Boston Linux Meeting tomorrow, July 15, 2009 Another Look at MythTV and MythDora

2009-07-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: July 15, 2009 7PM (6:30PM for QA) Topic: Building an open-source PVR (TiVo workalike) with Fedora Moderator: Jarod Wilson Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315 Jarod discusses the current state of MythTV, which is expected to have a new release (MythTV 0.22) shortly before the

Notes from MonadLUG, 9-July-2009, Charlie Farinella and FreeBSD

2009-07-14 Thread Ted Roche
Seven people made it to the July meeting of the Monadnock Linux User Group, MonadLUG, held as usual on the second Thursday of the month at the SAU #1 offices in Peterborough. (Note that there will be no August meeting.) Charlie talked about his job and the many uses they have for some legacy

Re: Finding *unfiltered* free WiFi? (was: WAP/Router for use with OpenVPN)

2009-07-14 Thread Chip Marshall
On July 10, 2009, Dave Johnson sent me the following: Google has been recording location data of WiFi APs (no surpise there), too bad the data isn't exported in a friendly way. From what I can tell, anywhere that has been Street View'ed has also had all WiFi AP's recorded as the car passed by

Re: Perl vs. Python question...

2009-07-14 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 22:59 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com writes: You've already gotten two useful responses. I'd just like to add that typically, the object attributes are referenced directly: rect.length * rect.width Lloyd, thanks. But what if the

Re: Perl vs. Python question...

2009-07-14 Thread Paul Lussier
Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com writes: If the value will be computed on demand, __getattr__ is one way to go. def __getattr__(self, attr): if attr == 'foo': return self.compute_foo() elif else: raise

Re: Router recommendations?

2009-07-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 07/09/2009 04:22 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: That said, -N radios are more expensive than they should be, I think. I don't personally have a use for medium-speed wireless that's worth the extra money. -G is fast enough for Internet access and gigabit is for large file transfer. Also lots

Re: Router recommendations?

2009-07-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 07/09/2009 04:22 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: That said, -N radios are more expensive than they should be, I think. I don't personally have a use for medium-speed wireless that's worth the extra money. -G is fast enough for Internet access and gigabit is for large file transfer. Also lots

Re: Perl vs. Python question...

2009-07-14 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 15:32 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: The simplistic self.foo = self.compute_foo() will trigger a call to __getattr__, so you can't use that within __getattr__. That's not true; it *will*, however, trigger a call to __settattr__, if it exists; that's what you're

[HUMOR] GNU Linux - with anti-viral formula

2009-07-14 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
http://www.schnews.co.uk/images/560-linux-large.jpg -- Greg Rundlett ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/