Re: Single login server

2018-01-17 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 01/17/2018 01:35 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > I'm looking for some sort of single login server. Not single sign-on. > That's something this could enable in some cases, but it's not my goal. I > just want to have one account that isn't a social media thing. Ideally it > would fulfill these: > >

Re: Fast Broadband options for American Fork?

2016-06-09 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 06/08/2016 01:00 PM, Jeff wrote: All, I live in American Fork and get my internet through AFConnect which gives me aprroximately 15 MBit for $39.99. I know they have a faster tier (30 MBit for $69.99) but are there any other options that anybody knows about in the $60 or below per month

WingCash Software Engineer

2014-12-11 Thread Shane Hathaway
Hi PLUGers, I thought you might appreciate this job announcement from my company. If you have the skills and interest, please take a moment to learn about WingCash and the cool tech we're building. Shane --- Are you an excellent Python coder? We want you to join us! WingCash is a small

Re: slightly OT, need some electronic circuit help

2012-10-08 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 10/08/2012 11:57 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 10/08/2012 11:36 AM, Hugh Clark wrote: Perhaps I don't fully understand the problem, but couldn't you use an H-bridge to control the motor (only needing 1 DC power supply) and an ADC on the Arduino to measure the position? The code in the

Re: slightly OT, need some electronic circuit help

2012-10-08 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 10/08/2012 02:03 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 10/08/2012 01:30 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote: The large current requirement (10A) and the need for a middle position make the circuit interesting and difficult to achieve using low cost analog components. An analog H bridge would work well if you

Re: Job: Software Developer 1 (Springville)

2011-10-25 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 10/25/2011 10:10 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: Again, I'm not trying to sound like a jerk but the job description is vague, the requirements unclear and the pay seems well below the market average for entry level. If you can clear any or all of these up you'll find better qualified candidates

Re: Have lunch and learn about content management

2011-09-16 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 09/16/2011 10:29 AM, Richard Esplin wrote: Alfresco Community Edition is the most widely adopted open source content management system. Just curious, but how do you figure that? It seems like Drupal, Wordpress, and Plone (among others) are more widely adopted than Alfresco. Shane /*

Re: Have lunch and learn about content management

2011-09-16 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 09/16/2011 11:19 AM, Richard Esplin wrote: I should have been more precise and said open source content management system for unstructured content. Drupal, Wordpress, and Plone are web content management systems that focus on presentation management. Alfresco is a general content

Re: PIC vs Arduino?

2011-08-24 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 08/23/2011 12:45 AM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: However I've made up my mind, after looking at the overall support and talking to customer service at both Microchip Direct Mouser, it looks like the clear winner for speedy development with lots of community support is going to be an Arduino,

Re: PLUG Update

2011-08-05 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 08/01/2011 02:17 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: I have no life (literally) You might not qualify for the position because, by your own admission, you are dead. ;-) Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the

Re: DSLR Opinions

2011-06-10 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 06/10/2011 06:13 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: Anyone have any up-to-the-moment opinions on any digital SLR cameras? Looking to get something that I can do some nice photos and possibly HD video here and there. I don't want to do any lock-in formats like the Sony Memory Stick (tm) or whatnot,

Re: Infinity

2011-06-01 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 06/01/2011 02:27 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: Similar proofs can be constructed for any countable set: Related to this, I've been wondering why irrationals are not considered countable. Is it not true that for any irrational number, a computer program can be written that converges to that

Re: Infinity

2011-06-01 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 06/01/2011 08:51 PM, Shane Hathaway wrote: On 06/01/2011 02:27 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: Similar proofs can be constructed for any countable set: Related to this, I've been wondering why irrationals are not considered countable. Is it not true that for any irrational number, a computer

Re: [OT] Social Network Privacy

2011-05-27 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/26/2011 07:32 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 05/26/2011 02:56 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: While we are contemplating deep questions... do you think it is possible to use regressive hypnosis to remember what your experience was like in the womb? I have memories of when I was very young

Re: [OT] The big bang, universes and points of observation.

