Linux-Announce Digest #330, Volume #3 Fri, 15 Jan 99 20:13:30 EST
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: Red Hat 5.2 GPL - January 1999 from LSL! (LSL Information)
Cool Linux Story Contest from LinuxCare ("David L. Sifry")
gpart-0.1b - Guess PC-type hard disk partitions (Michail Brzitwa)
Linux wins award in Norway (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
Call for Location: 6. International Linux-Kongress (Martin Schulte)
LOCAL: San Francisco BALUG 1/19 hosts Corel Computer Corp. (Arthur Tyde)
LOCAL: LinuxSA January Meeting (South Australia) (Matthew Tippett)
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From: LSL Information <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Red Hat 5.2 GPL - January 1999 from LSL!
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 23:07:08 GMT
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LSL Proudly Announce!
LSL's "My RedHat" 5.2
January 1999 Pressing
LSL helps Linux grow with the "My RedHat" program!
Always wanted to use Red Hat, but never found the right package? Worried
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full-feature eval version of BRU from EST Inc.
Taking GPL products to a new level, "My RedHat" is improving with the
speed of Linux! Forget the plain GPL releases and get Red Hat *YOUR*
Way!
Also available, the "Linux Catalyst" CD offering well over 500MB of
Commercial applications and product demos for Linux! Check
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Simply the best way to start with RedHat!� A the base product is the
RedHat 5.2 GPL distribution on two (2) CD's complete with the
contributed RPM's from ftp.redhat.com!
This is an unmatched and unprecidented CD Set for and arguably the most
complete Redhat package available, containing more RPM's than the
"Official" product released by RedHat.
As you would expect from LSL, this 2 CD set is the most up-to-date
available. Visit http://www.lsl.com for more information.
LSL - The Price Busters! Compare our prices and decide
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The LSL Difference!
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Fax: (810) 987-3562
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LSL, LSL - Breaking the Price Barrier!
250 Huron ave. http://www.lsl.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Tel:(810) 987-8807 TOLL FREE 1-888-LINUX-88 Fax: (810) 987-3562
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From: "David L. Sifry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cool Linux Story Contest from LinuxCare
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 23:48:49 GMT
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LinuxCare is giving away Diamond Multimedia Rio MP3 Players and Lego
Mindstorms to the winners of its Cool Linux Story Contest.
Go to http://www.linuxcare.com/ tell your funniest, coolest or scariest
Linux story, and you're eligible to win.
One winner will be picked each week. Contest deadline is February 20th,
1999; winners will be announced at LinuxWorld, March 1st, 1999.
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Dave Sifry, Chief Technical Officer
LinuxCare, Inc.
415 831-9507 tel, 415 831-9763 fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/
LinuxCare. At the Center of Linux.
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From: Michail Brzitwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gpart-0.1b - Guess PC-type hard disk partitions
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:03:18 GMT
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This is the first public release of gpart, a small tool
which attempts to reconstruct the primary partition table
of a hard disk by stepping through its sectors and looking
for possible filesystem/partition starts.
Because this is an alpha-release it still needs lots of
testing. Especially the HPFS-detection was not tested.
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Title: gpart
Version: 0.1b
Entered-date: 11JAN99
Description: A tool which tries to guess the primary partition
table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary
partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect
or deleted. The guessed table can be written to a
file or device. Supported (guessable) filesystem or
partition types: DOS/Windows FAT, Linux ext2 and
swap, OS/2 HPFS, Windows NTFS, FreeBSD and Solaris/x86
disklabels, Minix FS.
Keywords: hard disk primary partition table reconstruction
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michail Brzitwa)
Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michail Brzitwa)
Primary-site: http://home.pages.de/~michab/gpart/
~42k gpart-0.1b.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/filesystems
Platforms: Linux, FreeBSD
Copying-policy: GPL
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From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux wins award in Norway
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:20:33 GMT
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Linux today (the fourteenth of January) won the somewhat prestigious
overall category of the Norwegian Computerworld magazine's yearly
award, beating IBM and a hip telco.
Tux, assisted by most of the Linux Norge board, accepted the prize.
Linux Norge is an organization set up to run www.linux.no and provide
information about linux in Norway.
I expect there's a picture of Tux close to http://www.computerworld.no
by the time you read this. Look for someone with a yellow beak and a
bottle of beer.
- --Arnt (in whose office the Tux lives now)
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From: Martin Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Call for Location: 6. International Linux-Kongress
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:19:52 GMT
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As we promised during the last Linux-Kongresses, we want this event
to change it�s location from year to year. Therefore, we are now
looking for volunteers who can present a location which fulfills
the conditions stated below.
Since this is the first "open"-call for location for the Linux-Kongress,
and we somehow have to restrict the number of offers among we can
select, we set up the restriction that the location must be in
Germany. From 2000 on, we can imagine to make the Linux-Kongress
in other middle-European countries.
For this reason and to avoid problems which might occur from back-and-forth
translation, the following information is given is written in
German.
Der 6. Internationale Linux-Kongress wird wie in der Vorjahren
von der GUUG (German UNIX User Group), der Firma lunetix, dem
LiVe Linux-Verband, der Buchhandlung J.F. Lehmanns, dem O�Reilly-Verlag
und der NLUUG (UNIX User Group The Netherlands) organisiert.
Um Kollisionen mit anderen Veranstaltungen zu vermeiden, planen wir
erstmalig, die Veranstaltung im September und nicht wie bisher
Ende Mai/Anfang Juni durchzufuehren.
Das Tagungsgebaeude muss zwei "Hoersaele" haben, von denen der
kleinere mindestens 200, der groessere mindestens 400 Plaetze haben
muss.
Fuer die am ersten Tag stattfindenden Tutorien sollten 5-6 Raeume
fuer ca. 30 Leute zur Verfuegung stehen, wobei eine Ausstattung
es von grossem Vorteil waere, wenn diese zumindest teilweise
mit Rechnern ausgestattet sind.
Das Tagungsgebaeude muss ferner die Moeglichkeit bieten, im "Foyer"
eine Ausstellung mit ca. 100 m^2 Austellungsflaeche durchfuehren zu
koennen.
Anmeldung der Teilnehmer, Gestaltung der Web-Seiten und Programm
werden wieder ueber die GUUG abgewickelt, so dass die dafuer keine
Resourcen zur Verfuegung gestellt werden muessen.
Allerdings wird fuer folgende Taetigkeiten vor Ort ein Helfer
benoetigt, der ab ca. 4 Monate vor dem Kongress auch mit ca. 10 Stunden
pro Woche bezahlt werden kann:
* Hilfe bei der Referentenanreise
* Hilfe bei der Gestaltung der Web-Seiten (Anreise-Skizzen etc.)
* Organisation des Rahmenprogramms:
** Referentenabend
** Geselliger Abend
** Rahmenprogramm fuer die Referenten, die erst am Wochenende
wieder abreisen
* Wahl des Hotels
* Information der oertlichen Presse
* Vorbereitungen im Tagungsgebaeude
* Organisation Kaffeepausen
* Einteilung der Helfer waehrend der Veranstaltung (siehe unten)
* etc.
ES ERSCHEINT UN SINNVOLL, WENN DIESE AUFGABE VON JEMANDEM
UEBERNOMMEN WIRD, DER SCHONMAL AN EINEM LINUX-KONGRESS TEILGENOMMEN
HAT.
Waehrend der Veranstaltung werden zusaetzlich noch ca. 10 weitere
Helfer fuer folgenden Aufgaben benoetigt:
* Hilfe bei der Registrierung
* Hilfe beim Aufbau
* Leitung der Vortragsreihen
* Fahrdienst
* etc.
Wir bitten alle, die sich vorstellen koennen, diese Aufgabe zu
uebernehmen, per e-mail folgende Angaben bis zum 31.01.1999
an [EMAIL PROTECTED] zu senden:
Vorgeschlagener Tagungsort, ungefaehre Kosten, moegliche Termine
Ansprechpartner fuer die Organisation vor Ort (bitte mit Telefonnummer,
da wir auf jeden Fall persoenlichen Kontakt aufnehmen moechten)
Vorschlaege fuer das Rahmenprogramm, ungefaehre Kosten
F�r die Beantwortung weiterer Fragen steht auch die
GUUG-Geschaeftsstelle
Elsenheimerstr. 61
80687 Muenchen
Tel: 0 89/5 70 76 97
FAX: 0 89/71 01 95 82
zur Verfuegung.
