From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Sat May 5 20:18:18 2007 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (Paul Betts) Date: Sat May 5 20:18:50 2007 Subject: [opensource] gnome-format 0.2 Message-ID: <463D1ECA.7090803@cse.ohio-state.edu> Hi, I've finished a bit of a milestone in gnome-format, the (hopefully) replacement for the venerable GFloppy. I've written about it more on my blog, the posting is here: http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/05/05/gnome-format-02-this-one-actually-does-stuff/ Or for the less patient, svn co svn://paulbetts.org/gformat Everything is feature-complete at this point except for * LUKS Encryption * Floppies * Operations that require rewriting/editing the partition table At this point, a lot of the main work is done, it's just a lot of small tasks that need to be done to clean up the code and possibly get it ready in time for GNOME 2.20. Patches are definitely appreciated, once I get formatting entire disks working, it will be at a point where Emmanuele Bassi and I can get it into GNOME svn. The TODO file lists the main things that need fixed, as well as a general need for cleaning up, and many these things don't need a lot of "big-picture" knowledge. If anyone wants to help, especially if you're handy with Python, reply back and I'll get you added to the svn. Comments, thoughts, complaints, and anything else is encouraged! -- Paul Betts From barondas at cse.ohio-state.edu Sun May 6 16:39:33 2007 From: barondas at cse.ohio-state.edu (Silas Baronda) Date: Sun May 6 16:40:03 2007 Subject: [opensource] gnome-format 0.2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Paul Betts wrote: > Hi, I've finished a bit of a milestone in gnome-format, the (hopefully) > replacement for the venerable GFloppy. I've written about it more on my > blog, the posting is here: > > http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/05/05/gnome-format-02-this-one-actually-does-stuff/ > > > Or for the less patient, > > svn co svn://paulbetts.org/gformat > > Everything is feature-complete at this point except for > * LUKS Encryption > * Floppies > * Operations that require rewriting/editing the partition table > > At this point, a lot of the main work is done, it's just a lot of small > tasks that need to be done to clean up the code and possibly get it > ready in time for GNOME 2.20. Patches are definitely appreciated, once I > get formatting entire disks working, it will be at a point where > Emmanuele Bassi and I can get it into GNOME svn. > > The TODO file lists the main things that need fixed, as well as a > general need for cleaning up, and many these things don't need a lot of > "big-picture" knowledge. If anyone wants to help, especially if you're > handy with Python, reply back and I'll get you added to the svn. > Comments, thoughts, complaints, and anything else is encouraged! > Hello Paul, In your blog post about the gformat I saw you were asking for someone handy in python to improve the mkfs script. When I looked at the script it was a shell script. Did you mean want it converted over to python or is there another script that I'm missing? Thanks Silas From opensource at cse.ohio-state.edu Sun May 6 17:01:47 2007 From: opensource at cse.ohio-state.edu (opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu) Date: Sun May 6 21:52:05 2007 Subject: [opensource] gnome-format 0.2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <463E423B.3000301@cse.ohio-state.edu> Silas Baronda wrote: > In your blog post about the gformat I saw you were asking for someone > handy in python to improve the mkfs script. When I looked at the script > it was a shell script. Did you mean want it converted over to python or > is there another script that I'm missing? Yeah - the one that is there is the most basic functionality, but I want to make it a bit more powerful, like a hashtable of default flags that should be passed to the actual mkfs.somefs call. This stuff is absurdly easy for someone who knows Python but I'd have to look everything up and it'd be a pain. Also, there will probably be some specific shims for handling special cases; for example, deciding whether to use ext2 or ext3, etc. I don't want to put these shims in the main executable because it makes it much easier for distros to tweak what they want. The idea is that every script in that directory that can create filesystems should respond to the '--capabilities' flag with a list of filesystems they can support. If that flag isn't specified, the script should act like the 'mkfs' program ("-t filesystem", etc). However, what it actually ends up calling doesn't matter. The other thing I might need help with is the encrypt script. The problem is, cryptsetup can't take all of its parameters from the flags, it will always run in interactive mode (i.e. prompting the user for stuff), so I need to hack together a way for Python to send some stuff over pipes and what. -- Paul Betts From lingo.13 at osu.edu Sun May 6 23:37:54 2007 From: lingo.13 at osu.edu (Alexander J. Lingo) Date: Sun May 6 23:38:06 2007 Subject: [opensource] Meeting Announcement: 5/8/07 - Java Studio Creator Message-ID: <8242065d0705062037l232c7dd2h2d3fc9c9c687d61a@mail.gmail.com> OPENSOURCE CLUB MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: ====================================== Date: 5/8/2007 Time: 7:00PM Room: Dreese Labs 480 Topic: Java Studio Creator Aaron Says: "In my next presentation I will demonstrate the web capabilities of Sun's Java Studio Creator and Java DB. Java Studio Creator let you develop web pages visually ? using drag-and-drop to create page navigation, putting web page components on a page, set their properties, and connect to back-end data sources. Plus Java Studio Creator is FREEI will create a basic web page using Java Studio Creator. The Webpage will be connected to a Java DataBase, Java DB ( Sun's distro of Apache Derby) and then, still using Java studio, I will monitor the HTTP requests and responses sent between the web browser and server." --alex ====================================== Club meetings are always open to the general public including nonmembers and nonstudents. Meetings are casual and usually last about one and a half hours. You are welcome to attend as your schedule permits - please be courteous when coming late or leaving early. For more information, please visit: http://opensource.cse.ohio-state.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Yeah, it tries to be a bit flexible on what you label the things; the most strict one is the BuckID field, you have to have 7 numbers (I just fixed the lowercase 'id' part) > Now to go find a bit of a reference on Ruby, because I like this sort > of automation, and want to take a good look at it. Parts of the code are pretty hacky but you should be able to figure it out. To run it, you'll also need the file I attached, grabbed from Ruby 1.9 SVN -- Paul Betts -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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PS: Does anyone know what this means? : host defang17.it.ohio-state.edu[128.146.216.131] said: 554 5.7.1 Message rejected because of unacceptable content. For help, please quote incident ID 104288774. (in reply to end of DATA command) -- Paul Betts From swaney.29 at osu.edu Mon May 7 21:54:32 2007 From: swaney.29 at osu.edu (Brian Swaney) Date: Mon May 7 21:54:45 2007 Subject: [opensource] Problems with the lab access script In-Reply-To: <463FA414.9020904@cse.ohio-state.edu> References: <463F6204.9070702@cse.ohio-state.edu> <41b976f00705071355tda4121er7758c57bda543ac6@mail.gmail.com> <463F9C72.4080807@cse.ohio-state.edu> <463FA414.9020904@cse.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: <1178589272.5109.9.camel@brian-laptop> I know. Sorry, I forgot to whitelist the address. The response Paul mentioned from swaney.29 is because the address/domain wasn't recognized. OSU lets you write your own spam filter rules, and I got really sick and tired of overseas V:i:a:g:r:a ad pictures from psuedorandomly generated fake e-mail addresses, so I set my spam filters to block anyone I don't know. If you have an e-mail address that does not end in ".edu", send me an e-mail at Lavagolemking@aol.com (also heavily spam filtered, but not white/blacklisted like OSU's address) asking me to add you to a list of "good" senders. -Brian Swaney On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 18:11 -0400, Paul Betts wrote: > If you don't receive an Email back within 10 mins or so (either saying > something is glitched or it worked), check your spam filter and resend > the mail. For some reason, a few people's Emails are being rejected by > OSUs Email servers; it's really inconsistent though. > > PS: Does anyone know what this means? > > : host defang17.it.ohio-state.edu[128.146.216.131] > said: 554 > 5.7.1 Message rejected because of unacceptable content. For help, > please > quote incident ID 104288774. (in reply to end of DATA command) > > -- > Paul Betts > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > -- -Brian Swaney From dietz.72 at osu.edu Tue May 8 10:50:44 2007 From: dietz.72 at osu.edu (Peter Dietz) Date: Tue May 8 10:50:58 2007 Subject: [opensource] Problems with the lab access script In-Reply-To: <1178589272.5109.9.camel@brian-laptop> References: <463F6204.9070702@cse.ohio-state.edu> <41b976f00705071355tda4121er7758c57bda543ac6@mail.gmail.com> <463F9C72.4080807@cse.ohio-state.edu> <463FA414.9020904@cse.ohio-state.edu> <1178589272.5109.9.camel@brian-laptop> Message-ID: <240a31830705080750j58db8c0er1733312c5b7a23e@mail.gmail.com> One of the founding principals of those who were engineering the net in its genesis was "be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you receive". While blacklisting the other 99.999% of the internet that you don't want any communications with is effective in blocking unsolicited emails, you're blocking communication with the other 99.999% of the internet. If you don't like osu's spam filter, then have your osu webmail and csemail forwarded to someone else like Gmail. Junk is pretty much blocked, and you have (unlimited) storage, and built in chat. On 5/7/07, Brian Swaney wrote: > > I know. Sorry, I forgot to whitelist the address. The response Paul > mentioned from swaney.29 is because the address/domain wasn't > recognized. OSU lets you write your own spam filter rules, and I got > really sick and tired of overseas V:i:a:g:r:a ad pictures from > psuedorandomly generated fake e-mail addresses, so I set my spam filters > to block anyone I don't know. If you have an e-mail address that does > not end in ".edu", send me an e-mail at Lavagolemking@aol.com (also > heavily spam filtered, but not white/blacklisted like OSU's address) > asking me to add you to a list of "good" senders. > > -Brian Swaney > > > On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 18:11 -0400, Paul Betts wrote: > > If you don't receive an Email back within 10 mins or so (either saying > > something is glitched or it worked), check your spam filter and resend > > the mail. For some reason, a few people's Emails are being rejected by > > OSUs Email servers; it's really inconsistent though. > > > > PS: Does anyone know what this means? > > > > : host defang17.it.ohio-state.edu[128.146.216.131] > > said: 554 > > 5.7.1 Message rejected because of unacceptable content. For help, > > please > > quote incident ID 104288774. 