
>> >>
>> >> A couple of attempts is normal; we've seen that for years. But this is
>> >> several each  hour, and each hour an IP from a different country:
>> >> Belgium, Korea, Switzerland, Bangladesh, France, China, Germany,
>> >> Dallas, Greece. Usernames vary: root, mythtv, rheal, etc.
>> >>
>> >> There's several levels of defense in use: firewalls, intrusion
>> >> detection, log monitoring, etc, so each script gets a few guesses and
>> >> the IP is then rejected.
>> >>
>> >> In theory, the defenses should be sufficient, but I have a concern
>> >> that I'm missing their strategy here. It's not a DDOS, they are very
>> >> low volume. It will take them several millennia to guess enough
>> >> dictionary attack guesses to get through, so what's the point?
>> >>
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Re: What's the strategy for bad guys guessing a few ssh passwords?

[Ted Roche]

Thanks, all for the recommendations. I hadn't seen sshguard before;
I'll give that a try.

I do have Fail2Ban in place, and have customized a number of scripts,
mostly for Apache (trying to invoke asp scripts on my LAMP server
results in instaban, for example) and it is what it reporting the ssh
login failures.

I have always seen them, in the 10 years I've had this server running,
but the frequency, periodicity and international variety (usually
they're all China, Russian, Romania) seemed like there might be
something else going on.

Be careful out there.

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Mark Komarinski <mkomarin...@wayga.org> wrote:
> sshguard is really good since it'll drop in a iptables rule to block an IP
> address after a number of attemps (and prevent knocking on other ports too).
>
> Yubikey as 2FA is pretty nice too.
>
>  Original message 
> From: Bruce Dawson <j...@codemeta.com>
> Date: 6/11/17 10:58 AM (GMT-05:00)
> To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
> Subject: Re: What's the strategy for bad guys guessing a few ssh passwords?
>
> sshguard takes care of most of them (especially the high bandwidth ones).
>
> The black hats don't care - they're looking for vulnerable systems. If
> they find one, they'll exploit it (or not).
>
> Note that a while ago (more than a few years), comcast used to probe
> systems to see if they're vulnerable. Either they don't do that any
> more, or contract it out because I haven't see probes from any of their
> systems in years. This probably holds true for other ISPs, and various
> intelligence agencies in the world - both private and public, not to
> mention various disreputable enterprises.
>
> --Bruce
>
>
> On 06/11/2017 10:17 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
>> For 36 hours now, one of my clients' servers has been logging ssh
>> login attempts from around the world, low volume, persistent, but more
>> frequent than usual. sshd is listening on a non-standard port, just to
>> minimize the garbage in the logs.
>>
>> A couple of attempts is normal; we've seen that for years. But this is
>> several each  hour, and each hour an IP from a different country:
>> Belgium, Korea, Switzerland, Bangladesh, France, China, Germany,
>> Dallas, Greece. Usernames vary: root, mythtv, rheal, etc.
>>
>> There's several levels of defense in use: firewalls, intrusion
>> detection, log monitoring, etc, so each script gets a few guesses and
>> the IP is then rejected.
>>
>> In theory, the defenses should be sufficient, but I have a concern
>> that I'm missing their strategy here. It's not a DDOS, they are very
>> low volume. It will take them several millennia to guess enough
>> dictionary attack guesses to get through, so what's the point?
>>
>
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What's the strategy for bad guys guessing a few ssh passwords?

[Ted Roche]

For 36 hours now, one of my clients' servers has been logging ssh
login attempts from around the world, low volume, persistent, but more
frequent than usual. sshd is listening on a non-standard port, just to
minimize the garbage in the logs.

A couple of attempts is normal; we've seen that for years. But this is
several each  hour, and each hour an IP from a different country:
Belgium, Korea, Switzerland, Bangladesh, France, China, Germany,
Dallas, Greece. Usernames vary: root, mythtv, rheal, etc.

There's several levels of defense in use: firewalls, intrusion
detection, log monitoring, etc, so each script gets a few guesses and
the IP is then rejected.

In theory, the defenses should be sufficient, but I have a concern
that I'm missing their strategy here. It's not a DDOS, they are very
low volume. It will take them several millennia to guess enough
dictionary attack guesses to get through, so what's the point?

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The Entire Internet Mapped, May 1973

[Ted Roche]

Cool picture:

http://www.sciencealert.com/old-nasa-papers-have-revealed-a-map-of-the-entire-internet-from-1973


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Re: Boot-to-CLI distro?

[Ted Roche]

You might also look at Knoppix
(http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html) which I've worked with
before. A full live CD/DVD, it's also got a menu on startup that lets
you pick CLI startup as well as various X, framebuffer, ACPI settings
for twitchy machines. Includes a bunch of utilities like partimage
that's handy for rescuing partitions from old hard drives, qparted,
etc, as well as a full GUI if you're just looking to test out a
machine for compatibility.


On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions, all.  I tried to use the recommended
> SystemRescueCD, but the download was s-l-o-w... (for all I know, was my
> fault, but I didn't have 2+ hours to wait for it).  Found this while
> googling for similar things: https://en.altlinux.org/Rescue .  Half the
> size, and downloaded in substantially less time (like, 15 minutes).  Boots
> straight to console, but also has other options (e.g., memtest, rEFInd), and
> the console's a Debian variant, so I can apt-get to my heart's content.
>
> -Ken
>
>
>
> On 2016-02-17 14:45, Shawn O'Shea wrote:
>
> +1 for system rescue cd.
>
> As far as other handy utility distros. If I'm just resizing a partition,
> I'll do gparted live (Gui but goes straight to gparted partition editor) and
> if imaging (backup/restore) then Clonezilla Live.
>
> http://gparted.org/livecd.php
> http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live.php
>
> -Shawn
>
> On Feb 17, 2016 2:15 PM, "Kyle Smith" <askr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Check out SystemRescueCD[1], which I'm sure can be burned to a USB drive.
>> Boots to a shell and comes with a ton of recovery tools and scripts to
>> assist in getting a broken system operable.
>>
>> - Kyle
>>
>> [1]: https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:04 PM Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2016-02-17 13:49, Brian Chabot wrote:
>>>
>>> In GRUB, boot to init 1, single user mode.'
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Which is great.  If you catch it.  And if it doesn't override you (as
>>> some live install disks I've seen, do).  Hell -- I'd be happy with the "rw
>>> init=/bin/bash" bit for all I need, but even that, for example, isn't
>>> cutting the mustard on one server I've got.  I guess I could spin my own,
>>> but I figured someone out there probably had a
>>> stick-it-in-and-boot-to-CLI-no-interaction-needed option in their back
>>> pocket.
>>>
>>> -Ken
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian Chabot
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey, all.  Many's the time I just want to go and fix something stupid --
>>>> maybe wipe a disk, or edit a file -- and all I want is to be able to
>>>> stick in a USB stick and wind up at said CLI.  But most distros these
>>>> days are GUI-based.  And Ubuntu Server (say) boots to install, period,
>>>> which is an
>>>>
>>>> extremely-stripped-down-to-the-point-of-useless-for-anything-other-than-install
>>>> CLI.
>>>>
>>>> Any middle ground someone could recommend?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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Linux Mint (Cinnamon 17.3 ONLY) hacked on Saturday

[Ted Roche]

According to

http://fossforce.com/2016/02/linux-mint-hacked-iso-for-17-3-cinnamon-edition-modified/

Original web site posting here:

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994

Be careful out there.

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Re: What Language for a kid

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On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Alan Johnson <a...@datdec.com> wrote:

>  Unfortunately, I don't
> know of much in the way of practical application of Lisp outside AI
> researchers...

Well, there was Yahoo Stores, nee Viaweb:

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programmer)



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Re: Opinions on Tor?

[Ted Roche]

Update: the library board agreed to turn the Tor relay on again at
last night's meeting.

The Concord Monitor covered it here:

http://www.concordmonitor.com/news/nation/world/18626620-95/west-lebanon-library-to-keep-backing-tor


On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:43 AM, R. Anthony Lomartire
<opensourcek...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ulbricht brought himself down. Tor isn't a catchall but it is a useful tool
> when used correctly.
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015, 8:00 PM Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> wrote:
>>
>> If you run a relay, you're just providing bandwidth.  For an exit node,
>> all kinds of traffic would come from your IP.  I don't want the RIAA or
>> anyone else sending me a legal notice for something someone else did.
>>
>> As for security, back in 2007...
>> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/09/anonymity_and_t_1.html.
>> Also, FWIW, Silk Road was on Tor and still taken down with effective
>> detective work.  It's not secure.
>>
>> In some ways, I'm surprised the library in my home town was the 1st, but
>> maybe I shouldn't.  Lots of interesting 1sts happened in the Upper Valley
>> area.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Curt Howland <howl...@priss.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>>> Hash: SHA256
>>>
>>> On Friday 11 September 2015, Matt Minuti was heard to say:
>>> > I've only used Tor for a few minutes, maybe 5 years ago, just to
>>> > try it out, but I've always loved the idea. It would be great (and
>>> > totally an ALA sort of thing to do) if libraries all over ran
>>> > nodes, especially exit nodes, since aren't those the ones in short
>>> > supply?
>>>
>>> I had thought that the library was running an exit node, but no, all
>>> this is just over running a relay.
>>>
>>> Heck, I'm running a relay myself. apt-get install tor
>>>
>>> What I would not dare to do is run an exit node, even though doing so
>>> would be a public service. Too many three-letter-agencies.
>>>
>>> > Aren't a huge number of nodes operated by the three-letter-agencies
>>> > anyways?
>>>
>>> They'd be crazy not to, sniffing all the way.
>>>
>>> - --
>>> You may my glories and my state dispose,
>>> But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
>>>  --- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
>>>
>>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
>>> Version: GnuPG v2
>>>
>>> iF4EAREIAAYFAlXzY+YACgkQtk9X6NaR4al5twD/fuzVd6X5iqYwB26F+XBdv5oe
>>> kPuZCOf8uVaX1MCN/ggA/RhfsxNY9BMbv2X+jA5MfsTMN4n04a9k5Bl86oZZIJVG
>>> =32F3
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Re: Opinions on Tor?

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It's actually configured the other way around: it's a relay node, but
they are not using a Tor browser in-house.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Thomas Charron <twaf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:43 PM, jsf <jfree...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I believe TOR, although it, (like anything) can be used for ill/evil,
>> is essentially an important tool for good.  Thanks for the link to the
>> EFF petition. Shared it.
>
>
>
>   It occured to me, but, if they're concerned about it's use, can't the tor
> ode simply be behind a firewall, and provide the sample protections as any
> other joe shmoe who's at the library?
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Opinions on Tor?

