Fwd: Year-End Greetings from Linux Fund

2009-12-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
Linux Fund, doing hard work assisted ABLEconf, LinuxCon and great deal of other worthwhile Linux endeavors this last year! -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Dexter dex...@linuxfund.org Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:19:27 -0800 Subject: Year-End Greetings from Linux Fund Thanks

Job Available: Avnet - Associate Technology Consultant

2009-12-29 Thread Jason Spatafore
PLUG'ers! The company I work for has an Associate Technology Consultant position open available in Chandler. Basically, the job is to write build instructions for technicians to follow. You would be creating a repeatable process and deal with many of the latest technologies like Bladecenters,

OT: Re: Job Available: Avnet - Associate Technology Consultant

2009-12-29 Thread Jason Spatafore
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 05:31 -0700, Jason Spatafore wrote: PS: I sent this to this group because, honestly, I have been witnessing our product mix shift from 20% Linux to around 70% Linux...so I would rather we get another Linux guy in the door. I wanted to apologize in advanceI shouldn't

Re: OT: Re: Job Available: Avnet - Associate Technology Consultant

2009-12-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
Looks like a great fun engineering gig any of us guys would love! Seriously, gender sensitive language handicaps! http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/gender.html Thanks for noting that; our daughters will appreciate it! On 12/29/09, Jason Spatafore jason_onl...@spatafore.net wrote: On Tue,

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
I smelled his chair at OSDL during an invitation to compete for a contract and I partied with him at LinuxCon: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/lc09p2 That's me in the front row: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/09/22/linuxcon2009/ There was a rumor that Linus has been replaced by look-alikes:

Re: O.T. iPod question?

2009-12-29 Thread Tuna
I used one to wrap a Christmas gift. I put a 7-zip self extracting EXE on my brother's desktop, encrypted. I wrote the passphrase on the hard drive and put the iPod back together. Then I just put it in the box with a cheap old single-blade pocket knife and let him figure out the rest. I had to

Re: O.T. iPod question?

2009-12-29 Thread Stephen
Thats freaking hilarious On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Tuna t...@supertunaman.com wrote: I used one to wrap a Christmas gift. I put a 7-zip self extracting EXE on my brother's desktop, encrypted. I wrote the passphrase on the hard drive and put the iPod back together. Then I just put it in

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Stephen
you smelled his chair? interesting :-P On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: I smelled his chair at OSDL during an invitation to compete for a contract and I partied with him at LinuxCon: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/lc09p2 That's me in the front

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: you smelled his chair? were all wondering: what did it smell like? -jmz interesting :-P On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: I smelled his chair at OSDL during an invitation to

Re: Job Available: Avnet - Associate Technology Consultant

2009-12-29 Thread Eric Cope
I know an HR rep at avnet, I'd be glat to assist some resume placing for anyone on this list. Eric On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Jason Spatafore jason_onl...@spatafore.net wrote: PLUG'ers! The company I work for has an Associate Technology Consultant position open available in Chandler.

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Joshua Zeidner jjzeid...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: you smelled his chair?  were all wondering: what did it smell like? penguins is not an acceptable answer here btw. -jmz  -jmz interesting

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
But we need people to look at it, smell it, and make their suggestions for improvement and feel, genuinely, like they were part of the process. -Eric S. Raymond, OSDL co-founder and president emeritus Of course, Raymond was discussing Open Source Licensing Initiatives, not Linus' chair. The

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Joshua Zeidner
I met someone who lives in Scottsdale (native Finn) that claims to know him. -jmz On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: But we need people to look at it, smell it, and make their suggestions for improvement and feel, genuinely, like they were part of

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
That makes two people you know who knows Linus. On 12/29/09, Joshua Zeidner jjzeid...@gmail.com wrote: I met someone who lives in Scottsdale (native Finn) that claims to know him. -jmz On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: But we need people to

Re: OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

2009-12-29 Thread Lisa Kachold
Everyone in PDX became famous I also know: Fyodor nmap.org http://insecure.org/presentations/BHDC08/ Feedle.net Phreaker Presenter at DEFCON 6 Randal Schwartz Perl Stonehenge.com Alan Montgomery 2600.com (and federal prison) John Heasley Shrubbery Networks

OT: Amateur Radio Classes

2009-12-29 Thread keith smith
Hi, Does anyone know of any free HAM classes in the Chandler / East Valley area? I'm interested in getting my license and learning more about Amateur Radio so I can make a informed decision on what radio(s) I should buy. Thanks in advance for your guidance. Keith

Re: OT: Amateur Radio Classes

2009-12-29 Thread keith smith
Thank you! Keith Smith --- On Tue, 12/29/09, Lyle Tuttle l.tut...@cox.net wrote: From: Lyle Tuttle l.tut...@cox.net Subject: Re: OT: Amateur Radio Classes To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 2:17 PM

Re: OT: Amateur Radio Classes

2009-12-29 Thread Eric Cope
the book I was referred to, Now You're Talking, was pretty good. Eric (KE7BRP) On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:30 PM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of any free HAM classes in the Chandler / East Valley area? I'm interested in getting my license and learning more

Re: OT: Amateur Radio Classes

2009-12-29 Thread keith smith
Thanks, I'll take a look. I have the ARRL level 1 Technician book. Keith Smith --- On Tue, 12/29/09, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote: From: Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com Subject: Re: OT: Amateur Radio Classes To: Main PLUG discussion list

Re: fixing laptop jack

2009-12-29 Thread Joshua Zeidner
fixed it! -jmz On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:14 PM, mike havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: well cool beans it looks like the job my soldier did was half the battle! On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Joshua Zeidner jjzeid...@gmail.com wrote:  its not always so simple.  If you don't soldier

Re:home dir to usb

2009-12-29 Thread betty
I installed the new drive into the new computer. I'm going to transfer the home directory to a usb drive and then to the new computer. This is the command i tried and the result i got. sto...@stormy-desktop:~$ sudo dd if=/home/stormy of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1024k [sudo] password for stormy: dd: reading

Re: home dir to usb

2009-12-29 Thread Eric Cope
please excuse my ignorance, why would cp -r not work? Eric On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:33 PM, betty nicepeng...@webcanine.com wrote: I installed the new drive into the new computer. I'm going to transfer the home directory to a usb drive and then to the new computer. This is the command i tried