[LUAU] Hahaione Summary

2005-09-06 Thread R. Scott Belford
Several weeks ago, no, nearly a month ago we installed a lab at Hahaione. It was in many ways one of our greatest successes, but in some ways it has not gone quite as well as the TC deserves. There is no hurry, yet, to have the project complete, but without an update from me there is no chance of

[LUAU] Halau Lokahi Install - More local directions

2005-09-03 Thread R. Scott Belford
If you decide to go to the Halau Lokahi install today, I just received some more detailed directions. We'll be there from 9ish(reports of bad traffic have come in) until done. Probably 2. from Bully, the TC at Halau Lokahi The directions are relatively simple so here they are. The address i

Re: [LUAU] Hosef shirt embrodiery

2005-08-31 Thread R. Scott Belford
Sandi Schneiderman wrote: > Hi Scott > > Finally remembered to send you an email asking about who did the > embrodiery on the HOSEF shirt you were wearing. Aloha Sandi Sorry for the delay. It took a few days to get in touch with the kind volunteer, Calvin, who took care of the shirts. We had t

[LUAU] Halau Lokahi Install, September 3.

2005-08-26 Thread R. Scott Belford
Little by little a number of loyal HOSEF volunteers have been working to prepare Halau Lokahi for the installation of a Gnu Linux Edutainment Learning Center, aka a K12LTSP thin-client lab. A responsible installation does not occur overnight. This one began back in January, during John Terpstra's

[LUAU] Kailua Intermediate Installation Scheduled for September 10

2005-08-26 Thread R. Scott Belford
Until yesterday, we were planning on installing a computer lab for Kailua Intermediate. Little by little, equipment has been staged by volunteers such as Ben Timmerman and by organizations such as FEMA. School just began, and the tech coordinator, Scott F., has kindly requested a delay. If you we

[LUAU] when hosef, luau, and the mirror go down

2005-08-26 Thread R. Scott Belford
Nearly every day, with our without email traffic, the server providing this list, our local mirror, and hosef confronts a barrage of iso downloads, photo gallery reloads, and script kiddie assaults. You may or may not have noticed that it spent a few days being unavailable three weeks ago. What n

[LUAU] A Directory of Service Providers

2005-08-17 Thread R. Scott Belford
We have long considered adding a page to the HOSEF domain that lists FOSS service providers and developers here in Hawaii. It is neither an endorsement nor an opportunity to advertise. It is simply to be a comprehensive listing of any person or organization in this marketplace. If you care

[LUAU] Talk-Shops are Discontinued

2005-08-17 Thread R. Scott Belford
After a year of holding weekly meetings across the island in a Talk-Shop venue, they are now being discontinued. In their place will be a monthly Open Source Pizza at UH, and a monthly Commercial Linux, with Pizza, at Commercial Data Systems. More official and noteworthy announcements to come

[LUAU] Photos and News from Linuxworld

2005-08-11 Thread R. Scott Belford
I am uploading photos from Linuxworld to the HOSEF site. Highlights include photos of various Chinese Linux Desktops as well as pictures of the esteemed Warren Togami doing a presentation at the Red Hat booth. Enjoy http://www.hosef.org/gallery/lwsf05 --scott

[LUAU] Hahaione Install Today

2005-08-06 Thread R. Scott Belford
Aloha Folks We will be installing a computer lab for Hahaione Elementary today from 10 - http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=595+Pepeekeo+Street,+Honolulu,+HI+96825 The computers and equipment are on site. We will be cabling the lab, setting up the workstations, and doing some installation

Re: [LUAU] Server Issues

2005-08-03 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Sunday 31 July 2005 04:53 pm, Matt Darnell wrote: > Aloha, > > I am having trouble with one of our servers. > > Background: > It is a Dell 1750 with hardware SCSI Raid 1. We are running Debian. > > The server fell apart last weekend (after fsck from a rescue CD the > '/' file system was empty).

