KCLUG February 2005

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115 discussions

Cheap Linux-compatible printer?
by Leo Mauler 04 Feb '05

04 Feb '05

Basically I'm wanting to set up a home Linux printer server just so I can say I've done it once. I'm looking around for a $50 or less printer which is Linux compatible (I'd take "DOS compatibility mode") or even has Linux drivers. The printers I've been able to find in that range (Canon, HP, Lexmark) all seem to have neither DOS compatibility mode nor Linux drivers. I have about $50 to spend so I won't be able to take advantage of "this is the price after a mail-in rebate" pricing. I'd take a used printer if the cartridges aren't too hard to find and/or too expensive. ===== And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that. -- Bertolt Brecht __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

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Re: Network Access Question from IRC Channel
by mike＠handuma.com 04 Feb '05

04 Feb '05

Hi Johnatan, No, I didn't gain access to the linksys router at the store on broadway. I must have looked pretty foolish. I thought it'd be easy. I plugged an Ethernet cable into their router and typed 192.168.1.1 into a browsers address bar. I expecting an authentication dialog box to pop up and happily accept my user name and password, just like it happens on my home network, instead I received a "connection failure," type error message. Next, I tried turning on Airport(I was using a powerbook)to access the Internet. This time, a dialog box popped up, alright, but it wouldn't accept the username password combination the owner had provided. Eventually, I found several options available in the authentication dialog box, one of them, "Leap," seemed likely, so, I selected it and happily filled in the fields again. I thought I'd found an alternative way in but the router didn't buy it. It replied with another error message, "invalid password." I asked the owner of the store to verify the password with the person who had installed the LAN and told him I'd try again tomorrow. They want me to broadcast an upcomming event so they're being very helpful. I wish I knew more about networking. To broadcast, I need to open port 8000 on this LAN. Hopefully they'll provide me with the authentication information I need. If not, I'll be asking for more help. Michael handuma.com http://www.handuma.com

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Re: High Altitude Glider Project
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 04 Feb '05

04 Feb '05

Missed the meeting as usual (job hours) and going to check this out. But a while ago I believe you all were joking around about building a glider (if I am wrong, sorry) For something like this, here is a piece on info; you need DOD clearance for any GPS to work above 60,000 feet or Mach 1. > As mentioned at Denny's last night: > http://members.shaw.ca/sonde/index.htm > > I was talking about a self-guided glider someone designed to be launched at > 85,000 ft from a weather balloon and a few people were intrigued. It has an > on-board PC-104 form PC for guidance with GPS, temp sensors, packet radio modem, > electronic compass, web cam and runs rom-dos. Lots of cool pictures and > details. > > > > Brian Kelsay > > _______________________________________________ > Kclug mailing list > Kclug(a)kclug.org > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug

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"Linux" radio, one more time
by Richard A. Franklin 04 Feb '05

04 Feb '05

Thanks for all the good feedback on Internet radio! While playing with a FreeSBIE live CD (9-27-04 release, sporting an Italian flag) on an old computer last night, I found a very usable streaming broadcast browser: http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/ which requires: http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ It isn't quite iTunes, but hey, it does the job quite well. AND, it was fun to see how well FreeBSD found old hardware, found the dhcp server, and played music. (I was actually trying out a few distros in my spare time over the past few weeks, to see if anything is fast enough to use as a desktop on a PII 400, 128MB system. So far, the rpm distros are about equally slow, Knoppix installed well, but is only slightly faster, Slackware is somewhat faster ... but VectorLinux, which is a Slack variant, is by far the fastest ... VERY fast, actually, considering the hardware ... seems that it is designed for older hardware. Of course, choice of graphical interface is always a factor.). Rick

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RE: [OT] Missing baryons found!
by Brian Densmore 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Clinton > > For the geeks among us: there was some really exciting news > in Nature this > morning. Astronomers have located the missing ~30-40% of the baryonic > (normal) matter in the universe. It's especially cool because > it matched > predictions. > > Here is the article: > <http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7025/…> > > And the paper: > <http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7025/…> > > This significantly increases the probability that the standard cosmological > model is correct. > > The next thing to look for is 'sinks' of dark matter at the ends of these > baryonic filaments pulling them apart. The picture is starting to look as > though the universe is covered in dark matter points with baryonic filaments > interconnecting them like a web and galaxies interspersed in the empty space > between. Does that mean I have to turn the point singularity I wear on a necklace around my neck? Nice to know they might actually be right about the Universe a little though.

