On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, at 17:03, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I was an emacs guy. Learned vi in about 1980, but when I worked for cadmus
> I learned gosling emacs. Used it for all my development until I switched
> to atom
Remember the epithet "eight megabytes and constantly swapping"?
I grew up with
On Wed, Sep 18, 2019, at 06:40, Jack Bennett wrote:
> Later on, one professor in the department, a member of my dissertation
> committee, was quietly leaving the talk a little bit early. rms noticed and
> called her out directly for leaving early so she retorted, "well, you know,
> I gotta pick up
I will probably attend, and my wife Rebecca sounded interested in the
agenda. We'll probably register tonight and we'll be looking out for you,
to say hi.
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Will Rico willr...@gmail.com wrote:
Any BLU'ers planning on attending PirateCon this Saturday (6/29)?
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Rich Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
That's evidence of Google subsidising the hardware in expectation of
a return through the Google Play store.
Compare Samsung's Galaxy-branded products with the Samsung-manufactured
Nexus products. You'll see similar
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Brendan Kidwell bren...@glump.net wrote:
I wonder how many people buy a Chromebook and don't even look at the
Google Play store before erasing the whole thing and putting a free OS
on it.
Really I probably should have said 'ANOTHER free OS on it'. I
understand
I bought a 16GB USB thumbdrive from Staples last week to use as a
shuttle for some documents, scripts, and programs' data folders that
will be used on my desktop and my laptop in turns. I'll probably be
giving Stan's Data Bag project ( http://www.data-bag.org/ ) a spin,
too.
I feel like a cargo
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Matthew Gillen m...@mattgillen.net wrote:
On 02/25/2013 12:18 PM, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
I have had trouble with using Unix-native filesystems on portable
drives in the past, instead of vFAT, because the OS wants to record
owners to objects and those owners
On Jan 15, 2013 8:35 AM, Mark Woodward ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
Why do I need to know that?
In my experience this often occurs when I'm already engaged in an unrelated
highly intellectual pursuit and my next thought is I thought this was a
solved problem. I don't have time for this.
You have
On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, John Abreau wrote:
This blog post sheds some interesting light on some of the issues many of
us have been having withj gnome 3.
Wow. This explains a lot. Like why Netbeans was broken in Gnome 3 and
Cinnamon, reported fixed, and in my experience this weekend,
[ ... Android 4.x removes USB mass storage server; requires you to use
MTP protocol over USB. Support for that in Linux is immature. ]
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Derek Martin inva...@pizzashack.orgwrote:
On those devices, you now are required to use MTP to access the device
via USB,
Also, when doing a lot of things at once, for example
backup/reinstall/restore... (Or even scarier, upgrade a VPS's OS in place,
remove several user accounts, replace one web app with another, and upgrade
WordPress -- you get the idea.) I've found it's a good idea to take things
slowly and reboot
I've got an Asus EEE netbook that I was considering installing Android
X86 on. I went as far as trying to install the latest build in VirtualBox
and I had no trouble whatsoever getting it up and running in that. I gather
from the Android X86 docs that a lot of people do actually run it on things
(I probably shouldn't have addressed my reply to 'announce' -- I
assume that's not allowed. Sending again to Jerry and to 'discuss'.)
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
When: July 18, 2012 7PM (6:30PM for QA)
Topic: The Virtual Desktop
Moderator:Jerry Feldman
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Scott Ehrlich srehrl...@gmail.com wrote:
Noscript doesn't exist for Opera or Chrome, but at least Chrome
reportedly has good-enough technology to counter it.
There is an Opera Extension similar to NoScript called NotScripts.
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ward Vandewege w...@pong.be wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 01:21:04PM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote:
$70/year after that. What's the cheapest ssl certificate I can get?
Besides a self signed one.
http://startssl.com
Free, but the interface is a bit clunky.
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:44 AM, David Miller davi...@gmail.com wrote:
Definitely take your time and vet out a few different wiki solutions before
choosing one. Migrating a wiki from one platform to another is a big pita.
While MediaWiki is probably the most well known in my opinion it
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:26 PM, John Abreau j...@blu.org wrote:
Yes, they also standardized on a 6-character TrueCrypt password for
all laptops.
I pushed hard against that, as a password that weak meant we were only
pretending
to encrypt the machines, but the guys in Europe wouldn't budge
. I'll look into it (after checking that xgamma actually works as-is
on my system). If I get anywhere with that I'll put it up on launchpad and
report my progress here.
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote:
Brendan Kidwell wrote:
- my new Dell Vostro v130
images and answer
questions in a wizard
- (Or create a profile manually while following a howto)
- Apply the profile to everything in X - text, pictures, and video
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Brendan Kidwell
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
On 03/15/2011 01:41 AM, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
I placed a mail order for the Vostro 130 and I'll let you know how it
goes
when I get it.
Please do.
On Thursday I received my Vostro v130 with Ubuntu 10.04 preloaded. I
most of
the time anyway. I figured I can't go wrong with compatibility if Ubuntu's
web site says the it works.
I placed a mail order for the Vostro 130 and I'll let you know how it goes
when I get it.
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Brendan Kidwell
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