Re: [Scottish] Joining SLUG
Graeme Michael Fenwick wrote: Hi, I'm interested in finding out more about your LUG; where you meet, how often, what times and so on. I had a quick look at your website, but I can't find those details. Hi Graeme, unfortunately we're having a couple of hiccups with our website right now, so here's the info you need ... The mailman link you've already been sent will give you instructions to join our mailing list. We also chat online using IRC at irc.scotlug.org.uk #scotlug Our meetings are held on the last Thursday of each month, usually at two locations: 19:30 in room L13.18, 18th floor, Livingston Tower, University of Strathclyde, Richmond Street (just at Rottenrow Gardens); then we move on at around 21:00 to the Counting House, St Vincent Street (at the corner of George Square) in the non-smoking section to the left of the main entrance. Just look for the geeks with laptops :) Livingston Tower: http://www.strath.ac.uk/maps/livingstone.htm Counting House: http://www.nightb4.com/uk/glasgow/pubs/countinghouse/ I have chucked a bit of info at http://neuro.me.uk/scotlug/ which should help you out, except for the scotlug.org.uk and 'find out more' meeting links, as they link back to our broken website :) -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] SLUGradio Episode #3
lo all, The denizens of SLUGradio are pleased to announce SLUGradio Episode #3 is now available for download in Ogg, MP3 and Speex formats! Visit http://www.slugradio.org/ to find out more about SLUGradio, download the latest episode or listen to SLUGradio on the Linux Link Stream. -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] SLUGradio Episode #2
lo all, The denizens of SLUGradio are pleased to announce SLUGradio Episode #2 is now available for download in Ogg, MP3 and Speex formats! Visit http://www.slugradio.org/ to find out more about SLUGradio, download the latest episode or listen to SLUGradio on the Linux Link Stream. -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] fun with laptops
William Anderson wrote: for those who were there last night and wanting a status update, the Latitude is doing well, considering it had a pint of lager poured over it - admittedly accidentally! The keyboard isn't responding in the slightest, but it fires up, trackpad and buttons work, and I'm using it over rdp right now. So not quite as bad as it first may have seemed :) In case anyone's still worried about The Laptop That Took The Pint, the keyboard is responding nicely even without the bath I threatened it with (one of the keyboard screws stripped - bloody soft Dell screw heads). Just as well really, as Dell got back to me today with an out-of-warranty service call quote (they wouldn't do it under warranty) to RTB the laptop, replace the keyboard, and return it to me - £250 ex VAT all in ... *shocking*! Oh, and they wouldn't sell me the keyboard as a spare part, presumably non-user-servicable from their point of view, despite the four screws marked K on the underside ... Something to bear in mind at the next ScotLUG meeting, Keep Those Laptops Safe! -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] fun with laptops
for those who were there last night and wanting a status update, the Latitude is doing well, considering it had a pint of lager poured over it - admittedly accidentally! The keyboard isn't responding in the slightest, but it fires up, trackpad and buttons work, and I'm using it over rdp right now. So not quite as bad as it first may have seemed :) -- William Anderson, Webmaster / Infrastructure - [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg: 0x9A8C61B0 SmoothWall Limited - http://www.smoothwall.net/ This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient(s) and may not be communicated to any other person or published by any means without the express permission of SmoothWall Ltd. Any views expressed in this message are solely those of the author. See http://www.smoothwall.net/email.html for the full text of this notice. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] [Fwd: [edlug] Is Open Source a viable business proposition? Round Two in Aberdeen.]
John Hallam wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2004, William Anderson wrote: I suggested one from all the LUGs, one from a Business/Businesses and one from Schools or the like? Maybe someone like Bob Kerr? Thoughts? Yep, I think I didn't write that :) -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] [Fwd: [edlug] Is Open Source a viable business proposition? Round Two in Aberdeen.]
Original Message Subject: [edlug] Is Open Source a viable business proposition? Round Two in Aberdeen. Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 13:23:38 +0100 From: Gavin Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Suretec Systems Ltd. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I was called today by ScotlandIS to find out if I knew any Field Experts in Open Source to go against Brad Tipp from Microsoft for a re-run of the last debate in Edinburgh, which was Microsoft vs IBM Linux. They need advice on the best OSS expert to ask to go against Brad this time in Aberdeen. I suggested we get a panel of 3, Microsoft can easily get another 2 marketing guys for their panel. I suggested one from all the LUGs, one from a Business/Businesses and one from Schools or the like? Maybe someone like Bob Kerr? Thoughts? This is to be in August sometime? There will be more QA time this time too. - -- Kind Regards, Gavin Henry. Managing Director. T +44 (0) 1224 587369 M +44 (0) 7930 323266 F +44 (0) 1224 742001 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source. Open Solutions. http://www.suretecsystems.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtd3NeWseh9tzvqgRAm5vAJ93ZM9E+t8Diat6AZCzHlEw13ZYegCcCZUX wCbINS1DkoOJ8lhtVW3q7S0= =tHgk -END PGP SIGNATURE- - -- You can find the EdLUG mailing list FAQ list at: http://www.edlug.org.uk/list_faq.html -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] GNU/linux cd's wanted for social centre
Phil Deane wrote: [monitor donation snippage] I got a friend in work who is looking for a monitor, if they are going spare, if they are in good nick, he will pay up to about £20 for one?? Doesn't that kinda defeat the altruistic intention of donating them to people who might need otherwise spare kit? :) -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] GNU/linux cd's wanted for social centre
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] not if the 20 quid was being donated to something (and i'm not sure the beer fund counts for that one, but that's something someone else should figure out) £20 would buy a few CDs or DVDs. Could be used to put distros on for donations to organisations having a spare monitor (or one to use if they're short) is surely more useful than CDs which people can burn and donate themselves? Perhaps we could all burn a wide range of distros and tools (knoppix, debian, slack, fedora, open CD, open office, maybe even some bsden), put them all together at the next slug meet and put them in a box to give to the centre? Anyone else know of any similar sites which would benefit from such a service? I'm sure a lot if not most of us have a) an optical writer, b) decent bandwidth, c) access to reasonably cheap media ... -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System, talk by Richard Stallman
Simon Yuill wrote: [snip] Richard Stallman will speak about the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and history the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide. Please, please, please, please don't let him sing The Song ... -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Re: Scottish Digest, Vol 32, Issue 2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I'd be interested too. [digest snippage] Which part of the 20KB of digest you didn't trim are you interested in? -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] RICHAIR wireless workshop
Simon Yuill wrote: _RICHAIR wireless workshop_ time: 2pm Monday 10th May, 2004 venue: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow entrance: FREE (places limited) This is awfy short notice for an event that's taking place on a weekday :( -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] LUG Radio
The nutters at LUG Radio have put out episode 6, recorded live while they were at the LUDEx at Olympia last week :) You can download the episode from http://www.lugradio.org/ in MP3, Ogg or Ogg Speex formats, or if you bring along a blank CD-R to the meeting tonight, I can burn you off a copy of all the episodes. -- William Anderson, Webmaster / Infrastructure - [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg: 0x9A8C61B0 SmoothWall Limited - http://www.smoothwall.net/ This email and any attachments transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient(s) and may not be communicated to any other person or published by any means without the express permission of SmoothWall Ltd. Any views expressed in this message are solely those of the author. See http://www.smoothwall.net/email.html for the full text of this notice. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] SPAM - PC for sale
Willie wrote: Colin, if this is still available, I'll have it for my mother-in-law. Ive got plenty 15 monitors, thanks :-) Bugger, wish I'd read Colin's post properly the first time around, the e-vectra is quite dinky and cute :) -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Marchs Meeting
Ben Thorp wrote: [snip] This month Gordon Pearce (aka gordonjcp) will be doing a talk on Wireless Computing. There will also be to usual opportunity for Q+A and discussion. I thought it was going to be about encryption? Dammit, a good topic when I'm likely going to be in a pub watching Barca v Celtic ... kickoff is at 20:00, so seems silly to turn up for 15 mins then bugger off again, but I'll likely be around in the Counting House later on :) -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Free LPI Exams
graeme wrote: [lpi snippage] I'd also be interested in 101 as well. aol me too! /aol -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] [Fwd: [SB] [lugmaster] Linux 2004 - Leeds: Call for Papers (29th July - 1st Aug) (fwd)]
I only found this out by accidentally staying subbed to South Birmingham's LUG list - do we have anyone on the lugmaster list? looks like a valuable source of info ... Original Message Subject: [SB] [lugmaster] Linux 2004 - Leeds: Call for Papers (29th July - 1st Aug) (fwd) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:06:56 + (GMT) From: Tim Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: South Birmingham Linux User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: South Birmimgham LUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information. Tim W -- Tim Williams BSc MSc GIBiol - Research Associate (Autotrain Project) University of Birmingham School of Computer Science Home Page : http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~tmw Tel : +44 (0)121 414 2214 (ext 42214 on internal phone) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 12:59:01 + From: Alasdair G Kergon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lugmaster] Linux 2004 - Leeds: Call for Papers (29th July - 1st Aug) This year's UK developers' conference will take place in Leeds from Thursday 29th July to Sunday 1st August. There'll be tutorials on Thursday. The main conference will run from about 10.30am on Friday to around 4pm on Sunday. Once again we're seeking proposals for tutorials and talks aimed at a technical audience. The Call For Papers is at: http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2004/cfp.shtml and the web-based submission process begins at: http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2004/register.shtml You may also propose to co-ordinate your own half- or full-day programmes to run alongside if you wish. So far there's been interest in running a 1-day embedded linux workshop. If you didn't make it to Edinburgh last year, you can see what you missed at http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2003/ . The deadline for receipt of abstracts this year is 19th March. If you have any questions or wish to discuss proposals before you submit them, please get in touch! Alasdair -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ lugmaster mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lugmaster ___ Sb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sb -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Scottish Server Hosting
Chris Binnie wrote: Sorry to those that were offended by my mail. I personally wasn't, but interesting that your mail went through the edlug list with nary an eyelash being batted, and here you've incurred the wrath of slug :) I'm a keen Linux/Solaris user and thought this would be of interest as it's such a bargain. Depends what you mean by bargain. I can get 1U in thdo with 100 meg port, serial oob access, 40 gig transfer and fantastic peering for 40 quid/mo inc vat, and flights to London are Cheap McCheap of the Clan McCheap. Also, if I was going to host in Edinburgh, what benefits are there from some random data facility in the city centre, when Scolocate is a world class colo and IX over in the Gyle? -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Scottish Server Hosting
Chris Binnie wrote: ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Like bandwidth charges and £40-£60 per hour for physical access. Again half the price of any physical access, not included in packages which we offer too for bigger customers, than any other provider in Scotland ! Frickin' hell, I've never been charged for access to Telehouse Docklands ... my last trip, if I'd been charged £40-60 quid/hr just to be there for 5 hours, I'd have pulled the box out of the rack kicking and screaming and hooked it up to a pay-as-you-go mobile, because it would have been cheaper to access it that way. Well connected your colo may appear, endearing us thus far it is not :) -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Februarys Meeting
Ben Thorp wrote: [snip] This month William Anderson (aka neuro) will be talking about Smoothwall, ... but with a capital dubbleyou :) -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] [Fwd: [SB] April Meeting - Eric Raymond at SB-LUG]
Original Message Subject: [SB] April Meeting - Eric Raymond at SB-LUG Date: 13 Feb 2004 23:43:43 + From: John Pinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],South Birmingham Linux User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Clockwork |Software Systems To: South Birmingham Linux User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello All, I'm pleased to say that Eric Raymond has agreed to give SB a talk for our April meeting. This will almost certainly be on our normal meeting night, the third Thursday, 15th April. The subject will be Eric's choice, although I have said that we are most interested in promoting the use of Open Source software in local organisations (whether business, academic or voluntary). We expect to invite other LUG's, the British Computer Society, local businesses, especially IT mandarins, as well as academics and students. If anyone has any ideas for promotion, please come forward. A key factor is to book a suitable venue, and Tim is currently looking at the possibilities (it has to be low-cost, preferably free!), and we need an indication of how many to expect. Too small a room and we'll have to turn people away, Too big and we may look silly. So that we can begin to gauge the likely response, please will LUG members reply to the list indicating if they intend to come to this meeting. Normally we get but a small proportion of the list, will this be different ? Please let us know. Regards, John -- John Pinner. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clockwork Software Systems 'Systems to stand the test of time' Bridge House, 17a Maybrook Road Sutton Coldfield, B76 1AL. UK Tel: +44 121 313 3850. Fax: +44 121 313 3860 ___ Sb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/sb -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Konqueror 3.2
ray wrote: Could anyone using Konqueror 3.2 please try http://www.nic.uk/index.html For me (SuSE 9.0) this page loads then blanks out. Just had a work colleague check this on SuSE 9, although on konq 3.4.1 - works fine for him, you might want to update your konq install -- _ __/| William Anderson | Brodie: The Force is strong with this one \`O_o' neuro at well dot com |Jay: Dude, don't encourage him =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | -- Mallrats, (1995) U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Inaccurate BBC Linux Article
Kyle Gordon wrote: Just thought you may all be interested in http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3457823.stm and the associated crap that the journo writes. It's interesting how many places this is popping up in. Feel free to also vent your rage on /. - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/05/0818229 -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft
Colin McKinnon wrote: ...off my laptop, that is. After some struggle I now have Xine playing DVDs with sound on my laptop (1Ghz / 128Mb) only problem is the playback stutters every 30 seconds or so (video frames jerky, loss of lip sync). Tweaking the settings didn't help much. I had similar problems here under win2k when writing to CD/DVD or doing bulk data transfers from optical - turned out both my DVD-ROM and DVD+-RW were set to PIO. I reset them to DMA (UDMA in the writer's case) and all was well with the world. As Kyle said, check those settings out and fiddle! :) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] new web site brain storming
Huard, Elise - D CW Consultant wrote: [snip] - maybe a link of the month, quote of the month, or similar blog-like going-ons a metablog of scotlug bloggers would be pretty cool too, as would a feedster feed doing searches for scotland+linux -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] new web site brain storming
Keith Sharp wrote: [snip] Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be able to help you with the software and the setup. no need - if your blog can spit out an RSS or RDF XML feed (which most blog CMSes can do), then drupal can handle it - hence why i suggested it :) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG
Willie wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 20:43, William Anderson wrote: [snip] Special Interest Group is probably a better term :) agreed Install Days and similar events are definitely a good idea, but organising them can be a bitch. Perhaps linking with (semi-)professional LAN party organisers would be useful there, and could provide an interesting cross-pollination of membership and advocacy - increases awareness of Linux, Open Source, the LUG, etc and provides a platform for a LAN party co to advertise, and possibly pimp their own open source position if they have one. This sounds interesting, tell me more about this. I think I've exhausted the topic given my knowledge about it - I was trying to stir up more ideas and conversation from others :) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG
Willie wrote: [snip] If we do have a committee, it will take some thick-skinned and determined folk on that committee to keep it running right. Organising geeks is like herding cats (apologies to whoever I stole that line off). We all think we are bright enough to think we know better and we will all have differeent ideas n direction and emphasis of anything we choose to do. I agree. Trying to over-organise the lug is folly, but trying to expand the range of activities we do has merit. That doesnt mean we shouldnt have sub-groups ( I hesitate to call them committees) for those interested in advocacy or Installdays or whatever. I'd like to hear a list of suggestions for sub-groups if anyone has any thoughts. Special Interest Group is probably a better term :) Install Days and similar events are definitely a good idea, but organising them can be a bitch. Perhaps linking with (semi-)professional LAN party organisers would be useful there, and could provide an interesting cross-pollination of membership and advocacy - increases awareness of Linux, Open Source, the LUG, etc and provides a platform for a LAN party co to advertise, and possibly pimp their own open source position if they have one. -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Mailing list to web interface
Kyle Gordon wrote: Evening all Ok, following more debates on IRC, it would appear that an effective method for communicating mailing list data to the scotlug.org.uk website is required. Since the mailing list is already replicated through gmane, it has been suggested that a NNTP to Web client is implemented on the scotlug site, possibly allowing two-way communciation to the list from the site. So, to summarise... Mailing list -- Usenet (Gmane) -- Site (scotlug.org.uk) That should kill off the mailing list versus web forums argument, with the added benefit of Usenet access for those who want it. makes a lot of sense, and as you say it kills off a lot of arguments for/against mailing lists etc. The way I see comms in the lug is that it's somewhat tiered. Perhaps this could (not should) be formalised somewhat in the following manner: - IRC, face-to-face (i.e. meeting, pub), telephone very informal comms, discussions, arguments, conversations, etc. - Mailing list All manner of announcements (i.e. meetings, pub gatherings, stuff for sale), summaries of irc/f2f/phone convos, continuing the discussions - Website Important announcements (i.e. meetings, LUG changes) Willie made a good point on IRC that by proposing summaries of conversations (and possibly proposed decisions) made on irc or other off-list methods, it implies someone has to actually *make* the summaries. Instead of nominating a single 'minutes taker', the process could be automated on IRC with a bot (kyle's suggestion), or at the end of, or long hiatus in the conversation, someone could volunteer (doesn't need to be same person every time as that could be unfeasible) to take summaries/minutes and post them to the list once agreed upon. Just thinking out loud btw. All those in favour, say aye... aye -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] IRC Debate logs
Tony Dyer wrote: Nice to see how you act when someone challenges your views. So your colours are showed true here. Tony Dyer. [entire previous message including irc log snippage] If you are going to suggest list membership be a prerequisite for LUG membership and communication, can you at least trim previous replies in your posts to the list? :( -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)
Willie wrote: [snip] OK not everyone is near Glasgow and like it or not, whether we call ourselves the Scottish LUG we are effectively the Glasgow LUG. Although by all accounts a successful LAN party was held through in the mysterious east at the weekend. 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 ... This could be an excellent way of getting LUGs to work together in a variety of ways, maybe encouraging other LUGs to be formed to cater for local communities where there is no LUG (Inverness? Oban? Ayr? Orkneys?) and would allow ourselves to refocus on the task of being a user group for Glasgow, and not the whole of Scotland. I personally have been humbled and astounded by the membership of our LUG, both by the amount of knowledge we all have as a whole, and in the friendly manner in which we (normally!) conduct ourselves. But as a community, I think it's fair to say we're not performing under the remit of embracing Linux (and other Open Source / Free Software) communities in and around Glasgow, and helping those who haven't the time or experience to get fully into Linux. To my knowledge, it's quite some time since an Install Day took place, and as Willie says, all we're really doing these days is meeting at the Counting House and drinking (not that that's a bad thing in and of itself!), so I think we should all take the time to have a think about the LUG, what each of us can contribute, and delurking if possible to have your say, and have your contribution made. Let's muck in! :) OK two suggestions -- non IRC folk, please consider joining in if at all possible. I suppose a mini HOWTO is called for here but for now excellent :) 1) get a client - mIRC is good for starters if you are just beginning cos it is a Win prog and effectively free for 30 days - I won't presume to suggest a Linux client but I'd be surprised if there isnt one installed by default with your distro. if not ... apt-get install xchat (or) apt-get install bitchx (or) apt-get install irssi http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=xchat (or) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=bitchx (or) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=irssi http://www.xchat.org/ (or) http://www.bitchx.com/ (or) http://irssi.org/ 2) point it at eu.freenode.net -- yes there _are_ alternatives, this will get you started. connecting to irc.scotlug.org.uk would be a better bet, imo, as a) it already points to freenode, and b) if we ever decide to move irc networks (to escape the curse of the rehub-mad lilo), it's a clean move to make. 3) join #scotlug /join #scotlug :) 4) Have a lot of fun -- and dont be scared to jump in with the boots on and ask for help, advice whatever. Absolutely :) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Next meeting?
Kyle Gordon wrote: [snip] I was having a look at this months calendar, and spotted that this months meet will be the 25th. Are we sticking with this date? Moving it so that the students can come along before the end of term? Moving it to Saturday 27th? etc. Any thoughts? You only just noticed this? hehe ... I thought just bumping back a week to the 18th would have sufficed ... -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Next Meeting
Tony Dyer wrote: How about we leave it at the last Thursday of the month. This LUG caters for more than students! The point being that the last Thursday of this month is Christmas Day - you might have prolems getting into the Counting House or Livingstone Tower that day! -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Next meet - 27/11/03
Kyle Gordon wrote: Well, it's that time of the month again (ooer missus and all that), and ScotLUG rolls on another month. In the same pattern as last month, it'll be direct to the Counting House again. I'll be sitting in departures at Prestwick waiting for a flight to Dublin at that point in time - have fun all :) Mebbe I'll see folks at Radman's Lan thingy on the 6th? -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] networking and sendmail
George wrote: I have been looking at alternatives, and postfix looks about the best bet for me, as it seems to provide as it seems a drop in replacement for sendmail exim is also a nice dropin replacement, and is tres easy to configure -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Weirdness
Mark Robinson wrote: Hello S.L.U.G, I have a debian fileserver that was playing silly buggers at me earlier! It was complaining badly cos it's root filesystem was full, which is not a bad complaint in itself, except that it's a 1.4G partition and only has a couple of hundred meg on it! [snip] might wanna check you didn't have anything mounted on top of / hiding stuff - Kyle (bagpuss) can relate to this problem, we found the same thing on one of his boxen a couple of months ago -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] SuSE 8.2 passwords question
neil sinclair wrote: Thanks for the reply! No joy on the 'su fiona' thing. sorry if this sounds daft, but have you tried simply editing the password out of /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow as relevant? -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] sar110
Tam McLaughlin wrote: Hi, Did you get this sorted? I also have a sar110 and had same problem but plusnet would not allocate me any more IP addresses. I could only get the router working using the NAT 1:1 with smoothie and works fine with the certificate based vpn but not with shared secret. I can give you info on my setup if you do not get the extra IP addresses. Tam, are you aware that these messages are not going to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but the scotlug mailing list? Is this intentional? It's just that these messages have the cadence of private mails, and not messages intended for a mailing list ... -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Using old Sun and HP boxes for Linux
Colin McKinnon wrote: [snip] I find it hard to get excited about running Linux on peculiar architectures - I guess the only reasons to do it are: 1) you are getting old equipment for free (or just for pennies) 2) you really an enourmous fast new system and can't build a cluster 3) you want to foil the script kiddies (not a very good one) 4) you want to learn how to be a Sun/HP hardware engineer ...but I'd be interested to hear if anyone has any other reasons. 5) it's interesting :) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Internal HTTP server
