[SLUG] Open Source Developers' Conference (OSDC) 2012 Sydney - Call for Papers closes August 8

[forwarded] Hi This year's OSDC organising team in Sydney is pleased to announce that the call for papers for OSDC 2012 has officially opened, and we would like to invite you to submit an abstract for a talk at Australia's premier Open Source annual conference. OSDC is a grass-roots style

[SLUG] [for sale] Upcoming SLUG Perl Training Australia courses, book now for a $100 gift card!

G'day SLUG, Perl Training Australia will be running our popular Programming Perl course in Sydney from the 16-20th April, and our new Modern Perl Modules course on the 17th-18th May. Since we're deeply in love with Australia's open source community, we'd love to offer you a little something

[SLUG] LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf CFP closes this Friday, 25th September!

. OPLM2010 will be held at Linux.conf.au 2010, in Wellington, New Zealand on January 18. OPLM2010 is being organised by Christopher Neugebauer and Jacinta Richardson with help from the broader community. You can contact the OPLM2010 organising team at oplm2...@googlegroups.com or visit the website

Re: [SLUG] eee pc 900 (20080709)

buy an SD card. J -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED

[SLUG] SAGE-AU 2008 Call for Participation

SAGE-AU invites the members of Sydney LUG to submit proposals to the 16th Australian System Administrators' Conference. [Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested] Final call for presentations! Proposals are due next Monday - 31st March. 16th Annual System

winmail.dat decoding (was Re: [SLUG] receiving Attachments.)

Chris Allen wrote: 2 or 3 time now the attachment has listed in the email as a file named winmail.dat which I cannot read. I've used Fentun to decode winmail.data files with success: http://www.fentun.com/ All the best, J -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson

[SLUG] FW: Sydney to host FOSS4G in 2009

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cameron Shorter Sent: Monday, 18 February 2008 6:36 AM To: OSGeo Discussions; Aust-NZ OSGeo Subject: [Aust-NZ] Sydney to host FOSS4G in 2009 http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_1

[SLUG] SAGE-AU 2008 Call for Participation

SAGE-AU invites the members of Sydney LUG to submit proposals to the 16th Australian System Administrators' Conference. (If messages of this nature are not welcome on this list then please let me know and I'll make sure not to trouble you further.) [Please forward this invitation to anyone

Re: [SLUG] OT Jobs in Sydney Australia

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to find out if there are jobs available in Australia for a junior Linux systems admin more than likely in the Sydney area. I do not have any Linux certifications but I am working towards my LPI 101. It may be worth your while to join Australia's system

Re: [SLUG] RegEx question

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Re: [SLUG] bounce in evolution

jam wrote: I want to bounce mail with evolution (gutsy) as per http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ResendingMailWithHeaders I'd appreciate any hints on how to do this with Thunderbird too (but I expect to be out of luck). J -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta

Re: [SLUG] bounce in evolution

Jacinta Richardson wrote: I'd appreciate any hints on how to do this with Thunderbird too (but I expect to be out of luck). Ah excellent. The plugin in the link worked fine. I must have missed it the first time I skimmed through the list. J

Re: [SLUG] perl - setting output field separator and output record separator?

Rick Welykochy wrote: Try this: dirs -v | perl -wnla -e 'BEGIN {$\= ; $,=:} print @F;'; echo That works perfectly, but not quite for the reasons you explained. $\ is Perl's Output Record Separator, and is printed at the end of every print statement. $/ is Perl's Input Record Separator.

Re: [SLUG] Open source document/content management system

John wrote: Hi list, I have a real live project to handle and I'd like to do it using an open source solution. The o/s is MS, unfortunately. My challenge is to come up with a user friendly solution that'll store various policy and procedural snipits that have been used in the past for

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

Ben wrote: installing automatix in Ubuntu is very easy (no command line needed) and addresses all the non driver, free like beer stuff. I've heard nasty reports about it, but it's been fine on every system I've put it on (four so far with Ubuntu 6.10), and probably is only an issue if you're

Re: [SLUG] is Perl really needed ?

Voytek Eymont wrote: sure, what I'm suggesting will not stop a serious attempt to exploit a hole, but, it should deflect such a script This is probably correct, renaming Perl may deflect scripts which rely on perl being easily found. However, patching the hole and securing your system is

Re: [SLUG] Programming language

Alexander Samad wrote: Haven't seen the previous emails but what about sed -e 's/\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):\(.*\)/Question number \1\n\2\n\3' or even awk -F : '/^.+$/ {print Question number $1\n$2\n$3}' Very cool. Although probably not going to help the OP learn how to program. Your sed

Re: [SLUG] Programming language

Jacinta Richardson wrote: sed -e 's/\([^:]*\):\([^:]*\):\(.*\)/Question number \1\n\2\n\3\n/' awk -F : '/^.+$/ {print Question number $1\n$2\n$3\n}' Compared with the equivalent Perl one-liner: perl -F: -anle 'print Question number ,join \n,@F,;' Apparently this is still too readable

Re: [SLUG] Programming language

by line. The seventh line splits the current line on ':' and assigns the parts to variables. The 9th line prints it all out. The output and calling conventions are the same. All the best, J -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6

Re: [SLUG] Programming language

john gibbons wrote: What would be the easiest programming language to learn? Important variables: (1) my technical knowledge of Linux is limited though I love the philosophy of openness and (2) I am 80 years old, so at my age 'simple' also implies 'soon'. Not being pessimistic about my life

Re: [SLUG] timezone

restarting. All the best, J -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Trying to get FuzzyOcr going...

