Re: someone figured out my email address

2011-11-21 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
The question I have is why anybody would care to figure out your email password. -- "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > Before I left for P

Re: libreoffice <-> openoffice.org

2011-11-20 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
In my recent research about LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice, wanting to know what to recommend to my children, I seem to have learned that, "As with Joomla, so with LibreOffice". In other words, it's where the developers went. Tom Haws Gilbert, Arizona -- "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful for

Re: Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-14 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
ot. Tom -- "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > Can't you just install another browser? > > On 11/14/11, Thomas Gail Haw

Re: Introductions and Current Status

2011-11-14 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
> > I'm still on the fence as to which distro will take > the lead when Ubuntu fails, unless they wise up and default to something > other > than unity. I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I really think Unity > is a > mistake. > No argument there, Nathan. I've been on PLUG one year now sinc

Re: libreoffice

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
The main developers of OpenOffice (owned by bad boy Oracle), forked to LibreOffice. I migrated early and promptly discovered they had addressed a few old annoyances. OpenOffice good/old. LibreOffice better/new. -- "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will recei

Re: Looking for another Me

2011-05-08 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
Oops. Broadcast mistake. Sorry. -- "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Thomas Gail Haws wrote: > Exactly. I, too, am wanting to have more goo

Re: Looking for another Me

2011-05-08 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
Exactly. I, too, am wanting to have more good programming buddies. Maybe we can meet some time if the stars align right. Where do you live? How old are you? We could at least make a LinkedIn connection. Tom -- "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receiv

Re: PHP Problem

2011-02-28 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
There's no action on your form. Is that a problem? -- "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:07 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com < kitepi...@kitepilot.com> wrote: > I've done ton

Re: OT: Survey: 32% Admit Mooching Neighbor's Wi-Fi

2011-02-09 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
"smooching neighbor's wife" is what I always think this subject line says. :-O -- "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:39 AM, James Finstrom wrote: > Qwest always ships the

Re: OT: Some kind of google search virus.

2011-01-25 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
It reminds me of a problem that I was able to solve using the help of bleepingcomputer.com and malwarebytes.org forums. I don't remember the name of the issue, but I do remember the search redirection. Basically, the fix involved the rkill, gmer, and mbam tools at the least. If you search from a

Re: HackFest at Gangplankhq.com Tonight! 18:00 - 21:00

2011-01-07 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
And I'm two days late. Too bad. Sounds awesome. Do it at Gangplankhq again! -- "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:10 PM, ChasM Marshall wrote: > Uhhh, > > I think yo

Re: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git

2010-12-16 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
Linus Torvalds, the author of Git, doesn't speak ill of Hg and Bazaar, from what I know. (He can't find words strong enough to dis CVS and SVN). -- "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller On Thu, Dec 16

Re: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
That's what you would think. And that's what Git does (in a devious, compact, efficient way that's better than saving a version of the entire file). Which may help explain why it's so well received. Tom -- "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold

Re: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git

2010-12-06 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
Austin William Wright said: > I would go as far to say Git is *fun*. > Yes, Git is even "fun". And if you read the blogs instead of the man pages, your eyes won't gloss over, guaranteed. Google "Git tutorial" or "Git work flow" and read only blogs. It's great fun. -- "To forgive is the highe

Re: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git

2010-12-06 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
Keith, You know how much of an expert I am, but I have put some serious mind share into groking Git in the past month, and I can speak to it a bit. (My previous experience was with CVS.) I personally wouldn't bother with anything but Git if I had the choice. I would install it, then play a bit

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
My initial inclination was OpenOffice with MyODBC. I like Alex's points about browsers and Bryan O'Neal's remark about MS Access. If you just think it would be neat to have a desktop component of the Control Panel, maybe simply exposing certain views or tables to OpenOffice.org via MyODBC would a