Linux User Group of Mauritius Promoting open source software in our beautiful island

25Jan/120

Recommended hardware

Posted by logan

Here's a useful list of chipsets (found on motherboards) that are documented. Since it's documented, it's easy to add support for them & the drivers are less buggy.

If you really care about Open Source, contact the company & ask for hardware documentation/datasheets. We don't want source code: we want freely available specs.

(Signing an NDA is not an option, we also want to share what we know to other groups out there: *BSD, Linux, Haiku, Minix3 and many other groups in pure open source spirit)

Intel:

ICH7
ICH8 mobile
ICH9

ICH10

CMD/Silicon Image

CMD 648
CMD 649
SiI 680

Promise:

PDC20579
PDC40775

ATI:
IXP700/800 SATA

Ethernet:
Realtek
Intel (complex and buggy)

Wifi:
Ralink
Realtek (older chipsets like 8187)

Video Adapters:
Intel
ATI

Soundcards:
Realtek

(Still a work-in-progress)

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4Dec/110

LUGM Annual General Meeting 10 December 2011

Posted by Selven

This is to inform you that the Linux user Group Meta (LUGM) shall be holding its annual general meeting on Saturday the 10th of December 2011

Agenda: treasurer and secretary's book, New Managing committee will be voted
Time ~ 10.30 am
Venue: LinkbyNet Indian Ocean, DCDM building, Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius.. [ if you can't find your way wait around vins/20 and gimme a call (49 24 9 1 8 )]
Date: 10/12/2011
ALL MEMBERS ARE EXPECTED TO BE PRESENT.
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10Oct/116

LUGM meeting, 29/10/2011

Posted by Selven

MariaDB
Agenda: Membership fees, treasurer and secretary's book, Tech presentation
Time ~ 10.00 am
Venue: LinkbyNet Indian Ocean, DCDM building, Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius.. [ if you can't find your way wait around vins/20 and gimme a call (49 24 9 1 8 )]
Date: 29/10/2011
Technical presentation on MariaDB will be ensured by Nitin & Ronny.

this meeting shall be postponed if there is less than 5 confirmations.

+selven
Secretary of the lug
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9Aug/114

LUGM Meeting 13/08/2011

Posted by Selven

This is to inform you that there shall be a LUGM meeting this week.

Agenda: Discuss about audit reports for the registrar
Time ~ 10.00 am
Venue: Knowledge7, Suite 505-506, Newry Complex, St Jean Road, Quatre-Bornes, Mauritius.. [ if you can't find your way wait around pussy cat and gimme a call (49 24 9 1 8 )]
Date: 13/08/2011
All members of the managing committee must be there (guests are invited to come also), this meeting will be postponed if there is less than 5 confirmations.
+$3|v3n
//secretary of the lug
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23Mar/110

LUGM meeting April, 02, 2011

Posted by Selven

This is to inform you that there shall be a lugm meeting on the 2nd of April 2011

.
No technical presentations is planned YET, members wants to have a more informal kind of meeting this time.

Agenda: Open to discussions

Time ~ 10.30 Venue: Linkbynet indian ocean, Mauritius, Orbis court, quatre bornes.

[gimme a call if you are need to find your way (49 24 9 1 8 )]

Date: 2/04/2011

map: http://thegodof.net/images/maplugm.png

+selven

/secretary of the lug

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25Oct/102

Recovering GlusterFS password

Posted by Selven

recover or reset gluster password

Well, drinking too much is bad, you shouldn't. I recently had a gfs installation which  i have changed the default password, password which i happenned to have forgotten.

Since there was no forgot password option, i decided to look around if  there was anybody who ever bumped into this, couldn't seem to find anything [ph33r my leet googling skills :p].

Anyways, after searching and searching i realized i would be better off following the code. I had no clue where they had it, but thankfully, i was able to boot the gluster machine into single user mode [ am not going into the boring details http://www.google.mu/search?hl=en&q=boot+linux+grub+into+single+usermode&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= ]

once inside, type this:

cat /GLUSTER/webagent.auth

ofcourse you can use vi or nano or whatever text editors they have there, the password is stored in clear text.

I guess this should save someone some times, since i lost like 15 minutes looking through the codes  through which way was it doing authentication since it kept referencing functions from this or that file. I had to go through /var/www/html/modules/login/index.php, /var/www/html/classes/user-authentication.class.php,  /var/www/html/modules/setting/change-password.php to finally get a clue to where it was storing the password.

Hope it helps.

+selven

pcthegreat@gmail.com / sch@csis.dk

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17Jul/100

LUGM meeting sat 24 July 2010

Posted by Selven

No technical presentations planned.
Agenda: Discuss about the lug event.
Time ~ 10.30
Venue: Linkbynet indian ocean, Mauritius, Orbis court, quatre bornes. [gimme a call if you are need to find your way (49 24 9 1 8 )]
Date: 24/07/2010

+selven

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22Feb/101

LUG Meeting 22/02/2010 (Orbis court)

Posted by 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

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19Jan/104

lugm meeting 23/01/10 [POSTPONED TO THE 6 OF FEBRUARY]

Posted by Selven

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

  • Time: 10hr30
  • location: Linkbynet, 2nd Floor BG court, St jean, Quatres Bornes
  • Map for your convenience :http://thegodof.net/images/maplugm.png
  • Presentation: This week there shall be a presentation by mahen who will talk about how we can advocate the use of opensource software. However, due to unforseen circumstances, Mahen had no choice but to postpone his presentation. The presentation will be: Balancing security and performance on servers.
  • Agenda : Discussion about paper work, plan for this year

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

16Dec/091

LUGM meeting 19th December 09

Posted by Selven

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

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