RE: [Eug-lug] linux

2010-04-19 Thread Jason LaPier
epartition and reformat. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to just try Linux while maintaining a Windows installation. http://wubi-installer.org/ - Jason L. -Original Message- From: euglug-boun...@euglug.org [mailto:euglug-boun...@euglug.org] On Behalf Of marbux Sent: Sunday

Re: [Eug-lug] Star Trekking

2009-05-12 Thread Jason Dommasch
Cool, I'll be there. And some guests. - Jason Dommasch On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Mr O wrote: > > For those wanting to enjoy the experience without the crowds... > > Tuesday May 12, 9:25PM, digital showing at VRC Regal Cinema. > > I'm bringing the (soon to b

[Eug-lug] Looking for suggestions on VPN software

2008-04-27 Thread Jason Dommasch
remotely connecting into a small office network with either a Windows or Linux laptop (I don't need office to office). Also want to know the effort involved in setting it up. - Jason Dommasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@e

RE: [Eug-lug] Share your history

2008-04-15 Thread Jason LaPier
ogs right now... That's s 2006 http://offtheline.net/2006/10/18/history - Jason L. ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

RE: [Eug-lug] AmazonMp3 store

2008-03-13 Thread Jason LaPier
t I'm saying that it's not possible; but it's gotta be rarer than "perfect pitch". - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of silver > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:49 PM > To: Eugene Unix

RE: [Eug-lug] WRT54G and WRT54GL routers

2008-03-12 Thread Jason LaPier
nd an older XP desktop that don't do much, but one of these days I'm going to install MythTV on one of them :) The server is the only one that truly runs 24/7, but my deskop gets left on overnight quite a bit (especially if I'm DLing stuff). - Jason L. __

RE: [Eug-lug] WRT54G and WRT54GL routers

2008-03-10 Thread Jason LaPier
HCP clients and put them in a DNS table. This feature saved me a ton of headache because my house has quite a few boxes and being able to get to them all by name without looking up (or hardcoding) IP addresses is very nice. - Jason L. ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

RE: [Eug-lug] good (low-end) graphics card?

2008-02-26 Thread Jason LaPier
ought a new NVidia card, because I'm willing to use proprietary drivers to get performance - but that's just on my "gaming" machine. My Dell laptop and my other two linux boxes all have ATI video and use the open source drivers. - Jason L. ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

[Eug-lug] Lunar eclipse tonight (right now in fact)

2008-02-20 Thread Jason Dommasch
Hello all, The full lunar eclipse is happening right now. It might already have passed the darkest point (can't remember the word for it). Just look east for the dark red circle. - Jason Dommasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ EUGLUG mailing

[Eug-lug] My birthday get-together, dessert night

2008-02-03 Thread Jason Dommasch
PROTECTED] or by cell phone at 543-8498. You don't need to bring anything, but if you bring your favorite DVDs they might be up for being watched. - Jason Dommasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug

[Eug-lug] eeePC again

2007-11-30 Thread Jason LaPier
ing). The price, the size, and the fact that it runs linux are attracting me - any glaring defects? (I know it's really small - I'm 5'8" with average hands - can I get used to the keyboard?) Thanks, - Jason L. ___ EUGLUG

RE: [Eug-lug] FYI: Acrobat 8

2007-11-28 Thread Jason LaPier
ly on the PDFs that I care about. > > http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/ > Meh - evince works like a champ, but it's clunky and the rendering doesn't feel as smooth as Acrobat. I might have to try Acrobat 8 and try em side by side. - Jason L. > -- > Bob Miller

[Eug-lug] VPS/grid web hosting (was: network attached storage for home use)

2007-11-07 Thread Jason LaPier
rage. There are a number of really cheap LAMP hosting solutions out there. I recently grabbed a Dreamhost account for some extra off-site storage. Their current deal is 500 GB of storage and 5TB of bandwidth for like $11 a month (cheaper if you pay a year or more at a time, of course). I don't

RE: [Eug-lug] install problems

2007-11-05 Thread Jason LaPier
pdate-initramfs -u -k `uname -r` After that, I get the splash screen and a much faster boot. - Jason L. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garl Grigsby Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 11:22 PM To: Eugene Uni