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Anyone with an opinion on Tor and whether the Lebanon, NH public
library should be running a Tor relay is encouraged to contact the
library's board as they are considering the issue:

"First Library to Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Effort Stops
After DHS Email"

https://www.propublica.org/article/library-support-anonymous-internet-browsing-effort-stops-after-dhs-email


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Re: FYI: Comcast Metro ethernet to the home

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Not sure where your local area is, but many towns served by the telecom TDS
have, or will soon have, TDSFiber available. For plain old residential
service at $49+fees, they are offering 100Mbps up to 1 Gbps, triple bundles
and some discounts during the rollout. A local billboard claims it's the
fastest residential service in the country, though I'm not sure if that
discounter Google Fiber or had some disclaimer in fine print.

https://www.tdsfiber.com/where/



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  As an fyi for any one who wants major bandwidth at home Comcast has in
 our area a Metro Ethernet service for residences
 505/125mb.

 New Hampshire was the pilot test for the 1gb and 2gb services they are
 rolling out down south. They have told all of the new England beta tests
 that they will be moved to 2gb service this fall

  I have been on it since January and it is fantastic, catches $299 per
 month + tax and lease (a cienea metro e switch) 3 year contract. and a $250
 installation fee

 Need to be with in an arbitrary distance of a Comcast splice or node (
 they base this on the cost to get the 12 fiber single mode run into your
 home)

 This is the same service and network they sell to enterprise customers.
 they include block of 5 IPv4 and a /48 IPv6 static with the service fee

 I have a contact in the enterprise sales that can get any one who
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Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations

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Also a happy Linode customer. For all practical purposes, they provide
a blank box, you specify the Linux distro/flavor of choice. after that
you own the box. For 5 years plus, experienced a couple of minor
downtimes (minutes) for various migrations  upgrades, and a few hours
off during Superstorm Sandy, not that anyone minded all that much. Run
a half-dozen commercial LAMP apps, cron jobs, ssh, mail, DNS, no
problem. Not the cheapest, but good support and most importantly,
little reason to need the support: uptime!


On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Matt Minuti matt.min...@gmail.com wrote:

 I've had bad luck with Chicagovps, you really do get what you pay for with
 them, and trying to reset a server tends to result in a week of downtime and
 a few support tickets. Digitalocean has been great and really cheap. They've
 been my go-to for most things. Rackspace is a little pricey, but their
 support is second-to-none. I doubt support would be needed often in this
 case ;)

   That's..  odd.  I've reset my server a few times with no issues..  Good to
 know tho.

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Fwd: Complimentary Passes for GNHLUG to Linux Foundation's Storage Filesystems Conference, Boston, March 11 12

[Ted Roche]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Angela Brown
Date: Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:20 AM
Subject: Complimentary Passes for GNHLUG to Linux Foundation's Storage
 Filesystems Conference, Boston, March 11  12

The Linux Foundation is holding a conference for developers and other
technical talent working on Linux and open source storage and
filesystems technologies. The event, Vault, will be held at the Revere
Hotel in Boston, March 11  12.

We'd like to offer complimentary passes to share with your user group
to attend the event. For more information on the event, you can visit
our website here: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/vault.
Vault will gather 400+ attendees including key developers working in
the storage, filesystem and memory management subsystems, like James
Bottomley, Andrew Morton and Ted Ts'o.

To view the schedule, please click here:
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/vault/program/schedule

To register to attend the event with the complimentary passes please
click on the url below, choose Attendee Registration, and enter code:
UG15VIP

To register: https://www.regonline.com/vault2015

We hope to see you there.

Best regards,

Angela


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Fwd: MongoDB in Boston on October 1st

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-- Forwarded message --
From: *(MongoDB Marketing)*
Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 7:34 PM
Subject: MongoDB in Boston on October 1st

The MongoDB crew is visiting Boston on October 1st for a one-day event
dedicated to all things MongoDB and we'd love to invite your user group
members. You'll hear directly from the team working on MongoDB on
development and operations best practices.

If you're new to MongoDB, we're kicking off the day with optional,
introductory sessions for developers and DBA to jumpstart their knowledge
of MongoDB.

Here is the link to register:
*http://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-boston-2014-0
http://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-boston-2014-0* You can use the code
25meetup for an additional 25% discount off registration.

I'm looking forward to seeing some of your members at the event!

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Re: Modern Linux scanners

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On 06/16/2014 08:48 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote:
 Anyone buy a flatbed scanner for Linux recently?  Looking to scan pages
 and photographs.
 Any to buy?  Any to avoid?

 HP G4050 has 'good' sane support  to 2400 dpi, seems stupid to pay extra
 for the 4800x9600dpi.
 Does HP now generally support Linux?

I've been very happy with HP's support for Linux. Their HPLIP (HP Linux
Imaging and Printing) package supports nearly every model. Read the
website to confirm, of course:
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html.

I do low volume scanning, printing, occasional complex printing. We have
an all-in-one (HP OfficeJet Pro 8500 A909n) in the office to handle most
everything: duplex printing, multi-tray projects, scanning, faxing and
memory card reading. Since it sits in one place, a wired network
interface via built-in JetDirect card is stable and reliable, and allows
features like scan to network share directly from the device's front
panel, so you can bulk-upload scan jobs to an SMB share with no computer
involved. Paper handling for printing is excellent. Paper handling for
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Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks

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And Brady Carlson of NHPR talks with David:

http://nhpr.org/post/basic-how-dartmouth-helped-open-programming-and-gaming-everybody

And the article:

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1034601-469/10-print-basic-turns-50---20.html

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Re: PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

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On 04/14/2014 09:50 AM, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
 Wordpress seems to embed the sites URL in EVERYTHING. WTF!  What is
 wrong with leaving the host name out to access the files from the
 current host?  I admit that I've not played much with web pages
 since HTML 2 or so and most of my experience is typing up very simple
 pages with emacs, but is this really how it has to be done?

Well, no, but WordPress is a very organic codebase: it has grown and
grown over the years from a simple web hosting site to a CMS with tens
of thousands of plugins that depend on older behaviors, features and
APIs. So, there's a lot of cruft. There's a lot of tweaking of the URLs
in various places in the code. It's a bit rough.

 Here is what is potentially the worst part:  We have manually done
 some searching and editing of URLs embedded in the mySQL records with
 a phpAdmin tool.  I am now finding warnings online saying that some
 plugins will embed the URL length in the data and simply editing the
 string will break things.

 I found this page, but I suspect it is for people who haven't screwed it up 
 yet:

 http://pixelentity.com/wordpress-search-replace-domain/

 How screwed are we?

Well, if you have a clean backup from before the period that you started
searching-and-replacing, there's a number of plugins that can do the job
properly for you.

If you don't have a backup, well.

Make one now.

Un-search-and-replace all of the occurences you can find of your new URL.

Make a backup of that.

Then try one of the plugins designed to do the domain move.

There are two NH groups that specialize in WordPress, one in Manchester
(that meets tonight) and one on the seacoast. You might want to join
their Meetups and get some expert help there.


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Fwd: was gnhlug-jobs OPENING - Software Engineer - C, Linux kernel (2+ yrs exp.) in Waltham, MA

[Ted Roche]

They will consider more Sr level engineers, up to 12 yrs of experience.

So, this means someone with 30 years of experience wouldn't be considered?

What exactly does that mean?


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From: John Spencer jspen...@connectedsp.com
Date: Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:36 PM
Subject: [gnhlug-jobs] OPENING - Software Engineer - C, Linux kernel (2+
yrs exp.) in Waltham, MA
To: gnhlug-j...@mail.gnhlug.org gnhlug-j...@mail.gnhlug.org


Our client in Waltham, MA has a direct hire opening for a Software Engineer
with 2-6 yrs of commercial design and development experience. They will
consider more Sr level engineers, up to 12 yrs of experience.
Must be able to interview and work on-site.
Our client cannot sponsor visas at this time.

Software Engineer
Software Engineer with 2+ years' relevant Linux Driver experience.
Responsible for design, develop and test of Linux drivers for high-speed
network/communication products.

Required:
-BSCS/BSEE
-2+ years' hands-on experience developing and interfacing with Linux
drivers
-Experience with Linux kernel and strong C background
-Experience  implementing Linux for TCP/IP Ethernet and related

Please send your resume to jspencer@connectedsp (dot) com
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Re: Is this normal? (Google crawling my hidden content?)

[Ted Roche]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Michael ODonnell 
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:


 ...  just that it was surprising (disappointing?)
 to learn that URLs obtained from sources other than WWW
 crawling were used to get find WWW pages that were hidden
 using only a security-by-obscurity approach.


I don't think we can reach that conclusion. Jim posted a message to the
public GNHLUG mailing list that included a web address. The internet is
swarming with search engine crawlers just looking for addresses such as
these to index.

The GNHLUG mailing list is archived in several places throughout the web,
and thus any message posted here can be read as a regular web page from
those services, for example:

http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MailingLists lists the mailing
lists and the (public) archives of them,

and:

http://www.mail-archive.com/gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org/msg31297.html --
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Re: Presention software?

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On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote:


 S5 might be a good fit.  It's HTML/CSS/javascript.  I believe Ted Roche
 has provided a presentation about using it.


Yes, I've done a couple presentations using it in the last few years. A
couple public ones can be seen at http://www.tedroche.com/papers.php

It's pretty simple markup, lets you use the power of HTML/CSS should you
choose, has built in forward/back/home/end keyboard shortcuts and on-screen
buttons, and can be dropped onto the internet for archival purposes with no
conversion/viewer needed.

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Re: The Linux

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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Rich Duke rd...@ntisys.com wrote:
 What is the most delicious flavor of Linux I should be using?

They're all delish. Like French or Indian food, depends on your
palate. What is it you want to do: general purpose desktop, video
production, web server?

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Re: [GNHLUG] ManchLUG: Feb 19th - Graphing with Graphite and Carbon

[Ted Roche]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:12 PM, kenta kenta.k...@gmail.com wrote:


 RSVP's appreciated! Join the GNHLUG group on Facebook:
 https://www.facebook.com/groups/17437104832/?fref=ts



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Re: grep for craigslist?

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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:21 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote:


 Do TOSen apply to non-logged-in users? What are they going to do? Revoke
 my account?


No, I agree we've got a bit far afield. The TOS concern is valid if you
were to make this a publicly-available service.

As far as consuming your own CL reading into a database or through regexs
to filter what you want, I don't really think it applies.  IANAL, of
course, but I wouldn't worry.

Dave Taylor's site suggests a recipe,
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_to_automate_craigslist_site_searches.html,
but I think your observations are apt: sellers are unpredictable in the
terms they use and the classifications they select.

If I were shopping for an inexpensive vintage Schwinn, I might bookmark and
revisit this page:

http://nh.craigslist.org/search/bia?zoomToPosting=altView=query=Schwinn+VintagesrchType=AminAsk=0maxAsk=250hasPic=1

But it would miss the people who can't spell Schwinn correctly, or think
the 1980's qualifies as Antique or Old -- similarly, it would miss the
like new! or mint optimistic claims.

CL search seems to support simple OR with pipes, and exact phrase with
quotes (ref:
http://liquidparallax.com/2010/04/07/optimize-craigslist-with-boolean-search-operators/)
,
but I haven't found a wildcard character or regex support. Considering the
variations of spelling, grammar and mis-characterization I see, perhaps
that's all for the best. Like the old chestnut about the difficult of
creating idiot-proof systems because the idiots are just too darned clever,
it may be that the only filter suitable for finding what you want on CL may
be your own eyes.

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Fwd: Cataloging media - books, CDs, DVDs

[Ted Roche]

Ooops. Sent privately to Ben. Apologies. I'm new at this...

-- Forwarded message --
Subject: Re: Cataloging media - books, CDs, DVDs

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello, list!

   Happy Festivus.



Mele Kalikimaka and Joyous Saturnalia to you as well.

For books, I'd suggest reconsidering LibraryThing.com.  It's free to start
and try it out, and if you decide to use it, it's a suggest-your-own-rate
annual ($15 typical) or lifetime ($25 typical) membership (the usual
disclaimers: I'm a lifetime member, an author and have 250+ books
cataloged, with many more to go). It's already got the lookup feature,
works with scanned ISBNs, knows about authors and pseudonyms and multiple
versions and cover art, let's you categorize yourself and/or work with the
metadata of others.

I'm not sure of the get-my-data-back-outa-there feature, and ought to look
this up, as this is an important feature.

Music CDs and DVDs, yeah, I've never gotten around to them. Will be
interested in seeing other's suggestions.


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Re: Webinar Hosting

[Ted Roche]

You may want to take a look at BigBlueButton -
http://demo.bigbluebutton.org/

One of the regulars here had mentioned this as an alternative in the
past. No personal experience to share.

I'm not sure if this fulfills your platform neutral/less plug-in
(software centric) requirement: can you expand on that? BBB works, if I
understand correctly, as a Java app launched from a browser, so it is
Mac, Windows and Linux compatible. But it may not run on an iPad, an
Android tablet, a smartphone or a TV set top box. I guess I'm asking
how neutral a platform you require.

On 04/16/2012 10:10 AM, Robert Pruyne wrote:
 Howdy folks,

 My agency is looking into webinar software for hosting meetings.  We don't 
 need anything too fancy.  But I was curious if someone here might have some 
 experience with a more platform neutral/less plug-in (software centric) 
 service for hosting webinars/meetings. 

 This list has been helpful in the past in helping me find less 
 windows-centric software solutions, I was hoping for similar results! 
 Thanks in advance!

 -Rob

 p.s. I have looked at Goto meeting/webinar; Anymeeting, Webex, Adobe Connect.


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Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

[Ted Roche]

On 02/14/2012 04:38 PM, Alan Johnson wrote:
 Another trick I've learned is to make sure you have stable/static IPAs:


That's India Pale Ales, right? I was keeping up with your acronyms up
'til then...


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New Meetings at AlphaLoft in Portsmouth

[Ted Roche]

For those of you close enough to the seacoast, the new Alpha Loft
coworking site has been doing a bang-up job of getting some community
meetings going at night.

Check out their web page at http://www.alphaloft.com for details on
upcoming meetings including: Startup Meeting, eBrew, NH Usability
Professionals, Drupal, Adobe, Web Development and our own PySIG.

Note that the Web Development Group is having its inaugural meeting on
February 15th. This could be a great new group.

I have no affiliation with Alpha Loft, other than knowing a number of
the members.

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Re: ManchLUG needs a new home!

[Ted Roche]

On 01/24/2012 11:25 AM, Chip Marshall wrote:
 How would people feel about firing up the
 ManchLUG again?


Sounds like a great idea!

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[GNHLUG] LISA conference next week in Boston

[Ted Roche]

I just got an email from folks at USENIX asking me to pass this on.
Please follow the links for more information; this is all I know:

Invitation to attend:
The 25th Annual Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA)


LISA's in Boston December 4-9, 2011 (next week!).  With the addition of
new speciality presentations and training, the breadth and quality of
this year's tutorials, refereed papers, invited talks, and
participants is unparalleled. 2011 LISA Conference highlights
include:

* The technical program with must-see invited talks such as:
- The DevOps Transformation
- The Operational Impact of Continuous Deployment
- IBM's Jeopardy!-winning Watson Supercomputer

* Practice and Experience presentations sharing real-life experiences
on topics ranging from configuration management to security.

* Over 40 tutorials taught by top instructors including:
- Tobi Oetiker on RRDtool
- Tom Limoncelli on Time Management for SysAdmins
- Ted Ts'o on Data Recovery
- Nan Lui on Puppet
- Mark Burgess on Cfengine

* Guru Is In sessions: get answers to your toughest questions.

* The Vendor Exhibition highlighting new products and services
and a look at who is hiring.

* LISA's famed hallway track offers ample opportunity to meet and
mingle with colleagues and industry leaders during breaks, BoFs, and
other social activities.

---
WHAT: LISA '11: 25th Large Installation System Administration Conference
WHEN: December 4-9, 2011
WHERE: Boston, Massachusetts, USA Sheraton Boston Hotel
WHO: System administrators, network administrators, DevOps, CIOs, CTOs,
researchers, tool providers, support and help desk personnel, etc.
WHY: Get the practical information you need to succeed.
HOW: http://www.usenix.org/lisa11/progm

Evening BoFs and Exhibits are free: just drop in!


PS: Help us promote!
-- Banners and buttons: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/promote.html
-- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=283935088299936
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Dennis Ritchie Day and O'Reilly sale

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Tim O'Reilly blogged,

/Sunday, October 16 was declared Steve Jobs Day by California's
Governor Brown. I admire Brown for taking a step to recognize Jobs'
extraordinary contributions, but I couldn't help be struck by Rob Pike's
comments on the death of Dennis Ritchie a few weeks after Steve Jobs./
– Tim O'Reilly

Read more here:  http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-day.html

In honor of Dennis and yes, never missing the chance to hold a sale,
O'Reilly has a 50% sale on a number of their UNIX, Linux, C and related
titles:

http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/honor-ritchie.do

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Free laptop RAM

[Ted Roche]

A recent upgrade to a laptop left me with two spare RAM sticks:

1. New 2 Gb DDR2 667 MHz 200-pin SODIMM, mfr by Corsair, Value Select
VS2GSDS667D2

2. Used 1 Gb PC2-5300 CL5 1.8V (128Mx64) - Lenovo-labeled FRU: 40Y8403
OPT:40Y7738

Both worked fine and passed memory tests on my ThinkPad T60.

Free to a good home. Either:

- meet me at an upcoming LUG meeting (DLSLUG, Python, Ruby, Seacoast)
- arrange to pick up in Contoocook.
- cover the USPS shipping costs with check or cash (no Paypal).

Email me offlist (tedro...@tedroche.com) with questions or interest.

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Re: Free laptop RAM - TAKEN

[Ted Roche]

On 09/26/2011 04:48 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
 A recent upgrade to a laptop left me with two spare RAM sticks:

 Thanks!


And... they're gone.

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Free eWaste Recycling, October 8th, Manchester

[Ted Roche]

Small Dog Electronics will be sponsoring another free eWaste recycling
event at the Mall of NH, October 8th, 9 AM - 2PM.

Please read the details at http://www.smalldog.com/ewastenh

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DrupalCamp NH

[Ted Roche]

Hadn't seen it mentioned here. Wanted to pass along the link if there
were folks interested:

drupalcampnh.org

October 29th, Manchester, NH, free. 134 already registered.

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Re: Sad news, Philip Sbrogna

[Ted Roche]

On 08/11/2011 08:35 AM, Ben Scott wrote:
 So I propose we collect any donations people might want to make and
 give to Reading Is Fundamental, per the above.

   Does anyone know any good way to do that in the Internet age?  I
 suppose we could just pass a literal hat at the next LUG meeting, but
 it seems like someone has prolly come up with a website or something
 for this sort of thing by now.

 -- Ben


When the hat was passed for Seth Cohn, they used:

http://www.chipin.com/overview

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Sad news, Philip Sbrogna

[Ted Roche]

I'm sorry to pass on the sad news that Philip Sbrogna, recently the
coordinator of the MonadLUG group, has passed away.

Philip was an IT specialist in the Peterborough area, a graduate of
Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science department, and a veteran of the U.S.
Navy Submarine Service. I attended several of his presentations at
MonadLUG, and he spoke at CentraLUG as well. He had a particular
interest in gaming on Linux using WINE. He will be missed.

I was contacted by his sister this morning who asked that I let the
group know as Philip often spoke about the group with enthusiasm.

I don't yet have any details on services.

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Fwd: [nhruby-announce] May Meetup: ClientSideValidations and Capybara

[Ted Roche]

FYI...

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From: Brian Turnbull nhr...@brianturnbull.com
Date: Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:06 AM
Subject: [nhruby-announce] May Meetup: ClientSideValidations and Capybara
To: nhruby-announce nhruby-annou...@googlegroups.com


*** Note - Different date than usual ***

Join us at 7:00pm on Tuesday, 31 May 2011 (day after Memorial Day) at
the NH-ICC for the regular monthly meeting of NHRuby!

As promised wy back in March, Brian Cardarella returns with his
refactored ClientSideValidations gem originally developed for the
Democratic National Committee and Nick Plante will be talking about
using Capybara for integration testing.

Hope to see you there!

Directions to NH-ICC and more information at http://nhruby.org

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Re: Free to a good home, spring cleaning, hardware, Part Deux: GONE

[Ted Roche]

... and they're gone. Thanks, all!

On 05/07/2011 05:53 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
 A second round of cleaning has turned up these two treasures. Rules
 remain the same:
 A. WinTV-PVR-150:

 B. Microsoft Media Center compatible Infrared (IR) remote control
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Re: Free to a good home, spring cleaning, hardware, Part Deux

[Ted Roche]

A second round of cleaning has turned up these two treasures. Rules
remain the same:

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote:

 1. pick these up from me at at upcoming LUG meeting
 2. Trek to (scenic) Contoocook to pick them up
 3. Pay the postage for me to ship them to you

 First come, first serve. Heading to the dump, er, transfer station on
 Saturday, so speak quickly!

A. WinTV-PVR-150: analog NTSC, S-Video or Component Video in for
digitizing, L-R audio out, Works well with MythTV

B. Microsoft Media Center compatible Infrared (IR) remote control
transmitter and receiver: typical media center remote control, easily
configurable in Linux. Remote hacked to remove Windows logo and
replace with Tux in center key (well done, if I do say so myself),
Receiver is IR to USB. Both TX/RX very Linux-compatible, originally
bundled with WinTV-PVR.

