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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : McGintys, Northgate Street
by samwise 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting is back next week (Monday 18th August) at 20:00, with a new venue: P J McGinty & Sons 15 Northgate Street Ipswich Suffolk IP1 3BY Tel: 01473 251 515 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP1+3BY WWW: http://pjmcginty.moonfruit.com/ McGintys pub is in the centre of Ipswich, not far from our old haunt - The Milestone. It's directly opposite the town's central library and has a reputation for good Irish beer. All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Hopefully, it shouldn't be too hard to find the pack, look for those huddled around a laptop! Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Hope to see you there, Peter. ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Price drop on Asus EEE
by Mark Rogers 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

In case anyone is interested: http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2941… 4GB/512MB white PC701, down to £165 inc VAT -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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How to block one user account from Internet while allowing the rest
by Peter Alcibiades 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Apparently the following, placed in /etc/network/interfaces, will do this: auto eth0 pre-up iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m owner -- uid-owner [user] -j DROP I haven't tried it yet, and do not know what all the options mean....You insert the uid where the square brackets are. Peter

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ASUS Eee PC battery replacement?
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

Hi Folks, Some weeks ago I bought the ASUS Eee PC 900 (Linux). Dinky little job, and works nicely. Apparently, ASUS decided to provide more beefed-up replacement batteries for the somewhat feeble one it comes with, as from June. However, I can find no trace of the actual availability of the new batteries. Even a visit to the ASUS UK website, and searching for "battery", only resulted in a long delay and then a message that their website was undergoing maintenance ... ! Does anyone have info about this replacement and, if it really exists, how it can be obtained? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 11-Aug-08 Time: 16:08:59 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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A few bits and bobs
by David Reynolds 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

Folks, I'm having a bit of a clear out and so far have found a couple of things that I don't really need: - 4 x Various P3 processors (http://david.reynoldsfamily.org.uk/bits/processors.jpg ) Price: Free to a good home - Freecom USB DVB-T Stick (http://david.reynoldsfamily.org.uk/bits/dvbt_usb_long.jpg | http://david.reynoldsfamily.org.uk/bits/dvdt_usb_closeup.jpg) When I played with this it wasn't working very well with Linux, although I believe progress has been made. It has an RTL2831U chip on it if anyone wants to research. Price: Wouldn't mind about a fiver for it More to follow. Cheers, David -- David Reynolds david(a)reynoldsfamily.org.uk

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Re: [ALUG] Ubuntu Updates
by David Reynolds 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Wayne, On 11 Aug 2008, at 22:56, Wayne Stallwood wrote: > a. You cannot be sure you won't just run into the same problem again > b. If you do you won't know how to fix it and it is quite likely that > once you know what to do the fix is quicker than re-installation. You missed: c. someone else may run into the problem and you report it as a bug, and the developers find a fix then it'll help other people in future too. -- David Reynolds david(a)reynoldsfamily.org.uk

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Ubuntu Updates
by Stuart Bailey 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

I have a customer with a laptop from Linuxemporium, with ubuntu pre-installed. I think it is gutsy, but will have to confirm that. She is using a wireless network (WPA-PSK), with broadband connection. The problem is with online updates. When logged in, a message informing of new updates is shown. If accepted, the list of headers downloads correctly. But, on clicking install, nothing happens. If I try running apt-get update / upgrade, update works fine, but upgrade reports that resource [ESSID xxxx} could not be accessed. However, if I run apt-get from an SSH login, or a virtual terminal, everything work fine. Any ideas what could be wrong - is there a configuration file for the updater that could be wrong. -- --------------------------------------- Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Owner) Linux Specialist (0845) 6583563 http://www.linusoft.co.uk ---------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Program which can print a part of an image - any ideas?
by Chris G 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

I want to be able to select part of an image (a JPEG by default but I could convert it) and print a selected (by marquee?) part of the image. At the moment I can't find any easy way to do this either with Windows programs (I have Adobe Photoshop Elements running in Vmware) or in Linux. It seems such an obvious thing to want to do. -- Chris Green

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[ALUG Announce] 2nd Thurs Pub Meet 14th Aug
by Richard Lewis 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Dear ALUG, We will have our 2nd Thursday pub meeting on * Thursday 14th August * The Reindeer is still closed. We tried Micawber's Tavern last month and it was nice. Some people, though, are a bit concerned about the difficulty of parking there. This month we will try The Alexandra Tavern (16 Stafford Street, NR2 3BB, 01603 627772, http://www.alexandratavern.co.uk/) It's a very nice pub with good beer and food. It may be possible to park in West Pottergate or even in Douro Place where ALUGgers usually park for The Reindeer. On the top of our agenda this month will be possible venues. Bring your Norwich A to Zs (or something for browsing OpenStreetMap data) and past pub experience with you! I'll be there around 20:00. We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +-------------------------------------------------------+ |Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.| |http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html | +-------------------------------------------------------+ ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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VPN thoughts
by John Woodard 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hello list people, I thought I'd throw this one over to you for some feedback. I have to set up a vpn both locations are using Netgear DG834g routers. The main location has a Ubuntu Hardy box being used as a samber server for a small handful of Win XP/Vista and Ubuntu boxen. There is a XP box used as a print server (I know cups would be better but it's a location thing). Basically they need file shares across a vpn with printing handled locally at each location. What is the best way of attacking this, the hardware route using routers or using tunneling protocols? Cheers, BigJohn

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Debian apt dependencies
by mbm 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Can anyone tell me why debian apt-get insists on installing apache when I only want to install php5 and php5-cgi (I already have lighttpd installed and prefer to use that)? And is there a way I can modify that default behaviour? Thanks Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [ALUG] MP3 players+Ubuntu
by Bev Nicolson 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

<<I found it: > - Open a file manager window (Gnome Commander?) > - Go to Edit->Preferences. > - Go to Media > - Change the selection for "Music Player" to what ever you want. Hope this helps. Tim.>> Pretty close. I found it at last but not where I expected to. Places > Music then Edit > preferences. Bev. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [ALUG] Cheap HP server OS free
by Wayne Stallwood 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 15:13 +0100, James Freer wrote: > Wayne > > Thanks for replying. I did mean to send it to the list. It seems that > one has got to enter TO: main address each email to this group. When > one just does REPLY it goes direct to the sender - that's what i did > this time. I don't know why it should be this way on this group as > others like yahoo all go straight to the list... that's the way it > should work. To be honest that behaviour is more down to your mail client than the list, and looking at your headers you aren't using a mail client but google's webmail interface. A lot of mail clients have a reply to list button that reads the header in the mail from the list which announces it as a list and provides the correct reply address, others allow you to set a default reply address for a folder and then have a rule drop the alug mails into this folder. Unfortunately I think most webmail (inc google) lacks this functionality. The reason it is done this way is to preserve the reply-to header rather than rewriting it, this is considered the "correct" behaviour but unfortunately not all mail clients support it. Hence things like yahoo groups do it the "technically wrong" way and rewrite the reply-to header to be the list address. It has been a matter of debate on the list several times and comes up for discussion once in a while. But the general consensus each time is to leave it the correct way and deal with it at the client end.

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Re: [ALUG] MP3 players+Ubuntu
by Bev Nicolson 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

<<Check for the auto play handling preferences, which seem to have become more Windows like. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Green" >> Ah, I wasn't clear enough. Sorry. What I meant was, is there a way to make it treat this MP3 player like a usb drive? Bev. > > 2008/7/24 Bev Nicolson <bnicolson(a)operamail.com>: > > Plugging in a generic MP3 player, I see that 8.04 no longer > > treats it as a USB drive and says it can't play what's on there > > without searching for codecs etc. Given that it's all in MP3 > > format this must be nonsense. It was more helpful when it viewed > > it as a USB drive so is there a way of changing this? > > Thanks. > > Bev. > > > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [ALUG] Cheap HP server OS free
by John¹ 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

On Saturday 26 July 2008 12:00:03 "James Freer" <jessejazza(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > ok thanks Wayne for clearing that up. Most of the time i remember... like > today. > > I use a mail client for archiving emails to CD but i have to say that > i like the conversations that googlemail offers. > > I do use Thunderbird on imap on one machine but just doesn't seem > worth having on each machine. "Googlemail" can be set up to send/copy to your normal mail client thats the way I use it, with a blind copy sent to a 'proper' email address. that way "Googlemail" acts as an extra archive and one can also copy ones email's onto a CD. (See Forwarding & POP/IMAP somewhere on one of the help or overview pages). -- John Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/ () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail - against microsoft attachments /\

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Re: [ALUG] MP3 players+Ubuntu
by Bev Nicolson 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Which is good but I want to mount it as a disk drive just to transfer files to it. I didn't explain myself very well the first time, sorry. Bev. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Bower" > > mp3 is a patent encumbered file format, ubuntu doesn't carry the > required codecs in the default install (probably) read: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats > > for more information and how to fix. > > Adam > -- > jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li > > _______________________________________________ > 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! > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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MP3 players+Ubuntu
by Bev Nicolson 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Plugging in a generic MP3 player, I see that 8.04 no longer treats it as a USB drive and says it can't play what's on there without searching for codecs etc. Given that it's all in MP3 format this must be nonsense. It was more helpful when it viewed it as a USB drive so is there a way of changing this? Thanks. Bev. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Cheap HP server OS free
by Wayne Stallwood 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Following on from a recent(ish) discussion about these. Ebuyer now have the cheap HP Dual Core Opteron servers back in stock, now at £97.86 +VAT but including a 3 year next business day warranty package. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146548 Ram is a bit lacking at 512MB but it is cheap to add more They are linux certified by HP for some flavours of Suse and Redhat so linux friendliness shouldn't be an issue and although the built in Graphics is a bit wanting they do have a full length PCI-E x16 slot to add something better so you could convert them into a reasonable desktop. The only negative thing I have to say is that the particular chip they use is (as Adam Bower has pointed out previously) known to be a bit of a watt muncher so expect a reasonable tag on your electricity bill if you use them as a home server powered 24/7. Probably an idle of something in the region of 200Watts or maybe slightly less.

