[Discuss] [Position-available] Network Engineer @ Financial Recovery Technologies - Medford, MA

2018-12-20 Thread Matt Shields
UR MEDFORD, MA HEADQUARTERS. LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY, PLEASE. AGENCIES: WE ARE ONLY WORKING WITH PREVIOUSLY APPROVED AGENCIES ON THIS REQUISITION, SO IF YOU ARE NOT SUCH A FIRM, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT YOUR CANDIDATES FOR THIS POSITION. Matt Shields m...@shields.tv 78

Re: [Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

2015-09-25 Thread Matt Shields
eryone, especially since my solution has server overhead, but I do know that it's worked better than any other solution I've tried with no effort on my part and with excellent results, which is what makes it a usable solution for me. Matt On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Rich Pieri

Re: [Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

2015-09-24 Thread Matt Shields
lable to the amount of redundancy I want. Matt On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > > From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On > > Behalf Of Jack Coats > > > > Syncing is a form of backup IMHO. > > The rea

Re: [Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

2015-09-24 Thread Matt Shields
hosting their own sync server will not be worth it and a backup drive taken to the bank is "good enough". Matt On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 9/24/2015 6:36 AM, Matt Shields wrote: > >> Check out ownCloud. It let's you run your own cloud

Re: [Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

2015-09-24 Thread Matt Shields
naged to recover 99% of my files from my ownCloud setup, I'd be more than happy because of how little I've spent on the setup. Again, if this were a business solution, I would pay for something that's been proven and I know it's 100% solid. My work computer has both BackBlaze and

Re: [Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

2015-09-24 Thread Matt Shields
exception to this would be if it were for work, then I would suggest paying for a service. Matt On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > > From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On > > Behalf Of Matt Shields > > > > Chec

Re: [Discuss] Cloud-backup solutions for Linux?

2015-09-24 Thread Matt Shields
Check out ownCloud. It let's you run your own cloud based backup service. Matt On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > What do you use for offsite backup? > > Here's why I ask: For a few years I've been using CrashPlan as my primary > backup, a

[Discuss] pfSense and Amazon AWS expert needed

2015-09-02 Thread Matt Shields
they have everything configured correctly on their side. I believe it's a routing or security group issue on my side. Would be great if we could meet up and I show you what I'm trying to do. Willing to pay for your time. Matt ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] OpenSWAN VPN

2015-07-11 Thread Matt Shields
ey log in. But this client doesn't want to setup a host for OpenVPN on their side, they *only* use ipsec VPN's. Matt On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: > Not familiar with OpenSWAN, but in OpenVPN sometimes you have to push > routes to the clients to force

Re: [Discuss] VPS suggestions

2015-07-10 Thread Matt Shields
Check out Linode.com Matt On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > Hi All, > > Any VPS suggestions? For the last year I’ve been using Digital Ocean. > The price is right and the servers are fast. Unfortunately it appears > apt-get can’t update the kernel.

[Discuss] OpenSWAN VPN

2015-07-09 Thread Matt Shields
presharedkey rekey=yes #should we rekey when key lifetime is about to expire #phase 2 encryption-pfsgroup phase2=esp #esp for encryption | ah for authentication only phase2alg=3des-md5;modp1024 pfs=no forceencaps=yes Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Juniper VPN's

2015-06-12 Thread Matt Shields
I ended up telling them to open a ticket with Juniper and they were able to get their web based vpn portal to work with OS X. I guess it was an issue where the web portal wasn't telling OS X browsers to launch java properly. Matt On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Tom Metro wrote: &

Re: [Discuss] Juniper VPN's

2015-06-11 Thread Matt Shields
ll be billed back to them, unfortunately I don't believe you can just purchase the Java Secure Application Manager without having purchased one of their VPN appliances. And this company doesn't know enough to open a ticket with Juniper to get the software or log in to download it. Matt On T

[Discuss] Juniper VPN's

2015-06-11 Thread Matt Shields
(Juniper's java based SSL VPN client). Anyone happen to have a copy of this java app? All the download links I've found are behind Juniper's locked down download site. Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] xapo, what do you think?

2015-06-02 Thread Matt Shields
Check out Circle.com. It was started by Jeremy Allaire (of Allaire/Macromedia fame) and backed by a number of well known VC's Matt On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > > > On Jun 2, 2015, at 11:02 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 02

[Discuss] Cross platform Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware

2015-05-29 Thread Matt Shields
I'm fishing for what others are using for anti-virus/anti-malware on their Windows and Linux servers. Both commercial and open-source is an option. Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Virtualized guests of OS X?

2015-04-09 Thread Matt Shields
I believe you can use Parallels Desktop and VirtualBox as well. Matt On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Anthony Gabrielson wrote: > Hi Eric, > Yes, I use vmware fusion and it just works. You just need to download the > installer for the version of OS X you want. > > Anthony >

Re: [Discuss] External network scanning service

2015-03-30 Thread Matt Shields
Thanks Tom & Dan, I'll check them out. At a previous company our security officer used the self-hosted Nessus. Matt On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 04:28:35PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: > > Matt Shields wrote: > > > I'm

[Discuss] External network scanning service

2015-03-27 Thread Matt Shields
. The report should have the ability to mark things as known/acceptable, and the report be sent if something changes. Also, would be helpful if they offered some type of certification to show our clients. Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] bitnami stacks are awful

2015-03-06 Thread Matt Shields
configs which are meant for desktop development environment, not for production loads. Matt On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < g...@freephile.com> wrote: > If you want to launch an Amazon Cloud instance with an application + LAMP > stack, don't try to &q

Re: [Discuss] os x = poop?

2015-02-12 Thread Matt Shields
x27;m sure it's gotten a lot better for Linux on the desktop, but I've never had the same issues with Mac. Matt On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Matt Shields wrote: > Going back as far as '95 I've been using Linux and ever since then I've > tried over and over to use

Re: [Discuss] os x = poop?

2015-02-12 Thread Matt Shields
orked. my only wish was that I had switched earlier. So, I've come to love OSX. But, I'll still always run Linux in the server environment. Matt On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:22 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: > I’ve been using a mac mini for the last few months and I must say the > har

Re: [Discuss] OS X server question

2015-02-01 Thread Matt Shields
Apple specific and what Apple users would find useful, file/printer sharing, Time Machine backups, directory, dhcp, contacts/calendar/mail service, etc. Matt On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 2/1/2015 4:17 PM, Bill Horne wrote: > >> Please. I'm begging

Re: [Discuss] Python module for Windows services that runs on Linux

2014-12-03 Thread Matt Shields
: services.run(address) except Exception, e: print e Matt On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Mike Small wrote: > Matt Shields writes: > > > Anyone know of a python module that will let me query/start/stop a > Windows > > service? The module needs to be able work on a Li

Re: [Discuss] Python module for Windows services that runs on Linux

2014-12-02 Thread Matt Shields
I'm sure SaltStack is great for config management and remove control, but we have a custom internal dashboard where they would like to see the status of each of the servers Windows service and be abel to start/stop them from this dashboard. It's a Flask/python app which runs on a linux

Re: [Discuss] Python module for Windows services that runs on Linux

2014-12-02 Thread Matt Shields
Yes, run the python app on Linux but connect to a Windows server and query/start/stop a service. Matt On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Be

[Discuss] Python module for Windows services that runs on Linux

2014-12-01 Thread Matt Shields
Anyone know of a python module that will let me query/start/stop a Windows service? The module needs to be able work on a Linux system. I've looked around but it seems all the modules I find require the python app to run on a Windows machine.

Re: [Discuss] Nagios config

2014-11-03 Thread Matt Shields
mass acknowledgement of all of them. Matt On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:59 AM, John Malloy wrote: > We are setting up Nagios for the first time in our shop. > > Does anyone have suggestions on build, initial configs and autodiscovery, > etc? > > Thanks! > > >

Re: [Discuss] Monitoring your AWS instances

2014-09-28 Thread Matt Shields
the drop down options it will show you closed events. Matt On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > I would really like to hear from anybody else who has AWS machines, and > alerting/monitoring of those systems (by a system other than Amazon's own > mon

