October 2006 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30pm, TW.2.07 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW) as usual. PerryLorier will talk about http://www.wlug.org.nz/Plan9 (from BellLabs), the follow-up to http://www.wlug.org.nz/UNIX worked on by the original http://www.wlug.org.nz/UNIX authors and other luminaries.

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Oracle doing a CentOs (rebadging RedHat)
by Ian McDonald 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

For those that haven't heard Oracle is rebadging RedHat and providing support. http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/10/with_friends_li.h… Things that I see significant are: - Download RedHat EL clone for free - Cheaper support costs - Full compatiablity support - More support for older versions. - Don't have to be a Oracle customer Oracle have contributed a lot of kernel patches recently so I think they are fairly serious about that. I think this may well reduce CentOs installs and some corporates will go with Oracle. Interesting times. -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand

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Debate around ndiswrapper in the kernel
by Ian McDonald 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

People who are interested in such things might find this interesting: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/205644/f12f60903303d835/ (Yes it is a link you can read - SubscriberLink refers to the fact I am a subscriber and sharing a story) -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand

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Firefox 2 features
by Ian McDonald 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

And on a similar note to the last post here is what's new in Firefox 2: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features.html -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand

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Organisation needed for Free & Open Source Software study
by Nigel Nguyen 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Hi all, I am Nigel Nguyen, currently doing a dissertation that study about FOSS movement in New Zealand that focused on SME (small & medium size enterprise - that is business that have less than 19 staffs). I wonder if anyone from the list that run a business or the main decision maker / technology people that could help me to have an insight study in FOSS. Following are information about the study: ----------------- Overview This research is conducted to examine the status of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) adoption within New Zealand context, particularly the small and medium enterprises community. The report of this research is a compulsory dissertation for my Postgraduate of Electronic Commerce qualification. This research also aim at provide literature ground for later study on FOSS in New Zealand as well as to provide chance for FOSS developers learn about New Zealand business requirements. Who’s responsible? My name is Dung Trung (Nigel) Nguyen who undertake the responsibility for this entire research. You can contact me at 021 78 6769, email me at nigel(a)nigelnguyen.org. This research is supervised by Professor Robert J. McQueen who contact details is available on requested. What will you as a participant have to do and how long will it take? There will be a single interview which should take approximately half hour. The interview will be unstructured (non-directive), unbiased, yet still focus on the recent FOSS implementation in your organization. What will happen to the collected information? The interview responses will be used by the researcher to write a descriptive research report. Only the researcher and the supervisor of the study will be privy to source materials. Afterwards (30 days after final submission of the report), all physical material (notes, recorded tape) will be destroyed and/or erased. Some information, however, will be trimmed to be unidentifiable and transferred to digital format for later reference. No participants will be named in research reports unless explicit consent has been given, and every effort will be made to disguise the identity. Declaration to participant If you take part in the study, you have the right to: - Refuse to answer any particular question, and to withdraw from the study (all collected information will be destroyed immediately in this case) within 21 days from the interview day. - Ask any further questions about the study that occur to you during your participants. - Be given access to a summary of the findings from the study when it is concluded. - The Privacy Act 1993 will be applied in order to protect the interest of participants. -------------- If you are interested, please contact me off the list. I will then forward you some further (formal) documentation. Thank you for your help, time and attention, Nigel Nguyen

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Fedora Core 6 out
by Craig Box 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

http://fedoraproject.org/static-tmp/FC6ReleaseSummary.html The main Fedora server has melted under the load, so find another mirror for the release notes. A good summary and BT links are on that page though. Craig

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Review of Gaim 2
by Ian McDonald 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

I know a few people use this so might find this interesting - review of the beta of Gaim 2. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/24/1634247 -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand

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Good little tutorial on permissions, users and processes
by Ian McDonald 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

I learnt a few things from this and it helps explain quite a few concepts: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-speakingunix4/?ca=dgr-… -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 22 Oct '06

22 Oct '06

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30pm, TW.2.07 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW) as usual. PerryLorier will talk about http://www.wlug.org.nz/Plan9 (from BellLabs), the follow-up to http://www.wlug.org.nz/UNIX worked on by the original http://www.wlug.org.nz/UNIX authors and other luminaries.

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Copying from one hard drive to another
by Glenn Ramsey 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

I have a hard drive that contains several ext3 partitions an NTFS partition and a FAT32 partition. Is it possible to copy it's contents to another drive of a different type but nominally the same capacity (one drive is 2.5" the other 3.5") using some sort of bitwise copy? If so then what commands do I need to do it? I could do it manually by creating the right partitions on the second drive and copying the files, but I'm wondering if there's a less tedious way? Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz

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