Re: GCC C/C++ application to run on Windows

2008-08-15 Thread Nathan England
What specifically are you looking to do with it? I'm sure it's going to be mentioned, but writing a c/c++ program to run on windows and linux would be bloated, badly and very complicated. You would be well off to write a QT app to run in both. They pride themselves on the mantra, 'code

Re: Funny how things get names... :)

2009-01-03 Thread Nathan England
On Thursday 01 January 2009 08:44:50 kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: First read the first few lines of: http://packages.debian.org/sid/molly-guard Then jump to: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/molly-guard I wonder where Molly is now... :) ET

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Nathan England
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 07:03:16 Jerry Davis wrote: I finally broke down and after 5 good years with my old laptop bought one with a NVIDIA board in it. I am very satisfied with it, (except the DVD drive does not work -- another topic someday), but KDE 4.x does strange things with NVIDIA.

Re: Which Distro?

2009-01-07 Thread Nathan England
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 13:32:20 Stephen wrote: but maybe he is looking for an excuse to drop KDE and move to Gnome? *snicker* I guess if someone was holding a gun to to his head... lol --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Red Hat vs. Fedora

2009-01-22 Thread Nathan England
All, Possibly a dumb question, so I apologize ahead of time! I Know admittedly little about Red Hat or Fedora. If I decided I want to learn as much about Red Hat as possible, should I get an official Red Hat release or is Fedora similar enough that I could learn how Red Hat does things? Is

Re: Trying Fedora

2009-01-25 Thread Nathan England
On Friday 23 January 2009 22:55:50 Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 20:10 -0700, Jerry Davis wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:54:23 -0700 Joshua Zeidner jjzeid...@gmail.com wrote: try Ubuntu... jmz ubuntu 8.10 is both good and bad. I have used ubuntu for a couple years now,

Re: Compact Flash memory test

2009-01-27 Thread Nathan England
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 15:10:16 Matt Graham wrote: From: Mike Bushroe mbush...@gmail.com I want to know if anyone knows of a memory tester for Compact Flash cards. It would be helpful if the file system test could be run under Ubuntu or Windows XP. When flash goes bad, reads of the

OT: HTML Emails -- Re: Other than frys where would you get server hardware

2009-01-28 Thread Nathan England
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 11:49:48 Patrick Jacques wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head meta content=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type title/title /head body bgcolor=#ff text=#00 On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:08 PM,

ext3 vs ext4

2009-02-05 Thread Nathan England
Hello Hello, I have been looking for a review of ext3 vs ext4 since ext4 became official... I can only find older reviews using early or later ext4dev but not the official ext4. Anyone know of any? Am I not digging into google far enough? In short, is it worth wiping a hard drive and

kernel problems

2009-02-05 Thread Nathan England
Hello Hello, I currently am running 2.6.24.7 and I have stuck with it because of bootsplash patches for it. I decided to try to build a new kernel, but I cannot make it boot. I have my own initramfs that my current kernel loads. It is not required, as my current kernel will boot even if I

Re: kernel problems

2009-02-06 Thread Nathan England
On Friday 06 February 2009 01:04:58 Tony E - Jaraeth wrote: A LOT of things have changed.  Don't try to use the old initramfs, as it is too old for a 2.6.28 kernel. Well, what do Ubuntu and the others do then? Do they build all drivers into the kernel now, no initrd or ramfs anymore? nathan

Re: kernel problems

2009-02-06 Thread Nathan England
On Friday 06 February 2009 01:06:09 Tony E - Jaraeth wrote: Eeek! My config file for Gentoo 2.6.28x http://www.peacebringers.com/config.txt Ciao! So I downloaded it, changed my sata drivers to be included and built it and it worked fine. So now I need to figure out why yours worked and

Re: Tuna's Command-Line Migration Adventure Episode 3: E-Mail!

