OT: Microsoft website down?

2012-06-05 Thread Nathan England
I am a little intrigued to see what Visual Studio 2012 Web Developer edition has in store for us, but all day today www.microsoft.com has been down to me. No other sites seem to have this problem... Can anyone confirm this? -- Regards, Nathan England

Re: no support for picasa

2012-05-26 Thread Nathan England
st - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Regards, Nathan England ~~~~~ NME Computer Services http://www.nmecs.com Nathan Eng

Re: Which linux distro

2012-05-18 Thread Nathan England
Correct, easy to configure and quick to setup. It's just difficult to use!!! Nathan On Friday, May 18, 2012 20:41:10 Ralph Prowell wrote: > An easy distro for a first time Linux user would be Ubuntu. It is easy to > configure and quick to set up. > > Ralph > > Sent f

Re: OT: Router Recommendations

2012-05-09 Thread Nathan England
ed that I have heard great things about, but never used myself. I wouldn't own a router I couldn't install dd-wrt on. Nathan http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-Linksys-E2000-Advanced-Wireless-N- Router/dp/B003B20F54 On Tuesday, May 08, 2012 22:48:42 AZ Pete wrote: Hi All, My aging wire

kernel modules missing symbols and not loading

2012-05-01 Thread Nathan England
So what gives? I googled around but only found old documents talking about this, is there something new with 3.3.4? I have done this before with older kernels before the 3 series, but I have not attempted since 3.x has come out. I appreciate all your advice! -- Regards, Nathan

Re: merge documents with scp

2012-04-27 Thread Nathan England
-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -- Regards, Nathan England ~ NME C

Re: Accounting software.

2012-04-26 Thread Nathan England
I appreciate the info and the quick lesson. I found the program extremely unintuitive, but double-entry accounting completely escapes me! On Thursday, April 26, 2012 19:07:20 Matt Graham wrote: > From: Nathan England > > > http://moneydance.com/ > > Is by far the best, tho

Re: Accounting software.

2012-04-26 Thread Nathan England
Seriously? LibreOffice Calc. If linux had even a *semi* decent accounting program I believe a LOT more companies and individuals would be willing to use linux on the desktop. Unfortunately, they all suck. Badly. http://moneydance.com/ Is by far the best, though it is not free and better for

Android Tablets

2012-03-29 Thread Nathan England
laxy S both running Cyanogenmod, and I'd really like something that I can stick with Cyanogenmod, though the Fire is lacking in some areas, as far as I understand there is no audio support... Thoughts? -- Regards, Nathan England ~ N

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Nathan England
such a comment. In the future, please remember this is not the personal posting grounds of Michael Havens, but a public forum for the research, help and evangelism of open source technology. There are a whole slew of new .xxx domains where your comment would be more appropriate. Nathan England

Re: kompozer ustable

2012-02-05 Thread Nathan England
If you are really wanting to design sites from a linux desktop you need to either use Kdevelop (which I personally use and absolutely love!) or Komodo Edit which really rocks as well. Forget Kompozer. Nathan On Sunday, February 05, 2012 12:57:07 PM Michael Havens wrote: 0.8b3 It's

Re: oracle virtual machine

2012-01-31 Thread Nathan England
. VirtualBox accelerated drivers work great with my Intel graphics chipset. How does vmware compare? Nathan On Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:26:02 PM Jim March wrote: The only good reason to use VirtualBox (the Oracle VM manager they got from Sun) is that it works on CPUs that lack "hardwar

Re: training

2011-12-19 Thread Nathan England
k.org or numerous other places and download the source for it and start playing with it. Weather apps abound in droves, but the reason is because Python is incredibly powerful and very easy to learn with a quick return on investment time as you'll be able to make usable things quickly. Just my .

Re: phone security?

