MCC classes

2008-01-08 Thread der.hans
moin moin, classes start next week. We've got GNU/Linux system administration, intro to GNU/Linux, GNU/Linux web services and development, PHP and MySQL and computer game development. http://www.LuftHans.com/node/5573 I believe all of the classes still have some seats open. Also, Dennis should

RE: lawyer Ira Schwartz, Nov. 19, 1996 memories, etc. (was: Re: [...] RIAA document)

2008-01-08 Thread Craig White
Why not ask the same Ira Schwartz who evidently has done user group meetings before but I would definitely not mention the concept of 'grilling' him. Yes, it was a jab at Microsoft for disabling current versions ability to read older data files and also a jab at Microsoft because they feel that th

Re: Qontacts!

2008-01-08 Thread Tuna
Erich Newell wrote: > Congrats! Qontacts! > > What's your next project? I think you should dedicate resources to > making front-ends for DVB tools. > > :D > > > My next project is either Qontacts 2.0 or GTKontacts. Or maybe my next project will be to learn an esolang. I've been looking at LOLCO

RE: Off-Topic: Looking for Hardware Recommendations

2008-01-08 Thread Bryan O'Neal
If you have multiple monitors you can use Synergy to share the keyboard and mouse. If you want a more traditional set up a $25 2 port KVM would do the trick nicely. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips Sent: Friday, January 04, 20

RE: lawyer Ira Schwartz, Nov. 19, 1996 memories, etc. (was: Re: [...] RIAA document)

2008-01-08 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Sorry for the non inline comment: I believe Craig's comment about the file format was both a jab to MS for not intentionally alienating prior formats and regularly attempting to show that reading those formats with a non MS product is a violation of the MS patent on that format or it specific use o

RE: Strange Redirect - Omaha Airport

2008-01-08 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Love the 'already exchanged key' portion of this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erich Newell Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 11:31 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Strange Redirect - Omaha Airport What Tony describes is corr

RE: Worst cell provider I have seen

2008-01-08 Thread Bryan O'Neal
There are a few open source phone out their you can do this with. But none (Even the Sun Java Phone) is a neat turn key solution. That combined with the data link costs are why I am back in the dark ages using a standard no data cell :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail

RE: Worst cell provider I have seen

2008-01-08 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Sigh... Yep I am with Verizon now. Cost me a 25 cents to send a picture to my email. Though that used to be $1.00 but I can still complain. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon M. Hanson Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 12:57 PM To: Main P

RE: Windows Gaming WAS Is it yet possible to _really_ switch from Windows?

2008-01-08 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I have to fight with Windows to get Civ IV & Bio-Shock to play at the highest quality level. I could not imagine tying to get it working under WINE. But then again, I am thinking of moving to console gaming as soon as I can afford it :) But it is really good to see that Windows is not a lan p

Re: Windows Gaming WAS Is it yet possible to _really_ switch from Windows?

2008-01-08 Thread Erich Newell
Hmm. It would be a total hack...but if they allow mounting of the drives via the network, you could run VMWare with windoze...mount the ISO via DaemonTools and share it out? I don't have games with these requirements any longer. Actually, the newest game I play is UrbanTerror 4.1, which is based o

Re: Windows Gaming WAS Is it yet possible to _really_ switch from Windows?

2008-01-08 Thread Patrick C
I've actually done a LAN party from Linux, myself, so I could talk to you about that. As for D-Tools vs `mount -t iso9660 -o loop`, the copy-protection features used by many modern games are unsupported (nonexistent) on Linux. Cedega provides these services, but does not support mounting ISO images

Re: Windows Gaming WAS Is it yet possible to _really_ switch from Windows?

2008-01-08 Thread Erich Newell
Awesome to hear. I'd like to pick his brain on how he has some of the games configured...as far as the "cons": Wine can be fooled into mounting ISOs as CDROM drives by first mounting them as loop devices under fstab and then adding them using winecfg. :) Who needs daemon tools? On Jan 8, 2008 3:

Re: Windows Gaming WAS Is it yet possible to _really_ switch from Windows?

2008-01-08 Thread Patrick C
I just thought I'd throw this out there, since it's related... I just threw a LAN party on the 31st with about 18 people. One of those people ran Linux (Ubuntu 7.10) for the reason that he couldn't install Windows on his computer. He said that his Windows XP license is an upgrade from a Windows 98

UNetBootIn

2008-01-08 Thread chip33az
I have a fairly old laptop that uses a special cable for the CD-ROM (which I can't find). I wanted to put Linux on it and it currently has Windows 2000 installed. I thought about doing the netinstall from Debian, but wanted to try something different so I went to http://lubi.sourceforge.net/u

Re: OT: open source/ hardware video recorder in NY Times

2008-01-08 Thread chip33az
I have to pay extra for the basic cable. When I signed up at the house many years ago, the basic cable was free if you ordered their Internet service. When I moved into the apartment a few months back, I inquired about that and they stated they no longer provided that service. I did order th

Re: Jan topics proposal

2008-01-08 Thread der.hans
Am 08. Jan, 2008 schwätzte Alan Dayley so: der.hans wrote: alternative infrastructures: alternative platforms: Do either of these encompass "alternative hardware" like embedded stuff or special purpose servers that run Linux? In both cases I was envisioning software. Read my email from l

Re: Jan topics proposal

2008-01-08 Thread Alan Dayley
der.hans wrote: > > alternative infrastructures: > > alternative platforms: Do either of these encompass "alternative hardware" like embedded stuff or special purpose servers that run Linux? Alan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ---

Re: Common bash aliases

2008-01-08 Thread Stephen P Rufle
The following is the summarization from what I got from the group http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=Tips#Useful_aliases Feel free to either edit it directly on their site or reply and I will try to modify. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: Qontacts!

2008-01-08 Thread Erich Newell
Congrats! Qontacts! What's your next project? I think you should dedicate resources to making front-ends for DVB tools. :D -- "A man is defined by the questions that he asks; and the way he goes about finding the answers to those questions is the way he goes through life."

Re: OT: A paper tux of your very own!

2008-01-08 Thread Shawn Badger
I am glad to see someone actually found time to make one. I printed a couple up, but have yet to find time or get off my butt to find a pair a scissors :) On Jan 7, 2008 8:55 PM, Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Badger wrote: > > I found this while aimlessly surfing around and thou

Qontacts!

2008-01-08 Thread Tuna
So I had this book lying around, "A Beginner's Guide to Gambas". I wanted something that I could apply what I'm learning in my VB class to. So I picked up the book, flipped through the pages, and found a nice little address book-type program. So I followed the tutorial, having to fix a couple b