Utah Django User Group - First Meeting TONIGHT

2010-03-25 Thread Jordan Gunderson
y to RSVP to me directly for a basic head count. Also, if you want to stay informed about future Utah Django meetings, please sign up [6] for the Google group and the Utah Tech Event Calendar [7] since we won't be crossposting in the future. Thanks, and I hope to see you there! Sincerely,

Re: [OT] Change for Obama

2008-09-26 Thread Jordan Gunderson
For anyone who wants to know what really happened, here's the real story: http://tinyurl.com/6r4nqg Jordy On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 09:07:44AM -0600, Corey Edwards wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 18:11 -0600, Gabriel Gu

Re: Failing Laptop Power Cable

2008-08-14 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Gabriel Gunderson wrote: [snip] BTW, I did just buy a cheap HP Pavillion dv6000 *today*. What can I say? The price was right. Hopefully you never need service. :) My backlight went out while my HP was still newly under warranty. I must have had 3 different customer service reps on the oth

Re: Failing Laptop Power Cable

2008-08-13 Thread Jordan Gunderson
plus shipping) If you have some money, value your time, don't mind shipping your laptop in the mail, and just want to have someone repair it for you: http://tinyurl.com/6kejet (Cost: $40 + Shipping both ways) I don't know of any local solutions. I hope that helps, -- Jordan

Re: [OT] Mailing Lists: Good for argument, bad for discussion

2008-06-29 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Dave Smith wrote: ... I think this phenomenon happens because it's easy in an email to trim away things you don't want to respond to, and focus only on the part of the email that you disagree with. That's total BS. ;) Jordy /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: ht

Re: Tips for a Personal Music Archive

2008-03-07 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Nicholas Leippe wrote: I have my own custom script for ripping & encoding. I rip each cd twice, once each from two different drives, and compare them. I have calculated the offsets of each drive and use the -O flag on cdparanoia. Since I have two drives, and two cpus, I wrote it to do all five ta

Tips for a Personal Music Archive

2008-03-04 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Esteemed Plug members, After much procrastination and many damaged CDs, I'm ready to start archiving data from my music CDs. I know I should save to FLAC files first, but that's about all I know, so I'm looking for any tips & resources about the best way to create and consume a personal musi

Re: Open Source Time Tracking Software?

2006-06-12 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Grant Shipley wrote: We are using xplanner to track our XP style programming tasks. It is spring/hibernate based and does a great job. We did look into that a little. With your recommendation we'll look a little harder. :) Thanks. Any others? -- Jordan Gunderson Cell ~ (801) 623

Re: Open Source Time Tracking Software?

2006-06-12 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Steve wrote: We have been using egroupware to great effect, but then again I trust everyone who works on our project to be honest. We're not really concerned about dihonesty either; we just need it for accounting, budgeting, etc. Thanks for the recommendation. -- Jordan Gunderson

Open Source Time Tracking Software?

2006-06-12 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Does anyone have any recommendations for an open-source time tracking package? It seems like there's a lot of stuff out there, but no obvious choice. Are there any that you've especially liked? -- Jordan Gunderson Cell ~ (801) 623-3013 Blog ~ http://jordy.gundy.org -- /*

Re: AOL blocks all the email

2006-05-08 Thread Jordan Gunderson
ed by them using a stable, legitimate mail server." Let's face it. AOL sucks. -- Jordan Gunderson Cell: (801) 623-3013 Blog: <http://jordy.gundy.org> -- /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: Favorite Repository for Mysql 5 on CentOS

2006-04-19 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Gary Thornock wrote: I'd just go with the mysql.com RPMs, but when you do, you will have to grab the PHP 5 SRPMs and do your own build. I hate to admit that I just went with the Testing repo in CentOS. We'll see how "testing" it is! :) -- Jordan Gunderson http://jord

Re: Favorite Repository for Mysql 5 on CentOS

2006-04-19 Thread Jordan Gunderson
, and I'll be left trying to find the PHP 5 RPMs and doing those by hand as well. This is why they have repos in the first place, right? -- Jordan Gunderson http://jordy.gundy.org /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don&

Favorite Repository for Mysql 5 on CentOS

2006-04-19 Thread Jordan Gunderson
#x27;s a common enough configuration that there are some really good ones out there. What are your favorites? -- Jordan Gunderson Blog: <http://jordy.gundy.org> -- /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Geek Dinner Tomorrow

2006-02-21 Thread Jordan Gunderson
There will be another Geek Dinner tomorrow night. The topic: Agile Development. Lot's more info here: http://tinyurl.com/qzgbp Also, a pitch for Phil Windley's CTO Breakfasts. The next one is Thursday. http://www.windley.com/cto_forum See you there! Jordy Blog - http://jordy.gundy.org /* P

Re: Jabber and Google News

2006-01-18 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Corey Edwards wrote: [snip] The real solution here would be for AOL to build an AIM-Jabber bridge, so you would just send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the bridge translates that to AIM. Having AOL host the bridge would solve so many problems, foremost being that not every single Jabber serv

Geek Dinner this Tuesday Night

2006-01-12 Thread Jordan Gunderson
**January Geek Dinner** DevUtah's next Geek Dinner will be held at 6:00 this Tuesday night (Jan 17) at the Miller Business Innovation Center on the Salt Lake Community College campus (9690 South 300 West, Sandy). We'll have two short educational presentations by accomplished attorneys who wi

Re: Wiki recommendations

2006-01-03 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Mister E wrote: [chop] Wikis can be link spammed and/or information altered by any visitor, which is not really ideal when dealing with the public at large. You can configure them to allow only certain people to login. Jordy /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: ht

Re: [UVLUG] Software for Starving Students v2006.01 is Out!

2005-12-31 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Jordan Gunderson wrote: [chop] Sign up if your interested in helping. We also do some chatting at #sf. That should say #s4, sorry. Jordan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Software for Starving Students v2006.01 is Out!

2005-12-31 Thread Jordan Gunderson
The new versions of SSS are out: http://softwarefor.org/get_software.html For those Uugers and Pluggers, etc, who were on the SSS developers list but might have fallen off when SoftwareFor switched servers a couple of times, the new dev list is here: http://www.softwarefor.org/mailman/listinfo/de

Re: Graphing packet loss

2005-12-30 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Josh Coates wrote: [chop] (btw - i'm back on plug for a while, so all you over-sensitive crybabies can put me in your killfile again if you'd like.) Welcome back, Josh. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin.

Re: Groklaw dinner

2005-12-09 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Gabriel Gunderson wrote: Justin, we go way back and I'll be there... ... wearing a white rose and reading Jane Austin. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Darl McBride at UVSC this Thursday

2005-11-29 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Darl McBride, CEO of SCO (formerly Caldera) will present this Thursday as part of UVSC's Executive Lecture Series. http://www.uvsc.edu/schools/business/executiveLecture/ The presentation will go from 12:00 to 12:50 PM and will be held in the Regan theater. Presentations are free and open to

UVLUG presents Ben Galbraith on Ajax

2005-11-12 Thread Jordan Gunderson
This Saturday, November 19th, Ben Galbraith will address UVLUG on programming with Ajax. Ben is a very accomplished technical author, speaker, and programmer. Much more about him and the meeting here: http://uvlug.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=117 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on i

Re: Humorous Google parody site...

2005-11-10 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Joel Finlinson wrote: http://j-walk.com/other/googlecb/index.htm It's pretty good, but nothing beats googling for "french military victories" and hitting "I'm Feeling Lucky". An oldie, but a goodie. :) Jordy /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/ma

Presentation on LVM and RAID this Sat, Nov 5

2005-10-29 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Have you ever wanted to create a terabyte "disk" on your Linux server? This Saturday (November 5), UVLUG will host Evan McNabb, who will present on LVM and software RAID. Learn more here: http://uvlug.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=110 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net

UVLUG Presents Jared Smith on Asterisk and VoIP

2005-09-29 Thread Jordan Gunderson
On Saturday Oct 8, Jared Smith, co-author of O'Reilly’s recent top-selling book “Asterisk: The Future of Telephony” will present to the Utah Valley Linux Users Group on Asterisk and VoIP. Jared is a Linux systems administrator with several years of telephony and VoIP experience. While working

Re: GnuCash and Budgeting

2005-09-19 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Ross Werner wrote: Gnucash can totally due that. You add accounts, put money in when you get it, and take it out when you spend it. What I want is more something like this: [snip] Let's say I get a $10 paycheck ... I enter $10 into the Checking Account, and then I can *also* record somewher

Re: GnuCash and Budgeting

2005-09-19 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Ross Werner wrote: Speaking of gnuCash (and doing my part to swing the thread back on-topic), does anyone have any suggestions for good Linux software for budgeting? GnuCash is great, but (at least as far as I know) it doesn't have any budgeting capabilities. All I'm looking for is the abilit

Re: Meating on september 14

2005-09-13 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Dalan wrote: Is there going to be a meating on september 14? Jayce said: Just a reminder about the Plug meeting this week. Brad Midgley will be presenting on Gumstix hardware. Developing micro Linux devices, specifically focusing on bluetooth and ALSA in them. Some really interesting lookin

Meeting this Saturday

2005-09-12 Thread Jordan Gunderson
The Utah Valley Linux Users Group will have it's first meeting of the semester will be this Saturday (Sept 17) at 10:30 in CS 404. We'll have an intro to open source, talk about some of things we want to do with UVLUG this semester, hold elections, host an installFest/movie (bring any that you

