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Its hard to believe this is a picture of the same person. I have found several picture of Hans, and in all they look like the picture I posted.

I figured out how to write a bash script, but I haven't figured out how to get it to autorun itself as root on bootup (similar to the 'Startup' folder in windows...I need at least to run a script to fstab my Windows hd)

Several options (yet another case of TMTOWTDI -- there's more than one way to do it -- in Linux):

• Add it or call it in /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
• Add and configure a sysvinit script in /etc/init.d using /etc/init.d/skeleton as a template and update-rc.d.
• Add a cron entry (/etc/crontab or /etc/cron.d) with the '@reboot' special time specification.

I figured out how to mount my data drive, but I have to do it through the gui -- I can't figure out the write way to mount a fat drive with fstab in bash (so I can't automount it)

Short answer, in /etc/fstab, add a line:

/dev/sda /mnt/floppy vfat user,gid=floppy,umask=0007 0 0

Long answer, see: this LUGOD mailing list post.

You can also manage this (and other removable / remote filesystems) via automount: aptitude install autofs. See also The AutoFS AutoMounter HOWTO.

I can't attach my external USB hd (it's one ntfs partition...when I can't find some room to swap its contents, I'll reformat to fat32...that may help)

Some of the desktops (GNOME, KDE) make this really simple through their file manglers, er, managers.

NTFS read support should be in stock kernels. Read the NTFS FAQ for details.

Again, this can be transparently managed under autofs.

the buttons on my Vaio laptop don't work right...I've played with all kinds daemons for the sonypi driver, even hacked and recompiled three (a great experiment anyway, and my first good look at ruby, perl and c) but I can't get them to work right (yeah, I know that's Sony's fault for releasing a closed-source driver -- but still agitating when you've gotten so accustomed to using the volume buttons right on the keyboard)

in order to get my speakers to work, apparently I need to have the output at 48,000 hz or something...and apparently I have to do that in alsa..but I don't even know where to begin

I know both of these are configurable, not my forte. Look for keyboard remapping in Google. Hrm. "vaio laptop keyboard buttons linux" turns up Linux on a Sony VAIO, and suggests 'spicctrl' can do this. A similar Google search may solve your audio problems.

shutdown is VERY touchy, and only works occasionally...restart 'always' hangs and hibernate is a freakin' disaster! I've found resources that may help me address this, but it's going to take time...a lot of it, it appears

Frequently disabling ACPI fixes such problems.

Overall, I'm still in love with Linux. I plan on putting a number of people I 'administer' on it -- as soon as I have a good solid understanding of how to tweak it to the point where they won't be able to break it easily, and still do the standard 'average user tasks' much faster and easier than on windows (I'm SICK of cleaning up spyware!)...

I hear you on that last. Fortunately Not My Problem[tm] these days.

Understanding Debian, and in particular Debian Policy, helps immensely in knowing what Debian does and doesn't do, why it does it, and where you (the user/admin) fit in. Policy in general is about carving out which bits are specifically managed by Debian and which are yours to own.

The one in the dark blue shirt MIGHT be a chick...

But don't think LUGs are just boring, here is a group in Davis, CA that combined the fun and excitement of open source, with MAGIC!

see the pictures.

You can't tell me that LUGs aren't cool.

Keep looking at the rest of the pictures on the site...here is another example then tell me how a bunch of computer geeks managed to use photos that are 640x480 pixels, yet had a file size of over 150K each.

Actually, I know a lot of the people there, and a lot of them work on web related projects. View the HTML source on the same page...

It just amazes me what these people seemingly get away with, because they other people believe they have some tech/geek-cred just because they use an alternative operating system.

Just because you use Linux doesn't mean you know what is going on.

Sorry, don't want to sound like a pain in the ass, but when I am sitting there at a meeting at work (I work with a lot of them), and these clowns try to tell everyone who will listen that the world must start using open standards, it's frustrating. They actually gave a class about CSS once...yet they obviously don't pay attention to it themselves.

The one in the dark blue shirt MIGHT be a chick...

But don't think LUGs are just boring, here is a group in Davis, CA that combined the fun and excitement of open source, with MAGIC!

see the pictures.

You can't tell me that LUGs aren't cool.

Keep looking at the rest of the pictures on the site...here is another example then tell me how a bunch of computer geeks managed to use photos that are 640x480 pixels, yet had a file size of over 150K each.

