Re: This has got to drive RMS nuts

2005-03-01 Thread Bill Sconce
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:13:31 -0500 Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that Microsoft has used the acronym 'RMS' to stand for 'Rights Management Services'[1]. That has got to drive the real RMS nuts. Well, actually, I can't speak for him, but it kinda drives me nuts

Business needs will rewrite GPL - keynote speech at LinuxWorld

2005-03-01 Thread Bill Sconce
More went on at LinuxWorld than we knew. There was a lot of good traffic in the .org pavilion, and at our GNHLUG booth. Meanwhile, on the other side of the divider there were lots of slick booths, some good announcements,... and keynote speeches. One of our students in the LAMP class asked me

Re: This has got to drive RMS nuts

2005-03-01 Thread Benjamin Scott
tongue.insert (head-cheek); On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, at 11:57pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not be so quick to dismiss the possibility of conscious acronym overloading on the part of a company who supposedly considered the application of the HAL naming algorithm (IBM+1) in naming Windows NT

Desire for a new kind of list?

2005-03-01 Thread Brian
Many of the people that came to claim the free crap from my house over the last couple of weeks also expressed interest in my Home Automation setup, as well as various electronics projects, product ideas, distributed music/video, and other odd bits of tinkering and ideas. I've heard a couple of

Re: Desire for a new kind of list?

2005-03-01 Thread Chris
Sounds pretty cool to me, I have a small metal lathe, but not the mill, and I just love futzing around with stuff... Brian wrote: Many of the people that came to claim the free crap from my house over the last couple of weeks also expressed interest in my Home Automation setup, as well as

RE: Desire for a new kind of list?

2005-03-01 Thread Sharpe, Richard
I too like to putz around with stuff computer, electrical and non-electrical. I might not be able to make every meeting but I would like to included in this, I currently live in Merrimack, but a move is in the works not far just near Concord NH. Rich -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Desire for a new kind of list?

2005-03-01 Thread Bruce Dawson
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 09:30 -0500, Brian wrote: So, any takers? Count me in - I too probably won't make many meetings, but I'm very interested. Let me know if I can help with the infrastructure in any way. --Bruce signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Desire for a new kind of list?

2005-03-01 Thread Michael ODonnell
I keep saying we need to take the GNHLUG public, and this could be a good first step. I'd follow such a list with interest and participate as Copious Spare Time allows... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Desire for a new kind of list?

2005-03-01 Thread Jon maddog Hall
I like doing this stuff when I have time, and I agree that a second list, in this case, would be worthwhile, although projects done with Free and Open Source might get a progress announcement every once in a while to alert people in this list that something cool is happening. So why not announce

Re: Desire for a new kind of list?

2005-03-01 Thread Bill McGonigle
Cool idea. I have a couple such projects in various stages of brew on my workbench. Interestingly enough, there's all linux-based (hadn't thought of it in quite those terms before). Things like home automation, music, video, etc, all have strong linux-controlled presence, so it might make

Re: Desire for a new kind of list?

2005-03-01 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:30:32AM -0500, Brian wrote: Many of the people that came to claim the free crap from my house over the last couple of weeks also expressed interest in my Home Automation setup, as well as various electronics projects, product ideas, distributed music/video, and other

Re: This has got to drive RMS nuts

2005-03-01 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 09:28, Benjamin Scott wrote: tongue.insert (head-cheek); [snip] You do realize that Microsoft is not, in fact, staffed by physical incarnations of pure evil, I hope. Of course not! One would expect that the purity level varies markedly, from one minion to the next;