January 2000 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

word perfect

by donald vitkus

can not install word perfect 8.0 on united linux any ideas

Jan. 18, 2000

linux

by donald vitkus

wondering if you could do a demo on on linux command psr meeting for use new bees

Jan. 10, 2000

Re: [Wlug] RE: reply to monitor request Wlug digest, Vol 1 #639 - 3 msgs

by donald vitkus

Walter F. Doyle wrote: >Hi: > >How does $15 sound. Call Jeff at 508-831-7455 on Monday we have about 30 >monitors to choose from!! > >Walter Doyle > >-----Original Message----- >From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On >Behalf Of wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org >Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 12:01 PM >To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >Subject: Wlug digest, Vol 1 #639 - 3 msgs > > >Send Wlug mailing list submissions to > wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org > >You can reach the person managing the list at > wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Wlug digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Linux job opportunity (Andy Stewart) > 2. Hard drive crashed! (Andy Stewart) > 3. Wanted: Used monitor (Andy Stewart) > >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >charset="us-ascii" >From: Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)comcast.net> >Organization: Worcester Linux Users' Group >To: "Worcester Linux Users' Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> >Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 00:35:31 -0400 >Subject: [Wlug] Linux job opportunity >Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > >HI Everybody, > >Here is a job opportunity that was recently sent to me. If interested, >please >don't reply to the list or to me, but to the recruiter named below. > >Helene Fitch Friedlander >HR Representative >* (978) 461-7148 Fax (978) 461-3720 >* helene.fitch(a)stratus.com >S T R A T U S T E C H N O L O G I E S > >Code 03-076 & 03-075 >Job Title Software Engineer III (Linux) >Occupation Software Engineering >Location Maynard, MA >Description >Will participate as a member of a small team of engineers working on the >development and support of a Fault Tolerant version of Linux that runs on >Stratus' Fault Tolerant IA32 HW. The work will be focused on 1) >participating in the ongoing new development efforts to keep current with >the latest versions Linux, 2) port our FT Linux to the latest Stratus HW >platforms, 3)the productionization of our FT Linux SW and 4) providing >support to Stratus' existing Technology Partners (i.e. - bugs fixes). The >areas that we have made and continue to make modifications in Linux include >providing for SCSI and PCI hot-plug support (including surprise removal of >devices), overall hardening of a select set of Linux device drivers to adapt >them for Stratus' Fault Tolerant environment and making Linux work with >Stratus' FT Hardware. >Experience 6+ years of Software development experience with at least 2+ >years in Linux/Unix software development, including systems level Linux >development. Ability to switch gears quickly and work on multiple problems >simultaneously, Strong communication skills essential. Ability to work well >within a team environment required. Must have Linux kernel development >and/or device driver development. Experience in Linux SCSI a major plus. >BSCS/BSEE or equivalent experience > >-- >Andy Stewart, Founder >Worcester Linux Users' Group >Worcester, MA USA >http://www.wlug.org > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 2 >charset="us-ascii" >From: Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)comcast.net> >Organization: Worcester Linux Users' Group >To: "Worcester Linux Users' Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> >Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:28:18 -0400 >Subject: [Wlug] Hard drive crashed! >Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > >HI everybody, > >I've been out of touch all week due to a catastrophic hard drive failure. >My >hard drive is only 1.5 years old and its an IBM Ultrastar 18 GB SCSI drive >with a 5 year warranty. IBM/Hitachi will be getting it back assuming it >fails their diags, which I have to run as a prerequisite to getting an RMA. >Naturally, they are DOS based diags. They have incredibly fussy rules about >packing the drive for shipment, lest one voids one's warranty (say that >three >times fast). > >Believe it or not, it died while I was doing the tape backup!! > >I lost about 1 weeks worth of Quicken transactions and the photos from my >sister's wedding (which I can recover from CDs previously burned for other >family members). I got lucky. > >The moral of the story is: Make sure you do your backups! This is the 2nd >hard drive that I've lost in the last 12 months (the first one was over 5 >years old). > >Or, just run most of your machines as LTSP clients and don't worry about >disks..... :-) > >Later, > >Andy >-- >Andy Stewart, Founder >Worcester Linux Users' Group >Worcester, MA USA >http://www.wlug.org > > > >--__--__-- > >Message: 3 >charset="us-ascii" >From: Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)comcast.net> >Organization: Worcester Linux Users' Group >To: "Worcester Linux Users' Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> >Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:54:55 -0400 >Subject: [Wlug] Wanted: Used monitor >Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > >Hi everybody, > >I'm looking for a used monitor as a spare for my basement lab bench: > >14" or 15" >Multi sync >Capable of at least 1024x768 at 72 Hz (or better) >Relatively good cosmetic condition >Excellent working condition >Cheap(!) > >If you have something which might interest me, contact me directly and we >can >negotiate. > >Thanks, > >Andy >-- >Andy Stewart, Founder >Worcester Linux Users' Group >Worcester, MA USA >http://www.wlug.org > > > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > >End of Wlug Digest_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > what the size of the monitors?

Jan. 10, 2000

Re: [Wlug] Upcoming meeting: Wed, Sept. 10th, 7:00 PM

by donald vitkus

Andy Stewart wrote: >HI everybody, > >Our next meeting shall be held in Kinnicutt Hall on the WPI campus on >Wednesday, September 10th, at 7:00 PM. Note that this location is not the >same as last month. This is the room that we generally use for our meetings. > >At this meeting, the topic will be "An Introduction to Linux for Newcomers", >and the intended audience is people who do not know much (if anything) about >Linux, but do have experience with computers and perhaps Windows. > >I'll prepare some slides and discuss the following topics (and perhaps more): > >o What is Linux? >o Origins of Linux >o Software licensing >o Computer requirements (memory, disk space, etc) >o How to obtain a copy of Linux >o How to "test drive" Linux without messing up my computer >o More... >o Q/A session during the meeting and afterwards >o Demo of a single CD version of Linux which won't modify your existing files >on the C: drive >o Giveaway: copies of a single CD version of Linux (probably Knoppix and/or >Suse Live Eval - can somebody help me burn a few copies?) > >Bring your friends - let's see if we can get them to at least "kick the tires" >on Linux. > >After the meeting, we'll adjourn to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer. > >See ya there! > >Andy > > > i can make copies if you sent me the image donald vitkus

Jan. 8, 2000

Re: [Wlug] Re: Next Meeting?

by donald vitkus

Stephen C. Daukas wrote: > Not to trigger a full blown debate... > > It doesn't matter what point *we* are at, it matters what point anyone > who decides to show up is at. It also doesn't matter what can fit on > a flash drive... You have to ask yourself who the intended audience > is. If it is techies who already know what a home directory is and > might end up playing with Linux without WLUG's help, then it doesn't > matter what you show, or if you demo more than one thing. > > If, however, you are trying to interest newbies who might decide to > stay with what they already have if the alternative is perceived as a > lot of work, then I would advise skipping the discussion about how > cool the technology is and focus on why a standard Linux distro is > useful. As I keep reminding my students - the technology is > meaningless, the important questions to ask is "what can you do with > it". If you really want to excite a lot of students, show them how > they can save money and, more importantly time, and still turn their > assignments in on time in a format acceptable to their professors! > > The reason for my initial comment in this thread was simple: In my > experience at WPI, a non-trivial minority of students do not have a > tremendous amount of experience with computers - even the self > professed "programmers." Students new to WPI are already overwhelmed > with some 30-40 hours a week of school work outside of class time. If > they are "into computers" then they are already interested enough to > invest their time based on the "technology is cool" camp. If, > however, they are interested in technology as a tool, they will look > at the demo, size up how much effort is involved (and that includes > how readily available the necessary information is and how easy that > info is to use), decide how helpful the venue is to trying Linux, > assess if Linux/WLUG/whatever is worth it to them, and make a > decision. If, as you say, the commercial distributions are no more > difficult to install than windows, then that is what we should be > showing, as well as OpenOffice, Mozilla, and so forth. > > Steve > > Matt Higgins wrote: > >>My 2 cents or less if you will. >> >>I think Knoppix is the way to go! The point is to showoff Linux-wares not to >>teach about a particular distributions configuration mechanism or file system >>layout. Knoppix is clean and impressive in many ways and does a great job at >>showing off what Linux can do. Furthermore we are to the point were a Linux >>install is no more difficult then a Windows install, particularly the commercial >>distributions; Red Hat, SuSe, Mandrake, Yellow Dog, etc... >> >>So thats my 2 cents or less, long live Slackware! >> >>Matt >> >>Quoting Steve Freitag <Steve.Freitag(a)alum.wpi.edu>: >> >> >> >>>I've recently spent a small amount of time playing around with both the SuSe >>>8.2 Live Eval, and Knoppix 7-26-03, so I thought I'd pass along my >>>observation >>> >>> >>> >>>Both default you into KDE and have a similar selection of apps (Like >>>OpenOffice, Mozilla, the GIMP etc). Knoppix happens to be based of Debian. >>> >>> >>> >>>There were a couple of things I liked about Knoppix. The first is that you >>>don't have to go through all the YaST screens when you boot, Knoppix just >>>boots right up to KDE and logs you on as user knoppix. The other neat thing >>>about Knoppix is that you can save your configuration and home directory of >>>the size you specify on a USB flash drive. With SuSE if you want to save >>>your configuration/home dir it creates a 100MB file on your hard drive (and >>>another 100MB for swap if you want). With Knoppix you can carry a cheap >>>($10 after rebate) 64MB USB flash drive around with you and a Knoppix CD and >>>boot a PC into your personal environment without touching the hard disk. >>> >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf >>>Of Stephen C. Daukas >>>Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:23 PM >>>To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >>>Subject: Re: [Wlug] Re: Next Meeting? >>> >>> >>> >>>Is introducing yet-another-flavor-of-linux useful? I understand what you >>>are trying to achieve, but one of the first questions that came to my mind >>>was "what is the difference between Knoppix and a regular Linux distro"? >>>(The first was actually "what the hell is Knopix"!) Will it be confusing to >>>the people looking at is verusus what they see when they look at SuSe, Red >>>Hat, etc.? >>> >>>Andy Stewart wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>On Monday 01 September 2003 4:52 pm, albutler33(a)netscape.net wrote: >>> >>> >>>Andy, >>> >>>I think a great topic especially for the new students would be "Fast Track >>>to Linux" where you introduce the GNOME and KDE desktops and a few of your >>>favorite tools and utilities. >>> >>>Al Butler >>> >>> >>> >>>HI Al, >>> >>>My most current thoughts are centered on Linux, its origins, the GPL, >>>WLUG/WPILA, and then segue into single CD demo distributions for folks who >>>want to "kick the tires", as it were, without fully committing their hard >>>drives to Linux. >>> >>>One such single CD demo distribution is Knoppix, which does have KDE (and >>>GNOME?). Once Knoppix is running, many things could be demonstrated. If I >>>go with this idea, I'd want to have copies of the Knoppix CD available for >>>people to take home, and hopefully they would try it at their leisure. >>> >>>How does that sound? Do people have additional ideas? Let's hear them! >>>:-) >>> >>>Later, >>> >>>Andy >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>__________________________________________________________________ >>>McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. >>>Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial >>>today! >>>http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 >>> >>>Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! >>>http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Wlug mailing list >>>Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >>>http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>-- >>>Stephen C. Daukas - stephen(a)daukas.com - http://daukas.com/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Wlug mailing list >>Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >>http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> >> >> >> >> > >-- >Stephen C. Daukas - stephen(a)daukas.com - http://daukas.com/ > > > I hope you will slow down the process if you have to trouble shoot the install of linux.

Jan. 8, 2000

Re: [Wlug] Re: Next Meeting?

by donald vitkus

Andy Stewart wrote: >On Monday 01 September 2003 4:52 pm, albutler33(a)netscape.net wrote: > > >>Andy, >> >>I think a great topic especially for the new students would be "Fast Track >>to Linux" where you introduce the GNOME and KDE desktops and a few of your >>favorite tools and utilities. >> >>Al Butler >> >> > >HI Al, > >My most current thoughts are centered on Linux, its origins, the GPL, >WLUG/WPILA, and then segue into single CD demo distributions for folks who >want to "kick the tires", as it were, without fully committing their hard >drives to Linux. > >One such single CD demo distribution is Knoppix, which does have KDE (and >GNOME?). Once Knoppix is running, many things could be demonstrated. If I >go with this idea, I'd want to have copies of the Knoppix CD available for >people to take home, and hopefully they would try it at their leisure. > >How does that sound? Do people have additional ideas? Let's hear them! :-) > >Later, > >Andy > > > > >>__________________________________________________________________ >>McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. >>Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial >>today! >>http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 >> >>Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! >>http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Wlug mailing list >>Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >>http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> >> > > > i am in school now but hope to still make the meetings

Jan. 6, 2000

Re: [Wlug] Re: Next Meeting?

by donald vitkus

albutler33(a)netscape.net wrote: >Andy, > >I think a great topic especially for the new students would be "Fast Track to Linux" where you introduce the GNOME and KDE desktops and a few of your favorite tools and utilities. > >Al Butler > >__________________________________________________________________ >McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. >Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! >http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 > >Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! >http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > i agree since i get lost with linux

Jan. 6, 2000

Re: [Wlug] Flaky disks or controller?

by donald vitkus

Andy Stewart wrote: >HI Everybody, > >Having recently rebuilt my "good" computer, I'm now seeing a bunch of disk I/O >errors in my system log. I have 3 SCSI disks connected to a Symbios >controller using the sym53c8xx module and a 2.4.20 kernel. > >At first, I suspected an individual drive, as it is nearly 4 years old, and >all of the errors were there. I have since physically removed that drive, >and now the other drives are logging errors rather sporatically. Typically, >I see an error message from reiserfs about how it couldn't write to the >drive, and a disk I/O error in the log. The system is then wedged and >requires a reboot. > >With the problem showing up on all 3 SCSI drives, I'm now suspicious of the >(used) controller which I received as a "present" from a guy at work. > >If it should be the controller, do you folks have recommendations about >reasonably priced SCSI controllers? I have 6 SCSI devices in my system and I >need 68-pin as well as 50-pin capabilities. One of my disks is U160, and I >think the others are slower, but with disks always getting faster, I'd >probably want a U160 controller. I don't think I want to pay the premium for >a U320 controller. > >Thanks, > >Andy > > have you tried to reset the cmos on the motherboard to a defaul setting

Jan. 4, 2000

Re: [Wlug] CD/DVD-ROM question

by donald vitkus

Gregory Avedissian wrote: > I just noticed that my boot message tells me that my CD-ROM and CDRW > drives are also DVD-ROM. I wasn't aware that either of them had that > capability when I bought them. All those spam messages about reading > DVD from my CD-ROM went in the trash without being read, so now I'm > wondering. Is it possible to read a DVD on a CD drive? If so, how? If > not, why does the boot message say that? > > Thanks. > > > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > not i can not read a dvd in a cdrom

Jan. 2, 2000

Re: [Wlug] 2 admin questions.

by donald vitkus

John Wiebe wrote: > I've never tried, but can't you alias your username by editing > "/etc/postfix/aliases" ? > > John > > Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > >> OS: Red Hat 9 >> >> Q1: sendmail... >> >> I have my sendmail configured to masquerade my outgoing email with my >> cable ISP's domain (charter.net) However, I have not found out how >> to convert my local username to the username I have at my ISP. Any >> ideas? >> >> BTW, I've configured Pine just fine for this. I'd just like take the >> extra step and have sendmail take care of all mailer utilities. >> >> >> Q2: CUPS... >> >> What's the best/right way to upgrade from LPRng to CUPS? >> >> I understand that HP printers work better under CUPS. True or False? >> >> TIA, >> Bill >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> >> >> >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > got my hp 932c printer to work so easy with cups

Jan. 1, 2000