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Meeting on 3rd November 2002
by MJ Ray 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

ALUG 3rd November 2002 This ALUG meeting will be from 2pm until about 6pm in the normal place at http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/syleham.html but I don't know who's bringing the biscuits and whether the bar will be open. It's 9:00pm on Tuesday 29th, the power just came back on, Syleham has been blacked out since 11:00 am on Sunday. So thankfully the meeting is still on. I will get the keys for the bar and get the hall opened up around 12:30 - 1:00pm on Sunday if anybody fancies a pre meeting drink.(BJ) It seems that there's a great demand for another kit-fixing and demonstration day. Please let us know what you want to see, what you want to know and what you want to get help with fixing, and we can try to organise ourselves a little before the day! For more information, see http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?3rd%20November%202002 -- MJR| v ---|--[ Something else will appear here eventually, I guess... ]-----| `--[ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ ]---------[ slef at jabber.at ]-----'

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Fwd: supporting Free Software
by MJ Ray 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

On October 9th the UK Free Software Network - UKFSN.ORG - launched at Linux Expo. UKFSN is an Internet Service Provider with a difference - all of the profits from the operation will be donated to fund Free Software projects in the UK. Each month UKFSN will release a public statement clearly showing how much income was raised during the preceeding month and how much is cost to run the service. The surplus will then be paid to the Association for Free Software (http://www.affs.org.uk/) who have agreed to handle the distribution of the money raised. The UK Free Software Network offers all the standard services one expects from an ISP including 0845 dialup access, email, web hosting and usenet. These standard offerings are beefed up with the inclusion of perl, PHP and python and MySQL support for the web hosting and extensive SPAM control measures in the email service. The service is not just for geeks however. As well as subscription free Internet access and services UKFSN.ORG offers professional hosting options for businesses and domain registration services. Business users will especially appreciate the WorldPay payment system perl module that has been written to support ecommerce transactions by UKFSN hosted sites. UKFSN is being run by Jason Clifford, the person behind Definite Linux - the now defunct British Linux distribution. The UKFSN website is http://www.ukfsn.org/ info(a)ukfsn.org for more information. The Association for Free Software is a membership organisation which promotes and defends Free Software in the UK and is an associate organisation of the Free Software Foundation Europe.

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Peterborough LUG meeting Thursday
by MJ Ray 22 Oct '02

22 Oct '02

Our neighbours in Peterborough will be meeting on Thursday evening. The talk will be about high capacity web serving, a talk that will also be given at Apachecon in the US later this year. Details are on http://www.peterboro.lug.org.uk/meeting.php I'll be travelling there along the A47 from West Norfolk. If anyone wants a lift, email me. MJR -- MJR| v ---|--[ Luminas internet applications http://www.luminas.co.uk/ ]-----| `--[ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ ]---------[ slef at jabber.at ]-----'

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Fwd: New free online Linux magazine: The Grasshoppers' Linux Journal
by MJ Ray 28 Sep '02

28 Sep '02

This appeared on comp.os.linux.announce, but maybe new users here would like it too? From: Ludootje <ludootje@linux.be@telenet-ops.be> Subject: New free online Linux magazine: The Grasshoppers' Linux Journal Date: 19 Sep 2002 15:50:39 GMT Hi all! Some people from the linuxnewbie.org forum and I have been working hard on a GNU/Linux magazine, we've recently released issue number 1. We need readers of course, but most of all writers. Currently we don't have a lot of writers, and it's a lot of work to get enough enough articles and interviews to bring out another issue. We're mostly oriented towards newbies (unlike other online Linux-magazines), but some articles can be very interesting to experts too. The interviews for example, can interest everyone. For those interested, this is the Table Of Contents of our first issue: ------------- What is Linux? My First Linux A Noob's Perspective Unix Tool of the Month Open Source Alternatives MrProject Interview Mandrake vs. SuSE Custom RedHat CDs Dual Monitor Guide Gnomemeeting Interview Getting Help in Linux Dynamic IP Webservers The Year of the DVD Review: Creative vs. Labtec Speakers Letters ------------- For those interested in writing (English doesn't even have to be your native language, we have proof-readers): simply register on our forum, and say you're willing to write an article / make an interview. We'll give you access to the articles & interviews forums once your interview / article is done. Anyone who thinks (s)he can somehow help the project is free to do so, of course. If you have any remaining questions, you can simply answer to this post, e-mail me at ludootje(a)linux.be, or register on the forum and ask your question there. Ludootje -- The Grasshoppers' Linux Journal - a free, online distributed magazine about GNU/Linux / Open Source / ... oriented towards newbies. Check it out @ http://ghj.sunsite.dk ! ########################################################################## # Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: cola(a)stump.algebra.com # # PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. # # This group is archived at http://stump.algebra.com/~cola/ # ##########################################################################

