October 2009 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

25+ Useful Linux and Unix Cheat Sheets
by Peter Reutemann 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

These cheat sheets should be useful, not just for newbies: http://www.techieblogger.com/2009/10/linux-unix-ubuntu-solaris-cheat-sheets… Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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Upcoming Fixit Meeting (1 week today)
by Meeting Reminder bot 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

The WLUG Fixit Meeting is 1 week away. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday October 31st, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/hamilton/fairfield/-te+whanau+ptahi/) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. Since Karmic will have been released only days before, we're going to count this is as Karmic ReleaseParty We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee, light lunch, etc.

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is labour day, no meeting scheduled.

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Personalising Learning Environments with Quick Response (QR) Codes
by John Billings 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Hi, There will be an interesting meeting next month presented by NZCS, Tuesday evening from 5:30 to 7pm, 10th November. WLUG members are invited to attend: http://www.nzcs.org.nz/events/waikato_bop/87-Personalising_Learning_Environ… It's a free event but please register. I originally approached Dr. John Clayton to give a talk to WLUG about the work he's done with Moodle in the past. I also asked if I could interview him for community radio, which we did last week. In the course of the interview, he told me his new work involves researching QR Codes in education, and we thought that might be an interesting topic for a presentation. Since we are having an AGM next month and it was too late to organize it this month, I pitched the talk over to David at NZCS and he's organized that now. The first part of my interview with John is available here, where he does talk about Moodle: http://newitmake.org.nz/podcasts/audio/show/21-episode-15-dr-john-clayton The second part, where he talks about QR Codes will be played on Community Radio Hamilton this Thursday, at 2pm and the podcast will be available soon. Cheers, John

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Night JohnBillings will make a presentation about FreeGeek and show a couple short videos about the project. The library will be on hand, and we will have the usual tea and biscuits and friendly chatter. 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is labour day, no meeting scheduled.

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Night JohnBillings will make a presentation about FreeGeek and show a couple short videos about the project. The library will be on hand, and we will have the usual tea and biscuits and friendly chatter. 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)

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Sendmail help
by Narender 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Dear All we have a test mail server for QA team. we use this for internal purpose and it does not send any email to outside world. but now want to do the below things 1. We require a default forwarding of domain *(a)bugtest.abc.local mapped to email_id emailsuite(a)bugtest.abc.local - So from now on all the mails sent to any unknown address *(a)bugtest.abc.local will be sent to emailsuite(a)bugtest.abc.local 2. A script to cleanup emailsuite(a)bugtest.abc.local emails on every 5 hours interval so that we don’t run out of space. >> 3. A cleanup script for mitesting(a)bugest.abc.local to clean data of last 5 days. Many many thanks in advance --N

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Seagate USB External Hard Drive
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Hello Chaps I have a non responsive Seagate USB Hard Drive that I am trying to rescue. Under windows, the error message appears that the drive does not have a valid Partition Table. I have tried to get it to be recognized under Linux: glenn(a)glenn:$ mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) tmpfs on /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755) glenn(a)glenn:~$ cd /proc/bus/usb glenn(a)glenn:/proc/bus/usb$ ls 001 devices glenn(a)glenn:/proc/bus/usb$ cat devices T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06 S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.12-9-386 uhci_hcd S: Product=Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB S: SerialNumber=0000:00:07.2 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 11 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0bc2 ProdID=3000 Rev= 0.00 S: Manufacturer=Seagate S: Product=FreeAgentDesktop S: SerialNumber= 5RY0MBXS C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms glenn(a)glenn:/proc/bus/usb$ Any tips as to how I can mount the drive so I can reformat it with a NTFS file system? Cheers Glenn.

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yourname@linux.com?
by Peter Reutemann 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Hi there If you feel like having a life-time email address @linux.com and a spare 250USD (150USD for the email address, 99USD/a for the Linux Foundation membership), then have a look here: http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/biz-enterprise/127569-new-benefits-off… Student memberships are cheaper, only 25USD/a. Apparently, you do get cheaper deals at Lenovo, Dell and HP with that membership and also some other discounts. Check out the website mentioned above. Disclaimer: I'm not associated with the Linux Foundation. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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