May 2002 - Roundtable

CD, VCD & DVD Burning
by John Lange 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

At a recent MUUG meeting someone was asking about burning VCDs (Video CDs). I believe the consensus at the meeting was that burning under Linux was comprised of a hodge-podge of various command line tools for converting video formats and burning making it quite difficult at best. I recently stumbled on the following software: http://www.k3b.org/ which seems to bring everything under one roof and claims to do CD, VCD, and DVD burning all in one application (it does not appear to be just a GUI front end to command line tools). However, I do not currently have a burner to test it with so I was hoping someone from the group could give it a whirl and report back on success? Thanks. -- John Lange BigHostBox.com ltd (204) 885 0872 Toll free: 1-866-690-8297

4 4

Socket dump utility
by S/C Conway 30 May '02

30 May '02

G'Day, Does anyone know if there is a program that will do a trap on a port similiar to a tcpdump on an interface? I have a programmer with some code problems and he suspects it might be before the data comes out the port. He asked if I had such a beast that could trap port outputs. Does such a utility exist? Sean

3 2

procedure for setting up tftp server RH 7.2
by S/C Conway 30 May '02

30 May '02

G'Day, Does anyone have a procedure for configuring tftp server on RH7.2? I have installed the rpm and can start the server. It appears in a netstat -aln till I try and access it. The daemon then drops and has to be manually restarted. I am looking for a setup procedure or a link to a procedure if anyone has had success. Enclosed is the /etc/xinetd.d/tftp configuration so far: # default: off # description: The tftp server serves files using the trivial file transfer \ # protocol. The tftp protocol is often used to boot diskless \ # workstations, download configuration files to network-aware printers, \ # and to start the installation process for some operating systems. service tftp { disable = no socket_type = dgram protocol = udp wait = yes user = root server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd server_args = -cls /tftpboot log_on_success +=USERID log_on_failure +=USERID per_source = 11 cps =100 2 } sean

1 0

Mozilla release party?
by Geek 29 May '02

29 May '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey, is anyone planning a Mozilla release party? I mean Ottawa has two of them going on, Toronto has one and even Hamilton is going to have one. I just thought it would be an interesting idea, for the day after the MUUG meeting. the site for the release party is http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/ and to register one, you must add to the bug at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100309. Just a thought. Dwight Wallbridge, Webmaster, Geek, Blogger. Geek's World http://www.geeksworld.net Geek Blog http://www.geekblog.net/ Geek Blog's Forums http://www.geekblog.net/board/ Geek Gab Mail list http://www.geekblog.net/mailman/listinfo/geekbgab_geekblog.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPPQuFmnnst6dkGIhEQLzvACfSRgTr5wIdcDPerfgh6p5+mMZDOYAni6L ++yTl4CosO+CFs0n5aLuuOpb =oAE/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

1 0

Personal Linux Fnance App
by Mel Seder 20 May '02

20 May '02

I've been using Quicken since the late 80's or early 90's. It does everything I need to do including getting prices for Canadian mutual funds. I'd like to use Linux (currently RH Valhalla 7.3) for my personal accounting. I'm not in a heated rush to switch to Linux but if there is a rock-solid app that I can use I'd be willing to run dual finance apps until I am confident with the Linux app. I am even willing to use a web app for finances if there is such a (solid and reliable) thing. Any comments, suggestions or personal experience would be appreciated. ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

3 2

optimizing hard drive, RH 7.2
by millward 18 May '02

18 May '02

Sometimes my hard drive grinds away like a coffee grinder. Nothing bad happens on the screen and everything runs just fine, but I wonder why it occasionally goes 'crazy' like that. Most of the time the hard drive runs nice and quiet. Its a 40 gig Samsung SV4084H. I know what swapping is and I can't think why it would be swaping. I've got 384 megs of memory and gave Red Hat 7.2 128 megs of swap. Perhaps its something I have not done. Is there some method to optimize memory or hard drive space?

4 3

hot hard drives
by millward 18 May '02

18 May '02

When I installed my burner, I was surprised at how hot my hard drive was. It's been my experience that modems run hot, but not hard drives. But that was in those old desktop cases, not these new, improved ATX tower cases. I have a 40 gig Samsung SV40844 hooked up, and beside it was a 15 gig Fujitsu MPF3153AT not hooked to anything, and it was warm from the Samsung! This explained why my 3.15" ball bearing fan was working so hard. The original one had burnt out a few months back and this replacement was making noises, until I removed the Fujisu and gave the Samsung some space for air circulation. Now the fan is quiet. The case is 16 x 8 inches ATX with 3 external bays and only two internal bays. I've kept my normal CD rom dirve separated from the burner with the empty external bay. So how do I get this thing to run 2 hard drives without overheating when I only have two internal bays?

2 1

Computer Helper Guy's email addy
by Mel Seder 17 May '02

17 May '02

An email sent to ComputerHelperGuy(a)www.chguy.net and a daemon sent me the following: <ComputerHelper<ComputerHelperGuy(a)www.chguy.net>: 66.150.0.137 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) Giving up on 66.150.0.137. Does anyone know a valid email address for that person and is that person the famous Bill Bennett (spelling?)? ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

2 1

Bootable CD distros
by Mike Pfaiffer 16 May '02

16 May '02

I asked this question at the meeting but kind of got sidetracked. Does anybody have a favourite bootable CD distro they would recommend as a "will work on any machine immediately" demo? I tried Vietual Linux 1.1 from http://virtual-linux.org and it couldn't get past five or six processes respawning too fast. Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Digital Civilization magazine: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | | See my web page before you think about spamming me. I charge cash. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------

2 1

Re: [RndTbl] RedHat 7.3 Install CD's by www.chguy.net
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 16 May '02

16 May '02

According to Mel Seder: > I purchased a set of two disks labeled B1 and B2 install CDs. > There was a CD labeled Power Tools available also but I didn't purchase > that one. Strange. There hasn't been a Power Tools CD since Red Hat 7.1. > When I did a Valhalla install from my Hard Drive I had downloaded three > Iso files. Should there have been three CDs from the chguy? If there > should have been I'd be glad to order it from him. There should indeed be 3 CD's of Intel binaries for the Valhalla (RH 7.3) distribution. The 3rd disc also contains some of the source RPM's that didn't fit on the two source CD's. There's also a documentation CD that was released. That's a total of 6 CD's, 3 of which are needed for installs. (Those 3 binary CD's correspond to the sets that were sold at the last MUUG meeting.) -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

1 0