2011-12-01 Thread Nathan England
ntract and switch from my carrier just on principal. Any word about this? nathan On Thursday, December 01, 2011 17:56:42 Jim March wrote: > Once it's auto-updated itself to Android 2.3, the G2 is a stone-cold > bitch to root. There's a full firmware update involved that does it'

Re: OpenSUSE 12.1

2011-11-23 Thread Nathan England
I cannot even bring up the download page. Seems like software.opensuse.org has been down all morning... On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 12:14:59 Stephen wrote: > Anyone have a chance to kick the tires on this one? any thoughts? --- PLUG-discuss mail

Re: Linux Games

2011-11-22 Thread Nathan England
On Tuesday, November 22, 2011 19:35:11 you wrote: > let's start a list of Games that work with Linux. I don't mean minesweeper > and simple games like that but rather complex games that 20 something kids > like. > A list with links and descriptions on the plug site would be pretty cool. -

Linux Games

2011-11-22 Thread Nathan England
I have been searching for a good role playing game that is linux based, no wine, that is playable. I would very much like to find a fun RPG that is not based on demons or monsters of some kind, but so far that has been impossible. The Humble Bundles so far have had some really fun games that wo

Re: games

2011-11-22 Thread Nathan England
On Tuesday, November 22, 2011 17:10:16 Derek Trotter wrote: > All I know about that game is that it must be very addictive. I used to > know a guy in Phoenix was was unemployed yet would still pay money to > play it online. Go figure. > www.hulu.com has a great documentary on WOW. I had no clue

Re: Centurylink Modem

2011-11-15 Thread Nathan England
d recommend anything else anyway. I have never liked ActionTec stuff. Purely bias'ed and for no good reason. I just don't like actiontec. Nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, o

Re: IRC clients

2011-11-15 Thread Nathan England
ndChat on my Android. Nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-14 Thread Nathan England
t to something other than unity. I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I really think Unity is a mistake. Granted, I feel the same way about GNOME 3. Both of which I hope they straighten out and get things working the way people want them to and quickly. Nathan -- Nathan Eng

Re: netmask in a script

2011-10-26 Thread Nathan England
reassembling the results? does executing ifconfig DEVICE_NAME 173.10.3.155 netmask 255.255.255.0 give you the desired results? Nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to chan

Virtualization

2011-10-23 Thread Nathan England
Netflix in. My laptop has a 40GB SSD so I am willing to give up a few gigs to a windows install inside a vm, which I need for testing anyway, but I'm not about to dual-boot. I appreciate your feed back. Nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing

Re: OT; phone argument

2011-10-22 Thread Nathan England
structure knows how" mode and begin selling off personal data and suing everyone in sight. Granted they supposedly have 4 years worth of new products, I bet they put them all out in a year! Nathan On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 17:04 -0600, Kevin Fries wrote: > I may be a little gullible but I l

Linux kernel source

2011-10-07 Thread Nathan England
What used to be such a simple thing is no longer so simple! I am trying to locate linux-3.0.6.tar.bz2 but kernel.org is not working again, or still depending on how you look at it, and I cannot find it on Linus' github account. Any idea where I can download the latest 3.0 kernel? N

OT: Cell Phones without contract

2011-10-06 Thread Nathan England
I'm in the market for a new cell phone without a contract. I'm interested in a used device, particularly android. Anyone have a used Virgin Mobile or Boost android device you are looking to sell or trade? Please email me off-list: nat...@paysonlinux.o

Re:

2011-10-02 Thread Nathan England
> I find it more disappointing that the list server lets this sort of spam > onto the list. :( I find it the most disappointing that on this *linux* list people are still running windows!!! --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.p

Re:

2011-09-30 Thread Nathan England
I remember years ago, when virus problems was the bread and butter of small computer shops everywhere, many email type viruses would infect and steal an email address from your address book and then send out emails as if from that person. I would bet this email did not come from Lisa at all.

MySQL vs MariaDB

2011-09-26 Thread Nathan England
s? I personally don't have any interest in switching to PostGreSQL or anything else, but MariaDB is very interesting. I guess there are a couple of MySQL forks as well, and I'd like information about those also, but primarily MariaDB... Nathan -

Re: I need an off-the-shelf ssh-able live CD, do I need to create it?

2011-09-06 Thread Nathan England
I may have to do it myself at the end, laziness suck... > Can I have a copy of your iso anyway? > ET > I can add what ever you need, just let me know. I will upload the iso and you can download it. I will add gcc, make, kernel-source and upload it to my site

Re: I need an off-the-shelf ssh-able live CD, do I need to create it?

