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Free Apple Seminar: Unix Inside, Mac Outside
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

Howdy folks! I received the following from Doug Hamilton (who has given a couple presentations at MUUG meetings on Mac OS X), and thought it would be of interest the the Mac fans in the group. Please contact Doug (and not me) if you have any questions about the seminar... -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:40:28 -0500 Subject: Please forward to MUUG ... From: Doug Hamilton <hamilto(a)cc.UManitoba.CA> To: Gilbert Detillieux <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Hi Gilbert, If you feel its appropriate, could you please forward the following to the MUUG mailing-list (see below) ? Thanks, Doug ### Well its official, the BookStore and Apple Canada are pleased to be able offer a FREE Apple seminar entitled "Unix Inside, Mac Outside". This seminar will take place on: July 22nd, 2003, and will run from 1:00PM to approximately 4:00PM; in room 343 Drake Centre at the University of Manitoba - Fort Garry campus. This seminar will be of value to professional and casual programmers, as well as directors and managers, who wish to understand what is possible with modern development tools. Steve Hayman, based out of Toronto but employed by Apple Computer, Inc. (Cupertino, California), is a National Consulting Engineer and has worked for Apple for 10 years. He will demonstrate Mac OS X and what its Unix core coupled with powerful object oriented developer tools can offer. Steve comes highly recommended as a presenter, and as a programmer. His been developing applications on Mac OS X since it was called NeXTSTEP. While Mac OS X development seminars have been previously presented in Winnipeg, none of them have been provided by a developer. This seminar will be kicked off by Randy Kokesch, who will be providing an brief overview of successful Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant applications, which have requested Apple hardware and software solutions. This will be followed by Steve Hayman's presentation, "Unix Inside, Mac Outside", to be concluded with a Q&A period. If you would like to register for this seminar, please use the URL below to jump to the Apple Seminars listing for this event: http://www.seminars.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ASPRegistration.woa/3/ wa/eventsByStateAndCity?state=MB&city=Winnipeg If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me. ###

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Mandrake 9.1 and fbdev
by Mike Pfaiffer 10 Jul '03

10 Jul '03

I want to start off by saying I did RTFM (or at least did a google search on the topic). Also what I want to do was working three weeks ago (before some errors and a reinstall). After a solid few days of reading I think I'm a little closer to understanding what I need to do. What I want it to be able to display video on an NTSC monitor/VCR from text mode. I have a Radeon 7000 card with s-video. The radeon driver is installed. I also installed the fbdev driver. To get the graphics working the way they were I think I have to have both installed (I didn't do this before). Mandrake should be able to pick up the other monitor port and install the stuff necessary for fbdev automatically (as it did the for first few reinstalls). So far it looks as though everything is the way it should be except the /dev/fb0 file is missing. My current thoughts are I need to have the NTSC monitor actually connected and turned on for the install for it to be detected (it worked without doing this before). Any thoughts before I decide to do yet another reinstall? 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 ------

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recording 78 to digital
by millward 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

http://www.tappin.me.uk/Linux/audio.html There's a program called gramofile that was specifically made for 78s. The programmers advise you to get a particular kind of turntable I could never find. The last time I saw a turntable that could play 78s was at a small company called Columbus Radio Ltd. I think that if you want to do a realy good job you have to buy an audio mixer board, like those Behringer Eurotrack devices at Mother's Music. The cheapest one , the UB502, is $98. I have recorded a couple of 33 rpm tracks, and some audio tape, to hard drive using Linux sox. and software mixer, with the back of the sterio cabled to the sound card. It turned out OK but not good enough to burn to CD. I think getting a hardware mixer would help. It's important to have the correct sterio connector from your source to the sound card. I got mine at Radio Shack ( I'd give you the specs but the its been packed away somewhere ). For a week or two I couldn't get anything to work. The problem was a defective cable! It was gold and brand new. You can't trust anything these days. Good luck!

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recording 78's onto a digital format
by Mel Seder 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

I purchased some Jim Crow blues songs on 78's on eBay and would like to put them on a CD. I'd be glad to pay someone that knows what they are doing for help. Has anyone done this before? ===== 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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md5sum
by Ian Timshel 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

Hi all. How do I get the md5sum numbers for the ftp.muug.mb.ca site? I look but I do not see... Cheers! Ian.

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LCD tips tricks and traps
by Mel Seder 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

The following info came from TLUG I didn't do the math but I think I understand what is being said. Are the native resolutions determined by the factory (hardware) or can software settings manipulate native resolutions? On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:38:40PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote > Actually the only real issue with LCD screens is: > > Only use the native resolution and never use anything else, unless it is > an exact integer divisor of the native resolution. > > So a 1600x1200 LCD can be used at 800x600 as well, and 400x300, but you > really don't want any others. > > A 1280x1024 LCD on the other hand has basically no other reasonable > resolutions it can display. ===== 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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LCD Monitors
by Mel Seder 18 Jun '03

18 Jun '03

This is a two part question. Help on either or both will be appreciated. I have a ViewSonic P 801 (non LCD 21" monster, weights lots). For the past week or so the screen blooms (not all content shows on screen some of the graphics are off the edges and it Is so dim you can harley read it. The Monitors input box is very very blurry. Explaining his to a Viewsonic help desk guy he said I have a monitor issue and it's probably not worth fixing. I'd like to get a LCD I was at future shop and saw several there the one that caught my eye was a 19" Sony. I use Linux. Does anyone has some thoughts or advice about LCD displays? ===== 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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XP and Red Hat 9
by millward 12 Jun '03

12 Jun '03

Can anyone give me some pointers as to how to get XP and Red Hat 9 ( or any other distribution of Linux ) to co-exist on the same system in the same hard drive? I've downloaded the Linux and Windows HOWTO, but it doesn't seem to cover XP. The only windoze I've got experience with is 95/98. They were no problem, but I think I need more information before trying an XP Linux mix. I want to use GRUB for booting. The motherboard is an ASUS NVIDIA A7N8X. Athlon 2500 one Gig ram. 80 Gig HD Any information would be very welcome. I don't want to make a mess of this.

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MUUG Meeting, June 10, 7:30PM -- Linux Clusters
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 03 Jun '03

03 Jun '03

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <bbig27$32j$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 10. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Linux Clusters The ability to cluster servers is one of the biggest steps toward acceptance of Linux in mission-critical applications. There are multiple clustering products available, and Red Hat now bundles two different types with their Enterprise server product. Clustering can increase both the reliability and the scalability of many different types of applications. Adam Thompson will be our presenter for this month. Three types of clustering will be discussed (Failover, LVS & Beowulf) and some typical examples of each will be presented. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM 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 new 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 7:15 PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or you may not get in. Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce" and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you to subscribe now: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/ The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG members. The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective, we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay involved! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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Strange behaviour of hard drive
by Bill Reid 02 Jun '03

02 Jun '03

Just bought a couple of WDC SE hard drives and running them in a software RAID 1 configuration. One drive is often not recognised at boot up. It does not happen all the time but occassionally on reset. After not being recongnised it requires a power cycle to get it back. It does not matter whether it is on the primary or secondary IDE. Has anyone seen this behaviour. Thanks, Bill

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