Re: request you top post please

2010-08-13 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hate to get in the flamewar, but I was corresponding with a lady on a social site, and she said my bottom-posting drove her crazy! I didn't even think about it, I'd been so well trained... :-) Vaughn Technomage_Hawke wrote: a majority of the lists I am on (about 100 in all) tend to top post or

Re:

2010-02-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
++ and Java. Vaughn Treude --- On Sat, 2/20/10, Joshua Zeidnerjjzeid...@gmail.com wrote: From: Joshua Zeidnerjjzeid...@gmail.com Subject: Re: To: Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 7:34 PM On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 7:27 PM

Re: Horked-up system, Fedora 11

2009-10-15 Thread Vaughn Treude
On 10/14/2009 10:27 AM, Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 06:47 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote: I have found SELinux to be much better in Fedora 11 that the problem that it was in F10. Eventually you want to try running with it enforcing. I need to research SELinux

Re: Horked-up system, Fedora 11

2009-10-14 Thread Vaughn Treude
with it enforcing. I need to research SELinux; I'm not very familiar with what it does. Thanks for the feedback. VT Ed Ryan Rix wrote: Hello Vaughn, Please see my comments and suggestions below... Vaughn Treude wrote: Hello all: Recently I upgraded

Re: Horked-up system, Fedora 11

2009-10-13 Thread Vaughn Treude
it was responsible for a good portion of these messages. Guess I better figure out what it's supposed to be doing. :-) Vaughn Ryan Rix wrote: Hello Vaughn, Please see my comments and suggestions below... Vaughn Treude wrote: Hello all: Recently I upgraded my main Linux desktop to Fedora 11

Re: Horked-up system, Fedora 11

2009-10-11 Thread Vaughn Treude
Ryan Rix wrote: Hello Vaughn, Please see my comments and suggestions below... Vaughn Treude wrote: Hello all: Recently I upgraded my main Linux desktop to Fedora 11. Everything was great, until a couple nights ago I was woken by a frantic beeping coming from my office. It was my Fedora

Re: Professional Recruiters?

2009-08-17 Thread Vaughn Treude
Mike wrote: I think the fruit hangs lower now that we have these huge job websites and voip. Now all anybody really needs to do is get an employer account on monster/etc and grab some skype/etc minutes to make cheap cold calls from anywhere in the world. In talking to my neighbor the whole

Re: OT: Best place to recycle electronic parts?

2009-08-16 Thread Vaughn Treude
Eric Shubert wrote: Vaughn Treude wrote: Hello all, Here's a post that's at least semi-relevant, since Linux must run on hardware. I have boxes of old PC boards, drives, keyboards, power supplies, mice, etc., I want to get rid of. I know places such as AZStrut will take obsolete

Re: ****Re: guess what....

2009-08-03 Thread Vaughn Treude
Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 19:16 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote: Lisa Kachold wrote: On 7/30/09, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: The 'other' model isn't working any better. My wife works in an Urgent Care; tons of Canadians come here to get the health

Re: OT: Farewell PLUG

2009-08-03 Thread Vaughn Treude
Joshua A. Andler wrote: Hey All, I'm not sure if anyone remembers me from last years ableconf (I did a presentation on Inkscape), but for those that do, farewell. Due to some pretty big life changes I will be relocating to Reno in the near future. Unfortunately I will be unable to

Re: ****Re: guess what....

2009-08-02 Thread Vaughn Treude
Lisa Kachold wrote: On 7/30/09, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: The 'other' model isn't working any better. My wife works in an Urgent Care; tons of Canadians come here to get the health care they need. I think the whole industry needs to be more competitive; most things in health

Re: west side during the summer

2009-06-05 Thread Vaughn Treude
der.hans wrote: moin moin, this summer we won't have guaranteed ready access to the school for our meetings. I want to thank Arizona Conservatory for Arts and Academics for opening their doors for us for most of the year, but we need to make alternate plans for June, July and August this

Re: OT: Speed Cams

2009-04-03 Thread Vaughn Treude
Bryan O'Neal wrote: Cool, where can I get a copy of this report? -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Josef Lowder Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:25 AM To: Main PLUG discussion

Re: OT: Speed Cams

2009-04-03 Thread Vaughn Treude
Can't resist getting in on this one! :=) der.hans wrote: Am 02. Apr, 2009 schwätzte Josef Lowder so: On 4/1/09, Bryan O'Neal bon...@cornerstonehome.com wrote: I have no issue with red-light cameras, if they provide a yellow light of adequate length to safely stop after noticing the light

Re: Is anybody having display issues with the latest Kubuntu ?

