Re: tech recruiters you like?

2016-09-01 Thread Arc Riley
My experience with recruiters is an extremely high signal:noise ratio. Increasingly, recruiters (not company staff) are conducting phone interviews, setting up on-site interviews themselves, and provide little to no information on the actual position you're interviewing for. I've had recruiters

Re: Options for hosting servers in my basement?

2012-07-02 Thread Arc Riley
Its not an at home solution, but I've been very (VERY) happy with Hurricane Electric. They have a green dedicated server hosting for $70/mo, Atom 330 dual core, 100m unlimited, small ipv4 subnet and native ipv6. I've run Icecast audio/video streams on this with no issues maxing out the 100m

Re: sourceforge what is going there?

2010-06-15 Thread Arc Riley
Sourceforge is not our friend. Best avoid it. Very few serious projects are hosted on it anymore. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:12 PM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote: I just spent the last 20 minutes trying to get an account on sourceforge, so I could request a help ticket on a project. I had

Re: sourceforge what is going there?

2010-06-15 Thread Arc Riley
The company that owns Sourceforge (and slashdot, Ohloh, etc) derives almost all their income from advertising, and look who their top advertisers are. Money corrupts. Sourceforge has been corrupted for a long time, I'm just hoping Ohloh doesn't go the same way soon. Besides website design, why

Re: sourceforge what is going there?

2010-06-15 Thread Arc Riley
are actively (and often strongly) encouraged to present advertisers in a positive light. Indymedia and many community papers have never accepted advertising for this reason. On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: On 06/15/2010 04:19 PM, Arc Riley wrote: The company

Re: FLOSS-/hacker-friendly music-players?

2010-03-16 Thread Arc Riley
I was going to buy a Sansa Clip+ which supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC, but then we got Android phones and I've found it just as adequate for music playing. With a data plan, you can stream live music directly from Jamendo as you walk down the street. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Joshua Judson

Re: Video card recommendation

2010-03-01 Thread Arc Riley
Just pick up a Radeon 9200/9250/9600/9700/9800 They've been supported by free software drivers for a long time, there's mature 2d and 3d support. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a 2D video card with dual DVI output that

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Arc Riley
@Kevin ah but this is email, not microblogging ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-28 Thread Arc Riley
@arc I've been on for awhile, but only recently started using it regularly. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

twitter vs identi.ca

2010-01-27 Thread Arc Riley
I'd like to encourage everyone to choose the free software microblogging service http://identi.ca/ http://identi.ca/%20 Twitter is proprietary, where Status.net (which identi.ca uses) is licensed under the AGPLv3. Most of the free software community uses identi.cainstead of twitter, though you

Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-01 Thread Arc Riley
No, but its a sign of developer interest and activity. Sqlite and postgres have Py3 support, MySQL does not. On Jan 1, 2010 2:43 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com wrote: We have PostgreSQL, which h... Shocking though

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-06 Thread Arc Riley
Isn't MV available in Nashua? (mv.com) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-06 Thread Arc Riley
+1 on comcast business class being awful. I don't have experience with them in NH, but elsewhere I've had nothing but bad experiences with them in other states; ie, moving static subnet blocks we were paying good money for without warning, business class cable modems blowing out in lightning

Re: free computers

2009-10-21 Thread Arc Riley
I apologize for clicking send too quickly; I am also giving away two CRTs - 17 and 21 ViewSonic G810, available for pickup tomorrow. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

2009-09-22 Thread Arc Riley
It's worth shopping around for these, too: NewEgg offers Sansa products, refurbished, at quite a bargain. They've got a 2Gb Clip in today's mailing for $24.99. Note that there is a difference between Clip and Clip+; as I understand the new Clip+ has Ogg and FLAC support. For the small

Re: CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

2009-09-18 Thread Arc Riley
There's no electricity (that I've been told of, city electric never got back to me). It would be nice just to be able to burn CDs on demand if we run out like last year, but we also have a lot more CDs than last year. My experience of these sorts of events is that nobody wants to look at a

Re: CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

2009-09-18 Thread Arc Riley
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com wrote: How does this sound? Using the CAD-CAM advantage, I can bring some C-size (22x17) complex mechanical and electronic drawing to put on an old poster board I have. Not as effective as a pretty woman, but at least they

Re: CALL FOR HELP: Software Freedom Day THIS SATURDAY in Manchester!

2009-09-17 Thread Arc Riley
+1 :-) beaks, fox ears, etc.). Carnival-style attractions (popcorn or snow-cones, or simple games). Let's avoid food so we don't have a run-in with the health dept, and lets make absolutely clear that no money is exchanged for games/items/etc so we don't become a vendor :-) But yes! We're

Software Freedom Day needs You!

2009-09-09 Thread Arc Riley
Software Freedom Day 2009 - Saturday, September 19 - time TBD http://softwarefreedomday.org/ New Hampshire Celebration in Pulaski Park, Manchester

[GNHLUG] no GamingSIG tomorrow

2009-07-02 Thread Arc Riley
We're skipping GamingSIG July (tomorrow) due to the holiday. ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-annou...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing

[GNHLUG] Correction: GamingSIG - June 5th (today) - Audacity and Battle for Wesnoth LAN Party

2009-06-05 Thread Arc Riley
Oops, wrong date Gaming Special Interest Group Friday, June 5th 1230 Elm Street (The Brady Sullivan Building) on the 5th floor *Welcome Setup : 6pm to 6:30* *Audacity : 6:30 to 7* Introduction to Audacity, a free cross-platform sound editor and recorder. Learn how to record sound effects and

[GNHLUG] GamingSIG - June 4th (tomorrow) - Audacity and Battle for Wesnoth LAN Party

2009-06-04 Thread Arc Riley
Gaming Special Interest Group Friday, June 4th 1230 Elm Street (The Brady Sullivan Building) on the 5th floor *Welcome Setup : 6pm to 6:30* *Audacity : 6:30 to 7 *Introduction to Audacity, a free cross-platform sound editor and recorder. Learn how to record sound effects and voice acting,

NH Linux Users Map

2009-05-21 Thread Arc Riley
I've started a google map to show where the linux users are in NH Here's the map - http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?vps=2jsv=159eie=UTF8hl=enoe=UTF8msa=0msid=107404041362563620375.00046a5ef39fea352d364 You should be able to click Edit and drag a marker to your location. This is a public map so be

Re: Limit CPUs

2009-05-13 Thread Arc Riley
man taskset On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com wrote: All, I have systems that had dual quad-core CPUs. For test purposes, I want to turn off one of the CPU's so that I can benchmark and diff the performance change against dual CPUs. Does anyone remember the

[GNHLUG] GamingSIG Reminder: TeeWorlds LAN Party tonight

2009-05-01 Thread Arc Riley
Just a quick reminder - http://mail.gnhlug.org/pipermail/gnhlug-announce/2009-April/000699.html We have to postpone the Lua presentation as the presenter has a schedule conflict, last minute replacement is: 6:30pm - 7:00pm; running networked games - DNS, ICE, and what to look forward to from

[GNHLUG] GamingSIG - Friday 05/01 - Lua TeeWorlds

2009-04-17 Thread Arc Riley
*Gaming Special Interest Group* Friday, May 1st Brady Sullivan Building, 5th floor (DynInc) 1230 Elm Street, Manchester NH * Introductions and gear setup : 6:00pm to 6:30pm* For gaming, bring your gear with cables to connect to power and an ethernet switch. *Lua Scripting : 6:30pm to 7:00pm*

Gnome's object oriented C variant

2009-03-22 Thread Arc Riley
So KDE use C++ OSX uses Objective C Windows uses C# and Gnome is increasingly using their own language called Vala. Vala (.vala) code is processed to C for compiling using GObject (part of glib) for the object-oriented bits. You can use GObject in C directly (much of Gnome still does) but the

Re: Python, Windows, and Cygwin

2009-03-16 Thread Arc Riley
Python downloads for windows are right on the website. Unless you have a pressing need to use the 3rd party cygwin version you should just download it from python.org If you're just starting out you should grab 3.0.1. It'll get you started right. On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Paul Lussier

Re: Python, Windows, and Cygwin

2009-03-16 Thread Arc Riley
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Paul Lussier p.luss...@comcast.net wrote: Why are you using Cygwin's Python? Why not? Because the Latest Release is Always Better(TM)! We all know that, right? ;-) Re Py3, the

Re: Python, Windows, and Cygwin

2009-03-16 Thread Arc Riley
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:41 PM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: And by what authority do you claim to know the will of the community? Unless you're involved in the Python community under yet another monkier, why the hell are you even replying on this thread, much less arguing against me re:

Re: Python, Windows, and Cygwin

2009-03-16 Thread Arc Riley
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Raymond Cote rgac...@appropriatesolutions.com wrote: I'd be concerned about pushing new projects into yet unproven territory. Let's be clear here, Py3 isn't new territory. Python 3.0.0 was in alpha/beta for a long time and was released only after it was

Re: Python, Windows, and Cygwin

2009-03-16 Thread Arc Riley
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:37 PM, virgins...@vfemail.net wrote: Simply stated, I'm tired of listening to your claims about what *other* people think, believe, want, c. And simply stated, I'm tired of your trolling. Why Ben/etc continue to tolerate you on these lists I cannot fathom. If this

Re: DSL Alternatives to Fairpoint?

2009-03-13 Thread Arc Riley
Although I know many of you like MV, I prefer to say away from them. Any particular reason? Ok so their website looks like it came straight out of the early '90s but their service is actually top notch. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

[OT] Roommate wanted

2009-03-08 Thread Arc Riley
Sorry for this OT post, but GNHLUG seems like one of the better places to post this; One of our roommates is suddenly moving leaving us with an vacant room and need of someone to split rent with. Large apt downtown Manchester, net via MV with a several static IPs, $450/mo all utils inc. We have

Re: [OT] Obtaining Android handsets

2009-02-27 Thread Arc Riley
For app development your friend could use the SDK on a normal computer. Many people are quite successful at purchasing G1 phones direct from the brick and mortar tmobile stores. On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Anybody have a contact at

Re: Suqashing Facebook (WAS: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time))

2009-02-03 Thread Arc Riley
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: Your example is slightly counter to your argument. The thought put forth is that everyone can run a server of their own, with their own web sites, etc. So I'd be thomaschar...@kilomonkies.com. And how is gnhlug.org

Re: FOSS Gaming Survey - Any help is appreciated

2009-02-02 Thread Arc Riley
The author of the survey seems to repeatedly mistake commercial for proprietary as well. I wasn't very impressed by the earlier questions either, the ones asking if you know RMS and Linus. Ok so perhaps some matchings on Moglen would be more appropriate.. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Brian

Re: Suqashing Facebook (WAS: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time))

2009-02-02 Thread Arc Riley
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: What's at issue is that the meaning of data is still left as an interpretation to the student. Yes, you can shove arbitrary data and publish that data. That data still needs to be adopted as a standard by everyone. As

Re: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time)

2009-02-01 Thread Arc Riley
*You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller * I'm tired of hearing people in the free software community whine about Facebook. There are a lot of programmers on this list. If you

Re: Suqashing Facebook (WAS: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time))

2009-02-01 Thread Arc Riley
That's hilarious! But jokes about PHP scripts and internet appliances aside, there *is* a real solution to this that's already accepted by the community at large. It's called XMPP - eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. Thanks to Google and Livejournal there's already a huge userbase.

Re: Ubuntu NH Remix 9.04

2009-01-20 Thread Arc Riley
to the LoCo mailing list :-) On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote: On 2009-01-16 1:28 AM, Arc Riley wrote: The CD will be locally themed with it's own artwork pack and links/integration with local/state resources What a fantastic idea. Besides being useful

Re: Ubuntu NH Remix 9.04

2009-01-20 Thread Arc Riley
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote: Oh, right, I mean after you've conquered that hill. :) For better or worse, there's a large segment of the population that goes to Staples to find software. This is true, but that's a project for another team

Ubuntu Developer Week - starts today

2009-01-18 Thread Arc Riley
Just a reminder, this morning at 11am kicks off Ubuntu Developer Week with a multilingual (different rooms) opening session. There'll be workshops on packaging, streamlining your booting, the Ubuntu netbook remix, and lots of other interesting things. These workshops are free and open to the

