Re: [SLUG] Live Show

2005-10-27 Thread Terry Collins
James Purser wrote:

 After discussing the idea on irc last night I've refined the idea a bit.
 Instead of holding the broadcast on the weekend after next months
 meeting, it was suggested that I do it during the meeting. Depending on
 who I can drag up to talk to and so on, the show would go for an hour to
 an hour and a half.

Have you dood this before?

The time I was involved in doing a radio show, it was quickly realised
that we needed to be trained. arf arf arf,
1) to reduce the number of umm, errs, etc,
2) to encourage voice projection,
3) to reduce pauses 
4) to ensure we knew what we were going to say.

Of course this was only for a number of 10 minutes segments in a 20
minute show, so timing was a bit tighter.






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[SLUG] CVS problem

2005-10-27 Thread retsil

Hello,

I've been using CVS to do revision control on my own software.
Today I got a very nasty surprise when I found what appeared to be CVS
revision tags inside my file. I just use cvs commit, import
update and checkout, but I've never seen anything like this. Can anyone
help me out here, is my codebase about to go AWOL?

(Note: The language is Interactive Data Language, a completely useless
propietary language which serves no purpose in this discussion.)

 ra_coronalroigetmask.pro
FUNCTION ra_coronalroiGetMask, widgetData, roiID, EXISTS=exists,
ZOOM=scale, ONLY_INDS=only_inds, INDS=inds
verts = rt_roichooserGetVerts(widgetData.ROIchooser, roiID, ZOOM=scale)
===
;L+
;L-

;+
; This returns a mask of the ROI. 1 indicates the point is inside the
; ROI.
;-
FUNCTION ra_coronalroiGetMask, widgetData, roiID, EXISTS=exists
verts = rt_roichooserGetVerts(widgetData.ROIchooser, roiID)
 1.4
if (verts[0] eq -1) then begin
exists = 0
return, -1
endif
verticies = transpose(verts)
size = SIZE(widgetData.dynamicImage)
verticiesSize = SIZE(verticies)
curve = FLTARR(size[3])
inds = -1


IF (verticiesSize[0] GE 2) then begin
exists = 1
help, scale
if (n_elements(scale) eq 0) then scale = 1   ;
;scale = 1 ;

; Must use round rather than floor
if (~ keyword_set(only_inds)) then smask = fltarr(size[1]*scale,
size[2]*scale)
;xv = ((round(verticies[0,*]) + 0.5) *
scale); 0.5 for when we are using /sample
;yv = ((round(verticies[1,*]) + 0.5) *
scale)
xv = verticies[0,*] * scale
yv = verticies[1,*] * scale

inds = polyfillv(xv,yv,size[1]*scale, size[2]*scale)

if (~ keyword_set(only_inds)) then smask[inds] = 1

;smask = rebin(smask,size[1], size[2])

endif else begin
if (~ keyword_set(only_inds)) then smask = fltarr(size[1], size[2])
exists = 0
endelse

if (keyword_set(only_inds)) then return, inds $
else return, smask
end


Robbie Barnett


P.S. I've been following up my last post about the problem of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whilst this may not affect students, I think that they have very strict IT
policies regarding staff computers. They dictate everything which must be
used right down to the laptop hardware and keyboard. This seems to
indicate that staff research interests are pretty much secondary to IT
policy. I thank you all for your repsonses and I've passed them on to the
employee concerned.



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Re: [SLUG] Live Show

2005-10-27 Thread James Purser
On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 16:07 +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
 Have you dood this before?
 
 The time I was involved in doing a radio show, it was quickly realised
 that we needed to be trained. arf arf arf,
 1) to reduce the number of umm, errs, etc,
 2) to encourage voice projection,
 3) to reduce pauses 
 4) to ensure we knew what we were going to say.
 
 Of course this was only for a number of 10 minutes segments in a 20
 minute show, so timing was a bit tighter.
 

Umm, errr, oohh. Seriously while I haven't been involved with a Live
Broadcast I have been improving with my interview technique to the
point where there are few umms, and errs I have to edit out of the
podcasts.

I will be playing some pre-recorded stuff so as to have a break every
now and then and there will be musical interludes.

Needless to say I will be practising a hell of a lot before the night.
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Re: [SLUG] CVS problem

2005-10-27 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been using CVS to do revision control on my own software.
Today I got a very nasty surprise when I found what appeared to be CVS
revision tags inside my file. I just use cvs commit, import
update and checkout, but I've never seen anything like this. Can anyone
help me out here, is my codebase about to go AWOL?

Looks like theres a conflict between your working copy and the repository,
you need to resolve the conflict in your new working copy before checking
in.  The  ===  lines tell you which came from where: your local copy
of ra_coronalroigetmask.pro is in the first block of  ===, and the
repository's version 1.4 of the file is in ===  block.  Choose which one
you want and delete the rest.

 ra_coronalroigetmask.pro
FUNCTION ra_coronalroiGetMask, widgetData, roiID, EXISTS=exists,
ZOOM=scale, ONLY_INDS=only_inds, INDS=inds
verts = rt_roichooserGetVerts(widgetData.ROIchooser, roiID, ZOOM=scale)
===
;L+
;L-

;+
; This returns a mask of the ROI. 1 indicates the point is inside the
; ROI.
;-
FUNCTION ra_coronalroiGetMask, widgetData, roiID, EXISTS=exists
verts = rt_roichooserGetVerts(widgetData.ROIchooser, roiID)
 1.4

I'm going to guess that someone checked in some comments :)
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Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-27 Thread James
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 13:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   Short answer: install cygwin on your windows machine, making sure to
   install whatever X server is included with it.
 
  [snip]
 
  I don't believe that this is the answer. Cygwin allows the windows
  machine to have a unix-api and for it to run unix programs. It does not
  do what cxoffice does for linux machines.

 It doesn't do what cxoffice does, but it does what the original poster
 asked - i.e. to be able to login remotely to a linux machine from Windows
 and run a graphics interface on the Linux which displays its windows on the
 Windows machine.

 In case you are not up to date with it (which I suspect from your
 definition of Gygwin as a simple unix-api) then it also includes a full
 port of the core XFree86 to Windows.

True True, but he was aleady using vnc, so if he wanted a window manager, he 
already had one!

No arguments about cygwin, I found vnc easier if all you want is a window 
manager.
James
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Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-27 Thread slug
 On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:25:24AM +1000, Phill wrote:
 I guess I thought (not really understanding the concept.. but now I do)
 that it could be used as a remote desktop with the gui bacically being
 redirected to a remote output.

 That's certainly possible -- that's what xdmcp is about.

 I do use a vnc at the momement. It is a bit slow and I was wondering
 about
 a more efficient way to run programs on a server

 Vnc is fastER (but still not _fast_) and less hassle (only one port to
 worry about) on a WAN.
 Straight X is much faster on a LAN.

If money is not too much of an object and time is, a client of mine was
using Cygwin and now is using nomachine (http://www.nomachine.com). There
is a freeNX version. It is much faster than Cygwin with ssh particularly
on low speed lines, much easier to setup and the client installs are
available for windows, linux, playstation and I think OSX. It apparently
works by removing lots of unnecessary chat from the X protocol. There is a
live demo that runs X from Italy. Cost was about $1K for a dual processor
40 user win4lin server, so about $25/user or some such. Compared to tuning
X, it was a godsend. It also tidied up all that messy ssh-keygen stuff and
saves about 1/2 hour per PC on install...

HTH

Stu







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Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:09:25PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 If money is not too much of an object and time is, a client of mine was
 using Cygwin and now is using nomachine (http://www.nomachine.com). There
 is a freeNX version. 

I tried NX.  It doesn't cost anything with the freenx server, because
the NX client is free.

But I had a problem connecting to the same server from different machines.
Which was sorta the whole point for me.  I think (from memory) that
the NX protocol insisted that the server and client had the same bitdepth
(no. of colours) which wasn't the case for the two machines I tried.

Otherwise, yeah, it is quite fast.

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[SLUG] Supplier of Development Kit - Embedded chip (Motorola, Intel, etc).

