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Re: [Wlug] meeting topic

by Mike Leo

I did not try ( or know of) a graphical installer... i booted off the "livecd" and walked through the handbook to install....then gave up... thanks for the feedback anyway. --- Greg Labonte <gbonte(a)WPI.EDU> wrote: > Just wondering Mike, Did you try using the Graphical installer for > Gentoo? > > > > On 1/30/06, Mike Leo <mleo963(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Am I wrong, or is the gentoo install insanely comlicated? > >> > >> Although I did not sit in front of it from start to finish, it > >> seems like an install takes hours > >> and hours of work... > >> > >> I followed the Handbook (some 80 pages of documentation), which > >> i'm sure is very accurate and each > >> step worked as advertised, but in the end it was too much. > >> > >> After an install of debian, which takes me less than 20 minutes, > >> this was too much for my poor > >> little brain to take, and I eventually gave up. > >> > >> In addition to that, I can't for the life of me, get slackware to > >> consistantly install lilo > >> correctly during the install. > >> > >> Any comments on either of these would be apreciated, however, I am > >> just writing this to toss my > >> vote in for a linux install fest as a meeting topic. > >> > >> I have no problem bringing in a laptop to show the simple, > >> eligant, streamlined, 20 minute debian > >> install, but I would like to also see someone go through a gentoo > >> install, and assist on a > >> slackware lilo config...all of which can be done via my laptop if > >> needed. > >> > >> Thanks ! > >> Mike > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

18 years, 11 months

Re: ISPS limiting..was Re: Meeting next week! March 14th 2024!

by Keith Wright

Cara Salter via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > Funnily enough, I get a 403 error when I try to view that page. Last I > remember it allowed services for private use. > -------- Original Message -------- > From: THE HAMMER via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > https://www.spectrum.com/policies/internet-use-policy I get a page titled: Spectrum Internet Acceptable Use Policy, which says, in part: 2. Prohibited Activities Using the System, Network, and Service. Any activity or use of the Service which violates system or network security or integrity are prohibited and may result in criminal and civil liability. Such violations include, without limitation, the following: L. Running any type of server on the system that is not consistent with personal, residential use. This includes but is not limited to FTP, IRC, SMTP, POP, HTTP, SOCS, SQUID, NTP, DNS or any multi-user forums. So they threaten you with jail time for listening on port 25. PHLHT!! -- Keith

9 months, 3 weeks

Re: WLUG Meeting Feb 11th 2021! Topic: Good question!

by Jon "maddog" Hall

The port of Tru64 to Itanium must have been after I left. I do not know anyone in the Tru64 product management that would have given any life to that project. No life. None. I can ask one of the engineering managers of that time. md On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 2:13 PM Jared Greenwald <greenwaldjared(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Still boggles my mind the amount of money HP spent on Itanium hardware > back after they acquired Compaq/Tru64 only to basically abandon the whole > thing and lay off everyone. > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:44 AM Jon "maddog" Hall via WLUG < > wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > >> I still vividly remember my boss showing me the plans for support of >> Intel's Itanium processor. >> >> As someone who taught operating systems and compiler design for a number >> of years I still remember my shock that THIS was the answer for Intel's >> 64-bit chip....an Ultra-Wide Instruction set. >> >> I wailed away about how all of this was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.....mostly >> because I had spent the past six months proving why even a regular CISC >> system was the wrong answer, and here Intel was going in the opposite >> direction. >> >> After twenty minutes of me fuming my boss simply grinned, shrugged his >> shoulders and left my office. >> >> While I was proud of the fact that the Alpha processor was so prominent >> in the production of the movie "Titanic"......now I had to deal with a real >> life "Itanic"....watching it sink. >> >> md >> >> P.S. It was only a month or so after, I think, that AMD came out with a >> reasonable extension to the i86 architecture....which (although it was not >> RISC) I was reasonably happy with. >> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:24 AM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Hey Everybody, >>> >>> We've got a meeting next week on the 11th at our same time (7pm) >>> >>> As for a topic, if somebody would like to present something, I'd be >>> up for it. >>> I figure we'd all toast the depreciation of Itanium in the linux kernel. >>> Good riddance! >>> >>> We'll definitely be talking about the PI4 Nano!! >>> >>> As usual, I'm sure other topics will organically surface. >>> >>> Location: Our usual Jitsu haunt: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA >>> >>> Later, >>> Tim. >>> -- >>> I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their >>> constituents as "consumers". >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org >>> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >>> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ >>> Change Settings: >>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ >>> Web Forum/Archive: >>> https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/BJNCC… >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> WLUG mailing list -- wlug(a)lists.wlug.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to wlug-leave(a)lists.wlug.org >> Create Account: https://wlug.mailman3.com/accounts/signup/ >> Change Settings: >> https://wlug.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/wlug.lists.wlug.org/ >> Web Forum/Archive: >> https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/DM5K6… >> >

3 years, 11 months

Re: [Wlug] NIC settings -- how?

by David Goss

Hi all... hope someone can help... been away from the meetings for a while... ( like a year ) due to health reasons... then to boot my linux machine had a massive failure and i had to replace it... had it all set up the forward and masquerade a couple of windows boxes through my dsl connection... ( verizon ) have the pppoe all set up... but can't for the life of me remember how to set up the ipchains to handle the windows boxes for the wife and kids... and man they are getting hostile about not being able to get on the internet from home... i know it was not that hard to set up but for the life of me i can not find the docs i used in the first place... hoping to make some meetings soon... now that the health is getting back to "normal"... and buying beer for the helpful guy that can get my network back to normal as well... best regards to all dave goss

21 years, 2 months

Re: Dec meeting.. not the 14th! 21st or 28th?

by Chuck Anderson

On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 03:13:49AM -0500, Robert Schwein via WLUG wrote: > On 12/8/2023 12:56 AM, Chuck Anderson via WLUG wrote: > > (local sports broadcast blackouts). Or trick hotels into giving you > > a better price--yes, hotels can hike the rates they present to you > > if they think you are nearby--assuming you need last-minute > > accomodations while you are away on vacation. > You've pretty much hit the high points Chuck. From my own experience > when going overseas if I'm able to VPN to the country I'm going to, the > rental car reservation is considerably less in cost to reserve that car > than if I reserved it from state side. I'm assuming there is a > difference between a poor native and a rich American. Oh right, I had the hotel thing backwards. It may be cheaper if you appear to be in-country for hotels, rental cars, etc.

1 year, 1 month

Re: [Wlug] Re: Next Meeting?

by Stephen C. Daukas

Hi Andy! Sounds good to me! I think that would be a better transition for anyone who ends up installing the real thing (so to speak). Steve Andy Stewart wrote: >On Tuesday 02 September 2003 4:22 pm, Stephen C. Daukas wrote: > > >>Is introducing yet-another-flavor-of-linux useful? I understand what >>you are trying to achieve, but one of the first questions that came to >>my mind was "what is the difference between Knoppix and a regular Linux >>distro"? (The first was actually "what the hell is Knopix"!) Will it >>be confusing to the people looking at is verusus what they see when they >>look at SuSe, Red Hat, etc.? >> >> > >Hi Steve, > >OK, point taken. What if I were to demo the SuSE Live Eval CD instead? It is >actually quite close to a fully installed SuSE distribution. > >Andy > > > -- Stephen C. Daukas - stephen(a)daukas.com - http://daukas.com/

21 years, 4 months

Re: [Wlug] Let's make WLUG meetings better!

by Charles R. Anderson

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:25:26AM +0500, Bill Smith wrote: wsmith> want to know whether or not it's a Good Thing to have Lokkit doing what wsmith> it does. (for example, is it sufficient as a starting point, or should wsmith> I remove it and define my own rules?) No, lokkit does a good job at setting up firewall rules for most users' basic needs. The thing you need to remember with the redhat-config-securitylevel utility, is that every time you go into it, it defaults to the High setting, and does NOT show you what the current setting is. People are confused by this all the time, since they think that after changing it to Medium or Low, it should stay on that setting the next time they open the control panel. It doesn't work that way. -- 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

22 years, 1 month

RE: [Wlug] Re: Next Meeting?

by John Stoffel

Steve> There were a couple of things I liked about Knoppix. The first Steve> is that you don't have to go through all the YaST screens when Steve> you boot, Knoppix just boots right up to KDE and logs you on as Steve> user knoppix. The other neat thing about Knoppix is that you Steve> can save your configuration and home directory of the size you Steve> specify on a USB flash drive. With SuSE if you want to save Steve> your configuration/home dir it creates a 100MB file on your Steve> hard drive (and another 100MB for swap if you want). With Steve> Knoppix you can carry a cheap ($10 after rebate) 64MB USB flash Steve> drive around with you and a Knoppix CD and boot a PC into your Steve> personal environment without touching the hard disk. So where did you find this flash drive? It sounds like a great way to have Linux available when you don't want to screw with someones computer! And what sizes do they have supported?

21 years, 4 months

Re: [Wlug] Re: Next Meeting?

by Frank Sweetser

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:52:15AM -0400, Keller, Tim wrote: > be entirely focused on securing BAD/linux. I think it would be disingenuous > to not only the students of WPI, but also tech guys in WPI to let a bunch of > people loose on the network with easily rootable machines. You mean, letting lots of newbie students loose on a large network with machines they barely know how to use, let alone keep reasonably virus/trojan/hacker free? Yeah, we call that "A Term" <G>. At least most linux distributions actually have a sane update mechanism, unlike the mess that is Windows Update. Plus, <plug type=shameless>we have a working up2date server on the WPI campus for anyone on the campus network to use. I don't really have any good docs on how to use it written, but if anyone on campus is interested, email me and I'll give you the quick'n dirty on getting started.</plug> -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu WPI Network Engineer

21 years, 4 months

Re: Happy Whatever-mas!

by Evan White

I got a confirmation email on the 24th and can confirm I'm getting new messages from the list. I regret missing the meeting on the 12th, looking back I was knee deep in Google Workspace scripting and got completely time warped. See you all at the next meeting! ERW ________________________________ From: Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2024 8:22 AM To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> Cc: Tim Keller <turbofx(a)gmail.com> Subject: [WLUG] Happy Whatever-mas! I hope everybody had a great [insert holiday appropriate for your specific belief system]! I weirdly got a message telling me that my account had been suspended from the mailing list because of too many bounces? In any case, I hope this message finds everybody. Next year is going to be an exciting year for linux and for WLUG. Stay safe everybody, and have a happy new year! Later, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

2 weeks

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