2009-02-08 Thread Nathan England
On Sunday 08 February 2009 05:29:42 Tuna wrote: I want to switch to mutt. I really do. However, I am currently using Thunderbird, which I configured to download messages and delete them from the POP server. So it would be kind of inconvenient for me right now, as I don't want to lose the over

System Information

2009-02-09 Thread Nathan England
Hello Hello, I'm looking for a utility that can show system information, such as bus speed, ram speed, maybe other stuff. There are dozens of windows programs that run tests and report various things such as thing, but are there any for linux? nathan

Re: Fedora 10 GNOME and KDE

2009-02-16 Thread Nathan England
On Monday 16 February 2009 17:14:37 Rhune Lord wrote: GNOME http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-fedora-10 KDE http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/testing-fedora-10-kde-edition / I have been a Kubuntu fan for some time but the Gnome based Fedora 10 live disk I have is

shell question

2009-02-16 Thread Nathan England
Hello Hello, I am looking for an explanation of what '$$' is in bash. I can create a file or a directory, assign it to variables, but how much can I do before it changes, or what causes it to change? What exactly does it mean? Searching google for '$$' returns nothing useful. Nathan

Re: Booting To Terminal

2009-02-17 Thread Nathan England
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 05:20:43 Tameek Henderson wrote: Hey guys, I'm running Ubuntu on my laptop, and I would like the OS to boot to a Terminal instead of the GUI when I first turn it on. Can someone let me knowthe file I need to edit to make that hapen. Thanks, Tameek Henderson

Re: Booting To Terminal

2009-02-17 Thread Nathan England
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 08:38:04 you wrote: I prefer booting into runlevel 4, as it's still multiuser, just no GUI, whereas runlevel 2 is not. id:4:initdefault: That is good to know, I thought run level 2 was the same as 5 in debian/ubuntu systems, except no X. Nathan

Re: OT:Switch boosts ethernet?

2009-02-18 Thread Nathan England
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 17:55:59 Alan Dayley wrote: Calling wiring gurus! Maximum ethernet connection length is approx. 300 feet. If I need to get to 400 feet, can I just put a switch in the middle of two 200 foot cables? Alan ---

Re: OT:Switch boosts ethernet?

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan England
[mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Nathan England Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:54 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: OT:Switch boosts ethernet? On Wednesday 18 February 2009 17:55:59 Alan Dayley wrote: Calling wiring gurus! Maximum

Re: new hotness?

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan England
On Thursday 19 February 2009 18:12:00 Francis Earl wrote: My personal list of Distributions i have spent some real quality time with Ubuntu/Debian Fedora/Red Hat new and old/Centos Suse/Opensuse Gentoo You should take some time to look at Arch. While it isn't particularly new

Re: Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan England
://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss You can do contact and calendar sync with gmail and KDE kontact, if you enable IMAP in your google account. Works quite well. nathan -- Nathan England ~ PaysonLinux OE 1.98.9 http://www.PaysonLinux.org/ Core Development Team nathan

Re: Exchange good? (Was:Re: new hotness?)

2009-02-19 Thread Nathan England
your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss You can do contact and calendar sync with gmail and KDE kontact, if you enable IMAP in your google account. Works quite well. nathan -- Nathan England ~ PaysonLinux OE 1.98.9 http

OT: Linux Question

2009-02-25 Thread Nathan England
Sorry for the Off-Topic question, I realize this list has become a Windows/Exchange list, but if anyone has a moment to spare, I have a linux related question... ;-) I have spamassassin setup and it has been working great for years, but I've noticed recently a lot of the external resources

Re: Layer 0/1 Issue

2009-02-26 Thread Nathan England
On Thursday 26 February 2009 00:52:15 Lisa Kachold wrote: I've lost a machine.. literally _lost! It responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. Suggestions? obnosis.com | wiki.obnosis.com| (503)754-4452 PLUG HACKFESTS 2nd Saturday Each

Re: samba rename bug - solution?

2009-03-06 Thread Nathan England
On Friday 06 March 2009 20:03:14 Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:11 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: I'm using rsync and cygwin to migrate some files from WinXP to samba (3.0.28-1.el5_2.1) on Centos (5.2). Files that have the read-only attribute are failing the final rename with

Re: Kmail or Evolution?

2009-07-30 Thread Nathan England
with Konqueror and Koffice makes it slick as well. nathan -- ~ Nathan England (928) 951-5116 nat...@paysonlinux.org http://www.paysonlinux.org/ Information Security Consulting Software and Web Development Systems Administration

Re: Kmail or Evolution?

