Re: Another ISP thread...

2013-04-26 Thread Dennis Muhlestein
On 4/25/13 1:46 PM, Robert Fleming wrote: > > The limitation you will have is that you won't get huge uplink unless > you go with business class. They keep that pretty low. How fast is "huge"? My current uplink really isn't that great anyway. What is expected on CC? -D /* PLUG: http://plug.

OT: Website Needs

2013-04-26 Thread Nathan England
I have a friend who writes articles and has several hundred word documents that he has accumulated over the years. He wants to put the articles on a website where others can easily download them. Naturally I would like to be able to search the documents, but he doesn't care about that. He wa

Re: OT: Website Needs

2013-04-26 Thread Michael Torrie
On 04/26/2013 04:00 PM, Nathan England wrote: > I have a friend who writes articles and has several hundred word documents > that he > has accumulated over the years. He wants to put the articles on a website > where > others can easily download them. > > Naturally I would like to be able to

NFSv4.1

2013-04-26 Thread Daniel Fussell
Has anyone tried NFSv4.1 yet? ;-Daniel Fussell /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

OpenWest filling up...

2013-04-26 Thread Steve Meyers
If you're planning to go to the OpenWest Conference, and haven't registered yet, I'd recommend doing so soon. We've got a hard cap of 700 due to logistics, and we will probably hit that early next week (or even sooner). Steve /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: ht

Re: OT: Website Needs

2013-04-26 Thread S. Dale Morrey
I saw a word press plugin (and a drupal module too) that allows deep document searching of doc, docx & pdf not too long ago. That would probably be the easiest way to go, plus it doesn't give all his information to google for advertising purposes. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Michael Torrie

Re: Another ISP thread...

2013-04-26 Thread Jima
I agree with most of Corey's outline. Just to throw a few minor points in... On 2013-04-25 14:53, Corey Edwards wrote: > On 04/24/2013 06:41 PM, Tod Hansmann wrote: >> Having not slept since Monday night, all of this is making less and less >> sense as we go. I may well need a diagram to clea

Open Source CAD recommendations for network planning?

2013-04-26 Thread S. Dale Morrey
Hello everyone, Has anyone had a chance to try some of the open source CAD applications out there? Our fiber to the home project is about to launch, and as part of it we will need to site survey each block and do some general, civil engineering type tasks. There is no budget for AutoCAD and even

Re: Open Source CAD recommendations for network planning?

2013-04-26 Thread Paul Seamons
The only viable one right now is librecad (fork of qcad). But even librecad is rather poor in interface. Anything else costs money or is really lacking features. About 10 years or more ago I started to write a real replacement for CAD on linux. I made it a little ways - then life got in the

Re: Open Source CAD recommendations for network planning?

2013-04-26 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:03 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > There is no budget for AutoCAD and even if there were, the government here > has a law stating that in all cases where there are suitable open source > alternatives, the open source product must be chosen, You *know* I love me some Open Sou

Re: Open Source CAD recommendations for network planning?

2013-04-26 Thread Michael Torrie
On 04/26/2013 08:33 PM, Paul Seamons wrote: > The only viable one right now is librecad (fork of qcad). But even > librecad is rather poor in interface. Anything else costs money or is > really lacking features. LibreCad's interface is different than the traditional AutoCad interface, and prob

Re: OT: Website Needs

2013-04-26 Thread Richard Esplin
Alfresco Web Quick Start can take the documents, convert them to HTML, and post them in a folder with a search interface. He can continue to maintain the documents in Word, and it will keep the HTML transforms up-to-date. This type of solution takes some work to setup, but once it is there it is

Re: Open Source CAD recommendations for network planning?

2013-04-26 Thread S. Dale Morrey
Garbage or not, it is the law and I'm not in a position to argue with it. I think the mindset is that software inside a government organization is a strategic asset.and it's not good to be beholden to a company that may or may not be there when it's time to upgrade. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:34 P

Re: OT: Website Needs

2013-04-26 Thread Merrill Oveson
FTP site. Would that work? Sent from my iPad On Apr 26, 2013, at 4:00 PM, Nathan England wrote: > > I have a friend who writes articles and has several hundred word documents > that he > has accumulated over the years. He wants to put the articles on a website > where > others can easily

Re: NFSv4.1

2013-04-26 Thread John D Jones III
On 04/26/2013 05:59 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote: > Has anyone tried NFSv4.1 yet? > > ;-Daniel Fussell > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > Nope, but I hope to one day -- John D Jones III Perl/Ja

Re: Open Source CAD recommendations for network planning?

2013-04-26 Thread John D Jones III
On 04/26/2013 09:27 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > Garbage or not, it is the law and I'm not in a position to argue with it. > I think the mindset is that software inside a government organization is a > strategic asset.and it's not good to be beholden to a company that may or > may not be there when