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!!Special meeting: "Exim and PCRE: How free software hijacked my life"
The WaikatoLinuxUsersGroup are pleased to announce that Philip Hazel, primary author of the [Exim] mail transfer agent and the pcre(7) library, will be presenting an open talk to its members and guests on Tuesday, 1 February.
The talk is entitled "Exim and PCRE: How free software hijacked my life". Philip will present a non-technical talk on the history of the Exim and PCRE software projects, how they got started, where they are now, and where they are currently going.
The meeting will start at 7:30pm, in the [LitB] building at WaikatoUniversity. All are welcome. Tea/coffee/biscuits/juice will be provided afterwards.
Thanks to Philip Hazel for agreeing to take the time to present this meeting, to the [NZNOG] conference for sponsoring Philip's trip to NZ and to Jamie Curtis for organising the meeting.
!About the presenter
Philip Hazel grew up in South Africa. He has a PhD in applied mathematics, and has spent the last 30 years writing general-purpose software for the Computing Service at the University of Cambridge in England. Some major projects were text editors and text formatters for use on an IBM mainframe system. Since moving from the mainframe to Unix around 1990, he has become more and more involved with email. This lead to his starting to develop Exim in 1995, and the PCRE regular expression library two years later. These open source projects have both turned out to be larger and more successful that expected. Outside interests include classical music (as a choral singer and late convert to viola playing), music typsetting, working backstage in amateur theatre, and finding nice places to go walking, preferably not as flat as Cambridgeshire. Philip is married, and has three grown-up sons.
15 years, 4 months
reminder: extra meeting Tue 1st Feb - Philip Hazel
by John R. McPherson
Reminder - we have an extra WLUG meeting with a guest from the
free software community. Details below.
John
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The Waikato Linux Users Group are pleased to announce that Philip Hazel,
primary author of the Exim mail transfer agent and the PCRE library,
will be presenting an open talk to its members and guests on Tuesday,
1st February.
The talk is entitled "Exim and PCRE: How free software hijacked my life"
[1]. Philip will present a non-technical talk on the history of the
Exim and PCRE software projects, how they got started, where they are
now, and where they are currently going.
The meeting will start at 7:30pm, in LitB. Tea/coffee/biscuits/juice will
be provided after the meeting.
Thanks to Philip for agreeing to present this talk and the NZNOG
conference for bringing Philip to NZ.
[1] For more information on Philip and the meeting, see
http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2005-02-01
15 years, 4 months
mandrake 10.1 offical cds
by Bo Wang
does someone from uni have a copy of mandrake 10.1 offical. blank cds for exchange.
thanks
bo
15 years, 4 months
Pipermail archives
by Craig Box
Hi everyone,
I have a pipermail list archive that has never munged email addresses
before. I want to munge email addresses on it retrospectively - I believe
that the mailing list archives are in mbox format. Has anyone here ever
done this, and if so, would a simple regex search/replace be enough?
Thanks
Craig
15 years, 4 months
newbie C++ query <iostream.h>
by Jodi Anderson
I've been teaching myself C++ lately and have been compiling at home on
a RH6.1 box which has libstdc++ 2.9.0
The tutorials I have been using say to include <iostream.h> and cin/cout
for standard input/output.
I'm back at work after leave and am continuing my learnings now
compiling on FC3 with libstdc++ 3.4.2 which gives me warnings about
using depreciated headers with iostream.h. So I do what it says and
remove the .h. This kicks back errors telling me that 'cin/cout is
undeclared in function xyz
A bit of a google and I find a page which says to add 'std::' to the
cin/cout. I do this and things compiles fine. However I can't seem to
find any info as to whether I need to add this all the time using the
later libraries, or whether there is something extra I need to
add/include in the source files
So to cut a long story short my question is: do I continue using
std::cin/cout? Or is there something else I need to include?
Cheers
Jodi
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Jodi W. Anderson, Mr (BA, A+, MCP) - Computer Systems Consultant
Waikato University Library - Computing Operations Group
Ph: +64 7 838 4323
email: jodi(a)waikato.ac.nz
"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think
I've
forgotten this before."