[LUAU] Handling Brute Force Attacks

2005-07-27 Thread R. Scott Belford
Slashdot recently referenced a good article about the growing number of Brute Force Attacks against ssh http://www.whitedust.net/article/27/Recent%20SSH%20Brute-Force%20Attacks/ Night after night my server is one whose logs fill with thousands of lines like these: Security Events =-=-=-=-=-

[LUAU] What we are doing with eWaste and FOSS

2005-07-26 Thread R. Scott Belford
Pictures are worth the proverbial thousand words, and we have collected some screenshots from all the software that is installed, for free, when we set up a donated Gnu Linux Edutainment Learning Center. The software that we install on the server is called the K12LTSP, and it is based on Fedor

[LUAU] Local Kids Build Linux server for Hahaione Elementary

2005-07-26 Thread R. Scott Belford
Aloha folks I'd like to share some pictures with you from a recent and very impressive Computer Guts session we did at the Boys and Girls Club in Ewa. http://www.hosef.org/gallery/slideshow.php?set_albumName=childrenbuildserver The average age of the children pictured is 12.5. The server wil

Re: [LUAU] Moving Help Needed

2005-07-14 Thread R. Scott Belford
Ben Timmerman wrote: Geeze, Friday morning. This is probably a fire alarm response kinda thing in that if you don't pick it up tomorrow it'll end up in a trash dumpster or some else's hands or you wouldn't be making this a last minute project. Wrong, but thanks for the impassioned scenario

[LUAU] Moving Help Needed

2005-07-14 Thread R. Scott Belford
We have a need to extract equipment, mainly laser printers and monitors, from the East-West Center tomorrow. The final destination is either Campbell High or my garage in Ewa Beach (storage is a nightmare right now.) We plan to pick up around 10-11 tomorrow morning. Feel free to join the joy

Re: [LUAU] CentOS4 Hung on Up2date

2005-07-13 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Friday 08 July 2005 08:39 pm, Blake Vance wrote: > - > BV: Not to appear picky, but what kind of horsepower are we talking about? PIII 500-600 mhz. > > Frustration is always welcome > - > BV: Not from the end of the frustratee Yes, but you are persisting. For that you will be rewarded. --s

Re: [LUAU] CentOS4 Hung on Up2date

2005-07-08 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Friday 08 July 2005 01:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, there is much to ponder from all your input, thanks. It's not leading > to much faith in the few users I'm been able to convince to try Linux (or > the rubberneckers) when I reinstall the OS (my own lacking) or switch to > another di

Re: [LUAU] CentOS4 Hung on Up2date

2005-07-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
ojects like Computer Guts, Linux Labs, and LUAU. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Executive Director The Hawai`i Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LUAU] Help moving computers?

2005-07-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
Lono wrote: > Aloha, > Are you moving computers this Thursday? (7/7) If you are, and still need an > extra pair of hands, I'd be willing to help out until noon. I can be reached > at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or (808)381-3701. > Also, do you know anyone who could help me install linux on a laptop? I'm >

[LUAU] Help moving computers?

2005-07-06 Thread R. Scott Belford
We are in need of someone to assist tomorrow with the loading of monitors and computers. They are located at the Post building and the East West Center. Ben will be at UH's Post building, 3rd floor, at 9. An on-campus body is needed. The computers will be delivered to Kailua Intermediate for

Re: [LUAU] Help prep thin clients this Saturday at McKinley

2005-06-30 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Thursday 30 June 2005 09:22 pm, Michael Bishop wrote: > HOSEF needs help this Saturday at McKinley to prep thin clients for > schools and go though the equipment that we have. Great idea. If you want to round the day out with community minded activity, feel free to join us in Ewa Beach for th

[LUAU] HOSEF members get Global Press

2005-06-29 Thread R. Scott Belford
I was informed by a noble HOSEF volunteer that the June Edition of Linux Format magazine has an article about HOSEF on page 108. Included is a picture of Ted and Andy hauling computers to Enchanted Lake Elementary. Now that I have actually picked up a copy and read it, I can only say that Hawa

Re: [LUAU] if you have some og in ya and wants a laugh

2005-06-17 Thread R. Scott Belford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://sites.gizoogle.com/?url=http://www.hosef.org Holy cow. That's the funniest thing I've seen. Look what it does to a Debian Test Page. Warning, some marginal language http://sites.gizoogle.com/?url=http://www.belford.net --scott

Re: [LUAU] Do you have a meeting this saturday?

