[Advocacy] iTWire - Taking the Ubuntu gospel to the Anime nation

2009-11-29 Thread Stephen P Rufle
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29691/1141/ Thought it was interesting the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community is trying to get a booth at a non tech event to expose people to Ubuntu. Seems like a cool idea and they have a funding drive.

Re: [Advocacy] iTWire - Taking the Ubuntu gospel to the Anime nation

2009-11-29 Thread Ryan Rix
Stephen P Rufle wrote: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/29691/1141/ Thought it was interesting the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community is trying to get a booth at a non tech event to expose people to Ubuntu. Seems like a cool idea and they have a funding drive.

OT: How to convert an open office cell HH:MM to a numeric value?

2009-11-29 Thread Josef Lowder
How can I convert an open office cell containing a time value (HH:MM) to a numeric value? I've searched the 'net for a couple hours and can't find an answer. The hours worked was easy =B1-A1 but multiplying that result times a pay rate of $12 doesn't work.

Re: [Advocacy] iTWire - Taking the Ubuntu gospel to the Anime nation

2009-11-29 Thread Stephen P Rufle
Ryan Rix wrote: Ubuntu == religion? Not religion, I just wanted to make people aware of the event. Its the a rising tide lifts all boats sort of thing. I remember hearing that phrase at Ableconf while we were all sitting around. Maybe if it goes well in MA someone would like to do it at a

Re: OT: How to convert an open office cell HH:MM to a numeric value?

2009-11-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Josef Lowder j...@actionline.com wrote: How can I convert an open office cell containing a time value (HH:MM) to a numeric value? I've searched the 'net for a couple hours and can't find an answer. The hours worked was easy =B1-A1 but multiplying that result

RE: DNS

2009-11-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Bob Elzer wrote: You do know that you can use any DNS server you want to, right ? two caveat's here: 1. a common policy to avoid load problems on nameservers is to limit relies to non-customer IP's to only those domains for which one is authoritative for

Re: DNS

2009-11-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
Yes, and on all of the forums, since there were so many problems with those two providers' private DNS, which was being used to provide traffic shaping in the way of limiting services by failures in capacity planning, technically saavy individuals started to use 4.4.4.4 and other alternative DNS

16GB Rubber Penguin BLU Bootable Linux USB Drive

2009-11-29 Thread Eric Shubert
A little pricey, but cute! http://www.amazon.com/Rubber-Penguin-Bootable-Linux-Drive/dp/B002J7SOQ4/ref=cm_sw_em_r_dp_title_featured?ie=UTF8tag=tellafriend-20 -- -Eric 'shubes' --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Re: 16GB Rubber Penguin BLU Bootable Linux USB Drive

2009-11-29 Thread der.hans
Am 29. Nov, 2009 schwätzte Eric Shubert so: A little pricey, but cute! http://www.amazon.com/Rubber-Penguin-Bootable-Linux-Drive/dp/B002J7SOQ4/ref=cm_sw_em_r_dp_title_featured?ie=UTF8tag=tellafriend-20 Very cool. http://www.activemp.com/USB_drives/WWF_penguin-usb-drive.htm