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secretary | 1 Feb 2007 04:58

NYC LOCAL: Sunday 4 February 2007 New Yorkers for Fair Use: Organizing Meeting for 13 February 2007 FTC Workshop on Net Neutrality

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The Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop on Network
Neutrality and Broadband Competition on 13 and 14 February 2007:

http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/01/broadbandwrkshp.htm
http://www.ftc.gov/opp/workshops/broadband/index.html
http://www.ftc.gov/opp/workshops/broadband/agenda.pdf

New Yorkers for Fair Use will be at this workshop in
Washington DC to

1. Explain to the FTC and to reporters and to the public what the
Net is

2. Argue against allowing ATT and The Cable Company to wiretap
all Net traffic

3. Refute the claim that the Net must be destroyed in order to
bring us more cable TV

We invite all who want to keep our Net free to join us this
coming Sunday and help plan our trip to Washington DC.  The more
people on our side at the FTC Workshop, the better.

We will meet at 6:00 pm on Sunday 4 February 2007 at the Gyro
Pizza Bagel Place, east of the main entrance to Cooper Union at
Eighth Street and Third Avenue, that is, Astor Place. The 6 Line
subway has a stop at Astor Place.  The N, R, and W Lines have a
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Ron Baker, Pluralitas! | 3 Feb 2007 18:48

application icon


I'm writing and application using mingw.
How does one set the icon for the application that
shows in windows explorer?
Is it something I can put in the source or
is it a post compile (and link) operation?

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secretary | 6 Feb 2007 07:54

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 6 February 2007 NYU Free Culture Club: General Meeting, OLPC, arXiv for all

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 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:15:04 -0500
 From: "Fred Benenson" <frederick <at> nyu.edu>
 Sender: fred.benenson <at> gmail.com
 To: "Free Culture  <at>  NYU's list serv" <free-culture <at> forums.nyu.edu>
 Subject: [free-culture] Meeting on Tuesday Feb. 6th at 8pm & Statement of Support for Open Access
 Reply-To: "Fred Benenson" <frederick <at> nyu.edu>

 Hey there,

 We'll be having a general meeting Tuesday at 8pm. It's our second
 meeting of the semester so please come if you're interested in
 participating in Free Culture  <at>  NYU; we're always looking for
 new faces, so please don't feel shy if you've never attended.
 This week we'll be talking about One Laptop Per Child (which made
 a special appearance at last weeks' meeting and will probably be
 making another at this week's), free culture, music, and our
 plans for a spring concert.

 *Free Culture  <at>  NYU, General Meeting
 **8pm, Tuesday February 6th 2007
 7th Floor of Kimmel Student Center
 Washington Square South b/w La Guardia and Thompson*

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John Paul Wallington | 7 Feb 2007 01:06
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Re: application icon

"Ron Baker,    Pluralitas!" <stoshu <at> bellsouth.net.po> writes:

> I'm writing and application using mingw.
> How does one set the icon for the application that
> shows in windows explorer?
> Is it something I can put in the source or
> is it a post compile (and link) operation?

First create a resource-definition script (.rc file).  The file
could be as simple as:

1 ICON "foo.ico"

(See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tools/tools/about_resource_files.asp
for more details of the .rc file format)

then compile it with GNU Binutils' windres utility, eg:

windres foo.rc foores.o

and link with gcc, eg:

gcc -o foo.exe foo.o foores.o

Also, you'll probably get more comprehensive and correct answers to
mingw questions on their user mailing list:

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-users
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/
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Ron Baker, Pluralitas! | 7 Feb 2007 04:20

Re: application icon


"John Paul Wallington" <jpw <at> pobox.com> wrote in message 
news:874ppyvnkf.fsf <at> lem.shootybangbang.com...
> "Ron Baker,    Pluralitas!" <stoshu <at> bellsouth.net.po> writes:
>
>> I'm writing and application using mingw.
>> How does one set the icon for the application that
>> shows in windows explorer?
>> Is it something I can put in the source or
>> is it a post compile (and link) operation?
>
> First create a resource-definition script (.rc file).  The file
> could be as simple as:
>
> 1 ICON "foo.ico"
>
> (See
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tools/tools/about_resource_files.asp
> for more details of the .rc file format)
>
> then compile it with GNU Binutils' windres utility, eg:
>
> windres foo.rc foores.o
>
> and link with gcc, eg:
>
> gcc -o foo.exe foo.o foores.o
>
> Also, you'll probably get more comprehensive and correct answers to
> mingw questions on their user mailing list:
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secretary | 7 Feb 2007 20:26

NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 7 February 2007 NYCBUG: Ivan Ivanov on The Version Control System Subversion

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 Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:41:16 -0500
 Organization: Cee Tone Technology
 To: "Announcements only list for NYCBUG (announcements are not cross-posted to other lists)." <announce <at> lists.nycbug.org>
 From: NYC*BUG Announcements <announce <at> lists.nycbug.org>
 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight

 February 07, 2007, Wednesday
 Ivan Ivanov on The Version Control System Subversion

 Suspenders Restaurant
 (directions are here: http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php)
 6:30 pm

 The presentation will discuss Subversion from both client and
 server points of view. It will show how to create repositories
 and how to make them accessible over the network using different
 access schemes like http://, file:// or svn://. Pointers are
 given on securing the repositories and on authenticating and
 authorizing the clients. Next, the presentation shows how an user
 interacts with the repository and describes some of the important
 Subversion client commands. Finally, it deals with administrating
 the repository using "hook scripts".

