[PLUG] Congress is debating an internet kill switch

2011-02-07 Thread Marvin Kosmal
Congress is debating a kill switch that would allow President Obama to freeze all activity on the Internet if there was a national emergency. The kill switch goes by the top-secret code name 'Microsoft Windows'. -- Marvin J. Kosmal Disclaimer: This email is not intended to provide medical advic

Re: [PLUG] GoogleEarth Guru Here?

2011-02-07 Thread Paul Wroe
UTM is a geographic coordinate system. Nevada Zone 11S sounds like a state plane projected coordinate system. You may need to reproject your points into UTM. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I don't use Google Earth much, but I can find my way through menus and I > even

Re: [PLUG] stress testing hard drive and laptop before shipping

2011-02-07 Thread Patrick J. Timlick
I would suggest your choice of Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) projects at boinc.berkeley.edu . In my experience, they are extremely cpu bound so will test if your fans a spinning and blowing freely. You might also discover a new galaxy, or something. -- Pat On Mon, Feb

[PLUG] update on making a special Gnome-Terminal window

2011-02-07 Thread website reader
To all: Here's an update to the question I asked about setting a window in a desktop with certain characteristics. Procedure to set up a particular window on a specific desktop in the background with no focus Valid in the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Edition running the compiz window manager. 1. Install

Re: [PLUG] Slackware upgrade...

2011-02-07 Thread wes
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Michael C. Robinson < plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 16:19 -0800, wes wrote: > > > > > > Anyone know of a torrent download source for Slackware 10.2 and > > > Slackware 11 that I don't have to sign up for? Strangely enough, > > > I've run

Re: [PLUG] Slackware upgrade...

2011-02-07 Thread Michael C. Robinson
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 16:19 -0800, wes wrote: > > > > Anyone know of a torrent download source for Slackware 10.2 and > > Slackware 11 that I don't have to sign up for? Strangely enough, > > I've run into sites that are evidently porn sites trying to > > grab a copy of Slackware 10.2 and Slackware

Re: [PLUG] Slackware upgrade...

2011-02-07 Thread wes
> > Anyone know of a torrent download source for Slackware 10.2 and > Slackware 11 that I don't have to sign up for? Strangely enough, > I've run into sites that are evidently porn sites trying to > grab a copy of Slackware 10.2 and Slackware 11. So far, I have > only managed to pick up disk 1 fo

Re: [PLUG] Slackware upgrade...

2011-02-07 Thread Michael C. Robinson
On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 13:37 -0800, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > First problem, I don't have the ISOs for slackware 10.2 and 11.0. > > I've already upgrade slackware 10.1 udev to slackware 11.0 udev using > slackware 10.2's udev as an intermediate upgrade. The kernel is vanilla > 2.6.18.8. Questi

[PLUG] IEEE Cyber Espionage meeting

2011-02-07 Thread Keith Lofstrom
An important meeting coming up. If you can afford to attend next Thursday, please do. While the speaker may not cover the most important material, this is an opportunity to gather with managers thinking about security, and that aspect could have enormous impact on our careers and the survival of

Re: [PLUG] SCO Rescue diskettes/CDs, fixing vxfs file systems

2011-02-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:14:46 -0800 dijo: >OK, so there are a lot of solutions for SCO in general, but those >won't help my situation. I'm looking for anyone that has some old SCO >rescue diskettes or CDs they can lend me. I know nothing of SCO and have no media to help, but there may be a Linux

Re: [PLUG] GoogleEarth Guru Here?

2011-02-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Daniel Hedlund wrote: > The coordinates in the placemark represent the currently focused position. > Not even sure why the fields are editable as it doesn't refocus the > window. The actual coordinates the placemark uses for focusing the view > is whatever is in the "View" tab

Re: [PLUG] GoogleEarth Guru Here?

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel Hedlund
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:49, Rich Shepard wrote: >   What I entered was (easting) 557018.00 m E, (northing) 4411377.00 m N. The > values displayed on the map are 557356.98 m E and 4411268.25 m N. I cannot > drag that icon to a new position and no matter how many times I re-enter the The coordina

[PLUG] GoogleEarth Guru Here?

2011-02-07 Thread Rich Shepard
I don't use Google Earth much, but I can find my way through menus and I even watched Google's tutorials without finding how to change the geographic location of a placemark. A series of UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) coordinates was provided; they're in Nevada Zone 11S and I have the e

[PLUG] SCO Rescue diskettes/CDs, fixing vxfs file systems

2011-02-07 Thread plugng3
OK, so there are a lot of solutions for SCO in general, but those won't help my situation. I'm looking for anyone that has some old SCO rescue diskettes or CDs they can lend me. Here are the details... I have a new client with an old SCO system (Open Server 6 according to the splash screen) that

[PLUG] stress testing hard drive and laptop before shipping

2011-02-07 Thread Keith Lofstrom
About a week after it arrives, I will be shipping ebay-purchased laptop to a friend out of the country. Once shipped, it will be difficult to maintain. I've got the hard drive (new WD5000BEVT, good reviews on newegg and amazon) , battery, and a few other removables that will go on it, and I am te