Re: kickstart add extra RPM yum repos?

2007-07-03 Thread tjones
Where I work we have a yum repository that gets accessed at the end of the kickstart process (part fo the %post section). We use it to update whetever we're installing to the latest package/patch levels. The yum.conf that is copied in after the yum rpm is installed has the repository information a

Re: OT: Cracking Quickbooks format

2007-07-03 Thread Vaughn Treude
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You should see their online product. > > My employer used it for a while for time-card submissions. > > Windows-only. > > IE only. > > Download of a "Trust us, it's safe" ActiveX control required, with > instructions as to how to work around the fact that recent Wind

Re: OT: Cracking Quickbooks format

2007-07-03 Thread Vaughn Treude
Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > I know someone at Intuit in Tucson and he had mentioned that there have > been talks at Intuit about pursuing an 'Open Format Strategy', which I > assume involves publishing their data formats. > > -jmz Now there would be a 180-degree turn. Another funny thing abou

Re: OT: Cracking Quickbooks format

2007-07-03 Thread Vaughn Treude
Randy Melder wrote: > I get that the objective is export the whole company file but > Quickbooks has all kinds of data export options... from customers, to > items, to whatever... > > Why not export/import into whatever you want to use? Quickbooks - at least the version I have - is pretty lim

Re: OT: Cracking Quickbooks format

2007-07-03 Thread Randy Melder
I get that the objective is export the whole company file but Quickbooks has all kinds of data export options... from customers, to items, to whatever... Why not export/import into whatever you want to use? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-di

Re: OT: Cracking Quickbooks format

2007-07-03 Thread Joshua Zeidner
I know someone at Intuit in Tucson and he had mentioned that there have been talks at Intuit about pursuing an 'Open Format Strategy', which I assume involves publishing their data formats. -jmz On 7/3/07, Vaughn Treude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello: For quite some time I've been wanting

Re: Sr Tools Engineer position (shortage of programmers)

2007-07-03 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:18:34PM -0700, keith smith wrote: > This is not totally inline with this post however I have to ask. > > Does it seem there maybe a shortage of programmers. In conversations with > several prospective client this last two weeks I got the distinct impression > either

Re: OT: Cracking Quickbooks format

2007-07-03 Thread fouldragon
You should see their online product. My employer used it for a while for time-card submissions. Windows-only. IE only. Download of a "Trust us, it's safe" ActiveX control required, with instructions as to how to work around the fact that recent Windows versions don't think it's too hot that

Re: [ Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?]

2007-07-03 Thread George Toft
Bryan O'Neal wrote: > Personal opinion, George was far too brutish and overly simplistic for > the reality that is software development. Indeed I would wounded if he > ever managed a single wind spread development project. > Well, Bryan, you're right - I never managed a wide-spread development

RE: Sr Tools Engineer position (shortage of programmers)

2007-07-03 Thread snits
With the job being in Cupertino, is the pay range really that great? > Original Message > Subject: Re: Sr Tools Engineer position (shortage of programmers) > From: keith smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, July 03, 2007 3:18 pm > To: Main PLUG discussion list > > This is no

Re: Router and IP's

2007-07-03 Thread Michael Sammartano
In the Router settings there should be a place for you to make specific mac addresses static, ie.. the router will not hand those addresses to any other device unless it has the correct mac address or network card. That is the only way to prevent the router from handing out that address, even if

Re: Sr Tools Engineer position (shortage of programmers)

2007-07-03 Thread keith smith
This is not totally inline with this post however I have to ask. Does it seem there maybe a shortage of programmers. In conversations with several prospective client this last two weeks I got the distinct impression either everyone is raising their rates or there is a shortage. Raising rates

Re: Laws on Programming (Was: Re: [ Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?])

2007-07-03 Thread Carlos Macedo Gomes
On 7/2/07, Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carlos Macedo Gomes wrote: > > I like these laws even better: > > George's Laws on Programming > > 1. There is no such thing as a programming bug. A bug was the moth that > > Grace Hopper pulled out of her vacuum tube computer. What programmers >

Re: Router and IP's

2007-07-03 Thread Sir Light
Joseph, On my DHCP server, I got a couple entires in it so that when a request comes in from a certain ethernet MAC address, it get the same IP address assigned. Dunno if WRT54g's DHCP will let you do it. Jon Joseph Prestia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a linksys wrt54g wireless ro

RE: Router and IP's

2007-07-03 Thread Bryan O'Neal
TTBOMK the linksys will not keep lease records in non volatile memory, thus you can not prevent issues like this. Ether you would need to set up a DNS server that does keep lease records in nonvolatile memory or set up static addresses for the servers and then exclude those addresses from the DHCP

Re: Router and IP's

2007-07-03 Thread DX
You can also set it to static on your server. In debian based OS's, edit the /etc/network/interfaces to make them look something like this: iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.1

Re: Router and IP's

2007-07-03 Thread Jon M. Hanson
Just set the computers you want ports forwarded to to a static IP address on the same subnet so they won't use DHCP at all. This makes the port forwarding easier since their addresses will never change. In it's default configuration the Linksys sets up the network on the 192.168.1 subnet an

