Re: Reminder/RSVP -- meet *this Thursday* for chat & beer.

I'll be there. Note that we'll be there at date/time 2020 Feb 20 @ 20:02:02 In odometer format, that's two days before the palindrome 2020000202 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Nashua-area folks -- meet up?

I should be able to make it, pretty much any time. > Well, I'll take point on calling Martha's -- if, that is, enough people > reply to warrant grabbing a bigger table. Anybody got a preferred time? > It's heading toward Feb, and we should probably push it out far enough > that there's a

Re: Nashua-area folks -- meet up?

I'd be interested. It has been a long, long while. I remember some almost grown kid named Ben. I wonder whatever happened to him. > It's been brought to my attention by someone (*cough*Ben*cough*) that > it's been a long, long time since we got together for Linux, grub and > suds. While I

Re: TECO! was, err, COBOL on HPUX

> ... He wrote an assembler using it. And several games > including, I think, Conway's game of life (*). > > Not much of a story, I know. > > -mm- > > (*)which can be written in anything, I suppose, even TECO. Please don't tempt me. It would be a good TECO hack and pretty straightforward. :-)

Re: Netiquette (was: Need to copy a 200GB directory)

Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > On 06/27/2017 10:01 PM, R. Anthony Lomartire wrote: >> OK, my apologies for hijacking this thread, I haven't been on a mailing list >> in forever but I will apply proper >> etiquette. Can I just ask what you mean by "top post" though? > Not everyone reads or even

Re: What Language for a kid

Alan Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Bill Freeman wrote: >> I can't resist.  There is always lisp.  No indentation.  No semicolons.  >> Format it so that it makes sense to you.  Anyone approaching algebra will >> get the bonus of learning that parentheses

Re: New malware at work? Fake referrer 11m.php and trying various .asp URLs.

Oh how cute. After a break yesterday AM, the "assault" resumed. One new actor is from abuser.eu. My guess is that's an official site that is investigating the malware, as the registration info is impossibly brief: $ whois abuser.eu Domain: abuser.eu Registrant: NOT DISCLOSED!

New malware at work? Fake referrer 11m.php and trying various .asp URLs.

My web hit counter reported 56K references to miscellaneous pages. Lots of references from poneytelecom.eu (and others), mostly to .asp pages that don't exist, and a referrer string of 11m.php to both my domains hosted at bizland.com, e.g. 08:22:23 ADMIN/cache.asp

Re: symlink confusion

> Sorry about this primitive question, sometimes I get confused about > the order.  As I have found online, the description is > ln -s /path/to/file path/to/symlink. > However, this still confuses me.  Which is which in my example? Yeah, that's pretty poor wording. I gave up on it a long time

Re: Looking for an intern to play with a Linux-powered robot fleet

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: Is this an unpaid internship? If so, I'm wondering how different this is compared to: ... ps. this is not a personal attack, I'm seriously wondering if this is what current CS grads have to look forward

Re: poking around for opportunities

roger.levass...@comcast.net writes: If it's just a regular PC running in a kiosk, that's completely different than what I was picturing. Oh heavens, haven't you ever seen a kiosk with a BSOD? Check out https://www.google.com/search?q=bsod+kiosksafe=offsource=lnmstbm=ischsa=X (trimmed a

Re: high school python classes

I've volunteered to assist with a pre-engineering course at the local high school. The plan is to give the kids (Juniors) some exposure to different engineering disciplines. Some 40 days or so will be devoted to Python and programming. I'm hoping for suggestions on special topics and

Re: sonargnulinux.com assistive ?

Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes: Seriously? That WWW page renders (at least on my Android phone and on Firefox on my desktop box) as small-print, low-contrast grey font on dark purple background... No--some parts (the

Re: Mother of all xterms?

The reasoning was that it was now a Consortium effort and no single developer should get credit over another. Oh gag me with a spoon. Okay, fork(2). Given all the people who've worked on C over the years, perhaps we should declare that C stands for Community. :-) Just to drag on the

Re: Resume length and history

When Alliant (mini-supercomputer company) folded in 1992, I came up with a two page resume that covered my whole career, but then wrote one page addenda tailored to the company and job I was interviewing for. Having worked on everything from PDP-10s and the ARPAnet to dot matrix printers to

Re: Files, unloving, access, oh my.

