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Enemy Territory Quake Wars game night success
by Adam Bower 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hi, etqw last night was a pretty good success, 4 of us played hopefully we are going to do it again very soon. If you are interested then post here or find either quinophex, DrJeep or DralaFi on irc and we'll try to thrash out a time/date although we will probably have ad-hoc games during the week so asking on irc if we are playing might also be sensible. Just from a personal perspective given I'd not played quake wars until last night if we do get some more people interested who have not played before, perhaps we shouldn't go on a ranked server first and find a quiet server with some bots so it is a bit slower paced? I found the ranked game was far to frantic given I wasn't really sure what I was doing but as soon as we went up against some bots and had a bit more breathing space it became lots easier as I managed to work out how to actually complete missions. Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li

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Enemy Territory Quake Wars Game night
by Wayne Stallwood 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Just a reminder that tomorrow (tuesday) is Quake Wars game night. First game at 8PM, meet on #alug (IRC) at 7:30. Second game at 10PM, meet on IRC at 9:30. Alternatively friend drjeep and/or dralafi within the game before 6PM and use the follow feature to find us.

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Re: [ALUG] ubuntu 8.04 revisited
by Bev Nicolson 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

I've just found that the preferences menu has the option to make the Courier font bold and it's much better. The error messages go by pretty fast (it's the last thing I see before it shuts down completely) but it starts off by announcing that it's starting various processes. If I can write down what it says I'll post it. Bev. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steven Rose" > > > > What is the actual error message(s) regarding the network manager? > > In response to your other query, not being an Opera user myself, I > imagine somewhere in appearance preferences, much like in Firefox you > can alter the default font types, an issue I came across in 8.04 was > some fonts being set to "light" versions rather than the regular weight, > making them look faded. > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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ubuntu 8.04 revisited
by Bev Nicolson 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

I upgraded to Hardy Heron a few days ago and have two puzzles. One is that twice now I've had Network Manager error messages when I shut down, though I've changed none of the settings and the other, less serious puzzle, is that plain type in Opera now looks like the typewriter needs a new ribbon. Can I change that? Bev. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Ipswich Meet Location on the 21st
by Wayne Stallwood 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

I haven't seen an announce yet for the Ipswich meet and don't know if I have missed some conversation about the potential new venue. Is it still at the Milestone as per the Alug wiki front page or are we going with Sam Wise's suggestion to the main list of giving the Punch and Judy a go ?

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Fw: iT4Communities - vote by 22 Jul to help our funding
by mbm 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

All See message below. This is actually a worthwhile charity working in our industry to put charities in touch with people capable of helping them out. Please vote if you think it worthwhile Mick Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:06:41 +0100 (BST) From: info(a)it4communities.org.uk To: mick(a)rlogin.net Subject: iT4Communities - vote by 22 Jul to help our funding As you may be aware, iT4Communities has been having some funding problems. We lost our government funding when Capacity Builders decided that national programmes should not support front line voluntary organisations directly. Now you and I know that services and systems like iT4C can only sensibly operate on a national scale (if not an international one?) and that we and you do serve front line voluntary organisations and charities directly. But that's water under the bridge now. Right now, we've been short listed in a competition to win up to £20,000 of funding from MoneySavingExpert.com. We've done incredibly well to get this far - there were over 600 entries and we're in the final twelve. We need you to vote for us www.moneysavingexpert.com/#vote now! The four charities with the most votes when the poll closes on Tuesday 22nd July will become MoneySavingExpert's chosen charities for the year. We have helped a lot of the most popular charities mentioned MoneySavingExpert's short list (34 projects for the current top 5 in the poll and their associates) but we serve you and them rather than the public directly so we are not as well known as the other short listed charities in the MoneySavingExpert list. If every one of our 5000+ volunteers voted for us we'd have a great chance of being in the top four. So please go to www.moneysavingexpert.com/#vote to vote for us NOW! No automation please, I know that it's a temptation if you know how but please resist it! On the other hand, do encourage your friends and colleagues to vote for us by passing this message on. And if we win? We'll use the funding to define more projects, help more projects to completion and encourage more volunteering to help voluntary organisations with their IT needs. So everybody benefits! We are still, of course, hunting for corporate sponsorship too so please get in touch if you can help here - or know someone who can. Leads are mostly what we need. We'll follow up. John I. Davies iT4Communities Programme Director Mobile: +44 7736 798802 Phone: +44 20 7796 2144 Email: john(a)wcit.org.uk www.it4communities.org.uk "Introducing IT professionals wanting to volunteer their skills to charities needing IT help" Email: john(a)wcit.org.uk 39a Bartholomew Close, London EC1A 7JN iT4Communities is a programme of the Information Technologists Company, www.wcit.org.uk. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : Punch & Judy, Grafton Way
by samwise 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting is back next week (Monday 21st July) at 20:00, with a new venue: Punch & Judy Grafton Way IPSWICH Suffolk IP1 1AX Tel: 01473 210979 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP1+1AX The Punch & Judy pub is in the centre of Ipswich, near Cardinal Park - at the opposite end of the large car park from the Cineworld multiplex cinema and a short walk from Ipswich train station. There is more information on the venue, including car parking info, on the ALUG wiki: http://www.alug.org.uk/wiki/moin.cgi/Meetings All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Hopefully, it shouldn't be too hard to find the pack, look for those huddled around a laptop! Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Hope to see you there, Peter. ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Enemy Territory Quake Wars Game night
by Wayne Stallwood 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

The first (and if nobody turns up, last) **Official Enemy Territory:Quake Wars ALUG game night** Play for the first night will be on a public ranked server, if it goes well then we can consider hosting a server, forming a clan etc but this game needs at least 4 players a side before it gets interesting so I want to get an idea of numbers first before we commit to that. First game on the 22nd of July at 8PM, meet on #alug (IRC) at 7:30 to find out what server we are on. Second game at 10PM, meet on IRC at 9:30. Alternatively friend drjeep and or dralafi within the game before 6PM and use the follow feature to find us. For those that don't know ET:QW is a fps with strong team play elements, a linux client is available but unfortunately this is a commercial game. (all be it currently available for £7 or less delivered)

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[ALUG Announce] Enemy Territory Quake Wars Game night
by Wayne Stallwood 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The first (and if nobody turns up, last) **Official Enemy Territory:Quake Wars ALUG game night** Play for the first night will be on a public ranked server, if it goes well then we can consider hosting a server, forming a clan etc but this game needs at least 4 players a side before it gets interesting so I want to get an idea of numbers first before we commit to that. First game on the 22nd of July at 8PM, meet on #alug (IRC) at 7:30 to find out what server we are on. Second game at 10PM, meet on IRC at 9:30. Alternatively friend drjeep and or dralafi within the game before 6PM and use the follow feature to find us. For those that don't know ET:QW is a fps with strong team play elements, a linux client is available but unfortunately this is a commercial game. (all be it currently available for £7 or less delivered) ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Picasa 2 for Linux
by James Freer 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Not that i'm into digital photography in a big way but a number of people recommended me to try Picasa without knowing that i use Ubuntu. Looking at the google pages i discovered that they do a Linux version. I was going to try the windows version on wine before discovering that they had a linux version. http://picasa.google.com/linux/learn_more.html http://picasa.google.com/linux/faq.html#23 Reading the two links i was interested to read the following sentence. "Wine runs on top of the X Window System and Linux or Unix. But it's not a Windows emulator; instead, it provides a Windows API middleware layer that enables Windows programs to run on Linux without the slowing effects of OS emulation or a virtual machine." Having tried to learn about wine and virtual machines i've now found a sort of combination. One downloads version 2.7 .deb and then part of it is also running in Wine. This 'middleware layer' is perhaps something new and if anyone knows perhaps they could explain... maybe of interest to photographers amongst us! thx james

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