Re: Netgear now touting open source WRT-compatible wireless router

2008-07-03 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
a maintenance contract for it. They could have just said: Buy a new unit and keep it on maintenance. Of course they would lose a lot of business that way.. Warmest regards, md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St

Re: [HUMOR] $500 patch cable

2008-06-16 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
learn to read the manuals first? md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member

Re: Some library and packaging advice please?

2008-06-10 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
was at Mission Critical Linux in 2001...just a short drive down the Everett Turnpike into Lowell. md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http

Re: Linux/FOSS cons?

2008-05-18 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
at juncture of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, draws developers from many SA countries -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board

Re: Windows Vista Linux? [HUMOR]

2008-05-04 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
of trademark protection (only forcibly used twice in fifteen years, from my memory). I am glad that this was nothing more than a badly placed comma. maddog -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice

Re: Hamfest in Ubuntu News; Local Community team ?

2008-05-01 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
that our money might be spent better in other educational activities. Warmest regards, maddog -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org

Re: Solved: Sendmail question. Problem with yahoo.

2008-04-14 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member Emeritus: USENIX Association (2000-2006) (R)Linux

Re: low power linux PC?

2008-04-07 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
output providing the power to all the units at once. You might want to look at the efficiency of these power dongles, however, as some might waste more power than they provide. md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St

Re: low power linux PC?

2008-04-07 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
and it worked fine with the one power connector to the USB 2.0 bus, with no additional power needed. This is a follow-on product of 250 GB. Note: This is not an endorsement of Lacie or this particular product. md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL

Re: power meters [ was low power linux PC? ]

2008-04-07 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
clothes dryer cost me All I know is that I have never, ever had quite the sensation of burying my nose in sheets and towels dried in a clothes drier as I had with clothes right off the clothes line. The lack of that fresh, clean, natural scent is what clothes driers cost me. md -- Jon maddog

Re: missed SLUG due to being very sick

2008-03-11 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
What? I thought Linux users couldn't get viruses...?! He did not say it was a virus. It could have been a worm. But in this case, Linux did promise, and deliver, on a rosegarden. md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80

Re: Laptop Saved! (was RAM Mapping Script)

2008-03-05 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
-22.78 Total 2434.29 Cost of all that technical help from the GNHLUG mailing list...Priceless! md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
that particular addressing mode (and I can not remember which one it was) would have been very ugly indeed. (sigh) md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http

[GNHLUG] Hugh Thompson Show - live audience in New York City

2008-01-15 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hello, This Sunday, January 20th at 1300 hours (that is 1 P.M. for Windows users), Jon maddog Hall will be doing a taping for the ATT Tech Channel's Hugh Thompson Show: http://techchannel.att.com/site/home/index.cfm in front of a live audience. The taping will be at 1330 on Sunday and be over

Re: VoIP -- PSTN provider recommendations

2007-12-07 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
is one of the least expensive and greatest coverage. md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board

Re: [OT] Simple math considered physics

2007-11-23 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
the grooves. Pluck a string and show them the harmonics. Get them involved with midi, electronic music. Lots of cool software for audio on Linux. md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-15 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
and since you could trade off easily, and since Aetna was an equal opportunity employer from day one, it was easy to find someone who would work for you if you wanted the time off. Thanks for the memories. md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL

Re: Lawsuits, Red Hat, yummy....

2007-10-13 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Jerry, It is curious that only Red Hat and Novell are the plaintiffs. Why not FSF (GNOME), of X.ORG, or TrollTech (KDE and QT). I think you meant that Red Hat and Novell are the defendants, not the plaintiffs, in this suit. Having a few defendants at one time is a normal thing. You only

Re: Meeting Notes: SLUG / 8 Oct / InkScape

2007-10-10 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member Emeritus: USENIX Association (2000-2006) (R)Linux

Re: Linux Stickers

2007-10-07 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
about using a foil material: http://people.debian.org/%7Eseppy/foilstickers/ available at print shops. Once you do it one time you could probably just call them up and order more without going to the shop. And there are other materials for printing (clear plastic, etc.) md -- Jon maddog Hall

Re: Cell Phone question, maybe not linux specific?

2007-09-22 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
court case: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/02/72785 md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member

Re: Cell Phone question, maybe not linux specific?

2007-09-22 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
want, freeing their customers to pay for the technology that they really wanted (mp3). Hmmm, this is an offshoot of the Microsoft model Never vote for incompetence when pure evil will also explain it. :-} md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL

[OT] Re: Happy Birthday, Linux!

2007-09-19 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
All I know is that today (September 19th) is Talk Like A Pirate Day, so imagine the conversation in some places: Arrggg, Matey, I really don't want any more of that Microsoft software, even if I don't have to pay for it. md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International

Re: w00t! What a ride!

2007-09-17 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Bill, 'According to Mr. Alksnis, “the story smells badly.' Leave it to the Russians to tell it as it is. But you missed this story: http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/09/14/266177 md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: w00t! What a ride!

2007-09-17 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hmmm. Russian news sources are being identified as typically honest. That's it, I'm officially living in bizarro-world now. ;-) While official Russian news sources sometimes have to be taken with a grain of salt, the average Russian on the street is pretty savvy and fairly blunt about

Happy Birthday, Linux!

2007-09-17 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
for it, which I'm doing now. -- Linus Torvalds p84 and p88 Just for fun So two days after Software Freedom Day we have the anniversary of the birth of Linux. maddog -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice

Re: AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs

2007-09-12 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 16:18 -0400, Tony Lambiris wrote: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=NjA1Mw Thoughts? Well, I have not seen the document, but it seems about 5,700 pages shorter than the OOXML specification. Probably clearer and fewer bugs in the specification. And the

Re: AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs

2007-09-12 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
paid for and now own). Even when all the 64 bit stuff was being developed they were on the front lines with open source. On 9/12/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 16:18 -0400, Tony Lambiris wrote: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=NjA1Mw

Re: [semi-OT] Review: Comcast Workplace cable Internet

2007-09-11 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
in different directions until you got Leave it to Beaver to come in clearly. And you just read the paper to find out what time and channel it was scheduled for. And people say that Linux is hard to use. :-) md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL

As a world traveler this would be my greatest nightmare....

2007-08-15 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member Emeritus: USENIX Association (2000-2006) (R)Linux

Re: As a world traveler this would be my greatest nightmare....

2007-08-15 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
They got lazy tho, if they'd used XP Embedded proper (it's just XP Professional with modules removed), then they'd have removed Winlogon, boot screen, etc. Interestingly enough I was driving down RT. 101 in Silicon Valley the other day and went past one of those gigantic signs with its

For those of you who have not seen it

2007-08-03 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007018331803.gif -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member

Re: MySQL v. PostgreSQL, continued, was: Microsoft Access - two questions

2007-07-31 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
No annoyances like stored procedures Oh well, they just added stored procedures in 5.0 md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

OpenFoam (was Re: Tacoma Narrows bridge (was: MySQL v. PostgreSQL ...))

2007-07-31 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
to me by a man who wanted to know why his plastic duck floated around in his backyard pool the way it did, yet he did not want to spend zillions of dollars for a commercial CFD package. So we brought the discussion back to Linux. md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux

Re: MySQL v. PostgreSQL, continued, was: Microsoft Access - two questions

2007-07-31 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:54 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm gonna have to start putting a Please read and consider my entire message before replying notice at the top of all my posts... But that would eliminate much of the hilarity ensuing from those

Re: [OT] Enigma Machine on Ebay

2007-07-20 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
They removed the item on Ebay, but here is where you can read about them: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/machines.rhtm Several years ago the British Government finally declassified Bletchley Park, just outside London, where the Allies were successful in breaking the Enigma code, and

Re: [OT] Looking for ancient boot media

2007-07-12 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
It made quite an impression being on the job all of 15 minutes then being asked to drop several newly assembled machines from a height of 4 feet onto a thinly carpeted manufacturing floor as part of a drop test. As I recall, in the 2 years I worked there, we did that test exactly once.

