Re: Epic Epoch Time Party Time

2009-02-11 Thread Ryan Rix
Hi, Where would it be held? Somewhere between west and east side so that more people can come? I sadly won't be able to make it in all likelihood. if it was at, like, 7.31, perhaps but probably no 4.31 :( ~Ryan On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Tuna wrote: > I'm sure you are all aware of the

Re: Epic Epoch Time Party Time

2009-02-11 Thread Tuna
Excerpts from phrkonaleash's message of Wed Feb 11 08:45:19 -0700 2009: > Hi, > > Where would it be held? > > Somewhere between west and east side so that more people can come? > > I sadly won't be able to make it in all likelihood. if it was at, like, > 7.31, perhaps but probably no 4.31 :( >

Re: Epic Epoch Time Party Time

2009-02-11 Thread Tameek Henderson
Tameek <--- is sitting at his desk calculating Unix TAI to UTC to Unix times :-p Tameek Henderson 646.427.3205 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/116/522 Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -Original Message- From: Tuna Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:52:34 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject

Re: Eastside Meeting - Making a bootable USB-Key

2009-02-11 Thread Eric Shubert
Dennis Kibbe wrote: > It's even easier now to introduce people to Linux with the included script > in Fedora to create a bootable USB thumb drive. And there is even a point > 'n' click Windows program that will do all the "hard" stuff for you! > > I'll show you how to do it with Fedora 10 and we'l

Re: Eastside Meeting - Making a bootable USB-Key

2009-02-11 Thread Dazed_75
Just a reply so you know I got this and will be there. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Dennis Kibbe wrote: > > On Mon, February 9, 2009 7:03 pm, Dazed_75 wrote: > > Do you want to make mention of the built-in facility to do this with > > ubuntu > > 8.10? If you do Ii can talk about it or you c

Hung in VirtualBox. Why?

2009-02-11 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Hello collective intelligence (REALLY? :) This is the short story: This has worked before. I've done it 9568705738563 times in real machines and VMWare machines. First time in VBox though... I got a computer and rsync(ed) everything to a filesystem in a VBox machine. GRUB(ed) it without prob

RE: Hung in VirtualBox. Why?

2009-02-11 Thread Lisa Kachold
Generally the forums on the specific Open Source sites are also fairly good: http://www.virtualbox.de/search?ticket=on&changeset=on&wiki=on&q=failing&page=4&noquickjump=1 [For instance if you have a Ubuntu specific problem and don't look there, well.] Is this a smp kernel: http://www.virt

Re: Hung in VirtualBox. Why?

2009-02-11 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
It was a blonde moment...:) I actually did my research, found, and fixed the issue. It was a combination of several problems that I don't quite understand and that I don't quite care either. It's working now. Thanks! Enrique PS: But it certainly feels cozy to have this resource to come cryin

EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Joshua Zeidner
hello, anyone using EC2 on a regular basis here? -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: Hung in VirtualBox. Why?

2009-02-11 Thread Matt Graham
From: "kitepi...@kitepilot.com" > This has worked before. I've done it 9568705738563 times in real machines > and VMWare machines. First time in VBox though... > I got a computer and rsync(ed) everything to a filesystem in a VBox machine. > GRUB(ed) it without problems as I've done countless t

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Stephen
honestly no, but it looks neat. your talking about the Amazon Web Services EC2 right? On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > hello, > > anyone using EC2 on a regular basis here? > > -jmz > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-d

All's quiet on the western front.

2009-02-11 Thread bmike1
It is always quiet on Florida's PLUG list. What's going on with everyone? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- 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

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Joshua Zeidner
ya Amazon EC2... jmz On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Stephen wrote: > honestly no, but it looks neat. > > your talking about the Amazon Web Services EC2 right? > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: >> hello, >> >> anyone using EC2 on a regular basis here? >> >> -jmz >> --

HackFest Series: January Presentation From Kristy Westphal from Arizona Department of Economic Security

2009-02-11 Thread Lisa Kachold
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Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Austin Godber
Yes, quite a bit. Austin On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > hello, > > anyone using EC2 on a regular basis here? > > -jmz > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or t

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Joshua Zeidner
do you recommend any Ubuntu AMIs? -jmz On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Austin Godber wrote: > Yes, quite a bit. > > Austin > > On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > >> hello, >> >> anyone using EC2 on a regular basis here? >> >> -jmz >> --

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Carlos Macedo Gomes
I'm using AWS (i.e., the online disk space portion) on a pretty regular basis for small online backups and automated synchronization between devices. Have been using it since Fall 08 and am very pleased. As for Elastic Computing (EC2), last year I kicked the tires on couple virtual computer image

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Austin Godber
These have always been sufficient for my general purpose needs: http://alestic.com/ They even provide the scripts they used to build them. Otherwise I have made my own AMIs. Austin On Feb 11, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > do you recommend any Ubuntu AMIs? > > -jmz > > On

Re: All's quiet on the western front.

2009-02-11 Thread dorian . monroe
Wouldn't Florida be the Eastern front? ;) Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: bmike1 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:03:59 To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: All's quiet on the western front. --- PLUG-disc

Re: All's quiet on the western front.

2009-02-11 Thread Stephen
Agreed it should be East And wouldn't it be flug? On 2/11/09, bmike1 wrote: > It is always quiet on Florida's PLUG list. > > What's going on with everyone? > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling ove

Re: All's quiet on the western front.

2009-02-11 Thread Rhune Lord
Now that's settled. Hi Mike > And wouldn't it be flug? Emulation is flattery, Go Florida PLUG, hehehehehe How's it going Mike? Brian --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Joshua Zeidner
Been really getting into the APIs lately. the scaling potential for EC2 apps is awesome. The primary detractor is price. I might publish my AMI, its Ubuntu + Java web stack. Also, thanks again to Lisa for working out some of the initial problems I had with SSH keys. -jmz On Wed, Feb 11,

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Carlos Macedo Gomes
Cool. We're galaxies away from the days of (slowly) loading Linux on (usually surplus) gear using 20 or so (rawrite created) 1.44MB floppies :-P. Good times. Not sure if this has hit PLUGer's screens yet: "IBM Software Available on EC2 With Pay-As-You-Go Licensing Model" http://aws.typepad.com/a

Re: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Austin Godber
The high price is only one drawback of using EC2 as a "leased" host. It makes a huge amount of sense if you use the API to launch instances and do work for you. That is assuming you don't have a lot of data to transfer because that become time and money consuming. But if you think caref

Re: All's quiet on the western front.

2009-02-11 Thread bmike1
What I was meaning is that it isn't always quiet on plug then I realized that it wasn't; I was just deleting plug email. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Rhune Lord wrote: > Now that's settled. > > Hi Mike > > > And wouldn't it be flug? > > Emulation is flattery, Go Florida PLUG, hehehehehe

RE: EC2 users?

2009-02-11 Thread Bob Elzer
Well if you say it's about $80 a month, WITHOUT the data transfer costs, that $960 a year. For $960, I could build a sweet little Quad core system, and run VmWare or Virtual Box Maybe a 64bit version of linux, with 8 or 16 GB of memory. I should be able to run a few VM's with that, all with my