Re: Inexpensive Linux Laptop

2007-06-06 Thread Kjel Anderson
I just picked up an Everex xT5000T (Made by FIC). I'm running Kubuntu Feisty. Everything worked from the git go with the exception of the internal speakers. I have headphones but no internal speakers. Since I almost never use the built in speakers it is not a big deal. For the price ($770) this

Scripting with wireless network cards

2007-06-03 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey everyone, My laptop has a problem where the wireless network card stops sending and receiving every now and again. I'll run the ifdown and ifup scripts to know effect. It will get an ip address from the router, but it won't actually communicate with anything. I'd like to learn more about

Kubuntu Feisty Fawn intel-8x0 alsa

2007-06-02 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey everyone, New laptop with an nvidia chipset. The sound card is the one that comes with the 430/410 chipset. The alsa web page says that the driver is in the kernel (specifically intel-8x0). I downloaded the latest version of alsa and rebuilt it from scratch, but no dice. If anyone has more

Re: Kubuntu Feisty Fawn intel-8x0 alsa (nVidia MCP51 audio)

2007-06-02 Thread Kjel Anderson
Thank you for that. Are you getting any sound out of it at the moment? On 6/2/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're fsck'd - no useful FOSS drivers exist. Send a love letter to the super geniuses at nVidia to explain how happy you are that they won't release specs for that

Re: Cheap USB Analog Tuner

2007-04-20 Thread Kjel Anderson
Those of us who don't plan to buy modern hardware thank you for your generosity. Kjel On 4/20/07, Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/20/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess a bunch of tax dollars are going to be allocated for buying external digital tuners for people, so

Re: Netflix IE

2007-04-14 Thread Kjel Anderson
Thanks for posting that. This sort of thing pisses me off too. Kjel On 4/14/07, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just discovered that Netflix is starting a new on-demand feature that will allow you to watch videos from your home computer, without waiting for them to arrive in the mail.

Re: Hardware for sale

2007-04-03 Thread Kjel Anderson
My wife would KILL me. sob Kjel On 4/2/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/2/07, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sun Ultra Enterprise 3000 - $700 http://www.oasis-open.org/home/sunservers/sun_ue3000.html Sun Enterprise 450 - $500

Re: I reallly do not understand what the issue is.....

2007-03-08 Thread Kjel Anderson
The link to the comments on EOOXML would be hilarious if it weren't so scary. This is my favorite part so far: Where Ecma 376 specifies 50 pages of clip art (pages 2415 to 2465), ISO 26300 allows the insertion of an arbitrary image into the document. The absurdity is breathtaking! Kjel On

Re: Trying to try Kubunto...

2007-02-27 Thread Kjel Anderson
I've gone over to only using the alternate install cd. It seems much more stable. Kjel On 2/27/07, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/27/07, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I decided it was time to give Kubuntu 6.10 a try. Now the only system I can realistically

Re: ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

2007-02-25 Thread Kjel Anderson
I don't love the style of ESR's comments, but I think that maybe some folks on the list are missing his point. I believe he is trying to express that as long as installing software has anything to do with how rusty your cs skills are, adoption of Linux for regular users is going to continue to be

Re: Gimp and/or Blender tutorials for kids

2007-01-21 Thread Kjel Anderson
I used the Blender wikibook. It is in the form of a tutorial. It seems fairly complete. Kjel On 1/21/07, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 19 January 2007 07:14 pm, Larry Cook wrote: My 13 year old daughter would like to add things like dragons to her digital photos. She

Re: New hard disk

2006-11-29 Thread Kjel Anderson
PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 09:50 -0500, Ted Roche wrote: On Nov 28, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Kjel Anderson wrote: So, everything has worked relatively well up to the time that it was time to resize the ntfs partition. I'm not having much luck there. My copy of partition magic is a little

Re: Microsoft brain-damage of the day

2006-11-29 Thread Kjel Anderson
Is that the new Powershell syntax? That is god-awful. Wow. Makes perl look pretty. Kjel On 11/29/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under 'nix, if I want to put the output of a command into a shell environment variable, I do this: NOW=$( date -I ) Under 'doze, I have to do this:

New hard disk

2006-11-28 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey list, I wanted to know if anyone was aware of a good howto for the following situation. I currently have an 80 GB HDD installed in my system with a dual boot of Kubuntu/Windows XP (still like the games). I just purchased a 250 GB HDD that I want to install. I'd like to move /home directory

Re: New hard disk

2006-11-28 Thread Kjel Anderson
. The other 15% of the time it is the spawn of hell. I'll be sure to let you guys know if I screw this up. Thanks, Kjel On Tuesday 28 November 2006 3:19 pm, Ben Scott wrote: On 11/28/06, Kjel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I currently have an 80 GB HDD ... I just purchased a 250 GB

