Re: What benefit .png over .jpg?

2012-10-05 Thread Adam McCullough
Film vs Digital is a mixed bag. Film has more dpi resolution -- more MP. Digital is a lot more flexible -- you can go from ISO 200 to ISO 16,000 and back without thinking twice. With a 35mm camera, you shot the roll of film, and if you needed a low-light shot and you had ISO 50, you were hosed.

Re: OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

2012-10-02 Thread Adam McCullough
Moral of the story: There's no excuse for not keeping your critical thinking cap on, at all times, no matter the source. On 2 October 2012 15:31, Josh Coffman joshcoff...@gmail.com wrote: FYI, Google has been previously caught filtering, editing, or otherwise ignoring some news items based on

Re: gcc

2012-08-25 Thread Adam McCullough
Just wait until you start compiling KDE. ;) On 25 August 2012 12:53, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Holy-moely! I've been compiling gcc for 2 hours now! :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Re: GnuCash for Android

2012-08-21 Thread Adam McCullough
For clarification - mint.com https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minthl=en Not Mint Linux. ;) Adam On 21 August 2012 14:39, Adam McCullough ajmcc...@asu.edu wrote: I just use mint. It does most of what I want, and the integration with my bank records is a snap to set up

Re: ot Online school

2012-08-08 Thread Adam McCullough
Not to be fatalistic, but you're probably going to have a hard time finding a university that isn't very MS-happy. Installing on an external hard drive is problematic at best. I'm pretty sure Windows protects against that. Licensing/piracy reasons. On 8 August 2012 10:56, Michael Havens

Re: ot Online school

2012-08-08 Thread Adam McCullough
: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] *On Behalf Of *Adam McCullough Not to be fatalistic, but you're probably going to have a hard time finding a university that isn't very MS-happy. ** ** Installing on an external hard drive is problematic at best. I'm pretty sure Windows

Re: g++

2012-07-10 Thread Adam McCullough
I started out as a Vim lover many years ago. A supervisor at my internship nudged me (in his gentle, wise, fatherly way) into trying to become tool agnostic. So, my donation of kerosene to the embers of this editor war: Learn one editor. Then learn another. Then another! Knowing the basics of vim

Re: What's the best high speed internet option?

2012-05-11 Thread Adam McCullough
Speaking as a streaming music addict (paid subscriber to last.fm, and I have the html5.grooveshark.com site bookmarked on my phone), I'd blow through that veeery easily. :) (It's currently the 11th, and my bandwidth meter is at 1.5 gigs) Adam On 11 May 2012 12:13, Carruth, Rusty

Re: Question about USB R/W Speed

2012-02-02 Thread Adam McCullough
I'm willing to bet that the 1.5GB of files were a lot larger and less numerous than the 8 GB of files you moved previously. It isn't Windows, it has to do with how file systems work. Moving a million 1 kb files is going to take a lot more time than moving a tarball of the same files -- even if

Re: OT; phone argument

2011-10-22 Thread Adam McCullough
I have to echo Kevin's statement. I'm far less afraid of Google than Apple. Apple's approach is borderline fascist in my opinion, but Google has had a much better track record of being up front and honest when they need to make a mandate. That being said, I'd love to know more about how to run my

Re: chrome or opera

2011-10-04 Thread Adam McCullough
Installing Flash on a linux version of Chrome takes a bit of trickery. What I wound up doing was making a soft link from the flash library to /opt/chrome/plugins. That did the trick. Chrome allegedly comes with Flash installed, but most distro's rip it out (Fedora does, at least) for some

Re: Mageia Rant ;-)

2011-09-03 Thread Adam McCullough
Magicka is *awesome*. So damn funny. On 3 September 2011 08:53, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: Great Post Kevin! You need to start a Linux Tech BLOG? On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:22 AM, KevinO ke...@kevino.org wrote: My new Thinkpad came Friday morning: A T520, quad Core i7, 8GB

Re: Programming Language History

2011-08-02 Thread Adam McCullough
Heh. The chart at the bottom shows which languages are the most popular. Java being at the top didn't surprise me... what surprised me is that Assembly is more popular than LISP. As an emacs user, I almost have to take that personally! *smirk* On 2 August 2011 09:35, Dazed_75

Re: Debian running natively on motorola Xoom

2011-07-01 Thread Adam McCullough
There are similar things for the Nook Color. I did this: http://nookdevs.com/Optware_for_Android Got it up and working (kinda) on my CM7 image. The 'auto install' shell script they have on the website is very... broken. But it gives you breadcrumbs to follow along. Plus getting vim, gcc,

Re: Linux and VMWare?

2011-06-23 Thread Adam McCullough
It also gives you that opportunity to do su -c 'rm -rf /' with little guilt. ;) On 23 June 2011 22:00, Technomage Hawke technomage.ha...@gmail.com wrote: I have found that running linux as a host and running a linux guest are a very powerful combination. I used this combination to test

Re: Drupal presentation for May East Side Mtg?

2011-05-05 Thread Adam McCullough
Would love to see what you have to show, whenever that happens. :) Adam On 5 May 2011 00:27, Ariel Gold arielqg...@gmail.com wrote: Eek. I just realized I have a prior commitment that evening. Sorry! Hope to do a Drupal related presentation in the future if there's interest. On Wed, May

Re: fun read: BN responds to m$ suit

2011-04-28 Thread Adam McCullough
SO want to buy a nook now. Gotta love BN. :-D On 28 April 2011 10:07, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: moin moin, this is a fun read. It's got to be the lawyer version of a smack down. I've only made it through a third of it thus far, but intend to finish readhing the whole thing. I'm

Re: fun read: BN responds to m$ suit

2011-04-28 Thread Adam McCullough
Matt: Exactly. :) On 28 April 2011 14:01, Matt Graham matthew.h.gra...@asu.edu wrote: JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: Adam McCullough ajmcc...@asu.edu wrote: SO want to buy a nook now. Gotta love BN. :-D I have one.. Cyanogenmod 7 makes it just about perfect :) Their latest update

ASULUG events!

2011-03-31 Thread Adam McCullough
Hello, all! First off, some introductions. No, we're not dead. :) As for me, I'm Adam. I'm the current president of the ASULUG. I finally decided to get my organizational act together and start putting more than about five hours a semester into the club. That being said, we have two events