December 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Ipaq Help

by Adam Keck

Miss this list? Will you not have internet access? ;-) -Adam > Thanks. I'm moving out of this area sometime early next year, I'm sure going > to miss this list (and the lure of meetings I never seem to get to). > > Wes > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > "lingua machinationis creo, ergo sum" _____________________________________________ Adam Keck The Mathworks 508-647-7298 Natick, Ma www.mathworks.com FreeNIX/Backup/Unix Administrator _____________________________________________

Dec. 8, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Question on making a CD from a VHS...

by Brett Russ

> I'm looking to take the music from a VHS tape and produce a CD for my > wife for Christmas. Hook the RCA stereo outputs up to the line in jack on your sound card (or motherboard). You'll need a male stereo RCA to male stereo mini (1/8" I think) adapter (can get from Radio Shack, etc). Then set up to record from line in. Someone can help you with the SW from there--shouldn't be too hard. Once you get it on your HDD you can do whatever with it: burn to CD, make a MP3/Ogg Vorbis compressed version, etc. BR

Dec. 7, 2002

SuSE for Power Mac?

by Gregory Avedissian

Does anyone have a copy of SuSE for a power mac? My neighbor would like to get a copy, and we've all got 56k connections. Thanks. Greg

Dec. 7, 2002

Question on making a CD from a VHS...

by Stephen C. Daukas

Never having before played with music, etc., on a computer, I'm womndering if anyone hasd done this sort of thing before... I'm looking to take the music from a VHS tape and produce a CD for my wife for Christmas. Also, making a DVD of the VHS would be handy too. The issue here is that the VHS player isn't going to last forever, nor is the tape, and the DVD isn't available (nor is the soundtrack). Any suggestions for doing this? Steve

Dec. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] web hosting

by Baris Hasdemir

Thanks for the replies, I also remember seeing couple of times on yahoogroups logs a log entry like "soft bounce, no MX record" or something like that for an account at hasdemir.com domain. One last question, Can I do adding the MX record or is it the web hosting company who is supposed to do that. I will argue according to this information ;) I will also try reaching the postmasters of the problematic domains. thanks again, baris On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:44:52 -0500 Chuck Homic wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:28:41PM -0500, Baris Hasdemir wrote: > > I have a domain(hasdemir.com) hosted on linux by a web hosting company. > > Nowadays many emails that I have sent, neither bounce back or be > > received by the other company. Help desk of the web hosting company told > > me that probably there are filters for our network (by the way I have no > > idea on what network means here). > > Baris, I did a quick lookup of your domain ('host hasdemir.com') and I > didn't get any MX record. > > Many SMTP hosts do a lookup of the sending host/ip, and reject mail if it > is not an MX, presuming that it's not a "real" mailserver. (This is to > prevent spamming from DUL or cable modem links and whatnot.) > > I'm on the fence as to whether or not that's a reasonable practice... but > it's there. I'd suggest adding an MX record to your domain's DNS. > (Whether or not this is the ACTUAL problem you're having at the moment.) > > -Chuck

Dec. 7, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Meeting Topic Discussion

by Haines, Charles Allen

I've used the firewall configurer in redhat, both lokkit and the one that comes with redhat. There really isn't much to them, but if no one else knows better than I, I'd be happy to show them. ================================================= | Chuck Haines | AIM: CyberGrex | | ECE Sys Admin | Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 | | GDC Developer | ICQ: 3707881 | ================================================= http://www.linux-xtreme.net -----Original Message----- From: Wes Allen [mailto:wallen@charter.net] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 10:27 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Meeting Topic Discussion I just might have to tell my wife I'm coming to this one.... On Friday 06 December 2002 9:49 pm, Andy Stewart wrote: > HI Everybody, > > I've seen some good ideas floating around out there, as I knew I would once > the topic got going. Now the question you'll all hate: who wants to do > the presentation? :-) > > Is there anybody out there who is pretty well versed in IPTables that would > be willing to address the next WLUG meeting? > > Just a thought: Do we want to ask Robert Ziegler to come back and address > WLUG? He authored the Linux Firewalls book published by New Riders which > was updated for IPTables. He addressed WLUG about 18 months ago and his > talk was extremely detailed and technical. To be fair, some thought it was > a bit too detailed and dry. > > Along those lines, I thought it might be good to discuss the distribution > specific ways that firewalling is handled. I suspect that those are just > GUIs that build a list of IPTables filters anyway. Is there anybody out > there that is comfortable with discussing this for RedHat at the upcoming > meeting? How about some other distro? > > Thanks, > > Andy -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line. _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Dec. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Let's make WLUG meetings better!