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URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/opensource/attachments/20070508/7649b659/attachment.html From mintern at cse.ohio-state.edu Tue May 8 15:36:58 2007 From: mintern at cse.ohio-state.edu (Brandon Mintern) Date: Tue May 8 15:37:02 2007 Subject: [opensource] Problems with the lab access script References: <463F6204.9070702@cse.ohio-state.edu> <41b976f00705071355tda4121er7758c57bda543ac6@mail.gmail.com> <463F9C72.4080807@cse.ohio-state.edu> <463FA414.9020904@cse.ohio-state.edu> <1178589272.5109.9.camel@brian-laptop> Message-ID: I had a similar thought. I guess I was just under the impression that spam wasn't even an issue anymore. All you have to do is get a GMail account and put the address in a .forward file in your home directory in order to get your CSE mail forwarded there. Then, you can go to the UNITS (or is it UTS?) website and get your OSU e-mail forwarded there as well. I get all my e-mail in one convenient place, accessible from any browser, with all the spam conveniently filtered out. I get maybe 4 spams in my Inbox per week, and I've only ever had one e-mail incorrectly placed in Spam. From swaney.29 at osu.edu Tue May 8 17:14:11 2007 From: swaney.29 at osu.edu (Brian Swaney) Date: Tue May 8 17:21:09 2007 Subject: [QUAR] Re: [opensource] Problems with the lab access script In-Reply-To: References: <463F6204.9070702@cse.ohio-state.edu> <41b976f00705071355tda4121er7758c57bda543ac6@mail.gmail.com> <463F9C72.4080807@cse.ohio-state.edu> <463FA414.9020904@cse.ohio-state.edu> <1178589272.5109.9.camel@brian-laptop> Message-ID: <1178658851.6570.23.camel@brian-laptop> I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but one of my professors (actually, a fairly nice professor) does NOT tolerate e-mails from domains other than from the campus. That means either the base osu.edu, or <>.ohio-state.edu. She will delete anything from a gmail, yahoo, AOL, or whatever other account you use, regardless of the subject or your prior requests to accept an external domain, without question. I don't believe this to be completely isolated to her, so I use my OSU account consistently for such reasons (I had an English instructor with the same policy), as well as the domain actually being credible and commonly accepted. Either method would have involved me getting a new e-mail address, so I chose the one with the ".edu" ending in contrast to ".com". Their spam filters aren't that bad, especially in that you can customize them pretty elaborately, but the ".edu" ending has its drawbacks. OSU is apparently a bit more targeted, and has people using every trick I know of that they tend to use (except sometimes they aren't using proxy servers). It came to a point where I didn't know what else to do to shut them out, so I made a whitelist of domains and addresses. It's just a simple problem of occasionally forgetting to add a valid exclusion, as was recently seen by everyone, but it was ultimately resolved. You said you get 4 instances of spam per week? I started a while ago to customize filters in AOL, and after about a month of sorting, I got it to a point where I'd get one or two in a 2 month period (until RealPlayer demands from Spanish classes came along, then it got worse, but not more than 2 per week after adding a bunch of other domains). I also only filtered out like 1 valid e-mail per month (usually less), not counting the occasional eBay-related e-mail or some automated thing from an organization I support. OSU's filters allow for far more elaborate filtering than sender/domain/string filtering like AOL, and I haven't gotten a single spam message since then (plus Paul's was the only incident of valid e-mail getting filtered). I still appreciate the advice, and do not doubt the ability of Google. I just want the fancy domain to go with the freedom from the Viagra-freaks. -Brian Swaney On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 15:36 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote: > I had a similar thought. I guess I was just under the impression that > spam wasn't even an issue anymore. All you have to do is get a GMail > account and put the address in a .forward file in your home directory in > order to get your CSE mail forwarded there. Then, you can go to the UNITS > (or is it UTS?) website and get your OSU e-mail forwarded there as well. > > I get all my e-mail in one convenient place, accessible from any browser, > with all the spam conveniently filtered out. I get maybe 4 spams in my > Inbox per week, and I've only ever had one e-mail incorrectly placed in Spam. > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > From murry.8 at osu.edu Tue May 8 17:56:53 2007 From: murry.8 at osu.edu (Daniel Murry) Date: Tue May 8 17:57:07 2007 Subject: [QUAR] Re: [opensource] Problems with the lab access script In-Reply-To: <1178658851.6570.23.camel@brian-laptop> References: <463F6204.9070702@cse.ohio-state.edu> <41b976f00705071355tda4121er7758c57bda543ac6@mail.gmail.com> <463F9C72.4080807@cse.ohio-state.edu> <463FA414.9020904@cse.ohio-state.edu> <1178589272.5109.9.camel@brian-laptop> <1178658851.6570.23.camel@brian-laptop> Message-ID: <7f93e0910705081456p4e50e313v7487017f75c92bf5@mail.gmail.com> Gmail allows you to "spoof" your email address. I'm sending this from Gmail right now, yet it looks like it is coming from murry.8@osu.edu. I give out my osu.edu email to professors, school contacts, organizations and my Gmail to friends and family. So one day if I want I can unforward it. Just in case. Gmail has changed the way I check email. I used to check it once a week at the most and now I'm a compulsive email checker person. I'm worried when I start a real job they are going to make me use Outlook or Lotus Notes or some crap like that. Anyways, just sharing my thoughts. Not looking to debate. ~dan On 5/8/07, Brian Swaney wrote: > > I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but one of my professors (actually, a > fairly nice professor) does NOT tolerate e-mails from domains other than > from the campus. That means either the base osu.edu, or > <>.ohio-state.edu. She will delete anything from a gmail, > yahoo, AOL, or whatever other account you use, regardless of the subject > or your prior requests to accept an external domain, without question. I > don't believe this to be completely isolated to her, so I use my OSU > account consistently for such reasons (I had an English instructor with > the same policy), as well as the domain actually being credible and > commonly accepted. > > Either method would have involved me getting a new e-mail address, so I > chose the one with the ".edu" ending in contrast to ".com". Their spam > filters aren't that bad, especially in that you can customize them > pretty elaborately, but the ".edu" ending has its drawbacks. OSU is > apparently a bit more targeted, and has people using every trick I know > of that they tend to use (except sometimes they aren't using proxy > servers). It came to a point where I didn't know what else to do to shut > them out, so I made a whitelist of domains and addresses. > > It's just a simple problem of occasionally forgetting to add a valid > exclusion, as was recently seen by everyone, but it was ultimately > resolved. You said you get 4 instances of spam per week? I started a > while ago to customize filters in AOL, and after about a month of > sorting, I got it to a point where I'd get one or two in a 2 month > period (until RealPlayer demands from Spanish classes came along, then > it got worse, but not more than 2 per week after adding a bunch of other > domains). I also only filtered out like 1 valid e-mail per month > (usually less), not counting the occasional eBay-related e-mail or some > automated thing from an organization I support. > > OSU's filters allow for far more elaborate filtering than > sender/domain/string filtering like AOL, and I haven't gotten a single > spam message since then (plus Paul's was the only incident of valid > e-mail getting filtered). I still appreciate the advice, and do not > doubt the ability of Google. I just want the fancy domain to go with the > freedom from the Viagra-freaks. > > > -Brian Swaney > > > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 15:36 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote: > > I had a similar thought. I guess I was just under the impression that > > spam wasn't even an issue anymore. All you have to do is get a GMail > > account and put the address in a .forward file in your home directory in > > order to get your CSE mail forwarded there. Then, you can go to the > UNITS > > (or is it UTS?) website and get your OSU e-mail forwarded there as well. > > > > I get all my e-mail in one convenient place, accessible from any > browser, > > with all the spam conveniently filtered out. I get maybe 4 spams in my > > Inbox per week, and I've only ever had one e-mail incorrectly placed in > Spam. > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensource mailing list > > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > -- Daniel Murry Industrial and Systems Engineering The Ohio State University Contact: Email - danmurry@gmail.com Mobile - (440) 318-5100 WWW - http://dan.guitartabs.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For my internship last year I had to develop databases in it, so for having the database feature I would say its okay, but its email was, well, less savory then Gmail. {story time} I ended up spoofing my work email address and having a script forward all my mail to Gmail. When the corporate security sent our their bi-monthly security report, they said that because corporate emails are confidential, that they need to be located on the companies own machines/servers... So I stopped forwarding my emails and then a week later or so, I filled up my quota and just started deleting things to get the quota reminder to go away. And in my Gmail user fashion became sad when I wanted to find an old email that had been deleted. Anyways, Google is thinking about rolling out their Google Apps Education Edition to campus' nationwide and has a survey on how students view their campus' webmail. Survey: http://www.google.com/studentsurvey Blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/tell-us-about-your-university-email.html On 5/8/07, Daniel Murry wrote: > > Gmail allows you to "spoof" your email address. I'm sending this from > Gmail right now, yet it looks like it is coming from murry.8@osu.edu. I > give out my osu.edu email to professors, school contacts, organizations > and my Gmail to friends and family. So one day if I want I can unforward > it. Just in case. > > Gmail has changed the way I check email. I used to check it once a week > at the most and now I'm a compulsive email checker person. I'm worried when > I start a real job they are going to make me use Outlook or Lotus Notes or > some crap like that. > > Anyways, just sharing my thoughts. Not looking to debate. > > ~dan > > On 5/8/07, Brian Swaney wrote: > > > > I'm not sure if I mentioned it, but one of my professors (actually, a > > fairly nice professor) does NOT tolerate e-mails from domains other than > > from the campus. That means either the base osu.edu, or > > <>.ohio- state.edu. She will delete anything from a gmail, > > yahoo, AOL, or whatever other account you use, regardless of the subject > > or your prior requests to accept an external domain, without question. I > > don't believe this to be completely isolated to her, so I use my OSU > > account consistently for such reasons (I had an English instructor with > > the same policy), as well as the domain actually being credible and > > commonly accepted. > > > > Either method would have involved me getting a new e-mail address, so I > > chose the one with the ".edu" ending in contrast to ".com". Their spam > > filters aren't that bad, especially in that you can customize them > > pretty elaborately, but the ".edu" ending has its drawbacks. OSU is > > apparently a bit more targeted, and has people using every trick I know > > of that they tend to use (except sometimes they aren't using proxy > > servers). It came to a point where I didn't know what else to do to shut > > > > them out, so I made a whitelist of domains and addresses. > > > > It's just a simple problem of occasionally forgetting to add a valid > > exclusion, as was recently seen by everyone, but it was ultimately > > resolved. You said you get 4 instances of spam per week? I started a > > while ago to customize filters in AOL, and after about a month of > > sorting, I got it to a point where I'd get one or two in a 2 month > > period (until RealPlayer demands from Spanish classes came along, then > > it got worse, but not more than 2 per week after adding a bunch of other > > domains). I also only filtered out like 1 valid e-mail per month > > (usually less), not counting the occasional eBay-related e-mail or some > > automated thing from an organization I support. > > > > OSU's filters allow for far more elaborate filtering than > > sender/domain/string filtering like AOL, and I haven't gotten a single > > spam message since then (plus Paul's was the only incident of valid > > e-mail getting filtered). I still appreciate the advice, and do not > > doubt the ability of Google. I just want the fancy domain to go with the > > freedom from the Viagra-freaks. > > > > > > -Brian Swaney > > > > > > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 15:36 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote: > > > I had a similar thought. I guess I was just under the impression that > > > spam wasn't even an issue anymore. All you have to do is get a GMail > > > account and put the address in a .forward file in your home directory > > in > > > order to get your CSE mail forwarded there. Then, you can go to the > > UNITS > > > (or is it UTS?) website and get your OSU e-mail forwarded there as > > well. > > > > > > I get all my e-mail in one convenient place, accessible from any > > browser, > > > with all the spam conveniently filtered out. I get maybe 4 spams in > > my > > > Inbox per week, and I've only ever had one e-mail incorrectly placed > > in Spam. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Opensource mailing list > > > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > > > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensource mailing list > > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > > > > > -- > Daniel Murry > Industrial and Systems Engineering > The Ohio State University > > Contact: > Email - danmurry@gmail.com > Mobile - (440) 318-5100 > WWW - http://dan.guitartabs.com > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > -- Peter Dietz Student / Technologist www.eclectech.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/opensource/attachments/20070509/43297ace/attachment.html From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Thu May 10 12:45:43 2007 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (Paul Betts) Date: Thu May 10 12:45:49 2007 Subject: [opensource] SOC Lab issues Message-ID: <46434C37.8070600@cse.ohio-state.edu> Alright, turns out the SOC lab has some "issues" regarding our attempt to automate the process of getting into the lab. While Alex and I work it out, the script is disabled at the moment. Hopefully this will be cleared up soon, I'll Email back when it's all fixed. -- Paul Betts From dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu Thu May 10 13:30:34 2007 From: dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu (James Dinan) Date: Thu May 10 13:30:46 2007 Subject: [opensource] Awesome Firefox Plugins Message-ID: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> Hey All, I discovered this totally sweet firefox plugin the other day called MediaPlayerConnectivity and just had to share. This plugin allows you to launch embedded video from web pages in any external player of your choosing. This means you can dispense with those clunky, broken in browser plugins and just watch the video. You can also skip past the "You don't have windows media player" warnings on CNN.com and watch the MMS streams in xine. :) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446 What are some other cool plugins you guys are using? ~Jim. From porr.4 at osu.edu Thu May 10 22:47:41 2007 From: porr.4 at osu.edu (Adam Porr) Date: Thu May 10 22:47:54 2007 Subject: [opensource] Awesome Firefox Plugins In-Reply-To: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> References: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: <2772ffef0705101947y128ac828o9a84342227b17bf6@mail.gmail.com> > What are some other cool plugins you guys are using? I highly recommend Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/) for anyone who has a reason to maintain a bibliography (e.g. professors, grad students, etc.) Zotero is a bibliographical database that integrates with Firefox. For many online information sources, Zotero can pre-fill all of the fields of the citation, simply by clicking an icon in your browser. It can also store comments and digital copies of the article or websites, and it can export to BibTeX format (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibtex)! Adam -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F7F72CBA 2E02 EEAC EF67 E8B3 1FA5 6DF4 A0FB C0CF F7F7 2CBA From porr.4 at osu.edu Fri May 11 00:34:43 2007 From: porr.4 at osu.edu (Adam Porr) Date: Fri May 11 00:34:55 2007 Subject: [opensource] Edge resistance between monitors with Metacity Message-ID: <2772ffef0705102134k4464c0fbvce52c97065e7a8ec@mail.gmail.com> Hello Gnome fans! I've stumbled around the web for awhile, but I've been unable to answer the following questions. If you know the answers (or where to look), would you mind sharing them with me? 1.) Is it possible to configure Metacity to have edge resistance between two monitors in a dual-head Xinerama configuration. 2.) If so, how? Basically, I want my cursor to stick to the edge of the screen on one monitor before moving to the second monitor in order to make it easier to manipulate the scroll bar, close/resize buttons, etc. I get the impression that it's possible to do this with other window managers, but I prefer the simplicity of Metacity in general. Thanks! Adam -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F7F72CBA 2E02 EEAC EF67 E8B3 1FA5 6DF4 A0FB C0CF F7F7 2CBA From karnsj at cse.ohio-state.edu Fri May 11 01:39:33 2007 From: karnsj at cse.ohio-state.edu (Jason Karns) Date: Fri May 11 01:39:46 2007 Subject: [opensource] Awesome Firefox Plugins In-Reply-To: <2772ffef0705101947y128ac828o9a84342227b17bf6@mail.gmail.com> References: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> <2772ffef0705101947y128ac828o9a84342227b17bf6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1005d65f0705102239n18107f16t7c0fadbe2759f5a6@mail.gmail.com> IETab For those of you still using windows, install IETab for those rare instances where the site you're browsing requires IE. You may feel unclean at first running IE inside Fx, but on the other hand, at least you don't have to deal with the whole browser! On 5/10/07, Adam Porr wrote: > > What are some other cool plugins you guys are using? > > I highly recommend Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/) for anyone who has > a reason to maintain a bibliography (e.g. professors, grad students, > etc.) Zotero is a bibliographical database that integrates with > Firefox. For many online information sources, Zotero can pre-fill all > of the fields of the citation, simply by clicking an icon in your > browser. It can also store comments and digital copies of the article > or websites, and it can export to BibTeX format > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibtex)! > > Adam > > -- > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F7F72CBA > 2E02 EEAC EF67 E8B3 1FA5 6DF4 A0FB C0CF F7F7 2CBA > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > From swaney.29 at osu.edu Fri May 11 02:04:46 2007 From: swaney.29 at osu.edu (Brian Swaney) Date: Fri May 11 02:04:59 2007 Subject: [opensource] Awesome Firefox Plugins In-Reply-To: <1005d65f0705102239n18107f16t7c0fadbe2759f5a6@mail.gmail.com> References: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> <2772ffef0705101947y128ac828o9a84342227b17bf6@mail.gmail.com> <1005d65f0705102239n18107f16t7c0fadbe2759f5a6@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1178863486.6702.44.camel@brian-laptop> That would be really funny to run inside an instance of Windows XP inside QEMU from Ubuntu. If I ever get it installed, I'll take a screenshot and maybe post it... Such a picture is priceless in my opinion. The window of Windows of many windows, how fun. -Brian Swaney On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 01:39 -0400, Jason Karns wrote: > IETab > > For those of you still using windows, install IETab for those rare > instances where the site you're browsing requires IE. You may feel > unclean at first running IE inside Fx, but on the other hand, at least > you don't have to deal with the whole browser! > > On 5/10/07, Adam Porr wrote: > > > What are some other cool plugins you guys are using? > > > > I highly recommend Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/) for anyone who has > > a reason to maintain a bibliography (e.g. professors, grad students, > > etc.) Zotero is a bibliographical database that integrates with > > Firefox. For many online information sources, Zotero can pre-fill all > > of the fields of the citation, simply by clicking an icon in your > > browser. It can also store comments and digital copies of the article > > or websites, and it can export to BibTeX format > > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibtex)! > > > > Adam > > > > -- > > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F7F72CBA > > 2E02 EEAC EF67 E8B3 1FA5 6DF4 A0FB C0CF F7F7 2CBA > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensource mailing list > > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > From zosima at zosima.org Fri May 11 17:11:01 2007 From: zosima at zosima.org (Michael Benedict) Date: Fri May 11 17:11:12 2007 Subject: [opensource] Awesome Firefox Plugins In-Reply-To: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> References: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: <20070511211100.GU14134@zosima.org> ImageZoom is my favorite. Great if you are looking at graphs or any pictures that have the resolution you want but just aren't big enough to see detail. Kind of like reading glasses.... wow, I am getting old. Cheers, Michael On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:30:34PM -0400, James Dinan wrote: > Hey All, > > I discovered this totally sweet firefox plugin the other day called > MediaPlayerConnectivity and just had to share. This plugin allows you > to launch embedded video from web pages in any external player of your > choosing. This means you can dispense with those clunky, broken in > browser plugins and just watch the video. You can also skip past the > "You don't have windows media player" warnings on CNN.com and watch the > MMS streams in xine. :) > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446 > > What are some other cool plugins you guys are using? > > ~Jim. > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource From lingo.13 at osu.edu Sat May 12 16:53:52 2007 From: lingo.13 at osu.edu (Alexander J. Lingo) Date: Sat May 12 16:54:05 2007 Subject: [opensource] Any Election participants out there? (Also, any officers?) Message-ID: <8242065d0705121353r30aff901s4fde3bb8eb8fcd16@mail.gmail.com> Hello all! The requisite yearly election will be occurring shortly, on May 22nd. I will be running again for the only elected position, Benevolent Dictator. So, is anyone else interested in running? Use this thread to announce your candidacy and platform. Also, the Benevolent Dictator will be requiring officers of his own choice. Is anyone interested in becoming and/or staying an officer of the Open Source Club? Feel free to shout out. -- alex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/opensource/attachments/20070512/ec8517b0/attachment.html From lingo.13 at osu.edu Mon May 14 03:35:53 2007 From: lingo.13 at osu.edu (Alexander J. Lingo) Date: Mon May 14 03:36:05 2007 Subject: [opensource] Meeting Announcement: 5/15/07 - DTrace Message-ID: <8242065d0705140035g770424d6lcc367a0200c7d4e0@mail.gmail.com> OPENSOURCE CLUB MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: ====================================== Date: 5/15/2007 Time: 7:00PM Room: Dreese Labs 480 Topic: JDTrace Aaron Says: "For this presentation I will show off DTrace. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing facility that is built into Solaris that can be used by administrators and developers on live production systems to examine the behavior of both user programs and of the operating system itself. DTraceenables you to explore your system to understand how it works, track down performance problems across many layers of software, or locate the cause of aberrant behavior. As you'll see, DTrace lets you create your own custom programs to dynamically instrument the system and provide immediate, concise answers to arbitrary questions you can formulate using the DTrace D programming language." --alex ====================================== Club meetings are always open to the general public including nonmembers and nonstudents. Meetings are casual and usually last about one and a half hours. You are welcome to attend as your schedule permits - please be courteous when coming late or leaving early. For more information, please visit: http://opensource.cse.ohio-state.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/opensource/attachments/20070514/af3afef0/attachment.html From dietz.72 at osu.edu Mon May 14 21:32:45 2007 From: dietz.72 at osu.edu (Peter Dietz) Date: Mon May 14 21:32:58 2007 Subject: [opensource] Awesome Firefox Plugins In-Reply-To: <20070511211100.GU14134@zosima.org> References: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> <20070511211100.GU14134@zosima.org> Message-ID: <240a31830705141832u665a7a2dh4228f8f1d23a8e8d@mail.gmail.com> Web Developer would have to be my favorite. I do websites for the university libraries, and its a pretty sweet tool when changing webpages. You can modify the css for a page and it live updates and the page immediately looks different. Another awesome feature is the object modeling thing, when you click analyze and it shows you the entire structure of a page which allows you to figure out why a page looks how it does, or to find out why it doesn't look the way you think your code should make it look. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ [image: The image "https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/images/addon_preview/60/1" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.] And my roommate recommended noscript https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 because of its excellence in keeping his safe and clean, even after he visits the nastiest of the pr0n. [image: The image "https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/images/addon_preview/722/1" cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.] On 11/05/07, Michael Benedict wrote: > > ImageZoom is my favorite. Great if you are looking at graphs or any > pictures that have the resolution you want but just aren't big enough to > see detail. Kind of like reading glasses.... wow, I am getting old. > Cheers, > Michael > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:30:34PM -0400, James Dinan wrote: > > Hey All, > > > > I discovered this totally sweet firefox plugin the other day called > > MediaPlayerConnectivity and just had to share. This plugin allows you > > to launch embedded video from web pages in any external player of your > > choosing. This means you can dispense with those clunky, broken in > > browser plugins and just watch the video. You can also skip past the > > "You don't have windows media player" warnings on CNN.com and watch the > > MMS streams in xine. :) > > > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446 > > > > What are some other cool plugins you guys are using? > > > > ~Jim. > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensource mailing list > > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > -- Peter Dietz Student / Technologist www.eclectech.