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Re: [Wlug] REMINDER: Meeting on Wednesday, March 14th at 7 PM

by Jeremy

Would anyone be interested in seeing a wireless network in place? I have an Apple Airport working great at home that I could sudo-demo at the meeting... I have the 3com AirConnect PC Card also working on my laptop, which shows how to setup a PC card network adapter under linux as well. The Airport is connected to an IDSL in my apt and pretty easy to configure.. They do have a WIN/MAC client to configure it (my laptop is win/linux dual boot), but I also believe that they have a JAVA client (=linux) but I have not tried using that one yet either. Its about a $400 solution (base and PC CARD - kinda pricey for most college bound) but wicked convient for the home laptop and multiple computers (i.e. laptops and work stations) The airport does takes the place of using a linux box as a router / gateway though :-) It does NAT and a DHCP server - wicked simple and reliable. Just shows another angle / solution. This is low priority so if there is not enough time / interest no biggie... -Jeremy --- Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)mediaone.net> wrote: > > HI everyone, > > This is a friendly reminder: the next WLUG meeting will be held on > Wednesday, > March 14th at 7 PM in Kinnicutt Hall at WPI in Worcester, MA. Directions can > be > found on the WLUG website: > > http://www.wlug.org > > WLUG members Doug Waud, Stephen Daukas, and Chuck Anderson have been working > together on the presentation for this meeting (at least that's the story I've > been given). They will be discussing their experiences with home networking. > > Check out the WLUG website for a more detailed description of the focus of > their > talk. I expect that this will be a good meeting for someone who might not > have > setup a home network but is considering it. > > After the presentation, if time allows, we'll open the floor for a general > question and answer session. > > At the conclusion of the meeting, a group of us will head over to the Boynton > Restaurant for some pizza and beer. > > As always, the meeting and the post-meeting festivities are open to anybody > who > is interested in Linux. No secret handshake is required. :-) > > See ya later, > > Andy > > -- > Andy Stewart, Founder -o) | Aquadextrous, adj.: Possessing the > > Worcester Linux Users' Group /\ | ability to turn the bathtub faucet on > and > Worcester, MA, USA _\_v | off with your toes. -- Rich Hall, > > http://www.wlug.org | "Sniglets" > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug ===== - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

March 13, 2001

REMINDER: Meeting on Wednesday, March 14th at 7 PM

by Andy Stewart

HI everyone, This is a friendly reminder: the next WLUG meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 14th at 7 PM in Kinnicutt Hall at WPI in Worcester, MA. Directions can be found on the WLUG website: http://www.wlug.org WLUG members Doug Waud, Stephen Daukas, and Chuck Anderson have been working together on the presentation for this meeting (at least that's the story I've been given). They will be discussing their experiences with home networking. Check out the WLUG website for a more detailed description of the focus of their talk. I expect that this will be a good meeting for someone who might not have setup a home network but is considering it. After the presentation, if time allows, we'll open the floor for a general question and answer session. At the conclusion of the meeting, a group of us will head over to the Boynton Restaurant for some pizza and beer. As always, the meeting and the post-meeting festivities are open to anybody who is interested in Linux. No secret handshake is required. :-) See ya later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder -o) | Aquadextrous, adj.: Possessing the Worcester Linux Users' Group /\ | ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and Worcester, MA, USA _\_v | off with your toes. -- Rich Hall, http://www.wlug.org | "Sniglets"

March 13, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Open Source XML Programming Tutorial

by Doug Chamberlin

At 3/7/2001 04:33 PM (Wednesday), Steve Litt wrote: >Because most XML books and websites force the you to recite Microsoft >incantations, I wrote an all Open Source XML programming tutorial using Linux >and Xerces-Java from Apache Software Foundation. It thoroughly covers coding >of DOM, SAX, and DTD's. > >http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200103/200103.htm Thanks for doing that, Steve. XML - The ASCII of the 21st Century!

March 7, 2001

Open Source XML Programming Tutorial

by Steve Litt

Hi all, Because most XML books and websites force the you to recite Microsoft incantations, I wrote an all Open Source XML programming tutorial using Linux and Xerces-Java from Apache Software Foundation. It thoroughly covers coding of DOM, SAX, and DTD's. http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200103/200103.htm Enjoy! SteveT Steve Litt Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com http://www.troubleshooters.com slitt(a)troubleshooters.com

March 7, 2001

Set Date/Time

by Peter Nikolla

I would like to thank everyone that helped me with the setting of date/time. I think the hwclock command did the trick. thanx Peter N.

