Re: [uug] Web of Spam?

2006-02-08 Thread Nathan
On 2/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I received yet another piece of pharmacy spam, and as usual I glanced at > the > headers to see who was propagating the latest valium deals. Much to my > surprise, > this piece had been sent to my personal email address. With a name lik

[uug] Job Postings

2006-02-08 Thread Matthew J. Probst
Here are a couple of Job postings... First one for the company I work for... NTT/Verio: Overview Verio is searching for a talented UNIX developer to join its Orem facility to support and enhance Verio's web hosting solutions. Drive, commitment, and passion with a foundation of technical a

Re: [uug] Is it OK to post job related info here?

2006-02-08 Thread Matthew J. Probst
yup.. Welcome, Spencer back to the group. Spencer did indeed donate the original phantom to the clubA year or two after he donated it, we upgraded the motherboard to a cyrix 686 with 64MB of ram... and there it stood until 2002 I believe.. all the while running majordomo, 40-50 club websites

[uug] Anybody want a Motorola Surfboard?

2006-02-08 Thread Jason Holt
So, I signed up for Comcast for my new place (go to comcastoffers.com -- it's $5/month cheaper than Comcast's own website, plus some other benefits too -- I'm getting Internet+basic cable for $30/month, all said and done. I promise am not a shill). Anyway, one of the offers I get with my ser

Re: [uug] Web of Spam?

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:56:54PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any reason these sites shouldn't have robots.txt warnings? Is > there a recourse to get my address off their sites? I admit I've > created a couple of PGP keys and can't remember the passwords for > them. Will they drop o

Re: [uug] UUG MythTV Meeting Coming Up!

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:42:57PM -0700, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > On shows that I don't really care that much about the quality of, I > compress down to 500MB an hour. It's not too bad usually, a little block > sometimes, but good overall. Stuff that I like to keep or want higher > quality, I just

Re: [uug] UUG MythTV Meeting Coming Up!

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:29:20PM -0700, Adam H. Peterson wrote: > > It uses about 2.17GB per hour of recording, at least on my box. (If you > have a HD tuner, I expect it might take more.) So if you plan on > watching 80 hours a week for those three weeks, that would be about > 520GB of sto

Re: [uug] UUG MythTV Meeting Coming Up!

2006-02-08 Thread Scott Paul Robertson
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:29:20PM -0700, Adam H. Peterson wrote: > Brian Phillips wrote: > > > >How much space would I need to record 4 months of tv and then try and cram > >that into a 3 week break? > > It uses about 2.17GB per hour of recording, at least on my box. (If you > have a HD tuner,

[uug] Web of Spam?

2006-02-08 Thread sjk36
So I received yet another piece of pharmacy spam, and as usual I glanced at the headers to see who was propagating the latest valium deals. Much to my surprise, this piece had been sent to my personal email address. With a name like Krazek, not much random spam gets sent to my address unless they h

Re: [uug] UUG MythTV Meeting Coming Up!

2006-02-08 Thread Michael Torrie
Scott Paul Robertson wrote: In my experience, the commercial skip doesn't hurt the flow of the movie, for the most part. An occasional movie will have issues, but normally it flows really well. A number of movies have been cut up to fit time, but a good number of what I get are fine (or I can't r

RE: [uug] UUG MythTV Meeting Coming Up!

2006-02-08 Thread Robert LeBlanc
On shows that I don't really care that much about the quality of, I compress down to 500MB an hour. It's not too bad usually, a little block sometimes, but good overall. Stuff that I like to keep or want higher quality, I just dump the mpeg from my card to disk (2GB/hr). Using about 700GB I've got

Re: [uug] UUG MythTV Meeting Coming Up!

2006-02-08 Thread Adam H. Peterson
Brian Phillips wrote: How much space would I need to record 4 months of tv and then try and cram that into a 3 week break? It uses about 2.17GB per hour of recording, at least on my box. (If you have a HD tuner, I expect it might take more.) So if you plan on watching 80 hours a week for t

RE: [uug] UUG MythTV Meeting Coming Up!

2006-02-08 Thread Brian Phillips
Nathan scribbled on Tuesday, February 07, 2006 4:26 PM: > MythTV would have been so great 10 years ago, back when I used to > watch lots of TV. > > Haven't watched TV nearly at all since my mission. Are there other > uses for MythTV? We have lots of movies, but no TV that's connected > to an

Re: [uug] UUG MythTV Meeting Coming Up!

2006-02-08 Thread Scott Paul Robertson
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 07:26:04AM +, Jason Holt wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Scott Paul Robertson wrote: > >If you just want movies, consider this, with basic comcast I'm seeing 37 > >pages (web based listing) of movies in the next two weeks. There are > >lots of movies I'd like to see, but

Re: [uug] UUG MythTV Meeting Coming Up!

2006-02-08 Thread Michael Moore
> Even if you don't watch TV, but are interested in movies, just remember, > there are lots of movies on TV, and you don't have to deal with > commercials. When else will you get the chance to watch "American Ninja > 5"? That's something I'd forgotten about. Living with BYU cable only (Wymount) do

RE: [uug] UUG MythTV Meeting Coming Up!

2006-02-08 Thread Robert LeBlanc
Comcast does send unencrypted HD down the line. I've got a PCHD3000 card and have picked up some channels. I haven't gotten it to work in Myth yet, but I haven't spent a lot of time on it either. Robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jaso