Sure, Marshall. I'm no expert, but I expect that together we can get it
up and running. I've set up MySQL on RedHat9 (using binary RPMs) and can
give you a hand. I imagine that we'll both learn a few things! What time
will you expect to be there?
Marshall Paul wrote:
> Would this be an appropreate play to get help getting
> mysql up and running on SuSe?
>
> Marshall
> --- "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug@shubes.net> wrote:
>
>
>>(my apologies for the formatting problems -shubes)
>>
>>Alexander Henry wrote:
>>
>>>I have some new language in the press release.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>>>Community event: Phoenix Linux User's Group (PLUG)
>>
>>Installfest.
>>
>>>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>>>
>>>CALENDAR POSTING
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>SHORT FORMAT - CALENDAR FORMAT -
>>
>>AZIPA/AZTECHLIST/TECHOASIS FORMAT
>>
>>>8/28 (Saturday 10:00am - 5:00pm) Phoenix Linux
>>
>>User Group (PLUG) Installfest. Where: University of
>>Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ
>>85283 (Baseline Road, just west of I-10 and Pointe
>>Hilton South Mountain, south side of Baseline). The
>>Phoenix Linux User's Group and the Arizona Open
>>Technology Organization (AZOTO) would like to invite
>>you to our monthly Linux Installfest. Bring your
>>PC, Mac, or other for one-on-onehelp to get your
>>machine running Linux, and to learn how to use
>>Linux. If you're interested in Linux for home,
>>please stop by and see our demos. If you are
>>researching Linux for business use, especially small
>>business, please contact Alexander Henry below, and
>>we will arrange a specific demo. RSVP appreciated,
>>indicate interests: Alexander Henry
>><ahenry@red7usa.com> PLUG:
>>http://plug.phoenix.az.us AZOTO:
>>http://www.azoto.org
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>LONG/ARTICLE FORMAT
>>>
>>>(Phoenix, Arizona) -- DATE
>>>
>>>The Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG) and the
>>
>>Arizona Open Technology Organization (AZOTO) are
>>holding their monthly Linux Installfest Saturday,
>>August 28, from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. at the
>>University of Advancing Technology (UAT), 2625 W
>>Baseline Tempe, just west of I-10. Free and open to
>>the public. Bring your P.C. for free one-on-one
>>help with installing Linux. The Linux Installfest
>>also features demos to view Linux for those
>>considering switching to Linux for home or business
>>use, as well as Knoppix CD's to try Linux at home
>>without damaging your PC or files. While noRSVP is
>>required, if you are considering attending, an
>>e-mail to the event coordinator stating your
>>specific interest would be greatly appreciated.
>>Please e-mail Alexander Henry <ahenry@red7usa.com>
>>with "Installfest"in the subject line. The
>>PLUG/AZOTO Installfest is held at UAT on the last
>>Saturday of every month.
>>
>>>"PLUG and AZOTO, in the past, had only held
>>
>>bi-annual install conferences," says Alexander
>>Henry, PLUG member and event coordinator. "These
>>install conferences were huge, and included not only
>>one-on-one installationhelp and Linux demos, but
>>presentations and giveaways. The members at PLUG
>>and AZOTO are impressed with the success of
>>switching to monthly installfests," Alexander Henry
>>continued. "The public responded positively to this
>>move, and our turnout is steadily increasing." The
>>larger installconferences will still be held. Henry
>>also cited greater worldwide interest in Linux,
>>support from large companies such as IBM and
>>Hewlett-Packard, and exponentially increasing
>>Windows virus outbreaks has raised greater interest
>>in Linux. Henry continued that in the future, given
>>demand, larger computer setup demonstrations as well
>>as regular group tutorials would be held.
>>
>>>Linux is a free Unix-type operating system
>>
>>originally created by Linus Torvalds with the
>>assistance of developers around the world. Developed
>>under the GNU General Public License, the source
>>code for Linux is freely available to everyone.
>>Apart from the fact that it's freely distributed,
>>Linux's functionality, adaptability, and robustness
>>has made it the main alternative for proprietary
>>Unix and Microsoft operating systems. IBM,
>>Hewlett-Packard and other giants of the computing
>>world have embraced Linux and support its ongoing
>>development. More than a decade after its initial
>>release, Linux is being adopted worldwide as a
>>server platform primarily. Its use as a home and
>>office desktop operating system is also on therise.
>>The operating system can also be incorporated
>>directly into microchips in a process called
>>"embedding" and is increasingly being used thisway
>>in appliances and devices. Countries such as China,
>>India, Germany,Singapore, Brazil, and many more are
>>ad
>>opting Linux as their official operating system in
>>both servers and
>>desktops. Some governments are adopting economic
>>policies around a
>>future boom in Linux.
>>
>>.) alternative "to" instead of alternative "from"
>>.) replace "adopted" with "utilized"
>>.) "primarily as" instead of "as ... primarily"
>>.) replace "Countries" with "Governments", or
>>possibly "Governments in
>>countries" (Countries aren't adopting, are they?)
>>.) I have a problem with the last sentence here. Can
>>this statement be
>>backed up? Even if so, I'm not sure it's a good
>>thing (adopting economic
>>policies based on any kind of boom). If there's a
>>boom, there'll be a
>>bust (economically speaking). I think that simply
>>pointing to the growth
>>of Linux (however you want to measure it) would have
>>better impact.
>>
>>
>>>"My take on the Open Source movement," Henry says,
>>
>>"is that it's a model for the new economy. When
>>Henry Ford tasked himself with taking academic
>>research in materials science, physics, and
>>engineering and producing something people could
>>use, at that time in history the only way to do
>>sowas to start with real estate, plant, and capital
>>equipment, then apply an amount of material,
>>management, and real labor to each car produced
>>onthe assembly line. Today, to take research
>>produced by investments by DARPA, the Department of
>>Energy, Bell Labs, etc. and apply it to
>>somethingusable, you don't need any of this. You
>>just need to do a 'copy and paste'. The cost for
>>producing the product is already sunk, and there is
>>novalue added in making a copy. In fact, anyone who
>>invests so much and works so hard at producing this
>>research only to have the research go completely
>>unused is harmed very badly." Henry provides
>>another example, "Tgen was recently given a two
>>million doll
>>ar endowment to find a cure (or at least a greater
>>understanding) for
>>Autism. Once they find this cure, the last thing
>>Tgen would think of
>>doing is to print the procedure for the cure on
>>holographic copy-proof
>>certificates, sell them for $10,000 a copy, then sue
>>anyone who
>>practices the cure for Autism without a copy in
>>their pockets at the
>>time the cure is practiced. But this happens
>>routinely for software
>>products."
>>
>>This is a bit esoteric, IMHO. Leave it in if you
>>like, but I don't think
>>it adds anything meaningful. Sorry, Alex. I would
>>like to discuss it though.
>>
>>>Henry continues, "Here's how Open Source works on
>>
>>an individual level. Think of a junior accountant.
>>She takes some information, reorganizes it, does
>>some calculations, then places it somewhere else.
>>She will realize one day that she can write a script
>>to do the same thing, and save herself from this
>>boring work. So, she still spends eight hours a day
>>doingher normal job (otherwise face termination),
>>and invests her spare time at home writing this
>>script. By the end of the month, she applies her
>>script, reducing her eight hour job to a thirty
>>second procedure on a computer, and (assuming her
>>employers think like entrepreneurs and not like
>>'Pointy-haired Bosses') her time is free to pursue
>>something more productive, or hopefully something
>>that requires human judgment and not simple
>>number-pushing. Today, like no time in history,
>>does every individual have the power to script their
>>position out of the company to leverage their labor.
>> Better yet, if our junior account
>>ant shares her script with the entire accounting
>>community, she can in
>>return receive scripts that she can apply for her
>>employers: potentially
>>one script from every junior accountant in the
>>industry." Henry again
>>points to IBM and Hewlett-Packard as real-life
>>examples of large
>>companies embracing this new economy. "They are
>>kind-of
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-Eric 'shubes'
"There is no such thing as the People;
it is a collectivist myth.
There are only individual citizens
with individual wills
and individual purposes."
-William E. Simon (1927-2000),
Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
"A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237
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