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1U Rackmount servers for sale
by Jon Pruente 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Some of you may know of Kozoru. Some of you may know that they are in hard times. Thus, they are selling their cluster nodes. I can have one in your hand for $200. A good friend of mine worked there until a few months ago, and we are looking to turn around some of the machines. Here is what he had to say about them: It's been a while (March or so) since I threw one together but I know they're P4 Celerons with 80GB PATA drives. I think all of them have 256MB (1 stick) of RAM but I know some of the DB Servers had two 256's in them. You might get lucky there. I *THINK* CPU speed is 2.8GHz but it might be slower. this is the only thing I can't remember about them from memory. On-board USB/Video/PS2 and 100BTX NIC. They're built in cheapish SuperMicro cases and they're pretty noisy, they use a big blower fan for the case, a small whiny low-profile blower fan on the copper heatsink, and the powersupply has its on set of fans. These ran 24/7 for damn near 2 years straight, we seldomnly had any problems with them (2 out of 100+ had power supplies die) They all boot off USB, so just add a USB DVD drive and install your OS of choice. He's got a post over at kcgeek.com that says the exact same thing. I think they are similar to <a href="http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/512/SC512L.cfm">these 1U cases</a>, but I've never seen one in person, only photos. From what I've been told, they had been setup to boot a custom OpenBSD install from a 64MB USB key, and use the HDD for local data cache, storage, etc. when the cluster node was active. I can get them for pretty cheap. There are/were nearly 100 available. I don't have any idea how long these will last, as the (former?) Kozoru employees can get them even cheaper than I can. Contact me or ax0n (on kcgeek.com) if you're interested in one/a few. If you contact him, be sure to say you heard of these through me, though. ;) Thanks, Jon.

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Where are the Ubuntu/Kubuntu CDs?
by Leo Mauler 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

Monty and I are sitting here in the KCLUG booth (well, I'm sitting in the Sprint Internet kiosk), and we have a few KNOPPIX CDs leftover from last year and *no* Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Mandriva CDs to hand out. We have a big sign saying we have "Free Linux CDs" (which is currently turned to the wall). If anyone can burn off a couple dozen CDs (Ubuntu, KNOPPIX, whatever, anything) and come by ITEC, it will be very much appreciated. I'm pretty sure we will accept handwritten labels on the CDs. If you happen to have some CD sleeves or spare slimline jewel cases, that would be a bonus. If you haven't registered you can always look back through the E-mails for Chris Bier's ITEC E-mail (September 28th I think) and register as an Exhibitor, or just come by and have them send someone in to the booth, so we can come out and get them. Right now all we have to offer is my demo system playing that BBC FOSS video, the books, and some brochures and business cards. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Help! We need Ubuntu/Kubuntu CDs!
by Leo Mauler 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

The Overland Park Trade Center is at approximately 110th and Lamar, right next to the Sheraton (really tall tower with a big red "Sheraton" or red "S" on the side of the building. E-mail me back your address (private E-mail to me) and Monty can come get them. --- Brandon Holtsclaw <imbrandon(a)kubuntu.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 09:59 / 9:59 am, you > wrote: > > It would appear that no one came by to pick up > > Ubuntu/Kubuntu CDs from you. Will you be coming > by > > the booth today? If you can't get into ITEC > please > > send someone to our booth and we will come out and > get > > the CDs from you. > > > > I have them sitting here waiting, where is ITEC , i > might possibly be able to > drop them off, is it today, i dident plan on comming > but i might arrange a > ride. > > -- > Brandon Holtsclaw > imbrandon(a)kubuntu.org > http://www.imbrandon.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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ITEC Booth is a bit small this year.
by Leo Mauler 25 Oct '06

25 Oct '06

I'm currently at the ITEC Exhibitor Hall, and it would appear that all our grand designs need to be scaled back a bit. The booth is a lot smaller this year from last year's booth. We are sharing a 15' wide by 10' deep booth (approximately) *with three other groups*. We might have room for one demo system. As I have no LCD monitors and can only bring in a 17" CRT, I think I'll bow out of the demo systems this year. I do have the BBC FOSS video (the one released under the Creative Commons license) on DVD and OGG video, which we could play on a demo system at the front of the booth. Color and sound attract more people than just people and informational literature. All we have to do is play the show credits every time and we fulfill the "attribution" requirement of their CC license. I have a reasonably large sign saying "Free Linux CDs!" which should attract attention. I'll set that up tonight along with the brochures and the cards, and I'll see all of you tomorrow. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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It Just Works! PCI TV card under Ubuntu.
by Jon Pruente 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

