September 2010 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual General Meeting, 22nd November
by Bruce Kingsbury 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual General Meeting, 22nd November In accordance with Rule 6 of the charter, I would like to announce to all members that the Waikato Linux Users Group (Incorporated) will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Monday, 22 November, 2010, at 7pm, at the regular meeting location of Room MS4.G.02 Several officers and committee members will be stepping down this year. Society membership has also gone down recently. Present and past members interested in seeing WLUG continue as an IncorporatedSociety are encouraged to attend this years AGM to meet quorum requirements and stand for election. If a quorum is established and new officers step forward, a bylaw change is proposed to be voted on. Please see the WlugCharterDiscussion for more details. Note: To be eligible to vote at the meeting you must have previously been a financial member (although not necessarily for the 2010 year) and pay your membership for 2011 at or before the AGM. To be eligible to vote or stand for office at the AGM members must have paid a subscription for the 2010 year before the AGM. If you'd like to stand for committee and have not paid for membership this year, please do this at the October Meeting or November SaturdayWorkshop. An amendment about who can vote at the meeting was passed in 2008. "That the WLUG charter be amended to allow former paid members of the WLUG of good standing, whose membership has lapsed, to vote at an AGM of the WLUG with the proviso that they rejoin the WLUG and pay a new subscription at or before the AGM."

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External 56k modem
by Glenn Morrissey 23 Oct '10

23 Oct '10

Hi all does anyone have an old external 56k serial modem for sale? I have given up trying to make my 56k Lucent internal modem work. Glenn Morrissey.

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Remote adminstration
by cmoman 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Hello all, Is there a tool in ubuntu that a user can start that reports the real world ip address and configures a home router to open a port to allow remote administration? I have a friend or two for whom it would nice to get them to start a program, report to me the details via MSN or Skype or telephone etc and allow me to log in and fix or make a configuration change to their machine. I know how to set things up using ssh etc but that relies on some initial configuration at the their end. KDE has a nice VNC invite function but it won't do the router config part. It appears the likes of KTorrent and Azuereus have the ability to do some to the router via UPnP to open ports up on the router dynamically so I am guessing all this is possible. Cheers

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WLUG Fixit Meeting tomorrow
by Meeting Reminder bot 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

A reminder; the WLUG Fixit Meeting is tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday October 2nd, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TeWhanauPutahi) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc. If there's something you specifically want to work on please mention it on the mailing list in advance so we can study up beforehand or bring any necessary equipment. Also we're paying a little extra for hall and internet now, so a gold coin donation to help cover these costs would be greatly appreciated.

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiaora DVD The Kiaora Project was started in 2005 by Bruce Kingsbury, as an alternative to similar CDs like TheOpenCD which were a good idea but left out many things, such as dictionaries and clipart for OpenOffice, rubber stamps for Tux Paint, and controversial software such as VLC (some codecs covered by patents) and emule (p2p == piracy?) It project was mostly abandoned by 2007 and the kiaoracd domain given to Cairo to use as a 'download and burn' store for Free software in general.. The project was revived for Software Freedom Day 2010 and may continue to live as Kiaora DVD. Plans for the future include having a proper disk browser and program launcher, better presentation with program icons, screenshots, and links to addons and documentation, and repackaging some of the software which is currently distributed with 'toolbars' and other crap (or at the very least the default for installing such toolbars will be changed to 'off') Other possibilities; a directory of sample documents, and a collection of PDF manuals for some of the software. Volunteers who can repackage software with nullsoft or similar tools, track down or redraw SVG versions of icons, and take interesting screenshots would be greatly appreciated. September 27th 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiaora DVD The Kiaora Project was started in 2005 by Bruce Kingsbury, as an alternative to similar CDs like TheOpenCD which were a good idea but left out many things, such as dictionaries and clipart for OpenOffice, rubber stamps for Tux Paint, and controversial software such as VLC (some codecs covered by patents) and emule (p2p == piracy?) It project was mostly abandoned by 2007 and the kiaoracd domain given to Cairo to use as a 'download and burn' store for Free software in general.. The project was revived for Software Freedom Day 2010 and may continue to live as Kiaora DVD. Plans for the future include having a proper disk browser and program launcher, better presentation with program icons, screenshots, and links to addons and documentation, and repackaging some of the software which is currently distributed with 'toolbars' and other crap (or at the very least the default for installing such toolbars will be changed to 'off') Other possibilities; a directory of sample documents, and a collection of PDF manuals for some of the software. Volunteers who can repackage software with nullsoft or similar tools, track down or redraw SVG versions of icons, and take interesting screenshots would be greatly appreciated. September 27th 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)

