[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2009-02-05 - Planning!

2009-02-02 Thread Bill McGonigle
[note location is DRTC - 16 Cavendish Ct, Lebanon] *** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org

Re: Suqashing Facebook (WAS: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time))

2009-02-02 Thread Arc Riley
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Thomas Charron wrote: What's at issue is that the meaning of data is still left as an > interpretation to the student. Yes, you can shove arbitrary data and > publish that data. That data still needs to be adopted as a standard > by everyone. As an example, co

Re: FOSS Gaming Survey - Any help is appreciated

2009-02-02 Thread Arc Riley
The author of the survey seems to repeatedly mistake "commercial" for "proprietary" as well. I wasn't very impressed by the earlier questions either, the ones asking if you know RMS and Linus. Ok so perhaps some matchings on Moglen would be more appropriate.. On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Bri

Re: FOSS Gaming Survey - Any help is appreciated

2009-02-02 Thread Brian Chabot
Joseph Guarino wrote: > FOSS Gaming Survey - > http://www.evolutionaryit.com/limesurvey/index.php?sid=72676〈=en Someone should have troubleshot this before it went public. "Which Video Game magazines do you subscribe to?" Cannot answer: No answer. Must fill in "Other" with something like "No

Odd log messages from ISC BIND named

2009-02-02 Thread Ben Scott
So, we had around 100 of these show up in the log from Sunday on , all from the same IP address, all with similar but apparently never the same name pattern: client 192.0.2.42 query (cache) 'aaccmmfwxdlaaabaaafbbfpg/NS/IN' denied: 1 Time(s) client 192.0.2.42 query (cache) 'abbcnefwx0

Re: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time)

2009-02-02 Thread Ben Scott
DISCLAIMER: As usual, I speak only for myself. Some additional points not touched on already: (1) IIRC, all you need to register on Facebook is an email address and a name. You're not obligated to give them any more information than that. So if you'd like to register with Facebook for whateve

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:18 PM, kenta wrote: > I did have to change the single quotes to double quotes > for some reason ... Single-quotes (') have no significance to the Windows shell. So the shell would still have done tokenization on the spaces within the awk script, and awk expects its scr

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM, kenta wrote: > for some reason the gnu-port of grep for win32 has no -o option. :( Hmmm, the binary I have does. However, come to think of it, I did update a bunch of the utilities from another distribution; maybe that made the difference. If you care, it wa

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread kenta
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Shawn O'Shea wrote: > You could try it this way in gawk: > $ cat foo > foofoo:A1234567890B\barbar > foofoo:C9234567890E\barbar > foofoo:A8234567890B\barbar > foofoo:F7234567890D\barbar > $ gawk --posix '{ if (match($0,/[[:xdigit:]]{12}/)) print > substr($0,RSTART,RL

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread Shawn O'Shea
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM, kenta wrote: > > > Actually I need to get the info regardless of delimiters so matching > any hex digits of a certain length works for me. I'd sent an e-mail > before but I used the wrong address so maybe it didn't go through, for > som reason the gnu-port of grep

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread kenta
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Alan Johnson wrote: >>-o, --only-matching >> Print only the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching >> line, with each such part on a separate output line. > > Oh. Hey, that's neat; I

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Michael ODonnell wrote: >> sed s/.*:\([[:xdigit:]]*\)\\.*/\1/ > > That looks good to me, though I assume he meant to show that > expression in single quotes. Nope. The Windows NT shell (CMD.EXE) has different meta-characters from Bourne and company. In partic

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Alan Johnson wrote: >-o, --only-matching > Print only the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching > line, with each such part on a separate output line. Oh. Hey, that's neat; I didn't know about that one. So Kenta could -- possibly --

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
Ben wrote: > sed s/.*:\([[:xdigit:]]*\)\\.*/\1/ That looks good to me, though I assume he meant to show that expression in single quotes. Also, I can't remember if those character class notations count as Extended Regular Expressions but, if so, some versions of sed might want something like

