July 2006 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

Fixit wish list
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hello all, I am back in the country breifly and intend taking my machine to the "fixit" meeting on Saturday with the hope of gaining more a more functional machine. The purpose of this email is to give some prior warning to anyone who may be going to help Acer 500x inspire laptop amd64 I have made some attempts to get help on irc but every time I get someone who seems to knowledge the sever reset or some other drama occured. Broadcom bcm43xx air force one Wlan SiS grapics VCL and Totem-xine dvd players Wish list: 1 Get the wlan up and operational.. Have tried a couple of things and am now stuck after blacklisting the bcm and not being able to reverse the command. 2 Would like some sort of graphics accelleration, the Sis card is not very linux freindly 3 Able to play dvd's I have done a number of installs plus added plugins but still no dvd playback Totem reports that I may not have "libreaddvdcss2" I did add this but unsure of if it is working as the update is highly experimental. 4 Some sort of emulator so that I can play around with some MS programs. If you feel you can help I would really appreciatte it. I am available off list if you like. Regards John

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django
by Ian McDonald 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Carrying on with my theme of sending out lots of nice technologies to the list you might be interested in this post here at NewsForge which talks about Django: http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/25/1512209&from=rss In theory this looks like a really cool web building tool for advanced content (you know that Web 2.0 stuff everybody keeps saying which basically means cool web sites). -- 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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Live migration on Xen/ATA over Ethernet
by Ian McDonald 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Folks, Here is an article on this: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/17/1916214 It also talks a bit about ATA over Ethernet (AoE) which is a "cheap" way of doing SANs - cheap being a relative term. I myself would rather use iSCSI as it runs over IP (and therefore doesn't have to be on same segment). But AoE is still interesting as well. Ian -- 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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Red Hat Open Source Symposium 2006
by Craig Box 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Caroline Ocego from IDG writes... Experience the Power of Open Source Architecture There are still complimentary places available for the Auckland Open Source Architecture conference to be held at Sky City on Thursday 31st August 2006. To see the agenda for this event please go to the following website address - http://www.opensourcesymposium.org/al/program.html To register please got to the following website address - http://www.opensourcesymposium.org/register/register_au.php Kind regards Caroline (The first 50 places are free - I'm not sure why they expect people to pay, but they obviously haven't hit 50 attendees yet!) Craig

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Our July guest is Roger de Salis, a director of http://www.wlug.org.nz/FxNetworks. FX Networks are a http://www.wlug.org.nz/Wellington company with significant http://www.wlug.org.nz/Unix and http://www.wlug.org.nz/Cisco Networking experience. The principals of FX have over 50 years experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry, the bulk of which is about continuously available on-line systems for public use. They specialise in bringing interesting technical ideas to market. FX believe you should be able to get connectivity far greater than what is currently available in New Zealand, and have made great investment in a fibre network around New Zealand. They're also pioneers in the use of http://www.wlug.org.nz/VoIP. If you're interested in the InterNet or telephone calls, this is a meeting not to be missed!

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BIOS failure?
by Chris O'Halloran 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Hello, On wednesday night, I was happily using my computer and playing around with some wengophone software. At the end of the evening I shut my machine down. On Thurday lunch time, I went home for lunch and thought I'd fire up my machine to play with the wengophone software somemore. The Nvidia BIOS flashed on the screen and then nothing further came up on screen. I waited a while and still nothing more. I held in the Power button until the machine switched off and restarted it again. Same result except I noticed the harddrive light was fluttering away. So I switched it off and tried booting a knoppix CD. No result. So I disconnected the power supply to the second harddrive thinking maybe there was some argument between the harddrive and tried starting again. The first harddrive contains the master boot record. This time, still get the Nvidia BIOS notice but still doesn't boot but this time no harddrive light persistently fluttering. So, I am running out of options. Bascially, the computer doesn't seem to get to the BIOS screen but I am not sure what I can do about that. I had moved the computer or changed any of the power requirements. Is the motherboard stuffed? Is the BIOS stuffed? Any thoughts or recommendations etc. Chris

