[Pharo-users] Re: Talk next wednesday

2023-05-29 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Hi, In the past they have been recorded. https://vimeo.com/ukstug But there is often a lag between the talk given and appearing on the Vimeo page. cheers bruce On 2023-05-29T18:50:33.000+02:00, Samuel Teixeira Santos wrote: > Hello everyone >  > this talk will be recorded? >  > Regards >  >

[Pharo-users] Re: UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, January 26th

2022-01-18 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Hi, Past recordings have appeared here reasonably quickly after the event. UK Smalltalk User Group (vimeo.com) [https://vimeo.com/ukstug] cheers bruce On 2022-01-18T16:55:37.000+01:00, James Foster wrote: > Will this be recorded for later viewing (for those of us who would > prefer to be asl

Re: [Pharo-users] About strange email related to smalltalkhub read-only on squeak-dev

2020-05-31 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Hi, So addressing only the crypto software issue and with the caveat that I am also not a lawyer but I have had to deal with certain aspects of this in the past Crypto software is one of those bizarre dual use items in terms of arms imports and exports.  While we as geeks just

Re: [Pharo-users] New Smalltalk Blog

2020-01-23 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Hi, Does it have an atom or RSS feed?  If so I'll add it to planet.squeak.org cheers bruce

Re: [Pharo-users] Floating point arithmetic

2020-01-14 Thread Bruce O';Neel
HI, I would upgrade that "a good read" to a critical read if you do anything with floating point.  Floating point numbers are not real numbers but rather a small subset, and, have all kinds of funny properties. But we use them just like real numbers and that's what catches us out. che

Re: [Pharo-users] pharos.org gives a 503

2018-06-03 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Yep, seems fine now.  Thanks! cheers bruce

[Pharo-users] pharos.org gives a 503

2018-06-03 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Hi, Pharo.org and  [http://www.pharo-project.org/news?rss](http://www.pharo-project.org/news?rss) both give a 503 right now. cheers bruce

Re: [Pharo-users] What is code 137 / how to gracefully shut down via SIGTERM?

2017-10-31 Thread Bruce O';Neel
nal 2 */ > Bruce O'Neel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Posix requires that if the process is killed the return status is > > greater than 128. > > > > What is convention on linux systems is that if the process is sent a > > signal

Re: [Pharo-users] What is code 137 / how to gracefully shut down via SIGTERM?

2017-10-31 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Hi, Posix requires that if the process is killed the return status is greater than 128. What is convention on linux systems is that if the process is sent a signal then the signal number is added to 128.  Therefore 137 is SIGKILL (kill -9).   SIGTERM is 143, SIGABRT is 134, SIGSEGV is

[Pharo-users] GDPR and the pharo website

2017-10-15 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Hi, We're having some discussions on the Squeak side about GDPR and squeak.org.   Are there any thoughts about changes to pharo.org for GDPR?  We have similar web presences so one imagines similar issues.  If GDPR is not ringing any bells you can start [http://www.eugdpr.org](http://w

Re: [Pharo-users] Deploying on Linux with LibC version < 2.15

2017-10-05 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Hi, Well, our redhat 6.9 systems have 2.12, so, that qualifies. And yes, we still have RedHat 6, and 6.9 was released only 6 months ago!  It will finish extended support in a mind-blowing 7 more years in 2024. Redhat 5, still supported for another 3 years till 2020 has glibc 2.5.

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk gets a reference in fastcompany Kay interview

2017-09-20 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Hi, I believe this is the same article: [https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-about-the-iphone-and-technology-now](https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-about-the-iphone-and-technology-now) which requires no login. cheers bruce

Re: [Pharo-users] Looking for small boards and tiny computers which can run Pharo

2017-07-25 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Hi, With a bit of work it probably fits on one of these: [https://onion.io/omega2/](https://onion.io/omega2/) If you feel on really wasting space this would work as well, though it would need some porting if you wanted to run it locally. [https://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip](

Re: [Pharo-users] planet squeak and friends

2017-06-03 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Hi Stef, Thanks.  Do you mind that planet squeak has Pharo blogs?  I think it's reasonable since they share a history. cheers bruce

Re: [Pharo-users] Older Pharo on MacOS Sierra

2017-01-14 Thread Bruce O';Neel
n 2017, at 12:56, Bruce O'Neel wrote:Hi,Pharo 4 might be hard on MacOS Sierra.There was a late change to the VM, at least for Squeak, to stop the black screen on startup on Sierra.    Pharo 4 was before that change, and, for that matter, before Sierra.  Pharo 5 was after and clearly ha

Re: [Pharo-users] Older Pharo on MacOS Sierra

2017-01-14 Thread Bruce O';Neel
Hi, Pharo 4 might be hard on MacOS Sierra. There was a late change to the VM, at least for Squeak, to stop the black screen on startup on Sierra.    Pharo 4 was before that change, and, for that matter, before Sierra.  Pharo 5 was after and clearly has that change. I'm pretty sure