Dude,
Slow down on the late night coffee. Whoa!
<8^b
I would be interested in info on Xen. Currently using VMWare W/S 4.5
('cuz I have to use Windows for a bunch of my work) but it is not always
playing nicely with Ubuntu. Several issues I didn't have under Suse.
Dennis
On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 01:25 -0700, Charles Stevenson wrote:
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> Rich, all,
>
> 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
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