KCLUG January 2006

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OT: PHP Programmers Wanted
by rcedelman＠comcast.net 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

My employer is looking for some PHP programmers to (I believe) subcontract out to some customers of ours. Must know SQL as well (MySQL 4.x is the backend) as this is a dynamic database driven site. This all will run on a Debian Linux system, so it's kinda related here :) If anyone is interested, email any questions and/or resumes to redelman(a)netstandard.com. If you can include links to examples of your work, that'd be great!

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Re: Taking a poll on mail client reply
by rcedelman＠comcast.net 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Most modern email clients (K-Mail and Evolution come to mind) also have a "reply to list" function that works fairly well. Not that I'm using a modern email client these days, but I wish I was. Comcast's webmail sucks horribly; note the top post! -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Tom Bruno <tom(a)limesg.com> > Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Tom Bruno wrote: > > > > | I'm tired of hitting reply and then realizing my reply went > > | directly to the person and not the list. > > > > This is (holy|flame)-war ground... > > > > Check out the first two google hits on: reply-to munging: > > > > "Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > > > MetaSystema.Net: Reply-To Munging Considered Useful > > http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml > > > > My main personal experience with nastiness caused by either method is > > with > > our neighborhood e-mail list: When I first brought the list up, some new > > users were not familiar with the munging feature and send private > > replies to > > the list by mistake (simply by hitting reply). Reply-to munging has been > > disabled ever since... > > > According to other posts, it's immoral to hide your reply's in private > messages ;) > > but I do understand the complications, and like i said, I know nothing > of why it's setup like this, and have no opinion. I just find it annoying. > > And I did it again when i just replied to you, luckly i hit cancel in time. > > > ...and google ranks the "considered harmful" page above the "useful" > > page, > > so it must be bad. :-) > > > > - -- > > Charles Steinkuehler > > charles(a)steinkuehler.net > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFDuuUCLywbqEHdNFwRApKuAJ90K14fkz21uTywPTxdA0y0xk6sigCgureY > > YVkzzmGFmXWI2CEGBbX12FM= > > =p/uE > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Kclug mailing list > Kclug(a)kclug.org > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug

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[Fwd: Re: Linux on older laptops]
by Rick 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Luke-Jr wrote: > On Tuesday 03 January 2006 00:19, Richard Piper wrote: >> Just curious Luke, how far do you take this belief? Do you only run >> computers which work with a free-as-in-freedom BIOs as well? > > If I had that choice, I certainly would. Ditto for firmware and hardware. I'm sorry, but at this point, you fall off the edge of your own world. You claim it's immoral for an entity, be it personal or corporate, to distribute *their* creation as they see fit, yet you find it reasonable to continue to use that same software/hardware? You *do* have that choice. You could fabricate your own hardware, and then program it yourself. You *choose* to skip that step and use someone else's piece's and parts, all the while espousing how immoral it all is. > >> I used NDISWRAPPER because it allowed me to move to GNU/Linux without >> forcing me to buy new hardware. > > Wrong phrasing/thinking: It isn't the move to GNU/Linux that would have forced > you to buy anything-- it was the manufacturers of the unsupported hardware. You are handcuffing yourself to a hard drive. Admirable, but ineffective because no one's going to come bulldoze your hard drive. > >> The way I see it: the drivers aren't immoral; the company's decision to >> not open source the drivers was immoral. > > And your decision to buy the device and use the drivers is an act of support. > Now, obviously if you were given it or had already bought it, that doesn't > apply, but you're still sacrificing your rights and piece-of-mind (who knows > what backdoors these drivers might have?) by using them. Are you not, according to your first paragraph, also supporting them? You're obviously using a computer, yet every computer that runs on non free-as-in-beer hardware/software is immoral? -- ---- Mortality sucks... -- ---- Mortality sucks...

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Re: ToC, Fast Indexes, OOo and AmiPro1
by Jared 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

> I am hoping there is a macro or some trick to quickly > add index entries for a document. Currently, I am > trying to add an index for a genealogy book, I've > written (still in alpha mode). This book covers about > 135 pages at letter size paper and about 600 people. > While the index will build all links to the > individual,that means tagging 600 entries. Not fun. I > know I should have done this as I created it, but it > was created en-mass from a database and then edited. I > originally had this in AmiPro, but I'll discuss that > later. Is there anything to make it faster, or do I > just need to bite the bullet? OpenOffice uses BASIC as one of its scripting languages, meaning that if you can generate a list of all the names you want to "tag" then write a macro which cycles through the list, searching the main document for each item, then tagging it, your bullet is bitten. You're probably going to spend as much time figuring out how to do this, and then doing it, as you would the manual method, but from that point forward, you'll know OO macros and you'll be a poweruser. > Secondly, I'd like to know why OpenOffice doesn't > import AmiPro documents? Just a rant I guess. Dunno. A quick Google search reveals that it does. You can always save to RTF, which is a good portable format for most purposes. > Lastly, I'm curious if there are any peopel out there > writing books in Linux and what they use? I've heard > of Latex and such things for layout, but not really > sure why you'd want to use them. > They just look confusing as Hell. I plan to use Scribus for a book I'm working on when it's ready to publish. I haven't used it yet, but it has very good reviews across the spectrum. http://www.scribus.org.uk/ -Jared

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[OT] Laptop Harddrives
by Josh Charles 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

My laptop harddrive went out on me today, and unfortunately my laptop is no longer under warranty, so I'm faced with the double task of A) Seeing if I can get the little bit of data that was not yet backed up off of it, and B) replacing it. I went to the manufacturer website to see about getting a replacement from them, but it was going to cost $400! My question is this: are laptop harddrives pretty much like tower harddrives in that they are standard sizes and I don't neccesarilly need a drive from the manufacturer? I looked through google, and I saw hints towards this, but I just want to be sure. The specs from the manufacturer are as follow: 40.0GB ATA-100 EIDE hard disk drive - 4,200 RPM, 2.5-inch form factor, 9.5mm height The thing that bothers me is the "form factor." It's an HP laptop, but the drive from the factory is Toshiba. Any help will be greatly appreciatted! Thanks, Josh

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