May 2004 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

xcdroast

by Bill Mills-Curran

I'm not much of a CD burner. I've used xcdroast to copy CD's, but I'm having problems getting it to use files from my hard drive. In fact, I can't even get it to look at my hard drive. What's the trick? Thanks, Bill

May 27, 2004

Re: [Wlug] *&(^$%^# Adaptec controller...

by Scott Venier

Andy Stewart said: > > To make a longer story short, if "enable booting from CD" *and* "enable > booting from disk" are both simultaneously enabled, no disk booting > occurs. > By turning off "enable booting from CD", one can succeed in booting from a > hard disk. Stupid, idiotic firmware programmer from Adaptec ought to be > shot... > Oddly, I have an Adaptec 2940 and it does not suffer from this problem. Seems to be unique to the 29160. Scott

May 27, 2004

*&(^$%^# Adaptec controller...

by Andy Stewart

HI all, I have an Adaptec 29160N which for reasons unknown refused to boot my hard drive directly. I put in the DVD and that booted, which then booted the hard drive, and Linux came up. Today, I decided to fix this problem. I updated the BIOS on the 29160N, thinking that was the problem. On the computer in the cellar, it successfully booted a 4.7GB SCSI drive. Success(!), or so I thought. When I put the 29160N back into the "good" computer, it wouldn't boot from any hard drive. I suspected that the 18GB and 36 GB drives might be too new for the 29160N. To make a longer story short, if "enable booting from CD" *and* "enable booting from disk" are both simultaneously enabled, no disk booting occurs. By turning off "enable booting from CD", one can succeed in booting from a hard disk. Stupid, idiotic firmware programmer from Adaptec ought to be shot... Remember this so you don't waste 2 hrs on a rainy afternoon figuring this out. :-) Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

May 26, 2004

GNHLUG quarterly meeting to be held at USENIX Technical Conference

by Jon maddog Hall

Hi, I have been thinking about having the quarterly meeting of GNHLUG down in Boston at the USENIX Technical conference. This meeting would not only be open to all members of GNHLUG, but also members of BLU (the Boston Linux User's group, www.blu.org) and the Worcester Linux User's Group (www.wlug.org) I have contacted USENIX and they have a room for us on Thursday, July 1st from 7-9 P.M. EDT. Later that evening Ted Ts'o and I will be leading a more formal Linux BoF from 9-11. Both meetings will be at the Boston Marriott Copley Place. I am arranging a speaker now, but I did want you to at least hold that evening open for what should be an interesting quarterly meeting. md -- Jon "maddog" Hall Executive Director Linux(R) International email: maddog(a)li.org 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board Member: Uniforum Association, USENIX Association (R)Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries.

May 24, 2004

Re: [Wlug] LTSP as a means of recycling old PCs...

by Dwight A. Ernest

Bill Smith wrote: > There's a post on Slashdot talking about LTSP... (Yeah, I posted it... <g>) > > The link is http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/22/223425&&mode=thread&tid=126&tid… > > There's one comment that really drives the point home: #9227112 ... > > Anyway, I know that there was a recent WLUG meeting about LTSP, so I thought this might be of interest. I think it was a Boston Linux Users Group meeting that talked about LTSP (my friend Dave Shevett was the presenter, and it's the only such meeting I've attended). I get "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." at that link. --Dwight

May 23, 2004

LTSP as a means of recycling old PCs...

by Bill Smith

There's a post on Slashdot talking about LTSP... (Yeah, I posted it... <g>) The link is http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/22/223425&&mode=thread&tid=126&tid… There's one comment that really drives the point home: #9227112 ... Anyway, I know that there was a recent WLUG meeting about LTSP, so I thought this might be of interest. -- William Smith wsmith(a)chezsmith.com Fall River, MA

May 23, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Creating web content with Linux

by Steve Freitag

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:12, Andy Stewart wrote: > The questions are: What tools are available on Linux for creating web > content? Is there something akin to FrontPage for Linux? Nvu (http://www.nvu.com) is mentioned on page 10 of the June 2004 Linux Journal. >From the nvu.com website: "A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver."

May 22, 2004

mouse scroll wheel

by Gregory Avedissian

I did a new install of SuSE 8.2, and my mouse scroll wheel no longer works. Previous install was on top of 7.2. Current XF86Config mouse section is identical to the one that worked. It also works when I boot into debian. I've tried adding the imwheel command to .xinitrc, but that didn't help. Maybe I don't understand the -W option. What's a GPM fifo? Is that the script file that starts gpm? If it is, I tried that, and it didn't work, either. Also tried adding and removing gpm from run-level services. Any ideas? Thanks, Greg

May 22, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Comcast dolts (mail server problem?)

by Don Levey

wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org wrote: > I sent email to postmaster(a)comcast.net describing the problem. I > received an automated reply about "thank you for reporting network > abuse". This is getting downright comical, in a sad sort of way. They must be so used to reports on Comcast abuse that they use that for an autoresponder on postmaster as well as abuse. I lose track of the number of times I send reports to them about broken Windows installations on t heir cable modems spewing spam and viruses. -Don

May 21, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Re:Comcast dolts (mail server problem?)

by Jeff Kinz

Ignore this message, We are attempting to discern what "suspicious header is causing the filters to "pend" messages for moderator approval. On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 09:20:46AM -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:52:49AM -0400, Andy Stewart wrote: > > In Kmail, when I configure the email sending parameters, I fill in > > "smtp.comcast.net" as instructed. In the security section, there's a > > selection for "check what the server supports". I do this and it returns > > "encryption TLS, authentication method CRAM-MD5". Well, it does this *most* > > of the time. Once in a while, it returns "encryption SSL". > > > > Keeping the above in mind, I periodically get errors when sending email. The > > error is "authentication failure". However, if I immediately resend, it goes > > through just fine (sometimes after repeated resends). > > > > Note also that smtp.comcast.net maps to 4 different IP addresses. > > > > My theory is that the Comcast servers are not all using the same > > authentication method, and when I catch one that's not setup the same as my > > email program, I don't authenticate and thus cannot send email. Does this > > theory seem reasonable? > > > > I tried to explain my theory to Comcast tech support who asked me to reboot > > Windows, and then complained about my unsupported email client. When I asked > > to speak to the system administrator for the email server, they refused. > > Comcast can't get into their heads that there might be an intelligent user or > > two using their service, and that all problems aren't the fault of the user. > > Sigh...any thoughts ? > > Thoughts beyond what **ses most mass-market broadband providers are ? :) > > I would set up a script to send an email to yourself routed thru an > outside node (I can give you a user a kinz.org that will just forward > stuff back to you). have it periodically emit an email that you can > easily filter out and send to dev null. > > > Set up tcpdump to capture the smtp and auth data. > > See which IP's are using which auth method, (or verify that > there is something else going on... ). > > I use comcast w/sendmail and mutt. All my email is sent out thru > Comcast's smtp service. iMy smtp auth flags are set to "A", whetever > that means. (Can't find it in the bat book! ) > > > -- > Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. > "jkinz(a)kinz.org" is copyright 2004. > Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at > www.kinz.org/policy.html (if you could get there .. ) > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. "jkinz(a)kinz.org" is copyright 2004. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at www.kinz.org/policy.html (if you could get there .. )

May 21, 2004