[tslug] Re: meeting time (fwd) Presnetation Ideas
I wouldn't have any trouble moving it back, but I don't have a lot of other activities that would cause a conflict at other days/times anyway. Does anyone have ideas for topics or discussions? I've been doing a fair amount of working/reading about the following topics, and would be willing to put together some type of prensentation if there is interest in them. 1.) Desktop Linux for inexperienced computer users 2.) Linux Advocacy 3.) Browser Comparison 4.) Useful applications that are available for Linux and not Windows, SpamAssassin for example. 5.) Setting up gcc-3.1.X to support Ada. (It is included in the gcc-3.1.X tarball but not enabled by default). 6.) Available database applications, and the four forms of normalization. Also what kind of recruitment/promotion do we want to do? Unless someone else wants to; I can create some example example flyers, tag lines for chalking etc to send to the list for comment. --Brandon On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Nathaniel Green wrote: Everyone, It seems to me that a 7pm meeting time on Thursday evenings may cause inconveniences, if not true conflicts. Would it help more than hurt to move it back a half, or even a whole hour? A later time would be fine by me, but mine is only one voice. What would be the most convenient for you? Nate
[tslug] Geek Library Selection
I found an online version of Linux Device Drivers from O'Reilly. One can either read it online by chapter or downloaded as a pdf compressed with RAR. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, so it is okay to share it, which I will be doing once I get the things that I want to share organized. --Brandon
[tslug] Bochs
Has anyone tried bochs? I found it this afternoon at http://bochs.sourceforge.net. It is licensed under the LGPL. I also saw something called plex86 at http://www.plex86.org. --Brandon
[tslug] FTP Weirdness
I was planning on updating my website tonight, but I am encountering some interesting problems. I first connected with the ftp command, logged in successfully, but could not get a directory listing. Typing ls or dir results in the message 227 Entering Passive Mode (65,57,234,170,224,168). which is normal, but then the connection times out. Next I logged in anonomyously with a similiar result. I tried lftp and the same thing happend. So I grudely started X up and tried gftp, which also timed out. Next I sshed to gold and connected to my site from there and could get the listing with no problem, which leads me to believe that things are working fine on that end. I can ftp to normally other sites, tux.org for example. Basically I'm wondering if there is an easy way to determine if the problem is a result of my configuration or ITS. Thanks, Brandon
[tslug] FTP Weirdness Extra info
I just tried logging into another domain that I own jessica-chapman.com, and enountered the same difficulties. I can ftp to my truman webspace without any trouble. --B.C.
[tslug] Re: FTP Weirdness Extra info
Thanks for the help. I think that I will get around the issue by having my host enable ssh access for my site so that I can scp the files to it. This is the first time that I've actually encountered this sort of problem, so I thought that I would see if anyone had had similar problems. --Brandon On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Donald J Bindner wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:39:14AM -0500, Peter Snoblin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just ftp'd into jessica-chapman.com and logged in as anonymous and was able to pull a directory listing (just one folder, incoming) in both windows and linux. Based off that, I'd hazard a guess to say the problem is on your end. I'd again hazard a guess that if you are running a firewall you could be blocking a needed port, but I have no idea what that could be (I think active ftp uses 20 for something...). Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Peter Snoblin You never can tell about these things. One person might be using regular (active?) connections and another passive. I couldn't say with authority that the firewall would treat each identically. It sounds like you are connecting to port 21(ftp) correctly. But ftp uses a second connection for data transfer and the way that is set up differs for passive ftp connections. It's possible that your second connection is getting blocked.
[tslug] Re: InstallFest~Linux installation help
What kind of system are you planning on putting it on? What distro do you want? Desktops with Win 9x are pretty easy to install, but laptops with win 2k or XP are more difficult. If it is using NTFS, partition magic will be required to resize the windows partition. If there is a FAT 32 (Windows 9x partition) on the machine it can be resized for a Linux install with the tools on the install cd. I have ISO images shared at //linux_box/mandrake . --Brandon -- On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Ashley wrote: I need someone that can help me put Linux on my computer? I had things going on today and couldn't make it to installfest. Sorry about the inconvience. Anyone's help would be great!!! THANKS!!! Ashley Murdock - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe - - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: browsing the lan
You might want to check out xsmbrowser. I've used it pretty frequently. It a set of scripts that run on top of the command line tools and offers a graphical frontend. It is basically installed by unpacking the tar.gz file and then running the script by going to the directory where it is at and typing ./xsmbrowser It is available from http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chadspen/install.html or I have it shared at \\mh333001\Downloads, so it can be saved while in Windows and accessed from Linux. Another program that I've used in the past is called gnomba. It was similar, but it didn't work well with WINS. If you still need to set up samba probably the easiest thing to do is use SWAT. This is a browser based configuration utility. If you don't have it installed there should be an rpm file of it on one of the RedHat cd's once it is installed go to http://localhost:901 from your machine. The WINS server for Truman has been changed to 150.243.160.1 this year. The local master and domain master options should be set to false as well. -- Brandon On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, rod hoover wrote: Hi i just installed redhat 7.3 at the installfest and I am trying to set it up so that I can look at all the computers and groups on the network. I can do this on windows XP but can't seem to get it to work on redhat. I can see things on the internet, it knows my ethernet card and all that. I was checking out google and it said that konqueror should be divided into 2 parts, and on the left one of the options would be network, but I don't have that. The highest my hierarchy goes is root. Can anyone help? Thanks Rod __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe - - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: browsing the lan (fwd)
You might want to check out xsmbrowser. I've used it pretty frequently. It a set of scripts that run on top of the command line tools and offers a graphical frontend. It is basically installed by unpacking the tar.gz file and then running the script by going to the directory where it is at and typing ./xsmbrowser It is available from http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chadspen/install.html or I have it shared at \\mh333001\Downloads, so it can be saved while in Windows and accessed from Linux. Another program that I've used in the past is called gnomba. It was similar, but it didn't work well with WINS. If you still need to set up samba probably the easiest thing to do is use SWAT. This is a browser based configuration utility. If you don't have it installed there should be an rpm file of it on one of the RedHat cd's once it is installed go to http://localhost:901 from your machine. The WINS server for Truman has been changed to 150.243.160.1 this year. The local master and domain master options should be set to false as well. -- Brandon On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, rod hoover wrote: Hi i just installed redhat 7.3 at the installfest and I am trying to set it up so that I can look at all the computers and groups on the network. I can do this on windows XP but can't seem to get it to work on redhat. I can see things on the internet, it knows my ethernet card and all that. I was checking out google and it said that konqueror should be divided into 2 parts, and on the left one of the options would be network, but I don't have that. The highest my hierarchy goes is root. Can anyone help? Thanks Rod __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe - - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: on campus email server
I had a similiar experience last year, but it didn't work with any regularity. I'm using postfix and outgoing mail, as expected can be sent anywhere, but sometimes (and I haven't found any pattern to when it will work) I can, for example, send something to yahoo mail account and reply and actually successfully recieve the reply on my local machine. -- Brandon On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Peter Snoblin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just noticed something very odd, my box on the campus network is running a mail server that can, if the firewall allowed it, send and recieve mail from the outside world. However, I was under the impression that said firewall disallowed that, in fact I even tested it at the begining of the year to no avail. Yet now it works. Anyone know anything about this? Will it continue to work or is this just an oversite on someones part? - -- Peter Snoblin http://quantumandroid.webhop.org/ http://strangefun.dyndns.org:8080/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: CHA1512 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9nMpg6bAd4ZUmLH0RAu13AKC0dHHzkhc0QgBNV1/atMrgBcfAiACePcTN YRk7MyHroPlEkXCtufyiD1k= =TJSd -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe - - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Firewall Down?
I was home this weekend and given Peter's message about recieving an incoming mail; I thought that I would see if I could connect to my box. I was able to connect to the webserver that I'm running, and to webmin (port 1). I also looked at my logs and saw some samba requests from well outside of Truman's IP range, 128.134.7.186 message: (couldn't find service c). -- Brandon - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Free Books
I found this article about free (as in speech) books that are becoming more wide spread. Many use the GNU Free Documentation License http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/sneaky.html --Brandon - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
[tslug] Re: the LUG's new name
I haven't posted in quite a while, but this looked interesting. I agree that it might also be a good time to address the Linux part of the name since you have to change it any way. I go to Iowa State now and the group here has decided to be called AmesFUG, with FUG standing for Free Unix Group. Of course, this solution also poses problems since GNU's NOT Unix! ;-) However if you are wanting to broaden the focus of the group to include *BSD, some variation of this might be a good choice. A path might also be an interesting choice, for example, /bin/klug. Also something that sounds like a name might be amusing the Kirk V. Fug, which could then optionally be shortened to something like KVF(UG)?. --Brandon - To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -
