Re: Android Tablet

2011-04-06 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Good slideshow showing many interesting Android or Linux slates, tablets, or iPad alternatives http://www.pcworld.com/article/192496/slate_wars_15_tablets_that_could_rival_apples_ipad.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/192496/slate_wars_15_tablets_that_could_rival_apples_ipad.html Greg Rundlett

[Discuss] Migration Environment Survey (host profiling) HOWTO

2011-06-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
In order to migrate a business' custom web infrastructure to a more modern environment, I need to come up with a complete inventory of the services and so on. The Migration Environment Survey given to me by one company that specializes in this type of work seems to actually be a bit cursory in my

Re: [Discuss] 30% Apple

2011-08-11 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Matthew Gillen m...@mattgillen.net wrote: Another complicating factor is that there are several artificial market distortions that may drive this one way or the other regardless of the technical merits. For instance, the rule Apple is trying to enforce about

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm fairly knowledgeable at MediaWiki, so if you have some questions feel free to ask. When I setup the wiki for our group at Harvard, I even tweaked it so that you could use the wiki as a back-end to publish pages to a public website. You can also set it up to create PDF books - which is great

Re: [Discuss] Creating a Wiki server

2011-08-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Some additional information about MediaWiki... On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM, David Kramer da...@thekramers.net wrote: On 08/28/2011 12:31 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Kyle Leslie wrote: Any suggestions on a set up. I have seen some things about TikiWiki and MediaWiki. My vote is for Twiki

Re: [Discuss] Photo Manager

2011-09-07 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
iPhoto is great except for one very annoying problem. When you import your photos it puts the photos under your ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/ folder. But when you open up finder you cannot browse that folder because it's just an icon. To get to the original files you need to open iPhoto,

Re: [Discuss] CD ripping

2011-09-08 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I love grip. Why aren't there at least a few people in the whole world taking up maintainership of grip? GSOC needs to know about grip. I just downloaded the source and it was released in 2005. Greg Rundlett my public PGP keyhttp://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x5E07A26B877CEBF6

[Discuss] Fwd: Fwd: Windows 8, Bootloader Signing

2011-09-21 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
meant to send to the list -- Forwarded message -- From: Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com Date: Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:27 PM Subject: Re: [Discuss] Fwd: Windows 8, Bootloader Signing To: John Abreau j...@blu.org Is there a technical reason why this can't be made

Re: [Discuss] more on software patent

2011-10-02 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I call BS on the whole idea of prior art. It's everywhere and patents are issued that defy the rules. There is no art in the system. Ask a real patent attorney what he thinks. See the poster child http://www.1201tuesday.com/1201_tuesday/2010/10/poster-child.html If this is a valid patent;

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

2011-11-02 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: greg.rundl...@gmail.com [mailto:greg.rundl...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Greg Rundlett (freephile) I find Amazon to be too complex - although I never really took it too far. And they're not inexpensive

[Discuss] GMail doesn't recognize mailing lists

2011-11-02 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Why doesn't GMail reply to list by default?! Does this lack of feature bug you? Suggest this feature at http://mail.google.com/ support/bin/static.py?page=suggestions.cs Greg Rundlett my public PGP keyhttp://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x5E07A26B877CEBF6

Re: [Discuss] to Ubuntu or not to Ubuntu

2011-11-23 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote: The question I'd put to the community is: If you have been using Ubuntu since 10.4 or earlier, and you've upgraded or are planning to, what option did you take? I'm still running Ubuntu 10.4 (home and work) because it's a

Re: [Discuss] Any Subversion geniuses out there?