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Fwd: [Alug] meeting this Sunday @ the Fat Cat pub Norwich 2pm onwards
by MJ Ray 14 Sep '02

14 Sep '02

Meeting this weekend at the Fat Cat pub in Norwich from 2pm onwards. See here for more on the Fat Cat http://www.greatbeer.co.uk/norfaca.htm Not sure who will be there, but there will be some there and MJR will bring a penguin. Someone add this to the wiki, please?

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Unix Backups Made Easy
by Keith Watson 12 Sep '02

12 Sep '02

Remember I posted an item on the Main list on backup strategies a while back? Here's an interesting article from slashdot on the same topic; Linux Backups Made Easy http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/07/1630234 mfago writes "A colleague of mine has written a great [0] tutorial on how to use rsync to create automatic [1]"snapshot-style" backups. Nothing is required except for a simple script, although it is thus not necessarily suitable for data-center applications. Please try to be gentle on his server: it is the $80 computer that he mentions in the tutorial. Perhaps try the [2]Google cache." An excellent article answering a frequently asked question. Links 0. http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ 1. http://www.netapp.com/products/filer/snapmirror.html 2. http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:ysk5qyhZDzcC:www.mikerubel.org/computer s/rsync_snapshots/+%22mike+rubel%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Regards, Keith Watson ____________ Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue. Meister Eckhart

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Fwd: Nominations Request for The 2002 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software
by MJ Ray 12 Sep '02

12 Sep '02

From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn(a)fsf.org> Subject: Nominations Request for The 2002 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:13:56 -0400 [ Please redistribute this message widely where appropriate. ] The FSF and the GNU project request nominations for the 2002 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software. We want to give this award to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of Free Software (free as in freedom; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html for the definition), through activities that accord with the spirit of software freedom. Any kind of activity could be eligible -- writing software, writing documentation, publishing CDs, even journalism -- but whatever the activity, we want to recognize long-term central contributions to the development of the world of software freedom. "Accord with the spirit" means, for example, that software, manuals or collections of them (online or on CD) must be entirely Free. Work done commercially is eligible, but we give this award to individuals, not to companies, organizations, or teams. People such as Miguel de Icaza, Donald Knuth, Brian Paul, Guido van Rossum, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Larry Wall who have already received this or other awards for their contributions, are not eligible for the Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Among those who are eligible, the award committee will try to choose whoever has made the greatest contribution. Please send your nominations to <award-nominations(a)gnu.org>, on or before 15 October 2002. Please submit nominations in the following format: * Put the name of the person you are nominating in the email message subject line. * Please include, in the body of your message, an explanation (40 lines or less) of the work the person has done and why you think it is especially important to software freedom. * Please state, in the body of your message, where to find the software which your nomination is based on. Information about the previous awards can be found online at: http://www.gnu.org/award/ -- Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director Free Software Foundation | Phone: +1-617-542-5942 59 Temple Place, Suite 330 | Fax: +1-617-542-2652 Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA | Web: http://www.gnu.org

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Fwd: [ian@fipr.org: FIPR-Bulletin: Conference announcement: A Fair Deal on Copyright?]
by MJ Ray 12 Sep '02

