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WLUG meeting - can someone post a summary?

by John Stoffel

Hi all, Can someone post a summary of the presentation on the Digital Video Recorder Tim did earlier this week? I'm interested in learning more, but I wasn't able to make the meeting. John

April 18, 2003

wireless repeating...

by Wesley Allen

Hi all, We're MOVING! And now I have an opportunity to learn something new... Where we're going, our house is right next to the Church, and the Church offices are 25 yards from the Church and across the street. The Church is made of stone, the office-building is made of brick. Do you think it's possible to somehow put a repeater in the Church that will extend my wireless network the "last mile" so I can have internet access in my study? If so, what would you recommend? I know I'll have to set up a VPN for all my clients so traffic is in the clear on the network, but what hardware would allow me to do this? Wes -- Wesley Allen <wallen(a)charter.net>

April 18, 2003

Re: [Wlug] ati mobility m6

by Charles R. Anderson

That's a Radeon chipset, so: Driver "radeon" -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

April 16, 2003

Re:[Wlug] gentoo

by vapier＠netzero.com

> What's people's experience with gentoo? it's a beautiful distro :) > I'm thinking of upgrading one of my boxes to it in the near future. This is a box I really mess around with, so how bleeding edge can I get? well ... lets just say we have had ebuilds for kde, gnome, openoffice, and xfree sometimes weeks before it was officially released ... we also have ebuilds that'll pull packages from cvs ... how much more bleeding edge can you want ? :) > Is it easy to keep some packages at stable releases, and some at unstable, or is it more of an all or nothing thing? at the moment you can run a stable profile which should be pretty stable or you can run unstable (and get all the benefits mentioned above) ... it isnt that easy to maintain a cross of the two at the moment, but portage-2.1.x should take care of that ... > I guess what I want is, a way of trying the newest stuff, but an easy way of going back to stable when I'm horrified with how buggy the newest stuff is. its easy to do that, but after the new emerge you may have to do some trickery to keep portage from re-emerging the stable version ... > Also... for the stable releases... how secure has the distro been as a whole? we have a list of all the GLSA's we've ever released ... we release a GLSA as soon as a bug has been identified and fixed ... we then bump anything security related out of the tree and mark the latest security enhanced version as stable ... for the people who want a system that *only* upgrades security related packages, then we're currently developing a system for that ... again wait till portage-2.1.x to see that ;) -mike ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - NetZero HiSpeed! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month -visit www.netzero.com to sign up today!

April 16, 2003

ati mobility m6

by Baris Hasdemir

hi Wlug, I have a laptop gateway 450sx4 with a video card, "ATI Technologies Inc. Mobility M6", as windows displays it. I could not figure which kernel video module I should load. another question is that what will go to the Driver section of XF86Config in xfree4.3.0? slackware uses vesa as default which does not use any hardware acceleration. thanks for any help, baris

April 16, 2003

Re: [Wlug] gentoo

by Chuck Haines

Well I ran gentoo back before it was even 1.0. I've kept track of it over that last year (running redhat myself since I administer all redhat machines), and it has progressed nicley. My roomate swears by gentoo. My biggest problem with gentoo is having to compile everything. Now for most things, I don't mind compiling, however something like XFree or Mozilla, on a slower machine (even a faster one), you will be compiling for days (fortunately I have access to a quad xeon which makes compiling a ton faster). As far as the portage system goes, I believe there is now a way to distinguish whether you want bleeding edge, less bleeding edge, or stable. I actually loved the portage system (and wish redhat had something similar). I'd say try it and see if it suits you. If not, you can always try something else. Chuck On 2003.04.15 14:18 Marc Hughes wrote: > > What's people's experience with gentoo? I'm thinking of upgrading one > of > my boxes to it in the near future. This is a box I really mess around > > with, so how bleeding edge can I get? Is it easy to keep some > packages at > stable releases, and some at unstable, or is it more of an all or > nothing > thing? I guess what I want is, a way of trying the newest stuff, but > an > easy way of going back to stable when I'm horrified with how buggy the > > newest stuff is. > > Also... for the stable releases... how secure has the distro been as a > > whole? > > Comments, horror stories, massive praise? > > -Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > ==================================== Chuck Haines chaines(a)wpi.edu http://www.linux-xtreme.net ==================================== WPI ECE Systems Administrator WPI Game Development Club Developer WPI Linux Association Lab Manager Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity TKE-IT Systems Administrator ==================================== AIM: CyberGrex YIM: CyberGrex_27 ICQ: 3707881 ====================================

April 16, 2003

gentoo

by Marc Hughes

What's people's experience with gentoo? I'm thinking of upgrading one of my boxes to it in the near future. This is a box I really mess around with, so how bleeding edge can I get? Is it easy to keep some packages at stable releases, and some at unstable, or is it more of an all or nothing thing? I guess what I want is, a way of trying the newest stuff, but an easy way of going back to stable when I'm horrified with how buggy the newest stuff is. Also... for the stable releases... how secure has the distro been as a whole? Comments, horror stories, massive praise? -Marc

April 15, 2003

printing problem

by Bill Mills-Curran

I'm trying to configure my LPRng print queue to add a banner page to my print job. OS: Red Hat 8.0 Printer/driver: The printer is a Postscript network printer, using the Lexmark 4039 10 plus driver. I'm able to print just fine. I followed the instructions in /usr/share/doc/redhat-config-printer-0.4.24/README for hijacking a printconf spool. Then I added this to the printcap.local: :bp=/usr/libexec/filters/psbanner:\ However, I can't get the a banner page. What am I doing wrong? TIA, Bill

April 15, 2003

RE: [Wlug] computer fair

by George Metz

> -----Original Message----- > From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On > Behalf Of Gary Hanley > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 3:13 PM > To: wlug > Subject: Re: [Wlug] computer fair > > Those computer shows are nothing like they used to be, and that is > not because the shows have changed but more because the PC market has. (Snip) > Now that the market is in a slump and the shelf life for the latest > and greatest hardware is probably 6 months, you can't get the deals > at these shows that you once could. And also because there is so much > competition at the hardware manufacturing level (motherboards, graphics > cards, memory and now even CPUs) the margins are fraction of what they > once were. Specifically about the Worcester show, which I went to not long ago, I picked up a Duron 1.3GHz to upgrade my system. Stupid me, the board didn't like it, and I THINK reinstalling the old one killed it (the old CPU, not the board, but I can't be sure.) I thought it was the board at the time, so I took the Duron back for a refund the next weekend in Nashua, and started poking around for a board that took SDRAM. I only found two, one had two SDRAM and two DDR slots - which would've forced me to lose a healthy chunk of mem - and an MSI board. That I ended up having to go to Manchester the next day to get a replacement on. Be leery of buying extensive hardware at shows, make very sure you get a receipt. Asking to see if the static bag is sealed beforehand isn't a bad idea either. You'll either find new stuff, or very old stuff; the in-between isn't very common at all. Personally, I'd rather just run down to Connecticut and hit one of the Cogan shows, as they've got far more vendors than I've seen at any of the Northern shows (don't know about KGP) and that means a far better selection.

April 14, 2003

REMINDER: WLUG Meeting Wed. April 16, 7:00 PM

by Andy Stewart

HI Everybody, This is a reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 7:00 PM in Kinnicutt Hall on the WPI campus. At this meeting, WLUG member Tim Keller will discuss how he used open source software to build a Digital Video Recorder (similar in function to the commercially available TiVO device). After the meeting, there will be a free (as in beer) raffle, and a trip to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer. I look forward to seeing you there! Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

April 14, 2003