Re: Bill Sconce obituary and memorial date (February 13th at Boire Field, Nashua, NH)

2016-02-14 Thread Warren Luebkeman
correction: a brimmed red hat, rather On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Warren Luebkeman wrote: > wish i had seen this earlier. bill was one of the first people i had met > when venturing into the Linux community in NH. he was wearing a red > brimmed hat at the lug meeting in peterborough, pr

Re: Bill Sconce obituary and memorial date (February 13th at Boire Field, Nashua, NH)

2016-02-14 Thread Warren Luebkeman
wish i had seen this earlier. bill was one of the first people i had met when venturing into the Linux community in NH. he was wearing a red brimmed hat at the lug meeting in peterborough, probably around 2007. had a chance to spend some time with him at a conference in maine, he was presenting

Re: Bill Sconce memorial service - Saturday, Feburary 13th, 1100-1400 hours

2016-02-12 Thread Ted Roche
here will be a memorial service for Bill Sconce on Saturday, February 13th > at the Nashua Airport Hanger under the Tower (Nashua Jet Aviation) where Bill > spent a lot of time flying and teaching others to fly. > > Please feel free to attend, eve

Bill Sconce memorial service - Saturday, Feburary 13th, 1100-1400 hours

2016-02-12 Thread mad...@li.org
All, There will be a memorial service for Bill Sconce on Saturday, February 13th at the Nashua Airport Hanger under the Tower (Nashua Jet Aviation) where Bill spent a lot of time flying and teaching others to fly. Please feel free to attend, even without RSVP. maddog

Re: Bill Sconce obituary and memorial date (February 13th at Boire Field, Nashua, NH)

2016-01-16 Thread Brian Chabot
He and I share a birth date... I never knew that. I met him but I did not know him. I think we would have gotten along quite well. I hope to be able to make it to the memorial. Brian Brian Chabot On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 2:11 PM, mad...@li.org wrote: > Bill (William Joseph) Sconce, age 72, L

Bill Sconce obituary and memorial date (February 13th at Boire Field, Nashua, NH)

2016-01-16 Thread mad...@li.org
Bill (William Joseph) Sconce, age 72, Lyndeborough, NH, died on January 5, 2016 at Lahey Hospital in Burlington, MA. The cause was a cerebral hemorrhage. He was a good man. Bill was born April 19, 1943 in Indianapolis, IN, and came home to the House on the Hill in Edinburgh, IN. Bill grew up the

Celebration of Bill Sconce to be held this spring

2016-01-06 Thread mad...@li.org
GNHLUG, Here is some email from Donna Shea about Bill and Janet. md - Forwarded Message - It is with a heavy heart that I let you know that Bill passed late yesterday afternoon. He passed peacefully with his Janet by his side. There will not be any services at this time but a celebrati

Re: Bill Sconce

2016-01-05 Thread Mark E. Mallett
So sorry to hear - it's very sad news indeed. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Bill Sconce

2016-01-05 Thread Tyson Sawyer
competition with his C-150 Aerobat. The competition moved to a different airport and I didn't see him for decades. Later I found the python group and was caught off guard when I saw a familiar name at the center of the action. I had to send him an email to confirm if he was the C-150 Aero

Re: Bill Sconce

2016-01-05 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Oh, what terrible news! I still remember him for being a part of one of my daughter's high points: when she was six or so, she was completely fascinated with airplanes, so my wife -- ever the social organizer -- got a party for her down at a hanger at the Nashua airport, and the kids got to go

Bill Sconce

2016-01-05 Thread mad...@li.org
GNHLUG family, A couple of days ago I wrote to tell you that the prognosis for Bill was looking better. Unfortunately that does not seem to be the case. The prognosis is that Bill will never regain consciousness. Following Bill's wishes, life support was removed and although Bill is breathing

Re: Bill Sconce

2016-01-03 Thread Jerry Feldman
I wish Bill the best of luck. I've known Bill since 1988 when we worked in the PDP 11 compiler group in ZK1. Bill and I would talk flying as he and I were a active pilots at the time. On 12/30/2015 01:26 PM, mad...@li.org wrote: Hello all, Bill Sconce, one of GMHLUG's longes

