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Middlesex Community College - Linux teaching position info

by Andy Stewart

Their home page is : http://www.middlesex.cc.ma.us/ They have campuses in Lowell and Bedford. Here's the Linux link : http://www.middlesex.cc.ma.us/jobs/PT%20FAC%20COMPUTER%20&%20ENGINEERING.htm -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Aug. 25, 2003

Query regarding email applications...

by Stephen C. Daukas

Hi all! I am currently using mozilla 1.3.1 and want to be able to move my email to other applications. I'd like to be able to move it to Netscape, Eudora, and yes, Outlook. The reason for this is to show my new department head why folks using different operating systems, say Linux, should be allowed to use different operating systems as well as different email applications. His only concern is "email compatibility". Now, once upon a time, it was really easy to move the files between Netscape and Eudora, for example. They both had simple files that contained the information (e.g., Eudora used to use .toc of the index, and .mbx for the actual email while Netscape use to use - well, I can't remember, but is was a similar flat file arrangement). So, I took a quick look at Eudora 5.1, and it looks like the familiar old setup. Mozilla 1.3.1 looks like it is using a database of some sort (.sdb?) and Netscape 7.1 looks, well, different from what I remember! In the good old days, I could figure this out in a few minutes and would have replicated my email across all of these apps! the last time I did this was about 3 years ago as a demonstration of the very same point. Sigh! So, I decided to see how the import capabilities look and, well, they don't play well, as far as I can tell. Outlook and Eudora have no idea about Mozilla, and it doesn't look like Netscape does either. The point to all this is the following question: I have a boss who is predisposed to setting up Linux for those in his department who are interested (he might be as well). He wants to be able to "import & export" between Outlook and whatever on whatever. Is there a way to show him that he can have his cake and eat it too, either by moving files, or by using more than one email application as an intermediary (e.g., Mozilla -> Outlook Express -> Eudora)? Steve -- Stephen C. Daukas - stephen(a)daukas.com - http://daukas.com/

Aug. 25, 2003

Re: [Wlug] More SCSI hard drive woes

by Andy Stewart

On Sunday 24 August 2003 7:17 pm, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > Andy, > > I'm pretty sure I don't know the answer to your question, but I want to > say that in my limited experience, blaming the power supply is > overrated. I got a new power supply to correct lockups and seg faults on > the advice of my neighbor, and it didn't help at all. So I'm wondering > if I bought a bad one. Are you getting the same errors with the new > drive that you got with the old one? > > Now, my neighbor is suggesting that it's the power company, screwing > around with the waveform, so that the meter doesn't show the power loss > from everyone's a/c units running in this weather. Sounds reasonable to > me, especially since I've had a few lockups when I was running windows, > and it seems to be worse when the weather is hotter. > > Good luck, > Greg HI Greg, I'm a bit sceptical of the power supply as the source of the problem as well. I'd believe a heat issue over the power supply, but my other SCSI drive has never had any problems in that same environment, which I find most perplexing. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Aug. 24, 2003

Re: [Wlug] More SCSI hard drive woes

by Gregory Avedissian

Andy, I'm pretty sure I don't know the answer to your question, but I want to say that in my limited experience, blaming the power supply is overrated. I got a new power supply to correct lockups and seg faults on the advice of my neighbor, and it didn't help at all. So I'm wondering if I bought a bad one. Are you getting the same errors with the new drive that you got with the old one? Now, my neighbor is suggesting that it's the power company, screwing around with the waveform, so that the meter doesn't show the power loss from everyone's a/c units running in this weather. Sounds reasonable to me, especially since I've had a few lockups when I was running windows, and it seems to be worse when the weather is hotter. Good luck, Greg Andy Stewart wrote: > HI everybody, > > I recently sent a SCSI drive back to Hitachi for warranty replacement. In the > interim, I purchased a Maxtor replacement drive. It has been working fine > for about 2 weeks, and now this new drive is tossing read errors at me(!). > > Did I just get (un)lucky, or could something in my system be causing this? > Some have suggested checking the power supply. I've run memtest and it > passed for a 12 hour test. I've swapped ports on the 2-port SCSI card. I'm > at a loss as to why this continues to occur. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Andy

