Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: version/instance control on Mac software

2012-11-26 Thread nick
.pkg files are actually .xar archives. This Stack Overflow post has the details on how to get at stuff inside of them: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11298855/osx-how-unpack-and-pack-pkg-file Look for .plist files and see if there are tags inside of those that specify a specific OS

[PLUG] Building Ubuntu System With Mirrored Drives

2012-11-26 Thread Chaz Sliger
I would like to build a system that has removable mirrored drives. I'm thinking of having 3 drives - 2 in the system, 1 on the shelf, and rotating them daily. Q: Is there a motherboard with good hardware mirroring support? Anyone done anything like this? ~chaz c...@bctonline.com

[PLUG] Your turn to talk!

2012-11-26 Thread Michael Dexter
Hey all, The holidays have proven disruptive for everyone and no one has stepped forward for the December slots. I offered a plan-B of me giving my BHyVe hypervisor talk but that's a bit niche. The person who recently came up about physical security is interested but looks like they will

Re: [PLUG] Your turn to talk!

2012-11-26 Thread Tim
I *may* have time to put together a short talk on OWASP, what it is all about, what our chapter is doing locally, and introduce FLOSSHack, (a hacking competition designed to audit open source apps). Or if that isn't technical enough, I could give a talk I recently gave at BSides PDX on an open

Re: [PLUG] Is it wise to add other DEs once Ubuntu 12.04 is installed?

2012-11-26 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
Its totally fine to run multiple desktop environments on one install in fact the Lightdm Logon Screen fully supports multiple desktops and will show a icon for each one. On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:39 PM, C W elcas...@gmail.com wrote: Is it wise to add other DEs once Ubuntu 12.04 is installed?

Re: [PLUG] Is it wise to add other DEs once Ubuntu 12.04 is installed?

2012-11-26 Thread Benjamin Kerensa
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:39:27 -0800 C W elcas...@gmail.com wrote: Is it wise to add other DEs once Ubuntu 12.04 is installed? Hey Everybody, I have a friend who installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on his work desktop PC.

[PLUG] 5-1/4 Floppy Issue

2012-11-26 Thread Richard C. Steffens
I just installed a 5-1/4 floppy in a Gateway box I got from Free Geek. When I try to read a floppy disk, the disk drive spins, the pilot light lights, and then I get a message that says: Unable to mount location No media in the drive I remembered that I had not done anything in the BIOS after

Re: [PLUG] 5-1/4 Floppy Issue

2012-11-26 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:19:21 -0800 Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net dijo: On the Advanced menu page there is an entry called Floppy Configuration. When I go to that page, there is an entry called Floppy Type. There are only two options, 1.44MB and 2.88MB. Is it possible that the BIOS

Re: [PLUG] 5-1/4 Floppy Issue

2012-11-26 Thread Richard C. Steffens
On 11/26/2012 06:20 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:19:21 -0800 Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net dijo: Is it possible that the BIOS doesn't support 5-1/4 drives? Or did I miss something else? It is not only possible, but likely. One of the advantages of the (then)

Re: [PLUG] 5-1/4 Floppy Issue

2012-11-26 Thread Neal
Ahhh, memories of PCs stepping the floppy head at 30msec or some other similarly brain dead rate instead of what the drives were capable of. Talk about buzz saw! :) It is from a PC. Is it a 1.2M or 360K disk? You can read either in a 1.2M drive but you can't read a 1.2M disk in a 360K drive.

Re: [PLUG] Building Ubuntu System With Mirrored Drives

2012-11-26 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
Hey Chaz, On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Chaz Sliger c...@bctonline.com wrote: I would like to build a system that has removable mirrored drives. I think you will have a hard time doing this the way you envision. I'm thinking of having 3 drives - 2 in the system, 1 on the shelf, and

Re: [PLUG] Slightly OT: version/instance control on Mac software

2012-11-26 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:02:07PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: The second-hand CardScan is working with Linux. The craigslist seller advertised it as Mac compatable. He gave me a copy of the Mac software installer cardscan.pkg, which allegedly runs with this scanner. However, it complains