Re: [Discuss] Home security & automation

2014-09-22 Thread Matt Shields
At the very least I'll be doing a multi-camera setup on my own. Matt On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Bill Horne wrote: > On 9/21/2014 5:31 PM, Matt Shields wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:21 > AM, Richard Pieri wrote: > >> On 9/19/2014 4:37 PM, Matt Shields wrote:

Re: [Discuss] Home security & automation

2014-09-21 Thread Matt Shields
Part of wanting to do it myself is because I would learn about all the different components and be able to troubleshoot and fix them if necessary. Matt On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 9/19/2014 4:37 PM, Matt Shields wrote: > > I'd rather not go with a

[Discuss] Home security & automation

2014-09-19 Thread Matt Shields
ly I would like it to have all three things (security, video & automation) all work together in the same system and I'd like to have it network based and even have a mobile app. Any suggestions? Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org h

Re: [Discuss] Wireless devices, 2 Wireless Routers, local network. DD-WRT

2014-08-27 Thread Matt Shields
ok care of any alerts that would pop up. Matt On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 8/27/2014 8:38 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > > I should be able to connect to the camp ground's wireless with the high > > gain antenna using the Wireless-G router

Re: [Discuss] Wireless devices, 2 Wireless Routers, local network. DD-WRT

2014-08-27 Thread Matt Shields
someone could accomplish with a Raspberry Pi. Matt On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:38 AM, wrote: > Here's the scenario: > > I like to go camping and often times they provide wireless access, but the > camp site is often pretty far away from the wireless access point. I have > a lon

Re: [Discuss] Selling GNU/Linux Hosting Business

2014-08-11 Thread Matt Shields
ds in escrow to make sure that all the clients don't leave as soon as the business has been sold. If they don't treat your clients with the personal handholding that you currently do, then you could be out money if they lose your customers. Matt On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Will Rico w

Re: [Discuss] Sync Revisited

2014-07-30 Thread Matt Shields
It's dropbox replacement. Gives you a GUI for management of your or your companies files. Also gives you a GUI file editor and you can create apps that live on top of the system, like a calendar service. Obviously it's larger than what some people are looking for. Matt On Wed, Ju

Re: [Discuss] Sync Revisited

2014-07-30 Thread Matt Shields
Ed, It looks great (at least from the website) but it's not free. What were the issues with ownCloud? Matt On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.

Re: [Discuss] Sync Revisited

2014-07-30 Thread Matt Shields
Did you try ownCloud? It's a self-hosted replacement for Dropbox. They even have some built in apps, so I can use the web interface when I don't have my computer or phone to log in and edit documents similar to Google Apps. Matt On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Richard Pieri wr

Re: [Discuss] Selling GNU/Linux Hosting Business

2014-07-28 Thread Matt Shields
them in the future which will affect the rest of your business. Matt On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Will Rico wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As a side effect of my web consulting business, my company has been > hosting websites for 15 years. Over this time, we've transitione

Re: [Discuss] GPS feature in cellphones?

2014-06-05 Thread Matt Shields
g info. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking Matt On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Oliver Holmes wrote: > Hi All! > > Thank you for reading and answering my post in advance. > > My question is old voice flip phones could only be traced to the > transmitting tower

Re: [Discuss] Antenna Signal Issues

2014-06-04 Thread Matt Shields
ngineer doesn't have immediate access to the transmitter/receiver if necessary. Second being that's channel on our digital snake that are consumed by wireless devices. So the ideal solution would be to come up with some type of better antenna array at the FOH board. Matt On

[Discuss] Antenna Signal Issues

2014-06-04 Thread Matt Shields
idea is that if I get a more directional antenna I should get a decent amount of gain. Here's the equipment I'm using: 2x Line 6 XD-V75 - handheld wireless mics 2x Line 6 XD-V55HS - headset wireless mics 8x Sennheiser EW300IEMG3-G - In Ear Wireless Monitor Matt __

Re: [Discuss] Are there any SSL certificate authorities that don't cost a king's ransom?

2013-07-31 Thread Matt Shields
t; -- > Bill Horne > 339-364-8487 > > > I hate to even suggest this because I despise them, but GoDaddy offers really cheap certs. Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] encrypted basic cable

2013-04-25 Thread Matt Shields
urelogic.com/ > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > If you have any cable package with comcast (basic or other) you can use the HDHomeRun to decrypt

Re: [Discuss] Cable Modem Woes / Looking to Compare Notes

2013-04-25 Thread Matt Shields
I used those graphs to prove to Comcast that there service kept going down and managed to get 2 free months of service because of all the problems. After that they came out and fixed the issues. Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Patch/Server management software

2013-03-26 Thread Matt Shields
Love puppet for config management, but last time I used Puppet it was servers checking in to see what it should do not me seeing what needs to be updating and selectively updating what I want and when I want. Matt On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > You mean someth

[Discuss] Patch/Server management software

2013-03-26 Thread Matt Shields
utton and all those remote machines update that package. Or there is a Windows update for IIS, again one button push tells those hosts to apply that update. Also, it would be ideal that this software would have a dashboard that can be used in our NOC to show threat level

Re: [Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan

2013-02-20 Thread Matt Shields
ool? > > Setting up rsnapshot is fairly easy, though at some point I want to write > up > and post a better how-to for the benefit of future users. In particular > the > two-step process of "sync" and "rotate" isn't well-documented in the > places I > lo

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread Matt Shields
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:29 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > On 02/06/2013 02:00 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > >> On 02/06/2013 12:34 PM, Matt Shields wrote: >> >>> Also try ntop. Set it up on a standalone computer. 2 network ports, one >>> for management, o

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

2013-02-06 Thread Matt Shields
y ntop. Set it up on a standalone computer. 2 network ports, one for management, one where you mirror all your traffic at the switchport to it and have the interface in promiscuous mode. Then it'll give you nice charts to show you who is talking to what (ie. User1 is streaming content from Youtube, etc). Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Boston CO's

2013-01-29 Thread Matt Shields
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Alex Pennace wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:09:27AM -0500, Matt Shields wrote: > > Anyone have a list of CO's (Telco Central Office) in the city of Boston? > I > > know there's one at 1 Summer St and 300 Congress. I'm looki

[Discuss] Boston CO's

2013-01-29 Thread Matt Shields
Anyone have a list of CO's (Telco Central Office) in the city of Boston? I know there's one at 1 Summer St and 300 Congress. I'm looking for a list of all CO's for a project I'm working on. Matt ___ Discuss mailing

Re: [Discuss] webmin

2013-01-24 Thread Matt Shields
ecurity? General > opinions? > A long time ago when I was first learning linux it was the best thing, but if I ever encountered a linux admin now that was using it I wouldn't let them touch any of my boxes. Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Travelling abroad & taking technology

2013-01-15 Thread Matt Shields
rrent value (without support/replacement) is around $5k. So custom's told FedEx to ship them back. Anyone have experience taking servers/network gear on the plane with them? What should I expect as far as taxes and penalties? etc? Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] satellite Internet vs. fixed wireless

2013-01-09 Thread Matt Shields
cuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > Their service has gotten better. I currently use it at my office as a redundant connection. Their prices do come down at the higher speeds. Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] data caps

2013-01-08 Thread Matt Shields
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matt Shields > > > > profit sharing. Quincy happened to strike a good deal with Com

Re: [Discuss] data caps

2013-01-08 Thread Matt Shields
ant to renegotiate with them to allow competitors because their percentage per household in the city will go down and thereby cutting some of the revenue for the town. Matt ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Travelling abroad & taking technology

2012-12-31 Thread Matt Shields
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Mark Woodward wrote: > What am I missing? Why can't you FedEx it? > > > On 12/31/2012 10:36 AM, Matt Shields wrote: > >> I have buildout a datacenter in London in January and I've ordered >> everything I need directly to the

[Discuss] Travelling abroad & taking technology

2012-12-31 Thread Matt Shields
(a Cisco serial console server). I know that I can carry my laptop on the plane and go through custom's fine, but is it possible to carry something like that with me or pack it in a suitcase and go through customs? Matt ___ Discuss mailing list

[Discuss] Open Source Monitoring

2012-12-04 Thread Matt Shields
g, ability to create useful dashboards for a NOC, and my biggest is the ability like Groundworks to have an agent that when a new node comes online after imaging checks into the server and based on hostname (using regex) automatically add itself to a hostgroup and start monitoring the appropria

Re: [Discuss] [Slightly OT] Streaming video services?

