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barsalou | 16 May 01:19

a VPS

The folks at ACS have allowed us to have a VPS.  Chris Beck of the  
list has graciously offered to put a team together to create a website  
for the group.

We talked about putting a group of folks together to do this.  Those  
of you interested (skilled or not) please contact Chris at  
cbeck747 <at> gmail.com or through the list.

This hasn't been completely flushed out, so nothing is in stone here.

We'll keep the current minimal website until the group has had a  
chance to put together some ideas on how the website might look and  
what we should include.

All reasonable ideas are welcome.

This is your chance to participate in putting a good face on AKLUG.

Mike B.

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barsalou | 16 May 01:15

xorg.conf

So during the presentation, folks commented that their particular  
xorg.conf files don't have all the entries that I talked about during  
the presentation.

All this means is that those particular settings were autodetected and  
giving a look through Xirg.0.log will identify how things are set for  
your particular setup.

Also, it doesn't preclude you from specifically setting those values  
in the event you want to goof around with how your video works.

 From what I can determine, most of the autodetect things are coming  
from version 7.3.

In my particular case, we are using 7.2.

Mike B.

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barsalou | 15 May 22:50

Opinions?

Anyone have opinions on this thing?

http://www.chumby.com/

Mike B.

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barsalou | 15 May 22:20

Job Openings

I dropped off some AKLUG fliers at the school Office on Northern  
Lights and while I was there, I checked in at HR and ran across these  
two job listings:

Programmer - PVA Number:108692
http://www.asdk12.org/depts/hr/ViewDetails.asp?Scope=External&PVAID=108692

Library Information Systems - PVA Number: 109525
http://www.asdk12.org/depts/hr/ViewDetails.asp?Scope=Internal&PVAID=109525

It's possible that the second one is actually an internal listing, but  
it is on their website.

Maybe someone would want to take a stab at one of these.

Mike B.

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David Edge | 15 May 08:45

Microsoft GPO and SELinux

Anyone out there familiar with SELinux?  Ran across this link in a 
Microsoft newsletter where they compare Group Policy and 
SELinux.  I thought SELinux restrictions were at a deeper level.  Is 
this a valid comparison?  
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8903748

dedge

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Joshua J. Kugler | 14 May 21:22

Debian SSH security upgrade breaks SSH!

This is both a warning and a cry for help! :)

I installed the upgraded SSH packages and it regenerated the SSH keys. =20
Not a big problem, right? Wrong.  Even the newly generated keys are on=20
the blacklist, AND the server will not connect with keys that are on=20
the blacklist, so no new connections can be created.  So, existing=20
connections are OK, but don't logout, or you'll never get back in.

Anyone have a fix yet?

j

=2D-=20
Joshua Kugler
Part-Time System Admin/Programmer
http://www.eeinternet.com
PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ =A0ID 0xDB26D7CE

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barsalou | 13 May 23:02

Friday Night Linux presentation

I think there were about 6+ people at the presentation.  It seemed to  
go very well, and because X is a pretty big subject, it was mostly  
just an overview of the xorg file and a few of the utilities.

Hopefully one of the attendees will have something to say about what  
they got out of it.

So unless someone specifically disagrees with me...it went awesome,  
without any flaws and everyone learned all they could.......(wink,  
wink, nudge, nudge)

Mike B.

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barsalou | 13 May 22:58

Anchorage School District

I recently had a chance to talk with some of the leadership at ASD.  =20
We are working to put flyers into the schools and to possibly allow us =20
to speak at the High Schools about Linux and Open Source.

Because it is so late in the year, This may only have effect next year =20
as school starts.

The seed is planted and we will see if it can grow.

Additionally, I heard that they are looking at the ASUS eepc.  I had a =20
chance to play with one of these and suggested that if the ASD needed =20
help with configuring these in a special way, that AKLUG would be =20
willing to see what we could do to help.

I also ran into an Elementary Ed technical person and she had recently =20
been doing research into using some of the educational software =20
packages available for linux.

We also discussed the idea of using LiveCD's so that folks could at =20
least experience Linux without having to worry about destroying data =20
that might be on the machine they are using.

So lots of interesting things happening in the school district, I'm =20
looking forward to what might come out of all this.

Keep your eyes and ears open for a way for us to help.

Mike B.

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jonr | 13 May 22:11

Debian security alert for SSH

Better fix this one, only affects Debian and derivatives.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.security.announce/1614

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barsalou | 10 May 00:53

AKLUG Monthly Presentation

Here are my talking points for tonight.  Since this will be a loose =20
discussion more than a presentation, I won't have any handouts.

Documentation:
http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.0/doc/html/xorg.conf.5.html

Possible things to try:

man xorg.conf

Need an Inputdevice section for both mouse and keyboard

xorg  -probeonly
xorg  -configure
xorg  -scanpci
scanpci|lspci
xdpyinfo
X -showDefaultModulePath
X -showDefaultLibPath
pkg-config --variable=3Dmoduledir xorg-server
pkg-config --variable=3Dlibdir xorg-server

ServerLayout  ----> Input Devices
               ----> Output Devices

Screen        ----> Device
               ----> Monitor

Other Commands to investigate:

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barsalou | 7 May 18:42

Xorg troubleshooting

OK...if everything goes well, I will be doing some troubleshooting  
with X for this  Friday.

Bring stories of your own exploits, bring your friends, bring a box  
that doesn't work in X currently.

If your interested in how the internals of the xorg.conf file work,  
come on Friday night at 7pm.  I'll talk for just a short while and  
we'll do some hands on goofing around with the video card on my laptop.

Mike B.

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