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15 years, 4 months
Yeah for the HAL and D-Bus....
by Oliver Jones
Sometimes Linux does thinks properly... With little prodding, poking or
frucking about. I like it when it does. It makes for a nice change.
I'm at my brothers place in Sydney and I plugged in his Epson Stylus
C43UX USB printer. I was expecting to have to go into the Printer
Config app and hopefully find a driver that would work and hopefully get
it going.
I plugged it in, and within a couple seconds a window appeared on my
screen asking me to choose a driver as the PC couldn't find an exact
match. It had highlighted Epson Stylus C42UX driver (the closest
match).
I clicked OK as there wasn't a better alternative. I went into the
RedHat/Fedora printer config applet and checked the driver settings.
Nothing out of the ordinary. Cups has just successfully printed a test
page. I'm quite impressed. This is what we want. Project Utopia is
starting to make its mark. HAL and D-Bus are going to make Linux a much
more user friendly system. Both Gnome and KDE will benefit too.
The wait however, is intolerable. I want it now damn it... :)
Now if I could only figure out why Evolution crashes whenever I try and
add words to my dictionary.
Regards
Oliver Jones » Code Warrior
oliver(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 » www.deeperdesign.com
15 years, 4 months
RHCT
by Gun Caundle
My aim is to learn how to use Linux.
I am working through the RHCT course content topic list, gettting the
info from the RedHat 9 Bible. However I feel like a blind man tapping
around with a white stick. I am using it because it is a structured
course from which I can learn how to use Linux.
Is anybody a RH Certified Technician or had experience with the
training course for this qualification?
I need some advice/guidance on what I should be doing.
15 years, 4 months
Special WLUG meeting: Exim author Philip Hazel, next Tuesday evening
by Craig Box
Hi everyone,
The Waikato Linux Users Group are pleased to announce that Philip Hazel,
primary author of the Exim mail transfer agent and the PCRE library,
will be presenting an open talk to its members and guests on Tuesday,
1st February.
The talk is entitled "Exim and PCRE: How free software hijacked my life"
[1]. Philip will present a non-technical talk on the history of the
Exim and PCRE software projects, how they got started, where they are
now, and where they are currently going.
If you use the Debian Linux distribution, chances are you've used Exim
before!
The meeting will start at 7:30pm, in the LitB[2] building at Waikato
University. All are welcome, although non members are encouraged to
make a gold coin donation. Tea/coffee/biscuits/juice will be provided
after the meeting.
Thanks to Jamie for arranging this meeting and the NZNOG conference
for bringing Philip to NZ.
Craig
[1] For more information on Philip and the meeting, see
http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2005-02-01
[2] For a map, see http://www.wlug.org.nz/LitB
15 years, 4 months
Welcome back Hoiho & some administrivia
by Craig Box
Hi everyone,
I'd just like to take a moment to thank everyone that helped, especially
Perry and John, for their hard work in getting Hoiho rebuilt and back online
in just two days. All services should now be back up, and if anything is
broken please let us know. If you're having trouble logging in, it's
probably because we've got passworded authentication disabled, and are only
allowing SSH keys. Email sysadmin(a)wlug.org.nz if you need more information
or need a key loaded on.
The good news however is the wiki is back online! This means that the
minutes from the last committee meeting are up at
http://www.wlug.org.nz/CommitteeMeetingTopics.2005-01-19.
Also, we are looking at formulating questions for Government departments, as
per Rodney Hide's visit last year: please check out the
http://www.wlug.org.nz/ParliamentaryQuestions page again, and lend a hand at
tidying it up a little if you can. We will then run them past Rodney and
await further instructions.
Craig
15 years, 4 months
Like early banana's
by Judy & Lindsay Roberts
I printed out some info this arvo on installing Ubuntu on a system with small RAM (32-64mb).
I am afraid I dont even understand what the # & $ signs are used for. I am afraid I dont have time to go to the library and explore this info, so can I have some newbie help with this?
When the # and $ are used, are they typed in as part of the command or do they represent something?
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15 years, 4 months
