Re: Can a browser based application write to files on a local hard disk?

2008-01-31 Thread Tom Buskey
TiddlyWiki On Jan 30, 2008 9:36 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 9:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not implement the entire app in JavaScript? Uh... RTFT. ;-) Alex wants to have data persistence over browser sessions, and not have to worry about hosting the

Re: Can a browser based application write to files on a local hard disk?

2008-01-31 Thread Ben Scott
On Jan 31, 2008 8:24 AM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TiddlyWiki Which requires endlessly clicking Allow to save changes (at least five times just now -- I gave up after that), or remembering the decision to turn off the JavaScript sandbox for all local HTML files (a security risk, and

Re: Can a browser based application write to files on a local hard disk?

2008-01-31 Thread Ben Scott
On Jan 31, 2008 10:58 AM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, Firefox complained the first couple of times but then offered an allow for this file option. The box I got had buttons for Allow or Deny, a Remember this decision checkbox. But it said it was for anything file:///, which

Re: Can a browser based application write to files on a local hard disk?

2008-01-31 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 09:32 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Jan 31, 2008 8:24 AM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TiddlyWiki Which requires endlessly clicking Allow to save changes (at least five times just now -- I gave up after that), or remembering the decision to turn off the

Re: Can a browser based application write to files on a local hard disk?

2008-01-31 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 09:32 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Jan 31, 2008 8:24 AM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TiddlyWiki Which requires endlessly clicking Allow to save changes (at least five times just now -- I gave up after that), or remembering the decision to turn off the

Re: Can a browser based application write to files on a local hard disk?

2008-01-31 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:36:34 -0500 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jan 30, 2008 9:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not implement the entire app in JavaScript? Uh... RTFT. ;-) Alex wants to have data persistence over browser sessions, and not have to worry about hosting

Re: Koolu as MythTV frontend suggestions

2008-01-31 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 30, 2008, at 08:12, Ted Roche wrote: top is showing mythfrontend.re at ~95% CPU pretty consistently That sounds like CPU-based decoding. The koolu is an AMD Geode, which has a hardware MPEG-2 decoder, IIRC. To be successful, you'll have to: make sure the shows are encoded in a

Re: Koolu as MythTV frontend suggestions

2008-01-31 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 16:42 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Jan 30, 2008, at 08:12, Ted Roche wrote: top is showing mythfrontend.re at ~95% CPU pretty consistently That sounds like CPU-based decoding. The koolu is an AMD Geode, which has a hardware MPEG-2 decoder, IIRC. Ooh, didn't

Re: Can a browser based application write to files on a local hard disk?

2008-01-31 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 30, 2008, at 09:24, Alex Hewitt wrote: I don't want a potential user of the program to install anything beyond downloading the program itself. [big long idea snipped, since I actually Googled for it:] http://cse-mjmcl.cse.bris.ac.uk/blog/2006/10/30/1162236580795.html Of course,

Re: Koolu as MythTV frontend suggestions

2008-01-31 Thread Ted Roche
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Jan 30, 2008, at 08:12, Ted Roche wrote: top is showing mythfrontend.re at ~95% CPU pretty consistently That sounds like CPU-based decoding. The koolu is an AMD Geode, which has a hardware MPEG-2 decoder, IIRC. Agreed. I need to do a lot of tuning here. This is

[GNHLUG] NEXT MONDAY: CentraLUG, 4-Feb-2008: David Berube, Introduction to Ruby on Rails

2008-01-31 Thread Ted Roche
The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central NH GNHLUG chapter, happens the first Monday of most months at the New Hampshire Technical Institute's Library, room 146, at 7 PM. Next month's meeting is on February 4th at 7 PM. Directions and maps are available at http://www.centralug.org

Keeping track of all this IT crap

2008-01-31 Thread Ben Scott
I may have asked this here before, but if so, I seem to recall there wasn't a good answer at the time. Or maybe I just forgot and can't find it in the archives. Either way, worth asking again. Do people know of any good software to keep track of all this IT crap? Users, computers (with

Notes from PySIG, 24-Jan-2008

2008-01-31 Thread Ted Roche
Seven people made it to the January 2008 meeting of the Python Special Interest Group, held as usual on the fourth Thursday of the month at the Amoskeag Business Incubator in Manchester, New Hampshire. Bill Sconce showed how to scrape data from the Sos web site using Beautiful Soup, and shared

Re: Keeping track of all this IT crap

2008-01-31 Thread Greg Rundlett
On Jan 31, 2008 7:09 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may have asked this here before, but if so, I seem to recall there wasn't a good answer at the time. Or maybe I just forgot and can't find it in the archives. Either way, worth asking again. Do people know of any good

Re: Keeping track of all this IT crap

2008-01-31 Thread Greg Rundlett
On Jan 31, 2008 9:10 PM, Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ben, Directly answering your question, I found this site that lists Sorry, I forgot to include the link. http://www.openden.com/modules/weblinks/viewcat.php?cid=31sortid=0 Also, there is this thread on slashdot

Re: Keeping track of all this IT crap

2008-01-31 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do people know of any good software to keep track of all this IT crap? Users, computers (with make, model, serial, CPU, RAM, etc.), patch panels and their jacks, switches and their ports. Most importantly, what is connected to what: User A has computer

Re: Keeping track of all this IT crap

2008-01-31 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 31, 2008, at 21:10, Greg Rundlett wrote: The first one on the list (IRM http://irm.stackworks.net/) looks promising although I don't have first hand experience with it. My experience is limited to setting it up for a client, but it was straightforward enough to do that and they

Default process priorities

2008-01-31 Thread Bill McGonigle
Does anybody know of a facility to specify default process priorities on a per-executable basis? I can't seem to find one, but I may just be looking in the wrong places. Scenario: server doing lots of work. Interactive apps get scheduled the same as batch-processing apps. Inefficiency

Re: Keeping track of all this IT crap

2008-01-31 Thread Ted Roche
Ben Scott wrote: I may have asked this here before, but if so, I seem to recall there wasn't a good answer at the time. Or maybe I just forgot and can't find it in the archives. Either way, worth asking again. Do people know of any good software to keep track of all this IT crap?

Re: Koolu as MythTV frontend suggestions

2008-01-31 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Jan 30, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote: My own MythTV frontend[*] runs ratpoison, so I do still have a window manager should I want to open an xterm, browse the web, etc., but I believe its memory footprint is something like 400k and it doesn't do *anything* but manage windows.