Re: Time tracker (web-based)?

I assume that Ken was looking for Linux-compatible solutions... Joshua, I'd be interested in seeing what you've found to be helpful. I've been using spreadsheets with some success, but I'd love to try out something else. On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Stacie Andrews sta...@provadomarketing.com

Re: IPv6

I've been very interested in getting it for awhile now. I have Comcast, I own my modem and made sure to get a DOCSIS 3 one, but Comcast is being really slow about actually rolling it out to residential customers around here. I hear they use it internally, though. On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:23

Re: Linux-centric curricula in New England?

I believe UNH's CS department was quite linux-centric. The first programming course for engineers was C++ using GCC and VI, and required ssh'ing into a server to submit work. That's about all I can speak to, though. That said, I think they've switched over to Java for a lot of the beginning stuff

Re: Green screen.

I believe OpenCV can do what you're looking for. On Feb 14, 2013 1:36 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio k...@jots.org wrote: ... a really solid idea for a fun activity was the proverbial TV weatherman green screen. I have to imagine

Re: how dumb is this idea?

Have you considered asking the school what they do in situations where either the family can't afford the software, doesn't have a computer that can run the software, or simply doesn't have a computer? That might open the doors to a reasonable solution. Unfortunately, most schools think of

Re: how dumb is this idea?

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:32 PM, r...@mrt4.com wrote: I don't think it's your problem; the school needs to fix it. Read New Hampshire RSA 21:10-14. Uhh, I think you might've meant something else. http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/i/21/21-mrg.htm doesn't seem all that applicable,

Re: Modern Linux scanners

Some scansnap models are supported in Linux. I have the S300, works fine. The software for the windows side is quite nice from what I've seen - nothing comes close on Linux AFAIK. I have a Canon canoscan flatbed that works perfectly in Linux and, ironically enough, won't work on my wife's windows

Re: Best RAW photo editing tool?

I haven't touched RAW in 5+ years, but last time I did, I believe I came to the conclusion that rawstudio and ufraw were both okay, but one was slightly easier than the other. Unfortunately, I don't remember which was which! I was doing much the same as you, Marc, just a bit of white balance

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

I'd strongly suggest looking at doing a little bit of hardware hacking via the Arduino Leonardo. It's trivially easy to make it show up as a generic USB HID keyboard, meaning no fancy driver concerns, no matter the OS. The keys could either be a handful (heh) of buttons laid out however he wants,

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

One of the bonus points of using an arduino is that he can just hook up as many keys as he wants, in whatever kind of layout he wants, and then have the arduino appear to be a keyboard. No need for any of this NKRO stuff, even, since the arduino could interpret the keypresses and send the

Re: powerschool webscraper?

I found myself wanting a similar scraper a couple years ago for looking for job postings hidden behind similar javascript silliness that took forever to manually check. Never got around to it, though. Selenium looks to be a possible alternative to htmlunit, might be easier to use? I'm still

Re: BLINK

On Nov 6, 2014 2:33 PM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: This is actually a pretty great idea. Like a really beefed up (and hopefully unbreakable [I'm looking at you, YouTube]) Back Button. You think youtube is bad? Try amazon on a mobile browser - back works sometimes, but not always,

Re: Local inexpensive media destruction?

The magnets inside hard drives are super strong - best fridge magnets you'll ever have. And the platters make decent first-surface mirrors. On Dec 22, 2014 5:08 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: That seems pretty good. If you have more time then $$, some things are pretty easy. laptop

Re: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Matt Minuti matt.min...@gmail.com wrote: Aren't there IP blocks reserved for exactly this kind of VPN use? I've never seen reserved public IP ranges for this sort of thing

Re: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?

Aren't there IP blocks reserved for exactly this kind of VPN use? On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@hackerposse.com wrote: On January 9, 2015 5:56:43 PM EST, John Abreau wrote: What are your

Re: IPv6? (was: Help: HOWTO buy IP address blocks from ARIN?)

Is there any sort of idiot's 5 minute guide to IPv6 out there? My OpenWRT router just kind of magically worked with Comcast, but I don't have a clue how the address syntax works, what a prefix is, what blocks are special-purpose (link-local, example, etc), or generally the what the v6 equivalents

Re: DKIM (and SPF--and DMARC, oh my!)

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 2:47 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@hackerposse.com wrote: On 07/29/2015 03:22 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: Thanks Joshua, now I know a lot more about DKIM! (Let's not do what Yahoo! did.) And by the sounds of it, we really don't have to do anything.

Re: Virtual machine host provider recommendations

I've had bad luck with Chicagovps, you really do get what you pay for with them, and trying to reset a server tends to result in a week of downtime and a few support tickets. Digitalocean has been great and really cheap. They've been my go-to for most things. Rackspace is a little pricey, but

Recommend an asterisk consultant for a few hours?

I'm setting up asterisk at work, and I'm a little stumped about things like parked calls and transferring calls between lines. Phones register fine, and we can make/receive calls. We haven't switched off our current phone provider, so it's not like screw-ups will affect business yet. Still, we'd

Re: FYI: Comcast Metro ethernet to the home

If only someone offered such nice service in auburn... I'm still on 6/1 for $60... On Jul 16, 2015 7:07 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure where your local area is, but many towns served by the telecom TDS have, or will soon have, TDSFiber available. For plain old residential

Re: Opinions on Tor?

