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Whoops! Caught a bad update
by Haworth, Michael A. 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Looks like I caught a bad update from Fedora on Monday - I got the update alert with x number of bugfixes, updates, etc. and reviewed it like I would any windows update - had some dbus bugfixes, some ALSA, and a few others... Went ahead and applied them and then decided that I wanted to tinker with a few other things and add some packages. I open Add/Remove Software to search for what I am after and as soon as I click on a category I get greeted with "The group could not be queried Running the transaction failed" and under more details it cites that it failed to get a TID because of a security policy"... I immediately went to Google to see if there was an answer to be found that would make me look like a n00b, but there isn't - there is only some acknowledgements that the error has been noticed - no solution. All of my Software Sources are missing, so even if a patch is to be released, I won't be able to see it at this point. I know that wiping and re-installing is the Windows way of fixing this, but I was wondering - is there a way to just 'undo' the updates that I applied the other day? I know that Linux doesn't have the 'Restore Point' functionality, but shouldn't there be a way to remove/regress packages (with no Software Source) to get back to a version that is preferred/functional? I'm not really worried at this point - just that I haven't had to re-format for almost a week now (last one was due to some bad ATI drivers...), and was hoping to keep it going a few more days before I do something else foolish to my new OS. Michael Haworth PAS Technologies Inc. Direct Line: (816) 556-5157 Mobile Phone: (816) 585-1033

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VMGL brings 3-D effects to VMs
by Billy Crook 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

One less excuse for dual booting... http://www.linux.com/feature/154368

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IBM proud to return to early 1980s
by David Nicol 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10113197-92.html -- "Refusing to move when ordered, he was tragically mulched." -- The Onion

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Re: USB microphone support
by Sean Crago 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Most generic USB audio devices work just fine in Linux - Just look to see if it says that drivers are required for current Windows builds. If not, it probably works just fine in Linux too. That said, I've always found it far easier to work with devices that use my PC's front 1/8th inch audio jacks tend to be far easier to work with, especially when faced with applications that are more poorly written than Skype & Ekiga and don't, on the application-level, allow you to select the audio device you're going to use. I personally use and swear by my Sennheiser PC151 headset (~$25-45), and can vouch for it being perfectly comfortable to use eight hours a day, five days a week. Headsets like this beat the hell out of all the phone-like wifi Skype devices and USB faux-phone speaker/microphone combinations. If you're dead set on having a separate USB device to jack it into, pick up a nice USB sound card to plug it into or pay an extra $15-20 and pick up the version of the PC1** series headsets with a USB adapter included. Sean Crago Kathmandu

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USB microphone support
by Matthew Copple 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

I've been hunting for a cheap USB microphone to use for skype and such. Is it possible to use any generic USB mic from wal-mart or best buy, or are there gotchas to be aware of when purchasing for use with Linux? -- Matthew G. Copple mcopple(a)kcopensource.org

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Fwd: [alg] D-Bus article
by Oren Beck 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

I thought this a worthy interlist crosspost. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas King <kingttx(a)tomslinux.homelinux.org> Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:18 PM Subject: [alg] D-Bus article To: alg(a)austinlug.org This is a pretty decent article for a nuts-and-bolts explanation of D-Bus. http://foss-boss.blogspot.com/2008/11/ride-d-bus-control-your-linux-desktop… Tom King _______________________________________________ ALG Mailing List http://austinlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/alg -- Oren Beck 816.729.3645

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OT : Looking for 2.5" SATA notebook drive
by Arthur Pemberton 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Just checking here if anyone has such a drive they are willing to part with for free or cheap. On a related note, I have an unused Untra 1024MB 4200 DDR2 533MHZ memory module for anyone on the list who wants. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com )

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64 bit distributions - Worth bothering yet?
by Sean Crago 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

I've passed on the upgrade to x64 distros, despite every box in my inventory other than my Eee PC 900 supporting them. The trouble with binary packages etc. seemed to be substantially worse than the minor benefits at the time to making the switch. Even today, various 32-bit OSes (Linux & 'doze alike) seem to dominate both at my current and last job, and only seem to be swapped out for 64-bit OSes when dealing with obscene amounts of RAM or specialized scientific routines. Is there something I'm missing, though, that has a dramatic impact on the desktop-user's experience? Are there substantial speed gains to be had, either on AMD or Intel Core * architectures? Is there any practical benefit at all to making the switch other than the specialized workstations and servers mentioned above? Thanks in advance, Sean Crago Kathmandu

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Black Friday
by Jim Herrmann 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Anyone have strategies for doing Best Buy's Black Friday? Thanks, Jim -- - That One - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUOHKznUyI

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Meeting Goals 2008-11-18
by Billy Crook 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

I'm bringing the Acer Aspire One running it's stock Linpus Linux in a mercilessly hacked up state. I think I'll be able to get it on the Library's wifi.... using iwconfig.... Then I'll demo Acer's factory restore DVD, and you can all play with the thing freshly reloaded and working. At the next meeting, I'll have Ubuntu with their netbook thing on there, and Fedora 10 after that. If you have anything else you'd like to see on a netbook, chime in now. I also at this point have Fedora 10 running on my laptop in its entirety. If anyone wants a sneak peak at what F10 will look like on its release, here's your chance to see it. If anyone had any distros they want to install, now's the time to ask if you want me to bring a disc ready to install from. Also, I thought I'd share a package I discovered a couple days ago called clive. clive takes as an argument, a youtube hyperlink, and swiftly downloads an flv or mp4 to your home directory. Supposedly it supports other sites as well. yum install clive. http://clive.sourceforge.net/ Then you can play it in vlc and probably other players, without ever installing flash. There's another script floating around out there that lets you play a youtube vid directly in mplayer or vlc, but you can't always stop and reverse and stuff since its streaming. There's another program I really wanted called pytube, a python gtk+ app that turns a youtube vid into an ogg file, but its author's site seems to be completely gone now.

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