+selven
Dear member, please note that this week we shall be having our monthly
meeting on this saturday, the 22nd.
My sincere apologies this is quite short notice, i have been busy and
had to confirm with the president :p
Time : 10hr30
location: Orbis Court 8th floor (lift up to 7 and walk up to 8th.), Quatres Bornes, linkbynet indian ocean’s new headquarters infront of (20/vin)
Presentation: This week there shall be a presentation by logan (saved again by the gud ole gnukid)
Agenda : Discussion about paper work, plan for this year (if executive members come)
We hope to have your presence on this event.
Please confirm your presence via mailing list [discuss@lugm.org] or
post a comment on the blog entry.
Cheers
+selven
Secretary of the LUG
Dear member,
please note that this week we shall be having our monthly meeting on this saturday, the 23rd.
My sincere apologies this is quite short notice, i have been busy and had to confirm with the president :p
We hope to have your presence on this event. Please confirm your presence via mailing list [discuss (AT) lugm.org] or post a comment on the blog entry.
Cheers +selven
Secretary of the LUG
Dear member, please note that this week we shall be having our monthly
meeting on this saturday, the 19th.
My sincere apologies this is quite short notice, i have been busy and
hence was unable to send
a notification earlier.. If there’s less than 5 confirmations by
friday 11AM, the meeting shall be postponed.
Time : 10hr00
location: Linkbynet, 2nd Floor BG court, St jean, Quatres Bornes
Map for your convenience :http://thegodof.net/images/maplugm.png
Agenda : Discussion about paper work
We hope to have your presence on this event.
Until further notice, logan shall be doing this months technical presentation.
(damned he should be given free food for always having a presentation
at any time!)
Please confirm your presence via mailing list [discuss@lugm.org] or
post a comment on the blog entry.
Cheers
+selven
Secretary of the LUG
Dear member, please note that this week we shall be having our monthly
meeting on this saturday, the 7th.
Time : 10hr00
location: Linkbynet, 2nd Floor BG court, St jean, Quatres Bornes
Map for your convenience :http://thegodof.net/images/maplugm.png
Agenda : Registration done, now what?
We hope to have your presence on this event.
Until further notice, shaan shall be doing a presentation this week
[unless sometihng comes up]. Please stay tuned for updates.
Please confirm your presence via mailing list [discuss@lugm.org] or
post a comment on the blog entry.
Meeting shall be postponed in case there’s less than 5 confirmations.
Cheers
+selven
Secretary of the LUG
Please note that the meeting for tommorrow the 26th of september has been postponed to next Saturday the 3rd of October 2009.
Time : 10hr00
location: Linkbynet, 2nd Floor BG court, St jean, Quatres Bornes
Map for your convenience
Agenda is : Registration 
we are finally registerred!
Please note that we might probably hold a small party together to celebrate it .
We hope to have your presence on this event, you better not miss that out.
Logan will be doing a presentation entitled “A cheap and silent firewall”.
Cheers
+selven
Secretary of the LUG
As soon as FreeBSD8.0rc1 came out (some hours after being uploaded) i wanted to try it out on my new work laptop (HP DV6 1160ei), surprised and sad i was to find that the installer itself couldn’t proceed further…i got bumped with this error:
lots of stuffs after the bootloader….
:
:
:
uhub7: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
ugen7.2: at usbus7
ugen4.2: at usbus4
ugen5.2: at usbus5
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 240 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for xpt_config
stalls here and freezes forever. Which means your installation cannot proceed further.
Seems the problem is related to the firewire support, this problem has been here since FreeBSD7.2,
it seems to affect mostly gigabyte and asus mainboards (others plz do comfirm??). Seems the systems tries to query for firewire storage devices and then is stucked at that point..
The easy fix to this is to just go into your BIOS and disable firewire device and install your FreeBSD leisurely….
but but but… poor me, i just got a damned new HP Pavillon DV6 sexy lookin laptop which doesn’t have any advanced BIOS settings to disable firewire .
I definitely couldn’t be vulgar and just open that up and take out the firewire port :p that would be gross… specially since the laptop isn’t my property.
So my my my, i had to find a way out of this, googling around, it seems there’s no fix for that, since most are lucky enough to have disable firewire in their bios itself,
unless i was crazy and maso to dare run winxp or win vista on my laptop [thoughts of which were so disturbing that i dared not use that laptop and was even thinking of returning it back.
since the install iso itself boots a freebsd kernel, i believed for a temporary solution i could disable firewire via device hints in that loader console,
unfortunately, it didn't seem to work.... so i did what most people would have done since they have the source and the ability to do anything with it... i played with it :p
i found a solution :p remove firewire support in the iso :p.. all the ways i don't use that, if ever am gonna use that later on, once i've got freeBSD installed, i can think of it later and get it to work later on :p.
