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Re: At least now I know why I haven't been able to torrent lately.OR: Anyone know any good ISPs?
by Michael Haworth 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

I have had experience with the fiber in NKC, for the price you get a synchronous connection that goes pretty much straight to the Sprint and Cogent backbones. You may not get as much "top speed" as T/W or Comcast promise, but what you do get is extremely stable and very low latency. Michael

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Native American Pow Wow _THIS_ weekend!
by Julie 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hi! At breakfast after the meeting last night someone brought up the subject of the Native American Pow Wow that is coming up this weekend (Aug. 24 26) and wanted to know about it. I promised that I would post this information to the newsletter for all to see in case anyone else would be interested in this fascinating culturally rich event, too. Here is the link to the Home Page of the organization that sponsors this Pow Wow every year: http://www.kc-icmn.org/ While there you can download a .pdf of the Flyer by going to the Events button on the left side of that page. The person who brought up the subject of the pow wow wanted to know, "What was the best time to be there to see the most interesting thing?." I told him that I go every day, all day. The reason for this is that there are many things that happen at a pow wow that I find exceedingly intriguing. However, you will notice on the flyer a "Tentative Schedule of Events". My suggestion for the most enriching pow wow experience would be to make sure to arrive in time to witness "The Grand Entry" of the day you plan on attending (Saturday is usually a BLAST! I strongly suggest making "A Day" of it!). This is the official start of the day. This is when the US Flag and the Native American Staff are brought into the arena, honored and put in their respective positions until they are retired at the end of that day. This is one of the times that you will see all the Native Americans in attendance in the arena at the same time in Full _Regalia_ (NOT costume). From The Grand Entry you should want to stay until the pow wow ends that evening because there are a wide variety of things to see, do and learn. Gourd Dancers are Native Americans who are Veterans of the US Military or who have an immediate family member who died while serving over seas in the US Military. They have their own dance times for the purpose of the remembrance and honoring of all who have served and currently serve in the US Military. Intertribals are dances where all in attendance of the pow wow can enter the arena and dance with the Native Americans. Specials are dances, or other events, that someone has specifically asked the Arena Director for. The dances are always _very_ interesting to watch!!! Sometimes a Special is even an Intertribal dance where all in attendance of the pow wow are *encouraged* to participate. These can be _especially_ enjoyable and exhilarating experiences! To learn more about pow wows, including __proper__ *Pow Wow Etiquette*, the link below is quite educational: http://www.powwows.com/ You will find Pow Wow Etiquette in the row of buttons at the left of that page under "Pow Wow Info". Remember that the planks surrounding the arena is seating for the Native American Dancers and members of the Drums so bring your own folding chairs, plenty of sun screen and your own source of shade. ;) Come on out, enjoy the festivities and learn about true Native American heritage while youre at it! I'll be under the turqouise umbrella, so stop by and say, "howdy!" :D See ya there! Julie @};- --------------------------------- Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games.

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At least now I know why I haven't been able to torrent lately. OR: Anyone know any good ISPs?
by feba thatl 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/08/21/comcast-is-starting-the-tiered-inter… Just saw this earlier. Am I the only one that's appalled by this? I've sent them an angry letter and had a chat with one of their internet chat employees, and if they don't reverse this soon I'm planning on leaving. Does anyone know any good ISPs in the area? Bundled cable (or at least, not satellite) TV is a big plus. I'm looking at Roadrunner, Time Warner, AT&T, and a friend told me about a company called Everest, but of course their marketing sites don't tell you the bad and the ugly of it. Thanks

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Video Conversion in Linux for DVD Creation
by Leo Mauler 20 Aug '07

20 Aug '07

A friend of mine recently converted my 3 hour wedding video from VHS to AVI for me. I've trimmed what I could, but the remaining video is still two and one-half hours long. I have Googled for how to fit 2-1/2 hours of AVI video onto a 2 hour DVD. All I have been able to find is information on how to convert 85 minutes of AVI video into one conventional 4.7GB DVD, which isn't what I'm looking for. The mencoder documentation isn't much help either: it doesn't quite tell you which commands affect bitrates and how to set constant bitrates to control file size. What I'd really like would be something like an older Windows tool I used to use before switching to Linux. It was a MPEG encoder, but it also let me change a few things, such as set constant bitrates and the like. I could set a video file to be encoded at a constant bitrate, say 3000Kbps video and 192Kbps audio, and it would create a 3 hour video file small enough to fit on a regular DVD, but still compatible with the DVD format to make it into a regular video DVD. If there was a utility which created the command line command for mencoder, that would work nicely, but everything I've seen so far which does this doesn't let you reduce a file size to make lots of video fit on one DVD. Avidemux will convert the file to DVD MPEG2, but it only lets you choose a maximum bitrate and then uses bitrates anywhere from 1 to your maximum bitrate, which plays merry heck with the final file size and results in a much more reduced quality of the final video than if Avidemux had just used the "maximum bitrate" as a constant bitrate. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/

