Re: [PLUG] What does software feel like to a computer?

2009-05-25 Thread Someone
This thread is plug-talk, not plug appropriate. Computers are not sentient. Even if one was sentient, the wise programmer would be very careful and work very hard to build in a robust ethical framework or at the very least a fail safe. People are not machines. Trying to attribute feelings

[PLUG] Slackware and ssh disconnects...

2009-05-25 Thread Someone
I am getting bad packet length followed by disconnects a lot. This machine I am trying to log into is only accessible through a wireless link originating from a Linksys WAP11. I have googled and googled and googled and I still can't figure out why this is happening. The drops are random, but I

Re: [PLUG] Runt monitors

2009-05-25 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 22:46 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: Monitors are measured by the diagonal dimension. a 4:3 20inch monitor is 16 inches wide and 12 inches high - more or less, usually less. For those of us using web browsers and text editors and similar tools, we are usually looking at

Re: [PLUG] Runt monitors

2009-05-25 Thread Fred James
Keith Lofstrom wrote: Rant! There was a kvetch a few weeks ago about widescreen monitors. Today I went shopping for normal 4:3 aspect ratio monitors, and couldn't find any. It seems that the so-called widescreen monitors have displaced nearly all the squarer monitors. There is something

Re: [PLUG] Runt monitors

2009-05-25 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: The math is harder to do for 16:9 ratio, but an honest 20 inch diagonal 16:9 is 17.432 inches wide ( 8.9% wider ) and 9.805 inches tall (18.3% shorter). On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:12:00AM -0700, M. Edward (Ed)

Re: [PLUG] I hate Nautilus

2009-05-25 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 09:46 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 25 May 2009 09:23:35 -0700 Michael M. Moore mich...@writemoore.net dijo: On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 18:27 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: The unanswered question is why emptying the Trash folder would delete the

Re: [PLUG] Runt monitors

2009-05-25 Thread Michael Ewan
Mike Connors wrote: Don't attribute to corporate fleecing conspiracy what can easily be explained by purchasing priorities that differ from your own. To further this line of thought. In order for businesses to be successful they must give consumers what they want. In any market there

Re: [PLUG] best practices

2009-05-25 Thread Michael Ewan
Brian Derr wrote: I really dislike the idea of a Samba share being the DocumentRoot. I do like Drew's idea of an SVN repository. How important is the PDF file format to them? Would it be easier (more appropriate) to use a wiki to create the documents? I haven't researched it, but I'm willing

Re: [PLUG] Runt monitors

2009-05-25 Thread m0gely
Keith Lofstrom wrote: So an 8.5 x 11 image, displayed on a 21 inch monitor, only fills half the screen. Exactly, which rolls right into having TWO 8.5x11 documents opened side by side, readable, without zooming. Wider, ! More pixels, more workspace, right? Wrong. Current large

Re: [PLUG] best practices

2009-05-25 Thread Quentin Hartman
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Ed Sawicki Ed 1. The customer wants users to be able to contribute content to their Web server, which runs Apache and MySQL on Linux. Most of the time, this means users saving PDF documents to the Web server so other users can access them via

[PLUG] Need an X-10 local source

2009-05-25 Thread frank hunt
Anyone know who locally has the best selection of X-10 components - I am specifically in need of a couple of plug-in noise filters as I have recently added some inductive loads to my system and things don't run well when they are on. Seems to me I bought a filter at Platt once (but don't

Re: [PLUG] Crack passwords on alpha box...

2009-05-25 Thread Joe Pruett
I have Redhat 6.2 axp running again, but I don't know any of the old passwords on the box. Uge! I have Windows NT 4 installed and working, although my mouse sucks ;-( Is there a trick that will allow me to hack the password file on this old installation of Linux? On an X86 box, I'd just

Re: [PLUG] Slackware and ssh disconnects...

2009-05-25 Thread drew wymore
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Someone plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I am getting bad packet length followed by disconnects a lot. This machine I am trying to log into is only accessible through a wireless link originating from a Linksys WAP11. I have googled and googled and googled