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
2 months, 1 week
Re: [Wlug] Upcoming speakers for WLUG
by David Glaser
That would be interestingespecially when combined with mesh networking.
-David
On 10/29/2014 12:17 AM, Frank Sweetser wrote:
> If there's interest, I'd be happy to ramble on a bit about 802.11ac, the
> current new high speed wireless protocol, as well as the batch of other wifi
> variants that's currently in the design pipeline.
>
> On 10/27/2014 10:51 AM, Tim Keller wrote:
>> Hey Everybody,
>>
>> Here are the speakers that will be coming up...
>>
>> Nov: Logan Brown will be giving a talk about Asterisk/VOIP.
>> Dec: Tim Keller will be giving a talk about Linux educational software / STEM
>> toys / etc.
>> Jan: Andy Stewart will be giving a talk about MESH networking.
>>
>> More information about each of these talks will be send out at the beginning
>> of each month.
>>
>> If there's a topic you'd like to hear a talk about or something you'd like to
>> talk about, feel free to email the list or me and we'll make it work.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim.
>>
>> --
>> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
>> constituents as "consumers".
>>
>>
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4 years, 1 month
Upcoming speakers for WLUG
by Tim Keller
Hey Everybody,
Here are the speakers that will be coming up...
Nov: Logan Brown will be giving a talk about Asterisk/VOIP.
Dec: Tim Keller will be giving a talk about Linux educational software /
STEM toys / etc.
Jan: Andy Stewart will be giving a talk about MESH networking.
More information about each of these talks will be send out at the
beginning of each month.
If there's a topic you'd like to hear a talk about or something you'd like
to talk about, feel free to email the list or me and we'll make it work.
Thanks,
Tim.
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
4 years, 1 month
Topics for next meeting...
by Tim Keller
I figure we're half way through October at this point, we should start
thinking about what we'd like talk about for a topic next month.
One area that's of interest to me with young kids is educational programs
that work on linux.
Thanks,
Tim.
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
4 years, 1 month
WLUG Meeting Tonight
by Chuck Anderson
For what its worth at this point in time, a bunch of us ARE going to
be at the meeting tonight, including myself.
4 years, 2 months
Musing about meetings...
by Tim Keller
Okay Gang,
In the 10+ years that this group has been in existence many of us have
gotten married, had a couple of kids, etc. This means that planning for a
WLUG meeting needs to happen in a much more scheduled manner. Sending out
a meeting reminder the day before a meeting just doesn't cut it anymore.
I've spoken with Chuck and things are going to be changing.
However, before we do anything, I think it makes sense to ask some
questions.
Does the first Wednesday of every month work for everybody?
Would going back to the Wed/Thurs alternating schedule work better for
people?
What I'd like to implement is an automated meeting system that'll
automatically send a reminder at the beginning of the month and then a
subsequent reminder the day or two before.
I'd love input on this.
Thanks,
Tim.
--
I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their
constituents as "consumers".
4 years, 2 months
The "broken" text file (was: I guess this is goodbye... )
by E Johnson
Thanks, Keith.
The program doesn't crash at all, and I don't think it is broken. It just
can't do certain things that it used to do. This program is called Geneweb,
and it's free, GNU, open-source, etc.
http://opensource.geneanet.org/projects/geneweb. I am running version 5.01
which is not the latest, but I'm keeping it because in versions starting
from 6, they changed something, and a mod that I installed (that I didn't
write) that allows a display of three generations before and after the
individual won't work any more.
The data in the text file (called the base), containing various types of
information about the individual, also contains some numbers and so forth,
linking that person to his/her parents, children, spouse, etc. The program
will access this file display an individual and parents, children, etc, if
known in a web page that is nicely formatted; that's fine. What happens
since May 2012 is that from the top page there is a choice of displaying
all surnames (alphabetical), or a box in which one can input a surname,
which then will result in a display of all persons with that name. That
won't work now, and neither will the all-surnames display work. One can
also choose to display persons sorted on title or estate, which also
doesn't work.
The problem really is in the text file (the base). I have several different
databases here, and the others, one of which contains 50,000 individuals,
perform perfectly. But in my big database, it hangs, seeming to get lost,
when asked to display surnames or estates.
The data in the text file is supposed to look like this, more or less:
0 @I1@ INDI
1 NAME Bob /Cox/
1 SEX M
1 FAMS @F1@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 11 FEB 2006
0 @I2@ INDI
1 NAME Joann /Para/
1 SEX F
1 FAMS @F1@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 11 FEB 2006
0 @I3@ INDI
1 NAME Bobby Jo /Cox/
1 SEX M
1 FAMC @F1@
1 CHAN
2 DATE 11 FEB 2006
0 @F1@ FAM
1 HUSB @I1@
1 WIFE @I2@
1 MARR
1 CHIL @I3@
0 TRLR
I also can't create a backup or copy to anywhere, which is crucial, and I
can't move the base file, either to another location on the hard drive or
to another device. I also can't get it to re-sort, which would be nice,
because that cleans up "ghosts" or leftover info on individuals that don't
"exist" any more because they have been merged with another one who turned
out to be the same person. This problem first cropped up when I had either
86,000 individuals or 82,000 individuals, 2 1/2 years ago.
If I ever use the wrong terminology, I aploogize, but I'm not an IT
specialist. I am a Linux User located in Worcester. Last time I wrote a
program, it was in Basic. I should have said, I guess, is that there must
be some bad characters in this text file "base", which makes it impossible
for the program that uses it to perform certain functions, such as Sort, or
to display certain data, such as all persons of the surname {Whatever}.
Liz
I didn't know what could be meant by "broken text file", now I see
that you mean "broken file processing program". Do you have
the source for the geneology program? If not, insert rant here.
Does the program crash as soon as you import the file, or
only when you do something particular? My first impulse
would be to put printf commands into the input procedure.
Do you have a spec for what the data is supposed to look like,
or is this one of those take-the-money-and-(run|hide|
sell updates)
programs, whose authors think that's super double secret eye pee?
> The text file has been broken since May 2012. This is a genealogical
> database, that runs in a program that accesses the file, which consists of
> names, dates, places, etc, plus notes. I think the bogus character might
be
> an at sign @ but if so, it won't help to search for it, because GEDCOMS
> contain several @ for each individual. My database contains 115,000
> individuals. I think I know what family (surname) I was working on when it
> broke, though, and it still hangs there. I guess I could grep the file for
> that surname and get it to output a couple of lines after it finds each
> instance.
4 years, 2 months
I guess this is goodbye to WLUG
by Joel
Sent messages last month asking about the monthly meeting. No response in
a month. No messages in a month.
My time with WLUG was fun & informative. I wish you all health & happiness.
Thank you,
Joel
4 years, 2 months
