Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-25 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MythTV... Asterisk... You ought to take a look at Linuxmce: http://www.linuxmce.com - Jim Van Zandt ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-23 Thread Ted Roche
On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: Recently I was working on a project, and I ran across this article: [Warning: Explicative language involved] Big fan and daily reader of both Tim Bray and Hugh McLeod's Gaping Void - warning, some language there not appropriate

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-23 Thread Bill Mullen
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:21:43 -0400 Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or are you looking for things that don't exist yet (or I/we're not aware of)? A little of both. FOSS products and services (commercial or non-commercial) that exist today that just do something great. Or

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-22 Thread Bruce Dawson
Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: So what do *YOU* think would be F***king cool? All those things you mentioned plus: * Servers that use12 watts of power and do everything my servers that consumed 300 watts did 2 years ago, and more (koolu, ...) * Pay your bills without using stamps (DCU Bill

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-22 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Or are you looking for things that don't exist yet (or I/we're not aware of)? A little of both. FOSS products and services (commercial or non-commercial) that exist today that just do something great. Or unique ways of doing things that rocks your boat (www.plutohome.com) Maybe something

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-22 Thread Tom Buskey
Something that could run my house, measuring and regulating everything. Sensors to measure temp/humidity everywhere and graph them energy use Electric usage per outlet/socket Hot water/hot air/cold air Burgler alarm Christmas/walkway/driveway lights Driveway sensors Active heating vents Adjust

RE: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-22 Thread Paul Tykodi
Tom Buskey wrote: Something that could run my house, measuring and regulating everything. Sensors to measure temp/humidity everywhere and graph them energy use Electric usage per outlet/socket Hot water/hot air/cold air Burgler alarm Christmas/walkway/driveway lights Driveway sensors

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-22 Thread Bruce Dawson
Tom Buskey wrote: Something that could run my house, measuring and regulating everything. Sensors to measure temp/humidity everywhere and graph them energy use Electric usage per outlet/socket Hot water/hot air/cold air Burgler alarm Christmas/walkway/driveway lights Driveway sensors Active

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-22 Thread Bill Sconce
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:13:06 -0400 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you'd told me five years ago that a globally writable text file would one of most useful sites on the web, I'd have thought you were insane. Then it's fortunate md/I/we didn't tell you that. [explicative deleted]

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-22 Thread aluminumsulfate
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:20:19 -0400 From: Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] So what do *YOU* think would be F***king cool? md Being able to operate/program/configure a computer soley by speaking Lojban to it would kickgrass! http://www.lojban.org (Hi, Tucker!) Maybe something like:

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-22 Thread Tom Buskey
On 3/22/07, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Buskey wrote: Something that could run my house, measuring and regulating everything. Sensors to measure temp/humidity everywhere and graph them energy use Electric usage per outlet/socket Hot water/hot air/cold air Burgler alarm

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-22 Thread aluminumsulfate
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:20:19 -0400 From: Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] So what do *YOU* think would be F***king cool? md Mathematica also pretty much fits that description. I once read The Mathematica Book (describing the language) and was THOROUGHLY impressed. It's like LISP

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-22 Thread Kevin D. Clark
aluminumsulfate writes: It's like LISP only well thought out and actually useful. I for one find your enthusiasm for Lojban and your dislike of LISP to be pretty amusing. --kevin (who finds LISP to be beautiful...) -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E Never could stand that dog.

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-22 Thread aluminumsulfate
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) Date: 22 Mar 2007 15:14:31 -0400 aluminumsulfate writes: It's like LISP only well thought out and actually useful. I for one find your enthusiasm for Lojban and your dislike of LISP to be pretty amusing. --kevin (who finds LISP to be

Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-21 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Recently I was working on a project, and I ran across this article: [Warning: Explicative language involved] http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/11/two_simple_word.html And I started thinking about what exactly meets that criteria of: [Explicative Language] Cool

Re: Warning: Explicative language involved

2007-03-21 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/21/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Explicative Language] Cool? Is that a deliberate pun? :-) (Explicative != expletive) In the field of computers, or the application of computers what would really get you going? In order of decreasing practicality and increasing