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ubuntu 8.04 revisited
by gizbun 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

I upgraded to Hardy Heron a few days ago and have two puzzles. One is that twice now I've had Network Manager error messages when I shut down, though I've changed none of the settings Bev. I was getting this on one of my machines after upgrade. The simple solution is to edit /etc/init.d/halt and /etc/init.d/reboot to remove the -i option i.e. in /etc/init.d/halt change: halt -d -f -i $poweroff $hddown to # halt -d -f -i $poweroff $hddown halt -d -f $poweroff $hddown and in /etc/init.d/reboot reboot -d -f -i to # reboot -d -f -i reboot -d -f (old lines left and commented out so that I know what I've done.) The man page states that "-i iterates configured network interfaces and brings them down before shutting down. On Linux, this is unnecessary as the kernel will do this anyway." It worked for me anyway. David Davies

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ubuntu 8.04 revisited
by gizbun 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

> I upgraded to Hardy Heron a few days ago and have two puzzles. One is that twice now I've had Network Manager error messages when I shut down, though I've changed none of the settings > Bev. > I was getting this on one of my machines after upgrade. The simple solution is to edit /etc/init.d/halt and /etc/init.d/reboot to remove the -i option i.e. in /etc/init.d/halt change: halt -d -f -i $poweroff $hddown to # halt -d -f -i $poweroff $hddown halt -d -f $poweroff $hddown and in /etc/init.d/reboot reboot -d -f -i to # reboot -d -f -i reboot -d -f (old lines left and commented out so that I know what I've done.) The man page states that "-i iterates configured network interfaces and brings them down before shutting down. On Linux, this is unnecessary as the kernel will do this anyway." Worked for me anyway. David Davies

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Enemy Territory Quake Wars game night success
by Adam Bower 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hi, etqw last night was a pretty good success, 4 of us played hopefully we are going to do it again very soon. If you are interested then post here or find either quinophex, DrJeep or DralaFi on irc and we'll try to thrash out a time/date although we will probably have ad-hoc games during the week so asking on irc if we are playing might also be sensible. Just from a personal perspective given I'd not played quake wars until last night if we do get some more people interested who have not played before, perhaps we shouldn't go on a ranked server first and find a quiet server with some bots so it is a bit slower paced? I found the ranked game was far to frantic given I wasn't really sure what I was doing but as soon as we went up against some bots and had a bit more breathing space it became lots easier as I managed to work out how to actually complete missions. Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li

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Enemy Territory Quake Wars Game night
by Wayne Stallwood 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Just a reminder that tomorrow (tuesday) is Quake Wars game night. First game at 8PM, meet on #alug (IRC) at 7:30. Second game at 10PM, meet on IRC at 9:30. Alternatively friend drjeep and/or dralafi within the game before 6PM and use the follow feature to find us.

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Re: [ALUG] ubuntu 8.04 revisited
by Bev Nicolson 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

I've just found that the preferences menu has the option to make the Courier font bold and it's much better. The error messages go by pretty fast (it's the last thing I see before it shuts down completely) but it starts off by announcing that it's starting various processes. If I can write down what it says I'll post it. Bev. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steven Rose" > > > > What is the actual error message(s) regarding the network manager? > > In response to your other query, not being an Opera user myself, I > imagine somewhere in appearance preferences, much like in Firefox you > can alter the default font types, an issue I came across in 8.04 was > some fonts being set to "light" versions rather than the regular weight, > making them look faded. > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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ubuntu 8.04 revisited
by Bev Nicolson 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

I upgraded to Hardy Heron a few days ago and have two puzzles. One is that twice now I've had Network Manager error messages when I shut down, though I've changed none of the settings and the other, less serious puzzle, is that plain type in Opera now looks like the typewriter needs a new ribbon. Can I change that? Bev. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Ipswich Meet Location on the 21st
by Wayne Stallwood 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

I haven't seen an announce yet for the Ipswich meet and don't know if I have missed some conversation about the potential new venue. Is it still at the Milestone as per the Alug wiki front page or are we going with Sam Wise's suggestion to the main list of giving the Punch and Judy a go ?

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