WLUG January 2008

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word perfect

by donald vitkus

can not install word perfect 8.0 on united linux any ideas

1 year, 3 months

Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?

by John Stoffel

Hi, Anyone on here using Charter Telephone VOIP service? I've currently got Verizon, but the wife hates it because our phone lines get flaky all the time, esp when it rains. So I'm thinking to save money and combine all my stuff onto Charter. I've already got High Speed internet and regular old cable. Not wild about Digital Cable since I'm happy with Tivo and I don't want yet another set top box to have to deal with... So, any horror stories about Charter Phone VOIP quality and service? Thanks, John

2 years, 5 months

JOB: Linux Systems Administrator

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Contact: Teri Pirozzi Technical Recruiter, Software Business Systems tpirozzi(a)sbsystems.com Office 781-721-1000 Production Support - Linux Systems Administrator Newton, MA The Production Support - Systems Administrator will hold the primary responsibility for the Production Environment (PE) from both a strategic and tactical perspective. The focus will be on the OS and application layer. The PS-SA will be heavily involved in project related work as well as break & fix interrupt driven work as it pertains to the Operating System and application. The PS-SA will maintain an on-call escalation position supporting the Operations Center analysts in a 7X24 configuration. They will carry the overall responsibility of ensuring that consistency, stability and good health exists at all times within the production environment. PS-SA will be responsible for accepting production code from QA and rolling it into production. The PS-SA will work with analysts and development to trouble shoot and solve issues with production code. Responsibilities ? Architect, install, and maintain production systems. ? Maintain and implement servers and storage devices, disk layouts, file system configurations, and OS to support specific applications. ? Troubleshoot and resolve OS and application issues within the production environment. ? Responsible for documenting configurations and writing deployment plans. ? Responsible to train and support junior analysts. ? Testing, scheduling and stalling patches and upgrades. ? Testing, developing, and maintaining server and OS Layer standards throughout the production environment. ? Own and operate all support related utilities and software. ? Be responsible for a series of reports on a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis. ? Prototypes and certifies standard hardware, operating systems, storage and third party applications to support the production environment. ? Review third party or open source technology as needed and apply to the production environment as appropriate. Experience ? BS degree, and 7 plus years experience preferred. ? 5 years of Linux administration experience, preferably Red Hat or similar knock off (CentOS). ? Languages: Shell scripting experience necessary, Perl preferred. ? Should have experience installing, monitoring and maintaining applications in a 7x24 production environment. ? Should be familiar with standard networking protocols. ? Experience within a start-up environment is preferred. ? Ideal candidate would be motivated and able to assume team lead role should the opportunity arise. Requirements ? Able to work independently and come up to speed quickly on new technologies. ? Team player who exhibits good communication and interpersonal skills. ? Ability to thrive within a team environment. ? Ability to document standards and implementation of new technologies. ? Must be customer focused / strong interpersonal skills. In the best of all worlds the right candidate would: 1) be close to guru level in Linux. 2) need to be completely hands on. 3) have experience at a high volume internet site. 4) know pretty much all there is to know about web servers, DNS, mass e-mails, content delivery, disaster recovery, general internet operations. Contact: Teri Pirozzi Technical Recruiter, Software Business Systems tpirozzi(a)sbsystems.com Office 781-721-1000 - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHncRuHl0iXDssISsRAmfZAJ93ok4x4hGM6bowNwQJO0b9yzrkJgCfTGpO nEM5yRR2d509R6WlxVZjQA0= =FzYL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

13 years, 1 month

Re: [Wlug] Next meeting?

by James Gray

All of the meetings for 2008 have been scheduled and are on wlug.org (via the WLUG Meetings link at the top of the page). No topic has been announced yet for this meeting. January 17, 2008 – Thursday Access Grid Room Lower Wedge Morgan Hall 7:00 PM Topic: TBD Finally a question on this list I can answer. :-) -James > > Hey... Any idea when the next meeting is going to be and what it's going to be about? >

13 years, 1 month

Re: [Wlug] Reminder: Next Meeting: Thursday, Jan 17, 7:00 PM

by howard＠howardwhite.net

I have an XO laptop and might even go to my very first WLUG meeting (after having been on the mailing list for a couple of years.) I would also like to see how the mesh networking looks in action. Howard White Hudson

13 years, 1 month

Reminder: Next Meeting: Thursday, Jan 17, 7:00 PM

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI Everybody, The topic of this upcoming meeting will be the XO laptop from the One Laptop per Child project. I'll lead the discussion with a demonstration of the hardware and software features of the laptop. If you have an XO laptop, please bring it, as I haven't yet had a chance to try out the mesh networking, and it would be fun to try in a live demo. Remember: Thursday, Jan 17th, 2008, 7:00 PM on the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA, in the Access Grid room on the ground floor of Morgan Hall (ok, its the wedge between Morgan and Daniels). Afterwards, we'll head out of pizza at a restaurant chosen by the group. See ya there, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHjBIZHl0iXDssISsRAowwAKCEDxPHflpHMXd55n4d+VxB7Y1cAgCdEUAy jOf536AyHVG5IRnJzqfqH0E= =r+i2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

13 years, 1 month

CRT's

by Mike Leo

I have a young friend who is looking for a second/third monitor. Any one have any unused old crt's they are willing to part with? Thanks Mike

13 years, 1 month

Fedora Disapointment

by dulsi＠identicalsoftware.com

I understand that my laptop is old. Every time I've upgraded Red Hat/Fedora, I've liked the new system until Fedora 8. I didn't always upgrade. I skipped Fedora 7 since the live CD didn't boot on my laptop but Fedora 6 ran great. Fedora 8 is a dog with my small amount of memory (256M). I'm thinking I'll buy more memory but it disappoints me that Fedora runs poorly with 256M. (I would buy a new laptop but I'm just not impressed with the current offerings.) Dennis Payne dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com

13 years, 1 month

Re: [Wlug] Next meeting?

by Jamie Guinan

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Andy Stewart wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > James Gray wrote: > > All of the meetings for 2008 have been scheduled and are on wlug.org > > (via the WLUG Meetings link at the top of the page). No topic has > > been announced yet for this meeting. > > > > January 17, 2008 � Thursday > > Access Grid Room > > Lower Wedge > > Morgan Hall > > 7:00 PM > > Topic: TBD > > > > Finally a question on this list I can answer. :-) > > -James > > Hi Gang, > > Yes indeed, that's the date for the next meeting, and there is no > speaker scheduled (yet) for this meeting. Any volunteers? > > Failing that, I doubt folks would be interested in seeing a real XO > laptop. ;-) I could bring one if people are interested. That would > give me incentive to learn how to use most of the programs. However, > there isn't any VGA output, so I don't know how to get the image on the > screen where an audience could see it. VNC perhaps? I'm not sure. I'll > play with it over the weekend. For external connections, the machine has > USB ports, wireless (WEP only), microphone and speaker jacks. I hope you're bringing enough for everybody. :) For VNC, if you can get it (I hope you'll spend a minute or two on the packaging system) or build it, "x11vnc" requires virtually no setup and lets you export your current X session to a VNC client, http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ -Jamie > Later, > > Andy > > - -- > Andy Stewart, Founder > Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) > Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) > Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHh/pKHl0iXDssISsRApbdAJwN+jNtjRnq+fbTUYo0v8G8k0jHTACfS1JC > mvveJr9PcqQtIn8TKrK7vfI= > =qGnh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

13 years, 1 month

Next meeting?

by Tim Keller

Hey... Any idea when the next meeting is going to be and what it's going to be about? Thanks, Tim. -- I am leary of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

13 years, 1 month

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