Hello all, I am doing some cleanup of my home office and I have a ton of
books that need to go. Most I will be recycling, but a few I thought may be
of interest to members of this group.
The following titles are all from O'Reilly and are mostly relevant to open
source:
Programming Perl, Perl
I don't subscribe to any currently, but I have been picking up Linux Format
on occasion and find it to be very good. The fact that they published
Paul's letter in a recent issue can be interpreted as a pro or con,
depending on your point of view :) They have these at Barnes and Noble if
you want
Tomcat is a good start. I'd hook up a REST endpoint for collecting data
from the Java application. Whether you want to deliver the front-end this
as an application, applet, or WebStart is not really of high importance,
IMO. The REST endpoint will provide read and write access through some data
I'm in, looking forward to it!
The farmhouse is accessible as long as we don't go down to the bar while we
wait for a table.
Also, I gave a talk about Dealer.com's use of MongoDB at the MongoBoston
conference last week and would like to get some more mileage out of those
slides and do that talk
at 11:42 PM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote:
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
Here is a link to the video that I was talking about last night. It is
almost an hour long, but well worth it, IMO.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100259101684977oid=9445547199comments
Facebook Engineering shares a lot of their internal processes on their
Facebook page... quite
I'm in
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote:
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
Rubin, I'm pretty sure that if you decide to attend tonight, then the baby
is guaranteed to come tonight. And if the baby is already late, this could
be a very popular decision. You'd be a hero! :)
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Rubin Bennett rbenn...@thatitguy.comwrote:
Still no baby
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Sam Hooker s...@noiseplant.com wrote:
- Original Message -
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Sam Hooker s...@noiseplant.com
wrote:
This is where I diverge from Marc, slightly. Language is powerful...
I have to disagree that we diverge, Sam. :)
How about a trip down toward Waterbury to include more of the Montpelier
crowd?
Full disclosure: I am driving down to Boston Tuesday evening and this is on
my way.
I am also looking forward to some upcoming VAGUE meetings, but I think the
VT Code Camp should satisfy our (at least, my) need for
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:08 PM, jonathan d p ferguson
j...@sunforge.com wrote:
Indeed, I will volunteer for this. When and Where? *I might be able to
handle the Where*
My last presentation on FOSS and Game Development met with reasonable
interest. I can't say that my examples will be
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Rubin Bennett rbenn...@thatitguy.com wrote:
We ended up moving to SIP trunks here (3 people).
[...]
We took the extra $140 and used it to buy a Digium system and SIP phones
for ~$3,000 - in about 20 months it's paid off and we start seeing
savings. We opted
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Anthony Carrico acarr...@memebeam.org wrote:
I'm volunteered to give a QCad demo Dec 15th. QCad is a 2D drawing
program for Linux/Unix. I'm no expert, but I have trial and error
experience, so this will be a little light. It would be nice if someone
would
For those of us who may not be able to make it to the presentation,
what pub will we be meeting at after?
:)
Kevin
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote:
Hey all,
As Paul mentioned, we're having a meeting tomorrow… :)
Tuesday the 20th
7pm-~8:30pm
PC Lab,
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Josh Sledjs...@asynchronous.org wrote:
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
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Paul Flintfl...@flint.com wrote:
Dear Josh,
The venerable editor ed reminds me of the old joke...
Q. What is O. J. Simpsons email address?
A. slash, slash, escape...
Maybe it looses something in the translation to type...
Regards,
Flint
A little bit
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Paul Flintfl...@flint.com wrote:
Dear Jonathan,
I smell a VAGUE mini seminar...
You got the balls to try it?
Regards,
Flint
Speaking of VAGUE topics, how about a mini seminar on emacs use?