2005-06-16 Thread R. Scott Belford
ryuhei yokokawa wrote: > Hi, my name is Ryuhei Yokokawa, I used to do some Linux work with Warren > Togami back in Mid-Pac. I was wondering if you are having a meeting > this saturday, since I have a P2 machine (kinda broken) that may be good > for salvaging. I also wanted to ask some questions a

[LUAU] Talk-Shop Location Changes

2005-06-08 Thread R. Scott Belford
Once a week we hold a Talk-Shop at various locales across the island. The second Wednesday is for Kailua, and as of today we are changing locations. From 6-8:30 you will be able to find us at The Shack rather than Roundtable Pizza. Both are in Enchanted Lake. --scott

Re: [LUAU] List archive

2005-06-03 Thread R. Scott Belford
Jimen Ching wrote: > On the HOSEF website, under 'Organization Info', in the 'Contact' page, > the mailling list URL is listed as: > > http://lists.hosef.org/mailman > > Following that link gives an error. Thanks for noticing and for letting someone know, Jimen. The error has been repair

Re: [LUAU] Andrew Tridgell in town this month

2005-06-03 Thread R. Scott Belford
Al Plant wrote: > Aloha Scott! > > > At what time do the get togethers happen? Woops. Thanks, Al. From 6 to 8:30. How can you know if you found us? Sometimes it is obvious, but you can always look for the guy with a HOSEF shirt and debian gnu/linux on his powerbook. > > > Al Plant > >

Re: [LUAU] Andrew Tridgell in town this month

2005-06-03 Thread R. Scott Belford
Jim Thompson wrote: > > So, Jamie and Hunter are out of town next week, but I should be at > Roundtable on Weds. > (And here I was hoping that it was going to be at Chilli's or > something, just so I could attend > one of those.) Splendid. For those wondering, Jim is referring to our weekly Ta

Re: [LUAU] Andrew Tridgell in town this month

2005-06-03 Thread R. Scott Belford
Jim Thompson wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2005, at 10:55 PM, Vince Hoang wrote: > >> Scott forwarded me a note from tridge, of rsync and samba fame, a >> few months ago, and I am finally getting around to it. He will be >> "staying near the University at Manoa from the 17th to the 25th >> of June" and is

Re: [LUAU] List archive

2005-06-02 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 11:26 pm, Jimen Ching wrote: > Hi all, > > Is an archive of this mailing list available? http://lists.hosef.org/pipermail/luau/ looks like Vince has accumulated archives back to 1998. > > --jc --scott

Re: [LUAU] MythTV on Fedora

2005-06-01 Thread R. Scott Belford
Hawaii Linux Institute wrote: > perhaps you can bring those pcHDTV cards to McKinley? BTW, is your > house finished? It's been a long while. (I understand it is a big > mansion, when are you gonna invite us over for a party? Just kidding.) Just a clarification on McKinley and HOSEF's activiti

[LUAU] Lighting up the Leeward Coast

2005-05-17 Thread R. Scott Belford
Over the last year or so I have tried very hard not to bombard LUAU with the ongoing activities that HOSEF continues to perpetuate. While recognition from the Governor, the Legislature, the City Council, and Flavors of Technology have been exciting and confirming of the vitality of Free and Ope

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-14 Thread R. Scott Belford
Vince Hoang wrote: > using and does not list changes categorized as minor edits. It > was enough to clean out changes by ÀñíçéàÖãæôßøü, so I thought > nothing more of it. Oh well. Thanks, Vince. This is a prime example of the many tasks you thanklessly undertake for HOSEF. It is not an accident

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-14 Thread R. Scott Belford
Vince Hoang wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:01:30PM -1000, R. Scott Belford wrote: > >>>http://www.hosef.org/wiki/OpenSourceGhosting >>> >>>has incorrect information. The sentence: >>> >>>"g4u has now become g4l." > > > I

[LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2005-05-12 Thread R. Scott Belford
> > http://www.feyrer.de/g4u > > And the copyright analysis at: > > http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4l.html > > Thank you for reading my mail. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[LUAU] Cherry gets a Clue

2005-04-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
producer of FLOSS. I applaud CherryOS for learning. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LUAU] Accessing removable media on thinclient??

2005-03-30 Thread R. Scott Belford
Byron Kapali wrote: R. Scott Belford wrote: Thanks Scott for your reply. Just to double check before I ruin the file I want to modify this line: first, cp lts.conf lts.conf.bak then you can ruin away. Sorry I missed your question on the k12 list. #RCFILE_01 = floppyd You got it

Re: [LUAU] Accessing removable media on thinclient??

2005-03-30 Thread R. Scott Belford
Byron Kapali wrote: Aloha All, Noobie question: Is there a way to use the removable media (floppy, cdrom, usb) on the thin client while logged in to the K12LTSP server? Example: I boot the thin client from a universal boot floppy to create the lts session. I remove the boot disk. A student l

[LUAU] HOSEF in the News

2005-03-29 Thread R. Scott Belford
The paper did a nice write-up on our Computer Guts program at the Boys and Girls Club. http://starbulletin.com/2005/03/29/news/story4.html --scott

[LUAU] User's Group Gathering Thursday at CompUSA

2005-02-28 Thread R. Scott Belford
Aloha Folks Phil Sharp of the Hawaii PC Users Group has put together an event this Thursday at CompUSA. What he wants to see, to quote Phil, is Real Computer Users - Using Real Computers - Doing Real Work It will be fun, and if you want to come by and set up something fun and useful that yo

[LUAU] Special Visitor on Island tomorrow

2005-02-25 Thread R. Scott Belford
The project leader of the K12LTSP will be in Hawaii tomorrow. Eric Harrison has, for several years now, been packaging the very software that perpetuates HOSEF's use of recycled computers. For those not familiar with the K12LTSP, it is a Fedora based, education focused distribution of Linux t

Re: [LUAU] CUPS for running networked printers.

2005-02-17 Thread R. Scott Belford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody on our list had success with configuring cups on Debian or Fedora? I am trying to help a local admin get all the printers to work under this system. ( He's replacing an existing Win network with Linux !!!) I use cups with debian and don't have any problems. H

Re: [LUAU] k12ltsp desktop

2005-02-10 Thread R. Scott Belford
Ted Kanemori wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. Where is this script? And how do I get it to run when the user logs on or off? I'll try it. http://hs.riverdale.k12.or.us/terminal/faq.html This is the script Wilson referred to. A cron job can be created to reset the classroom daily, and shortc

Re: [LUAU] Wiki for post-conf lessons-learned

2005-01-26 Thread R. Scott Belford
Karen Lofstrom wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Matt Darnell wrote: You wouldn't need anything like that. Just show and give your feedback. Or, as a virtual alternative, we could have a wiki on the HOSEF web page where we jot down our impressions of what went right and what went wrong. Maybe

Re: [LUAU] Location for Talk Shop on Wed 26 Jan

2005-01-25 Thread R. Scott Belford
Ron Fox wrote: The HOSEF calendar shows 2 locations for the next Talk Shop session on Wed 26 Jan. One is the KD Cafe at Ewa Beach Shopping Center, the other is at Chili's in Kapolei. Time is stated as 6:00PM - 8:30PM for both locations. Which will it be? Will the HOSEF penguin with Karen's

Re: [LUAU] Is this thing on?

