Re: Vague summary - 2005.06.21

On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 17:02 -0400, Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote: > == Internal Communication == > We'll shortly have a PostNuke portal and possibly an IRC channel on > freenode. I've just created and registered the channel #vague on irc.freenode.net . I'm on a bunch of other channels on freenode all th

Re: Installathon

On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 21:39 -0700, A. N. wrote: > Having done an installathon before (only it was an > "Install Party"), I want to share that it was helpful > to people to have a demonstration followed by the > actual installation. Watching it done once, live, > really relaxes the newbies. (I ass

Re: Installathon - T minus 6

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 00:02 -0400, Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote: > I'll send out one more reminder probably saturday or monday - I need to > know who is planning on coming and whether you'll be bringing your > machine in (we have monitors, keyboards, mice, etc). I'm looking forward to being there, but a

Re: Why Netscape?

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 18:53 -0400, Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote: > I'm just curious if anyone has a good idea as to why that is??? It seems > to me that Firefox would be the "best" solution. Marketing and promotional deals that Netscape/AOL inked, probably. The Mozilla Foundation has been getting int

Re: iWorry

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 20:03 -0400, Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote: > Microsoft is struggling to keep up with things like "MSH" (microsoft > shell), SFU (services for unix), and even promoting a commercial X > server... and with all the guys they're hiring from redhat and gentoo > I'm not convinced that

iBandwagon.

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 19:22 -0400, Chris Moran wrote: > Jeez, I can't get away from iWhatever talk. No, I think iTunes is > stupid. I tried it, I do not like it. I'm tried of the fasnboy culture > behind it and the iCrap. Gah! [deletia] > Oh, and sorry for going off above... I'm having Apple fanboy

Re: corrupt user in sco unix

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 15:46 -0400, John Dodge wrote: > My company runs a legacy program on a sco unix box. Every now and > again something corrupts a user. "corrupts" in what sense? How does the corruption manifest itself? ...jsled -- http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; e

Re: What's up everyone?

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 00:31 -0400, Rion D'Luz wrote: > I wanted the web app to create an image in one swoop - no cookies, session > vars, > multiple stages or saved files. It just dynamically creates an image and > (re)writes > it to a file called REMOTE_ADDR.png Adding some random token into t

Re: What's up everyone?

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 00:31 -0400, Rion D'Luz wrote: > First, I thought we were going to have a public 'thingy' in Sept? > Did it get blown off? Is there still any interest? Has there been any > further discussion of refining/defining what the 'thingy' should entail. IIRC, we never got a re

Stephen Wolfram speaking at UVM Friday

Some may find this interesting... http://www.emba.uvm.edu/distinguished_lecture_series.php ...jsled -- http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's up everyone?

On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 14:40 -0400, Rion D'Luz wrote: > It's just a thought, and if there are other options for a place to meet then > I wouldnt persue it, but CCVT in Burl. (channel 17) is run by a person named We should have multiple options available. > Maybe it would be possible to hook up wi

Oct meeting? [WAS: Re: What's up everyone?]

On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 20:31 -0400, Mike Austin wrote: > Oops. I didn't know we were waiting on an answer from "UVM'ers". We can > find a space. What times are we thinking? That's a good question ... who's up for an Oct meeting? We'd had a sequence of meeting around the end of the months, but i

Re: Meeting?

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 19:45 -0400, Chris Adams wrote: > Does anyone know if the Oct. 13th meeting is going to take place? If > so, when and where? I believe we're waiting on confirmation from Mike Austin, but I hope that the meeting will be at 7pm next Thursday, Oct 13th (one week from today), in

remote desktoping [WAS: Re: Hail Vaguers!]

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 10:54 -0400, Rion D'Luz wrote: > out there that will allow me to expose my desktop on a remote machine? > I imagine it as kind of an evesdropper, provided the server software on my > host is running anyone can open up a browser, point it to my box, and see > what I'm doing on

Re: remote desktoping [WAS: Re: Hail Vaguers!]

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 17:23 -0400, Rion D'Luz wrote: > Perhaps I wasnt clear, tight/x11 vnc is to allow remote control of another > machine > where what i want is to let others (the world) see what I'm doing on mine > (@least for as long as i let them) The vnc server can restrict connecting clie

Re: remote desktoping [WAS: Re: Hail Vaguers!]

