[KLUG Members] KLUG Meeting Notes for 05/13/2003
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KLUG Meeting Notes: Tuesday - May 13, 2003 7:00PM
I. PRESENTATION RECAP
II. NEXT WEEK'S MEETING INFO <=== Documentation Generators!!!
III. KLUG MAILING LISTS
IV. KLUG & LINUX NEWS FLASHES
V. KLUG CONTACT & MEETING INFO
Tonight's Meeting Moderator: KLUG Chairperson Todd Pillars
I. PRESENTATION RECAP
THIS WEEK'S KLUG PRESENTATION: (28 active KLUG participants)
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Samba III, What is New [NETWORKING - LanManager/Netbios]
by Adam Williams
Samba 3.x is a revolutionary new package, providing improved
scalability, modularity, and true integration with technologies
such as LDAP, ADS, and Kerberos V. Is there a network left
without a Samba server quietly running on some subnet?
PRESENTATION SUMMARY:
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Adam's SAMBA III presentation will be posted very soon:
http://kalamazoolinux.org/presentations/
Adam's Toshiba running Red Hat Linux with a wireless network
connection and a wireless mouse was used with OpenOffice.org
v1.0.2 to display this presentation using the KLUG SVGA
projector. This was a preview of the soon to be released
SAMBA III (beta) Open Source networking application. The
alpha release has been around since November of 2002. SAMBA
is the most deployed, functional, and reliable LAN network
solution that is in existence in the IT world today!
WHAT IS NEW WITH SAMBA III? (What was presented tonight)
- Time line of SAMBA development
- SAMBA III will be out in stable beta very soon (May 26?)
< see http://www.samba.org/samba/devel/roadmap-3.html >
- What has been removed in SAMBA III
- Listing of what is new
- New command: "net" Admins will like this a bunch!!!
- Modular Authentication
- "passdb backend" Allows multiple authentication
- "pdbedit" Admin tool for add user, etc.
- Backend migration tools
- "net rpc vampire" sucks up NT admin info
- "net ads join" makes ADS membership
- Admin security policies feature
- Some security policy examples
- Group mapping features
- "net groupmap" command
- How groups are handled internally
- Stackable VFS modules
- VFS modules described
- LDAP schema & group schema changes
- LDAP password synchronization
- LDAP trust ID's
- LDAP suffixes
- Account management parameters
- smb.conf: mystery parameters listed
- Default SAMBA III RPM build
- Questions & Answers
Interview: Taking Samba beyond POSIX (Adam recommends reading...)
An interview with Andrew Tridgell on his latest Samba rewrite
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ivat/
- MORE SAMBA INFORMATION -
http://www.samba.org
http://us1.samba.org/samba/samba.html
http://freshmeat.net/projects/samba/?topic_id=251
Adam is a network administrator based in Grand Rapids, but
the network he deals with is all over Michigan, with a couple
of hundred workstations, running Linux and other Operating
Systems. Not only does he deal with domain issues at work,
but he is also the owner of the domain "whitemice.org". Adam
has been a regular contributor to technical discussions on
our main mailing list, both presenting and solving some of
the most challenging networking and configuration problems.
Thanks to KLUG Vice-Chairperson Stu Gillis for bringing the
cold milk and sharing his daughter's excellent gourmet
chocolate cookies!
II. NEXT KLUG MEETING - TUESDAY 05/20/2003
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Documentation Generators: Doxygen
by Erik Gillespie
Tonight's presentation is about documentation generators with a
specific focus on Doxygen. Documentation generators parse comments
within source code files and create documentation about what the
source code is and does. If you program in C, C++, IDL, or Java
and hate documenting your code learn how Doxygen can help you out.
For more info on Doxygen check out http://www.doxygen.org.
Review Erik's presentation content outline at this web address:
http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/ See the February 20, 2003 listing!