RE: [Eug-lug] eeePC

2007-11-01 Thread Jason LaPier
I was miffed about that too. I understand it's a customized distro, and legally they can call it whatever they want, but a little recognition for Ubuntu would be nice. - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike

RE: [Eug-lug] eeePC

2007-11-01 Thread Jason LaPier
ven at the low end, however, image is everything. The gPC is built using tiny components, but put inside a full-size case because research indicates that Wal-Mart shoppers are so unsophisticated they equate physical size with capability." Mini-ITX in a full-size case - what a waste

RE: [Eug-lug] Review: Dell Inspiron 1420N with Ubuntu

2007-10-22 Thread Jason LaPier
Wow, no 3D out of the box on a pre-install? Sheesh. That's weak. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harald Sundt > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:44 AM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Review: Dell

RE: [Eug-lug] ASL Laptop now longer supported or developed - I wouldalso like Laptop advice

2007-10-22 Thread Jason LaPier
hat makes a difference. Seems like the Dell pre-installs would have all the right hardware for everything from ACPI to Wifi to work properly. - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harald Sundt > Sent: Friday, October

RE: [Eug-lug] OT: what fun stuff to do is there in Portland

2007-10-19 Thread Jason LaPier
You gotta understand, upstate NY is a different world than the rest of New England. ;-) - Jason L. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Barrett Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:45 PM To: Eugene Unix and

RE: [Eug-lug] OT: what fun stuff to do is there in Portland

2007-10-18 Thread Jason LaPier
rs at Ground Kontrol) - watching a movie while drinking good beer and eating good food - they couldn't believe it. I think I may have convinced one or two to move to Portland some day... - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Eug-lug] OT: what fun stuff to do is there in Portland

2007-10-17 Thread Jason Dommasch
futuristic robot on the front cover (not the cover with Will Smith). I said goodbye, and ended up spending the night at my brother's place. The next day I went with my brother and niece to OMSI. Overall, it was a fun weekend. - Jason Dommasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 10/15/07, E

RE: [Eug-lug] OT: what fun stuff to do is there in Portland

2007-10-15 Thread Jason LaPier
old elementary school converted into a Restaurant/Bar/Movie Theater. Very interesting. - Jason L. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eponymous Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 9:19 AM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/L

RE: [Eug-lug] Blocking ad servers via host redirection, apache, and you.

2007-10-15 Thread Jason LaPier
hostnames). - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Cherba > Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 5:23 PM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Blocking ad servers via host > redire

RE: [Eug-lug] ha ha filezilla job

2007-10-15 Thread Jason LaPier
That's hilarious - makes you think that the last person to hold the position really broke something via ftp, if it was so important to make Filezilla a qualification... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Barrett S

[Eug-lug] OT: what fun stuff to do is there in Portland

2007-10-12 Thread Jason Dommasch
a long time and I'm not sure what he likes to do. I should probably have asked that first. At any rate, I'll let him know about the Slashdot party happening next week :) - Jason Dommasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@e

RE: [Eug-lug] waaaaayyyyyy OT; are any of you living Second lives?

2007-09-11 Thread Jason LaPier
lient...) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason LaPier Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:40 PM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group Subject: RE: [Eug-lug] wayy OT; are any of you living Second lives?

RE: [Eug-lug] waaaaayyyyyy OT; are any of you living Second lives?

2007-09-11 Thread Jason LaPier
o the beat of high-energy techno. I managed to disconnect before I lost my lunch on my keyboard. So much potential, so poorly implemented - Jason L. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Quentin Hartman Sent:

RE: [Eug-lug] amd64 or x86?

2007-08-16 Thread Jason LaPier
x27;s plugins directory. I don't know why, it just worked. In my experience ATI drivers are a PITA no matter what you're running; they work fine for me in amd64 (once installed). - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Eug-lug] XMMS and FLAC

2007-08-15 Thread Jason LaPier
Oddly enough, the version that comes with Ubuntu doesn't look anything like the one on the BMP site. In fact, in Ubuntu, it looks identical to XMMS to me (minus the terrible fonts). But hey, some people don't like change. Personally I go for maximum bloat: Amarok.

