Re: Who Wants High Speed Fiber Connections in PHX?

2010-02-11 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Frank wrote: > It really isn't any different to ISP's knowledge of our online activities > now... I think its actually better since Google is fully upfront about their > access to our online activities! > Privacy is important, but on the internet, we've never had i

Re: Who Wants High Speed Fiber Connections in PHX?

2010-02-11 Thread Alan Dayley
May I just say to everyone warming up your keyboards: Stay calm! Be factual! Seek to understand and educate. Alan On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Frank wrote: > It really isn't any different to ISP's knowledge of our online activities > now... I think its actually better since Google is full

Re: OT: message "from Microsoft"

2010-01-19 Thread Alan Dayley
I'm confused. Re-read the message but substitute "Red Had Certified Engineer" or "Red Hat Partner" everywhere it says Microsoft? Is it still a bad message? If not, why not? Alan On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Mike Schwartz wrote: > I got this message (on LinkedIn.com): > http://partner.link

Re: Open-Hardware-Centric Group Forming in the Valley

2010-01-11 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:31 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 10. Jan, 2010 schwätzte Alan Dayley so: >> The reality is that there are now a great many different groups and >> events in the Phoenix valley.  Each of them could attract the some of >> the same sorts of people as the o

Re: quiet

2010-01-10 Thread Alan Dayley
There is a stereotype that geeks "don't have a life" and so always have weekends open. If you watch the traffic on this and other "geek" lists, you will see that emails drop dramatically during the weekend. I think this shows that we geeks to have lives and use the weekend to focus on them. Alan

Re: Open-Hardware-Centric Group Forming in the Valley

2010-01-10 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:23 PM, der.hans wrote: > They chose the same night as our east side meeting in the same area :(. The reality is that there are now a great many different groups and events in the Phoenix valley. Each of them could attract the some of the same sorts of people as the othe

Re: new IRC meetings

2010-01-10 Thread Alan Dayley
It's on my calendar! Alan On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 4:19 PM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > I'm starting a new IRC meeting on the first and third Sunday of the month > at 20:00. > > The first meeting will be next Sunday. > > The meetings are explicitly for planning PLUG activities and working on

Fwd: Holiday Greetings & a Special User Group Offer from Wiley Publishing

2009-12-15 Thread Alan Dayley
A great deal from Wiley on Linux books! Alan -- Forwarded message -- From: partnerwithwileytech Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:22 PM Subject: Holiday Greetings & a Special User Group Offer from Wiley Publishing To: Happy Holidays from Wiley Publishing! To celebrate, we would

Re: FLASH disk as swap

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Marco Savo wrote: > Thanks for the info. > I had to find the time for read all the mails. > I also found some useful info on internet: > http://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/8208-all-about-linux-swap-space?theme=print > http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/

Re: FLASH disk as swap

2009-12-03 Thread Alan Dayley
There has been lots of good answers in this thread. I'm learning a bunch, myself. Yes, a flash drive can be used for the swap. Fact one about flash drives: Small writes of few LBAs are worst case scenario for flash. This has to do with the structure of NAND flash and is true for all the NAND fl

O'Reilly ebooks in Android Market (Was: Re: Fwd: UG News: 45% off Ebook Purchases from O'Reilly)

2009-12-02 Thread Alan Dayley
they have come up with technology to convert and release > on a myriad of platforms. > > I think the idea is good though and hope to see all sorts of Linux > publications from O'Reilly available in the Android Marketplace but > didn't see them. > > Craig > &g

Fwd: UG News: 45% off Ebook Purchases from O'Reilly

2009-12-02 Thread Alan Dayley
looks like a cool deal! Alan -- Forwarded message -- From: Marsee Henon Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:02 PM Subject: UG News: 45% off Ebook Purchases from O'Reilly To: ala...@consultpros.com If you would like to view this information in your browser, click here. Forward this ann

Re: Droid/Android

2009-12-01 Thread Alan Dayley
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > I'm stuck with a Blackberry, which is OK.  It sounds like your (Craig's) > experience jives with the reviews,  "Droid is a phone geeks will love." > That means it's a niche product.  OS X is the best consumer OS I've > worked in.  I bet the iP

Re: Determining hard drive state

2009-12-01 Thread Alan Dayley
Nice explanation, Kirk. Thanks. Alan On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Kirk Bauer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Alan Dayley wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Kirk Bauer wrote: >>> For the record, I have both ntfs and ext4 partitions on the drive, >&

Re: OT: Leaked Climate Emails

2009-11-28 Thread Alan Dayley
Marked off-topic: Check Interesting: Check Will produce productive result in this forum (Linux list): Nope If it were the right forum (climate change or political list), will produce productive result in this medium (email): Nope Alan On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:09 PM, keith smith wrote: > Hi All,

Re: Determining hard drive state

2009-11-25 Thread Alan Dayley
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Kirk Bauer wrote: > For the record, I have both ntfs and ext4 partitions on the drive, > both mounted at all times under Ubuntu 9.10, and the drive remains in > a "standby" state except when I'm actually using the drives. Interesting. If I may ask, I'd like more

Re: Determining hard drive state

2009-11-14 Thread Alan Dayley
By default, if the hard drive has power, it is spinning. Unless the host computer commands it to spin down, it is spinning. In fact, some research into this issue about two years ago showed that most drives have a default idel spin down after 10+ hours. So, unless you or the OS or the driver or

Re: running Linux on odd devices is SOOO COOL!

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Dayley
What fun! Keep playing and learning. Alan On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Steven A. DuChene wrote: > So I am running a special version of Linux on my son's Nintendo DS Lite > handheld game console! > > It is so cool! > > > --- > PLUG-discuss ma

Re: Android Phones

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Dayley
My wife and I recently each picked up the T-Mobile My Touch phone. - Nice, smooth operation most of the time. Once in a while it pauses for a few seconds before bringing up the requested task. - Battery life is easily good for an average day but will chew up quick if you use all the features, all

"Pulsectomy" howto?`

2009-09-09 Thread Alan Dayley
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Jim March<1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's VERY easy to give Ubuntu a "Pulsectomy". > Got a pointer for doing that on Kubuntu 9.04? It may solve my Flash and audio problem. Alan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PL

Re: O'Reilly discount code?

2009-08-28 Thread Alan Dayley
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: > I seem to remember us having a discount code for O'Reilly books. Does > anyone have or remember this? > -- > -Eric 'shubes' Shubes, Here you go, straight from one of their newsletters: "Get 35% off from O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Pub

OT: BarCamp Phoenix tomorrow

2009-08-28 Thread Alan Dayley
BarCamp Phoenix 2009 is tomorrow, 9:30-5:00. http://barcamp.org/BarCampPhoenix If you are not occupied or volunteering at the Install Fest, come on down to enjoy BarCamp. Come anytime and jump in. Alan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@

Re: Help or arrogance (Was: Re: How to overcome a boot-up endless loop?)

2009-08-27 Thread Alan Dayley
2009 at 4:10 PM, Lisa Kachold > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Alan Dayley >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:56 PM, mike havens wrote: >> >> I think PLUG is an anomaly. It seems most people display snippety >> >> arrogance &

Help or arrogance (Was: Re: How to overcome a boot-up endless loop?)

2009-08-27 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:56 PM, mike havens wrote: > I think PLUG is an anomaly. It seems most people display snippety arrogance > rather than help. I strongly disagree. My experience with PLUG since spring 2000 is that it is one of the most helpful and well behaved groups I have ever associated

Re: LVM extension into new space and partition edits

2009-08-24 Thread Alan Dayley
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Yes, test it on one of the mirrors (don't believe these guys! [laugh])... > > But of course mirroring a 250 yields another 250? > > Course you should just be able to add one TB at a time via the > hardware RAID tools: > > http://www.thegeekstuf

LVM extension into new space and partition edits

2009-08-24 Thread Alan Dayley
I have lost the web page with the steps to do an extension of an LVM into unused disk space. Let me explain my situation and ask my question. I have a server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. It had two 250GB hard drives in a hardware RAID 1 mirror. Working fine. We needed more space, so here i

Re: hp scanjet 3400c

2009-08-20 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:33 PM, betty wrote: > What is a good site to check if this scanner will work with my Ubuntu > Hardy Heron desktop? My daughter has it as an extra that she doesn't > need and if it would work w/my computer I would take it off her hands. > > I have a lot of old family pictur

OT: JOB: Seeking electrical design engineers

2009-08-17 Thread Alan Dayley
Adtron, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SMART Modular Technologies, is seeking to hire a few Electrical Design Engineers (EE) for the Phoenix office. Please contact me off list for details or review the details and apply at http://jobs.accolo.com/19185. Alan --

OT: JOB: Seeking VHDL designers

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Dayley
Adtron, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SMART Modular Technologies, is seeking to hire a few VHDL Design Engineers for the Phoenix office. Please contact me off list for details or review the details and apply at http://jobs.accolo.com/19186 Alan --- PL

Fwd: User Group News: Help O'Reilly by Answering this Survey

2009-08-06 Thread Alan Dayley
-- Forwarded message -- From: Marsee Henon Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:13 AM Subject: User Group News: Help O'Reilly by Answering this Survey To: ala...@consultpros.com If you would like to view this information in your browser, click here. Forward this announcement Hi there,

PLUG governance, etc.

2009-08-05 Thread Alan Dayley
Another thread about the sonoran penguin and making a theme for the website surfaced some discussion about the governance of PLUG. I'd like to enlighten that a little bit. The Steering Committee --- PLUG has a Steering Committee, members in no particular order: - Hans, a.

Re: Sonoran Penguin

2009-08-05 Thread Alan Dayley
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Joshua has a new PLUG image everyone loves. > > He is offering to write a Drupal template for PLUG. My response is: Go, Joshua, go! Alan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.ph

Re: OT: Handling Politics the plug-discuss way?

2009-08-02 Thread Alan Dayley
> Hans agrees with me (via a quick discussion in the IRC channel) that these > discussions in general detract from the list, and make the non-political- > flame-war discussions less active/less... what is the word... visible, so I > think that something should be done, or at least a discussion shou

PLUG's role in improving Phx

2009-08-02 Thread Alan Dayley
The thread I started and fed a bit, "Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX"[1], has spun off into the weeds of "non-Linux" and "non-group" discussion. Some of it is very interesting but it is far afield from the purpose of this email list. I'd like to try to pull it back around to direct rele

Re: ****Re: guess what....

2009-08-02 Thread Alan Dayley
Mike, The list seems to have become more political lately. I think your comments about dishonest people or something set this thread off. Not your fault, if I recall and I'm not worried about going back to find derail point. Don't worry about it, personally. I worry about it for the group when

Re: Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-07-31 Thread Alan Dayley
> >> >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: >>>  Alan, >>> >>>    Wish I had time to respond to all these points right now, not sure >>> you read me the way I would prefer however.  Its not so grave a >>> warning, just g

Re: Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-07-31 Thread Alan Dayley
Josh, I feel warned. And I don't understand the reason for such a strong warning. There are people in every industry, government or community who wish to fleece their "community" for their own profit instead of mutual benefit. The trick is to find the positive people and ignore the rest. Apply

Re: Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-07-31 Thread Alan Dayley
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:22 AM, keith smith wrote: > > I really like what is going on.  This is really cool. > > The article says "Queen Creek resident Derek Neighbors..."  That name sounds > familiar. Yep, that's THE Derek Neighbors we love. He has been and is busy building community. Doing

Re: Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-07-31 Thread Alan Dayley
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > > I read something about this just this morning: > http://azcentral.com/community/tempe/articles/2009/07/31/20090731coworking0719.html > , take a look at the reader comments below the article.  (It's like a > bunch of Negative Nellies spend the

Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-07-31 Thread Alan Dayley
Hey everyone. I wanted to point out some events and information I have come to be involved with that many of you will probably also enjoy. I also would love to see more Linux/FS/OSS people participating in these things. http://www.phxsug.org - Phoenix Scrum User Group website http://gangplankhq

Re: BAD kubuntu

2009-07-31 Thread Alan Dayley
Are you able to get to the initial menu where it asks if you want to boot or install or etc.? On that menu is a memory test choice. It'll crank up memtestx86 and start testing your RAM. The problems you describe could be RAM issues. Many times the system can run just enough to test the RAM and

