Re: Cheap Servers and Desktops and Github Alternatives

Anthony Carrico writes: >> Also, not sure if I saw this on the list: what's the go to Github >> alternative?  I don't wanna support MS, but Github is cool and just >> works.  What are my righteous alternatives that won't upset my precious >> repositories? > > For private stuff I run locally. If

Re: Cheap Servers and Desktops and Github Alternatives

Joe Golden writes: > Also, not sure if I saw this on the list: what's the go to Github alternative? > I don't wanna support MS, but Github is cool and just works. What are my > righteous alternatives that won't upset my precious repositories? What features of github are you looking to support?

Re: Any lurkers left on this list?

"Rion D'Luz" writes: > Any oldtimers still subscribed? Anybody still out there? Still around, still in tech, but my priorities have certainly shifted (a few times) in the last 10 years. :) All the trends that I think made VAGUE less-than-viable as a tech hub have still continued. IMHO, BTV/VT

Re: bananahub, joneshub,flinthub?

The idea that github is "an instance of git" is … some sort of take. --  …jsled http://asynchronous.org | @joshsled | fb.me/jsled | KC1ITA - Original Message - From: "Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts" To: Cc: Sent:Tue, 5 Jun 2018 16:56:30 -0400 Subject:Re: bananahub,

Re: Backups and File Encryption

Joe Golden writes: > And for backups, Anthony mentioned Git Annex. Is that a backup solution or > something similar? In general I don't need incremental backups, but if > didn't cost much and made things faster, all the better. I love git and > think git should be in more

Re: An opinion on ssh included in Linux_adult_swim Meeting today, March 27th at 5 PM at Hedding United Methodsist, 40 Washington Street...

Anthony Carrico writes: >> My question is: does anyone know a way to spec those user-level unit >> files to be started on system boot and on interactive/X login. I want >> those two examples to start as my user whenever the machine is started, >> and a couple of others

Re: What's going on w/TrueCrypt?

Brian M. Waters br...@brianmwaters.net writes: I think the current consensus is nobody knows what the heck is going on. Even the conspiracy theories are... still just conspiracy theories. The page you see at SourceForge is all of the information anybody seems to have right now. I'm all ears.

Re: release source code?

Intense Red intns...@golgotha.net writes: Let's see what the problems really are, and fix them. (LMAO) Oh, that's just silly. How can they proprietize the code and resell it to other gov'ts and/or insurance companies if they release it? I come at the from the other perspective: the code is

Exploding the Phone

An old friend of mine has just released a book telling a considerably well researched story of phone phreaks and their endeavours and history. Talking with him over the years, there's an astonishing amount of research and love that's gone into the thing, and I'm sure if the topic is at all

Champlain Maker Faire sold out (but not…)

Tell your friends and family that Champlain Maker Faire is sold out. They will be selling tickets at the door (either the Shelburne Farms gate, or the Coach Barn entrance) as visitors leave the event, so you should show up after noon if you want to get in! — http://laboratoryb.org/?p=527 --

Re: [Linux_adult_swim] Apre VTCode camp...

Paul Flint fl...@flint.com writes: Josh had a very cool camera and we expect (in classic VAGUE time :^) to publish the VT Code Camp on site pictures of the event, Up since Saturday evening ;) : http://jsled.smugmug.com/Events/VT-CodeCamp-4/25520584_9jqF5B -- ...jsled

Re: Java - webserver - webapp tool chain recommendations?

Anthony Carrico acarr...@memebeam.org writes: OK Vague, here is an experimental psychologist with a fair amount of experience writing programs to support his work. I would imagine there is a good open source tool chain for this, but I'm not familiar with the landscape. What do you recommend?

VAGUE social: (tomorrow!) Oct 18, 6pm, Burlington.

jonathan d p ferguson j...@sunforge.com writes: I'll aim to be there. IIRC Farmhouse is waitlist only. If there is a wait, they are likely to have the lounge open downstairs. I discovered last time that they do take dinner reservations for parties larger than 7. However, we're more like

Re: VAGUE social: Oct 18, 6pm, Burlington?

