February 2005 - main

Bluetooth Audio
by Wayne Stallwood 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

Anybody here had much to do with bluetooth devices on Linux ? I have a D-Link DBT-120 USB adapter and a Bluetrek G2 Bluetooth headset that I would love to use with Skype. The DBT-120 is supported by BlueZ and the headset uses the standard headset or Handsfree bluetooth profiles. ALSA I believe supports the headset profile so in theory at least this should work. However something is wrong with my SuSE 9.1 installation as when I plug in the DBT-120 I get an application pop up from kbluetoothd saying Failed to connect to the SDP server. Please make sure that sdpd is running; without it, other devices will not be able to find out which services your computer offers. I can't find anything like sdpd on my system or on the SuSE DVD, yet it is supposed to be part of kbluetoothd is it not.

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Re: main digest, Vol 3 #443 - 11 msgs
by tsanders＠bennettsretail.co.uk 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

I will be away until the morning of Friday 18th Feb

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RE: [ALUG] Thursday Working Lunch
by Karl Foley 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

> Has anyone any comments/experiences with mplayer on Red Hat 9? I installed mplayer, xine, codecs and a whole lot of other stuff from: http://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/9.2 You could try: http://packman.iu-bremen.de/redhat/9 There are also directories for Fedora and Debian.

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RE: [ALUG] Thursday Working Lunch
by Karl Foley 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

> I have no idea how to do it in Linux... But maybe this can help: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Rip_Streams_With_MPlayer

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Suse 9.1 to 9.2 Upgrade
by Karl Foley 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

Just upgraded my Laptop from Suse 9.1 to Suse 9.2 using the downloadable DVD (anyone want a copy of this?) and it went remarkably smoothly. I had quite a bit of hassle with Suse initially getting things like ACPI, Wireless, Samba and special keyboard keys but it just migrated the whole lot. It didn't like the version of Evolution I had installed but after I removed this I simply reinstalled post upgrade. Works like a charm. --- ATB, Karl.

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Emacs Startup Scripts
by Dan Hatton 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

Emacs keeps a bunch of scripts to run at startup, in the directory </etc/emacs/site-start.d>. These scripts were making the startup of my emacs painfully slow, so I moved most of them to a directory </etc/emacs/site-dontstart.d>. All was well until the other day, when Debian (stable) released a new and more secure xemacs21 package. As part of this package's installation process, a program called emacs-install gets run. After spending (I think correctly) a huge amount of time compiling bits of Lisp, emacs-install died, complaining that it wasn't finding the startup scripts where it expected, leaving me unable to complete the installation. Is there some "official" method of disabling the startup scripts that doesn't cause this problem, please? (I'd also quite like to know the answer to the same question, with respect to the system startup symlinks in </etc/rc?.d>.) -- Thanks Dan Hatton <http://www.bib.hatton.btinternet.co.uk/dan/>

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New toys
by Wayne Stallwood 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

Not strictly Linux related but has anyone seen the new Mac Mini that's recently been announced ? http://www.apple.com/uk/macmini/ Looks pretty sweet to me and I also find it quietly amusing that for less than twice the price of a boxed copy of Windows XP Pro you can buy an OS that is at least twice as good, plus the hardware to run it on.

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next meeting Thursday 10th February at the City Gate, Norwich from 8pm (social)
by Brett Parker 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

Hi all! (this e-mail might look a little familiar, as I sent it sometime last week, just want to make sure everyone is well informed and ready to come and socialise, obviously :) As is usual on the second Thursday of the month, this Thursday (10th February) we'll be congregating in the City Gate from around 8pm. We should have a penguin in attendance so you know who we are, sometimes we lurk at the far end of the building in the restaurant area. If you want to do gpg keysigning then at least a few of us should be there with sigs and id. Full details can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/all-NorThu.html Directions at: http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/citygate.html Pictures from August of people so you know who to look out for: http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2004-08-ALUG/ If you wander in and look for the scruffiest looking person going, that's probably me... I usually turn up as one of the first people, and am usually one of the last to leave... Beer is always accepted as a bribe, though of course, the next day I may entirely fail to remember what the bribe was for, and thus not do anything :) Hope to see lots of you there, -- Brett Parker http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ (the obligatory boring website) iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk (jabber and email!)

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[nmm@uit.co.uk: Exim Conference and Tutorial]
by adam＠thebowery.co.uk 09 Feb '05

09 Feb '05

----- Forwarded message from Niall Mansfield <nmm(a)uit.co.uk> ----- To: main-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Exim Conference and Tutorial From: Niall Mansfield <nmm(a)uit.co.uk> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:14:10 +0000 Hi, 206 Mailing List admin(s) We're organizing a Conference about the Exim mail server, in conjunction with the UKUUG. The conference takes place 25/26-Feb-2005 in Birmingham, UK. All the important Exim people are speaking. It would be great if you could publicize it to your group. The full programme is at: http://uit.co.uk/exim-conference/index.htm#programme Thanks, Niall tel: +44 1223 302 041 UIT Cambridge ----- End forwarded message ----- -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem

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Installing Linux mail
by Leon Stedman 07 Feb '05

07 Feb '05

I attempted to put Mandrake 10.1 community Ed. on a disk the other night (just to see). Imagine that I have a brand new computer. Onto this machine I put Linux using a main stream distribution RedHat, Mandrake or suchlike. This box is to be used at home, and will be connected to the isp for a few minutes four or five times a week to send and receive e-mail, and sometimes for a little longer to browse the web. What do I need to do to achieve such a set-up? The mandrake distribution was useless for this! It offered to setup ISPs for every country but my own and crashed when I lied. I need some official way to connect to the isp and log in. I use wvdial on RedHat 9, but that only comes on the full set of CDs for 'drake. Some program to fetch the mail from the isp. (eg. fetchmail?) Something to read it and write replies. (I use pine!) A way of sending the mail when the box is connected, and a way of storing mail until the box is connected. Maybe something to kill spam. A web browser. As an ordinary user, I don't want to know about LANs, WANs, dial-on-demand, gateways, routers etc. unless such information is needed for such a basic set-up. I do have (or can get) two nameservers xx.xx.xx.xx and yy.yy.yy.yy, the phone number of the ISP (0845 xxxxxx), a username, and a password. This is the problem that an ordinary home user faces, when moving over to Linux, and I would be interested in the views of other subscribers to ALUG on suitable programs and their configuration. Leon Stedman.

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