Re: [clug-talk] Best Card For Myth Box

2012-04-23 Thread Carl
Bill, I have an old Hauppauge card for capturing analog channels. You can have it if you like as I no longer subscribe to cable. I'm looking for a card/device that can record over the air (OTA) digital channels. Carl On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 11:34 -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: > I used

Re: [clug-talk] Looking for printer

2013-02-15 Thread Carl
via USB. Carl On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 18:37 -0700, John Jardine wrote: > Best Buy, sale ends today: > http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/samsung-samsung-wireless-laser-printer-ml-2165w-xaa-ml-2165w-xaa/10208324.aspx?path=35d327de7152026fc84c1a90719c2100en02 > > CAD$59.99 and if

[clug-talk] Looking for an Accountant who uses Linux

2005-02-01 Thread Carl
siness tax returns etc. I would prefer use a free SW package such as GnuCash for my bookkeeping. If you could recommend an accountant who is knowledgeable about free SW please let me know. Thanks, Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http

Re: [clug-talk] Project Management Application Suggestions...

2005-02-02 Thread Carl
I've used MrProject 0.9.1 and found it had all of the features I needed. I've also used previous versions but found them to be buggy. MS Project has many more features but my style is to keep things simple and since MrProject has all of the basics I would recommend it over MS Project.

[clug-talk] ISP for personal server

2005-08-19 Thread Carl
Can anyone recommend a good ISP that will officially allow you to use your home computer as a server? Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca

[clug-talk] default printing font size in gnome

2007-06-13 Thread Carl
x27;t seem to be a way to change print font size in Evolution. I'm using Fedora 6. From googling, print font size appears to be a common complaint from Ubuntu/Evolution users as well. Thanks, Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca

Re: [clug-talk] COSSFEST Schedule Updated

2007-10-17 Thread Carl
What are the three proposed topics that need a speaker? Are they the ones listed as TDB on the schedule. OpenBSD, Open Source on Windows and Open Source Trends in Government? Carl On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 23:54 -0600, sgrover wrote: > The COSSFEST schedule has been revised/updated to better gr

[clug-talk] gnucash corporate tax accountant

2007-11-28 Thread Carl
I've found a Calgary based corporate tax accountant who will support clients who use gnucash for their bookkeeping. If you would like his contact information, please contact me off list. Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca

[clug-talk] telus cell phone

2008-04-23 Thread Carl
Are there Linux users who sync contact info to a Telus cell phone? If so, which cell phone model are you using? I'm using Evolution as my email client. Thanks, Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo

Re: [clug-talk] telus cell phone

2008-04-24 Thread Carl
I purchased a Motorola Razr 2 v9 and so far I'm struggling with even the basic USB mass storage functionality. I'm currently using fedora core 6 and before I make any further connectivity attempts I'm going to wait for fedora core 9. Thanks, Carl On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 21:27 -0

Re: [clug-talk] telus cell phone

2008-04-24 Thread Carl
Ok great. I'll look into this. On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 17:32 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > If you do a 'lsusb -vv' you might see that it advertises more than USB > Mass Storage. > > If there is a 'serial port' there you might be able to use an application > such as bitpim to upload/downlo

Re: [clug-talk] Canadian DCMA protest

2008-06-18 Thread Carl
I'm pretty sure the current tax applies to all CDs including the 700Mb version. See http://cpcc.ca/english/currentTariff.htm Carl On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 17:30 -0600, Neil Bower wrote: > > Just an F.Y.I. > The tax on CDs are on the 650Mb version not the 700Mb version. > The 65

Re: [clug-talk] GNU cash anybody ?

2008-09-30 Thread Carl
add entries for GST Paid and Payable at 5% each going to the applicable account. When creating an invoice select GST Tax. So far my tax accountant hasn't complained with the way it is setup. Carl On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 05:10 +, Kin Wong wrote: > What the heck are you asking accounting que

Re: [clug-talk] Attaching random serial device as X11 input

2009-01-28 Thread Carl
I came across this FlicServ software the other day. It sounds similar to what you are trying to accomplish. http://www.gsmblog.net/lang-en/linux-howtos/41-linux-howtos/85-linux-wedge-driver-for-microvision-flic-barcode-scanner.html Carl On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 16:12 -0500, si...@mungewell.org

Re: [clug-talk] EEE's in Calgary

2009-07-24 Thread Carl
/wiki/Intel_GMA#GMA_500 (Note the Mini 10 does not suffer from this problem. It uses a different graphics card.) Because of this I returned it and got a XPS1330n instead. So far is has been a great computer but unfortunately Dell Canada does not offer it with Linux anymore. Carl On Fri, 2009-07

