From sullivan at WeightsNet.com Fri Oct 4 02:58:00 2002 From: sullivan at WeightsNet.com (Michael Sullivan) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:51 2004 Subject: [LA.pm] An incredibly silly idea In-Reply-To: <15759.59625.390787.679100@rls.cx> Message-ID: <00B988FE-D76F-11D6-8529-003065A18E08@WeightsNet.com> On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 09:24 PM, Robert 'Mouseketeer' Spier wrote: > Heck, I work for one of the evilest empires on the planet. Could be worse. You could work for Ticketmaster. Oh, wait a second. I've worked for both. Nevermind. -- Michael Sullivan sullivan@WeightsNet.com WeightsNet - Where the 'net pumps up (253)679-7600 voice/fax http://www.WeightsNet.com From steve at colgreen.com Fri Oct 4 11:58:23 2002 From: steve at colgreen.com (Steve McKay) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:51 2004 Subject: [LA.pm] Job Opportunity Message-ID: <3D9DC8AF.6090407@colgreen.com> We have a job opportunity at Applied Semantics in Century City. See the description below. Interested parties should contact Meg Thomas at mthomas@appliedsemantics.com. -- Steve McKay steve@colgreen.com Applications Engineer Applied Semantics is seeking an experienced Perl programmer to design innovative software applications, manage data reporting/mining, and support existing products. The ideal candidate will be energetic, a quick learner and able to work well in a team environment which includes engineers, business development professionals and clients. Responsibilities: Design and implement new software applications around ASI's CIRCA technology. Be a technical resource for customer support of new and existing clients. Manage data storage and reporting for high volume web sites. Perform Data Analysis for product improvement. Qualifications: BS or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent. 3-5 years professional software development experience. Highly proficient in OO Perl/mod_perl, XML/XSLT, SQL, Unix/Linux, Apache. Experience with MySQL, Microsoft SQL 7.0 or other relational database systems. Strong knowledge of and experience with HTML, JavaScript and CGIs. Working knowledge of user interface issues, navigation and web site architecture. Ability to understand and recommend functional requirements and translate them into technical design and development projects. Ability to clearly document features, technical specifications, and infrastructure requirements for all technical work and job processes. Proactive with strong communication and organizational skills, strong attention to detail, and demonstrated ability to work as a team player. From allenday at ucla.edu Mon Oct 7 03:41:30 2002 From: allenday at ucla.edu (Allen Day) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:51 2004 Subject: [LA.pm] [UCLA-LUG] SCALE Press Release (fwd) Message-ID: In case anyone is interested. I've been told there's a group discount of 50% for parties of 10+ people. -Allen ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:30:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Gareth J. Greenaway Reply-To: linux@linux.ucla.edu To: linux@linux.ucla.edu Subject: [UCLA-LUG] SCALE Press Release Greetings, We need the LUG community to help us get the word out about this event. May we please get the help of anyone who has an account on slashdot or any other news site to post this press release. If some of you wouldn't mind creating Slashdot or other new site accounts in order to post, that would be great! Thanks guys and girls, We appreciate it! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LINUX EXPO: We are bringing businesses, academic institutions and the Linux community together in a way that no other conference does! The first annual Southern California Linux Expo, presented by the USC, UCLA , and Simi-Conejo Linux User Groups will be held November 2nd at USC. This event will provide new insight into the growing technological Linux community and where it is headed. This operating system created by a grassroots effort has grown robust enough to be embraced by companies such as Sun and IBM. The Southern California Linux Expo will contain the blend of business leaders and technical experts that are required to truly understand where Linux is at and where it will be in 5 years. Quick Event Info: Date: November 2nd, 2002 Time: 9am-5pm Location: Davidson Conference Center on the University of Southern California campus Time: all day conference Please visit our web site for additional conference information http://www.socallinuxexpo.com/ _______________________________________________ UCLALUG Discussion list - Linux@linux.ucla.edu For information on this list, and to UNSUBSCRIBE, visit: http://linux.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux From dha at panix.com Sat Oct 12 21:37:55 2002 From: dha at panix.com (David H. Adler) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:51 2004 Subject: [LA.pm] Perl Quiz of the Week Message-ID: <20021013023755.GA6157@panix.com> >From MJD: ----- Forwarded message from owner-ny@lists.pm.org ----- I taught a class in Illinois last week, and one of the students asked if there was a mailing list that would deliver a weekly Perl quiz or programming puzzle. I said I didn't know of one, but that it sounded like a good idea, and that I would set one up when I got back. I am now back. If you want to get the quiz-of-the-week, send a note to perl-qotw-subscribe@plover.com Please feel free to circulate this announcement to appropriate venues. Thanks. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- David H. Adler - - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ YOU ARE NEW. THE NEW GUY IS MEAT. - vertilgo **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX ** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe ny" to majordomo@lists.pm.org** From dallasii at kincyb.com Wed Oct 16 15:42:06 2002 From: dallasii at kincyb.com (dallas kincyb) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:51 2004 Subject: [LA.pm] Available for work Message-ID: Best: http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/resume.html For the MS Word crippled: http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/resume.doc Otherwise: -- DALLAS LEGAN -- P.O. Box 2015, Downey, CA 90242 Home (562) 862-4854 ext. * mailto:legan@acm.org http://www.lafn.org/~aw585 -- SUMMARY -- Senior programmer with over ten years experience. Perl scripted or evaluated, installed, and configured network management tools for a major metropolitan utility. Provided analytical support for the multi-billion dollar high technology Space Shuttle project. Programming/Software Skills: Work: Perl, Kermit, SNMP, FORTRAN, ReXX, JCL & CLIST, UNIX, VOS, Forth, MRTG, Trained in: C/C++, UNIX, Linux, MS ACCESS & SQL, TCP/IP Client/Server (BSD Sockets), UNIX system programming (POSIX API), X86 Assembly, Forth, Ada. Platforms: IBM Mainframes (370), CDC, Cray, PC, Sun Solaris Nortel Baystack 450 networking switch Daily Personal Use: Bash, Korn shell, DOS & OS/2/Batch, ReXX, Kermit, PERL, Debian Gnu/Linux, EMX, Email protocols (SMTP, POP, MIME, QWIK), ipchains -- EMPLOYMENT HISTORY -- SRP, Scottsdale, AZ 06/1999-05/2000 (via Thor) Programmer * Developed Kermit/serial port and Perl/SNMP/IP software for configuring Nortel Baystack 450 networking switches. Appware Corp., West Hills, CA 03-04/1998 (via Axiom Solutions Technology Inc.) Programmer * Worked on Interactive Voice Response (IVR) business solution systems Rockwell Int., Space Systems Division, Downey, CA 1980-1993 (Now part of Boeing) Programmer/Engineer - Aerosciences Gasdynamics Unit At Rockwell developed, documented and used: * Major revisions of software used in planning and evaluation of Space Shuttle missions. * Software filters * Programming language preprocessor * User directory manipulation tools * Automated program user interfaces with scripts * Scripts coordinating complex sequences of application software * Evaluated and critiqued software for Space Shuttle flight planning. * Ported software to platforms ranging from PC compatibles to Cray supercomputers * Pioneered corporate division use of macro processing, text formating, scripting language and data storage protocol tools and techniques * Application software using complicated mathematics and advanced physical laws of mechanical, chemical, thermal and aerodynamic science to solve real world problems. (I used to go into more detail on these projects, but it seemed to go past everyone.) University of Houston, Victoria Campus, Victoria, TX 1976-1978 Teaching Assistant -- References -- Available on request (If you will actually contact them.) -- Coding Examples -- Available on request (Academic examples include a simple UNIX shell and IRC & FTP client/server emulators using TCP/IP Sockets. Daily use includes SMTP and POP interfacing e-mail software written purely in Korn shell, Kermit etc.) -- EDUCATION -- * University of Houston, Victoria Campus MS Mechanical Engineering Emphasis: Thermal Sciences and Mechanics * University of Houston, Victoria Campus BS Mechanical Engineering * California State University, Long Beach, Certificates C and UNIX