Ten people attended the September meeting of the Monadnock Area Linux
User Group, MonadLUG, held as usual on the second Thursday of the month
at the SAU 1 Administration offices on Hancock Road in Peterborough.
Charlie started off the meeting with a round of introductions, and we
welcomed several
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:19:19 -0400
> From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 9/14/07, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The tougher thing is if you want to send an incomplete line sometime.
> > Say, to request the remote shell to do filename completeion.
>
> I suspect file nam
> I suspect file name completion might be one of those "advanced
> features" one has to give up when you go back to the bad-old-days
> of high-latency links and local editing.
Yeesh! D'ya think? ;->
Much of coolness offered by bash (completions, editing modes,
etc) is a direct result of bash
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:13:27PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> At that point, the hard part is finding a *terminal* that supports a
> local line editing mode. I think there might be an xterm or rxvt
> option somewhere for this. Maybe on one of the [CTRL]+click menus?
> (I'm not at an xterm right
On 9/14/07, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The tougher thing is if you want to send an incomplete line sometime.
> Say, to request the remote shell to do filename completeion.
I suspect file name completion might be one of those "advanced
features" one has to give up when you go back
I have not used FreeNX but I did use their commercial product NX. It
made a huge
improvement.
Don
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SCO files for chapter 11 bankruptcy:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070914152904577
Anyone planning on starting a company with "claim rights we don't have
and then sue people" as a business plan should take note - at least in
my opinion. ;)
Take it easy,
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Bill McGonigle writes:
...
> Has anybody seen a line-mode-oriented shell? I'd love to edit my
> line locally and then send it in these situations rather than waiting
> for characters to echo back.
What you really want is a line mode terminal program. One that lets
you edit locally, then,
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At that point, the hard part is finding a *terminal* that supports a
> local line editing mode. I think there might be an xterm or rxvt
> option somewhere for this. Maybe on one of the [CTRL]+click menus?
I checked my default xterm menus and didn't se
On 9/14/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've attempted this on a satellite link ...
Heh heh heh. Me too(TM). It's a different experience when you can
measure ping RTT using a hand-held stop watch. :)
> Has anybody seen a line-mode-oriented shell?
Stephen Bourne. (Accordin
On Sep 14, 2007, at 14:17, Paul Lussier wrote:
> You mean like ssh, screen, and emacs ;)
I've attempted this on a satellite link and, believe me, it's only
suited to medium-latency links. ssh-ing to Mars would suck as well.
Has anybody seen a line-mode-oriented shell? I'd love to edit my
l
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Use a protocol more suited to high-latency links.
You mean like ssh, screen, and emacs ;)
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Another meeting that might be of interest to GNHLUG members. The meeting
is open to the public. co-sponsored by the Greater Boston Chapter of the
Association of Computing Machinery (GBC/ACM) and the IEEE.
Original Message
Subject: [GBC-ACM] TALK:Thursday, Sept 20: Guy Steel
On 9/14/07, Michael ODonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I connected to the work LAN from home today using
> OpenVPN and asked Thunderbird (as an X client ...
The X wire protocol is very sensitive to high-latency links. Just
about any Internet connection is going to be considered
"high-latency
I use Thunderbird at work and it's OK - its
performance never struck me as being notably
good or bad. I connected to the work LAN from
home today using OpenVPN and asked Thunderbird
(as an X client of my home machine) to do
its thing, but it's taking about 10 minutes
to completely paint the windo
On Sep 13, 2007, at 17:15, Bill Sconce wrote:
> "Free" means free as in freedom, not
> as in free lunch -- it means that there is no catch, no hidden
> pitch to
> send in money later.
As if you needed another talking point, but this one is juicy:
http://blog.bfccomputing.com/articles/2007/0
Lloyd Kvam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 23:58 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
>> For all those just tuning in, Ben and I are in violent and vocal
>> agreement with each other, and at this point are merely quibbling over
>> semantics :)
>
> As an old Python guy who knows just eno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) writes:
> Bill Ricker writes:
>
>> I highly recommend Damian Conway's book of same title, "Perl Best
>> Practices", which recommends a much tamer, consistent readable style
>> within a workgroup than he uses in his own code (depending on context)
>> -- he suggest
Bill Ricker writes:
> I highly recommend Damian Conway's book of same title, "Perl Best
> Practices", which recommends a much tamer, consistent readable style
> within a workgroup than he uses in his own code (depending on context)
> -- he suggests one style but encourages each group to decide fo
When: September 19, 2007 7:00PM (6:30 for Q&A)
Topic: PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party
please register your key in advance to participate!
Moderator: BLU volunteers
Location: MIT Building E51 Room 315
A talk about PGP and GnuPG, followed by a keysigning party.
Register your key in advan
When: September 20, 2006 7:00PM (6:30 for Q&A)
Topic: PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party
please register your key in advance to participate!
Moderator: BLU volunteers
Location: MIT Building E51 Room 315
A talk about PGP and GnuPG, followed by a keysigning party.
Register your key in advan
I highly recommend Damian Conway's book of same title, "Perl Best
Practices", which recommends a much tamer, consistent readable style
within a workgroup than he uses in his own code (depending on context)
-- he suggests one style but encourages each group to decide for
themselves and take his list
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:57 -0400, Jeff Creem wrote:
> Frank DiPrete wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 16:58 -0400, Ted Roche wrote:
> >
> >> Just checking in to find out if anyone has switched their MythTV setups
> >> over to Schedules Direct [1]? ("Schedules Direct is a non-profit
> >> organiza
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 23:58 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote:
> For all those just tuning in, Ben and I are in violent and vocal
> agreement with each other, and at this point are merely quibbling over
> semantics :)
As an old Python guy who knows just enough Perl to get it wrong, this
has been educatio
Who : Jim Kuzdrall, Intrel Service Company
What : Introduction to OO styles and some handy simplifications
Where: Martha's Exchange
Day : Thur 20 Sep **Next Week**
Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion
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Overwhelmed by formatting choices in OpenOffice Writer? Continual
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