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Wireless networking with LInksys WAP11 and WPC11

by Andy Stewart

HI all, I finally got WEP to work with this hardware ! The trick is to download the firmware update to the WAP11 wireless access point and install it. The firmware version is 1.01c and it came out just a few days ago. Now, of course, the install program only runs in Windows. I inquired about non-Windows solutions. One can use tftp to transfer the binary image to the WAP11 to do the firmware upgrade and it does work! One must first disable the WAP11 password and also disable the MAC address filter. Of course, this is totally non-supported, we support windows only, we're sorry for your inconvenience, yada, yada, yada. I'm using the orinoco{_cs} driver without problems. I tried wlan-ng but could not get it to work at all. The configuration of wlan-ng is quite confusing to me. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

Aug. 4, 2002

Laptop for Sale

by bryon3245＠netzero.com

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Aug. 3, 2002

test #2

by Frank Sweetser

wlug test #2 for today

July 31, 2002

WLUG mailing list

by Frank Sweetser

The WLUG list should be fixed for everyone now. If anyone knows of any problems with it, feel free to email me directly. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 18 Full-time WPI Network Engineer, Part time Linux/Perl guy |

July 31, 2002

testing

by Frank Sweetser

test #1 for today

July 31, 2002

off-campus test message

by Frank Sweetser

Just another test message to make sure the list is working properly...

July 31, 2002

test message

by Frank Sweetser

There's been some issues with the new mail server setup on campus, so this is a test message to make sure it gets out... -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 18 Full-time WPI Network Engineer, Part time Linux/Perl guy | Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers. -- Larry Wall in <199708252256.PAA00105(a)wall.org>

July 31, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Pascal madness?

by desdinova＠soupforare.net

(thanks for the other replies, I just picked one) On 26 Jul 2002 at 8:03, Doug Chamberlin wrote: > At 07/25/2002 09:03 PM (Thursday), desdinova(a)soupforare.net wrote: > >I'm trying to teach myself pascal. What with the new release of > Freepascal, >and what with Delphi6/Kylix being out, I figure I should > get something done >while I'm out pounding pavement. >Anyone know of > any used book stores that have a decent computer section? > > The Micro Center book section (in Cambridge) has probably the best > selection. Still not good, though, for Pascal books. > <SNIP about borland> My intent is to learn TP(BP), not ISO-pascal, and poke around in delphi on the way. > > All the other current open source efforts are trying for compatibility > with this de facto standard. Therefore, if you find a book on Kylix > you should do well learning about the whole group. Yeah.

July 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Pascal madness?

by Stephen C. Daukas

At 09:03 PM 7/25/2002, James wrote: >yeah.... >I'm trying to teach myself pascal. What with the new release of Freepascal, >and what with Delphi6/Kylix being out, I figure I should get something done >while I'm out pounding pavement. >Anyone know of any used book stores that have a decent computer section? >I tried Another Story on Stafford St., but he didn't have anything for >pascal. :( The question is, why Pascal? Delphi does C++ too (C++ Builder uses the same development environment)... In any event, the book for Pascal is by Nicholas Wirth (the creator of the language). It is a small black covered book that looks more like a journal than a text. If memory serves, it is called something like "Data Structures and Algorithms using Pascal." I taught from this book some 18 years ago at BU... I liken it to K&R on C and C++ - dense, but very useful. Having no idea what your background is, If you are interested in "tooling up" but what to do it slowly, there are some other ways to go. The two languages that top my list are Python and Java. Java is very popular and gives you all the OOP concepts you would need, and it has the advantage that it doesn't suffer from the issues C++ does (specifically, backwards compatibility with C). Having said that, it is very C/C++ like in syntax. The book for Java is "Thinking in Java" by Bruce Eckel. He also has a book under the title of "Thinking in C++". Python is interesting. Python is often used as "executable pseudocode" and, depending on what you are going after, it may be the ticket. Then again, Java on your resume will get you hired before Python will. ;-) As a total aside, you might also want to have a look at Martin Fowler's "UML Distilled". UML is very useful for programming and Martin is an expert. I know him from my days at OMG (a standards organization) where he worked on the committee that dealt with UML. A very fast talking Brit with a marvelous sense of humor. His book is the book for UML. Regards, Steve

