Re: July WSM Minutes

2009-07-28 Thread Ryan Rix
On Tue 28 July 2009 10:13:31 pm Austin William Wright wrote: > For the record, Songbird is only a fork of Firefox, it is an independent > project by "Pioneers of the Inevitable" (I recall the name being > different a while ago, Songbird foundation maybe, idk). Thanks Austin, I've fixed the blog en

Re: July WSM Minutes

2009-07-28 Thread Austin William Wright
Ryan Rix wrote: > Hi, > > For anyone who missed the meeting, here are the minutes for the July West > Side > meeting: > > http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/july-plug-wsm-minutes/ > > Ryan > For the record, Songbird is only a fork of Firefox, it is an independent project by "Pion

Re: Cottonwood Question?

2009-07-28 Thread Michael Butash
David, No, sorry to say, but you can't upgrade via firmware. New docsis 3.0 uses something of a MIMO-kind of muxing of multiple upstream/downstream channels, much the way 802.11n does, or some of the bastard hack variants of 802.11g do for "speed boost" resulting in increased bandwidth. This req

Re: Cottonwood Question?

2009-07-28 Thread mike Enriquez
I will let you next trip up. I will check on it. Mike On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 15:34 -0400, mike havens wrote: > what is the brand of cable modem they use in the area? > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:33 PM, mike havens wrote: > that would probably be me... is cox in that area or else who >

Re: Cottonwood Question?

2009-07-28 Thread mike Enriquez
Mike, I am on a mountain and I cannot get Cox. For the internet I get a wireless signal coming from Mingus Mountain some 20 miles away. Cox may not be available since I see dishes outside on most houses. It cost me about $50 for basic internet. I use rabbit ears for t.v. and a well for water. Mike

Re: Cottonwood Question?

2009-07-28 Thread David Munson
Anyone know if existing 2.0 compliant cable modems can be updated to support 3.0 (presumably via firmware), or will I have to get a new cable modem once 3.0 is rolled out in my area? I have a Linksys BEFCMU10 cable modem and it's served me well for the past 5 years, but I haven't seen anything fro

Re: Hard drive Crash?

2009-07-28 Thread Technomage
Stephen wrote: > the best bet you have is to but an identical drive and try swapping > the card manually. > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Technomage > wrote: > I would *IF* I could find an identical drive (same lot and everything). Western Digital won't sell me one and I haven't been abl

Re: Hard drive Crash?

2009-07-28 Thread Lyle Tuttle
What brand of drive, etc? At 01:35 PM 7/28/2009, you wrote: the best bet you have is to but an identical drive and try swapping the card manually. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Technomage wrote: > mike Enriquez wrote: >> Does anyone on the list have a software that they like to use to rec

Re: Cottonwood Question?

2009-07-28 Thread Michael Butash
Most any will work, just avoid the really cheap/off-brand ones (best-data frys specials are known by cox to have issues with latest infrastructure code, now unsupported). I'd recommend making sure it's at least docsis 2.0 capable, and if you want the really high tiers of service (15mb+) get a moto

Re: Hard drive Crash?

2009-07-28 Thread Stephen
the best bet you have is to but an identical drive and try swapping the card manually. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Technomage wrote: > mike Enriquez wrote: >> Does anyone on the list have a software that they like to use to recover >> data from a Hard Drive Crash? >> >> I don't want to pay $

Re: Cottonwood Question?

2009-07-28 Thread Jason Holtzapple
mike havens wrote: > that was probably a stupid quesxtion; is a cable modem a cable modem... > meaning any of them will work on any system? If cox is the provider, they have a supported list: http://support.cox.com/sdccommon/asp/contentredirect.asp I have and use a Motorola SB5101 and have no is

Re: July WSM Minutes

2009-07-28 Thread Ryan Rix
On Tue 28 July 2009 1:09:40 pm Matthew A Coulliette wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > Yeah, very cool! Well done. You even spelled my name correctly! MatthewMPP > Hi, I stole it from your email headers when I wrote it. :) bo...@work Ryan --- Ryan Rix (623)-826-0051 #define FALSE 0 /* This

Re: July WSM Minutes

2009-07-28 Thread Matthew A Coulliette
Hi Ryan, Yeah, very cool! Well done. You even spelled my name correctly! MatthewMPP Ryan Rix wrote: > Hi, > > For anyone who missed the meeting, here are the minutes for the July West > Side > meeting: > > http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/july-plug-wsm-minutes/ > > Ryan > >

Re: Cottonwood Question?

