From marsee at oreilly.com Tue Feb 3 19:46:29 2004 From: marsee at oreilly.com (Marsee Henon) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, February 3 Message-ID: ================================================================ O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders February 3, 2004 ================================================================ -New O'Reilly User Group Wiki is Up and Ready for Action -Put Up an O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banner, Get A Free Book ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book Info ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Review books are available Copies of our books are available for your members to review-- send me an email and please include the book ISBN number on your request. Let me know if you need your book by a certain date. 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William and Wes will both be featured speakers on February 9 at O'Reilly's Digital Democracy Teach-In. http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=01/21/2004 ***The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 2 Ken Milburn follows up on suggestions he made in Part 1 of this two-part series about creating a minimally destructive workflow for the work you do inside image-editing software. Here he offers five nondestructive editing steps to take once you've downloaded your images. Then he provides some second-stage editing techniques to enhance the impact your images will have on your clients, or your friends and family. Ken is the author of the upcoming "Digital Photography: Expert Techniques." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2004/01/21/digital_photography.html --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***The New Breed of Version Control Systems CVS, part of the glue that holds open source development together, is showing its age. Many competitors have emerged recently, fixing misfeatures and adding new ideas. Shlomi Fish explores several current open source version control systems that may be better for your needs than CVS. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/29/scm_overview.html ***Why Run Free Software on a PDA? As PDAs gain power and capabilities, embedded Linux is more and more attractive. Sharp's Zaurus is a popular Linux PDA. Why aren't more palmtop computers running free software? Guylhem Aznar explores and evangelizes Linux on small devices. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/01/29/zaurus.html ***Troubleshooting with Postfix Logs Kyle Dent, author of "Postfix: The Definitive Guide," discusses Postfix logging in general, how to find all relevant information in the logs, and how to increase the amount of logging when more information is needed. He also suggests a few configuration guidelines that might help prevent problems from the start. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/22/postfix.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***What's New in Tomcat 5 In December 2003, the Apache Tomcat developers released version 5.0.16 as the first stable release of Tomcat 5. Jason Brittain looks at the latest features and offers insight into the goals established for version 5.0, which had a direct impact on development. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/01/28/tomcat5.html Jason is a coauthor of "Tomcat: The Definitive Guide." ISBN: 0596003188 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tomcat/index.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Effective Forms Authentication, Part 1 ASP.NET offers several possibilities for authenticating users, but when you come right down to it, there's only one reasonable alternative for most applications: forms authentication. Mike Gunderloy takes you step-by-step through creating a forms authentication project and helps you avoid the potholes. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/02/02/effectiveformsauth.html ***Serialization in .NET, Part 1 Serialization of data using built-in .NET support makes persistence easy and reusable. Dan Frumin reviews the support available for serialization and look at a couple of scenarios for using it. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/01/26/serializationpt1.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***The Macintosh's Twisted Truth Here's a recent "Wired News" article abridged from Owen Linzmayer's new release, "Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company." http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,61795,00.html Apple Confidential 2.0 No Starch Press ISBN: 1593270100 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270100/ ***Smart File Sharing Between Macs and PCs There are lots of ways to share files between Macs and PCs, and most of them are aggravating at best. Wei Meng Lee shows you a method that's much easier and cleaner than just about every other solution. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/01/30/pc_share.html ================================================ News From Your Peers ================================================ ***San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Meeting, Pasadena, CA--February 12 Come to the next meeting of SGVLUG to see "Hacking TiVo" by Claude Felizardo. This presentation will cover Tivo hacks, selection criteria, and enhancing one of today's most popular consumer electronics gadgets--the TiVo. Time: 7-9pm Location: Guggenheim Building, Room 101 on the Caltech Campus in Pasadena, CA For directions and more information, go to: http://www.sgvlug.org/ Until next time-- Marsee From marsee at oreilly.com Fri Feb 6 15:18:51 2004 From: marsee at oreilly.com (Marsee Henon) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Excel Annoyances Needed for New Book Message-ID: Hey User Group Leader, O'Reilly is pulling together a new book called "Excel Annoyances" and we'd like your help! As you might guess from the title, this book aims to identify the problems, snarls, quirks, bugs, and just dumb things about Excel that drive users nuts. Oh yeah--it also aims to solve these annoyances, too. If any members of your group use Excel--be they newbies or Excel masters--and they have annoyances they'd like to see solved, have them email me (marsee@oreilly.com) with "Excel Annoyance" in the subject line. Just have them note what version of Excel and Windows (or Mac OS) they're using. Thanks for sharing. We'll make sure to get copies of "Excel Annoyances" sent to your group shortly after publication. --Marsee *** An example: LET ME COUNT THE DAYS THE ANNOYANCE: I know you can do date calculations in Excel, whether it's to find how many days late I am on a car payment or to see how long it's been since my last haircut. It's pretty easy to determine the number of days between two dates; just subtract one from the other. But when I do that, the result is another date! Huh? THE FIX: In a blank worksheet, try this little exercise, which should show your age in days: 1. In cell A1, enter your birth date in MM/DD/YYYY format. 2. In cell B1, enter the formula =today() to display the current date. 3. In cell C1, enter the formula =b1-a1. You'll notice that the result of the formula in C1 is some other date, which appears to have no correlation to either of the first dates. How come? When you enter a formula, Excel matches the formatting of the formula's inputs. This works well when you're doing calculations on dollar amounts or percentages; the result comes out formatted just the way you'd want. But in our example, Excel formatted the formula result--a number of days--as a date. *** From garrett at scriptpro.com Tue Feb 10 13:21:16 2004 From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Meeting 7PM Tonight at Planet Sub in the Stein Room Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C917F@EXCH_MISSION> Meeting 7PM Tonight at Planet Sub in the Stein Room Hope to see you there! -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett at scriptpro dot com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kc/attachments/20040210/87c02a58/attachment.htm From garrett at scriptpro.com Tue Feb 10 15:57:05 2004 From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Meeting date/time/location can-o-worms? Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C9183@EXCH_MISSION> amoore@mooresystems.com wrote: > Garrett Goebel wrote: >> Meeting 7PM Tonight at Planet Sub in the Stein Room >> >> Hope to see you there! > > I unfortunately have class every Tues eve for the whole > semester, so my attendance will have to be in spirit > only for a while. Perhaps it is time to reopen the best monthly meeting time can-o-worms? I know a couple other people have problems with Tuesdays. My daughter has started kindergarten, and the occassional PTO meetings always seem to fall on the 2nd Tuesdays of the month. If any of you out there would perfer a change the the regulary meeting time and/or place the discussion should take place on the mailing list. I'm pretty sure the people showing up at the meetings don't have insurmountable problems with 2nd Tuesdays... Here's what I have from way-back-when: Bad Days [name] [Work] [Home] [M][T][W][Th][F][S][Su] Clouse, Stephen 66204 X X X X X X Cowdrick, Charles 64109 X X X X Dumler, David 66210 Goebel, Garrett 66202 66207 X X X X Merritt, Shannon 66062 X X Moore, Andrew 64114 Ostrowski, Dan 66610 X X X X X Otterson, Gary 64085 64057 X X X Sparling, Doug 66205 X X X Spurgin, Daniel Could people please update their information even if it is just to confirm that it is the same? -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett at scriptpro dot com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kc/attachments/20040210/56833774/attachment.htm From amoore at mooresystems.com Tue Feb 10 16:25:26 2004 From: amoore at mooresystems.com (amoore@mooresystems.com) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Meeting date/time/location can-o-worms? In-Reply-To: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C9183@EXCH_MISSION> References: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C9183@EXCH_MISSION> Message-ID: <20040210222526.GA31624@mooresystems.com> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:57:05PM -0600, Garrett Goebel wrote: > Perhaps it is time to reopen the best monthly meeting time can-o-worms? uh oh. Don't do it on my account, but as long as we're at it... I think Planet Sub is a pretty good place. I dig the location, and they have a pretty good room to keep us seperate from the mortals. It's not too loud, busy, or smoky, but they still have beer and pretty good food. As far as good and bad days go, my classes will change just about every semester, but I currently don't have class on wednesday or weekends. I do think I'm more likely to forget/blow off meetings on friday or saturday evenings, though. > Bad Days > [name] [Work] [Home] [M][T][W][Th][F][S][Su] > Moore, Andrew 64114 X X X X -Andy From garrett at scriptpro.com Tue Feb 10 16:49:10 2004 From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Meeting date/time/location can-o-worms? Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C9185@EXCH_MISSION> amoore@mooresystems.com wrote: > Garrett Goebel wrote: >> >> Perhaps it is time to reopen the best monthly meeting time >> can-o-worms? > > uh oh. Don't do it on my account, but as long as we're at it... Don't worry, it isn't just you. I've received email from others. Thanks for the update. -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett at scriptpro dot com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kc/attachments/20040210/08b9219f/attachment.htm From whatever at davidnicol.com Tue Feb 10 16:49:39 2004 From: whatever at davidnicol.com (david) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Meeting 7PM Tonight at Planet Sub in the Stein Room In-Reply-To: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C917F@EXCH_MISSION> References: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C917F@EXCH_MISSION> Message-ID: <40296003.8080304@davidnicol.com> Do they really call it the Stein room? That's an improvement. I too have a class tuesday evenings, which also starts at seven, so I will come by when it is over, and possibly catch some cold perl mongers shivering in the parking lot. David Nicol include "perl mongers" in your message to get through the filter From whatever at davidnicol.com Tue Feb 10 16:51:17 2004 From: whatever at davidnicol.com (david) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Meeting date/time/location can-o-worms? In-Reply-To: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C9183@EXCH_MISSION> References: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C9183@EXCH_MISSION> Message-ID: <40296065.4010703@davidnicol.com> A possibility is to meet concurrently with another group such as kclug or ilug or wlug or kulua or kc webmasters Meeting concurrently with kcwebmasters is how we started. From garrett at scriptpro.com Tue Feb 10 17:07:33 2004 From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Meeting 7PM Tonight at Planet Sub in the Stein Room Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C9186@EXCH_MISSION> david wrote: > Do they really call it the Stein room? That's an improvement. Yep. > I too have a class tuesday evenings, which also starts at seven, > so I will come by when it is over, and possibly catch some cold > perl mongers shivering in the parking lot. I fiddled with the buttons on the front panel of your ups, and for whatever reason it actually turned on. Barring scheduled downtime, I'll move your pay2send box over to it the next time there's a power outtage, etc. -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett at scriptpro dot com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kc/attachments/20040210/a4c67923/attachment.htm From stephenc at theiqgroup.com Wed Feb 11 02:36:59 2004 From: stephenc at theiqgroup.com (Stephen Clouse) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Meeting date/time/location can-o-worms? In-Reply-To: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C9183@EXCH_MISSION> References: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C9183@EXCH_MISSION> Message-ID: <20040211083659.GA25319@owns.warpcore.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Any day but Wednesday is fine for me now. - -- Stephen Clouse Senior Programmer/DBE, Core Technology Developer The IQ Group, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKemrA4aoazQ9p2cRAvJNAJ4xVGRKl7iZjNjSm5u4g5cod1i6hQCgsD1A jdp2Qd6eKXKwJzxezKIWA6s= =H5na -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From stephenc at theiqgroup.com Wed Feb 11 02:41:34 2004 From: stephenc at theiqgroup.com (Stephen Clouse) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Meeting date/time/location can-o-worms? In-Reply-To: <20040210222526.GA31624@mooresystems.com> References: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C9183@EXCH_MISSION> <20040210222526.GA31624@mooresystems.com> Message-ID: <20040211084134.GB25319@owns.warpcore.org> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:25:26PM -0600, amoore@mooresystems.com wrote: > I think Planet Sub is a pretty good place. I dig the location, and they > have a pretty good room to keep us seperate from the mortals. It's not > too loud, busy, or smoky, but they still have beer and pretty good food. Personally, I wouldn't mind something closer, but I don't care. There's another Planet Sub at 75th and Quivira. It has no meeting room, per se, but it's large enough that we could grab a table or two in the back and not be bothered. - -- Stephen Clouse Senior Programmer/DBE, Core Technology Developer The IQ Group, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKeq9A4aoazQ9p2cRAnoqAJ9ROEW8XbKtdMKA500qrVZDab5JLQCfX/rF JdOgf3+6XiiA8a9cKLM+KJI= =CC6Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From DDumler at jccc.net Wed Feb 11 13:44:36 2004 From: DDumler at jccc.net (David Dumler) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Meeting date/time/location can-o-worms? Message-ID: <7D5D8911668F50499D80DA10A4ED68AB6267E2@ns-exch05.jccc.net> Aaarrrggg!!! I finally don't have a conflict on a Tuesday and I forgot about the meeting. I am not teaching this semester so pretty much any evening is ok with me - as long as I remember. However, I did request that my Perl class for next fall be scheduled on Tuesday evening with the intent that on the 2nd Tuesday the class would meet at the PM meeting rather than having our regular class. Is it Tuesdays in general that are bad or is it just the second Tuesday ?? I like the Planet sub, though it isn't the most convenient place... Is the stein room what was previously called the Elvis room ? --David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 04:25:26PM -0600, amoore@mooresystems.com wrote: > I think Planet Sub is a pretty good place. I dig the location, and they > have a pretty good room to keep us seperate from the mortals. It's not > too loud, busy, or smoky, but they still have beer and pretty good food. Personally, I wouldn't mind something closer, but I don't care. There's another Planet Sub at 75th and Quivira. It has no meeting room, per se, but it's large enough that we could grab a table or two in the back and not be bothered. - -- Stephen Clouse Senior Programmer/DBE, Core Technology Developer The IQ Group, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKeq9A4aoazQ9p2cRAnoqAJ9ROEW8XbKtdMKA500qrVZDab5JLQCfX/rF JdOgf3+6XiiA8a9cKLM+KJI= =CC6Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kc mailing list kc@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc From garrett at scriptpro.com Wed Feb 11 14:07:34 2004 From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:13 2004 Subject: [Kc] Last nights meeting Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C918E@EXCH_MISSION> In attendance were: CJ, Jared, Teal, Stephen Clouse, Garrett Goebel, and Michael Morgan. Also joining us as honorary mongers were 2 of Jared's well behaved kids: Iasaiah and Amariah(sp?). Seriously... they do exist: happy well-behaved kids. Though they did have a slight tendency to wander off when I wasn't giving them key or doing slight of hand tricks. CJ brought up the topic of the variable quality of debugging info output by perl interpreters varying in version and/or operating system. It seems that some strides in better reporting of missing closing braces and semicolons have been made in the 5.8.x branch. Michael shared his laptop running Perl 5.6.1 on Mac OS X. And worked through a couple glitches editing and executing perl scripts from within editors, a shell, and as Apache cgi scripts. Stephen showed us a brand spanking new Dell P4 laptop with RedHat Enterprise 3 and loads of memory and drive capacity. Stephen has been promising to show us many interesting things if only he could get his hands on a laptop to present them. Jared brought along some interesting papers he written describing his thought on implementing Credibility Servers using ternary logic. This sparked various threads relating to ternary application of RPG rules, filtration, moderation, reputation, and trust metrics on community forums like Advagoto and Slashdot. I think I'll volunteer Stephen and Jared for future presentations... And before I forget. I promised to post links to: Advogato's trust metrics http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html Search Engine technologies: latent semantic indexing http://javelina.cet.middlebury.edu/lsa/out/lsa_definition.htm http://search.cpan.org/~mceglows/Search-VectorSpace-0.02/ contextual network graphs http://javelina.cet.middlebury.edu/cns/Contextual_Network_Graphs.pdf http://search.cpan.org/~mceglows/Search-ContextGraph-0.07/ inverted index (the common roll-your-own method) http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/09/25/searching.html http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/code/97/16/index2a.html -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett at scriptpro dot com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I hope it works out. > Is it Tuesdays in general that are bad or is it just the second > Tuesday ?? 2 people have classes on Tuesdays, but class schedules change... so we probably needn't move the heavens and the earth over class schedules. For me, the odd PTO meeting always seems to fall on 2nd Tuesdays. I should check to see if it is coincidence or scheduling. In either event, that's no need to move on my account. I'm somewhat hoping to hear from the list lurkers who in the past indicated they would like to get out to meetings, but couldn't due to scheduling conflicts... Oh well... > I like the Planet sub, though it isn't the most convenient place... > Is the stein room what was previously called the Elvis room ? No, it's the smaller room across from it. -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett at scriptpro dot com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C9192@EXCH_MISSION> Message-ID: > I'm somewhat hoping to hear from the list lurkers who in the past indicated > they would like to get out to meetings, but couldn't due to scheduling > conflicts... Oh well... > Hey Garrett et al. - I supppose I fall into that category! I'd like to attend the next meeting if I'm in town. My schedule is very flexible - provided that the meetings don't start before 11 AM. todd > >> I like the Planet sub, though it isn't the most convenient place... >> Is the stein room what was previously called the Elvis room ? > > No, it's the smaller room across from it. > > -- > Garrett Goebel > IS Development Specialist > > ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 > 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 > Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 > www.scriptpro.com garrett at scriptpro dot com > > > _______________________________________________ > kc mailing list > kc@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc > From ironicface at earthlink.net Thu Feb 19 16:41:11 2004 From: ironicface at earthlink.net (Teal) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:14 2004 Subject: [Kc] Java Tree Viewer Message-ID: <40353B87.8010003@earthlink.net> This is what I was mentioning at the meeting. With the tree always radiating from the chosen node. http://webdb.iu.edu/InternationalServices/scripts/ois/treeViewer.cfm# Teal From marsee at oreilly.com Fri Feb 20 19:34:22 2004 From: marsee at oreilly.com (Marsee Henon) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:14 2004 Subject: [Kc] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, February 20 Message-ID: ================================================================ O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders February 20, 2004 ================================================================ -Add your group listing to the new O'Reilly User Group Wiki -Do you belong to Orkut? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book Info ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Review books are available Copies of our books are available for your members to review-- send me an email and please include the book's ISBN number on your request. Let me know if you need your book by a certain date. 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The awards ceremony will take place on March 17 during SD West 2004. http://sdmagazine.com/jolts/ ***Safari Gets Bigger and Better Safari Bookshelf, the premier electronic reference library for IT professionals and programmers, now holds more than 2,000 books from the industry's leading technical publishers. As the library grows, so does its functionality: searches are powerfully precise and as broad or specific as you wish. And now, with a Safari Max subscription, you can download chapters to read offline. Safari will help you save time, reduce errors, keep current, and save more money than ever with up to 35% off print copies of your favorite books. 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In this new article, James Still will have you doing laps in no time. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/02/09/connpool.html ***Cooking with C# Learn how to convert a string returned as a Byte[ ] back into a string and how to handle an exception that occurs within a method invoked via reflection in these sample recipes from O'Reilly's recently released "C# Cookbook." http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/csharpckbk_chap01/index.html ================================================ News From Your Peers ================================================ ***Check out the new O'Reilly User Group Wiki for the latest news You can look for a meeting, user group, or post information any time you want. http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/view?HomePage Until next time-- Marsee From marsee at oreilly.com Tue Feb 24 20:06:16 2004 From: marsee at oreilly.com (Marsee Henon) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:14 2004 Subject: [Kc] PC Hardware Annoyances Needed for New Book Message-ID: Dear User Group Leader: Thanks for the great response to our call, a few weeks ago, for annoyances, gripes, and complaints about Excel. The email we got was extremely useful and a lot of your members not only sent annoyances, but fixes! So, a thousand thanks for the help. As you might guess, we have another book in the wings--this one focusing on PC hardware annoyances. We're not just talking about PCs and laptops per se--we also talking about all the hardware that's inside and attached to your computer, such as memory, motherboards, hard drives, printers, scanners, home networks, DSL/cable, CD/DVD, and host of other annoying hardware devices. If any members of your group have PC hardware annoyances they'd like to see solved, have them email me (marsee@oreilly.com) with "PC Hardware Annoyances" in the subject. Just have them note what hardware is giving them grief (e.g. Dell Dimension 8100 with 1.3GHz P4; LaserJet 3150; Verbatim Producer 44 DVD+/-RW; etc.), and any relevant software that's involved (such as the OS, a driver, OCR software, etc.). As thanks for sharing, we'll make sure to get copies of "PC Hardware Annoyances" sent to your group shortly after publication. Thanks, Marsee *** An example: Hardware Windows Setting Blocks DVD Upgrade THE ANNOYANCE: I want to update the firmware for my Sony DRX510UL DVD burner, and the site said to disable the DMA setting in Windows XP before doing so. But it neglects to tell you how. THE FIX: The Sony drive is terrificit burns DVD+R and DVD-R discs, and uses both DVD-RW and DVD+RW rewritable media. But ask Sony for support, and it responds with a virtual raspberryits online instructions are complex and often impossible to understand. Luckily, fiddling with DMA isn't difficult. Here's how to turn it off: Windows XP/2000. Open the System control panel, choose the Hardware tab, and click the Device Manager button. Double-click "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" and double-click "Secondary IDE Channel" (your DVD drive is most likely located on the secondary channel; if not, choose "Primary IDE Channel"). Click the Advanced Settings tab, and under Device 0 (master) or Device 1 (slave) (depending on how your drive is set up), select PIO Only from the Transfer Mode drop-down menu. Click OK. Windows 98/Me. Open the System control panel and choose the Device Manager tab. Double-click CD-ROM, then double-click your drive. Select the Settings tab, uncheck the DMA option, and click OK. Remember to reverse the previous steps once your DVD drive's firmware is installed. *** From tlgalenson at yahoo.com Wed Feb 25 11:46:29 2004 From: tlgalenson at yahoo.com (TL Galenson) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:14 2004 Subject: [Kc] Better Message-ID: <20040225174629.63261.qmail@web13907.mail.yahoo.com> I think I got my e-mail changed over.... now I can lurk more invisibly.... 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