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Warren Hughes (IBM) is away
by Warren Hughes 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

I will be out of the office starting 04/04/2007 and will not return until 12/04/2007. I am on holiday. In my adsense feel free to contact Andrew Fox on 0800 801800. Cheers, Warren.

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lightppd - an alternative to Apache
by Ian McDonald 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

This is the web server that powers YouTube and Wikipedia. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/04/05/the-lighttpd-web-server.html -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Article on DRM free iTunes and Linux
by Ian McDonald 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/03/1556246&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig Nevill-Manning will speak on something interesting he promises. Craig is Engineering Director for http://www.wlug.org.nz/Google and invented Froogle. He is a http://www.wlug.org.nz/PhD graduate from WaikatoUniversity. This meeting is on Wednesday as that's when he's in the country.

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What's in Gnome 2.18
by Ian McDonald 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/02/1919225&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Fwd: It's Official: Dell Offering Linux on Select Notebooks, PCs
by Ian McDonald 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Snippet from today's WinInfo update ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: WinInfo UPDATE <WinInfo_UPDATE(a)list.windowsitpro.com> Date: 29 Mar 2007 11:50:38 PDT Subject: It's Official: Dell Offering Linux on Select Notebooks, PCs To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz - It's Official: Dell Offering Linux on Select Notebooks, PCs ==== IN THE NEWS ================================ -It's Official: Dell Offering Linux on Select Notebooks, PCs -Microsoft Updates Zune, Cites Ongoing Successes -Apple Bows to Industry Pressure, Offers Album Discounts by Paul Thurrott, thurrott(a)windowsitpro.com Dell has responded to overwhelming feedback from its IdeaStorm customer feedback site this week by announcing that it will soon begin offering the open-source OS Linux on select Dell desktop and notebook PCs. The announcement comes about a month and a half after IdeaStorm was first brought online. The availability of Linux was, overwhelmingly, the number one customer request. "We have heard you and appreciate the direct feedback," Dell wrote to customers in a posting to its corporate blog. "We will expand our Linux support beyond our existing servers and Precision workstation line. Our first step in this effort is offering Linux pre-installed on select desktop and notebook systems. We will provide an update in the coming weeks that includes detailed information on which systems we will offer, our testing and certification efforts, and the Linux distribution(s) that will be available. The countdown begins today." Dell's sudden fixation on customer feedback comes in the wake of a disappointing year in which it fell from its perch atop the PC industry, ousted its CEO, and saw founder Michael Dell retake the reins of the company. Mr. Dell feels that better connecting with its customers--and delivering exactly what they want--is the key to future growth. That said, it's unclear how offering a free OS--one that Dell will need to support--will dramatically improve the bottom line. In the battle for the desktop, Windows remains the overwhelming champion, with more than 95 percent of the market. Apple's Mac OS X accounts for about 2.5 percent of the worldwide OS market.

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shane Hobson from LiteUp will be speaking on the fibre network around Hamilton that they manage and are expanding. This is the network that Hamilton City Council have put in and the government has just given $3 million to. It is an open access network similar to CityLink in Wellington. The meeting will be at 7:30pm, TW.2.05 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW)

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Re: [wlug] OpenSourceHowTo.org
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Not really a concern about my name I am also known as jjohn and jtohn so J'ohn will be fine. I still maintain that the word "tos" looks awful in howtos... Regards J'ohn ----- Original Message Follows ----- > >:DOn Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:46 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:> > Hi Jâohn,> > * jaytee(a)clear.net.nz <jaytee(a)clear.net.nz> > [2007-03-25 08:30]:> > How-tos may be correct but it looks > awful. I prefer the> > incorrect "how-to's"> > I know your > name is âJohnâ but I think that looks too plain. > Iâll> be writing it Jâohn instead from now on.> > With > pleasure > ,_______________________________________________wlug > mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nzUnsubscribe: > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Re: [wlug] OpenSourceHowTo.org
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

How-tos may be correct but it looks awful. I prefer the incorrect "how-to's" Regards John > Thus, the plural of how-to is how-tos. The plural of wiki > is wikis. > Unsubscribe: > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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OpenSourceHowTo.org
by Paul Matthews 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shane Hobson from LiteUp will be speaking on the fibre network around Hamilton that they manage and are expanding. This is the network that Hamilton City Council have put in and the government has just given $3 million to. It is an open access network similar to CityLink in Wellington. The meeting will be at 7:30pm, TW.2.05 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW)

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Windows under Ubuntu
by Ian McDonald 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

This article has a link to running Windows under Ubuntu including some of the nice changes coming up in Ubuntu 7.04: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=17531 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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How to recover from failed edgy install
by Glenn Ramsey 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, My attempt to upgrade my laptop from Dapper to Edgy has failed. After booting it goes into single user mode and I assume that upstart is not installed correctly. Does anyone know how to recover from this? I searched but so far haven't found anything helpful. Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz

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Linus discusses GPL v2/v3
by Ian McDonald 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198002077 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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MS announce putting Visual FoxPro into OSS
by James Pluck 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

