Clug meeting
I'm sorry I seem to find myself, yet again, without a speaker for the CLUG meeting. However, this time I can't think of anyone to help out. If there is anyone prepared to give an interesting talk at hideously short notice that would be great. So it looks like we may have to have a workshop or similar and a cup of tea and go home early... sorry. I will also be on the lookout for someone prepared to put some time in as a speaker-arranger. I am finding this a bit more difficult than I thought I would (Chris you did very well!) with apologies, Zane
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2008/10/13 Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm sorry I seem to find myself, yet again, without a speaker for the CLUG meeting. However, this time I can't think of anyone to help out. If there is anyone prepared to give an interesting talk at hideously short notice that would be great. So it looks like we may have to have a workshop or similar and a cup of tea and go home early... sorry. If we are going to have a fixup session I would be very grateful if some kind soul could help me to get an OLPC-XO emulation going on my ThinkPad. If I install the Sugar emulation from Ubuntu I get a blank X-server screen. You know, the mottled grey visage. If I attempt to install via VirtualBox I get a message about needing the 3Dnow instruction extensions. I will also be on the lookout for someone prepared to put some time in as a speaker-arranger. I am finding this a bit more difficult than I thought I would (Chris you did very well!) Right now, I just can't take the baton back. Like Zane's, my real life is sufficiently stressful to make it too difficult. Sometime next year might be a possibility. I can't say exactly when though, that's in the lap of the $DEITYs with apologies, Accepted unreservedly. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:27:42 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] ok no way can i commit to organising meetings, but i can offer my apalling presentation skills at short notice at the moment. Skillset is system/database/network admin - from practical rather than theoretical experience, and oldschool systems analysis and design. I've spent the last 4 years fighting spam. Let me know if i can be of any use and when the meeting is... as ever political correctness is not an option (: Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Listening to a speaker with practical experience (and horror stories?) is more interesting than pure theory Steve. Anyway the pre meeting meeting at Salas Thai Cuisine is on at 6.00 pm. Please let me know so I can make a booking. Barry - Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:27:42 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] ok no way can i commit to organising meetings, but i can offer my apalling presentation skills at short notice at the moment. Skillset is system/database/network admin - from practical rather than theoretical experience, and oldschool systems analysis and design. I've spent the last 4 years fighting spam. Let me know if i can be of any use and when the meeting is... as ever political correctness is not an option (: Steve
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it would be a huge shame to not have a few days notice of a presentation such as this / by someone such as this - since i would make every effort to come along, but almost certainly can't if i only know about it on the day / the day before. Cheers, Roger Barry Marchant wrote: Listening to a speaker with practical experience (and horror stories?) is more interesting than pure theory Steve. Anyway the pre meeting meeting at Salas Thai Cuisine is on at 6.00 pm. Please let me know so I can make a booking. Barry - Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:27:42 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] ok no way can i commit to organising meetings, but i can offer my apalling presentation skills at short notice at the moment. Skillset is system/database/network admin - from practical rather than theoretical experience, and oldschool systems analysis and design. I've spent the last 4 years fighting spam. Let me know if i can be of any use and when the meeting is... as ever political correctness is not an option (: Steve
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Yes Roger, Again I must apologise. I keep finding myself surprised by the start of the month! Steve, maybe next month would be a better use of your talk and tonight we can just have a fixup session and a chat over a cuppa. How does that sound? Zane -- - Zane Gilmore Development and Web Infrastructure Team Leader DDI: 325 9631 Cell:0276 319 206 Crop Food Research : Mana Kai Rangahau http://www.crop.cri.nz -- On 14/10/2008 at 11:29 a.m., in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it would be a huge shame to not have a few days notice of a presentation such as this / by someone such as this - since i would make every effort to come along, but almost certainly can't if i only know about it on the day / the day before. Cheers, Roger Barry Marchant wrote: Listening to a speaker with practical experience (and horror stories?) is more interesting than pure theory Steve. Anyway the pre meeting meeting at Salas Thai Cuisine is on at 6.00 pm. Please let me know so I can make a booking. Barry - Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:27:42 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] ok no way can i commit to organising meetings, but i can offer my apalling presentation skills at short notice at the moment. Skillset is system/database/network admin - from practical rather than theoretical experience, and oldschool systems analysis and design. I've spent the last 4 years fighting spam. Let me know if i can be of any use and when the meeting is... as ever political correctness is not an option (: Steve Visit our website at http://www.crop.cri.nz __ CAUTION: The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential. If you read this message and you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of all or part of the contents is prohibited. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. Any opinions or views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not represent those of their employer.
