Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XL REMINDER Tomorrow Saturday June 4, 2011
Boston Linux Installfest XL When: Saturday June 4, 2011 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061 2 Amherst St, Cambridge Plenty of free parking in front of the building. What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions. In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most distros are using Live CDs that you can try out and then install. Additionally, CD images can be pushed onto USB sticks using various USB creators. COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine. Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own distros, our volunteers will normally have Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros. Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and Ubuntu distributions: * Fedora - http://fedora.redhat.com (Fedora 15 DVD/Live CD/USB) * Open SuSE - http://opensuse.org (OpenSuSE 11.4 - DVD/Live CD/) * Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com (Natty Narwahl 11.04 CD/USB) We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the distros. In addition, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux machine and run Windows as a guest. VirtualBox 4.0.8. (http://www.virtualbox.org.) is free and is available for Linux, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Additionally, there are some VMWare clients that are also free for Windows. Lunch is generously sponsored By Ron Thibeau and John Ross, Bluefin Technical Services. Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further information and directions. Parking is free and available in front of the building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator to your left down 1 floor. Room 061 is opposite the elevator. -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XL REMINDER Tomorrow Saturday June 4, 2011
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: Boston Linux Installfest XL What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones? Are more attendees expected? -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XL REMINDER Tomorrow Saturday June 4, 2011
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: Boston Linux Installfest XL What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones? Are more attendees expected? I think he's running with LC_NUMERIC=la_RM, in which case `XL' is his localised representation of 40. -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[Fwd: Thanks for the help]
Hey, all -- once again, GNHLUG comes through in spades. Thanks, all, for helping Greg out; he's a good guy, and took the Linux course with (believe it or don't) no influence from my part... aside, that is, from convincing his mother that, yes, Linux was something that would help him in the job market. Have a great weekend, all! -Ken Original Message Subject: Thanks for the help From:Greg Grillone gj...@yahoo.com Date:Fri, June 3, 2011 9:25 am To: Ken k...@jots.org -- Hey Ken, Thanks a lot for forwarding those questions to your friends. I found all of their responses very helpful for my formal report. Greg Hey Ken,Thanks a lot for forwarding those questions to your friends. I found all of their responses very helpful for my formal report.Greg ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
tcl/tk bootstrap
Over the years I have use tcl/tk applications, such as exmh, but have not had a need to learn tcl/tk. Right now I have a need to develop a tcl/tk script that contains a few list boxes and a couple of text boxes for input text. I've been going through the tutorial, but I'm having a bit of trouble getting to a starting point. Phase 1 of the script will be a wrapper for an existing bash script. I'm wondering if anyone out there has a small tcl/tk script that I could use as a starting point to save me some time. -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XL REMINDER Tomorrow Saturday June 4, 2011
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Boston Linux Installfest XL What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones? Are more attendees expected? I think he's running with LC_NUMERIC=la_RM, in which case `XL' is his localised representation of 40. I was joking, in case that wasn't obvious. :) Is LC_NUMERIC=la_RM a real thing for some stuff, or are you also joking? I tried it on my box Deb 5.0 box and was disappointed ls -l didn't output Roman numerals for the sizes. :) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XL REMINDER Tomorrow Saturday June 4, 2011
Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Boston Linux Installfest XL What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones? Are more attendees expected? I think he's running with LC_NUMERIC=la_RM, in which case `XL' is his localised representation of 40. I was joking, in case that wasn't obvious. :) Is LC_NUMERIC=la_RM a real thing for some stuff, or are you also joking? Yes, that was a HHOS joke :) la is an actual ISO-639-1 language-code, and it does actualy refer to ancient Latin, but there doesn't appear to be any code for Rome in ISO 639; so I used RM, because that's the closest thing I could find. Yes, I did spend a fair amount of time on the research for that joke... :) I tried it on my box Deb 5.0 box and was disappointed ls -l didn't output Roman numerals for the sizes. :) Did you add (or uncomment) la_RM (or la_RM.UTF-8?) in /etc/locale.gen and then run the locale-gen command? You know, a given locale isn't actually supported on Debian until you've done that (or had dpkg-reconfigure locales do it for you) :) -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest XL REMINDER Tomorrow Saturday June 4, 2011
Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com writes: Benjamin Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: Boston Linux Installfest XL What makes this installfest bigger than the other ones? Are more attendees expected? I think he's running with LC_NUMERIC=la_RM, in which case `XL' is his localised representation of 40. I was joking, in case that wasn't obvious. :) Is LC_NUMERIC=la_RM a real thing for some stuff, or are you also joking? Yes, that was a HHOS joke :) la is an actual ISO-639-1 language-code, and it does actualy refer to ancient Latin, but there doesn't appear to be any code for Rome in ISO 639; so I used RM, because that's the closest thing I could find. Uh, of course I meant doesn't appear to be any code for Rome in ISO 3166. Yes, I did spend a fair amount of time on the research for that joke... :) I tried it on my box Deb 5.0 box and was disappointed ls -l didn't output Roman numerals for the sizes. :) Did you add (or uncomment) la_RM (or la_RM.UTF-8?) in /etc/locale.gen and then run the locale-gen command? You know, a given locale isn't actually supported on Debian until you've done that (or had dpkg-reconfigure locales do it for you) :) -- Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