An interesting turnup for the books. MS on Monday announced they will be producing no further versions of VisFox and are releasing the core code of Visual FoxPro to the Open Source Community. http://tinyurl.com/2byuwo -- 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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Article on Beryl 0.2.0
by Ian McDonald 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Ars Technica is giving an outline of Beryl including some of the new features of Beryl 0.2.0. Looks pretty cool. http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/beryl-bling.ars -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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A Linux distro built on Python
by Ian McDonald 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

This is quite interesting article about Pardus: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=17508 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Debian stable vs Debian testing.
by Oliver Jones 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

Hi Folks. I've got a box running Debian stable (sarge) but in order to get some features I've installed some packages from testing. This causes a few problems when I try and keep my box updated. Which makes me worry. Should I just give stable the boot and switch to running entirely from testing? Anyone here doing that? Any problems? Regards

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shane Hobson from LiteUp will be speaking on the fibre network around Hamilton that they manage and are expanding. This is the network that Hamilton City Council have put in and the government has just given $3 million to. It is an open access network similar to CityLink in Wellington. The meeting will be at 7:30pm, TW.2.05 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW)

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Changing ext3 file system to ext2
by Leslie Katz 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

Hello again, Ian. Well, gparted worked as advertised on ext3 file systems. Thanks so much again for drawing it to my attention. I have some questions arising, though, if I may. Here's what the output of fdisk now shows for the relevant drive. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 14 1318 10482412+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 1319 1449 1052257+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb4 1450 4865 27439020 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 1450 1462 104391 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 1463 4865 27334566 83 Linux hdb1 and hdb2 are respectively my original /boot and / partitions for FC3, with hdb2 now shrunk from 35 GB to 10GB. hdb3 is my new swap partition--it's functioning and I've added it my fstab file. However, I'm not quite sure what to do now about hdb5 and hdb6. I want them respectively to serve the same function for FC6 as hdb1 and hdb2 now do for FC3. In my fstab file, the entries for hdb2 and hdb1 respectively are as follows: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 Do I make hdb5 bootable, label hdb5 and hdb6 respectively /bootfc6 and /fc6 and then mount them on mountpoints corresponding to their labels? Or (as often happens with Linux) am I missing some fundamental point about this? Thanks again, Leslie

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Changing ext3 file system to ext2
by Leslie Katz 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

Ian McDonald wrote: > It's trying to mount the filesystem as ext3 so go into the file > /etc/fstab and change references of ext3 to ext2 and try again. > > Once you've got this sorted have a look at gparted as this can resize > ext3 filesystems just fine and also comes in a boot cd: > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=173… > > Ian > Thanks for replying, Ian. After posting, I reversed in Knoppix all that I'd done to my hdb2 and my fstab and could boot up successfully in Fedora again. Given your alerting me to gparted, I've downloaded it and will now try my resizing with it instead. Thanks again, Leslie

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Changing ext3 file system to ext2
by Leslie Katz 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

There's a good expression used in an American judicial decision: the judge said he wouldn't "let the sideshow take over the whole circus". I think that's what I've done. I use Fedora. I want to shrink my / partition (/dev/hdb2) in order to create an extra partition on which to install a later version of Fedora. (I'm not prepared to erase my existing version until I've satisfied myself that all is well with the new one.) A book I've often used to help me said that one should use QTParted to shrink the partition. I booted up with a Knoppix live cd and tried to use the provided QTParted, but it wouldn't let me resize the partition. I went Googling and found that I couldn't use QTParted to resize a partition with an ext3 file system on it. I first had to change the file system to ext2, then resize, then change back to ext3 (if I wanted). I found on the Web a Red Hat (v 9) page called "Reverting to an ext2 File System": http://www.fis.unipr.it/pub/linux/redhat/9++/en/doc/RH-DOCS/rhl-cg-en-9/s1-… Its instructions, in summary, were, with /dev/hdb2 unmounted: #/sbin/tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdb2 #/sbin/e2fsck -y /dev/hdb2 # <mount /dev/hdb2> " Next, remove the .journal file at the root level of the partition by changing to the directory where it is mounted and typing: rm -f .journal". "If you permanently change the partition to ext2, remember to update the /etc/fstab file." In Knoppix, I followed the first two instructions and then ran QTParted. It showed /dev/hdb2 as having an ext2 file system. I also edited the /etc/fstab file on /dev/hdb2 to change the file system shown for /dev/hdb2 to ext2. I didn't remove the .journal file, simply because I couldn't find one, but I thought that maybe it had been automatically erased when I changed the file system to ext2. I then booted up in Fedora and got during booting up: "mounting root filesystem ext3: no journal on filesystem on hdb2 mount: error 22 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switching to new root switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed 2" (There was more, but that's all I copied down.) Can anyone tell me what more I should be doing than's on the Red Hat page? Thanks for reading, Leslie

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PDF editor
by Ian McDonald 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

