February 2000 - main

Surftime
by Green J M K 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

Looks like BT may finally be getting the message: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/6/ns-13373.html Question is, if BT could lower the Surftime price from 35GBP/month to compete with SurfUnlimited's 9.99GBP/month server (conditions apply), just how much profit did BT think they could make? Anyone know when Often are due to make their announcement about Surftime? Debian upgrades just become a little more realistic :-) James. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Classic!
by Laurie Brown 16 Feb '00

16 Feb '00

ArfArf!!!! http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2436920,00.html?chkpt=zdnnsto Cheers, Laurie. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Did anyone else see The Money Program on BBC 2 last night?
by Adam Bower 15 Feb '00

15 Feb '00

If so what did you think? Didn't it sound as though some very devoted Linux guys took over the editing of the program? For those who didn't see it, well unfortunately it doesn't seem to look as though it will be repeated. But the article was around 20mins long and made comparisons between Linux and NT. They featured Powys council who have deployed Linux boxen as dial on demand routers/mail servers for their local community's drop in centre type things, and saying that they chose Linux as it's cheaper than NT and easier to support. They had interviews with Linus and they featured Linux Expo in New York (I think it was the one but it may of been some other Linux show in the States) They made a comparison between the cost of MS Office and StarOffice. They said about how IBM supports Linux, they featured Oracle, they had lots of other things I can't remember, But best of all they seemed to be saying that Win2K is a bit pants and that maybe you should consider Linux solutions instead of deploying expensive MS solutions. It was really cool it seemed as though they were trying to put a bit of a spoiler on the launch of Win2K and this was on British TV! It just goes to show how Linux support & advocacy has grown in the past year. If anyone does find that it will be repeated (maybe on News 24?) then let me know as I would like to see it again. Adam [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Hi !
by ncommsss＠lineone.net 15 Feb '00

15 Feb '00

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Some handy websites I thought I would share with the group - UPDATE
by Justin Jonas 14 Feb '00

14 Feb '00

A couple of weeks ago I shared some websites with the group that I thought would be of interest Well one of the sites has a Linux section with 20 Linux Books online So for those of you that have not found the link to that section here it is http://www.itknowledge.com/reference/dir.operatingsystems.linux1.html Enjoy Justin Jonas

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Debian again
by Green J M K 10 Feb '00

10 Feb '00

Hey there, So I'll install Debian 2.1, then go-line and do apt get-update or whatever it is. What should I expect to get? I see GNOME 0.30 is in stable, i obviously need something newer (and stabler) than that, same with E0.14, Apache, PHP3, etc. Or do I have to wade into unstable and watch my phone bill go into outer space? James. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Beermat maker problems.
by wbh 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

> I use this > > mkisofs -a -r -J -o cd1.img cd/ > cdrecord -v -eject dev=0,2,0 speed=6 -data cd1.img Tried it. Didn't work. Swore a bit. Went home. Tried it in another machine. Fine. No problem. Must be that heap in the lab. <HAPPY BUNNY> Thanks! </HAPPY BUNNY> ---------------\--------------------------\-------------------------------- W.B.Hill \ Email: wbh(a)uea.ac.uk \ 492 Earlham Road \ Home: (+44) 1603 455069 \ "Nothing is idiot-proof Norwich NR4 7HP. \ Fax: 0870 054 7508 \ given the right idiot" United Kingdom \ Mobile: 0410 781584 \ (+44) 1603 255141 \ Web: http://wbh.org \ #include <stdisclaimer.h> ---------------------\--------------------------\-------------------------- PGP-Fingerprint: B3 6F 2E D6 - B6 48 F1 FB -*- 7C AA 28 0C - 96 61 9A B5 [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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sendmail question
by Chris Glover 09 Feb '00

09 Feb '00

Hi peeps I have a sendmail problem. I have at home a network of 2 Windows PC's and an IP masquerading Linux gateway. The Linux box acts as an SMTP server for the rest of the network. This works ok excewpt, sometimes sending mail fails, as the receiving machine tries to look up gateway.glovercc.freeserve.co.uk. I know I'm being lazy here. When I do dial up with Freeserve, everything works fine, as they trap everything heading from a host to an SMTP server and process it themselves. I have recently started using ClaraNet. What I need to know, is how do I set up sendmail to caryy on receiving mail for my local network, but for any mail heading outside, to go via Claranet's SMTP server? I hope that made sense, as I'm sitting here at work at 3:15am, and it's not what I'd describe as concise :-) Any help grately appreciated. Chris > Chris Glover > Engineer, Broadcast Engineering > BBC Resources > > * Work: +44 (0)20 8576 0090 They will transfer call. > * Mobile: +44 (0)7977 420828 > * Fax: +44 (0)20 8576 4335 > * Room 440, Design Building, Television Centre, Wood Lane, London, > W12 7RJ, UK > * mailto:chris.glover@bbc.co.uk > * http://www.bbcresources.com > > [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Debian Install of Sendmail
by Green J M K 08 Feb '00

08 Feb '00

Hi there, I'm odds-on to take the plunge and install Debian (VA CD hi Gareth!) this weekend. Now I am paranoid about my mail. I was so paranoid about sendmail that rather than follow the instructions a fellow Demonite put up on the web, I instead downloaded a copy from another site for Demon. I have seen Debian installing before, asking about fetchmail, sendmail, god knows what else. That actually scared the sh*t out of me, since I've already had one install when sendmail bounced all my mail - I don't want that happening again. So, I can grab a copy of the .cf file as a backup, but what I need to know is what to say to the Debian installation to make sure mail works exactly how it does currently under RedHat 6.0. FWIW, I have a number of 'users' here accepting mail, such as 'webmaster', 'gnome', etc., all getting stored in /var/spool/mail/{user} Thanks, James Green [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Hello!
by Simon Best 07 Feb '00

07 Feb '00

Hello! I just thought I'd introduce myself as a new subscriber. My name is Simon. I am 28 years old. And my favourite colour is purple. Or is it brown? Anyway, I'm living in the scourge of the home counties (Essex), using a 486DX2-66 based PC with RedHat Linux 6.0 (and Windows 98). The PC was cobbled together out of bits (thrown out in my direction, bought second hand, bought new...) and is (incompletely) networked to an IBM RS/6000 250 (which is running AIX 3.2.5). Erm, right now that's all I can think of to say! Simon Best barsticus(a)earthling.net [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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