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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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Charter Telephone reviews, boylston?
by John Stoffel 29 Sep '18

29 Sep '18

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

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Community Training
by mlong＠datalong.com 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Hi All, I have floated the following idea at my church and it has been well received. Seek donations of older computers, have the youth group refurbish them, sell them at a low price with user training and support to seniors. The money raised will go to the youth group. The systems would be optimized for email and web surfing. Naturally Linux would be the OS. Is this a crazy idea? Has anyone done something similar? Are there resources available to help with this sort of thing? Thanks, Mike Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

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Using wireshark to sniff arduino USB traffic...
by Tim Keller 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

I saw this article yesterday: http://biot.com/blog/usb-sniffing-on-linux Pretty cool stuff! Later, Tim. -- I am weary of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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REMINDER: Upcoming Meeting
by Andy Stewart 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI everybody, We have a WLUG meeting scheduled for Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 at 7:00 PM on the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA. Our featured speaker for this evening will be WLUG member John Stoffel, and he will be talking about using Linux together with an Arduino, which is a microcontroller that is freely specified and available in many different implementations for around $30. See http://arduino.cc for more information. After the meeting, we'll adjourn to a local pizza establishment. I look forward to seeing you at the meeting! 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 iD8DBQFJv8j+Hl0iXDssISsRAuIqAJ9/L41ujQ7aJeEwHtag17bC4dH8ugCggXl7 p/V/8P3I9KNTNILhP48ntrA= =gkyJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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web hosting recommendations
by Frank Sweetser 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

I'm looking to see if anyone has any recommendations for a decent web hosting service for a small local business. The people are pretty non-technical, so they're basically looking for something low cost with a good CMS, rather than a raw semi-managed linux host. Anybody have any favorites that would fit this bill? -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC

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apt + version control
by bkn＠ithryn.net 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi All, I'm trying to find a solution to a problem. I would like tie apt (or dpkg) to some kind of version control system so every time you install/remove a package you much annotate why you're doing so. The reason i'd like to have a system like this is because i co-maintain a linux machine with a few other people and we'd like to keep a running tally as to who installed what packages and why (since the package gets unwieldy after a while). Does anyone know of a system like this? The closest thing i was able to find was something called pkgwatch, which is a package of scripts which wraps around apt and rpm; one of it's features is to diff the list of packages after every call to apt-get which will get the job done. Does anyone know of anything similar? Thanks, -- Brad

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WLUG March 2009