Re: Motherboard Recommendations, and a hello...

2007-02-02 Thread Fred
SUS went nicely for you, and one I'll give top consideration to. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Linux not allowed to engage in online banking in South Korea?

2007-01-29 Thread Fred
the other island. Never would've known otherwise. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: MythTV + mysql problems

2007-01-28 Thread Fred
d. If you don't really need the ACL features of MySQL, they can be disabled. If your MythTV will never be seen from the outside (probably the case), then there's no point in having ACL active! -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Real Men use XML, was quote, was Google Earth...

2006-11-15 Thread Fred
frankly, there were many annoying problems with OLE. Trying to do anything *useful* with OLE beyond simple linking to Excel spreadsheets got you into deep waters, fast. Hideously complicated, underspecified, and chocked full of bugs galore. -Fred ___

Fios. Was: Re: Comcast Alternatives? Was Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?

2006-11-14 Thread Fred
blew me away. Usually I have to fight the "is it plugged in" queries, but not this time. Having worked with DSLAMs and the like in the past, when fibre to the last mile seemed like a pipe dream, we've come quite a long way. Phew! -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Google Earth Available for Linux...

2006-11-12 Thread Fred
In case you didn't know, Google Earth is now availabe for Linux: http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html I tried running it on my FC5 system, but ran into problems with GLX. Perhaps you'll have better luck. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss ma

Re: Linux and fonts and Firefox and human-factors design

2006-11-01 Thread Fred
producers really don't want you to be able to migrate all that easily. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Linux and fonts and Firefox and human-factors design

2006-10-31 Thread Fred
as accomplished over the years. But the problem will always be that it will be really HARD to make software really EASY to use. And since software is written by us "geeks", we grow bored with trying to make it all so easy for the *neophyte*. Of course, the thing to do is have the *neophyte* design and write the software, but that would be like asking a coronary patient to do his own bypass!!! -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Apache2 troubleshooting

2006-10-29 Thread Fred
On Friday 27 October 2006 11:27, Ben Scott uttered thusly: > On 10/27/06, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then you can use your browser and do > > "http://yourdomain.com/server-status"; to see how active your server > > really is. > > Or combine

Re: Apache2 troubleshooting

2006-10-27 Thread Fred
or may not help you find your current problem, but it's a good thing to have in your pocket anyway. Or you can install and set up Nagios, but that could be overkill just for doing simple monitoring. Too much time to muck about with the fancy tools when a simple command-l

Re: RFC: VMWare talk for MerriLUG Nov meeting

2006-10-22 Thread Fred
This past Wenesday, there was a very interesting talk on VirtualIron at the Boston Linux/Unix Group: http://www.virtualiron.com/ And they do have a free download that will work on a single "socket" system -- meaning, CPU socket, even if it is dual core. I am impressed with their plans for the

Re: Seperating networks

2006-10-20 Thread Fred
her subnet on the same wired/wireless network. Just save yourself the time. Your 2nd router, assuming it wireless as well, you'd want to use WEP encryption to keep anyone from just logging on to it. Perhaps someone else have better ideas? -Fred ___

MV.com

2006-10-16 Thread Fred
m years ago -- would've save me much time, money, and aggravation. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: [GNHLUG] GNHLUG mailing lists service resumed

2006-10-16 Thread Fred
ion what they charge for their IPs and some other things, but I guess I can pay them a call. But I do like being able to enter the facility myself to get at my servers. So, if the price is right on the other stuff, I might be switching to them in the near future. It's been quite annoyin

Re: [OT] Re: ReiserFS creator arrested over missing woman

2006-10-13 Thread Fred
On Thursday 12 October 2006 20:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered thusly: >From: Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:23:05 -0400 >Nina's van somewhere where it couldn't be so quickly found, etc. Also, > on the presumption that he cares fo

