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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : McGintys, Northgate Street
by samwise 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '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 this Monday 15th February, 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://pjmcginty.moonfruit.com/ McGintys pub is in the centre of Ipswich, not far from our old haunt - The Milestone. It's directly opposite the town's central library and has a reputation for good Irish beer. All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Nothing particular planned this month, though I'm sure we'll end up covering broadband speeds again, if only briefly, now that Infinity is being rolled out (nowhere near us, I hasten to add). I may have a whinge about nvidia graphics drivers, as well. Remember to call (mail me in advance for my mobile no.) or email me, if you're arriving later and want to ensure I don't wander off, which might happen if the turn-out hits rock-bottom ... Hope to see you there, 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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ThinkPad, Xubuntu, Wake Problem
by Simon Royal 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

Hi I am having problems with ThinkPad 600 running Xubuntu. I had it on there before, no problem. I took it off and reinstalled it recently and am having problems with it waking from sleep. I close the lid and leave it. When I go to open it, it wont wake. Nothing I do will wake it. I have to hold down the power button to get it to go off. It won't then power up. I have to remove the battery and put it back in and then it will boot fine and other than that it works fine. It has been doing it for about a week. Then today it stopped and would wake normally when the lid was opened. I thought the problem had gone away, however, it just started doing it again a few minutes ago. Any suggestions? It is very annoying. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/

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SCSI Drives
by James Bensley 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

Hey Collective, Just got single Celeron old school beast server for my self to play with. Does anyone have any SCSI drives they want to (preferably) give me? It has 2x40GB 10K drives in it and I am looking for a few more so I can use it as a play ground at home. If anyone has got any I am after any size from 5GB > infinity as long as they are also 10K. TTFN. -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/

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ThinkPad 600 Xubuntu Sound Issues
by Simon Royal 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hi I have an IBM ThinkPad 600 - which I got from a fellow group member. I have installed Xubuntu 9.10 and am having some problems getting the sound set up. I understand they have a different sound chip to the 600E and 600X and that most distros detect it with the wrong sound chip. Can anyone offer any advice or help on how to get sound working on this machine. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

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Hosting
by Ian Porter 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hi all, I am presently hosting my personal domain (http://www.codingfriends.com) on a friends server, but would like to host on my own but not for £30+ p/m. Was just wondering if anyone recommend cheap hosting, but also reliable. I have done a small search on google and come back with http://www.uk-cheapest.co.uk/hosting-plans.php http://www.freevirtualservers.com/free-hosting.htm There is an average 300 page views per day and rising :) Cheers Ian

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Port 53662
by Barry Samuels 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Can anyone suggest what traffic coming in to port 53662 might be? It originates from a number of different IP addresses. My router firewall is set to stop anything not resulting from an outgoing request which leads me to believe it's the result of browsing the web but that traffic is being stopped by my internal (software) firewall which has taken exception to it. If I think that it could be harmless I'll let it pass but I don't want to do that at present as I've no idea what it might be. -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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skype and usb phones
by Peter Alcibiades 13 Apr '10

13 Apr '10

Any recommendations about usb phones that work on linux? Its for skype. I know you can get cordless dual phones that plug into the router, and presumably these are risk free, but they're £80 or so, which is a bit much.... Peter

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BIOS config question
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Hi Folks, A little while ago I bought a second-hand laptop (Advent 8117). It came with Windows Vista Home Premium on its 120GB hard drive. I've put aside doing anything with it for a while, since I wanted to replace the HDD with a larger one, and then install Linux on virgin territory! I've now bought a new 500GB HDD, have just installed that in the laptop, and intend to get round to installing Linux in due course. However, I first wanted to see how the thing behaved by running Linux off a live CD. So, after switching on, I got the message "Press F2 for BIOS setup" (or words to that effect). So I did that, and promptly got the message "Operating system not found". That makes me think that the BIOS setup routines must have been stored in some hidden partition on the original HDD, since I've been able to go into the BIOS when that was still installed. If that's the case, then it leaves me wondering what to do about BIOS config after I've installed Linux. Or, perhaps, whether there's a problem at all. If it was just checking for existence of an OS on the hard drive before letting me into the BIOS, then perhaps when Linux is on it will find an OS and let me in. Or, if the BIOS config stuff really is on the original HDD, and it needs to be able to access that before entering BIOS setup, then I'd be stuck because that wouldn't be on the new HDD. And no obvious way of getting it onto the new HDD. I do also have another Advent 8117 which still has the original Win Vista on it (I run Linux on that using VirtualBox), so maybe if I knew where to look I could pull the BIOS config stuff off. But then there'd be a question of how to get it onto the new HDD! So a number of questions! I'd be very grateful for any comments or suggestions from any experts on this sort of thing. By the way: after booting from a live Knoppix DVD, it seemed to run very happily indeed. (Except that I'm no great fan of KDE ... ) With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 12-Apr-10 Time: 20:30:10 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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serial ports in wine
by Peter Alcibiades 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Has anyone succeeded in using a serial port from Wine, and if so, how did you do it, and how did you test it? I have done the usual things, linked as the Wine guide says, my user is a member of dialout. I've also installed setserial and minicom, got the port configured correctly, and I have managed to connect two computers with a serial cable and then have stuff typed in one minicom window show up in the other. I have also tried setting /dev/ttyS0 to 775 so permissions should not be a problem. But what I don't seem able to do is have applications in Wine get to the serial port. And is there some kind of minicom package for windows that you should use, in the same way you can use the minicom on Linux, so that you can actually see the thing working? Sometimes people suggest you should make loopback by jumpering two of the leads on the serial cable. Have you tried that, and will it explode if you get the leads wrong? And what did you use, a bit of copper wire? Peter

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Youtube Flash player control weirdness
by Srdjan Todorovic 11 Apr '10

11 Apr '10

Hi All, I'm experiencing weirdness with Youtube flash player where one can play the video but sometimes (happens too often IMO) you cannot interact with the player controls (pause/play/position slider). Sometimes it can be "unstuck" if you randomly right-click on the HTML area of the page in Firefox. Anyone knows the cause and/or the solution to this? Firefox: 3.5.8 Shockwave Flash: 10.0 r45 OS: Linux Distro: Kubuntu 9.10 Thanks, Srdjan

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