Re: Programming language

2012-03-05 Thread John Patterson
+1 to Python. Throw PyGame in the mix as well for a great game dev starting point. http://www.pygame.org/news.html http://cs.simpson.edu/cmsc150/index.php - Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-listr=1w=2 RSS Feed

Re: Jacksonville Hacker Space

2011-12-01 Thread John Patterson
In case anybody is still wondering about the hacker space, we've made great strides in the last month. We now have a physical location where we're building out a machine shop and wood shop, a website, wiki, livestream, and so on. Membership starts at $25/month, but for now it's pretty open for

Turn Key Linux

2011-09-23 Thread John Patterson
This is the organization that Michael mentioned the other day - Turn Key Linux http://www.turnkeylinux.org/all. They have a killer variety of pre-built linux images for tons of common configurations - everything from full LAMP stacks to torrent seed boxes to domain controllers. Boot up, set

Re: Turn Key Linux

2011-09-23 Thread John Patterson
. John On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Mike Rathburn m...@rathburn.org wrote: I've always been weary of other's pre-built images. Skeptical of the hidden demons. Is that unfounded now? -Original Message- From: John Patterson [mailto:j...@henrygis.com] Sent: Friday, September 23

Re: How do you say SQL?

2011-09-22 Thread John Patterson
Nope - Chad's got it. Lin like fin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAEsoKiZTvk Solid reasoning on the Line-ux though, Gene. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Gene Cronk g...@hacktek.com wrote: For giggles, I looked up how Linus Torvalds' first name is pronouncedConsidering the OS is

Re: Suggestions for future topics

2011-09-02 Thread John Patterson
I'd love to see that. John On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Nathan Hamiel nham...@gmail.com wrote: We are looking for suggestions on topics that you would want to see presented at one of the next LUG meetings. If you have any recommendations for new or repeat presentations, let us

Linux World Map

2011-05-13 Thread John Patterson
I got a kick out of this, hope you haven't all seen it already: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-world-map.html John

If only it wasn't April 1st - The Canterbury Project

2011-04-01 Thread John Patterson
http://www.gentoo.org/news/20110401-canterbury.xml Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux combining forces to stand up against proprietary operating systems.

Re: Hulu desktop for linux

2011-03-26 Thread John Patterson
I do wish there were more options for video delivery on linux. I'm not a huge fan of Hulu anymore; they've really left free users without quality content since they started offering Plus. Netflix is such a superior product for all but first run shows, but MS won't let Novell include the DRM in

Re: Desktop Linux market share

2011-03-25 Thread John Patterson
I absolutely adore my Kindle 2, and the new model looks much better. It's a very limited device compared to a computer or smartphone, but what it does it does extremely well. When I have the budget for a K3 I'll be looking into something like this for the old one:

Tumblr security breach likely caused by typo in VI

2011-03-21 Thread John Patterson
I guess this is an argument for emacs, but I started with VIM and haven't had a desire to check the color of the alternate grass yet. -John http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/03/tumblr-mistake-or-security-issue.html http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/03/tumblr-mistake-or-security-issue.html

Re: Printer Driver Issue

2011-03-15 Thread John Patterson
Mike, I downloaded and ran the installer - it appears to extract the deb to /tmp: /tmp/selfgz10063/pkg/files/dell-inkjet-09-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb John Patterson http://www.henrygis.com On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Michael A. Knox michael.k...@knoxandassociates.com wrote: Group, I

Re: Printer Driver Issue

2011-03-15 Thread John Patterson
Mike, I was able to grab the .deb out of /tmp with the installer waiting on the Exit screen. the lua_ folder is removed by that point but /tmp is still intact. John On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Michael A. Knox michael.k...@knoxandassociates.com wrote: I downloaded and ran the installer

Re: Printer Driver Issue

2011-03-15 Thread John Patterson
Mike, I think William means that you would actually move the 'rm' executable. That way when the installer tries to run rm -rf the command fails. Things would get wacky if it didn't get put back though. John On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:16 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. w...@obsidian-studios.com wrote: