On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 01:22:10PM -0500, Joshua Barnickol wrote:
I'm running gentoo with the 2.6.8.1 kernel and a pretty standard setup.
I can't get apropos to work. When I use man with the -k switch, (or
apropos) as in
$man -k string
I always get 'nothing appropriate'
I have the $MANPATH
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new name. If you get this, it should be working.
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On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:53:31AM -0500, Andy Hilgartner wrote:
I second the motion to amend the name of the club to Free
Software Club of Kirksville (FSCK) in all of the
organization's documentation, including the consititution.
OK. I'll wait until Monday at 5pm and if there is no objection
Now that the club has chosen a new name, we should update the
constitution to match, so our paperwork is in order (we have some
deadlines coming up on Wednesday for filing as a student
organization).
We gone through the hard process of finding a new name. Rather
than go to the trouble of another
This is just a reminder to get your votes in by 5pm. If you
misplaced your ballot, I can have it resent to you (although it
won't allow you to re-open your vote after it has been cast).
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The results are in. The election winner was Free Software Club
of Kirksville.
FSCK beats FSA 15-9
FSCK beats OSIX 16-11
FSCK beats SOFAS 16-7
FSCK beats FSC 16-7
FSCK beats KAFS 17-7
Election results can be viewed at:
OK, when I said I would accept nominations until Monday, I forgot
that it was a holiday. Therefore, I'm going to extend the window
until this afternoon.
Rather than hand count a ballot, unless there is objection, I
intend to register an election with the Condorcet Internet Voting
Service at
I went back through the mailing list to pick out nominations and
seconds. Please let me know if I missed any, and take today to
add a second to anything you want considered.
The nominations so far are:
TSLUG (no expanded meaning) - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KLUG (Kirksville Linux Users Group) - [EMAIL
OK. No one voiced an objection to Condorcet voting, so I have
created an election at CIVS. I'll be sending the ballots out in
a few moments.
The only feedback about eligible voters I received was off-list.
This is what I will plan.
I am sending ballots to all subscribed members of the current
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 02:06:14PM -0500, Steve Olree wrote:
Assuming this was meant for anyone, and assuming you haven't already gotten
someone to do it, I could use the money for mowing your lawn, either
regularly or irregularly.
It was indeed for anyone, and the job has already been
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:39:11AM -0500, Jay Belanger wrote:
Even though it can be argued that it would then be misread, using this
as a replacement for the dreaded f-word is a standard thing to do, and
it has already been pointed out that this would be a way to thumb our
noses at the
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:34:27PM -0500, Caleb Jorden wrote:
Well, now that the mailing list is working for me again, I would like to
second the name Osix. I think that the Osix group is just a cool name.
We don't necessarily have to have a name which stands for something. I
like Osix, as
Actually, Debian sarge is probably a good choice as well. The
base packages are frozen and they are working on a new stable
release (of sarge) for the sometime this fall so the fact that
you are running testing shouldn't mean instability.
As with gentoo, I have a local mirror that you can use,
If you would like to earn money to buy computer equipment, I
could use someone to mow my lawn. You don't even have to push.
Don
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:38:40PM -0500, Ross Day wrote:
Supporters Of Freedom-Advocating Software (SOFAS)
Free Software Club in Kirksville (FSCK -- now that's beautiful)
FSCK really is beautiful. I will personally add a second to
that.
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:37:25PM -0500, Peter Snoblin wrote:
iosif wrote (Thursday 02 September 2004 10:12 pm):
1. it's pronounced something like F.S.-check, as in, there's an F S
check meeting tonight, and man it has a cool name. as for lacking
vowels, a lot of abbreviations and
I arranged for VH1220 tonight at 6:30pm. I know the notice is
short, but I think it would be good to meet. Come if you can.
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 05:56:54PM -0500, Alexander Horn wrote:
'hope you guys had a good summer.
Caleb and I were talking on Sunday and there is no doubt that tslug has
to get started again -- and it will. So far I tried to talk to Dr.
Bindner regarding the most trivial thing on earth --
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Once again, I
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 07:36:28PM -0500, Ian Monroe wrote:
It's still there to download, they just encourage you to join Mandrake
Club before downloading. But they don't force you.
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3
As usual, if you get .iso files, I can mirror them locally at
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Dear User Group Leader:
Thanks for the great
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 05:44:31PM -0600, Ashley Murdock wrote:
Ok..so I installed debian on a laptop (or at least I think i did!!) and now
I don't know how to use it. I can login but I don't know anything...like
what i need to change first offhow to start the visual interface..etc.
I've
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:15:04PM -0800, Dana Schoonover wrote:
Hello All,
So I'm trying to install the JMF on my computer so I
can use the vision recognition stuff with my digital
camera on my lego robot.. and apparently, what I'm
finding online is that the Sun JMF doesn't recognize
the
Linux Device Drivers
by Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet
O'Reilly Associates
Review by Don Bindner
Linux Device Drivers is one of those books that you read to release your
inner hacker (the good kind of hacker, of course). The Linux mantra
might be ``with the source you can even fix it
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On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:00:11AM -0600, Andy Linsenbardt wrote:
title=Gentoo Linux (genkernel)
root (hd3,0)
kernel (hd3,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
initrd (hd3,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.20-gentoo-r6
I might be off, but I think grub doesn't assign numbers for
CD-ROM
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 08:50:42PM -0600, Benjamin Story wrote:
I recommend exim as it's easy to setup and understand. Debian coupled
with exim is extremely awesome because of the setup utilities Debian
includes for exim.
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 08:43:12PM -0600, Bob Ackerman wrote:
I
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Pretty much everyone who cares already knows that I keep a local
Debian mirror (i386 only) at http://vh224401/debian/.
I have had requests for mirrors of other things that get a lot of
use at Truman, so I requested a bigger hard drive. It came, and
I am taking requests to guage demand. I would
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 06:54:40AM -0800, Dana Schoonover wrote:
I already ran lilo -v before I did the reboot, and
it still seems to be running the old version of the
kernel. Is there anything else I can do?
Hit the left shift when it boots to get a menu. In your
lilo.conf you specified
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:29:47PM -0600, Benjamin Story wrote:
Now you need to
make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install
When that is done
cp arch/i386/bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22
mkinitrd initrd-2.4.22.img 2.4.22
Configure your bootloader.
Actually, I think 'make
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 05:30:34PM -0500, Alexander Horn wrote:
Yesterday, Ian and I did some research on the CoreWars tournament we
are planing to have between the three other CS organizations. Checking
out the only recent documentations on Redcode?s current standard we
could find (the
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:19:34PM -0500, Ian Monroe wrote:
OK, I feel silly. That fixed it.
No wonder I couldn't find anything on the web about my problem, its too
simple.
Thanks,
Ian
On Monday 22 September 2003 22:11, Donald J Bindner wrote:
Turn off your numlock key?
It's
It seems many are interested in the new Knoppix CD. You can
get it locally from:
http://vh224401.truman.edu/pub/linux/knoppix/
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:08:03PM -0500, Caleb Jorden wrote:
SSL certs are very expensive. We only have one. And they are
continuous fees every year.
Since we already have one, there would be no reason to buy
another. Presumably a directory update form would just go on the
secure server
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:25:23PM -0500, Caleb Jorden wrote:
Regardless weather we use Basic or NTLM authentication, the backend is
going to be the Domain password database.
Caleb is right on this mark. I even suggested working the NT
password into the CourseInfo server for the same
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:08:54PM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:54:51PM -0500, Michael Goodspeed wrote:
I would like an up2date copy of Mozilla or Firebird with XFT support.
~Mike
You assume I ask because these applications might end up on
kronos. I
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:54:51PM -0500, Michael Goodspeed wrote:
I would like an up2date copy of Mozilla or Firebird with XFT support.
~Mike
You assume I ask because these applications might end up on
kronos. I could be asking for another reason. Still, I'll see
if I can drop a new copy
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Just a reminder. Everything might happen an hour earlier than
you expected today if you didn't change your clock last night.
