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BOOKS...BOOKS...BOOKS!!!
by Tim Keller 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

Hey Gang! To make a long story short, I'm going through a book purge. Obviously being my friends, I thought I'd give you guys first dibs before I donate anything. If you want something, declare it on the list. Any disagreements will be handled with duels to the death (obviously the winner gets the book + any books the loser also claimed...) Here's the list: Hacking / Security Books: "Secrets of a super hacker" by The Knightmare. "Hackers Challenge: Test Your Incident Response Skills Using 20 Scenarios" (3rd Edition) "Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions" "Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense" Math Books: "Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications" by Kenneth H. Rosen "Languages and Machines" Thomas A Sudkamp "A Primer for Calculus" Misc: "Latex" Second edition "The Latex Companion" "Mips RISC Architecture" "Database Systems" "Creating Web Pages with HTML" (3rd edition) "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation": Tanenbaum (includes Minux 2.0 disk!!) "PCI System Architecture" (Third Edition) Programming Books: "The C Primer" Third edition (this book is a bit dog eared) "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus" "Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk" "Virtual Reality Playhouse" "Creating Turbo C++ Games" (The disk for this book is long lost) "Linux Kernel Programming" (Third Edition) "Using Java 1.1" (Third Edition) "Using JavaBeans" (CD Long gone) "Sams' Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days" (Second Edition) "Beginning Fedora 2" (Yeah it's 8 versions behind, but as a beginners guide to red hat linux systems, it's great) "User Interfaces In C++ And Object-Oriented Programming" by Mark Goodwin "Gardens of Imagination: Programming 3d Maze Games in C/C++" (Disk long gone) "NetWarriors In C Programming 3d Multiplaery games" (CD Long gone) "Programming perl" (O'Reilly) "Learning Perl" (O'Reilly) "Perl by Example" (Ellie Quigley) "A First Book of Ansi C" (a bit dog eared but excellent) Thanks, Tim. -- I am weary of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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August WLUG meeting
by Andy Stewart 13 Aug '09

13 Aug '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI gang, Please note that I've just updated the website with a meeting topic change. It turns out that maddog will be visiting us at the August meeting instead of the October meeting. maddog has visited WLUG on previous occasions and is an excellent speaker. You won't want to miss this meeting! More news later.......... Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKaSjuOjiraCaOTOoRAozPAJ41EoNqkKUwrJZI5p+bdue4u4I8EQCgjKIC z7NW+SXkD52OrYZAv0VxMsI= =73dF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Wlug] non-Linux: Looking for a free kitten locally
by Jamie Guinan 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

I suspect the amount you would pay at the animal shelter would PALE next to what you are going to pay for vet bills, spaying/neutering (usually done around 6 mos as I recall), food, etc. So despite your comment, I'll plug these guys: http://www.worcester-arl.org/catsAdoption.html But for another source, people are giving away kittens all the time on Worcester freecycle. Its a Yahoo groups thing, which totally sucks balls, but I have found good stuff on there from time to time. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WorcesterMAfreecycle/ Example: Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:50 pm offer: young grey kitten with white paws 01604 -Jamie On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Tatsh wrote: > I know I have not ever sent an email, but I've been on the mailing list > for some time. Been extremely interested in going to meetings but just > have not done so yet. > > If you are local, and have healthy kittens to give away or know anyone > who does locally (I live in Lancaster, about 20 minutes away from > Worcester), please respond. Looking to just get one, at maximum 5 months > old. > > I have been scouring the web and craigslist and have not found much. I > do not really want to drop the amount they want at the local animal shelter. > > Any help appreciated. > > Thanks > Andrew > 978-870-5908 > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

