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Just testing if I'm back connected
by chrisisbd＠leary2.csoft.net 04 May '06

04 May '06

Sorry for the 'noise', I lost my main E-Mail machine a week or so ago (not my machine) and I've moved all my E-mail to Csoft in Canada and I'm just checking it out. -- Chris Green (chrisisbd(a)leary.csoft.net)

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Re: [ALUG] Damn Small Alternative
by Richard Lewis 04 May '06

04 May '06

On Thu, 4 May 2006 11:37:37 +0100, "Simon Royal" <s.royal(a)totalise.co.uk> said: > > Are there any other distros that are easy to configure, run on a P166 > with 80MB RAM at a pleasant speed, can be booted by floppy as my 380ED > wont boot from CD and have good wireless capabilities. A light window > manager like fluxbox or icewm would be preffered over gnome or KDE. > > I can't remember whether anyone mentioned this when you were working on this eariler, but have you tried Debian? You can boot the installation from floppies: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#floppy-boot and then pick only the packages you want to get your minimal system running. It includes Xfce and various other light-weight window managers and you get a choice of kernels. You can install over the network (from floppies) or from CDs (with floppies). Cheers, Richard -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis Sonic Arts Research Archive http://www.sara.uea.ac.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Re: [ALUG] Keyboards
by John Seago 04 May '06

04 May '06

On Wednesday 03 May 2006, David Simon Cooper <david.cooper(a)uea.ac.uk> wrote: > > The only downside is that I could not get the software to work well > > with FC3 or FC4. I have had an answer from "Cherry" now who referred me to the downloads on this page: http://www.cherrycorp.com/english/cymotion-line/cymotion-line_master_linux.… scroll down to "Download Software" Click the download Software for Linux gives you Debian 3.1, Fedora 4, Mandrake 10.1, source code of KeyM@n Software, SUSE 10.0and SUSE 9.x. Nothing covers what I want, but it may be useful for you. -- John Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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DSL Alternatives
by Peter 04 May '06

04 May '06

> Are there any other distros that are easy to configure, run on a P166 > with 80MB RAM at a pleasant speed, can be booted by floppy as my 380ED > wont boot from CD and have good wireless capabilities. A light window > manager like fluxbox or icewm would be preffered over gnome or KDE. Yes, at least one comes to mind. Get the Debian boot floppies, and install Debian over the net. Use Windowmaker as the desktop. Install KOffice as the Office package and Firefox as the web browser. Use Sylpheed for email. Use xfe for a file manager. This was perfectly usable for me on a 200mhz MMX with 64MB memory. It didn't fly, but it ran just fine. The Debian boot floppies may even let you install from CD. Its likely that doing a similarly minimalist install from Slackware would work as well, but I did not try that. If you don't like Windowmaker, try Fluxbox in this scenario. I think WM is a lot better to use, and not much slower, if at all. Also consider fvwm. Peter

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Linux Success Thanks
by Simon Royal 03 May '06

03 May '06

Hi, Thanks for all your help with sorting me out a Linux setup and answering some of my newbie questions. I am writing this on my IBM ThinkPad 380ED, running Damn Small Linux and using a Linksys WPC11 v2.5 wireless card. This machine flys along, much different to the crawling it did with Windows 98. It really has brought this old piece of hardware back to life and is as easily as fast for browsing and emails as my 1Ghz eMac. Once again thanks. Simon @

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RE: [ALUG] Free stuff
by Keith Watson 03 May '06

03 May '06

> From: David Reynolds Sent: 03 May 2006 12:27 ... > > These have been earmarked by Keith and are hence no longer available. "earmarked" = flagrant bribery with promises of free beer :o) Regards, Keith ____________ 'Remain steadfast...and one day you will build something that endures; something worthy of your potential.' - Epictetus

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Re: [ALUG] Keyboards
by John Seago 03 May '06

03 May '06

On Wednesday 03 May 2006, David Simon Cooper <david.cooper(a)uea.ac.uk> wrote: > The only downside is that I could not get the software to work well with > FC3 or FC4. If you use the supplied SUSE distro or another stable distro > then you will probably be OK. I was going to try to hack some fixes as > you get the source code with the keyboard software, but I am only > intermediate C/C++ and the source files contained over 10,000 lines of > C++ code!. I decided that I was not going to spend a month getting the > software working with FC4! Well that's another question answered, looks like the choice is narrowed down to the 88 Key flexible, washable keyboard. -- John Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Re: [ALUG] Keyboards
by John Seago 03 May '06

03 May '06

On Wednesday 03 May 2006 Adam Bower <adam(a)thebowery.co.uk> wrote: > You set it up as a 105 key keyboard and just ignore the bit that you > don't have a number pad as far as i know. Thanks for that Adam it solves most of my setup problems. On the matter of the "Linux" keyboard, I'm in the process of checking that one is not stuck with having to use SUSE if one buys it. -- John Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Free stuff
by David Reynolds 03 May '06

03 May '06

Hi, I brought a couple of bits and bobs along yesterday to the kit meet, that no-one seemed interested in, so I thought I'd post them on here before junking/freecycling them. All were in good working order, last time they were used. HP Printer: I can't remember the exact model. Prints reasonably in colour and black and white. Unfortunately I couldn't find the power supply for it, but I would imagine a generic power supply would work adequately. (Edit: I think this may be Deskjet 710c: http://www.linuxprinting.org/ show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_710C ) Old parallel scanner: I can't even remember the manufacturer of this. Good quality results, although a bit on the slow side, it being parallel rather than USB. Email me off-list if you are interested in these. Cheers, Dave -- David Reynolds david(a)reynoldsfamily.org.uk

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Keyboards
by John Seago 02 May '06

02 May '06

Having given up smoking for several years, I no longer melt keys with hot pipe ash. It now therefore, proves worthwhile to spend more than a Fiver on a keyboard. Has anyone had any experience with either of the following; the "Linux" Keyboard: http://www.cherrycorp.com/english/cymotion-line/cymotion-line_master_linux.… or more practically a washable one as shown on the Gadget show the other week: http://www.hela.co.uk/helashop/customer/product.php?productid=14 My only problem is that I learned to type 40 years ago on a Monotype keyboard, from the days when printing was still done with hot metal type, where the keys were balanced against compressed air, and a very light touch was needed not to get repeated letters. Every so often I have trouble logging in as my touch is too light for the keyboard I have. A further point, how does one set up an 88 key keyboard? I can't see one in xorgconfig Any comments would be appreciated. -- John Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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