From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Wed Sep 3 07:10:32 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:10:32 -0700 Subject: [buug] More books for BUUG from the Pearson Education User Group Program Message-ID: <20080903071032.4540321spssja52c@webmail.rawbw.com> More books for BUUG from the Pearson Education User Group Program Apparently arrived 2008-08-27, and I anticipate bringing it to the 2008-09-04 BUUG meeting: Official Ubuntu Book, The, 3rd Edition http://www.informit.com/title/0137136684 By Benjamin Mako Hill, Corey Burger, Jonathan Jesse, Jono Bacon Published Jun 20, 2008 by Prentice Hall. Pages: 512 Edition: 3rd. ISBN-10: 0-13-713668-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-713668-1 From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Wed Sep 3 22:55:52 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:55:52 -0700 Subject: [buug] Fwd: Pearson Education User Group Program Newsletter -- September 2008 Message-ID: <20080903225552.42193w3dvgjrn3i8@webmail.rawbw.com> Forwarding (very slightly redacted): ----- Forwarded message from usergroups at informit.com ----- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:50:24 -0400 From: "InformIT User Groups" Subject: Pearson Education User Group Program Newsletter -- September 2008 To: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Issue 8?September 2008 Pearson Education User Group Program Newsletter Thank you for reading the Pearson Education User Group Program monthly newsletter for official group members. 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Follow Cisco Press on Twitter . ----- End forwarded message ----- From jim at well.com Tue Sep 9 22:50:52 2008 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:50:52 -0700 Subject: [buug] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday September 11, 2008: Music and Lights Message-ID: <1221025852.30326.136.camel@ubuntu> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday September 11, 2008: Finger Painting with Planets by Speaker Finger Painting with Planets is an interactive installation using FingerWorks iGesture multitouch pads in a custom-built controller. The installation lets people place objects in space. Gravitational attraction between the objects produces graceful movements that are translated into visuals and sound. Knobs and buttons on the controller are used to adjust parameters. A musical keyboard is used to select notes that will be used in the music. Theater Lighting System by Drew Perttula I'll talk about 3 major new improvements to my theater lighting system since the last presentation in 2005: a midi input device (with python driver); the use of RDF for most of the persistent data; and a new tool for rendering previews of lighting scenes with opengl. The meeting starts with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, specially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget is... Micro-benchmarking with timeit, presented by Matt Good. Location: Google Campus Building 40, the Seville room (check in at the lobby in bldg 43) bayPIGgies meeting information: http://baypiggies.net/new/plone * Please sign up in advance to have your google access badge ready: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BayPiggiesGoogleMeetings (no later than close of business on Wednesday.) Agenda ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:45 PM ................ Newbie Nugget Benchmarking with timeit by Matt Good ..... 7:45 PM to 8:15 PM ................ Finger Painting with Planets by Tim Thompson ..... 8:15 PM to 8:45 PM ................ Theater Lighting System by Drew Perttula ..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM -- After The Talk ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcers are interested in. Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on the announcements and other topics of interest. From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Thu Sep 11 13:25:45 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:25:45 -0700 Subject: [buug] Ian Murdock @ BALUG Tuesday! (RSVP! - different venue!) Message-ID: <20080911132545.97845x2ys9xwh00s@webmail.rawbw.com> Hi Folks: Ian Murdock will be speaking at BALUG this coming Tuesday (2008-09-16). Ian founded Debian in 1993 and served as project lead through 1996. Currently Ian is the Vice President of Developer and Community Marketing at Sun Microsystems and previously was the CTO of the Linux Foundation. (Full bio links below) ============================ VERY important changes... ============================ 1)Change in venue We are NOT meeting at the Four Seas Restaurant because they have a conflict. However, Songbird (http://www.songbird.com/) has kindly offer the use of their office in SOMA for the meeting. (Address below) 2)Change in food & cost We will be ordering pizza & soda for this meeting. The cost will be $10, meat and veggie-friendly options will be available and we promise it won't be Pizza Hut or Domino's. 3)RSVPs REQUIRED Due to the fact that Songbird can host about 75 attendees (we may well get a full house) _AND_ that BALUG volunteers are personally paying for pizza upfront, we are *requiring* an RSVP for this event. So, if you'd like to join us *please* RSVP now (or at least as soon as you can!) to: rsvp at balug.org Meeting Details... 6:30 P.M. September 16th, 2008 Songbird's Corporate Office 585 Howard St. (near 2nd St.) San Francisco, CA 94105-3032 Map w/ Parking Garages: http://tinyurl.com/5zbwuu Cost: The meetings are always free, but pizza & soda is $10 Links to Ian Murdock's full bios: Personal: http://ianmurdock.com/about/ Corporate: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/bio.jsp?name=Ian%20Murdock More information, additional maps, other upcoming meetings, etc.: http://www.balug.org/ -- publicity-feedback at balug.org From john at jjdev.com Fri Sep 12 18:00:51 2008 From: john at jjdev.com (John de la Garza) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:00:51 -0700 Subject: [buug] should a socket be short lived? Message-ID: I'm writing a program that needs to talk to another process using a tcp socket. I've been told to create the socket at the time the program starts then leave it up the whole life of the program. I am wondering if in general people create sockets use them then close them or leave them open for reuse. It seems like it is easier to open it ask for the data get the data then have the server close it. I know where the data ends and don't have to build a packet with a header then parse and buffer it. From ken.ingram at gmail.com Mon Sep 15 14:30:29 2008 From: ken.ingram at gmail.com (Ken Ingram) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:30:29 -0700 Subject: [buug] Anyone interested in old Issues of Linux Journal? Message-ID: <2aa958470809151430h742578e0i9feaa6f9c660c038@mail.gmail.com> I thought if there are any archivist types who are interested, I'd give it a week before I toss them. My pack-rat days are over.... -- "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." - George Bernard Shaw -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: