OT: C programmers....

2009-06-19 Thread James Finstrom
Greetings all, I am writing app that allows me to control my canon SLR with my wiimote. I am trying to figure out how to call a function in main that generats a handle then returns the handle to main Concept: connect(){ connect to wiimote and return handle foo} main(){ call connect(), get

Re: OT: C programmers....

2009-06-19 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
What do you mean by handle ? Looks like a callback to me... I'd like to see the signature of the function that you are calling to get the handle. ET PS: We may want to take the conversation off the list unless someone else is interested... James Finstrom writes: Greetings all, I am

Re: OT: C programmers....

2009-06-19 Thread Alan Dayley
This is the perfect kind of conversation for the plug-devel list! Move it over there for a receptive audience, including me. http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-devel Alan On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:37 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: What do you

e-book management software

2009-06-19 Thread Shawn Badger
I have collected many ebooks over the years and have been trying to sort them manually for some time now. I would like to find some software, similar to the Gallery project, that would allow me to index and search all of them. It has to support txt, pdf, chm and it would be nice if djvu worked as

Re: e-book management software

2009-06-19 Thread Stephen
I am looking into dspace and it might be overkill but it is meant for what you want Dspace.org On 6/19/09, Shawn Badger badger.sh...@gmail.com wrote: I have collected many ebooks over the years and have been trying to sort them manually for some time now. I would like to find some software,

Re: e-book management software

2009-06-19 Thread Shawn Badger
That look some what promising, but I was hoping for a lighter weight app. I will play with it on a VM and see how I like it. I really want to preserve the physical file if at all possible. Just a quick read though and it looks like this app wants to import them into the itself if it recognizes the

Re: e-book management software

2009-06-19 Thread Shawn Badger
This is for my personal collection and will be for intranet use only. On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.comwrote: On 6/19/09, Shawn Badger badger.sh...@gmail.com wrote: I have collected many ebooks over the years and have been trying to sort them manually

Re: e-book management software

2009-06-19 Thread Stephen
well i have been poking it with a stick and it does import it, but the original file format is preserved with searchable metadata. we too will be using it internally only. but it is pretty nice so far. On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Shawn Badgerbadger.sh...@gmail.com wrote: This is for my

Re: e-book management software

2009-06-19 Thread Stephen
I did some testing, OTF is not recognized by it, but you can type in the format type and store it, so it is available, and the file is not altered. On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Shawn Badger badger.sh...@gmail.comwrote: That look some what promising, but I was hoping for a lighter weight

Re: OT: C programmers....

2009-06-19 Thread Carlos Macedo Gomes
There may be some guides and/or OSS to Wii remote interfaces here: http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/When I hear folks talking about this kinda stuff, makes me think that Phoenix needs a MakerFaire to show off all our DYI stuff :-). http://www.makerfaire.com/

Re: OT: C programmers....

2009-06-19 Thread der.hans
Am 19. Jun, 2009 schwätzte Carlos Macedo Gomes so: There may be some guides and/or OSS to Wii remote interfaces here: http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/When I hear folks talking about this kinda stuff, makes me think that Phoenix needs a MakerFaire to show

ABLEconf IRC meeting Sunday night

2009-06-19 Thread der.hans
moin moin, the first ABLEconf meeting for this year's conference will be Sunday night at 20:00. Agenda: http://www.ABLEconf.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page#Meeting_Agendas When: Sunday, 2009Jun21 @ 20:00 Where: #ABLEconf on irc.FreeNode.net ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/

backing up VirtualBox

2009-06-19 Thread der.hans
moin moin, what are good ways to implement backups of VirtualBox VMen? I'm mostly worried about the active servers. We need to be able to do bare metal recovery in order to get the servces back up as well as getting incremental changes. We will also have some development VMen, but they're not

OT: 110mb.com Free Hosting Failings

2009-06-19 Thread Lisa Kachold
An excellent provider of free hosting seems to have dropped from meeting their claims for free hosting. My sites completely disappeared twice and have yet to be replaced. Anyone taking my advice to use this free hoster, does so knowing of these issues. Believe me, it's not worth it. --

Motherboard question.

2009-06-19 Thread j...@wealthxtreme.com
Greetings, I have two ATX boxes I wish to rebuild with all new internals. I am looking for motherboards for both. I wish to run some flavor of Linux server on them and would like your opinions. So far, the devices I will need at least one of these boards to support, if not both are :

Re: OT: C programmers....

2009-06-19 Thread James Finstrom
I have it actualy working my goal is to not clutter up my main and to move out as much as possible. I tried the suggestion but I get a segfault the wiimote connects then segfault. Again all works well in main not so well in an external functionm If I didn't mention prior I am using cwiid library

Re: Motherboard question.

2009-06-19 Thread Stephen
Look into supermicro boards A little more but very reliable On 6/19/09, j...@wealthxtreme.com jlja...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I have two ATX boxes I wish to rebuild with all new internals. I am looking for motherboards for both. I wish to run some flavor of Linux server on them and

Re: backing up VirtualBox

2009-06-19 Thread Stephen
This is a great puzzle that I also am working on Bad way is running the backup from inside the server Good way would be from the vdisks directly On 6/19/09, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: moin moin, what are good ways to implement backups of VirtualBox VMen? I'm mostly worried about

Re: OT: C programmers....

2009-06-19 Thread Alan Dayley
James Britt gave a presentation about programming for the Wii Remote during Ignite Phoenix on Tuesday night. He only had 5 minutes so it's not very deep information. But, maybe it gives you some ideas. And you could contact him for information too! The video of his presentation is now

Re: XenServer 5.5 is out

2009-06-19 Thread Francis Earl
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:51 -0700, Stephen wrote: Citrix Announcement: http://citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1690242 or right to download: http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.asp I thought people were more interested in KVM these days? Why is Xen still interesting

Re: XenServer 5.5 is out

2009-06-19 Thread Stephen
Xen is built on a linux core And still useful On 6/19/09, Francis Earl francis.e...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 08:51 -0700, Stephen wrote: Citrix Announcement: http://citrix.com/English/NE/news/news.asp?newsID=1690242 or right to download:

Re: backing up VirtualBox

2009-06-19 Thread Joseph Sinclair
I assume you're using VDI disk images for the Virtual Machines. If you're using write-through disks it gets a LOT harder. With VDI disks: VBoxManage snapshot VMachine name or UUID take backup-$(date +%Y%M%DT%H%m%s) --description backup for $(date +'%Y-%M-%DT%H:%m:%s %z') Then backup the