machine with linux installed---Doesn't have to be the RedHat distribution,
It's very hard to buy a machine with Linux already installed, unless
you're buying a server. In which case, you'd probably want to install
the OS yourself anyway... Far better to buy either seperate bits or a
complete
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 11:22, Mark Robinson wrote:
Hello S.L.U.G,
Can anyone recommend a good book on Mandrake 8.2. I've got to deliver
a training course on it next month, and I've never even seen it
running! Are ISO's of 8.2 available for download anywhere?
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 10:54, Colin McKinnon wrote:
Until I get a new job I ain't going to be upgrading my hardware, so I'm
thinking I might just put on a different Window manager (mwm works - but
its just so ugly - and I need a launcher and file manager). Any
recommendations for something
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:36, Michael Cameron wrote:
Anyone suggest decent mail order for non-standard serial cables (i.e. custom
made)?
Michael
What do you need?
Gordon
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On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 08:24, rayH wrote:
OK this is sheer laziness; asking here before I make more than a half-hearted
attempt..
I bought a couple of usb wirless lan adaptors with at76c503 chips (Maplins
@£40 each).
Plugged one in and dmesg gives:
hub.c: USB new device connect on
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 11:56, Huard, Elise - D CW Consultant wrote:
wee question (to replace the pin-drop jokes :-) ) :
program in C under Unix.
Is there any way to get the time in tenth or hundredth of seconds ?
Or to phrase it differently : i need a random number generator that won't
give
A white noise source connected to the sound card input would be a good
truly random number generator.
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Now all we need to be able to do is
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 23:26, ptb wrote:
Hallo : -
I've never had a ps printer yet so if it's one of those i.e.
should work in Linux I'd be interested and could collect Friday
It's not AFAIK postscript, but they do work under Linux. HP is pretty
good at that. APSFilter is perfectly OK with
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 17:11, Huard, Elise - D CW Consultant wrote:
Lawrence,
i've known that command for a couple of years, or i would be in trouble :-)
No, just curious, without any pressing need - actually i was trying to talk
someone into using Linux, but this button matter rather turned
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 11:18, Lawrence Sweeney wrote:
On 2003.07.17 11:08 Lawrence Sweeney wrote:
On 2003.07.16 10:01 willie fleming wrote:
Many users now have 512Mb RAM. Do we really need to allocate 2x RAM
for swap?
No, not really. The virtual memory subsystem pre ~2.10 mapped your
On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 11:39, Willie Fleming wrote:
I have to say this is a particularly unpleasant racist topic title.
Whats the betting I would have got flamed rotten if I had described 419 scams
as More msgs to be blacked or simiar.
As for the Falun Gong idea, just try the same with UK or
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 20:10, Ian Ruffell wrote:
Just for clarification: it's more a case of persuading folk like the Scottish
Executive and the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body to shift off MS; not to
mention encouraging similar moves in the public sector at large. Pat talks
about this
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 23:27, ptb wrote:
Don't get me wrong, SLUG has been fine in terms of individual
members' achievements and help given but what has it done in
say the last six months except survive?
Pat
It's easy to sit and heckle from the sidelines, isn't it? It seems it's
a lot
Joste Bowen wrote:
I was catchin up on this list when I noticed this and thought you might still
be interested that my Soundblaster Live! Platinum has such a connector marked
'Digital Din' on a seperate PCI slot cover with a cable to connect it to the
soundcard.
The card is certainly
Alice wrote:
--- Charles McCrimmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So if you dont oppose the ID cards then you best not appear at this
meeting then? Or would it be safe to attend even if you think its
actually a good idea?
Well this particular meeting is to get together people who oppose the cards
Dode wrote:
IBM Netstation Type 8361-110
Interested. I'm probably away this weekend, but let me know when it's
OK to pick it up.
Gordon.
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Andy Gilmour wrote:
Nice My ss 5 (not ultra) gave me the sun bug, but is so weak.
There is no way I can actually collect though, however If you can spare
1 (or 2) ,Ill bribe GordonJCP or Bagpuss to pick it up.
(btw, the_antiroot here)
Fsck, you're alive! How come you don't answer the
Richard Wright wrote:
Hi
I would like to install a distribution of linux onto my own machine and was
wondering if anyone could help?
I am a university student, my old machine (eMac, now broken) was used for word
processing and web browsing. It had a basic BSD version of unix. I have
Richard Wright wrote:
Hi Gordon
I have had a crack at booting it from a floppy disk, but there simply isn't
enough space on the floppy to boot it up effectively. In fact even the
rudimentary commands on the single floppy crashed as soon as the commands were
issued.
There should be two or
Mitchell Hagerty wrote:
Hey Georgia,
Don't count out the 8088 and 80186, You can find an 88 in IBM ATs (often
recycled as electric gate controllers) and the 186 was primarily used in
printers. Find a printer from the mid-80's you've probably found a 186.
Good hunting.
Mitch
Uhm, the AT
Kyle Gordon wrote:
You should've seen the inferno on top of his birthday cake :-)
Kyle
Next birthday I'm 0x21 so you should be able to get away with six
candles, and only light two...
Gordon
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Claudio Calvelli wrote:
Claudio-
The 8088 was the 16 bit chip, indeed, but it had an 8 bit adress bus.
The 8086 was superior to the '88 because it was a true 16bit cpu,
incorporating a 16bit address bus. The 8087 complements it to provide real
(floating point) calculations.
Yes,
Claudio Calvelli wrote:
No other removable media... but I am thinking it may be possible to
install a DEC o/s using a pdp-11 emulator (with any emulated removable
media which may be necessary) but making the emulator access the
real pdp-11's MFM disk during install - I do have a MFM controller
Alistair J Ross wrote:
I have Gnome installed on my Kubuntu system for 'just in case' use.
I started it up once to debug a sound problem I was having (not KDE
related!), and got horrified and immediately closed it down. It was all
orangey / brown. Euch!
I quite like it orange and brown. Very
Bill Ritchie wrote:
I'm an oap who has used Windows since its beginning (I hang my head in
shame). Free from the constraints of other peoples bad habits I'm slowly
weaning myself off MS and have migrated to openoffice and firefox and
thunderbird but still on MS. I'd like to make the final move
Joseph Kerr wrote:
Stephen,
Here is the error message,
'Checking for X... configure: error. can't find X includes. Please
check your installation and add the correct paths.'
Since I probably will not hear form you until after the new year have
a nice time at the bells.
Joe
Have you got
babaguy wrote:
If anyone else can PLEASE (I really MEAN these capitals, I *would*
like to be able to use my Linux to actually *do* something)
help me with configuring a modem (either BT VOYAGER ADSL or THOMSON
Speed Touch 330)
They're shit. Throw them away. Seriously. They barely work
William Anderson wrote:
Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
babaguy wrote:
If anyone else can PLEASE (I really MEAN these capitals, I *would*
like to be able to use my Linux to actually *do* something)
help me with configuring a modem (either BT VOYAGER ADSL or THOMSON
Speed Touch 330)
They're shit
Claudio Calvelli wrote:
I'll add my £0.02 troll tax...
snip
Also, being USB powered and therefore limited to 500mA, it cannot
always provide sufficient output power to cope with a bad line. Again,
a router with a decent power supply would have no problem with that.
Exactly - cheap shit,
babaguy wrote:
Spoke today to my pal Tam who uses Mandriva and who gave me some tips re a programme Dis Unwrapper (?) (i think). and also my Dear Sweetheart dedicated some of her precious day to scouring Linux forums and e-mailing me the answers/opinions etc. -
Just get an ethernet card.
babaguy wrote:
William Anderson wrote: This is the Wrong Approach, imo. As Ben mentioned earlier, it's awfulto turn round and say to
someone the distro you have selected is tehwrongness. For general purpose personal computing, Ubuntu is
just asappropriate as Fedora, Slackware, SuSE; more so
babaguy wrote:
Hello again -
I've e-mailed the Scribbler, but many hands might make light work so.
I finally was able to download and successfully burn the kubuntu ISO CD as
recommended by Scribbler (took 5 CD's but, hey!)
I put it into the Linux box and booted- and hit enter when
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 19:36 -0400, babaguy wrote:
Dear Scribbler, Kyle, William and Willie,
For example, some may learn more quickly by hearing, some by seeing, some by
reading, some by physically doing, and so on. I am, and have been, doing my
best with these distros, no matter what it
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 22:09 +0100, Kyle Gordon wrote:
Congratulations to Heather and Ben (aka mrben) on the birth of their baby
girl
Mira Hope Thorp, who was born today at 19:23. Photos will be online soon
apparently :-)
Yay!
Gordon
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On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 07:33 +0100, John Gordon Ollason wrote:
Greetings,
I received a panic phone call yesterday evening from somebody who told
me
that she had sent me an e-mail with a virus attached. I had received the
e-mail, and opened the attachment, a .DOC file, with
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 22:08 +0100, Miah Gregory wrote:
- 1 x ensoniq sound card (ISA);
Hi Miah,
Do you know which sound card this is? I might be interested.
Gordon
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Hi all,
I'm moving house. As the place I'm moving to is a little smaller
(well really about the same size, but fully-furnished and a bit full of
junk) I'm getting rid of some stuff. These include but are not limited
to (in no particular order):
Some PCs
Some VAXStation 3100s
A DECStation 3100
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 11:04 +, Callum Noble wrote:
Hey ScotLUGers,
There has been some talk on the OpenStreetMap talk-gb mailing list and
IRC of a pub meet for central Scotland mappers to put some names to
faces that you have seen on the map.
I know there are quite a few folk here
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 21:11 +, Alistair J. Ross wrote:
Hey All,
On the hunt for old hardware again - for a project I'm doing. My old
3com card is dead, and it also seems my Xircom Parallel-to-RJ45
transceiver is dead too. What a blow.
If anyone out there has an old 8 bit ISA network
On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 10:51 +0100, John Seago wrote:
The point remains that complaints that voluminous monolithic blocks of text
are found to be overbearing, and that they further cause a loss of will to
live, lose their impact when made above, voluminous monolithic blocks of
text
Yes
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 16:44 +, William Anderson wrote:
William Anderson wrote:
Will Tatam wrote:
[snip]
The salary ranges from £20k to £25k depending on experience.
Urgh.
Sorry, I'll clarify, since I've just been unjustifiably attacked on IRC
for making this comment.
In my
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:31 +, jb_1...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Does anyone know what's happening at the meeting on Thursday - is it a
pub night, or is there a speaker? The web site just says there's a
meeting, no more details given.
We're watching bigkev apologise to neuro_ for kickbanning
I gave someone on the list a DEC Microvax 3300, but I can't remember who
it was. Anyway, I've turned up a bunch of serial cables and adaptors
for it. Drop me an email off-list if you want them.
Gordon
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On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 17:13 +0100, Simon Strange wrote:
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:56 PM, james tobinjamesto...@linuxmail.org wrote:
I'm an open source talent acquisition consultant working with customers
in Scotland that are looking to recruit MySQL DBA's and *nix systems
administrators.
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 18:33 +0100, bob wrote:
Hello,
Ive just installed Ubuntu 10.4 32bit desktop . I have a Shackbox live
cd which contains Ham Radio programs its based on Ubuntu 9.8 How can I
install the files on the hard disk of the 10.4 machine.
bob renshaw
You'd probably be
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 11:32 +, Rodti MacLeary wrote:
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:08:46 +, D. Rimron dar...@xalior.com wrote:
I live north of the river. Do you want my BBC master? :)
The word 'yes' springs immediately to mind, if it's for sale!
I'd actually been thinking of getting
list, or for
that matter know not to top-post.
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, though they can be made through a directly
democratic system).
Offtopic. The Ayn Rand mailing list is over there, beside the playgroup. Oh,
actually, it's kind of hard to tell all those infants apart...
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