Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-29 Thread Brandon Stout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Devlin Daley wrote: > I've installed the PDF export plugins, which allow me to export > documents as PDF with the open document format of the document stuffed > in the meta-data portion of the PDF. It's a win in my view, no > formatting problems cross

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-29 Thread Ken Jordan
I have used NeoOffice and it is actually more like MS Office for Windows than MS Office for Mac is. It can't hurt to try it since it's free. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Russel Caldwell wrote: > How well does Open Office work on the Mac? > > Russ Caldwell > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #uta

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-29 Thread Devlin Daley
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Mike Lovell wrote: > > Russel Caldwell wrote: >> >> How well does Open Office work on the Mac? >> >> Russ Caldwell >> > > It has been a while since I have tried it but it seemed to work just as well > as OO on other platforms. Also, back when I tried it, NeoOffice

Re: throttling mysqldump

2008-12-29 Thread William Attwood
You could be cheap, install another MySQL daemon running on a different port with different data folders, as a slave, and backup that one without a performance hit. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Mike Lovell wrote: > William Attwood wrote: > >> I was hoping that was a given. I should have ex

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-29 Thread Jonathan Duncan
On 29 Dec 2008, at 20:01, Mike Lovell wrote: Russel Caldwell wrote: How well does Open Office work on the Mac? Russ Caldwell It has been a while since I have tried it but it seemed to work just as well as OO on other platforms. Also, back when I tried it, NeoOffice was better to use on a

Re: throttling mysqldump

2008-12-29 Thread Mike Lovell
William Attwood wrote: I was hoping that was a given. I should have explained better. Flush tables, shut down MySQL, and then tarball the entire data folder. -Will An option that was explored where I work was have the MySQL tables on a LVM volume, stop the server, create and LVM snapshot, s

Re: throttling mysqldump

2008-12-29 Thread William Attwood
I was hoping that was a given. I should have explained better. Flush tables, shut down MySQL, and then tarball the entire data folder. -Will On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > That's a good way to get a corrupt export unless you shut down the server > first. > > -Jonathan

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-29 Thread Mike Lovell
Russel Caldwell wrote: How well does Open Office work on the Mac? Russ Caldwell It has been a while since I have tried it but it seemed to work just as well as OO on other platforms. Also, back when I tried it, NeoOffice was better to use on a mac since it was ported to use the Mac interfac

Re: throttling mysqldump

2008-12-29 Thread Jonathan Ellis
That's a good way to get a corrupt export unless you shut down the server first. -Jonathan On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:18 PM, William Attwood wrote: > You may also try just tarballing the entire data folder for MySQL; may be > faster if you have that much data to export. > -Will > > On Mon, Dec 29

Re: Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-29 Thread Michael L Torrie
Russel Caldwell wrote: > How well does Open Office work on the Mac? Pretty well. Can you download it and try it out? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Open Office on the Mac

2008-12-29 Thread Russel Caldwell
How well does Open Office work on the Mac? Russ Caldwell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: openSUSE 11.1 release party

2008-12-29 Thread Brandon Stout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Brandon Stout wrote: > Now that we've had the party (sorry I missed it), does anyone > happen to have a spare OpenSuse 11.1 retail dvd they are willing to > give up or sell for a reduced price? > > Brandon > You coul

Re: throttling mysqldump

2008-12-29 Thread Corey Edwards
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 16:42 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:18:16PM -0700, William Attwood wrote: > > You may also try just tarballing the entire data folder for MySQL; may be > > faster if you have that much data to export. > > -Will > > And likely would break transactio

Re: openSUSE 11.1 release party

2008-12-29 Thread Ken Jordan
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Brandon Stout wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Stephen Shaw wrote: > > Sorry for the cross post, just wanted to announce the openSUSE 11.1 > > release party. It will be next Thursday (Dec. 18th) @ 6 > > > > http://en.opensuse.org/OpenS

Re: throttling mysqldump

2008-12-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:06:20PM -0700, Ryan Byrd wrote: > how can one throttle the mysqldump so it doesn't use as many system > resources? Unless there's something specific to mysql, "man nice". -- Charles Curley /"\ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software

Re: throttling mysqldump

2008-12-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:18:16PM -0700, William Attwood wrote: > You may also try just tarballing the entire data folder for MySQL; may be > faster if you have that much data to export. > -Will And likely would break transactional integrity. -- Charles Curley /"\ASCII Rib

Re: throttling mysqldump

2008-12-29 Thread Nicholas Leippe
On Monday 29 December 2008 04:22:38 pm Nicholas Leippe wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2008 04:06:20 pm Ryan Byrd wrote: > > So, let's say there is this centos box is running a mysql database > > that has db tables that are pretty big, (some > 1x10^6 rows) > > > > and when one runs mysqldump on the

Re: throttling mysqldump

2008-12-29 Thread Nicholas Leippe
On Monday 29 December 2008 04:06:20 pm Ryan Byrd wrote: > So, let's say there is this centos box is running a mysql database > that has db tables that are pretty big, (some > 1x10^6 rows) > > and when one runs mysqldump on the database, it spikes the load > average, as reported by top, on the box t

Re: throttling mysqldump

2008-12-29 Thread William Attwood
You may also try just tarballing the entire data folder for MySQL; may be faster if you have that much data to export. -Will On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:11 PM, William Attwood wrote: > Hmmm. You can set the MySQLDump memory usage in your MySQL Configuration > file. [mysqldump] > quick > max_allo

Re: throttling mysqldump

2008-12-29 Thread William Attwood
Hmmm. You can set the MySQLDump memory usage in your MySQL Configuration file. [mysqldump] quick max_allowed_packet = 16M That should help with the processor load spike, hopefully. -Will On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Ryan Byrd wrote: > So, let's say there is this centos box is running a

throttling mysqldump

2008-12-29 Thread Ryan Byrd
So, let's say there is this centos box is running a mysql database that has db tables that are pretty big, (some > 1x10^6 rows) and when one runs mysqldump on the database, it spikes the load average, as reported by top, on the box to about 15 this box also is running apache when the load averag

Re: openSUSE 11.1 release party

2008-12-29 Thread Brandon Stout
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Shaw wrote: > Sorry for the cross post, just wanted to announce the openSUSE 11.1 > release party. It will be next Thursday (Dec. 18th) @ 6 > > http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.1_Launch_Party_Locations#Provo > > Thanks, > Stephen Now that w

Re: In need of old network adapter

2008-12-29 Thread Levi Pearson
Nicholas Leippe writes: > On Sunday 28 December 2008 08:43:00 pm Dave Smith wrote: >> Levi Pearson wrote: >> > I assume you meant 'thanks in advance' by TIA, but it reminded me of >> > when I first hooked a computer to a network via TCP/IP. It was '94 or >> > so in the BYU dorms, with the old-sc

Re: Compare and Contrast

2008-12-29 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 08:27 -0700, Dave Smith wrote: > Yesterday I sent a message to both plug and sllug asking for an old > piece of hardware. On plug I got 6 responses, none of which actually > answered my question, but were nonetheless entertaining. On sllug, I got > 2 responses, both of whic

Compare and Contrast

2008-12-29 Thread Dave Smith
Yesterday I sent a message to both plug and sllug asking for an old piece of hardware. On plug I got 6 responses, none of which actually answered my question, but were nonetheless entertaining. On sllug, I got 2 responses, both of which were offers to donate the old hardware. Interesting contra

Re: In need of old network adapter

2008-12-29 Thread Nicholas Leippe
On Sunday 28 December 2008 08:43:00 pm Dave Smith wrote: > Levi Pearson wrote: > > I assume you meant 'thanks in advance' by TIA, but it reminded me of > > when I first hooked a computer to a network via TCP/IP. It was '94 or > > so in the BYU dorms, with the old-school Dataphones with a 19.2kbps