November 2005 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

hoiho moving - service disruption
by Matt Brown 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Hi All, As many of you probably know from previous posts to the list earlier this week hoiho's current hosting arrangements are coming to an end. Over the weekend we'll be moving hoiho from its current home at Tintz Digital to the Orcon Internet datacentre. Unfortunately most services offered by hoiho (HTTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, etc) may be unavailable at various times over the course of the weekend. We are endeavouring to keep downtime to a minimum of course! Hoiho should be back up and running at full steam in its new home from mid Monday morning onwards. I'm sure I speak for everyone in the LUG when I extend a big thank you to Tintz for their generous hosting of hoiho to this point, and also to Orcon Internet for taking over the hosting of hoiho at this point. Sorry for the late notice about this change. If you have any questions or urgent problems over the weekend my contact details are below and please feel free to contact me. Kind Regards -- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz

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Meeting update
by Craig Box 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

There -will- be a meeting on Monday. Lindsay is currently trying to finalise plans for a keynote speaker to present to the WLUG; failing that please come along with a list of your favourite Linux tips/tricks, perhaps concentrating on anything you use and surprised that collegues and friends don't seem to be aware of. Craig

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WLUG Meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder bot 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

The WLUG meeting is on Monday ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A WLUG meeting is booked for this date. If you're seeing this message, feel free to suggest or offer to present a meeting topic - the MeetingTopics page might be a good place to start.

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O3 - Open Source Enterprise Data Networking
by Daniel Lawson 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hi, As seen on /., a new open source magazine had it's first release today. The FTP servers are heavily overloaded, and the bittorrent was fairly slow, so I thought I'd link to a copy I've downloaded. http://www.meta.net.nz/~daniel/o3/

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problems connecting to the website
by Raymond Burgess 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Hey All. I have been having a lot of trouble connecting to the Wlug website recently. It's been at least a week, mayeb two since I remember being able to connect. I'm having the same problems from the Office and at home. I tried it from Olivers place last night and he also couldn't connect. Oliver has a different ISP. As I'm in Melbourne all of these attempts would probably use the same link to reach to New Zealand. All of these attempts where using Firefox. I have now attempted to view the site from a couple of US based machines using lynxs and from home using links and have had better success, although not what I expected. One of the US machines complained initially with [socket failed: family 10 addr 2002:d237:12fa::1 port 80.] this is probably due to having a badly setup ipv6 config. It then falls back to using ipv4 and works, but at bytes per second, 100 *bytes* per second. Which is very very slow. I see the same speed from the other machines, no ipv6 error tho. Has there been any changes made tot he server config in the last month? I know that another wlug list member was having trouble connecting earlier in the year which I think was resolved once their ISP fixed up some routing issue. I no longer have any NZ based shell accounts so I can't do any further testing, I assume it's ok inside NZ otherwise someone would have mentioned something earlier. Does anyone have any suggestions for diagnosing connectivity issues like these? I guess a step by step process for diagnosing such things would make a good page for the Wiki. Raymond

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Here we go again...
by Craig Box 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Another IE vulnerability. Are we all running Firefox yet? http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1891749,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K000 0594 Craig

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LA Live this Friday
by Karin Purser 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Ladies and Gentlemen, I invite you to gather around your digital wireless this Friday night as episode ten of the Linux Australia Update is streamed live from the Sydney Linux User Group. That's right folks, we are going live starting at 19:00 EDST (16:00 WA. 18:30 SA/NT, 18:00 QLD). We will be featuring talks with both the Waughs, Jeff will be talking about his recent "Badger,Badger,Badger" Tour and Pia will be bringing us up to date on what is happening with Linux Australia. As if that wasn't enough, we have managed to rope Matt Palmer in to talk about Debian and we have a competition to announce. Not only that but we will also interacting with you dear listener through the miracle of IRC. Come along to the #slug channel on irc.freenode.net and join in the merriment as we go live. Links to the streams will be posted on http://live.slug.org.au closer to the date. -- James Purser Chief Talking Guy - Linux Australia Update http://k-sit.com - My Blog http://la-pod.k-sit.com - Linux Australia Update Blog and Forums Skype: purserj1977

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Visio equivalent for Linux
by Ian McDonald 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Folks, What do people use mainly? I was going to use Dia from Gnome but this project doesn't seem to be moving ahead so going to use kivio. I will update the Wiki with what I find. Requirements: - vector based as doing diagrams rather than pictures - ability to export to a format suitable for LaTeX (EPS or similar should be fine). Ian -- Ian McDonald http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 WAND Network Research Group University of Waikato New Zealand

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Job vacancy
by Craig Box 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

IT Partners are looking for a systems administrator to work in a Linux/Unix/Windows environment, based in Hamilton. http://www.seek.co.nz/users/apply/index.ascx?JobId=5953462 All enquiries through the contacts listed on the ad, please. Craig

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WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder bot 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A WLUG meeting is booked for this date. If you're seeing this message, feel free to suggest or offer to present a meeting topic - the MeetingTopics page might be a good place to start.

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