Roundtable September 2008

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12 discussions

N access point
by Kevin Scott 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

B has better range then G... I've gotten a block out of B, but only a building with G, wireless networks drop to B if the G signal isn't high enough, in addition, most wireless specs, the receive sensitivity is much higher for B then G, lastly, the power output is higher for B. But as for N access points, I still go with the router, turn off the DHCP server, and any NAT features and you have an access point. Some Belkin (shudders at suggesting this brand though) routers have an option in the internal web server to turn it into a Access Point... Ignore the WAN or Internet port on the router, plug your network into one of the "PC" ports. The main advantage of doing it this way, and the reason I do, is because then you also end up with 3 more ports as a switch in the AP location. Kevin

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[OT] 802.11N access point.
by Sean Cody 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Anyone have any suggestions on an 802.11n ACCESS POINT. I don't need a router or router like functionality... I just need an AP (wireless bridge). Just finding AP only systems is being unusually difficult as all I see in stores are routers. I'm sure the routers will work as APs but given my experience in this arena it is a bit hit or miss. I currently use a Linksys WAP54G but am looking for something a bit better (big file transfers are annoying over wireless) preferably with gigabit uplink. Does the whole 'draft' thing even matter anymore? Suggestions? -- Sean

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Where did Rails Manitoba go?
by Sean Walberg 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Is that group still around? The domain name has been taken over by someone else and the Google group is stagnant. Have they renamed under a non-obvious title? Any other groups in the city meet to discuss Rails? Thanks, Sean -- Sean Walberg <sean(a)ertw.com> http://ertw.com/

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MUUG Board Elections - FINAL CALL for Nominations
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 23 Sep '08

23 Sep '08

Hear ye, hear ye! This is the FINAL CALL for nominees to participate in the election for the MUUG board. Those elected will serve from October 2008 until October 2009. The deadline to nominate yourself, or someone else, is September 30, 2007. Instructions follow. The MUUG board is charged with coordinating the meetings and other events by the group. It's fun, and you get a role in guiding the group. All are encouraged to apply. ------------------------ MUUG Board Elections - Call for Nominations Every October the Manitoba Unix User Group holds its Annual Meeting, the main goals of which are to elect a new Board of Directors and to pass any special resolutions. (Aside from that, it is a regular meeting) Any MUUG member in good standing can be nomi-nated to run for a position on the Board. As of this writing, the following members of the cur-rent Board have let their names stand for re-election: Gilbert Detillieux Systems Analyst University of Manitoba Michael Doob Professor University of Manitoba Kevin McGregor Network Analyst City of Winnipeg Montana Quiring Systems Administrator University of Manitoba Doug Shewfelt Systems Specialist City of Winnipeg Adam Thompson Consultant athompso.net Of course, this list is just a starting point. Any member in good standing of the group can be nominated simply by getting the support of one other member. If you feel you would like to contribute to the group by running for a board position, please don't hesitate to do so. (In fact, we'd like to see the number of board members increase.) If you want to be nominated, or to nominate someone else, send a letter to the group's postal box or deliver it in person to a current board member. The letter must contain the name, title, and employer of the nominee, along with a short (100 word or so) biography, and must contain the signatures of the nominee and one other member. The letter must be received no later than September 30, 2008, which is 14 days prior to the October 14 meeting. Although the by-laws require that the nominations be done in writing, with signatures, you can speed up the process by sending e-mail to <election(a)muug.mb.ca>, with the above information, and sending the signed paper copy later. In this case, please include the e-mail address of both the nominee and the supporter on the CC: list of the message, so that all parties concerned have a record of the communication. Nominees should familiarize themselves with the MUUG bylaws, found here: http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/bylaws/ If you have any questions about the election or the nomination process, please contact Gilbert Detillieux, either by phone (474-8161) during business hours, or by e-mail to <election(a)muug.mb.ca> anytime. Gilbert Detillieux Election Committee Chair ------------------------ -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Choosing server software
by Mike Pfaiffer 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

I'm volunteering with a non-for-profit group. Part of the mandate is to provide local internet services to a particular part of town. Apparently all the agreements are in place and the papers signed. I've been asked to extend the range of an existing public access service as well as provide replacement web space for half a dozen groups/clubs. The hardware is older PC hardware donated to one of the groups. I'm not sure exactly what they have (neither are they) so I'm going to assume I have to put things together from scratch. Old hardware is more available than money. I'm looking for a couple of easy to install and maintain packages. Specifically free router software and free web server software. If it can be set up in an afternoon it would be handy. At the moment I'm concentrating on the router software. I've been to Sourceforge and Freshmeat and found half a dozen. The group in charge want wireless in the new location. I'm not sure some of the older packages can handle wireless cards. Since the building they have to house the machines is quite long I figured one at either end connected via a wired router in the middle would be a good idea. I haven't set up dedicated servers like this before. Yes the people in charge know this and still want me to figure it out. I'd figure something still being maintained would be better than something which hasn't seen an update since 2000. I'd also guess OpenBSD would be preferred over Linux (or Windows). What are people using for this sort of thing? Later Mike

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Record MUUG tnite?
by Montana Quiring 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

I am very interested in the topic for tnites presentation.but I am unable to make it. If the presenter doesn't mind and someone has the tech (Sansa, Nokia IT, etc), could someone record it and send it to me, please? -- -Montana My Netvibes page: http://www.netvibes.com/antikx#About_Montana

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Re: [RndTbl] Request Tracker
by Montana Quiring 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

I figure out the problem. even though I had copied my rt3 install to /var/www/html from /opt (even though it seemed to want me to put it on opt) it was still using files from /opt/rt3 my httpd.conf points to /var/www/html/rt3 but for some reason it's looking for the files in /opt/rt3 *shrug* must be a setting somewhere that I missed. thanks for the help Adam. -Montana On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Adam Thompson <athompso(a)athompso.net> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Montana Quiring <montanaq(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the info! >> Unfortunately it's still not updating: >> http://www.nabble.com/Changes-to-HTML-files-not-showing.-to19380612.html > > Huh. So: > - you've turned on $DevMode > - you've created the mirror "local" directory tree > - you've edited BOTH sets of templates > - you've reset the Mason cache > - you've restarted apache > > ...and still your changes aren't appearing??? WTF? > > Stupid question, but... do you have locate(1) (or slocate(1)) configured on > this web server? If so (and its database is current), try running locate > against the basename of the file you changed. Make sure apache isn't > already reverse-proxying something. ****Make sure your local browser cache > is empty!**** In fact, have you *tried* testing from a different browser on > a different system? If not, try it from home, or someone else's PC, or... > whatever, just eliminate that as a potential source of problems. (If you're > using IE and you haven't altered the caching settings, then this *WILL* be > your problem, as IE can't use the last-modified timestamps that RT (or > mason, not sure) generates.) > > -Adam > > -- -Montana My Netvibes page: http://www.netvibes.com/antikx#About_Montana

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Request Tracker
by Montana Quiring 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hello, So far Request Tracker is working out well. Thanks for the suggestion/help. I would like to simplify the "Create a new ticket" page, so I've tried editing this file: share/html/Ticket/Create.html unfortunatly it seems to make no difference, and the page never changes when I view it in a web browser. Is this a Apache, or FastCGI caching problem? Suggestions, please? -- -Montana My Netvibes page: http://www.netvibes.com/antikx#About_Montana

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Sun Unix Person
by John Lange 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

If anyone knows of a SUN Solarus resource that is available for contract work can you please ask them to contact me? Thanks. -- John Lange 204 975 7113 www.johnlange.ca

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Re: [RndTbl] Request Tracker
by Montana Quiring 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Thanks for the suggestions Sean. It helped me to eventually figure out the problem.... the username and group settings were too far down in the httpd.conf file once I moved it up to the top, it was fine. now to configure RT. ya! -Montana On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Sean Walberg <sean(a)ertw.com> wrote: > Do you have a FastCgiIpcDir directive in httpd.conf? Can the webserver's > UID/group write to it? > Sean > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Montana Quiring <montanaq(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> If someone could throw me a bone, I would really appreciate it. >> I think I am very close to having Request Tracker running (it told me >> so). It said I just needed to finish setting up my web server. >> I followed some on-line instructions and now when I go my RT URL I get >> this web page: >> 500 Internal Error >> Internal Server Error >> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was >> unable to complete your request. >> Please contact the server administrator, root and inform them of the >> time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may >> have caused the error. >> More information about this error may be available in the server error >> log. >> <---SNIP----> >> >> The tail end of my apache error log says this: >> [Wed Sep 03 06:45:53 2008] [alert] [client 207.161.57.35] >> (13)Permission denied: FastCGI: failed to connect to (dynamic) server >> "/opt/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi": something is seriously wrong, any >> chance the socket/named_pipe directory was removed?, see the >> FastCgiIpcDir directive >> [Wed Sep 03 06:45:53 2008] [error] [client 207.161.57.35] FastCGI: >> incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server >> "/opt/rt3/bin/mason_handler.fcgi" >> <-------SNIP-----> >> >> any suggestions? >> -- >> -Montana >> >> My Netvibes page: >> http://www.netvibes.com/antikx#About_Montana >> _______________________________________________ >> Roundtable mailing list >> Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca >> http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable > > > > -- > Sean Walberg <sean(a)ertw.com> http://ertw.com/ > -- -Montana My Netvibes page: http://www.netvibes.com/antikx#About_Montana

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Roundtable September 2008