Phil Deane wrote: [snip] The love playing online games on Nick Jr (http://www.nickjr.co.uk) which are mainly java based games. They wont have access to the net from their room(1. because I dont want them to have access and 2. My computer is downstairs and running cables would be a pain the arse and 3. I only have a dial up and I ain't for sharing it!). David's wwwoffle idea is pretty good, I dunno if wwwoffle could be placed upstream of a local squid cache, then you could perhaps try a) connecting the girls PC to yours via wireless (s'getting cheaper!), and b) when you're online, letting them browse with squidguard or dansguardian or insert content filtering system here [1] in the road to make sure they don't browse stuff they're not supposed to (with your machine obviously having ultimate control - click *hang up!*) Perhaps more complex to put in place than you require, but IME Java and intricate Flash stuff are hard to make work well in an offline environment - applets and movies routinely store data in outboard class/jar/swf files, and if you don't click on the particular section, listen to a particular sound/song, or reach a particular level while you're online, it's never going to work offline. That does of course mean that if you go for the wwwoffle only solution, you'll be forced to sit and play games through to their completion so that the girls can play all the way through too - oh the things people can be made to do in the sake of parenthood ;) (incidentally, I just took a look at the playtime section on www.nickjr.co.uk, and it works exactly how i've described - the flash movie is self contained, and loads the swf files transparently without a new html page being shown. This makes it *tricky as hell* to try and spider. [1] my employer does of course produce a content filtering system based on dansguardian (having the author on staff helps!), but something like SmoothGuardian to protect a couple of kids is almost certainly overkill! -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Mandrake 9.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there does any kind soul out there have Mandrake 9.1 and is willing to copy it (binary not source) for me? Obviously I'll supply the disks. THe update CD wouls also be appreciated I don't have an update CD as such, just a mirrored copy of the 9.1 RPMS update dir, but I do have CDs 1-3 - when do you need them for? -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Re: Anybody want a 17 monitor?
David Marsh wrote: [Interleaved quoting: please read to end for all comments] David Marsh wrote in gmane.user-groups.linux.scottish: about: Anybody want a 17 monitor? I forgot to ask, what make/model? -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Re: Anybody want an HP Deskjet 500 printer?
Mike Quin wrote: [snip] I'll be very surpised if any of the current crop of entry-level inkjets are still usable in 13 years. Mmmm, I agree for most brand - Lexmark springs to mind as being 'flimsy', but my DeskJet 840C is very well built, and it's still doing well after two years of sterling service. I think hp are one of the few printer manufacturers who haven't wholly succumbed to the 'dumb' printer ethos, hiving all the smarts off to the (invariably Windows) PC. The original DeskJets were built like tanks tho, as were the proper LaserJets (e.g. the ones with proper bins and output space on the top, not like the 5L and variants). I only recall losing an hp printer to just general wear and tear, e.g. several hundred pages a day for about three or four years. Great printers. -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] May 2003 ScotLUG Meeting
Kyle Gordon wrote: Sounds like a design fault then, and I'll do my best to get my money back. The thing can't even sit on a flat surface without eventually overheating and cutting out. (The air intake is on the underside, with only a few mm to drag air in from) same as on my vaio, but it's never usually burnyburnysearinghot, just sort of the inside of a tea cosy warm :) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] May 2003 ScotLUG Meeting
Rob Hamilton wrote: [snip] If you have acpi is working have you tried throttling the cpu? I've a simple script I sometimes run on my vaio qr20 that monitors temp and throttles down if needed. One word (in my case), Windows :) The SpeedStep stuff is enabled to throttle the CPU back from 700MHz to 550MHz when on battery, but in any case, the Vaio Z600 which I have has a very effective fan and exhaust which I think is under BIOS control, not OS control. -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Fw: LUG Screening
I dropped an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] just checking it would be OK to screen the Revolution OS DVD at the meeting in June, and got this back from the director ... :) Is everyone cool with this idea of showing the film next month? I know there have been positive noises from #scotlug. If no-one really objects, I can let them know when we'll be showing it, and we could possibly chuck a news link up on scotlug.org.uk - I think it would be a good intro for those not 100% certain of the stories behind free software. J.T.S. Moore wrote: William, Thank you for purchasing REVOLUTION OS! Since you have already purchased the DVD, I am happy to give you permission to screen it for you LUG. All you need to do is e-mail me the time and place of your LUG screening. I will try to post it to the revolution-os.com website. Also, if you could give you LUG a brief sales pitch about the DVD I would truly appreciate it. I am self-distributing the DVD. So I need all the help I can get :-) Best Wishes, J.T.S. Moore Director, REVOLUTION OS William Anderson wrote: Hi, I purchased the Revolution OS DVD from thinkgeek.com and I'd like to do a screening of the movie at the LUG I attend in Glasgow, UK - do I have to get some permission from yourselves before I get the goahead for this? Thanks for any help you can provide. -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] ....and speaking about Thursday....
