Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Alex Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried to read these files again with Word and it can read them. > I'll see if there's a way to read/convert these files from a batch job. Not a traditional batch file, I don't think, but it should be very possible w

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-20 Thread Coleman Kane
Arc Riley wrote: > Do you happen to be running google analytics on your site? No, I'm just parsing the logs. I use awstats (http://awstats.sourceforge.net) for collecting stats from my logs. I'm not really familiar with many of google.com's services. -- Coleman Kane > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Arc Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do yourselves a favor and search your logs for connections from 131.107.* > 65.52.* 65.53.* 65.54.* and 65.55.* On the GNHLUG web server in /var/log/httpd/ ... liberty$ find -name access_log\* | xargs egrep '^(131\.107|65.5

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-20 Thread Arc Riley
Do you happen to be running google analytics on your site? On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Coleman Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Coleman Kane wrote: > > Arc Riley wrote: > > > >> Hey guys > >> > >> Do yourselves a favor and search your logs for connections from > >> 131.107.* 65.52.* 65.53.*

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 17:23 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Alex Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called > > Microsoft Write. > > Yah, "Windows Write" is/was one of the "accessories" that came with

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 17:23 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Alex Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called > > Microsoft Write. > > Yah, "Windows Write" is/was one of the "accessories" that came with

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-20 Thread Coleman Kane
Coleman Kane wrote: > Arc Riley wrote: > >> Hey guys >> >> Do yourselves a favor and search your logs for connections from >> 131.107.* 65.52.* 65.53.* 65.54.* and 65.55.* >> >> I found a good % of traffic we got, not reported to Google Analytics >> so I didn't see it sooner, was referred from h

Re: Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-20 Thread Coleman Kane
Arc Riley wrote: > Hey guys > > Do yourselves a favor and search your logs for connections from > 131.107.* 65.52.* 65.53.* 65.54.* and 65.55.* > > I found a good % of traffic we got, not reported to Google Analytics > so I didn't see it sooner, was referred from http://search.live.com/ > for searc

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Alex Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called > Microsoft Write. Yah, "Windows Write" is/was one of the "accessories" that came with Windows 3.x. It morphed into "WordPad" in Windows 95 and later

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:58:53 -0500 Alex Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of ours wrote a bunch of recipe files using something called > Microsoft Write. Files created with that tool have a .wri extension. > Theoretically Microsoft Word is supposed to be able to read such files > but I

Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

2008-02-20 Thread Arc Riley
Hey guys Do yourselves a favor and search your logs for connections from 131.107.* 65.52.* 65.53.* 65.54.* and 65.55.* I found a good % of traffic we got, not reported to Google Analytics so I didn't see it sooner, was referred from http://search.live.com/ for search queries involving pornography

Re: Re: Free Software Replacement for Maple

2008-02-20 Thread paul.cour1
Statistics Open Source ... My vote is for " R " An amazing tool for statistics at: http://www.r-project.org/ paulc >From: Coleman Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2008/02/20 Wed PM 12:26:26 CST >To: Gurhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org >Subject: Re: Free Software Replac

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Hewitt
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 13:18 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Michael ODonnell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quite the tangled mess and very hard to write compliant FOSS > > apps against, but (at least on the surface) apparently not > > the result of an actively evi

Re: Free Software Replacement for Maple

2008-02-20 Thread Michael Costolo
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Lori Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a Free-Software replacement for Maple? My husband is > taking a an electrical engineering graduate level statistics class and says > he needs it to do some of his homework. Having never gotten far e

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Tom Buskey
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Michael ODonnell > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quite the tangled mess and very hard to write compliant FOSS > > apps against, but (at least on the surface) apparently not > > the result

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
>One of the original goals in Vista was to replace >the legacy code still doing important stuff. After struggling for two >years, they *gave up*. I can relate to that. Digital, at one time, tried to eliminate one of the arcane data addressing modes in the VAX architecture. They checked with all

Re: Free Software Replacement for Maple

2008-02-20 Thread Coleman Kane
Gurhan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Lori Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Does anyone know of a Free-Software replacement for Maple? My husband is >> taking a an electrical engineering graduate level statistics class and says >> he needs it to do some of his homework. Ha

Re: ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quite the tangled mess and very hard to write compliant FOSS > apps against, but (at least on the surface) apparently not > the result of an actively evil intent. A-yup. Lots of people (me included) have been say

Re: Free Software Replacement for Maple

2008-02-20 Thread Gurhan
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Lori Nagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a Free-Software replacement for Maple? My husband is > taking a an electrical engineering graduate level statistics class and says > he needs it to do some of his homework. Having never gotten far en

Free Software Replacement for Maple

2008-02-20 Thread Lori Nagel
Does anyone know of a Free-Software replacement for Maple? My husband is taking a an electrical engineering graduate level statistics class and says he needs it to do some of his homework. Having never gotten far enough in the maths myself, I'm not really sure what features it needs. Al

ARTICLE - Why the MS Office file formats is so complicated

2008-02-20 Thread Michael ODonnell
A description of the layout of the recently published Microsoft Office file formats along with some illuminating comments about the various historical influences that lead up to their current states: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html Quite the tangled mess and very hard to w

You though *you* had power problems?

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Lussier
http://tinyurl.com/2rsngr -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Boston Linux Meeting Tonight, February 20, 2008 Rooftop WLAN Redux

2008-02-20 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: February 20, 2008 7:00PM (6:30 for Q&A) Topic: Rooftop WLAN Redux Moderator: Kurt Keville, Systems Admin, MIT Clinical Research Center Location: MIT Building E51 Room 335 (Note room change) Kurt discusses progress on the Rooftop WLAN project at MIT, and today's best practices in wireless L

[GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 21 Feb, MySQL: The Whys, Whats, and Watch-outs

2008-02-20 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
Who  : Marc Nozell, MySQL Conference presenter, "Officially" certified What : MySQL: The Whys, Whats, and Watch-outs Where: Martha's Exchange Day  : Thur 21 Feb **Tomorrow** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion (usually upstairs) :: Overview      Marc Nozell will review the MySQL dat