[Scottish] [JOBS] AJAX Developer
Hi, See below for a job advert which may be of interest. Applications and expressions of interest should be made using the contact details provided but I'm also happy to chat with anyone who may be interested. I'm about to go on an email-less holiday so if anyone wants to speak to me who doesn't have my mobile number just ask around other ScotLUG members and I'm sure someone will put you in touch with me. Thanks, Allan === Envoy International seeks experienced AJAX Developer (Glasgow, UK) Company Envoy International Location Glasgow, UK Title AJAX Developer Summary Envoy International provides Intellectual Property (IP) legal services to law firms from around the world via the Envoy website. The website is effectively a sophisticated application that lets lawyers instruct and manage their cases online. We have legal services in-house, as well as an extensive network of legal suppliers that covers every jurisdiction in the world. We officially launched on the 1st July 2009 and are now looking to really expand our online capabilities. As such, we are building an in-house team of designers, integrators and developers. The AJAX Developer role will play an important part in specifying and developing exciting new features for the system. The successful candidate will have excellent verbal communication skills and good attention to detail. Most likely the successful candidate will be someone who has a computer science background with/or considerable industry experience. Duties - working with the development team and designer/integrator to understand Envoy’s business requirements. - working closely with the designer/integrator to create smart user-interfaces for the online system. - working with the PHP/MySQL team to continue to improve the ‘back-end’ aspects of the system. - contributing to the strategic development and specifications for improvements to the online system. - testing and trouble-shooting. Skills - first class AJAX programming skills. - PHP/MySQL experience would be a considerable advantage. - considerable experience working within a LAMP development environment. - experience using version control and disciplined software development methodologies. - a willingness to employ code documentation/commenting practices. Compensation This is a full time position and an opportunity to work on a large, sophisticated, ongoing international project. The salary range will be dependent on the skills, experience, and expectation of the individual applicant. In addition to the salary, Envoy also offers the employee several benefits such as life insurance, pension policies, and the opportunity for ongoing professional development. Application Please submit your CV and a letter of application to t.ho...@envoyrenewals.com. Please ensure that you also include links to projects that you have directly contributed to. We are looking to establish our in-house development team as quickly as possible, as such, interviews of potentially suitable candidates will take place as soon as possible after an appropriate application is received. It is likely that our interview process will be in two parts, with the second part involving a practical test and/or discussion of a hypothetical brief. If you require any additional information or clarification, don’t hesitate to contact t.ho...@envoyrenewals.com. Closing Date: 24-Sep-2009 ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] New to the group...
Colin McKinnon wrote: Hi Raj, 'widely' used with Linux (and other operating systems, but there are lots more languages of more minority interest (Fortran, Brain-f*ck, assembly...). Fortran - minority interest?!? Bah! :) Thanks, Allan ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] defy id card meeting
Preaching to the converted is just so much more fulfilling. Alice wrote: This is not related to Colin's email: If someone's sole reason for coming to the meeting is to be disruptive or argue about the cards, than obviously I'd rather they didn't show up, because this is a relaunch meeting for a campaign group, and it'd be a bit disrespectful of everyone's time, as well as self important to think that the most important use of our collective time is to argue with a single person, when there's 5 million other folks in Scotland, and 58 million in the UK as a whole. Its also a bit arrogant - I'm sure you are a unique and special individual, but maybe we have thought of and already discarded those points. I'm equally sure you will form a unique and special group, but maybe we* have thought of and already discarded your points. * For "we" perhaps read "SLUG", "the other folks in Scotland", or maybe even the Goverment but you can certainly conclude that I'm not interested in listening to a group of people who think themself above listening to me should my point of view differ from theirs. Thanks, Allan -- Save Earth! It's the only planet with chocolate! ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Recursive MD5 sums
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Allan, Is it possible to have an md5sum quoted in a file which corresponds to the md5sum of that file? Are you asking whether or not you could have an MD5 hash of a file stored inside the file it is the MD5 hash of? Yes. Thanks, Allan ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Recursive MD5 sums
Hi, Is it possible to have an md5sum quoted in a file which corresponds to the md5sum of that file? I guess that this will either be a really trivial thing to do or it'll be one of those silly npc (or whatever it is) problems. Links or explantions of algorithms and/or implementations would be interesting (I'm more asking out of interest than anything else). Thanks, Allan ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Wireless range
