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
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Re: Which linux distro

2012-05-18 Thread Nathan England
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Re: OT: Router Recommendations

2012-05-09 Thread Nathan England
/router combo unit. I've actually been very happy with my Linksys. Is Linksys/Cisco still a good brand? Does anyone have any recommendations or experiences they can share on brands and models? Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks, Peter -- Regards, Nathan England

kernel modules missing symbols and not loading

2012-05-01 Thread Nathan England
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 England

Re: merge documents with scp

2012-04-27 Thread Nathan England
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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

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 nat...@nmecs.com http://moneydance.com/ Is by far the best, though

Android Tablets

2012-03-30 Thread Nathan England
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 ~ NME Computer Services http

Re: hard disk failure

2012-02-17 Thread Nathan England
to 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
I don't get the harsh criticism of VirtualBox. I have not used vmware in a couple years. Last time I tried I could not get the drivers to compile against the kernel I was using, which was no doubt to new for vmware. Yet I've never had a problem compiling vbox drivers for any kernel. I use

Re: training

2011-12-19 Thread Nathan England
Michael, When I got started in computers in the early nineties, the majority of documents I found about learning to program recommended C or Python. One of my particular problems is, I'm not really good at playing around with something unless I have a real idea what I want in the end. So all

Re: phone security?

2011-12-01 Thread Nathan England
I would like to know, with this coming to light, can those of us with a phone that has the software installed legally break the contract with the company we are in? Granted, I rooted my Galaxy S and installed Cyanogenmod about 2 hours after I got the phone, I would break the contract and

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

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

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

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.

Re: IRC clients

2011-11-15 Thread Nathan England
On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 21:01:29 Daniel Stasinski wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: What do you like as an IRC client? And why? While I hate the name, I have used BitchX since I found it on slackware years and years ago. Most of the time, I

Re: Centurylink Modem

2011-11-15 Thread Nathan England
On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 17:13:27 Ariel Gold wrote: I'm moving and getting internet access through Century Link. This goog_462873096Actiontec GT724WGRhttp://www.amazon.com/Actiontec-GT724WGR-Universally-Compatible-Wir

Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-14 Thread Nathan England
, 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 England (nat...@paysonlinux.org) PlaxOS Gnu/Linux Development System http

Re: netmask in a script

2011-10-26 Thread Nathan England
On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 21:49:40 Dazed_75 wrote: I would like to apply a netmask to an arbitrary IP in a bash/dash script (e.g. apply 255.255.255.0 to 173.10.3.155 to get 173.10.3.0). Is there any easy way to do that without taking the IP apart, doing 4 operations and reassembling the

Virtualization

2011-10-24 Thread Nathan England
Hello Hello, I have been a longtime user of VirtualBox for windows virtualization in linux. I do not require a lot, I use it basically for testing web apps in IE. I don't do Netflix or the sort, but my new Galaxy S has Netflix on it, so I signed up for a free trial just to try it out on the

Re: OT; phone argument

2011-10-22 Thread Nathan England
This is, in my opinion, a really good response. I do not trust Google much, but I also look as them as a company that is going to use what they can of mine to make money. So in a sense I trust them because I know what they are going to do. I have an HTC Hero that I put Cyanogenmod on about two

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? Nathan

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.org Nathan

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 -

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
It's going to happen, and I expect sooner than later, that many web hosts are going to become irritated with Oracle and switch to something other than MySQL. Are any of you currently using MariaDB instead? How does it compare, how would you rate it, any gotchas? What are your thoughts? I

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

2011-09-06 Thread Nathan England
On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 06:46:00 PM kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: YOU ARE THE MAN!!! :) What tools do you require on it? I only need bash, I have compiled all the tools I need. But know that I think about it, I may kernel and glibc problems. I may have to do it myself at the

Filesystem performance problems

2011-08-21 Thread Nathan England
I have a hard drive that I use for storing and working with large tar archives, ranging from less than one MB to hundreds of MB and I have thousands of these archives. It is not convenient to format this drive and start over often, which I do about once every 6 months due to the problem I have. It

Re: Sound not working

2011-07-25 Thread Nathan England
-**discusshttp://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- 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

PowerPC Recommendations

2011-07-20 Thread Nathan England
? 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 we fail

Re: PowerPC Recommendations

2011-07-20 Thread Nathan England
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, Someone just gave me 4 G3/G4 iMac's with OS 9 on them. I am not sure of the specs yet, but I am interested

WAP Recommendations

2011-07-06 Thread Nathan England
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 and properly

Re: Help avoiding using terminal editors

2011-06-29 Thread Nathan England
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Re: Router Hacks