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 22:55 -0400, Rion D'Luz wrote: > The quickest solution, i guess would be to have VNC running on the clients > and on my server. Unfortunately, it means that i would have to convince > ppl who are real close to install VNC. That why a web browser would be the > ideal client in

Re: Meeting?

On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 07:30 -0400, Sam Hooker wrote: > I'll be there Thursday as well. Does anyone have any "dinner/refreshments" > scenarios in mind? I could probably coordinate the acquisition of pizza > and soda, if not. Feel free to ignore me (and tell me how much cash to > bring) if this ha

Re: Meeting?

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 08:28 -0400, Chris Adams wrote: > I have never been to a VAGUE meeting so I dont know... Anyoune out > there care to guestimate? We'll probably have 8-10, though of course I hope I'm underestimating. ...jsled -- http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo

Oct meeting report, Nov(, Dec) meetings

Last night's meeting was good, with a quite-nice security presentation from Chris Adams; he went through SNORT and BASE, including setup and basic configuration, including some really good tips regarding legal issues in a corporate environment. After most of the presentation, we had pizza and Chris

Re: colo v. static ip in burlington

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:00:36PM -0400, c infinity smooth wrote: | way; it's just for fun. So, in Burlington, is there a good provider | that will give me a static IP? And if not, are there any local and | cheap colo facilities you recommend? (If you can get DSL at the location, of course) So

Re: Grub

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 09:37 -0500, Jason Dolan wrote: > My only guess is that (hd0,1) is not your boot partition. I could be > wrong, but I'm pretty sure your grub.conf file needs to be in your > boot partition. It'd be nice to know your disk layout, grub.conf file and what you're trying to accom

Tue Nov 15 meeting

Anyone up for a meeting Tue Nov 15th? Just under 2 weeks from now? We'd talked at the last meeting about doing mini-presenations, which seems like a good idea. I volunteer to give one about Gentoo. ...jsled -- http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wed? [WAS: Re: Tue Nov 15 meeting]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 11:56 -0500, Sam Hooker wrote: > I can do any other night that week but Tuesday. Still like the Hmm. Do we want to try for Wednesday instead? Does that not work for anyone? ...jsled -- http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tue Nov 15 meeting

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 14:24 -0500, Rion D'Luz wrote: > Is this mini-pres for vague members only, or a public one? All are welcome, though only 2 weeks out I'm not sure how much publicity we can create. We need a very regular meeting time so we can get it out in the world. > Is there still talk

Meeting: Wed Nov 16, 7pm

I, for one, would like to see Sam's Distributed Nagios Monitoring preso. Since no one objected to Wednesday, let's do the meeting then. Mike: Can you please reserve the Mac lab? Aaron: Could you please update the web site? Is anyone else willing to mini-present something? ...jsled -- http://as

[Fwd: [DLSLUG-Discuss] wrt54g linksys routers]

Interesting info from the DLSLUG list. ...jsled Forwarded Message > From: Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: dlslug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [DLSLUG-Discuss] wrt54g linksys routers > Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:16:16 -0500 > > http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Conte

Nov Meeting report

Observant readers will notice this is the same as http://asynchronous.org/blog/archives/2005/11/18/november_vague_meeting_gentoo_presentation.html ... that version has actual hyperlinks, though. Thanks to everyone for coming. :) November VAGUE meeting, gentoo presentation On Wednesday 16 Nov

Re: procmail pattern for non-English charsets and January meeting...

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 14:34 -0500, Sam Hooker wrote: > "Content-type:" header, so these aren't a problem. My question is really > this: what other character sets should I be concerned about _allowing_? > iso-8859-1 seems relatively common amongst Outlook users, so I'll probably Hmm. I this thi

Jan 19th meeting

There was hear-say of a Thu Jan 19 meeting... 2 weeks from today. Mike, can we get a lab reserved for that evening? Nada, are you still intending to present re: MySQL? Anyone else thinking of presenting something? Anyone interested in heading down to Church St. for drinks afterwards? -- ...js

Re: ANN: VAGUE monthly meeting

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 15:33 -0500, Aaron S. Hawley wrote: > VAGUE > >Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts > > 7:00pm, Thursday, January 19, 2006 So, meeting tonight, eh? I'm still up for drinks afterwards; it looks like it'll be 20s, slightly windy with chance of snow not until after midn

January VAGUE meeting report

The January VAGUE meeting on Thursday January 19th was a nice event, thanks to all who attended. We started off with a nice presentation from Nada O'Neal about basic [7]SQL query syntax in the context of MySQL. Nada had prepared paper copies of the presentation, and in the absence of a projector a

Re: YUM and RSS...

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:54:25PM -0500, Sam Hooker wrote: | Is anyone using it? For what? We monitor for critical package updates | (where they're not automated for whatever reason) with a home-grown Nagios | plugin. Is YUM/RSS cool for some reason I can't identify? If the question "is RSS coo

Re: Key Signing Party reminder

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:33 -0500, Anthony Carrico wrote: > I have not heard if a room has been reserved for the meeting. Any > news? It'd also be nice if an announcement was added to http://uvm.org/vague/ . Also, if anyone's up for drinks afterwards, VPB always sounds like a good idea. > If y

Re: Key Signing Party reminder

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:28 -0500, Josh Sled wrote: > I'm belatedly trying to send my key to subkeys.pgp.net before sending it > to you, but getting: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]$ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net/ --send-keys > 102E81AD > gpg: sending key

Re: Open Source Money Managment

On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 11:46 -0500, Bradley Holt wrote: > GnuCash [http://www.gnucash.org/] just released a new version the > other day. I believe it only runs on *nix systems though. Maybe you > could run it through Cygwin [http://www.cygwin.com/]? Or via X remotely to a linux box. Or via CoLinux.

Re: Key Signing Party tonight

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 10:30 -0500, Sam Hooker wrote: > (A preemptive "sorry if I missed a crucial email" applies here...) > > Was a room ever secured for the meeting? And are any UVM staff folk going > to be in attendance? (read: Mike and Jim, are you out there?) While I > don't think we need In

Meeting Report: 16 Feb 2006; next meeting's agenda?

[see http://asynchronous.org/blog/archives/2006/02/17/vague_meeting_report_thu_16_feb_2006.html for full linkage, if you're interested...] Last night's VAGUE meeting was dominated by the Key Signing Party, which went pretty smoothly. We were joined by a few fresh faces, which is always nice. This

Re: Meeting Thursday, March 16th?

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:10 -0500, Tony Harris wrote: > Did that meeting ever get put together? Are the originally-discussed > topics the ones being covered? And, are there directions how to get to > where the meeting will be held? The meeting will occur, though the topics are different. If C

Re: Meeting Thursday, March 16th?

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 14:01 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > My trip to Boston was postponed so I will be there... Awesome. I've not been able to get hold of Mike Austin, but hopefully he (or Jim Lawson) will be in attendence and able to provide a temporary login for the machines in the mac lab. In a

March 16th 2006 meeting report

The March VAGUE meeting transpired last night, Thursday March 16th 2006. We had a group 13 strong, nearly filling the Mac lab in Waterman, on the UVM campus. The meeting started off with a short but sweet presentation from Chris Adams on the open source RRDTool-based graphing solution Cacti [1]. C

Re: March 16th 2006 meeting report

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 21:37 -0500, Josh Sled wrote: > Paul Flint suggested that Bear Code [2] was interested in sponsoring a > meeting in Montpelier, which was welcomed as being a good thing, A missed detail: as is our convention, VAGUE meetings are the third thursday of the month ..

UVCIA Meeting tomorrow morning

Tomorrow, 8..10am in West Lebanon. A long-shot, but some might be interested. Forwarded Message > From: Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: dlslug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [DLSLUG-Discuss] UVCIA Meeting tomorrow morning > Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:23:16 -0500 > >

Re: Inexpensive FreeBSD-based webhost needed

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 10:02 -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote: > I am in search of an inexpensive FreeBSD-based shared webhost. Needs are > at least 3GB of storage now (with room to grow), average 200-300MB/month > transfer but spikes sometimes happen (one month in 2005 was 6GB). 5 > MySQL databases

Re: impromptu South End lunch today?