Aug. 24, 2003

More SCSI hard drive woes

by Andy Stewart

HI everybody, I recently sent a SCSI drive back to Hitachi for warranty replacement. In the interim, I purchased a Maxtor replacement drive. It has been working fine for about 2 weeks, and now this new drive is tossing read errors at me(!). Did I just get (un)lucky, or could something in my system be causing this? Some have suggested checking the power supply. I've run memtest and it passed for a 12 hour test. I've swapped ports on the 2-port SCSI card. I'm at a loss as to why this continues to occur. Any thoughts? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Aug. 24, 2003

LTSP training video online

by Andy Stewart

HI everybody, This link might prove interesting for folks with very fast Internet connections: http://www.lpbn.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=50&mo… If that doesn't work, try this: http://www.lpbn.org Click "The Mandrake Hour" (left side) Click the second video "The Linux Terminal Server Installation" It works for me with the Linux verison of RealPlay. I remember a brain storming session many of us had in the WPI Library parking lot after a WLUG meeting where we thought about making Linux training videos. We'll, somebody is doing it! On the Linux Public Broadcasting Network, there are many other videos. Check them out: http://www.lpbn.org Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Aug. 24, 2003

RE: [Wlug] AMD systems

by Simoncini, Matthew

Mike, Just called 1-877-4-turing and they said there are no more "system 3.0" systems left and the "system 4.0" systems only come with 256MB RAM. The guy I spoke to wasn't willing to come down on the price at all, but agreed to give me the 512MB RAM for an additional $25. Just wanted to let everyone know what they were willing to offer me. Matthew > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Peckar [mailto:fog@fognet.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 9:40 PM > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: [Wlug] AMD systems > > > > My 11 yr. old is finishing up his computer camp this week and > the camp is > selling off it's inventory. All systems must be picked up > 8/23 (sat.) in > Burlington, MA at the camp (Hampton Inn next to the Naked Fish off the > Middlesex Tkp 2-3 miles N of the Burlington Mall near Sun campus). > > Contact is mail(a)campturing.com. > > If interested, probably should call asap 1-877-4-turing to > reserve/negotiate > your system. They have many more of the "4's" than the "3's"... > > "system 3.0" -- $600 "system 4.0" -- $600 > Med. Silver tower (w/ window) Med. Black tower > 1.44 floppy 1.44 floppy > 16x dvd-rom 16x dvd rom > 10/100 enet 10/100 enet > Kbd, mouse kbd, mouse > Shuttle AK31A VIA KT266A 4xagp DDR MSI K7N2 Delta-L Nforce2 > (FSB 400) 8xAGP DDR > AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53 GHz 266Mhz) AMD Althon XP > 1800+ (1.53 GHz > 266Mhz) > 2 X 256 DDR266 PC2100 2 X 256 > DDR400 PC3200 > 60GB 7200 ATA100 40GB 7200 ATA100 > AOPEN Gforce2 MX400 64mb 4xAGP MSI GFORCE4 > MX440 64mb 8xAGP TV > CTX 17" .27mm 1280x1024 MGC 17" .27mm 1280x1024 > 56k v.90 FAX w/ Voice > > Upgrades: > Cyber Acoustics 2.1 ($20) 2 x 256 - 512MB DDR400 > PC3200 ($60) > Cd-RW ($65) > 40GB+80GB=120GB 7200 > ATA133 (-40GB 7200 ATA100)($105) > DVD-RW ($220) 56k v.90 FAX w/ > Voice ($20) > > Firewire ($25) Cd-RW ($65) > Win xp home ($95) DVD-RW ($220) > Win xp pro ($145) Firewire ($25) > Win xp > home ($95) > Win xp > pro ($145) > > Do say you're a friend of "Charlie's Dad" and that should be > good for better > discounts. > Don't reply to me - I'm too busy in the next week or so to > provide timely > replies > Also, do let me know if you got a good deal... > > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Aug. 22, 2003