Re: OT: AC/DC adaptors

2009-07-22 Thread Alan Dayley
Interesting advice and, now that I think about it, you are right. Ignore my previous advice. Alan On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Jon M. Hanson wrote: > You can use the 210 mA adaptor safely as long as the polarity matches > what the device needs (it should have a little diagram next to the > pl

Re: OT: AC/DC adaptors

2009-07-22 Thread Alan Dayley
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: > Does an AC/DC adaptor need to be an exact match to be safe and not > damage electrical equipment? Does not HAVE to be exact but you are right to be cautious. > I have several dozen "left-over" AC/DC adaptors, but none exactly > match a small

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Marco Savo wrote: > I don't understand what's the point, you can read for free on-line > http://www.george-orwell.org/1984 > This copyright stuff is too messy for me to understand > > All animals are equal, But some animals are more equal than others. > Animal Farm,

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Ted Gould wrote: > > Honestly, I think that it's okay for people to do what they wish with > their content as long as they're upfront about it.  And, I think that > Amazon has been with this device.  I bought a Kindle (which I like) and > on doing that I realized l

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread Alan Dayley
An entity who has the > ability to control what you can and can't read and ummm the book 1984 > > On 7/18/09, Alan Dayley wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Austin William >> Wright wrote: >>> It is this one, >>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ri

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-18 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Austin William Wright wrote: > It is this one, > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html > > Stallman, as usual, is right, even if (I think) for all the wrong > reasons. Copyright is something that could not exist in a free society, > the only way it can ex

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-17 Thread Alan Dayley
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Bob Elzer wrote: > > Apparently if you bought the George Orwell book 1984 on amazon for your > kindle, you actually became part of the story today. > > Amazon deleted the books from your kindle, without permission because the > publisher changed it's mind about the

Re: west side tonight

2009-07-09 Thread Alan Dayley
That's a great idea. No need to wait for "the planners!" Go set it up and/or ask for help from the group/ Know a venue we could use? Alan On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: >  have the PLUG planners considered holding a meeting that is in > proximity of the light rail? > >  

EAST side (Was: Re: west side tonight)

2009-07-09 Thread Alan Dayley
This is for the East Side Meeting. Just clarifying a typo. Alan On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:11 PM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/131 > > Presentations This Month > # The Mozilla Suite: Firefox > # ASUS EeePC with several different distros > > When: 19:00 > Where: S

Re: Old computer users (Was: Re: Laptop (cell phone) in my pocket?)

2009-07-08 Thread Alan Dayley
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Alan Dayley >> History in general is vastly important, despite how it is treated in >> most schools. > > History:  An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, > which are brought about by rulers mos

Re: IPCop Network Cards

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Dayley
n Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Eric Cope wrote: > Hello all, > I recently installed IPCop on a laptop. I am using a Red + Green > installation. I have two questions. > 1) How do I switch the ethernet adapters for each zone (one is 10/100 and > the other is gigabit)? IPCop is a good choice. There

Google Chrome OS on Linux

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Dayley
Google announced the concept of a new operating system they are calling Google Chrome OS. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html "The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application d

Re: Old computer users (Was: Re: Laptop (cell phone) in my pocket?)

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Dayley
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Ryan Rix wrote: > > Thank you for changing the subject line ;) > > The funny thing about all of this, and talking to the retro hacker guy who > sits next to me at work, is that I know what all of you are talking about, and > I'm only 17. Not sure that's depressing or

OT: (sort of) Village in is now THE editor!

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Dayley
According to the following photo, Village Inn restaurant is evidently re-branding themselves as a well known text editor. Some say, the only true text editor. http://twitpic.com/9mndv In lower-case, even! We should have a Stammtisch there sometime. Alan

Old computer users (Was: Re: Laptop (cell phone) in my pocket?)

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Dayley
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:50 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: > Did it.. > Remember when I (AWE...) saw the firs CGA and flew M$ Flight Simulator IN > COLORS!!! > All 8 of them!   8) It was WAY COOL! >>> Before that it was on a dot matrix printer with a keyboard.  Get it >>> right quick or you w

Re: Laptop (cell phone) in my pocket?

2009-07-07 Thread Alan Dayley
You little youngsters don't know the meaning of hardship. Back in my day you got monochrome and 40x25 characters and counted yourself lucky! Before that it was fuzzy white on black with a dumb terminal and a 300 baud acoustic coupler. Before that it was on a dot matrix printer with a keyboard.

Re: Tracking file storage space use

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Dayley
plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Eric > Shubert > Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 9:19 AM > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: Tracking file storage space use > > Alan Dayley wrote: >> I have a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Tracking file storage space use

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Dayley
I have a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. It's running very well but lately we have been running out of disk space on occasion. The truth is we need more storage and that solution is coming. In the mean time, I need to figure out where all the space is being consumed. Every once in a w

Re: Need a UML editor

2009-06-29 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: > Anyone know of a decent UML editor that > 1) Can read and write java code; at least for class diagrams > 2) Is cross platform > 3) Is open source, at least free > > I use Eclipse and Netbeans as my java IDE's if that matters. Did you look at U

Re: Ted T'so on SSD and journalling

2009-06-24 Thread Alan Dayley
2009/6/23 der.hans > > moin moin, > > The first paragraph in the quote was a comment on Ted's blog. The second > is Ted's response. Read the blog post at the URL given below. > > ### > #  # 2  tytso  Says: > March 2nd, 2009 at 1:15 am > > @1: I’d thought that the reason to avoid ext3 on SSDs, at l

Easy Peasy vs Netbook Remix (Was: Re: Ted T'so on SSD and journalling)

2009-06-24 Thread Alan Dayley
Best answered by the people at Easy Peasy: http://forums.geteasypeasy.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1761&p=6871&#p6871 Alan On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Stephen wrote: > > ok, what is the difference between this and the ubuntu netbook remix? > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009

Re: Ted T'so on SSD and journalling

2009-06-24 Thread Alan Dayley
I have never had a good experience with Xandros or it's derivatives. Well, actually they work fine until the first update. Then things start breaking. I love http://geteasypeasy.com/ on my netbook. It's based on Ubuntu. Alan On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Stephen wrote: > well Ubuntu has the

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 available

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 wrote: > > What do you mean by "handle" ? > Look

Re: Verari 1U New Server Build && Drupal Upgrade for New PLUG Site

2009-06-16 Thread Alan Dayley
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > I have build up and burned in the Verari 1U server (under OS specified by > "the boys" [I would have preferred CentOs 5.3 network build hardened > kernel]) [it was only failing drive recognition due to no tiny MASTER/SLAVE > pins]. ---[clip go

Re: ABLEconf 2009 planning

2009-06-15 Thread Alan Dayley
May want to consider sometime around Geek Week AZ, Nov 6-15. http://azgeekweek.com/ Alan On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:59 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 15. Jun, 2009 schwätzte Alan Dayley so: > >> I might be able to help in some capacity.  What date, if any, is >> targeted for

Re: ABLEconf 2009 planning

2009-06-15 Thread Alan Dayley
I might be able to help in some capacity. What date, if any, is targeted for this year's event? Alan On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:09 PM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > it's time to get ABLEconf 2009 going. Please join the ABLEconf discuss > list and join our meetings Sunday nights if you'd like t

Re: sortof OT: wiki software

2009-06-15 Thread Alan Dayley
None of the CMS options in your list are a wiki. True, users can be allowed to edit pages or stories in these systems, but they are not wikis. Alan On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Stephen wrote: > the 4 that come to mind as easy to use/set up > > wordpress > drupal > movable type > joomla > > w

Re: Using fedora instead of ipcop

2009-06-05 Thread Alan Dayley
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Paul Mooring wrote: > I see where you're coming from on that but for some reason (probably because > I don't really know what I'm talking about) running a specialty distro like > IPCop with a web interface and potentially outdated packages just seems like > it would

OT: Bugzilla consultant needed

2009-05-25 Thread Alan Dayley
Again[1], I express the need for a Bugzilla consultant. We use Bugzilla at work but have found the need to create reports, at the least. We may also need some customization of the system itself. Especially we need someone experienced in getting high value and easy use out of the tool. In other w

Re: Netbook for Regular Person

2009-05-21 Thread Alan Dayley
The Eee PC models with the 10 inch screen have full sized keys. I have an original Eee PC 701 with the 7 inch screen. It has been great as a portable information and connection device. Even with the cramped keyboard it has served my purposes very well. And the forums and the wiki at http://www.

