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OT: Possible tech assist needed Kirksville MO 1-19 from 9pm till 5am on the 20th
by Oren Beck 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

NCR lead and 3 workers will swap POS gear @ Kirksville MO Wal-Mart. 9pm Monday the 19th to 5 or so am Tues the 20th. So far it"s that lead, Me ,and Craig from the campground. This is the job I got the call about at the meeting:> We need one more tech minded person. Pay is $225 Contact me off list with questions or to join in the insanity of an all nighter. Carpool from Cameron MO and back there has a seat in the smoking car.. -- Oren Beck 816.729.3645

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a near-term event for timestamp geeks
by David Nicol 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Anyone planning any kind of celebration? catnip:~# perl -le 'print ~~localtime 1234567890' Fri Feb 13 17:31:30 2009 -- Lucky Cap'n Rabbit King Nuggets: For the Irish seafaring nobleman in YOU!

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UUIDs missing in Ubuntu?
by Sean Crago 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

I recently did a benign looking apt-get dist-upgrade in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex and, a few days later, rebooted. I think a kernel patch was involved, but I'm not sure/haven't tried to revert to an old one yet to fix this problem, but I'd like to find a cleaner fix: I have one old PATA HDD on my box that I mount on boot to /tmp via a UUID-based fstab entry. This used to work just fine. It's mounted a generic SCSI device, so it doesn't show up as hda1 anymore, but it shows up as sda1 and is symlinked to in /dev/disk/*/, as are my other generic SCSI devices - My removable media, my memory card reader, etc. Now, though, I don't see anything except my one SATA drive in my /dev/disk/by-*/ entries. To make things substantially MORE strange, all of these problems went away at 13:37 this afternoon, when the missing symlinks were created en masse. No reference at all exists to that time in any plaintext file in /var/log/ Any guesses as to what's wrong with my system and how to prevent this from blocking a proper UUID-based fstab from working at boot time? Thanks, Sean Crago Kathmandu

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OT: link sent to me described as "the best customer review on Amazon"
by David Nicol 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2X2TB3S4O5I60/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm -- Lucky Cap'n Rabbit King Nuggets: For the Irish seafaring nobleman in YOU!

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Twitter, et. al.
by Hal Duston 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Last night there was a brief discussion about twitter and similiar web applications. This site pre-dated twitter by five years. http://www.dullestblog.com/ Thanks, -- Hal Duston

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Kansas City Hackerspace Meeting
by Jestin Stoffel 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Oren asked me at the breakfast after the meeting tonight to make a post reminding people of Thursday's Cowtown Computer Congress (http://www.cowtowncomputercongress.org/) meeting. The meeting will be 7pm at the Javanaut on 39th and Wyoming, and we will be discussing obtaining our new location. There will also be some cool projects being showcased, and a 6pm study group on opencv (http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/) beforehand. If your are curious, come check us out. --Jestin

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Wireshark Article
by Jim Herrmann 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

http://www.isp-planet.com/equipment/2009/wireshark.html Featuring our own Gerald Combs! -- - That One - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUOHKznUyI

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Re: n00b question
by Billy Crook 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

As root, or via sudo, run: /sbin/lspci -nnvb | grep -i VGA -A 100 | grep -i "kernel module" -B 100 -m 1 That should adequately identify your graphics chipset. Eyeballs aren't scriptable. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 13:29, Billy Crook <billycrook(a)gmail.com> wrote: > As root, or via sudo, run: > /sbin/lspci -nnvb | grep VGA > > That should adequately identify your graphics chipset. > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:42, Haworth, Michael A. > <Michael_Haworth(a)pas-technologies.com> wrote: >> Hey – what is the command to have Fedora list back the video card in my >> laptop? I remember Monty telling me the command once, but it didn't stick in >> the brain… >> >> >> >> Michael Haworth >> >> PAS Technologies Inc. >> >> Direct Line: (816) 556-5157 >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kclug mailing list >> Kclug(a)kclug.org >> http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug >> >> >

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n00b question
by Haworth, Michael A. 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

Hey - what is the command to have Fedora list back the video card in my laptop? I remember Monty telling me the command once, but it didn't stick in the brain... Michael Haworth<mailto:michael_haworth@pas-technologies.com> PAS Technologies Inc. Direct Line: (816) 556-5157

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Transparent KCLUG-Tux
by Billy Crook 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

I needed a transparent background png of the KCLUG Tux logo, and I couldn't find one, so I just made one with The GIMP. http://kclug.com/wiki/index.php/Image:Tux-KC.png Use it as you see fit.

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