KCLUG December 2005

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meeting tonight
by Brian Kelsay 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

not sure if my mail is getting thru from this address. Due to the severe weather the Kansas City Public Library will be closing tonight at 6 p.m. So we can't go to the library. Anyone want to meet at Denny's anyway?

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Old laptop drive, perfect for /boot
by Leo Mauler 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

I'm always looking for used hard drives to mount as /boot with older BIOSes that can't handle drives bigger than 32GB/64GB/137GB. I just took apart an old 386 DELL laptop and found what is either a 30MB hard drive or an 80MB hard drive (its either a CP 2034 or a CP 2084, there's something stamped over what could be a 3 or an 8). With a 2.5" to 3.5" converter I've just found a decent drive to mount as /boot for an older BIOS. Of course, the laptop is 10 years old so I can't be sure the drive will function for much longer, but it should work long enough for what I need. __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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meeting tonight
by Brian Kelsay 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Due to the severe weather the Kansas City Public Library will be closing tonight at 6 p.m. So we can't go to the library. Anyone want to meet at Denny's anyway?

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RE: Best PVR Card
by Sexton, Kyle 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

I second the PVR-250, it's what I use in my MythTV box at home and I haven't had any complaints. Kyle -----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of brad Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:58 AM To: kclug(a)kclug.org Subject: Re: Best PVR Card On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 00:26 -0600, Jim Herrmann wrote: > Those of you who have experience with setting up a PVR such as MythTV, > what is a good capture card that will be easy to setup and, more > importantly, easy to use? I suppose the easy to use part depends on the > software. From what I've seen MythTV looks pretty easy to use. I plan > to install and use this on my wife's existing Mandriva system. > > Any advice is welcome. > > Thanks, > Jim > I would definitely go with a Hauppauge PVR 250. It is very well tested within myth. I have a myth box with one of these cards and it was a snap to set up (FC3 following Jared Wilson's guide). It also has the remote that is well documented and performs nicely. I am looking to add another card to the setup so I can watch TV and record at the same time. -- Brad Crotchett, RHCE brad(a)bradandkim.net _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug(a)kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug

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Best PVR Card
by Jim Herrmann 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Those of you who have experience with setting up a PVR such as MythTV, what is a good capture card that will be easy to setup and, more importantly, easy to use? I suppose the easy to use part depends on the software. From what I've seen MythTV looks pretty easy to use. I plan to install and use this on my wife's existing Mandriva system. Any advice is welcome. Thanks, Jim

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Re: Linux Bandwidth Monitors
by rcedelman＠comcast.net 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

I find MRTG to be a bit of a pain in the ass to set up. I much prefer cacti (http://www.cacti.net). It can do all that MRTG can and more. It can zoom in on graphs to show a bit more detail, as well. We're using it here at work (in addition to MRTG and some other programs) for some of our monitoring. Rich

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Linux Bandwidth Monitors
by Jeremy Fowler 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Anyone have any favorite bandwidth monitors they use? Our network utilization tippled last month and I'm trying to find out why. Need something that I can be used to pin-point the IP address on our network that is generating the most traffic.

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Openoffice and Mozilla
by Jack 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

I was asking for help on several chat relays yesterday trying to get my Mozilla Address book set up as a data source for OpenOffice. I was using version 1.1.4, and couldn't get that to work so I installed version 2. Still no go. I found out this morning that the two files necessary to make that work aren't included in version 1.1.4 and version 2. I also discovered that the package maintainer has pulled support for Mozilla address book integration, as I was getting ready to post a bug report. I need to get the libmozab2.so and libmozabdrv.so libraries and incorporate them in to my system and maybe make an alternative package. Here I thought I just had a screwed up system again. That's what I get for thinking, I guess. Thanks to those who tried to help me yesterday. Oh well I guess there's always plain text importing of my address book. Or make an LDAP server for my addresses. Not sure where to begin there, I never messed with LDAP. Might make a good presentation for some meeting night. Thanks, Brian JD

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trip planner and non-microsoft web browsers
by David Nicol 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Dear KCATA: We of the kansas city linux users group would be happy to repair the trip planner server-side application so that it will work with any web browser, either as a paid project or on a volunteer basis. Please reply to kclug(a)kclug.org. -- David L Nicol

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