Hi, I could spend hours looking up technical specs but I'd expect to get a better real world answer here. How feasible is a wireless network connection over a range of around 250-300m, with "almost" a line of site. Looking at a house or two being in the way. Will one of those omni things go that sort of distance through/around houses (sandstone/slate/brick)? Can the gear be boosted/directed and is it legal? If the answer is yes or probably, how much would I expect to pay for the kit required to get that sort of range? Ideally it'd be reliable and not require pringles tubes mounted to rooftops. I'd only need a speed of ~ 600kbps[1]. Thanks, Allan [1] It's no coincidence that 600kbps is the speed an NTL cable modem goes at :). ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Re: Scottish Digest, Vol 32, Issue 2
Willie wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 May 2004 08:17, Allan Whiteford wrote: Were you actually at the match? Yes, no, maybe. Err, I dunno. I got confused. I don't think I'm confused anymore but then misguided confused people seldom do. Apologies and stuff. Thanks, Allan ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Re: Scottish Digest, Vol 32, Issue 2
Willie wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 21:32, William Anderson wrote: Which part of the 20KB of digest you didn't trim are you interested in? Yeah, I nearly didn't approve that msg. But then I thought, " Hey I'm on broadband and Ive got plenty disk space, sod those modem lusers that have to pay for their downloaded mail, that'll teach them to move to a broadband-enabled neighbourhood" Willie the ever-helpful list-admin Yeah, that'll learn them! However, is anyone else worried that our list admin seems to receive the digest form of the mailing list? ;). Willie can prove it isn't true (and, at the same time, prove himself as an ever-helpful list-admin) by replying to this before the digest comes out! No forwarding him this mail now people :). Thanks, Allan ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Scottish Server Hosting
Hi, I think we should support Willie's decision - this didn't just sneak through, our list admin decided it was worth letting through and that's good enough for me. Perhaps we should allow (targetted) adverts/offers like this on the website somewhere? Thanks, Allan Willie wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray, I talked to this guy after his original message was blocked. I let _this_ one through because it seemed like something that may be worthwhile for some of our members. Also I negotiated a discount for ourselves. Not a huge discount admittedly but better than nothing at all. I took the decision that it was relevant and of interest to our members. The guy joined, he said hello and then he told us what he's got to offer. Somehow I think he's got enough sense not to tell us about it on a regular basis. If anyone is already using BelowZero I'll be very interested to hear reports of the quality of service and value offered.. Bottom line, Its a one-off and our no-spam policy still operates. On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:07, you wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2004 10:01, Chris Binnie wrote: A blatant ad - aka spam Do we have a no advertising no, spam policy? If not can we please have one, and blacklist companies/individuals who offend. I am not against useful news and comment about supplies and services from genuine sluggers, just salesmen in penguin suits. - -- Best Regards Willie Fleming -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAPeZ+ahQbszxW+gIRAtmnAKCdl/GC8H4iN6aBynWH/FgMTX8wwACfRiTV CItKVtxJdqH9K9mQFTtN6qI= =CRdg -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- Save Earth! It's the only planet with chocolate! ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] storing current directory
Allan, export AMB_TMP=`pwd` Note the use of back ticks, not normal quotes. Thanks, Allan Allan Bruce wrote: Hi there, I am modifying a script, and I need to be able to store the current directory, so I can come back to it. I tried export AMB_TMP=pwd but it doesnt work, AMB_TMP becomes 'pwd' rather than the current directory. How would I do this? Thanks Allan ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] debug
Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote: Hi, what would you say are the most useful commands for dbx ? "help" :). What commands are useful depends on if you're stepping through code as it runs or examine a core file. If you're familiar with gdb then a lot of versions of dbx include the command "gdb on" which allow you to use gdb style commands such as "bt". "bt" is probably what you think of as "stack". The intrinsic dbx command might be "whereami", I'm afraid I use it with a mixture of dbx and gdb commands. To find an FPE error you probably want to turn the signal handling functions off, run the code, get a core file. Load the core file, and find out which line you are on (bt or whereami) - hence which line is dividing by zero[1]. Thanks, Allan [1] Floating point exceptions are always division by zero :). ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Copying BBC CD's
