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HI Everybody,
This is your monthly reminder (hand generated) regarding our upcoming
WLUG meeting, to be held on Thursday, January 7th, 2007, at 7:00 PM in
the Access Grid Room on the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA.
Many of you have suggested some good topics in our recent email threads.
I propose that this meeting be a round table discussion of those and
any other topics of interest.
I'll bring my new laptop for discussion as well. It is a Linux
Certified LC2464T running Kubuntu. However, I hope somebody has a
DVI-SVGA adapter which I can borrow for the meeting, since I don't yet
have one. Since this is my first experience with a Debian type of
distribution, I could offer my first impressions. More info here:
http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2464t.html
If the discussion runs dry, ask me if I passed my Amateur Radio
technician exam (which I'm taking on Wednesday). I'm curious to see
what I can do with this and Linux.
I can also give an update on the kernel device driver that I'm writing
for the Delcom USB I/O demo board. I am planning to do a full
presentation on this sometime soon, after I get more stuff working. A
couple of simple features are working right now. Perhaps I'll do this
for either the February or March meeting. More info here:
http://www.delcom-eng.com/productdetails.asp?productnum=802004
As always, we'll adjourn to the Tech Pizza Restaurant on Highland Street
for some discussion afterwards. All are welcome to attend!
See ya later, and Happy New Year!
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
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Yup....and I know Andy is as well..
I love talking about VMWare so i don't mind at all.
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From: Doug Chamberlin <dougchamberlin(a)earthlink.net>
To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
Cc: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 7, 2007 4:01:46 PM
Subject: [Wlug] Topic idea for future meeting
Anyone using VMWare Workstation hosted on Linux? I'd be interested in an
installation how-to with tips and tricks.
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I've been interesting in setting up a MythTV box as well.
~Mike
<quote who="Adam Keck">
> Hello All,
>
> What about a MythTV discussion? I want to create a Linux media
> management/playback system and would like to hear others' experiences.
>
> -Adam
>
> On 1/4/07, Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)comcast.net> wrote:
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>> Mike Perry wrote:
>> > So what's the topic?
>> >
>> > ~Mike
>>
>> HI Mike,
>>
>> There isn't one....yet. One person asked me if we could discuss the
>> basics of setting up a network. I'm not sure what else folks would like
>> to discuss, or more importantly, who wants to lead the discussion.
>>
>> I'm open to anything - you folks let me know. :-)
>>
>> Later,
>>
>> Andy
>>
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>> Andy Stewart, Founder
>> Worcester Linux Users' Group
>> Worcester, MA, USA
>> http://www.wlug.org
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deserve neither liberty or security --Ben Franklin
How about RedHat Linux vs RedHat Fedora Core Linux.
Is it possible to run a professional installation based on Fedora Core? Must one be a REAL pro?
Ken Jones
At last WLUG I believe we talked about amateur radio, so perhaps this
interests some of you.
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From: "Gil Hayes" <wk1h(a)charter.net>
To: "'Gil Hayes'" <wk1h(a)charter.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 00:03:52 -0500
Subject: Amateur radio exam session at WPI on January 18
Hi all,
The Worcester Area VE Team will be holding an amateur radio test session for
all license classes:
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2007
Time: 6:30 PM
Place: Salisbury Labs, Room 123, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Please bring:
1. AN ORIGINAL AND A PHOTOCOPY of your current license and any CSCE's or
other paperwork you are submitting
2. A basic calculator
3. Two forms of state acceptable ID (one must be a picture ID)
4. $14 exam fee (if check, payable to "ARRL VEC")
5. Pen or pencil
The photocopies of your paperwork are very important as we must submit a
copy of your records to the ARRL VEC if you are successful. Walk-ins are
always accepted but pre-registration is preferred. To preregister email
John at n2yhk(a)wpi.edu and/or Gil at wk1h(a)charter.net. Any questions about
the session may also be directed to these emails.
We will try to provide a talk-in on the 145.310 W1WPI repeater. It is
recommended that if you are not familiar with the WPI campus that you print
out and bring with you the campus map at
http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/Images/walkingmap.pdf.
Thanks,
Gil
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Hmmm weird. I just tried to install cpufrequtils on my box and I didn't
run into that problem. Sounds like a fluke to me. Try deleting the
package from the cache '/var/cache/apt/archives' and reinstalling as
Aaron detailed.
I ran Kubuntu for a bit and switched back to Ubuntu as I find the
integration is much better. But under the hood they should be the same
system. When I was running Kubuntu I did find that it already had a
cpufreq tool built into its power management. cpufrequtils is in
universe and would be an add on.
I know Ubuntu's Gnome package manager, Synaptic, has a "fix broken
packages" option which may also fix this problem. Perhaps Adapt has
something similar.
*Ubuntu also has smart if you are familiar with that.
sudo apt-get install smart-pm
~Mike
> On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 07:11 -0500, Aaron Haviland wrote:
> > Andy Stewart wrote, on Dec 29, 2006 at 21:49 EST:
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> > > HI gang,
> > >
> > > I'm taking my first adventurous steps in the use of a Debian based
> > > system (Kubuntu) on my new laptop (LC2464T). (No, I'm not trashing Suse
> > > on all of my other systems). I've never previously used an APT based
> > > system, so in this sense, I'm quite the newbie.
> >
> > I wouldn't suggest *Ubuntu as a canonical APT-based distro. There are
> > still bugs there but the eye candy is better.
> >
> > > I'm getting an error when I install a package, and I'm not sure how to
> > > resolve it. I've googled to no avail. Note in the output below that it
> > > says that the file /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils does not exist, and yet (I
> > > think) this is a file that belongs to the package which I'm trying to
> > > install.
> >
> > Indeed it should be part of the package you're trying to install. Could
> > you verify that the files does exist? By this point in the installation,
> > the package is fully extracted, just not configured.
> >
> >
> > A quick & dirty version of the dpkg installation procedure (APT is a front-end to dpkg/wget/etc) is:
> >
> > 1) Extract control information from the package. (You can find this
> > stuff in /var/lib/dpkg/info/${PACKAGE}.*
> >
> > 2) Execute pre-install script, if it exists
> >
> > 3) Extract package.
> >
> > 4) Run post-install script, if it exists. (I think almost all packages
> > have one)
> >
> > 5) ...
> >
> > 6) Profit!
> >
> >
> > <snipped ...>
> >
> > > Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/universe cpufrequtils 002-1 [22.4kB]
> > > Fetched 32.7kB in 1s (31.8kB/s)
> >
> > > Selecting previously deselected package cpufrequtils.
> >
> > 1, 2
> >
> > 3
> >
> > > Unpacking cpufrequtils (from .../cpufrequtils_002-1_amd64.deb) ...
> >
> > 4
> >
> > > Setting up cpufrequtils (002-1) ...
> > > update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils: file does not exist
> > > dpkg: error processing cpufrequtils (--configure):
> > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > > cpufrequtils
> > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > > ==========
> >
> > So at this point, the package should be completely extracted, but the
> > postinstall is not processing correctly... the command it's trying to
> > execute would be: "update-rc.d cpufrequtils defaults" to add the default
> > init rc symlinks...
> >
> > It might be a bug in the package. It might be a fluke. Usually, try
> > re-installing it (as you won't be able to do much else until you get it
> > resolved, anyway...)
> >
> > apt-get install --reinstall cpufrequtils
> >
> >
> > If not... good luck figuring out ubuntu's bug system. Debian's is quite
> > nice, but if you've got a ubuntu bug, you *have* to use ubuntu's BTS
> > instead. (And it appears there are no current bugs filed for ubuntu's
> > cpufrequtils. Interestingly enough, Debian's BTS lists several bugs
> > against the package, but none seemingly related to your problem.)
> >
> >
> >
> > Hmmm... also, how long ago did this happen? Ubuntu doesn't seem to have
> > 002-1 in its archives anymore. The current version is 002-2.
> >
> > I don't know if you're using a front-end to APT, or taking it plain, but
> > you might need to run "apt-get update" to refresh the package lists.
> >
> >
> > That was a bit longer than I meant it to be... good luck!
> >
> > Alternatively, Some friends of mine in #linuxhelp on OFTC are usually
> > around to help. I'm in there as 'guinea-pig'
> >
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