2011-05-27 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/26/2011 07:39 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 05/26/2011 07:32 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: Thoughts? For the Jakes on the list, do cosmologists agree that the universe is not infinite in size? Just wondering. While my own personal religious beliefs accommodate almost all of science

Re: [OT]Did the whole list get raptured today?

2011-05-24 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/24/2011 02:08 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: Not different. I think they are creepy too. Cool technology. Immensely valuable for my local photo collection. But a globally searchable database has lots of sinister implications. And to be clear, I don't think it takes a jerk to create a

Re: [OT] Social Network Privacy

2011-05-24 Thread Shane Hathaway
[Re-sent with a better subject and more trimming] On 05/24/2011 02:08 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: My advice to everyone is to stay the heck away from social media period. For those of you who don't there are social media erasers but they are run by lawyers and cost accordingly. OTOH, you are

Re: [OT] Social Network Privacy

2011-05-24 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/24/2011 03:19 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: On the other hand, some folks seem convinced that their facebook accounts are wonderful places to discuss the upcoming vacation where they won't be home for two weeks. Oh and uncle Otto! Lets not forget him, uncle Otto Beoutajob, he's such a

Re: Social Media and Privacy WAS Re: [OT]Did the whole list get raptured today?

2011-05-24 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/24/2011 03:52 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: I love technology. Just like any tool, it can be used for good or evil. I think Social Media is amazing. Of course, the more amazingly helpful a tool is for the good guys the more amazingly helpful it is to the bad guys. Just because some bad

Re: Old Hardware and new life

2011-05-22 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/22/2011 01:25 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: I also collect them up a few times a year and use them to build computers for kids here locally who's families might not be able to afford a new computer for school work etc. Cool! Do you have a page somewhere that lists what parts you need?

Big O (was Re: Pay Range Locally?)

2011-05-13 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/13/2011 01:44 PM, Merrill Oveson wrote: big-O? The Wikipedia article makes it sound complicated. Here it is in a nutshell. Let's say you have two algorithms that do the same thing but in a different way, and you need to choose one. Big-O notation is a good way to compare the

Re: Welcome to the PLUG mailing list

2011-05-10 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/10/2011 01:45 PM, hatem gamal elzanaty wrote: my question is what development packages i need to start c programming on linux and what is not can you help in that please give me detailed instructions and syntax i'm a new to c on linux Once you have your compiler installed, type this:

Re: fstab: UUID vs /dev/sdax

2011-05-04 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/04/2011 02:19 PM, Spencer Gibb wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Matthew Walkermwal...@kydance.net wrote: Stick with UUIDs, for sure. They eliminate several possible headaches. So, UUID's don't change with the new hardware? If that's the case, great! Correct. Even better, if

Re: A word to the wise about 1 1

2011-04-30 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 04/30/2011 11:39 AM, Eric Jacobs wrote: On Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Ryan Byrd wrote: Everybody uses GoDaddy. Seriously, everyone does. You should too. I can't stand GoDaddy, personally. Their ads are annoying and they have the 'mega-corporation' mentality. They are huge, and

Re: [OT] Why the password this is fun is 10x more secure than J4fS2

2011-04-26 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 04/26/2011 04:08 PM, Steven Morrey wrote: My point is that passwords no matter how secure are only as secure as the person answering the phone who is always more than willing to go the extra mile to help! Amen. Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe:

Re: network consultant needed

2011-04-23 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 04/23/2011 04:35 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Wade Preston Shearer wadeshearer.li...@me.com wrote: If it were me, I'd set them up on everyDNS Isn't EveryDNS (as we know it) going away? I deleted an account that must have been around for a decade or so (I

