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Saturday, June 22 - Meetup / Tech Talk / Swap Meet
April-26, 2013 by: David White
From: David White
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Hey folks,
There was a group of folks who talked for a number of months about
organizing a Chattanooga Technology Conference, but due to several reasons,
we have decided not to pursue that (this year). We will continue to talk
and plan about attempting this in future years.
In the mean time, however, I wanted to propose a Chugalug & Chattanooga IT
Community meetup for one of the days we were hoping to host the conference.
So, I hereby declare myself the President of Chugalug for a meetup on
Saturday, June 22 at the 4th Floor of the Library.
More details to follow, but I was thinking we could it make it a half-day
event, and include:
- Swap Meet
- Lightening Talks (two or three different "tracks" where people could
prepare a 20-30 minute presentation)
- I'm putting together a workshop for a conference this summer on
DNS, so for example, I'll plan to do an abbreviated presentation on that
topic
- Networking & hanging out
- Beer or lunch and/or dinner afterwards at some restaurant close by...
- Any other bright ideas you guys might have
Let me know your thoughts, and let me know if you have a topic you'd like
to present.
If I get enough people who are interested and want to go, I'll set it up as
an event on Meetup.com.
- David
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OT: B&N Rant
April-13, 2013 by: Adam Jimerson
From: Adam Jimerson ------------------------------------------------------ I think this is my first ever rant on Chugalug o,O Anyways as some of you that know me well know that two months ago I lost my house due to a fire (did not want to make it public to avoid a bunch of half assed pitty emails). Since then I have been fighting with my insurance company trying to get expense and personal loss reimbursements, not fun... The other week my insurance company told me that they wanted receipts for everything I lost in the fire, seeing as how i bought most of my stuff online I thought to myself that would be easy. Until I got to Barnes and Noble... I purchased a 1st Gen Nook from them back in 2010, I login to their website to try and get a copy but to my surprise it was not listed under "My Orders". My payment went through PayPal so I had information about the transaction including an invoice number there. I go to their online chat to see if someone there can help me, the answer I get there is "you will have to call our customer support number to get them to help you". So I called there customer support number and spent almost an hour talking to three different people before getting a 3rd tier manager, all of them hand the same responses to my request the first of which was "Why would you want a copy of your invoice?" then it to "Our system deletes invoices after 18 months and we have no way of recovering that information" then to "Let me research if there is something I could to for you" which resulted to me getting transfered to someone else. Finally I was given the email address for what may or may not be there upper management to see if someone there can help me out. I know that the Nook is more open about running Linux and Android then the Kindle and from the Nook Color on you can run custom Android ROMS on it, but that fact fails in comparison to their piss poor excuse for customer service and billing practices (if they know their system does that and they can not get who ever wrote their system to change that the least they can do is copy old invoices somewhere else for long term storage). My advice to my fellow LUG members is if you choose to do business with B&N make sure you keep a copy of your invoice on a trusted service (DropBox, Box, Google Drive, SpiderOak, etc) or a server that you trust, because if they treat someone trying to get copy of a receipt I can only imagine what they would say to someone trying to get them to honor an extended warranty when they already deleted the invoice (and therefor their record of sale before hand). If you are in the market for a Ebook reader then stay away from the Nook and get a Kindle (at least Amazon keeps invoices), or if you have a smartphone, phablet, or a tablet use a Ebook reader app on your device and save yourself. /me end rant mode
Drupal news Fwd: A long overdue BlogAPI update
April-11, 2013 by: Rod-Lists
From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ For those of you who use drupal. As always help coding welcome. At least now there is some movement. ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Cameron Eagans To: blogapi-list@example.com Sent: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:18:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: A long overdue BlogAPI update Good evening everyone, As you probably know, BlogAPI was successfully funded by a ChipIn in December of 2011, in large part by Acquia (thank you Acquia and everyone else that contributed!). However, since then, I've had some personal issues come up that have made it difficult to find time to work on BlogAPI. I know that 16 months is a long wait for the module, and I do apologize for that. I won't try to make excuses because anything that I can say will not do justice to the fact that it has taken so long to get the module in a working state. I dropped the ball, and I'll own that. However, you might be happy to know that as of tonight, BlogAPI is working with ScribeFire. In the next few days, I'll be continuing to manually test and refine the code so that it works with other BlogAPI clients (MarsEdit is next on the list, followed by Windows Live Writer, Ecto, and perhaps MacJournal). There are a handful of automated tests in place currently. I'll also be continuing to add tests for the functionality currently in the module so that the testbot can tell me/us when I'm doing something wrong. If you have any questions/concerns/comments/rants, feel free to reply to this email. Again, I'm sorry for the delay. Talk to you soon! -- Cameron Eagans http://cweagans.net You're receiving this email because, at some point in the past, you've expressed an interest in the BlogAPI module for Drupal 7. If you do not wish to be included in future updates, please let me know and I'll remove you from the list.