Re: ReiserFS creator arrested over missing woman

2006-10-12 Thread Fred
On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:43, Ben Scott uttered thusly: > On 10/11/06, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh boy, his kids were grabbed by the child-snatchers according to this > > article, and I assume they are in foster-care. If you know anything > > about the

Re: ReiserFS creator arrested over missing woman

2006-10-12 Thread Fred
: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/11/BAGQJLNA3U54.DTL and a "help find Nina" site: http://www.ninareiser.com/ -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: ReiserFS creator arrested over missing woman

2006-10-11 Thread Fred
dle this too. Now for the real nasty: The true perp knowing the circumstance, having any brains, could probably make it look as though Hans did it. But now I am truly going off into the realms of wild-ass speculation. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Video editing in lInux

2006-09-27 Thread Fred
There are some command-line utilities capable of transcoding video files under Linux. Google "transcode" and "linux" to find them. May be of help. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mai

Re: Tuning FULLTEXT performance (was Re: Memory upgrade and swap partition size)

2006-09-27 Thread Fred
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 09:36, Ben Scott uttered thusly: > On 9/27/06, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MyISAM tables stinks when it comes to heavy updates, though > > are wicked fast on the queries. > > There's a pretty direct cause-and-effect relation

Re: Tuning FULLTEXT performance (was Re: Memory upgrade and swap partition size)

2006-09-27 Thread Fred
oss then entire set. The normal gains one would get from caching is simply out. Tuning for performance under these circumstances is a challenge, to say the least. Though, I did get everything working nicely until I introduced the FULLTEXT stuff. :-( -Fred __

Tuning FULLTEXT performance (was Re: Memory upgrade and swap partition size)

2006-09-26 Thread Fred
This is somewhat related in a roundabout fashion. Yeah, right! Anyway, I am having a dilly of a time tuning the FULLTEXT performance with MySQL, because I have many FULLTEXT inserts going on at the same time with FULLTEXT searches, and every INSERT locks the entire table, causing everything el

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Language, logic, and such

2006-09-26 Thread Fred
On Monday 25 September 2006 15:15, Ben Scott uttered thusly: > On 9/25/06, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While I find it laudable that someone has gone through the trouble of > > creating an unambiguous language, we humans by nature are creatures of > > ambiguity.

Re: SLUG / GNHLUG Durham - Mon 9 Oct - Lojban

2006-09-25 Thread Fred
onversations with a handful of others about thinking revealed that they had a hard time "thinking in pictures" and instead think more linguistically. So, an open question I would put forward among us "geek" types is whether or not we tend to think more visually than the normal

Re: CD/DVD/ISO images, readcd adding extra bytes at EOF?

2006-09-19 Thread Fred
ts around them. The GUI stuff just gets in the way and half the time simply does not work properly. In fact, the command-line utilities works so well under Linux that on my dual-boot systems I prefer to burn CDs under command-line Linux than GUI Windows. -Fred __

Re: Tapes and close to a quarter-century.

2006-09-19 Thread Fred
8" floppy drives died a long time ago, and I gave it up when I started getting puzzled looks from the original manufacturer (I believe it was Micropolis). This was back around 1985. If you *still* have working 8" drives, my hat is off to ya. I have lost much cool stuff, as I grew dis

Re: DLSLUG meeting 7 Sept 2006: Joomla and AJAX

2006-09-19 Thread Fred
significant differences and improvements over the existing production Joomla that made me want to wait for it. Yes, I agree -- Joomla is wicked cool. It is extensible, and I am savoring over the possibility of integrating it with my existing ECMS system. -Fred ___

Re: [OT] More tape drive stories

2006-09-18 Thread Fred
s development was in many ways a kind of "coming back home", where doing nearly everything from command-line and compiling drivers and kernels are routine. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Which CPU are we waiting for to get VM hypervisors in hw?

