mike ledoux said: > I completely agree. It would probably even be a good idea for each of > the chapter chairs to have a couple of backup talks ready to give in > the event that the scheduled speaker bails. Even if the talk is > something as simple as a 'Cool Apps I Use' demo or a general 'Linux > Q&A', it is a lot better than an empty room. Of course, a sign on the > door upstairs saying 'meeting moved to the bar' might also be enough, > at least at Martha's. :) Should be easy enough to make a big sign - but it's amazing how the simple ideas can be so effective. I'm also trying to keep 4th Wed open so at least one person who can say "I use Linux" is there (which of course is different from I know linux ;-). > > We should also be more careful about announcing where and when > *exactly* the meeting will be, and make sure to at least have > *somebody* waiting at the appointed place and time to update newbies > on the current status of things. This particularly applies to > MEBDALUG--quite often, after a meeting, I'll get one or two emails > from people not on the mailing list saying that they tried to attend > the last Nashua meeting but nobody was there, and asking when the > meeting actually is. 99% of the time, we were all still downstairs > eating when they gave up and went home. > And they're the one's that won't come back. Good idea on a sign. MEBDALUG/MerriLUG/MELBA really needs it, given the pre-meeting dinner we do (I think we're unique here, but I'm willing to be proven wrong). Let's start with the next meeting. > BTW Jeff, your mailer isn't wrapping lines on outgoing mail--each > paragraph came through as one long line. Don't know what was happening, I had wrap set for 79. Let me know how this e-mail comes through. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Holder of Past Knowledge CS, O- > Put your wasted CPU cycles to use: http://www.distributed.net/ > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > # 531-byte qrpff-fast, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # MPEG 2 PS VOB file on stdin -> descrambled output on stdout > # arguments: title key bytes in least to most-significant order > $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map{$_%16or$t^=$c^=( > $m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;$t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16 > -2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)[$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h > =5;$_=unxb24,join"",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$ > d=unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d>>12^$d>>4^ > $d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^ > (($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval > > Neat - a bunch more servers to get DVD-CSS/MPAA to try and kill! I Like! jeff ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Smith Technical Sales Consultant Mission Critical Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone:603.930.9739 fax:978.446.9470 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thought for today: scream and die v. Syn. cough and die, but connotes that an error message was printed or displayed before the program crashed. ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
