The Penguin way to computing.
About 10 people showed up for this meeting and we had 2 women, which was a rarity. Topics Discussed: Apple Windows Spoofs Mellisa mentioned that a user on YouTube called TrueNuff had a bunch of interesting spoofs on mac’s and pc ads. Totem with ugly [windows codecs] plug ins for watching DVDs Dave said that […] →Read more
Topics discussed: installing myth TV applications using pclinuxOS, a new Debian based distro. Complications setting up a hdtv system. (Wiring can be complicated.). Tunneling with socks and twister both allow you to tunnel encrypted data through ports that are not blocked by firewalls. Astericks Open Source PBX Tunneling voice data over ssh using Asterisks. Wireless […] →Read more
About 6 people showed up. We had a short meeting. Topics: Package managers: apt-get and yast How do you find dependancies when the package manager does not do it for you ? How do you get a list of the dependancies using rpm ? Samba Problems: Touble shooting samba →Read more
About 6 people showed up for the May 7th meeting. Linux Questions that came up: There was a question of how to run multiple sound streams under Linux. Normally, the sound daemon allows for this. When the sound daemon is not configured properly streams might cause conflicts. What is good fs to use now that […] →Read more
8 people showed up for this meeting. Talked about data recovery and how to recover files that are deleted. Normally, when you delete a file under Unix it is very hard to recover the file. However, if the file is stored on specific filesystems the file could be recovered. Here is a short list of […] →Read more