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/pipermail/opensource/attachments/20070514/8e41b09d/attachment-0001.html From dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu Mon May 14 22:36:16 2007 From: dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu (Jim Dinan) Date: Mon May 14 22:36:27 2007 Subject: [opensource] Awesome Firefox Plugins In-Reply-To: <240a31830705141832u665a7a2dh4228f8f1d23a8e8d@mail.gmail.com> References: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> <20070511211100.GU14134@zosima.org> <240a31830705141832u665a7a2dh4228f8f1d23a8e8d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <46491CA0.70600@cse.ohio-state.edu> I'm also a big fan of adblock: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10 Filterset.G is an addon to adblock that automatically updates it with some common (annoying) ad sources: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1136 Also, Bork Bork Bork! makes a great prank! :) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/507 ~Jim. Peter Dietz wrote: > Web Developer would have to be my favorite. I do websites for the > university libraries, and its a pretty sweet tool when changing > webpages. You can modify the css for a page and it live updates and the > page immediately looks different. Another awesome feature is the object > modeling thing, when you click analyze and it shows you the entire > structure of a page which allows you to figure out why a page looks how > it does, or to find out why it doesn't look the way you think your code > should make it look. > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 > http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ > The image > > > And my roommate recommended noscript > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 because of its > excellence in keeping his safe and clean, even after he visits the > nastiest of the pr0n. > The image > > > On 11/05/07, *Michael Benedict* > wrote: > > ImageZoom is my favorite. Great if you are looking at graphs or any > pictures that have the resolution you want but just aren't big enough to > see detail. Kind of like reading glasses.... wow, I am getting old. > Cheers, > Michael > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:30:34PM -0400, James Dinan wrote: > > Hey All, > > > > I discovered this totally sweet firefox plugin the other day called > > MediaPlayerConnectivity and just had to share. This plugin allows > you > > to launch embedded video from web pages in any external player of your > > choosing. This means you can dispense with those clunky, broken in > > browser plugins and just watch the video. You can also skip past the > > "You don't have windows media player" warnings on CNN.com and > watch the > > MMS streams in xine. :) > > > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446 > > > > > What are some other cool plugins you guys are using? > > > > ~Jim. > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensource mailing list > > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > > > > > -- > > Peter Dietz > Student / Technologist > > www.eclectech.us > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource -- James Dinan Dept Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Mon May 14 23:00:45 2007 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (Paul Betts) Date: Mon May 14 23:00:58 2007 Subject: [opensource] Awesome Firefox Plugins In-Reply-To: <240a31830705141832u665a7a2dh4228f8f1d23a8e8d@mail.gmail.com> References: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> <20070511211100.GU14134@zosima.org> <240a31830705141832u665a7a2dh4228f8f1d23a8e8d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4649225D.7020103@cse.ohio-state.edu> Peter Dietz wrote: > Web Developer would have to be my favorite. I do websites for the > university libraries, and its a pretty sweet tool when changing > webpages. You can modify the css for a page and it live updates and the > page immediately looks different. Another awesome feature is the object > modeling thing, when you click analyze and it shows you the entire > structure of a page which allows you to figure out why a page looks how > it does, or to find out why it doesn't look the way you think your code > should make it look. If you like Web Developer, you *need* to get Firebug, it's a Javascript debugger, DOM inspector, and pretty much everything you'd need to do with making websites. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843 -- Paul Betts From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Mon May 14 23:02:20 2007 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (Paul Betts) Date: Mon May 14 23:02:31 2007 Subject: [opensource] Edge resistance between monitors with Metacity In-Reply-To: <2772ffef0705102134k4464c0fbvce52c97065e7a8ec@mail.gmail.com> References: <2772ffef0705102134k4464c0fbvce52c97065e7a8ec@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <464922BC.4090309@cse.ohio-state.edu> Adam Porr wrote: > Hello Gnome fans! > > I've stumbled around the web for awhile, but I've been unable to > answer the following questions. If you know the answers (or where to > look), would you mind sharing them with me? > > 1.) Is it possible to configure Metacity to have edge resistance > between two monitors in a dual-head Xinerama configuration. Sounds like someone wants to write a patch -- Paul Betts From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Mon May 14 23:35:32 2007 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (Paul Betts) Date: Mon May 14 23:35:44 2007 Subject: [opensource] Awesome Firefox Plugins In-Reply-To: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> References: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: <46492A84.1000404@cse.ohio-state.edu> James Dinan wrote: > Hey All, > What are some other cool plugins you guys are using? Some of my favorites (I'm too lazy to look up links): * Adblock Plus - Like Adblock+Filterset.G, but with more filters * del.icio.us - This plugin is *awesome*, it makes your bookmarks appear everywhere, including keywords (like Google search, Wikipedia, etc). http://del.icio.us/paul.betts are my links * DownThemAll - download a whole page of links, filter by Regex * GreaseMonkey + Platypus - These two plugins let you edit websites and save them as a script that will make a page look like anything you want. Remove blocks you don't like, change text, etc.. * It's All Text! - Lets you edit textareas using a real texteditor, useful for blog posts, etc.. -- Paul Betts From dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu Tue May 15 13:51:12 2007 From: dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu (James Dinan) Date: Tue May 15 13:51:24 2007 Subject: [opensource] Some Linux/CUPS Printing Tips Message-ID: <4649F310.6070309@cse.ohio-state.edu> Hi All, The other day I ended up printing something from a flash applet (yeck!) and flash doesn't give you a print dialog so there is no way to select "print to file." So, I did a little digging and found that there is a pdfwriter printer available with CUPS. Here's how you set it up in Ubuntu: 1.) Install the cups-pdf package. 2.) Click System->Administration->Printers then add new printer. 3.) It should show you "PDF Printer" in the detected list. Select it. 4.) For the driver choose: Manufacturer: generic Model: postscript color Driver: standard 5.) Done! Now whenever you print something to this printer you will get a pdf in the PDF directory off of your home directory. If you set it as the default, flash will print there (since it always just spews into the default printer). Another printing tip: Try using "gtklp" as a substitute printing program instead of lpr (kprinter is pretty good too if you are of the kde persuasion). This will give you access to lots of features like n-up, double-sided printing, etc. From gtklp you can also select your cups-pdf printer to send the output to a file rather than paper. For example: To use gtklp in acrobat reader you can select the "custom" printer in the print dialog and type in "gtklp" as the print command. Feel free to add your own printing tips too! :) ~Jim. -- James Dinan Dept Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University From equality72521 at gmail.com Tue May 15 14:22:03 2007 From: equality72521 at gmail.com (Sean Carrick) Date: Tue May 15 14:22:22 2007 Subject: [opensource] Some Linux/CUPS Printing Tips In-Reply-To: <4649F310.6070309@cse.ohio-state.edu> References: <4649F310.6070309@cse.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: <41b976f00705151122r28bd1c42kebf3c0e583a181e5@mail.gmail.com> Has anyone found a good way to print to the CSE department printers from a linux machine elsewhere? At the moment, I'm using a script that sends a file (ps or txt) using scp to stdsun then remotely runs lpr, so I just type: printinbolz paper.ps But this is still a little clunky if there is some way to further automate the printing. Sean Carrick On 5/15/07, James Dinan wrote: > Hi All, > > The other day I ended up printing something from a flash applet (yeck!) > and flash doesn't give you a print dialog so there is no way to select > "print to file." So, I did a little digging and found that there is a > pdfwriter printer available with CUPS. > > Here's how you set it up in Ubuntu: > > 1.) Install the cups-pdf package. > 2.) Click System->Administration->Printers then add new printer. > 3.) It should show you "PDF Printer" in the detected list. Select it. > 4.) For the driver choose: > Manufacturer: generic > Model: postscript color > Driver: standard > 5.) Done! > > Now whenever you print something to this printer you will get a pdf in > the PDF directory off of your home directory. If you set it as the > default, flash will print there (since it always just spews into the > default printer). > > Another printing tip: Try using "gtklp" as a substitute printing program > instead of lpr (kprinter is pretty good too if you are of the kde > persuasion). This will give you access to lots of features like n-up, > double-sided printing, etc. From gtklp you can also select your > cups-pdf printer to send the output to a file rather than paper. > > For example: To use gtklp in acrobat reader you can select the "custom" > printer in the print dialog and type in "gtklp" as the print command. > > Feel free to add your own printing tips too! :) > > ~Jim. > > -- > James Dinan > > Dept Computer Science and Engineering > The Ohio State University > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > From moorea at cse.ohio-state.edu Wed May 16 01:26:49 2007 From: moorea at cse.ohio-state.edu (Alexander Moore) Date: Wed May 16 01:27:02 2007 Subject: [opensource] Awesome Firefox Plugins In-Reply-To: References: <464356BA.5070604@cse.ohio-state.edu> <20070511211100.GU14134@zosima.org> <240a31830705141832u665a7a2dh4228f8f1d23a8e8d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Yeah Bork^3 is pretty fun when boredom sets in... or whenever you need to use it for serious things. A good page that I found hilarious with Bork's sweedish-ize function turned on: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/classes.html Download bork, enable 'View Bork Text' option, goto page, hillarity will ensue. -- The other Alex Jim Dinan wrote: > I'm also a big fan of adblock: > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10 > > Filterset.G is an addon to adblock that automatically updates it with > some common (annoying) ad sources: > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1136 > > Also, Bork Bork Bork! makes a great prank! :) > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/507 > > ~Jim. > > Peter Dietz wrote: >> Web Developer would have to be my favorite. I do websites for the >> university libraries, and its a pretty sweet tool when changing >> webpages. You can modify the css for a page and it live updates and the >> page immediately looks different. Another awesome feature is the object >> modeling thing, when you click analyze and it shows you the entire >> structure of a page which allows you to figure out why a page looks how >> it does, or to find out why it doesn't look the way you think your code >> should make it look. >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 >> http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ >> The image >> >> >> And my roommate recommended noscript >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 because of its >> excellence in keeping his safe and clean, even after he visits the >> nastiest of the pr0n. >> The image >> >> >> On 11/05/07, *Michael Benedict* > > wrote: >> >> ImageZoom is my favorite. Great if you are looking at graphs or any >> pictures that have the resolution you want but just aren't big enough to >> see detail. Kind of like reading glasses.... wow, I am getting old. >> Cheers, >> Michael >> >> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:30:34PM -0400, James Dinan wrote: >> > Hey All, >> > >> > I discovered this totally sweet firefox plugin the other day called >> > MediaPlayerConnectivity and just had to share. This plugin allows >> you >> > to launch embedded video from web pages in any external player of your >> > choosing. This means you can dispense with those clunky, broken in >> > browser plugins and just watch the video. You can also skip past the >> > "You don't have windows media player" warnings on CNN.com and >> watch the >> > MMS streams in xine. :) >> > >> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446 >> >> > >> > What are some other cool plugins you guys are using? >> > >> > ~Jim. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Opensource mailing list >> > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu >> > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensource mailing list >> Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu >> http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Peter Dietz >> Student / Technologist >> >> www.eclectech.us >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Opensource mailing list >> Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu >> http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > From moorea at cse.ohio-state.edu Fri May 18 20:40:43 2007 From: moorea at cse.ohio-state.edu (Alexander Moore) Date: Fri May 18 20:41:04 2007 Subject: [opensource] It's Laptop Season Message-ID: So after James showed me where to get cheap ThinkPads ( ibuy.osu.edu , thanks again Jim! ), I have narrowed my choice down to two: Both have: 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GB DDR2 @667Mhz Apple MacBook Pro - ~$2088 15" Glossy Screen ( 1440x900 ) 6x DL SuperDrive ATI Mobility X1600 128MB 3 Year AppleCare Plan Lenovo T60P Widescreen ~$1922.58 15.4" Screen (1680x1050) 8x DL DVD+-RW ATI Mobility X1400 128MB OR Fire GL V5250 256MB 3 Year Standard Depot Warranty Thinkpad Extras: Thinkpad a/b/g/n mini-pci express 9cell battery (maybe)MS Office 2007 (It's useful and cool somewhat) Fingerprint scanner As for the MacBook, it would be cool to own one, I like playing with my girlfriends, maybe it is because it's like a new toy that is waiting to be explored. The 3 year warranty on it covers just about everything too. As for the Thinkpad, I have a T42 from work and it is built solid, also the stupid big resolution (1680x1050) will always be nice. Now my real question is since I will be running Ubuntu on it, will there be any problems with one or the other ? The main thing I am concerned with is of course the Wireless Drivers, but Paul told me Apple HW support is shaky, but IDKWTF he means exactly. And also if I choose the Thinkpad, which graphics option do I choose ? (X1400 or FireGL ?) Help. --Big Alex From barondas at cse.ohio-state.edu Sat May 19 00:17:16 2007 From: barondas at cse.ohio-state.edu (Silas Baronda) Date: Sat May 19 00:18:02 2007 Subject: [opensource] Re: It's Laptop Season In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Well before buying anything I would wait till WWDC is over. Could see new MBPs. Also what are you exactly using it for? Alexander Moore wrote: > So after James showed me where to get cheap ThinkPads ( ibuy.osu.edu , > thanks again Jim! ), I have narrowed my choice down to two: > > Both have: > 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo > 2 GB DDR2 @667Mhz > > Apple MacBook Pro - ~$2088 > 15" Glossy Screen ( 1440x900 ) > 6x DL SuperDrive > ATI Mobility X1600 128MB > 3 Year AppleCare Plan > > Lenovo T60P Widescreen ~$1922.58 > 15.4" Screen (1680x1050) > 8x DL DVD+-RW > ATI Mobility X1400 128MB OR Fire GL V5250 256MB > 3 Year Standard Depot Warranty > > Thinkpad Extras: > Thinkpad a/b/g/n mini-pci express > 9cell battery > (maybe)MS Office 2007 (It's useful and cool somewhat) > Fingerprint scanner > > As for the MacBook, it would be cool to own one, I like playing with my > girlfriends, maybe it is because it's like a new toy that is waiting to > be explored. The 3 year warranty on it covers just about everything too. > > As for the Thinkpad, I have a T42 from work and it is built solid, also > the stupid big resolution (1680x1050) will always be nice. > > Now my real question is since I will be running Ubuntu on it, will there > be any problems with one or the other ? > > The main thing I am concerned with is of course the Wireless Drivers, > but Paul told me Apple HW support is shaky, but IDKWTF he means exactly. > And also if I choose the Thinkpad, which graphics option do I choose ? > (X1400 or FireGL ?) > > Help. > > --Big Alex From moorea at cse.ohio-state.edu Sat May 19 00:44:50 2007 From: moorea at cse.ohio-state.edu (Alexander Moore) Date: Sat May 19 00:45:04 2007 Subject: [opensource] Re: It's Laptop Season In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Well I was hoping to turn my workstation into a server to host stuff, and make the laptop my day to day machine. WWDC eh? They will probably only announce an iPod nano phone widescreen U2 edition. The only thing that turns me off about apple though is the one button mouse, seriously. The thinkpads do have three buttons... and a much higher resolution, which I do love having. I'm just worried that if I get the thinkpad with the Fire GL graphics that the Linux drivers will be non-existant or craptastic, and if I get the x1400 graphics, it won't be enough to play some decent games at native resolution. --Alex Silas Baronda wrote: > Well before buying anything I would wait till WWDC is over. Could see > new MBPs. Also what are you exactly using it for? > > Alexander Moore wrote: >> So after James showed me where to get cheap ThinkPads ( ibuy.osu.edu , >> thanks again Jim! ), I have narrowed my choice down to two: >> >> Both have: >> 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo >> 2 GB DDR2 @667Mhz >> >> Apple MacBook Pro - ~$2088 >> 15" Glossy Screen ( 1440x900 ) >> 6x DL SuperDrive >> ATI Mobility X1600 128MB >> 3 Year AppleCare Plan >> >> Lenovo T60P Widescreen ~$1922.58 >> 15.4" Screen (1680x1050) >> 8x DL DVD+-RW >> ATI Mobility X1400 128MB OR Fire GL V5250 256MB >> 3 Year Standard Depot Warranty >> >> Thinkpad Extras: >> Thinkpad a/b/g/n mini-pci express >> 9cell battery >> (maybe)MS Office 2007 (It's useful and cool somewhat) >> Fingerprint scanner >> >> As for the MacBook, it would be cool to own one, I like playing with >> my girlfriends, maybe it is because it's like a new toy that is >> waiting to be explored. The 3 year warranty on it covers just about >> everything too. >> >> As for the Thinkpad, I have a T42 from work and it is built solid, >> also the stupid big resolution (1680x1050) will always be nice. >> >> Now my real question is since I will be running Ubuntu on it, will >> there be any problems with one or the other ? >> >> The main thing I am concerned with is of course the Wireless Drivers, >> but Paul told me Apple HW support is shaky, but IDKWTF he means exactly. >> And also if I choose the Thinkpad, which graphics option do I choose ? >> (X1400 or FireGL ?) >> >> Help. >> >> --Big Alex From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Sat May 19 10:59:17 2007 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (Paul Betts) Date: Sat May 19 10:59:29 2007 Subject: [opensource] Re: It's Laptop Season In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sat, 19 May 2007 00:44:50 -0400, Alexander Moore wrote: > The thinkpads do have three buttons... and a much higher resolution, > which I do love having. I'm just worried that if I get the thinkpad with > the Fire GL graphics that the Linux drivers will be non-existant or > craptastic, and if I get the x1400 graphics, it won't be enough to play > some decent games at native resolution. FireGL cards are actually kind of lousy for games, they're optimized for rendering tons of triangles, not the kind of stuff that games typically do. -- Paul Betts From moorea at cse.ohio-state.edu Sat May 19 11:02:32 2007 From: moorea at cse.ohio-state.edu (Alexander Moore) Date: Sat May 19 12:42:24 2007 Subject: [opensource] Re: It's Laptop Season In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Yeah that was what I thought originally too, but I did read some benchmarks and it almost always came out on top because apparently the V5250 is based off the X1700 architecture. On 5/19/07, Paul Betts wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2007 00:44:50 -0400, Alexander Moore < > moorea@cse.ohio-state.edu> wrote: > > The thinkpads do have three buttons... and a much higher resolution, > > which I do love having. I'm just worried that if I get the thinkpad with > > the Fire GL graphics that the Linux drivers will be non-existant or > > craptastic, and if I get the x1400 graphics, it won't be enough to play > > some decent games at native resolution. > > FireGL cards are actually kind of lousy for games, they're optimized for > rendering tons of triangles, not the kind of stuff that games typically do. > > -- > Paul Betts > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/private/opensource/attachments/20070519/3924cc4f/attachment.html From swaney.29 at osu.edu Sun May 20 02:52:02 2007 From: swaney.29 at osu.edu (Brian Swaney) Date: Sun May 20 02:52:29 2007 Subject: [opensource] New idea for supporting open source group and philosophy, but I need help... Message-ID: <1179643922.13346.19.camel@brian-laptop> I thought I mentioned this, but I guess I somehow expected everybody to assume it based on my frequent reference to programs such as OpenOffice.org and VLC Player, and people who are not ready to switch to Linux, along with my asking for keycard access and SSH, since Paul had no idea what I was talking about and only thought I mentioned it due to my self-inflicted false memory syndrome. I have been working on an HTML-autoplay disk full of free/open source software for the Windows. I intend to have the disk finished by the end of the quarter, hopefully by which time SoC lab will have added me to the door, and burn a bunch of copies of the disk to place in a pile or stack labeled "Free, take one" in the Open Source lab. I have some of the files done, some more I plan to have done shortly, and a bunch that I can't do on my own. The ones I can't do on my own are things I'm not yet familiar with, and don't have the time to look them up. I left copies of the completed ones (ignore the "setup.exe" files because they are out-of-date and I'm going to update them as I get to them) in the /home/swaneybr/FreeDisk directory on the server, which I believe Paul set for anyone to have access to (at least the ability to read it). I have a good idea about what a lot of them do, and put those in the need_info/ directory of the attached file, then listed the ones I (most of them) have no idea what they are for and need them categorized, as well as the information to put into HTMLs. Can anyone match up the ones in the need_all file to a bunch of categories, such as "word-processing", "graphics", "media", "developers", etc. to help ensure this is done before the end of the quarter/year? Keep in mind that the more made, the more we will have to pass out at the involvement fair, and the sooner they are made, the sooner I (or we) can start mass-copying them... -Brian Swaney -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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No sense in reinventing the wheel! http://www.theopencd.org/ Adam On 5/20/07, Brian Swaney wrote: > I thought I mentioned this, but I guess I somehow expected everybody to > assume it based on my frequent reference to programs such as > OpenOffice.org and VLC Player, and people who are not ready to switch to > Linux, along with my asking for keycard access and SSH, since Paul had > no idea what I was talking about and only thought I mentioned it due to > my self-inflicted false memory syndrome. I have been working on an > HTML-autoplay disk full of free/open source software for the Windows. I > intend to have the disk finished by the end of the quarter, hopefully by > which time SoC lab will have added me to the door, and burn a bunch of > copies of the disk to place in a pile or stack labeled "Free, take one" > in the Open Source lab. > > I have some of the files done, some more I plan to have done shortly, > and a bunch that I can't do on my own. The ones I can't do on my own are > things I'm not yet familiar with, and don't have the time to look them > up. I left copies of the completed ones (ignore the "setup.exe" files > because they are out-of-date and I'm going to update them as I get to > them) in the /home/swaneybr/FreeDisk directory on the server, which I > believe Paul set for anyone to have access to (at least the ability to > read it). > > I have a good idea about what a lot of them do, and put those in the > need_info/ directory of the attached file, then listed the ones I (most > of them) have no idea what they are for and need them categorized, as > well as the information to put into HTMLs. Can anyone match up the ones > in the need_all file to a bunch of categories, such as > "word-processing", "graphics", "media", "developers", etc. to help > ensure this is done before the end of the quarter/year? Keep in mind > that the more made, the more we will have to pass out at the involvement > fair, and the sooner they are made, the sooner I (or we) can start > mass-copying them... > > > -Brian Swaney > > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > > -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F7F72CBA 2E02 EEAC EF67 E8B3 1FA5 6DF4 A0FB C0CF F7F7 2CBA From dietz.72 at osu.edu Sun May 20 10:56:13 2007 From: dietz.72 at osu.edu (Peter Dietz) Date: Sun May 20 10:56:28 2007 Subject: [opensource] New idea for supporting open source group and philosophy, but I need help... In-Reply-To: <2772ffef0705200549t131b6079lbb2c11a769194207@mail.gmail.com> References: <1179643922.13346.19.camel@brian-laptop> <2772ffef0705200549t131b6079lbb2c11a769194207@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <240a31830705200756u71b47554mfd35f477610acb43@mail.gmail.com> The OpenCD is almost exactly what Bryan is talking about, but I think a custom OSU OSS edition is what is intended. That could be pretty cool. Since we have a bunch of old ubuntu cds and cases, we could stuff the old case with the latest copy of ubuntu that we've burned, and also put in our own OSU Open CD. If anyone is curious as to why VLC media player is not included in The OpenCD, you might want to read their comment page on it. http://www.theopencd.org/NewPrograms/VideoLAN-VLC {for those too lazy to follow} RolandDeschain VLC needs a new installer that can download the DVD library as an optional extra. HenrikOmma Yes, or at the very least it needs to be re-packaged without deCSS with a new installer. This should be fairly simple (I've done some NSIS stuff recently). ChrisGray As we've said above, all we need is a version sans deCSS. === So I guess the open people don't like to distribute programs that decrypt copy protection. Just like nobody likes telling 09 people to press the F9 key... On 5/20/07, Adam Porr wrote: > > Hey Brian > > You might want to check out the OpenCD before you put too much effort > into this. No sense in reinventing the wheel! > > http://www.theopencd.org/ > > Adam > > On 5/20/07, Brian Swaney wrote: > > I thought I mentioned this, but I guess I somehow expected everybody to > > assume it based on my frequent reference to programs such as > > OpenOffice.org and VLC Player, and people who are not ready to switch to > > Linux, along with my asking for keycard access and SSH, since Paul had > > no idea what I was talking about and only thought I mentioned it due to > > my self-inflicted false memory syndrome. I have been working on an > > HTML-autoplay disk full of free/open source software for the Windows. I > > intend to have the disk finished by the end of the quarter, hopefully by > > which time SoC lab will have added me to the door, and burn a bunch of > > copies of the disk to place in a pile or stack labeled "Free, take one" > > in the Open Source lab. > > > > I have some of the files done, some more I plan to have done shortly, > > and a bunch that I can't do on my own. The ones I can't do on my own are > > things I'm not yet familiar with, and don't have the time to look them > > up. I left copies of the completed ones (ignore the "setup.exe" files > > because they are out-of-date and I'm going to update them as I get to > > them) in the /home/swaneybr/FreeDisk directory on the server, which I > > believe Paul set for anyone to have access to (at least the ability to > > read it). > > > > I have a good idea about what a lot of them do, and put those in the > > need_info/ directory of the attached file, then listed the ones I (most > > of them) have no idea what they are for and need them categorized, as > > well as the information to put into HTMLs. Can anyone match up the ones > > in the need_all file to a bunch of categories, such as > > "word-processing", "graphics", "media", "developers", etc. to help > > ensure this is done before the end of the quarter/year? Keep in mind > > that the more made, the more we will have to pass out at the involvement > > fair, and the sooner they are made, the sooner I (or we) can start > > mass-copying them... > > > > > > -Brian Swaney > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensource mailing list > > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > > > > > > > > -- > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F7F72CBA > 2E02 EEAC EF67 E8B3 1FA5 6DF4 A0FB C0CF F7F7 2CBA > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > -- Peter Dietz Student / Technologist www.eclectech.us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/private/opensource/attachments/20070520/6051967b/attachment.html From dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu Sun May 20 12:14:49 2007 From: dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu (Jim Dinan) Date: Sun May 20 12:15:09 2007 Subject: [opensource] Re: It's Laptop Season In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <465073F9.1030002@cse.ohio-state.edu> Hey Alex, There's a great wiki for linux on thinkpads: http://www.thinkwiki.org/ They have an article on the v5200 which is based on the the x1600 architecture. Unfortunately, no info on the v5250 yet. :( http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ATI_Mobility_FireGL_V5200 ~Jim. Alexander Moore wrote: > Yeah that was what I thought originally too, but I did read some > benchmarks and it almost always came out on top because apparently the > V5250 is based off the X1700 architecture. > > On 5/19/07, *Paul Betts* > wrote: > > On Sat, 19 May 2007 00:44:50 -0400, Alexander Moore > > wrote: > > The thinkpads do have three buttons... and a much higher resolution, > > which I do love having. I'm just worried that if I get the > thinkpad with > > the Fire GL graphics that the Linux drivers will be non-existant or > > craptastic, and if I get the x1400 graphics, it won't be enough to > play > > some decent games at native resolution. > > FireGL cards are actually kind of lousy for games, they're optimized > for rendering tons of triangles, not the kind of stuff that games > typically do. > > -- > Paul Betts > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource -- James Dinan Dept Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University From swaney.29 at osu.edu Sun May 20 12:20:46 2007 From: swaney.29 at osu.edu (Brian Swaney) Date: Sun May 20 12:21:04 2007 Subject: [opensource] New idea for supporting open source group and philosophy, but I need help... In-Reply-To: <240a31830705200756u71b47554mfd35f477610acb43@mail.gmail.com> References: <1179643922.13346.19.camel@brian-laptop> <2772ffef0705200549t131b6079lbb2c11a769194207@mail.gmail.com> <240a31830705200756u71b47554mfd35f477610acb43@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1179678046.5177.17.camel@brian-laptop> Yes, I'm intent on making a custom CD for OSU OSS. VLC is a powerful and easy program for the Windows user to start with, and it is a great example of what a finished open source project can do. Simple, small, yet powerful. If you were a new Windows user, would you want your first experience to be with a Windows version of Totem (not sure if it can work in Windows, but play along), to have to figure out why it won't play your mp3's, then figure out what the heck a codec is, then go looking for a way to install that codec without a spyware ("Potentially Unwanted Program" for all you corporate employees out there who make the stuff) bundle? Most Windows users will just give up and go back to their iTunes and RealPlayer. I figured VLC would be a nice way to start them off. I don't think I can really fit Ubuntu in them, but perhaps I could link them to an ISO or something and find a free ISO burning program to help them along the way. I think the idea behind the current Ubuntu disks is because they're in a pretty case and they have labels on them, so they are more appealing to people than some disk that has a name of an operating system they've never heard of written on it in black (or even red) marker. As for the FreeDisk, I had something along the lines of sticking a bunch in a CD case and having it sit somewhere with a sign saying "Free, take one" and maybe a description. In case we ever run out, we could store the ISO on the server. -Brian Swaney On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 10:56 -0400, Peter Dietz wrote: > The OpenCD is almost exactly what Bryan is talking about, but I think > a custom OSU OSS edition is what is intended. That could be pretty > cool. Since we have a bunch of old ubuntu cds and cases, we could > stuff the old case with the latest copy of ubuntu that we've burned, > and also put in our own OSU Open CD. > > If anyone is curious as to why VLC media player is not included in The > OpenCD, you might want to read their comment page on it. > http://www.theopencd.org/NewPrograms/VideoLAN-VLC > > {for those too lazy to follow} > RolandDeschain VLC needs a new installer that can download > the DVD library as an optional extra. > > HenrikOmma Yes, or at the very least it needs to be > re-packaged without deCSS with a new installer. This should be fairly > simple (I've done some NSIS stuff recently). > > ChrisGray As we've said above, all we need is a version sans > deCSS. > === > So I guess the open people don't like to distribute programs that > decrypt copy protection. Just like nobody likes telling 09 people to > press the F9 key... > > > > On 5/20/07, Adam Porr wrote: > Hey Brian > > You might want to check out the OpenCD before you put too much > effort > into this. No sense in reinventing the wheel! > > http://www.theopencd.org/ > > Adam > > On 5/20/07, Brian Swaney wrote: > > I thought I mentioned this, but I guess I somehow expected > everybody to > > assume it based on my frequent reference to programs such > as > > OpenOffice.org and VLC Player, and people who are not ready > to switch to > > Linux, along with my asking for keycard access and SSH, > since Paul had > > no idea what I was talking about and only thought I > mentioned it due to > > my self-inflicted false memory syndrome. I have been working > on an > > HTML-autoplay disk full of free/open source software for the > Windows. I > > intend to have the disk finished by the end of the quarter, > hopefully by > > which time SoC lab will have added me to the door, and burn > a bunch of > > copies of the disk to place in a pile or stack labeled > "Free, take one" > > in the Open Source lab. > > > > I have some of the files done, some more I plan to have done > shortly, > > and a bunch that I can't do on my own. The ones I can't do > on my own are > > things I'm not yet familiar with, and don't have the time to > look them > > up. I left copies of the completed ones (ignore the " > setup.exe" files > > because they are out-of-date and I'm going to update them as > I get to > > them) in the /home/swaneybr/FreeDisk directory on the > server, which I > > believe Paul set for anyone to have access to (at least the > ability to > > read it). > > > > I have a good idea about what a lot of them do, and put > those in the > > need_info/ directory of the attached file, then listed the > ones I (most > > of them) have no idea what they are for and need them > categorized, as > > well as the information to put into HTMLs. Can anyone match > up the ones > > in the need_all file to a bunch of categories, such as > > "word-processing", "graphics", "media", "developers", etc. > to help > > ensure this is done before the end of the quarter/year? Keep > in mind > > that the more made, the more we will have to pass out at the > involvement > > fair, and the sooner they are made, the sooner I (or we) can > start > > mass-copying them... > > > > > > -Brian Swaney > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensource mailing list > > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > > > > > > > > -- > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F7F72CBA > 2E02 EEAC EF67 E8B3 1FA5 6DF4 A0FB C0CF F7F7 2CBA > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource > > > > -- > > Peter Dietz > Student / Technologist > > www.eclectech.us > _______________________________________________ > Opensource mailing list > Opensource@cse.ohio-state.edu > http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/opensource From dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu Sun May 20 12:24:25 2007 From: dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu (Jim Dinan) Date: Sun May 20 12:24:41 2007 Subject: [opensource] New idea for supporting open source group and philosophy, but I need help... In-Reply-To: <240a31830705200756u71b47554mfd35f477610acb43@mail.gmail.com> References: <1179643922.13346.19.camel@brian-laptop> <2772ffef0705200549t131b6079lbb2c11a769194207@mail.gmail.com> <240a31830705200756u71b47554mfd35f477610acb43@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <46507639.80508@cse.ohio-state.edu> Does OpenCD have the installers for these apps or are they portable (http://portableapps.com/)? One way to promote open source would be to hand out portable app CDs so people can use them right there in the computer lab. ~Jim. Peter Dietz wrote: > The OpenCD is almost