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I sent this message as the first one didn't seem to come through. Looks like they had some trouble on the varsity servers. I just assumed that I hadn't pressed the right button on the email client at work. -- - Zane Gilmore Development and Web Infrastructure Team Leader DDI: 325 9631 Cell:0276 319 206 Crop Food Research : Mana Kai Rangahau http://www.crop.cri.nz -- On 13/10/2008 at 9:28 p.m., in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/13 Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm sorry I seem to find myself, yet again, without a speaker for the CLUG meeting. However, this time I can't think of anyone to help out. If there is anyone prepared to give an interesting talk at hideously short notice that would be great. So it looks like we may have to have a workshop or similar and a cup of tea and go home early... sorry. If we are going to have a fixup session I would be very grateful if some kind soul could help me to get an OLPC-XO emulation going on my ThinkPad. If I install the Sugar emulation from Ubuntu I get a blank X-server screen. You know, the mottled grey visage. If I attempt to install via VirtualBox I get a message about needing the 3Dnow instruction extensions. Sounds interesting even if we can't get it going :-) Visit our website at http://www.crop.cri.nz __ CAUTION: The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential. If you read this message and you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of all or part of the contents is prohibited. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. Any opinions or views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not represent those of their employer.
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OK fine. Get a few topics for next month tonight then?? Can anyone fix my tosh so the screensaver doesn't lock the whole screen and the only way forward is to remove the battery / restart gdm via an ssh connnection?? Old nvidia + hardy. 7pm start is it? Can someone tape shortie for me then (: Cheers, Steve On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:42:12 +1300 Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Roger, Again I must apologise. I keep finding myself surprised by the start of the month! Steve, maybe next month would be a better use of your talk and tonight we can just have a fixup session and a chat over a cuppa. How does that sound? Zane -- - Zane Gilmore Development and Web Infrastructure Team Leader DDI: 325 9631 Cell:0276 319 206 Crop Food Research : Mana Kai Rangahau http://www.crop.cri.nz -- On 14/10/2008 at 11:29 a.m., in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it would be a huge shame to not have a few days notice of a presentation such as this / by someone such as this - since i would make every effort to come along, but almost certainly can't if i only know about it on the day / the day before. Cheers, Roger Barry Marchant wrote: Listening to a speaker with practical experience (and horror stories?) is more interesting than pure theory Steve. Anyway the pre meeting meeting at Salas Thai Cuisine is on at 6.00 pm. Please let me know so I can make a booking. Barry - Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:27:42 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] ok no way can i commit to organising meetings, but i can offer my apalling presentation skills at short notice at the moment. Skillset is system/database/network admin - from practical rather than theoretical experience, and oldschool systems analysis and design. I've spent the last 4 years fighting spam. Let me know if i can be of any use and when the meeting is... as ever political correctness is not an option (: Steve Visit our website at http://www.crop.cri.nz __ CAUTION: The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential. If you read this message and you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of all or part of the contents is prohibited. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. Any opinions or views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not represent those of their employer. -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Clug meeting
I can bring in a copy of vmware server 2.0.0 x86_64 to save a 450+MB download if anyone wants it?? Got 1.0.7 as well - 64 bit .gz too. Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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7:30pm actually. On 14/10/2008, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK fine. Get a few topics for next month tonight then?? Can anyone fix my tosh so the screensaver doesn't lock the whole screen and the only way forward is to remove the battery / restart gdm via an ssh connnection?? Old nvidia + hardy. 7pm start is it? Can someone tape shortie for me then (: Cheers, Steve On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:42:12 +1300 Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Roger, Again I must apologise. I keep finding myself surprised by the start of the month! Steve, maybe next month would be a better use of your talk and tonight we can just have a fixup session and a chat over a cuppa. How does that sound? Zane -- - Zane Gilmore Development and Web Infrastructure Team Leader DDI: 325 9631 Cell:0276 319 206 Crop Food Research : Mana Kai Rangahau http://www.crop.cri.nz -- On 14/10/2008 at 11:29 a.m., in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it would be a huge shame to not have a few days notice of a presentation such as this / by someone such as this - since i would make every effort to come along, but almost certainly can't if i only know about it on the day / the day before. Cheers, Roger Barry Marchant wrote: Listening to a speaker with practical experience (and horror stories?) is more interesting than pure theory Steve. Anyway the pre meeting meeting at Salas Thai Cuisine is on at 6.00 pm. Please let me know so I can make a booking. Barry - Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:27:42 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] ok no way can i commit to organising meetings, but i can offer my apalling presentation skills at short notice at the moment. Skillset is system/database/network admin - from practical rather than theoretical experience, and oldschool systems analysis and design. I've spent the last 4 years fighting spam. Let me know if i can be of any use and when the meeting is... as ever political correctness is not an option (: Steve Visit our website at http://www.crop.cri.nz __ CAUTION: The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential. If you read this message and you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of all or part of the contents is prohibited. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. Any opinions or views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not represent those of their employer. -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
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Does it emulate the 3Dnow instructions? If so I'd be very grateful. On 14/10/2008, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can bring in a copy of vmware server 2.0.0 x86_64 to save a 450+MB download if anyone wants it?? Got 1.0.7 as well - 64 bit .gz too. Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
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Usually better to get it from your distro's repositories of course! On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it emulate the 3Dnow instructions? If so I'd be very grateful. On 14/10/2008, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can bring in a copy of vmware server 2.0.0 x86_64 to save a 450+MB download if anyone wants it?? Got 1.0.7 as well - 64 bit .gz too. Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
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Um well, I have done that for everything so far, but now have hit a show stopper. I am now somewhat more than just slightly disappointed and disenchanted by the ability of the *ubuntu folks to keep their archive of binaries up to date. It's Sabayon Professional next time. On 14/10/2008, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usually better to get it from your distro's repositories of course! On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it emulate the 3Dnow instructions? If so I'd be very grateful. On 14/10/2008, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can bring in a copy of vmware server 2.0.0 x86_64 to save a 450+MB download if anyone wants it?? Got 1.0.7 as well - 64 bit .gz too. Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
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Actually, listening to the theorists argue tends to be a bit of a blood sport for techies! I'm in - as always - for Salas Thai Cuisine. Wesley Parish Quoting Barry Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Listening to a speaker with practical experience (and horror stories?) is more interesting than pure theory Steve. Anyway the pre meeting meeting at Salas Thai Cuisine is on at 6.00 pm. Please let me know so I can make a booking. Barry - Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:27:42 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] ok no way can i commit to organising meetings, but i can offer my apalling presentation skills at short notice at the moment. Skillset is system/database/network admin - from practical rather than theoretical experience, and oldschool systems analysis and design. I've spent the last 4 years fighting spam. Let me know if i can be of any use and when the meeting is... as ever political correctness is not an option (: Steve Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
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As I use it (intentionally) on both debian and redhat - based platforms, it makes more sense for me to install from tgz. I was only offering to save a 450MB download, not start a flame war (: Steve On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:01:12 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um well, I have done that for everything so far, but now have hit a show stopper. I am now somewhat more than just slightly disappointed and disenchanted by the ability of the *ubuntu folks to keep their archive of binaries up to date. It's Sabayon Professional next time. On 14/10/2008, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usually better to get it from your distro's repositories of course! On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it emulate the 3Dnow instructions? If so I'd be very grateful. On 14/10/2008, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can bring in a copy of vmware server 2.0.0 x86_64 to save a 450+MB download if anyone wants it?? Got 1.0.7 as well - 64 bit .gz too. Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ftgh printer...
OK, it's old, it's big, and I haven't even switched it on for 6 months. But it's *guranteed* to work with linux! HP Laserjet 4+. Comes with JD (10mbit) interface, spare toner and fuser, and I think I've got an extra huge ( 1000 sheet?? ) document silo to go underneath it. I was donated this when they started printing wrongly in a windows network in Rotterdam. I fixed this by upgrading the firmware, but don't tell anyone. Only problem is that the buttons/menu is in Dutch. Get that good ole toner high for the same price I paid for it... gratis. Can bring along tonight. Don't recommend taking it home on the back of a bike (: Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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not sure that it's available in (k)ubuntu repositories, is it? i try to follow this advice where possible, however adept doesn't show any relevant results searching for vmware. downloading the tar.gz, untarring and running the installer Just Worked for me the other week at home (i can't resist). i'm really liking the changes in v2 over v1.4, none of the any-any-any runaround stuff (well, right now anyway), just press enter a few times, agree to a license, tell it where the virtual machines are stored, type in a key etc, when the cli excitement is over, fire up your browser. yes, browser. 5 minute learning curve. plenty of additional functionality to explore. i'd be a little more specific if i had it going here, once i sort out logging on as a different user, i will do. if you're still on 1.4, i'd recommend you take a look. maybe showing it off could be a 5 minute demo, steve? Cheers, Roger Nick Rout wrote: Usually better to get it from your distro's repositories of course! On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it emulate the 3Dnow instructions? If so I'd be very grateful. On 14/10/2008, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can bring in a copy of vmware server 2.0.0 x86_64 to save a 450+MB download if anyone wants it?? Got 1.0.7 as well - 64 bit .gz too. Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
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sorry zane my email was not directed personally at you - only a desire to not miss out . . . the wluggers have a bot sending out reminders of meetings - how have they done that? and why aren't we? Zane Gilmore wrote: Yes Roger, Again I must apologise. I keep finding myself surprised by the start of the month! Steve, maybe next month would be a better use of your talk and tonight we can just have a fixup session and a chat over a cuppa. How does that sound? Zane
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I'll install it somewhere if you want to demo it! All I did was upgrade my existing install - haven't played with it at all... Steve On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:30:18 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not sure that it's available in (k)ubuntu repositories, is it? i try to follow this advice where possible, however adept doesn't show any relevant results searching for vmware. downloading the tar.gz, untarring and running the installer Just Worked for me the other week at home (i can't resist). i'm really liking the changes in v2 over v1.4, none of the any-any-any runaround stuff (well, right now anyway), just press enter a few times, agree to a license, tell it where the virtual machines are stored, type in a key etc, when the cli excitement is over, fire up your browser. yes, browser. 5 minute learning curve. plenty of additional functionality to explore. i'd be a little more specific if i had it going here, once i sort out logging on as a different user, i will do. if you're still on 1.4, i'd recommend you take a look. maybe showing it off could be a 5 minute demo, steve? Cheers, Roger Nick Rout wrote: Usually better to get it from your distro's repositories of course! On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it emulate the 3Dnow instructions? If so I'd be very grateful. On 14/10/2008, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can bring in a copy of vmware server 2.0.0 x86_64 to save a 450+MB download if anyone wants it?? Got 1.0.7 as well - 64 bit .gz too. Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Clug meeting olpc
Hi Christopher, a quick net search seems to indicate that the 3dnow instruction set has been supported by bochs for some time? You may need to compile support in? This page from ibm about olpc and quemu may help? http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sugar-olpc/index.html Ubuntu 7.04 may work better for this application than 8.04? How about CentOS? It seems to be very stable. Or perhaps Debian? Whats the strength of Sabyon? Additional info link. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation Regards Michael 2008/10/13 Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm sorry I seem to find myself, yet again, without a speaker for the CLUG meeting. However, this time I can't think of anyone to help out. If there is anyone prepared to give an interesting talk at hideously short notice that would be great. So it looks like we may have to have a workshop or similar and a cup of tea and go home early... sorry. If we are going to have a fixup session I would be very grateful if some kind soul could help me to get an OLPC-XO emulation going on my ThinkPad. If I install the Sugar emulation from Ubuntu I get a blank X-server screen. You know, the mottled grey visage. If I attempt to install via VirtualBox I get a message about needing the 3Dnow instruction extensions. I will also be on the lookout for someone prepared to put some time in as a speaker-arranger. I am finding this a bit more difficult than I thought I would (Chris you did very well!) Right now, I just can't take the baton back. Like Zane's, my real life is sufficiently stressful to make it too difficult. Sometime next year might be a possibility. I can't say exactly when though, that's in the lap of the $DEITYs with apologies, Accepted unreservedly.
