From matt at omega.org Thu Jun 1 11:01:14 2006 From: matt at omega.org (Matthew Johnson) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:01:14 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] [OT] TC Linux Users Group Installfest In-Reply-To: References: <443AD8EF.5010405@peknet.com> <443ADA00.6090004@indecorous.com> <443ADC53.5070709@peknet.com> <444E446D.5070506@indecorous.com> <445F6AB4.2020906@indecorous.com> <4461E803.7050205@peknet.com> Message-ID: <93AFBCA1-CD2B-4925-9795-F667F9699803@omega.org> I plan on getting the knoppix-mythtv distro (knoppmyth) working on my a PC HDTV hd3000 video card. -Matt http://www.tclug.org/installfest/installfest-06-03-2006.jpg http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html http://www.mythtv.org//modules.php?name=MythInstall http://revision3.com/systm/mythtv/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- This Saturday, 10am. Location: Heritage Christian Academy (HCA) 15655 Bass Lake Road Maple Grove, MN 55311 West corner of Bass Lake Road & Vicksburg Lane N. (Yahoo and google maps incorrectly place HCA on the South corner, but it is actually on the West corner.) Note that Bass Lake Road to the East is under construction. There are several locations where the road turns sharply or narrows unexpectedly. Please follow the posted speed limit for your (and your computer's) own safety. Park in the West lot and use the West entrance. The West parking lot is behind the building as viewed from Vicksburg or Bass Lake Road. There is a traffic loop by the entrance that you can use for unloading. The rooms will be just 20' down the hall from the entrance. We'll try to have carts available. Phone number at the site is 763-463-2268. Don't call till the installfest as this is the phone in the lunchroom. Arrival times: 9:00 Doug Coats & Wayne Johnson 9:30 Other volunteers who want to set up or have installfest infrastructure equipment 9:55 Gurus, Wizards, Magi, Noviate, and others interested in helping installees (if you can't make it at 9:55, show up when you can). 10:00 The public Equipment: The following people have volunteered to bring equipment: Install distros portable 250Gb HD (USB, firewire ATA-6 if needed) - Wayne Johnson Install-server with 120 GB disk and a DVD-burner - Florin 24 port network switch - Florin 3 16 port 10/100 switches - Doug Coats (HCA) Video Projector - Doug Coats (HCA) Name tags & Registration supplies - Wayne Johnson Long power cords - Wayne Johnson (anyone else have some?) HCA is short on CAT5 cables, so bring your own and some to share, as well as power strips and extension cords. If you have other equipment you'd like to bring, feel free. We can never have too few toys. Redundancy is good. Roles: coordinator - Contact for all other participants Wayne Johnson - wdtj at yahoo.com host - Has the connection to the location Doug Coats - dcoats at heritagemail.org sponsor - Represents an organization that provides the location, equipment, network, materials, food, beverages, etc. to the installfest Heritage Christian Academy (HCA) (www.heritageweb.org). receptionist - greets people as they come in, gives them a name tag and has them sign a waiver Committee: Wayne Johnson Doug Coats Additional Volunteers Other stuff from the installfest FAQ... Setup - We'll have 8 10' tables (not terribly strong, but they should suffice). We'll arrange them in 2 U shaped clusters. Each cluster will have a network switch and a main power strip. We will also have a smaller table for registration and one for food. We also have the room across the hall for demo's etc. David Christian [dbc at rpath.com] will be demoing. Internet access - Connection (or 2) to HCA backbone with Cable Modem access. HCA will set up a subnet just for the installfest, with DHCP. DNS server is via ISP, DHCP will suggest DNS IP address. (HCA does not have a DNS cache... yet). Telephone connection - We can set up a phone line on request. Power - We have at least 2 20 amp circuits. That should be good for 15 PCs. Additional power can be run from other rooms as necessary. Lunch - We'll order pizza from Angino's at 11:30. People wanting pizza can join the pizza pool at registration (donation requested). Wayne Johnson Senior Software Engineer MQSoftware, Inc. 1660 S Highway 100 Minneapolis, MN 55416 (952) 345-8628 From ejseim at tech-pro.com Thu Jun 1 15:06:14 2006 From: ejseim at tech-pro.com (Ehren J. Seim) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:06:14 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] New Perl contract position Message-ID: Anyone interested in a short term (2 month) Perl position in Eagan? Or know someone that would be (we do have a referral bonus program)? 