Re: [clug-talk] Freescale Linux/Android Seminar

Hi! Could someone in the audience attending this tomorrow (Aug 31) give me the the seminar's time and location? Registration is closed but Freescale emailed they can squeeze me in, but gave no time and location details. Please and thanks! John Clarke On 08/08/2011 10:06 AM,

Re: [clug-talk] unbelievable

On 08/15/2014 11:20 PM, Michael John Walters wrote: Hello All, I went to the Lexar support site and asked the question: Does Linux meet the system requirements for the Jumpdrive Twistturn 8 GB drive? They wanted me to pay $45 Canadian for an answer! I can not believe that they expect me to pay

Re: [clug-talk] Less than Symless

On 09/16/2016 01:05 PM, Gary M wrote: g'day all... upgraded my fedora server and somehow during the upgrade the LVM seems to have got broken have 4 x 1 tb drives in a group that show up as inactive ( the group supposedly is active ) ... have looked at a lot of forms etc with not much he

Re: [clug-talk] Less than Symless

Other thoughts and ideas https://xkcd.com/627/ think experimental process ;-) On 09/18/2016 11:34 AM, John Clarke wrote: On 09/16/2016 01:05 PM, Gary M wrote: g'day all... upgraded my fedora server and somehow during the upgrade the LVM seems to have got broken have 4 x 1 tb d

[clug-talk] AT&T tests software-based 'white box' network hardware

http://www.businessinsider.com/att-white-box-test-should-scare-cisco-juniper-2017-4 <>___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please r

Re: [clug-talk] Calgary Linux Users Club Meeting -- Feb 6 (Wed) -- reminder

Hi you requested an rsvp, have you still any seats left? thanks On 05/02/19 09:36 PM, Melvin Walters wrote: Guest speaker: Raymond Burkholder https://blog.raymond.burkholder.net/ Topic: Build a mini open source cloud to monitor/manage a larger cloud Date/Time: Feb 6, 2019 -- 5:45 to 7:30 PM

[clug-talk] The Cloud is Just Another Sun

Kyle Rankin writes for the Linux Journal, and gave this talk at FOSDEM 2019 to warn about the risk of cloud provider lock-in. "Proprietary OSes and services aren't dead, they just morphed into the cloud." <>__

[clug-talk] LinuxWorld Special One-Time Subscription Offer! - free digital edition!?

This may be old news or good news to you. But I thought I'd pass on this 'bargain'. LINUXWORLD MAGAZINE SPECIAL FREE SUBSCRIPTION OFFER LinuxWorld Special One-Time Subscription Offer for JDJ readers. Click Here to Subscribe or Download This Issue in its Full Print Format https://www.sys-con.com/

Re: [clug-talk] Microsoft to Sue linux users

s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Jason Louie: On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:22:45 -0700, Dany Allard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it not enough that SCO is a pain... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/18/ballmer_linux_lawsuits/ Once again Microsoft flexes their muscles. I see as propaganda to drive fea

Re: [clug-talk] [OT] Computer recycling?

Try http://www.calgary-interfaith.ab.ca/recompute.html They are a block or so south of the Talsiman Centre at 2405 Macleod Trail SW Ph: 262-5171 I can't say if they issue charitable tax receipts. They recycle/refurbish for resale there. Nathan Wainwright wrote: I have some old macintosh's (power

[clug-talk] SuSE 9.2 Pro exchange for blanks CDs

Hi Folks, I would be grateful for a SuSE 9.2 pro distro copy in exchange for blanks CDs. I can pickup preferably in the daytime in the downtown or can aim for the clug meeting this Wednesday evening if that is more convenient. Please and thanks and a happy new year to all. John Clarke

Re: [clug-talk] Off Topic

Welcome Brook. You could post your notice on calgary.forsale, if you're not already familiar with that usenet/newsgroup forum. Brooks Chat wrote: This question isn't about linux but I felt this would be a good place to ask. Is there anywhere in calgary where you can sell/trade computer equipment o

[clug-talk] Linux power in Africa

I couldn't resist sharing this - what a few watts will do. VoIP on a bike - A bicycle-powered, Linux-based VoIP system brings developing communities into the 21st century. Here's the article http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/07/19/30OPreality_1.html and the ngo http://www.inveneo.org/ ___

Re: [clug-talk] Nvu

RS, The following works in the latest Debian - maybe this goes for Ubuntu too? Use the AlaCarte Menu Editor to add a New Entry to the Programming menu item. Alacarte is under Applications -> Accessories. In the command field you specify the path to say /usr/bin/. Best to check whether Nvu has

Re: [clug-talk] Printer / Scanner recommendations

software - Lexmark has drivers for most Linux distros (deb, rpm, etc) - install includes command line + gui app to config and access print queue, printer settings, etc. - copious documentation (web, pdf) hth John Clarke sgrover wrote: > I'm looking for any recommendations of a printer,

Re: [clug-talk] OT - HP3si

Kin Wong wrote: > I got a printer that is free for the taking. It does not have a nic but has > two big paper tray (500 sheets each), duplex and postscript upgrade. The > current toner cartridge leaks a bit as there is some streaking. I think I've > got a full cartridge (rebuilt) as well. It

