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dns and self-torture
by Jenny Hopkins 23 Dec '01

23 Dec '01

Thanks for the help on setting up the home mail. I had a reply to Ricardo on setting up a DNS server (to do it the hard way) along the lines of nettle whips and sack-cloth, but I've been getting in a slight muddle with elm, and swapping alug addresses, so it got lost along the way somewhere. Jen.

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USB CD Writer...
by Simon 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

Hi Guys, I finally got my cd writer to work in Linux, but.... XCD Roast won't see the IDE reader, has anyone come accross this problem or am I just lucky!! Simon "It's hard to be fit as a fiddle when you're shaped like a cello"

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Searchable Archives
by Martyn Drake 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

Hi folks, Just wanted to let people know that the ALUG Main and Social mailing list archives are now searchable (thanks to htDig). Just visit the main archive page at http://lists.alug.org.uk/pipermail/main/ or http://lists.alug.org.uk/pipermail/social and either enter your search term(s). Please let me know if you encounter any strange happenings during use, or if you want to suggest any improvements, etc. Regards, Martyn Drake -- Web : http://www.drake.org.uk Web : http://www.martyn-drake.info Web : http://www.alug.org.uk

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knews and utf-8
by MJ Ray 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

Hi, I'm having problems getting knews to display utf-8-encoded posts properly. It will do utf-7 and latin-3 with no problem, but does anyone know the magic incantations for utf-8? Failing that, I guess I'll build libslang-utf8 and slrn-utf8 or whatever they're called. Or maybe I'll get fed up enough to upgrade to testing. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] mail config
by Ricardo Campos 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

>Is there a more > simple method of configuring a windows machine to collect and send mail on > a home network? for pop3 and smtp servers, add the ip addresses rather than the host names OR set up a DNS server and add that server to your Windows IP configuration OR add the IP to the Host files on the windoze machines i.e. 10.0.1.1 ducati.jenbass (or whatever) (and I get the impression, you'd probably enjoy the setting up a DNS server more! ;) Ricardo "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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mail config
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 20 Dec '01

20 Dec '01

Hello list. I've got fetchmail and exim working now on my linuxbox, but am having problems getting the two windows machines on my home network set up correctly. I want to tell the windows machine Ducati that Rebecca uses to get its mail from my box Bascule. Bascule knows that Rebecca is 'Rebecca(a)Ducati.jenbass'. Outlook Express on Ducati, however, is asking for mail servers information when I try and set it up, and will only accept a POP3-style input, rather than 'Bascule.jenbass'. Is there a more simple method of configuring a windows machine to collect and send mail on a home network? Thanks, Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] Netscape 4.77 cache question
by Edenyard 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:55:40 +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > Edenyard: >> Sounds a bit like the state of play with this wretched DOS browser. >> Sort-of almost works, but.... > It's not really the fault of the browser, but the fault of the web developer > if there are anything other than cosmetic problems because you're not using > a CSS-ready browser. Absence of flash, javascript, etc, should not make a > site inaccessible. (Absence of cookies is trickier, but arachne does > cookies, IIRC.) > I seem to remember, when Arachne V1.70r3 was announced, much trumpetting over the claim that it supported CSS. In the config, there's the option: "Enable style sheets (CSS/1.0)" and it's set to 'on' here. Not that I really understand enough about web pages to say whether it's ever been an advantage to me. But I just thought I'd mention it!! Gerald.

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Re: [Alug] Netscape 4.77 cache question
by MJ Ray 19 Dec '01

19 Dec '01

Edenyard: > Sounds a bit like the state of play with this wretched DOS browser. > Sort-of almost works, but.... It's not really the fault of the browser, but the fault of the web developer if there are anything other than cosmetic problems because you're not using a CSS-ready browser. Absence of flash, javascript, etc, should not make a site inaccessible. (Absence of cookies is trickier, but arachne does cookies, IIRC.) -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Netscape 4.77 cache question
by Ricardo Campos 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

> If a Netscape 6 should come floating by, I'll have a >go at that, but isn't it true to say that the higher a >version number is, the slower it runs on old hardware? I was lazy too, and was comparing Netscape 4.77 to "Mozilla 5". Mozilla won, of course. But this thread prompted me to upgrade to Netscape 6. What a *very* sensible thing to do!!!! I'm lucky in that hardware isn't a problem for me, but I must say that Netscape 6 is (so far) utterly robust, a doddle to expand (i.e. plugins), and the caching is the best I've seen. Netscape 6 gets my thumbs up. Bigtime. :) (And the Linux version seems much quicker than the windows version! Ha!) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Highspeed access for everyone...
by Simon 18 Dec '01

18 Dec '01

Well most of you guys will probably already have heard about this, but since I haven't seen any posts I thought I'd be first to get flamed/thanked... http://www.btopenworld.com/satellite/index.html BT are going to be rolling out a satellite solution 500k down 150k upstream, and (obviously) it's not area dependant.. Bit pricy though £140 +vat per month!! still it's a start, us who live in the outback can get a decent net connection before too long... Just been to the BT account manager for our company and he said that if a good case can be put forward it's easily possible to get it before the official roll-out date in April 2002.. Simon "It's hard to be fit as a fiddle when you're shaped like a cello"

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