This last week I was less productive than most others. Most of my time
was spent looking for alternatives.
replacement for PC based solutions.
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1. PostgreSQL developers (Greg Stevenson)
2. Re: PostgreSQL developers (Martin D Kealey)
3. Alternatives to Skype period (Simon Bridge)
4. Re: Good Linux alternatives to Skype? (Volker Kuhlmann)
5. Re: Good Linux alternatives to Skype? (Bruce Clement)
6. Re: Good Linux alternatives to Skype? (Adrian Mageanu)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 14:32:03 +1200
Subject: [nzlug] PostgreSQL developers
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Anyone know of any Auckland PostgreSQL developers who might be interested in
a small job.
Seems like postgres user groups are pretty inactive in NZ.
Hoping that Linux users might have an idea of who is doing what in the open
source database arena.
Contact off list
Regards
Greg
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:59:23 +1200 (NZST)
Subject: Re: [nzlug] PostgreSQL developers
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Anyone know of any Auckland PostgreSQL developers who might be interested
in a small job.
Do you mean someone who can modify the PostgreSQL engine (a guru C
programmer) or someone who can manage a running PostgreSQL server (a
database administrator), or someone who can write applications that use a
PostgreSQL server as their database engine (an application developer).
If the latter, which language(s) are of interest? ("SQL" is the trivial
part; what *other* languages do you want?)
-Martin
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 20:14:13 +1200
Subject: [nzlug] Alternatives to Skype period
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Perhaps we need an overview of these things along with a howto for the
major systems ... including mobile platforms where the app exists? Then
it can be promoted/presented to the tech zines with the monicker "skype
+MS not the end of the world" or something?
Google Talk via Empathy seems to work OK. Only problem is that for Mac users the Google Talk bit in iTalk doesn't do voice/video so they have to have their browser open to make it go (which is where Skype seems to work better).
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 21:38:31 +1200
Subject: Re: [nzlug] Good Linux alternatives to Skype?
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I think so too. However, I noticed this line in today's stuff.co.nz article
: "However, Skype will continue to be available on non-Microsoft platforms
such as Google's Android and Apple's iPhone."[0]
MS needs to try to keep up with the mobile platforms. You notice the
absence of Linux in the list. Keep looking for alternatives...
Volker