Re: [OT] Looking for ancient boot media

2007-07-12 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Oh boy, a place where I can trot this out: http://www.geezer.org/core-window/ :-) It is missing the sense wire. md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: [OT] Looking for ancient boot media

2007-07-12 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice

Re: Petition against OOXML

2007-07-08 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
This may be true. However, I believe it would be a better use of Linux activists' time and resources to be petitioning the FCC to keep the OTA TV spectrum in the hands of the people. How much of an evil would a closed open document standard really be if we pass up the opportunity to have

Fwd: FFII puts up a prize in fight against Microsoft Office standardisation

2007-07-07 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linux-aus -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association Board Member Emeritus: USENIX

Re: FFII puts up a prize in fight against Microsoft Office standardisation

2007-07-07 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 11:56 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: On 7/7/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I do not often just forward an email I got from some other mailing list, but I thought this was both significant and relates strongly to what happened in Massachusetts

Re: [gnhlug-jobs] [NH Jobs List] Job: Network/Database Administrator - Manchester

2007-06-29 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 05:29 -0700, Lori Nagel wrote: Free software is for everyone, not just nerds and geeks. If someone can use Word, they can use free replacements such as OpenOffice.org. For companies, it does not make sense to spend money on proprietary software, especially when free

Re: Dual Core or Quad Core?

2007-06-29 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Warren, These days the Linux kernel scales fairly linearly for eight processors, so the real questions are: o on the eight-core system, how often would you keep the fifth to eighth core busy? o on the four-core system, how often would you have processes in the run queue looking for a processors

[OT] ...a beak you had to reckon with...

2007-06-26 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I keep telling people that free software has been around longer then they imagineapparently so have penguins. http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2532095320070626?src=062607_0411_ARTICLE_PROMO_also_on_reuters md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International

Re: Solaris/x86 rant (was: Any advice on Solaris laptops?)

2007-06-22 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 09:33 -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: On 6/21/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And there's the retro naming of SunOS 4.x to Solaris 1.x. ummm, that was way more than a retro naming. SunOS was based on the BSD kernel and the BSD

Re: Solaris/x86 rant (was: Any advice on Solaris laptops?)

2007-06-21 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
And there's the retro naming of SunOS 4.x to Solaris 1.x. ummm, that was way more than a retro naming. SunOS was based on the BSD kernel and the BSD code, modified a long time under Sun. Solaris was based on System V.4, with Sun ripping it apart and basically re-writing it. SunOS was related

Re: gnhlug mythtv link?

2007-06-16 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Perhaps you meant this: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MythFest ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? OT: PC Gigabit Through put Question

2007-06-15 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 22:16 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On top of that, if hdparm says timed disk writes are around 40MB, what could you see for sustained download speeds? Maybe a static cached webpage could saturate a gig connection, sustained 5 gig

Near-fest

2007-06-01 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
12th and 13th, 2007. I will be in Toronto that weekend, so I will not be able to attend or lead this. If someone else would like to take the mantle for the Fall Near-Fest, I will be happy to give you the contact information for it. maddog -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux

Re: SwANH InfoExchange 2007 Call for Presentations

2007-05-21 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Of course it might have helped if they had put in the dates of the conference, but I found out from their site that it was October 11th. Time enough to put something together, but not me, as I will be in Curitiba, Brazil on that day. I would suggest a good topic as one on Integration of

Re: The end of NTSC analog TV

2007-04-28 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
but there is still a ton of money to be made selling and reselling that spectrum. You can bet the networks aren't doing this just out of a desire to improve the American TV viewer's experience. ;-) Not only that, but think of all the money they will save in electricity costs. The same

[GNHLUG] Near-Fest Ham event - May 4th and 5th at Deerfield Fairgrounds

2007-04-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
GNHLUG will be sponsoring a one-table display of Linux at the Near-Fest Ham Event. Since we typically want a lockable, indoor space with power, I signed up as a commercial vendor, which costs $40. per eight-foot space (and $16 per eight-foot table to go in it). This is considerably more than

Re: kill -9

2007-04-02 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 00:28 -0400, Jonathan Linowes wrote: Have you seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4 :)) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]

2007-03-27 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
From the viewpoint of one who pontificates a lot on the list, I have also the pain of those who just want technical information, and do not want to join in the greater discussions, but this issue is not just technical' versus non-technical. For example, recently people kept using the subject line

Re: Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]

