Re: [uug] [OT] Any local sales for Spore?

2008-08-15 Thread Scott Robertson
On Aug 15, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Nathan wrote: SoSpore's being released Sep 7th. The best price I've been able to preorder online is $46.99 at NewEgg. But waiting a week for the game to be shipped to me to just save $3.00 seems silly. Is anyone aware of any local sales/preorders of Spore at go

Re: [uug] Any local sales for Spore?

2008-08-15 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Alex Esplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know, you don't have to make a case for your thread being on > target. You can just label it [OT] and people will know. And nobody > will care. And you can conserve energy, because typing takes lots of > energy... But

Re: [uug] Any local sales for Spore?

2008-08-15 Thread Daniel Fussell
Alex Esplin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ok, this is very on topic as it concerns software that I'll be running >> on my Open Brand UNIX 03 Registered Product, conforming to the SUSv3 >> and POSIX 1003.1 specifications for the C API, Shell Uti

Re: [uug] Any local sales for Spore?

2008-08-15 Thread Alex Esplin
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, this is very on topic as it concerns software that I'll be running > on my Open Brand UNIX 03 Registered Product, conforming to the SUSv3 > and POSIX 1003.1 specifications for the C API, Shell Utilities, and > Threads. (see

[uug] Any local sales for Spore?

2008-08-15 Thread Nathan
Ok, this is very on topic as it concerns software that I'll be running on my Open Brand UNIX 03 Registered Product, conforming to the SUSv3 and POSIX 1003.1 specifications for the C API, Shell Utilities, and Threads. (see http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html ) SoSpore's being rele

Re: [uug] Cron question

2008-08-15 Thread Dave Smith
Dave Smith wrote: > I once saw a nifty trick where you run the cron job *every* day, and > then you can apply a subsequent filter to only run the job using more > specific criteria. Try this cron entry on for size: > > 00 6 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily [ `date "+%A"` = "Friday" -a > `dat

Re: [uug] Cron question

2008-08-15 Thread Dave Smith
Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 15:07 -0600, Alberto Treviño wrote: > >> 00 06 15-21 * 5 /path/to/command >> I once saw a nifty trick where you run the cron job *every* day, and then you can apply a subsequent filter to only run the job using more specific criteria

Re: [uug] Cron question

2008-08-15 Thread Eduardo Sanz García
Alberto Treviño wrote: On Thursday 14 August 2008 09:10:22 pm Stuart Jansen wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 15:07 -0600, Alberto Treviño wrote: 00 06 15-21 * 5 /path/to/command I use fcron with the option "dayand" which ensures it is an AND and not OR on the day of the

Re: [uug] Linux Question

2008-08-15 Thread Michael Torrie
Mark Gardner wrote: > The program that makes the non-native supported wireless cards "Just Work" > in Ubuntu is called AutoNDISWrapper. A google search should help. Be aware that ndiswrapper kills battery life. But in many cases ndiswrapper is the only way to run wireless. From what I've read t

Re: [uug] Cron question

2008-08-15 Thread Alberto Treviño
On Thursday 14 August 2008 09:10:22 pm Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 15:07 -0600, Alberto Treviño wrote: > > 00 06 15-21 * 5 /path/to/command I use fcron with the option "dayand" which ensures it is an AND and not OR on the day of the week. I don't know of Vixie cron has

Re: [uug] Linux Question

2008-08-15 Thread Mark Gardner
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 6:00 PM, James F. Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear UUG Members, > > Can you help out my friend to get online with his laptop? He was running > Ubuntu, but it was crashing, so he switched to Fedora 9. > > Thanks, > James > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Jordan