Keith Deterling deter...@us.ibm.com writes: Sounds good to me. Maybe someone could have a sign this time, or let the non-usuals know what part of the grill to be in. Indeed, I'm planning on announcing my cell phone number in a follow up email to help coordination along those lines. :) --

BTVWAG: Behavior Driven Development, Oct 26, 6:30, Burlington

Behavior Driven Development: An introduction to automated testing for web developers Join fellow Burlington web developers for a discussion on behavior/test driven development on October 26th at 6:30PM at Draker Laboratories in Burlington, VT. A presentation will be given by Draker Labs' lead web

VAGUE social: Oct 18, 6pm, Burlington?

Hi everyone! Long Time No VAGUE meeting! Let's at least have a social meeting before winter descends. Tue Oct 18th. 6pm. Farmhouse Tap Grill. After last meeting's learning experience, I'll try to get reservations, so please let me know (to the list or privately) if you're thinking of coming.

FWD: O'Reilly: *Free to Choose* - Save 50% - All Ebooks Videos

50% off O'Reilly ebook/video content, valid through Sept 27th… ---BeginMessage--- View in browser: http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z103bu4jhgrhc1vjnnpbh45qah6v3b1qv9vcu3bg Forward this announcement to your user group or a friend:

VT Code Camp: THIS SATURDAY 9/10!

Hey all! VT Code Camp is this Saturday, 9/10! 8-6pm on the UVM campus in Burlington. List members Rene Churchill, Kevin Thorley and Myself are giving talks! Schedule at http://vtcodecamp.org/schedule/ The event is totally free, and there's lots of food and swag, as well as, of course, the

[job] Technical Architect at Physican's Computer Company (Winooski)

Douglas Beagley, a Technical Writer at PCC, asked me to forward along the following job listing: http://pcc.com/careers/technical_architect They're looking for a someone who is good at coming up with big solutions, as well as being good with people. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ -

VT Code Camp submissions deadline this Friday (Aug 12)!

I just submitted abstracts for 2 VT Code Camp sessions: one an expanded version of the Dependency Injection presentation I gave a while ago, and one entitled Emacs: Everyday, Every Way, about my everyday experience of using emacs for most/all of my professional and personal programming (and

Re: Best Video Card for multihead

joe golden j...@triangul.us writes: What's the best graphics card for simple solid 2d graphics w/ two monitors. I'll be browsing the web and editing, not playing 3d shooter games. Looking for open source drivers and compatibility w/ RandR/etc. rather than proprietary drivers. ATI Radeon seems

FWD: The vtSDA and VBSA Present ... A Special Event on Patent Reform (6/28)

This might be of particular interest to VAGUE members: vtSDA maili...@vtsda.org writes: Having trouble viewing this email? Click here

Re: June social meeting?: LOCATION CHANGE and RSVP, Please!

Forest Bond for...@alittletooquiet.net writes: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:55:19PM -0400, Josh Sled wrote: Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org writes: So … why don't we head just up the block to Farmhouse Tap Grill instead? I'm looking forward to this evening, and glad to see so much

Re: June social meeting?: LOCATION CHANGE and RSVP, Please!

Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org writes: A couple of months without a VAGUE meetings, why don't we at least get together for some food and drink? Say … Tuesday Jun 14th? 6pm? American Flatbread in Burlington? Anyone really excited to come, but can't make the time? I'm glad to see a bunch

June social meeting?

A couple of months without a VAGUE meetings, why don't we at least get together for some food and drink? Say … Tuesday Jun 14th? 6pm? American Flatbread in Burlington? Anyone really excited to come, but can't make the time? -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org;

Re: OT: I want to talk antennae...

Sam Hooker s...@noiseplant.com writes: Sorry for posting off-topic, but I'd like to talk TV antennae: I'm looking to go over-the-air for all non-Internet TV at home, and want to know if 1) you have personal experience with OTA digital TV, and/or 2) if you have a favorite TV shop (a what?

