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Re: [Alug] M$ to release db based filesystem
by Paul 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

On Saturday 13 April 2002 10:30, Ashley wrote: > Customer: Wow, free, what's the catch? The cost of ownership is now with you. > Customer: Where can I get new applications? You write your own, subcontract to a third party, or download from the internet. > Customer: How do I get support?

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To do list for ALUG's Linux Install Days 2002
by Ashley 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

I have added a new section to the Wiki on ALUG's website to help coordinate effort in planning for ALUG's participation in Linux Install Day 2002. The to do list can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?LinuxInstallDay2002 Please assist ALUG by reviewing the list and helping in any way you can. This is for a good cause and should help both Linux and ALUG to grow. -- Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. http://www.ashleyhowes.com "when all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"

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A KDE2 mystery
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 13 Apr '02

13 Apr '02

After upgrading Debian Potato/KDE1 to Debian Testing/KDE2 an icon on the KDE desktop which should run Word Perfect now doesn't. I have seen in the .xsession-errors file a line which says: cannot find path to /usr/local/WordPerfect/wpbin/xwp This used to work under KDE1 but the mystery is that if I copy the command line from the icon properties and paste it into a shell window Word Perfect runs without problems. If I enable the icon property 'Run in terminal' then it will run. Can anyone explain this please? Barry Samuels

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Re: [Alug] Introduction
by Matt Parker 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

On Friday 12 April 2002 07:17, you wrote: > Keith Watson wrote: > > Just a quick hello from someone who's just joined. > > Welcome to ALUG, Keith... > > [SNIP] > > > Reason for joining: After many years of saying "This year I'm going to > > install an Intel version of Unix on my PC" I finally got round to putting > > Mandrake 7.0 on early last year. I immediately started to try and > > customise it to suit my hardware and ran into all sorts of problems. I'm > > now in the midst of trying to install my own flavour of Linux from the > > Linux From Scratch project <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org> and having > > moderate success. I hope to learn enough from this to have a bit more > > success tailoring Linux for my own use. It would be nice to link up with > > other Linux afficianados in the area and swap war stories, experiences > > etc. and perhaps be able to help others out where possible. > > Although I understand that Mandrake is the easiect to install, I > doubt it will suit someone with real knowledge, with results you've > seen. I've found that, as my knowledge has increased, I have become > more and more frustrated with packaged Linux systems. My personal > favourite, and which remains so for the desktop, is SuSE. I'm quite > happy to allow them to cosset me in the land of sound, X, and such > stuff. However, servers are another matter entirely. [SNIP] I run Mandrake on my machine. I let it set up all my X server, gadgets, games etc. and installed all the server stuff from source. Since I sometimes play about with stuff at home for work I find that Mandrake's default installation locations are pants, not to mention the fact that it installs Apache with *everything* turned on. In fact I hardly ever install from packages. I don't find that Mandrake complains at all. If I need to install something from the CDs then I use the source RPM and build it from there. That way I don't have to worry about missing dependencies etc. All in all, a great distro - and this comes from a "hardcore" Unix user who plays with Solaris at work. Matt

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Re: [Alug] Looking for a low-end Linux server
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

Chris Allen wrote: >Does anybody have any idea where I can buy such a beast? Try cambridge computer supplies; I got an excellent box there without an OS installed, all the hardware was supported (SIS stuff mostly). http://www.cambridge-computers.com/ http://www.sis.com/support/driver/linux.htm Jen

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Re: [Alug] Lynn meeting?
by MJ Ray 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

> I'm going to be in at UEA tomorrow, will do that if you like. Who do I get > in touch with? Room bookings, but I've not booked a room since they've moved. I'm told that you can do it by email now. A quick search of their "intranet" should show it up. -- MJR

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FORTRASH
by David Freeman 12 Apr '02

12 Apr '02

I need to learn FORTRAN for a Summer job I have just got, anyone got any suggestions on good books etc... to learn from? D

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Not sure what the subject should be!!!
by Simon 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

Hi chaps and chappesses.. It's probably possible and really easy, but I don't know how... I want to dump a file in a directory and as soon as it appears to be executed then removed... i.e ftp a file onto a server in a particular directory, once uploaded, the file gets executed immediately... Possible yes/no? I'm sure I've heard that this can be done, just can't remember.. TIA Simon

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Re: [Alug] Venue.
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

MJRay wrote: > Shall we have a topic or theme for the meeting? email setup? Good plan! I can hold forth for an hour on how not to do it..... >Yeah, maildrop is waaay easier to configure. I was looking at "multidrop" by mistake. Are we set on Sun 21st April for a meeting date, then, possibly still at King's Lynn but most likely at Elmswell? Re. poster for install day...I did a pretty crappy one last year, we could get it out and dust it a bit and re-use it, but a slightly more inspired one might be better? http://www.linuxinstallday.org/joinin.php Maybe if we sign up we'll be sent stuff like that? Jen.

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training thing
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 11 Apr '02

11 Apr '02

They want to set up a stall at Glastonbury :-) http://www.fraw.org.uk/archive/rangers/cltc/cltc_proposal.html

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