[SATLUG] Ubuntu Workshop?

Thu Apr 5 10:52:19 CDT 2007

Hi All,

I was wondering if SATLUG would be interested in running a series of
workshops on the most popular Linux distros (starting with Ubuntu 6.10 -
since that's what I just installed ;-). I am interested in developing an OSS
academy aimed at small businesses in San Antonio, and though I don't see
Linux quite yet there in terms of usability, I want to get good at it so I
know what I'm talking about. 

If you already do this, can you tell me when they are?

Cheers!

Tod Bruning 
Information Technology Program Manager 
Corporate and Community Education 
Palo Alto College 
1400 W. Villaret San Antonio, TX 78224 
(O) 210.921.5526 
(F) 210.921.5328 

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   1. RE: Re: [SATLUG] OT: Mini Media CDR CDRW (scs at worldlinkisp.com)
   2. Re: Re: [SATLUG] OT: Mini Media CDR CDRW (John Pappas)
   3. Re: Re: [SATLUG] OT: Mini Media CDR CDRW (Jeremy Mann)
   4. RE: Re: Re: [SATLUG] OT: Mini Media CDR CDRW
      (scs at worldlinkisp.com)
   5. RE: DSL Problems in San Antonio (WrkWatchr)
   6. Re: Linux on CD (Walt DuBose)
   7. Re: DSL Problems in San Antonio (M K Ramadoss)
   8. Re: DSL Problems in San Antonio (Borries Demeler)
   9. April 11 Presentation (Jim Wells)
  10. Booting Kubuntu 6.10 into Command Line (Jim Wells)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:07:27 -0400
From: "scs at worldlinkisp.com" <scs at worldlinkisp.com>
Subject: RE: Re: [SATLUG] OT: Mini Media CDR CDRW
To: satlug at satlug.org
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>>Any office store like Office Depot or Office Max
will carry these.<<
--------------------------------------------------
Thanks MKR & Jeremy   Compusa: 50 @ 17.99

Office Deport: 5 @$8.99  50 @ $24.99

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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:00:42 -0500
From: "John Pappas" <j at jvpappas.net>
Subject: Re: Re: [SATLUG] OT: Mini Media CDR CDRW
To: "The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List"
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A little off topic, but define NW SATX.  There is an altex off Kyle Seale &
1604, so that is pretty NW.  There is also Best Buy (Rim, 281/1604, 281/410,
etc)

On 4/4/07, scs at worldlinkisp.com <scs at worldlinkisp.com> wrote:
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> >>Any office store like Office Depot or Office Max
> will carry these.<<
> --------------------------------------------------
> Thanks MKR & Jeremy   Compusa: 50 @ 17.99
>
> Office Deport: 5 @$8.99  50 @ $24.99
>
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:04:59 -0500
From: "Jeremy Mann" <jeremymann at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [SATLUG] OT: Mini Media CDR CDRW
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Yup, the Altex on 1604 just opened a few months ago to my delight. I
can now walk from my house for computer parts if I need something ;)

On 4/4/07, John Pappas <j at jvpappas.net> wrote:
> A little off topic, but define NW SATX.  There is an altex off Kyle Seale
&
> 1604, so that is pretty NW.  There is also Best Buy (Rim, 281/1604,
281/410,
> etc)
>
> On 4/4/07, scs at worldlinkisp.com <scs at worldlinkisp.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >>Any office store like Office Depot or Office Max
> > will carry these.<<
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > Thanks MKR & Jeremy   Compusa: 50 @ 17.99
> >
> > Office Deport: 5 @$8.99  50 @ $24.99
> >
> >
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-- 
Jeremy Mann
jeremy at biochem.uthscsa.edu

University of Texas Health Science Center
Bioinformatics Core Facility
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Phone: (210) 567-2672

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 15:35:50 -0400
From: "scs at worldlinkisp.com" <scs at worldlinkisp.com>
Subject: RE: Re: Re: [SATLUG] OT: Mini Media CDR CDRW
To: satlug at satlug.org
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>>Yup, the Altex on 1604 just opened a few months ago
to my delight. I
can now walk from my house for computer parts if I
need something ;)
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>>A little off topic, but define NW SATX.  There is
an altex off Kyle Seale &
>> 1604, so that is pretty NW.  There is also Best
Buy (Rim, 281/1604, 281/410,
----------------------------------
Like Bandera & 1604, thanks guys, and with
Egg-on-Face I recall posting here
some months ago (maybe a year) about seeing the Altex
construction on 1604.

Must be old age, will cruise in  from Bandera this
weekend, their $3.69 price
for pack of five beats everyone's, and five will be
more than adequate. 

Thanks again

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:36:40 -0500
From: "WrkWatchr" <wrkwatchr at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [SATLUG] DSL Problems in San Antonio
To: "'The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List'"
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-----Original Message-----
From: satlug-bounces at satlug.org [mailto:satlug-bounces at satlug.org] On Behalf
Of pixelnate
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:23 AM
To: satlug at satlug.org
Subject: Re: [SATLUG] DSL Problems in San Antonio

My Dad's connection went down last Friday, and as of Monday was still down.
They told him it was a problem with the router in his area. He lives in
Encino Park. Don't know if it ever got up and running again. 

~Nate

----- Original message -----
From: M K Ramadoss  <mkr777 at gmail.com>
To: The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List  <satlug at satlug.org>
Sent: Wed Apr  4 2007 10:53:56 AM CDT
Subject: [SATLUG] DSL Problems in San Antonio
Since yesterday I noticed very slow DSL and according to AT&T, the
connection between their office and my building is ok and seems to be caused
by my computer; but in the eveining it started running at normal high speed.
I suspect the problem may be with the AT&T servers. Has anyone heard about
any local DSL problems?

mkr
-- 
_______________________________________________

I have a friend up at 281 and Henderson Pass with exactly same problem (and
run around from ATT)

Roy

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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:28:46 -0500
From: Walt DuBose <dubose at texas.net>
Subject: Re: [SATLUG] Linux on CD
To: "The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List"
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Borries Demeler wrote:
>>I may be coming in late here, but if I understand it correctly, you are
>>trying to make a bootable usb flash ram drive.
> 
> 
> Not really, I want to do 2 things:
> 
> 1. have a generic way of installing a bootable iso image (a live CD for
example)
> on a USB stick so the USB essentially behaves the same as the CD
> 
> 2. find some generic instructions (roll my own distro). Tom King
> already sent a link that seems to accomplish this - although I have
> not tried it (http://linuxgazette.net/113/kapil.html)
> 
> I am still looking for a solution for (1). Installing a standard linux
> to a stick is probably the same process as to a harddrive. But I think
> it would be cool if I could make it on a compressed fs and using a
ramdisk.
> To be honest, I may not have the time to investigate further if this is
> as extensive as in the link supplied by Tom King.
> 
> Thanks, -Borries
> 
> 
>>Try using fdisk to create a single partition, then use `mkfs -t ext2
>>/dev/sda1` on that partition.  You might want to run  tune2fs -c 0 -i 0
>>/dev/sda1 to disable disk checks on startup.
>>
>>Then install grub directly.
>>
>>grub
>>
>>>root (hd1,0)
>>>setup (hd1)
>>
>>Assuming grub recognizes it as hd1 which would be normal if there is
>>only one normal disk in the system.
>>
>>Then create /boot/grub/menu.lst, copy the kernel and other necessary
>>files from whatever source you want and you should be ready to go.
>>
>>Here's a link that does essentially the same thing:
>>
>>http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/wiki/index.php/Creating_a_bootable_USB_stick
>>
>>  -- Bruce
>>-- 

Here's some information from the Linux Ham radio group.  --  Walt

A good source of information and installation on loading Linux on a USB
Flash drive is the pendrivelinux.com site. They have some lightweight
linux versions as well as Ubuntu Edgy. Some are installed through MS OS
and some through GNU/Linux OS.

If you do it, let us know how it turned out for you.