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 09:53 -0500, Sam Hooker wrote: > There's a tasty deli in our complex here on Flynn Avenue, and I know at > least a few VAGUErs work in the South End of Burlington: anyone interested > in lunch today at around noon? Sounds good to me. I should be there a little after noon..

informal IRC chat : Wed Apr 6th, 6pm

I thought it might be nice to have a specific time for an informal IRC chat with fellow VAGUErs, apart from any ad-hoc conversation that goes on in there now. Thus, next Wednesday, April 6th, starting around 6pm, you're encouraged to join the channel #vague on the Freenode IRC network (irc.freenod

informal IRC chat : Wed Apr *5th*, 6pm (correction)

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 09:44 -0500, Josh Sled wrote: > on in there now. Thus, next Wednesday, April 6th, starting around 6pm, > you're encouraged to join the channel #vague on the Freenode IRC network > (irc.freenode.net, http://freenode.net/ ). Uh, Wednesday is the 5th. So, le

Re: April 20th meeting...

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 18:23 -0400, Sam Hooker wrote: > The next VAGUE meeting is slated for 7:00pm on Thursday, 20 April at Bear > Code in Montpelier. Jim Lawson: are you still planning on speaking on LVS? > What else is on the menu? Another presentation? Or are there other > festivities that th

Burlington IRV counting code (mostly-) open source

http://josephhall.org/nqb2/index.php/2006/04/06/osvt_ohfudge Sure enough, through a few links, you can get the source to the engine used for the the vote tallying. The lack of transparency and overall shenanigans of evoting initiatives is a threat to freedom/makes me sick/&c. ... but it's nice to

VAGUE (/VTLUG) Meeting Summary: 4/20/06

Last night's meeting went off quite well. For a change, we met in Montpelier, in the office space of -- and graciously provided by -- Bear Code [1]. We also had pizza and beer graciously provided by Code4Design [2]. An extra-special thanks is due to Paul Flint [3] for getting all these pieces qu

Sr. Linux Admin; Vecor, Inc.

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meeting reminder: May 18 (next thursday)

May VAGUE meeting when: Thursday, May 18th, 7:00pm where: ClearBearing (directions below) what: Network security and exploits, with a general presentation from Sam Hooker, and a portion on PHP-specific issues from Jim Grady of Code4Design. Plus, general meeting. Directions to ClearBearing:

meeting report: 18 May 2006

VAGUE Meeting Report May 18th 2006 Last night we met at the offices of ClearBearing [1], and over some pizza and the noise from a boisterous party in the office next door had a wide-ranging discussion of the basics of both proactive and reactive machine security and recovery

unix/linux sysadmin job [Fwd: Re: systems administrator]

Some pretty cool-sounding *nix/telco machine admin work is available in Burlington with Syndio Group . I suggest you contact Michael directly if you're interested; reference that you saw the post via VAGUE. Forwarded Message > From: Michael Moysich

july 20th meeting planning

The next meeting is going to be in a little over 2 weeks time, Thursday July 20th, at the Bear Code offices in Montpelier. We'll have two presentations, from myself on Python and from Andrew on Java. If you'd like to contribute a presentation, or have any requests for specific topics to be covere

Re: New Guy on the Mailing List!

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 20:58 -0400, Rion D'Luz wrote: > What I want is a way that lets me put > srcs locally on my box (/usr/local/src) , specify those dirs as such in a cfg > file, > while also specifying custom install dirs (e.g. --prefix=/opt) as options. > a few cli cmds would be appreciated.

Re: New Guy on the Mailing List!

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 23:13 -0400, Rion D'Luz wrote: > But, I like the idea of keeping things separate, along with their > deps. Putting mysql, or apache, or blender, or whatever in its > own sub-tree under opt keeps / system libs and bin from overbloating. There is a nice isolation in that

Re: july 20th meeting planning

On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 10:44 -0400, Sam Hooker wrote: > Hey: was anyone putting together "the paper list" for this month's > "mini-KSP"? Is Anthony still out there? (Anthony: have you and Renee had > your baby already?) Would anyone else volunteer to assemble the necessary > list of key fingerpri

Re: july 20th meeting planning

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 12:20 -0400, Josh Sled wrote: > The next meeting is going to be in a little over 2 weeks time, Thursday > July 20th, at the Bear Code offices in Montpelier. Next week's meeting is in one week's time. We still need a projector; can anyone provide one? We s

projector needed for thursday!

A call to action: we still need a projector for the Thursday meeting in Montpelier. If you have access to one but are not planning on attending the meeting, I'm more than happy to pick up, protect and return the projector. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; ech

meeting report: July 20th

Hey all, a quick note about the meeting last night... About 8 strong we met last night in Montpelier, and had presentations on both Java (Tomcat, Ant and Hibernate) as well as Python. There was pizza and a wonderful sweet green tea. At the last minute, a projector arrived courtesy of Paul Flint

Re: Presentation Kudos

On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 15:21 -0400, Paul Flint wrote: > Thank you for an excellent presentation! Kevin continues to wax eloquent Thanks. While it doesn't exactly stand on its own, I copied the presentation over to http://asynchronous.org/preso/vague/python (in all its S5 glory. ;) Cheers... --

Next meeting: Thu Aug 17

VAGUErs... At the last meeting, we didn't have time to plan the next meeting as is our desire. As such, we need to plan it here on the list. The next meeting is Thursday, August 17th; this is a bit over 2 and 1/2 weeks away. The location is unknown; I'd suggest the Mac Lab at UVM. The topic is

Re: Software development

On Wed, August 2, 2006 6:10 pm, Chris Ruscio wrote: > I'm a recent graduate of UVM's Computer Science program.and in the last > 2 years, I've done very little serious coding. Both for the experience, > and for fun, I'd like to get involved in an OSS project. I'm looking for > a project with some sm

Re: Next meeting: Thu Aug 17

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 09:43 -0400, Sam Hooker wrote: > VAGUErs' downloading. If no one wants to prep a prezo in the next 2.5 > weeks, we could fall back to listening to one or both of those. I'll Sounds like fall-back time... I wonder if we can still reserve the Mac lab at this point... Mike? J

Re: Next meeting: Thu Aug 17

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 18:43 -0400, Josh Sled wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 09:43 -0400, Sam Hooker wrote: > > VAGUErs' downloading. If no one wants to prep a prezo in the next 2.5 > > weeks, we could fall back to listening to one or both of those. I'll > > Sound

Re: Man in need of a spellchecker...

On Tue, September 19, 2006 3:09 pm, Paul Flint wrote: > BTW below I meant Barre... We can find a "bar" later. Aww, I always miss the fun ... unfortunately I'm away for work this week; I'll see you all next month. Cheers... ...jsled

meeting-like thing: thursday 10/19, 7pm, VPB

Well, a "3rd-thursday of the month" schedule would point to a meeting this Thursday ... as we obviously don't have a formal Meeting organized, why don't we meet up at Vermont Pub and Brew to talk about life, unix-enthusiasm, and how to get meetings back on track...? I'll try to be there a bit befo

Re: meeting-like thing: thursday 10/19, 7pm, VPB

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 20:52 -0400, Ross Mohn wrote: > What time? 7pm. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Crickets...

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 14:25 -0500, Tom Kastner wrote: > I'm new to Linux & VAGUE. Is there a VAGUE meeting this month? Would > be glad to carpool from Mplr Wby Stowe area. Yes, the meeting is next Tuesday the 21st, 7pm at 113-T Waterman (the Mac Lab) on the UVM Campus. Anthony Carrico will be tal

Re: Question about number of users reported in GKrellM

On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 08:45 -0500, Diane Mackay wrote: > Does anyone know: Is it typical for GKrellM (system monitor) to report a > second user on a system after Gnome Terminal opens? The machine where I > see this runs Suse 10... Yup. I think it's not reporting "unique number of users" so much a

JSON and Google [WAS: Re: Lost and found...]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 10:17 -0500, Paul Flint wrote: > Thank you Andy for an excellent presentation. JSON was well worth knowing > about. Lightweight, non-markup, data representation is useful indeed; it seems Google agrees, too. :) Along with the Yahoo! JSON API's referred to last night, I see

Tue Dec 19th meeting

We were talking, at the last meeting, about a next meeting on Tue Dec 19th? Any ideas about topics? Venue? I got a bug under my skin last weekend to start on an emacs presentation, but I think it's for some future meeting, not this next one. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=a

Re: Pouring Gasoline on the fire...

