July 2004 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

RE: [wlug] DSE store this weekend
by David Nicholls 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

"WLUG / NZOSS support for DSE Hamilton Powerhouse Computer Weekend ...between 10am and 4pm on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th July... ...giving away free Open Office.org and Knoppix CDs to customers who attend. We will be advertising this event in the newspaper and it would be good to include your logos if possible..." We are sending in the troups to help out :) Cheers... david -----Original Message----- From: Gund Wehsling [mailto:Gund.Wehsling(a)computerland.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 14 July 2004 11:12 am Hi A quick Q from a newbie to your board. I did look elsewhere and found no info. What is happening at DSE this weekend, relative to this list, in 25 words or less ;-) Thanks Gund

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RE: [wlug] DSE store this weekend
by Gund Wehsling 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

Hi A quick Q from a newbie to your board. I did look elsewhere and found no info. What is happening at DSE this weekend, relative to this list, in 25 words or less ;-) Thanks Gund -----Original Message----- From: David Nicholls [mailto:davidn(a)waikato.ac.nz] Sent: Wed 14/07/2004 09:11 To: Waikato Linux Users Group Cc: Subject: RE: [wlug] DSE store this weekend No, in fact I took a look at the links to the products posted in an email ealier and everything is the latest version... Hot off the web it seems. Go take a look as the cds not only come with oo but mozilla and a number of other products (from what I can see all good basic needs products). Check them out. Cheers... david -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Denby [mailto:redhat(a)ihug.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 13 July 2004 8:54 pm Sounds like they can get a free one this Saturday , even though i suspect it will be ver 1.1.1 , if they use it its enough for a start. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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RE: [wlug] DSE store this weekend
by David Nicholls 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

No, in fact I took a look at the links to the products posted in an email ealier and everything is the latest version... Hot off the web it seems. Go take a look as the cds not only come with oo but mozilla and a number of other products (from what I can see all good basic needs products). Check them out. Cheers... david -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Denby [mailto:redhat(a)ihug.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 13 July 2004 8:54 pm Sounds like they can get a free one this Saturday , even though i suspect it will be ver 1.1.1 , if they use it its enough for a start.

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Proxy Authentication
by Terry Cole 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

We have just set up at school a Suse 9 Linux server. Apache 2, Squid 2.5. We are trying to get Proxy Authentication via Squid working and are having problems. We have created our ACL's, etc. We have a password file and have tried Pam and NCSA. The prompt appears asking for user and password but does not accept what we put in. I think it might not be talking to the password file. Any ideas on where and what we could check? Thanks Terry Cole Rotorua, New Zealand mailto:terry(a)cole.gen.nz http://www.cole.gen.nz http://www.websnz.com

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RE: [wlug] DSE store this weekend
by Lindsay Druett 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

But then again, just think of all that extra hardware you can sell. More memory... A DVD writer instead of a CD writer... Hey, instead of Office Pro 2003 Open Bus (XS 9011), why not buy a second computer ? > -----Original Message----- > From: Gavin Denby [mailto:redhat(a)ihug.co.nz] > Sent: Tuesday, 13 July 2004 15:16 > To: Waikato Linux Users Group > Subject: Re: [wlug] DSE store this weekend > > > Sorry Chris > > Its official, You wont be making much money on sales of > Office XP this > weekend :-) >

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RE: [wlug] DSE store this weekend
by Chris Day 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

>> Sorry Chris >> Its official, You wont be making much money on sales of Office XP this >> weekend :-) >> Hopefully the hardware sales will make up for it :-) :-)

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RE: [wlug] DSE store this weekend
by Chris Day 13 Jul '04

13 Jul '04

>From DSE's perspective, the event is still definitely on and the last I heard WLUG was keen to be present. Members of NZOSS will also be present. At DSE, Ross Hamblin and I have been coordinating stuff - in summary this Sat / Sun - 10am ~4pm. PC's will be present for you to load stuff on & were giving away OS CD's - see NZLUG or NZOSS lists for more details. Regards, Chris.. -----Original Message----- From: Gavin Denby [mailto:redhat(a)ihug.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:06 PM To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: [wlug] DSE store this weekend In the absence of any replies to my prior offers, I need to know if there is a list of who is one when at DSE, or if any of us are needed at all I must decide by 4pm if I am free to take paid work this Saturday. I offered to help at DSE if required first, and will stand by that if so asked, but at 4pm my offer turns into Cinderellas pumpkin. do you have all the help you need, or have I missed some mail here. DO you want my help with this or are you ok ?? I need to respond to the AK team by 4pm today, so if a committee member handling this could comment it would really help. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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kppp, wlan, phone modem and ? iptables
by Stephen Pearce 12 Jul '04

12 Jul '04

Hi And Help! Thanks for the advise re using ssh -X to run X11 remotely over a wlan. I would now like to activate the phone modem on the remote X11 server and then web browse from the laptop using the wlan. There must be some packet filtering occuring as I can log on to my isp whilist sitting at the server and ping external ip addresses and alos local (192.168.0.x addresses) i.e. local requests are somehow being caught and not forwarded over the ppp link to the isp but diverted into the lan. However if I ssh -X to the server from the laptop via the wlan then run kppp and dial the isp the connection goes thru but there must be some protocol problem as the link then collapses saying it cannot find ppp0. I presume this is all to do with packet filtering iptables and maybe ipchains .. an arcane area I do not fully understand and have yet to find a definitive howto which address the area in a way useful to my problem. I would appreciate any directions toward useful help.. Many thanks Stephen ps mozilla runs ok over the link but of course cannot access any links

