Re: TAKEN: Request for reviewer, Apress Pro Linux System Administration

2009-08-06 Thread Ted Roche
I've received a review copy of Apress' Pro Linux System Administration. If anyone is willing to review it -- as little as a couple hundred words you'll post publicly, to the GNHLUG mailing list, wiki, and/or Amazon or other online review sites, within a reasonable period (maybe six weeks?)

[OT] - Recovery of data from DVD-R

2009-08-06 Thread Dan Jenkins
May be Linux related, if anyone can suggest Linux tools to use. :-) A friend has a DVD-R which contains sentimental documents from her mother father who passed away recently. The DVD is unreadable. The DVD-R was burned April 2008 and was stored since then in a bubble-wrap envelope and, by the

Re: [OT] - Recovery of data from DVD-R

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Dan Jenkinsd...@rastech.com wrote: A friend has a DVD-R which contains sentimental documents ... ... DVD has an imprint of the bubble wrap on the surface ... If sufficiently valuable, I would suggest a professional outfit. I've used CBL for hard disks before.

Re: [OT] - Recovery of data from DVD-R

2009-08-06 Thread Charlie Farinella
- Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: May be Linux related, if anyone can suggest Linux tools to use. :-) A friend has a DVD-R which contains sentimental documents from her mother father who passed away recently. The DVD is unreadable. The DVD-R was burned April 2008 and was stored

Pearson User Group Monthly newsletter

2009-08-06 Thread Ted Roche
Thanks to Jerry Feldman for the ASCII translation! You'll want to check out the contest to enter and win some free books. I've explained to them before that using iTunes as the links for all of their podcasts is a problem for some of us, but haven't seen a solution from them yet.

more on CentOS

2009-08-06 Thread David Hardy
* * The Future of CentOS and Criteria For Choosing a Business DistributionBy Caitlyn Martin http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2654 August 5, 2009 | Comments: 18http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/08/the-future-of-centos-and-crite.html#comments

Re: more on CentOS

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:27 PM, David Hardybelovedbold...@gmail.com wrote: The Future of CentOS and Criteria For Choosing a Business Distribution By Caitlyn Martin I don't think that person knows what they're talking about in this case. While Fermilab isn't going anywhere, the people who

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: Still, all kinds of providers go through leadership changes and ousters all the time - this one is being done open-source style. That seems to have some media people freaked out. The whole `open-ness' idea still seems to be `new and unsettling' to

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: Still, all kinds of providers go through leadership changes and ousters all the time - this one is being done open-source style. That seems to have some media people freaked out. The whole

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Joshua Judson Rosenroz...@geekspace.com wrote: People keep comparing the Openmoko project(s) to the iPhone, also--quite unfavourably. Mainly, I think, it's just because the iPhone `appeared fully-formed' ... Well, in all fairness, there have been a lot of FOSS

Open development confuses the masses (was Re: melodrama at CentOS?)

2009-08-06 Thread Alan Johnson
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Ben Scottdragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Joshua Judson Rosenroz...@geekspace.com wrote: People keep comparing the Openmoko project(s) to the iPhone, also--quite unfavourably. Mainly, I think, it's just because the iPhone `appeared