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Help for locking myself out of administrating machine
by Ian McDonald 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Somehow my graphical administration on one of my machines has gone screwball. I entered a root password incorrectly under Desktop, Administration, Networking and now it won't come right even after rebooting and using correct password. I'm getting The entered password is invalid as a dialog title and a message box saying Check that you typed it correctly and that you haven't activated the "caps lock" key This occurs after successfully authenticating and even if I try the following at command line: gksu network-admin sudo network-admin kdesu network-admin or su (or sudo -s) followed by network-admin I presume this is some sort of lock that I've put in place by doing it wrongly but how do I fix? Googled for the error and didn't get much useful back (apart from a few people who had done the same thing!) Ian -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Gaim 2.0.0 just about and called Pidgin
by Ian McDonald 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/08/000218&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Warren Hughes (IBM) is away
by Warren Hughes 06 Apr '07

06 Apr '07

I will be out of the office starting 04/04/2007 and will not return until 12/04/2007. I am on holiday. In my adsense feel free to contact Andrew Fox on 0800 801800. Cheers, Warren.

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lightppd - an alternative to Apache
by Ian McDonald 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

This is the web server that powers YouTube and Wikipedia. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/04/05/the-lighttpd-web-server.html -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Article on DRM free iTunes and Linux
by Ian McDonald 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/03/1556246&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig Nevill-Manning will speak on something interesting he promises. Craig is Engineering Director for http://www.wlug.org.nz/Google and invented Froogle. He is a http://www.wlug.org.nz/PhD graduate from WaikatoUniversity. This meeting is on Wednesday as that's when he's in the country.

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What's in Gnome 2.18
by Ian McDonald 03 Apr '07

03 Apr '07

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/02/1919225&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Fwd: It's Official: Dell Offering Linux on Select Notebooks, PCs
by Ian McDonald 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Snippet from today's WinInfo update ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: WinInfo UPDATE <WinInfo_UPDATE(a)list.windowsitpro.com> Date: 29 Mar 2007 11:50:38 PDT Subject: It's Official: Dell Offering Linux on Select Notebooks, PCs To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz - It's Official: Dell Offering Linux on Select Notebooks, PCs ==== IN THE NEWS ================================ -It's Official: Dell Offering Linux on Select Notebooks, PCs -Microsoft Updates Zune, Cites Ongoing Successes -Apple Bows to Industry Pressure, Offers Album Discounts by Paul Thurrott, thurrott(a)windowsitpro.com Dell has responded to overwhelming feedback from its IdeaStorm customer feedback site this week by announcing that it will soon begin offering the open-source OS Linux on select Dell desktop and notebook PCs. The announcement comes about a month and a half after IdeaStorm was first brought online. The availability of Linux was, overwhelmingly, the number one customer request. "We have heard you and appreciate the direct feedback," Dell wrote to customers in a posting to its corporate blog. "We will expand our Linux support beyond our existing servers and Precision workstation line. Our first step in this effort is offering Linux pre-installed on select desktop and notebook systems. We will provide an update in the coming weeks that includes detailed information on which systems we will offer, our testing and certification efforts, and the Linux distribution(s) that will be available. The countdown begins today." Dell's sudden fixation on customer feedback comes in the wake of a disappointing year in which it fell from its perch atop the PC industry, ousted its CEO, and saw founder Michael Dell retake the reins of the company. Mr. Dell feels that better connecting with its customers--and delivering exactly what they want--is the key to future growth. That said, it's unclear how offering a free OS--one that Dell will need to support--will dramatically improve the bottom line. In the battle for the desktop, Windows remains the overwhelming champion, with more than 95 percent of the market. Apple's Mac OS X accounts for about 2.5 percent of the worldwide OS market.

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shane Hobson from LiteUp will be speaking on the fibre network around Hamilton that they manage and are expanding. This is the network that Hamilton City Council have put in and the government has just given $3 million to. It is an open access network similar to CityLink in Wellington. The meeting will be at 7:30pm, TW.2.05 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW)

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Re: [wlug] OpenSourceHowTo.org
by jaytee＠clear.net.nz 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Not really a concern about my name I am also known as jjohn and jtohn so J'ohn will be fine. I still maintain that the word "tos" looks awful in howtos... Regards J'ohn ----- Original Message Follows ----- > >:DOn Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:46 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:> > Hi Jâohn,> > * jaytee(a)clear.net.nz <jaytee(a)clear.net.nz> > [2007-03-25 08:30]:> > How-tos may be correct but it looks > awful. I prefer the> > incorrect "how-to's"> > I know your > name is âJohnâ but I think that looks too plain. > Iâll> be writing it Jâohn instead from now on.> > With > pleasure > ,_______________________________________________wlug > mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nzUnsubscribe: > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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