From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.unixmen.com/201202-apple-orphans-linux-cups-features-handicaps-open-source-printing/ Someone at Red Hat states these features will continue under open printing project. What does all this mean? Why is Apple allowed to confiscate a linux project? http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-January/161306.html http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting ..more..

From: "Dr.D " ------------------------------------------------------ That is how I got my tablet, I got a Droid, and like it, had to have a bigger screen... Don -----Original Message----- From: chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org [mailto:chugalug-bounces@chugalug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Lyke Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:57 AM To: chugalug@chugalug.org Subject: Re: [Chugalug] 81% of AT&T smartphone sales were iPhones in 4Q 2011 On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:36:59 -0500 Phil Sieg wrote: > "In a holy crap stat o' the week, AT&T sold a record setting 9.4 > million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011. 7.6 million of that > 9.4 million were iPhones. Wow. I just got an Android phone, and I've gotta tell you: I'm never going back to iPhone. The number of cool simple things that the Android just does and gets right that Apple struggles with is astounding, and while my iPad experience has put me in a "yeah, need to wait another couple of years for this market to mature a bit", my Android phone experience is making me think I need an Android tablet as well. Which, I suppose, mostly shows that I'm not a strong market demographic. Dan ..more..

From: Phil Sieg ------------------------------------------------------ "In a holy crap stat o' the week, AT&T sold a record setting 9.4 million = smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2011. 7.6 million of that 9.4 = million were iPhones. 7.6 MILLION. That's a ridiculous 81% of all AT&T = smartphones sold! That's only 1.8 million phones left to split between = Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry (ha!). That is freaking nuts." Hat tip to Gizmodo for this. Big Red (Verizon) pushed out some 7.7 million smartphones, 4.3 million = of which were iPhones or 55% in Q4 2011. Sprints numbers wont be available until Feb. Overall that is a crapload = of smartphones, and it definitely looks like Apple is narrowing Androids = overall lead in number of handsets in USA. Unless the GoogleRolla merger = comes up with a literal iPhone killer I suspect that the tables will = turn by late 2011 for new phone sales, and with the short lifespan of = handsets Apple will certainly be in the majority of TOTAL handsets in = the field by sometime in 2014. Phil Sieg President SeniorTech LLC / snapf=C5=8Dn=C2=AE www.snapfon.com Phone: 423.535.9968 Fax: 423.265.9820 Mobile: 423.331.0725 "The computer is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with. = It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds." Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/ubuntu-linux-files-lands-on-apple-ios.html >From the 'Linux on the iPhone/iPad' files: Canonical has finally landed Linux on Apple's iOS kinda/sorta. A new Ubuntu Files app officially debuted in the AppStore today. This goes beyond the Ubuntu One Music app that has been available since last year providing Ubuntu One users with the ability to store and move files. It's a good idea and an obvious extension of Ubuntu One for files. For those that are already Ubuntu users on the desktop this one is a no-brainer. Ubuntu One in the larger context however faces competitive challenges against rivals such as box, dropbox and others that seem to come out of the woodwork every other day. Apple has it's own iCloud service too...but few of those services work on Linux. There is also OwnCloud, which is real open source goodness (Ubuntu One has a tonne of proprietary code) if you want to do it all yourself. OwnCloud doesn't have an iOS app yet though. The biggest challenge with all iOS syncing type apps is what they actually sync. For example, don't expect to be able to use Apple's Pages app to save and open docs from UbuntuOne. But hey with 5GB of free storage and easy syncing with an Ubuntu box, the new iOS Ubuntu Files app is likely going to only help Ubuntu grow its UbuntuOne user base, regardless of all the competitive pressures it faces. Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist ..more..

