Thirteen attendees made it to the April meeting of the Python Special Interest Group, held as usual at the Amoskeag Business Incubator, Commercial Street, Manchester, NH on the fourth Thursday of the month at 7 PM.
Bill Sconce lead off the meeting with a printed agenda and a round of introductions. Several new people were welcomed [...]
Hugh MacLeod writes a fascinating blog and illustrates it with killer drawings over at gapingvoid.com. I think he’s got a wicked wit and is a sharp observer of some of the hypocricy surrounding us. More than once I’ve been tempted to order sets of his business cards, even though they might be too edgy to [...]
Blogging at the newly-renamed BFC Computing Weblog, Bill McGonigle writes: FCC Comissioner Michael Copps - My Hero: “Quoting FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, from an e-Week article:
“Can we finally agree that something drastic needs to be done? We can start by facing up to our problem and doing our level best to diagnose its causes. We [...]
Thirty people attended the April meeting of the Merrimack Valley Linux
User Group, held as usual on the third Thursday of the month at Martha’s
Exchange in Nashua.
Heather did a fine job of welcoming the large crowd, listing some
upcoming events (remember, you can always find them on
http://www.gnhlug.org), and requesting feedback on next month’s topic: a
professional graphics designer [...]
DesktopLinux.com relays the news that the Thunderbird 2.0 email client goes gold. ‘Way cool. Looking forward to trying this out. I’ve been using T-bird 1.x for quite some time now, and it’s moved to becoming my primary email client, edging out Safari on the Mac and Evolution on the Linux platform. Mozillazine points out more [...]
Mark Cox writes in Red Hat Magazine, Risk report: Two years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
“Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4 was released on February 15th, 2005. This report takes a look at the state of security for the first two years from release. We look at key metrics, specific vulnerabilities, and the most common [...]
New Hampshire’s legislature is considering a mandatory seat belt law as New Hampshire is Last in the Nation on this requirement. In this morning’s Concord Monitor, Eric Moskowitz points out that “Belts may save more than lives: Insurance costs could drop.” Yeah. maybe, but there are better reasons. Garrett Fitzgerald links to a post by [...]
Garrett Fitzgerald blogs Mas FoxPro: “In view of Microsoft’s decision to abandon future development of Visual FoxPro, there is a movement afoot to ask MS to open-source the product, so the community can take it forward. If you’d like to see this happen, one thing you can do is sign the petition that PortalFox is [...]
A not to be missed presentation: the Merrimack Valley Linux User Group will host Christoph Doerbeck of RedHat presenting “Virtualization on Linux,” a live demo of the Xen technology running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Details here. Reservations are strongly encouraged for dinner: we’ve had a couple of huge showings at MerriLUG lately, [...]
Fifteen attendees made it to the April meeting of the Dartmouth Lake
Sunapee Linux User Group, held as usual in Carson Hall at the Dartmouth College campus on the first Thursday of the month.
Todd Underwood, Vice President, Operations and Professional Services at Renesys presented “ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems.” Renesys is in the business [...]
