[PLUG] [private mail] Friction source misidentified was [Re: Kudos to Michael]

2014-08-10 Thread Richard Owlett
Recent posts remind me of a portion of a high school journalism course of 50+ years ago - [pitfalls in headline writing ;]. Would you have recieved less static if original subject line resembled: Open Source and Hardware - A Case Study (AK-47) Now if SW MO was days closer to

Re: [PLUG] [private mail] Friction source misidentified was [Re: Kudos to Michael]

2014-08-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Richard Owlett wrote: Would you have recieved less static if original subject line resembled: Open Source and Hardware - A Case Study (AK-47) This reminds me of the priest who asked his bishop if it would be OK to smoke while praying. The bishop told

[PLUG] DHCP, NetBios, and identifying machines by name

2014-08-10 Thread tim
Ubuntu does something that I don't understand, and it's biting me at the moment. I'm writing this from a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04. I have a Linksys WRT54G router. Last week, my office machine was running Ubuntu 12.04, named servo. This machine would identify it as servo.local, so I

Re: [PLUG] DHCP, NetBios, and identifying machines by name

2014-08-10 Thread MIke C. (Tech. Coord.)
I think that nsswitch.conf, /etc/hosts and winbind is want you want to use. The Name Service Switch (NSS) configuration file, */etc/nsswitch.conf*, is used by the GNU C Library to determine the sources from which to obtain name-service information in a range of categories If one or a few

Re: [PLUG] Ham radio was AK**

2014-08-10 Thread Michael Dexter
On 8/9/14 9:43 AM, Chuck Hast wrote: One of the things I am always looking for is ham radio apps for my Android boxen. As that is what I carry on the road now. I am going to try to get me something lighter than my X200 so I can go back to carrying a Linux box too. I am not sure who caught

Re: [PLUG] Ham radio was AK**

2014-08-10 Thread elcaseti .
As to apps, I would like to see a Android app that allows me to control my radios with it, there are plenty of Windows and Linux programs for it, I use Chirp which does a good job of controlling my Icom IC-92ad, but I no longer carry a full laptop, so something that can carry the frequency

Re: [PLUG] Ham radio was AK**

2014-08-10 Thread elcaseti .
OK, I did find this one. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.yo3ggx.rxtx; Pocket HAM bands Transceiver It looks limited, but hopefully, other folks will make similar apps that control more rigs, or work with fldigi. On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:23 PM, elcaseti . elcas...@gmail.com

Re: [PLUG] Ham radio was AK**

2014-08-10 Thread Michael Dexter
On 8/10/14 2:42 PM, elcaseti . wrote: OK, I did find this one. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.yo3ggx.rxtx; Pocket HAM bands Transceiver It looks limited, but hopefully, other folks will make similar apps that control more rigs, or work with fldigi. I found SDR Touch and

[PLUG] CDROM

2014-08-10 Thread Marvin Kosmal
Hi Trying to determine what equipment I have.. This is from dmesg.. [2.452185] ata4.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS50, XP00, max UDMA/100 [2.477460] scsi 3:0:0:0: CD-ROMHL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS50 XP00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [2.487363] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram

Re: [PLUG] CDROM

2014-08-10 Thread Bill Barry
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Marvin Kosmal mkos...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Trying to determine what equipment I have.. This is from dmesg.. [2.452185] ata4.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS50, XP00, max UDMA/100 [2.477460] scsi 3:0:0:0: CD-ROMHL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS50

Re: [PLUG] Ham radio was AK**

2014-08-10 Thread elcaseti .
I know enough to give a not-so-formal talk that would probably be an intro to Amateur radio. I have very little experience using GNU/Linux, Android Linux with Amateur radio. So, my talk would have to focus on Amateur radio in general, but could include a brief portion related to GNU/Linux. The

Re: [PLUG] Ham radio was AK**

2014-08-10 Thread Chuck Hast
That app appears to be one of that group that works through a remotely located server which in turn talks to radios that are located at other amateur radio ops shacks. I am looking for something that can talk do my hand held and allow me to program it either frequency by frequency or a whole

Re: [PLUG] Ham radio was AK**

2014-08-10 Thread elcaseti .
OK, you're looking for something like CHIRP for Android. On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:16 AM, Chuck Hast wch...@gmail.com wrote: That app appears to be one of that group that works through a remotely located server which in turn talks to radios that are located at other amateur radio ops shacks.

Re: [PLUG] CDROM

2014-08-10 Thread Marvin Kosmal
Hi I didn't realize that GH was the part number.. I just wanted to make sure I can read the Slackware install disks. I am ordering Slack and install... Thanks.. I am hoping this does not top post... Marvin On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org wrote: On Sun, Aug

Re: [PLUG] DHCP, NetBios, and identifying machines by name

2014-08-10 Thread Russell Senior
tim == tim t...@wescottdesign.com writes: tim Ubuntu does something that I don't understand, and it's biting me tim at the moment. tim I'm writing this from a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04. I have a tim Linksys WRT54G router. Last week, my office machine was running tim Ubuntu 12.04, named

Re: [PLUG] Ham radio was AK**

2014-08-10 Thread Russell Senior
Michael == Michael Dexter dex...@ambidexter.com writes: Michael On 8/9/14 9:43 AM, Chuck Hast wrote: One of the things I am always looking for is ham radio apps for my Android boxen. As that is what I carry on the road now. I am going to try to get me something lighter than my X200 so I can