Re: World's largest web comic panel

2012-09-20 Thread Bill Sconce
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:47:48 -0400 Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: i.e.: what if the limits of the world were further out than you guessed? i.e., I just didn't expect it to be so BIG. ? :) -b ___ Sent from my virusproofed Linux PC

Re: Asus USB-BT211 / Atheros AR3011 firmware loading?

2012-09-07 Thread Bill Sconce
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 21:23:20 -0400 Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Penguin USB Bluetooth Micro Adapter for GNU / Linux It's closer to `what Google found'. ThinkPenguin was one of the `consumer Linux

Apple and lawsuits...Apple BEING sued

2012-08-20 Thread Bill Sconce
[PJ:] [I]t's WWIII in the patent universe. Remember how we used to say that no one would ever be so foolish as to start a patent war, because it'd be destructive to everyone in it? Guess what? Apple decided on going thermonuclear, and here we are. Talk about your infinite

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-20 Thread Bill Sconce
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:25:44 -0400 Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Those who use terms like immune or virus-proof when discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither is true. Ouch. Ooops. I forgot about your signature line. ;- Heh. No problem. It does

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-18 Thread Bill Sconce
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:09:42 -0400 David Ohlemacher ohlemac...@gmail.com wrote: Any recommended solutions for risk reduction? 0. How about running your browser as a different user? That's one of the things. (One of the things you *have* to do.(*)) Also a different user for your e-mail

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-18 Thread Bill Sconce
On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:23:45 -0400 Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: And Java, yet another case -- if there ever turns out to be a reason to have Java installed. There seems never to have been a reason. Not on any Linux system I've been responsible for, my own or clients'. What's

Re: Malware for Linux

2012-07-18 Thread Bill Sconce
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:04:44 -0400 Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Those who use terms like immune or virus-proof when discussing Linux do everybody a disservice since neither is true. Ouch. I gave careful consideration to adopting my current signature line, for exactly

Re: [GNHLUG] [Python-talk] PySIG next week - Thursday, 24 May 2012

2012-05-24 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 21 May 2012 21:01:59 -0400 Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: ...the cookie selection is o Gingerbread cookies o Chocolate-chocolate chip cookies Do we have a volunteer to bring milk? And_don't_forget_to_bring_a_Python_project'ly yrs, 1. Bill Freeman has kindly offered

Re: [GNHLUG] [Python-talk] PySIG next week - Thursday, 24 May 2012

2012-05-21 Thread Bill Sconce
On Fri, 18 May 2012 20:52:48 -0400 Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: Next Thursday is 4th Thursday, and that means... PySIG! ABI Hub, 33 South Commercial Streen, Manchester NH 7:30 PM, with a Beginners' Session preceding at 6:30 PM [...] Cookie_selection_to_be_reported'ly yrs

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week - Thursday, 24 May 2012

2012-05-18 Thread Bill Sconce
Next Thursday is 4th Thursday, and that means... PySIG! ABI Hub, 33 South Commercial Streen, Manchester NH 7:30 PM, with a Beginners' Session preceding at 6:30 PM Bring a project, bring a question. Find out if anyone can keep Bill from talking about *his* most recent Python project. (If any,

Re: USB (*gasp*) modem?

2012-05-14 Thread Bill Sconce
On Sun, 13 May 2012 23:28:05 -0400 James A. Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com wrote: I have had several USB to RS232 to serial modem setups within the last 5 years, and none of them worked very well. (We have 3 computers on dialup.) I also used a number of PCMCIA cards. They run hot, and I

[GNHLUG] PySIG. Audacity. (!) Schedule change. NOT IN MANCHESTER THIS MONTH

2012-04-23 Thread Bill Sconce
SPECIAL OCCASION. PySIG WILL BE IN PEPPERELL THIS THURSDAY. NOT MANCHESTER. Program: Audacity Location: Pepperell NOT MANCHESTER. Can't be in two places at once! With considerable reluctance we admit that the sometimes conflict between the wonderful things which

[GNHLUG] PySIG ... this week!

2012-03-19 Thread Bill Sconce
OK, OK, I got caught. Fourth Thursday snuck up on me. (Hey, the 22nd is about the earliest it can get, eh?) I almost forgot to order the cookies! NH PySIG, fourth Thursday. THIS week. Manchester, NH. Thursday, 22 March 2012, 7:00 PM Beginner's session at 6:30 PM ABI Hub, 33 South

[GNHLUG] PySIG - ON for tomorrow night

2012-02-22 Thread Bill Sconce
Cookies are peanut butter, as previously announced. PLUS, baked yesterday: brownies, and chocolate chip. I'm bringing the milk; sounds like we maybe should have a gallon this time. Beginners' session, QA, at 6:30 PM. Meeting proper (if proper is a word we can use where PySIG is concerned) starts

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week -- heads-up

2012-02-17 Thread Bill Sconce
Next week has a fourth Thursday in it. (The 23rd). That means... PySIG! Usual place(*), usual time: ABI Hub, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester 7:00 PM; Beginners' session at 6:30 PM Cookies_on_their_way_to_the_oven'ly yrs, Bill (*) I'll verify that they aren't doing a 200-person

Re: GNOME 3 (was: mint)

2012-01-05 Thread Bill Sconce
On 05 Jan 2012 13:53:04 -0500 kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) wrote: I'll say one really nice thing about LXDE: if you want to change the format of the displayed time in the date/time applet, the docs say use the format described in strftime(). Wow, that's minimal, and that's

[GNHLUG] PySIG tomorrow (!) - Happy Thanksgiving

2011-11-16 Thread Bill Sconce
Just a reminder about the special schedule, 3rd Thursday this month. 7:30 PM, at the ABI Hub, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester. THIS Thursday (tomorrow), 17 November 2011 See you there! print(cookies) Chocolate Turtle yum'ly yrs, Bill ___ Sent from my virusproofed Linux PC

[GNHLUG] PySIG - get-together NEXT week, 11/17 (special schedule for Thanksgiving)

2011-11-11 Thread Bill Sconce
I just talked with the ABI, and we can have Meeting Room 2, in spite of NEXT WEEK being not our usual 4th Thursday. An informal get-together, comparing notes on Python projects, getting ready for the holidays, etc. 7:30 PM (Beginner's Session at 6:30 P.M.) 17 November 2011, THIRD

PySIG report 27 Oct 2011 [Project Night]

2011-10-28 Thread Bill Sconce
Another successful PySIG! A surprisingly good turnout last night, considering that our intrepid Pythoneers had to brave the wilds of Southern NH's first wet-the-roads snowfall. It was mushy to the west -- a couple of inches in Peterborough. Six of us made it; David O. brought the milk -- Thanks,

[GNHLUG] PySIG this week (Thursday 10/27) -- Project Night

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Sconce
Thursday this week (the 27th) is PySIG. An informal meeting: bring news of a project you're working on which involves Python. I have one, setting up custom keyboard shortcuts in Firefox. I may even have it working by Thursday. :) Cookies: chocolate chip, AND iced gingerbread. Anyone volunteer

[GNHLUG] PySIG September 2011 - The GIMP! - 22 Sept 2011, 7:30 P.M., Manchester

2011-09-21 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIGManchester, NH22 September 2011 GIMP, Presented by Paul Beaudet GIMP is a very powerful

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week: The GIMP! -- Thursday 22 September

2011-09-14 Thread Bill Sconce
Next Thursday (the 22nd) is PySIG. And we have a special program. PySIG's own Paul Beaudet will present to us layers and layres (heh) of information on the GIMP. I'll send more information and an agenda in the next few days. Of course there'll be the ever-popular beginners' pre-session, and

[GNHLUG] PySIG - tomorrow

2011-08-24 Thread Bill Sconce
Yes, it's fourth_thursday_and_PySIG time. And in spite of the pressures of a busy summer schedule, it's time that we remember to get together and talk about Python. (What have *you* been doing with your summer vacation? :) Just an informal get-together, the usual time and place, 7:00 P.M.

