Re: Need Member Input re: Kimball Larsen

2009-07-29 Thread Mark Higbee
return 1; I almost voted 2 since the spam was not humorous... Ryan Simpkins wrote: > I talked with Kimball Larsen on the phone to get his side of the story > regarding the recent SPAM sent to many PLUG members. Kimball was very > apologetic and regrets what happened. Basically what he did was s

Re: plug spam

2009-04-16 Thread Mark Higbee
Dude! Top-Posting is the most evil annoying thing you can do on PLUG... Michael Torrie wrote: Spencer Soffe wrote: Why am I getting spam-like emails from PLUG? This is really annoying. Even more annoying we have people replying to the spam and quoting it! And top-posting! /* PLUG: ht

Re: Failing Laptop Power Cable

2008-08-14 Thread Mark Higbee
PC laptop can fix it for you but they will charge $200. It is less than a new laptop but expensive if you ask me.. I had them fix one for me and so far so good it has been working for almost a year with no problems after they fixed it. Mark Joshua Lutes wrote: So, My power cable has been act

Re: OT - Gas to hit 4.00

2008-06-04 Thread Mark Higbee
Don't forget the rising cost of gas will cause food and everything else to go up in price. Just about everything in this country is shipped by Truck... Rising gas prices are bad for everything. Thomas Ballard wrote: (...finally new markets to bolster dwindling Hummer and SUV sales ;-) On We

Re: Looking for a reliable, simple router...

2008-05-27 Thread Mark Higbee
Try IP COP linux on an old computer with two network cards. Works great! It never goes down far more reliable than Linksys. My Linksys router was always crashing so I setup an old pII 450 with IP COP. With ipcop I have never had to reset it ever... Kimball Larsen wrote: At my office, we curren

Re: Forwarded Job Listing

2008-04-28 Thread Mark Higbee
You will need advanced Object Oriented Skills to work with Jacob Fugal's code at epromo. Ryan Simpkins wrote: For the group... Web/Perl Programmer: 2+ years of Web Development Advanced knowledge of Perl, ModPerl, MySQL, Linux, and Server Admin. Hand codes HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript K

Re: [OT] Foreign Policy

2008-01-24 Thread Mark Higbee
My opinion is, there is very little difference between republicans and democrats, pretty much they are all controlled by big business and the media which funds their campaigns and allows them to be elected It doesn't matter you pretty much get the same president whether they are democrat or repu

Re: Hiring Software Engineers

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Higbee
Hey Jesse You don't work at backcountry.com anymore? Mark Jesse Stay wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 4:18 PM, Andrew Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You understood me. If you want a good engineer you should expect to pay him more. The guys I knew in college who I'd say were good engineers (

Re: Cast not your Perl before swine?

2007-12-14 Thread Mark Higbee
Since when did Perl become a lingua archae? If everyone is wanting you for a Perl job maybe that should tell you something :) Steve wrote: Hi everyone, Just wanted to get a good discussion going on the merits of knowing and using lingua archae vs lingua franca. Lingua archae is my term for l

Re: I feel stupid -- determine the full path to a file

2007-12-06 Thread Mark Higbee
You can try using Perl here is a module I found on cpan Path::Class http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/Path-Class-0.16/lib/Path/Class.pm Or there is File::Spec Michael L Torrie wrote: Nicholas Leippe wrote: realpath ../bar realpath doesn't appear to be a part of any stanard GNU co

Re: [JOB] Job announcement for True North Academy

2007-06-07 Thread Mark Higbee
Maybe it means the company is looking for someone to "offer" a job hence a "job offer". So using the term offer in the "job announcement" is ok in my book. Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:32:20PM -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote: Scott Morris wrote: Let me just com

Perl Developer Wanted

2007-05-17 Thread Mark Higbee
At my work they are looking for a good perl developer. We don't have any bad code here. The company has a Jazz suite so if you like Jazz games you will get to go to plenty of them. We are a small company located in Draper on 123 south we have just 2 programmers and we need more programmers.

Re: UVSC BYU U of U etc was"Software Engineering (was Re: Java)

2007-02-16 Thread Mark Higbee
ful. Hans Fugal wrote: On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 at 12:20 -0700, Mark Higbee wrote: I think the real point of going to a college or university is to get the skills you need to find a good job. I think the point of going to a university is to get an education. If you just want skills th

Re: UVSC BYU U of U etc was"Software Engineering (was Re: Java)

2007-02-16 Thread Mark Higbee
I think the real point of going to a college or university is to get the skills you need to find a good job. If the college can't teach you any real skills then it is useless in my opinion. My experience with BYU was you go to school to learn how to learn on your own, since most of the profess

Re: looking for laptop

2007-02-15 Thread Mark Higbee
I have a MackBook Pro Core Duo from my work, my only isssue is the DVD drive will not read DVD-R discs and I have to say that it pretty lame. I can see maybe not Burning DVD-R but it should be able to read them. It will read DVD+R Also I do love all the unix features ... Keyboard and Display

Re: UVSC BYU U of U etc was"Software Engineering (was Re: Java)

2007-02-15 Thread Mark Higbee
Most likely because it is next it impossible to have a full time job and go to BYU. Plus BYU doesn't teach a lot of practical stuff in my opinion. For example my younger brother graduated from BYU in computer engineering he took a class where he had to program his own database yet he has no

Re: I want to learn a new language...

2007-02-14 Thread Mark Higbee
If you want to learn a fun language that doesn't require an IDE and minimal typing Perl is the language for you. I would caution that if you do too much Perl programming you may become less excited about Java at least that is what happened to me. I found my self saying all the time Wow I wish y

Re: Java

2007-02-13 Thread Mark Higbee
d download from sun I can't remember what it was called anymore I gave up on it. Why not make the language so you don't have to use an Advanced auto-completion feature to keep you sane? Good thing there are a few languages out there like that. Bryan Sant wrote: On 2/12/07,

Re: Java

2007-02-12 Thread Mark Higbee
Lets see. If you have to type out a bunch of crap like this just to print. system.out.println How much to you have type in to get anything real done? Hill, Greg wrote: However, I stand by my point that there isn't any real monetary incentive to learn anything other than a very popular la

Re: Official announcement of Java and the GPL

2006-11-13 Thread Mark Higbee
If sun was smart they would create a CPAN for JAVA. Or they could just drop JAVA for PERL. ( just kidding :) ) CPAN rules ! Mark Michael Torrie wrote: At the risk of re-opening an old thread that I am guilty of prolonging, details of the Java GPL release are trickling out. Looks like the r

My Work is looking for Perl Programmer

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Higbee
Hey if any one is looking for work. My company is hiring. You need to know mod_perl, mysql, cvs, html , css, javascript etc basic web programming skills. http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=101&engine=2&dockey=xml/a/f/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&source=19&FREE_TEXT=perl+linux /* PL