Re: OT: accounting via spreadsheet

2008-01-29 Thread keith smith
Is there a need for an accounting application that will give the user access to their data? What platform would it run on? Win or Linux or both? R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Once upon a time I had the job of integrating QuickBooks

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread stu
Try looking here: http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking It seems to have all the info you need. I run a variety of Debian/KDE based stuff and although I'm sure the madwifi setup is similar, I'm not familiar with the Fed

Re: OT: accounting via spreadsheet

2008-01-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, keith smith wrote: > Is there a need for an accounting application that will give > the user access to their data? > > What platform would it run on? Win or Linux or both? not sure who that was directed to -- my reply below: > R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On

Re: services

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 9:01 am, Matt Graham wrote: Thanks for correcting the author of this! > > Below is a list of services that were turned on by default that I have > > turned > > > off. > > * acpid: unnecessary power management > > ? Most modern laptops require ACPI for power-manage

Re: services

2008-01-29 Thread Matt Graham
From: Michael Havens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > how does one turn off unneeded stuff in debian? "man update-rc.d" says "update-rc.d $FOO remove" will prevent $FOO from starting on boot. The man page has a warning or 2 in it that you should read, though. > Below is a list of services that were turned

services

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
how does one turn off unneeded stuff in debian? I found this list which describes what the services do but it is for redhat and it seems debian services aren't in /sbin/chkconfig. Google doesn't seem to help so I must turn to you. here is that list found at http://www.michaelminn.com/linux/not

Re: Completely OT - copyrights, fair use and patents

2008-01-29 Thread Josef Lowder
. On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:46, Craig White wrote > Copyrights and fair use...an educational video - do not miss this... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo > > and one quick link - toilet paper > > http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/01/toilet-paper-ip-gone-mad.html The youtube

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
I was thinking that what I should do is put fedora on the laptop because I have that nice instalation guide. Although I was thinking slackware. What do you all think? so I'm thinking bsd for the tower and fedora for the laptop. we need to talk about this because this will be completely new

Re: services

2008-01-29 Thread David Bendit
In Debian, startup scripts are stored in /etc/init.d, and managing which start and stop at what points in which runlevels is accomplished by symlinks to those scripts within the /etc/rc*.d directories. While you could manage these by hand, Debian comes with a few great utilities to manage t

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:52:39AM -0700, Michael Havens wrote: > hm. > I think I was mistaken. I do need a wireless router to feed the laptops... > not > just the wireless pci card or am I mistaken yet again? And if I buy a > wifi router doesn't it come with a firewall? or what's up

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
hm. I think I was mistaken. I do need a wireless router to feed the laptops... not just the wireless pci card or am I mistaken yet again? And if I buy a wifi router doesn't it come with a firewall? or what's up with that? On Monday 28 January 2008 5:45 pm, Michael Havens wrote: > The

Re: swap space

2008-01-29 Thread Jon M. Hanson
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 01:17:05PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote: > I want to make use of my floppy disk; thus I wish to use it as my swap space. > How many bytes > > I was wondering a flopy drive is very much useless. Why not use it as the > swap space? If we were going to how many bytes/blo

Re: swap space

2008-01-29 Thread stu
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 3:24 pm, Jon M. Hanson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 01:17:05PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote: > > I want to make use of my floppy disk; thus I wish to use it as my swap > > space. How many bytes > > > > I was wondering a flopy drive is very much useless. Why not use

Re: swap space

2008-01-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 01:17:05PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote: > I want to make use of my floppy disk; thus I wish to use it as my swap space. > How many bytes > > I was wondering a flopy drive is very much useless. Why not use it as the > swap space? If we were going to how many bytes/blo

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:02 pm, Darrin Chandler wrote: > Most wifi cards can act as an access point :) the sales guy said the opposite. it is a linksys wmp54gs. Googling it doesn't seem to reveal anything. any ideas? --- PLUG-discuss mailin

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Matt Graham
From: Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:52:39AM -0700, Michael Havens wrote: > > I think I was mistaken. I do need a wireless router to feed the laptops... not > > just the wireless pci card or am I mistaken yet again? And if I buy a > > wifi router doesn't it c

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:35:34PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote: > On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:02 pm, Darrin Chandler wrote: > > Most wifi cards can act as an access point :) > > the sales guy said the opposite. it is a linksys wmp54gs. Googling it doesn't > seem to reveal anything. any idea

Re: wireless card and tower pc

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
So I suppose I'll get a wifi router and connect modem->switch which will split between tower and wifi. dDoes that sound good? On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:44 pm, Darrin Chandler wrote: > My only idea is to Google it. When that fails it's a roll of the dice. > Even model numbers can be misleading

swap space

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
I want to make use of my floppy disk; thus I wish to use it as my swap space. How many bytes I was wondering a flopy drive is very much useless. Why not use it as the swap space? If we were going to how many bytes/blocks are in a floppy? --- P

paging jlf...

