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3 Button mouse
by John Seago 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

I have installed Red hat 7.1, when I made the install I had, (and still have a two button mouse), which the install regarded as emulating a three button mouse. If I buy a three button mouse and plug it in will the system recognise as a three button mouse or have I got to do something arcane to get it to work? My two button mouse make s three commands, (left=L right =R L&R =M), L-1 LL-2 R-3 How many does a three button make? It appears to me that it should makethe following: L-1 LL-2 M-3 R-4 (this much would appear to follow the two button, but does the following apply?) L+M-5 R+M-6 R+L-7 L+M+R-8 and probably other combinations which you can work out for yourself. There used to be in the 1970's, in the magazines which came with the Observer and the Sunday Times, adverts for electric speedwriters which, by using five buttons, one for each digit , used in combinations which it was stated were easy to learn, enabled one to type at hitherto unobtainable speeds. couldthe same principal be applied to the commands that could be made with a three button Mouse?

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Dates
by David Freeman 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

Jo, Jen, Mark, BJ, Earl, Neill, adam, fozzy what sundays in august can all 8 of you make? I am trying to get martlesham scout hut for a sunday in august. once we conclude the meet there is a nice big green with a pub so I was going to suggest we get a couple of disposable BBQ's and have a nice social. We could even move the meet to say 1-5 so we get some more time. Also the scout hut will cost to hire, so as well as a small contribution from people coming I will raffle off a T-shirt and book from O'reilly. Also I was thinkning of inviting Lonix as our guests? We could combine this as a bit of a birthday bash for LUGITES[1], adam - 15th, me 31st, Jo - 1/9, jen 17 or 18 /9, et al.. Thanks D [1] Fantastic term 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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latest IRC list
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

> David Freeman - Akula > Neill Newman - Scoobz > Jenny Hopkins - jenbass > Laurie Brown - brownowl > William Hill - Rufty > Andrew Savory - savs or ajs > Bamir Hasani - CEPi > Paul Tansom - WhaleTales > Chris Glover - Taral > Adam Bower - abower or quinophex > Jo Mitchell - futurshox > Pete Turner - piemaster > Mark J Ray - slef or slav or slaf > Jonathan Pulfer - miniman > Steve Fosdick - fozzy_ > Rob - daetelis > Ben - PleXeR or DOA > Danny - Dingo > Brett Parker - (iDunno|Neo|somethin|somethinweird)

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Re: [Alug] Weekly IRC meeting reminder
by MJ Ray 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

Adam Bower <abower(a)zeus.com> writes: > 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. Please note that pratchett.openprojects.net is not available for user connections any more. If you used that, use sterling, herbert, fontana, merrill, zsoldos... The main UK server, hogan, will return soon. But not yet. -- MJR

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FOOD
by David Freeman 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

list, For the afor mentioned BBQ idea to go ahead we need some participation from members, we need people to offer to do the cooking and also people to volunteer food and maybe disposable BBQ's. Both jobs are very simple and wont entail much effort, I think cooking can be a sort of collective thing but we will need someone to start off the food etc... Then we need the food, now if with some coordination a few people each bring small individual items we could get a nice collection toegether and share food as well as source[pun intended]. Anyway enough of my ramblings, CU on IRC Thanks D - Akula, FlameBait, Carpel. ===== -------------------- "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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Alug Book emporuim
by David Freeman 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

All, I have just spoken to pearson Education who are offering a discount on there books to ALUG members, we just have to put a link on the web page to there site which if we use gives us the discount. Pearson are offering Prentice hall books which are the publishers of books by Andrew Tanenbaum. Andrews books are some of the best technical ones out there, his book on OS's helped Linus no end when he was writting linux originally. Also his book "Computer Networks" 3rd edition is very good and recommended reading for all members. Whilst on the subject of books, I was thinking of taking Jens page on Lniux books and building it into a larger page with details of the ALUG discounts and also the recommended reading 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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Suse contact
by David Freeman 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

Does anyone know of the LUG contact in SuSE? I remeber phoning someone before NLD but can't find the name or number. An email address would be useful. 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] Weekly IRC meeting reminder
by MJ Ray 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

Neill Newman <neill(a)entora.co.uk> writes: > It probably would be a good idea to have everything in one place, [...] I've always tried to avoid having mailing lists and web site on the same machine. Martyn, how good are your backups? Neill, could you hold backups so we can panic-move if really needed? -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] amigo
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

..what Neill doesn't know is the web cam I installed in his lounge, showing him lounging on the sofa with his feet up and drinking crates of Pepsi! And that's when he's working!!! He gets lazy when the Formula One is one!! /me hides behind a flame-proof Cisco router... A> Neill Newman <neill(a)entora.co.uk> on 09/07/2001 13:57:55 To: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI@FTI cc: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] amigo Andrew Chandler wrote: > > Well spotted that man!!! Yeah, it does appear to be a theme throughout > the "IT Industry" methinks. I don't think I've ever met any IT bods that have a > quite time at work... okay except Neill!!! *duck* When you are your own boss, you can work at your own pace, therefore I make time for the important things in life .. work and life are of equal importance to me ;).. so when Andi comes up to visit, it looks like I'm not doing much.. little does he know ;).. Sz -- Open Source Specialists http://www.entora.co.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)701 0723686 Fax: +44 (0)870 3214368 ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * For UK personal finance, please visit http://www.ftyourmoney.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] Weekly IRC meeting reminder
by MJ Ray 09 Jul '01

09 Jul '01

Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> writes: > Heh, looks like someone forgot to delete a cron job! We need: 1. new home for the cron IRC reminder 2. new home for the mailing lists (no alug member currently works for stu.uea.ac.uk)... *must* be GNU Mailman 3. people to post announcements of anything interesting to alug-announce... I don't want it as my personal sandbox Any of our friendly hosters want to help? -- MJR

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