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Re: [Wlug] update; thanks

by Bill Smith

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:54:32 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Perry wrote: > Lo and behold, last night I hooked up a patch cable >to my wife's router, booted up Damn Small Linux on an >old PC, and it just plain worked ! Having tried off >and on for many years to make linux _useful_ to me >(not just a novelty), I was really excited. Awesome! :) > Unfortunately, a lot of work lies ahead of me >before I can really convert to linux: for example, I >tried to listen to my favorite radio station 2gb.com, >and successfully downloaded real player for linux, but >got stuck installing it... I'll try to figure it out >eventually, but didn't have time last night. You may need to have root privileges to install Real Player. If you have sudo configured, you can probably use a command like: chmod +x realplayer10.bin sudo ./realplayer10.bin If you do not have sudo configured, you will need the root password. If you installed this system, then you should know it. In this case, something like this should do the trick: su - cd /path/to/RealPlayer-file-you-downloaded chmod +x realplayer10.bin ./realplayer10.bin In both cases, you'll want to use the actual filename for the RealPlayer installation binary. The "chmod" command makes the file executable. Hope this helps. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com Microsoft Windows doesn't HAVE security holes... It IS a security hole. * TAG! v3.2 *

Aug. 4, 2006

update; thanks

by Andrew Perry

Hi everyone, About a year ago I asked for help from this group on getting linux to work with the internet, preferably though my home wi-fi network, which works OK with Windows. Until then, I had played with linux for a long time but had never been able to make it a part of my life due to the deal-breaker factor of no internet. Someone suggested using the latest distros, such as Fedora Core (3 at the time), which would be most likely to have the appropriate drivers. (Incidentally, frozentech.com sells linux cd's/dvd's at $1/$2 with max $0.49 shipping.) I tried many distros, and two or three different USB wirless adapters, but no luck. Another person suggested trying a wired network first, as wired networks were easier to make work. Until now, I haadn't tried that suggestion, since I thought that it would still involve a lot of time in configuration and trial and error. Lo and behold, last night I hooked up a patch cable to my wife's router, booted up Damn Small Linux on an old PC, and it just plain worked ! Having tried off and on for many years to make linux _useful_ to me (not just a novelty), I was really excited. Unfortunately, a lot of work lies ahead of me before I can really convert to linux: for example, I tried to listen to my favorite radio station 2gb.com, and successfully downloaded real player for linux, but got stuck installing it... I'll try to figure it out eventually, but didn't have time last night. Thanks, everyone. - Andrew -Dr. Andrew B. Perry Assistant Prof. of Mathematics, Springfield College 263 Alden St., Springfield MA 01109 Work Phone (413)748-3193

Aug. 3, 2006

REMINDER: WLUG BBQ Thurs Aug 10 6PM

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 What: WLUG Summer BBQ at Jamie's House in Shrewsbury When: Thursday August 10, 6pm-~9pm. Hot dogs, burgers, and maybe a few other items (chicken+veggie kebobs anyone?) will be on the grill, and various non-alcoholic beverages will be available. My grill is a bit old and battered, so if you're bothered by a little rust, feel free to BYO food. We're anticipating around 15 people based on past WLUG events, and I'll have chairs for about that many people. If the weather is horrible, I might bring things inside, and we can do some fun Linux demo things like install gentoo on a spare box, broadcast a movie on VLC, etc. WIFI will be available if you want to bring a laptop. Directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=21+Lexington+Road+01545 Text directions: http://bluebutton.com/misc/dirxns2.html I'll leave 2 open spots in the driveway, otherwise you can park along the curb. Walk around the right (north) side of the house to get to the back yard. See you there! - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE0STGHl0iXDssISsRApd4AJ0VPhBTBs5sP/3ue0pjFJ2yB5Gv/gCfbhtB zt3EYKFu6CWiEGdRj5UX3GE= =7Sci -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Aug. 2, 2006

[Fwd: Special Discount for SD Best Practices 2006 Conference & Expo]

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Special Discount for SD Best Practices 2006 Conference & Expo Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:49:05 -0700 From: BWong(a)cmp.com To: andystewart(a)comcast.net Hello Andy, I would like to invite all WLUG members to attend the Software Development Best Practices 2006 Conference & Expo coming to the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA, September 11 - 14. With more than 175 educational sessions, SD Best Practices offers a multitude of exciting learning and networking opportunities. This year’s conference features classes, tutorials, case studies, roundtables, panels and Birds-of-a-Feathers in the following tracks: - - Build & Deploy - - C++ - - Design & Architecture - - People, Projects & Teams - - Process & Methods - - Requirements & Analysis - - Testing & Quality We encourage your members to take advantage of our generous Early Bird conference discounts. Register by August 4th with the code 6EGRAS81 to qualify for Early Bird pricing. After August 4th, your members will still save $300 off of the VIP pass by using that discount code. WLUG members also receive free admission to the SD Best Practices Expo - a $50 value! Your FREE Expo Pass grants you access to: - - All technical training sessions from IBM, Progress Software, Electric Cloud and others - - Expo Floor featuring the latest tools, technologies and solutions - - Visionary Keynote presentations - - Expo Floor Opening Party with free food and drinks Registration is fast & easy! Sign up for a Conference Pass or your free Expo Pass on-line at http://www.sdexpo.com or by phone at (800) 441-8826 and be sure to use the your special discount code: 6EGRAS81. I'd greatly appreciate it if you would help us get the word out to all your members and colleagues. Let me know if you'd like me to send you copies of our conference catalog to distribute at your next meeting. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Best regards and thanks, Bella Wong Marketing Coordinator Dr. Dobb's SD Events CMP Technology tel: 415.947.6358 | fax: 415.947.6070 | bwong(a)cmp.com http://www.sdexpo.com | http://www.ddj.com - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFExWxEHl0iXDssISsRAtLEAJsHiUtC1BDjJ25UpmBCOj0tp1pD8ACfRW/x 538/JWMWu6hyLd0HipX6ovQ= =ytos -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

