[Discuss] BLU PGP Keysigning next month

2011-08-27 Thread John Abreau
gning. We cleared the registration list a couple weeks ago. In order to participate in the keysigning, you must add your key to the registration list. A few participants have done so already. The registration page is at http://blu.org/keysignings/keypartyregister.php -- John Abreau /

Re: [Discuss] 10th Circuit Affirms in All Respects - Novell, Not SCO, Owns the Copyrights, etc.

2011-08-31 Thread John Abreau
Kj6w== > =joHn > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AI

[Discuss] Fwd: Windows 8, Bootloader Signing

2011-09-21 Thread John Abreau
h.org/5552.html -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-disc...@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER j...@jabber.blu.org /

[Discuss] Script for signing keys for BLU keysigning

2011-09-25 Thread John Abreau
gpg-agent to cache the pass phrase. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 ___ Discus

Re: [Discuss] Script for signing keys for BLU keysigning

2011-09-25 Thread John Abreau
wrote: > Err, I don't use PGP, but I didn't see an attachment at my end. > Perhaps the list software strips attachments? > > Bill Bogstad > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:38 AM, John Abreau wrote: >> Attached is my bash script for signing keys after a BLU keysigni

Re: [Discuss] Script for signing keys for BLU keysigning

2011-09-26 Thread John Abreau
use of port forwarding, and the resulting > shar did not work, so the script I am using uses the mailx client. > > On 09/25/2011 09:36 PM, John Abreau wrote: >> Apparently some people didn't receive the attached bash script I had sent >> to the list, so I've added

Re: [Discuss] LVM Re: A really interesting chain of functionality

2011-09-27 Thread John Abreau
st of nothing but symlinks to the real files, with the exception of > any files that have changed. > > Modified files are written as real files, while unmodified files are > written as a symlink. Minor nit: rsync snapshots use real links, not symlinks. -- John Abreau / Executive

[Discuss] How do I determine what hard drive screws I need?

2011-09-28 Thread John Abreau
rives are Seagate Momentus 750gb 2.5-inch SATA drives. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1

Re: [Discuss] How do I determine what hard drive screws I need?

2011-09-29 Thread John Abreau
nd. One of those machines had no drives at all, and the other two each had a pair of 36gb drives. I put all 4 drives into lachesis before bringing it to NEDV, so I no longer have any of the old drives here at home. I do remember that the screws were flat head screws. -- John Abreau / Execut

Re: [Discuss] Script for signing keys for BLU keysigning

2011-10-01 Thread John Abreau
have one > running. > 5. Don't forget about the script until next year like I did :-) > > > On 09/26/2011 04:37 PM, John Abreau wrote: >> Suggestions for other options are welcome. One that just occurred to me >> would be to generate an mbox file instead of a bsmt

Re: [Discuss] more on software patent

2011-10-03 Thread John Abreau
money.  Again, I'll repeat my >> recommendation to you, if you are serious about helping the OSS community or >> the industry in general, donate your time to defend against these trolls. >> >> >> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/03/2236255/Patent-Troll-S

Re: [Discuss] Thumbs Up To Ben

2011-10-06 Thread John Abreau
format >>> they >> >> ___ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@blu.org >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] PGP Basics

2011-10-11 Thread John Abreau
o the corporate key > server (assuming PGP). By having only employees being allowed to upload, you > can establish trust as long as it is being properly managed. If an employee > leaves, then there should be a procedure to decertify his/her key. Same > would apply to ssl certs. I think in the origina

Re: [Discuss] PGP Basics

2011-10-11 Thread John Abreau
our system > here, could I just continue to redistribute that to anyone?  So the next > time there is a key signing I could come with my key I got at my current > position and register it with you all? > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix GnuPG KeyID: 0xD5C7B5D9 /

[Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

2011-10-14 Thread John Abreau
'80's, and I worked with Solaris extensively in the '90's, but I haven't been using either of them recently. So unless they'd be a really big win over CentOS or SL, I think my more current experience would makes CentOS or SL the better choices. -- John Abreau / E

Re: [Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

2011-10-14 Thread John Abreau
xperiment with a hybrid server at a later date, after I've worked with the IPv6-only server for a while. Or are you saying it would be easier to learn IPv6 if I start with a hybrid system? On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM, John Abr

Re: [Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

2011-10-14 Thread John Abreau
more likely to work. > I'm not sure if the various OS vendors have done much testing of an > IPv6 only system configuration. > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix GnuPG KeyID: 0xD5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C

Re: [Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

2011-10-14 Thread John Abreau
ct on hold for now, or find some other way to do it elsewhere. On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:41 PM, John Abreau wrote: > I'm thinking of deploying an IPv6-only server at our colo facility so I can > get some practical experience with IPv6. I've got server hardware available > for th

Re: [Discuss] how to manage a bunch of ms boxes?

