KCLUG September 2006

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Organizing for ITEC
by Leo Mauler 09 Oct '06

09 Oct '06

I think we should start discussing what will be brought to the ITEC booth. For example, I'm bringing a PIII-600Mhz 256MB RAM system designed around home and home office use. It is running Debian Etch (testing), with OpenOffice.org 2.0, the Gnome desktop, sound, video playback, and a bunch of other things to delight young and old. I am only bringing the one system as I do not have a LCD monitor. I was thinking of bringing a sign listing all of the known Linux viruses (anywhere from 14 to 40 depending on where you look; Wikipedia only lists 14). Is 11" x 17" too big? In addition to Live CDs, shall we (I) do up T-shirt transfers or other giveaway items to entice people into the booth? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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IL Tech Positions Open
by Chris Bier 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Position Announcement - Southeastern Illinois College Educational Technology Specialist (Faculty bargaining unit position, grant-funded) This position assists the faculty in the design, development, and improvement of online instruction and supports the faculty in the effective use of instructional technology to improve teaching and learning; position requires Master’s degree or equivalent experience in educational technology or related field with a minimum of 2 years teaching experience. Deadline September 29, 2006. Salary Range is $44,465 (MS no experience) – $53,017 (MS 10 years experience). All applicants should complete and submit a faculty/professional application located at www.sic.edu/employment, along with a cover letter in which the applicant’s qualifications are addressed, a résumé including the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three professional references, copies of all academic transcripts, and other credentials which the applicant wishes to be considered to Bonnie O’Neill, Director of Human Resources, Southeastern Illinois College, 3575 College Road, Harrisburg, IL 62946 And two more here: http://www.lcls.org/ TECHNOLOGY MANAGER DATABASE SPECIALIST

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PC for sale
by Joe Brouhard 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

It seems i've found myself with a SPARE computer. The spects are as follows: AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 512MB DDR RAM 20GB Drive ATI Radeon 9200 AGP Card Onboard Sound DVD-ROM Drive AFAIK, this system supports *buntu so I don't really know what else it'll work with. this has been primarily my mother's computer, and has ran with no problems. I'm asking for no less than $150. -- Joe Brouhard jbrouhard(a)gmail.com

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Open positions
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

I know of 2 current openings for Helpdesk work. One is here at USDA, the other is at HNTB. For the USDA position, forward resume to me: brian.kelsay(a)kcc.usda.gov USDA 6501 Beacon Dr. KC, MO 64133 For the HNTB job, it is level 2 Helpdesk: Ed Cusick Senior Software Services Specialist The HNTB Companies 715 Kirk Drive Kansas City, MO 64105 (816) 472-1201 Direct (816) 527-2625 Fax (816) 472-4060 Mobile (816) 215-6627 E-mail ecusick(a)hntb.com www.hntb.com I used to work with Ed here at USDA, but he moved on to Project Mgmt. at HNTB. If you call Ed, he has a stutter, so have patience.

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CA's
by Jonathan Hutchins 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

What good sources for SSL certificates are there that are recognized by most browsers? A client of mine got a cert. from GoDaddy, only to find out that GoDaddy's CA isn't in most browsers so it might as well be self-signed. Who do you recommend?

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iTech
by mike＠handuma.com 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Hi Everybody, O'Reilly will send catalogs and some new books to help decorate the booth. Michael librarian(a)kclug.org http://www.handuma.com

