Re: raspberry PI

2013-03-12 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Doran L. Barton f...@hypermoo.com wrote: Good luck! http://is.gd/Aory2u Thanks for the link Doran. I'm getting one of these kits. Roberto Mello /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear

Re: Writing a simple python web app

2010-10-25 Thread Roberto Mello
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Re: Recommendations for Hosted Exchange Providers.

2008-04-14 Thread Roberto Mello
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 12:24 PM, LittleButty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a current DirectPointe customer, I would not recommend them unless your organization has no IT resources at all. I would go with Zimbra hosting or install it in-house if I could do it over again:

PostgreSQL 8.3 Released

2008-02-04 Thread Roberto Mello
4 February 2008, New York, NY: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of version 8.3 of the high-performance object-relational database management system. This release includes a record number of new and improved features which will greatly enhance PostgreSQL for

Re: Project Planning Software

2008-02-04 Thread Roberto Mello
On Feb 4, 2008 11:49 AM, William Attwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Roberto, it's been awhile. By cross-posting, I'm assuming you mean posting the same message to more than one user group; am I correct? Yes. You came across as attacking me without attacking me. I'll do my best to

Re: Project Planning Software

2008-02-04 Thread Roberto Mello
On Feb 1, 2008 9:41 AM, William Attwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Locals. Hello William. It appears you don't know that cross-posting is frowned upon. I'm an organizational creative. I like to diagram flowcharts prior to No idea what an organizational creative is. tackling a

Re: Colocation with Veracity

2007-09-16 Thread Roberto Mello
On 9/14/07, Robert Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No personal experience as a paying customer, but it seems NetHosting.comseems good. Nice datacenter in Orem near Golds. I remember touring their old datacenter when I was consulting, and I thought their colo option was very attractive and

Re: Redundant web servers.

2007-09-14 Thread Roberto Mello
On 9/14/07, Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to create an array of servers as described here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-ha/index.html Good article. Thanks for the link! What do you guys think would be best: 1) Combine services (web sites) into the same

Colocation with Veracity

2007-09-14 Thread Roberto Mello
We're looking into co-location facilities around the state. One of our big-pluses-if-we-can-get-it is either a point-to-point or some connection to UTOPIA that is better than going through the public internet. This is because we need to transfer about 1 GiB/day of files to one of our partners

Re: side money

2007-07-31 Thread Roberto Mello
Hi Dave, On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:42:25PM -0600, Dave Reed wrote: I'm looking for someone who is willing to be on call for problems, and then spend 3-5 hours per month verifying the backups and generally keeping things patched and tight. The environment: - m0n0wall firewall - Centos4

Re: Linux on a Mac?

2007-06-29 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:42:47AM -0600, Daniel wrote: Is there a Linux distro that will install on an old non-intell mac? I install Debian on an old iMac (the one with the CRTs built in). Worked just fine. -Roberto -- shy tagline /*

Westhost experiences

2007-06-29 Thread Roberto Mello
Does anyone have experience with Westhost, particularly their managed hosting service in the Consonus data center in West Jordan? Are they reliable? How's their customer service? Do they have Linux-competent people there? Thank you, -Roberto /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on

Re: Contracting work, does anyone pay?

2007-04-23 Thread Roberto Mello
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:48:04PM -0600, Steve wrote: My philosophy has always been that programming is like carpentry, languages and frameworks are tools, a good carpenter always keeps his tools in good working order, and chooses the right tools for the right job. That analogy has been

Re: Contracting work, does anyone pay?

2007-04-23 Thread Roberto Mello
, 2007 at 12:30:53AM -0600, Steve wrote: Hmm I never considered it that way, I've always looked at it as a way of saying you never stop learning (tools in good working order, to me means your mind and your skillset), and if you need C use C, need Perl use Perl etc. On 4/23/07, Roberto Mello

Re: VOIP Provider Again

2007-04-11 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:18:27AM -0600, Jesse Stay wrote: I'm just curious - why are so many departing from Vonage lately, other than the recent court actions against them? I've been with them for about 1.5 years now and have never had a problem with them. Are there bad experiences others

Re: VOIP Provider Again

2007-04-11 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 05:23:43PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would both of you (Mr. Mello and Mr. Gunderson) mind telling me who your ISP is? Since that could be the difference between a good experience and a bad experience with broadvoice, I'm kinda curious. Comcast. -Roberto --

Re: My Laptop just kicked my desktops butt?

