March 2003 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

workshop on hacking/free software

by Mike Gorse

Hi all, I will be facilitating a workshop at WPI on Saturday on hacking and the free software movement. It will be held as part of a conference on "tools and alternatives," so we will be introducing free software (to an audience which will not necessarily be that technically-oriented; the conference will have a broader focus than just computers) as an alternative to relying on restrictive commercial software. I am looking for someone to co-facilitate, so if anyone on here would like to do that or just has ideas on ways to convey our message and make the workshop interesting and interactive, then let me know. Tia. -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org --

March 20, 2003

RE: [Wlug] up2date question

by Brett Russ

> Is there a way that I can use up2date to manage multiple > installations? The last time I used it, it indicated that it was > limited to one machine per user email. I believe you can use a single up2date account to pull down the necessary RPMs and store them locally at which point you can rsync them to your pool of machines and upgrade each that way. BR

March 20, 2003

FW: Wanted - part time Network/Linux Administrator

by Keller, Tim

I thought the people on the WLUG list might find this interesting... Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Praveen Ray [mailto:praveen.ray@crcnet1.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:57 PM To: discuss(a)blu.org Subject: Wanted - part time Network/Linux Administrator Looking for a part time Linux Administrator - Will be required to do installations, general network monitoring and be available when something goes down. The datacenter is located in Waltham. Please let me know the asking hourly rate. I Prefer NOT to work with temp agencies. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss(a)blu.org http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

March 19, 2003

Re: [Wlug] up2date question

by Charles R. Anderson

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 03:16:05PM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: subssn594> Is there a way that I can use up2date to manage multiple subssn594> installations? The last time I used it, it indicated that it was subssn594> limited to one machine per user email. The free demo account is limited to one system per login unless you purchase a subscription. The details of each level of access is available here: https://rhn.redhat.com/preview/index.pxt -- 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

March 18, 2003

Re: [Wlug] up2date question

by Karl Hiramoto

AFIK this is still the case, unless you subsribe to thier RHN service. with the RHN service you can mannage 100's of boxes supposedly.. Anyone use it on a large install here? I just use it on a few boxes, each one i setup with it's own e-mail so i could still get it for free :) On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > Is there a way that I can use up2date to manage multiple > installations? The last time I used it, it indicated that it was > limited to one machine per user email. > > TIA, > Bill > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Freedom: http://www.technojihad.com/ Zoop Productions: http://www.zoop.org/ KTEQ Rapid City: http://www.kteq.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Hackers are just a migratory lifeform with a tropism for computers.

March 18, 2003

Re: [Wlug] up2date question

by Scott Venier

The free demo account is.. If you pay for an account you can use it for more. Scott On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > Is there a way that I can use up2date to manage multiple > installations? The last time I used it, it indicated that it was > limited to one machine per user email. > > TIA, > Bill > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

March 18, 2003

up2date question

by Bill Mills-Curran

Is there a way that I can use up2date to manage multiple installations? The last time I used it, it indicated that it was limited to one machine per user email. TIA, Bill

March 18, 2003

Video-Out

by Wesley Allen

Hi everyone, First an iPAQ update, it's still running Linux, and I'm learning much about /proc (on a handheld.....weird) since I had to fix APM when I ran down the battery all the way. I LIKE it! Writing to my ext2 formatted mm-card is a bit slow (so I boot with a different kernel for software installs :-) ). Thanks for your help in getting it converted! Anyway, the question the day is this: My laptop has got a composite video-out in it. Is there any way to enable this in linux? I've seen some hints of this on the web, but if any of you have some expertise in this area it'd be great. Wes

March 18, 2003

Re: [Wlug] rpm's for kernel modules?

by Charles R. Anderson

Check out the alsa packages from freshrpms.net. They do exactly what you want. On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:23:35AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: subssn594> I've dabbled in making rpm's from tar distributions a bit -- just subssn594> enough to get a flavor of rpm building. One of the more challenging subssn594> (frustrating?) rpm tasks is building an rpm for a kernel module. (Or subssn594> maybe the tar/make package I'm starting from is just not subssn594> well-designed.) Since the build can be kernel-specific, it's not even subssn594> clear if building binary rpm's is worth it. Maybe a better idea is to subssn594> concentrate on making the source rpm easily buildable so that the end subssn594> user can generate an installation-specific binary rpm and get the subssn594> benefit of rpm's over tar/make installations. Or, maybe it's not subssn594> worth rpm's at all for kernel modules. subssn594> subssn594> Anyone have opinions on this? -- 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

March 17, 2003

Re: [Wlug] rpm's for kernel modules?

by Frank Sweetser

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 08:23:35AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: > I've dabbled in making rpm's from tar distributions a bit -- just > enough to get a flavor of rpm building. One of the more challenging > (frustrating?) rpm tasks is building an rpm for a kernel module. (Or > maybe the tar/make package I'm starting from is just not > well-designed.) Since the build can be kernel-specific, it's not even > clear if building binary rpm's is worth it. Maybe a better idea is to > concentrate on making the source rpm easily buildable so that the end > user can generate an installation-specific binary rpm and get the > benefit of rpm's over tar/make installations. Or, maybe it's not > worth rpm's at all for kernel modules. > > Anyone have opinions on this? A good example of such an RPM is the nvidea drivers. They release a whole slew of different binary ones for different releases of different distros, plus a src rpm that will build to your particular kernel. As long as you have the kernel-source rpm installed that matches the kernel you're running, it works great. http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4191 -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu WPI Network Engineer

March 17, 2003