73,

Rick, KV9U

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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:20:51 -0500
From: "M K Ramadoss" <mkr777 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [SATLUG] DSL Problems in San Antonio
To: "The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List"
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AT&T tech support tells me that they could not find any problem in the line.
Are sending a tech to the customer location to determine what the problem
is. Will keep you posted.

mkr

On 4/4/07, WrkWatchr <wrkwatchr at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: satlug-bounces at satlug.org [mailto:satlug-bounces at satlug.org] On
> Behalf
> Of pixelnate
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:23 AM
> To: satlug at satlug.org
> Subject: Re: [SATLUG] DSL Problems in San Antonio
>
> My Dad's connection went down last Friday, and as of Monday was still
> down.
> They told him it was a problem with the router in his area. He lives in
> Encino Park. Don't know if it ever got up and running again.
>
> ~Nate
>
> ----- Original message -----
> From: M K Ramadoss  <mkr777 at gmail.com>
> To: The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List  <satlug at satlug.org>
> Sent: Wed Apr  4 2007 10:53:56 AM CDT
> Subject: [SATLUG] DSL Problems in San Antonio
> Since yesterday I noticed very slow DSL and according to AT&T, the
> connection between their office and my building is ok and seems to be
> caused
> by my computer; but in the eveining it started running at normal high
> speed.
> I suspect the problem may be with the AT&T servers. Has anyone heard about
> any local DSL problems?
>
> mkr
> --
> _______________________________________________
>
> I have a friend up at 281 and Henderson Pass with exactly same problem
> (and
> run around from ATT)
>
> Roy
>
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:23:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: Borries Demeler <demeler at biochem.uthscsa.edu>
Subject: Re: [SATLUG] DSL Problems in San Antonio
To: satlug at satlug.org
Message-ID: <200704050123.l351NKA0021563 at biochem.uthscsa.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Have you guys run a traceroute? Where does it get stuck? that should
tell you right away which router is having problems. I did exactly that
when I had that problem with Time Warner and was able to help them figure
out which router was defective (turned out the router was overloaded
and dropping packets. they replaced it with one that had twice the capacity
and that solved the problem).

-b.
> 
> AT&T tech support tells me that they could not find any problem in the
line.
> Are sending a tech to the customer location to determine what the problem
> is. Will keep you posted.
> 
> mkr
> 
> On 4/4/07, WrkWatchr <wrkwatchr at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: satlug-bounces at satlug.org [mailto:satlug-bounces at satlug.org] On
> > Behalf
> > Of pixelnate
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 11:23 AM
> > To: satlug at satlug.org
> > Subject: Re: [SATLUG] DSL Problems in San Antonio
> >
> > My Dad's connection went down last Friday, and as of Monday was still
> > down.
> > They told him it was a problem with the router in his area. He lives in
> > Encino Park. Don't know if it ever got up and running again.
> >
> > ~Nate
> >
> > ----- Original message -----
> > From: M K Ramadoss  <mkr777 at gmail.com>
> > To: The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List  <satlug at satlug.org>
> > Sent: Wed Apr  4 2007 10:53:56 AM CDT
> > Subject: [SATLUG] DSL Problems in San Antonio
> > Since yesterday I noticed very slow DSL and according to AT&T, the
> > connection between their office and my building is ok and seems to be
> > caused
> > by my computer; but in the eveining it started running at normal high
> > speed.
> > I suspect the problem may be with the AT&T servers. Has anyone heard
about
> > any local DSL problems?
> >
> > mkr
> > --
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> > I have a friend up at 281 and Henderson Pass with exactly same problem
> > (and
> > run around from ATT)
> >
> > Roy
> >
> > --
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:14:34 -0500
From: Jim Wells <president at satlug.org>
Subject: [SATLUG] April 11 Presentation
To: The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List
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Hello all.

Since our next meeting is one week from tonight, I would like to inform
the membership about the presentation.  Othniel Graichen, one of our
past presidents, has volunteered to give a presentation on VMWare Server
for the meeting on April 11.

Jim Wells, President
San Antonio Linux Users Group

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Message: 10
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:19:44 -0500
From: Jim Wells <jfw5cpa at gmail.com>
Subject: [SATLUG] Booting Kubuntu 6.10 into Command Line
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I am trying to get Kubuntu to boot into Command Line mode but am having
no luck whatsover.  I looked first for /etc/inittab but in Kubuntu it
doesn't exist.  I need to install the NVIDIA driver but it won't install
because X is running.

Any ideas?  I've used Google & found several suggestions but they don't
seem to work for me.

Jim

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