[clug-talk] Nokia economics and Re: OT OpenMoko

What good news open source forces are gnawing at relief from proprietary, lockin etc in the cell phone bastion. Off topic for sure, but noteworthy: This weekend the Globe and Mail ran a Focus piece on the ethics of Nokia phones sold in Asia to those who make < 1 $ /day. Buyers take out in eff

Re: [clug-talk] SBC Workshop status update (possible large price drop)

; Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > Yes! Please count me in if the group goes with the lower price board. (I did not enlist before due to the TS board $$.) Thanks Mark for your kind efforts. John Clarke ___

[clug-talk] ipaq + linux fun

join in on an order, assuming that will save on shipping? Any and all advice and suggestions are appreciated, thanks. John Clarke Your sbc workshop in the new year Mark looks like it will be lots of fun. ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca

[clug-talk] upgrade to an app version that a distro does not support 'out of the box'

Hi, Could someone help clarify for me what my options are to upgrade to an app version that my distro's package manager does not support? To illustrate my question and goal: last April I installed Debian 4.0, whose Synaptic tool supports OpenOffice 2.0 But with OpenOffice at 2.3, how can get m

Re: [clug-talk] upgrade to an app version that a distro does not support 'out of the box'

sually see in Debian stable. Also, > improvements from Ubuntu get folded into Debian, of course it takes time > to filter down to the stable branch. > > Hth, > > John Clarke wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Could someone help clarify for me what my options are to upgrade to a

Re: [clug-talk] Microcontroller Workshop Sign-up and Information

Please add me to your sign up list, thanks! John Clarke Mark Carlson wrote: > Hello all! > > I'm looking for responses to see who is interested in attending a > workshop focused on microcontrollers. > > I didn't think I would be starting on the microcontroller works

Re: [clug-talk] Display Setting

Behnam, You may already be aware: the config settings are written in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Once you get a 'working' setting, you may want to make a backup copy of it. Then if you apply changes that are unacceptable, you can restore the earlier version. Behnam wrote: > Hi > > I am using UBUNTU

Re: [clug-talk] Let set a Guinness World Record with Firefox 3.0

Alberto Cea wrote: > Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 > during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads > in 24 hours - it’s that easy. > > PLEDGE NOW!!! > > http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ > > > > _

[clug-talk] Security Now weekly podcasts and ShieldsUP! vulnerability profiling

Those interested in security and not aware of these weekly podcasts might appreciate this site - http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte discuss breaking security issues from a technical view, based on an interview format: one asks the other all of the naive 'how does t

Re: [clug-talk] Self contained 'vmware' image run as application.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A question for all those virtualisation experts: Is it possible to have a self contained Windows exe which contains a Linux OS image, so that it can be run without having to install anything on the Windows PC. Not specifically needing vmware product, others would be OK

Re: [clug-talk] svn challenge

raul sanchez wrote: Hi everyone, I am working with this repository which has several directories, each directory containing the relevant files and subdirectories. In this repository structure these files are kept in different directories, but in reality the files and subdirectories fall in t

[clug-talk] fanboys - to other fanboys or to the rest of the world?

Hi, A friend of my teen daughter showed her this, and like her, I really appreciated the humour. My apologies to those who are already familiar with it, but clug is all about sharing, yes? http://www.blog.joelx.com/linux-fanboys-vs-microsoft-fanboys-vs-apple-fanboys/3836/ ___

[clug-talk] ubuntu 9.10 won't boot on Intel 3i consumer laptops?!

Hi folks, Yesterday I took a Ubuntu 9.10 cd in to the Northland Futureshop to identify sub $1000 laptops with Intel 3i processors that support Linux. To my chagrin all three Toshiba, Sony and HP laptops I sampled did not want to boot. No messages or any signs of life after several minutes of

Re: [clug-talk] ubuntu 9.10 won't boot on Intel 3i consumer laptops?!

if the CUP model was the same as the one you mentioned. Also, I've found that the one 'sub-distro' that seem to work the best right out of the box with my laptops is the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR), specially on my HP 2500tx John Clarke wrote: Hi folks, Yesterday I took a Ubuntu

Re: [clug-talk] ubuntu 9.10 won't boot on Intel 3i consumer laptops?!

revisions, driver updates etc will advance a bit and the dust will settle... John John Clarke wrote: Thanks for your notes Juan and Lance. I spoke with Ray at Memory Express SE. He suggested Linux may not 'officially' support i3, i5 & i7 architectures as these use a new reduced

Re: [clug-talk] vmware bridged network woes (resend)

Gustin Johnson wrote: Greg King wrote: I recently applied updates to my Ubuntu 9.04 system and as usual had to reconfigure VMware. The /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl script completed normally (after some dicking around), and I can log into the vmware console and start VMs, but they all have difficult

Re: [clug-talk] Bashing Windows out of ignorance

On 05/04/2010 10:36 PM, Gustin Johnson wrote: On 10-05-04 06:39 PM, Greg Saunders wrote: My own experience is that the choice between Linux and Windows is seldom an option but rather a luxury. So then maybe the conclusion is: what personally a person afford to overlook :-)

[clug-talk] kvm supports usb and Re: Notes from yesterday's meeting

On 05/06/2010 11:05 AM, Dafydd Crosby wrote: I wrote up the notes for yesterday's meeting at http://clug.ca/node/613 if you want to find out what was talked about - next month should be even better! :-D -Dafydd ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clu

Re: [clug-talk] c-32

On 06/05/2010 01:10 PM, bogi wrote: http://www.reddit.com/comments/cb3n0/are_you_a_canadian_linux_user_youre_about_to/ ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.c

Re: [clug-talk] Audio recordings

On 09/02/2010 03:56 PM, Royce Souther wrote: We are connecting an electronic keyboard to the input on our sound card to record some music my son is playing. The recording turns out okay but we cannot hear the music until after we stop recording and play it back. Is there any sound recording

Re: [clug-talk] My review on Fedora, Gentoo and openSUSE and Ubuntu.

On 09/17/2010 04:47 PM, Royce Souther wrote: I posted my review to the LLUG web site. http://llug.linux.ab.ca/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=118&mode=&order=0&thold=0 I think it is fair to say t

Re: [clug-talk] Free Amazon Web Services

On 11/17/2010 03:23 PM, Greg King wrote: If you have been thinking of using Amazons web service, but haven't signed up yet, Amazon has introduced a free tier for a year. You get 750 hours of a small ~600MB Linux image - enough to run it continuously for a month. See the details at http://a

Re: [clug-talk] Drupal 7 is here!

On 01/06/2011 12:29 AM, Shawn wrote: The long awaited Drupal 7 is here. http://drupal.org/ I've seen hints of things to be included, and the learning curve should be drastically cut. I know I'll be installing it very quickly and seeing what's new. Shawn ___

[clug-talk] Linux at City of Calgary

this.) BTW I sure appreciate the content CLUG provides. Cheers, John Clarke ___ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca

Re: [clug-talk] Linux ant the City of Calgary

Presumably May 25. I'm hoping to hear from Roy Brander at cuug and will confirm when I hear. They may want to secure a bigger room if the response is large. Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: increases in performance compared to the existing proprietary Unix solutions. The lecture will be at the Central Calg

Re: [clug-talk] Miscellaneous Computer Parts

Hi Craig, I would be glad to claim your box parts. I would like a backup openbsd firewall/gateway. And low end Pentiums work well. You can reach me at 283 5217. thanks, John Clarke Craig McLean wrote: > Hello. > > It's time for my semi annual purge of assorted odd computer pa

[clug-talk] [Fwd: Canadian TechNet Flash: Special Events Edition - Register Today!]

FWIW, I am passing on this MS event registration notice below: Attendees will gain insight into Linux and open source and 'get answers to the questions on everybody's mind: Are Linux and Open Source Software driving technology innovation?' I wonder if the food will be as good as the last Banaby

Re: [clug-talk] freshmeat project details for mplayer

Michael, I googled 'RPM Repository SuSE' and found this http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ Maybe it or similar will have the rpm you're after. If the binary rpm compiled for suse 10.1 is not available, I guess your other option is to get the source and compile it yourself. Happy hunting. Jo

Re: [clug-talk] Gateway Server

Shawn wrote: > I have a situation where some separate domains/servers will be moved to > a location that is behind a single firewall (and IP). We want to keep > each of the boxes functioning as usual, so realize we'll need a gateway > box of some sort. > > For websites, we can do VHosts with P

[clug-talk] document formats - let the users decide!

First Massachusetts adopts the OpenDocument format, now China adopts the Uniform Office Format. Fortunately Microsoft's OpenXML format proposal figures in neither of these non-proprietary formats. When users rather than the vendor decides, this can't be good news for M$ Read more for eg. here

Re: [clug-talk] OT: C Sharp events question

Once upon a time (2004?) I installed .net 1.1 on w2k, and ran the demo code in the .net framework documentation. .net had (has?) a c# compiler, dll packager, etc so the code compiled and ran free of that pricey MS IDE tool. Usually if you poke around, you'll often find a clear, concise example.

Re: [clug-talk] hp laserjet 1018 slightly OT

This may be preaching to the converted. But that would explain the astounding difference in dvi, usb, etc cable prices at vfxweb compared to their 'competition'. Anyone not familiar with them is in for a surprise. (I had just bought a dvi elsewhere for several times their price, so in my case I

Re: [clug-talk] XAMPP on systems already running apache/php/mysql etc?

Indeed Eric Raymond recently switched to ubuntu from Redhat Fedora. You can read about his decision here http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/22/207231&from=rss Robert Lewko wrote: > Try [K]ubuntu. I have just installed this combo from packages using the > Synaptic package manager.

[clug-talk] Prentice PTR - Bruce Perens Open Source Series - pdf's for download

I just found this - some in the audience might appreciate it. 'Prentice Hall PTR is proud to publish the Bruce Perens Open Source Series with Bruce Perens, Series Editor. This series focuses on Linux and Open Source technologies...' Here's the link http://www.phptr.com/promotions/promotion.asp