AMD systems

by Mike Peckar

My 11 yr. old is finishing up his computer camp this week and the camp is selling off it's inventory. All systems must be picked up 8/23 (sat.) in Burlington, MA at the camp (Hampton Inn next to the Naked Fish off the Middlesex Tkp 2-3 miles N of the Burlington Mall near Sun campus). Contact is mail(a)campturing.com. If interested, probably should call asap 1-877-4-turing to reserve/negotiate your system. They have many more of the "4's" than the "3's"... "system 3.0" -- $600 "system 4.0" -- $600 Med. Silver tower (w/ window) Med. Black tower 1.44 floppy 1.44 floppy 16x dvd-rom 16x dvd rom 10/100 enet 10/100 enet Kbd, mouse kbd, mouse Shuttle AK31A VIA KT266A 4xagp DDR MSI K7N2 Delta-L Nforce2 (FSB 400) 8xAGP DDR AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (1.53 GHz 266Mhz) AMD Althon XP 1800+ (1.53 GHz 266Mhz) 2 X 256 DDR266 PC2100 2 X 256 DDR400 PC3200 60GB 7200 ATA100 40GB 7200 ATA100 AOPEN Gforce2 MX400 64mb 4xAGP MSI GFORCE4 MX440 64mb 8xAGP TV CTX 17" .27mm 1280x1024 MGC 17" .27mm 1280x1024 56k v.90 FAX w/ Voice Upgrades: Cyber Acoustics 2.1 ($20) 2 x 256 - 512MB DDR400 PC3200 ($60) Cd-RW ($65) 40GB+80GB=120GB 7200 ATA133 (-40GB 7200 ATA100)($105) DVD-RW ($220) 56k v.90 FAX w/ Voice ($20) Firewire ($25) Cd-RW ($65) Win xp home ($95) DVD-RW ($220) Win xp pro ($145) Firewire ($25) Win xp home ($95) Win xp pro ($145) Do say you're a friend of "Charlie's Dad" and that should be good for better discounts. Don't reply to me - I'm too busy in the next week or so to provide timely replies Also, do let me know if you got a good deal... Mike

Aug. 22, 2003

Wyse 520 terminals

by Clint Moyer

If anyone is interested, you can pick up one or more cheap locally: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=57909216&m…

Aug. 21, 2003

RE: [Wlug] LTSP meeting slides - VPNs

by gboyce＠badbelly.com

Ugh, a quick apology to anyone who tried to respond to this e-mail. I recently setup a new server at my house and this was the first time I actually sent e-mail on it using pine instead of from evolution. The sending domain in pine is fixed now, and my server should accept e-mail address to that domain just in case. On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 gboyce(a)h00207813f68b.ne.client2.attbi.com wrote: > Kerneltrap.org just posted a couple of articles about the native IPSec and > how it's different from FreeS/WANs. > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/748 > > (Hello from a newly joined member of the mail list by the way) > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Steve Freitag wrote: > > > Speaking of VPNs... > > > > I just noticed that the September 2003 issue of SysAdmin Magazine, which > > just showed up in my mail box, has and article titled "Build IPSec VPNs > > Using the Linux Kernel 2.6". The author talks about a native IPsec Stack > > being part of the new 2.6 kernel. > > > > The article is not online as far as I know, but here is a link to a web page > > describing the issue. > > http://www.samag.com/articles/2003/0309/ > > > > And for those wondering what other goodies might be in the 2.6 Kernel: > > http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf > > > Of Andy Stewart > > > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 7:27 PM > > > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > > Subject: Re: [Wlug] LTSP meeting slides > > > > > > On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:51 pm, Michael Long wrote: > > > > Andy, thank you for the excellent talk and demo. The tools available to > > > > the linux community are top notch. The LTSP project is a prime example > > > > of that fact. I would like to suggest a talk on the OpenVPN project for > > > > the next meeting. I think it would be really cool if WLUG could sponser > > > > a project this winter that involved setting up a network w/ VPN, > > > > securing it and then attempting to hack it to find its vulnerabilities. > > > > This is probably a naive idea for many reasons...but I think many of us > > > > would be interested in learning the proper way of installing, securing, > > > > and maintaining our networks. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Mike > > > > > > Hi Mike, > > > > > > I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed the LTSP meeting! > > > > > > With regard to OpenVPN, this is definitely a possibility. Another type of > > > VPN > > > is FreeS/WAN. Are there others? Can somebody compare/contrast these two? > > > Is anybody sufficiently knowledgeable to give a talk on these topics? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Andy > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Andy Stewart, Founder > > > > > Worcester Linux Users' Group > > > > > Worcester, MA USA > > > > > http://www.wlug.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Wlug mailing list > > > > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > > > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wlug mailing list > > > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > > > -- > > > Andy Stewart, Founder > > > Worcester Linux Users' Group > > > Worcester, MA USA > > > http://www.wlug.org > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wlug mailing list > > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Aug. 21, 2003