Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?
by John Stoffel
Hi,
Anyone on here using Charter Telephone VOIP service? I've currently
got Verizon, but the wife hates it because our phone lines get flaky
all the time, esp when it rains.
So I'm thinking to save money and combine all my stuff onto Charter.
I've already got High Speed internet and regular old cable. Not wild
about Digital Cable since I'm happy with Tivo and I don't want yet
another set top box to have to deal with...
So, any horror stories about Charter Phone VOIP quality and service?
Thanks,
John
3 weeks, 1 day
Information for Linux newbies?
by Kevin Harrington
As i mentioned at the meeting this past week I am going to be giving a
seminar for linux newbies and would like to pull from people that
know better then i do on what i should teach people. What i would like
to know is: What are some things that you wish you had known as a
newbie? Think back to your very first linux install and any
short-cuts, tips, tricks, and gatcha's that would make peoples first
experience easier. There is a lot of windows resentment after the slow
trainwreck that is vista, so lets see if we can get a few new
converts!
P.S. one of the big concerns for a few people that i have talked to
has been games, if anyone has a list of new-ish games that work or any
tips specific to making the most recent generation work under linux,
that would make things much easier ;)
10 years, 9 months
reboot problem
by Gregory Avedissian
At the meeting before last, I asked about a problem I'm having with the
computer occasionally going to a black screen with no disk activity on
reboot, right after the grub menu goes away.
Overnight memtest showed no errors, I put a different vid card in, and
still had the black screen problem.
One of the things someone mentioned was to test the power supply.
Recently, I had a few hard lockups and a couple of spontaneous reboots.
So, how do I test my power supply, other than replacing it and seeing if
the problem goes away? Or is that evidence enough to change it ASAP?
According to lm-sensors, voltages are fine, and I've even sat and watched
gkrellm for long periods of time - they look stable.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Greg
10 years, 10 months
REMINDER: Upcoming WLUG Meeting
by Andy Stewart
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HI Everybody,
Our next WLUG meeting will be on Wednesday, 12-dec-2007, at 7:00 PM in
the Access Grid Room on the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA.
At this meeting, we'll have Dan Walsh from RedHat as our guest speaker.
Dan will talk about SELinux.
First, Dan will give a quick overview of SELinux, followed by a
discussion of what's new with SELinux in Fedora 8. Dan will then hand
out SELinux live CDs of Fedora 8, from which he will present how to
write SELinux policy. This promises to be a great meeting that you won't
want to miss.
After the meeting, we'll head out for dinner at a local pizza restaurant.
See ya then!
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org)
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393)
Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ
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10 years, 10 months
Any XMl-types out there?
by Stephen Daukas
Hello Everyone!
So, I have to teach myself myself XML, XSL, et al., for work... (The VB
stuff is in the background for now!) I started playing with XML yesterday,
and have gotten pretty far along. But... I have to deal with M$-generated
XML files that looks like the following (I added the first two lines for
display in a browser):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="SOURCES.xsl"?>
<xml xmlns:s='uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882'
xmlns:dt='uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882'
xmlns:rs='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset'
xmlns:z='#RowsetSchema'>
<s:Schema id='RowsetSchema'>
<s:ElementType name='row' content='eltOnly'>
<s:AttributeType name='ID305B' rs:number='1' rs:nullable='true'
rs:maydefer='true' rs:writeunknown='true'>
<s:datatype dt:type='string' dt:maxLength='50'/>
</s:AttributeType>
[snip]
<s:extends type='rs:rowbase'/>
</s:ElementType>
</s:Schema>
<rs:data>
<z:row ID305B='MA11002' CYCLE='2002' USE_ID='537' CAUSE_ID='226'
SOURCE_ID='180' CONFIRMED='N'/>
[~11,000 lines snipped]
So, I wrote the following SOURCES.xsl file to display this beast in a
browser (it uses recursion):
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:rs='urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset'
xmlns:z='#RowsetSchema' version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<BODY topmargin="0" leftmargin="0">
<xsl:apply-templates select="/xml/rs:data"/>
</BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:key name="rows-by-AU" match="z:row" use="@ID305B" />
<xsl:template match="z:row">
<xsl:apply-templates select="key('rows-by-AU', ID305B)" />
<div AU_ID="{ID305B}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="key('rows-by-AU', ID305B)" />
<div USE_ID="{CYCLE}">
<div USE_ID="{USE_ID}">
<xsl:value-of select="@ID305B"/>
(<xsl:value-of select="@CYCLE"/>):
<xsl:apply-templates select="key('rows-by-AU', USE_ID)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="@USE_ID"/> -
<xsl:value-of select="@CAUSE_ID"/> -
<xsl:value-of select="@SOURCE_ID"/>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
And it works (surprised the hell out of me)! But now I'm having the hardest
time figuring out how to format this the way I'd like. This is how it
currently looks in the browser:
MA11002 (2002): 537 - 226 - 180
MA11002 (2002): 537 - 448 - 140
MA11002 (2002): 538 - 226 - 180
MA11002 (2002): 538 - 413 - 140
MA11002 (2002): 538 - 413 - 177
MA11002 (2002): 539 - 226 - 180
MA11002 (2002): 539 - 413 - 140
MA11002 (2002): 541 - 226 - 180
MA11002 (2002): 541 - 478 - 140
MA11002 (2002): 541 - 413 - 140
MA11018 (2002): 538 - 413 - 140
MA11018 (2002): 539 - 413 - 140
MA11018 (2002): 541 - 413 - 140
MA11019 (2002): 537 - 312 - 140
MA11019 (2002): 538 - 312 - 140
MA11019 (2002): 539 - 312 - 140
MA11019 (2002): 541 - 312 - 140
[... other IDs in between 2002 and 2008 ...]
MA11002 (2008): 537 - 226 - 180
MA11002 (2008): 537 - 478 - 92
MA11002 (2008): 537 - 312 - 156
[... thousands of additional IDs ...]
And I'd like the output to look something like:
MA11002 (2002): 537 - 226 - 180
- 448 - 140
538 - 226 - 180
- 413 - 140
- 177
539 - 226 - 180
- 413 - 140
MA11002 (2008): 537 - 226 - 180
- 478 - 92
- 312 - 156
[...]
So, things would need to be grouped by ID305B and CYCLE, then by USE_ID,
then by CAUSE_ID, then by SOURCE_ID.
But, I'd even settle for output that looks like:
MA11002 (2002): 537 - 226 - 180
MA11002 (2002): 537 - 448 - 140
MA11002 (2002): 538 - 226 - 180
MA11002 (2002): 538 - 413 - 140
MA11002 (2002): 538 - 413 - 177
MA11002 (2002): 539 - 226 - 180
MA11002 (2002): 539 - 413 - 140
MA11002 (2002): 541 - 226 - 180
MA11002 (2002): 541 - 478 - 140
MA11002 (2002): 541 - 413 - 140
MA11002 (2008): 537 - 226 - 180
MA11002 (2008): 537 - 478 - 92
MA11002 (2008): 537 - 312 - 156
[... thousands of additional IDs ...]
where the IDs from the two different years are adjacent to one another...
I believe this will involve much pain and suffering while I try to figure
out such things as XML nodes, grouping, sorting, and the like... But, I'm
hoping someone will look at this and say "boy Daukas, that's easy...
just do this, and then that, and voila - your done!".
Anyone? Anyone? ;-)
Thanks in advance for any help!
Steve
10 years, 10 months