Browsers

2011-08-01 Thread Bill Sconce
Someone has to post this... -Bill ___ Sent from my virusproofed Linux PC _ 1. http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,236944/printable.html If you use Internet Explorer, your IQ might be below average--at least, according to one study. AptiQuant, a

[GNHLUG] PySIG - Solstice break?

2011-06-20 Thread Bill Sconce
It looks like PySIG will get to take a Solstice break (that is, at least a break from me :) this month. A schedule which I don't control makes it necessary for me to be out of town late this week. Apologies to Paul and Dave and Ray and Eric, and Janet, and to all Pythonistas whose taste includes

[GNHLUG] PySIG this Thursday

2011-05-23 Thread Bill Sconce
Once again a month's fourth Thursday sneaks up on us, and once again it's time for ... PySIG. Thursday, 26 May 2011, 7:00 PM at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester NH. Beginners' session precedes at 6:30 PM. Janet informs me that after a back-and-forth

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week

2011-04-23 Thread Bill Sconce
Thursday the 28th, 7:00 PM, Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester. Python discussion; questions answered; success stories shared; plans for for Deerfield laid. Chocolate chip cookies. Beginner's session at 6:30 PM. all_my_humor_is_twisted'ly yrs, Bill ___

Re: Nmap: pissing. me. off.

2011-03-17 Thread Bill Sconce
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:22:40 -0400 Kyle Smith askr...@gmail.com wrote: ...somehow, nmap on the failing machine was -rwxr-xr-x (vs. -rwsr-sr-x on the functioning one). It became obvious I'd missed something when this line popped up in strace: mmap2(NULL, 156036, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week -- Hamster; door prizes; more -- 24 March 2011

2011-03-17 Thread Bill Sconce
Next Thursday is 4th Thursday: PySIG!24 March 2011, Manchester Special guest and presentation: our own Mark Boyajian, who has discovered... Hamster. (I googled for Hamster and Python, top result was a YouTube on a Python befriending a hamster. Before, er, lunch :) No. Not that hamster.

Re: Holy War(!): APT vs. RPM (was: Force apt-get to ignore dependencies?)

2011-03-03 Thread Bill Sconce
Er, isn't the likely effect of bigots..who crawl out of the woodwork.. to hurt people's feelings? -Bill You never win an argument until they attack your person. --Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procustes, p11 ___ gnhlug-discuss

[GNHLUG] PySIG 24 February 2011 - Gigapan, presented by our own David Pease

2011-02-21 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIGManchester, NH 24 February 2011 Gigapan, Presented by David Pease And now for something

PySIG report, 27 Jan 2011

2011-01-28 Thread Bill Sconce
Five fearless Python people braved the New Hampshire January evening last night to venture to the Amoskeag Business Incubator to talk about Python. We were fortunate to get one of small meeting rooms, where there is wired Internet access. Fortunate because the program ended up being one of those

Re: Representative Seth Cohn

2010-11-03 Thread Bill Sconce
On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:04:39 -0400 Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote: For those not watching the races last night, our very own Seth Cohn is a new Representative-Elect from Merrimack 7. This is the greatest news of the election. Congratulations, Seth! -Bill and Janet ___ Sent

[GNHLUG] PySIG this Thursday - 28 October 2010

2010-10-25 Thread Bill Sconce
Hard to believe, but it's Fall already. And that time again, namely fourth Thursday. Not Halloween (not quite yet), but: PySIG time. 7:00 PM, at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester, 28 October 2010. Beginners' session precedes at 6:30 PM. We /might/ talk

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week, 9/23 -- How this Django stuff really works, with Bill Freeman

2010-09-17 Thread Bill Sconce
SyntaxError: future feature cookie_recipe is not defined guess_we'll_find_out_on_Thursday'ly yrs, Bill (Sconce) About PySIG: PySIG meetings are typically 10-20 people, around a large table equipped

