[Scottish] Re: Scottish Digest, Vol 111, Issue 2

2006-01-30 Thread drake
he thin-edge-of-the-wedge on the way to regular subscription fees. I also agree with MrBen that opening such events to the other Scottish lugs would be of benefit. drake National Patient Safety Agency - supporting Doctors

[Scottish] Support Jobs

2005-11-15 Thread Paul JH Drake
. If you want to be on the list, mail me with a brief cv, preferably with a photo (for recognition purposes) and we'll be in touch. Obviously, if you have any questions, ask me :) Cheers Paul -- Paul JH Drake MRCSEd Clinical Research Fellow CR-UK Beatson Institute for Cance

[Scottish] Network sound systems

2005-11-14 Thread Paul JH Drake
I'm sure you'll like it ;-) http://plutohome.com/ .: drake :. -- Paul JH Drake MRCSEd Clinical Research Fellow CR-UK Beatson Institute for Cancer Research ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.u

[Scottish] suidperl on gentoo

2004-12-13 Thread Ian Drake
Sorry if I am asking yet another easy question - but I've found myself trying to setup openwebmail on a gentoo box. I seem to have got all the required packages installed, but I seem to be missing "suidperl" from my perl installation. I've tried googling for a tar.gz for both the terms "sperl" and

[Scottish] Re: Scottish Digest, Vol 32, Issue 2

2004-05-08 Thread drake
Yeah, I'd be interested too. Drake -- Original Message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 11:15:00 +0100 >Send Scottish mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To subscribe o

Re: [Scottish] Inaccurate BBC Linux Article

2004-02-06 Thread Ian Drake
Rage Vented - Your recent article regarding MyDoom virus and it's links to the world of Linux users is conjecture at most, malicious at worse. If your “journalist” Mr Stephen Evans had more of an idea of the ethos behind the Linux and Open Source community his article would, no doubt, have been fa

RE: [Scottish] allowing a large newborn sea-mammal to collide with a rocky plane toid object devoid of atmosphere somewhere in another galaxy

2003-03-21 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
>> A white noise source connected to the sound card input would be a good >> truly random number generator. >Or take the approach that SGI came up with - point a camera at a lava >lamp or two. or what about building a chip with a few hundred gates about 0.01 microns apart - let those little quan

[Scottish] FreeSwan

2003-03-12 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
OK, I'll admit, I'm new to VPNs (on linux anyways). I am fortunate to be allowed to run a server in my office which has a single IP address on eth0, and I also have a cable modem connection at home. So, what I was thinking was VPN between the office and home (home has 2 subnets 192.168.0/24 for PC

RE: [Scottish] What's up MAC?

2003-03-10 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
This might be a wild shot, and I may e talking mince (I do, often) but it's my understanding that the MAC address is read from the ROM on the card at driver start-up, this is then held in memory by the OS and it's this memory that is used as the actual MAC address. Theoretically changing this in me

[Scottish] CPU Testing

2003-02-27 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
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? Rgds, Ian PS I'm basically doing :- cat /proc/stat | /usr/bin

RE: [Scottish] OT: Serial cables

2003-02-13 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
Looks like a ver standard DCE to DTE cable, ie a serail modem cable should do the job. Rgds, Ian -Original Message- From: Michael Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 February 2003 13:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Scottish] OT: Serial cables > >On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:

RE: [Scottish] php and my sql

2003-02-11 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
waiter waiter! there's a bug in my loop! -Original Message- From: Graeme Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2003 16:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Scottish] php and my sql On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 16:39, Paxton, Darren wrote: > Looks vaugely familiar! > Maybe

RE: [Scottish] Pin drop

2003-02-11 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
willie, did you just drop one? -Original Message- From: willie fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2003 11:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Scottish] Pin drop either this list is broken or nothing interesting is happening. -- Best Regards Willie Fleming [EMAIL PROTE

RE: [Scottish] January 2003 Meeting -- 30/01/2003

2003-01-27 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
That wasn't a penguin, that was my mother! -Original Message- From: David Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 January 2003 18:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Scottish] January 2003 Meeting -- 30/01/2003 PS Can someone remember to bring a fluffy penguin? Way off-topi

RE: [Scottish] Internal modems

2003-01-13 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
George, after a quick check of my own MDK9 install i see that com 3 & 4 are not present as they weren't during install, try doing MAKEDEV ttyS2 (or ttyS3 depending on the IRQ that was listed). NB that MAKEDEV is uppercase. can't see any harm in adding both ttyS2 & ttyS3 and using mincom to execut

RE: [Scottish] Internal modems

2003-01-13 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
is it set to plug in and pray, or have you set IRQs and IO addresses via jumpers? What COM port have you assigned to it, is it ISA or PCI? Need more info =) Rgds, Ian -Original Message- From: george [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 January 2003 16:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [S