This looks like a potentially useful tool once they sort out a few bugs. -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Fwd: Article on Microsoft's OSS Lab, Bill Hilf etc
by Ian McDonald 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Article in light of last month's meeting. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brett Roberts Date: Mar 14, 2007 8:43 AM Subject: Article on Microsoft's OSS Lab, Bill Hilf etc To: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz> Hi Ian, Thought you might be interested in this: http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?editorialsid=688 Cheers ........... Brett brett roberts | director of innovation | microsoft new zealand -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Fedora Core 7 test 2 DVD available
by Eric Light 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hi all, I've just recently finished downloading and burning the FC7 test 2 DVD. It wasn't particularly happy on my machine so I'm going back to Ubuntu. In the meantime, would anyone like a copy? I'm in Hillcrest, or at Uni every weekday. Cheers, - Eric

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Re: [wlug] Licence fees
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hope you all read the source code (same page) it is quite funny to me and I do not read code. *thinks* maybe thats why.. ----- Original Message Follows ----- > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:32 +1300, David Nicholls wrote: > > And this one is literally a joke. > > They're both a joke, although only LGA was intentionally > so. > > > > _______________________________________________ > wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Unsubscribe: > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Licence fees
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Hi All. Found this and wondered to where I should pay my fees (if beer and pizza I will suspect something.) Alternately. Who has got the hack for this?? :-)) http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/ Regards John

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Metisse - another variation on Window manager
by Ian McDonald 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this one before but it looks quite cool. It's part of Mandriva and there's a good review here which shows some nice screenshots: http://polishlinux.org/apps/window-managers/metisse-you-thought-you-knew-wh… -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Books for library? Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, March 7
by Ian McDonald 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hi there all, Below is a newsletter we get from time to time detailing new books. If any of these sound like something you'd like us to get (we get a limited amount free) then put it on: http://wlug.org.nz/WantedBooks The only obligation is that if you ask for it you must review it. Ian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marsee Henon <marsee(a)oreilly.com> Date: Mar 8, 2007 8:47 AM Subject: [wlug-committee] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, March 7 To: wlug-committee(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Hi-- Are you attending the Society for Photographic Education's National Conference in Miami next month? Or Photoshop World in Boston in April? Send me an email to let me know. I'll be in the O'Reilly booth at both shows and would love to say hi and meet you in person. Here's a free expo bass for Photoshop World Boston: <http://oreilly.com/PhotoshopWorld07_expo-free.pdf> Just in case you didn't catch it, here's Mark Frauenfelder, MAKE Magazine Editor, on "The Colbert Report" Tuesday night: <http://makezine.com/go/colbert> More on Mark's appearance can be found on the MAKE blog: <http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/welcome_heros.html> --Marsee ================================================================ O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders March 7, 2007 ================================================================ -Looking for Slashdot and Amazon Reviewers -Put Up a RailsConf, Etech, or Where Banner, Get a free book -Maker Faire Post Cards Availble for CA or TX ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book Info ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Review Books are Available Copies of our books and PDFs are available for your members to review--just send me an email to request them and and please include the item's ISBN number (click on the "More Details" link to find the ISBN.) 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Find out if your site passes the test. <http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/01/26/the-hard-facts-about-heading-stru…> Until next time-- Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ ================================================================ _______________________________________________ wlug-committee mailing list wlug-committee(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug-committee -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Assorted Linux Book Sale
by Eric Light 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hi everyone, I hope I'm not out of line by posting this here. I've recently dug up a large chunk of Linux and Unix related books which I'm trying to sell. Most are from O'Reilly, and are some years old. All are in excellent condition (e.g. many have never been opened). I've got the following titles: Unix in a Nutshell Sendmail Managing Projects with Make Running Linux Linux Configuration and Installation (MIS Press) Linux Network Administrator's Guide System Performance Tuning MH & xmh: E-Mail for Users and Programmers Practical Unix Security Essential System Administration If anyone is interested in buying one (or two, or three) please contact me off-list. I'm asking $20 each, but if you're interested, make an offer! Cheers, - Eric

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Simple program debug <Python>
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hello All, I have written a small program along the lines of the spam salad example. I have managed to get to the point of if the user inputs an invalid numeral then they are prompted to re enter a number between 1 and 3. I now want to do the same thing if any alpha character or more is entered. at the moment if a alpha is inputted the program crashes with a script error. What do I need do to refer the user to the invalid input prompt?? Regards John

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Audio tutor
by Leslie Katz 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

Here are three I found: http://radio.linuxquestions.org/linux/lq-podcasts/ http://www.linuxactionshow.com/ http://www.podtech.net/home/search/Linux

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fish
by Chris O'Halloran 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

I came across this in Linux User magazine. It supposed to be slightly more interactive and user friendly shell to Bash. sudo apt-get install fish then at the command line in bash, type fish (you might have to logout and login to make the fish shell available) The shell will change to the fish shell. The main difference I've noticed is the colours and that tab completion is a little more sophisticated. Here's the main website http://www.fishshell.org/ have fun.

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Application news
by Ian McDonald 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Talk here about how KDE4 will do file management differently: http://dot.kde.org/1172721427/ And comments about improvements in Inkscape 0.45 here and future direction (I'm quite impressed every time I use Inkscape): http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/23/1639217 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Audio tutor
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Hello All. I found a site that allows me to download audio files of Linux information so I am able to play them whilst driving: http://www.linuxreality.com/ If anyone knows of more sites like this please post the link(s) Regards John

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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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Making your own Debian/Ubuntu packages
by Ian McDonald 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

I know quite a few people already do this but for those that don't know how here is a good article out: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1546215 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Change of venue for Monday meeting
by Ian McDonald 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Folks, Our meeting will be in TW2.05 - just near the usual venue. Our usual venue has been booked for the next two meeting times so we are using this room instead. Thanks, Ian -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Visual Basic for Linux
by Ian McDonald 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

Mono has added more support for this for those interested: http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/02/21/visual_basic_mono_linux/ -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.2.07 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW)

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OpenSourceHowTo.org
by Don Gould 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=688782 The summary on WP is useful. The rest speaks for itself! Cheers Don -- Don Gould www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz - www.bowenvale.co.nz - www.hearingbooks.co.nz - www.crra.org.nz - www.justhelicopters.co.nz - www.buxtonsquare.co.nz - skype:ThinkDesignPrint?add - Good ideas: www.solarking.co.nz

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Steve Ballmer clarifies MS position on IP rights since Novell Deal
by James Pluck 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

An article from Computerworld to add grist to the mill of questions for Monday's guest speaker. http://tinyurl.com/2q8bur -- 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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First stable release of read/write NTFS driver
by Ian McDonald 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

The NTFS-3G project has just released their first stable release: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ This is a read/write NTFS driver for Linux (and other OSes). I've used this quite successfully during the beta so if you have old Windows data you want to access or you want to dual boot you might want to check it out. Ian -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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IRD pushes Linux deeper into the enterprise
by James Pluck 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

"Suse Linux on Intel hardware is the server platform of choice for the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department as it embarks on a major, compliance-driven electronic document management project." See below URL for detail. http://tinyurl.com/yuc3l5 -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum "Dear IRD: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list..."

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 18 Feb '07

18 Feb '07

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BrettRoberts 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.2.07 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW)

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Woof won't work. Why?
by Leslie Katz 18 Feb '07

18 Feb '07

I've plugged my modem and more than one computer into an Ethernet switch, so that any computer plugged into the switch can use my Internet connection. On a couple of occasions, I've wanted to transfer a file from one of the plugged-in computers to another (both using Linux) and have been able to do so via ssh. A few days ago, I learnt about Woof: http://enterprise.linux.com/print.pl?sid=07/02/07/2118208, and decided to try it instead of ssh. I followed the instructions in the document and got the transferor computer to announce that it was serving, on a specified URL, the file I wanted to transfer. However, when I tried to go to that URL using Opera on the transferee computer, all I got was the hour glass; nothing else happened. I then tried wget instead. Then, I got the output "connecting to" the specified URL, but again nothing else happened. I'm satisfied that the connection problem isn't a firewall one. The transferor computer uses Firestarter and it gives no indication that it's refusing the attempted connection from the transferee computer. I've just installed the OS on the transferee computer and haven't yet added a firewall. Opera and wget both work otherwise than when I try to connect to the transferor computer. What other reasons might there be for the transferee computer not to connect to the transferor one?

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Open source strategy game
by Ian McDonald 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Here's a write up on FreeCol. Looks interesting if you like Risk/Civilization etc. http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/15/1536256&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Free as in price, not source raw image editor
by Ian McDonald 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

This looks like a really good tool for anybody working with raw images http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/07/1930237&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Interesting enterprise storage for Linux from google staff
by Ian McDonald 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

Saw at osnews today a reference to Zumastor which is at: http://zumastor.googlepages.com/ Zumastor is a community project started by Google members to bring enterprise storage features to Linux. Currently, we offer a ready-to-use network storage server with enterprise features such as online volume backup, multiple volume snapshots, remote volume replication, integration with Kerberized CITI NFS and Samba, all wrapped up with a nice, easy management interface. As a subproject we offer the ddsnap virtual snapshot Linux kernel extension, which adds multiple snapshot and remote replication capability to Linux filesystems in general. -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Photoshop CS2 on Linux (and other apps??)
by Ian McDonald 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Greig pointed me to this article: http://26bits.com/2007/photoshop-cs2-on-linux-ubuntu/ The trick is that they got the app to run off a USB stick/fixed location first (documented). This makes sense to me as the install is often the hardest part for Wine. Ian -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Problem with usb recognition
by Ron Dean 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

This afternoon my usb icons disappeared from my Desktop The lights are still on the devices. I can find no usb devices in /media. Is there a command I can run to check them. I did an update to my software this morning. Any help would be appreciated. -- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Hamilton 3200 New Zealand Phone 64-7-8493904