2012-11-30 Thread Matt Shields
le to get local news? And is there anything you miss about not having cable such as certain programs not available to Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, etc? And have you had any issues with getting close to exceeding bandwidth limits set by providers like Comcast? Matt

[Discuss] [Position-available] Sr and Jr Linux/Network Engineer

2012-09-07 Thread Matt Shields
We have a couple positions open for both Sr & Jr Linux/Network System Engineers. Below is the description of the Sr position. Please contact me directly if interested. Location: South Boston (near South Station) Compensation: commensurate with experience Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life

Re: [Discuss] 'nother question

2012-08-08 Thread Matt Shields
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > Matt Shields wrote: > > On the client, try "nmap -sT serverIP" to see if your client > > can see port 22 open. > > FYI, you can test SSH connectivity more simply like: > > % telnet ssh-server 22 > Tr

Re: [Discuss] 'nother question

2012-08-08 Thread Matt Shields
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Derek Martin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 07:10:44PM -0400, dan moylan wrote: > > > Maybe add the verbose option and post the output to the list. > > > > ok, here 'tis: > > Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host 192.168.0.103, user moylan, > command scp -v -t -

[Discuss] [Position-available] Sr and Jr Linux System Engineers

2012-08-03 Thread Matt Shields
We have a couple positions open for both Sr & Jr Linux System Engineers. Please contact me directly if interested. Position Overview: The Systems Engineer is responsible for building, implementing, and managing products and solutions for production environment, while ensuring 24/7 availability. Th

Re: [Discuss] iPhone vs. Android - the backup problem

2012-07-20 Thread Matt Shields
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Kent Borg wrote: > Matt Shields wrote (privately, but I think it is of general interest and > not confidential): > > Just an FYI for anyone who uses iTunes and buy's apps and music from >> Apple. If you have lost your content for whateve

Re: [Discuss] Looking for work

2012-07-03 Thread Matt Shields
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > Jerry wrote: > >> Don't volunteer anything and don't be negative. > > Edward Ned Harvey responded: > > Agreed with everything Jerry just said, except "don't volunteer > anything." > > ... I feel the best interviews > > are usually the ones where

[Discuss] [Position-available] Sr and Jr Linux System Engineers

2012-06-19 Thread Matt Shields
We have a couple positions open for both Sr & Jr Linux System Engineers. Please contact me directly if interested. Position Overview: The Systems Engineer is responsible for building, implementing, and managing products and solutions for production environment, while ensuring 24/7 availability. Th

Re: [Discuss] Web Maintenance software (for Windows)

2012-06-07 Thread Matt Shields
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On Jun 7, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > > > The only way he is going to do it is through DreamWeaver, period. I > > always found light colonels to be stubborn. > > Here's the thing: he isn't doing you a favor by managing the site.

[Discuss] Collection of New England "resources"

2012-05-07 Thread Matt Shields
All, This weekend's emergency has had me thinking I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to create some pages on the BLU site where we can list resources such as consultants including their areas of expertise like programming, sysadmin, DBA's, networking, etc and brief summary of their areas of

Re: [Discuss] Emergency consultant needed

2012-05-05 Thread Matt Shields
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Matt Shields wrote: > I wish I had the time to do this myself but I'm booked solid. I have a > friend who is in need of a consultant. They know the office environment is > Windows, not sure what the office network is. They also have some cloud

[Discuss] Emergency consultant needed

2012-05-05 Thread Matt Shields
I wish I had the time to do this myself but I'm booked solid. I have a friend who is in need of a consultant. They know the office environment is Windows, not sure what the office network is. They also have some cloud services at Amazon but they're not sure what is hosted there(Windows/Linux or

Re: [Discuss] Boston-area green screen? [OT]

2012-04-20 Thread Matt Shields
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Ricker, William wrote: > I don't know if pro photo gear rental shops are even open on the weekend > --Original Message-- > From: Tom Metro > To: Daniel C. > Cc: L-blu > Subject: Re: [Discuss] Boston-area green screen? [OT] > Sent: Apr 20, 2012 16:49 > > Dan

