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Laptop repair
by Tim reid 10 Aug '07

10 Aug '07

For all you laptop enthusiasts out there: I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 with the back light gone out. I have been quoted $350 for parts and $50 for labor. Would you guys think that this is a fair estimate? TIA Tim

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What's in a node?- RE: talking about where processor or memory goes and why.
by Oren Beck 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

I have experience points of sorts in both hardware and software. That and a certain degree of having seen what worked or did not has been instructional. All of that to explain my creds for why I am directing this in a path someone may profit from. We can now order in SMD form components that were science fiction tech dreams- and thought to forever remain so. Sparkfun for example has some projects worth looking at to get into "what's under the hardware hood" so to speak. Once you get competent with SMD tech and board design it becomes possible to baby step for real some of the concepts in the "where does cpu/memory go?" As in - someone proposed early X80? or suchlike cpu on a memory device. Well- why not have some ubergeeken amongst us whack together some prototypes? Sadly my skills are a bit rusty compared to others on list- but then again, if I get bored this winter? The whole point is- We are good at arguments but have been a bit slack on incarnating much. I would love to see KCLUG as a group produce something of dramatic impact, but will settle for some hack that does something at all. Oren

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Xming X Server for Windows
by Billy Crook 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

A while back the topic came up either in the IRC or on the list about wanting to run an X11 app on a Linux server, and view it on a windows machine. Someone suggested Cygwin, but I just came ac across something else that might do the trick. From their site: Xming X Server for Windows<http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/#sect-1>Xming is the leading free unlimited X Window server for Microsoft Windows (XP/2003/Vista). Xming is fully featured, small and fast, simple to install<http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/#head-13>and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily transported [image: [WWW]]portable <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_portable_applications>as a *Pocket PC X server*. It is totally secure when used with [image: [WWW]]SSH<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh>and optionally includes a special PuTTY SSH client <http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/#head-145> and a portable PuTTY replacement<http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/portableputty.php>. Xming is built <http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/building.php> for Microsoft Windows (32-bit x86) from [image: [WWW]]X.Org<http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki>source code kept current and secure with updates for [image: [WWW]]X11R7.3 <http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?o=age>, [image: [WWW]]XKB<http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/XKeyboardConfig>, [image: [WWW]]FreeType2 <http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html> and [image: [WWW]]Freedesktop Bugzilla <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/>. My patches<http://www.straightrunning.com/Xming/>are applied and the code cross-compiled with [image: [WWW]]MinGW <http://www.mingw.org/> and [image: [WWW]]Pthreads-Win32<http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/> . Ongoing Xming development is essential because its predecessor projects, [image: [WWW]]Freedesktop Xming <http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming> and [image: [WWW]]Cygwin/X <http://x.cygwin.com/>, have lapsed. Xming is mostly a derivative work and has many licenses e.g. the zlib license, LGPLv2 for Pthreads, MIT/X11 for all PuTTY tools and the pixman library. The Xming server is licensed GNU GPLv2<http://www.straightrunning.com/Xming/COPYING>, but repackaging and/or redistributing any part (or whole) of the Xming website, documentation, images, executables or installers, by the internet, other projects/products or via media such as CD's, without asking permission, clearly acknowledging the contribution of 'Colin Harrison' and providing links to [image: [WWW]]StraightRunning.com/XmingNotes/<http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/>and [image: [WWW]]SourceForge Project Xming <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming> will be regarded as a breach of copyright.

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17" CRT Monitor free to good home
by Arthur Pemberton 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

I have the following monitor available for free to any one willing to come pick it up, I live a few blocks away from UMKC. Monitor: Dell UltraScan P780 - http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/p780/En/Index.htm Last time I used it, it worked quite well (had it on a test machine). If you'd like it, email me off list please. Arthur Pembertpn -- Fedora Core 6 and proud

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Linux jobs?
by Shawn C. Powell 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Hello Everyone, Do any of you know of any job openings working with Linux in network or systems administration or maintenance? At any level? I very much like working with Linux and open source and would like to stay with that if possible :). In brief, I have for the past four years among other duties administered network and systems for an agricultural equipment retailer that has two locations connected by a T1. The primary accounting system was PFW running on a model 270 AS/400. The desktops ran XP. I deployed Gentoo Linux machines for our internal web server, mail host, database server, and external firewall/router. I have installed and maintained the following: Gentoo Linux hardened Postfix / Courier / Spamassassin Apache 2 Tomcat Apache Cocoon Apache Lenya Samba 3 Squirrel Mail NTP Thanks for your time. Sincerely, Shawn C. Powell

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rabid futurist on the loose! ( I jest)
by David Nicol 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

The following is copied and pasted from the comments on http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201202009 Peter Kogge was forced out of IBM for demonstrating that memory chips can make use of the thousands of bits that are actually read in every memory cycle if processors are built into the memory chips. Even if only 8088 type processors were built into a chip that also had the full adressable 1 megabyte of memory and operated at current processor cycle speads, the computing, and gaming capacity of the billions (Carl Sagan) of transistors in modern PCs would be beyond the imagination of the most avid gamers. The hundreds of processors that could be built on a single chip could be connected by data paths that resemble the operations of data paths of nerve cells in the brain. Every nerve cell in the brain has hundreds if not thousands of connections to other cells and a few giga-bytes of data storage. USB might not be a bad starting design, after all, with user programmable processors and RAM with the 4 gigs of eprom. There could even be an 8088 section of the thumb processor that could run DOS 3.1 and WordPerfect 4.7(After all, WordPerfect was used with most of the DOS 3.1 units.) right on the "ThumbDrive". Vista could connect the screen and keyboard in a few seconds to the virtual screen and keyboard in the RAM of the THUMB computer. A much simpler program running under Caldera Dos could do the same in a few milliseconds. Such a system would do almost all of the word processing that is now done on super-pentiums with 4 gigs of ram. -- Prioritize based on common sense? Is that some kind of joke?

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Dell PowerEdge 6450 Quad Xeon 900Mhz, 2GB RAM, 2x 9GB SCSI Drives for sale
by Joe Brouhard 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=330153719496&ssPage… Available on ebay only. the reserve price is $225, but i'm willing to pull it off Ebay for $350 without shipping (can bring it down to KC for pickup..) -- Joe Brouhard jbrouhard(a)gmail.com

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Where to put user written program
by James Sissel 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 for my web server. I've written a Perl program to parse my /var/log/messages file and place certain data into a mySQL database. I use PHP to read that database and create a nice webpage for myself to I can check the log easily. The question is, where should I place the Perl program? It should only be run as root and I'd like to create a daily cron job to run it. Options are (among others): /bin /sbin /root ?

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now more than ever ... Migrating to Linux
by Oren Beck 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/051607-linux-migrating-windows-users.ht…

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OT: Mac OS X and USB Boot
by djgoku 01 Aug '07

01 Aug '07

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2005/06/usbharddrives/index.php http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106474 Seems that if you have a copy of super duper you can create an image that you are able to boot from USB hard drive. It just doesn't work other wise it seems. If you noticed the apple link that USB drives aren't even supported for PPC platform either (Documentation creation was Sept. 2001).

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