Re: [clug-talk] EEE's in Calgary

2009-07-24 Thread Carl
I take that back. According to wikipedia the Mini 10 does have the bad graphics card. I think it is the Mini 9 that has something else. Best to check before you order. Carl On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 14:47 -0600, Carl wrote: > (Note the Mini 10 does not suffer from this problem. It use

Re: [clug-talk] Old fashion Modem on Shaw Digital Phone

2011-01-26 Thread Carl
Haven't tried modems but have tried fax machines on Shaw and Vonage. Not robust. Can take a bit of fiddling. The digital voice is tuned for voice. Not for machines. Though does Shaw work much better than Vonage. Carl On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 01:48 -0700, Kin Wong wrote: > Fax > machine

Re: [clug-talk] Old fashion Modem on Shaw Digital Phone

2011-01-26 Thread Carl
er interprets audible frequencies are different. Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

Re: [clug-talk] Smart Phone

2011-06-02 Thread Carl
at are the apple iPhone but I need to jail break it > AFAIK and a Motorola ATRIX 4G. I like my Samsung Galaxy S from Bell. Easy to write apps with Linux and the Google Android SDK. Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug

Re: [clug-talk] Smart Phone

2011-06-03 Thread Carl
I'm not quite sure what you are looking for in an emulator. Part of the Google Android SDK is an emulator. So you can start developing and testing apps before you even have a phone. Carl On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 22:20 -0600, t...@terralogic.net wrote: > I'll be looking for an emula

Re: [clug-talk] Adding C/C++ libs from source

2005-09-30 Thread Carl
Aaron, Would your recommend Qt for non-GUI development where, in general, performance is important? Carl On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 22:18 -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Thursday 29 September 2005 21:48, Kevin Sauter wrote: > > Ok as I mentioned before, I'm trying to make use of

[clug-talk] installing clamav on Knoppix

2005-10-16 Thread Carl
Core user. Why isn't clamav available? Am I doing something incorrect? Thanks, Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Pleas

Re: [clug-talk] installing clamav on Knoppix

2005-10-17 Thread Carl
Knoppix 3.8 does conveniently support the unionfs. The part I was missing was to do the apt-get update. After I did this the clamav installed and worked flawlessly. Thanks, Carl On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 22:06 -0600, Dan wrote: > Carl wrote: > > >I'm trying to run the clamav v

Re: [clug-talk] installing clamav on Knoppix

2005-10-17 Thread Carl
apt-get ended up working for me. Haven't heard of klik before. I'll have to look into it sometime. Thanks, Carl On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 05:44 -0600, Jon Storry wrote: > I think you can use Klik in 3.8 to install new software. > http://klik.atekon.de/ > Jon > > On 16

Re: [clug-talk] Workshop possibility?

2005-11-04 Thread Carl
I really like the idea of connecting it with something Linux based since this is a LUG. Something on GNUCash would be great. Carl On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 21:01 -0700, Tek Budda wrote: > > However, I just received a phone call from one of CLUG's affiliates, and > > they >

Re: [clug-talk] discovered ssh

2005-11-22 Thread Carl
I noticed this today from the weekly Fedora newsletter. It describes how to setup a VNC server in Fedora. It also talks about security using an SSH tunnel. http://www.raoul.shacknet.nu/2005/11/10/configure-vnc-server-in-fedora/ Carl On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:42 -0700, Kin C Wong wrote

Re: [clug-talk] Location of GCC in Linspire

2005-11-26 Thread Carl
Try: which gcc Carl On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:35 -0700, Neil Bower wrote: > On Sat November 26 2005 19:21, Dave Watkins wrote: > > > I'm installing VMWare on a windows laptop and during the install I'm > > prompted for the location of the "GCC" program. Wh

Re: [clug-talk] OT-Sort of :Converting Mac to PC

2005-12-20 Thread Carl
I've used Inkscape to open .eps files. I don't know much about the eps format but I've found different applications interpret eps files differently. You may have to try a few to get the result you are looking for. Carl On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 18:34 -0700, Shawn wrote: > I just

Re: [clug-talk] video editing software?

2006-03-26 Thread Carl
I've used KMediafactory recently. I doesn't do editing. But it can take a series of avi files and put them on to a DVD with menus and chapters. Carl On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 13:03 -0700, simon wrote: > Hi, > Cinelerra is very powerful, but it's interface is a little weird. For

[clug-talk] DNS woes

2006-04-03 Thread Carl
. I don't want to have to manually setup the DNS config but they offer no other solution. Does anyone know why the SMC router might have trouble receiving the DNS info? How can I trouble shoot this? Would using Ethereal to see what is happening be worthwhile? Thanks,

Re: [clug-talk] DNS woes

2006-04-03 Thread Carl
think I'll just go out and purchase a new router. As you say it is probably not worth my time to trouble shoot. I am somewhat curious but if I can't end up fixing the problem it will just frustrate me. One of the big downsides of using a closed source appliance. Thanks, Carl On Mo