See: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MCE_Remote#Media_Center_Remotes

Take both together or separately. Just speak up!

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eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

[Ted Roche]

A couple folks lamented missing the last opportunity.

The nice folks at Small Dog Electronics have a no-cost event
collecting eWaste and disposing of it responsibly.

21 May, 9 Am - 2 PM, Mall of New Hampshire, Food Court Parking Area

Details here: http://www.smalldog.com/ewastenh


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Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

[Ted Roche]

On 05/06/2011 05:29 PM, Joseph Smith wrote:
 On 05/06/2011 04:19 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
 Details here: http://www.smalldog.com/ewastenh
 I found it humerus that they have a bunch of pics of Mac's on the 
 webpage :-)

Well, they're pretty and colorful and all, but some of those boxes must
be 10 years old. At some point, you've gotta let them go. My 1.75 GHz
PPC is getting a bit long in the tooth, too...

Their Flickr pages have some amazing pictures of the truckloads of stuff
they collected, including giant TVs, CRT and projection, and lots of
other junk.

Better than landfilling them, I hope.

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Re: eWaste collection event, 21 May, Manchester, NH

[Ted Roche]

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote:

 Their Flickr pages have some amazing pictures of the truckloads of stuff
 they collected, including giant TVs, CRT and projection, and lots of
 other junk.

Link: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjsk5w6i

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Free to a good home, spring cleaning, hardware

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Decommissioning some older machines in our data center. Anyone looking
for parts is welcomed to:

1. pick these up from me at at upcoming LUG meeting
2. Trek to (scenic) Contoocook to pick them up
3. Pay the postage for me to ship them to you

So far, we've got:

A. Sound Blaster (tm) Live! Model CT4830
B. Matrox MGI g4+MDH4A32G dual VGA card (I think this was a G200 or G400
model, but don't see it on the circuit board)
C. Adaptec AHA-2930CU SCSI adapter with internal cable for 2 drives,
external socket also.

First come, first serve. Heading to the dump, er, transfer station on
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Re: Free to a good home, spring cleaning, hardware: GONE

[Ted Roche]

All spoken for.

On 05/01/2011 02:48 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
 Decommissioning some older machines in our data center. Anyone looking
 for parts is welcomed to:

 1. pick these up from me at at upcoming LUG meeting
 2. Trek to (scenic) Contoocook to pick them up
 3. Pay the postage for me to ship them to you

 So far, we've got:

 A. Sound Blaster (tm) Live! Model CT4830
 B. Matrox MGI g4+MDH4A32G dual VGA card (I think this was a G200 or G400
 model, but don't see it on the circuit board)
 C. Adaptec AHA-2930CU SCSI adapter with internal cable for 2 drives,
 external socket also.

 First come, first serve. Heading to the dump, er, transfer station on
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Re: My Gnome (registry) is b0rken.

[Ted Roche]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
 Running Ubuntu; if I go to Places - $MOSTANYCHOICE (e.g., Home Folder),
 lo! My vlc starts up, and I'm watching Ghostbusters.  And, while
 Ghostbusters is not to be sneered at, it's unlikely to offer the directory
 listing for which I'm looking.

All together, now: Who you gonna call? G-N-H-LUG!

See if some of the suggestions here help:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1704221

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Small Dog Electronics eWaste day

[Ted Roche]

Happy Earth Day,

While many local transfer stations will accept electronic waste, some of
us are not so fortunate. The good folks at Small Dog Electronics hold an
annual eWaste event where you can turn in nearly anything that runs
electrons.

From the recent Small Dog Electronics newsletter:

Our 2nd annual New Hampshire event will be held on Saturday, May 21st
at the Mall of New Hampshire in Manchester, NH. Both events are
completely free and are “all-you-can-eWaste!” Each event will take place
between 9:00AM and 2:00PM. While the vast majority of electronics are
recyclable and will be accepted, there are a few exceptions—namely
kitchen appliances and air conditioners. If you plan to collate your
eWaste prior to the events, double check it against the accepted
materials list *here.* http://www.smalldog.com/ewastevt

http://www.smalldog.com/ewastevt

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smalldog/sets/72157625113236219/

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[GNHLUG] NHRuby Group rescheduled, not tonight

[Ted Roche]

From the group coordinators:

Hey guys,

Due to some last-minute conflicts affecting both Brian and myself, I'm
going to have to go ahead and reschedule this evening's meetup for
another day. We'll discuss this week and follow up an email to the list.
Sorry for the late notice.

Cheers,

..nap

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Re: Fun 404 page.

[Ted Roche]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
 I clicked on a link in a c. '99 Linux article, and wound up here:
 http://www.ibiblio.org/LDP

Another 404 page that pleases the inner geek:

https://github.com/flyingmachine/clean-up-your-mess

(roll your mouse over the picture, too.)


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[GNHLUG] NH Ruby Rails meeting tonight cancelled

[Ted Roche]

Relaying Brian's message:

Hey guys,

I'm going to cancel tonight's meeting.  The weather advisories on top
of fighting off a really bad cold is too much.

See you next month with two great presentations -- Brian Cardarella
returns with his refactored ClientSideValidations gem originally
developed for the Democratic National Committee and Nick Plante will
be talking about using Capybara for integration testing.

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Fwd: [GBC-ACM] Talk: Thursday, March 17, 2011 7-9pm: Dries Buytaert on The Secrets of Building and Participating in Global Communities

[Ted Roche]

Forwarding another meeting of interest to Drupalistas:


GBC/ACM and IEEE Computer Society

7:00 PM, Thursday, March 17, 2011
IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA

The Secrets of Building and Participating in Global Communities
Dries Buytaert


We still have plenty of space available for this talk, but please help us get 
an approximate head count by registering at
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1379501125  if you plan to attend.

We all know many successful communities, but how are active communities
built? In this session, Drupal founder Dries Buytaert will share his
secrets for building a thriving global community with more than 500,000
members worldwide. He'll describe processes essential for community
growth and share his experience building the Drupal project. Attendees
will learn:

* Lessons community managers can use to foster participation
* Why to focus on coordination, rather than planning
* How bumps in the road can bring communities closer together
* How to ensure your community includes a diverse mix of participants

Dries Buytaert is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal
open source web publishing and collaboration platform. Buytaert serves
as president of the Drupal Association, a non-profit
organization formed to help Drupal flourish. He is also co-founder
and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed software
company that offers products and services for Drupal. Dries is also
a co-founder of Mollom, a web service that helps you identify
content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop website spam.
A native of Belgium, Buytaert holds a PhD in computer science and
engineering from Ghent University and a Licentiate Computer Science
(MsC) from the University of Antwerp. In 2008, Buytaert was elected
Young Entrepreneurs of Tech by BusinessWeek as well as MIT TR 35
Young Innovator.

The IBM Innovation Center is located at 404 Wyman Street, Waltham.
There is free parking in the garage at the north end of the
building. To reach the meeting room, walk out the front of the
garage and around to your right to the front door of the building.
Directions to the room will be available when you sign in at the
front desk.

We will be taking Dries to dinner at the Green Papaya after the talk
at about 9pm.

Up-to-date information about this and other talks is available
online at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/. You can sign up
to receive updated status information about this talk and
informational emails about future talks at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/gbc-acm, our
self-administered mailing list.


For more information contact Peter Mager (p.mager at computer.org).

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New Hampshire Usability Professionals Association meeting 13 April

[Ted Roche]

For those interested...

*ABOUT THE TALK:*
While the Web has evolved from flat documents to being fluidly ambient, 
we’re using the same user research and usability testing methods and 
techniques we were using in 1994.

We  know that conducting usability tests can tell us where people get 
frustrated. What will testing reveal about frustrations with 
interactions people have with other people online? When interaction is 
protean, how do you derive a task scenario? What are the success criteria?

When you have large-scale social, individual workarounds turn into 
functionality and social norms. Etiquette evolves organically. What’s 
that test look like?

In this session, Dana will boil these questions down to 5 major issues 
UXers working in the social Web are grappling with and share experiences 
from SxD pioneering researchers.

*ABOUT OUR PRESENTER:*
Dana Chisnell has helped thousands of people learn how to make better 
design decisions by giving them the skills they need to gain knowledge 
about users.

She has observed hundreds of study participants for dozens of clients to 
learn about design issues in software, hardware, web sites, online 
services, games, and ballots, helping these organizations perform 
usability tests and user research to inform design decisions for 
products and services.

These days, her pet topics are election design, usable security, and 
researching social interactions mediated by technology.

She’s the co-author, with Jeff Rubin, of/Handbook of Usability Testing 
Second Edition/(Wiley, 2008).

*WHEN:*
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Refreshments  Networking: 6-7pm
Presentation: 7pm – 8ish


*WHERE:*
PixelMEDIA
75 New Hampshire Ave, Suite 100
Portsmouth, NH 03801


NH UPA meetings are ALWAYS open to anyone who is interested in 
attending. Membership to the UPA is NOT required and the meeting is 
completely Free!

We look forward to seeing you!

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Re: Asterisk Support Inquiry

[Ted Roche]

Tim Lind of ComputerBorough gave an Asterisk/TrixBox presentation to
CentraLUG in 2006. Bill Sconce's notes of that meeting are here:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/7800

(Btw, the Andrew Gillis at the meeting was the one and same author of
Trixbox, who enjoyed hearing an unbiased review of his creation.)

ComputerBorough became Midgard Technologies a few years ago, and I'm sorry
to see Tim is winding down his business: http://www.midgardtech.net/main/

Andrew Gillis' employer, Fonality [1], has an Authorized Partner program,
and that lists only one in NH: Praeter Tech, http://www.praetertech.com I've
got no personal experience with them.

[1] Fonality trixbox CE, an Asterisk-based PBX Phone System (formerly
Asterisk@Home) | trixbox http://fonality.com/trixbox/

ProTip: The page http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PastEvents has
links to many, many past events sometimes including notes and slides and
occasionally even sample code. Other than the members and mailing list, I
think it's one of the more valuable assets of GNHLUG.


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Philip Sbrogna psbro...@yahoo.com wrote:

 To All:

 Any information anyone can provide regarding an experienced Asterisk
 support provider accepting new customers in the Monadnock Region would be
 greatly appreciated.

 Thank you,
 - Philip Sbrogna

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The Compleat Rubyist comes to Boston...

[Ted Roche]

I thought GNHLUGgers interested in learning Ruby would want to know 
there's a training session coming to the Boston area. Reposted with 
David's permission...

Hello Boston area friends --

We've had a lot of inquiries from Boston Rubyists, and now I am very
pleased to announce that The Compleat Rubyist is coming to Brookline
(Holiday Inn), April 15-16.

As some of you know, The Compleat Rubyist is a two-day Ruby training
event, designed for Ruby programmers at any level from advanced-
beginner to advanced. The instructors are Gregory Brown, Jeremy
McAnally, and me. All three of us are very experienced, well-known
Ruby programmers, authors, and teachers, and we've combined our
strengths to create a truly unique learning environment and
experience.

