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Boring times?
by Bob Dove 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hi All, Boring times - how about now with a plethora of party political broadcasts! re newborn - many congrats to happy couple. Is it firstborn? Can guarantee some "times" which you may well describe as "interesting" (with some basic Anglo Saxon thrown in) but yes, it is a form of curse if you believe in that sort of thing! Cheers, BD. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.4 - Release Date: 27/04/2005

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Download Probs at NVIDIA?
by Martin John Collins 01 May '05

01 May '05

Hi, I'm trying to download the linux display drivers and the NForce drivers from NVIDIA but all downloads seem to be halting at around the 5% mark. I have tried various browsers and methods even wget , but it's always the same - download halts with no error messages. Is this just me or can some one replicate it? Rgds, Martin

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Re: [ALUG] HTML
by John Seago 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

On Saturday 30 Apr 2005 06:26, Alan Pope <alan.pope(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I think it's commonly known as 'International English'. No it was actually deliberate, in order to seperate the english spoken by the 'English', from that spoken by those in the newly independent USA. If I recall correctly it was the Webster of 'Webster's' Dictionary who came up with the alternate spellings. -- John Seago GNU/Linux User #219566 http://counter.li.org AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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Suse 9.3
by Nick Daniels 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Hi I installed Suse 9.3 last night, now using Konqueror, with about every other change of website, I get "An error occurred while loading http://news.bbc.co.uk/: Unknown host news.bbc.co.uk" or similar, Firefox is O.K. Also when checking mail I get "unknown host pop.freeserve.co.uk" about every other try, have been using Suse since 7.0, and never had this sort of trouble Firewall is set to "default", connection is dialup BTW if you want mp3 support other than in Real Player you have to download the 4 extra multimedia packs from YOU Regards -Nick Daniels

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Usable distro for crappy old 'pooter?
by Joe Button 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Hi. We have a P233 machine in our office with 96Mb ram. It's been running Windows 98 for the last few years and it would be good to move it to something less moribund. I installed Mandriva on it but it runs like a dog, compared to Win98. Can anyone suggest a distro that will turn our dinosaur into a usable office machine? I was thinking maybe Gentoo + distcc. Any recommendations? Cheers, Joe

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LISP questions
by Richard Lewis 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Hello ALUG, I thought I'd try and learn LISP for fun! I've found some good tutorials on the web but I can't seem to find a mailing list. I found common-lisp(a)ai.sri.com but I can't find archives for it and the description I read makes it sound like they may not like newbie questions. Does anyone know of any LISP lists that would be good for newbies? And if anyone on ALUG has any experience with LISP: I've been writing a 'hello world' program which consists of a function that returns T if the given parameter is prime or else it returns NIL; the only thing is, it doesn't work. It always returns NIL which I think its getting from the <then> clause of the second (if ) function. I think I may have misunderstood the way that LISP functions return their results: if the number is prime then it should return the (not ()) from the first (if ) function but it doesn't. Heres the code in case anyone knows about LISP: ======================================== ; the recursive function: (defun prime-rfunc (x iterator) (print x) ; for debugging (print (1+ iterator)) ; for debugging (if (= x iterator) (not ()) (if (= 0 (mod x (1+ iterator))) () (prime-rfunc x (1+ iterator))) ) ) ; because the recursive function takes a second, ; non-variable argument, prime is a wrapper function ; which just takes the intuitive first argument: (defun prime (x) (prime-func x 1)) ; test it: (print (prime 7)) ======================================== Cheers, Richard

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Re: Usable distro for crappy old 'pooter?
by tom potts 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

To take things to extreeemes I had SuSe 5.3 running on a 16 Mhz 386 with a 50Meg HD and 4MB ram. If I remember rightly it ran X albeit a bit slowly. I ran it as a print server for a while but then left it running some self-tests on system and MySql (3..) for about a year until one day I found a mains cable leading into the darkest reaches of my attic and it was still running cleanly. I can burn you a copy if you're really sad like me and cant throw things away even though you risk divorce and the floor caving in! RH6.1 on a 486 with 32MB makes a perfectly usable internet cafe though it will choke on some sites with dire JS and Movies are only 'watchable' after eleventeen pints. 96Meg- Luxuery. When I was a kid...... Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: main digest, Vol 3 #524 - 17 msgs
by John Seago 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

On Friday 29 Apr 2005 06:26, main-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk wrote: > The conventional answer to this is normally Slackware. I think because > of ZipSlack and also because they make available *all* of their releases > - ever - every single one. So the idea is that you can pick up an older > version which was built when your machine was the cutting edge. Try running Slackware 8 and working your way up to 9·1. All the Slackware versions are available here: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.slackware.com/ -- John Seago GNU/Linux User #219566 http://counter.li.org AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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Somewhat urgent - dvd data recovery
by Joe Button 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hi. I've got some people coming round tonight to watch a film I've got in mpg format on a data DVD. Unfortunately I've just discovered I can't read beyond about three quarters of the file. Does anyone have any idea how I could recover the rest of this file, or at least most of the rest of it? Thanks in advance. Sorry to be so demanding today.

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Re: [ALUG] Usable distro for crappy old 'pooter?
by Richard Lewis 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

On 28 Apr 2005, at 13:25, Joe Button wrote: > We have a P233 machine in our office with 96Mb ram. It's been running > Windows > 98 for the last few years and it would be good to move it to something > less > moribund. I installed Mandriva on it but it runs like a dog, compared > to > Win98. Can anyone suggest a distro that will turn our dinosaur into a > usable > office machine? I was thinking maybe Gentoo + distcc. Any > recommendations? The conventional answer to this is normally Slackware. I think because of ZipSlack and also because they make available *all* of their releases - ever - every single one. So the idea is that you can pick up an older version which was built when your machine was the cutting edge. Cheers, Richard

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