2011-10-16 Thread John Abreau
rver. I believe it's supposed to work much like Solaris Jumpstart. http://unattended.sourceforge.net John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 2011 GnuPG

Re: [Discuss] Recommendations for IPv6?

2011-10-16 Thread John Abreau
ward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- >> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of John Abreau >> >> Any recommendations for the server OS? > > All OSes support IPv6 natively, very well now.  Every flavo

Re: [Discuss] sed and ANSI sequences

2011-10-16 Thread John Abreau
down side of doing this is that it > can't be copy-pasted; you'll get a literal '^[' string instead of an > actual escape character. > > But if you find that acceptable, then the following should work: > > > b='^[[1m' # Note that the '^[' i

[Discuss] Historical origin of cron's day-of-month/weekday behavior?

2011-10-19 Thread John Abreau
al behavior useful, and I have to wonder why it was designed this way. Can anyone point me to the original author's thoughts on this? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D

Re: [Discuss] Historical origin of cron's day-of-month/weekday behavior?

2011-10-19 Thread John Abreau
hen you'd use both of the fields.  The opposite case, where things > are ANDed -- the intersection of the day of the month with the day of the week > -- is an odd enough set that I don't see it being particularly useful. > > Have I, perhaps, misunderstood something? > > $.

Re: [Discuss] Historical origin of cron's day-of-month/weekday behavior?

2011-10-19 Thread John Abreau
't considered when he came up with the > initial syntax for crontab, and couldn't gracefully retrofit.  That being > said, > everything I just wrote is, obviously, supposition; you could ping Teh Source > [sic]; I imagine he'd enjoy a query as to his rationale: paul-at-vix-do

Re: [Discuss] OT: 8mm to dvd

2011-10-21 Thread John Abreau
iso > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4

Re: [Discuss] OT: 8mm to dvd

2011-10-21 Thread John Abreau
other place I mentioned. Or 18c/foot for if you don't need frame-by-frame scanning, to go straight to DVD or Bluray instead of to hard drive. This cost is just for the scanning, just like the other company; the DVD or hard drive media is an additional cost. On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:49 PM, J

Re: [Discuss] lvm snapshot cloning

2011-10-25 Thread John Abreau
e they hadn't changed. They didn't get erased from the backups, so they're still available for restoration, just like the recently changed files. Did you think that all backups older then one day were somehow erased? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD Gn

Re: [Discuss] mbox questions

2011-10-27 Thread John Abreau
gerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66  C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG K

Re: [Discuss] Security

2011-11-02 Thread John Abreau
it had > camera/microphone, most people talk shop even in the kitchen. > > Speaking of that, I remember a few years ago a company I was at talking > about checking ethernet jacks periodically to make sure no devices were > plugged in that shouldn't be. > > Matthew Shields >

Re: [Discuss] GMail doesn't recognize mailing lists

2011-11-04 Thread John Abreau
the Reply-To matter, you should know that at best, your argument will be ignored by the list admins. We consider the matter to be closed. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E

Re: [Discuss] FYI: We the People...