programming, Courses in computer networking with TCP/IP (BSD sockets), Unix system call programming (POSIX), database programming with ACCESS and SQL, C++ (and Ada). Certificates HVAC Direct Digital Controls, HVAC System Design * California State University, Dominguez Hills, Course Computer Architecture and Assembly Language * Rockwell Courses: C, ReXX, Automata Theory, DOS, Excel * UNIX courses through Rockwell from Hewlett Packard and Cray * FORTH Inc. Courses: Certificate, polyFORTH Application Techniques * UCLA, USC, Northrup University, Westinghouse Electric Corp. Miscellaneous courses Elasticity, structural mechanics, theoretical mechanics, orbital mechanics, aeroelasticity, Nuclear Plant Engineering -- PERSONAL -- * Certificate of Acheivement, SRP * Member ACM, C Users Group, ReXX Language Association, Forth Interest Group (FIG), Orange County Linux User's Group (OCLUG), Southern California OS/2 User's Group Board of Dirctors (SCOUG), Mensa * Gave presentations on development of R65C02 assembler, Kernal interface commands and a simple terminal program to Orange County chapter of FIG. * Biology Award, Victoria High School * Chemistry Award, Victoria College * Assembled from modular components my own Intel/IBM compatible computer * Have also on occasion used CP/M, two or three versions of CDC NOS, UNIVAC and TOPS 20 operating systems. * Engineer in Training, Idaho * Volunteer Mentor for Los Angeles FreeNet * Volunteer work for World Space Foundation cited in "Project Solar Sail" edited by Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sir Arthur C. Clarke * Organized National Space Society phone tree for Southwestern United States for over 5 years * Lifetime member of League of American Bicyclists -- PUBLICATIONS -- Full texts available on request. * UNIX Users Association of So. CA (local UseNIX chapters), speaker Los Angeles, 2 May 2002, 'Bash, the Bourne Again Shell' http://www.bolthole.com/uuala/past.html http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/bash.html Orange County, 8 Oct. 2001, 'Forth', http://www.uuasc.org/p0109.html http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/forth.html Orange County, 9 Sept. 2001, 'Kermit', http://www.uuasc.org/p0109.html http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/kermit.html Los Angeles, 5 April 2001, 'Intro to SNMP', http://www.uuasc.org/uuala/past.html http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/snmp2.html Video: http://www.lpbn.org:8080/ramgen/snmp1-lilax-04-13-2002.rm?usehostname http://www.lpbn.org:8080/ramgen/snmp2-lilax-04-13-2002.rm?usehostname * Kermit Center, Columbia University, 'Lynx/Kermit Coordination Part I' http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/case20.html * Kermit Center, Columbia University, 'Lynx/Kermit Coordination Part II' http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/case24.html * "Lynx on OS/2: Straight Answers and Keen Tricks" http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2002/scoug210.lynx1.html * "Some Tools for Conversion of Plain Text to HTML" http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2002/scoug208.htmltools.html * "Poor Man's WGet", http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2002/scoug205.pmwget.html * 'CountStr and ChangeStr for Classic REXX', http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2002/scoug202.changestr.html * 'A Simple, General Command Line Filter In REXX', http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2001/scoug010.parsetool.html * 'Text-Mode Web Browsers for OS/2', http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2001/scoug009.textbrowsers.html * ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/g/gunixio_os2.c * Forth Dimensions, Volume XVIII, Number 2, July 1996 August, p.4, "dot-quote" (column) * Forth Dimensions, Volume XVIII, Number 2, July 1996 August, p.5, "Java Learns from Forth, Forth May Benefit, Too" ("Letters" column) * OS/2 For You (So. CA OS/2 User's Group), April, 1998, (with J. Rash & P. Wirtz) "Watch OS/2 on TV" http://www.scoug.com/os24u/1998/scoug804.2.scanconverter.html * http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0123390958/9432-3000375-030480, author solicited review of "Efficient C/C++ Programming", by Steve Heller * http://mtools.linux.lu/mtools-3.9.7-20000XXX.diff.gz, ~lines 1108-1109: + inq_data.product, sizeof inq_data.product) && + strncasecmp("ZIP 250 ", * OS/2 For You (So. CA OS/2 User's Group), October, 2000, http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2000/scoug009.altf2patch.html 'Bootup Patch for OS/2'