Re: Firefox & text/css

2004-12-16 Thread Jonathan Linowes
Greg, Thank you for your very complete and concise response. The error message was displayed when you open the JavaScript Console in Firefox. Fortunately I have a "virtual root" access on my hosted server (NTT/Verio), gives me access to all the files I need. :) I found mime.types in etc/httpd/c

Re: Firefox & text/css

2004-12-16 Thread Greg Rundlett
Jonathan Linowes wrote: Not exactly on topic, but I know the group will forgive me for wanting to help, and probably some will even be interested to hear about the issue. Hi, I just learned that some of my sites don't display properly with the FireFox browser, and the reason is Error: The style

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Oquist
Hi Chris, I'm the guy who shared your w/l-bluetooth-cellular Internet connection in the Manchester Airport before Thanksgiving. > Only you can help you with the final choice of taking the job. But again, > if you don't apply, you will never know what could have been. I think this advice from Ma

Firefox & text/css

2004-12-16 Thread Jonathan Linowes
Hi, I just learned that some of my sites don't display properly with the FireFox browser, and the reason isError: The stylesheet http://www.naturalentrepreneur.com/nenh.css was not loaded because its MIME type, "text/plain", is not "text/css".and I found on several forums that the solution is

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Brian Chabot
Brian wrote: Someone else seemed to think that a new laptop and cellphone, along with benefits and vacation, were big "perks", IMO those are just the standard offerings. That was me. The last two years have seen me working for peanuts and table scraps and *zero* benefits. It's been pretty sucka

Re: Free XML tools?

2004-12-16 Thread Greg Rundlett
Ted Roche wrote: So, what are recommended for good Free (as in Freedom) XML editors? What kinds of capabilities do they have? I've been using Stylus Studio, and the ability to develop XSLT via GUI drag-and-drop matching is pretty cool. Also, being able to debug the XSLT "live" as it parses is p

Re: Subversion (oh, and PHP5)

2004-12-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:41:06PM -0500, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > I believe the variables "$public" and "$private" are now reserved, > that's the most obvious gotcha. XSL translations have completely changed: from the xslt extension to the xsl extension, iirc. -- Chris pgpAzMzG0hQFz.pgp Descri

Re: meeting tonight

2004-12-16 Thread Gary L. Grebus
Rats...I missed it! So I can add it to my calendar... 3rd Wednesday of the month, right? /gary On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 11:08 -0500, Rob Lembree wrote: > > > __ > > Hi folks, > > I've been unable to reserve the room a

RE: Subversion

2004-12-16 Thread Brian Karas
FWIW, Subversion was a pretty simple/straightforward install... Never heard of Trac though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken D'Ambrosio Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:42 AM To: Mark Komarinski Cc: Fred; GNHLUG Subject: Re: FSF loo

Re: Subversion

2004-12-16 Thread Greg Rundlett
functionality back and cvs2cl for Changelog functionality. I use cvs2cl (and love it), and i'm interested in someday moving to SVN, so if you find an equivalent please post it here (not that I've looked for such an equivalent). I would guess that there is an equivalent script out there. ___

Re: Subversion (oh, and PHP5)

2004-12-16 Thread Greg Rundlett
Is anyone using PHP5 in any serious mission-critical applications? I'm very interested in switching to it -- but only if it is as stable as PHP4. I don't want my client telling me he missed out on $20K in sales because the server crashed. If you want to use PHP5, you might want to get

Re: Subversion (oh, and PHP5)

2004-12-16 Thread Drew Van Zandt
I believe the variables "$public" and "$private" are now reserved, that's the most obvious gotcha. --DTVZ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Subversion

2004-12-16 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:25:44 -0500, Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of Subversion, I'd love to hear from those who use it on a > regular basis what REAL (read: beyond the hype) advantages it has to > offer over CVS. I've grown quite fond of CVS, but it has its limits. I > understand conv

Re: Subversion (oh, and PHP5)

2004-12-16 Thread Fred
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 13:19, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > Not sure if you'd call this a "serious mission-critical" application, > but http://returntothepit.com/ switched to PHP5 recently, with only > one minor speedbump, and all seems to be working just fine. 160GB of > transfer used per month, more s

Re: Subversion (oh, and PHP5)

2004-12-16 Thread Fred
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 13:05, Christopher Schmidt wrote: ... > > Is anyone using PHP5 in any serious mission-critical applications? I'm > > very interested in switching to it -- but only if it is as stable as > > PHP4. I don't want my client telling me he missed out on $20K in sales > > because the

Re: Subversion (oh, and PHP5)

2004-12-16 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Not sure if you'd call this a "serious mission-critical" application, but http://returntothepit.com/ switched to PHP5 recently, with only one minor speedbump, and all seems to be working just fine. 160GB of transfer used per month, more stats: (all are monthly averages) Hits per Hour2529

Re: Subversion (oh, and PHP5)

2004-12-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:42:10PM -0500, Fred wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 11:54, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > ... > > My biggest plus was the "ease of use" aspect: I've never successfully > > set up a CVS pserver with access from outside the machine, while with > > Subversion, it was pretty sim

RE: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Fred
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 09:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Living a 2min walk from work now I can say it is nice. Walk home for lunch > and all that. But we also have facilites in Marlborough and Somerville so > I have to travel to those now and then (I'm in Somerville today). 2 minute walk to work?

