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Fwd: Moonshine: drinking fermented Windows Media content on Linux
by Ian McDonald 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz> Date: Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:58 AM Subject: Moonshine: drinking fermented Windows Media content on Linux To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz Sent to you by Ian McDonald via Google Reader: Moonshine: drinking fermented Windows Media content on Linux<http://feeds.arstechnica.com/%7Er/arstechnica/everything/%7E3/2qyxyzMxnQ8/m…> via Ars Technica - All Ars Technica Content <http://arstechnica.com/> by segphault(a)arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul) on 2/13/09 [image: companion photo for Moonshine: drinking fermented Windows Media content on Linux]<http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/moonshine-drinking-fermented-…> Novell developer Aaron Bockover has created a clever Firefox plugin that uses Moonlight to play conventional Windows media streaming video content at websites like C-SPAN. The plugin takes advantage of the video codecs that Microsoft provides for Moonlight, Novell's open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application framework. Moonlight 1.0, which was officially released Wednesday<http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/02/moonlight-10-brings-silverl…>, automatically downloads a proprietary codec pack from Microsoft in order to provide Linux users with legally licensed support for Microsoft's video formats. Bockover's plugin uses the NPAPI to register itself as the default consumer of Windows Media content and then, when it is invoked by the browser, uses Moonlight to embed a Silverlight-based streaming video player—which he wrote entirely in XAML and JavaScript—in the page to handle WMV. Click here to read the rest of this article<http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/moonshine-drinking-fermented-…> <http://feedads.googleadservices.com/%7Ea/XpCyimPYLHl6yKMzb5wwO9wZb1E/a> Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Ars Technica - All Ars Technica Content<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.arstechnica.com…>using *Google Reader* - Get started using Google Reader<http://www.google.com/reader/?source=email>to easily keep up with *all your favorite sites* -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/, http://www.jandi.co.nz Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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Fwd: Auto-discard notification
by Chris O'Halloran 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gavin Grieve <ggrieve(a)ihug.co.nz> To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:54:34 +1300 Subject: Re: [wlug] Thursday 12th Feb, Paul Fenwick & wife Jacinta Richardson talk at Waikato Uni SG01 Liz wrote: > > Hes gone out of his way to come give this talk to WLUG today, he was actually holidaying breifly! So make sure you turn up and show him a great time. I am so totally jealous and wish I could come up from sunny *cough* Wellington. Nice catch guys. -- Gavin

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Thursday 12th Feb, Paul Fenwick & wife Jacinta Richardson talk at Waikato Uni SG01
by Liz Quilty 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

We are pleased to announce that Paul Fenwick and his wife Jacinta Richardson will both be giving talks at the Waikato Uni Who: Paul Fenwick and his wife Jacinta Richardson When: 7pm-9pm 12th Feb 2009 Where: SG01 at the Waikato University in Hamilton. http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?S (Please leave your Stargates at home, Wraiths not welcome!) What: Something Perl related (the programming languages). To be worked out and advised yet There is room for up to 80 people, so feel free to invite anyone else who may be interested. Paul Fenwick is well known for his work with perl - you can find out about him here http://pjf.id.au/ Jacinta Richardson is Pauls wife, and also winner of the 2008 White Camel award for contributions to the Perl community. Liz Quilty

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WLUG are pleased to announce that Paul Fenwick and his wife Jacinta Richardson will both be giving talks at the Waikato Uni Who: Paul Fenwick and his wife Jacinta Richardson When: 7pm-9pm 12th Feb 2009 Where: SG01 at the Waikato University in Hamilton. map (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?S) What: The Art of Klingon programming - _Paul Fenwick_ A good programmer needs many qualities: intelligence, foresight, dedication, and the ability to fight off a hundred angry targh armed only with your bat'leth. On Qo'noS, software developers undertake an intensive course in combat programming before they are cleared for active duty. The tlhIngan traditions have long known one truth holds true for both glory in battle and software development: bIlujDI' yIchegh()Qo'; yIHegh()! It is better to die() than to return() in failure. For too long, Perl has been a pujwI', and unsuitable for use by true warriors. In this talk we will show how the new autodie pragma can help you to code with batlh! On Speaking - _Jacinta Richardson_ You've been to *those* talks. The kind where the title first drew your attention, the abstract made you go wow, and you were so excited you took afront seat. Then the speaker went to their first slide and it was so full of text (15 bullet points!) and you just knew they were going to spend the next ten minutes talking about what you've just read in two. Worse, being up the front, you can't easily leave and it'd be rude to pull out your laptop... Don't be one of those speakers. No matter how technically brillant your talk, it's worth nothing at all if you can't keep your audience interested. This (short) talk will cover a whole bunch of tricks you can use to get your audience's attention and keep it. Better yet, if you use these ideas there's a good chance people will remember *what* you spoke about and will attend your future talks as well. There is room for up to 80 people, so feel free to invite anyone else who may be interested. Paul Fenwick is well known for his work with perl - you can find out about him here http://pjf.id.au/ Jacinta Richardson is Pauls wife, and also winner of the 2008 White Camel award for contributions to the Perl community.

