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Linux alternative to Outlook?
by Phil Wade 08 Dec '07

08 Dec '07

I'm wanting to use a Linux machine (just Ubuntu) for my "main" machine to handle my business calls and contacts. The trouble is, there doesn't seem to be a Linux alternative to Outlook - which I use for Calendar and Contacts at the mo. Evolution just seems to be a replacement for Outlook Express, not Outlook. Have I missed something? Regards,Phil Wade

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Wiki spam problem
by samwise 07 Dec '07

07 Dec '07

There's still a spam problem with the wiki - I just cleared out loads of mainly chinese spam pages. At least they don't appear to be editing our own pages (perhaps a fix was put in by someone earlier?) ... If anyone with admin rights wants to look into it, I wonder if we could configure MoinMoin in any of the following ways: a) restrict wiki to English only b) only accept modifications with an explanatory comment (most of the spam ones don't) c) only accept modifications from registered users and require all new accounts to be approved (guess most people who want an account already have one, so that should only be requests from new users. We can always put a note on the wiki asking them to post to the mailing list to get an account.). Just some thoughts ... Peter.

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Broken clipboard
by Mark Rogers 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Dunno how but I've broken my clipboard! Any time I try to paste I get: ŸŸif (empty($job_rec->data['start'])) $job['start'] = date('Y-m-d'); The PHP code is something I did copy to the clipboard (don't know about the two leading chars though), but nothing I've copied since has "taken". Using glipper I can see the clipboard history, and if I copy something that's being added to the history just fine. It's only paste that doesn't work. I have had the problem once before and a reboot fixed it, but now that I'm not using Windows I don't see why I should have to reboot every few days! The two leading chars were the same last time, I think (upper case Y with umlaut). Only clue I can think of: I use Synergy (synergys.sf.net) to allow me to use one keyboard/mouse between two PCs, and amongst the things it does it copies the clipboard between machines. This machine is the Synergy server. (The other (client) machine is Win2k.) I've killed Synergy since the problem started and the clipboard is still broken, though. -- 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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Recovering deleted files that a process still has open
by Mark Rogers 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

I have a vmware-server installation running a virtual machine, however I have subsequently (and accidentally) deleted the .vmx configuration file. It appears that VMWare still has the file open, so it won't (as I understand it) be lost until VMWare is closed (eg I reboot the machine). Is there anything I can do to recover the file whilst in this state? (O/S is Ubuntu 7.04 if that helps.) -- 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 display result of remote PHP script within a HTML page
by sagr 05 Dec '07

05 Dec '07

Hi folks. A very dumb question from a HTML / PHP beginner... I have written a simple hit counter prog which I can access by running: http://www.suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk/counters/counter.php?w… I now want to integrate this into a HTML website page, so that this remote script "counter.php" is run and the result displayed on the HTML webpage each time the page is viewed. I have created a simple HTML page: http://www.suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk/counters/count_page.ht… which just consists of: <HTML> <BODY> <script src="http://www.suffolk-ancestor-genealogy-research.co.uk/counters/counter.php?w…"></script> </BODY> </HTML> When I go to this count_page.html webpage the hit counter is incremented but the result is not displayed on the webpage (even though it's output is visible when I run the script counter.php directly). How do I get the result from the remote script counter.php to display on my count_page.html page? sagr

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Lyx - anyone use it?
by James Freer 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

ubuntu 7.04 I'd be grateful if someone could put me right on the following. I installed lyx through aptitude as i believe it takes more care with the dependencies. When i ran it i got the following - is this a bug? It actually seems to work OK - from what i've tried so far! I read that one is supposed to use lyx-qt in the command line but it doesn't seem to make any difference... from what i can see! thanks james j@j-desktop:~$ lyx X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167 Major opcode: 144 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 Failed to open device X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167 Major opcode: 144 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0x0 Failed to open device Locale en_GB could not be set

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regex, kate, gedit
by Peter Alcibiades 04 Dec '07

04 Dec '07

Hi, probably a silly question with an utterly obvious answer, but it would be great if someone can enlighten on it! I'm searching and replacing a text file. In gedit, if I search for \n\r I get, as expected, a match at every line end. Same with \n or \r. However, in Kate or Geany, I do not. Tearing hair out. What could be the problem? I've tried \n [\n] I've tried building up the expression in the K regex builder. I've tried selecting the line feed character and doing copy and paste. In Gedit it yields \n\r. In Geany it yields a couple of small square boxes with dots in them, which I then can't search on. Changing the coding doesn't seem to help either. At least, the ones I have tried. Is this likely to be the explanation? It displays fine however, so how do I find out which different coding to use? I would just do it in Gedit, except that as usual in the effort to make their apps unusable for anyone who wants to use them for anything, Gnome decline to support regex..... Peter

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Webcam as security monitor
by Greg Thomas 03 Dec '07

03 Dec '07

Just found an old webcam at the back of a cupboard, plugged it in to my Ubuntu box, installed Camorama, and woot! it works. Which set me to wondering. Camorama can be to record a picture from the webcam every (say) 20 minutes. What I was wondering was is there is any software out there that records the picture at a set interval, but only if the webcam image changes (you'd presumably need some sort of change threshold, to cope with minor changes). Any thoughts, anyone? Greg

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Time management software in Linux
by David Studholme 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

What do folks use to manage their 'to do' lists and track time spent on various projects? Up until now I have used scraps of paper. But I just installed Gnome Time Tracker 2.2.2. ('gnotime') from the debian repository. This appears to provide all the essential functions, but is, alas, unusable. This is because the drag and drop editing of the project hierarchy behaves unpredictably. Are there any good usable open source alternatives? Thanks, David. David Studholme PhD Bioinformatics Manager Sainsbury Laboratory Norwich NR4 7UH http://www.ayeaye.tsl.ac.uk/index.php?Itemid=285

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Re: [ALUG] Time management software in Linux
by samwise 29 Nov '07

29 Nov '07

On 29/11/2007, David Studholme <david.studholme(a)sainsbury-laboratory.ac.uk> wrote: > What do folks use to manage their 'to do' lists and track > time spent on various projects? > Are there any good usable open source alternatives? > > Thanks, BT recently purchased a small open source company, which grew out of an open source project called TiddlyWiki [www.tiddlywiki.com] As they now employee the development team, they've been pushing it around their business as a useful productivity tool. It's a desktop wiki which can be used pretty effectively as a general purpose notepad, if it fits the way you work. Worth a try - to install, you just download a web page which makes it very easy to move around on memory sticks etc. Peter.

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