MJ Ray wrote:
>
> I'll be there, but with minimal kit. I'll bring the updated chording
> keyboard....
>
Chording keyboard? What's that all about?
I won't be able to get to the meeting, but I hope the question's
still valid!
Cheers,
Gerald.
Right. Being in the process of moving house, I really should clear out
some of the junk I haven't used in a couple of years. I'll admit not all
of it is Linux related, but I figure no one's going to want to travel
any distance to pick this stuff up, so the ALUG list is my best chance.
All free to anyone who can be bothered to pick it up from Norwich.
Macintosh LC with keyboard, mouse, 14" colour monitor. 40MB HD.
Should be in full working order, been a while since I powered it up.
Only a 68000 I think; certainly doesn't run Linux though I guess
ucLinux might be portable.
Sun 3/50 with keyboard, mouse, no monitor.
Used to use this as an xterm when I had a monitor for it, but no longer
have said item. Should work fine and I think it can just about run Linux
(and can certainly run NetBSD).
6 CD SCSI jukebox (single speed).
Slow, but does work with Linux.
External SCSI enclosure (5.25", huge 3 row D connectors)
16 port 10baseT hub with AUI + BNC.
Needs a PSU. I might be able to find on, otherwise it's a 12V DC wallwart
with the round plug at the end.
286 base unit
Goldstar branded. 3 ISA slots, on board VGA, serial etc. Think it has IDE
but just has 2 5.25" drives at present. PS/2 mouse/keyboard sockets. I
originally meant to play with ELKS on this.
RM 480Z + monitor + disk drive.
Think it's working ok.
I'll no doubt find more stuff as I sort things out; I'll maintain a list
at:
http://www.earth.li/~noodles/computer-junk.html
and if no one wants any of it then I'll see if there are some fools on
Ebay who'll pay 50p + P&P. :)
(As an aside, sorry I can't make the meeting tomorrow - need to clean
the old house to make sure I get the full deposit back!)
J.
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I'll send it correctly next time :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jamie French [mailto:jamie.french@talk21.com]
Sent: 26 April 2003 08:53
To: 'main-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk'
Subject: RE: [Alug]software for sunday meeting.
I am hoping to attend, wife permitting :) I would like to bring my Zaurus
and discuss with other Zaurus users how to get OZ 3.2 into a stable and
working state.
Take Care
Jamie
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[mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Adam Bower
Sent: 25 April 2003 23:07
To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Alug]software for sunday meeting.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:42:15PM -0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> Adam Bower <abower(a)thebowery.co.uk> wrote:
> > Also who is coming along? and what kit are you bringing? does anyone
want help
> > with anything or want to discuss anything?
>
> I'll be there, but with minimal kit. I'll bring the updated chording
> keyboard and some sort of palmtop device with me. I'll have my GLLUG
> talk notes with me, about "The Free Software Story", if there's interest
> in that, or I am always available for interrogation ;*)
I will have my zaurus running open zaurus 3.2, and my vaio picturebook. I
will
perhaps also bring a Sun Ultra 30 and debianise it at the meeting. Although
it
may have a hardware fault (possibly just needs SCSI disks reseated) so I
will
have a quick look tomorrow to see if this is viable. Other things I have
been
playing with (or planning to play with) are bluetooth on linux with a usb
dongle and a sony ericsson t68i and gpsdrive on the vaio.
Adam
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Adam
I will bring a zaurus and maybe a laptop running gpsdrive. I
may bring my sparc and try to make it work with debian. I was
hoping to have my linux pvr working for this meet but not yet.
I can burn and bring CDs, if you ask me for them now.
MJR
A short talk on a Free Software movement in the UK. A chording
keyboard that works with Linux.
Rob
Keys and a Building?
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Hi everyone.
Does anyone want any debian CDs for sundays meeting? I have some sarge images
available (about a week old) also I have the linux conf australia CDs
available which fozzy mentioned the other week.
Also who is coming along? and what kit are you bringing? does anyone want help
with anything or want to discuss anything?
Thanks
Adam
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> From: Martyn Drake [mailto:martyn@drake.org.uk]
> Is there any Linux distribution out there that can support
> the 64-bitness of
> the Opteron out of the box? I know SuSE has made some noise
> about this, but
> I'm not sure what the others are doing. Yes, I know it's
> early days...
Mandrake,
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/products/2418&wslang=en
apparently costs real $$$.
BTW I have heard from a few people I know who have been developing on the
Opteron (people who develop on many other 64bit platforms), apparently its
stupidly fast, and I want one :)
Adam
> From: Alexis Lee [mailto:lxs@sdf-eu.org]
>
> Come to that, shouldn't we be having another release? I thought they
> wanted releases every year or so? Pixar will have to get busy...
You know, its funny that a Free Software distribution takes its names from a
movie that was created on (very) non-free (and incredibly expensive in money
terms too) software...
Adam
Is there any Linux distribution out there that can support the 64-bitness of
the Opteron out of the box? I know SuSE has made some noise about this, but
I'm not sure what the others are doing. Yes, I know it's early days...
Regards,
Martyn
Just upgraded from RH7.3 to RH9.0 and I am not a particularly happy bunny. OK
it has some nice eye candy and up to date KDE, Open Office, gtk+ and Mozilla.
However kpackage and gnorpm have not only gone but have been deleted despite
doing an upgrade rather than an install. The RH rpm installer is a joke. I
have no idea where an rpm's files go so its very hard to make a desktop link
or find the docs. I have downloaded both binary rpms and source tarballs for
both progs but they have a whole bunch of dependency problems. It seems as
though RH is deliberately trying to obstruct users from managing their own
rpms. Fortunately I have been able to download and install apt and synaptic
so all is not lost but I had to use the command line rpm to do it.
AND I just discovered the kde menu editor is gone too!!
I have debian 3 on DVD and if it were not for the significant backup task
associated with a clean install I would be installing it now.
Ian