On 5/3/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Send PLUG mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of PLUG digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. ANNOUNCEMENT: May PLUG Meeting (David Mandel) > 2. ANNOUNCEMENT: May PLUG AT Meeting (Michael Dexter) > 3. Re: KDE apps on Gnome (John Jason Jordan) > 4. Re: KDE apps on Gnome (Rich Shepard) > 5. Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Install Problems (Richard C. Steffens) > 6. Re: (fwd) Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released (John Jason Jordan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 12:42:11 -0700 > From: David Mandel <[email protected]> > Subject: [PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: May PLUG Meeting > To: Portland Linux User Group Announcements > <[email protected]>, Portland Linux User Group > <[email protected]> > Cc: David Mandel <[email protected]>, Geoff Burling > <[email protected]>, Dennis Gilbert <[email protected]>, Manuel > Espino <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?The Portland Linux/Unix Group > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?will meet > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?7 PM Thursday May 6, 2010 > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?at > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Portland State University > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?in the > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Fariborz Maseeh > ? ? ? ? ? ? ?College of Engineering & Computer Science Building > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Room FAB 86-01 > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(This is in the basement.) > ? ? ? ? ? The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street. > ? ? ? ?See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg > > ? ? ******************************************************************* > > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? PRESENTATION > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? How Linux Containers fit your cloud > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?by > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Alec Istomin > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?www.Parallels.com > > ? ? Linux, Cloud, Virtualization and hundreds other buzz words are out > ? ? there to blow your mind. The session will share real life examples > ? ? that actually make sense and deliver meaningful easy to use services to > ? ? end users with minimum efforts from cloud administrators. > > ? ? A deeper introduction to Containers technology will be presented and > ? ? will be helpful to anyone, especially for people familiar with any > ? ? other virtualization solution for Linux. > > ? ? Overview of Parallels Commercial management tools for Containers and > ? ? clouds with open command line and XML APIs will show how to put an > ? ? infrastructure cloud solution to life. > > ? ? About the speaker: > ? ? Alec Istomin is an Enterprise Solution Architect at Parallels, > ? ? Renton,WA and originally joined the company (called SWsoft at > ? ? the time) as a developer in early 2000. He has been involved > ? ? with Linux and Virtualization all these years and led numerous > ? ? cloud deployments. He has an M.S. in physics and applied > ? ? mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology > ? ? (MIPT), Moscow. > > ? ? ******************************************************************* > > ? ? ? ? Agenda: > > ? ? ? ? ? ? 7:00 - 7:30 ?Business > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings, > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education, > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?etc. > > ? ? ? ? ? ? 7:30 - 8:30 ?Presentation > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?See above > > ? ? ? ? ? ? 9:00 - ... ?Beer > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? The Lucky Lab Northwest Beerhall > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 1945 NW Quimby > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Portland, Oregon > > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? David Mandel > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Chief Activist > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Portland Linux/Unix Group > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 560 SE Alexander > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Corvallis, Oregon 97333 > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (541) 730-5285 mobile > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? dmandel at pdxLinux.org > > ? ? ? ? P.S. ?The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? every month. > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details. > > ? ? ? ? P.S. ?The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month. > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? See http://www.euglug.org for details. > > ====================================================================== > David Mandel ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?http://www.DavidMandel.com > Portland Linux/Unix Group ? ? ? ? ? http://pdxLinux.org > LinuxFund ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://LinuxFund.org > ====================================================================== > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 14:05:36 -0700 > From: Michael Dexter <[email protected]> > Subject: [PLUG] ANNOUNCEMENT: May PLUG AT Meeting > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT > > The Portland Linux/Unix Group > will meet > 7 PM Wednesday May 19th, 2010 > at > Roots Organic Brewery > in the > Big room behind the "Employees Only" sign > > 1520 Southeast 7th Avenue - Just South of Hawthorne - (503) 235-7668 > > ******************************************************************** > > > PRESENTATION > > DRBD and Pacemaker part II > > by > > Adam Gandelman > www.linbit.com > > DRBD stands for Distributed Replicated Block Device. Mainline since > 2.6.33, it is used to replicate data at the block level over the network > in a "network RAID1" fashion. It is generally deployed as a cost > effective, shared-nothing alternative to a SAN and used as the building > block for high availability clusters. Pacemaker is currently the de > facto open-source cluster resource manager (CRM) for Linux HA > clustering. With it, nodes and services can be monitored and managed > to ensure maximum uptime in the face of the most severe service and > hardware level failures. Combining the two allows admins to %99.999 > uptime at a fraction of the price of proprietary alternatives. > > In LINBIT's second PLUG Advance Topics installment, Adam Gandelman will > give a more in-depth view of DRBD and Pacemaker and demonstrate how