KCLUG March 2007

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Free Online Taxes
by Billy Crook 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

There's some IRS program called Freefile. If you make less than $52k a year, you can choose any of these companies ( http://www.irs.gov/app/freeFile/jsp/index.jsp) and do your federal return for free online. I used HR block online the last two years, so I was going to again, and I got THIS: We've detected that you're using an operating system that is currently not supported by TaxCut Standard Software. TaxCut Standard Software has been optimized for the following operating systems. Win2000, WINXP, Win Vista, MAC OS 10.2.8, MAC OS 10.3.9 and MAC OS 10.4.8 WTF, Why do they care what OS I run? It's a damn web application. All they need to do is optimize for the only real browser platform, Mozilla, and It'll work anywhere someone has a web browser. Their inflammatory remarks have angered me, and I want to choose some other company now. Any suggestions?

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Framing web pages
by Jonathan Hutchins 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

I have a client who is concerned that there are other web sites that are taking his content and placing it within frames on their web site as if it were their own. I know I've seen this happen, and I think I've seen "click here if someone has this site framed" buttons or some such. Does anyone know of a way to prevent the pages from being grabbed in a frame to begin with?

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Example
by Jonathan Hutchins 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Ok, I can't guarantee that this actually works for everybody, it seems to be an assembly of broken things, but: http://movies.glozy.com/portal.htm Click on "Horror" on the right, use the internal scroll bar to scroll down to Little Shop of Horrors. Clicking on the 68k link gives me the page for "Fire Over England from emol.org - you can see our links at the bottom of the page. It's actually pulling the pages from the internet archives ( http://ia300032.us.archive.org/ ), so we're not even loosing bandwidth. We might be loosing add revenue if we're getting paid by referrer tracking, but if we have our own tag included in the link we would get credit for it.

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DVD Authoring
by Billy Crook 28 Mar '07

28 Mar '07

OK, so now that we know the list isn't broken, just quiet, I thought I'd throw a topic out there to get some input. What's the best DVD authoring software for linux? Preferably, I'd want something GUI-based that you can make menus and add video clips or directories of pictures as slide shows and outputs to an ISO file I can burn with my program of choice. Below, are the programs I've tried. Avidemux: I can't figure out what exactly it's even supposed to do. Re-sampling/re-encoding video maybe, but not dvd-authoring. Cinnelera: This app feels REALLY clunky, and while it got much kudos from TLLTS, I can't get it to do anything useful. When I start it, it says to run "echo "0x7fffffff" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax". So I do that, and try to restart it, and it doesn't even come up! I see a window titled "[x]" on the taskbar, but until I kill off that window, i can't even launch the applications menu to find another program. QDVDAuthor: Depends on QTDevel, any one of xine, vlc, or mplayer, and dvd-slideshow. Looks like they put as much work into the compiler/installer as they did into the app itself. It's kind of touchy, and I still haven't gotten it to do what I want, but haven't given up yet. DVDBaker: Haven't tried it yet DVD-Slideshow: CLI, which I would normally prefer, but it doesn't make sense in my head to create a graphical work through a text interface. I only downloaded and installed this because it was a dependency of QDVDAuthor DVDStyler: I can't figure out how to import a directory of pictures. It looks like a nice clean program, and outputs to an ISO like I want. However, when I try to make a disk of a video, I get "**ERROR: [mplex] Too many frame drops -exiting. Error executing of command: mplex -f 8 -S 0 -o "/home/BCrook/Desktop/dvdstyler/title0- 0-0.vob" "/home/BCrook/Desktop/dvdstyler/title0-0-0-0.m1v" "/home/BCrook/Desktop/dvdstyler/title0-0-0-0.mp2"" ExFalso: WTF. I don't even get what it's supposed to do. Kino: I like it. It's probably the best yet for editing video sequences. However, I don't know about picture galleries, and I can't figure out to get an ISO out of it. AND, the AUDIO IS OUT OF SYNC! So I can't use it. It also had to convert the mpg files into dv files, which I'm OK with, but maybe that conversion caused the audio to be out of sync. Also on a humorous side-note, when you're on a plane with 80% battery remaining, don't start up all these tools at once in their own workspace. Even with 4 gigs of ram, when they're all trying to load up or inport 500 megs of media, it ties up the system for some time. -Billy