[GNHLUG] PySIG in two weeks -- 24 Sep 2010, Manchester - Django Workshop

2010-09-10 Thread Bill Sconce
New Hampshire PySIG's next meeting will be in two weeks (4th Thursday). Kickoff for PySIG's 2010-2011 Technical Seminars season: Django -- hands-on workshop, presented by Bill Freeman. 24 September 2010, 7:00 PM Beginners' session at 6:30 PM Amoskeag Business Incubator 33 South

Using Python to encode cassette recordings (David Beazely)

2010-09-09 Thread Bill Sconce
From the Sometimes-We-Didn't-Even-Have-1s Dept., a tour de force on David Beazely's blog about encoding Kansas City Standard audio using Python and Matplotlib. To drive a Superbooard II...you remember them, don't you? On many old machines, cassette output is encoded using something called

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-09 Thread Bill Sconce
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:07:04 -0400 Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: One possibility might be pyparallel. Thanks. Forgive me for appearing stoopid; the Installation instructions on that page say, Extract files from the archive, open a shell/console in that directory and

Re: Widget to manipulate parallel port signals ?

2010-09-08 Thread Bill Sconce
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:25:07 -0400 Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: Anybody know of a (commandline or GUI) utility that I could use to wiggle/sense the individual data/control lines of a parallel port? I'd prefer that it operate using one of the standard drivers (like

PySIG report for 26 August 2010

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Sconce
Seven people braved the hazards of multi-car pileups on Route 293 to attend last night's PySIG meeting, held (as usual) at the Amoskeag Business Incubator. Our topics, Why Python, with lively discussion of which language should be the first one taught to programming students (hint: its name

[GNHLUG] PySIG - program for next month, September 2010: Django, presented by Bill Freeman

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Sconce
Our PySIG program for September will be: Django presented by Bill Freeman 23 September 2010 (4th Thursday) Start off Fall with better code. Mark your calendar. Be there! -Bill ___ django - The Web framework for perfectionsists

[GNHLUG] PySIG -- tonight, 26 August 2010 -- generators for animation; why Python?

2010-08-26 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIGManchester, NH 26 August 2010 Summer Seminar Series 2010

Re: Where to dispose of UPSes?

2010-08-22 Thread Bill Sconce
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:11:47 -0400 Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:07:21 -0400, Dan Miller rambi@gmail.com wrote: I have a dead UPS and a UPS that starts yelling whenever a ground plug gets plugged in. Is there a local place that will take dead UPSes?

eR: [Python-talk] [GNHLUG] PySIG next week, Thursday 26 July 2010

2010-08-21 Thread Bill Sconce
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:38:41 -0400 Chef Richard A Sharpe richard_a_sha...@yahoo.com wrote: Bill I think the date is wrong. Rich Rich I think you are right. Bill _ Please, everyone, consider my original post to have read...(tm): Next week is PySIG week!

References - Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-20 Thread Bill Sconce
I mentioned Warner Bros. in my re-post. That may be current news today, but to leave a cookie crumb for later (e.g. if/when a presentation on this subject happens), here are wayback URLs/notes. These are far from the only news stories about Flash; they just happened to be the ones which were

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week, Thursday 27 July 2010

2010-08-20 Thread Bill Sconce
Next week is PySIG week! Thursday, 27 July 2010, 7:00 PM (beginners' session at 6:30 PM) Amoskeag Business Incubator 33 South Commercial Street Manchester NH Janet says something special is up for cookies. -Bill ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list

Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-19 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:56:32 -0400 Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: (The intention is to quarantine a very-untrusted application, for example a program which runs Flash, [...] It all has to do with a talk I should do someday, and which has gotten a fresh kick from Eben Moglen's

RE-POST - Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-19 Thread Bill Sconce
[Note: this is a re-send of my post describing why I'd asked about quarantining. It's been called to my attention that the footnote I put in at (*) in the original was subject to misinterpretation. I apologize; my remark was meant to be ironic, meant to be perceived by a Linux audience as wryly

Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Sconce
On 17 Aug 2010 08:43:35 -0400 kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) wrote: Suggestion: suppose you have setup your system with a uid that is protected by some iptables rules (call this UNTRUSTED), and futhermore also suppose that the binary that you really want to protect against is

Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Sconce
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:35:59 -0400 Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds like what he really wants to do is sandbox an untrusted application. For example, if you don't trust Adobe Reader, you might want to deny all network I/O to it. That's it. [A virtual machine

Re: Linux vs Windows, obscure security features (was: Quarantining an account...)

