http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15687 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss-Z8c80N6yweDq5qozqU1N3A< at >public.gmane.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ bruce.labitt-TPoik56scW1BDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org 2008-10-06T17:17:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15658 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss-Z8c80N6yweDq5qozqU1N3A< at >public.gmane.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ bruce.labitt-TPoik56scW1BDgjK7y7TUQ< at >public.gmane.org 2008-10-03T17:22:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15648 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss-Z8c80N6yweDq5qozqU1N3A< at >public.gmane.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ Jesse Lazar 2008-10-03T13:49:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15643 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss-Z8c80N6yweDq5qozqU1N3A< at >public.gmane.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ Jefferson Kirkland 2008-10-02T15:06:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15642 Pearson Education, the publisher with imprints such as Addison-Wesley, Prentic-Halls, Sams, Que, Cisco Press and others, sends out a monthly newsletters with user group promotions, surveys and discounts. You can read it online here: http://www.informit.com/content/downloads/usergroups/InformIT_UGNewsletter_Oct08.html Ted Roche (Personal 2008-10-02T14:36:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15641 Fourteen people attended the September meeting of the Python Special Interest Group [1] of the Greater New Hampshire Linux User Group[2], held as usual on the fourth Thursday of the month at the Amoskeag Business Incubator[3] in Manchester, NH, 7 PM - 9 PM. Our presenter of the evening had to postpone, due to family obligations, so we had a general night of discussion. It was vigorous and interesting. I was a tad late to the meeting, so I missed Ray Côté's description of a gotcha using Python. It pays to show up early to the meetings! Bill Sconce brought along a two page agenda and list of topics, focused on new features in Python 2.6[4]. This lead to a lot of discussions, clarifying what can be done in earlier Python versions and how the new version works, including many times when we dropped to the shell and started python to test out our assumptions. Janet provided yummy cookies, as always -- thanks, Janet! And Ben was harassed in absentia. Thanks to Bill for arranging, announcing and herding cats to run the meeting, the Amoskeag Business Incubator for their great facilities, Janet for the cookies, and all for attending and participating. [1] http://www.pysig.org [2] http://www.gnhlug.org [3] http://www.abi-nh.com [4] http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html Ted Roche 2008-10-02T11:58:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15626 For those who don't know, Seamonkey is the reincarnation of the Mozilla suite. I just upgraded to seamonkey-1.1.12-1.fc8 using yum. I then had to reinstall the add-ons adblock_plus and noscript. Both of these need to write in the seamonkey directory, so need to be installed as root. (Which is a whole nother issue I won't get into now.) The noscript installation went just fine. When I installed adblocker i began to have problems. It runs just fine as root. As user2 (an account I created just to test this) seamonkey won't even start. As tom, when i start seamonkey I get this: http://www.tarogue.net/~tom/Screenshot-SeaMonkey.png The only way I have found to fix it is to completely remove my .mozilla directory; then uninstall and reinstall seamonkey. Then I have to copy back over all my bookmarks, reinstall noscript, and reset all my preferences. Can anyone tell me a better way? I would prefer to be able to use adblocker. It works just fine in Windows, using the seamonkey 1.1.12 and adblock_plus-0.7.5.5-fx+tb+sm.xpi I'm running Fedora release 8 (Werewolf), on a Lenovo Thinkpad R61 Thanks Tom TARogue 2008-09-30T22:38:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15606 Good day, all, (Sorry for the offtopic post; the conference isn't specifically geared towards Linux, but may be of interest to people involved in network security, policy issues, and/or education.) Dartmouth will be hosting the 2nd Securing the eCampus conference again this year on Nov 11th-12th. The conference program includes presentations and panels on issues facing educators and schools: http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/about/conferences/security/ Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Do what you love, and love what you do, and you will never work another day in your life." -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wstearns-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org, tools and papers: www.stearns.org) Top-notch computer security training at www.sans.org , www.giac.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns 2008-09-30T15:22:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15598 Hi all, Does anyone know a way to query BIOS settings from the command line in Linux? I need to find out if the SATA settings are set to IDE or AHCI on 100+ systems. It will really suck if I have to connect a console to each one and reboot into the BIOS... I don't care if I can't change it, actually, that might be scary :) dmidecode doesn't seem to give me this depth of information either (though it does tell me an awful lot of useful information). And, sadly, I don't have IPMI cards in the machines... Thanks. Paul Lussier 2008-09-30T14:23:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15587 Tonight I bought TWO 1 Terabyte external disk drives, that transfer information at a rate of 300 Mbytes per second, for a total cost of $283. I remember that RP06 disk drives which I purchased for Bell Labs in the 1980 to 1983 time frame held about 256 Mbytes and cost $23K apiece (and that was when $23K was a lot of money). 