Hi pluggers,
After a long battle with cancer, it is with a heavy heart that I share
that my dad, Alec Shaw, has passed away with all of you. He passed away
in the early hours of Wednesday morning on April 17.
His son,
Stephen Shaw
For those who are wanting to attend Alec Shaw's funera
On 1/25/2013 5:48 PM, Daniel Fussell wrote:
> I'd have to say that the public policy environment is most likely the
> problem. Otherwise, we'd have never started off-shoring things in the
> first place. It's cheaper to let somebody else somewhere else do the
> production than deal with the lawye
http://timemanagementninja.com/2012/11/10-reasons-your-emails-are-too-long/
/*
PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
Don't fear the penguin.
*/
On 8/18/2011 12:59 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote:
> Actually...
> If cost were the only deciding factor I would buy this
> http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=35&product_id=49
> $15
>
Only if you buy 50 of them.
At http://thetransistor.com/store/ you can get an Arduino kit for
A son of mine has used the same recruiter as he has moved up in
experience to find better jobs.
When he is looking for a better job he has called the recruiter each
time and been hired at least 3 jobs through them.
His greatest pay was as an hourly paid contractor with overtime.
He has built up a
See
http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/04/19/oracle-gives-up-on-open-source-rival-to-office/
/*
PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
Don't fear the penguin.
*/
I am planning on coming.
Love
Dad
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Stephen Shaw wrote:
> We are having a release party at Novell for the latest openSUSE 11.4
> that was release on the 10th. Everyone is invited and welcome. If
> you are coming an rsvp would be great, but not necessary.
>
> Det
I like your Vim cheat sheet. The link to vim.org at the end points to
apple.com.
Thanks
Alec
On 2/25/2011 3:18 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
> On 25 Feb 2011, at 14:18, Ryan Simpkins wrote:
>
>> Anyone interested in presenting on one of these topics?
>> * "Maker Night" - Come show off the latest i
All this discussion on security made me think of this story:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Send-a-3-106-Carat-Diamond-by-Post-59840.shtml
Alec
/*
PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
Don't fear the penguin.
*/
This link is to an interesting Wall Street Journal article about morse
code:
http://online.wsj.com:80/article_email/SB119161604206850468-lMyQjAxMTEwOTExNzYxMTc2Wj.html
On 4/22/2010 12:29 PM, Matthew Walker wrote:
> Somewhat off-topic, but I just had to announce that last night I passed the
>
Morse verses Texting -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKrxMhNxv3Q&NR=1
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article381748.ece
I also have a video from a Jay Leno Tonight show of 2 men using Morse
code beating
2 young men sending the same message using cell phones.
Alec
On 4/22/2010 1:11 PM
Another consideration is that if you have and can use an older phone
(not cordless and without a power adapter)
then the phone set is powered by the phone line. It can be used even if
the power is off to your house. The
phone company has emergency backup power generators to keep the phones
ali
Read
http://www.cringely.com/2010/03/the-smell-of-entrepreneurism-in-the-morning/
and
look at the http://cringelyslist.democrasoft.com/ site.
/*
PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
Don't fear the penguin.
*/
Video: Hudson River Landing - Real Time 3D Simulation
This video animation created by Exosphere3d stunningly portrays the
flight path of US Airways 1549 that landed in the Hudson River last
January. The company used satellite imagery, geospatial data and 3D
models of the US Airways Airbus plus
Recently I have received forwarded emails with embedded images in the
email. When I have tried to forward the
email using Thunderbird I see that the images are not copied into the
new email.
I have specifically noticed this especially with email from yahoo.com.
I use gmail.com with IMAP to Thu
I saw this on a message board I subscribe to. Thought some of you on the
PLUG might be interested.
Alec
Dear Colleagues,
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act appropriated $7.2 billion
and directed the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service
(RUS) and The Department of Comm
;
unsigned int 3bd:2;
unsigned int 3be:3;
} type3b;
} u;
unsigned int c:16;
} mystruct;
Thanks
Alec Shaw
/*
PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
Don't fear the penguin.
*/
Dave Smith wrote:
Doran L. Barton wrote:
Hmmm. Do I hear a PLUG presentation coming on
I'd be happy to, if people actually care to learn about it. :)
I've done presentations on Qt at my company a few times, and we can
even build a non-trivial GUI right there in real time. If the group
would
Thanks all for the pointer to rename - looks like a very useful command.
I found a man page for it but it is very sparse. Is there a good
description for
the options and usage of rename?
Thanks.
Alec Shaw
Siddharth Patwardhan wrote:
I use the rename command for this. The
still my preferred shell) script
would be better. Maybe a "for f in *; do mv $f $g; done" but how do I
get $g from $f with spaces substituted?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Alec Shaw
/*
PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
Don't fear the penguin.
*/
Tools -> Message Filters... -> New -> change pull down Subject to Body
Scott Edwards wrote:
Apparently my build of Thunderbird does not offer a way to filter
messages based on the body content. I've searched around, and I find
a lot of white noise. Is anyone using a plugin or addon to do this
Greg Warner wrote:
I have a dreamhost account that has 500gb+ of space to which I'd like to
backup the contents of my "My Documents" folder on a windows machine.
Currently, I'm using the scripting features of WinSCP to do it. It works
well, but the connection drops randomly at times (usually in
Interesting article about Wi-Fi in SLC in IEEE Spectrum magazine.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/feb08/6025
Alec
/*
PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
Don't fear the penguin.
*/
Michael L Torrie wrote:
Michael L Torrie wrote:
Michael L Torrie wrote:
Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
It's not quite that easy. You have to send through a different SMTP
server, AND not save the sent message to your Sent folder. If you
do that, then Gmail shouldn't have a cop
I have same problem and I use POP with gmail.
Alec
Steve Meyers wrote:
Michael Torrie wrote:
I know many of you use gmail for your plug mailing list reading and
posting. How many of you use imap and, say thunderbird with it? Well
it turns our Gmail is very broken when using imap and dealing
If you include linux/param.h then you can use the #define HZ.
Alec
Andres Gonzalez wrote:
My understanding is that the kernel configuration parameter HZ has
changed with the various linux releases. Up to 2.4.x, HZ was typically
100; starting with version 2.6.0 HZ was 1000; but starting with 2.6
Steve wrote:
Recent reports are that Comcast is killing torrents by using a packet
spoof to tell two connected clients that the other is requesting a
connection close.
In the news yesterday:
Consumer groups ask FCC to fine Comcast, stop it from hindering file sharing
See http://www.sltrib.
cord and voice tape recorder backup),
pascal (the language that was going to change the world of programming),
and finally learned C by
using it to write a Viterbi decoder (on Unix to boot).
Alec Shaw
/*
PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
Don't fear the penguin.
*/
Jonathan Ellis wrote:
On 9/6/07, Alec Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a subversion repository /repository with 2 sub directories for
different projects
(/repository/project1 and /repository/project2).
1) How can I list the names (paths) of the branches that have been
creat
I have a subversion repository /repository with 2 sub directories for
different projects
(/repository/project1 and /repository/project2).
1) How can I list the names (paths) of the branches that have been
created for each of the
projects?
2) If I do "svn log" in checkout directory I do not ge
Brian Hawkins wrote:
I have a thumb drive that is formated fat32. I use it to keep personal
projects on that I move between Linux and WinXP.
From my linux box (FC6) when I try to run a program that is on it,
that I
just compiled, I get a "Permission denied" error.
I have a feeling this has s
Here is an interesting site for real-time monitoring of traffic,
attacks, and latency of the global web.
http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html
Alec
/*
PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
Don't fear the penguin.
*/
Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
I have another shell script question. I am trying to pass a script a
string, replace a portion with something else, and then return the
updated string.
I am getting an error trying to change "dick" to "harry" with the
following:
for f in "$@"
do
newString
See Cringely's take on this article.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061229_001403.html
Christer Edwards wrote:
I don't mean to start any flame wars but I thought this was a very
interesting read. Fairly detailed technical writeup about the cost of
Vista to vendors, manufactu
Also http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7386380154.html
Alec Shaw wrote:
See
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2006/09/19/all-in-one-usb-pclinuxos-minimezip/
Sean Kirkby wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for suggestions re: what distro to use to install on a
2.0 GiB USB thumb drive.
In
See
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2006/09/19/all-in-one-usb-pclinuxos-minimezip/
and
http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7386380154.html
Sean Kirkby wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for suggestions re: what distro to use to install on a 2.0 GiB USB
thumb drive.
In addition to support for booti
See
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2006/09/19/all-in-one-usb-pclinuxos-minimezip/
Sean Kirkby wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for suggestions re: what distro to use to install on a 2.0 GiB USB
thumb drive.
In addition to support for booting from the thumb drive on machines with BIOS's that
allow
My ISP uses zimbra and while I was out of town I tried to read email a
friends machine (windows 2000) over
a dial up line. Zimbra downloads over 1Mb just for the interface and
then would not work for me. On
calling the support line I was told I would have to upgrade DirectX
which I did but Zim
Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
Is it possible to do the following (example written in PHP) in a
shell script?
$var = 'abc';
$var .= 'dfg';
$var .= 'hij';
Try
x="abc"
x=$x"dfg"
x=$x"hij"
/*
PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net
Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug
D
39 matches
Mail list logo