2011-12-01 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Hi Matt, You'll want a pre-commit hook that will do the mime-type checking/setting This perl script which comes with should get you started http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/hook-scripts/check-mime-type.pl Greg Rundlett my public PGP

Re: [Discuss] Justify your existence

2011-12-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.comwrote: You're in a social situation - at a party or something - You're talking with some CFO or otherwise interesting financial person about work, and Dilbert cartoons, and the wastefulness and inefficiencies of typical

Re: [Discuss] home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-17 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Great input on this thread. I wanted to post a follow-up. This is an example of what you can do with Sweet Home 3D on Linux: http://youtu.be/XDZP5rxYv1I I created a model of what I'd like to do with my basement. And then the software allows you to save points of view and compiles those into a

Re: [Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

2012-02-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.comwrote: Here it is live and running: http://www.gweep.net/~ratinox/02-12-12_1244.jpg Not so impressive to look at, is it? That's a G4 Mac mini on the left to provide some scale. The USB disk on top is my video library,

Re: [Discuss] Versioning File Systems

2012-05-04 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
At the risk of oversimplifying, you might consider git a versioned file system.  And for automatic versioning of /etc, I have to say etckeeper [1] is a keeper :-) [1] http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/ Greg Rundlett ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] Backup linux desktops/workstations

2012-06-13 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.com wrote: On mac windows, I'm accustomed to Time Machine and Acronis.  Key features are: . Run in the background, low priority, no complaints from user about performance. . Daily (or more frequent) incrementals . Able to

Re: [Discuss] i 3 postgresql vid

2012-07-21 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Eric Chadbourne eric.chadbou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I first learned about PostgreSQL from this list a few years back. We use it at work now and I love it. One of my coworkers (he's the lone mac guy, I'm the lone gnu/linux guy) sent me this video.

Re: [Discuss] Rob Conery's critique of MySQL?

2012-07-22 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
His critique pokes at defaults that MySQL ships with (default engine) which he admits can easily be switched. He shows how it gratuitously substitutes zero for missing integer types when the schema says NOT NULL, likewise for varchar where it will substitute the empty string for a missing value.

[Discuss] router configuration UI online

2012-07-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Pretty good idea: Linksys / Cisco has a website where you can view the User Interface of all of their router models interactively: http://ui.linksys.com You can find the model, and version and get the exact UI that your friend is asking you about when they can't connect or setup their router.

Re: [Discuss] suggestions on how to free code?

2012-08-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Likewise, github is great if you know git (includes wiki and issue tracker). Google Code also offers a wiki, tracker and a choice of version control http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/GettingStarted Greg Rundlett On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Matthew Gillen m...@mattgillen.net wrote:

Re: [Discuss] suggestions on how to free code?

2012-08-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
, github, savannah, sourceforge and finally google-code. For API access it was github, launchpad, sourceforge, savannah, google-code. Martin, On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 02:28 -0400, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: Likewise, github is great if you know git (includes wiki and issue tracker

[Discuss] publishing an article

2012-09-09 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I am writing an article about a tech topic that I think could be suitable for publishing in Linux Journal or other tech publications (the article is about Google Apps Script and how it's the modern day equivalent of VBA for creating office applications). Does anyone have contacts? Or, anyone who

[Discuss] Spreadsheets Improved with JavaScript

2012-09-13 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
A little while ago, I posted here about publishing an article in LJ... Well here is the final draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sPcwM8a3xggOks1TOOuvarDclclsjZxZUFoUqBlI0us/edit# a case study and demo on how to take spreadsheets to the next level of utility by using Google Apps and Google

Re: [Discuss] hosts.equiv

2012-09-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Nuno Sucena Almeida n...@aeminium.orgwrote: On 09/14/2012 09:51 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: When you run rsync, pass it -e ssh -i/home/jdm/.ssh/rsync.key Or setup your .ssh/config with something like: Host remotehostnickname HostName remotehostname

[Discuss] Electronic Health Records (EHR) or PHR software

2013-01-01 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I want to track my health. Having recently buried my mother I've come to experience how broken our medical records system is. I reviewed a list of open source healthcare software at wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_healthcare_software#Electronic_health_or_medical_record

Re: [Discuss] [OT] iOS from a power user's perspective

2013-01-06 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: One thing I'd like to see is an Ubuntu smartphone with a portable plugin screen option (7in, 10in, larger). Use the smartphone as my only device, then bring out the screen and keyboard for desktop work, maybe dock it at home

Re: [Discuss] [OT] Migrating domain to Google?

