[tslug] last msg from alex to his follow citizen/immigrants?

2003-10-08 Thread Alexander Horn
You said a monitor cost approx. $7? Under the circumstances (my roommate is spraying all the time disinfection spray in the air and does all kinds of stupid stuff) I wish I could ask you about the prize for a laptop without you ripping me off my head. And know ?. I already ask you :-(. I bette

[tslug] ERROR (How Embarrassing....)

2003-10-08 Thread Alexander Horn
That was so oh my goodness n. I am sooo sorry. That was the wrong email address. I guess, that is justice for carelessness. :-) (How Embarrassing) - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Su

[tslug] Redcode/CoreWars

2003-10-10 Thread Alexander Horn
Yesterday, Ian and I did some research on the CoreWars tournament we are planing to have between the three other CS organizations. Checking out the only recent documentations on Redcode?s current standard we could find (the ?assembly? language used to program the warrior)

[tslug] (GNU)/Linux Workshop pictures

2003-10-11 Thread Alexander Horn
I put some of the pictures of the Linux Workshop on my web space. If you want to check it out, go to: http://www2.truman.edu/~ah428/pic/ (::see Files from IMG_0278 to IMG_0308 in particular) - To get off this list, send email to [E

[tslug] Corewars lang rule problems

2003-10-15 Thread Alexander Horn
I just tried out Corewars and came across several problem. Perhaps somebody can explain to me what's going on: A: data 5 B: data &A C: move Z, [B] data 7 Reading the doc the braces ([B]) mean that: "... [] takes the content of and uses it to address another memory cell *

[tslug] Re: Corewars lang rule problems

2003-10-17 Thread Alexander Horn
Thank you Don for rewriting one part of the corewars code in C. I am still experimenting but gave up the ideal that the assembly language for corewars comes close to being C (when it comes to pointers). (I think one fact that is difficult to understand is why/when to use & and when not. For ins

[tslug] richard video clip

2003-10-30 Thread Alexander Horn
I put a short video clip of Richard Stallman on my website including three or four "saint" pictures of him. goto: www2.truman.edu/~ah428 By the way, does somebody know whom do I have to ask again to get a copy of the videotape they recorded (perhaps even digital version?)? --

[tslug] samba mounts

2004-02-02 Thread Alexander Horn
Hi everybody, I have a problem with samba (ok, who don't) but I am wondering whether there is a "way out." Several smbmounts got messed up (from my machine to kronos and vica versa and later then xenon to). Trying to smbumount the mounts just resulted in a (for example) Could not open kronos: In

[tslug] firewall

2004-02-05 Thread Alexander Horn
So I just googled for /firewall linux/ and I am now as almost as clueless as before because there is so much stuff out there. Where could I get started on that issue of setting up a good firewall? What do I have to pay attention to in particular? Thank you a lot. .alex

[tslug] Re: Ethernet card not working on new Moodle server

2004-02-25 Thread Alexander Horn
Your network connection worked when you came to the Installfest. Ian configured the kernel because I was busy doing other stuff. As I can imagine he used the old .config of the kernel? I think you should give it a shot and try the other 3com modules I remember seeing being in your module file: $

[tslug] Re: Meeting Tomorrow 2-24 VH1232

2004-03-24 Thread Alexander Horn
Hi folks, If you are a computer linguistic geek or a real programmer/geek at heart (which, I think, is the very reason why you are on this mailing list) you should come to the TSLUG meeting tonight. Ian?s mentioned it already, but here again: he and I are going to spread the word why Ruby rocks

[tslug] Re: Meeting Tomorrow 2-24 VH1232

2004-03-24 Thread Alexander Horn
sorry last mail got messed up, no idea why... Hi folks, If you are a computer linguistic geek or simply a real programmer at heart (which, I think, is the very reason why you are on this mailing list) you should come to the TSLUG meeting tonight. Ian?s mentioned it already, but here again: he a

[tslug] Re: Meeting Tomorrow 2-24 VH1232

2004-03-24 Thread Alexander Horn
...I have a question from the (my) lingustic point of view... Perl: $string="hello, world"; substr($string, 20) =~ s/world/earth/; #alters $string print $string #output: hello, earth how do I chomp that thing in one line? alex - To

[tslug] Re: Meeting Tomorrow 2-24 VH1232

2004-03-24 Thread Alexander Horn
sorry again: 20 -> 6:-( my gosh... Alexander Horn wrote: >...I have a question from the (my) lingustic point of view... >Perl: >$string="hello, world"; >substr($string, 20) =~ s/world/earth/; #alters $string >print $string #output: hello, earth > >how

[tslug] correction

2004-03-24 Thread Alexander Horn
Gee, another mistake...I should bite my own butt...sorry, again (Ohhh my goodness) >>...I have a question from the (my) lingustic point of view... >>Perl: >>$string="hello, world\n"; >>substr($string, 6) =~ s/world/earth/; #alters $string (Line 3) >>print $string; #output: hello, earth ...chomp

[tslug] Ruby Q

2004-07-28 Thread Alexander Horn
Dear Ian, I hope you'r doing wellFrance was cool but that's a different story. Here is an "Alex Question" for you. OK, here the summary: everything is an object in ruby (even classes that are sigleton of the class "Class") the class "Object" is at the top of the entire structure the class "M

[tslug] Re: Club activity this year?

2004-08-31 Thread Alexander Horn
'hope you guys had a good summer. Caleb and I were talking on Sunday and there is no doubt that tslug has to get started again -- and it will. So far I tried to talk to Dr. Bindner regarding the most trivial thing on earth -- that is where do we get the keys from for the room. He wasn't there b

[tslug] Re: the LUG's new name

2004-09-02 Thread Alexander Horn
Because there are a couple changes to make regarding *SLUG there is a ballot coming up. You guys will have the chance to decide upon the new name for TSLUG and we are making the election of the new president easier that way too... ** some more feedback for the new TSLUG name would be cool. ** s

[tslug] Re: the LUG's new name

2004-09-03 Thread Alexander Horn
Wow, I never imagined that this name issue could become so big. You guys have cool ideas and some really good thoughts on that issue. That's awesome! I had a different idea and now I wanna know what you guys think. osix more or less saying: Open-Source and Unix (or Open-Source and Linux or bo

[tslug] Re: Election results

2004-09-11 Thread Alexander Horn
hi all, FSCK won...after a fair game. Well, even though I might have some trouble/strange feeling prouncing it for the next coming days it's good that we finally have a name again. Nevertheless, I'd like to use the idea somebody came up with when there were the big debates going on concerning o

[tslug] Re: Constitution

2004-09-11 Thread Alexander Horn
do you a have a file somewhere lying around on your fs? or do we have to retype the constitution? Concerning the website: Would somebody be interested to give the FSCK site a new design? If this person would be interested he/she make a good officer for 'Public Relations' perhaps too -- that is

[tslug] Re: (no subject)

2004-09-11 Thread Alexander Horn
Cool. Let's give a shot. After talking to Don for passwords and stuff I'll contact you again. alex Justin West wrote: >"Concerning the website: Would somebody be interested to give the FSCK >site a new design? >If this person would be interested he/she make a good officer for >'Public Relatio

[tslug] Re: (no subject)

2004-09-11 Thread Alexander Horn
iosif wrote: >public relations or propaganda minister? > both. >i > > > >- >To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with Subject: unsubscribe >- > >

[tslug] Re: public relations/propaganda

2004-09-11 Thread Alexander Horn
iosif wrote: >good. > >i mention it because last year on the S.S. tech committee we had planned to >do some flyer/poster campaigns in the style of "Did You Know" followed >with fun free software facts about: >Open Office >Gaim >Firefox >etc... > >i still like the idea of a continuous fre

[tslug] Re: Constitution

2004-09-12 Thread Alexander Horn
All right...2 days passed -- no official objections to the name, but no "move to amend it" either. Things gotta move along because of the deadline the university gave us (Sep 15th). >FSCK beats FSA 15-9 >FSCK beats OSIX 16-11 >FSCK beats SOFAS 16-7 >FSCK beats FSC 16-7 >FSCK beats KAFS 17

[tslug] meetings

2004-09-13 Thread Alexander Horn
Do you guys wanna meet this Wed or the next one? here is what I have in mind so you know: Clarke (acm pres.) and I wanted to meet to go over certain things. To this point we didn't get to meet yet because I am not availabe on Tues and it didn't work out for him on Sun and Mon... and perhaps that

[tslug] meeting

2004-09-13 Thread Alexander Horn
All right then, I just got done reading 200 freaking pages of french...so it goes something like: Voulez-vous rendez-vous a six heure et demi pour discuter un peu les affaires de FSCK et Linux...well or something like that. Plain: FSCK meeting VH1232 0630p ** if you wanna know what open sourc

[tslug] Re: meeting

2004-09-14 Thread Alexander Horn
This Wed... Andy Hilgartner wrote: >Dear Alex, > I imagine my French would appear far worse than yours so I'll do >mine in Spanish: > In qual dia del semana quiere Vd. que nosotros congregamos? > >(Maybe a little Latin in there too. Oh, well ...) > >In plain English: On what d

[fsck] Re: Test

2004-09-14 Thread Alexander Horn
Awesome! Nathaniel Green wrote: >Weee. Yet another filter. YAF. > >I also wanted to let you all know that I will be at TSLU... fsck >tomorrow. So there's another reason to come. Or to stay away :) > >I promise I won't meddle. Much. >Nate > >PS - FIRST NON-TEST, NON-FIRST POST-POST!