they > work closely together to keep applications running and consistent. > During the second half of the presentation, Adam will provide attendees > with a real-world example by configuring a highly-available LAMP cluster > from the ground up. Though geared toward web services, the concepts > presented can easily be expanded to provide the HA gaurantee to > virtually any Linux service. > > Agenda: - Brief re-introduction to DRBD, Pacemaker and HA clustering > concepts. - Overview of various use cases and interesting deployments - > Configuration and implementation of a highly-available LAMP cluster > using DRBD for data redundancy and Pacemaker for resource management. > > Adam Gandelman is an expert in open-source clustering and high > availability. Originally from New England, Adam lives in Portland, OR > where he has been working at LINBIT, developers of DRBD and maintainers > of Heartbeat. Aside from providing top-level Linux High-Availability and > Disaster Recovery consulting for customers in the Americas, he leads > LINBIT training courses in the US, doubles as a technical writer and > regularly contributes to related open-source projects. > > A projector has been arranged! > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 17:44:29 -0700 > From: John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] KDE apps on Gnome > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Mon, 03 May 2010 09:18:16 -0700 > m0gely <[email protected]> dijo: > >>John Jason Jordan wrote: >> >>> Ktorrent is what I plan to replace >>> Vuze with, so that won't do. >> >>Tried Deluge? Sorry for hijack. > > Yes. It's OK, but I prefer Ktorrent. Actually I liked Vuze too, perhaps > even better than Ktorrent. I just can't handle the hourly crashes. I > want to leave it running overnight. > > I used to use Ktorrent on Ubuntu, but it had a serious bug that caused > it to spawn multiple copies of some KDE application, until eventually > it used all my 4 GB of RAM. So when I moved from Ubuntu to Fedora I > decided to try something else. I had tried Azureus several times in the > past, but usually couldn't even get it installed. On Fedora it > installed easily and I liked its features. But Ktorrent is almost as > featureful, and it's rock solid. > > Vuze is a Java application. Now, I know someone is going to clobber me > for saying this, but I have yet to find a Java application that doesn't > crash or have other major bugs. My theory is that Java itself may be > fine, but it attracts inexperienced programmers. The result is an > application that is a mess. My theory should be considered a WAG > though, because I know so little about programming I wouldn't even try > more than a simple bash script, let alone Java. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 17:59:20 -0700 (PDT) > From: Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] KDE apps on Gnome > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Mon, 3 May 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> Now, I know someone is going to clobber me for saying this, but I have yet >> to find a Java application that doesn't crash or have other major bugs. > > Take a look at jgnuash, a personal finance application. Installs > everywhere (including where Gnucash won't) and runs like the Energizer > bunny. Never had it crash and there are no identified bugs reported on the > mail list. > >> My theory is that Java itself may be fine, but it attracts inexperienced >> programmers. > > You're probably thinking of PHP and Visual Basic. If you want to see a > huge, complex, well-functioning java application take a look at Eclipse > <http://www.eclipse.org/>. Originally developed by IBM it's become a > broadly-used development platform. > > Rich > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 18:13:38 -0700 > From: "Richard C. Steffens" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 10.04 Install Problems > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Jason Barnett wrote: >> When you boot from the CD, after you select your language, there is an >> option to check the media for errors. This is what you want to use. >> > > Just did that. And also ran md5sum against the iso (I know, I should > have done that before I burned the CD. The md5sum matched the published > one. Both were successful. > >> If the media checks fine, then I would try the install again. I have seen >> weirder things happen. Doing a fsck on your drive probably wouldn't be a >> bad idea either. >> > > I thought I'd be able to run fsck from the live CD, but it wants me to > log in. I haven't seen anything anywhere to use as the user name and > password. I tried guest with no password, ubuntu with no password, and > the username I used when I installed 10.04 on that machine. None of them > work. > > Does someone know which doormat to lift up to find the key? > > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:25:49 -0700 > From: John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] (fwd) Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:02:21 -0700 > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: > >>I will continue seeding for a couple of days. Since I am local I should >>be able to feed pretty quickly in case someone wants to torrent one of >>the new Ubuntus. > > Many have commented that osu.osl and other servers are faster after the > initial few hours after a major release like Lucid. > > That is probably true. But I am still seeding. Interestingly, over the > past couple of days I have uploaded zero of the alternative and desktop > versions. However, the take for Edubuntu has been heavy, and almost as > heavy for Mythbuntu, especially the 32-bit versions. The 32-bit netbook > version is also popular. And overall the download rate for 32-bit is > about three times the rate for the 64-bit versions. > > More interesting is watching who I am feeding. This morning I noticed > someone from India downloading Edubuntu 32-bit. They had 32%, and now > at 6 pm they are up to 48%. I see a great many from the less developed > parts of the world, usually downloading slowly. I have lived in such > countries. Dial-up is usually all that is available, and the phone > system hangs up a lot. A good thing about torrents is that if you lose > your connection it can be restarted without issue. > > Osu.osl and cat.pdx.edu are great for us. But I'll continue seeding for > the benefit of those with less fortunate technology. It's a tiny thing, > but I think that doing a favor for people in other countries makes them > respect us more than throwing bombs at them. Besides, the cost to me is > zero. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > End of PLUG Digest, Vol 68, Issue 7 > *********************************** >
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