It's called Body Shielding. Your body can act as a shield. Tune the
Yes.
Advanced body shielding involves a secondary conductive shielf. You
put the radio in Pringles can, or other deep open-top conductive case,
antenna up, and using a lanyard (string) to pull up (and let gravity
pull down)
I've had good luck with eBay. I picked up an old Thinkpad there a few
years back for about $180, and it still works well today.
TigerDirect has reconditioned IBM T23's for $500 -- used with some
protection and not a bad system.
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Michael O'Donnel asks
I've joined an established project
If this request is from the MOD that I know at work, was in Firewalls,
drop me a note at work ...
anybody know of good sourcecode analysis tools for C++
that run on Linux?
You didn't restrict to F/LOSS tools, and you didn't say if
I have the same situation ... although I have desktop Linux at home, I
have to access my *n[iu]x at $DayJob through PuTTY and
Hummingbird/eXceed, but have dual-head which makes it berable..
I have a monitor attached to the $DayJob laptop docking station and
set the laptop (Win XP)'s DockingMode
On 4/5/06, Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to GNHLUG:
If you don't mind a short walk, I found a good place to eat(tip from security guard)
Always a good source of local information.
near the convention center: Fargo Deli, ofcourse.Go out to Summer street, turn right, go one block passed
The Galley Diner 11 P St. ...
It is a hole in the way, but always an
Cool, I've wondered about them driving past. But that's not a short walk!
On Fridays, there's a diner at DryDock ave, where the union retrains
Big Dig workers as cooks -- show off what they've learned this week
Friday noon.
Alternatively, you can run Knoppix from the Windows commandline if the ISO is saved on the NTFS.
http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/1515258from=rss
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(1) As I discussed with Ted BLU-crew earlier -- TUX magazine
donated several boxes of Linspire Five-Oh boxed CDs and Linspire intro
books with CDs to BLU at the end of LinuxWorld. [They'd been giving
them out in their upstairs tutorial room all week, and had oodles
left.] We won't be able to give
Well, I now know I owe an apology to Bill Gates for all the accusations
I made against him for shoddy software, evil business practices, etc.
they were all done by a counterfeit organization located in Redmond,
OMG, maddog, you're right. Paul Allen's original MicroSoft was formed
in
Likely she's buying a new one, but it doesn't hurt to try, I've saved
phones and pagers that went in various wet places. (Same applies to
gameboys, computers, anything built from printed circuit boards.)
Most important is to remove the battery immediately, even if off.
With the length of a
I agree screen is very useful.
I really loved Screen back in the days of dialup, but it's great when
accessing multiple servers from a lame desktop. PuTTY /or OpenSSH +
screen lets me have manage servers sessions sanely, from anywhere. And
I don't even need Screen on all servers, just my
That is what they did to the circuit boards before they left
the factory.
What they SHOULD have done, yes ... but our ham-club presentation from
a professional re-work soldering instructor said that's rather more
observed in the breach these days, most boards leave the line dirty.
The new EU
Just curious - could subjecting a cell phone to vacuum (partial or
otherwise) possibly cause things like capacitors to burst?
Good question!
I didn't recall seeing that as an issue in qualifying electronics for
AMSAT orbital payloads. They hand test and sort batteries, and remove
labels, but
I can't think of any electronic component that will burst at
vacuum. After all, it is only 14.7 psi pressure change at most - even
if you pump down below a micron. You get down to 8 psi
I don't know of any specifically, but if Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, one of
the microsat developers (for US
What happend to the other 2 brothers, Zeppo and Gummo ?
Only http://www.chemtutor.com/prex.htm has those to (and the Zeppi-
and Gummi- inverses ... Gummi-Bears are 10**36 Bears)
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up and showed a charging symbol. I considered that a good omen.
Yes!
So it was successfully brought
back from the dead. Only minor issue is a blotching in the display - a
reminder of its washing.
Yeah!
I did not rinse out the phone with alcohol or distilled water. Does
anyone think I
250 Gb Western Digital External Drive (USB2): $89
Is that Linux friendly?
