I would like to see the presentation on FOSS Accounting Software. I cannot be there. My mother died today. Can this be taped?
Also I was on IRC and ran into a chap who is trying to rebuild a system. It has windows in it but he's trying to use Linux to do the rebuild. Someone started bitching to take this to a #windows channel and I have to say I disagree. He wanted to use #linux and we can do this. Do we have rescue media? I've done this before. I've built multiboot machines but not this century. I suggested he go read the multiboot howto because it explains the boot process work He was off too thia. But the thing is we should have downloadable FDD, USB, CD & DVD media with the proper utilities and procedures documented so that anyone can do this. If I were challenged today to boot from something other than the HDD and bring up a VM and then start working with the disk image and fix the boot records and then have the VM load and boot it... then I would be challenged. Next how about if or without the VM involved (but a VM makes sense) then bypass the bios and just boot the partition? Next. If a machine can boot from ANYTHING then it can boot from ANYTHING else which has suitable device drivers. I've needed to do this. I haven't looked hard but I have not found procedures written up or even well documented which tell people how to do this basic stuff. Here is a simple example. Suppose we want to boot a machine from the net. We are dealing with a well meaning but inexperianced person. If we have media the machine can boot from then it should boot. Next there should be a simple command line Q&A script whereby the person is prompted through network config if necessary because there sure will not be DHCP and instructions how to set up TFTP in pretty much any hosts. Next the procedures to actually PING the TFTP server should be in place so that the guy KNOWS if he's got it configured properly because likely its the first time for him and he might even have a boss yelling at him. When finally he gets the TFTP or WHATEVER running we should be able to check a magic number and confirm. After we checksum the boot image we boot it. What is wrong with this? We are the experts and we should be able to easily jump a boot from one device to another. On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 07:21:41PM -0600, Mel Walters wrote: > So who else was planning on presenting at the meeting, and what? > ================================================================ > > > > On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 09:07 -0600, Mel Walters wrote: > > I was looking forward to the talk on Running FOSS Accounting Software in > > the Real World. > > > > Kin, you are still on for this? ? > > > > ==== > > My stuff will be not much more than some show and tell. > > * Samples of books > > * Recent successes and why they might have happened. > > * Any challenges still present and possible paths around them. > > The question period (or interest) will determine if it can extend a few > > min. > > > > Mel > > > > On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 09:21 -0600, Dafydd Crosby wrote: > > > Meeting is next Wednesday. Anyone have something they'd like to present? > > > > > > -Dafydd > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > clug-talk mailing list > > > clug-talk@clug.ca > > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