2006-07-31 Thread Fred
a window. Poetic Justice, I say. I'm going to make my new workstation a monster of a machine. Quad CPUs, 16GB ram, 3 displays with the latest graphics cards, and hideous amounts of hard drive storage. Soon... -Freedom Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: FOSS benefits the field of computer engineering (was: Malware "best practices")

2006-07-30 Thread Fred
e problem is in APC, PHP, some subtle interaction between the two, or maybe involving Apache as well. And do I have the time to track this down? Nope. I have access to all the source code for all these FOSS tools and yet I simply don't have the time to ferret out such a subtle systems-level bug. FOSS is great, but man, when things goes wrong, OUCH! -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: FOSS benefits the field of computer engineering

2006-07-30 Thread Fred
t* of teaching and mentoring and presentation of much over the latter half of my career. It was the one singular thing that made me stand out over most of the other software engineers -- without me even realizing it. -Freedom Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

2006-07-27 Thread Fred
* procmail scripts which too have to be altered to filter mail into Maildir boxes instead of mboxes. But it does not see too hard to convert them, especially since only the output line needs to be changed. Maybe I'll plan for a complete cutover. Besides, having the email in individual fil

[OT] The China-Russia-US Geopolitical Dynamical System (!!!)

2006-07-27 Thread Fred
ted by mathematics. I say they're all wrong. :-) The real irony is that I wish I were wrong, because their are far-reaching and deep implications -- all of which scares the willies out of me -- if I'm right. Of course, I could just be a wise-ass spewing forth total BS. But I'm

Re: Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

2006-07-27 Thread Fred
On Thursday 27 July 2006 17:29, Jeff Kinz uttered thusly: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:16:06PM -0400, Dan Jenkins wrote: > > Fred wrote: > > >Thanks to both you and John. It is definitely using the mbox format. > > > I'll have to switch it to using Maildir, but w

Re: Malware "best practices"

2006-07-27 Thread Fred
say it makes for a rather fetching state of affairs! ... > We live in interesting times. Hopefully not too interesting! Very interesting, I'm afraid. And the supreme irony being that the very country that aphorism is from may be the one to make it so. Well, brushing up on my M

Re: Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

2006-07-27 Thread Fred
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 22:28, Dan Jenkins uttered thusly: > Fred wrote: > >Any suggestions? Am I missing something glaringly obvious? Or is there a > > real issue with Thunderbird (and Seamonkey and Mozilla and > > SquirrelMail)? > > As John Abreau said, make sure yo

Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

2006-07-26 Thread Fred
something glaringly obvious? Or is there a real issue with Thunderbird (and Seamonkey and Mozilla and SquirrelMail)? Thanks in advance. -Freedom (and very busy) Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org

Re: USB Issues with FC5

2006-07-20 Thread Fred
On Thursday 20 July 2006 13:33, Ben Scott uttered thusly: > On 7/20/06, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having 2 USB issues with FC5: > > Do you have anything USB which is working? Maybe it's not detecting > the USB interface controller properly or somet

USB Issues with FC5

2006-07-20 Thread Fred
Subject: USB Issues with FC5 Date: Wednesday 19 July 2006 15:58 From: Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Undisclosed.Recipients": ; Hello, all. I am having 2 USB issues with FC5: 1) My Digital Camera (HP Photosmart M517) is set to "drive emulation", and I used to be able to

Re: AT&T WiFi spoofs Name Server Responses!

2006-07-19 Thread Fred
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 17:18, Ben Scott uttered thusly: > On 7/18/06, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This could mean only one thing, of course. AT&T WiFi must be > > intercepting *all* name server requests, no matter where they are > > destined, and spoofing t

AT&T WiFi spoofs Name Server Responses!