Re: VAGUE meeting: Wed Mar 16, 6pm, Champlain College, Burlington

Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org writes: This month we'll have a small set of mini-presentations. Josh Sled will talk about dependency injection and inversion of control. Brian Hunter will talk about Flash/Flex development using Linux command-line tools. Thanks to the handful of people who

VAGUE meeting: Wed Mar 16, 6pm, Champlain College, Burlington

This month we'll have a small set of mini-presentations. Josh Sled will talk about dependency injection and inversion of control. Brian Hunter will talk about Flash/Flex development using Linux command-line tools. Anyone else who would like to give a short (15-20 minute) presentation is welcome

FWD: Ebook Deal/Day: Save 50% on O'Reilly Editor Brian Sawyer's Geek Culture Picks

50% off a bunch of geek related ebooks from O'Reilly with code DDG3K, today… enjoy. ---BeginMessage--- View in browser: http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zcriftun0a9o922mv9ed5csn022nv6sfcj8dpjr8 Forward this announcement to your user group or a friend:

Re: March VAGUE meeting

Paul Flint fl...@flint.com writes: When will the date of the next Vague meeting be? Wednesday, March 16th. Location is still TBD, but let's say Burlington. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo ${a}@${b}

Re: big drive thread

Anthony Carrico acarr...@memebeam.org writes: I've got two 2T drives (WD20EARS) and an old motherboard for a backup server (not an easy time for me, but my old backup system, which supports a few people, is running out of space). I plan to use raid to mirror them. Actually I've got four of

Re: big drive thread

Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org writes: raid 0 and pray is good advice for just 2 drives :) . Er, got my raid levels confused, of course; mirroring two drives is the only basically safe and reasonable thing. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo ${a}@${b}

BTVWAG Feb 22nd Taming Your Process to Work for You

The BTV Web Applications Group is meeting next Tuesday the 22nd, with a presentation and discussion on Agile Processes. The meeting is 6-8pm at Three West Collective in Burlington. Full details at http://www.btvwag.org/2011/02/17/feb22-meeting.html -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ -

March VAGUE meeting

Hey VAGUErants… So, no January and no February meeting … but all is not lost. :) Let's have a March meeting. In the absence of a particular topic, let's try something different: I want ~5 people to do mini-presentations. Say, 15-20 minutes, each. Describe something other people should know

BTVWAG Meeting 1/19: CouchDB

Hello VAGUErants… Bradley Holt will be presenting at the BTV Web Applications Group next Wednesday (1/19, 6-8pm at Office Squared in Burlington) on CouchDB. Details and sign up linked from http://www.btvwag.org/2011/01/02/jan19-meeting.html -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled;

Re: O'Reilly pocket reference series: $4.00 today in ePub/PDF/mobi/etc.

Jim Carroll j...@maplesong.com writes: A colleague shared this gem, today:    http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z9o60bjkj4sq0o724o5f5ahd049uv930q5lcvs80 Thanks for that Sam! I picked up jQuery and Canvas. They offer three download formats: Mobi, PDF, and ePub. the jQuery quick reference

Dec 7 meeting summary

Thanks very much to FIREHOSE for hosting last night's meeting. Thanks to Dan Bowles for a very good overview of jQuery. And thanks to everyone who attended. I'm glad we were able to bring together content that you all found interesting enough to brave the elements to hear about. I've added

Reminder: Dec 7 VAGUE+FIREHOSE mtg: jquery; html5 for games

Just a quick reminder, this meeting is tomorrow night. I look forward to seeing people there. :) Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org writes: The Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts (VAGUE) will have a meeting in conjunction with Champlain College's FIREHOSE group (For Improving Recognizing

Dec 7 VAGUE+FIREHOSE mtg: jquery; html5 for games

jQuery javascript library: how it works, what's in its ecosystem, and how to create plugins. Josh Sled will give an overview of HTML5 features, then turn to the context of creating games in the modern browser. How can canvas, audio, webgl, websockets and local storage come together to make a rich

Nov meeting summary; Dec and Jan meetings

Thanks to the few who turned out for the meeting at rbTechnologies last night, and thanks to all the rbTechnologies guys and Rubin especially for hosting and presenting! And I'm looking forward to having more meetings in their beautiful new conference room. :)

VAGUE mtg: Thu Nov 11: rbTechnologies' WANBalancer; fooddrink

Hey VAGUErants … Just a reminder, this month's meeting is this Thursday, down Montpelier way. Details at http://www.uvm.org/vague/wiki/index.php/Thursday,_November_11,_2010 Please RSVP at http://vague-nov-2010.eventbrite.com/ Hope to see you there! -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ -

[DLSLUG-Announce] TOMORROW: Makerbot - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-11-04

Kinda far for most, but awesome topic… ---BeginMessage--- *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org

Re: VAGUE mtg Nov 11: rbTechnologies' WANBalancer; general discussion over pizza

Tom Kastner lint...@gmail.com writes: Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any way to RSVP at the eventbrite site for pizza beer. I mean food drink. I do hope to attend and am glad to contribute for whatever there is to consume. It has been moved to the 11th, Yes? I also

VAGUE mtg Nov 11 (changed!): rbTechnologies' WANBalancer; general discussion over pizza

Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org writes: Rubin Bennett will have a run-through of rbTechnologies' WANBalancer / Firewall system. There's a little known corollary to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: as soon as you fix the time of an event, the location of any lurking conflicts become

fwd: Burlington Web Application Group - 10/27, 6pm

Short notice, but this might be interesting to some: -- The next BWAG meeting is planned for Wednesday 10/27 at 6pm at Office Squared (http://www.officesquaredvt.com) located at 106 Main St, in Burlington. Please come and join other web application developers, designers, architects,

Re: Thursday's Meeting

Phil Marshall p...@signalz.com writes: I have a little security related topic I'd like to present on Thursday. Just to clarify, this is the Burlington PHP user's group meeting, being referred to. http://groups.google.com/group/burlington-vt-php/browse_thread/thread/3266cdbc73c939a4 When:

Re: Thursday's Meeting: Video?

joe golden j...@triangul.us writes: Anybody ever take video at a VAGUE meeting? Standard practice at Drupal Camps. I'm not gonna be in town for the meeting, but would like to see the presentation. I was thinking of an experiment with my camera's video capture capability for the next VAGUE

VAGUE mtg Nov 10: rbTechnologies' WANBalancer; general discussion over pizza

Wednesday, Nov 10. 6pm. http://www.uvm.org/vague/wiki/index.php/Wednesday,_November_10,_2010 Rubin Bennett will have a run-through of rbTechnologies' WANBalancer / Firewall system. We'll also review plans and ideas for growing VAGUE, including building out the website, promoting the

Barbershop Punk - pre-screening reception and net neutrality panel

Is “The Man” controlling the vertical, the horizontal, and the channel you’ll be on? In a privatized American Internet, is big business “Big Brother” or does the free market protect and serve the needs of the average citizen with its invisible hand? With the simple act of swapping files,

[job] Drupal/web/linux/mysql, EatingWell (Charlotte)

EatingWell Media Group is seeking a sharp mid-level web developer to assist in website feature development and optimization of EatingWell.com as well as Linux/Unix systems administration experience to help improve our growing infrastructure. — http://groups.drupal.org/node/100559 -- ...jsled

Re: Interest in One-Time Password tokens?

William Stearns wstea...@pobox.com writes: I'll place an order before the end of October to get them here before November meetings. As a quick note (and more complete and formal notice will be forthcoming): the November VAGUE meeting will be on Wednesday, November 10th. This OTP

Re: Project Idea

Eric Basile samurai...@gmail.com writes: So for my Linux/Unix class the teacher wants us to come up with a final project idea this week. I haven't really come up with any radical ideas yet so I figured I'd give you guys a buzz and see if you had any cool ideas for something fairly simple

FWD: vtSDA Lunch and Learn (10/20) * Protecting Software Patents

Does an organization with the primary mission To create collaborative and knowledge sharing opportunities that promote and grow Vermont software businesses really advance that mission with a meeting about protecting software patents? Especially given the affordability of an upstart Vermont

Re: vtSDA Lunch and Learn (10/20) * Protecting Software Patents

Bradley Holt bradley.h...@gmail.com writes: I was wondering how soon after that email went out we'd see a thread about it here on the VAGUE mailing list. It took less than 20 minutes :-) I'm strongly opposed to software patents (for reasons which I'm sure are obvious to everyone here) and am

Re: VAGUE crashes the vtSDA Lunch and Learn?

