KCLUG September 2005

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[Fwd: ITEC speaking opps]
by Chris Bier 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ITEC speaking opps Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:54:10 -0700 From: Jennifer Bell <Jennifer.Bell(a)centricevents.com> To: 'cbier(a)liberty.k12.mo.us' <cbier(a)liberty.k12.mo.us> Hi Chris - We have a couple of open slots in our on-floor theater sessions and the Event Director and I thought that the Linux Group might be interested in presenting in one of those. The times are in the afternoon and are 45 minute sessions. It can be on any topic that you feel appropriate for the audience as long as it isn't specifically about one company or vendor. These are normally paid slots, but we would not charge KCLUG for the session. Let me know if you are interested and I can get all the details for you - and then you have something extra special to promote to your member list! Thanks - Jennifer *Jennifer Bell* Marketing Projects Manager Centric Events Group Direct: 503.596.3632 Fax: 503.596.3680 Jennifer.Bell(a)CentricEvents.com www.goITEC.com

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RE: OT: Mac OSX, Squirrelmail question
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Why don't they like to type squirrel? I think they are prejudice against the letter Q. Q needs some love too. ******************************************* If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringely >-----Original Message----- >From: On Behalf Of Chris Bier > > ><snip> > I've found customers don't like typing in the word >squirrel, so I've added aliases called "webmail".

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laptop HD?
by Jack 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Greetings, I am in need of an HD for a older thinkpad. Currently, I have a 4GB in my 380Z, which is getting quite flaky. I managed to bring it up under an "init 1", mount the drives, selectly execute init scripts and transfer important data to a backup, but I'm afraid it may never boot unattended ever again without a replacement HD. Anyone have any they want to get rid of? Thanks, Brian JD

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[Semi-OT] House
by Gene Dascher 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

If I'm overstepping my bounds by doing this, I'm sorry. I have been a subscriber to the list (under a different email address) for many years and have attended some meetings, but few people probably know me. My wife and I are going to be putting our house up for sale by owner soon, but I wanted to see if there was anyone on the list who was looking for a house in the KC area. More specifically, it is in Raymore, which is about 10 miles south of the Grandview Triangle on 71 Highway. I am in the process of putting together a web site with all of the information, but I do have PDF documents with that info, as well as average utility bills for the past couple of years, that I can provide to anyone who might be interested. To make this ON TOPIC, every room in the house, with the exception of the bathrooms and laundry room, have been wired for network access. Reply to this email address if you would like to receive more information or have any questions. Again, sorry if anyone is offended by this, but I thought that this would be a good place to start. Thanks, Gene Dascher

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Laptop drive needed
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Found one cheap. http://www.krex.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1244 refurb 20GB for $39.99 ******************************************* If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringely

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OT: Mac OSX, Squirrelmail question
by Rob Becker 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

We have a mail server for our students that allows them webmail access using Squirrelmail. Our student email addresses are in the form of student(a)students.kcai.edu. We have appropriate DNS records for mail to get to the server, but due to some network constraints, we had to create an additional DNS name for the webmail access. The off campus address for this access is squirrelmail.kcai.edu. When students log in from off campus and send mail through Squirrelmail, their messages appear to be coming from squirrelmail.kcai.edu. For example a message sent from off campus would appear as student(a)squirrelmail.kcai.edu instead of student(a)students.kcai.edu. In the Mail configuration under Server Manager on the OSX server, the server name is specified as students.kcai.edu. Why is the domain portion of their addresses getting rewritten to match the external DNS name that they used to access the Squirrelmail page? Shouldn't the server sent mail from it's configured hostname? If anyone has any advice, resources, tips, tricks or answers, I'd love to hear them. Thanks in advance. Rob

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ITEC eTickets
by Chris Bier 29 Sep '05

29 Sep '05

Hi All, Here is the URL for ITEC eTickets that get you a free conference pass: http://www.goitec.com/live/images/other/TCNKC502.htm Chris

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revisiting VPNs
by hanasaki 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

what are folks thoughts on good VPN software with the following needs. Server runs on Linux, preferably both Lin/Win but at least LIN Server has solid win/lin clients opensource can auth against postgres, etc/passwd, ldap, mysql, text/flat files free what is the protocol of choice? L2TP? It would be CISCO VPN client worked with the specific server. thanks.

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an opportunity in today's KC star
by David Nicol 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

I find the idea of computer voting booths designed and implemented by closed-source companies to be distressing. Anyone for trying to put together an official statement of the LUG, which would be sent to the kcstar as a letter from the LUG -- agreeing with that sentiment, and offering to create or obtain a free and open source alternative to the computerized voting systems discussed in today's newspaper, made with common off-the-shelf hardware? I am pretty sure we could even undersell the money figures given in the article -- $1000 per voting booth for an attached printer? -- I really don't see why state-of-the-art hardware would be needed to run a touch-screen voting machine, or even what the advantage of touch-screen over keyboard might be. To select from the candidates on this screen press a number key on the keyboard. Did you select 32, "Chuck Steak" running in the Mauve party, for the position of director of parks department division of drinking fountain maintenance? press the "YES" button. I dunno about touch-screen technology -- the data comes in from the touch screen like mouse click coordinates, right? Aha -- http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/ exists. So we propose a petition in the form of an open letter to government that the OVC solution should be considered, and offer to, as an organization, integrate and maintain it. The politics at KCLUG are clearly a mixed bag, so we otta be totally immune from accusations of partisanship :) -- David L Nicol this document can be opened in any word processor, including LyX

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WoW on FC4?
by Jon Moss 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Good morning, everyone! Hope you are having a wonderful weekend. My son wants to play World of Warcraft, but I really don't want to install Windows just so he can play an RPG. I prefer text based RPGs but he insists on 3D virtual reality. Anyway, I did some searching this morning via Google and it appears you can install World of Warcraft through the latest Wine (which I have installed) and use OpenGL. Before I do this (and waste the license or authentication code or whatever proprietary licensing the makers of World of Warcraft use), I want to poll the local Linux community to see if anyone else had done this and ask for suggestions. Thanks! Jon Moss Lansing, Kansas jon.moss(a)cnonline.net

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