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

18 Oct '09

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

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

18 Oct '09

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

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

15 Oct '09

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

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Sendmail help
by Narender 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

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

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

14 Oct '09

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

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

13 Oct '09

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

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IP range + port blocking
by Narender 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi I need some help in IP/Port blocking as below:- All machines with IP range 10.10.10.x should have access to Port 80 on (Machine 10.10.10.xx). and rest all should be blocked. Could someone suggest how to use hosts.deny/hosts.all for port blocking Many thanks in advance. Best Regards --N

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

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

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Kiwi PyCon Media Statement - "How a programming language is changing the Web"
by Tim Knapp 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

NEW ZEALAND PYTHON USER GROUP Media Statement October 5, 2009 IMMEDIATE RELEASE "How a programming language is changing the Web" The main keynote speaker at Kiwi PyCon 2009, Joel Burton, an internationally recognised trainer and presenter, will explain how the programming language Python is becoming the language of choice for developing websites due to its simplicity and flexibility. The conference will be held at the Canterbury Innovation Incubator in Christchurch on November 7th and 8th. Other tracks at the conference will include: GUI, Science & Math, Game, and Applications. The conference will also have a dedicated Web track, which will include presentations about many Python web technologies, such as: Django, Twisted, Zope 3, Grok, and Plone. The conference has attracted a lot of interest from many universities throughout the country and staff and students from Auckland, Massey, Canterbury, and Otago universities will be presenting regarding how they've used Python in their research. “As Christchurch has the reputation of being the Silicon Valley of New Zealand, its been really great to see a number of electronics companies in Christchurch support the event”, said Tim Knapp, the conference Director. Tait Electronics, a radio communications manufacturer, is a Gold sponsor for the event. “The positive response we've received from the IT community in New Zealand has been really encouraging” commented Mr. Knapp. “Really, no matter what industry your business is in, this conference will be of benefit to you.” Registration closes on October 23rd and registrations are limited. For more information visit nz.pycon.org. -------------------------------Ends------------------------------- For media or conference enquiries please contact: Tim Knapp, NZ Python User Group Vice President and Event Director Phone: 021 156 6405 Email: kiwipycon(a)nzpug.org Website: nz.pycon.org

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GUI frontend for pypdf
by Peter Reutemann 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

Hi there A couple of weeks ago, I needed to join two PDFs together into a single one on my Ubuntu box. Problem was, that I could only find command-line tools like pdftk to do the job, but no GUI frontend like pdftk_builder or guipdftk, which are only available for Windows. When I happened to come across the pypdf Python library (http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/) I told myself, maybe a little bit of Python-hacking could fill the void. Well, there you have it... pyPdf-GUI, a little pygtk and glade based Python frontend, released under the BSD license. And, since I thought this software might be useful to other people as well, you can find it here available for download: http://pypdfgui.fracpete.de/ On that (rather basic) website, you can download an Ubuntu 9.04 .deb package and a source archive (for other Linux flavors or older Ubuntu versions). One final note: this is the absolute first release, so expect some bugs to be lurking in the code. :-) 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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