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Another New Member
by Paul Shorter 18 Dec '00

18 Dec '00

Hi Everyone, My name's Paul and I'm a Linux fan. Well, that's the confession out of the way. I work for an engineering firm and I look after several Linux servers, including our email server which runs Sendmail. We use RH 6.2 here, along with Samba to support the Windoze clients. We used to use NetWare 4.11 but it crashed more times than a zx81 with a wobbly ram pack, so I ditched it. My main duty is email admin, so if anyone out there wants to swap horror stories, especially regarding Outlook as an email client, i'm game. Cheers, Paul.

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Where are you Ipswich people??
by cepi x 16 Dec '00

16 Dec '00

Somehow, all Linux-Magazine and Linux-Formats get sold in Ipswich within days and here hasn't seen yet an Ipswich Linux user...where are u guys...wake up...stop me on the street :--)...just a tought CEPi UCS Ipswich Software Engineering __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

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Re: Where are you Ipswich people??
by Deana 16 Dec '00

16 Dec '00

Hello Jenny. I'm quite new (well, six months or so) to Linux, and getting ready to evict Mr Gate$ machinations from my primary hd. You can get lots of help from the PCPlus forums (nntp.futurenet.com) in the linux.beginner newsgroup, and have a laugh on pcplus.test Good luck. -- Regards, Deana deana(a)linuxfan.com

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Re: [Alug] Where are you Ipswich people??
by David Freeman 15 Dec '00

15 Dec '00

Bear in mind the large campus place on the east side of ipswich has a high consentration of techies. In my office alone about 8 people are hardened linux users. Extrapolate that over the 5000 people on the site it must be a few hundred people. Thats probably where there all going. D --- cepi x <cepi77(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Somehow, all Linux-Magazine and Linux-Formats get sold > in Ipswich within days and here hasn't seen yet an > Ipswich Linux user...where are u guys...wake up...stop > me on the street :--)...just a tought > > CEPi > > UCS Ipswich > Software Engineering > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. > http://shopping.yahoo.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list > Email: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug > See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Alug] Where are you Ipswich people??
by MJ Ray 15 Dec '00

15 Dec '00

Jenny_Hopkins(a)toby-churchill.com writes: > I was wondering what level you guys are all on....I'm a newcomer, and hope > that I'm not going to waste anyone's time posting idiotic questions. Oh, there's a whole range of us, I think. There aren't enough newbies for my liking, though, so I'd encourage anyone to tell any linux-trying friends to invite them to join the mailing list. > I'll probably lurk for a bit and try and assess the level you are all on, - > are there any others out there who are beginners? I'm sure there are. I've been using Linux for work and at home for a while now, but I still get shown up by these people who actually know what's going on in the internals ;-) -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Where are you Ipswich people??
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 15 Dec '00

15 Dec '00

>where are u guys...wake up...stop > me on the street Hello All. I've just joined the list, I'm from Burwell (near Newmarket), I work in Cambridge. I know very few other linux users, none in the area. Burwell newsagent doesn't even stock linux magazines. Tsk. I was wondering what level you guys are all on....I'm a newcomer, and hope that I'm not going to waste anyone's time posting idiotic questions. I'll probably lurk for a bit and try and assess the level you are all on, - are there any others out there who are beginners? Jenny.

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De-Lurking - An Introduction
by Steven Fosdick 15 Dec '00

