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word perfect
by donald vitkus 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

can not install word perfect 8.0 on united linux any ideas

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Sad news...
by Andy Stewart 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Doug Waud passed away peacefully yesterday evening at his home, with his family and relatives in attendance. Doug had been an active member of WLUG for the last several years. For those who don't get the Worcester Telegram, I thought I would include information on funeral arrangements: Calling hours Wednesday (tomorrow) from 7-9 PM and Thursday (3/23/06) from 2-4 PM & 7-9 PM, at Britton's Funeral Home, 648 Main Street, Shrewsbury, MA, 508-845-6226 The funeral will be this Friday (3/24/06) at 11:00 AM, at the First Congregational Church of Shrewsbury, 19 Church Road (on the common at the intersection of Main St. and Rt. 140) - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEIJnHHl0iXDssISsRAhCfAJ9Z0oI9HDGvN4LbwHviJHfiUqv/JgCeMiy+ wTJPN7brZ/mpGnGLqg12p3Y= =XwDm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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maxing out the cpu
by Mike Leo 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

2 meetings ago, someone was trying to push the cpu of Andy's homemade router to 100% using a for/loop of some sort....can someone remind me of the syntax of that? while true; do; done or something similar? thanks

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FreeBSD snd_emu10k1 issues
by TheLobster 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

Hey, I currently have FreeBSD 6.1 installed. I have a sound blaster audiology 2 and in order to use it on previous linux and freebsd installs I needed to load snd_emu10k1 into the kernel. When i run "kldload snd_emu10k1" as root, the computer completely freezes up. Gnome doesn't respond, no keyboard responce (Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+alt+F1) and everything seams to lockup. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Bob -- --------------- Bob Breznak 908 672 2841 robert.breznak(a)gmail.com IIsAGeek.Com Crimson Key LnL Webmaster Masque Webmaster TechNews Webmaster BiLaGa Webmaster Guerrilla Improv SCP Rep Guerrilla Improv Webmaster

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REMINDER: Upcoming meeting Wed Mar 15 7:00 PM
by Andy Stewart 13 Mar '06

13 Mar '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI Everybody, Its that time again for a WLUG meeting! At this month's meeting, WLUG member Frank Sweetser will be presenting "Wireless Networking Security". Frank will be doing a quick overview of some of the major security related issues in setting up a wireless network, the major vulnerabilities (WEP weaknesses in particular), and ways to close up the holes. He will also include a brief demo of Back Track, a bootable linux CD that includes numerous security related tools, and use it crack a WEP key. Frank is a Network Engineer at WPI, where his duties include Linux administration and the care and feeding of the campus wireless network. I'll bring a book for the no cost raffle: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Manual 2nd Edition ISBN: 0-13-188222-8 Published by Prentice Hall After the meeting, we'll go out to the Tech Pizza restaurant to enjoy pizza, soda, and conversation on a variety of topics (including Linux!). See ya at the meeting! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEFOlsHl0iXDssISsRAretAJ4v2SVLPuKOredGZ/89Me7eTdDgfwCfcjNT jIu8JKcO5IBeih8LoAA76Sg= =aN9b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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problems with smb export on external usb drive
by Jim Dibb 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

I had a drive with an ext3 filesystem in an old p2 running RH8 storing my mp3 files. I moved the drive into a USB enclosure attached to a laptop running FC4. The laptop mounted the fs on /media/media pretty much automatically. The problem is I can't export the /media/media FS with samba to mount on a windows host. I can export /media, and the xp box can see /media/cdrecorder, but /media/media is invisible. I have the following in various config files: from mount: automount(pid2427) on /net type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2427,minproto=2,maxproto=4) /dev/sda1 on /media/media type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,_netdev,user=jim) in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /media/media ext3 pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 ls: [root@linuxlaptop /]# ls -al /media total 32 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 5 21:32 . drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:13 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 11:14 cdrecorder drwxrwxrwx 247 root root 8192 Mar 1 09:29 media in smb.conf: ( I did have /media/media) [media] path = /media writeable = yes browseable = yes valid users = jim in /var/logs/samba/ (when path above was /media/media) [2006/02/28 21:03:28, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(615) '/media/media' does not exist or is not a directory, when connecting to [media] Since I have a copy of the files on my xp box now, I was thinking of destroying the fs and recreating it, then putting all the data back. I just find it very strange that with the above smb.conf, I can mount /media as media on my xp box and I can see the cdrecorder directory but I can't see the media directory. Any advice on what might be wrong? Thanks.

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Adding repositories?
by Bill Mills-Curran 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

I've added a new repository (or two) to my yum config, and I'm feeling a bit exposed. I wonder what other WLUG members do about additional repositories. In an effort to support vlc, I had added the livna repository, and when that stopped working (after recent fedora updates), I found that switching from livna to dries helped. Now I notice that there are quite a few packages from dries that will update fedora packages. So, I'm feeling a bit worried. Does anyone have a sense of how much these repositories should be trusted? TIA, Bill

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Bluetooth hardware recomendations
by Karl Hiramoto 08 Mar '06

08 Mar '06

I need a blue tooth interface for my PC, and wondering if anyone has any brands, or hardware chip sets to recommend. I will probably buy a USB or PCMCIA interface. Buying something USB though would allow me to use it in both my desktop and laptop, where only my laptop has PCMCIA. Bluetooth devices i want to hook too, claims it is something like rs-232 serial output over bluetooth, but i gota figure that out. After that i may try with a digicam or mobile phone. -- --- Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto GTalk=karl.hiramoto(a)gmail.com ------

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Help with Fedora Core3 -> Core4
by Ken Jones 05 Mar '06

05 Mar '06

Yesterday I transitioned from Core3 to Core4. My sound disappeared. Core4 is shipped without the kernel source code. I have a special sound driver for my Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live EMU10k1X card. The driver is Open Sound System from <http://www.opensound.com/>. It needs to be compiled with the kernel. I sent the soundconfig.log to the Help Desk. --------------Open Sound's Help Desk wrote---------------- Hi, You don't have the kernel source RPM, otherwise OSS would not be complaining: > make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1833_FC4/source: No such file or directory. Stop. > make: [ossbuild] Error 2 (ignored) > make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source SUBDIRS=/usr/lib/oss/kbuild CC="gcc" modules > make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.1833_FC4/source: No such file or directory. Stop. Please install the kernel source RPM and then get the REGPARM version of OSS. ---------------------end snip---------------------------------------- I downloaded and installed <kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.src.rpm>. Since then I have been thrashing around without success. I would appreciate an email from anyone who has a moment to help. It does not seem appropriate to foist further details onto this whole list. Ken Jones

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Re: Help with Fedora Core3 -> Core4
by Ken Jones 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Got it! Remember Open Sound System stopped working when I went from Core3 to Core4? Now it works. I had also upgraded the kernel. This was a problem because OSS needs to compile with the kernel. I missed some of the modules needed for a successful compilation. The system would not work with ALSA. I think my sound card is unique for some reason. ALSA needed to be disabled before OSS would work. OSS help desk Dev Mazumdar was very helpful. Thanks, you all, for being there. Ken Jones

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