Re: "Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50" -- David Brooks

There's always the Google Cached version of the article: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:m50mbLKkcpcJ:www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1034601-469/10-print-basic-turns-50---20.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a Peter On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Tom Buskey wrot

OT: free USB floppy

We are decluttering. I have a Lacie brand USB 3.5 inch floppy disk drive along with 27 3.5 inch disks. Free to good home. I'm in Derry, but travel frequently to Manchester and Nashua. Message me off-list if interested. --Peter ___ gnhlug-discuss mail

Re: Nashua's NHLUG meeting has been bumped 1 day to Wednesday

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > chris gagnon writes: > > > > Topic: Joshua Rosen will be talking about taking over an maintaining > > an open source project and GPS > > And, to be clear: I will *not* just be talking about how awesome a j

Re: Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

I've used pyExcelerator to create and manipulate excel files: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator/ It's a Python library, so it's not exactly what you are describing, but perhaps it can serve your purpose. It has support for a lot of Excel's internal cell formatting and such. Peter O

Re: Nokia N900

This may be stating the obvious, but it tripped me up when I was trying out my Garmin Etrex. You have to be still in order to get a fix. I had the Garmin attached to my bicycle and I was riding up and down my driveway while waiting to go off and map the neighborhood. No fix until I *stopped* for

Re: OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

We were contemplating GPS units last year, but we never completed the research and didn't make a purchase. That being said, it looks like the major players are Garmin and TomTom. Some TomTom units run Linux, see: http://opentom.org/ However, Garmin may be more ubiquitous. It looks like newer Ga

Re: OT: free stuff (Make Magazine)

Spoken for. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote: > I've got issues 01 (Jan 2005) through 20 (November 2009) of Make > Magazine (O'Reilly) that I'd like to pass along. > > Thought their might be some interest on this list. > > The Derry transfer

OT: free stuff (Make Magazine)

I've got issues 01 (Jan 2005) through 20 (November 2009) of Make Magazine (O'Reilly) that I'd like to pass along. Thought their might be some interest on this list. The Derry transfer station recycles paper otherwise. Contact me off list to arrange pick up. Thanks, Peter ___

gaming... for a 15-month old

The suggestions for games for 3-year olds last week got me thinking about my 15-month old son. We've got a table set up at home with a computer running Ubuntu next to a computer running Mac OS X. the 15-month old is tall enough that he can reach the keyboards and mice and he really likes to press

Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

er On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote: > I help out with some of the technology stuff at a Nashua non-profit, > and we're having a frustrating experience getting our DSL to work > again with FairPoint (*see below for the whole story). > > For one phone line +

[semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

I help out with some of the technology stuff at a Nashua non-profit, and we're having a frustrating experience getting our DSL to work again with FairPoint (*see below for the whole story). For one phone line + voicemail + DSL, I think it's about $75/month. Are there any alternatives to FairPoint

Re: Make Q's

>> #ifndef UTIL_H >> #define UTIL_H >> >> #ifdef __cplusplus >> extern "C" { >> #endif >> >> >> void some_function_with_c_linkage(); >> >> #ifdef __cplusplus >> } >> #endif >> >> #endif  /* UTIL_H */ >> > > Could you explain why this is necessary, and what it does?  What is > necessary to use this?

Re: [GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] TONIGHT: OpenStreetMap - Open Data for Mapping - DLSLUG Monthly Meeting 2009-06-04

In response to some previous postings on this list about OpenStreetMap, I was inspired to start mapping around my house in Derry, NH. See the map so far here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.88044&lon=-71.3262&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF I'm running the JOSM Jar file on Ubuntu and using gpsbabel

Re: [OT] Experience with getting participation in school web site by teachers

I setup WordPress for a personal blog and for two non-profit organizations that I'm involved with. It's designed to work with the LAMP stack. In fact, in one case, we ended up switching web hosts (IIS/Windows/ColdFusion server to Linux/Apache/PHP) just to make it easier to get WordPress setup. I

Re: UNIX license plate

saw POOP143 today in the Wilton area... > My wife's H8DCYF is not geeky, but is infamous.  Not only did the state > take it off her car while it was at home on our property (they had guns), > it's the reason the state rejects any attempts to register H8 on new plates. > Even a fuel company that wa

OT? volunteer opportunities at Greater Nashua Habitat for Humanity

I am writing to solicit volunteers for Greater Nashua Habitat for Humanity. Perhaps this could go to gnhlug-jobs, but we are an all-volunteer organization and most of our volunteers have full-time jobs that keep them busy for most of the week. What is Habitat for Humanity? We are a non-profit org

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:13 PM, wrote: >> From: Lloyd Kvam >> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:29:27 -0500 > >> I could not find any adequate business accounting packages for Linux. > > There's a GTK-based (gnome-based glade-based guile-based...) > accounting package called Gnucash (www.gnucash.org).

