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Library Books
by Keith Watson 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

I seem to have acquired a stack of linux related books, some of which I know are from the ALUG library (any any that aren't I'm happy to donate). Who should I return them to? and how? Keith

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[ALUG Announce] 2nd Thurs Pub Meet 8th March 2009
by Ben Bewick 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '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 ----- Dear ALUG, The monthly second Thursday social meeting of ALUG will take place on 8th March 2009 at The Reindeer (10 Dereham Road, Norwich, NR2 4AY; tel. 01603 762223). It's very near the junction of Dereham Road and the Norwich inner ring road (Grapes Hill) and serves a selection of real ales, nice pub food (if you fancy going early to eat) and coffee. There are generally people there from 20:00 onwards and we tend to sit to the left of the main entrance. We look forward to seeing you there. Cheers, Ben aka Viperfang ----- 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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OpenOffice and "yrt.doc"
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Hi Folks, Dunno if it's just my installation, or if it's a general thing. Whenever I open a ".doc" in OpenOffice oowriter, or even just start up oowriter without nominating a document, the first thing that comes up is a panel which says: Openoffice.org Document Recovery Recovering document: [ blank ] Status of recovered documents: Document Name Status yrt.doc Not recovered yet [Start Recovery] [Cancel] Then, if I click on [Start Recovery], this changes to Status of recovered documents: Document Name Status yrt.doc X Recovery failed [Finish] Then, when I click on [Finish], it proceeds to open the document as if there had been no problem. It doesn't seem to happen, however, with oocalc (the spreadsheet). There does not seem to be a file "yrt.doc" anywhere on my system. Perhaps it was looking for some basic system/template file which it did not find, hence the messages. But I'd like to know what's going on, if anyone knows! With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Mar-09 Time: 01:10:59 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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similar to mac mini but cheaper?
by Albert Vilella 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hi, Does anybody know if there are alternatives to the Mac Mini but cheaper and with Linux installed? I've found the Eee Box and the Dell Studio Hybrid, but I still find them expensive and not available with Linux on most models. Anyone? Cheers, Albert.

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Apologies?
by Keith Watson 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Apologies if that last message went out as HTML, I forgot to check before I sent it. Keith

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Finding directories whose contents have changed since yesterday
by Mark Rogers 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

What I want to do is write a script to backup some databases, but only if they've changed. I figured that the easiest way to get a list of databases that exist, as well as which have changed, is to look in /var/lib/mysql for directories with recently changed files. I know that find /var/lib/mysql -type d -mtime 1 .. will find directories that have changed inside 24 hours, but it does not pick up directories whose contents have changed. Any suggestions? (The next problem is that the user I want to run the script as does not have access to the /var/lib/mysql directory at the moment so a more elegant solution would be nice.) -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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question about spam and email
by Peter Alcibiades 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

I get an email apparently sent from my own address. For example, my address is, lets say, george(a)george.net The email as shown in the headers is as follows: (sparing you the men's health html content....) ____________________________________ X-Apparently-To: george(a)george.net via 217.146.188.205; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:09:34 +0000 X-YahooFilteredBulk: 89.255.66.166 X-YMailISG: 2SY32MQWLDseQtPq.viRb0HoD8citXfwb5yU.qQraFBDXDSdpqZYN3SwTpk2iqGxKbNzyJRIqyYInXz.PZigNBPBknbacSefTzLimGCItZrnjtmFQaaOfgZNXdcMWqDHKjumsKzHWpo8wDBn0BQrSqXXEBxy41e9PkcAi3StSZXQ5lU87DuIa4i_lxae6ynbT2_mj5nNPclFaR6tpR569bOJeJ7Y1eLll0nhygykKIG6bEfLNpfT9DBFkvrU7eOPmUFf5PGJ2DYy9z9yaX0jQSHomZcRBr3HaPmdJPgShRnlwaq_SzZMzh.RtEraDzH_Lfg2W3oR X-Originating-IP: [89.255.66.166] Authentication-Results: mta129.mail.ukl.yahoo.com from=; domainkeys=neutral (no sig); from=; dkim=neutral (no sig) Received: from 89.255.66.166 (HELO amerblind.outbound.ed10.com) (89.255.66.166) by mta129.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:09:32 +0000 X-Message-Status: n:0 X-SID-PRA:george@george.net X-SID-Result: Pass Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:09:25 +0300 (EST) From: Allan Carver <george(a)george.net> To: <george(a)george.net> Subject: RE: USA Menshealth(Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:09:25 +0300) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Status: R X-Status: NC X-KMail-EncryptionState: X-KMail-SignatureState: X-KMail-MDN-Sent: ________________________________ Is this just innocent spam, or has the account been compromised?

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High CPU usage for sudo?
by Mark Rogers 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

According to top on my desktop: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 18387 root 20 0 2876 976 952 R 83.3 0.1 3291:33 sudo 31304 mark 20 0 405m 254m 30m S 8.9 16.8 298:14.33 firefox 5964 root 20 0 190m 80m 13m S 3.3 5.3 142:12.89 Xorg 31994 mark 20 0 62364 24m 10m R 1.3 1.6 1:03.30 gnome-terminal 6196 mark 20 0 46292 10m 8256 S 0.7 0.7 3:28.18 gnome-settings- 6303 mark 20 0 90664 50m 7160 S 0.7 3.3 103:36.48 multiload-apple 11225 mark 20 0 111m 26m 17m S 0.7 1.7 13:11.20 deluge 31092 mark 20 0 2416 1172 876 R 0.7 0.1 0:00.08 top 6243 mark 20 0 21392 5032 4328 S 0.3 0.3 5:03.73 gnome-screensav So that's 83% for sudo... I just sat watching it for a while (I only fired up top as the machine was running slow) so although the above is a snapshot it's indicative of a pattern at the moment. Any suggestions? -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Flash Player 9 test?
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hi Folks, To compare notes -- would anyone like to try playing the video linked to from the news article at http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn%5Fnews%5Fcambridge/ DisplayArticle.asp?ID=396400 When I clock on the "play" arrow, it crashes my Iceweasel (2.0.0.19 on Debian Etch). If I right-click on the image, I get a pop-up which makes it look as though the video is intended for Flash Player 9. I have Flash Player 9 installed, and have often used it successfully on other sites. With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 04-Mar-09 Time: 16:56:57 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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[Fwd: [Peterboro] Free .PDF of Linux Format magazine]
by Mark Rogers 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

FYI: Posted to the P(eterborough)LUG list. The date this is available is 4th March. Mark Rogers -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Peterboro] Free .PDF of Linux Format magazine Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:05:21 +0000 From: stuart lonnen <stuart.lonnen(a)gmail.com> Hi all, Just found out that the latest issue of Linux Format will be offered free for download from here http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only As the URL says the offer will expire after 24 hours and it starts at midnight tonight. I have a subscription so I don't have to download it, but I might just in case someone at the LUG wants it and misses it. I'll be able to offer it to anyone coming to the next LUG meeting. Cheers Stuart L. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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