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Upcoming WLUG committee meeting (1 week today)
by Meeting Reminder bot 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

As per the WLUG charter, please note that there is a WLUG executive committee meeting one week from today. If you wish to get an item on the agenda for this meeting, please email it to secretary(a)wlug.org.nz. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Committee meeting 7:30pm at James's, 31 Aberfoyle Street # Minutes # Matters Arising # Correspondence # Treasurers report # General Business

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Read-write access to an ext3 partition
by Roderick Aldridge 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

I want to be able to read-write to one of my ext3 partitions as an ordinary user as I can to the home partition and the FAT32 partitions. I am running Kubuntu Edgy which uses UUIDs in /etc/fstab which I haven't got the hang of yet (for everything except floppies and CDROMs). e.g. # /dev/hdd2 UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx /media/hdd2 ext3 defaults 0 2 # /dev/hdd1 UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx /media/hddboot ext3 defaults 0 2 and for the FAT32 partitions: # /dev/hdb1 UUID=xxxx-xxxx /media/win-c vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0 # /dev/hdb5 UUID=xxxx-xxxx /media/win-data vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0 # /dev/hda7 The umask option seems to be available only on FAT32 partitions and just adding user or users to the ext3 options doesn't do the trick. I have Googled and looked at the Edgy manual but can't find anything that quite explains how to do it in the approved way - not one that I can understand anyway. Can somebody point me to the right way of doing this? TIA Rod

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Sorry I forgot to mention I am using Ubuntu 6.10
by Ron Dean 11 Feb '07

11 Feb '07

-- Ron Dean 2 Shannon Place Hamilton 3200 New Zealand Phone 64-7-8493904

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Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
by Ian McDonald 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Useful drivers for people if you have a reasonably new notebook. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Ketrenos <jketreno(a)linux.intel.com> Date: Feb 10, 2007 10:12 AM Subject: [ANNOUNCE] d80211 based driver for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG To: linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless(a)vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net, netdev(a)vger.kernel.org Please hold all questions until I am done with this email. Thank you. We are pleased to announce the availability of a new driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection adapter. This new driver uses the new d80211 subsystem previously only available as part of the wireless-dev tree. You can find the new driver, and additional information about it, here: http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi. Within the new driver package are sources which we plan to submit for kernel inclusion as well as scripts and patches which create a version of the driver which can be loaded into kernels based on 2.6.18 and newer (provided you have installed the d80211 subsystem as well) The README document can walk you through pretty quickly. Since a lot of our users are not able to move to the latest versions of the Linux kernel, we have put together a d80211 package allowing the installation of the d80211 subsystem into an existing kernel image without the need to migrate to wireless-dev, or upgrade to a newer kernel at all (assuming you are using 2.6.18 or newer). You can find that package at: http://intellinuxwireless.org/d80211 Ok. Now... any questions? Thanks, James / Intel Corporation - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Linspire to be based on Ubuntu rather than Debian
by Ian McDonald 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

http://distrocenter.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/09/201256&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Thursday night curry in Hamilton
by Ian McDonald 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Folks, Jayne and I have thought about this and decided that it's really time Hamilton got their act together on this one. Various people/groups have talked about this but no-one has done this yet (that I'm aware of) and we'd like to see this kick off. The aim of this is for IT professionals to get together to socialise/network. Thanks to Sam Sargent we now have a mailing list. Feel free to sign up here: http://list.thursdaynightcurry.com/mailman/listinfo/hamilton We also have a web page pointed to from http://thursdaynightcurry.com - at the moment this is more a place holder. Ian -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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Warren Hughes (IBM) is travelling until Mon Feb 12
by Warren Hughes 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

I will be out of the office starting 05/02/2007 and will not return until 12/02/2007. I am at a conference in Australia, but will be checking my email daily. Cheers, Warren.

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comp201 MIPS teaching boards
by Bo Wang 06 Feb '07

06 Feb '07

Hi all, Got this board off Simon(Thanks!!) few months ago. Had enough fun with it. Now I am willing to pass on to someone else. For those who missed out last time, this is a great opportunity. First in First serve. Email me back off the list if you are keen. Thanks, Bo

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Nice writeup on gstreamer/Fluendo and proprietary codecs
by Ian McDonald 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1534206&from=rss -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz WAND Network Research Group

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REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

There's a WLUG meeting tonight: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- CS SEMINAR Thursday 1st February, 3:00pm-5:00pm or later, S.1.05, WaikatoUniversity ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Apologies for such short notice, but it doesn't happen everyday that one gets a visitor from Google... Note: this seminar is not limited to computer science people, we're just hosting it. If you know people who might be interested, let them know about it!] Abstract: Chris will be talking about interesting stuff he's doing at Google and is open for discussion. About Chris DiBona: Chris DiBona is the Open Source Programs Manager for Mountain View, CA based Google, Inc. His job includes running the Summer of Code and releasing open source software on Google's Code website, which can be found at http://code.google.com. Before joining Google, Mr. DiBona was an editor/author for the popular online website Slashdot.org and He is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He co-edited the award winning essay compilations "Open Sources" and "Open Sources 2.0" and writes for a great number of publications. He was briefly the Linux guy on TechTV and speaks on a variety of open source issues internationally. Additional information from John Houlker about Chris: Chris is also involved in issues regarding moving extremely large databases around on disk, some areas in geo-spatial information, and has been involved in a games start-up. Links: * O'Reilly biography (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/619) * Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_DiBona) * Google (http://code.google.com) * Google Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/) * Blog (http://egofood.blogspot.com/)

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