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Sconce
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:01:50 -0400 Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: (*)  Sorry, Windows users. The tools you need just aren't     available on Windows. Windows NT certainly has user accounts. Always

Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Sconce
Does anyone know of a way to prevent a Linux account from accessing the Internet? E.g., setting a [per-user] gateway to nil, or setting permissions on some node along the path to eth0? It's acceptable to be crude, to prevent such an account from using any network services whatsoever. I can see

Re: Quarantining an account from the Internet, or from all networking?

2010-08-16 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:56:32 -0400 Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: Does anyone know of a way to prevent a Linux account from accessing the Internet? Wow. Excellent. It looks like iptables may be the ticket. (If my ${very_untrusted_user_UID} is prevented from sending packets out

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week -- Thursday 7/22

2010-07-18 Thread Bill Sconce
Summertime schedule, oatmeal/peanut butter cookies - or oatmeal cookies AND peanut butter cookies. Lots of good Python discussion. Thursday, July 22nd, 7:00 PM Beginners' session/QA at 6:30 PM Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester NH By then my 2.7 Final(*) build,

Open Source in Russia ... lock-in

2010-07-10 Thread Bill Sconce
Microsoft opens source code to Russian secret service By Tom Espiner, ZDNet UK, 8 July, 2010 16:56 NEWS Microsoft has signed a deal to open its Windows 7 source code up to the Russian intelligence services. Russian publication Vedomosti reported on Wednesday that Microsoft had also given the

Re: [OT] movie trailer - .Net vs Java

2010-06-28 Thread Bill Sconce
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:50:33 -0400 Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: I'm not particularly a fan of Java but this is still funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfpnbGXL70 I take it that .NET doesn't come off too well, heh. First time I've tried a YouTube video and

PySIG -- horn tooting

2010-06-24 Thread Bill Sconce
on default values in function definitions, if anyone would like to see some demo code I've hacked together, and a little handout. Beginners' session at 18:30, as always.) watch_out_for_tornadoes'ly yrs, Bill _ Begin forwarded message: From: Bill Sconce

Re: Spike in SSH attacks

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:04:59 -0400 Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:  Apparently attackers are going after keyboard interactive authentication, which is separate from password authentication. So, even if I

Re: Spike in SSH attacks

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:05:18 -0400 Chip Marshall c...@2bithacker.net wrote: On 21-Jun-2010, Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com sent: START WITH NEVER EXPOSING SSHD ON PORT 22. You don't secure your house by hiding the door, you secure it by having good locks. I couldn't agree more

Re: Broadcom WiFi -- for a public library -- in Fedora 13 maybe?

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Sconce
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:50:27 -0400 Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: a whole stream of replies -- and most significantly, an answer to the last question. (I.e., don't give up.) I'm glad I (we) didn't. Victory! Thanks to everyone who responded. I'll do some more reading

Broadcom WiFi -- for a public library -- in Fedora 13 maybe?

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Sconce
I got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago, from a public library in a small New Hampshire town, with the subject HELP SAVE US FROM MICROSOFT! (I am not making this up.) Such a plea caused me to do some perhaps-foolish things. I called the library; I volunteered to help them; I omitted to ask

Re: Broadcom WiFi -- for a public library -- in Fedora 13 maybe?

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Sconce
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:11:01 -0400 Bill Sconce sco...@in-spec-inc.com wrote: Does anyone have experience, either with this laptop (Dell Dimension E5500) or with getting a $#! Broadcom adapter to work (a 4318 apparently) -- or experience which justifies a decision to just not do this? Look

Re: is there a topic / meeting for Monday at SLUG?