Porvoo Linux Users Group

2005-08-25 Thread Jordan Gunderson
I thought, "Some moron really messed up on spelling that one." Check out these guys from Finland: PLUG - Porvoo GNU/Linux User Group http://www.plug.fi/ And ya'll thought the pluggers in India had it bad. :) .---. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Do

Re: Test

2005-08-25 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Joel Finlinson wrote: it's quiet... too quiet.. ACK Maybe everyone finally got 'flamed' into submission for top posting, OT, spelling errors, and misquoting...? And don't forget job posting. :) .---. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't F

Re: Where to park for Damian Conway's presentation?

2005-08-08 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Jordan Gunderson wrote: Nathan wrote: I'd like to go to Damian Conway's presentation on Wednesday. I'm not very familiar with UVSC's campus, so I found a map [1]. It appears that parking lot K is next to the CS building, but it's marked as an employee/staff lot [

Re: Where to park for Damian Conway's presentation?

2005-08-08 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Nathan wrote: I'd like to go to Damian Conway's presentation on Wednesday. I'm not very familiar with UVSC's campus, so I found a map [1]. It appears that parking lot K is next to the CS building, but it's marked as an employee/staff lot [2]. Does anyone know the hours that lot K is enforced,

Re: Software for Starving Students and LUG Documentation Wiki

2005-08-02 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Jordan Gunderson wrote: We're willing to set up an SSS mailing list (rather that triple posting to 3 lists), help pay for CD media out of our club funds, set up a package repository, or any anything else that project founders would like us to do. Lars pointed out that a mailing list al

Software for Starving Students and LUG Documentation Wiki

2005-08-01 Thread Jordan Gunderson
d there and start adding stuff. Anyway, here’s the LUG documentation wiki: http://uvlug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=docs:programs There is also a link to it from our main page (in case you don't want to keep this email forever). Thanks everyone, and sorry for the long post. Happy contributing,

Re: STOP, For the love of Pete!

2005-07-13 Thread Jordan Gunderson
James Lance wrote: Which Pete are we stopping for? The Pete Ashdown that started the thread? I think it's the Pete that will be there to make sure that top and off-topic posters don't sneak into heaven. :) .===. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Do

Re: Seeking Old Computers and Monitors to Blow Up

2005-07-13 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Hans Fugal wrote: Maybe he could do it at the PLUG barbeque. When is that? Jordy .===. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==='

Re: Seeking Old Computers and Monitors to Blow Up

2005-07-13 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Daniel C. wrote: Can I be there when he blows them up? I'd be willing to be your waterboy or whatever, help out however I can, so I'm not just standing there taking up space. Dan Probably. I'll ask. Jordan .===. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don

Re: Seeking Old Computers and Monitors to Blow Up

2005-07-13 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Weston Cerny wrote: So anybody have old equiptment you would like to see blown up? I'll make sure to post the footage so you can all see it. I have quite a few P133s and P166s if you are interested and some pretty ugly old stuff that i don't know what it is. it is yours if you want it. I'

Seeking Old Computers and Monitors to Blow Up

2005-07-13 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Yesterday I ran into Dave Skousen, an old buddy of mine who is into filmmaking and has done some interesting projects. He is looking for a bunch of old computers and monitors he can blow up for some footage he needs. So anybody have old equiptment you would like to see blown up? I'll make s

Re: All possible combinations algorithm

2005-06-15 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Here it is with tardmode taken off. The wording is a little better. Hey Dan, Thanks for the math question. If the number of elements is E, the number of possible arrangements is equal to the E! (read "E factoral"). It's E times all of the integers between E and zero. Be careful though, be

Re: All possible combinations algorithm

2005-06-15 Thread Jordan Gunderson
Dan Wilson wrote: Ok folks, I need the help of some good mathematicians/programmers. I know some of you are very good with this type of stuff and I am not. Given an array of elements (with an unknown length), I need to find all possible combinations of that array. Say I have an array with the

UVLUGs MythTV Presentation this Saturday

2005-04-11 Thread Jordan Gunderson
This Saturday (April 16), the UVSC Linux Users Group (UVLUG) will host Brandon Beattie, who will present on MythTV, a free personal video recorder similar to TiVo. With MythTV you can automatically record your favorite shows to hard disk, edit out all of the commercials, watch one show while re

UVLUG on Blender (3d Graphics)

2005-03-14 Thread Jordan Gunderson
This Saturday UVLUG will host a presentation by Soren Harward on 3D modeling and animation using a free program called Blender. From the Blender site: "Blender [is] open-source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation, and playback..." This should be