2011-09-05 Thread Nathan England
I have an iso I built for exactly this purpose. It pulls an ip via dhcp but has an auto started ssh daemon and a known user and password for logging in. I have limited tools on it, naturally as it is custom made for my needs. What tools do you require on it? Nathan On Monday, September 05

Filesystem performance problems

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan England
e? All my googling is only returning how to recover corrupt partitions and such, but my partitions are not corrupt, that I know of, just slow. Nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to c

Re: Sound not working

2011-07-25 Thread Nathan England
ibe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss<http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss> > -- Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am in

Re: PowerPC Recommendations

2011-07-20 Thread Nathan England
tell me what is happening. btw, orca and speech-dispatcher will work in > PPC versions, but it takes a little tweaking. > > let me know if you need some help. > > -Eric > 623-399-5635 > On Jul 20, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Nathan England wrote: > > > Hello Hello, > > >

PowerPC Recommendations

2011-07-20 Thread Nathan England
y thoughts? Nathan -- ~~~~~~~~ Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innocent and have nothing to hide, but NO agent of the state crosses my threshhold without a valid warrant signed by a judge and properly submitted. If

WAP Recommendations

2011-07-06 Thread Nathan England
re okay as well. Thanks for your thoughts. -- ~~~~~~~~ Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innocent and have nothing to hide, but NO agent of the state crosses my threshhold without a valid warrant signed by a judge an

Re: Help avoiding using terminal editors

2011-06-29 Thread Nathan England
eriods - for me a terminal editor I'm not > productive on. > > Thanks, > > Lee G. > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plu

Re: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread Nathan England
- > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > <http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > -- >

Re: Router Hacks

2011-06-28 Thread Nathan England
nyway. Thanks for your help and thoughts. On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > HI Nathan, > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Nathan England > wrote: > > I have an Actiontec PK5000 Qwest DSL modem that is no longer being used > as a > > DSL modem. I

Router Hacks

2011-06-27 Thread Nathan England
on its last leg. The netgear however is running dd-wrt. I would love to put dd-wrt or something similar on the actiontec, but I cannot find any custom hacks out for it. Are any of you doing anything special with one of these modems ?? Nathan --- PLUG

bash array question

2011-06-20 Thread Nathan England
I use a lot of arrays in bash, but I have never before needed to modify the contents of the array once I had created it, but now I need to. I followed the tutorial on this page: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/06/bash-array-tutorial/ and it gives an example of # $cat arra

Re: GCC search path

2011-06-15 Thread Nathan England
some point and did not realize it. Thank you thank you! On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Ted Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 13:07 -0700, Nathan England wrote: > > So my question is why isn't gcc finding the necessary .h files unless > > I tell it to include the di

Re: GCC search path

2011-06-15 Thread Nathan England
If I compile xf86-input-joystick-1.5.0 with ./configure --prefix=/usr it fails with multiple cannot find this or that... but if I compile it with CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/ -I/usr/include/xorg/ -I/usr/include/pixman-1/" ./configure --prefix=/usr then it works great. So my question is why isn't

Re: GCC search path

2011-06-15 Thread Nathan England
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Hi Nathan; > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Nathan England > wrote: > >> I am having a problem compiling X and some of the drivers. I get things >> such as: >> >> ../config.h:4:25: fatal error: x

GCC search path

2011-06-15 Thread Nathan England
I am having a problem compiling X and some of the drivers. I get things such as: ../config.h:4:25: fatal error: xorg-server.h: No such file or directory yet xorg-server.h is in /usr/include/xorg/xorg-server.h Why is gcc not searching directories inside my /usr/include directory? I have tried ed

Re: Grayscale Xorg output

2011-05-25 Thread Nathan England
tart using, compiz there is a color filter plugin that >> apparently lets you display in grayscale. The forum entry I saw gave no >> more detail than that. >> >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Nathan England >> wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to hav

Grayscale Xorg output

2011-05-25 Thread Nathan England
seemed like something X or an X driver might be able to do easily... Any thoughts? I'm using an Intel integrated graphics driver. i915. -- Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innocent and have nothing to hide

Linux From Scratch

2011-05-19 Thread Nathan England
your compiling pleasure! and of course the pdf of the book I used is up there too, along with MD5s of each file for verification. -- ~ NME Computer Services http://www.nmecs.com Nathan England (nat...@nmecs.com) Systems Administration / Web Application Develo

Re: iptables help

2011-04-29 Thread Nathan England
, then all would stop. Oh well, it works now! Thanks again! On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Hey Nathan, > > Howzit goin? > > Here's that "love": > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Nathan England > wrote: >> >> I'm

iptables help

2011-04-28 Thread Nathan England
chine? -- Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innocent and have nothing to hide, but NO agent of the state crosses my threshhold without a valid warrant signed by a judge and properly submitted. If we fail to exercise our rights, we lose

Re: Exploitation?

2011-04-27 Thread Nathan England
http://www.it-clowns.com > >>>>>> > >>>>>> "It took me many years but I have gained access to the root account > >>>>>> and > >>>>>> have removed the user God." -Saros > >>>>>> > &g

Re: The devil you know

2011-03-24 Thread Nathan England
--- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Nathan England I be

Re: The devil you know

2011-03-24 Thread Nathan England
guess it's not really KDE they messed up, but their system and package system is bullocks! I have been very happy with Fedora, once I figured out yum... kpackagekit is worthless. Nathan On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:17 PM, S Kreimeyer wrote: > You should make a Tiny Core Linux partition. It

Re: Chosing a programming language for today and the next 10 years

2011-03-23 Thread Nathan England
and KDE frameworks. Both or individually. They rock. Extremely powerful, and scale very well. Nathan On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > Lots here, Hopefully this will help. > > 1) Windows is a terrible bet. It's already having trouble in the market on >

Re: Getting a Linux admin job in Europe?

2011-03-19 Thread Nathan England
LUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change

Re: Bash question - redirect stderr to a variable

2011-03-14 Thread Nathan England
ok a few min and has deferent log levels, deferent log > files, tags, formatting, etc. Problem is what to do when information > is spawned to standard out instead of being stored in a var I can > manipulate latter. > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.u

Re: O.T. Cell Phone Contacts

2011-03-09 Thread Nathan England
G-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.pl

Re: O.T. Cell Phone Contacts

2011-03-08 Thread Nathan England
s.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- ~~ Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innoc

Re: PHP Problem

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan England
out. The action should not make a difference, I wouldn't think as I have used this type of generic form in dozens of places. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Jason Holtzapple wrote: > On 02/28/2011 11:57 AM, Nathan England wrote: > > I have a serious problem. I cannot run

PHP Problem

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan England
mind? Nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: OT: Learning to Spell (HIPPA)

2011-02-09 Thread Nathan England
lman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > >> > >> --- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoe

Re: OT: Learning to Spell (HIPPA)

2011-02-09 Thread Nathan England
em is right now, when you find violations and notify your boss about them, they will likely just pin it on you and fire you... ;-) HIPAA's intent is not to protect our privacy or us, but rather a government scale CYA operation... Nathan On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:54 PM, ChasM Marshall wrote

OSS Accounting Advice

2011-02-02 Thread Nathan England
for me. I plan to look into MoneyDance, it is pretty and my wife likes it, but I am not real familiar with it either. Advice? Thank you! -- ~~~~~~ Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innocent and have nothi

Re: OT: Need Some Geekness

2011-01-30 Thread Nathan England
Computer-hardware-poster-1-7-111402099) > is not only geek-art, but useful in a repair shop setting. > Most of it is CC-BY-SA-3.0, so you can print your own copy. > > Nathan England wrote: > > Hello Hello, > > > > I am re-entering the world of the living! I am moving awa

OT: Need Some Geekness

2011-01-30 Thread Nathan England
to pay for them!!! Thanks all! -- ~~~~~~ Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innocent and have nothing to hide, but NO agent of the state crosses my threshhold without a valid warrant signed by a judge and properly submitted. If we fail to exe

Attend Linux Day, Win a Kindle! (Sept 16)

2010-08-25 Thread Nathan Conger
PLUG friends :) You're invited to attend Linux Day Phoenix! Sponsored by Novell and IBM. The event takes place on September 16 at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown. This is an interactive session and a good opportunity to network with fellow Linux geeks and peers from organizations in the local area.

Re: OT: Net Nuetrality and the World Cup

2010-06-13 Thread Nathan England
When I view it it shows Powered by Cox, but when I try to view any video it tells me it does not recognize my network. It is only because I am down here at the bottom of the earth... or so if feels sometimes! I select Cox from a list and then log in and I can view what videos they have, though many

OT: Net Nuetrality and the World Cup

2010-06-11 Thread Nathan England
untry can access our american companies (espn) and access the game coverage? This should be illegal! Yet I am the one who would get in trouble if they found I was going through a proxy... Nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.p

Re: Lenovo

2010-06-03 Thread Nathan England
er of these pcs and everything has worked right out of the box without any complaints. Nathan On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Jason Hayes wrote: > Just got an email from Lenovo - they're having a Father's Day sale right > now. > The ad says "up to $510 off" their 15&q

Re: OT: ending unwanted threads

2010-05-25 Thread Nathan England
actually, to be more accurate for this list, OT should designate something that actually has to do with FOSS. ha ha! On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Bryan O'Neal < bryan.on...@theonealandassociates.com> wrote: > Can we please just start using the OT: header in the subject line? > > On Mon, May 2

sreadahead and kernel tracers

2010-05-11 Thread Nathan England
I am looking into this again, yet I cannot find anything new. Any one familiar with this on a newer kernel? I'm running 2.6.32.12 and the patch that comes with sreadahead-1.0 will not patch correctly. Regardless, I cannot find any recent info on this. Is it dead? n

Re: Network Monitoring

2010-04-15 Thread Nathan England
machines spread across 4 locations on 6 T1's and 2 128K ISDN lines. At certain times through the day our network as a whole will get sluggish and I'm trying to figure out why. It is not internet traffic. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Nathan England wrote: > Hello Hello, > > I'

Network Monitoring

2010-04-14 Thread Nathan England
l the tools I've tried only tell me what the machine itself is consuming, not other things on the network. Any recommendations out there? Nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or

Re: which t-mobile android phone?

2010-04-03 Thread Nathan England
ne thing and disable another... So I'll simply wait for the official release. What I would like to see is HTC release a stock Android for people using the HTC phone that don't care for the sense interface! Sense is nice, but not worth being this far behind for! Nathan On Thu, Apr 1, 2010

x86 vs. x86_64

2010-03-25 Thread Nathan England
Before I spend any time downloading and trying it myself, has any one taken the time to compare performance differences in every day usage between ubuntu x86 and the 64 bit version? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Corporate Internal Newsletters

2010-03-25 Thread Nathan England
I am in need of a new system for making internal news letters. Currently, we use publisher and some pre-made layouts, but we want to move it to our internal website. The lady who actually creates the content for the newsletter would not care to handle the website in code. I'm looking for either som

Re: Ubuntu wireless device?

2010-03-24 Thread Nathan England
x, or without a quick reboot. Nathan On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:35 PM, mike Enriquez wrote: > Ok, I give up. I am getting ready to build a PC around ubuntu linux. I > have been testing wireless nic cards on my existing ubuntu computer and > nothing works. > I go to the Internet and th

Benchmark: Kernel Compilation Results

2010-03-18 Thread Nathan England
Compiling the linux kernel is a fairly good benchmark. Especially since a lot of my day is spent compiling code and programming. So I decided to compile a stock PaysonLinux kernel (2.6.32.9) in various systems and compare compiling time. Here are the results in each of my systems: Machine Numb

Re: which t-mobile android phone?

2010-03-17 Thread Nathan England
Hans, I have a Sprint HTC Hero and down here the 3G is something to be desired, but since almost everywhere I go has wifi, the lack of 3G has not been an issue. Last I was up in the phoenix area the phone absolutely rocked! The speed in everyday things was much faster, the 3G network loads website

Re: SSD's vs HDD Performance

2010-03-08 Thread Nathan England
And how would you rate the performance of this new system with the 32GB patriot, how much did you pay and where'd you get it? I'd like to put one in my lenovo netbook. And possibly my thinkpad... (if it ever gets here!) On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:31 PM, gm5729 wrote: > I just put together a new b

Re: SSD vs. HDD Performance

2010-03-07 Thread Nathan England
convinced that these drives fail so quickly. The first 5 or 6 generations did, but I believe the newer systems will last just as long as a HDD under all similar loads. I will have to look for that article again and post it. Nathan On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Stephen wrote: > I have d

SSD vs. HDD Performance

2010-03-07 Thread Nathan England
7;m curious if it is worth the money to try a SSD. I also have several large database systems I would like to migrate to a SSD, but I have not looked for reviews with databases yet. Nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoeni

Laptop Purchase

2010-03-03 Thread Nathan England
I ordered a Thinkpad T500 over a month ago and once again they have pushed up the shipping date and I'm seriously tired of waiting! Every store you go into nowadays has laptops with "high resolution" screens, which means 720p or 900p, which is NOT a high resolution. I want lots of screen space for

Re: OT: go-default screens.