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URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/mpls-pm/attachments/20060603/00703c45/attachment.html From perl at karlnarveson.com Sat Jun 10 05:56:24 2006 From: perl at karlnarveson.com (Karl Narveson) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 07:56:24 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] June meeting - Wed the 14th In-Reply-To: <445F6AB4.2020906@indecorous.com> References: <443AD8EF.5010405@peknet.com> <443ADA00.6090004@indecorous.com> <443ADC53.5070709@peknet.com> <444E446D.5070506@indecorous.com> <445F6AB4.2020906@indecorous.com> Message-ID: <448AC178.7060709@karlnarveson.com> Ian Malpass wrote (in May): >Are we having a tech meeting on Wednesday then? > How about Wednesday, June 14? I am (as I've been for a few months) ready to give a ten or twenty-minute case study in object-oriented Perl: How we replaced twenty batch-file-processing scripts with just one. Karl Narveson From gary.vollink at gmail.com Sat Jun 10 10:08:54 2006 From: gary.vollink at gmail.com (Gary Vollink) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:08:54 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] June meeting - Wed the 14th In-Reply-To: <448AC178.7060709@karlnarveson.com> References: <443AD8EF.5010405@peknet.com> <443ADA00.6090004@indecorous.com> <443ADC53.5070709@peknet.com> <444E446D.5070506@indecorous.com> <445F6AB4.2020906@indecorous.com> <448AC178.7060709@karlnarveson.com> Message-ID: I'd like to hear about that myself. On 6/10/06, Karl Narveson wrote: > Ian Malpass wrote (in May): > > >Are we having a tech meeting on Wednesday then? > > > How about Wednesday, June 14? > > I am (as I've been for a few months) ready to give a ten or > twenty-minute case study in object-oriented Perl: How we replaced twenty > batch-file-processing scripts with just one. > > Karl Narveson > _______________________________________________ > Mpls-pm mailing list > Mpls-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/mpls-pm > From ian at indecorous.com Sat Jun 10 16:30:52 2006 From: ian at indecorous.com (Ian Malpass) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:30:52 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] June meeting - Wed the 14th In-Reply-To: <448AC178.7060709@karlnarveson.com> References: <443AD8EF.5010405@peknet.com> <443ADA00.6090004@indecorous.com> <443ADC53.5070709@peknet.com> <444E446D.5070506@indecorous.com> <445F6AB4.2020906@indecorous.com> <448AC178.7060709@karlnarveson.com> Message-ID: <448B562C.8050809@indecorous.com> Karl Narveson wrote: > Ian Malpass wrote (in May): > >>Are we having a tech meeting on Wednesday then? > > How about Wednesday, June 14? I won't be able to make it, alas. My parents are visiting from the UK, and I believe I'm introducing them to baseball that evening. Ian From matt at omega.org Sat Jun 10 19:52:53 2006 From: matt at omega.org (Matthew Johnson) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:52:53 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] June meeting - Wed the 14th In-Reply-To: <448B562C.8050809@indecorous.com> References: <443AD8EF.5010405@peknet.com> <443ADA00.6090004@indecorous.com> <443ADC53.5070709@peknet.com> <444E446D.5070506@indecorous.com> <445F6AB4.2020906@indecorous.com> <448AC178.7060709@karlnarveson.com> <448B562C.8050809@indecorous.com> Message-ID: <14AFB929-5271-4611-92A5-5843AD536751@omega.org> Yeah, I suppose a good cricket match would be hard to find here in the Twin Cities. I did see foootball on ABC however. -Matt On Jun 10, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Ian Malpass wrote: > Karl Narveson wrote: >> Ian Malpass wrote (in May): >> >>> Are we having a tech meeting on Wednesday then? >> >> How about Wednesday, June 14? > > I won't be able to make it, alas. My parents are visiting from the UK, > and I believe I'm introducing them to baseball that evening. > > Ian > _______________________________________________ > Mpls-pm mailing list > Mpls-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/mpls-pm From patm at holmescorp.com Mon Jun 