Interesting article. He offers a quote that open source developers are paid
better than traditional developers. Do you find that to be true? What's
the ratio?
I'm curious, because I may be getting ready to hire several sw / hw
developers in the Idaho Falls to Rexburg, ID area. We're
Now would also be a good time to change it.
;-)
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From: Charles Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 7:07 AM
To: LDS Open Source Software ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org
Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Password help
Your username is wrip1TyltI and your password is
It's not often that an Apostle asks you to blog in order to share the
gospel.
(http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/using-new-media-to-support-the-work-of-the-church)
Enjoy,
Steve
--
All,
I'm running a Windows Mobile 6 SmartPhone and would like to get the
scriptures on my device.
Have any of you had luck with any of the WinCE packages? Do you have
any recommendations?
Thanks,
Steve
--
I second these comments. I've used them both and like google better. hotmail
has gotten a little trashy with their ads. Google, OTH, has kept them very
unobtrusive.
Steve
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From: Alberto A. Flores [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 6:37 PM
To: LDS
Now that the list is back up, is there a list of available LDS smartphone / PDA
software?
I've used most of the mobile platforms on the market in my lab research and
find Windows Mobile the easiest to work with. (Linux is my main desktop, btw.)
I am usung mobi for some church books and
You may want to read this first
(http://www.lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.702d7c3d14dbbb5538da4135f1e5
43a0/?vgnextoid=897f8a4948743010VgnVCM101f5e340aRCRD
http://www.lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.702d7c3d14dbbb5538da4135f1e5
I'm sure it has. Mine is a common problem / solution. Still, I haven't
seen it on the streets, yet. This is the kind of thing that a commercial
genealogy site would startup as a trial to premium service. I was a little
soured on those types of sites that wanted me to submit my gedcom files so
For the really paranoid, NIST is recommending that federal agencies stop
using SHA-1, since it's been cracked (along with MD5), and instead use the
SHA-2 family of hash algorithms.
For the really smart really paranoid, NIST is beginning a new contest (like
for AES) to develop a new secure hash
The technical answers to your question are good ones. However
You might want to ask permission of the stake leaders, first. The church
has on numerous occasions re-stated their long-standing policy prohibiting
members from showing external material in a church setting -- whether or not
it
I recently used OpenWRT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt) using the
White Russian (named for alcohol) release. It worked okay, but seemed to
have some issues. Namely, the WiFi subsystem would not stay disabled. I
could disable it via the GPIO, but it would somehow always come back on.
The
I'll second those with my emphasis being on Derby. With all the OSing that
Sun is doing is the Derby source available?
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Welch
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:05 AM
To: LDS Open Source Software
Subject: Re:
This is a kinder and gentler news list, but my ... you are brave
;-)
Steve
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Windows Vista has excellent parental control features. It allows you
to set up child accounts, allow when you want your kids accessing the
internet, what applications they run and when,
Sharing internet access is likely against the service agreement. You might
want to check.
If they don't have a line, why VoIP? How about a cell phone? With the
right cable, you can use the cell phone as a wireless modem. I don't know
where Sanford is, but if they have Edge (the
All,
I've tried most of the major Linux versions since 1997/8 and have always
been frustrated by its complexity (as compared to Windows). I always
figured it out, but never wanted to spend my time debugging that which I
wanted to 'just work'. A couple of months ago, I started playing around
Vonage is in for a rough ride, but large companies don't seem to go under so
easily. They always seem to pull a rabbit out of their hat. RIM
(Blackberry) is a prime example. Also, courts don't seem to be willing to
put so many people out, regardless of the acts of the corporation. In the
worst
You know, this Arius thing seems like another of those no win situations and
to give it more than a passing concern is likely of minor value. You should
state your opinion (with references) and move on. However, it is result of
combining human nature with the design of wikipedia that keeps that
Charles is correct. I've recently read 2 statistics. 1) that Wikipedia is
more accurate than the commercial counterparts, and 2) the inaccuracies are
quite a bit more blatant. The main criticism of Wikipedia is that it is now
being used for political purposes. The candidates/groups use it to
I was only wondering if the laptops would really be given to the kids for
free or if the gov'ts would resell them to their citizens. My cheese
example was a personal experience where cheese was supposed to be given to
the people, but it was in fact resold by the receiving gov't to the people.
The
It was in English, but I'm sure that the gov't official who made the deal
with the US knew what the intent was. Most gov't officials that I met knew
English. Somebody must have made a few 'extra' dollars...but in some
countries, that's how things are done...
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From:
LDSwebguy references the Church CIO's website (http://www.ldscio.org/). On
it he goes into a discussion regarding OSS. It seems to be a level-headed
approach. I regularly use OSS in some form or another, however, I've found
that the problems he's encountered are valid.
On another note, we've
As an FYI, the U.S. Copyright Office relaxed its rules, somewhat, the other
day. Breaking cell phone locks and DVD encryption is legal -- but only for
certain purposes. You can take your phone to a new carrier and make DVD
*clips* for educational exercises -- but that doesn't include DVD ripping
-Original Message-
From: John Harrison
How much time the transmit function wastes varies. Sometimes
it takes only a minute or two, other times it can take over
15 minutes.
Since computers are able to multi-process these days, a background
transmission process would seem to be in
My vote is to provide all of the form methods that you mentioned. Different
people work in different ways. If I have an entire family of individuals,
then the one form per would be really nice. That would also eliminate
your having to keep clicking add child. Sometimes, I'm only working on
I have a PHP question and you seem like the crowd who would know.
My wife is trying to order some sewing supplies online and the website is
trying to load -- on my machine, not just in the browser -- something called
Zend Optimizer. I don't usually do web programming, so I'm not real sure
about
Has anyone ever noticed that this list tends to concentrate on hashing and
re-hashing which OSS tools are best? Then, the discussion moves to whether
client-server, webapps, or standalone apps are best. Next, we always jump
on to (my favorite) legal issues. Goto line 1 and repeat...
I'd like
On Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:49 AM Jesse Stay wrote:
IANAL but it *shouldn't* be okay to download movies and music that weren't
intended to be downloaded for free, but it *is* legal. Fair use doctrine...
Actually, fair use doctrine is *not* applied to downloads. Fair use only
says that
closely for years.
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 07:01, Steven H. McCown wrote:
On Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:49 AM Jesse Stay wrote:
Fair use only
says that once you have copyrighted material, that ***you*** are allowed
to
make a backup copy and to quote from it.
Actually, Fair Use doesn't say
I guess they feel that they are losing money to the internet culture and
that they need to re-educate people that it is wrong to steal. While 30
years ago, truly honest people would never have dared photocopy a book (even
if it was free and instantaneous), the internet culture has changed that
BSA is, rightfully, teaching
Scouts to respect the copyrights of others.
Here's an article:
(http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Scouts_Piracy_Patch.html)
Since you have to visit an
actual movie studio, you kind of need to live in LA, though...
One more thing to add to
With this thread, there seems to be the underlying assumption that the 30%
of companionships who actually do their hometeaching will actually take the
extra time to write up thoughtful and useful information, monthly.
There are those who will enjoy and use this type of system, however, I would
There are some more serious security
implications with your choice of tools (e.g., injections). Far from the
definitive word, these are hotly debated, demonstrated, and refuted. Here
are a couple of blog articles that you should research and consider re PHP:
- PHP Insecurity: Failure of
Im resending this since it bounced. Something about being
over 40KB
There are some more serious security
implications with your choice of tools (e.g., injections). Far from the
definitive word, these are hotly debated, demonstrated, and refuted. Here
are a couple of blog articles
I'm just curious, why do you say that It appears that The Church uploaded
them.? From what I see, they are just there. They do have a link to
mormon.org, but anyone could have put that.
The church is usually in the habit of keeping its copyrighted (agree with the
church or not) material on
Message-
From: Justin R Findlay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LDS Open Source Software
Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] LDS Opencontent Directory
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:30:16AM -0600, Steven H. McCown wrote:
Applying the definition of the word
Recently, the DoD released a report (http://www.acq.osd.mil/actd/articles/OTDRoadmapFinal.pdf)
regarding Open Technology Development and its use within the
military. Its pretty interesting and is relevant to anyone who is trying
to manage a software development cycle and integrate Open
not be
legal or it may not play commercial DVDs. This is why you
don't really see a lot of free DVD players.
