Re: [Discuss] color laser printer: HP X-series office ink jet printers

2014-07-16 Thread Tom Metro
firmware makes you change the tanks after they've reached a certain age.) So not a good fit for my use. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [Discuss] GPS feature in cellphones?

2014-07-10 Thread Tom Metro
Oliver Holmes wrote: ...I understand now that GPS is built in and is active whether you activate it or not. So there is the potential to track you within three meters. Is this so? http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/9-out-of-10-wireless-911-calls-in-dc-dont-provide-accurate-location-info/

Re: [Discuss] share keyboard/video/mouse with 2 desktops

2014-07-09 Thread Tom Metro
from January on 4K monitors: http://www.blu.org/mhonarc/discuss/2014/01/msg00073.php -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

[Discuss] seminar Thursday June 26: Jim Gettys on (In)Security in Home Embedded Devices

2014-06-24 Thread Tom Metro
Jim Gettys has given talks locally for BBLISA (on bufferbloat) and IoT Fest (same topic as below), and usually has good content. -Tom Original Message Subject: [GBC-ACM] upcoming seminar Thursday June 26: Jim Gettys on (In)Security in Home Embedded Devices Date: Mon, 23 Jun

[Discuss] firewall testing

2014-06-17 Thread Tom Metro
in the cloud wont do). So you'll need a tap or a hub.) -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] Opinions/Advice on router boxes w/ port forwarding

2014-06-16 Thread Tom Metro
a derivative of a mainstream OS. Last I looked Routerboards ran a proprietary OS. Also, the EdgeRouter is strictly an 802.3 Ethernet device. No wireless radios. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com

Re: [Discuss] peer to peer software

2014-06-15 Thread Tom Metro
what percentage of - say the Fortune 1000 - block all outbound connections except for a few select ports. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] color laser printer

2014-06-14 Thread Tom Metro
want my printer serving as a WiFi intrusion point. Intrusion point? -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org

[Discuss] color laser printer

2014-06-10 Thread Tom Metro
into a color printer unique, and thus produced in lower volume and more expensive? -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: [Discuss] peer to peer software

2014-06-08 Thread Tom Metro
is just a database that is spread across the peers. Once you have the hash for a torrent - by obtaining a .torrent file or via the magnet link - you can the find peers with that content via the DHT. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA

Re: [Discuss] peer to peer software

2014-06-08 Thread Tom Metro
chooses different, equivalent components, or your architecture avoids the need entirely. Thus start by studying the architecture of existing implementation that have been proven to work well. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http

Re: [Discuss] GPS feature in cellphones?

2014-06-07 Thread Tom Metro
information. Some retailers now do this to tracker passersby. Want to know if that corner is a good spot for your next Starbucks? Monitor it for a few weeks, and do a demographic extrapolation from the number of iPhones, Androids, and whatever else you capture. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop

Re: [Discuss] TrueCrypt EOL, what's next?

2014-05-29 Thread Tom Metro
.) First choice: S/MIME. Second choice: GPG. The limiting factor with encrypted email is always going to be your recipient, their technical skills, and what email software they are required to use. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http

Re: [Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond

2014-05-17 Thread Tom Metro
failing message past the MTA checking the DMARC validity. Once received by your client and exploded out of the digest, it's just an ordinary message. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com

Re: [Discuss] Google Voice - the fud about XMPP

2014-05-16 Thread Tom Metro
fits with the expected changes in the roadmap for Hangouts. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] cracked boston site?

2014-05-14 Thread Tom Metro
of more people can insert this JS somewhere and have their page linked to. I wouldn't call that hacked. More like spammed. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] business class ISP recommendations

2014-05-09 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: I'd like to hear from those on the list who specially have had experience with the business class service from these companies. Thanks to all who replied on this thread. Not many responses, but I wasn't expecting to see very many. The business offerings from these cable

[Discuss] business class ISP recommendations

2014-05-07 Thread Tom Metro
the provider offer custom PTR records with their static IPs? do they offer IPv6? do they support BGP? -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

[Discuss] smallest board that can handle 32 GB RAM

2014-05-07 Thread Tom Metro
smaller, but I haven't checked to see if anyone still makes FlexATX boards.) Has anyone seen a Mini-ITX board that handles 4 DIMMS? -Tom 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_form_factor 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Unit_of_Computing -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA

Re: [Discuss] linux install on windows 8.1 laptop

2014-05-02 Thread Tom Metro
resulting from UEFI.) -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Facebook backups?

