Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes:
I am working on an article about FOSS multimedia, and I found this video
which I thought was worth passing along;
http://www.mdlf.org/en/main/multimedia/
On that note, for anyone else like me who missed this because they
were spending 180 hours a
Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com writes:
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
I'm pretty sure that I won't be able to make it to this meeting, but
would still like to contribute a pointer to Wikkid:
https://launchpad.net/wikkid
Cool! Have
Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com writes:
On 6/10/2010 2:11 PM, Bill Sconce wrote:
I got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago, from a public library in a
small New Hampshire town, with the subject
HELP SAVE US FROM MICROSOFT!
(I am not making this up.) Such a plea caused me to do some
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
Hopefully someone soon will put a stake through their heart, cut their
head off, fill their mouth with garlic, put silver coins on their
eyes, then burn them, cover them in
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes:
On 06/10/2010 05:32 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com writes:
I haven't had as much luck with Fedora and Centos, though I didn't
really try to; just gave the folk network cards which did work and put
the Broadcoms
Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com writes:
I just picked up an Lenovo X61 laptop the other day for a very good price.
This 3lb unit is a dual-core t7...@2.6ghz, 4GB Ram and 100GB disk.
I want to run Linux as the core operating system, and use VMWare to load
Windows for my Windows work.
I
Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com writes:
This is why I LOVE this list -- lots of great feedback.
I'll go w/64-bit (trying it w/the live-CD first), and probably Virtualbox.
BTW, I bought the X61 for $250, in mint condition, from Craigslist. Pretty
good deal for a decent dual-core box.
Oh,
Jeffry Smith jsm...@alum.mit.edu writes:
One option would be to try FF with user-agent-switcher. I've logged
into many sites with FF that claim to require IE, but when I use UAS
to set FF to claim to be IE, they work fine.
My favourite suggestion, which I saw somewhere a few weeks ago,
is to
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Flaherty, Patrick pflahe...@wsi.com wrote:
Flash 64bit is going away and java 64bit plugins for browsers are buggy
for anything non-trivial.
Are any 64-bit distros shipping 32-bit browser alternative packages?
Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org writes:
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:05:05 -0400, Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com wrote:
I'm also using the Oracle Version of Virtualbox.
It is GNOME Desktop 2.30.0.
After a cold start, if I try to start a VM in Virtualbox, I get the
following pop-up:
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
I figure some here would appreciate this.
http://sonic840.deviantart.com/art/Computer-hardware-poster-1-7-111402099
Standards are wonderful! There's so many to choose from!
I actually got that quip as a fortune, recently.
And I don't
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
Standards are wonderful! There's so many to choose from!
I actually got that quip as a fortune, recently.
And I don't mean as output from the unix `fortune
Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com writes:
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
virgins...@vfemail.net writes:
According to a recent Associated Press article, our insightful(?)
leaders are contemplating upgrading New Hampshire's 911 system to
accept multimedia such as text messages, photos, etc. They're
requesting $4 million dollars for this... most of it for
Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org writes:
BTW: The bankruptcy hearing scheduled for July 12th has been cancelled.
*Again*? This is, what, the fourth time?
--
Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr.
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Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes:
Hey, folks. I really like Ubuntu LTS -- indeed, it's what (most of) my
servers are on. So... I'd like an in-house repository. I did that some
years ago with Debian, but the repositories have gotten VASTLY larger, and
I'm wondering if there's a trick I'm
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes:
Given that the patent system is an impingement
on the liberties of 300,000,000 people (telling them what they may not
do with their own property) to benefit one person or a small handful
of his cohorts, the hurdle to prove the case ought to be set
Mark E. Mallett m...@mv.mv.com writes:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 12:22:26AM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
On that note, for anyone else like me who missed this because they
were spending 180 hours a week with their heads buried in code...:
http://sitasingstheblues.com/
I saw
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes:
I want my USB drive to show up mounted on /media/some label after I plug
it in.
I don't mind having to type something on the command line to trigger it.
In Solaris, I put a CD/Floppy/USB in and type volcheck. Then it checks
for the presence of something
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes:
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
pmount will get you the `mounting removable volumes/media without being
root
Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org writes:
An excerpt from an email exchange where I work:
A tool I just found out they spent $9k on (two floating licenses) called
IAR says this about language support:
_http://www.iar.com/website1/1.0.1.0/50/1/_
[...]