2009-07-28 Thread Jon M. Hanson
As long as they confirm to the correct DOCSIS standard. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 28, 2009, at 12:49 PM, mike havens wrote: that was probably a stupid quesxtion; is a cable modem a cable modem... meaning any of them will work on any system? On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:34 PM, mike havens wr

Re: Is SOAP configured on PHP?

2009-07-28 Thread Joshua Zeidner
there are two SOAP options for PHP, one you have to compile and the other is just a set of classes: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/ -jmz On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:51 PM, keith smith wrote: > > > PHP.ini has   extension_dir = "/usr/lib/php/modules" > > I listed the file in /usr/lib/p

Re: Is SOAP configured on PHP?

2009-07-28 Thread keith smith
PHP.ini has extension_dir = "/usr/lib/php/modules" I listed the file in /usr/lib/php/modules and nothing was named with soap. I guess I need to install it. Thanks! Keith Smith --- On Tue, 7/28/09, Lisa Kachold wrote: > From: Lisa Kachold > Subject: Re: Is SOA

Re: Cottonwood Question?

2009-07-28 Thread mike havens
that was probably a stupid quesxtion; is a cable modem a cable modem... meaning any of them will work on any system? On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:34 PM, mike havens wrote: > what is the brand of cable modem they use in the area? > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:33 PM, mike havens wrote: > >> that w

Re: Hard drive Crash?

2009-07-28 Thread James Mcphee
I've had reasonable luck with SpinRite to get data off of semi-failed hard disks. It costs money, though. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Technomage wrote: > mike Enriquez wrote: > > Does anyone on the list have a software that they like to use to recover > > data from a Hard Drive Crash? > >

Re: Cottonwood Question?

2009-07-28 Thread mike havens
what is the brand of cable modem they use in the area? On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:33 PM, mike havens wrote: > that would probably be me... is cox in that area or else who is the cable > company up there? > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM, mike Enriquez wrote: > >> Someone asked a question ab

Re: Cottonwood Question?

2009-07-28 Thread mike havens
that would probably be me... is cox in that area or else who is the cable company up there? On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:10 PM, mike Enriquez wrote: > Someone asked a question about living in Cottonwood and I lost that > email. I have a ranch just outside of Cottonwood I spent summers and > most o

Cottonwood Question?

2009-07-28 Thread mike Enriquez
Someone asked a question about living in Cottonwood and I lost that email. I have a ranch just outside of Cottonwood I spent summers and most of the summer up there. So if that person still has a question about Cottonwood, or PageSprings, or Sedona I would be glad to help out. Thanks Mike Enriqu

Re: Hard drive Crash?

2009-07-28 Thread Technomage
mike Enriquez wrote: > Does anyone on the list have a software that they like to use to recover > data from a Hard Drive Crash? > > I don't want to pay $2000.00 for it but I would like to know what is > available out in the real world that Linux people like. > > Thanks for your input. > > Mike Enri

Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-28 Thread Stephen
no it just will just get totally effed up when you boot OSX and they try to "fix" the partition table... On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Ryan Rix wrote: > Stephen wrote: >> Yes it can however you need to be really careful with partitioning and >> use bootcamp and ref-it to make it go around nice

Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-28 Thread Ryan Rix
Stephen wrote: > Yes it can however you need to be really careful with partitioning and > use bootcamp and ref-it to make it go around nicely > > this also kind of means your cramming your whole install into a single > parition rather than being able to make a swap/boot/root gracefully. EFI diskl

Re: Hard drive Crash?

2009-07-28 Thread Stephen
Its windows based but its also been the best tool for me ever to get data from drives. and still reasonably priced. been able to get everything that wasn't full hardware failure... http://www.data-recovery-software.net/ On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM, mike Enriquez wrote: > Does anyone on th

Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-28 Thread Stephen
Yes it can however you need to be really careful with partitioning and use bootcamp and ref-it to make it go around nicely this also kind of means your cramming your whole install into a single parition rather than being able to make a swap/boot/root gracefully. aside from that it runs great On

RE: Hard drive Crash?

2009-07-28 Thread Bob Elzer
Try partedmagic it includes ddrescue Article on hard drive crashes and ddrescue in Linux Journal http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10360 Parted magic web site http://partedmagic.com/ > -Original Message- > From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discus

Re: Hard drive Crash?

2009-07-28 Thread Ryan Rix
mike Enriquez wrote: > More info: > 1. the hard drive is running > 2. no post > 3. it just stopped working. > 4. if connected to another computer I can see my files. > 5. It makes a little noise but nothing happens. > I would like to be able to run some software on it and check it out and > if I h

Re: Hard drive Crash?

