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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The new TayLUG website is now up on my
home server, A TayLUG member has kindly offered to host the site on
one of his company's servers. This will be better in the long term
and an Industrial-type server is better then a home server. It is
envisaged that this will happen within the next two weeks, in the
meantime I have a test version (similar to the final version) up and
running within a virtual machine on my CentOS 5.3 server. Due to it
being a test version (called it TayLUG preview) accounts can't be
created. When the changeover to the other server has been completed
and everything tested satisfactory I will email the list with details
for accounts etc. To give people some technical info on the site.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Wiki:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I am using Mediawiki which is PHP based
with a MySQL backend.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Mail Archives:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">All the mail archives from 2002 until
June 2009 has been archived. The Lurker database has a strong search
engine giving a knowledge base to the TayLUG.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">TayLUG Blog:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This for any TayLUG member to blog on
what they want (within common sense & good taste) especially
where it is not pertinent to post on the list.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">TayLUG Cloud:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This is a demonstration to show how
Linux can be used in cloud computing with a small footprint. Two
public accounts has been created, I have created an extra 3 for
TayLUG members to have a look. These are the usernames and passwords
for the accounts, (3) guest3, pass3 (4) guest4, pass4 (5) guest5,
pass5</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">These accounts are only 20 MB in size,
enough for demonstration purposes.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">About FOSS:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This is for new users, I have only one
video up at the moment, more can be added later, it is just using
embedded links to youtube etc.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Here is the url of the new website:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.dundeelug.org.uk/">www.dundeelug.org.uk</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">notice there is only a dot difference
from the old site.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">p.s. I had a router that was really
giving me hassle regarding port forwarding and the website access for
the Wan interface, fortunately I remembered that I had a spare
Linksys WRT54G so I put on the open source “Tomato” firmware and
used this. I am really impressed with Tomato as it is so easy to use.
Because I changed the router yesterday, the external IP address was
changed so I had to make an update to the DNS nameservers. Sometimes
it can take a couple of days for all the root name servers in the
different regions to register the new IP. If you do a dig command on
the website url it should give you an IP Address of 94.168.152.125,
if it doesn't then the DNS nameserver in your region has not yet been
updated and you might have to wait a day or two.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Gordon</p>
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