Re: [Discuss] Higher-end keyboards to try?

2015-01-14 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
Sadly, nobody makes double shot molded keycaps any more. You COULDN'T wear the lettering off those because it went all the way through. http://deskthority.net/wiki/Double-shot_molding On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Tom Metro wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: >> Daniel Barrett wrote: >>> I'm interested

Re: [Discuss] Higher-end keyboards to try?

2015-01-14 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: > Daniel Barrett wrote: >> I'm interested in getting a better keyboard, like a Cherry MX type, >> but would like to try out a few first to compare them. >> >> I tried a friend's Cherry MX Blue at work at it was quite awesome, >> though loud. > > MicroCenter probably has several d

Re: [Discuss] Higher-end keyboards to try?

2015-01-14 Thread Richard Pieri
On 1/14/2015 8:10 PM, Derek Martin wrote: Mine had weird problems where the LED states were wrong, the That's a manufacturing defect. You should have returned it for a replacement. With known faulty wiring backlighting would flicker often when my computer was under load (which makes ver

Re: [Discuss] Higher-end keyboards to try?

2015-01-14 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 07:41:32PM -0500, Richard Pieri wrote: > Best bang for the buck is Ducky keyboards. Very solid build quality, > Cherry MX switches, good price. I got a Zero Series with Cherry MX > red switches last summer for about $90. Non-tactile, decent for > typing but it's more of a ga

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 08:26:36AM -0500, Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 1/14/2015 8:05 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > Unfortunately there are only a few companies in the industry who > > produce tax software, and they only Windows and Mac compatible, or > > you can use the web interfaces. This type of s

Re: [Discuss] New to VMWare DataStores

2015-01-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:sc...@ehrlichtronics.com] > > I just had a chance to get more involved with the hardware - it turns > out we actually have a preconfigured RAID 6 setup with each drive > showing 2 TB available. > > I am going to break the RAID and see capacity we can recover. Glad i

Re: [Discuss] SQL discussion

2015-01-14 Thread Richard Pieri
On 1/14/2015 4:22 PM, Mike Small wrote: | x | y | z | t | Humidity | Pressure | |-+-++---+--+--| | 100 | -10 | 12 | 12:05 | 40 |1.302 | ... |-+-++---+--+--| Not what you had in mind? It works, but I call this a

Re: [Discuss] Higher-end keyboards to try?

2015-01-14 Thread Richard Pieri
On 1/14/2015 7:22 PM, Jack Coats wrote: Das Keyboard has some louder and softer keyboards (both sound and force). Saving my nickles for one :-) Das recently switched (or is in the process of switching) from buckling spring switches to Cherry MX switches. I have a newer Das Keyboard at work w

Re: [Discuss] Higher-end keyboards to try?

2015-01-14 Thread Jack Coats
http://www.amazon.com/Das-Keyboard-Professional-Quiet-DASK3MKPRORED/dp/B00COQTY7S Das Keyboard has some louder and softer keyboards (both sound and force). Saving my nickles for one :-) On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Derek Martin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 04:44:23PM -0500, Daniel Barre

Re: [Discuss] Higher-end keyboards to try?

2015-01-14 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 04:44:23PM -0500, Daniel Barrett wrote: > I'm interested in getting a better keyboard, like a Cherry MX type, > but would like to try out a few first to compare them. Is there a > computer store in the Boston area where this is possible? That is, > they've got Cherry red, bl

Re: [Discuss] Higher-end keyboards to try?

2015-01-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 04:44:23PM -0500, Daniel Barrett wrote: > > I'm interested in getting a better keyboard, like a Cherry MX type, > but would like to try out a few first to compare them. Is there a > computer store in the Boston area where this is possible? That is, > they've got Cherry red,

[Discuss] Higher-end keyboards to try?

2015-01-14 Thread Daniel Barrett
I'm interested in getting a better keyboard, like a Cherry MX type, but would like to try out a few first to compare them. Is there a computer store in the Boston area where this is possible? That is, they've got Cherry red, blue, brown, etc., available to try out? I tried a friend's Cherry MX Bl

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Bogstad wrote: > It isn't just the complexity. It is the constant churn. > ...any organization putting out tax software has to be prepared to put > out a new version fairly quickly. Greg Rundlett wrote: > The US govt. (IRS) should provide the tax filing software... One possibility would be

Re: [Discuss] SQL discussion

2015-01-14 Thread Mike Small
Richard Pieri writes: > Precisely. What is the structure of a relational database? A table. A > 2-dimensional table. If you have 3 dimensions of data in a relational | x | y | z | t | Humidity | Pressure | |-+-++---+--+--| | 100 | -10 | 12 | 12:05 |

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 01/14/2015 03:26 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: The US govt. (IRS) should provide the tax filing software or service -- like other countries do. +1. Has someone filed one of those white house petitions on this? ___ Discuss mailing list Disc

Re: [Discuss] SQL discussion

2015-01-14 Thread Richard Pieri
On 1/14/2015 1:53 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: Yes, the language structure was designed to facilitate relational data. No, and go read Jerry's post from this morning for details. Because SQL is built on two dimensional algebra. Two dimensional math cannot easily encompass three or more di

Re: [Discuss] New to VMWare DataStores

2015-01-14 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I just had a chance to get more involved with the hardware - it turns out we actually have a preconfigured RAID 6 setup with each drive showing 2 TB available. I am going to break the RAID and see capacity we can recover. Glad it is not in production, yet :-) On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Edw

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
The US govt. (IRS) should provide the tax filing software or service -- like other countries do. On Jan 14, 2015 10:33 AM, "Jerry Feldman" wrote: > > On 01/14/2015 10:16 AM, Jack Coats wrote: > > Doing this system got me to understand US taxes. Convoluted.. Yes. > > Logical.. Yes[once you dig in

Re: [Discuss] New to VMWare DataStores

2015-01-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:sc...@ehrlichtronics.com] > > The server does have a PERC, but it does not acknowledge any disks, > indicating the four disks are truly independent. > > Having the latest ESXi version, what is the next step to having the > system actually see each 4 TB drive at or ne

Re: [Discuss] SQL discussion

2015-01-14 Thread markw
> On 1/13/2015 1:39 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: > >>> SQL is a database interface language. It was designed specifically for >>> use with relational tables. >> >> That is part of it, true, but not all of it. > > No, that's the entirety of it: SQL was developed specifically for use > with relati

Re: [Discuss] New to VMWare DataStores

2015-01-14 Thread Chuck Anderson
It is seeing the 4 TB disks as 1.8 TB each? Sounds like the well-known 2TB limitation related to MBR partition tables and 512-byte sectors. Does VMWare support 4096-byte sector format disks? Does VMWare support GPT partition tables? Perhaps this may help: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micro

Re: [Discuss] New to VMWare DataStores

2015-01-14 Thread Scott Ehrlich
A server reboot and a closer look via vCenter client shows the machine shipped with 5.5 U2. It also does show what appears to be our four x 4 TB drives - they do show in the machine's BIOS. But, under vCenter client, when seeing the available disks to use, it lists the 4 x 4 TB disks at 1.8 TB ea

Re: [Discuss] New to VMWare DataStores

2015-01-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On > Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich > > I am new to VMWare Datastores. Previous positions have already had a > vCenter system built and enterprise-storage ready. > > We just installed a new Dell R520 PowerEdge server with 4 x 4 TB SAS

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/14/2015 10:16 AM, Jack Coats wrote: > Doing this system got me to understand US taxes. Convoluted.. Yes. > Logical.. Yes[once you dig in deep enough]. Every tax simplification act > has only added complexity. To truly simplify we must toss out all old > rules and start the system over, no

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/14/2015 09:31 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> On 01/13/2015 10:16 AM, john saylor wrote: >>> bonjour >>> >>> On 1/13/15 8:56 , Rich Braun wrote: GnuCash, I'm afraid, is even farther behind on the UI usability front. >>> works for me, b

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/14/2015 08:26 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 1/14/2015 8:05 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> > Unfortunately there are only a few companies in the industry who >> > produce tax software, and they only Windows and Mac compatible, or >> > you can use the web interfaces. This type of software does n

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Jack Coats
I designed and wrote a corporate tax package for a Fortune 100 company in the late '70s. I worked very closely with a brilliant CPA. Together we designed and validated it on 9 months before relational databases were popular. It is one of the 2 or 3 big projects in, my career. It used IBM mainfr

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
VMware should certainly be available for Linux indefinitely, but you also can easily migrate your VM to VirtualBox or KVM without too much difficulty/ On 01/14/2015 08:02 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > On January 13, 2015, Rich Braun wrote: >> It looks like the end of the road for desktop finance [...

Re: [Discuss] apache -- same old

2015-01-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
1. Especially in a multi-user environment, setting home directory to 0700 is the proper thing to do. You do not want other users looking into your home directory 2. If you use RSA keys your home directory also needs to be 0700 But, in your case, where you essentially have a single user machine your

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > On 01/13/2015 10:16 AM, john saylor wrote: >> bonjour >> >> On 1/13/15 8:56 , Rich Braun wrote: >>> GnuCash, I'm afraid, is even farther behind on the UI usability front. >> works for me, but one size does not fit all. >> >>> It looks like

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote: > On 1/14/2015 8:05 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> Unfortunately there are only a few companies in the industry who >> produce tax software, and they only Windows and Mac compatible, or >> you can use the web interfaces. This type of software doe

[Discuss] New to VMWare DataStores

2015-01-14 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I am new to VMWare Datastores. Previous positions have already had a vCenter system built and enterprise-storage ready. We just installed a new Dell R520 PowerEdge server with 4 x 4 TB SAS drives, vCenter 5.5.0 preinstalled, and a 2 TB boot disk. Do we need to create a PERC RAID set with the 4

Re: [Discuss] SQL discussion

2015-01-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/13/2015 02:49 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 1/13/2015 1:39 PM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote: >> Semantic arguments over canonically understood terms is not a good >> start. >> When one says "a SQL database," everyone knows what is being discussed. > > The only time that I've ever seen "a SQL d

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 1/14/2015 8:05 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Unfortunately there are only a few companies in the industry who > produce tax software, and they only Windows and Mac compatible, or > you can use the web interfaces. This type of software does not really > lend itself to to Open Source. Why do you say

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 01/13/2015 10:16 AM, john saylor wrote: > bonjour > > On 1/13/15 8:56 , Rich Braun wrote: >> GnuCash, I'm afraid, is even farther behind on the UI usability front. > works for me, but one size does not fit all. > >> It looks like the end of the road for desktop finance; the future is cloud >>

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
I personally find MoneyDance to be reasonably good and I have been using it for a number of years. In some cases where I have reported a problem, Sean Reilly got back to me quickly and solved the problem. Unfortunately there are only a few companies in the industry who produce tax software, and the

Re: [Discuss] Finance software for Linux

2015-01-14 Thread Daniel Barrett
On January 13, 2015, Rich Braun wrote: >It looks like the end of the road for desktop finance [...]. >I truly lament the state of this industry. +1 on that. I'm still running Quicken 2006 (old but very reliable) in a Windows XP VM (with networking turned off), importing stock quotes from Yahoo's A