Re: dd cloning a Win10 HDD to SSD

Probably only if you're getting read errors on the old device. But I'm not a particular expert. Re: using dd at all, the target drive must be at least as big as the source partition. (I'm assuming that everything uses LBA (logical block addressing) these days. In the bad old days we had to worr

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

Let's not have a rank out. (Great book. I'm sorry to have missed the meet up, but my only reliably free night is Wednesday, and this Thursday was no exception. Bony Maroni on Arucksack.) Bill On Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 8:39 AM Curt Howland wrote: > Can't even spell "Dessert" right. > > I beg the co

Re: Edit over SSH.

Resistance (like capacitance) is futile. Stay with the one true editor. Whatever nifty feature you saw, there is probably an extension to do it in emacs. (Or you can write one.) On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:52 PM Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Hi, all. In Emacs, it's trivially easy to open a file on a remo

Re: Ruby slow to launch (was L-o-n-g delay for rc.local in systemd on Ubuntu.)

I don't know, but getrandom() may well be using /dev/urandom (or a related facility). And that, in turn, might be waiting to "collect sufficient entropy". So some network traffic, keystrokes, whatever, need to happen between boot time and the first random emission, or that first "random" number b

Re: Weird keyboard problems....

It sounds to me as though a trace is broken, or just possibly the connection to the ribbon cable that joins the keyboard to the system (at either end possibly. Operating additional keys somehow routes around the open from the point of view of the key scanning chip. I have just recently replaced t

Some of you may be interested in signing an H-1B related petition

IEEE has an article here about abuse of the H-1B visa, putting citizens out of work. It links to a petition asking the government to investigate. See the article here: http://insight.ieeeusa.org/insight/content/policy/255071 Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mai

Re: What Language for a kid

For those who may have missed it: http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:44 PM, David Rysdam wrote: > Ric Werme writes: > > PostScript is a Lisp variant. > > I don't think I would say that. It's a stack-based thing that's like > Forth or an RPN calculator. Lisp is nothin

Re: What Language for a kid

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Matt Minuti wrote: > > Agreed on Python, but trying to grok the difference between whitespace > characters (let alone nonprinting characters) when you don't really > understand characters is a little frustrating. In my experience teaching > 5th graders through hi

Re: What Language for a kid

I think that you should consult the child as to whether she: 1. Wants to make the computer do stuff beyond playing games and typing term papers; 2. Is thinking along the lines of joining a FIRST team and contributing to the software; 3. Wants to build her own robot or similar; 4. Wants to b

Re: What Language for a kid

Probably not surprising anyone, I'm going to recommend Python. It lets you dip in to the structure of algorithms without having to first learn to manage your own variable allocations, type restrictions, etc. Those things can be added later when adding C or Java. Python is also available by defaul

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

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: ... > > While I'm often amazed that candidates for engineering jobs will show up > with _no portfolio_ (especially when we're talking about software jobs: > mechanical engineers, for example, may have a legitimate case that it's > hard t

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

"Oh, but first are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?" (Jimi Hendrix, for the young amongst you) To get good jobs, you need things on your resume. Before that, unless you're in a field where you can publish while doing graduate work (it's own form of internship), you have to take l

Re: Mesh networking: olsrd? b.a.t.m.a.n.? OpenWRT?

If I'm not mistaken, IPv6 may have stuff to deal with hand-off, but it doesn't replace mesh in that without mesh, only your wired APs have connectivity. On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > On 2015-02-25 14:33, mad...@li.org wrote: > > I have not been keeping up with wha

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

"non-routable" range IPs are what are used where I'm working now, a company with several thousand employees, at perhaps a dozen sites across North America. Making it work requires an infrastructue team. Going outside requires going through a proxy. Subnets at other sites are, I presume, routed t

Re: powerschool webscraper?

There is a "Save back to file from DOM" firefox add on. I don't know whether it requires that the page was loaded from a file. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > And further reading suggests that DOM Inspector's save to file > functionality has b

Re: powerschool webscraper?

And further reading suggests that DOM Inspector's save to file functionality has been removed. You might be able to get an old version, though that could require an old version of firefox. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > Not that I know of an existing tool (Beaut

Re: powerschool webscraper?

Not that I know of an existing tool (BeautifulSoup probably doesn't deal with the JavaScript), but it seems like you want to capture the eventual DOM. You need something that you can trigger when the page has settled. A manual way might be to use firebug (assuming that firefox works with the site

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

Production is always a separate issue. MIDI is a real possibility for research. A physical keyboard with capacitive switches can probably support being N key roll over scanned by a custom micro controller code, even if the chip the keyboard originally had doesn't support N key roll over. The old

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

One hopes not. If memory serves, MIDI is asynchronous serial at 125,000 bits per second (1/16 or a 2MHz crystal?), send using current loop. Thus it should be a byte stream at the /dev level, with interpretation as MIDI data being done at main program level, rather than device driver level. That

Re: simulating chorded keyboards

I've got (unless my son tossed it) an old Casio keyboard that no longer makes noise, but the keys to midi out stuff may still work. You can, of course wire the switches in a QWERTY keyboard in parallel with the keys. I'll be at the house to check for it on the 24th. You still need a midi interfac

Re: Linux Memory Fragmentation, ideas..

I don't know how much visibility into the code you have, but if I were designing from scratch, I would consider pre-allocating the buffers for the imagers, then have the new instances connect to these bufferes, rather than allocate them afresh. This could likely be done with mmap, with the buffers

Cheap fd, where I can control whether select thinks its readable, but is always (I wouldn't balk at controllable) whether select thinks that its writable.

I'm using a "library" (*) that emulates an open socket (**). That is, has send(), recv(), and close() operations (methods). It will also (upon demand) cough up a *nix file descriptor, suitable for the first argument to select(). That is, select will respond to the channel having bytes you can re

Re: Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < g...@freephile.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Patrick Flaherty wrote: > >> Most of our devs do their dev work on their desktops. When 1tb sata >> drives are 600 bucks it made more sense to let devs have "perishable" work

Re: Password storage?

I'm using Password Gorilla, whose storage format is, I think, Bruce Schneir's PasswordSafe. I know that there are clients for Linux, Windows and Android. It's TclTk based, so I assume that it's available for Apple stuff too. You do have to take the file around with you. If there's an easy way t

Fwd: Presention software?

Appoligies to Josh. I think the default reply too has changed for gmail, but I'm probably just fumble fingered. Bill -- Forwarded message -- From: Bill Freeman Date: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:53 AM Subject: Re: Presention software? To: Joshua Judson Rosen Just for complet

Re: Mother of all xterms?

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Ben Scott wrote: ... > > Under the Unix philosophy, you want xterm(1), script(1), and a > window manager that does tabbed windows.[1] :-) > > -- Ben > > [1] twm, confusingly, does not do tabbed windows. ;-) > ___ >

Re: Mother of all xterms?

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: > Back in the day, running telnet inside emacs was faster than in xterm > because of emacs' terminal optimization. Important when you shared a 56k > link. Or 2400 baud modems. > > Honestly, I'm at the point I just want low ram use, scroll back

Re: Ethernet - WiFi bridge

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > >> there may be a use for that WRT54GL of mine with > >> the blown WAN port. (mod - you had one too, right?) > > > >Yah, the WAN port on mine failed, as well. > > Hey, wait a minute! ;-> I think the o

Re: Permissions on /tmp

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > A subdir in /tmp can certainly have my ownership and permissions. > > And I guess they can't delete the directory because it isn't > > empty, but with permissions on the parent directory, can't they >

Ethernet - WiFi bridge

It occurs to me (as I wait for the replacement fror my laptop's WiFi/BT module *) that there may be a use for that WRT54GL of mine with the blown WAN port. (mod - you had one too, right?) Assuming that I can get the radio to connect to the local AP router as a client (rather than as a peer or the

Re: Mother of all xterms?

(You knew it was coming:) emacs You can search back for timestamps (if you have your shell prompt set to include them) or for anything else. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhl

Re: Permissions on /tmp

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > the downside of tmp is that any process can also delete my > > pid file (as opposed to having to be either root or the user > > created for the program) > > Create a subdirectory of /tmp. Your PID fil

Re: How can I detect whether an /etc/rc.d/init.d script is being run at boot time versus by hand?

I went with the keep the file open approach, but added flock exclusive (advisory locking). When starting, if the file exists, but if I can open it for writing and flock it exclusive, I assume that it's a stale PID file and just delete it. On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Bill Freeman

Re: How can I detect whether an /etc/rc.d/init.d script is being run at boot time versus by hand?

st than running a sub-process (I'm doing the PID file managment as part of a python program, by the way). I guess I'll read up on file locking, which I hope goes away over a re-boot. On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Bill Freeman wrote: > I'm trying to figure out whether

How can I detect whether an /etc/rc.d/init.d script is being run at boot time versus by hand?