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Ubuntu servers hacked to attack others
by Julie 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=453&tag=nl.e539 Thought y'all may be somewhat interested in this. L8rz, Julie @ };- --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.

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Embrace The Penguin on Songpull
by Jim Herrmann 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

The song "Embrace the Penguin" is up on songpull.com. http://songpull.com/performance/view_video/380 Now that the video is posted, I will get an Ardour recording done, and get that all posted. Then I plan to Slashdot it. You get to see the video first! Check it out and see if we can raise it's ranking to make the front page of Songpull.com. Share it with all your geek friends all over the world. Enjoy, Jim Herrmann

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iCalendar presenter
by Jonathan Hutchins 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

I need to find a way to present an iCalendar file on a web server as a nicely rendered calendar. Ideally we'd have a monthly clalendar view, with items in the box for each day, and be able to get details on each item. Does anybody know of something like this?

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SMB Backups
by Jim Herrmann 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

I saw this today, and I thought it relevant to some of our conversations last night. http://www.linux.com/feature/118225 Enjoy, Jim

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NUI Kansas City meeting - Aug. 28 - 6-7:30pm
by Alex Monteiro 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

We are holding a Novell Users Intl. meeting on Tuesday, August 28th and would like to invite all members of the KC LUG. We'd like to discuss with members of KC LUG how we can combine our efforts for meetings in Kansas City to get maximum effort. Thanks, Alex ============================ Here is your invitation to join us for the NUI Kansas City meeting scheduled for Tuesday, August 28th. 6:00-7:30pm. We hope to see you there! What: Novell Users International Kansas City When: Tuesday, August 28th. 6:00-7:30pm Where: KIS Kansas City - 4230 S. Phelps Rd. Suite A. Independence MO. 64055 - 816-373-9900 RSVP: http://register.novell.com/login/?action=prelogin&fuse=event&id=20897&lcode… Agenda: ** Novell's training and certification roadmap presentation Election of new NUI KC officers Identifying new locations and meeting dates for future NUI meetings Open discussion/rountable Pizza & refreshments will be served. -- Alex Monteiro Business Development Manager KIS Computer Center - Kansas City o. 816-373-9900 (vmail ext. 7554) f. 816-373-9904 m. 650-279-1909 www.kiscc.com - alexm(a)kiscc.com

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(no subject)
by jared＠hatwhite.com 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

>Did you read in the technical description how they can not only generate >light pulses but also light that has different spectrums (colors). With >that in mind they now have the ability to build a transistor that can >have numerous gate states. Base3, Base6 and Base9 are all possible with >this. Yes, I did read it carefully, several times. But I did not notice what you pointed out, and am glad you saw it. This really opens the sky even more than it first appeared, because now, electrical flow has multiple "flavors" as well as current, voltage, &tc. They really have discovered something larger than any single team of people can explore. Note also that they described the invention as having "3 ports: Ground, amplifier, and light-emitting." You might think that _this_ number three has nothing to do with the ternary conversation we just finished, but in fact, the order of "ground, amplifier, and light-emitting" is a perfect way to express the three poles in their natural relationship to one another. Thus far we've been talking about 1, 0, and -1. But when you extend the structure into analog, you start talking about things like "ground, amplifier, and light-emitting." For example, Hegelian dialectics is another way of looking at the relationship of these three positions. First there is the declaration and then there is an opposing response, and then arising from these two, there is a third "declaration" which is composed of insights derived from the spectrum revealed by the first two. Ground, amplifier, and light-emitting, if you're able to see the poetic insight weaving all of this together. It's exciting to see that the very newest technology in transistor development is not only light-generating, but tripolar in structure. -Jared

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