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For Sale (IBM ThinkPad 570)
by Steven Hildreth 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

For Sale, will go on Ebay if no takers; IBM ThinkPad 570 264-3AU 13.3" TFT (1024x768) 192 MB RAM (Max 192MB) Mobile PII 366 AC Adapter, Battery and CD-ROM Docking Bay IBM Site specs -> http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lnd… Pictures of actual notebook for sale -> http://www.brainyautomation.com/temp/thinkpad570/ Battery works, but is not the greatest (like 15 minutes). LCD is bright and overall looks clear and clean. Has darker patch in left corner (about 1/8" wide and about 4" long), not real noticeable unless against white background - still very usable. This is not a screamer, obviously. I have Fluxbuntu 7.10 loaded on it and for that it works fairly well. Asking $75, OBO. I can deliver to next meeting or you can pick up from my house. Thanks, Steven

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Photoshop CS/CS2 should now work in Wine [0.9.54] -- do you think we'll be seeing more people switch?
by feba thatl 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

http://www.winehq.org/?announce=0.9.54 What do you think of this? I've heard a lot of people say they would switch to Linux, if it weren't for such and such a program not being ported-- in professional settings, that seemed to be very frequently Photoshop. It seems like some of the rest of CS doesn't work yet, but Photoshop is a fairly major program to have working. So for those that work in graphics design, or know those that do, does anyone know if not having ImageReady and the other programs not working still makes linux an impossible option? And have most people already adopted CS3, or could this still draw in a lot of people? Does anyone know of any companies that plan to switch over to linux now that this is working-- or any companies that have considered switching but were unable to because of this? Does anyone have experience running Photoshop through wine yet? If this is easy to set up (Wine generally isn't what most people would consider user friendly) it could be a great opportunity for some advocacy.

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Re: The Regular Virtual Desktop Effect (was Re: The Cube Efffect)
by Kendric Beachey 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

On Jan 27, 2008 8:37 AM, lowell <lowell(a)kc.rr.com> wrote: > I almost never use this facility (four choices, lower right corner, Fedora) but I remember when first starting out w/ RedHat 5.2 or so, one could move the mouse from one desktop's edge and roll right onto the next one with a big lurch to the screen. Now, my (perhaps fallible) recollection is that, at first, it didn't have the big lurch, and you could just scroll from one place to another smoothly (sometimes ending up half in one desktop and half in another, looking at the window you were working on. In other words it was really one BIG workspace divided by you screen size four times (at first it was six screens big, too. I DO remember that part...:-\ Anybody else recall that arrangement? > -- > lowell <lowell(a)kc.rr.com> > Definitely...I was never a big fan of that myself. I guess if you had some uber-giant detailed picture you wanted to view full-size, it could be useful. That's part of what's great about FLOSS...you can actually HAVE different strokes for different folks. :-) -- Kendric Beachey

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Ubuntu Server 7.10 (Gutsy) on VirtualBox
by Steven Hildreth 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

I thought this might be informative to someone. http://www.brainyautomation.com/blog/post/Ubuntu-710-(Gutsy)-Server-on-Virt… Regards, Steven

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Conversations on my remote user/site problem
by Oren Beck 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

Several folks have shared some truly worthy possible fixes. I am planning to sort them by my limited grasp of which are practical for me. There seems to be a depth of comprehension above average in our group, which is quite above mine. So, I am asking permission from those who have contacted me off list to post all the collected work. There seems a possibility of refining the best of all these workarounds into dare I propose a new distro? An assembly of all the tool kits and scripts plus a stand alone minimalist distro such as DSL or Puppy. The killer incarnation to me at least might be a package loaded from a website or sent as a mail attach. With a fallback to CD or USB media if connection is an issue. Under a doctrine of "if you have USB/CD access, permission is presumed - passwords etc can be simplified Thus we refine one path to -nsert media-reboot- automagic configures-and connects -then somehow it grands me remote KVM. An idea I had was a script to capture the IP of the remote livedistro,-have it Email that to me and then telnet etc in -- Oren Beck 816.729.3645

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Linux Support Needed
by Jonathan Hutchins 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Anybody currently doing linux/windows office support in the mid-KC area? There's a law office that I support, and they need occasional file restore and such. Toughest part of the deal is that they have an ancient Gentoo server on the 2.4 kernel that won't do emerge updates any more because the whole layout of Gentoo has changed. When it was originally built, they had to use Gentoo Unstable because they needed components that weren't in stable yet. If somebody's interested in taking this on, drop me a line and I'll give you more gory details.

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Three low-cost Linux PCs
by Julie 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

>From C/Net's Week in Photos: "Three manufacturers are preloading Linux onto PCs that cost less than $200--and retailers can't keep them in stock." http://www.news.com/2300-1044_3-6227401.html?tag=nl.e434 Hope you enjoy the peek and comments that Cnet makes. :D BTW: I've been reading with great interest the thread about that "Cube" utility function in Ubuntu. I simply don't know how to REPLY to a particular post in the news letter or I would be in there asking questions...like, "What are the exact steps to get this to work for me...the n00bee trying to migrate from Winblowz XP?" ...And I laughed my arse off at that URL which led to the "story" about 'Window Shades'!!! I just about had peppermint tea come through my nose when I read about that demo to those Best Buy employees!!! They consider themselves "techies"???? LMAO!!!! ] : ) Julie @};- --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

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SVN - Apache - Microsoft Active Directory
by Lee Brandt 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Anyone have any experience with this? I am currently setting this up at my work. I have set up the SVN server and Apache 2.2.3 on CentOS. SVN Serves fines just using basic authentication. Now I am trying to hook into our MS Active Directory and have been very successful at finding configurations that don't seem to work. As far as I can tell, I am not even contacting the AD server. There is no outbound traffic and notthing in the apache error logs. below is my config. <Location /subversion> # Load SVN Dav DAV svn # set the path to the repo SVNPath /var/svn/repo AuthBasicProvider ldap AuthType Basic AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off AuthName "My Subversion Server" AuthLDAPURL ldap://ldapserver.company.com:389/DC=company,DC=com>sAMAccountName?sub?(objectClass=*) AuthLDAPBindDN "CN=binduser,CN=usergroup,DC=company,DC=com" AuthLDAPBindPassword bindpassword require valid-user </Location> I haven't made any changes to the httpd.conf (other than making sure mod_authnz_ldap is installed and loaded). This is completely out of my league. Thanks in advance for any help. ~Lee

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Next Meeting in Room 310
by Michael Morgan 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

To All, KCLUG will meet in room 310 instead of room 312 at the Kansas City Public Library two times in 2008. The next meeting scheduled for, Wednesday, February 2nd, will be in room 310, and so will the meeting on Tuesday April 15th, 2008 (see below). Room 310 is the glassed in room near the stair case. All other meetings during 2008 are scheduled for room 312. 2/6/2008 Wed 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM KC Linux Users Group Install Fest Central Library Meeting Room 310 Confirmed 4/15/2008 Tue 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM KC Linux Users Group Demo Day Central Library Meeting Room 310 Confirmed Michael Mogan librarian(a)kclug.org

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JOBOP: Network Engineer/Windows Systems Administrator
by Campbell, Jeremy 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Immediate need for a Network Engineer with good Windows Systems Administration experience. Involves heavy use of F/OSS management tools and systems (Cacti, Nagios/Zenoss, Snort, Syslog-NG, pfSense, MySQL, Apache) Follow link for details: http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?job_did=J8D6 TT72R3D4R4CQ6XW Thanks, Jeremy Campbell Network Engineer Avila University * IT Services 816-501-3639

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