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Perl
by Ruth Bygrave 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

...cannot get 'make' to work on either the Mac or the eeePC. Possibly I should have a /usr/bin/make but there's no sign of it. Oops. I get up to "Checking if your kit is complete. Looks good" and then I get: Writing Makefile for [whatever] -- NOT OK Running make test. Can't test without successful make. Running make install make had returned bad status, install seems impossible How do I get perl modules to do anything? Regards, Ruth

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[ALUG Announce] Fw: LUG Radio Live 2008 19th/20th July Wolverhampton
by MJ Ray 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '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 ----- I'm forwarding this on request of Tony Whitmore:- LUG Radio Live UK 2008 will be happening on the 19th and 20th July at the Lighthouse Media Centre in Wolverhampton. This self-styled "rock conference" is always a-buzz with interesting ideas and is renowned for its laid-back social atmosphere combined with a diverse range of speakers and exhibitors. Speakers and Exhibitors confirmed so far include: Chris DiBona (Google) Max Spevack - The Fedora Project James Hooker Kevin Sandom Barbie Daniel James - The Indamixx project Emma Jane Hogbin Bruno Bord Ben Thorp Rufus Pollock Sam Birchall John Carr Christian Schaller Edward Hervey William J Giddings Rob McQueen Agostino Russo Steve Lamb - Microsoft Robert Collins Benjamin Otte Matthew Garrett William Anderson Matthew Walster Bytemark Icculus Ubuntu UK Open Rights Group www.tinker.it KDE Linux Outlaws 64 Studio Linux Emporium Find out more about the venue, schedule, hotels etc. at http://lugradio.org/live Tony Whitmore ----- 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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iptables - old rules?
by Barry Samuels 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Debian Testing (uptodate) - kernel 2.6.24 If I list my Iptables rules they include rules which contain the domain names of two of my previous ISPs but I can't find what is generating these rules. I use Firestarter at present and previously used Guarddog. I think that it was Guarddog which generated these rules but I have long ago uninstalled (purged) that package and nothing of it remains. If I use Firestarter to stop the firewall all I'm left with is: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination If I then restart the firewall all those old rules re-appear even though there is nothing in the Firestarter configuration to generate them. I find the iptables syntax a complete mystery which is why I use packages like Guarddog and Firestarter. Where can I look to try and find where these rules are coming from? -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Any Evolution+Compiz users out there
by Wayne Stallwood 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

On my last machine and to an even greater extent on my new one I have a strange cursor artifact problem with the compose message box in evolution. (both machines are using a nvidia card and the non-free drivers) an 8800GT and Quadro FX500 respectively. I think it started to occur when I started using Compiz, on my old machine it only appeared after gnome had been up for some time..on the new one it appears most of the time. The effect is that copies of (or copies of portions of) the cursor get "stuck" in the message window. This happens most frequently when cutting or pasting text or moving the cursor position with the arrow keys but it can also happen when typing in which case the bottom few pixels of the cursor remain in previous positions within the text..also sometimes when a line wraps a copy of the cursor remains at the end. Moving the window will remove the existing ones, so I was thinking it was a graphics/windowmanager glitch but it only seems to happen in Evolution. It also appears in any screenshots I take as below. http://digimatic.plus.com/evolution.jpg Anyone here experienced the same problem ?

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Re: [ALUG] Anyone of the Ipswich inclination happen to have a PS2 keyboard I could borrow for a day or so?
by Adam Reid 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Cheers - this is for the new tower though, not the laptop ... and that'd be a bit much to lug to and fro (as I don't drive, unsure if you recall). :) Hopefully the adaptor will cut the Ubuntu mustard, but as I need to wait until next *week* for CCL to send me RAM that doesn't have faults (just sent the dicky stuff back today), it'll be a while before we find out. :\ Thanks for the offer though, ~Adam > Bit late now, but I have a USB -> PS/2 converter you can borrow. My > wireless USB keyboard has a PS/2 dongle which you could also try - but > as it's my main keyboard, I can't lend it for an extended period of > time - you're welcome to bring your machine round here, tho. > > Let me know if you're other options don't pan out. > > Sam.

