Re: public service opportunity

2008-04-22 Thread Jim Hefferon
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 12:18 -0400, Dan Coutu wrote: It sounds as though you're asking only for help in adding a cd writer. Is this correct? I believe that is the immediate issue, yes. But it is reasonable to expect that there will be a next issue. :-) So it might be nice to have a person or

public service opportunity

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Hefferon
Hello, I read with interest the groups of recent messages on this list about using Linux in government and schools. I have another opportunity along the same lines, and I wonder if anyone might be interested? I recently got a call from a person who works for the local public library. They

Re: public service opportunity

2008-04-20 Thread Jim Hefferon
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 10:13 -0400, Jim Hefferon wrote: the local public library. Oops; I should have mentioned that I live in Jericho. Jim

Re: RMS talk at St Mike's

2008-04-18 Thread Jim Hefferon
I hope that folks enjoyed the talk at SMC. If you did then you may consider thanking the organizer, John Trono of the SMC CS Dept. His email is jtrono at the domain smcvt.edu . Jim

Re: RMS talk at St Mike's

2008-04-18 Thread Jim Hefferon
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 12:08 -0400, Nick Floersch wrote: I think that Flint and I, if not others, need to educate RMS about the Fab revolution that is occurring. I'm sure a well thought out e-mail with links would suffice. RMS talked of his coffee mug as something that could not simply be

Re: RMS at St. Michael's and Champlain College

2008-04-16 Thread Jim Hefferon
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 16:19 -0400, Nick Floersch wrote: Well, hell, that means he is spending the night in the area! Anyone know where? Can we go get a beer with on Thursday night? It might be fun to be berated by a drunk genius. It is my understanding that he is spoken for during the evening.

Re: RMS talk at St Mike's

2008-04-14 Thread Jim Hefferon
Thanks to folks for asking about the talk. On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 10:19 -0400, Cort, Tom wrote: I do not want to get this wrong, the cost of gas being what it is. My understanding is that RMS will be will be speaking 17 April on Copyright vs Community at Saint Michael's College. What room

Re: FOSSVT conference... Anyone here going? Contact info?

2008-04-04 Thread Jim Hefferon
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 11:48 -0400, Balu Raman wrote: On another topic, with MIT, UC Berkeley, and others having their lectures on-line, isn't education getting cheaper, if you don't need the diploma paper ? Sadly, no. It would be nice to believe that a person could watch the video lectures for

Re: RMS talk at St Mike's

2008-03-12 Thread Jim Hefferon
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 08:22 -0700, Tony Tambasco wrote: I know I'd like to stop by, and certainly another person or two I know are interested. That's great. Thanks for the heads-up. See you there. Jim

Re: RMS talk at St Mike's

2008-03-11 Thread Jim Hefferon
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 16:09 -0400, Richard Lawrence wrote: Is this open to the public? Do we have to RSVP or anything? Thanks for asking. It is in a room with perhaps 100 seats. If you plan on coming I'd appreciate hearing about it, since knowing that there is a potentially large number of

RMS talk at St Mike's

2008-03-10 Thread Jim Hefferon
Below is the announcement of a talk by Richard Stallman at St Mike's that I thought some people might be interested in hearing. Jim Hefferon 654-2677 Copyright versus Community in the Age

development practices question

2008-02-05 Thread Jim Hefferon
Hello, Can I ask a best-practices question? I feel that what I'm doing is not enough but I'm not sure what is the Right Thing. I know many folks on this list do development of various kinds. I do a lot of web work. I have all my material, including dB table generation and stocking, in a

Re: development practices question

2008-02-05 Thread Jim Hefferon
Thank you to everyone for the replies. Some people seemed not to understand me, so I apologize. I use svn and I use versions and branching. I know about export. What I'm struggling with is that developing directly from the repository tree is awkward, and I wondered if others know of a better

Re: development practices question

2008-02-05 Thread Jim Hefferon
Bradley, On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:05 -0500, Bradley Holt wrote: In the first example you gave could you simply have a configuration file (that isn't in svn and is different on each machine) that stores a database_user variable; then, instead of running the SQL script directly, it's run

Re: tech + beer: Tue Jul 31st, 7pm

2007-07-31 Thread Jim Hefferon
Paul, Are you all set as far as the tape reader goes? Jim

Re: Technical Archaeology

2007-07-27 Thread Jim Hefferon
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 12:07 -0400, Paul Flint wrote: Greetings List Lurkers, I find myself in need of a sony DDR-2 Digital Tape Drive. I have a tape drive that says 2048Mb DDR 2100 ECC; I don't see a vendor name. Could that be what you want? Jim Hefferon

Re: an 'out there' inquiry

2007-05-21 Thread Jim Hefferon
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 17:22 -0400, Andrew Tomczak wrote: I don't know about Middlbury College, but Burlington, Champain, Saint Mikes are all M$, along with the Business School at UVM. St Mike's has a Linux lab, with some CS and Math courses taught out of it, and I know that at least some

Re: Darn that floppy

2007-01-15 Thread Jim Hefferon
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 09:19 +0100, Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote: Is there a way I can have the floppy flush directly to the disk without waiting for an unmount command I think this is what mtools does. and have it automatically detect and unmount when the floppy is removed. I don't think that's