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Using a laptop as an access point
by Glenn Ramsey 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Hi all, Does anyone know if there is an easy way to configure a wireless card as an access point in Kubuntu 8.04? (I don't really want to go through the carnage of an upgrade at this stage) I found these instructions: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?action=printpage;topic=3096387.0 but they involve a lot of manual settings. I think I read somewhere on my searches that the in recent versions of Ubuntu you can do this by selecting an option in Network Manager. Ideally something like that is what I am looking for. Cheers Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 09 9735603 http://www.componic.co.nz

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiaora DVD The Kiaora Project was started in 2005 by Bruce Kingsbury, as an alternative to similar CDs like TheOpenCD which were a good idea but left out many things, such as dictionaries and clipart for OpenOffice, rubber stamps for Tux Paint, and controversial software such as VLC (some codecs covered by patents) and emule (p2p == piracy?) It project was mostly abandoned by 2007 and the kiaoracd domain given to Cairo to use as a 'download and burn' store for Free software in general.. The project was revived for Software Freedom Day 2010 and may continue to live as Kiaora DVD. Plans for the future include having a proper disk browser and program launcher, better presentation with program icons, screenshots, and links to addons and documentation, and repackaging some of the software which is currently distributed with 'toolbars' and other crap (or at the very least the default for installing such toolbars will be changed to 'off') Other possibilities; a directory of sample documents, and a collection of PDF manuals for some of the software. Volunteers who can repackage software with nullsoft or similar tools, track down or redraw SVG versions of icons, and take interesting screenshots would be greatly appreciated. September 27th 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)

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Re: [wlug] Software Freedom Day 2010... advertisement?
by Sam Lin 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

I think the user group could have made use of many other resources such as Facebook or Tweet etc. I have circulated an event advertisement (see below) to my department in university and friends (some of which is working at HCC). Let's see how many of them will show up. ========= Advert from here ============ This Saturday sees Hamilton's very own Software Freedom Day (SFD) event. An annual worldwide event since 2004, SFD is designed to be both a celebration of free software's successes and a public education effort to help further its acceptance. It has a fairly impressive sponsor and partner list, including Google, Canonical, Sun, the FSF, and more Organised by the Waikato Linux User Group (WLUG), the open day will feature volunteers showing visitors the extent of open source software and its capabilities. Internationally, the goal of Software Freedom Day is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality Free and Open Source Software (FOSS / FLOSS) in education, in government, at home, and in business. In Hamilton this event was once held at Waikato University in 2008, and this year we will be at Centreplace near Whitcouls all this Saturday from 9am to 5pm. We will have a couple tables w/ 4-5 workstations setup running all the popular programs including GIMP/Inkscape. We will have a new “Kiaora DVD 10.09” which we will be giving out (a collection of Free software for Windows similar to The OpenDisc). We will also have some Ubuntu cds and some WLUG brochures. We may possibly have some demonstrations about how general public can make use of FLOSS in their daily life. For further information regarding SFD, please see the attached poster and the SFD website: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ Please feel free to stop by, try out, hang out and talk to people about FLOSS. ========== to here ============= Regards, Sam

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Software Freedom Day 2010... advertisement?
by Sam Lin 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Now that it's 2 days left to Software Freedom Day 2010, are there any flyer from the user group to provide so that I could inform my friends of SFD? (Am I wrong or there just isn't any advertisement regarding SFD in Hamilton city or even in the university? Even I am not quite sure what exactly will be happening through that day...) Regards, Sam

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