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Re: [ALUG] European Elections
by John Seago 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

On Thursday 10 June 2004 06:25, Adam <adam(a)thebowery.co.uk> wrote: > > Scroll down to the table that shows the previous results. It seems to > > me that if we made a concerted effort despite our own political > > convictions to vote UKIP we may be able to unseat the sitting Lib Dem! > > No, error, bad! wrong! European Parliament elections (AIUI) use a > proportional representation system and going by the results of the last > election is possibly not a good idea. So far I have read that many of > the main parties (especially Conservatives and Labour) are losing votes > to minority parties, so what everyone *must* do is vote, as every vote > for a party that isn't a main party means you make their share of the > vote smaller, at least then even votes for something scary like the BNP > will give the main parties less seats. So like Alan Cox said vote Green > or UKIP (personally I feel the UKIP has more against it than for it) or > one of the other minority parties, I don't suppose anyone knows Martin > Bells position on software patents? I do apologise if that was not what I wrote, I am taking rather a lot of prescription pain-killers lately and this has some effect on my abilities, (luckily the side effect is that I don't care). My intention was to make exactly the same point as Adam has. Even were I to re-read my original post, I know from past experience that I would only see what I meant to write. UKIP may not appear very attractive, however they do appear to be the front runners of the minor parties, but the real point is to VOTE, but NOT for the three big parties. When its political parties, is it party's or parties? -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)

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Article on Open Source Telephony
by Chris Glover 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

Hi, I just got this from the Asterisk mailing list, thought it might be of interest to some. "Is open source IP telephony ready for prime time? Yes" by Zenas Hutcheson, St. Paul Venture Capital Network World, 06/07/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0607faceoffyes.html http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/0607faceoffno.html Enjoy Chris -- Chris ---------------------------------- E Mail: chris(a)glovercc.clara.co.uk SIP: 84411389(a)voiptalk.org IAXTEL: 17003366726

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Duplicates
by Anthony Anson 09 Jun '04

09 Jun '04

I keep getting duplicates from the list, is anyone else? It has to be this list because the last download only had mail from here. (If not I shall have to turn duplicate check off and wait...) -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ God sends the meat, the Devil sends the cooks.

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Norwich Internet Cafe
by Syd Hancock 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

(Sorry this isn't in the main thread) 1. This could be a perfect venue for some sunday afternoon meetings if that was OK with Lewis. Bandwidth, easy to get to, plenty of parking etc. 2. Is it time to think again about how often to have sunday meetings in Norwich? A year ago it was agreed to have them every three months so that meetings in other parts of the region wouldn't be stifled but apart from BJ at Syleham there haven't been many, if any, other w/e meetings. If we *could* use the Norwich Internet Cafe in the market on a sunday afternoon then how about every other month? Syd

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LibDems and software patents
by Alex Macfie 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

> > http://www.linux.org.uk/open.l.html> > /Kirsten> > Me too - thanks for the link - kinda summarises well what I've found out > so far, however on the wider scale of things I personally would prefer > voting Libdems who weren't mentioned there but I understand they are > also more receptive to our 'cause'. > > LibDem MEPs voted for software patents (ignoring party policy). For this they have come in for considerable criticism within the party. Full UK MEP voting data: http://www.ffii.org.uk/votes/swpat/country/UK.html Alex

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Re: [ALUG] Norwich Internet Cafe meetings?
by Brett Parker 08 Jun '04

08 Jun '04

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:04:23PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: > On Fri 30 Apr, Lewis Allen wrote: > > > > Thank you to everyone who took the time to comment on our offer of the > > Internet Cafe in Norwich Market as an additional venue for ALUG evening > > meetings. It would appear from the replies, so far, that a pub is still > > the much prefered venue. No matter, I am quite fond of beer too and often > > to be found in the Fat Cat sampling the Adnams. > > Adnams? You need to get out more ;-) The Fat Cat is about as out as you can get for good beer selection, obviously they're a die hard adnams fan, or not very adventurous ;) I don't think I've ever had the same drink on different sessions in the Fat Cat, wander in, pick something random from the vast selection, drink, if it's good stick to it for that session, if not, switch again and keep going till one that is good (doesn't usually take long ;) *grin* Ta, -- Brett Parker

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Norwich Internet Cafe meetings?
by MJ Ray 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

After http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-May/018849.html, Craig seemed in favour of meeting at the internet cafe, but hadn't checked the place. No-one else has any opinion? -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing Help hack the EuroParl! http://mjr.towers.org.uk/proj/eurovote/

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Reminder: Norwich City Gate meeting this Thursday night.
by Jonathan McDowell 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

As per usual, this Thursday (10th June) we'll be congregating in the City Gate from around 8pm. Full details can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/all-NorThu.html J. -- jid: noodles(a)jabber.earth.li Eat a prune. Start a movement.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 07 Jun '04

07 Jun '04

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Gentoo is treating me better now
by Charles Garcia-Tobin 04 Jun '04

04 Jun '04

Hiyer everybody Gentoo is beginning to look great on my cube, I managed to download all the required sources, I have X with nvidia drivers working, nforce drivers working too. I do have a slight problem with disks though. When I boot the machine dma is turned off, and attempts to turn it back on are dissallowed thus: hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma = 0 (off) Any ideas? is my IDE driver not quite right? Incidentally anybody know what I have to emerger to get lspci? Cheers for the help Charles

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