Re: attach XP computer to network.

2012-03-05 Thread Lisa Kachold
Thanks Mike: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.comwrote: Please post your entire conf file so the PLUG can assist you. For questions related to each section, please see:

Re: Rasperry Pi tomorrow night?

2012-03-05 Thread Ted Gould
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 18:45 -0800, keith smith wrote: These look pretty cool. What are you using for power, data, and monitor ? I don't have one yet, but I'm planning on using an old-ish TV that still has HDMI. Not sure what I'm going to use it for, I'm thinking of trying to build a calendar

Re: attach XP computer to network.

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Havens
well it is on an internal network but the only thing that is separating it from the internet is my DSL router. If I remember cdforrectly the router is a busybox installation (yep qwest was/is? using linux for its DSLs). I found that out when I was playing with penetration testing with

Re: attach XP computer to network.

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Havens
I'm looking through http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.htmland in the printers section couldn't I just the new user name somewhere? If not someone at samba really needs to add that feature! The [printers] section

Re: attach XP computer to network.

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Havens
and maybe an 'allow from ip address' too -- :-)~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.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: fatherswithforeignbabies.us

2012-03-05 Thread keith smith
Hi Mike!! I was poking around your website and noticed your images have not be optimized for the Internet.  For instance  http://fatherswithforeignbabies.us/photos/saintthomas1.jpg .  You'll want to make your images smaller in visual size and in file size.  Keith

Re: fatherswithforeignbabies.us

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Havens
I hope this doesn't seem rude but why? I mean it is the proper size on the web page. On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:30 PM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Mike!! I was poking around your website and noticed your images have not be optimized for the Internet. For instance

Re: fatherswithforeignbabies.us

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Havens
don't get me wrong I mean it is easy enough to do with TheGimp and all. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: fatherswithforeignbabies.us

2012-03-05 Thread Kevin Fries
Some data connections are faster than.others, and if you want to reach the widest possible market, you should build for the slowest users. Think phones, or old donated library computers. Kevin On Mar 5, 2012 1:50 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I hope this doesn't seem rude but why?

Re: fatherswithforeignbabies.us

2012-03-05 Thread Matt Graham
On Mar 5, 2012 1:50 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I hope this doesn't seem rude but why [resize images from huge to smaller]]? I mean it is the proper size on the web page. If you have a limited amount of bandwidth available, sending a 50K 500x400 JPEG is a lot less costly than

Re: fatherswithforeignbabies.us

2012-03-05 Thread keith smith
There are people who still have dialup.  I understand it is still a lot of people.  They might not want to visit your website if it loads too slowly for them.    Google gimp optimize image for website  The second site listed is http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/optimize-images-web-gimp/  I did

Re: fatherswithforeignbabies.us

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Havens
I was just going to go in there and manually alter the photos but that is probably a website I could use for this! On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:25 PM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: There are people who still have dialup. I understand it is still a lot of people. They might not want

Re: fatherswithforeignbabies.us

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Havens
thanks for the tips gentlemen. I'll take care of it as soon as I can. On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Matt Graham danceswithcr...@usa.net wrote: On Mar 5, 2012 1:50 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I hope this doesn't seem rude but why [resize images from huge to smaller]]? I

Re: attach XP computer to network.

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Havens
did I do this correctly? it's been sitting there about two minutes doing nothing: @Michaels-Laptop ~/Downloads $ sudo tar -xz /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gimp-save-for- web-0.29.3.tar.bz2 On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: and maybe an 'allow

Re: attach XP computer to network.

2012-03-05 Thread James Mcphee
I can't quite figure out how gimp applies here. But a quick intro to tar flags. x = uncompress. mutually exclusive from c and t c = compress. mutually exclusive from x and t t = show. mutually exclusive from x and c So to create a tarball, use a c. z = use gzip. rename file with .gz j =

Re: Seeking a concise Linux installation checklist

2012-03-05 Thread Eric Shubert
Joe, Joe, Joe. You started out ok with this, (dual booting XP/Linux, running VBox on Linux). Then somehow you introduced dual booting multiple linux distros along with XP. Not a good idea in this day and age. I think your objective should be to get to the point of having a single linux boot,

Re: Rasperry Pi tomorrow night?

2012-03-05 Thread der.hans
Am 05. Mar, 2012 schwätzte Ted Gould so: On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 18:45 -0800, keith smith wrote: These look pretty cool. What are you using for power, data, and monitor ? I don't have one yet, but I'm planning on using an old-ish TV that still has HDMI. Not sure what I'm going to use it for,