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:51 -0500, Paul Flint wrote: > Au contraire, I suspect that you will find a worthy adversary in the > inimitable Mr. Josh Sled. Am I mistaken in this? Is emacs really > inferior as this good woman asserts? Are you out there Josh? > > Josh, I realize I

Re: Tue Dec 19th meeting

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:33 -0500, Aaron S. Hawley wrote: > What about Emacs were you planning on presenting, more about > programming with Emacs? I'm not programming with Emacs full time > these days, but I'd be willing to present org-mode, a monolith of a > package that will come with Emac

Re: Fw: vi vs. emacs

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:20 -0800, Robert Munger wrote: > If it all comes down to emacs vs vi, what am I using if I'm editing > html files with Kate (the KDE text editor)? Missing out? :) -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc

Re: December 18th agenda

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 16:54 -0500, Aaron S. Hawley wrote: > I heard Josh was willing to give a formal, but short, presentation on > Emacs. Are there presentations planned for other editors, I lost > track of the thread. Email me off-list, or post it on the Wiki: > >

Meeting: Tue Dec 19th, 7pm

Meeting! Next Tuesday! 7pm! Whee! Waterman? Are we on the schedule? Announcement? One the above is confirmed, we should get it published to Craig's List, Time Argus, and the TV stations [1]. Thanks to Andrew for the Free Press and 7D submissions. Also, Aaron, if you could post in the RSS f

Dec 19th meeting summary

Last night's meeting was pretty festive. We were visited by Saint Nicolinux, who distributed Ubuntu CDs to all the good boys and girls. The emacs vs. vi smackdown went as expected: a large, overblown, meandering emacs presentation that took a while to get started, contrasted with a short, effectiv

Jan 16th meeting coord.

Hey all, the Jan 16th meeting is coming up soon, and so are deadlines for announcing... * are we confirmed for Waterman? * what's the agenda? From [1] I see that the MathMap plugin talk is off ... and I don't think that it was Kendrick who was going to talk about the Via hardware, but I do recall

meetings: Jan 16th report; Feb 20th planning

VAGUErs... The meeting last night was interesting. Any semblance of agenda we had did not come to pass, through a combination of incoherent planning and weather. As well, no real outreach was done in terms of posting meeting announcements. At the same time, we were greeted by some returning fac

Re: February Meeting time and location (and topics?)

On Fri, January 26, 2007 10:12 am, Andrew Tomczak wrote: > excuses, I just promise to do better in the future. I Mike Howe has > agreed to > let us use the Bear Code office building in Montpilier for our February > meeting. Great! I'd had a todo to talk to Mike to set this up, and really should

Re: February Meeting time and location (and topics?)

> I could probably do that; what time does the meeting start? I could do > a basic high level presentation of Scalix and the Wonderful Things It > Does :) 7pm, at Bear Code, in Montpelier. -- ...jsled

Re: February Meeting time and location (and topics?)

On Fri, January 26, 2007 8:53 pm, Andrew Tomczak wrote: > I didn't see the place where we have our standard add. Has it been > posted? I don't believe we have one, yet. I'd suggest: Headline: Unix Users Group mtg: ${datetime}, ${location.city} Body: Monthly meeting of Vermont Area Group of Uni

Re: February Meeting time and location

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 10:12 -0500, Andrew Tomczak wrote: > As soon as we have topics I will start posting the adds in the places > outlined > on the http://www.uvm.org/vague/wiki/index.php/Outreach. We're coming up on the 2-week deadline for the Vermont Guardian. Andrew, have you posted the n

carpooling from Burlington to Montpelier

My car has been behaving wonky, and is otherwise allocated for this evening in any case. Is anyone heading to/from Burlington for the meeting tonight? Could I get a ride? :) -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled;b=asynchronous.org;echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Thi

