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RE: [ALUG] Kit Meet - 20th March @ UEA
by Elisabeth 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

>===== Original Message From Brett Parker <iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk> ===== > >If people could post back to the list to give us a feeling what they're >bringing cookies. the edible kind. e/sunflowerinrain Elisabeth Fosbrooke-Brown School of Music University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ

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ALUG Library on line
by Wayne Stallwood 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Despite several things working against me* I have now populated the On Line Library with the real ALUG library book list. The contents of the Library now represent all the books currently held by the library, Those who currently have books on loan will have accounts auto-generated as their books are added to the system within the next few days. Any reservations or bookings made during the testing phase have been removed, however any accounts generated still exist. Currently the library is resting in my ISP's hosting area http://cgi.digimatic.plus.com/opendb/ I hope to move it to the ALUG site very shortly (there are still a few minor changes I want to make, and where it is now I have shell access which makes things a bit easier) When I get a moment I will stick a link at the top of the old ALUG Library page pointing to the Library as the URL is hardly memorable. Potential borrowers can of course still use the old system of just waiting to the next meet and leafing through the box to see if something interests them (I should be at the kit meeting next month and am going to make an effort to be at the 2nd Thursday thing on the 10th of March, subject to some work commitments) It should be noted that in the interests of fair play, reservations only count up until the next meeting that I attend, if somebody is at the meeting and wants to borrow a book reserved by somebody that hasn't turned up then I think it only fair that the reservation is overruled, so all reservations do is get you first dibs at a book if you attend the next meeting that I do. * Firstly when populating the database I decided that rather than manually typing in the ISBN numbers I would use an old barcode reader I had lying around to get the ISBN from the barcode number, naturally in true geek fashion getting this to work actually took longer than typing in the ISBN numbers manually, a feat which I ended up doing anyway as curiously the barcode does not seem in include the last digit of the ISBN. If someone wants to write me some script that (given a barcode number) looks up the book on amazon and populates the database with the correct title,author,publisher etc then that would be very welcome. Then I discovered that for some reason the PHP mail function has stopped working (actually it looked more like it had been intentionally disabled) so membership email and other stuff wasn't working. I sent a mail to PlusNet support and it magically reappeared despite their claims that they hadn't switched it off.

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Tentative Kit Meet Arrangements - 20th March @ UEA
by Brett Parker 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Helllllooooo List! Right, we (me, kirsten and elisabeth) have just been talking in IRC and noted that we have not had a kit meeting in *forever*, so, on that note we thought we should start planning one. How does Sunday March the 20th at the UEA sound to everyone? Cheers, -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk

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Yet more cheeky blagging
by Joe Button 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Hi. Don't suppose anyone's got a copy of O'Reilly's Perl Cookbook they don't use, available for free or cheap? Any edition will do... Cheers, Joe x

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Slackware 10.1 and Kword
by John Seago 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Has anyone else noticed an annoying little bug in the version of Kword that comes with 10.1? I print my A4 letterhead ranged, (lined up on), the right hand side of the paper, (it means that when the letter is filed in a ring binder the letter head is on the outside edge and thus more easily visible). The problem is that the last letter on each line is cut in half, this does not happen in the body of the letter, just with the heading. I've never had a bug which needed reporting to date so I'm asking if anyone else has seen it before I report it. (I've also got a spare set of 10.1 which has the same problem). -- John Seago GNU/Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS (http://www.affs.org.uk/)