2009-07-30 Thread Nathan England
a message to its own window, a simple key stroke will close the window and open the next message in a new window. Or am I missing something here? nathan -- ~ Nathan England (928) 951-5116 nat...@paysonlinux.org http://www.paysonlinux.org/ Information Security

Re: Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-07-31 Thread Nathan England
On Friday 31 July 2009 07:14:52 pm keith smith wrote: I see value in these places. It gives one a place to plug in and find like minded people. I was excited when I read the story. Keith Smith I wish there was something like that down here in Douglas!

SIP to POTS gateways ?

2009-08-01 Thread Nathan England
about, I'm curious about other companies that I could use for making calls through my ISP rather than getting a regular line again. Obviously, I'd like it to be cheap and a Linux client is a must... anyone use something other than skype? -- ~ Nathan England (928) 951

Re: Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-08-01 Thread Nathan England
On Saturday 01 August 2009 11:58:45 am you wrote: Be an activist. Put together a club and meet in the library. Keith Smith --- On Fri, 7/31/09, Nathan England nat...@paysonlinux.org wrote: From: Nathan England nat...@paysonlinux.org Subject: Re: Geek

Re: Geek/Tech/Entrepreneur Stuff to do in PHX

2009-08-02 Thread Nathan England
On Sunday 02 August 2009 01:08:22 pm you wrote: Am 31. Jul, 2009 schwätzte Nathan England so: moin moin, I wish there was something like that down here in Douglas! I'd like to find another geek type person, even a flameretardentsuitWindows User/flameretardentsuit... Didn't realize

Re: Scripting help

2009-08-03 Thread Nathan England
On Sunday 02 August 2009 03:53:37 pm Shawn Badger wrote: Same result with and without the -1 :( I believe it is a L (but lowercase) not a 1 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to

Kernel Processor Family

2009-08-14 Thread Nathan England
Hello Hello, Does anyone know of any articles with comparisons to selecting different kernel processor families? ie, selecting Pentium III vs. Pentium 4 vs. using i686 nathan -- ~ Nathan England (928) 951-5116 nat...@paysonlinux.org http://www.paysonlinux.org

Re: What laptop to get to replace my 15 macbook?

2009-08-19 Thread Nathan England
what could be made to work! nathan -- ~ Nathan England (928) 951-5116 nat...@paysonlinux.org http://www.paysonlinux.org/ Information Security Consulting Software and Web Development Systems Administration --- PLUG

Re: One laptop, one monitor, two unrelated issues...

2009-08-23 Thread Nathan England
-- ~ Nathan England (928) 951-5116 nat...@paysonlinux.org http://www.paysonlinux.org/ Information Security Consulting Software and Web Development Systems Administration --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss

Re: Automount in Gnome

2009-08-28 Thread Nathan England
Are you a member of the hal or dbus groups? Or possibly policykit ? hal - 82 dbus - 81 policykit - 102 Check those groups. nathan -- ~ Nathan England (480) 559-9681 nat...@paysonlinux.org http://www.paysonlinux.org/ Information Security Consulting Software

Re: configure a test SSL

2009-08-31 Thread Nathan England
you to input your password - server.key.insecure A certificate signing request - server.crs A x509 signed cert using your new keys - server.crt Good luck! -- ~ Nathan England (480) 559-9681 nat...@paysonlinux.org http://www.paysonlinux.org/ Information Security

gcc and glibc

2009-09-07 Thread Nathan England
I have recently rebuilt my systems using gcc 4.3.4 and glibc-2.10.1 and I've had nothing but trouble since, especially with firefox and thunderbird, neither of which seem to run for more than a minute before segfaulting with NO information output at all... I'm curious, if you were to build a

rsync and deleted files

2009-09-07 Thread Nathan England
I plugged my USB drive into my system, ran my backup script and went to supper. My backup script contains rsync -avz --delete-after /home/naubrey/ /media/320GB/naubrey/ Usually, it works great. Problem is my /home/naubrey/ directory on my system was EMPTY and it wiped out my backup I just

Re: gcc and glibc

2009-09-07 Thread Nathan England
Hey Nathan - How'R ya? slamd supposedly has the fixed glibc for various types of segfaults (Xlib, swap, modprobe) due to some of the shared libraries issues (32/64 etc.) http://www.slamd64.com/ Neither LFS or BLFS recommend that you try to build or upgrade yourself: A Package Manager

Re: What is syntax to copy only new files?

