Re: release source code?

2013-11-07 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
Absolutely; there's no way this (releasing the source) alone would solve the problems - might be helpful in at least exposing the problems, which is a necessary first step. On Nov 6, 2013, at 2:19 PM, Brian Hunter br...@huntercreative.com wrote: Wow! Thanks for the read Josh. The article

Re: release source code?

2013-11-06 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
+1 Let's see what the problems really are, and fix them. On Nov 5, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Anthony Carrico acarr...@memebeam.org wrote: Discuss: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/release-open-source-community-source-code-healthcaregov-specifically-all-code-written-cgi-federal/XvBXgZWx

EC2/Amazon Elastic Cloud - CPU Usage

2010-12-09 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
Stan - Amazon recently announced: CloudWatch provides free Basic Monitoring for all Amazon EC2 instances. Basic Monitoring provides metrics at 5-minute granularity. http://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ I also like Munin (no $) which not only monitors at finer granularity, it monitors more factors;

Re: Noob question

2010-09-21 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Rubin Bennett rbenn...@thatitguy.com wrote: Unfortunately I know this one from painful experience...  It's from the dumb terminal days, when that's all those old ASCII displays could fit. 80 columns wide, by 25 (or sometimes 24) rows of ASCII goodness. Close,

Re: Noob question

2010-09-21 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
Yep; punch cards - I'm so glad I'm not the only one old enough to carry that memory! :) (And you know what they say: Memory is the second thing to go; I forget what the first is.) On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Francis Swasey frank.swa...@uvm.edu wrote: Before that the limit was 72

Re: Noob question

2010-09-18 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
assignment vs compare?

Re: the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

2010-09-17 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
Josh - I think you've identified a problem (low activity) and a solution state (new members), however: I believe that would take more than a name change. And the more is the critical part, not the name change. :) I suggest that the name change should be a side issue which doesn't detract from

Re: the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

2010-09-17 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Mike Austin m...@uvm.edu wrote: If Shib isn't appropriate for a VAGUE meeting, UVM would happily host anyone from the VSC system for a Shib design/review/install-fest. FWIW, I think's it's both interesting and appropriate. Perhaps to a subset of the the group,

Re: the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

2010-09-17 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Sam Hooker s...@noiseplant.com wrote: This is where I diverge from Marc, slightly. Language is powerful... I have to disagree that we diverge, Sam. :) Language is indeed powerful and so we should discuss the name change as well.

Re: the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

2010-09-17 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Sam Hooker s...@noiseplant.com wrote: I concede your disagreement with my proposed diverg...oh, hell; Let's just have a freakin' beer. I like the way you think. :)

Re: opinions on an app server distro

2010-01-21 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
Best cost/benefit? Drop $350 on a used Mac mini and load it up with MacPorts: rock solid, secure and dead simple - with all the UNIX goodness. If it absolutely must be free (and nothing *really* is), then FreeBSD or Debian - for reliability and security. FreeBSD moreso, for auto-updates.

Re: opinions on an app server distro

2010-01-21 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:11 AM, asourdi...@gmail.com asourdi...@gmail.com wrote: Secure? http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Mac-OS-X-vulnerability-left-unpatched-for-months-902464.html Yep; and that's not the only example - Apple doesn't patch as quickly as we'd like. Personally I

Re: opinions on an app server distro

2010-01-21 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Rubin Bennett rbenn...@thatitguy.com wrote: I keep trying to like BSD, and their spotty and/ or flaky hardware support keeps ticking me off to the point that I toss it. Hmm; for wider hardware support, try NetBSD.

Re: Notes from the Alchemist gathering

2009-04-10 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, sorry I didn't get to post this earlier.  Josh was kind enough to take some notes on his eee last night.   First and foremost, I wanted to say thanks to all that came out last night. And thanks to you, for

Re: VT Hackers Meetup

2009-04-09 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Anthony Carrico acarr...@memebeam.org wrote: We went to the Alchemist, drank a few beers, discussed the notion of a hackerspace, and... Cool; thanks for the detail; some thoughts it prompted: I'm from Hinesburg too, so I'd like to see something there as well. :)

Re: VT could use one of these...

2009-04-02 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com wrote: Is Tuesday ok with the people who would like to attend? I'd love to, though I'm booked solid on Tuesday. Let's proceed in any and all ways though - and keep the whole list up-to-date. - Marc

Re: VT could use one of these...

2009-04-01 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
Folks - Let's not lose the mo - several of us have expressed an interest in moving forward with this; shall we take the details of further discussion offline to spare the list, or continue on-list? Until then, here's a bit more to keep the discussion going: I once mis-typed it as hackspace -

Re: VT could use one of these...

2009-03-31 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
Folks - Sounds great! Some additional ideas to throw into the mix: 1) It may well make sense to have multiple sites; perhaps start with *both* Burlington and Montpelier. And with multiple sites, there is the added benefit of distance/remote projects, driven by both need and availability. Need:

Re: VT could use one of these...

2009-03-31 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:59 AM, The Anti-Joey thentj...@yahoo.com wrote: i have contributed to grant writing efforts in the past and would be willing to contribute to an effort of this magnitude. it can take a significant period of time for the approval process, depending on cause,

Re: VT could use one of these...

2009-03-31 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Dan Coutu co...@snowy-owl.com wrote: So to take off on the multiple sites idea I'd propose that if it is worth pursuing this idea then it is worth pursuing the concept of multiple small locations scattered around the state rather than only two. Absolutely

Re: VT could use one of these...

2009-03-31 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Nick Floersch n...@stone-env.com wrote: For all the resources we had, and support from the CS department, trying to steer students away from playing network computer games at any hour of the day was really really really really hard. :) Makes sense - and isn't

Re: Adjunct instructor for Linux/Unix Programming I (SWE 135) at Champlain College

2009-01-12 Thread Marc Farnum Rendino
ah, yes; the public oops :/ -- sorry bout that, folks.