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 po

Re: List of Command Line Tools

2009-05-17 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:41 PM, mike havens wrote: > wait a second.. someone was just complaining about top posting. why> it > is the better way to post afterall! Don't go there, please. There is another thread this week re-hashing it all again. That uses up the "top vs. bottom posting di

Re: Looking for compatable SCSI laptop interface

2009-05-14 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Richard Wilson wrote: > Looking for a recommendation -- my Linux workstation died (power supply > fried and took the mother board with it) and it was my backup server.  I > have a SE SCSI tape drive (DLT-3) and a bunch of tapes with all my > personal backups on th

Re: Ubuntu Jaunty Update Pop-Under

2009-05-08 Thread Alan Dayley
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > > I think you misunderstood the thrust of my rant, I probably wasn't as clear > as I hoped. > > 1) This isn't a Gnome change, it's an Ubuntu change.  It affects KDE just as > much as it affects Gnome. > 2) I'm not complaining about the rel

Re: ANN: PLUG Devel Meeting TODAY!

2009-05-07 Thread Alan Dayley
Correction to the text below. The "I" refers to Ed Nichols, not me, Alan Dayley. I will not be able to attend the meeting. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks to Ed for doing the meeting! Alan On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Alan Dayley wrote: > The PLUGdev meeting will be held 7

ANN: PLUG Devel Meeting TODAY!

2009-05-07 Thread Alan Dayley
The PLUGdev meeting will be held 7:30 – 9:30 PM ROOM 203 at The University of Advancing Technology 2625 W. Baseline Road Tempe, AZ 85283-1056 It will be brief meeting, I will be there to announce a few developer related news items and discuss the direction of PLUGdev - if there is interest I will

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-06 Thread Alan Dayley
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Andrew "Tuna" Harris wrote: > > TrollTech used to demand piles of money from software companies that wanted > to use their Qt toolkit in their proprietary stuff, and they still do if > they don't dynamically link to the libs. I ask for a little dance. The value of

Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-06 Thread Alan Dayley
It's a funny idea to think about, even be good for a joke or prank. It's silly to think anyone would accept it as a legitimate license condition to do a dance. It would also make you look unprofessional not to be taken seriously. But then maybe that is what you want. ;^) Alan On Wed, May 6, 20

Re: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

2009-05-04 Thread Alan Dayley
I don't understand the negativity around dead tree media. It has many advantages, including ultimate portability and no dead batteries. I currently have multiple O'Reilly books above my computer here, all of which I have actually used, some more than others. My Linux Pocket Guide is an excellent

Re: OT: Free Webhost

2009-05-04 Thread Alan Dayley
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:29 AM, James Finstrom wrote: > So I have cox at home so I obviously would violate the AUP self hosting and > frankly I am cheap... wait no frugal. Anyway I would like to find a place to > host my domain free but without ads or if it has ads it allows choice of > placement

Review: Amarok 2.x in Kubuntu 9.04 a problem

2009-05-02 Thread Alan Dayley
I have been very happy with my 6 days of Kubuntu 9.04 use. Easy to install, nice icons and desktop, easy to add applications and running smoothly. I cranked up Amarok for managing my music and podcasts. Version 2.x looks very nice and it plays music great. Then I grabbed my iPod to sync and fou

Re: 9.04 netbook remix ?

2009-04-29 Thread Alan Dayley
I have been very happy with Ubuntu Eee, recently changing their name to Easy Peasy (http://www.geteasypeasy.com/). Works great on my 701. Alan On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:30 AM, James Mcphee wrote: > There's a distro based on ubuntu specifically for the eeepc. > http://eeebuntu.org > > They're s

Re: Ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-28 Thread Alan Dayley
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Benjamin Francom wrote: > > I had some update issues as well.  404 Not found during apt-get > update...I've blamed it on my proxy settings, which may or may not have been > a factor. > > It does look like there is a bug filed: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s

Job: Embedded Firmware Engineer

2009-04-28 Thread Alan Dayley
Adtron is seeking to hire an Embedded Firmware Engineer. Job description and online application can be found at: http://jobs.accolo.com/17436 Or you can reply off-list to me. Thanks. Alan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.ph

Re: OT: Failure of Cox, Google, IMAP and port 993?

