May 2004 - Roundtable

Local Linux training...
by Michael Boyd 31 May '04

31 May '04

Greetings Manitoba Unix User Group Members, The University of Winnipeg's Division of Continuing Education (DCE) is pleased to announce the offering of a Linux Boot-Camp. Courses, cost, and dates are as follows: Linux Essentials: Mon-Thu 9:00-3:30pm June 21-24, $555 Linux System Administration: Mon-Thu 9:00-3:30pm July 5-8, $555 Linux Network Administration: Mon-Thu 9:00-3:30pm July 19-22, $555 Advanced Linux Network Admin and Linux Security: Mon-Fri 9:00-3:30pm Aug 9-13, $675 Participants successfully completing the four courses will receive a University of Winnipeg Certificate of Completion. Also, participants may wish to challenging the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification. Registration can take place immediately by contacting DCE. More details can be found in the attachment. For any questions or information on how to register, please contact Stevi Dram at 982-1168 or s.dram(a)uwinnipeg.ca. Michael Boyd Director Information Technology University of Winnipeg - DCE 294 William Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3B 0R1 Tel: (204) 982-1161 Fax: (204) 944-0115 Email: mi.boyd(a)uwinnipeg.ca Web: www.dce.uwinnipeg.ca

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Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together
by John Lange 28 May '04

28 May '04

At the last meeting someone was having problems with Windows and Fedora. Since that time another user has relayed to me similar problems and has located this article which may be of interest: http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ -- John Lange BigHostBox.com (204) 885 0872

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What's up with the MUUG servers?
by Mike Pfaiffer 26 May '04

26 May '04

Just a "heads up"... Tried to get the Fedora 2 CDs and neither the web or ftp servers will connect. It's always best to wait for about a week before getting new distros. This way the mad rush is over. The RedHat servers are slow as molassas. Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Digital Civilization magazine: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca | |Call-A.P.P.L.E. and the Digital Civilization http://www.callapple.org | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- 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 ------

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Linux Live CD to edit Windows registry
by millward 16 May '04

16 May '04

I found a program called chntpw which claims in /usr/doc/RIP/regedit.txt that it is a: "full basic registry edit with add/del keys and values and resizing values" for NT. I got this CD from Issue 36 of LinuxUser, an English Linux magazine in which RIP was included ( Recover_Is_Possible ). The web site given is: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ I can't say if it works because I have not tried it.

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May 16 2:00 - 6:00 AM Shaw maintenance and network upgrades
by Mel Seder 16 May '04

16 May '04

Please be advised that we will be performing maintenance and networkupgrades for your area on May 16th, 2004 between 2:00AM and 6:00AM local time. You may experience service interruptions during this time period. We appreciate your patience throughout this process. Thank you for choosing Shaw. ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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Re: [RndTbl] burning MP3 blues
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 14 May '04

14 May '04

According to Mel Seder: > I tried burning an audio CD using (Fedora CORE 1) Nautilus. By "audio CD", do you mean you want to create an actual audio CD, technically referred to as CDDA (Compact Disc Digital Audio) format? In that case, the mp3's typically have to be decoded into raw or wav format. > I put it a blank CD and a burn/// window popped up. > I copied mp3's to it and did a burn. > It plays in my PC when i open the CD and click on a song's icon (xmms gets > fired up) but the CD player app doesn't play it. What you've likely created that way is an ISO-format CD-ROM, with a bunch of MP3 files in the root directory of the CD. That should play fine in CD players and DVD players that can handle MP3 format, but those tend to be a bit more rare. > As a matter of interest the > following appears on the CD Player Screen. I didn't burn anything that > resembled the following. > ================================ > "Disney's Magic Kingdom" > "SpectroMagic Light Parade" > "1-Spectromagic" > ================================ I'm assuming it did a CDDB lookup, based on the hashed disc ID, and it just happened to match some random title in their database, even though there's no actual match between the two discs. That often happens with data CD's, if an audio player happens to try a CDDB lookup. > It appears as one file/song to my stereo's CD player and no sound is produced. Yes, the ISO file system will be recorded as one "track" on the CD-ROM, so CD players would see one track. But the track is marked as having a mode other than audio, so they won't play. (That's how you can get audio CD's that also have a CD-ROM component that you can read on your computer, such as the "Enhanced CD" format that is used for a lot of pop releases.) > I've burned (burnt?) MP3's before when I was a couple years younger and I don't > know what is going wrong. > > Can anyone give me a command line for burning mp3's in /tmp/burn/ to a CDR > using cdrecord with parameters? As I've said above, it sounds like what you've produced should work fine on players that can handle MP3 discs. But if you want standard CDDA format, you'll need to decode the MP3 files (mplayer or mpg123 can do this for you), then you need to record those audio files, preferably in DAO (disc at once) mode, to a CD-R (cdrecord or cdrdao can do that). You should be able to find a tutorial online to help you do this, just by doing a Google search with enough of the techie buzzwords I've given you here. :) -- 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

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Re: [RndTbl] Can I delete all files/directories undere /tmp
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 14 May '04

14 May '04

According to Mel Seder: > I want to flash everything from /tmp and put mp3's there to burn to a CD. > > Can that cause any problems? That all depends on what's currently in /tmp, and what's still in use. For example, a lot of sockets used by X11 and the various graphics libraries get set up in /tmp, and removing them while running X might break things. Feel free to get rid of any large regular files in /tmp, as they're likely not needed after their initial use, and don't sweat the small stuff. Put your mp3's into a subdirectory of /tmp, though, so they're not lost in the mess. -- 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

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Re: [RndTbl] k3b addition to yum.comf
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 14 May '04

14 May '04

According to Mel Seder: > The k3b site said I should add the following to /etc/yum.conf which I did. > > [xcyb-stable] > name=Fedora Core 1 ( xcyborg / stable ) > baseurl=http://rpms.xcyb.org/fedora/1/stable/ > > [xcyb-bleeding] > name=Fedora Core 1 ( xcyborg / bleeding ) > baseurl=http://rpms.xcyb.org/fedora/1/bleeding/ > > My question concerns the [xcyb-bleeding] section. Does bleeding mean the same > as beta or not yet ready for prime time? If so, I'd rather just have the > [xcyb-stable] section in yum.conf. I'm assuming the "bleeding" in this case refers to the humourous euphemism "bleeding edge", which would certainly suggest that its not ready for prime time. Actually, I wouldn't put either of the above xcyb repositories in the default yum.conf if you're running automatic yum updates via cron. I'd put them in an alternative configuration file, and just specify that manually when you want to get something from the xcyb repositories. For example... yum -c /etc/yum-xcyb.conf update Of course, you won't get automatic updates for any packages at those repositories, but they're not likely to be critical anyway. For some sites that provide alternative versions of packages that are part of the base distribution, it might be safer to not have the "updated" automatically. -- 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

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k3b addition to yum.comf
by Mel Seder 14 May '04

14 May '04

The k3b site said I should add the following to /etc/yum.conf which I did. [xcyb-stable] name=Fedora Core 1 ( xcyborg / stable ) baseurl=http://rpms.xcyb.org/fedora/1/stable/ [xcyb-bleeding] name=Fedora Core 1 ( xcyborg / bleeding ) baseurl=http://rpms.xcyb.org/fedora/1/bleeding/ My question concerns the [xcyb-bleeding] section. Does bleeding mean the same as beta or not yet ready for prime time? If so, I'd rather just have the [xcyb-stable] section in yum.conf. ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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burning MP3 blues
by Mel Seder 14 May '04

14 May '04

I tried burning an audio CD using (Fedora CORE 1) Nautilus. I put it a blank CD and a burn/// window popped up. I copied mp3's to it and did a burn. It plays in my PC when i open the CD and click on a song's icon (xmms gets fired up) but the CD player app doesn't play it. As a matter of interest the following appears on the CD Player Screen. I didn't burn anything that resembled the following. ================================ "Disney's Magic Kingdom" "SpectroMagic Light Parade" "1-Spectromagic" ================================ It appears as one file/song to my stereo's CD player and no sound is produced. I've burned (burnt?) MP3's before when I was a couple years younger and I don't know what is going wrong. Can anyone give me a command line for burning mp3's in /tmp/burn/ to a CDR using cdrecord with parameters? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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