Re: OT~ Credit accounts....

2007-09-05 Thread Technomage-hawke
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 15:50, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > Has any one mentioned services like Life Lock yet? > > http://www.lifelock.com/ > > lifelock is, at best, a temporary solution. Also, there are some questions about the companies business model and there are other questions with regard to

Re: Automated emails

2007-09-05 Thread der.hans
Am 05. Sep, 2007 schw�tzte Bryan O'Neal so: I have come to the point I would like to set up something to watch incoming emails pick out key words and forward them on to known parties and to email addresses taken from the incoming email. Basically we want to start doing tailed auto responses to

Re: Automated emails

2007-09-05 Thread Dennis Kibbe
Bryan O'Neal wrote: > I have come to the point I would like to set up something to watch > incoming emails pick out key words and forward them on to known parties > and to email addresses taken from the incoming email. Basically we want > to start doing tailed auto responses to email generated via

RE: Access database conversion

2007-09-05 Thread keith smith
Yikes Access was not a very good relational database. Good for maybe 4 or 5 concurrent users. Maybe it has been improved since I used it 6 or 8 years ago. If you are going to have to go through all that work why not just create an intranet? Bryan O'Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You c

RE: OT~ Credit accounts....

2007-09-05 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > Has any one mentioned services like Life Lock yet? > > http://www.lifelock.com/ There have been articles in various newspapers showing this is the next thing to a scam. They charge and do no more than you can do yourself for free. By the way, don't p

RE: Access database conversion

2007-09-05 Thread Bryan O'Neal
You can connect to the Access DB using open office and ODBC on any platform, but the Linux MS Access drivers all cost $$ while the windows ones are free. You will also need to rebuild all your forms and quires in OpenBase, but it is very easy to link to the table information. -Original Messag

RE: Access database conversion

2007-09-05 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Access is by nature a multi user database and their should be no reason they four PC could not hit the same access file located on any standard file server (Including a Linux smb server) However you need access on all computers OR something that understands access. If they are running windows ba

Re: VPS provider recommendations

2007-09-05 Thread Kurt Granroth
Mike Garfias wrote: > I would prefer Xen to the other crap thats in use. There seems to be > a great variation in the service levels (both price and in what the > machines offer). > > The other requirement is that I have to run debian on there. No rpm- > based distros for me. I was recentl

Re: Access database conversion

2007-09-05 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:08 -0700, Carlton Brooks wrote: > About 12 years ago I created an MS Access database for a historical > society to maintain their collection of material. > They would now like to make the information available on the 4 pc units > in their office instead of the one it is c

Access database conversion

2007-09-05 Thread Carlton Brooks
About 12 years ago I created an MS Access database for a historical society to maintain their collection of material. They would now like to make the information available on the 4 pc units in their office instead of the one it is currently housed on. I thought that if I set up their server as a

Re: Automated emails

2007-09-05 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:35 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > I have come to the point I would like to set up something to watch > incoming emails pick out key words and forward them on to known > parties and to email addresses taken from the incoming email. > Basically we want to start doing tailed aut

Re: Automated emails

2007-09-05 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > I have come to the point I would like to set up something to watch > incoming emails[,] pick out key words[,] and forward them on to known > parties and to email addresses taken from the incoming email. Keywords where? In the Subject:, o

RE: OT~ Credit accounts....

2007-09-05 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Has any one mentioned services like Life Lock yet? http://www.lifelock.com/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of keith smith Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 12:05 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT~ Credit accounts

Automated emails

2007-09-05 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I have come to the point I would like to set up something to watch incoming emails pick out key words and forward them on to known parties and to email addresses taken from the incoming email. Basically we want to start doing tailed auto responses to email generated via web forms or certain public

RE: Old Floppies

2007-09-05 Thread Bryan O'Neal
1) Yes, I remember 8 inch floppies. I even remember changeable 20MB back up disks that had to be wheeled to the server on a dolly. 2) Yes I have 720K 3 & ½ inch floppies. I even have several working 5 & ¼ inch floppies and a working drive. What do you need them for? 3) Yes, my wife made me t

Re: VPS provider recommendations

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Garfias
UML is my 2nd choice. VMWare and virtuozzo is NOT on my list (had bad experiences with VMware in the past, virtuozzo looks like it has the same issues). On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Michael R. Crusoe wrote: > I believe I'm on my fourth year with linode.com's exellent UML > based product. >

Re: Flagstaff Meeting September 11 Presentation on Embedded Linux

2007-09-05 Thread Shawn Badger
I plan on going and have some room for a couple people if anybody is interested in going. I plan on leaving Phoneix around 3:30 and returning after the meeting that night. We should be back in town by 10. Please contact me off the list if you are interested in going. On 9/4/07, Patrick Fleming, E

Re: Firefox Java Plugins

2007-09-05 Thread Harold Michels
Craig White sent me a procedure for activating Java in my Firefox through the PLUG discussion board. I would like to thank Craig and Shawn Badger for your responses. I recognize the amount of work that went into them. Unfortunately, in spite of following Craig's procedure I have not achieved

Re: AMD/ATI opening specs

2007-09-05 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:02:52PM -0700, der.hans wrote: > AMD has announced it will be making specifications available for > developing Free Software drivers for new ATI cards. > > http://lwn.net/Articles/248227/ This seems promising! -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group |

AMD/ATI opening specs

2007-09-05 Thread der.hans
moin moin, AMD has announced it will be making specifications available for developing Free Software drivers for new ATI cards. http://lwn.net/Articles/248227/ ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ # "Who decided that holders of government-granted

Re: VPS provider recommendations

2007-09-05 Thread Alan Dayley
Mike Garfias wrote: > I would prefer Xen to the other crap thats in use. There seems to be > a great variation in the service levels (both price and in what the > machines offer). > > The other requirement is that I have to run debian on there. No rpm- > based distros for me. > > Anyone ha

Re: VPS provider recommendations

2007-09-05 Thread Michael R. Crusoe
I believe I'm on my fourth year with linode.com's exellent UML based product. Note: They did a year-long beta of a Xen approach and found that it lacked the resource controls that they needed. On 9/5/07, Mike Garfias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would prefer Xen to the other crap thats in use.

Re: VPS provider recommendations

2007-09-05 Thread Alan Dayley
Mike Garfias wrote: > I looked at unixshell, but they're full up. And tektonic is doing > virtuozzo or whatever it is. A question for you experienced people... As long as your virtual server is running your OS of choice, you should be agnostic about what virtual machine engine provides your vi

Re: VPS provider recommendations

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Garfias
I looked at unixshell, but they're full up. And tektonic is doing virtuozzo or whatever it is. On Sep 5, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Mike Garfias wrote: > >> I would prefer Xen to the other crap thats in use. There seems to be >> a great variation in the ser

Re: VPS provider recommendations

2007-09-05 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Mike Garfias wrote: > I would prefer Xen to the other crap thats in use. There seems to be > a great variation in the service levels (both price and in what the > machines offer). > > The other requirement is that I have to run debian on there. No rpm- > based distros f

VPS provider recommendations

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Garfias
I would prefer Xen to the other crap thats in use. There seems to be a great variation in the service levels (both price and in what the machines offer). The other requirement is that I have to run debian on there. No rpm- based distros for me. Anyone have any recommendations? --

Re: Problem w/ TV card on Linux

2007-09-05 Thread Vaughn Treude
Alex LeDonne wrote: > On 9/3/07, Vaughn Treude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello everyone: >> Here's a question for the MythTV experts in the group. >> >> Here's the background - I had a Hauppage TV card (which I used for video >> capture) running fine under Mandrake 10. Then the system's mother