Re: Blackduck Software and IP

2009-01-15 Thread Arc Riley
I guess this could be ignorance on my part, but it was my understanding that at least with the GPL, one could do whatever they want with the code. But if the code was later distributed, one had to abide by the additional terms of the GPL. Your understanding is correct, private use is not

Ubuntu NH Remix 9.04

2009-01-15 Thread Arc Riley
Hey Everyone The Ubuntu NH LoCo is putting together a locally themed Ubuntu remix CD for the 9.04 release this April. The CD will be locally themed with it's own artwork pack and links/integration with local/state resources (ie, NH law search in Firefox/Deskbar, book search via regional library

Re: [k]ubuntu Jaunty

2009-01-12 Thread Arc Riley
Not recommended yet unless you're willing to deal bug reports. I suggest waiting until beta1 at minimum, end of March. See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseSchedule On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone using Kubuntu Jaunty? Considering moveing

Re: How to remove duplicate files [SOLVED]

2009-01-06 Thread Arc Riley
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:33 AM, jk...@kinz.org wrote: Its multi-platform and free, source available, don't know what license it uses Ohloh answers quickly any question about licensing, languages used, how active a project is, etc: https://www.ohloh.net/p/unison

Re: Apache2 conundrum - update

2008-12-17 Thread Arc Riley
Make sure to clear your browser cache. I hit this problem just the other night where Firefox was actually not re-requesting the file, as shown in the access logs. This made debugging difficult. Also make sure that your AddHandler is setup for a matching mimetype. Ie, *

Re: Linux on a potato?

2008-12-11 Thread Arc Riley
No they used a genetically modified potato. I read a lengthy paper on this last month! Really! On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.comwrote: On 2008-12-10 11:07 AM, H. Kurth Bemis wrote: Pretty amusing..

Goodbye CUDA/Stream, hello OpenCL

2008-12-09 Thread Arc Riley
OpenCL 1.0 was released Friday. AFAIK, no drivers have been released yet, but surely just around the corner we should have broad support. CL = Computing Language, and the spec includes ES (Embedded Systems) compilers. There was an interesting conversation this weekend on IRC re: porting OpenDE

Re: a call for collos

2008-12-01 Thread Arc Riley
If you don't need in-person, I've found ServerBeach to be quite awesome. They provide the hardware, 2TB/mo transfer, I can give you a discount coupon code if you're interested (10% IIRC) On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Alan Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in desperate need of a collocation

Re: Price/Performance of time

2008-09-29 Thread Arc Riley
Excellent :-) Can you give a link to where you got these? On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tonight I bought TWO 1 Terabyte external disk drives, that transfer information at a rate of 300 Mbytes per second, for a total cost of $283.

Re: Questions about Ubuntu

2008-09-18 Thread Arc Riley
Ubuntu uses the same package manager as Debian (apt) and draws many of it's packages from Debian SID, however it is very much not Debian. Using Debian packages as a base allows Ubuntu to build on work already done. What makes Ubuntu special is a focus on regular desktop users, aka Linux for

Re: Ubuntu

2008-09-18 Thread Arc Riley
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Seriously, now. Why Ubuntu vs straight Debian? Ubuntu has worked at making the average-user experience easier, is that it? That's exactly right. As I said before, I have a work system which needs to be 64 bit, is

Ohloh

2008-09-15 Thread Arc Riley
For the developers on this list Check out http://www.ohloh.net/ - if you've committed to any free software project you can grab an account and associate your commit names. There's some pretty neat functionality included, like the ability to post to your journal (a bit like twitter) using a

SFD volunteers in Concord, NH

2008-08-16 Thread Arc Riley
Hey Everyone We'll have a Software Freedom Day event in front of the State House in Concord - good pedestrian traffic, high visibility, great way to outreach to regular people. It's Saturday, September 20th from roughly 10am to 6pm. We'll have a host of materials and some free SFD 2008 tshirts

Ubuntu New Hampshire LoCo

2008-08-14 Thread Arc Riley
Hey Everyone For those who have applied and denied membership with the NH LoCo, I'm sorry it's taken this long to resolve the problem. Our membership is now fully open with no approval process or requirements to join beyond an interest in being involved with the local Ubuntu community. The

Re: COSIG, Ubuntu SIG, or maybe both...