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Upcoming WLUG committee meeting (1 week today)
by Meeting Reminder bot 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Committee meeting 7:30pm at James's, 31 Aberfoyle Street # Minutes # Matters Arising # Correspondence # Treasurers report # General Business

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Read-write access to an ext3 partition
by Roderick Aldridge 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I want to be able to read-write to one of my ext3 partitions as an ordinary user as I can to the home partition and the FAT32 partitions. I am running Kubuntu Edgy which uses UUIDs in /etc/fstab which I haven't got the hang of yet (for everything except floppies and CDROMs). e.g. # /dev/hdd2 UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx /media/hdd2 ext3 defaults 0 2 # /dev/hdd1 UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx /media/hddboot ext3 defaults 0 2 and for the FAT32 partitions: # /dev/hdb1 UUID=xxxx-xxxx /media/win-c vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0 # /dev/hdb5 UUID=xxxx-xxxx /media/win-data vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0 # /dev/hda7 The umask option seems to be available only on FAT32 partitions and just adding user or users to the ext3 options doesn't do the trick. I have Googled and looked at the Edgy manual but can't find anything that quite explains how to do it in the approved way - not one that I can understand anyway. Can somebody point me to the right way of doing this? TIA Rod

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Sorry I forgot to mention I am using Ubuntu 6.10
by Ron Dean 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

-- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Hamilton 3200 New Zealand Phone 64-7-8493904

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Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
by Ian McDonald 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Useful drivers for people if you have a reasonably new notebook. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Ketrenos <jketreno(a)linux.intel.com> Date: Feb 10, 2007 10:12 AM Subject: [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG To: linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless(a)vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net, netdev(a)vger.kernel.org Please hold all questions until I am done with this email. Thank you. We are pleased to announce the availability of a new driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection adapter. This new driver uses the new d80211 subsystem previously only available as part of the wireless-dev tree. You can find the new driver, and additional information about it, here: http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi. Within the new driver package are sources which we plan to submit for kernel inclusion as well as scripts and patches which create a version of the driver which can be loaded into kernels based on 2.6.18 and newer (provided you have installed the d80211 subsystem as well) The README document can walk you through pretty quickly. Since a lot of our users are not able to move to the latest versions of the Linux kernel, we have put together a d80211 package allowing the installation of the d80211 subsystem into an existing kernel image without the need to migrate to wireless-dev, or upgrade to a newer kernel at all (assuming you are using 2.6.18 or newer). You can find that package at: http://intellinuxwireless.org/d80211 Ok. Now... any questions? Thanks, James / Intel Corporation - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Linspire to be based on Ubuntu rather than Debian
by Ian McDonald 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

http://distrocenter.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/09/201256&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Thursday night curry in Hamilton
by Ian McDonald 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Folks, Jayne and I have thought about this and decided that it's really time Hamilton got their act together on this one. Various people/groups have talked about this but no-one has done this yet (that I'm aware of) and we'd like to see this kick off. The aim of this is for IT professionals to get together to socialise/network. Thanks to Sam Sargent we now have a mailing list. Feel free to sign up here: http://list.thursdaynightcurry.com/mailman/listinfo/hamilton We also have a web page pointed to from http://thursdaynightcurry.com - at the moment this is more a place holder. Ian -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Warren Hughes (IBM) is travelling until Mon Feb 12
by Warren Hughes 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

I will be out of the office starting 05/02/2007 and will not return until 12/02/2007. I am at a conference in Australia, but will be checking my email daily. Cheers, Warren.

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comp201 MIPS teaching boards
by Bo Wang 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Hi all, Got this board off Simon(Thanks!!) few months ago. Had enough fun with it. Now I am willing to pass on to someone else. For those who missed out last time, this is a great opportunity. First in First serve. Email me back off the list if you are keen. Thanks, Bo

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Nice writeup on gstreamer/Fluendo and proprietary codecs
by Ian McDonald 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1534206&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- CS SEMINAR Thursday 1st February, 3:00pm-5:00pm or later, S.1.05, WaikatoUniversity ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Apologies for such short notice, but it doesn't happen everyday that one gets a visitor from Google... Note: this seminar is not limited to computer science people, we're just hosting it. If you know people who might be interested, let them know about it!] Abstract: Chris will be talking about interesting stuff he's doing at Google and is open for discussion. About Chris DiBona: Chris DiBona is the Open Source Programs Manager for Mountain View, CA based Google, Inc. His job includes running the Summer of Code and releasing open source software on Google's Code website, which can be found at http://code.google.com. Before joining Google, Mr. DiBona was an editor/author for the popular online website Slashdot.org and He is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He co-edited the award winning essay compilations "Open Sources" and "Open Sources 2.0" and writes for a great number of publications. He was briefly the Linux guy on TechTV and speaks on a variety of open source issues internationally. Additional information from John Houlker about Chris: Chris is also involved in issues regarding moving extremely large databases around on disk, some areas in geo-spatial information, and has been involved in a games start-up. Links: * O'Reilly biography (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/619) * Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_DiBona) * Google (http://code.google.com) * Google Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/) * Blog (http://egofood.blogspot.com/)