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ITEC Exhibitor Signup
by Christopher A. Bier 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ITEC Registration wrote: > Thank you for choosing to participate in the 2006 *Kansas ITEC*, held at > the *Overland Park Convention Center October 25 & 26.* > > Exhibitor Badges will be required for all personnel working the ITEC > exhibit floor. In addition to providing your staff with admission to the > exhibit floor during set-up as well as before the attendee exhibit > hours, your staff will be granted access to all Industry Insight and > Vendor Strategy Sessions. > > We are pleased to offer you an easy online process to register your > booth staff. > > Using the Online Exhibitor Registration System, you have the ability to > access your ITEC account and enter the names of any staff manning your > booth. You also have the capability to go back into the system at any > time if need be to add or change names or change contact information. > > Access the Online Exhibitor Registration System by Clicking Here > <http://register.exgenex.com/exhibitweb/gcmexhibitor.asp?C=70000038&S=500000…> > or go to: > http://register.exgenex.com/exhibitweb/gcmexhibitor.asp?C=70000038&S=500000… > <http://register.exgenex.com/exhibitweb/gcmexhibitor.asp?C=70000038&S=500000…> > > > Login: *KCLixs13* > > Password: *KCLUG(KC* > > If you plan on having any third-party partners helping to man your > booth, please be sure to designate the correct company name to ensure > that their company name will appear on their Exhibitor Badge vs. your > company's name. > > We look forward to seeing you at the show. > > - ITEC Exhibitor Services > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFGVw0E5xXU3JS1mQRArSmAKCt1R8GxeqcIu9e3VipnEEWFy5ByQCdFVqv vZFrCefSt5XUuXwYQ2LWuZg= =ZKCV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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CCG Set for sale
by Joe Brouhard 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Forward as necessary. Don't know if anyone plays CCGs here, but I have a original Star Wars CCG Introductionary Two Player kit, complete with Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader cards "Not found anywhere else." I've checked prices on this kit on the market, and most card buyers say this is wroth $50 or more, so if anyone's game for this kit, it's available. If I have no takers by 1 October, this goes to either ebay or to a card shop in town. -- Joe Brouhard jbrouhard(a)gmail.com

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interesting PC recycling
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

I think what he was saying was that he would eBay a computer rather than give it away on freecycle, or any other means. I was saying that some PCs are old enough and heavy enough that unless you did something with it locally, you wouldn't get someone to pay you enough for the trouble and pay enough to ship the heavy box of old parts. Brian >-----Original Message----- >From: On Behalf Of Jon Pruente > >It is in the Freecycle rules that re-selling items received is >a no-no. That doesn't stop some people, but it does give an >excuse to blacklist the abusers when found. I've recently >given away several systems on Freecycle, including that COMPAQ >with DSL on it. I've gotten about a dozen responses for each >system, and most have some sort of hard luck or sob story >attached. It makes it hard to tell who is telling the truth >about needing a system, or just hoping that they'll get picked >so they can re-whatever with it. One of my main tactics for >giving away a system is if someone can make it somewhat >obvious that they know what they are doing with it. I'm not >going to make life hard for somebody and give them a P-133 >with 32MB RAM and let them go off and think Win XP will be >dandy on it. ;) > >I had offered a few things here, but through my own scatter >mind I let the deals drop. I've been much better at keeping >up with doing free give aways on Freecycle. I've got some >better equipment that I need to part with, and it's too good >to let go for free so I'll be posting some of it on here in a >while. If anyone I had made a deal with previously is still >interested, let me know I'll try to keep things going this time around. > >Jon. > >On 8/22/06, Luke-Jr <luke(a)dashjr.org> wrote: >> The problem with FreeCycle is the number of people getting >stuff just to sell it on eBay... and a horrible UI for the task. >> But it does seem a good place to distribute some of my >excess Kubuntu disks ;) >

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Polls re: new linux distribution
by Rich Edelman 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

Since the list has been slow lately, I figured I'd try to stir up some conversation/debate by asking a few questions. :) First a quick note. I'm an LFSer (Linux From Scratch) when I'm not using OpenSUSE. I've often thought of making some of my LFS packages available to the community, but haven't because of the nature of LFS. Anyway, I was thinking more about that tonight and decided to ask the list some questions. If you were to start a new linux distribution, what would you use for package management? rpm? dpkg? none (tar.bz2s)? portage? roll your own? What about managing dependencies and fetching packages from remote repositories? yast? apt? smart? yum? urpmi? portage? What architectures / hardware would you support? ppc? alpha? x86 / x86_64? On multilib capable arches (such as x86_64), would you support both 32 and 64 bit, or go 64 bit only? Would you go the way of Ubuntu, and work around Gnome mainly? Or the way SuSE traditionally was, and be mostly KDE oriented? There we go, I think that might get the ball rolling. :) Rich

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