Re: [Discuss] Photo Manager

2011-09-07 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Doug wrote: > Are any photo managers altering tags within the photo file itself? Or > do any have options so you can keep information within the file or > not? I am pretty sure iPhoto does not alter the original file, great > is someways, but also leads to lock in.

Re: [Discuss] Photo Manager

2011-09-08 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Kyle wrote: > I guess now that I am seeing all these options I have narrowed my needs down > to 2 things.  Ability to send to internet for sharing and network storage > for saving. With your system Ted is it fairly easy to retrieve the local > copy of it for uploading to the web? By easy I mean som

Re: [Discuss] Photo Manager

2011-09-08 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Derek Atkins wrote: > Theodore Ruegsegger writes: >> I've built a web application called Photo Album Manager that manages >> all metadata in a PostgreSQL database. Not sure that counts as >> lock-in, since it's all free software and it's easy to migrate data &g

Re: [Discuss] Photo Manager

2011-09-08 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Derek Atkins asked: > Okay, why did you do this instead of using something like Gallery2? > http://gallery.menalto.com/ A further thought after browsing Gallery's docs some more and looking at some examples: I get the impression that Gallery is aimed at managing a (usually small) set of related p

Re: [Discuss] box.net

2012-01-04 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Dan O'Donovan wrote: > Just in case anyone here isn't aware of this, you can also use disposable > email address' with Google's gmail. ... > your.account+@gmail.com I certainly wasn't aware of it. Looks like a nice trick; I tried it and it worked (I omitted the angle brackets, assuming you meant

Re: [Discuss] Web Maintenance software (for Windows)

2012-06-07 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Jerry Feldman wrote: > This is true. But, in this case he is volunteering as a webmaster of an > existing website we host. The past 2 webmasters are dead. Yikes! Is there a hazardous duty bonus for this assignment? > It so happens that this is another group I run so it is to the group's > benefi

Re: [Discuss] data caps

2013-01-08 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: [regarding satellite Internet] > They say that's not good enough for gaming... Rightly so... But they say > for voice, it's perfectly fine. Which is ... bogus. At least, bogus for > people who intend to have two-way conversations with humans. I formerly > trie

Re: [Discuss] [OT] Dumbing down of the population

2013-01-15 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Jonathan M. Prigot wrote: > For some fun, check out "The Marching Morons" by Cyril M. Kornbluth > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons). I'd buy that for a > quarter! Or check out the movie "Idiocracy". It has electrolytes! Warning: Even years after seeing Idiocracy, you'll frequentl

Re: [Discuss] [OT] Smart Phones

2013-03-05 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Rich Pieri wrote: > "Rich Braun" wrote: > >> Sometime last year a major news organization (I think it was ABC) >> announced that the build cost of an iPhone is US$8, which if true > > BS. The box and box contents (charger, headphones) are eight bucks. > Total BOM and manufacture costs for iPhone

Re: mysql and access

2011-04-04 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Stephen wrote: > At work, one of the people > here setup an MS access database application which is quickly turning > into a nightmare because it does not use a real database as a back end. > So I'm thinking that perhaps I can help them by setting up some tables > in my mysql database server I hav

Re: [Discuss] access to mysql

2011-08-18 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Stephen Adler wrote: > I've gotten stuck with a project where I have to take a bunch of tables > defined in an MS access database and convert them into tables in a mysql > database. I've poked around a bit looking for a converter, but there > isn't anything which pops out as "this is the one you wa

Re: [Discuss] how much can i use a smartphone as a computer?

2015-09-09 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Sorry, meant to reply to the list. 2nd try. On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Mike Small wrote: > And what about the talking, meaning the voice quality? I'm finding > numerous people lately have cellphones with horrible voice quality. One > in particular recently went Verizon + Iphone and she's alm

Re: [Discuss] Simplest HTML hosting for a 9-year-old engineer?

2016-04-10 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Daniel Barrett wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who suggested birthday gifts for my 9-year-old > nephew. I wound up getting him a Raspberry Pi. (He's thrilled.) > > Next question: my nephew wants to create a public web site by hand in > HTML. He knows the HTML, and he has a domain name registered fo

Re: [Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files

2017-12-12 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > [Rationale for separating document content from presentation, as embodied in > Stylz] Isn't this the raison-d'etre for DocBook? Last I looked, that seemed to be working pretty well, though it was difficult to find tutorials that didn't lose me

Re: [Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files

2017-12-12 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
Thanks to Steve Litt for that clear and comprehensive reply to my questions, and the comforting assurance that I'm not the only one balking at the DocBook learning curve. I've long wondered what happened to the "write-once, read-everywhere" movement, and I'm delighted to read on the Stylz website

Re: [Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files

2017-12-12 Thread Theodore Ruegsegger
o Ruegsegger On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Theodore Ruegsegger wrote: > Thanks to Steve Litt for that clear and comprehensive reply to my > questions, and the comforting assurance that I'm not the only one > balking at the DocBook learning curve. > > I've long wo