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A friend in need...

Paul Flint — 2008-05-14T14:55:21

Greetings List Lurkers, Does anyone out there have any recommendations for software to operate a Bicycle Rental and Repair store? Some of the requirements include: 1. Standard Point of Sale 2. Rental Form 3. Reservation via web These are notional and I am currently thinking flexibility. Maybe Sugar CRM? Regards, Flint /************************************ Based upon email reliability concerns, please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. Paul Flint Barre Open Systems Institute 17 Averill Street Barre, VT 05641 http://www.bosivt.org http://www.flint.com/home skype: flintinfotech Work: (202) 537-0480 Fax: (703) 852-7089 Consilium gratuitum .~. valet /V\ quanti /( )\ numerantur ^^-^^

Debian/Ubuntu Users: update your OpenSSL packages!

Zack Colgan — 2008-05-13T18:18:22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To all those using a Debian or Debian-based OS, it was discovered today that a change was made to the Debian openssl package in 2006 that causes the random number generator to be, um, not so random. This predictability has led to the recommendation that all keys using OpenSSL (SSH keys, OpenVPN keys, etc) should be regenerated after updating to a non-vulnerable version of OpenSSL. Read the full advisory here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.security.announce/1614 - -Zack -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIKdttjFVdEIeq2ygRAjUrAKCDnbiEvrFeTsLQjbEEjkZgbdHISwCcDs4V J5w9cal7+CsMN/T6WcdUsJ0= =eS64 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Input requested from ruby users

Rion D'Luz — 2008-05-10T14:35:43

Hi Folks: I've been impressed with the look and feel of Typo (i'd heard of it some time ago, but mistakenly believed it was typo3-related). It sure seems like a nice web-app. Being a programming fool, I'd been intending to delve into ruby/rails for some time now and this seems like the impetus to get started. So i went through the install process on my dev box (Egdy), repleat with warts and all. First following the Typo instructions, then going over to http://www.typosphere.org/ when things didnt go as planned, then to rubyforge when gems became problematic. (FWIW, I really like ubuntu as a (laptop) workstation, but not too much as a development env) I'd be happy to share the process I followed to get everything up and running using apt, but suffice it to say that Typo finally installed OK, with only minor inconvenience: rake aborted! no such file to load -- openssl RION: apt-get install libopenssl-ruby and is running on http://localhost:4714/ OK. root 30149 1 0 17:01 ? 00:00:03 /us

Apache Problem

Phil Marshall — 2008-05-08T17:22:46

Here is a sample from the apache status output. We are getting flooded with these. Apache will get filled up to 255 connections with these things. This has happened before, but usually it goes away quickly. Today it went on for about 45 minutes. Its fine now. Does anyone have any idea what this is or how to block it? 51-9 28349 0/1/1 R 0.00 28 3 0.0 0.02 0.02 ? ? ..reading.. 52-9 28350 0/1/1 R 0.00 28 0 0.0 0.000 0.000 ? ? ..reading.. 53-9 28351 0/2/2 R 0.00 28 0 0.0 0.000 0.000 ? ? ..reading.. 54-9 28352 0/1/1 R 0.00 28 0 0.0 0.000 0.000 ? ? ..reading.. 55-9 28354 0/1/1 R 0.00 28 78 0.0 0.00 0.00 ? ? ..reading.. 56-9 28355 0/1/1 R 0.00 28 0 0.0 0.000 0.000 ?

FW: Ward 2&3 VAGUE NPA Agenda 5-8-2008

Richard Jeroloman — 2008-05-07T13:53:21

May Meeting coordination

Josh Sled — 2008-05-06T00:45:26

The May meeting, assuming a schedule of the 3rd Wednesday of the month, falls on Wed May 21st, in just over 2 weeks. There was some talk about playing with open-source CAD tools ... and there's been a bunch of discussion recently about various groupware and project-management apps. Does anyone feel like doing a short presentation on any specific, or (even better) a survey of good options? Another option is to do a tour of the UVM systems and datacenter, should Mike be willing to do it (?). I'm (very slowly) trying to get linux running on a PS3, which I'd happily turn into a demo for some future meeting, but I don't know if I can commit to that for this month. Anyone else willing to provide meeting fodder?