Re: New hard disk

2006-11-28 Thread Kjel Anderson
delete the Windows partition and then create a new one when I reinstall, but that will take a really long time. ntfsresize will not resize the partition, so that doesn't really help. Any other ideas? Kjel On Tuesday 28 November 2006 5:00 pm, Ben Scott wrote: On 11/28/06, Kjel Anderson [EMAIL

Re: Apache2 troubleshooting

2006-10-25 Thread Kjel Anderson
Sorry for being repetitive. I do appreciate all of the help.KjelOn 10/25/06, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Kjel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found this in the logs as well. I don't know what it is about (other than php), but it is five minutes before apache restarted: [Mon Oct 23

Apache2 troubleshooting

2006-10-24 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey list, I'm trying to debug a problem with Apache2, and I was hoping that someone on this list might be able to give me an idea where to start. It seems as if Apache is restarting itself. The logs have this: [Mon Oct 23 17:06:45 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.1.2 configured --

Re: Apache2 troubleshooting

2006-10-24 Thread Kjel Anderson
, and I do believe it kills and restarts processes after a given number of requests. Even if it doesn't,by using the CLI you reduce to problem to a simpler Unix job control issue.Take it easy,David BerubeBerube Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED](603)-485-9622http://www.berubeconsulting.com/Kjel Anderson

Re: Apache2 troubleshooting

2006-10-24 Thread Kjel Anderson
That could be it. I'll check. Thanks!KjelOn 10/24/06, Stephen Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:That doesn't look much like a crash; it looks more like a cron job. 'logrotate' restarts apache periodically.Is that it?On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 09:16 -0400, Kjel Anderson wrote: Hey list, I'm trying to debug

Re: Apache2 troubleshooting

2006-10-24 Thread Kjel Anderson
Well, it was a good idea. logrotate is set to run at 6.25 a.m. and my problem happened at 17:23. I am going to keep digging.KjelOn 10/24/06, Kjel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That could be it. I'll check. Thanks!KjelOn 10/24/06, Stephen Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:That doesn't look much

Re: Apache2 troubleshooting

2006-10-24 Thread Kjel Anderson
I found this in the logs as well. I don't know what it is about (other than php), but it is five minutes before apache restarted: [Mon Oct 23 17:01:40 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.1.2 configured -- resuming normal operations On 10/24/06, Kjel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: ReiserFS creator arrested over missing woman

2006-10-11 Thread Kjel Anderson
I'd like to add that whole innocent until proven guilty thing.KjelOn 10/11/06, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Tuesday 10 October 2006 10:07 pm, Bayard Coolidge wrote: Guess I better reinstall with ext3 until ext4 is ready. Apologies in advance if there's too much HTML - I'm trying to do

Kmail weirdness

2006-10-09 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey everyone,I am having a weird problem with Kmail. When it connects to my pop server, it sees the mail, but thinks that it has 0 size. It doesn't do this for every message, it seems like it happens a few times a day. I tried Thunderbird email, and it does not exhibit this problem. The mail

Re: Kmail weirdness

2006-10-09 Thread Kjel Anderson
I've not heard of this. It seems unlikely, but what is the limit?KjelOn 10/9/06, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Monday 09 October 2006 12:17 pm, Kjel Anderson wrote: I am having a weird problem with Kmail. When it connects to my pop server, it sees the mail, but thinks that it has 0

Re: Sharing Calendars with Outlook

2006-10-06 Thread Kjel Anderson
I was not aware about Outlook supporting iCal. It has been a long time since I subjected myself to that particular software. I'll give that a try.KjelOn 10/5/06, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this has probably been done to death. I want to be able to share calendars with some

Sharing Calendars with Outlook

2006-10-06 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey List, I know this has probably been done to death. I want to be able to share calendars with some outlook users. I am using Kontact. I have a couple of Linux servers available. Our email is handled via the ISP. Any ideas? Thanks, Kjel ___

Sharing Calendars with Outlook

2006-10-05 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey List, I know this has probably been done to death. I want to be able to share calendars with some outlook users. I am using Kontact. I have a couple of Linux servers available. Our email is handled via the ISP. Any ideas? Thanks, Kjel ___

Job Posting

2006-10-02 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey list, I mentioned this job about a week ago. I wanted to send it to the list now that I actually have a description. We are getting ready to start contacting folks for the interview process, and I wanted to make sure that anyone who might be interested from the list gets a crack. Thanks,