2009-04-26 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Alan Dayley wrote: > > Thanks, Charles.  I get the same result with telnet.  But the email > clients can't seem to get there. > > I'm going to try another client on my machine, just for fun.  :^) Ok, problem must be on my end. A fresh

Re: OT: Failure of Cox, Google, IMAP and port 993?

2009-04-26 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Charles Jones wrote: > I'm on Cox. > $ telnet imap.gmail.com 993 > Trying 74.125.47.111... > Connected to imap.gmail.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > ^] > telnet> close > Connection closed. Thanks, Charles. I get the same result with telnet. But the email clie

OT: Failure of Cox, Google, IMAP and port 993?

2009-04-26 Thread Alan Dayley
This morning our email clients could no longer reach our Goggle Apps mail accounts. Connection to the Google server is via IMAP to imap.gmail.com on port 993. Mail applications simply time out reaching the server. Cox support claims it's not their problem. Google gives support via forums. Had

Apache basic authentication not working

2009-04-20 Thread Alan Dayley
We are using the ViewVC tool[1] as a web interface for browsing CVS and Subversion repositories. Been working wonderfully for a long time. Recently we wanted to limit the access to browse the source. We want to do this with Apache's basic authentication capability. All a great plan. On Red Hat

Re: Samba share and file attributes

2009-04-16 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: ---[clip]--- > > For your situation, I'd try this in smb.conf: > > map archive = no > map hidden = no > map read only = no > map system = no > store dos attributes = yes > dos filemode = yes > > either globally or on each share, and also add "us

Re: Samba share and file attributes

2009-04-16 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Craig White wrote: > Linux Samba Server should probably be joined to the Domain so > Windows users would see it as seamless, otherwise, they will > think Linux is stupid because you have to authenticate > yourself to this one server where everything else is > authe

Re: Samba share and file attributes

2009-04-16 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Craig White wrote: > > I think we just went through this with someone else on list a > month or so ago. > > You probably want to check how the file system is mounted > xattr? as that is pretty key to getting extended attributes. > > You will definitely want to

Re: Samba share and file attributes

2009-04-16 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: > I'm game. Sweet! > You say "All Linux users" this and that. Are these true > native linux users (who log in to linux and do stuff)? > > You don't mention any Windoze users. Are there any, and how > do they fit in? Ah, you bring up the rest

Re: Samba share and file attributes

2009-04-16 Thread Alan Dayley
Thanks for the thoughts, Stephen. If Samba cannot do what is needed, it will be a disappointment indeed. Before we take the routes you suggest, we'll probably just move the tree directly to a Windows server and be done with the mess. Anyone have other ideas? Alan On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:15 A

Samba share and file attributes

2009-04-16 Thread Alan Dayley
Samba is getting the better of me. No, it's wipping me. I have a Samba 3.2 server sharing a directory tree. Let's call this share Master. Here is what I need: - All Linux users in group "mastershare" need MSWindows "full control" on all files in the tree via MSWindows clients. -- This means re

Re: Which EMail reader for BIG volumes of mail?

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Dayley
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Craig White wrote: > > Evolution looks/feels like Outlook which may provide comfort. I have > used it for many years and I'm comfortable with it and I am on a lot of > mail lists and often get 1000+ e-mails a day. > > I find that less important than the actual

Re: April east side mtg

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Dayley
The East Side Meeting is every second Thrusday. So the meeting announcement below is for tonight! Alan On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Stephen wrote: > I feel dense but what day again? > > > On 4/9/09, der.hans wrote: >> moin moin, >> >> we've got two presentations for the east side this mont

Re: April east side mtg

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Dayley
The East Side Meeting is every second Thrusday. So the meeting announcement below is for tonight! Alan On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Scarlett Clark wrote: > What day? :) I just moved back from VA and would like to start attending > these. > > Scarlett > > > Fr

Re: iButton anyone?

2009-04-08 Thread Alan Dayley
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Tim Noeding wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has any experience with these? > > I am currently repairing a machine that uses these as a security feature. > It's the first time I've seen one, but I figure one of you may have some > experience with these. If so, let

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