From: Chad Smith ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.telecompetitor.com/roku-introduces-ott-on-a-stick/ I'm not even going to pretend to know if it runs Linux or not. It's a Roku on a HDMI stick - not a USB stick, an HDMI stick. For TVs with powered HDMI - or MHL enabled ports. I have OnLive (Online Game System - onlive.com ), and they have a small, smart-phone-sized HDTV gaming console... about the same size as current Rokus / AppleTVs / etc... And Roku came out with a Game System this year. Imagine next gen game consoles with streaming media and websurfing that you don't even see because they are tiny stick on the back of your HDTV. It's like the Raspberry Pi thing, (which is auctioning off 2 of their Beta Boards, btw - raspberrypi.org/archives/489 ) - only probably more expensive than $25. *- Chad W. Smith* *"I like a man who's middle name is W."* President George W. Bush - February 10, 2003 bit.ly/gwb-dubya ..more..

From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ I have and old lime green iMac(i dubbed the crabapple) that I have run x on before. somewhere about when Ubuntu went chocolate the we started having issues with x. But before you haters start it is not ubuntu. I've been trying Debian squeeze now and getting the same problems. Screen goes black and power button yellow. Comes out of it when you switch to a cli tty. X messages state mach64 module not found. Some research shows that this is an issue on sparc and intel as well. Red Hat, arch it doesn't matter. So who the hell broke ATI support in the kernel? XORG is fickle & heathen god! ..more..

From: Ed King ------------------------------------------------------ did n-e-1 on chugalug attend the unitiv i.t. appreciation event at Terminal last night? how was it? I signed up, and really wanted to go, but had to cancel at the last minute because I had a hellacious toothache yesterday (and today). I should not have bit down into that apple! ..more..

From: Stephen Kraus ------------------------------------------------------ I haven't really been able to contribute to CHUGALUG anymore, and while I will certainly be in Chattanooga in the future, I don't feel like I receive much from the list anymore. I'm not an Apple user, and the trend seems to be going more towards Apples products, with the sparse discussion of Linux and TONS of programming and political/community issues being discussed. So for now I bid you adieu So, I'm off. I have fond memories of CHUGALUG, and certainly hope to hear from all of you in the future! Keep the list alive! I remember meeting Mike when I was about 16 and going to my first meeting, and CHUGALUG filled almost all of my teenage years. As I am now 25, digging hard into my Physics degree, I'm leaning more and more away from IT concerns. So, so long all you LUG'ers. I enjoyed you all (even you Chad). SrA Stephen T Kraus Bagram AFB, Bagram Afghanistan! ..more..

From: Eric Wolf ------------------------------------------------------ My daughter has, once again, done in her Dell laptop. She's 1/2 through her senior year of high school, so I either need to help her get something for college or just buy something cheap to get her through the year. Like all kids nowadays, and especially the artsy types, she's entranced by All-Things-Apple. I would be happy to make the investment in a MacBook for her if I knew that she could walk into an Apple Store and just get it fixed. She's a bit accident-prone and has broken/lost/thrown across playgrounds more electronic gadgets than I can count. Extended-warranties are a money-losing proposition for anyone selling to her - if she actually took action on the broken device before it expired. Apple Stores are hip enough that I figure she just might take her broken stuff in if she had access. Alas, Chattanooga lacks an Apple Store. Are there any Apple repair shops in Chattanooga that come close to the Apple Store level of service? As an alternative, NewEgg.com has a refurb Lenova ThinkPad T60 for $225 that should be adequate to get her through the year. Chances are the ThinkPad my be tough enough to become her backup computer through college (when she breaks her Mac badly enough). Does anyone (Aaron) local to 'Nooga have a comparable deal? Lastly, anyone have experience with kingoflaptops.com? Their prices are just a little too good to be true and there are ZERO Google-able reviews of the company. Those two things together make me wonder. No info at the BBB. I just Googled their listed address... One is a home for sale and the other is an apartment in a complex: http://www.realestatesrichmond.com/property ..more..

