Re: [Boston.pm] Text to slides
Pod::S5 -- Free map of local environmental resources: http://CambridgeMA.GreenMap.org -- MOTD on Sweetmorn, the 58th of Discord, in the YOLD 3176: We could do that, but it would be wrong, that's for sure. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
[Boston.pm] Text to slides
A while back I seem to remember a discussion in this forum on a Perl utility to convert hierarchical (or marked up) text to slides. If so, what is that utility and where can I get it? Also, what format is the output in: OpenOffice or MS-PPT? Thanks, -Nilanjan ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
[Boston.pm] Getting data off damaged disks - related to meeting topic tonight
ddrescue There are two utilities that share this name, but the GNU one is far faster, and a lot easier to use effectively. http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html Its killer feature is the ability to keep a log showing what it has done and use that info to re-start an interrupted recovery or re-scan problem areas using different settings, etc. The log is a compact, human-readable and easily parsable text format describing ranges of blocks and their status. Anecdote: Recently, when my laptop's disk started throwing unreadable errors on my console, I immediately got a new drive and connected the failing one with a USB adaptor. I booted from a live CD and ran the old dd_rescue, as it was a tool I was already familiar with. However, last time I needed it, the largest disk I owned was 40GB - this one was 320GB. While I waited, I looked for info on any new tools or techniques, and found GNU ddrescue... Since the the old dd_rescue that I was running had already reported nearly 700MB of unreadable blocks at 10% progress after 4 hours... I gave GNU ddrescue a try and was very impressed! After three scans using different settings I was able to recover all but about 3MB from the failing disk in about 8 hours! -- -- Steve Scaffidi ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
[Boston.pm] RSVPs by 2 if possible please Re: Tech Meeting Tuesday, May 11, MIT E51-376 7:15pm
rsvp are not required but rsvp'ers should get first dibs on refreshments . count will be taken shortly after 2pm . rsvp so far - bill federico uri ricky mike On 5/9/10, Bill Ricker wrote: > Next Tech Meeting > Tuesday, May 11, 2010 MIT E51-376 > > * Federico doing disk clear with Perl and hardware > > RSVP count will be taken early afternoon Tuesday so CIDC, our kind > sponsors (still I hope?), can place order. > > > * Tech Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month at MIT > [(directions) http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?MITDirections ]. > ** *NOTE* - Lately the lot has filled early, overflow is to Hayward > lots (avoid MEDICAL RESERVED spaces!). See above > ** Suggestions for future meetings solicited on Topics page [ > http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?TechMeetingTopics ] > -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