People, (And not Rob in particular). Could we not discuss stuff like this on the mailing list. It makes us look bad to be seen to be helping each other do legally dubious[1] things. Talk to each other directly or something. There are plenty of internet resources, mailing lists and IRC chatrooms which deal with this topic. Like I said, not getting at anyone in particular. Thanks, Allan [1] Feel free to write about how it's actually legal and why it is justified, just be aware I'm not going to read material like that, let alone respond to it. Rob Martyn wrote: Hi Phil, In 2002 you posted a message regarding copying protected BBC CD?s, one response was to use CloneCD to copy them as they were protected by SafeDisc?. Did this work? I do need the same for my 2 boys. Thanks Rob ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Date of next meeting
Willie wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2003 18:05, Willie wrote: Anybody know this Bob Kerr? He writes a fine article. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/14/1545216 I wonder if he could be persuaded to give us a talk? How do the rest of you fell on this? I think his experiences would make a great talk, and unlike technical talks this would be suitable for all members of the group as opposed to being too simplistic or too complex for some people. Thanks, Allan ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Date of next meeting
Tony Dyer wrote: > > Sorry for being grumpy. I forgot that it was Christmas Day. Tradition say it should > be the Thursday before Christmas when Christmas falls on a Thursday. > Is the meeting on the 18th then? Nobody seems to have given a definitive yes or no. I think a meeting on the 18th would be good. 7:30 in the counting house as usual? Thanks, Allan -- /usr/src/linux/fs/locks.c: asmlinkage long sys_flock(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd) long live the goto! ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG
William Anderson wrote: Colin McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 14:40, William Anderson wrote: Is it time perhaps to rename ourselves the Glasgow LUG? Also, the Scottish LUG could be reused as an umbrella organisation, perhaps uniting the other LUGs in Scotland to form a larger community ... [snip] I don't think there's any need to dismantle Scottish LUG; I suggested nothing of the sort. I suggested *renaming* scotlug to glasgow lug, and *reusing* the scotlug name to provide an umbrella LUG to help build stronger links between the LUG in glasgow with other LUGs in the country. I don't think there is merit in renaming the user group, changing the name won't make any difference to what we do, let's not start grasping at straws and instead do something positive to better the user group. Lots of very good suggestions have come about from Willie's original post. The last then we need is our web presence removed when we change name, the domain name (scotlug.org.uk) to become invalid for our uses and the IRC channel to die/move in such a way that people can't find us. Thanks, Allan ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)
Ian Ruffell wrote: > (e.g. my major concern still is the Access replacement - both Rekall and > Kexio are getting there, perhaps) but also to do with institutions and > processes. Ian, What's Kexio? I'm guessing it's a tyop since google only returns 9 results, none of which seem relevant or maybe google is just having a bad day. Anyway, can you supply a link and/or correct the typo? I'd have a vague (non-commercial) interest in the program if it were free[1] (which Rekall isn't). BTW: Is it just me or is the reply-to field not being set correctly on the mailing list? Thanks, Allan [1] Free as in however you'd like to define it. -- A bad random number generator: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4.33e+67, 1, 1, 1... ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] tarring
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Allan Bruce wrote: > >> How on earth do I tar a directory up to a tarfile? >> I looked at the man page and it aint working - my head is mush today. >> That teaches me to go out drinking on a work night!! > > tar -cf tarfile.tar directory > > -- > Miah Gregory > > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Some versions of tar don't like a trailing slash on the directory name. i.e. in some cases tar -cf tarfile.tar directory will work but tar -cf tarfile.tar directory/ won't. I assume Allan is still using Solaris, which I have seen this "feature" on. This could be the problem, especially so when autocomplete helpfully adds a trailing slash on for you. Might be relevant. Thanks, Allan ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] allowing a large newborn sea-mammal to collide with a rocky plane toid object devoid of atmosphere somewhere in another galaxy
> Allan Whiteford wrote: > >>>Now all we need to be able to do is create a true white noise source. >>> Probably the best way to achieve this is to get a computer with a good >>> software random number generator to produce random numbers and output >>> them from a soundcard :). >>> >>>Thanks, >>> >>>Allan >>> > Certaily the white noise generators on most PC soundcards don't really > use random data. For truly random data, the best source is quantum > effects (it is sort of possible to count individual photons / electrons > with the right equipment - but it don't come cheap). Maybe you could > input the discussions on this list into your RNG as a source of entropy > ;) > Now all we need is someone who knows stuff about quantum physics, electrons and photon detection... where the hell in a linux user group are we going to find someone like that?!? Thanks, Allan -- Allan Whiteford Experimental Department Diagnostics and Plasma Operations UKAEA Fusion Culham Science Centre Abingdon Oxfordshire, OX14 3EA ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] allowing a large newborn sea-mammal to collide with a rocky plane toid object devoid of atmosphere somewhere in another galaxy
> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 09:06, John Hallam wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote: >> >> > Or to phrase it differently : i need a random number generator that >> won't give the same sequence of numbers every time that the seed is >> reinitialised in the same second (by 2 different users) >> > srand(time(NULL)) >> > and then rand() >> > doesn't work. >> > Or a different kind of seed ? Suggestions are welcome (should be >> readily available in your standard Unix system) >> >> One thing you can do is to execute `ps' and hash the output, e.g. >> with MD5, and use some of those bits as your seed. There is enough >> going on in a PS output to make duplicate seeds rather unlikely, >> unless (perhaps) you have a multiple CPU machine which can execute >> multiple ps invocations simultaneously... >> >> As someone else said, be careful with rand() if you want good >> random sequences -- some rand()s are seriously broken. A good cheap >> random number generator is the Mersenne Twister, which you can find at >> http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html >> >> John. > > A white noise source connected to the sound card input would be a good > truly random number generator. > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Now all we need to be able to do is create a true white noise source. Probably the best way to achieve this is to get a computer with a good software random number generator to produce random numbers and output them from a soundcard :). Thanks, Allan ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] CPU Testing
Iain Conochie wrote:
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> Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire wrote:
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> >I'm currently setting up MRTG to graph my CPU usage, but I need something to
> >help prove what I've done works, anyone got a short piece of C code that'll
> >push the gas peddle on my Linux box and keep the cpu cycles high for a few
> >mins?
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> >
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> Don't run this on a production box
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> int main ()
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> {
> fork()
> }
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> That should stress your box to the level of killing it :)
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Or, maybe it'll just fork and then both processes will end...
How about:
int main(void)
{
label:
fork();
goto label;
}
Thanks,
Allan
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Re: [Scottish] Pin drop
willie fleming wrote: > > > > either this list is broken or nothing interesting is happening. > -- > Best Regards > Willie Fleming > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Or, we're all just sitting here, poised to reply. Thanks, Allan -- This sentence have three erors. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Thursday 23rd January
Hi, As a follow up to my previous mail, people will be meeting in the counting house, just off george square from 7:30 onwards tomorrow evening (Thursday). Remember it's curry night so plenty of us will be eating in the pub. For more information, please contact me. There is also a competing /. meeting taking place, this starts at 7pm. The slug people who are going to the /. meeting promise to be in the counting house by 8pm or so, and hopefully recruit a few new people. For more information on the /. meeting see http://slashdot.meetup.com/. IMPORTANT: As I said before, this meeting is not the offical meeting of the Scottish Linux User Group which should take place on the 30th with the normal arrangements. Thanks, Allan -- On the sixth day, God created the platypus. And God said: let's see the evolutionists try and figure this one out. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Best way to find text within files recursively?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > for (every folder in this directory) > > grep -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > > Would "grep -rl [EMAIL PROTECTED] *" do what you want? > > Steven Murdoch. > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish In a slightly more convoluted way, but one in which can be applied easily to any command to give recursive capabilities: grep -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] `find .` (Note the direction of the quotes, and also filenames with spaces will probably mess things up.) Thanks, Allan -- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Network speed testing
Colin McKinnon wrote: > > Allan Whiteford wrote: > > >ftp a big file and sit with a stopwatch. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Allan > > > > > Experience suggests that this is not such a bad idea. Both FTP and SMB > transfers seem to have relatively low overhead. For the best possible > result, try with lots of different sizes and extrapolate a little. (you > can't beat a good bit of extraploation for justifying your results). > Just be careful not to take it too far. Thanks, Allan -- Never pet a burning dog. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Network speed testing