2010-02-27 Thread Nathan England
-hidef resolution to a real tv with the proper resolution for widescreen that those lines would go away and it would fill my screen. Nathan On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Stephen wrote: > The horizontal space is not 780 lines but 768 > > > On 2/26/10, Nathan England wrote: > >

OT: go-default screens.

2010-02-26 Thread Nathan England
I recently bought a so called hi-def tv screen and despite its 1360,768 780p resolution my movies still have the black borders! What gives? I thought having a hi-def wide screen would fix the black borders issue. If I hook up a hdmi connection to a new dvd player, is it still going to have the anno

Re: Help for my mom part 2

2010-02-23 Thread Nathan England
o the same type of thing with a UNR disc. I put UNR on my wife's Lenovo netboot and she didn't care for it. I installed regular Kubuntu instead and she likes that much better. nathan On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Stephen wrote: > Net-books are notorious for not having optical

Re: Site whoring...

2010-02-16 Thread Nathan England
love it for php, I have to say it rocks! I can only imagine Quanta must be fairly stable now as well. Nathan On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Why Craig! > > I didn't know you had a sensual artistic side! > > I would enter, but, frankly, I don't im

Laptop Purchase

2010-02-01 Thread Nathan England
deas? What are you opinons if you have any experience with either of these machines or other i5 chipsets with the intel HD graphcis. nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change

Laptop Reviews

2010-01-26 Thread Nathan England
and I like some of the flashy stuff of KDE 4, but I don't really NEED the nvidia... So what do you think? Nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail sett

Kernel Versions

2010-01-18 Thread Nathan England
there are multiple stable branches, how do I know which to use? Does anyone know of a recent review on kernel versions? Nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mai

Re: Thu topics: new mobile devices

2010-01-11 Thread Nathan England
e house iwthout my laptop, but if I left my phone at home I could care less. Now with the Hero, I could care less if I have my laptop, but I gotta have my phone!!! nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: Is there a faster/better way to ftp?

2010-01-05 Thread Nathan England
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 14:36:06 Josef Lowder wrote: > . > I'm going through the painfully slow process of moving all of my web files > from one web host to another by command line 'ftp mget *" download > from the old system to 'ftp mput *" upload to the new web host. > > Is there a better/fast

composite to vga adapter or something else...?

2010-01-02 Thread Nathan England
I have a laptop, an LCD screen and a gamecube that only has composite output. I want to play my gamecube. Either on my laptop, or on the LCD screen. How do I make this work? I shouldn't need to say my laptop only runs linux and windows is not an option, but I say it anyway. I have tried a chea

Re: Cheap Linux compatible video cards

2009-11-08 Thread Nathan England
On Sunday 08 November 2009 15:42:39 Bob Elzer wrote: > I know four people who have had top of the line Nvidia cards and all have > been having trouble with them, mostly overheating. > > Three of them have already given up and switched to ATI, one of them > yesterday. he had a 260 and exchanged it

Android Phones

2009-11-02 Thread Nathan England
Hello Hello, Now that Android has been out for a while, anyone care to talk about their experiences with it? Is it a joke, great phone for an IT guy, better for a joe blow who will only talk and occasional text?? nathan -- ~ Nathan England Verizon (928) 951

Re: laptop battery capacity

2009-10-22 Thread Nathan England
you are recalibrating the monitor, but the batteries are not affected at all. The batteries just begin to lose their charge capacity. nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

Re: ot - social security number being used fraudulantly

2009-10-22 Thread Nathan England
nd they have a new ID theft system and it is pretty cheap. Their lawyers will do all the work and it costs you only a small fee each month. Seemed like a good deal. nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe,

laptop battery capacity

2009-10-22 Thread Nathan England
is less than half the capacity at full charge!!! Hardinfo says: 2592 mAh / 6000 mAh (43.20%) Yikes!!! Isn't there anything that can be done to force a fuller charge ? this sucks! nathan --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-di

processor benchmarks

2009-10-20 Thread Nathan England
running at as I highly doubt it. I would believe it is 600. In windows I had a small program that forced the processor to run at 1400 and there was an obvious speed difference. In linux, it makes no difference between 600 and 1400. Any thoughts? nathan

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-19 Thread Nathan England
ind his way home if standing in front of his house could still manage to install Ubuntu and be more secure than windows... ha ha! -- Nathan England Information Security Consultant http://www.paysonlinux.org/ Software Develop

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