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From: Arthur Tyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: San Francisco BALUG 1/19 hosts Corel Computer Corp.
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 23:31:52 GMT
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BALUG meeting Tue 01-19-1999 at 6:45 PM. RSVP ASAP to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Join us on Tuesday January 19th 1999 for an outstanding banquet with
subsequent meeting to be held at the venerable Four Seas Restaurant in the
heart of San Francisco's historic Chinatown.
Four Seas Restaurant
731 Grant Street
San Francisco, California 94108
The Four Seas will host us in the upstairs banquet room, seating is
limited to 300 so please make your reservations early and insure priority
seating. A note to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will assure your seat at this gala
event! As usual, libation is available and with enough reservations we
can get the banquet room bar opened. The Four Seas banquet room is
accessed from a staircase at the rear of the restaurant lounge. (look for
the Linux User Group sign) Dinner is $10.00 per person, if you choose not
to dine with us, a small donation to help cover meeting costs is
appreciated. We start promptly at 7:00 PM, doors open at 6:30.
Featured Speaker:
The third Tuesday of the month is almost here, and that means Chinese Food
and Linux Based Appliances. Join us when the Corel Computer team tells us
about the status of the Corel NetWinder, Corel Software and Future
Hardware products. They have promised us an outstanding technical
presentation featuring San Mehat and will be bringing some great door
prizes.
Directions and Information
With enough parking karma you should be able to find street parking in the
area. Otherwise we recommend parking at the city garage located at Kearny
and Commercial- directly across from the Chinatown Holiday Inn. Traffic
into the city during rush hour has been unusually heavy. If you are
coming up from the south bay we recommend 101 to Civic Center (stay on the
right), bear left off the exit and bear left at Market Street. Then take
Van Ness (N) to Broadway and make a Right. Go through the Broadway Tunnel
to Columbus, make a Right on Columbus, go about four blocks and make a
Right to Kearny, Right ON Kearny and a left into the garage just past
commercial. Further information is available at www.balug.org.
Network connections will be available through our Ricochet gateway and we
encourage you to bring your friends, family, notebooks, questions, power
strips, network hubs and appetites. In addition to being a fun, creative
and knowledgeable group, the dinner alone is easily the best chow deal in
the city. Speakers, door prizes and other additional late breaking stuff
can be found at www.balug.org.
Vendor Table Info
BALUG encourages Linux related vendors to set up tables. Please contact
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for information on setting up a table.
RSVP and questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and of course- Rick Moen will be
there!
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From: Matthew Tippett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: LinuxSA January Meeting (South Australia)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 23:36:06 GMT
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Time for the LinuxSA January 1999 Meeting:
When: 7:00pm on
Tuesday, 19th January, 1999
Where: 2nd Floor
Compaq Computer
139 Frome Street
Adelaide SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
** Be on time or early, it might be standing room only **
Presentation:
This month we are following on from last months meeting where
Richard Sharpe gave a brief description of what is needed to
get an Samba machine operating within an NT domain.
This meeting will be carry a lot more technical content, with
a number of machines demonstrating what Richard and the Samba
team are doing.
Using Samba in Anger
====================
In past talks we have heard that it is possible to use
Samba to replace many aspects of Windows NT. Now of course,
the Microsoft Bigots would say that the Samba folks are
just blowhards.
In this talk, we will actually set up Samba in different ways to
demonstrate exactly what needs to be done to allow Samba to
provide Windows NT functionality, and to demonstrate that it
is more than just talk. In particular, we will set up Samba
to allow for domain logons from Windows 9x devices (and Windows
for Workgroups), set up Samba as a Primary Domain Controller, and
set it up as a domain member. If we have a copy of Samba
2.1.0, we should also be able to demonstrate that the PDC
functionality is becoming more robust.
Extras:
As per usual, if you are having a problem with your Linux installation,
feel free to bring your machine. Make sure you warn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are bringing a machine.
For more information:
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mailing list details on the web page.
*** Hope to see you there!!! ***
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Matthew Tippett - +61 416 006 047 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Support Initiative - BETA Testers Wanted - http://lsi.ticons.com.au/
Tippett Information Consulting Pty Ltd - - http://www.ticons.com.au/
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