March 2008 - KCLUG

Does Linux have a CMOS Setup Application, possibly from a LiveCD?
by Leo Mauler 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

I've got a PIII-1Ghz system which I'd like to use until it dies. Right now it works fine, except that the rear PS/2 ports seem not to work. This is a recent development, as the computer worked fine with a PS/2 keyboard and mouse up until I moved it from the basement office into the living room (I just acquired a used TV with a VGA port on the back). I'm using it right now to type this message because when the motherboard gets past the point where I can use CMOS Setup (pressing Del), the motherboard recognizes a USB keyboard and USB mouse even before an OS loads. Pressing DEL to get into the onboard CMOS Setup utility does work from the USB keyboard. However, the onboard CMOS setup utility apparently only recognizes a PS/2 keyboard and not a USB keyboard, because once inside the CMOS utility the keyboard keys don't function. The only way out of the CMOS Setup screen is the power button on the computer. In Ye Olden Days of PC/MS/DRDOS, there were CMOS Setup Utilities which could be run from special boot disks. If such an application still exists, and works for modern CMOSes/BIOSes, I suspect that it is the only way I'm going to be able to change the system time on this computer, or more to the point tell the motherboard BIOS that the Legacy Keyboard option is disabled. Such a Catch-22: because the PS/2 keyboard doesn't work, I can't tell the BIOS that the PS/2 keyboard doesn't work, so that it should accept a USB keyboard when editing CMOS so I can tell it that the PS/2 keyboard doesn't work. This is really frustrating because I know every other component on the system works. I've successfully installed Ubuntu Linux 7.10 without a hitch on this same PC. I just want to make some basic changes to the CMOS/BIOS, but I can't until I figure out how to get into CMOS Setup without a PS/2 keyboard. ____________________________________________________________________________________ OMG, Sweet deal for Yahoo! users/friends:Get A Month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. W00t http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text2.com

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Want to tweak my system? (paying gig)
by Greg Brooks 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi all, I posted many weeks back about a server I've got that's incorrectly reporting available space. I'll spare everyone the rehash except to say: I'd like it fixed, and I'd like to pay one of you smart folks to do it. Scope: . SSH in . Figure out why a drive with 250 gb of space only shows 125gb or so . Figure out if it can be fixed non-destructively (i.e., without removing all the data on there now) . If it can be fixed non-destructively, make the fix Happy to pay via PayPal. Interested parties hit me off-list with a rough estimate. Thanks, Greg Brooks gregb(a)west-third.com

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Trust able remote storage
by Arthur Pemberton 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Are you guys aware of any trusted remote solution, something I can setup a throttled rsync to with cron, that allows high end-to-end high encryption. I guess the only sensible place to do encryption at would be on my end. I've ready stories of people loosing their domain names due to having done business with Cuba (even people outside the USA) and my country of origin does business regularly in Cuba, so I'm also concerned about that aspect... although i guess that makes the criteria too tough. I'd settle for encryption and reliability. I'm guessing i can use fuse-encfs and just rsync it's dir -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )

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Re: Linux and Hauppauge Radio Tuner for Radio VCR?
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Michael Schultheiss <schultmc(a)cinlug.org> > Leo Mauler wrote: > > A friend of mine recently upgraded her TV tuner, and > > gave me her two older TV Tuners. Her oldest TV Tuner > > was one of the Hauppauge WinTV models which came with > > an FM Tuner. I was wondering if anyone has seen a > > "Radio VCR" project for Linux using an internal FM > > Tuner card. > > MythTV may support FM tuners: > > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Fm_radio > It has been a few years since I looked into timeshifting radio. My old links are dead, but I believe one of them was probably the LinuxGazzette, link mentioned elsewhere. The one thing I saw when searching for them, is Streamripper over at Sourceforge. Read the FAQ here: http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/faq.php

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Linux users and wireless usage- Making a Googlemap of both Linux users and AP's
by Oren Beck 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

The shortest form of the question is this: Would you ever consider placing on a Googlemap either your site locations or at least the Zip code? That's the bedrock of the concept. And in addition would you ever consider posting a signal survey of wireless signal around your sites? Note that includeds could be home-work-other "nodes" you admin etc. The "why" is several reasons. It could show how many of us there are a bit more clearly. It could show areas to seek mesh net fill in spots or beams. There are good implications we have not yet considered. Worrying about the bad ones is simply not productive ON LIST ok? IF you feel bound to make comments not positive- MAKE A NEW THREAD!!! I regret having had reason to post that - yet history shows... If you are on this list and a Linux user- are you able to "see" or even connect to any other ap's The reason for this is to visualise our increasing userbase, both Linux and wireless. -- Oren Beck 816.729.3645

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Mesh networking. Do we have anyone on list with practical hands on experience?
by Oren Beck 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