Why do you feel files are so unloved? :) Why was Ken unliking his files? I just went a step in the wrong direction. :-) It looks like my original reply didn't copy to the list due to me sending from my other Email account. So, one more time: From: Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com On Tue,

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

I'm confused about UEFI. So let me ask a couple of basic questions. At some point I need to modernize my computing platforms to get into GPU computing, so I'd like to get a lot more capable machine. I am still harboring the fantasy that it is still possible to assemble one's own desktop

Re: mosh

I know that one of the major differences is that it provides buffered I/O with local echo so it can greatly improve a remote terminal experience over a high latency connection. That's been part of the the telnet protocol since day one. (Well, the new protocol from 1972 or so.) I don't know

Re: I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

Less useful account, perhaps. In order to put off upgrading my Suse 10.1 desktop system (Firefox V2), last year I decided to buy a cheap laptop, and found a $150 off deal on a Lenovo G560 system for $400. I forget the specs, let me know if you want them. It came with Windows 7 Home, the old

Re: [semi-OT] SPAM email headers don't mention my email address?

I'm getting much less SPAM in the last year or so (yay!) and I gather that's at least partly due to the shutdown of some botnets. And I hate to say anything positive about ComCast but I think another factor is that their filters are pretty good. I got tired of some of the spam I was getting

[FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

Had an interesting conversation this evening. A snipped version basically was: op: You like to use a lot of Open Source Software don't you? Don't you know it is not 'standard' here? me: Hmm. What part of free, efficient and fast don't you care for? op: (no answer) I appreciate the

Re: Bell System Technical Journal archives published

Some choice pickings: In-Band Single-Frequency Signaling (1954) This was the paper that enabled the infamous blue boxes http://bstj.bell-labs.com/oldfiles/year.1954/BSTJ.1954.3306.html I think this may have only the 2600 hz tone used to get control of the trunk. The other signaling was

Re: [OT] Iceland volcano photos

Totally off-topic, but oh so cool: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html Wait until Katla erupts. It has 6-12 months after e15l the last three eruptions. Then there's always Laki, see

Re: NFS stops responding

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Ric Werme ewe...@comcast.net wrote:   It doesn't help that, in early implementations at least, NFS's default error recovery mechanism is apparently hang the whole machine until it starts working again. News to me, except on diskless clients with too little

Re: NFS stops responding

It doesn't help that, in early implementations at least, NFS's default error recovery mechanism is apparently hang the whole machine until it starts working again. News to me, except on diskless clients with too little RAM. My 8MB Sun 3/50 once started making a beep just as its server went

Re: NFS stops responding

One thing I don't like about your setup is that you have 2 different machines serving NFS directories to each other. This seems not to have elicited any response, pro or con. I know of no reasons in principle why two machines can't simultaneously act as NFS clients and NFS servers - are

We need a better Internet in America

From: Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com I hope this message is considered on topic because  a) the Internet was/is built on Linux You just lost all of us who worked on ARPAnet. Of course, there aren't that many of us, so maybe it doesn't matter. The follow on to the ARPAnet, the

Re: NFS stops responding

The client isn't seeing the replies? Blame the router, blame the router! Heh. I'd love to, and I just acquired a brand new switch to use as an experimental replacement for the one currently deployed. I'll be ecstatic if that fixes thing, though I'm not optimistic. From your last note

NFS stops responding

After machine A exhibited the problem I *think* I see evidence in /var/log/messages that the NFS client code has decided it never got a response from the server (B) to some NFS request, so it retransmits the request and (I think) it then concludes that the retransmitted request also went

Re: OpenOffice question

Word Perfect is still the application of choice for many law offices. If you do legal transcription, you often have to certify that you have a valid WP license and the latest program. Some statistics (wikipedia) show WP with 15% of the business market. Lawyers are quite often behind the

Re: Printing across multiple pages?

Does anybody have a favorite tool for spitting a print job across multiple pages (enlargement to be re-assembled / poor-man's large-format output)? There's a 34x94 poster at http://joannenova.com.au/2010/01/finally-the-new-revised-and-edited-climategate-timeline/ that comes complete or as a

Re: OT: Google humor

Nice. Reminds me of that old C book, the original one from way back. The index listed all the pages for the word recursion including that page of the index. I wrote a manaul for a PDP-10 IO package from Harvard, in the index I included one entry for the index.

Re: It appears that Cisco has decided to deep six the Linksys line...

