December 2003 - main

Tele-conferencing under linux & M$
by Paul 14 Dec '03

14 Dec '03

Just had a cry for help in setting up a teleconferencing system for a small group of FOSS developers. The proposed solution is to use a specialist service provider based on conventional telephony equipment - This works fine as long as it uses local rate calls, but I would need to dial a US number.. IRC would be my favoured choice, but it has been ruled out as some people have an aversion to the keyboard. This leaves voice-over-internet (VoIP ?), an area I have no experience of. Looking at www.linphone.org, it would appear that it would only support a one-to-one connection. On the other hand, it may provide a solution to the problem of long distance calls... Question: Are there any compatable software packages that will run on linux and microsoft platforms ? Regards, Paul. -- "To err is human...to really f*** things up requires the root password."

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For sale : Understanding the Linux Kernel (O'Reilly)
by Ashley 14 Dec '03

14 Dec '03

I have an O'Reilly book for sale. It covers the technical details of the Linux 2.2 kernel. More information at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/ I am looking for £5. Please email me off-list if interested. -- Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. http://www.ashleyhowes.com "When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"

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Subject: Re: [ALUG] Norwich evening meet: Thursday 11th December
by Ricky Bruce 13 Dec '03

13 Dec '03

if anyones ever in the market place in norwich watch out for streetwalkers handing out heart shaped leaflets, get as many as you can, they are for Nandos on the riverside or red lion street, and you can get a free meal with them, get enough and thats free catering for the meet. The foods pretty good aswell, their chilli sauce knocks your head off, i went temporarily blind and almost passed out after a few minutes of eating my extra-hot burger. The music isnt too invasive either. Rick ps: hello everyone aswell, keep meaning to write but im lazy. Just moved back to the uk after a spell in the US, my old lug wasnt very active, as theres not a whole lot of technology in central illinois..just corn but greetings from lugop anyway. www.lugop.org _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool emoticons - download MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

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Re: [ALUG] laptop recommendations
by Matt Parker 13 Dec '03

13 Dec '03

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 23:20, adam(a)thebowery.co.uk wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for a new laptop and need a few suggestions... > I'd recommend an IBM. I've had Linux running on a number of Thinkpads and it's been rock solid. They're not the best laptops for their price in the world, but Linux loves them, and they're built like tanks. I dropped one from a fair height once, and except for a small crack in the LCD screen it worked without a problem. Matt -- http://www.mpcontracting.co.uk Experts in Java development and website design

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D-link DSL-300G+ and SuSEfirewall2
by Peter Onion 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Anyone using this combination ? The modem has a DHCP server , which initially gives a 192.168.0.X address on a short lease. It waits until it actually has traffic to send it until using DHCP to get the real (ADSL interface) address. Then it updates the 192.168.0.X address for the real one. Changing eth0's address like this breaks the rules in the firewall. It can easily be fixed by running "rcSuSEfirewall2 restart", but it is a bit of a pain. Any other solutions ? Peter

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Don't forget! Norwich evening meeting 8pm tonight
by Syd Hancock 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Norwich evening meeting 8pm tonight, Forum Coffee bar. I have a nasty runny cold just starting so may not be there this evening - if not would someone post a brief note to the list afterwards? Thanks Syd

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Announce digest, Vol 2 #27 - 2 msgs
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." --------------.--------------------------------------------.------------ alug-announce | Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group | Weekly(ish) --------------'--------------------------------------------'------------ ** Please send articles for this letter to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk ** *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Topics: 1. Linux Ham headcount (MJ Ray) 2. Reminder: Norwich evening meet this week (Syd Hancock) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 11:32:17 +0000 From: MJ Ray <mjr(a)dsl.pipex.com> To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Organization: Very poor Subject: [Alug Announce]Linux Ham headcount ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2003-12-03 10:06:19 +0000 From: chris williams <webboss(a)ntlworld.com> Subject: Linux Ham headcount Hi All, Would you mind asking around your lugs to see if you have and Radio Amateurs in your groups. If you could you ask any "Linux Hams" you find lurking to drop a very quick mail to :- linuxham(a)485design.co.uk At this stage Im doing a quick headcount using an email countbot to see roughly how many are about, but if there is enough interest a couple of members from our group plan to put together a UK based Linux-Ham resource site etc... We (Shropshire LUG) recently did a "Linux Awareness Day" at Telford Radio Rally - a national event kind of like a computer fair on steriods for radio amateurs. Quite a good event - several thousand visitors all of whom had to walk past our display to get to the bargains - lots of interest - kept 6 of us on the display stand busy all day with demos and chat :) Judging from the number of visitors we spoke to who indicated they used linux already there should be potentially quite a few. Our lug has about half a dozen out of our 60ish membership that are radio amateurs (around 10%). I will be interested to see if this is a national thing or if we are just a strange bunch of anoraks here in shropshire ;) cheers all... Chris W (g7/m3nbp) -- Christopher J Williams LugMaster for Shropshire - http://www.shropshire.lug.org --__--__-- Message: 2 From: Syd Hancock <syd(a)toufol.com> To: alug <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:44:44 +0000 Cc: alug <announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Subject: [Alug Announce]Reminder: Norwich evening meet this week Norwich area monthly evening meet takes place as usual on the second thursday of the month: 11th december 2003 from 8pm in the bar of the Forum, Norwich. Full details, directions etc. on the ALUG website http://www.alug.org.uk Syd --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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Router firewall
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

On my ADSL router firewall configuration there are 3 interfaces - Public, Private and DMZ and one can apparently specify ALL. I understand Public as the Internet side, Private as my home LAN side and I don't really understand DMZ for which there are default rules set up. I have my single port router (Ethernet) connected to my main computer, which has two ethernet ports, on eth1. The home LAN is connected to the other ethernet port eth0. This computer masquerades for the other computers on the network. Do I really need the DMZ rules? Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Reminder: Norwich evening meet this week
by Syd Hancock 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Norwich area monthly evening meet takes place as usual on the second thursday of the month: 11th december 2003 from 8pm in the bar of the Forum, Norwich. Full details, directions etc. on the ALUG website http://www.alug.org.uk Syd

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RE: [ALUG] Linux friendly external modem, and ISPs
by Jenny Hopkins 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

> -----Original Message----- > From: adam(a)thebowery.co.uk [mailto:adam@thebowery.co.uk] > If you saw the rats nest that was lurking under my desk at > the time I am sure you would have been more forgiving :p > Is that the true meaning of "plug 'n' pray"? :-) Jen >

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