Obviously there is also GCC for ARM
This is going to start-off silly-sounding, but bear with me:
My wife called and told me, a few months back, `Wikipedia is down!'.
It took me a minute to figure out that she actually did mean that
*Wikipedia* was down--not her laptop's WiFi, not our WAP, not our
residential-grade DSL (*again*...),
Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org writes:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:14:59AM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
_What I want_:
I'd like to be able to offline have access to my entire e-mail store
from all devices--be able to search through and read messages, write
messages and queue them
Posted this at work also, then figured maybe someone on this list
would be interested:
I'm going to buy one of these to see how well it can replace my
now-defunct, Rockbox-running iPod:
http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Hardware-Ben
They're $99, but they ship from Hong Kong so shipping a
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes:
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
Posted this at work also, then figured maybe someone on this list
would be interested:
I'm going to buy one of these to see how well it can replace my
now-defunct
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Hardware-Ben
Am I right in that this thing cannot run an X server?
It presents a framebuffer, so I see no reason why it
Shawn O'Shea sh...@eth0.net writes:
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
Posted this at work also, then figured maybe someone on this list
would be interested:
I'm going to buy one of these to see how well it can replace my
now-defunct
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
RAM may or may not be a problem. It's got 32 MB, which is more
than anything Project Athena had at first, but software seems to take
up more and more memory as times goes
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes:
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.orgwrote:
On 09/05/2010 07:52 PM, Tom Buskey wrote:
I have 2 systems running recent OpenBSD releases for SSH portals. One
is a Sun Sparc with 96 MB ram and the other is a VM with 32
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
Shawn O'Shea sh...@eth0.net writes:
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com
wrote:
Posted this at work also, then figured maybe someone on this list
would be interested:
I'm going to buy one
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
(Oh, and: is there a better shorthand than PMP? I keep reading
android pimps, and it just
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes:
An agent or agents purporting to be Tom Buskey said:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
(Oh, and: is there a better shorthand than PMP? I keep reading
android pimps, and it just... doesn't sit
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote:
We expect to see iPads getting used by patients in hospital settings
filling out forms (multiple choice - little or no typing). Earlier
attempts with other tablets (running
Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com writes:
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 09:00 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
I'm not sure I'll ever buy a $400 tablet.
I agree with that sentiment for myself. We have an iPad here on loan to
make sure the web sites we support display nicely. The iPad is a great
device for
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
X reports a resident size of 40 MB, although how much of
that (if any) might actually be video card RAM I dunno.
I bet none of it is video-card RAM
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
Yes, however: several of the libraries that are exclusive to
the X server are actually things that would (or could) be eliminated
in different use-cases; the 4-MB
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
I'm going to buy one of these to see how well it can replace my
now-defunct, Rockbox-running iPod:
http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Hardware-Ben
They're $99, but they ship
It looks like Always Innovating just introduced a new revision of the
Touchbook, as well as a palmtop tablet:
http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/products/smartbook.htm
AND..., Yo Dawg, they put a computer inside the computer
Too bad I just bought something else. :\
--
Don't be afraid to
,
as having potential to mess-up GRUB's notion of which drives have
which number
On 10/13/2010 11:10 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
John Abreauj...@blu.org writes:
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:58 PM, David Rosedr...@proviss.com wrote:
I ran the fdisk -l sdb and it told me that there was an NTFS
David Rose prov...@gmail.com writes:
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename.]
Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes:
On 10/14/2010 8:34 PM, John Abreau wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Bruce Labitt
bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net wrote:
Federico builds an atomic clock out of a pocket-sized Sheevaplug device
[...]
