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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."

23 years, 1 month

Re: [Wlug] Sun hardware for sale

by Chuck Anderson

It doesn't seem that you got my response. It is the tower version, not the pizza box: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/Example/component.front_zoom.h… I don't remember if it has an OS on there, but you can download various Linux distros or Sun Solaris for free to install. The 450 is a refrigerator sized box: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/E450/E450.html This is a standalone unit with the side panels and wheels. There is no rack and no rack mount kit with it. It plugs in using a single standard PC-style IEC electrical cord, but has redundant power supplies. You can pick this up during business hours 9am-5pm at the Network Operations Center, WPI Morgan Hall/Lower Wedge, next to the Access Grid where we hold the WLUG meetings. We can only take cash. On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 07:05:05AM -0700, Mike Leo wrote: > not sure if you got your WPI email so: > > Ill take the U30 at $200. > > Is this it? http://www.nasi.com/sun_ultra30.php > > Does that come with any OS installed? > > The 450 is a huge small refrigerator sized box, > correct? If so, its to big for me. If its not, let > me know. > > When/where can i pick this up? > > Thanks > Mike

20 years, 1 month

Greetings Programs!

by Lexi Haley

Hi, I'm Lexi! I've not been to a WLUG meeting since ... since a long time .... I remember a Blender talk, and a Maddog talk - and these look like circa 2003/2004.... So, absent a long time! Anyways. I am trying to find the time to come again. I've been a casual Linux user since 1998, when I installed Debian from a pile of floppies (( or should I say, my friend installed it for me, and my learning journey began )) .... and for a long time I was an exclusive user .... and at heart I think I am still - even as I flog along a 10 year old iMac. But for a couple years now, on my laptop I've been running 'Tiny Core Linux' , which if you're unfamiliar with it, it is based on the Linux From Scratch work, with an emphasis on a 'tiny' footprint. Needed additional software are mounted into ram from squashfs archives, on the fly. It is quirky, but I like it. I wondered if anyone else has used it (or uses it). I didn't feel right just asking blindly, without a vague reintroduction of myself. So - question: Anyone else use, now or previously, the Tiny Core Linux Distribution? [*] Thanks, Lexi Haley (WPI CS 2002) [*] a search on the email archives yielded no hits ...

5 years, 7 months

Re: [Wlug] need to test notebook

by Richard Klein

Gregory Avedissian wrote: > A friend of mine just got a used notebook computer, but it has no AC > adapter, and the battery is dead. He'd like to test it out before he > invests any significant money into it. I'm wondering if anyone has an AC > adapter for a Dell Inspiron 18000 and would be willing to bring it to the > meeting, so we can see if this thing will fire up. And does anyone know of > a good place to get used parts locally (like an AC adapter)? Are you sure that's the right model number? I've got an Inspiron 8200, and I bet you're talking about an Inspiron 8100. If that's the case, then you can try it out with my AC adapter. If that works, he'll be looking for one of these: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19… or http://tinyurl.com/p6tpa If your friend can find a "service tag" number he can find a lot of information about how the laptop was configured when sold: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/my_systems_info/… or http://tinyurl.com/3qzsp That doesn't have anything to do with the AC adapter; it's just nice to know. -- Rich

18 years, 10 months

GPS on Linux

by Richard Klein

Andy, I think you were talking about using a GPS receiver with Linux after the last meeting. The receiver I had mentioned came in a couple days ago. It's a Navibe SP611 (http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=NAVIBE-ORN) and it does indeed output NMEA 0183. The Navibe website is easy enough to find (http://www.navibe.com/) but it doesn't even acknowledge the existence of the SP611. Linux seems to recognize the serial/USB bridge in the GPS as a Prolific PL-2303: dmesg says: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 pl2303 2-1:1.0: pl2303 converter detected usb 2-1: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 But I can't get GPSMan or GPSDrive to recognize it. "cat /dev/ttyUSB0" gets no response, and I have to hit CTRL-C to get the command prompt back. Per this page (http://koti.mbnet.fi/lonnberg/pl2303x.html) I found that bMaxPacketSize0 = 64, which suggests the bridge is a PL-2303X rather than a plain vanilla PL-2303. Apparently this used to require a patch, but only up to kernel 2.6.8. uname -r says I'm at 2.6.15-1-686, so this shouldn't be an issue. What should I try now? Oh, the GPS receiver did send a stream of NMEA data to my Windows computer at work with GPSDiag, so the reciever doesn't seem to be defective. -- Rich