2014-04-28 Thread Tom Metro
::Mechanize might help. https://metacpan.org/pod/WWW::Mechanize -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman

Re: [Discuss] Upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04...can't connect to wifi with rtl8723ae driver

2014-04-26 Thread Tom Metro
for the driver, see if there is a newer version, and compile it for your current kernel. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: [Discuss] Heartbleed and UDP

2014-04-24 Thread Tom Metro
of code that is UDP-specific, so my expectation is that the hearbeat code should have been implemented in that layer, and been out of reach to TCP connections.) 1. https://github.com/falstaff84/heartbleed_test_openvpn -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl

Re: [Discuss] Good and Bad Crypto

2014-04-22 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Google's methodology has not to my knowledge been publicized. Correct. Tom Metro wrote: Source code analysis has the potential to find these, if the code is analyzed. Back-box testing will find them only if you are very lucky. This is laughably false. If it were even

Re: [Discuss] the problem with centralized certificate authorities

2014-04-21 Thread Tom Metro
-Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] BTSync

2014-04-21 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Also, on the proprietary side, there is a fairly new sync tool from BitTorrent, http://www.bittorrent.com/sync . Worth looking into but, as you point out, proprietary. I signed up for the beta before it was public, but as I learned more about it, I

Re: [Discuss] AeroFS

2014-04-21 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Uses closed-source, proprietary software. Nullifies the first point. Here's their Github repo: https://github.com/aerofs It's certainly not their entire code base but it's more than most of their competitors provide. I just browsed this and here's

Re: [Discuss] Good and Bad Crypto

2014-04-21 Thread Tom Metro
. They could trigger on machine hardware (GUID), time, date, or data retrieved from the network.) Source code analysis has the potential to find these, if the code is analyzed. Back-box testing will find them only if you are very lucky. Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: Tom Metro writes: A cloud

Re: [Discuss] AeroFS

2014-04-19 Thread Tom Metro
that other storage providers can support. Or generally, offer minimal service lock-in. Low switching costs. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] Dropbox

2014-04-19 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: If the encryption is done properly, and can be verified, it doesn't matter where your bits are stored. Well, yes, actually, it does. Dropbox for example does the encryption properly but they can and do hand over the keys to law enforcement upon request

Re: [Discuss] AeroFS

2014-04-19 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Uses closed-source, proprietary software. Nullifies the first point. Here's their Github repo: https://github.com/aerofs Excellent. They certainly didn't make that easy to find on their site. (Though admittedly I didn't spent much time looking.) If you

Re: [Discuss] End of the line for Obi100/110

2014-04-17 Thread Tom Metro
some time to pull together, configure, and debug, and it won't be doable for under $50. The bare BeagleBone alone will cost you that. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com

Re: [Discuss] Google Voice, VoIP providers

2014-04-17 Thread Tom Metro
line, VirtualPBX, also provides this. Which means UI can go for moths without needing to login to their UI. (I don't necessarily recommend VirtualPBX. Their support is horrible. But I haven't found a better option for the price/feature combination.) -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: Ubuntu One file services

2014-04-17 Thread Tom Metro
Ubuntu One primarily for the stream of revenue they hoped the premium subscriptions would generate. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [Discuss] Redundant array of inexpensive servers: clustering?

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Metro
Google, and working for customers of the cloud providers, just fewer of them. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org

Re: [Discuss] easy clustering of applications

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Metro
Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: Tom Metro wrote: It does seem like every application has its own unique approach to clustering. There is no generalized solution. This is one of the reasons why I'm much more strongly inclined toward HA at the hypervisor. ...if you do HA at the hypervisor

Re: [Discuss] getting a USB modem working with Linux

2014-04-01 Thread Tom Metro
of using them with Hylafax to send faxes, but the probing script provided by linmodems.org failed to definitively identify the modem hardware. It's best guess on one laptop was that the modem hardware was piggybacked on the Intel high definition sound hardware built-in to the chipset.) -Tom -- Tom

Re: [Discuss] Redundant array of inexpensive servers: clustering?

