March 2004 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Softpro to close Marlboro, MA store...

by Jeff Kinz

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:10:44AM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote: > On Monday 08 March 2004 11:59 pm, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:42:44PM -0500, Michael Kingsbury wrote: > > > to Softpro once.... cover price gets old. > > > > Don't WLUG members get 10% off? I seem to remember going there and > > having to decide over the WBUR, WGBH, and iirc, WLUG discounts. > > Yes, there is a discount on many items for WLUG members. I'm not sure of the > percentage, but I think its 10%. > > > > > There's just something about walking into a store and seeing every ORA > > book right there. ;) http://www.bookpool.com - all the ORA books, always 25% to 45% off -All the time. Sofpro was nice to have around for emergencies but if you can wait 3-4 days for a book, I always go to bookpool. Cheaper and wider selection. (darned hard to read a few pages before buying tho'... :) ) They are located in vineyard haven. IIRC -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "jkinz(a)kinz.org" is copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html.

March 9, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Softpro to close Marlboro, MA store...

by Andy Stewart

On Monday 08 March 2004 11:59 pm, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:42:44PM -0500, Michael Kingsbury wrote: > > to Softpro once.... cover price gets old. > > Don't WLUG members get 10% off? I seem to remember going there and > having to decide over the WBUR, WGBH, and iirc, WLUG discounts. Yes, there is a discount on many items for WLUG members. I'm not sure of the percentage, but I think its 10%. > > There's just something about walking into a store and seeing every ORA > book right there. ;) :-) Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

March 9, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Softpro to close Marlboro, MA store...

by Theo Van Dinter

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:42:44PM -0500, Michael Kingsbury wrote: > to Softpro once.... cover price gets old. Don't WLUG members get 10% off? I seem to remember going there and having to decide over the WBUR, WGBH, and iirc, WLUG discounts. There's just something about walking into a store and seeing every ORA book right there. ;) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Flanders! My socks feel dirty! Gimme some water to wash 'em! -- Homer Simpson Boy-Scoutz n the Hood

March 9, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Softpro to close Marlboro, MA store...

by Michael Kingsbury

On Monday 08 March 2004 10:12 pm, Andy Stewart wrote: > A few months (or more?) ago, the Burlington store closed and they moved it > to Waltham. I had visited the Burlington and Marlboro stores several > times, but I have yet to make it to Waltham. It was some point last fall. I think the Burlington location could not easily compete with B&N a quarter mile down the street and carrying a lot of simliar/same titles for less. If B&N doesn't have a title, usually I'll go online unless I'm in a real hurry for the book, in which case I think I went to Softpro once.... cover price gets old. -mike

March 9, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Softpro to close Marlboro, MA store...

by Andy Stewart

On Monday 08 March 2004 9:45 pm, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:15:18PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote: > > It is with great sadness that we've decided to consolidate our > > operations into our one Waltham store. > > Hey... What happened to the Burlington store? Everytime I drive to > Billerica to visit ye ol' employer's co-lo facility I feel I should > stop off. :( A few months (or more?) ago, the Burlington store closed and they moved it to Waltham. I had visited the Burlington and Marlboro stores several times, but I have yet to make it to Waltham. Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

March 9, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Softpro to close Marlboro, MA store...

by Gregory Boyce

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 21:15, Andy Stewart wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Marlborough Softpro to Close - Last Day is March 20. > Softpro Books Waltham will Serve as Single Location > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > It is with great sadness that we've decided to consolidate our > operations into our one Waltham store. Ugh. And I just visited it for the first time a month or so ago. I was amazed to find such a great selection 5 minutes away from my house.

March 9, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Softpro to close Marlboro, MA store...

by Theo Van Dinter

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:15:18PM -0500, Andy Stewart wrote: > It is with great sadness that we've decided to consolidate our > operations into our one Waltham store. Hey... What happened to the Burlington store? Everytime I drive to Billerica to visit ye ol' employer's co-lo facility I feel I should stop off. :( -- Randomly Generated Tagline: `When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*".' (By Linus Torvalds)

March 9, 2004

Softpro to close Marlboro, MA store...

by Andy Stewart

>From Softpro - FYI: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marlborough Softpro to Close - Last Day is March 20. Softpro Books Waltham will Serve as Single Location ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is with great sadness that we've decided to consolidate our operations into our one Waltham store. The economy has taken its toll on our Marlborough location which we opened with great optimism over 4 years ago. Our last day will be Sat., March 20. Between now and then, we're selling all of our Marlboro inventory at 25% off (sorry, no special orders). Gift certificates will continue to be honored at our Waltham store. We apologize for any inconvenience to our Marlborough area customers and hope that you will visit us in our Waltham store, conveniently located on Route 128/95 at the Totten Pond Road exit. For directions, please visit our web site (www.softpro.com/info.html) or call us at 781-487-2220. -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

March 9, 2004

Re: [Wlug] KDE: Konqueror and fish protocol

by Andy Stewart

On Monday 08 March 2004 12:08 am, brad noyes wrote: > > This is called a KIOSlave. KDE has many KIOSlaves that are available to all > KDE applications. If you are running KDE 3.2, start kinfocenter, about > two-thirds of the way down the list on your left, you'll see 'Protocols', > click that to see all the protocols, or KIOSlaves, available in KDE. > Another one that i use is info:// because i can never remember how to > navigate info pages. > > This is a really cool technology that KDE has had since the 2.0 days. Gnome > has something similar called GnomeVFS, i believe. > > enjoy, > --Brad HI Brad, I didn't know about kinfocenter. Upon seeing that, I suspected that this info was also buried in the KDE Control Center, but I don't see it there (I'm running KDE 3.1.4). After poking around, I see that it is available in the KDE Help Center (khelpcenter). I tried using the fish protocol to access the machine hosting the WLUG website, and it worked just great. I've been looking for this definitive list of the KIOSlaves for some time. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

March 8, 2004

Re: [Wlug] KDE: Konqueror and fish protocol

by Frank Sweetser

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 12:08:51AM -0500, brad noyes wrote: > This is a really cool technology that KDE has had since the 2.0 days. Gnome > has something similar called GnomeVFS, i believe. I don't know if KDE started it or not, but at least gnome and lftp both support "fish" protocol. The fish apparently (roughly) stands for "files over ssh", and appears to be an alternative to sftp. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu WPI Network Engineer

March 8, 2004