July 2005 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

RE: [wlug] FW: Novell CHOICE Roadshow
by David Nicholls 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

You know, if they actually bothered coming to hamilton I'd actually go. Seing as I use suse linux 9.2 and all as does the uni in certain areas. Cheers... david -----Original Message----- From: Craig Box [mailto:craig(a)dubculture.co.nz] Subject: [wlug] FW: Novell CHOICE Roadshow (originally from nzlug mailing list) Hello fellow NZLugers! The Novell Choice Linux Roadshow is starting this week and on the following dates we are in the following cities. Please register for free for the event with Kristi kwildish(a)novell.com. 28th July Christchurch 2nd August Wellington 10th August Auckland The Agenda: Morning 8:30-9:00 Registration with Tea/Coffee/Muffins 9:00 - 9:15 Introduction to event and positioning of CHOICE - Matthew Christie, Country Manager of Novell 9:15 - 9:45 Novell Linux Desktop, Workgroup Linux and Management - Novell, Andreas Girardet 9:45-10:15 The Data Centre and LINUX - David Woolford Oracle 10:15-10:45 Linux Reference Architecture - Buddika Aluwihare, HP 10:45- 11:00 The Cathedral and the Bizarre. Why Linux has become such an interest. - David Woolford Oracle 11:00-11:15 The Open Source Community. What is it and how to get involved - Andreas Girardet Novell 11:15-11:45 How to Adopt Linux- what, where and how to start! - OSS 11:45 - noon Close of event - Matthew Christie 1:00-2:00 Hands on workshops begin. 50 people split in 2 groups. Desktop in one room, Oracle in another Regards, Andreas Girardet Consulting Architect Novell, Inc.

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"Bus Error" when running apt-get, and how it went away.
by Glyn Webster 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

At the last meeting I told some friendly people I had problems with 'synaptic', 'aptitude', and 'apt-get' all crashing with a "Bus Error" on my Ubuntu installation. They all began to work again after I ran 'dselect'; I assume 'dselect' somehow repaired the package database while updating it. Yay: a grave bug in the APT package management system has been hidden away until Next Time! :-) I mention this because the friendly people (whose names I'm sorry I can't remember) said to describe my problem again on the mailing list. -- Glyn Webster ~ Simplicity Himself.

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FW: Novell CHOICE Roadshow
by Craig Box 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

(originally from nzlug mailing list) Hello fellow NZLugers! The Novell Choice Linux Roadshow is starting this week and on the following dates we are in the following cities. Please register for free for the event with Kristi kwildish(a)novell.com. 28th July Christchurch 2nd August Wellington 10th August Auckland The Agenda: Morning 8:30-9:00 Registration with Tea/Coffee/Muffins 9:00 - 9:15 Introduction to event and positioning of CHOICE - Matthew Christie, Country Manager of Novell 9:15 - 9:45 Novell Linux Desktop, Workgroup Linux and Management - Novell, Andreas Girardet 9:45-10:15 The Data Centre and LINUX - David Woolford Oracle 10:15-10:45 Linux Reference Architecture - Buddika Aluwihare, HP 10:45- 11:00 The Cathedral and the Bizarre. Why Linux has become such an interest. - David Woolford Oracle 11:00-11:15 The Open Source Community. What is it and how to get involved - Andreas Girardet Novell 11:15-11:45 How to Adopt Linux- what, where and how to start! - OSS 11:45 - noon Close of event - Matthew Christie 1:00-2:00 Hands on workshops begin. 50 people split in 2 groups. Desktop in one room, Oracle in another Regards, Andreas Girardet Consulting Architect Novell, Inc., the leading provider of information solutions http://www.novell.com My phonenumbers: NZ Mobile: 0064-027-645-9827 NZ Landline: 0064-09-3081402 Germany: 0049-0180-16666-269-609 USA (WA): 001-360-488-0966 USA (NY): 001-347-952-3413 UK: 0044-087-04902877 UK: 0044-087-09315298 Italy: 0039-02-303127527 Austria: 0043-0720-503393

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WLUG and NZLUG tentative position
by Greig McGill 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Waikato Linux Users Group Inc. Interim Statement on National Linux Body ======================================================================= Tue, 26 July 2005 During this year discussion has intensified around the creation of a national Linux body in New Zealand. WLUG committee members have been involved in this discussion and WLUG has shown its commitment to the ideal of a national linux body by offering to host an "NZLUG Theme" into the WLUG Wiki. WLUG envisages a national Linux organisation for New Zealand which would be very closely modelled on the successful Linux Australia. In particular such an organisation would have the following broad goals: - Support, resource and promote local LUGs - Provide national co-ordination services (speaker organisation, etc) - Provide hosting for LUGs where required - Provide financial support - Partner with organisations like NZOSS to advocate and educate the community (and particularly Government) on the benefits of Linux and OSS. - Partner with organisations like Linux AU to support and enhance the LCA conference. The national organisation would not perform the functions of a LUG itself, instead it would: - Provide a central location where users could be connected to their local LUG - Provide co-ordination and communication between individual LUGs - Undertake national initiatives supported by all LUGs - Aggregate LUG opinion and present a unified voice to the Government and other industry groups. The WLUG committee intends to meet this Friday (July 29) to discuss this issue further and to formulate WLUG's definitive position on this subject. We look forward to working with other members of the New Zealand Linux community in trying to create a national Linux organisation. Please direct all submissions on this matter to secretary(a)wlug.org.nz before midday on the 29th of July. -- Greig McGill President Waikato Linux Users Group Inc.

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RE: [wlug] Setting up and learning MySQL
by David Nicholls 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi rod, I suggest you go here ( http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ ) and check out the different forms of documentation - one even has user comments. You can also download tarballed html and PDFs etc. I myself have found this site extremely helpful in the past. There are other sites around dealing with mysql and they should be easy to find, by the official site is pretty good. Cheers... david -----Original Message----- From: Roderick Aldridge [mailto:rod-a(a)hnpl.net] Subject: Re: [wlug] Setting up and learning MySQL James Clark wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:59:13AM +1200, Roderick Aldridge wrote: > >>Do you just run the install script (as root?) ---snip--- > > Cheers, > James. > I installed mysql and mysql-client using synaptic but I see I didn't install the documentation, which I have since done. However it seems to be an info version of what I read on the mysql website. This looks to be just what is needed for an expert, but leaves me uncertain as to what has already been done by synaptic and what I need to do to achieve what I want. For example the installation section of the info manual says: ---snip--- I think synaptic has done most or all of that and I that should go on to post-installation setup and testing, but how do you tell? There is no sign of mysql on my user menu. Do I need to add rod to the mysql user group? Rod

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Ubuntu apt widget and name issue(Hoary 5.04)
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

When I run update-manager as root I get "(synaptic:7648): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done" It did however down load a small update for Mozilla. If I try to run it (or anything else) from the gui I am asked for a password by the widget. My root pass and my user pass does not work (even Gandhalf is no good) I think this last issue is unrelated, on boot I get "ror: temporary unable to resolve name" Any help on this would be welcome Regards John

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Setting up and learning MySQL
by Roderick Aldridge 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

I have installed MySQL on Ubuntu but have not initialised anything yet. I want to learn it well enough to set up a simple database for my audio collection and also a simple database for work. Neither will be on-line or need high security. What is the easiest way to initialise it? Do you just run the install script (as root?) shell> cd mysql_installation_directory shell> ./scripts/mysql_install_db shell> ./bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql & or shell> ./bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql & if you are running MySQL 4.x. and continuing? I want to set it up for user rod to be able to experiment easily without ruining everything. Also what and tutorial GUI would you reccommend for my purposes? I see the python front-end was also installed along with MySQL and I have installed mysqlcc. Any pointers greatly appreciated Roderick Aldridge

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WLUG Meeting is tonight
by Meeting Reminder bot 24 Jul '05

24 Jul '05

The WLUG meeting is this evening ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ! WLUG Meeting - 25 July 2005 Location: University of Waikato, http://www.wlug.org.nz/LitB Time: 7pm Denise Tyrer-Harding of Pipers (http://www.pipers.co.nz/) is scheduled to speak to the WLUG about IntellectualProperty within New Zealand. Denise is a highly regarded IntellectualProperty lawyer and we look forward to what she has to say.

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

24 Jul '05

The WLUG meeting is on Monday ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ! WLUG Meeting - 25 July 2005 Location: University of Waikato, http://www.wlug.org.nz/LitB Time: 7pm Denise Tyrer-Harding of Pipers (http://www.pipers.co.nz/) is scheduled to speak to the WLUG about IntellectualProperty within New Zealand. Denise is a highly regarded IntellectualProperty lawyer and we look forward to what she has to say.

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WLUG Meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder bot 17 Jul '05

17 Jul '05

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ! WLUG Meeting - 25 July 2005 Denise Tyrer-Harding of Pipers (http://www.pipers.co.nz/) is scheduled to speak to the WLUG about IntellectualProperty within New Zealand. Denise is a highly regarded IntellectualProperty lawyer and we look forward to what she has to say.

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