Hi Everybody,
I've just posted the slides from the previous WLUG meeting on the website.
There are in StarOffice format as well as HTML. From the WLUG home page,
scroll down and click the link for "Past Meeting Information".
For those of you who were unable to attend, I dare say you missed a good
meeting. There were alot of questions and people really seemed interested in
the topic. Fortunately, my client computer booted off of my laptop server
just like it did when I left home.
I even went out on a limb and attempted to get Doug Waud's computer working as
a client, since the "live demo" concept seems to be a popular feature of WLUG
meetings. I hadn't seen Doug's computer previously, but he did bring the
proper network boot floppy. I "got Doug-ed" the first time (you've got to
watch your cables and power cords around Doug) by a network cable that wasn't
entirely plugged in. By the third attempt, his client booted with minor
video artifacts, probably due to not using the correct XFree86 software.
I'm soliciting ideas for the next meeting, which will be the first meeting of
the year with the new crop of WPI students. I hope to have a great meeting
planned so that the WPI students will continue to attend, as they constitute
a sizeable percentage of the WLUG membership.
See ya later,
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
Hi Everybody,
This is a friendly reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting on Thursday,
August 14, 2003, at 7:00 PM in Olin Hall on the WPI campus. Go into Olin
Hall's front door, to the top of the stairs, and we'll be in the big lecture
hall on the left.
I'll be addressing the group at this meeting, and the topic will be the Linux
Terminal Server Project (LTSP). Come and learn how to use your old,
potentially obsolete hardware as a graphics terminal connected to a more
powerful server. I'll demonstrate (live!) how a Pentium 90 with 48 MB of
memory and a 10 Mbps ethernet connection could be used effectively as an LTSP
client, running any Linux program that is installed on the server.
I've also got a couple of those Linux Format magazines for raffle (one with a
CD, the other with a DVD). I'll have sodas and cookies also for
refreshments.
After the meeting, we'll make our monthly pilgrimage to the Boynton Restaurant
for pizza and beers.
All are welcome to attend. There is no admission fee for admittance to a WLUG
meeting. Donations are always welcome but not required.
See ya later,
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
Hi all,
I've got some new, old stock, single board computers
available.
Details at:
http://members.cox.net/n1nte/forsale/as-p2vf.html
WLUG member discount price is $45.
I also have some backplanes available and some other models
of these boards. I recently picked up this lot and haven't
sorted through them all yet.
Email me directly if interested.
Thanks - Rob
Hi everybody,
I'm looking for a used monitor as a spare for my basement lab bench:
14" or 15"
Multi sync
Capable of at least 1024x768 at 72 Hz (or better)
Relatively good cosmetic condition
Excellent working condition
Cheap(!)
If you have something which might interest me, contact me directly and we can
negotiate.
Thanks,
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
HI everybody,
I've been out of touch all week due to a catastrophic hard drive failure. My
hard drive is only 1.5 years old and its an IBM Ultrastar 18 GB SCSI drive
with a 5 year warranty. IBM/Hitachi will be getting it back assuming it
fails their diags, which I have to run as a prerequisite to getting an RMA.
Naturally, they are DOS based diags. They have incredibly fussy rules about
packing the drive for shipment, lest one voids one's warranty (say that three
times fast).
Believe it or not, it died while I was doing the tape backup!!
I lost about 1 weeks worth of Quicken transactions and the photos from my
sister's wedding (which I can recover from CDs previously burned for other
family members). I got lucky.
The moral of the story is: Make sure you do your backups! This is the 2nd
hard drive that I've lost in the last 12 months (the first one was over 5
years old).
Or, just run most of your machines as LTSP clients and don't worry about
disks..... :-)
Later,
Andy
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
I found what looks like the source files from a tar package in
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/Python-2.2.3. It appears that I could build it
by running the usual ./configure make ... process. There are no rpms in
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/. Do I need to build the rpm from this? As a
reminder I am using the SuSE 8.2 distro so the directory structure is
slightly different.
--Mike
>
> Did you install the resulting i386.rpm files from the rebuild step?
> They should have ended up in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
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I have discovered that the files in the expat-devel package are already
installed on the system so I ran rpmbuild --rebuild --nodeps ....
It appeared to compile with a lot of warnings about anti-aliasing.
Unfortunately the warnings scrolled out of the term buffer so I don't
have the exact warning. This process is very verbose and I don't know if
it completed successfully or not. When I query the rpm database it still
shows the old version of python. Did I miss a step?
>
> I should mention, that if you find one that has the expat include
> files, but isn't named expat-devel, you can force the build with:
>
> rpmbuild --rebuild --nodeps ....
>
> Actually, it might be easier to grab the SuSE python2 src.rpm, and
> modify that one to use the new python2-2.2.3 tar source. That way,
> your src.rpm will be based on the SuSE one, with all the correct
> dependencies for expat, etc:
>
> rpm -i the-suse-python2-2.2.2.src.rpm
>
> cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
>
> edit python2.spec to change the version to 2.2.3 and release to
> 1custom or similar.
>
> copy the new python2-2.2.3.tar.gz into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
>
> rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/python2.spec
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What has me concerned is that there is an expat package and it is
installed on the system, but I am still getting the missing expat-devel
error. The following are the results of the rpm queries:
rpm -ql expat | grep include
/usr/include/expat.h
rpm -qa | grep expat
expat-1.95.6-11
--Mike
> Do you have an expat package? Most likely then the expat-devel stuff
> is in the expat package. List it to see if there are any include
> files:
>
> rpm -ql expat | grep include
>
> Or see if any other package mentions "expat":
>
> rpm -qa | grep expat
>
> If SuSE doesn't have any expat packages available at all, then
> rebuilding one probably won't hurt.
>
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I have yet another question...when rebuilding the source rpm I get an
error saying that I need the expat-devel libraries. My distribution
either doesn't come with them or they are part of another package and I
am not seeing it. If I download and rebuild the source rpm package for
expat-devel from rpmfind.net what is the risk that it will break
something on my system.
Thanks,
Mike
> I am using SuSE 8.2 and I found the rpm's on rpmfind.net. The
> distribution came with python 2.2.2 but I need python 2.2.3. I looked
> for new SuSE packages but did not find them. I will follow your
> suggestion and download the src rpm and rebuild it.
>
> Mike
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