Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote: On 02/13/2009 06:29 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote: I could not find any adequate business accounting packages for Linux. I'm going to be trying out Postbooks once I get my current set of billing out (currently on LedgerSMB, a

Launchpad to be free

2009-02-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
OK, so I guess I must have been sleeping, or people aren't as interested in this as I am, but I just found out that Canonical has committed to releasing Launchpad by 21 July 2009 under the GNU Affero license v3 https://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing

[SOLVED] OpenOffice 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 on Ubuntu (plus migrate templates and dictionaries)

2009-03-13 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I had several installations of OpenOffice running side-by-side (not that I wanted it that way -- it just kinda happened [1]); plus various historical directories where user settings are stored (dating back to 3 computers ago and OpenOffice 1.1. Today I cleaned up and wrote a blog post about it.

Online Book / Reference sites

2009-03-18 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I just found this interesting site that is like the TLDP.org site (but doesn't appear to take contributions) called Linuxtopia (http://www.linuxtopia.org/) I found it while searching for a good bash reference: It is a collection of free-license books and manuals. So, they have for example The

Re: Online Book / Reference sites

2009-03-18 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote: Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: The site is devoid of any ads... I saw some ads here: http://www.linuxtopia.org/register/index.html Actually looks like there is a banner of text ads at the top and graphic ads

Building / Buying a MythTV box

2009-03-20 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm finally going to purchase the hardware to make my Myth(dora|buntu|TV) dreams a reality. My goal is to have a free software Home Theater that does movies/photos/music/TV plus Internet browsing and email. I'd even like to be able to use applications (e.g. gnucash) or games from the couch using

Re: Building / Buying a MythTV box

2009-03-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com wrote: On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:48:59 Ben Scott wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I was thinking of getting the Dell Studio Hybrid ... or the System76 Koala Mini

Re: Out of memory while booting? update

2009-04-06 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Would you happen to be running and Windoze drivers, say via the NDIS wrapper, on this system? I have a notebook which I'm troubleshooting, and it locks up on boot (hangs on the networking phase) and I think ndiswrappers might be used because it's an Atheros chipset, so I'm wondering what info

Employment Security and Job Searching (was: Keeping private data private)

2009-04-17 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
 (Just to be fair: Crypto is useful, and has lots of applications. It's just not a cure-all, and can't help with most of the big security weaknesses one sees in the real world.) humor Does employment security improve if you get a job in crypto? /humor For the tenth time in 10 years (the

Re: OT: Employment Security Options

2009-04-19 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com writes:     I doubt anyone will go start a guild today.  The working conditions just aren't bad enough.  American professionals live very well by world standards. What's the

Re: FREE: misc components

2009-04-29 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Offered are some random computer components, including: half a dozen mice (some USB and some PS/2), PCI 10/100 enet adapters graphics adapters, a parallel printer cable, several IDE CDROM drives, etc.  In

tar -x without clobbering directories

2009-05-05 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I was trying to unpack a Drupal distribution (which is provided as a tar archive) without overwriting nor erasing an existing subdirectory (called sites) and found that even when using --exclude I would not get the intended result. The archive contains a basic sites directory which is where you

Re: tar -x without clobbering directories

2009-05-05 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: My Debian system's tar identifies itself as tar (GNU tar) 1.22 and the output generated with --help includes the following excerpt where that --no-overwrite-dir option sounds like what you wanted:  

Re: tar -x without clobbering directories

2009-05-05 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Tom McLaughlin tmcla...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: Just curios, are you saying that when extracting Drupal everything under sites/ is wiped out?  For example any files created by you and not in the  Drupal tarball are gone after extraction?  That's the sense I got

Re: UNIX license plate

2009-05-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I had my (Compaq) LINUX Live Free or Die NH mock plate mounted on my shed facing the street. When I had my house (and shed) painted, the painters took my LINUX plate. I never complained, but I miss it. Anyone still have any? -- Greg Rundlett Web Developer - Initiative in Innovative Computing