2005-01-25 Thread R. Scott Belford
Vince Hoang wrote: If someone has the time and dedication to pick up the responsiblity of finding speakers, we should be able to find a time and place to meet. At the very least, this could be rolled into the weekly workshops at McKinley. Let me add that Joe O'Malley and Commercial Data System

Re: [LUAU] Is this thing on?

2005-01-25 Thread R. Scott Belford
ree, I think this was pretty much the theme of the discussion. FYI, folks, we really do meet *every* Saturday at McKinley, and this really is a 2.5 year old, *consistent* gathering of a Group of Linux Users. Are we a LUG? I like to think so, but a little more. We are your LUG in Action.

Re: [LUAU] Meetings for beginners

2005-01-13 Thread R. Scott Belford
Joseph Martel wrote: I have been trying to get information on a meeting somewhere for beginners. So far I want to avoid Samba. I am not interested in Networking with dozens of computers. I have two computers at present, (an ME and an XP) and I publish a monthly newsletter using Pagemaker and Phot

[LUAU] Promoting TPOSSCON on the radio

2005-01-12 Thread R. Scott Belford
I'll be calling Think Tech Radio this afternoon at 5:01 to promote TPOSSCON. 89.3 on your dial. I want to be meaty in my approach, so I am looking for metrics like the recent 35 billion IDC number. If you have some good tidbits you want to hear me include, please reply in thread ASAP. --s

[LUAU] PTC Surfs with Linux

2005-01-11 Thread R. Scott Belford
m not sure if we can get into the room at HCC (best) or if we can take it to Campbell. I guess it could go to TPOSSCON. It will not all fit at McKinley. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LUAU] Terpstra's SAMBA Class

2005-01-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Friday 07 January 2005 05:11 pm, Blake Vance wrote: > I registered early on for TPOSSCON and now would like to register > for the above. PayPal assumes I am registering for the first time and > tacks on $80. How can I now register for just the SAMBA class? > Note, I did request an invoice hoping

[LUAU] Samba Workshop

2005-01-06 Thread R. Scott Belford
and CUPS An overview of Migration from NT4 to Samba Diagnostic Techniques An overview of Samba futures --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LUAU] Re: [HOSEF-managers] SAMBA Workshop with John Terpstra

2004-12-31 Thread R. Scott Belford
Ronald Fox wrote: The TPOSSCON main_logo.jpg states that the conference runs from Jan 17-21 and the event schedule at http://www.tposscon.org/schedule.php states that John Terpstra will be conducting "Hands-on Samba Education" on Jan 17 and 18. Can the event schedule be corrected and also indica

[LUAU] SAMBA Workshop with John Terpstra

2004-12-30 Thread R. Scott Belford
nd worthy opportunity. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LUAU] TPOSSCON Registration...or NOT?

2004-12-30 Thread R. Scott Belford
Camron W. Fox wrote: Alle, I registered for TPOSSCON on the website and received my PAYPAL verification receipt. This was on the 17th of December. Does anyone know whether I should expect any other e-correspondence from the conference registration folks, or is the PAYPAL receipt my "Welc

Re: [LUAU] Possbile TPOSSCON partnering

2004-12-30 Thread R. Scott Belford
http://www.pulver.com/sipsummit2005/index.html Nothing with this. -Matt --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[LUAU] TPOSSCON registration awaiting you.

2004-12-29 Thread R. Scott Belford
In just a matter of weeks, folks like John Terpstra Bruce Perens Robin 'roblimo' Miller Jon 'maddog' Hall Larry Rosen Allen Gunn Aaron Seigo will be joining Tom Crabb of Novell, CJ Coppersmith of HP, Dave Pickens of Sun, Todd Ogasawara of our eGov project, Dr. Stan Saiki with the Pacific Teleh

[LUAU] Excellent SSH advice

2004-12-17 Thread R. Scott Belford
In monitoring the K12OSN list, the following piece of SSH advice was eloquently shared by a gentleman by the name of Rob Owens. It is so good that it *must* be shared. Quoted from Rob Owens "The topic of ssh security was touched upon in the "uh oh" thread. I have a couple comments about it