RE: [Scottish] More rumours about flat screens

2003-01-06 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
if it's a min purcahse of ten, put me down for one -Original Message- From: Colin McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 January 2003 16:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Scottish] More rumours about flat screens Hi all, Noticed that GMC UK are selling 12" SVGA TFT screens (http

[Scottish] DAB & Linux

2003-01-06 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
Has anyone used Modular Techs DAB PCI card under linux? Is there any software for it? Was thinking of treating myself in order to feed my Wogan habit in the mornings, and to save the programmes to mp3. Was thinking about using it on my windows machine, but would be much handier on my linux server,

[Scottish] [OT] nitpick

2002-12-19 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
Edward Betts [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:- > Today Apple sells see Macs, the iMac, the PowerMac and the eMac, > the iBook is not a mac. errr... wrong! Take a look at http://www.apple.com/ibook/ see the big letters on the right hand side that read "The most affordable *Mac* portable ever" To give

RE: [Scottish] there's HTML then there's what FP produces

2002-12-03 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
-Original Message- From: Robert(Rob) M. Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Re: [Scottish] HTML templating software? You don't have to use FrontPage "Editor". Use any editor you like. But it is a good editor. Don't get me wrong, I do like FP to a certain extent. It keeps

RE: [Scottish] Reinstalling Grub Loader

2002-11-20 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
boot from your install media select "emergency repair" mount your /, /boot and /etc, run grub forcing it to use your mounted partitions for config and such-like I've only ever done this with lilo HTH, Ian -Original Message- From: Allan Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 November

RE: [Scottish] networking bits and pieces

2002-11-13 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
don't quote me on this, but I think RS is on Baird Street just off Dobbie's Loan. I don't use them myself, Taits serves my needs (efficiently and cheaply) Rgds, Ian -Original Message- From: Andrew Back [mailto:andy@;smokebelch.org] Sent: 13 November 2002 11:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

RE: [Scottish] Scotlug 100-Ping Bowling Night

2002-10-31 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
Although I'm not planning to attend this event I cannot go without passing comment on the proposed venue - it's excellent! great little bar, they even pull a half decent Guinness. stay away from "hot shots" at the quay, the service from the staff is dire, and the state of their equipment is worse.

RE: [Scottish] Apologies - can't talk this month

2002-10-23 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
if that's the case I'd be very cautious of walking into any kind of "lab" dressed as a rodent. White or not. -Original Message- From: Paxton, Darren [mailto:Darren.Paxton@;mercer.com] Sent: 23 October 2002 15:58 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Scottish] Apologies - can't talk this mo

[Scottish] RH8.0 vs MDK8.2 (Linux by any other name just isn't Mandrake)

2002-10-16 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
Don't ask why, but I was in PC World last night and I bought two things. RedHat 8.0 and a SITECOM PCMCIA WLAN Card (only £45 and it's Orinoco - works fine in Linux, unlike my NetGear which I just doesn't seem to want to play) I haven't used RH since v5.1 (and the only cool thing I liked then was

RE: [Scottish] Outlook Users (again!)

2002-10-09 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
You guys are very lucky. Not only do I *HAVE* to run windows, I *HAVE* to run OutLook (Exchange Server). I'm *NOT* allowed (nor can, thanks to policies) update Windows (someone at head office is deciding what we need and when to implement it). Thank fully I *AM* allowed to keep my AV s/ware up-to-

RE: [Scottish] Thursday Night Update

2002-10-09 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
Oceania? Isn't that a group of islands from the continents of Asia and Australasia? -Original Message- From: Graeme Mathieson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 October 2002 18:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] Thursday Night Update On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:35:41PM +01

RE: [Scottish] Strange DNS problem

2002-08-29 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
So DNS may well be up, you just can't see it - it's the network that's down, got any crontabs running monthly on the 27th? what does an ifconfig and a route show give when your getting this outage? maybe even a dump of netstat -ap might reveal something, are your modem light (dial-up right?) going

RE: [Scottish] [OT] I'm a daddy again!

2002-08-29 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
Congratulations, Linus is a great name for a boy BTW ;-) -Original Message- From: Phil Deane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 August 2002 02:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Scottish] [OT] I'm a daddy again! Hello folks Just a quick message to announce the birth

RE: [Scottish] Free Router!

2002-08-28 Thread Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire
Andrew, I'll give you a free one - try the "route" command, Linux is a far superior router to most as it's capable of supporting many new and old technologies concurrently (how many Cisco's support ADSL & ISDN & 802.3 & X.25 & 56k modem?) It also supports stateful packet inspection firewalling an