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RE: [Wlug] anyone using DSL in Worcester? is it working?
by Kingsbury, Michael Aug. 31, 2001

Aug. 31, 2001

I'll echo this one, I'm pretty happy with Speakeasy, also a little uneasy about the Covad issue... Can't say I had any complaints, service is fine. -beaker -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Charles R . Anderson Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 9:37 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] anyone using DSL in Worcester? is it working? On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:24:39PM -0400, Matt Pease wrote: matt> I'm wondering now, is anyone on this list in Worcester using matt> DSL? If so, with who & is it working fully now? I use Speakeasy. They are an excellent DSL company. My DSL only went down two or three times in the 8 months since I've had it. One time was to move my connection from the NYC POP to the Boston POP (providing much better connectivity in the process), and the most recent time was due to lightning blowing out my modem. They replaced it for free. I am a little worried about Covad, though. That's why I did not go for the "save $10 by paying for a year in advance" deal. _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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VPN Question
by Michael Long Aug. 30, 2001

Aug. 30, 2001

Hi all, I have only connected to a network via a VPN using windows software in the past. How do I go about establishing a VPN connection using linux. Do I need to get any software and what other information will I need besides my login, password, and server IP address? Thanks, Mike

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Meeting topics for Sept. 12th
by Andy Stewart Aug. 29, 2001

Aug. 29, 2001

HI gang, I'm looking for a speaker for the Sept. 12th WLUG meeting. If you have a desire to speak on a topic, please bounce your ideas off of me and we'll see if something can be worked out. If you know somebody who'd be a good speaker, please let me know that as well. Finally, I'd like to put out an APB on Rob Bellville. He is our former webmaster, and I"m trying to get in touch with him. His e-mail address doesn't exist any more. If anybody knows Rob or how I can get in touch with him, please contact me ASAP. Thanks in advance, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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apache and SetOutputFilter
by Brad Noyes Aug. 27, 2001

Aug. 27, 2001

Hi Fellas, I'm trying to configure apache to handle .shtml files. I don't know much about apache configuration, so i got some info from apache.org about this. i ended up with this config chunck # put in so we can use .shtml files in /home/httpd/includes <Directory "/home/httpd/includes"> Options +Includes # (took from http://www.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_include.html) <IfModule mod_include.c> AddType text/html .shtml <FilesMatch "\.shtml(\..+)?$"> SetOutputFilter INCLUDES </FilesMatch> </IfModule> </Directory> When i parse the config file i get this # httpd -t Syntax error on line 408 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'SetOutputFilter', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration any suggestions here? i'm using the apache that came with red hat 7.0 Thanks, --Brad

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gettin' the Sparc Classic on the network...
by Sands Fish Aug. 24, 2001

Aug. 24, 2001

Hello all, Settin' up the box I won at the last WLUG meeting. I wanna get it on the network here at work. When I watch the boot messages, I see "eth0 LANCE <mac address>" and "eth0 using auto-carrier-detection", but i don't see an entry for /dev/eth0 when i look there. I can ping the local loopback, but when I try to use DHCP in linuxconf to let it grab an address, but in ifconfig, i still only see the entry for the local loopback. Is there a different location for the eth0 device? Any hints? Anything would be appreciated. Thanx everyone. - Sands Fish - eCommerce - telecomNOW - sands(a)telecomnow.com

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Embedded Systems Conference in Boston Sept 5-7
by Skip Gaede Aug. 23, 2001

Aug. 23, 2001

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Re: [Wlug] REPLY TO FROM (!!!)
by ccb＠acm.org Aug. 20, 2001

Aug. 20, 2001

> - Some people expect that a reply will goto the group. > > However, this causes a number of people to respond to the group > when they mean the response to goto the sender only. Of the 40 or so mailing lists that I'm regularly a participant on, the wlug list is the only one exhibiting this behavior. It's generally consider an anachronism, dating to the days when we all had "!" in our email addresses. decvax!ccb

