[Ldsoss] lds sword modules
I got my XO laptop and I want to have the scriptures on it in some easily readable offline format. I see this page on the LDSOSS wiki: http://ldsoss.org/index.php/Religious_Study that mentions the sword project, but I can't find any LDS sword modules. Do they exist? Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] New list location
Google Groups is great. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] text version of Book of Mormon for iPod?
I looked into this a few years ago. The iPod notes functionality is incredibly lame. Each file could only be so big, and could only have so many links (I don't remember the exact limits, but they were small), and even following those rules it was incredibly slow with just a portion of the Book of Mormon loaded. It was a real pain. I started with the stuff from here: http://scriptures.nephi.org/ and writing a script to split the files and do the links right was simple enough. Maybe the newer iPods have better notes functionality. Bryan On 10/15/07, Richard K Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An iPod can display a series of hyperlinked notes. Does anyone know of a text version of the Book of Mormon in this iPod notes format? Richard ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Conference music
On 10/8/07, Dan Hanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Just curious as to whether any one knows of a way to listen to the music of General Conference without having to download the MP3 for the entire session. I can do that, or listen to it via the conference DVDs, but it would be nice if high-quality MP3s of the conference music were available (in case folks from the lds.org site are lurking within earshot :-). There are some breathtakingly beautiful arrangements that show up at conference. I agree. In fact, I downloaded the full mp3 of one session and used audacity and it was really easy to select one of the songs I liked and export it as its own mp3. I don't know if I should share that mp3 (it *seems* like the church wouldn't mind...), and I'm not sure if I want to do that for all the songs, but I had the same thoughts as you. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Conference music
On 10/8/07, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/07, Bryan Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/8/07, Dan Hanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Just curious as to whether any one knows of a way to listen to the music of General Conference without having to download the MP3 for the entire session. I can do that, or listen to it via the conference DVDs, but it would be nice if high-quality MP3s of the conference music were available (in case folks from the lds.org site are lurking within earshot :-). There are some breathtakingly beautiful arrangements that show up at conference. I agree. In fact, I downloaded the full mp3 of one session and used audacity and it was really easy to select one of the songs I liked and export it as its own mp3. I don't know if I should share that mp3 (it *seems* like the church wouldn't mind...), and I'm not sure if I want to do that for all the songs, but I had the same thoughts as you. IANAL, but I think the church probably does mind if you redistributed the music. (If not, why don't they provide it, since the speakers often make reference to it. They seem pretty strict about redistribution, plus a lot of the hymns the church doesn't own). (just MHO..., note that I'd also like to have just the music downloads...) That's why I won't post a link to my mp3 here. That and I just listened to it on my better headphones and it sounds pretty bad. I'm guessing going from mp3 decoded into Audacity and then re-encoded back out of Audacity is the reason for that. Might have to check my bit rate settings. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Conference music
On 10/8/07, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good thing you don't post your link, I might download it and commit copyright infringement ;) I know, that was a close one for all of us! :-) Double encoding is bad. I'm not sure if audacity can split without doing it. However this tool appears to be able to: http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/mp3splt_page/home.php Sweet, I'll give it a try. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)
The inventor of the captcha calls this Human Computation. He gave an interesting talk at Google on the subject that you can watch here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143 He presents it very well and even non-techies (like my wife) enjoyed watching this when I showed them. OK, it was just my wife, but I'm sure others would like it too. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Digitizing handwritten records by stopping spammers (or vice versa)
On 10/2/07, Bryan Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The inventor of the captcha calls this Human Computation. He gave an interesting talk at Google on the subject that you can watch here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143 He presents it very well and even non-techies (like my wife) enjoyed watching this when I showed them. OK, it was just my wife, but I'm sure others would like it too. Bryan OK, I just read the fine article and it's the same guy doing the reCAPTCHA thing, Luis von Ahn. This is cool stuff. If you don't have time to watch the video above (which you really should) I'll just tell you. He does a similar thing for image recognition using some online games: http://www.espgame.org/ http://www.peekaboom.org/ Genius. Using it for genealogy indexing seems like a great idea too. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
[Ldsoss] web application on desktop
I think it was this list where I saw some discussion of whether a web application could be made to run disconnected as a desktop application. If not, then humor me anyway... I saw this article today where someone did just that and I found it pretty interesting: http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/blog/archives/51 I haven't actually downloaded the app and tried it, but I hope to soon. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] reimbursement form
Here's the one we use (in OpenOffice, AKA Open Document, format): http://murdockfamily.homelinux.org/static/reimbursement-form.odt I don't know how good it is, but it seems to work for us. Bryan On 6/4/07, Scott Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm the ward finance clerk and I'm looking for a good reimbursement form template that I can modify. I've googled it, but can't find anything. Anyone have any templates to share? -Scott ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Re: HT and VT Tool
On 5/18/07, Manfred Riem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to consider using Java ... As far as I heard a lot of Java is going on at the Church ;) Nah, stick with Python. The Church developers will someday see the light. ;-) Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Fireside talk on the Internet
On 5/16/07, Shawn Willden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 10:56:26 pm Gary Thornock wrote: I also depend primarily on DansGuardian on BSD for my content filtering, and I agree that it's not something that most parents can set up. I can, and did, but turned it off. We've decided to handle the issue a different way, with the kids' computer placed in the kitchen/dining room where little privacy is available, plus discussion of the issues and occasional review of the kids' browsing habits. we've decided to focus on accountability and education, rather than blocking. There is a lot of wisdom in what you say, Shawn. Even without the internet, kids can and will be exposed to harmful images, music, etc. This discussion reminds me of a recent 5th Sunday discussion in my ward on the topic. People started excitedly sharing their favorite internet filtering and computer access limiting tools, when the bishop's wife raised her hand and said with a wry grin on her face, The problem with all of this is that kids are smarter than us about computers, and I don't know if you know this, Bishop, but your son knows how to get around the password you set on the computer. Technical solutions are not the answer. They do help, if the kids (or adults!) first want to avoid the stuff that they filter out in the first place. If they don't want stuff filtered, then technical solutions are no good. If you want to teach your kids (or self) to want the bad stuff to be filtered, I don't think technical solutions are any help with that either. I would even hazard that filters or locks could increase curiosity and have a negative effect in decreasing desire to see bad stuff. I would definitely stress that technical tools are no replacement for the preaching of the word (or education and accountability as Shawn said), but don't leave out tips on good tools. In fact, I'll add to your list of tools. Check out this for filtering profanity: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/4175 (It's a greasemonkey script) Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Home and Visiting Teaching Tool
On 11/11/06, Greg Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the wiki, under Suggestions for Ward Web Sites I recently added a Home and Visiting Teaching heading with a link to the sample HT/VT Reporting site offered earlier in this thread and the sample Elders Quorum Organizer that Bryan Murdock offered. I included the positive and negative feedback from the mailing list. Please feel free to fill in any holes. I imagine that the Bishoprics and Quorum/ Group/Relief Society Presidencies who have actually used such a tool would be the best to critique how it effects communication within their groups and would be willing to offer up any critical feedback to HQ. Very good. I see some people have tried out the EQO and I'm pleased to see Brother McFly has joined the quorum. Does anyone else think that kind of application would be useful? Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] OT: LDS Team on Drug Design Optimization Lab Distributed Project
On 10/24/06, David Fagerstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since cream has caused people to leave the church, Huh? Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a Respect Copyrights activity badge
The movie industry has developed the curriculum. Oh good, an impartial and fair party, experts in law and the constitution. :-P Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Elders Quorum Organizer
On 10/21/06, A. Rick Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan Murdock wrote: it can print out an email address list for easy spamming of the quorum when there is a move or DI assignment coming up. It's intended to be used only by the the presidency. FYI: The current ward web calendar will do this already, and then the move or assignment on the calendar. When you create a calendar event, just check the box to send to the Elder's Quorum. Yes, but only, like, five ward members have ever bothered to type their record number in and get on the website. Of those five, maybe two have entered an email address. However, when we passed around a clipboard in elders quorum meeting one day, we got 30 email addresses. Hmm, could we put those into the ward website ourselves somehow? Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Home and Visiting Teaching Tool
On 10/19/06, Greg Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a mock ward. Go ahead and submit reports and generate summaries. 1) Go to: http://www.queezy.com/ht/ 2) Submit an bogus report for a companionship, 3) Lastly, go here: http://www.queezy.com/ht/admin/ and view your comments you just submitted at Generate a Report. The admin password is LDSOSS. If you look at Septembers report, most of the comments are copied and pasted from actual reports from my ward (of course, changing the names to protect the innocent). Very cool! Simple, looks nice, and it seems to work. Because of the bottle-neck that the ward computer tends to be, companionships and assignments should really be made editable via the ward website in addition to MLS, sync'ed. Amen to that. I was recently in the elders quorum presidency and I hated how at our meetings we'd be working from 10 pages of printed out companionships from MLS, trying to figure out who still needed to be assigned where, with the secretary trying to write it all down so next time he got a turn on the computer he could manually enter in all of our changes. Invariably he'd miss something. To this end I started a web-based home teaching organizer. It doesn't do reporting like this though, I hadn't thought about that. In fact, it's very rough at the moment, and I have a new calling so I lost some time/interest to work on it. I'll have to clean it up a bit and post a link to the list. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
[Ldsoss] Elders Quorum Organizer
I've written my first web application ever. It's a simple Elders Quorum organizer. It has people, committees, home teaching districts which contain companionships, and it can print out an email address list for easy spamming of the quorum when there is a move or DI assignment coming up. It's intended to be used only by the the presidency. It is basically functional, but I'm a firmware engineer by day, programming systems with limited resources and no user interface. This still needs some help. And did I mention this is the first time I've ever done this? OK, with those disclaimers, here's an example setup: http://eqo.homelinux.org/ username: ldsoss password: ldsoss I will make the source available if anyone wants it (I just need to make sure the database password and other possibly sensitive info is taken out first). It's written in Python using the Django web framework. I'm amazed how easy it was considering my considerable lack of experience in the area. It would be very cool for The Church to make something like this part of the ward website so the clerk's office computer doesn't need to be used for _everything_. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] LDS OSS Framework
I wonder if this is what Michael Halcrow had in mind with his LDS Data Processing System: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ldsdps/ He added me as an administrator of the project before he, um, left, though I never really looked at it too intensly. He has some example apps (plugins?) in there, like a curses based home teaching route planner written in ocaml, and a web-based ward calling organizer written in ruby. I was thinking about building a scouting application with it, but I didn't know enough ocaml or ruby to really understand from his examples how to use it. A google search for ldsdps turns up some history of the project: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=ldsdpsbtnG=Google+Search Bryan On 7/24/06, Jay Askren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was quite a bit of talk about the Scouting open source software. The Emergency Preparedness project I'm working on has many of the same issues: http://jay.askren.net/emergency/ For our users, sometimes they may be online other times they may not be. I chose not to create a web application in order to avoid security concerns and to make installation easier. I make use of web services in my app. Currently, I just use the web services to do geocoding so I can add GIS capabilities, but I was thinking about using them for other things as well. It seems that at the heart of both of these apps and other potential LDS OSS apps, they do the same thing. They store information about some people in the ward and potentially people not in the ward and allow the users to edit the information. They may have other tools built on top of the basic functionality. It would be nice to build a basic LDS-OSS system that was just a framework that took care of the common concerns of LDS applications, and then plugins could be built to address specific problems. The core system might for instance take care of reading information from MLS, interacting with an embedded database, printing, making installation and updating of the software easy, and who knows what else. Plugins might be added to store domain specific information(Boy Scout stuff versus Emergency Preparedness info, etc...), add GIS capabilities, sync with a database at Church Headquarters using web services, and whatever else would need to be added in the future. That way other apps could take advantage of the various plugins. Does anyone have interest/experience building this kind of plugin based system? What do people think? ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] DVD Player Software
On 7/19/06, Tom Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linspire offers a very inexpensive DVD player that you can get through the CNR warehouse. However I don't think that any distro ships with a DVD player that will play css encoded DVDs. Of course, that depends on your definitions of ships (see the Gentoo comment in the previous post). Most don't include the legally dubious css libraries on their CDs, but many make it quite easy to get them installed from third parties. When you download the bits yourself either way... Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] OSCon
On 7/4/06, pat eyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It came up in a different thread, but it's probably deserving of thread of its own. Who is going to OSCon? (I am.) I'm not going to the convention, but I live in the Portland area and could probably make time to meet up with people. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking
On 6/14/06, Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Haws wrote: This is very intriguing. Can you point to an example we might install and try? I hope someone else knows of an example. Conceptually, it's simple, and I can see the solution from start to finish. But I'm surprised it hasn't been done very often. Maybe we need a proof of concept. I believe the Zesty News application is supposed to work like this, though I haven't tried it myself yet: http://www.blazingthings.com/zestynews/index.html It's written with the Python Turbogears web framework, though I believe you could do the exact same type of thing with Django or Ruby on Rails. Of the three, I prefer Django, even though you didn't ask :-) Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking
On 6/14/06, Shane Hathaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, as for choosing the web app server technology... yikes. Please be nice to each other. :-) FWIW, I'd vote for Django in this case. Django is written in Python, a highly agile and portable language, and it's inspired by Zope, Ruby on Rails, and other projects. Yay for Django. It rocks. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Scout Tracking
On 6/6/06, Tom Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My thoughts were to create a central repository (whether hosted by the church or individually would be up for debate) and then we could provide several ways to access that data. 1. We (the community) could provide a SOAP or other interface to the data so that people could write thick client applications and synchronize their data with the central repository. I've actually done this quite successfully with some other applications and it works VERY well. So you can run independent of the server but when you go back online you can sync your data. If a person chose to never work online that would work fine as well. If you have read my sourceforge project vaporware description that's exactly the road I was thinking of starting down. Committee meetings and scoutmaster conferences are two of the places where the tracking software would be very helpful, but connectivity likely not available. I wonder if a think client is even necessary. Could the web application offer a csv file of data for download that could be edited with excel or oocalc and then re-uploaded? Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] New lds.org beta
Our ward website coordinator set up something nice and easy for us:
www.fisherslandingward.org
I hope that's not frowned upon that I didn't just ruin it for us by
making it public here. Nobody saw that!
Bryan
On 6/5/06, Jesse Stay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not sure - I was just passing on what I received. I like that it is
*almost* all divs and css. They still have a few tables in there that
I would argue didn't need to be there. This should open up to a more
AJAX and Web 2.0-friendly architecture though.
I am a bit concerned that the Ward Website Coordinators are now going
to have a harder time directing and teaching members to find and use
the ward websites though - now you have to click twice to get there,
unless they plan on a separate url for those.
Jesse
On 6/5/06, Dave Wormell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like it. Prepare a talk and or lesson is really helpful.
Any idea what the Stake and Ward Website will include?
--dave
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 7:54 PM
To: LDS Open Source Software
Subject: [Ldsoss] New lds.org beta
I figure it's okay to pass this along since it's on Gems already:
Here is the url if the link doesn't work for you
http://www.lds.org/pdf/Whats_New_LDSORG.pdf
- Original Message -
From: LDS-Gems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 6:53 PM
Subject: GEMS-Family: NOTICE: New, Redesigned LDS.org Ready for Your
Review
NOTICE: New, Redesigned LDS.org Ready for Your Review
We are pleased to announce that a test version of the redesigned
LDS.org
Web site has been launched. We invite you to explore this site at
http://www.beta.lds.org. The home page of this test site provides a
feedback link; please use it to let us know what you think of the
site.
Also on the home page, you'll find a link to a What's New and
What's Coming document summarizing the Church's latest
Internet improvements and plans for the future.
