From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Tue Feb 2 21:26:11 2010 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:26:11 -0800 Subject: [buug] Free parabolic dish, curbside, Berkeley MLK & Oregon, first come, first serve Message-ID: <20100202212611.13347bc9flemmmg4@webmail.rawbw.com> In case anyone might wish to grab it ... Spotted at about 8:45 P.M. on my way home (and likely still there) - parabolic disk ("Dish Network" I believe it is), in Berkeley, by the curb, South side of Martin Luther King Jr. Way, just a bit North of Oregon St. (approximately in front of the first house/building on the corner). From john_re at fastmail.us Wed Feb 10 10:15:01 2010 From: john_re at fastmail.us (giovanni_re) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:15:01 -0800 Subject: [buug] BIL Ride Today/morrow LA Feb 10-12-14 GNU(Linux)/FreedomSWHWCulture VOIP BerkeleyTIP Message-ID: <1265825701.28327.1359311637@webmail.messagingengine.com> BIL is the unconference companion to TED, independently produced, this Fri-Sun Feb 12-14 in Los Angeles (Long Beach). (Starts Friday 10AM.) http://2010.bilconference.com http://bilconference.com I'm gonna try to go, lead a session about Howto have global voice meetings, one about GNU(Linux), maybe have an informal installfest. Maybe you'd like to join the installfest, & help bring GNU(Linux) to the BIL crowd. Maybe you'd like to listen to a talk. Maybe you'd like to present a talk. If you're interested in going, would like to save a little money & time, wouldn't mind contributing to gas & expenses, & would like a ride, leaving later today likely (Wednesday), or perhaps early tomorrow, Thursday, from the San Fran bay area, email me with your phone # & maybe we can arrange something. == There are 2 _opportunities_: 1) learn & spend time with similar minded people by attending other people's presentations/talks/discussions, 2) learn & spend time with similar minded people by creating your own presentations/talks/discussions. Cost for BIL: $20 total for 3 days, or free if you volunteer. You'll need: money for food, spare clean clothes, maybe a sleeping bag or blanket, & a computer would be rather useful. === New info about speakers & talks, from the website. "BIL Speaking Spaces There are three talk formats for BIL this year, the Fire Hose, JIL, and the Open Culture Space. The Fire Hose consists of 20 minutes talks, with no Q&A and strictly enforced time limits. JIL is a set of talks curated for a feminine perspective. Open Culture is a Flexible time format. A number of spaces will be available for breakouts and socializing. The talks are being held at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA. 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802 http://www.molaa.org/" http://2010.bilconference.com/ http://2010.bilconference.com/2010/02/bilxoutside/ "BIL has been growing, and we?re transitioning away from keeping everyone in one room the whole time to encouraging people to strike out in small groups for adventures and exploration in the nearby community. This isn?t being organized centrally, but this page and SideWiki are going to be an area for people to organize themselves." Info about the BIL mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/bil-conference "Description: BIL has been created as a free space for people with ideas to come together and share them. Our event is self-organizing, emergent, and anarchic. Nobody is in charge. If you want to come just show up. If you've got an idea to spread start talking. If someone is saying something good, stop and listen" From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Thu Feb 11 13:19:22 2010 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:19:22 -0800 Subject: [buug] BALUG: Tu 2010-02-16: Michael Paoli on ssh and friends (ssh/scp/sftp/ssh-keygen/ssh-agent/...) Message-ID: <20100211131922.16273xmdla5e956o@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG: Tu 2010-02-16: Michael Paoli on ssh and friends (ssh/scp/sftp/ssh-keygen/ssh-agent/...) Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-02-16 Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below). For our 2010-02-16 BALUG meeting (next Tuesday!), we're excited to present: Michael Paoli on ssh and friends (ssh/scp/sftp/ssh-keygen/ssh-agent/...) In this talk, Michael Paoli will cover from the introductory basics through to intermediate or more, on what ssh (Secure SHell) is, the need for it, and many of its key capabilities, and associated utilities and their use. He'll also include many practical tips, guidelines, various security considerations and live demonstrations. Areas to, or likely to be covered include: o What is ssh? o Why ssh? o History, Open Source, & ssh o The basics: how o Some common Open Source clients o Keys - the good, the bad and the ugly (and how to, and how not to) o ssh-agent o Authentication forwarding (& benefits & risks) o X-11 forwarding - why, and how o command arguments and tty allocation, or not o port forwarding o ssh & related security care and feeding Got a specific question or area you'd like to see covered in the presentation about ssh? Michael Paoli also invites you to drop him a note: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu and he'll likely add it to the talk/presentation if it's not already in there. Michael Paoli has been using ssh and friends both personally and professionally for over a decade. By profession he's a Linux/Unix systems administrator with well over a decade of experience, and also has over ten years experience working in quite security conscious environments (e.g. major financial institution). And for fun, he ... ... well, yeah, lots of Linux, etc. stuff in there too. So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to: rsvp at balug.org **Why RSVP??** Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and they help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. Meeting Details... 6:30pm Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 2010-02-16 Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny http://www.sfpsg.com/ Cost: The meetings are always free, but dinner is $13 Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org http://www.balug.org/ From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Thu Feb 18 06:34:04 2010 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:34:04 -0800 Subject: [buug] Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" i386 CDs @ BUUG Message-ID: <20100218063404.2039542g7jbtpxs8@webmail.rawbw.com> We'll have a supply of Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" i386 CDs on hand for today's BUUG meeting (and likely also future BUUG meetings until or a bit past when the next release is out). Thanks to Jack Deslippe, Grant Bowman, and the Ubuntu California Local Community (LoCo) Team for making such CDs available and getting them to BUUG and other [L]UGs. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam From itz at buug.org Sun Feb 28 11:37:32 2010 From: itz at buug.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:37:32 -0800 Subject: [buug] bookmarks Message-ID: <874ol1p2wz.fsf@matica.localdomain> It's time to revisit this painful subject. What to use for remotely accessible, synchronized bookmarks? Cross-browser support is not important, I use firefox/iceweasel everywhere, but remote availability and ease of use is. I use Google bookmarks for a time, but I have now come to accept the view that they're the new Microsoft and when "Don't be evil" becomes less than top priority, they may use all the information available to them in unexpected ways. So I am trying to find alternative non-Google ways to do things. Mozilla Weave looks like a possibility, but 1. it doesn't seem stable yet (especially if I use my own server) and 2. it still follows the paradigm of storing the bookmarks locally (in the browser), _then_ synchronizing with the server. To me this looks like an unnecessary extra step. The bookmarks are useless anyway without net connectivity, so I see no reason not to store them directly on the server. What do my esteemed BUUG friends use? -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. From rick at linuxmafia.com Sun Feb 28 11:54:36 2010 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:54:36 -0800 Subject: [buug] bookmarks In-Reply-To: <874ol1p2wz.fsf@matica.localdomain> References: <874ol1p2wz.fsf@matica.localdomain> Message-ID: <20100228195436.GG9321@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Ian Zimmerman (itz at buug.org): > It's time to revisit this painful subject. What to use for remotely > accessible, synchronized bookmarks? I have a Web server, where I keep a bunch of my bookmarks as HTML. I use vi for merging collections of bookmarks. That's probably not the answer you had in mind, but it's the literally correct and complete answer to the question you asked. For those who want a more elaborate solution, I note the existence of Annotea Ubimarks, Unalog, De.lirio.us, and Scuttle. Links are in the list at the bottom of http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/winolj.html . (No need to outsource your data to a bunch of strangers whose business model relies on data mining to your detriment.) From itz at buug.org Sun Feb 28 12:14:31 2010 From: itz at buug.