remote work opportunity
March-21, 2013 by: Nate Hill
From: Nate Hill ------------------------------------------------------ A friend in California asked if I knew anyone for this job. Maybe someone on the list wants to apply. http://califaproducts.blogspot.com/2013/03/are-you-techy-consultant-whos-into.html Description: The enkiLibrary is a shared open source eBook Network that allows California libraries to own and store purchased and free digital content, to share access to more content than any individual library can purchase on its own, to add features and functionality lacking in current third-party vendor models (e.g., renewing, suspending holds, donating, circulation data transferred to ILS, etc.), and to share access to unique local digitized content with other libraries within the Network. Califa and Contra Costa County Library partnered to co-develop an open source eBook Network, shared by, and accessible to multiple library systems in California. The platform is based on the Douglas County (CO) Libraries model, which utilizes the Adobe Content Server and the open source VuFindPlus, developed at Villanova University. The Quipu Group, a software development company, is developing the initial VuFindPlus interface. Funding for this project is available through a Bay Area Library Information Systems (BALIS) Innovation Grant, LSTA monies, and Califa. This position will be part of the team making enkiLibrary happen through system administration and support of the Adobe Content Server (ACS) and the VuFindPlus open source software, including configuration, maintenance and customization of these two servers. Working Knowledge and Experience with: Open source software for next generation library catalogs and discovery tools. Database administration (MySQL, Oracle, Solr) User-facing web standards/platforms (HTML/XHTML, cross-browser CSS, Javascript, jQuery/AJAX, PHP, mobile web) Search platforms (Apache Solr) Library software applications and protocols (NCIP, SIP, APIs, user authentication, integrated library systems) Web server software -- Nate Hill nathanielhill@gmail.com http://4thfloor.chattlibrary.org/ http://www.natehill.net
Chugalunch: FRI 3/8 13:00hrs Community Pie
March-02, 2013 by: Rod-Lists
From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ Old Market Street Tavern site or La Dulce Vita or Michael's for you old timers. I might split a community salad(Salad for whole table) with someone. Or a Carbonara Pie. http://communitypie.com/files/2013/02/Community-Pie-Restaurant-Menu.pdf http://communitypie.com/files/2013/02/Community-Pie-Bar-Menu.pdf
Best PHP DB Abstraction layer?
February-27, 2013 by: Mike Harrison
From: Mike Harrison ------------------------------------------------------ It's a religious question, I know but if I were to pick a PHP database abstraction connection layer.. Which one actually works in the real world? I'm looking at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/refs.database.abstract.php http://www.greaterscope.net/documentation/php
Open Chattanooga MeetUp Tonight
February-19, 2013 by: Tim Moreland
From: Tim Moreland ------------------------------------------------------ For anyone who is interested the local Code for America brigade's weekly MeetUp is tonight at The Company Lab from 7 to 9pm. The two projects we are working on right now require a ruby on rails developer with Heroku experience for the adopt-a-hydran t platform and anyone with experience with Amazon EC2 for the CKANopen data platform. If you are interested by can't make it tonight join our Google Group and you'll be an official badge carrying Open Chattanooga member. Hope to see you there. -- Tim
OT: UTC IT job
February-15, 2013 by: Reed Gregory
From: Reed Gregory ------------------------------------------------------ Anyone interested feel free to ping me. Reed https://ut.taleo.net/careersection/ut
Fwd: Exciting Job Opportunity to work on webRTCatEricsson
February-06, 2013 by: "Dr.D "
From: "Dr.D " ------------------------------------------------------ That is what I am say... If it is a database you got to talk to it.. I don't care what the syntax.. It has to have a language So if you don't talk to it, Why bother with data.. Got it !.. Big Flat Table, Row 1 for Name, Row 2 for data, Row 3 to tell you what row 2 is.. Now I can put Everything in it.. Look out Google... Don -----Original Message----- From: chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org [mailto:chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Lyke Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 12:57 PM To: Chattanooga Unix Gnu Android Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Chugalug] Fwd: Exciting Job Opportunity to work on webRTCatEricsson On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Dr.D wrote: > That is something I have yet to try to understand. a "No" Server > Query Language Database.. > If you don't have a Server Query Language to talk to it; then do you > just Think the data into place.. ? Well for a while MongoDB's big selling point was its write speed, which basically came from the fact that it didn't guarantee writes, it just queued stuff up in memory and hopefully got around to writing it at some point. You can see where I'm going here: Why bother with data in the first place? Managing it just slows things down... (IMHO: "NoSQL" databases are like the people who tell you about their novel new database structure in which everything fits in to a single table that has three columns... And it's so flexible, because you can add fields easily, and everything's a string, and...) Dan
3d printer ar15 magazine
January-17, 2013 by: "Daniel L. Appleget"
From: "Daniel L. Appleget"
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Good news.
As our tyrants try to disarm us we will endeavor to be even
better armed. We are lucky enough to be witness to the
beginning of the 3D printer revolution that will empower us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q10Jz2qIog8
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/01/14/gunsmiths-3d-print-high-capacity-ammo-clips-to-thwart-proposed-gun-laws/
http://defcad.org/
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Daniel Appleget
Chattanooga Computer Service
http://www.chattanoogacomputerservice.com/
423-760-0879
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito
Help building ancient app...
January-07, 2013 by: DaWorm
From: DaWorm ------------------------------------------------------ If this is not appropriate for this list, let me know. I'm definitely a Linux user, not developer or admin. So I'm having a bit of trouble building an ancient (2003) app for doing furniture CAD. Somewhere a few years back someone managed, by using a set of patches from a distro called PLD. Perhaps someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. The program is called lignumCAD. Here's what I've done so far: Download source rpm (not the tar.gz link!). http://sourceforge.net/projects/lignumcad/files/lignumCAD/0.2/ Extract source to ~\src Open terminal, cd ~\src sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install qt3-apps-dev sudo apt-get install opencascade4 sudo apt-get install libopencascade-dev navigate to http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/cvs/packages/lignumCAD/ and download all patches Click each link, right click on download in "Links to HEAD" and save to ~\src\lignumCAD (I couldn't get CVS to pull these) patch -p1 < lignumCAD-gcc4.patch patch -p1 < lignumCAD-Xft.patch patch -p1 < lignumCAD-delete-pointer.patch patch -p1 < lignumCAD-gcc-enum-warning.patch patch -p1 < lignumCAD-gcc3.patch patch -p1 < lignumCAD-gcc34.patch patch -p1 < lignumCAD-gcc41.patch patch -p1 < lignumCAD-gcc42.patch patch -p1 < lignumCAD-gcc43.patch patch -p1 < lignumCAD-gcc44.patch patch -p1 < lignumCAD-qt3.patch -- had to apply by hand for some reason patch -p1 < lignumCAD-ui.patch patch -p1 < lignumCAD-xft.patch edit lignumCAD.pro find unix:INCLUDEPATH, remove "local" from the paths comment out both lines with QMAKE
online rights:spread the word and call your senator
December-31, 2012 by: Rod-Lists
From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ This plus reauthorizing warrantless wiretapping just sux! Senate Waters Down Privacy Protections For Online Video Streaming http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/12/30/1380301/senate-quietly-agrees-to-water-down-privacy-protections-for-americans-online-video-watching-history/ They didn't even have the courage to have a roll call vote!