July 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Pascal madness?

by Doug Chamberlin

At 07/25/2002 09:03 PM (Thursday), desdinova(a)soupforare.net wrote: >I'm trying to teach myself pascal. What with the new release of Freepascal, >and what with Delphi6/Kylix being out, I figure I should get something done >while I'm out pounding pavement. >Anyone know of any used book stores that have a decent computer section? The Micro Center book section (in Cambridge) has probably the best selection. Still not good, though, for Pascal books. Be aware that the historical Pascal you may have been exposed to as a student in the past has changed considerably over the years. Borland has "owned" Pascal for over a decade and defined more extensions than there were original language constructs. The current "Delphi Pascal" is far closer to C++ than any other single language and is as completely object oriented as C++ is. This is the "Pascal" of Kylix and is a truly useful language since it retains much of the useful type-safe, single pass attributes of the original Pascal effort. Even with the rich features now available you will not find a faster compile-test-fix-compile cycle anywhere for a fully compiled language. All the other current open source efforts are trying for compatibility with this de facto standard. Therefore, if you find a book on Kylix you should do well learning about the whole group.

July 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Pascal madness?

by Josh Huber

Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)zoop.org> writes: > python, perl, tcl, ruby(I've heard great things bout ruby), Yeah, ruby is fun. I highly recommend it! -- Josh Huber

July 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Pascal madness?

by Karl Hiramoto

Madness is right. Use your time on something more usefull such as ANYTHING ELSE :) python, perl, tcl, ruby(I've heard great things bout ruby), If your a beginner, i'd say learn C. On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 desdinova(a)soupforare.net wrote: > yeah.... > I'm trying to teach myself pascal. What with the new release of Freepascal, > and what with Delphi6/Kylix being out, I figure I should get something done > while I'm out pounding pavement. > Anyone know of any used book stores that have a decent computer section? > I tried Another Story on Stafford St., but he didn't have anything for pascal. :( > > Any help is appreciated, > Thanks > James > KB1FJQ > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Zoop Productions: http://www.zoop.org/ KTEQ Rapid City: http://www.kteq.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Is he the MAGIC INCA carrying a FROG on his shoulders?? Is the FROG his GUIDELIGHT?? It is curious that a DOG runs already on the ESCALATOR ...

July 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Pascal madness?

by doug waud

Hi desdinova(a)soupforare.net wrote: > > yeah.... > I'm trying to teach myself pascal. What with the new release of Freepascal, > and what with Delphi6/Kylix being out, I figure I should get something done > while I'm out pounding pavement. > Anyone know of any used book stores that have a decent computer section? > I tried Another Story on Stafford St., but he didn't have anything for pascal. :( > > Any help is appreciated, I have a couple of Pascal books (forget which specifically, I'm up at the cottage and they are down in Mass) which you are welcome to borrow as long as I have a fighting chance of getting them back some time (no rush at all). If you are interested, let me know fairly soon since I shall be coming down to Shrewsbury tomorrow (Friday evening) for the weekend (the kids in our house are coming up here). doug

July 26, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Pascal madness?

by Charles R. Anderson

I have an old book on the USCD P-system... :) -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

July 26, 2002

Pascal madness?

by desdinova＠soupforare.net

yeah.... I'm trying to teach myself pascal. What with the new release of Freepascal, and what with Delphi6/Kylix being out, I figure I should get something done while I'm out pounding pavement. Anyone know of any used book stores that have a decent computer section? I tried Another Story on Stafford St., but he didn't have anything for pascal. :( Any help is appreciated, Thanks James KB1FJQ

July 26, 2002

NFS, anyone?

by Skip Gaede

Hi, I have a server running Mandrake 8.2. I had a problem unmounting a CDROM (I hate supermount!), so I rebooted the server. On the way back up, the NFS service hung. This is now the second time this has happened. (The first time, I attributed it to students messing with the server, and reinstalled everything.) Now, after two days of getting things back to normal, it's happened again, this time sans students. I'm writing this from home, as the school's link to the Internet is down. Anyone know where the relevant state data for NFS is stashed? Thanks, Skip

July 24, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Shell Script Question

by Gary J. Hanley

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > Pro: You don't need to use extra resources to get the job done Right. I guess that was obvious but I thought I'd ask anyway in case that wasn't as apparent as I saw it. > Con: It's not directly portable to other platforms Good point. I do most of my shell scripting at work on Solaris and portability isn't an immediate issue, but something to be aware of anyway.

July 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Shell Script Question

by Theo Van Dinter

On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:05:27AM -0400, Gary J. Hanley wrote: > Can anyone tell me the pros & cons of coding your shell scripts to > stay in-process instead of spawning a child process when needed? The ones that immediately come to mind: Pro: You don't need to use extra resources to get the job done Con: It's not directly portable to other platforms /bin/sh on Linux is really bash. /bin/sh everywhere else that I know of is just sh and doesn't have the capabilities. If you want to be portable, don't rely on built-ins. If you don't care, use built-ins. For example: T=/path/to/file echo $T ${T##*/} Linux: $ sh t /path/to/file file Solaris: $ sh t t: bad substitution -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "...and scantily clad females, of course. Who cares if it's below zero outside" (By Linus Torvalds)

July 23, 2002

Shell Script Question

by Gary J. Hanley

Greetings! A shell script question: Can anyone tell me the pros & cons of coding your shell scripts to stay in-process instead of spawning a child process when needed? For example, ${VARIABLE##*/} instead of `basename $VARIABLE` I'm trying to use the former as much as possible now but I wasn't exactly sure if that is better, not so safe or just doesn't matter. Thanks! -- Gary

July 23, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for a home - 2 sparc classics

by Chuck Haines

You guesses it. Acutally I haven't even booted the thing up yep, but when I get back to school and start getting the lab in order I will. Anything is appreciated. Thanks, Nate Godin wrote: >On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Chuck Haines wrote: > > >>WPILA could use a donation if you wish. We really could use one of the sun >>keyboards at the least. >> >> > >Playing with my old SparcStation? I used to run it headless, no >keyboard... need the root password or IP address? > >Nate > > -- ------------------------------------------------- | Chuck Haines | AIM: CyberGrex | | WPILA Lab Manager | ICQ: 3707881 | | GDC Webmaster | Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 | ------------------------------------------------- "Geek by nature, Linux by choice."

July 22, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for a home - 2 sparc classics

by stoffel＠lucent.com

Chuck> WPILA could use a donation if you wish. We really could use Chuck> one of the sun keyboards at the least. Sure, I can give you a pair of keyboards without a problem. The Classics are spoken for though.

July 22, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for a home - 2 sparc classics

by Nate Godin

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Chuck Haines wrote: > WPILA could use a donation if you wish. We really could use one of the sun > keyboards at the least. Playing with my old SparcStation? I used to run it headless, no keyboard... need the root password or IP address? Nate -- Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley

July 22, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for a home - 2 sparc classics

by Chuck Haines

WPILA could use a donation if you wish. We really could use one of the sun keyboards at the least. At 02:09 PM 7/21/2002 -0400, desdinova(a)soupforare.net wrote: >On 21 Jul 2002 at 12:42, stoffel(a)lucent.com wrote: > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm cleaning the garage and I want to get rid of stuff. I've got a > > pair of sparc classics, probably installed with Linux, plus about 8 or > > so brand new sun keyboards, somce mice and maybe other stuff. > > > > First one to email gets it all. I can try to bring it to the next > > meeting, or we can arrange a pickup off list. > >I could use them, if they're not already gone > >Thanks, >James >KB1FJQ > > > > John > > stoffel(a)lucent.com > > john(a)stoffel.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Chuck Haines | AIm: CyberGrex | | WPILA Lab Manger | Yahoo: CyberGrex_27 | | GDC Webmaster | ICQ: 3707881 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Geek by nature, Linux by choice."

July 22, 2002

Debian GNU/Linux -- News -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released

by jeff

<http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20020719> *sob* i'm so happy =] -jeff

July 22, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Debian GNU/Linux -- News -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released

by Josh Huber

jeff <jmr71769(a)earthlink.net> writes: > <http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20020719> > > *sob* > > i'm so happy =] Yes, this is good news! -- Josh Huber

July 22, 2002