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Meeting: King's Lynn, 14 Jan
by MJ Ray 11 Jan '04

11 Jan '04

Hello all, The next ALUG meeting is booked in King's Lynn on Wednesday 14 January at 7pm. The venue has changed to the Queen's Arms, which should have better beer (Elgood's) and be easier to find (on the biggest road into town and nearer the trains). This meeting's theme is "new year, new people" so I hope to see people from the last two meetings again, as well as any others nearby who we've not yet met. It's quite easy to get to from Hunstanton, Fakenham, Spalding, P'boro, Cambridge/Ely/Downham and Norwich/Dereham/Swaffham (bus or can we beg Brett?). Details and linked directions on http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/all-13plusWed.html So, who will we see there for sure? -- 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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Norwich meeting report 8th Jan 2004
by Syd Hancock 11 Jan '04

11 Jan '04

Another good turnout although s couple of Norwich regulars didn't make it this month. Graham, Brett, Adam, Kirsten, Mark, Syd, newcomer Zbys and his brother (whose name I didn't note - apologies) and Bryce who may be on the list but did not know for sure :-) It was a good social evening with much discussion of forthcoming guided tours to breweries and choice of Norwich pubs for future meeting venues, as well as topics such as programming IDEs, use of FOSS s/w in Poland and so forth. On the topic of venue it was generally agreed that provided we do not lose the positives of the Forum bar (plenty of space, general lack of noise and smoke, conveniently near the centre and with good parking) then a move to somewhere with better and cheaper liquid refreshments would be welcomed. After some discussion a pub on Dereham road, known by its old name of the Reindeer, was settled on as a strong possibility although Adam pointed out that we should have a recce visit before chopping and changing the regular meeting place. I drove past it last night on the way home and it looks large and comfortable as well as potentially meeting the other criteria. The pub has a new name which I don't remember - someone will fill this in here, won't you, chaps - and it seems logical to spend a thursday evening there sometime in the next few weeks and check it out. Anyone up for this? Who'd like to suggest a date? (I cannot make the 22nd) Syd

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CD Copying
by Nick Daniels 10 Jan '04

10 Jan '04

Hi I am installing Linux on my neighbours machine , who "can no longer put up with M$". For CD copying , being non-technical she needs a GUI type CD Copier. Problem, with all CD programs i have tried, on her machine , I can create CDs, blank CD rewrites but I cannot copy CDs On K3b I get message "try generic-mmc" but I see from the debugging output it has already tried generic-mmc CD rewriter, RICOH MP7163A Regards Nick Daniels

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CD copying
by Nick Daniels 10 Jan '04

10 Jan '04

> Hi > I am installing Linux on my neighbours machine , who "can no > longer put up with M$". For CD copying , being non-technical she needs > a GUI type CD Copier. > Problem, with all CD programs i have tried, on her machine , I can > create CDs, blank CD rewrites but I cannot copy CDs > On K3b I get message "try generic-mmc" but I see from the debugging > output it has already tried generic-mmc > CD rewriter, RICOH MP7163A >Which distro/version? -- GT Sorry - Suse 8.2 Pro Regards Nick Daniels

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spice 3f5
by IanBell 10 Jan '04

10 Jan '04

Any sparkies help me with a problem with spice under linux? I am running it in batch mode but it give an error every time an ac or dc analysis is run. From the console I run: spice -b >ex1.out ex1.cir Ian I get the following error dc (ac) analysis not run. doAnalyses not found. Any idea what I am doing wrong? I have tried several different rpms pf spice 3f5 with patches and, althought they have other quirks, the all give the same error. Ian

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Linux support for CF card readers? (Dennis Dryden)
by Stuart Hammond 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

CF cards use the IDE specification and so i would imagin that they would work with any distro of linux. you can get compact flash to IDE converters, try www.cfide.co.uk (they are about £22 each with P&P) which id assume would work (as it is just a cable converter) Yours S Hammond >Anyone know if this: >http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X… >...is supported under Linux? I recently got given a cheap digital camera >but it has no connection cable's so i'm planing to use an external >CompactFlash Card reader. If anyone knows of any others that work >that'll be nice to know =). I'm guessing it uses the standard USB mass >storage interface but you never know. > >- Dennis Dryden _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

