December 2004 - KCLUG

First Quarter Meeting Official Confirmation
by Monty J. Harder 24 Dec '04

24 Dec '04

I got the confirmation from Marty Sorensen at the library of the following reservations: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 Tuesday, January 18, 2005 Wednesday, February 02, 2005 Tuesday, February 15, 2005 Wednesday, March 02, 2005 Tuesday, March 15, 2005 5:30 pm - 8:45 pm Linux User Group (Confirmed) Meeting Room 312

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Re: Linux PVR
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

> MythTV also has a module for your phone so CID pops up, has built in > VOIP capabilities, weather, news, DVD's, music, games, and some sort of Only wish they supported my old dvd decoder cards, one less item in the stereo cabinet! > On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 14:25 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote: > > On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:22 pm, Brad wrote: > > > > > I have a MythTV box about 90% functional. I am just working through > > > getting the IR receiver and serial port control of my cable box going. > > > MyhtTV is a really nice setup. I built it on Fedora Core 3 and followed > > > Jarod Wilson's guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. Let me > > > know if you need more information. > > > > What hardware are you using? Is the serial port control an alternative to > > using an IR transmitter from the PC to control the cable box? Any particular > > challanges? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kclug mailing list > > Kclug(a)kclug.org > > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug > > > > > -- > > I am using a Celeron 2.4 Gig CPU, Audigy 2 sound card, GForce 4 video > card for TV out and a PVR250 for capture. This is all standard hardware > and recommended by Jarod's how-to. Since it is not fully functional yet > I am still testing with coax into the tuner card, but will switch that > to RCA for better quality signal when it goes 'live' (the box has to be > wife-friendly before it can be used :) ). > > Yes, serial port control of the cable box is an alternative to an IR > blaster which is slow. Whether or not you can do this depends upon the > model of your cable box and whether or not the cable company has the > serial port active. I have a motorola dc2xxx series and depending upon > the firmware, these may or may not work. > > I plan on converting this box to a dedicated backend with another > capture card to grab signal from another cable box and then have a > frontend with multiple TV out cards to feed two TV's. That way I can > either watch 2 separate shows on 2 different TV's or watch one show and > record another. > > MythTV also has a module for your phone so CID pops up, has built in > VOIP capabilities, weather, news, DVD's, music, games, and some sort of > Xbox interface that I have not yet played with. > > Brad > > _______________________________________________ > Kclug mailing list > Kclug(a)kclug.org > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug

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Re: Linux PVR
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 23 Dec '04

23 Dec '04

mythtv.org, knopmyth, htpc, bttv. good start Anyone know about ripping an audio track from a dvd? > Anybody out there have a Linux Personal Video Recorder, or is anybody working > on one? Any links or advice? > _______________________________________________ > Kclug mailing list > Kclug(a)kclug.org > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug

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Fw: [Perl Jobs] Perl/mod_perl Guru needed (onsite), United States, Kansas, Lawrence
by Frank Wiles 22 Dec '04

22 Dec '04

I hope no one minds that I forward this job opportunity to the list. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about it. --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <frank(a)wiles.org> http://www.wiles.org --------------------------------- Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:37:51 -0800 From: Perl Jobs <jobs-admin(a)perl.org> To: jobs(a)perl.org Subject: [Perl Jobs] Perl/mod_perl Guru needed (onsite), United States, Kansas, Lawrence Online URL for this job: http://jobs.perl.org/job/2097 To subscribe to this list, send mail to jobs-subscribe(a)perl.org. To unsubscribe, send mail to jobs-unsubscribe(a)perl.org. Posted: December 22, 2004 Job title: Perl/mod_perl Guru needed Company name: Sunflower Broadband Location: United States, Kansas, Lawrence Pay rate: TBD Travel: 0-25% Terms of employment: Hourly employee Hours: Full time Onsite: yes Description: Are you interested in a varied and fast paced job where you can flex your Perl skills? Then join Sunflower Broadband's IT team and help provide cablt tv, telephones, and high speed internet to thousands of customers. We are a 99% Open Source shop and have about 100k lines of Perl and mod_perl in production. These applications range from internal project tracking, DOCSIS cable modem provisioning, ISP customer care, online bill payment, reporting tools, web based E-mail, etc. Sunflower Broadband was named as System of the Year in the small system category of all cable operations in the United States. We are typically on the bleeding edge of cable, telephone, and internet technlogies, often being the first to alpha/beta test these technologies. Required skills: 3+ years of professional Perl programming experience. 2+ years of mod_perl 1.x experience 2+ years of SQL database experience 1+ years of Linux experience Desired skills: * Knowledge of PostgreSQL RDBMS * Knowledge of mod_perl 2.x and Apache 2.x * Knowledge of Red Hat and Fedora Linux * Experience building LAMP applications (Linux Apache Mod_perl PostgreSQL) * Extensive knowledge of the CPAN * Experience with network programming in Perl * Experience with OO and non-OO Perl programming * Experience with performance tuning Apache, mod_perl, and mod_perl applications * RHCE and LPI certifications URL for more information: http://www.sunflowerbroadband.com/employment/perlguru.html Contact information: Please send resumes to Frank Wiles, Sunflower Broadband, 1 Riverfront Plaza, Ste 301, Lawrence, KS 66044 or email fwiles(a)sunflowerbroadband.com