2006-07-18 Thread Fred
el through to my servers and the Internet at large. Yes, I can do this, but I have so many things on my plate right now... But security requires eternal vigilance, I know. I just never thought I'd needed to secure my work from the WiFi providers themselv

Re: Stupid ebay/amazon question

2006-06-29 Thread Fred
re it won't even boot anymore. I used to bother with explaining that Active X is the greatest evil since Stalin, but most wouldn't know an Active X applet if it bit them in the ass, let alone how to disable it in IE. So, I tell them not to bother. Just don't use IE. -Fre

Re: One Laptop Per Child pledge

2006-05-26 Thread Fred
ch are dead after the first hour or two of use. But hey, I'm sure they'll find novel uses for dead PCs. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Net Neutrality. What good is a free operating system without a network?

2006-05-11 Thread Fred
was a running joke that: How would Commodore market Sushi? Cold, Dead, Raw Fish. May Commodore Rest In Peace. That is one big Cold, Dead, Raw Fish that expended great effort to put itself in the grave. Much to the frustration of us engineers. -Fred ___

Re: Emacs

2006-05-11 Thread Fred
Bad me, I know...]) The drivers seem to be working, but can't seem to get the network to recognize the Wifi. Using the latest RT2x00 from the CVS release. Arrgh. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Replacement for Yahoo Domains

2006-05-11 Thread Fred
On Thursday 11 May 2006 12:16, Neil Schelly uttered thusly: > That's pretty expensive - have you looked at DynDNS.org? They've got a > lot of good services along those lines and they are very good at what they > do. -N I actually know a guy who works there. G

Re: Net Neutrality. What good is a free operating system without a network?

2006-05-11 Thread Fred
need to kill. In defense of our families and loved ones, for example. I am very much the pacifist -- in theory at least. But I will not hesitate for one second to exact defensive violence to curtail offensive violence to protect those I care for. -Freedom Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: In Linux, no one can hear you Wine

2006-03-25 Thread Fred
nge ;) Win4Lin works better than Wine. Alas, it's not FOSS. Not to mention a bit slow, but you do get to run full-blown Windows on it. Paid $100 for it. But it works. I do bemoan the lack of USB support in it, though. May be addressed by now; don't know. Now when I need to do Win

Re: In Linux, no one can hear you Wine

2006-03-25 Thread Fred
ke I was back at home when I came to Linux. I can actually compile the dang kernel after configuring it the way I want! Imagine that! Ok, let me cut it out. It's good to reminisce about the "good ole' days"... Now I feel so old. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: OT: Forum legalish question

2006-03-11 Thread Fred
uld be too costly. I just live my life as I see fit. If I am not hurting anyone, then I should be free to do. Of course, there will be sharp disagreement here on this, but such as it is. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-11 Thread Fred
y on that. While I hold that all should not be restricted from accessing the Internet, I don't want to see that turn into a "we must give everyone Internet Access at taypayers' expense" political ploy. If you are such a lazy bum as to be too pathetic to drag yourself out of bed and down to the Library, that does not count as a "restriction". -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: METROCAST BLOCKS RESIDENTIAL E-MAIL

2006-03-11 Thread Fred
ng even that activity from an ISP, but I don't see that much value in hiding it, even though I should. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: OT: Forum legalish question

2006-03-06 Thread Fred
be fine. And get a good *reputable* lawyer to have on retainer, not some fly-by-night op. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: How times have changed [was Sr. Developer ]

2006-02-20 Thread Fred
it is a node in its own > > right. > > > > This scares the willies out of me because group nodes where it involves > > humans typically become *less humane* than the individuals themselves. > > Fred, are you looking at chaos/complexity theory as it applies to > huma

Re: [Gnhlug-jobs] [JOBS] Sr. Developer (Python + PHP) at Standards Org. in Billerica, MA

2006-02-20 Thread Fred
ndidate, post requirements so lengthy and convoluted that no one BUT their desired H1B key person could possibly fill the bill. -Fred Diogenes with his lamp, looking for an honest man... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Argh - setting timezone from command line in FC

2006-02-20 Thread Fred
ime. I did it before with overwriting a timezone file with the desired timezone, but I prefer a cleaner solution. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: [OT] Locating source of FM radio interference

2006-02-20 Thread Fred
d assume you were a alien from outer space and just shoot you. :-) -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: How times have changed [was Sr. Developer ]

2006-02-16 Thread Fred
of me because group nodes where it involves humans typically become *less humane* than the individuals themselves. > -- Ben "This statement is false" Scott -Fred Be afraid, be very afraid... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: A rant about ZendPlatform

2006-02-05 Thread Fred
On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:52, Jon maddog Hall wrote: > Fred, > > Great rant to the list but you did not cc: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > I hope that you do enlighten them also. > > md Just fired off a copy to their marketing department (that'll get their attent

Re: "Connection Reset By Peer" on ssh sessions

2006-02-05 Thread Fred
The 'ServerAliveInterval' setting did the trick, and my hair stays on my head! Thanks, all. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

A rant about ZendPlatform

2006-02-05 Thread Fred
ience. The Zend folks should stop smoking the weed, and weed out the problems with the over-bloat of their $1000 product. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: "Connection Reset By Peer" on ssh sessions

2006-02-05 Thread Fred
On Saturday 04 February 2006 14:36, Ben Scott wrote: > On 2/4/06, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got an annoying problem with the new Verizon Fios service. > > I'm shocked -- *SHOCKED* -- to hear of a problem on a Verizon feed. ;-) Ha! I'd though

Re: "Connection Reset By Peer" on ssh sessions

2006-02-05 Thread Fred
Verizon wildly oversells their infrastructure. Verizon tells me they will be getting away from their PPPoE and will be going the normal DHCP/Dymanic setup that everyone else does. Perhaps that will lick the problem. No indication they will be doing that for DSL customers, though. -Fred

"Connection Reset By Peer" on ssh sessions

2006-02-04 Thread Fred
onfigured their equipment to do an idle timeout at the individual TCP/IP connection level, but failed to tell their support staff about it. And yes, I did get a tech there I could speak straight network jargon with without the annoying "it's not in my (customer service) script" react

Re: Costs of optimization (was: Re: Information security, recycling and irony)

2006-02-04 Thread Fred
On Friday 03 February 2006 23:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Fred wrote: > >Just a little thing like using *real* recycled paper, not > >reused paper, with perhaps their logo printed on it as an > >added touch, would not cost all that much more AND would > >avoid snaf

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-04 Thread Fred
oke at Commodore was this: How would Commodore market Sushi? "Cold, dead, raw fish." Which just about describes Commodore right now... -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-03 Thread Fred
s needed basis. Incredibly quickly. > > And when you were done with the manual, you just dropped it on the enemy > to get rid of it. Couldn't they just download the manual to a PDA? Not that I want to make the military even more efficient at killing people, but... -Fred _

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-03 Thread Fred
ures less likely to happen, but harder to diagnose when they > do happen. I've noticed that *some* IDE hard drives have a built-in secure-swipe feature. You can see this if you dump the information with hdparm. Never played with those options for very obvious reasons. -Fred ___

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-03 Thread Fred
ly "paperless". ;-) And I'm sure all the crap they probably have to deal with with regards to the unions probably doesn't help matters. I think even the employees in the IT department at a publication establishment have to be unionized. Has a major impact on what you can pay for ta

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-03 Thread Fred
On Thursday 02 February 2006 10:33, Dan Jenkins wrote: > Fred wrote: > > In the Boston Globe case, there is an element of professionalism > > amiss here. It seems to me pretty darn tacky to use test printouts > > for wrapping paper. It shows no one cares a hoot about t

Re: Information security, recycling and irony

2006-02-02 Thread Fred
a job for - Stupidman, the man of steal! Sorry, couldn't resist the "Boston Globe == Daily Planet" implications... -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Time (was: Character set wars (was: In defense of Google))

2006-01-31 Thread Fred
nix clocks run to an end in 2038. I would like to think by then all timers will be 64-bit (or similar), but you'll never know for sure. And interesting site on the problem: http://www.deepsky.com/~merovech/2038.html -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: [OT] In defense of Google

