From george at sddi.net Wed Jun 2 13:52:24 2004 From: george at sddi.net (G.Rosamond) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:52:24 -0400 Subject: [Announce-nycbug] reminder. . .Tonight's NYCBUG Meeting Message-ID: <9A8F5670-B4BD-11D8-9026-000D9328615E@sddi.net> June 2nd Monthly Meeting: Bob Ippolito & Isaac Levy on Hacking Your iBook 6:30 pm, Tekserve at 119 W. 23rd Street (just west of 6th Ave). From Usenix to Thursday nights at DBA, iBooks are omnipresent in the hands of UNIX hackers. With FreeBSD at the core of Apple's OS X, there isn't much need to wonder why. Bob and Ike, two members of the Lower East Side Mac Unix User Group (lesmuug.org), will show how to get deeper into your OS X box. From george at sddi.net Wed Jun 9 15:22:12 2004 From: george at sddi.net (G. Rosamond) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:22:12 -0400 Subject: [Announce-nycbug] NYSA announcement Message-ID: If you haven't already, please RSVP by 4pm today if you plan to attend. Original announcement: We are pleased to announce that NYSA will be presenting a talk on Perl 6 and Parrot on June 9th. We intend to have this be the start of a new discussion series at NYSA and look forward to seeing you there. PLEASE remember to RSVP, details below. MEETING DETAILS from http://www.nysa.org/meetings.html DATE Wednesday, June 9th, 2004 6:30 pm to 6:45 pm - Announcements 6:45 pm to 7:45 pm - Main Presentation 7:45 pm to 9:00 pm - Open Floor SPEAKER Josh Rabinowitz is a 13-year veteran of the software industry who cut his teeth at NASA Ames Research Center and at CNET.com and other web companies. He currently is an independent internet consultant and software developer in New York City, and the publisher of SkateboardDirectory.com, which aims to be your guide to skateboard sites on the Internet. TOPIC Perl 6 and Parrot Perl 6 is more than an incremental upgrade to the Perl 5. It's "the community's rewrite of perl", and seeks to add deep features and language changes while retaining backward compatibility with the huge code base of current perl software. While Perl 6 as a language is still in the design phase, many decisions are being made, and development is underway on Parrot, an underlying "virtual machine designed to execute bytecode for interpreted languages efficiently" that is intended to act as a platform for Perl 6, as well versions of Scheme, BASIC, Befunge, and other languages. In this talk Josh will cover why the world needs Perl 6, the over-arching Perl 6 design philosophies, some Perl 6 language features that are in discussion and how they differ from Perl 5, and new features that have no Perl 5 analog. Josh will also discuss Parrot's design, which is driven by three principles: speed, abstraction, and stability, and provide an overview of the current status of Perl 6 and Parrot. ***NEW LOCATION*** Sun Microsystems Inc Forth floor, Room 4140, "Grammercy Park" 101 Park Ave New York, NY 10178-0001 RSVP Please RSVP by sending an e-mail to rsvp at nysa.org with a subject line of "AUTO RSVP NYSA firstname lastname". The RSVP list will be given to building security. If you do not RSVP, you will not be able to attend this event. Please RSVP now if you plan to attend. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Sun Microsystems, is one block south of Grand Central, on the corner of Park Ave and 41st St. From george at sddi.net Fri Jun 11 13:31:30 2004 From: george at sddi.net (G. Rosamond) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:31:30 -0400 Subject: [Announce-nycbug] FW: [nylug-talk] NY Linux Users Grp. 16 June Meeting: Mikey Sklar onElectric Clothing: circuit/microcontroller/hardware design, programming Message-ID: >-----Original Message----- >From: nylug-talk-bounces at nylug.org >[mailto:nylug-talk-bounces at nylug.org] On Behalf Of John Bacall >Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 1:30 PM >To: NYLUG-Talk >Subject: [nylug-talk] NY Linux Users Grp. 16 June Meeting: >Mikey Sklar onElectric Clothing: >circuit/microcontroller/hardware design,programming > >June 16th, 2004 >Wednesday >6:30PM-8:00PM >IBM Headquarters Building >590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street >12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency > >** RSVP Instructions ** > Unless you have already rsvp'ed for a prior meeting, everyone > should RSVP to attend. http://rsvp.nylug.org > Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number. > > > Mikey Sklar (Electric Clothing) > -on- > Electric Clothing: circuit/microcontroller/hardware design, >programming > > > Mikey Sklar, an electric-clothing hobbiest, will speak about > several wearable outfits he has developed over the last year. All > source code, schematics, and circuit board layouts were developed > using open source software (ported to *BSD, OS X). All software and > hardware designs are free and can be used by anyone else. Materials > used consist of computer fans, LEDs, El Wire (electroluminescence > wire, flexible neon), Flat El, PIC microcontrollers, homebrew PCBs, > velcro and conductive thread. > > In the last half decade, teaching the `physical aspect' of > computing to students with non engineering backgrounds has been on > the rise in American universities. MIT's Media Labs, NYU's ITP > program, and Washington State University have classes where > students learn about bridging the everyday analog world to the > digital world. Sensors and inexpensive microcontrollers provide the > roadbed we need to traverse from clumsy desktops to new discreet > embedded devices. Devices often capable of performing