On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Brian Chabot br...@datasquire.net wrote:
This is going to sound odd, but I have a friend who lives in the boonies
who only has an analog phone line for internet access and word has it
they won't have broadband (or most cell signals) for a couple more years.
I
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Lori Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of a Free-Software replacement for Maple? My husband is
taking a an electrical engineering graduate level statistics class and says
he needs it to do some of his homework. Having never gotten far
On Dec 20, 2007 1:25 PM, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm working on a site for somebody that does promotion work at trade
shows. As a result she wants to have a number of pictures on one of
the sidebars on the site.
I tried a few javascript apps and some flash apps that just didn't
On Nov 23, 2007 10:01 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
but here is another book along the same lines that I would recommend:
http://www.amazon.com/American-Boys-Handy-Book-Nonpareil/dp/0879234490/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product
a reprint of Dan Beard's book: The American Boy's Handy
On Nov 22, 2007 7:05 AM, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 23:27, Brian Chabot wrote:
Has anyone tried Maxima for Linux? I use its predecessor, Macsyma,
on Win98 and absolutely love it. No, more honestly, I invested enough
time working with it to become
On Nov 15, 2007 2:38 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 15, 2007 2:30 PM, Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I find myself asking why anyone cares if they want to leave since they
refuse to do business with so many of us.
That's my thinking, too.
My only concern
On Nov 15, 2007 4:02 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Got it? :-)
-- Ben
I do now. Dang. Thanks.
-Mike-
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On 10/11/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nono. Really, the best one is:
http://xkcd.com/224/
This one has to be WAY up there:
http://xkcd.com/202/
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On 9/21/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hitting www.flickr.com and using keywords GNHLUG brings up such
memorable moments as:
- Bill McGonigle and his WiFi antenna-on-a-board at Hosstraders
- maddog and Jarod Wilson at the MythTV installfest
- the legislators hearing about House Bill
On 6/11/07, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My daughter is heading back to school and will need to write Math
papers. She is now running Fedora 6. (The conversion from Windows to
Fedora happened after graduation.) She asked me what software she
should use for writing her Math papers, and
On 5/9/07, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/9/07, Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Chamber intends to launch this new service in June of 2007
http://www.nashuachamber.com/Services/wifi.htm
...no technical details are provided. I wonder if we'll
be able to stream
On 1/26/07, Jonathan Linowes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://blog.elinc.ca/rodcli/index.php
try these:
help
rm
rm *
rm -rf /
echo hello
sh
startx
:)
Jonathan
ls is pretty good. So is ifconfig.
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On 8/9/06, Seth Cohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not released for Linux (yet), but Sketchup (from Google) will likely
be on Linux one of these days... Some people have tried using it with
Wine now, with limited results. (Currently Win or OSX)
If you haven't tried Sketchup yet, do. It will spoil
On 7/19/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed 12 Jul, a Google search for n.nfshost.com (quotes included)
yielded exactly one matching page.
Today, one week later, the same search results in over 22 *THOUSAND* matches.
This thing spreads faster than the disease from The Stand...
On 7/13/06, Python [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 20:31 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
On 7/12/06, Chris Linstid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, I give up, what's the answer for 14? :)
The answer for the URL for 14 (which also completes the quote on the
page for 13, as mem noted)
If anyone has any hints about how to get to 23 (solving has_9), I'd
love to hear them.
-Mike-
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On 7/13/06, Gregory Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
***On Thu 11:57a Jul 13 Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote***
Michael Costolo wrote:
If anyone has any hints about how to get to 23 (solving has_9), I'd
love to hear them.
Same here.
-Mark
hint: 23 has 9 things
Anyone get 28 yet
On 7/13/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 7/13/06, Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If anyone has any hints about how to get to 23 (solving has_9), I'd
love to hear them.
HEY!! Careful now! Some of us haven't got that far yet. Like me,
I'm stuck on 17/18. (But I haven't
On 7/12/06, Mark E. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 03:16:55PM -0400, Brian Chabot wrote:
Gregory Smith wrote:
OK, I got it, y'all are close, but it's a different phrase, not very well
known (to me)
What number was that again?
I'm still stuck on 14...
I'm
I've personally seen Matlab code that took a day to run on a dual
Xeon Win 2000 machine complete in 10 minutes on a Powerbook G4.
1440 minutes reduced to 10 minutes? That is 14400 percent. I don't
think you can attribute that to an increase in FSB alone. :-)
No, not at all. My point
On 7/11/06, Christopher Chisholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fair enough! All of that makes sense to me. Do you think that because
the processors are now Intel perhaps more hardware will become available
and thus damage the positive points that you've mentioned? Or do you
think that they will
On 6/1/06, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At the risk of sounding indignant, I think you're over reacting. My son
(2.5 yrs) seems to treat the computer all the things he does on it as just
another toy. Sure I let him at it while I watch TV sometimes. I also let
him play with legos, the
On 5/30/06, Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please go see reader Rabbit or Math Blaster in action with kids
who are in Kindergarten through fourth grade. Then it will be clear to
you.
Right on Jeff. My daughter loved Reader Rabbit. I credit Reader
Rabbit and Harry Potter between them
On 5/30/06, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:26:22PM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote:
I've never understood why giving laptops to kids who can't read or add
would make them better at reading or math.
Please go see reader Rabbit or Math Blaster in action with kids
who
On 5/25/06, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a pledge going on here for folks who want to pledge $300 to buy
a $100 OLPC laptop:
http://www.pledgebank.com/100laptop
The idea is that your $300 purchase funds two additional laptops in the
field. Even $300 seems like a pretty
Saw this linked from /. this AM:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;527801083;fp;2;fpid;4
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On 1/1/06, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As kind of a counter-point to the recent discussion on Firefoxsecurity and what _javascript_ shouldn't be allowed to do, I'm wonderingwhat anyone here has to say on Greasemonkey.
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/Greasemonkey is kind of like bookmarklets
On 12/18/05, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it's somewhat related since he did try to install Linux too.. but here'sthe link to his email explaining his problem:http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techmailstatus.aspx?ID=WTM20051214141504008
he's fairly tech savy but we both can't figure out what's
On 9/17/05, Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/17/05, Fred
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Don't delay -- this is priceless! See what gets first pick by Google.
And the writeup too. I saved a copy of it in my blog just for fun.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html
On 8/24/05, Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy all,I'm looking for an extremely Linux-friendly laptop to set up as atraveling demo system. The laptop has to have a wireless card, as I willneed it to run in ad-hoc mode so that it can act as a wireless AP for
other devices.The system
On 4/27/05, Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rememeber, on tee-vee, nothing is more important than ratings. Try telling that to Phil Donahue, who had the highest rated show on MSNBCjust before MSNBC abruptly cancelled his show because it feared the show
wouldn't go along with the Bush
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:31:27 -0500, Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
as now millions have come to rely on a system that is fundamentally
not sustainable
This conveniently ignores the reality that several presidents have raided
the social security trust fund to pay for things like
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:58:03 -0400, Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see one thing which maybe could help a lot: tackling the big problem
one little problem at a time. For instance, starting with something less
threatening that taking away Outlook.
Perhaps by introducing the mindset
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:17:48 -0400, Ken D'Ambrosio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Costolo wrote:
But why exactly would they do that? Same size, weight, etc. of a
book, but needs batteries, has a screen that can break, and costs far
more than a common $10 or $15 paperback.
Have you
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:48:55 -0400, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a large time scale, I agree with Ben and maddog that paper will
likely go the way of papyrus,
Don't forget that papyrus was only replaced with the dried pulp of a
different plant and some more refined processing. Aside
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:54:19 -0400, Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:21:55 -0400
Michael Costolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't ever see myself curling up in bed with my laptop. And the
paperless office has yet to be realized. Methinks if there is a way
--- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the certainty of this is very questionable, unless you're only
talking about marginal amounts. Even with the road widened, there
will still be bottlenecks in some key places. There's also a
possibility that more people will start using the
--- Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This has gone to court several times and has been effectively tossed
out. When presented with the taxation without representation plea, the
general attitude of the courts seem to be you have the ability to
petition your MA representative - if the
--- Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not only that, they have some whacked out way of doing income tax where
the first X amount is taxes at 4%, then the next Y amount on top of X is
at 7%, or something like that...
The Federal government does it the same way. Like it or not, it is
--- Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People complain about the high property taxes in NH, but at least you
know what you're paying and it's right there in front of your face.. not
hidden all over the place with income and sales tax.
Moving here from Santa Barbara, I find the complaints
Bedford also has stupid stuff like not letting people tear down their
own barns on their own property.. (corner of Wallace Rd. and 101).. I
was glad to see that thing down last time I drove by.
If I recall correctly, that barn is going to be rebuilt. Into a bank, I believe.
There was a
--- Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I remember that she wanted to tear it down because it was falling apart
but the town wanted it to stay as a historical building
According to the NHPR story, it was in the town's designated historic district and
therefore its destruction was not entirely
--- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or something. Democracy is a myth. I think it's only really
democracy if most everyone participates, and makes informed decisions.
And votes for what they truly believe in...
That is the point of voting, n'est-ce pas?
Of course that same
--- Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What Derek is pointing out is that you can buy a piece of property. Say
a normal house (old, but normal) with the idea to say build a room on
the back and paint it green.. Well a year after you buy it the town
makes your house part of a historical
--- Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not only that, the bard was already partly taken apart when they told
her to stop.. It was obvious to anybody driving by that this was no
historical landmark, it was just some barn.. It's not like it was John
Starks house or something..
Well we
--- Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3 is going to suck in Mass...
It should be pointed out, however, that the construction on Rt. 3 is due to be
finished this summer. And as the number of lanes is doubling in many places, the
traffic situation on 3 is certain to improve. Hopefully
--- Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Telling people Oh, you gotta learn all new applications...
But you already proved this to be wrong at the library. It doesn't matter that they
*thought* they were using MS Word. They weren't. And they had no complaints.
=
The power of accurate
--- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Often, the existence of an alternative is inadequate. Many people,
believe it or not, live in MS-Office all day long. If the documents
their co-workers produce don't import 100% correctly into whatever
alternative they use, then it's no alternative
--- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, that's exactly my point: it's not convincing at all.
I think that perhaps you misunderstand.
Mozilla is
an application that looks and acts enough like its MS counterpart to
be passed off as IE to the uninitiated. OO is another. Evolution
--- Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have it backwards. It shows that a completely random and untrained
population sample will be able to use Linux when it looks and acts
exactly like what they already know, Windows.
I don't believe you are the only one allowed to draw conclusions. Nor
--- Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, I understand. You're ignoring the obvious for the purposes of making
a point of vocabulary or splitting a semantic hair that has absolutely
no meaning in the real world.
I see it this way: you're telling me, in essence, that for all wants and
--- Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike is obviously going to stand here and say that the slightest
difference means the user is learning a new application. (And he's
accusing Derek of being pedantic. :-) )
I would argue you've oversimplified things *just* a bit. And perhaps putting words
--- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's complete nonsense.
I disagree.
learn v. tr. gain knowledge of or skill in by study, experience, or
by being taught. --OEAD
So, if they have no experience with OO, and spent no time studying or
being taught about OO, then they clearly
--- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 05:40:55AM -0800, Michael Costolo wrote:
--- Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Telling people Oh, you gotta learn all new applications...
But you already proved this to be wrong at the library. It doesn't
matter
--- Jon maddog Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are right that Linux will fail on most at-home desktops in 2004-2005
because of a lack of cool software.
Would you define cool software? Frankly, I am of the opinion that Linux comes
with lots of cool software. Or at least, lots of cool
--- Richard Soule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Everquest, World of Warcraft, Halo, Call of Duty, Civilization, Grand
Theft Auto, etc.
Games are a driving force in the home market. Saying that there are
games for Linux
is accurate, but if you don't have the game that I want to play right
--- Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Based on what I've seen - Quicken
Linux equivalent: GnuCash. It is quite nice, actually.
and an Outlook/Exchange replacement.
These utilities are part of KDE at least, if not part of other desktop environments.
Email, calendar, contacts, etc.,
--- Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:13:20PM -0800, Michael Costolo wrote:
--- Jeff Kinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes it is, but its not Quicken. My mom, and several other people won't
consider changing, so its got to be Quicken on Linux.
Nothing
--- Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm searching the net for this and thought I'd also ask here in case
someone knows of such a beast already.
I'm trying to find something that's like an enhanced txt2ps converter.
It would not only convert text to PostScript, retaining the same layout,
I think this group will appreciate this one.
http://www.foxtrot.com/
-Mike-
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--- Jon maddog Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why would a major software company really believe that anyone who could
say the word secure would apply this patch that came through the email this
way?
Empirical observations?
If they get MomPop installing patches this way, what happens
when
Linux in the funnies today:
http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/index.phtml
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So, I'm wondering about which DSL firewall boxes are decent, and can
they handle dynamic IP addresses?
I used one from DLink (DI-704) with a dynamic IP address when I had broadband. If I
recall correctly, when your broadband modem boots up it will go find an IP
--- Lee D. Rothstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's say you have a photo of a regular
patterned fabric on a somewhat uneven
surface, and you want to turn the image
into something, uniformly planar for use
as wallpaper. Or, a picture of a wall
hanging that obviously appears
trapezoidal.
--- Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
uClinux (no I remember) was ported to a Palm with a TRG 3MB RAM card as
proof of concept. I wonder if anyone's seen linux running on a newer Palm.
I'm not sure about the Palm platform, but these guys (http://www.handhelds.org/)
have Linux running on the
--- Greg Kettmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps a chapter on each of the key
subsystems with step by step instructions for installation and
configuration (FTP, SaMBa, SSH, HTTPD (Apache), etc.). I know that's
more difficult than it sounds. Hopefully some of the obvious problems
A colleage of mine and I are considering building and using a Beowulf cluster of
Linux computers to work on various problems using genetic algorithms. I am trying
to understand the feasibility of this approach. As I am still in the early stages
of learning about cluster computing, please pardon
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By invoking the CD player program directly, you bypass that false
detection. If the system is capable of seeing beyond the data track, this
should work.
It appears there never was a problem, other than a lack of knowledge on my part.
Paul Lussier pointed out
This weekend I purchased two music CDs. I tried to listen to each of them in my
Linux box at home without success. I attempted to open the cd by clicking the
desktop icon but got errors like you do not have permission to enter /mnt/cdrom.
I then attempted to mount the cd from the command line
--- Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I've seen the problem with my boss's XP box. Even though
he can read other pdf files from the web, he gets a truncated and
mangled file, even if I tel I.E. to save as rather than try to open it
itself. If I put the file on his machine
--- Tom Rauschenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've met some who is a windows user with a cable modem. Can anyone recommend
any defensive software she can use ? Open source is obviously preffered,
Thanks
TomR
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--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can do this easily enough on UNIX with ghostscript package which
included wrappers for ps2pdf, pdf2ps, etc.. Or, if you
use TeX for your base formatting language (LaTeX, LyX, etc.) you can
easily convert from [La]TeX to ps/pdf.
So, with UNIX, you still
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--- Bill Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a little article with a bunch of math to write, and
want to use an open source GUI tool. I've used lyx, and it's OK, but
I use it so rarely that I need to re-learn it every time.
Does abiword or open office do a good job on
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