Re: OT: Quantum Books closing...

2007-10-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/14/07, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still think there needs to be an economic model for writers of > technical books to go to the bother of writing them... > Writing well is a craft and an art, and one that deserves compensation. #ifdef MOLOTOV_COCKTAIL Isn't that the chief ob

Re: OT: Quantum Books closing...

2007-10-14 Thread Ted Roche
Bill McGonigle wrote: > > There's that, and that Tim O'Reilly is competing with her directly. > If I were her I wouldn't be excited too push his books. > Actually, Tim wrote a rather nice essay about supporting your local bookstore, which used to be posted in the SoftPro stores. It is true th

MonadLUG Notes, 12-Oct-1007: Ben Scott presents DNS and BIND

2007-10-14 Thread Ted Roche
A great meeting Thursday night. Thirteen people made it to the October meeting of the Monadnock Area Linux User Group, held as usual at the SAU #1 offices in Peterborough on the second Thursday at 7 PM. Thanks to Ken for sponsoring us at the offices, and dealing diplomatically with the double-booki

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-14 Thread Ric Werme
>On 10/13/07, John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Of course, if you're using bash, then >>> http://xkcd.com/{1..327} >> Depends on what version of bash. >That's why we should be using > #!/bin/bash-3.2.9 >at the top of our shell scripts. Unless you have Suse 10.1: tux:~> ls

Re: [OT] xkcd

2007-10-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 10/13/07, John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Of course, if you're using bash, then >> http://xkcd.com/{1..327} > > Depends on what version of bash. That's why we should be using #!/bin/bash-3.2.9 at the top of our shell scripts. -- Ben ___