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:16:07AM -0600, Steve wrote: Doing some research I see that the Dell Laptop was intended as a Desktop Replacement until now I always thought that was just a buzzword. Turns out for 3D and gaming, my $50 laptop is wiping the floor with my $350 desktop. Just look at

Re: [OT] UTOPIA advise

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:15:31PM -0600, Walter Holladay wrote: UTOPIA will be coming to my neighborhood very soon and I was hoping to get some good advise about which provider to go with. There are four choices of service providers for UTOPIA: 1) ATT 2) Mstar 3) Veracity 4) Xmission DO

Re: How to store a petabyte?

2007-02-21 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:04:21AM -0600, Frank Sorenson wrote: Do you have lots of datacenter space that you really need to use up, or does physical size matter (I mean, you're talking about solutions that take up nearly 50 racks!!!)? What are your power and cooling capacities and costs

Re: UVSC BYU U of U etc wasSoftware Engineering (was Re: Java)

2007-02-16 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:12:18PM -0700, jordy wrote: I assure you (as a graduate) that UVSC's placement program also sucks. :) One factor that hasn't been mentioned is that UVSC focuses on *marketable* degrees. IE, you don't see people majoring in Historical Russian Liturature at

[JOBS] Software Engineer in Test

2007-02-12 Thread Roberto Mello
, and a brief email describing your qualifications and why you are interested in the position. Thanks. Roberto Mello -- Programmers do it bit by bit. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Re: CUPS won't work, nor other printing to xp shared printer

2007-02-03 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:39:18AM -0700, Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote: There's my dilemma. I run Debian 2.6.8 at my office. I frequently run apt-get upgrade to assure I have the most up to date system, but I fear running apt-get may have crippled CUPS. 2.6.8, is that Sarge? Etch? I only know

Re: Detecting SSH tunnels on a linux firewall

2007-01-12 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:03:38PM -0700, Troy Bowman wrote: $ ssh -N -f -D 1080 remotehost And, bam! I have a socks5 proxy tunnel from your localhost to the remotehost. Any application that can use socks5 (firefox, xchat, gaim, etc) can now use the tunnel to connect to anything through

Re: Apple Computers, Inc. is no more!

2007-01-09 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:23:46PM -0700, Jesse Stay wrote: That's the thing though - itunes *is* the iPod. I cannot connect and sync my iPod to anything but iTunes. Therefore, if I want to download I use gtkpod. Works well for me. with the iPod and iTunes, I cannot play or stream it to

Re: Postgres vs. MSSQL

2006-11-08 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:48:21PM -0700, Daniel C. wrote: I just meant that MySQL has less stuff to learn than Postgres. Like what? I agree with Jonathan. PostgreSQL is easier to setup and maintain, just as easy to use, and very well supported, although not as many off-the-street hosting

Re: Mozy Contest Answers

2006-11-04 Thread Roberto Mello
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 07:09:50PM -0700, Levi Pearson wrote: space. What is the point of putting curly braces on lines all by themselves? It looks better. if (str[x+1] == charclose) { depth--; } } if (str[x] == charclose) { c_close++; } } if (c_close !=

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: Job Posting (.04K Reward!) Jr. Linux Admin + Windows Support

2006-09-08 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:01:49PM -0600, Ryan Byrd wrote: Well, for starters it will get you a low level epic item. For example, with 300g, your level 40 rogue could dual wield Gut Rippers ( I think you meant duel, not dual :-) -Roberto -- Did I say 2?

Re: Job Posting (.04K Reward!) Jr. Linux Admin + Windows Support

2006-09-08 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 04:56:50PM -0600, Daniel C. wrote: I hope you're joking. He spelled both rogue and dual correctly. I said nothing about rogue. Clearly I know absolutely nothing about this World of Warcraft lingo. -Roberto -- MySQL: Para aqueles que pensam em um banquinho de bar com a

MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Mello
I have a Myth frontend machine where I get frequent prebuffering pauses. It causes the video -- particularly on Live TV -- to be jerky. I'm only doing standard TV, no fancy HD. The backend server is an Athlon 1.8 GHz, 512 MiB of RAM. The frontend where the problem happens is a Dual P3 with 512

Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:45:00AM -0600, Brandon Beattie wrote: Are you using 100mb/s networking? Wireless and even 10mb/s can do this. Yes. -Roberto -- Install failed. Attempting to transfer virus to c: /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe:

Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:16:34PM -0600, Chris Carey wrote: On 8/30/06, Roberto Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The backend server is an Athlon 1.8 GHz, 512 MiB of RAM. The frontend where the problem happens is a Dual P3 with 512 MiB of RAM. Everyone has DMA enabled. What MHZ is your

Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:09:45PM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: Actually mplayer is pretty clever. Not that myth isn't but mplayer uses a longer cache and has some really good decode algorithms. But now that I mention that I think they both use ffmpeg for mpeg4 (or are you using rtjpeg?

Re: MythTV frontend rebuffering problem

2006-08-30 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:28:15PM -0600, Brandon Beattie wrote: Myth keeps a very small buffer for several reasons, but it's not worth going into and it's not something you can tweak minus hacking the code. Now I've also seen problems with some switches and network cards. My gigabit switch

Re: apt reinstall package broken?

2006-08-03 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:28:55PM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: I accidentally deleted the /etc/init.d/samba script. I thought I could get it back by removing samba and reinstalling, but apt did not regenerate this file. What am I doing wrong? First I did # apt-get remove samba

Re: Freevo X

2006-07-20 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:26:07PM -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: It's not perfect; X doesn't die when openvt does, so sv stop/restart doesn't work, but at least it starts on boot, and restarts if I accidentally exit freevo. :) Is Freevo still alive? Last I looked on their web page the project

Re: where to buy network cable?

2006-07-13 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 04:39:36PM +, Hongyi Gao wrote: I need 1000 feet + network cable (CAT5-E or CAT6) for my new house. Is there anybody knows where to get it? as well as the plugs and connectors. also, I need your recommendation of devices for home automation. You can get a 1000

Re: RE: Eclipse is very nice, but :(...

2006-06-19 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 02:55:46PM -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: Sadly, some people have not yet realized that there is no editor but Vim and Bram is it's maintainer. Looking at the screen, without moving the cursor, can you tell the difference between spaces and tabs? No. If anyone is so

Can't see all recorded shows from myth client

2006-06-08 Thread Roberto Mello
Hi all, I have a MythTV server that also works as a frontend, because it's the box connected to my projector in my movie room. I also like to use my laptop from my bedroom upstairs as a frontend, however when I do, I can only see one of the shows I have recorded. I think I set this show to be

Re: Let's make a difference

2006-05-19 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:30:22AM -0600, David B wrote: Kind of a funny concept. Here is a funny site that explains all about the idea of pulling carbon out of our ecosystem instead of waisting your time with the flawed concept of recycling. Recyling is a flawed concept? Why? -Roberto

Re: [OT] Re: Let's make a difference

2006-05-19 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:26:52PM -0600, David B wrote: Ok, couple funny things. They recommend building a tar pit in your back yard. That happens to be funny. Another recommendation was to chop down most of our forests and bury them deep inside cement bunkers. It's You're pretty

Re: [OT] Re: Let's make a difference

2006-05-19 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:57:15PM -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote: This article makes a fair case for the theory that humans are indeed changing climates and weather patterns. However, the earth has already proven itself capable of maintaining overall balance over millions of years, even in

Re: [OT] Need feedback from current iProvo MSTAR users

2006-05-02 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:39:31PM -0600, Steve wrote: I had initial problems with MStar but am generally happy with them now, but then again I'm on Utopia fiber not iProvo which I guess are different things. That seems to be a pattern (had problems in the beginning, but now things are ok). I

[OT] Need feedback from current iProvo MSTAR users

2006-05-01 Thread Roberto Mello
Folks, I'm the president of the townhomes homeowners association, and our contract with Comcast for video is expiring, so we are thinking of moving to iProvo. Comcast has provided good, reliable video service at least (they bought TCI Cablevision, who our original contract was with). But they

Re: [OT] Need feedback from current iProvo MSTAR users

2006-05-01 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:11:56PM -0600, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: I'd also like to say, though, that I'm not in favor of HOAs taking on the role of ISP. Maybe that's just a personal preference but I think it sucks when I want to use a different provider and I can't because I'm already

Re: DNS registrars?

2006-04-13 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 08:17:42AM -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: I don't know about the OP, but the objection may also be related to this story. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060321/sftu089.html So godaddy parked domains are on Windows now. Don't you have you pay extra for parking a domain? I don't

Re: VOIP

2006-04-06 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:37:36AM -0600, Barry Roberts wrote: Before I cancelled my old phone, I got an account from Arrival Telecom (http://arrivaltel.com). I've been using both for 2-3 weeks now. The Arrival line sounds great. They have a nice $10/mo plan, and they will sell you an

Re: VOIP

2006-04-06 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:10:51AM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote: So here is my dilemma. I have had two friends suggest using BroadVoice. I then spoke with one of those friends on the phone. I was very disappointed. His voice sounded like a tin can, and every third word was dropped. He

Re: Managing multiple computers at home

2006-03-27 Thread Roberto Mello
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 09:48:18PM -0700, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: On 3/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With regards to Mono, it's a new technology, it's not proven to be a stable Linux platform, and frankly it just makes me ask--why not Java? Installing a Mono app

Re: Current results of dictionary word count programs...

2006-03-13 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:33:48PM -0700, Bryan Sant wrote: Here are the current results for the count the dictionary words in a file programs submitted thus far. Memory usage? -Roberto -- HELP! My hard drive crashed I can't boot up! /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net

Re: Current results of dictionary word count programs...

2006-03-13 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:58:41PM -0700, Bryan Sant wrote: Python -- LOC: 18 Are you counting empty lines then? Jonathan's code had 16 without blank lines. -Roberto -- Politically correct? I'm not even ANATOMICALLY correct! /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net

Re: Avoiding bitrot

2006-03-10 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 04:53:20PM -0700, Steve wrote: Ideally I would like to find a linux program which can do both the conversion to VOB and then the burning, but I have a sneaky suspicion that nothing at this time can do both. Since I have K3B which can do the burn operation, I'm

Re: Avoiding bitrot

2006-03-10 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 05:01:05PM -0700, Roberto Mello wrote: - Use dvdstyler to create the DVD menus dvdstyler just uses XML to store its DVD info, so add a couple titles (that's DVD lingo for movie) and link between them with buttons and look at the XML. Then write a simple program

Re: UVLUG presents Pete Ashdown on Open Source, politics and government *PLUS* an installfest!

2006-02-22 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:58:24AM -0700, Richard K Miller wrote: I was going to vote for Urquhart too before he dropped out of the race. I went to the Saturday meeting with Pete and was really impressed. I wonder if he's conservative enough to be elected in Utah, but I think he's a

Re: Cheap and fast certs.

2006-02-16 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:55:17PM -0700, Matthew Walker wrote: Oh, and do they provide name servers for you or do you have to have your own? I got my latest on Verio for that reason, but having to go to a separate login for each domain has made me decide to not transfer my other

Re: perl [was: in defense of Java, again]

2006-01-27 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 09:55:47AM -0700, Stuart Jansen wrote: Finally, if there's any confusion about the 'distinction between putting down Perl and putting down Perl programmers', it's entirely your fault. You've not been doing a good job of maintaining the distinction. That sentence is

Re: Task Scheduling

2006-01-25 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 01:22:34PM -0700, Bryan Sant wrote: snip about JBoss sucking typically consider running on a full J2EE server. With Spring, developer and runtime performance goes up and complexity goes way down -- it is magic. Check it out at www.springframework.org. While you're

Re: Graphing packet loss

2005-12-30 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 10:49:06AM -0700, Dave wrote: Yeah, you have his phone number, make the call. I am giving you the guy to talk to. He has done all of this research. Do you want me to call several Utah wisps, find one that has a spectrum analyzer and create a power point presentation

Re: Help For Independent Developers

2005-12-29 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:57:58PM -0500, Matthew Frederico wrote: - Links should look like links, not like regular text. Don't make ask myself I wonder if that's a link. Can you be more specific where this was confusing at? Your links don't look like links. To find out if they are

Re: mysql primary key id debate

2005-12-29 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:10:26PM -0700, kirk wrote: Myself and three other programers have been arguing (for well over an hour) about naming the primary key in a mysql database table. I was wondering what other people name it. The argument is to name it id or another name like client_id.

Re: Help For Independent Developers

2005-12-28 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 07:50:11PM -0500, Matthew Frederico wrote: If you're a developer who needs a simple interface to keep track of your clients time and billing, I've developed a project that I think is pretty good at helping us little guys keep track of what's going on. It's a simple,

Re: Linux compatible digital camera recommendations?

2005-12-12 Thread Roberto Mello
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:12:06PM -0700, Dave Smith wrote: I'm looking for a digital camera this Christmas, and it needs to be Linux compatible. My only requirement in addition to takes descent pictures is that it also takes descent video. Can anyone recommend one? I've had a Fuji, a Samsung

Re: Windows equivalent to a Linux product?

2005-12-09 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:26:31AM -0700, Bill Peeler wrote: Be sure to pick the RDPV5 (the option with a 5 in it ;-)) as the protocol. You also have to be sure rdp is enabled on the winders side. I can't remember where in the maze of windows menus you set that. Windows admins often

Re: Complete backup of Linux install

2005-11-26 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:33:04AM -0700, Corey Edwards wrote: Which reminds me, I forgot to mention the other tool I use for backups (you can see how frequently): Mondo. It creates a bootable CD containing all your data. The CD can be run in Nuke mode which blows away anything on the disk

Re: Database Design Theory?

2005-11-08 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:30:04PM -0800, Jonathan Ellis wrote: I tried to use PG inheritance in a project earlier this year. It quickly became clear that it's not very useful except for toys. Which is unfortunate, because it has the potential to make life a lot easier in some situations.

Re: iPod or music player.

2005-10-18 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:34:43PM -0600, Grant Robinson wrote: As far as linux goes, there are several programs you can use (gtkpod, Rythmbox, etc), or you can run iTunes through Wine/CrossOver Office. I Rhythmbox can play songs from the iPod, but you can't add or modify songs in the iPod

Re: iPod or music player.

2005-10-18 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:34:57PM -0600, Josh Frome wrote: I haven't tried it myself, but Rythmboxhttp://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/, (UI based on iTunes) looks interesting. FWIW, I set up iTunes in Hoary using Crossover Office, and it worked fine. You'll probably get more brownie

Re: iPod or music player.

2005-10-18 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 06:12:57PM -0500, Michael Halcrow wrote: She looked at it and asked what it was. I explained that it was basically some Flash RAM, a controller, a decoding processor, and a digital to analog converter. Her reaction was, ``So, you just bought me RAM for our

Re: How to clean up apt-get

2005-09-16 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:57:10AM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote: I'm not sure I'd go as far as saying that gentoo does a better job than debian--imo they are both very comprobable. I personally happen to like gentoo's interface much better than debians. I think it's much simpler to

Re: The perfect MP3 player

2005-09-15 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:39:40AM -0600, Andrew Hunter wrote: Hi. I wonder if I'm asking too much sometimes. I am looking for an MP3 player that might not exist. I would like it to have about 20GB of storage, decent size and durability, and a nice interface. Moreover, I would like it to

Re: Jittery MythTV

2005-09-08 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:14:06PM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: If I understand you correctly, you have a backend box and a frontend box. What's your network connection between the two boxes? Remember, video requires a lot of bandwidth. If you lower your recording quality or your

Re: Novell CLE 9 certification and getting the babes!

2005-07-29 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:44:48PM -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: I just received an email from Novel on the CLE. I followed the link [1] and I'm so distracted by the typically dumb corporate imagery [2] used on the page that I can't even read the article. What is that picture saying

Re: STOP, For the love of Pete!

2005-07-20 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:02:45AM -0600, Topher Fischer wrote: MySQL IS a read relational database (in every respect). That's right. Don't try to save anything to it. -Roberto -- Reformat Hard Drive! Are you SURE (Y/Y)? .===. | This has been a P.L.U.G.

Re: UT Lisp Users Group?

2005-07-13 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:42:06AM -0600, Bryan Sant wrote: Blah, blah, blah... C/C++, Oracle, and Java (or anything mainstream) is for suxors... Blah, blah, blah... Your coolness is directly tied to the obscurity of the programming language you use. Blah, blah. Please for the love of

Re: database design

2005-06-10 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:57:27PM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote: The NULL debate is nearly as bad or worse than the vi vs emacs debates by the academics. IMO, those that argue for strictness to the relational model haven't written a line of production code in their life. In many cases

[OT] Satellite TV

2005-05-28 Thread Roberto Mello
Hi all, Apologies for the off-topic, but my calls to local satellite people have always hit a sorry, we only do Dish Network/DirecTV and this is the group I can think of who could perhaps help out. When we bought our home, the previous owners left a satellite dish on the roof (one of those

