Cloning Machines

2006-10-11 Thread Kimball Larsen
Ok, so I think this has been asked here before, but I'm too lazy to dig through the archives: What solutions do you use for cloning a lot of computers at once? Historically, I have used Ghost, G4U, and G4L, all of which have worked well, but recently the hardware configuration to which

MythTV, Hauppage and S-Video in

2006-10-11 Thread Roberto Mello
I have a MythTV box with a Hauppage PVR 250 card. I'd like to plug in a device to the Hauppage's S-Video in and look at that input on my monitor, but without having to go through MythTV's recording. Hopefully I'd be able to do this from MythTV's menu system, since I only want to do it once in a

Re: Cloning Machines

2006-10-11 Thread Bryan Sant
On 10/11/06, Kimball Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about some sort of network boot solution that just pops up a menu of which image I'd like to slam on the box? That would be cool. :) -- Kimball http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ltsp.xml The Linux Terminal Server Project has all clients

plug.org - September Web Site Statistics

2006-10-11 Thread Ryan Simpkins
Here are some statistics for http://www.plug.org Please let me know if you guys like to see this sort of thing and I can send out monthly updates. 1,089 - Visits 4,399 - Page Views 25.16% - Percent of returning visitors. 64.97% - Front page bounce rate. 85% - Goal Funnel Completion Percent

Re: plug.org - September Web Site Statistics

2006-10-11 Thread Hans Fugal
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 at 11:57 -0600, Ryan Simpkins wrote: Top web browsers by visit (not page view): 606 - Firefox 275 - Internet Explorer 111 - Opera I'll be looking for Iceweasel soon. 59.41% of visitors were using Windows. 30.95% of visitors were using Linux. 9.09% of visitors were

Re: plug.org - September Web Site Statistics

2006-10-11 Thread Matthew Walker
On Wed, October 11, 2006 12:00 pm, Hans Fugal wrote: 59.41% of visitors were using Windows. 30.95% of visitors were using Linux. 9.09% of visitors were using Macintosh 5.69% of visitors did not have any version of flash installed. Should we be ashamed, or hopeful that those in need are

Re: Booting Linux from a USB thumb drive

2006-10-11 Thread Sean Kirkby
Thank you all for your suggestions. I'll check back in with our experience in case someone else could benefit... Thanks again. --sk. Alec Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/9/2006 10:30:53 PM Also http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7386380154.html Alec Shaw wrote: See

Re: Cloning Machines

2006-10-11 Thread Blake Barnett
On Oct 11, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Kimball Larsen wrote: Ok, so I think this has been asked here before, but I'm too lazy to dig through the archives: What solutions do you use for cloning a lot of computers at once? Historically, I have used Ghost, G4U, and G4L, all of which have worked

Re: MythTV, Hauppage and S-Video in

2006-10-11 Thread Andrew McNabb
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:05:19AM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote: I have a MythTV box with a Hauppage PVR 250 card. I'd like to plug in a device to the Hauppage's S-Video in and look at that input on my monitor, but without having to go through MythTV's recording. Hopefully I'd be able to do

Re: plug.org - September Web Site Statistics

2006-10-11 Thread Doran L. Barton
Hans Fugal wrote: 59.41% of visitors were using Windows. 30.95% of visitors were using Linux. 9.09% of visitors were using Macintosh 5.69% of visitors did not have any version of flash installed. Should we be ashamed, or hopeful that those in need are visiting our site? I'm not one of

Re: Cloning Machines

2006-10-11 Thread Brad Midgley
Kimball What solutions do you use for cloning a lot of computers at once? I work for these guys on PowerCockpit which does provisioning. http://www.mountainviewdata.com Brad /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the

RE: plug.org - September Web Site Statistics

2006-10-11 Thread Hill, Greg
I'm not one of them, but I think a lot of people who use Linux do so on server platforms and use Winbloze as their primary desktop OS. I am one of them. I've been wanting to set up a desktop Linux box to use via a KVM switch with my Windows box for a while, but money and lack of a KVM that

Re: plug.org - September Web Site Statistics

2006-10-11 Thread Jason Hall
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 14:44, Hill, Greg wrote: I am one of them. I've been wanting to set up a desktop Linux box to use via a KVM switch with my Windows box for a while, but money and lack of a KVM that works with Logitech cordless products has prevented me thus far. Maybe some day.

Re: plug.org - September Web Site Statistics

2006-10-11 Thread Steve
I've had excellent luck with the latest version of wine and alot of popular games in Linux, it's damned near native speeds too, even the hardcore 3D stuff and of course WoW :) Personally I think keeping a winbloze box just for gaming is a little silly. It's like keeping a Ford Pinto for the gas

Re: plug.org - September Web Site Statistics

2006-10-11 Thread Ryan Simpkins
On Wed, October 11, 2006 15:22, Jason Hall wrote: On Wednesday 11 October 2006 14:44, Hill, Greg wrote: I am one of them. I've been wanting to set up a desktop Linux box to use via a KVM switch with my Windows box for a while, but money and lack of a KVM that works with Logitech cordless

RE: plug.org - September Web Site Statistics

2006-10-11 Thread Hill, Greg
I've had excellent luck with the latest version of wine and alot of popular games in Linux, it's damned near native speeds too, even the hardcore 3D stuff and of course WoW :) From everything I've read, a 20% performance drop is about the best case scenario with WINE. And some games that I

Re: plug.org - September Web Site Statistics

2006-10-11 Thread Alan Young
Steve wrote: Personally I think keeping a winbloze box just for gaming is a little silly. So did I. Until I got an AMD64 dual core laptop. cedega has lots of problems, nvidia has lots of problems, and even when those are somehow got past, CS:S *still* had problems. Even with cedega, linux is

Re: plug.org - September Web Site Statistics

2006-10-11 Thread Gary Thornock
--- Ryan Simpkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW - Does anyone even care about these statistics? If people like the numbers I don't mind posting them at all. If everyone is apathetic I'd rather not go to the trouble. The statistics are interesting, in a hey, cool trivia sort of way, and they did

Introduction

2006-10-11 Thread Christer Edwards
PLUG, I just signed up on the PLUG list attended my first meet tonite. I enjoyed it--great job. Basically just wanted to introduce myself on the new list.. Christer, aka Kuyaedz, from #utah or #ubuntu-utah. I'm current President for Ubuntu-Utah. I know there are more of you Ubuntu users out