Linux podcasts

2008-09-01 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Surfing around rebuilding my podcast subscriptions, I came across this site with a long list of podcasts with Linux content. I have not listened to any of them, so I cannot vouch for any of them, except "FLOSS Weekly" which I rather enjoy. http://www

Quick review of Kubuntu with KDE 4.x

2008-08-29 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just installed Kubuntu 8.04 community KDE 4 remix. It installed smoothly and looked very nice. Then during online installation of more packages, Adept (the package manager) crashed. Just went away off the screen. Then it crashed again. Then I se

Re: Linux Meeting at UAT on Saturday

2008-08-25 Thread Alan Dayley
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:03 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems that the IT department at UAT is unable to provide any Internet > access at all this Saturday. > > Suggestions? Would we like to do it the following week? I think that Internet access is essential for an InstallFest. If w

Re: KDE 4 and Kubuntu?

2008-08-24 Thread Alan Dayley
> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 21:12 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> Novell has re-upped with Microsoft, including the continuation >> of >>

KDE 4 and Kubuntu?

2008-08-24 Thread Alan Dayley
Novell has re-upped with Microsoft, including the continuation of "intellectual property" FUD[1]. So, I've been patient because I really want to like Novell and I like OpenSUSE but, it's time to move on from the "Linux division of MS" My most likely destination distro is Kunbuntu because of it's

Re: Reset root password without alternate boot?

2008-08-23 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Charles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Removing the hard drive on a laptop is not a big deal, at most > temporarily removing 2 screws. Then you can plug it into an IDE to USB > adapter > (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002), and > pl

Re: Reset root password without alternate boot?

2008-08-23 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So there's no way to boot a rescue CD, and appending "single" to the kernel > command line starts a process that asks for the root password. Pas de > probleme, mes amis. The magic word is "init=/bin/bash" . Instead of > st

Re: Reset root password without alternate boot?

2008-08-23 Thread Alan Dayley
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an old laptop that I installed Linux on some time ago and then > never used. I have a use for it now and it is working. However, I > don't remember the root password. No big deal, just boot to

Reset root password without alternate boot?

2008-08-23 Thread Alan Dayley
I have an old laptop that I installed Linux on some time ago and then never used. I have a use for it now and it is working. However, I don't remember the root password. No big deal, just boot to runlevel 1, right? Well, this system still asks for the root password before you can get to the run

Re: Hello from Richmond, VA

2008-08-23 Thread Alan Dayley
Anyone is always welcome here. Thanks for "coming back"! Can we help you get the Richmond group going, somehow? Advice is easy to give via email. ;^) Alan On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Scarlett Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody :) > I miss the Phoenix Linux group. Richmond

Re: Ignore - testing

2008-08-22 Thread Alan Dayley
Thank you all very much for the support! Alan On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:57 PM, SI - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boo. > -- > Justin McClure > > -Original Message- > From: "'Jared Anderson' ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (Emailias: REPLY-MASKED)"<[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 2

Re: [Fwd: Rejected email connections after GMail move]

2008-08-21 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wehlp, looks like I can post to PLUG now! Whooop! Whooop! Thanks for all the help and discussion from the list! I don't know what solved the issue. Perhaps it was the new domain MX records. Perhaps a grey listing thing. But this message should n

Ignore - testing

2008-08-21 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cheer if it makes it. Alan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIrkWvDQw/VSQuFZYRAqmkAJ95E1VlXx9Ww8VtBJ6BtT3KmB7qYQCdEctj qAuopCUuoMg7T1vY8zJGIDI= =sCl6

Re: [Fwd: Rejected email connections after GMail move]

2008-08-20 Thread Alan Dayley
ue so my emails from consultpros.com will get through to PLUG and you? ;^) Alan Alan Dayley wrote: > Thanks for the help, everyone. As you can see in the From address, this > email is not from my consultpros.com domain. So I have not fixed > whatever the issue is. > > First a few points o

Re: [Fwd: Rejected email connections after GMail move]

2008-08-20 Thread Alan Dayley
Thanks for the help, everyone. As you can see in the From address, this email is not from my consultpros.com domain. So I have not fixed whatever the issue is. First a few points of interest: - I have not yet read the lifehacker article cited below (Thanks!) but I am already using the GMail SMTP

Testing, ignore

2008-08-16 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Or not. Alan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIpzA3DQw/VSQuFZYRAqymAJ9q4hO0sqLXdb0l3g1zskPRLJmX6ACfYK4j dgxzph4//r8sL9y5nsuOhHc= =W4sn -END PGP S

Re: OT: For sale: Black Eee PC 901

2008-08-10 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Big mistake on my part. Sorry! The unit for sale is a 701, not a 901. The link I provided points to a 701 but I wrote the subject line wrong. Alan Alan Dayley wrote: | My father wants to sell is lightly used Eee PC. He has enjoyed it but | finds

OT: For sale: Black Eee PC 901

2008-08-09 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My father wants to sell is lightly used Eee PC. He has enjoyed it but finds it too small in the keyboard and screen. He plans to trade up for one of the new larger models. I can easily vouch for it's near new condition. It will include all the orig

Re: Dual Boot with Linux?

2008-08-08 Thread Alan Dayley
My big laptop came with Vista Home. OpenSUSE 10.2 (at the time) auto-magically installed dual boot after asking me how big I wanted the Vista partition to be. Works fine. Alan On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:49 AM, mike enriquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know if Windows Vista will dual

Re: cox news feed provider

2008-08-07 Thread Alan Dayley
Cox support pages show the sever name as: news.west.cox.net Try this page for links to overall information about Cox news servers, configuration and so on: http://support.cox.com//sdcxuser/asp/cox_Indetails.asp?parFolder=93a87dfa-5346-48e4-b66b-2a37dfe0b77b Cox uses javascript with some kind of

ANN: Devel Meeting, Thursday, August 7th

2008-08-06 Thread Alan Dayley
Tomorrow! Tomorrow! Tomorrow! What: PLUG Developer Meeting When: Thursday, August 7th, 2008 at 7:00 PM Where: Adtron Corporation Adtron Corporation 4415 E. Cotton Center Blvd., Suite 100 Phoenix, AZ 85040 (Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4415+E.+Cotton+Center+Blvd.+Phoenix+AZ+85040&ie=UTF8&ll=

Re: Need topic for tomorrow!

2008-08-06 Thread Alan Dayley
od interest. >> > > >> > > I have a single-board ARM with dev toolkit that has been sitting on a >> > > shelf forever... It's got USB, ethernet, and RS485 ports. At least I >> > > could bring that to the table, if that's at all practical.

Re: Need topic for tomorrow!

2008-08-06 Thread Alan Dayley
an be wired to a 5V signal or COM port or > USB, that could give us some direction. > > > > Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We have a Devel meeting scheduled for tomorrow but I have not rustled >> up a topic yet. Does anyone have a topic they'd like

Need topic for tomorrow!

2008-08-06 Thread Alan Dayley
We have a Devel meeting scheduled for tomorrow but I have not rustled up a topic yet. Does anyone have a topic they'd like to suggest or, better yet, present? Alan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, u

Mirror tool won't recurse

2008-08-05 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need to mirror the CPAN repository to a local Linux server using FTP. ~ According to http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_mirror_CPAN I can do this using the "mirror" Perl script found at http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror. Nice except that

InstallFest signage (Was:Re: InstallFest - Saturday July 26, UAT? 10AM to 4PM)

2008-07-25 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josef Lowder wrote: | What would you think about putting a big sandwich board | something like the one shown at the following link | outside the building where you host the installfest? | | http://www.upquick.com/view/freelinux.jpg A sign is a great

Re: glabels to jpg?

2008-07-22 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Dayley wrote: | | I'll post success or not as I try things tonight. More ideas are always | welcome. Success! The "print to file" targeting either PDF or PS (Post Script) seems to be the only way to convert a gLabels design

Re: Ubuntu and Compiz Fusion

2008-07-21 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joshua Nalli wrote: | how come when I enable visual effects in Ubuntu that i loose the ability | to move the windows around and close or minimize them? is this just | because of compiz? Sounds like your "window decorator" is not loading or is being l

Re: glabels to jpg?

2008-07-21 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Stasinski wrote: | | Print to a pdf (under print to file), load pdf into Gimp, re-save as jpg. This may be the best option, though I have not tried anything yet this evening. For those not aware, gLabels (http://glabels.sourceforge.net/) is a

glabels to jpg?