Re: [OT] Laptop recommendations

2005-05-25 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:03:23AM -0500, Michael Halcrow wrote: I bought my wife an R50 a couple months ago. When it came in the mail, I resized her partitions, handed her a copy of Ubuntu, and told her to give it a shot. Half an hour later, she was up and running with 3D acceleration,

Re: [OT] Laptop recommendations

2005-05-25 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 04:48:18PM -0600, Mitch Anderson wrote: I recommend the Thinkpads as well. Superb laptops. I have used a T42p for the past few months at work. The only problem with that specific model is that it has an ATI card that requires a proprietary driver (fglrx) to get 3D

[OT] Female DVI connectors

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto Mello
Hi all, I wired my basement-in-construction with lots of goodies, including DVI for projector. I now need to find a wall plate for DVI. I've google'd and froogle'd around and the best I found was ebay, $14 for each plate with $14 (!) ground shipping for a decora-style wall plate (which is ideal

Re: hosting in South America?

2005-05-17 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:28:48PM -0600, Daniel C. wrote: Hello gang. Just wondering if anyone knows about hosting in S. America, or whether it's even necessary to keep a server there for S. American audiences in order for them to get fast response times. (i.e. is having a server in Mae

Re: April Plug meeting reminder...

2005-04-12 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:07:54AM -0600, Bryan Sant wrote: Just a friendly reminder about tomorrow's PLUG meeting. I'll be presenting on Java and Linux. I expect several printed copies of Paul Graham's call to repentance for us lost and wayward Java developers. Now is your chance to come

Re: April Plug meeting reminder...

2005-04-12 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:23:23PM -0600, Doran Barton wrote: But Roberto isn't bitter or anything. ;-) No, I'm not. I'm a pretty optimistic/upbeat person actually. -Roberto .===. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | |

Re: April Plug meeting reminder...

2005-04-12 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:53:14PM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote: You're making so much money (like ever other Java developer right?) that calls to repentance are not effective. After all, if a language is popular, and appears in lots of trade magazines, and dice.com says there's lots of demand

Re: [OT] Where to find AMD Athlon (32) processor

2005-04-11 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:19:33PM -0600, Eric Jensen wrote: I pretty much gave up on local computer shops. I get everything from Newegg.com now. Incredibly fast shipping, everything has a 1 year warranty from them, great customer service, competitive prices, and they have a very large

Re: RE: Slashdot feed...

2005-04-06 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:14:50PM -0600, Josh Coates wrote: what i got out of the article was something a little different. i read open source zealots ripped off (ie. stole) bitkeeper by illegally reverse engineering it, which resulted in bitmover killing their free version of the

Re: Hiring Preferences (was Programming partnership wanted)

2005-03-31 Thread Roberto Mello
that brings me back up above average. Ain't life grand? Yay! :) I personally loved all the southern accent in Oh brother, where art thou. -Roberto -- Roberto Mello Software Engineer, Novell Inc. ASCII stupid question, get stupid ANSI. .===. | This has been a P.L.U.G

[OT] Looking for a Pentium 4-M processor+fan

2005-03-29 Thread Roberto Mello
Hi all, My brother's laptop's processor died and I'm looking for a replacement. I know this is kind of a long shot, but if anyone has a working Mobile Pentium 4 M 1.8 GHz that they're willing to sell, please contact me off list. Thanks, -Roberto P.S.: Yes, I'm hitting ebay and froogle too :)

Re: In-house Hosting Options

2005-03-04 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:33:46AM -0700, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: Good gravy that's cool. Do they even realize that they don't *have* to be this amazing? ;) Seen this? http://scholar.google.com/ Wow, that's way cool. -Roberto .===. | This has been a

Re: preferred Debian mirror?

2005-02-25 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:36:29AM -0700, Lars Rasmussen wrote: I'm using mirrors.xmission.com to install sarge from sarge-i386-netinst.iso but it seems a bit slow. Which mirror(s) do you suggest? mirrors.kernel.org is faster for me, but I haven't tested with apt-spy recently. Or post your

Re: Best sleek, trimmed down server distribution

2005-02-24 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:51:49AM -0700, Nicholas Leippe wrote: compile my own apache and php to suite my needs exactly. With Gentoo, it's easy to tell the package system that they are in fact installed, so that other dependencies are still correctly met. This is a feature that I have