September 1999 - main

Report on last meeting?
by Martyn B. Drake 19 Sep '99

19 Sep '99

As I had to sadly miss the last meeting - has anybody got any photos or reports to fill the void <grin>? As some people may have noticed, I may not quite qualify for the East Anglian Linux User Group at the moment :) Regards, Martyn -- Martyn B. Drake (work: martyn.d(a)netdirect.net.uk, play: martyn(a)drake.org.uk) Systems Administrator, NetDirect Limited (http://www.netdirect.net.uk) 161-165 Greenwich High Road, London, SE10 8JA [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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[alug]
by Raphael Mankin 14 Sep '99

14 Sep '99

On 14-Sep-99 bharat wrote: > > I am looking for info regarding running AIX, Siemens UNIX, HP_UX binaries on > Linux (SUSE 6.2 Dist). Could any of you point to the site where i can find > info. > I think that Siemens is handled by iBCS. The others I don't know about. -- Politics: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage Ambrose Bierce Raphael Mankin E-Mail: raph(a)panache.demon.co.uk ---------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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FreeAgent1.1/Wine 990815/Linux RH6.0 - invisible mouse pointer.
by michaelm＠ttfn35.freeserve.co.uk 14 Sep '99

14 Sep '99

Problem: Mouse pointer is white, as is FAgent's background. Both seem to be non-configurable. Have tried various command line parametes with wine, no effect. Using a drossy Matrix G100 video card. Suffering same problem with other MS software, eg Notepad. Is there a simple solution? [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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KDE-1.1.2 out
by jg＠cyberstorm.demon.co.uk 14 Sep '99

14 Sep '99

For those interested, KDE-1.1.2 is now out. I've seen the Press Release, but www.kde.org isn't yet updated, and ftp.mirror.ac.uk hasn't got a 1.1.2 directory yet. Expect rpms in the coming days. I believe this is the final release in the v1.x.x tree, and as such is suppost to be very stable. The next version should be v2, which is near alpha? -- James Green jg(a)cyberstorm.demon.co.uk Site Manager jg(a)linuxnewbie.com LinuxNewbie.com LNC http://www.cyberstorm.demon.co.uk/ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Window manager
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 13 Sep '99

13 Sep '99

Speaking of which, is there a date and venue of the next meeting? Andi "John Woodard" <john(a)woodard.freeserve.co.uk> on 09/11/99 08:47:12 AM To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: [alug] Window manager Thanks everybody maybe I'll attempt that at the next meeting when I can get some help. That's if we are not trying to get a network running. :-) Cheers, BJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Brett Parker <iDunno(a)somethinweird.freeserve.co.uk> To: <alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 5:09 PM Subject: [alug] Window manager <snip> **************************************************************************************** *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 ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Window manager
by John Woodard 12 Sep '99

12 Sep '99

At last Sundays meeting one of you I think it was Brett was running a window manager which had transparent windows. What wm is it, where can I get it, how do I configure it to do that and do any other wms have this facility? Also I tried to load Debian to no avail (major hassles trying to get the x server working), I think I still need some hand holding as yet so it's back to RH6 which works a treat on my system. Cheers, BJ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Any chance of recovering a partition?
by Tatsuhiko Maekawa 12 Sep '99

12 Sep '99

Greeting from Japan (Hi all!) I migrated into Debian 2.1 Slink (with a tiny bit of Japanese environment), and it is cool to have it on my computer. That said, I also mistakenly configured lilo, my Windows 9x partition won't work -:) I know that there is a configuration problem in boot.0301. I don't have "boot.0301" in boot. I know myself that in order to boot Windows 98 on my first partition, I need a right "boot.0301" file, so that I can recover from that. Is there anyway I can recover boot.0301 without backup? I can't access to /dev/hda1, as the earliest part of the partition is messed Don't worry if I got to lose "that" partition. Though I'm gonna lose lots of pictures files and job hunting documents, I know I won't use Windows anyway. Yours - From a lone little island -- Tatsuhiko Maekawa tacchan(a)chachacha.ne.jp (Japan) tatsu(a)stu.uea.ac.uk (Europe) http://www3.chachacha.ne.jp/~taccchan [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Strange X problem.
by Laurie Brown 09 Sep '99

09 Sep '99

Lads, I don't know if this is a coincidence of not, but since I brought my PC home after alug3, if I connect to it from any other PC using X the machine hangs totally. The only cure is the reset button. Telnet works just fine, and X works fine on the machine itself. Does anyone have any idea what this might be or how to get around it? I recompiled to kernel cleanly and from scratch (we did that a few times on Sunday!), and that didn't help at all. Cheers, Laurie. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Mail Spool Question
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 08 Sep '99

08 Sep '99

Opps... sorry. Windows version.... arghhh...I'm being assimulated by the Borg... ...run away. jg(a)cyberstorm.demon.co.uk on 09/07/99 07:08:49 PM To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: [alug] Mail Spool Question On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Andrew Chandler wrote: > Mozilla 5.0 looks pretty good so far - the page layout is astoundingly fast. And exactly what configure options are you giving? I tried recently with several cvs snapshots using --disable-debug and --enable-optimize and mozilla5 was perhaps slightly slower than Netscape 5, using GTK+ widget set. I haven't been impressed by it's speed, but it's worth the sacrifice for the standard-based implementation and technological foundations. James Green [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(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 ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Mail Spool Question
by jg＠cyberstorm.demon.co.uk 08 Sep '99

08 Sep '99

Hi all, Well, having fought with Debian 2.1 for some hours, I had to give up. The reason: with no mouse I could'n't get into X, and with no modem I couldn't hit the net to get help; I set both up myself and in the case of the modem, I tried manual configuration and Debian's pppconfig/pon progs, but neither had much effect (setserial reported the tty to be fine). So, last night I formatted again, and reinstalled RH6 - I am now rebuilding what I had, this time using RPMs and not source tarballs. However, I have had one slight hitch in my mail system. I backed /var/spool/mail up onto a Windows partition, reinstalled, got sendmail up and unfortunately collected mail before installing the backed-up mail. Hence this email. I just took a look at /var/spool/mail/jg to see if concatentation of files was possible, but there's a system-generated initial email with an 'X-IMAP' header and number which appears to have some significance. I'm no Unix mail expert, so what should I do? I only use sendmail with pine using standard unix mail configuration, so what do I do? Here's the email:

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