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Here is an odd one involving Linux mailboxes
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

I have a number of standard Linux mailboxes setup in /var/mail and my mail is distributed among them using Procmail. My mail client is Ishmail, which reads directly from the files in /var/mail, and I'm running a fairly up to date Debian Testing but still using KDE 2. I update Debian every few days. I also use kbiff to monitor 11 mailboxes. That has suddenly stopped working for 10 of the mailboxes except my username box in that it no longer recognises that new mail has arrived in the other 10 boxes. Ishmail, my mail client, is set up to display 11 mail folders, one for each mailbox. These folders display a small white envelope if there is new mail present in the appropriate mailbox. That has also stopped working except for my username mail. Anyone have any ideas as to what might cause this? Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Announce digest, Vol 2 #30 - 3 msgs
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." --------------.--------------------------------------------.------------ alug-announce | Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group | Weekly(ish) --------------'--------------------------------------------'------------ ** Please send articles for this letter to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk ** *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Topics: 1. [ALUG] FW: High-Availability & Reliability Conference: Bournemouth, 25-26 Feb (UKUUG) (Alasdair G Kergon) 2. Norwich thursday evening meeting 8th January 2004 (Syd Hancock) 3. ALUG Sunday meeting in Norwich January 25th (Syd Hancock) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk(a)ukuug.org> To: UK LUG mailing lists <uklugs(a)lug.org.uk> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:09:32 +0000 Subject: [Alug Announce][ALUG] FW: High-Availability & Reliability Conference: Bournemouth, 25-26 Feb (UKUUG) UK Unix User Group LISA/Winter Conference and Tutorial: High-Availability and Reliability Bournemouth, UK, Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th February 2004 http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/ The main theme of the conference is High-Availability and Reliability, with topics including large-scale email services, High-Availability Linux, storage replication, MySQL, and choosing reliable hardware. The conference starts in the afternoon of Wednesday, 25 February and will be preceded by a half-day tutorial on High-Availability Linux clusters, and the Heartbeat cluster monitoring software. This is being given by Alan Robertson and Lars Marowsky-Bree, who will both also deliver talks in the main conference. Lars currently works as technical lead and developer for the SUSE Labs. His main areas of expertise are high-availability and cluster related topics, ranging from storage (multi-pathing, RAID, and replication) over network load balancing to cluster infrastructure service, resource management and administration. Alan, who is now based at IBM's Linux Technology Center, has been an active developer and project leader for High-Availability Linux for several years. He maintains the Linux-HA project web (www.linux-ha.org), and has been a key developer for the open source Heartbeat program. The technical talks of the conference run from the Wednesday afternoon and will finish late afternoon on the Thursday. The provisional programme includes: Matt Asay Open Source Capitalism: Innovation Business Models (Novell) for an Innovative Development Methodology David Axmark MySQL High-Availability Features (MySQL) Mark Baker and javaGMA: A lightweight implementation of Matthew Grove the Grid Monitoring Architecture (University of Portsmouth) Matthew Bloch Getting the best from your server with (Bytemark Hosting) User-Mode Linux Peter T. Breuer NetRAID (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Tim Chown IPv6 Deployment Status (University of Southampton) Julian Field MailScanner (University of Southampton) Tony Finch Scaling up Cambridge University's email service (University of Cambridge) Niall Mansfield Experiences with the Sobig worms and (UIT Cambridge Ltd) how we combatted them (and other Spam) Lars Marowsky-Bree High-Availability Cluster Design and (SUSE LINUX AG) Set-up Stephen Mayo Hardware for high-availability (Hewlett-Packard) Richard J. Moore Preparing Linux for the Enterprise (IBM Linux technology Centre) Philipp Reisner Storage Replication with DRBD (LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH) Alan Robertson Heartbeat (IBM Linux Technology Centre) Steve Whitehouse Cluster filesystems (ChyGwyn Ltd) The event is open to both members and non-members of the UKUUG. Bookings must be received by 18 February 2004, and a discounted early booking rate is available until 23 January 2004. A limited number of free and subsidised places is available for those who would otherwise be unable to attend. See <http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/> for booking information and full details of the programme including abstracts and speaker biographies. For further information, contact: Jane Morrison UKUUG Secretariat PO Box 37 Buntingford Herts SG9 9UQ Tel: 01763 273 475 Fax: 01763 273 255 office(a)ukuug.org www.ukuug.org The UKUUG was formed to represent users of UNIX and Open systems in the UK. It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area and is completely independent of specific hardware and software vendors. Any profits are used to further the activities of the organisation. Provisional dates for Linux 2004 conference in Leeds: 29th July - 1st August 2004 _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! --__--__-- Message: 2 From: Syd Hancock <syd(a)toufol.com> To: alug <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 07:42:06 +0000 Cc: alug <announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Subject: [Alug Announce]Norwich thursday evening meeting 8th January 2004 It's come around quickly this month but the 'second thursday' Norwich evening meeting is this week, thursday 8th January 2004, from 8pm at the Forum Coffee bar. Details on the alug website http://www.alug.org.uk Regards Syd --__--__-- Message: 3 From: Syd Hancock <syd(a)toufol.com> To: alug <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 07:45:44 +0000 Cc: alug <announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Subject: [Alug Announce]ALUG Sunday meeting in Norwich January 25th There will be a sunday afternoon meeting in Norwich on the 25th January 2004, from 2pm at The Billy Bluelight, Hall Road. Full details of venue etc are on the ALUG website http://www.alug.org.uk Following Norwich sunday meeting planned for April 25th. Details later. Regards Syd --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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New User Info
by zbys kaznowski 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