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I have decided to discontinue my personal Debian mirror, in
lieu of the full mirror that I have been running. They were
largely redundant in any event. What that means for you, if you
were using my mirror in your /etc/apt/sources.list file, is that
you should now only include one vh224401 line:
I happen to be the author of the Internet's most popular Vi
Reference Card (*). You can grab a copy in almost any format you
like at:
http://vh224401.truman.edu/~dbindner/mirror/#Vi-Ref
Just the front page is Vi version-neutral. If you choose to use
Vim (really my recommendation and personal
Most of you have seen my ~/.mailcap lesson now. For reference
for those who have, and for the rest of you, I wrote it up and
put it at:
http://vh224401.truman.edu/pub/linux/tslug/mailcap.xhtml
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On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 08:45:23PM -0600, Benjamin Story wrote:
Why not use Parted?
The last install, we brought Parted, but there were still
filesystems that it couldn't do and we ended up needing PM.
It think it would be a relatively safe bet that the same thing
could happen again.
--=20
Don
I did a little rearranging on the FreeCD today. I think I have
new versions of most everything. Since there was room, I moved
the TeX and math software stuff onto the CD from the links.
While checking versions, I discovered that WinJab has been
discontinued in favor of exodus. Any ideas how
Did you get help with your partitioning? If you are content to
just re-install Windows (or Linux or whatever you want on your
computer) you could just wipe everything and do that. All
operating systems can re-partition when they install.
Another option under Windows which doesn't require
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:42:21PM -0600, Benjamin Story wrote:
Hi all,
I'm finally getting ready to ditch my old Voodoo3 card for something
with a little more oomph. I've been debating between one of the
Matrox dual head cards and the GForce cards. Any war stories with the
newer video
Since we are on the topic of what to buy, I would like to get
myself a reasonably-priced (= $50) sound card for a Linux
system. I don't have high aspirations, I would just like to be
able to play CDs/Oggs/MP3s and do a little recording on the
microphone.
I don't mind compiling a kernel for
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:29:43PM -0600, Brandon Chisham wrote:
Oct 28 02:26:29 mh333001 kernel: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 127.0.0.1, on
dev eth0
You shouldn't be accepting any packets on eth0 from 127.x.x.x.
If you use iptables, you might include the next rule in your
firewall.
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 05:14:36PM -0500, Raul! wrote:
I wasn't able to get a machine, so i don't have a network card for you.
I did manage to get 2 100ES's for only $5/monitor. There were 3
200ES's, and 3 200sx's, and I got one of each of those.The sx has a
sticker on it, it says Mt
Ok, I have 110MB of what I think would make a pretty good FreeCD,
complete with a working (last I check) autorun.inf and some
documentation. Just enough to fill a mini-CDR.
It would be a good time for some feedback. If you have a burner,
you can get the .iso from
The next Surplus auction is Saturday October 26 at 9:00 AM in
Building 4 at the corner of LaHarpe Halliburton.
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:44:05PM -0500, C. A. Hilgartner wrote:
Dear Nate, et al.:
I plan to bring my Lindows box, maybe my laptop computer, and the
pertinent paraphernalia.
Do I (huff, puff) need to bring (huff, puff) a monitor also?
There is generally a good bit of
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:53:43PM -0500, Peter Snoblin wrote:
gAIM (an instant messenger client,
talks pretty much every protocol you can think of - http://gaim.sf.net),
The gaim binary for Windows is marked as 0.60.0-alpha2
Anyone have any idea whether this is ready for mere mortals?
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I was talking to Nate at the football game on Saturday, and we
thought it might be nice for TSLUG to do something that promotes
free software for people not quite ready to take the Linux
plunge.
We might consider reserving that long table in the downstairs of
Violette hall and passing out mini
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:26:01PM -0500, Brandon Chisham wrote:
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
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 06:23:31AM -0500, Jon Beck wrote:
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 01:26:51AM -0500, Andy Linsenbardt wrote:
I tried downloading and installing RedHat 8.0 off of Dr.
Bindner's server and the CDs do not check out as being complete. Has
anyone gotten it to work yet? I've
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 09:54:51AM -0500, Benjamin Story wrote:
Here is the set of MD5SUMS that the Central Illinois LUG has been
using.
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Hash: SHA1
d7b16b081c20708dc0dd7d41793a4177 psyche-i386-disc1.iso
2df17bc02cb1b3316930ed4f7601ad9e
For those who didn't make the meeting last night, I am giving a talk
about what Free Software is. The talk is 7pm tonight (Oct 3) in
VH1000.
