REMINDER: WLUG Meeting Thursday October 11th
HI everybody, This is a reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting to be held in Kinnicutt Hall at WPI on Thursday, October 11th at 7:00 PM. On the agenda: 1) A discussion of whether or not WLUG should join the Boston User Groups organization. Check out http://www.bostonusergroups.com for more information. These folks have legally incorporated as an organization to act as an umbrella group for all sorts of computer user groups in / around Boston, southern NH, northern RI, and as far west as Worcester. We have been invited to join, and I recommend that we do so. The initial cost to the group would be $50, which we can easily afford. More on this at the meeting...... 2) Outcome of the most recently held install fest at WPI last week 3) Technical Q/A 4) I'll have 6 or 8 copies of StarOffice 6.0 beta available on CD 5) The last of the giveaways! (I'll get more at the Annual Linux Showcase in Oakland next month). 6) Other topics of interest? If you have a burning desire to address the group, let me know. 7) Update on Lancaster and plan our next trip to that site. FYI: As many of you know, I have been contributing to an open source project called gimp-print. My contribution is as the writer of the users guide. Well, the users guide has been officially released for the first time! Check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print for a really great set of printer drivers (my stuff is in version 4.1.99-b3). Feel free to fire documentation barbs my way. :-) Afterwards, I'm sure we'll take our monthly pilgrimage to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beers. All are invited! -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org
Andy Stewart wrote:
HI everybody,
This is a reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting to be held in Kinnicutt Hall at WPI on Thursday, October 11th at 7:00 PM.
On the agenda:
1) A discussion of whether or not WLUG should join the Boston User Groups organization. Check out http://www.bostonusergroups.com for more information. These folks have legally incorporated as an organization to act as an umbrella group for all sorts of computer user groups in / around Boston, southern NH, northern RI, and as far west as Worcester. We have been invited to join, and I recommend that we do so. The initial cost to the group would be $50, which we can easily afford. More on this at the meeting......
2) Outcome of the most recently held install fest at WPI last week
3) Technical Q/A
4) I'll have 6 or 8 copies of StarOffice 6.0 beta available on CD
5) The last of the giveaways! (I'll get more at the Annual Linux Showcase in Oakland next month).
6) Other topics of interest? If you have a burning desire to address the group, let me know.
7) Update on Lancaster and plan our next trip to that site.
FYI: As many of you know, I have been contributing to an open source project called gimp-print. My contribution is as the writer of the users guide. Well, the users guide has been officially released for the first time! Check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print for a really great set of printer drivers (my stuff is in version 4.1.99-b3). Feel free to fire documentation barbs my way. :-)
Afterwards, I'm sure we'll take our monthly pilgrimage to the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beers. All are invited!
-- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org
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Andy, I won't be able to make the meeting, but you got my vote on joining with Boston. Save a StarOffice CD for me. Al Butler
Hi all... I have a "headless" laptop that works fine, except that it hasn't got the LCD screen (hence the "headless" part). I'd like to rig it as a firewall between a home LAN and the 'Net. I would LIKE to have it basically sit there and watch the LAN and connect to the 'Net only when someone on the LAN needs to get to the Outside World (for surfing, mailruns, etc), then disconnect after a respectable (configurable?) amount of idle time. I've been looking into modem-sharing, but that doesn't seem to be what I want, exactly. I have a pretty-good idea that I'll be playing with the LRP stuff, but I really would like to utilize the 2.4 kernel (LRP is only at 2.0/2.2 as far as I can see). Has anyone been doing something like this already? Hints/tips/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- William Smith wsmith@chezsmith.com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com
Instead of LRP, I'd like to suggest that you look at Coyote Linux. It is a project which has leveraged the work of LRP and added to it. It is more up to date than LRP, and I though, easier to configure. http://www.coyotelinux.com As far as making a modem dial on demand, check out the diald software.. This is actually included as part of Coyote Linux. Hope this helps, Andy On Friday 12 October 2001 10:40 pm, William Smith wrote:
Hi all...
I have a "headless" laptop that works fine, except that it hasn't got the LCD screen (hence the "headless" part). I'd like to rig it as a firewall between a home LAN and the 'Net.
I would LIKE to have it basically sit there and watch the LAN and connect to the 'Net only when someone on the LAN needs to get to the Outside World (for surfing, mailruns, etc), then disconnect after a respectable (configurable?) amount of idle time.
I've been looking into modem-sharing, but that doesn't seem to be what I want, exactly. I have a pretty-good idea that I'll be playing with the LRP stuff, but I really would like to utilize the 2.4 kernel (LRP is only at 2.0/2.2 as far as I can see).
Has anyone been doing something like this already? Hints/tips/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
-- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org
Andy Stewart <andystewart@mediaone.net> writes:
As far as making a modem dial on demand, check out the diald software.. This is actually included as part of Coyote Linux.
Ah, you might want to actually not use diald, since it's essentially a _really_ bad hack. pppd has demand dialing built in, and it works much better than diald in my experience... look for the "demand" option in the pppd man page. ttyl, -- Josh Huber
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