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Upcoming Fixit meeting (1 week today)
by Meeting Reminder bot 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

The WLUG Fixit Meeting is 1 week away. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Saturday after our Monday meeting BruceKingsbury will be holding a 'Saturday Workshop' where you can bring your machine along and we'll try to resolve any problems you might have. <pre> Date: July 29 Time: 11am - 4pm Location: 23 Oxford St (http://zoomin.co.nz/hamilton/hamilton/oxford+street/23) </pre> Facilities available; 256k internet (cat5 or wifi), phone line, Broadcast TV for myth, ISO's of ubuntu and kubuntu, spare power leads, tables, BBQ

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FW: Openswan and Cisco PIX
by Craig Box 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Here's a question I've received, relating to a wiki page, that I can't answer. Anyone got any ideas? Craig _____ From: Jason Romo [ <mailto:jromo(a)networkguardian.net]> mailto:jromo(a)networkguardian.net] Sent: Wednesday, 19 July 2006 11:43 p.m. To: Craig Box Subject: Openswan and Cisco PIX I used your online document and I have a tunnel between the openswan 2.4.5 (using netkey with 2.6.16 kernel) and a Cisco PIX 501. I see the link is up on both sides. I ping the cisco's internal IP and I see the ICMP via debug icmp trace, but I don't get a resonse. I am not sure what is wrong. I think it is on the cisco side. It doesn't seem to allow traffic to the internal network. Any ideas where to start. _____ From: Craig Box Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:49:57 +1200 To: 'Jason Romo' <jromo(a)networkguardian.net> Subject: RE: Openswan and Cisco PIX Hi Jason, Haven't done anything with either a Swan or a Cisco for a long time sorry. Seen http://www.wlug.org.nz/FreeSwanToCiscoPix#footnote-3 ? Does this apply to you? Regards Craig _____ From: Jason Romo [mailto:jromo(a)networkguardian.net] Sent: Thursday, 20 July 2006 9:12 a.m. To: Craig Box Subject: Re: Openswan and Cisco PIX I copied the config to another machine and it works fine to the same cisco box on the remote end. I wonder if the upstream cisco route is filtering or something. But they can access anything on our network and we respond. But I can't initiate the traffic. I have checked that the firewall rules are good, routes, even kernel modules. I can't find a problem. They look the same. The system is the system it is an image of the exact box. Any ideas? Thanks for your help, Jason Romo

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Our July guest is Roger de Salis, a director of http://www.wlug.org.nz/FxNetworks. FX Networks are a http://www.wlug.org.nz/Wellington company with significant http://www.wlug.org.nz/Unix and http://www.wlug.org.nz/Cisco Networking experience. The principals of FX have over 50 years experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry, the bulk of which is about continuously available on-line systems for public use. They specialise in bringing interesting technical ideas to market. FX believe you should be able to get connectivity far greater than what is currently available in New Zealand, and have made great investment in a fibre network around New Zealand. They're also pioneers in the use of http://www.wlug.org.nz/VoIP. If you're interested in the InterNet or telephone calls, this is a meeting not to be missed!

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Meeting minutes & discussion topics
by Craig Box 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

The minutes of our committee meeting are now up at http://www.wlug.org.nz/CommitteeMeetingTopics.2006-07-20 (when the meetings are at my house, I can take them live to the internet a lot easier!) We regret to announce the resignation of Gian Perrone from the WLUG committee, effective immediately. A replacement member will not be sought as we are due to have an AGM in a couple of months. A couple of questions for our community.. - Are you interested in helping out on our advocacy display on September 16? We expect to have a stand with PCs, demos and giveaways running at Centreplace. If you are available, or want to help organise the event, please add your name to http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2006-09-16. - If WLUG held Linux training, would you be interested in attending? What would you want to learn? Would you, or your employer, pay, especially if there was the possibility of gaining a certification at the end of it? We also think that Hamilton needs a Thursday Night Curry, and if you bug us enough, we might just book a Thursday for it! Craig

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