15 Dec '00

Hi all, I discovered the Anglian Linux users group shortly before the last meeting back in August but unfortunately other commitments prevented me from coming along. I've been lurking on the list since then and have been meaning to get round to writing a short introduction ever since - finally I have. I first became interested in computers when I saw a Sinclair ZX80 which the maths teacher at secondary school used to demonstrate some simple number theory. Shortly after that I received a ZX81 as a present and on that I learnt Sinclair BASIC and then Z80 machine code (without the benefit of an assembler). From there I moved on to a BBC Micro and learned its variety of BASIC, 6502 assembler, BCPL and Pascal. I now work for BT at Adastral Park, their advanced technology centre at Martlesham and it is there that I was first introduced to Unix when I was given a tape of HP-UX 6.2 and asked to "install it on one of our machines and see what it could do." At the time the PC was becoming popular and it was probably just before Windows 3 was released. I was immediately impressed with Unix (HP-UX) - it seemed to be a proper operating system with real virtual memory, powerful utilities, and a proper scripting language and, if you wanted a GUI, there was the X window system to go on top. I have continued to work with HP-UX and more latterly with Solaris too both as a SysAdmin and as a Developer using C, a little C++, Perl, Unix shell script and PL/SQL (Oracle), HTML and Javascript. I've also done a little development on the PC running Windows (and DOS even) using Visual Basic, Visual C++, C and Assembler. During the same time I witnessed the Internet take off in a big way, remembering when we persuaded one of the gurus on site to set us up with e-mail using uucp over a 19200 serial link back to their server which had 64k capacity to the rest of the net, getting a news feed and finding that just about everything got discussed there without censorship, the emergence of the WWW with early versions of mosaic, and up to the present where everyone can't wait to set up a web site and people at home have almost as much bandwidth each as we started with for 2500 people. I was first introduced to Linux by a contractor at Martlesham who had it running on his Laptop. I had already met some of the GNU tools and if the Linux kernel was to the same quality I knew that Linux as a system would be good. I was very impressed with Linux but sadly, although Linux was small and efficient, the hardware of the day was no match for the X window system and I went back to using the commercial unices on bigger hardware. Since then PC hardware has improved dramatically and more recently I found that Linux had become the focus of most Free software development for Unix like systems and that increasing numbers of people were running it at home. We had just received a talk at work from Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation (and author of emacs, and gcc IIRC) and he recommended the Debian distribution so I tried installing it. For someone who already knows about disk partitions etc. and has installed Unix before it presented no difficulty and I now have it running on my PC here at home where I've used it for capturing and editing video and audio as well as e-mail, surfing the net, writing minutes etc. Whilst Windows in it's various flavours still has much more software available than Linux, and that may never change, it nevertheless seems an exciting time for Linux as more generally useful software becomes available (rather than just developer tools) and makes it more useful to your average joe. So back to the user group, I hope that I will be able to help some of you out and at the same time receive help and broaden my knowledge in areas of Linux I have not yet explored. Unfortunately the IRC meets are at a time that I usually can't make but if I get the chance I'll drop in and if not I hope to see some of you at the next physical meeting. Steve Fosdick.

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Getting rid of a Linux boot loader
by Ashley T. Howes 14 Dec '00

14 Dec '00

Some time ago I installed the Storm Linux distribution (it's based on top of Debian). However during installation, it overwrote my master boot record with its own loader (brings up an vga graphic choice between linux and windows with Storm branding). Since then I have removed Storm Linux, formatted the hd, but the loader remains. I was wondering how to get rid of the boot loader, or in some way overwrite it with another? Any hints are appreciated. Ashley Dr. Ashley T. Howes PhD Web Developer Email: ashley(a)blueskyresearch.net Web: http://www.ashleyhowes.com "They think they've beaten us. We smile and say, welcome to the Next Level"

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["crazy" <chris@gimmel.com>] job feedback - help appreciated
by MJ Ray 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

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Re: [Alug] The end of an era...
by David Freeman 13 Dec '00

13 Dec '00

--- Laurie Brown <laurie(a)brownowl.com> wrote: > David Freeman wrote: <snip> > > > > D > > IDL seem to be a special case, and are emphatically not BT. They are, > and I'm not being big-headed here, cherry-picking the best. If you're > up > for it, and are a good IT professional with relevant Internet > experience, with good breadth (not just depth), then I'd be happy to > put > you forward. IDL are very actively encouraging personal referrals, > knowing, I suppose, that we won't risk putting knob-heads forward. > They > seem happier with people of a certain age (I'm 44), and are sceptical > of > whizz-kids. Both the people I know who work for IDL were headhunted from inside BT. and both are holding GURU status in alot of areas of IP/programming/unix etc... Unfortunatly like you said they take the mature end of things I'm not in the best situation (age 18) Maybe one day :o) Good luck Thanks D > Cheers, Laurie. > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Laurie Brown > laurie(a)brownowl.com > PGP key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list > Email: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug > See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

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