Re: [OT] Why the password this is fun is 10x more secure than J4fS2

2011-04-17 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 04/17/2011 07:22 AM, Charles Curley wrote: One way to deal with this problem is to scramble the password when writing it down. Unscrambling it will be invisible to an observer because the password entry widget will only show asterisks. Most people would not be very creative in the way they

Re: [OT] Why the password this is fun is 10x more secure than J4fS2

2011-04-17 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 04/17/2011 04:47 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: Experience has shown that the majority of people do not want to think much about security. Instead of pursuing a theoretic, mathematic ideal, it's time to acknowledge human psychology. Yes, to acknowledge human psychology, passwords should be

Re: [OT] Why the password this is fun is 10x more secure than J4fS2

2011-04-16 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 04/16/2011 08:40 AM, AJ ONeal wrote: This is near and dear to my heart so I had to evangelize: http://www.baekdal.com/tips/password-security-usability I want to include this idea in the password meters I create for web applications. I need a better password scoring algorithm. I don't want

Re: [OT] Why the password this is fun is 10x more secure than J4fS2

2011-04-16 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 04/16/2011 02:21 PM, AJ ONeal wrote: More importantly, why isn't SSO being used instead? Let's say you're developing a public web site and you want people to access it more securely than they would access a blog. What kind of authentication would you use? I doubt it would make sense to

Re: [OT] Flame/Rant - Qwest!!

2011-04-16 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 04/16/2011 01:19 PM, Joshua Marsh wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:48, Nicholas Leippen...@leippe.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Ryan Simpkinsp...@ryansimpkins.com wrote: When dealing with Qwest, caveat emptor! I coulda told ya that. :) Hope you get it worked out.

Re: [OT] Why the password this is fun is 10x more secure than J4fS2

2011-04-16 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 04/16/2011 03:49 PM, Andy Bradford wrote: Thus said Shane Hathaway on Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:41:31 MDT: I want to include this idea in the password meters I create for web applications. I need a better password scoring algorithm. I don't want to *require* any minimum password complexity

Re: Evil Network Tunnel?

2011-04-12 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 04/12/2011 11:57 AM, Dave Smith wrote: I am looking for a tool to help me simulate a badly behaved TCP/IP network connection. I want to simulate a network with high latency, low bandwidth, frequent bit errors, and occasional drop-outs. This will help me test some software I'm writing. In

Re: Perl is ALIVE!

2011-03-24 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 03/24/2011 10:34 PM, Daniel C. wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Doran L. Bartonf...@hypermoo.com wrote: - Moose is a post-modern object system that makes OO development easy and even fun. What exactly is a post-modern object system? According to the bottom of the first page of

Re: [OT] Hardware - projector recommendations

2011-03-22 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 03/21/2011 06:58 PM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: Plug, It's been about two years since I turned to the PLUG for hardware advice (I was looking for a document scanner at that time). I was pretty darn pleased with the direction I was given. Fast-forward 24 months... I've done some research

Re: Rack mountable firewall recommendation

2011-01-22 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 01/22/2011 02:15 PM, Bryan Thomas wrote: cheaper alternative if you don't mind refurbished = http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=1248 Nice recommendations, Bryan and Tod. Thanks. Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe:

Rack mountable firewall recommendation

2011-01-21 Thread Shane Hathaway
Hi, I am looking for a simple, reliable server that will act as nothing but a bridging (transparent) firewall. It will run Linux, it must be rack mountable, it must have 2 ethernet ports, and I think it should have a redundant power supply. It's easy to find cheap servers, but the

Re: Block .jpg on windows

2011-01-08 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 01/07/2011 09:29 PM, Make Compile wrote: Guys, I need your help on how to block jpeg executing on windows xp, meaning, i don't want my users be able to view images ANY images like pictures, wallpapers,etc. on their desktop. any ideas how to do this on windows xp. I will very much

Re: Distributable Chrome packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 01/08/2011 03:03 PM, AJ ONeal wrote: Does anybody know where I can find the .deb, .exe, and .dmg for Chrome that doesn't require network to install? Install Chromium instead. It's virtually equivalent and it's already packaged for Ubuntu (probably Debian too). Shane /* PLUG:

Re: memtest86

2011-01-04 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 01/03/2011 10:12 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:45:19 -0700 Russel Caldwellcaldr...@gmail.com wrote: What does it mean if the computer shuts down after memtest86 runs for a few minutes? It means you have serious hardware problems, likely RAM. Or, equally likely, a

Re: Web Developer Job

2010-10-28 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 10/27/2010 06:03 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: I know there are some web developers on the list. Also, if you know of anyone who may be looking feel free to pass this on to them: http://www.authenticjobs.com/jobs/6647 FWIW, I've been working with Eli Kirk and they seem to be a great

Re: Philosophic Noodling (was Re: Internet Health)

2010-10-06 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 10/06/2010 07:35 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: On 10/06/2010 12:26 AM, Levi Pearson wrote: Did I say it was a spatial dimension? No. I said it was as real as the spatial dimensions, which clearly implies that it is not itself a spatial dimension. Just as long as no one goes around calling

Re: Linode.com account signup, coupons, and referral codes.

2010-09-29 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 09/29/2010 09:03 AM, Joshua Lutes wrote: I just moved my domain name away from GoDaddy and I need to move my hosting away from them as well. I just use it for my personal blog and file transfers and the like. Would Linode be good for this or would anybody recommend another hosting

Re: JOB: Linux System Administrator

2010-09-16 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 09/16/2010 02:34 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: A good rule of thumb might be that if you're talking to open source purists or linux users from a previous era, trim and bottom post. For mixed audiences or just modern email users, they tend to keep track of their email conversations better with a

Re: Writing a simple python web app

2010-09-12 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 09/11/2010 03:40 PM, Dave Smith wrote: I'm creating a very simple web application, and I want to use python. My first guess was that mod_python would provide the easiest entry point. Boy, was I wrong. All the mod_python tutorials spend 80% of their time extolling the virtues of mod_python

Re: UPS Recommendations

2010-08-27 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 08/26/2010 09:40 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: Generators bring some interesting things to the mix. As you say you can't have a generator without a UPS. But the UPS has to be pretty smart when switching back and forth between line, battery, and generator. Not only does the UPS have to carry

Re: UPS Recommendations

2010-08-27 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 08/27/2010 06:00 AM, Charles Curley wrote: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html Did you notice the publication date on that? Yes, but it still seems like a good idea. Switching power supplies already have most of the circuitry you would need to manage a battery. Shane /*

Re: 1080p over component

2010-08-16 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 08/16/2010 10:22 AM, Von Fugal wrote: [...] HDCP is pretty much dead. It's hard to even find a TV that does HDCP anymore, not that anyone would ever want to. There was a HUGE backlash from consumers over that fiasco. So basically, you have blueray downgrading when it's not HDMI, but HDMI

Re: Rchard Stallman vs Darl McBride

2010-07-16 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 07/16/2010 01:09 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: ESR annoys me almost as much as RMS. At least RMS was a real hacker; ESR is just kind of a hacker groupie with an inflated sense of self-importance. He's had some good ideas, he's made a few code contributions, and he's definitely been heavily

Re: I AM DUMBFOUNDED!

2010-07-16 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 07/16/2010 02:34 PM, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: I needed people with Linux expertise to help leverage people off of Windows onto Linux for security reasons. Specifically, I see the following two areas as ripe for the picking: 1. People at home. Many have very little technical knowledge

Re: KBYU / LDS is NOT Linux hostile (was Goodbye Move Networks)

2010-07-01 Thread Shane Hathaway
Hi, I think I need an algorithm to process all this rambling. Here is a first cut: # python input = [your message] import re ' '.join(re.findall('[A-Z]{2,}', input)) 'AND THE PIPELINE BETWEEN THE TWO OF YOU DSL XP SE GB RAM VERY FAST PIPELINE ON LINUX HTML RAM ANY RAM GB ONLY IE IE ON