I'm trying to figure out whether to force the removal of an almost certainly stale pid file or not in the service start case. While I presume that the start up sequence normally handles this by clearing /var/run before lighting off the init scripts for the level, I have a need to have my pid file

Another posix file system question

Scenario, Apache or nginx is serving a file, in response to an AJAX request, because serving static files is fast. The file contains data to be displayed on a web page (via jQueryUI bar graphs, among, if that's of interest). While I might come up with a scheme for updating file contents in place

Re: FREE - Dr. Dobbs 1980-1984 plus Volume 1 Number 2

Me On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Just unearthed some Dr. Dobbs magazines from the years > 1980 thru 1984 (complete except for a handful of issues) > and also Volume 1 Number 2 from 1976. Anybody want 'em? > >

Re: Looking for Acme Packet insider

Wasn't that Wyle E. Coyote? On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Michael ODonnell < michael.odonn...@comcast.net> wrote: > > To whomever it was at the GNHLUG presentation last night > that said they're with Acme Packet: please contact me. > > ___ > gnhlug-d

I'm considering consulting out of state. What kind of incorperation?

I have a potential gig on Long Island on a 1099, but will remain domiciled in NH. I figure that I should become a LLC or sole proprietorship or something. Suggestions? Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhl

Re: Call for topics for Nashua's next LUG meetings

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Joshua Judson Rosen writes: > > > > Mac writes: > > > > > > On 01/09/2013 04:35 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > > > > > > > I'd be glad to talk about my weekend project building an advanced > > > > whole-home audio system on the ch

Re: [GNHLUG] LAST CALL: What day should the GNHLUG BBQ be?

Whatever other folks like is fine with me, though that doesn't guarantee that I can make it. I have no clue as yet as to which of those dates might be problematic, so please choose without my input. Bill On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > The poll will be closed Monday July 30t

Re: Capturing file descriptor 3, or alternatives.

It seems as though Ben has a good approach (in the separate thread). But to follow up on questions from others, let me be a bit more detailed about the problem setting: We deploy python based web-sites and web applications (Django, Twisted or -- shudder --Plone) to various *nix servers. Could be

Re: SOLVED: Capturing file descriptor 3, or alternatives.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > P.S. to the P.P.P.S.: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Ben Scott wrote: >>  I kept trying this one-liner: >> >> ANSWER=$( ( dialog --output-fd 3 --inputbox 'Speak Friend and enter' 0 >> 0  > /dev/fd/4 ) 3>&1 4>&1 ) > >  This may make the red

Re: Capturing file descriptor 3, or alternatives.

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > >> What I haven't figured out is how to return the results to the >> parent shell.  Not because I can't write it somewhere other >> than the tty, but because I don't know how to get the shell to >> hook up a pipe to that extra fd, to whi

Re: Capturing file descriptor 3, or alternatives.

The several of these I've looked into (duck-duck-go is having a hard time finding some of them) solve a problem that I don't have, writing the UI. Some are inappropriate even for that, since they must interface using the tty that their parent process (shell) is using, not some X server not availab

Re: Capturing file descriptor 3, or alternatives.

Whiptail. Is that a Harry Potter character? On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > > Is something like whiptail ruled out? > > ___ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/lis

Capturing file descriptor 3, or alternatives.

I really hate string processing in bash. So I'd like to write a script in another language that 1. interacts with the user; 2. calculates the desired values of some environment variables; and 3. communicates those settings to the shell from which it was invoked (since the environment variables are

Re: USB (*gasp*) modem?

Yes. I've had pretty good luck with the Keyspan HS-19US (I think that's the model). But beware of the usage.: It works great for exchanging asynchronous fixed baud rate start bit and stop bit per "byte" serial data streams But devices that are actually twiddling modem control signals instea

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

Woops. I meant to send this to more than just Josh. Follow up: I went with the ZaReason "Strata 6770", pimped out with the slower (2.2GHz versus 2.5GHz) core i7, 8GB RAM, a 750GB 7200RPM disk, and Tux logo and on the key between FN and left Alt (nominally the "Windows" key). I did wind up repl

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

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: >> Any bad experiences with the i7 CPU? > >  You're looking at the wrong part.  CPUs are commodities these days. > Core logic chipset, video chipset, disk control

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

On 4/13/12, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:11:11 -0400 Bill Freeman wrote > >> On 4/13/12, Ric Werme wrote: >> > And the 1366x768 display isn't as friendly as my 1600x1200 desktop >> > monitor. >> > We really used 640x48

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

Many thanks to all. I have several avenues to explore, now that my taxes are done. I'll report back with my decision. Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

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

On 4/13/12, Ric Werme wrote: > And the 1366x768 display isn't as friendly as my 1600x1200 desktop monitor. > We really used 640x480 displays once upon a time? At least those were > (mostly) better than Teletypes, and those were better than keypunches. There was time of 320x200. And I remember F

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

On 4/12/12, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > I have experience with ZaReason, and recommend them: > > http://www.zareason.com/ > > I know people who enjoyed their dealings with System76, also: > > http://www.system76.com/ I'll consider these, thanks. > When I bought my and my wife's Thinkp

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

My Acer is scaring me. Sometimes at startup it goes into an infinite reboot loop. The way out seems to be to force power off, flex the case and whack it a few times, after which it boots. So, I'm considering replacing it. Last round I insisted on an AMD CPU, but I'm currently drawn to an i7 or

Re: Errors scrolling...

On 4/9/12, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Grrr. I installed kernel v. 3.3.0 on my laptop, and hoo-boy, is it not > happy. > Two things which confuse me: > > 1) Using as a template the grub.cfg that already exists, I create a new > section > -- literally identical to my other laptop -- and yet, with the

Re: e-mail provider recommendations?

Your college or alumni association may offer a forwarder. Mine does. Since I'm an ARRL member, they, too, offer a forwarder. Those kinds of things could, however, dry up on you someday. As you can see, I'm still on gmail. Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mail

Re: No-brainer backup from Linux to space on remote drive?

The solutions that some to mind are: amanda tar bzip2 scp rsync All require configuration. A problem with rsync is that if you back up the system after it has lost or corrupted files, then the rsync copy no longer has those files or good versions of those files either. It is possible t

Re: Linux `all-in-one' touchscreen computer?

On 2/12/12, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > I just came across this recently: > > http://us.shuttle.com/barebone/Models/X50v2Plus.html > > All-in-one touchscreen PC with an explicit `works with Linux' label. > > Looks like the online retailers are selling it in a barebones > configuration (no RAM

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 02/01/2012 10:15 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jerry Feldman > > wrote: >> >>     On 01/31/2012 07:14 PM, Ben Scott wrote: >>     > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jon "maddog" Hall >>

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

On 1/30/12, Ben Scott wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:02 AM, OK? Im Deluxe! > wrote: >>> What about `flopticals', LS-120s, etc.? >>> Were they partitioned like HDDs? >> >> Typically, no. Neither were any of the various tape devices that >> used the PC floppy drive controller interface. > >

Re: ManchLUG needs a new home!

Don't go by me. It's rare that I can get back to Manchester early enough for a LUG meeting, let alone dinner. Bill On 1/24/12, Chip Marshall wrote: > On 21-Sep-2011, kenta sent: >> As you probably know there hasn't been a meeting of the >> Manchester Linux Users Group for several months. We've

Re: home design + construction + landscape design software? (CAD, remodelling)

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: ... >  [ IIRC, I may have seen a gizmo on This Old House that will scan a >   room with a laser and do many of the things in my wish list, but >   it's probably expensive and almost certainly not Linux-related.   ] Shouldn't you be able to

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

On 1/5/12, Bill Sconce wrote: > Only thing is I can't figure out how to present both local and UTC... :) > > > 29_desktops_here'ly yrs, > > -Bill Use python. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/

Re: gnhlug-discuss Digest, Vol 64, Issue 1

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:46 PM, David Ohlemacher wrote: > I to looked at updating from Maverick and refused to stick with Ubuntu. > Unity really is a steaming bucket.   I played with it in a virtual machine > for 15 minutes.  It would be fine on a cell phone, but that is it. Yeah, I've heard tha

Re: [OT] Adding recruiters to LinkedIn connection list?

It could affect your reputation with you other connections, who may not appreciate being spammed by the recruiters. Bill On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: > > Over time, several recruiters (none of whom have ever actually > found work for me) have asked to be added to my L

Re: Fwd: http://linuxbeard.com/

I used to have a beard. Then my unix gig dried up. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

Below are a working pair of scripts, should anyone find them useful. I would have attached, rather than included them, but if the MV webmail interface lets me attach files, I haven't figured out how. These work for my current application. sxon lives on the PATH on my machine with the X server (u

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

> When I go to a site that noscript blocks, I might want to allow it. When > noscript is allowed, it reloads. Usually this lets me go on my way. Some > sites will set some kind of cookie and not allow me to reload. Coupon > sites, surveys, polls, webkins are typical. The only way to clear some

Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

> Googling for "X without ssh" or "X Forwarding without ssh" brings up > thousands of helpful tutorials on X Forwarding using SSH :) > > Here's an alternative suggestion, not as good as xon, but relatively simple: > > http://superuser.com/questions/49240/get-remote-x-display-working-in-linux-wit

Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > > It's still overkill to force X11 through the encrypted pipe. > > You running out of electrons or something? ;-) > > Is it a problem? If not, don't fix it. :) > > -- Ben I didn't ask you

Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

> > > > It's still overkill to force X11 through the encrypted pipe. > > My understanding of X leads me to believe that as long as your clients > can authenticate themselves to the server (and you've rigged your server > such that it's willing to talk to anybody, local or remote, who can open >

Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

> On 03/23/2010 12:03 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > > On 03/22/2010 04:13 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > > > >> It seems like ssh is overkill for talking > >> to a VM on your own box. > >> > > You're running two operating systems on one piece of

Re: Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

> On 03/22/2010 04:13 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > > It seems like ssh is overkill for talking > > to a VM on your own box. > > You're running two operating systems on one piece of hardware. > > -Bill It's still overkill to force

Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

Way back when I was at Digital (as it then was) and before, we used to have a tool called 'xon'. It took as an argument the DNS name or IP address of a server on the net, connected to it, started a shell or optionally specified command, with the DISPLAY environment variable all set up, and maybe p

Re: New HP dv6 laptop and Knoppix

> > > --- On Sun, 12/13/09, Michael Nolin wrote: > > > > The laptop I bought the kids for Christmas arrived and it > > did not boot windoz 7. After an hour and a half on the phone > > with HP tech support I got a case# and an order number for a > > new hard drive due to arrive on the 17. HP's

Re: Reminder Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XXXV Saturday December 5, 2009

Maybe I should bring that 4Mb, no ethernet, no CD drive, no USB Latitude with the broken floppy. ;^) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Update, was: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

> The DOS version of Kermit is still out there at Columbia. C-Kermit is also > there for Unix. It's an excellent VT100 emulator as well if you want to > turn a PC into a VT100 terminal. I'm sure that I have some DOS kermits hanging around - even xmodem. But once I can get binary files onto the

Re: Update, was: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:00:19PM -0500, Bill Freeman wrote: > > If worse comes to worst, I can always pull the drive and write it from > > another machine. But we noticed that WFW's Terminal program had a binary > > file transfer option. Does anyone remembe

Update, was: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

Jim and I had fun last night taking the Latitude LX475D's floppy drive apart, but didn't manage to make it work. So I'm on hold figuring out whether mod's FA410 works on it until I get around to putting the drivers on the machine some other way. If worse comes to worst, I can always pull the driv

Re: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

> > > >Here's an article from somebody who's discouraged about LaCrosse > >Technology's gear and their attitude toward Linux compatibility: > > > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/hows-weather > > ...but then immediately after that I noticed these more encouraging notes: > > > http://

Re: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

> In the past I've used dedicated machines that could passively sniff > RS232 data and control signals but I'm assuming that if you had access > to a gizmo like that you'd have mentioned it. I may be using (constructing) something like that. But I still need a PC with a legacy serial port (and p

Re: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Bill Freeman wrote: > > It is a La Crosse WS-3610. > > Looks like it's OEM'ed by these people: > > http://www.heavyweather.info/new_english_us/3610set.html > > The software spec sheet claims it only works with Win 98

Re: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

> On 29-Nov-2009, Bill Freeman sent: > > This thing is so old, it doesn't have ethernet (or WiFi). > > But it does have a legacy serial port (and parallel port), so > > > > Is anyone's junk box too deep for their own good? > > Yes! I happen to have, de

Re: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

> > > > The customer support person at the weather station manufacturer was > > pretty insistent that USB dongles don't work. I suspect that their > > internal micro doesn't have a UART. It doesn't even connect to RxD. > > Can you reveal the make and model of this weather station? > >

