Re: ClearCase (was: MacOS/Samba not playing nice)

2013-07-11 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: We use ClearCase here and[...] Sorry to hear that. I have some experience both working around ClearCase and migrating off of it, if you are (or anyone else is) interested. -- 'tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

Re: ClearCase

2013-07-11 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
and put it back together in the right order. Once you get into Subversion, you can pretty easily convert from that to any of the more modern tools. Or, if you like Subversion, you can just stay there. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Tom Buskey t

Athlon CPU + motherboard + RAM, looking for a home

2013-06-24 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I have an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU (Socket 939) attached to a MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard with a pair of 1-GB DDR-1 DIMMS, looking for a new home. As far as I can tell, the PCI-Express port doesn't work, but everthing else does. I picked up some much nicer replacement parts from the computer show

OpenStreetMap birthday party

2013-06-23 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Looks like OpenStreetMap's 9th birthday is coming up in August: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_9th_Anniversary_Birthday_party There are parties happening--but none scheduled anywhere in the US yet. What say we have one in NH? Probably there are some other OSM people on

Fwd: Computer Show this Sunday 6/23/2013 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua NH

2013-06-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
In case anyone's in the market for new/old computers and computer accessories There's a `$1 off admission' coupon on their website: http://ncshows.com/ The big, cheap flash drives are temping (32GB $15.00ea!?) are always temping Start of forwarded message

Fun new book on Scheme programming

2013-06-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
It looks like `Realm of Racket' just went into publication-- and there's a 40%-off coupon code that you can use until the 20th: http://realmofracket.com/news.html The description from the No Starch Press webpage: In Realm of Racket, you'll learn to program by creating increasingly

Interesting documentary on hackers

2013-06-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Just watched this documentary with my wife: `Hackers are People Too' http://www.hackersarepeopletoo.com/ I liked it. She said, it was OK--I already knew all of that stuff from you, and it jumped around a little too much; I need linearity Anyone else seen it? Like? Dislike?

Re: Presention software?

2013-06-10 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
/2013/04/how-to-present-using-org-mode-in-emacs/ On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: I should have mentioned up front that I'd already actually looked at S5 and decided against

Re: Simple but decent web composition software

2013-06-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
James A. Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com writes: On Sunday 09 June 2013 11:03:33 Jerry Feldman wrote: I work for IBM, and use Symphony at work, but Symphony is based on OpenOffice. I have nothing against using Symphony, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice but my posts in HTML just end up looking

Font consistency (was: Simple but decent web composition software)

2013-06-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
This point about being able to find fonts that are both close to what I use and likely to be on Windows or Apple a really good one. Sometimes it's really hard to do that, though..., except, here's a really nice tool for the task--that actually organises fonts by *what they look like* (so

Re: Presention software?

2013-06-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: I should have mentioned up front that I'd already actually looked at S5 and decided against it. It looks like a good tool for doing what it does, but what it does isn't what I want (as far as I can tell from the examples). The same goes

Re: Presention software?

2013-06-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I should have mentioned up front that I'd already actually looked at S5 and decided against it. It looks like a good tool for doing what it does, but what it does isn't what I want (as far as I can tell from the examples). The same goes for impress.js. I don't want my in-person presentation to

Presention software?

2013-06-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
So, it's been something like a million years since I gave a proper presentation with `slides' and stuff; I have one that I want to put together, though, now--and I... haven't the faintest idea how people actually go about doing that, these days. I think the last time I did this, I just wrote a

Re: Mother of all xterms?

2013-05-25 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: I've seen a claim that Tab was introduced by the X Consortium because they found Tom's unprofessional, but I can't verify that. I don't know, but I'd speculate that the titular tab refers to what is today called a title bar, which was an innovation

Re: Mother of all xterms?

2013-05-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes: Hey, all -- I've gotten quite used to gnome-terminal and konsole, and they both work, but I admit I have a little bit of iterm2 (for the Mac) envy -- e.g., being able to search back through the log to a specific timestamp. Handy, that. So, my

Re: Mother of all xterms?

2013-05-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes: Hey, all -- I've gotten quite used to gnome-terminal and konsole, and they both work, but I admit I have a little bit of iterm2 (for the Mac) envy -- e.g., being able to search back through the log

Re: Permissions on /tmp

2013-05-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com writes: The sticky bit probably doesn't fly since it isn't my box.  It's just somewhere that folks will want to install my app.  So I shouldn't be requiring global (effecting every /tmp user) system changes.  (I'm only requiring an app specific user and init.d

Re: How can I detect whether an /etc/rc.d/init.d script is being run at boot time versus by hand?

2013-05-21 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com writes: I'm trying to figure out whether to force the removal of an almost certainly stale pid file or not in the service start case. While I presume that the start up sequence normally handles this by clearing / var/run before lighting off the init scripts for

Re: Permissions on /tmp (was: How can I detect whether an /etc/rc.d/init.d script is being run at boot time versus by hand?)

2013-05-21 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com writes:    I can probably count on running on a linux box, so I can probably count on the FHS.  But the downside of tmp is that any process can also delete my pid file (as opposed to having to be either root or the user created for the program). The sticky-bit

Re: Permissions on /tmp

2013-05-21 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com writes:    I can probably count on running on a linux box, so I can probably count on the FHS.  But the downside of tmp is that any process can also delete my pid file (as opposed to having to be either

Re: Smarthosting (Sending mail through Google) with Postfix

2013-05-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com writes: I typically set up Postfix to smarthost (relay) through a Google Apps account. I'm curious about one particular aspect:  When setting this up on Debian or Ubuntu, it seems like you don't need to incorporate an SSL key into the Postfix

Re: gps recommendations?

2013-05-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: On Sat, 18 May 2013 08:08:39 -0400, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Have you done an open source search for route planning software? (to bring it into the Linux/FLOSS theme of the list)? Didn't even occur to me. I'll try that. Could work for

Re: gps recommendations?

2013-05-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: On Fri, 17 May 2013 23:38:28 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Someone wrote a chapter for the FoxtrotGPS manual specifically about this, including some perhaps non-obvious recommendations on the most effective way to plan

Re: gps recommendations?

2013-05-17 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: My GPS is dying. I'm looking for a replacement, but I want a particular...mindset is probably a better word than feature. [...] Basically, I find that when I use the GPS, it's the brains and I'm just the car operator. I want to be the brains and the

Re: SpinRite

2013-05-01 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Mike Bilow mik...@colossus.bilow.com writes: SpinRite will read every block on the disk, to make sure they still can be read. This is useful. But even CHKDSK/SCANDISK will do that, and have since DOS 6, circa 1993. As explained, SpinRite went directly to the hardware, which was the

Re: Any Octave users? What is this code snippet actually doing?

2013-04-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com writes: Write a review of the book and indicate that the code therein has bugs! You're the eyeball + 1. Strengthen your power by reporting the bug in a public forum! Help prevent others from falling into the same hole. favorite. Also, consider sending a

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

2013-04-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Peter Petrakis peter.petra...@gmail.com wrote: If you can buy puts against this then it's easy money. Why don't they suspend trading during a DoS or an institute an uptick rule? I thought one of the big things about

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG: April 2nd 2013 - Bitcoin

2013-04-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:46:53 -0400, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: Peer-to-peer is two guys meeting on a street corner and saying Hey, wanna buy some Bitcoins? :) What if 100 guys meet on a street corner? And what if that street corner is

Re: google interview

2013-04-02 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:15:41 -0400, Chris fj1...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I had an onsite (Mountain view) interview with them a few years ago and I was there for nearly 6 hours. I think that's step 3 or 4. Step 2 is another phone interview with a Google

LibrePlanet conference in Cambridge, this weekend?

2013-03-18 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
LibrePlanet is this weekend--with some neat-looking topics up for presentation by some pretty neat people: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/LibrePlanet:Conference/2013/Program Anyone here planning on attending? -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr.

Re: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

2013-02-26 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
joe j...@kagenski.net writes: I would list any FOSS project that you are a major contributor at as a job/project on it's own. You can list multiple jobs that are active at the same time. Pick a title that makes sense. Set start and end dates appropriately as the default is too place

Re: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

2013-02-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:43:22 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: So, I use LinkedIn. And my resume and professional portolio is the FOSS projects that I've worked on and the roles that I've held in those projects (we talked a bit

Re: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

2013-02-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Shawn O'Shea sh...@eth0.net writes: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.comwrote: The question is: how do I tell that to LinkedIn? I don't use LinkedIn a lot, but I've been somewhat infrequently updating it over the last year. When I received my

Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

2013-02-21 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
So, I use LinkedIn. And my resume and professional portolio is the FOSS projects that I've worked on and the roles that I've held in those projects (we talked a bit about this `FOSS projects as an important part of your professional portfolio thing' at the last Nashua LUG meeting at MakeIt Labs

Re: Files, unliking, access, oh my.

2013-02-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: If process A is reading from a file, and process B deletes it, process A can continue to read from it until... well, until it stops reading from it. [...] Can that space that the

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
You should turn craigsearch into a web service. I have a bunch of 50%-off coupons for new domains-registrations at gandi.net, if you want. Looks like craigsearch.com is already taken, though, so you'll have to pick another name David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: I liked, but didn't LIKE

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:23:46 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: You should turn craigsearch into a web service. In order to replace the monster, I would have to become the monster. (Meaning: How do I pay for that?) `With your

Re: Green screen.

2013-02-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: ... a really solid idea for a fun activity was the proverbial TV weatherman green screen. I have to imagine this would be feasible with Linux -- anyone have any suggestions on

HDMI-VGA adapter for tonight?

2013-02-06 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I just realised that the only video-output I have on my laptop is an HDMI port, and I'm not sure whether the projector at MakeIt Labs supports that. Wondering: someone who's coming tonight, if you have a suitable adapter, could you bring it (and whatever cabling might be necessary) tonight, just

Re: OSM: putting LUGs and hackerspaces on *the map*--literally

2013-02-03 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
that-- so now it's there, too. Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us writes: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.comwrote: chris gagnon chris.gag...@makeitlabs.com writes: Topic: Joshua Rosen

OSM: putting LUGs and hackerspaces on *the map*--literally (was: Nashua's NHLUG meeting has been bumped 1 day to Wednesday)

2013-01-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Peter Dobratz pe...@dobratz.us writes: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.comwrote: chris gagnon chris.gag...@makeitlabs.com writes: Topic: Joshua Rosen will be talking about taking over an maintaining an open source project http

Wi-Fi security: how do you defend against this?

2013-01-25 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I ran across this interesting Wi-Fi toy/assault-weapon online a while ago: http://wifipineapple.com/ Most wireless devices including laptops, tablets and smartphones have network software that automatically connects to access points they remember. This convenient feature is what

Re: Nashua's NHLUG meeting has been bumped 1 day to Wednesday

2013-01-25 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
chris gagnon chris.gag...@makeitlabs.com writes: Topic: Joshua Rosen will be talking about taking over an maintaining an open source project http://www.foxtrotgps.org/ and GPS And, to be clear: I will *not* just be talking about how awesome a job I've done..., because I've definitely made some

Re: Windows 8 (or, more likely, UEFI) warning.

2013-01-13 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Brian Chabot br...@datasquire.net writes: UEFI is why I switched to Fedora.  It was the only distro at the time that supported UEFI out of the box, and even then, it was a little clunky. It's why I switched to buying Linux preinstalled. -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr.

Re: Call for topics for Nashua's next LUG meetings

2013-01-11 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com writes: Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: I became the maintainer for this about 2 years ago: http://www.foxtrotgps.org/ So I guess I could talk about managing (or taking over) a smallish FOSS project, dealing

Re: Call for topics for Nashua's next LUG meetings

2013-01-10 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Mac macdroi...@gmail.com writes: On 01/09/2013 04:35 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: I'd be glad to talk about my weekend project building an advanced whole-home audio system on the cheap using Linux computers with PulseAudio

Re: Call for topics for Nashua's next LUG meetings

2013-01-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
chris gagnon chris.gag...@makeitlabs.com writes: THE first Nashua LUG meeting was so much fun that we've decided to do it again. What topics do people want to hear about at the LUG meeting in Nashua? Does anyone have a topic/project that they would like to present next month or in the

Re: Call for topics for Nashua's next LUG meetings

2013-01-09 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Mac macdroi...@gmail.com writes: On 01/09/2013 04:35 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: I'd be glad to talk about my weekend project building an advanced whole-home audio system on the cheap using Linux computers with PulseAudio, MPD, and GJay. Or something about one of my other

Petitioning the White House to Promote Free Software in US Schools

2012-12-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
1.6k signatures down, 24k to go: http://wh.gov/Rz6C Discussion on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/530638/ -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Petitioning the White House to Promote Free Software in US Schools

