KCLUG May 2007

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RE: Pantent infingments?
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 16 May '07

16 May '07

I thought there was something about the right to make other systems interoperable that would not cause an infringement? Like putting Appletalk protocol in Linux. If the original company doesn't create a tool to allow you to tranfer information in/out using your existing systems, then of course you want to make your own. But what do I know, I'm barely awake. Brian Kelsay -----Original Message----- From: Jon Pruente Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 8:37 PM On 5/15/07, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > In all fairness, not all patents can be coded around of. True, and I'll venture a guess that most of the patents involved would tie into NTFS support and/or Samba, or even Mono. If that's true, simple removing those packages from a distro might free up a lot of threats. Jon.

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Pantent infingments?
by Earle Beason 15 May '07

15 May '07

With all the gruff about patent infringement going on, I thought I would investigate th i am most likely to have violated so I took a look at the licensing page for it, and I discovered a wonderful blurb "However, no license is needed for private, non-commercial activities (e.g., home-entertainment, receiving broadcasts and creating a personal music library), not generating revenue or other consideration of any kind or for entities with associated annual gross revenue less than US$ 100 000.00." *//**/http://mp3licensing.com/help/index.html I checked out the site for DVD but it wasn't expressively clear, so i asked them in an email, I'll share the response when it gets back. Anybody else know of any possible patents that could have been violated by the open source project as Microsoft has claimed? /*

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Duel moniters on Fedora6
by Earle Beason 15 May '07

15 May '07

Troubleshooting my system I have a radio all-in-one 9600 with two monsters, a westing house LCD, as primary screen and a viewsonic A70 as the extension.. It seems to work just about right with the exception the when the muse goes from screen the LCD screen tot e CRT it turns into a purple block. I have also noticed that when I watching A DVD and I try to put it on the CRT side it fails to render the video. I did the google warrior and the best I could come up was the reconfiguration of the Xorg, Below is what it currently looks like, Anyone clue me into what Ii may have missed # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Multihead layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1" Screen 1 "Screen1" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" Option "Xinerama" "on" Option "Clone" "off" EndSection Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "AIGLX" "on" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "WestingHouse" ModelName "LCM-20v5" HorizSync 31.5 - 70.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "Viewsonic" ModelName "ViewSonic A70" HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 180.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "fglrx" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no" Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard1" Driver "fglrx" VendorName "Videocard Vendor" BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no" Option "UseDisplayDevice" "CRT" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 1 EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1400x1050" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Videocard1" Monitor "Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection

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Duel Moniters PT3
by Earle Beason 14 May '07

14 May '07

Well I have tried everything that has been tossed at me, I notice if i change resolutions to the smallest possible it works. Here a funny little lesson, Don't try to set up your duel monsters to so that you can go from the left of the primary to the secondary, and then try get the secondary to be on the left. It turns the screen dark. The critical flaw in xorg Screen 0 "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1" Screen 1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"

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Computer Crash
by mike＠handuma.com 14 May '07

14 May '07

I need a new computer. Does anyone know how to contact Mike Needham. http://www.handuma.com

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ProComm, Pony,
by Earle Beason 11 May '07

11 May '07

Can anybody clue me into the Linux versions or equivalents to Procomm or Pony Prog, or a similar program with script writing and auto execution, I would like to be able to write to a flash chip and be able to pull data of the flash chip. I currently use win 98 and 2000 for the dos modes.

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Jessamyn installs Ubuntu at the library
by Chuck 09 May '07

09 May '07

OK, it's not Kansas City, but my friend in Vermont put together a great Ubuntu video. http://www.librarian.net/

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Procom PT2
by Earle Beason 09 May '07

09 May '07

Looked at the possible solutions, I have hound the same, I looking for something that can upload/download via rs232 and rs449, This a Event-Data Recorder EDR that stores it memory on a flashchip. I connect through the com ports to my DER throuh what ever translator circuit required. I can use Procom to see it scroll, Poby Prog to program the chip, I have a assoarted collection of bootloaders, but everything is microsoft. I want to be able to get away from it all, but the google warrior in me is unable to find anything.

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Gentelmen, Start Your Penguins
by Uncle Jim 09 May '07

09 May '07

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