2007-03-27 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I don't recall that we've *ever* had anyone go so far as to start campaigning for their preferred candidate. The worst was some brief Bush-bashing. But we have had several long, involved threads about mostly political issues. Copyright issues. I think that copyright issues and

Re: Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]

2007-03-27 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
For example: I cannot help but note that this thread really has very little to do with Subject Lines on the Mailing list, and *never did*. Oh, the irony, it burns. ;-) I disagree. This thread has to do with being easily able to determine the basic content of the email, and it was

Re: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux

2007-03-27 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Bill, I believe that Shirky demonstrates that fixing a mailing list is not possible. Letting go makes it easier to relax and enjoy... Doesn't it? We fixed the list at least twice before: o the addition of announce o the addition of gnhlug-org where, since I have asked Ted to

Re: Why we can't record our TV shows (was: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center)

2007-03-26 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Seth, There is a not-so-fine line between the issues of copyright, DMCA, etc. being discussed and the HOWTO of performing illegal acts being discussed, particularly when people get fast and loose about saying I did this and I used this. Even if you are careful about what you say, others may not

Re: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center

2007-03-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 01:26 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: If only that applied to Sat TV such as DirecTV. *pout* I have never had Sat TV, but it seems to me that if you could get the timing information of when the programs were going to be shown, then you could record those programs even if

Re: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center

2007-03-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Analog is the word there. :-) I was referring to HD TV via DirecTV. And unfortionatly, the only solution which is coming out for this is lead by Microsoft in a Microsoft/DirecTV partnership. Many years ago I told a friend of mine at IBM that Microsoft has no partners other than

Re: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center

2007-03-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I have a feeling that much of the stream decryption will happen in Windows. A, Winmodems, I almost forgot about them! Then Microsoft started producing Microsoft mice and keyboards, and when I pointed out that Microsoft was no longer just a software company, he just laughed (but it

Re: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center

2007-03-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:33 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote: HD video capture cards which can take composite inputs? Google knows all, and there seems to be a whole series of solutions, although they all seem to be pretty high-priced. There seemed to be a few cards that did the whole thing, and

Re: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center

2007-03-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
It is just a huge amount of data. As I re-read my answer, it occurred to me that the concept of this being a huge amount of data flies in the face of my normal rants about real computing. I should re-state this to say that for the average homeowner or desktop PC it is a huge amount of data

Re: Why we can't record our TV shows (was: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center)

2007-03-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 14:35 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/25/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is, someone needs to stand up and say 'this ain't right'. This hearkens back to the wireless phone carrier subthread I accidentally started. As long as people

Re: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center

2007-03-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 14:55 -0500, Bill Mullen wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:16:12 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Freeman) wrote: Analog is the word there. :-) I was referring to HD TV via DirecTV. And unfortionatly, the only solution which is coming out for this is lead by

Re: mythtvfest

2007-03-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 16:23 -0400, Bruce Labitt wrote: Which distro will be used as the base for the installfest? At this point we are recommending Fedora. What makes it better for the install? The fact that we have used it before and it works. We have not tested MythTV with Puppy Linux,

Re: mythtvfest

2007-03-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Why not Debian or Ubuntu? For sheer upgradability, Debian systems tend to be more bullet proof. We had a pilot of this, and we chose a couple of distributions. We realized that was a mistake, as it did not allow us to lockstep through. Remember, we were anticipating 30 or forty people,

Re: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center

2007-03-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 20:42 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Mar 24, 2007, at 19:02, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: Make sure you watch the video, it is a scream. I try not to be too impulsive, but this video makes me want to wipe my work-in-progress MythBox and start over. Anybody here try

Re: Why we can't record our TV shows (was: In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center)

2007-03-25 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 22:49 -0500, Nigel Stewart wrote: Internet Radio has been sentenced to death. -- Doc Searls The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. --- Princess Leia Organa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Leia_Organa

In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center

2007-03-24 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
http://www.linuxmce.com Make sure you watch the video, it is a scream. md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

[GNHLUG] MythTV InstallFest - March 31st, NHTI, Concord, New Hampshire

2007-03-23 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
What : MythTV Installation Assistance Where: New Hampshire Technical Institute, Concord, NH Day : Saturday 31 March 2007 Time : 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM - Introduction - GNHLUG, in conjunction with NHTI, is pleased to announce the second MythTV InstallFest! Do you want to be able to watch

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-22 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Or are you looking for things that don't exist yet (or I/we're not aware of)? A little of both. FOSS products and services (commercial or non-commercial) that exist today that just do something great. Or unique ways of doing things that rocks your boat (www.plutohome.com) Maybe something

Re: Safety Tip: aim caff away from foot before triggering...

2007-03-22 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
3. Export the key, encrypted with my key, to email to Bill: Um. I tried a couple of things and just managed to mangle up my shell windows with lines-and-boxes font characters. Anyone have a suggestion on how to do this one? Anyone? Beuller? You have to use the --armor option on the gpg

Simply Amazing and Head Slappers

2007-03-22 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I want to thank all the people that sent me email on the F***king Cool email, and anyone that is inspired to send more, it is certainly welcome. Now what I would like to concentrate on is more of the line of Wow, I (or my boss) would really like to see that at work... OR I did this (bought

Re: Simply Amazing and Head Slappers

2007-03-22 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Drew, This was good, it is along the lines of what I wanted for Simply Amazing and Head Slappers. Thanks, md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Notes from MerriLUG, 15-March-2007, Matt Brodeur on PGP/GPG Encryption and key-signing

2007-03-21 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I would like to add that after about ten years of skirting the issues with PGP/GPG I finally have a working keyring, and a much better understanding of how the whole thing works. While The Web of Trust still invokes images of Ancient Druids standing in a circle and chanting, I will admit that

Re: Handhelds/PDAs - Palm vs Zaurus vs others - Opinions? Experiences?

2007-03-21 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:38 -0400, Brian Chabot wrote: Not too long ago, I grabbed a cheap Handspring Visor off eBay (about $35 with shipping). Linux compatible (mostly), long battery life, AAA batteries, and great PIM. Add a CF adapter and it's actually useful as a text reader. Works

Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-21 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Recently I was working on a project, and I ran across this article: [Warning: Explicative language involved] http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/11/two_simple_word.html And I started thinking about what exactly meets that criteria of: [Explicative Language] Cool? In the

Re: Packrat or Archivist? [ was Adventures in GPG ]

2007-03-20 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
- paper tape to punch cards - punch cards to 9-track tape - 9-track tapes to 8 floppies - 8 floppies to 5.25 floppies - 5.25 floppies to 3.5 floppies - 3.5 floppies to a CD - CDs to DVD And they'll probably consolidate all there DVDs someday to something else. Somewhere,

Re: [GNHLUG] Re: Hosstraders Dead, but NEARFest Lives!!

2007-03-19 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hi, Apparently the organizers of Near-Fest believe that CRTs are dinosaurs, and no one buys them any more. I did attempt to correct that philosophy, but since the large number of things that we bring to sell are not monitors, I did not push it. I will let the rest of their commercial sellers

Re: Hosstraders Dead, but NEARFest Lives!!

2007-03-17 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
The new event will be called NEARFest and will basically be a replacement event for Hosstraders and expected to be equal in size, etc. Great new for hams and others. Well, I am glad to see this happen, but as the Hosstraders guys said, it takes some planning to pull one of these things

Re: [GNHLUG] Re: Hosstraders Dead, but NEARFest Lives!!

2007-03-17 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 19:46 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/17/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So maybe they should call it Farscape...no, no...Fun Amateur Radio Fest (FARfest) Farfest is already taken by another ham group: http://www.farfest.org/ Crackers don't

Re: [GNHLUG] Re: Hosstraders Dead, but NEARFest Lives!!

2007-03-17 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 22:36 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/17/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and I found out that they are going to charge a $20. deposit on computer monitors to make sure that people take them back out with them. They seem to be calling out tubes

MythTV Installfest announcement

2007-03-12 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Ben, Jarod, et. al., March 31st is rapidly approaching and I think we need to launch the pages so that the gnhlug group and the students at the school have enough time to order equipment at get started. They barely have two weeks. On the other hand, they have had advanced warning and

Re: MythTV Installfest announcement - Four letter acronyms

2007-03-12 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
It is early in the morning of a late night session, and I have acronym overload. Future installfests can be truly NHTI, but I want to make sure there is room for some of Sterling's faculty and staffand likewise for some GNHLUGers. :-) Should have read: Future installfests can be truly

Re: Long stupid debate on OOXML and the year 1900 (was: Ecma responses to ISO)

2007-03-11 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Ah. Well. Obviously, I didn't get it. Maybe the joke's been made too often, and isn't funny anymore. Or maybe I like jokes, but when they're used in place of of serious discussion, instead of along with it, I get irritated. Meh. I am truly sorry to have irritated you. In the case

Re: [Fwd: Ecma responses to ISO]

2007-03-09 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Anyone know what the facts are here? 1900 was not a leap yearyup, pretty sure that is true: http://www.dpbsmith.com/leapyearfaq.txt So anything else was and is a bug, and should be fixed, not standardized and (IMHO) because it was a stupid bug, the bug fix should be freely available.

Palm Pilot free update to DST

2007-03-09 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
For those of you that have Palm Pilots that automatically update for DST, the Palm company has given out a free update to all their models which adjust automatically: http://News.palmnewsletters.com/cgi-bin13/DM/y/ekJa0PWZkg0HXE0Zlu0G1 This even covers models that are quite old: * Treo

[Fwd: Ecma responses to ISO]

2007-03-08 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
My friend, Jomar Silva from Brazil, who brought Ecma 376 fast track for XML to my attention a short while ago, sent me this link to the official ECMA response to ISO members. It seems like the fast track has failed and that it will now go through a longer review process. The next step, as I

Re: I reallly do not understand what the issue is.....

2007-03-08 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
[1] Rhetorical question. I know why: Microsoft is taking their proprietary formats and dressing them up in XML and open standards clothing. Much like a certain wolf with a certain sheep skin... When you stop and think about it, it is what they do with everything. Microsoft defines

Re: I reallly do not understand what the issue is.....

2007-03-08 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Ben, On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 22:08 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/8/07, Jason Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I manually updated my servers at work by writing a textual zoneinfo file ... It gets better. Next, Exchange 2000 is in the Extended support phase -- which apparently should

VISTA and Education

2007-03-07 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I ran across an interesting article about Microsoft, VISTA and Education. Those of you involved in the Education space might want to read it. http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/01/becta_report_sl.html md ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing

[OT] From a young friend of mine...good for a laugh

2007-03-06 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

[Fwd: Re: pcHDTV 5500 card - Connector comes loose?]

2007-03-06 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
connector so this design protects it from damage. Thanks, Jack Kelliher pcHDTV, Inc. On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 09:04 -0500, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 08:14 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/3/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I went

Re: pcHDTV 5500 card - Connector comes loose?

2007-03-04 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Ben, I have not checked my card yet to see if this is indeed the situation, or if yours was just a defect in manufacturing, but I will send your email along to the owner of the company that makes the board, for both input to their design/manufacturing process and/or for a replacement board if it

MythTV Installfest Beta Announcement - March 31st: 10:00 A.M.

2007-03-04 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hello, As people on this mailing list may know, we have been talking about having an installation fest for MythTV (www.mythtv.org), a piece of FOSS that allows your PC to act like a TV recorder, photo repository and music repository all in one. We have determined that a lot of people would like

Re: MythTV Installfest Beta Announcement - March 31st: 10:00 A.M.

2007-03-04 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Greg, et. al., I've been reading the MythTV mailing list for several months and have been collecting components (and my thoughts). I'd be interested to know what your recommendations would be, particularly for the capture card (PCR-150?) and the output card (NVidia 5200 family??). Any

Re: remote control for MythTV

2007-03-02 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:51 -0500, Rob Lembree wrote: So I'm going to build this mythtv box this weekend, and am wondering what the best recommendation would be for a remote control. I haven't got IRDA or anything like that, but I do have a bunch of universal remotes. Any

Re: In the vanguard for Linux in K12: of all places, INDIANA...

2007-03-01 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Ed, On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:08 -0500, Ed Lawson wrote: What makes this different from most stores about FOSS in schools is that the program was developed at the state level and promoted at the state level in order to address a common need for functional/inexpensive computer access in K12

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