Re: OT: Carpet Bombing Pranksters TARGET YouTube for PornDay

2009-06-21 Thread Technomage
Lisa Kachold wrote: YouTube is the latest target for pranksters looking to amuse themselves. Today, May 20, has been deemed Porn Day by denizens of 4chan and eBaum's World, with an organized group of users from the sites uploading video clips of explicit, adult content en masse in an attempt

Re: Just complete apt-get /update/upgrade and my system is bonked!

2009-06-21 Thread Joseph Sinclair
You have a couple problems that I can see from this: 1) libxml is horked. This is pretty bad (because of all the xml in the Gnome configs), but can be fixed 2) Nautilus is failing to start due to missing core library dependencies, this is what's causing your no-desktop issues. try the

Re: OT: Gift for the Hacker Dad

2009-06-21 Thread Tuna
My dad is not a hacker, but a schoolteacher, and to keep his students from stealing test answers and such, I put the windows executable for Truecrypt on a USB drive with a nicely-sized TC volume. Then I put in an autorun file that will let him choose to run the executable with the arguments so

Re: Fedora Core 11

2009-06-21 Thread Ryan Rix
e_e I think that would better be labelled: RHEL: We're not Fedora, honest! Since Fedora is a tech test bed of RHEL. On 6/20/09, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora -- (503)754-4452 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LisaKachold

Re: Opera as a Server

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Gehlker
On Jun 20, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/06/opera-hoping-to-reinvent-the-web-by-making-browser-a-server.ars Microsoft puts a server, enabled by default, in the OS and that works out so well with Blaster et al that it spawns a new industry of

Re: Opera as a Server

2009-06-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
http://digitallyevolved.net/img/motivational/ignorance.gif On 6/21/09, Chris Gehlker canyon...@mac.com wrote: On Jun 20, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/06/opera-hoping-to-reinvent-the-web-by-making-browser-a-server.ars Microsoft puts a server,

Re: Fedora Core 11

2009-06-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
http://digitallyevolved.net/img/motivational/linux-redhat.jpg On 6/21/09, Ryan Rix phrkonale...@gmail.com wrote: e_e I think that would better be labelled: RHEL: We're not Fedora, honest! Since Fedora is a tech test bed of RHEL. On 6/20/09, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote:

Re: OT: Carpet Bombing Pranksters TARGET YouTube for PornDay

2009-06-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
http://www.obnosis.com/motivatebytruth/anonymous4.jpg On 6/20/09, Technomage technomage.ha...@gmail.com wrote: Lisa Kachold wrote: YouTube is the latest target for pranksters looking to amuse themselves. Today, May 20, has been deemed Porn Day by denizens of 4chan and eBaum's World, with an

Re: Fedora Core 11

2009-06-21 Thread Ryan Rix
Yup and targeting a server market that wants servers that just work didn't really work too well for microsoft. The reason RHEL charges money (besides to make money) is to provide support that the suits in home office need to feel comfortabke, even with competent IT staff... If you don't want to

Re: Just complete apt-get /update/upgrade and my system is bonked!

2009-06-21 Thread Mark Phillips
Joseph, Thanks for the suggestions. When I reinstalled libxml2 there were no errors. When I installed the librsvg2 apps, librsvg2-2 and librsvg2-common were already the latest versions and librsvg2-bin was installed. After a reboot, I still had the libxml2 errors in .xsession-errors. I searched

first ABLEconf mtg tonight

2009-06-21 Thread der.hans
moin moin, just a reminder that the first ABLEconf mtg is tonight. http://www.ABLEconf.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page#Meeting_Agendas Meetings held in #ABLEconf on irc.FreeNode.net. Meetings are Sundays at 20:00. ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/

GeekWeek - November 6-15, 2009

2009-06-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
Just when you thought this was the Hans' one Trick Pony (tail) Show here comes: http://azgeekweek.com When is geekweek?November 6-15, 2009 With geeks, the line between contributing to, or attending an event and experiencing community are * seriously* blurred. If you are a designer, creative,

Re: Fedora Core 11

2009-06-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
But if you want cheap licensure, get (or pay to train) RHCE staff. It's the cisco systems model, at some level? On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Ryan Rix phrkonale...@gmail.com wrote: Yup and targeting a server market that wants servers that just work didn't really work too well for

Re: Just complete apt-get /update/upgrade and my system is bonked!