2008-07-21 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need to convert a few glabels designs to jpg. glabels doesn't appear to have a export function. Any suggestions on how to do this without re-drawing in GIMP? Alan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

GimpFest

2008-07-15 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Posted for Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] who is currently having some kind of email issues.) ~No driving, no cost, just free form group competition designing our own variety of PLUG Tees! Where; http://www.zazzle.com/ ~Login plugarizona ~Pas

Re: Tee Shirt design graphic

2008-07-13 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 stu wrote: | | I took Lisa's suggestion and posted the "Hopi_Penguin.png" on the PLUG Flickr | group page. It can also be seen here: | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ | | Responsible comments invited! | Thanks, | S

Re: Tee Shirts design idea?

2008-07-13 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lisa Kachold wrote: | Yes, it's nice! | | Might we open like an internet storefront somewhere for all the designs? | | We don't have to charge any markup? PLUG has no formal organization. It is not a corporation or whatever. Therefore, "PLUG" cannot

Re: Tee Shirts?

2008-07-13 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Gould wrote: | On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 21:44 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: |> yes, yes - our PLUG Penguin in the Desert T is the best (except for |> being white that is). I pulled mine out again this morning just to |> check my memory. Hope we still have

Re: 180 degree [at least 175] TYPO (was: Re: Tee Shirts?)

2008-07-10 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Schwartz wrote: What a TYPO: there is now real central, controlling authority. | I think you meant "no real" (vs. "now real"). | - - that = about 180 degrees diff meaning! | (almost like, the ever popular typo "not" vs. "now") Whoops! Yes, th

Re: Tee Shirts?

2008-07-10 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sure you can design some how you want! PLUG is not a legal entity and there is now real central, controlling authority. It's all by community consensus. Speaking as a member of the Steering Committee: It'd be nice for the group to have a consistent

Re: external HD suggestions

2008-07-10 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just to steer things in a slightly different way... I have wanted to try one of these SATA drive docks: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/a7ea/ Not an endorsement, just pointing out an interesting gadget I drool over. Alan -BEGIN PGP S

Re: Tee Shirts?

2008-07-09 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lisa Kachold wrote: | Do we have any cool PLUG shirts? | | Might be a great way to drum up all manner of fun? | | Like these: | | http://scratchcomputing.com/tmp/pdx.pm.2008shirt.html | http://www.splitreason.com/product/99 That first shirt is really

Re: Oh my goodness! (music OT)

2008-07-05 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mike havens wrote: | I barely remember this video. | | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXko2YCuZa8&NR=1 | | I haven't seen any videos like this for quite a while. They don't make | them theatrical anymore :!( I'm sorry to be blunt but this is so far of

Re: InstallFest photos

2008-07-01 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 By default, Flickr presents photos with the last submitted ones first. So when I added the 6 they are the most recent submissions and display first on the http://www.flickr.com/groups/plug/ page. I submitted them under my "freedombytes" alter-ego. Fl

Re: List Use - Replying to Individual Email reappears in the PLUG List? Let's take OT private?

2008-06-28 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lisa Kachold wrote: | Hey! WTFrig? | | I am replying only to the poster, then double checking the mail sent | header to verify that the plug list address | ( is not included, only see my | reply going back to the list? gak, sputter, scratch head? | |

Re: InstallFest photos

2008-06-28 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Dayley wrote: | I stopped by the InstallFest today. Lisa and crew were doing a great job! | | I took a few photos and posted 6 to the Flickr group: | http://www.flickr.com/groups/plug/ | | Alan BTW, if anyone ever, EVER recognizes them self in

InstallFest photos

2008-06-28 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I stopped by the InstallFest today. Lisa and crew were doing a great job! I took a few photos and posted 6 to the Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/plug/ Alan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using Gn

Good FS/OSS CMS to use on IIS?

2008-06-27 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I volunteer as a webmaster for a high school marching band. We have been using Joomla! for several years now. I need to upgrade the site to the new Joomla! 1.5 or to something else in the next few weeks. The issue I need to tackle is that our donor

Re: Help Needed: InstallFest this Saturday

2008-06-26 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Go, Lisa, go! And THANK YOU! Alan Lisa Kachold wrote: | I am on it. | | Please call me as you indicated in your other email. | 503-754-4472 | I will be at UAT at 9:45 AM on Saturday! | | On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:21 PM, der.hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Brief Eee PC praise

2008-06-23 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am, at this moment, using an Eee PC 701 with 512MB RAM, 4GB main drive and 8GB SDHC card. With it I am simultaneously running: - - Thunderbird - - Firefox - - Xandros File Manager - - Pidgin (logged into IRC, GTalk and YahooIM) - - Skype (no active

Re: WHy is the archive not updating?

2008-06-22 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike, I am confused by your statement that the archive is not updating. It updates in "near" real time. For example, this email to which I am replying is already in the archive: http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20080623.012013.83e819d

CopyAgent defunct ??

2008-06-22 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My communication workhorse Eee PC is doing fine. I have been leaving it up most of the weekend since Friday. It is now reporting something funny in the process list that Google searches are not shedding light on. I'm getting spawns of "CopyAgent" bu

Re: Cox Internet connectivity..

2008-05-31 Thread Alan Dayley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://support.cox.com/sdcxuser/asp/cox_networkstatus.asp Yes, I am having issues. Not much with web browsing but outgoing email can't reach the server. I don't even know if this email will make it. :^) Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I just sign

Re: Microsoft joins OLPC

2008-05-17 Thread Alan Dayley
Rhune Lord wrote: http://www.redherring.com/Home/24265 Quick read & a little OT but any thoughts? I don't see this as OT. Negroponte and OLPC was the first major force to overcome the "chicken and egg" problem with widespread Linux adoption. This problem is that few mainstream manufacture

Re: list quiet?

2008-04-30 Thread Alan Dayley
Technomage Hawke wrote: um, is it me or did the list fall off the net again? Maybe it's fallen an can't get up! No, it's just a lull that comes around once in a while. We have now ended it. Good going! ;^) Alan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Proprietary elegance good enough? (Was: Re: OT: notebook shopping)

2008-04-24 Thread Alan Dayley
Donn wrote: Thank you Austin. That was part of my point. OS X has ONE Price and One version. It also has none of the typical Windows issues with Registry hell, reboot after sneezing hard, corruption of basic services by applications (at least typically), etc. As far as 'Free' or Open Source

[Fwd: The secret of PHP on BusyBox http server?]

2008-04-24 Thread Alan Dayley
ttp server? Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:59:40 -0700 From: Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: List for Linux development and software engineering discussions. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Working with an ARM processor, I have a pre-existing PHP application that I want to run. The root file system

Re: test-please ignore

2008-03-17 Thread Alan Dayley
Robert Holtzman wrote: test Robert, Four email tests in two days is quite a few. Are the tests working? Do you need some help with something? Alan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-di

Confrontation and bickering (Was: Re: chix finder)

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Dayley
Kevin Brown wrote: what part of this do you not understand? I'm sorry to say this, but the rising confrontational attitudes of a number of posters to this group is making reading this list no longer an enjoyable thing for me. I've been on this list for 13 years and it has never been as bad

Re: Wikipedia objections (Was: Re: zImage compressed with what?)

2008-02-15 Thread Alan Dayley
Alan Dayley wrote: > > I have not contributed substantial information to Wikipedia, though I > have made some corrections and small additions here and there. I also --[clip]-- > the bad of Wikipedia all rolled up. > > And all of that came out of my understanding of what I s

Re: Wikipedia objections (Was: Re: zImage compressed with what?)

2008-02-15 Thread Alan Dayley
Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > Alan, > > just curious, are you speaking from experience as someone who has > actually tried to add substantial information to Wikipedia, or are you > just enumerating the values of the Wikipedia community? I have not contributed substantial information to Wikiped

Re: Wikipedia objections (Was: Re: zImage compressed with what?)

2008-02-15 Thread Alan Dayley
Errors and omissions corrected below. Too many children, nieces and a nephew running around here. And I'm tired. Alan Alan Dayley wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:40 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: >>> Thank you all. I should have thought of wik

Wikipedia objections (Was: Re: zImage compressed with what?)

2008-02-15 Thread Alan Dayley
Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:40 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: >> Thank you all. I should have thought of wikipedia! > > Just wondering...I occasionally run into people that dismiss wikipedia > out of hand citing a lack of accuracy. Needless to say, I get

Re: zImage compressed with what?

2008-02-15 Thread Alan Dayley
Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Matt Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> zImage became obsolete in the 2.4 series. Now you always get a bzImage, >> which is not bzip2, but "big zImage". If I'm not totally on crack, the > > Ah yes, thanks for the clarification

zImage compressed with what?

2008-02-15 Thread Alan Dayley
The Linux kernel is compressed and placed in a "zImage" file. What is the compression format of that file. I've never had to look into it before but I am now. I figure one of you may already know. Alan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -

Re: Local brick and mortar Eee PC vendor?

2008-02-15 Thread Alan Dayley
Thanks, Donn. I just called them. They have them in stock. Now for those that don't mind paying sales tax, I know where to send them for instant gratification. Alan Donn wrote: > PC Club. > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[E

Local brick and mortar Eee PC vendor?

2008-02-15 Thread Alan Dayley
Does anyone know of a local store that has the Asus Eee PC available for purchase? It's all over the place online but some people like to just go pick one up. Alan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: IRC client

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Dayley
Shawn Badger wrote: > I ma finally getting around to plying with IRC. Can anyone suggest a > good IRC client? xchat - I used this one for some time. It works well. epic - This is a text only client for use in a terminal. Only such one I have used. It works. Konversation - A very nice, easy to

New Linux user training?

2008-02-13 Thread Alan Dayley
My father (actively retired and now at 70+ years old) has recently purchased a new Eee PC. He really likes it! He surprised me and did NOT order Windows XP to go with it. I have been helping him with a few things. It has been an interesting experience. One evening we were confirming that his 8

Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list [ linux related to phpBB2 ]

2008-02-13 Thread Alan Dayley
Technomage-hawke wrote: > has anyone ever looked at the idea of converting to a phpBB style forums here? > it would have all the news, ontopic and offtopic ares segregated. and if one > wants to follow a specific forum, they can have the setting made for them to > be e-mailed of new changes to th

Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list

2008-02-13 Thread Alan Dayley
Alan Dayley wrote: > First, please do not take this as a rebuke of anyone. I follow and even > contribute to may of the off topic discussions in the list. I just > think we should give them their own home. > > Second, I think the social "non-Linux" aspects of the group

Re: TurboTax in Wine

2008-02-11 Thread Alan Dayley
Interesting that they have broadened their browser support. Does it work for Firefox running on Linux? In 2005 we ran into Turbotax suddenly failing to support, even not allowing, a browser other than IE or Netscape on Windows. (My own request for alternatives is in the archive here: http://list

Re: A wee bit OT: Yahoo! Rejecting Microsoft's Takeover Bid??? Whaaa?!

2008-02-09 Thread Alan Dayley
Craig White wrote: > OpenId - seems a bit self serving...a perfect adjunct to Microsoft > Passport ;-) OpenId is starting to catch on, finally. It is what Passport wanted to be. But, I really don't know very much about it beyond how great it's supposed to be and the all the problems it's suppose

Re: A wee bit OT: Yahoo! Rejecting Microsoft's Takeover Bid??? Whaaa?!

2008-02-09 Thread Alan Dayley
Alan Dayley wrote: > Craig White wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 20:31 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: >> >>> Yahoo supports and uses FS/OSS extensively. It would have an impact on >>> the FS/OSS community as a whole if MS were to get control of all that. >> -

Re: A wee bit OT: Yahoo! Rejecting Microsoft's Takeover Bid??? Whaaa?!

2008-02-09 Thread Alan Dayley
Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 20:31 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: > >> Yahoo supports and uses FS/OSS extensively. It would have an impact on >> the FS/OSS community as a whole if MS were to get control of all that. > > I know of their contributions to j

Re: A wee bit OT: Yahoo! Rejecting Microsoft's Takeover Bid??? Whaaa?!

2008-02-09 Thread Alan Dayley
Tuna wrote: >> You missed the thread, Tuna. Try this: >> >> http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/thread/20080201.200916.3d330a1f.en.html#20080201.200916.3d330a1f > > That thread doesn't say anything about Yahoo! pulling out from the merger. True. However, the reasons why many of us would feel

Re: A wee bit OT: Yahoo! Rejecting Microsoft's Takeover Bid??? Whaaa?!

2008-02-09 Thread Alan Dayley
Tuna wrote: > http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/232310750/article.pl > > So... what does this mean for us? When I heard about MS wanting to buy > Yahoo!, I thought that the whole thing would just crash and burn. I > mean, Yahoo! is a crappy site anyway, and if Microsoft were to 'en

Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Dayley
Darrin Chandler wrote: > and friendly place. Enough so that I'm unsubscribing later today (I'd do With both you and Jeremy leaving, who will be the *BSD voice around here? Thank you, Darrin, for your contributions. Alan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ---

Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Dayley
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I am also unsubscribing. Goodbye ... Ugh! This is not good. Thanks for the time and contributions, Jeremy. Alan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plu

Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Dayley
Craig White wrote: > list nazi's are the single most destructive force to a mail list > > The moment you create another list and then decide that discussion A > doesn't belong on this list and it must be moved to another list is the > day the list nazi's take over. A risk, for sure. > You are sa

Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Dayley
Craig White wrote: > enforcement is an ugly thing which creates ill feelings and I think you > are assuming the good without actually recognizing the bad that will > come from it. > > The issue of OT is more from the lack of traffic of other things and > that's not really an issue...this isn't a h

Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Dayley
Judd Pickell wrote: > Seems a great idea, but how can you be sure that reg posters or even > new posters who don't know any better won't OT post anyways? There is no surety. In fact, off topic posts will continue. But, with a place to send them, we can more strongly enforce the topic here. (See

Re: Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Dayley
Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 09:59 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: >> I propose that we create another email list. It would be called >> "plug-offtopic" and would be the place for everything not Linux/FS/OSS >> related. Things in the news, politics not d

Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Dayley
First, please do not take this as a rebuke of anyone. I follow and even contribute to may of the off topic discussions in the list. I just think we should give them their own home. Second, I think the social "non-Linux" aspects of the group are important. I know I learn to respect other PLUGger

Re: [Fwd: Ann: PLUG Devel Meeting, Thursday, February 7th]

2008-02-06 Thread Alan Dayley
Alan Dayley wrote: > (Map: > http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4415+E.+Cotton+Center+Blvd.+Phoenix+AZ+85040&ie=UTF8&ll=33.402803,-111.986496&spn=0.008473,0.015535&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1) > > The building in question is actually south east of the green

[Fwd: Ann: PLUG Devel Meeting, Thursday, February 7th]

2008-02-06 Thread Alan Dayley
From the plug-devel email list: Original Message Subject: Ann: PLUG Devel Meeting, Thursday, February 7th Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:32:17 -0700 From: Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: List for Linux development and software engineering discussions. <[EMAIL

Re: instant messenger

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Dayley
n Wednesday 06 February 2008 5:07 am, Alan Dayley wrote: >> Don't do anything to your firewall. Jon is right, you don't need to do >> that for instant messengers. Are you having problems? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: instant messenger

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Dayley
Jon M. Hanson wrote: > Michael Havens wrote: >> How do I get YAHOO! (and others) to work through a router... I looked >> through all the settings and that didn't tell me a thing. >> > You shouldn't have to do anything as far as settings on the router go. Don't do anything to your firewall. Jon

Re: OT: need a flash resource

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Dayley
Josh Coffman wrote: > I don't know if I've posted this here before, but I need a flash > resource. I'm advising someone on an idea and we need some expert > advise on possible flash related solutions. > > Please send me any references you'd recommend. looking for someone to > offer suggestions and

Re: Cut Cables

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Dayley
Joshua Zeidner wrote: > > Alan, > > unfortunately, not too many 'tech guys' understand the Media biz > all too well. I'll try to put this into concise terms here: > > consolidation = 'information richness'--. > > in other words, if media is owned by few- then obviously the > over

Re: Cut Cables

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Dayley
Joshua Zeidner wrote: > On 2/5/08, Charles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Personally I find it interesting that Britney Spears doctor visits make >> headline news, but not a peep from "the media" about the apparent >> deliberate cutoff of entire countries communications. > > > yes, that's