 Ivan Ivanov is generally interested in Version Control Systems
 since his student years in Sofia University, Bulgaria, where he
 set up and maintained a CVS server for an academic project. When
 Subversion became a fact and proved to be "a better CVS" he
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Prophet of the Way | 9 Feb 2007 09:18
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Re: Transcript of RMS's general free software speech

Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:

 > http://fsfeurope.org/documents/rms-fs-2006-03-09.en.html
 >
 > It's a transript of a talk Stallman gave on March 3rd 2006 in Croatia where
 > he talks about free software, why it's defined the way it is, how the GNU
 > project started, why it started the way it did, what problems we face now,
 > how we waste our market pressure, about patents, about copyright/DeCSS,
 > about how we need to raise awareness for all the coming problems that some
 > companies are making for free software, etc.

Thank you, Ciaran, for providing this.

Excerpt from the above speech:

-   Q8:  Shouldn't Free Software be more expensive than proprietary
-   software, since it's more valuable?
-
-
-   Richard Stallman:  I don't know what that would mean, sorry.
-   To ask whether software is cheap or expensive, is actually making
-   a number of hidden assumptions.  In the proprietary software
-   world, because people are forbidden to copy the program, usually,
-   there's only one place from which copies can be legally obtained.
-   So, you can then ask, how much does that one source of copies
-   charge for a copy.  So it's a meaningful question, although the
-   answer might be: this much today over here and that much tomorrow
-   over there.  There's not necessarily an answer to that question.
-
-   But with Free Software, because people have freedom, everyone
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secretary | 12 Feb 2007 03:46

NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 13 February 2007 Lisp NYC: Pinku Surana on Meta-Compilation of Language Abstractions

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 From: Heow Eide-Goodman <lists <at> alphageeksinc.com>
 To: LispNYC <lisp <at> lispnyc.org>
 Subject: [Lisp] Lisp Meeting, February 13th 7:00 at Trinity

 Please join us for our next meeting on Tuesday, February 13th from 
 7:00 to 9:00 at Trinity Lutheran Church.

 Pinku Surana presents his dissertation "Meta-Compilation of Language
 Abstractions" where he discusses the benefits of user-written compiler
 extensions.  This leads to simple APIs, optimizations, and the clean
 embedding of domain-specific languages:

     High-level programming languages are currently transformed
     into efficient low-level code using optimizations that are
     encoded directly into the compiler. Libraries, which are
     semantically rich user-level abstractions, are largely
     ignored by the compiler. Consequently, library writers often
     provide a complex, low-level interface to which programmers
     "manually compile" their high-level ideas. If library
     writers provide a high-level interface, it generally comes
     at the cost of performance. Ideally, library writers should
     provide a high-level interface and a means to compile it
     efficiently.

     This dissertation demonstrates that a compiler can be
     dynamically extended to support user-level abstractions. The
     Sausage meta-compilation system is an extensible
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Grant | 13 Feb 2007 18:44
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Controlling file order when comparing directories

Hello,
    I'm having a problem that I'm hoping there is a simple solution
to.  I work under several build environments SunOS, Linux, and
Cygwin.  As part of the process, we are controlling a patch file
against OpenSSL.  Until recently, I hadn't tried to generate the patch
under anything but SunOS.  When I generate it under Linux, I get the
files within the directories in a different order.  Here's a list of
the files output from SunOS, Linux and Cygwin, respectively.

+++ openssl-0.9.8d/crypto/asn1/a_gentm.c    2007-02-06
09:51:12.000000000 -0800
+++ openssl-0.9.8d/crypto/asn1/a_mbstr.c    2007-02-06
09:51:12.000000000 -0800
+++ openssl-0.9.8d/crypto/asn1/a_utctm.c    2007-02-09
16:37:06.262050000 -0800
+++ openssl-0.9.8d/crypto/asn1/asn1_lib.c   2007-02-06
09:51:12.000000000 -0800

+++ openssl-0.9.8d/crypto/asn1/a_gentm.c    2007-02-13
09:08:36.960752000 -0800
+++ openssl-0.9.8d/crypto/asn1/a_mbstr.c    2007-02-13
09:08:36.969648000 -0800
+++ openssl-0.9.8d/crypto/asn1/asn1_lib.c   2007-02-13
09:08:36.985705000 -0800
+++ openssl-0.9.8d/crypto/asn1/a_utctm.c    2007-02-13
09:08:36.977863000 -0800

+++ openssl-0.9.8d/crypto/asn1/a_gentm.c    2007-02-13
09:37:39.814731300 -0800
+++ openssl-0.9.8d/crypto/asn1/a_mbstr.c    2007-02-13
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secretary | 16 Feb 2007 01:13

NYC LOCAL: Friday 16 February 2007 UBUCON with Install Fest in New York Google Offices

The first 2007 New York City UBUCON will open its doors at 8:30
in the morning on Friday 16 February 2007 at 111 Eighth Avenue on
the Island of the Manahattoes.  UBUCON will be held within the
New York offices of Google.

UBUCON asks that UBUCON players enter at 76 Ninth Avenue.  UBUCON
suggests that all who wish to attend the UBUCON register their
intent at

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TheUbucon/RSVP

If you cannot register at this page, please write directly to
John Mark Walker, impresario of this UBUCON, at

johnmark <at> johnmark.org

>From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TheUbucon :

 Google's NYC office is located at 76 9th Avenue in Chelsea,
 Manhattan, between 8th and 9th Avenue and 15th and 16th
 Street. Please enter the building on the northwest side (16th
 Street & 9th Avenue). A Google representative will be on hand to
 greet you, provide you with a building badge, and direct you to
 the 8th floor.

 To get to Google New York, take the A/C/E or L subway to 14th
 Street, and exit onto 8th Avenue. Alternatively, the 1/2/3 subway
 lines and M11, M14, and M20 buses service the surrounding
 area. If you are driving, the closest parking lot is located in
 the building, accessible from 15th or 16th Street.
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