Re: Repetitive strain injury (was: ThinkPad Pointers)

2008-01-16 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 15, 2008, at 16:21, Ben Scott wrote: > You likely mean RSI (repetitive strain injury), also called CTD > (cumulative trauma disorder) or RMD (repetitive motion disorder). > That issue is a lot bigger and a lot muddier. Ah, yes, thanks for the correction and the links. > But current wis

Re: Linux Based Point of Sale?

2008-01-16 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 15, 2008, at 18:05, Thomas Charron wrote: > "How much are you looking to spend on hardware?" It's a good question. It seems a good strategy these days is to take a piece of old $100 hardware, stick a $40 board on it, call it 'Internet Enabled' and sell it for $700. Good work if y

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 17 Jan, Python? Why should I care?

2008-01-16 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Jan 16, 2008 8:12 AM, Jim Kuzdrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> RSVP to Jim Kuzdrall for dinner to assure adequate seating. <<< > !!! If you are not a "Regular Attendee" (50%), please let me know. !!! attending with eeepc - not a regular attendee. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA __

Re: gcc linking / libtools / building stuff

2008-01-16 Thread Dave Johnson
Bruce Labitt writes: > So I tried to just build it from the command line and this is what I got. > > $ gcc main_tb_fftw.cpp -otbfft -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib > -lfftw3 -lm > /tmp/ccJMISfw.o: In function > `__static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)': > main_tb_fftw.cpp:(.tex

gcc linking / libtools / building stuff

2008-01-16 Thread Bruce Labitt
I'm trying to get a program I wrote to link with FFTW. This is being done on gcc on linux. I built FFTW from source. When I did make install there was a message in the output that said I needed to use libtools or one of the following... a rather long list followed. If you want to know what

[GNHLUG] NHRuby.org January meeting summary.

2008-01-16 Thread Scott Garman
The first NH Ruby and Rails User Group meeting of 2008 was attended by seven people interested in OpenID and ActionMailer. Nick Plante gave an introduction to OpenID, discussing its benefits and current use on the 'net, and then dove into an example of using OpenID in a Ruby on Rails application.

Re: Sun buys MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Ben Scott
On Jan 16, 2008 12:39 PM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/ > Comments? I'm mainly wondering where the eventual lines will be drawn. It seems clear to me that we've got a pattern of hardware, software and service companies consol

Re: Sun buys MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Travis Roy
http://kaj.arno.fi/Sun_014.jpg Shake and bake? http://www.webwombat.com.au/entertainment/movies/images/ferrell-int-2.jpg On Jan 16, 2008 12:39 PM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/ > > Comments? > > -- > -- Thomas > _

Sun buys MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Thomas Charron
http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/ Comments? -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

[GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 17 Jan, Python? Why should I care?

2008-01-16 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
Who  : Kent Johnson, 5-year Python veteran and active contributor What : Why should I care about Python? What can it do for me? Where: Martha's Exchange Day  : Thur 17 Jan **Tomorrow** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion (usually upstairs) :: Overview      Why learn another languag

Boston Linux Meeting today, January 16, 2008 FOSS Enterprise Security Tools

2008-01-16 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: January 16, 2008 7:00PM (6:30 for Q&A) Topic: FOSS Enterprise Security Tools Moderator: Joseph Guarino, Senior IT Consultant, Evolutionary Information Technology Inc Location: MIT Building E51 Room 315 Joseph talks about Free and Open-Source software