[GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 20 Sep, OpenOffice Styles - for groff fans and real people too

2007-09-14 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
Who  : Jim Kuzdrall, Intrel Service Company What : Introduction to OO styles and some handy simplifications Where: Martha's Exchange Day  : Thur 20 Sep **Next Week** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :: Overview     Overwhelmed by formatting choices in OpenOffice Writer? Continual

Re: Perl best practices

2007-09-14 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 23:58 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: > For all those just tuning in, Ben and I are in violent and vocal > agreement with each other, and at this point are merely quibbling over > semantics :) As an old Python guy who knows just enough Perl to get it wrong, this has been educatio

Re: Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

2007-09-14 Thread Frank DiPrete
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:57 -0400, Jeff Creem wrote: > Frank DiPrete wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 16:58 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > > > >> Just checking in to find out if anyone has switched their MythTV setups > >> over to Schedules Direct [1]? ("Schedules Direct is a non-profit > >> organiza

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, September 19, 2006 Keysigning - Signup Please

2007-09-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: September 20, 2006 7:00PM (6:30 for Q&A) Topic: PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party please register your key in advance to participate! Moderator: BLU volunteers Location: MIT Building E51 Room 315 A talk about PGP and GnuPG, followed by a keysigning party. Register your key in advan

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Keysigning - Signup Please

2007-09-14 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: September 19, 2007 7:00PM (6:30 for Q&A) Topic: PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party please register your key in advance to participate! Moderator: BLU volunteers Location: MIT Building E51 Room 315 A talk about PGP and GnuPG, followed by a keysigning party. Register your key in advan

Re: Perl best practices (was: question ... Split operator in Perl)

2007-09-14 Thread Bill Ricker
I highly recommend Damian Conway's book of same title, "Perl Best Practices", which recommends a much tamer, consistent readable style within a workgroup than he uses in his own code (depending on context) -- he suggests one style but encourages each group to decide for themselves and take his list

Re: Perl best practices (was: question ... Split operator in Perl)

2007-09-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Bill Ricker writes: > I highly recommend Damian Conway's book of same title, "Perl Best > Practices", which recommends a much tamer, consistent readable style > within a workgroup than he uses in his own code (depending on context) > -- he suggests one style but encourages each group to decide fo

Re: Perl best practices

2007-09-14 Thread Paul Lussier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) writes: > Bill Ricker writes: > >> I highly recommend Damian Conway's book of same title, "Perl Best >> Practices", which recommends a much tamer, consistent readable style >> within a workgroup than he uses in his own code (depending on context) >> -- he suggest

Re: Perl best practices

2007-09-14 Thread Paul Lussier
Lloyd Kvam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 23:58 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: >> For all those just tuning in, Ben and I are in violent and vocal >> agreement with each other, and at this point are merely quibbling over >> semantics :) > > As an old Python guy who knows just eno

Re: Software Freedom Day, "Souhegan Valley Team"

2007-09-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 13, 2007, at 17:15, Bill Sconce wrote: > "Free" means free as in freedom, not > as in free lunch -- it means that there is no catch, no hidden > pitch to > send in money later. As if you needed another talking point, but this one is juicy: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/0

Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?

2007-09-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
I use Thunderbird at work and it's OK - its performance never struck me as being notably good or bad. I connected to the work LAN from home today using OpenVPN and asked Thunderbird (as an X client of my home machine) to do its thing, but it's taking about 10 minutes to completely paint the windo

Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?

2007-09-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/14/07, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I connected to the work LAN from home today using > OpenVPN and asked Thunderbird (as an X client ... The X wire protocol is very sensitive to high-latency links. Just about any Internet connection is going to be considered "high-latency

[Fwd: [GBC-ACM] TALK:Thursday, Sept 20: Guy Steele on Parallel Programming with Fortress]

2007-09-14 Thread Ted Roche
Another meeting that might be of interest to GNHLUG members. The meeting is open to the public. co-sponsored by the Greater Boston Chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery (GBC/ACM) and the IEEE. Original Message Subject: [GBC-ACM] TALK:Thursday, Sept 20: Guy Steel

Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?

2007-09-14 Thread Paul Lussier
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Use a protocol more suited to high-latency links. You mean like ssh, screen, and emacs ;) -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo

High Latency Survival Tactics (Was: Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?)

2007-09-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 14, 2007, at 14:17, Paul Lussier wrote: > You mean like ssh, screen, and emacs ;) I've attempted this on a satellite link and, believe me, it's only suited to medium-latency links. ssh-ing to Mars would suck as well. Has anybody seen a line-mode-oriented shell? I'd love to edit my l

Re: High Latency Survival Tactics (Was: Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?)

2007-09-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/14/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've attempted this on a satellite link ... Heh heh heh. Me too(TM). It's a different experience when you can measure ping RTT using a hand-held stop watch. :) > Has anybody seen a line-mode-oriented shell? Stephen Bourne. (Accordin

Re: High Latency Survival Tactics

2007-09-14 Thread Paul Lussier
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At that point, the hard part is finding a *terminal* that supports a > local line editing mode. I think there might be an xterm or rxvt > option somewhere for this. Maybe on one of the [CTRL]+click menus? I checked my default xterm menus and didn't se

High Latency Survival Tactics (Was: Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?)

2007-09-14 Thread Bill Freeman
Bill McGonigle writes: ... > Has anybody seen a line-mode-oriented shell? I'd love to edit my > line locally and then send it in these situations rather than waiting > for characters to echo back. What you really want is a line mode terminal program. One that lets you edit locally, then,

SCO files for chapter 11 bankruptcy

2007-09-14 Thread David J Berube
SCO files for chapter 11 bankruptcy: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070914152904577 Anyone planning on starting a company with "claim rights we don't have and then sue people" as a business plan should take note - at least in my opinion. ;) Take it easy, -- David Berube Berube C

Re: High Latency Survival Tactics (Was: Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?)

2007-09-14 Thread Don Leslie
I have not used FreeNX but I did use their commercial product NX. It made a huge improvement. Don ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: High Latency Survival Tactics (Was: Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?)

2007-09-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 9/14/07, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The tougher thing is if you want to send an incomplete line sometime. > Say, to request the remote shell to do filename completeion. I suspect file name completion might be one of those "advanced features" one has to give up when you go back

Re: High Latency Survival Tactics (Was: Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?)

2007-09-14 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:13:27PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > At that point, the hard part is finding a *terminal* that supports a > local line editing mode. I think there might be an xterm or rxvt > option somewhere for this. Maybe on one of the [CTRL]+click menus? > (I'm not at an xterm right

Re: High Latency Survival Tactics (Was: Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?)

2007-09-14 Thread Michael ODonnell
> I suspect file name completion might be one of those "advanced > features" one has to give up when you go back to the bad-old-days > of high-latency links and local editing. Yeesh! D'ya think? ;-> Much of coolness offered by bash (completions, editing modes, etc) is a direct result of bash

Re: High Latency Survival Tactics (Was: Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?)

2007-09-14 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:19:19 -0400 > From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 9/14/07, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The tougher thing is if you want to send an incomplete line sometime. > > Say, to request the remote shell to do filename completeion. > > I suspect file nam

MonadLUG notes, 13-Sept-2007: Charlie Farinella and digital audio from LPs

2007-09-14 Thread Ted Roche
Ten people attended the September meeting of the Monadnock Area Linux User Group, MonadLUG, held as usual on the second Thursday of the month at the SAU 1 Administration offices on Hancock Road in Peterborough. Charlie started off the meeting with a round of introductions, and we welcomed several