I work in the NHS. In fact I look after a small number of systems in the NNUH in Norwich. I am a keen exponent of Open Source Systems for the NHS and other Public organisations. I run a PHPWebsite server and dedicated web fronted Database on a SUSE box. My experience is limited and as such I am becoming frustrated in my endeavours to further Open Source uptake in the Hospital environment. I am particularly keen to interact with people who are very experienced in various forms of integration with Unix/Windows environment. Regards, Zbys Kaznowski --

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Re: [ALUG] More Linux support for CF card readers?
by Chris Glover 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

dd if=/dev/sda1 of=card-file HTH Chris -- Chris ---------------------------------- E Mail chris(a)glovercc.clara.co.uk On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Chris Walker wrote: > On Wed 07 Jan, Dennis Dryden wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:05, Stuart Hammond wrote: > > > CF cards use the IDE specification and so i would imagin that they would > > > work with any distro of linux. you can get compact flash to IDE > > > converters, try www.cfide.co.uk (they are about 22 each with P&P) which > > > id assume would work (as it is just a cable converter) Yours S Hammond > > > > Oh well this little usb device cost's £6.99 so it seemed like a better > > idea then paying £20+. It can read a load of other card types then just > > compatct flash. I cant get the damed thing to work though. It's being > > seen by my usbdrivers(well its in usbveiw), and if i look at dmesg i can > > see that scsi has started playing with the device as sda but i cant > > mount it =(. > > > > I've tryed this to mount the card but have had no luck(as shown): > > > > icedesk:/home/dennis# mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/sda /mnt/usb-cardreader/ > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, > > or too many mounted file systems > > > > Does anyone have nay suggestions on what to try? > > I can get my USB card to read in under Linux with the following entry in the > fstab file - > /dev/sda1 /mnt/memory_card auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850,no auto,umask=0,exec 0 0 > (no line wrap in case you want to cut and paste it in yours) > > but have a problem that I would appreciate some help with. Is it possible to > read the entire device in as a file of say 64MB or 128MB or whatever the > device size is? The reason is that the card belongs to a work colleague and > her husband has inadvertantly deleted some of her pictures using the camera > controls. They normally use the dark side to read the card while it's in the > camera but I just took the card out and bunged it in my reader. If I have a > file I can then scan it for JPEG headers and might be able to recover stuff. > > Any help appreciated. > >

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