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Seminar on Thu 1st February: Chris DiBona from Google
by Peter Reutemann 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

---------------------------------------------------------------- CS SEMINAR Thursday 1st February, 3:00pm-5:00pm or later, S.1.05 ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Apologies for such short notice, but it doesn't happen everyday that one gets a visitor from Google... Note: this seminar is not limited to computer science people, we're just hosting it. If you know people who might be interested, let them know about it!] Abstract: Chris will be talking about interesting stuff he's doing at Google and is open for discussion. About Chris DiBona: Chris DiBona is the Open Source Programs Manager for Mountain View, Ca based Google, Inc. His job includes running the Summer of Code and releasing open source software on Google's Code website, which can be found at http://code.google.com. Before joining Google, Mr. DiBona was an editor/author for the popular online website Slashdot.org and He is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He co-edited the award winning essay compilations "Open Sources" and "Open Sources 2.0" and writes for a great number of publications. He was briefly the Linux guy on TechTV and speaks on a variety of open source issues internationally. Additional information from John Houlker about Chris: Chris is also involved in issues regarding moving extremely large databases around on disk, some areas in geo-spatial information, and has been involved in a games start-up. Links: - O'Reilly biography http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/619 - WikiPedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_DiBona - Google http://code.google.com - Google Summer of Code http://code.google.com/soc/ - Blog http://egofood.blogspot.com/ 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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Article on CrossOver 6
by Ian McDonald 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

This program allows you to run Windows apps on Linux and is based on Wine. It has been around for a while but here is a recent update: http://applications.linux.com/applications/07/01/23/1725227.shtml?tid=13 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Re: [wlug] New Ubuntu Distro coming
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

No. regards John ----- Original Message Follows ----- > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 22:52 +1300, Daniel Lawson wrote: > > Dominic Bnonn Tennant wrote: > > > Pff, Dr Bates, > > > > That is is a stupid way to carry on this thread. How > about we end it. > > Time for some Nazi references? > > > > _______________________________________________ > wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Unsubscribe: > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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New Ubuntu Distro coming
by James Pluck 28 Jan '07

28 Jan '07

Ubuntu Studio. A distro tailored towards audio and video enthusiasts and Professionals. http://ubuntustudio.org/ 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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RimuHosting Hiring (Yes, Again)
by Peter Bryant 26 Jan '07

26 Jan '07

Hi. I'm looking for someone(s) to do Linux support work for RimuHosting: setup people's Linux servers, install Linux apps, troubleshoot problems and the like. It can be very interesting, challenging work. You get to play with _lots_ of servers, distros and get exposure, it seems, to any app that runs on Linux. For those that don't know, RimuHosting is based in Cambridge and we provide Linux VPS and dedicated server hosting and support to customers dotted all around the world. This job would suit a uni student. Or maybe someone who is looking to do more than just manage some company's boring old internal servers and apps. If you are available to work part-time (with the possibility of full time work later on) then check out: http://forums.rimuhosting.com/forums/showthread.php?p=645#post645 If you had any questions just reply off list to me. Cheers, Peter http://rimuhosting.com

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Toshiba I/O Adaptor PA2728U
by Leslie Katz 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

Someone offered me the above. I had no need for it, but took it anyway. Does anyone here have a use for it? If so, let me know and I'll post it to you.

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Good Dilbert cartoon
by Ian McDonald 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070125.html -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Dual booting Linux and XP or Vista
by Ian McDonald 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

There's an excellent write up here: http://apcmag.com/5162/the_definitive_dual_booting_guide_linux_vista_and_xp Basically summary is install XP/Vista before Linux if possible, but if you can't they explain how to work in with Microsoft boot tools and installers (Vista has become more complex, not simpler). Also mentions two very useful tools: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 This also talks about how to do xp/vista dual boot if you want as well. Ian -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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"Free" version of Ubuntu - gNewSense
by Ian McDonald 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Some people think Ubuntu shouldn't be using non-free software and have made gNewSense which is now supported by Gnu Interesting interview here about it: http://cuttingfree.blogsome.com/2007/01/19/an-interview-with-gnewsense-foun… -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ubuntu dual-boot presentation by CairoKingsbury Ubuntu is so easy even my mum (http://www.wlug.org.nz/YourMum) can use it! And it's really easy to install too. 7:30pm, TW.2.07 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW)

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ubuntu dual-boot presentation by CairoKingsbury Ubuntu is so easy even my mum (http://www.wlug.org.nz/YourMum) can use it! And it's really easy to install too. 7:30pm, TW.2.07 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW)

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Another lightweight Linux distribution
by Ian McDonald 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

There's a review of DeLi here: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/10/1529228 This runs on 386 class machinery with 4 MB RAM upwards. This might be useful to have in your toolkit with DSL and Puppy which are also well suited to older machines. -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Flashplayer 9 release out now
by Ian McDonald 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Now out of beta: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/01/flash_player_9_for_linux_x86.html -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Windows based installer for Ubuntu
by Ian McDonald 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