2009-09-10 Thread Nathan England
What is the syntax to copy only new files from a CD backup to a hard disk? I make backups of my files onto CDs and copy them onto another computer to maintain redunancy. Probably there is a better way to do this (sync, etc.) so I would also appreciate knowing what is a better way to do

Re: How to resize (make larger) guest windows in virtualbox?

2009-09-12 Thread Nathan England
Finally got virtualbox running on my Linux machine, but the guest window is too small. How can I resize and make the guest window larger ... ideally to fill my 21 monitor display? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

OT: Texting Solution

2009-09-12 Thread Nathan England
My sister and I text eachother quite a bit. Except I do not have a texting plan, so I email her phonenum...@vtext.com like all verizon phones work. When she sends me an email the message go to a specific imap folder for only her messages. I would love to find a small app, such as kopete or

Re: 4 partitions

2009-09-12 Thread Nathan England
Nathan England wrote: Why? Who cares why? Is it possible or not? Do you have something useful to say or just a snappy question? Inquiring minds want to know. ;) I don't personally care to use logical partitions either and I would rather use 4 primary partitions. Why is that? What's

Re: 4 partitions

2009-09-12 Thread Nathan England
I suppose you never came into a situation where you needed to add another partition and couldn't because all of your primaries were used up. I have, so now I use an extended partition. ;) AFAIK, there is no good reason to make 1-4 all primaries. I just wanted to see if I had missed

Re: OT: Texting Solution

2009-09-12 Thread Nathan England
Got a gtalk account? Add your sister as a contact on it, add her phone number to the contact and enable the GMail labs feature to send sms through gtalk. I think you can only do it via gmail UI, not xmpp or gtalk, but that is a solution. You will even get a dedicated phone number she can

Re: OT: Texting Solution

2009-09-12 Thread Nathan England
Got a gtalk account? Add your sister as a contact on it, add her phone number to the contact and enable the GMail labs feature to send sms through gtalk. I think you can only do it via gmail UI, not xmpp or gtalk, but that is a solution. You will even get a dedicated phone number she can

Re: OT: Texting Solution

2009-09-12 Thread Nathan England
There is a gmail labs feature that will allow you to send sms through the GMail chat interface, which is routed to a PTSN number that she can text back (which appear as IMs) I'm not sure if enabling the feature in gmail labs will let it work in gtalk or direct through jabber, though.

Re: RC Service Order

2009-09-16 Thread Nathan England
Eric Cope wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know how to change the order in which services are started using the rc script? My particular system is FreeBSD, but Linux is similar (right?)? Eric I will assume it is similar to slackware where a single script is used to load the system. I would

Re: RC Service Order

2009-09-16 Thread Nathan England
Eric Cope wrote: I need openvpn, then samba, and finally pf (packet filter). Its currently the reverse order. I know where the conf file is, where is the script? Eric usually it would be /etc/rc.sysinit /etc/rc.multi look at your /etc/inittab file and it will tell you what script runs

Re: RC Service Order

2009-09-16 Thread Nathan England
Ryan Rix wrote: JD Austin wrote: From my understanding changing the number in /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/K* or /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/S* changes the order. If two have the same number they go alphabetically. THis is correct. Yes, except in BSD they do not use SysV init scripts like you are

Re: RC Service Order

2009-09-16 Thread Nathan England
Craig White wrote: I don't recall ever creating firewall rules for the tun or tap interfaces. Craig On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 20:18 -0700, Eric Cope wrote: That was my concern. However, PF fails to start properly because the VPN TUN interface isn't established yet. Have you had issues like

Bootable flash drive

2009-09-22 Thread Nathan England
I am trying to make a bootable USB flash drive. This is just a regular 2 GB PNY flash device from walmart for 12 bucks. Nothing special. I have read a dozen sites how to make this work, and they all focus on formatting the device with fat16. However, I have a PC-BSD image that I dd'd onto it

Linux Flyers

2009-09-28 Thread Nathan England
hello hello, In the spirit of unix, and not re-creating the wheel, I'm looking for flyers anyone has created to advertise a group meeting of some type for linux. I would like to hack it up to fit my needs to try to get a group together down here in Douglas. If anyone has already created some

Re: digital sticky notes for Linux?

