[GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 21 Feb, MySQL: The Whys, Whats, and Watch-outs

2008-02-20 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
Who  : Marc Nozell, MySQL Conference presenter, Officially certified What : MySQL: The Whys, Whats, and Watch-outs Where: Martha's Exchange Day  : Thur 21 Feb **Tomorrow** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion (usually upstairs) :: Overview      Marc Nozell will review the MySQL

Boston Linux Meeting Tonight, February 20, 2008 Rooftop WLAN Redux

2008-02-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: February 20, 2008 7:00PM (6:30 for QA) Topic: Rooftop WLAN Redux Moderator: Kurt Keville, Systems Admin, MIT Clinical Research Center Location: MIT Building E51 Room 335 (Note room change) Kurt discusses progress on the Rooftop WLAN project at MIT, and today's best practices in wireless

You though *you* had power problems?

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Lussier
http://tinyurl.com/2rsngr -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Michael ODonnell
A description of the layout of the recently published Microsoft Office file formats along with some illuminating comments about the various historical influences that lead up to their current states: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html Quite the tangled mess and very hard to

Re: Free Software Replacement for Maple

2008-02-20 Thread Gurhan
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Lori Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a Free-Software replacement for Maple? My husband is taking a an electrical engineering graduate level statistics class and says he needs it to do some of his homework. Having never gotten far enough

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite the tangled mess and very hard to write compliant FOSS apps against, but (at least on the surface) apparently not the result of an actively evil intent. A-yup. Lots of people (me included) have been saying

Re: Free Software Replacement for Maple

2008-02-20 Thread Coleman Kane
Gurhan wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Lori Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a Free-Software replacement for Maple? My husband is taking a an electrical engineering graduate level statistics class and says he needs it to do some of his homework. Having

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
One of the original goals in Vista was to replace the legacy code still doing important stuff. After struggling for two years, they *gave up*. I can relate to that. Digital, at one time, tried to eliminate one of the arcane data addressing modes in the VAX architecture. They checked with all

Re: Free Software Replacement for Maple

2008-02-20 Thread Michael Costolo
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Lori Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a Free-Software replacement for Maple? My husband is taking a an electrical engineering graduate level statistics class and says he needs it to do some of his homework. Having never gotten far

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite the tangled mess and very hard to write compliant FOSS apps against, but (at least on the surface) apparently not the result of an

Re: Re: Free Software Replacement for Maple

2008-02-20 Thread paul.cour1
Statistics Open Source ... My vote is for R An amazing tool for statistics at: http://www.r-project.org/ paulc From: Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/02/20 Wed PM 12:26:26 CST To: Gurhan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Free Software Replacement for

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 13:18 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite the tangled mess and very hard to write compliant FOSS apps against, but (at least on the surface) apparently not the result of an actively evil intent.

Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-20 Thread Arc Riley
Hey guys Do yourselves a favor and search your logs for connections from 131.107.* 65.52.* 65.53.* 65.54.* and 65.55.* I found a good % of traffic we got, not reported to Google Analytics so I didn't see it sooner, was referred from http://search.live.com/ for search queries involving

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called Microsoft Write. Yah, Windows Write is/was one of the accessories that came with Windows 3.x. It morphed into WordPad in Windows 95 and later. WordPad

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:58:53 -0500 Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called Microsoft Write. Files created with that tool have a .wri extension. Theoretically Microsoft Word is supposed to be able to read such files but I found

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-20 Thread Coleman Kane
Arc Riley wrote: Hey guys Do yourselves a favor and search your logs for connections from 131.107.* 65.52.* 65.53.* 65.54.* and 65.55.* I found a good % of traffic we got, not reported to Google Analytics so I didn't see it sooner, was referred from http://search.live.com/ for search

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-20 Thread Coleman Kane
Coleman Kane wrote: Arc Riley wrote: Hey guys Do yourselves a favor and search your logs for connections from 131.107.* 65.52.* 65.53.* 65.54.* and 65.55.* I found a good % of traffic we got, not reported to Google Analytics so I didn't see it sooner, was referred from

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 17:23 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called Microsoft Write. Yah, Windows Write is/was one of the accessories that came with Windows

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 17:23 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called Microsoft Write. Yah, Windows Write is/was one of the accessories that came with Windows

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-20 Thread Arc Riley
Do you happen to be running google analytics on your site? On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coleman Kane wrote: Arc Riley wrote: Hey guys Do yourselves a favor and search your logs for connections from 131.107.* 65.52.* 65.53.* 65.54.* and

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do yourselves a favor and search your logs for connections from 131.107.* 65.52.* 65.53.* 65.54.* and 65.55.* On the GNHLUG web server in /var/log/httpd/ ... liberty$ find -name access_log\* | xargs egrep

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-20 Thread Coleman Kane
Arc Riley wrote: Do you happen to be running google analytics on your site? No, I'm just parsing the logs. I use awstats (http://awstats.sourceforge.net) for collecting stats from my logs. I'm not really familiar with many of google.com's services. -- Coleman Kane On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:08

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried to read these files again with Word and it can read them. I'll see if there's a way to read/convert these files from a batch job. Not a traditional batch file, I don't think, but it should be very possible with