September 2002 - main

Win-XP Help Centre request wipes your HD
by Keith Watson 12 Sep '02

12 Sep '02

One more reason to be wary of MS technology <http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27074.html> Keith ____________ 'If there is a better solution...find it.' - Thomas Edison

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meeting this Sunday @ the Fat Cat pub Norwich 2pm onwards
by Adam Bower 12 Sep '02

12 Sep '02

Hi all, Is there any interest in having a 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 If there is some interest then I will get this sent to to the announce list etc. although I may not be able to make it there myself now due to various circumstances. Thanks Adam

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Re: [Alug] meeting this Sunday @ the Fat Cat pub Norwich 2pm onwards
by Ricardo Campos 12 Sep '02

12 Sep '02

I'm up for it- although I can't stay long as I'm moving on monday! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Expo no students?
by NuTTeR -- Not Entered -- 12 Sep '02

12 Sep '02

"Linux Expo UK 2002 Registration Sorry, we regret that we cannot accommodate Students or Under 18's" Why is this? and what do they mean? Is there no chance of free tickets? dose it mean i only get a free ticket if i work somewhere? ggggrrrrrr There are 10 types of people in this world... Those that know binary and those that dont ;) -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Expo no students?
by Craig 12 Sep '02

12 Sep '02

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:04:20AM +0100, Alexis Lee wrote: > I thought the chap who was maintaining 2.4 right now was about 16? > The correlation between age and competency is a lot weaker than they > seem to think. There is one guy named 'MJC' who did the mjc patches to the kernel. Totally bleedin' edge but a speedier system to have. -- (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Gentoo GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------'

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Re: [Alug] Expo no students?
by John Seago 12 Sep '02

12 Sep '02

>> Sorry, we regret that we cannot accommodate Students or Under 18's" > Under 18's *what*, one must ask. ;-) It could be that they're giving away beer and don't want to infringe their licence. -- John Seago

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F.S.
by Paul 11 Sep '02

11 Sep '02

One HP LaserJet 4si printer for sale. £25 and buyer collects from Norwich. Regards, Paul.

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Gentoo
by Ricardo Campos 11 Sep '02

11 Sep '02

A word of warning- don't try to install gentoo in just your evenings! You probably need a whole weekend with not much else to do. *hmph my laptop is fscked* ...off to wait until he has enough time to install the damn thing...in a few weeks, maybe...... bah! -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Gentoo
by Ricardo Campos 11 Sep '02

11 Sep '02

I had a kernel panic, so Laurie suggested: > 9 times out of 10, that's an error in /boot/grub/menu.lst caused by failing > to point to the right place for your root partition. If it's a laptop, it's > usually a misconfigured kernel. Actually, I'll check grub first. I have a working .config file for that particular laptop (that works with the stock 2.4.18 kernel), which is what I based my menuconfig choices on. It should be fine. If these things don't work, then I will probably post the error msgs-something to do with VFS- in a different thread! In fact having read the last paragraph, I KNOW it's not pointing to the correct partition for /. I remember putting down /dev/hda3 in fstab, when in fact / is on /dev/hda5! So I probably made the same mistake in the grub menu.lst! Damn my peculiar manner of setting up partitions! Damn the *ahem* person who was distracting me at the time! So my advice should now be: don't try installing Gentoo if you don't have much time to spare, and don't try if your partner is coming round to visit. ;o) > When you get your 512k cable connection (I have a 512 cable here in my > office, and a 2meg line in my server room), be sure to rsync ibiblio. Bear in > mind the whole tree is more than 20GB, 90% of which we never use! There are > about 2,500 packages now, and growing. isn't rsync'ing the whole tree a little OTT for a network comprising of 1 gentoo box, 1 ipcop box and 1 debian box? What would the benefits be? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Gentoo
by Ricardo Campos 11 Sep '02

11 Sep '02

> Ah... Running a download mirror internally helps a lot. I realise there's a > lot of compiling to do, but pulling the source through a 100MB internal > network is a whole lot faster than using even 512K cable, never mind a modem. Yep! Half the time was pulling it from ibiblio (SLOOOW!) I'm getting a kernel panic... but I think the problem could be WAAAAY back in the process (the passwd command didn't work for a start). Still, it was a learning experience, which I will get right next time round... unfortunately I'm moving and will have no net access for a while.... fortunately, my new net access will be 512kbps cable! ;) And yes, linuxmail fscks linewrap. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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