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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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Embedded Linux contract in RI
by John Spencer 29 Jun '15

29 Jun '15

We have a client in RI looking for an experienced Embedded Linux Engineer for a 6+ month contract. I have included some info below. Please call or email me directly if you are interested in hearing details. Embedded Linux engineer to work on design and development of embedded Linux system. Must have a strong prior background with embedded Linux design and development. Prior experience with C/C++ Prior Linux drivers development, test and integration Prior Linux kernel knowledge Experience with BSP development Regards, John Spencer Connected Systems Partners Office: (978) 455-5550 x208 Cell: (978) 621-9743 jspencer(a)connectedsp.com www.connectedsp.com GET CONNECTED! All information in this email, unless indicated otherwise in the body of the email, is considered confidential and intended for the view and use of the recipient(s) only.

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Flat screen monitor 19" needs fixit; free to good home
by E Johnson 28 Jun '15

28 Jun '15

The power went out here twice today. After the second event, monitor seems to have died. This is an Acer monitor, several years old. Black(ish) bezel; not glossy. Flat screen, I think 19" diagonal. Has been a very nice reliable monitor during its working life. Has choice of DVI input or the older kind of data connection, whatever that used to be. This specific batch of Acer monitors had used a type of capacitor which is known to have a higher-than-usual failure rate, and this is PROBABLY what it needs. Had a twin of this that fryolated same way 2 years ago, and a WLUG member came by & reported shortly after that he got it up & running with just the replacement of bad caps. This monitor has been very steady and reliable until this afternoon, with nice display and no dead pixels, ever. So if you are handy with electronics fixits, capacitors are cheap and you could probably get this working again with only a screwdriver, a soldering iron and a little bit of fiddling. Might be nice for the kid's playroom or the back office, or something. I don't know how nice games look on this monitor, since I don't do gaming. Videos always looked perfectly fine with good color. PM me if you think you want this, since I have to get down under the work table to unplug the power cord & I'm not as spry as I used to be, but can do as long as my knees aren't required to do anything radical before Noon. Pickup after Noon any day, & evenings even sort-of late-ish are okay. I can meet you at the door with this. I'm in Worcester near Elm Park. Rather give this away here than trash it, or Freecycle... first dibs to WLUG. Best wishes, Liz J

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WLUG bbq thurs july9 7pm boylston MA
by Doug Mildram 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

Announcing (with Tim's blessing/OK) our next meeting is the WLUG summer BBQ at my house ; 540 linden st, boylston ma. <= 20min from worc via 290, .....so many other ways to get here from north/190 ; east/495, etc. Thurs July 9 at or before 7pm. Food details later. BBQ's don't need a topic, but I would love to keep doing+learning a LITTLE with -- freeNAS : my own home server works enough to NOT wanna break it, but smbd isnt working yet ( want to share with win doze) -- other ZFS-able boxes (e.g. my junker/re-loadable PC has pc-bsd with issues, want it to catch ZFS snapshots over ssh for backups ..how hard could that be?) -- chainsaws, musical instruments, tricks+treats for golden retrievers and a cat (just kidding for the meeting, but now you know way too much about me) Maybe someone else wants to bring a tower/PC for abuse or argument e.g. loading something like the above top 2, then studying the result. Or not? What did I forget besides food? -doug also with wife's blessing, if I do all the work.

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Minecraft security
by Joel 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

I don't have an answer for this one. But do have an 8 year old minecraft fan, so listening for any answers. Joel On June 22, 2015 12:00:24 PM wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org wrote: > Send Wlug mailing list submissions to > wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wlug-owner(a)mail.wlug.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wlug digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Minecraft server security ... (David Glaser) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:32:05 -0400 > From: David Glaser <dglaser(a)glaserresearch.net> > Subject: [Wlug] Minecraft server security ... > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Message-ID: <55874975.1080808(a)glaserresearch.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Folks, > > My grandson wants to host a minecraft server party for his boy scout > troop and my daughter and I are wondering how to ensure that the > existing machines on her home network are not compromised given that the > members of the troop will be bringing their own machinesand ethernet > switchesalthough some may be running wireless. > > I was wondering if you could give us some thoughts on how to set up the > network. It is my understanding that the minecraft clients do need to > get out to the internet to obtain a valid player name. I had thought > ofsetting up a seperate Router/Lan for the party, disconnecting the > existing router/lan from the wan and connecting the minecraft router/lan > to the wan for the duration of the party. > > Any thoughts out there? > > -David >

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Re: [Wlug] ls character range wildcard oddity? (Dennis Payne)
by Aljerin Butler,Jr. 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

