Hello.
I have a question about xorg drivers. I’m using xorg 7.5 on Debian Squeeze
6.0.3. In more recent versions of the X system you don’t need an xorg.conf
configuration file because the system is now able to properly auto detect most
of your hardware. My question is how do you tell what it
Hello Jarrod.
I realize I'm probably really late to this, but I'd like to review Advanced
Unix Programming if it is still available.
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Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:57 PM
Subject: [clug-talk] New Review av
Probably the best known introduction for the non specialist is this one. It
is very good, I recommend it.
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?N=35&R=668982&act=A03&Item=978007137730&Section=books&Catalog=Books&Lang=en&zxac=1
The following website is also good, but I recommend the book to star
Good Evening.
The private computer collection of famed Computer Antiquarian and collector
Craig McLean has remained hidden and inaccessible for to long. Therefore
the collection will be opened for public viewing and public sale starting
immediately. The collection includes a variety of pieces
Hello.
I'm toying with taking the LPI exams in August. I was just wondering if the
O'Reilly LPI Certification in a Nutshell is still current for the exams. It
was published in 2001.
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Hello.
I have two pentium computers that are free to the
first person on wants one or both of them.
The first is a Pentium 166, 32MB Ram, 1GB Hard
Drive, two NIC cards. Keyboard, Mouse, Power Cable.
The Second is a Pentium 100, 32MB Ram, 420MB Hard
Drive, one NIC card. Keyboard, Mouse
Hello.
I'm interested in taking exam 101 and 102 for the first level LPI
certification. My LPI ID number is
LPI62717
Thank you.
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Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [clug-talk
Hello.
I have a quick question about the personal webspace that you can associate
with Shaw email accounts.
I had to create a quick photo album for somebody. However I have found that
the reliability is very poor. Some of the pages will load perfectly, others
the html portion will load but th
Hello.
I have an assortment of older computer components, that are free to anybody
who wants them. It is 486 and Pentium vintage stuff. It includes
motherboards, processors, some memory, video cards, NICs, sound cards, some
IO controllers (for the 486 boards). There is also an AT case.
Free
Hello.
I have a PowerMac 6100 here that I'm giving away. It is the enhanced AV
version. I have a variety of audio and video cables for it. The right type
of monitor, and a keyboard. You can run at least MAC OS 7 on it, and netbsd
I think.
Its free if you want it.
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Have you heard anything about what rent would be like?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Andrew Anderson
Sent: September 25, 2008 2:20 AM
To: 'CLUG General'
Subject: [clug-talk] hackerspace
For all of you that expressed interest:
Hello.
After the last meetings presentation on arcade ROM emulation I thought
people might be interested in this device.
http://www.xgaming.com/tankstick-arcade-game.shtml
It is a arcade controller with vintage sticks, buttons and track ball. It
is USB. According to Linux Journal it isn't offi
Hello.
I was just wondering if there is a meeting this month, and if there is what
the program is? I haven't seen anything on the web site yet.
Craig.
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Hello.
I just upgraded one of my laptops to Ubuntu 8.10. Whenever I try to reboot
or shutdown I run into some trouble.
Here is a sequence of events
Within Gnome I do a restart or shutdown from the menu, the OS goes to the
boot splash chugs away for awhile and then the screen blanks (even the bac
tion does anybody else have any ideas on what might be
going on here?
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From: clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca [mailto:clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca] On Behalf
Of Greg King
Sent: January 17, 2009 1:35 PM
To: clug-talk@clug.ca
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Ubuntu Reboot Difficulties
&
Hello.
Does anybody have access to a Syquest Sparq drive, to sell, give away or
lend? I have some data that is orphaned on some Sparq disks. I'm checking
here before I go to more international markets like eBay or Kijiji.
I'm well aware of the major problems these devices have. If you are
inte
ailto:clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca] On Behalf
Of Gustin Johnson
Sent: January 18, 2009 2:45 PM
To: CLUG General
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Ubuntu Reboot Difficulties
Craig McLean wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm sitting at home because I'm on call tonight. So I did some more work
on
> the
Hello.
I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 desktop edition for the first time. I can't
seem to find a way of installing a c/c++ development environment at the
click of a button. Some other distributions have a generic development
environment item you can pick in the package manager that will install al
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential
After that I'd D/L Eclipse, but substitute your preferred environment.
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 21:27 -0600, Craig McLean wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 desktop edition for the first time. I can
Hello.
I am an amateur radio enthusiast. I recommend that you stay away from the
less well known distributions. Stick to Fedora and Ubuntu. I know from
experience that every ham has a horror story about how they tried some
obscure distribution and gave up and went back to Windows or even DOS (h
-talk-boun...@clug.ca [mailto:clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca] On Behalf
Of Craig McLean
Sent: September-13-09 1:38 PM
To: 'CLUG General'
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] OT: Amateur Radio - Flea Market
Hello.
I am an amateur radio enthusiast. I recommend that you stay away from the
less
legal to have a satellite ... whatever. There must be some nifty
tools to track them. It would suck, if you just loose your satellite in like
low earth orbit ...