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Re: OK, if it is too quiet
by James R. Sissel 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Sorry, just got home to check my email. Interesting ideas and I'll have to check them out. I do know once I boot the "bad" OSes the partitions are hosed. Even the "good" OSes can't see them afterwards. So the OSes seem to do something to the drive. It happens in the booting of the kernel, whatever it is. If I reinstall a "good" OS and re-partition the hard drive the OS boots just fine. I put in the "bad" OS boot disk and it seems to find the hard drive and the partitions OK. But once the install is done and the OS boots it complains and the partitions are lost. Really irritating. If I can get this 300G IDE HD to work OK on a different system I'm going to forget the whole thing. Don't have time to play too much.

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OK, if it is too quiet
by James Sissel 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Why would a new 300G hard drive format and run Windows 2000 fine, load and run Trustix Linux 2.2 and 3.0.5 fine, load CentOS 4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06 TLS fine but when it comes time to boot them give a "Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical sector 0" and then fail to recognize any of the partitions?

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Re: OK, if it is too quiet
by James Sissel 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Don't know, just installed the defaults. Since I cannot boot the CentOS or Ubuntu installes I can't even check to see what I've installed. MB is a Biostar 6100-939. The 300G HD is an IDE drive. Swapped it out for a newer SATA drive and it works fine. This weekend I'll put the 300G IDE in a different PC with a different MB and try it out. Billy Crook <billycrook(a)gmail.com> wrote: are the kernel options set the same on the working and non-working installs? Perhaps there's something funny with the ide controller that centos and ubuntu don't cope with by default, but the others do? On 3/26/07, James Sissel <jimsissel(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Why would a new 300G hard drive format and run Windows 2000 fine, load and run Trustix Linux 2.2 and 3.0.5 fine, load CentOS 4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06 TLS fine but when it comes time to boot them give a "Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical sector 0" and then fail to recognize any of the partitions? _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug(a)kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug

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RE: PING
by John Van Hengel 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

POLO! No, wait, you're supposed to say MARCO! John A. Van Hengel IT Manager Strasser Industrial Supply 910 Southwest Blvd. Kansas City, KS 66103 Phone (913) 236-5858 Fax (913) 236-4737 jvh(a)strasser-hardware.com www.strasser-hardware.com -----Original Message----- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:45:21 -0500 From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> Subject: Ping To: "KCLUG (E-mail)" <kclug(a)kclug.org> Message-ID: <200703260845.21492.hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List's gone all quiet again.

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Ping
by Jonathan Hutchins 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

List's gone all quiet again.

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Looking for an install assist - happy to pay
by gregb＠west-third.com 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Greetings, all... I need some quick sysadmin/consultant aid and thought this would be the best place to turn. I need a mail and web server set up: * More-or-less typical LAMP functionality. Bonus if there's web-based config of virtual domains, etc. * The MTA of your choice as long as I can easily (think: web-based admin) configure and administer multiple domains in a setup that won't get used as an open relay. Antispam/antivirus as well. * No need for DNS; I run all that out of a third party. * Webmail - Squirrelmail but, again, I'm not picky. You'll start with a fresh install of Ubuntu Edgy Eft (server edition) and SSH config'd so you can log in. However, I'm pretty OS agnostic - truthfully, I'm most comfortable with FreeBSD but whatever makes you happy. This is more a matter of time than anything for me - I'm swamped. And probably, if I'm going to be honest, I'm good enough to get it set up on the fourth or fifth try - but not the first or second. Makes more sense to pay someone to get it done right the first time. If interested, drop me a line at gregb(a)west-third.com and we can figure out the details. Thanks, Greg Brooks

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