The one touch backup software advertised on the package made me
question if it might require proprietary drivers. If I can
plug-and-go on a modern Linux w/ USB mass storage support, this would
be great.
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difference -- unless it can connect to the Internet.
The MIT folks realize that. They designed them with the 3rd world environment in mind.
Each laptop shares it's wireless connection with other laptops in
range, so the laptops nearest the one network link at the school repeat
it down the street
The laptops of the MIT project don't have a lot of resemblance to the
disposable, fragile, overpowered 1st-world toys you find for sale at
the big box stores. Their design criteria lead them to choose the
laptop form factor. I haven't followed the project in detail, but I'd
suspect there were
Please go see reader Rabbit or Math Blaster in action with kids
who are in Kindergarten through fourth grade. Then it will be clear to
you.
Right on Jeff. My daughter loved Reader Rabbit. I credit Reader
Rabbit and Harry Potter between them for my daughter being literate.
Of course, this
Ubuntu is a great desktop Linux distro, but I'd suspect it's not going
to perform nicely on an older laptop like that. There's a new
Xubuntu derivative that is using Xfce windowing for older hardware,
will supposedly give you the best of both worlds -- light weight
distro with the Ubuntu elan
CDrom boot works, excellent.
The Xubuntu CD is supposed to be better for old hardware than
Ubuntu, you could try that. DSL will download quicker, it's *small*
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Yes, Java's recent speed comes from (a) JIT compilation (b) real
static native compilation with optimization (e.g., JRocket) (c)
running on really hot hardware.
(And I do mean hot ... the 3.7GHz chips have more Watts per square
inch than a hot plate! There's a reason you won't see commercial
I'm beginning to see the same thing... For example, I looked at the Xubuntu
kit, and it requires 128MB for a Hard Drive install.
Is that Xubuntu's RAM requirement or Drive requirement?
Yes, compare the minimums of each distro against what you've got, it's
easier than trying it.
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RAM I've got 40MB, so I'm way below this requirement.
Ouch, I missed focusing on that number on your first message. That
tightens things significantly. That will be a problem for pretty much
any graphical desktop that isn't really lean.
DSL says 16MB 486 is ok. I don't know what else can work
On the Java side for small memory ... if Java doesn't work out of the
box on 40MB, try J2ME.
http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=31733
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Some of the major vendors felt that there were too many events, ...
LinuxWorld Boston was just not worthwhile. Neither HP nor IBM had a
booth.
Normally, both have large booths and are major event sponsors.
IBM had a briefing suite upstairs in the LinuxWorld show with their
own track. And
I can find a FEW vendors who can sell directly for systems in the 14
deep size, but they all seem to be targeting 17 racks, *NOT* 19 racks..
17 racks? Who's got 17 racks?
19 wide racks have 17.75 clearance between rails for the equipment.
19 is OUTSIDE dimension of the rails on both the
Gasp is considered 'obsolete'. The bintuils-gasp is the only remnant of
it, for applications that require it.
Ok, I'll ask the obvoius follow-up question -- obsoleted by what?
What do use instead if we want to code Assembler with a F/LOSS tool-chain?
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==grok. GAS with GASP looks like a regular macro-assembler to me.
=I guess it looks like it's all there.
Correction. It's not all there. I looked at the gasp info page from
somewhere online and literally all of it is missing. :-( The only thing we
get is include, vanilla macros, and simple
iirc WMcliphist is such a beast or close.
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OK, I know I may be looking for something that doesn't exist, but...
I'm looking for an X11 application for clipboard management that...
* can save the list of clipboards or load a custom set on start
Suppose a EBCDIC file on a tape from IBM mainframe is read onto a Linux
server, and this EBCDIC file on the tape has 100 records with a length
of 13054, is it correct to estimate the size of the file on Linux server
would be 1,305,400 bytes?
Maybe.
[Last time I did this, I out-sourced it to a
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Date: Sep 20, 2006 2:52 PM
Subject: Boston.pm Special Tech Meeting with Damian Conway, Monday,
Sept 25, at MIT
To: L-blu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Damian Conway will be giving a couple of talks to Boston Perl Mongers
this
My Linux laptop (thinkpad) was NFG for 24 hours, with GRUB Error 17.
