September 2002 - main

Re: [Alug] CUPS and epson stylus
by Ricardo Campos 10 Sep '02

10 Sep '02

> Use the parallel port! the parallel port is broken (physically) > Do your PC's have Via chipsets? I've never had any success with USB and > VIA. Yes, but it all worked ok in Redhat, Mandrake and Windows. hmmmmm -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Gentoo
by Ricardo Campos 10 Sep '02

10 Sep '02

> No probs here! We're standardising on it, run internal gentoo mirrors, and > have developed lots of scripts and so on. Gentoo is the D's B's, IMO. Never said it wasn't... Just takes a long time. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Gentoo
by Craig 10 Sep '02

10 Sep '02

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:51:47PM +0000, Ricardo Campos wrote: > There isn't one, buddy. I just ran out of time (incl. internet connection > being cut off) mid-install... which meant that when I got round to it again, >it was all a bit fscked. I'm not really which stage I'm at. Where are you installing this? At work I hope so you can leech their connection! It sounds like that once it lost the network connection it would give up trying to find the packages requires to compile and install. Just basically find out which was the last command and rerun that again. Chances are that you switched the machine off now ;) > I'll work it out! > ;) I'm *sure* you would ;) > Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org ^-------- Is this the problem? I'm sure that mangled the wrapping! Let me know if you want to try 1.4 instead with gcc 3.2 :) -- (o_ .----------------------------------------. //\ | Craig Butcher | http://www.wizball.co.uk| V_/_ | - Using Gentoo GNU/Linux - | `----------------------------------------'

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FSF Award
by John Seago 10 Sep '02

10 Sep '02

Those of you who subscribe to the FSFE list will have already seen this, but as the the message itself suggests I am re-posting it here, together with the suggestion that this LUG should nominate M.J. Ray for all his efforts, hard work and financial support for the foundation of the AFFS, see: <http://www.affs.org.uk/>, as, as one of those involved in the early stages I know that there would be *NO* AFFS without Mark. 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/ -- John Seago

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Re: [Alug] FSF Award
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 10 Sep '02

10 Sep '02

MJRay wrote: >I just talk more .... You're just being modest! ;-) >Speaking of that, AFFS would like to have a stand at LinuxExpo in London >next month. In order to do that, I suspect we'll need help, so watch out >for an appeal on the fsfe-uk list (linked from http://www.affs.org.uk/ ) >very soon. Who from ALUG is going to be there? Care for an ALUG meet? I think the appeal has arrived already, I see Wookey volunteering (he has a lot to do with the iPaq running a linux based speech program I brought to the last meeting) for a slot. I would like to go - I haven't been to a linux expo before. If I do I'll wave leaflets for half an hour. Registering is here: http://www.linuxexpouk.co.uk/ Adam said on IRC last night that there was an informal pub meeting next Sunday in Norwich. Without computers (gasp) and he said he'd only do a talk on apt after five pints. Or do you mean an alug meet at the expo? Jenny.

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Yellow Dog
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 10 Sep '02

10 Sep '02

Hi, Can anybody comment on Yellow Dog Linux? I like the name and logo, you see. Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] FSF Award
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 10 Sep '02

10 Sep '02

John Seago wrote: >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. Good plan, John. Do you want to submit the nomination? There's also the ALUG support onlist and at meetings Mark has given over the years that have furthered the cause and use of free software. Jenny.

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IRC meeting tonight (monday 9th) moved... stuff broken/changed....
by Adam Bower 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

Hi all, ummm, uranium which is where irc.alug.org.uk points is down or not part of oftc anymore (or something) anyhow if you want to get on tonight try /server europa.oftc.net which is what i am using now Thanks Adam -- "Step away from the Cathedral, This Bazaar is loaded" jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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RE: [Alug] CUPS and epson stylus
by Ricardo Campos 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

> Are the jobs appearing in the CUPS printer queue? Yes, and it says they have been completed. > Actually I did a re-install of the latest ghostscript, then gimp-print and > then CUPS. well, these things are easy with apt-get, so I shall try this. > I think it was something to do with the xxx to ps filtering setup. We'll see..... ;) -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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