Hey, all -- I've gotten quite used to gnome-terminal and konsole, and they both work, but I admit I have a little bit of iterm2 (for the Mac) envy -- e.g., being able to search back through the log to a specific timestamp. Handy, that. So, my question, really, is "is there a really cool terminal program out there with lots of bells and whistles?" It'd be fun to kick the tires on something new. Thanks, -Ken
For ease of use, I PDF'd it, but it's a LibreOffice editable PDF, and linked it here: http://Priss.com/ http://Priss.com/SIP_Overview.pdf Thank you for the opportunity. Curt- P.S.: Here's where I used one of Maddog's talks: http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/03/windows-is-not-free.html
A nicely readable analysis (if you happen to like this stuff) of the exploit recently demonstrated via semtex.c : http://timetobleed.com/a-closer-look-at-a-recent-privilege-escalation-bug-in-linux-cve-2013-2094/
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One feature that I was not able to get working on the Android version of Google Maps is route manipulation by moving the lines like you can on the web version. The advantages of a commercial GPS system, like TomTom is the screen size. Also, your maps are all preloaded. In a smartphone, your maps are loaded via your data connection, but there is a way to preload your maps before going into an area where you may not have wifi. It depends on your cache size. Also look at mapdroyd. I once compared Google Maps nav with Lexus nav, and I preferred the Google Maps route. On 05/18/2013 07:44 PM, Mac wrote: > > My tomtom was stolen a year ago. About that time I upgraded my Android > phone. I tried google maps and navigator and found it more than > adequate. Haven't bothered with anything else since. > > On May 18, 2013 2:14 PM, "David Rysdam" <david@... > <mailto:david@...>> wrote: > > On Sat, 18 May 2013 14:03:23 -0400, Jerry Feldman <gaf@... > <mailto:gaf@...>> wrote: > > On 05/18/2013 01:46 PM, David Rysdam wrote: > > > On Sat, 18 May 2013 11:49:21 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen > <rozzin@... <mailto:rozzin@...>> wrote: > > >> David Rysdam <david@... <mailto:david@...>> writes: > > >>> Helpfully unhelpful: But maybe what this proves is that no > GPS has ever > > >>> heard "it's the journey, not the destination". > > >> I think the point of Tilmann's notes in the FoxtrotGPS manual > is that > > >> `the vertices *are* the edges', e.g.: > > >> > > >> * Do not set your waypoints on crossings. Instead, set > them on the > > >> road between crossings. > > > I saw that. It's possible that it might function the way you > suspect in > > > some cases. However, having had some inexplicable (and some > > > explicable-by-positing-the-GPS-is-dumb) experiences, I suspect > what > > > would frequently happen is a route that did NOT include that edge, > > > except for the one point I happened to stick on there. I.e. > > > > > > 1) a completely unexpected route > > > 2) get on an entrance ramp to My Chosen Highway > > > 3) drive past the point > > > 4) take the next exit > > > 5) continue on with GPS's idea of what I want > > > > > > This is "easily" solvable by putting more points on My Chosen > > > Highway...for someone with infinite patience in trying to > trick software > > > into doing the right thing. From the volume of responses I've > gotten > > > telling me about wayPOINTS, routePOINTS, and > POINTS-of-interest, I must > > > be the only one who wants a feature that lets me input *lines*. > > > > > You can to that with Google Maps. I'm not sure exactly what you > want to > > do, but it is much more flexible than the standard GPS. > > Yeah, at one point I was going to say "What I want is Google Maps, but > in portable form". That's not exactly true, but closer than what I > have > now. Maybe I need to get an smartphone. But it seems like if this > functionality can exist in a phone, it can exist in a GPS. Or > maybe the > crucial factor is the internet access, in which case a smartphone > wouldn't help me either (since I wouldn't always be in a coverage > area). > -- -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@...> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
My GPS is dying. I'm looking for a replacement, but I want a particular..."mindset" is probably a better word than "feature". On a recent long-distance car trip, I found the GPS making opaque decisions. For instance, it has a route. I take an unplanned exit for gas and when I get back on, and the GPS has "recalculating"'d several times, the route is different. Why? I'm exactly where I was before and the destination is the same. No clue and no way to find out. Similarly, I often find that "fastest" and "shortest" are not the only optimization strategies I could wish for. How about "any route using/not using road X" or "no tolls, except for this one because it saves 4 hours"? Or "no 'highways' but also don't take me down all these back country, one-lane roads". Basically, I find that when I use the GPS, it's the brains and I'm just the car operator. I want to be the brains and the operator and have the GPS be navigator. I decide a route (or the backbone of one) and it keeps me on it. Does this exist? I know "waypoints" is a thing, but I'm not talking about visiting landmarks. I'm talking about entering in (most of) my route and having the GPS handle the details.
