domain theft saga

2010-03-30 Thread Tom Metro
For those of you not on the BLU list, you might find this an interesting read: http://old.nabble.com/Dreamhost-account-hacked-td28062149s24859.html In brief, a directed attack using social engineering was perpetrated against my domain registrar, Dreamhost, and due to multiple failures on their pa

Re: Another OpenOffice question?

2010-03-30 Thread Susan Cragin
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6137572.html If you can use your friend's access program for a few minutes, turn the forms into HTML for her, and then she should be able to view them. -Original Message- >I restored her data but she doesn't have access to open the data

[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] An Open-Source Involvement Engine - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-04-01

2010-03-30 Thread Bill McGonigle
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular mon

Re: Another OpenOffice question?

2010-03-30 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: > What's at stake here is whether I  can come off as an even bigger hero using > OO instead of forcing her to buy a new license just to get access to access. > ;-) Can't help with OO, sorry. But. If OO doesn't pan out: If you can demonstr

Another OpenOffice question?

2010-03-30 Thread Steven W. Orr
I have a customer who, *6* years ago, had some sales girl at Bldg 19 create some forms for her to manage her retail business. Her PC died and I was given the thankless task of reloading. I saved all of her data, but like most people, she threw out the uSoft Office disks long ago. I restored her da

Re: Recycled PCs

2010-03-30 Thread Jefferson Kirkland
Thanks Cole! I have some old PCs (486 and such) that I have been meaning to offload. I think I need to contact this guy. Of course, question is, can he really use 486's for this purpose? They are a bit aged. I guess I will let him accept or reject them. Anywho, thanks again! On Sun, Mar 28,

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-03-30 Thread Stephen Ryan
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 20:05 -0400, Bruce Dawson wrote: > I presume everyone heard that Novell won the lawsuit with SCO in a jury > trial? > > If not, see: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100330152829622 Even for those of us who had already heard that, it's still nice to hear it again

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-03-30 Thread Bruce Dawson
On 03/30/2010 08:24 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Bruce Dawson wrote: > >> I presume everyone heard that Novell won the lawsuit with SCO in a jury >> trial? >> > I hadn't. Thanks for the info. > > My first reaction: That case is still going on? Sheesh,

Re: SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-03-30 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Bruce Dawson wrote: > I presume everyone heard that Novell won the lawsuit with SCO in a jury > trial? I hadn't. Thanks for the info. My first reaction: That case is still going on? Sheesh, SCO is like a fscking cockroach, in more ways than one. :) > If n

SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

2010-03-30 Thread Bruce Dawson
I presume everyone heard that Novell won the lawsuit with SCO in a jury trial? If not, see: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100330152829622 --Bruce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/

Document Freedom Day - March 31st

2010-03-30 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hi, March 31st is "Document Freedom Day" http://documentfreedom.org/ Take some time out to talk to your boss or your teachers about the importance of Free and Open document formats, Codecs and how closed formats and proprietary codecs (particularly those with draconian licensing and royalties) m

Re: Word Count [was: OpenOffice question]

2010-03-30 Thread Ted Roche
On 03/30/2010 08:34 AM, Susan Cragin wrote: > I actually don't know if OO does a correct word count. On a 40,000 > word document, I get a difference between that and gedit. It's of some > concern to me because I'm a writer. Does anyone know of any Linux > application that does an accurate word coun

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-03-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 03/30/2010 01:00 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > > press an icon that dials SmarTraveler > > The Android phones' Google Maps app (or mine, anyway) does traffic > that seems to be up to date, and even turn-by-turn voice directions. > I'm pretty happy that things which were science fiction aren't any

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-03-30 Thread Drew Van Zandt
> press an icon that dials SmarTraveler The Android phones' Google Maps app (or mine, anyway) does traffic that seems to be up to date, and even turn-by-turn voice directions. I'm pretty happy that things which were science fiction aren't anymore. --DTVZ _

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-03-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 03/30/2010 10:38 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > > I note the most important programming tool is present, located about > > one foot to the left of the keyboard. ;-) > > Indeed; that would be my afternoon cup of tea. :-) > > I have a perhaps interesting strategy, which is to save tedious, > repeti

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-03-30 Thread Drew Van Zandt
> I note the most important programming tool is present, located about > one foot to the left of the keyboard. ;-) Indeed; that would be my afternoon cup of tea. :-) I have a perhaps interesting strategy, which is to save tedious, repetitive tasks (which cannot be easily or safely automated, a

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-03-30 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > http://oddones.org/lj_pics/drew_desk_crop.jpg I note the most important programming tool is present, located about one foot to the left of the keyboard. ;-) > Also, while discussing screen rotation etc. with a colleague, he mentioned >

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-03-30 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Germane to this: http://oddones.org/lj_pics/drew_desk_crop.jpg The Sapphire card with ATI driver lets me rotate the rightmost screen. I do still want to move the upper and lower panels to the leftmost screen, but it's pretty nice as-is. Weirdness: Turn off Xinerama and restart X so you can tel

Re: OpenOffice question

2010-03-30 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Susan Cragin wrote: > Does anyone know of any Linux application that does an > accurate word count, so I can check? First we have to define what we mean by "word". :) I'm no expert on the subject, but I've been told if you ask an English major, a computer scie

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-03-30 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: > I find it a bit easier to read/scan newspapers and magazine articles in > narrow columns then wide.  There's an optimal width. Reference books are > wider.  Paperback novels seem optimal for pleasure reading. It's generally accepted that for

Re: [OT] Terminal width

2010-03-30 Thread Tom Buskey
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > wrote: > > Maybe it's analogous to the way that newspaper-texts are laid-out > > in side-by-side columns. > > One difference that may be of significance is: Newspaper is of fixed >

Re: [OT] Terminal width (was: OpenOffice question)

2010-03-30 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 03/29/2010 09:34 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Ric Werme wrote: > >> ... I find myself sticking to emacs and its "fill paragraph" >> function and 80 column lines. It's amazing how much influence IBM cards >> still have on me and other right-thinking individual

Re: OpenOffice question

2010-03-30 Thread Susan Cragin
I actually don't know if OO does a correct word count. On a 40,000 word document, I get a difference between that and gedit. It's of some concern to me because I'm a writer. Does anyone know of any Linux application that does an accurate word count, so I can check?-Original Message- From: T