Re: Eee PC hands on?

2007-12-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:12:56 -0500 Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thad and his fellow borgs are of a completely different ilk than those with BT earpieces. Thad and co. we true geeks, in it for the pure geekery of it all and love the adventure of pushing the envelope of the

Re: Eee PC hands on?

2007-12-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:52:48 -0500 Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard it told it's a status symbol - it shows how important you are that there are people who always need to get ahold of you. I have a BT earpiece I rarely use, but I did use it when I was driving, but now my

Re: Phone Hands free

2007-12-20 Thread Tom Buskey
On Dec 19, 2007 3:19 PM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Aside: I remember watching the original Star Trek, looking at Uhura's ear piece, and thinking That's so lame. Nobody would ever want to walk around with something like that hanging out

An ingenious hack...

2007-12-20 Thread Paul Lussier
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ITAPPMONROBOT.aspx -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Phone Hands free

2007-12-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Dec 20, 2007 9:14 AM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... original Star Trek, looking at Uhura's ear piece, ... I use a wired earpiece in the car so I can keep my hands on the wheel when I drive. Me too. My current phone doesn't have BT, or I'd probably have gotten one myself. As

[OT] Aaaarrrr! and best wishes

2007-12-20 Thread Michael ODonnell
if only one person shows, s/he might be lonely I'd think that somebody who could be described as s/he would *never* be lonely... P.S. Actually, this posting is at *least* as on-topic as most of the other noise transmitted on this channel lately... P.P.S. Season's Greetings and

Re: Meeting tonight; weather (was: Eee PC hands on?)

2007-12-20 Thread Ted Roche
Arc Riley wrote: Two of us new guys plan on going (unless they close the roads between Manchester and Nashua). ... so there shouldn't be just one person. Though it'd be funny if we were the only ones :-P That it would! Well, take good notes and let us know how the meeting went. I'll

Re: Phone Hands free

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Jenkins
Tom Buskey wrote: I use a wired earpiece in the car so I can keep my hands on the wheel when I drive. I've used it while running out of the car to get something keep my hands free. It's nice to be able to do something not have to wait for the call to finish. BT would mean I don't have that

Re: Website Development Question

2007-12-20 Thread Michael Costolo
On Dec 20, 2007 1:25 PM, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on a site for somebody that does promotion work at trade shows. As a result she wants to have a number of pictures on one of the sidebars on the site. I tried a few javascript apps and some flash apps that just didn't

Re: Website Development Question

2007-12-20 Thread Travis Roy
I just googled javascript random image and got: http://www.javascript-page.com/ranimage.html I think that does what you're after. Actually, I tried that one. Worked great for one image, but when I tried to do two images on one page with different times that the image would switch (to give a

Re: Eee PC hands on?

2007-12-20 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 20, 2007, at 07:36, Jerry Feldman wrote: I have a BT earpiece I rarely use, but I did use it when I was driving, but now my car has BT. Yeah, that's totally reasonable, we're talking about the folks who wear them in the shower. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work:

Re: Website Development Question

2007-12-20 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 20, 2007, at 13:25, Travis Roy wrote: She wants them to change randomly on the page. When the page loads or after the page has loaded? Javascript is probably the best solution for both, though you can manage server-side contrivances for both scenarios. You can get callbacks from

Re: Phone Hands free

2007-12-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Dec 20, 2007 1:50 PM, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had my business partner talk me to a destination ... Is his name Tom? ;-) -- B ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Bill McGonigle
Anybody know how I can say, Show me all filesystem activity involving filesystem item /foo/bar/baz ? This is on ext3. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606

Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 14:25 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: Anybody know how I can say, Show me all filesystem activity involving filesystem item /foo/bar/baz ? This is on ext3. inotify / inotify-tools. If you want to know from the shell or a scripting app, inotify-tools is probably easier.

Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 12/20/2007 02:25 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: Anybody know how I can say, Show me all filesystem activity involving filesystem item /foo/bar/baz ? fuser will show all the users that are using a directory (use -m to specify it's a mounted filesystem). So in your case: fuser -vm

Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Michael ODonnell
I've written code that used a facility called FAM, which stands for something like File Access (or Activity? Alteration?) Monitor. There's also dnotify, though that may have morphed into the inotify tool mentioned previously. FAM and dnotify could monitor specific files as well as all files

Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle writes: Anybody know how I can say, Show me all filesystem activity involving filesystem item /foo/bar/baz ? Try inotify or fam ... Regards, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And I still have that record alumni.unh.edu!kdc of Little Anthony and The Imperials

Re: Eee PC hands on?

2007-12-20 Thread Bob King
On Dec 19, 2007 8:07 PM, Brian Karas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been wanting a Nokia n810 for a while, but all this talk of the Eee got me more interested. So, I stopped by Micro Center at lunch today to pickup a 4GB eee. Seems pretty cool so far, can't wait to void the warranty on

Re: Eee PC hands on?

2007-12-20 Thread Brian Karas
Yes, I was talking about something else, but nothing specific. I just meant voiding the warranty in a general sense. On 12/20/07 3:05 PM, Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 19, 2007 8:07 PM, Brian Karas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been wanting a Nokia n810 for a while, but all this

BT Drones (was: Eee PC hands on?)

2007-12-20 Thread Bob King
On Dec 19, 2007 10:12 PM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BT earpiece droids do it because they think it's cool to show off that they have a phone that costs way too much, and has more features than they can possibly ever figure out how to use. I don't know about that... I just

Re: Phone Hands free

2007-12-20 Thread Tom Buskey
Hahaha. Not me. I get lost walking back from the mailbox at home. While using a GPS. On Dec 20, 2007 2:24 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 1:50 PM, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had my business partner talk me to a destination ... Is his name Tom? ;-)

Re: Phone Hands free

2007-12-20 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 20, 2007, at 14:24, Ben Scott wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 1:50 PM, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had my business partner talk me to a destination ... Is his name Tom? ;-) First and last? -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC

Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 20, 2007, at 14:31, Stephen Ryan wrote: inotify / inotify-tools. inotify looks like currently useful kernel facility. inotify: is the replacement for dnotify needs a 2.6.8+ kernel Get/build (if not in your repos): wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/inotify-

Re: Website Development Question

2007-12-20 Thread Frank DiPrete
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 13:25 -0500, Travis Roy wrote: I'm working on a site for somebody that does promotion work at trade shows. As a result she wants to have a number of pictures on one of the sidebars on the site. I tried a few javascript apps and some flash apps that just didn't work the

Re: Phone Hands free

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Jenkins
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Dec 20, 2007, at 14:24, Ben Scott wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 1:50 PM, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had my business partner talk me to a destination ... Is his name "Tom"? ;-) First and last? Which

Re: An ingenious hack...

2007-12-20 Thread John Abreau
On Thu, December 20, 2007 10:02 am, Paul Lussier said: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/ITAPPMONROBOT.aspx -- Seeya, Paul Ya gotta love the comment at the bottom of the page... Well, add it to the manual. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /

Re: BT Drones (was: Eee PC hands on?)

2007-12-20 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:10:50 -0500 From: Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED] The BT earpiece droids do it because they think it's cool to show off that they have a phone that costs way too much, and has more features than they can possibly ever figure out how to use. I don't know about

Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill McGonigle writes: This is useful, but I was hoping to also get the PID that was piddling so I could find out why a certain file was being messed with. How about: while inotifywait -e modify /file/you/are/interested/in; do lsof /file/you/are/interested/in /tmp/logfile

Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-20 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 20, 2007, at 18:37, Kevin D. Clark wrote: How about: while inotifywait -e modify /file/you/are/interested/in; do lsof /file/you/are/interested/in /tmp/logfile date /tmp/logfile done If it were someone editing a file, that would be a great solution. In this

Re: BT Drones (was: Eee PC hands on?)

2007-12-20 Thread Bob King
On 12/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note: You could have all that coolness...build the device entirely yourself with available hardware and open-source software...*BUT ONLY IF* building your own cellular radio wasn't illegal. It would be nice if there were more unlocked

Re: Phone Hands free

2007-12-20 Thread Bob King
BT would mean I don't have that pesky wire hanging around. I could see BT headphones being useful instead of wired when I'm doing yardwork, mountain biking and motorcycling. The pair I have works a fair distance away, and has audio pick-ups so you can use it to answer the phone if you want.

Cell phone recommendations

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Miller
I'm thinking of upgrading my phone (currently with ATT) and am thinking of buying a Linux phone (if I can). About the only extra feature I am looking for is BT. I don't want GPS and could care less for internet on the phone, since I won't use that anyway. Do you guys have any experience with