This sounds cool: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=338279 A good way for people to get used to Linux. -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Upcoming WLUG committee meeting (1 week today)
by Meeting Reminder bot 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I think we have a committee meeting about here? 1. Minutes of previous meeting. 2. Matters arising. 3. Correspondence. 4. Treasurers report. 5. General Business

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Good new online about starting kernel building
by Ian McDonald 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

If you're interested in having a play with the Linux kernel yourself then there is an excellent new resource online at: http://www.kroah.com/lkn/ It does not assume you are a programmer or an expert so is suitable for most users who can use a command line. -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Correcting filesystem errors
by Leslie Katz 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Thanks very much for putting me right about the above, Daniel. Using mkfs (instead of fdisk) allowed me to replace the filesystems on the my three Linux partitions and, when I ran fsck afterwards on each of those partitions, I got a clean bill of health (though I understand your warning about the hard disk possibly going bad). I'm now onto re-installing DSL. Thanks again, Leslie

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Correcting filesystem errors
by Leslie Katz 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

I have an old Compaq laptop I'm trying to fix for the son of friends. I'm the one who gave him the laptop, with Damn Small Linux installed on the machine's only hard disk, so that he could use the thing for browsing, email, instant messaging, etc. When I set it up, I had four partitions: 1. hda1 was the boot partition. It started at cylinder 5 and went to 483. I put a regular Linux filesystem on it, ID 83. 2. hda2 started at cylinder 484 and went to 961. I put a regular Linux filesystem on it too, ID 83. 3. hda3 started at cylinder 1 and went to 4. I put a Compaq diagnostics filesystem on it, ID 12. I have a vague memory of learning at the time I was setting up the laptop that the BIOS for the computer was on the hard disk and that's why I had hda3. 4. hda4 started at cylinder 962 and went to 993. I put a Linux swap filesystem on it, ID 82. When I took the computer back to try to fix it, I was aware that there were lots of filesystem problems being reported. At the same time, I thought I'd take the opportunity to upgrade to the latest version of DSL for the boy. I thought the best way to proceed was to boot up using a Knoppix live cd in text mode, delete the existing partions 1, 2 and 4 and add new partitions 1,2 and 4 with the same filesystems as the original partitions had had before. I did that using fdisk and was told I'd have to reboot before my changes took effect. I did that and then tried to run fsck /dev/hda1. I thought there'd be no problem reported by fsck, because I thought that replacing the partitions as I'd done would have overwritten everything on them. However, that doesn't seem to be right. fsck found errors and asked me to confirm every change it suggested as it went along. I didn't want to have to do that, so I exited and ran fsck -p /dev/hda1 instead. However, that didn't work either. It kept telling me that because of unexpected inconsistencies, I had to proceed manually. How do I obliterate everything on hda but hda3 and create my other partitions and filesystems afresh, in a way that puts an end to existing filesystem errors?

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Easier to install non-free software in Feisty
by Ian McDonald 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Regardless on whether you think non-free is good or bad Ubuntu looks to be making it easier for next release: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=16890 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Upcoming WLUG committee meeting (1 week today)
by Meeting Reminder bot 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Provisional agenda: # Minutes of previous meeting # Matters arising # Correspondence # Treasurers report # Topics for 2007 meetings # Public advocacy events ## Talking to local businesses ## Hamilton Central Library display ## Workshops ## Installfest # General Business CommitteeMeetingTopics

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Getting your money back for Windows
by Ian McDonald 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Have a look at this for how to return your copy of Windows on a new PC: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/03/227237 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group

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Fwd: [NZOSS-OpenChat] Little pressie for you all...
by Ian McDonald 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Interesting article here. Has some good points but it is heavily biased. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Date: Dec 25, 2006 12:17 AM Subject: [NZOSS-OpenChat] Little pressie for you all... To: NZOSS OpenChat <openchat(a)nzoss.org.nz> Hi all, Speaking of inspiration (and yes, thanks very much, Peter, for the excellent newsletter): in case you haven't read this already, I found this (not so) little gem to be most inspiring: http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html He might be dutch, but man can he wield the english language. Enjoy (and spread it around - I'm finding more and more people who a year ago wouldn't have cared less, are now interested in knowing why they might not want to deal with Microsoft... converted a guy - a visiting german - this evening, even). The tide has turned. Merry Christmas to those of you who observe such occasions - happy belated solstice to others. Hope you're all enjoying a good break. Dave -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group

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KDE SVG rendering
by Ian McDonald 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

If you want to look at how KDE 4 will be prettier have a look at: http://dot.kde.org/1167723426/ This is pretty much how the world is going - for example Vista does similar things -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group