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Re: [ALUG] Anyone of the Ipswich inclination happen to have a PS2 keyboard I could borrow for a day or so? (Martin Collins)
by Adam Reid 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Allo, and no worries. The option is on by default - I've tried it on and off, with and without USB2 support. It's fine in the BIOS and the original stages, but as soon as the second prompt to choose language appears ... pff. not a sausage. Google says I'm not the only person who's hit this issue, but none of the suggested fixes are working / possible (ie they involve changing BIOS options I don't have). Someone here has rather generously offered a keyboard, but somebody else (from elsewhere) has already posted an adaptor - which was unexpected, as I was just asking them for advice on the matter. So will wait until that arrives, on the off chance that does the trick. :) Cheers, ~Adam > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 02:57:52 +0100 > From: "Martin Collins" <mobile.sea(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [ALUG] Anyone of the Ipswich inclination happen to have a > PS2 keyboard I could borrow for a day or so? > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Message-ID: > <ef2346e00806021857o194d12bfyc798e992e74704db(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Not wanting to tell someone who has just built their PC how to suck > eggs, but just checking to see if turning legacy usb support on in the > bios fixes this?? Never used a usb keyboard before so this is not the > voice of experience!! > > Rgds, > > Martin > > On 02/06/2008, Adam Reid <thesilverhornet(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> to start the Ubuntu-ing process... but my USB keyboard is magically >> forgotten about as soon as I enter the install process proper (I'm using >> the alternate installer). >>

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Waves. (And the Eee PC)
by Anthony Anson 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

After a very long absence I've a huge number of ALUG items to look through, so now I'm back online (c/o a Vodafone broadbean dongle) I'll be going through the backlog of more than two years and maybe asking questions which have been covered before if they come up before I get to their discussion. The first of these questions is, has anyone written a script to drop into Linux of any flavour to allow it and the aforementioned Vodafone dongle to talk to each other? I have an Asus Eee, and am not overly chuffed with their dumbed-down version of Linux - 'My Network Places', 'My Computer', 'My this, that and the other'. Yeeuch! And MSN? I ask you! And the book of destructions states that 'Removing the pre-installed software is not allowed' Hmmm. We shall see about _THAT_! I shall be investigating the specially developed version of Ubantu, and a script that will mate that with Vodafone would be most useful innit. -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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Aptitude manual
by James Freer 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Is it possible to print out the aptitude manual [aptitude~>help~>user's manual] in ubuntu or debian. I just find it a pain trying to take in reading .txt just from a screen. I've got aptitude(8) from man aptitude in terminal. I was hoping it might have been transferred to a pdf somewhere. thx james

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Anyone of the Ipswich inclination happen to have a PS2 keyboard I could borrow for a day or so?
by Adam Reid 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hello again all, I've now built said PC (with the card suggested, many thanks for that, although haven't been able to test it yet), and have finally found time to start the Ubuntu-ing process... but my USB keyboard is magically forgotten about as soon as I enter the install process proper (I'm using the alternate installer). I lack either a PS2 keyboard or the USB=>PS2 adapter, so to save buying another keyboard (apparently using an adapter won't always solve this issue, otherwise I'd just fork out for one of those) would anyone be willing to let me give a spare one of theirs a change of scenery for a day or so? Or I could bring it along to the meet for collection (along with a beverage of your choice) if it's not direly urgent that it's returned ASAP? :) Cheers all, ~Adam

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backups for the very unsophisticated...?
by Peter Alcibiades 30 May '08

30 May '08

Any thoughts or experience on a backup tool for a very unsophisticated user? Like, one who cannot really be trusted to copy in the right direction from a hard drive to a usb stick? Who is quite capable of thinking that the way to get rid of a file on usb stick is to move it to the desktop. A brilliant and intelligent person but with a tech blind spot who on the previous machine was used to backing up folders to floppies labelled with the same name as the folder, which worked fine for years, but the new machine has no floppy drive... And of course fewer and fewer external people will accept data on floppies now. I'm considering the following: One usb stick labelled backup, with instructions to only use it for backups and keep it in the same reasonably secure place. This would back up the /home/user directory in its entirety. The instruction would be: do this every Friday, or more often if lots of revisions have been done. kde keep for the actual backup tool. It seems simpler than the gnome one, pybackpack, though he is running Gnome. We need as few options as possible! A second usb stick to be used for carrying files around and transferring them to other people (in addition to email). Any other thoughts appreciated. These are mostly text files with some graphics, ie the volume is not huge. The home directory will fit on a 2G usb drive for the forseeable future. Al

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