RE: [Eug-lug] XMMS and FLAC

2007-08-14 Thread Jason LaPier
There's always the Beep Music Player (BMP) based on XMMS, updated for GTK2 - it can use most XMMS plugins I believe. - Jason L. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mr O Sent: Mon 8/13/2007 9:50 PM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group Subject: [Eu

Re: [Eug-lug] OT: Looking for suggestions for broadband (in Eugene)

2007-08-10 Thread Jason Dommasch
I was kind of hoping to learn about classic DNS, because that's what most of the internet uses (I assume). I don't know enough about DYNDNS to know how different it is. - Jason Dommasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 8/10/07, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good thing you

Re: [Eug-lug] OT: Looking for suggestions for broadband (in Eugene)

2007-08-10 Thread Jason Dommasch
Yeah, I probably won't use a fraction of the available bandwidth, at least not initially. My other housemates are leaning towards Comcast anyway; it's the path of least resistance. - Jason Dommasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 8/10/07, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most *

Re: [Eug-lug] OT: Looking for suggestions for broadband (in Eugene)

2007-08-10 Thread Jason Dommasch
I got the impression that Comcast prohibited servers in their AUP or TOS or something. I also heard that they can suspend your account for using too much bandwidth. Are they just rumors? - Jason Dommasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 8/10/07, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An ad

[Eug-lug] OT: Looking for suggestions for broadband (in Eugene)

2007-08-10 Thread Jason Dommasch
t to start experimenting with running a public facing server. I don't need very fast internet, just connectivity and a static IP. - Jason Dommasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

RE: [Eug-lug] Ubuntu Live

2007-06-28 Thread Jason LaPier
Yup - I came to Eugene just over 5 years ago from upstate NY. - Jason L. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Gallagher Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:26 AM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group

[Eug-lug] Ubuntu Live

2007-06-28 Thread Jason LaPier
.com/group/pdxruby/browse_thread/thread/30cfd3b0518c 5c6?hl=en $100 for a full pass - really makes me wish I didn't have moving expenses right now. First Woot, now this - trying to nickel and dime me to death... - Jason L. Jason LaPier Network Manager TACS / WRRC / NPSO Unive

RE: [Eug-lug] some sales just aren't fair

2007-06-25 Thread Jason LaPier
I was thinking it's perfect for whipping out at the bar/cafe for settling arguments via google/wikipedia/whatever ("There's no way Dustin Hoffman was in Star Wars! I'll look it up right now...") If I wasn't moving to Portland next month I spend the $135 just bec

RE: [Eug-lug] iPhone expanded: to MS Milan project

2007-06-15 Thread Jason LaPier
these guys in London who have a high-powered microscope that they use to film close ups of liquids and particles of stuff - like oily water with a dash of curry powder or something. The director talks about it in this Wired interview http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/outsider.html - Ja

RE: [Eug-lug] Safari + iPhone = Killer App

2007-06-14 Thread Jason LaPier
e a CF version - with a 2GB CF card (plenty of room for homebrew and mp3s). The CF card sticks out a bit more than the MMC/SD's obviously. Newer cards take MicroSD cards and don't stick out at all (and 2GB MicroSD cards can be found for like $20). - Jason L. > -Original Message-

RE: [Eug-lug] Safari + iPhone = Killer App

2007-06-14 Thread Jason LaPier
y games, but obviously not going to compete with NDS or PSP. Also, I have an adaptor that let's me run homebrew and use flash memory cards on my DS - I use it as a MP3 player all the time. And of course, it runs Linux (although I haven't tried that in a while to see what the progress is o

RE: [Eug-lug] DomainKeys

2007-06-08 Thread Jason LaPier
I believe DKIM is baked into SpamAssassin, which is pretty widely used. Oddly enough, I've noticed more spam coming into Yahoo mail (I only maintain an account for testing purposes) recently. Seems pretty good at blocking legitimate mail and letting spam come right in /sigh - Ja

RE: [Eug-lug] DomainKeys

2007-06-08 Thread Jason LaPier
This was on a Fedora Core 6 box. According to http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/perl/libmail-dkim-perl "This is a Perl implementation created by Jason Long of Messiah College. It performs signing as well as signature verification." Jason Long wrote both the perl module Mail-DKIM and

