Re: Web Filter

2008-02-14 Thread Ben Francom
> Are you installing some other filter program? A dedicated linux system for > filtering such as Endian, or what? Dedicated *nix system running Squid + SquidGuard > It does not have to update all the time, but occassional updates rather than > re-installing the system every 6 months as with th

Re: Dare I Ask...

2008-02-14 Thread Tuna
Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Tuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The license for that costs several hundred dollars! And the license that >> you buy is really restrictive! > > Dude, did you try ReactOS yet? I have used it a bunch of times and it > acts just l

Re: Dare I Ask...

2008-02-14 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Tuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The license for that costs several hundred dollars! And the license that > you buy is really restrictive! Dude, did you try ReactOS yet? I have used it a bunch of times and it acts just like Windows 2000. Most software works on

Re: Dare I Ask...

2008-02-14 Thread Tuna
Stephen P Rufle wrote: > http://www.realbasic.com/ > > See if you can run your project in it. I am not sure if all the syntax > is the same, but you can tell me :) > > > Tuna wrote: >> Has anyone ever had any success installing Visual Basic on Linux? I am >> running Kubuntu Feisty and Wine jus

Web Filter

2008-02-14 Thread Nathan Aubrey
All, I have been using Endian firewall on a computer just for the built in Dans Guardian web filtering for our church. Endian does not update the dans guardian, and from what I see on the web site they suggest being part of a pay for service or doing some other scripts that automatically updat

Thesis on kde + gnome open source projects

2008-02-14 Thread Luis Villarreal
I came across this thesis and thought some of you might be interested in its contents. I haven't read the whole thing yet but i did semi-skim through it sounds very interesting and provides an insight in the community at large. http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/PhD_Berdou.pdf --

Dare I ask

2008-02-14 Thread gm5729
Hey tuna set up a virtual machine and install xp with vb. Runs native that way. You don't have to mess with your partitioning to do so. I use vbox-ose, there is no 3d support or usb support in either ose or nonose. It is easy to use and fast! I have XP and ArchLinux installed and i test out isos as

IRC client

2008-02-14 Thread gm5729
Depends on if u want cli or gui? KDE or Gnome? I use weechat which is like irssi but has vertical/horizontal split screens and sound. Nice proggies. There is also konversation, xchat, sirc, kirc for KDE. Sorry I don't know any Gnome specific ones. I mainly use cli. --

RE: Qwest PPPoA passing with PPPoE - Can not get an address

2008-02-14 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I had a block of IP's from Qwest, so I put the router in unnumbered mode, so it in essence handed out it's real IP's to what sat behind it. It chewed up two IP's but I was happy just for it to be done. Theoretically, you should be able to just place it in bridging and turn off nat, but I could not

Re: Blogging PLUG

2008-02-14 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 16:32 -0700, Luis Villarreal wrote: > I agree with Ted a planet aggregator of people's blogs would be kinda > cool for people that are interested on people's insights on stuff > other than foss/oss. For an example see > http://planet.fedoraproject.org/ Probably another good

Re: Blogging PLUG

2008-02-14 Thread Luis Villarreal
- Mailing Lists . the main list is somewhat high traffic, although the volume does fluctuate quite a bit depending on the mood of various participants. It has all you could hope for in a Linux mailing list: technical questions and technical answers, cranky tec

Re: Qwest PPPoA passing with PPPoE - Can not get an address

2008-02-14 Thread Dale Farnsworth
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:04:19PM -0700, Eric Shubes wrote: > Dale Farnsworth wrote: [snip] > > I tried to do this about 18 months ago when I got qwest dsl, and gave > > up. If you solved it, please share the solution with us (or at least > > with me. :)) > > > > Thanks, > > -Dale > > I have an

Re: SCO Lives?

2008-02-14 Thread Tuna
Gerald Thurman wrote: > >From AP: "The SCO Group Inc. says investors will put up $100 million > and take the company private after it emerges from bankruptcy." > > $100 million is a nice investment amount. > > > > > --

Re: SCO Lives?

2008-02-14 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Gerald Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From AP: "The SCO Group Inc. says investors will put up $100 million and > take the company private after it emerges from bankruptcy." > > $100 million is a nice investment amount. Microsoft investors? heh... -- Krist

Re: how "http://www.spamarrest.com/" works (was: Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list [ linux ...])

2008-02-14 Thread Eric "Shubes"
Mike Schwartz wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Technomage-hawke > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thursday 14 February 2008 06:19, Shawn Badger wrote: >>> Other than the emails about politics which could be considered spam at >>> least by me, I can't remember the last time I saw spam

Re: IRC client

2008-02-14 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 12:42 -0700, Shawn Badger wrote: > I ma finally getting around to plying with IRC. Can anyone suggest a > good IRC client? No one has mentioned it, and I don't know how good it is, but I'm using Empathy with the Telepathy-idle backend. It's still beta (perhaps alpha) but I t

Re: Blogging PLUG

2008-02-14 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 13:35 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/ypmbfh Cool. You know, that might be an interesting substitute to the "Off-Topic" list. If there was a planet aggregator of people's blogs then those discussions could take place there. Even if it isn't off topic, an

Blogging PLUG

2008-02-14 Thread Joshua Zeidner
http://tinyurl.com/ypmbfh -jmz --- 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-discuss

Re: IRC client

2008-02-14 Thread Technomage-hawke
depends, do you want a GUI full featured client or something a little more basic that runs in ncurses (I use both). xchat is the premier GUI irc client. it can handle multiple servers, tabs and the like. irssi is the command line (ncurses) irc client. it has a lot of the same functionality as

Re: IRC client

2008-02-14 Thread Erich Newell
bitchx has always worked well for me. On 2/14/08, Daniel Stasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/14/08, Shawn Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I ma finally getting around to plying with IRC. Can anyone suggest a good > > IRC client? > > I've always enjoyed xchat and even wrote the tcl lan

SCO Lives?

2008-02-14 Thread Gerald Thurman
>From AP: "The SCO Group Inc. says investors will put up $100 million and take the company private after it emerges from bankruptcy." $100 million is a nice investment amount. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To

Re: IRC client

2008-02-14 Thread Shawn Badger
I have played with Pidgin for some time and never realized it did IRC. I also installed xchat based on the recommendations from the group. Thanks for everyones help!! On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Badger wrote: > > I ma finally getting around to

Re: how "http://www.spamarrest.com/" works (was: Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list [ linux ...])

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Schwartz
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Mike Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Technomage-hawke > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 14 February 2008 06:19, Shawn Badger wrote: > > > Other than the emails about politics which could be considered spam at >

Re: IRC client

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Dayley
Shawn Badger wrote: > I ma finally getting around to plying with IRC. Can anyone suggest a > good IRC client? xchat - I used this one for some time. It works well. epic - This is a text only client for use in a terminal. Only such one I have used. It works. Konversation - A very nice, easy to

how "http://www.spamarrest.com/" works (was: Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list [ linux ...])

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Schwartz
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Technomage-hawke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008 06:19, Shawn Badger wrote: > > Other than the emails about politics which could be considered spam at > > least by me, I can't remember the last time I saw spam on the plug mailing > > list

Re: IRC client

2008-02-14 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Shawn Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ma finally getting around to plying with IRC. Can anyone suggest a good > IRC client? > Chatzilla. jmz > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoe

Re: IRC client

2008-02-14 Thread Daniel Stasinski
On 2/14/08, Shawn Badger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ma finally getting around to plying with IRC. Can anyone suggest a good > IRC client? I've always enjoyed xchat and even wrote the tcl language plugin for it. Daniel -- | --- | Da

IRC client

2008-02-14 Thread Shawn Badger
I ma finally getting around to plying with IRC. Can anyone suggest a good IRC client? --- 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/mai

Re: Qwest PPPoA passing with PPPoE - Can not get an address

2008-02-14 Thread Eric "Shubes"
Dale Farnsworth wrote: > Bryan O'Neal wrote: >> Never mind I fixed it BTW, I hate qwest >> >> >> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Bryan O'Neal >> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:32 AM >> To: Main PLUG discussion list; Arizo

Re: Dare I Ask...

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen P Rufle
http://www.realbasic.com/ See if you can run your project in it. I am not sure if all the syntax is the same, but you can tell me :) Tuna wrote: > Has anyone ever had any success installing Visual Basic on Linux? I am > running Kubuntu Feisty and Wine just doesn't like it... And I'm trying >

Re: Qwest PPPoA passing with PPPoE - Can not get an address

2008-02-14 Thread Dale Farnsworth
Bryan O'Neal wrote: > > Never mind I fixed it BTW, I hate qwest > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Bryan O'Neal > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:32 AM > To: Main PLUG discussion list; Arizona State University Linux Use

Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list [ linux related to phpBB2 ]

2008-02-14 Thread Technomage-hawke
On Thursday 14 February 2008 06:19, Shawn Badger wrote: > Other than the emails about politics which could be considered spam at > least by me, I can't remember the last time I saw spam on the plug mailing > list. Maybe it is just me though. > > I wasn't specifically complaining about *this* list.