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

> Me, neither - Facebook would seem to be a poor choice as a venue for > conducting GNHLUG business as (it seems to me that) Facebook is not > really in keeping with much of what the GNHLUG is about: > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/4413483/Network

Re: (OT) Flaky USB Bus

> I have (my wife) a Win XP machine that is driving me beserk. > She decided that a new printer was in order and I would (obviously) > take care of the rest of that idea... > > How would you check the functionality of a USB Bus / Controller? At the risk of bringing this on-topic, you could try boo

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

> I guess I'll throw my two cents in... while we're throwing pennies around, I think a lot of time when you buy a computer with Windows, you're actually getting the Windows OS and a bunch of other software that you'd rather not have (crapware). These are programs that have some means of generating

Re: Ubuntu

>> Ubuntu has worked at >> making the average-user experience easier, is that it? Short answer: I'm an Ubuntu user and overall very happy with the experience for an average desktop user. Read on for how I got there. I've ran Red Hat (4.2 I think) sometime around 1997-1998 when I was first intere

UPS disposal options?

I've got a PK Electronics BlackoutBuster (500VA UPS) with a spent battery. It looks like the company is also no longer existent. I've re-arranged my house and purged of non-essential electronics on ebay, so this UPS is no longer needed (my 2 remaining UPSs are APC). Is there a better way to disp

Re: Firefox 3 AwesomeBar

Okay, I like the new "Awesome Bar" even though I'll still always call it simply the address bar. I've been using Firefox 3 for a few weeks now since I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04. I've seen some of these negative comments before, but let me attempt to debunk. 1. Screen real estate So, the drop down

low power linux PC?

So I want to setup a linux server at home to do backups from various computers around the house. Amanda looks promising ( http://amanda.zmanda.com/ ) For the backup server, I want to setup a separate box, probably running Debian. As the primary purpose of this computer is just to store the backu

PDA with barcode reader recommendations?

Can anyone recommend a PDA with the following features?: - built in barcode reader. Needs to read standard retail barcodes (such as those found on a six-pack of beer). A PDA with barcode attachment would work, but no dongles. - connects to linux using USB or some other standard interface, and doe

FREE - partially broken eMac

I've got an eMac (2004 vintage) up for grabs. While running OS X, the display would crash intermittently (Open GL stuff like screen savers and iTunes visualization would trigger this very quickly). I think that I may have exceeded the 95 degree maximum operating temp on occasion in these hot NH s

linux on old laptop with 8 MB RAM

I was given a Toshiba 105cs laptop. Specs: Pentium 75 Mhz 500 MB HDD 8 MB RAM 1 3.5 inch floppy I believe this laptop had windows 95 on it originally, but the hard drive has been formatted fat32. This does have 2 PCMCIA (type II) slots. We want to use this computer mainly for some word proc

Re: free to good home, 19" CRT

It's been claimed. On Apr 16, 2005, at 9:18 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: This still available? I'd love to have it! -N On Saturday 16 April 2005 09:22 am, Peter Dobratz wrote: I have a KDS 19" CRT that ran X at 1600x1200 under Debian unstable for many years. It's still a pe

free to good home, 19" CRT

I have a KDS 19" CRT that ran X at 1600x1200 under Debian unstable for many years. It's still a perfectly good monitor, but it draws close to 90 Watts of power and got relegated to the attic after we examined ways to cut the electric bill. If anyone wants it, you can arrange to pick it up in

free software alternative to Access

I'm working with the Greater Nashua Habitat for Humanity. We have an annual fundraiser that includes many affiliates from New Hampshire and Northeastern Massachusetts. Our current solution to take registration information uses a Microsoft Access Database that one of our members developed. Al

Re: Wiki Engines

Recently, I setup a similar system quickly at my work to try to get some feedback as to whether or not such a collaborative tool would be useful for our purposes. Basically, I installed Debian unstable on a spare box and went through all the wiki Debian packages until I found one that worked w

Re: [gnhlug-announce] Quarterly meeting tomorrow, Martha's Exchange

Rob Lembree writes: > Dinner with the speaker is in the first-floor restaurant at > Martha's Exchange at 6:00. Please RSVP for dinner to me so that we > can give Martha's an accurate headcount for the meal. I will be coming to dinner at 6:00 pm. Thanks, Peter ___