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Re: Any Hints or Advice?
by David7 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

My thanks to all who responded. David wrote a few days ago >> I have just gone over, or come over, to Unix >> - Mandrake 10.0 they call it. It feels great. >> Are there any hints or advice for a new guy? Ari P > Learn to read documentation, including how to find it. > Not much more to answer to such a broadly stated question. D (If I were to read the documentation, I might actually get educated.) It is good advice. Unix is somewhere between an education and a way of thinking (or life), it seems. I have no specific question at present but I am going to have. My hometown was placed in the broadband zone recently, so soon I intend to move over to jetstream. I have applied to my ISP for it, and the hardware is going to be installed in my computer next week. When I do move over I just know there will be qs I can't handle. Also, accessing the web via a computer prog, preferably in Pascal rather than C, is something coming up. I don't know Perl nor Java, nor the jargon of this technique, nor where the problem overlaps Unix and wlug, nor even if it is possible in Pascal, But I won't ask these qs yet. FH > Using Linux fulltime only since last September (Gentoo), I know in a > way what you mean. I'd suggest to latch on to a very active Mandrake > forum which has a good searchable archive. D I haven't started looking for an MDK forum but it is something to do. GD > If you an get into Hamilton on a Monday night, > get along to the lug meetings. [snip] > you will build good friendships and strong networks. > Linux is more community than OS IMHO ..... And the OS really rocks. D My car is presently unreliable, but person to person contact is what I want. I want to go. The OS gives the impression of steady and stable. Several times I have had the computer on for ten hours, and it never got slower (like the old OS did) and it never froze. It is really a good feeling. LD > I strongly agree with Gavin. > Sounds like you have had a good start anyway. Not many people have > come to me saying "I have just installed (whatever) Linux on my machine > and it feels great", a lot of people have said, "I tried to get Linux > working on my machine, but I couldn't get it to work...", and a lot of > those people were IT professionals - they have got sucked in too deep > into the dark side. D I deliberately waited for Mandrake 10.0 (Official), and waited a bit more. It probably paid off. If I didn't have the specifc purpose of downloading, de-tarring, and installing a Pascal compiler, and using it to compile a prog, then I wouldn't have had an initial success and the good feeling. I suppose it is similar to the trick some people use when learning a second spoken language, say Spanish: They read a well-known English-language story or poem in Spanish. Getting the compiler up and running was a struggle but now that I have that feather in my cap, the rest should be easier and more relaxed. Bascially, I have my nice little computer back. LD > Yep, there is a steep learning curve ahead, but it's really worth it. > Open Source Software has done a lot for me than any variant of MS > Windows will ever do. D That inspires me to keep with it. LD > I'm not anti-Microsoft - but the more you get into Linux, > the more you realise why other people think Windows Sux, > furthermore you are siding them with those views. D What gets me is the gaul (sp) or the chutzpah (sp) of the co-founder of ¬. He sold something he didn't own, and that didn't really exist, to people who shouldn't have bought it. And if they had only waited a bit, none of this thingamjig would have happened. DB > Learn to search Google for your problems (unless you have paid > your $20 to be a member, then you can bug them on #wlug ;) D Google sure is an amazing library. I have used it alot for research into old texts and historical events (I write historical fiction in my spare time). I haven't paid $20. If I prove unable to get my jetstream running, and they do, it will be worth $20. GW > So, have you found yourself Pascal compilers yet? D Yes indeed. I used to use the one available on freepascal.org (and .com) so when I switched to Unix I simply went back to the same well. I had to log on as root ('su') then I could instal. I reckon 'tar' should be called 'dar', for disk archive, rather than tape archive. The Vim editor and the KWrite editor are both much better than what I am used to. And the shell (Konsole) or Terminal Program they call it, is so versatile. It didn't take me long to discover 'ls' instead of 'dir', and './' before the assembled and linked file; and forward slash instad of '#' (oh well, my keyboard doesn't want to give it). PL > We try hard to put any advice or hints into the wlug wiki. > http://www.wlug.org.nz/ > If you find some piece of information you found difficult to find, > please put it somewhere in the wiki. D This resource is very handy to know about. My thanks again to all who responded to my query. David C in Huntly, NZ, amateur Pascal progger, digest member.

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WLUG / NZOSS support for DSE Hamilton Powerhouse Computer Weekend
by Ross Hamblin 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

Thanks to all who offered to attend and assist with this. For those who asked about timetables, we would like to have people present to offer advise and demonstrate OSS/Linux between 10am and 4pm on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th July. As it is difficult to make extra space, we will need to use the computers on display in the store which will mean using Knoppix or similar distro which runs from CD. We will be giving away free Open Office.org and Knoppix CDs to customers who attend. We will be advertising this event in the newspaper and it would be good to include your logos if possible, please advise on this or send to me off-list. We also have facilities to photocopy A4 DLE type brochures if you provide me with a PDF or OO.o doc of your brochure we can produce them for you. Regards, Ross. Ross Hamblin DSE (NZ) Ltd.

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