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Changes to list behaviour
by Kim Shepherd 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hi all, Still alive? Because of the (ever-increasing) ratio of spam:legitimate posts that are getting caught by Mailman, I've changed the default behaviour upon receiving a message from an unsub'd address to 'discard'. It was previously 'hold'. I'd like to make it 'reject' (with a polite message sent back to the author) so you're all aware of when you accidentally post using the wrong e-mail address, but that just makes the spambots think we're listening harder, which in turn creates more useless mail traffic. Yes, I'm lazy. But when you get back from holiday and see "77 Pending Moderator Requests" that all require manual rejection/acceptance, it doesn't exactly make your day. ;-P -k.

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Meeting 2003-11-24
by Gerwin van de Steeg 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Craig, I'd be interested in seeing that Red Hat Enterprise. Matthias, I'll take a copy of Fedora on one week lifetime warranty discs. Gerwin van de Steeg

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WLUG meeting Monday 23/11/03
by Craig Box 23 Nov '03

23 Nov '03

In the absence of the meeting reminder bot, I'd just like to remind everyone about tomorrow's meeting: we have a guest speaker, Peter Hooker from Globaltech NZ, to tell us about ACCPAC accounting/business solutions for Linux. (There's more on the Wiki.) Peters talk probably wont last very long, and this is the last formal presentation meeting for the year so please feel free to bring your computers along if you have anything you need to have looked at or want to have a play with. If anyone wants to have a look at the new Fedora Linux Project release or the White Box Enterprise Linux (Red Hat Enterprise 3 rebuild) let me know on the list. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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RE: [wlug] hardware for free
by David Nicholls 21 Nov '03

21 Nov '03

hey brett, if you are out there, i found the cd cartridges for the cd tower... give me a call if you want them. cheers... david -----Original Message----- From: David Nicholls Subject: [wlug] hardware for free hey people, i have sitting in my garage the following: 1x 5x SCSI cd tower cheers... David ps. i cant drive, so pickup would be your responsibility.

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Upcoming meeting - ACCPAC Business Software, Mon Nov 24th, Crawshaw School
by Craig Box 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hi everyone At this coming Monday's meeting (November 24th), Peter Hooker from Globaltech NZ in Christchurch (http://www.globaltechnz.com/) will be presenting ACCPAC (http://www.accpac.com) and their line of business applications for Linux. Globaltech are ACCPAC partners who are looking to partner with Linux consultants for ACCPAC deployments, so if you're in the IT business, you're encouraged to attend this meeting. While I realise that this isn't relevant to everyone, that's the problem with a diverse user base. I've asked that Peter's presentation be broad enough to be of interest to everyone, and not just be a sales pitch. For the non consultant, are people interested in also having a brief look at Red Hat's new "community" release, Fedora Core 1? (If you want a copy of this, Matthias will probably roll you one off for a very nominal donation - reply to the list or email him privately. Thanks Matthias.) If there's anything else that people want to see or hear about at this meeting, please post to this list - this will be our last formal presentation for the year, so if you have any problems with your PC that you would like help with, feel free to bring it along too. Please note that the meeting is at Crawshaw School (http://www.wlug.org.nz/CrawshawSchool has a map) and will start around 7:30pm. Craig

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hardware for free
by David Nicholls 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

hey people, i have sitting in my garage the following: 1x sun server box (sans HDDs) ex uni & old 1x sun - i think - 19" monitor 2x sun sparc stations 1 with optical lan card, 1 without 1x 5x SCSI cd tower 1x 1GB external SCSI HDD (big sucker) 1x hp laserjetII with 8MB RAM (pretty sure it's that... its grunty anyway) 1x panasonic kx-p112something (its a colour or b&w dotmatrix anyway... something line that anyway) all of the sun and SCSI stuff is ex uni, ive had it for a few years and never had a chance to play with it as i had planned. so its going free to the first claimers to email me off list. there may even be an old SGI O2 for someone if i find the box. cheers... David ps. i cant drive, so pickup would be your responsibility.

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Committee meeting upcoming
by Craig Box 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

Hi everyone, There will be a WLUG committee meeting this coming Wednesday night (19 November.) The minutes of the previous meeting are at http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2003-10-22 and I expect most of the meeting will be a continuation on those topics. If anyone has anything they want bought up at the meeting, or wishes to attend, please email me before Wednesday. Thanks Craig

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"Why the @#$% did my rpm break since last night?"
by Matthias Dallmeier 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

"[Update 2003-11-13]: The packages for Red Hat Linux 9 have been updated for compatibility with kernels not provided by Red Hat." -- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-325.html Any Red Hat Linux 9 user who uses a non-Red Hat kernel and installed the glibc update from yesterday evening is likely to find that rpm no longer works for them. To fix the problem, export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 to fix rpm and then install the updated glibc package provided by Red Hat. -- Matthias -- http://matthias.dallmeier.net/

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The Hamilton Computer Club meeting is tonight
by Meeting Reminder Bot 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

The The Hamilton Computer Club meeting is tonight This is an announcement about the Hamilton Computer Club, not the next WLUG meeting. Feel free to ignore it. If you're interested in the Computer Club, they meet about 7:30pm on the second Wednesday of each month at St Peters Cathedral Hall which is up the hill at the South End of Victoria Street. For further details, see http://www.hamiltoncomputerclub.co.nz/

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Encypting backup utility?
by Glyn Webster 09 Nov '03

09 Nov '03

Does anyone know of a Linux backup utility that uses GPG to encypt individual files? I've recovered files from CRDOMs with bad bits recently, and didn't know it until I tried using them. Storing each file with a checksum would be the answer to that. Also, I'd like to be give backups to almost anyone willing to store them. Encrypting the backups would be the answer to that: "Please keep this somewhere cool and dry" is far less of an imposition than "Hide this forever. It has all my personal email on it". I think GPG encrypting individual files would provide both encryption and checksum. Is there anything wrong with that idea? And has anyone seen a tool to do this? (I could write a script to do it if had to, but I'm reinventing other wheels.) -- Glyn Webster ~ Simplicity Himself. ~ http://tiddly-pom.com

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