October 2009 - Roundtable

Re: [RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 56, Issue 8
by Kat 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

I was curious about a n810 or earlier model a month ago, but I found them difficult to find here. Anywhere I found them was almost *twice* the price of what it was in the U.S. Many of the site I was looking at seemed outdated, but even the up-to-date sites were disappointing. I even contacted a few stores Nokia had listed as retailers, and they did not carry them. The Nokia site isn't the mess it was a month or two ago, but still... I ended up settling on an Archos 5, which Best Buy has on sale, but out of stock. Future Shop matches the price, so I got the 60 GB model for about $250. I briefly considered an Ipod Touch, but apparently it doesn't play nice with Linux. I think I should write an article to tell you folks what usability and trinkets are like... On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:00 PM, <roundtable-request(a)muug.mb.ca> wrote: > Send Roundtable mailing list submissions to > roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > roundtable-request(a)muug.mb.ca > > You can reach the person managing the list at > roundtable-owner(a)muug.mb.ca > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Roundtable digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: New Linux Maemo Device (Montana Quiring) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:02:40 -0500 > From: Montana Quiring <montanaq(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [RndTbl] New Linux Maemo Device > To: MUUG Roundtable <roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca>, Zaurus Users of Manitoba > <zum(a)muug.mb.ca> > Message-ID: > <bdad73b60908280602l230a3f9dtcd1f179c744a4cdd(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > This just got announced too: > > http://www.h-online.com/open/Sharp-launch-Linux-based-Netwalker-in-Japan--/… > > Japan only though. :( > -MQ > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Montana Quiring <montanaq(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I know there's more then a few of us that are interested in and excited > > about this announcement! > > http://cli.gs/n900announce > > > > -- > > -Montana > > > > >

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Open Source Backup/cloning to USB HDD
by Montana Quiring 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hello, I want to backup a few Fedora serves and I'm wondering what Open Source software people have used and would recommend for taking a snapshot of a the complete system and have it save to an external USB hard drive. -Montana Blog: http://montanaquiring.info My Friend Feed: http://friendfeed.com/antikx iPhone/Touch Apps I have bought: http://appshopper.com/feed/user/antikx/myapps

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Re: [RndTbl] Open Source Backup/cloning to USB HDD
by Adam Thompson 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

PartImage (and similar & derivative pkgs) add intelligent functionality like volume spanning (back up an 80Gb volume to 10 8Gb DVD-Rs, or to 2Gb files on a FAT filesystem), only backing up used sectors (particularly helpful on drives with tons of free disk space), unicast and/or multicast over-the-wire (for when you can't easily mount the remote filesystem), and automatic partition re-sizing (transfer an image of an 80Gb HDD onto a 300Gb HDD or a 40Gb HDD [as long as there's enough room]). The main advantages come with scenarios *other* than simple disk replacement or cloning to an identical disk, esp. disaster-recovery archiving, mass cloning, etc. -Adam ------Original Message------ From: Lange, John Sender: roundtable-bounces(a)muug.mb.ca To: Roundtable, MUUG Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Open Source Backup/cloning to USB HDD Sent: Oct 27, 2009 15:36 Just out of curiosity, what is it that these various programs that people have recommended do with regard to imaging that "dd" doesn't? I've never looked at any of these in any great detail but so far as I can see they all add complexity while reducing functionality. Image a disk? dd Backup a file system? rsync to tape? tar to remote? ssh (or scp) scheduled? put any of the above in cron That's all you need. What am I missing? Regards, -- John Lange http://www.johnlange.ca On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 15:26 -0500, Montana Quiring wrote: > This is from Clonezilla page: > Based on Partimage, ntfsclone, partclone, and dd to clone partition. > However, clonezilla, containing some other programs, can save and > restore not only partitions, but also a whole disk. > > Thanks for the feedback everyone! _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable

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Re: [RndTbl] Open Source Backup/cloning to USB HDD
by kel＠kelweb.ca 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Clonezilla (GPL) is awesome. The live CD supports backup to network shares as well as transfer over ssh. Kelly ------Original Message------ From: John Lange Sender: roundtable-bounces(a)muug.mb.ca To: roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Open Source Backup/cloning to USB HDD Sent: Oct 27, 2009 2:44 PM On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 14:00 -0500, Montana Quiring wrote: > Hello, > > I want to backup a few Fedora serves and I'm wondering what Open > Source software people have used and would recommend for taking a > snapshot of a the complete system and have it save to an external USB > hard drive. Personally I like "dd" for images. dd if=/dev/xxx | gzip > backup.img.gz -- John Lange http://www.johnlange.ca _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable

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Linus Torvalds at Windows 7 booth in Tokyo
by Gilles Detillieux 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Just thought this would be of interest to the group... http://picasaweb.google.com/cschlaeger/JapanLinuxSymposium#5395358413061926… -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <grdetil(a)scrc.umanitoba.ca> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 (Canada)

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CISSE 2009 - Paper Submission Deadline Extended to October 26, 2009.
by CISSE 2009 11 Oct '09

11 Oct '09

Dear Colleagues, Due to numerous deadline extension requests from potential CISSE 2009 authors, the CISSE organizing committee has decided to extend the paper submission deadline to 10/26/2009. Please note that this is a hard deadline, so that the technical committees can perform their paper reviewing duties in a timely manner. If you received this email in error, please forward it to the appropriate department at your institution. If you wish to unsubscribe please follow the unsubscribe link at bottom of the email. Please do not reply to this message. If you need to contact us please email us at info(a)cisse2009.org ********************************************************************* * The Fifth International Joint Conferences on Computer, * * Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE 2009) * * * * * * * * http://www.cisse2009.org * * * * * * * ********************************************************************* December 4-12, 2009 Sponsored by the University of Bridgeport Technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, Communications Society and Education Society (Connecticut Section) --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE OVERVIEW --------------------------------------------------------------------- CISSE 2009 provides a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of the-art research on computers, information and systems sciences and engineering. CISSE 2009 is the fifth conference of the CISSE series of e-conferences. CISSE is the World's first Engineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference. CISSE 2005 was the first high-caliber Research Conference in the world to be completely conducted online in real-time via the internet. CISSE 2005 received 255 research paper submissions and the final program included 140 accepted papers, from more than 45 countries. CISSE 2006 received 691 research paper submissions and the final program included 390 accepted papers, from more than 70 countries. CISSE 2007 received 750 research paper submissions and the final program included 406 accepted papers. A total of 948 paper submissions were received for CISSE 2008 and the final program included 382 accepted papers, from more than 80 countries. The virtual conference will be conducted through the Internet using web-conferencing tools, made available by the conference. Authors will be presenting their PowerPoint, audio or video presentations using web-conferencing tools without the need for travel. Conference sessions will be broadcast to all the conference participants, where session participants can interact with the presenter during the presentation and (or) during the Q&A slot that follows the presentation. This international conference will be held entirely on-line. The accepted and presented papers will be made available and sent to the authors after the conference both on a DVD (including all papers, powerpoint presentations and audio presentations) and as a book publication. Springer, the official publisher for CISSE, published the 2005 proceedings in 2 books and the CISSE 2006, CISSE 2007 and CISSE 2008 proceedings in four books each. Conference participants - authors, presenters and attendees - only need an internet connection and sound available on their computers in order to be able to contribute and participate in this international ground-breaking conference. The on-line structure of this high-quality event will allow academic professionals and industry participants to contribute their work and attend world-class technical presentations based on rigorously refereed submissions, live, without the need for investing significant travel funds or time out of the office. The concept and format of CISSE is ground-breaking. The PowerPoint presentations, final paper manuscripts and time schedule for live presentations over the web are available for two weeks prior to the start of the conference for all registrants, so that the participants can choose the presentations they want to attend and think about questions that they might want to ask. The live audio presentations were also recorded and are part of the permanent CISSE on-line archive - accessible to all registrants- which also includes all the papers, PowerPoint and audio presentations. Potential non-author conference attendees who cannot make the on-line conference dates are encouraged to register, as the entire joint conferences will be archived for future viewing. The CISSE conference audio room provides superb audio even over low speed internet connections, the ability to display PowerPoint presentations, and cross-platform compatibility (the conferencing software runs on Windows, Mac, and any other operating system that supports Java). In addition, the conferencing system allows for an unlimited number of participants, which in turn granted us the opportunity to allow all CISSE participants to attend all presentations, as opposed to limiting the number of available seats for each session. Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format through the website of the conference at http://www.cisse2009.org. Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the authors. To submit your paper, please visit http://www.cisse2009.org CISSE 2009 is composed of the following four conferences: International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering (SCSS 09) Topics: Grid Computing, Internet-based Computing Models, Resource Discovery, Programming Models and tools, e-Science and Virtual Instrumentation, Biometric Authentication, Computers for People of Special Needs, Human Computer Interaction, Information and Knowledge Engineering, Algorithms, Parallel and Distributed processing, Modeling and Simulation, Services and Applications, Embedded Systems and Applications, Databases, Programming Languages, Signal Processing Theory and Methods, Signal Processing for Communication, Signal Processing Architectures and Implementation, Information Processing, Geographical Information Systems, Object Based Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Real Time Systems, Multiprocessing, File Systems and I/O, Kernel and OS Structures. International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 09) Topics: Optical Networks and Switching, Computer Networks, Network architectures and Equipment, Access Technologies, Telecommunication Technology, Coding and Modulation technique, Modeling and Simulation, Spread Spectrum and CDMA Systems, OFDM technology, Space-time Coding, Ultra Wideband Communications, Medium Access Control, Spread Spectrum, Wireless LAN: IEEE 802.11, HIPERLAN, Bluetooth, Cellular Wireless Networks, Cordless Systems and Wireless Local Loop, Mobile Network Layer, Mobile Transport Layer, Support for Mobility, Conventional Encryption and Message Confidentiality, Block Ciphers Design Principles, Block Ciphers Modes of Operation, Public-Key Cryptography and Message Authentication, Authentication Application, Stenography, Electronic Mail Security, Web Security, IP Security, Firewalls, Computer Forensics. International Conference on Engineering Education, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning (EIAE 09) Topics: Instructional Design, Accreditation, Curriculum Design, Educational Tools, 2-2-2 Platforms, Teaching Capstone Design, Teaching Design at the Lower Levels, Design and Development of e-Learning tools, Assessment Methods in Engineering, Development and Implementation of E-learning tools, Ethics in Education, Economical and Social Impacts of E-learning. International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation (IETA 09) Topics: Advanced and Distributed Control Systems, Intelligent Control Systems (NN, FL, GA, .etc), Expert Systems, Man Machine Interaction, Data Fusion, Factory Automation, Robotics, Motion Control, Machine Vision, MEMS Sensors and Actuators, Sensors Fusion, Power Electronics, High Frequency Converters, Motors and Drives, Power Converters, Power Devices and Components, Electric Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation, Process Automation, Factory Communication, Manufacturing Information System Advances in Manufacturing Systems, Industrial Applications of Multi Media, Intelligent Systems Instrumentation, Industrial Instrumentation, Modeling and Simulation, Signal Processing, Image and Data Processing, VR and Parallel systems.. Paper Submission ================= Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format through the website of the conference at http://www.cisse2009.org. Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the authors. To submit your paper, visit http://www.cisse2009.org New Paper submission Deadline: October 26th, 2009 Notification of Acceptance: November 12th, 2009 Final Manuscript and Registration: November 26th, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ S. Patel CISSE 2009 Support Team University of Bridgeport e-mail: info(a)cisse2009.org Bridgeport, CT 06604, U.S.A. http://www.cisse2009.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here on http://server1.streamsend.com/streamsend/unsubscribe.php?cd=3326&md=362&ud=… <http://server1.streamsend.com/streamsend/unsubscribe.php?cd=3326&md=362&ud=…> to update your profile or Unsubscribe

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MUUG Meeting, Oct 13, 7:30pm -- Jabber
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, October 13. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Jabber Today, instant messaging is taken for granted. We use it to stay in constant contact with our friends and colleagues. There are some environments where it is not feasible or practical to use external IM services in a corporate environment. Like most things, there is an Open Source solution for that. In this case, we're talking about the Jabber instant messaging protocol. In this presentation, Darren Hildebrand and Sean Cody, from Prime Focus VFX, will talk about the Jabber system and show how the eJabberd implementation can be used to provide closed instant messaging services in a secure, simple and client-application agnostic way. They will also discuss what logging, auditing and authentication options are available. If you were ever interested in replacing or providing AIM/MSN/ICQ/gTalk functionality in your workspace this presentation is for you. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15pm, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30pm. Don't be late, or you may not get in. (But don't come too early either, since security may not be there to let you in before 7:15 or so.) Non-members may be required to show photo ID at the security desk. Limited parking is available for free on the street, either on Ellice Ave. or on some of the intersecting streets. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $5.00 for the evening. Bicycle parking is available in a bike rack under video surveillance located behind the building on Webb Place. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- 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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