From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Jan 3 22:16:53 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Mon Jan 3 22:17:16 2005 Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 3] Message-ID: <1104812213.12151.0.camel@localhost> -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Marsee Henon > To: perlmongers@catalyst.net.nz > Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 3 > Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:09:41 -0800 > ================================================================ > O'Reilly News for User Group Members > January 3, 2005 > ================================================================ > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Book News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition > -Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook > -Linux Cookbook > -Revolution in The Valley > -Silence on the Wire > -Jakarta Commons Cookbook > -Dr. Tom Shinder's Configuring ISA Server 2004 > -Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition > -Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks, 2nd Edition > -Home Theater Hacks > -Hacking a Terror Network > -Word Hacks > -High Performance Linux Clusters > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Upcoming Events > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -O'Reilly Happenings at Macworld SF--January 10-14 > -Free Exhibit Hall Pass for Macworld > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Conference News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -Registration is Open for 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, > San Diego, CA--March 14-17 > -Registration Is Open for the 2005 MySQL Users Conference, > Santa Clara, CA--April 18-21 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -"Make" Subscriptions Now Available > -Renewable Energy--The Next Opportunity for Silicon Valley > -Freedom, Innovation, and Convenience: The RMS Interview > -Ten Tips for Building Your First High-Performance Cluster > -Clever Tricks with MythTV > -Tim O'Reilly, Derrick Story, and David Pogue make the 2004 MDJ > Power 25 List > -Build an eDoc Reader for your iPod > -Book Worms into Minds of PC Cultists > -Windows Explorer Hacks > -Inside Secrets of MSN Desktop Search > -Towards Bug-Free Code > -ONJava 2004 in Review: Popular Articles > -Exporting QuickTime Movies with Simple Video Out X > ================================================ > Book News > ================================================ > Did you know you can request a free book to review for your > group? 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As Ashwin > Jayaprakash shows, J2SE 5.0's generics make working with abstract classes > and interfaces easier than it used to be, which encourages loose coupling > and facilitates testing. > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/12/22/towardsbugfree.html > > > ***ONJava 2004 in Review: Popular Articles > Editor Chris Adamson takes a look back at some of the most popular > articles published on ONJava during the last year. > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/12/22/2004-yearender-1.html > > --------------------- > Digital Media > --------------------- > ***Exporting QuickTime Movies with Simple Video Out X > You have great QuickTime content in your computer, but it seems not so > easy to play it on a TV or send it to a VCR or DVD recorder without firing > up iMovie or Final Cut. Or is it? Erica Sadun has discovered a simple but > powerful (and free) application that makes exporting QuickTime as fun as > watching it. > http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2004/12/22/video_out.html > > ================================================ > >From Your Peers > =============================================== > Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups > across the globe are up to: > http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi > > > Until next time-- > > Marsee From Malcolm.Allison at computerland.co.nz Tue Jan 4 15:07:30 2005 From: Malcolm.Allison at computerland.co.nz (Malcolm Allison) Date: Tue Jan 4 15:07:35 2005 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Next meeting Message-ID: <6B854BA41A86CB4BB02BAB717796F9D9020BF040@clwlge2k01.computerlan d.co.nz> Hi, you may be right that there is no mechanism. i still can't find any mention of it anywhere. i figured there was because i get a message (back to the command prompt i did the net start from) saying that the service failed to start but didn't report an error back to the service control manager. this made me think there would be a mechanism to do this. thanks for you help. hope to be at the next pm meeting, Malcolm Allison Enterprise Systems Management Bureau Computerland NZ -----Original Message----- From: Grant McLean [mailto:grant@mclean.net.nz] Sent: Thursday, 30 December 2004 4:41 p.m. To: Wellington Perl Mongers (Perl user group) Subject: RE: [Wellington-pm] Next meeting On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 09:45 +1300, Malcolm Allison wrote: > Hi, > thanks for the reply. i'm not trying to write to the desktop, but > back to the command prompt window that is being used to start the service. I'm not well versed in the ways of Windows, but I wouldn't have thought that a service would have any connection to the command window that was used to start the service. If your program needs to send any sort of message to the user via the screen (rather than the event log) then it doesn't sound like a service. Perhaps you'd be better off implementing it as one of those irritating thingies in the system tray. > i expeect that what i need to do will also generate a message for the > dialog box you get if you start windows and a service fails to start. Thankfully I haven't seen that dialog in a very long time, but I don't recall it saying even which service failed to start let alone why. Perhaps it's more forthcoming in recent versions of Windows. Grant _______________________________________________ Wellington-pm mailing list Wellington-pm@mail.pm.org http://www.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm From liam.oboyle at elections.org.nz Mon Jan 17 12:27:11 2005 From: liam.oboyle at elections.org.nz (Liam O'Boyle) Date: Mon Jan 17 12:26:41 2005 Subject: [Wellington-pm] Electoral Position Message-ID: <1105993631.4201.68.camel@localhost> Hi guys, EEC are looking for a new analyst and I thought that some of you may be interested, or know someone who would be. You'll need a strong Linux background, good written English skills and the ability to comprehend technical specifications as written by Grant (which are rather readable compared to some written in the past). 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Liam O'Boyle wrote: | Hi guys, | | EEC are looking for a new analyst and I thought that some of you may be | interested, or know someone who would be. | | You'll need a strong Linux background, good written English skills and | the ability to comprehend technical specifications as written by Grant | (which are rather readable compared to some written in the past). | Sysadmin experience, Perl abilities and a love of mountain biking will | also be considered a plus ;) | | If you're interested, please check out the details here - | http://careers.nzpost.co.nz/jobtools/JNCUSTOMSEARCH.viewFullSingle?in_organid=13131&in_jnCounter=221003155&in_version=&in_jobDate=All&in_jobType=&in_position=analyst&in_residency=&in_graphic=&in_param=&in_searchbox=YES&in_recruiter=&in_jobreference=&in_orderby=&in_sessionid=&in_navigation1=&in_summary=S | | Feel free to forward this email to anyone else who may be interested. | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | _______________________________________________ | Wellington-pm mailing list | Wellington-pm@pm.org | http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/wellington-pm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB7CrUZtcHxCitRpgRAjAIAJ91YTWuB8K5NpcIk9b0AHzwB9JnnACgmZRN IKQUf4nXw2KV+0ZTWD6G5pg= =F8wd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From grant at mclean.net.nz Fri Jan 21 09:47:26 2005 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Fri Jan 21 09:47:45 2005 Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 20] Message-ID: <1106329646.4162.0.camel@localhost> -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Marsee Henon > To: perlmongers@catalyst.net.nz > Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 20 > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:27:36 -0800 > ================================================================ > O'Reilly News for User Group Members > January 20, 2005 > ================================================================ > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Book News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook > -Excel: The Missing Manual > -Learning Windows Server 2003 > -Excel Annoyances > -Degunking eBay > -Google Hacks, 2nd Edition > -AspectJ Cookbook > -The Book of Postfix > -Home Hacking Projects for Geeks > -Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition > -Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook > -Small Web Sites, Great Results > -Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Upcoming Events > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -O'Reilly at LinuxWorld, Boston, MA--Feb 15-17 > -Mark Lutz ("Programming Python") at Python Bootcamp, > Atlanta, GA--Feb 21-25 > -Allison Randal ("Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials") at UKUUG's 2005 > LISA/Winter Conference, Birmingham, UK--Feb 24-25 > -FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium--Feb 26-27 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Conference News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -OSCON Call For Proposals now open > -Early Registration ends January 31 for the 2005 O'Reilly > Emerging Technology Conference San Diego, CA--March 14-17 > -Registration Is Open for the 2005 MySQL Users Conference, > Santa Clara, CA--April 18-21 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -Race for the Ultimate Car Hacks > -"Make" subscriptions now available--Just in Case you Missed > This Last Time > -Color for Coders--Color and Design for the Non-Designer > -Designing for Clients Made Easy > -Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL > -A Review of PalmOne???s Zire 72 and 31 > -BoundCast interview with Andy Hertzfeld, author of "Revolution in > the Valley" > -A Podcast With Wallace Wang, author of "Steal This File Sharing Book" > -Network Installation of Windows Printers from Samba > -An Introduction to Quality Assurance > -Macworld 1984 > -A RAW Look at iPhoto 5 > -How to Use mutt, FastMail, and Mail.app Together on Your Mac > -Disk Cleanup Hacks > -Using SQL Cache Dependency > -Run Mac OS X on a PC > -Parsing an XML Document with XPath > -Mock Objects in Unit Tests > -Time-Saving Digital GEM Plug-Ins for Photoshop > -Frank Serafine: Turning Elephants into Explosions > > ================================================ > Book News > ================================================ > Did you know you can request a free book to review for your > group? 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J2SE adds XPath > support, and the JDOM API also offers support through an XPath class. > Deepak Vohra looks at both approaches. > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/01/12/xpath.html > > > ***Mock Objects in Unit Tests > Unit testing your code against a service or process that's either too > expensive (commercial databases) or just not done yet is something you can > deal with by simulating the other piece with a mock object. EasyMock can > suffice in some cases, but it can only create mock objects for interfaces. > Mocquer, based on the Dunamis project, can create mocks for classes, too. > Lu Jian shows how it works. > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/01/12/mocquer.html > > --------------------- > Digital Media > --------------------- > ***Time-Saving Digital GEM Plug-Ins for Photoshop > Removing noise from images or trying to retouch facial blemishes is > time-consuming work. Fortunately these Photoshop plug-ins from Kodak's > Austin Development Center can help photographers work more efficiently. > Derrick Story takes them for a spin. > http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/01/05/kodak_plugins.html > > > ***Frank Serafine: Turning Elephants into Explosions > Academy Award-winning sound designer Frank Serafine discusses the art and > science of sound effects, tape-baking, and why selling all his analog gear > on eBay made him happier musically. > http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/01/12/serafine_0105.html > > ================================================ > >From Your Peers > =============================================== > Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups > across the globe are up to: > http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi > > > Until next time-- > > Marsee