I guess this is goodbye to WLUG
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
A month with nothing, really? On Oct 7, 2014 9:52 PM, "Joel" <joelgroup@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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rumors of the death of wlug have been greatly exaggerated, I hope. On Oct 7, 2014 10:22 PM, "Eric Martin" <eric.joshua.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
A month with nothing, really? On Oct 7, 2014 9:52 PM, "Joel" <joelgroup@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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I hope not. Even if I rarely attend meetings, I appreciate everyone and everything that happens in WLUG. Recently soimeone I know by correspondence, apparently a nuclear physicist, has had problems with his aging Mac, and contacted me for help since he knows I build my own computers. He' wants to build his own, and install a Linux OS. He is in the US but not local. I recommended some parts for a new build for him, but also recommended that he find a LUG near him and contact them, etc. Is there a directory of LUGs that he can consult? Are the LUGs in contact with each other? If not, that should have been happening right along. I have one issue of my own going on in a prog I have here that I need help with --just a stupid glitch in a text file that should be easy to find, but the text file is HUGE, yet I don't know how to write the correct commands in order to find the probable bad characters in this file and correct them. It would probably be easy for someone, but... I should write this up and send it in case someone can easily solve this. I hope our LUG and the others are not planning to expire anytime soon. Thanks for being there everyone, Liz J On 7 October 2014 22:28, James Gray <jamespgray@gmail.com> wrote:
rumors of the death of wlug have been greatly exaggerated, I hope. On Oct 7, 2014 10:22 PM, "Eric Martin" <eric.joshua.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
A month with nothing, really? On Oct 7, 2014 9:52 PM, "Joel" <joelgroup@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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I was just about to ask if we're going to have a meeting tonight! On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:20 PM, E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com> wrote:
I hope not. Even if I rarely attend meetings, I appreciate everyone and everything that happens in WLUG. Recently soimeone I know by correspondence, apparently a nuclear physicist, has had problems with his aging Mac, and contacted me for help since he knows I build my own computers. He' wants to build his own, and install a Linux OS. He is in the US but not local. I recommended some parts for a new build for him, but also recommended that he find a LUG near him and contact them, etc.
Is there a directory of LUGs that he can consult? Are the LUGs in contact with each other? If not, that should have been happening right along.
I have one issue of my own going on in a prog I have here that I need help with --just a stupid glitch in a text file that should be easy to find, but the text file is HUGE, yet I don't know how to write the correct commands in order to find the probable bad characters in this file and correct them. It would probably be easy for someone, but... I should write this up and send it in case someone can easily solve this.
I hope our LUG and the others are not planning to expire anytime soon.
Thanks for being there everyone, Liz J
On 7 October 2014 22:28, James Gray <jamespgray@gmail.com> wrote:
rumors of the death of wlug have been greatly exaggerated, I hope. On Oct 7, 2014 10:22 PM, "Eric Martin" <eric.joshua.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
A month with nothing, really? On Oct 7, 2014 9:52 PM, "Joel" <joelgroup@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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-- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
Hi Liz, in order to find a local LUG you might start with http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO-3.html Many of the lists referenced on this page appear to have been updated recently, although the website itself is rather dated and I only remember hearing about the Linux Documentation project long ago. Otherwise I suggest he do an internet search for additional lists/directories of LUGs/open source/free software groups. Fixing the text file shouldn't be hard if you know what the characters are that are causing the problem. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Tim Keller <turbofx@gmail.com> wrote:
I was just about to ask if we're going to have a meeting tonight!
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:20 PM, E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com> wrote:
I hope not. Even if I rarely attend meetings, I appreciate everyone and everything that happens in WLUG. Recently soimeone I know by correspondence, apparently a nuclear physicist, has had problems with his aging Mac, and contacted me for help since he knows I build my own computers. He' wants to build his own, and install a Linux OS. He is in the US but not local. I recommended some parts for a new build for him, but also recommended that he find a LUG near him and contact them, etc.
Is there a directory of LUGs that he can consult? Are the LUGs in contact with each other? If not, that should have been happening right along.
I have one issue of my own going on in a prog I have here that I need help with --just a stupid glitch in a text file that should be easy to find, but the text file is HUGE, yet I don't know how to write the correct commands in order to find the probable bad characters in this file and correct them. It would probably be easy for someone, but... I should write this up and send it in case someone can easily solve this.
I hope our LUG and the others are not planning to expire anytime soon.
Thanks for being there everyone, Liz J
On 7 October 2014 22:28, James Gray <jamespgray@gmail.com> wrote:
rumors of the death of wlug have been greatly exaggerated, I hope. On Oct 7, 2014 10:22 PM, "Eric Martin" <eric.joshua.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
A month with nothing, really? On Oct 7, 2014 9:52 PM, "Joel" <joelgroup@gmail.com> wrote:
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
_______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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-- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
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Thanks James. I'll pass along the group-finder thing to the soon-to-be-ex-Mac guy. 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. So WLUG isn't dead yet, although some of it might be asleep. But we're here. I appreciate your help. Thanks, Liz On 8 October 2014 10:01, James Gray <jamespgray@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Liz, in order to find a local LUG you might start with http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO-3.html
Many of the lists referenced on this page appear to have been updated recently, although the website itself is rather dated and I only remember hearing about the Linux Documentation project long ago. Otherwise I suggest he do an internet search for additional lists/directories of LUGs/open source/free software groups.
Fixing the text file shouldn't be hard if you know what the characters are that are causing the problem.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Tim Keller <turbofx@gmail.com> wrote:
I was just about to ask if we're going to have a meeting tonight!
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:20 PM, E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com> wrote:
I hope not. Even if I rarely attend meetings, I appreciate everyone and everything that happens in WLUG. Recently soimeone I know by correspondence, apparently a nuclear physicist, has had problems with his aging Mac, and contacted me for help since he knows I build my own computers. He' wants to build his own, and install a Linux OS. He is in the US but not local. I recommended some parts for a new build for him, but also recommended that he find a LUG near him and contact them, etc.
Is there a directory of LUGs that he can consult? Are the LUGs in contact with each other? If not, that should have been happening right along.
I have one issue of my own going on in a prog I have here that I need help with --just a stupid glitch in a text file that should be easy to find, but the text file is HUGE, yet I don't know how to write the correct commands in order to find the probable bad characters in this file and correct them. It would probably be easy for someone, but... I should write this up and send it in case someone can easily solve this.
I hope our LUG and the others are not planning to expire anytime soon.
Thanks for being there everyone, Liz J
On 7 October 2014 22:28, James Gray <jamespgray@gmail.com> wrote:
rumors of the death of wlug have been greatly exaggerated, I hope. On Oct 7, 2014 10:22 PM, "Eric Martin" <eric.joshua.martin@gmail.com> wrote:
A month with nothing, really? On Oct 7, 2014 9:52 PM, "Joel" <joelgroup@gmail.com> wrote:
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
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-- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
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Not too long ago I would have been annoyed by the quote depth of that last message. I'll just take it as an opportunity to reply to several at once. E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com> writes:
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.
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?
> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug@mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
--(* 7 wlug-header) Jeez, Joel, sit back down, chill out. I don't reply to questions if I don't know. (Unless a woman asks about a database) I don't think wlug is dead, but I don't know how to schedule a room at WPI. Just a short time ago we were watching robots build robots from source code. Somebody will find the next meeting on a back-up tape. I have a question too, but I'll save it for a another message. -- Keith
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