2006-01-31 Thread Fred
On Monday 30 January 2006 22:31, Ben Scott wrote: > On 1/30/06, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4655196.stm > > Military seeks to control information and communications, and > practices psycological warfare. > > In oth

Re: [OT] In defense of Google

2006-01-31 Thread Fred
*can't* invade our privacy willy-nilly whenever they like. Perhaps they'll take pause before the next blatant attempt at violating us all. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Cell phone built in GPS - not (Was: Open Source vs. Closed Source)

2006-01-31 Thread Fred
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 14:14, Michael ODonnell wrote: > GPS-on-a-chip (not counting antennae, I assume) > > http://www.rakon.com/ > http://www.rakon.com/whatsnew/display?article_id=-80&template=news >From what I understand, today's GPS chips *are* the

Re: Open Source vs. Closed Source

2006-01-30 Thread Fred
act through the blue-tooth interface, my life would be complete! (hint -- any pointers would be helpful. I am running FC4. I would've worked it out by now except I don't have much time these days.) -Fred -

Re: Man, they'll try anything to hack your system...

2006-01-30 Thread Fred
annoyed by such actions, including people on > this list. Sadly, those are so few that they are often considered > "justifiable collateral damage". I've run into that problem in the past. Forget emailing to anyone on AOL from your own "private" MX. -Fred _

Re: PHP Templates and/or Web Frameworks

2006-01-30 Thread Fred
; Mambo is a good framework for a content management based site. I've written my own framework and template system for PHP, but have not released it to Open Source yet. Indeed, I may never, though I may consider dong so in the future. It has a lot of nice features that make

Re: [OT] In defense of Google

2006-01-30 Thread Fred
, it doesn't even need to be said. -Fred On Monday 30 January 2006 12:59, Michael ODonnell wrote: > I am genuinely worried about how monstrous Google is > becoming, but this defense of Google in light of recent > events seemed

Re: a question about evim

2006-01-28 Thread Fred
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 21:18, Paul Lussier wrote: > Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I use emacs extensively, and get annoyed with the backup files too. So I > > wrote a bash script I run peroidically to copy *all* the backup files in > > the directory tree to

Re: Man, they'll try anything to hack your system...

2006-01-27 Thread Fred
disallow all the other bots since they do put quite a load on my servers. I've gotten comments from some others that watching the logs in realtime is very "Matrix-like", though I have yet to see the blonds, brunettes, and red-heads in them! ;-) -Fred ___

Re: Carn1v0re?

2006-01-26 Thread Fred
say the terrorists must be laughing their fool heads off at us. As far as the software is concerned, there are always legions of unsavory contractors willing to pull the wool over the paranoid eyes of our elected officials. As long as it has cool graphics, 3-letter acronyms, and smokes

Re: The rest of the world and geeks

2006-01-26 Thread Fred
ave various strengths and weaknesses in many different areas. Intelligence is more like a vector in a high-dimensioned space than a singular scalar number. As a hole, it makes for an interesting mix of possibilities with our fellow humans; an endless stream of variety. But even with that, t

Re: Emacs

2006-01-26 Thread Fred
ight to me. There are some things I've tried in X, but worked differently or not at all. And since I run GNU in command-line shells *very* often, I don't see the point in using X. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: New Hampshire legislation to consider Open Source (adding a cross post to dlslug)

2006-01-25 Thread Fred
ics are. Besides, I don't know how one *becomes* a "minority" or "woman" if one is not already. I suppose one can take the shoe polish or gender change approach! If you want the government contract that badly, GO FOR IT! -Fred ___

Re: a question about evim

2006-01-25 Thread Fred
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 10:36, Bill Freeman wrote: > Zhao Peng writes: > > I have a simple question about evim (Easy Vim). > > > > Whenever I use evim to edit a file, say "abc.txt", a same-name file > > plus "~" is always created. In this case, it will be "abc.txt~". It's a > > bit annoyi

Re: Cell phone built in GPS - not (Was: Open Source vs. Closed Source)

2006-01-25 Thread Fred
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 09:55, Bill Freeman wrote: > Fred writes: > > And while we are on the subject -- some PDA "smart phones" come > > equipped with their own GPS chip, but it seems this is never made > > use of by mapping software, forcing one to buy a sepa

Re: Verizon (FiOS) (Off Topic?) I have it!