2008-08-03 Thread Arc Riley
From what you've stated, you successfully promoted FOSS in Ithica, NY and did so on what sounded like quite a significant scale. It's not just about FOSS, it's about activism in general, and I've been involved with different groups in at least 9 cities over the last 12 years. The

Re: New GNHLUG SIG

2008-08-02 Thread Arc Riley
I'm surprised this turned into a flame war, and in that light I'll only reply here on the single phrase that started it. I wasn't very offended by the gay comment myself, but I do feel strongly that when such comments are made they need to be spoken about openly. I don't believe VirginSnow

Ubuntu SIG

2008-08-02 Thread Arc Riley
Before talking about SIG formation, I think clarification needs to be made about the Ubuntu New Hampshire LoCo; LoCos are teams within the Ubuntu project with a geographic focus. Some countries LoCos tackle translations and language-specific install CDs, others just represent Ubuntu at

Re: Ubuntu SIG

2008-08-02 Thread Arc Riley
I think I see where we're misunderstanding eachother here It sounds like you're intepreting me to mean that all the new users would be members of COSIG. We're not misunderstanding anything, we're talking about two entirely separate groups; You're talking about an activist/outreach group

Re: COSIG, Ubuntu SIG, or maybe both...

2008-08-02 Thread Arc Riley
That's what it's begining to sound like. I'm glad you finally understand this. At the LoCo meeting on 6/14, you did seem excited about outreach. I have been and will continue to be involved in advocacy/outreach. That is different from being part of the group you're talking about. I'll

Re: COSIG, Ubuntu SIG, or maybe both...

2008-08-02 Thread Arc Riley
I have been and will continue to be involved in advocacy/outreach. That is different from being part of the group you're talking about. Um. That *is* the purpose of the COSIG idea. Forming a group specifically for those activities and having regular outreach organizing meetings is

Re: New GNHLUG SIG

2008-08-01 Thread Arc Riley
As I've said before, what you're looking for is very different from what we're building, and I really dislike you're repeated attempts at trying to co-opt this. You obviously have a lot of interest and have a clear idea of what you want to do, so find people interested in doing it with you and do

NH LoCo mailing list

2008-07-25 Thread Arc Riley
At last, our mailing list is up. If anyone here is interested in getting involved with the Ubuntu New Hampshire LoCo Team, or getting announcements/etc related to it, it's an open list. Just click over to https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-nh Ubuntu LoCos are local teams

Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

2008-07-09 Thread Arc Riley
0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None 0x42 32 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ncon A few more months!!! -Bruce -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Arc Riley *Sent

Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

2008-07-09 Thread Arc Riley
, Labitt, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arc, How does one change that? Sorry to be such a noob. Regards, Bruce -- *From:* Arc Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:22 PM *To:* Labitt, Bruce *Cc:* Greater NH Linux User Group

Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

2008-07-09 Thread Arc Riley
Videocard0 Driver radeonhd EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Videocard0 DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth24 EndSubSection EndSubSection Regards, Bruce -- *From:* Arc Riley [mailto

Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

2008-07-09 Thread Arc Riley
Everyone I work with who uses the radeonhd drivers uses Gentoo. I agree with Coleman's assessment - it was said earlier in this thread that you'd likely need to upgrade your X server, it really is ancient, and likely Mesa too. The output shows that the radeonhd driver does support your card and

Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

2008-07-09 Thread Arc Riley
? -- *From:* Arc Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, July 09, 2008 5:27 PM *To:* Labitt, Bruce *Cc:* Coleman Kane; gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org *Subject:* Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running? Everyone I work with who uses the radeonhd drivers uses Gentoo. I agree

Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

2008-07-08 Thread Arc Riley
are you using the radeonhd driver? On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Labitt, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running? On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Labitt, Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #system-config-display --noui

Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

2008-07-08 Thread Arc Riley
Since you're no longer under the warm and fuzzy management of your distro, it's possible something related to DRI may be disabled or lacking permissions. Also note you'll need the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) kernel module active. when glxinfo says that your direct rendering is enabled, you're

Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

2008-07-08 Thread Arc Riley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how is the DRM kernel module made active? Arc Riley wrote: Since you're no longer under the warm and fuzzy management of your distro, it's possible something related to DRI may be disabled or lacking permissions. Also note you'll need the DRM (Direct Rendering

Re: Netgear now touting open source WRT-compatible wireless router

2008-07-03 Thread Arc Riley
Closer to $41 today if you can stomach a mail-in rebate: Or even less than that if you're purchasing even a handful at once and act as a reseller. It's really not worth it for most computer components, pricewatch is often lower than *your* wholesale cost, but networking gear it's very much

Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

2008-07-01 Thread Arc Riley
Thats an r500 based card, so older Xorg versions don't support even 2d on it. Keep in mind r500/r600 support (even 2D) is new as of only a few months ago, since AMD released the specs, so you'll need to upgrade quite a few packages including xorg server, xlib, and Mesa. I can't advise on how to

Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

2008-07-01 Thread Arc Riley
Beware, it is not for the faint of heart. You will probably have to suffer through many hurdles like any good beta tester, if you want the goods. Or use Gentoo, one of the few distros that's reasonable in keeping up to date. emerge -av xf86-video-radeonhd Of all the systems I have, running

Re: General Procedure to get ATI/DRI card running?

2008-07-01 Thread Arc Riley
So I guess some are indeed considering released 16 months ago as extremely out of date. Yes, 16 months ago is extremely out of date. If a new stable release of a popular package is not packaged within a week, there's a problem. It's a massive chilling effect to free software development

Re: Netgear now touting open source WRT-compatible wireless router

2008-06-30 Thread Arc Riley
From the specs, it looks like mostly marketing hype to me. If it was really designed for hacking it'd include more flash, ram, and pinouts for expanding/hacking the hardware. Even if they were especially capped for spec/cost, it's not hard to offer access to the I2C bus, very useful for adding

Re: Netgear now touting open source WRT-compatible wireless router

2008-06-30 Thread Arc Riley
I agree completely, I'm not discounting the power of marketing hype! It's a huge boon having products in stores listed as Linux compatible, even if fundamentally identical to the same product 6 inches away that costs 10% to 20% less. Hopefully they'll see that people are cracking them open to

Re: High-Level Audio Editing Language?

2008-06-26 Thread Arc Riley
You could write something like that as a Python module, why a special language? On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: I seem to recall some audio geeks on this list. I'm curious if anybody knows if there's a Free high-level audio

Re: Firefox 3 AwesomeBar

2008-06-17 Thread Arc Riley
I've been using it today, and yes it's different, but I think I like it. I'm the kind of user who tends to have a few dozen tabs open so I don't loose things, since bookmarking them isn't very efficient for finding them again. Now I can actually only keep open the tabs I'm using, just star'ing

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-13 Thread Arc Riley
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Stephen Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked up the drivers for this last night, because Arc seems so positive that these cards are fully supported Not fully supported. Many of the newer drivers lack features. Some of those limitations come from Mesa and

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-13 Thread Arc Riley
One potential advantage to NVidia's proprietary solution is that it comes with its own OpenGL implementation, which (from what I've read) may work better than Mesa for some applications. YMMV, obviously. Compatibility issues come up. Many of us don't like Mesa very much, and there have

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-12 Thread Arc Riley
Radeon 7000 is r100, that's 7-8 years old and I'm not at all surprised that video overlays are a problem on it. You can get a Radeon 9250 (rv280) for around $25-$30 which is a *much* nicer card, or a 9800 (r350) for around $40. That's about as top as you can get with AGP, as the budget-class X

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-12 Thread Arc Riley
I tried that. I tried it with a SiS too. They were both awful. Perhaps that's because they were both integrated video, but there was no way to get overlays with any decent speed and no obvious flickering or keeping sound in sync, etc. It's been a few years I guess, yet again, so perhaps

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-12 Thread Arc Riley
So Arc, what video card (ATI or other) would you recommend for 3D 64 bit linux? I'm attempting to use vtk, are there better tools available for plotting/rendering/visualization? I'm trying to visualize a 1K x 1K 3D plot. I'm guessing around 1M quads with realtime rendering, so you'd need

