February 2005 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

New meeting dates for March/April 2005

by Andy Stewart

HI Everybody, I've just updated the WLUG website. The meeting dates for our next two meetings are: Wednesday, March 23rd Wednesday, April 20th Discussion topics are still TBD. Also, I've just posted Scott Venier's slides from his Vesta talk at the February meeting. Thanks again, Scott! Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Feb. 26, 2005

Reminder: WLUG Meeting Thursday 7 PM

by Andy Stewart

HI Everybody, Our next WLUG meeting is scheduled for Thursday, February 17th at 7:00 PM in the Access Grid room at the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA. Let's hope it doesn't snow this time....... :-) Our guest speaker will be Scott Venier, a long time WLUG member, who will be discussing Vesta, a software configuration management system. Vesta is a portable SCM system targeted at supporting development of software systems of almost any size, from fairly small (under 10,000 source lines) to very large (10,000,000 source lines). It is both a revision control system and a build system. Vesta provides full automatic dependency detection and guarantees exact repeatability of any build. See ya there! Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Feb. 16, 2005

RE: [Wlug] Quick Question if anybody knows conserning .ppt and DV D's

by Keller, Tim

The other "kludgy" solution would be to run the slideshow, and then dump the output into a capture card... Tim. -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Sawyer Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 12:35 PM To: Tom Misilo; Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] Quick Question if anybody knows conserning .ppt and DVD's The only thing I can think of is to save each frame as a picture. Then burn a picture disc. On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:29:06 -0500, Tom Misilo <tmisilo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I was wondering if anybody knew how I could convert a .ppt Power Point > File into a Movie file (such as .avi .mpg or such) so that it could be > put onto a DVD or VCD > > Thanks, > Tom Misilo > -- > Tom Misilo > Saint Bernard's High School '06 > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Feb. 15, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Quick Question if anybody knows conserning .ppt and DVD's

by Patrick Sawyer

The only thing I can think of is to save each frame as a picture. Then burn a picture disc. On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:29:06 -0500, Tom Misilo <tmisilo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I was wondering if anybody knew how I could convert a .ppt Power Point > File into a Movie file (such as .avi .mpg or such) so that it could be > put onto a DVD or VCD > > Thanks, > Tom Misilo > -- > Tom Misilo > Saint Bernard's High School '06 > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Feb. 14, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Teach an old guy new tricks.

by Ira Krakow

Ken, > I miss the problem solving and the camaraderie of > the work place. 1) Find a problem you want to solve, that doesn't have a good solution yet, perhaps hasn't been solved, or has been tackled by a Linux project and you are curious about. Be open to learning more. 2) Check out www.sourceforge.net, which is the repository for open source projects, and search for the projects you might like to contribute. Join their mailing list, look at the pending tasks, and lurk a while to find out how the project is organized. 3) Match your interests and talents with the pending projects and try something that you tackle easily. Confirming or finding a bug (the projects usually have publicly available bug lists) is a good way to start. Maybe you are good at documentation - usually there are many areas where you can contribute - it's also a great way to learn. 4) Once you are confident enough, download the source code and start fixing bugs and suggesting enhancements. Best of luck. Many Linux-based projects need people with your talents. Ira

Feb. 14, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Teach an old guy new tricks.

by Bill Smith

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:29:50 -0500 Ken Jones <kjones(a)ziplink.net> wrote: > I am interested in getting involved in Linux Open Source development. > > I am a seventy year old retiree. I started programming on the AN/FSQ7 > at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in 1957. (If you read "Computing in the > Middle Ages" by Severo Ornstein, I was there.) I finished by > professional work life as a Senior Software Engineer at CISCO Systems > in 2003. First, the Bad News: the number of people who shudder at the term "shuffle the deck" is greatly diminishing. Looking at the way some software is developed these days, that may be a Bad Thing. ;) > I miss the problem solving and the camaraderie of the work place. I > wonder whether I can contribute to the development of Linux. How do I > start? The best thing I could suggest is to find a project that interests you, join the development mailing list (if it has one), and ask how you can help. (This will likely be answered in advance by reading that project's TODO list.) There are lots of drivers that need to be written or debugged. Finding something to work on shouldn't be too hard. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com Microsoft Windows doesn't HAVE security holes... It IS a security hole. * TAG! v3.1a *

Feb. 14, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Teach an old guy new tricks.

by Gary Hanley

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Ken Jones wrote: > I am interested in getting involved in Linux Open Source development. > How do I start? This advice from someone who has NOT done any development for Linux but would love to someday after I retire (or are out of work for an extended period of time)... 1: Install Linux on your PC (or whatever compatible hardware you have). 2: Go to this directory: /usr/src/linux/Documentation and read some (or most) of the text files here, notably: * BUG-HUNTING * CodingStyle * SubmittingPatches 3: Become familiar with this site: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ 4: Have fun! :-) -- Gary

Feb. 13, 2005

Teach an old guy new tricks.

by Ken Jones

I am interested in getting involved in Linux Open Source development. I am a seventy year old retiree. I started programming on the AN/FSQ7 at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in 1957. (If you read "Computing in the Middle Ages" by Severo Ornstein, I was there.) I finished by professional work life as a Senior Software Engineer at CISCO Systems in 2003. I miss the problem solving and the camaraderie of the work place. I wonder whether I can contribute to the development of Linux. How do I start? Ken Jones

Feb. 12, 2005

Quick Question if anybody knows conserning .ppt and DVD's

by Tom Misilo

I was wondering if anybody knew how I could convert a .ppt Power Point File into a Movie file (such as .avi .mpg or such) so that it could be put onto a DVD or VCD Thanks, Tom Misilo -- Tom Misilo Saint Bernard's High School '06

Feb. 12, 2005

Meeting POSTPONED

by Andy Stewart

HI gang, My sincere apologies for the late notice, but I just got home and the conditions are deteriorating quickly. The WLUG meeting is postponed until next week Thursday, Feb 17th. Please stay home this evening. Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Feb. 10, 2005