I've only used Tor for a few minutes, maybe 5 years ago, just to try it out, but I've always loved the idea. It would be great (and totally an ALA sort of thing to do) if libraries all over ran nodes, especially exit nodes, since aren't those the ones in short supply? Aren't a huge number of

Re: What Language for a kid

Also, did she do any hour of code stuff? That just happened recently, so perhaps that served as inspiration and could help guide the quest. Or maybe she just heard the rhetoric around it and thought it would be neat? On Dec 23, 2015 11:25 AM, "Kenny Lussier" wrote: > Hi All,

Re: What Language for a kid

Small correction, App Inventor doesn't share code with Scratch, it uses Blockly (a Google project) as it's basis. A search for "blockly games" should bring up some fun demos and stuff; I'm a fan of the rubber duck one. :) On Dec 24, 2015 2:18 PM, "Brian St. Pierre" wrote: >

Re: What Language for a kid

I have to agree with David here, except mindstorms is pretty awful, unless the only concepts you're looking for are simple loops, do...while, and conditionals, all mostly independent. It used to be based b some MIT stuff and was scratch-like, but it's been LabVIEW since the NXT. The current

Re: What Language for a kid

I second everything Bill said :) Not that you can't start there. I only have graphical programming with > LavView, but I suspect that the skills don't translate as easily as you > hope. > [If you're a EE or maybe chemist or physicist with no programming skills - > if you can find such anymore -

Re: Bridging ethernet over Wi-Fi?

At my previous employer, I set up a wireless Ethernet bridge between two buildings using some 5.4GHz ubiquiti hardware designed for the purpose, costing like $200 total for both ends. It worked beautifully, was trivial to set up, and as far as anyone could tell, there was a cable between the

Re: Weird keyboard problems....

> One of the things that surprised me, when I removed the keyboard, > is that contacts on the end of the ribbon cable are *black* rather > than being either silver or gold in color as I was expecting. > Looking at it through a loupe, it looks like there's actually > a thin sheet of carbon or

Zilog Z80 and Z8 boards free to a home!

I was given a couple of Zilog development boards, and I thought that someone on this list might like one or both of them. I know nothing about zilog stuff, besides that people run some classic computers based on the z80 (CP/M anyone?), and that some people describe writing assembly for the z8/z80

Gmail spam solution?

I know this came up a little while ago, but has anyone found a way to force gmail to not categorize this making list as spam, no matter who the sender is or how proper their SPF stuff is? I imagine the solution will also work for the login notifications I have set up on some servers, which keep

Re: Govt Source Code Policy

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < g...@freephile.com> wrote: > Code written by Govt. employees is 'Public Domain', meaning specifically > exempted from copyright. > > However, most? government software is written by contractors, and not > published or shared. I don't

Re: Amber screen?

My first thought was something like f.lux or twilight. Something to adjust the color temperature. Is that about right? On Apr 26, 2016 10:43 AM, "Ken D'Ambrosio" wrote: > Okay, Stupid Geek Question Time. > > I'm at the Openstack Summit, and the room is awful dark. So I've got my

Re: Phone SPAM/SCAM

We're active Linux users and open-source aficionados. Of course we're on a watchlist. ... Oh, you mean the CIA stuff? Eh, maybe ;) On Jul 7, 2016 10:29 AM, "Richard Kolb II" wrote: now we're probably all on a watch list, I have a sarcastic remark to add to it but I'm

Re: Motherboardectomy: how to un-bond the CPU's heatsink?

Apply low, gentle heat? The viscosity of most thermal paste/pads changes a lot with temperature. I'd take a hairdryer on low and heat up the heatsink, slowly, occasionally attempting to twist the cpu off by spinning it about the axis perpendicular to the base of the heatsink. Right-hand rule of

Re: Need advice on domain management and transfer

$1.51/mo for a static site? Might want to check out NearlyFreeSpeech.net - I pay pennies for static, and around $0.50/mo for my ttrss instance (php, MySQL, cron jobs). They've been good about domain registration, too, if a bit lacking in suffixes. On Thu, Aug 10, 2017, 8:39 AM Dan Garthwaite

Re: Need to copy a 200GB directory

My muscle memory always puts the flags "-avz" (sometimes I even remember to add a P in there), so there must have been one point in time where you had to specify compression. Might still be the case. On Tue, Jun 27, 2017, 12:02 PM mark wrote: > My mistake. I wrote encryption

Re: Network-controlled power switches/relays?

Might want to take a look at the sonoff switch modules. Basically a wifi-controlled relay you can flash them with different firmware. Dirt cheap, too! On Tue, Aug 22, 2017, 5:03 PM Mac wrote: > Just had the experience of designing a multiple outlet web switch. > >

Re: Is your kids' school forcing Zoom on them too?

Virtually all of the security "issues" are irrelevant for the use case of public schools. All the "hacking" I've heard of has been nothing more than people doing the modern equivalent of wardialing, joining in meetings that have no password by picking random numbers. That's not zooms fault, that's

Re: Need help with IAX2 on Asterisk using the voip.ms provider

I set up an Asterisk server running on FreeBSD for a company probably 8-10 years ago, using Vitelity (back when they offered services for brick-and-mortar small businesses). I believe it used IAX2, and the actual phones were bottom-of-the-line Grandstream DECT cordless units that connected to the