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Decompilers
by Jack 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Any one here ever use any decompilers in Linux? I have a Mac OSx driver, I've been considering reverse engineering. Since the company, which shall remain nameless is the biggest jerk in regards to supporting Linux and they make certain hardware that is top notch and there's a huge clamoring for support in the community, and some guy in China just contacted for help in making a Linux driver for it. So, I'm dusting off the old peripheral and pulling out my tracers and sniffers and getting ready to restart an old driver project of mine. This is a high end device and I'd like to make sure every part of it works. I thought decompiling the Mac driver might be a good place to get some ideas, if we hit a bottleneck. I'd hate to have to develop my own decompiler. Yuck, that's a 1000 hours of work or more. I want the option to peek under the hood if we can't make this work 100%. I'd rather do as much as I can without peeking at anyone's code, but I can't even get complete specs on the chips inside the device. It's almost a total blackbox. So, any one have recommendations? Brian J.

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Goosh.org
by Geoffrion, Ron P [IT] 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

http://goosh.org/ Kinda cool. An unofficial command line shell for google. And open source. http://stefan.grothkopp.com/tag/goosh?c=1 Thanks, Ron Geoffrion 913.488.7664 ________________________________ This e-mail may contain Sprint Nextel Company proprietary information intended for the sole use of the recipient(s). Any use by others is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies of the message.

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LAMP?
by Jonathan Hutchins 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

I've seen a number of variants of the Linux, Apache, MySQL, {Perl|PHP} CMS. I can understand replacing MySQL with Postgress. Doing the web interface in Java though? That seems a bit out of the ordinary.

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Posgress DBA needed
by Jonathan Hutchins 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Needed somebody with experience administering/optimizing Posgress DB systems. This particular one is being run on RedHat in a very Unix-savvy but new to Linux shop. Need to be able to review the setup, advise them of possible problems and recommend configuration changes where needed. It would be nice if your credentials looked good to the PHB, but that's secondary.

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ITEC Today!
by Chris Bier 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Today October 29th http://www.adamspointecc.com/ Adams Pointe Conference Center 1400 NE Coronado Drive, Blue Springs, MO 64014 Phone: 816.220.4400 Fax: 816.220.4494 Register as a KCLUG Booth Member: http://register.exgenex.com/exhibitweb/gcmexhibitor.asp?C=70000087&S=500002… Register as a regular attendee: Pass this out to everyone! Source code: KCLUGVIP Registration link: http://register.exgenex.com/gcmregister/gcmregister.asp?C=70000087&M=500012…

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Windows 7 desperately attempts to catch up to FOSS feature set
by David Nicol 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/LABS-GALLERY-What-Does-Win… -- Know your options and tools. http://➡.ws/㫕 tells us: The options are: =item1 # Liberty =item1 # Death =item1 # Beer The tools are: =item1 # Revolution =item1 # Deep-fried peanut butter sandwich =item1 # Keg

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Books for Booth
by Michael Morgan 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

To all, Good news! We have new books, and O'Reilly discount bookmarks to give away at iTech. Michael Morgan librarian(a)kclug.org I.Code Essential ActionScript 3.0 Colin Moock ISBN:978-0-596-52694-8 Grep Pocket Reference John Bambenek, Agnieszka Klus ISBN:978-0-596-15360-1 JavaScript: The Good Parts Douglas Crockford ISBN:978-0-596-51774-8 II. MySQL Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript Robin Nixon ISBN:978-0-596-15713-5 High Performance MySQL, Second Edition Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, Jeremy D. Zawodny, Arjen Lentz, Derek J. Balling ISBN:978-0-596-10171-8 Backup & Recovery W. Curtis Preston ISBN:978-0-596-10246-3 III. Social Networking Using Moodle, Second Edition Jason Cole, Helen Foster ISBN:978-0-596-52918-5 IV. Digital Photography David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual David Pogue ISBN:978-0-596-15403-5

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ITEC Oct 29th
by Chris Bier 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

We will have a booth at ITEC again this year. If you want to register, you can use the code KCLUGVIP. I should have exhibitor registration information soon. http://city.goitec.com/kc

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Re: Re: London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux
by Jim Webb 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

