Re: [Ldsoss] Conference music

2007-10-08 Thread m h
Aha, so it's a marketing ploy! I knew there must be a reason On 10/8/07, Orson Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > I usually just get the cds and rip them. That is the easiest way I have > done it. Sometimes I even post the data to MusicBrainz. (CD's include > all regular sessions + priesthoo

Re: [Ldsoss] Conference music

2007-10-08 Thread m h
On 10/8/07, Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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, > > >

Re: [Ldsoss] Conference music

2007-10-08 Thread m h
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 for the > > entire session. I can do th

Re: [Ldsoss] Script to download conference mp3s....

2007-10-08 Thread m h
family building Linux systems) > www.zareason.com > > > On 8/19/07, m h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My wife recently asked for all the recent conference mp3s, so I > > whipped out a little script to do that in python. You point it at a > > lds.org conference

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

2007-10-02 Thread m h
On 10/2/07, Jesse Stay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/2/07, m h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds like a good way to do genealogical indexing. Someone should > > tell the church ;) > > Also sounds like an interesting business idea. Farm out captchas

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

2007-10-02 Thread m h
Sounds like a good way to do genealogical indexing. Someone should tell the church ;) Also sounds like an interesting business idea. Farm out captchas to blogs, and pay people for using the captcha On 10/2/07, Jon D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an idea... > Some of you may have se

Re: [Ldsoss] lds-scriptures v3.0 release candidate 1

2007-09-23 Thread m h
On 9/23/07, Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > m h wrote: > > Your changelog refers to an XML dump. Is that available? (I'm > > personally more interested in an xml dump with wrappers to transform > > to sql and create tables, than table dumps). > > Wel

Re: [Ldsoss] lds-scriptures v3.0 release candidate 1

2007-09-23 Thread m h
Your changelog refers to an XML dump. Is that available? (I'm personally more interested in an xml dump with wrappers to transform to sql and create tables, than table dumps). (I've often though it would be nice to have a web 2.0ey version of the scriptures. I'd like to through the xml into SOL

Re: [Ldsoss] Script to download conference mp3s....

2007-08-20 Thread m h
I guess I could add them to this page http://ldsoss.org/index.php/LDS.org_Hacks_and_Tricks On 8/20/07, Thomas Haws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should you add these tools to LDSoss wiki? > > > On 8/19/07, m h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My wi

[Ldsoss] Script to extract relief society members from MLS Membership.csv dump

2007-08-19 Thread m h
Hola- I also recently was tasked by my wife to help her personalize letters to all the Relief Society. Enter python and OOo. The attached python script will extract all Relief Society members from the csv dump (based on gender and date script is run). I assume everyone else does/will do this in

[Ldsoss] Script to download conference mp3s....

2007-08-19 Thread m h
My wife recently asked for all the recent conference mp3s, so I whipped out a little script to do that in python. You point it at a lds.org conference url and it will pull all the individual talks (skipping the complete session ones) into a specified directory. I thought I'd share it in case anyo

Re: [Ldsoss] Testors for FamilySearch API, Developer Website, and Support

2007-08-03 Thread m h
On 8/3/07, Gordon Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > LDS Developers > > We will be using a API licensing agreement very similiar to Ebays. This will > be a click-through > accepatence when you register with us. > > See http://developer.ebay.com/terms/index-terms.aspx Any > comments are > appr

Re: [Ldsoss] Plone on Zope

2007-03-05 Thread m h
I haven't had much direct experience with Plone, and the last time I used Zope was some 7 years ago (incidentally for a ward website). But I am involved with various python communities and the question of Plone is brought up quite often. Then common response is: "use the right tool for the job".

[Ldsoss] Blog report on Tech Talk

2007-01-19 Thread m h
Thanks to all who came to Crown Burger last night. (Even those who attended unannounced). It was definitely worthwhile, given that there were some 8 sessions and you could only attend two, so it was nice to chat with some of the other session people Short story, the tech talks were very pro

[Ldsoss] Meetup at Crown Burger before Tech Talk Jan 18th 5pm

2007-01-17 Thread m h
Folks- Just some friendly spam to remind anyone in the Salt Lake vicinity of the CIO tech talk tomorrow [1]. And the meetup at 5pm at Crown Burger before hand [2]. That's the 118N 300W location. Come one, come all. Looking forward to meeting some of you. -matt 1 - http://www.ldscio.org/2007

Re: [Ldsoss] Dinner/meetup before CIO Tech Meeting on Jan

2007-01-05 Thread m h
On 1/5/07, John Epeneter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can be there at 5:00. Just to be sure, do you mean the Crown Burger on 377 E 200 S? Actually I was thinking of 118 N 300 W. I've never been to the 2nd South one. If it has big tables and is less busy perhaps we should consider that one.