2014-03-31 Thread Tom Metro
that haven't been shared back with the community. But I'm mostly speculating based on what I've read. This is outside my areas of expertise. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com

Re: [Discuss] Linux file systems

2014-03-26 Thread Tom Metro
with the default file systems recommended by your distribution, unless you have special requirements. If you are building a NAS, video storage, or a high-performance production machine, then it's worth your time to look at the trade-offs you get from alternatives. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop

Re: [Discuss] blu site looks nice

2014-03-24 Thread Tom Metro
adding a better tool for browsing the list archives, and embedding YouTube videos on the archived calendar pages for each talk. I think the navigation bar is getting a bit overloaded. It might be time to consider drop-down menus. Aside from that, I like the changes. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop

Re: [Discuss] network issue

2014-03-13 Thread Tom Metro
reason, here's the official guide for manually configuring a static IP on a wired connection through the GUI: https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/ubuntu-help/net-manual.html -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com

Re: [Discuss] what do I do with all this junk?

2014-02-17 Thread Tom Metro
PCs. :-) -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] CIFS Usage

2014-02-16 Thread Tom Metro
it, you might want to consider NFS or sshfs instead. You can't beat the security model for sshfs, if that matters to you, and it performs well enough to stream HD video over a LAN. But of course NFS is the more general purpose solution, with high performance and wide client support. -Tom -- Tom

[Discuss] Azazel: new Linux rootkit

2014-02-16 Thread Tom Metro
admin not focused on malware won't run across it until its too late. How do you feel about open source malware? -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] linux on usb stick

2014-02-02 Thread Tom Metro
recently I've tried UNetbootin: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ which I think I posted about a few months back. Same idea as livecd-iso-to-disk. If I recall, it worked for what I used it for. (Which I think was to create a bootable FreeDOS drive.) -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA

Re: [Discuss] Cisco's IOx architecture

2014-02-01 Thread Tom Metro
Daniel Feenberg wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Is running applications on your router really such a good idea? I don't imagine they expect users to run SQL or Word. Actually the article I quoted mentions hosting a database on the router several times, though I chalked that up to speculation

Re: [Discuss] Cisco's IOx architecture

2014-02-01 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: Actually the article I quoted mentions hosting a database on the router several times, though I chalked that up to speculation by the author. If this is true then I figure Cisco is targeting the financial sector with this. The only reason to put

Re: [Discuss] WDC HDD data recovery redcommendations?

2014-01-31 Thread Tom Metro
, this trick worked. Not so much with modern drives. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo

[Discuss] Cisco's IOx architecture

2014-01-31 Thread Tom Metro
and familiarity with Linux in the enterprise market trumps that. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman

Re: [Discuss] Boston Linux Meeting - Galileo, Linux, and the Internet of Things

2014-01-31 Thread Tom Metro
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/bostonlinuxandunix/videos -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org

Re: [Discuss] Small website, non-technical users: Joomla, Drupal, or WordPress?

2014-01-07 Thread Tom Metro
already exist. As a plan B, you can highlight formatted text in your Mediawiki site and paste it into the Wikispaces' rich text editor, preserving the formating. (You'll still need to fix up the internal links.) -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting

Re: [Discuss] What's the best site-crawler utility?

2014-01-07 Thread Tom Metro
be crawled without customizing the crawler. And as Rich points out, if your objective is not just to end up with what appears to be a mirrored site, but actual clean HTML suitable for hand-editing, then you've still got lots of work ahead of you. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA

Re: [Discuss] cgi-bin

2013-12-13 Thread Tom Metro
apache2 See: http://askubuntu.com/questions/6358/how-do-you-restart-apache thanks for all your help. You're welcome. -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting. http://www.theperlshop.com/ ___ Discuss

[Discuss] bundling FreeDOS

2013-12-07 Thread Tom Metro
to the realization that floppies were obsolete.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org

Re: [Discuss] rsnapshot vs. rdiff-backup

2013-12-07 Thread Tom Metro
a tool meant to run on the source system. Not something that runs on a central server and pulls data from client machines. (It has no option to use ssh for the backup source. Only the target. Sourcing from SMB/NFS would be possible, but rather inefficient.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton

[Discuss] Free Software Foundation's 2013 Giving Guide

2013-11-29 Thread Tom Metro
for the rest of it through exorbitant monthly fees for the next two years. Happy holidays!) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing

Re: [Discuss] Boston Perl Mongers Tech Meeting Tuesday

2013-11-13 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: A talk tomorrow on p5-MOP, a module that provides syntax sweeteners to create objects in Perl using a syntax that's more consistent with other OO languages. It borrows heavily from the Perl 6 language design, and enables that modern syntax on Perl 5. -Tom

Re: [Discuss] Hybrid drives and Linux?

