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Free systems to good home...

by Theo Van Dinter

I thought I'd throw this out and see if anyone was interested... I've got 3 machines just sitting around collecting dust that I'd like to give away. They're pretty much base-bones (case, ps, mb, cpu) although I may have some memory for the P120 and the P200 (have to check when I get home): P120, Mini-Tower P166, Full Tower P200 Overdrive, Mini-Tower If you're interested in grabbing one of these, let me know and I'll bring it along to the meeting tomorrow night. :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "To his dog, every man is Napoleon, hence the constant popularity of dogs." - Susan Vick

April 21, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Reminder: WLUG Meeting

by Charles R. Anderson

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 10:01:46PM -0400, Andy Stewart wrote: > This is a reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting, to be held on Thursday, > April 22, at 7:00 PM at the usual place (the Access Grid room at WPI). > > At this meeting, we'll be having a PGP keysigning party, as described by Chuck > Anderson in an email earlier this week. I hope a few people will be there to > share how they make this work from their favorite email program. I haven't > been entirely successful with Kmail, but I'll share just the same. I've only received a few PGP keys, but there's still time left to get your key created and submitted for Thursday's keysigning party! Thursday night you'll need: 3.2 What participants should bring to the party 1. Themselves - you cannot participate virtually 2. Two forms of positive picture ID - a driver's license and passport are good 3. Key ID, Key Type, Hex Fingerprint and Key Size info (NOTE: please print out your own copy of your key to compare against my copy when you arrive.) 4. A Pen/Pencil 3.3 What Participants Should Not Bring to the Party 1. A Computer

April 21, 2004

Reminder: WLUG Meeting

by Andy Stewart

HI everybody, This is a reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting, to be held on Thursday, April 22, at 7:00 PM at the usual place (the Access Grid room at WPI). At this meeting, we'll be having a PGP keysigning party, as described by Chuck Anderson in an email earlier this week. I hope a few people will be there to share how they make this work from their favorite email program. I haven't been entirely successful with Kmail, but I'll share just the same. Even if you don't have a PGP key, come over anyway to learn about this technology and to chat with others. I'd also be happy to relate to you the results of the "Introduction to Linux" class which I've recently finished teaching for the Chelmsford Community Education program. I'll be teaching this class again in September, and we're currently planning a much more advanced class. Also, bring along your ideas for future meetings! Afterwards, we'll venture out for pizza and beer at the newly renovated Boynton Restaurant - you won't recognize the place! See ya later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

April 20, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Linux From Scratch??

by Keith Wright

> From: Ken Jones <kjones(a)ziplink.net> > > Have any us tried to build a Linux From Scratch? I bought the book. I was disappointed in it. Its general form was: download all this stuff, type this, type this, now type this. There was not much discussion of why. > How did it go? A few minutes of excitement that I had a new book. A couple hours of paging through the book with growing disappointment at how little could be learned by reading it. Probably you could learn more by actually doing it, and more importantly, by reading the documentation and code of the various packages as you build them. I began to think that I should go through the process in order to write a couple of chapters that would explain the overall plan, but maybe somebody else is already doing that. In any case it's not my high priority project. So the book sits quietly on my shelf. > Does anyone know of a college level course which uses this as part > of its lab.? No, I don't. I don't think such a lab would be worth much unless the professor had something specific to demonstrate by assigning a problem to make some changes, e.g. run on special hardware, boot into a special purpose program. Even then, there would probably be a better way to make the point than to build everything from scratch. There's not a lot to be learned by spending days watching compiler output scroll past. -- Keith

April 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Linux From Scratch??

by gboyce＠badbelly.com

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > just for kicks, try putting a "hello world" program in /sbin/init > sometime. make sure you have a backup & boot disk/CD though. Most bootloaders allow you to append to the kernel commandline (at least grub and lilo both do). You could run your test by doing "init=/sbin/myinit", or safe a backup copy of /sbin/init as /sbin/init.real, and booting with "init=/sbin/init.real" to recover. Of course, backups and boot disks are always a good idea.

