Re: [Discuss] Howdy

Debian or Ubuntu installed on everything I can manage. Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics ( http://artisansasylum.com/ ) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] [OT] Arisia 2012

I'll be there. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:55 PM, John Abreau abre...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be attending Arisia next week

Re: [Discuss] networking

Shoot network-manager in the head, or tell it to disable wlan0. Widget in upper right. Or use a soldering iron to make wlan0 not intermittent. **evil grin** * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain

Re: [Discuss] Programming vs Engineering

of PE's who are good engineers, but the best engineers I've known have not been. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST

Re: [Discuss] Google Contacts on Web and Android

That can happen if they are both a gmail/android contact and a facebook contact, for example. (The no-number part, not sure about the other.) Or you could just have found a really irritating bug in your phone's implementation. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics

Re: [Discuss] Future of Personal Computers

I have a quad-core tablet with a keyboard. It sucks for anything real. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Jason Normand j

Re: [Discuss] schematic capture to pcb

That's the nature of such software. On Windows, TinyCAD and FreePCB are a pretty solid pair. Note the latest FreePCB installer is hugely outdated, you need to unpack an archive of newer executable/DLLs after you install it, and copy over the current files. KiCad is OK on Linux. * Drew Van

Re: [Discuss] A Little OT: The Password Post-It

. * No stupid password rules, but the server rolls through and tries to crack passwords, with a focus on new/recently changed passwords. If it finds it, user has to change their password. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian

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

And OpenVPN is out? * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: On 06/06/2012 12:19 PM, Bill Horne

[Discuss] Mentor Graphics

Does anyone on the list work for Mentor Graphics, or have a contact who does? I'm interested in teaching a real PCB design tool at the Artisan's Asylum. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator

Re: [Discuss] Class action against Secure Boot

I want a retina display Macbook running Linux, though. Screen size (in pixels) is my #1 laptop decision-making spec. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST

Re: [Discuss] Class action against Secure Boot

I'm confused... does the retina display HARDWARE scale the images up? I have zero interest in MacOS; I'd be using Ubuntu. (Assuming the HW is supported at some point.) * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld

Re: [Discuss] [semi-OT] Right to Own law

Increases the barrier to entry in business. That's bad for small businesses, matters less for large ones. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Wed, Jun 27

Re: [Discuss] [semi-OT] Right to Own law

? I've worked on designs with 300 pages of 11x17 schematics. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Mark Woodward ma

Re: [Discuss] Raspberry Pi

I've seen a couple of them arrive at the Artisan's Asylum, but have no personal experience. You might try asking on that discuss list. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D

Re: [Discuss] OT Volunteering for School Presentations

It may be possible to involve the Artisan's Asylum in some school programs, especially if you have some organizational energy to help out with it. We're down for it, just most of those who are the volunteering sort are already oversubscribed. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead

Re: [Discuss] Help with soldering

Artisan's Asylum has the right tools for that, and if I'm around I could do it in a few seconds if the disassembly etc. is already done. There are a couple of other folks who could do larger pitch stuff like that. * Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics Robotics Cam

Re: [Discuss] [ OT ] iPad battery

I promise you battery circuits are smarter than that these days. We monitor battery voltage. If it drops too much, we start charging again. I'm really having trouble picturing a EE doing it any other way. * Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain

Re: [Discuss] Encouraging Children to Explore Open Source

Hackerspace for kids. Tell 'em Drew says hi. http://www.h3xl.com/ * Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote: Chris O'Connell wrote: I have

Re: [Discuss] Encouraging Children to Explore Open Source

9 is old enough to solder. I was taught when I was 6 or 7. * Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

Cacti, Nagios, and Intellipool are all solid for this. * Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:11 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.netwrote: We've got some machine (or machines

Re: [Discuss] Network monitoring tool recommendation

https://www.google.com/search?q=nagios+plugin+network+byte+counteroq=nagios+plugin+network+byte+counter I haven't used any of them in ages (I'm back to hardware design, thank Science), but I had a plugin (or plugin + SNMP?) that monitored all the interface stats back when. * Drew Van Zandt Cam