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When i ran the meetings I simply sent a reminder to the list a week in advance, or when I remembered. If you want to do something with regularity, man cron is your friend. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry zane my email was not directed personally at you - only a desire to not miss out . . . the wluggers have a bot sending out reminders of meetings - how have they done that? and why aren't we? Zane Gilmore wrote: Yes Roger, Again I must apologise. I keep finding myself surprised by the start of the month! Steve, maybe next month would be a better use of your talk and tonight we can just have a fixup session and a chat over a cuppa. How does that sound? Zane
Re: ftgh printer...
Cluggers, sorry I wont be able to make it this time around. I have enjoyed the meetings this year and hope you can come up with a presentation reminder system that works. One small suggestion FWIW - Steve's email reminded me of an old idea that might be worth resurrecting at occasional CLUG meetings - the concept of a 'swap meet' - i.e. bring along junk or stuff for sale and see what happens. Could be a good way of filling an otherwise empty speaking slot once or twice a year. my 1.4c - David On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: OK, it's old, it's big, and I haven't even switched it on for 6 months. But it's *guranteed* to work with linux! HP Laserjet 4+. Comes with JD (10mbit) interface, spare toner and fuser, and I think I've got an extra huge ( 1000 sheet?? ) document silo to go underneath it. I was donated this when they started printing wrongly in a windows network in Rotterdam. I fixed this by upgrading the firmware, but don't tell anyone. Only problem is that the buttons/menu is in Dutch. Get that good ole toner high for the same price I paid for it... gratis. Can bring along tonight. Don't recommend taking it home on the back of a bike (: Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Nick Rout wrote: rant There seems to be a dearth of people stepping up to the mark to talk about anything. Where are the commercial linux users in ChCh telling us about how they are helping to change the world? /rant As always, well spoken. Nick, I appreciate the way you can express something that gets you annoyed. Indeed - some might argue it was so well put the rant symbols were not required. I have done a couple of talks now, and am willing to do more talks as required. I could tell you about the minstrel rate algorithm, which Indranet Technologies has sponsored me to do for wireless networks. Minstrel is an adaptive rate algorithm (for 802.11 networks) that is far superior to anything else. It picks the optimum speed for sending packets between two radio nodes. I am told it is now in the kernel - 2.6.28. There is an impromptu talk I could do - no power points etc - just me talking. Will it change the world? It will change the world of linux 802.11 radio networks. You see, * minstrel is superior to the commercial/proprietary rate algorithm supplied by atheros. * minstrel is the default rate algorithm in openwrt. * of the various people I am aware of using atheros radios and doing adhoc networking with madwifi - all are using minstrel * minstrel now works with bc43, ath5k and the p54 drivers. * Felix Fietkau, who ported minstrel from madwifi to the kernel, is confident it will overtake PID (current algorithm) in weeks.. Derek. -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. IndraNet Technologies Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +64 3 365 6485 Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
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at this juncture, Can I ask what the support on laptops is like for Sabyon I have found 8.04 Ubuntu very good. the only thing it does not support is the finger print reader on my HP nw9940. which I frankly would not expect. How ever it does seem to have gotten a bit bulky if I can put it that way. regards chris T On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 13:57 +1300, goldedge wrote: Hi Christopher, a quick net search seems to indicate that the 3dnow instruction set has been supported by bochs for some time? You may need to compile support in? This page from ibm about olpc and quemu may help? http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sugar-olpc/index.html Ubuntu 7.04 may work better for this application than 8.04? How about CentOS? It seems to be very stable. Or perhaps Debian? Whats the strength of Sabyon? Additional info link. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation Regards Michael 2008/10/13 Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm sorry I seem to find myself, yet again, without a speaker for the CLUG meeting. However, this time I can't think of anyone to help out. If there is anyone prepared to give an interesting talk at hideously short notice that would be great. So it looks like we may have to have a workshop or similar and a cup of tea and go home early... sorry. If we are going to have a fixup session I would be very grateful if some kind soul could help me to get an OLPC-XO emulation going on my ThinkPad. If I install the Sugar emulation from Ubuntu I get a blank X-server screen. You know, the mottled grey visage. If I attempt to install via VirtualBox I get a message about needing the 3Dnow instruction extensions. I will also be on the lookout for someone prepared to put some time in as a speaker-arranger. I am finding this a bit more difficult than I thought I would (Chris you did very well!) Right now, I just can't take the baton back. Like Zane's, my real life is sufficiently stressful to make it too difficult. Sometime next year might be a possibility. I can't say exactly when though, that's in the lap of the $DEITYs with apologies, Accepted unreservedly.
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ummm... i guess i could put something together - it will be brief, i certainly don't count myself as an expert, and probably wouldn't be able to offer authoritative answers to good questions. or even bad ones. but i'll give it a go . . . since really i'm usually the question asker and learner from list messages, rather than the provider of answers and solutions, and still have so much to learn (and not enough hours in the day) perhaps others would be prepared to show off something small they have learnt to use in 5 minutes at the start of other meeting talks? Roger Steve Holdoway wrote: I'll install it somewhere if you want to demo it! All I did was upgrade my existing install - haven't played with it at all... Steve On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:30:18 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not sure that it's available in (k)ubuntu repositories, is it? i try to follow this advice where possible, however adept doesn't show any relevant results searching for vmware. downloading the tar.gz, untarring and running the installer Just Worked for me the other week at home (i can't resist). i'm really liking the changes in v2 over v1.4, none of the any-any-any runaround stuff (well, right now anyway), just press enter a few times, agree to a license, tell it where the virtual machines are stored, type in a key etc, when the cli excitement is over, fire up your browser. yes, browser. 5 minute learning curve. plenty of additional functionality to explore. i'd be a little more specific if i had it going here, once i sort out logging on as a different user, i will do. if you're still on 1.4, i'd recommend you take a look. maybe showing it off could be a 5 minute demo, steve? Cheers, Roger Nick Rout wrote: Usually better to get it from your distro's repositories of course! On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it emulate the 3Dnow instructions? If so I'd be very grateful. On 14/10/2008, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can bring in a copy of vmware server 2.0.0 x86_64 to save a 450+MB download if anyone wants it?? Got 1.0.7 as well - 64 bit .gz too. Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
CS Can't come tonight
So sorry, I just can't get away. Please ring 981-5469 if Wesley doesn't turn up, because he and I are the alarm code holders. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: Clug meeting olpc
Thanks so much, but I am rather heavily otherwise preoccupied at the moment, but will get back to CLUG, Linux and OLPC as soon as I can. 2008/10/14 goldedge [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Christopher, a quick net search seems to indicate that the 3dnow instruction set has been supported by bochs for some time? You may need to compile support in? This page from ibm about olpc and quemu may help? http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-sugar-olpc/index.html Ubuntu 7.04 may work better for this application than 8.04? How about CentOS? It seems to be very stable. Or perhaps Debian? It's a question of the emulator, not the host o/s. I have an ordinary Pentuim Mobile ( P3 ) x86 which does not have the 3Dnow instruction extensions. The current OLPC binaries test that the hardware or emulator, and kernel offers these instructions, and crashes with an error message if it does not. I'm hoping to use the VirtualBox emulator because until we hit this 3Dnow problem in my exp. it 'Just Works' Whats the strength of Sabyon? It's a binary distro closely based on Gentoo. There is a Professional Edition. It is free of unecessary game and similar junk programs, it's based on the Gentoo Stable release. Last but not least, I really like the fine Italian artwork. Additional info link. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation I'll have a detailed look at that, but at 18 months old I fear it might be a bit archaeological. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