2012-12-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
mad...@li.org jonhal...@comcast.net writes: Joshua, I cited it on my Facebook page and Tweeted about it. Some comments about it question the petition itself and the fact that a lot of educational decisions happen at the local level. On the other hand the Federal Government influences lots

Re: Petitioning the White House to Promote Free Software in US Schools

2012-12-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: mad...@li.org jonhal...@comcast.net writes: Joshua, I cited it on my Facebook page and Tweeted about it. Some comments about it question the petition itself and the fact that a lot of educational decisions happen at the local level

Re: Cataloging media - books, CDs, DVDs

2012-12-25 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Mark E. Mallett m...@mv.mv.com writes: On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:47:54AM -0500, Ben Scott wrote: Hello, list! Happy Festivus. Happy Saturnalia/Grav-mass! ABSTRACT I have decided I need to catalog my purchased media (books, CDs, DVDs). I'm seeking solution(s) to this

Re: New Nashua users group meeting January 8th

2012-12-23 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
chris gagnon chris.gag...@makeitlabs.com writes: I would like to start up a new Linux users group in Nashua, I have asked the board members at makeit labs (I am a member), if I could use the space as a meeting place and they were okay with the idea. Might be nice to have a Nashua chapter,

Re: New Nashua users group meeting January 8th

2012-12-23 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:59:21 -0500, Neil Schelly n...@jenandneil.com wrote: If the meetings aren't on Tuesday nights, I'll make a point to come. I usually can't make it to the ManchLUG meetings because I've almost always got a commitment on Tuesdays.

Re: Computer Show this Sunday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua NH

2012-12-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Message - On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:15:20 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Start of forwarded message CROWNE PLAZA NASHUA,NH THIS SUNDAY DECEMBER 9TH

Server-blockages (was: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?)

2012-12-11 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Kyle Smith askr...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else just get roughly a weeks worth of mail from the list at once? There was an issue[1] with the GNHLUG Internet server. Mail was being queued for the list server to

Re: Server-blockages (was: Delayed mail from GNHLUG?)

2012-12-11 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
mad...@li.org jonhal...@comcast.net writes: Did you remove the scroll-lock key cap? That would have been a good idea. `luckily', though, there were only ~2 people in a position to be pressing /any/ keys on the console at that point (you out there, Dave?), both knew better after this

Computer Show this Sunday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua NH

2012-12-10 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
See below. Looks like there might be some nice stocking-stuffers--like 64-GB USB flash drives for $35? Start of forwarded message CROWNE PLAZA NASHUA,NH THIS SUNDAY DECEMBER 9TH

FairPoint DNS hijacking?

2012-12-10 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Anyone else experience FairPoint DNS hijacking, this evening? Between about 16:00 and 17:00, I got home from the mall and noticed that all of my DNS lookups had started returning 10.255.255.10, which was (and, apparently, *still is*) a webserver serving one page, which reads:

Re: sched_setscheduler(2)

2012-11-08 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com writes: Does anyone have any experience with this system call? I'm trying to set to the FIFO scheduler policy (for a short time of course), and get an Operation not permitted error back - in spite of having the image SETUID and running it as root (a bit

Re: Brace expansion

2012-09-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I woke up after seeing this in a dream, this morning: echo -e 'e\nw' | xargs -I%h bash -c \ echo -e 'n\ns' | xargs -I%v bash -c \seq 1 100 \ | xargs -I%y bash -c \\\seq 1 100 \ | xargs -I%x echo '%y%v%x%h' \ | xargs -i wget

Getting US state govts hooked on FOSS: a success story

2012-09-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
I somehow stumbled onto this FOSS project run by the Washington State Department of Transportation, the other day: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/alternateroute/ From the About page http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/alternateroute/about.htm: The WSDOT Bridge and Structures

Re: Brace expansion

2012-09-22 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: I woke up after seeing this in a dream, this morning: You know you've been hacking too long when ... more than once, you have woken up recalling a dream in some

Re: World's largest web comic panel

2012-09-21 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: This is all interesting and I follow xkcd.com, but I bet there is a discussion in the xkcd comments about the best way to download it FWIW. Wait..., `the xkcd comments'? -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr.

