Re: [Scottish] Joining SLUG

2004-07-14 Thread William Anderson
, 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] SLUGradio Episode #3

2004-06-25 Thread William Anderson
. -- _ __/| 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

[Scottish] SLUGradio Episode #2

2004-06-04 Thread William Anderson
. -- _ __/| 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

Re: [Scottish] fun with laptops

2004-06-01 Thread William Anderson
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

[Scottish] fun with laptops

2004-05-28 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] [Fwd: [edlug] Is Open Source a viable business proposition? Round Two in Aberdeen.]

2004-05-28 Thread William Anderson
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

[Scottish] [Fwd: [edlug] Is Open Source a viable business proposition? Round Two in Aberdeen.]

2004-05-27 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] GNU/linux cd's wanted for social centre

2004-05-17 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] GNU/linux cd's wanted for social centre

2004-05-17 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System, talk by Richard Stallman

2004-05-09 Thread William Anderson
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

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

2004-05-09 Thread William Anderson
[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

Re: [Scottish] RICHAIR wireless workshop

2004-05-04 Thread William Anderson
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

[Scottish] LUG Radio

2004-04-29 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] SPAM - PC for sale

2004-04-14 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Marchs Meeting

2004-03-23 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Free LPI Exams

2004-03-18 Thread William Anderson
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

[Scottish] [Fwd: [SB] [lugmaster] Linux 2004 - Leeds: Call for Papers (29th July - 1st Aug) (fwd)]

2004-03-06 Thread William Anderson
___ 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

Re: [Scottish] Scottish Server Hosting

2004-02-26 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Scottish Server Hosting

2004-02-26 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Februarys Meeting

2004-02-23 Thread William Anderson
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

[Scottish] [Fwd: [SB] April Meeting - Eric Raymond at SB-LUG]

2004-02-20 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Konqueror 3.2

2004-02-18 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Inaccurate BBC Linux Article

2004-02-05 Thread William Anderson
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 /. -

Re: [Scottish] Help me wipe out Microsoft

2004-01-20 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] new web site brain storming

2004-01-15 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] new web site brain storming

2004-01-15 Thread William Anderson
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 :) -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG

2004-01-05 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] The Future of the LUG

2004-01-04 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Mailing list to web interface

2003-12-29 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] IRC Debate logs

2003-12-24 Thread William Anderson
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

[Scottish] The Future of the LUG (was: Re: Next Meeting)

2003-12-09 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Next meeting?

2003-12-08 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Next Meeting

2003-12-08 Thread William Anderson
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! -- _ __/| ___ ___

Re: [Scottish] Next meet - 27/11/03

2003-11-26 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] networking and sendmail

2003-10-18 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Weirdness

2003-09-15 Thread William Anderson
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]

Re: [Scottish] SuSE 8.2 passwords question

2003-08-27 Thread William Anderson
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' / _ \/ -_) //

Re: [Scottish] sar110

2003-08-14 Thread William Anderson
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.

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

2003-07-20 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Internal HTTP server

2003-07-14 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-19 Thread William Anderson
[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,

Re: [Scottish] Re: Anybody want a 17 monitor?

2003-06-18 Thread William Anderson
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' / _

Re: [Scottish] Re: Anybody want an HP Deskjet 500 printer?

2003-06-16 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] May 2003 ScotLUG Meeting

2003-05-30 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] May 2003 ScotLUG Meeting

2003-05-30 Thread William Anderson
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

[Scottish] Fw: LUG Screening

2003-05-29 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] ....and speaking about Thursday....

2003-03-28 Thread William Anderson
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?

Re: [Scottish] [OT] Anyone got.......

2003-03-28 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] dual p3 motherboard

2003-01-18 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: Re[2]: [Scottish] OT: Weird domain stuff

2003-01-18 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] OT: Weird domain stuff

2003-01-13 Thread William Anderson
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

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

2003-01-01 Thread William Anderson
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 =(_

Re: [Scottish] OT Laptops (the saga comes to an end)

2002-12-26 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] OT Laptops (the saga comes to an end)

2002-12-26 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] OT Laptops (the saga comes to an end)

2002-12-19 Thread William Anderson
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? :)

Re: [Scottish] OT Laptops

2002-11-28 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] OT: multiview boxes?

2002-11-22 Thread William Anderson
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

Re: [Scottish] networking bits and pieces

2002-11-13 Thread William Anderson
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

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