For Sale: Alpha PWS 600AU
by Phillip G Deneault
600mhz Alpha with 384megs of ram. On board sound and LAN.
This is a REAL AU model, with the qlogic SCSI card and the powerstorm
video card(in case you wanted to run OpenVMS). I would recommend using
a different video card or using the serial console for anything BSD or
Linux.
I believe it has a 9 gig SCSI disk in it, but I've suplemented it with a
50gig IDE drive on the IDE chain. I've also replaced the IDE CD-ROM
with an 68-pin SCSI CD-ROM(yes, thats right, 68-pin).
I also have all the original docs with it.
I was running FreeBSD 5.3 on it until a week ago when I upgraded the
machine. Nice little hobby system.
$200 bucks or best offer. If anyone has any questions, or wishes to
haggle, please reply to me(and not the list, they hate that).
Thanks,
Phil
12 years, 9 months
Printing Photos - cropping in gimp 2.0
by John Stoffel
Hi All,
Thanks for the input I recieved here, I've bought an Epson R300 color
printer for making photos. Once I figured out that the debian package
for libcupsys has the permissions borked for the files in
/usr/lib/cups/backend so that they aren't executable, all is well.
I've been happily browsing images in 'gqview', then loading them into
gimp 2.0, then printing them.
But I'm having issues with scaling images. I have to guess how/where
to crop the images so that I can get the maximum amount of the picture
onto the paper. It's a real pain, with lots of back and forth.
Is there a tool out there, or a gimp plugin, which allows me to take a
picture, select a paper size and gives me a template to crop/scale the
image to fit that paper size nicely? Any hints on what tools/packages
I should be looking at for this type of work?
For example, I've got a picture of my nephew and son which I wanted to
print out. I also wanted to zoom in a bit (or crop the image down to
get closer to them) so that when it printed, I maximized the use of
the 4x6 stock. A real pain in gimp 2.0, but since I'm just using the
standard Debian install, maybe there is a plugin to help with this?
Thanks,
John
12 years, 11 months
System hang woes continue
by Andy Stewart
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HI gang,
I think I somehow built the computer from Hell. Recall my dual Opteron
box with SuSE 9.2 and 1 GB of memory.
I removed every SATA device from my system, and now it doesn't hang as
often, but it still hangs periodically. This time I got 10 days of
uptime before it hung - a new world's record on this particular box.
Strangely enough, I could demonstrate more uptime with the "old" SATA
code than with libata - go figure.
I am suspicious of the 2.6 kernel. We run dual Opteron servers at work
with the 2.4 kernel series with no problems at all (on RedHat 7.3). I
am wondering what would happen if I took SuSE 9.2 and replaced the 2.6
kernel with a 2.4 kernel. Am I asking for a heap of trouble?
What specific issues would I encounter?
I'm guessing that the kernel modules would be all fubar since I thought
taht 2.4 and 2.6 did that quite differently. Perhaps I could bypass
that with a monolithic kernel. I'm not sure what other problems I'd
make for myself if I did this.
Another thought - does somebody have a .config file for a Linux 2.6
kernel on an Opteron system that works really well?
Thanks,
Andy
- --
Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
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12 years, 11 months
REMINDER: Upcoming WLUG meeting
by Andy Stewart
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HI gang,
Its time again for a WLUG meeting!
At this meeting, we will have Jeff Moyer as our guest speaker. Jeff
joined WLUG in its early days and has managed to stay in touch ever
since. Jeff is now employed by RedHat as a kernel developer. Jeff's
talk is entitled "Hacking the Linux Automounter", and you can find more
details of this talk on the WLUG website.
Come on down - it promised to be a great meeting!
I'll also have these raffle prizes:
Peter van der Linden's
Guide to Linux
Takes the Mystery out of learning Linux
Prentice Hall publisher
Copyright 2006 (sic)
Core Web Application Development with PHP and MySQL
Author: Marc Wandschneider
Prentice Hall publisher
Copyright 2006 (sic)
After this meeting, we'll go out for our usual pizza dinner at Tech
Pizza on Highland Street.
See ya at the meeting!
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
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12 years, 11 months
Need help: palm -> laptop
by Walt Sawyer
Hi all,
I need some help! I bought a USB to Serial/parrallel adaptor (IBM
22P5298). Fedora 4 seems to see it in /proc/bus/usb/devices but when I
try to hotsync my palm, no connection results. Anyone have an idea as
to how to proceed?
Thanks in advance!
