July 2000 - main - earth.li

Re: [Alug] Handspring vs Palm
by MJ Ray 25 Jul '00

25 Jul '00

Well, the main thing to remember is that the Palm, Handspring and the newer Sony clones all use different add-on formats, although adapters for some connectors are now becoming available (according to Palm Tipsheets). Pick the one that has the right add-ons that you think you might want. On the Linux end, I have coldsync working well with a serial cradle. I don't know if USB works as well, as I don't have that. ;-)

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Is there a meeting tomorrow at the UEA?
by John Woodard 22 Jul '00

22 Jul '00

If so what time? Cheers, BJ

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Re: [Alug] Have we got a definite date for the next meeting yet?
by MJ Ray 19 Jul '00

19 Jul '00

Yes, it's Sunday 23rd July. Suggestions for what to do welcomed. I'd suggest that we try network games, as there's not going to be much life on campus to impress with wonderful science. If we do go for that, can people suggest good network games, so we can install them and then not worry about an external network? I'll start off by suggesting Dumb, the doom engine with the sanest net play. (Search freshmeat for it.)

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Have we got a definite date for the next meeting yet?
by John Woodard 12 Jul '00

12 Jul '00

As subject Cheers, BJ

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Linux can't see all my memory
by John Woodard 11 Jul '00

11 Jul '00

Linux only sees 64Mb of 384Mb. IIRC there is some command you can enter at the lilo prompt to correct this. Could someone please enlighten me. Cheers, BJ

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Re: [Alug] ALUG put back
by MJ Ray 11 Jul '00

11 Jul '00

"Martyn Drake" <martyn.drake(a)bleeding-edge.net> writes: > Unfortunately, it is not possible for Roger Whittaker from SuSE to > appear at this date as he will be in Germany at that time. The > following Sunday is okay, however, but I doubt we can do anything now > until the next meeting. If that is the case and you can confirm it, I'll annoy the room bookings people by moving it back another week.

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MP3 Players // was Linux can't see all my memory
by MJ Ray 11 Jul '00

11 Jul '00

"John Woodard" <john(a)woodard.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > Strange problem, loads of other goodies to play with at the moment though. > I'm trying to get Linux to talk to my Diamond Rio 500 USB MP3 player and I > think they've had a bit of a tiff coz communication at the moment is a > no-no. :-) I was impressed to see an MP3 player which came with software to talk to it from PC, Mac and Linux last week. Now I just wish I could remember the brand. I'm not keen to buy Diamond again after their complete lack of Linux support on my last purchase.

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Missing hdd
by John Woodard 11 Jul '00

11 Jul '00

Another poser for the smart ones out there. :-) When I boot from a floppy I can see all my drives but booting from the /boot partition one of my IDE channels is invisible. The bios sees it but Linux does not. It isn't reported in the boot message that flashes past at break neck speed! I presume this is a kernel thing but the kernel image on the floppy should be the same as the image at /boot. They were both created when I installed, I haven't been fiddling, honest guv! Cheers, BJ

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ALUG put back
by MJ Ray 11 Jul '00

11 Jul '00

Heh, typical. When I return to my office having just put the meeting back a week because no-one had objected, I didn't think there was sufficient time to publicise it, let alone organise it properly, then I find that some people have preferred to keep it this weekend. DOH! Well, sorry to those few, but it was remarkably quiet before that, so ALUG 13 is on Sunday 23rd July at 1400 in Union House at UEA. A full announcement will follow just as soon as Martyn can confirm the speaker and any facilities needed to me. Hopefully some posters will be made as soon as possible and people can help put them around local computer shops and community notice boards. MJR, again picking up the torch for an ALUG meet

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Re: [Alug] X newsreader
by MJ Ray 10 Jul '00

10 Jul '00

darren(a)darren.winsper.easynet.co.uk writes: > Pan is a very nice newsreader for X. See http://www.superpimp.org for > more. The only reason I don't use it is because it doesn't have > scoring as good as slrn's. Gnus+XEmacs is probably as good as newsreading (and email) gets, I think, but that assumes you like Emacs. I've strayed, but come back to it again now that my email has hit preposterous. The reason I don't use slrn is its scoring isn't as good ;-) > You obviously aren't addicted to games :) Mmmm... would people be up for a dumb netgame at the next ALUG or the one after?

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