Actually, I know a lot of the people there, and a lot of them work on web related projects. View the HTML source on the same page...

It just amazes me what these people seemingly get away with, because they other people believe they have some tech/geek-cred just because they use an alternative operating system.

Just because you use Linux doesn't mean you know what is going on.

Sorry, don't want to sound like a pain in the ass, but when I am sitting there at a meeting at work (I work with a lot of them), and these clowns try to tell everyone who will listen that the world must start using open standards, it's frustrating. They actually gave a class about CSS once...yet they obviously don't pay attention to it themselves.

Because KDE's network transparency beats the shit out of anything OS X has, perhaps? Things like fish are far superior to anything I've seen on the mac.

By an odd coincidence, the next Linux Users' Group of Davis (August 15th, near Sacramento, California) meeting happens to be on this very topic!

By an odd coincidence, the next Linux Users' Group of Davis (August 15th, near Sacramento, California) meeting happens to be on this very topic!

"On older Linux systems (those shipped with 1.2.13 kernel) if you were logged in with a UID that was removed from the /etc/passwd calling whoami (I think) would provide: "You don't exist! Go away." -From the mailing list of Linux Users Group of Davis.

Yeah, I remember the Office 95/97 landmine. Got hit by the PPT format cutover about that point to. While revising slides. At the conference. And found I couldn't open my presentation any more.....

Microsoft also created a set of read-only tools for Word, PPT, and Excel. Except....

Under Linux, if you've got a document reader, spurious typing is generally ignored. Microsoft's solution? A fscking popup window telling you "Sorry, you can't edit this document" (or words to the effect). For someone trained to use the spacebar to scroll through docs, absolutely maddening.

less with LESSPIPE is my preferred viewer today. In fact, there's cool hacks to support Word and Excel within mutt -- all in cosole. Hrm. Not sure about PPT, but strings works remarkably well (no kidding).

Earlier this year, I made some non-Linux-geek-friendly handouts about Open Source software (focusing on some stuff for Windows) to hand out at various events my local LUG held/attended.

Print some out! Put them up at your local library, like I did! :^)

Earlier this year, I made some non-Linux-geek-friendly handouts about Open Source software (focusing on some stuff for Windows) to hand out at various events my local LUG held/attended.

Print some out! Put them up at your local library, like I did! :^)

I recently posted a list of the VNC's in debian, with a description of how each one serves a different purpose to LUGOD's vox-tech mailing list. The post is quoted here in full, so that you do not need to click the link, thereby slashdotting their server.

I was asked "Is there one implementation that's better than the others? Why did this piece of software fork so many times?"

And I answered as follows:

Because they're all different. Some for framebuffers, some serve differently, some compressed, some not. Read on, and I think you'll getthe idea.

(Search packages.debian.org for vnc, and you'll see all of these pop up.)

TightVNC uses JPEG or zlib to compress the data stream to optimize for lower bandwidth connections. It is under the GPL. Packages: tightvncserver, and xtightvncviewer

The default VNC viewer (packages vncserver and xvncviewer) are (c) 2002 RealVNC, and (C)1994-2000 AT&T. They are under the GPL. This seems to be
what you alien'ed.

x2vnc - use a vnc server as a second screen, so you can move the mouse between the local machine and a machine across the network that is running the vnc client.

directvnc - doesn't require x - uses libdirectfb-0.9-20. Depends on zlib and libjpeg, so it may work with tightvnc's protocol

svncviewer - depends on svgalib

x11vnc - the x11vnc server works the same way the Windows 2000 vnc server does - mirroring the physical screen over vnc

linuxvnc - "With linuxvnc you can export your currently running text sessions to any VNC client. So it can be useful, if you want to move to another computer without having to log out and if you've forgotten to attach a 'screen' session to it, or to help a distant colleague to solve a problem."

3dwm-vncclient - I think you get the picture

vnc-java - I think you know what this is. Why bother with it? Probably so you can serve yourself a vnc client over HTTP, probably.

tkvnc - a wrapper for xvncviewer

http://www.activedir.org

http://www.ntbugtraq.com/

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive

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Linux Users Group of Davis Lists

linux-wlan(tm) Project Mailing Lists

Notice how almost all his "Fedora sucks" items are acually cribs about the component software! Like OO.o, gnome, evolution, and Gimp. If this idiot doesn't like these software how the f*** is it fedora's fault?!

