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Committee minutes
by Craig Box 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

Hi everyone, Just a note to say that the minutes of our last WLUG committee meeting are up on the Wiki at http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2004-02-18, for any interested parties. Things we're doing at the moment: - Setting up (home made) software for the WLUG library - Organising Unix tutorials for 2nd year computer science students at UoW (see http://www.wlug.org.nz/UnixTutorials for details) - Working on getting distibutions/Linux books available from the Hamilton Public Library - Organising a Linux installfest for after the next meeting (we'll discuss this when plans are arranged) - Applying for some funding from the WEL Energy Trust Thanks, Craig

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lsmod command
by Gun Caundle 21 Feb '04

21 Feb '04

Hi I am a newbie using RH 9 and working with the Red Hat Linux Bible by Christopher Negus. He uses a command 'lsmod' which I think is for listing modules. However my version of RH9 doesn't appear to have this command. IE > [root@LinuxBox /]# type lsmod > bash: type: lsmod: not found > . Is there another command I could use instead? Cheers Gun Caundle

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Books from O'Reilly
by John R. McPherson 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hi, O'Reilly (the book publisher) has generously offered to send us some free technical manuals, although I think they are supposed to be for review purposes. If you are a paid up member of WLUG, and would like to see us acquire a book of your choosing (and you are prepared to write up a small review of it), visit http://www.wlug.org.nz/WantedBooks and edit the page. (There is a link to O'Reilly's online catalog... the page linked to is about 400 kB). John McPherson

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Committee meeting this Wednesday
by Craig Box 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

Coming up this Wednesday, a WLUG committee meeting. (Seems the 'bot hasn't figured that out yet!) If you'd like anything on the agenda, you will find it at http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2004-02-18 - please e-mail me with anything you'd like discussed, as usual. Craig WLUG Secretariat

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Introduction to Linux Seminars
by Matt Brown 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

Hi, In conjunction with the CS Department at Waikato University WLUG is organising a series of seminars aimed at introducing first and second year students to Linux and OSS in general. We are currently in the process of planning these seminars and are looking for comments on what to include and what to leave out. The seminars will run in weeks 2 and 3 of semester A for 3 nights each week. Each seminar will be around 1.5hrs long. Below is a brief outline of what we are currently planning on covering in each seminar. If you have comments or suggestions please let us know. Seminar 1: (Tue 9th Mar) - Introduction to Linux / OSS - What is OSS - What is Linux - What is GNU - Why use Linux - History of Linux - About the Linux Distributions Seminar 2: (Wed 10th Mar) - Bash - A general introduction to bash, what it is, how to use it and tips for performing common tasks. Seminar 3: (Thu 11th Mar) - Emacs - A general introduction to emacs, what it is, how to use it and tips for performing common tasks. Seminar 4: (Tue 16th Mar) - Processes - An introduction to process control in unix systems. We will cover how to start, stop, suspend and kill processes. Seminar 5: (Wed 17th Mar) - Applications - An introduction to useful OSS applications that can be used under linux. This will focus on what is installed in the TSG labs and will probably cover (pending confirmation) - ssh / scp - Mozilla - OpenOffice Seminar 6: (Thu 18th Mar) - Summary / Q&A - A summary of how to put everything that has been taught together, followed by a question and answer session. The popular cheat sheet will be given out again and we are looking at providing each attendee with a copy of Knoppix. Comments welcome :) Regards -- Matt Brown Email: matt(a)mattb.net.nz GSM : 021 611 544

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WLUG Meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder bot 14 Feb '04

14 Feb '04

The WLUG meeting is one week away ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The topic for this meeting is [VoIP] (Voice Over [IP|IPv4]) Guest Speaker: NathanWard PerryLorier has asked me to put in some kind of list of stuff I'll cover in here, so here goes: * Servers * Asterisk * OpenH323 / GNUGK / Open Gatekeeper * 'blackbox' / hardware * Protocols: * [SIP] * [H.323] * MGCP * Skinny * Endpoints * Hardware Phones * 'Soft Phones' * People * What [WLUG] people have been doing so far * What [WLUG] people can do * Other people doing [VoIP] * What I am doing with [VoIP] * Demos (or, things I'd like to demo...) * [VoIP] -> [PSTN] call * [PSTN] -> [VoIP] call * [VoIP] -> [VoIP] call * [PSTN] -> [PSTN] (over [VoIP]) * Voicemail stuff * [IVR]s * VoIP applications * Carrier level: * Toll Bypass * Calling card * Virtual [PABX]/Voicemail/[IVR] networks * Business level: * Toll 'Hopoff' * [PABX]/[IVR]/Voicemail * Personal Level * Long distance calling * Amusing [IVR]s

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[Fwd: PuTTY version 0.54 is released]
by Oliver Jones 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

