February 2007 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

penguin suit
by Cairo Kingsbury 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

For software freedom day we got Mystique costumes to make us a tux penguin suit. Lots of people thought it was very cool and I think we should use it at lots more events but at the moment we have to book it in advance and pay $15 to hire it. I think WLUG should buy it so we can use it any time and we should use it a lot more. We asked and Mystique will sell it to us for $150 which is only the same as hiring it ten times. What does everyone else think?

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Matamata Linux support?
by Ian McDonald 01 Mar '07

01 Mar '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jesse Archer <jesse(a)tvmg.co.nz> Date: Mar 1, 2007 4:54 PM Subject: WLUG To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz Hi Ian, Just wanting to know whether you would be able to send a message around the WLUG mailing list – to see if there are any linux-savvy people in the Matamata area? If you could do this that would be great – I work for TVMG, and we are interested in making contact with anyone over this way who would be interested in having a chat with us about our linux server. Regards * * *Jesse Archer * Hosting Administrator | AlphaMedia Concepts *T*** +64 7 888 5030 ext. 813 *F*** +64 7 888 6050 *E*** jesse(a)alphamedia.co.nz *W*** alphamedia.co.nz [image: AlphaMedia Concepts] 11a Meura Street | PO Box 411, Matamata, New Zealand ------------------------------ The content of this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If it is not intended for you, please email the sender immediately and destroy the original message. -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Interesting article on KVM/Virtualisation
by Ian McDonald 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

KVM is new in the kernel in 2.6.20 and is another virtualisation approach. Article talks about OpenVZ, Xen, VMWare http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6161804.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&sub… I do disagree with their conclusion though! -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Re: [wlug] Show Us The Code!
by David Bowen 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

> > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:04:05 +1300 > From: "James Pluck" <papabearnz(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [wlug] Show Us The Code! > To: "WLUG Mailing List" <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> > Message-ID: > <69dff2130702251404j34b3616fl907ff979c9dcd0b0(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > A website asking MS to show the Linux community WHERE they believe the > breaches of their IP lie so that those sections can be rewritten to > avoid any suspicion of plagiarism. > > http://showusthecode.com/ > > J > > Personally I think it would be interesting for Linux vendors to use the Lanham act to ask them to put up or shut up, but I suspect the lawyers would hate that idea too!

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Fwd: Dell pre-installing Novell
by Ian McDonald 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

Folks, Just had this forwarded to me from an out of town visitor for tonight's meeting - Dell to install Novell Linux on machines and looking at more options. Ian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matthew Craig <linuxgamingworld(a)gmail.com> Date: Feb 26, 2007 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Greetings !!! To: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/ideastorm/ideasinaction?c=us… Check out this Dell / Novell announcement from a few hours ago. Worth reviewing for your meeting with Microsoft. -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Show Us The Code!
by James Pluck 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

A website asking MS to show the Linux community WHERE they believe the breaches of their IP lie so that those sections can be rewritten to avoid any suspicion of plagiarism. http://showusthecode.com/ J -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum "Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list..."

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Linuxchix NZ
by Brenda Wallace 25 Feb '07

25 Feb '07

hey folks - couldn't find an obvious "contact" button on your website, so i subscribed here. ================================================== Monday 26 February - Announcing Linuxchix New Zealand. LinuxChix NZ is a community for women who like Linux, and for women and men who want to support women in computing. Linuxchix NZ is a new chapter of an international linuxchix community. Globally, membership ranges from complete novices to experienced users, and includes professional and amateur programmers, system administrators, linux kernel developers, database adminstrators, QA testers, technical writers, and computer journalists. Linuxchix NZ activities include support forums, mentoring, training courses, social meetups and linux install fests. Linuxchix is run by women and for women. Membership is free - the only requirement is that members be polite and be helpful. Women make up approximately 42% of NZ's IT Industry, but once data entry and unskilled work is excluded this drops to somewhere nearer 15%. Linuxchix, and the New Zealand chapter of Linuxchix exists to connect women working in the IT industry, contributing to FOSS, as well as female users of the Linux operating system looking for support and community. For more information, visit http://linuxchix.org.nz or email contact(a)linuxchix.org.nz

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 25 Feb '07

25 Feb '07

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brett Roberts from MicrosoftCorporation will be speaking on the recent deal that they have signed with http://www.wlug.org.nz/Novell. The meeting will be at 7:30pm, TW.2.05 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW)

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Traffic monitoring
by Glenn Ramsey 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

Hi, I recently got a wireless broadband service installed and my data allowance is small (and expensive too!). I noticed that something on my network is using about 3Mb/hour and I need to find that and switch it off. I have a Debian box and a Windows XP box on the network connected like this: SIU---router~~wireless link~~access point---switch--PCs where SIU is the wireless service interface unit, equivalent to a DSL modem. I am assuming that the traffic I need to monitor is coming from one of my PCs and not the router so I want to install a traffic monitoring program on the Debian box. There seem to be lots of them available so can anyone suggest one that would be suitable for this application? Ideally it would have minimal configuration requirements. TIA Glenn BTW The router is a Linksys WRT54Gv5 and I tried the Linux based DD-WRT firmware which has many more features than the native firmware but the router's wireless interface wouldn't work properly with it. -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz

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A couple of interesting links..
by Bruce Kingsbury 23 Feb '07

23 Feb '07

http://www.robweir.com/blog/ http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/

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