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RE: [Alug] Maximum linux mag..
by Earl Brannigan 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Cheers Paul, >...Future Publishing group that produce Linux > Format. I didn't recall that it was a 'Future' pub (at least not on the copy that I was looking at the other day - the first).I'll have to check this when I get home tonight, it may have changed hands. You'll be missing it then ? The first copy had an excellent graphic of a rather mean looking Tux smashing through a Windows Icon (you know the floaty window thingy) with the title along the lines of : "Move over Windows... Linux is taking over because its more stable, supported..." and other stuff. Inside the articles were mainly about why Linux is better, it was a real M$ Bash. With a cute little story at the end of some girlie who had given a new lease of life to her old 486 by installing Linux. Well there you have it, I'll probably sign the petition anyways. Cheers Earl

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Maximum linux mag..
by Earl Brannigan 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Hi, ByeBye Max Linux. Too many mags on the shelves, loads of info available anyways. This is part of the usual shakedowns that occur as any new market beds down. Bought one copy (maybe 2) quite liked it because it was soooooo anti M$ (though the publishers do punt some very pro-M$ mags as well). Linux Magazine and Linux Format have proved to be better sources if info for me over the past few months or so. I never subscribe to these things anyways, just browse them at newsagents and buy if I need, usually about 1 in 3 issues is of interest. Sorry to see it go, but that's the world of hard headed commerce I'm afraid. Cheers Earl

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Konquerer Web Browser settings
by John Seago 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Can anyone tell what settings to put in under the appearance tab of Konquerer web Browser in order to get readable text please? John Seago

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Bash script help please!
by bsamuels＠datamansys.co.uk 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Is it possible to compare the sizes of two files from within a Bash script? I don't need to know the actual sizes just which one is the bigger file. I can't find anything useful in the Bash man page. Barry Samuels

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Re: [Alug] cron job
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Thanks everyone! I'm eagerly waiting till 3 pm to see if it works. Andrew Glover wrote: >> if [ -f /home/jenny/cwp/ ]; then >if [ -d /home/jenny/cwp/ ]; then Ah! I wondered what the -f was. Ta. Adam Bower wrote: >tar -czf /backups/cwpbak.tar.gz /home/jenny/cwp/ Missed out the gz. Damn.And the wrong way round! Thanks Adam I've left the o-reilly bible at home this week, it's a hassle to transport between home and work on the bike, could do with two copies really. Shall I share my awful moment with you all? Trying to find the right command to copy a directory to another directory, I went to clear the second directory for a second try. So i typed in rm -r ./* Except - you've guessed what i omitted in my haste - the full stop. Ohmygod. Luckily for me I was not superuser and the puzzled linuxbox asked me if I was sure i wanted to delete Games or something, at which point i woke up and lunged for the kill button. As if i haven't read in my O'R book to sit on my hands when i type a command for this very reason? Hee hee. I'm still pale and shaking. Anyone else ever done this? Jenny.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

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.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Popular irc clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and ircII on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.bitchx.com http://www.xchat.org http://freshmeat.net http://www.epicsol.org/ (for Brett!) Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Watch as your apache logs grow!
by Brett Parker 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Hi all, Everyone musta heard by now about the nice new IIS worm that, once its got the IIS server, attacks whitehouse.gov. Have a look in your apache logs and see how many times they've tried to attack you... brett@dustpuppy:/var/log/apache$ grep "default.ida" access.log | wc -l 25 and that's on a 33.6 dialup machine ;) Cheers, Brett

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Winmodems
by Christopher Drane 22 Jul '01

22 Jul '01

Has anyone had any joy getting a winmodem to work with linux, or know how I could set up mine to work Lucent LT Winmodem I have been trying to get it to work on a Packard Bell Easy One Dc Laptop. I was would much rather have the internal modem working, don't want to buy a new one. I am running Mandrake 8.0 Any help would be appreciated Chris Drane

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TV program 8pm Sunday
by Adam Bower 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

Hi all, This is slightly off topic but may form the basis for some good discussion over the next few days. Tomorrow night (Sunday) at 8pm on Channel 4 there is a program titled "The Secret history of hacking" now this appears to mean hacking in the sense of l33t h4X00r D00D5 and not in the sense of Linus Torvalds and Alan Cox type hacking. Oh well looking forward to seeing if its crap or not...... Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam

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When's the next meeting at the UEA?
by Steve Kuo 21 Jul '01

21 Jul '01

When's the next meeting at the UEA? ===== --------------- Steve Kuo "How can we claim to be an advanced and civilized society when no other creatures on Earth develops technology to blow themselves up three times over?" ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

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