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NLD (Shouldn't that be LID?)
by Earl Brannigan 18 Apr '01

18 Apr '01

Like the poster Jen....! Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)

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Re: [Alug] Freedom
by MJ Ray 18 Apr '01

18 Apr '01

Earl Brannigan <earl.brannigan(a)lindenhouse.co.uk> writes: > Sorry, probably being a thick but what's NLD? National Linux Day, I guess. Another thing succumbs to UEA TLA disease. What's the state of the todo list now? I'll hopefully get the material from LinuxSure tomorrow, but we still need a decent disclaimer for people to sign and some other suitable printed material. There's a press release nearing ready to go, I understand, and there's reportedly a poster out there which I'd love a copy of (Hint Hint). > admin : please don't curtail this one yet. Nuffink to do wi me, guv. These things run themselves mostly. -- MJR

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LinuxDay promo
by MJ Ray 16 Apr '01

16 Apr '01

I've set the reply-to accordingly, so if someone would write a short piece on what we're doing, it should go to the list and Denny for the article. This is a good opportunity to promote the LUG and help a new UK-based magazine site. Of course, my involvement in both doesn't colour my opinion ;-) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:16:07 +0100 (BST) From: Denny <denny(a)concretecow.com> This is an excerpt from a mail on the developers' list for the about-to-launch open source website Think Open (www.thinkopen.co.uk) which grew from the ashes of the LinuxUK website... I'd like to hear comments etc... I'm willing to co-ordinate the snippets and write them up into an article if everyone wants to mail them to me? We could do a follow-up afterward as well, that could be quite good... Thoughts? Denny - --------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 09:03:56 +0100 Reply-To: linuxuk-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: linuxuk-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [ThinkOpen-devel] Manifesto Instead of just looking for HOWTO articles for the opening, why not add loadsa stuff about what the UK lugs are planning for LinuxDay (10 days now). Get each LUG organiser to write 10 lines describing what they are planning and put it into one article. Perhaps we might get them to write a full article, I dunno. -- MJR

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Weekly IRC meeting reminder
by Adam Bower 16 Apr '01

16 Apr '01

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.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Popular irc clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and ircII on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.bitchx.com http://www.xchat.org http://freshmeat.net Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Re: [Alug] Unix File sharing
by MJ Ray 14 Apr '01

14 Apr '01

Adam Bower <abower(a)zeus.com> writes: > Aah, you have mentioned the unmentionable, I wouldn't use linux as a NFS > server ever! I would recommend that you use Solaris for NFS as Sun > invented NFS (at work we say definitivly broken) it is the reference > platform for other *nix. Linux is a great NFS client though... Oddly enough, the kernel nfs in Linux 2.2 has been better for me than the Solaris implementation in 2.5.1 and 2.6. Solaris 7 and 8 are better than 2.2, so I'm hoping that the 2.4 kernels will level things up again. The non-kernel nfs server isn't worth using, though, and in most cases you should use rsize=8192,wsize=8192. Now I've rebuilt this machine, I'm off to play with ext3 (mangled /home, here we come!). Any last words of advice? -- MJR

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[Various] Digested Articles
by MJ Ray 14 Apr '01

14 Apr '01

spam4u Topics: [lugmaster] jolt cola [uklugs] Linux training Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:49:12 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Lewis <mark(a)tuxbox.net> Subject: [lugmaster] jolt cola fyi i have now got jolt cola in the linux shop at www.linuxshop.co.uk/jolt.php Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:57:15 +0100 From: Clive Gould <Clive(a)bromley.ac.uk> Subject: [uklugs] Linux training We are offering evening training in the Fundamentals of System Administration (following the syllabus for LPI exam 101) starting on April 23rd at Bromley College. The url for details is http://www.bromley.ac.uk/linux/fundamentals.htm Please could you let anybody who might be interested know? Thanks very much Clive Gould

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Re: [Alug] RE: alug digest, Vol 1 #194 - 16 msgs
by MJ Ray 13 Apr '01

13 Apr '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > [...] What did people think of the Poster Jenny Did? I think Its > quite good. Can anyone print off some copies? I'm not sure I've seen that poster. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] networking probs
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 13 Apr '01

13 Apr '01

Fantastic! Ifconfig now shows eth0 rather than dummy0: - io address was 0x2a0. Thanks, I would never had known to change that. tcpdump now showing host jenny/TCL unreachable, no other traffic showing. netstat -rn shows 192.168.11.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U eth0 tcpdump does show at the end "eth0 > arp who-has jenny/TCL tell TRX850/TCL (0:80:c8:78:42:bf)" after using lo to ping its own IP address. Thanks all. My problem has moved on and up. Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] RE: alug digest, Vol 1 #194 - 16 msgs
by MJ Ray 12 Apr '01

12 Apr '01

Toby Jaffey <toby(a)earth.li> writes: > In my experience "the masses" want things that work and are willing to > pay for them and are more than willing to give up freedoms to get them. Paying for software and giving up freedoms are not mutually exclusive, IMO. Sadly, many people don't even realise that they have the freedoms which they are invited to surrender for no cost benefit. Education is the only way forwards. Anyone to write a "Why Free?" poster text for LinuxDay? -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Unix File sharing
by MJ Ray 12 Apr '01

12 Apr '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > a wet paper bag? Is it really better than NFS? if it is I will remove > the NFS from the plan as samba may be used for the nt support. If samba is going to be used anyway and you want per-user sharing, might as well use it, I guess. No sense running more services than needed. I don't know how the performance compares. -- MJR

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