Re: Yes, we have no hibernate today

2010-06-24 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 06/24/2010 09:44 AM, Charles Curley wrote: I realized that what was farkled was not the kernel itself, but the initrd. So I made a backup copy of the fallback kernel's initrd. I then purged the hibernate package. In the process of removing it, apt created a new initrd -- replacing the

Re: Yes, we have no hibernate today

2010-06-24 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 06/24/2010 12:54 PM, Jessie Morris wrote: On 6/24/10 12:48 PM, Charles Curley wrote: Depends on how long you plan to shut down. If you will exhaust the the battery in suspension, then use hibernation. However, hibernation writes a memory image to a swap partition, where bad guys can recover

Re: alternative to S3?

2010-05-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/20/2010 01:29 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote: You could give S4 a try: http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ Ugh... the site looks real enough to fool some people out of their money. The site's arrogance is disgusting. Does Jeremy not know that write-only and write-once are often used

Re: Another Group Question

2010-05-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/07/2010 10:52 AM, Levi Pearson wrote: The endgame of Marxism and anarchism are essentially the same. Marxism, however, defines a transitional period including a powerful, though democratic, state that is required to reach the goal. The fact that no transitional government inspired by

Re: Another Group Question

2010-05-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/07/2010 01:39 PM, Levi Pearson wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Shane Hathawaysh...@hathawaymix.org wrote: So you're saying Marx said: 1. Acknowledge existing social problems. 2. ??? 3. Utopia! That's clearly not what I'm saying. Generally, Anarchists advocate revolution

Re: Another Group Question

2010-05-06 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 05/06/2010 11:23 AM, Joseph Hall wrote: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ken Jordanken.w.jor...@gmail.com wrote: Could they use scp instead? I think you're expecting too much of Alice and Bob. They have a client that they like, and they're sticking with it, no matter what we recommend.

Re: Net Neutrality Is Marxist?

2010-04-17 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 04/16/2010 11:11 AM, Doran L. Barton wrote: On Friday 09 April 2010, Ryan Simpkins proclaimed: Anyone care to post a rational response to these views? I have. http://fozzolog.fozzilinymoo.org/politics/2010/04/the-deal-with-net- neutrality.html You dealt with some aspects of net

Re: Net Neutrality Is Marxist?

2010-04-12 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 04/12/2010 11:17 AM, Steven Alligood wrote: In fact, the same thing applies to Comcast and blocking any and all ports that they deem abusive. If their business model precludes your torrents, then find another ISP. And don't argue that you cannot; the Internet is NOT a basic human right,

Re: Virtual COM port on Linux

2010-02-23 Thread Shane Hathaway
Dave Smith wrote: Has anyone gotten a USB device that requires Virtual COM Port support to work in Linux? I'm considering employing this relay[1] to perform a nightly reboot of my pile-of-junk Comcast cable modem. Assuming the serial controller on that board is supported by Linux, when you

Re: Virtual COM port on Linux

2010-02-23 Thread Shane Hathaway
Dave Smith wrote: That may indeed be a better option, but the hacker in me wants any excuse to setup a relay and a cron job. :) Amen. Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Something More Than Cron

2010-02-13 Thread Shane Hathaway
Hi PLUG, I'd like some suggestions for Unix/Linux software that does just a bit more than our old standby, cron. I'd like: - A simple way to add new jobs (like cron) - A complete report of what was run and when (cron doesn't do this) - An email even if the job takes a long time (cron

Re: Something More Than Cron

2010-02-13 Thread Shane Hathaway
Justin Hileman wrote: If I were starting a project like this, I would start with launchd, not cron. You mean this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd It looks Mac-centric and over-reaching. To clarify, I need to run my scripts on several virtual private servers in different locations.

