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Re: [Wlug] Lan party ideas...

by Stephen C. Daukas

I have a couple of ideas... The first one that comes to mind, regarding location, is to hold it at the Mass Academy of Math & Science at WPI, which is of course a part of WPI, and is loacted at 85 Prescott St. This is where WPI's campus expansion (gateway park) will be happening over the next N years. As is so happens, I'm a faculty member at the Academy (Computer Science) and have already secured permission to use the entire facility, if need be, for WLUG acitivity. There is one large room (a.k.a. the brick yard) where we can probably accomodate up to 30 people with various PCs on bench-tables (we have had 100+ people in there for presentations). This room has the same AV sysetm as Kinnekut Hall... In addition to that, we have a large "room" (a.k.a. the library) off of a number of classrooms that could also be used. Every room is equipped with drops (between a 6 and 30) that we could use if Chuck can secure permission to connect to the WPI network. As to what, well I must confess, I have never seen what the attraction is to playing computer games. I have brought up the possibility, as the last "Boynton meeting", of attracting the "technology" types from area schools (and the folks they hang out with) for an install fest and topical discussions revolving around getting Linux into the hands of students and family as well as the topic of running Linux on all the older PCs that many schools already have. My guess is that taking this route, instead of a night of games, would not only serve to help the communities in which we live, but also bolster WLUG's standing in central MA and probably double our membership as well... Steve > >

Dec. 9, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Ipaq Help

by brad

On Friday 06 December 2002 10:25 pm, Wes Allen wrote: > Hi all, > I realized that I missed the installfest the other month (family was > sick, as I recall); so I missed a generous offer to convert my iPAQ to > linux. It's still possible. > Frankly, I'm tired of not being able to sync contacts and calendar with my > laptop, and I'd like to have and ogg player in my hands as well. I'm going > to try pool enough money to get an older Zaurus after Christmas, but in > case I can't I'm going to convert my iPAQ. The install doesn't look that > hard...but the documentation leaves a lot to be desired. Can anyone put > together an "idiot's guide to converting your ipaq to linux," complete with > how to stop the install of X and install qtopia instead? I'd be greatful, > and I'm sure that handhelds.org would love the user-friendly documentation > as well. Short answer. The documentation on handhelds.org is pretty good. If you can make it to any future meetings, i will be able to go through the process with you, as long as i have the proper tools. The process doesn't take long. > > Thanks. I'm moving out of this area sometime early next year, I'm sure > going to miss this list (and the lure of meetings I never seem to get to). Perhaps you can make it to one meetings before you leave to convert your ipaq. -brad

Dec. 8, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Ipaq Help

by Wesley Allen

Well.... It's bad enough that I ask questions and don't come to the meetings, add to that the fact that I CAN'T come to the meetings, and i'd just feel like too much of a leech.. Wes On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:17:54 -0500 (EST) Adam Keck <akeck(a)mathworks.com> wrote: >Miss this list? Will you not have internet access? ;-) > >-Adam > >> Thanks. I'm moving out of this area sometime early >>next year, I'm sure going >> to miss this list (and the lure of meetings I never seem >>to get to). >> >> Wes >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wlug mailing list >> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> > >"lingua machinationis creo, ergo sum" >_____________________________________________ >Adam Keck The Mathworks >508-647-7298 Natick, Ma > www.mathworks.com >FreeNIX/Backup/Unix Administrator >_____________________________________________ > > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Dec. 8, 2002

Re: [Wlug] SuSE for Power Mac?

by Adam Keck

I have Suse 6.4 eval from it's Mac World introduction. Alternatively I have a cable modem and therefore can generate some debian ppc CDs if you want. -Adam On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > Does anyone have a copy of SuSE for a power mac? My neighbor would like > to get a copy, and we've all got 56k connections. Thanks. > > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > "lingua machinationis creo, ergo sum" _____________________________________________ Adam Keck The Mathworks 508-647-7298 Natick, Ma www.mathworks.com FreeNIX/Backup/Unix Administrator _____________________________________________

Dec. 8, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Ipaq Help

by Adam Keck

Miss this list? Will you not have internet access? ;-) -Adam > Thanks. I'm moving out of this area sometime early next year, I'm sure going > to miss this list (and the lure of meetings I never seem to get to). > > Wes > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > "lingua machinationis creo, ergo sum" _____________________________________________ Adam Keck The Mathworks 508-647-7298 Natick, Ma www.mathworks.com FreeNIX/Backup/Unix Administrator _____________________________________________