Re: World's largest web comic panel

2012-09-20 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: Some of you may have seen xkcd #1110, Click and Drag, from Wed 19 Sep. If not: http://xkcd.com/1110/ Some people have analyzed it. If it was a conventional image, it would be 165888 x 79872 pixels (W x H). As a 32-bit uncompressed bitmap, it

Re: World's largest web comic panel

2012-09-20 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: ... thwarted by the unholy amount of hole-iness in the map: you can't just start at the center, walk until you hit `the end' of the world ... Why not? I mean, I

Re: World's largest web comic panel

2012-09-20 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com writes: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: ... thwarted by the unholy amount of hole-iness in the map: you can't just start at the center

Re: Time tracker (web-based)?

2012-09-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes: Hey, all. I know we have a fair number of contractors here, and I was wondering if anyone has a time tracker piece of software they particularly enjoy. This is for my own personal use, so I'm just looking for straightforward: something to track time,

Re: Time tracker (web-based)?

2012-09-14 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
-5534 Office. 801-938-4226 On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes: Hey, all. I know we have a fair number of contractors here, and I was wondering if anyone has a time tracker piece of software

Re: Asus USB-BT211 / Atheros AR3011 firmware loading?

2012-09-13 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org wrote: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-486 Although I suspect the dependencies might be... interesting. :) Not as bad as you'd think. We

Re: Asus USB-BT211 / Atheros AR3011 firmware loading?

2012-09-07 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org wrote: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-486 Although I suspect the dependencies might be... interesting. :) Not as bad as you'd think.

Re: Asus USB-BT211 / Atheros AR3011 firmware loading?

2012-09-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: Since I'm here, anyone have any recommendations for an itty-bitty USB/Bluetooth adapter that works well? (I'm looking for itty-bitty because I likely will also want to use it with my Eee netbook, and having a giant dongle sticking out the side of

Re: Asus USB-BT211 / Atheros AR3011 firmware loading?

2012-09-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Since I'm here, anyone have any recommendations for an itty-bitty USB/Bluetooth adapter that works well? Penguin USB Bluetooth Micro Adapter for GNU / Linux

Re: Anyone want a Debian umbrella?

2012-09-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Jon \maddog\ Hall mad...@li.org writes: Joshua, You might want to point out to people that the umbrella is available in both white and black base colors. They can look at the three pictures to see the difference. ^What maddog said :) On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 14:05 -0400, Joshua Judson

Re: Asus USB-BT211 / Atheros AR3011 firmware loading?

2012-09-04 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: I'd prefer not to have to build a new kernel from source. (Though I'd even more prefer not to have to switch to unstable/sid.) I have no idea whether you actually need a newer kernel or what, but Linux 3.2 is in squeeze-backports, e.g.:

Re: quick review of zatab

2012-09-03 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com writes: http://zareason.com/shop/zatab.html I bought a tablet from zareason and have had it for a week now. This is my first Android device and I'm still learning how to use it. I had not realized that it is missing: * GPS * Bluetooth That's not

Job developing game GUIs w/ GTK+/Linux in Las Vegas

2012-09-02 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Had this land in my inbox, the other day. To anyone who'se been lamenting `the poor state of Linux gaming', maybe this is your opportunity to do something about it ;) Actually, it's interesting to note that, if you just slightly adjust the meaning of Linux gaming to mean something other than

Re: Anyone want a Debian umbrella?

2012-09-02 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
of 6 umbrellas. Now, the question is: does that sound reasonable to you? :) -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr. On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: It looks like Debian Switzerland is selling these great Debian *umbrellas

Anyone want a Debian umbrella?

2012-09-01 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
It looks like Debian Switzerland is selling these great Debian *umbrellas*, and the price of the umbrella is reasonable but the cost of shipping from Switzerland to the US makes it silly to buy just one; is anyone interested in doing a group buy of them?

Re: Cold Patent War goes thermonuclear (was: Apple and lawsuits...Apple BEING sued)

2012-08-21 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: [I]t's WWIII in the patent universe. Remember how we used to say that no one would ever be so foolish as to start a patent war, because it'd be destructive to

Prebuilt/turn-key Linux laptop availability (was: Prebuilt/turn-key PC options)

2012-08-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:36:46 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Do you do, or have you considered doing, anything in the way of whitebox laptops with straight-up Linux installs (i.e. no Microsoft overhead)? If you want/need

Re: Prebuilt/turn-key PC options

2012-08-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:32:06 -0400, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: If you only want an adequate laptop with no Windows Tax, I suggest buying one used. I did that recently from Electronics Warehouse in Nashua. They've got many to choose from.