2008-01-29 Thread Nick Estes
jlf, if you're still lurking, email me off-list. --Nick --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-di

who is alex morton

2008-01-29 Thread Josh Coffman
Not sure if anyone else has seen this or if I'm just ignorant: http://www.litvision.org/morton.html It's a little long, and leave me wondering what Unix software Alex Morton wrote. Anyone know? -- Regards, Josh http://www.computeristsolutions.com -

Re: who is alex morton

2008-01-29 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Jan 29, 2008 2:28 PM, Josh Coffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure if anyone else has seen this or if I'm just ignorant: > http://www.litvision.org/morton.html > > It's a little long, and leave me wondering what Unix software Alex > Morton wrote. Anyone know? That was the most interesting

I did it now! {Re: wireless card and tower pc}

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
I got a linksys (wrt54g) wireless-g broadband router. the reason I was being so obstonate in not getting this was I thought I would aso have to get the wireless card but then I noticed it is a four port switch as well. So, in my hot little hands I hold this thing but before I hook it up I need t

Re: Laptop

2008-01-29 Thread Michael Havens
Cool! I ran dd over the hd and that fixed it!I then ran the restore disk and got xp running on the laptop. On Wednesday 16 January 2008 1:39 pm, stu wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 2:34 pm, Michael Havens wrote: > > My dad got a new laptop (toshiba satelite) because his hd (?) died. BIOS >

Re: Completely OT - copyrights, fair use and patents

2008-01-29 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 10:56 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote: > . > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:46, Craig White wrote > > Copyrights and fair use...an educational video - do not miss this... > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo > > > > and one quick link - toilet paper > > > > http://shakespea

Re: OT: accounting via spreadsheet

2008-01-29 Thread keith smith
You have quite the credentials there. I've written and rewritten several accounting systems both accrual and cash accounting in Fox DOS and Visual FoxPro. It has been a while. My needs are so simple I'm thinking a simple cash accounting system will do. I need to track expenses by category an

Re: who is alex morton

2008-01-29 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 15:28 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote: > Not sure if anyone else has seen this or if I'm just ignorant: > http://www.litvision.org/morton.html > > It's a little long, and leave me wondering what Unix software Alex > Morton wrote. Anyone know? I don't know...google doesn't turn

RE: who is alex morton

2008-01-29 Thread Richard Daggett
Found this article about Alex Morton. He created a mouse in 1992, but not much on that either. http://www.robelle.com/ftp/newsletter/1992/w1992-06.txt MotorMouse: Just in Time for Christmas! A Vancouver inventor has come up with an entirely new way of "driving" your PC cursor: the MotorMouse

Re: who is alex morton

2008-01-29 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Jan 29, 2008 6:53 PM, Richard Daggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found this article about Alex Morton. He created a mouse in 1992, but not > much on that either. > > http://www.robelle.com/ftp/newsletter/1992/w1992-06.txt > > MotorMouse: Just in Time for Christmas! Interesting. So is this g

Re: Semi-OT: Referral for Linux-friendly accountant

2008-01-29 Thread Kevin Brown
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=quicken&mode=all a couple of perl modules that can deal with QIF and IIF. Just a note, QuickBooks (as opposed to Quicken) doesn't have categories. What you think is a category is actually another account. GNUCash does the same thing and is part of doing do

Re: services

2008-01-29 Thread Technomage-hawke
I use a command line tool in debian called sysv-rc-conf. its a nvurses front end that works nicely for this kind of stuff On Tuesday 29 January 2008 07:53, Michael Havens wrote: > how does one turn off unneeded stuff in debian? I found this list which > describes what the services do but it is fo

Re: services

2008-01-29 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On 1/29/08, Technomage-hawke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a command line tool in debian called sysv-rc-conf. its a nvurses front > end that works nicely for this kind of stuff Oh, cool. Never knew about this one! Thx... -- Kristian Erik Hermansen "Know something about everything and every