February 2001 - main

Re: [Alug] Palmtops & Linux - big decision needs making.
by MJ Ray 18 Feb '01

18 Feb '01

Nico Morgan <nico(a)nicomorgan.com> writes: > Have members any experience of the Handspring visor (Prob deluxe) and > the Palm (m100, IIIxe) working with their Linux boxes? The > documentation seems to imply that both will work perfectly well with > the Palm syncing conduits and so on... I have a Palm working well with coldsync, and I've seen other tools based on pilot-xfer working too. JPilot is highly regarded if you actually want to work with the PIM data rather than just back it up, and I understand Gnome and KDE desktop environments both offer some syncing. -- MJR "Candidate must understand grass is green and Luton has a football team."

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Linux *is* for desktops!
by Chris Allen 17 Feb '01

17 Feb '01

Well, I did it. After my "Linux is not for desktops?" post, I had many messages of advice and suggestions - and I have finally turned off my windows machine for good. I'm now using: Mail: mutt - took some getting used to, but I'm now amazed at how powerful it is. I can do things with a couple of keypresses that I wouldn't have considered in Eudora! News: slrn - Again totally different philosophy to Agent, but well worth the effort... Now all my news is collected by slrnpull, and I can read quickly whenever I want to. Office: StarOffice. It does all it can to make MSOffice people feel at home, but I'm still having a few problems. Web: Konqueror/Netscape. Konqueror is nice and fast for nearly everything. I particularly like the way that (from KDE) I can hit the 'windows' button on my keyboard, type in a URL, and I'm away. If there is something that Konqueror can't handle, then I switch to netscape. So many thanks for all your advice - it was well worth it, and I'm so pleased to have finally ditched Microsoft.. Couple of things I'm still having problems with - if anybody's found a solution I'd be grateful to hear about it: * I can't print TrueType fonts from StarOffice. They are displayed, but when I print, they get changed to something else. I can't find any info about this at all. My printer is a Tektronix Phaser 560, which handles Postscript level2, and can (apparently) deal with type-42 fonts (whatever that means)... but no luck at all yet... * Konsole in KDE has this neat 'session' manager that lets you start several shells in one window. However, I have found no way of doing this automatically when I log in. It would be useful if it could launch a konsole window with several shells aready running... Anybody have any ideas? chris. ps.. Would anybody be interested in coming to an 'outdoor' meet in the early summer - weather permitting - we have an ideal garden for this, a permanent internet connection, so you could be wired up to the net properly, and we could follow it with a barbecue (and a swim in the pool for those that wanted...)

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[Various] Digested Articles
by MJ Ray 17 Feb '01

17 Feb '01

spam4u2 Topics: Two major speakers in London in the next fortnight In need of help ! Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:21:34 +0000 From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk(a)ukuug.org> Subject: Two major speakers in London in the next fortnight ********************************************************************** UKUUG/LUUG Evening Meeting - Announcement Thursday 22nd February 2001 7.00 p.m. - Room 639 - Institute of Education Speaker: Elliotte Rusty Harold (Author of 'The XML Bible' and co-author of 'XML in a Nutshell') Presentation title: 'New Developments in Java 1.4' The XML Bible (IDG Books, 1999)- http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/books/bible/ Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ Bio: http://www.macfaq.com/personal.html Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 20:24:46 +0000 From: Dave Cross <dave(a)dave.org.uk> Subject: The Conway Lecture (please circulate this to any interested parties) London Perl Mongers proudly presents THE CONWAY LECTURE "Quantum::Superpositions" by Damian Conway In the Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL On Monday 26th Feb, 2001 At 7pm For more information: On Damian Conway see <http://www.yetanother.org/damian/> On Quantum::Superpositions see <http://yetanother.org/damian/event_Quantum.html> On Conway Hall see <http://www.ethicalsoc.org.uk/conway/where.htm> On london.pm see <http://london.pm.org> -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> SMS: sms(a)dave.org.uk <plug>Data Munging with Perl <http://www.manning.com/cross/></plug> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:27:32 -0000 From: Jason Cooper <Jason.cooper(a)veritas-it.co.uk> Subject: In need of help ! We are a recruitment company based in Milton Keynes and we have a client who is looking for a MySql PHP Database developer to work on site in Northampton for a four week project. I don't know if you can help but if you know of people who would be interested in this assignment, then please forward my details to them. Thank you for your assistance in advance Regards Jason Cooper Contracts Manager Veritas IT Contracts Division: 0870 121 3202 Facsimile: 0870 121 3209 Email: jason.cooper(a)veritas-it.co.uk Web: www.veritas-it.co.uk This message and any attachments to it is intended only for the individual or company to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential or prohibited from disclosure or unauthorised use. If the recipient of this transmission is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering such materials to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this e-mail message or its attachments other than by its intended recipient is strictly prohibited by the sender. If you have received it in error, please return it to the sender and destroy the message and/or copies in your possession. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Palmtops & Linux - big decision needs making.
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

Nico: The software developer for our speech lightwriters is using an ipaq to build our next generation on using linux kernel. If that is any help. Jenny.

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pc card: "unable to read hardware net address"
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

Hello All! (Sorry; it is stupid question time again:) Does anyone know how I can force the kernel to read the hardware net address on my pc card? I'm using RH6.2. with kernel 2.2.14. on a laptop (someone has suggested upgrading to 2.4 and that may help, but a bit beyond me at present, would prefer an easier solution). Many thanks for everyone's help with Samba last week, BTW......still not running but I'm starting to know where I'm coming from now, and will spend some time poking before posting further. Very grateful. Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] Linux and Laptops
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

>I have a Comaq Presario1200 and on the couple of times I have >tried my only real problem has been using X ................................... What is your problem with X? I have managed to get RedHat onto my Toshiba laptop; it took a while to get X working.......is X working at all? Jenny.

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[Fwd: Re: [Alug] Linux and Laptops]
by suffolkchess 15 Feb '01

15 Feb '01

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Alug] Linux and Laptops Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 08:05:51 +0100 From: Syd Hancock <syd(a)toufol.com> To: <alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> Scott, Apologies if you have looked here already but may be helpful: Just had a quick look and there are several entries for presario 1200 They have lots but not my version the XL-122 and my e-mail should be suffolkchess(a)clara.co.uk Regards Scott _______________________________________________ alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list Send list replies to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug See the website for instructions on digest or unsub!

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[Chris Lingard <chris@stockwith.uklinux.net>] Greeting from Lincolnshire LUG
by MJ Ray 15 Feb '01

15 Feb '01

A neighbouring LUG which people on the edge of our area may be interested in. From: Chris Lingard <chris(a)stockwith.uklinux.net> Subject: Greeting from Lincolnshire LUG Hello, We have a mail list, and have tripled in numbers to three members! If any of your members would like to join us too, please ask them to subscribe lincs to majordomo(a)lists.lug.org.uk It will be some time before we can achieve much, but we will be happy to cooperate with your Anglia group. Chris Lingard -- MJR

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[Various] Digested Articles
by MJ Ray 15 Feb '01

15 Feb '01

Spam4you. From: Denny <denny(a)concretecow.com> Subject: [lugmaster] Mandrake Expert Here is what looks like a _very_ useful URL for Mandrake users: http://www.mandrakeexpert.com/ Regards, Denny ------ <denny(a)concretecow.com> ------ www.concretecow.com/denny ------ "I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation." (Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Four) From: Joachim <bj(a)gmx.net> Subject: OT: Programmers wanted! Hi, Our company is urgently looking for fulltime C/C++ Programmers in Munich (Germany). All our development is on Linux for Linux. So if you are good in C, like the Oktoberfest, beer and "sauerkraut", then please reply to me directly. mailto: bj(a)gmx.net A greencard can also be arranged for non EU passportholders. Best regards, Joachim Bauernberger -- MJR

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Linux and Laptops
by suffolkchess 15 Feb '01

15 Feb '01

Alug Can anyone help at the moment i have Mandrake on my Desktop Computer and I am wanting to put Mandrake or any other distro on my laptop with Windows. I have a Comaq Presario1200 and on the couple of times I have tried my only real problem has been using X is there anyone who can help or even better someone near Bury St Edmunds who would sort it out for me. Regards Scott Taylor

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