12 10:58:06 2006 From: patm at holmescorp.com (Pat McNamee) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:58:06 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] seeking a consultant Message-ID: I'm looking for a consultant who has deep expertise in all of the following technologies: - Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ES) - Apache 1.3.33 - mod_perl 1.29 - Perl 5.8.5 - Perl modules (HTML::Mason 1.3101, Class::DBI 3.0.1, and various others) - MySQL (4.1.12) Your qualifications must include extensive experience: - identifying performance bottlenecks in web applications built using the above technologies - articulating alternative solutions - implementing specific fixes Please do not respond to this email unless you live in or within commuting distance of the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. -- Patrick McNamee Chief Technologist Holmes Corporation patm at holmescorp.com 651-905-2636 INFORMATION IN THIS MESSAGE, INCLUDING ANY ATTACHMENTS, IS INTENDED FOR THE PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL USE OF THE INTENDED RECIPIENT(S) NAMED ABOVE. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, or an agent responsible for delivering it to an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this message in error, and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete the message, and return any hard copy print-outs. This message has been scanned for viruses by McAfee's Groupshield. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/mpls-pm/attachments/20060612/c0fb4937/attachment.html From autarch at urth.org Tue Jun 13 13:18:20 2006 From: autarch at urth.org (Dave Rolsky) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:18:20 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [Mpls-pm] Someone else to coordinate tech meetings? Message-ID: I think we'd probably be able to have more tech meetings if someone who wasn't me coordinated them. Any volunteers? It's not a huge amount of work, especially with the lightning talk format. Basically it goes like this: * Send out a call for talks 2-3 weeks ahead of the meeting. * If there's enough by a week before, make sure we can use the room at Tech-Pro by emailing Ehren Seim. ** 60 minutes of scheduled talks is probably enough given all the comments from the peanut gallery. * Post the list of upcoming talks on the wiki and to the email list a week in advance so people know what's coming up. -dave /*=================================================== VegGuide.Org www.BookIRead.com Your guide to all that's veg. My book blog ===================================================*/ From ttausend at gmail.com Wed Jun 14 07:43:47 2006 From: ttausend at gmail.com (Troy E. Hove Tausend) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:43:47 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] June meeting - Wed the 14th In-Reply-To: <448AC178.7060709@karlnarveson.com> References: <445F6AB4.2020906@indecorous.com> <448AC178.7060709@karlnarveson.com> Message-ID: <200606140943.47843.ttausend@gmail.com> So, what is the final concensus then? Is the meeting on for tonight? Cafe Royale? On Saturday 10 June 2006 07:56 am, Karl Narveson wrote: > Ian Malpass wrote (in May): > >Are we having a tech meeting on Wednesday then? > > How about Wednesday, June 14? > > I am (as I've been for a few months) ready to give a ten or > twenty-minute case study in object-oriented Perl: How we replaced twenty > batch-file-processing scripts with just one. > > Karl Narveson > _______________________________________________ > Mpls-pm mailing list > Mpls-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/mpls-pm -- Troy E. Hove Tausend ttausend at gmail.com ttausend at mn.rr.com ttausend at hotmail.com From ian at indecorous.com Mon Jun 19 08:05:35 2006 From: ian at indecorous.com (Ian Malpass) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:05:35 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Someone else to coordinate tech meetings? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4496BD3F.70403@indecorous.com> Dave Rolsky wrote: > I think we'd probably be able to have more tech meetings if someone who > wasn't me coordinated them. Any volunteers? Sure, I'll do it. Unless anyone else is champing at the bit to do it but hasn't been champing hard enough to reply on-list. Ian From matt at omega.org Mon Jun 19 09:10:03 2006 From: matt at omega.org (Matthew Johnson) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:10:03 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Someone else to coordinate tech meetings? In-Reply-To: <4496BD3F.70403@indecorous.com> References: <4496BD3F.70403@indecorous.com> Message-ID: <1150733403.20593.264155500@webmail.messagingengine.com> Yeah, I noticed everyone wasn't jumping in at once! I would, but I don't trust myself for my own appointments! -Matt ----- Original message ----- From: "Ian Malpass" To: "Dave Rolsky" Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:05:35 -0500 Subject: Re: [Mpls-pm] Someone else to coordinate tech meetings? Dave Rolsky wrote: > I think we'd probably be able to have more tech meetings if someone who > wasn't me coordinated them. Any volunteers? Sure, I'll do it. Unless anyone else is champing at the bit to do it but hasn't been champing hard enough to reply on-list. Ian _______________________________________________ Mpls-pm mailing list Mpls-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/mpls-pm From ian at indecorous.com Mon Jun 19 09:43:31 2006 From: ian at indecorous.com (Ian Malpass) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:43:31 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Someone else to coordinate tech meetings? In-Reply-To: <1150733403.20593.264155500@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <4496BD3F.70403@indecorous.com> <1150733403.20593.264155500@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <4496D433.1090603@indecorous.com> Matthew Johnson wrote: > Yeah, I noticed everyone wasn't jumping in at once! I would, but I > don't trust myself for my own appointments! -Matt Neither do I, really. Still, I've sipped the Kool-aid of online calendaring in an attempt to remember birthdays, anniversaries, etc., and so I'm adding a raft of mpls.pm items as well :) Ian From ian at indecorous.com Wed Jun 28 12:22:47 2006 From: ian at indecorous.com (Ian Malpass) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:22:47 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Call for talks: 12 July technical meeting Message-ID: <44A2D707.1050301@indecorous.com> Right then. We're due a meeting on 12 July, by my reckoning. Just as one can't make an omelet without breaking eggs[0], we can't have a technical meeting without any technical talks, so now is the time to volunteer. Talks can be short or long, but 5-20 minutes is sort of typical. Example topics: * "This cool CPAN module I love using." * "What I learned at YAPC::NA." * "How to do X with Perl." * "An appreciation of under-appreciated feature Y of Perl." * "This interesting technology I use along with Perl." * "How Perl rocks my world."[1] * "How I solved my problem with Perl, duct tape, and a small stick." * "Gosh, I got this book from O'Reilly to review and I haven't yet, which is making me feel rather guilty, a guilt I'd like to assuage by giving a short talk on it at a technical meeting, after which I'll feel much better and will go to Heaven."[2] * "Here's a thing I'd like to discuss with other Perl users." Technical meetings are very low-key and laid back (with pizza, usually[3]), so if you've never given a talk before, it's an ideal place to start. Slides are entirely optional. Answering questions afterwards also optional. You don't have to be a Perl guru to talk. I know some people (myself included) have volunteered to talk before, but I've lost track of who and what, so if you'd like to volunteer again I'd be most grateful. Proposals for talks to me (or the list, but you're welcome to mail off-list if you prefer) by 5 July. If we've got enough, we'll schedule the meeting. If we don't, we'll have a social meet at Espresso Royale and I'll roll the talks over to next month. Ta. Ian [0] Dave will no doubt have a vegan recipe to prove me wrong. [1] Metaphorically. Unless you use it to drive jackhammers, piledrivers, or other heavy equipment. Which would rule, really. Please talk about that. [2] Warning: speakers may not actually go to Heaven. [3] And some godforsaken cheeseless parody of pizza if Dave is present. I mean, really. From twists at gmail.com Wed Jun 28 12:45:52 2006 From: twists at gmail.com (Joshua ben Jore) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:45:52 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Call for talks: 12 July technical meeting In-Reply-To: <44A2D707.1050301@indecorous.com> References: <44A2D707.1050301@indecorous.com> Message-ID: On 6/28/06, Ian Malpass wrote: > Right then. > > We're due a meeting on 12 July, by my reckoning. Just as one can't make > an omelet without breaking eggs[0], we can't have a technical meeting > without any technical talks, so now is the time to volunteer. > > Talks can be short or long, but 5-20 minutes is sort of typical. Example > topics: Something on how I eliminated a need to predeclare things by making Data::Postponed warp time. I could invent a title later if you like. Josh From matt at omega.org Wed Jun 28 12:47:51 2006 From: matt at omega.org (Matthew Johnson) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:47:51 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Call for talks: 12 July technical meeting In-Reply-To: References: <44A2D707.1050301@indecorous.com> Message-ID: <1151524071.13946.264892937@webmail.messagingengine.com> "Time Warping for Dummies", an IDG talk ----- Original message ----- From: "Joshua ben Jore" To: "Ian Malpass" Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:45:52 -0500 Subject: Re: [Mpls-pm] Call for talks: 12 July technical meeting On 6/28/06, Ian Malpass wrote: > Right then. > > We're due a meeting on 12 July, by my reckoning. Just as one can't make > an omelet without breaking eggs[0], we can't have a technical meeting > without any technical talks, so now is the time to volunteer. > > Talks can be short or long, but 5-20 minutes is sort of typical. Example > topics: Something on how I eliminated a need to predeclare things by making Data::Postponed warp time. I could invent a title later if you like. Josh _______________________________________________ Mpls-pm mailing list Mpls-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/mpls-pm From ian at indecorous.com Wed Jun 28 13:13:05 2006 From: ian at indecorous.com (Ian Malpass) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:13:05 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Call for talks: 12 July technical meeting In-Reply-To: References: <44A2D707.1050301@indecorous.com> Message-ID: <44A2E2D1.3000100@indecorous.com> Joshua ben Jore wrote: > Something on how I eliminated a need to predeclare things by making > Data::Postponed warp time. I could invent a title later if you like. The soundtrack to your talk will borrow heavily from the Rocky Horrow Show, I take it? obH2G2: "I told you! Eddies in the space-time continuum!" "I see. And this is his sofa, is it?" Ian From ian at indecorous.com Wed Jun 28 23:08:04 2006 From: ian at indecorous.com (Ian Malpass) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:08:04 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Request for requests for talks.... Message-ID: <44A36E44.1060808@indecorous.com> If there's a talk you'd really like someone to give, but you're keen on doing it yourself for some reason, let me know. Once I get a bit more organised I'll see about doing something constructive with the wiki, matching talks to speakers. Ian From ken at mathforum.org Thu Jun 29 05:22:54 2006 From: ken at mathforum.org (Ken Williams) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:22:54 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Request for requests for talks.... In-Reply-To: <44A36E44.1060808@indecorous.com> References: <44A36E44.1060808@indecorous.com> Message-ID: <4F392803-33D0-42B4-9D2E-B969714CC3B8@mathforum.org> s?keen?not keen?; -Keen On Jun 29, 2006, at 1:08 AM, Ian Malpass wrote: > If there's a talk you'd really like someone to give, but you're > keen on > doing it yourself for some reason, let me know. > > Once I get a bit more organised I'll see about doing something > constructive with the wiki, matching talks to speakers. > > Ian > _______________________________________________ > Mpls-pm mailing list > Mpls-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/mpls-pm From ian at indecorous.com Thu Jun 29 07:09:42 2006 From: ian at indecorous.com (Ian Malpass) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:09:42 -0500 Subject: [Mpls-pm] Request for requests for talks.... In-Reply-To: <4F392803-33D0-42B4-9D2E-B969714CC3B8@mathforum.org> References: <44A36E44.1060808@indecorous.com> <4F392803-33D0-42B4-9D2E-B969714CC3B8@mathforum.org> Message-ID: <44A3DF26.5070507@indecorous.com> Ken Williams wrote: > s?keen?not keen?; Er, yes, that. *cough* Ian