Job Posting

2006-10-02 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey list,I mentioned this job about a week ago. I wanted to send it to the list now that I actually have a description. We are getting ready to start contacting folks for the interview process, and I wanted to make sure that anyone who might be interested from the list gets a

Video editing under Linux

2006-09-28 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey everyone, Another question: I have a digital camera that will record fairly nice video, but unfortunately it records it as an *.mov file. I figured out how to use mencoder to change it to a variety of different formats. What I would like to do is to be able to edit several of these clips

Video editing in lInux

2006-09-27 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey everyone,Another question: I have a digital camera that will record fairly nice video, but unfortunately it records it as an *.mov file. I figured out how to use mencoder to change it to a variety of different formats. What I would like to do is to be able to edit several of these clips

Re: Video editing in lInux

2006-09-27 Thread Kjel Anderson
someone who had actually succeeded at this so I can get an idea of a rational tool chain for this sort of video editing. Thanks,KjelOn 9/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kjel Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:35:00 -0400 but unfortunately it records

Re: Video editing in lInux

2006-09-27 Thread Kjel Anderson
At least I am not alone in this. I am going to keep working on it. I'll post if I make any progress.KjelOn 9/27/06, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Kjel Anderson wrote: Another question: I have a digital camera that will record fairly nice video, but unfortunately it records it as an *.mov

Re: Video editing in lInux

2006-09-27 Thread Kjel Anderson
Thanks for the information about the .MOV files. I hate that it isn't something a little more universal. I'll give ffmpeg a try.KjelOn 9/27/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Sep 27, 2006, at 10:35, Kjel Anderson wrote: but unfortunately it records it as an *.mov file.do we know what

Memory upgrade and swap partition size

2006-09-26 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey list, I am probably exposing my ignorance by asking this, but I have to remember: there are no stupid questions, just stupid people. I just upgraded the RAM in my workstation from 1GB to 2GB. Will resizing the swap partition to the general guideline of double installed memory make a

Re: Memory upgrade and swap partition size

2006-09-26 Thread Kjel Anderson
Thanks for that information. That is certainly very helpful.KjelOn 9/26/06, Jon maddog Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Kjel,[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am probably exposing my ignorance by asking this, but I have to remember: there are no stupid questions, just stupid people.This is not a stupid

Re: Memory upgrade and swap partition size

2006-09-26 Thread Kjel Anderson
That's good advice. I am putting together a machine out of old parts at the moment for my son to use. I have been playing with Xfce and found that to work really quite well with a 733 PIII and 256MB Ram. I'll try a bigger swap on that machine and see how it does. I am pretty comfortable with the

Job postings

2006-09-25 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey everyone, I am posting a job online, and I am wondering what job boards folks on the list actually look at (if any). Thanks, Kjel ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org

Job opportunity

2006-09-13 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey everyone,My company is looking for an entry level programmer. We are making heavy use of PHP, ActionScript, Posgres and PostGIS, and a few other goodies. If anyone knows a candidate for this sort of thing please let me know, Thanks,Kjel

Re: Job opportunity

2006-09-13 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey everyone,I don't mean to be cryptic, I just found out that I have the budget to get some help today, and I have been working 10 - 14 hours a day for the last eight days. I will definately post more details when I have a bit more information. My biggest concern is finding someone that will be

Where to buy a video card in Boston

2006-09-07 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey everybody,I find myself in Boston for a couple of days, and I need a new video card. Does anyone have a recommendation of where to go?Thanks,Kjel

Trying to sell a laptop locally

2006-08-30 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey everybody,I've tried Craigs List. Is there a better way? I listed it on Ebay and I think the problem was that it didn't have windows installed.Thanks,Kjel

Re: Chris Schmidt speaks at Where 2.0

2006-05-13 Thread Kjel Anderson
Thanks for posting about this. This is the sort of thing that I am working with every day, and I had no idea that there was a conference coming up. I've been doing the web gis stuff for about five years, and it really seems to be heating up at the moment. Don't know if the boss will approve

Re: Laptop OS Virtualization?

2006-04-10 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey Ted, I am using VMWare running on top of Kubuntu. I have several Microsoft virtual machines running, each with different software installed. The nice thing about it is I can pause a virtual machine and then resume it later, totally circumventing the windows boot process. In my work flow I

Re: Laptop OS Virtualization?

2006-04-10 Thread Kjel Anderson
Hey Ted, I am using VMWare running on top of Kubuntu. I have several Microsoft virtual machines running, each with different software installed. The nice thing about it is I can pause a virtual machine and then resume it later, totally circumventing the windows boot process. In my work flow I