[Ldsoss] lds sword modules

2008-02-24 Thread Bryan Murdock
I got my XO laptop and I want to have the scriptures on it in some easily readable offline format. I see this page on the LDSOSS wiki: http://ldsoss.org/index.php/Religious_Study that mentions the sword project, but I can't find any LDS sword modules. Do they exist? Bryan

Re: [Ldsoss] New list location

2008-02-24 Thread Bryan Murdock
Google Groups is great. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss

Re: [Ldsoss] text version of Book of Mormon for iPod?

2007-10-15 Thread Bryan Murdock
I looked into this a few years ago. The iPod notes functionality is incredibly lame. Each file could only be so big, and could only have so many links (I don't remember the exact limits, but they were small), and even following those rules it was incredibly slow with just a portion of the Book

Re: [Ldsoss] Conference music

2007-10-08 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 10/8/07, Dan Hanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Just curious as to whether any one knows of a way to listen to the music of General Conference without having to download the MP3 for the entire session. I can do that, or listen to it via the conference DVDs, but it would be nice if

Re: [Ldsoss] Conference music

2007-10-08 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 10/8/07, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/07, Bryan Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/07, Dan Hanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Just curious as to whether any one knows of a way to listen to the music of General Conference without having to download the MP3

Re: [Ldsoss] Conference music

2007-10-08 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 10/8/07, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good thing you don't post your link, I might download it and commit copyright infringement ;) I know, that was a close one for all of us! :-) Double encoding is bad. I'm not sure if audacity can split without doing it. However this tool appears to

Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)

2007-10-02 Thread Bryan Murdock
The inventor of the captcha calls this Human Computation. He gave an interesting talk at Google on the subject that you can watch here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143 He presents it very well and even non-techies (like my wife) enjoyed watching this when I showed

Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)

2007-10-02 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 10/2/07, Bryan Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The inventor of the captcha calls this Human Computation. He gave an interesting talk at Google on the subject that you can watch here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143 He presents it very well and even non

[Ldsoss] web application on desktop

2007-06-06 Thread Bryan Murdock
I think it was this list where I saw some discussion of whether a web application could be made to run disconnected as a desktop application. If not, then humor me anyway... I saw this article today where someone did just that and I found it pretty interesting:

Re: [Ldsoss] reimbursement form

2007-06-05 Thread Bryan Murdock
Here's the one we use (in OpenOffice, AKA Open Document, format): http://murdockfamily.homelinux.org/static/reimbursement-form.odt I don't know how good it is, but it seems to work for us. Bryan On 6/4/07, Scott Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm the ward finance clerk and I'm looking for a

Re: [Ldsoss] Re: HT and VT Tool

2007-05-20 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 5/18/07, Manfred Riem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to consider using Java ... As far as I heard a lot of Java is going on at the Church ;) Nah, stick with Python. The Church developers will someday see the light. ;-) Bryan ___ Ldsoss

Re: [Ldsoss] Fireside talk on the Internet

2007-05-16 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 5/16/07, Shawn Willden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 10:56:26 pm Gary Thornock wrote: I also depend primarily on DansGuardian on BSD for my content filtering, and I agree that it's not something that most parents can set up. I can, and did, but turned it off. We've

Re: [Ldsoss] Home and Visiting Teaching Tool

2006-11-12 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 11/11/06, Greg Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the wiki, under Suggestions for Ward Web Sites I recently added a Home and Visiting Teaching heading with a link to the sample HT/VT Reporting site offered earlier in this thread and the sample Elders Quorum Organizer that Bryan Murdock offered

Re: [Ldsoss] OT: LDS Team on Drug Design Optimization Lab Distributed Project

2006-10-25 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 10/24/06, David Fagerstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since cream has caused people to leave the church, Huh? Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss

Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge

2006-10-22 Thread Bryan Murdock
The movie industry has developed the curriculum. Oh good, an impartial and fair party, experts in law and the constitution. :-P Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss

Re: [Ldsoss] Elders Quorum Organizer

2006-10-21 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 10/21/06, A. Rick Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Murdock wrote: it can print out an email address list for easy spamming of the quorum when there is a move or DI assignment coming up. It's intended to be used only by the the presidency. FYI: The current ward web calendar

Re: [Ldsoss] Home and Visiting Teaching Tool

2006-10-20 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 10/19/06, Greg Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a mock ward. Go ahead and submit reports and generate summaries. 1) Go to: http://www.queezy.com/ht/ 2) Submit an bogus report for a companionship, 3) Lastly, go here: http://www.queezy.com/ht/admin/ and view your comments you just

[Ldsoss] Elders Quorum Organizer

2006-10-20 Thread Bryan Murdock
I've written my first web application ever. It's a simple Elders Quorum organizer. It has people, committees, home teaching districts which contain companionships, and it can print out an email address list for easy spamming of the quorum when there is a move or DI assignment coming up. It's

Re: [Ldsoss] LDS OSS Framework

2006-07-24 Thread Bryan Murdock
I wonder if this is what Michael Halcrow had in mind with his LDS Data Processing System: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ldsdps/ He added me as an administrator of the project before he, um, left, though I never really looked at it too intensly. He has some example apps (plugins?) in there,