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Re: [wlug] Wireless networking-Progress
by David 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

wlug-request(a)list.waikato.ac.nz wrote: I am trying to get my wifes computer set up on a wireless network, Ubuntu Edgy. I have a Dynalink / Netcom NP452 network card 88w8835 (libertas) chipset. I have set up the drivers with ndiswrapper. All seems OK except access point not associated, as below No it is a PCI card for a desktop Seems I was a little dyslexic, It is a NP542 card (not 452) The spec sheet is here Well we have progress First I got it going without WEP by removing the WE key and then it was necessary to reboot Edgy in order to get it to work again without the WEP key. Logging out and in again wasn't enough. Used command line to put the WEP key in sudo iwconfig wlan0 key s:(wepkey) This still did not work until we added open to the end ie. sudo iwconfig wlan0 key s:(wepkey) open This works, until the machine is rebooted. I assume that this will require manual editing of a config file. Am I right and which file do I have to edit. FYI the drivers I used with ndiswrapper were the WIN XP drivers on the CD. Thanks David Bowen

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Re: [wlug] Wireless networking
by David 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

wlug-request(a)list.waikato.ac.nz wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Wireless networking (Piers Harding) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:04:41 +0000 > From: Piers Harding <piers(a)ompka.net> > Subject: Re: [wlug] Wireless networking > To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> > Message-ID: <20061230150440.GC30893(a)ompka.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi - is that a PCMCIA card? For the internal mini-PCMCIA card that > came with my laptop (AMILO - Fujitsu-Siemens 64bit also running on > Ubuntu Edgy) I had to build the acer_acpi module to activate the > internal aerial - might be a red herring, but you never know => > http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi/acer_acpi_main.html > > Cheers. > > > Thanks. No it is a PCI card for a desktop Seems I was a little dyslexic, It is a NP542 card (not 452) The spec sheet is here http://www.netcomm.com.au/Spec_Sheets/NP542_SpecSheet.pdf *David*

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Wireless networking
by David 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi I am trying to get my wifes computer set up on a wireless network, Ubuntu Edgy. I have a Dynalink / Netcom NP452 network card 88w8835 (libertas) chipset. I have set up the drivers with ndiswrapper. All seems OK except access point not associated, as below noi(a)noi-desktop:~$ sudo iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11FH ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Sensitivity=-200 dBm RTS thr:2346 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Yes no signal shows up from the router (Dynalink RTA1025W) -- Linux based apparently :-) but doing a scan picks up two networks. Mine is the first one. noi(a)noi-desktop:~$ sudo iwlist wlan0 scan Password: wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:16:E3:58:B2:54 ESSID:"Sompoi" Protocol:IEEE 802.11g Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz (Channel 7) Quality:0/100 Signal level:-91 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Encryption key:off Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s 12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s Extra:bcn_int=100 Extra:atim=0 Cell 02 - Address: 00:14:78:F9:E5:96 ESSID:"TP-LINK" Protocol:IEEE 802.11g Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6) Quality:0/100 Signal level:-91 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s 12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Extra:bcn_int=100 Extra:atim=0 I have updated the router firmware, I am not sure what to do next. Rather new to networking, particularly wireless. Any suggestions appreciated Regards David Bowen

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Warren Hughes (IBM) is on leave until Jan 15
by Warren Hughes 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

I will be out of the office starting 28/12/2006 and will not return until 15/01/2007. Hi, thanks for your email. I'm on leave until Jan 15. I look forward to catching up with you on my return. Thanks and Merry Xmas, Warren.

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Re: [wlug] Working working - always working! *sigh*
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Haaa, I got lucky also, Had a load to pick up on the 23rd in Detroit, MI that had to deliver Boxing Day at Laredo TX So I got to drive 720 miles on Christmas day. Got sent back to Detroit so looks like I get the same deal for the New Year. Ho Ho Ho Seasons Greeting all John... ----- Original Message Follows ----- > So who else has drawn the short straw and is working > through this year? > > > Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas weekend - however > you chose to spend it - and Best wishes for the rapidly > approaching 2K7! > > > James. > > -- > James Pluck > PalmOS Ergo Sum > > _______________________________________________ > wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Unsubscribe: > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Working working - always working! *sigh*
by James Pluck 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

So who else has drawn the short straw and is working through this year? The cafe in the building is closed, the coffee is a barely acceptable substitute for the real thing and the workload is normal only there's fewer people to do it :) However, it is not all gloom and doom :) At least I still have my annual leave time for a holiday in the new year - that'll be cool! I'm thinking somewhere warm and sunny with a pool or nice ocean to swim in - around the time everyone else is shivering at their desks *grin* Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas weekend - however you chose to spend it - and Best wishes for the rapidly approaching 2K7! James. -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum

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Re: [wlug] Help with configuring modem under Ubuntu DD
by David 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi First is to identify the modem chipset. You can do this visually or use scanmodem from http://www.linmodems.org/ You unzip the file and make it executable by running the command chmom +x scanModem Note the capital "M" then run it ./scanModem It will output to the home directory a file identifying the chipset and where to find drivers, if available. Also check out the Ubuntu wiki https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DialupModemHowto It was very good for setting up an Intel 536 modem "which is still available" Good luck David Bowen

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