2013-02-12 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I've migrated and been running corporate and personal domains for several years. The experience is great and the tools are there to help you. You've probably already done your migration, but here is the starting point for the mail service, including migration and sync options:

[Discuss] Google Apps Scripting (preview article for Linux Magazine)

2013-02-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm going to be revising this to be more 'play by play' narrative, but this article will be in the next edition of Linux Magazine. https://docs.google.com/document/d/18qplc5P4zYEmbZ289aDgRArsMR3c5aDyUTdcupBjHVk/edit Comments welcome. Hope you like it. Greg Rundlett

[Discuss] Open Source Tech Leader (in search of good company)

2013-02-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Meet Greg Rundlett Open Source, Best Practices and tech leadership: 1. Meet Greg Rundletthttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ue5yFOE3ZOmwubwPuridJxXwUPH_Pz2Co7s1b3V4fac/edit 2. Visual Bio https://www.vizify.com/greg-rundlett 3. Twitter https://twitter.com/freephile 4. Github

[Discuss] Sample Contract for Technology / Software consultant

2013-02-19 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Yes, I should and will contact my attorney to draft a contract. Until I do, I was wondering if anyone has a good sample or source for contract language specific to an IT / Software consultant in Massachusetts. This one looks good, and is similar to the one I used years ago.

Re: [Discuss] Sample Contract for Technology / Software consultant

2013-02-21 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
is no longer in existence. I always found it to be a pretty good starting point. https://www.dropbox.com/s/5yeube4g420ajkk/sub-contractor-agmt-icca.doc Will On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Yes, I should and will contact my attorney

Re: [Discuss] [OT] Smart Phones

2013-03-04 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
The costs of smart phones are ridiculous. I like having one, and I just bought a Nexus 4 to simultaneously get an advanced piece of hardware, avoid the lock-in of a contract and also lower my long-term costs. I believe having a pocket computer is already a necessity. But rather than help bridge

Re: [Discuss] Opinions needed: wiki software

2013-03-10 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Bill Horne b...@horne.net wrote: I've been asked to help improve a wiki site that is currently using Mediawiki, and I'm seeking information about alternative wiki packages which might be a better match for the uses that are needed. Here are the bullet

Re: [Discuss] Migrating m...@gmail.com to m...@mydomain.com?

2013-03-10 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Hi Scott, You can merge the two identities and/or cancel one you want to abandon. But it depends on the particular service, the service type and whether or not you've ever used that service to determine whether you have to do anything about it. Forwarding of a single email user can be setup

Re: [Discuss] Opinions needed: wiki software

2013-03-10 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Rich Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:41:32 -0400 Bill Horne b...@horne.net wrote: The groups doesn't have any money, so any solution has to be open-source. Please suggest some Document Management Systems that qualify, and tell

Re: [Discuss] Opinions needed: wiki software

2013-03-10 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Bill Horne b...@horne.net wrote: I've been asked to help improve a wiki site that is currently using Mediawiki, and I'm seeking information about alternative wiki packages which might be a better match for the uses that are needed. Here are the bullet

Re: [Discuss] Opinions needed: wiki software

2013-03-11 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Bill Horne b...@horne.net wrote: On 3/11/2013 10:06 AM, Peter Jalajas wrote: Can you give us a sense of the scale and complexity of their needs? I guess some more info won't hurt: the site is http://www.big-8.org/ . It is hosted on a server owned by the

[Discuss] Bash auto completion broken by Adobe

2013-03-28 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
My bash autocompletion recently stopped working. So trying to do things like cd ~/Ubuntu\ One/ by typing cd ~/Ubu[tab] would not work properly. The escaped space would be stripped out; the directory would not be recognized as such, so the trailing slash would be removed; and to make

Re: [Discuss] Point-and-cluck groupware

2013-04-09 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
+1 Google apps. Costs 50/yr/user. No ads On Apr 9, 2013 1:31 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/9/2013 12:42 PM, Bill Horne wrote: I need Ease-of-use with a capital E. All suggestions are welcome, and thank you for your help. The only thing that I can think of that

[Discuss] SVN server - What hardware do I need?

2013-04-21 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm working on replacing an existing Subversion server. Does anyone have specific guidelines for the best hardware configuration for such a service? http://www.svnforum.org/threads/41227-SVN-server-best-hardware says that a fast disk and plenty of RAM for Apache are the chief concerns.

Re: [Discuss] SVN server - What hardware do I need?

2013-04-23 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: I was just relooking at the OP's original message.. [ ... ] Question for Greg, are these developers using Windows or Linux. Screen would be an option on a Linux workstation. I'm told that most are using Linux, but I know

Re: [Discuss] encrypted basic cable

2013-04-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I throw this out there for consideration you can ditch cable altogether and get free TV. I think most people don't realize this. I use Over The Air (OTA) digital TV, via a rooftop antenna that cost me about $100. Most are HD signals. PBS offers many channels OTA http://antennaweb.org/ So,

Re: [Discuss] boston area company that supports linux?

2013-05-13 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Eric Chadbourne eric.chadbou...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, I know of a small company that needs support for a few Debian servers and about 40 Windows desktops. Anybody know of a local company I can refer an associate to? Hi Eric, I've launched eQuality

[Discuss] Smarthosting (Sending mail through Google) with Postfix

2013-05-19 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I've just setup a LAMP host which of course needs to be able to send email for all kinds of reasons. In addition to notifications sent out by monitoring systems or cron, my websites (like wikis) and other systems need to send email, e.g. Subversion commit notifications. I typically set up

Re: [Discuss] Smarthosting (Sending mail through Google) with Postfix

2013-05-19 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I remember the snakeoil cert now. Thanks that makes sense. On May 19, 2013 11:58 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com writes: I typically set up Postfix to smarthost (relay) through a Google Apps account. I'm curious about one

[Discuss] [Position-available] wanted immediate DevOps / Sr. System Administrator

2013-05-20 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I have an immediate need for a Sr. Level (lead) System Administrator experienced with *RHEL6* *Linux*. I need someone, preferably with consulting experience, to lead the hardware side of a *Development Operations* engagement. eQuality Technology is refactoring, upgrading and re-deploying the

[Discuss] rsync v. cp in data migration

2013-05-23 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Suppose you have to _migrate_ 4TB of data (all of /home/*) from one host to a new SAN attached to a new host. You know it's going to take time, and your users work around the clock so the best approach would be to do the migration in two steps: 1) copy all data as a way to get the bulk of the

Re: [Discuss] rsync v. cp in data migration

2013-05-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Thanks for the good advice. I've tweaked my rsync command (below). A couple questions come up: Rich: you said change the rsync command if NTFS filesystems were involved, but I don't see any reference in the rsync man page to NTFS execution differences or gotchas. [1] I'm guessing that you took

Re: [Discuss] rsync v. cp in data migration

2013-05-25 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
This is the script I ended up using: (in color: http://pastebin.com/une2RYq2 ) Because the SOURCE wasn't NFS mounting, I ended up adding back in the -z to rsync and the network portion is over SSH rather than NFS. 642GB have been copied so far. 18 of 149 users are complete and everything looks

[Discuss] Help with data migration

2013-05-27 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm not having good luck with my data migration. The details are below for those playing along at home. I'm trying to spend time with my son today, so I can't say that I'll be able to respond immediately to any comments. I can say that I really appreciate all the help on this list. (Sorry for

Re: [Discuss] Want web site with feedback option?

2013-05-28 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Hi Scott, It sounds like you want to have a question/answer system, or FAQ system similar to StackExchange and such. You might try hosting for free http://stackexchange.com/sites if you are trying to build an open community. There are other options if you would rather manage your own. If you

Re: [Discuss] gracefully shutdown guests

2013-06-03 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
In terms of the signal to noise ratio for the list, the noise just went up. It seems like you're putting off Chuck's contribution to the list and at the same time not offering the various reasons why some (unnamed) alternate virtualization scheme works better for you. I don't do systems

[Discuss] Small Business Server - what do you use?