Mark Robinson wrote: > > Hello S.L.U.G, > > Thanks for the pointers for the Mandrake docs. I have another > interesting problem that's kind of Linux related. > > One of my clients has a wireless link between two of their buildings. > They have no idea what speed it runs at, and they're no longer in > touch with the company that put it in. What (linux based) software is > there for testing throughput over ethernet? I can isolate both ends > of the link for a short while, with a linux box directly connected to > each end. > > TIA > Mark > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Mark, ftp a big file and sit with a stopwatch. Thanks, Allan -- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Thursday 23rd of January
Hi, There will be an informal meeting of some of the members of the Scottish Linux User Group on Thursday 23rd of January in the Counting House. Plans at the moment are that at least some of us will be eating curry in the Counting House, although other food is available if desired. Others will just be coming along for a drink. Everyone is welcome, if you are unsure how to find the Counting House please contact me and I can give you more details. A more precise time at which to meet and a reminder will be posted to this list nearer the time. IMPORTANT: This is not the official meeting of the Scottish Linux User Group which should be on the 30th of this month with the usual arrangements. Thanks, Allan -- Never argue with an idiot; bystanders can't tell the difference. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Saturday
Hi, I'll be 23 on Sunday (oh no!) so I'm going out for a few pints on Saturday evening. For those of you who have been invited already, here are the details... For those of you who haven't, consider yourself invited... The current plan is to meet in the Old Printworks at 8pm. The Old Printworks is situated on North Frederick Street (number 36) which runs off of the North East corner of George Square towards Cathedral Street. The pub itself is just down the hill a wee bit from the Ark. http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?X=259500&Y=665500&scale=5000&coordsys=gb Thanks, Allan -- To err is human, to forgive... unlikely. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Quality, low cost hosting
Ritchie Logan wrote: > > Hi, > > Been a lurker for a while I'm doing a network for someone as a sideline, > and need some advice: > > Sorry for being a wee bit OT, but I do remember this getting discussed in > the past. can anyone recommend a good, low cost host for a small site > with not a lot of traffic, ideally with either mail forwarding or a pop3 > box. Do I remember Black Cat Networks being mentioned, and either being very > good or very bad?? > > Thanks for any comments. > > Cheers, > > Ritchie > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Richie, Check out ukshells, http://www.ukshells.co.uk. I used them for two years and they gave a great service. Thanks, Allan -- I thought I had a back-up, but she refused to type it in again. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Scotlug 100-Ping Bowling Night
Kevin McDermott wrote: > > Hi all, > > One of the things that was discussed last month was the possibility of a "Scotlug >Bowling Night". > > The proposed venue is the AMF Bowl in Finnieston, it's not that far from the City >Centre, and has the main benefit of not requiring people to drive to it (It's the one >opposite the big PC World at Finnieston). > > Time is : 7:30pm > Date is : 15th November. > > There are two packages on offer, both include 2 games and shoe-hire, the difference >being in the food. > > The cost per head is either 9.50UKP which includes a "basket menu" :) There's also >the possibility of a 10.50UKP "buffet menu", and if enough people express interest in >that we could probably book that. > > It's open to all, just reply by Thursday night (as I'll confirm the booking on >Friday morning), let me know how many places you want (apparently we could >accommodate 25-30 no problems). > > Kevin > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Kevin, Hmmm... I had assumed when I got this e-mail that the date you picked was the same one I had originally suggested, that's why I said yes. Turns out the 15th is a Friday. I probably can't make it and have no way of finding out for definite before tomorrow tonight. I'd like to drop back to "maybe" at this stage but if you need a definite answer then it'd have to be no. Sorry. Thanks, Allan -- The software said Windows95 or better, so I got a Mac... ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Apologies - can't talk this month
George, Except for around about Christmas, when things go all strange, the meetings are the last Thursday of each month. Thanks, Allan george wrote: > > Out of interest when and where is the next meeting. > > George > > At 22:25 15/10/2002 +0100, you wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:46:16PM +0100, Andrew Elwell wrote: > > > As mentioned in the pub, I'll volunteer for a small talk next month. > > > >Apologies all, but due to the arrival of a new job (yee haa) I'm afraid > >I CAN'T do a talk this month. > > > >However, I'm still willing to do one in the new year (hmm, clash with > >burns suppers...) > > > >Many thanks > > > >Andrew > > > > > >-- > >Andrew Elwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >NEW MOBILE NUMBER: 07890 249969 > > > >GPG Key ID: 1A1E108D (available on www.keyserver.net) > >fingerprint: F9B2 68EB E82E CFED EB05 BFF3 0599 2156 1A1E 108D > > > > > >___ > >Scottish mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- Never argue with an idiot; bystanders can't tell the difference. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Thursday Night Update