For all you chaps who have windows boxes and access your Linux server/router/workstation via PuTTY.... The most interesting thing is the Unix port. Why he's done this when there are the great OpenSSH apps on most Unixes I don't know. But I guess some people will prefer the GTK front end. Regards -----Forwarded Message----- From: Simon Tatham <anakin(a)pobox.com> To: putty-announce(a)lists.tartarus.org Subject: PuTTY version 0.54 is released Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:41:08 +0000 PuTTY version 0.54 is released ------------------------------ All the pre-built binaries, and the source code, are now available from the PuTTY website at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Development work on PuTTY for the past year or so has mostly involved taking it apart and putting it back together again for improved portability; so I'm afraid there aren't many visible new features in 0.54. Some of the highlights are: - Dynamic SSH port forwarding. PuTTY can now act as a SOCKS server, and programs using that server will have their connections forwarded over SSH. - PSFTP should now be usefully fast. - When connecting through a proxy (SOCKS or HTTP), PuTTY is now able to let the proxy do the DNS lookup. - Some of the default settings have changed. Notably, the SSH protocol is now the default, and SSH2 is preferred over SSH1. (This will not affect anyone who already has Default Settings stored in their registry, since those override PuTTY's internal defaults.) - Bug fix: forwarding SMB connections over SSH should now work. - Bug fix: the configuration box was slow to respond because it occasionally went looking for printers across the network by accident. It shouldn't do this any more. - A couple of minor vulnerabilities have been fixed (none with very serious impact, or with known exploits). But the _really_ big feature resulting from the substantial rewrite is that there is now a Unix version of most of the PuTTY utilities: - There's a Unix PuTTY and PuTTYtel, which are GTK applications. - There's a Unix Plink, PSCP and PSFTP, which look pretty much exactly like their Windows equivalents. - There's a Unix PuTTYgen, which is a command-line program unlike its Windows counterpart. Anyone who needs to convert OpenSSH or ssh.com private keys into PuTTY format in an automated way may be able to do it using this utility. - There's an entirely new utility: `pterm', which is an xterm clone using the PuTTY terminal emulator. (Again, it uses GTK.) - As yet there is no Unix version of Pageant, but all the utilities can interoperate with OpenSSH's ssh-agent. The Unix port is available from the PuTTY Download page as a source tarball. Enjoy using PuTTY! Cheers, Simon -- Oliver Jones » Director » oliver.jones(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 Deeper Design Limited » +64 (7) 377 3328 » www.deeperdesign.com

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RE: [wlug] Introduction to Linux Seminars
by Matt Brown 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Umm, I don't think it will be strictly for Uni students, but we will be tailoring a lot of the material to make it useful for people who are using the CS undergraduate labs. We may need to try and get some indication of who many people are wanting to come just so we can book a big enough lecture theatre... Regards On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:10, Lindsay Druett wrote: > Is this strictly for Uni students ? > > The reason behind this, is that a friend of mine who does web design > with real things like MySQL, PHP4, uses Java in a more appropriate > manner, but he has, up until I've been hosting his material, or > supporting him with hosting issues, been using Apache, MySQL server, > PHP4 on a Win2K/WinXP box because he is unfamiliar with the Unix > environments. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: mglb1-forwarding > > Sent: Friday, 13 February 2004 10:46 > > To: wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > Subject: [wlug] Introduction to Linux Seminars > > > > > > Hi, > > > > In conjunction with the CS Department at Waikato University WLUG is > > organising a series of seminars aimed at introducing first and second > > year students to Linux and OSS in general. We are currently in the > > process of planning these seminars and are looking for > > comments on what > > to include and what to leave out. > > > > The seminars will run in weeks 2 and 3 of semester A for 3 nights each > > week. Each seminar will be around 1.5hrs long. Below is a > > brief outline > > of what we are currently planning on covering in each seminar. If you > > have comments or suggestions please let us know. > > > > Seminar 1: (Tue 9th Mar) - Introduction to Linux / OSS > > - What is OSS > > - What is Linux > > - What is GNU > > - Why use Linux > > - History of Linux > > - About the Linux Distributions > > > > Seminar 2: (Wed 10th Mar) - Bash > > - A general introduction to bash, what it is, how to > > use it and tips > > for performing common tasks. > > > > Seminar 3: (Thu 11th Mar) - Emacs > > - A general introduction to emacs, what it is, how to use it and > > tips for performing common tasks. > > > > Seminar 4: (Tue 16th Mar) - Processes > > - An introduction to process control in unix systems. > > We will cover > > how to start, stop, suspend and kill processes. > > > > Seminar 5: (Wed 17th Mar) - Applications > > - An introduction to useful OSS applications that can > > be used under > > linux. This will focus on what is installed in the TSG > > labs and will probably cover (pending confirmation) > > - ssh / scp > > - Mozilla > > - OpenOffice > > > > Seminar 6: (Thu 18th Mar) - Summary / Q&A > > - A summary of how to put everything that has been > > taught together, > > followed by a question and answer session. > > > > The popular cheat sheet will be given out again and we are looking at > > providing each attendee with a copy of Knoppix. > > > > Comments welcome :) > > > > Regards > > > > -- > > Matt Brown > > Email: matt(a)mattb.net.nz > > GSM : 021 611 544 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wlug mailing list > > wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > -- Matt Brown Email: matt(a)mattb.net.nz GSM : 021 611 544

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kate question
by Glenn Ramsey 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hi, Probably this isn't the best place to ask this but since it's low traffic and I'm not subbed to any of the kde lists.... In the kate editor in kde 3.1.4 there is a block comment feature and the keyboard shortcuts are comment = Ctrl+# and uncomment = Ctrl+Shift+# . I can't get these to work because in order to get Ctrl+# you actually need to do Ctrl+Shift+3. They work fine if you use the menu. I wanted to change the shortcut key but I couldn't find anyplace that allows this particular one to be changed. Does anyone know how to make this shortcut work? Cheers g -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz

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Old bits?
by Kim Shepherd 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

I'm loathe to throw anything away, no matter how useless or old... would it be at all useful if I brought in a few bags worth of NICs, HDDs (mostly old small SCSI), RAM, etc., to the next meeting, or are most of you up to your ears in nostalgic junk already? -k. -- Kim Shepherd Systems Operator/Administrator ITS Systems & Development The University of Waikato, NZ DDI: +64-7-838-4681 Mob: +64-27-240-8682 Mail: kims(a)waikato.ac.nz

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