April 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Linux From Scratch??

by Karl Hiramoto

Yes, I did it as some research into an embedded linux system. I setup the kernel and used busybox for base system. I also messed around with making my own /sbin/init for the embedded system that was only to have one process running. just for kicks, try putting a "hello world" program in /sbin/init sometime. make sure you have a backup & boot disk/CD though. > Have any us tried to build a Linux From Scratch? > > <http://lfs.oregonstate.edu/lfs/news.html> > > How did it go? Is there a thread on the subject? Does anyone know of a > college level course which uses this as part of its lab.? > > Ken Jones > Fitchburg, MA > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto

April 19, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Linux From Scratch??

by Skip Gaede

Ken, I used the modules and instructions on the web site back in the 2.x - 3.x days. In the process of building all the modules, you learn a lot. I even built a Linux distro that ran on a PPC Macintosh. There's also a couple of additional projects: ALFS (automated LFS) and BLFS (Beyond LFS) that cover modules you might need after getting the base system working. Good luck, Skip -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Ken Jones Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 9:38 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Cc: kjones(a)ziplink.net Subject: [Wlug] Linux From Scratch?? Have any us tried to build a Linux From Scratch? <http://lfs.oregonstate.edu/lfs/news.html> How did it go? Is there a thread on the subject? Does anyone know of a college level course which uses this as part of its lab.? Ken Jones Fitchburg, MA _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Signed e-mails and Kmail

by Charles R. Anderson

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:26:56PM -0400, Andy Stewart wrote: > >From the KGpgCertManager, I get an error indicating that the symbol > "initialize" was not found in libkdenetwork.so.2. Missing symbols usually indicate that the program wasn't compiled against the correct versions of your system libraries, or was compiled with different features enabled, etc. Perhaps your KMail can't use that libgpgme.so? Is there any other .so on your system that may work in place of that one? If both components (KDE Network and libgpgme.so) are stock from the distribution version SuSE 9.0, I would file a bug report with SuSE about it. If either component isn't stock, or is from a different version of SuSE than the other, then they will probably tell you it is unsupported. If you want to try to fix this yourself, you can try recompiling either component. It is probably easiest to try libgpgme.so first. rpm -qif <path-to-libgpgme.so> Download the Source RPM: shown in the output of that command and type: rpmbuild --rebuild foo.src.rpm During compilation, any errors about missing symbols should show up, or there may be "configure" output that says something about enabling/disabling certain features due to missing support in other parts of your system. Note that you may need to install several other development packages in order to compile that package, such as kdenetwork-devel or whatever SuSE's equivalent is.

April 18, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Signed e-mails and Kmail

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 April 2004 11:56 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 17 April 2004 11:26 pm, Andy Stewart wrote: > > I'm playing around with digital signatures in e-mail, and I have that > > working on Kmail (KDE) wnen I send the e-mail. However, when I receive a > > signed e-mail, Kmail isn't able to automatically check the validity of > > the signature (unless I sent it). > > use gpg-agent and add this to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file: > keyserver x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu > keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve > > then kmail should be able to auto verify keys > -mike Hi Mike, I am using gpg-agent. I added the lines recommended by you, but I still get the same error about symbol "initialize" in kdenetwork3.so. I did restart the gpg-agent daemon. Here's my gpg.conf file in case I've made some silly mistake (attached). Thanks, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAghL6Hl0iXDssISsRAq/gAJsGvCGCfvHupumqfqVmlWLwvPvu4gCdH+pR QL87RjPyNi3Mz4zJvt34yCw= =vIEn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

April 18, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Signed e-mails and Kmail

by Mike Frysinger

On Saturday 17 April 2004 11:26 pm, Andy Stewart wrote: > I'm playing around with digital signatures in e-mail, and I have that > working on Kmail (KDE) wnen I send the e-mail. However, when I receive a > signed e-mail, Kmail isn't able to automatically check the validity of the > signature (unless I sent it). use gpg-agent and add this to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file: keyserver x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve then kmail should be able to auto verify keys -mike

April 18, 2004