Re: Implications Of Yahoo-MSFT merger

2008-02-01 Thread Alan Dayley
Joshua Zeidner wrote: > Without a doubt- the Linux world just made a major shift towards all > things Google. I would be interested to know if Yahoo is moving to > .NET. > > Any other prognostications out there? I really enjoy my Flickr account. I just got my family and friends used to going

Re: Need to do some Video Editing

2008-01-27 Thread Alan Dayley
Richard Wilson wrote: > I am hoping someone in this list can steer me to the right packages... > My wife recently led a Women's Retreat which was captured to mini-DVD's > on a Sony HandyCam which saves things in MPEG format. > > I need to pull in the video files and edit out "empty space" and > (h

Re: Need to do some Video Editing

2008-01-26 Thread Alan Dayley
Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > > Newer versions of kino should import your video in non-raw formats -- > but it will take a while to import. If not, you can always use ffmpeg > or mencoder before-hand... > > $ ffmpeg -i foo.mpg foo.raw You are very correct, Kristian. My wife and I have done

Re: Need to do some Video Editing

2008-01-26 Thread Alan Dayley
Richard Wilson wrote: > I am hoping someone in this list can steer me to the right packages... > My wife recently led a Women's Retreat which was captured to mini-DVD's > on a Sony HandyCam which saves things in MPEG format. > > I need to pull in the video files and edit out "empty space" and > (h

OT: Laptop power connector servicing?

2008-01-19 Thread Alan Dayley
I have a friend with a loose power connector on his laptop. I probably just needs to be opened up and soldered back in place. The places he has contacted about doing this simply offer to replace the motherboard without even looking if that is needed. Does anyone know of a computer service or ele

Re: I haven't figured out how scary this is...

2008-01-16 Thread Alan Dayley
Craig White wrote: > http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3193480.ece > > Lede... > "Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely > monitoring a worker’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence." Nice. That's certainly not the way to

Re: Laptop

2008-01-16 Thread Alan Dayley
Michael Havens wrote: > > I forgot to mention that I wish to be able to use the firewall remotely. > save files to it... etc. Don't use IPCop then. It is not designed for that use. Something like Clark Connect would be better for that. But... - There is a learning curve about ports a

Re: Laptop

2008-01-16 Thread Alan Dayley
Michael Havens wrote: > well. there are 2 things that it may be a: > Stelite M35X-S114 > or a > PA3416U-1MPC Heavens! You have a superb gift! Satellite M35X-S114 is the model number. - Intel Celeron® M Processor 350 [1.3GHz, 1MB L2 cache, 400MHz FSB] - Intel 855GME Chipset

Re: Laptop

2008-01-16 Thread Alan Dayley
Michael Havens wrote: > My dad got a new laptop (toshiba satelite)because his hd (?) died. BIOS loads > and then it says: > 'Load Error! > 'Press a key to reboot.' > The HD ia an HTS424040m9at00-(pm). That'd be a Hitachi IDE (parallel ATA) drive. (http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/suppor

Re: Last Day on the PLUG

2008-01-16 Thread Alan Dayley
Nathan Aubrey wrote: > Howdy Pluggers, > > After 15 years of linux, today is my last day. Though I plan to continue > linux > use on my personal laptop, my professional computer career is ending > tomorrow, but since I won't be at work, it really is today. I'm venturing off > to a new career!

OT: Embedded Software Engineer opening

2008-01-16 Thread Alan Dayley
Adtron is looking for an embedded software engineer. The position involves Linux and lots of other embedded tasks. All the details are at: http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?ipath=SJPAJD&job_did=J7X11R600XQCNTVWP0H Contact me off list if you have any questions. Alan

East Side Meeting photos up

2008-01-13 Thread Alan Dayley
I have posted my January, 2008 East Side Meeting photos to the Flickr group. http://www.flickr.com/groups/plug/ I encourage anyone that wishes to take photos too. I need not be the only one doing it. If you don't want to post to Flickr, just let us know where to go look. I'd love to see more p

Re: Source to purchase "old" RAM?

2008-01-12 Thread Alan Dayley
atest. How many sticks would you like? > > Michael > > Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have the need to upgrade the RAM in an older computer. It is an Intel >> Desktop Board D810EMO >> (http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d810emo)

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