exactly what Bryan is talking about, but I think a > custom OSU OSS edition is what is intended. That could be pretty cool. > Since we have a bunch of old ubuntu cds and cases, we could stuff the > old case with the latest copy of ubuntu that we've burned, and also put > in our own OSU Open CD. > > If anyone is curious as to why VLC media player is not included in The > OpenCD, you might want to read their comment page on it. > http://www.theopencd.org/NewPrograms/VideoLAN-VLC > > > {for those too lazy to follow} > RolandDeschain VLC needs a new installer that can download the > DVD library as an optional extra. > > HenrikOmma Yes, or at the very least it needs to be > re-packaged without deCSS with a new installer. This should be fairly > simple (I've done some NSIS stuff recently). > > ChrisGray As we've said above, all we need is a version sans > deCSS. -- James Dinan Dept Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University From dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu Sun May 20 17:54:39 2007 From: dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu (Jim Dinan) Date: Sun May 20 17:54:57 2007 Subject: [opensource] New idea for supporting open source group and philosophy, but I need help... In-Reply-To: <1179691279.11749.3.camel@brian-laptop> References: <1179643922.13346.19.camel@brian-laptop> <2772ffef0705200549t131b6079lbb2c11a769194207@mail.gmail.com> <240a31830705200756u71b47554mfd35f477610acb43@mail.gmail.com> <46507639.80508@cse.ohio-state.edu> <1179691279.11749.3.camel@brian-laptop> Message-ID: <4650C39F.10708@cse.ohio-state.edu> Hi Brian, These portable apps are configured so that they don't need to be installed globally on the system to be used. Typically people will either run them from a USB flash drive or from their personal space on a computer where they don't have admin rights. This doesn't require any extra privileges apart from normal user stuff so I don't see why it would be a problem. If the dept of CSE wanted to prevent people from running their own programs on lab computers they could do that via windows security.. But that wouldn't make a whole lot of sense since the whole point is that we make our own programs. ;) ~Jim. Brian Swaney wrote: > I tried one of these portable applications, but what is the difference > between them? They still extract themselves, rather than simply run like > PuTTY does, but do they still write registries? Can they be run without > administrative privileges? > > In regards to your comment about running them in the computer lab, > wouldn't SoC lab get ticked off at us if we ran "unauthorized" programs > from the lab's computers? > > > -Brian Swaney > > > On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 12:24 -0400, Jim Dinan wrote: >> Does OpenCD have the installers for these apps or are they portable >> (http://portableapps.com/)? One way to promote open source would be to >> hand out portable app CDs so people can use them right there in the >> computer lab. >> >> ~Jim. >> >> Peter Dietz wrote: >>> The OpenCD is almost exactly what Bryan is talking about, but I think a >>> custom OSU OSS edition is what is intended. That could be pretty cool. >>> Since we have a bunch of old ubuntu cds and cases, we could stuff the >>> old case with the latest copy of ubuntu that we've burned, and also put >>> in our own OSU Open CD. >>> >>> If anyone is curious as to why VLC media player is not included in The >>> OpenCD, you might want to read their comment page on it. >>> http://www.theopencd.org/NewPrograms/VideoLAN-VLC >>> >>> >>> {for those too lazy to follow} >>> RolandDeschain VLC needs a new installer that can download the >>> DVD library as an optional extra. >>> >>> HenrikOmma Yes, or at the very least it needs to be >>> re-packaged without deCSS with a new installer. This should be fairly >>> simple (I've done some NSIS stuff recently). >>> >>> ChrisGray As we've said above, all we need is a version sans >>> deCSS. >> -- James Dinan Dept Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University From swaney.29 at osu.edu Sun May 20 19:05:21 2007 From: swaney.29 at osu.edu (Brian Swaney) Date: Sun May 20 19:05:35 2007 Subject: [opensource] New idea for supporting open source group and philosophy, but I need help... In-Reply-To: <4650C39F.10708@cse.ohio-state.edu> References: <1179643922.13346.19.camel@brian-laptop> <2772ffef0705200549t131b6079lbb2c11a769194207@mail.gmail.com> <240a31830705200756u71b47554mfd35f477610acb43@mail.gmail.com> <46507639.80508@cse.ohio-state.edu> <1179691279.11749.3.camel@brian-laptop> <4650C39F.10708@cse.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: <1179702321.5614.5.camel@brian-laptop> It looks like I have the space for a few of them, taking up about 650 MB or so of a typical CD all together. I could still use some help with the HTMLs if anyone would like to offer. Besides, I don't know a whole lot about how to write them and thus my style is a bit bland. -Brian Swaney On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 17:54 -0400, Jim Dinan wrote: > Hi Brian, > > These portable apps are configured so that they don't need to be > installed globally on the system to be used. Typically people will > either run them from a USB flash drive or from their personal space on a > computer where they don't have admin rights. This doesn't require any > extra privileges apart from normal user stuff so I don't see why it > would be a problem. > > If the dept of CSE wanted to prevent people from running their own > programs on lab computers they could do that via windows security.. But > that wouldn't make a whole lot of sense since the whole point is that we > make our own programs. ;) > > ~Jim. > > Brian Swaney wrote: > > I tried one of these portable applications, but what is the difference > > between them? They still extract themselves, rather than simply run like > > PuTTY does, but do they still write registries? Can they be run without > > administrative privileges? > > > > In regards to your comment about running them in the computer lab, > > wouldn't SoC lab get ticked off at us if we ran "unauthorized" programs > > from the lab's computers? > > > > > > -Brian Swaney > > > > > > On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 12:24 -0400, Jim Dinan wrote: > >> Does OpenCD have the installers for these apps or are they portable > >> (http://portableapps.com/)? One way to promote open source would be to > >> hand out portable app CDs so people can use them right there in the > >> computer lab. > >> > >> ~Jim. > >> > >> Peter Dietz wrote: > >>> The OpenCD is almost exactly what Bryan is talking about, but I think a > >>> custom OSU OSS edition is what is intended. That could be pretty cool. > >>> Since we have a bunch of old ubuntu cds and cases, we could stuff the > >>> old case with the latest copy of ubuntu that we've burned, and also put > >>> in our own OSU Open CD. > >>> > >>> If anyone is curious as to why VLC media player is not included in The > >>> OpenCD, you might want to read their comment page on it. > >>> http://www.theopencd.org/NewPrograms/VideoLAN-VLC > >>> > >>> > >>> {for those too lazy to follow} > >>> RolandDeschain VLC needs a new installer that can download the > >>> DVD library as an optional extra. > >>> > >>> HenrikOmma Yes, or at the very least it needs to be > >>> re-packaged without deCSS with a new installer. This should be fairly > >>> simple (I've done some NSIS stuff recently). > >>> > >>> ChrisGray As we've said above, all we need is a version sans > >>> deCSS. > >> > > > -- > James Dinan > > Dept Computer Science and Engineering > The Ohio State University > > From moorea at cse.ohio-state.edu Mon May 21 00:57:44 2007 From: moorea at cse.ohio-state.edu (Alexander Moore) Date: Mon May 21 00:58:04 2007 Subject: [opensource] uint64_t Question Message-ID: Does anybody know if there is an 'atoi' for uint64_t ? I know there is a strtol which will convert a string to a long int (32 bits), but is there a function that will convert a string to a long long int (uint64_t, 64 bits) ? --Alex From manukyan at cse.ohio-state.edu Mon May 21 01:06:30 2007 From: manukyan at cse.ohio-state.edu (Karen Manukyan) Date: Mon May 21 01:07:03 2007 Subject: [opensource] Re: uint64_t Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Alex, I would suggest that you don't use atoi, strtol, etc at all. There is better way to do conversions: http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/misc-technical-issues.html#faq-39.2 They give an example for double, but you can use any other type instead (see next example on the same page). -Karen P.S. C++ Rocks! :) Alexander Moore wrote: > Does anybody know if there is an 'atoi' for uint64_t ? I know there is > a strtol which will convert a string to a long int (32 bits), but is > there a function that will convert a string to a long long int > (uint64_t, 64 bits) ? > > --Alex From hurley at todesschaf.org Mon May 21 08:25:13 2007 From: hurley at todesschaf.org (Nick Hurley) Date: Mon May 21 08:26:02 2007 Subject: [opensource] Re: uint64_t Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <17D0CDE1-4313-411E-ABB8-2E541CAC988F@todesschaf.org> On 21 May 2007, at 01:06, Karen Manukyan wrote: > Hi Alex, > > I would suggest that you don't use atoi, strtol, etc at all. There > is better way to do conversions: > > http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/misc-technical- > issues.html#faq-39.2 > > They give an example for double, but you can use any other type > instead (see next example on the same page). > > -Karen > > P.S. > C++ Rocks! :) If he's NOT using C++, for whatever reason (plenty of us STRONGLY disagree with your "C++ Rocks" statement, for example), then there is, in fact, an option: strtoull(3) Transforms a string to an unsigned long long (which, on most common architectures, will be a uint64_t). Keep in mind, however, that 64- bit architectures may, in fact, have a 64-bit int, meaning strtoul will work just fine. strtoull(3) exists, to my knowledge, on Linux (glibc), OS X libc (likely FreeBSD libc) and OpenBSD libc. I'm not certain if strtoull(3) is part of the C standard or not. And, just to be antagonistic: C kicks C++'s ass any day of the week! -- Peace, Nick "To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible." - Calvin From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Mon May 21 08:42:56 2007 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (Paul Betts) Date: Mon May 21 08:42:55 2007 Subject: [opensource] uint64_t Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <465193D0.2020604@cse.ohio-state.edu> Alexander Moore wrote: > Does anybody know if there is an 'atoi' for uint64_t ? I know there is > a strtol which will convert a string to a long int (32 bits), but is > there a function that will convert a string to a long long int > (uint64_t, 64 bits) ? There isn't, I had to write it myself last summer; it's not too hard though, you could probably find it on Google Code Search too. -- Paul Betts From powers.161 at osu.edu Mon May 21 09:20:01 2007 From: powers.161 at osu.edu (Evan Powers) Date: Mon May 21 09:20:14 2007 Subject: [opensource] uint64_t Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6682cfcf0705210620l5af46723o64b1ccb061d887f2@mail.gmail.com> On 5/21/07, Alexander Moore wrote: > Does anybody know if there is an 'atoi' for uint64_t ? I know there is > a strtol which will convert a string to a long int (32 bits), but is > there a function that will convert a string to a long long int > (uint64_t, 64 bits) ? I would avoid atoi()/strtol() and variants thereof, because there's no way for them to signal a conversion error. I also wouldn't use iostream; it's just too painful. What you want is sscanf(). From the scanf(3) man page: int sscanf(const char *str, const char *format, ...); ... The q specifier is the 4.4BSD notation for long long, while ll or the usage of L in integer conversions is the GNU notation. So, you'd do something like uint64_t x; if (sscanf(s, "%Lu", &x) < 1) error(); assuming you're using GCC. If that doesn't work, try "q" instead of "L". If neither work, try the other options proposed in this thread. It's even type safe in GCC if you have warnings enabled, which you really really should. (-Wall). - Evan P.S. Personally, I know and love both C *and* C++. I also avoid programming in *either* whenever possible. I miss C++'s superior ability to organize code when writing C, and I miss C's elegant simplicity when writing C++. Python has been picking up the slack for a while now. It's a good language to learn, if you aren't familiar with it. From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Mon May 21 11:29:06 2007 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (Paul Betts) Date: Mon May 21 11:29:20 2007 Subject: [opensource] ACM Computer Bowl vs. Faculty Message-ID: <589c591a0713fb20cd6b831b85ec32ed@localhost> Alright, turns out I'm now the official Team Captain of ACM Computer Bowl '07 and I've been tasked with coming up with a team, so I need some real clever people because we're going up against Ken Supowit's faculty team; if you know anything about Ken Supowit, you know that I'm probably totally screwed yet we're