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Donated computers -- nice Linux install
by Bruce Kingsbury 27 May '09

27 May '09

If anyone's planning to donate computers (someone mentioned it at the last Saturday Workshop) I've just set up three here. In the process of setting them up nicely with codecs, flash, educational software etc I've created a nice 'standard image' and a script to install it via the network and modify the fstab and grub appropriately so I can go from a zero-wiped drive to a well configured working machine ready to donate in five or ten minutes. If anyone else wants a copy of my script and tar file just give me a call or an email.

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OT: Help - disk crash
by David McNab 27 May '09

27 May '09

Hi all, My wife's (Toshiba Satellite 1130, WinXP) laptop has gone legs-up. Sometimes manages to partly boot, sometimes not. I'm unable to determine whether it's the hard disk, or something in the motherboard, or both. (She's had the laptop 3+ years). Can anyone please suggest someone in Hamilton who can try to extract her Thunderbird account data from the disk? (The rest doesn't matter too much, but the email archive is critical). We can afford a reasonable fee, but definitely can't afford to dump hundreds or thousands of $$ into a lengthy disk recovery attempt - just a quick qualified "It's stuffed" at worst, or a USB stick full of rescued data at best would suffice. I'd do it myself but I don't have the hardware here, since the laptop HDD doesn't have a standard IDE or SATA connection. I tried booting the laptop from a 'buntu live disk, but am unable to mount the disk from within Linux. Cheers David

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 25 May '09

25 May '09

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JohnBillings, BruceKingsbury and ChrisOhalloran will talk about the past, present and future of the WlugBladeServer, 'hoiho'. The server hosts this wiki, as well as some other services you possibly didn't know about. * Chris will talk about our membership database and talk about how you can get a shell account, and why you would even want that. * Bruce will demonstrate some of the remote management features (integrated Lights Out or iLO) using WLUG's identical spare server 'kororaa', which was donated to us a year or two ago by Canterbury DHB. * John will talk about some of the history, current status and future maintenance required on the server. If you care about the WLUG server infrastructure, are, or would like to be one of the WlugSysadmins, or just interested in how the server is configured and what services are available, you should attend this meeting.

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Re: [wlug] Upcoming Fixit Meeting (1 week today)
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 23 May '09

23 May '09

Great news as I am away next w/e ----- Original Message Follows ----- > True > > Ignore notice, Workshop for this month will be NEXT month > (June 6)>

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Re: [wlug] Upcoming Fixit Meeting (1 week today)
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 22 May '09

22 May '09

That's Queens Birthday W/E :-( ----- Original Message Follows ----- > The WLUG Fixit Meeting is 1 week away. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ Saturday May 30th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm > > SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau PÅ«tahi > (http://zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/hamilton/fairfield/-te+whanau+ > ptahi/), the community church at the end of Oxford Street. > > > We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, > Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc. > > _______________________________________________ > wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Unsubscribe: > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

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Upcoming Fixit Meeting (1 week today)
by Meeting Reminder bot 22 May '09

22 May '09

The WLUG Fixit Meeting is 1 week away. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday May 30th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/hamilton/fairfield/-te+whanau+ptahi/) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 21 May '09

21 May '09

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JohnBillings, BruceKingsbury and ChrisOhalloran will talk about the past, present and future of the WlugBladeServer, 'hoiho'. The server hosts this wiki, as well as some other services you possibly didn't know about. * Chris will talk about our membership database and talk about how you can get a shell account, and why you would even want that. * Bruce will demonstrate some of the remote management features (integrated Lights Out or iLO) using WLUG's identical spare server 'kororaa', which was donated to us a year or two ago by Canterbury DHB. * John will talk about some of the history, current status and future maintenance required on the server. If you care about the WLUG server infrastructure, are, or would like to be one of the WlugSysadmins, or just interested in how the server is configured and what services are available, you should attend this meeting.

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"Powerpoint" to dvd?
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi All Is it possible to convert a presentation into a format that can be played on a regular dvd player. If so, which applications would I need for my Ubuntu desktop? Regards John

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End of an Era in CHC
by James Pluck 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi All. I was reading through Stuff and came across this article about the disbanding of the PCUG. The article blames the rise of the internet for the fall in membership numbers of user groups and computer clubs. (between the lines) You no longer need to go to a club to find people to help with issues or to swap stories, etc with. This is now done in various fora online. http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/2422588/End-of-a-PC-era-in-Christ… Interesting reading methinks. Any comments? J

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Vim made easy: how to get your favorite IDE features in Vim
by Peter Reutemann 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi there I still remember the days of my Unix admin training (on IBM's AIX) and the editor of choice was "vi". Though vim ("vi improved") is definitely easier to use than vi, its two modes (command and insert) still throw off newbies. But after you get to know vim a bit better (or its graphical counterpart gvim), there is a lot more to it than just editing the odd text file once in a while. The following ars article is quite a good read: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/05/vim-made-easy-how-to-get-… Being a programmer, I really enjoy the "Tag List plugin" also mentioned in the article. Makes browsing of source code easy. If you ever have to work with LaTeX documents, then "VIM-LaTeX" will be your friend (unless you use kile or lyx): http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/ 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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