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Caleb let me get a copy of his Mandrake 9.0 iso images. They are
now part of my local mirror at:
http://vh224401.truman.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/
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Speaking of RAM disks, someone mentioned encrypted filesystems.
If such a thing interests you, I would recommend that you check
out BestCrypt ( http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/linux.htm ). It
is the most straightforward of all the encrypted filesystem
products I have looked at.
There are
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:50:15AM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote:
One note that we may want to consider at the next meeting:
The LUG should probably own a current copy of
Partition Magic. It looks like it is about $70 an
the PowerQuest web site.
Amazon.com has it for $60 with $20
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 06:36:10PM -0500, Benjamin Story wrote:
WHY? Use GNU parted!
This might be fine. I suppose we're unlikely to need to resize
ntfs partitions.
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:39:14AM -0500, Peter Snoblin wrote:
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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
I have mentioned it to a few people already, but if you missed
the Slashdot article on using rsync to make incremental backups,
then you want to checkout:
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
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On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:46:19PM -0500, Bill Sawyer wrote:
I want to write some type of script that will run as a cron job every night
after the logs roll over. It will do the following (excuse the pseudocode,
it's the best way I can explain all of this).
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I checked out the example iptables firewall, and I would like to
suggest an alternative. This firewall setup is very
comprehensive yet simple. It is written as an init.d file,
accepting start stop and restart targets so you can
automatically bring up your firewall on boot.
This is a
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 07:49:29PM -0500, Benjamin Story wrote:
Do yourself a favor and filter the group off into a folder.
The reason that we switched to an e-mail based format is that
people are more likely to interact. If you need help setting
up procmail, let us know.
He's right there.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 09:03:27PM -0500, Edgar Friendly wrote:
Is there a voting booth on the website anymore?
Eric
No, the phpNuke kept getting cracked.
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:34:52PM -0500, Benjamin Story wrote:
I know that Debian people like things archaic, but really a
wood CD? CD-R blanks are cheap, leave the poor trees alone.
Archaic? Us? Why we even have Mozilla 1.0 in (I don't know how
that got upgraded--it was supposed to be
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 04:40:09PM -0500, Ian Monroe wrote:
I'll be attending Truman next year and I have a few questions.
In general, how Linux-friendly is Truman? I plan on having a multiboot
computer, but, for instance, can I print to the dorm printers from Linux?
I plan on buying a
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This was seen today on the Debian mailing list. Somehow I
thought some of you would find it interesting or funny.
Subject: RMS' girlfriend
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I met RMS' girlfriend today. Yes, RMS has a girlfriend. She is a
The last Truman auction of surplus equipment before school gets
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:00:07PM -0500, Benjamin Story wrote:
I'd like to note that ITS has changed the off campus proxy to
only work with Internet Explorer or Netscape under Windows 98
or later.
Did you notice this because you tried to use the proxy to do
work, or were you just checking?
I have:
- Mid-tower AT case
- PC Power and Cooling quiet power supply
- Tyan Titan III motherboard (430FX chipset) w/ documentation
- Cyrix P120+ processor
- 64Meg RAM
- 85Meg and 120Meg Western Digital Caviar IDE hard drives
- Colorado tape backup drive
- Creative CDROM (4x - can't
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 02:23:04AM -0500, Sean Foy wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to test a bzImage to ensure that it is
valid/complete/bootable without actually restarting my Linux computer? I
guess VMWare could work but surely there's a simpler way?
I finally dragged a monitor over to
That should be plenty of time.
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Almost always, the trouble in this situation is that you forgot
to update /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo to update the bootloader.
Typically the fix is to boot from a floppy or CD (you
installation media can usually be used for this) and use it to do
these things.
Don
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at
I have to imagine that many of you are following SlashDot, etc.
But as geeks and programmers and the like you may be interested
in:
http://www.boycottadobe.com/
Don
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I can't tell you in detail, but I can give you the outline (and
if you learn how to do this you will greatly increase your
independence).
The old Linux boot disk has very good potential, and the new
Linux boot disk should as well.
First the old disk:
- this disk is correctly loading a kernel
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