Asterisk or other option?

2010-05-24 Thread Kevin Brown
I'm trying to spec out a PBX or similar system for a startup company. The requirements for such a system would be 10-15 phones (either analog or digital phones), 1 or 2 fax lines (obviously analog) and voicemail for same, as well as the recommended link to the outside world. Mostly I'm trying t

Re: Asterisk or other option?

2010-05-24 Thread Kevin Brown
my voip install but we had something like 40 phone and 50 users. For the smaller office (6 people) we used a hosted solution. Ah, I miss the days when I had an office ;) In any case it is a fun project so keep us informed as information rolls your way :) On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Ke

Re: Asterisk or other option?

2010-05-25 Thread Kevin Brown
Thanks for all the responses. They've helped me find the price range I was needing for the presentation and the names at a few companies that could help out should anything come of this. I'm sorry I was so vague, but, well, it's not like I really had a whole lot of information to go on, heheh.

Re: OT: Net Nuetrality and the World Cup

2010-06-12 Thread Kevin Brown
I have largely stayed out of the net neutrality debate as I don't really understand both sides. I do not have access to cable tv of any kind, but I have Cox for my internet access. When the Olympics were on I could not watch them online because I do not have a windows PC, so NBC was off limits. W

Re: pci_set_device_state error

2010-07-09 Thread Kevin Brown
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6077&view=previous on one machine I am seeing frequent (>1/sec) messages in syslog, messages and maybe other logs too. The device referred to is a Linksys PCI wireless card and a typical message is: kernel: [.nn] phy0 -> rt2500

Re: Perl subroutines

2010-07-10 Thread Kevin Brown
I'm not sure those are the only two ways to look at it. Lots of different data types can be passed to a subroutine and the way perl handles them does seem to work well for a number of projects that need a slightly less restricted method (e.g. BioPerl). Works really well when most of the variabl

Re: perl or sed s/// problem

2010-08-05 Thread Kevin Brown
line="passwordrequisite /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so newline="password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so I need to maintain whitespace perl -p -i -e s/"$line"/"$newline"/ file That tosses out all kinds of errors Modern regexp engines allow you to use an arbitrary char

Re: Stammtisch TONIGHT at NEW LOCATION

2010-09-21 Thread Kevin Brown
In the flyer it says Warner and Chandler. That is a true statement :), but I think you mean Warner and Ray. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1371N+South+Alma+School+Road,+Chandler,+AZ&sll=33.324432,-111.857686&sspn=0.022233,0.035148&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=1371+N+Alma+School+

Re: email via linux?

2011-03-16 Thread Kevin Brown
Most IRC servers support SSL now. Which doesn't stop the channel traffic from being logged. Just stops someone from getting it that isn't one of the clients or IRC servers for the network. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.

Re: How to build a compat package

2011-03-16 Thread Kevin Brown
On 3/16/2011 2:22 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: I need to build a compat package for a minor curl update so I can build something else. I have both source rpm packages but after looking at the spec files I started googleing and still do not know what I am doing. Help? rpmbuild --rebuild /path/to/pa

Re: How to build a compat package

2011-03-22 Thread Kevin Brown
grade... That does not seem correct. I am updating a package and I need a way for bins compiled against the prior version that are incomparable with the new version to work. On 3/16/11, Kevin Brown wrote: On 3/16/2011 2:22 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: I need to build a compat package for a

Re: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread Kevin Brown
Sounds like Cathy's daughter is the perfect person for DefCon according to Chris' "Why is DefCon like sudoku?" presentation earlier this month. http://mychildssuitcase.blogspot.com/2011/06/channelling-energy-of-geeky-techy-kids.html There is a good deal of material presented at DefCon that give

Re: GoDaddy sold

2011-07-04 Thread Kevin Brown
Re the economy: Likely it increases sales. People are looking to make money, start new businesses, expand the current business, etc. Plus people who get laid off have time. For $3/Mo. you can start a / put your business on online. Remember the last .com boom happened after the economic crash of th

Re: Apache Configuration

2011-07-06 Thread Kevin Brown
IIRC the default root location for documents is /var/www/html not /var/www. I have a test apache install with several Virtual hosts, I am trying to install myPhpAdmin in a directory off of /var/www but I can not get it to be recognized (404 error) the virtual host contents are in directories

Re: Apache Configuration

2011-07-06 Thread Kevin Brown
is a /var/www/html, but it is not used On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Kevin Brown mailto:kevin_br...@qwest.net>> wrote: IIRC the default root location for documents is /var/www/html not /var/www. I have a test apache install with several Virtual hosts, I am try

Re: Google Search Restriction

2011-07-19 Thread Kevin Brown
The only problem with google date searching is that it is based on the last modified time sent when its robot collects the page. In the case of things like forums or dynamic blogs those dates are always fairly recent depending on how the page was cached by the webserver. Aaah, is that new Jos

Re: PHP preg_match question

2011-07-20 Thread Kevin Brown
Another way would be if ($vaidateStr == preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9\-]/i", "", $vaidateStr)) { /true, or valid... } the "i" after the last / makes it case insensitive. So it should match upper and lower alpha characters. Ah yes, I also forgot the uppercase chars if ($vaidateStr ==

Video Editing

2012-01-16 Thread Kevin Brown
I've played around with VirtualDub, but I was wondering if others had recommendations for doing video editing in a Non-Linear setup? Something like Adobe After Effects. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscr

Re: Video Editing

2012-01-17 Thread Kevin Brown
On 1/16/2012 4:41 PM, der.hans wrote: Am 16. Jan, 2012 schwätzte Kevin Brown so: moin moin Kevin, I've played around with VirtualDub, but I was wondering if others had recommendations for doing video editing in a Non-Linear setup? Something like Adobe After Effects. Larry just

Request of a PLUG Artist

2007-06-16 Thread Kevin Brown
I have a small request of any artists on this list. I'm rebuilding the plug member map that used to be up on the old site. What I'd love is some possible icons to use for the PLUG meeting sites (something like the PLUG tux shrunk to icon size with a shadow image as well). I don't need one fo

Re: Request of a PLUG Artist

2007-06-16 Thread Kevin Brown
>> I have a small request of any artists on this list. I'm rebuilding >> the plug member map that used to be up on the old site. What I'd >> love is some possible icons to use for the PLUG meeting sites >> (something like the PLUG tux shrunk to icon size with a shadow >> image as well). I don'

Re: Request of a PLUG Artist

2007-06-16 Thread Kevin Brown
>> I have a small request of any artists on this list. I'm rebuilding >> the plug member map that used to be up on the old site. What I'd >> love is some possible icons to use for the PLUG meeting sites >> (something like the PLUG tux shrunk to icon size with a shadow image >> as well). I do

Temporary User map back online

2007-06-16 Thread Kevin Brown
Well, the map is back up and working on the PLUG site (http://www.plug.phoenix.az.us/membermap/). I'm sure there are some data points that are off now (meeting locations and such), so I guess those are the next things I need to bring up to date. I currently have about 65 users from PLUG on the

Re: Temporary User map back online

2007-06-18 Thread Kevin Brown
> Price Rd (Hwy 101) > > Add me please. This address is invalid as it lacks the crossing street to place it. Price is the 101. I need All of the following information: Cross streets (Street 1 & Street 2) City Zipcode --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: Request of a PLUG Artist

2007-06-20 Thread Kevin Brown
> i'm the one responsible for the PLUG TUX image and i think i can dig up the > original vector image. i'll get back to you this week sometime when i get > back in the office. > > i should be able to shrink the vector image to an icon size with no issues. Alan put up the EPS file and I used tha

Re: Temporary User map back online

2007-06-22 Thread Kevin Brown
>>> I'd have you add me, but it would put the mean out past apache junction. :) >> could be worse, I live in Tucson, I can only imagine what that would >> do to your mean.. ;) > Tuscon? Very little... maybe move it a mile or two southeast. I live in > Atlanta. Alex, If you are interested, I ca

Re: Temporary User map back online

2007-06-22 Thread Kevin Brown
>> If you are interested, I can add you to the map. I have full control of >> the scripts that generate the site map, so you won't move the mean if I >> don't want it shifted by your data point. > > "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are > almost always b

Re: Temporary User map back online

2007-06-22 Thread Kevin Brown
> Maybe it would make sense to compute, instead of a mean, some kind of > "weighted" location, (like they do when mixing "more than two" > navigational aid signals e.g.) (well, it is done for VOR and DME - I > am not sure about GPS...) where the weight given to each signal, is > inversely proporti