Mythtv users + Comcast subscribers

2009-05-29 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
A recent Mythtv user, I have been going through a lot of effort to get my (Comcast) channel lineup associated with the program data that I get from SchedulesDirect. Now there is help for people like me. Due to the fact that Comcast is distributing little Digital to Analog converters (along with

Re: [OT] DTV switch-over (was: Mythtv users + Comcast subscribers)

2009-05-29 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly n...@jenandneil.com wrote:  I've got 3 analog tuners and no plans to pay for digital cable anytime soon.  Depending on what you want, you may not have to.  FCC rules say

Re: Mythtv users + Comcast subscribers

2009-05-29 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
More specifically, there is a project on sourceforge with the tools for grabbing this info and putting it into your Mythtv database. See http://scte65scan.sourceforge.net/ I forgot to mention, there is a very informative page about this on the MythTV wiki

VirtualBox Ubuntu host with existing Vista

2009-06-01 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm new to virtualization, and want to find a solution to run my existing (from the factory) installation of Windows Vista as a guest in my Ubuntu host. I have Ubuntu installed. I basically want to run Ubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope) as the VirtualBox host, and be able to seamlessly run Windows Vista

[HUMOR] GNU Linux - with anti-viral formula

2009-07-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
http://www.schnews.co.uk/images/560-linux-large.jpg -- Greg Rundlett ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Moving to a new employment position, I'm once again faced with purchasing some computer equipment. I'm wondering what hardware, software and combination people like the best for working seamlessly in the office AND home office environment. I'm not really a traveller - so I don't have to do the

Re: best office/home office setup - the telecommuter

2009-07-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:26 PM, John Abreauj...@blu.org wrote: I just bought a couple Thinkpads for a couple of our engineers, and one thing I ran into was a difference in supported screen resolutions.  The T500 is 1680x1050, with no other options, whereas the W500 is available as either

Help connecting to two networks (Adding a virtual interface)

2009-09-01 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I need a little help with networking. I'm running Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope 09.04 I have a LAN that has 2 separate logical networks. I want to be able to have my PC be on both networks so that I can SSH to an Asterisk server on the second LAN. The PC LAN is 192.168.5.1-255 and the VoIP LAN is

Re: Help connecting to two networks (Adding a virtual interface)

2009-09-01 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Ben Scottdragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)g...@freephile.com wrote: Vlan tagging separates the traffic. How do I configure my notebook to be on both networks?  You need to tell the OS that you want

Re: Help connecting to two networks (Adding a virtual interface)

2009-09-01 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Thomas Charrontwaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)g...@freephile.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Ben Scottdragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)g

Re: diagnosing network speed bottlenecks [SOLVED]

2009-09-30 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: [snip] I'm generally dis-satisfied with the speed of my Comcast High Speed Internet connection.  It's touted on the tele as being some ambiguously huge amount faster than light travels in a vacuum. [snip

Re: diagnosing network speed bottlenecks

2009-09-30 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:01 PM, H. Kurth Bemis ku...@kurthbemis.com wrote: Seriously now. Comcast provides nothing but stellar service.  Let's not be hard on them or suspect them of incorrectly representing their service offerings. Greg, it's obviously your Ethernet cables.  I bet they're

Re: diagnosing network speed bottlenecks

2009-09-30 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
[snip] Note that some ISP's are known to cheat on well-known speed tests.  If you have access to a fast offsite server, try your own network speed test: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/06/09/your-network-speed-testing-made-easy That should tease out whether you're being unfairly

I want my KDiff3

2009-10-07 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I can't get KDiff3 to use it's excellent preprocessor command which can eliminate noise -- the type of noise that is easily introduced by SVN keywords -- when trying to do diffs on source. For example, this command works as expected on the command line: cat about.php | /bin/sed