Tom
Steven H. McCown wrote:
Does anyone know of some good and widely used open
source DVD Player Software that is available on Windows?
Thanks,
Steve
Justin R Findlay wrote:
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:53:53AM -0600, Christopher Phillips wrote:
...
Copyright law is seriously b0rk. You have my sympathy for having to
regularly deal with it's insanely restrictive terms.
According to the New York Times, the verb to bork might be defined as to
Since I didn't state my preferred opinion, you don't really know whether the
stated tools are or are not my favorite. I intentionally didn't discuss
that, because I didn't want to have a 'personal favorites' discussion.
The real point of my post was that the #1 requirement stated for this type
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Pyne
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 12:57 PM
To: LDS Open Source Software
Subject: RE: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking
On 8 Jul 2006 at 8:08, Steven H. McCown wrote:
Since the requirement/goal/whatever
Your code (the snippet that I saw) looks fine, your tools sound, but you
seem to not be concerned with marketing / user aspects.
Most that use Linux will have MySQL, Postgres, PHP, and Apache. However,
that is still less than 10% of the home user market (real computer geeks
aside). While the
Interesting survey.
It would be also interesting to host a similar survey targeted towards other
types of LDS professionals such as marketers, strategists, HCI designers,
etc.
As Computer Scientists/Engineers, we often 'solve problems' without directly
meeting or addressing 'user needs'.
Could we, please, step back and discuss requirements *before* we discuss
these types of implementation technologies? Tom's requesting Java is one
thing, as it's nearly ubiquitous for programmers, users, and platforms. It
may not be your preference, but it does fit the bill. If we want general
Okay, let's leave the demeaning digs aside for a minute...then you can go
back to your fun... :-)
In an odd sort of way, you have hit on one of the benefits of Windows and
some characteristics of its users.
Linux users are mainly developers and tinkerers. For this group, computing
*is the
I read somewhere that Trebuchet and Veranda were considered the best fonts
for online reading. Could that help the readability? Does anyone know what
the current font is?
Steve
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On Behalf Of Charles Fry
The current display format is highly unreadable.
Other thoughts:
Whatever language is used for this or any general app needs to consider the
end user. The general end user is not a power sys admin, but someone who
installs out of the box, uses only the defaults, and never updates. If Perl
or Ruby or what ever is used is installed on the
My attitude is not that it can't be done, but that it shouldn't be done.
Until the online database is 'hack proof', then I will choose to abstain.
Since 'hack proof' is unattainable.
Steve
-Original Message-
From: Bryan Murdock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 07,
I can appreciate all the fervor for a web-based app. However,
1) The church has said no websites. You can't get away with making the
this is scouting and that is the church distinction, anymore.
2) It is a legal problem to start posting information about minor children
to the Internet.
However, the offline portion of MIS is offline. The online portion is
fairly well secure. I don't trust my local scoutmaster or (sorry) the OSS
community to make that assertion. PHP is about as secure as IE on a bad
day...
The distinction here is that MIS does not have personal information
-
From: Shane Hathaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LDS Open Source Software
Cc: 'Jay Askren'
Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Dare I say it ... patents ...
Steven H. McCown wrote:
I just found it interesting that with all the talk about how bad
source software.
Jay
On 4/12/06, Steven
H. McCown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
For those of you who dislike patents, but happen to have them, here is
a
website that you are sure to enjoy:
(http://www.lds.org/ldsfoundation/ways/assets/0,8115,479-1-0-9-p,00.html)
From
The BofM and DNA articles are interesting. Most will tell you that DNA is a
very new science and that we're sill learning about it -- others swear by
it. None of this shook my testimony, but I did wonder at some of the
articles.
As a new science, DNA still has a lot of unknowns. Some might
We had this discussion last year -- check the
archives for helpful links.
It was the Presiding Bishopric (who has the
authority to speak for the Church) under the 1st Presidency who issued a
statement that wards/stakes/members should remove all websites,not put any
more up, and *only* use
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