Join us Tuesday May 21st for ManchLUG! This month's topic: a primer on Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP as it is usually called, presented by Curt Howland. Curt will give us the run down on SIP and how it's used with VoIP. Schedule: 6:30 PM - Pre-meeting social. If you're ordering food, please try to do so before the start. 7:00 - 8:30 PM Meeting kick-off, immediately followed by Curt Howland on SIP. Location: The Farm 1181 Elm St. Manchester, NH (corner of Elm and Bridge in downtown Manchester) When you enter The Farm go to the left side of the restaurant and locate the small function room or ask the hostess for assistance Parking: Parking in downtown Manchester is enforced between 8AM - 8PM, however the metered spaces in front of The Farm on Elm Street and the lot behind The Farm are free after 5:30PM. For further details: http://www.manchesternh.gov/website/Departments/Parking/tabid/182/Default.aspx Feel free to RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/365518163554722/ You can also find the Manchester Linux Users group: <at> ManchLUG on twitter.com <at> ManchLUG on identi.ca _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@... http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/
I received a letter today from a computer recycler which proudly puts Windows on their machines and then gives them to people who can't afford to buy Windows. Their words are quoted (since I don't know how to highlight in ascii): "Microsoft donates Windows licenses to organizations such as ours, millions each year." Yes, I'm sure they do. The better to get their malware into the hands of the unaware. "When you are poor and want to get a job employers want people that know Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, Project, SharePoint, Dynamics and hundreds of other standard business programs offered by Microsoft." Translating skills from one Office suite to another, such as OpenOffice to Microsoft Office, is not different from translating between different versions of Microsoft office. However, on the rest of these applications, I agree. Somehow, I doubt that they're getting free licenses for all of them. The same objection to the expensive upgrade treadmill exists for these applications as well. "We tried to offer Linux systems with open office for $25 a system when we started, never had one person ever look at one - we can't even give them away - I tried to." No, they tried to sell them, not give them away. Even allowing that they dropped the $25 pricetag, it's a fact that people think that Windows is Free. The comparison in their minds is not the $200 Windows license vs. $0 for Linux/LibreOffice, it's between $0 with the Microsoft label and $0 without it. The choice is obvious. I have written about this before: http://anarchic-order.blogspot.com/2011/03/windows-is-not-free.html And it is the "poor" who are least able to afford not getting hacked/cracked upgrades "from a friend" when their "free" Windows runs out. "They want Windows or Apple and Apple has no interest in poor people. If you have kids they want to play games - not Linux games, good games that their friends are playing online." Three gross assumptions here: 1) Microsoft cares about people who cannot afford their software 2) Linux games are not good 3) Online games don't run on Linux 2 and 3 are sadly somewhat true, yet rapidly declining. I have to wonder what these "poor" people are doing paying for first-run games and online game time. Maybe they're getting hacked/cracked versions of them? 1, however, is absurd. Microsoft Corporation wants people to buy their product. By giving this one away just like the drug dealer, they perpetuate the illusion that there is nothing else. "I think there are lots of zealots running around that think they have the only solution for mankind when in fact there are many." Zealots also push Microsoft crapware. "You seem to have twisted 'the value of genuine' - all that means is LEGAL not cracked or virus ridden." This copy is all nice and legal, sure. What about the upgrade that the "poor" will soon have to buy? Will that also be all legal and not cracked or virus ridden? No. Only the first one is free. Giving people Windows and Microsoft crapware is not doing them any favors. Curt- -- -- The Magistrate, enrobed in taxes, condemns the thief in stolen rags.
When:May 15, 2013 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A) Topic: BeagleBone Black and Open Source Computing Moderators: Kurt Keville, Thaumaturgical Engineer, MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies - kkeville alum mit edu Brian DeLacey, www.LinuxInTheLivingRoom.com, b delacey / gmail com Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315 Summary: A look at Texas Instrument's newest low-cost ARM platform Abstract: The BeagleBone Black was introduced on April 23rd at the DESIGN West conference. This next generation, credit-card-sized, open-everything microcomputer sells for $45 and offers broad, capable support for Linux Distributions and Android. This is a defining moment for Open Source Computing. The May 15th meeting will take a hands-on, hacker-friendly look at the new BeagleBone Black. We'll step through board-level operations from boot-up to shutdown, from launching Linux to blinking LEDs. Chip by chip, Texas Instruments is ushering in a new generation for Open Source Computing. Is BeagleBone Black a capable desktop or energy efficient server? Will you run ngstrm, Ubuntu, Android or something else? Will it be used in educational, personal, or commercial settings? We'll tour through software and hardware ideas for Infotainment, Thing-ware, and Maker applications. Join Brian and Kurt (some call them the caped crusaders of the embedded world) as they look back on industry developments since BLU's PandaBoard meeting of 2010 and lock in on the promising potential for the brand new BeagleBone Black. News for the Sunday, May 19th Arm Festival: http://www.armfestival.com/ Sign up for Pizza and beverages at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16-DFSRHIn2mWQFG6bUTK9SxHMPOo8K9gCr6EPlHgXfQ/viewform (http://tinyurl.com/cszkfoa) For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site http://www.blu.org Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51 parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St. After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting location at The Cambridge Brewing Company http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/ -- -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@...> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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I'm trying, without much success, to dist-upgrade a machine from 10.04LTS to 12.04.2LTS. The installer seems to timeout because the host (or my network) is not responding. What is puzzling, is that I can wget the file from the repository. The download seems to take > 3 minutes to start, (no wget activity) but then the connection is good for a while, stalls, but eventually picks up and completes. When the connection is active, I seem to have reasonable BW, otherwise I have 8B/sec or 0B/sec download. It is probably our network $WORK, but I have yet to have anyone be able to help me.
Since I have the file in question, where can I stuff this file, so that the installer sees it, and doesn't have to go to the slow repo to get it again. I think the dist-upgrade saves stuff in /var/log/dist-upgrade
In main.log the last entries are:
2013-05-03 10:31:40,603 ERROR IOError in cache.commit(): 'Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/texlive-extra/texlive-fonts-extra_2009-10ubuntu1_all.deb Connection failed
'. Retrying (currentTry: 2)
2013-05-03 10:31:40,603 ERROR giving up on fetching after maximum retries
Does anyone know where the files are saved for a dist-upgrade that hasn't finished?
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