I'd love to see a linux based electronic medical record system. Jim Haworth, Michael A. wrote: > Baby-steps... > > Michael Haworth > ESSM - PAS Technologies Inc. > D: (816) 556-5157 > M: (816) 585-1033 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jestin Stoffel > Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 2:47 PM > To: kclug(a)kclug.org > Subject: Re: London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux > > This is a huge win for Linux, but I always find these stories to be > bittersweet. Anyone "in the know" is already aware that Linux is great > for enterprise and server level applications, but I'd prefer to see a > big win for the Linux desktop. Where is the "Corporation X Switches all > Desktops to Linux" story I've been waiting to hear? There have been a > few, but just not enough. > > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 14:32 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Greg Mischel Smith <gregms(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Apparently they got tired of the Windows problems. >>> -Greg Smith (GregMS) >>> >>> >>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/14876/london_stock_exchange_dumps_windows_fo… >>> By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols >>> >>> In the end, the LSE and its traders will profit from this move. As Steve >>> George, director of corporate services at Canonical (the company >>> behindUbuntu) told me when we talked about the deal. "When performance and >>> stability matters, as they do in business, Linux is the positive choice. >>> This move will be good both for the LSE and its customers and to the wider >>> family of Linux." >>> >> I think this is the most interesting comment in the post. Does this >> imply that this new platform is running on Ubuntu or were they just >> looking for a Linux "talking head" to comment?

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London Stock Exchange dumps Windows for Linux
by Greg Mischel Smith 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Apparently they got tired of the Windows problems. -Greg Smith (GregMS) http://blogs.computerworld.com/14876/london_stock_exchange_dumps_windows_fo… By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols When it comes to business computer systems, nothing is more mission-critical than the massive trading software systems that underlie stock markets. A failure of an hour here can mean billions of dollars of lost trades. The LSE (London Stock Exchange) learned that the hard way when their .NET/Windows Server 2003 trading platform died<http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_suffers_net_crash>like a dog early last September. The new LSE management is not going make that mistake again. This October, the LSE purchased MillenniumIT<http://www.ibspublishing.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=view&id=13440>and will be switching its stock exchange programs to the company's Linux-based Millennium Exchange software<http://www.millenniumit.com/capital_market_solutions/index.php#>. I saw this move coming. While the LSE never officially announced that its Windows and .NET stock trade software TradElect was the root of its September failure and perpetually slow performance, it was an open secret in the City -- London's equivalent to America's Wall Street -- that that was the case. Indeed, it was this technology flop that lead to the LSE CEO Clara Furse leaving the Exchange<http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_abandon_failed_wind…>in July. The new CEO, Xavier Rolet, immediately decided to get rid of TradElect and started shopping for other platforms. Friends of mine in the City tell me that the LSE immediately started considering a Linux-based solution. It doesn't take a genius to see why. The world's fastest stock exchanges, like New York's International Security Exchange, run on Linux<http://blogs.computerworld.com/14637/linux_powers_worlds_fastest_stock_exch…>. In a world of high-frequency trading<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aBBFQ6thBuiY>where a millisecond really can mean the difference between profit and loss, stock exchanges can't afford to be slow, never mind actually going off-line. The platform itself is built primarily on Linux, but Solaris and Cisco networking also play important roles. The back-end database engine is based on Oracle. The LSE expects to see transaction speeds drop from a claimed best speed of 2.7 milliseconds -- which was rarely, if ever, seen under TradElect -- to the Linux solution's claimed 0.4 millisecond speed. It wasn't just raw speed though that brought the LSE to Linux. Linux is cheaper<http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2568&blogi…>, a lot cheaper, for high-end servers. According to an IBSJ report, David Lester<http://www.ibspublishing.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=view&id=13440>, director of information and technology at LSE, said that compared to the annual bill of $65 million for TradElect, MillenniumIT was a bargain at a purchase price of $30 million. The LSE predicts that moving to Linux will give the company an annual cost savings of at least £10 million ($14.7 million) from 2011-12. In addition, "The new technology is a lot lighter, nimbler and easier to install" and will also enable faster releases. The LSE hopes to close the deal this month. The transition from TradElect to the MillenniumIT is expected to take up to 18 months. Lester hopes to get it completed faster than that. In the end, the LSE and its traders will profit from this move. As Steve George, director of corporate services at Canonical<http://www.canonical.com/>(the company behind Ubuntu <http://www.ubuntu.com/>) told me when we talked about the deal. "When performance and stability matters, as they do in business, Linux is the positive choice. This move will be good both for the LSE and its customers and to the wider family of Linux."

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