2008-11-21 Thread Vaughn Treude
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At first I thought: well... Those #$% Nvidia drivers... But then I saw it happening with ATI boards. Anecdotally I can say that I have seen it happening in just about each and everyone of the 15-something computers (desktops and laptops) that I have installed

Re: OT: Pentagon Hit by Unprecedented Cyber Attack

2008-11-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
Tuna wrote: JD Austin wrote: Yep.. you're preaching to the choir :) With all the companies trying to do budget cuts imagine how much they'd save using Open Office as a standard on new computers that is if they're buying new computers. No wai! That would be too much like those

Re: OT: hardware question

2008-10-14 Thread Vaughn Treude
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:42:03 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: OT: hardware question Vaughn Treude wrote: Hello, everyone. Here's an OT question that is at least computer-related. :-) I'm trying

Re: OT: hardware question

2008-10-13 Thread Vaughn Treude
Vaughn Treude wrote: Hello, everyone. Here's an OT question that is at least computer-related. :-) I'm trying to resurrect an old 300 MHz PC I was using to run an ISA scope card, and to run an old test suite that only works on - get ready for this - Windows 95. (It worked fine

OT: hardware question

2008-10-12 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello, everyone. Here's an OT question that is at least computer-related. :-) I'm trying to resurrect an old 300 MHz PC I was using to run an ISA scope card, and to run an old test suite that only works on - get ready for this - Windows 95. (It worked fine for that.) I was having trouble

Re: OT: remember

2008-09-13 Thread Vaughn Treude
Charles Jones wrote: It can be fun sometimes...I was an eyewitness to the pentagon strike, I was *there*, I have pictures, and video, and yet people have actually told me that I was brainwashed by the govt so that I wouldn't reveal that it was a global hawk that hit and not a plane. I find

Re: Weird X Problem

2008-07-23 Thread Vaughn Treude
on the graphics card and that's why it shows up. Which monitor is higher resolution? You should check to see if the problem persists with the bad monitor without using the docking station, as well. On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:20 AM, Vaughn Treude [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Weird X Problem

2008-07-21 Thread Vaughn Treude
Normally when I encounter a Linux problem my first course of action is to Google for a solution. This time I'm not even sure what to call it. X Windows scroll problem and X Windows bad repaint don't return any useful information. I'm running Unbuntu Hardy Heron on a Dell Latitude D830. So far

Re: OT: What's the best HDTV antenna setup?

2008-07-06 Thread Vaughn Treude
Josef Lowder wrote: What do recommend as the best HDTV antenna setup? Does signal strength need to be boosted if I put an antenna in my attic and run a long coax cable to connect it into my house cable with 3 devices connected? --- I didn't

Re: OT: New Law In Texas Requires PI License for Computer Techs

2008-07-05 Thread Vaughn Treude
Matt Graham wrote: After a long battle with technology, Joshua Zeidner wrote: Not sure if this kind of law will find its way to AZ, but http://www.gearlog.com/2008/06/new_texas_law_requires_pi_lice.php The name's Route. Trace Route. I got eight slugs in me. One's lead, the

Re: OT: Survelliance in America

2008-06-30 Thread Vaughn Treude
OK, this has gone on so long, I can't resist putting in my two cents: The so-called 9/11 Truth Movement has been infiltrated by the CIA, which plants ridiculous ideas (controlled demolition of the towers, missiles at the Pentagon) to discredit anyone who'd ask the most pertinent question: did

Re: OT: notebook shopping

2008-04-24 Thread Vaughn Treude
Donn wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Austin Godber [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Faulkner wrote: I beg to differ, OS X is very different from Windows. It sells for a fair price and it works. Well its kinda hard

OT: notebook shopping

2008-04-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello everybody! I'm planning to buy a new notebook, as my Vaio is now 8 years old, and shows signs of getting ready to give up the ghost. (Specifically, the LCD backlight occasionally doesn't come on.) So I've been doing some serious online shopping and I'm trying to make a final decision.