March 5, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Set Date/Time

by Keith Wright

> From: "Peter Nikolla" <petern(a)hvnnet.com> > > I am having a problem setting the date/time on my Linux box. If you are not dual booting, set the proper time in UCT (Greenwich) in the ROM bios. Once that is right, it will become clear what is wrong. If you are dual booting, you may be forced to set the hardware clock to local civil time. That is no disaster, but you have to think harder to get it right. I think 'hwclock' should only be used to make small adjustments if the clock drifts after being set correctly. I am not sure what 'date' is for in SET! mode (as opposed to DISPLAY mode). Maybe in case you need to back-date some documents without re-booting. > I set it using date 030310152001 for 3/3/2001 10:15. I almost wrote back "thou fool, hast permuted fields", but the 'man date' page seems to agree with you. Can anybody think of a more obtuse way to write a date? Sometimes Unix is embarrasing. > until I reboot the box. At that time it changes to some other time. Calculate the amount of change and meditate upon that number. > I checked my CMOS and the time is correct. What am I doing wrong? Correct local or correct UCT? -- -- Keith Wright <kwright(a)free-comp-shop.com> Programmer in Chief, Free Computer Shop <http://www.free-comp-shop.com> --- Food, Shelter, Source code. ---

March 4, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Set Date/Time

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Keith Wright wrote: > Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 20:50:27 -0500 > From: Keith Wright <kwright(a)gis.net> > Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: Re: [Wlug] Set Date/Time > > > From: "Peter Nikolla" <petern(a)hvnnet.com> > > > > Hi, > > > > I am having a problem setting the date/time on my Linux box. > > > > I set it using date 030310152001 for 3/3/2001 10:15. Everyting seems fine > > until I reboot the box. At that time it changes to some other time. I > > checked my CMOS and the time is correct. What am I doing wrong? > > > > Check /etc/adjtime and if it has big numbers in it, delete it. > Read "man hwclock" to understand why. > > -- > -- Keith Wright <kwright(a)free-comp-shop.com> > > Programmer in Chief, Free Computer Shop <http://www.free-comp-shop.com> > --- Food, Shelter, Source code. --- > _______________________________________________ <snip> I'm not sure that's the right approach. The adjtime file needs a rational setting, which it gets by noting the drift in hwclock time v. "real" time, which assumes that the real (system) time is accurate (nntp service?). This may help... 1. Get you system time set correctly. 2. run hwclock --systohc --utc (you determine if the --utc is right for you. 3. Wait a day or 2 while you system is still up. Don't reboot. 4. Check you system time & make sure it's right. 5. Do step #2 again. Any hwclock time drift will be reflected in the adjtime file. Bill

March 4, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Set Date/Time

by Keith Wright

> From: "Peter Nikolla" <petern(a)hvnnet.com> > > Hi, > > I am having a problem setting the date/time on my Linux box. > > I set it using date 030310152001 for 3/3/2001 10:15. Everyting seems fine > until I reboot the box. At that time it changes to some other time. I > checked my CMOS and the time is correct. What am I doing wrong? > Check /etc/adjtime and if it has big numbers in it, delete it. Read "man hwclock" to understand why. -- -- Keith Wright <kwright(a)free-comp-shop.com> Programmer in Chief, Free Computer Shop <http://www.free-comp-shop.com> --- Food, Shelter, Source code. ---

March 4, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Set Date/Time

by Mike Gorse

Oops; discard my previous message; I was not thinking at all or reading carefully... Could your time zone be set incorrectly? Make sure /etc/localtime is linked to the correct file (/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern, for instance), and be sure that your os isn't configured to use gmt when you don't have your clock set to gmt or vice versa. --Michael Gorse, WPI CS '01 / ICQ:22583968 / http://www.wpi.edu/~mgorse/ --

March 3, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Set Date/Time

by Mike Gorse

Peter, Using date to set the date doesn't automatically modify the cmos clock. Try running hwclock --systohc after running date to set the hardware clock. Read the hwclock manpage for more information. --Michael Gorse, WPI CS '01 / ICQ:22583968 / http://www.wpi.edu/~mgorse/ --

March 3, 2001