RE: Qwest PPPoA passing with PPPoE - Can not get an address

2008-02-14 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Never mind I fixed it BTW, I hate qwest From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan O'Neal Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:32 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list; Arizona State University Linux Users Group Subject: Qwest PPPoA passing wit

Re: Stammtische this Tues

2008-02-14 Thread Erich Newell
Something I've been curious about ever since I visited Tuebingen a couple years back: What is the etiquette involved with "getting invited" to be part of a Stammtisch? Hans? Any insights here? Ours is focused around a specific topical group, but its my understanding that those in brew halls are m

Re: Accounting software

2008-02-14 Thread Erich Newell
Wow. Thank you for the timely post. I am co-owner of a Montessori School that is undergoing expansion and we were just looking for this very thing! Thank you Open-Source universe. Thank you. I'll post feedback on our experience with webERP as things progress!

Qwest PPPoA passing with PPPoE - Can not get an address

2008-02-14 Thread Bryan O'Neal
OK, I have an action tech router/ADSL modem and I want to pass my block of real IP addresses off to a real router. However, I am not being successful. I have tried setting the real router to do PPPoE with my quest login/password and tried setting the ADSL router into unnumbered transparent bridgi

Re: Stammtische this Tues

2008-02-14 Thread Charles Jones
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Stammtische "/Stammtische is the plural of the German word Stammtisch. A Stammtisch is a regular table where a regular group of people meet to drink & eat." http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Stammtisch "/Literally speaking, the word Stammtisch is

Re: Stammtische this Tues

2008-02-14 Thread Matt Graham
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ok, I know this is probably the stupidest question ever brought up here, > but... What, exactly, is a "Stammtische"? A *fest, hoe-down, or what? I think it means "reserved table". (Tische = table.) We reserve a table, sit down at it, eat, drink, and talk about $TOPIC.

Re: New Linux user training?

2008-02-14 Thread Joe Zagar
Our little group of Seniors, using Ubuntu, have found the Gutsy Gibbon training guides very useful. http://www.ubuntugeek.com/download-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon-desktop-training-guides-for-students-and-instructors.html It has both Instructor and Student versions for download. Probably will not help

Re: Accounting software

2008-02-14 Thread Charles Jones
There's also this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar_Accounting Shawn Badger wrote: It would appear that Hans isn' t the only person looking for a good open source accounting package. I just read this article on Linux Journals website that talks about a package that may fit the bill .

Re: New Linux user training?

2008-02-14 Thread Erich Newell
TY for the FYI. I (hope) will never use a Vista machine, but I'm certain I will be called upon to help someone else with theirs in the future and every little tidbit helps. On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Charles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tuna wrote: > Charles Jones wrote: > > > Tun

Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list [ linux related to phpBB2 ]

2008-02-14 Thread Shawn Badger
Other than the emails about politics which could be considered spam at least by me, I can't remember the last time I saw spam on the plug mailing list. Maybe it is just me though. On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Technomage-hawke < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 10:00

Accounting software

2008-02-14 Thread Shawn Badger
It would appear that Hans isn' t the only person looking for a good open source accounting package. I just read this article on Linux Journals website that talks about a package that may fit the bill . http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/accounting-software-geek-ranch -

Re: Stammtische this Tues

2008-02-14 Thread storkus
Ok, I know this is probably the stupidest question ever brought up here, but... What, exactly, is a "Stammtische"? A *fest, hoe-down, or what? Mike On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:15:19 -0700 (MST), "der.hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > moin moin, > > it's almost that time again. The Stammtische will

Re: New Linux user training?

2008-02-14 Thread Charles Jones
Tuna wrote: Charles Jones wrote: Tuna wrote: I went to Best Buy and I can't find a damn thing on there! Finding "Notepad" in the Start menu is *easily* a two-minute ordeal. Don't take this as defending Vista, but just FYI in vista if you don't know where something is, you ca

Re: New Linux user training?

2008-02-14 Thread Tuna
Charles Jones wrote: > Tuna wrote: >> I went to Best Buy >> and I can't find a damn thing on there! Finding "Notepad" in the Start >> menu is *easily* a two-minute ordeal. >> > Don't take this as defending Vista, but just FYI in vista if you don't > know where something is, you can just click