During the two days, the class explores four topic areas. You can find
topic descriptions, along with registration links and other important
information, at http://compleatrubyist.com. If you want to go directly
to the registration site, it's http://compleatboston.eventbrite.com 
http://compleatboston.eventbrite.com.

The cost for standard registration is $900. You can get the early-bird
discounted rate ($810) through March 14. Also, groups of five or more
people get a further 10% discount. So you can pay as little as $720
per person if you organize a group of five or more during the early-
bird period.

We held three very successful events in 2010 (Tampa, Chicago area, and
Philadelphia), and we're very much looking forward to doing our fourth
event in Brookline. We're hoping the turnout will be great and the
event truly exciting.

Let me know (dbl...@rubypal.com mailto:dbl...@rubypal.com) if you have 
any questions. Thanks,
and we hope to see you in Brookline!


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Re: [GNHLUG] Seacoast/UNH/Durham/SLUG - Mon 14 Feb - KDE Kontact: Contacts, calendar communication

[Ted Roche]

On 02/11/2011 01:59 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
 What : KDE Kontact - Contacts, calendar  communication
 Who  : Rob Anderson
 Date : Mon 14 Feb 2011
 Time : 7 PM to 9 PM
 Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH


What? Are you guys having a meeting on the 14th? Don't you know what day 
it is?

It's the first day of the Man vs. Machine shows on Jeopardy! What were 
you thinking?

http://www.sciencefriday.com/arts/2011/02/the-biggest-matchup-since-john-henry/

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Re: Open Webinar Software that runs on Linux

[Ted Roche]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote:
 Hi,

 I am trying to find some Open Source software that can do a webinar.


Big Blue Button (http://www.bigbluebutton.org/) was mentioned recently
on one of the lists



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Re: [OT] Ken Olsen, DEC father, dead at 84

[Ted Roche]

On 02/08/2011 05:38 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
This is OT-ish, but I know we have a lot of ex-DEC'ers on this list.

Ken Olsen, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, died on Sun
 6 Feb.  He was 84.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/technology/business-computing/08olsen.html

 http://www.wbur.org/2011/02/08/olsen-biographer

 http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2011/02/08/remembering-ken-olsen-1926-2011-a-sense-of-pride-and-a-sense-of-humor/

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Maddog's remembrance:

http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Rest-in-Peace-Kenneth-Harry-Olsen

Gordon College, to whom Ken contributed much, in time and effort:

http://www.gordon.edu/article.cfm?iArticleID=1078 (currently unavailable)

A couple of astute observations from Dan Bricklin:

http://twitter.com/#!/DanB


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Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap

[Ted Roche]

On 01/26/2011 10:30 AM, Mark E. Mallett wrote:

 I'm not speaking for these, (and understand #2 is gone) but I'm curious
 as to why you're getting rid of them; what are you using in their
 places?

Hi, Mark:

I wish you could have joined us at Wings Your Way last night! It seemed 
like a ex-MythTV-admins meeting at times. And there was good food, good 
company and lots of stories to swap... I took a few notes: 
http://blog.tedroche.com/?p=3645

Personally, I wasn't willing to pay the premium cable rates for HD, 
considering the quality of network TV and the free/cheap alternatives 
out there. We have the TV on in the evening for background noise mostly, 
and watch most of the good stuff on DVD, Hulu or directly on the 
network's web sites. Years ago, without a lot of upfront effort and 
tinkering, Myth was too much hassle. For me, it was more of a hobby with 
spare underpowered hardware; with the modern stuff and investment in 
proper hardware, I suspect the experience is a lot better. I didn't 
really have sufficient interest to give it the time and budget it 
required to move it from the basement to the living room.

One of last night's lightening talks was Kenta Koga showing off Boxee, 
an app built on top of, or evolved from, XBMC, and running on his Mac 
with his Android acting as a remote control. We talked about the various 
boxen available to hook up to TVs and where we thought the market would 
shake out.

 As for me, I've got a few SiliconDust HDHomeRun tuners that work pretty
 well for unencrypted digital cable.  I've also got a couple of Pinnacle
 PCI HDTV cards that give indications of working outside of Mythtv
 (e.g. with tvtime), but that so far I'm at a dead end with on MythTV.
 I've sort of got the impression that analog tuning is broken in MythTV
 0.24 but am interested to know if your PVR-150 is any more usable as
 tuner for analog cable signals than the Pinnacle card is.  And
 interested in any other comments, of course, which is why I'm not
 replying off-list ..


The PVR-150 was rock solid when I used it on analog cable, but that was 
a version or two ago. As you say, they may have broken that support.

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Re: Computer hardware for sale, cheap

[Ted Roche]

The HDTV-5500 has been spoken for.  PVR-150 still available...

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote:
 Before I toss them up on Craigslist, then Freecycle then the local
 transfer station, I wanted to give folks a shot at this stuff. No
 reasonable offer refused. Pick up in Contoocook, ship at cost or
 rendezvous at a LUG meeting.

 1. WinTV PVR-150: $40; used lightly to record 180 episodes of X-Files
 via MythTV a couple of years ago, now collecting dust. This is an
 _analog_ recorder. Includes MCE IR remote and receiver. Cost $150 new,
 eBay ~$55

 Please don't be stubborn and hold out for the freecycle posting. If
 there's anything you see that you want, just drop me an email with your
 best offer, and it's yours! First come, first served. No reasonable
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Computer hardware for sale, cheap

[Ted Roche]

Before I toss them up on Craigslist, then Freecycle then the local 
transfer station, I wanted to give folks a shot at this stuff. No 
reasonable offer refused. Pick up in Contoocook, ship at cost or 
rendezvous at a LUG meeting.

1. WinTV PVR-150: $40; used lightly to record 180 episodes of X-Files 
via MythTV a couple of years ago, now collecting dust. This is an 
_analog_ recorder. Includes MCE IR remote and receiver. Cost $150 new, 
eBay ~$55

2. PC-HDTV-5500: $40; QAM (non-encrypted) digital recording; also used 
in MythTV. See http://www.pchdtv.com/hd_5500.html Cost $129, now retails 
for $99

Please don't be stubborn and hold out for the freecycle posting. If 
there's anything you see that you want, just drop me an email with your 
best offer, and it's yours! First come, first served. No reasonable 
offer refused!


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Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

[Ted Roche]

On 01/19/2011 12:17 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
 I'm getting some good feedback, including letting me know what info I did not
 provide.

 The deal is that we are releasing software whose src code is properly tagged
 (or labeled). There are*lots*  of labels. The binaries are constructed and
 released into a common area. Each set of binaries might be composed of src
 rpms, binary rpms, tarballs, iso images, plus other things. Multiple binary
 files can have an integer called a Build Solution and a release version
 number. The collection of all these files go into a unique Staging Area where
 users get the files. There is currently a spreadsheet which contains columns
 of content description, version numbers and Build Solution numbers. Different
 people contribute to different sections of the spreadsheet. There might be a
 linux section, one for winbloze, plus other more specific target platforms.
 Right now, everyone is using Excel from windows to add their entries. I don't
 actually know if using anything else (OOO, gnumeric, etc,) would cause
 unintended ripples to the files.

 All the devel work that I deal with is done from linux, but I get there mostly
 (currently) using W7, putty and cygwin X server.

 Since I don't know ruby, the suggestion to try a python interface sounds
 attractive.

 If someone wanted to send me some python example code (hint hint) I'd really
 love to look it over.

 Does this help with any further suggestions?

Thank you for the further clues!

At the risk of invoking Benjamin Disraeli (when all you have is a 
hammer, everything looks like a nail), I'd suggest that the problem you 
have is a multi-user database application, and not a spreadsheet. It 
doesn't sound like you are using the spreadsheet for its intended 
purpose of organizing columns, rows and blocks of numbers and performing 
mathematical functions on them, rather you're using the spreadsheet as a 
table editor.  A spreadsheet is also single-user (The document is 
current locked by user Bob. If you want to make a copy...) which could 
be a problem.

You don't mention if this spreadsheet goes on to play some important 
role in the build or distribution process directly, or if it is just 
used as a reference document. If the former, you'd need to expand on 
what you do with it. If the latter, I'd suggest a dynamically-generated 
web page could present the results to all in a table, column and row 
format. And a multi-user web application has the advantages of requiring 
(any, platform-neutral) browser to use it, built-in row-level 
locking/contention mechanisms and the ability to add in functionality 
like reporting, auditing, role-based access control, etc., as the need 
arises.

Direct command-line updates into a such a system could be as easy as 
scripting SQL scripts and submitting them to the database.

Needless to say, I've simplified my answer as you simplified your 
question. A high-schooler should be able to whip up a LAMP app to do 
this in an afternoon. For us adults, it might take longer ... ;)

Or you could just throw the spreadsheet into Google Apps, since they 
seem to have worked out the multi-user document sharing aspects pretty 
well. However, I don't know of a command-line interface to that!

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Re: An Xmas present for you to peruse, comment, and mull..

[Ted Roche]

This is pretty exciting. Please keep us up to date on the progress of 
the bill.

On 12/24/2010 09:30 PM, Seth Cohn wrote:
 For your holiday enjoyment, and for you to think about in the next few
 days, and get back to me with feedback (pro or con), improvements, and
 other suggestions... I welcome your input, and if you'd like to speak
 at the hearing on this bill on a particular element, please let me
 know...

 This is one of two bills submitted for the coming year... the other is
 related to Open Government Data (google for the 8 principles) for the
 essential concept of that one.

 Yours,
 Rep. Seth Cohn
 Merrimack 6
 (and open source geek for far longer than I'd like to admit...)


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Notes from CentraLUG, 6-Dec-2010: David Berube, MySQL Operations

[Ted Roche]

Six people attended the December 2010 meeting of the Central New 
Hampshire Linux Group, held at the New Hampshire Technical Institute‘s 
Library from 7 to 9 PM. David Berube was the featured speaker, talking 
about his experience with large scale high-performance MySQL applications.

David is an independent software developer and consultant. One of his 
larger projects over the past couple of years has been an application 
for scheduling actors for auditions. This involves agents and projects, 
auditions, roles, videos and a number of other entities in a complex and 
fast-moving application. He’s used Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, a NOSQL 
database, Amazon S3, A rack of Mac Minis, BSD, Linux, and a number of 
other elements. He had some insightful things to say about the 
development process, managing a client project, handling difficult 
requirements, scaling up million-row databases for sub-second response 
times and more. It was a meeting well worth attending.

There were a lot of useful tools and reference sites mentioned, and I 
was only able to take note of a few: Useful Ruby add-ons: New Relic, 
Query Reviewer, Percona Operations Day, Cacti for data aggregation. An 
In-depth discussion of NoSQL (“Not Only SQL”) Databases: what are they, 
what are they good for, what are the liabilities? A good discussion of 
the trade-offs of using NoSQL, reference to the NHRuby presentation on 
Redis a few months ago, and more.

