Re: ZFS vs btfrs

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 11:55 Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > I use the btrfs-send (which, of course, is modeled after zfs-send)... > except, I kinda don't. And this isn't a dig at btrfs (or ZFS), but just > paranoia: I'm afraid that, if there were corruption on the source FS, > using a

Re: SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 3:45 PM Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Showtime Computer in Hudson now does > custom-built laptops, > as of some time in the last few years IIRC. They look like they're based > on the same ODM kits > as the other Linux boutiques I've shopped, and

Re: How does Linux handle DST/ST? It's all about time...

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:15 PM Bruce Labitt wrote: > "Dumb" machine, while actually computer controlled, is closed source. > No possibility of changing its behavior. > No ssh, no network. It's a data logger to an SD card. I have to use > sneaker net to transport data to my PC. > > Other

Re: Simple git question

Dan's way is as good as any. (Could also commit to the local branch instead of stashing, which would let you diff against your config tweaks.) I find that understanding what Git is doing really helps me figure out what i want to do. My preferred intro for this is - Git from the inside out

Re: update on CIFS SAMBA CVE Re: Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - Crypto News Review, Historical Vignette, and Transitioning from PGP/GnuPG

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 8:39 PM Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 12:40 PM Bill Ricker wrote: > > ... mentioned in my News segment in last night's presentation. > > There was talk of the slide deck being made available online > somewhere. Do you know if that happened

update on CIFS SAMBA CVE Re: Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - Crypto News Review, Historical Vignette, and Transitioning from PGP/GnuPG

Today's Ubuntu security updates has a Debian Security patch Samba/CIFS for CVE mentioned in my News segment in last night's presentation. * SECURITY UPDATE: Unauthenticated domain controller compromise by subverting Netlogon cryptography - debian/patches/CVE-2020-1472

retired & new COBOL programmers being recruited

info https://forms.business.nj.gov/tech/ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: COBOL on HPUX

to CRLF ASCII Unix/Linux hosts and vice versa, as well as App/OS/HW interface/capacity issues on Unix/Linux platforms. Much hilarity with file transfers.) *Eventually = I think they finally finished?? -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com bric...@theperlshop.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux

Re: The sudden upheaval at the FSF...

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:18 PM Greg Rundlett (freephile) < g...@freephile.com> wrote: > The FOSS community has long needed a better spokesperson and maybe with > luck we'll find who that person is. > The platform for that better spokesperson may well be OSI, no the other one, the Open Source

Signing update -- license^W key revoked

t; Key fingerprint = BFE3 CE1E 3A50 F8ED 96C8 537D D27E 035F 4193 6952 > uid [ revoked] William Ricker (Boston) > -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlu

Quantum Crypto redux Re: Boston Linux Meeting ... Crypto News, plus ...

Elliott is correct that ECC including Curve25519 as well as NIST P-* curves are more affected by QC (Shor's) than RSA ... in part because our classical factoring technology had such a head start, has gotten so good, that RSA keys have gotten huge, but discrete log remained hard, so ECC remains

Re: Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LXV Saturday October 7, 2017

1. Note that Memorial Drive meters may be Mass State meters not Cambridge (since MDC/DCR parkway), and so may differ from Cambridge meters on campus. 2. I will probably bring my Xerox ambulance gurney, usable if we need to move bulky stuff down the block. (We did this for the Ubuntu installfests

Re: Is Amazon AWS/EBS snapshotting just LVM, or what?

The lack of coherence due to OS cave not being flushed should still be a concern. OTOH I saw a storage level replication system propagate corruption to the remote site's copy of the Production DBMS ... So it perfectly replicated the primary's failure. Oops. Easiest recovery was restoring a

Re: [Discuss] Any miners?

Bitcoin initially did not require specialized hardware, but as new golden hashes get harder to find, mining costs more in electricity and depreciation without speciality gear (or a huge BITNET running for free). If scarcity drives up BTC value, maybe, but odds of finding one still declining as

Re: "investigator hackers"?

ing recruiting a licensed PI as managing director. ( IDK what NH rules are. ) I think it's SANS INST that has an Ethical Hacker certification that would be useful documentation in such an enterprise. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux __

Re: 16.04 SSD Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

at could've been adapter limitation. Feels like i'd need to boot Windows and update HDMI firmware, ugh. (Wind/Dos boot flashdisk documented as working for one BIOS option but not for HDMI installer. boo hiss.) But DP port is working fine as 3k5, and one of those is enough ! (Will order a fan

16.04 SSD Re: Upstart issues with Ubuntu 14.04.

On Sep 9, 2016 23:05, "Joshua Judson Rosen" wrote: > > On 09/09/2016 12:06 PM, Richard Kolb II wrote: > > Not exactly related, but I just switched from windows 7 on my primary > > machine to Ubuntu 16.x LTS. I found it horribly slow, which surprised > > me considering it's

Re: CentOS vs Unbuntu desktop

cy/ http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/classicmenu-indicator/ ​ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: tech recruiters you like?

The ones i liked retired. Outplacement firm i worked with most recently said % of jobs found through personal network is growing. Getting hired as an internal referral saves them the hassle of dealing with Monster or Zip or ... , and is usually better per-screened by the referrer, for free. They

Re: Gmail spam solution?

eate filter" oh thanks, that's even slicker than the way i made the filter for BLU lists (i used to: instead of list:). Thanks ! -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gn

Re: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - MooseFS

ica flea, and MIT flea all in 3 days.) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: SDHC card locked?

ic reader doesn't like a specific card, so try another one. E.g., my USB hub has slots for everything, but the uSD slot isn't reliable. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gn

Re: SDHC card locked?

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Bruce Labitt <bdlab...@gmail.com> wrote: > How would the command go? mount ​Since mount reported 'rw', 'mount ...remount,rw' isn't needed, wasn't the problem.​ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com

Re: gps navigation project?

-splices in the interstate. (The source Census TIGER data set was not designed for routing, so connectivity is not its strong point. Mostly fixed but periodically it suggests i detour up an exit just to get back on to route around a mesh defect.) Alas i can't fix them while driving ... -- Bill

Re: gps navigation project?

. Haven't tried Waze, when i want traffic i just use Google Maps app. Do you know if Waze will work with mobile WiFi ? ​ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: gps navigation project?

credit card to the hackers ... Maybe i should get a $20 VISA gift card to use for AppStore credit so i don't care who has it.) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: Google thinks GNHLUG is spam now

-writing to make it happy - or they need to be smarter to see that yes, we did send that to the list, and it's back. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http

Fwd: Self-signed cert and Pidgin.

Oops, replied direct. -- Forwarded message -- On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: To work around #2, I set up an /etc/hosts entry; based on what I understand about SSL (or *think* I understand; I'm pretty hazy on certain parts), that should

Re: KIBO license plate

don't think he's on this list.​ But if he's still ego-scanning, he may show up in 3 .. 2 .. 1 .. (In which case, Hi Kibo ! -- world!wdr ) I hope the plates are his; iirc he was car-free when i knew him ... where did you see this ? -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https

Re: Drill Press Local to Nashua/Amherst/Milford needed

-paper cover still on, it helps prevents chipping. If you don't have a cover layer, shelf-paper or packing-tape might temporarily replace it ? -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Re: Drill Press Local to Nashua/Amherst/Milford needed

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:15 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: I've been thinking maddog's acrylic is a laser-cut thing he ordered somewhere and wouldn't have any paper. MDF/plywood backing would probably work. Likely . -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com

Re: BLINK

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Would you believe if I told you that what I was working on was a web-based VCR clock? DO IT ! :-) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux

Re: Copyright in FOSS Consulting

competitors must tread carefully with using (L)GPLv3 enabling platforms with their patented IP. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Perl Tech meeting Tues Oct 14th - Shell-Shocker CGI and Perl DoS bugs

me.) TOPIC: Shell-Shocker CGI and Perl DoS bugs DATE: Tuesday, October 14 TIME: 7:00 – 10:00 PM ROOM: E51-376 SPEAKER: Bill Ricker (lead) We will examine the implications for the ShellShock BASH bug for Perl -- it's much wider than just about BASH CGI or even Perl CGI scripts -- and also a recently

Perl Tech meeting Tues Oct 14th - Shell-Shocker CGI and Perl DoS bugs

-376 SPEAKER: Bill Ricker (lead) We will examine the implications for the ShellShock BASH bug for Perl -- it's much wider than just about BASH CGI or even Perl CGI scripts -- and also a recently discovered/fixed but comparably long-lurking Perl DoS bug in a core module (Data::Dumper stack smash CVE

Re: Home server hardware for Ubuntu 14.04?

if he listens here too. He did OpenStack from Scratch: Part ii at OSCON this year, previewed on BLU video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPHquM1PEnUfeature=youtu.be I don't see a video of part i, which is the preso you describe. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com

Re: Best RAW photo editing tool?

