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a VPS

barsalou — 2008-05-15T23:22:58

The folks at ACS have allowed us to have a VPS. Chris Beck of the list has graciously offered to put a team together to create a website for the group. We talked about putting a group of folks together to do this. Those of you interested (skilled or not) please contact Chris at cbeck747< at >gmail.com or through the list. This hasn't been completely flushed out, so nothing is in stone here. We'll keep the current minimal website until the group has had a chance to put together some ideas on how the website might look and what we should include. All reasonable ideas are welcome. This is your chance to participate in putting a good face on AKLUG. Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

xorg.conf

barsalou — 2008-05-15T23:16:14

So during the presentation, folks commented that their particular xorg.conf files don't have all the entries that I talked about during the presentation. All this means is that those particular settings were autodetected and giving a look through Xirg.0.log will identify how things are set for your particular setup. Also, it doesn't preclude you from specifically setting those values in the event you want to goof around with how your video works. From what I can determine, most of the autodetect things are coming from version 7.3. In my particular case, we are using 7.2. Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Opinions?

barsalou — 2008-05-15T20:50:41

Anyone have opinions on this thing? http://www.chumby.com/ Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Job Openings

barsalou — 2008-05-15T20:20:28

I dropped off some AKLUG fliers at the school Office on Northern Lights and while I was there, I checked in at HR and ran across these two job listings: Programmer - PVA Number:108692 http://www.asdk12.org/depts/hr/ViewDetails.asp?Scope=External&PVAID=108692 Library Information Systems - PVA Number: 109525 http://www.asdk12.org/depts/hr/ViewDetails.asp?Scope=Internal&PVAID=109525 It's possible that the second one is actually an internal listing, but it is on their website. Maybe someone would want to take a stab at one of these. Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Microsoft GPO and SELinux

David Edge — 2008-05-15T06:49:15

Anyone out there familiar with SELinux? Ran across this link in a Microsoft newsletter where they compare Group Policy and SELinux. I thought SELinux restrictions were at a deeper level. Is this a valid comparison? http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8903748 dedge

Debian SSH security upgrade breaks SSH!

Joshua J. Kugler — 2008-05-14T19:25:27

This is both a warning and a cry for help! :) I installed the upgraded SSH packages and it regenerated the SSH keys. =20 Not a big problem, right? Wrong. Even the newly generated keys are on=20 the blacklist, AND the server will not connect with keys that are on=20 the blacklist, so no new connections can be created. So, existing=20 connections are OK, but don't logout, or you'll never get back in. Anyone have a fix yet? j =2D-=20 Joshua Kugler Part-Time System Admin/Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ =A0ID 0xDB26D7CE

Friday Night Linux presentation

barsalou — 2008-05-13T21:05:42

I think there were about 6+ people at the presentation. It seemed to go very well, and because X is a pretty big subject, it was mostly just an overview of the xorg file and a few of the utilities. Hopefully one of the attendees will have something to say about what they got out of it. So unless someone specifically disagrees with me...it went awesome, without any flaws and everyone learned all they could.......(wink, wink, nudge, nudge) Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Anchorage School District

barsalou — 2008-05-13T21:01:23

I recently had a chance to talk with some of the leadership at ASD. =20 We are working to put flyers into the schools and to possibly allow us =20 to speak at the High Schools about Linux and Open Source. Because it is so late in the year, This may only have effect next year =20 as school starts. The seed is planted and we will see if it can grow. Additionally, I heard that they are looking at the ASUS eepc. I had a =20 chance to play with one of these and suggested that if the ASD needed =20 help with configuring these in a special way, that AKLUG would be =20 willing to see what we could do to help. I also ran into an Elementary Ed technical person and she had recently =20 been doing research into using some of the educational software =20 packages available for linux. We also discussed the idea of using LiveCD's so that folks could at =20 least experience Linux without having to worry about destroying data =20 that might be on the machine they are using. So lots of interesting things happening in the school district, I'm =20 looking forward to what might come out of all this. Keep your eyes and ears open for a way for us to help. Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Debian security alert for SSH

2008-05-13T20:13:14

Better fix this one, only affects Debian and derivatives. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.security.announce/1614

AKLUG Monthly Presentation

barsalou — 2008-05-09T22:54:25

Here are my talking points for tonight. Since this will be a loose =20 discussion more than a presentation, I won't have any handouts. Documentation: http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.0/doc/html/xorg.conf.5.html Possible things to try: man xorg.conf Need an Inputdevice section for both mouse and keyboard xorg -probeonly xorg -configure xorg -scanpci scanpci|lspci xdpyinfo X -showDefaultModulePath X -showDefaultLibPath pkg-config --variable=3Dmoduledir xorg-server pkg-config --variable=3Dlibdir xorg-server ServerLayout ----> Input Devices ----> Output Devices Screen ----> Device ----> Monitor Other Commands to investigate: xrdb -merge /your/resource/file xset gtf xmodmap xman xsm xprop Possibly helpful links: man pages for above mentioned commands http://www.linux.com/feature/118108 http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/XWindow-User-HOWTO.html#toc8 http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/XDM-Xterm.html http://www.rahul.net/kenton/bib.html http://xwinman.org/intro.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System_protocols_and_architecture http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/doc.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Xorg troubleshooting

barsalou — 2008-05-07T16:45:47

OK...if everything goes well, I will be doing some troubleshooting with X for this Friday. Bring stories of your own exploits, bring your friends, bring a box that doesn't work in X currently. If your interested in how the internals of the xorg.conf file work, come on Friday night at 7pm. I'll talk for just a short while and we'll do some hands on goofing around with the video card on my laptop. Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Moving an LVM to a raided drive

barsalou — 2008-05-07T00:10:30

Wow that was fun! (some sarcasm here). I took a drive that was configured with LVM and stuck it on a software raided drive. This was all completed while the machine was still running. Of course the drives were already in the machine as well. LVM's are definitely the way to go. Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

ACS to build cable link to Oregon

Jim Gribbin — 2008-05-06T07:48:07

Anyone see the article in Sundays paper about ACS laying another fiber optic cable to Oregon. It looks like it also picks up Nikiski and Homer. Shame they don't pick up Kodiak while they're at it. The State Rocket Launch facility could probably make use of it. Not to mention the commercial fishing industry. http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/ap_alaska/story/395451.html JimG

V Box

Jeff — 2008-05-04T19:30:01

http://www.virtualbox.org A new update is out . 1.6

Hi Royce!

David Prentice — 2008-05-03T06:57:47

Been a longtime. Not long enough? Thought I'd re-introduce myself. Remember when my Honda's license plate was DEVNUL? Hah! Thought I'd join the AKLUG, finally got around to it, honestly for no other reason than the fact that I've been merrily running Ubuntu on every computer at home for a while now. Still haven't been able to stop my wife from dual-booting to XP, but some day I'll get around to installing a good VM and then she won't need to reboot at all. ASDYP

OFF-TOPIC: Analytical Technologies?

Lee — 2008-05-01T21:02:43

does anyone know anything about or heard anything about Analytical Technologies (www.anlit.com) or Automaticrepair.com? sounds like snake oil, but thought I'd ask around. Some folks I know are still stuck with proprietary systems (XP, quickbooks, etc) that I can't take care of anymore (and don't want to; I'm out of that business and that business has left me way behind) but I hate leaving folks in the lurch; they need someone to handle issues that come up. Was hoping perhaps this was a possible solution. Thanks in advance!

Dlink DI-624 and IPV6

barsalou — 2008-04-30T16:38:04

*WARNING* My conclusions here are based on observation, not any =20 specific facts related to the unit or from what I could find on the =20 internet, but I thought I'd share the info anyway. Recently I decided to switch from Centos to Ubuntu (7.1 - Edgy). First of all, this was not painless. These two distros are =20 significantly different. Luckily for me the Ubuntu crowd documents things reasonably well. This change is important to state because at the time of the =20 changeover, my DI-624 started to reboot itself and seemingly random =20 intervals. It turns out that in some way the IPV6 that is setup automatically on =20 new Ubuntu installs causes this problem for the DI-624. The DI-624 is configured to be a DNS caching server for my internal network. My personal guess is that The DI-624 didn't handle IPV6 DNS resolution =20 well and that caused the unit to loose its mind and reboot...which is =20 better than the unit just stopping all together. So turning off IPV6 on all my machines (Macs, PC with Vista, my Ubuntu =20 server) cleared the problem right up. I probably could have also solved the problem by creating a DNS =20 caching server to handle the ipv6 requests, but didn't want to spend =20 the time. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

OT: Switches 4sale - with info

William D. McKinney — 2008-04-24T01:30:23

Hi Folks, One busy time for me so forgive for not getting back to everyone sooner. Here's the info: 1 each Cisco Catalyst 2900XL 24port 10/100 Switch - $50.00 1 each D-Link DES-3226L 24 Port 10/100 2 Port 10/100/1000 Switch - $100.00 First come, it's yours. -Dee 947-3695

Last Weeks Friday Night Lab

barsalou — 2008-04-23T22:29:15

There was only a few of us there. I'm assuming because folks were =20 enjoying the sunshine that has been thrown at us over the last week or =20 so. We worked on a couple of different things: The first was using WPA2 with wpa_supplicant. I know Jim got close to =20 figuring it out completely, but the distro he was using was saving =20 the parameters wrong in the wpa_supplicant.conf file. We edited the file by hand and then ran it from the command line with =20 debugging turned on. That helped us figure out what needed doing for =20 it to work. Hopefully Jim will fill in the blanks. The other thing we did is tried to install debian onto an old low =20 memory laptop that had a broken CDrom drive. It's bad enough to try =20 install linux on older hardware, but not having a consistently working =20 CDrom drive really mucks things up. I didn't end up going over the xorg stuff...and for now, I'll just do =20 it for the May 9th meeting. If you have specific things you'd like covered, drop me a note so I =20 can make sure I get that into my presentation. Currently the talk will include: - xorg.conf format and options - troubleshooting tips - Use of Multi-head displays - helpful utilities and documentation. Hope to see you there. Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

FreeDOS and flashing your computer

barsalou — 2008-04-23T22:13:35

Some of us have moved completely away from using Windows at all. This posses somewhat of a problem if you don't have a copy of MS-DOS lying around in case you need to flash your BIOS. I ran into this article that should help folks out: http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.html I'll be trying it in the next day or so, so I'll keep you posted about what happens next. Mike B. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

OT: Switches 4Sale

William D. McKinney — 2008-04-21T04:22:37

Apparently I still have 2 24port 10/100 rack mount switches for sale. Anyone interested? -Dee