Erik Gillespie is a recent graduate from Western Michigan University
with a degree in Computer Science. He has a keen interest in all
walks of software development for the PC but holds a particular joy
for graphics programming and development on non-PC platforms. When
not at his computer he can be found hanging out with friends or
spending the day with his little sister. In addition to being the
President of the WMU Computer Club, Erik enjoyed working at a large
local software development corporation and converting their product
to the Linux platform while at WMU. His education focused on CS but
he also excelled in the study of Math and Japanese. He now works for
a local IT solution provider and produces software as an independent
developer.
http://yakko.cs.wmich.edu/~rattles/
III. K L U G M A I L I N G L I S T S -
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Diversified mailing lists can be found on the KLUG web site.
http://kalamazoolinux.org/listserv/
Facilitated by - John Bridleman listmaster@kalamazoolinux.org
Sign up and participate to serve the Open Source community!!!
IV. K L U G & L I N U X N E W S F L A S H E S ! ! !
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FUJITSU AND RED HAT ENTER INTO PARTNERSHIP
"Fujitsu and Red Hat today announced that they have signed a global
partnership agreement to technically enhance and market Red Hat
Enterprise Linux solutions for enterprise customers running
mission-critical applications on Fujitsu's Intel-based servers
powered by Intel® XeonTM and Itanium® processors."
http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2003/press_fujitsu.html
http://www.silicon.com/news/500011/1/4083.html
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CRYSTAL BALL GAZING FOR LINUX KERNEL 2.6.0
"As the release of the 2.6 stable kernel tree approaches, queries
as to exactly when this will happen become more frequent on the
Linux kernel mailing list..."
http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003051000326OPKNDV
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LINUX FRENZY SWEEPS ORACLE USER CONFERENCE
Linux was the talk of the Oracle database user conference in the
US last week, with firms looking at evaluating or moving corporate
applications with database servers to run on the open source
operating system.
http://www.pcw.co.uk/News/1140780
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ORACLE CHOOSES INTEL COMPILERS
"Oracle's decision goes against the grain of most Linux programming
today, which uses the open-source GCC compiler..."
http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003050801626NWKNSW
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IS WINDOWS 2003 SERVER REALLY FASTER THAN LINUX/SAMBA?
Microsoft claims Windows 2003 Server is twice as fast as Linux,
at least when it's used for file serving. Is it possible Microsoft
created a test that hamstrung Linux to make it appear Windows 2003
Server is faster in fileserver tests? The footnotes in the
benchmark results suggest as much.
http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0509.barr.html
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HOW WOULD YOU ARGUE FOR OPEN SOURCE?
"I am currently working for an international corporation, and the
site I am working at was (until very recently) entirely run on
Windows. We recently purchased a Solaris server, and I am in
charge of setting it up and resetting the global UNIX standard.
The problem is that management doesn't want to install software
that does not have 24 hour, worldwide support available along
with it, yet they want the capabilities that only open source
software can provide on a UNIX platform (VNC, OpenSSH, etc..)
without spending insane amounts of money. I was wondering how
the Slashdot community deals with convincing management that
Open Source software is safe to use when creating a global
standard, and what your solutions have been to supporting
users working with open source software."
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/06/
2127253&mode=thread&tid=117&tid=99&tid=187
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USERS REVEAL THE BENEFITS OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Linux is driving the open source movement in the commercial
world. All of the open source users in Ovum's survey have some
computers running Linux, and most use open source web servers.
Fifty per cent use open source products in their software
development activities, while only a few use open source
e-mail database and office products.
http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=
121459&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=1&liChannelID=
126&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1
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HOW ONE MICRO$OFT USER MADE THE SWITCH TO OPEN SOURCE
"Since 1995, my friend Tristan Louis ran his Web site TNL.net
on Microsoft Windows. He started his site on Windows NT using
Microsoft IIS. In late 2000, he moved to Windows 2000 and
continued to run on this until recently, when he switched to
Linux. So why did he decide to change things? Here is his
story..."
http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003051000226OSSWNT
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MOZILLA V1.4B RELEASED
"The fine Mozilla folks have decided to bless us with the
release of Mozilla 1.4b this weekend. Highlights include
support for NTLM authentication, usability improvements,
and lots of performance, stability, and site compatibility
fixes. As always, the release notes have more detailed
info on changes."
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/11/1731228.shtml?
tid=126&tid=95&tid=154
http://www.mozilla.org
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MOZILLA'S FIREBIRD GETS WINGS CLIPPED
After a heated war of words with a fellow open-source development
group, Mozilla.org appears to be backing down on its use of the
name "Firebird" for future releases of its browser.
