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Window managers // was Re: [Alug] Website
by MJ Ray 23 Aug '01

23 Aug '01

Alexis Lee <alexis(a)turton.com> writes: > As am I, I would merely suggest blackbox over E on non-decent > computers. And E has those extra features that make things a bit > comfier than blackbox. [...] I still don't understand why non-hackers like E so much. Surely the only attraction is that you can write a bit of code to totally change the user interface and force you to re-learn it all? Then again, if the interface is the best possible one at the start, there would be no need to rewrite it... configurability is a poor substitute for a good design. I'm currently using a very simple window management setup. Windows just have a bar along their top edge, which contains the title. You grab it with the left button to move them, click with the middle to shade the window, or the left to sink the window behind all others. There's a box at the right-hand end. A left click minimises, middle resizes the window and right destroys it. There is a small panel at the bottom, mostly like a task bar, but with up/down buttons to flip desktops and edge buttons to hide it. There is a small corner panel at top-left, containing icons to start programs, although I'm likely to get rid of that and start using an Apps folder again soon. This is done with sapphire and rox... both devel lists are regular love-ins and you can find both at sourceforge.

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Re: [Alug] Website
by MJ Ray 23 Aug '01

23 Aug '01

Andrew Glover <flexifoil(a)btinternet.com> writes: > Hi Alexis, Is this meant for the list? > This is pretty much my view too. I cant be responsible for them all, > but would gladly share it with someone else. So probably alternating > each one is best? There are two parts, really: the venue and the promotion. If one does one and the other the other, it should go wonderfully. > And I dont mind who does October first. Are you a student there? Which > year? Im year 2 sys student. After a quick look, im guessing this > might be you? > http://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/staff_and_students/enrol/ueanetwork/SYS/9953647.h… That made me panic, as that URL wouldn't be restricted. The correct URL is http://www.uea.ac.uk/menu/staff_and_students/enrol/ueanetwk/SYS/9953647.html and you need either a UEA central login or a sick VPN like mine to see it. I still think that stuff being published is an invasion of privacy.

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Re: [Alug] Alug web site - back to Apache
by MJ Ray 23 Aug '01

23 Aug '01

Martyn Drake <martyn(a)alug.org.uk> writes: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:13:06 -0400 Alexis Lee wrote: > > There's a Perl CGI script called FormMail which lets you get this > > kind of thing very easily. If you go to support.nicnames.net they > > have a lovely page about it somewhere. I don't think that this was originally sent to the list, else I would have felt compelled to point out that there are many very buggy versions of formmail out there which allow all sorts of nasties to be done to your server.

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Re: [Alug] Website
by David Freeman 23 Aug '01

23 Aug '01

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:56:45 -0400 Alexis Lee wrote: > Hiya, > I'm going to be webmonking for ALUG soon, so as a first step could > I have nominations for people who do stuff for ALUG. Is that webmonk as in perl monk or web monkeying with a missing ey? Anyway, good luck! :o) > Currently I have Mark and I as web editors, Freeman as bookmonkey > and Adam as FAQ maintainer. If the venue organisers would like their > names to go on the jobs list as well as on the individual venue pages, > drop me a mail. I am the book monkey, also professional sceptic and also put me down for wireless monkey. > Also I would like to compile a list of definitive web references for > various things. I have a few programming language ones (Java, C, PHP, > ASP) and a few web ones (HTML, CSS, neither perfect). Does this sound > a good idea? It probably isn't a good idea to start linking to compile > instructions, since we'd end up having a link to every cool project on > the web. C == The new testiment/Bible/'C Programming Language' by Kernighan and Richie Java == Java in a nutshell, Thinking in Java, Core Java HTML == http://werbach.com/barebones/ PHP == /dev/null Ask me specifics and I can help. > Speaking of which, one of my .sig quotes is a list of a few cool > things I've found. Would this make a good page (with a broken links > disclaimer at the top, and lots of contributions)? Focus on utilities > that open up new areas (IE expect, cron/at) rather than apps which > merely do their job well (IE mozilla, IMHO). Go ahead, could be interesting > Heck, maybe an article discussing the perceived merits of each distro? > If we could get an advocate from each distro, an article would come > together quickly. Note I wish to focus purely on why one ought to use > distro X, rather than not use distro Y. <fx action="light blue touch paper and retire to safe distance"> Why not add which editor, browser, window manager, shell, mail client etc... :o) Thanks D > Alexis > -- > "All programmers are optimists" - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. > Failure- When your best just isn't good enough. > "Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that" > > > > _______________________________________________ > alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list > Send list replies to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug > See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! -- "Your house sounds like a fire hazard" Peter Clarke

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Re: [Alug] Website
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 23 Aug '01

23 Aug '01

PHP stuff: http://www.php.net/tut.php http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/SoothinglySeamless/ http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/tutorials/tutorial4.html http://www.phpbuilder.com/ Downloadable books : linux programming and VIM http://www.newriders.com/opl/ Debian guide http://www.newriders.com/debian/html/noframes/debian-tutorial.html Linux tips http://www.scrounge.org/index.html#linux Samba http://infobase.informit.com/linux/content/bookframe.html?0672316099 TomCat/Apache HowTo http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-3.2-doc/tomcat-apache-howto.html#ht…