Like this is the first time a company's ever done that. As Gerry Hull says, Typical marketing stuff. I'd be amazed if Cisco canceled LinkSys. It remains one of the most popular consumer networking brands. They could bring it back as Linksys Classic.

Re: [OT] Nostalgia alert!

http://phreakmonkey.com/index.php/archives/134 I identified with the 3rd photo. The soft cups for the handset were typical of the genre. Error injection was trivial - tap the handset with a pencil. Of course the circuitry was analog - other than dialing, the phone system was analog. You can

Re: UNIX license plate

Ted Roche wrote: Anyone else have a geeky plate they want to share? Mine isn't geeky, but I've had SUNDEW for ages. (It's for both Sundew Systems when I was a one person consulting company and a bug-eating plant in Amherst's Ponemah Bog.) My wife's H8DCYF is not geeky, but is infamous. Not

Re: OT: Continuous mode UPSes

Ben Scott wrote: The power factor on PC power supplies is often as bad as 0.6, so this is a big difference. More recently, PFC (Power Factor Correction) supplies have improved that to around 0.8 or 0.9. Power factor originally referred to motors and other inductive loads that have a peak

Re: flock and NFS

I've always been wary of using flock on NFS. Am I being superstitious? No. Especially flock(2), as some Unixes treated that separately from lockf(3) and fcntl(2). Flock on those systens only did local locking and didn't call the file system, with fcntl being the only system interface to the

Re: FYI: The Unix philosophy

I had the need to write some Perl code recently which forced me to pull out Learning Perl from the bookshelf. Larry Wall wrote a very entertaining forward that takes issue with some of these principles. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=572875 Definitely worth reading and provides some

Re: Timing file read/write over NFS

First, read http://h30097.www3.hp.com/tipnfs.html . While I wrote it for Tru-64 Unix systems, it has a lot of good information for any NFS environment. I don't have much experience with NFS on Linux, so my comments will be more general than useful. Re: Jumbo frames. A 1500 byte GbE frame takes

[GNHLUG] Silly C/C++ question...

I am sure I will kick myself when I find out the answer, but... I have a text file that for now consists of 3 lines, later it will have data. line 1: integer representing the array size line 2: four doubles separated by commas line 3: \n Here is the code fragment that I have

[Python-talk] NFS trickery and deceit

on the workstation you shold be all set. (On a different client, the open should force checking with the server to see if the file changes, and even that should work.) NFS locking is only important if two clients both have the file open and are modifying it. -Ric Werme -- Coming soon - which way

Re: Search-and-replace text in Firefox

Ben wrote: Anyone know of a Firefox extension or Greasemonkey userscript which provides an ad hoc search-and-replace text feature? I frequently find myself wanting to do this within an HTML form's TEXTAREA box, or even across multiple text fields. I could, of course, copy-and-paste to

Re: META: message encoding/MIME types

... It could be we simply have some vocal Luddites (hell, I'm usually one of that group), and most other people are perfectly happy with this radical new stuff from circa 1988. Or maybe everybody here thinks HTML mail is ugly, promulgated by Microsoft and AOL, and an evil waste of time,

Re: META: message encoding/MIME types

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Roger H. Goun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text This should be decode to 8-bit clean plain text. Nope. Not if you're talking strict RFC-821/822 compliance. The specs say ASCII. ASCII is properly a 7-bit

Re: Converting HTML and MIME to plain text mail

2008/10/7 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Roger H. Goun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text This should be decode to 8-bit clean plain text. Nope. Not if you're talking strict RFC-821/822 compliance. ...

Re: Price/Performance of time

This from the guy who brought core memory to a LUG show-and-tell. You always end up topping all the I remember when conversations. No fair starting them, too. ;-) Sorry Ben, I really don't mean it to be a contest. I just do it every once in a while to put some reality back into what has

Re: UPS disposal options?

and a UPS is pretty much just a broken stereo receiver. -Ric Werme -- Coming soon - which way is the climate changing? http://WermeNH.com/climate/science.html[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http

Re: Please trim quoted text (was: General Procedure)

The server was also sending out several digests with a single message. I thought someone had changed the configuration until I looked at one. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman

Re: HP releases AdvFS under GPL-2

Instead I worked for the IRS for a while, had a couple of consulting jobs (one in a county jail in Maine :-). Interesting pairing. Did one lead to the other and was room and board included? :-) -Ric ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: HP releases AdvFS under GPL-2

skills left. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

PCB design (was MITS Altair...