Re: I want my KDiff3 [SOLVED] pre-processor command

2009-10-07 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I can't get KDiff3 to use it's excellent preprocessor command which can eliminate noise -- the type of noise that is easily introduced by SVN keywords -- when trying to do diffs on source. OK, so apparently

Asterisk / VOIP for small business

2009-10-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
== Intro / Background == I've inherited an Asterisk (based) system, and I'm pretty happy about that. On the other hand, it's complicated, new and a critical system so I'm learning telephony as fast as I can. I work for a Real Estate company. We have 8 offices and we have ~200 agents in the

Re: Doodle poll for GNHLUG party location

2009-10-19 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
It won't let me vote for more than one place - but I'd probably enjoy any of Strange Brew, Milly's or La Caretta (first choice). I noticed that I can edit my choice, and even change other votes. Strange poll system. Greg Rundlett nbpt 978-225-8302 m. 978-764-4424 -skype/aim/irc/twitter

making a laptop mobile (dynamic display configuration) - mostly solved

2009-10-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Here is my writeup of how I enabled dynamic display configuration for my laptop. It may not work for you if you don't have an nVidia display card. I'm really happy with the fact that I spec'd my new laptops with the nVidia card [1] b/c it just works better [2] than the previous machine which had

Thank You

2009-10-27 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Dear Anonymous Donor, Thanks for your generous contribution to the spectacular GNLUG 15th anniversary celebration. We had a great time and raised many frosty mugs at Milly's. There were at least 20 people who turned up from far and wide. It was really nice. p.s. Alan, sorry about that splash

landscape architecture software

2009-10-29 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I wanted to do some modelling of my home landscaping. Anyone know of an application that does this (Linux-compatible of course)? There are many software packages available for Windows, but I can't seem to find any that are linux compatible. I thought to try my hand at using Blender, but I'd

Remember your pearls [was grep, maybe]

2009-10-29 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Not an answer to the OP, but a follow-on. So, you've worked out a magnificent one-liner solution to a interesting and recurring task. How do you 'remember' your solution? Do you create a file with scripts and comments? Do you post it in a wiki? A blog? An IDE with snippets? Do you remember it

PHP in the cloud like Heroku

2009-11-11 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
This is very interesting. Makes me want to learn ruby :-) http://heroku.com/how/architecture I guess if you're a ruby developer it's not totally new, as it's similar to EngineYard. Anyone know of something similar in PHP -- turnkey, hosted application infrastructure that works off git and a

[JOB] Senior Web Developer

2009-12-02 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Senior Web Developer Bean Group is hiring a Senior Web Developer to help bring it's web platform to the next level of performance. The Senior Web Developer will work within the Technology team as well as with company managers to execute on the technology vision. The successful candidate will be

Re: New HP dv6 laptop and Knoppix (recovering data from damaged drive)

2009-12-16 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Note that dd_rescue (rather than plain old dd) will atempt to continue the copy operation even when it encounters bad sectors ...  

Merry Tuxmas!

2009-12-21 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Merry Tuxmas! http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/693161/1/xmas?h=700c3c see the last picture (#18), featuring our 8' inflatable Tux Or, for the Cooliris inspired, same photos are at

managing DNS

2009-12-29 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
At work I have over 700 domains to manage. We use dnsmadeeasy which I don't find particularly easy. We also use GoDaddy to register domains - and GoDaddy includes DNS management tools so I'm inclined to just use them for both registration and DNS management. Of course, over time, the DNS

Re: managing DNS

2009-12-30 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: At work I have over 700 domains to manage.  We use dnsmadeeasy which I don't find particularly easy.  We also use GoDaddy to register domains - and GoDaddy includes DNS management tools so I'm inclined to just

Re: managing DNS

2009-12-30 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
What I found was powerdns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerDNS That plus a good provider like dyndns.com looks like the answer On Dec 30, 2009 4:55 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I'm still

when packaging goes wrong

2010-01-08 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I installed pdns and pdns-recursor just the other day on my Ubuntu 9-04 system. I did not configure or use the system, leaving that for another day. Today, there were upgrades available, so I attempted an upgrade, however the upgrade failed due to the fact that I had pdns-recursor 3.1.7-2

Fwd: Mythweb (php 5.2.10) doesn't work b/c of suhosin - canaries

2010-01-09 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
any help from all the mythtv users out there :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com Date: Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 6:14 PM Subject: Mythweb (php 5.2.10) doesn't work b/c of suhosin - canaries To: Boston PHP Talk bostonphpt...@bostonphp.org, NYPHP

Re: MerriLUG or Manchester meets planned? + Twitter

2010-01-23 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I work in portsmouth so manch is doable for me On Jan 22, 2010 8:29 PM, Susan Cragin susancra...@earthlink.net wrote: I'd probably come. I live in Concord. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-disc...@mail.gn...

Re: Linux usable Live Meeting - like or Webex-like online collaboration

2010-01-28 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
There is dimdim. Works well in our limited tests using mac and linux On Jan 28, 2010 1:32 PM, Dan Coutu co...@snowy-owl.com wrote: Jerry, you can try out Yugma. It will run on Linux, Macintosh and the dreaded Windows operating systems. There is a free version and commercial versions (for large

Report on files by type

2010-03-10 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I got a drive from someone today, with 3.2 GB worth of content on it, and I quickly wanted to find out what was on the drive by 'content type' (mime-type) find -type f | egrep -o '\.(.?.?..)$' | sort | uniq -c did the trick for me, but left me wondering what File Manager or other tool does a

office multi-function printer recommendations

2010-03-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm searching for a color printer/scanner/copier/fax that works well across Mac, Windows and Linux, with document feeder and optional tray to accomodate more than 250 sheets. Duplex printing would be good. Duty cycle doesn't appear to be an issue b/c our volume is only a couple thousand/month.

Re: office multi-function printer recommendations

2010-03-17 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Vince McHugh vince.mch...@yahoo.comwrote: Greg, If you are buying an MFD from an Office equipment dealer, make sure that they have a history of working with CUPS, Linux, Unix, Mac. Then you can make it their responsibility to get you set up. THEN IT IS REAL

another reason to use adblock and noscript... or just use Linux

2010-03-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Apparently the ad networks of Fox, Google, and Yahoo have been distributing ads which contain malicious javascript. This means that all you have to do is surf the web to have your system infected with malware... wait, that isn't really new. It's just a sad reminder of how easy it is for regular

is there a topic / meeting for Monday at SLUG?

2010-05-07 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Rob/Ben et al (I don't know who al is), Just curious if there will be a meeting on Monday at SLUG? If so, is there a topic or is it more of a round-table meeting? Greg Rundlett ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: is there a topic / meeting for Monday at SLUG?

2010-05-08 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I just realized I have a baseball game Monday so I can't make it On May 7, 2010 5:47 PM, Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: On 05/07/2010 04:59 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Greg Rundlett (freep... When and where is the meeting? I would like to check it out.

Re: LUG meetings and topics

2010-05-08 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
a calendar of speakers lined up (not to mention the preparation by the speaker). Greg Rundlett On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.comwrote: Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g

Firewall (iptables) rule to limit Apache connections

2010-05-18 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm running Apache on a RedHat ES 4 with a 2.6.9 kernel. Occasionally we'll get a bunch of web requests from a single source (example user agent of HTTrack or Opera or IE5 will all give a user the ability to make a huge number of web requests). This ties up our Apache server as all available

Freebasing (data mining)

2010-05-19 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
This is a cool tool for data cleanup and more (available on all platforms) http://code.google.com/p/freebase-gridworks/ A recursive and twist on the popular cultural word association Freebase on Richard Pryor on Freebase http://www.freebase.com/view/en/richard_pryor Greg Rundlett

Why does one interface interfere with another?