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

Re: DefCon for kids

2011-06-28 Thread Nathan England
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Router Hacks

2011-06-27 Thread Nathan England
I have an Actiontec PK5000 Qwest DSL modem that is no longer being used as a DSL modem. I would like to continue using it for a wireless access point as it has a detachable antenna and I can connect it to my 12 dbi antenna outside. I currently have a netgear WG602 which is a real piece and it is

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

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

Re: GCC search path

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

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
point and did not realize it. Thank you thank you! On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Ted Gould t...@gould.cx 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 directories within

Grayscale Xorg output

2011-05-25 Thread Nathan England
, but it 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

Re: Grayscale Xorg output

2011-05-25 Thread Nathan England
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 nat...@paysonlinux.orgwrote: Is it possible to have X output only a grayscale color palette? I was watching a show with a guy who is completely color blind

Linux From Scratch

2011-05-19 Thread Nathan England
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 Development

Re: iptables help

2011-04-29 Thread Nathan England
in, then all would stop. Oh well, it works now! Thanks again! On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: Hey Nathan, Howzit goin? Here's that love: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Nathan England nat...@paysonlinux.org wrote: I'm running a fedora 14 machine

iptables help

2011-04-28 Thread Nathan England
? -- 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 them

Re: Exploitation?

2011-04-27 Thread Nathan England
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Re: The devil you know

2011-03-24 Thread Nathan England
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Re: The devil you know

2011-03-24 Thread Nathan England
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Re: Chosing a programming language for today and the next 10 years

2011-03-23 Thread Nathan England
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Re: Getting a Linux admin job in Europe?

2011-03-19 Thread Nathan England
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Re: Bash question - redirect stderr to a variable

2011-03-15 Thread Nathan England
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Re: O.T. Cell Phone Contacts

2011-03-09 Thread Nathan England
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Re: O.T. Cell Phone Contacts

2011-03-08 Thread Nathan England
-- ~~ 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

PHP Problem

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan England
I have a serious problem. I cannot run _anything_ php... I have an LFS system I use for running various test php things. I have done a fresh install of php 5.3.5 and apache 2.2.17. I created an index.php with ?php phpinfo(); ? and it returns as expected, all looks good. However, when I run the

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 m...@bitflip.net wrote: On 02/28/2011 11:57 AM, Nathan England wrote: I have a serious problem. I cannot run

Re: OT: Learning to Spell (HIPPA)

2011-02-09 Thread Nathan England
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Re: OT: Learning to Spell (HIPPA)

2011-02-09 Thread Nathan England
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OSS Accounting Advice

2011-02-02 Thread Nathan England
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 nothing to hide

OT: Need Some Geekness

2011-01-30 Thread Nathan England
! -- ~~ 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 them

Re: OT: Need Some Geekness

2011-01-30 Thread Nathan England
/art/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 away from the az.usborder with .mx

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

OT: Net Nuetrality and the World Cup

2010-06-11 Thread Nathan England
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.

Re: Lenovo

2010-06-03 Thread Nathan England
I bought a T500 in February and I have to say this has been the greatest laptop I've ever used. No where near my first Thinkpad, but my first Lenovo. I also bought a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 netbook for my wife and put xbuntu on it and she loves it. Windows 7 never saw the light of day on either of

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 24,

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? nathan

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 nat...@paysonlinux.orgwrote: Hello Hello, I'm

Network Monitoring

2010-04-14 Thread Nathan England
Hello Hello, I'm looking for a program or something that can monitor my network as a whole and tell me which machines are consuming all my bandwidth. Something that I could install on a linux box, plug it into the network and stick it in a corner and check it a week later would be ideal. All the

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

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 -

Re: Ubuntu wireless device?

2010-03-24 Thread Nathan England
Just about any wireless usb device from Fry's electronics should work. I use several ubuntu boxes and all kinds of wireless devices work. Belkin 802.11g 54 Mbps Belkin Wireless G USB Network Adapter - Walmart, Works awesome! I have not seen a USB device that will not work out of hte box, or

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

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

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 gm5...@gmail.com wrote: I just put

SSD vs. HDD Performance

2010-03-07 Thread Nathan England
I have read a dozen sites discussing various benchmarkings between myriad setup of SSD's vs. HDD's. I have not seen any code monkey reviews. Has any one purchased one of these for use in compiling code, or maybe you're a gentoo fan??? I compile a ton of stuff everyday and I'm curious if it is