2013-06-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
- SME Server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SME_Server) is based on CentOS. There is - Zentyal (formerly eBox Platform http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentyal) which is based on Ubuntu. - ClearOS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearOS) based on RHEL These projects provide an out of the

[Discuss] Fwd: Small Business Server - what do you use?

2013-07-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Forwarding to list Greg Rundlett -- Forwarded message -- From: Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com Date: Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:32 AM Subject: Re: [Discuss] Small Business Server - what do you use? To: Steven Santos ste...@simplycircus.com Thanks for sharing Steve

[Discuss] Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) in open source

2013-07-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I've become interested in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and comparing or learning more how open source products stand in the marketplace. This book http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0071701095 compares AlienVault OSSIM (which appears to operate on the freemium model)

Re: [Discuss] ddrescue, anyone?

2013-07-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Hi Dan, The two-pass examples do a shallow then deep rescues as you mention. The second pass uses the contents of the logfile generated by the first pass to be more efficient. And, since rescuing a large partition can take so long, re-trying failed sectors repeatedly on a large drive can take

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu forums hacked; 1.82M logins, email addresses stolen

2013-07-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:09 AM, John Abreau abre...@gmail.com wrote: Does this affect software updates for Ubuntu users, or only web browser logins to the Ubuntu One website? The data breach was only for Ubuntu Forums. From the website http://ubuntuforums.org/announce.html Ubuntu One,

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu forums hacked; 1.82M logins, email addresses stolen

2013-07-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
KeePassDroid to use the database on the road. Greg Rundlett On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Kent Borg kentb...@borg.org wrote: On 07/23/2013 11:52 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: The data breach was only for Ubuntu Forums. And so long as people didn't their forums password on other

[Discuss] E O insurance

2013-07-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Anyone have good experience with a particular insurance company getting their EO + general liability policy? At eQuality Technology, we do solutions consulting with Linux and FOSS focused on the software side so we're primarily a 3rd-party software installation, customization, support company (at

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

2013-08-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Gordon, what is your response to this new legislation? I haven't heard arguments in support of it. I think most people, and virtually all people on this list, would view this tax as both unjust and counterproductive. It certainly damages the tech sector of the MA economy. I for one will be

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

2013-08-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.comwrote: From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Greg Rundlett I think most people, and virtually all people on this list, would view this

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

2013-08-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com wrote: Greg Rundlett wrote: I for one will...incorporate out of state. Aside from having to pay corporate excise tax to another state, what are you hoping that to accomplish? The service tax is imposed on customers who reside

Re: [Discuss] Simple server monitoring

2013-08-22 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tim Callaghan I need to add basic monitoring to a server and am wondering how I can easily

[Discuss] (ssh) Write failed: Broken pipe

2013-09-05 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I've been experiencing a broken ssh tunnel that abruptly fails with Write failed: Broken pipe. (Not the normal timeout experience of Connection reset by peer.) Google and SO are failing to find me an answer. (fb posted a photo that is irrelevant and got many likes). I don't have any problems

Re: [Discuss] (ssh) Write failed: Broken pipe

2013-09-09 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
[SOLVED] There was a second machine on the network that was configured with the same static IP address. Someone turned on that machine. Sometimes client SSH connections would get routed to machine B. I'm outside the network, so I don't have much more detail than that. I'm also not sure how this

Re: [Discuss] Launching mplayer from firefox?

2013-09-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
If you've already got Firefox using the appropriate plugin or external application to handle the content type, you just need to change the generated links from HTTP protocol links to File protocol links. e.g. file:///net/wdmybook/tv/Chuck/season1/Chuck-1x01-Pilot.mkv instead of

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm not volunteering any effort here (way too busy), and I'm not even saying that we should undertake any SEO effort; just throwing in .02 to clarify: The purpose of doing some of the SEO tactics that Tom mentions would be to increase BLU's visibility when people search for redhat configuration,

Re: [Discuss] BLU's SEO

2013-10-18 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.comwrote: Greg, BLU isn't a front-line help desk. It's an advocacy group. It's very much the wrong place for random people looking for redhat configuration or apache vs. nginx information. I agree completely. BLU is an