Open source project management application

Mike Raley — 2008-05-05T17:44:22

Hi All, so, I've been tasked with setting up some sort of application to allow project management for multiple different projects (tools, scheduling, etc) and something that would be a web app running on a linux OS. This way we can give outside clients a look at how their project is progressing. After some research online, and general dissatisfaction with what was out there I cam across project-open.com It seems rather good, and looks like it will fit the bill along with providing additional CRM features, etc. Eg, now I won't have to install sugar CRM. so, my question to the vaguers out there: Does anyone have any experience using project-open? Or does anyone have any better suggestions? As we do not have any ERP/CRM or PM software yet, I don't care about migration, but I am looking for something low cost (eg free) and something that will be useful as we continue to grow. Thanks! Mike ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, ne

Ward 2&3 NPA Agenda 5-8-2008

Richard Jeroloman — 2008-05-05T14:31:44

Groupware for (hosted) Linux

Stanley Brinkerhoff — 2008-05-03T22:07:29

I am helping a good friend of mine review his options for collaboration between tech savvy users that are collaborating on projects over the intarwebs. They have a few objectives: 1. Manage coverage of a physical facility/project (Ie, bill is on from 9-2, sam is on from 1-5-- fairly simple) 2. Manage sales calendars (again, fairly simple -- nothing too complex) 3. Share files between users 4. Have a forum for discussion. Bonus points for a solution that integrates nicely with a Wiki, CRM, etc. They don't have a deticated server of any sort -- just a standard run of the mill hosting package for their existing website. We sat down today and hacked at Joomla and EGroupware, and EGroupware seems to be pretty close to what they need (its ugly and slightly cludgey though). We are no against integrating software packages (the Joomla hackery we did integrated a Google calendar to meet goals 1 and 2) -- but failed horribly at 3, and . well.. at that point we kicked it to the curb. Stan

[DC LoCo] Brazil public schools go to KDE

Paul Flint — 2008-05-02T19:19:37

RPM tricks

Aaron S. Hawley — 2008-05-01T15:01:38

There were previous discussions about RPM on this list awhile back. I added some RPM tricks to the Wiki. RPM in itself is a trick -- its benefits are grand, and building a working RPM is the work of chaos and magic. 8^) I've been putting undocumented tricks for getting things done with RPM that aren't anywhere else. http://www.uvm.org/vague/wiki/index.php/RPM:Tricks If anybody else has some undocumented nuggets they want to share, please do so. Feel free to add other notes for other packaging frameworks to the Wiki. I don't prefer RPM in anyway, I have to use it at work(tm). /a

And on the subject of server log analysis...

Forest Bond — 2008-05-01T00:09:09

(Not that anyone asked.) Another project that I've had tucked away but haven't done anything with in a few months is logq. It is a server log analyzer. You can use it, but it is not releasable yet. http://www.logq.org The development code is available. Enjoy if you care to, but enjoy responsibly. I will add more info to the logq website when I can. Otherwise, you just might have to read some source code to figure it out. -Forest

On the subject of USB booting...

Forest Bond — 2008-04-30T23:49:16

Hi, I've been sitting on a boot image builder for a while. I'm casting it off into the world to do good, which it wasn't doing when it was getting stale on my hard disk: http://www.alittletooquiet.net/software/bootboot No releases yet. Maybe never will be. All depends, now, dunnit? I have a few more things lying around here somewhere... -Forest

OLPC

Balu Raman — 2008-04-23T21:49:38

OLPC to scrap linux for windows ? I am asking a refund on my donations :-) -balu

PHP Users Group Tonight

Bradley Holt — 2008-04-23T18:37:41

For those who are interested, the PHP Users Group will be meeting tonight in Burlington. Details here: http://groups.google.com/group/Burlington-VT-PHP/web/meeting-2008-04-23 Thanks, Bradley

