http://www.wuug.org/index.php Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:17:49 -0400 Phorum 5.2.7 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,129,129#msg-129 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,129,129#msg-129 bradbobak WUUG Talk Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:29:47 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?12,122,122#msg-122 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?12,122,122#msg-122 The install / config options are part of the gentoo handbook. I now have a gentoo install that compiles emerged packages paralleled on 3 different computers (and one is a 64bit box).
Seeing on how my gentoo box is a low-mhz box, this configuration emerges my packages really fast!]]> bradbobak Operating Systems Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:05:02 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,121,121#msg-121 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,121,121#msg-121
Proposed Topics

GNU/Linux Pro Audio - Aaron Mavrinac

Past/Scheduled Topics

Grokking Gentoo Portage - Aaron Mavrinac - June 2008]]> ezod WUUG Talk Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:11:04 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?11,120,120#msg-120 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?11,120,120#msg-120 Lambton Tower room 3105 (third floor). This room has a projector and white board, so we can start planning seminars! Member wilsonk is looking into creating a module for our website which will allow voting on proposed seminar topics.]]> ezod WUUG News Fri, 09 May 2008 16:56:55 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?11,119,119#msg-119 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?11,119,119#msg-119 www2.sun.de] Ignore the .de link, it's okay.]]> alanp WUUG News Thu, 08 May 2008 21:53:03 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,117,117#msg-117 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,117,117#msg-117 Gh0st_Pirate brought up the thought of WUUGers collaborating on projects. Apart from Xavier's website engine years ago, we haven't done much as a group.

What kinds of UNIX-related projects are you interested in participating in?

Personally, I'm interested in hardware control, embedded systems, vision and image processing, distributed systems, machine learning, system programming, and network programming. I code C, C++ and Python.]]> ezod WUUG Talk Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:32:48 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,115,115#msg-115 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,115,115#msg-115
Some of the topics are obvious, but bear with me, im looking for conversation lol.\

1. Lets get some more people involved if we can! this is a great idea and we should run with it if we can!

2. We should do more seminars and presentations/organized events

3.Possibly do computer workshops (im sure we all i have one or two extra machines sitting around)

4. Do some activities as more of a group/team collaberation focus

What do you guys think? any other ideas? speculations?
Discuss!]]> Gh0st_Pirate WUUG Talk Thu, 08 May 2008 10:29:43 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,108,108#msg-108 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,108,108#msg-108
I am currently with Kelcom, and although I adore them, there's just no getting around the fact that throttling blows, and they can't evade it any better than I can without dropping some DSLAM equipment into the central office.

To my knowledge, MNSi is the only local ISP that has such facilities in our area. But the @$%#ers don't offer dry loop.

Cable is looking pretty tempting with its 1MB up, and 16MB down. Especially given that I presently have 650kbps up and 4200kbps down.

Does anyone here have Cogeco? I know Cogeco had a rancid reputation for throttling a couple years back, but I heard some rumors that they've relaxed quite a bit about it recently. I figure this is as they've added new pipes, but also probably to take advantage of the people flooding from Bell now. That is, IF the rumor is true.

Anyone here got Cogeco and care to speak to that?]]> nebajoth WUUG Talk Wed, 07 May 2008 21:43:26 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,105,105#msg-105 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,105,105#msg-105 Summer of Code this year?

It's a great way for students to get involved in contributing to free software projects. If you'll be a student as of mid-April, and you have a bit of coding know-how, check it out! The mentoring organizations will be announced March 17, and student applications are due by March 31.