It's Fedora's fault for making those applications the default. Fedora and Debian are the only major distributions that have Gnome be the default, and Debian is well-known as a dinosaur. Why can't they be more like a normal distro (Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware) and focus on KDE?

Also, I remember trying Fedora Core 1 a few months back. Programs crashed like crazy. Because of that, their version of KDE was just short of unusable, and their Gnome wasn't much better. Funny how that doesn't happen in any other distro. A real-life friend of mine had similar problems with programs crashing--worse problems, IIRC. The problems are clearly in Fedora's builds of the applications, as I've never seen these crashes in any other distro.

His gnome troll is the worst of all. This is one piece of Free Software that dares to innovate on the desktop

Riiiiiiiiight. I'll be damned if your post isn't a troll. Read this KDE article with screenshots and then try to tell me KDE doesn't innovate.

From the Slashdot story: "Can we really trust closed-source vendors, such as Cisco, to develop secure products that are free of backdoors?"

This should be shortened to: "Can we trust closed-source vendors?"

History has shown that we cannot.

Take Microsoft for example. LUGOD maintains a list of stories about Microsoft abusiveness: Reasons to Avoid Microsoft. I counted more than 200 in 2002, and things have gotten worse since then.

(This seems to be one of the few times that Open Source advocates have invented an interesting name: Linux User GOD. Sounds like a new religion.)

Part of the problem seems to be that, eventually, closed-source vendors begin to be controlled by managers who have no technical experience. Such managers can help the company make more money only by abusing the customer, because they don't know enough to contribute to technical improvements.

Why has Google risen to prominence so quickly? Partly because they know what they are doing technically. But largely because they have a policy of "do no harm". It's a simple policy, but most managers are not able to come to the conclusion they should follow it.

Most managers seem to have received their training by mimicing the abusive, ignorant PHB in Dilbert cartoons. Think what a terrible world we live in that Dilbert is considered funny!

I know most Open Source developers are uncomfortable with this description, but they approach their work as an act of love. Whatever the reason, history has shown that they are far more trustworthy.

Hate to break it to you, but several products couldn't be patched, because someone (hint, the letters M & S are prominent) were scrambling to get the patch out. Oh, and that patch didn't patch it, so there was another patch, which, omg, still didn't fix the stupid security hole. (if I still had the link, I'd post it)

Oh, and .NET has issues too.

The current ruling could set a useful precedent... with someone finally having the guts to intervene against illegal abuse of monopolies, Microsoft may finally have to pay for the damage it has done to the software industry and users

He's also written about how Samba came into being, which was basically because he was trying to avoid doing any real work on his PhD.

I think that is common. Our LUG was founded and remains heavily influenced by this effect. Nice to know that so many are compelled to avoid their profs long enough to something useful

Here's an african american linux geek

The Peninsula Linux Users Group (PenLUG) will be hosting a talk on the Simputer at their September 25th meeting down near Redwood City, in the SF Bay Area.

The same speaker will be visiting the Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) on October 20th, near Sacramento, Calif.

The Peninsula Linux Users Group (PenLUG) will be hosting a talk on the Simputer at their September 25th meeting down near Redwood City, in the SF Bay Area.

The same speaker will be visiting the Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) on October 20th, near Sacramento, Calif.

In case you wonder what he looks like, here are a few pictures of Hans giving a lecture over at LUGOD.

From the article:
I've seen no evidence that desktop Linux distros are more secure than Windows

Well then, here is some required reading: Why not microsoft

Microsoft's $52,931,000,000 is Total Current Assets, but that is equal to cash when within a few months. People who buy and sell things for billions of dollars don't quibble over a few months. It takes that long to arrange a sale, anyway.

Making small changes in a product and calling it a new product is an abusive, misleading business practice, in my opinion. Microsoft did that with Windows Milennium. Windows 2003 Server seems to have real changes.

Here are a few more abuses: Reasons to Avoid Microsoft. (More than 200 in one year!) In case your boss is uncertain, this abuse list will help educate him.

Lists of Microsoft Abuses:

Overall abuses: Reasons to Avoid Microsoft. (More than 200 in one year!)

Abuses in one product: Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going.

Sometimes people confuse themselves by thinking of Microsoft as a software company that is abusive. It can be more clear to think of Microsoft as an abuse company that sells software.