Re: Bill Sconce

2015-12-30 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:26 PM, mad...@li.org wrote: > Hello all, > > Bill Sconce, one of GMHLUG's longest and most righteous members had a > stroke on Christmas evening. He was operated on at Lehey Hospital in > Burlington, MA and is still under sedation. It may be week

Re: Bill Sconce

2015-12-30 Thread Ed lawson
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:26:57 + (UTC) "mad...@li.org" wrote: > > Bill Sconce, one of GMHLUG's longest and most righteous members had a > stroke on Christmas evening. How very sad. I always enjoyed our conversations, and then there were Judy's cookies and

Bill Sconce

2015-12-30 Thread mad...@li.org
Hello all, Bill Sconce, one of GMHLUG's longest and most righteous members had a stroke on Christmas evening. He was operated on at Lehey Hospital in Burlington, MA and is still under sedation. It may be weeks before he can go home. Many of you may remember Bill as "Mr. Python

Re: Dapper Drake pointer from Bill Sconce

2006-06-28 Thread Marc Nozell
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:30:40PM -0400, Tom Buskey wrote: > On 6/28/06, Marc Nozell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I've been using Ubuntu on my corporate compaq nc6000 laptop since the > >Warty and upgrading all the way to Dapper. Naturally it has gathered > >various configuration cruft along t

Re: Dapper Drake pointer from Bill Sconce

2006-06-28 Thread Tom Buskey
On 6/28/06, Marc Nozell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been using Ubuntu on my corporate compaq nc6000 laptop since theWarty and upgrading all the way to Dapper. Naturally it has gatheredvarious configuration cruft along the way.Recently I installed Dapper from scratch and have taken notes of all

Re: Dapper Drake pointer from Bill Sconce

2006-06-28 Thread Marc Nozell
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:59 -0400, Python wrote: > Thanks for the tips. > > An alternative for ntp servers is > http://www.pool.ntp.org/ > > 0.us.pool.ntp.org > 1.us.pool.ntp.org > 2.us.pool.ntp.org > I should have been more clear, those 15.x.x.x NTP servers are inside our corporate firewal

Re: Dapper Drake pointer from Bill Sconce

2006-06-28 Thread Python
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:01 -0400, Marc Nozell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 10:03 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > > Kudos from Bill Sconce for pointing out that of the two Dapper Drake > > disks - the well-named Desktop and the mysterious Alternate - the > > Alternate disk can

Re: Dapper Drake pointer from Bill Sconce

2006-06-28 Thread Marc Nozell
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 10:03 -0400, Ted Roche wrote: > Kudos from Bill Sconce for pointing out that of the two Dapper Drake > disks - the well-named Desktop and the mysterious Alternate - the > Alternate disk can install in text mode easier, faster and > occasionally on a mach

Dapper Drake pointer from Bill Sconce

2006-06-28 Thread Ted Roche
Kudos from Bill Sconce for pointing out that of the two Dapper Drake disks - the well-named Desktop and the mysterious Alternate - the Alternate disk can install in text mode easier, faster and occasionally on a machine that has trouble with the GUI installer. I updated an HP Omnibook PII

PySIG, 25-May-2006: Bill Sconce and Python Generators

2006-05-15 Thread Ted Roche
WHEN: May 25th, 7 PM WHERE: Amoskeag Business Incubator, Manchester (directions at bottom) WHO: Bill Sconce, Fearless PySIG Leader WHAT: Generators in Python The next meeting of the Greater New Hampshire Python & Milk/ Cookies SIG will be one week from this Thursday's fine MerriLU

CentraLUG Meeting, February 6, Bill Sconce: Moodle and David Berube: Extracting MSOffice docs

2006-02-01 Thread Ted Roche
f the Library/Learning Center/Bookstore, http:// www.nhti.net/nhtimap.pdf , marked as "I" on that map. Directions and maps are available on the NHTI site at http://www.nhti.edu. Open to the public. Free admission. Tell your friends. This month's meeting will feature two presentatio