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Re: [Wlug] tutor / newbie
by d.maly＠ieee.org 27 Jun '06

27 Jun '06

Yes, am looking for a tutor to teach in my home. I'm in Holden -- going north on 31 towards Wachusett. My son is 13 ... and his friends don't talk much about PCs ... except that they seem to be active IM-ers. Doug > Hi Doug, > > The way I read your email, I think you're looking for a human being to > tutor a teenage Linux newbie. True? Would this be relatively close to > Worcester? Does this teenage Linux newbie have teenage friends who also > share an interest in Linux? > > Thanks, > > Andy > > -- > Andy Stewart, Founder > Worcester Linux Users' Group > Worcester, MA, USA > http://www.wlug.org > > > ------------------------------

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[Fwd: Re: Tutor / irc / newbie]
by d.maly＠ieee.org 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

Andy, I also sent this message to WLUG but didn't see it in the Digest. Would like to see it included because it has more detailed info. Thanks, Doug -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Tutor / irc / newbie Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:07:10 -0400 From: d.maly(a)ieee.org <d_maly(a)charter.net> To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org References: <mailman.1.1150819203.28678.wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> The tutor is for my son. I have managed to keep our two computers up to date -- am now running Ubuntu 6.04. I want to teach more to my son, but am getting beyond my abilities. I have some administrative work ... I need to share resources, find some drivers ... then move onto setting up an email server. From there I have some applications I want to start setting up, like a video editor and ham radio apps. Thanks for the links, they are new to me. I had problems with IRC, which I have not used before. I made it to http://freenode.net/faq.shtml I got NickServ to look like it was alive in GAIM. However, in the previous link, the section about registering said this: Register your IRC nick: */msg nickserv register <your-password>* and I don't know what to do with this. Can you send this to NickServ through GAIM?? Also, the command seems to be registering a nickname ... but the register command is followed only by a password ... no mention of username/nickname. Thanks, Doug > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:32:17 -0700 (PDT) > From: Mike Leo <mleo963(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [Wlug] Tutor for Teenager > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Message-ID: <20060619183217.36816.qmail(a)web51309.mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > are you the newbie? > > not sure what you are looking for, but http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz is a good read. > > I also hang out at www.justlinux.com, and irc.freenode.net #justlinux and irc.oftc.net > #penguinslair. > > many people will also stear you towards www.google.com/linux as well as http://forums.gentoo.org/ > > are you looking for an actual linux class to attend, or just advise on how to get started? > > let use know more specifically what you are looking for and I'm sure someone here can help you > out. > > mike > > > > --- "d.maly(a)ieee.org" <d_maly(a)charter.net> wrote: > > > --------------------------------- > Can anyone recommend alinux tutor for a teenager newbie? > Doug Maly >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> > >

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Upcoming Topics
by Mike Perry 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

I had a few ideas kicking in the back of my head for a meeting topic. By no means am I volunteering to give a talk on this, however I thought it would be a good idea to toss out. </end-disclaimer> How about a talk on port forwarding? The talk could include tunneling via program (like the old school datapipe proggy) and more appropriately the finner points of SSH port forwarding. Other peripheral topics could be including such as: port knocking, alt mechanisms of ssh authentication, and X11 forwarding. Just a thought... Cheers, Mike

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Re: [Wlug] Tutor / irc / newbie
by d.maly＠ieee.org 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

The tutor is for my son. I have managed to keep our two computers up to date -- am now running Ubuntu 6.04. I want to teach more to my son, but am getting beyond my abilities. I have some administrative work ... I need to share resources, find some drivers ... then move onto setting up an email server. From there I have some applications I want to start setting up, like a video editor and ham radio apps. Thanks for the links, they are new to me. I had problems with IRC, which I have not used before. I made it to http://freenode.net/faq.shtml I got NickServ to look like it was alive in GAIM. However, in the previous link, the section about registering said this: Register your IRC nick: */msg nickserv register <your-password>* and I don't know what to do with this. Can you send this to NickServ through GAIM?? Also, the command seems to be registering a nickname ... but the register command is followed only by a password ... no mention of username/nickname. Thanks, Doug > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:32:17 -0700 (PDT) > From: Mike Leo <mleo963(a)yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [Wlug] Tutor for Teenager > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Message-ID: <20060619183217.36816.qmail(a)web51309.mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > are you the newbie? > > not sure what you are looking for, but http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz is a good read. > > I also hang out at www.justlinux.com, and irc.freenode.net #justlinux and irc.oftc.net > #penguinslair. > > many people will also stear you towards www.google.com/linux as well as http://forums.gentoo.org/ > > are you looking for an actual linux class to attend, or just advise on how to get started? > > let use know more specifically what you are looking for and I'm sure someone here can help you > out. > > mike > > > > --- "d.maly(a)ieee.org" <d_maly(a)charter.net> wrote: > > > --------------------------------- > Can anyone recommend alinux tutor for a teenager newbie? > Doug Maly >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> > >

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Tutor for Teenager
by d.maly＠ieee.org 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

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Early Reminder: Meeting June 7th - Sybase on Linux
by Andy Stewart 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI Everybody, I want to send out this early reminder about our upcoming WLUG meeting. It will be held on Wednesday, June 7th at 7:00 PM in the Access Grid room on the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA. At this meeting, Patrick Enright from Sybase Inc. will be talking about Sybase on Linux. Patrick was kind enough to send me a bunch of Sybase tee shirts, CDs, posters, etc. which I'll bring to the meeting and give away to the membership. After the meeting, we'll go out and have pizza, soda, and great conversation at the Tech Pizza Restaurant on Highland Street. I look forward to seeing you there! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEe5ULHl0iXDssISsRAvNFAKCEP2V4pqH+kAPYCUpA6/cDBtTJrwCbB8MZ Lx4RcZ7YT+qb7y9hV75TO1M= =akJX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Wlug] Webmail: What do you like?
by freak4uxxx＠gmail.com 17 Jun '06

17 Jun '06

check out squirell mail. Really easy to setup, works w/imap -Eric -----Original Message----- From: Richard Klein <rich(a)richardklein.org> Subj: [Wlug] Webmail: What do you like? Date: Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:43 pm Size: 704 bytes To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> I was at the meeting in April or May, but, unfortunately, haven't had time for the list or for meetings since then. At the time, I was looking for help setting up an IMAP server. I eventually got that working with Debian Sarge, Postfix, UW-IMAP, and the howto at: http://howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_sarge I think everything is working now, although I haven't switched my MX record to this server yet, but I'm still lacking a webmail interface. What do you guys like for webmail? Is there any particular reason why you like one package over another? -- Rich _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Filesystem usage
by Mike Perry 14 Jun '06

14 Jun '06

Hi there, I am curious on some statistics and I was wondering you could help me out. I'm wondering what the output of the following command is on your system: root@chao:/tmp# cd / root@chao:/# du --max-depth=1 -h 4.2M ./bin 253K ./dev 36M ./etc 336M ./lib 0 ./mnt 436M ./opt 0 ./srv 18K ./tmp 0 ./sys 743M ./var 3.8G ./usr 38M ./boot 22G ./home 900M ./proc 9.0M ./sbin 4.5M ./root 0 ./media 0 ./initrd 28G . The system I ran on above is an ubuntu desktop machine that hasn't been rebuild in over a year closer to a year and half. For comparison a relatively stock ubuntu machine I have looks like: 4.4M ./bin 103K ./dev 12M ./etc 167M ./lib 0 ./mnt 0 ./opt 8.0K ./tmp 0 ./sys 209M ./var 1.6G ./usr 19M ./boot 2.3M ./home 513M ./proc 9.9M ./sbin 260K ./root 0 ./media 0 ./backup 0 ./initrd 2G . Thanks, Mike

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Anyone actually using SPF and SRS in a Sendmail production env?
by Dwight A. Ernest 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

Is anyone here actually using SPF and SRS in a Sendmail production environment? If so, I'd love to ask a few questions about resources, performance, and real-world experience. Thanks.

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SoC's with USB host
by Jamie Guinan 10 Jun '06

10 Jun '06

To follow up on discussion about USB capabilities, I took a quick look at which platforms support USB host (so you can plug webcams, etc. *into* it), $ cd linux-2.6.16 $ find . | grep ohci ... ./drivers/usb/host/ohci-s3c2410.c [ Samsung ARM 920T ] ./drivers/usb/host/ohci-sa1111.c [ StrongARM(SA1110) companion Chip ] ./drivers/usb/host/ohci-lh7a404.c [ Sharp ARM920T ] ./drivers/usb/host/ohci-ppc-soc.c [ Various PowerPC (Freescale) ] ./drivers/usb/host/ohci-au1xxx.c [ AMD (formerly Alchemy) MIPS Au1000 ] ./drivers/usb/host/ohci-pxa27x.c [ XScale ARM (successor to SA1110] ... Those modules are thin hardware-specific glue around the main ohci/usb kernel code. I think the gumstix is a pxa25x, and only the 27x supports USB host. Development boards for a lot of these are priced rather high for the typical hobbyist budget, from a few hundred $$ on up, http://www.embeddedplanet.com/products/sbc.asp http://dkc3.digikey.com/PDF/T062/0378.pdf http://www.hitechglobal.com/boards/ARM920T.htm It looks like Gumstix and routerboard are the cheapest available products in this class. And they're great, but hopefully in the we'll see more things aimed at hobbyists, with USB host capability. -Jamie

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