If you're still searching for an answer, you might want to research my websitehere http://customdesktopsolutions.mywebcommunity.org/index.php/help-for-do-it-y… or here Linux sysadmin-addendum | | | | | | | | | Linux sysadmin-addendumLinux sysadmin-addendum Details Category: Creating and using FOSS Published on Friday, 05 June 2015 23:50 Written by Super User Hits: 12 So you want to be a Linux sysadmin? | | | | View on customdesktopsolutions.mywebcommunity.org | Preview by Yahoo | | | | | Al Butler From: "wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org" <wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org> To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 12:00 PM Subject: Wlug Digest, Vol 140, Issue 7 ----- Forwarded Message ----- Send Wlug mailing list submissions to wlug(a)mail.wlug.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wlug-request(a)mail.wlug.org You can reach the person managing the list at wlug-owner(a)mail.wlug.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wlug digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: ls character range wildcard oddity? (Dennis Payne) Interesting. I see the same behavior. Near as I can tell bash decided that the alphabet is: aAbBcCdD... I wouldn't expect that to be the case but when I played around with various file name that was the behavior I saw. So [a-c] includes upercase B while [a-b] does not. 'ls [A-c]*' will show Berry but not apple. On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 09:29 -0400, Brett Russ wrote: Can someone explain this to my evidently inadequately caffeinated brain? I was trying to use a lower case character range wildcard to list all files not starting with an uppercase letter and I noticed it wasn't working as I'd expect. So I created this simple example and still don't understand what's happening. Dir with two files: brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls apple Berry This is what I'd expect to see: brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls [a-b]* apple This makes no sense. Is this a bug?: brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls [a-c]* apple Berry >From here on are just a few extra examples confirming the oddity of the above. brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls [a]* apple brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls [b]* ls: cannot access [b]*: No such file or directory brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls [c]* ls: cannot access [c]*: No such file or directory brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls a* apple brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls b* ls: cannot access b*: No such file or directory brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls c* ls: cannot access c*: No such file or directory brett@spider /tmp/test $ dpkg -S `which ls` coreutils: /bin/ls brett@spider /tmp/test $ dpkg -s coreutils Package: coreutils Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: utils Installed-Size: 6020 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss(a)lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: foreign Version: 8.21-1ubuntu5.1 [SNIP] Thanks, Brett _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Minecraft server security ...
by David Glaser 21 Jun '15

21 Jun '15

Folks, My grandson wants to host a minecraft server party for his boy scout troop and my daughter and I are wondering how to ensure that the existing machines on her home network are not compromised given that the members of the troop will be bringing their own machinesand ethernet switchesalthough some may be running wireless. I was wondering if you could give us some thoughts on how to set up the network. It is my understanding that the minecraft clients do need to get out to the internet to obtain a valid player name. I had thought ofsetting up a seperate Router/Lan for the party, disconnecting the existing router/lan from the wan and connecting the minecraft router/lan to the wan for the duration of the party. Any thoughts out there? -David

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ls character range wildcard oddity?
by Brett Russ 19 Jun '15

19 Jun '15

Can someone explain this to my evidently inadequately caffeinated brain? I was trying to use a lower case character range wildcard to list all files not starting with an uppercase letter and I noticed it wasn't working as I'd expect. So I created this simple example and still don't understand what's happening. Dir with two files: brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls apple Berry This is what I'd expect to see: brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls [a-b]* apple This makes no sense. Is this a bug?: *brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls [a-c]*apple Berry* >From here on are just a few extra examples confirming the oddity of the above. brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls [a]* apple brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls [b]* ls: cannot access [b]*: No such file or directory brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls [c]* ls: cannot access [c]*: No such file or directory brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls a* apple brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls b* ls: cannot access b*: No such file or directory brett@spider /tmp/test $ \ls c* ls: cannot access c*: No such file or directory brett@spider /tmp/test $ dpkg -S `which ls` coreutils: /bin/ls brett@spider /tmp/test $ dpkg -s coreutils Package: coreutils Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: utils Installed-Size: 6020 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss(a)lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: foreign Version: 8.21-1ubuntu5.1 [SNIP] Thanks, Brett

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Re: [Wlug] WLUG Meeting tomorrow! Jun 11th, 2015! Native ZFS on linux!
by E Johnson 11 Jun '15

11 Jun '15

Shouldn't the tagline say Please excuse my levity? But roflol, you guys. Liz J On 11 June 2015 at 17:06, Frank Sweetser <fs(a)wpi.edu> wrote: > And I was hoping to see a file system that only stored data formatted in > iambic pentameter... > ---- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > > > > See you in the future, if you're going that way. > > > > -- Keith >

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WLUG June 2015