Jesse
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Re: [Ldsoss] Temple Codes
On 4/20/06, Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/20/06, nathan bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example I tried to import a GEDCOM file that was sent to me by my Dad which he exported from some version of PAF, and it has the following codes: LIVE, IF, WASH, WJORD, APIS, MESA, TIMPN, TIMPA Are these valid code, and if so for which temples? This is totally off topic, but your email didn't make it past gmail's spam system. Those heathens at gmail can't even recognize the work of the salvation of the dead! (-: Thanks for pointing that out! I was wondering why it seemed like I was only seeing half the conversation. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Mapping on lds.org
On 4/6/06, Richard K Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 6, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Bryan Murdock wrote: On 4/6/06, Greg Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Failed for me on both Safari v2.0.3 and Firefox v1.0.4 with the following error: Error: the XML response that was returned from the server is invalid. Received: Could not perform query: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'KEEFE APT 10' AND zip = '94025'' at line 1 I got a very similar error: Error: the XML response that was returned from teh server is invalid. Reveived: Could not perform query: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'S CIRCLE' AND zip = '98683' at line 1 Looks like part of someones address and the zip code in the area. Bryan Sloppy coding on my part -- I wasn't escaping my database queries, so somebody's address with an apostrophe fouled it up. Try again now. I also fixed a bug that caused it to fail for wards with 5-digit unit numbers. (I assumed all unit numbers had 6 digits.) It works now, but I'm seeing the same thing as a lot of others, some locations are off by a little, a few are off by a whole lot. A lot of people do seem to be missing, especially in apartments. I'm wondering if they are all stacked up in exactly the same spot though, since the apartments all have the same address except the apt. number. I checked and geocoder.us returns the same coordinates no matter what apt. number you enter. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Mapping on lds.org
On 4/6/06, Greg Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Failed for me on both Safari v2.0.3 and Firefox v1.0.4 with the following error: Error: the XML response that was returned from the server is invalid. Received: Could not perform query: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'KEEFE APT 10' AND zip = '94025'' at line 1 I got a very similar error: Error: the XML response that was returned from teh server is invalid. Reveived: Could not perform query: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'S CIRCLE' AND zip = '98683' at line 1 Looks like part of someones address and the zip code in the area. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Re: Less than an hour to go...
On 4/1/06, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/1/06, Bryan Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/1/06, m h [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, after changing the user agent, I find that it requires another download of their video player. How annoying! I'm not in the mood to mess with wine. Why do people insist on re-inventing the wheel? How many media players does one need? I don't think these guys are re-inventing anything. I gave in and used internet exploder on windoze, and I have to say that this stream is amazing. You can pause it and it picks right back up when you un-pause, you can back up a few seconds, minutes, hours, and watch stuff from the past very very easily. The picture and sound quality is better than any stream I've ever seen. Anyone know how they are doing this? So do you happen to have the url of the stream? Um, yeah, it's http://byu.tv. It's not a conventional video stream you can watch with mplayer. Here is some more information that I've found on the service, from 2003, unfortunately: http://www.windley.com/archives/2003/03/04.shtml And here is the company home page: http://movenetworks.com/ Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Mormons and DNA on Digg
On 2/16/06, Jesse Stay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thought I'd throw it to another 100+ Open-Source-loving Mormons that there's a story on Digg (soon to be the new slashdot.org) gaining a lot of popularity right now. I don't encourage the digg, but I'm sure the more Mormons on there defending the faith, the better the church looks in that comment. I hope this story doesn't confuse or disrupt the faith of any of our members - please see the stories on LDS.org defending this if you are confused. Those are here, by the way: http://lds.org/newsroom/mistakes/0,15331,3885-1-18078,00.html Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Mormons and DNA on Digg
On 2/16/06, V. B. Hunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm normally a fairly silent person on this list, but I just have to say this. It is pointless and futile to engage in religious flame wars on blogs and boards. The Spirit is very seldom present in such forums and the kicking against the pricks of imperfect man come and go. Almost every argument (including this one) I've ever seen criticizing the church in such forums are merely recycled and have already been shown how the scientific absolutists claims are possibly false. Any true scientist would be very cautious in saying that any given scientific evidence absolutely disproves any given historical or religious record. Most true scientists know that they are only being presented one small piece of data in a much larger scenario and only take the evidence as far as it can be authoritatively and empirically taken. Very, very well said. Anyone who forms an opinion on religion based on what they have read on Digg or Slashdot, well, I'll just leave it at that. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