Given that the event is still
Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes:
On 10/17/2010 11:07 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
Bruce Labittbruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes:
So how does one start the X configuration again? IIRC,
there used to be routines like xf86config, etc that could be
used
Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes:
Don't forget, also, that host gildor.foo.local and host gildor
both came back, ASAP, with valid responses. (Sidenote: I wonder if
host bypasses nsswitch.conf entirely, and just checks DNS-specific
files, such as resolv.conf. Updated: I guess so. I
Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes:
On 10/18/2010 12:43 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
Something that hasn't been mentioned explicitly is that NVidia
periodically retires support for older cards. When that happens, you
have to go to their legacy driver, which doesn't receive
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt
bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.netwrote:
I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some
'backup'. I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'. It
looks not too hard - this worries me. :)
Anyone have a
bruce.lab...@autoliv.com writes:
gnhlug-discuss-boun...@mail.gnhlug.org wrote on 10/19/2010 10:17:56 AM:
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt
bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.netwrote:
I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some
Bruce Labitt bruce.lab...@myfairpoint.net writes:
On 10/19/2010 8:02 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
Did you try xserver-xorg-video-nv? If neither that nor nouveau works,
and if your `old' machine is old enough to still have PCI slots be
acceptible for a graphics card, I could probably
Cole Tuininga co...@code-energy.com writes:
On 10/20/2010 01:31 PM, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
I've been using backup-pc with good results. I started making my own
rsync scripts and decided that I had better things to do and backup-pc
had already done a better job than I ever would.
Seconded.
David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes:
An agent or agents purporting to be Greg Rundlett (freephile) said:
I liked this post which in summary is a reminder of the Unix Philosophy
http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
~95% of my coworkers would benefit from reading this
Seth Cohn sethc...@gnuhampshire.org writes:
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote:
The first time I met Seth was in early 2006 at a House Committee
Hearing. They were considering a bill to encourage the State IT
organization to consider Open Source
kenta kenta.k...@gmail.com writes:
In lieu of a ManchLUG meeting this month I recommend attending BarCamp
Manchester on November 20th. Hope to see some of the ManchLUG
regulars there.
While I'm not a ManchLUG regular yet, I plan on showing up for BarCamp--
it sounds awesome. Maybe I'll even
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Kevin D. Clark
kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net wrote:
I barely trust people to drive in two dimensions, let alone three!
My commute takes me a little while, so I have to drive in four.
You may travel in four, but
Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes:
On Wed, December 15, 2010 10:24 am, Benjamin Scott wrote:
So, while I've been slaving away in the world of corporate IT, it
appears Linux has quietly won the OS war. I just didn't notice. Linux may
already be out-shipping Microsoft Windows.
Oh,
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org writes:
On Wed, December 15, 2010 10:24 am, Benjamin Scott wrote:
So, while I've been slaving away in the world of corporate IT,
it appears Linux has quietly won the OS war. I just didn't
notice. Linux may
Ryan Stanyan ryan.stan...@gmail.com writes:
On Saturday, January 01, 2011 12:06:20 pm Tom Buskey wrote:
Both systems have CD and hard drives They booted up last time I used them.
I don't remember the passwords.
Knowing security on IRIX you don't have to worry about that :P
You think
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes:
I will not comment on most of your discussion, since I think you and
I agree that some of the words in Seth's document will be hard to
prove as written, and perhaps should be modified so the opponents of
the bill will not have statements to challenge.
Ryan Stanyan ryan.stan...@gmail.com writes:
As far as I know you can't downgrade a 64-bit installation to a
32-bit one. I am not the most current in terms of Ubuntu knowledge
but the closest I came to this was reinstalling all my media codecs
in their 32-bit form
What Ryan said--there's an
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
apt-get -c /usr/unstable/etc/apt/apt.conf update
WARNING!
Be warned that it would appear APT does not pass it's root directory
setting on to dpkg. Attempting to
Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com writes:
Debian Linux (embedded), I'm in runlevel 2, and I'm seeing this when I run ps
aux:
root 496 0.0 1.9 2808 1232 ttyS0 S+ 00:00 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/
rc2.d/S40init_xuarts start
root 498 0.0 0.8 2808 504 ttyS0 S+
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
Hey list,
I've recently reinstalled Debian 5.0 lenny on my PC (after a
unfortunate accident involving a package manager, a liquid lunch, and
a pair of rubber bands). However, in the meantime, Debian has
released squeeze as stable. In the
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
What's wrong with the `flashplugin-nonfree' package that Debian has
in lenny-backports?