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Re: [Wlug] non-Linux: Looking for a free kitten locally
by Jamie Guinan 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Lol, you're right! And I commend you on your keen eyesight. :) -Jamie On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Randall Mason wrote: > I feel all betrayed, it says Linux on the bottom, but it's clearley > FreeBSD... > Just kidding about the betrayal, it's more just sadness :-) > > Randall Mason > randall(a)mason.ch > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Jamie Guinan <guinan(a)bluebutton.com> wrote: > > > > > And just to keep this on topic, here's a picture of a cat and > > Linux: > > > > http://countenance.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/linux-cat.jpg > > > > -Jamie > > > > > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Jamie Guinan wrote: > > > > > > > > I suspect the amount you would pay at the animal shelter would PALE > > > next to what you are going to pay for vet bills, spaying/neutering > > > (usually done around 6 mos as I recall), food, etc. So despite your > > > comment, I'll plug these guys: > > > > > > http://www.worcester-arl.org/catsAdoption.html > > > > > > But for another source, people are giving away kittens all the time > > > on Worcester freecycle. Its a Yahoo groups thing, which totally > > > sucks balls, but I have found good stuff on there from time to time. > > > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WorcesterMAfreecycle/ > > > > > > Example: > > > > > > Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:50 pm > > > offer: young grey kitten with white paws 01604 > > > > > > -Jamie > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Tatsh wrote: > > > > > > > I know I have not ever sent an email, but I've been on the mailing list > > > > for some time. Been extremely interested in going to meetings but just > > > > have not done so yet. > > > > > > > > If you are local, and have healthy kittens to give away or know anyone > > > > who does locally (I live in Lancaster, about 20 minutes away from > > > > Worcester), please respond. Looking to just get one, at maximum 5 > > months > > > > old. > > > > > > > > I have been scouring the web and craigslist and have not found much. I > > > > do not really want to drop the amount they want at the local animal > > shelter. > > > > > > > > Any help appreciated. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Andrew > > > > 978-870-5908 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 > > >

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non-Linux: Looking for a free kitten locally
by Tatsh 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

I know I have not ever sent an email, but I've been on the mailing list for some time. Been extremely interested in going to meetings but just have not done so yet. If you are local, and have healthy kittens to give away or know anyone who does locally (I live in Lancaster, about 20 minutes away from Worcester), please respond. Looking to just get one, at maximum 5 months old. I have been scouring the web and craigslist and have not found much. I do not really want to drop the amount they want at the local animal shelter. Any help appreciated. Thanks Andrew 978-870-5908

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SCSI and laptop
by dulsi＠identicalsoftware.com 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

I bought a new laptop but have an old umax scanner. Previously I used a PCMCIA SCSI card to hookup that scanner. My new laptop has expresscard. What is the easiest way to hookup the old scanner? I tried to used the old laptop the other day until I had time to look into how to do it with the new laptop and found it no longer boots. Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com

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PC-BSD, FreeBSD, and iXsystems - anyone know about them?
by Brian McLinden 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

I have pretensions of hacker status someday. ;-] They are selling a desktop with PC-BSD installed and configured. I'm thinking about buying their new Apollo rig, http://www.ixsystems.com/apollo and ask them to install some kind of virtual machine software on top of FreeBSD (or PC-BSD) so that I can learn various linux distros running as clients. Anyone know anything about them? Any thoughts or cautions about this approach? Thanks in advance for thoughts, reactions. PS - anyone programming Lisp, write me? Brian.McLinden(a)gmail.com

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Fwd: [nomoto] OLPC job openings
by Richard Klein 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Just thought I'd pass this on: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- if any of you know of strong linux kernel/driver folks, or strong release or test folks, OLPC is looking... http://laptop.org/en/utility/people/opportunities.shtml -- Rich Sent from Marlborough, MA, United States

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Python – who's curious or learning it, or codes it daily, or teaching it, or ...
by Brian McLinden 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

A thread for sharing by those with interest in or curiosity about Python. For newbies like me, hackers tout the just out major revision of Allen Downey's classic “How to think like a computer scientist: Learning with Python.” It's been retitled - “PYTHON FOR SOFTWARE DESIGN: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist.” Buy at Amazon or read free - http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ Favorable review - http://www.amazon.com/Python-Software-Design-Computer-Scientist/product-rev… Brian Worcester

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Virtual Machine Manager
by dulsi＠identicalsoftware.com 30 Jul '09

30 Jul '09

Anyone familiar with virtual machine manager and kvm. I'm having some issues with a windows virtual machine. The system is Fedora 11 and the virtual machine is Windows 2008 Server. If I start the virtual machine from the virtual machine manager, it only has a single cpu despite my setting it to eight. If I start the machine from the command line, I can get four cpus but not eight. In both cases windows seem to display the eight cpus in the device manager (or whatever program it is). It has been suggest that windows was imaged on a four core machine before being loaded on the eight core machine and that something in windows is maxing at four cores. But that doesn't explain why the virtual machine manager can only start one cpu. I just played around on my home machine with a fedora 10 live cd and it recognized the two cores on that machine and used them from the virtual machine manager without problem. Also upped it to three cpus without problem.

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