Re: OT? Shipping issues?

2009-03-24 Thread Alex Hewitt
Alex Hewitt wrote: Dan Jenkins wrote: Ben Scott wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Hewitt_Tech hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote: Recently I've noticed that both major overnight package delivery companies have been damaging packages.

Re: OT? Shipping issues?

2009-03-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote: The corner mailbox place just called to let me know that Fedex won't honor my damage claim. Do you ship a lot of stuff with FedEx? Can you total up a number for annual payments? If so, find out who the customer

Re: OT? Shipping issues?

2009-03-24 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
In general, I find complaining through sales is sometimes effective for non-responsive companies. I knew of many, many issues of non-responsive companies that were solved quickly by contacting your sales representativeparticularly one that was commission based. Unfortunately this happens

Re: OT? Shipping issues?

2009-03-24 Thread Alex Hewitt
Ben Scott wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.net wrote: I'll probably just send the whole thing USPS. I don't know how the USPS insures but I do know that it's a separate item so maybe it will mean something. I rather doubt it will make a

Re: OT? Shipping issues?

2009-03-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 03/24/2009 10:29 AM, Alex Hewitt wrote: The corner mailbox place just called to let me know that Fedex won't honor my damage claim. They say wasn't packed properly. So much for using factory supplied cartons. Kind of an expensive way to find out that is the insurer and the shipper are

Re: OT? Shipping issues?

2009-03-24 Thread Jerry Feldman
Since we are talking about packing, when I was in Viet Nam one of my buddies would get packages packed in pop corn. Since he got a lot of glass containers (such as booze), I don't remember a single broken bottle as it would have been a tragedy of major proportions as most of the guys liked to

Re: OT? Shipping issues?

2009-03-24 Thread Alex Hewitt
Jerry Feldman wrote: On 03/24/2009 10:29 AM, Alex Hewitt wrote: The corner mailbox place just called to let me know that Fedex won't honor my damage claim. They say wasn't packed properly. So much for using factory supplied cartons. Kind of an expensive way to find out that is the

Re: CMS

2009-03-24 Thread Roger H. Goun
2009/3/24 Drew Van Zandt drew.vanza...@gmail.com: Using Joomla currently; it seems to work well.  Some plugins were required to make it do what we wanted, though.  In particular the built-in file upload tool is crap, and there are form submission and tabbed-page plugins that are quite handy. 

Re: CMS

2009-03-24 Thread Raymond Cote
Lori Hitchcock wrote: Working with a company developing a website in a LAMP environment and starting to look at CMS. Hearing good and bad about both Joomla and Drupal. The needs to be very simple for non-techs to add content. Does anyone have any advice or experience with either of these?

Re: CMS

2009-03-24 Thread Dan Coutu
Lori Hitchcock wrote: Working with a company developing a website in a LAMP environment and starting to look at CMS. Hearing good and bad about both Joomla and Drupal. The needs to be very simple for non-techs to add content. Does anyone have any advice or experience with either of

Re: Fwd: New local Linux Kernel Contract...

2009-03-24 Thread James R. Van Zandt
...must put up with management that still wants Word .doc format documents... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

a Joomla! view from LUGOR territory in Western NY [WAS Re: CMS ]

2009-03-24 Thread Carl Helmers
Hi Ray... [and Lori and et al in GNHLUG ] _*Regarding CMS's:*_ I've been thinking about and experimenting with /Joomla!/ for my personal legacy site www.helmers.com http://www.helmers.com/ since last summer thanks to our former *_/BYTE/_* editorial colleague Mark Dahmke (co-owner of the ISP

Re: Very important information!

2009-03-24 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Paul Lussier p.luss...@comcast.net wrote: I just came across this very important fact: The modern rack unit used in computing, i.e. the U in 1U, is by pure coincidence exactly equal to the vershok, an obsolete Russian measurement of length. Just thought y'all should know ;) Let's

Re: Very important information!

2009-03-24 Thread Bill Ricker
  The modern rack unit used in computing, i.e. the U in 1U, is by pure   coincidence exactly equal to the vershok, an obsolete Russian   measurement of length. 1U or RU for Rack Unit, but Russia is .ru Coincidence? You decide. I'm shocked.  A unit of length it doesn't know about?? Patches

Re: Building / Buying a MythTV box

2009-03-24 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I was thinking of getting the Dell Studio Hybrid ... or the System76 Koala Mini ... Be warned that a lot of those itty bitty boxes don't have the graphics horsepower to decode high-def on the fly and throw

Re: Fwd: New local Linux Kernel Contract...

2009-03-24 Thread Coleman Kane
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 17:55 -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: ...must put up with management that still wants Word .doc format documents... Try OpenOffice.org... it actually works really really well now (contrary to the notorious history of the 2.x series). In fact, I've found it to be the

Re: CMS

2009-03-24 Thread Ted Roche
Lori Hitchcock wrote: Working with a company developing a website in a LAMP environment and starting to look at CMS. Hearing good and bad about both Joomla and Drupal. The needs to be very simple for non-techs to add content. Does anyone have any advice or experience with either of

Re: Building / Buying a MythTV box

2009-03-24 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:48:59 Ben Scott wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I was thinking of getting the Dell Studio Hybrid ... or the System76 Koala Mini ... Be warned that a lot of those itty bitty boxes don't have the

Re: Building / Buying a MythTV box

2009-03-24 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com wrote: On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:48:59 Ben Scott wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I was thinking of getting the Dell Studio Hybrid ... or the System76 Koala Mini

Re: Building / Buying a MythTV box

2009-03-24 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Tuesday 24 March 2009 22:58:48 Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com wrote: On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:48:59 Ben Scott wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) g...@freephile.com wrote: I was