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sabcmd
by oms101＠freeuk.com 23 Aug '01

23 Aug '01

could you please put sabcmd in the cvs system as then it will be simpler to setup and get started with the web site. If this is a bad idea due to the size of sabcmd why because we have all got to use it to produce alug web pages. so it might as well come all in one peace. Owen Date: 23-Aug-01 Time: 00:24:08

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Re: [Alug] Lurkers (was new subscriber introductions)
by David Freeman 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 11:02:53 +0100 (BST) linux user stuff wrote: > On Sun 19 Aug, David Freeman wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:41:29 +0100 (BST) "D.I. Redhouse" wrote: > [snip] > > > Possibly my least interesting experience to date was trying to > work out > > > why `the internet isn't working' via mobile phone whilst standing > on top > > > of a Bronze Age barrow somewhere in the Fens. > > > > Have you tried using a real networking technique, if you can get a > little > > bit of height and some big twigs yoy could use 1-11Mbps wireless > ethernet > > to connect these up, we have had success with over 8 miles per link! > > I saw this being setup at the only meet I've attended, at the UEA, > but didn't > manage to find out any detail. In company with another Linux user that > occasionally lurks here, I attend meetings of another local computer group > and this seems like it would be useful for us. If this isn't the > right place > for the detail, perhaps you could email me privately. What do you want to know? I am thinking of righting something for the website on this, but I have been busy righting my first RFC "IP over Liquid Beverage Containers" of late so haven't had much time. If you want to forward me some questions you want answered I will add them as FAQ and also answer them. Oh and BTW it was me who did the stuff at the UEA. Thanks D > Thanks. > > -- > __ __| |_ __ __ .------------------------------------------. > / _/ _` \ V V / | mailto:linux@wymondham.demon.co.uk | > \__\__,_|\_/\_/ |__________________________________________| > > > > _______________________________________________ > alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list > Send list replies to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug > See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! -- "Your house sounds like a fire hazard" Peter Clarke

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Re: [Alug] Alug web site - back to Apache
by Martyn Drake 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:13:06 -0400 Alexis Lee wrote: > There's a Perl CGI script called FormMail which lets you get this > kind of thing very easily. If you go to support.nicnames.net they > have a lovely page about it somewhere. I'll probably end up using a script that I've knocked up in PHP to do the job. However, I fear that I could be mugged by the rest of the team if I integrated PHP into the Alug site ;) Also, I've now decided that I'm no longer scrapping Zeus (and thus no cheapo license - if you do want a cheapo license then go and see http://www.zeus.com as they're currently doing them half price which is actually pretty good deal), and thus Apache deployment has been postponed. The biggest problem with Zeus - for me anyway - is that it makes you incredibly lazy at administering normal Apache boxes - you just get used to that web interface :( I sat at the shell prompt this evening in readiness for migrating to 1.3.19 and thought - "Sod this, Zeus has a better approach to all of this" and abandoned the idea. Regards, Martyn

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Linux Expo Birmingham re-scheduled from 12th-13th september 2001 to 29th 30 th May 2002. (fwd)
by Adam Bower 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

Hi all, Just got this mail in my inbox, so it is now on for May. I think we will organise an outing a bit nearer the time. Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: Linux Expo Birmingham re-scheduled from 12th-13th september 2001 to 29th 30 th May 2002. Dear Visitor, Thank you for registering for LINUX EXPO BIRMINGHAM. Please note that the show has been RE-SCHEDULED from 12th-13th September 2001 to 29TH-30TH MAY 2002. The show will still take place at the NEC and will have exactly the same focus, dedicated to GNU/Linux and Open Source Solutions. There is no need to register again - we will re-register you automatically for the 29TH-30TH MAY 2002. Apologies for any inconvenience caused by re-scheduling the show. We look forward to seeing you in May for a high-quality show! Yours Sacha Dunas CEO Sky Events / Linux Expo Tél : 0143456600 Fax : 0143459244 Portable : 0672802604 Email : sacha.dunas(a)sky-events.com Linux Expo 2002 Amsterdam - 19 - 20 February Paris - 30 - 31 & 1 February Madrid - 3 - 4 April Sao Paulo - 15 - 16 May Birmingham - 29 - 30 May Milan - June Sky Events 12 avenue de Corbera 75012 Paris

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Re: [Alug] Website
by MJ Ray 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

Alexis Lee <alexis(a)turton.com> writes: > Must say I've never heard of ae. Is it _really_ simple? I mentioned Pico > because literally any idiot can use it (well, if they figure out ^X means > CTRL-X). ae and easyedit are both very simple and easy to use. PICO is hardly *that* good and the odd licence means it shouldn't be mentioned in polite society any more. jpico (joe's pico emulation) is an improvement for people that can't/won't move onto a real emacs yet.

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