June 2005 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

Stolen laptop
by zcat 19 Jun '05

19 Jun '05

A few days ago my laptop was stolen from my van. I'm fairly sure that the people who stole it were on foot and live within a few blocks from here (around the Poutney Park area). They also stole a stack of DivX movie CDs, some tools, and varous other items. I'm expecting that they won't be able to sell it (my laptop has no keyboard) but they might be able to figure out how to swap the Linux drive for the Windows drive and play movies on it, and there's a slight chance that they will leave the Wifi card plugged in. SO if anyone's driving around this area with a laptop and netstumbler, please look out for the MAC address 00:04:e2:b5:51:0d. If it shows up make a note of the approximate location and call me 8551826 or 0212595256. -- Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.

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On getting and setting up Ubuntu (dual booted)
by s swami 18 Jun '05

18 Jun '05

I'd like to try Gnome. (shush :-) Ubuntu seems to be the way to go given WLUG expertise and a read of the wiki. Do we have any more cd's to give away? Can I hopefully get the most recent version? How do I get hold of them? I'm on a blistering 33k[1] modem so the more stuff I can get on cd, the better. Current setup: Slackware dual booted with w2k on a single HD. Would like to replace w2k with Ubuntu. (Judith has her own box now!) Steps ----- 1. backup Slack 2. delete w2k partition with Linux fdisk 3. intall Ubuntu beside Slack I'm already familiar with lilo but if things will be smoother for dual Slackware/Ubuntu with grub (for whatever reason) I'm happy to switch. Advice, suggestions, warnings are appreciated. Does Ubuntu come with reiserfs? Thanks Sid [1] Until recently, I thought it was a 56k.

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fedora core 4 available?
by stephen pearce 17 Jun '05

17 Jun '05

Anyone downloaded fedora core 4 distro .. preferable onto dvd? If so could I negotiate a copy please? Thanks Stephen

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NZ Govt and DRM
by Daniel Lawson 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

Just noticed this linked from nz.comp: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050613130705170 "NZ asks questions about DRM". This is particularly relevant as DRM was raised at Monday's meeting as an issue that we would like NZ's government to be aware of.

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Re: [wlug] Problem with wireless, Can anybody help?
by Michael Honeyfield 16 Jun '05

16 Jun '05

What does dmesg tell you? Has the kernel even loaded a module for the wireless card? You will probably need ndiswrapper and the *.inf *.sys files from the windows driver to make it work. Cheers Mike -----Original Message----- From: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl(a)gmail.com> Sent: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:41:48 +1200 To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [wlug] Problem with wireless, Can anybody help? On 14/06/05, linuxmdkuser <linuxmdkuser(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I bought Sony VAIO laptop K-415B and installed there Mandriva LE 2005. > Everything is ok, just cannot make connection via Wi-Fi. Seemes that > there is problem with driver or something like that, cuz it doesnot > recognize wifi. Does anybody have experience with sony vaio or how to > solve this? > I don't have experience with Sony Vaio but do have experience with wireless. When you say you cannot make connection can you give a few more details: - what wireless network card does this machine have? (You may need to look at manual to find out easily) - are you trying to use no security, WEP or WPA? (i.e. what are you trying to connect to) - does it work in Windows if you still have that on the machine? - can you give any error messages? Ian _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Upcoming WLUG committee meeting (1 week today)
by Meeting Reminder bot 14 Jun '05

14 Jun '05

As per the WLUG charter, please note that there is a WLUG executive committee meeting one week from today. If you wish to get an item on the agenda for this meeting, please email it to secretary(a)wlug.org.nz. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WLUG Committee Meeting To have something added to the agenda for this meeting, please email secretary @ wlug.org.nz. Provisional agenda: # Minutes from previous meeting # Matters arising # Correspondence # Treasurers report # General business

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Squid
by Bnonn 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi everyone I'm looking for opinions on Squid. If anyone runs it, or has run it, can they offer their views on it, and comment on any possible pitfalls? I'm wanting to install it on Hoary to act as a caching web proxy on a firewall box. I notice that Squid doesn't appear to be in the Universe or Multiverse repos for Hoary (unless I'm using aptitude completely wrong). I have no problems compiling from source; I'm lazy and like to install from binary where possible. Does anyone know of third party repos with Squid in them? Any decent third party repos would be handy actually. Failing that, does anyone know why Squid is not included in the Hoary repos? It seems fairly popular and I would have expected to see it there. Regards Bnonn

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Invitation to WLUG members to attend NZCS presentation on Open Source
by Craig Box 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

The Waikato branch of the New Zealand Computer society have asked me to extend an invitation to WLUG members to attend a dinner and seminar on 30 June 2005, from 6pm to 10pm. The meeting is being held at the Okoroire Hotel (near Tirau), and consists of a gourmet three course dinner ($35.00 per head), and two speakers commencing at approximately 7:30pm. The speakers are Dave Nichols, a lecturer from the University of Waikato, speaking on "Usability and Open Source Software", and Graham Lauder, marketing contact for OpenOffice.org in New Zealand, speaking on "Disrupting the Market Leader". Further information, including links to registration, is available at http://www.nzcs.org.nz/tools/events/event.asp?SECT=waikato_bop&ID=714. Regards, Craig

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Fwd: Installation Guide for Fedora Core 4
by Ian McDonald 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Folks, For those that are looking to install FC4 this documentation may be useful. It is reasonably simple but it is good that the community is starting to provide this level of documentation. Ian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com> Date: 13-Jun-2005 05:59 Subject: Installation Guide for Fedora Core 4 To: fedora-announce-list(a)redhat.com The Fedora Documentation Project is very proud to announce the availability of the first Installation Guide for Fedora Core from the Fedora Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/ Many thanks to the author/editor combo who took this guide from just a general outline through to a complete, truly-open source document. This guide is specifically for Fedora Core 4 and x86 hardware. Our intention is to follow-up with a version for Fedora Core 3. If you are interested in the documentation project, such as providing assistance to making the Installation Guide cover x86_64 and PPC architectures, here is where to start: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ Enjoy! -- Karsten Wade, RHCE * Sr. Tech Writer * http://people.redhat.com/kwade/ gpg fingerprint: 2680 DBFD D968 3141 0115 5F1B D992 0E06 AD0E 0C41 Red Hat SELinux Guide http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/ BodyID:40827669.2.n.logpart (stored separately) -- fedora-announce-list mailing list fedora-announce-list(a)redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list

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WLUG Meeting is tonight
by Meeting Reminder bot 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

The WLUG meeting is this evening ---------------------------------------------------------------------- !! WLUG Meeting - 13th June 2005 Location: http://www.wlug.org.nz/LitB, 7pm. NandorTanczos of the Green Party (http://www.greens.org.nz/) is scheduled to discuss his views on OpenSource software.

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