July 2003 - main - earth.li

[Alug]out of the frying pan into the fire?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 21 Jul '03

21 Jul '03

Hi, Here at work we are finally getting rid of lotus notes server/client for our mail. Hoorah! Hoorah! We are replacing it with, cough, MS Exchange and a front end of our choice. My brother wants to use a linux box with Opera for his mail, and I would do likewise or use exim-mutt type things. Does anyone have any experience with linux and ms exchange? Is it pop3 or imap? Does it keep its mail in weird format that Opera won't be able to read? etc etc. This is a great opportunity to start running linux as a work desktop, as Notes and the odd word doc are all I need ms windows for now, and I don't intend to miss it! jen

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[Alug]Success with ACPI
by Louise Jayne Marie Worthington 20 Jul '03

20 Jul '03

Thanks for the suggestions. I have compiled ACPI in to my kernel and my laptop is dramatically cooler :) I shall also be trying autospeedstep next to improve further. Cheers everyone!

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[Alug]Norwich meeting today - reminder
by Syd Hancock 20 Jul '03

20 Jul '03

Last minute reminder: meeting this afternoon in Norwich at the British Legion Hall on Aylsham road, from 2pm. Full details on the website. If bringing any kit, bring an extension lead as there is only one double socket in the whole room. Syd

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[Alug]Hello, Mobile Athlons and cpufreq
by Louise J M Worthington 18 Jul '03

18 Jul '03

Hello I've been reading for a while but this is my first post. I try to use Debian exclusively and have been experimenting with Linux for about 3 years. I have an Acer Aspire 1301XV laptop with a mobile Athlon XP 1500+. I have tried using Debian, but the CPU gets worryingly hot and the fan is constantly on. I have been looking at the cpufreq project but I can't find much documentation or any updates on its progress. Does anyone know anything about the progress of this project or has anyone any experience with these configurations? A while ago I read about manually changing the clock speed but I haven't been able to find anything since. Thanks, Louise

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RE: [Alug] Evening Meetings
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 17 Jul '03

17 Jul '03

Syd wrote: >How about an informal evening meeting in Norwich on Monday's from about 8pm Syd - I live too far away, but enjoy. Should we change the IRC meeting evening, though? Jen

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[Alug]DVD Compilations
by Martyn Drake 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

Hi, I'm intending to put together a DVD compilation of the following distributions in ISO format for people that want to play with various distros but without having to download or buy individual ISOs themselves. Would anybody be interested in this at all? Might be useful for those going to meetings and have a DVD/CD-RW combo drive in their machine :) I'm intending to include the latest ISO releases of: - Debian Stable (i.e. Woody) - Mandrake 9.1 - Red Hat 9.0 - Knoppix - Slackware Regards, Martyn -- http://www.drake.org.uk http://www.drake-hosting.info

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Re: [Alug]out of the frying pan into the fire?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

Chris Glover wrote: >We have MS Exchange at work, anmd I have successsfullly been able to >conect to it using Pine as an IMAP client. Our exchange servers also >support LDAP, so you can connect to that to get at things like the company >address list. This is more encouraging news. It does all sound like a case of "out of the frying pan into the frying pan next to it" though :-( Jen

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Re: [Alug]out of the frying pan into the fire?
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

Douglas Willis wrote: >Why the move to Exchange? Nothing to do with me! I've no idea. /me crawls under desk and puts brown paper bag over head. >As far as I am aware Exchange supports imap and pop3 as mail >interfaces. This should support any Linux mail client. This is better news, but conflicts with what Laurie wrote: >Exchange is fully proprietary, and doesn't run IMAP. You're restricted to >Outlook as a client. Ah, Adam says: >If you only want >mail access then make sure the people who set it up leave pop and imap turned >on (you will have to check out the imap status yourself) >I think you should point out to your management that going the exchange route >is not a great idea. This seems obvious from all your mails (thanks, all). Unfortunately I don't have a lot of say in the matter - I did argue at length for getting a linux server to run as our mail server, set up and maintained where necessary, by linux professionals. To no avail. The bloke who has talked the company into getting ms exchange sadly is the guy who walked backwards making his fingers into the sign off a cross saying "I don't know anything about Unix, thank God" when i was trying to explain I needed an ssh port left open in our firewall a few months ago. http://www.winecentric.com/notes5.shtml Hey! Pity I didn't read up this a few months ago. Not worth the effort now we're getting good old ms exchange. Thanks all, Jen

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Re: [Alug]USB Network Help, Please
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:04:04PM +0100, Dan Hatton wrote: > I tried this query on linux-usb-users, with no luck... can my local > linux community help, please? > > I've been following the instructions at > <http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x555.html> to set up a two-machine > USB network with a Linux box at one end. > > The command > > ifconfig plusb0 192.168.0.1 pointopoint 192.168.0.2 > > fails with the error message > > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > plusb0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device > plusb0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > > Afterwards, > > ping 192.168.0.2 > > gets no response (i.e. 100% packet loss.) Any ideas how to fix this, > please? > > plusb is loaded as a kernel module. The kernel version is 2.2.20. Have you compiled USB-USB Networking cable device support into your kernel? This gives you a module called usbnet, which I think you need, if you haven't got it already. Jenny.

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[Alug]Anyone want Morphix/Knoppix on sunday?
by Syd Hancock 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

At the recent evening meet Keith brought recent Morphix and Knoppix CDs to take to the meeting on sunday 20th in Norwich at the RBLH. Morphix 3.6 (17 May 2003) in three versions - games, light office, heavy office - i.e. three separate CDs Knoppix 3.2 (6 June 2003) If anyone would like more copies of any or all of these brought to the meeting then please email me off list. No copying charge, just replace the blanks or give me cost price (about 30p a CD AFAIR) Syd

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