.) ( A little noise down in the noise may actual help avoid Mach banding during processing, so 'useless' extra precision of 24 bits may actually be helpful too.) -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: Best RAW photo editing tool?

Android or from laptop to the gCloud and they'll awesome-ize it unless you say three times no i know better don't. -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http

Re: Best RAW photo editing tool?

be better for RAW us, if I didn't have Fotoxx to do phase 2 in. Very nice selection of What do you want knobs instead of How To Mash Pixels knobs. I should use it more. 'dcraw' is what Fotoxx and likely everyone else uses for batch. Doesn't do resize-while-convert, alas. bill -- Bill

Re: Fonts Re: how dumb is this idea?

ranging figs in at least on variant. ​ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Fonts Re: how dumb is this idea?

. ​ -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: how dumb is this idea?

​One comment on LO interchange with MSO from recent experience working with MSO-only consultants -- LO Track Changes didn't seem to be as reliably portable when round-tripping doc* files with MS Word users. The changelog was a mess by the time we were done. (I was still on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS at

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

MOD I'm sure some would not be displeased to see the term open source get Embraced And Extended and turned into a pejorative the way hacker was... the Intelligence community has had sources longer than the computation community has, and they distinguish open vs covert/secret. The

Re: DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

David is correct, open sources has been a concept in the intel community in contrast to covert sources, classified sources for longer than we've had computers. It originally meant reading the foreign newspapers. Among its magical properties of openly-sourced intel is that we don't have to hide

Re: Boston Linux Meeting reminder today, September 18, 2013 - PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV

Based on latest news and comments, we should not be signing 1024 bit keys. 2048 or larger. Bruce Schneier's new key is 4096 bits, so that's become accepted. bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, September 18, 2013 - PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV

KEYSIZE for this year is 2048. Key size 1024 is no longer considered safe for public keys expiring later than Dec 2013. Please use size 2048 this year, whether choosing RSA/RSA or DH/DSA (or RSA or DSA signing-only keys) Folks who have 1024 size keys should make 2048 keys. (You can sign the new

Re: Is this normal?

if you Jerry or someone previewed the site with Chrome, Google knows. there are hints that links in email are captured. links in mailing list archives are definitely captured. robots.txt is your only hope. (requires ownership of whole website.) -- Bill @n1vux bill.n1...@gmail.com

Re: FYI

If the disk is failing, perhaps what it needs in SpinRight to recover the iffy blocks. Not Free, not Open, but good stuff and not expensive. (And it makes possible the Security Now! podcast.) But even that on 1-3TB will take forever. bill ___

Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, 'early adopter's distribution of Perl 6 MIT 9/14 E51 7pm

-PM list. (If you have favorite snippets of Perl6 code to share, send them too) Directions - http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections -- Bill Ricker, Boston.pm facilitator http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/ bill.n1...@gmail.com [*] http://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist.html

Re: Nokia N900 // GPS, again

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: How's the GPS? I heard from someone that the N810's GPS was lacking, I had heard same on N810 and N900, so didn't have high expectations and so haven't tested extensively. I vaguely think it's supposed to be quicker

Re: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

Depending on how much OSM you want to do, you might be better off buying the car GPS based on its features and get a GPS data logger: That may be sensible whether OSM is hi or low. I like the control using a non-car GPS in car gives me, but that is considered abnormal - I have put my unit in

Re: Nokia N900 // GPS

 Both: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/8928/  (I have one.  Audio quality sucks, unfortunately.) yeah it sounds gike a1g cellphone ... but it looks good and fits the ear-mouth spacing. uniting threads, OSM2Go field map-editing program works fine with N900 , although i am told the

Re: Nokia N900 // bluetooth

re bluetooth retro handset I have one. Audio quality sucks, unfortunately. I was rather disappointed. I used the 2.5mm jack wireline version once (thanks, Bill McG!), and it was much better. Apparently they skimped on the electronics in this one. That's more or less true with much of