2010-05-08 Thread Bill Sconce
On Fri, 07 May 2010 17:45:52 -0400 Joseph Smith j...@settoplinux.org wrote: When and where is the meeting? I would like to check it out. Sez the wiki (http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/SLUG): # NH seacoast area and UNH (Durham) # Website: http://slug.gnhlug.org/slug #

[GNHLUG] PySIG tonight

2010-04-22 Thread Bill Sconce
We'll do some Python. Hands on. The canonical Tutorial, perhaps. Cookies: Janet sez: Goldy-the-Caterer-(where everything's just right)'s Bleak House Bars. (Very literary/esoteric.)What I do know: Chocolate. Ryan Stack is bringing the milk. Thanks, Ryan! sticky_keyboards_R_us'ly

[GNHLUG] PySIG - now a week away -- next Thursday, 22 April 2010

2010-04-15 Thread Bill Sconce
The next meeting of the NH Python Special Interest Group will be next week, Thursday 4/22, at the Amoskeag Business Incubator (our continuing thanks to those fine folks, and to Southern New Hampshire University, for making this possible!). 7:00 PM, beginner's session at 6:30. I'm working on the

[GNHLUG] PySIG this week -- 3/25 2010

2010-03-23 Thread Bill Sconce
It's that week again. The week with the fourth Thursday in it. PySIG week! Yes, there will be a PySIG. Cookies are on order. Ted has kindly offered to bring the milk. (Thanks, Ted!) Likely topics: o Teaching Python to co-workers o PyCon report o Lyndeborough evacuation (?) 7:00 PM

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week -- Cascading Style Sheets, Mr. Ted Roche

2010-02-18 Thread Bill Sconce
(Fourth Thursday) Next week, Thursday 25 February 2010 PySIG, February 2010 Amoskeag Business Incubator, Manchester NH (Detailed agenda and driving directions to follow) Featured presentation: Cascading Style Sheets, by Ted Roche Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allow developers and web

BTW: PySIG -- was: Re: MerriLUG or Manchester meets planned? + Twitter

2010-01-27 Thread Bill Sconce
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:40:15 -0500 Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect efforts should *not* start with speakers. [...] Get people together first. There's nothing keeping anyone from arranging a presentation, but the focus should be community, not speaking. Hmmm. Cookies?

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

2009-12-11 Thread Bill Sconce
. Too bad TDS doesn't serve Nashua. Kinda funny that out here in the stick, we can get awesome support from the former Wilton telephone company. :-D *waves to Bill Sconce* :-D *waves to Thomas* That's the ticket: TDS for last-mile, and DSL that works, and MV for the real ISP

Re: [OT] Experience with getting participation in school web site by teachers

2009-06-05 Thread Bill Sconce
Moodle... It does many of those things. (Of course, it also does real education stuff, course content management, class forums, etc. :) -Bill ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

[GNHLUG] PySIG (yes, Virginia, there is a PySIG, even in May) - Thursday 5/28/09

2009-05-26 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIGManchester, NH 28 May 2009 A problem-solving/roundtable night, a.k.a. Nifties

[GNHLUG] PySIG: Using Python to Solve Radar Problems -- April '09 meeting, this Thursday

2009-04-20 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIGManchester, NH 24 April2009 Using Python to Solve Radar Problems, presented by Bruce Labitt

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week (Thursday 23 April 2008)

2009-04-17 Thread Bill Sconce
Cookies are likely, a dynamite program is rumored, no snow is forecast. Stories. Gotchas. Data types. [Or not.] More. Next Thursday, Amoskeag Business Incubator, Manchester. Agenda to follow. -Bill ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week (3/26/09)

2009-03-20 Thread Bill Sconce
Distributed Version Control with Mercurial, presented by Kent Johnson. Surprises and Ah HAs, presented by Ray Côté Cookies, presented by Janet Milk, presented by the ever-popular TBA Plus: Summer of Code (Arc Riley), PyCON (in absentia?), more... Thursday (4th Thursday), 26 March 2009. At

[GNHLUG] PySIG reminder: day after tomorrow (2/26) - XMPP, Twisted, and more

2009-02-24 Thread Bill Sconce
Implementing XMPP with Python, presented by Arc Riley and Walter Mundt. Thursday (4th Thursday), 26 February 2009. At the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester. 7:00 PM, with a Beginner's Session at 6:30PM. And all the usual discussions, announcements, and

[GNHLUG] PySIG in two weeks (2/26) - XMPP, Twisted, and more

2009-02-12 Thread Bill Sconce
Implementing XMPP with Python, presented by Arc Riley and Walter Mundt. Thursday (4th Thursday), 26 February 2009. At the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester. 7:00 PM, with a Beginner's Session at 6:30PM. bring_a_question'ly yrs, Bill

[GNHLUG] PySIG for January 2009 tonight

2009-01-22 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIGManchester, NH 22 January 2009 Building a Python 3.0 Extension, presented by Arc Riley Kent's Korner: Context Managers and the with'statement

[GNHLUG] PySIG in a couple of days (Thursday 1/22 to be exact)

2009-01-20 Thread Bill Sconce
And some good stuff coming, including how to write C extensions for Python 3 and the return of Kent's Korner (with the with(*) statement), and more. Once again at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester; once again, 7:00 PM, with a Beginner's Session at 6:30PM;

[GNHLUG] PySIG, a week from tomorrow (i.e., Jan 22 2009)

2009-01-14 Thread Bill Sconce
Cookies are on order.(*) Next week! First PySIG of 2009. Fourth Thursday: January 22nd. PySIG, at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, Manchester, 7:00 PM. Beginner's QA precedes, at 6:30 PM. agenda_to_follow'ly yrs, Bill (*) Rumor has it they'll be oatmeal raisin. Who wants to bring milk?

[GNHLUG] PySIG for November -- yes indeed, altho moved to Tuesday (the 23rd)

2008-11-14 Thread Bill Sconce
Hi, all - I stopped by the ABI, and we're in luck for moving our 4th Thursday to 4th Tuesday this month to get away from Thanksgiving. So, PySIG is ON, Tuesday the 23rd, 7:00PM at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester. Agenda to follow. If we have one.(*)

[GNHLUG] PySIG, October 2008 -- Sphix, unittest, more

2008-10-22 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIGManchester, NH 23 October 2008 Sphinx, presented by Arc Riley Kent's Korner: unittest

[GNHLUG] PySIG in two weeks - Sphinx, and more

2008-10-10 Thread Bill Sconce
Mark your calendar: Thursday the 23rd. PySIG. Sphinx, presented by our own Arc Riley. Kent's Korner, we hope. Cookies, by Janet. Gotchas, too, probably. And more. As always, at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, Manchester, 7:00 PM. (Our continuing thanks to

Re: [GNHLUG] [Python-talk] PySIG (this Thursday, Python 2.6) -- updated plans

2008-09-22 Thread Bill Sconce
As you've probably seen, our featured speaker's plans have been preempted by Real Life this month. No problem, we'll give him the stage again later... And this is still PySIG. And we do get together to talk about Python. Kent suggested that we ...meanwhile check out

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week! Highlights of Python 2.6

2008-09-18 Thread Bill Sconce
Mark your calendar: next Thursday (the 25th) is PySIG night. As usual, we'll be at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 South Commercial Street, 7:00 PM. Our special topic: highlights of Python version 2.6, presented by our own Kent Johnson, Python Tutor Extraordinaire. Thanks, as always, to the

[GNHLUG] PySIG August 2008 - this Thursday (28th) - BOSS(tm); Kent's Korner; more

2008-08-25 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIGManchester, NH 28 August 2008 The BOSS BOSS -- Build your Own Search Service Presented by Ray Côté, Appropriate Solutions, Inc.

[GNHLUG] PySIG in two weeks - Aug 28th - BOSS

2008-08-14 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIG August, two weeks from today. August 28th 2008, at the Amoskeag Business Incubator Featured presenter, Ray Côté, from Appropriate Solutions, Inc., Peterborough. BOSS, a 'net search API from Yahoo. Mashups scriptable from Python! BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is different –

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week - Thursday, 24 July

2008-07-17 Thread Bill Sconce
Again and as always, and as always, with fresh cookies. (No, not THOSE cookies. No javascript either. Cookies with CHOCOLATE.) Our featured presenter will be Ray Côté, who has been looking into Yahoo's Python front-end to their BOSS, Build your Own Search Service. Plus Beginner's Time,

[GNHLUG] PySIG tomorrow - Assignments in Python

2008-06-25 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIGManchester, NH 26 June 2008 Summer Solstice'ly Yrs! Informal get-together, lots of

Kaiser to test linking health records to Microsoft (Reuters)

2008-06-09 Thread Bill Sconce
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0630718920080609 Kaiser to test linking health records to Microsoft Mon Jun 9, 2008 10:50am EDT By Deena Beasley LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kaiser Permanente, the biggest health maintenance organization in the United States, announced a pilot

[GNHLUG] PySIG, May 22: IPython

2008-05-21 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIGManchester, NH22 May 2008 IPython Kent's Korner's Komeback Presented by Kent Johnson

[GNHLUG] PySIG this Thursday

2008-05-18 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIG meets once again, and as always, 4th Thursday, which this month is as early as 4th Thursday can get: the 22nd -- this coming Thursday, and as always in Manchester, at the Amoskeag Business Incubator. Program/agenda to follow. Already certain: beginners' Python session; cookies (Frango

Re: Comcast blocks port 25 incoming, yet again

2008-04-27 Thread Bill Sconce
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:38:31 -0400 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously. GNHLUG gets better service from MV for free then I've ever been able to *pay for* with somebody else. I can't say enough good things about MV. Hugely recommended. http://www.mv.com Another vote. As

Fw: [Python-talk] PySIG next week! Pysoy, a multi-threaded 3D game engine for Python

2008-03-21 Thread Bill Sconce
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:55:34 -0400 From: Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Python - Live Free or Die [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Python-talk] PySIG next week! Pysoy, a multi-threaded 3D game engine for Python PySIGManchester, NH

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week

2008-02-22 Thread Bill Sconce
Hello fellow Pythonistas - Next Thursday is cookie ^h^h, er PySIG night once again. Specials are in the works, I'm told. Agenda to follow. Rumor has it, CSVs with Ray, maybe, Data Types redux with Bill (only kidding), debrief on the Presidential primary recount (Howard still lost), a source

Re: (Off Topic) Windoze spam and corruption

2008-02-11 Thread Bill Sconce
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:50:33 -0500 Alex Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One item I've found very useful for this is a small cable/USB interface you can buy that let's you easily slave the hard drive from a PC and perform your scans from a known good system. Here are pointers to one of these

2.6 kernel local-user root privilege hole

2008-02-10 Thread Bill Sconce
[ I just compiled and tried it. Sure enough, the program below, run from user mode, gets a root shell. Yike.] [ There doesn't seem to be any activity on the list since early Saturday; I imagine that someone else has written about this already. -Bill] [ From

Re: Problem with usb serial port ordering.

2008-02-04 Thread Bill Sconce
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 16:48:09 -0500 (EST) Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two usb devices which I shall call spm and fp. They end up at ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 but the order that they get accessed causes us to not know which device we're talking to until they are first referenced.

Re: Keeping track of all this IT crap

2008-02-01 Thread Bill Sconce
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:07:45 -0500 Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/timemgmt/) today, [...] Worth considering. I've seen too many projects get bogged down in trying to read the manual for the silver-bullet-software package. Roger that. We've all seen

[GNHLUG] Python this week

2008-01-21 Thread Bill Sconce
PySIGManchester, NH 24 January 2008 Holiday-Break nonMeeting! Redux (Snowstorm not allowed)

[GNHLUG] PySIG next week

2008-01-18 Thread Bill Sconce
Yes, that's the time, and we have a commitment from Janet for fresh cookies. (Something seems to have happened to the ones for the December meeting. :) Agenda to follow. I hope it will include a debrief from the MerriLUG meeting, and the kudos which our own Kent Johnson undoubtedly received.

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