Re: Subversion (oh, and PHP5)

2004-12-16 Thread Fred
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 11:54, Christopher Schmidt wrote: ... > My biggest plus was the "ease of use" aspect: I've never successfully > set up a CVS pserver with access from outside the machine, while with > Subversion, it was pretty simple. (I'm not sure how hard it is in > general, but Gentoo made

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Fred
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 09:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > I've never felt that me not having a degree has hurt me in any way as my > work experience shows a diverse range of skills... I've found -- painfully -- that while having a diverse ranges of skills was a "shoe-in" in the 90's, it actually

Re: Subversion

2004-12-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:25:44AM -0500, Fred wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 09:42, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > ... > > On a more Linux-y angle, has anyone tried out Trac > > (http://trac.edgewall.com/ > > ), > > a sort of ticket

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Jon maddog Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Good point. At this point, I'm not really sure I want to leave where I do > work; I like the environment, and I like the people, and I like being close > to home, and I like the work I do. But there's something to be said for a pay > raise, and working for ideals, somethi

Subversion

2004-12-16 Thread Fred
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 09:42, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: ... > On a more Linux-y angle, has anyone tried out Trac > (http://trac.edgewall.com/ > ), > a sort of ticket tracker/front end for Subversion. I'm interested in > possibly g

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Fred
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 09:02, Mark Komarinski wrote: ... > If you want to see taxes, move to NY. My brother lives in a house valued > about 1/2 of mine, pays three times the property taxes I do plus a > separate school tax. Then there's the 8.25% sales tax and the income tax. > > And that's upsta

Re: hot spot managment

2004-12-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
Would lead even work as RF shielding? I thought that application required some sort of ferrous metal. Apropos (barely) this thread, last month I was in the Nestle cookie&coffee shop in Sedona that didn't have any signs indicating WIFI availability, but out of curiosity I cranked up my laptop to

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Jon maddog Hall
Christopher, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Does anyone have any experience with hiring, such that they could tell me > how screwed I am if I ever leave my current job, since I dropped out of > college to take it? At the moment, I'm quite happy, and planning on resuming > studies (although not full

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Ted Roche
On Dec 16, 2004, at 7:27 AM, Christopher Schmidt wrote: More to the point, I'm lacking the undergraduate college degree they're looking for, and probably have a bit less experience as a sysadmin than I'd be expected to. Unfortunate, since it looks like something that would be really cool other than

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:10:43AM -0500, Jon maddog Hall wrote: > Hi, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > This makes me REALLY wish I was a coder. I'm recently unemployed and fit > > (or could reasonably fake) all the requirements except: 3+ years experience > > with at least two programming langua

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:57:49 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The 5 minutes away part is always a variable, but the rest of the > > "perks" are (IME) standard tech offerings. > > Totally, a mame cabinet, big woop. You're at work, you should be doing > work, not play

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Jon maddog Hall
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > This makes me REALLY wish I was a coder. I'm recently unemployed and fit > (or could reasonably fake) all the requirements except: 3+ years experience > with at least two programming languages. (and of course the programming > skills requirements...) [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread travis
> The 5 minutes away part is always a variable, but the rest of the > "perks" are (IME) standard tech offerings. Totally, a mame cabinet, big woop. You're at work, you should be doing work, not playing games. :) Actually at Burst we had a breakroom with a fooseball table. That got locked when the

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:42:27AM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > > >And that's upstate NY. It's worse in NYC. > > > > > Actually, I believe the state tax is 7%; it's only 8.25% in NYC. Sales tax varies per county. It's a state base of 4.25%, then something tacked on by the county. Schenect

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread travis
> More to the point, I'm lacking the undergraduate college degree they're > looking for, and probably have a bit less experience as a sysadmin than > I'd be expected to. Unfortunate, since it looks like something that > would be really cool other than that. > > Does anyone have any experience with

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
If you want to see taxes, move to NY. My brother lives in a house valued about 1/2 of mine, pays three times the property taxes I do plus a separate school tax. Then there's the 8.25% sales tax and the income tax. And that's upstate NY. It's worse in NYC. Actually, I believe the state tax

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Thomas M. Albright
One quick follow-up: do you mean Upstate NY (W. of Albany) or Downstate (E. of Albany, not the City)? Having grown up in Rochester, NY, I get a bit uppity hearing people from Eastern NY saying they're "Upstate" just beacause they don't live in the City. Yeah, I'm biased. -- TARogue (Linux use

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Thomas M. Albright
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Mark Komarinski wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:34:27AM -0500, Fred wrote: > > > > Another negative is that it is in Massachusetts, and on top of the low > > salary you get to pay in mass taxes that of which you receive no > > material benefit from (unless you live i

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:34:27AM -0500, Fred wrote: > > Another negative is that it is in Massachusetts, and on top of the low > salary you get to pay in mass taxes that of which you receive no > material benefit from (unless you live in Mass, in which case you have > my sympathies. :-)). >

RE: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Brian
>(Then again, not many programming jobs are five minutes away, have an in-office mike and ike dispenser, a foosball table, >and a MAME-based stand up arcade machine...) Chris, you know I mean this with all due respect, but you need to get out more. The 5 minutes away part is always a variable,

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:19:23PM -0500, Greg Rundlett wrote: > The Free Software Foundation is looking for a GNU/Linux Sys Admin. > http://www.fsf.org/jobs/fsf-sysadmin.html > > This has been open for a little while, but I don't think it is filled > yet (page still exists). The pay seems a b

Re: FSF looking for Sys Admin

2004-12-16 Thread Fred
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 23:31, Brian Chabot wrote: > Greg Rundlett wrote: > > The Free Software Foundation is looking for a GNU/Linux Sys Admin. > > http://www.fsf.org/jobs/fsf-sysadmin.html > > This makes me REALLY wish I was a coder. I'm recently unemployed and > fit (or could reasonably fake)