Gavin McCord wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:35, Colin McKinnon wrote: Do we have a feature presentation? Supporting act? Unusual and grotesque sideshows? (if not I might be forced into doing a five minute slot on IDS) Colin Iain Duncan Smith? Is he even worth five minutes? which one, Iain or Duncan? /hignfy -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] [OT] Anyone got.......
Ben Thorp wrote: ...some advice, or some hardware for sale? Looking at buying a _cheap_ Palm - can stretch to a Zire (£80), but not much more than that. However, the Zire is only 2Mb, whereas methinks 8Mb would be preferable. Looked also at the Sony Clie PEG-SL10, but they seem quite hard to get hold of now. Other options would be a Handspring Visor, or a Palm M10, if I can find one cheap enough. So - does anyone have any preferences/suggestions on which to get, where to buy, or (better still) is anyone looking to sell some such gadget for a good price? I just bought myself a Dell Axim a couple of weeks ago, and subsequently am thinking of selling both my Palm Vx and Sony Clie PEG-N770C - I've yet to settle on a price :) The Vx has been well-used and has taken a few dings and scratches, but still works perfectly - the Clie is in good condition and again works perfectly. -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] dual p3 motherboard
bob renshaw wrote: Does anyone know where I can obtain a dual p3 motherboard (slot A) ITYM Slot 1 - Slot A was the similar looking connector used by AMD for early Athlon CPUs. As for a dual Slot 1 board, they may be hard to come by new. If you can go for Socket 370 instead, I picked a Tyan Tiger 230T just a few days ago for £85 ex VAT from www.scan.co.uk (I had to phone in the order as the price isn't listed on their site). -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: Re[2]: [Scottish] OT: Weird domain stuff
Mark Robinson wrote: Hello William, Monday, 13 January 2003, you wrote: WA Your domain was registered with Network Solutions, not BulkRegister - WA someone is illegally trying to grab your domain before (or when) it expires WA on the 10th of February. WA I suggest you contact your ISP Force9 (aka PlusNet), who registered the WA domain on your behalf, as soon as possible, forwarding them the email and as WA much detail as you can. I did what you suggested, and they told me that it was them that has initiated the transfer as they are leaving Network Solutions! Nice of them to tell us in advance eh? sounds ridiculous, and typical of PlusNet :( -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] OT: Weird domain stuff
Mark Robinson wrote: Hello S.L.U.G, I received the email quoted below this morning. I haven't done anything with the domain, and know of no reason anything should be happening to it. Does anyone know what is going on? Are they trying to take it off me? Is this some kind of scam, or is it a legitimate change? Your domain was registered with Network Solutions, not BulkRegister - someone is illegally trying to grab your domain before (or when) it expires on the 10th of February. I suggest you contact your ISP Force9 (aka PlusNet), who registered the domain on your behalf, as soon as possible, forwarding them the email and as much detail as you can. -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Fwd: [edlug] Security Enhanced Linux - interest?