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:14:31 -0800 Subject: [buug] bookmarks In-Reply-To: <20100228195436.GG9321@linuxmafia.com> (Rick Moen's message of "Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:54:36 -0800") References: <874ol1p2wz.fsf@matica.localdomain> <20100228195436.GG9321@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <87zl2tnmmw.fsf@matica.localdomain> Ian> It's time to revisit this painful subject. What to use for Ian> remotely accessible, synchronized bookmarks? Rick> I have a Web server, where I keep a bunch of my bookmarks as HTML. Rick> I use vi for merging collections of bookmarks. That's probably Rick> not the answer you had in mind, but it's the literally correct and Rick> complete answer to the question you asked. It's one of the possible answers on my mind, yes :-) Rick> For those who want a more elaborate solution, I note the existence Rick> of Annotea Ubimarks, Unalog, De.lirio.us, and Scuttle. Before asking here, I tried: scuttle: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571804 unalog: I can't get at the darn _source_ for the thing. All I get is the front page of their hosted solution. I will try the others in your essay, thanks. Rick> (No need to outsource your data to a bunch of strangers whose Rick> business model relies on data mining to your detriment.) Exactly. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Ham is for reading, not for eating. From rick at linuxmafia.com Sun Feb 28 12:29:07 2010 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:29:07 -0800 Subject: [buug] bookmarks In-Reply-To: <87zl2tnmmw.fsf@matica.localdomain> References: <874ol1p2wz.fsf@matica.localdomain> <20100228195436.GG9321@linuxmafia.com> <87zl2tnmmw.fsf@matica.localdomain> Message-ID: <20100228202907.GJ9321@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Ian Zimmerman (itz at buug.org): > Before asking here, I tried: > scuttle: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=571804 > > unalog: > I can't get at the darn _source_ for the thing. All I get is the front > page of their hosted solution. Well, when I dig through 'browse svn' links at Sourceforge, I get to directories like this: http://scuttle.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/scuttle/branches/version-0.7/ http://scuttle.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/scuttle/tags/version-0.7.4/ Sure _looks_ like source code. PHP with a GPLv2 licence statement. I have no guarantee it's complete, but it looks right, and 0.7.4 is the current release version. From grayarea at reddagger.org Sun Feb 28 12:39:48 2010 From: grayarea at reddagger.org (John Withers) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:39:48 -0800 Subject: [buug] bookmarks In-Reply-To: <874ol1p2wz.fsf@matica.localdomain> References: <874ol1p2wz.fsf@matica.localdomain> Message-ID: <1267389588.8001.0.camel@Frank-Brain> Delicious. Everything supports it, it works. Been using them for years and they are always up. john withers On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 11:37 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > It's time to revisit this painful subject. What to use for remotely > accessible, synchronized bookmarks? Cross-browser support is not > important, I use firefox/iceweasel everywhere, but remote availability > and ease of use is. > > I use Google bookmarks for a time, but I have now come to accept the > view that they're the new Microsoft and when "Don't be evil" becomes > less than top priority, they may use all the information available to > them in unexpected ways. So I am trying to find alternative non-Google > ways to do things. > > Mozilla Weave looks like a possibility, but 1. it doesn't seem stable > yet (especially if I use my own server) and 2. it still follows the > paradigm of storing the bookmarks locally (in the browser), _then_ > synchronizing with the server. To me this looks like an unnecessary > extra step. The bookmarks are useless anyway without net connectivity, > so I see no reason not to store them directly on the server. > > What do my esteemed BUUG friends use? > From ezekielk at goct.net Sun Feb 28 16:02:09 2010 From: ezekielk at goct.net (Ezekiel Krahlin) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:02:09 -0800 Subject: [buug] bookmarks In-Reply-To: <874ol1p2wz.fsf@matica.localdomain> References: <874ol1p2wz.fsf@matica.localdomain> Message-ID: <20100228160209.1128702369md7mo0@webmail.gct21.net> Quoting Ian Zimmerman : > It's time to revisit this painful subject. What to use for remotely > accessible, synchronized bookmarks? Cross-browser support is not > important, I use firefox/iceweasel everywhere, but remote availability > and ease of use is. Ian, this is a Firefox plugin: Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks)...synchronizes both bookmarks and passwords to a remote, secure server. It's free, works fantastic, has never let me down. Been using Xmarks for more than 3 years now. http://www.xmarks.com/ -- "A government is only as good as its operating system." - Zeke Krahlin ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.