[Duration was unrelated to severity, just I had other things to do
after I noticed the issue. ]
Problem was caused by shutting down hard (power switch) during boot
(due to real life intervening). Apparently I powered down at
Now anyone know od an *editor* that actually works...?
Cristoph gave a talk on video editing DVD production in Linux at BLU in 2005.
http://www.blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2005-mar
http://www.linuxsoup.com/ladle.php?SEC=112
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Well, another Hosstraders is behind us, and we survived.
We didn't get there until late, but it was glad to be able to chat
with Mike and Heather for a short bit at least. I was amused that Ted
was wearing the same outback pocket-master cargo-vest I was -- was Ted
scarred by Captain
Note - the change is for March 2007 NOT the imminent 2006 October change.
(I had a worried project manager at the office who wondered why we'd
waited so long, until I explained we had 5 months to schedule his
patches.)
The Linux distributions and commercial OS vendors are rolling out
patches
On 10/23/06, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The difference between single quotes and double quotes is strictly
whether variable interpolation occurs.
Most importantly but not strictly true. The other difference between '
and is in escape sequence quoting. Only \ and ' are quoted by \
On this week's Digital Planet Gareth Mitchell talks exclusively to
Mark Shuttleworth about his latest venture of developing an open
source platform for his native South Africa and other developing
countries. Jane Chambers visits Salamanca, a town at the foot of the
Andes in Chile, where everyone
Are they trying to say they have
an exclusive interview and that Mark Shuttleworth isn't granting such
an interview to others? Or is Gareth Mitchell really not going to
talk to anyone else at all ?
I've noticed a number of media outlets using a weakened form of
exclusive, among them BBC
While not being able to help with
I had a request from a person in Barrington, NH who
wants to try Linux for the first time. I was
scheduled to be in Portsmouth, NH this morning, for an
appointment, but ended up re-scheduling for next week.
Is there anyone from SLUG who might be able to get
I found http://3cx.org/item/46, which I think tells me how to use
mod_proxy to do the forwarding and SSL encapsulation. That's kind of
what I was thinking. But can I throw some HTTP authentication on top
of that, too?
Sounds reasonable. But I don't know if you can force local
XML is for people who don't understand Scheme. (not my quote,
that just seems like such good flamewar fodder that I had to pass it
along)
There's nothing new under the sun. Each generation thinks they
invented sex and fast square root algorithms.
I've said for years, if LISP stands for Lots
What XML gives you is a standard way to define the structure,
schema, and so on, in a way that is unambiguous and machine-friendly.
Right. And if you do NOT create a X-Schema or DTD, and are using a
non-validating parser, and then have to write code to explore the DOM
generated from whatever
Re: Why must Comcast's DNS suck?
Maybe there's a Conservation Law of Suckitude. I haven't noticed
Verizon DNS sucking lately.
Maybe Verizon Mass recruited Comcast NH's one good DNS tech to fix
their breakage ?-)
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Does anyone know how to programatically obtain license information for
Debian packages?
You're supposed to be able to preview the copyright file at
http://packages.debian.org/stable/ , but the changelog view is not
working now, and it's part of that.
If it's in the main repository, it's GPL
My syslog tells me I have currentlt 303 hits from googlebot
Are any of them for robots.txt? Just curious.
Good question! The follow-up is, is robots.txt 444 or 600 ?
Maybe you can see it and Google can't.
Or maybe it's the other robots.txt.
If this is the same host as your email, which
It's actually the other way 'round. The earth is closer to the sun on
the winter solstice.
Closer, but not quite closest!
Solstice and Equinox are defined in terms of sun angles (declination)
and length of daylight, and has to do with tilt of the axis of Earth
wrto to Sun. On Solstice, the
On 5/6/07, Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I am looking
for a basic book on Debian Linux. I went to www.debian.org, but there
were too many choices. What are your suggestions.
http://isbn.nu/9780764576447
Debian Gnu/linux 3.1 Bible
Benjamin Mako Hill David B. Harris Jaldhar Vyas
is
On 6/25/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/25/07, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 18:33 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On 6/25/07, Henry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BUoD ...
PICNIC (Problem In Chair, Not In Computer).
PEBCAK (Problem Exists
If you're doing 6-nexted integer loops, shouldn't you be using
vector-optimized super-scalar fortran anyway?
That 'cog' hack looks interesting, although I am leery of such things
that modify their own source files. A similar hack is 'ptml' which also
executes embedded python in templates
We have come across ancient TRS-80 Model III with dual 180K 5.25
floppy drives. But we lack boot media. Does anyone here have one
they'd be willing to copy (assuming you have the means to do so) or
part with ?
Whether my boot media is any good anymore I don't know ... should
have both MMS
What is the most efficient way to destroy the data on a hard drive
before junking it? Normal file erasure leaves the data intact. Secure
erasure or reformatting takes too much time, and the drive may not be
working well enough to complete the operation.
Good practice would swap the disk
On 7/11/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 20:28 -0400, Bill Ricker wrote:
Unsubstantiated rumor was certain crypto gear came with thermite bomb
just above in case of capture.
Actually, back when I was in the Army, the termite was stored
separately, but quickly
And you could have your CRT in any color you wanted, as long as it was
green.
Or Amber (some later Kaypro/Vixen models)
If you stage a Computer Museum Rally, I'll drive up from beantown with
some items.
Besides the TRS80 mod III, I've got a programmable calculator whose
tower-case has 4 bit
They removed the item on Ebay
I wonder why. Does Ebay explain?
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/07/enigma_machine.html
It was mysteriously Reposted, and sold. Only difference on pictures I
see is the close ups of rotors and box showing serial number are gone.
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The twin for the Tacoma Narrows bridge is not that far down the road,
in Deer Isle Maine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Isle,_Maine
What? How did I grow up in Maine and not know that? My HS Physics
instructor is highly negligent in not mentioning that when he showed
us Galloping Gertie's
If you're on Facebook anyway, might as well.
However, Linked In seems to be the place for experienced professionals
to network. It's designed for finding employees/ers +
customer/suppliers.
[NPR study on class-ism in Networking said Facebook was for recent
college grads and college students;
Okay, so where do the Boomers or old Guys go?
Second survey ...
ToastMasters marketing public shared MindMap
[http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show_public/1599833] lists under
Social Networking the PR opportunities of
Xing (video or what?)
Viadeo (?)
Linkedin
FaceBook
On 8/13/07, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A great line from The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! was
when Fendall Hawkins (played by Paul Ford) was yelling We've GOT to get
ORGANized!.
Aside from the map-folding scene (no line), my favorite is
Ev-er-y-one to get from
Time Management for System Admins by Tom Limoncelli (O'Reilly),
ISBN 0-596-00783-3 $24.95 and 200 pp, is the last of a long series of
books I've used to help me get focused and organized.
Excellent. Can work for programmers too with adaptations.
He gave several talks in N.E. a couple years
Time Management for System Admins by Tom Limoncelli (O'Reilly),
ISBN 0-596-00783-3 $24.95 and 200 pp, is the last of a long series of
Voted LOPSA's (first ever) Book of the Month
http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2005/12/lopsa_book_of_the_month_time_m.html
Author's Wiki for the book
I like the little Moleskine notebooks which have an elastic to keep
closed. As Ted says, there are many advantages to having something at
hand for taking notes and recording thoughts on paper.
Moleskines or any other leather-bound, archival acid-free paper
notebooks are great for notes or
43folders is a good place to start.
There's a side-wiki there that's excellent, and lots of other
resources there too.
http://www.google.com/search?q=43Folders
[Not to be confused with 43Things which is list-sharing, rather different.]
And then there's the hints site http://www.lifehacker.com/
I regard most such storage-related benchmarks with a great deal of
suspicion. They always seem to assume the computer won't be doing
anything else when the filesystem is being used.
Well said.
Amplifying ...