2009-07-28 Thread mike Enriquez
More info: 1. the hard drive is running 2. no post 3. it just stopped working. 4. if connected to another computer I can see my files. 5. It makes a little noise but nothing happens. I would like to be able to run some software on it and check it out and if I have to in the future recovery my file

Re: Hard drive Crash?

2009-07-28 Thread Jim March
What kind of crash? What kind of error messages, what kind of sounds from the drive, will the drive spin up at all, what was it doing before the crash? Is this an external USB drive? ALL of this matters. Jim On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:15 AM, mike Enriquez wrote: > Does anyone on the list have

Hard drive Crash?

2009-07-28 Thread mike Enriquez
Does anyone on the list have a software that they like to use to recover data from a Hard Drive Crash? I don't want to pay $2000.00 for it but I would like to know what is available out in the real world that Linux people like. Thanks for your input. Mike Enriquez --

Re: Is SOAP configured on PHP?

2009-07-28 Thread Lisa Kachold
Decide if you want a "stable" distro php version or a custom binary. You can just do an apt-get or yum. I would assume that if: 1) You have not defined soap in php.ini module section (version dependent). 2) Your phpinfo() does not show soap. 3) php -i does not show soap. You don't have soap. A

Re: Is SOAP configured on PHP?

2009-07-28 Thread keith smith
Thanks, Did as you said and did not see SOAP in the output. Keith Smith --- On Tue, 7/28/09, Lisa Kachold wrote: > From: Lisa Kachold > Subject: Re: Is SOAP configured on PHP? > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 8:46 AM > On 7/28/09, k

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-28 Thread Ryan Rix
Bryan O'Neal wrote: > I fully understand why Amazon took this action, however I choose not to > allow it by not owning a kindle. In other words, you all may be screwed but > I never had a telascreen installed in my apartment ;) > Amazon Swindle FTL :<

Re: 1984 George Orwell and the Kindle

2009-07-28 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I fully understand why Amazon took this action, however I choose not to allow it by not owning a kindle. In other words, you all may be screwed but I never had a telascreen installed in my apartment ;) On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Alan Dayley wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Marco S

Re: Is SOAP configured on PHP?

2009-07-28 Thread Judd Pickell
If the php.ini is the one defining the modules (as is the case in the ubuntu repos) then it may not show up in the configure command, but under the modules list. I believe only statically compiled modules are listed in the configure command section. Sincerely, Judd Pickell On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at

Re: Is SOAP configured on PHP?

2009-07-28 Thread Lisa Kachold
On 7/28/09, keith smith wrote: > > > Thanks! > > Question : If I look in the "Configure Command" section of the phpinfo() > output should I see "--enable-soap" if SOAP has been installed? > > > Keith Smith Not sure about your installation (php.ini) and Apache; look at: p

Re: Is SOAP configured on PHP?

2009-07-28 Thread keith smith
Thanks! Question : If I look in the "Configure Command" section of the phpinfo() output should I see "--enable-soap" if SOAP has been installed? Keith Smith --- On Tue, 7/28/09, Lisa Kachold wrote: > From: Lisa Kachold > Subject: Re: Is SOAP configured on PHP? > T

Re: Is SOAP configured on PHP?

2009-07-28 Thread Lisa Kachold
On 7/28/09, keith smith wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to determine if SOAP is configured on my server. When I do a > phpinfo() soap is not listed anywhere. According to the PHP manual "This > extension is only available if PHP was configured with --enable-soap.". So > I was expecting

Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-28 Thread Lisa Kachold
I have seen entire teams of developers running QA development versions of their production environments in a VM on Macbook Pros. On 7/28/09, David wrote: > > On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: > >> I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it can >> dual-boot w

Re: Can Macbook dual-boot with Linux?

2009-07-28 Thread David
On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: > I'm considering purchasing a Macbook and would like to know if it can > dual-boot with most Linux distros. And/or does anyone have experience > running Linux in a Virtual box or VM ware setup on a Macbook? > -

Is SOAP configured on PHP?

2009-07-28 Thread keith smith
Hi All, I'm trying to determine if SOAP is configured on my server. When I do a phpinfo() soap is not listed anywhere. According to the PHP manual "This extension is only available if PHP was configured with --enable-soap.". So I was expecting to see SOAP under the "Configure Command" se

Re: OT: Shirts!

2009-07-28 Thread Mike Schwartz
Sorry LK, originally I did not read [all of] that post from you, from Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:17 AM (12 steps, FOSS, etc.); but now today I did (re-) read it. Very interesting. Now, this one (Jul 27, 2009 at 5:02 PM) I have only skimmed through; but I did go back, and re-read the "part of it", t