March 2004 - main

Library request
by Kirsten Naylor 12 Mar '04

12 Mar '04

Hi :) Apparently a copy "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" changed hands yesterday at the City Gate meeting. BJ has it now, I'm told, but we have two copies which are both out so I don't know who it was that returned it. It was either David Crease or John Atkinson. Can someone let me know who it was please? /Kirsten (librarian of sorts)

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Re: [ALUG] QX3 microscope
by Edenyard 12 Mar '04

12 Mar '04

Adam wrote: > As far as I can tell it appears as a standard video for linux device so > anything that will work with v4l will work with the cam. I am currently using > "tvtime" to watch tele with and I am pretty sure that it will work very nicely > with the QX3 :) Thanks for that, Adam. I picked up a copy of tvtime 0.9.12 and installed it and I get pictures. Unfortunately, I get vertically compressed images with a large green patch underneath. I've read the documentation over and over and I've tried experimenting with all sorts of settings, to no avail. Strangely, though, the captured images are the correct aspect ratio, but still with a large area of green under. Presumably it works better than that with your telly pictures? > I was thinking about getting a QX3 at some point, but then I found out that the > zoom wasn't optical or something like that which put me off but if you can get From what I can tell, the magnification (x10, x60, x200) is all done optically. For the price, it seems not too bad. I found an addition prog 'cpia-control' (uses Python) which is useful for setting the camera's parameters and also for controlling the object lamps. Cheers, Gerald.

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City Gate transport, A146
by Richard Bensley 11 Mar '04

11 Mar '04

Anyone attending tonight going along the A146/A143 to ge there tonight? I would really appreciate a lift. Email me with some contact details and I will get in touch, I am willing to help pay for petrol/taxi/beer!

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Reminder: Norwich meet this evening 11-Mar-2004
by Syd Hancock 11 Mar '04

11 Mar '04

The monthly Norwich 'second thursday' evening social meet will take place this evening, 11th March from 8 pm in the 'City Gate' pub, Dereham Road. The City Gate pub is just off the inner ring road at the junction of Grapes Hill and Barn Road. Full address, photo, link to map etc here: http://www.norwichpubs.info/norwichpubs/pubpages/citygate.htm Syd

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any lifts available tomorrow night Aylsham <> City Gate?
by adam＠thebowery.co.uk 10 Mar '04

10 Mar '04

Hi people, If anyone has a lift going Aylsham <> City Gate tomorrow night or wouldn't mind going a bit out the way to offer one then I would be a glad recipient and would be happy to give some dosh towards petrol/diesel/soft drinks/software etc. etc. Thanks Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem

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OFFTOPIC: I need a big favor, for a big download
by Richard Bensley 10 Mar '04

10 Mar '04

Hey I really need a favour, can anyone in the norwich area do a big download for me (it's counter strike 1.6 WITHOUT steam!). I know this is off topic, but I need it for a big lan that is happening at Geldeston village hall (near beccles, come of you can make next weekend email me for more details). http://www.dijkstra.biz/stuff/programma/lan/cs-lan-v7/cs16full-v7.exe I would really appreciate it if someone could burn this to disc for me! I am willing to pay for it in way of a big stack of cd's, and a pint or two? cheers, Richard

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[Alug Announce]Summary for 10 March 2004
by MJ Ray 10 Mar '04

10 Mar '04

Announce v3 Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce Hello! The format of this has changed, after some problems that we just couldn't fix. It's denser too. Hope that's OK. Email things for this to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk like before, please. ALUG Main: --------- 1. Norwich evening meeting on Thu 11 March at 8pm in the City Gate. http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/018068.html 2. Please send opinions about a meeting in late March before the end of today (Wed). http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/018108.html 3. Mandrake 10 ISOs offered. http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-March/018082.html Debian-UK: --------- 1. Debian-UK meet in Cambridge on Sat 13 March at noon, in the Salisbury Arms. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/pipermail/debian-uk/2004-March/002073.html Lug.org.uk: ---------- 1. UKUUG have called for papers for their developers meeting in Leeds from Thu 29 July to Sun 1 August. http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2004/cfp.shtml 2. Sheflug's GNU/Linux seminar is at SWFC on Tue 23 March. http://www.sheflug.co.uk/seminar.html 3. Lecture about TCPA on GNU/Linux at Cambridge Uni on 16 March. Details below. 4. The European Parliament passed IPRED. Be unhappy. Be very unhappy. Details to follow, or ask MJR at a meeting. Thanks for reading! Please keep emailing announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk -------- Forwarded Message -------- MICROSOFT RESEARCH LECTURE This is a PUBLIC lecture TITLE: TCPA Enabled Open Source platforms SPEAKER: Demetrios Lambrou INSTITUTION: Royal Holloway University of London HOST: Fabien Petitcolas DATE: 16 March 2004 TIME: 16:00 - 17:00 MEETING ROOM: Lecture Theatre ADDRESS: Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge The general purpose computer is not an ideal platform to run security sensitive operations. Implementing security services on specialized security hardware is not a cost-effective solution. The Trusted Computing Group have developed a new industry specification which adds a Trusted Computing Base to the general purpose PC with a fraction of the cost of secure hardware. When the TCB is interfaced with the Operating System, security enhanced applications and new security services can be supported by the PC. Such services provide for data integrity, full confidentiality of personal data and protection from unauthorized disclosure. This presentation describes the main concept behind TCPA and how it can be incorporated to an Open Source platform such as Linux. Developing a prototype TCPA agent, has lead to identifying possible problems and how TCPA enabled platforms can be of practical use in today`s information technology. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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debian and kernels and the net
by beneboy 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

I installed woody last week, and have just gotten round to compiling the 2.4.22 kernel. All was well until I tried to access the net. I can connect OK (using wvdial) but I can't get my mail and moz just times out when trying to load pages. I've tried pinging IP addresses with no luck so It's not my nameservers being wrong or anything. I'm guessing that something is stopping the packets from leaving my 'puter. The lack of blinking lights on my modem would suggest ths, anyhow. the config I used to compile the kernel is the one I have used in all my boxes in the past with no problems (including ones with kernel 2.4.22). I used the vanilla kernel source (ie, taken from the PC format discs rather than apt-getting the source), but I doubt that would make a difference?? And even with my shiny new book, 'google hacks' I still can't anything even remotely related ;) help...please...someone. TIA, BenE

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QX3 microscope
by Edenyard 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Has anyone here ever used the Intel QX3 microscope (the blue plastic one) on Linux? If so, what application is needed to view the pictures, apart from the kernel cpia drivers? And is the QX3 worth having?? Cheers, Gerald.

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Mouse problems - how to specify a PS/2 mouse?
by Chris Green 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

I had a disaster yesterday with my Win2k system, as a consequence I needed to get my Linux system displaying its X desktop directly as opposed to using the Win2k system's X server (cygwin). I had to run xf86config as I'd never set up X on the system before, it actually went quite smoothly without any serious problems and I had my xfce desktop up and running very easily - apart from a non-working mouse. My problem then was that I didn't know what the entries in the XF86Config file were for different mouse types. The HOWTOs tell you which lines to change for different types of mice etc. but they don't tell you what are the possible valid entries. Where can one find this information? I simply couldn't get a PS/2 mouse set up to work and ended up finding a serial mouse and using that. Does one need to change the link from /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS0 if using a PS/2 mouse? I worked out that the Protocol setting needed to be PS/2 but still couldn't get it working. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk)

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