Howard Lowndes wrote: OK, I have put some debugging into the Perl script and I have isolated the problem down to this piece of code (including my debug code): For what it's worth, your debug code is better written as: my $lannet_err = $?; $lannet_err .= ,$?; # repeat this

[SLUG] TV cloning in Ubuntu Dapper

G'day everyone, Can anyone point to a good howto for how I might clone my display to my TV through Ubuntu Dapper? I've got an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600. I've installed the ati drivers via easyubuntu and appear to have up to date versions of the linux-restricted-modules installed. I'm running

Re: [SLUG] Graphics card problem with Ubuntu

smoothly and at a reasonable speed. All the best, Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001

Re: [SLUG] Contracting stuff: wrap it into a company or PAYE through agency?

. All the best, J -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] Contracting stuff: wrap it into a company or PAYE through agency?

isn't hard; so make sure you get one if you do go down the sole trader route (it's easier, cheaper and easily converts into a company later). All the best, Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training

Re: [SLUG] Contracting stuff: wrap it into a company or PAYE through agency?

Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jacinta Richardson wrote: For what it's worth we probably spend about 3 hours a month (maximum) entering invoices and receipts into our accounting package, about 2 minutes a quarter doing our BAS and maybe 1 hour a year doing the tax return

Re: [SLUG] Newcomer

. I can't help you with finding a copy of Suse 10, but perhaps someone else can. If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask the list. Welcome again. J -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl

[SLUG] OSDC Paper Proposals due tomorrow!

committee, please contact Richard, our Programme Chair: richard at osdc.com.au -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001

Re: [SLUG] Greylisting on Postfix

. Fortunately it's fixed now. :( Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001

[SLUG] OSDC 2006 -- CFP closes in 2.5 weeks

http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/cfp06.html There are two and a half weeks to go to get your paper in for one of the best Australian conferences this year! The deadline for proposals is 12th July 2006. The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conference designed for

[SLUG] Open Source Developers' Conference 2006 - Call for papers

http://www.osdc.com.au/papers/cfp06.html The Open Source Developers' Conference is an Australian conference designed for developers, by developers. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems. We're seeking papers on Open Source languages, technologies,

Re: OSDC (Re: [SLUG] Snakes and Rubies?)

-- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (il),-'' (li

Re: [SLUG] Paying Money for Quality (and software testing)

-- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (il),-'' (li

Re: [SLUG] Linux Installation Problems - Please Help

heard. ;) Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu/debian

in the previous email. J -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED

[SLUG] Discount on upcoming Perl Training Australia courses

to contact me for further information. All the best, Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001

[SLUG] website and mailing list issues

in the near future. All the best, J -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001

Re: [SLUG] gzip from perl script

. ;) Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (il

butfirst (was Re: [SLUG] gzip from perl script)

-- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (il),-'' (li

Re: [SLUG] gzip from perl script

, Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (il),-'' (li

Re: [SLUG] gzip from perl script

Voytek wrote: quote who=Jacinta Richardson thanks, Jacinta ahem, you assume I'm somewhat perl-literate, beyond knowing how to paste'n'save... I'm not... My apologies. Although I do find that it's usually better to to assume that people who are asking about an existing Perl program

Re: [SLUG] Presentation Mind Control - 21st September 2005

. And above all that it's entertainment. If you're unlikely to ever present at a conference, user group or work meeting then the content of this talk isn't aimed at you. Hopefully you'll still find the talk amusing. All the best, Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta

[SLUG] Presentation Mind Control - 21st September 2005

: Perl Best Practices. Everyone is welcome. All the best, Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001

Re: [SLUG] How do you start a LUG?

: * a reliable location * 3-5 reliable members who'll help you I hope that some of this helps. Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_

[SLUG] Upcoming Perl courses in Sydney

. Early Bird dates: - Intro/Intermediate:*26th August* Dr Damian Conway's:30th September Web Development:4th November Don't forget to mention your SLUG membership number when you book to recieve your discount! All the best, Jacinta Richardson

[SLUG] Last Chance to speak at OSDC

accepted I hope you'll come along anyway. I estimate (pure guess work, I'm not on the committee) that the entrance cost will be about $300. Speakers get in for free. All the best, Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6

[SLUG] Seminar reminder -- tonight

, 21st July 2005 Location: The James Squire Brewhouse, King St Wharf, 22 The Promenade Sydney 2000. (02) 8270 7999 I hope you'll have the opportunity to drop in. All the best, Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6

[SLUG] How to start a business - free seminar 21st July (Sydney)

there. Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (il),-'' (li

Re: [SLUG] How to add /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/ to the perl @INC array in Debian

the best, Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (il

[SLUG] Perl training courses in Perth

look forward to seeing you on our courses. All the very best, Jacinta Richardson -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001

[SLUG] OSDC Call for papers

the lack of notice. Jacinta Richardson -- OSDC Program Chair -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001

[SLUG] Object Oriented Perl training course

to obtain this special rate. All the very best, Jacinta Richardson -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +613 9354 6001

[SLUG] Perl Training Australia - Welcome to Perl Courses

5% group member discount and if you're bringing a couple of friends you'll be entitled to a further 5% discount as a group booking. I look forward to meeting you there! Jacinta Richardson -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6

[SLUG] Perl Training Australia - Welcome to Perl Courses

will be limited and bookings are on a first-come first-served basis. Perl Training Australia will be running further courses in both Melbourne and Sydney over the coming months, so please feel free to register your interest if you cannot make these dates. All the best, Jacinta Richardson