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Re: Does Linux have a CMOS Setup Application, possibly from a LiveCD?
by Billy Crook 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

According to http://kclug.org/pipermail/kclug/2008-March/032927.html it was addressed to the list, just like this one. If it were addressed only to you, it would have been because I felt sorry for your insufficient answer and that I wished to fill you in so that you could amend your previous message to the list, saving face, and appear more useful/knowledgeable to the other members by citing actual, googleable names like IPMI, rather than "requires hardware" from "Someone", and by being a little bit more correct. But it wasn't, because I do understand how to operate the internets. And speaking of more specific useful information, the pci KVMoIP card is called a MegaRAC G2, though there are later models with more bells and whistles. This one emulates a keyboard and mouse to the host system over USB ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:02 PM Subject: Excuse me? To: Billy Crook <billycrook(a)gmail.com> Why is this addressed to me? Why would you rephrase what I had said and send it back to me? I can understand why you might want to take credit for a slightly more thorough answer on the list, but why send it _only_ to me? Do you just not understand how to use your email software? On Monday 31 March 2008 17:51:23 you wrote: > BIOS serial console access is typically only a feature on server class > motherboard, or provided through "IPMI" cards, which can cost from > $100 to $400, and typically fit into a SODIMM slot that has to be on > the motherboard to begin with. Software serial console can be enabled > for GRUB, which is technically before the kernel, but it only starts > in grub stage 2, and chances are that you won't get that far if you > have a problem serious enough to need access outside of SSH. > > You can find pci cards for under $200 on ebay that allow remote KVM > over http usually with the aid of a java applet. The PCI card that I > have and have used for this purpose is made by AMI, the BIOS company. > > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Jonathan Hutchins > > <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> wrote: > > > > BIOS-level serial console requires hardware. Someone was developing a > > card a few years back, but they were several hundred dollars. Software > > serial console doesn't kick in until the kernel loads.

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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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MS Developer Event
by Charles Steinkuehler 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Perhaps a bit OT, but is anyone else going to the developer track of the MS event tomorrow? I'll be making one of my now in-frequent (it's amazing what twins will do to your free time!) trips to KC to exchange an afternoon of boredom for Microsoft 'freebies' (primarily a license for the latest Visual Studio), and would appreciate anyone of similar bent (ie: mostly non-microsoft, but forced to work with them occasionally) to pass the time with. Maybe we can even coordinate on heckling the speakers! :) - -- Charles Steinkuehler charles(a)steinkuehler.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH6ElhLywbqEHdNFwRAjnzAKCtK2rbAo58JcbVXnLfAPo//ejhPACfQExN 0a/MUjSoLjvUS0y6f8Rd7Ck= =yWgw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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