From rpjday at mindspring.com Sun Dec 8 10:13:31 2002 From: rpjday at mindspring.com (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] upcoming books from o'reilly Message-ID: i just received a schedule, from my o'reilly rep, of upcoming books into the feb 2003 time frame. given that it's already into december, i know that some of the dec 2002 titles are already available, while others are imminent. i've attached a small HTML file so you can see what's coming, in case you want to start budgeting. :-) rday From rpjday at mindspring.com Sun Dec 8 10:16:29 2002 From: rpjday at mindspring.com (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] oops ... list of books is attached this time Message-ID: rday -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kw-pm/attachments/20021208/5225cb09/books.htm From rpjday at mindspring.com Mon Dec 9 05:39:00 2002 From: rpjday at mindspring.com (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] upcoming ora books -- argh, my apologies Message-ID: sorry, what got sent out was a content-free set of links. from excel, i did a "save sheet as html", unaware that what it does was save a main page with links to a subdirectory of files. once i figure this out, i'll try again. i mean, how hard can it *be* to say, "please take this excel sheet and make it easily readable?" grrrrrrr ... rday From arguile at lucentstudios.com Mon Dec 9 07:17:17 2002 From: arguile at lucentstudios.com (Arguile) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] Monitor Message-ID: <1039439839.384.19.camel@broadswd> At the last PM meeting someone said they're currently using a 12" 640x480 B&W monitor *snicker* as they're other died. :) I can't remeber if they just hadn't gotten around to getting a new one or if it was lack of funds. If said person needs a 14" SVGA colour monitor I have a couple spares sitting here P.S. Please no other inquiries, I do have uses for them. From rpjday at mindspring.com Mon Dec 9 09:18:54 2002 From: rpjday at mindspring.com (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] ORA books -- plain text, as god intended Message-ID: Titles Releasing November-April 2003 .NET .NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell 0596003382 $49.95 Jan-03 Ian Griffiths & Matthew Adams Network Admin/Security 802.11 Security 0596002904 $34.95 Dec-02 Bruce Potter & Bob Fleck Web Scripting "ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2E" 059600396x $54.95 Dec-02 Colin Moock .NET ADO.NET in a Nutshell 0596003617 $44.95 Feb-03 Matthew MacDonald & Bill Hamilton Web Apache: The Definitive Guide 3E 0596002033 $39.95 Dec-02 Ben Laurie & Peter Laurie Hacks Google Hacks 0596004478 $19.95 Feb-03 Tara Calishain & Rael Dornfest Java Java Enterprise Best Practices 0596003846 $34.95 Dec-02 Edited by Robert Eckstein Java "Java Performance Tuning, 2E" 0596003773 $44.95 Jan-03 Jack Shirazi Java JDBC Pocket Reference 0596004575 $12.95 Jan-03 Donald Bales Mac OS X "Learning Unix for Mac OS X, 2E" 0596004702 $19.95 Jan-03 Dave Taylor & Brian Jepson Hacks Linux Server Hacks 0596004613 $19.95 Jan-03 Rob Flickenger MISSING MANUAL Mac OS X Hints 0596004516 $24.95 Jan-03 Rob Griffiths Mac Mac OS X in a Nutshell 0596003706 $34.95 Jan-03 "Jason McIntosh, Chuck Toporek, & Chris Stone" LINUX Managing RAID on Linux 1565927303 $39.95 Dec-02 Derek Vadala .NET Mastering Visual Studio .NET 0596003609 $39.95 Feb-03 "Jon Flanders, Ian Griffiths, & Chris Sells" Database MySQL Pocket Reference 059600446x $14.95 Feb-03 George Reese C/C++ Programming Objective-C Pocket Reference 0596004230 $12.95 Dec-02 Andrew Duncan Oracle Oracle in a Nutshell 0596003366 $49.95 Dec-02 Rick Greenwald & David C. Kreines Oracle "Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 2E" 0596004729 $12.95 Feb-03 "Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl, & Chip Dawes" Consumer Outlook Pocket Guide 0596004443 $12.95 Jan-03 Walter Glenn & Tom Syroid PALM Palm Pocket Guide 0596004265 $12.95 Jan-03 David Pogue & Nancy Kotary Perl Perl Graphics Programming 059600219x $39.95 Dec-02 Shawn Wallace Unix "Practical C++ Programming, 2E" 0596004192 $39.95 Dec-02 Steve Oualline Perl Practical mod_perl 0596002270 $44.95 Feb-03 Stas Bekman & Eric Cholet Security "Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3E" 0596003234 $54.95 Feb-03 "Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, & Alan Schwartz" .NET Programming .NET Components 0596003471 $34.95 Feb-03 Juval Lowy Perl