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the utahvalley.rb will be hackig tonight starting at 7PM in the Lab in room 2004 of the Talmage Math and Computer Science Building (TMCB) at BYU. Kevin and I are either going to work on coverity identified defects in Ruby, or on writing an RSpec specification for checkr. Additional hackers will be welcome to work on either, or on a Ruby/Rails project you bring yourself. -- thanks, -pate

utahvalley.rb monthly meeting Tuesday, Aug 22 at 7PM in room 120 of the TMCB that''s building 80 on the map at: http://map.byu.edu/Map.html I''ll be presenting my talk on Libraries for developers (consider it a dress rehearsal for RubyConf*MI) Afterwards, we can kick around general Ruby stuff. I hope to see you there. -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

The BYU Ruby Users Group will be holding its February meeting on Wednesday the 8th at 7PM. We''re meeting in room 120 of the Talmage Math & Computer Building (TMCB) -- see http://map.byu.edu/Map.html for a map of campus if you need it. Eric Hodel is making a trip in from Seattle to talk about all kinds of deep Ruby things. He is a former presenter at RubyConf (RubyConf 2003

I've been searching, and I can't find any rpms of dovecot stable for RHEL 4. Does anybody know where I can get one? Ever since we went from IMAP-UW to Dovecot, we've been having frequent problems with mbox corruption, and I've read that 1.0 fixes many of those types of problems. Has anybody else found an rpm for RHEL 4 of any Dovecot greater than 1.0? -- Topher Fischer System

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8993 If you''ve got feedback, requests for coverage, etc. please let me know. I''ll try to respond in an upcoming column. -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com

Manning is running a contest: If you make the winning entry, you''ll win a $100 Manning Gift Certificate (hey, that''d be two copies of David''s awesome Ruby for Rails). the contest is to complete the phrase: Ruby is to Rails as ___________ is to __________________ The contest is at: http://www.manning.com/black/contest.php -- thanks, -pate

This is a general invite to any/all Railers in the Seattle area who want to get together for beer/food. Nothing formal, just a "get to know ya" gathering. Details: Thursday, Oct 13 (next week), 7pm Bellevue Red Robin - *http://tinyurl.com/d678c* -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D''Andrew "Dave" Thompson http://dathompson.blogspot.com

Hi all, my family and I are taking a quick sprint through Europe from Aug 3-11. I''d be interested in meeting local Rubyists while we''re there. My schedule is going to look like this: 3-6 London 7 Berlin 8-9 Heidelberg 10-11 Frankfurt Feel free to drop me an email if you''re interested in meeting for a lunch or something. -- thanks, -pate

If you buy the MEAP (Manning''s version of Beta Books), you can now get the first four chapters of David Black book (that''s nearly 25%!). So far, I''ve been really pleased with it. I just grabbed chapter four, and I''ll be reading it soon. Get more information (or buy a copy) at: http://manning.com/books/black -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

A short entry, but good words about Rails. http://ablog.apress.com/?p=842 -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

I've been trying to get Kerberos to work for the last couple of days so that we can use SSO. I can't seem to get past a roadblock and Google doesn't seem to provide any answers. I've got Samba connected to the AD and running. I can wbinfo everything and can login to the machine using PAM with the pam_winbind modules just fine. I can get user tickets just fine. When I try to get ssh

Dear R list, I'm trying to calculate Mahalanobis distances for 'Species' of 'iris' data as obtained below: Squared Distance to Species From Species: Setosa Versicolor Virginica Setosa 0 89.86419 179.38471 Versicolor 89.86419 0 17.20107 Virginica 179.38471 17.20107 0 This distances above were obtained with proc

Christian Gross, the author of AJAX and Best Practices, runs a blog at http://www.devspace.com/ and has started a poll asking which language he should port his AJAX patterns to next. (They are currently available for Java and .Net). If anyone''s interested in seeing Ruby up next, you might head over to the blog and cast your vote. -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

You have the device side right. Devices have "UPS.PowerSummary.CapacityMode" (are the next three in %, mAh, or mWh? "UPS.PowerSummary.FullChargeCapacity" "UPS.PowerSummary.RemainingCapacity" "UPS.PowerSummary.RemainingCapacityLimit" "UPS.PowerSummary.WarningCapacityLimit" According to nut-names.txt, NUT has: battery.charge | Battery

Kelly Byrd <kbyrd at memcpy.com> writes: > Making progress on this PR. I have question about storing and checking > state in a subdriver > HID Power Devices can a "UPS.PowerSummary.CapacityMode" value. According to > the spec, the values are: > 0: maH > 1: mwH > 2: percent (%) > 3: Boolean support only (OK or failed) > > Grep'ing the source,

Dear R list, I'm trying to calculate Mahalanobis distances for 'Species' of 'iris' data as obtained below: Squared Distance to Species From Species: Setosa Versicolor Virginica Setosa 0 89.86419 179.38471 Versicolor 89.86419 0 17.20107 Virginica 179.38471 17.20107 0 These distances were obtained with proc 'CANDISC'

my sip phone registered on 1.6, when i dial 4567 from 1.6 version, it wont go to 1.6 voice mail. it says == Using SIP RTP CoS mark 5 -- Executing [4567 at sip:1] Dial("SIP/312-09f9a720", "IAX2/trunk10 at 147.120.203.98/4567,10,t") in new stack -- Called trunk10 at 147.120.203.98/4567 [Jun 1 11:01:18] WARNING[8178]: chan_iax2.c:8991 socket_process: Call rejected by

Hi All, I know there has been a lot of interest in John Terpstra's upcoming book, "Samba-3 by Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment." The book is scheduled to print end of March and can be found at local bookstores by early April. In the meantime, John will be giving a talk at the BYU UNIX User's Group tomorrow, Thursday, February 19th at 8PM, where he will be

I have just installed Mah Jong Quest 3 without any problems. When I start the game I get the error > Runtime Error! > C:\Pro... > R6034 > An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. I did have look in the Wine FAQ, but it wasn't of any help, since I don't have msvcr80.dll in my system32 folder. I do have it iin the game folder, but when I

(Since this has some bearing on rails, I thought I''d post it here too.) The next installment of my Linux Journal column was posted this morning. Lot''s of news this time around, and a quick dive into ParseTree. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8970 -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- -- thanks, -pate -------------------------