RE: [Eug-lug] DomainKeys

2007-06-06 Thread Jason LaPier
/offtheline.net/2007/6/6/yahoo-com-mail-and-421-message-temporaril y-deferred - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason LaPier > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:14 AM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux

[Eug-lug] DomainKeys

2007-05-30 Thread Jason LaPier
o get this to work): http://www.howtoforge.com/postfix_dkfilter_domain_keys_implementation - Jason -- Jason LaPier Network Manager TACS / WRRC / NPSO University of Oregon ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

RE: [Eug-lug] collaborative web programming environment

2007-05-21 Thread Jason LaPier
st HTML or python/PHP/java/ruby/somethingelse? I don't think you asked for suggestions on version control, but in case anyone wants to hear my opinion, I prefer subversion :) (along with Trac for project management and source code browsing). - Jason L. -- Jason LaPier Network Manager TACS /

RE: [Eug-lug] new to ubuntu - touch pad question

2007-05-07 Thread Jason LaPier
a chance to try it yet - I'll have to do that tonight and see how it goes. - Jason L. > > On 5/5/07, Fred James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All > > New to Ubuntu (7.04) - not sure I like it - not sure that is > > resistance to change or what yet - have

RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread Jason LaPier
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garl Grigsby > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 4:15 PM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow > > alan wrote: > > Mandriva is a French company. They are operating

RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread Jason LaPier
boot is not that big a deal. My point is, I like that philosophy, I value Free software, and it wouldn't hurt the media to at least mention that philosophy instead of just griping about having to install Flash separately. - Jason > > > -- > R

RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread Jason LaPier
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of roger > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 12:30 PM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow > > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 12:00 -0700, Jason LaP

RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread Jason LaPier
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of roger > Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 12:43 PM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow > > > Another thing to think about on this issue, a lot of > Government a

RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread Jason LaPier
> > I see no reason why Ubuntu couldn't provide an option during > install to install 3rd party apps via the network. I don't > think Adobe is going to want to sue anybody wanting to make > their format more popular..except for maybe microsoft for > unknown Godly reasons. > > As far as win3

RE: [Eug-lug] Crappy Cow

2007-05-04 Thread Jason LaPier
worried about titling an article with something eye catching than actually providing much worthwhile information (some of his other gems include "Why Gaming Sucks on Linux" and last year's "Review: Ubuntu Linux Just Keeps Getting Better and Better"). - Jason L. >

RE: [Eug-lug] Linux hits the mainstream (Dell to offer Ubuntu)

2007-05-02 Thread Jason LaPier
ext couple years Microsoft is going to lose market share and people will want a vendor they can trust to turn to with pre-installed linux. - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan > Sent: Wednesday, May 0

RE: [Eug-lug] Simple HTTP proxy for Windows?

2007-04-30 Thread Jason LaPier
I believe Squid also runs under cygwin, altho I don't know how simple of a solution that would be. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Miller > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 3:20 PM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Su

RE: [Eug-lug] Anyone wanna help us with a database?

2007-04-20 Thread Jason LaPier
g/dl/ page they all come up as blank pages. - Jason L. P.S. I could start a rant about this, but I think I'll just go on record as saying "I really, really hate FileMaker." > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Be

RE: [Eug-lug] Java programming on linux (IDE,emacs,vi what?)

2007-04-09 Thread Jason LaPier
ve - I like using a Structure Browser to help me manage code instead So it's a toss-up for me - which is why I use jedit I think. Most IDEs are pretty modular, but I think jedit starts from a more basic starting point and I feel like I'm starting off with a text editor and only lo

RE: [Eug-lug] Java programming on linux (IDE,emacs,vi what?)

2007-04-09 Thread Jason LaPier
I personally don't like Eclipse as much - I get along with jedit. Netbeans is decent; I'm really liking the new NetBeans 6 in development. I can see myself using that more often as it becomes more stable. - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Eug-lug] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [lug] Lug Meeting?]

2007-03-30 Thread Jason LaPier
There was an interesting (although a bit layman-ized) article in the Eugene Weekly yesterday about OSU and OLPC: http://eugeneweekly.com/2007/03/29/news2.html - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Miller > Se

RE: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings Time

2007-03-08 Thread Jason LaPier
it first). I don't know whether to more frustrated with MS or Congress. DST is a bandaid that missed it's mark by a mile. Whatever - I'm glad I'm stocked up on homebrew for this sleeper Y2k - Jason L. ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

RE: [Eug-lug] New IT Group in Eugene, OR

2007-03-01 Thread Jason LaPier
Haha, no, not a Stewards. My father lives in Saratoga, so I remember Stewards too, but I was more southern-central NY (Elmira to be exact, just East of Corning, West of Binghamton, South of Ithaca). I worked at a Sugar Creek - not remotely as cool as Stewards. - Jason L. > -Origi

RE: [Eug-lug] New IT Group in Eugene, OR

2007-02-28 Thread Jason LaPier
eventually come around, you just have to work a little harder to earn their trust when you're "the kid". Personally, I'm not good at kissing ass, so I tended to just ignore people and get the job done, and eventually they come around (it re

RE: [Eug-lug] What is Viiv?

2007-02-27 Thread Jason LaPier
> > My first guess would be 64-bit support. (In Roman numerals > vi=6 and iv = > 4.) But that is just a guess. Could be 75-bit support tho - that's cutting edge, baby! > > -- > "Invoking the supernatural can explain anything, and hence > explains nothing." >- Universit

RE: [Eug-lug] Looks like Dell is going to start pre-installing Linux

2007-02-27 Thread Jason LaPier
owever, so to me personally that's the most significant part of Dell's announcement. - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of larry price > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:00 AM > To: Allen Brown;

RE: [Eug-lug] Would you guys mind padding this a little bit?

2007-02-22 Thread Jason LaPier
> > Jason LaPier wrote: > > > Also, I may be a tad stubborn. So don't bother trying to > convince me I > > wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Firefox > compiled for > > 64-bit and FF compiled for 32-bit. > > Obviously, you can

RE: [Eug-lug] Would you guys mind padding this a little bit?

2007-02-22 Thread Jason LaPier
, "why use the 64-bit version?" On 2/22/07, Jason LaPier <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Jason LaPier wrote: > > > While we're at it, where's the one for Flash suppor

RE: [Eug-lug] Would you guys mind padding this a little bit?

2007-02-22 Thread Jason LaPier
> > Jason LaPier wrote: > > > While we're at it, where's the one for Flash support on AMD64 (so I > > don't have to have two versions of Firefox installed)? > > How often does your 'Fox exceed 2 gigabytes? >

RE: [Eug-lug] Would you guys mind padding this a little bit?

2007-02-22 Thread Jason LaPier
While we're at it, where's the one for Flash support on AMD64 (so I don't have to have two versions of Firefox installed)? - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Bengtson > Sent: Wednesday

RE: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection, hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world.

2007-02-20 Thread Jason LaPier
lationship? Still tho - Latitudes. You can get more power out of an equally priced Inspiron, even including Windows. Oh well, it's a start. - Jason L. ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

RE: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection, hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world.

2007-02-20 Thread Jason LaPier
still not supporting Vista, for now. I'll try to hold out for 6 months at least. IT people in small offices, like myself, are forced to wear many hats, and troubleshooting problems with a brand new OS ain't gonna make it to my to-do list. - Jason L.

RE: [Eug-lug] Operating Systems

2007-02-13 Thread Jason LaPier
hat hasn't been around long enough to get many bugs worked out of it, from a company notorious for shipping buggy/security-hole-laden software. (many other vendors aside from Dell have laptop models that only come with Vista - especially if you&#

RE: [Eug-lug] Day Light Saving Change for 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Jason LaPier
of anything more than 2 years old - even if someone else can do it in 100 lines of bash scripting. Or, well. You know. Use open source. - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sen

RE: [Eug-lug] Linux Partition < ---> Windows Partition CommunicationsBeakdown

2007-01-24 Thread Jason LaPier
Oh come now - I can't be the only one who has an extra computer sitting around the house running (among other things) as a samba file server... ;) - Jason > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ralph Zeller > Sent: Tu

RE: [Eug-lug] refresh IP

2007-01-18 Thread Jason LaPier
dress. Click on the Properties button if you want to change the IP address manually. Unforunately, the Network Settings interface doesn't tell you your current IP address, you need to use open a terminal and use one of the previously suggest commands (ip addr). - Jason L. > -Ori

RE: [Eug-lug] Random freezes

2007-01-09 Thread Jason LaPier
WM-specific key-combo, but I really don't know - it's worked for me when something has hung X (for example an open web-page that has some quirky flash or other plug-in media in it). - Jason L. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [Eug-lug] WPA with WEP?

2007-01-08 Thread Jason LaPier
ly doesn't appeal to Nintendo. Which sucks (I have one and I'm stuck with WEP + MAC addy filtering). Nice that the Wii updates itself though... - Jason > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > S

RE: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection, hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world.

2006-12-29 Thread Jason LaPier
ore intuitive interface, cutting down on the "How do I" issues. So generally, in my office I let the end-users pick their poison. I won't support Vista until vendors like Dell no longer offer XP pre-installed, which I have a feeling will be years from now. - Jason _

RE: [Eug-lug] Daylight Savings as of 2007

2006-12-20 Thread Jason LaPier
This is exactly the kind of argument my mother makes. Usually it comes up when she's late. - Jason > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Miller > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 10:56 AM > To: Eugene Uni

RE: [Eug-lug] Ubuntu On Macbook sans hackery

2006-12-14 Thread Jason LaPier
I too had success with Ubuntu on a G4 Powerbook, after the wifi hackery. I managed to re-map some keys, but I couldn't get used to having one-mouse button, so I reinstalled Tiger and shelved it... :-/ - Jason > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[E

RE: [Eug-lug] deal at Best Buy on Toshiba notebook $249

2006-12-04 Thread Jason LaPier
Really - we're supposed to be OSS users here, so let's hear no more of this "You get what you pay for" nonsense... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen Brown > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:59 AM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Lin

RE: [Eug-lug] deal at Best Buy on Toshiba notebook $249

2006-12-01 Thread Jason LaPier
p://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=231459 There's an entire section on the Ubuntu forums for System76: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=158 So I'd advise browsing it to get a feel for the level of support they give (and maybe how happy their customers are). - Jason > -Ori

RE: [Eug-lug] deal at Best Buy on Toshiba notebook $249

2006-12-01 Thread Jason LaPier
they do cost more. I'll echo these responses - I looked long and hard at the Thinkpads before I decided I wasn't worth the extra $$ and bought the Dell 1501. (I have a Thinkpad here at work, just under a year old and I love it...if onl

RE: [Eug-lug] deal at Best Buy on Toshiba notebook $249

2006-11-30 Thread Jason LaPier
TECTED]) saying he found the manual and the images of the ports. Just wanted to let him know, that no, it does not come with firewire. On a side note, AFAIK the e1505's have Intel CPUs, and being a long-time fan of AMD, I was happy to see some Dell notebooks to finally have AMD CPUs :)

RE: [Eug-lug] deal at Best Buy on Toshiba notebook $249

2006-11-30 Thread Jason LaPier
atching on this (however, I will say, under low-light conditions it's actually a lot easier to read than my old laptop). - Jason > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dooger watts > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 12:17 P

RE: [Eug-lug] Avoid the loony Zune

2006-11-27 Thread Jason LaPier
ne.com/blog/archive/2006/11/zune_guts.html I agree, the review was great. "Microsoft's colossal blunder was to knock the user out of that question and put the music industry in its place." - Jason ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

RE: [Eug-lug] deal at Best Buy on Toshiba notebook $249

2006-11-27 Thread Jason LaPier
but they found fixes for their problems. The only things that don't seem to be working are sleep and hibernate modes... - Jason ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

RE: [Eug-lug] Procmail dummy

2006-11-15 Thread Jason LaPier
I guess all I wanted was: :0 ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Jason Jason LaPier Network Manager TACS / WRRC / NPSO University of Oregon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason LaPier > Sent: Wednesday, November 15,

RE: [Eug-lug] Procmail dummy

2006-11-15 Thread Jason LaPier
>From the looks of those scripts, they're relying on other scripts to do the actual work. Could you: cat /cs/lib/procmail/forward_spamassassin I couldn't find anything like that on the uoregon shell, so it must be something custom on the cs server. Thanks, Jason > -