Cheers
Szemir
On September 13, 2009 01:46:06 pm Craig McLean wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I forgot to mention, another good demo
Hello.
I have some HP Hardware and I need to securely erase the hard drives before
I send the servers on to their next task. I tried DBAN 2.0 but it doesn't
support the raid controllers in the HP servers. What other open source
options are out there for securely erasing server drives?
The hardw
Hello.
I have some thoughts on this problem.
The presentations I've managed to catch recently are competently delivered
tutorials. The presenter is well organized and prepared, but the material
is a feature demonstration or step by step install tutorial. These types of
presentations lack inspir
Hello.
After a long absence I'm getting back into C programming. In another life I
wrote a compiler which could produce 68000 assembler, so I know what I'm
doing, I'm just really rusty.
My preferred learning method is books. Can anybody suggest any C books for
smart people? I've picked up "Exp
book and you can't get more authoritative authors than
those. The reason that I prefer the other book is that there is more
information including tips for C compiler writers.
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Gustin Johnson wrote:
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Craig McL
I don't have anything for February, however I can do something for May or June.
I'd like to present on amateur radio. I'd prefer to focus on one particular
mode.
Two areas I'm interested in that have a significant computer focus are
satellites and HF digital modes.
Amateur Satellite radio inv
Hello.
I suspect that Gnome would win because that is what gets installed on most
corporate desktops. I've been in a few of Calgary's larger head offices and
any place that is using LINUX seems to be using Gnome. If the GG&E
department of even a mid size oil company goes this route that rapidly
Hello.
I've heard rumours that there might be a computer/technology swap meet this
coming weekend. Is this true?
Craig.
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Hello.
I want to learn Regular Expression authoring in a more detailed and
sophisticated way. Can anybody suggest any good books, web pages or other
learning material which might help out.
Craig.
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Tutorials
This response is a tad delayed, but I have the O'Reilly Regular
Expressions Cookbook. It has a pretty decent intro in addition to
having most of the common regexs ready to go in various forms/languages.
I'll bring it to Protospace on Tuesday if I can track it down.
Shawn
Cr
Hello
The Wifi kill switch is accurately named. After installing Ubuntu 10.04 I
tried it and it killed my wireless.
Here is the situation. I was originally running Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook remix,
on that OS I recall that the Wifi kill switch worked properly. I could turn
the WLAN on and off w
Hello.
I meant to say Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook remix.
From: clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca [mailto:clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca] On Behalf
Of Craig McLean
Sent: May-26-10 11:15 PM
To: clug-talk@clug.ca
Subject: [clug-talk] Wifi Kill Switches
Hello
The Wifi kill switch is accurately named
10 9:59 AM
To: CLUG General
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Wifi Kill Switches
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Craig McLean wrote:
> Hello
>
>
>
> The Wifi kill switch is accurately named. After installing Ubuntu 10.04 I
> tried it and it killed my wireless.
>
>
>
>
Hello.
I'm trying to setup OpenNAS on a Dell Poweredge 1800 server with 3 300GB
SCSI Hot Swappable disks. I'm experiencing some unusual behaviour. When I
turn the server on the disks periodically decide not to spin up. On this
server it is normal for the disks to start up a few moments after
lson)
2. Re: Need drivers (Joseph Shuttleworth)
3. Poweredge Disk Problem (Craig McLean)
4. Re: Need drivers (Mark Carlson)
5. Meeting - Wednesday June 2nd (presid...@clug.ca)
6. Re: Need drivers (Gustin Johnson)
7. Re: Need drivers (Gustin Johnson)
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From: clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca [mailto:clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca] On Behalf
Of gus...@echostar.ca
Sent: June-01-10 2:43 AM
To: CLUG General
Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Poweredge Disk Problem
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Craig McLean wrote:
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 19:21:34 -0600
> From: Craig M
Hello.
At the meeting last week we talked about the Eye-Fi SD/WiFi cards. I was
wrong about some of the features they have. You can configure them to
automatically upload when they are in range of a pre configured WLAN. There
is also a service offered by AT&T which means they can upload when
Hello.
I have a Toshiba Portege R100. This is a really thin laptop, that has no
internal CD drive. It also doesn't really support external USB drives. You
need a PCMCIA based CD-ROM to boot from CD.
Is there some kind of boot disk I can use to bootstrap the Ubuntu installer?
I've tried the "Sm
Hello.
I have a Toshiba R100 that I have installed Xubuntu 10.04 on. This laptop
uses a Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XP4m32 display driver. The support
for this device kind of sucks under Linux. I've done some reading and
people suggest using the VESA display driver, since the Trident driver
age-
From: clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca [mailto:clug-talk-boun...@clug.ca] On Behalf
Of Craig McLean
Sent: June-25-10 11:31 AM
To: 'CLUG General'
Subject: [clug-talk] Question about suspend, resume and display sleep
Hello.