ALL benchmarks are at best hints of reality, since they're ALL
Or, if you only have an old grep, but do have Perl, the following should
work:
The Andy and the ack project have built a better grep with perl.
http://perladvent.pm.org/2006/5/
search.cpan.org/~petdance/ack/ack
petdance.com/ack/
ack is pure Perl, so consistent across all platforms. Command
Oh. I do see that now that I look. This strikes me as completely
counter-intuitive. So, how to people do actual division in
spreadsheets? Does Excel suffer from this as well?
Yes.
Every spreadsheet since VisiCalc has done floating point division and
other basic numeric formuli in
I highly recommend Damian Conway's book of same title, Perl Best
Practices, which recommends a much tamer, consistent readable style
within a workgroup than he uses in his own code (depending on context)
-- he suggests one style but encourages each group to decide for
themselves and take his list
That's very much a matter of taste.
True
As it is a laptop, I presume you're looking for mostly desktop
functionality, as opposed to server...
Knoppix is quite good for autodetect hardware and see what works. But
it's not really a full-service desktop.
Ubuntu is a good install and ok live
If you know what a SQL injection attack is, you will love this:
http://xkcd.com/327/
while xkcd++;
And if it doesn't make sense, you NEED to read this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection_attack
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On 10/12/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
During a bout of insomnia I caught this broadcast
live on the BBC last night and liked it a lot:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/global_business.shtml
I've always regarded the presenter, Peter Day, as generally
cool and
Neither of us is a Ham,
I am. [1]
Did anyone else attend?
I was there Friday afternoon/evening, sporting a golf-umbrella from my
long-gone start-up. Saturday, I was at First Ubuntu Massachusetts LoCo
InstallFest. [2]
There were several food vendors as well: the apple crisp smelled
IOW, I was trolling for more pedantry :)
Oh, well. That's different. Carry on, then. ;-)
My wife custom-ordered a button for me
I'm not Pompous,
I'm Pedantic
There's a
difference
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that is in the big leagues. I'm not making fun of the guy, but
physics isn't involved in solving the problem, just regular math.
Physics is just applied math. All the world is functions.
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Ubuntu at least has user settings that iirc could do that too.
when i ipdate my T423 from Gentoo to Ub untu, I'll check.
I know putting an outboard USB trackball disables both onboard pointers.
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You have to do it in the BIOS, I believe.
-KL
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I prefer to just let the universe evolve to contain a disk with the
data I want.
Luckily, the wait only lasts 6 months each time ...
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
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Another hardware-inventory project is by a Boston Ubuntu-nik -
http://dohickey.parsed.net/
I'm not sure how mature 9it is.
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Definitely keep your paperwork in order.
Sounds like what you need is corporate paperwork defining the cluster
as a peripheral execution-accelerator of the CentOs box, defining the
gig-E or whatever cluster-bus as a cluster-bus not a hidden lan
segment.
Alternatively, get the Network guys to
To simplify scientist self-administration of the workstation, consider
WebMin it's UserMin module. See April Linux Journal review.
scientific calculations.
What kind of science?
Bio/Genetic, Geo/Soc/Stat, HPC MPPC ?
If Clustering, / Hi-Performance Computing, that's a whole different
kettle
init-replacement thing in the FOSS world. I forget the name. It's
Upstart? http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
Ubuntu started using it in 6.10
I'm running 7.04 on my laptop and still see /etc/init.d. Maybe it's 7.10?
You're both right - it shipped with Ubuntu 6.10 or so but init.d isn't
fully
I am seeing similar issues shopping for 1GB 200-pin CL 2.5 PC2700 DDR
for the not-that-old Thinkpad T42. Mobo slots limited to (2) 1GB
SODIMMs, no advantage to faster than PC2700/DDR333 but could
apparently use PC3200 if I could find it in 200-pin SODIMM (?).
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Will GNHLUG be at NEARFEST this weekend ?
If so, would GNHLUG like Ubuntu LoCo support vis-a-vis the recent 8.04
Hardy Heron release ?
I note the recent Ubuntu Newsletter #88 featured a Hamfest outreach by
LoCo (see below).