Rubin Bennett rbenn...@thatitguy.com writes: Just to be clear, my purpose in attending would be to learn, not to heckle. But I do strongly believe that software patents are horrible, terrible, bad ideas that should not be allowed, never mind defended. Absolutely. The speaker is an invited

Re: Reminder: the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

jonathan d p ferguson j...@sunforge.com writes: |OK. I edited it. I notice that we're on a similar theme... with a few |differences. I've taken the liberty to push the work up to GitHub. We'll see |how well git works with Inkscape SVG files... |See: http://github.com/jdpf/vaguevt.org |You can

OpenOffice =~ s/Open/Libre/, and s/Oracle//

http://www.metafilter.com/96121/OpenOffice-ousts-Oracle Is anyone deploying OpenOffice in a government or commercial/support setting? -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}

fwd: About Lisp -or- Lambda, the Ultimate Lecture - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2010-10-07

*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *** The next regular

Re: US Gov wants all the crypto keys

Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org writes: Maybe it's meant to distract us from the nastiness of COICA: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100925/12401911168/a-look-at-the-technologies-industries-senators-leahy-hatch-would-have-banned-in-the-past.shtml http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/09

Re: Reminder: the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

Anthony Carrico acarr...@memebeam.org writes: |I like the sharp version. Likewise. It would be hard to print or quantize, defocused. The amount of (that shade of) green is overwhelming, as well. Maybe use it a bit more judiciously, for just an element? -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ -

VAGUE evolution meeting summary

Hey VAGUErants… Let me recap the meeting last night, at least as much of it as I remember. :) There was rough agreement that the active VAGUE membership would welcome more, broader, regular content … so long as it is in the orbit and service of VAGUE's core interests: free, open and open-source

Re: VAGUE evolution meeting summary

Eric Basile samurai...@gmail.com writes: |Actually me and FIREHOSE are not from CCV where from Champlain College.  EEK! Very sorry! -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}

Reminder: the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org writes: Before an October meeting, and as a followup to the late August meeting, I propose interested parties meet up at 6pm on Wednesday September 22nd at the Farmhouse Tap and Grill in Burlington to discuss the future of VAGUE. Wednesday, September 22nd

Re: Noob question

David McClellan hac...@gmail.com writes: printf(Why does this directory not work???: %s\n,argv[2]);  while(entry = readdir(currentDirectory)) { BTW, if you want to write this as a while loop, I encourage you to write this as: while ((entry = readdir(currentDirectory)) != NULL) { Style

Re: Noob question

Brett Johnson bjohn...@simpleroute.com writes: If we're going to get really picky on coding style in a Unix Enthusiasts mailing list, keep your lines to 80 characters in length. You have a few that go over considering your 8 space tabs. I think the 80 column limit is a retarding relic. While

Re: the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

Matthew Weier O'Phinney mweierophin...@gmail.com writes: What about thinking of it in terms of the unix way -- which focuses on discrete tools, piped together to create complex or new systems? That almost perfectly describes what you discuss above -- and still keeps the u in vague. Well sure,

Re: the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

jonathan d p ferguson j...@sunforge.com writes: I further dare to suggest that we meet more frequently than once a month, and on various days. I found myself locked out of VAGUE meetings due to various job commitments events, meetings, etc. Nevertheless, I care about VAGUE, and VAGUE's focus.

Re: the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

Brett Johnson bjohn...@simpleroute.com writes: I know that vtsda has regular meetings with a particular agenda and charges admission fees. Often times meetings are done at lunch and food is provided to boost attendance (particularly since it's a nice get-out-of-work excuse). I don't really

the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

Before an October meeting, and as a followup to the late August meeting, I propose interested parties meet up at 6pm on Wednesday September 22nd at the Farmhouse Tap and Grill in Burlington to discuss the future of VAGUE. VAGUE's domain is spelled out in its name: unix enthusiasts. But does that

Re: September

Sam Hooker s...@noiseplant.com writes: - Original Message - Does a different time work better for anyone? Wednesday or Thursday, perhaps? I continue to be partial to Thursdays. I have since acquired Tuesday plans, so why don't we say Thursday? (Sorry, Kevin. :) 6:30? The

Re: September

Anthony Carrico acarr...@memebeam.org writes: On 08/12/2010 10:49 PM, Rion D'Luz wrote: Thinking it's been 'the silentest summer' on record or that maybe I fell out of the goup True enough. Does anyone have anything worked up for a September meeting? Indeed. Nothing for September unless