2011-11-04 Thread John Abreau
esulted and will continue to result in software > which you might benefit from never being produced, or in inferior > products being produced due to the threat of being sued or > unwillingness or inability to pay licensing fees. > > -- > Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizz

Re: [Discuss] foxconn

2011-11-06 Thread John Abreau
paid and not over worked? > > I think this is on topic for Blu Sorry if I'm off topic... > > Cheers. Steve. > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Joh

[Discuss] Fedora 16 released today

2011-11-08 Thread John Abreau
Fedora 16 was just released today. The bittorrent downloads are proving to be the quickest way to download it. 5 minutes, vs an estimated 11 hours for the direct download of the LiveCD image via wget. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW

Re: [Discuss] Need logging help

2011-11-11 Thread John Abreau
t it wrong. > If I can make my existing environment work, I'd rather do that then update > / upgrade. > > Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated. > Scott > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http:/

Re: [Discuss] Linux box for under $20? TRENDnet

2011-11-12 Thread John Abreau
NIC cards. I screwed one up, called Netgear and > easily RMA'd it. > > -- > Jerry Feldman > Boston Linux and Unix > PGP key id:3BC1EB90 > PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66  C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 > > ___ > Discuss ma

Re: [Discuss] Postfix Wildcard email forwarding

2011-11-16 Thread John Abreau
.com --> nore...@mymail.com > xxx_s...@mymail.com --> s...@mymail.com > > > Any input or suggestion is appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > - DP > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mai

Re: [Discuss] an "Enterprise" Linux for desktop

2011-11-23 Thread John Abreau
s. > > > > Bill aka n1vux > Most definitively not the opinion of the employer implied by return address > ... > > _______ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD

Re: [Discuss] an "Enterprise" Linux for desktop

2011-11-23 Thread John Abreau
Funny, I run it on Windows 7, and it works fine for me. On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On Nov 23, 2011, at 6:09 PM, John Abreau wrote: >> >> For lightweight X11 on Windows, I personally prefer the free Mochasoft >> X11 server. It's only a ba

Re: [Discuss] BLU archive?

2011-11-23 Thread John Abreau
d but not receive email from this list. I would > prefer to read an archive/group instead. > > Is the mailing list software capable of this? > > Thx. > > Sent from my iPhone 4S > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] an "Enterprise" Linux for desktop

2011-11-27 Thread John Abreau
the electric chair! Kill me now! :-P -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 2011 PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com 2011 PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 5

Re: [Discuss] Howdy

2011-11-28 Thread John Abreau
s Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics & Robotics > * > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com O

Re: [Discuss] Howdy

2011-11-30 Thread John Abreau
in the broadband market, so the companies *have* to provide good service in order to retain customers. Most towns give a monopoly to one broadband provider, who then has no incentive to give adequate service. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / E

Re: [Discuss] Any Subversion geniuses out there?

2011-12-02 Thread John Abreau
n't believe there is any harm forcing svn to use a > specific mime-type since they are both text. I'll check out the > check-mime-type.pl that Greg mentioned. > > Matthew Shields > Owner > BeanTown Host - Web Hosting, Domain Names, Dedicated Servers, Colocation, > Managed Services

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu alternatives and upgrading distributions

2011-12-12 Thread John Abreau
Adding "-Z" to ls(1) didn't come at the cost of removing things like "-l". On the other hand, removing "+1" from tail(1) broke an enormous number of cron scripts. On Dec 12, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- >>

Re: [Discuss] Backing up LVM partitions using snapshots

2011-12-13 Thread John Abreau
ive containing decades of list traffic, I've often discovered that the huge mbox file had silently been corrupted in one or more places. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B

Re: [Discuss] [OT] Google+

2011-12-14 Thread John Abreau
P Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66  C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 > > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID:

Re: [Discuss] [OT] Google+

2011-12-14 Thread John Abreau
: > I have no problem turning off notifications, or notifications when I am > mentioned. But I don't see how I can turn off once I receive the > notification. > What I am getting is a notification of the same event over and over again. > > On 12/14/2011 02:35 PM, John Abr

[Discuss] SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

2011-12-22 Thread John Abreau
n". Is this documented anywhere? I don't understand why the option would be left out of the man page. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A

Re: [Discuss] SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

2011-12-22 Thread John Abreau
re about scp, but you could use: > > ssh 192.168.1.2 "cat > destFile" > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:25 PM, John Abreau wrote: >> Long ago, I was looking for a way to make scp read from stdin, and I >> had no luck. >> >> Earlier this afterno

Re: [Discuss] SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

2011-12-22 Thread John Abreau
ther of them. Where are you finding that text? Which OS has the man page that includes that text? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 3

Re: [Discuss] SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

2011-12-23 Thread John Abreau
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > http://linux.die.net/man/1/rcp Ah, the man page for the Kerberos edition of rcp. OK. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D

Re: [Discuss] SCP from STDIN: "-t" option undocumented?