Re: Bluetooth telephone interfaces (was: Nokia N900 // bluetooth)

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote: We tried a Jabra BT5020 for a desk application at work. Audio quality was mediocre. I don't like Jabra as much as I used to. Yes, most wireless is crap. That's why I asked the Frys' guy if any Jabra BT had

Re: Nokia N900

I'm looking at upgrading my phone. Even though I won't get 3G, I'm looking at the Nokia N900. Has anyone used it? What are your thoughts? I really like mine, it have placed my phone my Zaurus. Works well on T-Mobile 3G, 2.5G (Is that EDGE?), 3.5G (WTF is that?), and WiFi. Internet is not going

Re: [OT] Luddite Teachings (was OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?)

teacher decided to force logs on us... by way of a slide rule. Back in the dark ages, my HS physics chemistry instructors had us do the formulae with sliderules for weeks before we got to bring in our fancy pricey scientific calculators (HP-25c is 1976). This was NOT to push logarithms on us but

Re: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org wrote:  How do you find it works with Linux?  Or do you?  :) eTrex work great with gpsbabel. provided you have right cable. Garmin has made three different cables, two for RS232 serial and most recently USB. Gpsbabel is great. Newer,

Fwd: Enlightenment desktop API // Boston.pm Tech Meeting - Tuesday, April 13 MIT E51-376 7:15pm

Since the topic is one of the up-n-coming desktops, cc'ing the LUGs . -- Bill, permanent acting temporary facilitator, Boston.pm.org // To Boston-pm-announce at mail.pm.org Next Tech Meeting -- Tuesday, April 13  E51-376 7:15pm Adam Flott - Enlightenment gui api in Perl ** Quick Enlightenment

Re: We need a better Internet in America

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.comwrote: Are you referencing something that happened today? Yes he was. Court Backs Comcast Over *FCC* on '*Net

Re: Linux Android Phone coming to Verizon

The Nokia N900 is a combo upgrade from the N97 smartphone and the N700/800/810 Linux wifi tablet. Due on T-Mobile and ATT soon i hear. It should be harder to lock down ... and all the apps built for N700/800/810 should be usable. That's what I'll be looking for when my contract is up. -- Bill

Re: wok-key: dealing with keyloggers on net-cafe computers

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Tom Buskeyt...@buskey.name wrote: Boot from a CD or USB key? typical cafe has no accessible CD slot or boot button., and booting will break their time keeping (billing ) system, so you should expect to be evicted -- or arrested for 'hacking' -- Bill

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com wrote: The Advanced Dock for T60 W/T500 has slot for pci-mini to add second graphics adapter, wwhich would get you the secondd dvi. What kind of slot? I presume its the same Advanced Dock that I have for my T61. The slot is

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Moving to a new employment position, I'm once again faced with purchasing some computer equipment. I'm wondering what hardware, software and combination people like the best for working seamlessly in the

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Gordon Marx gcm...@gmail.com wrote: Incidentally, I haven't been able to find a dock that has two DVI outputs -- while I appreciate that the dock has 1 DVI and 1 VGA, I'd really rather have 2 DVI, or even DisplayPort (but I'm not sure anyone is THAT cool yet).

Re: searching/grepping for words near each other

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: I believe this is often called a proximity search. these days, this would be a job for a search engine. eg, for perl http://search.cpan.org/~tmtm/Plucene-1.25/lib/Plucene.pm -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com

Re: Very important information!

  The modern rack unit used in computing, i.e. the U in 1U, is by pure   coincidence exactly equal to the vershok, an obsolete Russian   measurement of length. 1U or RU for Rack Unit, but Russia is .ru Coincidence? You decide. I'm shocked.  A unit of length it doesn't know about?? Patches

Re: UNIX vs Unix (was: Time for Linux)

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Later, dmr tried to get the spelling changed to 'Unix' in a couple of Bell Labs papers, on the grounds that the word is not acronymic. He failed, which likely would be due to Bell Trademark lawyers - you have to use it

Boston time_t party Re: Stop! Unix Time

What - time_t party when - 1234567890 ET Fri Feb 13 18:31:30 2009 UT Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 2009 Where - Westin Boston Waterfronthttp://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/area/directions.html?propertyID=1528Lobby Bar Why there - Boskone http://http//www.boskone.org SF Convention Why am i

Re: shell, perl, performance, parallelism, profiling, etc. (was: Upgrade guidance)

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perl is poor at SMP (gah! perl threads!). I've never had to worry about Perl MP. Sounds like I should be glad. :-) MP in any language is tricky, but sometimes it appears easy and bites you later. Perl has tried a couple

Re: Linux distro release cycles, upgrades, etc.

Not Lenny, Testing. Testing and Lenny are synonymous now, but when Lenny is released, it will become Stable, and you'll track that, while Lenny+1 will be Testing (forgot the name they have announced for it). Testing will always be Testing (and what I currently track). d*oh, right, it's

Re: Questions about Ubuntu

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and synaptic and update manager provide 2 bundled friendly front ends for desktop Ubuntu users scared of the commandline. Which, ironically enough, generally scare the users of the command line. :-D indeed, and

Re: Linux distro release cycles, upgrades, etc.

wanted me to use Ubuntu. Quite a while ago I switched rom Debian to SuSE because the release cycles were too slow. Debian had a really rough spot for a while, yeah. They have cleaned up their act. But you could always get the Gentoo continual upgrade effect without compiling by installing.

Re: Booting NOT-Windows

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Peg Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all of you! You are my heros this evening! Klaus Knopper and Linus Torvalds desrve some share of our collegtive thanks for giving us the tools. In addition to the excellent and intuitive Knoppix, there are other

Boston Perl Mongers seeking speakers

weekend early). -- Bill Ricker, incoming Facilitator for Boston Perl Mongers (http://boston.pm.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Boston Linux Installfest XXIX Saturday June 21, 2008

Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and Ubuntu distributions: * Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 7) * Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 10.3) * Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Gutsy Gibbon 7.10) Does this stanza maybe need a bit of

USENIX Tech '08 Boston?

Are the LUGs/LoCo doing anything around USENIX Boston this month? -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: NearFest

Not what I asked, but way Cool in it's own way! See you there. I'll want to look at your ham stuff too ... if I can get to the Mass Ubuntu LoCo stocks of Hardy or Gutsy CD's, I'll bring piles as freebies. Not sure how early or late I'll get up ... not sure how much if any of Friday I can take

Re: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

It was also reported that the NEAR-Fest organizers seemed to be less receptive to the computer stuff, wanting to focus more on traditional radio stuff. True. Perception of recent Hoss Traders was there were more big layouts of small buckets of PCI cards and cables than of RF connectors,

Fwd: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

Will GNHLUG be at NEARFEST this weekend ? If so, would GNHLUG like Ubuntu LoCo support vis-a-vis the recent 8.04 Hardy Heron release ? I note the recent Ubuntu Newsletter #88 featured a Hamfest outreach by LoCo (see below). If I can get a few boxes of Gutsy 7.10 CDs and some Hardy Heron 8.04 CDs

Re: anyone have a cheap source for pc3200 memory?

I am seeing similar issues shopping for 1GB 200-pin CL 2.5 PC2700 DDR for the not-that-old Thinkpad T42. Mobo slots limited to (2) 1GB SODIMMs, no advantage to faster than PC2700/DDR333 but could apparently use PC3200 if I could find it in 200-pin SODIMM (?). -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Upstart (init.d replacement) Re: New distro question

init-replacement thing in the FOSS world. I forget the name. It's Upstart? http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu started using it in 6.10 I'm running 7.04 on my laptop and still see /etc/init.d. Maybe it's 7.10? You're both right - it shipped with Ubuntu 6.10 or so but init.d isn't fully

Re: New distro question

To simplify scientist self-administration of the workstation, consider WebMin it's UserMin module. See April Linux Journal review. scientific calculations. What kind of science? Bio/Genetic, Geo/Soc/Stat, HPC MPPC ? If Clustering, / Hi-Performance Computing, that's a whole different kettle

Re: Setting up separate network question

Definitely keep your paperwork in order. Sounds like what you need is corporate paperwork defining the cluster as a peripheral execution-accelerator of the CentOs box, defining the gig-E or whatever cluster-bus as a cluster-bus not a hidden lan segment. Alternatively, get the Network guys to

Re: linux hardware inventory program

Another hardware-inventory project is by a Boston Ubuntu-nik - http://dohickey.parsed.net/ I'm not sure how mature 9it is. -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Fix for vmsplice exploit...

