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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : McGintys, Northgate Street
by samwise 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

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 next week (Monday 18th August) at 20:00, with a new venue: 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. Hopefully, it shouldn't be too hard to find the pack, look for those huddled around a laptop! Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. 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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Price drop on Asus EEE
by Mark Rogers 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

In case anyone is interested: http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2941… 4GB/512MB white PC701, down to £165 inc VAT -- 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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How to block one user account from Internet while allowing the rest
by Peter Alcibiades 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Apparently the following, placed in /etc/network/interfaces, will do this: auto eth0 pre-up iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m owner -- uid-owner [user] -j DROP I haven't tried it yet, and do not know what all the options mean....You insert the uid where the square brackets are. Peter

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ASUS Eee PC battery replacement?
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

Hi Folks, Some weeks ago I bought the ASUS Eee PC 900 (Linux). Dinky little job, and works nicely. Apparently, ASUS decided to provide more beefed-up replacement batteries for the somewhat feeble one it comes with, as from June. However, I can find no trace of the actual availability of the new batteries. Even a visit to the ASUS UK website, and searching for "battery", only resulted in a long delay and then a message that their website was undergoing maintenance ... ! Does anyone have info about this replacement and, if it really exists, how it can be obtained? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 11-Aug-08 Time: 16:08:59 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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A few bits and bobs
by David Reynolds 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

Folks, I'm having a bit of a clear out and so far have found a couple of things that I don't really need: - 4 x Various P3 processors (http://david.reynoldsfamily.org.uk/bits/processors.jpg ) Price: Free to a good home - Freecom USB DVB-T Stick (http://david.reynoldsfamily.org.uk/bits/dvbt_usb_long.jpg | http://david.reynoldsfamily.org.uk/bits/dvdt_usb_closeup.jpg) When I played with this it wasn't working very well with Linux, although I believe progress has been made. It has an RTL2831U chip on it if anyone wants to research. Price: Wouldn't mind about a fiver for it More to follow. Cheers, David -- David Reynolds david(a)reynoldsfamily.org.uk

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Re: [ALUG] Ubuntu Updates
by David Reynolds 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Wayne, On 11 Aug 2008, at 22:56, Wayne Stallwood wrote: > a. You cannot be sure you won't just run into the same problem again > b. If you do you won't know how to fix it and it is quite likely that > once you know what to do the fix is quicker than re-installation. You missed: c. someone else may run into the problem and you report it as a bug, and the developers find a fix then it'll help other people in future too. -- David Reynolds david(a)reynoldsfamily.org.uk

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Ubuntu Updates
by Stuart Bailey 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

I have a customer with a laptop from Linuxemporium, with ubuntu pre-installed. I think it is gutsy, but will have to confirm that. She is using a wireless network (WPA-PSK), with broadband connection. The problem is with online updates. When logged in, a message informing of new updates is shown. If accepted, the list of headers downloads correctly. But, on clicking install, nothing happens. If I try running apt-get update / upgrade, update works fine, but upgrade reports that resource [ESSID xxxx} could not be accessed. However, if I run apt-get from an SSH login, or a virtual terminal, everything work fine. Any ideas what could be wrong - is there a configuration file for the updater that could be wrong. -- --------------------------------------- Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Owner) Linux Specialist (0845) 6583563 http://www.linusoft.co.uk ---------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Program which can print a part of an image - any ideas?
by Chris G 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

I want to be able to select part of an image (a JPEG by default but I could convert it) and print a selected (by marquee?) part of the image. At the moment I can't find any easy way to do this either with Windows programs (I have Adobe Photoshop Elements running in Vmware) or in Linux. It seems such an obvious thing to want to do. -- Chris Green

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[ALUG Announce] 2nd Thurs Pub Meet 14th Aug
by Richard Lewis 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

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, We will have our 2nd Thursday pub meeting on * Thursday 14th August * The Reindeer is still closed. We tried Micawber's Tavern last month and it was nice. Some people, though, are a bit concerned about the difficulty of parking there. This month we will try The Alexandra Tavern (16 Stafford Street, NR2 3BB, 01603 627772, http://www.alexandratavern.co.uk/) It's a very nice pub with good beer and food. It may be possible to park in West Pottergate or even in Douro Place where ALUGgers usually park for The Reindeer. On the top of our agenda this month will be possible venues. Bring your Norwich A to Zs (or something for browsing OpenStreetMap data) and past pub experience with you! I'll be there around 20:00. We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +-------------------------------------------------------+ |Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.| |http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html | +-------------------------------------------------------+ ----- 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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VPN thoughts
by John Woodard 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hello list people, I thought I'd throw this one over to you for some feedback. I have to set up a vpn both locations are using Netgear DG834g routers. The main location has a Ubuntu Hardy box being used as a samber server for a small handful of Win XP/Vista and Ubuntu boxen. There is a XP box used as a print server (I know cups would be better but it's a location thing). Basically they need file shares across a vpn with printing handled locally at each location. What is the best way of attacking this, the hardware route using routers or using tunneling protocols? Cheers, BigJohn

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