Re: [clug-talk] DNS woes

2006-04-03 Thread Carl
network back with the Linksys in place and everything worked. So then I put the SMC router back in (which was my original setup) and now everything is working fine. Talk about a wild goose chase. I'm guessing Shaw had a temporary issue with their DHCP server but now it must be resolved? Carl

Re: [clug-talk] DNS woes

2006-04-04 Thread Carl
en I told him I was using Linux. Carl On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 08:51 -0600, Wendell Nichols wrote: > I occasionally have such problems. In the past I would spend half an > hour on the phone with shaw tech support (who aren't bad given the > genre) and the solution always is "

Re: [clug-talk] OT: Work table selection

2006-05-03 Thread Carl
und $150 to hold rack mountable equipment. Carl On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 17:38 -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > Warning: long question ahead, if you don't want to read it, here is a > short form you can answer: "what do you use for a workbench/computer > desk?" > > Hell

Re: [clug-talk] Wow, it keeps getting worse. Can I borrow a USB->ethernet adapter from someone tonight?

2006-05-05 Thread Carl
with. Then for the rest simply provide a brief description along with the testimonials you have collected. Carl On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 22:09 -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > Ok, crisis partially averted... I found a laptop hidden in the server > case at work that should do the trick once

Re: [clug-talk] Wow, it keeps getting worse. Can I borrow a USB->ethernet adapter from someone tonight?

2006-05-05 Thread Carl
't wait to attend tomorrow. Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

Re: [clug-talk] OT: CLUG Business focus group?

2006-05-15 Thread Carl
I'm interested in a CLUG SIG on business issues as long as it stays related to free and open source software. Maybe a BUSISIG mailing list would be a good place to start? Carl On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 21:23 -0600, Shawn wrote: > Hi all. > > I've been talking with a few fol

Re: [clug-talk] OT: CLUG Business focus group?

2006-05-15 Thread Carl
The reason I prefer sticking to FOSS related issues is that there are countless business resources out there but none that I know of with a focus on FOSS. However, time to time issues come up that may require non FOSS solutions and I'm not opposed to discussing these issues. Carl O

Re: [clug-talk] OT: CLUG Business focus group?

2006-05-15 Thread Carl
Ok, great. It seems like we are in sync. On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 11:34 -0700, Kin Wong wrote: > Carl wrote: > > >The reason I prefer sticking to FOSS related issues is that there are > >countless business resources out there but none that I know of with a > >focus on FOSS.

Re: [clug-talk] nasty problem

2006-05-18 Thread Carl
t, processes that It sounds like UDP is a good approach in your case. TCP would be too much overhead. I'm curious as to what the troubleshooting tools that Gustin has suggested will produce. Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@c

Re: [clug-talk] Labor Scheduling

2006-05-24 Thread Carl
One company that I've worked with used TUTOS. I thought it was quite good. They mainly used it for calendars and meetings but it does have some task management and time tracking functionality. It is web based and GPL'd. http://www.tutos.org On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 19:53 -0600, Jesse Kline wrote: >

Re: [clug-talk] Labor Scheduling

2006-05-25 Thread Carl
Can you be more specific on what features that you are looking for yet http://www.tutos.org/ does not have? Carl On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:28 -0600, Jesse Kline wrote: > I'm still totally clueless as to how to setup a scheduling system as complex > as > I need with one of the piec

Re: [clug-talk] Labor Scheduling

2006-05-25 Thread Carl
Have a look at how TUTOs produces a Gantt diagram. http://www.tutos.org/homepage/task.html Carl On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 11:52 -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > On 5/25/06, Jesse Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm still totally clueless as to how to setup a scheduling syste

Re: [clug-talk] Labor Scheduling

2006-05-25 Thread Carl
point. In the online demo, if you look at: http://demo.tutos.de/php/rate/rate_overview.php?name=&reftype=0 It lists 80 resource entries and their rates. You could add your other variables of availability, competencies and location with some database work and logic to get what you need. Carl

Re: [clug-talk] Labor Scheduling

2006-05-25 Thread Carl
That Gantt Project looks pretty good. I've found with these types of programs that as long they can output to html is good enough. Editing through web is not all that important. Carl On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 12:49 -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > On 5/25/06, Carl <[EMAIL PROTEC

[clug-talk] ssh/cvs issue

2006-06-04 Thread Carl
I use ethereal to examine packets I see lots of TCP errors with [TCP CHECKSUM INCORRECT]. But I'm not sure if this is meaningful because ssh is running on an alternative port #. I'm a n00b when it comes to networking issues. If anyone can point me in the right direction to troub

Re: [clug-talk] ssh/cvs issue

2006-06-04 Thread Carl
shaw periodically have QoS issues between their > respective networks) I've now tried it from both telus and shaw and different home firewalls and all exhibit the same problem. I'll have to be patient and hope they enable ICMP for me. Thanks, Carl _

Re: [clug-talk] How to mount DVD for Newbie pls?

