Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Coleman Kane writes: > > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 10:59 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ben Scott > > wrote: > > > This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: > > > > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html > > > > >

Re: Chumby, anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Haven't done anything with it, but EE Times had a somewhat interesting/informative article on it: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218900285 On Fri, October 16, 2009 9:14 pm, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Anyone here have any experience with Chumby > (the squishy 3.5-inch-tall L

Chumby, anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Anyone here have any experience with Chumby (the squishy 3.5-inch-tall Linux appliance[0])? Anyone done anything interesting with one? [0] If I'm not making any sense, cf.: . -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr. ___

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Coleman Kane wrote: > I think you're confusing "all of Linux" with Ubuntu. Read the link target again. The HAL/DBus people in Ubuntu wanted to do the right thing, and just restart the daemons. All the upstream package maintainers -- the people writing the app

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Susan Cragin
And it's going to get worse. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/424927Sadly, I'm quite excited about the brain f*#k scheduler. Susan-Original Message- From: Shawn O'Shea Sent: Oct 16, 2009 7:36 PM To: Greater NH Linux User Group Subject: Re: It's official: Linux has beco

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Shawn O'Shea
Along similar lines to Ben's original link, apparently stability problems in Ubuntu have frustrated the Eeebuntu developer to the point that he is giving up on maintaining Eee utils for Ubuntu for the EePC. http://www.fewt.com/2009/10/i-give-up.html -Shawn On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Colema

Re: What is the result of connecting a single link (DVI-D) video source to a dual link monitor?

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Hewitt
Alex Hewitt wrote: > Mark Ordung wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: >> >> >> >>> I have a Mac Mini (mid 2009) model. From what I'm reading, that's what you >>> have and not an earlier model. (refer to http://lowendmac.com) >>> >>> This model has 2 video por

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers Let's try again.

2009-10-16 Thread Shawn O'Shea
> > > perl -0777 -ne 'print join "", reverse split //' > > And just because I'm a python geek: python -c "import sys; print sys.stdin.read()[::-1].strip()" -Shawn ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailm

Re: sendmail configuring port numbers Let's try again.

2009-10-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: > I was tempted to do something goofy, like reverse all the characters > in your text, just to get you going, but I'm too tired to go to the > effort right now. ;-) perl -0777 -ne 'print join "", reverse split //' Regards, --kevin (who sends all of his email using technolo

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Coleman Kane
On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 10:59 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ben Scott > wrote: > This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html > > Yes, t

Re: What is the result of connecting a single link (DVI-D) video source to a dual link monitor?

2009-10-16 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Mark Ordung wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > > > I have a Mac Mini (mid 2009) model. From what I'm reading, that's what > you > > have and not an earlier model. (refer to http://lowendmac.com) > > > > This model has 2 video por

Re: It's official: Linux has become Microsoft Windows

2009-10-16 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ben Scott wrote: > This is actually from 2005, but I just found it now: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/desktop-bugs/2005-August/002500.html > > Yes, that's right. Rather than fix broken software, the sanctioned > course of action is to reboot the system

Re: (My) Asterisk bias (Mk. II)

2009-10-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Ken, "Ken D'Ambrosio" writes: > Forgot one other advantage of do-it-yourself: embedded systems. For > example, I've got a Sheeva Wall Wart. For a VoIP-only solution, it's just > about perfect. But I'm unlikely to find a turnkey solution. With Ubuntu > for Arm, however, I had Asterisk installe

Myth / network question

2009-10-16 Thread bruce . labitt
Trying to diagnose an ongoing myth / network issue at home. Have two HDHomeRun tuners connected to a 1 Gb switch and then to eth1. After some time, (weeks, I think) it looks like eth1 port turns off. The link light to eth1 on the switch is off. Last time this happened, I physically checked

Re: What is the result of connecting a single link (DVI-D) video source to a dual link monitor?

2009-10-16 Thread Alex Hewitt
Mark Ordung wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: > > >> I have a Mac Mini (mid 2009) model. From what I'm reading, that's what you >> have and not an earlier model. (refer to http://lowendmac.com) >> >> This model has 2 video ports: 1 mini displayport and 1 mini DVI. T