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-1000146.html
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WINE HQ: INTERVIEW WITH ERIC POUECH
"This week's interview is with Eric Pouech. Eric hails from France
and has been involved with Wine for a number of years. His
involvement has centered around multimedia work, the wine console,
and the debugger. Most of the questions below center on one of
those areas..."
http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003050800626INCYDV
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MAJOR RELEASE OF THE JARGON FILE
The Jargon File is a central part of the heritage of the Linux
and open-source movements. As we approach the File's 30th
anniversary, it is my pleasure and honor to bring the hacker
community a major new release, 4.4.0. This is a not a mere
point release, but a major revision incorporating weeks of
work. The file masters have been converted from Texinfo to
XML-Docbook; as a result,
* There is a real change-log file; you can see which entries
have been added, changed, or deleted in each release since 4.0.0.
* The new File includes cartoons and illustrations. In addition
to the Crunchly cartoons from the paper edition (the New Hacker's
Dictionary) there are other photographs and illustrations of
historical and current interest.
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/05/11/025237.shtml?tid=11
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GOBOLINUX RETHINKS THE LINUX FILESYSTEMS
"GoboLinux is an alternative Linux distribution which redefines
the entire filesystem hierarchy. In GoboLinux we have paths such
as /Programs/XFree86/4.3/ and /System/Settings/BootScripts/Reboot."
By design, GoboLinux is quite a bit different from most Linux
distributions, and -- notably -- is a live ISO, always nice.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/10/
1636245&mode=thread&tid=185&tid=106
http://www.gobolinux.org/
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SUSE V8.2 -- BETTER THAN MANDRAKE FOR NEW USERS?
"I have been using SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional for two weeks now,
and it is as close to Linux desktop perfection as I have found so
far. (I know I'm not the first to say this, but I figure saying
it one more time can't hurt.) This doesn't mean it's totally perfect,
and my experience is on one particular laptop and may not be
duplicated on your hardware, but this is the first SuSE version
I have actually liked -- and the first one I've kept on my
"production" machine for any length of time."
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/04/27/1850233.shtml?tid=23
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MYSQL MOVES FORWARD
"How significant is MySQL? Well, it depends how you read the
figures. According to the company, 29,000 copies of the database
are downloaded every day and there are 4 million installations
worldwide."
http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2003050800126OSSVSW
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OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVE PRESIDENT* RESPONDS TO SCO'S CLAIMS
In a recent press release, SCO suggests that the Linux community
may be responsible for the denial-of-service attack on its servers
that occurred on Friday, May 2nd. This is a baseless slur,
unsupported by facts. *Eric S. Raymond
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/05/07/1022221.shtml?tid=19
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SCO LOOKS FOR LINUX COMMUNITY LINK IN DOS ATTACK
"SCO is vigorously investigating the source of the attack and the
identity of the perpetrators," said company spokesman Blake Stowell.
"This attack came within 48 hours of IBM's response to SCO's lawsuit
against IBM alleging intellectual property infringement. Given this
close proximity in time, we are carefully examining whether a link
exists between SCO's legal action and some of the Linux community
who are hostile toward SCO for asserting its legal rights."
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/2201861
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THINKTANKS LINUX VERSION RELEASED <submitted by TAZ>
"This story from Linux Online Gaming points out that ThinkTanks,
a 3D tank combat game, is now available for Linux. The site also
has a Mac version available, with the developers telling us the
Windows version should be out before the end of the week, and this
looks like a very neat use of the GarageGames Torque engine to
create a good-looking, playable independent game on multiple
platforms.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/06/0549229&mode=
thread&tid=127&tid=186
FOR INFO ON LINUX GAMES IN GENERAL http://www.linuxgames.com/
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: VISIT TO A STRANGE PROGRAM
In the midst of all your productivity, take a minute to have some
silly fun with these programs.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6726&mode=thread&order=0
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BUILD YOUR OWN H E R F GUN???
