Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?
by John Stoffel
Hi,
Anyone on here using Charter Telephone VOIP service? I've currently
got Verizon, but the wife hates it because our phone lines get flaky
all the time, esp when it rains.
So I'm thinking to save money and combine all my stuff onto Charter.
I've already got High Speed internet and regular old cable. Not wild
about Digital Cable since I'm happy with Tivo and I don't want yet
another set top box to have to deal with...
So, any horror stories about Charter Phone VOIP quality and service?
Thanks,
John
7 months, 3 weeks
Last week of Early Bird pricing for LOPSA-East (formerly PICC) May 3-4, 2013, New Brunswick, NJ
by LOPSA-East 2013
Early Bird Registration ends April 1st! http://lopsa-east.org Space is limited!
Early Bird Registration is over April 1st for LOPSA-East 2013, May 3-4, at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. After next week, prices will go up. IT professionals from the tri-state area and the entire east coast will be joining us for the most talked about community-driven IT conference of the year.
You can find out more at http://lopsa-east.org
LOPSA-East begins Friday with an entire day of training offered by world class instructors. We have half day sessions on Puppet, Wordpress, Basic and Advanced PowerShell, Virtualization, and much more! The conference continues on Saturday, with more half day training sessions along with 45 minute presentations from invited speakers, 5 minute lightning talks, and 'birds of a feather' discussions on participant selected topics.
(The entire training schedule can be found at http://lopsa-east.org/2013/lopsa-east-training/)
Register now! Save up to $197 by registering during the Early Bird pricing! Even larger discounts are available for students.
For more information and to register visit http://lopsa-east.org
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6 years, 1 month
What does Stack Exchange do when disaster strikes? Find out at LOPSA-East (formerly PICC) May 3-4, 2013, New Brunswick, NJ
by LOPSA-East 2013
Early Bird Registration ends April 1st! http://lopsa-east.org Space is limited!
In late October of 2012, Hurricane Sandy was wreaking havoc on the east coast. It was the second costliest hurricane in US history causing widespread power and service disruptions. George Beech, a System Aministrator at Stack Overflow, will be presenting a talk at LOPSA-East 2013 about their successful failover to a backup datacenter and what it took to keep their primary New York City datacenter operational while implementing the Disaster Recovery plan.
This talk will focus mostly on Disaster Recovery and migration for a primarily windows based shop. Including:
SQL 2012 failover
DNS Migration
Dealing with long term shutdown of AD DC's
How their DR Plan survived it's encounter with reality
He will also spend a little bit of time talking about what happened at the 75 Broad st. facility - and the efforts of all involved to keep that datacenter up and running.
The 'Bucket Brigade'
24/7 Staffing rotations
How three companies worked together (SquareSpace, Fog Creek, and Stack Exchange) to keep the lights on, and services running.
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You can find out more at http://lopsa-east.org
LOPSA-East begins Friday with an entire day of training offered by world class instructors. We have half day sessions on Team Efficiency, Configuration Management, Basic and Advanced PowerShell, IPV6 migration, and much more! The conference continues on Saturday, with more half day training sessions along with 45 minute presentations from invited speakers, 5 minute lightning talks, and 'birds of a feather' discussions on participant selected topics.
(The entire training schedule can be found at http://lopsa-east.org/2013/lopsa-east-training/)
Register now! Save up to $197 by registering during the Early Bird pricing! Even larger discounts are available for students.
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6 years, 2 months
Joel's Favorite Android Apps
by joel d
Hi everyone,
First thanks being o.k. with my bringing my 5 year old on, Andrew to
the last meeting.
He does want to become a "Junior WLUG member".
For that reason I did not contribute much to the android meeting.
Below is a summary of my favorite apps, some were mentioned Wednesday
and some were not.
All are listed with a $ sign if they had a cost.
I am a cheapskate so it had to be pretty good for me to fork some over.
Thanks,
Joel
==============================================================
Favorite Android Apps
Utilities:
I leave these three running....
Llama (rules based phone control)
Llama lets you define an "area" by the local cell phone tower ids
You can then set logic based rules based upon location and/or time
and/or ...
Juice Defender Free
Avast Antivirus
USED DAILY:
Swiftkey Keyboard $ 1.99
Aqua Mail Pro (for *all* e-mail accounts) $ 4.95
SugarSync - 5Gb of Cloud Sync (works like dropbox but sugarsync's
android is better )
I sync hourly when on WIFI only.
Sync documents and all cell photos with my desktop and laptop.
Will do digital photos and also files!
I use this for favorite PDF files of magazines, and owners manuals
for complex items.
PowerAmp (for playing MP3 and podcasts ) $3.99
10 band Equilizer is very handy for podcasts with hiss (just drop
high and low frequencies down)
Elixir2 (system info)
Elixir2 Widgets (allowes more and smaller home page icons in widget)
Elixir2 Personal Add On (smaller widget icon to include a contact person)
DW Contacts and Phone and Dialer (this one does SO much, I mainly
like the visuals on contacts & dialer)
Astrid - Task list which syncs to website account
Pocket - store web pages for later offline reading
ConvertPad Convert units & currencies
Bubble Find "Level" in multiple directions
Brightest Flashlight
RealCalc Sci Calculator
UltraChron Stopwatch or Countdown Timer
AlarmDroid Simple Alarmclock
Librivox Download audiobooks from public domain (usu. 50+ years old)
A cool app for kids stories (Aesop's, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland..)
