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Notes from the 18-December-2008 meeting of the Python Special Interest Group

Robby on Rails posts a thoughtful “Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist,” a handy list of things to be thinking of from day one in a project.

Five members attended the December meeting of the Central New Hampshire Linux User Group, one chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group, held as usual on the New Hampshire Technical Institute Library Room 146. (Note that there will not be a January meeting at NHTI, as the facility will be on break.)
A good [...]

In order to get access to a client’s VPN, I needed to get their VPN client software installed on my Fedora 10 workstation. Following their basic directions, it was apparent that there was an attempt to run Java in FireFox, and it was failing. Running FireFox from a shell, I could see IcedTea errors. So, [...]

An even dozen (or maybe an odd dozen…) folks attended the October Python Special Interest Group meeting, held as usual on the fourth Thursday of the month at the Amoskeag Business Incubator.
It was a busy and exciting meeting. Vigorous conversations filled the first half hour, as we welcomed a few new members, a few members [...]

For some reason, I couldn’t get this to work the first time through, but perseverance paid off. On our home office LAN, we use the LinkSys WRTSL54GS router. The WRTSL54GS (whew!) is the Storage Link (that means it has a USB connection) version with 802.11 G technology, the standard 54 Mbps wireless protocols, with the [...]

The Fedora Project ships new version 10, code-named…