Programming Web Services with Perl 0596002068 $39.95 Dec-02 Randy J. Ray & Pavel Kulchenko Linux "Running Linux, 4E" 0596002726 $44.95 Dec-02 "Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Terry Dawson & Lar Kaufman" Networking "sendmail, 3E" 1565928393 $59.95 Dec-02 Bryan Costales with Eric Allman MISSING MANUAL Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual 0596004524 $19.95 Jan-03 David Pogue Linux "Understanding the Linux Kernel, 2E" 0596002130 $49.95 Dec-02 Daniel P. Bovet & Marco Cesati Unix "Unix CD Bookshelf, 3.0" 0596003927 $129.95 Feb-03 "O'Reilly & Associates, Inc" Unix "Using Samba, 2E" 0596002564 $39.95 Feb-03 "Robert Eckstein, Jay Ts & David Collier-Brown" Windows Programming VB.NET Language Pocket Reference 0596004281 $14.95 Dec-02 "Steven Roman, Ron Petrusha & Paul Lomax" Web "Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3E" 0596003579 $34.95 Dec-02 Stephen Spainhour & Robert Eckstein Windows Applications Windows XP Pocket Reference 0596004257 $12.95 Dec-02 "David A. Karp, Tim O'Reilly & Troy Mott" Windows Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual 059600348x $29.95 Dec-02 "Craig Zacker, Linda Zacker, & David Pogue" XML XSLT Cookbook 0596003722 $39.95 Dec-02 Sal Mangano rday Robert P. J. Day, RHCE, RHCI Eno River Technologies, Chapel Hill NC Unix, Linux and Open Source corporate training http://www.linux-migration.org From da at coder.com Mon Dec 9 09:16:26 2002 From: da at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] Re: upcoming ora books In-Reply-To: Message-ID: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel; # requires OLE::Storage_Lite use strict; my $filename = shift || "test.xls"; my $e = new Spreadsheet::ParseExcel; my $eBook = $e->Parse($filename); my $sheets = $eBook->{SheetCount}; my ($eSheet, $sheetName); foreach my $sheet (0 .. $sheets - 1) { $eSheet = $eBook->{Worksheet}[$sheet]; $sheetName = $eSheet->{Name}; print "Worksheet $sheet: $sheetName\n"; next unless (exists ($eSheet->{MaxRow}) and (exists ($eSheet->{MaxCol}))); foreach my $row ($eSheet->{MinRow} .. $eSheet->{MaxRow}) { foreach my $column ($eSheet->{MinCol} .. $eSheet->{MaxCol}) { next unless (defined $eSheet->{Cells}[$row][$column]); print $eSheet->{Cells}[$row][$column]->Value. " | "; } print "\n"; } } On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > sorry, what got sent out was a content-free set of > links. from excel, i did a "save sheet as html", > unaware that what it does was save a main page with > links to a subdirectory of files. > > once i figure this out, i'll try again. i mean, > how hard can it *be* to say, "please take this excel > sheet and make it easily readable?" grrrrrrr ... > > rday > > _______________________________________________ > kw-pm mailing list > kw-pm@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm > From da at coder.com Thu Dec 12 10:24:38 2002 From: da at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] December Social Meeting and poster Message-ID: Hi, This is to announce next week's social meeting, Thursday the 19th of December. We will meet at 7pm-ish at the Barley Works, which is upstairs in the Heuther Hotel in Uptown Waterloo. Near the pool tables. We have posters. As we are a new group, and people don't have our name ingrained into their permanent memory yet, it would be great if you could post these where you feel appropriate. Nab the poster at: http://kw.pm.org/posters/1202poster.pdf From da at coder.com Wed Dec 18 11:18:10 2002 From: da at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] December Social Meeting In-Reply-To: Message-ID: M(o|u)ngers of Perl, This is a 2nd announcement of kw.pm's social meeting, tomorrow evening at 7pm. We will meet at the Barley Works, which is upstairs in the Huether Hotel in Uptown Waterloo (59 King Street North). All are welcome! -Daniel From da at coder.com Fri Dec 20 16:16:05 2002 From: da at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] Social Meeting a success. Message-ID: Five of us braved the rain last night and came out to the social meeting at the Huether Hotel. As promised, I've put the picture on our website; see kw.pm.org for the link. It was a lot of fun; I think we'll do that again some time. Among lots of other things, we discussed the prospects for group projects. Lloyd is interested in teaching perl at Conestoga College. Christopher is trying to get together the oomph to make an open-source mapquest, which is definitely ambitious. I am interested in an techie calendar website for the KW area, either collecting info automatically from other calendars, or requiring people submit the info. We also discussed the Two Towers, at length. Most useless fact I learned: Raymond said that in one scene of 10,000 troops, apparently one of the Uruki whips out a cellphone. There was lots more, but I think you had to be there. :-) -Daniel -- "Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer conglomerates. Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?" -- Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes From arguile at lucentstudios.com Sat Dec 21 20:10:48 2002 From: arguile at lucentstudios.com (Arguile) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] Social Meeting a success. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1040523049.28304.15.camel@broadswd> [snip] > We also discussed the Two Towers, at length. Most useless fact I learned: > Raymond said that in one scene of 10,000 troops, apparently one of the It was actually Matt who mentioned that. > Uruki whips out a cellphone. There was lots more, but I think you had to > be there. :-) And it was a comment on what one of the maneuvers an orc did during a "massive" run (the simulation program used to create the battles). Check out this article for more info on "massive". http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,390918,00.html I'm not sure if it actually made it into the movie, I'll ask Matt. From da at coder.com Sat Dec 21 22:58:31 2002 From: da at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] Social Meeting a success. In-Reply-To: <1040523049.28304.15.camel@broadswd> Message-ID: On 21 Dec 2002, Arguile wrote: > [snip] > > We also discussed the Two Towers, at length. Most useless fact I learned: > > Raymond said that in one scene of 10,000 troops, apparently one of the > > It was actually Matt who mentioned that. Whoops, sorry. In my defence, it was dark.. :-) > And it was a comment on what one of the maneuvers an orc did during a > "massive" run (the simulation program used to create the battles). Check > out this article for more info on "massive". > > http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,390918,00.html > I'm not sure if it actually made it into the movie, I'll ask Matt. Thanks for the link; now I want to see the movie a second time just to watch the Orc AI. Does that make me a geek? -Daniel -- "Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer conglomerates. Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?" -- Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes From dcarr at sdf.lonestar.org Sun Dec 22 05:12:43 2002 From: dcarr at sdf.lonestar.org (lloyd carr) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] Social Meeting a success. In-Reply-To: <1040523049.28304.15.camel@broadswd> Message-ID: So it was Matt who was investigating Perl. Do you think he will be out to future meetings? Good article, when I was a kid I played with those plastic army men, things have come a long way! BTW did anyone else see the show, I think it was on CNN, where the American military is tweaking game software to use as training simulators. The Navy guy they interviewed said "The game industry spends billions on developement". Remember when the military spent the billions on military technology and some of that showed up later in the civilian sector, now it's the other way around?! On 21 Dec 2002, Arguile wrote: > Date: 21 Dec 2002 21:10:48 -0500 > From: Arguile > To: kw-pm@mail.pm.org > Subject: Re: [kw-pm] Social Meeting a success. > > [snip] > > We also discussed the Two Towers, at length. Most useless fact I learned: > > Raymond said that in one scene of 10,000 troops, apparently one of the > > It was actually Matt who mentioned that. > > > Uruki whips out a cellphone. There was lots more, but I think you had to > > be there. :-) > > > And it was a comment on what one of the maneuvers an orc did during a > "massive" run (the simulation program used to create the battles). Check > out this article for more info on "massive". > > http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,390918,00.html > > I'm not sure if it actually made it into the movie, I'll ask Matt. > > _______________________________________________ > kw-pm mailing list > kw-pm@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm > dcarr@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org From rpjday at mindspring.com Sun Dec 22 05:44:37 2002 From: rpjday at mindspring.com (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] Social Meeting a success. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, lloyd carr wrote: > Good article, when I was a kid I played with those plastic army men, > things have come a long way! BTW did anyone else see the show, I think it > was on CNN, where the American military is tweaking game software to use > as training simulators. The Navy guy they interviewed said "The game > industry spends billions on developement". Remember when the military > spent the billions on military technology and some of that showed up > later in the civilian sector, now it's the other way around?! This is supposedly a true story from a recent Defence Science Lectures Series, as related by the head of the Australian DSTO's Land Operations/Simulation division. They've been working on some really nifty virtual reality simulators, the case in point being to incorporate Armed Reconnaissance Helicopters into exercises (from the data fusion point of view). Most of the people they employ on this sort of thing are ex- (or future) computer game programmers. Anyway, as part of the reality parameters, they include things like trees and animals. For the Australian simulation they included kangaroos. In particular, they had to model kangaroo movements and reactions to helicopters (since hordes of disturbed kangaroos might well give away a helicopter's position). Being good programmers, they just stole some code (which was originally used to model infantry detachments reactions under the same stimuli), and changed the mapped icon, the speed parameters, etc. The first time they've gone to demonstrate this to some visiting Americans, the hotshot pilots have decided to get "down and dirty" with the virtual kangaroos. So, they buzz them, and watch them scatter. The visiting Americans nod appreciatively... then gape as the kangaroos duck around a hill, and launch about two dozen Stinger missiles at the hapless helicopter. Programmers look rather embarrassed at forgetting to remove *that* part of the infantry coding... and Americans leave muttering comments about not wanting to fuck with the Aussie wildlife... As an addendum, simulator pilots from that point onwards avoided kangaroos like the plague, just like they were meant to do in the first place. rday From arguile at lucentstudios.com Sun Dec 22 15:04:34 2002 From: arguile at lucentstudios.com (Arguile) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:27 2004 Subject: [kw-pm] Social Meeting a success. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1040591075.28302.31.camel@broadswd> On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 06:12, lloyd carr wrote: > So it was Matt who was investigating Perl. > Do you think he will be out to future meetings? Yes, and yes. In fact he said he stayed up until 4:00am that night/morning playing around with Perl. =P (I'll make sure he joins the list) > > Good article, when I was a kid I played with those plastic army men, > things have come a long way! BTW did anyone else see the show, I think it > was on CNN, where the American military is tweaking game software to use > as training simulators. The Navy guy they interviewed said "The game > industry spends billions on developement". Remember when the military > spent the billions on military technology and some of that showed up > later in the civilian sector, now it's the other way around?! > Yes, in fact they're being used for recruitment from the public sector as well. 'America's Army' is a set of two games that set about "luring" (I'm sure the army has a euphimism for it) teens into recruiting by depicting the "exciting" aspects of military life. My favourite comment by one soldier who reviewed it was something along the lines of "If they wanted to accurately depict army life, they should have made a boot polishing and waiting simulator. They don't call it boot camp for nothing." I can't find the original quote but the following two articles give some insight. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/wargames021031.html http://pc.ign.com/articles/361/361145p1.html Training simulators are increasingly being constructed of off-the-shelf consumer parts in an effort to cut costs. I can't seem to find the research project home page of one US university that was commisioned to explore just this issue, but if I do I'll forward it on.