Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board

2007-05-13 Thread Dawn Wolthuis
It sounds like there is enough material among us all to perhaps pull it together in a single book. If anyone would like to work on pulling something like that together... BTW, Is the four-color theorem still one that has only been proven by computer or is there now an elegant mathematical proof

Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board

2007-05-11 Thread Dawn Wolthuis
On 5/10/07, Charles Barouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Let me respond to some of these... but first: MOST IMPORTANT! We need content for the learner packs! Please contact U2UG President Brian Leach with specific offers to help. We need code examples, well reasoned tutorials, and more.

RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board

2007-05-11 Thread brian
Virtual Machines DW -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Normandin, Jerry Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:43 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Sounds like a great Idea! I'm

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2007-05-11 Thread Kurt Neumann
: [U2] Incubator - News from the board On 5/10/07, Dave Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck, Stepping up on my soap box I suspect I'll end up on mine before this post is done, so I might as well say so up front too. I have no reason to believe that IBM is eager to attract end-customers (non

RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board

2007-05-11 Thread Normandin, Jerry
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Murray Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:57 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board I was assuming that IBM would do this. Cheers, David Murray .learn and do .excel and share -Original Message- From

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2007-05-11 Thread Normandin, Jerry
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:16 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Anthony Youngman wrote: I'm trying to get a working Gentoo at home. That's a game and a half :-) When I succeed I'll likely try

RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board

2007-05-11 Thread Marc Harbeson
: Friday, May 11, 2007 9:36 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board We can have an archive of the PE version within the virtual machine. When the virtual machine boots for the firstime the user will be guided through the PE installation and force the user

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2007-05-11 Thread David Wolverton
of downloads) - no one high up enough at IBM is greasing the rails to make it smoother. DW -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Normandin, Jerry Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 8:36 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Incubator

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2007-05-11 Thread brian
] On Behalf Of Normandin, Jerry Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 9:36 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board We can have an archive of the PE version within the virtual machine. When the virtual machine boots for the firstime the user will be guided through the PE

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2007-05-11 Thread brian
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Barouch Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:25 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board All, Let me respond to some of these... but first: MOST IMPORTANT! We

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2007-05-11 Thread Dawn Wolthuis
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Barouch Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:25 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board All, Let me respond to some of these... but first: MOST IMPORTANT! We need content for the learner packs! Please contact U2UG President Brian

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2007-05-11 Thread brian
Sorry I didn't mean that to go to the whole list.. should have looked before I hit the reply. Brian | Tom | Thanks! That's just the kind of thing we're looking for. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

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2007-05-11 Thread brian
Dawn Thanks! The u2ug address is 'in progress' - Chuck's doing a test run with u2ug.net to get to the new site. Once we know that's all working, we'll repeat the process with u2ug.org. Yes, my own web site is always bottom of the list sigh and really needs reorganizing and some new content.

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2007-05-11 Thread Ross Ferris
Barouch Sent: Friday, 11 May 2007 9:25 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board All, Let me respond to some of these... but first: MOST IMPORTANT! We need content for the learner packs! Please contact U2UG President Brian Leach with specific offers

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2007-05-11 Thread Ross Ferris
Stamina Software Visage Better by Design! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 11 May 2007 3:13 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board It strikes me that one

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2007-05-10 Thread Brutzman, Bill
Outstanding... I am 1000% in favor of this initiative. I have never been able to get PE to work on a PC... always running into install problems. Beefing up PE would be the best advertizing that IBM could hope for... --Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

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2007-05-10 Thread BNeylon
Is there a possibility of adding a Terminal emulator? Accuterm for instance? Bruce M Neylon Health Care Management Group Charles Barouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/09/2007 11:39 PM Please respond to u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org cc

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2007-05-10 Thread Anthony Youngman
: Brutzman, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2007 15:41 To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' Subject: RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Outstanding... I am 1000% in favor of this initiative. I have never been able to get PE to work on a PC... always running into install problems

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2007-05-10 Thread karlp
Adding an emulator is a great idea, however it should be an IBM product. Much easier to make a business case expanding the IBM product line than any third party products. My 2 bits Karl quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a possibility of adding a Terminal emulator? Accuterm for instance?

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2007-05-10 Thread Gabriel Green
Can I ask a silly question--why are there no MV books in bookstores in print? Anyone want to write one? ;-) Is the MV market expanding, shrinking, or staying stagnant? Does IBM plan to really start promoting U2 or is it just something they acquired to get a few large customers? Anybody? Gabe

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2007-05-10 Thread Vance E Alspach (JL - SFD)
] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:25 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Adding an emulator is a great idea, however it should be an IBM product. Much easier to make a business case expanding the IBM product line than any third

Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board

2007-05-10 Thread Ken Hall
At 08:39 PM 5/9/2007, you wrote: Here's what we have in mind: We want to build an installer which pulls the PE editions from the IBM website (allowing the user to sign the IBM agreement), pulls Learner Packs from the U2UG website (allowing the user to sign the U2UG agreement - designed to

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2007-05-10 Thread Thomas Derwin
Last I looked, Dynamic Connect was bundled with the PE editions. It was included in the clients zip file, rather than the pe zip file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/10/07 11:24 AM Adding an emulator is a great idea, however it should be an IBM product. snip Karl quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a

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2007-05-10 Thread Gabriel Green
15:41 To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' Subject: RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Outstanding... I am 1000% in favor of this initiative. I have never been able to get PE to work on a PC... always running into install problems. Beefing up PE would be the best advertizing that IBM

RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board

2007-05-10 Thread David Murray
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:04 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Is there a possibility of adding a Terminal emulator? Accuterm for instance? Bruce M Neylon Health Care Management Group

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2007-05-10 Thread Martin Phillips
Would be nice to get UV on FreeBSD Can't resist the plug OpenQM runs on FreeBSD. Martin Phillips, Ladybridge Systems Ltd --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

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2007-05-10 Thread robwills_u2list
It strikes me that one good way to deliver this would be using VMware or some other similar virtualisation technology that can be run in a free player (VMware Player) on any Windows or Linux operating system. This would make the install easy and all the databases and documentation etc. could

RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board

2007-05-10 Thread Normandin, Jerry
11:56 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Good luck with that. All I have to say about Gentoo is be careful with compiler flags going a little too crazy and ports (or whatever they call them, I forget) getting out of sync. Would be nice to get UV

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2007-05-10 Thread Dave Taylor
Chuck, Stepping up on my soap box As I have said before on this subject, you never get a second chance to make a good first impression. I once spoke with a representative of another mv database who bragged that they got over 2000 downloads of their eval. product per month. When I asked him, how

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2007-05-10 Thread Kevin King
From: David Murray What would be nice is SBClient to be bundled, so the capabilities of SB+ can be demonstrated. Not likely going to happen, but DC works fine with SB+ in character mode. Well, fine following a small patch to SB+. -Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PrecisOnline.com ** Check

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2007-05-10 Thread karlp
Might I also suggest that all the extras, like the recommended list of VARs (very good idea), etc. be placed on u2ug.org's website so they are located in one location, and can be updated once? There's nothing less maintainable than a software release with all the packages included, but which is

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2007-05-10 Thread Thomas Derwin
Very well said, Dave. And thanks for your generous offers. The incubator is a great idea and hopefully IBM will be as lenient with the PE licensing and expiration terms as they are with their free DB2 Express-C database. The installer is going to be an amazing piece of code, considering all

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2007-05-10 Thread Marc Harbeson
-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board It strikes me that one good way to deliver this would be using VMware or some other similar virtualisation technology that can be run in a free player (VMware Player) on any Windows or Linux operating system. This would

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2007-05-10 Thread Jerry
: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Chuck, Stepping up on my soap box As I have said before on this subject, you never get a second chance to make a good first impression. I once spoke with a representative of another mv database who bragged

Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board

2007-05-10 Thread BNeylon
PROTECTED] 05/10/2007 11:30 AM Please respond to u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org cc Subject Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Can I ask a silly question--why are there no MV books in bookstores in print? Anyone want to write one? ;-) Is the MV market

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2007-05-10 Thread David Murray
Subject: RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Well, for distribution - this would need to be Linux - as I doubt Microsoft will grant re-dist rights on Win32. IBM seems to support Linux... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board

2007-05-10 Thread Normandin, Jerry
] On Behalf Of David Murray Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:22 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board What about a fully installed, configured and ready to run VMWare image of U2 on linux? VWmare now have a free runtime/player and there are already

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2007-05-10 Thread Dave
Anthony Youngman wrote: I'm trying to get a working Gentoo at home. That's a game and a half :-) When I succeed I'll likely try and create an ebuild to install UVPE. Be nice to get that officially into portage :-) (I want to get a WordPerfect 8 ebuild working, too :-) Cheers, Wol I

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2007-05-10 Thread David Wolverton
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Normandin, Jerry Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:43 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Sounds like a great Idea! I'm willing to put together a tuned cookie

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2007-05-10 Thread Charles Barouch
All, Let me respond to some of these... but first: MOST IMPORTANT! We need content for the learner packs! Please contact U2UG President Brian Leach with specific offers to help. We need code examples, well reasoned tutorials, and more. These packs are a big part of making the incubator

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2007-05-10 Thread karlp
Thanks. I've seen broken links so many times using install routines that I could be rich, if finder's fees were applicable. Well, not rich. Karl quote who=Charles Barouch All, Let me respond to some of these... but first: MOST IMPORTANT! We need content for the learner packs! Please

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2007-05-10 Thread David Murray
DW -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Normandin, Jerry Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:43 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Sounds like a great Idea! I'm willing to put

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2007-05-10 Thread Marc Harbeson
Why can't the unpacking of the VM have the IBM license agreement in it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Wolverton Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:49 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Incubator - News from the board

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2007-05-10 Thread Richard Brown
Yep, I live on that same clock. Richard - Original Message - From: Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:12 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Incubator - News from the board Dave, Very well said. But one thing I might add, and I've been bitten