2013-11-13 Thread Tom Metro
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[Discuss] Boston Perl Mongers Tech Meeting Tuesday

2013-11-11 Thread Tom Metro
A talk tomorrow on p5-MOP, a module that provides syntax sweeteners to create objects in Perl using a syntax that's more consistent with other OO languages. It borrows heavily from the Perl 6 language design, and enables that modern syntax on Perl 5. -Tom Original Message From:

Re: [Discuss] Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

2013-11-09 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: They're encrypted too, with keys only held in memory. Then your disaster recovery options are nil. An encrypted backup that cannot be decrypted is mostly useless Sorry, I thought it was obvious that the keys had to come from somewhere. (Somewhere

Re: [Discuss] Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

2013-11-08 Thread Tom Metro
chances that all or most of your key will be corrupted by the time they get some freon on your RAM. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] ubuntu unmounts my sdcard every time i suspend resume

2013-10-30 Thread Tom Metro
that is responsible for mounting removable media just needs to be tweaked. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [Discuss] open source graphics drivers

2013-10-29 Thread Tom Metro
be motivated to bundle drivers that get the most out of the low-end hardware. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [Discuss] salt question

2013-10-21 Thread Tom Metro
. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_cracking#Prevention 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_bound_function 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA

Re: [Discuss] list archive viewer

2013-10-20 Thread Tom Metro
John Abreau wrote: I've made a first pass at setting up mhonarc. http://blu.org/mhonarc/discuss/ Nice. I gather it had easy hooks to add your own headers/footers? A step in the right direction. Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: ...again no integrated search engine, That's a feature

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
?), or it just isn't a group optimized for novices, and we're OK with that. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [Discuss] list archive viewer

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
it. Anyone have a suggestion for a good tool? (I'll check the mailman list archives to see what they recommend.) I think many have fallen by the wayside as free hosted services, like Gmane, have become popular. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] list archive viewer

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
, the viewer knows what organization was responsible for it. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: [Discuss] list archive viewer

2013-10-18 Thread Tom Metro
Tom Metro wrote: A better approach, if they'd go for it, would be getting mail-archive.com to enhance their platform to permit some list-specific [emedding]. I sent an email to mail-archive.com to see if they'd be willing to support this. I see Gmane now offers a form of rudimentary embedding

Re: [Discuss] Gwibber

2013-10-17 Thread Tom Metro
widget that shows messages from only one specified category. So you can easily keep tabs on people in your industry, or just your friends, without having their messages lost in the fire hose. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional

[Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-17 Thread Tom Metro
to volunteer to work on any of them? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman

Re: [Discuss] unreadable sector

2013-10-13 Thread Tom Metro
be an expanding problem. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] Cinnamon 2.0 released

2013-10-12 Thread Tom Metro
of the GNOME 3 libraries had to be patched to support Cinnamon, and on Ubuntu that was on top of patches to support Unity.) The project's blog posting on the changes and new features: http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/10/cinnamon-2-0-released/ -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA

Re: [Discuss] Comcast goes all encrypted video in Cambridge

2013-09-25 Thread Tom Metro
of marketers and analysis on the payroll would know better, but they seem destined to price themselves out of the video delivery business. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] NVidia 2 screen problem

2013-09-20 Thread Tom Metro
front-end to dedicated hardware. Have an old laptop? If not, you can probably source adequate hardware for under $200. That way you can treat it like an appliance and not worry about it interacting with your general desktop. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions

Re: [Discuss] Software Development (OT?)

2013-09-09 Thread Tom Metro
the case, I'll know not to post follow-ups.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org

Re: [Discuss] job posting policy

2013-09-01 Thread Tom Metro
Work At EditShare wrote: EditShare...s seeking a freelance developer... As a reminder, the preferred procedure for posting jobs available or wanted to BLU is detailed at: http://blu.wikispaces.com/job+posting+policy -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions

Re: [Discuss] 1 offline uncorrectable sectors detected

2013-08-20 Thread Tom Metro
-destructive mode if you aren't running an ext2/ext3/ext4 family of file system. (See the list archives for my posting on using 'badblocks' to burn-in a new drive.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] payments on the web over 10k?

2013-08-20 Thread Tom Metro
Jack Coats wrote: Tom Metro wrote: ...the successor to its Google Checkout service, which it is shutting down[1] in a few months. 1. https://support.google.com/checkout/sell/answer/3080449 Google has a pay feature (unless it is one of the things they did away with). Yes, they are soon to do

Re: [Discuss] Mass Tax on Software Services and work ownership

2013-08-15 Thread Tom Metro
to do with the new sales tax legislation. Historically if you wrote code, depending on how your contract is written, it was 'free for use' by the client and the programmer could ALSO 'take it with them' as they left. This new tax blocks this ability. It does? Where? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture

Re: [Discuss] Effort to repeal Mass Tax on Software Services

2013-08-15 Thread Tom Metro
(or its incorporation), but instead cease doing business with customers in MA. (Whether that's a smart thing to do is another matter.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] taxachusetts and the future of tech

2013-08-15 Thread Tom Metro
in the transportation bill. A few years down the road (if it still exists), it's introduction as part of a transportation bill will be long forgotten. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] NSA capabilities

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Metro
that the NSA will be more inclined to retain data that is encrypted, as it raises suspicion, so you've got a free backup service. :-) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

[Discuss] Bitmessage

2013-08-12 Thread Tom Metro
. Anyone tried this out? -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] Mass. outlawed independent contractors in software and other creative professions in 2004

2013-08-06 Thread Tom Metro
rights to the employee. So either this argument is a disingenuous red herring, or I'm missing something. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] [OT] political petitions

2013-08-05 Thread Tom Metro
back from the state rep I wrote, aside from an immediate automated response, which basically said if this is important, call and speak to one of my aids. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] email privacy/security

2013-08-04 Thread Tom Metro
format they suggested using.) -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] Syncing Android phones directly

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
slice off a fringe of people who bother to load a third part ROM, the community is still fairly sizable. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Syncing Android phones directly

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
for apps, you'll find some apps that can be configured to put the #2-type data onto the SDcard, and some non-root backup tools that can backup the #2-type data, but usually the #1-type data is out of reach. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source

Re: [Discuss] Android privacy

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
. These app firewalls accomplish minimizing this by providing libraries that fake the genuine service, and yet this is still enough of a difference to crash some apps. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

[Discuss] reverting apt-get upgrades

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
. It seems like it should be a common need. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org

Re: [Discuss] reverting apt-get upgrades

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
Richard Pieri wrote: Tom Metro wrote: ...I would think it would be a common desire to be able to undo a package upgrade... Debian makes a point of upgrades being stable... This stability is usually one of the reasons for choosing Debian. You are completely correct, but that is also

Re: [Discuss] KeePassX

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
, you'd want to have the option to have that info encrypted using a different password than the one protecting your passwords. -Tom 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOTP -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

[Discuss] Canonical crowdfunding $32 million for phone

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
. (Though the update page has a video from Canonical's CEO.) Seems like they are trying to make this look like more of a community undertaking, than a corporate funding exercise. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] KeePassX

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
safe pass phrase, desktop login, and a few inconsequential LAN-local services, I don't know any of my passwords. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com

Re: [Discuss] Mass Tax on Software Services

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
risk way to interpret it.) I sent an email to my state rep seeking clarification. I encourage others who think they may be impacted by this to do likewise. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] password strength

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
be performed on your password safe or other encrypted files. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: [Discuss] paper password safe

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
with 1passw0rd style passwords isn't helping. There are various schemes for dealing with this, such as: Perfect Paper Passwords https://www.grc.com/ppp.htm -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA Enterprise solutions through open source. Professional Profile: http

Re: [Discuss] Android as a password safe

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Metro
inconvenient, but maybe less inconvenient than carrying multiple devices, is to have multiple bootable images on the device. Then you could have an isolated (and encrypted) Android, or maybe Ubuntu, boot image that gets used for your password safe only. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA

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