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stat syscall in RH7.1
by Brad Noyes Aug. 20, 2001

Aug. 20, 2001

Hi Fellas I'm trying to get a shared library to work with my red hat 7.1 system. The problem is; when the library makes a system call to stat() i get "<./myprog> error while loading shared libraries: <mylib.so>: undefined symbol: stat". I have tried this on other distro's (debian, namely), and it was able to make the syscall just fine. Any ideas? Here's some info that you may find helpful: i compile with these lines: gcc -g -fPIC -c -g <mylib>.c -o <mylib>.o ld -shared -soname <mylib>.so.0 -o <mylib>.so.0.0.0 -lc <mylib>.o gcc -g <myprog>.o -o <myprog> -L. -l<mylib> ldd <myprog> <mylib>.so.0 => ./<mylib>.so.0 (0x40018000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x4002d000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) gcc --version 2.96 Thanks for any sugesstions, --Brad

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Re: [Wlug] REPLY TO FROM (!!!)
by Jeffry Smith Aug. 20, 2001

Aug. 20, 2001

Doug Chamberlin said: >At 8/20/2001 11:53 AM (Monday), ccb(a)acm.org wrote: >> > - Some people expect that a reply will goto the group. >> > >> > However, this causes a number of people to respond to the group >> > when they mean the response to goto the sender only. >> >>Of the 40 or so mailing lists that I'm regularly a participant on, the >>wlug list is the only one exhibiting this behavior. It's generally >>consider an anachronism, dating to the days when we all had "!" in our >>email addresses. > >Of the 15 or so mailing lists that I'm regularly a participant on, there >are NO lists which are setup so replies go directly to senders instead of >the list as a whole. Replying by default only to senders hinders one of the >primary benefits of participation - that of sharing info. It is generally >considered "the way to go" to have replies default to the whole list with >strong objections made every time it is suggested that it be changed. > Not a main member of the group (only the mailing list), so take it for what it's worth, but most of the ones I'm on default to replies to the owner. A few changed over to that after some stuff accidently got sent to the list that REALLY should have been private. See http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html jeff ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Smith Technical Sales Consultant Mission Critical Linux smith(a)missioncriticallinux.com phone:603.930.9739 fax:978.446.9470 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thought for today: greenbar n. A style of fanfolded continuous-feed paper with alternating green and white bars on it, especially used in old-style line printers. This slang almost certainly dates way back to mainframe days.

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Re: [Wlug] Extra Hardware
by ccb＠acm.org Aug. 20, 2001

Aug. 20, 2001

I'll take it all. Those make excellent drives for synthesizers. ccb

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Re: [Wlug] REPLY TO FROM (!!!)
by ccb＠acm.org Aug. 20, 2001

Aug. 20, 2001

> Of the 15 or so mailing lists that I'm regularly a participant on, there > are NO lists which are setup so replies go directly to senders instead of > the list as a whole. Replying by default only to senders hinders one of the > primary benefits of participation - that of sharing info. It is generally > considered "the way to go" to have replies default to the whole list with > strong objections made every time it is suggested that it be changed. So be it. I'll hack my MUA to suit my own tastes. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 ccb(a)valinux.com www.valinux.com

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Re: [Wlug] Lart
by ccb＠acm.org Aug. 17, 2001

Aug. 17, 2001

Ah - "Clue Stick" ! ccb

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A fun little Friday diversion
by Theo Van Dinter Aug. 17, 2001

Aug. 17, 2001

This isn't specifically Linux related, but it does involve penguins: http://www.bigidea.com/penguins/kids/k_spacedpenguin.htm It's a strangely addictive Shockwave game. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things." - Unknown

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Lart
by Adam ＠ Oak Aug. 17, 2001

