[PLUG] Customer survey software

Scott Howard SHoward at k-hlaw.com
Tue Jul 24 15:10:44 UTC 2012


Can someone help with a software recommendation for a customer survey response on a website.  I think that lime survey may be one such program. The goal is a website click that brings the visitor to a fill in the blank addressed email.

Scott Howard

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Today's Topics:

   1. Google Chrome and built-in video camera (Joe Shisei Niski)
   2. Re: a LEAN linux using apt-get or yum (Joseph Hume)
   3. Re: Google Chrome and built-in video camera (Dale Snell)
   4. Re: Slowing down web spiders, particularly baidu (Aaron Burt)
   5. Re: August General meeting still TBD (Aaron Burt)
   6. Re: August General meeting still TBD (Brian Martin)
   7. Re: August General meeting still TBD (John Jason Jordan)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:35:45 -0700
From: Joe Shisei Niski <joeniski at easystreet.net>
Subject: [PLUG] Google Chrome and built-in video camera
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Message-ID: <500E4241.7060802 at easystreet.net>
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about a year ago, i intalled a little utility called "Camera Monitor" on
my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop. It simply sits in the panel and lets me know
whan my camera is active. It's never come on except when i've
deliberately fired up a Skype call or taken a self-portrait.

i rarely use Chrome, but recently had the occasion to watch a bunch of
videos ( http://www.youtube.com/user/TransformVoice?feature=watch,
<http://www.youtube.com/user/TransformVoice?feature=watch> where i'm
taking singing lessons and highly recommend to anyone who wants to do
the same). Apparently i'd never used YouTube since installing Camera
Monitor - as soon as i landed on YouTube, i was alerted that my camera
was active! Shocking! Why do the denizens of the GooglePlex want to
watch me watching?

A quick search via Google (doh! i guess they're already watching me...)
failed to produce anything relevant. Has anyone else noticed, or read
of, this behavior?
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________________________________________
Joe Shisei Niski
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:19:55 -0700
From: Joseph Hume <joseph at f1forhelp.net>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] a LEAN linux using apt-get or yum
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Message-ID: <500E4C9B.5040507 at f1forhelp.net>
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On 07/13/2012 02:12 PM, Bill Barry wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
>> Normal versions of Debian and Ubuntu fail both ways.
>> Comments?
> I don't know which normal versions you are talking about, but I always
> install Debian using netinst.
> http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
>
> At some point during the installation it asks you which type of system
> you are installing and you just uncheck everything.
> What you get is a very small installation that will boot to a console.
> >From there you can install things as you need them.
>
> Bill
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I would have to second this method.  On my Debian Net Installs I uncheck
everything except for base system and ssh server.  Never had a reason to
check disk space on a fresh install, but the above two selections and
additional packages vim, samba, and swat installed after a reboot, I
have a machine that is using 953Mb out of a 19Gb partition.

Joseph Hume
F1 for HELP




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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:40:43 -0700
From: Dale Snell <ddsnell at frontier.com>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Google Chrome and built-in video camera
To: joeniski at easystreet.net, "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;
        civil   and on-topic" <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Message-ID: <20120724004043.13777b11 at zothique.localnet>
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:35:45 -0700
Joe Shisei Niski <joeniski at easystreet.net> wrote:

> about a year ago, i intalled a little utility called "Camera Monitor"
> on my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop. It simply sits in the panel and lets me
> know whan my camera is active. It's never come on except when i've
> deliberately fired up a Skype call or taken a self-portrait.
>
> i rarely use Chrome, but recently had the occasion to watch a bunch
> of videos ( http://www.youtube.com/user/TransformVoice?feature=watch,
> <http://www.youtube.com/user/TransformVoice?feature=watch> where i'm
> taking singing lessons and highly recommend to anyone who wants to do
> the same). Apparently i'd never used YouTube since installing Camera
> Monitor - as soon as i landed on YouTube, i was alerted that my
> camera was active! Shocking! Why do the denizens of the GooglePlex
> want to watch me watching?
>
> A quick search via Google (doh! i guess they're already watching
> me...) failed to produce anything relevant. Has anyone else noticed,
> or read of, this behavior?

I've heard of this before; it's a function in Flash, rather than
YouTube proper.  To disable it, right-click in the Flash window, and
select the "Global Settings..." menu item.  This will open a web page
at Adobe that shows a small preferences-type panel.  Though the page
is Adobe's, the settings are live on your system.  There is also a
"Settings..." menu item that pops up a little preferences-type panel,
and you can disable Flash's use of your camera, microphone, and
hardware acceleration from there.

Hope this helps.

--Dale

--
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One:  You Can't Win.
Two:  You Can't Even Break Even.
Three:  You Cannot Get Out of the Game.


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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:14:42 -0700
From: Aaron Burt <aaron at bavariati.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Slowing down web spiders, particularly baidu
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Message-ID: <20120724141442.GA3055 at aaron-acer>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 03:48:52PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> My websites have gigabytes of content, but very little of it is
> updated frequently.  Some search engine spiders, like baidu.com,
> (the big Chinese one) seem to crawl my sites continuously,
> bringing apache to a standstill.  Just before I restarted apache,
> netstat said baidu had 70 (out of 224) ports open, some talking
> to gigabyte files.  Some claim that baidu crawls the web every
> 15 minutes or so.

I believe this is the best reference: http://www.robotstxt.org/
If Baidu doesn't follow your robots.txt, you can also do some trickery with
mod_rewrite rules in your .htaccess, based on the user agent string.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Baidu [NC]  # UserAgent is Baidu
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$            # Not on the homepage?
RewriteRule .* /                           # Then go there!
# RewriteRule .* - [F]                     # Alternate: return 403 Forbidden

Note: This is mostly from memory and not tested.  See
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html


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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:22:47 -0700
From: Aaron Burt <aaron at bavariati.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] August General meeting still TBD
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Message-ID: <20120724142247.GB3055 at aaron-acer>
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 03:34:12PM -0700, Michael Dexter wrote:
> On 7/23/12 1:49 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > Some time could be taken for a discussion of OSCON, the good, the
> > awesome, and the bad.
>
> Was planning to already. :)
>
> I also have goodies to give away!

Yay!  Hopefully not too offtopic for PLUG, but does anyone know where the
"Hack is not a four letter word" shirts came from?  I'd love to give one to
an ex-photojournalist I know.  (Or maybe to my buddy with the sidecar rig.)

"Hack" has many meanings,
  Aaron


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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:52:52 -0700
From: "Brian Martin" <plugng3 at MartinConsulting.com>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] August General meeting still TBD
To: <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Message-ID: <002b01cd69ac$007a5140$016ef3c0$@MartinConsulting.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="us-ascii"

> I am waiting for a confirmation from a speaker for the August first
> Thursday meeting. Please let me know if you have a talk you would like
> to offer as a backup.

At OS Bridge I was surprised at how many people haven't used LVM.  As a
result I prepared a short presentation (~20 minutes) on getting started with
LVM that is on tap if you need it..

                               -Brian Martin




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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:57:39 -0700
From: John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] August General meeting still TBD
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Message-ID: <20120724075739.278ca39a at mailhost.pdx.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:52:52 -0700
"Brian Martin" <plugng3 at MartinConsulting.com> dijo:

>> I am waiting for a confirmation from a speaker for the August first
>> Thursday meeting. Please let me know if you have a talk you would
>> like to offer as a backup.
>
>At OS Bridge I was surprised at how many people haven't used LVM.  As a
>result I prepared a short presentation (~20 minutes) on getting
>started with LVM that is on tap if you need it..

This would be very interesting, especially if it includes how to shrink
a logical volume.


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