[Bulk] did tablets kill the kiosks market
December-20, 2012 by: DaWorm
From: DaWorm ------------------------------------------------------ Somehow the cable on the sync/power jack is locked on. On Dec 20, 2012 9:04 AM, "Rod-Lists" wrote: > Original e-mail got lost in the threadjacking of a another thread. > So what keeps the iPad from walking? and still seems to me that smaller > kiosks systems should be cheaper than an iPad. > > ----- John Aldrich wrote: > > Quoting Matt Keys : > > > > > VW has them throughout the "spine" of the plant. IIRC they're for VW > > > Credit Union accounts but I'm not positive on that. They're pretty > > > large--about the size of an arcade game. I'd have to agree, I can't see > > > how they would be worth the investment. > > > > > > On 12/18/2012 08:29 AM, Rod-Lists wrote: > > >> I'm just wondering if there is market for someone to set those up. > > >> I have heard of restaurants using ipads but that is so over kill. > > >> > > I missed the email Matt's replying to, but I'd like to add my comment > > that at least one restaurant here in Dalton is using ipads for order > > entry. > >
[Bulk] did tablets kill the kiosks market
December-19, 2012 by: John Aldrich
From: John Aldrich ------------------------------------------------------ Quoting Matt Keys : > VW has them throughout the "spine" of the plant. IIRC they're for VW > Credit Union accounts but I'm not positive on that. They're pretty > large--about the size of an arcade game. I'd have to agree, I can't see > how they would be worth the investment. > > On 12/18/2012 08:29 AM, Rod-Lists wrote: >> I'm just wondering if there is market for someone to set those up. >> I have heard of restaurants using ipads but that is so over kill. >> I missed the email Matt's replying to, but I'd like to add my comment that at least one restaurant here in Dalton is using ipads for order entry.
New Job... Back in Linux
November-22, 2012 by: Eric Wolf
From: Eric Wolf ------------------------------------------------------ I started a new job this week. It marks a significant shift away from academic research, web mapping and geo work back to my roots (sort of). I now spend my days writing Python to automate testing of software in SSD-based SANs. In particular, the devices provide guaranteed IO QOS for virtual environments. The company is is a start up called SolidFire and they just hit their first general availability release. One positive is that they are a Linux shop. Most of the older geeks are ex-Sun storage people so they've always done Unix in one flavor or another. The SAN boxen are OEMed Dells running Ubuntu. As a contractor, I'm allowed to run whatever I want as long as I get the work done they need. The consulting firm that placed me did give me a 17" MacBook Pro that now dual-boots OS-X and Ubuntu (off my spare SSD drive). The automation team pretty much all runs Ubuntu 12.04 so I thought I'd play along. Thanks to Wil for getting me started on rEFIt. Getting the Mac to boot Ubuntu was surprisingly painful but I immediately earned geek cred because no one else managed/bothered to natively boot Ubuntu on an MBPro. Several of the old Sun geeks made comments about the Mac hot keys screwing something up, assuming I'm running Ubuntu in a VM. One was actually shocked that I wasn't just running OS X. -Eric -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734
Senate bill rewrite now allows for warrant-less searches of email
November-21, 2012 by: David White
From: David White ------------------------------------------------------ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578
Chugalunch - Today - Friday - Miller Plaza - Recap
October-26, 2012 by: Mike Harrison
From: Mike Harrison ------------------------------------------------------ On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Ed King wrote: > I made it as far as CBC > > did I miss any good rants? Stephen went off on an excellent > 10 minute one one security in general, and mentioned a book I need to buy: Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws We also had a Chugalug Business Meeting and discussed a HallowThanksMas party. Invite to follow.