Re: [Ldsoss] One Laptop Per Child

2007-01-05 Thread m h
On 1/5/07, Steven H. McCown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip/snip Their intent was to not emulate the file folder motif or the 'learn commercial office products' paradigm, so it's a bit different. When I lived in Chile someone invited me to dinner and was proud to serve me American Cheese. I a

Re: [Ldsoss] Laslo vs Flex vs GWT vs ?

2007-01-05 Thread m h
Dojo and Zimbra are others. Tibco just open sourced their toolkit. If you aren't building "thick" clients on the web but just want async calls then I would recommend mochikit (very simple and extremely well documented/tested). I've used Dojo and Mochikit. Like I said mochi is lightweight, and i

[Ldsoss] Dinner/meetup before CIO Tech Meeting on Jan 18??

2007-01-04 Thread m h
Fellow geeks- Would anyone be interested in a meetup/dinner before the Jan 18th meeting? I attend the baypiggies [1] meetings (when I'm in the area) and the dinner beforehand is often fun (and amusing). I'd like to gauge the interest of others here. I was thinking around 5pm for dinner, and th

Re: [Ldsoss] Internet Filter

2007-01-02 Thread m h
Whoops... hit send on accident. Probably not what you are looking for exactly, but I recommend adblock plus [1] for anyone using firefox (plus you can import the filters into konqueror). Interested to hear others comments, since my daughter is not starting to become familiar with the computer.

Re: [Ldsoss] Internet Filter

2007-01-02 Thread m h
On 1/2/07, Jay Askren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone know of a good internet filter for linux? I do know about Dan's Guardian(http://dansguardian.org/) which is a good server filter, but I'm looking for a client side filter. Jay ___ Ldsoss m

Re: [Ldsoss] Non-Web Application Frameworks

2006-11-01 Thread m h
Good point Mary. One often thinks that they need a dedicated server for a web based app. But you can also run a local webserver on your laptop or home machine when you want to access a webapp locally. With recent advances in javascript/ajax libraries (dojo) you can do some pretty "thick" stuff

Re: [Ldsoss] Non-Web Application Frameworks

2006-11-01 Thread m h
I should've mentioned in my post, I've also used swing and swt (jface too) (as well as vb, qt and some pygtk). If you are wed to java, use either of swing or swt. There are pluses and minuses to each, which others have mentioned. I would still recommend wx. -matt ps - The main dev of wxpython

Re: [Ldsoss] Non-Web Application Frameworks

2006-10-31 Thread m h
Though I haven't used it for 4 years, I'm a big fan of wxpython[1]. It provides about everything that swing does for you. Here are some positves about wxpython: * Requires that you spend a day to learn python * Uses python -> shorter dev cycle, no annoying compile step * Popular, maintained, help

Re: [Ldsoss] Recommendations for family history site tools

2006-10-28 Thread m h
On 10/28/06, Shawn Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 10:05, m h wrote: > Since it appears you're looking for a CMS system, drupal is quite > popular. It appears there is a ged plugin as well[1]. Is it easier to set up/manage than Plone? O

Re: [Ldsoss] Recommendations for family history site tools

2006-10-28 Thread m h
Since it appears you're looking for a CMS system, drupal is quite popular. It appears there is a ged plugin as well[1]. Note that I haven't used the plugin, so I can't comment on it, but it might be worth checking out. Drupal has quite a large userbase and community, so you might want to check

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

2006-10-24 Thread m h
On 10/24/06, Shawn Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 24 October 2006 07:20, Manfred Riem wrote: > While it is interesting to debate this I don't think this forum was meant > for this. If we are talking about furthering Open Source among LDS > developers I think we need to respect the

Re: [Ldsoss] FamilySearch Labs - Smart Pedigree Viewer

2006-10-07 Thread m h
Hmmm, sounds cool but doesn't work on linux (firefox 1.5.0.7). On a related note, this is great that the family search website is being updated. I've tried to use it various times over the last few years and have found it completely unintuitive. I got up to 10 generations done but it was like

Re: [Ldsoss] Stake Conference Broadcast - Technology Success Story

2006-10-03 Thread m h
Here's an solution/idea that might prevent urgent Stake Conference items from being shared before the stake presidency wants it to, while still allowing everyone to listen at the same time (if that is the point of broadcasting it). Record the session (dv or whatever)... with no one in the audienc

Re: [Ldsoss] Mailing list topics

2006-06-21 Thread m h
Dave, you took the words right out of my mouth (Well except for that .NET part ;) ) -matt On 6/21/06, Dave Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "We could be offending people by holding a courteous discussion!". We could also be offending people because were Mormon, does that stop us? I ha

