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Gate Rape: Urban Word of the Day
by Brian Kelsay 19 Nov '10

19 Nov '10

Monty discussed this at the after-meeting at IHOP. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Urban Dictionary <daily(a)urbandictionary.com> Date: Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:00 AM <http://www.urbandictionary.com> * November 19: Gate Rape <http://list.urbandictionary.com/t/11539478/68042374/35602/0/> * <http://list.urbandictionary.com/t/11539478/68042374/35602/0/> The TSA airport screening procedure. * My sister got gate raped at LAX.*

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The world is coming to and end
by Duane Attaway 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to build a robot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQA0m8H5W_M I have now changed my mind.

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AO532h
by Jonathan Hutchins 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Got the squeeze installer to work from unetbootin after a few failures. Install seemed to go fine, no errors, but on reboot no grub, just windows. So far I've failed to get a live USB image or CD to boot. This thing has two "hidden" partitons, and I suspect it's using some sort of windows trickery that boots to W7 no matter what. I _did_ get the unetbootin and clonezilla USB images to boot.

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Re: Laptop wanted
by Sean Crago 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

On the Acer 532h netbooks, I've run into two issues I haven't cared enough to fix just yet: The SDHC reader didn't work at all under the last build of Ubuntu, and the mouse was problematic. The multi-touch trackpad caused frequent errors when using whatever the default mouse driver was, but there was a fix out there somewhere. Upgraded to the current version a week or three prior to its release, but that caused the mouse to become completely unresponsive. Been too busy to deal with it since, but beware: These particualar etbooks aren't exactly problem-free.

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Re: Laptop Wanted
by Duane Attaway 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Jonathan Hutchins wrote: > On Tuesday 02 November 2010 11:07:48 am you wrote: >> Microcenter often has specials on reconditioned Acer Aspire Ones for $200. >> >> Our Kansas store has 20 of these in stock ready for pickup...if you like >> purple: > > Thanks, snarfed the AO523h in Onyx Blue. > > Didn't know you worked there, should I ask for you next time? :D Oh no, I don't work there! I feel fortunate we have a Microcenter within driving distance of our city! Their website lists quantities they have if you select which store. I call the Five Guys Burgers and Fries place across from our house "our" restaurant too. And I don't care to flip burgers in my back yard anymore!

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Laptop Wanted
by Jonathan Hutchins 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

The old Toshiba finally conked out this morning, so I'm definitely in the market for a laptop if you've got one for sale. Also interested in recommendations on new netbooks.

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Starting a KCLUG Blog
by Michael Morgan 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

We would like to begin a blog for book reviews, meeting discussion summaries, etc. Please share your opinion regarding content and software. Michael Morgan librarian(a)kclug.org

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Small Rack
by Jonathan Hutchins 24 Oct '10

24 Oct '10

I have a 3 foot standard 19" rack cabinet that I no longer need. It's 37" tall, 14.5" deep, 22" wide, has cooling louvers on the side and a 16"x11" hinged door in the top. Currently mounted on 3/4" plywood with furniture casters, has three shelves mounted. No mounting holes at back. Best offer by next weekend or it goes to the D.A.V.

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Re: Bank websites
by Justin Dugger 22 Oct '10

22 Oct '10

I appreciate the attempt at irony, and regret that I replied off list my mistake. Apologies if this thread is confusing people. >On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:16, Justin Dugger <jldugger(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> What I like is OFX, which is basically a network protocol for your >> screen scraping tools. GNUcash does a good job importing my OFX >> transactions from Discover, for example. In this manner I don't have >> to care about how much they like Flash on their website. Supposedly >> Capitol Federal has an OFX gateway, but I've never seen it work in >> GNUcash. But neither of these places are one stop banking. But it's >> better than the wtf-are-you-thinking Mint website. >OFX looks neat. Too bad it's existed 10+ years now and this is the first I've heard of it. It also sounds like most financial institutions >only peer with each-other with it, and don't expose it to customer use. And it also sounds like it is massively over-engineered for what I >want, which is basically to aggregate a table of transactions that the bank can insert, but never update or remove; and to maintain a >local bank-independent cache of every statement document. >I'll read up some more on OFX. I'll even try to use it when I pick my next bank, but I'm not holding my breath that they'll allow it. Man >it would be nice to be able to send a check from a cron job, or have each transaction matching X criteria forward to my email. >We need a 'Geek Savings and Loan' that would support regex filters and actions like this. Here's the deal: you live in America, land of the business deal. OFX has been around for ages, so long as you used Microsoft or Quicken products. You've heard of those, right? To have free and open systems, you'd have to live in communist Europe, where they built a platform known generally as HCBI/FinTS. Frankly, regex is dramatically underengineered for this stuff. XSLT would be a bit saner, as would having a bayesian importer (such as GNUcash has) to classify transactions. >> As far as messages go you'll never find a bank that sends financial >> documents to you via email, as it's not encrypted and you'd have a >> hard time convincing the auditors of public key encryption. If you do >> find one, think twice about it. >I never said I'd withhold my gpg public key from them. Banking insurance mandates auditors and it's these people you must convince. GPG encrypted statements would probably work, but for ~0.1 percent of the population, half of which would implement it wrongly. >When was the last time you received a document containing sensitive information that was encrypted? Now how many of those >documents came through the USPS unencrypted? I have more confidence in the reliability and secrecy of email than USPS mail. I've received lots of documents via HTTPS that were encrypted. None from email or USPS. Frankly, it's a false equivalence, since USPS documents are a liability; you have to trust both the chain of posession, including postal inspectors, mail carriers, and an unlocked postbox, and the shredder to destroy the junkmail credit card offers people can steal out of your trash if you're not careful. In an ideal world, we wouldn't be trusting USPS. >I would appreciate the right to choose. And I would gladly choose to forfeit the secrecy SSL provides in exchange for the convenience >of email. I think I'd prefer RSS over that even since I could easily script an encrypted feed catcher. >They could deliver statements via https rss feed with authentication. Heck, a feed of every individual transaction (debit/credit) on every >account I have with them would be DAMN handy. You could do that over SSL, with a client having to provide username and password. That's a winner. Of course, it relies on browsers and SSL, but it's at least standardized. It's too bad it won't happen, but maybe the Bank of Geek can pull it off. >Fundamentally, they prepare the document. They know first when it is ready. It is their duty to transmit it to me without my >involvement. Email fits that profile well. What I want is every midnight of the first day of the month, the statement for the last month >gets saved in all of my replicated servers, and pops up in evince on all of my desktops. I should not have to click links or enter >passwords or fore-go secrecy. Their duty is to protect your money and your privacy. If you're following proper security procedures, your PGP key is encrypted on disk, requiring you to decrypt it before passing it to evince (really, your ideal world involves PDF?!?) >Emailing me to tell me that I can come get it pisses me off. To help demonstrate how fucked up that is, you're reading my reply off >my webserver. Thanks. Good thing the privacy of this conversation is not subject to regulation, law or insurance. Justin >On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Billy Crook <billycrook(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:16, Justin Dugger <jldugger(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> What I like is OFX, which is basically a network protocol for your >>> screen scraping tools. GNUcash does a good job importing my OFX >>> transactions from Discover, for example. In this manner I don't have >>> to care about how much they like Flash on their website. Supposedly >>> Capitol Federal has an OFX gateway, but I've never seen it work in >>> GNUcash. But neither of these places are one stop banking. But it's >>> better than the wtf-are-you-thinking Mint website. >>> >>> As far as messages go you'll never find a bank that sends financial >>> documents to you via email, as it's not encrypted and you'd have a >>> hard time convincing the auditors of public key encryption. If you do >>> find one, think twice about it. >> >> A reply to your message is now available. For your convenience, >> securely sign in to retrieve it at http://bcrook.com/.reply.txt >>

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That case of a Teacher not comprehending Linux seems to warrant Hackerdom's attention.
by Oren Beck 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

Recently, some folks were recalling the weirdly strange events caused by a schoolteacher seeing Linux for the first time: http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our-kids-back.html We've had a few years of the economy getting so nuked that paying for software from vendors demanding per-seat fees is literally impossible in many educational and charity situations. Which of course, mandates a choice between either having NO computers in use- or the use of software that's de minimus -cost free, and after that, the "Open Source" concept becomes a feature as opposed to the liabilities inherent in "Closed Source" software. Frankly speaking- I consider using ONLY "Closed Source" software in education to be made of Pure Fail. In a reality accepting society- we'd have the whole range of totally free to totally unfree software presented to our children, in a neutral fashion. Except? If you go to a school board and suggest anything beyond their comfortable, shrinkwrapped, high dollars per seat software,. it's not unexpected to replicate what Helios encountered. The whole reason this is of potentially existential importance to ALL of Hackerdom is what our future will be- or NOT be if we do not teach our children to teach their TEACHERS. Oh, call it "Worldview Hacking" if we want to have a geeky pride in how we do it:) Things like showing a demo of Puppy Linux might be "Less Scary" if someone first gave a demo of Portable Firefox on a comfortably familiar to that school- thumbdrive device. They see the "wow- it works" effect in their comfortable Windows based sandbox. Sadly, more schools still use IE than anything else so there's still a risk of Xenophobia being triggered. Hacking the Worldview of Education is something that also falls under my favorite concept "Leading By Example" IF we teach our children to be an ambassador for everything WE want our- and THEIR literal future to be, their example becomes what can lead us to a better world. I have 2 Grandchildren in a public school, and scarcely a week goes by that does not produce some story displaying a stunning "Lack Of Clue" in their teachers or the school itself. In handing this over for hopefully constructive comments, I close with a question and Book recommend. Do you think your life would have been different in a world where Linux/ "Open Source" type Worldviews had been taught? The book recommend that spawned that last query is Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow: http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ Do we REALLY want our children in a school like what Marcus attended, let alone to have us in the world that school is set in ? -- Oren Beck 816.729.3645

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