Re: [PLUG] Blu-Ray nonsense...

2011-08-03 Thread Michael C. Robinson
People rip Blu-Ray discs, encrypted or not, all the time. In many cases, they are putting the movies on a hard drive as that is more convenient. The hard disk is usually on a computer that is on a local area network. This way, sneaker net is not necessary to be able to watch a movie in

Re: [PLUG] linux+ certification

2011-08-03 Thread scott morris
I found the Sybex CompTIA Linux+ complete to be a good inexpensive resource (about $25.) The writing is concise and it covers a great deal of material. However, the author assumes you have at least a basic knowledge of Linux which may be a pro or a con. Scott

Re: [PLUG] linux+ certification

2011-08-03 Thread MJang
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 10:38 -0700, jen montserrat wrote: Anyone have any good recommendations on study materials for the Linux+ certification? I browsed through the available materials on Amazon, but Amazon appears to recycle user reviews for available materials so it is nearly impossible to

Re: [PLUG] Blu-Ray nonsense...

2011-08-03 Thread Russell Johnson
Please allow this off topic thread to die on plug talk. On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: People rip Blu-Ray discs, encrypted or not, all the time. Russell Johnson r...@dimstar.net ___ PLUG mailing list

[PLUG] Faces and threads

2011-08-03 Thread Carlos Konstanski
I am writing my first Java Server Faces app. It needs to launch a long-running proces in a background thread. What is the best way to handle the spawning of new threads that don't tie up the request from within the Faces framework? Thanks, Carlos ___

Re: [PLUG] Faces and threads

2011-08-03 Thread Bill Ensley
I think you might want the PJUG list. javam...@pjug.org -Bill Ensley www.bearprinting.com On 8/3/2011 1:33 PM, Carlos Konstanski wrote: I am writing my first Java Server Faces app. It needs to launch a long-running proces in a background thread. What is the best way to handle the spawning

Re: [PLUG] Blu-Ray nonsense...

2011-08-03 Thread Michael C. Robinson
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 09:33 -0700, Russell Johnson wrote: Please allow this off topic thread to die on plug talk. On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: People rip Blu-Ray discs, encrypted or not, all the time. What makes talking about what people need to do to put

Re: [PLUG] Blu-Ray nonsense...

2011-08-03 Thread Fred James
Michael C. Robinson wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 09:33 -0700, Russell Johnson wrote: Please allow this off topic thread to die on plug talk. On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: People rip Blu-Ray discs, encrypted or not, all the time. What makes

Re: [PLUG] Blu-Ray nonsense...

2011-08-03 Thread Michael C. Robinson
Where is the suggestion that I'm trying to legally entrap someone coming from? I'm neither a lawyer nor a judge and even if I was I'd have no interest in entrapping people who in my opinion want to legitimately adapt their video collections to work with Linux. Why is everybody running scared and

[PLUG] Solaris Mailing List Resources, Long Term Future, etc.

2011-08-03 Thread MJang
Folks, I've been experimenting with Solaris 11 Express lately, and would appreciate suggestions on mailing lists that anyone here has found useful. If anyone has any thoughts about Solaris long term v. Linux, I'd also be interested in that. Seems to me that Linux has some work to do to get to

[PLUG] grub2 error

2011-08-03 Thread Shane Keene
Hello all. Please forgive me if this query is overly verbose. I have a multiboot system that I built yesterday with the following installed in this order: Windows 7 Linux Swap partition Ubuntu 10.10 Fedora 15 openSuse 11.4 Debian 6 Everything works fine except when I try to boot into Fedora or

Re: [PLUG] Blu-Ray nonsense...

2011-08-03 Thread Fred James
Michael C. Robinson wrote: (omissions for brevity) Michael C Robinson Why worry about why the sky is blue? Enjoy! Regards Fred James ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Faces and threads

2011-08-03 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
Carlos: I know nothing about Java, but I just finished learning a bit about writing POSIX threads in a C program. I wanted my threads to execute concurrently with the process that spawned them. To make the CPU cores available for other threads and processes, I wanted my threads to terminate

Re: [PLUG] Solaris Mailing List Resources, Long Term Future, etc.

2011-08-03 Thread Ronald Chmara
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:48 PM, MJang m...@linuxexam.com wrote: Folks, I've been experimenting with Solaris 11 Express lately, and would appreciate suggestions on mailing lists that anyone here has found useful. No idea. I stopped working on it about 5 years ago, as that was the last time I