Re: OT: Looking for programming books

2008-10-02 Thread storkus
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:55:00 -0700, Micah DesJardins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Also, www.half.com and www.amazon.com are both great places to pick up gently used copies of these sorts of books at a deep discount. Micah That's what I was thinking, Micah; also, I was on E-Bay yesterday and I saw

Re: OT: Myth Busters in Tucson

2008-10-02 Thread Scarlett Clark
Myth Busters are great! I love that show. Too bad I am in Virginia or I would go :( Scarlett On Monday 29 September 2008 01:40:24 Dan Lund wrote: So don't go? Thanks, Dan Lund To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are

Re: OT: Looking for programming books

2008-10-02 Thread Mike Schwartz
on a related topic, the *Connexions* project: http://cnx.org/ has some free course-ware that might be of interest, [especially] if you are on a limited budget. quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connexions : *Connexions* is a global repository of educational content that

3G wireless network for Linux

2008-10-02 Thread Joe
Does anyone use one of those 3G wireless network cards with their Linux system? If so, what provider and how well does it work. I'm currently with Sprint and was thinking about going with their USB wireless card for data access and others said Verizon might be better. Thoughts? Experiences?

Re: 3G wireless network for Linux

2008-10-02 Thread James Finstrom
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Re: OT: Emergency Buy Out

2008-10-02 Thread Joshua Zeidner
just want to note here... as many are aware, the new revised (pork barrel) bill passed in the Senate. among those representatives who claim they may change their mind on the bailout is John Shadegg (R-AZ). please consider calling him and voicing your opinion on the legislation. phone:

Re: OT: Emergency Buy Out

2008-10-02 Thread Joshua Zeidner
At the least, leave him a message : http://johnshadegg.house.gov/Contact/ContactForm.htm thanks everyone, jmz On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Joshua Zeidner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just want to note here... as many are aware, the new revised (pork barrel) bill passed in the Senate.

Easy Wine+IE6 setup (was Re: FW: On topic message about Off topic messages Various Solutions)

2008-10-02 Thread Charles Jones
Just thought I would mention that I've found this to be the easiest way to setup Internet Exploder 6 on linux: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation It has a nice installer that sets it all up for you, including flash9 plugin, etc. -Charles Charles Jones wrote: Lisa Kachold

Re: OT: Emergency Buy Out

2008-10-02 Thread Eric Cope
Can't leave a message, his mail box is full. I guess we will need to call him tomorrow. Eric On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Joshua Zeidner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the least, leave him a message : http://johnshadegg.house.gov/Contact/ContactForm.htm thanks everyone, jmz On Thu, Oct

Re: OT: Emergency Buy Out

2008-10-02 Thread Joshua Zeidner
got the same response... Democracy: FTW! -jmz On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Eric Cope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't leave a message, his mail box is full. I guess we will need to call him tomorrow. Eric On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Joshua Zeidner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the

RE: Easy Wine+IE6 setup (was Re: FW: On topic message about Off topic messages Various Solutions) URI Exploits

2008-10-02 Thread Lisa Kachold
The only practical uses for IE6 that I have found are testing browser CSS or Javascript, Extended Validation Certificates, and of course, email filtering maintenance in Sharepoint and Outlook. I haven't found anything that even touches 1/2 of what FireBug, Web Development, NoScript,

Re: OT but not political: A touch of KDE on AZCentral?

2008-10-02 Thread Kurt Granroth
Alan Dayley wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Tuna wrote: Anyone ever notice that the icons on AZCentral.com are from KDE? Take a look at this: http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2008/08/16/20080816schooloutsource08162008-CR.html Those are totally KDE icons! Like the

FW: [Volunteers] Linuxchix Miniconf 2009 Call for Presentations

2008-10-02 Thread Lisa Kachold
Call for Presentations on the Other Side From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 11:52:13 +0930 Subject: [Volunteers] Linuxchix Miniconf 2009 Call for Presentations LinuxChix mini-conf 2009: Call for Presentations

Re: OT but not political: A touch of KDE on AZCentral?

2008-10-02 Thread Matt Graham
After a long battle with technology, Kurt Granroth wrote: Alan Dayley wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Tuna wrote: http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/2008/08/16/20080816schoolo utsource08162008-CR.html Those are totally KDE icons! KDE icons are licensed under the LGPL.

OT: Phoenix Sci-Fi Event in January

2008-10-02 Thread Joseph Sinclair
Just letting people know that Phoenix has it's own Sci-Fi convention (Phoenix Comicon) coming in January. A friend is part of the event staff and asked me to let people know it's coming, and they have a great slate of star-guests coming to speak and meet with fans. They're still adding guests,

Re: OT: Phoenix Sci-Fi Event in January

2008-10-02 Thread Ben Francom
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Joseph Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just letting people know that Phoenix has it's own Sci-Fi convention (Phoenix Comicon) coming in January. A friend is part of the event staff and asked me to let people know it's coming, and they have a great slate of

dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

2008-10-02 Thread mike havens
I hate windows! I hate it when I get a virus! Igot a brand new one last night I was happily tip-tapping away last night but when I got up in the morning everything was moving very s-l-o-w-l-y! After running clam nothing was discovered so I just reinstalled my system. So I figure that a good

Re: dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

2008-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assuming that you have another machine with enough space to hold the Window$ drive, you can: Boot both machines in Linux. From the one with the Window$ installation: dd if=/dev/?da0|ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat - my-windoze.iso But I would just install the last Kubuntu, setup Windoze in a

Re: Easy Wine+IE6 setup (was Re: FW: On topic message about Off topic messages Various Solutions) URI Exploits

2008-10-02 Thread Charles Jones
Sorry If I didn't make it clear: I was not suggesting that IE is a decent browser or that anyone should install it for any other reason that ones similar to what you mention in your first paragraph. Sadly there are quite a few Cisco web-based applications, among a few others, that only work in

Re: dd if=hda1 of=whatever ???????

2008-10-02 Thread James Finstrom
I find sadly windows runs better in virtual box on linux then directly installed. That said I would connect two drives and boot to a live cd like the kubuntu disk ad do the dd On 10/2/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming that you have another machine with enough space to hold