[LUAU] Linux on your television

2004-12-15 Thread R. Scott Belford
ing server. Please join us, tell a friend, and get ready to see the future of Hawai`i's Technology-based economy. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LUAU] open source CRM

2004-12-14 Thread R. Scott Belford
Ho'ala Greevy wrote: Aloha, Does anyone have experiences/recommendations for open source CRM packages? Something along the lines of an open source equivalent of Goldmine perhaps. http://www.browsercrm.com/welcome.php Sugar looks the most mature http://www.sugarcrm.com/home/ http://sourcef

[LUAU] More Storage and two New Projects for HOSEF

2004-12-13 Thread R. Scott Belford
With so much stuff coming in recently, it has been harder to see how we could get all of it to schools. Not wanting to throw stuff away, I have been looking for another solution. We have found it. For now on, the Girls and Boys who graduate from my Computer Guts class will be given a compute

[LUAU] Minimum Macs

2004-12-13 Thread R. Scott Belford
rocks. Any idea on model or year that is a safe cut off for accepting Macs to be used with Linux would be appreciated. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[LUAU] The Status of TPOSSCON

2004-12-11 Thread R. Scott Belford
t attending. You will not regret it. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[LUAU] Mastering SAMBA

2004-12-10 Thread R. Scott Belford
What if you could learn the martial arts from Bruce Lee, cooking from Alan Wong, or Surfing from Eddie Akau? Well, the offer is on the table to achieve the equivalent in mastering SAMBA. The esteemed, revered, and rather entertaining John Terpstra is eager to join us this January for TPOSSCON

[LUAU] Good Karma turns ugly

2004-12-04 Thread R. Scott Belford
. This week an article ran in the Advertiser (overlooking us) about the computers we gave to Shawn for Western Samoa. Our number was provided, and the phone has rung off the hook. We will have a parade of donations come through the door, and we could use some help. --scott -- R. Scott Belford

Re: [LUAU] A CMS Question from the State

2004-12-02 Thread R. Scott Belford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Vince Hoang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content management systems are complex beasts that really require someone with solid experience of the underlying architecture. Thanks for saying that Vince. I think we need to be very careful when pu

Re: [LUAU] any interest in another php class?

2004-11-30 Thread R. Scott Belford
On Monday 29 November 2004 04:14 pm, Vikram Khurana wrote: > Any news on another PHP class? When do you want to do it, weekdays or weekends? Kevin is interested, but I think he prefers a weekday slot. This is a little difficult at McKinley right now. --scott

[LUAU] Newsforge Article about HOSEF

2004-11-22 Thread R. Scott Belford
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/2156205 "Whether Linux is suitable for the desktop yet is a point debated by analysts, journalists, hobbyists, and pundits worldwide. It's easy to find stories about enterprise adoption of Linux for servers, and corporate CIOs are ever so willin

[LUAU] Fun With Cool Hardware

2004-11-19 Thread R. Scott Belford
a few Saturdays. Details and directions are on the website http://www.hosef.org --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[LUAU] A CMS Question from the State

2004-11-17 Thread R. Scott Belford
I received this question from a state contact in the DOE. Anyone want to offer their perspective? I meant to discuss this when you come to do the server install but would you be able to advise/recommend or give pros/cons in using the following open source web portal/content management progr

[LUAU] Volunteer Help Needed

2004-11-15 Thread R. Scott Belford
the interest of expanding our volunteer base, I invite you to help out if you have the desire and time. Please reply in thread or in person. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL

[LUAU] Good Story about the maturing of Fedora

2004-11-15 Thread R. Scott Belford
I enjoyed reading this and I am sure that a lot of you will too. It does a good job of explaining the maturing strategic role Fedora is playing at RedHat. --scott "I forgot about Linux until I got a call from Larry McVoy, telling me that there was this software company in North Carolina (so

[LUAU] In good company

2004-11-10 Thread R. Scott Belford
A benefit to the fact that we will be setting up and supporting a thin-client email garden for the Pacific Telecommunication Conference is that we are a sponsor in good company. http://www.ptc.org/PTC05/sponsor/sponsor_list.html --scott

[LUAU] Making a Wish

2004-11-09 Thread R. Scott Belford
mazing inroads we are making. Do your part to make certain that no child ever again has to ask "How do you make a Wish?" --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[LUAU] A New Distro

2004-10-28 Thread R. Scott Belford
Some of you may have heard of Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/ Which has recently been added to our mirror. (thanks vince) ftp://hosef.ics.hawaii.edu/ubuntu-cd/releases/warty/release/ I could send this to my Mom, and given all her computer problems, I just might. Available on amd64, i386, and p

Re: [LUAU] Helping the Schools

2004-10-22 Thread R. Scott Belford
Tim Newsham wrote: This Saturday at CompUSA, HOSEF will be assisting our schools by testing and loading the equipment being donated by the public as part of the Computers for Kids recycling day. With a generator, two tables, and 14 power cables, we will make sure that the equipment powers on. F

[LUAU] Helping the Schools

2004-10-21 Thread R. Scott Belford
This Saturday at CompUSA, HOSEF will be assisting our schools by testing and loading the equipment being donated by the public as part of the Computers for Kids recycling day. With a generator, two tables, and 14 power cables, we will make sure that the equipment powers on. For those of you w

Re: [LUAU] X Input Methods - List Policy Reminder

2004-10-12 Thread R. Scott Belford
distribution at some point ceases to be informative and instead borders on promotional. Some time ago we created some list policies to discourage this. Perhaps it is time we revisit them. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua

[LUAU] Tonight's Talk-Shop

2004-10-06 Thread R. Scott Belford
Tonight's talk shop will take place, but it will start a little later due to commitments. Please join us around 6:45 instead. Location details are on the HOSEF calendar. --scott

Re: [LUAU] new k12ltsp lab

2004-10-05 Thread R. Scott Belford
et us know how we can be of service in the support and training part of the install. Eric Brown Keokuk High School --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LUAU] HOSEF's storyis in the Advertiser

2004-09-16 Thread R. Scott Belford
Ted Kanemori wrote: Hey, HOSEF is in this morning's Honolulu Advertiser. Page B3. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Sep/16/ln/ln21a.html HOSEF is volunteer driven, and it is great to see our volunteers getting the attention that they deserve. Why haven't we seen you at our HO

[LUAU] HOSEF goes to Western Samoa

2004-09-13 Thread R. Scott Belford
helping and in coming by the workshops, keep an eye on the HOSEF calendar where times will soon be announced. Should you find it convenient to visit us, we would appreciate your help and encourage you to contact us ahead so that detailed directions can be provided. --scott -- R. Scott Belford

[LUAU] Hawaii raises a core KDE Developer

2004-09-13 Thread R. Scott Belford
can come up with something appropriate. Pretty impressive, huh? Shout out to the Leeward Coast. :-) --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[LUAU] [Fwd: LUG] Starting one in Idaho

2004-09-12 Thread R. Scott Belford
This arrived today, and he is looking for ideas. --scott Hi there, I don't know if this is who I should contact for this, but perhaps you can help. I am looking at setting up a LUG for my small community in Idaho and I need some suggestions/pointers/ideas/anything else you might find useful

[LUAU] OSS in our Airport and at other Businesses

2004-09-10 Thread R. Scott Belford
Next time that you are in the airport, and you are there early, watch them boot up one of the agriculture inspection machines from this company http://www.smithsdetection.com/ The name on the side is Heimann Systems, and it is powered by some distro of Linux. I couldn't get close enough, lega

[LUAU] OSS in Hawaii Government

2004-09-10 Thread R. Scott Belford
Last year we learned about the Governor's website. http://lists.hosef.org/pipermail/luau/2003-April/012871.html I wonder where else in our government OSS is being used? We all obviously know about the DOE. Does anyone know and care to add it to this thread? --scott

Re: [LUAU] Star Office vs Open Office?

