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LCA2010 in NZ
by John Billings 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

It was just announced that Wellington will host the next years LCA. www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz I couldn't be happier having just attended my first conference and being able to confirm what an unbelievable experience it ss. There is an amazing amount of work that goes into putting on the conference so I look forward to seeing if wlug can assist in some way. A thought I had today was helping to fund members to go if they are interested. I'll be discussing that idea with the committee this year and keeping in touch with the lca10 team. Anyhow greetings from Hobart, I didn't forget about WLUG while I was here and have a few leads on presenters for the next year. Best, John

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Due to this being a public holiday, and because our planned speaker for Sunday fell through, and because some members will be in Wellington for Simon Phipps presentation, the committee has decided to skip the January meeting.

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Fwd: Thursday Curry Night
by cmoman 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Thursday Curry Night Date: Thursday 22 January 2009 From: Peter Bryant <p.repliesignored(a)rimuhosting.com> To: wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Hi. Curry this afternoon anyone? On Thursday afternoon the RimuHosting guys normally gather at the office; drink a beer or two; talk about the latest goings on in the Linux universe; how rubbish all the current US tv programs (excepting BSG and FOTC) are; and do a tackle-by-pass analysis of the RimuHosting Rebooter's previous night's 5-a-side soccer performance. Since John is away at Linux conf we've voted to go do a curry instead. And since curries and Thursday's and technology seem to have a certain correlation (albiet one that appears to be 404 http://hamilton.thursdaynightcurry.com/) we're opening the invite to any geeks/IT folks who'd like to join us. Liz & Paul, Ivan Meridith, David Hallett, Carl Jones, Glenn Enright and I will be there at least. Hello India, 76 Alpha St, Cambridge. From 5PM. (From 4PM till they open at 5 we'd likely be next door at the Stables bar). We'll probably be there till 7PM for latecomers. Just this one night only: Thurs 22 Jan. Just show up. Or feel free to ping me via IM per http://rimuhosting.com/support/aboutrh.jsp Regards, Peter http://rimuhosting.com -------------------------------------------------------

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Simon Phipps in NZ
by Graham Lauder 18 Jan '09

18 Jan '09

Simon Phipps, head of Open Source Projects at Sun is in NZ on the 25th and 26th of this month. He's speaking in Wellington 5 pm on Monday the 26th. Is there a possibility that an engagement could be organised at Waikato Uni for him. He is a brilliant speaker and has a wealth of knowledge and opinion on Open Source in general. I'd be prepared to do any donkey work required. Obviously it would have to be a morning session on the Monday or evening on sunday to allow him to get to Wellington. -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org OOoGear: For the Well dressed OOo Advocate http://ooogear.co.nz

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

18 Jan '09

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A meeting is scheduled for this date, but you haven't told us what you want it to be yet. If you're seeing this message, feel free to suggest or offer to present a meeting topic - the MeetingTopics page might be a good place to start.

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LCA
by John Billings 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

I'm starting to pack my bag for http://linux.conf.au/ Wondering if anyone else from WLUG is going?

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El Reg: Sun MySQLers barred from Oz
by Bryce Utting 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/13/sqlers_barred_from_oz: > Several Sun MySQLers have been denied short stay business visas to > Australia - yes, Australia - as they attempted to attend a Linux > conference in Hobart, Tasmania. > > According to a blog post from Kaj Arno, vice president in charge of > "database community" at Sun Microsystems, several employees - many of > whom worked with MySQL - have been barred from entering Oz. Apparently, > the Australian government is worried they'll unfairly compete with local > businesses. #include stdjokeaboutinsufficientconvictions.h butting

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Radeon HD 3450 Graphics Card and a Acer 22" LCD Screen
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hello All Hey I have a Radeon HD 3450 Graphics Card and a Acer 22" LCD Screen. When I enable the Radeon restricted driver, the desktop area is now larger than my screen are abut most of it is not my background image but black screen. I wanted to enable the driver to run flightgear, but its just so damn ugly with big black bands of solid black that I can stand it no longer and disable the Radeon driver. When I do that I get my normal desktop back that does not scroll beyond the limits of the screen, but flightgear becomes completely unrunable due to it becoming agonisingly slow. Is there anything that i can do without having to replace this graphics card? Glenn Morrissey.

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fstab & Chown
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

When I log on linux, my /dev/sda1 drive is mounted, fdrom fstab: # /dev/sda1 UUID=b52f4246-04ea-4d35-b3b9-37a316709f81 /media/Data ext3 user,relatime,errors=continue-ro 0 2 but i can't access the drive until i mount it with: glenn(a)glenn-amd1: mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /media/Data now I can see the 160 gig drives icon on my desktop, but if I move any documents to the drive, i get a 'you don't have permission' message. I then change the permission on the drive: glenn(a)glenn-amd1:/media$ sudo chown -R glenn /media/Data glenn(a)glenn-amd1:/media$ ls -al total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-01-09 20:29 . drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2008-12-31 11:13 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-12-31 11:02 cdrom -> cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-31 11:02 cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 3 glenn root 4096 2009-01-04 09:39 Data -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-01-09 20:29 .hal-mtab I have to do this every time that I log on to Ubuntu. There has go to be an easier way. Glenn Morrissey.

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chown
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Hi there all, sorry for the dumb newbie question: I have created a directory in my /usr directory called 'scilab'. I would like to have read/write permission for that directory and for directories within. glenn(a)glenn-acer:/usr$ ls -al total 168 drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2009-01-06 22:35 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-12-19 16:14 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36864 2009-01-03 00:27 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-19 16:09 games drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 4096 2008-12-22 01:03 include drwxr-xr-x 167 root root 69632 2009-01-03 00:27 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-12-22 21:34 lib32 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-12-17 23:37 lib64 -> lib drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2008-07-02 21:47 local drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2008-12-27 23:46 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-06 22:39 scilab <----------- drwxr-xr-x 317 root root 12288 2009-01-03 00:27 share drwxrwsr-x 6 root src 4096 2008-12-19 16:10 src drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2008-12-20 13:10 X11R6 glenn(a)glenn-acer:/usr$ Would I be right to assume that I needed the ownership of scilab to be glenn instead of root, i.e: drwxr-xr-x 2 glenn glenn 4096 2009-01-06 22:39 scilab how do I command Linux to change from root to me? Glenn

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