[Discuss] AWS Linux server scaling question

those with just a script on my server, and test load handling - the Small version should be strictly (and vastly) better than the prestaged test. Are we thinking along the right lines? * Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade

Re: [Discuss] AWS Linux server scaling question

can actually use 2 CPUs for brief moments, but the Small gets more cycles steady-state on its single CPU. In other words, Micro gets something like 0.75 CPU, but can use it as 2 CPUs 30% of the time and 0.07 CPUs the rest. Small is 1 CPU 100% of the time. * Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593

Re: [Discuss] AWS Linux server scaling question

Addendum: In the future, the setup is likely to also run a Symfony site. * Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST * On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.comwrote: Micro (610.0MB RAM

Re: [Discuss] Have you done a technical book review?

I've done some technical book review before, and rewriting is definitely not covered. Marking a section as unclear is about as far as I went, though I might rewrite a paragraph or two as an example. Otherwise I'd kick it back and say needs *editing *by native English speaker. *Drew Van Zandt

Re: [Discuss] Building a non-profit membership list?

complicated, but does pretty much everything with the right plugins. Ping me if you have more detailed questions - the Asylum has been investigating this stuff for a long while, and we're finally moving into OpenERP, I think. *Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Agapito Acosta) * On Sun, Apr 20

Re: [Discuss] Is Sharp AL-1540CS a paperweight on Linux

Hack: http://www.instructables.com/id/Use-any-GDI-printer-with-GNULinux/ Script to autoprint/delete things from a shared directory seems not too difficult even on Windows. *Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Agapito Acosta) * On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org

Re: [Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond

Yahoo may do as they like. Just because a solution is technically correct does not mean it will not have consequences. Most of the people I know who have been stubbornly clinging to Yahoo! email addresses have switched to gmail in the past few weeks. *Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593

Re: [Discuss] Penetration testing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAINT_(software) Derived from SATAN. Also handy: http://www.openvas.org/ *Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Agapito Acosta) * On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Chris Wallace cbw...@gmail.com wrote: Well, since I work for a consulting company that seems very

[Discuss] OpenERP and general Linux support for nonprofit

Hi all. .. Just wondering in general if there are folks around who could bid on an RFP (when we get around to writing one) for general Linux support and also for OpenERP setup and support for the artisans Asylum, a nonprofit Makerspace in Somerville. I am off the opinion that open source is more

Re: [Discuss] Verizon blacklisted me

Many folks blacklist dynamic IP ranges. Often, even static IPs are in ranges that are known to be dynamic, and thus get blacklisted. *Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Agapito Acosta) * On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Daniel Barrett dbarr...@blazemonger.com wrote: Last week without

Re: [Discuss] Verizon blacklisted me

You're saying that Verizon does only things that make sense, right? http://my.verizon.com/micro/whitelist/ *Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Agapito Acosta) * On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Daniel Barrett dbarr...@blazemonger.com wrote: On August 6, 2014, Drew Van Zandt wrote: Many

Re: [Discuss] code for hacked USB drive (BadUSB) released on Github

It is, however, not difficult to have a USB device reset itself and then change its answer when re-initialized. *Drew Van Zandt* On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/6/2014 3:06 AM, Tom Metro wrote: If these drives look like an ordinary USB

Re: [Discuss] code for hacked USB drive (BadUSB) released on Github

. Many, many embedded microcontrollers that support USB allow modification of VID/PID by the firmware. Hell, you can do it with a soft USB stack. *Drew Van Zandt* On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/6/2014 11:13 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote

Re: [Discuss] Social meeting tomorrow ?

Amusement on my part: Tuesdays are also the traditional weekly get-together at the CBC for the Burning Man crowd, many of whom are as geeky as I expect those in this group to be (including myself). I will likely be there for the other socialization, and can introduce folks from the two groups.

