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Re: [Alug]Free CDs
by Martyn Drake 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 09:22:02 +0000 Wayne Stallwood wrote: > Ah which reminds me, I have the SuSE 8.2 disks now. Me too :) > If anybody wants a copy of the CD's then I am willing to do it (there > are 5) I'm going to buy the full product at some point, since I was very impressed when I had it installed. However it remained on the system for only several hours as the missus declared that she couldn't print any labels and that the fonts were too small in Mozilla (and she was a bit too impatient to allow me to fix it for her!). Given time she will come round to the power of Linux.. If anybody wants the set once I've finally finished with them, I'd be happy to forward it on. The only thing is that you don't get any official support for them since there's no registration number on disk set. > Currently I don't have the facilities to do copies of the DVD's so if > you want to install it from DVD you are going to have to either borrow > them (I'll keep a note of who has them and we can just pass them > round) or someone in the group with a DVD burner is going to have to > offer their services. I'm happy to copy the DVDs for anybody that wants it. Cost for P&P and the DVDs only (which equates to something along the lines of 99p per DVD and 60p P&P - let's call it 2.60). Regards, Martyn -- Martyn Drake | Email : martyn-d(a)moving-picture.com Systems Administrator | Web : http://www.moving-picture.com The Moving Picture Company | Phone : +44 (0)20 7494 7853 -- Martyn Drake | Email : martyn-d(a)moving-picture.com Systems Administrator | Web : http://www.moving-picture.com The Moving Picture Company | Phone : +44 (0)20 7494 7853

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[Alug]Meeting report - Norwich sunday 20th July
by Syd Hancock 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

Ten people attended the sunday afternoon meeting at RBLH in Norwich - MJR, Colin Hards, Ashley Howes, Paul Corner, Adam Bower, Kirsty Naylor, BenE, Syd Hancock, Brett Parker and James Taylor. In usual ALUG fashion the meeting was understated but constructive - Xandros was repaired, library books distributed for reading and review, donated items of equipment and CDs distributed, future meeting venues discussed (Ely is next for a pub crawl, sorry I mean speculative exploratory visit), Mark did something to his laptop which no-one understood (possibly including Mark) and home-made cakes eaten amid discussions, arguements and banter on diverse topics ranging from sourceforge eveloper management or bandwidth costs to bits falling off cars and the usual My Distro Roolz OK :-) Overall a very satisfying afternoon. ------------------------------------- Some advance notices (all will be announced separately later): 1. Next Norwich evening meeting: second thursday of August i.e 14th August at the Forum. (If anyone knows of another free suitable evening venue please let me know). 2. Next Norwich sunday meeting proposed for the last w/e in September - full details later once settled. 3. If anyone has access to room booking at UEA please contact me off-list (don't worry about having to 'organise' anything - we just need someone who can book a room :-) Syd

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Re: [Alug]The letter thingy...
by BenE 22 Jul '03

22 Jul '03

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, BenE wrote: > was in the EDP yesterday. It was edited a bit so it sounded slightly > illiterate :-) > > They got the web address right, and spelt linux correctly, so that was a > bonus... > Bugger, another message that's gotten stuck in the system somewhere for ages. Has anyone encountered something like this before? It only seems to happen when posting to alug. Pine is set up to send mail direct to freeserves smtp server, so my only gueses are it's a problem with pine which coincidently has only affected alug mail, a prob with freeserve or alug's mailserver. Anyone have any ideas please? cheers, BenE --------------------------------- Love is all I bring, in me crass t-shirt 'n' ting

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[Alug]The letter thingy...
by BenE 22 Jul '03

22 Jul '03

was in the EDP yesterday. It was edited a bit so it sounded slightly illiterate :-) They got the web address right, and spelt linux correctly, so that was a bonus...

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[Alug]Free CDs
by Syd Hancock 22 Jul '03

22 Jul '03

I have various CDs that I want to get rid of. No postage required - just an address. Contact off-list please. Suse 8.1 live evaluation Suse 7.3 live evaluation Suse 7.1 live evaluation Knoppix 3.2 (6 June 2003) Morphix 0.3.6 (17 May 2003) games light office heavy office Debian Woody 3.0 binary CD4 Syd

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[Alug]CoLo options
by Paul Tansom 22 Jul '03

22 Jul '03

OK, my server hosting is due for renewal and I'm looking at options for an alternative. Currently I'm on a virtual server setup, but this is too limiting for some things I want to do, so does anyone have any recommendations? Obviously I need a good price and solid support where needed, but beyond that I have some flexibility: 1. Just rack space and bandwidth costs - I can look at building my own box - quite happy to do this. 2. Server with bandwidth costs - and I'll install my own software. 3. Server preinstalled with bandwidth costs. Obviously these involve way different costs, or can do. My main stipulation is that it will be running Linux (no ifs no buts, I need flexibility and reliability and Windows just can't provide this - not to mention being cr*p for remote administration). My other stipulation is that it has to be Debian (I'll discuss this, but this is for business usage which means it has to be easy to administer with security updates and software installs - sorry to other distro users, but Debian is the only choice here - yes, I know Gentoo could possibly be another choice, but I have no experience with that yet. I've tried RPM based distros, but I can't face going back to 'dependency hell' again.) Sorry to all non-Debian users out there, but after a brief period of bliss when I first started with Linux on an RPM distro, I spent too many hours chasing dependencies to be bothered going back and seeing how things have improved. That said, I don't care what distro anyone else uses, and I'm not going to enforce my views on you - apart from the odd light hearted dig ;-) -- Paul Tansom: - contact paul(a)aptanet.com for more information Internet and Intranet Solutions -- http://www.aptanet.com/

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[Alug]Morphix 0.4
by Syd Hancock 22 Jul '03

22 Jul '03

Donated by Paul Corner. Four versions available: games, light gui, heavy gui, kde gui. Contact off-list if you'd like copies. Syd

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[Alug]Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

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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[Alug]out of the frying pan into the fire?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

Hi, Here at work we are finally getting rid of lotus notes server/client for our mail. Hoorah! Hoorah! We are replacing it with, cough, MS Exchange and a front end of our choice. My brother wants to use a linux box with Opera for his mail, and I would do likewise or use exim-mutt type things. Does anyone have any experience with linux and ms exchange? Is it pop3 or imap? Does it keep its mail in weird format that Opera won't be able to read? etc etc. This is a great opportunity to start running linux as a work desktop, as Notes and the odd word doc are all I need ms windows for now, and I don't intend to miss it! jen

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[Alug]Success with ACPI
by Louise Jayne Marie Worthington 20 Jul '03

20 Jul '03

Thanks for the suggestions. I have compiled ACPI in to my kernel and my laptop is dramatically cooler :) I shall also be trying autospeedstep next to improve further. Cheers everyone!

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