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Not A Lixnux Question, But
by Mims Research 20 Oct '06

20 Oct '06

Hi all, My organization is considering submitting an application to the FCC for a non-commercial full power radio station. An FCC window for applications will open sometime in early 2007. I need an engineer who has the resources and willingness to help us with this. I know there is mapping of spectrum involved and I know we must submit engineering data to the FCC with our application. I just don't know any engineers who can do this, so I thought I'd toss it out here. Our agency is a non-profit PEG station located in Athol, Massachusetts. We need to find alternatives to communications because the future of cable access television is constantly in jeopardy. I can explain more if you like. Any resources you might be able to offer would be great. We do have a small stipend we can offer, so it's not a totally freebie job. But we really do need someone who knows how to do *this* and who would be willing to guide us through the process. Thanks for your ideas, Marie MacDonald Athol, Mass. mimsresearch(a)gmail.com

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Xandros/Debian newbie question
by Andrew Perry 16 Oct '06

16 Oct '06

Being a trusting fellow and having faith in Tux magazine in particular, I decided to spend $60 on Xandros 4 Desktop Linux, based on a review in the Septmeber issue. >From the review it appeared that Xandros was like a better version of Freespire/Linspire: even more useful software like RealPlayer out of the box, better documentation and support, and at least as easy to ise. Whatever software wasn't included directly in the distro, I figured, would be available with one or two clicks from Xandros networks- or at least from Debian. Problem is, there seems to be very little software available from Xandros networks (maybe 50 packages), and my 4 year old daughter's favorite software gcompris is not available. (By the way, she's going to get her own computer soon, and she says she would never run Windows, only Linux.) Xandros warns you against selecting any other repository other than their own, yet I (recklessly?)selected the "unsupprted debian site" as a second repository- but with no luck - still no gcompris and few choices. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. Any ideas ? (Thanks in advance. You guys are great!) -Dr. Andrew B. Perry Assistant Prof. of Mathematics, Springfield College 263 Alden St., Springfield MA 01109 Work Phone (413)748-3193

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Truecrypt and Backups
by Mike 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Hi there, These two topics are completely unrelated. I was going to mention this tonight but it slipped my mind... A) I was curious if anyone is or has use(d) the truecrypt file system (truecrypt.org) If so do you have any recommendations or possible alternatives. I am thinking of using truecrypt for a partition on a USB thumb drive. B) Backups -- Giving finite resources/knowledge what software do people use to do full backups? Simple is better. And drive images are an option. I'm actually proxying this question for someone not on this list. Any insight is useful. Thanks, Mike -- They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security --Ben Franklin

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Re: [Wlug] Please attend this Wednesday's WLUG, and bring your friends
by Mike 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Doug, Thanks for the talk tonight. I had mentioned to you a tool named Ant. I figured I'd follow up and give you some more info. Ant can be found at: http://ant.apache.org/ As I had mentioned Ant has some similarities to 'make'. Here is an example of an build.xml file that can perform an XML Transformation. <project default="transform"> <target name="init"> <input message="Input XML: " addproperty="input"/> <input message="Output XML: " addproperty="output"/> <input message="Style: " addproperty="style"/> </target> <target name="transform" depends="init"> <echo message="Transforming ${input} to ${output} with ${style}"/> <xslt style="${style}" in="${input}" out="${output}"/> </target> </project> Hope that is useful. Cheers, Mike <quote who="douglas.r.aker(a)verizon.com"> > Hi All: > > Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm working hard to make my preso at > this Wednesday's WLUG meeting (October 11) interesting, informative, > innovative. Something different, without being annoying. > > Bring any of your friends that might be interested in data visualization, > web design, XML, SVG, etc. > > During the preso, interrupt me with questions as much as you want, and > make a mental note where my presentation isn't clear or drags. I'm hoping > to get as much feedback as possible so that the next time I present this > topic it will be better. > > Thanks, > Doug_______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security --Ben Franklin

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Re: [Wlug] Wednesday's WLUG - noob question on XML editor
by d.maly＠ieee.org 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

This stuff is new to me, so wanted to dabble a bit before the meeting. My question is: what's your favorite editor for XML? My past experience with HTML has been with Mozilla editors in Windows, and I find them to be adequate (and free). Thanks, Doug Maly > Hi All: > > Just wanted to let everyone know that I'm working hard to make my preso at > this Wednesday's WLUG meeting (October 11) interesting, informative, > innovative. Something different, without being annoying. > > Bring any of your friends that might be interested in data visualization, > web design, XML, SVG, etc. > > During the preso, interrupt me with questions as much as you want, and > make a mental note where my presentation isn't clear or drags. I'm hoping > to get as much feedback as possible so that the next time I present this > topic it will be better. > > Thanks, > Doug >

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Looking for a new system
by John Stoffel 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

Guys, I've been looking around for a new system at home, basically to act as a file server (NFS, Samba) and backup server using Bacula. It also needs to run http and mysql and other daemons as needed. I'd like to get at least a pair of 250gb drives to mirror them for storage, with LVM volumes on top. And of course room for expansion to another pair of drives down the line. But I'd like it smallish and quiet as well. Oh yeah, it needs to have a PCI slot for a SCSI controller, since my tape drive is SCSI for backups. Desires: - small - cheap - quiet - low power - boots without a keyboard/mouse needed at all - onboard video (don't really need it at all) - PCI slots for expansion - four 3.5" drive bays internally - SATA ports on board - AMD or VIA EPIA - 1Gb of RAM or more. I've looked at the Via EPIA style systems. Just not sure if they have enough oomph for what I want. The other thought is to just take my old Dell Precision dual cpu Xeon 550mhz box and make that my main server, holding all my data, etc. It's got the drive bays, and PCI slots and scsi controller all in there already. I could add in some SATA controllers for the new disks without a problem. And it would continue to hold my ISA 8-port serial card. And it's got the memory for what it would be doing pretty much as well. Then I'd just get a new system for my desktop with a much smaller disk drive. Systems I've looked at: - bare bones AMD x2 on ebay. - VIA Epia Nanoscale dual CPU box http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7109201579.html - buying a dell from their closeouts Any comments? John

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need to test notebook
by Gregory Avedissian 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

A friend of mine just got a used notebook computer, but it has no AC adapter, and the battery is dead. He'd like to test it out before he invests any significant money into it. I'm wondering if anyone has an AC adapter for a Dell Inspiron 18000 and would be willing to bring it to the meeting, so we can see if this thing will fire up. And does anyone know of a good place to get used parts locally (like an AC adapter)? Thanks, Greg

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noob question on Altova XMLSpy
by d.maly＠ieee.org 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

I'm trying to install Altova XMLSpy, following instructions at http://www.altova.com/support_platform_linux.html and saw the comment: "Copy the complete 2006 Relewase 4 installation directory from Windows to the Linux partition (this avoids any installer-related issues); this should be an installation where you have already requested/purchased and entered a key-code, because the key-code request mechanism doesn’t currently work under WINE." so I guess I follow the rules and enter the key-code I have in hand using Windows to enter the key-code, then "Copy the complete 2006 ..." etc etc Any better ideas? Doug

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REMINDER: WLUG Meeting THIS WED Oct 11th 7PM
by Andy Stewart 09 Oct '06

09 Oct '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI gang, This is a friendly reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting, to be held THIS WED Oct 11th, 7:00 PM in the Access Grid Room on the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA. At this meeting, our guest speaker will be WLUG member Doug Aker. The topic will be Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). === Abstract === How an average programmer, after discovering SVG, used zLinux, perl, XML, XSLT, HTML, JavaScript and, above all, SVG to create an interactive browser-based application to visualize client-server connections. See how Doug's odyssey into open languages led him through the lands of information theory, graph theory, set theory and data visualization. Find out why his wife and kids run out of the room whenever he starts talking about SVG. Like you, Doug has sat and snoozed through many slide presentations, and vows *not* to make this yet another PowerPoint-like affair. Please attend. Doug is comfortable with large crowds. Doug Aker has been doing application and tech support work at Verizon Communications for 21 years. ===End Abstract === After the meeting, we'll adjourn to the Tech Pizza restaurant on Highland Street for pizza, soda, and more tech talk! See ya there! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFKs4KHl0iXDssISsRApjZAJ9zxYHgGCEfMk3ozZerjjhFfS4urwCeKpZs CjXBYXwgh7QZRp9LbdDXM9Q= =rzwB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Allowing a Ubuntu workstation access to a Windows Domain
by Chuck Noyes 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Hi All Can anyone point me to a link that shows me how to allow a ubuntu machine, running "dapper" to log on to a Windows Domain and be authenticated by the domain controller? Thanks, -Chuck

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