Router and IP's

2007-07-03 Thread Joseph Prestia
I have a linksys wrt54g wireless router and a small home network which lost power the other day and when I restarted my computers they pulled the wrong IP's and so the one I'm using for a web server and mail server was not getting the proper ports forwarded. I know I can disable the dhcp server

Re: Sr Tools Engineer position

2007-07-03 Thread eric
Mike Schwartz wrote: > > This does sound like a cool job, though. > Let me know whether you'd like your message >about this job >(or, "a" message, minus the stuff about > my resume being " in front of" you) >posted to the > "PLUG-discuss mailing list" < > plug-discuss@list

RE: Sr Tools Engineer position

2007-07-03 Thread Sidney Miller
just didnt want all your info out there =) Sidney Google Staffing _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Schwartz Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 12:25 PM To: PLUG-discuss mailing list Cc: Mike L Schwartz Subject: Fwd: Sr Tools Engineer position oops ,sorry

OT: Cracking Quickbooks format

2007-07-03 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello: For quite some time I've been wanting to move my company books form QuickBooks to GnuCash or some other Linux application. I was having difficulty finding a way to convert my existing data, but I procrastinated. Recently something happened that convinced me to do it. Sad story follow

Fwd: Sr Tools Engineer position

2007-07-03 Thread Mike Schwartz
oops ,sorry, here is the message that should have been posted to the list: -- Forwarded message -- From: Trey Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 3, 2007 12:23 PM Subject: RE: Sr Tools Engineer position To: Mike Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey Mike, I appreciate you gettin

Re: Sr Tools Engineer position

2007-07-03 Thread Mike Schwartz
On 7/3/07, Trey Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey Michael, I have a copy of your resume here in front of me, and I am trying to reach you regarding an immediately available position located in Cupertino, CA for which I believe you are an excellent match. This is a permanent position payi

kickstart add extra RPM yum repos?

2007-07-03 Thread reed
I want to setup kickstart configuration that has extra yum repository (for dag RPM archive or rpmforge). Any examples for that? (Or point me to a webpage?) Thanks, Jeremy C. Reed --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az

Re: Another Early Unix Story

2007-07-03 Thread Jim
One more. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html -- "That income tax you know it's nothing more than legal robbery" Sidney "Pa" Larkin The magic HD-DVD number is: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 --- PLUG-discuss mai

Re: Another Early Unix Story

2007-07-03 Thread Jim
Then there's this one. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html Nathan Aubrey wrote: > On Tuesday 03 July 2007 01:39:07 am Jim wrote: >> Once in a while I'll read the ancient history in the Jargon file. My >> favorite is the story of the system support staff at Motorola >> disco

Re: Another Early Unix Story

2007-07-03 Thread Nathan Aubrey
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 01:39:07 am Jim wrote: > Once in a while I'll read the ancient history in the Jargon file. My > favorite is the story of the system support staff at Motorola > discovering a way to crack system security on the Xerox CP-V timesharing > system. > > Go here then scroll down un

Re: Questions regarding Qwest.

2007-07-03 Thread Shawn Badger
The Cox nntp groups are also what I would consider poor. they are fine for smaller downloads and news, but not the larger files. Go with a premium service. I pay $10/month for mine and jsut consider it part of my internet cost. On 7/2/07, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Graham wrote: > Re

Re: Laws on Programming (Was: Re: [ Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?])

2007-07-03 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 09:19:59AM -0400, Matt Graham wrote: > I'd guess the jargon term is too entrenched to be changed now. You can > try, but it'll probably end up like "GNU/Linux"--not many people will > follow your lead.[0] You are almost certainly correct. But that doesn't mean trying isn

Re: Questions regarding Qwest.

2007-07-03 Thread Matt Graham
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 09:53, after a long battle with technology, KevinO wrote: > Two superior (than Qworst) solutions, if you can get DSL: > Deru: http://deru.net/ > FastQ: http://fastq.com/ > > Both great local companies with a long history of excellent service > and no BS. You mean there are

Re: Questions regarding Qwest.

2007-07-03 Thread KevinO
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Re: Questions regarding Qwest.

2007-07-03 Thread Matt Graham
On Monday 02 July 2007 16:55, after a long battle with technology, Jim wrote: > Mark Jarvis wrote: >> Matt Graham wrote: >>> Can any Qwest users confirm or deny that they have or don't have an >>> NNTP server? >> When we had "Qworst" phone service we lost it much more often than >> our cable conn

Re: Laws on Programming (Was: Re: [ Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?])

2007-07-03 Thread Matt Graham
On Monday 02 July 2007 17:21, after a long battle with technology, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:48:52PM -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: >> Carlos Macedo Gomes wrote: >>> What programmers like to call bugs are defects - defects in >>> workmanship - defects in quality. >> Why do you

Re: Another Early Unix Story

2007-07-03 Thread Jim
Once in a while I'll read the ancient history in the Jargon file. My favorite is the story of the system support staff at Motorola discovering a way to crack system security on the Xerox CP-V timesharing system. Go here then scroll down until you see Xerox CP-V. http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon

Re: [ Re: UNIX- Grad-daddy of all modern operating systems?]

2007-07-03 Thread Joshua Zeidner
2. There are two types of defects: Design and Implementation. a. Design defects are a direct reflection on the Software Architect's inability to properly design a robust program, or to interpret Business Requirements. Perhaps someone's inability, but you must understand at least two things, 1) S