July 2002 - main - earth.li

Heeeelp!
by Kelly Ash 20 Jul '02

20 Jul '02

Anybody out there?? Hope so! It's me..Kelly...using an old hotmail addy for the moment. Did my install this morning, went smooth as far as I could tell. Got to the very end and I clicked "OK" to reboot. Supposedly I was supposed to get a choice of either Windows or Linux (If I haven't wiped out my Windows hd that is *g*). But all I get is a black screen with: MBR Error 3 MBR Error 3 MBR Error 1 Press any key to boot from floppy. As it zipped through the steps during the install it didn't ask me once to insert a floppy! If I click any key after the last bit up there I just get: 'MBR Error 2-Press any key to boot from floppy. I've got a number here somewhere that someone (would be nice if I could remember a name!) gave me in case of problems but will check back in email a couple times first even if I DO find it, lol. The cc's are to the only addy's I could find right now for ALUG, and ones I THINK I know. We'll see how close I get *g* Thanks! Kelly _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

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Meeting Report for 14 July 2002
by MJ Ray 19 Jul '02

19 Jul '02

ALUG met on Sunday 14th July at the North Lynn Discovery Centre in King's Lynn. Attendees included John Woodard, Jen Hopkins, johnboy(!?), Keith Watson, Dave Griffiths, Dennis Dryden, MJ Ray, Brett Parker, James Taylor & Karen Maltby. Kit Debugging --------------------- USB mice - can anyone help get a wireless Logitech iTouch black mouse working? Alug promo - what should we do different? --------------------- * Announce meetings to local papers * List more in linux mags * More themed meetings * Future meetings: - Bbq@Syleham - Edu or dev?@Elmswell: ask Rob - Install@uea: ask James or David * New venue? Watch this space Printing info --------------------- * MJR gave a short talk off the top of his head: details to be added to the web site contrib area. Ipaq speech synth demo --------------------- * Thanks to Jen for bringing the ipaq, and Dennis for use of his laptop Adjourned to a local(ish) beer garden for drink and chat =========================

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Re: [Alug] Meeting Report for 14 July 2002
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 19 Jul '02

19 Jul '02

MJRay wrote: >ALUG met on Sunday 14th July at the North Lynn Discovery Centre in King's >Lynn. Attendees included John Woodard, Jen Hopkins, johnboy(!?), Keith >Watson, Dave Griffiths, Dennis Dryden, MJ Ray, Brett Parker, James Taylor & >Karen Maltby. Also Steve Fosdick valiantly appearing from the other side of the globe in time for the pub. Jen.

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Poloshirts & Sweatshirts
by Keith Watson 19 Jul '02

19 Jul '02

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate list or should go on the social list, sorry if it's wrong. At work we've recently been in contact with a company in Dereham that does promotional logos on sweatshirts etc. Just out of curiosity I asked how much they would charge to put Tux and the words "ALUG Anglian Linux User Group"** on a garment. Assuming no copyright restrictions in using Tux, for embroidered artwork, they quoted £14 for poloshirts and £15 for sweatshirts with a minimum order of 10 garments, mixture's are possible (e.g. sizes and polo/s + sweat/s). Any interest? Keith ____________ The natural order of things includes us, and its laws are our laws. We are an endless moving stream in an endless moving stream. Jisho Warner ** I suppose that should really be AGLUG - Anglian GNU/Linux User Group!! :o)

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GIMP Print Anyone?
by Keith Watson 19 Jul '02

19 Jul '02

1st thanks for the advice on how to get my Canon S400 up and running at the last meeting. Lots of useful ideas. I still haven't quite got beyond the printer, whenever I print something, going through a couple of head cleaning cycles and then going back to sleep but I have uninstalled CUPS, installed a 'proper' copy of Ghostscript, and also PDQ and Magicfilter. I like PDQ, especially xpdq. I not sure that mf is giving me anything at the moment but I'm keeping it by, just in case :o). At present reading up on how fonts are handled within X, Gnome, Ghostscript, etc. because I'm pretty sure they aren't set up correctly. OK, to get the point at last. While browsing around the printing projects on SourceForge I came across Gimp-Print <http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/index.php3> which seems to be one of the few that supports the S400 directly instead of as a BJC600. I've got hold of a copy and I'm going to give it a try. Anyone else ever used it? Incidentally there's an article on LinuxPlanet that mentions it <http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/3689/1/> Regards, Keith ____________ 'If there is a better solution...find it.' - Thomas Edison

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Networking Problem
by Ian Douglas 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

Hi folks, I got a new PC today and have been busy beavering away installing Linux on its hard disk and setting it up to dual boot. Everything seems to have gone smoothly apart from my ethernet connection (Realtek RTL8139). My routing table is as follows: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 If I try and ping any other hosts I get "Destination Unreachable" errors: PING suzy.suseland.net (192.168.3.61) from 192.168.3.70 : 56(84) bytes of data.

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Warchalking!!
by Keith Watson 18 Jul '02

18 Jul '02

Following on from the discussions about wireless devices at the last meeting, here's some Computing articles that may be of interest; Chalk symbols expose London's wireless points <http://www.networknews.co.uk/News/1133055> WLAN hackers chalk up attacks <http://www.itweek.co.uk/ITWeekopinion/1133308> Keith ____________ Stand still. The trees ahead and the bush beside you are not lost. Albert Einstein

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Isdn anyone?
by tom potts 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

I've got ISDN at home which I normally access through my NT box as I've never managed to get it to work under RH7.2/Mandrake/Suse or others. My NT box self destructed last nite (well its 9 year old harddrive did) so I wish to get up on ISDN. I've hunted high and low for FAQ's etc but the only two I've found dont seem to work. Better still does Freesco have support for ISDN? Or maybe ADSL cos I might upgrade so I Consume theneighbourhood Cheers Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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blackbox automatic startup
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

Hi All, I want blackbox to start automatically when i run startx. I tried putting exec blackbox in various .xsession and .xinitrc files to no avail. So then I found myself trawling about places like /etc/X11/Xsession.d (in debian) looking at how variables are called, all very entertaining but I'm sure there is an easier way. Like "bbconf", except that didn't do anything either. Creating a file called .xsession in my home directory and putting exec blackbox in doesn't help. Help! Nothing helps! Any ideas? Thanks, Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] blackbox automatic startup
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 17 Jul '02

17 Jul '02

Adam Bower wrote: >X is evil :) it is not meant to be understood. Anyhow create the file .xinitrc >and add the one line exec blackbox and then change the permissions on the file >to read and execute for just you and then try startx. That did the job just beautifully, thanks Adam! I hereby nominate you as the phone support for the group (/me runs). Jenny.

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