Re: [Discuss] SCO's Motion To Reopen the Case Is Denied with a Bonk on the Head

2013-04-27 Thread Peter Olson
>From: Seth Gordon [mailto:se...@ropine.com] >Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 02:26 PM >To: 'Boston Linux and Unix' >Subject: Re: [Discuss] SCO's Motion To Reopen the Case Is Denied with a Bonk >on the Head > >This is the case that never ends; >It just goes on and on, my friends Lawyers watching

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-20 Thread Peter Olson
regulations about timely response to complaints involving money. Maybe even the USPS, for wire fraud? I suspect that most victims have better uses of their time than to retaliate against a $400 loss. It's all in the numbers. Peter Olson ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] memory management

2015-06-25 Thread Peter Olson
s, maybe at this point dozens of years. Who will fix this? Do the developers test the case of multiple URLs open, perhaps dozens at a time, over long periods of time? Maybe that's why these problems don't get fixed. Peter Olson ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] memory management

2015-06-26 Thread Peter Olson
> On June 26, 2015 at 10:24 AM Richard Pieri wrote: > > On 6/26/2015 2:45 AM, Peter Olson wrote: > > Blaming the victim is unproductive. > > M-x snark-mode > > What? We're not blaming the computer for thrashing and crashing when > unreasonable demands are

Re: [Discuss] memory management

2015-06-26 Thread Peter Olson
> On June 26, 2015 at 2:04 PM Derek Martin wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 01:45:51PM -0400, Peter Olson wrote: > > Unreasonable demands such as leaving Netsol Webmail running overnight and > > having > > to kill Firefox in the morning :-) > > > >

Re: [Discuss] Stallman stubborn

2015-11-11 Thread Peter Olson
> On November 11, 2015 at 12:39 PM MBR wrote: > > About Stallman being "stubborn", I think that's a good thing, or at > least a necessary thing. He is, after all, the founder of a movement > that has had worldwide impact. Eben Moglen (formerly a lawyer for the FSF) once told a story at an FSF

Re: [Discuss] Local ISP Recommendations?

2016-01-21 Thread Peter Olson
backup service, but a few months ago I boosted up to the next performance level. Peter Olson ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Fwd: [owaspboston] OWASP Boston at MIT Media Lab Security of Things event March 5, 6

2016-03-02 Thread Peter Olson
The one on the south shore I'm going (thanks for telling me about it :-) Peter Olson ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] free email less intrusive than google

2016-03-15 Thread Peter Olson
initions you'll find lots of arguments that this was inoffensive. It might be true. The compilers of the dictionary probably never got hauled off in a paddy wagon Peter Olson ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] MIT Media Lab Changes Software Default to FLOSS

2016-03-27 Thread Peter Olson
+10 > On March 27, 2016 at 10:08 AM "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" > wrote: > > > "Previously, software releases using free and open source licenses were > approved by an internal committee. But since we’ve always allowed our > developers to open-source their work, we’re eliminating the unnecessar

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Peter Olson
nal or even personal use. The cost of a linode for his own use is trivial compared to what happens when your site is hacked due to some issue innocent to your kid. Your kid is not wrong, but he can't be expected to know about site security. I had to clean up a site that got hacked this way

Re: [Discuss] Hosting

2016-09-27 Thread Peter Olson
s very well for my purposes. I joke that I have a machine in The Cloud, but it is actually in New Jersey. A lot of the time, the joke falls flat :-( :-) Peter Olson ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] I, uh, deleted the wrong kernel....

2016-09-29 Thread Peter Olson
> On September 30, 2016 at 2:37 AM David kramer wrote: > > On my desktop machine (Kubuntu 16.04LTS I think), I set up /boot too > small, because at one point my distro automatically removed old kernels, > so there wasn't need for much space. But that doesn't happen anymore, > so sometimes it fil

Re: [Discuss] deadmanish login?

2017-02-04 Thread Peter Olson
> On February 4, 2017 at 9:31 AM Bill Horne wrote: > > Thread hijack, sorry. > > Readers please state your preferences for Keepass, Password Safe, or other > programs/methods for storing passwords. Keepass2 Peter Olson ___ Di