2010-06-20 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I have a system with two physical network interfaces; a cat45 ethernet port and a wireless card - otherwise known as any normal computer. I configured the wired interface (eth0) to be static by editing /etc/network/interfaces (see bottom) and I let the network-manager applet handle the networking

Re: Why does one interface interfere with another?

2010-06-21 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Thanks Joshua, man interfaces helped refresh my memory about the options besides auto Greg Rundlett On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.comwrote: Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com writes: I have a system with two physical network interfaces

UPS electrical problem

2010-06-29 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I have my Linux Media Center, a Dell Studio Hybrid PC, 2 1TB Fantom external drives and a 25 lcd monitor plugged into an APC Backups Pro 500 UPS on the battery+surge protection side. Within the past week, when the household thermostat kicks on or off the central A/C system, the PC shuts off

Re: UPS electrical problem

2010-07-01 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Thanks for all the responses. I'm going to both check the status with apcupsd and likely replace the battery. Greg Rundlett ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: UPS electrical problem

2010-07-08 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
The battery actually had a bulge in the case to the point where it cracked -- although it didn't appear to leak anywhere. Must have dried out. New battery through the intertubes for $16 with $12 shipping $40 at Staples. Greg Rundlett ___

Re: Software Patents

2010-07-18 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: This article about software patents popped up today. Any comments about the relevance and possibilities of software patent reform to the point of reversal and removal?

Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-16 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.comwrote: I'll give iptables a try. It's at just the right level of brute- forceness, and of Linuxness. I love this list. disclaimer: I'm jumping into this thread late, and without reading the whole thing, so this comment

cable modem requires reboot because one site falls off DNS?

2010-09-03 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I have a strange problem where one (and only one as far as we know) particular website becomes inaccessible to our office. The fix for this problem is to reboot the Comcast cable modem, however I don't understand how the modem could be the culprit. The website in question is nnerenmls.com and

Re: cable modem requires reboot because one site falls off DNS?

2010-09-03 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I have a strange problem where one (and only one as far as we know) particular website becomes inaccessible to our office. The fix for this problem is to reboot the Comcast cable modem, however I don't

Re: cable modem requires reboot because one site falls off DNS?

2010-09-03 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:36 AM, David Miller davi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:19 AM, David Miller davi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I have a strange problem where one (and only one as far

[SOLVED] cable modem requires reboot because one site falls off DNS?

2010-09-20 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: On 9/3/2010 11:19 AM, David Miller wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com mailto:g...@freephile.com wrote: I have a strange problem where one (and only one as far as we

Freedom (FLOSS) in education

2010-09-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm encouraged to find an initiative between several European universities: ftacademy.org They are offering a Masters program in Free Technology And there is a video interview with maddog http://ftacademy.org/materials/videos/gl1 (with gratitude to maddog, the benevolent shepherd of freedom

Don't get caught up in the hype - the Zen of The Unix Philosophy

2010-10-27 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I liked this post which in summary is a reminder of the Unix Philosophy http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html Greg Rundlett ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Thanks

2010-11-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I've been reading (well, listening to) *The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World* (http://www.theartofhappiness.com/) and like so many others I'm inspired by the message and lessons therein. Combined with our tradition of Thanksgiving, it compels me to send out this thank you. Of particular

MyPasswordSafe converter to KeePassX available

2010-12-10 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I've just released a working version of a tool that will take a password safe from the Linux program MyPasswordSafe, and convert that to a suitable format for use in KeepassX [1] The code is written in PHP and is available on GitHub https://github.com/freephile/MyPasswordSafe2KeepassX By the

[JOB] Postgres + PHP + Drupal needed

2011-03-28 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm looking for an advanced / Sr. -level consultant who would be immediately available to assist on a project. This is NOT for a beginner. Must have Postgres 8.2 experience - database reverse-engineering, design and re-factoring especially familiar with Data cleaning and reorganizing a database

Migration Environment Survey (host profiling) HOWTO

2011-06-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
In order to migrate a business' custom web infrastructure to a more modern environment, I need to come up with a complete inventory of the services and so on. The Migration Environment Survey given to me by one company that specializes in this type of work seems to actually be a bit cursory in my

Re: [Discuss] Migration Environment Survey (host profiling) HOWTO

2011-06-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Matt Shields m...@mattshields.org wrote: 2. Missing quite a few common languages, ie Java. agreed 3. DotNetNuke is a framework not a language, but for a site survey they could add a separate question asking about what frameworks are used. PHP - CakePHP,

SLUG (meeting tonight): jQuery JavaScript library

2011-07-10 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Just posting to the list in case some people who otherwise would be interested but didn't know about the meeting http://slug.gnhlug.org/Members/rea/SLUG/talks/jquery-javascript-library quote: At UNH RCC we've been using jQuery for quite some time. It just keeps getting better. Not only does it

Re: MPD+PulseAudio = cheap+fast+awesome whole-home audio

2011-08-03 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.comwrote: In case anyone's interested, I've expanded some on the response that I gave Derek about doing whole-home audio with MPD+PulseAudio, in my online journal:

home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-06 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Is anyone aware of Linux-compatible software for modeling architecture, landscape and home construction projects? I want to model a basement finishing project, and I have carpenter friends who would also enjoy such software. I've used store-bought software many moons ago on Windows, but don't

Re: [Discuss] home design + construction + landscape design software?

2012-01-17 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Great input on this thread. I wanted to post a follow-up. This is an example of what you can do with Sweet Home 3D on Linux: http://youtu.be/XDZP5rxYv1I I created a model of what I'd like to do with my basement. And then the software allows you to save points of view and compiles those into a

drive recovery of dual-boot system

2012-01-25 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I have an internal hard drive that won't boot. The system (Dell Studio Hybrid) also will not boot from CD-ROM (regardless of what I do with the boot sequence, F2, BIOS settings etc.) In fact it doesn't seem that BIOS settings actually get saved. But that's another matter. I'm concerned with

Re: drive recovery of dual-boot system

2012-01-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
to investigate setting up a computer on USB stick for my kids. On 2012-01-26 00:47, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: I have an internal hard drive that won't boot. [snip] The bad drive in question is 250GB and has a number of partitions and file system types: [snip] Device Boot Start

Re: Slashdot: NH Passes Open-Source bill

2012-02-06 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Seth Cohn you rock! Greg Rundlett my public PGP keyhttp://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x5E07A26B877CEBF6 On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Coleman Kane ck...@colemankane.org wrote: On 02/05/2012 04:49 PM, Jon maddog Hall wrote: On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 15:13 -0500, Bruce Dawson

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-13 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: /cue the little girl from Poltergeist: They're here... Multi-platform backdoor malware targets Windows, Mac and Linux users http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/11/backdoor-malware/ Gist of the story, you need to use

router configuration UI online

2012-07-26 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Pretty good idea: Linksys / Cisco has a website where you can view the User Interface of all of their router models interactively: http://ui.linksys.com You can find the model, and version and get the exact UI that your friend is asking you about when they can't connect or setup their router.

Re: Advice on giving constructive criticism.

2012-08-01 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Hi Ken, Sounds like you've already drafted the basis of a good constructive message. Paraphrasing: I've got a real project at work to find a video conferencing solution. I'm motivated and technical. I prefer open source. I researched and tested several solutions, and was impressed that

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

2012-08-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
DFSG-compliant parody: Happy Freedom to you Greg Rundlett On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Jon maddog Hall mad...@li.org wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 13:15 -0400, John Abreau wrote: To be precise, the lyrics are copyrighted. The tune is from the 1893 song Good Morning to All, and is

publishing an article

2012-09-09 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I am writing an article about a tech topic that I think could be suitable for publishing in Linux Journal or other tech publications (the article is about Google Apps Script and how it's the modern day equivalent of VBA for creating office applications). Does anyone have contacts? Or, anyone who

