Re: OT: Dell Laptop For Sale

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:41 PM, William Attwood wrote: >Honestly, with the Mean Time to Failure (MTF) of these devices, if you >purchase it and expect everything to work fine for years, you're dreaming. > Based on the age of the device, the MTF is coming up or passed on multiple >items. It's a u

Re: OT: Dell Laptop For Sale

On Apr 30, 2010 8:08 AM, "Josh Coates" wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:41 PM, William Attwood wrote: >Honestly, with the Mean Time to Failure (MTF) of these devices, if you >purchase it and expect ever... not to be pedantic or anything, but it's MTTF, not MTF. -josh /* PLUG: http://plug.org

Re: OT: Dell Laptop For Sale

Woops. My phone got sluggish there and clicked reply and send instead of what I expected. Sorry about the unneeded noise :) Scott. Ps, I don't know how to bottom post from this device. > On Apr 30, 2010 8:08 AM, "Josh Coates" wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:41... > > >Honestly, with the

Re: OT: Dell Laptop For Sale

On 4/30/2010 7:07 AM, Josh Coates wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:41 PM, William Attwood wrote: > >> Honestly, with the Mean Time to Failure (MTF) of these devices, if you >> purchase it and expect everything to work fine for years, you're dreaming. >> Based on the age of the device, the MTF is

Re: OT: Dell Laptop For Sale

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Tod Hansmann wrote: >In some circles, it's Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF). um, no. again, not to be pedantic, but MTBF is entirely different than MTTF. -josh /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug

Re: OT: Dell Laptop For Sale

On 4/30/2010 9:46 AM, Josh Coates wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Tod Hansmann > wrote: > >In some circles, it's Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF). > > um, no. > again, not to be pedantic, but MTBF is entirely different than MTTF. > > -josh Technically, the

Re: OT: Dell Laptop For Sale

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Tod Hansmann wrote: > Again, I /totally/ concede that they're different, in the repair/replace > detail.  You know that, and I know that, but most people don't.  Now > PLUG knows, though. I know nothing about it. I only know of Mean Time Between Win (MTBW). Gab

Re: OT: Dell Laptop For Sale

On 4/30/2010 10:08 AM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > I know nothing about it. I only know of Mean Time Between Win (MTBW). > Gabe > > Gabe's MTBW is 23.7 minutes. Mostly Peggle. -Tod Hansmann /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug D

Re: OT: Dell Laptop For Sale

On Fri, April 30, 2010 10:11 am, Tod Hansmann wrote: > On 4/30/2010 10:08 AM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: >> I know nothing about it. I only know of Mean Time Between Win (MTBW). >> Gabe >> >> > Gabe's MTBW is 23.7 minutes. Mostly Peggle. Stuart's MTBW is 0 seconds. He's ALWAYS winning. -- Matthe

Apache Redirect within public_html (~username)

I have a url, say, http://blah/~torriem/blah that I want to redirect with a 301 into a particular wiki page, say http://blah/~torriem/wiki/blah I know how to do the Redirects from inside the apache conf file. How can I do this in an .htaccess file in my public_html directory? Also, my server is

Re: Apache Redirect within public_html (~username)

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] that's one sample, another: RewriteRule ^pagename.html /newpagename.html [R=301,L] On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > I have a url, say, http://blah/~torriem/blah

Re: Apache Redirect within public_html (~username)

On 04/30/2010 10:32 AM, William Attwood wrote: > RewriteEngine On > RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com > RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] > > > that's one sample, another: > RewriteRule ^pagename.html /newpagename.html [R=301,L] How would the rule look within the context of

Re: Apache Redirect within public_html (~username)

Michael: > I know how to do the Redirects from inside the apache conf file.  How > can I do this in an .htaccess file in my public_html directory? It's done exactly the same as the Apache configuration file. For example, if you have this in your Apache file: RewriteEngine on Rewrite

Re: Apache Redirect within public_html (~username)

> How would the rule look within the context of ~torriem?  Do I just have > to make the pattern include ~torriem/pagename.html? With rewritebase. try junk in the .htaccess to make sure it throws a 500. This simple test will ensure your .htaccess is even being used. 1.3 http://httpd.apache.org/d

Re: Apache Redirect within public_html (~username)

>  try junk in the .htaccess to make sure it throws a > 500.  This simple test will ensure your .htaccess is even being used. Great point, Scott. Personally, I disable .htaccess unless I really need it, because it's a performance hit on every page request. For any given request, Apache has to

Re: Apache Redirect within public_html (~username)

On 04/30/2010 10:42 AM, Scott Edwards wrote: >> How would the rule look within the context of ~torriem? Do I just have >> to make the pattern include ~torriem/pagename.html? > > With rewritebase. try junk in the .htaccess to make sure it throws a > 500. This simple test will ensure your .htacce

[OT] How to remux ogm container into standard ogg

With all the trash talking coming out of Apple regarding the Theora video codec, I was reminded that I have quite a few homemade video clips in the now-obsolete ogm container format. Try as I might, I cannot find an easy way to remux them into standard ogg files. With ffmpeg I just do something l

Re: [OT] How to remux ogm container into standard ogg

Michael Torrie wrote: > With all the trash talking coming out of Apple regarding the Theora > video codec, I was reminded that I have quite a few homemade video clips > in the now-obsolete ogm container format. Try as I might, I cannot find > an easy way to remux them into standard ogg files. Wit

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