Re: Something More Than Cron

2010-02-13 Thread Shane Hathaway
Eric Wald wrote: Could these two be added by a simple wrapper around your real cron job? It could start by adding a single line to a log file, then steal all of the input and pipe it into sendmail. Rough guideline: echo `date -u +%s` $@ /var/log/jobsrun.log ( echo From: $...@localhost; \

Re: System comes to a halt on heavy disk I/O

2010-02-01 Thread Shane Hathaway
Charles Curley wrote: When I run fairly disk intensive tasks, like copying tens of gigabytes to this machine, it slows to a crawl. Disk I/O slows down by two orders of magnitude. Are you saying you expect to be able to write 90 MB/s under ideal conditions, but that when you try to achieve

Re: Network Control

2010-01-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
Brandon Stout wrote: In other words, the longer any discussion is, the greater the likelihood that anything will be discussed. Sure, but discussions often converge toward the Nazi topic specifically. That convergence is an interesting phenomenon. As a rule, whenever the Nazi topic comes up

Re: January Meeting Ideas

2010-01-04 Thread Shane Hathaway
Jessie Morris wrote: Stephen Shaw wrote: If there are any arduino[0] gurus out there it would be cool to see something on that. I was thinking the same thing, actually. I just received one for Christmas. :) Wow, what a great gift. An Arduino beats just about everything on ThinkGeek.

Re: January Meeting Ideas

2010-01-04 Thread Shane Hathaway
Jessie Morris wrote: Lost your voice? :-) Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Lost Java

2009-12-17 Thread Shane Hathaway
Scott Jones wrote: I'll try that in a few hours when I am back at that box. If, base on my history and experience with this issue, this solution doesn't work, would purging firefox and then doing a fresh install of firefox possibly help repair this? Although it's possible that the Firefox

Re: Lost Java

2009-12-17 Thread Shane Hathaway
Scott Jones wrote: I tried what you said, and there's no change. I have used your suggestion in the past to fix firefox issues, but what's weird is, I went to linuxjournal.com and the tech tip video didn't display, no The Linux Journal tech tip videos are flash-based. An easy way to tell is

Re: Can mySQL and MSSQL coexist on the same server peacefully?

2009-12-04 Thread Shane Hathaway
Stuart Jansen wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 14:31 -0700, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't know MSSQL could run on Linux. Michael, you should know better. I run MSSQL Server IIS using wine on Linux all the time - it runs

Re: Can mySQL and MSSQL coexist on the same server peacefully?

2009-12-04 Thread Shane Hathaway
Gabriel Gunderson wrote: No really, it's marvelous. Think about it... you get all the benefits of a truly enterprise DB (MSSQL) and world-class webserver (IIS) without having to leave Linux. And thanks to the Wine project, it Just Works. The best part is that doing a simple apt-get

Re: Challenge

2009-11-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
Sasha Pachev wrote: I just came up with this while teaching my son about numbers. Let's see how quickly somebody figures this out. If you had a 64 bit number written down in hex, how could you quickly tell without the aid of any computational device, including pencil or paper if it is

Re: Challenge

2009-11-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
Adam Jerome wrote: Excellent point Alan. It just goes to show that there is no such thing as base 10. Rather, what is commonly termed base 10 is actually base A. Think about it... Enlightened people use base e. I have about 102.12 fingers. Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on

Re: Challenge

2009-11-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
Shane Hathaway wrote: Sasha Pachev wrote: How about 17? Ok, I bothered to search for an 11s rule. It obviously applies to 0x11 just as well. http://www.jimloy.com/number/divis.htm Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug

Re: Distance Sensors

2009-11-19 Thread Shane Hathaway
Sasha Pachev wrote: Question for EE geeks. I want to have something like this. Sensor A, Sensor B, Sensor C, let's say up to 16 sensors. Each separated from each other by no more than 2 meters at any given time. Each sensor needs to be small enough that if you attached it to the body and tried

Re: Distance Sensors

2009-11-19 Thread Shane Hathaway
Shane Hathaway wrote: Sasha Pachev wrote: Question for EE geeks. I want to have something like this. Sensor A, Sensor B, Sensor C, let's say up to 16 sensors. Each separated from each other by no more than 2 meters at any given time. Each sensor needs to be small enough that if you attached

Re: Long uptimes.