2009-10-05 Thread Nathan England
On Monday 05 October 2009 14:25:11 Josef Lowder wrote: Is there a digital sticky notes utility for Linux? Ideally, it should allow quickly typing a short note on the command line to be displayed as a *very small* note (about 2 wide by 1 tall) in a pre-defined spot on one of the multiple

Re: Quick question on IDE raid setups...

2009-10-19 Thread Nathan England
missing and added later. Good luck! -- Nathan England Information Security Consultant http://www.paysonlinux.org/ Software Development Web Development Hardware Integration --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-19 Thread Nathan England
house could still manage to install Ubuntu and be more secure than windows... ha ha! -- Nathan England Information Security Consultant http://www.paysonlinux.org/ Software Development Web Development Hardware Integration

processor benchmarks

2009-10-20 Thread Nathan England
I have an older Dell Latitude D600 with a Pentium M 1400 MHz processor. A couple years ago it suffered a BIOS melt down and while the system still works, the battery will not charge, nor be recognized and the system does not seem to want to run at full speed. Right now, cat /proc/cpu show the

laptop battery capacity

2009-10-22 Thread Nathan England
I realize batteries lose capacity over time, but this seems rediculous to me as I have never had a laptop battery go as fast as the current one. I have only owned Dell laptops in the past and the batteries have lasted plenty long, but this HP is killing me! Just over a year old and the battery

Re: ot - social security number being used fraudulantly

2009-10-22 Thread Nathan England
On Thursday 22 October 2009 13:28:39 Robert N. Eaton wrote: mike havens wrote: I know nowhere else to turn. My social security number is being used fraudulantly (I got a call from a business because I put an alert on my credit report). I do not know what to do so I must ask you. What can I

Re: laptop battery capacity

2009-10-22 Thread Nathan England
For clarification: I think you also don't want the battery in if you only run the lap-top while the lap-top is plugged in. Isn't one of the deals with rechargeables that it only has a certain amount of charge time? Therefore, you don't always want to have it plugged in and charging.

Android Phones

2009-11-02 Thread Nathan England
Hello Hello, Now that Android has been out for a while, anyone care to talk about their experiences with it? Is it a joke, great phone for an IT guy, better for a joe blow who will only talk and occasional text?? nathan -- ~ Nathan England Verizon (928) 951

Re: Cheap Linux compatible video cards

2009-11-08 Thread Nathan England
On Sunday 08 November 2009 15:42:39 Bob Elzer wrote: I know four people who have had top of the line Nvidia cards and all have been having trouble with them, mostly overheating. Three of them have already given up and switched to ATI, one of them yesterday. he had a 260 and exchanged it for

composite to vga adapter or something else...?

2010-01-02 Thread Nathan England
I have a laptop, an LCD screen and a gamecube that only has composite output. I want to play my gamecube. Either on my laptop, or on the LCD screen. How do I make this work? I shouldn't need to say my laptop only runs linux and windows is not an option, but I say it anyway. I have tried a

Re: Is there a faster/better way to ftp?

2010-01-05 Thread Nathan England
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 14:36:06 Josef Lowder wrote: . I'm going through the painfully slow process of moving all of my web files from one web host to another by command line 'ftp mget * download from the old system to 'ftp mput * upload to the new web host. Is there a better/faster way

Kernel Versions

2010-01-18 Thread Nathan England
I recently hit the kernel.org website looking to see what the latest stable kernel version number is, and I noticed they have listed 5 stable kernels 1. 2.6.32.3 2. 2.6.31.11 3. 2.6.30.10 4. 2.6.27.43 5. 2.4.37.7 While I realize the 2.4 series have long been seen as the stable legacy of

Laptop Reviews

2010-01-26 Thread Nathan England
I am in the market for a new laptop. I am currently looking at the Dell Vostro 1720, it has the right specs and price for me, but I am curious if anyone has a laptop with the newish intel x4500MHD and if you could offer any opinions. I don't game much, warzone2100 is about it for me, and I

Laptop Purchase

2010-02-01 Thread Nathan England
I am going to purchase a laptop in the next week. I have been reviewing all that I could and I have come down to a Thinkpad T500 or a Thinkpad T510. The way I have them configured they run only about 5 bucks difference. I like the higher resolution of the T500, but I'm willing to sacrifice a

Re: Site whoring...

