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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : McGintys, Northgate Street
by samwise 17 May '10

17 May '10

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting is back tonight, Monday 17th May, at 20:00: P J McGinty & Sons 15 Northgate Street Ipswich Suffolk IP1 3BY Tel: 01473 251 515 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP1+3BY WWW: http://www.pjmcgintys.co.uk/ McGintys pub is in the centre of Ipswich. It's directly opposite the town's central library and has a reputation for good Irish beer. We're usually to be found in the lowest section of the bar, near the library entrance to the pub. All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Peter. ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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C beginner question
by James Bensley 16 May '10

16 May '10

Hey List, I have what is hopefully a beginners C question which will be easily answered (this following little app is for converting watts, amps and volts); I have the following code: http://pastebin.com/m30x4G17 The problem I have is although the code works, it is because I have used the strncmp function to compare the first pasted argument and a string value such as "-watts", "-volts" or "-amps" because without it I was getting errors about comparing integers and pointers but I am confused as to why C thinks this. Using if(argv[1]=="-watts") produces no errors but the if statements are never hit, as in the if statement is never met and the code is never run. How should I be coding this to make these comparisons? -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/

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Web Dev Job
by Sam Tuke 14 May '10

14 May '10

I'm moving to Berlin in July to work for the Free Software Foundation Europe. As a result, my primary client is looking for a new developer to telecommute and work on their website www.donttravelempty.com . Those interested please email me directly at sam(a)donttravelempty.com. The site uses lots of FOSS (see http://www.donttravelempty.co.uk/about-site.php ), and you'll need good PHP, MySQL and communication skills. Number and spread of hours + pay are negotiable. Sam.

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Pub Meet Suggestion
by Steve Engledow 13 May '10

13 May '10

Hi all, Following the recent heads-up about the impending football mob, I'm suggesting we move to the Cider Shed on Sprowston Road. It's too far out of the city to be mobbed, there's good beer and cider (Fat Cat beers!) and there's a car park. So, any takers? Steve

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Norwich Pub meet heads up
by Montmorency 13 May '10

13 May '10

Just letting everybody know... there's some kind of football parade going on in the city this evening, on account of Norwich City winning something or other. I heard a crowd of 30,000 is expected. I imagine parking around the Coach and Horses is going to be non-existent. Furthermore, the C&H is a bit of a football pub, on home-game days. So I imagine it'll be packed out - standing room only. Sixteen stone men with beer guts, wearing replica football shirts intended for 12 stone profession athletes, are definitely not a pretty sight. So I'm going to skip it this evening. katsmeat

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Xubuntu, Sound, mplayer. Help!
by Simon Royal 13 May '10

13 May '10

Hi I am still trying to fathom out MP3 playback on my ThinkPad 600. Sorry if I seem to ignore peoples suggestions, but I'm not. I must have just missed the reply. Anyway. I trying installing mplayer from Synaptic, and it appears to me to be Movie Player, which is already installed in Xubuntu. Correct me if I am wrong. Now I am back to getting no sound at all. I still get the crackling of the speakers on boot - like it is initialising them. However, it will not play any type of audio file. I have tried MP3, MID and WAV in both Movie Player and Exaile and no sound at all. I tried playing with Aumix and it looks like it is set ok, I also raised all the levels in Mixer for all instances. I also tried playing an audio CD, to no avail. You see the timers going but no sound comes out. Any help please? Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Xubuntu 10.04 & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now

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Re: [ALUG] Xubuntu ThinkPad Audio Oddness
by Simon Royal 12 May '10

12 May '10

Marcus Before I was getting no audio, now it is just MP3s. i want to know if it can be fixed or if it is an outdated hardware problem. Simon --- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum (sent using Sony Ericsson P990i)

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Xubuntu ThinkPad Audio Oddness
by Simon Royal 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hi. For the past few weeks I have been trying to get audio working on my ThinkPad 600 under Xubuntu 9.10 and now 10.04. I followed some instructions I found online for manually editing modprobes etc... and I still couldnt get MP3 to work and assumed it was all audio not working. However, a few days ago I got a 'blip' sound while FaceBook chatting and today I played a YouTube video and it played the sound, however I cannot get an MP3 to play. Is it my machine is too old? All I get is crackling. I have tried Amarok, Exaile and Movie Player. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Xubuntu 10.04 & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/

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Copy Evolution contacts, appointments, etc. - how?
by Chris G 10 May '10

10 May '10

I want to copy Evolution contacts, calendars, tasks and memos from one user to another and can find no remotely sensible way of doing it. I tried copying the whole .evolution hierarchy but that seemed to do nothing at all - I suspect possibly because of Evolution background processes hanging on to things. Copying addressbook.db apparently doesn't work according to what I can surmise from a bit of googling. Is there really no way to do this? -- Chris Green

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1/6/10, Cornhill, Ipswich: dorkbot anglia
by samwise 10 May '10

10 May '10

Hi, For anyone interested in cool things to do with techy stuff, dorkbot is coming to East Anglia. It's first announced date is at the Cornhill in Ipswich. Press release cut and pasted below. Go to the main website to see it with links etc. Peter. http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotanglia/ dorkbot anglia Thursday 1st July 2010, 8-10pm, Free Entry Town Hall Galleries, Cornhill, Ipswich, UK. IP1 1DH We are delighted to announce the inaugural meeting of dorkbot anglia, an evening of talks and conversations with "people doing strange things with electricity" in the East Anglian area. The event is part of the ip-art festival and kindly hosted by the Town Hall Galleries. David Chatting, cofounder of the Curiosity Collective, introduces: * Pixelh8 / Matthew C. Applegate makes music from reprogramming old and rare computers. http://pixelh8.co.uk/ * Tim Hunkin, engineer, cartoonist and maker of TV’s The Secret Life of Machines describes his humorous slot machines, automata and simulator rides on Southwold Pier. http://timhunkin.com * John Bowers, musician, sound artist, hardware hacker and academic discusses some of his most recent work. http://onoma.co.uk/ * Plus, "OpenDork" a short ad-hoc slot for anyone to talk about their work - the floor is yours! dorkbot encourages grassroots meetings of artists, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors and anyone else working under the very broad umbrella of electronic art. Started by Douglas Repetto at Columbia University in 2000, dorkbot is now global in almost 100 cities; dorkbot anglia is the newest. Our intention is for dorkbot anglia to run every two or three months in a different town in the region. If you would like to participate or could offer a venue, please get in touch - Please join the mailing-lists: the announce list for our monthly announcements and a blabber list for open discussion. Follow our tweets via twitter and find the event on facebook.

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