October 2006 - KCLUG

ITEC Thanks
by Christopher A. Bier 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to all who helped with the ITEC booth this year. From what I saw, our booth was one of the most popular. Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFRjSVE5xXU3JS1mQRAnQXAKCei87D2ry1REolEjciAd6xI54SjACgvS/G 58Rp17A5CLTz2L+OBDri26I= =T6C7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Thin Clients
by Phoenician 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

I've been asked by a one of my clients if I could come up with a thin client that will automatically access a remote desktop session after logon. I know it is possible, how hard is it to setup? Also I would need to limit internet access to only approved websites (this would be for a mixed OS environment but would like to use Linux as a solution). - Michienne

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FYI: Unleash the power of DB2 9, a technical briefing on Wednesday, November 8 in Kansas City, Mo.
by Hal Duston 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

----- Begin forwarded message ----- Dear Kansas City Linux Users Group members: IBM invites you to attend ?Information on demand: Unleash the power of DB2 9,? a technical briefing on Wednesday, November 8 in Kansas City, Mo. Providing consolidated data from multiple data sources is critical to your ability to deliver robust applications that will drive business results. See how to tap into data services using SOA, SQL, XQuery, JDBC, ODBC, .NET, and PHP and other industry standard interfaces. Walk through a scenario of developing a project from requirements through deployment. Live demonstrations will illustrate how IBM Information Management tools and services support rapid development of integrated solutions for managing your expanding volumes of data. LOCATION: IBM Facility 2345 Grand Avenue Kansas City, MO, 64108 Venue: The Plaza Room (corner of Pershing and Grand - not the high rise building) DATE AND TIME: Nov. 08, 2006 09:00 am to 3:45 pm TO REGISTER: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/techbriefings/details/imod.html Continental Breakfast and Lunch will be served. For more information on this briefing or any of the other complimentary developerWorks Live! events being offered in various locations worldwide, visit: http://ibm.com/developerworks/offers/techbriefings We look forward to seeing you. The IBM developerWorks team ----- End forwarded message -----

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No Mandriva CD's
by Jonathan Hutchins 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Customs aparently considers Mandriva One CD's to be a dangerous terrorist threat, we will not have any for ITEC. Mandriva says they'll try again for our next event (probly ITEC 2007).

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1U Rackmount servers for sale
by Jon Pruente 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Some of you may know of Kozoru. Some of you may know that they are in hard times. Thus, they are selling their cluster nodes. I can have one in your hand for $200. A good friend of mine worked there until a few months ago, and we are looking to turn around some of the machines. Here is what he had to say about them: It's been a while (March or so) since I threw one together but I know they're P4 Celerons with 80GB PATA drives. I think all of them have 256MB (1 stick) of RAM but I know some of the DB Servers had two 256's in them. You might get lucky there. I *THINK* CPU speed is 2.8GHz but it might be slower. this is the only thing I can't remember about them from memory. On-board USB/Video/PS2 and 100BTX NIC. They're built in cheapish SuperMicro cases and they're pretty noisy, they use a big blower fan for the case, a small whiny low-profile blower fan on the copper heatsink, and the powersupply has its on set of fans. These ran 24/7 for damn near 2 years straight, we seldomnly had any problems with them (2 out of 100+ had power supplies die) They all boot off USB, so just add a USB DVD drive and install your OS of choice. He's got a post over at kcgeek.com that says the exact same thing. I think they are similar to <a href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/512/SC512L.cfm">these 1U cases</a>, but I've never seen one in person, only photos. From what I've been told, they had been setup to boot a custom OpenBSD install from a 64MB USB key, and use the HDD for local data cache, storage, etc. when the cluster node was active. I can get them for pretty cheap. There are/were nearly 100 available. I don't have any idea how long these will last, as the (former?) Kozoru employees can get them even cheaper than I can. Contact me or ax0n (on kcgeek.com) if you're interested in one/a few. If you contact him, be sure to say you heard of these through me, though. ;) Thanks, Jon.

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Where are the Ubuntu/Kubuntu CDs?
by Leo Mauler 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Monty and I are sitting here in the KCLUG booth (well, I'm sitting in the Sprint Internet kiosk), and we have a few KNOPPIX CDs leftover from last year and *no* Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Mandriva CDs to hand out. We have a big sign saying we have "Free Linux CDs" (which is currently turned to the wall). If anyone can burn off a couple dozen CDs (Ubuntu, KNOPPIX, whatever, anything) and come by ITEC, it will be very much appreciated. I'm pretty sure we will accept handwritten labels on the CDs. If you happen to have some CD sleeves or spare slimline jewel cases, that would be a bonus. If you haven't registered you can always look back through the E-mails for Chris Bier's ITEC E-mail (September 28th I think) and register as an Exhibitor, or just come by and have them send someone in to the booth, so we can come out and get them. Right now all we have to offer is my demo system playing that BBC FOSS video, the books, and some brochures and business cards. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Help! We need Ubuntu/Kubuntu CDs!
by Leo Mauler 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

The Overland Park Trade Center is at approximately 110th and Lamar, right next to the Sheraton (really tall tower with a big red "Sheraton" or red "S" on the side of the building. E-mail me back your address (private E-mail to me) and Monty can come get them. --- Brandon Holtsclaw <imbrandon(a)kubuntu.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 09:59 / 9:59 am, you > wrote: > > It would appear that no one came by to pick up > > Ubuntu/Kubuntu CDs from you. Will you be coming > by > > the booth today? If you can't get into ITEC > please > > send someone to our booth and we will come out and > get > > the CDs from you. > > > > I have them sitting here waiting, where is ITEC , i > might possibly be able to > drop them off, is it today, i dident plan on comming > but i might arrange a > ride. > > -- > Brandon Holtsclaw > imbrandon(a)kubuntu.org > http://www.imbrandon.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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ITEC Booth is a bit small this year.
by Leo Mauler 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

I'm currently at the ITEC Exhibitor Hall, and it would appear that all our grand designs need to be scaled back a bit. The booth is a lot smaller this year from last year's booth. We are sharing a 15' wide by 10' deep booth (approximately) *with three other groups*. We might have room for one demo system. As I have no LCD monitors and can only bring in a 17" CRT, I think I'll bow out of the demo systems this year. I do have the BBC FOSS video (the one released under the Creative Commons license) on DVD and OGG video, which we could play on a demo system at the front of the booth. Color and sound attract more people than just people and informational literature. All we have to do is play the show credits every time and we fulfill the "attribution" requirement of their CC license. I have a reasonably large sign saying "Free Linux CDs!" which should attract attention. I'll set that up tonight along with the brochures and the cards, and I'll see all of you tomorrow. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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It Just Works! PCI TV card under Ubuntu.
by Jon Pruente 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

I bought a cheap,old (ca 1996) Hauppauge card at S.E. a while ago. I didn't install it into a system for so long becuase I wasn't prepared for the work of getting it recognized and working. I've read a few How-Tos of getting various cards going. Ack! Yesterday I decided I had the time to play, so I just stuck it into my P3 850 Gateway E-4200 (another S.E. machine, with an S.E. CPU upgrade and RAM) and powered it up. To my suprise it found the card with the BTTV driver right away, and I didn't do a thing. I installed TVtime and of the basic choices, it's the cleaned and best TV program I've used. Wow! That was dang simple. My wife was even (happily!) suprised to see the "spare" machine doing something visibly useful. The only trick was figuring out which audio input I had plugged it into on my sound card. Audio-In is the 1/8" jack, and AUX is an internal header on the card. They didn't have any thing going through them and CD is obviously the wrong header. I was plugged into the 3rd header and there was an unchecked option in the Volume Control Prefs called "Volume" that when unmuted gave me sound. Great, now I just have to get TVtime to associate that with the card for volume control, and not the Line-In which is the external audio line, not the internal header ATA-ATA audio header. Odd. Jon.

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Speaking of converting people to Linux
by Chris Bier 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Wouter Verhelst: Conversion in progress http://www.grep.be/blog/2006/10/24#conversion_in_progress Excerpt: Sometimes the things you want don't happen until you stop trying so hard. For as long as we've had Intel-compatible computers here at home, my parents have been running Windows. At first I didn't care—this was before I had even heard about Linux, let alone install it—but as I became more and more involved in Linux, I wanted more and more for them to make the change, too. Especially given how I'm still supposed to be responsible for making sure their machine keeps running; if I wasn't, I wouldn't care as much. These are the approaches I've taken to try to convert them, and why they failed:

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