Re: Happy Birthday to Debian (turning 19 on Thursday)

2012-08-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org writes: On 08/13/2012 05:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120813 Thursday is Debian's 19th birthday. Anyone doing anything special? Anyone want to? Somewhere I have the first issue of Linux Journal

Re: Computer show Saturday, in Manchester

2012-08-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: http://ncshows.com/ I'm amazed they're still around. I remember buying an external 9600 BPS modem for someone from one of the NC Shows. (Or maybe it was KGP

Re: Prebuilt/turn-key PC options

2012-08-15 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
with another company like ZaReason or such? e.g.: they handle RD, you showcase and sell it (optionally (co-)installing Windows, if people want it, I guess)? Anyone else running a business that sells Linux computers, feel free to jump in, too :) Brian Chabot br...@datasquire.net writes: Joshua Judson

Happy Birthday to Debian (turning 19 on Thursday)

2012-08-13 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120813 Thursday is Debian's 19th birthday. Anyone doing anything special? Anyone want to? -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Looking for a new Linux router. Buffalo AirStation?

2012-08-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
After 13 years, I think it may finally be time to replace the PC that's been acting as the router/firewall between me, the Internet, and people looking for Wi-Fi in my neighbourhood. I've heard that Buffalo Technology ships DD-WRT pre-installed on their devices, so maybe that's what I want. But I

Re: Looking for a new Linux router. Buffalo AirStation?

2012-08-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
2012 19:59:06 -0400 Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: After 13 years, I think it may finally be time to replace the PC that's been acting as the router/firewall between me, the Internet, and people looking for Wi-Fi in my neighbourhood. I've heard that Buffalo Technology

Re: Looking for a new Linux router. Buffalo AirStation?

2012-08-05 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Will the device do 3 separate networks without the need for vlan tagging, though? VLAN tagging is how pretty much all devices are going to implement this. You really

Re: Advice on giving constructive criticism.

2012-08-01 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes: Hi, all. As you've noted, I recently kicked the tires on a bunch of videoconferencing solutions. The one that was the biggest disappointment was Openmeetings; it seemed to have a lot going for it, an incredibly active developer community, and that it was

Re: [GNHLUG] BBQ dates and decisions

2012-07-30 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: Results from the poll are in (names and votes are published now; if you're missing, let me know): http://doodle.com/aymvdxbgbcq8ftde The clear loser is Sept 8. It's a veritable tie between Aug 11 and Sept 1. Both had 9 no votes. Sept 1 had 9

Re: [GNHLUG] What day should the GNHLUG BBQ be?

2012-07-29 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: http://doodle.com/aymvdxbgbcq8ftde Whoever voted as Participant 18, your entry has been deleted. Verifiable names only, please. I wish e-mail had a `like' button. (though, to be fair to P. 18: I went the `send e-mail to Ben' route because I wasn't

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes: Hey, guys. I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution in-house, by strong preference Open Source (for both philosophical as well as financial reasons). [...] I'm completely open-minded as to an OSS solution so long as: - It's not

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Hey, guys. I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution If I say Jabber/XMPP, SIP, or H.232; or Ekiga, Pidgin, Empathy, or Jitsi..., does it mean

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes: Hey, guys. I've been tasked with bringing a video conferencing solution If I say Jabber/XMPP, SIP, or H.232; or Ekiga, Pidgin, Empathy, or Jitsi..., does it mean that I've misunderstood the question? I expect so, given that at least a

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: If I say Jabber/XMPP, SIP, or H.232; or Ekiga, Pidgin, Empathy, or Jitsi..., does it mean that I've misunderstood the question? I expect so, given that at least

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

2012-07-27 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes: On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:02:01 -0400 Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote Please clarify server side. Do you mean you're looking for recommendations on central server software to coordinate traditional video conferencing client software, or do you

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes: Those who use terms like immune or virus-proof when discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither is true. Ouch. Ooops. I forgot about your signature line. ;- I gave careful consideration to adopting my current

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Since it's likely (inevitable?) that compromised Linux systems will someday be involved in sensational headlines, I'd think it would be even more

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-19 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: On 07/18/2012 09:39 PM, Bill Sconce wrote: What's more surprising, over the past few weeks I've been removing Java from all my clients' Windows PCs. At first I was afraid something would break, but itt seems THEY'VE never really needed Java either. (I'm

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