Re: Looking for System Engineers

2007-06-28 Thread Kevin Brown
>> My company is looking to hire several systems engineers. Attached is a >> copy of the job description. > [[attached "Global Support Engineer Job Description.doc" file]] > > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html We like the job opening ads, but word attachments take a lot of b

Re: 1776

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin Brown
> (my 0.02: this is an excellent selection, and some good > reading material for today's world... I was almost tempted > to "cross post" this to rec.arts.books on Usenet...) > In case anyone [has some "free" time today, and] > wants to read the whole essay, it is at: > http://www.gnu.org/phil

Re: 1776

2007-07-04 Thread Kevin Brown
>> Is there a reason your emails have half a dozen different font sizes in >> the text? > > > I don't see that? I see one size. Mike Schwartz... His come through in outrageously small print that gets bigger on each line. --- PLUG-discuss mailing

Re: OT: Interesting License Plate

2007-08-02 Thread Kevin Brown
Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote: > Today when I went to my lunchtime rotary meeting I saw an interesting > license plate which reminded me of an old conversation on this list about > Linux/Unix/Programming related license plates. > > I Volkswagen beetle pulled in front of me with a woman in it and

Re: Problem with PLUG Website

2007-08-03 Thread Kevin Brown
> For some reason I had to recreate my account, and now I can not for the > life of me figure out where to add announcements. the old site suffered a meltdown, so it is new hardware and a change in the CMS, hence the loss of your login. > I would like to put the listing for my Linux, Python etc

Re: Is this feasible?

2007-08-03 Thread Kevin Brown
> Before: http://www.upquick.com/temp/plug1 > After:http://www.upquick.com/temp/plug2 > > Does this alternate approach seem feasible and worth considering? The problem with stripping out the redundancy is the loss of who is replying to whom and under what context. Threads on message boa

Re: Stop feeding trolls (was something about a job, but it became a trollish flamefest)

2007-08-28 Thread Kevin Brown
+--+ |PLEASE| | DO NOT FEED | | THE TROLLS | |--The Mgt.| +--++--+ || o o o ||* ,,\|/,,,||,,,/,,, ---+-- --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us T

Re: [Cancelled Event] Installfest @ Sat Sep 29 10:00 - 16:00 (plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us)

2007-09-24 Thread Kevin Brown
> Aa... That sucks! That was decided a month ago since ASULUG had their installfest just this past weekend. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: htt

Re: Mac OS/X and Linux

2007-09-29 Thread Kevin Brown
> Thanks, Randy, this looks exactly like what I needed - > built into the OS and free! Well, not free. Part of the OS you paid for... --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your

Re: OT: How best to record "off-the-air" HD-TV?

2007-10-11 Thread Kevin Brown
http://www.pchdtv.com/ <-- linux compatible HD-tv tuner card. http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/pchdtv/ <-- using mythtv with that card --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to chang

Re: couldn't get connected.....

2007-10-22 Thread Kevin Brown
> I spent a lot of time last year dealing with this > issue and Cox. Then someone told me to follow this > sequence: > 1. Shutdown the computer. > 2. Power-cycle the modem. > 3. Start up the computer. > > Worked every time. I spent hours on the phone with > Cox and got nowhere other than "our

Re: Kernel memory

2007-11-13 Thread Kevin Brown
> It is 2.6 32bit, from what I understand the 64 bit kernel handles things > a lot different at this level though. No where near as bad as DOS. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6930 http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-slab-allocator/ http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Slab_Defrag

Re: linux linear programming model

2007-11-19 Thread Kevin Brown
> Sounds like a SQL problem. > Data -> database -> query -> answer :) It isn't because it is trying to solve a multivariate series of problems. X + 2Y - 3Z = 8 X*Y/Z = 12 Solve for X, Y and Z (which you can't in this case because there is one fewer equations than you have variables). SQL can't

Re: generating man pages

2007-11-28 Thread Kevin Brown
> does anyone on the list here happen to know what tool or tools are used to > generate man pages from sources (even to creating them from scratch if need > be)? http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/ups/ReferenceManual/html/manpages.html --- PLUG-disc

Re: power supply

2007-12-05 Thread Kevin Brown
> Consider yourself lucky. At my old house, there was something funky > with the power, because I went through about 8 power supplies, even good > expensive ones. At the end I was buying cheapo $29 cases from Frys just > to get the power supply out of them (and then recycled the case). > > My

Re: Extracting audio from a non-DRMed DVD

2007-12-09 Thread Kevin Brown
Steven wrote: > This seems like it ought to be easy, but the solution I've found so far > is not really optimal. Preferably using free software, I need to extract > just the audio from some interviews that have been saved on DVD, so it > can be either saved as an mp3 file or audio CD for transcr

Re: OT: iPhone for Christmas

2007-12-10 Thread Kevin Brown
> I just got a nice fat gift card from work at the apple store. Enough to > get an iPhone. > > But then I'd have to give money to AT&T. Think I'll buy something else. Or mod it to attach to a different network. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - P

Re: BOOK: Asterisk, The Future of Telephony

2007-12-17 Thread Kevin Brown
> well, if anyone still needs it, I am saving a local caopy that I can mail out > if needed I just got a copy off the site, so it is still up there. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or

Re: It's now illegal to turn on your computer

2007-12-30 Thread Kevin Brown
>>> cannot ignore the need for some level of province. Without fences, >>> there are no crops. >> Really? Most of the farms I know of don't have fences. They seem to pull >> in lots of crops. > > Really? I think I'll just go over there and get me some. Who says > whats wild and what is the fa

Re: Microsoft Autopilot

2008-01-06 Thread Kevin Brown
> No offense, but would you please include something more than just a link so that list users have some idea of what it is they are going to see when they follow the link... --- PLUG-discuss mailing

Re: Anyone know of someone getting rid of servers

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin Brown
gm5729 wrote: > Does anyone know of someone getting rid of servers .. corporate, > school, etc.. ? My dad has a server he picked up 2nd hand some time > ago and it is giving up the ghost. I think he said it is over 10 yrs > old now. He runs 2003 server on it. > > When I was in MI I could go down

Re: Daily Bandwidth cycles

2008-01-19 Thread Kevin Brown
> There are ways around this...entirely legal and technically within the > letter of your EULA, but Cox would probably be upset if they figure it > out. > > Step1 - Capture one of the "optimal" configurations pushed by Cox via TFTP > Step2 - www.tcniso.net > Step3 - Monitor your modem. Whenever Co

Re: Semi OT: MySQL memory probs...

2008-01-28 Thread Kevin Brown
> We've got an environment with ALL innodb tables and been forced to use > OS X servers. They are total memory and CPU hogs. Just hoping there > were some people that had some insight into OS X server, why it abuses > virtual memory and how best to deploy mysql on it. > > Me thinks that the MySQL

Re: Semi-OT: Referral for Linux-friendly accountant

2008-01-29 Thread Kevin Brown
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=quicken&mode=all a couple of perl modules that can deal with QIF and IIF. Just a note, QuickBooks (as opposed to Quicken) doesn't have categories. What you think is a category is actually another account. GNUCash does the same thing and is part of doing do

Re: How To Measure Linux Proficiency?

2008-02-01 Thread Kevin Brown
> the point (though vague) is this: does it really prove anything if you are > degreed or not? I have found, in my travels, that a lot of college degreed > people haven't the first damned clue about things out here in the real world > (Like a guy I know in Kansas with a Comp-sci degree and hasn'

Re: IP Address Question

2008-02-11 Thread Kevin Brown
Dazed_75 wrote: > I was working on a friend's systems today and saw something I did not > understand. Yes, they were windows boxes, but my question is purely a > networking question. Basically he has a desktop machine with a wired > connection to a wireless AP/router (Airport brand I think) and a

Re: ot: Fourth Amendment... gone forever?

2008-02-12 Thread Kevin Brown
> http://isen.com/blog/2008/02/fisa-update-senate-fails-to-remove.html Unless the Constitution is amended then things like this can still be challenged in the courts. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe

Re: chix finder

2008-02-25 Thread Kevin Brown
>> It's my personal analysis based on examining the issues for many >> individual cases, reading various sources on the issues, etc... I >> suspect your own position is similarly developed. > > what part of this do you not understand? I'm sorry to say this, but the rising confrontational attitud