18 years, 5 months

Re: [Wlug] Using Facebook as a Website

by Clint Moyer

Facebook is about as far away from open source as one can get. On Dec 13, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Keith Wright <kwright(a)keithdiane.us> wrote: >> From: E Johnson <iris.gates(a)gmail.com> >> >> Facebook required me to log in or sign up in order to access the >> page at the link provided. >> >> Using Facebook as the WLUG website would exclude me from having >> access to it. > > As I said at the Wed. meeting, Facebook must die. > > I don't think Facebook would exclude me, because I have > already excluded it. I do think the fact that nobody, except > Chuck, remembered the FB page that is already there, tells > you all you need to know about how useful it is. > > I am happy with the mailing list; I have never used > the web page, though I did look at it a couple of times > just to see that it was there, but if somebody else > wants to maintain other web pages, I have no objection. > > The web is made of pages I never look at. > > It's not a problem. > > -- Keith > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

12 years, 8 months

Re: Thanks for an amazing 2023, more fun to be had in 2024!

by Gregory Boyce

On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 2:20 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> wrote: > >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> writes: > > > > Thanks for sticking with WLUG! It's been a year of change and > > challenges. We found ourselves a new home at Technocopia and make > > some new friends along the way. This is going to be another amazing > > year of talks and demos, lively conversations and general geeking > > out on all things. > > > I look forward to many more WLUG meetings to come. > > I wonder what Tim and the rest of us can do to improve membership and > more importantly attendance at Technocopia? Is it too far for people > to drive? A bad day of the month? A bad time frame? A bad location? > For me, Thursdays are just tough. I'm divorced, and I spent Thursday evenings with my kids. The same is true for Tuesdays. If there was ever an interest in a weekend meetup, that could work better for me. I also have access to space at WorcShop in Leicester, if room for an event was needed. -- Greg

1 year, 7 months

Re: [Wlug] Here I am begging again.

by jrm8005＠gmail.com

> I have not been making the meetings. That does not mean my SUN ULTRA1 > running Aurora Linux can no longer create 'interesting' problems. This time > the second SUN ULTRA running Gentoo is in cahoots. > > I have a new SAMSUNG SyncMaster flat screen monitor. I have attached this > monitor via a Belkin SUN adapter to my ULTRA1's. It does not work!! The > monitor flashes a little square window saying something about "Not optimum > mode". It feels that it has not been configured correctly. The buttons on > the right of the monitor, which are there to set it up, also do not work > with the SUN's is attached. > > The monitor works fine with PC type machinery. The Belkin worked fine with > a regular old tube monitor. (I have not dug out the old monitor to check > whether it still works. I suspect it does.) > > Anybody have any ideas? Did your monitor come with a manual? If so, you should be able to find the supported modes listed in a table. Check that your X/drivers/dongle/etc are using a mode in that table. > > Ken Jones > kjones(a)ziplink.net > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

16 years

Re: [Wlug] Install-fest this Saturday, the 9th...

by Wesley Allen

Keller, Tim wrote: >Hey Fellow Lugers... > >This is a reminder that were going to be having an installfest this Saturday >on the 9th. If you know anybody who's interested in attending, please have >them send me email! > >I've got a couple of questions to ask... > >1. If your planning on attending as an installer, could you drop me a line. >Chuck and Andy are already on the list, I'd just like to have a clean number >so I can size the shifts. > >2. Has the install-fest been posted to the wpi news groups? If not, could >it please be posted. > >Thanks, >Tim. >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > Since I can never come to the meetings this may sound like a stupid question...where is the installfest going to be held; and what time? I don't know if I'll be able to go for long, but wouldn't mind helping out. (I've got a bit of a selfish reason for coming too, I was wondering if anyone who knows X better than I do has gotten a latop lcd to use the whole display without using the vesa driver). Maybe see you saturday? Wesley T Allen

23 years, 6 months

Re: Different topic... Embroidered T-shirts!

by Tim Keller

I recently did up a pretty shitty WLUG icon tile for the meetup group. I thought that would look pretty cool on a T-shirt. https://imgur.com/a/1CmyhDG If people have better ideas I'll take them! On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:08 PM Joel <joelgroup(a)gmail.com> wrote: > If successful, a tux penguin > polo could be "Geek Chic". > > Tag line could be, swim like a bird! > > Joel > > > > On January 24, 2020 12:03:11 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug(a)lists.wlug.org> > wrote: > >> I've come into possession of a brother embroidery machine! >> >> I'd like to get it working with linux, but I'll just be happy to start >> putting WLUG and the tux penguin on a polo shirt! >> >> Hopefully for the Feb. meeting I'll have something! >> >> 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 >> >> > -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

5 years, 7 months

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