July 25, 2006

Test - please ignore

by David Glaser

Test - please ignore

July 22, 2006

Re: [Wlug] WLUG website on PDA web browser

by Frank Sweetser

On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 10:11:07PM -0400, Andy Stewart wrote: > > HI gang, > > I recently got a Palm T|X and was using the web browser. It works fine > for websites that are written in a certain way (mobile.palm.com, for > example). Our WLUG website comes up with the WLUG graphical header but > no useful text info. > > I'm wondering if it would be hard to format (at least the home page of) > the website to display cleanly on a PDA (320x480 or 320x320) as well as > a normal computer screen. Does anybody have the expertise and time to > give this a try? If its a huge effort, it is probably not worth it, but > I don't have the expertise to size up the effort. If it's like the one or two other phone based browsers I've played with, it probably doesn't handle frames in a useful way. The solution would be to re-implement the frames based layout using CSS instead. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC

July 19, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Which C++ Development Environment to use

by Karl Hiramoto

David Glaser wrote: > I'm new to the Linux world and I'm looking for free C++ devleopment > environments that run on Windoze and Linux > > Right now I'm using Eclipse with the CDT toolset - what other IDEs > should I look at? > > Thanks, > > I use Source-Navigator http://sourcenav.sourceforge.net/ Kdeveop is nice on linux, but to use on windows i think you need cygwin. I have not tried it on windows tho. http://www.kdevelop.org/ -- --- Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> http://karl.hiramoto.org/

July 17, 2006

Which C++ Development Environment to use

by David Glaser

I'm new to the Linux world and I'm looking for free C++ devleopment environments that run on Windoze and Linux Right now I'm using Eclipse with the CDT toolset - what other IDEs should I look at? Thanks, David Glaser

July 17, 2006

WLUG website on PDA web browser

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI gang, I recently got a Palm T|X and was using the web browser. It works fine for websites that are written in a certain way (mobile.palm.com, for example). Our WLUG website comes up with the WLUG graphical header but no useful text info. I'm wondering if it would be hard to format (at least the home page of) the website to display cleanly on a PDA (320x480 or 320x320) as well as a normal computer screen. Does anybody have the expertise and time to give this a try? If its a huge effort, it is probably not worth it, but I don't have the expertise to size up the effort. Thanks! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEuaA7Hl0iXDssISsRAo76AJ9BFCwiwIzeWZVEcYkRrStmOdwvEgCdG1g9 XmQiiZX/updu9aJsR/Y+EGo= =Slhi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

July 16, 2006

Re: [Wlug] kernel driver vs module

by John Stoffel

Mike> well, now can someone explain why putting a bin file in Mike> /lib/firmware i now get the following after a insmod qla2xxx: Umm... because the card can now initialize itself with the firmware image and do the initial logins to the SAN? I dunno, I've never used them under Linux. Yet. :] Mike> QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver Mike> qla2xxx 0000:00:01.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 9, iobase 0xf8aa6000 Mike> qla2xxx 0000:00:01.0: Configuring PCI space... Mike> qla2xxx 0000:00:01.0: Configure NVRAM parameters... Mike> qla2xxx 0000:00:01.0: Verifying loaded RISC code... Mike> qla2xxx 0000:00:01.0: Waiting for LIP to complete... Mike> qla2xxx 0000:00:01.0: LOOP UP detected (2 Gbps). Mike> qla2xxx 0000:00:01.0: Topology - (F_Port), Host Loop address 0xffff Mike> scsi6 : qla2xxx Mike> qla2xxx 0000:00:01.0: Mike> QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.01.04-k Mike> QLogic QLA2340 - 133MHz PCI-X to 2Gb FC, Single Channel Mike> ISP2312: PCI (33 MHz) @ 0000:00:01.0 hdma-, host#=6, fw=3.03.20 IPX So that's good. Mike> My redhat servers don't even have a /lib/firmware directory...is Mike> this a debian thing? It's a Linux 2.6 thing Mike> Seems by simply putting a qla2300_fw.bin file in /lib/firmware Mike> fixed my problem. Good. Mike> I have yet to get actual SAN disks, but at least the card came Mike> up this time. Yeah! I assume that there are some tools under Linux to actually probe the fabric and see what's out there. It sounds like you're most of the way there now, unless of course you run into SAN zoning issues. Mike> Also, what is a KCONFIG entry? It's part of the Linux kernel source code tree. When you extract the kernel source and do: make xconfig it prompts you with entries from the KCONFIG files for each driver/kernel feature that you need to configure. I just cut'n'pasted the info from my local copy of the kernel source before. Good luck, John

July 11, 2006