Kevin McDermott wrote: > > A _very_ quick Google turns up http://www.worldatlas.com/geoquiz/thelist.htm > > CONTINENTS OF THE WORLD > > CONTINENTS (by size) > > #1 Asia - (44,579,000 sq km) > #2 Africa - (30,065,000 sq km) > #3 North America - (24,256,000 sq km) > #4 South America - (17,819,000 sq km) > #5 Antarctica - (13,209,000 sq km) > #6 Europe - (9,938,000 sq km) > #7 Australia/Oceania - (7,687,000 sq km) > > Kevin > It was only an e-mail signature, a random number generator picked it! When I went to school, the continents were: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe and Australasia. Australasia covering Australia and the surrounding islands. I asked the guy who shares my office, and he said the same, so it must be true. (At this point I won't mention this guy happened to go to the same school as me and had the same Geography teacher.) At the bottom of this e-mail is another random signature, have fun with it, people. Thanks, Allan -- You don't win silver - you lose gold. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Thursday Night Update
Hi, As an update to my previous e-mail, members of the Scottish Linux Users Group will be meeting on Thursday evening (10th October) from 7pm onwards in the Goose on Union Street. The address is 40-46 Union Street and the pub can be found (pretty much) opposite central station and down a wee bit. Everyone is welcome to come along. See http://www.glasgowguide.co.uk/pubs-g-l.html for more details and a map. Look for the usual suspects, if you've never been to a meeting before or have forgot what we all look like then e-mail me and I'll give you a mobile phone number to ring when you get to the pub. There is no pressure to arrive at 7pm exactly, come along at whatever time suits you best. For those of you coming straight from work, the Goose sells food. Since we will just be in the pub, there will be no formal topic of discussion but plenty of linux, unix and computer talk should be expected. At some point we should discuss other purely social events which we can undertake. Going out for Curry and visiting a Brewery spring to mind but bring ideas with you. But, lets just see if we can motivate enough people to drag themself to the pub before we get illusions of curry, breweries and grandeur. Thanks, Allan -- The continents names all end with the same letter they start with. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Pub outing on Thursday
Hi, There will be an unofficial gathering of a few user group members this Thursday evening (the 10th of October) somewhere in Glasgow. Everyone is welcome. The exact time and venue is, at yet, undecided but you should all keep your diaries free for Thursday evening and watch this space for more information. Current suggestions include the Bon Accord, The Goose on Union Street and, of course, the Counting House. Feel free to add more suggestions. Hopefully if we can pull this one off successfully we can aim higher next month, perhaps the now infamous brewery trip or curry night. Thanks, Allan -- Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he's a mile away and barefoot. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] SLUG Meeting Thursday 26th September 2002
Andrew Elwell wrote: > > oooh - does this mean that we get to argue over all the ballot rigging, > systems fauilure and eventually have to decide based on dents in CDs? > > :-) > Do we need photo ID to vote? Thanks, Allan -- Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] SLUG Meeting Thursday 26th September 2002
Andrew Elwell wrote: > > oooh - does this mean that we get to argue over all the ballot rigging, > systems fauilure and eventually have to decide based on dents in CDs? > > :-) > Do we need photo ID to vote? Thanks, Allan -- Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Strange DNS problem
Ben, If machines won't respond to pings to their IP numbers then chances are DNS is the least of your problems. If it happens again try pinging something independent like: 216.239.55.100 (google, btw). If it doesn't respond then you have bigger problems than DNS. Thanks, Allan Ben Thorp wrote: > > This time round I tried to ping the 3 nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf - 2 > from ntlworld, 1 from freenetname - and none of them were responding to a > ping: 100% packet loss. I also looked in /var/log/messages and a couple of > other places, but couldn't see much unusual (or rather, that I recognised > as unusual ;o) > > It's probably time I upgraded to Slack 8.1 anyway. > > mrBen > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent by: To: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > scottish-admin@mailmancc: > .lug.org.uk Subject: RE: [Scottish] Strange >DNS problem > > > 29/08/02 12:03 > Please respond to > scottish > > > > andrew wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 11:39:17AM +0100, Ben Thorp wrote: > >> This month I > >> have been running Firestarter firewall, but last month I didn't even > know > >> about it. Other than that, everything is the same. And the problem > resolved > > > > Ah, that firewall only works with prodigy internet :-) > > > > Ouch. > > I assume no indication of port 53 packets getting blocked in the kernel > log? > > Maybe it's just random weirdness, Ben, but I'd be tempted to note down a > few key IP addresses (dotted quads, e.g. nameservers, systems which will > respond to pings on your ISPs subnet, systems beyonfd that) to test it > out if it goes down again next month. > > HTH > > Colin > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
