August 2001 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Cheap RAM ...

by Theo Van Dinter

A friend sent this to me and I thought others would be interested: http://store.ccraft.net/PPmain.asp?ItemCode=3398&Action=Mostrar&msk=PD 512MB PC133 for $30 each. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Duct tape is like the force; it has a light side & a dark side, and it holds the universe together." - Zen Musings

Aug. 15, 2001

REMINDER: Next meeting on Thursday

by Andy Stewart

HI gang, The next WLUG meeting will be held this week on Thursday, August 16th at 7:00 PM in "the usual place". Please check the WLUG website for more information. At this meeting, the speaker will be Brian Conway, who will be talking about the use of DVDs with Linux. Bring your favorite DVD and maybe we can play it on a Linux system! After the meeting, we'll be going to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer and anybody who comes to the meeting is welcome to join us. Come on down...it should be a good time. Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

Aug. 15, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Extra Hardware

by Theo Van Dinter

Since everyone else and their close family members are giving away hardware, I wanted to make sure I offered the stuff I have available ... We're in the midst of cleaning out our apartment and have software, hardware, books, magazine, etc. I'm planning to be at the meeting on Thursday (8/16), so if you want any of this stuff let me know and I'll bring it down. :) (if you aren't at the meeting but want some stuff, let me know anyway and we'll work something out...) There's too much for a listing here though: http://www.kluge.net/~felicity/items.html -- Randomly Generated Tagline: signal(i, SIG_DFL); /* crunch, crunch, crunch */ -- Larry Wall in doarg.c from the perl source code

Aug. 15, 2001

Re: [Wlug] DVD's to bring?

by Brian J. Conway

> For the DVD demo thingy, what are people going to bring for DVD's? People are bringing DVDs? That wasn't part of the deal. If you brought a DVD that I had prepared with the presentation it could be like plugging a USB scanner into a Win98 beta. Okay, nevermind. ;-) > I'll bring "Ghost in the Shell". The thing that makes this DVD so special > is that for some reason the authors chose not to encrypt the disk using CSS. > Its the only non encrypted DVD I've ever come across. Sounds good, I don't have any unencrypted DVDs that I know of. -b

Aug. 15, 2001

REMINDER: Next meeting on Thursday

by Andy Stewart

HI gang, The next WLUG meeting will be held this week on Thursday, August 16th at 7:00 PM in "the usual place". Please check the WLUG website for more information. At this meeting, the speaker will be Brian Conway, who will be talking about the use of DVDs with Linux. Bring your favorite DVD and maybe we can play it on a Linux system! After the meeting, we'll be going to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer and anybody who comes to the meeting is welcome to join us. Come on down...it should be a good time. Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

Aug. 14, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Extra Hardware

by Dan Crooks

I would be happy to have one or more or all of those scsi drives. BTW when is the next meeting? Dan Crooks On Sunday 12 August 2001 01:52 pm, you wrote: > Speaking o' which.... > > I have 4 2.4 gig scsi drives in enclosures. Most have centronix > connectors. I have some cables too. They are about to be donated to > goodwill, but I will hold them till this month's meeting if someone wants > them. Let me know by cc'ing to ghostis(a)myrealbox.com; my procmail filter > is on the fritz so your wlug reply may get lost in the shuffle. I also > have an axpci alpha board with cpu & memory in a case, but I don't know if > anyone would have a use for those things anymore... > > -Adam > > On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Brian Niece wrote: > > It is with a heavy heart that I make the following announcement: > > > > After seven enjoyable and educational years, I am shutting down my last > > Linux computer. After taking out the parts that I need for my zippy new > > Athlon and donating most of the computer to my employer, I will have the > > following left over. I don't feel like dealing with Ebay, so I will > > gladly give them to the first respondents who contact me and are willing > > to pick them up. > > > > The items are: > > > > 1 Seagate Medalist Pro 1080, 1 Gb SCSI hard drive > > 1 Seagate Medalist Pro 2160, 2 Gb SCSI hard drive > > 1 Sony CDU76S, 4x SCSI CD-ROM Drive > > 1 50 pin internal SCSI hard drive cable. > > > > -- > > Brian K. Niece, Ph.D. > > Assistant Professor of Chemistry > > Assumption College > > 500 Salisbury St. > > Worcester, MA 01609-1296 > > 508-767-7209 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > _____________________________________________ > > Adam Keck The Mathworks > > 508-647-7298 Natick, Ma > > www.mathworks.com > > FreeNIX/Backup/Unix Administrator > > _____________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Aug. 14, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Network Install

by Colin Novick

Hard to correct the source of an error message you don't understand, and can't find elsewhere. During a Network Install of Mandrake Linux 7.2 I get: "SIOCSIFFLAGS Device or resource busy" The only option is to click "ok" or "next", both of which result in a hang you can CTRL-ALT-DEL out of. What does this mean? Also is this at all tied to the computer requesting a Default Gateway IP and Nameserver? I personally doubt it, but I ask in that I have been trying to establish if the gateway is the IP# for the my ISP through the modem on the other machine (The machine gives me default values that are just as poorly recieved.) Thanks, Colin P.S. Below is the distro specific tree of choices that yields this response. It is not necessarily useful to most folks but I include it in the off chance it yields a hint. If the error is out of context I can contextualize it: Method of Install; type of medium: NFS *select* FTP HTTP It auto detects the NIC and proposes a module OK *select* Boot Protocol: Manual *select* DHCP Bootp Config TCP/IP: IP Add 192.168.0.150 Net Mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway IP: 192.168.0.254 (Default Values but have tried others) Name Serv: 192.168.0.1 (Default Values but have tried others)

Aug. 13, 2001

DVD's to bring?

by Keller, Tim

Hey All, For the DVD demo thingy, what are people going to bring for DVD's? I'll bring "Ghost in the Shell". The thing that makes this DVD so special is that for some reason the authors chose not to encrypt the disk using CSS. Its the only non encrypted DVD I've ever come across. Tim.

Aug. 13, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Network Install

by Doug Chamberlin

At 8/13/2001 07:51 AM (Monday), Colin Novick wrote: >Progress! Don't forget to stop after those moments of progress and savor the moment. If you take a pause only when you are stumped your time will be filled with negatives and it will drag you down for sure! Good luck!

Aug. 13, 2001

phpgroupware?

by Wesley Allen

Greetings, We've just set up a new mail server here where I work and we want to get phpgroupware up as a web-client. Here is my question, does anyone know of any way we can set phpgroupware to auto-sync linux users with the mysql database backend? Any info would be useful, I don't want to have to set everyone up twice. Wes

Aug. 13, 2001