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RE: [Alug]New Member Intro RE: [Alug]New Member Intro
by Dan Beimborn 30 May '03

30 May '03

Hmm, I sent it once and it was rejected due to my "From" not being subscribed, then I subscribed properly and resent it. I guess this first one also got approved. Sorry for the dupe DB Hmm, I sent it once and it was rejected due to my "From" not being subscribed, then I subscribed properly and resent it. I guess this first one also got approved. Sorry for the dupe DB ps- :) From: "Keith Watson" <Keith.Watson(a)Kewill.com> To: <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Subject: RE: [Alug]New Member Intro Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 11:47:29 +0100 >> From: Dan Beimborn >> >> Hi Folks, ...snip... Anyone else get a strange feeling of deja vu? :o) Keith

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[Alug]New Member Intro
by Dan Beimborn 30 May '03

30 May '03

Hi Folks, I'm a recently-relocated Sysadmin/Network Guy/Web Guy/Bottle Washer from California (San Jose) where I worked for a software company that did firewall/HA & Linux appliances in the storage space. I have a lot of background in TCP/IP/network/security/exotic routing on Linux systems, and also had a great time getting linux running inside old arcade cabinets. I also used to beta test Linux games for id software, but sadly I discontinued that relationship before I could get any copies of Doom 3 for Linux! My wife is a Norfolk girl, and after years of thinking about it, we finally decided to move here (Holt) to take advantage of the sun & heat we missed out on living in cold, dark California. I'm in the hunt for work doing just about anything with Linux, though my specialties are perl/apache/mysql and firewall/security/networking. Looking forward to pelting the natives with penguin dolls whenever the chance arrives (you do that here, right? right?) DB

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[Alug]Wine
by Edenyard 30 May '03

30 May '03

Has anyone here ever had any experience of using Wine to run anything useful? I've tried installing it twice now on my Slackware 8.1 system. Sure enough, it runs solitaire (from an old Win3.11 disk I have) as claimed in teh documentation, but it chokes completely on anything and everything else that I've tried, specifically catalogue-CDs from the likes of Farnell, RS, Texas, etc., including one old one that I KNOW has been run on W3.1. I have wine-20030408 and kernel 2.4.18 on an Athlon 1000 with 256Mb RAM. I installed it using ./tools/wineinstall as instructed and running ./tools/winecheck gives a score of 85%+, so I think I've got at least most of the config right. Most of the error messages start 'fixme: ', which suggests to me that perhaps it isn't even intended to work. I don't have a Windoze partition on either of my PCs, but my understanding of the Wine documentation is that I don't need one. A 500+ Mb package just to run solitaire (and, to be fair, winmine....) seems pretty useless to me. Is it really intended for running 'real- world' applications or I being really dumb here? If it really is as bad as it seems, is there any alternative emulator (or whatever they're called) for running these catalogue-CDs? Any help appreciated, thanks! Gerald.

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Re: [Alug]Wine
by Edenyard 30 May '03

30 May '03

Dan Hatton wrote: > > If they're anything like the catalogue CDs I've used, they rely on the > presence of Internet Explorer. I've just checked, and although IE6 > will run under wine (in the sense of a window appearing, with menus > that will drop down,) it doesn't seem keen to do much. Also, as you > don't have a Windows partition, I guess you'd need to install it. I > have two nasty feelings about this. > I remember back in the dark old days when I existed on a mixture of DOS mainly with a little Doze 3.1, these exact same catalogue CDs ran then. That certainly didn't have this Explorer thing on it, so I suppose that I have to hunt for another reason for its failure. In any case, wouldn't Explorer be just for looking at .html pages? (Excuse ignorance on this - I've never used it!) Cheers, Gerald.

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Re: [Alug]Wine
by Edenyard 30 May '03

30 May '03

Adam Bower wrote: > > 500Mb?! that sounds a bit wrong to me. Unless you have all the source kicking > around and have built it from scratch. > I had source code and the .tar.gz was about 8Mb I think. Looking in the source directory after compiling, MC makes it 429Mb, of which the largest chunk seems to be the /dll subdirectory at around 305Mb. Also, there's around 107Mb in /usr/local/lib/wine and some other executables, etc., dotted around. Do you think I've done something silly? Why would it generate so much in the source directory that doesn't seemingly make it into /usr/something-or-the-other? > > There are packages that are around 35Mb > (compressed tgz for slackware so admittedly it will be bigger when installed) > maybe try one of them? > I don't relish the thought of downloading 35Mb on a modem that seems to connect at 44000 at fastest! I only had the source because Ian Douglas was kind enough to copy it onto a CD for me. Maybe when I get around to looking at Slackware 9.0 I may find the TGZ package on there. > > Anyhow I have used Wine to run Microsoft Office in Linux before, and I use it > to run Digiguide for windows also, I think a couple of years back I also made > Half-life work so it does indeed work with a fairly broad selection of > applications. > To be fair, I have now actually found 1 CD that runs on it and that's a car workshop manual CD. However, I'd already extracted the set of PDFs from this CD and copied them to my HDD so that I could read them with acroread, so it's a bit pointless using wine for that. What I really desperately need is for the RS and Farnell cats to run. No luck there, though.... Gerald.

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[Alug]SCO Unix IP Claim : Well that's the end of that then!
by Keith Watson 29 May '03

29 May '03

Press Release: Novell Challenges SCO Position, Reiterates Support for Linux <http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05/pr03033.html> Keith ____________ AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor. Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Re: [Alug]New Member Introduction
by Dan Beimborn 29 May '03

29 May '03

> Which part of california? I thought it was always sunny there ;) San Jose. Yes, actually it is sunny there all the time. Sunny enough to burn your skin in 15 minutes, year round. Hooray for that. I find myself not missing that (yet). > Pelting natives with penguins? How about the weather right now? ;) > And have some cold beer! Hmm, though culturally I should be a cold fizzy lager swiller, I tend to like nice pints of bitter served at about 55/60 degrees. My company ordered about 450 1u servers from a company called "Penguin Computing". Each one had a little 4" plush penguin doll in it. At one point, we put at least 400 of them in a large cardboard box and tipped them onto the head of a microsoft partisan in the office. Photos exist, but I can't find mine now! DB

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[Alug]Worth trying locally?
by tom potts 29 May '03

29 May '03

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[Alug]New Member Introduction
by Dan Beimborn 29 May '03

29 May '03

Hi Folks, I'm a recently-relocated Sysadmin/Network Guy/Web Guy/Bottle Washer from California (San Jose) where I worked for a software company that did firewall/HA & Linux appliances in the storage space. I have a lot of background in TCP/IP/network/security/exotic routing on Linux systems, and also had a great time getting linux running inside old arcade cabinets (why not?). I also used to beta test Linux games for id software, but sadly I discontinued that relationship before I could get any copies of Doom 3 for Linux! My wife is a Norfolk girl, and after years of thinking about it, we finally decided to move here (Holt) to take advantage of the sun & heat we missed out on living in cold, dark California. I'm in the hunt for a permanent job (or the right contract position) doing just about anything with Linux, though my specialties are perl/apache/mysql and firewall/security/networking. Sexy CV available to anyone looking! Looking forward to pelting the natives with penguin dolls whenever the chance arrives (you do that here, right? right?) DB

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Re: [Alug]Wine
by jamie.french＠talk21.com 29 May '03

29 May '03

This is funny, I tried to get Wine working last night as I want to run KazaaLite. I dont have much time in the evenings and all I got to work was progman! Need to do some reading. Aside, does anyone know of any P2P clients like Kazaa which run under Linux? Take Care, Jamie Best Regards, Jamie French -------------------- talk21 your FREE portable and private address on the net at http://www.talk21.com

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