Networking/WIFI Stuff:
Fing
Wifi Analyzer (scan for WIFI)
Speed Test
FoxFi (create a portable hotspot)
Buying Stuff:
Amazon Shopping
Ebay
Paypal
c.Mobile Craigslist Client
Dolphin Browser (big & pretty browser & add ons)
I sync my Firefox desktop favorites with xmarks.
Handcent SMS - quick & easy text messages
Allows customization of fonts and other item I like.
YouTube - browser like for Youtube but better/smoother control
aCalendar free - better interface, but still uses Android calendar data
I sync aCalendar to my gmail calendar and use it for schedule.
X-plore File Manager - handles files and photos locally
X-plor also does dropbox/sugarsync/googledrive and ftp
Once you get "files" to Android with SugarSync, I then need:
Adobe PDF viewer
Kingsoft Office very good office suite for viewing and editing
Ham Radio & Radio Geek stuff:
Repeater Book (listing of ham repeaters based upon your location)
EchoLink (connect to radios & repeaters around the world via Internet)
Scanner Radio (streams audio from scanners worldwide - incl Worcester
F & P & EMS)
Time Wasters / Games
Kindle
Flipboard - random news
Plague Inc (like risk but you are trying to infect/kill world)
Dead Trigger (FPS to shoot zombies)
Andoku 2 (soduku app)
Pandora stream generic music
6 years, 2 months
Early Bird Registration ending soon for LOPSA-East 2013! (formerly PICC) May 3-4, 2013, New Brunswick, NJ
by LOPSA-East 2013
Register early and save! http://lopsa-east.org Space is limited!
Early Bird Registration ends April 1st for the 2013 LOPSA-East conference, May 3-4, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. IT professionals from the tri-state area and the entire east coast will be joining us for the most talked about community-driven IT conference of the year.
You can find out more at http://lopsa-east.org
LOPSA-East begins Friday with an entire day of training offered by world class instructors. We have half day sessions on Team Efficiency, Configuration Management, Basic and Advanced PowerShell, IPV6 migration, and much more! The conference continues on Saturday, with more half day training sessions along with 45 minute presentations from invited speakers, 5 minute lightning talks, and 'birds of a feather' discussions on participant selected topics.
(The entire training schedule can be found at http://lopsa-east.org/2013/lopsa-east-training/)
Register now! Save up to $197 by registering during the Early Bird pricing! Even larger discounts are available for students.
For more information and to register visit http://lopsa-east.org
---------------------------------------
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6 years, 2 months
Northeast Linux Fest
by The Hammer
Hey guys,
Just curious if anyone from the WLUG is planning to attend the Northeast
Linuxfest at Harvard March 16?
I'm planning to go. My current plans are to make a day trip in on
Saturday.
Ron
6 years, 2 months
Announce: WLUG Meeting Wed 3/13 7PM Android Apps
by Chuck Anderson
Hi folks,
The next Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG) meeting will be held at
its regularly scheduled time: the 2nd Wednesday of the month, which is
tomorrow, Wednesday, March 13, at 7PM. The location will be the WPI
Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331.
Wednesday, March 13, 7:00 - 10:00 PM
WPI Campus Center, Mid-Centry Room 331
Your Favorite Android Apps
Afterwards, we will go out for pizza.
See you there,
Chuck
President, Worcester Linux Users' Group
http://www.wlug.org/
6 years, 2 months
Re: [Wlug] Wlug Digest, Vol 113, Issue 2
by Karl Lind
Yep, Going Saturday and Sunday. Looking forward to a little hob-knobbing
:\|D .
Karl
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> 5. Re: WLUG website issue? (Keith Wright)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 14:38:41 -0500
> From: The Hammer <hammerron(a)yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Wlug] Northeast Linux Fest
> To: WLUG <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
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> Hey guys,
>
> Just curious if anyone from the WLUG is planning to attend the Northeast
> Linuxfest at Harvard March 16?
>
> I'm planning to go. My current plans are to make a day trip in on
> Saturday.
>
> Ron
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> From: The Hammer <hammerron(a)yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Wlug] WLUG website issue?
> To: WLUG <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
> Message-ID:
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>
> I'm not sure who the proper contact is, but lately have not been able to
> get onto the website at
>
> http://www.wlug.org/
>
> It says:
>
> Bad Request
>
> Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
> Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.
> Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.
>
> Hint: *https://angus.ind.wpi.edu/* <https://angus.ind.wpi.edu/>
>
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> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:56:24 -0500
> From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] WLUG website issue?
> To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
> Message-ID: <5138F0E8.6070802(a)wpi.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
>
> Thanks for the heads up, this should be fixed now.
>
> Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution
> that
> Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong.
> Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken
>
> On 3/7/2013 2:40 PM, The Hammer wrote:
> > I'm not sure whothe proper contact is, but lately have not been able to
> get
> > onto the website at
> >
> > http://www.wlug.org/
> >
> > It says:
> >
> >
> > Bad Request
> >
> > Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
> > Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.
> > Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.
> >
> > Hint: *https://angus.ind.wpi.edu/*
> >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Apache/2.2.15 (Scientific Linux) Server at angus.ind.wpi.edu
> > <http://angus.ind.wpi.edu> Port 443
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wlug mailing list
> > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
> > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:02:08 -0500
> From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] Northeast Linux Fest
> To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
> Message-ID: <5138F240.4060808(a)redhat.com>
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> On 03/07/2013 02:38 PM, The Hammer wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Just curious if anyone from the WLUG is planning to attend the Northeast
> > Linuxfest at Harvard March 16?
> >
> > I'm planning to go. My current plans are to make a day trip in on
> > Saturday.
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list
> > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
> >
> I am presenting at it, on Saturday.
>
> Secure Linux Containers
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> Dan
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 18:37:39 -0500
> From: Keith Wright <kwright(a)keithdiane.us>
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] WLUG website issue?
> To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
> Message-ID: <201303072337.r27NbdSK004584(a)localhost.localdomain>
>
>
> Works for me. It says:
>
> Topic: Your Favorite Android Apps
>
> Date/Time: Wednesday, March 13
> 7:00 - 10:00 PM
>
> Location: WPI Campus Center, Mid-Century Room 331
> > From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU>
> >
> > Thanks for the heads up, this should be fixed now.
> >
> > On 3/7/2013 2:40 PM, The Hammer wrote:
> > > I'm not sure whothe proper contact is, but lately have not been able
> to get
> > > onto the website at
> > >
> > > http://www.wlug.org/
> > >
> > > It says:
> > >
> > >
> > > Bad Request
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 07:20:26 -0500
> From: The Hammer <hammerron(a)yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] WLUG website issue?
> To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
> Message-ID:
> <
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> ..I just tried it at a different location and it's fine here...very odd
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Keith Wright <kwright(a)keithdiane.us>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Works for me. It says:
> >
> > Topic: Your Favorite Android Apps
> >
> > Date/Time: Wednesday, March 13
> > 7:00 - 10:00 PM
> >
> > Location: WPI Campus Center, Mid-Century Room 331
> > > From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU>
> > >
> > > Thanks for the heads up, this should be fixed now.
> > >
> > > On 3/7/2013 2:40 PM, The Hammer wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure whothe proper contact is, but lately have not been able
> > to get
> > > > onto the website at
> > > >
> > > > http://www.wlug.org/
> > > >
> > > > It says:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Bad Request
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
> > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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> From: Keith Wright <kwright(a)keithdiane.us>
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] WLUG website issue?
> To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
> Message-ID: <201303081337.r28DbCPx003633(a)localhost.localdomain>
>
> > From: The Hammer <hammerron(a)yahoo.com>
> >
> > ..I just tried it at a different location and it's
> > fine here...very odd
>
> What's odd? Frank says it's fixed and it's fixed.
>
> > > > From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU>
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the heads up, this should be fixed now.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 08:47:08 -0500
> From: The Hammer <hammerron(a)yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] WLUG website issue?
> To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
> Message-ID:
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>
> ..my one thought is the computer with the trouble was running *cough*
> Windows xp...it has AGV virus protection. I'm wondering if AVG is blocking
> the site. I will try to check setting next week when I see it again
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Keith Wright <kwright(a)keithdiane.us>
> wrote:
>
> > > From: The Hammer <hammerron(a)yahoo.com>
> > >
> > > ..I just tried it at a different location and it's
> > > fine here...very odd
> >
> > What's odd? Frank says it's fixed and it's fixed.
> >
> > > > > From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU>
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for the heads up, this should be fixed now.
> > _______________________________________________
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6 years, 2 months
WLUG website issue?
by The Hammer
I'm not sure who the proper contact is, but lately have not been able to
get onto the website at
http://www.wlug.org/
It says:
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.
Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.
Hint: *https://angus.ind.wpi.edu/* <https://angus.ind.wpi.edu/>
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Apache/2.2.15 (Scientific Linux) Server at angus.ind.wpi.edu Port 443
6 years, 2 months
The 3rd annual Northeast Linux Fest
by Jonathan Nadeau
Hello,
I would like to annouce the 3rd annual Northeast Linux Fest. It will be
on March 16 and 17 at Harvard University in the Science building. If you
are new to Linux or a seasoned veteran this is the place for you. We
will have speakers from Red Hat teaching you how to leverage
virtualization using Openshift and KVM. The Fedora distribution will
have their own track giving talks on all things Fedora. John Sullivan
from the Free Software Foundation will be there also. Jon 'Maddog" Hall
who has been there from the start of it all will be giving the keynote.
We also will have an all day class for new Linux users. This event is
free and to learn more about it here is the website.
http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org
--
Jonathan Nadeau http://www.jnadeau.org
Northeast GNU/Linux fest http://www.northeastlinuxfest.org
6 years, 2 months
