July 2013 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

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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MIT Fleamarket
by The Hammer 13 Jul '13

13 Jul '13

I am thinking of checking out the MIT Flea Market to be held on July 21 http://www.mitflea.com/ I've never been. Could any one tell me more about it? Do you recommend? Ron

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Did anybody make it to the meeting last night?
by Tim Keller 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

I hope somebody showed up! -- Sent from my mobile device I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Unable to make it tonight...
by Tim Keller 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hey Gang, Unfortunately I have had something come up and I'll be unable to make it... Sorry for the short notice. Thanks, Tim.

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Seeking volunteer to help with local non-profit's website
by Mike Peckar 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Literacy Volunteers of Greater Worcester, lvgw.org, is seeking a volunteer for a one-off project to refresh their website. This is not an ongoing commitment. Not sure if the backend tools the use for site management are linux-based, but I suspect they are not. Their goals are: 1. Updating LVGW's website to make it more user friendly, interactive and functional 2. The current website needs some work to make it easier to use and update. This person would also mentor a staff member about these issues Please contact me offline if you are interested. They are also separately looking for a volunteer archivist to create an online database of their historical and research data. Hope you don't think this crosses the line of fair use of this list, but it is for a good cause. Mike

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Are we having a meeting on the 10th?
by Tim Keller 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Hey Gang, I presume we're actually going to have a WLUG meeting this month? Would anybody like to step forward and give a talk? Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Release cycle for RHEL / CentOS 6
by Eric Martin 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Hi All, The subversion server at my office is on a CentOS 6 server, and a software developer wrote a hook in python for it. The hook requires python 2.7, but CentOS 6 only has 2.6.6 (python-2.6.6-36.el6 to be exact). I grabbed python-2.7.2-5.2.fc16.src.rpm from Fedora 16 and am trying to roll my own via instructions I found on the CentOS wiki. All is good except that it requires db4.8, and that's not out for RHEL6 either. >From where I stand, it looks like my options are: 1) wait this out until either Python or a dependency are pushed up, but when is that? 2) rebuild this package with the deps, but I'm not quite sure how to roll a -devel package 3) roll my own package from scratch 4) install python 2.7 in an alternate location and point to it for this script Since this is a production server, I'd rather no do any hacks on this. Does anybody know how the release schedule works, or have any other advice? Thanks in advance, -- Eric Martin

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new to Worcester UNIX community
by Arjan van der Velde 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Hi all, I'm new to the Worcester area and I would like to know how active the UNIX community is around here and possibly contribute. I am particularly interested in the BSDs but also Linux. -- Arjan

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