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Forgotten...
by Anthony Anson 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Thought I'd try once more to get Wine flowing in Debian. Clicked the falling-over wineglass in the KDE menu. "You have started Wine, but we cannot find a Wine configuration file. This is normal if you have never run Wine before. If this is the case, select the 'Configure Wine' option, below, to create a configuration file." So I did. "Error: unable to find winesetup tool, please install the "winesetuptk" Debian package" I click 'okay'. "You have started Wine, but we cannot...... <mode="thinks"> Haven't we been here before? </mode> So, (please make a careful mental not of the next action...) I open the CD ROMdrawer by pressing its 'open/close' buttonand feed it the 'binary 1' CD, which fires-up nicely. Then I have have a look at what's on offer. There are two likely-looking wineglasses (toppling) in sight, both of which (but separately) I offer Debian, and both of which are declined. Any idea where I ought to look, pretty please? (And what I might have to type into a text terminal?) However, the above isn't the point of this emu: when I came to remove the CD, pressing the 'open/close' button on the drive resulted in a sullen refusal to do anything. So, I tried the CD icon in Gnome, to be told that Debian had lost the driver - and the drawer still would not open. (Kept telling me that the drive was 'busy' or similar when I clicketty-clicked its icon in the Desktop. [Do we call it 'desktop'?] ) I had to close Debian down before the CD drive would operate again. So, for a change, the 'Forgotten...' does not refer to my own dreadful memory, but to Debian's. Any thoughts, gang? -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ The only way to tell when a Finn is in love with you is that they look at your feet instead of their own.

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Website meeting updates.
by Jonathan McDowell 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Can't remember who other than Mark can make these changes, so being lazy and sending them to the list 'cos I know he's always busy. Updates for http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/ and http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/norwich.html Though actually someone wants to move /2004/ to /2005/ and have the new meetings there. Not easy to represent in a diff without knowledge of the site though. J. -- Hello.. Incontinence Hotline.. | .''`. Debian GNU/Linux Developer Can you hold? | : :' : Happy to accept PGP signed | `. `' or encrypted mail - RSA + | `- DSA keys on the keyservers.

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RE: [ALUG] Tentative Kit Meet Arrangements - 20th March @ UEA
by Keith Watson 22 Feb '05

22 Feb '05

Sounds good to me too. Venue as per the ALUG web site? Regards, Keith ____________ Those who seek the easy way do not seek the true way. - Dogen

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Re: [ALUG] Installing Linux mail
by Leon Stedman 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, MJ Ray wrote: > > Yes this is part of what I wanted. BUT the main problem is to get it > > (Mandrake 10.1) to work at all. I used wvdial to connect to the ISP thus: > > Sorry, I can't help with that. It didn't look like it's > connecting, unless your have a very fast ISP. 3 seconds? > I think it should even log the dial attempt and it looks > like it's not even attempting. Is the modem on COM1? > > I used ppp-config in debian to set up my dialup connection > when I first installed it and have copied or edited the files > from /etc/ppp pretty much ever since. Then it's just a case of > getting the correct permissions on files in /etc/ppp/ (readable > by users, writeable only by root) and on /usr/bin/pppd (owner > root, permissions start -rws). Finally, either "pon" or "pppd > call provider" (to use details from /etc/ppp/peers/provider) > It appears (from the log) that pppd is attempting to negotiate compression with the server, which it won't accept. I will attempt to stop this when I have the time. I already use Linux to send e-mails, and use the same hardware (grub dual boot), so most things are correct. This distro is RedHat 9, and I am attempting to configure Mandrake 10.1. Many thanks. Leon.

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RE: [ALUG] Forgotten...
by Keith Watson 21 Feb '05

21 Feb '05

> From: Anthony Anson Sent: 21 February 2005 10:45 > > However, the above isn't the point of this emu: when I came to remove > the CD, pressing the 'open/close' button on the drive resulted in a > sullen refusal to do anything. So, I tried the CD icon in Gnome, to be > told that Debian had lost the driver - and the drawer still would not > open. (Kept telling me that the drive was 'busy' or similar when I > clicketty-clicked its icon in the Desktop. [Do we call it > 'desktop'?] ) > > I had to close Debian down before the CD drive would operate again. > This happens to me every now and then. I find that opening a command shell and su'ing to root then issuing "eject /cdrom" (or whatever the CD mount point is) usually works. Regards, Keith ____________ People would rather sleep through life than stay awake for it. - Edward Albee

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