Thanks to David for an informative presentation, to the attendees for a 
dynamic interactive session, and to the NHTI Library for the facilities. 
Future meetings at the Concord location have been suspended, we 
encourage our regulars to attend the Manchester ManchLUG meetings. If 
you haven’t already, consider subscribing to the announcement list so 
you’ll know when there’s an upcoming meeting. (Subscribers to the 
discussion list will automatically receive the announcements, too.)

Links to many of the resources can be found at 
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Inkjets, was: Android printer recommendations

[Ted Roche]

On 12/16/2010 11:11 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
 Conversely, this makes the ink cartridges much more expensive.
I like designs that use ink tanks but also have easily-replaceable
 print heads.  I know I've seen Canon printers with that design.

The consumer-grade printers are moving towards a business model similar 
to cell phones: discount the initial purchase then make up the sunk cost 
with recurring revenues on replaceable inks and printheads.

But ultimately, I hate ink jets for anything other than photo
 printing.  It doesn't help that most ink jet printers on the market
 are incredibly cheap crap.

Slightly less crappy are the business-class machines. I'm on my second 
HP OfficeJet. Initial cost is higher, but the machines seem to last a 
long time (first one lasted 5 years), and the costs of replacement 
(time, aggravation, hours lost) are more expensive to me, on deadline 
(when else would it fail?), than the initial payout. Combine that with 
XL extended life cartridges - half-full instead of quarter-full, I 
suspect - and the costs are still a little higher than lasers, but 
reasonable for low-volume use. Big-box office stores have discounts, 
rebates, trade-ins, and ink club programs to less the pain. The 8500 
Pro Premier a909n (there are many models of the 8500, with varied 
features, distinguished by added names, Pro Premier Whizbang 
Wireless et cetera) has duplex printing, second tray, networking 
(JetDirect), scanning, faxing, memory card reader and good Open Source 
HPLIP software support.

For low-volume work, I find it ideal. And, hard as it is to believe in 
this day and age, clients are still impressed with color mockups!

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Re: Inkjets, was: Android printer recommendations

[Ted Roche]

On 12/17/2010 12:13 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
 I've heard that before, after too many bad experiences with them, I
 don't believe it.  Maybe it was true in the past, maybe it's true for
 selected models, but as a general rule, it's bunk.  Do you feel
 lucky, punk?

You may be right there. I hang out on a number of computer lists, and 
the threads about What brand would you recommend? draws out opinions 
like flies to...

Everyone has some brand they detest. I had a bad experience and I will 
NEVER buy another Xxxx. The sum of anecdotal experiences indicate we 
should just give up on the entire computing field. Others have some 
brand loyalty, despite the fact that Brand X has, over the years, moved 
all their manufacturing overseas, then outsourced, gone through QA 
problems, got bought by some mega-corporation, and is now shipping far 
more capable and far less reliable products than before.

Yeah, we print about one major print job a day and the printer works 
pretty well for us ;)

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Re: Android printer recommendations

[Ted Roche]

On 12/16/2010 07:36 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
 On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Michael ODonnell
 michael.odonn...@comcast.net  wrote:
 Therefore, if it seems that you're enjoying arbitrary restrictions that
 always limit you to 600 DPI I'm guessing that they're, um, arbitrary.
Well, that's certainly possible, but I would have expected
 *somebody* to introduce something better along the way, especially
 since it delivers such a drastic improvement in image quality.

Of course, I just went looking again and was able to find some at
 higher DPIs.  Perhaps I was just defying the odds before.  :-/


That rang a bell

Lower-priced, consumer-grade laser panels use a panel of LEDs to 
generate the laser beams, one for each pixel across the page, rather 
than the more expensive single laser and mirror system. There are only 
600 LEDs to the inch, whereas the laser/mirror setup can go to far 
higher resolutions with more precise machinery.

Citation (where else?): 
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/LED_printer


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[GNHLUG] Monday, December 20th: NH Ruby roadtrip holiday edition, meeting with Maine RUG

[Ted Roche]

 From the http://www.meetup.com/nhruby/calendar/15632062/ posting:

This month we're combining meetings with Maine Ruby for a special 
road-trip holiday edition of NHRuby!

Join us on Monday, December 20th as we head north to the lovely home of 
Adam and Renae Bair in Portland, ME for a combined Maine Ruby/NHRuby 
evening of code, good cheer ... and pizza and beer supplied by Intridea.
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[GNHLUG] CentraLUG, Monday, 6-Dec-2010: David Berube, MySQL Operations

[Ted Roche]

The December meeting of the Central NH Linux User Group will be held as 
usual in Room 146 of the NHTI Library - details and directions can be 
found at http://www.centralug.org[1] - and will feature David Berube 
presenting Real World Experience with Large MySQL Deployments

David recently attend the Percona Operations Day training [2] covering 
real world howto's on big MySQL deployments and will share what he's 
learned.

About David: David is a principal at Berube Consulting. David Berube is  
a software developer, consultant, speaker, and writer. He is constantly  
researching, perfecting, and practicing his trade. He is a prolific  
writer, appearing in places such as Dr Dobbs Journal, Linux Magazine, 
IBM DeveloperWorks, PHP International Magazine, and many others. He 
speaks frequently, notably including his seminar series,  “Making Money 
Using Open Source Software”. He authored the books Practical Rails 
Gems and Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails, and  co-authored 
the book “Practical Rails Plugins.” He is also a leader in the Open  
Source community. He was involved with the AmphetaDesk project, 
developing much of its Win32 GUI code.

[1] http://www.centralug.org
[2] http://www.percona.com/training/classes/operations/
[3] http://berubeconsulting.com/index.php

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Notes on PySIG

[Ted Roche]

Four members attended the November meeting of the Python Special 
Interest Group, held a week early due to the Thanksgiving holiday 
(anticipate a similar schedule for December). The Amoskeag Business 
Incubator was kind enough to allow us to use their smaller meeting room, 
which worked out perfectly for the smaller crowd.

It was an open QA evening, and boy, did we have Qs and As! Topics 
covered included:

- Getting scanners working on Ubuntu 10.10
- sharing printers in Ubuntu
- Why DSL isn’t always at its rated speed
- what a CO and a DSLAM is
- Win7 Starter Edition blue-screening on an Asus Aspire One
- the New Microsoft/Verizon KinONEm KinTWOm
- the disaster that was the Microsoft-Danger hiptop acquisition
- Microsoft’s announcement of Java as a “first class citizen” of their 
Azure cloud
- Microsoft’s “Embrace, Enhance, Extend, Extinguish” history
- Maybe they’ll call it IronJava? And, hey, where did IronPython go?
- Oracle and Java and licensing and FUD
- Oracle and MySQL and licensing and FUD
- A public library looking for a Linux-based solution to reserving PC use
- A great suggestion to consider Gnome Nanny
- generating PDF Forms out of a LAMP app using pdftk
- OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice
- Generating PDF fill-in forums out of OpenOffice.org, courtesy of 
Solveig Haugland
- the difference between “business class” and “consumer grade” machines
- Dell and HP, Linux support, HPLIP Open Source project
- printing to PDF in Ubuntu only worked when App Armor was removed
- the ease of hooking up a projector to Fedora 14 with the new video 
subsystem and Nouv eau drivers
- installing NetworkManager on Debian Lenny (there’s python in there!)
- a quick tour of NetworkManager on Fedora 14
- a demo of using Elementree to parse and modify an XML file used to 
manage installs of Atlassian Jira
- using BeautifulSoup to parse an HTML file and generate an INI file
- the Venus software for generating an RSS aggregator page
- hacking WSDLs for SOAP using suds

Those were the Qs. You needed to be there for the As.  And the awesome 
gingerbread cookies and frosted cake.

(There are some links on my blog at 
http://blog.tedroche.com/2010/11/19/pysig_notes/)

Thanks to Janet for the desserts, to Bill for organizing the meeting, to 
the Amoskeag Business Incubator for the facilities, and to all who 
attended and participated. Look for the December meeting announcement 
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Special BLU meeting on Tuesday: TI Arm PandaBoard, Canonical

[Ted Roche]

I had missed earlier announcements on this. It appears that (after you
vote!) BLU will be having a special meeting featuring some folks from TI
and Canonical showing off their PandaBoard development board, giving
away discs of Ubuntu 10.10 and some O'Reilly books. Looks like an
interesting presentation. Details here:

http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2010-omap1

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[GNHLUG] CentraLUG, TONIGHT, 1-Nov-2010, NHTI, Open QA, HTML5

[Ted Roche]

The Central New Hampshire Linux User Group will meet at its usual place
and time, NHTI Library, Room 146, first Monday of the month, 7 PM - 9
PM. Directions can be found at
http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/NHTILibrary.

We'll have an Open QA on what's new, anyone with questions, or news is
more than welcome to contribute.

Ted's been converting some web sites from older HTML to HTML5 and can
show-and-tell what's involved. The basic conversion is simple, as HTML5
is a very relaxed standard. But there are a slew of new features worth
adapting and integrating into your older sites and also newer ones: new
tags for header, section, article, aside and footer, new data types,
hints and validation for input fields, a greater focus on media beyond
text. We'll take a peek at some of the books and web sites you can use
for reference and ideas. We'll talk about the compatibility and
tolerance of newer and older browser for the new features, how to test
and validate your new pages, and how to develop a strategy for migrating
existing sites or writing new sites using HTML5.

Hope to see you there!

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[GNHLUG] NHRuby, 18-Oct-2010: Open Forum, hacking session

[Ted Roche]

Forwarded from the NHRuby announcements:

Join us for the regular, monthly meetup for the New Hampshire Ruby Users
Group on Monday, 18 October at NH-ICC.  This month, we're planning to
host an open forum and hacking session.  Bring your questions and we'll
work them as a group.  If you have a short-form presentation then step
on up to the projector.

About NHRuby http://nhruby.org

We're a group of people who are enthusiasts of the Ruby programming
language and the Ruby on Rails web development framework. We range from
casual hobbyists to professional software developers. We are also
affiliated with the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group (GNHLUG),
which supports the spread of UN*X and Open Source Software throughout
New Hampshire.

Directions to NH-ICC

You can find detailed directions to the NH-ICC at
http://www.nh-icc.org/about-nh-icc/directions/or use Google Maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=75+Rochester+Avenue+Portsmouth+NH

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Notes from CentraLUG, 4-Oct-2010, Patent Absurdity

[Ted Roche]

Five people attended the October meeting of the Central NH Linux User
Group[9], an affiliated chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User
Group[8]. We met at the NHTI Library, Room 146.