VAGUE meeting: March 16: the git revision control system

Getting started with Git: or, how I learned to stop worrying about revisions and love the hash. In many ways, git represents a novel approach to the problem of source control (version control, or software configuration management). This presentation walks through the basics of using git on a

VAGUE meeting: March 16: the git revision control system

Getting started with Git: or, how I learned to stop worrying about revisions and love the hash. In many ways, git represents a novel approach to the problem of source control (version control, or software configuration management). This presentation walks through the basics of using git on a

Re: Open Source Software and Open Standards Policy and Guidelines

Richard Lawrence wyle...@gmail.com writes: Hmm...does the first bullet point rule out the GPL (or any non-permissive, BSD-style license)? No. (Did you mean non-BSD-style license, there? It's hard to call (new) BSD non-permissive.) I guess the subtlety here is what counts as a distribution.

Re: Stripping a Linux System

AJ ONeal alvin.on...@gmail.com writes: It seems that if I were to use Gentoo I could be very selective in getting just what I need, but I'd have a bunch of source and headers left over that I wouldn't know how to get rid of correctly. (re: Gentoo) The sources/object files are not retained

Re: VMWare Aquires Zimbra

Stanley Brinkerhoff s...@vtwireless.com writes: It appears that VMWare bought out Zimbra.  Any thoughts on why?  It seems outside VMWare's normal vertical to enter the end user application world. http://www.zimbra.com/about/vmware-acquires-zimbra.html RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady has his usual

Re: VAGUE meeting tomorrow?

Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org writes: Anyone interested in getting some beers and chatting instead? Let's say 7pm? American Flatbread or the Alchemist? Let's say (without the question marks, this time): 7pm, American Flatbread. :) -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b

Re: VAGUE meeting tomorrow?

Dan Brisson dbris...@uvm.edu writes: Perhaps the web site was out-of-date or I'm remembering incorrectly, but I thought this month's meeting was a demo of SipX, an open-source VoIP solution. Am I mistaken? That was last February's presentation. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ -

VAGUE meeting tomorrow?

Hey VAGUErants… I neglected to get any formal meeting setup for tomorrow, no topic or venue. :( I hope March will be better. Anyone interested in getting some beers and chatting instead? Let's say 7pm? American Flatbread or the Alchemist? -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled;

Re: Open Source Bill at the Legislator

jonathan d p ferguson j...@sunforge.com writes: [1] The wiki has been Forbidden for a while now... The maintainer has been aware for a week or so, as well. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}

VAGUE meeting (1/19): Open Source Search

Kevin Thorley will be giving a presentation on open-source search technologies, including full-text and location-based search using Solr and Lucene. We will likely enjoy beer, downtown, post-presentation. :) Tuesday, January 19th, 7-9pm. University of Vermont 85 South Prospect Street Waterman

VAGUE meeting Tuesday 12/15 7pm @ UVM: QCad

Paul Flint fl...@flint.com writes: There was some talk about a VAGUE meeting tomorrow evening. Can anybody remind me of the specifics? Indeed, and sorry for the delay. We'll be in the Mac Lab at UVM from 7pm until we break up. Anthony Carrico will be presenting on the QCad 2D CAD package.

Re: SaaS/GPL

Stanley Brinkerhoff s...@vtwireless.com writes: SaaS, or Software as a service is a software delivery model where an organization develops a product, and makes it available only as a hosted solution.  Examples of this are Google Mail, eBay, Salesforce.com, and thousands of others.  Is there

Re: Truth to power - real-world example

Sam Hooker s...@noiseplant.com writes: Real life. (I hereby award myself 150 points. Now, I'm off to skin a cheetah and make some leather bags.) http://www.chorewars.com/ might qualify, though if you end up with the low score, you might very well lose … your housemates or domestic partner. :)

Re: Meeting?

