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September 2004 (#106):

     * [1]The Mailbag
     * [2]More 2 Cent Tips!
     * [3]The Answer Gang
     * [4]Windows Defectors: Upgrading a KDE Installation to Version 3.3, by
       Tom Brown
     * [5]Lemon Parser Generator Tutorial, by Mike Chirico
     * [6]Building A Lo-Fat Linux Desktop, by John Murray
     * [7]Intrusion Detection with Tripwire, by Barry O'Donovan
     * [8]Running Linux on Windows., by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [9]Front and Back: Kile and LaTeX, by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [10]XML Bits, by Jimmy O'Regan
     * [11]Installing Gentoo, by Mike Orr (Sluggo)
     * [12]Comments on RFC, by Amber Pawar
     * [13]Dissecting the ACPI Button Driver in Kernel 2.6, by Pramode C.E.
     * [14]Design Awareness, by Mark Seymour
     * [15]Ecol, by Javier Malonda
     * [16]The Linux Laundrette, by Jimmy O'Regan

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     * [20]Re: [SEAPY] Pie-thon
     * [21]Say please? Thank you...
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Re: [SEAPY] Pie-thon

   Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:54:11 -0700
   Brian Ingerson ([22]ingy from ttul.org)
   Question  by  A  group of Python users in Seattle (seattle-python from
   lists.seapig.org)

   Dan Sugalski (Parrot) gets a pie in the face by Guido van Rossum (Python).
   Dan lost a bet that Python would run faster on Parrot (Perl 6's virtual
   machine) than the standard C version. 

   [23]http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oscon2004/friday/index.html 

   -- -Mike Orr (aka. Sluggo) 

   FYI, The reason Dan lost was because he failed to complete 3 of the 7 tests.
   On the 4 he did complete, Parrot beat Python on 3 of them. Of those 3, Dan
   said Parrot was 2-3 times faster.

   Cheers, Brian
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Say please? Thank you...

   Mon, 31 Aug 2004 10:54:11 -0000
   Dean Earley ([24]dean from earlsoft.co.uk)

   What is the computer language that makes you say please? I used to know
   this. I might recognize it if I saw the name. A fellow LUG member suggested
   I look at [25]http://sk.nvg.org/lang but nothing seemed obvious.

   Someone out there knows, I hope.

   Thank you!
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     * [26]MetaTheme
     * [27]Moaning goat meter
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MetaTheme

   Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:27:44 +0100
   Jimmy O'Regan ([28]The LG Answer Gang)

   In my article "A guide to Windows technologies for Linux users" in issue 104
   ([29]http://linuxgazette.net/104/oregan2.html) I mentioned gtk-qt, which
   allows Gtk apps to use Qt themes. MetaTheme ([30]http://metatheme.advel.cz)
   is a project to create a theme engine which is independant of the various
   toolkits. It currently supports Gtk and Qt, and work is under way to support
   Firefox. ([31]http://metatheme.advel.cz)
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Moaning goat meter

   Sun, 8 Aug 2004 21:36:40 +0000
   Predrag Ivanovic ([32]predivan from ptt.yu)

   Hi.