June 2005 - main - earth.li

Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

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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Ubuntu opinions
by Jenny Hopkins 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hi List, A friend of mine is trying out Ubuntu linux. I know there are some ALUG members who have tried Ubuntu and rave about it enthusiastically (you know who you are :-)) Anyway, I said I would ask what is so great about it and what the general opinion is and how it differs from, say, debian. Thanks, Jenny

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Re: [ALUG] Next Social Meeting: The Reindeer, Dereham Road, Norwich: Thurs 9th June from 8pm
by sunflowerinrain＠btinternet.com 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

> Brett Parker wrote: > I haven't actually confirmed with those thar people up > thar that they be coming, but I would imagine that at > least Me and Jonathan will be about, the rest of 'em > depends on baby sitting duties, wether or not they're > in the country, and other such fun family commitments In the country, sah! in Norwich, even. -- e

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Next Social Meeting: The Reindeer, Dereham Road, Norwich: Thurs 9th June from 8pm
by Brett Parker 03 Jun '05

03 Jun '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, We're nearly at that time of the month again, yes, that's right, the time for the second thursday, Norwich, ALUG social evening meeting. This will be in The Reindeer from ~ 8pm (ish - I'll probably be there before that, depending on how bad the work day has been :)) on Thursday 9 June 2005. Attendees to these meetings usually include (but are most certainly not limited to, we like new people!): Me (iDunno) Jonathan (Noodles) Adam Bower (quinophex) Kirsten Naylor (wildduck) Eli (sunflowerinrain) Paul (paul_c) Martijn (mak) Last month we had a very nice turnout, it was good to see you all, I hope you can make it again this month. For those that don't know where The Reindeer is, the directions can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/reindeer.html (OK - so this was more or less cribbed from last months announcement, shhh... don't tell anyone... I haven't actually confirmed with those thar people up thar that they be coming, but I would imagine that at least Me and Jonathan will be about, the rest of 'em depends on baby sitting duties, wether or not they're in the country, and other such fun family commitments ;) Thanks, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCoCsYEh8oWxevnjQRAiF8AJ45CSKDEoJlpmCtRNEkNBduFbk6tgCeKLYx VB2FlCZhim+XdYrxkfZ7giQ= =oZ0y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Where do I find colour names?
by Chris Green 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Where can I find the file that lists the X colour names? E.g. where are things like 'grey90', 'magenta4' and 'blue3' defined? I can find it on my Solaris machine at work but not on my Linux box at home. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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"The World Tonight": Brazil & OSS
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Hi Folks, There was a neat item on "The World Tonight" tonight (Radio 4, Tue 31 May) regarding what looks like a very determined effort by Brazil to move to Open Source. You can Listen Again in the usual way to the whole program if you want to, but to get just the OSS item feed the following to RealPlayer: rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio4/worldtonight/ worldtonight_tue.ra?start="00:33:45.0"&end="00:39:15.0" (this is all one line). Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 01-Jun-05 Time: 01:43:50 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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4.2.2 installation oddities
by Chris Green 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Some further oddities about my xfce-4.2.2 installation on Slackware:- The background doesn't cover all the background if you see what I mean. I have the background set to blue but the top cm. or so of the background is pale grey. Middle mouse button click on the background does bring up a menu, it's a menu of applications to go to, not one I've ever used. When I right click on the funny (not very useful) thing in the bottom right corner and select 'Properties' I get an error saying 'Xfce Settings Manager error: No such plugin "xfibx"'. Similarly when I right click on the task bar and select Properties I get a similar error saying 'Xfce Settings Manager error: No such plugin "xfce"' Why am I getting all these missing plugins? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Any students here?
by Joe Button 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

"This Summer, don't let your programming skills lie fallow...Use them for the greater good of Open Source Software and computer science! Google will provide a $4500 award to each student who successfully completes an open source project by the end of the Summer." See http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html for more details. The deadline for proposals is less than two weeks away. I'm not a student but if anyone would like help getting a proposal together I'd be very happy to take a look. There's a flyer ( http://code.google.com/summerofcode.pdf ) which maybe someone could put up at the UEA CS labs etc? Joe

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Forcing "Return-Path:" in sendmail
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hi Folks, I want to find a way to *force* sendmail to include a specified "Return-Path:" header in mail it sends to a remote [E]SMTP server. Specifically: Return-Path: Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk rather than the header it computes automatically. Thanks for any suggestions! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 21-May-05 Time: 21:05:22 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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inetd.conf and what's not in it
by Chris Green 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

I know quite a few daemons/servers are no longer started up by inetd, is there any logic to whether they are started this way or not? Further to this (and more importantly) how does one work out how an IP service is started if it's not in inetd.conf? In particular I can't see what starts the IMAP4 services but they most definitely do start. There's an 'imap2' entry in inetd.conf but not an 'imap4' one, is this the one that starts an connection on port 143? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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