8000 times the capacity for 1/80th of the price. So it goes. md Jon 'maddog' Hall 2008-09-30T03:54:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15584 The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central NH GNHLUG chapter, happens the first Monday of most months at the New Hampshire Technical Institute's Library, room 146, at 7 PM. Next month's meeting is on October 6th at 7 PM. Directions and maps are available at http://www.centralug.org Open to the public. Free admission. Tell your friends. At this meeting, Arc Riley will give us a preview of the beta version of Ubuntu 8.10, "Intrepid Ibex" About the presentation ====================== Ubuntu has been making inroads and gaining mindshare for the last couple of years. Aggressive campaigning, slick graphics, and a clear guiding philosophy of "Linux for Human Beings" have combined to make Ubuntu a popular distribution for home and novice users, laptop users and hobbyists interested in the cutting edge. Based loosely on the Debian platform, it combines the strengths of the Debian tools with an aggressive "release early, release often" schedule and helpful and friendly community support. At this presentation, Arc will show us some of the new innovations coming with the next release of Ubuntu, version 8.10 (Year-Month), nicknamed "Intrepid Ibex" and talk about his experiences over the years with Ubuntu and the community around it. About Arc --------- Arc has been active in the FOSS community for several years. He's one of the leaders of the PySoy [1] project, developing a 3D game engine for Python, something he presented at PySIG [2] recently. He was an activist in the Ithaca, NY area until his recent move to New Hampshire, where he regularly attends GNHLUG functions and has worked towards the formation of the New Hampshire Ubuntu Local Community [3] group. [1] http://www.pysoy.org/ [2] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/13484 [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewHampshireTeam --------------- As always, meetings are subject to change. You are encouraged to join the low-traffic announcement list at http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce to get announcement and cancellation information. Ted Roche 2008-09-29T13:27:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15581 My information is a few years out of date, but circa 2000, eBay's front-end web servers was a Windows cluster, running IIS. (At one time, it was the largest production IIS cluster in the world, I believe.) If headers and URLs are anything to go by, they're currently running a mix of IIS 5.0 and Apache Tomcat/Coyete, depending on which part of the site you're using. No idea what OS Tomcat is running on. Back then, their backend database was Oracle running on a Sun Enterprise 10000. It was the Sun/Oracle system which kept failing and bringing the whole site down. Everything Microsoft owns runs on Windows/IIS, of course. They knocked out Hotmail multiple times trying to bring it over from qmail on BSD before they finally succeeded. Slashdot runs Linux for everything. Google is secretive, but reportedly runs on Linux, with lots of C and Python code. For hardware, chief concerns are purchase cost, waste heat, and power consumption. They handle redundancy at the machine level, and don't worry abut making individual boxes last. Yahoo is a melting pot. You can find just about everything, including Perl, PHP, Python and LISP, running on Sun, BSD, Linux and Windows. I believe Flickr runs on Linux and MySQL; dunno what language platform. Twitter runs on Ruby/Rails, MySQL, and Linux, and has had a rather poor time scaling to handle growth, so I'm not sure we should be proud of that. Facebook = PHP, MySQL, Linux. MySpace was well-known for being the biggest ColdFusion site in the world, running on Windows, IIS, and MS-SQL. I dunno if they've changed things. I conclude there's more to a web site than the technology it runs on. Ben Scott 2008-09-28T17:32:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15576 This is a bit off topic, but does anybody know of any programs or webpages that will let me test a website to see how it will look on a blackberry? I'm trying to get a webpage to view properly and not having a blackberry to test it on makes for slow going. Travis Roy 2008-09-27T16:00:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15573 Wow, I didn't see THIS one coming.. http://www.digium.com/en/mediacenter/viewpress/Digium-and-Skype-Collaborate-to-Bring-Skype-to-Business-Phone-Systems Thomas Charron 2008-09-26T18:42:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15572 What : OpenStreetMap mapping party Date : Sat 27 Sep & Sun 28 Sep (2008) Where: Boston, MA and surrounding area OpenStreetMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org/) is a Free Content, crowd-sourced mapping project, and is very cool. They run mapping parties, which are events where anyone can help out. Bring your GPS, or they'll lend you one, and show you how to go out and do some mapping, and then get the data in to the OpenStreetMap database. They have one coming up in Boston this weekend. These are informal events, with no explicit time commitment, and often a social element / beer afterward. * Saturday 27 September * 10 AM - Experienced mappers start * 10:30 AM - Introduction to OpenStreetMap for beginners * Sunday 28 September * 11 AM - Experienced mappers start. * Sunday 11:30 Introduction to OpenStreetMap for beginners * Initial meet-up: Panera Bread, 200 High Street, Boston, MA 02110 * Afterward: Retire to local bar (TBD) * Web page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Boston * Coordinator: Richard Weait <richard-gNTHUr35LhcAvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> For more information, see the web page, or contact Richard. OpenStreetMap is not affiliated with GNHLUG; this is not a GNHLUG event. Ben Scott 2008-09-26T11:44:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15568 *************************************************************** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://dlslug.org/ a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org *************************************************************** The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, October 2nd, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Carson L02 All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 A Teaching Compiler Written in MATLAB presented by Bill McKeeman Bill McKeeman will give a talk about an ordinary compiler (lex, parse, tree, gen, emit, asm) designed for teaching the principles of compiler writing. There are a few surprises, such as load-and-go, integrated bottom-up and/or top-down parsing, a LaTeX based pretty printer, an LR(1) parse table generator, an Intel x86 emulator for debugging, and the like, all in MATLAB. He will survey the 15meg or so free download, give demos, tell war stories, and answer questions. And yes, it does run under Intel based 32-bit Linux (and Apple and WIN). Attendees are encouraged to bring a laptop and download materials from: http://tinyurl.com/matlab-teaching-compiler http://dlslug.org/downloads/meetings/2008/10/cxcom.zip Bill has taught compiler writing at Stanford, University of California at Santa Cruz, Wang Institute, Harvard and Dartmouth. He has written more than 100 compilers, some for money, including the current MATLAB JIT. His website is at http://cs.dartmouth.edu/~mckeeman . 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a linux/oss question of the group. ----- Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. 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Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 bill-6ft+4TUC7y9qCwUM1VThig< at >public.gmane.org Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf _______________________________________________ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list DLSLUG-Announce-Gbln/yiLoe0dnm+yROfE0A< at >public.gmane.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce-Z8c80N6yweDq5qozqU1N3A< at >public.gmane.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ Bill McGonigle 2008-09-25T21:21:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15567 I realize this post is off topic, but given the wide knowledge base of users of this forum that I have observed over the years, I thought I might tap into this resource. I have a need for a Sharepoint consultant for my school district. If any members are, or know of such an individual, please email me directly as not to bother the gnhlug listserv with this topic. TIA, Ken Kenneth Campbell kcampbell-OH/cOWrqVdo3uPMLIKxrzw< at >public.gmane.org IT Administrator SAU1 Conval School District Peterborough, NH 03458 Ken Campbell 2008-09-25T15:03:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15560 I have a laptop that was setup for a family member using a Zenwalk install. The laptop doesn't have a functional CD reader and I don't have the root password. I am able to easily pull the hard drive and mount it as a USB external drive to my Ubuntu system. I can see the passwd and shadow files and the lilo.conf file. Is there an easy way to edit the shadow password file to set a good password for root? Or might it be easier to modify the lilo.conf file to get into single user mode and set a new password from there? The current root password line in the shadow password file is: root:$1$yDo/7BS7$y8McHMKPj3hTRnSl.HTrO/:13427:0::::: Can I just remove the string "$1$yDo/7BS7$y8McHMKPj3hTRnSl.HTrO/" to edit out the password or do I need to replace it with something else? -Alex Alex Hewitt 2008-09-24T16:34:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15554 We may want to characterize some client/server systems and applications (destined to be geographically distant from each other) in the face of various LAN/WAN faults/conditions like dropped/duplicate packets and varyious end-to-end throughput rates, so I'm wondering if anybody here has a pointer to something that might help us simulate/tweak such conditions for in-house testing. We're thinking a Linux box rigged as a switch might be the heart of such a test bed but would love not to have to reinvent any wheels... Michael ODonnell 2008-09-24T13:51:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15536 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss-Z8c80N6yweDq5qozqU1N3A< at >public.gmane.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ Alan Johnson 2008-09-23T21:10:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug/15529 Simple question here. Say I want to rename /mnt/store to /mnt/store.old. I could of course do this with cp, however, I don't have enough disk space. So is there a way that just does a rename of the directory? # mv /mnt/store mnt/store.old would create a new directory full of files, wouldn't it? -Bruce Bruce Labitt 2008-09-23T19:29:53 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug