Re: TAKEN: Request for reviewer, Apress Pro Linux System Administration
I've received a review copy of Apress' Pro Linux System Administration. If anyone is willing to review it -- as little as a couple hundred words you'll post publicly, to the GNHLUG mailing list, wiki, and/or Amazon or other online review sites, within a reasonable period (maybe six weeks?) -- let me know and I'll arrange to pass the book along to you for your review. It's a hefty book, weighing in at 1050+ pages. Please only volunteer if you think you can give it a review in a timely manner. Thanks. Alex Hewitt was the first to step up to volunteer to review the book. Thanks, Alex! Looking forward to the review! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[OT] - Recovery of data from DVD-R
May be Linux related, if anyone can suggest Linux tools to use. :-) A friend has a DVD-R which contains sentimental documents from her mother father who passed away recently. The DVD is unreadable. The DVD-R was burned April 2008 and was stored since then in a bubble-wrap envelope and, by the appearance, squeezed under a pile or between books. The surface of the DVD has an imprint of the bubble wrap on the surface, which several cleaning passes (DVD cleaner alcohol with a microfiber cloth from a DVD cleaning kit) did not completely remove. The disk simply fails to read anything. Any suggestions? Including data recovery services who might be able to help. Thanks. -- Dan Jenkins, Rastech Inc. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] - Recovery of data from DVD-R
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Dan Jenkinsd...@rastech.com wrote: A friend has a DVD-R which contains sentimental documents ... ... DVD has an imprint of the bubble wrap on the surface ... If sufficiently valuable, I would suggest a professional outfit. I've used CBL for hard disks before. They do other media, too. One thing I like about them is they give you a free quote, and they have a no data, no charge policy. You mail them the media. They give you the quote. If you decline, they mail the media back. If you accept, they attempt recovery. If they succeed, you pay for the results. http://www.cbldatarecovery.com/ If DIY is more appropriate: The recording surface of an optical disc is between held layers of protective plastic. It's actually thicker on the reading side. You can remove a very thin amount of that layer and it will still work. In other words, abrade off the damaged surface. They sell kits to do this at Radio Shack, etc. Typically there is an abrasive paste, a cleaner/polisher you use after, and some kind of stand to keep the surface even. Below is one such kit, found with Google. I have no experience with this product; this is not an endorsement, just an example: http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Innovations-10185-Motorized-AutoMax/dp/B00080YK9Y -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] - Recovery of data from DVD-R
- Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: May be Linux related, if anyone can suggest Linux tools to use. :-) A friend has a DVD-R which contains sentimental documents from her mother father who passed away recently. The DVD is unreadable. The DVD-R was burned April 2008 and was stored since then in a bubble-wrap envelope and, by the appearance, squeezed under a pile or between books. The surface of the DVD has an imprint of the bubble wrap on the surface, which several cleaning passes (DVD cleaner alcohol with a microfiber cloth from a DVD cleaning kit) did not completely remove. The disk simply fails to read anything. Any suggestions? Including data recovery services who might be able to help. Thanks. Did you try copy the disk? dd if=/dev/dvd of=/somethingelse This has *sometimes* worked for me with unreadable or damaged media. good luck. -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. 603.924.6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Pearson User Group Monthly newsletter
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more on CentOS
* * The Future of CentOS and Criteria For Choosing a Business DistributionBy Caitlyn Martin http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2654 August 5, 2009 | Comments: 18http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/08/the-future-of-centos-and-crite.html#comments http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/08/the-future-of-centos-and-crite.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: more on CentOS
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:27 PM, David Hardybelovedbold...@gmail.com wrote: The Future of CentOS and Criteria For Choosing a Business Distribution By Caitlyn Martin I don't think that person knows what they're talking about in this case. While Fermilab isn't going anywhere, the people who maintain Scientific Linux could loose their jobs, be transferred, or simply be ordered to stop maintaining it. It's not like SL is the raison d'etre for Fermilab; it's just a tool to them. I don't see SL as much different from CentOS in that regard. If you really want a company connected to your Linux distro, at least go with Ubuntu or SuSE or Fedora or some other distro which is used to directly generate a company's actual product. The company has a vested interest in keeping their product alive. And we all know that's hardly a guarantee, either. Products get discontinued for any number of reasons. Entire companies go bankrupt. Nortel, one of the biggest telecom equipment manufactures in the world, is in the process of liquidation right now. Tons of businesses have been buying their stuff for decades. Now what? I *do* think this CentOS shitstorm highlights the fact that any organization can be dysfunctional, and having a dysfunctional organization coordinating your distro isn't the greatest thing in the world. Hopefully CentOS will be cleaning up their act a bit with this; it sounds like that's already started. I'm cautiously optimistic. As another example, look at Debian. While SPI provides the legal footing a large project needs, Debian is still basically an all-volunteer effort. But Debian has a great management structure in place as far as the organization goes; things don't threaten to dissolve into chaos just because one guy goes AWOL. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: melodrama at CentOS?