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Alan Johnson a...@datdec.com wrote:
If you don't want to fish through the repos, you will likely find it in
/var/cache/apt/archives/
Alas, no. apt-get won't even download the package because it thinks
there
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
I don't even understand how/why the word conveniently is supposed
to apply, here--how do you, as an end user, even see any difference?
The Debian package
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
The Debian package downloads and runs an executable installer.
d-m.org offered a proper packaging of the installed files.
I'd go
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
Hmm again. Okay, so I've just found something which makes me even
less thrilled with Debian's approach (although this may be a new thing
Adobe is doing so not really Debian's fault). Anyway, today at least,
Adobe provides a .deb package:
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
I see that they have an apt: URL in use `for Ubuntu 9.04+' ...
Where's this you see that? :)
Ah, found it. If one uses the Get Flash web page, APT shows up
in
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote:
It's nice/sad to see Debian getting the symptoms of RPM hell that people
always bring up.
Debian -- or rather, dpkg/APT -- has always had the exact same
behavior as RPM/YUM,
I switched over to the new-fangled distributed version control,
a couple years ago, and have been utterly delighted.
More recently, I came upon the idea of applying the same technology
to *bug-tracking*; a few systems being:
Bugs Everywhere http://bugseverywhere.org/
Simple Defects
kenta kenta.k...@gmail.com writes:
A little bump for tomorrow night!
UPDATE: Marc Nozell will bringing his new DreamPlug as well to show
off in slot #3.
Hm. I've really gotta find a way to start attending these things
I've been considering getting one (or four...) plug computers to
Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com) noz...@gmail.com writes:
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote:
Actually, a confluence of events has me playing with my Sheeva today. By
sheer circumstance, I
- Need to replace my bedroom computer with something quiet
- Bought
So, the NanoNote that I bought back in September has
turned out to be a fantastically good purchase for me,
and my wife has started demanding that I get *her* one
because she wants an `OMG that's so awesome'
music-player just like the one that I now have
(more on that later, in another post).
As
at 6:09 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
So, the NanoNote that I bought back in September has
turned out to be a fantastically good purchase for me,
and my wife has started demanding that I get *her* one
because she wants an `OMG that's so awesome'
music-player just
Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org writes:
On 04/22/2011 09:41 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
Hm. I've really gotta find a way to start attending these things
I've been considering getting one (or four...) plug computers to deploy
as part of a PulseAudio- and MPD-based whole-home
Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com writes:
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 17:12 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
if you do the math, you'll be surprised--
most of what people `know' about flash memory, which is based on
what was true with the state of the art 20 years ago, is basically
superstition
Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu writes:
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
I've setup multicast RTP with latency-matching across all nodes
in the network; I have only one `channel' right now (in the radio-tuner
or input-switching sense, not in the `mono vs. stereo' sense
~Manchester down to ~Bedford, MA).
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
Someone asked me this off-list, but I'm going to reply on-list,
for now, since someone else might be interested in the response...:
what do you do w/ [your NanoNote] / use it for?
Does it have wifi
David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com writes:
Greetings from northern Vermont and our continuing Mud Season!
I just did a little upgrade dance from 10.10 to 11.04 Natty Narwahl on an
older Dell desktop with 2GB RAM. I had burned both a CD and a USB stick with
it but the box would not boot
In case anyone else was unaware of its existence (I just stumbled
upon it myself, recently), Libre Graphics Magazine just published
its second issue--available for purchase/subscription as dead trees
or (free Free) download as PDF files:
http://libregraphicsmag.com/
It's a pretty neat
Jon \maddog\ Hall mad...@li.org writes:
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 17:29 -0400, Joseph Smith wrote:
On 05/06/2011 04:19 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
Details here: http://www.smalldog.com/ewastenh
I found it humerus that they have a bunch of pics of Mac's on the
webpage :-)
Well, they are
David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com writes:
I have long since lost track of, or simply lost, the couple of
manual typewriters I used to have, and I am given to understand that
Olivetti of Italy was/is? the last manufacturer of them.
I think I saw this on Slashdot a week or two ago; but,
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Boston Linux Installfest XL
What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones? Are more
attendees expected?
I think he's running with LC_NUMERIC=la_RM, in which case
`XL'
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
Boston Linux Installfest XL
What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones? Are more
attendees expected?
I think he's running with LC_NUMERIC
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
Boston Linux Installfest XL
What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones? Are more
Jon \maddog\ Hall mad...@li.org writes:
On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 07:24 -0400, Jeffry Smith wrote:
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/archive/331544-196/uss-new-hampshire-surfaces-on-seacoast.html
quote:
The $2.4 billion New Hampshire is so high-tech that it has no
periscope, and uses
Mark Komarinski mkomarin...@wayga.org writes:
It's happened.
My geek of a daughter (all of 8, with her own digital camera and my old
laptop) asked to have her own website, which I assume means she wants to
post pictures and write a blog.
Now, now, stop what you're thinking. I have no
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:23 AM, mno...@embedded-unlimited.com wrote:
US vessel, the Yorktown ..The entire network of Windows NT machines
crashed. The Navy claims the ship was dead in the water for about three
hours;
There's not much real
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes:
One Year Later: Adobe Abandons 64-bit Linux Again:
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/06/one-year-later-adobe-abandons.html
This decision makes even less sense than it did a year ago.
32-bit processors have effectively become
David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com writes:
On the Linux beard thing, I grew mine a couple of years ago until, as our
son informed me, I looked like a Civil War general. I was going to keep
growing it until I got a full-time Linux gig finally, and a month ago I did.
So, as it was at the
David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com writes:
I would think that if one was both a UNIX/Linux person AND a brewer, they
would cancel each other out and thus no beard.
But maybe that is only the case if one also takes up amateur radio and/or
astronomy/telescope building.
And what about
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes:
http://linuxbeard.com/
I subscribed to it via identi.ca, so that I can receive timely updates
with all of the news in the world of Linux beards.
If anyone else wants that (and you can even receive these updates
via *SMS* on your
I'm looking at possibly getting a label-printer
to hook up to one of my Debian machines, and hoping
that maybe someone here can give me some guidance
because (1) I've never had a PC-driven label-printer
and (2) I might be doing something unusual...:
I want to use libvisualid to generate tags to
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes:
Try the -t option to force pty allocation?
...I'm talking about the SSH option, in case it
wasn't obvious.
Also, note that sometimes (e.g.: if you're using ssh in a pipeline)
you need *two* -t flags to indicate I really mean it, use
Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com writes:
Someone has to post this...
-Bill
___
Sent from my virusproofed Linux PC
Cute signature :)
And, on that note: I made a cute `Made with Debian GNU/Linux' image,
mainly for use on the back of greeting-cards, after I got card with
`Made with
Jon \maddog\ Hall mad...@li.org writes:
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 14:42 -0400, Brian St. Pierre wrote:
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote:
1.
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,236944/printable.html
If you use Internet Explorer,
Ryan Lee Stanyan ryan.stan...@gmail.com writes:
I think it's called news entertainment nowadays. Just make a huge
headline libeling someone and then post the retraction weeks later
buried somewhere in the back.
Except that `online publishing' means `never having to print a retraction'
(since
-mail
(like what I needed to do in order to get it working on the plug-computers),
and copious hyperlinks to explainations of what the various software-packages
are and how to do some possibly-obscure things in Debian.
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes:
Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu
David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@gapps.blu.org wrote:
Didn't know the Internet reached all the way up in Northern Vermont.
It doesn't, actually. Many areas up here are still without internet at all,
or they have dial-up/modem,
I originally wrote this as a private e-mail, but I figured I'd send it
along to greater GNHLUG--because I realised that I would actually like
to engage you all...:
maddog has written a blog-post proposing that the terms closed-source
and proprietary
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Charles Farinella cfarine...@gmail.com
wrote:
http://www.ledgertranscript.com/article/philip-sbrogna
So I propose we collect any donations people might want to make and
give to Reading Is Fundamental, per the
An acquaintance forwarded this notice to me, the other day--
Events like these are a great way to `flex your brain' by working
on different types of stuff and solving different types of problems
that you don't normally work with; to learn new stuff, and also
to meet new and interesting people
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