Re: [Discuss] Discuss - Software Engineering union

2012-04-20 Thread Matt Shields
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Jack Coats wrote: > Union have had their place, and some times they may have use today. > > Unions came about when employers were abusing employees. > More resent history have employees abusing employers. > > If we all played nice like we were taught in kindergart

[Discuss] LibrePlanet 2012 this coming weekend

2012-03-19 Thread Matt Lee
So many great speakers! JUST CONFIRMED: Ruby creator, Matz. Saturday: Trisquel 5.5 release, Rubén Rodríguez GNU Telephony, David Sugar GNU Savannah, Michael J. Flickinger Why Cars need Free Software, Alison Chaiken The FSF GPL compliance Lab, Brett Smith Libre Graphics magazine: Go, go F/LO

[Discuss] Free Software conference in Boston, March 24th and 25th...

2012-03-09 Thread Matt Lee
The free software movement was started right here in Boston in 1983 by Richard Stallman. On March 24th and 25th, the Free Software Foundation is having its annual conference in Boston. More information, including registration (cheap) and speakers can be found at: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Libre

Re: [Discuss] wiki suggestions?

2012-01-31 Thread Matt Iavarone
I'm a little late to the party, but I use xwiki and have been real happy with it. I tried a lot of other wikis before and hadn't really been satisfied with the functionality. I really like Confluence as well, but it does come at quite a cost after the initial 10 users. Matt Iav

Re: [Discuss] Solarwinds/Network Management?

2012-01-05 Thread Matt Iavarone
itors. Zabbix can also use proxies to run checks for larger environments. I've had performance problems with Nagios and Cacti monitoring only a few hundred servers. Matt Iavarone Lead Engineer Cirant Technologies m...@ciranttechnologies.com <mailto:m...@ciranttechnologies.com> (866

Re: [Discuss] Bourne Shell variable assignment question

2011-12-15 Thread Matt Shields
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Matt Shields wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > >> I have not done my homework on this as much as I should. >> A coworker needs to set variable names and values input from another >> file. Normally, I would

Re: [Discuss] Bourne Shell variable assignment question

2011-12-15 Thread Matt Shields
> > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > Maybe not the most elegant way, but it works. See below Matts-MacBook-Pro:temp matt$ cat test1.sh #!/bin/bash var1=dog var2=cat var3=

Re: [Discuss] Backing up LVM partitions using snapshots

2011-12-14 Thread Matt Shields
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 12/14/2011 12:34 PM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > >> I've been watching the (second?) incarnation of this thread for a >> while now and I think that I see your point. I wonder if the "TRIM" >> functionality that is being added to filesystems in

Re: [Discuss] Competition of broadband

2011-12-04 Thread Matt Shields
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 12/02/2011 07:44 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > >> I see that Bill H. says that TV service isn't an issue for him, but it is >> one. In fact, TV service is the root of how broadband is deployed in >> Massachusetts. >> >> Back in the 1970s, whe

Re: [Discuss] Any Subversion geniuses out there?

2011-12-02 Thread Matt Shields
onv --from-code=UTF-16 --to-code=UTF-8 ms-text-file.txt > > plain-text-file.txt > > I also ran it through "tr -d '\r'" to scrape off the ^M at the end of > each line before dropping it into the output file, but that's a separate > issue. > > >

Re: [Discuss] Any Subversion geniuses out there?

2011-12-02 Thread Matt Shields
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matt Shields > > > > What I was wondering is it possible in Subversion when a changeset is &g

[Discuss] Any Subversion geniuses out there?

2011-12-01 Thread Matt Shields
It's a long story but basically we have a number of developers that all use MS Sql Server Management Studio to write/edit their schema (along with other tools such as Visual Studio, notepad, etc). For some reason when you create a .sql script using SSMS even though it's text it does some funky enc

Re: [Discuss] Howdy

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Shields
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:14 PM, John Abreau wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > > I live in Newton where we have Vz (FIOS), Comcast, and RCN. In general my > > Comcast service has been excellent with any outage not their fault. > > > The difference is that you l

Re: [Discuss] Security

2011-11-02 Thread Matt Shields
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 11/02/2011 01:10 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > > At my work, here are a few vending machines. One of these machines has a > > nice little antenna on it. Presumably, it communicates via cellular > > network to the vendor in order to rep

Re: [Discuss] Security

2011-11-02 Thread Matt Shields
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:10 PM, wrote: > > At my work, here are a few vending machines. One of these machines has a > > nice little antenna on it. Presumably, it communicates via cellular > > network to the vendor in order to report on usag

Re: [Discuss] Virtual hosting provider (me too)

2011-10-28 Thread Matt Iavarone
I've been using Rackspace and have been very happy with them. They have a good set of images and are fairly cheap if you are not doing a lot of I/O. The OEL JeOS is good for a slim image. Matt Iavarone Cirant Technologies Bill Horne wrote: >On 10/28/2011 6:42 PM, edwa...@linuxmail.o

Re: [Discuss] lvm snapshot cloning

2011-10-26 Thread Matt Shields
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On Oct 25, 2011, at 7:51 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > > > > The snapshot has no effect on the master, and yes, we've already said and > > we already know it is a weakness in LVM that if you don't extend your > > snapshots you lose them.

[Discuss] Any Amazon EC2 experts?

2011-10-25 Thread Matt Shields
I need a way to be able to copy around 30x Win2k3 AMI's (EBS backed) from us-east-1 to us-west-1 weekly, so automation and ease of use would be great. Not looking for a extremely manual process like creating new AMI in us-west-1, then recreating everything manually. I've checked out CloudyScripts

Re: [Discuss] Server Room Power

2011-10-13 Thread Matt Shields
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matt Shields > > > > A long time ago I got fed up with trying to calculate amperage, so I &g

Re: [Discuss] Server Room Power

2011-10-13 Thread Matt Shields
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > One question I have is in planning. One day we received a shipment of about > 5 or 6 Intel systems from out Toronto office. We ordered a rack, switch, and > a rack KVM. We initially plugged everything in to a wall outlet. ran fine > until it

Re: [Discuss] Old computers Re: (OT) Steve Jobs 1955-2011

2011-10-08 Thread Matt Shields
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Rich Braun wrote: > Jerry Feldman mentioned an old computer: > > My first home computer was an Apple II (1978). What Jobs saw back > > then was that a desktop computer could be useful to real people. > > At the time, there were a few hobby computers. I almost boug

Re: [Discuss] (OT) Steve Jobs 1955-2011

2011-10-06 Thread Matt Shields
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 10:19:49AM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote: > > On 10/06/2011 09:23 AM, Dan O'Donovan wrote: > > >> My next cell phone will be an openmoko > > > > > > I remember saying that five years ago - kinda glad I got an iPhone >

Re: [Discuss] Thumbs Up To Ben

2011-10-06 Thread Matt Shields
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:49 AM, wrote: > > Today the biggest threat to long term freedom, and history as a whole, is > the cultural and legal acceptance of DRM. If you think about this and its > eventual elimination of the free flow of information, you should be > scared. VERY SCARED. > > Steve

Re: [Discuss] more on software patent

2011-10-04 Thread Matt Shields
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Kyle Leslie wrote: > While I don't have a ton of a background in this whole Patent thing, I have > been reading this thread and trying to form my own opinions and gain > knowledge. I decided to read the article that Matt posted and in doing so I &

Re: [Discuss] more on software patent

2011-10-03 Thread Matt Shields
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote: > 35 U.S.C. 101 Inventions patentable. > > "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, > manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful > improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the

Re: [Discuss] Disk numbering

2011-10-01 Thread Matt Iavarone
unless I need to run something manually. If you have dependencies on the disk lettering, then you can use udev rules to force them. Matt Iavarone Lead Engineer Cirant Technologies m...@ciranttechnologies.com <mailto:m...@ciranttechnologies.com> (866) 838-4784 <http

Re: [Discuss] Self-introduction and more on software patent

2011-09-30 Thread Matt Shields
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote: > Thanks to many kind notes from BLU members. I believe what I have done > wrong is that I failed to introduce myself before speaking out. So, here > is > a little bit of myself. > > I have a graduate degree in theoretical physics and done

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