Re: [Discuss] Boot issues on Thjinkpad W520 with SSD -- resolved

Unless you use 3D modeling software professionally, in which case Blender was designed specifically to irritate and frustrate you. ;-) Opinions abound. Blender is not for engineering. It's OK for making 3D printer models that don't need to go in products; SolidWorks is vastly better, as are

Re: [Discuss] memory management

16GB seems like a small amount of memory to me; I generally use 24GB or more. Different strokes... --DTVZ On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Mike Small sma...@panix.com wrote: 4.0 GB seems like a large amount of memory to me. It's way more than I have a use for. *Drew Van ZandtArtisan's

Re: [Discuss] memory management

a signal integrity/crosstalk sim is crunching numbers. *Drew Van ZandtArtisan's Asylum Board of DirectorsFirefly Arts Collective Board of Directors* On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Mike Small sma...@panix.com wrote: Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com writes: 16GB seems like a small

Re: [Discuss] Cool Processing

. From: Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com Date: Friday, June 19, 2015 at 1:32 PM To: j...@polcari.com j...@polcari.com Cc: Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com, discuss@blu.org discuss@blu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss] Cool Processing You're assuming changing the voltage changes nothing

Re: [Discuss] Juniper VPN's

When I installed OpenVPN years ago, the Windows client Just Worked (once I fed it the cert). I probably still have the detailed install instructions I wrote back then, somewhere. Mostly to make 100% sure I did not have to repeat myself 50 times. *Drew Van ZandtArtisan's Asylum Board of

Re: [Discuss] Digital Right to Repair Bill, H.3383

speak for yourself? I fix electronics for myself and others. 0402, no problem. 0201, I'd prefer a stereoscope. QFNs and DFNs are no problem, only BGAs are tough. Making it impossible, feh. If you never get anything repaired, you are a wasteful human. If you oppose the right of those who

Re: [Discuss] External security Re: one vs many static IP addresses

I'll keep my pinky out while I swing the hammer. *Drew Van ZandtArtisan's Asylum Board of DirectorsFirefly Arts Collective Board of Directors* On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Rich Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/4/2016 1:39 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > > If you have

Re: [Discuss] External security Re: one vs many static IP addresses

If you have console access, removing power, cutting the Ethernet cable, or applying a hammer may also be effective. *Drew Van ZandtArtisan's Asylum Board of DirectorsFirefly Arts Collective Board of Directors* On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: > On

Re: [Discuss] Duplicate entries in Gnu PG

If I suspect this is the case, I grep wider. ABC parameters. --DTVZ On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Derek Martin wrote: > the trouble with grep is that it filters > out much additional context > *Drew Van ZandtArtisan's Asylum Board of DirectorsFirefly Arts

Re: [Discuss] What was once old is new again...

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Bill Horne wrote: > loading FOCAL from paper tape Whatever happened to toggling in boot/diagnostic code on the front panel? Kids these days... *Drew Van ZandtArtisan's Asylum Board of DirectorsFirefly Arts Collective Board of Directors*

Re: [Discuss] What was once old is new again...

Amusingly, I did the diag code toggling in the early 80's, at the IRS national computing center. I'm 40. *Drew Van ZandtArtisan's Asylum Board of DirectorsFirefly Arts Collective Board of Directors* On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Bill Horne wrote: > On 2/18/2016 12:19 PM,

[Discuss] SNR

There used to be a point to this group...something to do with Boston and Linux. I bump into a few of you in other spaces; I'll see you there, the SNR here is lousy. --Drew Van Zandt Artisan's Asylum Board of Directors Firefly Arts Collective Board of Directors

Re: [Discuss] free email less intrusive than google

My Linux system doesn't have any of these weird commands installed. *Drew Van ZandtArtisan's Asylum Board of DirectorsFirefly Arts Collective Board of Directors* On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Peter Olson wrote: > > On March 15, 2016 at 7:52 AM "Edward Ned Harvey (blu)" <