12 Sep '02

Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:41:42 +0100 From: Ian Brown <ian(a)fipr.org> Subject: FIPR-Bulletin: Conference announcement: A Fair Deal on Copyright? - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have received this message from the FIPR Bulletin mailing list run by the Foundation for Information Policy Research http://www.fipr.org/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Fair Deal on Copyright? http://www.fipr.org/events.html WHAT: A mini-conference organised by The Foundation for Information Policy Research WHEN: 5.30pm-7pm, Wednesday 25 September 2002 WHERE: The Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE, The Aldwych, London WC2A 2AE. Hosted by the Department of Information Systems, London School of Economics Admission: free. Space is limited, so please RSVP to fairdeal02(a)fipr.org if you would like to attend. PLEASE REDISTRIBUTE THIS FLYER UNTIL 25 SEPTEMBER - -- The Internet has presented a dramatic challenge to the existing copyright regime. Rights holders such as the music and film industry claim that their businesses are losing many millions of dollars each year to file-swapping networks such as Napster and its successors. One of their main responses has been to lobby for changes in copyright legislation to restrict the ability of consumers to extract and exchange content on-line. The UK government is now holding a consultation on legislation to update UK law in this area, based on the European Union's recent Copyright Directive. This would criminalise certain copyright infringements and circumvention of technology that controls access to media such as DVDs. Would the draft legislation properly balance the incentives given to content creators through copyright, with the benefits to society of the free exchange of information? What effect will criminalising "circumvention technologies" have on computer and Internet security? Will authors, musicians and film-makers needing to sample previous works become criminals? At this conference you can debate the issues with speakers from the Patent Office and open source and library communities, and hear how well similar US legislation has worked in practice. Speakers: The Patent Office: Intro and Q&A on the copyright consultation Julian Midgley, FIPR: Problems with the draft legislation Toby Bainton, Society of College, National and University Libraries: The effect on the UK's libraries Barbara Simons, Association for Computing Machinery: Where the United States went wrong on copyright Background: The Copyright Directive (2001/29/EC) - UK Implementation, The Patent Office: http://www.patent.gov.uk/about/consultations/eccopyright/index.htm Critique of the Proposed UK Implementation of the EU Copyright Directive, Julian Midgley: http://uk.eurorights.org/issues/eucd/ukimpl/critique_uk_impl.html ACM briefings on the US Digital Millenium Copyright Act: http://www.acm.org/usacm/IP/#copyright Media contacts: Ian Brown, Director, FIPR: ian(a)fipr.org / 07970 164 526 Ross Anderson, Chair, FIPR: rja(a)fipr.org / 01223 33 47 33 - -- (c) FIPR September 2002. This e-mail may be copied freely in whole or in part. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have received this message from the FIPR Bulletin mailing list run by the Foundation for Information Policy Research http://www.fipr.org/ To unsubscribe, send an email to: <bulletin-unsubscribe(a)admin.fipr.org> If you need to change your subscribed email address, or for any other administrative matters, please write to: <bulletin-request(a)admin.fipr.org> - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- End of forwarded message -------

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Wanted: Your Linux software and hardware reviews for cash!
by Keith Watson 12 Sep '02

12 Sep '02

xpost from newsforge; http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/09/01/1636239 - By Robin "Roblimo" Miller - Linux.com is eager to publish reader-written reviews of Linux software, new or updated Linux distributions, and hardware you have used with Linux. We will pay a small honorarium for each original review, so when you write a review for Linux.com you will not only be helping fellow Linux users but putting a little money in your pocket. Keith

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Re: lug.org.uk server security (was Re: [lugmaster] Mailman Security)
by MJ Ray 01 Sep '02

01 Sep '02

[This message has also been posted.] Tim Williams <T.M.Williams(a)cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > I've got sPOP3 configured on my home system if you need help setting this > up. Fetchmail works fine with sPOP3, not sure about other retreival > clients though. Haven't needed to explicitly use the stunnel command to > get it to work, although this may be happening transparently. Retchmail also supports spop (and is much simpler and faster, but doesn't do multidrop or other things fetchmail gets wrong itself). APOP should be in the snapshots now. There is interest in someone updating fastforward to support SSLing a port forward. There's already SSL support in its stream library, so shouldn't be too hard. It's just that it's not been needed yet, so no-one's written it. Fastforward is a fast port forwarder that tries not to waste more CPU or memory than absolutely necessary. It's with retchmail at http://open.nit.ca/ Maybe if you're not interested, someone in your LUG might be? Feel free to forward this request onwards. Thanks.

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