Re: [Ldsoss] DVD Player Software

2006-07-20 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 7/19/06, Tom Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linspire offers a very inexpensive DVD player that you can get through the CNR warehouse. However I don't think that any distro ships with a DVD player that will play css encoded DVDs. Of course, that depends on your definitions of ships (see

Re: [Ldsoss] OSCon

2006-07-05 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 7/4/06, pat eyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It came up in a different thread, but it's probably deserving of thread of its own. Who is going to OSCon? (I am.) I'm not going to the convention, but I live in the Portland area and could probably make time to meet up with people. Bryan

Re: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

2006-06-15 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 6/14/06, Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Haws wrote: This is very intriguing. Can you point to an example we might install and try? I hope someone else knows of an example. Conceptually, it's simple, and I can see the solution from start to finish. But I'm surprised it

Re: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

2006-06-14 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 6/14/06, Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, as for choosing the web app server technology... yikes. Please be nice to each other. :-) FWIW, I'd vote for Django in this case. Django is written in Python, a highly agile and portable language, and it's inspired by Zope, Ruby on

Re: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking

2006-06-06 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 6/6/06, Tom Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My thoughts were to create a central repository (whether hosted by the church or individually would be up for debate) and then we could provide several ways to access that data. 1. We (the community) could provide a SOAP or other interface to

Re: [Ldsoss] New lds.org beta

2006-06-05 Thread Bryan Murdock
Our ward website coordinator set up something nice and easy for us: www.fisherslandingward.org I hope that's not frowned upon that I didn't just ruin it for us by making it public here. Nobody saw that! Bryan On 6/5/06, Jesse Stay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure - I was just passing on

Re: [Ldsoss] Temple Codes

2006-04-20 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 4/20/06, Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/20/06, nathan bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example I tried to import a GEDCOM file that was sent to me by my Dad which he exported from some version of PAF, and it has the following codes: LIVE, IF, WASH, WJORD, APIS,

Re: [Ldsoss] Mapping on lds.org

2006-04-07 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 4/6/06, Richard K Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 6, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Bryan Murdock wrote: On 4/6/06, Greg Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Failed for me on both Safari v2.0.3 and Firefox v1.0.4 with the following error: Error: the XML response that was returned from

Re: [Ldsoss] Mapping on lds.org

2006-04-06 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 4/6/06, Greg Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Failed for me on both Safari v2.0.3 and Firefox v1.0.4 with the following error: Error: the XML response that was returned from the server is invalid. Received: Could not perform query: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that

Re: [Ldsoss] Re: Less than an hour to go...

2006-04-01 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 4/1/06, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/1/06, Bryan Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/1/06, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, after changing the user agent, I find that it requires another download of their video player. How annoying! I'm not in the mood to mess with wine

Re: [Ldsoss] Mormons and DNA on Digg

2006-02-16 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 2/16/06, Jesse Stay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thought I'd throw it to another 100+ Open-Source-loving Mormons that there's a story on Digg (soon to be the new slashdot.org) gaining a lot of popularity right now. I don't encourage the digg, but I'm sure the more Mormons on there

Re: [Ldsoss] Mormons and DNA on Digg

2006-02-16 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 2/16/06, V. B. Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm normally a fairly silent person on this list, but I just have to say this. It is pointless and futile to engage in religious flame wars on blogs and boards. The Spirit is very seldom present in such forums and the kicking against the pricks

scouting software (Re: Re: [Ldsoss] Stake/Ward Web Site Utilities)

2006-02-07 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 2/7/06, Gary Thornock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- TJ Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The church might also get into legal trouble with creating the software. The BSA is pretty strict with their copyrights and I would imagine they have their own software available to leaders for a

scouting software (Re: Re: [Ldsoss] Stake/Ward Web Site Utilities)

2006-02-07 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 2/7/06, TJ Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would love you forever if you could incorporate this information into the website. I would love to see scouting incorporated as well - but Duty to God would be my first priority as a YMs

Re: [Ldsoss] Wholesome Entertainment: Checkers

2006-02-05 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 2/4/06, Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this on linux? What version of python are you using? Do you have pygame installed? Um yes, completely unhelpful of me. Sorry. I tried both Mandriva 2005 and Ubuntu 5.10. They both have python 2.4 and pygame 1.6. Bryan

Re: [Ldsoss] Emergency Preparedness Software

2006-01-10 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 1/9/06, Jay Askren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In our ward I've been asked to put together a little database to store Emergency Preparedness information such as who has a truck, who has a generator, who knows CPR or First Aid, etc. It will be a Java application and import data directly from

Re: [Ldsoss] the system is down

2005-09-27 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 9/27/05, Jesse Stay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting to it just fine - are you still having problems? Nope, see my follow-up message: http://www.mail-archive.com/ldsoss%40lists.ldsoss.org/msg00210.html Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list

Re: [Ldsoss] Re: New here

2005-09-20 Thread Bryan Murdock
So, about that Open Source Software...that is what the OSS part of LDSOSS is right? Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss

Re: [Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-01 Thread Bryan Murdock
That's a pretty cool idea. Without thinking about if for more than 5 seconds, I'll hazard that it'd probably be fairly easy to whip this up using google maps: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ Bryan On 9/1/05, Arthur Westover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking it would be nice to develop