Re: My Open Source (not officially so yet) License

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew "Tuna" Harris
Excerpts from danceswithcrows's message of Wed May 06 11:41:52 -0700 2009: > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Andrew "Tuna" Harris wrote: > >> - Nobody with the company that produces the proprietary software > >> may say the word "plinth" out in public. > > This would also be interesting. But

Re: Ubuntu and Sound Card?

2009-05-07 Thread mike Enriquez
Matthew, I am running 9.04 now. At first I had a difficult time taking an ISO to a CD image. I had a stack of bad CDs. Monday I told my self I was going to do it. I looked at the Ubuntu instructions for the ISO and did not follow them but looked at the images and saw that the images were different

Re: BlenderCAD workshop

2009-05-07 Thread Matthew A Coulliette
Bryan, I would love some help. I just posted my progress on the BlenderCAD forum: https://projects.blender.org/forum/forum.php?thread_id=199203&forum_id=174 If you want to come over sometime I can show you what I have so far. I can usually make myself available on most afternoons. Mat

Re: Not Political but OT: NP F330 Batteries?

2009-05-07 Thread Matthew A Coulliette
I would try Radio Shack for the battery. - MatthewMPP Andrew "Tuna" Harris wrote: > Hiya > > First I would like to suggest a solution to this OT > problem: denoting OT messages as being political or otherwise, and > providing server-side settings to block them or not. So there would be > > POT:

Re: Ubuntu and Sound Card?

2009-05-07 Thread Matthew A Coulliette
Mike, Is there a reason why you did not install Ubuntu 9.04?  Why try and fix a problem with an old distro when you can install the latest one? MatthewMPP mike enriquez wrote: I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 and it seems to have issues with my sound card. Does anyone out there kn

OT: [sorta] Forbes article about "dot gov" and OSS

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Schwartz
Forbes article about "dot gov" and OSS: http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/26/open-source-software-technology-cio-network-software.html ((see also: wikipedia article "Government_2.0": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_2.0 ))-- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwa...@acm.org --

Re: Ubuntu 9.04 Run Level

2009-05-07 Thread Ryan Rix
has anyone simply recommended the OP to boot into "recovery mode"?? Your grub menu will have had it. if you don't see Grub menu come up edit /boot/grub/menu.lst find the timeout value to 10 or something, then you'll have a number of boot options, probably Ubuntu 9.04 `uname -r` and Ubuntu 9.04 `u

Re: OT: Free Webhost

2009-05-07 Thread Francis Earl
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 09:29 -0700, James Finstrom wrote: > So I have cox at home so I obviously would violate the AUP self > hosting and frankly I am cheap... wait no frugal. Anyway I would like > to find a place to host my domain free but without ads or if it has > ads it allows choice of placemen

Re: Ubuntu 9.04 Run Level

2009-05-07 Thread AZ Rune
Thanks Larry I have two off comming up and I will see what I can do to make that happen. Brian On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: > Possible solution below (only this comment top posted). > > > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: > >> Perhaps I am way off base here but

Re: ANN: PLUG Devel Meeting TODAY!

2009-05-07 Thread Alan Dayley
Correction to the text below. The "I" refers to Ed Nichols, not me, Alan Dayley. I will not be able to attend the meeting. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks to Ed for doing the meeting! Alan On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Alan Dayley wrote: > The PLUGdev meeting will be held 7:30 – 9:30 PM R

ANN: PLUG Devel Meeting TODAY!

2009-05-07 Thread Alan Dayley
The PLUGdev meeting will be held 7:30 – 9:30 PM ROOM 203 at The University of Advancing Technology 2625 W. Baseline Road Tempe, AZ 85283-1056 It will be brief meeting, I will be there to announce a few developer related news items and discuss the direction of PLUGdev - if there is interest I will

Re: OT: Free Webhost

2009-05-07 Thread Joe
Freeshells/SDF just bought silenceisdefeat, which I used to use as a free shell before. I just got on bshellz.net and donated 10 Pounds (about $16) to become an elite member so my shell won't expire. They offer 500MB of storage and 1 MySQL database for elite members. I can do email and irc through

Re: OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request

2009-05-07 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 7 May 2009, Eric Shubert wrote: > I've never been able to reach a real person at GD (phone or email). strange -- I have a couple hundred registrations scattered among three businsses, and we have no problem reaching them at the stated phone numbers -- LD for us, but a local PHX call --

Re: OT: Free Webhost

2009-05-07 Thread Dennis Kibbe
James Finstrom writes: > So I have cox at home so I obviously would violate the AUP self hosting and > frankly I am cheap... wait no frugal. Anyway I would like to find a place to > host my domain free but without ads or if it has ads it allows choice of > placement in the design. > James Finstr

RE: OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request

2009-05-07 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 08:57 -0700, keith smith wrote: > > They provide inexpensive products. You are in a queue. It has little to do > with verification at this point. You are in a queue and it might take > several days to get to the top of the queue. > > Think about it how much effort can t

Re: OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request

2009-05-07 Thread keith smith
I get through to Godaddy's tech support every time within a few minutes. Now iPower is another story. I've waited on hold for up to 1/2 an hour. Last year I was trying to get though to them and could not during the day. One night when I woke up at about 3am and could not sleep I called and

RE: OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request

2009-05-07 Thread keith smith
They provide inexpensive products. You are in a queue. It has little to do with verification at this point. You are in a queue and it might take several days to get to the top of the queue. Think about it how much effort can they expend for a $29.00 product. To provide these types of produ

Re: OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request

2009-05-07 Thread Charles Jones
Heh thanks, I'm not really looking for help, just sharing the pain and making people aware of what might happen if they get into bed with GoDaddy. Eric Shubert wrote: > I've never been able to reach a real person at GD (phone or email). I > decided to stop using them as a vendor, and transferred

Re: OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request

2009-05-07 Thread Eric Shubert
I've never been able to reach a real person at GD (phone or email). I decided to stop using them as a vendor, and transferred my registrations (and my customer's) to a different registrar. I highly doubt that I'll ever use them again for anything. I realize this doesn't help with your current p

RE: OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request

2009-05-07 Thread Charles Jones
It shouldn't take days to get a simple $29 SSL Cert (It's not even one of the expensive ones that verifies your identity). It also shouldn't take days to respond to support email, or to even acknowledge receipt of a fax that they requested. GoDaddy = FAIL. -Original Message- From: plug-dis

Re: OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request

2009-05-07 Thread keith smith
It may take a while to work through their system. Keith Smith --- On Wed, 5/6/09, Charles Jones wrote: > From: Charles Jones > Subject: OT: Problems with GoDaddy SSL cert request > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 4:29 PM > > > >

Jaunty Jackalope on VMware Fusion

2009-05-07 Thread Chris Gehlker
Those of you who are trying Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope, in VMware fusion may have noticed that the mouse cursor won't move outside the VMware window even after you install the VMware tools. You have to use CMD+CNTL to free the mouse every time and this is a hassle. The solution is: sudo