On 11/22/2011 11:23 AM, j. daniel moylan wrote:
any suggestions would be warmly appreciated.
hmm, i have an earlier eee and it just works. it's unlikely, but it
could be a hardware failure.
maybe install another unix or version of ubuntu or the same version of
ubuntu on an sd card or usb dr
hi
On 12/16/2011 11:13 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
Someone whose primary goal is blame avoidance is someone I would run
away from as fast as I could. They aren't going to go anywhere, and if
they somehow do manage to climb the corporate ladder in spite of their
pile of failures, it won't be in a w
On 01/12/2012 12:36 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
Since DNS is the center of our universe, do we know how secure the
recommended ones are?
i'm sure they're corporate secure. i guess the return question is how
secure do you need them to be?
there is no replacement for doing it yourself.
also, reg
hello world!
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 13:39, Mark Woodward wrote:
> http://www.mohawksoft.org/?q=node/86
i understand the point, but i think it gets back to just using the
most talented people you can find. then again, i'm not one to focus on
labels too much ...
"a rose by any other name would s
hello world!
On 1/23/12 2:55 PM, Daniel C. wrote:
So, we all accept that the title Professional Engineer [deleted]
On 01/23/2012 03:09 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
No, we all do not accept this assertion.
a better engineer would have validated that assertion before continuing.
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greetings
On 02/10/2012 10:33 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
The Macintosh desktop works so well because of the Macintosh Human
Interface Guidelines and the uniform enforcement of those guidelines.
of course, that cannot happen in an open source world. even if a group
went through the trouble of sp
On 02/10/2012 11:20 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
See... this statement is what distinguishes the "technical elite" from
the "common masses". The common masses do want the same desktop.
not so sure about this. can we make comparisons to other devices? what
about running an automobile versus running
On 03/12/2012 10:07 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
The desktop if largely dead like cobol.
this typo is interesting because it makes your statement a proposition,
a point to be argued.
It will linger, but never return.
if it is lingering, then it can't return [because it hasn't gone away
unions are not perfect, but what is?
not all unions are like the teamsters. just like not all management is
like ken lewis.
without unions don't conditions for workers just get worse? while some
management teams understand that taking care of their workers is taking
care of the business, mos
hi
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 04:51:56PM -0400, john saylor wrote:
isn't the union movement on life support in this country?
On 04/19/2012 05:34 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
I don't know, is it?
yes it is.
btw, your mother's union experiences are interesting- but they are only
hi
On 6/27/12, Jack Coats wrote:
> What I would like to see is the Maker: Culture extend itself into the
> corporate culture.
this will never happen. these groups have very different goals. think
about what happened [and continues to happen] to the network as it
gets 'monetized' ... [hint: corpo
On 7/10/12, Guy Gold wrote:
> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/mozilla-does-the-unthinkable/3719
i'm hopeful the client will thrive in it's new github [a guess] home ...
i [like most] have gone through many different software scenarios
regarding reading mail. and, for now, i have come
hi
On 8/8/12, Rich Pieri wrote:
> A console needs a continually growing library of good games that people
> want to play.
paraphrasing james carville, "it's the games, stupid."
it will be interesting to see what happens with this "open source"
console. if we look at the glass as half full, we c
*tweeet*
steelers fans get no love from the patriots faithful- but it's better
than being from ny [giants].
the nfl has all those package deals where you can watch every game
everywhere or whatever. the nfl is *very* protective of their product
too. it seems unlikely to me that you will be able t
hi
On 9/27/12 15:54 , Brendan Kidwell wrote:
I've got an Asus EEE netbook that I was considering installing "Android
X86" on. I went as far as trying to install the latest build in VirtualBox
and I had no trouble whatsoever getting it up and running in that. I gather
from the Android X86 docs th
On 1/2/13 14:42 , Rich Pieri wrote:
The GPL is more restrictive than other licenses because it denies me
the freedom to distribute free software published under those less
restrictive (more permissive) licenses combined with GPL software.
using restrictive and permissive to describe licenses is
hi
On 1/3/13 16:02 , Doug wrote:
If you had the choice, which of those two licenses would you choose
and why?
well, you have to decide what do you want the license to do for you.
if your goals for the code are in anyway aligned with stallman's 4 freedoms:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-s
hi
On 2/3/13 19:50 , Chris O'Connell wrote:
I have trouble thinking that a 9
year old will be able to find a creative use for Linux, as the OS is pretty
complicated and requires a lot of knowledge. Further, why would someone so
young like to play with a somewhat primitive Gnome interface when t
HELO
On 3/13/13 20:09 , Chris O'Connell wrote:
That's it. No additional information, no substitution... what gives?