2011-12-23 Thread John Abreau
; APIs. Historically, my colleagues find hidden APIs, and use them for > either because they are there or because they might be more efficient. > How many programs have been written to use undocumented APIs > only to crash when the vendor changes the API without notice. -- John Abreau /

[Discuss] [OT] Arisia 2012

2012-01-07 Thread John Abreau
I'll be attending Arisia next week. Who else is planning to go? For those who don't already know, Arisia is an annual sci-fi convention in Boston, run entirely by fans. http://2012.arisia.org -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9

Re: [Discuss] Liebert UPS available

2012-01-18 Thread John Abreau
battery (full load) > > -- > Jerry Feldman > Boston Linux and Unix > PGP key id:3BC1EB90 > PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66  C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 > > > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http:/

Re: [Discuss] Visualizing LAN traffic

2012-01-20 Thread John Abreau
gt; Also, isn't live monitoring (so that you can respond quickly) better > than going through logs of past events, which may have already done > their damage?  If those assumptions I'm making are wrong, then I would > agree that it's more of a clever hack than a practical tool

Re: [Discuss] MyBookLive disk space issues

2012-02-18 Thread John Abreau
To find the biggest files automatically: du -a -x / > /DataVolume/foo -a == list all files -x == only look at one filesystem sort -n -r /DataVolume/foo > /DataVolume/bar Sent from my iPad On Feb 18, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I've got a WD MyBook at work. I am surpri

Re: [Discuss] Is this bad?

2012-02-24 Thread John Abreau
) Unfortunately, since the probability > of each of these three possibilities has been (in my experience) > approximately equal... it means I'm getting no value from it. If smartd doesn't do a good enough job, is there a better alternative for automated monitoring of disk health on a

Re: [Discuss] Google Glasses

2012-03-13 Thread John Abreau
t; Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA > "Enterprise solutions through open source." > Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] alternatives to batteries

2012-03-16 Thread John Abreau
hin the > laws of physics. It's just a matter of material science. > >  -Tom > > -- > Tom Metro > Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA > "Enterprise solutions through open source." > Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ > ___

Re: [Discuss] I think my server is running out of "something"

2012-03-17 Thread John Abreau
ives have been spinning almost > continuously since 2007.  That is impressive.  And scary. > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux

Re: [Discuss] I think my server is running out of "something"

2012-03-18 Thread John Abreau
:13 AM, David Kramer wrote: > On 03/18/2012 12:45 AM, John Abreau wrote: >> Is it completely impossible to deploy multiple servers instead of trying >> to mash everything together onto a single machine? >> >> In my home network, I have a CentOS server that just does fire

Re: [Discuss] Discuss - Software Engineering union

2012-04-18 Thread John Abreau
ssion list. > > -- > Rich P. > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B

Re: [Discuss] A Little OT: The Password Post-It

2012-04-21 Thread John Abreau
On Apr 20, 2012, at 7:53 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > You can layer more and more complexity in order to cover these loopholes and > improve your warm, fuzzy feeling of security. Or you can do something > simple: lock the door. Maintain good physical site security. Then it won't > matter if

Re: [Discuss] Very slow system, no idle, but nothing running

2012-04-28 Thread John Abreau
nd out of different browser windows simply by dragging and dropping them. I would have expected the same behavior on the Linux and Windows versions. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B

Re: [Discuss] How can I resume from S1 (STR) mode in Ubuntu?

2012-05-17 Thread John Abreau
not supported by my NIC... suggestions? >>> > >>> >___ >>> >Discuss mailing list >>> >Discuss@blu.org >>> >http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> >>

Re: [Discuss] Any Postfix + ipv6 people out there?