Re: OT: notebook shopping

2008-04-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
good. The Toshiba looks a little better to me, spec-wise, but haven't used a Toshiba notebook in ages. On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 13:05 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote: Hello everybody! I'm planning to buy a new notebook, as my Vaio is now 8 years old, and shows signs of getting ready to give up

Re: OT: notebook shopping

2008-04-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
. But the keyboard still works. Weird eh? On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 13:05 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote: Hello everybody! I'm planning to buy a new notebook, as my Vaio is now 8 years old, and shows signs of getting ready to give up the ghost. (Specifically, the LCD backlight occasionally doesn't

Re: Possible Accounting Software Solution

2008-04-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
keith smith wrote: I'm not sure what information can be exported to excel. I'm test driving the free version which does not allow for exporting your data. My current 1999 version can export various reports to Excel. With enough work you could probably get everything out, and figure out

Re: OT: notebook shopping

2008-04-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
Jon M. Hanson wrote: Vaughn Treude wrote: Matt Graham wrote: After a long battle with technology, Vaughn Treude wrote: The goal: As high-performance as possible for $2000 or less. In particular, I want to be able to boot as fast as possible. Boot? Ever since I got a laptop

Re: OT: notebook shopping

2008-04-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
Kurt Granroth wrote: Vaughn Treude wrote: The finalists: Dell Inspiron 1520 - with all the options I want it's around $1500. (But one of the reviewers claimed its physical construction was flimsy.) Toshiba Tecra A9 - also around $1500 with options. Lenovo ThinkPad R61 - the fully-loaded

Re: OT: notebook shopping

2008-04-20 Thread Vaughn Treude
Wayne Davis wrote: Dell's Latitude series are the proven workhorses of their lineup. Good advice, I made the mistake of looking in the Home section rather than Small business. I can get a Latitude D830 for about the same price ($1467) but with an extra 2 GB of RAM. (That's 8X what I've

Semi-OT: Software-related meeting

2008-04-04 Thread Vaughn Treude
) Scottsdale, Arizona 85251 Abstract: Vaughn Treude will give a presentation on the issues and challenges involved in developing software in multiple languages for an international market. About the speaker: Vaughn Treude was an independent software consultant for fourteen years and has worked

Re: AZ's own Gabrielle Giffords votes to increase foreign work visas

2008-03-17 Thread Vaughn Treude
keith smith wrote: I agree, we need to be courteous. A few hundred phone calls to her office might get her thinking though. */Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 20:10 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: At this point, I would suggest young americans

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

2008-01-28 Thread Vaughn Treude
Harold wrote: Vaughn, I know you have been looking for a solution to your problem for a while. Could you please clarify your goals and the resources you have? Are you trying to get your data out in a clean format so that you can use it in another application? Yes. A spread-sheet-type

Another question on Video Editing

2008-01-28 Thread Vaughn Treude
While we're on the topic of video editing: A while back a bought a Hauppage PVR-150 TV/capture card. This was a replacement for my dearly departed previous Hauppage, which I was able to get working fairly easily on Linux. (The machine it was in was having power problems, and the Hauppage

Semi-OT: Referral for Linux-friendly accountant

2008-01-22 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello all: I've been trying for some time to get rid of a particular Windows legacy machine, which I keep only for the copy of Quick Books on it. I would like to switch over to Gnu Cash or some other Linux program, but QB is the only program my current accountant will deal with. So I need to

Re: Cinelerra question

2008-01-02 Thread Vaughn Treude
2:55 PM, Vaughn Treude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erich, I hate to bug you again, but I'm severely frustrated. I've tried about 8 different encoder programs. Most work to some degree. I've decided that Cinelerra (the version I have) is still is piece of garbage that works sporadically

Re: What the RIAA really said. (Charles Goyette!)

2008-01-02 Thread Vaughn Treude
Charles Goyette is talking about this issue at this moment on 1100 AM! Vaughn Chris Gehlker wrote: On Jan 1, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Joshua Zeidner wrote: well I tend to divide 'activism' into distinct stages: 1. Spleen Venting 2. Interest Group Forming 3. Lobbying, calling

Re: What the RIAA really said. (Bring it on!)

2008-01-02 Thread Vaughn Treude
Maybe the Internet _has_ changed everything. A concern citizen raised over $10 for the Ron Paul campaign just as a viral let's do it meme. This could be a new one. Maybe all of those of us (myself included) who have copied our own LEGALLY PURCHASED recordings for FAIR USE should come out of

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

2007-12-31 Thread Vaughn Treude
Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 22:42 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote: On 12/30/07, Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2007-12-31 Thread Vaughn Treude
Tony E - Jaraeth wrote: Call me crazy, call me geeky... I kind of wish I could see Gene Roddenberry's idea of society come to fruition. No more bounderies of money barter. Instead, a society that provides for one another, and people have jobs that they like, and benefit the rest of society.

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

2007-12-31 Thread Vaughn Treude
Joshua Zeidner wrote: On 12/31/07, Vaughn Treude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't resist joining the fray! On the one hand, I've personally never produced anything of value that wasn't intellectual property. On the other hand, a society that actually tried to _enforce_ the copyright laws

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

2007-12-31 Thread Vaughn Treude
find some other workaround that would precluded dependence on Big Brother for protection. Unfortunately it hasn't quite worked out that way. Open-source, though, is a hopeful alternative. Vaughn */Vaughn Treude [EMAIL PROTECTED]/* wrote: Joshua Zeidner wrote: On 12/31/07

Re: Cinelerra question

2007-12-30 Thread Vaughn Treude
Erich Newell wrote: I was under the impression you wanted to do some *editing*. I use VLC for streaming all the time for on-the-fly video conversion and streaming. Let me know the specifics and I'm sure I can nudge you in the right direction. Just in case you want to stream HD content:

Re:

2007-12-29 Thread Vaughn Treude
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks... What is the name of the stripped down Linux OS that you can boot from a cd or USB thumb drive and use as a diskless firewall box? Thanks for your help! Lynn Are you talking about Knoppix? That was the first popular boot-from-CD Linux,

Cinelerra question

2007-12-27 Thread Vaughn Treude
Has anyone out there played with Cinelerra? I have a captured movie in MPG format that I want to edit. Cinelerra did not let me edit in that format. Eventually I discovered VLC, which let me convert it to a MOV format, which Cinelerra can display. However, the audio track doesn't show up,

Re: K3B burns Memorex DVD's but not Maxell???

2007-12-02 Thread Vaughn Treude
Alan Dayley wrote: Vaughn Treude wrote: Craig, Thanks for your reply. Yes, it's old. I was hoping (perhaps in vain) that I could solve this with some kind of mode switch. Or maybe this drive is on its way out. I'm always afraid that upgrading will break my other stuff. :-) From

Re: K3B burns Memorex DVD's but not Maxell???

2007-12-02 Thread Vaughn Treude
Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 17:26 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote: Vaughn Treude wrote: Craig, Thanks for your reply. Yes, it's old. I was hoping (perhaps in vain) that I could solve this with some kind of mode switch. Or maybe this drive is on its way out. I'm always afraid

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

2007-10-12 Thread Vaughn Treude
Josef Lowder wrote: . This might not be OT if there is a way to use a Linux computer to do what I want to do. Being fed up with cable/dish gouging and being force-fed 100+ garbage channels that we *do not* want, a few months ago, we switched to just viewing off-the-air TV. The HD signal