Re: SSD vs. HDD Performance

2010-03-07 Thread Nathan England
.htm I find Raid 0 gained me more performance with less money (or raid 10 if you want the redundancy) over a single drive. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Nathan England nat...@paysonlinux.org wrote: I have read a dozen sites discussing various benchmarkings between myriad setup of SSD's

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 cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: The horizontal space is not 780 lines but 768 On 2/26/10, Nathan England nat

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

Re: Help for my mom part 2

2010-02-23 Thread Nathan England
OpenSUSE Live discs can be dd'd to a USB flash drive. dd if=/path/to/opensuse-KDE-live-blah.iso of=/dev/usbdevice bs=4MB And it works very well and is very fast. I use it quite a bit for various tasks. I wish it had a persistent feature to it so I could save things. It is possible you can do the

Re: Site whoring...

2010-02-16 Thread Nathan England
I used to code entirely in Quanta, and always loved it. When they switched to KDE 4, I have since used regular kwrite and kate for all my coding as Quanta has been too unstable. I will have to look at it again. Lately, as in the last 3 months, I have been using the latest kdevelop and absolutely

Laptop Purchase

2010-02-01 Thread Nathan England
I am going to purchase a laptop in the next week. I have been reviewing all that I could and I have come down to a Thinkpad T500 or a Thinkpad T510. The way I have them configured they run only about 5 bucks difference. I like the higher resolution of the T500, but I'm willing to sacrifice a

Laptop Reviews

2010-01-26 Thread Nathan England
I am in the market for a new laptop. I am currently looking at the Dell Vostro 1720, it has the right specs and price for me, but I am curious if anyone has a laptop with the newish intel x4500MHD and if you could offer any opinions. I don't game much, warzone2100 is about it for me, and I

Kernel Versions

2010-01-18 Thread Nathan England
I recently hit the kernel.org website looking to see what the latest stable kernel version number is, and I noticed they have listed 5 stable kernels 1. 2.6.32.3 2. 2.6.31.11 3. 2.6.30.10 4. 2.6.27.43 5. 2.4.37.7 While I realize the 2.4 series have long been seen as the stable legacy of

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/faster way

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

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 for

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

laptop battery capacity

2009-10-22 Thread Nathan England
I realize batteries lose capacity over time, but this seems rediculous to me as I have never had a laptop battery go as fast as the current one. I have only owned Dell laptops in the past and the batteries have lasted plenty long, but this HP is killing me! Just over a year old and the battery

Re: ot - social security number being used fraudulantly

2009-10-22 Thread Nathan England
On Thursday 22 October 2009 13:28:39 Robert N. Eaton wrote: mike havens wrote: I know nowhere else to turn. My social security number is being used fraudulantly (I got a call from a business because I put an alert on my credit report). I do not know what to do so I must ask you. What can I

Re: laptop battery capacity

2009-10-22 Thread Nathan England
For clarification: I think you also don't want the battery in if you only run the lap-top while the lap-top is plugged in. Isn't one of the deals with rechargeables that it only has a certain amount of charge time? Therefore, you don't always want to have it plugged in and charging.

processor benchmarks

2009-10-20 Thread Nathan England
I have an older Dell Latitude D600 with a Pentium M 1400 MHz processor. A couple years ago it suffered a BIOS melt down and while the system still works, the battery will not charge, nor be recognized and the system does not seem to want to run at full speed. Right now, cat /proc/cpu show the

Re: Quick question on IDE raid setups...

2009-10-19 Thread Nathan England
missing and added later. Good luck! -- Nathan England Information Security Consultant http://www.paysonlinux.org/ Software Development Web Development Hardware Integration --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-19 Thread Nathan England
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 Development Web Development Hardware Integration

Re: digital sticky notes for Linux?

2009-10-05 Thread Nathan England
On Monday 05 October 2009 14:25:11 Josef Lowder wrote: Is there a digital sticky notes utility for Linux? Ideally, it should allow quickly typing a short note on the command line to be displayed as a *very small* note (about 2 wide by 1 tall) in a pre-defined spot on one of the multiple

Linux Flyers

2009-09-28 Thread Nathan England
hello hello, In the spirit of unix, and not re-creating the wheel, I'm looking for flyers anyone has created to advertise a group meeting of some type for linux. I would like to hack it up to fit my needs to try to get a group together down here in Douglas. If anyone has already created some

Bootable flash drive

2009-09-22 Thread Nathan England
I am trying to make a bootable USB flash drive. This is just a regular 2 GB PNY flash device from walmart for 12 bucks. Nothing special. I have read a dozen sites how to make this work, and they all focus on formatting the device with fat16. However, I have a PC-BSD image that I dd'd onto it

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