2005-10-27 Thread O Plameras

Hi,

Can anyone say if there is (are) supplier or dealer of embedded chip 
development kit

in Sydney that sells off-the-shelf ? Motorola, Intel, etc. ?

Thanks in advance.

O Plameras


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[SLUG] Colour map/picker

2005-10-27 Thread Phil Scarratt

Hi

I'm currently digging around google for a colour picker. I just want a 
small utility (ala Character Map or Calculator) rather than starting up 
Gimp or some other html or graphics app. Any suggestions?


Oh...I'm running Ubuntu

Fil

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Re: [SLUG] Colour map/picker

2005-10-27 Thread Michael Lake

Phil Scarratt wrote:

Hi

I'm currently digging around google for a colour picker. I just want a 
small utility (ala Character Map or Calculator) rather than starting up 
Gimp or some other html or graphics app. Any suggestions?


Oh...I'm running Ubuntu


xcolorsel

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Re: [SLUG] Anyone know of a LISP Users group in Sydney ?

2005-10-27 Thread David Creelman
Hi All,

It looks like there's perhaps enough interest to at least set up some
kind of place to yack that's not on this list.

James, the livejournal LISP/Scheme link is
http://www.livejournal.com/community/lisp/

I've setup a community next to my account on LiveJournal, it's at
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=sydneylisp. Sorry for the
unimaginative name...

Thanks for the MIT links Hal. The OCW setup at MIT is pretty amazing.

James, you offered your test script updates. If you want, do you want to
put them up on the community site ? 

I hope that's okay to have set this up.

I'll transcribe the accumulated links from these emails to the site a
bit later on too.

Look forward to chatting, must get back to work now.

Regards
David


On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:43 +1000, Hal Ashburner wrote: 
 If the Scheme dialect of LISP is ok with you, make sure you haven't
 missed the awsomeness of MIT:
 
 Full textbook online
 http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
 
 Lecture Notes
 http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001Structure-and-Interpretation-of-Computer-ProgramsFall2002/LectureNotes/index.htm
 
 Online Tutor (yep!)
 http://icampustutor.csail.mit.edu/6.001-public/
 
 Downloadable video lectures (yep!)
 http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/
 
 Example problem sets
 http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/psets/index.html
 
 MIT Scheme itself (apt-get installable as well)
 http://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/
 
 And that is how an academic institution does *that* :)
 Have fun!
 
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Re: [SLUG] Anyone know of a LISP Users group in Sydney ?

2005-10-27 Thread QuantumG

David Creelman wrote:


I've setup a community next to my account on LiveJournal, it's at
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=sydneylisp. Sorry for the
unimaginative name...
 



Call it 'thydney'.

Trent


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Re: [SLUG] Anyone know of a LISP Users group in Sydney ?

2005-10-27 Thread Martin
$quoted_author = QuantumG ;
 
 Call it 'thydney'.

you can't go past '(sydney)'.  :)

cheers
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Re: [SLUG] Colour map/picker

2005-10-27 Thread David Gillies
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Phil Scarratt wrote:
 I'm currently digging around google for a colour picker. I just want a 
 small utility (ala Character Map or Calculator) rather than starting up 
 Gimp or some other html or graphics app. Any suggestions?

Gnome Colorscheme looks like it might be the goods:

http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/
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Re: [SLUG] Anyone know of a LISP Users group in Sydney ?

2005-10-27 Thread Penedo
On 10/28/05, QuantumG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 David Creelman wrote:

 I've setup a community next to my account on LiveJournal, it's at
 http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=sydneylisp. Sorry for the
 unimaginative name...
 
 

 Call it 'thydney'.

I even have an old T-shirt with the Coyote (from Road Runner fame)
saying exactly that - Thydney.

Any better idea for a logo?

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Re: [SLUG] Anyone know of a LISP Users group in Sydney ?

2005-10-27 Thread james
 On 10/28/05, QuantumG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 David Creelman wrote:

 I've setup a community next to my account on LiveJournal, it's at
 http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=sydneylisp. Sorry for the
 unimaginative name...
 
 

 Call it 'thydney'.

 I even have an old T-shirt with the Coyote (from Road Runner fame)
 saying exactly that - Thydney.

 Any better idea for a logo?

The obvious would be the word Sydney with the Ys replaced by lambdas. But
that may be a tad _too_ obvious.

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Re: [SLUG] Colour map/picker

2005-10-27 Thread Phil Scarratt

David Gillies wrote:

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Hash: SHA1

Phil Scarratt wrote:

I'm currently digging around google for a colour picker. I just want a 
small utility (ala Character Map or Calculator) rather than starting up 
Gimp or some other html or graphics app. Any suggestions?



Gnome Colorscheme looks like it might be the goods:

http://home.gna.org/colorscheme/
- --
dave.


Thanks to both Michael and David - got me out of trouble. :)

Much appreciated...

Fil
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[SLUG] Help needed in transhorming a VirtualHost directive into Directoryor Location

2005-10-27 Thread Michael Lake


Hi all

I have some Library software which works on my laptop using its recommended 
virtual host setup
like this:

Listen 8080
Listen 9090

# KOHA's OPAC Configuration
VirtualHost nsw.royalsoc.org.au:8080
  ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  DocumentRoot /home/koha/koha/opac/htdocs
  ServerName nsw.royalsoc.org.au
  ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ /home/koha/koha/opac/cgi-bin/
  Redirect permanent index.html 
http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au:8080/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl
  SetEnv PERL5LIB /home/koha/koha/intranet/modules
  SetEnv KOHA_CONF /home/koha/koha/etc/koha.conf
/VirtualHost

# KOHA's INTRANET Configuration
VirtualHost nsw.royalsoc.org.au:9090
  ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  DocumentRoot /home/koha/koha/intranet/htdocs
  ServerName nsw.royalsoc.org.au
  ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ /home/koha/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/
  Redirect permanent index.html 
http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au:9090/cgi-bin/koha/mainpage.pl
  SetEnv PERL5LIB /home/koha/koha/intranet/modules
  SetEnv KOHA_CONF /home/koha/koha/etc/koha.conf
/VirtualHost

The above is just for my laptop and I dont have to worry about DNS things etc. 
However Im now trying to get it working at http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au
This sites httpd.conf file has two virtual hosts and the hosting provider 
has entries in their DNS for us. 


The httpd.conf file has:

NameVirtualHost 123.456.123.456  [example only not the real one]   


# nsw.royalsoc.org.au
VirtualHost 123.456.123.456
  ServerName nsw.royalsoc.org.au
  ServerAlias nsw.royalsoc.org.au
  DocumentRoot /home/blah/blah
  ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/VirtualHost

# www.royalsoc.org.au
VirtualHost 123.456.123.456
  ServerName www.royalsoc.org.au
  ServerAlias royalsoc.org.au
  DocumentRoot /home/rsnsw/web/www/
  ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/VirtualHost

Problem 1:
If I just include the Koha setup given at the top then funny things happen to the 
main site http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au (its gets slow to resolve and the main page 
cant find images)


I wanted to transfer the Koha VirtualHost entries so that I can just have links to the Koha 
software as http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au/opac and http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au/intranet
rather than as http://opac.royalsoc.org.au (as most libraries would do) or ports such as 
8080 and 9090.


This is what I have tried already:

# these are fine.
SetEnv PERL5LIB /home/koha/koha/intranet/modules
SetEnv KOHA_CONF /home/koha/koha/etc/koha.conf

DocumentRoot /home/koha/koha/opac/htdocs

# this didnt work
#Location /opac
#Options ExecCGI
#Order allow,deny
#Allow from all
#/Location

Alias /opac /home/koha/koha/opac/cgi-bin
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ /home/koha/koha/opac/cgi-bin/
Directory /home/koha/koha/opac/cgi-bin/
   AllowOverride None
#Options Indexes
  # Redirect permanent index.html 
http://nsw.royalsoc.org.au:8080/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl
  # DirectoryIndex index  
   Options ExecCGI

   AddHandler cgi-script .pl
   #SetHandler perl-script
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
/Directory


Basically I am just getting completely lost.

Mike Lake
Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical.

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