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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '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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Hello and March meeting
by Matthew Hipkin 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

Firstly, I'd like to say Hi to everyone, I've been signed up for a while but never said anything - wanted to get an idea of what goes on first.. Just wondering if there is a meeting in Lynn on the 28th? (A simple yes/no please my poor little brain can't handle anything more). If there is then I would more than likely be up for it as it is very much within stumbling distance! - Hippy

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Re: Wanted - analogue clock with date for X
by Tim Green 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:25:29AM +0000, main-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk wrote: > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:01:59 +0000 > From: Chris Green <chris(a)areti.co.uk> > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Reply-To: chris.green(a)isbd.co.uk > Subject: [ALUG] Wanted - analogue clock with date for X > > Can anyone recommend an X clock utility that has an analogue clock > face and the date? wmtime seems to do what you want. It is part of the WindowMaker window manager, but Debian has let me install it painlessly and run it on my Gnome desktop. Share and enjoy, Tim.

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Windows/DOS emulators for Linux
by Chris Green 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

I'm looking for something that will run Windows/DOS command line utilities under Linux. Is there anything other than WINE nowadays? I only need command line, it's to run a collection of 68000 assembler, linker and build programs. The whole thing has been developed under DOS but a customer of a customer now wants to run it on laptops running Linux. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk)

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Yippee!! Broadband reaches North Norfolk
by IanBell 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

Just heard that our small village on the North Norfolk Coast will be broadband enabled at the end of July this year. Yippee! Ian

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Two free tickets to the Linux User Expo conference (fwd)
by MJ Ray 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

Free tickets for the conference part on 20 and 21 April at London Olympia. http://www.linuxexpo.org.uk/ for more details. Entirely arbitrarily and without discussion: The first two people to email main-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk get passed on as ALUG. You *MUST* be going to the expo. Special mentions in the results for including penguin ASCII-art. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2004-03-26 14:03:13 +0000 From: Jono Bacon <jonobacon(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Two free tickets to the Linux User Expo conference Hi all, Just on theblower to Maggie Meer from Linux User & Developer and they are offering two free tickets to the Linux User & Developer Expo conference. These tickets will let you sit in a session. You can claim two tickets for two members of each LUG. Oh,and I am speaking at the expo too. ;) Jono -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Wanted - analogue clock with date for X
by Chris Green 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

I have just migrated my work desktop from running natively on a Sun Spark workstation to running via an X server on a PC. After a week or so of using and tuning it I have most of the wrinkles out of it now but there's one remaining minor niggle. I run the (very) old Sun OpenWindows 'clock' on my desktop as it provides an analogue clock display *and* the date in a nice written format (e.g. it says "Fri Mar 26" at the moment). However it's somewhat imperfect when run on this PC X server, in particular the dots marking the hours are missing. Can anyone recommend an X clock utility that has an analogue clock face and the date? (The other niggle I haven't sorted yet is a total inability to 'compose' characters, I think I'm stuck on this one) -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk)

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Alsa in 2.6.x
by James Green 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

This may be a wild stab in the dark, but I'm hoping someone out there has this one resolved already... Bought Unreal Tournament 2004. The demo worked nicely under kernel 2.6.4. Installed the retail version, and the following occurs: bash-2.05b$ /usr/local/ut2004/ut2004 open /dev/[sound/]dsp: No such device I've searched google without much luck. The Linux Games FAQ at icculus.org/lgfaq/ mentions some alternate drivers to be set as environment variables, which I see make no difference. I've compiled alsa in, with oss compatibility. The compatibility modules are indeed loaded. Other applications are giving sound fine, including the UT2004 demo. Most frustrating! Can anyone help? Thanks, James Green

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[Alug Announce]Meeting on Sunday, meeting in late April and quietness
by MJ Ray 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- ALUG: ---- 1. Meeting in King's Lynn at 2pm on Sunday 28 March, Globe Hotel http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/03-28Sun.html 2. Opinions sought on late April Norwich meeting http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/018217.html 3. Some list threads about ax25 and ALSA in 2.6, but a fairly quiet week on the list http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/threads.html Other: ----- 1. Other UK lists reported on were quiet, so here's a reminder about free tickets for 20/21 April at London Olympia http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/expo/ -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ ----- 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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Mandrake / automake version
by Joe Button 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Hi. I'm trying to build ardour from CVS on Mandrake 10 community. When I run autogen.sh I get a message telling me I need automake >=1.5 (Mandrake uses 1.4 as standard). I tried changing the symlinks for aclocal and automake in /etc/alternatives/ to the 1.7 versions and running aclocal but I got a message saying aclocal: configure.ac: 4: macro `AM_BUILD_ENVIRONMENT' not found in library Can anyone explain what I need to do to use a later version of automake? Thanks for any help.

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