From: Ed King ------------------------------------------------------ now that cooler weather is here, I'm taking some time "off" from the car projects and spending some time to rediscover my computer collection, most which I haven't fooled around with in years So I open up a storage tub that contains some apple/mac stuff and to my horror/amusement, both of the powerbook 190 laptops inside have green slime coming out of them. capacitor leakage? "it just works... until it doesn't work" ..more..

From: Tim Youngblood ------------------------------------------------------ I'm having a difficult time with my wifi in my house. My house has rock exterior walls with old school (rock like) plaster interior walls throughout and multiple levels to add insult to injury. My current wifi router will barely make it out of the room it is in signal wise. When you are there it is blazing fast (Apple Airport Extreme - I'm not looking to use Apple's approaches as I've tried them all and it just works, not.). What I'm looking for is a set up that has multiple access points on the same ssid so that no matter where I am in my house I can have continuous wifi access. I don't want it to jump ssid from room to room as that is not convenient. Anyone have experience with such an approach. The mainstream vendors seem unable to sense this need in the current residential market. Perhaps these solutions are marketed to business specifically which I haven't considered in my brief research. Thanks, Tim ..more..

From: Lynn Dixon ------------------------------------------------------ After the recent (and still ongoing) iBattle in the Kindle thread as well as all of the Apple related stuff that always gets tossed in, I am left wondering is this still indeed a LUG? It seems more and more threads are Apple based, or somehow they always end up with someone bringing in Apple. Sorry for the rant. ..more..

From: Billy ------------------------------------------------------ I wish MacOSX was more open, or at least developers were more motivated to develop for it. Work has just bestowed upon me, a Macbook Pro. That was more like pulling teeth out of a rabid lion with a tooth ache, but the project lead for a secret monkey project I'm working on was able to push it through. It's short of a small miracle really. So, I've finally configured it the way I like it. I've found the apps I need, or at least found ways to perform the same functionality. At least mostly.... I have an external drive that I use to share a bunch of crap with other systems. I have a development workspace directory structure that I share with multiple systems. I have a list of virtualbox images that I share across multiple systems. So, going to MacOsX, I'm thinking, it's UNIX, it should see XYZ filesystem. (I'm just using xfs which is older than dirt, was built by Irix and open sourced years ago.) Nope! MacOsX only supports HFS/HFS+, VFAT (fat32) and NTFS. I use a compressed image format (squashfs) that allows me to use my virtual machines with the base layout as a compressed image. This isn't supported in MacOSX. Now, this isn't a big deal. I didn't expect it to work outside of the box. I figured I'd need to get some type of extra library of something to get everything to work. Nope. I can extract the data from my compressed format, but I can't actually mount it as a compressed file system. I'm guessing there isn't a "loopback" in MacOSX? There is a FUSE implementation hook, but nobody has built anything for this compressed file system. Same fox XFS. EXT2 is supported, but it's buggy in the macosX fuse extension. Now, Linux does support HFS+, but it's doesn't behave well with high throughput and a USB drive. Something happens, and it throws the volume into READ ONLY mode if you're reading and writing too fast to the filesystem. HFS+ is also case-insensitive, but case-preserving. So it LOOKS case-sensitive -- but it's not. That doesn't really help me. VFAT and NTFS don't treat unix permissions very well -- so that's out. So, in the end, I had to abandon my plans to share my external drive with the macbook pro. I could probably create a virtualbox image that has ubuntu just so I can use my external drive... or parallel's. But that just seems like a PITA. It's not ALL bad. I really like the OS. The built-in multiple virtual desktops are nice. The integrated wifi widgets, WPA2-enterprise support, mature controls for sound, video, multiple monitors, etc are nice. iChat rocks. Mail isn't bad at all. Lighted keyboard (awesome). Magnetic power hookup, automagically support for my sane protocol scanner/copier/printer (allows you to scan multiple documents from the doc feed via wifi). The integration is nice. The hardware apple puts this stuff is nice (intel i7, 4 cores, 8 GB ram). When I opened the box to unpack the laptop for the first time, I thought it was like opening a treasure chest. The packaging was so damn perfect and inviting. Holy crap! wow! But, I understand why people use Linux for computer forensics - it just has the tool support - it'll read anything and hook up to most anything. I was just a bit disappointed that MacOSX didn't provide more of an "open" support model for connecting to stuff that wasn't apple or microsoft. At the end of the day, I'm very happy with the Macbook Pro. I will never buy a windows machine again. --b ..more..

From: Lisa Ridley ------------------------------------------------------ Hey guys, Question from someone with rudimentary hardware skills and basic = hardware knowledge about purchasing a network router for a small office. = When I say rudimentary, I mean that I can plug things up, work a = screwdriver or other tools, can usually figure out from documentation = what I need to figure out to configure things, and I can hold my own at = the command line. =20 I currently am using an Apple Airport Extreme at my office, which is = basically a wireless router with print server capabilities and other = functionality (no boos and hisses or discussions about the pros and cons = of Apple products please -- if you feel you must, please start another = discussion - I love my Airport Extreme). I have a fixed IP address for = my internet connection. In order to get the Airport Extreme to function = properly with the internet service I have at the office I had to put it = in bridge mode, which disables the port forwarding functionality on the = Airport extreme. I also have a server that I'd like to put in my office and expose it to = the internet. My understanding (which may be way off base) is that = because the port forwarding on the Airport Extreme is disabled, this is = probably not possible if I have the server plugged into the Airport = Extreme. So.....I'm looking for recommendations on a wired router that I can = place between the Airport Extreme (which I'll probably still use to = provide wireless connectivity in the office) and the incoming connection = that will provide the port forwarding I need for the server, which I = plan to plug directly into the wired router. The server will be used as = a Git repo, to store software disk images I don't necessarily want = cluttering up my daily computer's HDD, and will run some web services = for development and testing. Since the server will be plugged into the wired router, something that = can also function as a firewall would be awesome! Finally, I'd like to avoid breaking the bank, so anything that exceeds a = couple hundred dollars is probably not viable, unless that's absolutely = required to get the functionality I need. Be kind :) For those of you familiar with Chattanooga, I'm in the Tivoli Center, = and Luken Communications provides internet service to tenants, with a = backup internet connection courtesy of a benevolent cartoon character = here on Chugalug :). Lisa Ridley= ..more..

From: Phil Sieg ------------------------------------------------------ Got a MacBook Air, so I no longer need my MBP. MacBook Pro: Mid 2010 13" MBP 2.4Ghz Core2Duo (Unibody) 1 TB HDD (320GB was standard) 8 GB RAM (4GB Standard) Fresh Lion install Battery is excellent Overall condition is near perfect Retail from apple was over $1600 with the HDD and RAM upgrades. First $1000 gets it. Phil 423-331-0725 ..more..

From: Ed King ------------------------------------------------------ is there any other company in this town where folks pull job titles out of their ass? http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlaman its a sad day when you find out someone has stolen your job, sadder still when you find out from linkedin and not from your boss I guess Mr Laman was too embarrassed to list what he has REALLY been doing since April 2010: director of IT for Concentric Network Solutions, formerly Chattanooga Online. yeah, I'm a little bit pissed right now. if I had an Apple Lisa, I'd run over it. ..more..

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From: Mike Harrison ------------------------------------------------------ Daniel Applegate pointed me to to a guy that had some for sale cheap. Done. Fini. THANK YOU DANIEL! ..more..

From: "Dr.D " ------------------------------------------------------ Now my Droid maker is on by the Android OS maker. Googorola That looks like Linux from a shell prompt.. ..more..

From: "Daniel L. Appleget" ------------------------------------------------------ https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/15844-High-Fashion-Low-Security.html -- Daniel Appleget Chattanooga Computer Service http://www.chattanoogacomputerservice.com/ 423-760-0879 Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito ..more..