Re: OCLUG Digest, Vol 65, Issue 12

Ralph Pichie <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
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Re US Postal Service approving FOSS, "Neither rain nor sleet nor snow
nor Microsoft's army of evil monkeys..."

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>   1. Linux making headlines (Dumitru Ciobanu)
>   2. Re: Linux making headlines (OddSox)
>   3. Re: Linux making headlines (Charles MacDonald)
>   4. Re: Linux making headlines (OddSox)
>   5. Re: Linux making headlines (Charles MacDonald)
>   6. Re: Linux making headlines (Glenn Henshaw)
>   7. Evolution -> Thunderbird (Croombe F. Pensom)
>   8. Re: Evolution -> Thunderbird (Brad Barnett)
>   9. RE: Evolution -> Thunderbird (Jean-Francois Messier)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:44:02 -0400
> From: Dumitru Ciobanu <[email protected]>
> Subject: [oclug] Linux making headlines
> To: [email protected]
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> I apologize but I could not resist.
> http://ostatic.com/blog/u-s-postal-service-gives-stamp-of-approval-to-foss
> Now if they would also migrate their desktops as well ... That would
> be a big blow in Micro$oft's face.
>
> Best regards,
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> Dumitru
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> --
> =====================
>
> Dumitru Ciobanu
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:30:24 -0400
> From: OddSox <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [oclug] Linux making headlines
> To: General Membership Discussion List <[email protected]>
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> On Jul 15, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Dumitru Ciobanu wrote:
>
>> I apologize but I could not resist.
>> http://ostatic.com/blog/u-s-postal-service-gives-stamp-of-approval-
>> to-foss
>> Now if they would also migrate their desktops as well ... That would
>> be a big blow in Micro$oft's face.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Dumitru
>>
>
> COBOL?
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:14:13 -0400
> From: Charles MacDonald <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [oclug] Linux making headlines
> To: General Membership Discussion List <[email protected]>
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> OddSox wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Dumitru Ciobanu wrote:
>>
>>> I apologize but I could not resist.
>>> http://ostatic.com/blog/u-s-postal-service-gives-stamp-of-approval-to-foss
>>>
>>> Now if they would also migrate their desktops as well ... That would
>>> be a big blow in Micro$oft's face.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Dumitru
>>>
>>
>> COBOL?
>
> _CO_mmon _B_usiness _O_riented _L_anguage, - invented by the US navy and
> friends, mostly used in transaction processing like your credit card
> bill.  at the time the claim was it allowed programing to be done in
> business English.
> --
> Charles MacDonald                 Stittsville Ontario
> [email protected]              Just Beyond the Fringe
> http://www.TelecomOttawa.net/~cmacd/
> No Microsoft Products were used in sending this e-mail.
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> ------------------------------
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:40:42 -0400
> From: OddSox <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [oclug] Linux making headlines
> To: General Membership Discussion List <[email protected]>
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> On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Charles MacDonald wrote:
>
>> OddSox wrote:
>>> On Jul 15, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Dumitru Ciobanu wrote:
>>>> I apologize but I could not resist.
>>>> http://ostatic.com/blog/u-s-postal-service-gives-stamp-of-
>>>> approval-to-foss
>>>> Now if they would also migrate their desktops as well ... That would
>>>> be a big blow in Micro$oft's face.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Dumitru
>>>>
>>> COBOL?
>>
>> _CO_mmon _B_usiness _O_riented _L_anguage, - invented by the US
>> navy and friends, mostly used in transaction processing like your
>> credit card bill.  at the time the claim was it allowed programing
>> to be done in business English.
>> --
>
> I was just expressing surprise - thought they cleaned out the last of
> it with Y2K!
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:50:53 -0400
> From: Charles MacDonald <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [oclug] Linux making headlines
> To: General Membership Discussion List <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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> OddSox wrote:
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>> I was just expressing surprise - thought they cleaned out the last of it
>> with Y2K!
>
>
> I figured that they would just change the PICTURE statements to include
> a 4 digit year.
>
> It would be scary for many places to replace any of their legacy COBOL
> programs entirely.
>
>
> --
> Charles MacDonald                 Stittsville Ontario
> [email protected]              Just Beyond the Fringe
> http://www.TelecomOttawa.net/~cmacd/
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:00:26 -0400
> From: Glenn Henshaw <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [oclug] Linux making headlines
> To: General Membership Discussion List <[email protected]>
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> On 15-Jul-09, at 9:40 PM, OddSox wrote:
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>>
>> On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Charles MacDonald wrote:
>>
>>> OddSox wrote:
>>>> COBOL?
>>>
>>> _CO_mmon _B_usiness _O_riented _L_anguage, - invented by the US
>>> navy and friends, mostly used in transaction processing like your
>>> credit card bill.  at the time the claim was it allowed programing
>>> to be done in business English.
>>> --
>>
>> I was just expressing surprise - thought they cleaned out the last
>> of it with Y2K!
>>
>
>   If you are interested, there is a COBOL based on GCC that runs on
> x86  (http://cobolforgcc.sourceforge.net/).
>
>
> --
> Glenn Henshaw              Ottawa, Canada
> Email: [email protected]
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:54:24 -0400
> From: "Croombe F. Pensom" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [oclug] Evolution -> Thunderbird
> To: General Membership Discussion List <[email protected]>
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> Does anyone know of a quick, neat way of converting Evolution's data
> (which is in a tar.gz form) to a format which can be imported into
> Thunderbird (which uses txt, csv etc.)?
> I have just switched over and would like to collect all my e-mail
> addresses and so on into Thunderbird without having to print them out
> and then enter them by hand.
> Thanks
> CroombeFP
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:29:04 -0400
> From: Brad Barnett <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [oclug] Evolution -> Thunderbird
> To: [email protected]
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> Croombe,
>
> I haven't played with Evolution for years, but there *must* be an export
> function somewhere in Evolution's addressbook.  I would be immensely
> surprised if it was not provided...
>
> Is the problem that you do not wish to run Evolution, to do the export?
>
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:54:24 -0400
> "Croombe F. Pensom" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a quick, neat way of converting Evolution's data
>> (which is in a tar.gz form) to a format which can be imported into
>> Thunderbird (which uses txt, csv etc.)?
>> I have just switched over and would like to collect all my e-mail
>> addresses and so on into Thunderbird without having to print them out
>> and then enter them by hand.
>> Thanks
>> CroombeFP
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> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:56:21 -0700
> From: "Jean-Francois Messier" <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [oclug] Evolution -> Thunderbird
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