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Wireless LANs
by Andy Stewart July 9, 2002

July 9, 2002

HI everybody, Now that I have a laptop, I'm interested in a Wireless LAN for it. I'm wondering if this is a topic of general interest that somebody might like to present at our next meeting. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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tmpfs
by Bill Mills-Curran July 2, 2002

July 2, 2002

When researching the Reiserfs a while back, I discovered the tmpfs file system and the --bind option to mount. Both of these are nice tools to have around. --bind has made it into the mount man page, but the tmpfs is not documented in the man pages anywhere I can think to look. Does anyone know of a reason that it should not be used? I'm thinking of using it for some locking files and pid stamps -- all stuff that should not persist across a reboot. TIA, Bill

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CUPS + Samba + Win2000
by Michael Frysinger July 2, 2002

July 2, 2002

problem: print jobs sent to cups via samba from windows sit in print queue and never get processed printer: HP OfficeJet 600 set up cups + hpijs drivers. going through localhost:631 i set up the printer. had cups print out a test page ... looked good. set up samba ... samba file sharing/access/etc... works. added printer support to samba (see bottom for smb.conf). was able to add printer on windows2000 machine. viewed the properties of the printer, all of that stuff. went to print test page, no error came back. goto localhost:631 and i see: ID Name User Size State Control HP_OfficeJet_Series_600-2 smbprn.000004.mITl7Y root 313k processing since Sun Jun 30 02:53:03 2002 Hold Job Cancel Job basically it sits there forever (by forever i mean 24+hrs) and never gets printed. any ideas ? k thx -mike cups' printer.conf <DefaultPrinter HP_OfficeJet_Series_600> Info HP OfficeJet 600 Location Home DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer> smb.conf [global] preferred master = True domain master = False wins support = yes hosts allow = 192.168.0. interfaces = 192.168.0.1/24 security = SHARE encrypt passwords = Yes guest account = root netbios name = Home workgroup = WH0RD.ORG server string = home.wh0rd.org Samba %v # load printers = yes printcap name = lpstat printing = cups [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes create mode = 0700 print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r lpq command = lpstat -o %p lprm command = cancel %p-%j [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers guest ok = yes browseable = yes read only = yes write list = root

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Help with Audio on Linux
by Prakash Purushotham July 1, 2002

July 1, 2002

Gurus I have a P-IV with AC97 on i810 (AvanceLogic ALC200/200P). I am unable to get FullDuplex audio working. I have installed the RC2 release of ALSA drivers but still, mic and speakers don't work together. I am pretty sure I am missing something in the configs. I have not been able to get any leads from Google. (Rh7.2, kernel 2.4.9-31, alsa-drivers 0.9rc2) TIA Best regards Prakash Purushotham

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Poster policy changed
by Frank Sweetser July 1, 2002

July 1, 2002

Since it seemed pretty much unanimous (at least among those who spoke up) the WLUG list should now only accepts submissions from subscribed members. If anyone has any problems, feel free to contact me. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 18 Full-time WPI Network Engineer, Part time Linux/Perl guy |

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hardware problem?
by avedis＠ma.ultranet.com July 1, 2002

July 1, 2002

I just had trouble booting into linux. Tried several times, but kept getting a blank screen, so I booted windoze. I noticed that I saw nothing on the screen until I got to my windows desktop, so I tried booting to linux again, and waited for my hard drive light to stop. Then I logged in with a blank screen, called up X, and it came up fine. Any ideas why my startup screen is missing? I haven't tried going into my bios yet, to see if it comes up on the screen. I'm not sure I remember how to get out of the bios on this machine, so I'm a little hesitant to go there. I'm not sure how to proceed, so any ideas are welcome. Athlon 1.2G, Spacewalker AK12A motherboard, ELSA GLoria L vid card, Viewsonic A70 monitor, 256RAM. I've got another computer here, so I could try switching monitors (not tonight). Thanks. Greg

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spam attack
by avedis＠ma.ultranet.com June 30, 2002

June 30, 2002

I just received some porn spam that has wlug address as the return address. Should I just ignore and delete, forward to spamcop, or does someone here want to deal with the spammer personally? Looks like it came from 194.143.190.11. This shit should be illegal. Awaiting further instructions... Greg

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Real ZOO web site, welcome! <zoxjCpdlo1zoxj1ruj>
by Arcady 28412 June 30, 2002

June 30, 2002

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What are Lindows and Lycoris?
by Andy Stewart June 28, 2002

June 28, 2002

HI all, Walmart is selling ultra-cheap PCs with Lindows on them (the PC is by Microtel). The screen shots look alot like KDE. Lindows makes software available for download on their website (the apps, not the OS) for a fee. I've also seen Lycoris, and on their website, they make passing references to Redmond Linux. So, I ask the question, are these just some version of Linux "packaged for the masses"? If not, what are they? Are there other similar products besides Lindows and Lycoris? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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Lilo :-)
by doug waud June 27, 2002

June 27, 2002

Hi all On the TV lately I have heard a lot about Lilo. It seems to be in the context of something called Stitch. I am not clear on the details but Stitch apparently is some sort of extraterrestial with a bent to destroying everything it encounters. I assume the reference is, therefore, to Microsoft. The interesting thing about Lilo is that it never seems to be spelled LILO. The first letter is captialized so I assume there is some degree of case sensitivity involved. If any of you can decipher what all of this means perhaps you could fill me in! :-) I do notice that Disney seems to be involved so it would seem that Pixar is not the only place Linux seems to be making inroads. doug

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