2006-06-05 Thread Carl
(This is a resend) Fedora by default auto mounts removable media. From the "Desktop menu - Preferences - Removable Drives and Media" you can verify if auto mounting is enabled. Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.

Re: [clug-talk] How to mount DVD for Newbie pls?

2006-06-05 Thread Carl
Fedora by default auto mounts removable media. From the Desktop menu- >Preferences->Removable Drives and Media you can verify if auto mounting is enabled. Carl On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 17:35 -0600, Katie Oh wrote: > Hello there, > > I try to install Oracle 10G with Fedora 5

Re: [clug-talk] How to mount DVD for Newbie pls?

2006-06-05 Thread Carl
at-libstdc++-33* > rpm -Uvh compat-libf2c-32-* > rpm -Uvh compat-gcc-32-* > rpm -Uvh libaio-* > rpm -Uvh compat-gcc-32-c++-* > rpm -Uvh compat-libstdc++-296* > rpm -Uvh compat-libgcc-296* > rpm -Uvh rsh-* What step are you stuck on? Can you cd into /media/dvd/Fedora/RPMS?

Re: [clug-talk] ssh/cvs issue

2006-06-08 Thread Carl
.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-host-prohibited Why would my PC firewall think there is a problem with the SSH connection? Thanks, Carl On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 01:38 -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: > You can run mtr without the admin enabling icmp (well technically, just > a few ICMP req

Re: [clug-talk] Google Earth for Linux!

2006-06-12 Thread Carl
ll be the same or not. I don't have libfreeimage on my system but google earth seems to work fine. $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 qt-3.3.4-0.fc3.0 $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3 libtiff-3.6.1-10.fc3 $ rpm -qf /usr/lib/libmng.so.1 libmng-1.0.8-1 Carl __

Re: [clug-talk] Shaw outage?

2006-06-16 Thread Carl
quite a few hours. Carl On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 09:15 -0600, simon wrote: > Anyone know what caused last night's outage? > > I had really poor bandwith, until I rebooted cable modem and then I had no > bandwidth :-(. Support line said 'problem in Southern Alberta

Re: [clug-talk] ssh/cvs issue

2006-07-31 Thread Carl
ckets. But I have been unable to confirm this with out the help from the CVS admin. Anyhow, with SACKs disabled I have been able to access that CVS server without any problems. Carl On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 01:38 -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: > You can run mtr without the admin enabling ic

[clug-talk] mem usage

2006-09-22 Thread Carl
fers/cache listed from the free command. There is about 14MB unaccounted for. What is using the memory not listed from ps? Thanks, Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidel

Re: [clug-talk] mem usage

2006-09-22 Thread Carl
Yes, I did use valgrind to find the code responsible. In Python code no less. Great tool. These are lingering questions as a result of my memory leak investigation. Thanks, Carl On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 13:02 -0600, Robert Lewko wrote: > If you are tracking a memory leak under Linux have

Re: [clug-talk] mem usage

2006-09-24 Thread Carl
Ok, thanks for the reference, I'll look into it further. > is the memory leak in software you've written or someone else's? > The memory leak was in legacy version of pysqlite. Solved now and the maintainer has incorporated the

Re: [clug-talk] Looking for FC 5 ISOs

2006-10-19 Thread Carl
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 10:36 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Still doesn't explain why the disks are failing the FC media check I've experienced this before as well. See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC5Common https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: [clug-talk] Linux PVR

2006-11-08 Thread Carl
to use the mvpmc firmware rather than the proprietary stuff it comes with. The newer versions of the MediaMVP require jumping through hoops to use the open source mvpmc. But in my opinion the effort is worth it. Carl On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 15:39 -0700, shane wrote: > Has anyone created a Li

Re: [clug-talk] serial ports and Linux

2006-11-22 Thread Carl
I just tested a ATEN US-2232A USB to serial adapter this morning. It works fine with minicom and Fedora core 6. Just plugged it in and ran minicom. Carl On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 09:13 -0800, Kin Wong wrote: > As you know, new laptops are being made without serial ports. Does > anyone k

[clug-talk] results

2007-03-08 Thread Carl
Can someone post the election results? Thanks, Carl ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

Re: [clug-talk] results

2007-03-09 Thread Carl
Ah, thanks Mitchell. Congrats on your role as Secretary. Carl On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 17:43 -0700, Mitchell Brown wrote: > Hi Carl. There was an announcement sent to the list from the new > President, Kin Wong. You can check it out here: > > http://www.clug.ca/node/493 >