Michael P. Soulier: Jim Butcher on Men vs. Women
I'm reading Jim Butcher's "Cold Days", his latest installment in the Dresden Files, and I felt the need to share this quote:So, ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband...
View ArticleDigital Copyright Canada: Public Domain Day 2013
January 1'st each year we morbidly celebrate the death of authors and other creative persons. Flaws in the law mean the expiry of the copyright monopoly, and works finally entering the public domain to...
View ArticleCREDIL news feed: CREDIL - Lunch-and-Learn: Git
Our next Lunch-and-Learn topic at CREDIL Lunch-and-Learn will be on "Git", to be presented by Brenda Butler on Thursday, January 17th.If you wish to attend the Lunch-and-Learn, please contact us ahead...
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Rob Echlin: New Java 1.7 vulnerability
I found this in my email:http://www.h-online.com/developer/news/item/Dangerous-vulnerability-in-latest-Java-version-1781156.htmlI will disable Java plugin in all browsers on my machines at work on...
View ArticleDigital Copyright Canada: Remember Aaron Swartz by working for open society...
Dan Gillmor offers great words for those of us mourning Aaron Swartz.
View ArticleMichael Richardson: Impressions of PrestoCard Site
I visited the Rideau Centre this morning to attempt to obtain a PrestoCard for myself (Monthly pass), my wife (she uses tickets 3 days/week), and my son (1 ticket every week or so). I also wanted a...
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Rob Echlin: User Group Connect has a new URL
“User Group Connect 2013″ has a new URL. You can find us at ugconnect.caIf you don’t know about UGC, it is an opportunity for User Group’s in Ottawa to get together and for the Ottawa technology...
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Rob Echlin: Proposed Stack Eschange site for DITA
Anders Svensson has created a proposal for a DITA Stack Exhange Site. It’s at http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/49912DITA is an OASIS standard for XML documentation.
View ArticleCREDIL news feed: CREDIL - Lunch-and-Learn: Time and task management
Our next Lunch-and-Learn topic at CREDIL Lunch-and-Learn will be on "Time and task management", to be presented by Julien Lamarche on Thursday, February 21, 2013.If you wish to attend the...
View ArticleMichael Richardson: First Experiences using PrestoCard
Our PRESTOcards.ca arrived in the mail on Monday. Hard to blame prestocard for taking 10 days to get them to us, more likely it's Canada Post's Dark Delivery regime... we are still getting Xmas cards....
View ArticleDigital Copyright Canada: Commercial infringers demanding government gut laws...
I sent the following to my MP and to the Minister of Industry:Mr McGuinty, my MP for Ottawa South, Cc: The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry,As you know I have spent more than a decade...
View ArticleIan Ward: Iterables, Iterators and Generators: Part 1
This is part one of a talk I gave January 24, 2013 at the Ottawa Python Authors GroupPart Two is now also available.Both parts of this presentation are also available as a single IPython Notebook which...
View ArticleIan Ward: Iterables, Iterators and Generators: Part 2
This is the second part of the talk I gave January 24, 2013 at the Ottawa Python Authors Group.Part One introduces Python iterables and iterators and generators. This part covers the advanced use of...
View ArticleCREDIL news feed: CREDIL - Lunch-and-Learn: LVM and Xen
Our next Lunch-and-Learn topic at CREDIL Lunch-and-Learn will be on "LVM and Xen", to be presented by Lucas Bates on Thursday, March 21, 2013.If you wish to attend the Lunch-and-Learn, please contact...
View ArticleDigital Copyright Canada: Ongoing government dishonesty conflating Copyright...
This isn't a new issue, even if there is a new Conservative Government bill C-56 tabled before parliament. The long and short titles tell a shortform of the dishonesty: An Act to amend the Copyright...
View ArticleMichael P. Soulier: Joysticks on Mac OS X in Flightgear
I like flight simulators. I've played all of the good ones, Flightgear is an open-source flight simulator that isn't bad, and is steadily getting better with every release. While it is available to run...
View ArticleMichael P. Soulier: Video on Raspbian
Currently our upstairs TV has a raspberry pi attached to it. It's running the basic Raspbian distribution, based on Debian Linux. I'm using it for development as well as for a media center at the...
View ArticleIan Ward: Painting with Braille
This is something I've been wanting to write for a while.Unicode page U+2800 has all the combinations of a 2x4 grid of Braille dots. Braille dots that line up neatly with the ones on all sides in most...
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Rob Echlin: Editing menus on LXDE
The menus are created from the foo.desktop file for each application.To find them, you can do a couple of things.First, using Synaptic package manager, select the package, then click on the...
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Ottawa Android: 15th May – 6:30pm @ Shopify Offices in Lounge
Details can be found on reddit
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