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: [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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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.

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, 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.

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.

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: 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

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: 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

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.

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: 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.

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: [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: 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

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: 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

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? > >

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

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

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

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: 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: 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

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: 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 >

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: 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: 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. ;-) > ___ >

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: 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

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

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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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?

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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

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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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

Can this be protected?

Check out the contact page off of my web site: http://www.mv.com/ipusers/ke1g/emform.html It's a form that invokes a cgi program (provided by my ISP, but I'm sure that you can do something similar) that allows me, among other things, to send myself an email containing the data

Re: Administrivia: Subject line tagging

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... > But anyway, the "List-Id" header is guaranteed to be present and the same > for all messages delivered through this mailing list. So, one should filter > on that, and not anything else, to identify list mail. Of course, if one posts, one may expect to

Problem (was: Re: need help with tool requirement)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... > What approach would provide sufficient assurance that the code > does not contain any "Easter eggs" or trap doors to allow > future egg-laying? Heavily reviewed OSS (note not necessarily FOSS)? But then how can you be sure that the binary deliver

Re: Problem (was: Re: need help with tool requirement)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, at 8:23am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Heavily reviewed OSS (note not necessarily FOSS)? > > FOSS == (Free|Open Source) Software > > They are the same thing. "Open Source Software" was the term popularized > by Eric Raymond as an alt

Re: Problem (was: Re: need help with tool requirement)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, at 9:24am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Absolutely. However, you still haven't clarified what *you* meant in your > message, which is why I brought it up. :-) Basicly, what you said in your other message: That while free in FOSS doesn't

WANTED: a few 9-track tapes transcribed

Talk about timing! Just three weeks ago I tossed a 9 track drive into a dumpster. -Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Sound issue

Problem: When I put in a music CD, it brings up the CD player just fine, that goes out and finds disk info to display, the CD plays, and I can hear it through the headphone jack on the front of the drive, but no sound comes out of the speakers. Sometimes. It seems that running something

Re: Sound issue

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: < A discription of the two possible path from the bits on the CD to the speaker jack: audio electronic signals; DAE, bits making their way through software to the D to A converter(s) in the sound card.> Yes, and I'm not positive which path actually works when it w

Re: automated social engineering at it's best (maybe?)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > You do a good deed, solve a problem, and win karma, all at the same time. ^ Talk about a western appreciation of a concept. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is there a Knoppix equivelent for PowerPC (Mac)?

Any Linux on Mac folks out there? I've come into a free old Mac (Performa 6290CD). I'm thinking that I could get my lady friend (a Mac person) to accept it to live at her house if it mostly remains a Mac. If I can run a few apps like xfig and LyX on it, I can get work done when I

Is there a Knoppix equivelent for PowerPC (Mac)?

Thanks to all for all of the tips. I made myself a CD from the knoppix powerPC iso. I'll let you all know how it works if I ever figure out how to get the drive door to open (the button on the front panel doesn't do it, could be broken), and then how to get it to boot from the CD.

Re: Is there a Knoppix equivelent for PowerPC (Mac)?

Travis Roy writes: > Bill Freeman wrote: > > >Thanks to all for all of the tips. I made myself a CD from > > the knoppix powerPC iso. I'll let you all know how it works if I ever > > figure out how to get the drive door to open (the button on the front &

Re: Is there a Knoppix equivelent for PowerPC (Mac)?

Bill McGonigle writes: > On Aug 12, 2004, at 08:21, Bill Freeman wrote: > > > I'll let you all know how it works if I ever > > figure out how to get the drive door to open (the button on the front > > panel doesn't do it, could be broken), > > You

Re: Is there a Knoppix equivelent for PowerPC (Mac)?

Bill McGonigle writes: > On Aug 12, 2004, at 14:43, Bill Freeman wrote: > > >Just for grins I tried holding C while it booted. No > > difference. (I get a chord played rather than what I'd call a ding or > > dong.) Might you know how to ask the OS whether

Linux in new offerings

These guys are attempting to sell significant clusters in a box products using Linux and Transmeta parts, for personal super computing. http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040830/tech_supercomputers_orion_1.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Manchesterwireless (was Re: Why Philly...)

Christopher Schmidt writes: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:46:54PM -0400, Travis Roy wrote: > > Manchester has wireless for most of downtown (www.manchesterwireless.org) > > I've never been able to get this to work. I've tried with both my Apple > Powerbook (12" G4), Sony Vaio with D-link card

Re-installing W98 without endangering the Linux partitions?

You may consider this off topic, but I can't see Windows folks as knowing how to do anything other than take over the whole machine... I wish that I never had to boot into Windows. But I aint there yet (though it's down to on the order of once a month). I have a dual boot RH9 - W

Re: Re-installing W98 without endangering the Linux partitions?

I promised a summary. Here goes. I got several responses. Jeff Kinz seemed to remember some of the same bad situations that I vaguely remember, in which windows installs wiped other partitions. He suggested a VMWare based solution, which, of course, I did not try. Maybe

BitTorrent and Comcast?

Does anyone know whether Comcast considers using BitTorrent as a client to be a terms of service violation (because each client also serves)? I can't get a straight answer out of Comcast customer support. They just quote the sections of the terms of service that caused me to ask in the fi

Re: Spam control (was: BitTorrent and Comcast?)

Hewitt Tech writes: > ... > I guess what puzzles me is that spam is almost always used on behalf of > someone who is trying to get customers. It's those companies that should get > burned. If spam is tracked back to them, and I don't see why it's > particularly hard since they always put cont

2.4.18 -> 2.6.8 yields ext3 errors?

Michael ODonnell writes: > ... > Since they're running Debian I said "apt-get install > kernel-image-2.6.8.whatever" and the installation > occurred without incident on both machines. Now that > the dust has settled both systems boot their 2.6.8 > kernels and mount their ext3 root disks just

Re: Creating bootable linux CDROM using XP

It sounds like we need the equivelant of rawwrite for CDs. I wonder how uniform the W32 driver interface is for the write capabilities of the various recordable drives? Probably just handling ATAPI drives would be a good start. Does anybody want to start a project?

Re: 2.4.18 -> 2.6.8 yields ext3 errors?

Can you make and ext2 fs on a floppy (or Zip drive, if you've got it) and mount that as ext2? Yes, it sounds like a bum kernel. But if it came as binary from debian, i.e.; you didn't build it from source, I'd expect that others would be having the problem. I guess that what's really called for i

HDTV PCI card recommendations?

Does the group have opinions on what HDTV PCI card to buy before the broadcast flag becomes a reality? And good places to buy it? Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Cleaning computers after fire

Greg Rundlett writes about computers that have experienced fire stress. I have only a few points to make beyone what I've read in other responses. If you do wind up trying to use the old units, don't let a few months of proper operation make you complacent about frequency of backu

Re: looking for SCSI cable ..

Michael ODonnell writes: > I'll keep looking. I can't remember who I foisted most of > the SCSI junk off on (BillF?) but I'm pretty sure there was No, I got the EISA stuff, and the quaint laptop with the desd hard drive. I haven't yet discarded the Compaq N260 10/100 PC card that was in the l

RFC: Make political discussion off-topic by rule (was: America ...)

Ben, I'm in favor of such a rule. I would, however, like to hear your bread recipes. Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mail

Wireless protos- 11a 11b 11g ....11x?

Jeff Kinz writes: > I just got asked what the differences are between the various wireless > protoccols and I'm realizing I don't have a good summary available. Does > anyone know of a website or document that explains what is special about > "11n" (possibly vs 11g)? If you're an IEE

Play wav files from serial input

Brian writes: > Setup a linux server with a samba share and directories labelled 1-8. .wav > files can be put in those dirs and when a simple serial string is received a > random file is selected from the appropriate directory and played via the > line-out of the sound card. Ok, but w

RE: Play wav files from serial input

Brian writes: > Thanks for the "play" tip, I found a reference to that via google and looks > good for playing .wav's. I imagine there is a similar one for .mp3's, or I > can just require people to convert them... By the way, you probably already have "play". It's part of the sox dist

Recording your phonograph records digitally (was: Play wav files from serial input)

Charles Farinella writes: > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 15:11, Bill Freeman wrote: > > > (I'd been happily converting records to digital until > > my laptop died last year.) > > I've been wanting to do that for awhile, but haven't been able to > motiv

Re: Play wav files from serial input

Jeff Kinz writes: ... > Any PII from 200-600 MHz will rip a CD at about 1:1 music time to rip > time ratio. If you have a large (25+ years collection) it will take > 'forever' to convert it. > > On the other hand, any recent vintage machine w/a 1GHz or better > will rip a 1 hour cd in appr

Re: Play wav files from serial input

Mark Komarinski writes: > What software are you using for click/pop and normalization? I was using > a combination of gwc and audacity(?), but it didn't seem to catch everything > and I couldn't figure out how to remove a single click. I never actually did it. The sox man page mention

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