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Re: [ALUG] Next meeting?
by Neill Newman 26 May '99

26 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Owen Synge wrote: > > > off track > > for those interested I got my voodoo3 working under linux with 3D > > acceleration and the q3test demo.. it's damm good ;) > > Is this the graphics card for Linux? I am not sure what you are asking, but hopefully this will satisfy ya The card is a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI version, The X server has been written for the banshee (the banshee and the voodoo3 are effectively the same, just the V3 is faster) and it works fine, the 3D Glide librarys have also been written, and are in alpha.. I have not personally experienced any bugs, but the drivers need "tweaking" after installation in order to get them to work, this will all be sorted out in time. the Quake3 test client (as far as I know) only runs under linux atm.. and I have tried it with a P166MMX, with 64Meg EDO ram, the V3, and a slow hard disk, and it is very impressive ;)... and Quake2 is unbelieveable fast at 1240x1048 !!! does that answer your question ?? Scoobz > > Owen -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neill Newman Tel: Mobile 07970 673722 Department of Electronics Systems Engineering Work 01206 873708 University of Essex Fax: Work 01206 872900 http://wearables.essex.ac.uk/index.html email: njnewm(a)essex.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] Redhat 6.0 ISO's
by Mark J Ray 25 May '99

25 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk The digest isn't yet active, by the way. I still need to debug a few things. Perhaps the fact that people are using it already is a hint that it should go live ASAP. Interesting. -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ Avoid 3 things: Logic errors and statisticians who can't count. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Redhat 6.0 ISO's
by Ben White 25 May '99

25 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk If people are still looking for ISO's, I have found these. ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/Linux/redhat6/ ftp://ftp.muni.cz/pub/linux/local ftp://ftp.interpath.net/pub/linux/redhat/redhat-6.0/ISO Looks like some are updated daily. Could whoever run's the list please make it so people can mail to the list even if they are just subscribed to the alug-digest. I only want to receive the digest, but was unable to post without being on the main list. Ben White [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Next meeting?
by John Woodard 25 May '99

25 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Any thoughts on when the next meeting will be? I have a couple of thousand newbie questions for all you Linux gurus. :) Regards BJ (BigJohn) [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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PINE // was Re: RedHat 6.0 problems
by Mark J Ray 24 May '99

24 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk M(enu) S(etup) C(onfig), then look for "customized-hdrs" and A(dd) values to it. To see the xtra headers in the message composition screen, press ^R on the header (for Rich header). Is that what you mean? Of course, you should be using better mail clients than PINE these days. Of course, there is always a better mail client no matter what you use ;) -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ <mgb> safetypin: the "off" button works wonders. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 24 May '99

24 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Bring back glint ... all is forgiven!! Mark J Ray <h089(a)mth.uea.ac.uk> on 23/05/99 21:55:15 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Neill Newman <njnewm(a)essex.ac.uk> writes: > the gnorpm proggie (the gnome rpm manager) does exactly the same, > browses rpm databases on the net, downloads and installs/upgrades... > which is kinda neat ;) Oh no, not unless rpm has become a lot less chaotic and they've added a lot of clever stuff to gnorpm. When he says apt-get goes and installs what you tell it, he means and all the right versions of the stuff it depends upon too. Very nice if you're used to playing "hunt the rpm". -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ <mgb> safetypin: the "off" button works wonders. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] **************************************************************************************** *Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at http://www.ft.com * * * *This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may contain confidential* *information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any * *use or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. * *If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us immediately then * *delete this E-Mail. * * * *postmaster(a)ft.com * **************************************************************************************** [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 24 May '99

24 May '99

Bring back glint ... all is forgiven!! Mark J Ray <h089(a)mth.uea.ac.uk> on 23/05/99 21:55:15 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Neill Newman <njnewm(a)essex.ac.uk> writes: > the gnorpm proggie (the gnome rpm manager) does exactly the same, > browses rpm databases on the net, downloads and installs/upgrades... > which is kinda neat ;) Oh no, not unless rpm has become a lot less chaotic and they've added a lot of clever stuff to gnorpm. When he says apt-get goes and installs what you tell it, he means and all the right versions of the stuff it depends upon too. Very nice if you're used to playing "hunt the rpm". -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ <mgb> safetypin: the "off" button works wonders. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] **************************************************************************************** *Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at http://www.ft.com * * * *This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may contain confidential* *information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any * *use or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. * *If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us immediately then * *delete this E-Mail. * * * *postmaster(a)ft.com * ****************************************************************************************

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Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 24 May '99

24 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk I have a machine which has been running RedHat Bluesky aka preRH6.0/Rawhide 1.0 for a while now with no major problems. True Enlightenment is a bit(!) flakey, but hey it's version 0.15 beta. I'm running SuSE 6.0/6.1 everywhere else now. No problems at all, other than that all .rpm based software seems to be built for RedHat machines. Andi James Green <jg(a)cyberstorm.demon.co.uk> on 23/05/99 22:28:15 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk On Sun, 23 May 1999, Martyn B. Drake wrote: > * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > > I'm thinking of doing that myself .. RedHat 6.0 has generally been okay, but > it's still rough round the edges. Does anybody actually test this stuff > before it's released? RH5.9 was the 6.0 test-release wasn't it? Now, got a question... How do you insert custom mail headers (for a faq) in pine? James Green [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] **************************************************************************************** *Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at http://www.ft.com * * * *This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may contain confidential* *information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any * *use or dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. * *If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us immediately then * *delete this E-Mail. * * * *postmaster(a)ft.com * **************************************************************************************** [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems
by Martyn B. Drake 23 May '99

23 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk I'm thinking of doing that myself .. RedHat 6.0 has generally been okay, but it's still rough round the edges. Does anybody actually test this stuff before it's released? Let's hope we've got the latest Debian released ISO laying around at work .. think I'll bag myself a copy of that if it is :) Regards, Martyn ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Russell <Paul.Russell(a)uea.ac.uk> To: <alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 1999 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [ALUG] RedHat 6.0 problems * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk >> A large number of reports of stuff wrong with Gnome/E in the RH6 RPMS - >> this is understandable, Gnome at least has come a long way since the >> RH6 build; > >yeah Gnome/E is a little flakey as yet, but hopefully it will mature >with age.. E certain looks good even if it does crash every few seconds >!!.. If you can bear it, I'd strongly recomend ditching RH6 and moving up to Debian. I'm now happily running Enlightenment DR15.5 and Gnome, I've had very few problems (and most of those were caused by me erm 'playing') I have to say, it's 'quite pretty' and it's getting quite close to the point where you could put it on a desktop machine without too many problems. All we need now is a few shit hot productivity apps and we're away. I'm waiting for gnumeric myself... One of the *really* nice things about debian is it's package management. I've not had to compile a single program since installing deb. You want enlightenment? no problem: apt-get install enlightenment. You want gnome? apt-get install gnome-core gnome-session etc... It'll download the packages if you've not got them locally and install them. nice. If you've got a fast internet connection (as in ISDN router or faster) then you can even install it over the network, two boot disks and you're away. Paul [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Linux '99
by James Green 23 May '99

23 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk OK, Linux '99 from UKUUG made it to slashdot. I take it this has been discussed in ucol, I only just got leafnode rpm down. Can we perhaps arrange travel arrangements together? I'd certainly like to go... James Green [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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