the likes of > 20 million operations a second for just a few dollars. > > Not surprisingly, open source software (filling a need) hands a > bounty of development tools to the electric clothing > do-it-yourselfer. With which novice Unix-savvy microcontroller > enthusiasts can easily download and install many different programs > for their hardware development. Specifically, an open source > operating system such as Linux can run microcontroller software > including assemblers, compilers, simulators, and rom burners. > Fairly sophisticated schematic design, and circuit board layout > programs exist in which all of the source code is available, and > well supported via mail lists. Your refrain for this meeting: You > sew, you conquer. > > For More Information Visit: > > * Mikey Sklar's Site. Detailed information on Mikey's projects, > tool chain, and others doing this sort of work can be found > here. > http://www.electric-clothing.com/ > * ``All of the development software I use is Open Source. Most of > it was written primarily for Linux, but quickly got ported to > other BSDs and MAC OS/X.'' > http://www.electric-clothing.com/tools/index.html > * Design and Fabrication of Textile-Based Computing > http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/393/part3/post.html > > About Mikey Sklar: > > Mikey has been using Linux for nearly ten years, is a professional > Unix sysadmin for the last eight of those years. Working life > includes, AT&T Wireless, Hughes Space & Com, and Morgan Stanley. He > specializes in remote system management hardware and firmware > solutions for Linux. His interest in wearable electronics is a full > time hobby. The ultimate goal, to decrease the electric clothings' > weight while increasing the functionality of the consumer > electronics which hang from his belt. > >Free Stuff! > Swag of undetermined value and quantity may be distributed on a > first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early for the best >selection. > >Keysignings > GPG cryptography. Immediately after the presentation and continuing > at Stammtisch we will be gathering for a keysigning. For those who > already have keys, please remember to bring paper printouts of your > 40-character key fingerprint, as per the instructions in our howto > docs. If you haven't created a key yet, and for keysigning details, > our howto docs are a must read. http://www.nylug.org/keys > >Stammtisch > After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's, > located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor. > Northeast corner. > >Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized >version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good >stuff. > >Monthly Reminder! > Please read the NYLUG-Talk Posting Guidelines at: > http://www.nylug.org/mlistguide/ > >_______________________________________________________________ >_________ >June 2004 - The New York Linux Users Group, NYLUG.org >_______________________________________________ >The nylug-talk mailing list is at nylug-talk at nylug.org >To subscribe or unsubscribe: >http://www.nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-talk > From george at sddi.net Tue Jun 15 15:16:28 2004 From: george at sddi.net (G. Rosamond) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:16:28 -0400 Subject: [Announce-nycbug] New section to www.NYCBUG.org Message-ID: We've added a funky section to the site. . . http://nycbug.org/dmesgd/ Feel free to post your dmesg output in the form. . . It's a great way to give other's a view of your box (es), and possibly provide some information about supported hardware. Currently, the IP addresses are changed to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, but the Mac and hostnames aren't. Feel free to manually change them after you enter the text in the form. Spread the word. . . Someone should post on DN. . . All BSD OSs are welcomed to post. . . g From george at sddi.net Tue Jun 22 00:38:37 2004 From: george at sddi.net (G.Rosamond) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:38:37 -0400 Subject: [Announce-nycbug] IRC Message-ID: <06F8283E-C406-11D8-A8D4-000D9328615E@sddi.net> For those who are unaware. . . a number of people have been on freenode. . .in #nycbug. to get there, you can use 'BitchX' on *BSD or OS X in darwin ports. it's just. . . /server irc.freenode.net /join #nycbug g From george.rosamond at verizon.net Sun Jun 27 14:43:07 2004 From: george.rosamond at verizon.net (G.Rosamond) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 14:43:07 -0400 Subject: [Announce-nycbug] USENIX rides Message-ID: Jesse and I are leaving for USENIX early tomorrow am. . . If anyone is in need of a ride up there, contact me asap. He's returning to NYC by train on Wednesday, and I'll be there until Friday. George 917-968-1900 From george at sddi.net Wed Jun 30 11:51:46 2004 From: george at sddi.net (G.Rosamond) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:51:46 -0400 Subject: [Announce-nycbug] CA Cert. . .free cert Meeting Message-ID: <64045A72-CAAD-11D8-BCE0-000D9328615E@sddi.net> We will be holding a joint meeting with other NYC user groups next Monday, July 5th at the Apple Store with some visitors from CA Certs. Further information is here http://nycbug.org/futureevents.html CA Cert is looking to expand their network of assurers for a free SSL certificate solution. Please be sure to bring several forms of identification, including driver's license, marriage certificates, social security cards, etc. Government issued is the main criteria. The meeting is from 6-8 pm.