Re: [Discuss] excessive pontification on marketing (was BLU's SEO)

2013-10-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I had to change the topic. Reading this thread thinking it has something to do with this list is driving me nuts. If anyone has legitimate questions about SEO as it pertains to BLU, or FOSS, please start a new thread. Thanks, Greg Rundlett ___

[Discuss] [OT] Help wanted

2013-11-04 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm looking for a sys admin for the week of Dec 2nd - Dec 8th. (40 hours, onsite Billerica, MA) RedHat, VMWare etc. Greg Rundlett founder eQuality Technology http://eQuality-Tech.com 978-225-0471 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

[Discuss] Have you done a technical book review?

2013-11-19 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I was asked by Packt publishing to do a technical book review (Apache SOLR for Beginners) I'm wondering if anyone else on the list has been a technical reviewer before and would share your experience. I was initially excited about the opportunity but it's become apparent, at least in this case,

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

2013-11-19 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.orgwrote: I did tech review for Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers, and it was an ok experience. Thanks. If you are doing editing of English, then the actual Editor isn't doing their job. You should be only doing tech

[Discuss] Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)

2013-12-06 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
We are replacing a monolithic software development IT infrastructure where source code control, development and compiling all take place on a single machine with something more manageable, scalable, redundant etc. The goal is to provide more enterprise features like manageability, scalability

Re: [Discuss] Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)

2013-12-06 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
0m53.796s svn checkout same repository on new infrastructure, with writes stored on NFS volume real28m53.220s user1m45.713s sys 3m26.948s Greg Rundlett On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: We are replacing a monolithic software

Re: [Discuss] Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)

2013-12-06 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Patrick Flaherty pflahe...@wsi.com wrote: Most of our devs do their dev work on their desktops. When 1tb sata drives are 600 bucks it made more sense to let devs have perishable work environments. We're moving some of our compile/testing/deploy to jenkins, but

Re: [Discuss] Free Software for Photographers?

2013-12-11 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Fotoxx looks like a great addition to my photo library management and retouching toolkit. I'm presently using Shotwell for collection management, having finally switched from Picasa which isn't developed or supported for Linux. Shotwell is nice in that it will import and organize your photos

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

2014-01-07 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Hi Bill, GPL - licensed HTTrack Website Copier works well (http://www.httrack.com/). I have not tried it on a MediaWiki site, but it's pretty adept at copying websites including dynamically generated websites. They say: It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a

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

2014-01-07 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Also, I just discovered a MediaWiki extension written by Tim Starling that may suit your needs. As the name implies, its for dumping to HTML. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DumpHTML As for processing the XML produced by export or MediaWiki dump tools, here is info on that XML schema

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

2014-01-08 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
(Apologies, I saw this thread after the discussion about exporting and converting MediaWiki.) Since you're going with regular HTML, I'd recommend taking a look at the HTML5 Boilerplate setup. intro: http://www.sitepoint.com/introduction-html5-boilerplate/ home: http://html5boilerplate.com/

Re: [Discuss] Setup An SVN Repository server

2014-01-28 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of John Malloy Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to Setup An SVN Repository

Re: [Discuss] Wiki Security Risk

2014-02-06 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
MediaWiki software is very secure (from hackers, or general software vulnerabilities) when properly setup, configured and maintained. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Security for more info on how to setup/secure LAMP and MediaWiki There were only 5 vulnerability reports in 2013 against

[Discuss] Windows 8.1 P2V (virtualize my new PC)

2014-02-23 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I bought a new PC with Windows 8 pre-installed. I need Windows for Windows-only applications like TurboTax, Dragon Naturally Speaking and Netflix, but I'd like to make Windows a virtual guest and install Ubuntu as the host on this new PC. Is there a product or method (like the enterprise VMWare

Re: [Discuss] Windows 8.1 P2V (virtualize my new PC)

2014-02-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com wrote: Will a given P2V conversion work? Only you can answer that question and only after you make a number of attempts. No argument there. Too

Re: [Discuss] SELinux IPTables

2014-04-02 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I wrote up a short response on my wiki https://freephile.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting_selinux Greg Rundlett http://eQuality-Tech.com http://freephile.org On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:38 AM, John Malloy jomal...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for Best Practices in

Re: [Discuss] SELinux IPTables

2014-04-02 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
It's rather (annoyingly) humorous that there is a webpage at the NSA titled Current State of SELinux http://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/selinux/papers/x/text8.shtml which is a blank white page. The page in question is supposed to be a slide in a presentation, and can be seen here:

Re: [Discuss] BTSync

2014-04-21 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I wouldn't trust BTSync for situations where encryption mattered, and if I want a sync tool to use inside my LAN for which I don't care about encryption, then I'd still rather use something open source. -Tom Git-annex and git-annex assistant are two useful (open source) tools for

Re: [Discuss] BTSync

2014-04-21 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.comwrote: Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: Git-annex and git-annex assistant are two useful (open source) tools for managing files with git. I haven't looked into them fully, but they seem useful and offer some encryption

[Discuss] Software Collections for installing multiple (newer) environments on RHEL

2014-05-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I've been growing my Python chops lately, and discovered this new development which I thought share-worthy. If you've ever spent any time with RHEL 6.x, you know how some important packages are pretty old (e.g. Python 2.6 instead of 2.7 or even 3.x). Installing multiple versions of Python is

Re: [Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond

2014-05-29 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:18 PM, John Abreau j...@blu.org wrote: Of course, if Jerry can narrow down the dependencies enough, maybe he'll find a way to install them in a silo without breaking anything else. If he can do that, then we can address the issue sooner. If using a RedHat

Re: [Discuss] AeroFS

2014-06-30 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
One more mention: Git-Annex Assistant is completely open source, free and offers encryption. I'm giving it a try to replace Ubuntu One (and also DropBox). cf. https://freephile.org/wiki/index.php/Git-annex Greg Rundlett http://eQuality-Tech.com http://freephile.org

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Bill Horne b...@horne.net wrote: I'm moving the Telecom Digest to a new server, and I'm seeking information about a binary named entities, and one named fixup. I've found them in a script that processes emails into html pages for publications, but the

Re: [Discuss] wiki suggestion?

2014-07-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Eric Chadbourne eric.chadbou...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/31/2014 07:13 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: Hi All, Any suggestions for a wiki? Requirements are PHP, MySQL, and must be extensible as I might have to tie it in with other systems. Maybe about 100 users.

Re: [Discuss] wiki suggestion?

2014-07-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: [snip] MediaWiki can be extended (with thousands of extensions) to include ticketing, however it's a more roll-your-own approach (e.g. http://ryandlane.com/blog/2010/04/01/creating-a-simple-ticketing-system

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-31 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On 7/29/2014 6:06 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Have you examined /home/moder8/bin/entities with 'file', strings, and less? I would guess that it is a shell script with a missing interpreter, As Tom suggested, what do you get with strings entities and file entitites Greg Rundlett

Re: [Discuss] wiki suggestion?

2014-08-01 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:00 AM, David Kramer da...@thekramers.net wrote: On 07/31/2014 10:50 PM, John Abreau wrote: Wikipedia is based on mediawiki, which I haven't used myself, but I understand it's generally a good choice. I've used foswiki in the past, back before it forked off from

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-08-02 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
In the 'strings' output, I noticed a typo - perfect for searching code because you hope people don't make too many of the SAME typos across multiple projects. What I noticed is that one of the entities was pount; (instead of pound;) When searching OHLOH (now Black Duck), it found 177 matches.

[Discuss] Password app

2014-10-10 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I found a new password app that looks pretty interesting. It generates passwords based on a master key, and site name, so there is nothing to lose. There are some cons, but for people who just want to remember one password (actually a pass phrase), it's seems like a pretty useful solution.

Re: [Discuss] Password app

2014-10-10 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Oct 10, 2014 1:08 PM, Mike Small sma...@panix.com wrote: Matthew Gillen m...@mattgillen.net writes: Because you don't have to keep a that password database file on 5 different backup devices (and keep it updated on all your backup copies every time you add one). It's certainly not a

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