I have a Toshiba R100 that I have installed Xubuntu 10.04 on. This la
Hello.
I've just installed Virtual Box on my Windows 7 system for the first time.
I've also installed Ubuntu 10.10 Server 64bit edition. The Guest Additions
package installed without any trouble. however I notice the "seemless"
feature still doesn't work. Whenever I click into the window contain
e and guestAdditions adds a better driver
to work with xorg. No X, no driver...
On 10/11/10, Gustin Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Craig McLean wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I've just installed Virtual Box on my Windows 7 system for the first
time.
>> I'v
Hello.
I'm poking around in Ubuntu 10.10 desktop edition installed on a laptop
(Tecra M5). In System->Preferences->Power Management there is an option to
spin down the hard disks when possible. I'd like to know what text file
gets modified behind the scenes when you flip that option. I suspecte
hat
number.
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Craig McLean wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm poking around in Ubuntu 10.10 desktop edition installed on a laptop
> (Tecra M5). In System->Preferences->Power Management there is an option to
> spin down the hard disks when possible.
Hello.
Is there a way to know in real time what is happening to the clock speed of
your CPU. I'm on Ubuntu 10.10. I don't mind doing a tail -f on some log
file if that is what it takes.
Craig.
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>>
>> I am missing the acpi related modules
>>
>> I still have to puzzle this out.
>>
>> My system is Debian squeeze
>>
>> /proc/cpuinfo is noted to be be depreciated and should avoid (forgot
>> where I saw it)
>>
>> Mel
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I have a Toshiba Tecra M5 laptop that I've put Linux on.
It has two buttons that aren't part of the keyboard, one has an "i" on it
and the other one is labelled to indicate that it can switch between the
internal and external display. In Windows the "i" key brought up some help,
and the other
Does Linux (in particular Ubuntu 10.10, using the Nvidia X Server
proprietary driver) allow you to easily configure an external display
device. What I'm thinking of here is the scenario where you show up to do a
presentation and just plug a projector or large LCD panel in to a laptop
that is alrea
yitservices.com
www.calgaryitservices.com
Sent from my iPhone, pardon the brevity.
On 2011-04-23, at 12:48, Rick Johnson wrote:
> On Saturday 23 April 2011 00:31:10 Craig McLean wrote:
>> Does Linux (in particular Ubuntu 10.10, using the Nvidia X Server
>> proprietary driver) al
ging their laptops into the various projectors and SMART
>> boards we have, so I am not sure this is something that is Linux
>> specific.
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
>> > On Saturday 23 April 2011 00:31:10 Craig McLean wrote:
>> >
Hello.
I have an existing initrd image that I would like to make some changes to,
is it possible to mount an initrd image via loopback or some other method,
make some changes then button the image backup again?
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Quoting Craig McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello.
>
> I have an existing initrd image that I would like to make some changes to,
> is it possible to mount an initrd image via
I've been doing some more C coding lately, and have some questions.
First is there any standardized way of parsing command line inputs to a C
program. I rummaged around the C standard looking for some magic library
that makes command line input parsing not suck, but there isn't anything.
Is there
This is more of a best practices
question.
I'm working with environment variables. In
UNIX environment variables are made available directly via the
extern char **environ
construct. Which is an array of pointers to
strings, each string containing the key value pairs of environment va
I've noticed a lack of concrete presentation plans
for the February meeting.
I'd be interested in doing a presentation on what
is new in the 2.6 kernel. There are alot of changes so this definitely
wouldn't be a mini topics presentation.
What is the interest
level?
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Hello All.
I've been preparing the Kernel 2.6 presentation for next week. However I was
wondering if people could let me know about any articles they have seen regarding 2.6
preformance. I've read alot of benchmark articles but more is always good. Reply
with your links.
In particular I'm i
Hello.
I recently purchased a house, and one of the things I did was get setup
with Shaw High Speed Internet. I went with one of their bundles.
While I was setting that up I asked about what their monthly traffic limits
are. Nobody there could really answer that question. Although they
genera
Hello.
It's time for my semi annual purge of assorted odd computer parts. I have a
fairly large box full of assorted parts. Mostly from the Pentium II era.
This includes motherboards, processors, and peripheral cards of every sort.
Basically everything you need to build at least a few compute
Hello all.
It's been awhile since I've posted, however I have a question which I'd like
to submit to the clug hive mind. I'm setting up plain old file and print
server. I've installed SUSE 10 onto a system drive, which I partioned for
log growth and all the usual safety stuff. However I have
Hello.
It has been awhile since I posted, how is everybody doing?
I need to buy a motherboard for a Socket 939 Athlon 64. My main requirement
is that it have 4 DIMM sockets, and excellent Linux compatibility. Does
anybody have any recommendations? A lot of the cheaper motherboards are
based on
Hello.
I've been away from Linux for awhile, however I find myself itching to get
back in. Since I haven't really been keeping track of things I was
wondering if anybody can give me any advice on wireless cards to purchase.
It will be going into a laptop so PCMCIA/Cardbus or perhaps USB will be
n
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