2010-02-16 Thread Nathan England
I used to code entirely in Quanta, and always loved it. When they switched to KDE 4, I have since used regular kwrite and kate for all my coding as Quanta has been too unstable. I will have to look at it again. Lately, as in the last 3 months, I have been using the latest kdevelop and absolutely

Re: Help for my mom part 2

2010-02-23 Thread Nathan England
OpenSUSE Live discs can be dd'd to a USB flash drive. dd if=/path/to/opensuse-KDE-live-blah.iso of=/dev/usbdevice bs=4MB And it works very well and is very fast. I use it quite a bit for various tasks. I wish it had a persistent feature to it so I could save things. It is possible you can do the

OT: go-default screens.

2010-02-26 Thread Nathan England
I recently bought a so called hi-def tv screen and despite its 1360,768 780p resolution my movies still have the black borders! What gives? I thought having a hi-def wide screen would fix the black borders issue. If I hook up a hdmi connection to a new dvd player, is it still going to have the

Re: OT: go-default screens.

2010-02-27 Thread Nathan England
-hidef resolution to a real tv with the proper resolution for widescreen that those lines would go away and it would fill my screen. Nathan On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: The horizontal space is not 780 lines but 768 On 2/26/10, Nathan England nat

Laptop Purchase

2010-03-03 Thread Nathan England
I ordered a Thinkpad T500 over a month ago and once again they have pushed up the shipping date and I'm seriously tired of waiting! Every store you go into nowadays has laptops with high resolution screens, which means 720p or 900p, which is NOT a high resolution. I want lots of screen space for

SSD vs. HDD Performance

2010-03-07 Thread Nathan England
I have read a dozen sites discussing various benchmarkings between myriad setup of SSD's vs. HDD's. I have not seen any code monkey reviews. Has any one purchased one of these for use in compiling code, or maybe you're a gentoo fan??? I compile a ton of stuff everyday and I'm curious if it is

Re: SSD vs. HDD Performance

2010-03-07 Thread Nathan England
.htm I find Raid 0 gained me more performance with less money (or raid 10 if you want the redundancy) over a single drive. On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Nathan England nat...@paysonlinux.org wrote: I have read a dozen sites discussing various benchmarkings between myriad setup of SSD's

Re: SSD's vs HDD Performance

2010-03-08 Thread Nathan England
And how would you rate the performance of this new system with the 32GB patriot, how much did you pay and where'd you get it? I'd like to put one in my lenovo netbook. And possibly my thinkpad... (if it ever gets here!) On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:31 PM, gm5729 gm5...@gmail.com wrote: I just put

Re: which t-mobile android phone?

2010-03-17 Thread Nathan England
Hans, I have a Sprint HTC Hero and down here the 3G is something to be desired, but since almost everywhere I go has wifi, the lack of 3G has not been an issue. Last I was up in the phoenix area the phone absolutely rocked! The speed in everyday things was much faster, the 3G network loads

Benchmark: Kernel Compilation Results

2010-03-18 Thread Nathan England
Compiling the linux kernel is a fairly good benchmark. Especially since a lot of my day is spent compiling code and programming. So I decided to compile a stock PaysonLinux kernel (2.6.32.9) in various systems and compare compiling time. Here are the results in each of my systems: Machine

Re: Ubuntu wireless device?

2010-03-24 Thread Nathan England
Just about any wireless usb device from Fry's electronics should work. I use several ubuntu boxes and all kinds of wireless devices work. Belkin 802.11g 54 Mbps Belkin Wireless G USB Network Adapter - Walmart, Works awesome! I have not seen a USB device that will not work out of hte box, or

Corporate Internal Newsletters

2010-03-25 Thread Nathan England
I am in need of a new system for making internal news letters. Currently, we use publisher and some pre-made layouts, but we want to move it to our internal website. The lady who actually creates the content for the newsletter would not care to handle the website in code. I'm looking for either

x86 vs. x86_64

2010-03-25 Thread Nathan England
Before I spend any time downloading and trying it myself, has any one taken the time to compare performance differences in every day usage between ubuntu x86 and the 64 bit version? --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Network Monitoring

2010-04-14 Thread Nathan England
Hello Hello, I'm looking for a program or something that can monitor my network as a whole and tell me which machines are consuming all my bandwidth. Something that I could install on a linux box, plug it into the network and stick it in a corner and check it a week later would be ideal. All the