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread Alan Johnson
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > There might be a way to do this with awk, but my knowledge of awk is > mostly limited to using it to print columns. :) > Me too! (like some brain-dead AOLer) All I have ever used awk for is picking out a column that is white-space delimited

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
kenta writes: > Otherwise, I want as an end result: > > A1234567890B > C9234567890E > A8234567890B > F7234567890D How about?: sed 's/^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9]*:\([A-Z][0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]\).*/\1/' I've made the regexp here a little bit tight in order to prevent false positives. Regards, --kevin

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread Alan Johnson
Your man-fu might be a bit off too. ;) From the grep man page: -o, --only-matching Print only the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching line, with each such part on a separate output line. Also, if you have cut, it will probably run faster with: cut -d ':

Re: Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:19 AM, kenta wrote: > extract the pattern of [a-fA-F0-9] when they > appear n times in a row. > > foofoo:A1234567890B\barbar > A1234567890B I *think* this will do what you want: sed s/.*:\([[:xdigit:]]*\)\\.*/\1/ By grouping something within parenth

Displaying only data matching a pattern?

2009-02-02 Thread kenta
I've been working with some large files and need to extract a piece of info, unfortunately there's a bunch of junk around the part that I want. Example: foofoo:A1234567890B\barbar foofoo:C9234567890E\barbar foofoo:A8234567890B\barbar foofoo:F7234567890D\barbar What I had done the first pass to ge

FOSS Gaming Survey - Any help is appreciated

2009-02-02 Thread Joseph Guarino
Hello Everyone, I hope you are all doing well. =) I'm looking for some input and help on my forthcoming FOSS Gaming presentation at SCALE. With that goal in mind I am running a survey to gather the perceptions of the community on the status/opinion of FOSS gaming. Respondents will be entered to w

Re: Suqashing Facebook (WAS: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time))

2009-02-02 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:35 AM, wrote: > The whole facebook/meetup/myspace/ > mess seems to be the product of a number of factors: > (1) People want web presence with prefabricated features like > calendaring, blogging, guestbooks, voting, and messaging. > (2) People want to network their

Re: Suqashing Facebook (WAS: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time))

2009-02-02 Thread Thomas Charron
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Arc Riley wrote: > That's hilarious! But jokes about PHP scripts and internet appliances > aside, there *is* a real solution to this that's already accepted by the > community at large. > It's called XMPP - eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. > Thanks to Go

Re: Suqashing Facebook (WAS: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time))

2009-02-02 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
>(1) With a suite of PHP scripts that could be installed on any > hosting service that supports PHP (not hard to find). >(2) By installing a special package on a Linksys router. >(3) Developing an embedded Linux Internet appliance to host from a > user's home/office connection. (Wh

Re: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time)

2009-02-02 Thread Tom Buskey
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > Michael, > > > > I would never use Facebook for "official" GNHLUG business any more than > I would use Myspace or Orkut simply because not everyone has accounts on > these systems. > > These mailing lists (and our web site) for the most

Re: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time)

2009-02-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
> It just so happens that Facebook was where I first noticed the > issue of the UNIX time event coming up, and I forwarded that link > in case others might be interested in the source. OK, I understand that (now) but it wasn't obvious from your message, which appeared to be an invitation directl

Re: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time)

2009-02-02 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Michael, I hope I speak for the other respondents when I say that I was not "irritated" by your post. You voiced your opinion, as do many on this list. Sometimes my responses come across as "irritated", but I think I have a thicker skin than that. I would never use Facebook for "official" GNHLU

Re: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time)

2009-02-02 Thread Michael ODonnell
[ Dang! I was naively hoping I'd be able to post this before too many folks had a chance to respond to my message from last night. ] Executive Summary: I've changed my mind (sort of) I shot from the hip after seeing that article about Facebook within minutes of seeing that other GNHLUG pos