We had an attendee with a tech support question we weren't able to
answer on the spot, but gave him some resources to pursue. He was
plugging his camera into his Ubuntu  machine, and he wanted to set the
mount point to be a fixed mount point rather that something dynamically
created by dbus. He made some changes, but wasn't sure of exactly what
he had changed, and the device no longer appears when he plugs it in. It
does appear on other machines, Linux Mint and Windows, so the device is
unlikely to be broken. No one present was sure where the settings might
be stored for this. We suggested joining the gnhlug-discuss list [6] as
well as the support forums provided by Ubuntu Linux [7]. I look forward
to some of our experts helping our friend out.

I let folks know that I've reserved the room for November and December.
After that, we'll likely start meeting with the ManchLUG group, unless
someone else wants to keep running meetings in Concord. We reviewed the
GNHLUG wiki for upcoming meetings. Especially noted were the upcoming
DLSLUG meeting About Lisp -or- Lambda, the Ultimate Lecture, presented
by Yoni Rabkin [3] and the New Hampshire High Tech Council's [4]
TechWorld 2010 [5] conference ($25 - $210) coming up next Thursday and
Friday. We discussed the idea that a nicer-looking forum software, like
Drupal, would be nice to implement on the GNHLUG site, and talked about
the past efforts to do that, and some of the challenged past projects
have run into.

We mentioned that there's a effort to create a community-driven site to
support and distribute a new fork to OpenOffice.org named LibreOffice
[10]. Some of the other projects involved in the MySQL - Sun - Oracle
mergers have been making interesting news as well.

Thanks to Dave Rose for providing the projector. We used a Live USB
version of Fedora 14 beta which shipped last week [1] and saw a pretty
remarkable It Just Works effect: plugging in the running ThinkPad (a
T61, 1680x1050,  with an nVidia controller), the open source nouveau
driver recognized the Sharp projector and automatically reconfigured the
display (1400x1050) for side-by-side (twinview) layout with the
internal screen. No xrandr, no rebooting of the machine! Wow. We brought
up the Gnome display properties dialog and moved them around and finally
settled on a mirrored display for the main presentation. This is a huge
time saver and convenience for doing presentations!

Our main presentation was a viewing of the documentary, Patent
Absurdity, How software patents broke the system [2] and a discussion
afterwards on what you can do (contact your Congress-person, contribute
to organizations, etc.). Everyone learned something from the show, and
perhaps from the discussion afterwards.

Thanks to all for attending to Dave for providing the projector, and to
NHTI for providing the facilities!


[1]
http://press.redhat.com/2010/09/28/fedora-14-beta-emerges-with-latest-in-open-source-software/
[2] http://patentabsurdity.com/
[3] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/20351
[4] http://www.nhhtc.org
[5] http://techworld2010.com/
[6]
http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MailingLists#General_Discussion_gnhlug_discus
[7] http://www.ubuntu.com/support
[8] http://gnhlug.org
[9]http://www.centralug.org
[10]
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/your-office-saved-openofficeorg-forked

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[GNHLUG] GNHLUG, October 4th, Patent Absurdity

[Ted Roche]

Q: What do these companies have in common?

The Green Bay Packers, Boca Raton Resort  Club, Burlington Coat
Factory, Caterpillar, Continental Airlines, Ford Motor, J Crew, Kraft
Foods, OfficeMax, Sears, Tire Kingdom, Walgreen, Wal-mart.

A: All of them have been sued for infringing a software patent.

The first Monday of the month, October 4th, is the regular date for the
CentraLUG meeting. We'll be airing the documentary, Patent Absurdity, 
funded by FSF [1], copyright by Luca Lucarini and licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license[2], and available
from at http://patentabsurdity.com/ Hear from: Mark Webbink, Jesse
Vincent, Richard M. Stallman, Karen Sander, Dan Ravischer, Ciarán
O'Riordan, Joe Mullin, Eben Moglen, Timothy B. Lee, Ben Klemens, Mishi
Choudhary, Peter Brown, Dan Bricklin, and James Bessen.

In addition, we'll have plenty of time for QA, discussion of upcoming
meetings, mutual support, etc.

We'll be meeting at the NHTI Library, Institute Drive in Concord. The
Library is the large building close to the main parking lot, with a
clock tower. The main entrance is on the quad side, opposite the parking
lot, and we'll be in Room 146  - head straight to the back, then take a
left.

Hope to see you there!

[1] http://patentabsurdity.com/about.html
[2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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Notes on ManchLUG, 28-Sept-2010, maddog a nd Project Cauã

[Ted Roche]

Eighteen people attended the second ManchLUG meeting, held at Wings
Your Way on Elm Street in Manchester. Early attendees to the meeting
enjoyed good food, beverages and camaraderie.

It's never easy to summarize a maddog presentation :). Maddog had a lot
of interesting materials to cover, and provided a lot of depth and
background to his main thesis. Briefly, Project Cauã is based in Brazil
as the center of its first pilot and rollout, but intends to be
worldwide. There's a strong ethos of openness and transparency in hopes
the project will be duplicated elsewhere. It is an effort to distribute
computing power and internet connectivity to as many people as possible
as cheaply as possibly, but using the power of capitalism and business
to drive the project, rather than some completely free charitable model
that would be trying to fight the entrenched interests. There seemed to
be an emphasis on sustainability, both for the project and the world,
and the principles of Open Software.

The infrastructure would consist of very-low-power (10-12 watts)
mini-machines, a small fanless thin-client box with USB3 and gigabit
ethernet connectivity, wired into large servers centralized in
neighborhoods or apartment building basements. The machines would be
manufactured as greenly as possible and built for long term service
(6-10 years).  Small businesses would be established and trained
(cheaply over the internet and/or with DVDs) to service the machines.
The thin clients would rent/lease for a target price of $6/month. To
avoid vendor lockin or obsolescence, the thin client design would be
open, designed by the University of São Paulo and distributed/licensed
freely to the many SMT (Surface Mount Technology) assembly facilities
available within Brazil (import duties of 100% on finished goods, versus
a 6% surcharge on raw components, means that in-country assembly is
economically feasible, driving local employment). The project intends to
use the network to provide free metro-wide Wifi. Some vendors have
expressed an interest in providing free internet band width in exchange
for idle CPU power. There's lots more to the project of course: finding
the proper motivations to financial institutions to provide the seed
money the many small startups will need, certifying and bonding the
local computer experts, designing and integrating the hardware,
software, networking, etc., but maddog only had a little over an hour to
present. More can be learned at http://www.projectcaua.org and maddog
promised he'd be further updating the site soon.

Thanks to maddog for the presentation, to Kenta Koga and Chip Marshall
for coordinating the meeting, to Wings Your Way for the facilities and
good food, and to all for attending and participating!

More related links at http://blog.tedroche.com/?p=3571

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Notes from PySIG, 23-Sept-2010: Bill Freeman and Django

[Ted Roche]

Seven folks attended the September meeting of the Python Special
Interest Group, pysig.org, held as usual on the 4th Thursday of the
month at the Amoskeag Business Incubator in Manchester. Bill Sconce,
PySIG's organizer, supplied milk and Janet supplied (excellent!)
chocolate chip cookies.

Bill Freeman was the presenter for the night, and spoke about Django.
Django [2] is a web framework written in Python. It supports the WSGI
web server gateway interface specification which allows a standard way
of connecting to web servers and provides facilities to stack
additional WSGI-compliant applications to act as filters, caches,
security modules, etc. between the web server and your application. Bill
walked through the flow of data through the application's architecture
from http request, through parsing, views and the template language,
processing in the ORM and out as the http response. There are hooks
galore where you can add your own code, modifying the flow of data and
responses. Django is a world-class web framework, with facilities to
plug in additional engines -- mini-applications -- and add your own
template tags, customize the automated generate of the data schema, and
of course, write your own application logic. It's Open Source, it's
Python, and the code is there for you to mess with. Django's most
popular add-on provides an administrative function that provides
developers (and, optionally, their customers) with simple
add/edit/delete forms. Django seems to be a platform well worth
considering if you're interested in web apps in Python. Bill's slides
are available on the GNHLUG wiki at the link below.

Thanks to Bill Freeman for a great presentation, to Bill Sconce for
organizing the meeting, to Janet for the awesome cookies, and to the
Amoskeag Business Incubator for providing the fine facilities.

[1] Slides: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PySIGDjango
[2] http://www.djangoproject.com/

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Free eWaste collection event, Mall of NH, 23 Oct

[Ted Roche]

The nice folks at Small Dog Electronics (opening a Manchester store
October 9th) will also be hosting a free eWaste collection event on the
23rd of October. This might be some good motivation to clean that Cray
out of the basement corner...

http://www.smalldog.com/ewaste2010

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Recommendations for/against Comcast Business as an email provider

[Ted Roche]

Slightly off-topic, although I got my foot stuck in this door since I
have installed and maintain a LAMP server and apps at this client site.
So, there's a bit of Linux in there.

I have a client running a small business with my LAMP server as his only
non-desktop machine, and Comcast Business for internet provider. He's
been using a patchwork of email services over the years (they use AOL
and Yahoo! email addresses and a former web design firm provides their
domain's POP server.) They are entitled to Comcast Business email as
part of their internet package. I wondered if folks here had experience
with setting up other clients with Comcast. In particular, my concerns
are reliability (losing email during business hours means lost business)
and whether they provide decent spam filtering.

I've set up other clients with Google and/or Google Apps Premier
($50/year/user) accounts, and their IMAP servers provide nearly 100%
uptime and excellent spam filtering.

Providing email, spam filtering and network support is really beyond the
scope of my services - mostly software development and application
support -- so I'm hoping to find a service reliable enough to just
configure once and leave running, with the occasional rare tweak. I
don't see these folks having any need for an inhouse mail server if
reliable services are available elsewhere.

I'd welcome any recommendations and/or experiences.


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Fwd: [boston.rb] Re: MongoDB Conference in Boston on Sept 20

[Ted Roche]

Someone had mentioned at ManchLUG that MongoDB was coming up but was a
for pay conference. It appears to be, but a very reasonable price,
if you are interested in Mongo.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Meghan Gill meg...@10gen.com
Date: Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:03 AM
Subject: [boston.rb] Re: MongoDB Conference in Boston on Sept 20
To: Boston Ruby Group boston-rubygr...@googlegroups.com


Hi everyone,

Wanted to send a friendly reminder that early bird pricing for Mongo
Boston ends today.

Register for only $20 at http://www.10gen.com/conferences/mongoboston2010

Hope to see some of you there!

Cheers,
Meghan

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Re: First ManchLUG Meeting

[Ted Roche]

On 08/24/2010 10:09 PM, Chip Marshall wrote:
 Good evening,

 Just wanted to fire off a quick e-mail to thank everyone who came
 out tonight to the first (hopefully of many) ManchLUG meeting. I
 was pleasantly surprised by the turn out, and hope everyone had a
 good time.

