From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Mon Oct 5 23:46:33 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 1:46:33 -0500 Subject: APM: Hacking Society Austin Oct. Meeting Tue. 13th Message-ID: <20091006064634.E18BD.246505.root@hrndva-web16-z01> The October get together for Hacking Society in Austin will be at the HEB Central Market on N. Lamar. We meet at 7pm and finish at 9pm. Look for the red covered "Applied Cryptography" book to find us. http://www.centralmarket.com/Stores/Austin-Central.aspx -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Tue Oct 6 21:50:43 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 4:50:43 +0000 Subject: APM: Austin Perl Mongers Oct. 14 Meeting Message-ID: <20091007045043.BE6P6.69814.root@hrndva-web06-z01> Perl Mongers One and All, It's that time of month again...for all the curmugions to meet and talk things Perl. Things like a saw a passle of Perl 6 Essential books at the Half Price on N. Lamar, or that the latest release of Perl 5 is out. We'll be meeting at our usual haunt, the Mangia Pizza at MoPac, Burnet, and Gracy Ln. It starts at 7pm and we should be done by 9pm. http://www.mangiapizza.com/33/Gracy_Farms.html Pass it around, or at least leave a comment in your code. -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Tue Oct 6 21:59:23 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:59:23 -0500 Subject: APM: TRG Maker SIG is Thu. Oct. 8... Message-ID: <20091007045923.9U92A.69878.root@hrndva-web06-z01> Just a short term reminder that the TRG Maker SIG will be meeting Thursday night. The agenda looks like this, 7p - 8p Oscilloscopes 1/2, if you have a scope and want to learn more about it then you might want to participate. I'll be bringing my favorite o'scope reference "The Practical Oscilloscope Handbook" by Rufus P. Turner. It is a -must have- for anybody actually using scopes. We'll have the second and last session on this topic at the next TRG Maker SIG meet. http://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780810404762 8p - 8:30p General Robot Group Business 8:30p - 10p Lego Mindstorm Robotics, we'll be trying to finish a couple of bots bump switches this time. If all goes well we'll start working on a starndard control program for them to use as well. Don't forget that in Nov. and Dec. we'll only be holding a single TRG Maker SIG, the second Thu. of the month. This is considered an "open microphone" event so bring your own project to work on. Please let others know of our event. http://wiki.therobotgroup.org/wiki/Main_Page -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Thu Oct 8 23:47:41 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 6:47:41 +0000 Subject: APM: Follow up -- Wanting to get into IT/Sys Admin Message-ID: <20091009064741.TR9LQ.587902.root@hrndva-web03-z01> There was some question about what were some good books to read... It's a little old but I still consider it the first book any budding sys admin should read, http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003432/ Quite a few in this list are required reading for sys admins, http://oreilly.com/pub/topic/serveradmin Some books I have and suggest, note that this is an old page that I've not updated in a couple of years so not all the links are active anymore; http://ssz.com/Hangar18/links.html The book that Linus was using in his class when he started Linux, http://www.developertutorials.com/reviews/administration/unix-operating-system-050803/page1.html You'll also want to get a copy of the 'Dinosaur Book' on operating systems, http://www.amazon.com/Operating-System-Concepts-Windows-Update/dp/0471250600 you can find copies at Half Price on N. Lamar pretty regularly. Also for compilers, lexical analyzers, etc. you'll want the 'Dragon Book', http://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Alfred-Aho/dp/0201100886 For bash programming, http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ For general Linux documentation, http://tldp.org/ You'll definitely want to make the 'NAG' one of the first things you read for Linux, http://tldp.org/LDP/nag/nag.html For Sun Solaris documentation, http://docs.sun.com/ I suggest you get the big .zip for 8, 9, and 10. You'll find all three in pretty common usage in production tool chains. and finally, --THE-- place to get Linux, BSD, and Solaris CD's, http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/index.html in particular if you're a sys admin and not using the SystemRescueCD you don't have half a clue, http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/products/livecd/systemrescuecd -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From wwalker at solid-constructs.com Fri Oct 9 18:36:30 2009 From: wwalker at solid-constructs.com (Wayne Walker) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 20:36:30 -0500 Subject: APM: spring cleaning - tech books Message-ID: <20091010013629.GC26087@solid-constructs.com> APM Members, I have the following books that I am getting rid of. If you want one or more, just call me and come get them. BUT, any books still here at noon on Sunday are going to Half Price. Programming Perl - 2nd edition Perl Cookbook Stopping Spam HTML - The definitive Guide - 3rd edition Advanced Perl Programming - 2nd edition Perl Testing - A developers notebook learning Perl/Tk Javascript - the definitive guide - 4th ed CGI Programming with Perl 2nd ed Beep - The definitive guide Practical C++ Programming Java in A Nutshell - 2nd ed Perl 6 Essentials Apache - the definitvie guide - 2nd edition x 2 Apache - the definitvie guide writing apache modules with perl and C Building Internet Firewalls = 2nd ed Oracle Database Administration - the essential refernce (covers 7 and 8) Oracle Essentials (8 and 8i) Linux Firewalls (New Writers) UML in a Nutshell Removing the Spam The Perl CD Bookshelf - first ed The Perl CD Bookshelf 2nd ed perl quick ref guides ( 4 of em) CCNA study guide, second edition CCNA exam notes, second edition Tricks of the Wizards by Mark-Jason Dominus Tcl and the Tk toolkit Extreme Programming Examined O'Reilly Pocket References: mod_perl gnu emacs x 2 Crypto, by Stephen Levy -- Wayne Walker wwalker at solid-constructs.com (512) 633-8076 Senior Consultant Solid Constructs, LLC From wwalker at solid-constructs.com Fri Oct 9 18:47:37 2009 From: wwalker at solid-constructs.com (Wayne Walker) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 20:47:37 -0500 Subject: APM: spring cleaning - old notebooks for grabs Message-ID: <20091010014736.GH26087@solid-constructs.com> I have some old notebooks that I am getting rid of. If you want one or more, just call me and come get them. BUT, any that are still here at noon on Sunday are going to Good Will IBM model 600, mostly gutted, no power supply IBM I series, type 2627 Looks good, unknown state, no power supply Toshiba Tecra 8000, no power supply Thinkpad 600, unknown condition, no power supply Toshiba T4900 CT, works, with power supply, Pentium -- Wayne Walker wwalker at solid-constructs.com (512) 633-8076 Senior Consultant Solid Constructs, LLC From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Sun Oct 11 17:55:17 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 0:55:17 +0000 Subject: APM: Half Price ... Lot's of math books... Message-ID: <20091012005517.ZAT4O.164056.root@hrndva-web15-z01> If you're studying calculus, diff eq, number theory, advanced algebra, crypto, pursuit/differential games, etc. then Half Price on N. Lamar has gotten in a large shipment of books you may find of interest. Also noted they had a copy of Wolframs book as well as Penrose's. -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From groups at chrisbaker.net Sun Oct 11 21:30:35 2009 From: groups at chrisbaker.net (Christopher Baker) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:30:35 -0500 Subject: APM: Half Price ... Lot's of math books... In-Reply-To: <20091012005517.ZAT4O.164056.root@hrndva-web15-z01> References: <20091012005517.ZAT4O.164056.root@hrndva-web15-z01> Message-ID: <20091011233022.0EF6.GROUPS@chrisbaker.net> > If you're studying calculus, diff eq, number theory, advanced algebra, > crypto, pursuit/differential games, etc. then Half Price on N. Lamar > has gotten in a large shipment of books you may find of interest. Also > noted they had a copy of Wolframs book as well as Penrose's. And what does that have to do with the purpose of this discussion group or any of the many groups you sent this post to? Do you ever send any posts that are on topic? ==================================================== Chris Baker -- Austin, Texas Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming chris(at)chrisbaker(dot)net -- www.chrisbaker.net http://www.myspace.com/algernonsidney http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris_Baker/1271569620 "When you stop growing, you start dying." From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Mon Oct 12 10:42:42 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:42:42 -0500 Subject: APM: Wed. night meet location...good to go Message-ID: <20091012174242.PJ98I.182015.root@hrndva-web10-z01> Just got back from lunch and while I was out stopped by Mangia. We're on the schedule for Wed. night. -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Mon Oct 12 10:42:49 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:42:49 +0000 Subject: APM: Wed. night meet location...good to go Message-ID: <20091012174249.ZB9M1.182021.root@hrndva-web10-z01> Just got back from lunch and while I was out stopped by Mangia. We're on the schedule for Wed. night. -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Mon Oct 12 10:43:14 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:43:14 +0000 Subject: APM: We're good to go Message-ID: <20091012174314.XNLUN.182033.root@hrndva-web10-z01> Hi, I met with the new manager, Jeff, at Mangia and we're good to go. We're penciled in for the second Wed. of each month. Standard proviso for a group our size (ie small) if they need over flow seating or a big group shows up we may have to sit at a regular table. Collen the old manager got promoted, good for him. -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Wed Oct 14 07:52:17 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:52:17 +0000 Subject: APM: Meeting management & announcements Message-ID: <20091014145217.ZFV33.358092.root@hrndva-web24-z01> Hi, Back at the beginning of the summer I'd agreed to take on the meeting tasks through the summer. I'll go ahead and take care of the meeting place and reminder notices through December. After the new year we'll need to find somebody else to take care of it. I'll be focusing on getting the CRC hackspace doors open and its services up and going and there are only 24 hrs in a day :) Once the doors are open APM has an open invitation to use those facilities for meetings and other activities. -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Sun Oct 18 16:33:44 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:33:44 -0500 Subject: APM: TRG Maker SIG - Thu. Oct 22 Agenda Message-ID: <20091018233344.T7YBR.233162.root@hrndva-web26-z01> Hello Everyone, We'll be having the second, and last meeting of this month this Thursday. Our current agenda, 7-8pm Oscilloscopes - If you have a scope and want to learn a little bit more about how to use it, bring it on down. There should be plenty of projects to hook it to and explore. 8-8:30p Regular TRG business. 8:30 - 10p Lego Mindstorms - Building rovers to explore swarm computing. For Nov. and Dec. we'll only hold a Maker SIG the second Thu. of each month. We'll continue to explore Lego Mindstorms, and we'd like to add circuit bending to the agenda for those two months. So bring some cheap electronic widget you want to modify. We should have tools and parts to help you out. Remenber we consider this an 'open microphone' event so bring your own projects or demos to the event. Also, please pass the news of the event around to other people and groups you are involved with. -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Mon Oct 19 12:39:55 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:39:55 -0500 Subject: APM: undefined Message-ID: <20091019193955.BGBJL.251283.root@hrndva-web26-z01> undefined From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Mon Oct 19 12:53:21 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:53:21 +0000 Subject: APM: undefined Message-ID: <20091019195321.62IXR.251643.root@hrndva-web26-z01> undefined From tmcd at panix.com Mon Oct 19 13:08:21 2009 From: tmcd at panix.com (Tim McDaniel) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:08:21 -0500 (CDT) Subject: APM: undefined In-Reply-To: <20091019195321.62IXR.251643.root@hrndva-web26-z01> References: <20091019195321.62IXR.251643.root@hrndva-web26-z01> Message-ID: On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, jameschoate at austin.rr.com wrote: > undefined You should run Perl with the -w option, or "use warnings;" if you have a late-model Perl. -- Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com From msouth at gmail.com Mon Oct 19 13:47:55 2009 From: msouth at gmail.com (Mike South) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:47:55 -0500 Subject: APM: undefined In-Reply-To: References: <20091019195321.62IXR.251643.root@hrndva-web26-z01> Message-ID: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Tim McDaniel wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, jameschoate at austin.rr.com wrote: > >> undefined >> > > You should run Perl with the -w option, or "use warnings;" if you have > a late-model Perl. > That, or just make sure that if you send out a message that says 'undefined', you sign it with: ...wait for it... "Love, NaN" thanks everyone, I'll be here all week. mike > -- > Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com > > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Tue Oct 20 06:03:37 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:03:37 +0000 Subject: APM: undefined In-Reply-To: <1950549172-1255983553-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-2021712582-@bda149.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> Message-ID: <20091020130337.2Z34R.437287.root@hrndva-web07-z01> No, LinkedIn and RR Webmail don't play well together. For some reason the title and body get stripped in the transfer. I was trying to forward an email from the Javascript group about their meeting tonight (Tue.). They're going to do some game design and were asking anyone interested to send them a heads-up notice before attending. The idea was to design a game in Javascript in three hours. I ran out of debug time/motivation to resolve what the glitch is. The real world interceded. ---- Mike Scioli wrote: > ? Magic 8-ball ? > > ;-) > > > ------Original Message------ > From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com > Sender: robotgroup-bounces at puremagic.com > To: Austin-Hacking-Society at googlegroups.com > Cc: Austin Area Leauge of Pro Sysadmins > Cc: The Robot Group Mailing List > Cc: Austin: pm.org > ReplyTo: The Robot Group Mailing List > Subject: [Robotgroup] undefined > Sent: Oct 19, 2009 2:39 PM > > undefined > _______________________________________________ > Robotgroup mailing list > Robotgroup at puremagic.com > http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/robotgroup > > > All the best .... > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Robotgroup mailing list > Robotgroup at puremagic.com > http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/robotgroup -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Fri Oct 23 07:08:35 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:08:35 +0000 Subject: APM: Follow up: The Para-psychology project proposal, RNG Testing & DIEHARD, & Hot Bits Message-ID: <20091023140835.G0KU6.340132.root@hrndva-web26-z01> http://burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/testsfor.html http://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/Random/Random.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographically_secure_pseudorandom_number_generator http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/index.html http://www.random.org/analysis/ http://random.mat.sbg.ac.at/tests/ http://www.stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/ (you'll want this entire CD really) http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/ -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- -- From jameschoate at austin.rr.com Fri Oct 23 08:01:02 2009 From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:01:02 +0000 Subject: APM: [Robotgroup] Follow up: The Para-psychology project proposal, RNG Testing & DIEHARD, & Hot Bits In-Reply-To: <912634.89482.qm@web30405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20091023150103.HMJX2.620289.root@hrndva-web04-z01> Sorry to hear that, I'm using Safari on an old PowerBook G4 under OS X 10.4.11 and didn't have any problem pulling them up. Another more general search link on DIEHARD tests is, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=DIEHARD+rng+test&aq=f&oq=&aqi= ---- Clendon Gibson wrote: > I was looking through the links and the second one crashed my browser. I am using Iceweasel which is a variant of FireFox on a Debian based Linux system. > > Another web browser was able to look at the site just fine. >c.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/robotgroup -- -- -- -- -- Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus James Choate jameschoate at austin.rr.com james.choate at twcable.com 512-657-1279 www.ssz.com http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center Adapt, Adopt, Improvise -- -- -- --