So... till i find the bug and correct it in the source itself or till someone else does it, i've managed to get the installer to work...
here's how:
Requirements:
(ps. it can be a minimal installation, since you don’t need desktop or anything in this temporary setup, you just need it to recompile that kernel in the installation cd :p)
10 GB of space minimum
What to do?
(since i had already burnt it on a dvd, i just copied the contents of the dvd in a folder called /usr/disk1)
that’s it, you have already completed most of the work, go to your /usr/disk1 directory [where the dvd iso contents were copied earlier remove the kernel folder in its boot directory and replaced with your new kernel). do like this:
great we are almost done… (ps. if you want you can set splash images also :p)
anywayz, you should then use mkisoimages to build your new dvd iso….
where -b FreeBSD8 can be anything you want, /isowork is just a directory i have made to keep the final iso, and /usr/disk1 is the contents which you want to have in your iso :p.
If ever it complains about some rr_moved error or something simmillar, please do delete the directory named rr_moved from your /usr/disk1 directory
so relaunch your mkisoimages if ever it failed with the rr_moved :p.
after its done… you shall have a nice iso in your destination directory /isowork :p (or your directory you chose)
Though, being lazy, i just scp’ed it to my other computers, went to sleep, woke up in the morning and burnt it
:p I tried to launch the install from that DVD … now it works! yupeee, finally i’ll be able to use that laptop.
Hope this helped out those poor souls out their who wanted to have their Favourite OS on their HP Pavillon DV6 :p
EDIT: Additional stuffs, once installed your new system shall be unbootable, you should boot from the installation dvd, start a shell there, mount the partition and cp -R /mnt2/boot/kernel to your new /boot directory in your harddisk (after mounting it somewhere).
Also, if you are using gnome please add these in /etc/rc.conf
moused_enable=”YES”
hald_enable=”YES”
dbus_enable=”YES”
ps. actually i wanted to try out 8.0 rc1 in the hope that i might catch a bug and hoped to find a fix and hopefully contribute back to the community.. lol .. that one was unexpected!
pps. plz ignore gramatical errors, typed this in nano, and refrain from starting OS flamewars since its tiring to reply to those :p
ppps. To save you the trouble i can upload the iso image, lemme know.
pppps. Am not responsible if you blow up your computer or whatever :p. My sincere apologies in case of errors.
+selven
pcthegreat A_T gmail / sch@csis.dk
Like most of you who don’t like to get into those religious wars about editors of emac vs vi, we tend to prefer to use nano, simple, and light!
The side of peace .
But after using nano sometimes, you soon begin to miss those features which you used to have in other editors, e.g syntax highlighting or tabspace etc.
No need to worry lil hippie, nano has these abilities you don’t need to envy those unsexy editors out there anymore.
Here’s my default nano configuration which you might want to use.
~/.nanorc
set tabsize 4
set autoindent
set nowrap
include “/usr/local/share/nano/c.nanorc”
include “/usr/local/share/nano/perl.nanorc”
include “/usr/local/share/nano/sh.nanorc”
include “/usr/local/share/nano/html.nanorc”
include “/usr/local/share/nano/php.nanorc”
include “/usr/local/share/nano/php2.nanorc”
Since am on FreeBSD the synthax highlighting files are located in /usr/local/share/nano, if you are on linux, you might wanna look in /usr/share/nano/
You can find more syntax highlighting config files here
This is just a simple configuration which will set your tabspace to 4, allow auto indentation, no line wrapping and some syntax highlight 
the only things that a use will ever need out of an editor.
Please don’t rant that nano can’t do magical stuffs :p it is an editor and nothing more [unlike some other things which claims to be editors :p].
+selven
Dear Members & non members,
You are invited for our monthly lug meeting this saturday the 4th of july 2009 (04/07/09).
map to lugm
Please confirm your presence. Last date for cancelation of the meeting is thursday 02/07/09 at 23hr59.
Geeks, nerds, non geeks, non nerds, humans, non humans whatever you are, if you are interested in anything opensource or *nix, you may wish to just try a lug meeting once.
ps. You don’t need to be a linux/unix guru to attend.
lug meetings are usually fun!
Thanks.
+Selven
Secretary of the LUG