scouting software (Re: Re: [Ldsoss] Stake/Ward Web Site Utilities)
On 2/7/06, Gary Thornock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- TJ Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The church might also get into legal trouble with creating the software. The BSA is pretty strict with their copyrights and I would imagine they have their own software available to leaders for a price. As it happens, the BSA doesn't produce software like that. They have a data interchange specification that software developers can use to interact with the systems at the council offices, but from there, it's up to third party developers to produce unit management programs. There are a number of good ones available, albeit most if not all of them are Windows-only, which isn't the best way to make Mac and Linux users (am I the only one?) happy. You are not the only one! Do you know where someone could get ahold of those data interchange specifications? I've seen software that claims to be Scoutnet Certified, or something like that, but google hasn't yet shown me what that means how one would go about becoming such. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
scouting software (Re: Re: [Ldsoss] Stake/Ward Web Site Utilities)
On 2/7/06, TJ Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would love you forever if you could incorporate this information into the website. I would love to see scouting incorporated as well - but Duty to God would be my first priority as a YMs President and that would be a HUGE help. I can see the church moving VERY slowly on integrating scouting. Remember a few years ago when the church was threatening to discontinue their support for the Boy Scout program because the BSA was considering allowing homosexuals to be Boy Scout leaders? Worse case scenario, I can imagine the church doing all that work for the scouting program, then the BSA does something like that again, and the church ends creating their own organization to replace it. Boy Scouts != LDS Church. This myth really needs to die already. The BSA never threatened to change who they allowed to be leaders. Maybe the ACLU threatened to force them, but the BSA never wanted it, and won the court case. The Church plays a huge part in the BSA. Besides being a large sponsor of BSA troops/packs/crews/teams, many of the professional scouters and scouting executives are members of The Church. It is incredibly unlikely that the BSA could make a decision that would alienate us. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Wholesome Entertainment: Checkers
On 2/4/06, Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this on linux? What version of python are you using? Do you have pygame installed? Um yes, completely unhelpful of me. Sorry. I tried both Mandriva 2005 and Ubuntu 5.10. They both have python 2.4 and pygame 1.6. Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Emergency Preparedness Software
On 1/9/06, Jay Askren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In our ward I've been asked to put together a little database to store Emergency Preparedness information such as who has a truck, who has a generator, who knows CPR or First Aid, etc. It will be a Java application and import data directly from MLS. I was wondering if this application would be useful for anyone else. I also was wondering if anyone else would be interested in helping to develop it. Is there any reason something like this couldn't be web-based so everyone can have convenient, yet still secure, access to it? Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] the system is down
On 9/27/05, Jesse Stay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting to it just fine - are you still having problems? Nope, see my follow-up message: http://www.mail-archive.com/ldsoss%40lists.ldsoss.org/msg00210.html Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] Re: New here
So, about that Open Source Software...that is what the OSS part of LDSOSS is right? Bryan ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
Re: [Ldsoss] a new application
That's a pretty cool idea. Without thinking about if for more than 5 seconds, I'll hazard that it'd probably be fairly easy to whip this up using google maps: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ Bryan On 9/1/05, Arthur Westover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking it would be nice to develop an application that would allow someone to quickly tell who lives close to whom in a ward. This would be useful for hometeaching and visiting teaching assignments, esp. with the rising costs of transportation. While this might not be a big deal in areas with high Mormon population densities, it does play a role in other areas where members of a ward can be spread out over many miles. So the way I would envision it is that the program first creates a database with all families. Then using a utility (example -- http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/convert?form=address ) is able to assign a GPS location to each house based on the address. Then when the user calls upon a name, you could see how many families lived within a specified radius. I have zero programming experience, so I'm afraid I can do no more than suggest this idea and participate in testing. I take that back. I did a semester of fortran some 15 years ago, but I don't think that counts. :) Arthur ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss ___ Ldsoss mailing list Ldsoss@lists.ldsoss.org http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
