Hi, First-off, January's meeting is a week late to avoid New Year's day; see signature below.
Terry brought along his new Samsung Chromebook running Google's Chrome OS. Presumably the Series 3 XE303C12? And I didn't know until this page that there were Chromeboxes; handy if a laptop format isn't ideal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Models KeePass on Windows for storing all those different passwords one has. KeePassX is the Linux version. I think they can use the same database, perhaps someone that uses them can say. http://keepass.info/ http://keepassx.org/ Python comes with the simple IDLE IDE, including on Windows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDLE_%28Python%29 http://www.annedawson.net/Python_Editor_IDLE.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_technique There are only five predefined character entities in XML, though it seems they're called plain `entities'. You can use &#ddd; or &#xhhh; for the decimal or hex of a character, e.g. A for `A'. Or declare a new one <!ENTITY ensp " "> allowing  . Turning XML into a line-based format. Software seems hard to find at the moment, not helped by SourceForge having troubles. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/03/15/feature/index.html jshon for pulling apart JSON at the command line, e.g. from wget(1). http://kmkeen.com/jshon/ U+00ad is the soft hyphen. gnome-terminal seems to never display it, though of course it doesn't use it in splitting long logical lines into physical ones. xterm, with or without a TrueType font, does display it all the time AFAICS. To test, printf 0; /usr/bin/printf '\u00ad%s' `seq 271`; printf '\n' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen A zero-width space is similar but without the hyphen. xterm doesn't display those. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space DVD rental through Amazon's Love Film. http://www.lovefilm.com/ ...Nine Queens is a good film if you don't mind English subtitles. http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0247586/ http://www.lovefilm.com/film/?token=%3Fu%3D%252Fcatalog%252Ftitle%252F10845%26m%3DGET Subscription access to O'Reilly; Safari. http://my.safaribooksonline.com/home?subpage=hometab2 Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2013-01-08 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