MySQL User's Conference 2008

Josh Sled — 2008-04-22T20:35:16

(My apologies for not finalizing either the meeting or making the RMS talk last week; I was out at the MySQL User's Conference … though not exactly as a user — I actually started working at MySQL just about a month ago. :) The 2008 MySQL User's Conference was quite amazing, with some 2000 people in attendance. With 8 options for each of the 6 slots for each of the 3 key conference days ... there was a lot of interesting content. While the Monday of the conference did have a full 8 hours of tutorials, I was elsewhere in meetings. Tuesday started off with a rather nice keynote from Mårten Mickos, the now Senior VP of the Database Group at Sun Microsystems, about the State of MySQL, followed by another great keynote from Jonathan Schwartz about Sun and Sun's vision for Open Source and MySQL, including the great annecdote at . I was really looking forward to the keynote following that from Wern

Install and Boot Mac OS X on a Thumb Drive

Nick Floersch — 2008-04-22T16:42:24

Found this interesting... would be nice to figure out if it works with OSx86 Hackintoshes as well. Anyway, thought I'd share just to remind us all that Linux isn't the only UNIX we can play with: http://bradbergeron.com/2006/11/29/howto-install-and-boot-os-x-on-a-flas h-drive/

public service opportunity

Jim Hefferon — 2008-04-20T14:13:47

Hello, I read with interest the groups of recent messages on this list about using Linux in government and schools. I have another opportunity along the same lines, and I wonder if anyone might be interested? I recently got a call from a person who works for the local public library. They have *very* limited funds-- essentially, none. But they want to have a good electronic library system. Can you guess where this is going? :-) She has been donated a machine and is running Linux. As a non-Linux person, she is finding everything hard. One example is that the machine does not have a CD burner and she wants to backup the user name list. She asked if it is possible that someone may be interested/able to help. I said that I would be willing to have a look, but it would be uncandid of me to not admit that while I know things in my little corner I am not a pro in any sense and something like adding a CD burner would go outside my knowledge. I said that the public service sense on this list is strong a

RMS' talk yesterday

Rubin Bennett — 2008-04-18T14:06:58

While the lack of time to go for beers was disappointing (domestic issues centering on sick kiddos forced a direct return home), I personally found RMS' speech to be very much in line with my own personal feelings. And while I tend to be significantly less dogmatic in my idealism (I think I let reality have a little more headroom than RMS does), you have to admire a guy who is so committed to his ideals. I found myself nodding a lot, even when he went off on tirades about "evil corporations that deserve bankruptcy". Did anyone catch his talk this AM at Champlain? Rubin

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Rick White — 2008-04-18T21:47:09

Dear Folks, I have been visited by a magic elf from Barre and through his generous and magnificent effort am currently running the latest beta of Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on one partition of my laptop. I have been urged to give my impressions. Firstly, WOW! I'm not given to gibbering froth-mouth ravings, but I cannot overstate the graphical candy available if your card supports it. While poking around today, I found in System | Preferences | Appearance | Visual Effects, a three button menu of None, Normal (the default), and Extra. Extra is what you want. Wondering what that choice meant, I closed the menu and proceeded to fuss with email and browser. NOW when I start to drag a window elsewhere I am presented with what appears to be a rubber window. You can grab it and shake it, and it will bend appropriately with the velocity one applies to the touchpad (or mouse, presumably). It is most unnerving the first time you see it, and then you get hooked into shaking everything in sight, which obligingly bends a

GIF/AVI/FLV formats with ffmpeg

2008-04-17T22:54:14

I've generated an animated GIF of a machine part for viewing with a browser. It works quite well but I'd like to make it interactive, which I understand isn't possible with a GIF. I know very little of video and tried this with ffmpeg using "ffmpeg -f gif -i Animation.gif Animation.flv". Although Animation.flv generates, it won't play with mplayer. The file is identified as "Macromedia Flash Player" using the file command. I found I can generate Animation.avi using "ffmpeg -f gif -i Animation.gif Animation.avi". That file does play with mplayer. Using ffmpeg -f avi -i Animation.avi Animation.flv" also produces a Flash file which won't play. What am I missing when generating?