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Steve Ballmer clarifies MS position on IP rights since Novell Deal
by James Pluck 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

An article from Computerworld to add grist to the mill of questions for Monday's guest speaker. http://tinyurl.com/2q8bur -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum "Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list..."

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First stable release of read/write NTFS driver
by Ian McDonald 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

The NTFS-3G project has just released their first stable release: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ This is a read/write NTFS driver for Linux (and other OSes). I've used this quite successfully during the beta so if you have old Windows data you want to access or you want to dual boot you might want to check it out. Ian -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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IRD pushes Linux deeper into the enterprise
by James Pluck 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

"Suse Linux on Intel hardware is the server platform of choice for the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department as it embarks on a major, compliance-driven electronic document management project." See below URL for detail. http://tinyurl.com/yuc3l5 -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum "Dear IRD: I would like to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list..."

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 18 Feb '07

18 Feb '07

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BrettRoberts from MicrosoftCorporation will be speaking on the recent deal that they have signed with http://www.wlug.org.nz/Novell. The meeting will be at 7:30pm, TW.2.07 (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TW)

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Woof won't work. Why?
by Leslie Katz 18 Feb '07

18 Feb '07

I've plugged my modem and more than one computer into an Ethernet switch, so that any computer plugged into the switch can use my Internet connection. On a couple of occasions, I've wanted to transfer a file from one of the plugged-in computers to another (both using Linux) and have been able to do so via ssh. A few days ago, I learnt about Woof: http://enterprise.linux.com/print.pl?sid=07/02/07/2118208, and decided to try it instead of ssh. I followed the instructions in the document and got the transferor computer to announce that it was serving, on a specified URL, the file I wanted to transfer. However, when I tried to go to that URL using Opera on the transferee computer, all I got was the hour glass; nothing else happened. I then tried wget instead. Then, I got the output "connecting to" the specified URL, but again nothing else happened. I'm satisfied that the connection problem isn't a firewall one. The transferor computer uses Firestarter and it gives no indication that it's refusing the attempted connection from the transferee computer. I've just installed the OS on the transferee computer and haven't yet added a firewall. Opera and wget both work otherwise than when I try to connect to the transferor computer. What other reasons might there be for the transferee computer not to connect to the transferor one?

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Open source strategy game
by Ian McDonald 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Here's a write up on FreeCol. Looks interesting if you like Risk/Civilization etc. http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/15/1536256&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Free as in price, not source raw image editor
by Ian McDonald 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

This looks like a really good tool for anybody working with raw images http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/07/1930237&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Interesting enterprise storage for Linux from google staff
by Ian McDonald 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

Saw at osnews today a reference to Zumastor which is at: http://zumastor.googlepages.com/ Zumastor is a community project started by Google members to bring enterprise storage features to Linux. Currently, we offer a ready-to-use network storage server with enterprise features such as online volume backup, multiple volume snapshots, remote volume replication, integration with Kerberized CITI NFS and Samba, all wrapped up with a nice, easy management interface. As a subproject we offer the ddsnap virtual snapshot Linux kernel extension, which adds multiple snapshot and remote replication capability to Linux filesystems in general. -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Photoshop CS2 on Linux (and other apps??)
by Ian McDonald 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Greig pointed me to this article: http://26bits.com/2007/photoshop-cs2-on-linux-ubuntu/ The trick is that they got the app to run off a USB stick/fixed location first (documented). This makes sense to me as the install is often the hardest part for Wine. Ian -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Problem with usb recognition
by Ron Dean 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

This afternoon my usb icons disappeared from my Desktop The lights are still on the devices. I can find no usb devices in /media. Is there a command I can run to check them. I did an update to my software this morning. Any help would be appreciated. -- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Hamilton 3200 New Zealand Phone 64-7-8493904

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