Re: [Scottish] Tomorrow night...at last :)

2002-12-19 Thread Julian Gibson
Kevin Thanks for the notification. Is the venue is the Livingstone Tower as usual? Cheers Julian [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key available on request

Re: [Scottish] Fwd: [edlug] Security Enhanced Linux - interest?

2003-01-01 Thread Julian Gibson
Yup, ditto. J [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key available on request ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Scottish] Julian's Chair Emporium

2003-01-22 Thread Julian Gibson
All, The chair's seem to be popular so I'll confirm that the offer isn't just for staff the next time I deign to visit the place. Assuming that's the case collection will be during working hours on a day when I'll arrange to be there. Obviously will let you know in advance but it will be before

Re: [Scottish] Looong Cat5 Cable

2003-03-23 Thread Julian Gibson
From memory twisted pair cable isn't normally meant to be used in segments of more than 100m. Has this changed with 5e/6? Julian Michael Cameron wrote: Since the forums are not particularly active I'll try here. Can anyone planning to be at next Thursday's meeting help me out? I need a 60 metre

Re: [Scottish] Using old Sun and HP boxes for Linux

2003-07-17 Thread Julian Gibson
Keith, I have installed RedHat v6.1 on both an SS20 and an Ultra 2, the Ultra being dual CPU. Both ran fine although the Ultra's disk has since died. No problems encountered though I wasn't really asking much of either. Cheers Julian

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG

2003-12-13 Thread Julian Gibson
Colin McKinnon wrote: The three document management systems I've come across (apologies if I've overlooked someone here Julian) are all intensively Microsoft based. The serious contenders tend to run on a variety of platforms, i.e. Documentum ($500k+): Platforms Supported Windows NT Server 4.0

[Scottish] Found this Interesting

2004-05-30 Thread Julian Gibson
Guys, I know know many will have seen this but in case you didn't: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040527.html Cheers Julian [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG publickey available on request

Re: [Scottish] Skype?

2004-09-06 Thread Julian Gibson
Ben et al A FOSS alternative would appear to be PhoneGAIM (www.phonegaim.com) which adds VoIP functionality to GAIM, and is sponsored by Michael Robertson/Lin[dows|spire] A FOSS alternative is nice, however in the case of this wonderfully disruptive technology I feel it is better to go with the

Re: [Scottish] SPAM SPAM SPAM - Clear out

2004-11-18 Thread Julian Gibson
Craig There's an unbranded tv, think its about 24 inch or so, living room size anyway, and an unbranded region unlocked dvd player both with remotes - £40 for the lot. I'll stick my hand up for the TV as mine is ancient. Where are you please? Cheers Julian --

[Scottish] Cat 5e

2005-05-31 Thread Julian Gibson
Could the guys who put their hands up for this please get in touch so that they can arrange to collect. And if you are no longer interested please let me know so I can offer to those that were not in the first 4 to reply. Thanks Julian --

[Scottish] [Fwd: Open Source in the public sector]

2005-09-29 Thread Julian Gibson
All Don't know if this was widely received but just got it on my return from holiday. Cheers Julian Original Message Subject:Open Source in the public sector Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:59:00 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Colleagues,

[Scottish] More free stuff

2005-11-18 Thread Julian Gibson
I expect shortly to have 3 or possibly 4 Sun Ultra 2 processors to give away of the following aprox spec: 1 x 300MHz UltraSparc 256MB RAM 4.5GB SCA SCSI disk CD ROM and floppy built in no keyboard, mouse or screen I anyone wants one please let me know otherwise they will go to Freecyle.org or

Re: [Scottish] ScotLUG on Tour - Troon Beer Festival - Friday Oct 5th

2007-09-27 Thread Julian Gibson
Aye Andrew Calverley wrote: A trip to the Troon Beer Festival is being planned for the 5th of October, (which is a Friday). Those intereted, please reply. Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk

[Scottish] Hardware question?

2009-08-06 Thread Julian Gibson
All I've acquired a Dell Precision 670 with a pair of 147GB SCSIs. I'm wanting to remove one of them and add a pair of 1.5TB SATAs in a Raid 1 config. I'll be using SuSE 11.1 and will do a software raid. The question is therefore... Will this be able to boot off the remaining SCSI (ie

Re: [Scottish] Hardware question?

2009-08-07 Thread Julian Gibson
The 670 has 2 SATA connectors on the mobo as well as well as the onboard SCSI. I'd prefer to not use the inbuilt hardware raid. My current desktop has a single 80GB IDE for /, /boot, swap etc and a pair of 300GB SATAs for /home (Raid 1 on /dev/md0) on the basis that my data is more important

[Scottish] A non technical request

2009-09-03 Thread Julian Gibson
Hi all In about 2 weeks I'll be visiting the Berlin LUG (http://www.belug.de/) and was wondering if anyone has any old ScotLUG memorabilia they didn't want anymore that I could take? I'm thinking: old unclaimed spare beer fest teeshirts, Mr Lithic or anything else ScotLUGish that's not required.

Re: [Scottish] GPS Antenna

2010-04-05 Thread Julian Gibson
Hi Kyle Not strictly answering the question, but I have one half of a steel roof rail set mounted at the rear and one of the £20 mag mount jobbies (from memory got it from http://www.gpsw.co.uk) stuck to that. Wrapped the cable around the rail a couple of times to give it extra holding. From my

[Scottish] RHCE

2010-12-12 Thread Julian Gibson
All I'm thinking of doing the RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) exam as part of a process to get a job where I spend less of my time using MS and more on what I've been using at home for over 10 years. Anyone got any hints, tips, war stories, gotchas, whatever from having done this or considered

[Scottish] Recruitment agencies - recommendations for and to avoid

2011-02-01 Thread Julian Gibson
Hi All Wondering if anyone has recommendations for good recruitment agencies and possibly even more important which ones to avoid. Obviously looking to find something Linuxy, Unixy ideally but I suspect the agencies treat all skills equally in that sense. Cheers and thanks Julian --

[Scottish] Sun monitor (model 3651383-01) going spare

2011-11-27 Thread Julian Gibson
All, I have a Sun monitor (model 3651383-01) going spare. It's a 20 viewable CRT. Comes with a 13w3 to VGA adaptor. I used to use a pair of them in 1600x1200 mode each on SuSE. It works fine but just is too large and we want the dining table back for dining on Can be collected from the