Chugalunch - Today - Friday - Miller Plaza
October-26, 2012 by: Mike Harrison
From: Mike Harrison
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Chugalunch Meeting - Friday - Oct 26th - 12-ish.
It's Friday. Fall is falling. It's been a long week already at $work
and the weather today has that "end of summer" crispness and warmth.
Miller Plaza: Subway, Greek Food (next to Subway), Bleacher Bums,
and several sandwich shops right nearby. Add a mix of Friday's Food Trucks
(Famous Nates BBQ?) Add Wifi, lots of communal seating...
Bring or grab some food nearby, come join the group.
Agenda: Bring a Linux/Android/osX/etc.. toy for show and tell.
1-10 minute rants by anyone that feels a need to share or rant.
I'll try to be there at 11:30 and gather some tables/chairs.
If you are a shy newbie I'm wearing a short with a Tux on it,
and am a bald geeky looking guy. We might have a penguin or
two on the table.
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Mike Harrison bogon@geeklabs.com cell: 423.605.6943
Lovin' Linux
October-09, 2012 by: Eric Wolf
From: Eric Wolf ------------------------------------------------------ I'm having to travel to conferences on my own dime thanks to the GSA's party in Vegas. One side effect is that I'm not supposed to use my work laptop when I'm not travelling for work. Since I've relied on my work laptop and netbook for the past couple years, I was facing a dilemma. When I "upgraded' my wife to her MacBook, that left her 2006-vintage Toshiba Satellite ($329 at OfficeDepot) free. I had some spare RAM floating around that fit, so I upgraded it to 2GB RAM. I also temporarily freed up a 240GB SSD. With Ubuntu 12.04, I hardly notice the low-end in 2006 single-core Pentium M CPU. A large part of it, I'm sure, is the SSD. I'm sure y'all are tired of me ranting about it... but if you are still using spinny disks, you are wasting your life! FYI: I freed up the 240GB drive by replacing it with a pair of 240GB OCZ Agility III drives setup with RAID0 on my desktop workstation. That thing is FAST! -=--=---=----=----=---=--=-=--=---=----=---=--=-=- Eric B. Wolf 720-334-7734
amavisd-new woes
September-21, 2012 by: David White
From: David White ------------------------------------------------------ In case anyone was interested, I found the solution: The "blocked anywhere" directive included this line: qr'^\.(exe|lha|cab|tnef|dll)$'. I reexamined the logs, bounce messages, and the info I pasted into this question, and saw a consistent theme: they all contained something with a .tnef extension. I researched it, and it turns out its coming from Microsoft Outlook, and was considered a potential security vulnerability. I'm researching now how "unsafe" it would be for me to turn it off, but in the mean time, I have done so. - Me, about a week ago (on http://serverfault.com/questions/426885/amavisd-postfix-dovecot-blocks-gif-images ) Thus far, my (limited) research indicates that this was a security vulnerability in older versions of Outlook, but that Microsoft released a patch and fixed this a long time ago. I suppose it makes sense to still block them by default.... but for now, I'm not blocking tnef files unless I read a really good reason not to in the future. Ok, I need to get back to getting ready to go out of town.... lots to do, little time to do it in (headed out soon for a week+). On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 6:34 PM, David White wrote: > I occasionally have a client who tries to email me and says his email gets > blocked by my server. When I check the logs, I see this: > > *Sep 6 18:12:52 myers amavis[15197]: (15197-08) p.path BANNED:1 > david@smoothstoneservices.com: "P=p003,L=1,M=multipart/mixed | > P=p002,L=1/2,M=application/ms-tnef,T=tnef,N=winmail.dat | > P=p004,L=1/2/1,T=image,T=gif,N=image001.gif,N=image001.gif", > matching