Maybe the same for vi, so as not to start a religous war
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Tony Tambasco tambas...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hey gang,
I'm hoping one of you might be enough of a Swing guru to either help me or
point me in the direction of a good resource on this one. I'm developing an
application that is going to use a jTable. When the app
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Rubin Bennett rbenn...@thatitguy.com wrote:
How many musicians are there on this list? In our parking lot
conversation yesterday Sam mentioned that he's a fiddle player too (hope
I didn't just unwillingly 'out' you, Sam). And I first met Zach
Chambers at a
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Rion D'Luz riond...@gmail.com wrote:
Since the response to my previous post regarding an actual location for a HS
was so underwhelming
I'm left to conclude that, for the burl contingent at least, HS'ers have
settled on the definition of
a garage thing.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Anthony Carrico acarr...@memebeam.org wrote:
I would imagine that all along her path to MIT this young woman had been
praised by authority figures for her interest in electronics. Her common
sense probably tells her about the wisdom of carrying an open frame 9v
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Anthony Carrico acarr...@memebeam.org wrote:
[...]
Kevin, I'd be willing to bet you a pint of Vermont's finest that you
have personally rushed into an airport and then discreetly stepped out
of line when you realized that you had forgot something, something
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:06 PM, jonathan d p ferguson
j...@sunforge.com wrote:
hi.
From the strictly outrageous news dept, because Expert users = suspicious
users, right? If it isn't Windows, then... it might be... bad!
On Friday, EFF and the law firm of Fish and Richardson filed an
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Balu Raman brama...@gmail.com wrote:
This kind of ignorance is very dangerous. Every now and then, I spend time
at Bees Knees Rest in Morrisville, and I used to proudly sport my Ubuntu
label on my laptop. The other day, I was casually chatting with the woman
2009/4/16 Stanley Brinkerhoff s...@vtwireless.com:
I'm not sure if the intended audience of this is beyond just this
list, but if it is, I found a couple typos:
Purely by definition a Time Bank works by members exchanging services in
luau of direct tangible payment. A Time Bank therefore
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff
s...@vtwireless.com wrote:
[...]
I am too -- I will admit I am strongest in PHP -- but depending on who gets
involved I would love to do it whatever meets the requirements -- I think
even RoR is supported on Dreamhost. I would be a little
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Balu Raman brama...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/16/09, Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com wrote:
A little common sense goes a long way :)
Meaning, forgetting that we were living under George Bush's regime :-)
My son and this girl lived in the same house, in MIT
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff
s...@vtwireless.com wrote:
I've got a dreamhost account with a fair amount of space that I
wouldn't mind providing to the project to get it on its feet. Right
now my content and bandwidth don't come close to approaching the
limits set for
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff
s...@vtwireless.com wrote:
Cyclos is Java based (can't be inexpensively hosted on a free dreamhost
account, or google app engine easily). A goal of our project would be
hosting on commodity low cost hosting platforms.
Not that I'm pushing
[...]
Here is Tony's list:
Are below groups a listing of .orgs that might want to use the hackerspace
for their events, presumably?
Or groups for whom some small number might like to hang and do work (or other
stuff)?
Probably both, but the latter is where I find the greatest interest.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote:
Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com writes:
Heck, I think jsled is
living in the stone age with his use of Emacs to develop Java apps,
but he's still an alright guy :)
Thanks, buddy.
(this message auto-responded
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Rion D'Luz riond...@gmail.com wrote:
Hail Vaguers!
If you had to up and move it to another place, how big of a truck would be
needed?
It occurred to me yesterday that space does not necessarily have to be
defined by the walls
that delineate it. That
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Jen Mincar min...@gmavt.net wrote:
Hi,
My name is Jen Mincar, I'm an IT and Web freelance project manager. I've
been a freelance pm in VT for over 9 years. I've been lurking around,
reading about your idea of a hackspace on this VAGUE listserv. A couple of
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote:
Hey, VAGUErants…
I've totally dropped the ball in pulling this month's VAGUE meeting
together. No topic or venue or notices posted, with only a week to go.
It doesn't help that's in part because I'm not going to be
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Anthony Carrico acarr...@memebeam.org wrote:
A few days ago:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/07/i-was-thinking-about.html
So I've been toying with an idea: Having people over to my house. To
sit in my garage. And Do Things.
Do what I'm not exactly
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Nick Floersch n...@stone-env.com wrote:
Ok... so who has the torch or torches and is running with them?
Anyone?.. Anyone?... Bueller?
I don't know if we have a torch quite yet. More like a match. Maybe
one of those long matches. I think the goal at this
Several of the things that were discussed at the hackerspace council
on Tuesday are quite applicable to future VAGUE meetings, so I thought
in the middle of all this great hackerspace talk, maybe we could come
up with some ideas for VAGUE's summer meetings.
- Open source bug fixing party: I
Hello all, sorry I didn't get to post this earlier. Josh was kind
enough to take some notes on his eee last night. First and foremost,
I wanted to say thanks to all that came out last night. It was great
to meet you all and share some beer. Whether or not a physical
hackerspace ever
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff
s...@vtwireless.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote:
Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com writes:
Tomorrow (Tuesday the 7th) in Waterbury at the Alchemist. Shall we
say 6:00? Should I call
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Nick Floersch n...@stone-env.com wrote:
Hi all,
[...]
Really, I wanted to suggest that there be an agenda or something. Face
time is good and all, but if the point is to figure out how to make a
Hacker Space or Spaces happen, then at least some base level of
Sorry for the unimaginative subject. Someone else can suggest a better name :)
Tomorrow (Tuesday the 7th) in Waterbury at the Alchemist. Shall we
say 6:00? Should I call in advance and try to reserve a few tables?
I'll be driving from Colchester and would be happy to carpool (drive
or ride)
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:10 AM, The Anti-Joey thentj...@yahoo.com wrote:
yea, i'll meet with ya, kevin. coming from b'ton. where might you be
thinkin' to go?
aj
I don't know Waterbury at all, so I'm open to suggestions. If it
turns out thats its just Burlington people, we could stay local.
Good ideas all. I was just thinking about this again tonight in the
car. So, how about a gathering next week. I suggest a bar in the
Waterbury or Richmond area, so that neither contingent needs to drive
that far. Lets just get together and talk about some projects we have
going on, projects
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Marc Farnum Rendino mvg...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:59 AM, The Anti-Joey thentj...@yahoo.com wrote:
i have contributed to grant writing efforts in the past and would be willing
to contribute to an effort of this magnitude. it can take a
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Dan Coutu co...@snowy-owl.com wrote:
Marc Farnum Rendino wrote:
I'd like to expand on this concept further. One of the most critical
problems Vermont faces with regard to ease in growing any business is our
geography. In a word, mountains.
As has been
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Marc Farnum Rendino mvg...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Nick Floersch n...@stone-env.com wrote:
For all the resources we had, and support from the CS department, trying
to steer students away from playing network computer games at any hour
I just read this Wired article on Hacker Spaces.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/03/hackerspaces.html
Sounds pretty cool. I had talked to Josh about a similar idea for
teleworkers in the Burlington area, but this goes beyond the work
world and seems to be more about fun. Either way, it
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM, David Hardy belovedbold...@gmail.com wrote:
I also think is a great idea; who knows what techie breakthrough may come
of it. Also, a ready supply of middle and high school students who would
welcome such an enterprise. Maybe there would also be some way of
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:55 PM, sth s...@noiseplant.com wrote:
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With all due respect to VAGUErants from other regions, of course, is
there an Internet-connected venue (doesn't have to be a pub, in the
spirit of accommodating the under-21
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote:
Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com writes:
So, is anyone interested in pursuing the idea with me? At least to
get to the point to see if it would be feasible?
I noticed on a PHP-UG thread recently that the VTSDA
I heard back from Greg (from PHP list and VTSDA). The space that Josh
mentioned is primarily for use by individuals/groups that are looking
for an actual office to work out of. I somehow don't see a hacker
space fitting in there very well :)
So, I've spent a lot of time thinking about this
I forgot the two other ideas I had for the space:
LAN Parties (obviously!)
Community technical library
Kevin
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:03 PM, H. Kurth Bemis ku...@kurthbemis.com wrote:
Not be the downer of the party, but there's a lot more to it then just
getting some office space and a net connection. At Foulab we're
constantly trying to recruit new members, which in a city the size of
Montreal is
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Paul Flint fl...@flint.com wrote:
Dear Nick,
So much for equal time...
I consider .net brain damage, based upon recent experience.
I haven't used .net, so I can't comment on it. However, I'll venture
a guess that VTSDA is presenting a topic that they have
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote:
Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com writes:
I haven't used .net, so I can't comment on it. However, I'll venture
a guess that VTSDA is presenting a topic that they have had requests
for and/or appeals to a larger number
Josh, I'd be interested in carpooling. I am flexible with departure times.
Kevin
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote:
Monthly meeting of the Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts. A general,
open meeting. Bring something to talk about, ask for
: SHA1
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Kevin Thorley wrote:
I plan to leave the Burlington area at 5:30 and can drive 1 or 2
people. Josh, you drove last time, so if you want a ride, let me
know. I am flexible on return time as well.
Could I get a ride with you and/or Josh? If so, where/when should
I'd be up for carpooling as well, from Burlington/Colchester
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Josh Sled js...@asynchronous.org wrote:
A reminder about our meeting tomorrow night. :)
Anyone from the Burlington area looking for a ride? I'm looking to get
there a bit early to deal with
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:04 PM, chris yarger cpyar...@gmail.com wrote:
With things like this happening in windows why not keep to linux?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/20/sheffield_conficker/
and
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/20/mod_malware_still_going_strong/
Or, why not at
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:08 PM, chris yarger cpyar...@gmail.com wrote:
so what are we doing about it ?
Here is a thought... we are making it harder for ourselves when we
bash Windows/Microsoft. Many, many people are comfortable with the
Windows environment. And despite all of the reasons
This would be interesting to do for the VAGUE'ers as well. I'd be
willing to put some time into setting up a sipX VoIP server for the
task if there is interest.
Kevin
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Balu Raman brama...@gmail.com wrote:
FYI- good way to exercise your ekiga.
-br
--
Its not open source (gasp!) but it is free (as in beer)... give VMWare
a shot. Specifically VMWare Server. I've had great luck using this
for work, running on both windows and linux. No issues at all with
USB ports
Kevin
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Warner White warnercwh...@yahoo.com
I have Comcast, so this shouldn't affect me, but does anyone on the
list use Verizon for internet access? This looks kinda scary:
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20081227/NEWS01/812270314
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Forest Bond
for...@alittletooquiet.net wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:26:46AM -0500, Kevin Thorley wrote:
So, I suggested they contact their local MS support people and tell them they
probably had a virus/malware on the server. They did, and they did
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Warner White warnercwh...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi all--
I'm new to this list and to Ubuntu, and from what I see of your interchanges
I probably don't belong on this list, but I can respond to the message from
Richard Lawrence.
I have Comcast in Burlington and I
I should have mentioned this earlier, and maybe its too late... but
this may be a good opportunity (under the Help/Support section) to
mention that we VAGUE'ers are quite happy to provide local support in
the form of install parties, if there is enough interest.
Kevin
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at
It is important to remember that training and large scale
implementation/deployment of open source solutions is not the only
cost. Red Hat, as well as other F/OSS vendors, are hardly giving away
their software. There are still licensing costs for commercial
software distributions. For many
Is anyone from the Burlington area planning on going? I'd like to
drive down and check it out and don't mind giving a ride to anyone
else thats interested. In fact I'd feel better, environmentally
speaking, if I wasn't driving alone.
Kevin
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Josh Sled [EMAIL
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On Behalf Of Kevin Thorley
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:58 PM
To: VAGUE@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: New to the area
Hello all! I just joined the VAGUE list yesterday (in the middle of the
political discussions... perfect) and wanted to take a minute to
introduce
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