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Ubuntu & Xubuntu Questions.
by Simon Royal 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hi I am a Mac user with an interest in Linux. I have a PowerBook G4 867Mhz with 1GB of RAM, so am looking at the PowerPC ports of Ubuntu. I spoke to a couple of people that said the latest version - 9.04 - doesn't run too well on machines under 1Ghz, so was looking at Xubuntu which is better suited for older machines. It says it will run on G3 with 128MB of RAM comfortably - making it probably pretty quick on a machine with mid range G4 with 1GB. Has anyone used Xubuntu? Does it differ much to Ubuntu apart from using the XFE desktop environment? Does the latest 9.04 support Broadcom based Airport Extreme cards - I have a Buffalo card which OSX picks up as an AE card. Secondly, I'd like some booting advice. I am triple booting OS9, OSX Tiger and OSX Leopard at the moment and was looking to maybe quad boot - so I would need to resize some of the partitions. Or I might just install it where the Tiger partition is. Does the Xubuntu installer cater for multi booting with OSX? Is there an option to select which OS is the default to boot into. I had Ubuntu 6 and Tiger on a PowerBook G3 before and could never get Yaboot to select OSX by default. Any help would be grateful. Simon Royal --- Visit my Mac site at http://www.simonroyal.co.uk. Or Skype me on 'Simon-Royal'. (Apple PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, SuperDrive. Mac OSX 10.5, 10.4 & 9.2.2...)

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JOB: Permanent Statistical Programmer | LOCATION: London, England, UK
by jt＠camalyn.org 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

JOB: Permanent Stats Programmer LOCATION: London, England, UK Hi List, I'm working with a business in London that are looking to hire a permanent programmer with experience of working on developing either mathematical or numerical programs. You need to have experience of both scripting (R would be very applicable!) and also compiled languages. Experience of using MySQL or similar would be preferential too. Please email me using james(a)camalyn.org if you have any questions or if you would like to discuss this opportunity further. Thanks, JAMES >> to learn more about Camalyn please visit http://www.camalyn.org

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a wiki page for netbooks that are available in the uk
by Albert Vilella 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi all, Does anybody know if there is a page somewhere with updated models and prices for all netbooks available in the UK? If not, where would people expect this page to be? Wikipedia? Albert.

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Re: [ALUG] Redhat 6.0 discs
by Bev Nicolson 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

<<If anyone starts up an archive, I've also got Mandrake 7.0 :) Tony>> And I've got SUSE 8.2. Not /that/ old but still. Bev. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : McGintys, Northgate Street
by samwise 20 Apr '09

20 Apr '09

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 20th April) 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. Topics up for discussion tonight include web application performance tuning, just how many versions of Elite were there, why is Richard Madeley so insufferably smug and was the Red Dwarf ressurection really as bad as the press reaction would have us believe ... plus anything else anyone wants to bring along. My #2 is away this week, so it'd be nice it we had somebody there from 20:00 other than me. Remember to call or email me, if you want to ensure I don't wander off, which I have a tendency to do ... 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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Hosting/ssh/news server recommendations wanted
by Chris G 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

I currently have all my web hosting (very little), mail and usenet news from Gradwell Dot Com, in general I'm happy with the service but they do seem to be becoming a specialist VOIP supplier with the web hosting playing second fiddle so I'm looking for alternatives so that I can spread the risk a bit and/or be ready to move if I feel the need. I realise it's quite a spread of services I'm after so maybe there aren't any other 'Gradwells' out there that can provide it all in which case I may go for separate suppliers. I suppose that at least minimises the chaos if something goes wrong. What I'm after is:- A good, fast, no binaries, NNTP server. Preferably associated with an ssh shell hosting service so that I can run a command line news reader with near instant response from the NNTP server. When I moved to Gradwell it was a revelation how fast their service was compared with anything that accessed the NNTP server across the internet. Mail forwarding under my control in some shape or form. Currently most of our (family and small business) mail is read usign the IMAP servers at Gradwell except for mine which I forward to the machine where I have the ssh account and read it with mutt there. Hosting with ssh access. I'm wondering if a virtual server might make sense, they're available for a tenner a month (or less?) now. Does anyone here have experience of virtual servers? Any recommendations (or otherwise) for good hosting would be welcome, one major criterion is fast interactive ssh access as I do all of news and mail handling via ssh to 'their' server. Oh, one final "nice to have" requirement - while Googling around yesterday I saw one hosting site offering ssh access *plus* a web to ssh interface so you could get to the command line from anywhere with a browser. I.e. you wouldn't have to install putty onto a friend's machine to read your mail. -- Chris Green

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AAO Sleep Button with 2.6.29
by Richard Lewis 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Hi ALUG, My kernel on my Acer Aspire One got upgraded to 2.6.29 recently and since then my sleep button (Fn+F4) somehow does a suspend to disk when pressed. This is quite clever but also quite annoying as I have a carefully crafted Fluxbox configuration which does various useful jobs like logging me out of my Jabber client and then doing suspend to RAM when I press Fn+F4. Does anyone have any ideas how I may be able to regain control of my sleep button? I tried looking through /etc/acpi and /use/share/acpi-support but there doesn't seem to be anything in there to do with the sleep button. Best, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis ISMS, Computing Goldsmiths, University of London Tel: +44 (0)20 7078 5134 Skype: richardjlewis JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +-------------------------------------------------------+ |Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.| |http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html | +-------------------------------------------------------+

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XFedora?
by Chris Walker 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Has anybody had a play with XFedora on an Xbox? I was given an Xbox, note that this is not a 360, and decided that I might be able to use it to play things DviX files which might be stored on this PC or on my wife's laptop. So I removed the original 10GB(?) drive and put in a 40GB drive which XFedora has used. I had also tried various other distros such as XDSL and Gentoox but they only seemed to install in an F: partition which I didn't want. I have also installed a modchip so that it can now boot without needing a modded game cheat. My query is this. XFedora appears to be running version 4 of Fedora so does anybody know if it would be possible, and worthwhile, to update it? Before everybody jumps in and says that it's easy to update, I should point out that I don't currently have a mouse on the box as I only have one USB adapter and that's taken up with a keyboard. I have ordered another adapter but that's winging it's way over from China now. If I 'startx' the system comes up fine (I'm not yet clear on how I will want to play any files on the system but if my wife wants to do this, I don't think she'd be keen on running things from a command line and hence the possible need for X-Windows) but due to the lack of a mouse, I can't click on the Update icon on the taskbar. I can connect it online and Firebird will reach the outside world but if I try to run 'yum grouplist', it can't find any repositories. I suspect that's because it's an old version. Am I right in that thought? So if somebody could point out how I can manipulate X-Windows without a mouse, that would be good too. P.S. If the moderator is reading this, apologies for sending it through first time from the wrong email address!

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Re: [ALUG] iPlayer
by Bev Nicolson 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Following on from my last, I can report that not only have I installed version 10 but it does indeed work as it should now. :¬) Thanks Wayne. Bev. > > It says 9.0 r124. Bev. > > You'll probably find the problems will go away if you upgrade to flash > 10, distro specific instructions should be a google search away, if your > current flash was installed via a distro release package then I would > recommend you un-install that first. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [ALUG] iPlayer
by Bev Nicolson 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

<<if your current flash was installed via a distro release package then I would recommend you un-install that first.>> I've done things the wrong way round then as I had a look for version 10 earlier. So, how do I uninstall version 9 (which is the one I actually have with this distro package whatever it says) before upgrading? I have looked in Synaptic but the only version that comes up is 10 now. Thanks. Bev. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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