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REMINDER: Next meeting on Thursday
by Andy Stewart 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

HI gang, The next WLUG meeting will be held this week on Thursday, August 16th at 7:00 PM in "the usual place". Please check the WLUG website for more information. At this meeting, the speaker will be Brian Conway, who will be talking about the use of DVDs with Linux. Bring your favorite DVD and maybe we can play it on a Linux system! After the meeting, we'll be going to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer and anybody who comes to the meeting is welcome to join us. Come on down...it should be a good time. Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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Network Install
by Colin Novick 13 Aug '01

13 Aug '01

I freely confess my inexperience. I have done a number of successful CDROM installs from Mandrake 6.1-7.1-7.2. I have an old box I scrounged but without a servicable CDROM drive. I want to install Linux on it, but need to do a Network Install. I am not finding detailed documentation on this and will continue to hunt. If anyone has a hint as to where to look or experience to kick me in the pants in the right direction I would be terribly grateful. Thanks Colin

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phpgroupware?
by Wesley Allen 13 Aug '01

13 Aug '01

Greetings, We've just set up a new mail server here where I work and we want to get phpgroupware up as a web-client. Here is my question, does anyone know of any way we can set phpgroupware to auto-sync linux users with the mysql database backend? Any info would be useful, I don't want to have to set everyone up twice. Wes

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Re: [Wlug] Question
by Wesley Allen 12 Aug '01

12 Aug '01

Do a home network and hack it together. The sugguestion about getting involved in help-desk work is really good too because all of the sudden you HAVE to learn all this stuff so you can help people (though you may go insane doing it, "I've got 600 messages in my "saved" box on the mail server, should I have backed these up on my local machine?"). If you've got a friend who is a system admin start talking to them as you hack your network, this will have to be a good friend who will not mind giving you advice for free that he charges other people for; but friends can put into English what man pages can only put into "networkspeak", without friends, I'd never even tried to learn linux and would still be a slave of Microsoft. Wes ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU> Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 14:57:27 -0400 >On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:25:15PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: >> I've seen good comments made about: >> >> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471345865/qid=997293880/sr=1-24/ref… > >Also ISBN 0-201-43319-2 > >-- >Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 15 >Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | >P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the >world like English did. Er, *as* English did... > -- Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393(a)wall.org> >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

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Problem with X
by Long, Mike 10 Aug '01

10 Aug '01

Hi All, I have XFree36 3.x installed and can use startx to launch icewm. When I install KDE2 and run startx it crashes with the following (paraphrased) message: ksmserver: Error in loading shared library libGL.so.1 ksplash: Error in loading shared library libGL.so.1 kdeinit: Error in loading shared library libGL.so.1 knotify: Error in loading shared library libGL.so.1 grep /root/.kde2/.root_warning file not found. I tried 'startx icewm' with the same results As soon as I uninstall KDE2 startx works again. Why would startx be broken even if I am not starting KDE2. Thanks, Mike

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Re: [Wlug] embedded QT
by Wesley Allen 10 Aug '01

10 Aug '01

I'm glad they've got a spreadsheet. Now...does anyone have a serial cable I can borror until I convince my wife that spending $30.00 so I can hack my iPAQ is a good idea? OR...has anyone installed familiar/qte through an usb cable, and the handhelds.org site is just wrong when it says it can't be done? Wes ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Brad Noyes <maitre(a)ccs.neu.edu> Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 11:54:41 -0400 >Hi Wesley, >I installed QTe on my ipaq a few weeks ago. I does in fact, >have a spread sheet. I haven't really used it that much, but >its there. You might be able to get an idea on how it looks >and feels if you try to set up QTe for your PC before you >actually install it (http://qpe.sourceforge.net/x86.html). >I think QTe is great for my ipaq. There are few things missing, >for example i can't figure out how to get the databook to >remind me of appointments. I haven't tried to irsync with a >plam yet, so i can't say if it works or not. > >good luck with installing, >--Brad > >On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 07:57:06AM -0400, Wesley Allen wrote: >> It looks like I'm finally going to have time to go out and >> pick up a serial cable so I can get brother Bill off of my >> iPAQ. But I've got a question for anyone who has done this >> ahead of me: >> >> Are there any speadsheets that have either been created for >> familiar linux or Embedded QT? The QTpalmtop web site has >> got some screen shots, and one has a link to a spreadsheet, >> but they don't mention it and I can't find the package >> anywhere. Unfortuately, I've got to have a spreadsheet so I >> can keep track of hours and expenses and such, so I'm kinda >> stuck, maybe I shoulda gotten a vr3? >> >> Also, are there any utilities out there that would allow me >> to do irsync with palms? > >> > >> > >> > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

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embedded QT
by Wesley Allen 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

It looks like I'm finally going to have time to go out and pick up a serial cable so I can get brother Bill off of my iPAQ. But I've got a question for anyone who has done this ahead of me: Are there any speadsheets that have either been created for familiar linux or Embedded QT? The QTpalmtop web site has got some screen shots, and one has a link to a spreadsheet, but they don't mention it and I can't find the package anywhere. Unfortuately, I've got to have a spreadsheet so I can keep track of hours and expenses and such, so I'm kinda stuck, maybe I shoulda gotten a vr3? Also, are there any utilities out there that would allow me to do irsync with palms?

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Local Linux PC companies
by mike 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

I'm looking for recommendations on local (Worcester to Natick, Westboro to Leominster, etc.) Linux-centric PC companies to buy an Athlon PC. If they only sell Windows systems I'll take those recommendations too if it's a build to order site. Thanks... Mike __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Wlug] Local Linux PC companies
by Wesley Allen 09 Aug '01

09 Aug '01

I'll grab the name later, but there is a place on route 30 in Westborough that will build a PC to spec and put whatever distro you want on it. They're primarily a windows office, but when I asked about Linux they said, "Sure, we've been getting more and more requests for Linux lately and we'll put whatever you want on it!" This makes me happy. Like I said, I'll get the name/number later, but take rt 30 from 9 into town and you can't miss it on your left (about 100 yards before the traffic circle). Wes ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: mike <mhardy_mail(a)yahoo.com> Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 17:43:34 -0700 (PDT) >I'm looking for recommendations on local (Worcester to >Natick, Westboro to Leominster, etc.) Linux-centric PC >companies to buy an Athlon PC. If they only sell >Windows systems I'll take those recommendations too if >it's a build to order site. > >Thanks... > >Mike > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger >http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

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Question
by Pierce C. Barnard 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

Hi, I am interested in becoming a network administrator. Can anyone give me some information on becoming an admin?

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