U HAVE BEEN P0WNED.
Now I'm in a pickle. I use Google Reader on ALL of my devices... Anyone
know of any substitutions?
due to my paranoid nature, i have been dropping away
On 9/17/13 15:07 , Kurt L Keville wrote:
> (I am, of course, obliquely referencing the infamous Crazy Crab incident ...
> http://www.stallman.org/articles/texas.html )
thank you. i was not aware of this incident before your email. and i
think i am better off for having come into contact with this
On 9/19/13 9:36 , Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> I wonder how much to make of this?
think about open source for a moment. also, i do not think linus [or
linux] can be subject to an NSA security letter as he is not a US citizen.
but it would be easy to fork any open source project and make the
modificat
On 9/19/13 11:29 , Kent Borg wrote:
> Maybe the
> Linux kernel has enough of them that the NSA doesn't need to weaken it,
> they can just use the weaknesses that are already there.
i've got to think that windows [esp] and mac os are *far* more
vulnerable to exploits of this type as the source is n
On 9/19/13 11:46 , Richard Pieri wrote:
> Darwin, the Unix layer of OS X, is FreeBSD and the source code is very
> much publicly available.
as i understand it, darwin is a fork of freebsd. apple has some non-open
stuff in there too.
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hi
On 10/22/13 15:20 , Martin Owens wrote:
> Marking is about getting attention
isn't this a bit simplistic? marketing also wants to "persuade" you to
take some action. otherwise, self-immolation could qualify as marketing.
i think it's the techniques used for this "persuasion" that put people
o
hi
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:02 PM, stephen goldman wrote:
> The goal is to put the job in the background and receive an email when the
> job is complete.
shouldn't you just write a shell script [and run it via cron]? it
could take arguments to be able to handle different files coming in or
initialize
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I know how to create a user, grant, et.al, but I don't know how to set this
> up to test if a user exists.
select count(*) from users where username like '%username%';
?
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hi
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:18 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> he said something to the effect that PGP had been
> an important
> fight for our fundamental rights, but that we've already lost the
> fight, it's over, and it's
> no longer safe to use PGP in the current political climate in America.
well,
On 1/12/14, 16:26 , Kent Borg wrote:
> -kb, the Kent who feels bad to have been part of a DDoS attack.
nothing to feel bad about. you became aware of a problem and even took
action. that's a good thing!
and you'll probably even do some kinda audit of other stuff on your
systems as well [perhaps a
On 1/30/14, 9:34 , John Malloy wrote:
> We are very new to GIT.
yeah, it takes your while to get your head around distributed source
control.
> Are there sources of help/training on this out there?
github.com has a ton of documentation. a lot of it is pertinent to their
site, but a bunch is also
On 4/22/14, 14:37 , Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> You're saying, that the only way anybody in the world can trust anything, is
> to literally download everything from source, *read* all the source, and
> compile it themselves.
instead of just calling "bs" can you suggest some other means by w
On 4/23/14, 19:21 , John Abreau wrote:
> It's not a magic guarantee, but it does give the white hats a better chance
> to keep up with the black hats.
but we live in a world where everyone is wearing a grey hat of one shade
or another ...
in this world, open source is even more important because
bonjour
On 1/13/15 8:56 , Rich Braun wrote:
> GnuCash, I'm afraid, is even farther behind on the UI usability front.
works for me, but one size does not fit all.
> It looks like the end of the road for desktop finance; the future is cloud
> services. But really, I'm a cloud-security developer:
run()
On 02/18/16 12:36, Steve Litt wrote:
It's too bad. OpenBSD is an excellent OS that always works right. But
if the cost of using OpenBSD is hearing all that anti-Linux stuff,
perhaps I better stay away from it.
hmm ... you can run openBSD without looking at any of the mailing lists
or c
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On 05/18/16 20:43, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
It's remarkable that IRC still exists after all these years.
plain text chat still allows humans to communicate effectively with each
other. and also the minimal display capability required of clients
[plain text] makes it very flexib
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