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-11 Thread Arc Riley
I'm trying to understand why a majority of people on this list find it acceptable to /recommend/ hardware only supported by proprietary drivers nVidia 3d acceleration is only supported with proprietary drivers Radeons have a comparable price/quality comparison and are supported by free drivers

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-11 Thread Arc Riley
NVidia's track record for Linux support is better. Hmmm, no. NVidia's track record for Linux support sucks less. You know I've had far, far fewer problems with Radeons than nVidia over the past 7 years. I've had nVidia drivers that break USB2 support, that breaks SATA support, that just

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-11 Thread Arc Riley
Radeons have a comparable price/quality comparison and are supported by free drivers builtin to the Linux kernel, Mesa, Xorg, DRI, etc using specs released from ATI/AMD These don't. Are you speaking from actual experience or are you confusing fglrx with DRI? I have not found a card

Re: Decent Graphics card / 64 bit system / imaging

2008-06-10 Thread Arc Riley
Just a quick note - I work with OpenGL programming on GNU/Linux daily, and 11 test systems with various cards. nVidia The free software nvidia drivers are years off from having 3d acceleration since the team working on it is having to reverse engineer everything. If you don't care about that,

Re: Kaiser to test linking health records to Microsoft (Reuters)

2008-06-09 Thread Arc Riley
C'mon Bill, if you can't trust Microsoft to keep your data secure who CAN you trust? In all seriousness, banks have been sharing financial data with secure third parties for online banking for a long time. Very few have in-house online banking services, and most use Microsoft software to do it

Re: Alternatives to Comcast

2008-05-20 Thread Arc Riley
for internet call the people at mv.com - great service, nothing blocked, and a free static ip just for asking ... if you can get them. We're under a mile from the CO here in west concord and we're failing the loop qual because they dont have enough capacity. Fairpoint DSL (formerly verizon) is

Re: Comcast blocks port 25 incoming, yet again (and the evils of Verizon/FairPoint)

2008-05-20 Thread Arc Riley
The world of telecom regulation is a maze of twisty passages, all different. Regulation -- the way it's been done in this country -- hasn't really worked very well so far. Of course, neither has deregulation. Maybe it's because we always seem to be doing both at once. :-/ Bell had a gov

PPC Mac video card?

2008-05-18 Thread Arc Riley
This is a long shot, but no harm in trying I was given a G3 tower to help port some free software to OSX, but unfortunately the video card (Rage128) is far too old to run the software. It's a G3 PCI tower (no AGP) running OS10.4. Does anyone happen to have a better mac PCI video card laying

Re: NPR station WBUR Boston adds support for free audio standard

2008-05-14 Thread Arc Riley
Great news, thanks for sharing! Next battle; .xspf vs .m3u. ;-) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: FSF Assoc Member Meet - ride share?

2008-03-13 Thread Arc Riley
2nd ping, anyone going to the FSF annual meeting this Saturday? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

FSF Assoc Member Meet - ride share?

2008-03-12 Thread Arc Riley
Is anyone else going this Saturday? Trying to find a ride from Concord area Deadline to RSVP is today (Wednesday), its free for FSF assoc members ($10/month). ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Copyleft Games

2008-02-27 Thread Arc Riley
A small group of us game engine developers (PySoy projecthttp://www.pysoy.org/) have started the process to form a non-profit umbrella akin to the Software Freedom Conservancy http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/ with a focus on copyleft (GPL) licensed games. The incorporation will be based in

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Arc Riley
What's your robots.txt look like? Does it forbid this kind of behavior? The IPs in question never accessed robots.txt. Only MSNBot and family on different IP blocks. You will see the bad behavior if you log referers. The bots in question claim to be arriving on your site by various search

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-21 Thread Arc Riley
liberty$ find -name access_log\* | xargs egrep -h '^(131\.107|65.5[2-5])' | fgrep robots.txt | wc -l 1453 Look specifically at the IPs the faked live.com search results are hit from vs those running msnbot. msnbot accesses robots.txt more than any other search engine (seconded by Yahoo!

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