Were you thinking nasty thoughts about the loathed "SPAM QUEEN"
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1037138679220447148,00.html
down in Dunedin, Florida and wished you had a HERF GUN for use
in a drive-by digital meltdown? "Rostislav Persion from Voltage
Labs has successfully constructed a HERF gun (a device like EMP
but directional) in his home that is capable of stalling cars at
a distance and crashing computers as well. He has videos of the
device in action as it lights up LED's at a distance and triggers
motion detectors. There's also a bunch of other security stuff and
science stuff which is quite interesting and controversial, such
as cell phone tracking, mood altering audio signals, gyro guns,
and other things of this nature. The site owner was also featured
in US News Magazine and MTV for some of his work."
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/07/
1559238&mode=thread&tid=159&tid=186
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FIRST "MATRIX RELOADED" REVIEW
"The IMDB is reporting that the London Daily mirror has the first
review of the Matrix Reloaded. Sounds like the Wachowski borthers
have gone for an all out action movie which is a shame if true.
What I liked most about the original was the way it blended
stunning action with a subtle philosphical theme about how we
percieve reality." I'll hold judgement until the closing credits
myself.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/08/
0041220&mode=thread&tid=188&tid=200&tid=97
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I T I S P A R T Y T I M E ! ! !
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KLUG 4TH OF JULY P A R T Y IS POSTED ON THE WEB SITE - RSVP ASAP!
Go to the KLUG web site for the details and to sign up if you are
planning on attending the KLUG 4TH of July party this year. PARTY!!!
THE DETAILS
http://kalamazoolinux.org/party/p-details.php
RSVP
http://kalamazoolinux.org/party/rsvp.php
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BUSINESS EXPO IS PLANNED FOR THURSDAY MAY 22ND AT THE RADISSON HOTEL.
The Kalamazoo Chamber of Commerce will be holding another business
exposition in the Grand Ballroom at the Radisson Plaza Hotel. There
will be an "IT Zone" designated that will highlight digital technology.
A KLUG speaker is also needed to make a presentation in the IT Zone's
program. Please contact Bob at publicitydirector@kalamazoolinux.org
if you can volunteer as a presenter for this event.
http://www.chamberhub.com/cgi/foxweb.dll/wlx/cal/wlxprofile?caleid=
144&cc=KCCC
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KLUG NEEDS VOLUNTEERS TO FILL SEVERAL VACANT POSITIONS
Nutrimaster and Education Director volunteer slots are still
vacant. We need additional volunteers to act as the "Meeting
Firewall" to handle Chamber access control and security issues.
The Chamber has asked us to safeguard their assets as KLUG
members come and go from the meeting room each Tuesday night.
Bob and Zac need help with this function which requires that
you get to the meetings early and see that the everything is
locked up as the last person leaves. This means being at the
Chamber at 6:30pm and hanging around until 10:00pm. We have
other volunteer positions available and many of these duties
could be shared if you have an interest. GET INVOLVED IN KLUG!
Volunteers are needed for Beginner's Nights and Installfests.
Please contact installmaster@kalamazoolinux.org for more details.
See http://kalamazoolinux.org/organize for position descriptions.
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KLUG NEEDS SPEAKERS FOR THE WEEKLY LINUX RELATED PRESENTATIONS!
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Contact Adam if you can give a presentation on any area of Linux
related subject or application. He would also like to hear your
suggestions for topics and possible speaker referrals. Do you
know anyone who is using Linux in Southwest Michigan and might
be willing to share their Linux expertise by making a technical
presentation? Professional, individual, or commercial speakers
on Linux accepted. Contact programdirector@kalamazoolinux.org
with your referrals and ideas. See the meeting schedule for open
dates. http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/meetings/schedule.php3
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V. K L U G C O N T A C T & M E E T I N G I N F O
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KLUG WEB SITE http://kalamazoolinux.org
MEMBERS AND GUESTS - COME JOIN US FOR A MEETING!!!
http://kalamazoolinux.org/meetings
WE MEET WEEKLY, EACH TUESDAY AT 7:00PM.
Our meeting site is the Kalamazoo Chamber
of Commerce office building downtown.
346 W. Michigan Ave. - Kalamazoo, MI 49007
http://kazoolug.org/meetings/maps.php3 <=== MAP!
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Kalamazoo Linux Users Group, Inc.
6749 South Westnedge Avenue
Suite K-288
Portage MI 49002
e-mail address: chair@kalamazoolinux.org
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