Aug. 17, 2001

Not L.A.R.T. ;) I found the project to for the small open source hardware project I remembered at last night's meeting: http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/ -Adam end ___________________________________________________ Adam S. Keck | | 593 Centre St. | "Got BSD?" (my current toy) Jamaica Plain, Boston | Ma, 02130 | ---------------------------------------------------

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REMINDER: Next meeting on Thursday
by Andy Stewart Aug. 16, 2001

Aug. 16, 2001

HI gang, The next WLUG meeting will be held this week on Thursday, August 16th at 7:00 PM in "the usual place". Please check the WLUG website for more information. At this meeting, the speaker will be Brian Conway, who will be talking about the use of DVDs with Linux. Bring your favorite DVD and maybe we can play it on a Linux system! After the meeting, we'll be going to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer and anybody who comes to the meeting is welcome to join us. Come on down...it should be a good time. Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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More stuff!
by Theo Van Dinter Aug. 16, 2001

Aug. 16, 2001

Sorry for the short notice, but we found some more stuff while gathering equipment for tonight's meeting! If you're interested in something for the meeting, please let me know before 5:30pm. hardware: Adtran DSU II AR (CSU/DSU) 5 dec hubs/repeaters (only 3 power supplies) 3 button mouse P133 CPU w/ fan random sealed card (NVRAM board I think) and memory for a PIX 10000 firewall. software: (windows, sorry...) shrinkwrapped box, "CD-ROM Bundle" - "Encyclopedia 6 Titles Bundle: (1-4) Mindscape CD Deluxe 4 Pack includes: * Chessmaster 4000, * Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing! v3.0, * U.S. Atlas v5.0, * World Atlas v5.0, (5) The San Diego Zoo: The Animals! v2.0, (6) Compton's Encyclopedia 1997 book: Computers, Ethics & Social Values edited by Johnson and Nissenbaum. c.1995 Prentice Hall -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. (By komarimf(a)craft.camp.clarkson.edu, Mark Komarinski)

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RE: [Wlug] Cheap RAM ...
by Keller, Tim Aug. 16, 2001

Aug. 16, 2001

The "GENERIC" manufacturer scares me a bit... Though on the same vein, I saw that Short-circuit city is selling "Centon" 256MB PC100 ram for 44.99 after rebate. Once again, I'm not sure if Centon is any better than GENERIC. Though for 120 bucks I could have 2gig of ram in my machine (provided my motherboard would support more than 128mb per slot)! Hmmm... now I just need a server motherboard that has like 12 memory slots!!! (kneeds hands together thinking about having to turn on BIGMEM stuff in kernel :-P) I went looking on http://www.thechipmerchant.com/19633-0.html (which I've had great luck with buying stuff) and it looks like there selling something comparable for 50.00 bucks... however they gave specific chipsets it would work with. Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:felicity@kluge.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 4:59 PM To: Worcester Linux User's Group Subject: [Wlug] Cheap RAM ... A friend sent this to me and I thought others would be interested: http://store.ccraft.net/PPmain.asp?ItemCode=3398&Action=Mostrar&msk=PD 512MB PC133 for $30 each. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Duct tape is like the force; it has a light side & a dark side, and it holds the universe together." - Zen Musings _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Cheap RAM ...
by Theo Van Dinter Aug. 15, 2001

Aug. 15, 2001

A friend sent this to me and I thought others would be interested: http://store.ccraft.net/PPmain.asp?ItemCode=3398&Action=Mostrar&msk=PD 512MB PC133 for $30 each. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Duct tape is like the force; it has a light side & a dark side, and it holds the universe together." - Zen Musings

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Extra Hardware
by Brian Niece Aug. 15, 2001

Aug. 15, 2001

It is with a heavy heart that I make the following announcement: After seven enjoyable and educational years, I am shutting down my last Linux computer. After taking out the parts that I need for my zippy new Athlon and donating most of the computer to my employer, I will have the following left over. I don't feel like dealing with Ebay, so I will gladly give them to the first respondents who contact me and are willing to pick them up. The items are: 1 Seagate Medalist Pro 1080, 1 Gb SCSI hard drive 1 Seagate Medalist Pro 2160, 2 Gb SCSI hard drive 1 Sony CDU76S, 4x SCSI CD-ROM Drive 1 50 pin internal SCSI hard drive cable. -- Brian K. Niece, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry Assumption College 500 Salisbury St. Worcester, MA 01609-1296 508-767-7209

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DVD's to bring?
by Keller, Tim Aug. 15, 2001

Aug. 15, 2001

Hey All, For the DVD demo thingy, what are people going to bring for DVD's? I'll bring "Ghost in the Shell". The thing that makes this DVD so special is that for some reason the authors chose not to encrypt the disk using CSS. Its the only non encrypted DVD I've ever come across. Tim.

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REMINDER: Next meeting on Thursday
by Andy Stewart Aug. 14, 2001

Aug. 14, 2001

HI gang, The next WLUG meeting will be held this week on Thursday, August 16th at 7:00 PM in "the usual place". Please check the WLUG website for more information. At this meeting, the speaker will be Brian Conway, who will be talking about the use of DVDs with Linux. Bring your favorite DVD and maybe we can play it on a Linux system! After the meeting, we'll be going to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer and anybody who comes to the meeting is welcome to join us. Come on down...it should be a good time. Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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Network Install
by Colin Novick Aug. 13, 2001

Aug. 13, 2001

I freely confess my inexperience. I have done a number of successful CDROM installs from Mandrake 6.1-7.1-7.2. I have an old box I scrounged but without a servicable CDROM drive. I want to install Linux on it, but need to do a Network Install. I am not finding detailed documentation on this and will continue to hunt. If anyone has a hint as to where to look or experience to kick me in the pants in the right direction I would be terribly grateful. Thanks Colin

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phpgroupware?
by Wesley Allen Aug. 13, 2001

Aug. 13, 2001

Greetings, We've just set up a new mail server here where I work and we want to get phpgroupware up as a web-client. Here is my question, does anyone know of any way we can set phpgroupware to auto-sync linux users with the mysql database backend? Any info would be useful, I don't want to have to set everyone up twice. Wes

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Re: [Wlug] Question
by Wesley Allen Aug. 12, 2001

Aug. 12, 2001

Do a home network and hack it together. The sugguestion about getting involved in help-desk work is really good too because all of the sudden you HAVE to learn all this stuff so you can help people (though you may go insane doing it, "I've got 600 messages in my "saved" box on the mail server, should I have backed these up on my local machine?"). If you've got a friend who is a system admin start talking to them as you hack your network, this will have to be a good friend who will not mind giving you advice for free that he charges other people for; but friends can put into English what man pages can only put into "networkspeak", without friends, I'd never even tried to learn linux and would still be a slave of Microsoft. Wes ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Frank Sweetser <fs(a)WPI.EDU> Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 14:57:27 -0400 >On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:25:15PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: >> I've seen good comments made about: >> >> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471345865/qid=997293880/sr=1-24/ref… > >Also ISBN 0-201-43319-2 > >-- >Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 15 >Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | >P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the >world like English did. Er, *as* English did... > -- Larry Wall in <199705201832.LAA28393(a)wall.org> >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

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Problem with X
by Long, Mike Aug. 10, 2001

Aug. 10, 2001

Hi All, I have XFree36 3.x installed and can use startx to launch icewm. When I install KDE2 and run startx it crashes with the following (paraphrased) message: ksmserver: Error in loading shared library libGL.so.1 ksplash: Error in loading shared library libGL.so.1 kdeinit: Error in loading shared library libGL.so.1 knotify: Error in loading shared library libGL.so.1 grep /root/.kde2/.root_warning file not found. I tried 'startx icewm' with the same results As soon as I uninstall KDE2 startx works again. Why would startx be broken even if I am not starting KDE2. Thanks, Mike

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