Re: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

> ... I dunno if > anyone ever made a PCMCIA NIC with boot ROM. Seems unlikely, given > that the whole idea behind a laptop is mobility. I think that there were some. After all the M in PCMCIA stands for "Memory". The use case, I agree, is another question. Gang deployment of new, virus free

Re: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > > USB, of course, would solve many > > problems, but 3.11 drivers may be exciting. > > Don't forget that prior to Win 95 also means MS-DOS.[1] Win 95 (and 98 and ME) was DOS too (as I now see that you've

Re: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

> On 11/29/2009 04:24 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > > I would like to try the Belkin. What LUGs do you figure to attend > > before PySIG? If we can make it to the same one, might you bring > > the card along? And there's always learning about CSS at PySIG in > > Decem

Re: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

> On 11/29/2009 02:48 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > > But the thing does have a pair of PCMCIA slots. N.B., PCMCIA, > > not card bus. > > > > > > Wow. That is an antique! > > How can I tell a PCMCIA from a CardBus? Other than labelings, I think that the

Re: Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

> On Sunday 29 November 2009 14:48, Bill Freeman wrote: > > I've been gifted with a Dell Latitude LX 475D laptop. > ... > > But the thing does have a pair of PCMCIA slots. N.B., PCMCIA, > > not card bus. > > > > So I'm looking for the loan of one or

Looking for stuff that you forgot to throw out

I've been gifted with a Dell Latitude LX 475D laptop. This thing is so old, it doesn't have USB. This thing is so old, it doesn't have ethernet (or WiFi). This thing is so old, it doesn't have a CD drive. This thing is so old, it's running WFW 3.11. It has the as delivered 4Mb of RAM and 300 s

Re: Nokia N810

> I'm thinking of buying a Nokia N810. Goal is to ultimately replace > my ancient PalmOS-based handheld. > > Anyone here have/had an N810 who cares to comment? Good product? > How's the software? It seems to work. I went so far as to get ssh and python running, and started playing with pyg

Re: Netgear now touting open source WRT-compatible wireless router

> ... I've not really been > interested in Linksys gear because I've had terrible experience with the > hardware just crapping out, and I've had good experience with Netgear, so I > was glad to see this. On the other hand, I've had the only Netgear that I owned crap out too. To be fair, it provid

Re: High-Level Audio Editing Language?

> Bill McGonigle wrote: > Unless you're merging audio tracks, editing audio tends to defy > scripting because you need an "ear" to listen for the pauses, pops and > other cutting/splicing points. But the case in point, looking for touch tones, is different. Touch tones are designed to be automat

Can a browser based application write to files on a local hard disk?

Alex Hewitt writes: > Scenario: Need a web application which collects user data that needs to > be stored on the user's local hard disk. Which tools can do this? > > I know that web site based applications are usually prevented from > writing to the user's local hard disk but I would prefer t

Re: shell tricks and trapping signals

Paul Lussier writes: > "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can't you trap on the HUP (hang-up) signal for that? Or is the > > process not running with a tty attached? > > No, and exactly. Essentially, our test suite opens a pipe to ssh and > treats ssh as an IPC interface. I

High Latency Survival Tactics (Was: Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?)

Bill McGonigle writes: ... > Has anybody seen a line-mode-oriented shell? I'd love to edit my > line locally and then send it in these situations rather than waiting > for characters to echo back. What you really want is a line mode terminal program. One that lets you edit locally, then,

Re: VPN recommendations?

Ben Scott writes: > PPTP might be worth considering if most passwords weren't trivially > cracked. Given the scenario you give, it's a fair bet the guy's > password is also his last name, or maybe (if he's clever) his kid's > birthday. > > But along the same lines, he's probably also go

SOHO Email Hosting or Alternatives

Ted Roche writes: > I've heard this question offline a couple of times in the past few > months, and Ben has started nagging me to put it online: > > What are some good alternatives for a Small Office - Home Office > business for setting up email for their domain? > > The smallest of busin

Re: Here's a job control conundrum for you.

Steven W. Orr writes: > On Tuesday, Apr 10th 2007 at 16:35 -0400, quoth Steven W. Orr: > > =>I go to work in the morning and ssh in to my 'puter at home. I run alpine > =>which is my preferred text mail interface. > => > =>At the end of the day I don't want to cleanly exit from alpine (for r

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