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On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 09:37:38PM -0700, C.Richard Matson wrote: > the HP Learning Centerhas a free online course titled Linux 101 Sounds like a good opportunity if one is interested in online courses. It also says that their is an advanced course (Linux 201). Administering Linux for users. After Bill Roddy's post about Linux workstations getting exploited I hope anyone new to Linux that has their box connected to the internet would to sign up for this. I just stumbled across two links with really detailed information on: 1) Downloading and creating a Debian install CD 2) Installing Debian Sarge http://www.embeddedlinuxinterfacing.com/ewiki/index.php?id=BuildingAnEmbeddedLinuxWorkstation The installer screenshots might be helpful to some. And if you're a little more of a hardcore geek you might enjoy watching all of the DebConf '05 videos. I just watched the debootstrap video which, after he finishes his 'crap' list seemed to contain a few bits of information that will help me on a current project. Or if you're really bored see if you can count how many times Anthony Towns says 'crap'. LOL! Here's the link (was previously slashdotted but has calmed down now): http://dc5video.debian.net/ I think tommorow I'll watch the presentation on Embedding Debian. I've worked for several years for various companies that for whatever reason were locked into RedHat. So far I'm really looking forward to using some decent tools which intelligently resolve build dependencies to create the bootable images for the target platform. I think it's pretty cool that debootstrap has '--resolve-deps' and '--foreign' options now. Does this mean that pbuilder will no longer use cdebootstrap since it's been made redundant? That's my assumption at present. I'm also keen on the Fully Automated Installer (FAI). *yawn* *YAWN!* Ok.. must sleep.. sdksaerhasudihfncazx... *drool* Oh, and I'm recently addicted to MediaWiki. You know you love it... hrm... and just one more cool incidental, from the WSFII mailing list (I suppose this is more relevant to rawug except that list seems positively dead...). I'm actually really excited about the global trends in Free Wireless... like did you hear Google bid on a project to blanket San Fran. with free open wireless for everyone? Did you know that those $100 laptops that MIT made (thanks Bill for sharing this find) can connect using mesh technology? We're on the brink of a global information liberation, it seems to me... it appears, from where I'm sitting, only logical that those interested in Linux would by extension be thrilled about the future of free internet for everyone and planning ahead to help usher in these advances in our local communities.... but I'm incoherently rambling again. Gah.. here's what I wanted to share: Nagarjuna writes: > FSF India is celebrating October 2nd, the birth date of mahatma > gandhi, as a Software Freedom Day. It is an accident that we are also > doing the event on 2nd october. It will be good to inform the > participants of the event and remind them and relate wsfii to > mahatma's ideas of self-reliance. [snip] >> 2nd October is birth anniversary of one of the greatest freedom >> fighters of the world, Mahatma Gandhi. FSF India decided to celebrate >> 'Software Freedom day' on 2nd October as a tribute to Mahatma, and to >> remind people that fight for freedom is never over. >> >> Free Software Movement is leading freedom struggle in domain of >> information technology. This movement is fight for the freedom of >> knowledge and freedom to communicate. Right to share knowledge, and >> right to communicate are as important as political freedom for which >> Mahatma fought. Today we are carrying his fight to new frontiers. >> >> Day by day more and more people are realising the importance of >> software freedom. On this birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi Freedom >> campaigners from different sections of the society will come together >> to celebrate Software Freedom day and to pledge to defend freedom in >> computing,following path shown by freedom fighters around world. I just found it moving... oh well... I'm still amazed at how dry this region is with regards to Linux and Open Source. Maybe I just got spoiled living in Northern Colorado. That's not at all meant to be a criticism to this list or anyone out there using Linux that due to my own ignorance I've arrived at this assumption... it just seems this way. Not counting the duplicates there are 169 people subscribed to rlug discussion and I think I only see about 10% of them. Who's lurking out there.... speak up! Please! :-) (also not counting disabled addy's) Maybe it's just the demographics... oh well I'm not a quantity guy... even if there are 3 active users and they're using Linux 24/7 everyday for exciting things then that's enough if we talk about. Or maybe I'll just start rambling on topics I'm actively working on? Ah I should mention that all of the audio from WSFII audio is online for those of us who couldn't make it to the historic Limehouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limehouse) for the event: http://www.nodel.org/wsfii/ What else... I'm currently using VMWare Workstation 5. *dodges rotten apples and eggs* I know... proprietary... yuck... but that's not my question. Is anyone using OSS alternatives like Xen? What about other architectures... is bochs still slow as molasses on a cold day? What about UML... or just good old fashioned chroot jails? What about 3D rendering and animations... anyone pushing pixels? With what? How fast? Distributed? Anyone using Mercurial? Subversion... Aegis? Unit testing *shudder*... ok I'll shutup. But I did keep this all my ranting to one post for Jeff. *just poking fun* :-) And a few more URLs from a WSFII thread: Here are the relevant URLs: Free Map System http://www.freemap.in Free Map Wiki http://wiki.freemap.in Mumbai Free Map Project Page http://www.crit.org.in/projects/gis CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust), Mumbai http://www.crit.org.in And another project I started and forgot about just popped into mind. I was going to call it pigtracker.com. Here's an example of the blotter's you find in the USA: http://www.co.larimer.co.us/sheriff/blotter/20050920.htm Now if we use the US Census map database TIGER we can turn street intersections into LAT/LONG. Then we can attach a Linux box with an soundcard and a police band scanner (or card if one's available) to rip all the audio that comes across during the day. Then each night at midnight you slice it up based on the botter and later in case that becomes of value. Furthermore you can map out like ahh.. if you are on College and Oak at 2am on a Wed. after boozing all night you're more likely to get a DUI. Or if your business is on Airport Dr. there have been consecutive burglaries on addresses 1000, 1001 and 1002 sproadically over the last few weeks. If you are 1003 you might want to hire some security. All sorts of trends can be mapped over time. What's different is we're empowering the people. And not just one city... we could have people all over the world either parsing or manually entering incidents... with the increase of camera phones the chances of people being able to report sightings of law enforcement with the touch of a button and give the street intersection via SMS basically means there is no way that police brutality or corruption can occur. A sort of watching the watchers who are watching you. Or is this too lunatic fringe for mainstream? peace, metta, core -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDQ44WGAuLrxOyeJMRAmYtAJ9pmkLxTSdWVU0IJvPqOZvrk0UQJgCglgRF k5B9hZIcr+x4bMWD1mFAwug= =H+tG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