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer to just let the universe evolve to contain a disk with the data I want. Luckily, the wait only lasts 6 months each time ... https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ThinkPad Pointers

Ubuntu at least has user settings that iirc could do that too. when i ipdate my T423 from Gentoo to Ub untu, I'll check. I know putting an outboard USB trackball disables both onboard pointers. On 1/14/08, Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to do it in the BIOS, I believe. -KL

Re: [OT] Simple math considered physics; turns out it's fun, not harmful

that is in the big leagues. I'm not making fun of the guy, but physics isn't involved in solving the problem, just regular math. Physics is just applied math. All the world is functions. -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Power to the Pedants

IOW, I was trolling for more pedantry :) Oh, well. That's different. Carry on, then. ;-) My wife custom-ordered a button for me I'm not Pompous, I'm Pedantic There's a difference -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: News from NEAR-fest October 2007, Deerfield

Neither of us is a Ham, I am. [1] Did anyone else attend? I was there Friday afternoon/evening, sporting a golf-umbrella from my long-gone start-up. Saturday, I was at First Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo InstallFest. [2] There were several food vendors as well: the apple crisp smelled

Re: RADIO - Peter Day (BBC) - Wikinomics

On 10/12/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During a bout of insomnia I caught this broadcast live on the BBC last night and liked it a lot: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/global_business.shtml I've always regarded the presenter, Peter Day, as generally cool and

Re: Best live CD (DVD) distribution

That's very much a matter of taste. True As it is a laptop, I presume you're looking for mostly desktop functionality, as opposed to server... Knoppix is quite good for autodetect hardware and see what works. But it's not really a full-service desktop. Ubuntu is a good install and ok live

Re: [OT] xkcd

If you know what a SQL injection attack is, you will love this: http://xkcd.com/327/ while xkcd++; And if it doesn't make sense, you NEED to read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection_attack -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: Perl best practices (was: question ... Split operator in Perl)

I highly recommend Damian Conway's book of same title, Perl Best Practices, which recommends a much tamer, consistent readable style within a workgroup than he uses in his own code (depending on context) -- he suggests one style but encourages each group to decide for themselves and take his list

Re: Spreadsheets and precision?

Oh. I do see that now that I look. This strikes me as completely counter-intuitive. So, how to people do actual division in spreadsheets? Does Excel suffer from this as well? Yes. Every spreadsheet since VisiCalc has done floating point division and other basic numeric formuli in

Re: a simple question about grep

Or, if you only have an old grep, but do have Perl, the following should work: The Andy and the ack project have built a better grep with perl. http://perladvent.pm.org/2006/5/ search.cpan.org/~petdance/ack/ack petdance.com/ack/ ack is pure Perl, so consistent across all platforms. Command

Re: ZFS vs EXT4 vs XFS

I regard most such storage-related benchmarks with a great deal of suspicion. They always seem to assume the computer won't be doing anything else when the filesystem is being used. Well said. Amplifying ... ALL benchmarks are at best hints of reality, since they're ALL

Re: Re: Facebook group

Okay, so where do the Boomers or old Guys go? Second survey ... ToastMasters marketing public shared MindMap [http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/1599833] lists under Social Networking the PR opportunities of Xing (video or what?) Viadeo (?) Linkedin FaceBook

[OT] Re: I've got to get organized.

On 8/13/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A great line from The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! was when Fendall Hawkins (played by Paul Ford) was yelling We've GOT to get ORGANized!. Aside from the map-folding scene (no line), my favorite is Ev-er-y-one to get from

Re: I've got to get organized.

Time Management for System Admins by Tom Limoncelli (O'Reilly), ISBN 0-596-00783-3 $24.95 and 200 pp, is the last of a long series of books I've used to help me get focused and organized. Excellent. Can work for programmers too with adaptations. He gave several talks in N.E. a couple years

Re: I've got to get organized.

Time Management for System Admins by Tom Limoncelli (O'Reilly), ISBN 0-596-00783-3 $24.95 and 200 pp, is the last of a long series of Voted LOPSA's (first ever) Book of the Month http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2005/12/lopsa_book_of_the_month_time_m.html Author's Wiki for the book

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