We did do an install at a Waldorf school on the Big Island a year to two
ago. And there is a Big Island LUG, though I don't know how active they
have been recently.
The Big Island Linux Users Group has been meeting every month since Feb
2001. We have a decent sized mailing list, but most
Eric Jeschke wrote:
We did do an install at a Waldorf school on the Big Island a year to
two
ago. And there is a Big Island LUG, though I don't know how active
they
have been recently.
The Big Island Linux Users Group has been meeting every month since
Feb 2001. We have a decent sized
Read this, and understand my vision for Hawaii's future software industry.
http://www.paulgraham.com/vcsqueeze.html
During the Bubble, a lot of people predicted that startups would
outsource their development to India. I think a better model for the
future is David Heinemeier Hansson, who
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/index.php?p=459
Quoting:
OK, that headline may be a bit overblown - but Microsoft Research has
released part of a report on the Singularity kernel they've been
working on as part of their planned shift to network computing. The
report includes some performance
I'm pretty versed in Python, Plone and Zope. Python's pretty easy to learn
but you won't find courses which teach it. Courses don't tend to teach
dynamic scripting languages exclusively. They tend to stick to the safety
languages of C++, Java, etc...
I always thought that python should be
Tim Newsham wrote:
I always thought that python should be taught to young students
(elementary, high school, first year college or non-cs college
interested in programming). Its fairly clean and easy to learn and
use without having a deep understanding of programming. I showed my
wife, who
StarBasic
Just in case anyone is interested, you can download a copy of the user
manual (in pdf) below:
http://www.eiu.edu/~itshelp/software/staroffice8/StarOffice_Basic_Guide_en-US.PDF
Or if you prefer an on-line tutorial:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-0439
For more advanced
On Thursday 10 November 2005 11:42 am, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
StarBasic
Just in case anyone is interested, you can download a copy of the user
manual (in pdf) below:
http://www.eiu.edu/~itshelp/software/staroffice8/StarOffice_Basic_Guide_en-
US.PDF
Or if you prefer an on-line
Jim Thompson wrote:
Just some ideas, a bit more bomb throwing @ 4am.
As someone who is looking at his career/life from a rearview mirror, I
probably should keep my mouth shut. But we used to represent an
out-of-state VC, and it was equally frustrating for us to try to find
good candidates
Wayne,
I think that teaching/learning StarBasic is a dead end. This is
from someone who learnt Visual Basic in high school as part of
the curriculum.
Learning StarBasic is another vendor lock in but this time a
technological one. Other than working with OpenOffice, where
else are these skills
Thank you Joe, after turning on the multipathing, the WWN devices show up.
It sounds like that the box where you're seeing the controller and
disk doesn't have multipathing turned on.
In /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf the default setting for mpxio-disable
is yes, this must be changed to no;
Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
Tim Newsham wrote:
I always thought that python should be taught to young students
(elementary, high school, first year college or non-cs college
interested in programming). Its fairly clean and easy to learn and
use without having a deep understanding of
Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:
Just some ideas, a bit more bomb throwing @ 4am.
As someone who is looking at his career/life from a rearview mirror, I
probably should keep my mouth shut. But we used to represent an
out-of-state VC, and it was equally frustrating for us
R. Scott Belford wrote:
Thanks for the info and resources, Wayne. This is helpful. I know that in my
Business Undergraduate, the process of building spreadsheets for decision
analysis was very akin to programming. This made quite an impression on me;
I'll work a bit harder to have our
Julian Yap wrote:
Wayne,
I think that teaching/learning StarBasic is a dead end. This is
from someone who learnt Visual Basic in high school as part of
the curriculum.
Learning StarBasic is another vendor lock in but this time a
technological one. Other than working with OpenOffice, where
Jim Thompson wrote:
yes, this kind of communication and cultural exchange is vital (and
from what I can tell after 16 months on island, mostly lacking.)
In the 70's, the best place to do technobusiness discussions is one of
the bars just outside of MIT, or one of MIT's libraries (unlike our
Please join us this upcoming Tuesday for our third installment of Open Source
Pizza. Held at the University of Hawai`i's Marine Sciences Auditorium, you
are assured a good time.
Time: 5:45 to 8:30
Location: Marine Sciences Auditorium, The University of Hawaii
If you want Pizza, $7
For
--- Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Julian, I'm really looking forward to you being on-island.
... Yes, it won't be long now. :P Look forward to meeting
yourself and others too. I've only been following the lists for
a short while but I've read through the archives.
Python (and perhaps
On Thursday 10 November 2005 03:52 am, Jim Thompson wrote:
HOSEF's mission needs tweaking. Introducing kids to computers is
interesting and exciting, but Hawaii needs more startups, more
businesses that can be run out of a spare bedroom or two. I don't come
to denigrate the efforts thus
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 09:47 pm, Jim Thompson wrote:
James A. Stroble wrote:
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 19:03 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:
LUAU (Linux Users AnonymoUs) is mostly (at this point) a mailing list
(hosted on HOSEF's server) for linux, free and open source advocacy in
Hawaii. There
I am hoping to take some programming classes at UH
or KCC next
semester. I'm trying to learn
Python/Plone/Zope, but am interested in anything
relating to computers
(preferably Linux/open-source).
I don't find any CS like classes at KCC. The closest
I found at UH is
ICS 415, but it
I'm pretty versed in Python, Plone and Zope.
Python's pretty easy to learn but you won't find
courses which teach it. Courses don't tend to teach
dynamic scripting languages exclusively. They tend
to
stick to the safety languages of C++, Java, etc...
I'd recommend learning Python or Ruby.
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I ran into someone at Borders who is taking
programming classess at KCC. He said they teach Java
and some other things but nothing for Python. I
haven't checked the catalog yet though. I am almost
through an online book about Python, and am going to
--- 2020 2020 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is Plone that difficult? I am working with The
Definitive Guide to Plone. Not in the advanced
stages yet though.
Not really difficult. More a nightmare to maintain. At first
it's not too bad, but then it hurts you when you realise all
this Through
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:06:20AM -0800, 2020 2020 wrote:
I ran into someone at Borders who is taking
programming classess at KCC. He said they teach Java
and some other things but nothing for Python.
Ask HCC. Vern Takebayashi in the ICS program is a big python fan.
-Vince
On Nov 9, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
HOSEF held a PHP class taught by a local wizard (Kevin English)
once, but I've never been able to get them to repeat the class.
I'd be happy to run any FOSS type class at McKinley. The biggest
issue is finding the instructor and enough
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