I'm not sure who said what: But some of the Inspirons have multi-layer motherboards. On these boards, there are runs *inside* the fiberglass, completely covered and inaccessible to a soldering iron. Ohhh, that's a good point. I didn't think of that. Pretty much all motherboards are

Re: power meters

if you know the power draw, you tend to not know the duty cycle. Unitil replaced my power meter with something they can read over the power lines. I've never gotten around to asking them if I could read that on demand (e.g. from a crontab entry). -Ric Werme

Re: Greetings!

Ben Scott wrote: If sometimes the more experienced LUG members seem to get caught up in debating the number of angels which can dance on the head of a pin (I'm certainly guilty of this), pay it no mind. I thought that was resolved. It's 42. -Ric P.S. Welcome!

Packard Bell, was: Re: Eee PC hands on?

-Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

[OT] Windows registry (was: managing applications)

Ben Scott misread my mail and got bent outta shape: On Jan 9, 2008 1:42 AM, Ric Werme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we could keep everything in a binary database. We'll call it a registry. DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DI-- Er, sorry. Reflex action. DIE is too strong

Re: managing applications

cur.dewpt:r:32.450265 cur.frostpt:r:32.386522 cur.rain_rate:r:0.00 cur.storm_rain:r:0.00 cur.temp:r:32.70 cur.wind:i:0 cur.wind_chill:i:33 cur.wind_compass:s:--- DIE is too strong a word. Replace, simplify, constrain are far more useful. -Ric Werme

Re: New Edisons? Was: [OT] Simple math considered physics

of Style. Design it, get it working, optimize it, then release it. Code, prose, electronics, it's all the same. :-) On Friday 23 November 2007 23:56, Ben Scott wrote: On Nov 23, 2007 9:47 PM, Ric Werme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No More Edisons? I find sweet irony in the tone of this essay

New Edisons? Was: [OT] Simple math considered physics

to be memorable. I'll fix it someday. No More Edisons? -by Ric Werme One of my childhood heroes was Thomas Edison. No, I'm not old enough to know him - but his eldest daughter gave me my first book about him. Aunt Marion lived next door to my grandparents was one of my grandmother's

Re: Gimme that old time interface...

what Gnome is and isn't, nor do I particularly care. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

If you want a really powerful computer....

. It's down to #91. 426 system run Linux(!), 32 run Unix, 2 run MacOS. IBM's AIX has 24 of the Unixes, it looks like HP-UX is on none. See http://www.top500.org/lists/2007/11 if you're interested. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Re: Ignition (was Re: tftp config problem (ltsp))

be failing. Using a homogenous speed on a network doesn't work well either at times. One NFS client reading from two servers can clog its incoming link just fine. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http

Re: Comcast

Expiration Date: 04-feb-2010 Mallett, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course, they were around before the Internet went commercial, back when dial-up was cool. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http

Re: Shell tips and tricks

| { read magic foo echo foo = $foo # the rest of the code which needs access to foo } That is truly aw(e)ful, you should be ashamed of yourself! Umm, I need to keep a copy somewhere. It would be good for passing environment variables up the process tree too. -Ric Werme

Re: [OT] xkcd

when I'd be in. The overnight shifts were during the full moon so it never got really dark. I'd like to do it again, but synced with the other low tide, and spend all night with a telescope during new moon. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Admin horror stories (was: Shell Quoting)

with NFS. It was a struggle to remember to type the /mnt before the /etc/passwd so I tried to cd to the target directory copy files in. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug

Re: Tacoma Narrows bridge (was: MySQL v. PostgreSQL ...)

One symptom which indicates that programmers are amateurs is that they prematurely optimize. That's certainly true in compiler design, but ... More HP! Oh - hp. I thought you were talking about printers. :-) So real engineers laugh at the 10 more horsepower crowd. Yes, but, one

Re: Network Character Device (NCD)?

suffer seeks gladly. All that's one of the reasons why NFS doesn't really work with anything but disk filesystems. As for accessing character and block devices, if you want to just read or write, rsh or ssh generally works. Ioctls, of course, are not so simple. -Ric Werme

Re: The cent key

to pass the parity test. -Ric Werme P.S. The only thing worse than fan-fold paper tape is non-fan-fold paper tape. - Bob Clements ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: cpp replaced by m4?

, they process indefinite repeats and step through items in a list of characters in a name. All in all, cpp was a big disappointment, and m4 offered so little stuff that was familiar I never bothered to try it. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Stupid server semantic argument

paid for the equipment up front.  Gee, this sounds like the TOS for TVs in the house as well. Now, everyone gets a linksys and does it themselves.  And I believe Comcast has change the ToS to permit that, for both TVs and computers. -Ric Werme

Re: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? OT: PC Gigabit Throughput Question

. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

RE: OT: PC Gigabit Throughput Question

. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: authoring math documents (tex?)

for which it is eligible. You've been warned. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: MS Services for Unix permission problems

. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: MS Services for Unix permission problems

. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: NCShows, Rockingham Park, Saturday, April 14th

buy one at the next fair. A lot of the vendors have small stores in the general area and will provide post-sale support, at least for system-level stuff. That was then, I suspect now is similar. Good way for a geek to spend a Saturday AM, good way to see what sort of stuff is available. -Ric

Re: Threading and digests

: 10 On 3/27/07, Ric Werme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the technical side, one problem with this list is that it's infeasible for digest recipients to reply to a thread and preserve the thread history ... Switching your settings from plain text to a MIME digest will solve this problem

Re: Dividing The List Considered Harmful

who had just joined this list and was beginning to think that was a mistake. -Ric Werme Engineers are unreasonable people. -- NH Judge John Korbey [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://werme.8m.net/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux

as much on topic, unless I upload the video from MacOS, but that's really BSD so that's close enough) Or maybe I'll give up on the Linux discussion mailing list and just go to the PySig meetings. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Re: Packrat or Archivist?

surely agree. My Univac 1108 programming was done on punch cards, but by then we had core memory and drums were relegated to temporary file storage. - Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Long stupid debate on OOXML and the year 1900

, the magnitude of all the other crap that ought to be modernized, or that the old files don't have enough information if the author is relying on the Gregorian calendar or already worked around the bug? -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Notes from PySIG, 23-Feb-2007

work on the various platforms, so do Python apps. Not news to Java programmers (kinda, sorta). As long as a Python app doesn't do OS-specific stuff, it should run on various platforms. Now, three different platforms talking to that projector - that _is_ a surprise. -Ric Werme

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64

might be comfortable on a modern PC, but those ignored some rather basic stuff like mountains and oceans. Sure, Microsoft has a well-deserved reputation for bloat, but please make claims that are supportable to reduce the noise level on this list. -Ric Werme

Re: And the prize goes to... Re: Oops. And a brainteaser.

, that way I'll reply less too. Win-win. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: [OT] End-user uses for x86-64 (was: Why are still not at 64 bits)

PC board area and cost justified. Don't forget backlight, disk, and other substantial power consumers! -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Why are still not at 64 bits

100 years. It might have something to do with global warming. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Evolution sucks??

it has absolutely no chance of properly executing a HTML worm. -Ric Werme -- Engineers are unreasonable people. -- NH Judge John Korbey [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://werme.8m.net/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: httpd lineage

, they map them to userid 65534, (sorta not really -2), which is nobody. So, create files owned by nobody, and remote superusers can play with them. -Ric Werme -- Engineers are unreasonable people. -- NH Judge John Korbey [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://werme.8m.net

*NIX on Itanium

meeting, it was followed by hoots of laughter. Next time, be sure to include Merced. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: [Fwd: don't we all just love vista?]

it may take to support Vista and Aero on a laptop, that may help reduce the price spread between PC and Mac FreeBSD Unix with support - sounds like a fine thing to recommend a relative who doesn't need something PC-only ware. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug

impromptu web server using netcat

on file copy. The second link above shows how to move a tar file when router issues prevent a direct connection by using a third system as a relay. -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org

Re: OT: Solstice

Ben Scott wrote: On 12/16/06, Ric Werme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The solstices are when the the Sun is directly overhead at some point on the Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn. I thought Solstice was the system software division of Sun Microsystems. Oh, you're talking about

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also: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/ http://werme.8m.net/eqoftm.html http://www.analemma.com/ http://werme.8m.net/sun.html -Ric Werme ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Kill-a-watt devices

://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/7657/ -Ric Werme -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://werme.8m.net/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/