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MUUG Meeting, Dec 8, 7:30pm -- SuseStudio
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, December 8. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: SuseStudio SuseStudio is an online virtual appliance builder based on OpenSUSE. "Build an appliance or your own custom Linux distro with a few mouse clicks. Customize it to your heart's content, and share it with the world!" It is quite astonishing what this site/tool can do with a few mouse clicks. John Lange will demo, from start to finish, the creation of a completely custom Linux distribution. As a bonus, OpenSUSE 11.2 was just released and John will be using it for the demo just to give you a little taste of what it's like. Before the break, as this month's RTFM topic, Gilbert Detillieux will cover the find(1) and xargs(1) commands. 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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Soekris or ALiX/WRAP boards?
by Adam Thompson 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Does anyone have (or know of) any (possibly used) Soekris or PCEngines' WRAP or ALIX systems they'd like to get rid of? I need a small, fanless system to provide a single function, and definitely would prefer to run OpenBSD on it, and it needs to run headless... so I'd prefer one of the above-mentioned systems, if anyone wants to sell. It's not a demanding application, even the old net4801 boards should be good enough. -- -Adam Thompson <athompso(a)athompso.net>

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Fwd: IPTPS '10 CFP
by Gilbert E. Detillieux 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

FYI... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: IPTPS '10 CFP Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:09:02 -0800 From: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj(a)usenix.org> To: info(a)muug.mb.ca, gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca On behalf of the 9th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '10) program committee, we are inviting you to submit engaging position papers on the current and future trends in peer-to-peer systems. Co-located with NSDI '10 in San Jose, CA, this one-day workshop provides a venue in which to present and discuss peer-to-peer technologies, applications, and systems and to identify key research issues and challenges that lie ahead. This year, the workshop's charter will be expanded to include topics relating to self-organizing and self-managing distributed systems. This is in response to recent trends where self-organizing techniques proposed in early peer-to-peer systems have found their way into more managed settings such as datacenters, enterprises, and ISPs to help deal with growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity. In the context of this year's workshop, peer-to-peer systems are defined to be large-scale distributed systems that are mostly decentralized, are self-organizing, and might or might not include resources from multiple administrative domains. Papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion, and technical merit. The program will include presentations of position papers along with plenty of time for lively discussion among the participants, as well as a demo session for working systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Network and system support for peer-to-peer systems * Self-organizing and self-managing distributed systems * Adaptive algorithms and architectures for large-scale distributed systems * New applications and protocols for peer-to-peer systems * Availability, robustness, performance, and scaling * Security, privacy, anonymity, anti-censorship, and incentives * Lessons drawn from experience with deployed peer-to-peer systems * Measurement, modeling, and workload characterization Complete paper submissions are due Friday, December 18, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EST. For more details on the submission process, please see the complete Call for Papers at: http://www.usenix.org/iptps10/cfpa/ We look forward to receiving your submissions! Michael J. Freedman, Princeton University Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington IPTPS '10 Program Co-Chairs iptps10chairs(a)usenix.org --------------------------------- Call for Papers 9th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '10) April 27, 2010 San Jose, CA http://www.usenix.org/iptps10/cfpa/ Submissions Deadline: December 18, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EST ---------------------------------

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Re: [RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 56, Issue 8
by Kat 20 Nov '09

20 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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by Gilbert E. Detillieux 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

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MUUG Meeting, Nov 10, 7:30pm -- MediaWiki
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, November 10. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: MediaWiki MediaWiki is an open source wiki package, originally designed to implement Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other sites. MediaWiki is written in PHP, and runs nicely in the typical LAMP stack. It is fairly easy to set up and most configuration can be done through a web browser. In the collaborative spirit of MediaWiki, this presentation will be a joint effort between Kevin McGregor, Gilbert Detillieux and Michael Doob. Gilbert will focus on installing and configuring MediaWiki, Kevin will focus on using and managing it, and Michael will show a novel way he's using MediaWiki on a netbook to store and present class notes, complete with mathematical notation. This month's RTFM topic, by Montana Quiring, will look at UNIX pipes. 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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Open Source Backup/cloning to USB HDD
by Montana Quiring 30 Oct '09

30 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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