I bought a cheap,old (ca 1996) Hauppauge card at S.E. a while ago. I didn't install it into a system for so long becuase I wasn't prepared for the work of getting it recognized and working. I've read a few How-Tos of getting various cards going. Ack! Yesterday I decided I had the time to play, so I just stuck it into my P3 850 Gateway E-4200 (another S.E. machine, with an S.E. CPU upgrade and RAM) and powered it up. To my suprise it found the card with the BTTV driver right away, and I didn't do a thing. I installed TVtime and of the basic choices, it's the cleaned and best TV program I've used. Wow! That was dang simple. My wife was even (happily!) suprised to see the "spare" machine doing something visibly useful. The only trick was figuring out which audio input I had plugged it into on my sound card. Audio-In is the 1/8" jack, and AUX is an internal header on the card. They didn't have any thing going through them and CD is obviously the wrong header. I was plugged into the 3rd header and there was an unchecked option in the Volume Control Prefs called "Volume" that when unmuted gave me sound. Great, now I just have to get TVtime to associate that with the card for volume control, and not the Line-In which is the external audio line, not the internal header ATA-ATA audio header. Odd. Jon.

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Speaking of converting people to Linux
by Chris Bier 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

Wouter Verhelst: Conversion in progress http://www.grep.be/blog/2006/10/24#conversion_in_progress Excerpt: Sometimes the things you want don't happen until you stop trying so hard. For as long as we've had Intel-compatible computers here at home, my parents have been running Windows. At first I didn't care—this was before I had even heard about Linux, let alone install it—but as I became more and more involved in Linux, I wanted more and more for them to make the change, too. Especially given how I'm still supposed to be responsible for making sure their machine keeps running; if I wasn't, I wouldn't care as much. These are the approaches I've taken to try to convert them, and why they failed:

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RE: linux distro for laptop
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

But does it default to the same defaults that is typical? Minimize, Maximize, Close for button order. Does it scan for window themes? -----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:31 AM >>On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 09:47 -0500, Luke -Jr wrote: >> Does Beryl respect the configured window decoration, button order, etc? >No it doesn't. Just like it completely ignores all of Metacity's gconf >settings that affect the same types things.

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Re: linux distro for laptop
by Luke-Jr 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 13:48, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 04:04 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > > > The Beryl fork of Compiz has removed all GNOME dependencies. It is now > > > a completely stand-alone application. > > > > But you can't use it with KWin/KDE. > > Indeed you can in the same way that you use it with GNOME. beryl > --replace kills any already running window manager. In GNOME's case it > kills Metacity; in KDE's case it kill KDM. You just proved my point. It replaces/kills KWin. KWin is an essential part of KDE. If it's missing, it's no longer KDE that you're using, it's some hybrid. GNOME differs because it supports and is designed able to handle changing the window manager.

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linux distro for laptop
by steve trog 24 Oct '06

24 Oct '06

hey all long time member but i never post anything i just read it all. anyway i got a toshiba satalite A105-S4054 and im tired of using windows xp on every thing (i keep it on my main comp b/c i play alot of games) and i want linux oin my laptop because i love the freedome and all the stuff i can do and change on linux. is athere a good distro to put on a laptop computer or is any distro good? please tell me something good im looking forward to hearing from ya'll. thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Add a Yahoo! contact to Windows Live Messenger for a chance to win a free trip! http://www.imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/yahoo/default.aspx?locale=en-u…

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JOBOP: Unix admin(s)
by Hal Duston 23 Oct '06

23 Oct '06

FYI: ----- Forwarded message from Patrick Draney <PDraney(a)mcginfo.com> ----- Hal, Thanks for taking my call. We have 2 needs for SUN Solaris UNIX Admns and 1 need for an overall (some SUN, HP, etc.) UNIX Admn. These opportunities are with a strong local company and really are great opportunities. I have 3 people in the group right now and they love it. There is plenty of room and opportunity for advancement should one desire. Let me know if you know anyone. I could get them an interview very quickly. Thanks again for your help. Kind Regards, Patrick Draney Technical Staffing Specialist Midwest Consulting Group PDraney(a)mcginfo.com www.mcginfo.com (w) 913-693-8200 x-231 (f) 913-693-8201 ----- End forwarded message -----

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