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: Still, all kinds of providers go through leadership changes and ousters all the time - this one is being done open-source style. That seems to have some media people freaked out. The whole `open-ness' idea still seems to be `new and unsettling' to a lot of people; even people who are accustomed to open development in software still get freaked-out when the open methodology is applied in areas other than straight-up software development. Openmoko, for example, has repeatedly had issues with the open development model that they've used for their smartphone/palmtop/whatever hardware and software: a bunch of things that were more like `team status meetings', `team morale-raising sessions', etc. were all mis-taken as being `press releases' and `marketing promises'. When the `expected release-dates' slipped, the onlookers cried doom because the company had `failed to deliver on its promises'; when the `mass production' version of the hardware became available without readty-to-go, everyman-UI smartphone /software/ preloaded, a lot of people called foul on that. A `review' video appeared on Vimeo, called OpenMoko Train Wreck, where the `reviewer' said things like the software is so rough that I'm surprised that they're charging this much for the hardware (what?), I know the bezel's there to keep the screen from getting scratched, because they couldn't afford a glass screen... (what?), and ultimately concluding that it (paraphrased) `doesn't stand up to the iPhone, and anyone who tells you otherwise is playing a cruel joke on you'. But /of course/ the software wasn't going to be finished until after the hardware became available, and /of course/ the addresses to the engineering-teams were optimistic. There's actually been nothing damning, or even unusual, in their development-process--except that the things that are usually hidden away in the corporate bowels have been happening out in the open, and the `engineering teams' have been distributed throughout the same general-admission seating as the end users and the press (so a challenge being faced is to communicate with one segment of the audience without having the rest of the audience hear it--I guess that's called... politics?). One of their more notable communication-failures was when Sean Moss-Pultz announced that a speculative project in an early planning stage was being cancelled, and the news-articles that resulted from that bore headlines like opensource phone company goes out of business. People keep comparing the Openmoko project(s) to the iPhone, also--quite unfavourably. Mainly, I think, it's just because the iPhone `appeared fully-formed' where everyone's been able to watch all of the Openmoko developments happening out in the open. But if you look at the events that were hidden inside Apple leading up to the iPhone's release (and the start-to-finish timeline), the pace of Openmoko's progress is actually pretty impressive; even moreso if you consider other factors like the relative amounts of funding that they had, and the final prices (without carrier subsidies) of the different products. And /of course/ the Openmoko devices don't compare to the iPhone--it's (forgive me) Apples to oranges; The iPhone doesn't compare very well if what you want is a FreeRunner, either ;) So, yeah--the world at large is seemingly still, ever so slowly, coming to grips with the notion of `transparency'. -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: melodrama at CentOS?
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: Still, all kinds of providers go through leadership changes and ousters all the time - this one is being done open-source style. That seems to have some media people freaked out. The whole `open-ness' idea still seems to be `new and unsettling' to a lot of people; even people who are accustomed to open development in software still get freaked-out when the open methodology is applied in areas other than straight-up software development. Openmoko, for example, has repeatedly had issues with the open development model that they've used for their smartphone/palmtop/whatever hardware and software: a bunch of things that were more like `team status meetings', `team morale-raising sessions', etc. were all mis-taken as being `press releases' and `marketing promises'. Rather, I should say that they've repeatedly had [public relations] problems *due to* their open development model. The open development model itself is working just fine :) -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: melodrama at CentOS?
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Joshua Judson Rosenroz...@geekspace.com wrote: People keep comparing the Openmoko project(s) to the iPhone, also--quite unfavourably. Mainly, I think, it's just because the iPhone `appeared fully-formed' ... Well, in all fairness, there have been a lot of FOSS zealots talking up the Moko for *years* online, in magazines, press releases, etc. You keep telling people that something is going to be the best thing since swap space, and eventually some people might start to listen. But yah, overall, I think you're spot-on. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Open development confuses the masses (was Re: melodrama at CentOS?)
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Ben Scottdragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Joshua Judson Rosenroz...@geekspace.com wrote: People keep comparing the Openmoko project(s) to the iPhone, also--quite unfavourably. Mainly, I think, it's just because the iPhone `appeared fully-formed' ... Well, in all fairness, there have been a lot of FOSS zealots talking up the Moko for *years* online, in magazines, press releases, etc. You keep telling people that something is going to be the best thing since swap space, and eventually some people might start to listen. But yah, overall, I think you're spot-on. In even more fairness, the same thing happened with Linux. In the early days, it compared poorly to Windows and Mac because it was not yet trying to be those things. Also to Joshua's point, Windows and Mac compared poorly to Linux if you wanted to turn your PC into a UNIX-workstation environment on your PC or a low-cost server. The zealots cried long and hard then about how great Linux was and only now that we have later versions of Ubuntu (and the like) do we have something that actually is better than Windows/Mac in all counts except some proprietary pet-software aside and some drivers by hardware manufacturers that STILL don't get that people are willing to do their driver development for free. I think what it breaks down to is that the zealots get excited about the cool new cutting edge for very different reasons than the general public. In many cases, the geeks are excited about the potential of a project or what it represents philosophically rather than today's practical applications for the general public. Openmoko is again a good example as Sean Moss-Pultz says as much in a FLOSS Weekly netcast (http://twit.tv/floss69). It all boils down to all people not speaking clearly 100% of the time and most of the public not listening with a true intent to understand and therefore run off on wild tangents with irrelevant comparisons based on false assumptions. From what I know of the project, the FreeRunner has already done surpassed anything an iPhone could dream of being in numerous specialized applications. In fact, the whole concept of specialized applications does not really apply in any closed platform like the iPhone... Well... not when compared to open platforms. =) That is to say, open platforms are arbitrarily easier to apply to specialized problem domains. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