willie fleming wrote: I don't usually cross-post from Edlug, but I thought this would interestr a few folks. Yup, definitely interested. -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] OT Laptops (the saga comes to an end)
Edward Betts wrote: William Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian is indeed the dogs bollocks - I'm having a flamefest with someone I work with which is basically Debian vs RH :) ... I just need to find a way to start porting it to my Dreamcast, since I have NetBSD successfully running :) I was pretty sure there was a debian port, the arch for the dreamcast is sh. Yeah, it's listed as a port that [hasn't] been released yet at http://www.debian.org/ports/ and that links to the m17n.org site, which hasn't been updated since April last year (2001!), however I'm going to organise a machine to act as a superh build environment and boot server. The only hiccup I can think of is that the 'unstable' at the time, which the GNU toolchains are provided for, was 'sid', which is now 'testing', and I don't know what variations there are in terms of version numbers and so on. Still, something to play with in the new year I think ... At least I don't have to worry about chipping the DC to try stuff like this - I couldn't bear the thought of chipping my Xbox and losing Xbox Live service! :) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] OT Laptops (the saga comes to an end)
iain d broadfoot wrote: The only hiccup I can think of is that the 'unstable' at the time, which the GNU toolchains are provided for, was 'sid', which is now 'testing', and I don't know what variations there are in terms of version numbers and so on. Still, something to play with in the new year I think ... just a quickie - sid is, and always will be, the unstable branch of debian. testing is currently called sarge. gotcha, must have missed that (didn't check the release page to confirm) ... blame it on the stuffing and cranberry sauce :) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] OT Laptops (the saga comes to an end)
Edward Betts wrote: [snip] nitpick Today Apple sells see Macs, the iMac, the PowerMac and the eMac, the iBook is not a mac. /nitpick As has been pointed out, iBooks *are* Macs, as are TiBooks and Xserves. Incidentally, does anyone else think that the Xserve just oses tech gorgeousness? :) I recently bunged a box in Telehouse Docklands with a group of mates, and when we were picking a box, for an ickle while it was hmmm, dual PIII or an Xserve ... - we settled for a dual PIII running Debian in the end :) My brother installed Debian on his iBook, works okay, I am going to play with it a bit over Christmas, so I can give you a fuller report then. As for running on a PC, I would recommed Debian, but then I am bound to. Debian is indeed the dogs bollocks - I'm having a flamefest with someone I work with which is basically Debian vs RH :) ... I just need to find a way to start porting it to my Dreamcast, since I have NetBSD successfully running :) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] OT Laptops
Henry Merriweather wrote: There's always http://www.sterlingxs.co.uk or as posted previously: http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk Sterling have some P100's for £100. That's expensive, even for Sterling. Where were you looking, I can see Compaq Deskpro SFF PIII 350s (which I've bought two of from Sterling in the past, and are excellent wee boxes for running Linux on - my firewall is one, and I've played with Gentoo, Debian and Red Hat on the other) for 105 quid, and Pentium MMX 200s for 47 quid ... -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] OT: multiview boxes?
Paxton, Darren wrote: Sorry for posting OT, but I'd just like to ask a question. Thinking of buying an omniview type box - just looking to know where I can get one relatively cheap and cheerful without wires (since I've already acquired two full cables). Already been on maplin, their cheapest is about 70 quid. Any replies greatly appreciated I have a Belkin OmniViewSE 4 port KVM here, and it's worth it's weight in gold. Apparently they're out of production now, and the equivalent unit from Belkin (the OmniView Pro2) goes for about 170 quid! If you have a quick look at www.kvmswitchdirect.co.uk, they have good old clunky passive hardwired units for about 30 quid. If you can afford it, I'd recommend an active unit (which constantly sends signals back to the attached machines, so that they don't think the keyb/mouse has been disconnected when you switch over to another machine), but the passive ones will do at a pinch - I remember using one years ago and it died from a) overuse and b) shoddy manufacture :) Just don't expect to get a sharp picture from a passive unit - you'll likely encounter ghosting at resolutions above 1024x768, but if all you want it for is text mode, again it'll do. -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] networking bits and pieces
David Irvine wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 10:40, Ben McCosh wrote: 2 places you'll get connectix equipment are AD Cartwright out at Govan and William Wilson, somewhere near Scotland street I think. They are both electrical wholesalers, If it is genuine trade, take some headed paper etc and haggle on price you should get a discount on list. RS Components arent too bad, trade only but pretty competative. They have a branch somewhere by the royal mail sorting office thingy can't remember the street. It's a Trade Counter, but if you phone ahead with some details, I imagine they'll quite happily deal with you. If you look ahead to their website, they have all the details, and of course, the catalogue with all the reference numbers :) http://rswww.com/ - click on 'Trade Counters' on the right hand side for contact details and a pdf map. As Ian says, they're on Baird Street beside an Office World ... http://tinyurl.com/2nn9 [multimap.com] RS's delivery service is impressively prompt - I recall ordering a replacement PROM for a SPARCstation at about 6-7pm one night from their site, and receiving it before 1pm the next day. -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _ When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb. -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/ ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