Re: [Ldsoss] Linux and Windows--How wide the divide

2006-06-19 Thread m h
Have what ever kind of ice cream you want. But be away that some vendors might be selling you pickle ice cream ;) And some of the open source cream might not even come frozen... (trying to be realistic not completely biased) can't type either s/away/aware/

Re: [Ldsoss] Linux and Windows--How wide the divide

2006-06-19 Thread m h
On 6/19/06, Adam C. (gmail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't agree. Fair enough Yes, general thoughts and designs should be cross-platform, or rather, should be platform independent, but once a concept is to be realized and implemented, why not select the platform that best lends itself to

Re: [Ldsoss] Linux and Windows--How wide the divide

2006-06-19 Thread m h
This is just what the Linux users are saying to the Windows users: don't dismiss other operating systems simply because you hold a notion of what users of each operating system are like. Let's build on cross platform technologies, not Windows-centric technologies. Good point Shane. There is a

Re: [Ldsoss] Linux and Windows--How wide the divide

2006-06-18 Thread m h
The other day, someone asked about a journaling application that could run on Windows. Given that the individual is on this list, I gather that they are fairly technical, however it seemed like they wanted a turnkey solution and not a new maintenance task. The answers ranged from installing web

Re: [Ldsoss] Open source or free diary/journal software recommendation

2006-06-16 Thread m h
Another route if your stuck on the wiki thing is MoinMoin. I believe that the only real dependency is Python (which includes a webserver) and it uses flat files. I guess I'm still confused about your requirements? Are other people going to be accessing this? For something like a journal (which

Re: [Ldsoss] Open source or free diary/journal software recommendation

2006-06-16 Thread m h
I'm currently writing a diary using RST, here's a blog entry on the subject ( http://panela.blog-city.com/restructuredtext_is_cool.htm ), which contains the pros/cons and why I went with it. I'm so far quite satisfied with my decision. -matt On 6/16/06, Charles Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Ldsoss] Archiving Our Electronic Lives

2006-04-07 Thread m h
We could use Frappr (www.frappr.com) for that. On 4/7/06, Jay Askren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think it would be interesting if we could compile a list of where every > one is living? People who live close together may want to meet as well. > Along with that, it would probably be good to h

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

2006-04-01 Thread m h
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 wi

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

2006-04-01 Thread m h
The html for the activeX installer notes that the video requires windows codecs. I've got most of the windows codecs installed, so if any windows users out there can pass along the url of the actual video stream please do! On 4/1/06, m h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm, after cha

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

2006-04-01 Thread m h
On 4/1/06, m h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to see if I can get the video stream of conference from > http://byu.tv on linux. If I'm successful, I let you guys know. > > If you are not running on windows make sure to send them

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

2006-04-01 Thread m h
I'm trying to see if I can get the video stream of conference from http://byu.tv on linux. If I'm successful, I let you guys know. If you are not running on windows make sure to send them an email letting them now! -matt ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@

[Ldsoss] Re: Wholsome Entertainment

2006-03-04 Thread m h
Another game that my daughter has played a little is http://www.pysycache.org/ (you move the mouse to uncover pictures). It's written using pygame (though the python code is quirky, when I looked at it, it used a mix of tabs and spaces and all the comments are in french. Though it is pretty hackab

Re: [Ldsoss] Feedback request

2006-02-14 Thread m h
Dallan- I just got back from doing booth duty at OSBC and ran into Ransom Love (of Caldera/SCO fame) who is now working at the church. My understanding is that the church is planning on doing a website very similar to yours (and they also want to open source it, hence the recent job posting for o

Re: [Ldsoss] Wholesome Entertainment: Checkers

2006-02-08 Thread m h
On 2/6/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > m h wrote: > > I've been messing around with Eggs a bit recently. They won't really > > help you in the way that py2app or py2exe (ie you won't be able to > > create a standalone linux exe from it).

Re: [Ldsoss] Wholesome Entertainment: Checkers

2006-02-05 Thread m h
On 2/5/06, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nathan wrote: > > On a related note, if anyone knows how to package up a python app and > > it's dependencies as a standalone app on Linux, let me know. I used > > py2app for OS X, and py2exe for windows, but didn't see anything for > > linux.

Re: [Ldsoss] Emergency Preparedness Software

2006-01-11 Thread m h
There's no reason a standalone application can't be a web app. In fact I've done one at work using python ( http://developer.spikesource.com/wiki/index.php/Projects:sam ). Add a little AJAX for GUI goodness, compile it into an exe for windows folks (for mac, linux geeks it'll run out of the box).

[Ldsoss] Hi folks, great to find this list

2005-11-06 Thread m h
Just a new user excited to find this list. As a long time linux user (who works for an open source company), it's great to find this list. I was recently called as Ward Membership clerk (and thus am forced to use windows). Researching about MLS (and scripts to manipulate and create reports led m