Walt
Below is part of the output of
more /proc/bus/usb/devices
T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=07 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 9 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=067b ProdID=2303 Rev= 3.00
S: Manufacturer=Prolific Technology Inc.
S: Product=USB-Serial Controller
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=pl2303
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 10 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
12 years, 11 months
FW: the fix is in....
by Keller, Tim
I don't generally forward stuff to the list, but I thought that this is
something that is of importance to those of use who live in the
Commonwealth...
Tim.
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From: discuss-bounces(a)blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces@blu.org] On Behalf
Of Bill Bogstad
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:12 AM
To: discuss(a)blu.org
Subject: the fix is in....
A Boston Globe article
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/10/25/galvin_att
acks_software_proposal/
says that the Massachussetts Secretary of State William Galvin and a
number
of state senators are opposed to the idea of going to OpenDocument
formats.
You can contact Secreatary Galvin's office at cis(a)sec.state.ma.us if
you have any thoughts on this matter. Check the article for other
politicians you might want to contact as well.
Bill Bogstad
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12 years, 11 months
Re: Attach File(s) problem
by Ken Jones
Thank you all!!
re: mozilla-mail Attach File(s) hung up my Fedora 3 machine.
The culprit was gamin as Chuck Anderson had suggested.
'yum info' told me that there is a more recent version for Fedora 3.
'yum upgrade' installed that more recent version.
The problem seems to have disappeared.
Ain't open source grande!
Chuck, how did you know about gam_server?
Ken Jones
12 years, 12 months
Andy I have a question...
by Ken Jones
I am embarrassed to admit that I do not know how to figure this out. I
am having a problem with both mozilla-mail and evolution-mail
mozilla-mail and evolution-mail both use the same process to "Attach
file(s)". When I try to attach a file my Fedora Core 3 machine is toooo
slow. It ties up the machine for minutes at a time. If I try to move
the GUI is smears. "top" does not indicate lack of memory or lack of
cpu cycles.
I have not had any luck googling for others who have seen this before
me. Do any of you WLUGers have a suggestion.
My Fedora Core 4 works very quickly.
Ken Jones
12 years, 12 months
Re: automounting
by Carlton C. Stedman II
> I'm interested in the automounter. I would be very nice to have my
jumpdrive
mount when I plug it in. Also, if anybody knows udev...
I managed to just set up automounting on my gentoo box, via some udev
rules, HAL, D-BUS and a neat little app called ivman. Ivman will detect
when new devices are plugged in and create a new entry in fstab if there
isn't already an acceptable one (it'll remove the entry when the device is
not connected); it can also be set up to do some more interesting things,
such as integration to say start up your burning program when a blank CD-R
is put in, etc.
Using some udev rules (this is a great reference
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html) isn't *that* hard. You
can use the program udevinfo to find out information about your plugged in
devices to write appropriate rules. For example, I have a rule to link the
device to a node /dev/nikon for my nikon camera, whenever it is plugged
in. Then, I have an entry in /etc/fstab to mount /dev/nikon at
/media/nikon, and lvman takes care of that (detects when that node is
linked, reads fstab and mounts appropriately - if I didn't have that entry
in fstab it would create one to mount at like /media/usbdevice01 or
something). It even (usually) unmounts the device without issue (figuring
out why it doesn't always).
Since the serial number for each device is specific, my rule just uses
that, so it looks like:
SYSFS{serial}="SERIAL OF MY NIKON", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="nikon"
to link node /dev/nikon to my camera. I had to use mknod to create that
node initially (just a simply character device, I believe, can't remember
the major/minor numbers off the top of my head). Of course you need to
make sure you have hotplug installed and enabled in your kernel, as well
as usb_storage and the SCSI modules (needed for the usb-storage module to
work, according to kernel documentation).
--
Carlton C. Stedman II, sageman(a)wpi.edu
"To iterate is human, to recurse, divine."
-- L. Peter Deutch
12 years, 12 months
November talk topics
by Jeff Moyer
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Hi all,
I just recently got back from Germany, where I gave two talks at this
year's Linux Kongress. One talk focuses on the state of the automounter,
and the other discusses the netpoll API. You can find abstracts at the
Linux Kongress website:
http://www.linux-kongress.org/2005/abstracts.html
If the group is interested in either of these, I'd be more than happy to
present. I could also give a quick run-down of what the conference was
like, who to go out drinking with, etc.
Slides for these talks are available on my people page:
http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer/index.html#presentations
If there's no interest in these topics, it won't hurt my feelings. Honest. ;)
- -Jeff
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