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Which Linux distibution, please?
by Ruleng＠aol.com 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

Subj: Which Linux distribution, please? Date: 13/07/01 To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hello again, Everyone. I e-mailed alug a short while ago asking for help with the mini-distribution, muLinux. I still have not got that sorted out, but I am now in a different situation. By an incredible fluke that I will not bore you all with I have got my 40X CDROM drive running. I would now like to ask the group which distribution of Linux I should, or could, install. I will recap the hardware that I have in case my previous note has been mislaid. chip: i486DX 33MHz, upgraded to 133 MHz with Evergreen chip. hdd0: 210 Mb. with MSDOS 6.2 ( 4DOS addon) and Windows for Workgroups hdd1: 450 Mb. partitioned 240 Mb. for DOS and Windows, 210 Mb. for a Linux OS. ( Do I need another partition for Swap?). fdd0: 1.44 Mb. 40X CDROM drive. 16 Mb. RAM Both muLinux and Hal91 Boot+Root floppies. Oh yes: a 70-year-old brain. If there is not enough disk space for a recommended distribution, would it be possible for me to use only part of it at first, and which parts should a novice select? I would appreciate any advice that you could give me. Regards, Norman

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RE: alug digest, Vol 1 #300 - 25 msgs
by David Freeman 15 Jul '01

15 Jul '01

--- Earl Brannigan <earl.brannigan(a)lindenhouse.co.uk> wrote: > Hi Dave > > David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com>wrote : > > Jen aka Ergates is also from feersum endjinn as well. > Of course, it didn't click.... No it typed and clicked, and I think she normally breathes as well as a whole host of functions :o) > > > > All, > > > > I have booked Martlesham heath scout hut for the 12th august 2001. > > > > So the next meet will be sunday 12th August. > I think I can just make that date...... > > > > I will be inviting some members of GLLUG and LONIX. > LONIX sound alright but the other lot would probably drink all the > beer! ;o) > > > > > > ALso Don't forget the LUG BBQ afterwoods. How could I..... will we be burning Lugites at the steak? No but we may linch the NSD users and as for the MS certified sys admin we have on the list, well I cna't say before 9pm > > > > Are there any Crypto specialists on the list? > I should have thought crypting was something you were expert at! Is this a fancy way of saying my messages are a we bit cryptic? or that you thought this was something I did? > sorry... completely useless post. Not really Thanks D > Cheers > Earl ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Going Alpha
by David Freeman 15 Jul '01

15 Jul '01

All, My web site has now gone alpha. So could I ask for people to take a look and let me know of any bugs, speiling misstakes etc... Also constructive criticism would be nice. http://freemadi.alug.org.uk/ Thanks D ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Test
by MJ Ray 15 Jul '01

15 Jul '01

Apologies all. We seem to have had some problems with this list, so I'm trying to debug them with this test message. If you see it, all is working again.

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Re: [Alug] Bascule
by MJ Ray 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Brett Parker <brettp(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> writes: > > Of course, you were *told* you had to be Neo, and you've been iDunno > > for what, *weeks* now? > Erm - months, at least 2 of, afaicr... Doesn't change that it's "weeks" too... or are we running on Brett Time? Or Internet Time(tm)?

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Re: [Alug] Bascule
by MJ Ray 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Brett Parker <brettp(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> writes: > Erm, what for? I was just told I had to use Neo way back then, I've been > iDunno for the last god-knows-how-long :p Of course, you were *told* you had to be Neo, and you've been iDunno for what, *weeks* now? I love cognitive dissonance.

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Re: [Alug] Sending information between databases
by MJ Ray 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Andrew Savory <a.savory(a)btinternet.com> writes: > If you were exporting data and you didn't know who was going to use it, > then you might consider XML. Also, if the two databases are complex and differ, exporting to XML, doing some transformation and importing XML into the target database may have some value, but the right way to do it is to try to avoid the situation, I think ;-)

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Sending information between databases
by Ashley T. Howes 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

(This isn't a pure linux question, but I hope you can help) What is a good system for sending information between databases, with minimal human interaction? Situation is that someone has a database in one location, another person has another copy. The list of tables/fields between the 2 databases is not exactly the same, but have several tables in common. The two databases could be synched with a lot of human work, but is there a method to do this automatically - perhaps sending XML between the two? Anyone got experience in doing this sort of stuff? Ashley

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Any secret admirers
by David Freeman 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Are there any Crypto specialists on the list? Thanks D ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Alug] Bascule
by MJ Ray 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Steve Fosdick <fozzy(a)pelvoux.demon.co.uk> writes: > I take there has been a report on this kind of activity. DOes anyone > have any details please? I can't remember which one, but I think it was Yahoo!. Basically, their advertising sales team was going out and trying to sell ad space on their web mail with the demographics and behavioural data on their users. Of course, this all came from the adverts, not from the actual emails, but the user tracking in there was active and it did tell them more than you really want known about you. It seems to me that it's only a small step to doing analysis on the actual emails to see how to market more effectively at you, and in some legislations that would be perfectly legal.

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