by Charles R. Anderson

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:23:09PM +0500, Bill Smith wrote: wsmith> Right... I've noticed this. Because Lokkit is kind of "secretive" in wsmith> what it actually has defined (one doesn't know until one goes in with wsmith> other tools), I didn't know if Lokkit was doing a good job or if it was wsmith> just doing something half-baked... <shrug> The firewall rules are stored in /etc/sysconfig/iptables (or /etc/sysconfig/ipchains on < 8.0 releases). It's just difficult to parse those files and determine High/Medium/Low, since someone could have hand edited the file after the fact. -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

Dec. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Meeting Topic Discussion

by Wes Allen

I just might have to tell my wife I'm coming to this one.... On Friday 06 December 2002 9:49 pm, Andy Stewart wrote: > HI Everybody, > > I've seen some good ideas floating around out there, as I knew I would once > the topic got going. Now the question you'll all hate: who wants to do > the presentation? :-) > > Is there anybody out there who is pretty well versed in IPTables that would > be willing to address the next WLUG meeting? > > Just a thought: Do we want to ask Robert Ziegler to come back and address > WLUG? He authored the Linux Firewalls book published by New Riders which > was updated for IPTables. He addressed WLUG about 18 months ago and his > talk was extremely detailed and technical. To be fair, some thought it was > a bit too detailed and dry. > > Along those lines, I thought it might be good to discuss the distribution > specific ways that firewalling is handled. I suspect that those are just > GUIs that build a list of IPTables filters anyway. Is there anybody out > there that is comfortable with discussing this for RedHat at the upcoming > meeting? How about some other distro? > > Thanks, > > Andy -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line.

Dec. 7, 2002

Ipaq Help

by Wes Allen

Hi all, I realized that I missed the installfest the other month (family was sick, as I recall); so I missed a generous offer to convert my iPAQ to linux. Frankly, I'm tired of not being able to sync contacts and calendar with my laptop, and I'd like to have and ogg player in my hands as well. I'm going to try pool enough money to get an older Zaurus after Christmas, but in case I can't I'm going to convert my iPAQ. The install doesn't look that hard...but the documentation leaves a lot to be desired. Can anyone put together an "idiot's guide to converting your ipaq to linux," complete with how to stop the install of X and install qtopia instead? I'd be greatful, and I'm sure that handhelds.org would love the user-friendly documentation as well. Thanks. I'm moving out of this area sometime early next year, I'm sure going to miss this list (and the lure of meetings I never seem to get to). Wes

Dec. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Possible Printer discussion

by Wes Allen

Above my head, but it sounds interesting. Scanners would be a neat topic as well in that vein... On Friday 06 December 2002 9:58 pm, Andy Stewart wrote: > HI everybody, > > If it were possible for me to get a person to speak to WLUG regarding > printers and printer drivers, would that be of interest? (Hint: say > "yes"). > > I'm thinking of a programmer's talk here, not a user level talk. > > For example, what does the skeleton of a printer driver look like? > > What functions must it provide to user level software, and what does it > pass to a queueing system or perhaps directly to the printer? > > How are JPG pictures converted to dots of ink that appear on your printer > paper? > > What's the deal with these different dithering algorithms? What is > dithering, and why do it? > > These are just some ideas to get the creative juices flowing. Let me know > what topics in this realm would be of interest at a future WLUG meeting. > > Once I have that information, I'll see if I can find a speaker to address > these topics. > > Thanks, > > Andy -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line.

Dec. 7, 2002