2006-01-24 Thread Fred
cts machines would be much more secure, but would be costly to do, especially since many of them don't even have a clue as to what a VPN is. > As an aside: Phrases like "100% secure" are inherently bogus. As > Schneier says, security is process. It is not a scalar quantity. Agree

Re: Verizon (FiOS) (Off Topic?) I have it!

2006-01-24 Thread Fred
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 09:23, Ben Scott wrote: > On 1/24/06, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just got set up with Fios ... > > First, thank you for posting that. The technical details were very > interesting, and the commentary on what Verizon said, and th

Re: Open Source vs. Closed Source

2006-01-24 Thread Fred
ng off or restricting access to it? Yes, I would prefer not to have to drop another $500 or so for a separate GPS device and the associated software. Besides, kinda bulky to have to carry all that mess around everywhere, and defeats my push to have *one* device do everything. Still loving my Treo 6

Re: Blogging software

2006-01-24 Thread Fred
extensive user permission control. I am intending to use this to eliminate my clients' need to use Dreamweaver or Front Page to manage their websites. Check it out -- maybe it will fit your needs. If not, it's worth knowing about. Pretty straightforward to set up, and should wo

Re: HB1197 Public Meeting

2006-01-24 Thread Fred
Linux geeks out here that can help them should they run into any problems. Obviously you want to use better language than "geeks" with this crowd. Seth will be driving this aspect and will do a good job. Enjoy. -Fred ___ gnhlu

Re: HB1197 Public Meeting

2006-01-24 Thread Fred
=gnuhampshire&ci=1767&isc=wwpdomain&; Where 10% of his profits goes to Liberty and Freedom related causes in NH. He is also helping out me some others and I on a legal research project. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Verizon (FiOS) (Off Topic?) I have it!

2006-01-24 Thread Fred
Crumcast had better watch out as they could be on their way out if Verizon keeps doing the right thing. I also note that the techs that installed the service must not have been unionized, since they were actually *good* at what they did and was willing to go "the extra mile&quo

Re: One more bites the dust

2006-01-09 Thread Fred
er years of clutter around here somewhere if anyone is so masochistic to find out. However, I'm not so sure I am so masochistic to did them up from the years of clutter and dust. They'd make good frisbees anyway for the kids. Or coasters

Re: One more bites the dust

2006-01-09 Thread Fred
any higher priority items on my list -- ironically, being tracked by the PDA itself! -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: maddog: Letter to InfoWorld: Linux 64-bit since 1995!

2006-01-09 Thread Fred
e kinda doomed with the Mainstream stuff anyway, but at least you didn't get fired. ;-) Oh, I recall the NT-beta days with glee. If you managed to get by 5 minutes before you saw the dreaded "blue-screen-of-death", it was a miracle. By all rights it

Re: maddog: Letter to InfoWorld: Linux 64-bit since 1995!

2006-01-09 Thread Fred
g online. You'd think my dropping a few thousand bucks in their store would be important to them, but I guess not. Oh well. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: One more bites the dust

2006-01-08 Thread Fred
ly, but just don't have the time right now. I hate having to sync with Windoze -- never works quite right. -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: [OT] Grand Unified Theory of Computer Suckage (fnord)

2005-12-28 Thread Fred
le, is a living system? Um, yep. And you should pray that this big morass we hackers and software "engineers" created does not ever become self-aware! ;-) -Fred ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

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