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[OT] Missing baryons found!
by Jason Clinton 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

For the geeks among us: there was some really exciting news in Nature this morning. Astronomers have located the missing ~30-40% of the baryonic (normal) matter in the universe. It's especially cool because it matched predictions. Here is the article: <http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7025/…> And the paper: <http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7025/…> This significantly increases the probability that the standard cosmological model is correct. The next thing to look for is 'sinks' of dark matter at the ends of these baryonic filaments pulling them apart. The picture is starting to look as though the universe is covered in dark matter points with baryonic filaments interconnecting them like a web and galaxies interspersed in the empty space between.

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RE: Old Hardware
by Brian Densmore 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Hutchins > > On Thursday 03 February 2005 09:57 am, you wrote: > > > You can strip the debug code out of compiled gentoo programs. > > Sure. By recompiling them. > > Were you thinking of some other method? Yes, a utility called "strip" will strip the debugging headers out of code. It make the programs smaller and often faster. It doesn't recompile the code. Don't ask me how, I haven't bothered to look at the code. It can be done with any Linux distro, but it makes debugging impossible, so use with caution. I think they recommend against stripping the kernel. ;') > > > Also, it would require an expert to know what flags to set > to optimize > > compiling. > > Actually, this is one thing I _have_ been able to find a lot > of information > about in the gentoo forums, as well as some other on-line > forums. Googling > for "use flags" and your architecture will find a lot of > discussion and > advice. Yes, but you have to use them, and you haven't given us poor souls the magic combination. So anyone just pulling down gentoo and compiling wouldn't necessarily know how to optimize. So to say "compile gentoo, don't use compiled gentoo" does nothing to improve the speed of the installed system. Now if you had said "compile gentoo with the compile options -abc#@$%%%^$###..., don't use compiled gentoo", or something similar, then I might agree with you. But I doubt it. I'm skeptical of how much more performance you can get out of gentoo by compiling as opposed to using their pre-optimized binaries. At least not with older stock equipment.

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Re: Old Hardware
by Jonathan Hutchins 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

On Thursday 03 February 2005 09:57 am, you wrote: > You can strip the debug code out of compiled gentoo programs. Sure. By recompiling them. Were you thinking of some other method? > Also, it would require an expert to know what flags to set to optimize > compiling. Actually, this is one thing I _have_ been able to find a lot of information about in the gentoo forums, as well as some other on-line forums. Googling for "use flags" and your architecture will find a lot of discussion and advice. Since the flags are actually gcc compile flags, the discussion extends beyond gentoo.

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High Altitude Glider Project
by Brian Kelsay 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

As mentioned at Denny's last night: http://members.shaw.ca/sonde/index.htm I was talking about a self-guided glider someone designed to be launched at 85,000 ft from a weather balloon and a few people were intrigued. It has an on-board PC-104 form PC for guidance with GPS, temp sensors, packet radio modem, electronic compass, web cam and runs rom-dos. Lots of cool pictures and details. Brian Kelsay

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RE: Cheap Linux-compatible printer?
by kurt＠verruckt.org 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

-----Original Message----- From: Brian Kelsay [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 12:41 PM To: kurt(a)verruckt.org Subject: RE: Cheap Linux-compatible printer? What's your opinion of the 5P? I have one of those, but have not used it much since I got it used. Brian Kelsay --- I love the little HP *p printers. They are small, durable, and very easy to maintain. They will last YEARS in a home environment. I only said the 3p and 4p because they would be older, and pretty cheap. The 5 and 6p's are nice for sure. I have a 4p and have nothing to complain about it. Kurt --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.853 / Virus Database: 581 - Release Date: 2/1/2005

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