Re: [Discuss] google voice

2012-07-31 Thread blu
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Guy Gold > > I have Gvoice ringing multiple phones (what's called a > 'simultaneous hunt group') for a while now. The are a few offsets, > example

Re: [Discuss] Computer donations

2012-07-31 Thread blu
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Guy Gold > > Greetings BLU members. > > Does anyone have experience with Computer donations in the > Boston/Greater Boston area ? I use pcdisposal.com. I

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

2012-08-05 Thread blu
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Rich Braun > > Being the one who kicked off this thread, my original goal was to get specific > technical arguments (plus a couple of business arguments like the r

Re: [Discuss] Using raw host hard disk in virtual client

2012-08-05 Thread blu
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Natowitz > > I've used VirtualBox at work to run both Linux clients on Windows XP, or > vice versa. Windows client on Linux works well, but the Linux cl

Re: [Discuss] virtualization overhead

2012-08-06 Thread blu
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Rich Braun > > As for how it could be possible: CPU performance far exceeds that of any > current I/O. So emulation overhead drops way below the roughly 3% CPU &g

[Discuss] Help us name our software!

2012-08-09 Thread blu
Lyric Labs is preparing to release some software for performing "probabilistic inference". In other words, we present the software with conflicting evidence and it tries to guess the most likely explanation. Can you help us choose a name? This survey is one page and should take under two minute

[Discuss] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-20 Thread blu
Farewell google. What else can I say? Seriously. I tried to purchase something from the Google Play store, in my android tablet today, and I keep getting an error that doesn't say much of anything. "Your order could not be processed. Please try again." So I tried a different credit card, I

Re: [Discuss] [OT] VZ Wireless carrier alternatives

2012-08-22 Thread blu
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jim Gasek > > I've had it with my $200/mo. VZ wireless bill. > My needs are: > - 3/4 phones "family plan" voice. > - unlimited texting &

Re: [Discuss] Eclipses Re: Great talks last night, however...

2017-07-22 Thread grg-webvisible+blu
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 12:31:08PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 7/22/2017 1:14 AM, Gregory Galperin wrote: > > You seem to be claiming here that the lithium ion batteries Musk is selling > > have less than a 10% charge/discharge efficiency. But when I look for a > > number on charge/discharge

Re: [Discuss] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of blu > > Farewell google. What else can I say? Seriously. Heyyy!!! That worked! I didn't upload the docs, and my account has been reinstated. So, in summa

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

2012-08-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
I personally found unison to be ... I recommend instead, GoodSync. Oh, BTW, you can layer encryption on top of google drive/ dropbox, using Boxcryptor, which is compatible with encfs (cryptkeeper), provided that you create the volume with boxcryptor and not the other way around. Their encrypti

Re: [Discuss] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Derek Martin [mailto:inva...@pizzashack.org] > > I'm honestly not sure what to make of this... On the one hand, you > got Google to back down from their excessively draconian security > policies, so yay! But on the other hand, someone at Google security > seems to be convinced that these

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

2012-09-03 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Bill Bogstad > > I frequently like to set things up so that I can simultaneously log into > the same desktop configuration from multiple workstations. It's

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

2012-09-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Bill Bogstad [mailto:bogs...@pobox.com] > Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 8:27 PM > > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) > wrote: > > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org

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

2012-09-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of John Abreau > > When you've got maybe 2 productive hours available in a given day, > it makes so much sense to spend 60-90 minutes of that time restoring >

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

2012-09-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: John Abreau [mailto:abre...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 10:24 AM > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) > wrote: > > > Why is this a discussion? Why wouldn't you just lock the screen, or > suspend/resume a rem

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

2012-09-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman > > While my office is in a building where only > employees can enter, there are other people, such as cafeteria workers, > cleaning crews, and b

Re: [Discuss] web server can't see out but others can see in

2012-09-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne > > I did the following: > 1. I gave the server a static ip in virtualbox and on the router. I'm just going to assume you know what you'r

Re: [Discuss] web server can't see out but others can see in

2012-09-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Edward Ned Harvey (blu) > Second, don't enable one-to-one NAT. 1-to-1 NAT means every packet destined for some external IP address will be NAT'd to some internal IP address. This is how you effectively put an internal machine outside the firewall. The only differenc

Re: [Discuss] web server can't see out but others can see in

2012-09-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Derek Martin [mailto:inva...@pizzashack.org] > > You can't attack a service that isn't > there, or can't hear you. Why do we care about having a firewall at all? Why don't we just shut off services that aren't necessary? To offer some protection against situations where you didn't inte

Re: [Discuss] web server can't see out but others can see in

2012-09-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Eric Chadbourne > > eric@webserver1:~$ ping google.com > ping: unknown host google.com That's a pretty conclusive dns failure... > eric@webserver1:~$ pi

Re: [Discuss] web server can't see out but others can see in

2012-09-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Edward Ned Harvey (blu) > > Still, I think it's safe to conclude that your firewall is blocking both > outbound > ICMP and DNS. A good test is like this: ping 8.8.8.8 If it fails, you can conclude either ICMP is being blocked, or there's no route to

[Discuss] ISP's in Nashua

2012-10-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
Any of you using any ISP's in Nashua, NH? I am used to the pricing in the Boston area, and what I'm finding in Nashua is several times higher. Wondering if I'm just asking the wrong companies, or if things are simply different up here. Thanks... __

Re: [Discuss] TrueCrypt on a network Drive

2012-10-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of aldo albanese > > Created a folder called TrueCrypt on the network drive. > Via TrueCrypt App, I created a volume using option "Create an encrypted file > c

Re: [Discuss] adventures in dns

2012-10-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Gillen > > I messed around with 'date -s' trying to set the system clock, but gave up > figuring out how to specify the format correctly (I have

Re: [Discuss] TrueCrypt on a network Drive

2012-10-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of aldo albanese > > Hi Rich, > If I understand it right, the user needs to dismount the drive after they are > done with it.  What about they forget to do

Re: [Discuss] What the use of .bashrc

2012-10-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Hoffman > > I'm teaching an Introduction to Linux/Unix class at UMass/Boston. I've just > told the class about the different type of shells (login,

Re: [Discuss] TrueCrypt on a network Drive

2012-11-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: aldo albanese [mailto:aldo_alban...@yahoo.com] > > You are a great group, thanks you.  This user is extra paranoid and would like > her network drive encrypted.  She is the only one mounting and using the > drive.   I saw the option for backup the volume header, does it work in case > of a

[Discuss] test for *other* write permissions

2012-11-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
I'm running a script as root, I'm going to parse a file. I can easily test that the file is owned by root. I want to test if the group or other write bit is set. If using "find" you can test that a file is writable by yourself - but not test if it's writable by anyone else. If using "stat" y

Re: [Discuss] test for *other* write permissions

2012-11-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> If using "stat" you can also get the perms in 755 format. From here, I can > easily do a bitwise & with 2, and I can easily find the world write bit. But > bash > arithmetic doesn't view the number "755" in octal... It operates decimal. > So I > can't bitwise & with 16, or with 020. I have

Re: [Discuss] test for *other* write permissions

2012-11-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
Thanks for suggestions everyone. This is the best solution because it's clearly understandable and readable, doesn't have any external dependencies (like possibly unavailable or varying versions of perl/awk/sed/python/selinux) Bash, apparently, can do octal arithmetic by using the 8# PERM=`sta

Re: [Discuss] Linux bootable tool to clean Windows NTFS infections?

2012-12-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich > > What Linux bootable tool do people recommend to help clean a [Vista] > NTFS bootable system? I'm aiming for an offline solution - antivir

Re: [Discuss] Linux bootable tool to clean Windows NTFS infections?

2012-12-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro > > Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > > ...a few hours later or a few days later, it's always re-infected. > > ... I haven't seen a singl

Re: [Discuss] [OT] how to disable Gmail's filtering of duplicate messages?

2012-12-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro > > I've noticed Gmail will filter out messages that share the same message > ID, even if they are delivered via different mailing lists. I'm s

Re: [Discuss] How do Linux guys back up Windows?

2012-12-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of David Kramer > > Windows, > on the other hand, is more than a collection of files. It has magical > things in special places, There are lots of ghost-like

Re: [Discuss] How do Linux guys back up Windows?

2012-12-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jack Coats > > go to Crashplan.com and download the windows version. You can also snag a > Linux, solaris versions if you need it. I loves me some CrashPlan Pro,

Re: [Discuss] How do Linux guys back up Windows?

2012-12-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Dan Ritter > > Nobody cares about backups. People only care about restores. Almost correct. People care about backups whenever backups get in the way of whatever the

Re: [Discuss] How do Linux guys back up Windows?

2012-12-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of David Kramer > > > 2. Performance of a VM is going to be less than that if it is native. This is not correct. Well ... Sometimes it's correct, but sometimes

Re: [Discuss] restoring Windows on different hardware

2012-12-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> For reasons we don't understand, Windows memorizes which IDE/ATA > controller it was installed on and fails to boot in case the > > I recently moved an old Windows XP drive to new hardware. After the move > the OS crashed on boot. I figured maybe it needed a different HAL > > >> Windows pro

Re: [Discuss] restoring Windows on different hardware

2012-12-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of David Kramer > > I'm sure that's true. But with Windows you have the added complication > of activation/registration. No Linux restore/move is going to

Re: [Discuss] restoring Windows on different hardware

2012-12-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Mark Woodward > > Windows probably won't run, without difficulty, on a new system after a > restore. So, back to the topic of restoring windows on different

Re: [Discuss] DRM

2012-12-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Barrett > > Rich Pieri > >If you're using an old operating system -- ANY old operating system -- > >that's out of active support

Re: [Discuss] GPL and code linkages

2012-12-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of MBR > > In traditional compiled code, linking object files together to form a > single executable made them part of the same work, and if any object > file was c

Re: [Discuss] Travelling abroad & taking technology

2013-01-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matt Shields > > My understanding is Fedex or UPS'ing it would take a month to get through > customs. That's just what I've been told. More like 2

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2013-01-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Mark Woodward > > I do not wish to use zfs for license issues. This just means you haven't thought about it. There is no possible way the zfs license is rele

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2013-01-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com] > > (talking about CDDL) > > Well, I personally dislike the lack of freedom in the license and the > fact that I can't, according to the license, create a proper kernel > module. It has to be used as a FUSE system and that isn't acceptable. CDDL

Re: [Discuss] ZFS vs. Btrfs

2013-01-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro > > Rich Pieri wrote: > > The center of this star configuration is a Debian server: the HP N40L > > discussed earlier this year. Data is on a Bt

Re: [Discuss] Is ext4 still dangerous for vmware client?

2013-01-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Natowitz > > I'm thinking of taking the plunge and setting up a Linux client on Windows 7. > A while ago I read that ext4 for certain, and possibly ex

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2013-01-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com] > >> I acknowledge and understand that there are pros and cons of both >> licenses, philosophically and materially. I'm not saying one license is >> better >> than another, as a generalization; although in specific cases, each license >> can >

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2013-01-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com] > > I take offense to a license that allows someone to take > my intellectual property that I have intentionally shared and deny > others the benefits I intend. That is theft. CDDL doesn't allow that either. MIT does. Under CDDL, all contribut

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2013-01-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com] > > > Under CDDL, they don't have the same restriction - Some CDDL code can > be built into a larger work, without placing a restriction on the licensing > of the > *other* source code. > > That is the paradoxical part, people can take CDDL c

Re: [Discuss] ZFS vs. Btrfs

2013-01-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman > > In my mind the important issue is resistance to drive failure. What > happens in both ZFS and Btrfs in the case of a power failure. In zfs, dat

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2013-01-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > > From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com] > > > > I take offense to a license that allows someone to take > > my

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2013-01-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > Actually, if I write some code under MIT, and if Mark modifies it and > distributes his derivative product closed-source, and Jerry rec

Re: [Discuss] ZFS vs. Btrfs

2013-01-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman > > In my experiencein the workplace there have been many power failures. At > Riverside we even had a bus hit a pole knocking out power to both us

Re: [Discuss] data caps

2013-01-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matt Shields > > profit sharing. Quincy happened to strike a good deal with Comcast and > they do not want to renegotiate with them to allow competitors because >

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

2013-01-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com] > > Well, I personally dislike the lack of freedom in the license and the > fact that I can't, according to the license, create a proper kernel > module. It has to be used as a FUSE system and that isn't acceptable. This is like saying to someon

[Discuss] This Guy

2013-01-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
Sorry for being this guy... http://xkcd.com/386/ We all have weak moments... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] data caps

2013-01-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Gillen > > Another option: > http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/01/satellite-internet-15mbps-no- > matter-where-you-live-in-the-us/ I know from past e

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of John Abreau > > Under democracy, citizens are prohibited from seizing power by force and > imposing a military dictatorship on their fellow citizens. Under anarchy,

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com] > > The freedom to deny freedom is NOT a freedom. By combining the FREE > software with NON-FREE software you can create NON-FREE software. This > does not protect FREE software. This is not a freedom of denying freedom. It does not deny any fr

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
You know - There's something that I've never seen anybody do, and I would rather like to see. Release your code under GPL, and MIT, and CDDL. "Any recipient of this software may choose any of the following licenses. Don't see a license you want? Write to us at ___ and we'll consider releasin

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Derek Martin [mailto:inva...@pizzashack.org] > > The job of a software > license is to protect the rights of the copyright holder while > granting privileges to their business associates. Copyright is exactly as the name suggests - the right to copy. Why do we have such a thing as cop

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
Two developers can define an interface between their programs. If they are using C++, they might both be writing separate classes, which will get compiled into the same file. They could also be writing separate classes which will be compiled into separate files, but still interact with each ot

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
Should the FSF feel compelled to go sue GitHub? And should they be entitled to any settlement they extort out of GitHub? GitHub sells a virtual appliance, which is a single executable binary file, compiled from a bunch of GPL based software including the Linux kernel and git, and also includes

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
I'm going to download some GPL source code, and compile it into a binary. This is just a serial sequence of bytes. I'm going to take that sequence of bytes, and store it as a data structure inside my non-GPL binary, and distribute the non-GPL binary. Clearly, I'm in violation of the terms of

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> Media boundaries, as well as file boundaries, are meaningless. In fact, they > are one and the same. Gawd, I can't believe there's still MORE to say about this. Beating a dead horse, about the total complete insignificance of file and media boundaries. Now how about if I store something in A

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > Should the FSF feel compelled to go sue GitHub? And should they be > entitled to any settlement they extort out of GitHub? In my opinion, the

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: John Abreau [mailto:abre...@gmail.com] > > Describe a bunch of things that the GPL > doesn't do, assert that the GPL *should* do those things, Name anything I said that even remotely fits that description. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: j...@gapps.blu.org [mailto:j...@gapps.blu.org] On Behalf Of John > Abreau > > You've repeatedly said that GPL is "less free". Uhmmm Yes, but ... > You've argued that the GPL > "should" do things that it doesn't do, Disagree. See below. > > Should the FSF feel compelled to go

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com] > > Think about what happened to Kerberos under the MIT license. You always > ignore this point in your replies and this is a fundamental point in the > debate. Some people wrote some software and made it available for free. Some other people

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: John Abreau [mailto:abre...@gmail.com] > > Another silly claim. The FSF cannot sue Joe on behalf of the copyright holder. > The FSF can only sue if the copyright was assigned to the FSF. > > The FSF would not be entitled to sue Joe Schmoe unless Joe Schmoe violated > the license on someth

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com] > > What gives you the > moral or ethical right to create a non-free product with that free > software you got for free? What gives me the right to use a free product, such as vi or emacs, to write non-free software? The answer is of course,

Re: [Discuss] OSS licenses (was Home NAS redux)

2013-01-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Bill Bogstad [mailto:bogs...@pobox.com] > > You also keep implying that there are substantial financial benefits > received by people/entities who attempt to enforce free software > licenses. I would request that you provide some evidence of this. > I'm not saying they didn't make some m

Re: [Discuss] Ripping Audio Cd then copying to Android

2013-01-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman > > I am using K3B to rip a couple of audio CDs I have with the intent to > copy the resulting files to my Android. Currently I am creating this as

Re: [Discuss] Ripping Audio Cd then copying to Android

2013-01-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman > > I am using K3B to rip a couple of audio CDs I have with the intent to > copy the resulting files to my Android. Currently I am creating this as

Re: [Discuss] Travelling abroad & taking technology

2013-01-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Matt Shields > > Anyone have experience taking servers/network gear on the plane with > them? > What should I expect as far as taxes and penalties? etc? So

Re: [Discuss] ftdi chipset and linux

2013-01-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich > > Also, I'd be looking into a cheap netbook (probably from amazon), > something small and simple, to use with the radio. Insights here > w

Re: [Discuss] data caps

2013-01-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro > > How is Verizon any better than the cable > company? Essentially the same model. If you happen to live somewhere > with a good provider, this should

