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Software Freedom Day - Public advocacy event
by Craig Box 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Hi everyone, We've had two successful installfests in the last two years, but this year, especially with the emergence of the Saturday Workshop, it seems have already got Linux installed for all the people we know that know about it. So now it's time to drum up some new interest! One of the things we have wanted to do for a while is a public advocacy event, to be held before the next installfest, so we can tell members of the public that Linux exists, it's not just a "different DOS", and that Free/Open Source Software is available for proprietary operating systems too. Software Freedom Day is an international celebration of FOSS. Now in its third year, SFD 2006 is on September 16th, and it seemed only natural to have our advocacy event on this day. What we envision is a public booth in a high foot traffic area (currently we're hoping to be able to get some space in Centreplace or Downtown Plaza). We can have three or four computers set up to show off some of the latest Linux eye candy, as well as FOSS software on Windows, and some free culture media (such as the recent Pearl Jam video clip that was made available under a Creative Commons license). We will be seeking sponsorship from businesses for giveaways and signage, so if you are interested in supporting the LUG, please get in touch with me. SFD itself is sponsored, so we should be able to receive CDs and t-shirts from them, but we will also need flyers, posters, and other giveaways. There are some advocacy guidelines on the SFD website [1] that are worth reading; the basic gist is that FOSS is not the right answer for every situation, and the positives can be accentuated without 'boring people with ideology' or pretending that FOSS is the only answer. We are looking at holding an installfest a week or two later, and our 2006 AGM soon after that (early October). What do we need from you now? - Mark the day in your calendar! - Let us know if you're interested in helping, by signing your name on http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2006-07-16 Help will be needed: - attracting sponsors - advertising the event & dealing with media - on the day We will need to get a good team behind us if we want to make this event a success. It will be the first opportunity we've really taken outside the Internet to attract new members. Any and all support is welcomed. Craig [1] http://softwarefreedomday.org/StartGuide

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Our June presenter is AndrewThrift. AndrewThrift works for LAN1 as a Technical Consultant, and provides technical supporrt for the following products * Axis (http://www.axis.com/) * Barracuda * Fluke * Fortinet * Lightpointe * Nomadix * PowerDsine * Proxim He will be presenting their Axis product range of Linux-powered cameras.

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Fast Linux box
by Ian McDonald 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

1 Petaflop! http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/hardware/0,39042972,39369002,00.htm -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand

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Samba
by Joshua Mark Goodwin 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Howdy all. Some of my Samba worries are over. I found a command-line solution to my Samab worries. The CIFS command works well. By the way, does any know what Samba configuration file contains this line: "client signing = " Anyhoo, here's the CIFS info if anyone wants it: Techies Abode <http://www.techiesabode.com/forum/posts_w.php?forum_id=1> http://www.techiesabode.com/forum/posts_w.php?forum_id=1 Hohua

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Xen 3/Ubuntu 6.06 Howto
by Ian McDonald 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

For people that are interested have a look at: http://www.howtoforge.com/xen_3.0_ubuntu_dapper_drake It is also licensed under creative commons so could be pulled into our wiki if anyone wants to do it. -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Our June presenter is AndrewThrift. AndrewThrift works for LAN1 as a Technical Consultant, and provides technical supporrt for the following products * Axis (http://www.axis.com/) * Barracuda * Fluke * Fortinet * Lightpointe * Nomadix * PowerDsine * Proxim He will be presenting their Axis product range of Linux-powered cameras.

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Re: [wlug] Samba
by Matt Brown 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

(Copied back to list as I gather from your response that you intended it to go there) Joshua Mark Goodwin wrote: > Matt (and others), > > I was able to apt-get install build-install. Make is now a command; > however, it gives me the following error message when I type "make": > > make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. > > Makefile.am, makefile.dist, and makefile.in are all present. If I need > to specify a path, what is it? The package uses the standard GNU autotools for the build environment. This means that you need to run ./configure to generate the Makefile before you run make. The INSTALL file in the source distribution should have some other instructions about how the build system works. > By the way, smb4k is not in the Kubuntu repositories. At least not in > 6.06 (Dapper). Strange, I was under the impression that Kubuntu shared a repository with the "standard" Ubuntu stuff, it's definitely available for installation on my dapper laptop. Cheers -- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz Mob +64 21 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz

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Planet NZTech
by Craig Box 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Interested in reading the stories of people involved in the tech industry in NZ? You might not have heard of Planet NZTech, which can be found at http://stuff.rancidbacon.com/nztech/ A Planet is a weblog aggregator that brings together the writings of a group of people. While the topic ensures they have at least one common connection, posts can be on widely varied topics. There are a lot of Wellington Ruby on Rails and .NET programmer types, and a number of blogs from Planet WLUG (http://planet.wlug.org.nz/) have just been added, so there's a wide spectrum of participants, software and hardware, proprietary and Open Source, commercial and community. If you have a blog and you're interested in having it added to the Planet, e-mail follower(a)rancidbacon.com. Craig

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Samba
by Joshua Mark Goodwin 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

Hello all, I am using a Kubuntu computer (dual-boot) on a Windows LAN. I am able to the following: -Use Samba to access Windows shares using my domain name and password (I'm a Domain Admin). -Open Microsoft documents in Open Office (If I open Open Office first and then navigate my way to the share using the "Open" dialog box. -Have the machine show up in the Windows "Microsoft Windows Network" location in My Network Places. It shows up in its own workgroup, even though I listed the name of the domain in the "domain" line in the network preferences setup (KDE System Settings). This is what I would like to able to do; 1- When I click on the Microsoft document directly from the Konqueror window, Open Office displays it start up screen, but never opens. When I open the document from inside Open Office, it opens it, but says "Samba not fully supported. Only a local copy of the file will be created." And then it gives it some jibberish name - like kdefilepickerPX0BQa.doc" How do I get it to directly open the Microsoft document from the Konqueror window? How do I fix the Samba error? 2 - I would like to be able to RDP/VNC into the Linux box from Windows. I have a VNC viewer and a putty client. Both of these, as well as Windows "Remote Desktop Connection", all give me the "Connection refused" error. How do I fix this? 3 - I would like to share some folders on the Linux box to be accessible from Windows. I can see the Linux computer in the computer list, but when I click on it, it comes up with a login box. When I type my Linux user name and password (which is the same as my Windows variants), it does not accept the authentication. This never happened when I was running Ubuntu 5.04. The file system was just shared - I didn't set anything up or install any packages. Any help appreciated! Hohua

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Adwords cheque has arrived
by Craig Box 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

$185.33 to May 30, 2006. Craig

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How to create free VMWare Player images
by Ian McDonald 16 Jun '06

16 Jun '06

Really interesting article here: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/16/1940214&from=rss This talks about creating images using the free (as in beer) VMWare Player by basically hacking configuration files. I suspect VMWare may close down this loophole so use it while it lasts... NB I haven't tested this myself. -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand

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Synergy - remote control/KVM replacement
by Ian McDonald 15 Jun '06

15 Jun '06

Interesting article here: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/25/1439237 -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand

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Beta version of Google Earth now available
by Chris O'Halloran 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060613-7041.html http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

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Upcoming WLUG committee meeting (1 week today)
by Meeting Reminder bot 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WLUG Committee Meeting Scheduled for this date or near offer. To have something added to the agenda for this meeting, please email secretary @ wlug.org.nz. Provisional agenda: # Minutes from previous meeting # Matters arising # Correspondence # Treasurers report # General business ----- CommitteeMeetingTopics

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Dapper distro (64bit)
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 12 Jun '06

12 Jun '06

Hi All, I successfully downloaded and installed the new Ubuntu Dapper and have so far managed to get some of my media(Mpeg and wmv) to work plus flash player. However when I try to play a DVD it suggests I may not have permission. In properties it is a root only file so how do I change this please? Regards John

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MySQL database
by Chris O'Halloran 11 Jun '06

11 Jun '06

Hello, I tried upgrading Kubuntu Breezy to Dapper using the "alternative CD" It didn't work particulary well and so I looked at kubuntu.org for information on what to do. The upshot is, in the words of the website, that I have "hosed" my Kubuntu install. Naturally enough I didn't do a backup before had because everything that I had done with Kubuntu in the past had worked fine. I have Suse10 installed on other partitions and I can happily see my kubuntu partitions so the file systems aren't corrupt, its just that Kubuntu won't boot anymore. I'll happily resign myself to a fresh install of Kubuntu Dapper except the only data I don't know how to retrieve is information stored in my phpwiki that relies on MySQL for the content storage. I'd forgotten I had it on my machine but now that I have remembered it I'd really like it back. Is my data recoverable from MySQL? I don't mind if I have to cut and paste everything back into the wiki. It doesn' contain heaps of data but it does contain some techobabble gems and I would like to recover them if possible. Is it doomed?

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Soundcards
by Chris O'Halloran 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Hello, I was wondering if people might care to comment on their experiences with soundcards and linux support. I have a Pentium III Coppermine on a motherboard with an onboard sound card. lspci> Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 21) To date the sound card has worked fine playing ogg files and mp3's. However, where it seems to struggle is with programs like Skype and Openwengo, two VOIP applications. I believe it has something to do with operating in full duplex ie it can't record and play at the same time (I don't have Windows to test this theory) and/or the state of Alsa support for the card is such hardware mixing (which I don't think the card supports) is the only viable option for using these programs I was wondering if people might be able to recommend a PCI sound card that is well supported by/for Linux.

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On Mon June 26, the date of our next meeting,
by Craig Box 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

...the WLUG wiki turns four years old. http://www.wlug.org.nz/WikiHistory Any suggestions on how we should commemorate this event? :) Craig

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(no subject)
by Joshua M. Goodwin 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Hi guys, I'm trying to update to Dapper from Kubuntu. I have updated my sources.list as root, replacing "Breezy" with "dapper". I get the following errors.... Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://Ubuntu 5.10 _dapper Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012) dapper/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/Ubuntu%205.10%20%5fdapper%20Badger%5f%20-%20Release%20i386%20(20051012)_dists_dapper_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://Ubuntu 5.10 _dapper Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012) dapper/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/Ubuntu%205.10%20%5fdapper%20Badger%5f%20-%20Release%20i386%20(20051012)_dists_dapper_restricted_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/nz.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/nz.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_restricted_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/nz.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/nz.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-updates_restricted_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-security_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper-security_restricted_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems Help!

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Re: [wlug] Wlug WIKI
by David Nicholls 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

Errrm, just as a heads up... I have access to an A0 poster printer (I help maintain it). If cheap printing of banners is what you are after... Email me off list to talk turkey so to speak anyway - the printer is up in the school of science (where I notice you guys posed for that lovely photo) :) Cheers... david > > It's back up now. > > Also, we now have one of these... http://www.wlug.org.nz/WlugBanner > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

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Fonts.
by Oliver Jones 07 Jun '06

07 Jun '06

OK.. My bad. It seems last time I twiddled with "dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig" I turned on "Autohinting". Bad idea. It makes things fugly. Native is a much better idea. Regards

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Ubuntu documentation
by Craig Box 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

There are many reasons that WLUG recommend Ubuntu as a distribution for new and experiences Linux users alike. The one I'd like to point out today is the excellent documentation that is available. http://help.ubuntu.com/ has PDF and HTML versions of guidebooks for the new 6.06 release, covering all variants (GNOME, KDE, XFCE), as well as Ubuntu Server and packaging. The documentation is available under the GNU Free Documentation License, so you can download it and print it yourself, as well as distribute it freely. A company called Lulu are making printed versions available by money-and-postage (http://www.lulu.com/ubuntu-doc) but I imagine shipping to New Zealand would be prohibitive. If enough people are interested, WLUG could investigate having some copies printed and bound, and made available to members at cost. Craig

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Open Office
by Joshua M. Goodwin 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

To the WLUG, Howdy! Here's my first question. (BTW I am a novice Linux/ubuntu user -- dual boot and work with Windows networks) I am a Domain Admin trying to access Windows shares ( I have full access). That works fine. I've been using OpenOffice to open Microsoft documents, edit them, and save changes. This has worked fine for 2 weeks. Now, when I try to open these documents, the OpenOffice program starts launching, but never opens the document (or OpenOffice itself). This just started happening today, so it seems like a freak occurence. Some help would be great. Hohua (aka Josh) tech(a)iblp.org.nz

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Ubuntu 6.06 fonts
by Oliver Jones 06 Jun '06

06 Jun '06

Has anyone else noticed in Ubuntu 6.06 that their fonts are all foo. As in rendering all weird and ugly. Especially in Firefox & Thunderbird. Regards

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List admin request: Off-list replies
by Craig Box 05 Jun '06

05 Jun '06

A comment based on this mornings discussion: If something in an e-mail doesn't work for you, it's probably better to send a reply to the sender directly (off-list). This means the person can correct the link or solve the problem, without sending a discussion to all the subscribers that, by the time they get the messages, has become irrelevant. Craig

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