February 2005 - main

RE: [ALUG] Forgotten...
by Keith Watson 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

> From: Brett Parker Sent: 21 February 2005 15:00 > > Keith Watson <keith.watson(a)kewill.com> wrote: > > Easy-peasy if you're using Debian (or any one of half a > dozen other distros). > > > > hold down alt and then press F1 (or F2, F3, F4.....) and a command > > session will appear (to get back to the desktop just hold > down alt and > > press F7 - if you're using Debian that is :o) ). > > He's in X... if you say these things, get 'em right, for X to one of > those you'll want Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc. > oops! sorry :-$ Yes, hold down ctrl AND alt then press F1, F2,... etc. Regards, Keith ____________ To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom. - Confucius

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IRC meeting reminder
by adam＠thebowery.co.uk 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

Hi people, It appears that the irc meeting reminder has gone MIA. If you follow this link you can read it http://lists.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/main/2005-January/020548.html Um, and irc meetings don't tend to have as much momentum as in the past as there is pretty much always people hanging around on irc talking loads of nonsense (but we do try and help newbies out if they have problems etc.). Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem

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Ubuntu
by Jeffrey Herrington 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Any members in Norwich want Ubuntu Intel x86 Edition v 4.10 Live CD Install CD 7 distribution packs left --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!

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(no subject)
by d922989 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Dear All, having joined this list a few weeks ago I am at last getting around to saying 'hello'. I'm Rob of Lakenham, part time teacher of development economics at UEA, full time dad, very part time computer tinkerer and so on. I have gravitated towards Linux after a long period of growing disaffection with another well known OS. Until a few years back I always assumed that the more I used computers in my daily work, the more I would understand, gain control and open up creative possibilities. However, the latest version of the ubiquitous OS has confirmed the opposite tendancy. I really feel that I am being patronised and almost deliberately deskilled. I wanted a computer, not a glorified fruit machine. So to Linux. If you haven't realised by now, I am one of the very few (?) non-techie people on the list but perhaps a laugh at my newbie naivete may be warming on a cold winter evening. I only started with Linux in December 2004. Maybe in desperation for some visible nuts and bolts, I have ignored advice about difficulty and gone straight for Debian (3.0 r3). I've got a dual boot working with XP as I only have the one machine which I do a lot of UEA work on. The machine is a Thinkpad T22 from ebay. Possibly because of this I've got nowhere with X so far but I'll get there one day. At the moment my install reminds me of Multics at Bristol in the 1980s. I'm enjoying learning all about vi and Unix in general. That's it. My appreciation to all who contribute to making this an interesting list, especially to the kind folk who run it all. Perhaps look forward to meeting some of you one day; do you really venture down to the Billy Bluelight sometimes? Best wishes, Rob

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gimp plugins - How to do anything with them?
by Chris Green 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

How do you do anything with gimp plugins? The particular one in question is the fractalexplorer plugin, my wife wants some mandelbrot printouts so I hunted around and found that the gimp I have installed on my Slackware system has a whole directory devoted to fractalexplorer plugins and one of them is called mandelbrot. However I can't for the life of me work out how to feed the example files into the plugin in the gimp and get it to do anything. I'm a gimp novice so nothing is obvious (apart from how to run it to start with, I can manage that!). -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Looking to get into contact with Ian Douglas.
by kiall＠snoopie.org 20 Feb '05

20 Feb '05

Hi iain, RE: http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2003-February/014341.html im contacting you as i seem to have contracted that mozilla dns disease you got in feb 2003 (yes it seems mozilla havent sorted out the problem yet) i was hoping you would still remember how you went about fixing it? Ive tryed everything from removing the .mozilla directory trying as a completly new user, trying as root, rebooting but nothing helps.. tcpdump -n port 53 shows that Mozilla is not actually even sending a DNS request, similar to you. anyway.. if you can get into contact with me at: kiall(a)snoopie.org as i more than likely wont be following this list.. Thanks Kiall Mac Innes ---------------------------------------------------------------- This E-Mail Address Is Hosted By Snoopie.org..

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RE: [ALUG] Invitation to FOSDEM 2005
by Keith Watson 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

> From: Brett Parker Sent: 18 February 2005 01:05 > MJ Ray <mjr(a)dsl.pipex.com> wrote: ... > > If we had a developers meeting in East Anglia, could we get > > the abbreviation to be EADAM somehow? That's funny two ways. > > That's an easy one to get to... > > East Anglian Developers Annual Meeting... or East Anglian Developers > Abandon Meeting (in favour of pub)... or East Anglian > Developers Access > Meeting, or, well, there's probably thousands more, but I'm tired and > cba. If its for East Anglia I think it should have 'Folk' in it somewhere and as it's the UK perhaps FUKDAM or even DAMFUK? :o) Keith

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[peeaq@xandros.com: Xandros Desktop OS Open Circulation Edition]
by adam＠thebowery.co.uk 18 Feb '05

18 Feb '05

This came to the main admin address. I know that we have (or had) at least one Xandros devotee on the list, I guess that this may be of interest to them, or others. Thanks Adam ----- Forwarded message from Quamrun Peea <peeaq(a)xandros.com> ----- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:58:51 -0500 From: Quamrun Peea <peeaq(a)xandros.com> To: main-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Xandros Desktop OS Open Circulation Edition Dear ALUG Admin Team, We, at Xandros, are thrilled to introduce the world to the Version 3 Open Circulation Edition of the award winning Xandros Desktop OS. The new release provides a new Internet experience with Firefox Web browsing, Thunderbird e-mail, and Skype Internet calling. Xandros is the first Linux distribution to include the native Linux Skype client for crystal clear Internet voice calls. A trial version of CodeWeavers CrossOver Office 4.1 is also available to test drive your favorite Windows applications. Discover crystal clear and free Internet voice calling with Skype! Get to use your favorite Windows applications using the trial version of CrossOver Office 4.1!! Rediscover the Web with the secure Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird e-mail client!!! Please feel free to download the Open Circulation from http://home.xandros.com/. For those that are interested in the commercial products, please feel free to use or pass the following 45% coupon to other LUG members. Just follow through the ordering process at http://www.xandros.com/shopping.html and use the following 45% Deluxe discount coupon at the Payments page. Coupon Code: uklug2005 The Xandros Product Team ----- End forwarded message ----- -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem

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text wrapping regex
by Richard Lewis 17 Feb '05

17 Feb '05

Hello ALUG, I wonder if anyone can help with a regular expression (for text wrapping)? I need to match all the characters from either the beginning of the line or the last match (in global mode) up to the last space before the Xth character. I can do the first space after the Xth character: $ echo "A string with quite a lot of words and spaces in it." | sed "s/$.\{,X\}$ /\1\n/g" Any ideas? Richard

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any broadband recommendations?
by allan miller 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Well, my broadband connection has not been working now for 3 weeks and I have decided that I should look at changing ISPs even though I would like to support UKFSN because of its support for free software and Linux. I think one of the problems is that UKFSN is too far down the 'food chain' so that when things go wrong there are these layers above that have to be negotiated. My 'current' connection is 256/512 uncapped with dynamic IP for £21.50/month. So I just need something similar. Does anybody recommend anyone? I see BT recently announced speed increases which will probably affect everyone else (http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=2087) so prices may be a bit fluid at the moment. TIA Allan Miller

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