Spreadsheets Improved with JavaScript

2012-09-13 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
A little while ago, I posted here about publishing an article in LJ... Well here is the final draft: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sPcwM8a3xggOks1TOOuvarDclclsjZxZUFoUqBlI0us/edit# a case study and demo on how to take spreadsheets to the next level of utility by using Google Apps and Google

Electronic Health Records (EHR) or PHR software

2013-01-01 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I want to track my health. Having recently buried my mother I've come to experience how broken our medical records system is. I reviewed a list of open source healthcare software at wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_healthcare_software#Electronic_health_or_medical_record

seeking sysadmin help (WordPress)

2013-01-28 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm seeking sysadmin help with a WordPress migration. If you are interested, please get in touch. Greg Rundlett ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I've already contemplated such a move... (my service would be called Greg'sList... it's Craigslist, only better :-) But, their TOS explicitly limits any such possibility. 5. UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS AND ACTIVITIES ... Any copying, aggregation, display, distribution, performance or derivative use of

Re: grep for craigslist?

2013-02-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Feb 2013 15:04:04 -0500, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I've already contemplated such a move... (my service would be called Greg'sList... it's Craigslist, only better :-) But, their TOS explicitly limits any such possibility. Do TOSen apply to non-logged-in users? What

Google Apps Scripting (preview article for Linux Magazine)

2013-02-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm going to be revising this to be more 'play by play' narrative, but this article will be in the next edition of Linux Magazine. https://docs.google.com/document/d/18qplc5P4zYEmbZ289aDgRArsMR3c5aDyUTdcupBjHVk/edit Comments welcome. Hope you like it. Greg Rundlett

Open Source Tech Leader (in search of good company)

2013-02-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Meet Greg Rundlett Open Source, Best Practices and tech leadership: 1. Meet Greg Rundletthttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ue5yFOE3ZOmwubwPuridJxXwUPH_Pz2Co7s1b3V4fac/edit 2. Visual Bio https://www.vizify.com/greg-rundlett 3. Twitter https://twitter.com/freephile 4. Github

Fwd: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn?

2013-02-22 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
-- Forwarded message -- From: Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:58 PM Subject: Re: Listing FOSS projects on LinkedIn? To: Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz

Re: Printer recommendations

2013-03-07 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Note: There is a big difference between InkJet and Laser printing. I opted for the Samsung SCX-4623FW Series over two years ago (and although discontinued, is available today for ~$240). I offer this info for reference, since my model is only Black/White. I bought it at Sam's Club. It has

Re: Printer recommendations

2013-03-07 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: The scanning just works (using SimpleScan in Ubuntu) if I'm connected via USB, although it doesn't work wirelessly (or at least I don't know how to do it). I haven't tried the fax, but copy and wireless

Re: new member - introductions

2013-04-03 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Welcome to the list. I have a more complicated memory system that includes Google, mediawiki, drupal and various hard drives :-) Greg Rundlett ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Symbolic linking confusion

2013-04-15 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
You have it right On Apr 15, 2013 10:02 PM, Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Recently been playing with GPU computing. I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 and installed the nvidia-cuda-toolkit package. It seems that the libs are in odd places. Why does it matter? Because I'd like to

SVN server - What hardware do I need?

2013-04-21 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I'm working on replacing an existing Subversion server. Does anyone have specific guidelines for the best hardware configuration for such a service? http://www.svnforum.org/threads/41227-SVN-server-best-hardware says that a fast disk and plenty of RAM for Apache are the chief concerns.

Smarthosting (Sending mail through Google) with Postfix

2013-05-19 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
I've just setup a LAMP host which of course needs to be able to send email for all kinds of reasons. In addition to notifications sent out by monitoring systems or cron, my websites (like wikis) and other systems need to send email, e.g. Subversion commit notifications. I typically set up

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