2009-06-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
Amazing feat of savedom! You get to do the God Dance now! http://www.obnosis.com/motivatebytruth/kittens.jpg On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.bizwrote: Joseph, Thanks for the suggestions. When I reinstalled libxml2 there were no errors. When I

CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh

2009-06-21 Thread Eric Shubert
I have a Ubuntu 8.04 host, running a Visduh guest using vmware player 2.5.1. It's working pretty well, but I don't really use Visduh much. I'm trying to use the Windoze media player to rip a CD, accessing the CDrom directly. The Vista VM is connected to the /dev/scd0 device, but when I insert

Re: CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh

2009-06-21 Thread Lisa Kachold
Alternately run mount/umount after determining the device /dev/scd0 device idea and status via dmesg. So, you will umount it #umount /dev/scd0 or # umount /mnt/CDROM (or wherever she is mounted) then # mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/CDROM On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net

Re: first ABLEconf mtg tonight

2009-06-21 Thread David Munson
Is that 20:00 AZ time? On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: moin moin, just a reminder that the first ABLEconf mtg is tonight. http://www.ABLEconf.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page#Meeting_Agendas Meetings held in #ABLEconf on irc.FreeNode.net. Meetings

Re: CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh

2009-06-21 Thread Eric Shubert
That's what I tried. After I've inserted it and have the icon on my desktop, I get: r...@edwin:~# umount /dev/scd0 umount: /dev/scd0: not mounted r...@edwin:~# Yet the icon is on my desktop, and when I double click it, Nautilus open it. So what's controlling the device? It just occurred to me

Re: first ABLEconf mtg tonight

2009-06-21 Thread der.hans
Am 21. Jun, 2009 schwätzte David Munson so: Is that 20:00 AZ time? Yup. It's an Arizona conference, so we don't care what time the rest of the world thinks it is. Especially the parts that can't make up their minds and keep flip-flopping a couple times a year ;-). ciao, der.hans -- #

Re: first ABLEconf mtg tonight

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Schwartz
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: moin moin, just a reminder that the first ABLEconf mtg is tonight. http://www.ABLEconf.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page#Meeting_Agendas Meetings held in #ABLEconf on irc.FreeNode.net. Meetings are Sundays at 20:00.

IRC server squawk (?) (was: Re: first ABLEconf mtg tonight)

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Schwartz
OOPS! I forgot to send a Cc of this to IRC server administrator w...@freenode.net ...my apologies for not doing so 3 minutes ago (see below:) -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwa...@acm.org On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Mike Schwartz mike.l.schwa...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at

Re: first ABLEconf mtg tonight

2009-06-21 Thread David Munson
Freenode's a IRC network... do you have an IRC client? If not, firefox has an addon one called ChatZilla that works well enough. There's also xchat and a few others. I've been on IRC nearly every day for the last 6 or 7 years... Basically, you want to install and run an IRC client, then once

Re: first ABLEconf mtg tonight

2009-06-21 Thread Joshua Zeidner
or just go here http://webchat.freenode.net/ with a web browser. -jmz On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:52 PM, David Munsondavid.mun...@gmail.com wrote: Freenode's a IRC network... do you have an IRC client? If not, firefox has an addon one called ChatZilla that works well enough. There's also

Re: MythTV and Cox HD Digital TV

2009-06-21 Thread Shawn Badger
The Haugpauuge HD PVR works with Linux but I wasn't able to make it work with Myth (there is money in it for someone that can make it work under Mythbuntu). http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html I have used the blackmagic cars int he past (under another OS) and they are the best

Re: CD access Ubuntu 8.04 / vmware player / Visduh

2009-06-21 Thread Eric Shubert
Eric Shubert wrote: I have a Ubuntu 8.04 host, running a Visduh guest using vmware player 2.5.1. It's working pretty well, but I don't really use Visduh much. I'm trying to use the Windoze media player to rip a CD, accessing the CDrom directly. The Vista VM is connected to the /dev/scd0

Re: Just complete apt-get /update/upgrade and my system is bonked!

2009-06-21 Thread Mark Phillips
I am not a cat person. On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.comwrote: Amazing feat of savedom! You get to do the God Dance now! http://www.obnosis.com/motivatebytruth/kittens.jpg On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz

Re: west side during the summer

2009-06-21 Thread der.hans
Am 05. Jun, 2009 schwätzte Vaughn Treude so: moin moin, we let this drop, but need to have a decision by the end of Monday. They don't have a back room, but the Wildflower Bakery near I-17 and the 101 (in the Deer Valley Center SW of the intersection) has been very accommodating to my SF