2004-09-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
Wilson wrote: What version of Open Office is FC2 running? Without an install in front of me, I cannot say. I will tell you that with respect to the K12LTSP dimension of your question, version 4.1 is FC2 based and Openoffice is rather perky. Wayne could better elaborate why. I just know i

Re: [LUAU] TPOSSCON

2004-09-04 Thread R. Scott Belford
not at the same IIPI conference in May? Best wishes in your endeavor. wayne Thanks, Wayne. It is not mine. I see it more as an endeavor for *our* tech community. We are getting two responses: one is great, how can we help, and the other is from the crabs in the bucket. --scott -- R

Re: [LUAU] Php Class

2004-09-02 Thread R. Scott Belford
Rodney wrote: Is this PHP class still on for this coming Saturday (9/4/04)? Rodney Yes. If you have not signed up already, you can bring your check and registration form with you. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua

[LUAU] HOSEF Weekly Talk Shop

2004-09-01 Thread R. Scott Belford
This week we will be at Volcanoe Joe's on University Ave. across from campus. Details are on the website's calendar, http://www.hosef.org 6-8:30 p.m. -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/

[LUAU] TPOSSCON

2004-09-01 Thread R. Scott Belford
t --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[LUAU] UH OSS event this month

2004-09-01 Thread R. Scott Belford
l OSS marketplace. R. Scott Belford of HOSEF will describe the educational initiatives and successes in Hawaii. This event is free, and registration is being handled by Novell. http://register.novell.com/login/index.cfm?action=prelogin&fuse=event&id=13228&lcode=enu -- R. Scott Belford

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-31 Thread R. Scott Belford
could use and OSS alternative to Ghost, and we would love to run Rosetta Stone, the app that requires Windows, on Linux, and Wine has failed us thus far. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 phone/fax

[LUAU] Linux on TOTN SCIFRI

2004-08-27 Thread R. Scott Belford
of The Nation's Science Friday is discussing Linux, again. Bruce Perens was on a few years ago. If you tune now, between 9 and 9:40ish HST you can hear it, 89.3. Otherwise, stream it later. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box

[LUAU] HOSEF Workshop - OSS Imaging and Printer Repair

2004-08-25 Thread R. Scott Belford
he printer to McKinley so that the work can be done with aircon. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/PR Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [LUAU] Open Source Ghosting

2004-08-25 Thread R. Scott Belford
successful OSS solution we will be swapping out a few machines to make the lab uniform, (Dell Gx1) and multicast ghosting a known good image. --scott -- R. Scott Belford Founder/Director The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation PO Box 392 Kailua, HI 96734 808.689.6518 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[LUAU] HOSEF Talk-Shop

2004-08-25 Thread R. Scott Belford
Our revolving venue of OSS shop talk will be in Kapolei tonight. From 6-8:30 we will be meeting at Chili's in Kapolei. Chili's 590 Farrington Highway Kapolei, HI 96707 US 808-693-8722 I will have the table for 8 reserved under HOSEF if you arrive late. Take H-1 to the Kapolei exit and turn lef

[LUAU] Software Freedom Day with Revolution OS

2004-08-25 Thread R. Scott Belford
This Saturday we will be celebrating Software Freedom Day http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ from 2:30-8 at UH's Post 127 building http://www.cis.hawaii.edu/guc/db/detail.php?id=190 With the permission of the esteemed J.T.S. Moore, we will be showing Revolution OS during this time. (please r

Re: [LUAU] K12LTSP Server

2004-08-24 Thread R. Scott Belford
Wilson wrote: I have a Dual PII400Mhz Xeon (512k Cache) with 1GB of PC100 SDRAM ECC, 18GB 7200 RPM UW SCSI (40Mbit) hdd server. I was wondering if it would worth the $200 or so dollars to upgrade the Dual PII400Mhz to Dual PIII700Mhz Xeon (2MB Cache)? Anyone know how many thin clients a Dual PII4

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