Meeting report: 20 Feb 2007

The meeting last night went of pretty well, with some new faces joining us at the BearCode offices in Montpelier. Paul Flint gave an engaging, interactive presentation [1] about 'iddlywikis, presenting both the history, demonstrating some examples, and describing some interesting potential next-st

Meeting: Tue 20 March

VAGUErs... We still have no topic/agenda for the meeting in 2 weeks time. In IRC the other night, a few of us were discussing the plethora of (distributed) revision control systems available to one in 2007 ... svn, darcs, svk, git (git-svn), bzr, ... I'd like to propose this as the topic for th

Re: Meeting: Tue 20 March

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:43 -0500, Nick Floersch wrote: > Where is the meeting to be held? This meeting will be at the offices of Clear Bearing , in Burlington. 7pm. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled;b=asynchronous.org;echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] signatu

3/20 mtg: version control systems; food/cost

We've got a good lineup for the March 20th meeting... Andrew Tomczak will present Subversion (svn). Paul Flint will present Bazaar (bzr). Forrest Bond will present Mercurial (hg) and SVK (svk ;). I will present git (and git-svn) and darcs. We'll have both food and drink (pizza, beer, soda, water)

3/20 mtg: version control systems

(One last reminder... :) Meeting tomorrow: 3/20, 7pm, at the offices of ClearBearing in Burlington. Bring a friend! See you there! :) http://www.uvm.org/vague/cb-meeting-20070320.html Forwarded Message > Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts > To: VAGUE@LIST.

Mar 20th meeting [WAS: Re: Version control madness]

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 13:12 -0400, Anthony Carrico wrote: > Special thanks to our host Sam and all of the presenters at last > night's version control extravaganza! Indeed, thanks to all who showed up, to all who presented, and to Sam and ClearBearing for hosting! My slides are available at

reStructuredText to S5

I've been using S5 [1] to create presentations; it's pretty nifty. With clean, "easy"-to-author HTML like: Slide title Point 1... Sub Point 1... Sub Point 2... Point 2... one gets a nice, portable, non-opaque, HTML pres

[url] VtSDA gets state funding for exec. director

Good news for tech in VT... http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070322/BUSINESS/703220302/1003/RSS05 -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled;b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: April 17th meeting Planning

On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 22:49 -0400, Andrew Tomczak wrote: > I am willing to submit it tomorrow night to our list of publications > with or standard announcement format. I need to at least know the > location, and if there will be any changes in time or date. If we do > not come up with a topic by

Re: April 17th meeting Planning

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 22:54 -0400, Andrew Tomczak wrote: > Monthly meeting of Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts: 7:00 PM > Tuesday April 17^th 2007, UVM Waterman Computer Lab, 438 College Street, > Burlington, VT 05405 The Waterman Mac Lab is room-number 113-T; we should specify this on the a

Re: April 17th meeting Planning

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 09:59 -0400, Jim Carroll wrote: > I'd be interested in this too. I haven't generated any keys for > myself yet... and I'm also wondering: Is it possible to automate the > signing of outgoing mail using gmail? I've not seen that gmail knows anything about signing, either inbo

Meeting tonight: 7pm, UVM

Meeting tonight, 7pm on the UVM Campus, in room Waterman 113-T (the mac lab). http://www.uvm.org/vague/uvm-meeting-20070417.html -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled;b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

meetings: Apr 17, May 15

VAGUErants... We had a decently-attended key-signing event last night, in conjunction with GiftFile.org. Thanks to Tony Carrico, who led us through the theory and practicalities of using gpg to sign, exchange and use public-key crypto. We had a good general discussion about gpg and the recent po

Meeting: Tue May 15th

We need a location and agenda for the May meeting. I suggest the Mac Lab, again, because it's easy to arrange. As for topic ... has anyone been working on anything interesting they would like to present? Does anything from strike anyone's f

Re: Meeting: Tue May 15th

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 15:15 -0400, Richard Jeroloman wrote: > How about the pros and cons of installing Linux on a FAT32 partition > as opposed to an ext3 partition. I have Runt Linux installed on FAT32 > and ubuntu on ext3. It seems to me that if I knew how to install > ubuntu on FAT32, I would

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