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is tomorrow!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

There is a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting tomorrow: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WLUG are pleased to announce that Paul Fenwick and his wife Jacinta Richardson will both be giving talks at the Waikato Uni Who: Paul Fenwick and his wife Jacinta Richardson When: 7pm-9pm 12th Feb 2009 Where: SG01 at the Waikato University in Hamilton. map (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?S) What: The Art of Klingon programming - _Paul Fenwick_ A good programmer needs many qualities: intelligence, foresight, dedication, and the ability to fight off a hundred angry targh armed only with your bat'leth. On Qo'noS, software developers undertake an intensive course in combat programming before they are cleared for active duty. The tlhIngan traditions have long known one truth holds true for both glory in battle and software development: bIlujDI' yIchegh()Qo'; yIHegh()! It is better to die() than to return() in failure. For too long, Perl has been a pujwI', and unsuitable for use by true warriors. In this talk we will show how the new autodie pragma can help you to code with batlh! On Speaking - _Jacinta Richardson_ You've been to *those* talks. The kind where the title first drew your attention, the abstract made you go wow, and you were so excited you took afront seat. Then the speaker went to their first slide and it was so full of text (15 bullet points!) and you just knew they were going to spend the next ten minutes talking about what you've just read in two. Worse, being up the front, you can't easily leave and it'd be rude to pull out your laptop... Don't be one of those speakers. No matter how technically brillant your talk, it's worth nothing at all if you can't keep your audience interested. This (short) talk will cover a whole bunch of tricks you can use to get your audience's attention and keep it. Better yet, if you use these ideas there's a good chance people will remember *what* you spoke about and will attend your future talks as well. There is room for up to 80 people, so feel free to invite anyone else who may be interested. Paul Fenwick is well known for his work with perl - you can find out about him here http://pjf.id.au/ Jacinta Richardson is Pauls wife, and also winner of the 2008 White Camel award for contributions to the Perl community.

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External Dial Up Modem Cable
by Ronnie Collinson 08 Feb '09

08 Feb '09

Hi, does anyone have a spare cable for one, it has 25pin (parallel port?)(male) to 9pin serial port(female), apparently I have more modems then cables

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javascript
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 08 Feb '09

08 Feb '09

hi there all is anyone able to help me out with a bit of javascript code? On my webpage:gmorrissey.kol.co.nz I have a page called page_template. I have only uploaded the red and black images for the first two buttons (a blue and a red button for mouseover). I dont think I have quite got the code right as the buttons arent changing colour on mouseover. I had an online script that I used as a template, I seemed to have gone awry for some reason. Any tips appreciated. Glenn.

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file permissions on remote server
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 07 Feb '09

07 Feb '09

hey I changed the location of my files to the 'public folder' and when I checked my file permissions and they are set to rwxr-xr-x. When I try and change those permission settings, they dont change. Can anyone tell me why? cheers Glenn Morrissey

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WLUG Fixit Meeting is today!
by Meeting Reminder bot 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

A reminder, the WLUG Fixit Meeting is today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday February 7th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm First SaturdayWorkshop for 2009 at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/hamilton/fairfield/-te+whanau+ptahi/) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.

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WLUG Fixit Meeting tomorrow
by Meeting Reminder bot 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

A reminder; the WLUG Fixit Meeting is tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday February 7th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm First SaturdayWorkshop for 2009 at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/hamilton/fairfield/-te+whanau+ptahi/) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.

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