If I can get a few boxes of Gutsy 7.10 CDs and some Hardy Heron 8.04
CDs
Not what I asked, but way Cool in it's own way! See you there.
I'll want to look at your ham stuff too ...
if I can get to the Mass Ubuntu LoCo stocks of Hardy or Gutsy CD's,
I'll bring piles as freebies.
Not sure how early or late I'll get up ... not sure how much if any of
Friday I can take
It was also reported that the NEAR-Fest organizers seemed to be less
receptive to the computer stuff, wanting to focus more on traditional
radio stuff.
True. Perception of recent Hoss Traders was there were more big
layouts of small buckets of PCI cards and cables than of RF
connectors,
Are the LUGs/LoCo doing anything around USENIX Boston this month?
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Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and
Ubuntu distributions:
* Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 7)
* Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 10.3)
* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Gutsy Gibbon 7.10)
Does this stanza maybe need a bit of
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Peg Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to all of you! You are my heros this evening!
Klaus Knopper and Linus Torvalds desrve some share of our collegtive
thanks for giving us the tools.
In addition to the excellent and intuitive Knoppix, there are other
wanted me to use Ubuntu. Quite a while ago I switched rom Debian to SuSE
because the release cycles were too slow.
Debian had a really rough spot for a while, yeah. They have cleaned
up their act. But you could always get the Gentoo continual upgrade
effect without compiling by installing.
Not Lenny, Testing. Testing and Lenny are synonymous now, but when Lenny
is released, it will become Stable, and you'll track that, while Lenny+1
will be Testing (forgot the name they have announced for it). Testing will
always be Testing (and what I currently track).
d*oh, right, it's
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and synaptic and update manager provide 2 bundled friendly front
ends for desktop Ubuntu users scared of the commandline.
Which, ironically enough, generally scare the users of the command line. :-D
indeed, and
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perl is poor at SMP (gah! perl threads!).
I've never had to worry about Perl MP. Sounds like I should be glad. :-)
MP in any language is tricky, but sometimes it appears easy and bites
you later. Perl has tried a couple
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote:
Later, dmr tried to get the
spelling changed to 'Unix' in a couple of Bell Labs papers, on the
grounds that the word is not acronymic. He failed,
which likely would be due to Bell Trademark lawyers - you have to use
it
What - time_t party
when - 1234567890
ET Fri Feb 13 18:31:30 2009
UT Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 2009
Where - Westin Boston
Waterfronthttp://www.starwoodhotels.com/westin/property/area/directions.html?propertyID=1528Lobby
Bar
Why there - Boskone http://http//www.boskone.org SF Convention
Why am i
The modern rack unit used in computing, i.e. the U in 1U, is by pure
coincidence exactly equal to the vershok, an obsolete Russian
measurement of length.
1U or RU for Rack Unit, but Russia is .ru
Coincidence? You decide.
I'm shocked. A unit of length it doesn't know about??
Patches
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote:
I believe this is often called a proximity search.
these days, this would be a job for a search engine. eg, for perl
http://search.cpan.org/~tmtm/Plucene-1.25/lib/Plucene.pm
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Bill
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
g...@freephile.com wrote:
Moving to a new employment position, I'm once again faced with
purchasing some computer equipment. I'm wondering what hardware,
software and combination people like the best for working seamlessly
in the
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Gordon Marx gcm...@gmail.com wrote:
Incidentally, I haven't been able to find a dock that has two DVI
outputs -- while I appreciate that the dock has 1 DVI and 1 VGA, I'd
really rather have 2 DVI, or even DisplayPort (but I'm not sure anyone
is THAT cool yet).
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com wrote:
The Advanced Dock for T60 W/T500 has slot for pci-mini to add second
graphics adapter, wwhich would get you the secondd dvi.
What kind of slot?
I presume its the same Advanced Dock that I have for my T61. The slot is
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Tom Buskeyt...@buskey.name wrote:
Boot from a CD or USB key?
typical cafe has no accessible CD slot or boot button., and booting
will break their time keeping (billing ) system, so you should expect
to be evicted -- or arrested for 'hacking'
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Bill
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