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Smoothwall chat, was Re: [Alug] IRC meeting reminders
by MJ Ray 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

Paul Tansom <Paul(a)whaletales.co.uk> writes: [...] > Haven't checked the ALUG site for connection details yet, but I have one > available volunteer so far, and if I can get my home machine configured > in time, and juggle the necessary time in I may be able to join myself. > So fingers crossed we should be able to talk techie with you :-) Ugh, I've just had a bad attack of Real Life(tm) and I'm not confident that this will be a success if we do it now, because I haven't promoted this through the channels that I wanted to. All my ALUG time is currently being taken up with trying to straighten out the blasted website (Martyn, where are you?). If we could postpone it to the second Monday in January (the 8th), then I'll try to get the word out properly. The bot for placing questions by those who can't guarantee a presence should be available from some time on the afternoon of Friday the 5th. I'll be backing up the questions at regular intervals just in case UEA drops off the net. Of course, you (like all ALUG members) are more than welcome to join in the usual chat on Monday evening at 2000 on eu.openprojects.net #alug. It would be lovely to meet some more of the newbies and have a big attendance for what will probably be the last opportunity before Christmas. -- MJR

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Picky ?!!!
by Simon Parkes 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

Don't mean to be picky here, but on the alug website it says that the next meeting in in the year 2000 ?? I know it was a leap year but.... Simon

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Re: [Alug] Linux is not for desktops?
by MJ Ray 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

"Simon Parkes" <simon.parkes(a)ukonline.co.uk> writes: > You rcould try the Koffice suite, I've just downloaded the Kword and Ksheet > had a quick look and they look pretty good. The beauty is that they both > read M$ format docs.. Oh, I forgot this. I usually read Word docs through antiword and Excel via xls2csv, although having the apps around which can read/edit them better is also handy sometimes. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Linux is not for desktops?
by MJ Ray 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Thom May <thom(a)clearairturbulence.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > Evolution (does HTML), Mutt(does HTML - in a way :) ), > Gnus(dunno bout html), Balsa, etc Gnus passes html to w3 for rendering (the Emacs HTML engine), or does it mutty-style, passing it to an external program. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Linux is not for desktops?
by MJ Ray 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Chris Allen <chris(a)cjx.com> writes: > Browsing the web: > Netscape - Soooo slow.. Netscape is OK unless you have tables in tables in tables... etc. Mozilla seems to be better, but still not quite ready for prime-time. > Email: > Sylpheed is the only program I have found that comes close to Eudora [...] > Usenet news: > PAN - not as polished as Agent but no real complaints here I'm using XEmacs/Gnus with the gnus-agent feature to read both my email and news. I do the same on both my home and office machines (although the office one isn't agentised, as it's on a permanent connection), with roles, filtering, adaptive scoring, virtual groups, etc, and it just leaves anything else trailing in the dust. The price you pay for that is extensive configuration is needed to make the extensive configurability work for you. (However, I am a lisp/scheme fan, so it's not bad for me.) > Office Apps: > Star Office? - So slow even on a 500Mhz PIII that it makes windows > look fast. StarOffice is memory-hungry, I believe. I use the Gnome Office combination of AbiWord (still beta, but 90% there now) for quick letters and Gnumeric for spreadsheets, but I'm not that intensive a user of either (as my papers are in LaTeX and number crunching in R or XLisp). > What do you all use for your main desktop machine? And are you > productive with it? As you can guess for the above, both of my desktop machines run Linux and I'm fairly productive with it. (cue sarky comments from others) > [...] less productive on a Linux desktop machine because > I am for ever hacking, updating and fixing things instead of getting > on with my work! Oh yes, you have to get something that works, set it up right and then try to leave it alone rather than "improve" forever, as you can with Linux. With closed OSes (eg MacOS that we have at work), you don't have the option of doing that. > p.s. Anyone else from around Leiston here? I had to look it up on the map... -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Picky ?!!!
by MJ Ray 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

"Simon Parkes" <simon.parkes(a)ukonline.co.uk> writes: > Don't mean to be picky here, but on the alug website it says that the next > meeting in in the year 2000 ?? I know it was a leap year but.... What page does it say that on, please? Both http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/meetings/meeting6.html and http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/meetings/ say 2001 and I can't find it with grep.... -- MJR

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Re: hello
by jo＠yee-ha.demon.co.uk 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

> From: Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com > Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:56:44 +0000 > > Greetings, Jo, > I was looking forward to Sunday (I was going to bring my laptop and hope > that some genius could casually type in a few commands here and there and > get the pc card and networking going that I gave up on weeks ago) (I also > had this idea that we would be eating a lot of biscuits and drinking a lot > of coffee which is always a pleasant thought) but I can't make that date. > Enjoy. > Jenny. > Whereabouts S of Camb are you from? Hi, I'll eat plenty of biscuits for you, then ;) We're in Balsham- are you nearby? Jo -- <>-- jo mitchell ------- http://futurshox.net --------<> http://deskdemon.com | http://www.yee-ha.demon.co.uk Linux-powered! | mobile: +44 7974 219809 <>---------------------- icq#104771112 ---------------<>

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Re: [Alug] Test Alug Site
by MJ Ray 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

Q: Why is the ALUG website like a bus? "Martyn Drake" <martyn(a)alug.org.uk> writes: > The test site should be ready by the end of the evening. A: You spend months waiting for one, then two come along at once. -- MJR

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Test Alug Site
by Martyn Drake 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

Hi folks, I'm shortly about to try a test web site out at http://test.alug.org.uk using the thatware.org system. For those that haven't seen thatware, it's simply a Slashdot (or PHP-Nuke) like system for posting news articles. With a series of admins, we will be able to publish announcements and venue information easily. The test site should be ready by the end of the evening. Regards, Martyn

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Sony Vaio PCMCIA cd-rom drive
by Adam Bower 30 Jan '01

30 Jan '01

Hi People, Does anyone have one of the above? as I have had my vaio with transmeta processor for a few months now and havn't got around to installing linux (no netboot, no cd-rom drive, no floppy drive, and loadlin doesn't work grrr..). I have tried loadlin and the kernel does not come up!? and using a USB floppy is ok but I havn't now got the floppy drive as it was borrowed and I would need to make new boot disks with USB floppy support (which is a pain). also I have been ill for the past week so may not make it on Sunday, and almost certainly won't have new Debian cd's. Adam

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