Dec. 8, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Question on making a CD from a VHS...

by Brett Russ

> I'm looking to take the music from a VHS tape and produce a CD for my > wife for Christmas. Hook the RCA stereo outputs up to the line in jack on your sound card (or motherboard). You'll need a male stereo RCA to male stereo mini (1/8" I think) adapter (can get from Radio Shack, etc). Then set up to record from line in. Someone can help you with the SW from there--shouldn't be too hard. Once you get it on your HDD you can do whatever with it: burn to CD, make a MP3/Ogg Vorbis compressed version, etc. BR

Dec. 7, 2002

SuSE for Power Mac?

by Gregory Avedissian

Does anyone have a copy of SuSE for a power mac? My neighbor would like to get a copy, and we've all got 56k connections. Thanks. Greg

Dec. 7, 2002

Question on making a CD from a VHS...

by Stephen C. Daukas

Never having before played with music, etc., on a computer, I'm womndering if anyone hasd done this sort of thing before... I'm looking to take the music from a VHS tape and produce a CD for my wife for Christmas. Also, making a DVD of the VHS would be handy too. The issue here is that the VHS player isn't going to last forever, nor is the tape, and the DVD isn't available (nor is the soundtrack). Any suggestions for doing this? Steve

Dec. 7, 2002

Re: [Wlug] web hosting

by Baris Hasdemir

Thanks for the replies, I also remember seeing couple of times on yahoogroups logs a log entry like "soft bounce, no MX record" or something like that for an account at hasdemir.com domain. One last question, Can I do adding the MX record or is it the web hosting company who is supposed to do that. I will argue according to this information ;) I will also try reaching the postmasters of the problematic domains. thanks again, baris On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:44:52 -0500 Chuck Homic wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:28:41PM -0500, Baris Hasdemir wrote: > > I have a domain(hasdemir.com) hosted on linux by a web hosting company. > > Nowadays many emails that I have sent, neither bounce back or be > > received by the other company. Help desk of the web hosting company told > > me that probably there are filters for our network (by the way I have no > > idea on what network means here). > > Baris, I did a quick lookup of your domain ('host hasdemir.com') and I > didn't get any MX record. > > Many SMTP hosts do a lookup of the sending host/ip, and reject mail if it > is not an MX, presuming that it's not a "real" mailserver. (This is to > prevent spamming from DUL or cable modem links and whatnot.) > > I'm on the fence as to whether or not that's a reasonable practice... but > it's there. I'd suggest adding an MX record to your domain's DNS. > (Whether or not this is the ACTUAL problem you're having at the moment.) > > -Chuck

Dec. 7, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Meeting Topic Discussion

by Haines, Charles Allen

I've used the firewall configurer in redhat, both lokkit and the one that comes with redhat. There really isn't much to them, but if no one else knows better than I, I'd be happy to show them. ================================================= | Chuck Haines | AIM: CyberGrex | | ECE Sys Admin | Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 | | GDC Developer | ICQ: 3707881 | ================================================= http://www.linux-xtreme.net -----Original Message----- From: Wes Allen [mailto:wallen@charter.net] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 10:27 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Meeting Topic Discussion I just might have to tell my wife I'm coming to this one.... On Friday 06 December 2002 9:49 pm, Andy Stewart wrote: > HI Everybody, > > I've seen some good ideas floating around out there, as I knew I would once > the topic got going. Now the question you'll all hate: who wants to do > the presentation? :-) > > Is there anybody out there who is pretty well versed in IPTables that would > be willing to address the next WLUG meeting? > > Just a thought: Do we want to ask Robert Ziegler to come back and address > WLUG? He authored the Linux Firewalls book published by New Riders which > was updated for IPTables. He addressed WLUG about 18 months ago and his > talk was extremely detailed and technical. To be fair, some thought it was > a bit too detailed and dry. > > Along those lines, I thought it might be good to discuss the distribution > specific ways that firewalling is handled. I suspect that those are just > GUIs that build a list of IPTables filters anyway. Is there anybody out > there that is comfortable with discussing this for RedHat at the upcoming > meeting? How about some other distro? > > Thanks, > > Andy -- ------ This message may be signed using GPG, for my public key please send me a message with "Key Request" in the subject line. _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Dec. 7, 2002