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Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) organizations that host events where software developers might meet other software developers.

Please drop me a line about new groups or changes to these groups.

The following groups don't meet at the Code Factory. Yes, that's an odd way to split the groups, but a really big chunk of groups DO meet there.

I have found a few places on the net with info on re-installing grub.

Here is what worked for me:

Once you have eliminated all the techniques that won't work, the remaining technique, however inconvenient, is the one you must use.

I track some Microsoft lists, and this message I found scary. You have to trust Microsoft to not only not-be-evil, but also to have perfect security - at the personnel level as well as the network and server.

On the back of my bike, on the frame, there are 4 threaded holes, two on each side, for attaching a fender and a rack.

For my bike, the bolts to use are "Cap screws".

The size is "#10 - 32 - 1/2 inch", according to Canadian Tire.

Maybe these are the same size for your bike.

Did you notice that vi is pretty much feature-free on newer Debian systems? it doesn't even have syntax coloring.

The default vi package installed on Debian Lenny, and Ubuntu is vim-tiny, which is really restricted and very appropriate for really, really small environments.

To update, install vim-nox for the real thing.

If you want the GUI version, install vim-full, which basically installes vim-gnome.

KDE uses DCOP as its tools for automating the interface in KDE 3.X. In KDE 4.X, DBUS is used instead. I use the following program to connect to machines in a "build" network at work. As you can see, it saves some typing, but more important, it shows the name of the machine on the Konsole tab.

I wanted to edit files on another computer, with an editor window on my own computer.

When I mentioned this to one of the guys at work, he suggested "fish".
Turns out "fish" is a protocol that rides on top of SSH.
I just had to type in a URL for the machine, like fish://machine/, and Kate would try to open an ssh connection to there, and show me files in the default folder.

I looked at the flashing lights on the file server, looking like fancy Christmas tree, and decided to share the sight:

Video of flashing lights - Microsoft codec

Merry Christmas!

Sometimes I forget how much time and work the Deb and RPM packaging systems save me.

Take Subversion, for instance. This afternoon's task:
- Install Subversion on a system with Apache, Python, and ViewVC.
- Then get the ViewVC working on the depot we created.

We'll deal with the DAV parameters to actually check out the repository later. Simple with packages, right?