 For next month, I'd like to get a but more structure in place,
 have some organized discussion topics, maybe a short
 presentation. One topic that was put forth tonight was building a
 media center system, which seems to be a pretty common task these
 days, but one I haven't personally done with open source. So if
 anyone would be interested on talking on that next month, please
 let Kenta or myself know.

   

You guys did great! Congrats on a very successful first meeting.

I wrote it up with a couple of links to resources we discussed at:
http://blog.tedroche.com/ManchLUG-Launch

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Re: Looking for sofware to display keystrokes as they are typed, for demos

[Ted Roche]

On 08/17/2010 09:06 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote:
 At least on my Debian box there's a logkeys package available
 that might serve if you can maybe find a way to tail its output
 in an on-screen window during your presentation. 
I like the idea of tailing a keylogger to display keystrokes. Pretty clever.

And thanks for the references. As I had indicated, Googling an issue
with display keys as they are pressed just doesn't have the kind of
keyword discrimination that makes a search worthwhile.

The logkeys project is available at http://code.google.com/p/logkeys and
the docs point to another few possibilities like PyKeyLogger, too.

Thanks!

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Looking for sofware to display keystrokes as they are typed, for demos

[Ted Roche]

My Google-fu has failed me, in trying to come up with the keywords to
successfully search for this:

I'd like to do some training work where I'll be showing students how to
work through an application. They keystrokes I use might not be apparent
(Ctrl-W, tab, etc.), aren't echoed to the screen by the application in
all modes. It would be really helpful if there could be a pop-up or
persistent window that would display a ring buffer of the last 4 seconds
of keystrokes, in a large font, so it would be apparent which keystrokes
I was hitting.

I've seen this done in a few screencasts, but haven't found the software.

Running Fedora 12, X Windows, GNOME.

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Re: Automatically mounting USB w/o GUI?

[Ted Roche]

On 07/27/2010 10:01 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
 I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/some label after I
 plug it in.
 I don't mind having to type something on the command line to trigger it.

 So, does anyone know how to have linux mount the USB drives to /media
 like the GUI file managers do w/o using the mount command?

 FWIW, I'm using Fedora 12 but I should be able to do this in Ubuntu
 10.04 as well.  And I'm *not* using a GUI tool to do it, so please no
 Gnome/KDE or Click on System - ... or anything else using a mouse.

Tom:

I haven't tried this, but it seems to me that this is something that
PolicyKit does, and I believe there is a console interface to it.
However, my Google-fu seems to be weak this morning, and I haven't been
able to come up with any recent posts. Here's one, though:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne


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Nick rocks the house presenting Redis at NHRuby

[Ted Roche]

NHRuby's meeting Monday night featured Nick Plante talking about Redis
the NOSQL data store, and the Ruby libraries Resque and Vanity that use
it. I posted some notes from the meeting at
http://blog.tedroche.com/2010/07/22/nhruby-redis/

Brian Turnbull, the organizer of the group, posted to the NHRuby mailing
list:

Thank you to Nick Plante of Mogotest for a great talk on using Redis
and Resque for asynchronous processing and caching.  Slides from Nick's
talk are up on Scribd [1].

Join us next month on Monday, August 16th for two presentations. Brian
Cardarella, recently returned to Boston from Washington DC, will talk
about the client_side_validations gem he wrote while working for the
Democratic National Committee.  In addition, Brian Turnbull will share
his experience interfacing Ruby with C.

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/34712184/A-Quick-Introduction-to-Redis-NH-rb
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34712184/A-Quick-Introduction-to-Redis-NH-rb

More about the NHRuby group can be found at http://nhruby.org
Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/nhruby-discuss
Announcement List: http://groups.google.com/group/nhruby-announce


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[GNHLUG] CentraLUG, August 2nd, Hopkinton Library, Joseph Smith presents coreboot

[Ted Roche]

The Central New Hampshire Linux User Group meets on the first Monday of
most months [*]. For our August 2nd meeting, we'll be at the Hopkinton
Town Library (http://hopkintontownlibrary.org) Community Room and will
meet from 7 PM to 9 PM. Joseph Smith will make a presentation on coreboot.

Joseph Smith has been tinkering with PC's since the 486 days, and using
Linux about as long. Mechanically inclined and knowledgeable about PC
hardware, he wanted to learn more about software so went to NHTI and got
a certificate degree in CIS. He has always been a avid Red Hat/Fedora
fan. He's employed as a Senior AS400 Operator at a well-known retailer's
local headquarters. Joseph's interest in coreboot starting with
tinkering on the X86 RCA RM4100. He had been looking for a good
set-top-box to build Linux on for a while, but the ones out there just
did not have the right hardware specs: either they did not have enough
memory or they had a MIPS processor that just didn't cut it. The only
problem was the proprietary bios. He started looking into other open
source options and came across coreboot. He has been deeply involved
with the coreboot project for over 5 years, specializing in developing
for Intel chipsets and hardware.

From the http://www.coreboot.org website, Coreboot is is a Free
Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) you
can find in most of today's computers. It performs just a little bit of
hardware initialization and then executes a so-called payload. With this
separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot can
scale from specialized applications run directly from firmware,
operating systems in flash, and custom bootloaders to implementations of
firmware standards like PCBIOS and EFI without having to carry features
not necessary in the target application, reducing the amount of code and
flash space required. We currently support 223 different mainboards.

In his CentraLUG presentation, Joseph plans to explain his background
and how he got involved in coreboot, give a brief history of the
coreboot project, discuss some of the current features and the tools
which have come from the project, and talk about how the code process
flows and how you (the audience) can start to develop coreboot. We'll
try to hold some time for QA at the end.

The meeting will start at 7 PM at the Hopkinton Town Library. Directions
can be found on the web site at
http://www.hopkintontownlibrary.org/directions.htm

More information on CentraLUG can be found at http://centralug.org. More
information on GNHLUG can be found at http://gnhlug.org

[*] Note there will be no CentraLUG meeting in September due to the
Labor Day holiday.

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Fwd: [SFD-announce] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!!

[Ted Roche]

Note that there are only 10 days to register in order to get free CDs,
so if you'd like to organize a team to hold a Software Freedom Day event
this year, you'll need to act quickly.


 Original Message 
Subject:[SFD-announce] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!!
Date:   Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:45:36 +0800
From:   Frederic Muller f...@beijinglug.org
Reply-To:   i...@sf-day.org
To: SFD announcements sfd-annou...@sf-day.org, Open discussions about
SFD sfd-disc...@sf-day.org



Dear all,

This is with a lot of struggles that we have finally managed to open the
SFD 2010 registration http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html!
As you can see there is still a lot of ongoing work on the site, and
this includes a New Wiki http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org where you
can create your team page
http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage, a new home page
http://maddog.softwarefreedomday.org/cms-sfd/ for all the information
about Software Freedom International and other generic and important
stuff and much more to come. I want to particularly thank *Thilo*, *JM*,
*Matt* and *Robert* for helping out as well as our web infrastructure
sponsors, that is Canonical http://www.canonical.com and Linode
http://www.linode.com for providing our little corner on the web. Due
to the delay there will only be 10 days to get free CDs this year, so
don't slack!

And happy SFD preparations!

Oh and by the way, the direct link to registering your team is here
http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html after creating your team
page http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/CreateYourTeampage of course.

Any question please let us know.

The SFI Board


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FireFox security test add-on was backdoored

[Ted Roche]

Interesting account of how an add-on for FireFox claiming to be a
security test included a backdoor that captured usernames  passwords.
If you've recently download Mozilla Sniffer you'll want to pay
particular attention to this article:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/07/15/firefox-security-test-add-on-was-backdoored.html

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[GNHLUG] CentraLUG meeting Monday CANCELLED

[Ted Roche]

Oops. I'm afraid I got caught up with work and neglected to pick up the
library key yesterday, and the library's closed today through Tuesday
for the holiday. Sorry about that, folks.

No July meeting. Make sure to come to the August meeting, where Joseph
Smith will present An Introduction to CoreBoot

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http://www.tedroche.com

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[GNHLUG] Fwd: [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: Open Source Software at Symscape

[Ted Roche]

Forwarding...

 Original Message 
Subject:[DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: Open Source Software at Symscape
Date:   Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:03:49 -0400
From:   Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com
Organization:   BFC Computing, LLC
To: dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org



[I screwed up sending the announcement last week, apologies]

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Open Source Software at Symscape

I will discuss the use of open source software at Symscape, primarily in
relation to Caedium. Caedium is a cross-platform, unified simulation
environment for Computational Fluid Dynamics, which uses a number of open
source components including wxWidgets, VTK, OpenCascade, and OpenFOAM.

For more details on Caedium try:
http://www.symscape.com/product/caedium

Bio

I founded Symscape, the company responsible for Caedium, in 2006. I'm the
sole employee, primarily focused on software development.

Education
I graduated from UMIST (now University of Manchester), England with a
degree in mechanical engineering, followed by an EngD (PhD combined with
MBA courses) in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) - thesis: Automatic
Grid Generation for Compressible Navier-Stokes Solvers in Aerodynamic
Design for Complex Geometries, May 1996.

Industry
My 15-year industrial career spans both the application and development of
CFD at leading companies including BAE Systems, Fluent (now part of
ANSYS), CD-Adapco and Advantage CFD.

For a more detailed biography try:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/richjsmith

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BFC Computing, LLC   
http://bfccomputing.com/ 
Telephone: +1.603.448.4440
Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com   
VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf
Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle


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[GNHLUG] Patent Absurdity: CentraLUG, July 5th

[Ted Roche]

Q: What do these companies have in common?

The Green Bay Packers, Boca Raton Resort  Club, Burlington Coat
Factory, Caterpillar, Continental Airlines, Ford Motor, J Crew, Kraft
Foods, OfficeMax, Sears, Tire Kingdom, Walgreen, Wal-mart.

A: All of them have been sued for infringing a software patent.

The first Monday of the month is the regular date for the CentraLUG
meeting. Since it'll be the day after Independence Day, we'll avoid
inviting a speaker due to likely light attendance. We'll be airing the
documentary, Patent Absurdity,  funded by FSF [1], copyright by Luca
Lucarini and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
3.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/[2], and
available from at http://patentabsurdity.com/ Hear from: Mark Webbink,
Jesse Vincent, Richard M. Stallman, Karen Sander, Dan Ravischer, Ciarán
O'Riordan, Joe Mullin, Eben Moglen, Timothy B. Lee, Ben Klemens, Mishi
Choudhary, Peter Brown, Dan Bricklin, and James Bessen.

We'll be meeting at the Hopkinton Town Library,
http://www.hopkintontownlibrary.org, which boasts a kitchenette, so
movie popcorn's fine, just bring enough for everyone.

[1] http://patentabsurdity.com/about.html
[2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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