Linux Supporters Group

The tutorial on developing a logging script using bash has now been uploaded.

Accidentally bought something interesting. The last game I played was ‘Dark Castle’ on a Mac+ back in ‘91, so you can see how keen I am on gaming. However, consider the magazine PC Gamer; the issue I got is the 2008 PC Builders Bible. Maybe if you are considering upgrading a workstation, you could do better to scour the used gaming machines - they are always getting rid of what they regard as ‘old’ stuff - old stuff that might have some serious advantages over standard new workstations - don’t need to play games on it. Just a thought…

This Meeting will be held at the ASWCC, 171 Sturt St., Adelaide, at7.30pm. Our Speaker will be Robert Hart, on Air Stream community wireless, and how Linux can be used with this Group. For further details, please contact Barry on this site, by leaving a comment. Yes we still charge $2.00 admission for the use of the Centre.

What you find on the net! While looking for information on Linux organisations, I found some bemoaning the moribund nature of once-active groups. The Linux Documentation Project actually has a HOWTO guide to founding, maintaining and growing a Linux Group, which contains a lot of experience from all over the world about this subject. Might be worth a squiz at http:// tldp.org/ HOWTO/ html_single/ User-Group-HOWTO/

Also in the Linux Format August 2008 issue is a tutorial about how to add another distro. to boot from an SSD card in the slot on the right of the EeePC, so you could have Debian Etch running with Xandros, for example, rather than replacing Xandros.

The latest Linux Format magazine for August 2008 reviews ‘aria2c’, a good commandline ftp and http file downloader, which is cleverer than the one I usually use (viz. wget). It is just as fast as wget for one connection — the difference is that it can break files into parts, then download the parts and reassemble them later. Works on BitTorrent protocol as well.

Yes I am changing my Isp, for personal reasons. I need to expand to faster horizons, I can’t squeeze enough out of current provider. So I should be able to reach you all very soon.

Check out Grant’s wiki on this event, looking under the Southern Fleurieu entry and see the sort of things we LSGA members shall be helping them to do; the wiki may be found at this address: http:// www.softwarefreedomday.org/ teams/ oceania/ au/.

I found the Tech Show fairly disappointing for a Linux user. We had to trawl though all the exhibits three times to come up with any small crumbs of interest. We found only 2 books on Linux and not a single Firefox. At least there were some pretty girls …

watch your step or you will trip over ??