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Homemade notebooks anyone?
by Ricky Bruce 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

I am thinking about having a go at putting together a 'whitebook' as per instructions here http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/20031202/ and here http://www.techbuilder.org/article.htm?ArticleID=48122 The articles make it seem perhaps deceptively simple. Anyone done anything similar, any warnings, im not neccessarily doing it for cost savings, more for the experience. Or would small form factor be the way to go? Rick _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

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USB Floppy Drive
by Nick Heppleston | infotechnicale.com 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

I'm looking at purchasing an external USB floppy drive for my Toshiba notebook. Does anyone have any recommendations for a specific make/model that interacts well with Linux? Nick. -- Nick Heppleston t: 07989 581766 | e: nick.heppleston(a)infotechnicale.com

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Small simple mail client
by mjr＠dsl.pipex.com 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

Are there programs like "mail" for reading over POP3, APOP or IMAP; or should I use mailsync or similar and use GNU mailutils? MJR

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gentoo and portage
by Glen Tyler 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Hi, a question to any gentoo users on the list. I have just installed gentoo 1.4 on my second machine (Cele 333, 256MB PC100) and I'm impressed - using the stage 1 tarball has compiled a pretty nifty OS and KDE desktop compared to the Mandrake/Fedora distros that I've had on there before. The main worry I have is that if I try to emerge-sync I'll be inundated with 1000's of updates and my poor ol' 28.8 connection will be tied up for a week. I've looked at the web site documentation, but there is no suggestion of using anything but portage for updates. I'm guessing that portage just adds a script to the sources (maybe a patch or two), but does anyone know if I can just download the script and patch then use the source that I already have? I'd like to use portage as it seems excellent, but would prefer to be more efficient with my online time.. best wishes Glen

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ALUG is 5 years old
by John Woodard 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

ALUG is 5 on May 2nd this year! What are we going to do to celebrate? Any of you firestarters want to do something special? I like quite a few of you who are still here, was at Woodbridge on that Sunday in 1999. ALUG has given me so much over the past 5 years, many friends, much help and a real sense of being part of something that is very special, I feel we really should mark this event. Cheers, BJ

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 15 Mar '04

15 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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Re: [ALUG] Anyone want Mandrake 10 ISOs?
by Richard Lewis 14 Mar '04

14 Mar '04

On Monday 08 Mar 2004 17:55, you wrote: > On Monday 08 Mar 2004 9:17 am, Richard Lewis wrote: > > >I downloaded the Mandrake 10 community edition ISOs today, so if > > > anyone's in Norwich and would like a copy let me know and I'll burn > > > some CDs for you. > > > > Um, I think only Mandrake club members can donwload the ISOs at the > > moment. If you are and have respectively then you probably shouldn't give > > them away to non-club members. Community edition will be available for > > general d'load soon. > > > > Cheers, > > Richard > > They are already available on eBay. I say this not as a justification but > merely for information. > > Ian Just to let you know: Mandrake 10.0 Community ISOs are now available for public download from the usual Mandrake mirrors! However, note the new release system for Mandrake: the Community Edition is more of a pre-release. Bug fixing and security updates will contain to be made to the main package tree and, in two months time, an Official Edition of the main tree will be released as ISOs. Its a bit like an extended testing period. The consequence that users would do well to have a good Internet connection and collect packages from the network rather than installation media so as to keep on top of updates or to wait until the Official Edition is released if they haven't time to be helping with the debugging process. Cheers, Richard

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Re: [ALUG] Where do I put source files?
by IanBell 14 Mar '04

14 Mar '04

On Saturday 13 March 2004 13:51, Chris Walker wrote: > On Sat 13 Mar, MJ Ray wrote: > > On 2004-03-13 10:20:01 +0000 Chris Walker > > > > <linux(a)wymondham.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > I've never compiled anything > > > before, I don't know where to put this stuff. > > > > Generally, whereever you want. > > OK. > > > Unpack it (tar xzf filename.tar.gz usually) and read the INSTALL file. > > (If it doesn't have one, report a bug.) Some people like to put it under > > /opt/src, some under /usr/local/src or /usr/src and some in a > > subdirectory of their home. I've even got one system with sources in > > /Depot/Compile/Sources... > > It does have an INSTALL file but it didn't give the location that I wanted. Apologies if this has already been said, but most source packages adhere to the following installation procedure. 1. cd to the directory where you have unpacked the source 2. type ./configure this runs the configure script which does a huge bunch of checks to try to make sure the compile will be successful. It should tell you for example if any libraries are missing. It is usually possible to pass arguments to configure to tell it where you want files to be put. configure creates (amongst other things) a makefile which tells the compiler how to build the programme from the source. 3. type ./make this compiles the programme and should result in an exectuable 4 type ./make install this installs the executable and any other necessary files in predetermined directories. HTH Ian

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Re: [ALUG] Where do I put source files?
by MJ Ray 13 Mar '04

13 Mar '04

On 2004-03-13 10:20:01 +0000 Chris Walker <linux(a)wymondham.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I've never compiled anything > before, I don't know where to put this stuff. Generally, whereever you want. Unpack it (tar xzf filename.tar.gz usually) and read the INSTALL file. (If it doesn't have one, report a bug.) Some people like to put it under /opt/src, some under /usr/local/src or /usr/src and some in a subdirectory of their home. I've even got one system with sources in /Depot/Compile/Sources... -- 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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Re: Mandrake 9.2 ADSL Network
by Bash McBash 13 Mar '04

13 Mar '04

Hi all. If anyone is intrested i have a BT router that i have flashed with the origanal manufactures firmware. (No as dumb as the BT version) if anyone wants it it £20. Adam.

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