November 2006 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '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. A presentation on the SlackWare distribution by DeniseBates

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usb problems
by Ron Dean 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

I foolishly used a usb 1 device on my computer and since then have not been able to use my usb 2 card reader or my pen drive or usb hard drive. I rebooted with the devices plugged in but they still weren't detected. Ron Dean

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Upgrade problems
by John Torrance 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Just a short post to that you all for you help. A really big thanks to Bruce who spent a number of hours trying to solve my problem. It is great to have so many people happy to help a novice like me. I was unable to solve my upgrade problem in the end and I reloaded Dapper. I did come across the following which may have solved my problem - it may be helpful to someone. /*no text status messages in ubuntu edgy 6.10 splash screen* After upgrading from ubuntu 6.06 to ubuntu 6.10, usplash stopped working, Ubuntu started displaying a blank screen during startup and shutdown. *Solution* Edgy disabled the status messages in Usplash, but you can get them back easily using the following commands. First, open your menu.lst gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst Now you remove any mention of “quiet” from the file. You should get the messages again next time you boot./ /November 2nd, 2006 at 8:30 am <http://www.debianadmin.com/ubuntu-edgy-upgrade-common-problems-with-solutio…> In “text and splash doesn’t after upgrade to edgy” section, sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst should be a tiny typo of gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst/ Dapper is working for me and so I will probably just stick with it for the moment Cheers John

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Usb problems
by Ron Dean 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

I'm sorry I didn't mention that I'm using Ubuntu 6.10

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Sun considering GPL for Solaris
by Ian McDonald 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6135461.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&sub… -- 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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Ubuntu/X/Beryl update
by Ian McDonald 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Interesting read: http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/13/2112259&from=rss -- 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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Sun release J2SE and J2ME under GPL
by James Pluck 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

I don't know who of you have seen this but it's the next step from Sun... http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/NL/87E69818532E8A9DCC25722500118A72 -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum

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ADS Realm - Openfiler configuration
by Chris O'Halloran 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Hello, I am assisting the setting up of an "openfiler" server at work. www.openfiller.com Its on a network using Active Directories and I want openfiler to be visible on the network. One authentication question I have is what consitutes the ADS realm. Google search bring up lots of questions asked by other people on samba groups etc but I wonder how I can establish it from the windows configuration We've tried "tesla.local" and that seems to work to a certain extent but still can't see the computer on the Windows network. I've wondered if we haven't quite got the ADS realm or is there some other SAMBA setting the probably stopping the server being seen.

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Upcoming WLUG committee meeting (1 week today)
by Meeting Reminder bot 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

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 Comittee Meeting 20 Nov 2006 7:30pm, 31 Aberfoyle St (enter from Ellicot Rd end) Provisional agenda: # Minutes of previous meeting # Matters arising # Correspondence # Treasurers report # Server ## Hard disks ## NAS? # Topics for 2007 meetings # Public advocacy events ## Talking to local businesses ## Hamilton Central Library display ## Installfest # General Business

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Nearly fully open source phone
by Ian McDonald 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

http://lwn.net/Articles/208298/rss I want one! -- 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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