I'm planning to submit a few Gentoo Linux proposals, along with possibly some for GNU, GIMP, Python, LyX, and any other interesting ones. Students can submit up to 20 proposals.]]> ezod Software Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:50:34 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,104,104#msg-104 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,104,104#msg-104
Who knows, we might have a better place by then too. :)]]> ezod WUUG Talk Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:30:13 -0500 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?11,102,102#msg-102 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?11,102,102#msg-102 Penguicon 6.0 is coming up! For those who don't know, Penguicon is a Detroit-based hybrid science fiction and open-source software convention, which WUUG members have attended and paneled on over the past 5 years. We'll be organizing another trip out this year, so keep April 18 - 20 free and look for the announcement! Linux-related GoHs and nifty guests this year include Jono Bacon, Benjamin Mako Hill, Lucy Snyder, Jorge Castro, Kyle Rankin, Eric S. Raymond, Dr. Peter Salus, and Chris DiBona.]]> ezod WUUG News Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:54:51 -0500 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,101,101#msg-101 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,101,101#msg-101
Some of you may know Xavier Spriet, who is a developer/architect at Netmon, Inc. and a frequent contributor to this forum. He's a colleague of mine and when this opportunity came up, we thought it would be great to start with this community of passionate Unix enthusiasts before making a more public effort.

It so happens that we are looking to fill a parental leave vacancy for the position of SUPPORT TECHNICIAN.

If you or someone you know fits some or all of the following description, and lives in the Windsor area, we are looking to replace our support technician while he is off for 35 weeks on parental leave. Possibility of full time work exists at the end of this period if our sales / support volumes warrant additional staff. There will be some overlap on either end of the parental leave for training and knowledge transfer. We expect the gig to start in mid-April.

It's a great opportunity to learn how to work with a professional team of developers who follow a fairly well-developed dev process.

Please get in touch with me via e-mail at doug(at)netmon(dot)ca, with a resume, if you're interested.

Here's the job description.

---snip---

Support Technician Job Description

Tasks
- Respond to, manage and record incoming support requests
- File bugs as appropriate
- Software testing
- Managing RMAs
- Implementing product builds
- creating patches
- managing patch and upgrade deployment
- Some scripting and development work
- writing and maintaining documentation
- managing the community forum site

Skills
- Linux administration
- python, php
- SQL and database administration
- understanding of HTTP
- solid TCP/IP / networking knowledge
- Troubleshooting
- Strong communication skills (diction, spelling, grammar, style)

Attributes
- Well developed interpersonal skills]]> Doug Sartori WUUG Talk Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:20:31 -0500 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?15,99,99#msg-99 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?15,99,99#msg-99 bradbobak Hardware Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:17:22 -0500 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?12,96,96#msg-96 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?12,96,96#msg-96 Thanks in advance, Brad.]]> bradbobak Operating Systems Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:47:45 -0500 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,93,93#msg-93 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,93,93#msg-93 Penguicon, which takes place each spring in Detroit, and which a few of us WUUG members attended in its first few years, has turned its volunteer rewards system into a Whuffie economy based on Cory Doctorow's awesome book, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. If you aren't familiar with it, it's kind of a Slashdot-style karma system for a real life economy, and I love the idea.

On that note, is anyone thinking about going this year? Linux-related GoHs and nifty guests include Jono Bacon, Benjamin Mako Hill, Lucy Snyder, Jorge Castro, and Kyle Rankin, Eric S. Raymond, Dr. Peter Salus, and Chris DiBona.]]> ezod WUUG Talk Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:34:37 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,91,91#msg-91 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,91,91#msg-91
I'm just curious if anyone else out there still prefers a more basic approach. I originally got familiar with Open Look on Sun machines, and I haven't felt the need for much more. I've been using Blackbox standalone for years, doing most stuff in terminal windows (vanilla xterm). Recently, I installed ROX to use as a standalone filer as well. I find this setup very productive, particularly since it doesn't hide my system behind abstraction layers and wizards, and to boot, it's incredibly fast and resource-efficient.

I've tried Gnome, KDE, and XFCE, along with CDE on Solaris, and nothing really stood out other than (a) somewhat tighter integration between applications, although nothing that can't be done with a little grease in a standalone WM, and (b) the ease of setting up otherwise complicated things, like CUPS printers. I should mention that none of my pet applications are married to Gnome or KDE libraries.

For those who do find desktop environments indispensable, what features make it worth the bloat and restriction?]]> ezod Software Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:10:05 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,89,89#msg-89 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,89,89#msg-89 Gh0st_Pirate Software Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:26:28 -0500 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,83,83#msg-83 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,83,83#msg-83 Gh0st_Pirate WUUG Talk Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:30:14 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?11,80,80#msg-80 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?11,80,80#msg-80 ezod WUUG News Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:07:09 -0500 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?15,79,79#msg-79 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?15,79,79#msg-79 I'm looking to get one of these things and i'm just wondering if you guys have any suggestions as to whats out there. (and where to find a good price on these things)]]> bradbobak Hardware Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:25:18 -0500 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?15,74,74#msg-74 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?15,74,74#msg-74
[www.linuxdevices.com]
[www.homebrewcpu.com]]]> Matt Draisey Hardware Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:56:09 -0500 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,72,72#msg-72 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,72,72#msg-72
Google has just added imap support to gmail and google/apps mail accounts. I like the idea of being to synchronize my local hierarchy of mail with the online version. Evolution is my current email client and has 6 years of mail stashed away in a complex hierarchy. My google/apps account is only a year old (when I finally got fed up of running spam filters on my own server) and all my recent mail is duplicated there but with only superficial tagging. I don't yet know enough about imap to synchronize my mail properly and evolution's documentation is terrible

I have been considering abandoning evolution for years now --- I really don't like the way it splits mail up to Inbox, Outbox, Sent, Drafts, Trash, etc. --- it really messes up mail threading.

Everything I know about imap I have gained in the last two hours, the last hour of which was spent in fruitless googling. I would welcome any help I could get.]]> Matt Draisey Software Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:40:29 -0500 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,70,70#msg-70 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?10,70,70#msg-70 bradbobak WUUG Talk Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:21:09 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,69,69#msg-69 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,69,69#msg-69
Description: This module adds side-by-side panels at the top of the index page for site information and news. The settings allow selection of the forum to source news from and modification of the info box.

To Do: I'd really like to be able to limit news articles to the first post in a thread (the parent topic), so that people can reply in the news forum. I'd also like to have the info section read BBcode instead of HTML. Both should be fairly easy to implement, but I don't actually know PHP...]]> ezod Software Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:54:39 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?12,67,67#msg-67 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?12,67,67#msg-67 Ontario Linux Fest. From their talk at the conference, I gather their big thing here is Xen virtualization. If anyone wants these I'll bring them to the November meeting.]]> ezod Operating Systems Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:13:25 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?15,64,64#msg-64 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?15,64,64#msg-64
[del.icio.us]]]> ezod Hardware Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:08:43 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?11,63,63#msg-63 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?11,63,63#msg-63 LibraryThing group where we can share our technical libraries and borrow each other's books. Everyone who wants to participate is encouraged to fill a library on the site and join the group!]]> ezod WUUG News Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:03:51 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,62,62#msg-62 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,62,62#msg-62 ezod Software Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:59:19 -0500 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?14,59,59#msg-59 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?14,59,59#msg-59
I need to build the enterprise branch of KDEPIM under arch.. but I only have an SVN checkout of that branch which doesn't contain all the automake'd Makefiles or configure scripts etc, which are nicely packaged in ftp tarball for kdepim-3.5.7-2 from maintainer Tobias (tpowa).

I've already done the "abs", and created /var/abs/local/kdepim, extracted the source, then merged enterprise source over top.

So question is - for KDE packages, how do I re-generate a buildable source tree (without manually editing all Makefiles for new source files)?

BJ.]]> BJ Coding Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:28:39 -0400 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?12,58,58#msg-58 http://www.wuug.org/read.php?12,58,58#msg-58
AIX
Arch Linux
ClarkConnect
Coyote Linux
Debian GNU/Linux
DragonFlyBSD
Fedora
FreeBSD
Gentoo Linux
HP-UX
IRIX
Knoppix
Linspire
MacOS X
Mandriva Linux
MEPIS
MINIX 3
MkLinux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
openSUSE
PCLinuxOS
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
QNX
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Rock Linux
Slackware Linux
Solaris
SuSE Linux
Tru64 UNIX
Ubuntu Linux
uClinux
Vector Linux
Yellow Dog Linux
z/OS]]> ezod Operating Systems Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:21:10 -0500