Judging from some of the things I've seen, there must be executives at Microsoft who every day energetically think of more ways to put the customer's back against the wall.

I've spent more than 20 years studying things of this nature, and I think what's happening at Microsoft is a general social breakdown. Usually in situations of this sort, things get worse and worse until something breaks.

Other social breakdowns:

The U.S. government: History surrounding the U.S. war with Iraq: Four short stories

and What should be the Response to Violence?.

Law in the U.S. state of Oregon:

Complicated methods corrupt Oregon government.

and Airplanes are safe, but laws often crash.

The Case For OpenOffice

Secretaries use Linux, taxpayers save millions (part 1 of 2)

Largo loves Linux more than ever (part 2 of 2)

How To Run a Microsoft-Free Shop

Reasons to Avoid Microsoft (summary and links)

Microsoft loses showdown in Houston

Making a Living Saving the Government Money

Those are just some of the articles I've saved. If you wade thru a /. search, you may find more. I found those particularly interesting because some of them give details of companies or goverment agencies who have moved to Linux (away from MS), and their difficulties and successes doing so.

I come not to trivialize Robin, but to celebrate her. Not to take away from her skills but to acknowledge her assets.

Lara Croft ain't got nuthin on her.

in leather, and now with more leather, and a smile.

You go gurrl!

Mr. Rosen is speaking at tomorrow night's (Tuesday, November 5th) LUGOD meeting! If you're in or near the Bay Area, come on over!

Don's coming to the Linux Users' Group of Davis, out here near Sacramento, on February 4th.

Don's coming to the Linux Users' Group of Davis, out here near Sacramento, on February 4th.

I asked Rasmus Lerdorf (creator of PHP) about this when he gave a presentation to our LUG back in July. He indicated that the perchild MPM was nowhere close to stability, and at that time didn't think anyone was even working on it.

A real shame - it's the one thing that really had me interested in Apache 2.0.

The 2nd time we did this, we simply used fullscreen VNC. In both cases, the boxes looked like an average Linux box... we just didn't need to do any partitioning or installing or annoy the IT department. :^)

At the Whole Earth Festival at UC Davis last year, we handed out about 100 DemoLinux discs to passers-by, so they can try Linux out at home without installing anything.

The 2nd time we did this, we simply used fullscreen VNC. In both cases, the boxes looked like an average Linux box... we just didn't need to do any partitioning or installing or annoy the IT department. :^)

At the Whole Earth Festival at UC Davis last year, we handed out about 100 DemoLinux discs to passers-by, so they can try Linux out at home without installing anything.

The 2nd time we did this, we simply used fullscreen VNC. In both cases, the boxes looked like an average Linux box... we just didn't need to do any partitioning or installing or annoy the IT department. :^)

At the Whole Earth Festival at UC Davis last year, we handed out about 100 DemoLinux discs to passers-by, so they can try Linux out at home without installing anything.

Sacramento's was good. I have a feeling there'd've been more than the 12 who showed up if the venue hadn't changed at 12:30 that afternoon. :) (Someone forgot to see if the winning venue _existed!_ D'oh!)

Anyway, I was there, 'representin' the big LUG in the area, LUGOD. The head of the smaller SacLUG (a coworker of mine at Worldcom, in fact) was there too.

Interestingly, most of the folks who showed up were people I've never met - so they aren't regular LUG'ers. They will be, though. Bwahaha.

One dude who came had just recently moved to the west coast (if you could call Sacramento that!) from Flordia.

As with one of the posted meet-ups above, noone brought their digital camera. I had my Zaurus, though, of course, and showed off the recently-ported Doom running on it, and handed out some leftover handouts Sharp gave me for LUGOD. ;^)

I should go into marketing...

-bill!

At our last meeting, a couple of cool folks from BlueMug in Berkeley came and talked about an embedded Linux prototype they built for a client (photos). Their presentation slide is also online here (2MB PDF).

At the meeting before that, Rob Wehrli of Arizona Cooperative Power came to talk about Clinux (photos). His presentation is online, too.

Enjoy!

At our last meeting, a couple of cool folks from BlueMug in Berkeley came and talked about an embedded Linux prototype they built for a client (photos). Their presentation slide is also online here (2MB PDF).

At the meeting before that, Rob Wehrli of Arizona Cooperative Power came to talk about Clinux (photos). His presentation is online, too.

Enjoy!

At our last meeting, a couple of cool folks from BlueMug in Berkeley came and talked about an embedded Linux prototype they built for a client (photos). Their presentation slide is also online here (2MB PDF).

At the meeting before that, Rob Wehrli of Arizona Cooperative Power came to talk about Clinux (photos). His presentation is online, too.

Enjoy!

At our last meeting, a couple of cool folks from BlueMug in Berkeley came and talked about an embedded Linux prototype they built for a client (photos). Their presentation slide is also online here (2MB PDF).

At the meeting before that, Rob Wehrli of Arizona Cooperative Power came to talk about Clinux (photos). His presentation is online, too.

Enjoy!

At our last meeting, a couple of cool folks from BlueMug in Berkeley came and talked about an embedded Linux prototype they built for a client (photos). Their presentation slide is also online here (2MB PDF).

At the meeting before that, Rob Wehrli of Arizona Cooperative Power came to talk about Clinux (photos). His presentation is online, too.

Enjoy!

At our last meeting, a couple of cool folks from BlueMug in Berkeley came and talked about an embedded Linux prototype they built for a client (photos). Their presentation slide is also online here (2MB PDF).

At the meeting before that, Rob Wehrli of Arizona Cooperative Power came to talk about Clinux (photos). His presentation is online, too.

Enjoy!

I belive that you are correct. My LUG has this status, after it was recomended instead of 501(c)3.

I've been using Mandrake since 7.1 and love it. It's amazing the improvements that are made between releases. When I took my box to an installfest put on by the local LUG it took the guys there an hour to get the sound working right with my on-board chip. With Mandrake 8.0 it just worked. I now have a slightly old (500MHz/128MB) laptop that I ended up wiping windows from. It's been upgraded to XFree86 4.1.0 + KDE 2.2, and runs great. I am hoping to upgrade it and my desktop box tonight. Hopefully I'll be able to convert my ext2 to ext3.

I presented a two-part talk on programming in SDL to my local Linux users group a bit over a year ago.

Check out part1, and then part2.

Be warned.. it's a bit dated. But it should be useful for the SDL-hacker-wannabe's ;)

I presented a two-part talk on programming in SDL to my local Linux users group a bit over a year ago.

Check out part1, and then part2.

Be warned.. it's a bit dated. But it should be useful for the SDL-hacker-wannabe's ;)

I presented a two-part talk on programming in SDL to my local Linux users group a bit over a year ago.

Check out part1, and then part2.

Be warned.. it's a bit dated. But it should be useful for the SDL-hacker-wannabe's ;)

Don't expect to get your open-source-powered Fridge anytime soon.

That's alright. I've already got my Linux-based PDA... See?

I agree. The LUG I run, the Linux Users' Group of Davis, has had a number of guest speakers come from abroad to speak, but if you
look at our past meeting listing, you'll notice a lot of our ow members have done talks...

Those talks can often be the most useful. Sure, someone from company X can come and explain their brand new Linux product "Y", but sometimes a talk on kernel compiling, bash scripting, or C programming is a little more real-world. ;)

See if any of your members have topics they'd like to talk about, and then get them to do it! I've talked at my own LUG about The GIMP and the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library - two things I consider myself good at.

On the other hand, I've immensely enjoyed the talks we've had on bash and Perl, two things I had almost know experience with, which were talks presented by our own members. :)

(HOWEVER, if any big name is out there reading this, and you'd like to swing by Davis, California to talk at a LUG, let me know! ;) )

I agree. The LUG I run, the Linux Users' Group of Davis, has had a number of guest speakers come from abroad to speak, but if you
look at our past meeting listing, you'll notice a lot of our ow members have done talks...

Those talks can often be the most useful. Sure, someone from company X can come and explain their brand new Linux product "Y", but sometimes a talk on kernel compiling, bash scripting, or C programming is a little more real-world. ;)

See if any of your members have topics they'd like to talk about, and then get them to do it! I've talked at my own LUG about The GIMP and the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library - two things I consider myself good at.

On the other hand, I've immensely enjoyed the talks we've had on bash and Perl, two things I had almost know experience with, which were talks presented by our own members. :)

(HOWEVER, if any big name is out there reading this, and you'd like to swing by Davis, California to talk at a LUG, let me know! ;) )

Oh well, maybe when 1.6.0 is out he can do it again ;)