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Archive for September, 2007

28 Sep

Red Hat Magazine | A guide to GNU Screen

A handy reference, A guide to GNU Screen, appears in Red Hat Magazine:
The same way tabbed browsing revolutionized the web experience, GNU Screen can do the same for your experience in the command line. GNU Screen allows you to manage several interactive shell instances within the same “window.”
The killer feature of screen, in my mind, [...]

27 Sep

Former TheOpenCD project lead starts OpenDisc

I’ve plugged TheOpenCD a few times on this blog before. We’ve talked at several recent LUG meetings on the value of TheOpenCD, in giving a customer, client, friend or stranger a CD of well-organized, easily installed, polished Open Source applications. In a recent blog posting, the former project lead talks about the management and infrastructural [...]

27 Sep

Book recommendation: CSS, Separating Content from Presentation

I wanted to make a strong recommendation you pick up Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, Second Edition, Second Edition. I read the first half of the book a couple of weekends ago and was so inspired, I tore into one of my websites for a major overhaul. The book lays out the issues [...]

26 Sep

Notes from the NH Ruby/Rails Group, 25-Sept-2007: Scott Garman and Nick Plante

Five attendees made it to the September meeting of the NH Ruby/Rails User Group, held as usual at the well-appointed RMC Research offices, though not on the usual third Tuesday. A round of introductions lead to some vigorous discussions, including how to broadcast and record meetings (perhaps a future meeting will be available via WebEx?), [...]

25 Sep

raganwald: We have lost control of the apparatus

Reg Braithwaite passes on the bad news: “I am writing to you as a fellow programmer and software developer. I write in friendship and brotherhood. My heart is heavy, and the news I impart is not good: raganwald: We have lost control of the apparatus.” A funny piece, with a pointed moral to the story: [...]

24 Sep

New Hampshire Ruby/Rails Group, 25-Sept-2007: Live Coding

Organizer Scott Garmin posts:
“Tomorrow’s NH Ruby/Rails User Group meeting will include a continuation of the live coding project Nick Plante and Scott Garman started during the July meeting. This project was to develop a web application where group members could submit proposed topics for future meetings, and vote on their favorites… This month, Nick [...]

24 Sep

CentraLUG: 1-Oct-2007: Michael Kazin shows Nagios

The Central NH Linux User Group returns to the Library after a summer hiatus at the Sybase offices in Concord. The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central NH GNHLUG chapter, happens the first Monday of most months at the New Hampshire Technical Institute’s Library, room 146, at 7 PM. Next month’s meeting is on October [...]

14 Sep

MonadLUG notes, 13-Sept-2007, Charlie Farinella on digitizing analog vinyl albums

Ten people attended the September meeting of the Monadnock Area Linux User Group, MonadLUG, one of the LUGs of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group, held as usual on the second Thursday of the month at the SAU 1 Administration offices on Hancock Road in Peterborough.
Charlie started off the meeting with a round of [...]

14 Sep

MerriLUG, 20-Sept-2007: OpenOffice.org Styles

Jim Kuzdrall, announcement coordinator for MerriLUG, gets to announce himself as the featured speaker this month at MerriLUG:

Who : Jim Kuzdrall, Intrel Service Company

What : Introduction to OO styles and some handy simplifications
Where: Martha’s Exchange
Day : Thur 20 Sep **Next Week**
Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion

Overwhelmed by formatting choices [...]

13 Sep

Clippy on a rampage: exploit code appears for Microsoft Agent bug

September 13, 2007 Computerworld –Exploit code appears for Microsoft Agent bug “It took less than 24 hours for attackers to crank out proof-of-concept code targeting the one critical vulnerability disclosed — and patched — Tuesday morning by Microsoft, security researchers warned.” Ouch. A Day One exploit. Hopefully, Microsoft’s distribution of their updated Agent patches [...]

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