[Eug-lug] Procmail dummy

2006-11-15 Thread Jason LaPier
I know my maildir, and I'm pretty sure I don't want any logging (since it will be forwarding mail from here on out). Thanks in advance for what I hope is a simple recipe, - Jason Jason LaPier Network Manager TACS / WRRC / NPSO University of Oregon __

Re: [Eug-lug] This Thursday's meeting

2006-08-31 Thread Jason Dommasch
I looked for the EUGLUG box at the old place a while back, but stuff got moved around when I wasn't there so I never ended up finding it. But I'll be at the meeting with a few extra CAT5 cables. Jason Dommasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Neil Parker wrote: Jim K wrote, If w

RE: [Eug-lug] Firefox Crop circle by Oregon State LUG

2006-08-21 Thread Jason LaPier
I've sucked up my share of OSUOSL bandwidth over the years. Bob - I just sent you $20 via PayPal. Thanks for taking up the collection. Jason LaPier Network Manager TACS / WRRC / NPSO University of Oregon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL

[Eug-lug] xmodmap

2006-08-21 Thread Jason LaPier
nter_Button3" ...but that didn't seem to work. When I hit that key, nothing really happens (I say "nothing really", because the only thing I've noticed is that if a terminal window has focus, the cursor disappears when I hit that key)

RE: [Eug-lug] Tiger security scanning scripts

2006-07-13 Thread Jason LaPier
At least it's not installed by default, and I think there's a warning when you install it via apt-get (or the GUI package installer) ... - Jason > > On 7/13/06, larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/harden-doc/html/securi

[Eug-lug] Tiger security scanning scripts

2006-07-13 Thread Jason LaPier
nd some kind of guide or online documentation. Searching for "tiger" is, for fairly obvious reasons, a bit difficult. Does anyone know where these scripts come from or who makes them? Jason LaPier Network Manager TACS / WRRC / NPSO University of Oregon _

RE: [Eug-lug] shell evilness

2006-07-06 Thread Jason LaPier
t exactly less chars, but I've been doing too much ruby lately: ruby -e 'require "date";Date::DAYNAMES.each{|d|Dir.mkdir d}' - Jason > > works on systems from Freebsd 4.11 to 6.1 > > the disappearance of the -v option from other forms of date > seems cou

RE: [Eug-lug] shell evilness

2006-07-06 Thread Jason LaPier
e disappearance of the -v option from other forms of date > seems counterproductive. If I understand correctly what you're trying to do: $ date Thu Jul 6 14:17:48 PDT 2006 $ date -d "today + 1 day" Fri Jul 7 14:17:56 PDT 2006 $ date +%A Thursday $ date -d "to

RE: [Eug-lug] Looking over the music portables...PlayForSure

2006-06-14 Thread Jason LaPier
till agree with Jobs way back when he said no one would want video on these little screens). If they would play ogg, I'd have gotten one by now Also, for fun: http://www.idont.com/ Jason LaPier Network Manager TACS / WRRC / NPSO University of Oregon > -- > "Waiter! This lamb

RE: [Eug-lug] very small form factor PC (fits in a wall jack)

2006-06-01 Thread Jason LaPier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > Jason LaPier Network Manager TACS / WRRC / NPSO University of Oregon ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

RE: [Eug-lug] Oo.org and svn

2006-06-01 Thread Jason LaPier
database keeps track of versions... > And to further refer to zimbra, I'd like to mention Zimlets: > http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Zimlets > http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=ZimletUtil > <http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=ZimletUtil> > neato :) Z

[Eug-lug] Oo.org and svn

2006-06-01 Thread Jason LaPier
writer, but saved as HTML, since _most_ formatting is consistant, and I know when I look at diffs between versions it will be a little more human-readable (thankfully OpenOffice's HTML is a lot cleaner than MS Word's). Any thoughts? Jason LaPier Netwo

RE: [Eug-lug] subversion repository design

2006-06-01 Thread Jason LaPier
che with DAV. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.serverconfig.httpd.html I have one server here that's web-testing/svn repository so I had Apache2 on it already, and it worked out well. I'm also using trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/) on the same server. Jason LaPier Network Manager TACS / WRRC / NPSO University of Oregon ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

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