RE: List of Command Line Tools

2009-05-19 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I'll be honest I have been reading this and going oh yha, that is a good one but I have never heard of screen until now http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/screen/ -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On

Re: List of Command Line Tools

2009-05-19 Thread James Mcphee
Screen is the greatest tool EVER!!! A CLI window manager! I mean, DUDE!!! On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Bryan O'Neal bon...@cornerstonehome.comwrote: I'll be honest I have been reading this and going oh yha, that is a good one but I have never heard of screen until now

Re: OT: [Computerworld:] Cisco takes aim at WiMax

2009-05-19 Thread storkus
This is interesting this came up just now: here at our motel, we've just installed a WiMax system; unlike ClearWire, it looks like an old Motorola Canopy system, with a rooftop antenna pointed downtown, but performance wise it beats both in terms of latency and raw speed. Part of the solution was

Re: HTTP Access Logging and apology to Hans

2009-05-19 Thread mike havens
I didn't see the LOL. Sorry. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Bob Elzer bob.el...@gmail.com wrote: I was trying to be funny, hence the LOL If it wasn't taken that way I apologize. -- *From:* plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:

RE: Migrating from Outlook to Evolution

2009-05-19 Thread Bryan O'Neal
You can export directly out of outlook as a CSV and import directly into evolution. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Chris Gehlker Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 11:44 AM To: Main PLUG

RE: Access Log Times

2009-05-19 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Lisa, I am curious what you would recommend? I have tried a few and most leave me flat and unimpressed. _ From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Lisa Kachold Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 1:11 PM To: Main PLUG

Re: info on a DNS

2009-05-19 Thread Chris Gehlker
On May 19, 2009, at 3:54 AM, mike havens wrote: I want to find out all that I can about a certain Domain Name Server. Unfortunately, I do not have linux on my computer so I will have to ask someone to do this for me. The DNS is 4.2.2.2 or 4.2.2.1 Ping has started ... PING 4.2.2.2

Re: info on a DNS

2009-05-19 Thread JD Austin
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:54 AM, mike havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I want to find out all that I can about a certain Domain Name Server. Unfortunately, I do not have linux on my computer so I will have to ask someone to do this for me. The DNS is 4.2.2.2 or 4.2.2.1 -- :-)~MIKE~(-: Same

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Alan Dayley
Even though I am not knowledgeable in the language, I think the best first language for business is Java. It is also good for a first leaning experience for other reasons but it is popular in the business application world. For web applications, in the cloud, Ruby seems to be a more and more

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Gerald Thurman
Learn to use a Unix system at the command-line along with a text editor and start writing BASH program. The command-line provides exposure to the Unix philosophy, files/directories, options/arguments, variables (environment), I/O, meta-characters and documentation (via manpages). First programs

Re: List of Command Line Tools

2009-05-19 Thread Jerry Davis
On Mon, 18 May 2009 23:07:41 -0700 James Mcphee jmc...@gmail.com wrote: Screen is the greatest tool EVER!!! A CLI window manager! I mean, DUDE!!! I work from home 3 days a week. Most of the time, in the morning and in the mid afternoon, i have re-connect my vpn 10 - 15 times in as many

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Jason Holtzapple
--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Dennis Kibbe denn...@li3-188.members.linode.com wrote: A friend who graduates from high school next week wants to take a summer course in programming. His goal is to become a business applications programmer. He asked me what language

RE: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread David Demland
At the risk of starting a flame war I would say the best is C#. If you look at both Tech Republic and CIO Magazine both have had articles in the last four or five months that listed .Net in the top ten skill sets for the current economy. Also as our office has been in the shutdown mode since

Re: Best professional WEB site tool out there...

2009-05-19 Thread JD Austin
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:44 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Hello collective intelligence: This is the simple plan: To make a professional looking WEB site with minimum effort and maximum flexibility. It is broken down as: A (sort of) knowledgeable person

Re: Best professional WEB site tool out there...

2009-05-19 Thread Mark Phillips
Plone/Zope. You can configure almost everything with its built in web interface, or add more customization using Python. Mark On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:44 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Hello collective intelligence: This is the simple plan: To make a

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Chris Gehlker
On May 19, 2009, at 5:12 AM, Dennis Kibbe wrote: I searched the archive but didn't find a previous discussion about this. A friend who graduates from high school next week wants to take a summer course in programming. His goal is to become a business applications programmer. He

Re: info on a DNS

2009-05-19 Thread Eric Shubert
Nice output, Chris. Care to share what created it? Chris Gehlker wrote: On May 19, 2009, at 3:54 AM, mike havens wrote: I want to find out all that I can about a certain Domain Name Server. Unfortunately, I do not have linux on my computer so I will have to ask someone to do this for

Re: info on a DNS

2009-05-19 Thread Chris Gehlker
On May 19, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: Nice output, Chris. Care to share what created it? You got me. It was Network Utility from OS X. Chris Gehlker wrote: On May 19, 2009, at 3:54 AM, mike havens wrote: I want to find out all that I can about a certain Domain Name Server.

Re: Format

2009-05-19 Thread Ryan Rix
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Bryan O'Neal bon...@cornerstonehome.comwrote: On posting 1) Top posting means I don't have to scroll through a ton of crap to read the new message. However if I desire I can easily see the context by scrolling down. If I read this in digest mode where I only

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Paul Mooring
I really like ruby as well but my experience has been if he's planning on pursuing some type of CS degree he'll definitely need to know java and C++ for 90% of the programming related classes, so that might be a better place to start. On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 08:21 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote: On

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread keith smith
I would recommend learning C first. Learn some simple procedural programming then move to C++. I think this approach will make it easier to learn other languages. I would stay away from Java for the first language. Too much to learn and one can get lost in Java.

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread David Huerta
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Dennis Kibbe denn...@li3-188.members.linode.com wrote: I searched the archive but didn't find a previous discussion about this. A friend who graduates from high school next week wants to take a summer course in programming. His goal is to become a business

Re: List of Command Line Tools

2009-05-19 Thread Stephen
I used to annoy my admins in school because i was the monster of screen abuse on that server. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Bryan O'Neal bon...@cornerstonehome.com wrote: I'll be honest I have been reading this and going oh yha, that is a good one but I have never heard of screen until now

Re: Format

2009-05-19 Thread Stephen
really the top post vs bottom post is a personal prefrence. I like top posted email, personally it means i can get to their response, and if I am lost i have an email thread to get back to. does not mean i cannot understand the logic of a bottom post it just means its my preference... On Tue,

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Chris Gehlker
On May 19, 2009, at 8:51 AM, Paul Mooring wrote: I really like ruby as well but my experience has been if he's planning on pursuing some type of CS degree he'll definitely need to know java and C++ for 90% of the programming related classes, so that might be a better place to start. Here

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Stephen
just from my experience the bigger languages for business apps are Visual Basic PHP Java c/c++ ASP On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Dennis Kibbe denn...@li3-188.members.linode.com wrote: I searched the archive but didn't find a previous discussion about this. A friend who graduates from

Re: OT: Facebook in English (Pirate)

2009-05-19 Thread Ryan Rix
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: you should have saved this for a timely release on talk like a pirate day. but cool none the less. Yargh, Me hearties felt the best time to be raidin' thee PLUG list was now. Lots of arghs, Ryan On Mon, May 18, 2009

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread nadimhoque
Hey As a current comp sci student they should get really used to uml design and pseudo code more simply because there is more to a language than coding. Java and c++ are similar but what took me the longest going to java from c++ was designing classes and seeing their relationship. But as other

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr.
I agree with Kieth. It has been at least 10 years since I wrote any code. I learned using Pascal and C and then moved to C++ and Java. I think C, Pascal, or Ada will all teach the programming skills needed before moving forward to OO languages. C to me seems the most relavent. Gilbert I

Re: Best professional WEB site tool out there...

2009-05-19 Thread Matt Graham
From: keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com --- On Tue, 5/19/09, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: To make a professional looking WEB site with minimum effort and maximum flexibility. A (sort of) knowledgeable person kick-starts the site and then hands maintenance and minor upgrades to

Re: Best professional WEB site tool out there...

2009-05-19 Thread Eric Cope
hire/barter with a designer? On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.netwrote: From: keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com --- On Tue, 5/19/09, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: To make a professional looking WEB site with minimum effort and maximum flexibility.