Re: [Discuss] data caps

2013-01-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman > > > Coax vs. fibre doesn't matter until weather gets into the exterior > > junction boxes. This is bad for Comcast since their coax co

Re: [Discuss] core competency

2013-01-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro > > A while back Dan Ritter wrote: > >Dave Berry wrote: > >> Does anyone know of companies that offer linux server and website > >> s

Re: [Discuss] webmin

2013-01-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Mark Woodward > > Has anyone used it? Are there better options? How's the security? > General opinions? Webmin is to linux as ASDM is to cisco. A powerful

Re: [Discuss] core competency

2013-01-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Grant M. > > So I've only read the most recent posts, but I think there are two different > ways of looking at this: > 1. Outsourcing to save money (th

Re: [Discuss] core competency

2013-01-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Dan Ritter > > Will they live or die over whether an engineer is inspired and > dedicated and works overnight fixing a problem or implementing a feature? > >

Re: [Discuss] webmin

2013-01-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com] > > > A powerful gui that dumbs down your admin tasks with all sorts of pitfalls > and shortcomings that enable you to shoot yourself in the foot. > > That's true of all GUI's atop of complex paradigms. Only if the GUI doesn't fully implement

Re: [Discuss] webmin

2013-01-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan M. Prigot > > Any GUI is going to abstract you from the underlying system. (For a good > treatise on this, check out "In the Beginning Was the Com

Re: [Discuss] Shutting down Oracle hosted on Linux

2013-01-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman > > Since the Linux shutdown command > issues a kill -TERM on all processes is it really necessary to do the > Oracle shutdown prior to the Linux

Re: [Discuss] Shutting down Oracle hosted on Linux

2013-01-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman > > Since the Linux shutdown command > issues a kill -TERM Oh - kill -TERM is the graceful shutdown signal. If you read the killall script, you&

Re: [Discuss] Shutting down Oracle hosted on Linux

2013-01-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Feldman > > I think the best way is /etc/init.d/oracle_service.sh stop > Don't know why the DBA used the long name. The best way is for me to use > th

[Discuss] nfs hard links

2013-01-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
I don't happen to have any NFS systems handy right now to test on. When I google around, everybody's answering the wrong question - I know you can't hard link local filesystem to a remote filesystem. I want to know remote to remote. mount mynfs:/someexport /home/someexport cd /home/someexport

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of William Chan > > I have my service #chkconfig 5 99 37 since my service needs x11 > My service subscribes to Messaging Queue and makes call to an application > w

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of William Chan > > Thanks to all. Can you tell me a bit more about the VNC approach? I'm not totally sure we have enough info, but here's a stab at it:

Re: [Discuss] runlevel 5 service cannot connect to display

2013-01-31 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of John Abreau > > I've always found Exceed to be clumsy and cumbersome. I found a > free-as-in-beer > alternative long ago that's much lighter-weig

Re: [Discuss] Disk recovery utilities - dealing with deleted files

2013-02-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Rich Braun > > Lesson learned: obviously, I'm going to change that cron job to some sort of > sequestration method: move the files someplace before this

Re: [Discuss] Encouraging Children to Explore Open Source

2013-02-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Chris O'Connell > > Can anyone recommend any ways/programs/resources to encourage > interest in > Open Source to a kid of this age? You don't need t

Re: [Discuss] Ext4, ugh! Re: Disk recovery utilities - dealing with deleted files

2013-02-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Rich Braun > > It's starting to look to me like the bottom line is this: > > DO *NOT* USE EXT4! > > There are a handful of well-documented utili

Re: [Discuss] Free Mail Server

2013-02-06 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Mark Woodward > > Does anyone know of a free SMTP server that isn't in a black hole? You're hoping to find an open relay on the internet, that's free, s

Re: [Discuss] [OT] Migrating domain to Google?

2013-02-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich > > I am looking at migrating my domain name and my two email boxes from > another provider to google. > > For those who have done it, how dif

Re: [Discuss] Password-protected PDF file?

2013-02-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich > > How safe is a password-protected PDF file sent via email? > > I've never run a sniffer to see what could be learned from doing this. It

Re: [Discuss] Password-protected PDF file?

2013-02-17 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > acrobat 3, 40-bit RC4 > acrobat 6, 128-bit RC4 > acrobat 7, 128-bit AES > acrobat 9, 256-bit AES Sorry, forgot to mention. The abo

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