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Tuesday's Meeting
by Maureen Thornton 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Although I am on the "Announce" mailing list I have not yet heard of the topic for Tuesday. I tried the web as well...nothing! Anybody know whats on?

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Possible job opportunity
by Do-Ming Lum 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Good morning, Sorry for the somewhat off topic nature of this note. My wife's employer, a computer services company in Aurora, ON is looking for a technician to help support their clients. They need someone with PC break/fix experience. Their OS needs are primarily Windows -- in particular Active Directory knowledge and MS Exchange. They would probably look on Linux experience as a bonus, but Linux is not the main job focus. If there is any interest in this opportunity, drop me a note directly (not through the list) and I will provide the contact information where you can send your resume. Don't send me any resumes or personal information, as I have no direct connection to the company or the recruitment effort, but am just facilitating my wife's wish to make this opportunity known to the widest possible technical audience. Thanks, Do-Ming Lum President/Principal Consultant Tiger Mountain Systems Consulting Inc. do.ming.lum(a)gmail.com

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Anyone here do graphics design
by Dave Cramer 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

My daughter is interested in job shadowing for a day to see what you do. Please reply off list Thanks Dave Cramer

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Re: [GTALUG] Sarah Sharp Public Lecture on Linux Kernel & USB 3.0
by Bob Jonkman 09 Nov '14

09 Nov '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everybodeee! Elana Hashman from the UofW CSClub asked me to pass this on. I may consider playing hookey from work to go to this... On 08/11/14 07:35 PM, Elana Hashman wrote: > Hi Bob, > > [...] I thought I'd shoot you an invite about this talk we're > hosting. The Women in Computer Science (WiCS) committee is hosting > Sarah Sharp, author of the USB 3.0 driver, to give a talk on Thu. > Nov. 20. Would you be able to pass the word on to the local LUGs? > > Here's an email I sent out earlier: > > *** > > Hello! > > On behalf of the Women in Computer Science Undergraduate Committee, > I would like to invite you to attend our public lecture, "Breaking > into Open Source and Linux: a USB 3.0 success story." Our speaker > is Sarah Sharp, Linux kernel developer and maintainer, and the > author of the Linux USB 3.0 driver. Sarah will provide a deep dive > into how USB 3.0 support was added to the Linux kernel, as an > example of the technical, social, and cultural challenges in > getting involved in open source development. You can read Sarah's > full bio and order a ticket for the talk on the Eventbrite page: > https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-lecture-breaking-into-open-source-and-l… > > > > The talk will be held in the Modern Languages Theatre of the Arts > on Thursday, November 20th at 5:30PM. > > If you require any disability accommodations, please let me know. > We have hearing aids and wheelchair seating available, and we are > working to provide real-time transcription of the talk. > > Please do not hesitate to contact me for questions or more > information. > > > Hope to see you there! > > -- Elana Hashman Undergraduate Representative Women in Computer > Science Committee David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science > ehashman(a)uwaterloo.ca > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iEYEARECAAYFAlRfyS8ACgkQuRKJsNLM5ers0wCg+K6TtLTGNn3/UTxBnaImJBk6 0gEAoOJhydPwpS9LS7KjcQzJQwHe3LlY =2hfr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[OT] Git Conundrum
by Scott Elcomb 08 Nov '14

08 Nov '14

In a wee bit of a spot :( Have a git repo with squashed bugs coming back from the dead - and a conference tomorrow where early adopters are supposed to be trained on using the software. The strange thing is that there doesn't seem to be any indication of corruption or bad merges. There are a few dangling commits, blobs and trees but they don't look to be related. Not having run into this scenario before I'm not quite sure where to start. Any pointers or suggestions? Thanks, -- Scott Elcomb @psema4 http://psema4.com/pubkey.txt http://www.pirateparty.ca/

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Collecting (g)mail
by Giles Orr 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

I've finally got around to copying my mail from gmail to my home machine. I'm using getmail ( http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ , also in the Ubuntu repos), but it barfs after collecting my 80,000 messages across six hours - and then considers the next run to be "new" so it doesn't do collect only new mail, it collects it all again. And having not spotted that these are the same messages, it duplicates them and the backup directory is now twice the size it should be ... I'm using IMAP, and yes, it's set to only collect new mail. So has anyone got getmail fully working with gmail, or does someone have another recommended way of fetching gmail onto a local machine? Thanks. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr(a)gmail.com

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Why Everyone Wants to Kill the Mouse and Keyboard
by Thomas Milne 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

Why Everyone Wants to Kill the Mouse and Keyboard http://gizmo.do/boYucko <http://pocket.co/sDAQD> Sent from Pocket.

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How can I read html email stored in Maildir format?
by Walter Dnes 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

My 7-year-old modem/router is starting to occasionally get flakey, so I ordered a new one from Teksavvy. Canada Post sent a tracking update, and it was unreadable in mutt, not to mention that 90% of the email was graphics... -- Mutt: Attachments I 1 EM ALERT Form [text/html, quoted, utf-8, 24K] I 2 filename.BMP [image/bmp, base64, 109K] I 3 filename.BMP [image/bmp, base64, 16K] I 4 filename.BMP [image/bmp, base64, 16K] I 5 filename.BMP [image/bmp, base64, 16K] I 6 filename.BMP [image/bmp, base64, 16K] I 7 filename.BMP [image/bmp, base64, 36K] I copied the email to a text file, consulted with "Mr. Google", and found the sed invocation to turn it into something that Firefox could read. According to the tracking link, the modem/router has been accepted at Chatham and is now on route to Richmond Hill. Since I live in Vaughan, that means I'll probably have to pick it up at a depot somewhere. Anyhow, back to topic... what apps/programs are capable of *DIRECTLY* reading HTML mails that are stored in Maildir format? -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes(a)waltdnes.org>

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