Re: Best professional WEB site tool out there...

2009-05-19 Thread keith smith
--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.net wrote: From: Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.net Subject: Re: Best professional WEB site tool out there... To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 12:29 PM From: keith smith

Re: List of Command Line Tools

2009-05-19 Thread James Mcphee
I have an admin that loves to open bunches of screen sessions and leave them open forever. This eventually kills the box, obviously. Screen is a great tool that does not in any way prevent people from doing goofy things. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Joseph Sinclair
I'd start with Java. * Starting with C teaches too many bad habits. I've spent more time with C programmers breaking bad habits than any other strongly-typed language. * Starting with C++ is like starting with C, except there is 100 times more to learn before you're productive, and 10 times

Re: info on a DNS

2009-05-19 Thread mike havens
Why does whois say that this is a company in Colorado yet traceroute lists a server in LosAngles? On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Ryan Rix phrkonale...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Chris Gehlker canyon...@mac.com wrote: On May 19, 2009, at 8:31 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:

Re: Best professional WEB site tool out there...

2009-05-19 Thread Kevin Spencer
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:44 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: Hello collective intelligence: This is the simple plan: To make a professional looking WEB site with minimum effort and maximum flexibility. It is broken down as: A (sort of) knowledgeable person

Re: info on a DNS

2009-05-19 Thread Jon M. Hanson
Because the corporate offices are separate from the data center. It's not all that unusual. Los Angeles is a peering point for the Internet backbone and you want to be as close to that as possible. The whois information is just who the administrative contact is and not the physical

Re: OT: Most fun in Arizona?

2009-05-19 Thread Kevin Spencer
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Josef Lowder j...@actionline.com wrote: What are the most fun things to do in Arizona? One of the best OT threads I've read in a while. Nice list and I'll certainly be keeping it handy. Kevin. -- ke...@kevinspencer.org

RE: HTTP Access Logging and apology to Hans

2009-05-19 Thread Bob Elzer
No harm, I understand how hard it is to read emotions from text, my heart wrenches from the pain of typing these words. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL :-) _ From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of mike havens

Re: info on a DNS

2009-05-19 Thread mike havens
that explains it! gracias! On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Jon M. Hanson j...@the-hansons-az.netwrote: Because the corporate offices are separate from the data center. It's not all that unusual. Los Angeles is a peering point for the Internet backbone and you want to be as close to that as

Re: List of Command Line Tools

2009-05-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 19 May 2009, James Mcphee wrote: I have an admin that loves to open bunches of screen sessions and leave them open forever. This eventually kills the box, obviously. Screen is a great tool that does not in any way prevent people from doing goofy things. Why should the application

RE: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Bob Elzer
For business apps, I suggest COBOL, COmmon Business-Oriented Language. Oh wait, we're not in the 80's anymore. I learned PERL for the O'Reilly book Programming Perl, also known as the Camel book because of the picture of the camel on the cover. O'Reilly has many books on Perl and all are helpful.

Re: List of Command Line Tools

2009-05-19 Thread Stephen
Great tools usually are the ones that let users do goofy things without restraint Its when people start needing the tool to nerf itself I get grumpy On 5/19/09, James Mcphee jmc...@gmail.com wrote: I have an admin that loves to open bunches of screen sessions and leave them open forever. This

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Eric Cope
I can't believe no one has mentioned assembly! On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Bob Elzer bob.el...@gmail.com wrote: For business apps, I suggest COBOL, COmmon Business-Oriented Language. Oh wait, we're not in the 80's anymore. I learned PERL for the O'Reilly book Programming Perl, also

RE: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Bob Elzer
He said business applications, not device drivers. LOL _ From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Eric Cope Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 3:40 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Best first

Re: OT: [Computerworld:] Cisco takes aim at WiMax

2009-05-19 Thread Carlos Macedo Gomes
Full disclosure: I work for Intel but not in our Wireless Group. On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Joseph Sinclair plug-discuss...@stcaz.netwrote: There are some substantial differences between WiMax and WiFi. Agreed. WiFi is 802.11 (b,a,g,n) certified by the WiFi Alliance (