Linux Gazette

March 2004 (#100):

     * [1]The Mailbag
     * [2]More 2 Cent Tips!
     * [3]The Answer Gang
     * [4]News Bytes, by Michael Conry
     * [5]Fvwm and Session Management, by Thomas Adam
     * [6]Help Dex, by Shane Collinge
     * [7]Retrospectives, by Jim Dennis
     * [8]Ecol, by Javier Malonda
     * [9]The Foolish Things We Do With Our Computers, by Ben Okopnik
     * [10]Python Generator Tricks, by Pramode C.E
     * [11]Programmer's Toolkit: Profiling programs using gprof, by Vinayak
       Hegde
     * [12]The Back Page, by Thomas Adam

   or read [13]TWDT

The Mailbag
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     * [17]Good incentive for publishing your personal accomplishments
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Good incentive for publishing your personal accomplishments

   Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:48:54 -0600
   Richard Bray ([18]linx from brayra.com)

   Just thought the TAG group would appreciate this story.

   I wrote a small script to handle scanning of all my financial documents into
   my computer. It's real simple and easy to use. Well, I have moved since I
   used it, about a year ago. So, now with tax time coming, I decided it was
   time to start scannnig in all my financial papers and shredding the files I
   do not need to keep. Plus, I can burn them to cd and have a backup for the
   safety deposit box.

   Well...

   I did real well, when I moved last year. I didn't lose one thing. I really
   mean it. I've been in the house and I haven't missplaced anything. Until
   last weekend. I couldn't find that #@#%#! script anywhere. I searched all my
   servers, and backup CDs. I was pretty ticked and about half way through
   rewriting it, when I remembered something.

   I wrote an email talking about it to my local LUG a couple years ago. After
   digging in my mail for a while I found a reference that said, and I quote,

   "If anyone is interested in the script scan_docs.sh, you can find it on my
   web site [19]http:///www.brayra.com/downloads/scan_docs.sh"

   I am an idiot.

   Expect some articles from me. I have many other little programs I've written
   over the years. I need to write up nice documentation for them all and post
   them for the gazette. I would hate to lose them too. :)

     [Rick]  Richard,  you might perhaps appreciate a quotation from the
     Penguinus Maximus:

     "Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server
     and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds

     Immortalize those cool scripts of yours too, send them in to Linux Gazette
     as either articles or nice little tips. -- Heather
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     * [20]typo? 0wnz0red? prankster on staff?
     * [21][LG 98] 2c Tips: #4
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typo? 0wnz0red? prankster on staff?

   Mon, 9 Feb 2004 16:36:40 -0800
   Carla Schroder ([22]carla from bratgrrl.com)

   Reading Linux Gazette is like a treasure hunt, you never know what you'll
   find. Do you mean for this to be published?
   [23]http://linuxgazette.net/issue99/lg_mail.html Did you get cracked by a
   polite cracker? A prankster on your staff?

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