Re: Network Monitoring

2010-04-15 Thread Nathan England
machines spread across 4 locations on 6 T1's and 2 128K ISDN lines. At certain times through the day our network as a whole will get sluggish and I'm trying to figure out why. It is not internet traffic. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Nathan England nat...@paysonlinux.orgwrote: Hello Hello, I'm

sreadahead and kernel tracers

2010-05-11 Thread Nathan England
I am looking into this again, yet I cannot find anything new. Any one familiar with this on a newer kernel? I'm running 2.6.32.12 and the patch that comes with sreadahead-1.0 will not patch correctly. Regardless, I cannot find any recent info on this. Is it dead? nathan

Re: OT: ending unwanted threads

2010-05-25 Thread Nathan England
actually, to be more accurate for this list, OT should designate something that actually has to do with FOSS. ha ha! On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Bryan O'Neal bryan.on...@theonealandassociates.com wrote: Can we please just start using the OT: header in the subject line? On Mon, May 24,

Re: Lenovo

2010-06-03 Thread Nathan England
I bought a T500 in February and I have to say this has been the greatest laptop I've ever used. No where near my first Thinkpad, but my first Lenovo. I also bought a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 netbook for my wife and put xbuntu on it and she loves it. Windows 7 never saw the light of day on either of

OT: Net Nuetrality and the World Cup

2010-06-11 Thread Nathan England
I have largely stayed out of the net neutrality debate as I don't really understand both sides. I do not have access to cable tv of any kind, but I have Cox for my internet access. When the Olympics were on I could not watch them online because I do not have a windows PC, so NBC was off limits.

Re: OT: Net Nuetrality and the World Cup

2010-06-13 Thread Nathan England
When I view it it shows Powered by Cox, but when I try to view any video it tells me it does not recognize my network. It is only because I am down here at the bottom of the earth... or so if feels sometimes! I select Cox from a list and then log in and I can view what videos they have, though

OT: Need Some Geekness

2011-01-30 Thread Nathan England
! -- ~~ Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innocent and have nothing to hide, but NO agent of the state crosses my threshhold without a valid warrant signed by a judge and properly submitted. If we fail to exercise our rights, we lose them

Re: OT: Need Some Geekness

2011-01-30 Thread Nathan England
/art/Computer-hardware-poster-1-7-111402099) is not only geek-art, but useful in a repair shop setting. Most of it is CC-BY-SA-3.0, so you can print your own copy. Nathan England wrote: Hello Hello, I am re-entering the world of the living! I am moving away from the az.usborder with .mx

OSS Accounting Advice

2011-02-02 Thread Nathan England
plan to look into MoneyDance, it is pretty and my wife likes it, but I am not real familiar with it either. Advice? Thank you! -- ~~ Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innocent and have nothing to hide

Re: OT: Learning to Spell (HIPPA)

2011-02-09 Thread Nathan England
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Re: OT: Learning to Spell (HIPPA)

2011-02-09 Thread Nathan England
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PHP Problem

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan England
I have a serious problem. I cannot run _anything_ php... I have an LFS system I use for running various test php things. I have done a fresh install of php 5.3.5 and apache 2.2.17. I created an index.php with ?php phpinfo(); ? and it returns as expected, all looks good. However, when I run the

Re: PHP Problem

2011-02-28 Thread Nathan England
out. The action should not make a difference, I wouldn't think as I have used this type of generic form in dozens of places. On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Jason Holtzapple m...@bitflip.net wrote: On 02/28/2011 11:57 AM, Nathan England wrote: I have a serious problem. I cannot run

Re: O.T. Cell Phone Contacts

2011-03-08 Thread Nathan England
-- ~~ Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innocent and have nothing to hide, but NO agent of the state crosses my threshhold without a valid warrant signed by a judge and properly submitted. If we fail to exercise

Re: O.T. Cell Phone Contacts

2011-03-09 Thread Nathan England
/plug-discuss -- ~~ Nathan England I believe in the Constitution and the 4th Amendment. I am innocent and have nothing to hide, but NO agent of the state crosses my threshhold without a valid warrant signed by a judge and properly submitted

Re: Bash question - redirect stderr to a variable

2011-03-15 Thread Nathan England
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Re: Getting a Linux admin job in Europe?

2011-03-19 Thread Nathan England
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