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O'Reilly imitates StackOverflow, apparently
by David Nicol 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

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Decompilers
by Jack 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Any one here ever use any decompilers in Linux? I have a Mac OSx driver, I've been considering reverse engineering. Since the company, which shall remain nameless is the biggest jerk in regards to supporting Linux and they make certain hardware that is top notch and there's a huge clamoring for support in the community, and some guy in China just contacted for help in making a Linux driver for it. So, I'm dusting off the old peripheral and pulling out my tracers and sniffers and getting ready to restart an old driver project of mine. This is a high end device and I'd like to make sure every part of it works. I thought decompiling the Mac driver might be a good place to get some ideas, if we hit a bottleneck. I'd hate to have to develop my own decompiler. Yuck, that's a 1000 hours of work or more. I want the option to peek under the hood if we can't make this work 100%. I'd rather do as much as I can without peeking at anyone's code, but I can't even get complete specs on the chips inside the device. It's almost a total blackbox. So, any one have recommendations? Brian J.

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Goosh.org
by Geoffrion, Ron P [IT] 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

http://goosh.org/ Kinda cool. An unofficial command line shell for google. And open source. http://stefan.grothkopp.com/tag/goosh?c=1 Thanks, Ron Geoffrion 913.488.7664 ________________________________ This e-mail may contain Sprint Nextel Company proprietary information intended for the sole use of the recipient(s). Any use by others is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies of the message.

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LAMP?
by Jonathan Hutchins 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

I've seen a number of variants of the Linux, Apache, MySQL, {Perl|PHP} CMS. I can understand replacing MySQL with Postgress. Doing the web interface in Java though? That seems a bit out of the ordinary.

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Posgress DBA needed
by Jonathan Hutchins 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Needed somebody with experience administering/optimizing Posgress DB systems. This particular one is being run on RedHat in a very Unix-savvy but new to Linux shop. Need to be able to review the setup, advise them of possible problems and recommend configuration changes where needed. It would be nice if your credentials looked good to the PHB, but that's secondary.

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ITEC Today!
by Chris Bier 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Today October 29th http://www.adamspointecc.com/ Adams Pointe Conference Center 1400 NE Coronado Drive, Blue Springs, MO 64014 Phone: 816.220.4400 Fax: 816.220.4494 Register as a KCLUG Booth Member: http://register.exgenex.com/exhibitweb/gcmexhibitor.asp?C=70000087&S=500002… Register as a regular attendee: Pass this out to everyone! Source code: KCLUGVIP Registration link: http://register.exgenex.com/gcmregister/gcmregister.asp?C=70000087&M=500012…

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Windows 7 desperately attempts to catch up to FOSS feature set
by David Nicol 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/LABS-GALLERY-What-Does-Win… -- Know your options and tools. http://➡.ws/㫕 tells us: The options are: =item1 # Liberty =item1 # Death =item1 # Beer The tools are: =item1 # Revolution =item1 # Deep-fried peanut butter sandwich =item1 # Keg

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Books for Booth
by Michael Morgan 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

To all, Good news! We have new books, and O'Reilly discount bookmarks to give away at iTech. Michael Morgan librarian(a)kclug.org I.Code Essential ActionScript 3.0 Colin Moock ISBN:978-0-596-52694-8 Grep Pocket Reference John Bambenek, Agnieszka Klus ISBN:978-0-596-15360-1 JavaScript: The Good Parts Douglas Crockford ISBN:978-0-596-51774-8 II. MySQL Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript Robin Nixon ISBN:978-0-596-15713-5 High Performance MySQL, Second Edition Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, Jeremy D. Zawodny, Arjen Lentz, Derek J. Balling ISBN:978-0-596-10171-8 Backup & Recovery W. Curtis Preston ISBN:978-0-596-10246-3 III. Social Networking Using Moodle, Second Edition Jason Cole, Helen Foster ISBN:978-0-596-52918-5 IV. Digital Photography David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual David Pogue ISBN:978-0-596-15403-5

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ITEC Oct 29th
by Chris Bier 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

We will have a booth at ITEC again this year. If you want to register, you can use the code KCLUGVIP. I should have exhibitor registration information soon. http://city.goitec.com/kc

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Re: Re: London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux
by Jim Webb 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

I'd love to see a linux based electronic medical record system. Jim Haworth, Michael A. wrote: > Baby-steps... > > Michael Haworth > ESSM - PAS Technologies Inc. > D: (816) 556-5157 > M: (816) 585-1033 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jestin Stoffel > Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 2:47 PM > To: kclug(a)kclug.org > Subject: Re: London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux > > This is a huge win for Linux, but I always find these stories to be > bittersweet. Anyone "in the know" is already aware that Linux is great > for enterprise and server level applications, but I'd prefer to see a > big win for the Linux desktop. Where is the "Corporation X Switches all > Desktops to Linux" story I've been waiting to hear? There have been a > few, but just not enough. > > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 14:32 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Greg Mischel Smith <gregms(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Apparently they got tired of the Windows problems. >>> -Greg Smith (GregMS) >>> >>> >>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/14876/london_stock_exchange_dumps_windows_fo… >>> By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols >>> >>> In the end, the LSE and its traders will profit from this move. As Steve >>> George, director of corporate services at Canonical (the company >>> behindUbuntu) told me when we talked about the deal. "When performance and >>> stability matters, as they do in business, Linux is the positive choice. >>> This move will be good both for the LSE and its customers and to the wider >>> family of Linux." >>> >> I think this is the most interesting comment in the post. Does this >> imply that this new platform is running on Ubuntu or were they just >> looking for a Linux "talking head" to comment?

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