2009-11-18 Thread Shane Hathaway
Stuart Jansen wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:23 -0700, Andrew McNabb wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:15:45AM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintoshstory=Saving_Lives.txt Maybe it's just because I'm on BYU's network, but I'm getting this:

Re: Looking for Wiki software with good access control and security

2009-11-03 Thread Shane Hathaway
Michael Torrie wrote: Does anyone know of anything that would fit the bill? MediaWiki does offer some of this, but access control is very manual (LocalSettings.php) and very coarse. Security and access control is not something that MediaWiki was designed to be, which is understandable given

Re: ISP options

2009-10-27 Thread Shane Hathaway
Alex Esplin wrote: Yeah. It's a crying shame XMission can't get in on better service than DSL in Provo. I'd switch to fiber in a heartbeat if I could get fiber from XMission. FWIW, fiber to American Fork via XMission would easily save me a lot of money right now. Therefore I'd be willing to

Re: ISP options

2009-10-27 Thread Shane Hathaway
Wade Preston Shearer wrote: On Tuesday, October 27, 2009, at 12:51PM, Shane Hathaway sh...@hathawaymix.org wrote: How is Rapidwave these days, anyone know? Do they understand that Internet nodes should be peers, not mere consumers? I am a satisfied Rapidwave customer. The only thing

Re: ISP options

2009-10-27 Thread Shane Hathaway
Steven Alligood wrote: I get tired of home users constantly griping that they cannot constantly use their full bandwidth. Let me clue you in. Bandwidth costs money. Most ISPs are paying on the order of $10 - $50 per megabit. If you are using your full bandwidth all the time, you are

Re: [OT] MMA Fight

2009-10-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
On 20 Oct 2009, at 11:59, Bryan Sant wrote: My next shot at an MMA fight will be sometime in January. Good show, Bryan! Jonathan Duncan wrote: Nice work Bryan! Next time, where a Tux. ;) Like this? http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-22_11-197338-26.html Shane /* PLUG:

Re: Where to get laptop RAM in SLC area?

2009-10-05 Thread Shane Hathaway
Charles Curley wrote: I have a Lenovo R51, which takes a 1 GB PC2700 DDR SODIMM 333 MHz memory card. Alas, the memory card I have for it just died, and I am down to the 256 MB that came with the computer. Since I am coming into Sandy for the UTOSC, I figure I should grab a replacement while I

Re: [OT] Video camera (and other) batteries

2009-10-05 Thread Shane Hathaway
Gabriel Gunderson wrote: My wife recently went to BatteriesPlus and they wanted 4X as much for the same battery found online (same name brand and from 10's of different online resellers). This is the kinda thing that makes it hard to know if you're getting what you pay for (either way). If

Re: How to *NOT* sell Linux

2009-09-10 Thread Shane Hathaway
Charles Curley wrote: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/035550.html The lady makes some very good points. My solution to her dilemma: I use OpenVPN and x11vnc to be the household Linux butler for my extended family. It works out quite well and doesn't consume much of my time.

Re: Distributed System Software Recommendations

2009-08-26 Thread Shane Hathaway
Dave Smith wrote: Yes, this question came up about a year ago, and XMPP and IRC were considered. I never really pursued those options further because I'm somewhat opposed to having a central broker (for lack of a better word) that acts as a single point of failure, and adds complexity

Re: Distributed System Software Recommendations

2009-08-25 Thread Shane Hathaway
Dave Smith wrote: For those of you who are writing distributed software that does a lot of network communication between lots of processes on different hosts (traditional distributed system), I have a question for you: What software are you using to move data and events between the

Re: server choking… running out of me mory?

2009-08-20 Thread Shane Hathaway
Wade Preston Shearer wrote: My server goes down from time to time. When it does, it is still on but none of the services respond (no response from SSH, Apache, ping, etc). The server is just a web server. Each time, I reboot it and it comes back up just fine. I'm trying to figure out what

Re: Intellectual property rights and the economy

2009-08-06 Thread Shane Hathaway
Russel Caldwell wrote: Let me ask you this. What do you think a teacher needs to do to encourage students to work on there own, especially in computer science? One young programmer who impressed me very much said that the teacher should encourage play which I totally agree with. He said that

Re: wall adapter

2009-08-02 Thread Shane Hathaway
Joseph Hall wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Andrew McNabbamcn...@mcnabbs.org wrote: Alternatively, is there a good place to get one for cheap? It turns out that the terms are really hard to search for online, and the best I could find was $25. I have a bunch of generic wall

Re: A little OT - looking for help designing electronics of embedded linux device

2009-07-21 Thread Shane Hathaway
Jeff wrote: Peter (and everyone), Did you get any traction on this? I did find an answer just yesterday (from a different source though). Thanks to everyone on the list though, the suggestions were great! Out of curiosity, what did you decide to do? Did you go the GPS route, the

Re: Yes, a can of worms... But general direction would be nice...

2009-07-16 Thread Shane Hathaway
Sasha Pachev wrote: A) Tell him he's got it all wrong, he needs a sysadmin to run his system. Since he does not have a backup and who knows what his application does now after being hacked, he needs to re-install the OS on his dedicated server that is 1000 miles a way, and the application

Re: Linux MD problem

2009-07-07 Thread Shane Hathaway
Mike Lovell wrote: I have a machine that has 4 disks in a raid 10 using md. The machine went through an unclean shutdown yesterday and when the box came up, I saw errors like the following in the kernel log and the array no longer works. [ 28.575149] md: raid10 personality registered

Re: A little OT - looking for help designing electronics of embedded linux device

2009-07-03 Thread Shane Hathaway
Jeff wrote: I am trying to find a contract electronics design company who can help me design a product (the product will run embedded Linux so it's not entirely OT). I've talked with a couple of different local companies (VPI, Neonics) and based on the discussions I had with them I've

Re: auto restarting a daemon process with RHEL's init system

2009-06-30 Thread Shane Hathaway
Michael Torrie wrote: Is there any utility program that can wrap a daemon running in an init script on RHEL 5 that can auto-restart the actual daemon process when it crashes? Obviously a crashing daemon isn't desirable, but sometimes it happens and in this case a restart is sufficient and

Re: is the serial number on the motherboard unique

2009-05-13 Thread Shane Hathaway
jes...@confettiantiques.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Merrill Oveson wrote: Then I thought all computers must have a motherboard - so why not use the serial number from it? Good idea, or is there something better? Yes, that would work good. And the MAC address can

Re: Remote terminal sharing solution

2009-04-23 Thread Shane Hathaway
Michael Torrie wrote: I'm looking for a solution like screen (maybe based on screen) for remote terminal sharing. But rather than logging into a remote machine where screen is already running and doing screen -x I want to have a system where someone running screen on the remote server connects

Re: CD-ROM recovery software?

2009-04-09 Thread Shane Hathaway
Nicholas Leippe wrote: On Wed Apr 8 2009 11:11:54 Brandon Stout wrote: I have an original audio CD that has a crack spreading from the edge. It's finally reached the last track. Might superglue to hold it together and turtle wax over the scratch work? Anyone tried that? I would not put a

Re: Spam Challenge-Response system

2009-04-09 Thread Shane Hathaway
Jessie Morris wrote: I was wondering if there was any way that I could make my mail system respond to emails received with a link that says something to the effect of, If you're a human, click here to be allowed. I've done some searching on Google, and haven't found a really good system.

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