gonna give it a shot; I expect the entire thing will go similar to the first Mighty Ducks movie. So if you're free from 3:00-5:00 this Friday, you want to help take down the faculty for bragging rights, and you pass my completely arbitrary awesomeness test, you *too* can be on the team! Send me an Email! -- Paul Betts From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Mon May 21 12:06:30 2007 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (Paul Betts) Date: Mon May 21 12:06:42 2007 Subject: [opensource] ACM Computer Bowl vs. Faculty In-Reply-To: <1179762877.8163.5.camel@brian-laptop> References: <1179762877.8163.5.camel@brian-laptop> Message-ID: On Mon, 21 May 2007 11:54:37 -0400, Brian Swaney wrote: > If done on the TI-83 graphing calculator, then my victory is secured. Oh I forgot, the ACM Computer Bowl will be a general trivia, Jeopardy-like contest. -- Paul Betts From rowland at cse.ohio-state.edu Mon May 21 13:01:36 2007 From: rowland at cse.ohio-state.edu (Shaun Rowland) Date: Mon May 21 13:01:49 2007 Subject: [opensource] uint64_t Question In-Reply-To: <6682cfcf0705210620l5af46723o64b1ccb061d887f2@mail.gmail.com> References: <6682cfcf0705210620l5af46723o64b1ccb061d887f2@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4651D070.1030805@cse.ohio-state.edu> Evan Powers wrote: > I would avoid atoi()/strtol() and variants thereof, because there's no > way for them to signal a conversion error. I also wouldn't use > iostream; it's just too painful. That's not true for strtol, and variants. It is true for atoi. The Linux implementation will give EINVAL if there is a conversion error, but this is not C99. There is also ERANGE, which is C99. In addition to this, you can check the pointers to see if there were any invalid characters that could not be converted, thus EINVAL is not really necessary - and I would not use it because it is not everywhere. If everything was converted by pointer checks, and there was no error code, then there was no conversion error. Details are in the manual page. I've used input methods to convert before, but I tend to try and use conversion functions if possible. -- Shaun Rowland rowland@cse.ohio-state.edu http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~rowland/ From powers.161 at osu.edu Mon May 21 13:39:10 2007 From: powers.161 at osu.edu (Evan Powers) Date: Mon May 21 13:39:24 2007 Subject: [opensource] uint64_t Question In-Reply-To: <4651D070.1030805@cse.ohio-state.edu> References: <6682cfcf0705210620l5af46723o64b1ccb061d887f2@mail.gmail.com> <4651D070.1030805@cse.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: <6682cfcf0705211039r26ac4d53p962afbadf624e914@mail.gmail.com> On 5/21/07, Shaun Rowland wrote: > That's not true for strtol, and variants. It is true for atoi. Sorry everyone, Shaun's right of course. So, I change my recommendation to strtol() and friends, since they report errors in a simple way (**endptr != '\0') and do something well-defined when the conversion over/underflows. Who knows what scanf() does. - Evan From lingo.13 at osu.edu Mon May 21 23:11:50 2007 From: lingo.13 at osu.edu (Alexander J. Lingo) Date: Mon May 21 23:12:06 2007 Subject: [opensource] Meeting Announcement: 5/22/07 - Fun in the Sun & Election Message-ID: <8242065d0705212011i14138186m204b75c2a18898da@mail.gmail.com> OPENSOURCE CLUB MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: ====================================== Date: 5/22/2007 Time: 7:00PM Room: Mirror Lake Amphitheater/Oval Topic: Hanging Out / Election We will be meeting at the Mirror Lake Amphitheater at 7:00pm to enjoy the weather. We will have fun and along the way vote for a Benevolent Dictator. Feel free to bring sports equipment and ourdoor games. --alex ====================================== Club meetings are always open to the general public including nonmembers and nonstudents. Meetings are casual and usually last about one and a half hours. You are welcome to attend as your schedule permits - please be courteous when coming late or leaving early. For more information, please visit: http://opensource.cse.ohio-state.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.cse.ohio-state.edu/mailman/private/opensource/attachments/20070521/90bc6b19/attachment.html From moorea at cse.ohio-state.edu Tue May 22 02:09:49 2007 From: moorea at cse.ohio-state.edu (Alexander Moore) Date: Tue May 22 02:10:03 2007 Subject: [opensource] Hackathon ? Message-ID: So I was going through the Wayback Machine's caches of the old Open Source Website and I came across this: http://web.archive.org/web/20030119235213/opensource.cis.ohio-state.edu/art/pics/hackathon-20020503-1.jpg (picture of hackathon) What did everybody do at hackathon ? --Alex From hurley at todesschaf.org Tue May 22 08:03:51 2007 From: hurley at todesschaf.org (Nick Hurley) Date: Tue May 22 08:05:22 2007 Subject: [opensource] Hackathon ? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 22 May 2007, at 02:09, Alexander Moore wrote: > So I was going through the Wayback Machine's caches of the old Open > Source Website and I came across this: > http://web.archive.org/web/20030119235213/opensource.cis.ohio- > state.edu/art/pics/hackathon-20020503-1.jpg > (picture of hackathon) > > What did everybody do at hackathon ? Oof, that was a long time ago, probably 4 or 5 years. Mostly, we worked on personal projects in an atmosphere where, if we were having problems with it, we could just poke someone for help. Also, we drank. A lot. -- Peace, Nick "If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?" -Hobbes From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Wed May 23 13:44:07 2007 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (Paul Betts) Date: Wed May 23 13:44:24 2007 Subject: [opensource] ACM Computer Bowl - time moved Message-ID: <8828c24404a6ee63ba443b6f461e8ff6@localhost> Alright, it appears that the ACM Computer Bowl (students vs. faculty) has moved to Thursday the 31st; I've CC'd the people who are currently signed up but some people might not be able to participate now that the time has moved - let me know if this is the case, or if you *can* participate now that the time is moved! -- Paul Betts From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Wed May 23 16:02:07 2007 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (Paul Betts) Date: Wed May 23 16:02:03 2007 Subject: [opensource] Re: ACM Computer Bowl - time moved In-Reply-To: <8828c24404a6ee63ba443b6f461e8ff6@localhost> References: <8828c24404a6ee63ba443b6f461e8ff6@localhost> Message-ID: <46549DBF.9050401@cse.ohio-state.edu> Paul Betts wrote: > Alright, it appears that the ACM Computer Bowl (students vs. faculty) > has moved to Thursday the 31st; at 3:30. D'oh! -- Paul Betts From dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu Wed May 23 21:18:23 2007 From: dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu (Jim Dinan) Date: Wed May 23 21:18:41 2007 Subject: [opensource] Re: ACM Computer Bowl - time moved In-Reply-To: <46549DBF.9050401@cse.ohio-state.edu> References: <8828c24404a6ee63ba443b6f461e8ff6@localhost> <46549DBF.9050401@cse.ohio-state.edu> Message-ID: <4654E7DF.9050503@cse.ohio-state.edu> Unless something comes up I should be available then.. ~Jim. Paul Betts wrote: > Paul Betts wrote: >> Alright, it appears that the ACM Computer Bowl (students vs. faculty) >> has moved to Thursday the 31st; > > at 3:30. D'oh! > > -- James Dinan Dept Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University From uhrich.1 at gradsch.ohio-state.edu Fri May 25 12:21:40 2007 From: uhrich.1 at gradsch.ohio-state.edu (Marc Uhrich) Date: Fri May 25 12:21:53 2007 Subject: [opensource] Graduate School Job Opportunity Message-ID: <46CB246A6FE23948B81E95787CC1542107822EE2@exchange.gradsch.ohio-state.edu> The Graduate School has a job opening for undergraduate student assistants. While our architecture here is based on Microsoft products and therefore inherently not OpenSource, I think some on this list may be interested or know someone interested in the opportunity. The formal job requirements are posted below. Feel free to ask me any additional questions. Part-time student assistant(s) are needed to aid in management of our workstations, servers, and data network. This is an excellent opportunity for those aspiring to become systems managers to gain valuable work experience and references prior to graduation. Experience with installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Microsoft Windows and Office is required. Exposure to and interest in .NET, Visual Studio 2005, Sharepoint, SQL Server 2005 is strongly desired. Proficiency in web or print design is a consideration. Must be able to lift 50 pounds (CRT displays and computers) This is a part-time (20 hours per week), hourly position intended for undergraduate students. To apply, please send resume to brownfield.3@osu.edu Share this URL with your friends! Marc Uhrich Systems Engineer @ OSU Graduate School 247 University Hall, 230 N Oval Mall Columbus, Ohio 43210 (614) 292-0600 From dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu Wed May 30 11:40:30 2007 From: dinan at cse.ohio-state.edu (James Dinan) Date: Wed May 30 11:40:44 2007 Subject: [opensource] Fwd: Ohio LinuxFest 2007 - Registration Open Message-ID: <465D9AEE.4070104@cse.ohio-state.edu> We are pleased to announce the fifth annual Ohio LinuxFest will be held on Saturday, September 29, 2007, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus. The Ohio LinuxFest is the largest conference and expo for Free and Open Source software professionals and enthusiasts in the mid-west. Everyone with an interest in Linux, Free Software, and Open Source Software is welcome. This year's conference will be returning to the same location as last year, with some additional conference rooms closer to the main venue. In addition, the organizers have been able to secure a block rate for the Drury Inn, an *excellent* hotel adjacent to the convention center (Please book early! http://www.ohiolinux.org/hotel.html) The Ohio LinuxFest 2007 is free for all to attend, but you do need to register ahead of time. Once again, we are offering an All Conference Pass option for $65.00 to help offset the cost of running the conference. The All Conference Pass includes lunch on the day of the conference, drink tickets for the party after the conference, vendor swag, access to the conference suite at the Drury Inn, and a limited-edition Ohio LinuxFest t-shirt. (The All Conference Pass is not refundable, but can be transferred.) If you're planning to attend, please register at: http://www.ohiolinux.org/attend.html and be sure to do so early, as seating is limited. There's still time to sign up as a speaker or sponsor for this year's Ohio LinuxFest as well. We encourage members of the Linux and open source community to submit a speaker application right away. We are looking for presentations from open source developers, commercial organizations using Linux and open source, and end users who have valuable experience to share with other attendees. More information is available at http://www.ohiolinux.org/speak.html. Sponsorship packages are still available as well. Organizations can choose from the Platinum, Gold, and Silver packages; Each package includes space on the exhibition floor, space in the Ohio LinuxFest Program, not to mention the opportunity to help bolster the FOSS community in the mid-west while spreading the word about your organization. And we are adding more opportunities to sponsor the event to get your name out (stay tuned for updates). Please register your interest at http://www.ohiolinux.org/sponsor.html. We also have a limited number of .Org sponsorship packages available, but they're going fast. Be sure to sign up right away if you'd like to represent your FOSS project at the Ohio LinuxFest. Please apply at http://www.ohiolinux.org/sponsor.html (and select non-profit) The Ohio LinuxFest is a non-profit event run by members from various LUGs in Ohio (and PA). If you would like to help at the event, please submit your information at http://www.ohiolinux.org/volunteer.html This year's Ohio LinuxFest is shaping up to be the best one ever, so be sure to register right away. We look forward to seeing you in Columbus in September! Best regards, The Ohio LinuxFest organizers team@ohiolinux.org PS. Please forward this announcement to your friends, co-workers, and mail lists. From bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu Wed May 30 18:31:41 2007 From: bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu (Paul Betts) Date: Wed May 30 18:31:52 2007 Subject: [opensource] Debian/Ubuntu: Clean up junk packages Message-ID: <465DFB4D.6000508@cse.ohio-state.edu> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140920 Most of these work great, but DONT (or make sure to check) the last one, deborphan. When I ran it, it suggested I take out my video codecs. If you run deborphan by itself, it'll show the packages it wants to remove. You could then use some clever text editing trickery as follows: sudo deborphan > to_remove.txt vim to_remove.txt # Edit file as appropriate sudo apt-get -y remove --purge `cat to_remove.txt` -- Paul Betts