Re: [mhvlug] LibreOffice 3.3.0 ( does it remove OpenOffice? )

2011-01-30 Thread Jim Hartley
I can send one offline. Unfortunately I don't have any of the longer files that I can reasonably afford to have floating around the net (I'm trying to SELL these things and have to be very careful about things like prior publication). Jim Hartley Joseph Apuzzo wrote: I think they can not co

Re: [mhvlug] I need a primer on OS2

2010-07-28 Thread Jim Hartley
the later Warp releases, were quite nice. In an alternate timeline where OS/2 remained alive and popular, Linux achieved far less popularity than in our timeline. Having used both, I would say OS/2 and Linux are comparable in function and ease of use (both much better than Windoze). Jim Hartley

Re: [mhvlug] FastStone IV

2010-07-05 Thread Jim Hartley
slideshows. I almost always want to do /*one*/ of these things. Don't really need a Swiss Navy knife. Jim Hartley Phil M Perry wrote: This may be more a matter of philosophy than any thing else, but this FastStone sounds like it's trying to be a Swiss Army Knife (or maybe a Leatherman Tool) of image

Re: [mhvlug] Linux Graphics Apps?

2010-07-04 Thread Jim Hartley
There are a lot of image viewer programs available on Linux, I have several of them that work. What does this FastStone do that makes it special? Jim Hartley WestHurley ComputerReCycling wrote: Would like to migrate from Windows to Linux for my Graphics Apps. While some like GIMP

Re: [mhvlug] FOSS project Diaspora needs to be stopped!

2010-05-14 Thread Jim Hartley
Er, did you forget the sarcasm ... /sarcasm tags? Jim Hartley Joseph Apuzzo wrote: With all the public focus on Facebook privacy fail: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/05/12/business/facebook-privacy.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8681730.stm I found this project being

Re: [mhvlug] Google Chrome license

2010-03-01 Thread Jim Hartley
telling me the next time I start the machine that they have generously upgraded me to the new, bugy, unusable version (NO autoupdates on this one!). Bottom line - I would never use this chromium-OS, it simply wouldn't work for me. YMMV. Jim Hartley -- Teen Angel - a ghost story - http

Re: [mhvlug] Google Chrome license

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Hartley
, working versions of software, autoupdates BREAK things. I agree with you, I don't think I could accept that, either. Jim Hartley Chris Knadle wrote: For any of you that don't want to bother reading through the Google Chrome license, I did that recently, and was not able to accept it due

Re: [mhvlug] Jumpstart Your Tech Library.

2010-01-17 Thread Jim Hartley
like $35 per copy to catalog and shelve the books ... often more than the cost of buying a new book. You can try, but don't be disappointed if it doesn't happen - many libraries ONLY want donated books for the 50 cent book sale pile. Jim Hartley Eric Myers wrote: On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Derek J

Re: [mhvlug] slow gimp

2009-12-17 Thread Jim Hartley
You want something that will give you a REALLY slow GIMP? Interesting article on Slashdot. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/12/17/2218257 Jim Hartley -- Teen Angel - a ghost story - http://teenangel.netfirms.com ___ Mid-Hudson Valley

Re: [mhvlug] slow gimp.

2009-12-16 Thread Jim Hartley
as you can, and shut down everything else that is running so it doesn't have to do any swapping to disk (that used to help a lot o=when I was running on an older, slower, low-memory machine). Or buy a bigger, faster computer if you're going to do this a lot! Jim Hartley Sean Dague wrote: On 12

Re: [mhvlug] Google Chrome OS based on linux.

2009-07-10 Thread Jim Hartley
OS. Jim Hartley Chris Knadle wrote: On Friday 10 July 2009, Sean Dague wrote: Chris Knadle wrote:] Most would rather avoid the hassle -- Gmail is an easier option, and so then we try to forget about the hidden costs and potential risks. I don't blame you or anybody else for that -- but when

Re: [mhvlug] 'ls' sort oddity

2009-04-06 Thread Jim Hartley
the numeric substring to a decimal number, and sorts on THAT!!! Yikes! Thus we would have files ordered as 9abc.x, 73abc.x, 501abc.x, 666abc.x, 1001abc.x, abc.x, and so on. How to find anything in that mess? I wonder if LC_COLLATE=C would have any effect on Nautilus? Jim Hartley jie

Re: [mhvlug] The I'm Linux Video Contest

2009-01-18 Thread Jim Hartley
that will take large files, there are 3 MPG's and they run 7-9M each). Or if someone has a good place for them, let me know and I'll upload them. Jim Hartley Sean Dague wrote: Because I thought people here might be interested, here is the details on the Linux Foundation I'm Linux Video Contest

Re: [mhvlug] How to Release Software?

2008-08-25 Thread Jim Hartley
the protection GPL affords (is it likely that M$ will steal your work for the next version of Windoze?), go with something simpler like BSD ... or even declare the work Public Domain. But, if someone realy wants to use GPL for a short script, I will not say them nay! JIm Hartley Chris Knadle

Re: [mhvlug] How to Release Software?

2008-08-25 Thread Jim Hartley
OK, I was not aware of that ... Public Domain seems like such a self-evident concept. But if it can cause problems on the global scene, I concede the point. Don't use it. BSD gives away ALMOST all the same rights as PD, anyway. Jim Hartley Sean O'Connor wrote: Be careful with the idea

Re: [mhvlug] Stupid growisofs won't cooperate

2008-01-05 Thread Jim Hartley
; it worked perfectly for me. Jim Hartley matthew scouten wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 10:44 PM, Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008, matthew scouten wrote: I hate to compile other people's code. There always seems to be some library I am missing or some dev package I need

Re: [mhvlug] Bash scripting question

2008-01-05 Thread Jim Hartley
I always use awk for this kind of thing, with a bash wrapper (usually piping the output of ls into the awk program). If you are interested I'll dig around and find something similar to this in my ~/bin directory. Jim Hartley John Mort wrote: I have a crontab script that pulls map files (a PNG

Re: [mhvlug] problems with new mailing list

2007-09-30 Thread Jim Hartley
? (This is the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account.) Jim Hartley -- Teen Angel - a ghost story - http://teenangel.netfirms.com ___ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug