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Re: [Wlug] need to test notebook

by Richard Klein

Gregory Avedissian wrote: > A friend of mine just got a used notebook computer, but it has no AC > adapter, and the battery is dead. He'd like to test it out before he > invests any significant money into it. I'm wondering if anyone has an AC > adapter for a Dell Inspiron 18000 and would be willing to bring it to the > meeting, so we can see if this thing will fire up. And does anyone know of > a good place to get used parts locally (like an AC adapter)? Are you sure that's the right model number? I've got an Inspiron 8200, and I bet you're talking about an Inspiron 8100. If that's the case, then you can try it out with my AC adapter. If that works, he'll be looking for one of these: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19… or http://tinyurl.com/p6tpa If your friend can find a "service tag" number he can find a lot of information about how the laptop was configured when sold: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/my_systems_info/… or http://tinyurl.com/3qzsp That doesn't have anything to do with the AC adapter; it's just nice to know. -- Rich

17 years, 6 months

Re: [Wlug] need to test notebook

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gregory Avedissian wrote: > A friend of mine just got a used notebook computer, but it has no AC > adapter, and the battery is dead. He'd like to test it out before he > invests any significant money into it. I'm wondering if anyone has an AC > adapter for a Dell Inspiron 18000 and would be willing to bring it to the > meeting, so we can see if this thing will fire up. And does anyone know of > a good place to get used parts locally (like an AC adapter)? > > > Thanks, > Greg Greg, Do you happen to know the voltage that the laptop wants to see? Later, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFLGuHHl0iXDssISsRAhKMAJ4r0MYs2m3mlZtB2Z3LeaT6lUb/1ACfZJnC zemHQxtnfY7lhfA5GiMgxUc= =0hzM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

17 years, 6 months

need to test notebook

by Gregory Avedissian

A friend of mine just got a used notebook computer, but it has no AC adapter, and the battery is dead. He'd like to test it out before he invests any significant money into it. I'm wondering if anyone has an AC adapter for a Dell Inspiron 18000 and would be willing to bring it to the meeting, so we can see if this thing will fire up. And does anyone know of a good place to get used parts locally (like an AC adapter)? Thanks, Greg

17 years, 6 months

REMINDER: WLUG Meeting THIS WED Oct 11th 7PM

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI gang, This is a friendly reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting, to be held THIS WED Oct 11th, 7:00 PM in the Access Grid Room on the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA. At this meeting, our guest speaker will be WLUG member Doug Aker. The topic will be Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). === Abstract === How an average programmer, after discovering SVG, used zLinux, perl, XML, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript and, above all, SVG to create an interactive browser-based application to visualize client-server connections. See how Doug's odyssey into open languages led him through the lands of information theory, graph theory, set theory and data visualization. Find out why his wife and kids run out of the room whenever he starts talking about SVG. Like you, Doug has sat and snoozed through many slide presentations, and vows *not* to make this yet another PowerPoint-like affair. Please attend. Doug is comfortable with large crowds. Doug Aker has been doing application and tech support work at Verizon Communications for 21 years. ===End Abstract === After the meeting, we'll adjourn to the Tech Pizza restaurant on Highland Street for pizza, soda, and more tech talk! See ya there! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFKs4KHl0iXDssISsRApjZAJ9zxYHgGCEfMk3ozZerjjhFfS4urwCeKpZs CjXBYXwgh7QZRp9LbdDXM9Q= =rzwB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

17 years, 6 months

Re: [Wlug] Wednesday's WLUG - noob question on XML editor

by douglas.r.aker＠verizon.com

Hi Doug, My efforts with XML have involved XML generation (using perl programs) and XML transformations (using xsltproc). I haven't had much experience with a manually operated XML editor. I did like the free pspad program a lot though: www.pspad.com. Also, on Suse Linux there's the KXML editor. Doug "d.maly(a)ieee.org" <d_maly(a)charter.net> Sent by: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org 10/07/2006 12:41 PM Please respond to "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> To wlug(a)mail.wlug.org cc Subject Re: [Wlug] Wednesday's WLUG - noob question on XML editor This stuff is new to me, so wanted to dabble a bit before the meeting. My question is: what's your favorite editor for XML? My past experience with HTML has been with Mozilla editors in Windows, and I find them to be adequate (and free). Thanks, Doug Maly > Hi All: > > Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm working hard to make my preso at > this Wednesday's WLUG meeting (October 11) interesting, informative, > innovative. Something different, without being annoying. > > Bring any of your friends that might be interested in data visualization, > web design, XML, SVG, etc. > > During the preso, interrupt me with questions as much as you want, and > make a mental note where my presentation isn't clear or drags. I'm hoping > to get as much feedback as possible so that the next time I present this > topic it will be better. > > Thanks, > Doug > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/attachments/20061006/0cbce3e5/attachmen… > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > End of Wlug Digest, Vol 36, Issue 2 > *********************************** > > _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

17 years, 6 months

Re: [Wlug] Wednesday's WLUG - noob question on XML editor

by Lee Keyser-Allen

I found a phenomenal one called the Altova XML Suite which has a free 'home' version (which I've not played with). The version I used was the enterprise one, and it did everything I wanted in an editor, including giving me lots of graphical feedback and it managed schemas and stylesheets in a clean and well organized blend of graphical interpretations and text. The non-free version, however, is very non-free (~$1000 for the 'pro' suite and ~$1800 for the 'enterprise' suite.) I've also used, with some good success, Architag XRay XML editor which had a very good, entirely text based suite that was free. I did have problems that some of the more quirky and poorly defined parts of the schema I was writing worked differently in XRay's native interpreter than in Xerces (or was it Xalan ... it was a little while ago), which I was using to do some validation. I've also heard that oXygen is supposed to be good (although, they didn't have a demo last I looked, so I haven't looked any closer than that.) I'm very interested if others have had good experience with any free (or less non-free) tools. You can find out more about Altova at www.altova.com. Hope that is somewhat helpful ... Lee On 10/7/06, d.maly(a)ieee.org <d_maly(a)charter.net> wrote: > This stuff is new to me, so wanted to dabble a bit before the meeting. > > My question is: what's your favorite editor for XML? > > My past experience with HTML has been with Mozilla editors in Windows, > and I find them to be adequate (and free). > > Thanks, > Doug Maly > > Hi All: > > > > Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm working hard to make my preso at > > this Wednesday's WLUG meeting (October 11) interesting, informative, > > innovative. Something different, without being annoying. > > > > Bring any of your friends that might be interested in data visualization, > > web design, XML, SVG, etc. > > > > During the preso, interrupt me with questions as much as you want, and > > make a mental note where my presentation isn't clear or drags. I'm hoping > > to get as much feedback as possible so that the next time I present this > > topic it will be better. > > > > Thanks, > > Doug > >

17 years, 6 months

Re: [Wlug] Wednesday's WLUG - noob question on XML editor

by d.maly＠ieee.org

This stuff is new to me, so wanted to dabble a bit before the meeting. My question is: what's your favorite editor for XML? My past experience with HTML has been with Mozilla editors in Windows, and I find them to be adequate (and free). Thanks, Doug Maly > Hi All: > > Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm working hard to make my preso at > this Wednesday's WLUG meeting (October 11) interesting, informative, > innovative. Something different, without being annoying. > > Bring any of your friends that might be interested in data visualization, > web design, XML, SVG, etc. > > During the preso, interrupt me with questions as much as you want, and > make a mental note where my presentation isn't clear or drags. I'm hoping > to get as much feedback as possible so that the next time I present this > topic it will be better. > > Thanks, > Doug >

17 years, 6 months

Please attend this Wednesday's WLUG, and bring your friends

by douglas.r.aker＠verizon.com

Hi All: Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm working hard to make my preso at this Wednesday's WLUG meeting (October 11) interesting, informative, innovative. Something different, without being annoying. Bring any of your friends that might be interested in data visualization, web design, XML, SVG, etc. During the preso, interrupt me with questions as much as you want, and make a mental note where my presentation isn't clear or drags. I'm hoping to get as much feedback as possible so that the next time I present this topic it will be better. Thanks, Doug

17 years, 6 months

Re: [Wlug] Smart package manager

by Bill Smith

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 19:26:54 -0400, Andy Stewart wrote: >Those of you who attended the most recent WLUG meeting might remember >me complaining that the version of YaST on OpenSuSE 10.1 has a >pathetically slow program for handling software installation. Greg >Avedissian mentioned the Smart package manager >(http://labix.org/smart) as an alternative, so I gave it a try. > >The Smart package manager appears to be Linux distribution agnostic. >It works on systems whose package management is based on RPM, APT, >APT-RPM, YUM, etc. I went to the page you gave, and was suitably impressed with what they had to say. Enough so, that I promptly installed it on my laptop running FC5. "yum install smart*" was enough to get the things installed that I needed. (Yes, I'm a 'yum' fan. <g>) Right now, it's been chugging "Updating channels". Any idea how long that takes, initially? It's been about two hours so far. Considering that I did a "yum upgrade" yesterday, I wouldn't think there would be a lot to do, shy of populating a DB or something for Smart to refer to... >I tried it on my laptop, where I was having the most performance issues >with YaST's software handling program. I am quite pleased with the >Smart package manager! Thanks, Greg, for the recommendation! I don't know if this is indicative of where Red Hat is going, but the RPM header for Smart, which was generated at Red Hat, describes Smart as "the next generation package manager"... >I haven't yet installed the Smart package manager on my "good" system, >but I probably will if Novell doesn't fix YaST in OpenSuSE 10.2. The >Smart package manager has found a permanent home on my laptop. > >Funding for the development of the Smart package manager is being >supplied by Canonical Ltd., the same folks who are funding Ubuntu >Linux. I thought that was pretty interesting, too. :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com "Would that the risks could be as great for those that authorize a war as it is for those that have to fight it." -- William Smith * TAG! v3.2 *

17 years, 7 months

Re: [Wlug] Smart package manager

by John Stoffel

Andy> Those of you who attended the most recent WLUG meeting might Andy> remember me complaining that the version of YaST on OpenSuSE Andy> 10.1 has a pathetically slow program for handling software Andy> installation. Greg Avedissian mentioned the Smart package Andy> manager (http://labix.org/smart) as an alternative, so I gave it Andy> a try. This is really interesting. I've been very happy with 'apt-get' on my Debian box, but I've been totally ticked at how slow 'yum' is on my Fedora Core 3 box at work. I should probably just rebuild the thing, but hey, it's my main desktop and working for now. But yum is just not a fast too. John

17 years, 7 months

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