2012-05-31 Thread John Abreau
  URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH >       warl...@mit.edu                        PGP key available > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau

Re: [Discuss] Web Maintenance software (for Windows)

2012-06-06 Thread John Abreau
pting to simulate what DreamWeaver wants to do, it does > solve the problem. > > > -- > Jerry Feldman > Boston Linux and Unix > PGP key id:3BC1EB90 > PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66  C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 > > > > ___

Re: [Discuss] Web Maintenance software (for Windows)

2012-06-07 Thread John Abreau
o to Burger King; they're not going to salute and then make him a Whopper just because he's stubborn. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix OLD GnuPG KeyID: D5C7B5D9 / Email: abre...@gmail.com OLD GnuPG FP: 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 2011 PGP

Re: [Discuss] bash output buffering

2012-06-13 Thread John Abreau
el above the OS filesystem buffering. What you're describing is the difference between OS tty buffering vs OS filesystem buffering. This has nothing at all to do with bash; both occur below bash at the OS level. The difference is that OS filesystem buffering is block-oriented, and OS tty bufferi

[Discuss] Gimp "Recently Used" list

2012-06-13 Thread John Abreau
he old behavior? Thanks! -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6  9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] [OT]iPad for 90 year old.

2012-06-16 Thread John Abreau
cannot read Kindle books natively. It is possible to scrape off the Kindle DRM from a Kindle book, and to convert the output of that to a format that the Apple book reader can read, but the process is non-intuitive and must be performed on an actual computer; it cannot be performed from the iPad dire

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu USB Drives appending _ to folder

2012-06-20 Thread John Abreau
er rely on my backup > script to copy files to the drive due to the changing path. > > Has anyone seen this before?  Anyone know why this is happening? > > Thanks! > > -- > Chris O'Connell > http://outlookoutbox.blogspot.com > __

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu USB Drives appending _ to folder

2012-06-20 Thread John Abreau
mount point. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Chris O'Connell wrote: > any way to prevent this from happening?  I can see the benefit of this > behavior, but for my purposes it's rendering my backup script useless. > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:37 AM, John Abreau wrot

Re: [Discuss] Low end color laser printers

2012-06-25 Thread John Abreau
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: > Photos. Affordable color laser printers don't print them as well as a good > inkjet with special photo paper does. > I find that dye sublimation printers are much better for photos than inkjets. -- John Abre

Re: [Discuss] Low end color laser printers

2012-06-25 Thread John Abreau
on sells the Canon SELPHY CP800 for $84.34; it prints on 4x6 inch stock. If you require 8x10 inch prints, then you're probably looking at $2,000+ for a dye sublimation printer. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com PGP FP:

Re: [Discuss] Gnome Shell

2012-06-28 Thread John Abreau
he more I've come to believe, "They've got it completely > wrong and I need to get it off my computer." Indeed. Gnome 3 has been a spectacular failure. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com PGP FP: 783

Re: [Discuss] Gnome Shell

2012-06-29 Thread John Abreau
nd are not connected to the user base. > > > Third verse... I think you know the drill by now. > > -- > Rich P. > > > _______ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau /

Re: [Discuss] iPhone vs. Android - the backup problem

2012-07-20 Thread John Abreau
the free > app??) > I've had apps disappear from my iPad after an OS update. When I tried reloading them from the iTunes backup, I discovered that the apps were apparently not compatible with the updated OS. Perhaps your missing apps went missing for similar reasons? -- John Abreau / Executi

Re: [Discuss] HDTV's as a computer monitor

2012-07-21 Thread John Abreau
great for watching TV and stuff from 6-12 feet away but > it really sucks for typical computer use at 2-3 feet. > > -- > Rich P. > > ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss --

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

2012-07-30 Thread John Abreau
d compel a restaurant to include in its "Food Preparation Requirements" that ingredients are handled in a manner that ensures they won't serve food-borne pathogens to their customers. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

2012-07-30 Thread John Abreau
safety agency" in your statement is > absolutely incorrect. > Microsoft is NOT a government agency, it's a business dedicated to making > money. > > > > > > *- Original Message -* > *From:* "John Abreau" > *Sent:* Mon, July 30, 2012 9:30 >

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

2012-07-30 Thread John Abreau
I wasn't questioning whether the FTC was likely to intervene; I was questioning the implication that government oversight was in principle "not right". On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > John Abreau wrote: >> Tom Metro wrote: >>> ...it doe

Re: [Discuss] Rob Conery's critique of MySQL?

2012-07-31 Thread John Abreau
er >> hit those cases where PG really shows its strengths. > > That isn't true AT ALL. The feature that makes this possible is MVCC. It > helps you in a lot of ways that are not obvious until you get bitten. The > index locking up is a problem, I've had this issue on every MySQL pro

[Discuss] Late cancellation, looking for a speaker for Aug 15 BLU meeting

2012-08-06 Thread John Abreau
August 15? Even something fairly short would be fine; for example, if five or six speakers could each give a 15-minute talk. Thanks! -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4

Re: [Discuss] 'nother question

2012-08-07 Thread John Abreau
; ___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4

Re: [Discuss] GnomeOS

2012-08-08 Thread John Abreau
ort talks at the meeting as well. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] samba3x on Fedora 13?

2012-08-08 Thread John Abreau
___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8 _

[Discuss] Video for June 2012 BLU meeting uploaded to YouiTube

2012-08-18 Thread John Abreau
I just finished uploading the video of our June meeting to YouTube. This is our first 1080p HD video. Links to all our videos are on the BLU website, under http://blu.org/video/ -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com PG

[Discuss] BLU PGP/GnuPG Keysigning - registration page ready

2012-08-19 Thread John Abreau
I've enabled the key registration page for September 19's BLU PGP keysigning party. You can register your PGP or GnuPG keys at http://blu.org/keysignings/ -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID

[Discuss] Video for August 2012 BLU meeting uploaded to YouTube

2012-08-25 Thread John Abreau
I just finished uploading the video from the August BLU meeting to YouTube, and added it to the video index page on the BLU website: http://blu.org/videos/ The link for the video on YouTube is http://youtu.be/JN8iuSVROrM -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix E

Re: [Discuss] Using Grive to sync between linux, windows, and Google Drive

2012-08-26 Thread John Abreau
___ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8

Re: [Discuss] [off-topic] Chicago?

2012-08-28 Thread John Abreau
> Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8

Re: [Discuss] [off-topic] Chicago?

2012-08-29 Thread John Abreau
I didn't realize Worldcon was in the USA this year. I wish I could go, but I can't afford it at this time. On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:31:49 -0400 > John Abreau wrote: > >> What's going on in Chicago?

[Discuss] Gimp - Metadata parasite?

2012-08-31 Thread John Abreau
utine, but I can't seem to find anything that defines the term. Can anyone shed some light on what a "metadata parasite" is supposed to be? -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A

Re: [Discuss] can one safely login multiple times to the same user on a modern Linux desktop?

2012-09-05 Thread John Abreau
gt; I am considering education as an option in one of my use cases; but I have > many other things that I'm trying to teach my 8 year old that are a higher > priority. > > Bill Bogstad > _______ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] can one safely login multiple times to the same user on a modern Linux desktop?

2012-09-05 Thread John Abreau
#x27;d have to login, start mplayer, and try to remember how many minutes into the movie I had been. Way too disruptive of the movie-watching experience. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Rich Pieri wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:49:57 -0400 > John Abreau wrote: > >> helpful to do t

Re: [Discuss] can one safely login multiple times to the same user on a modern Linux desktop?

2012-09-06 Thread John Abreau
nough, and that completely logging out every time you walk away from the computer was the One True Faith. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix PGP KeyID: 32A492D8 / Email: abre...@gmail.com PGP FP: 7834 AEC2 EFA3 565C A4B6 9BA4 0ACB AD85 32A4 92D8

Re: [Discuss] Europe hits old internet address limits

2012-09-15 Thread John Abreau
hange my server for the "new" addresses, and I'll > need all the help I can get. > > Bill > > -- > > > Bill Horne > > > 406-888-9859 > > _______ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lis

[Discuss] FYI - Register for the annual BLU PGP/GnuPG keysigning this evening

2012-09-19 Thread John Abreau
Just a reminder, in order to be included on the printed list for this evening's pgp/gnupg keysigning event, you need to register your key at http://blu.org/keysignings/keypartyregister.php -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email j...@blu.org /

[Discuss] Slides from last night's BLU meeting

2012-09-20 Thread John Abreau
Bill Ricker's slides from last night's BLU talk on password vulnerabilities is no up on the BLU webserver, along with his other documents, including the page of links that someone requested last night. You can find them at http://blu.org/meetings/ -- John Abreau / Executiv

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