Paul Flint fl...@flint.com writes: Are we on the books to have a meeting tomorrow, 17 November? As I am to be the host, please advise. … On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Josh Sled wrote: Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:21:15 -0500 From: Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org Reply-To: Vermont Area Group

VAGUE meeting: TOMORROW, Tue Oct 20th, 7pm

Hey all, As Paul mentioned, we're having a meeting tomorrow… :) Tuesday the 20th 7pm-~8:30pm PC Lab, Waterman, UVM Campus; http://www.uvm.edu/map/?Building=120 I'll re-present my VT Code Camp talk on the python web application framework django. I'll try to get through my slides in roughly

Re: VAGUE meeting: TOMORROW, Tue Oct 20th, 7pm

Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com writes: For those of us who may not be able to make it to the presentation, what pub will we be meeting at after? Let's say … American Flatbread. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}

Re: VAGUE meeting: Tue Oct 20th, 7pm

Matthew Weier O'Phinney mweierophin...@gmail.com writes: Will you put your slides up for it at some point? Unfortunately they're not slides, per se, but an emacs' org-mode outline of content and a bunch of versioned code samples that I jump back and forth between manually. Maybe I should try to

VAGUE meeting: Tue Oct 20th, 7pm

Hey VAGUErants! So, we basically went the whole summer without a meeting, but it seems like a good time to resume. So, let's meet on Tuesday Oct 20th, 7pm. In the absence of anyone else jumping forward with a presentation or topic, I'll re-present my VT Code Camp talk on the python web

Re: Sympathy for the devil?

Richard Lawrence wyle...@gmail.com writes: The back story is this: I have just started a graduate program at Berkeley, and I am putting a desktop machine together (via parts Congrats, and Go Bears! :) Which program? with such excellent documentation). On the other hand, I know Debian well

Re: VT Code Camp this Saturday!

Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com writes: Thanks Josh! If that schedule holds, I'm in luck, since you and Bradley are both presenting later in the day. Keeping my fingers crossed :D The final schedule is up at http://www.vtdotnet.org/docs/codecampschedule.pdf ; it is now *slightly*

Re: Data.. (drool..)

Benjamin Coddington benjamin.codding...@uvm.edu writes: http://www.data.gov http://dashes.com/anil/2009/08/the-most-interesting-new-tech-startup-of-2009.html At the same time … http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/02/1236243/Serious-Design-Failure-At-USAspendinggov?from=rss -- ...jsled

VT Code Camp this Saturday!

I'm super excited to hear we have 90 attendees registered for #vtcodecamp. That's 60% of capacity! W00t! - http://twitter.com/rob_hale_vt/statuses/3889912540 VT Code Camp is coming up this Saturday, 9am - 6pm, Kalkin Hall, UVM. More details and registration info at

Re: VT Code Camp this Saturday!

Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com writes: I'm going to try to make it, but probably not until the afternoon. I saw the list of topics, but is there a schedule anywhere? I am more likely to come if I know I will be able to attend the sessions I have in mind. It seems the schedule is still

Re: interesting softwares

chris yarger cpyar...@gmail.com writes: beer http://sourceforge.net/projects/brewtarget/ If you like this, then be sure to be aware of the venerable qbrew, as well as my own http://www.brew-journal.com/ Cheers... -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo

VT Code Camp (9/12) Prelim Session List

Check out the preliminary session list for the upcoming VT Code Camp at http://www.vtdotnet.org/codecamp/ (a bit further down the page). This should be a really interesting, wide-ranging event … everything From Facebook app development to XNA-based game development to REST to Silverlight to

Re: [DC LoCo] using ubuntu linux to rock your baby to sleep (fwd)

Paul Flint fl...@flint.com writes: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 17:54 -0400, Phil Shapiro wrote: free software rocks. it really rocks. http://tinyurl.com/m46vpj phil ur1.ca also rocks. It's a free software URL

Re: /etc replacement system?

Stanley Brinkerhoff s...@vtwireless.com writes: While doing some research, I found this Wikipedia article [1] discussing their Linux/BSD (Depending on the rev) based operating system.  The short description of the xpand daemon sounded interesting -- and I was curious.  Are there any other

Re: Print away

Rene Churchill r...@wherezit.com writes: Anyhow, to continue the 'neat toy' theme of the previous post, Xerox was/is working on an erasable paper for printouts that only needed to last a day or so, allowing the sheet of paper to be reused and printed multiple times. (In the same theme…)

Re: jsled's anti-Slackware screed. :)

Dan Clough da...@cox.net writes: The old saying of if it ain't broke, don't fix it, in other words. This maxim doesn't apply to software, as it (software) is always broken. :) Another reason that I prefer Slackware is that all the packages are unaltered and are the original as intended by

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