Re: OT: Request for speaker

2007-09-27 Thread Vaughn Treude
virtualization is and what its benefits are? BTW, I'll be away from this computer most of the day so if you respond before this evening could you please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Again, thanks. Vaughn Austin Godber wrote: Vaughn Treude wrote: Hello everyone: Once again I've found myself

Re: OT: Request for speaker

2007-09-27 Thread Vaughn Treude
to make a lot of extra work for you if your busy. But I do think it would be a good talk for us, with some allowances for the audience. So thanks again, and let me know what you think. Regards, Vaughn Austin Godber wrote: Vaughn Treude wrote: Hello everyone: Once again I've found myself

OT: Request for speaker

2007-09-26 Thread Vaughn Treude
contact me as soon as you can. Thanks! Vaughn Treude --- 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

Problem w/ TV card on Linux

2007-09-03 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello everyone: Here's a question for the MythTV experts in the group. Here's the background - I had a Hauppage TV card (which I used for video capture) running fine under Mandrake 10. Then the system's motherboard died, taking the Hauppage card with it. I recreated the system on a new mobo,

Troubles w/ gnome-cd-recorder

2007-08-08 Thread Vaughn Treude
? Thanks! Vaughn Treude --- 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

Troubles w/ gnome-sound-recorder

2007-08-08 Thread Vaughn Treude
Excuse me for the repost, I messed up the subject line. Must have had a senior moment. Vaughn Vaughn Treude wrote: I'll continue in the sound-related vein. I've got Centos 4.4 on my Sony Vaio notebook. I'm try to record analog audio from the microphone jack. The program that came

Re: Troubles w/ gnome-sound-recorder

2007-08-08 Thread Vaughn Treude
clues? Thanks, Vaughn On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 03:30 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote: Excuse me for the repost, I messed up the subject line. Must have had a senior moment. Vaughn Vaughn Treude wrote: I'll continue in the sound-related vein. I've got Centos 4.4 on my Sony Vaio notebook. I'm

Perl question: passing in variables

2007-07-06 Thread Vaughn Treude
Quick perl question: I'm trying to run a perl script that is executable; that is, the file has x permission and starts with this line: #!/usr/bin/perl -w There's a parameter in this script that's not defined by default, for example my $foo; # no default If foo is not set, the script exits

Re: OT: Cracking Quickbooks format

2007-07-03 Thread Vaughn Treude
.) A bit of a pain, but not so bad when you have only one paycheck to create. Vaughn On 7/3/07, *Vaughn Treude* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: For quite some time I've been wanting to move my company books form QuickBooks to GnuCash or some other Linux

Re: OT: Cracking Quickbooks format

2007-07-03 Thread Vaughn Treude
the regular product's usability. I've gotten used to it, though. But I sure wouldn't want to run my private financial info through somebody's web site, especially if I was forced to use IE. Vaughn -Original Message- From: Vaughn Treude [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Main PLUG discussion list plug

Re: ffmpeg on ?

2007-06-29 Thread Vaughn Treude
KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vaughn Treude wrote: For most things, the configure/make/install sequence has worked fine for me. It's a pain, though, when there are a lot of small pieces. It is a huge pain on an older system like this. I've used yum

Re: ffmpeg on ?

2007-06-25 Thread Vaughn Treude
For most things, the configure/make/install sequence has worked fine for me. It's a pain, though, when there are a lot of small pieces. I've used yum and apt-get but wasn't aware of urpmi. Is it in any way related to rpmdrake? Why do you have to remove the CD? Thanks for the recommendation,

7z on LINUX

2007-06-24 Thread Vaughn Treude
Hello all: I recently had the misfortune to download an archive with 7z format. I can't find anything that does that sort of decompression in Linux. On 7zip's source-forge page, there's some nonsense about using Wine to run their Windows version, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a

Re: 7z on LINUX

2007-06-24 Thread Vaughn Treude
KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vaughn Treude wrote: Hello all: I recently had the misfortune to download an archive with 7z format. I can't find anything that does that sort of decompression in Linux. On 7zip's source-forge page, there's some nonsense