Re: OT: Alternate Work for Linux Admins

2011-04-15 Thread S Kreimeyer
Sounds legit to me! On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 17:35 -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Found the following on PHX CL: > > http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/tfr/2327662880.html > > -- > (503) 754-4452 iPhone > (623) 239-3392 Skype > (623) 688-3392 Google Voice > > http://www.it-clowns.com > > "It took

Re: Georgian woman cuts off web access to all of Armenia

2011-04-06 Thread S Kreimeyer
I met one of the civil engineers whom helped build Denver international airport. He said that they had to work around a fiber optic cable, and that if it were severed the damages were estimated somewhere around $3M/sec. I don't think there's much appreciation for how vulnerable net infrastructure i

Re: Whenever I try to open a text document it opens it as a spread sheet.

2011-03-27 Thread S Kreimeyer
Mike, In Ubuntu if you right-click the document, select "open with Other Application," select the document viewer and check the "remember this application for '' files," then you should default to that program when opening documents of a similar type. Hope that helps, Sam On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 1

Re: social media for ABLEconf

2011-03-25 Thread S Kreimeyer
you to the right place. Hope that helps On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 01:19 -0700, der.hans wrote: > Am 22. Mar, 2011 schwätzte S Kreimeyer so: > > moin moin, > > > I saw that the ABLEconf page on Facebook looked a bit dated, so I made > > an event page for the conference. It

Re: The devil you know

2011-03-24 Thread S Kreimeyer
You should make a Tiny Core Linux partition. It would be a fun project : ) http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 11:16 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote: > I would agree with Mike though I might not limit Ubuntu much in disk > space. I say that just because if you find something you like bett

Re: network ; basic how to...

2011-03-22 Thread S Kreimeyer
Betty, I'm not familiar with Samba, but I know you can accomplish the same thing through SSH. There is a pretty good tutorial for that here, http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/share-files-between-2-ubuntu-computers/ The steps are pretty straight forward, and SSH is included in most modern l

Re: social media for ABLEconf

2011-03-22 Thread S Kreimeyer
I saw that the ABLEconf page on Facebook looked a bit dated, so I made an event page for the conference. It's pretty similar to the press release http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=190974850939265 Unfortunately, I'm pretty new to the area, so I don't have a wide base of friends of Facebook

Re: Getting a Linux admin job in Europe?

2011-03-20 Thread S Kreimeyer
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 00:34 -0700, Nathan England wrote: > You also have to remember, the German Chancellor just said the > multi-cultural system has failed. The melting-pot mentality is no > longer a go there and they are requiring the proper language. In all fairness, this is true of much of Eur

Re: Getting a Linux admin job in Europe?

2011-03-18 Thread S Kreimeyer
I didn't spend much time in Germany, but you will have a very difficult time if you only speak English. Larger cities have a high percentage of English speaking people, but more rural areas have very few bilingual residents. Also, in eastern Germany older adults (35+) are less likely to know Englis