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Re: [nmglug] colocation in NM
by Billy Chaves 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

Brendan <synk@...> writes: > > On 09/09/2009 02:48 PM, Andres Paglayan wrote: > > does anybody have any experience, good or bad, with prismtechnm.com > > a colocation company in Albuquerque? > > No experience with them. > > > any other comment on this matter? > > If you're shopping around, look at swcp.com. Good company, very reliable. > > -Brendan > If you are looking for a top tier colo facility and very good pricing call me at 5054404944 and I can get you quotes for Centurylink.

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Fwd: Fwd: LaTeX & RMS
by Arlo Barnes 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

So the other day I randomly remembered that Stallman lecture last year in Socorro that some of us attended. On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Jesse B. Crawford <jesse(a)jbcrawford.us> wrote: > Good god, I totally forgot. Thanks for nagging. > https://delta.jbcrawford.us/stallman.7z > I think it weighs in at *24GB* total in its entirely preprocessed form, > it was uploading all day yesterday (my Comcast here has pretty terrible > upstream performance). There's not a lot of work that needs to be done on > it. There's video which is more or less good (but should be reencoded to a > more manageable size), but the camera's audio recording is almost certainly > shit. There's also an audio recording in the form of an Audacity project > that I don't think is great either (you don't even want to know how that > was set up....), but should be better than what the camera recorded. > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015, at 03:16 PM, Arlo Barnes wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Jesse B. Crawford <jesse(a)jbcrawford.us> > wrote: > > Video and audio transcripts will hopefully appear online soon -BUT- I am > currently up to my ears in work and haven't been able to get around to > the editing (sync video/audio track and clean up both). I may just make > the raw data available and see if someone else would have some time to > do that. > > That second sentence would probably be a good idea at this point :) > -Arlo James Barnes > > I do not have enough disk space right now, but I am sure someone will. -Arlo

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We are advertising for the following position
by Andres Paglayan 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

Paid training internship in Santa Fe for wannabe developer to learn and move towards a full time job http://emrbear.com/contents/intership

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Re: [nmglug] Farmers vs. software patents,
by Arlo Barnes 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

This was on Hackaday <http://hackaday.com/2015/05/12/ask-hackaday-fixing-your-tractor-could-land-…> (I found it via the Puri.sm subreddit <https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/35wtif/fixing_your_tractor_could_l…>) a few months back. It was almost comical that Deere's lawyers used 'our clients might do something illegal with their hacked tractors, like bypass the DRM we implemented to *listen to pirated music* and we do not want to be held accountable!' as an argument. I do think that a lot of this can be attributed to ignorance rather than malice on Deere's part, though (Hanlon's razor). -Arlo James Barnes

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Running desktop apps with restricted permissions
by Anthony J. Bentley 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

Hi, A few months ago I idly thought about the possibility of a Firefox exploit giving unfettered access to my personal files. After all, Firefox is run as my own user, so a compromised Firefox could read (and sometimes even write to) all files my user account has access to. But I never did anything about it. Well, this month a serious exploit in Firefox was patched. Any version of Firefox older than August 6 is vulnerable to a malicious PDF exploit that can access your files. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-78/ This isn't theoretical; there *are* malicious websites that are using this, *right now*. Run Firefox as a separate user, though, and this exploit is totally toothless. Not only that, but any potential future exploits are also toothless. There's no way that attackers can snag your files if Firefox is run under a user that just can't access them. So I started doing it today. It's easy, too! Here's a post describing how to set it up. Should work on any Unix-like system. http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2015-August/228324.html -- Anthony J. Bentley

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Hardware,
by Ted Pomeroy 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

NMGLugers, Sorry about a blank message just sent in error. Hope the reviewer tossed it. I have an external power brick and pata/sata to usb set up that is not working. I think it is the power brick. I wonder if someone could bring a meter to test the 5v and 12v output. the harness is set up for the older 4-pin connectors with adapters for the sata drives. I was hoping to use this to salvage a dvd r/w from a desktop unit to use as an external drive with no housing. Several years ago this equipment worked with a pata/ide drive, but I no longer have those. Thank you, Ted P.

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