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Newsforge: Running Windows viruses with Wine
by Keith Watson 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

<QUOTE> It just isn't fair that Windows users get all the viruses. I mean really, shouldn't Linux users be in on the fun as well? Well... thanks to the folks running the Wine project, Linux users can "catch the virus bug" too -- sort of. Linux just isn't user-friendly when it comes to viruses. You have to work to find and run them. It doesn't happen automatically as it does with Windows. The GNU/Linux folks really should improve this glaring discrepancy. </QUOTE> He's right, it's … [View More]

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Web viewer for encrypted data - any good ones?
by Chris Green 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Does anyone know of any good web applications for viewing the contents of encrypted files? I.e. I want to have an encrypted file on my web site which I can view from anywhere using a web browser. Obviously I'd need to supply a password and it needs to be an https: connection. I probably want something a bit more flexible than a password manager as the sort of data I want to store is a bit more than just passwords, though some of it is passwords. Ideally one would provide a password and a … [View More]

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://… [View More]

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Next Open Office question
by Chris Green 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Having got Open Office to run and the database connection working (which was non-trivial) I'm quite impressed. Setting up forms to enter data into a database is quite clever. Essentially you end up using the Open Office word processor as the forms designer which means that layout and so on is very easy and powerful. However I'm left with one question, you can specify actions for data entry fields as in 'Changed', 'Mouse Button Pressed', 'After Updating', etc. but I cant really see how to … [View More]

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More copyright issues - perhaps.
by Anthony Anson 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Apologies for the Shedspeak. ============ Start of forwarded message ============ From: "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <expunged.address> Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds Subject: Re: B.B.C. wibblefiles... On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:58:17 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades <creaking.gate(a)foobar.zetnet.co.uk> wrote in <313030303230303841F5A7B903(a)foobar.zetnet.co.uk>: > Do any Sheddi xabj whether you can download pogroms (I wanna file of > Hitler in Therapy - or simla title - a play from the Whirled … [View More]

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Job in Wymondham
by Keith Watson 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Casually browsing round jobserve.co.uk I came across this vacancy, http://www.jobserve.co.uk/W8418B30DC608043B.job , thought it might be of interest to one or more on the list. Regards, Keith ____________ 'I always use the word impossible with the greatest caution.' - - Wernher Von Braun

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Onspeed
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 23 Jan '05

23 Jan '05

Hi Folks, Luggers using dial-up in the Anglian sticks (and these are about as sticky as sticks get) may like to keep an eye on http://www.onspeed.com/ They claim to offer compression-based internet connections which are capable of increasing the throughput by a factor of about 10: 30kb/s->300kb/s. This is nudging broadband rates. And it's portable. At present, it is available for "PC" (= Windows) and Mac, for £24.96 a year. It involves installing some software on the machine that dials … [View More]

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Open Office, how to run it?
by Chris Green 23 Jan '05

23 Jan '05

I have just downloaded and installed Open Office 1.1.4, it all went quite smoothly. However there is just one little problem, there's no clue anywhere on how to actually run it now I have installed it! Is some part of the installed Open Office hierarchy supposed to be on my PATH? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Hi there!
by Wai 23 Jan '05

23 Jan '05

Hello all, I'm Wai Ngai. There are several reasons I'm interested in Linux. I inherited a tacked together MS network on flaky machines at new work. I'm fed up of MS licencing, random reboots and losing clockcycles to scanning for viruses 24/7! I like the idea that as I get more used to Linux I can add to it, optimise it, contribute to the community. I've recently got a laptop off ebay purely for linux. FYI its a Toshiba 3480CT ultraportable. Its been two weeks of late nights trying to … [View More]

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Ubuntu and Powerpc Wireless
by Ben Francis 23 Jan '05

23 Jan '05

Quite a while back someone in the IRC channel expressed interest when I said I'd installed Ubuntu on my iBook and they wanted to know if you could use wireless networking. I can't remember who it was, sorry. The answer (after a very quick Google), is no. I'm very disappointed about that. Apparently the necessary specifications haven't been released. So, unless anyone knows otherwise, I guess the best we can do is pester Apple... -- Ben "tola" Francis http://hippygeek.co.uk --… [View More]

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