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donating hardware to that daycare - update
by Oren Beck 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

Sorry if this seems redundant .- my files from the last attempt went up in electrons when Starband crashed- /me learned lesson and has offline backups of mail NOW - and we have new members since the last time I tried this - SO consider the rest of this as both second attempt and to the newcomer's a new project - thanks in advance ! Recently I attempted to organize collecting about 4- 6 systems for a not-for-profit daycare center . The person involved with it is a close friend of my family AND this is an opportunity to get the little ones exposed <infected> with Open Source systems in their mundane lives . Thinking of having the Penguin familiar to preschoolers ! SO any one wishing to transfer about half to 3/4 of a Geo Metro load of workable for preschoolers if we load Linux on it stuff ? Call me voice at 816-632-5710 or leave mail to coordinate this - I'd love to make this a xmas gift! An installfest may be premature ? concept is making these boxes be appliance operator Linux- Xandros seems a bit heavy footed or any suggestions ? The desired result is a " plug it in and use it " experience . MANY of the staff at this daycare have ZERO windows learning to unlearn so we have "fresh meat" Can we make anything of this project ? Oren

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FYI [Fwd: Re: PHP Worm]
by hanasaki 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: PHP Worm Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:29:07 -0600 (CST) Resent-From: debian-security(a)lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:29:01 +0100 From: Florian Weimer <fw(a)deneb.enyo.de> To: ratdeath(a)bredband.net CC: debian-security(a)lists.debian.org References: <41C87F35.2000703(a)bredband.net> * Dane Johansson: > I hope I am sending this to the right list :) > > Today I read about a new Networm, see more here: > http://www.europe.f-secure.com/v-descs/santy_a.shtml > > I then proceed to check what phpbb.com has to say > about this and I find this: > http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=248046 AFAIK, the worm uses the viewtopic.php vulnerability which was disclosed in November: <http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/6J00O15BPS.html> I still lack a credible confirmation, though.

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Re: I need some help with debian install disc's
by Tom Bruno 21 Dec '04

21 Dec '04

Nevermind i figured it out.

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Out-of-band OS installation
by Gerald Combs 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

I would like to build software packages for a variety of Linux distributions on the same computer. One way to accomplish this might be to have a directory hierarchy like the following: /dist /fecoracore1 /fecoracore2 /fecoracore3 /redhat80 /redhat90 /suse90 /suse91 where "redhat80" contained an entire Red Hat 8.0 distribution. It would then be a simple matter to chroot into one of the directories, update SVN, and start building. Assuming that I didn't want a separate partition for each distribution, how would I go about installing them? One way would be to install into a staging partition, then tar/rsync/pax/cpio'ing it into the preferred "dist" directory. I'd rather not have to bring the system down each time I install a target OS, however. Is there a standard method for doing an install similar to Solaris' "Live Update" for the different Linux distributions? This would be pretty straightforward under Gentoo, since its installer program is a bash prompt. Is such a thing possible with Red Hat, Fedora, or SuSE?

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I need some help with debian install disc's
by Tom Bruno 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

I want to get the debian dvd verion (because the only media i have is 1 dvd+r). However this is all i see in the directory that debian says to go to: [ ] MD5SUMS <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/dvd/rc2/i386/MD5SUMS> 23-Nov-2004 21:23 1k [ ] MD5SUMS.sign <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/dvd/rc2/i386/MD5SUMS.sign> 02-Dec-2004 23:18 1k [DIR] jigdotemplates/ <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/dvd/rc2/i386/jigdotemplates/> 23-Nov-2004 21:23 - [ ] sarge-i386-1.jigdo <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/dvd/rc2/i386/sarge-i386-1.jig…> 23-Nov-2004 21:23 197k [ ] sarge-i386-2.jigdo <http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/dvd/rc2/i386/sarge-i386-2.jig…> 23-Nov-2004 21:23 235k doesn't really look like dvd images to me, what am i suppose to do with .jigdo files?

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Startup niggles (Mdk10.1/KDE)
by Jonathan Hutchins 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

Two little things are bugging me: I took my SMB mounts out of automount and put them in /etc/fstab, and they've been mounting just fine until recently. Some update of samba or something means they no-longer mount at start-up, I have to do a "mount -a" to get them. fstab entries are: //mercury/iso /mercury/iso smbfs credentials=/etc/samba/auth.mercury.apollo,fmask=777,dmask=777 0 0 In KDE, I had knotes running as an applet in the system tray, but I accidentally quit it and now I can't get it back. I can get an application button that launches kontact in notes mode, but not the knotes hot button. (MDK10.1, KDE3.2.3.mdk)

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