I am planning to expand wifi coverage at my campground by using mesh or traditional repeaters. The total area is 40 acres. of which desired coverage is maybe 15 in a few strips. See the linked map for more information. http://www.campdownunder.com/map.php The major desired coverages are the green shaded ones. After that I can adjust as needed or requested. The 2 mesh projects I have been looking at seem to share some overlap in development. Meraki is likely old news here. ROBIN may not be. http://www.blogin.it/howtorobin/index.html The project has an interesting possible home here at the campground. And also some major cred for KCLUG and the participants when our names go on the success reports. You may be reading this and blinking a bit at my term "participants" Well- if you comment you are participation. and those comments *WILL* be potentially all studied. Including what I just posted. The Participation that will be valued: constructive comments on track with the project or related directly issues. Anyone wishing to show up here and climb trees etc at their own expense and risk. Any donations of stuff or time that make this happen. I even have a limited budget for stuff too expensive to be donated. Think of this as being part of something larger. As what we do on this humble campground COULD be replicated as an improvement to the lives of others. Oh yes, think of having on your resume participation in this if it becomes known? If it sinks?- just don't mention it..Mesh is a curious recapitulation of the ALOHA model that made Ethernet+TCP/IP into the Net itself. I am curious as a separate count what percentage of KCLUG users can "See" at least one other AP from their own wifi gear? -- Oren Beck 816.729.3645

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Website down Alternate URL http://kclug.com
by Billy Crook 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

The website is unavailable due to a DNS problem...again. This message probably won't go out until it's back up, but because there have been a few DNS problems in the past, there is now an alternate domain name for KCLUG, http://www.kclug.com and it is on different DNS servers, so it won't fail at the same time, as the .org domain, if at all.

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Re: Moratorium on moderation/censorship/general whines.-give it up for lent eh?
by Leo Mauler 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

--- David Nicol <davidnicol(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Leo Mauler > <webgiant(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > First off, some people don't celebrate > > (for lack of a better word) Lent. > > the word you appear to be looking for is "observe" Thank you, sometimes the word doesn't even make it to the tip of the tongue. > > Secondly, Vatican II put a lot of joy back > > into Lent, and I doubt there are many > > pre-Vatican II folks on KCLUG (for example, > > Grandma eats fish on ALL Fridays and she's > > 97 years old). > > um, we have Luke-jr, who appears to be > pre-reformation Vatican II changed everyday doctrines such as changing the banning of the consumption of meat on Fridays to merely the banning of the consumption of meat on Fridays *during Lent*. The Pope's official apology to Galileo didn't come till the 1990s. St. Patrick's Day Trivia: St. Patrick's Day occurs during Lent, and in 2000 and 2006 it landed on a Friday, the Lenten day on which meat cannot be eaten. This sent the Irish-American Catholic population into turmoil, for the traditional dish on St. Patrick's Day in Irish-American Catholic households is "corned beef and cabbage". Fortunately, Catholic bishops granted special dispensations in 2000 and 2006 to permit Irish-Americans to eat "corned beef and cabbage" (but no other meat dish) on St. Patrick's Day during Lent. St. Patrick's Day will not be a Friday in Lent again until 2017. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

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Linux and Hauppauge Radio Tuner for Radio VCR?
by Leo Mauler 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

A friend of mine recently upgraded her TV tuner, and gave me her two older TV Tuners. Her oldest TV Tuner was one of the Hauppauge WinTV models which came with an FM Tuner. I was wondering if anyone has seen a "Radio VCR" project for Linux using an internal FM Tuner card. I am excited about the prospect of being able to schedule radio recordings, especially as an FM Tuner should surely be able to be changed internally to record from different stations automatically. I've done some scheduled recordings before but it was always through Line-In and an external radio set to one station only. I'd like to be able to set up a system to record different radio shows off different radio stations, much like a VCR can record off several different TV stations. I was especially interested in the use of the "btaudio" driver to permit sound coming into the TV/FM Tuner Card to be transmitted directly over the PCI bus, instead of having to run it through the Line-In on the sound card. The card is fully supported under Linux, FM Tuner included, but all the Linux radio projects I've found through LinuxTV.org seem to be "listening-only", as opposed to a "Radio VCR". http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Radio_Listening_Applications (TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/yp5dwj) Gnomeradio has the option of recording, but you have to be there to push the "Record" button, and still there to shut off the recording, making it rather useless. http://www.wh-hms.uni-ulm.de/~mfcn/gnomeradio/ I've found an old "Linux Gazette" article from 2003, which used ecasound, lame, and cron to schedule radio programming, but his equipment choice was an external programmable USB radio, as opposed to an internal FM Tuner. http://linuxgazette.net/issue94/yan-fa.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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Another Linux in a windows "sandbox" concept variant- Baby steps to switch users?
by Oren Beck 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

http://www.andlinux.org/index.php Potentially useful to demo Linux based software to non Linux users? -- Oren Beck 816.729.3645

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