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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. Historically, these used to be the only time a lot of us would be about, now the channel has some usual faces that are there most of the time (except at silly o'clock, when we might be sleeping, or on the second thursday of the month, where we might be drinking in the Reindeer), so don't feel limited to visit during this time, come visit us when ever you feel like it! The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include xchat, irssi and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://www.irssi.org/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Ergo Mercury Laptops
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

If anyone has acquaintance with Mercury laptops supplied by Ergo ( http://www.ergo.co.uk/ ) I'd be interested to hear from you! (probably best suited to off-list but OK on-list if you prefer). I'm particularly interested in the Mercury 700A model, and specifically (at the moment, though probaboy other things later) in the builtin ethernet interface device. With thanks, and while I'm at it: H A P P Y N E W Y E A R ! ! ! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 31-Dec-05 Time: 21:27:53 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Re: (no subject) Should be titled dreambox!
by Ricky Bruce 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

doh

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(no subject)
by Ricky Bruce 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

just bought a dreambox 7000s (a linux based satellite system/pvr type thing, im very excited!) off of a bloke i know and would be very grateful if anyone else whos got one might be able to lend a helping hand/hints with regard to the softcam set up. shant bother you all with more specifics cos it wouldnt mean much unless youve got one cheers rick

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screensaver - how?
by Chris Green 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

Having moved from xfce to fvwm2 I now no longer seem to have a screensaver. xscreensaver is installed on my system but the manual pages don't make it clear how to actually run it. What's the 'normal' way of running it? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

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(no subject)
by Paul, Jean R 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi I was given the charge of website administrator for an hospital located in the caribean. As most of the visitors will be on the side of the Atlantic, can buy a domain name(.org) in the UK, and can the website be hosted can here in the UK. If the answer is please forward me a good web hosting company. Many thanks

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Live Distro with NTFS read/write for slow PCs
by Ian Douglas 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Hi, Does anyone know of a bootable Linux CD which allows both read and write NTFS file system access. I would prefer the distro to boot to the command line as it will be used on old (100MHz and below) PCs with ancient graphics cards. I just need access to the ls, cp, rm, mv type commands... nothing complicated. Seasons Greetings! Ian.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

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RE: [ALUG] Re: Apache Website Down?
by Keith Watson 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

> From: Chris Green Sent: 13 December 2005 13:23 > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:18:10PM +0000, Darren wrote: > > Keith Watson wrote: > > >Can anyone get into the Apache website? (www.apache.org) Seems to be > > >down but it may just be our corporate firewall. > > > > > >Regards, > > > > > Down here as well, it was down last week as well from here > > > I seem to remember seeing someone saying on Usenet last night > that there's a big 'pipe' down somewhere that will be > affecting quite a bit of routing. I couldn't get to > www.richersounds.com last night (still > can't) and I also can't get to www.apache.org. > > -- > Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) > Wonder if it's this business over at Hemel Hempstead causing problems? Regards, Keith ____________ The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb

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Netgear DG834G
by Nick Daniels 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Hi I have just been offered a Netgear DG834G ADSL Firewall Router, Would I have any trouble with this and Suse 10.0 Regards Nick Daniels

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FW: [ALUG] Apache Website Down?
by Keith Watson 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

> From: Ben Whyte Sent: 13 December 2005 14:37 > > Keith Watson wrote: > > >Can anyone get into the Apache website? (www.apache.org) Seems to be > >down but it may just be our corporate firewall. > > > >Regards, > > > >Keith > > Cant get it from here. > > Ben > Another one that didn't make it to the list (please, no more overlooooong threads about broken emailers!!) Regards, Keith ____________ Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. - (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.)

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FW: [ALUG] Apache Website Down?
by Keith Watson 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

> From: Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. Sent: 13 December 2005 13:18 > On 12/13/05, Keith Watson <keith.watson(a)kewill.com> wrote: > > Can anyone get into the Apache website? (www.apache.org) Seems to be > > down but it may just be our corporate firewall. > > I can't see it either. From NTL, the traceroute breaks after > the 17th hop at: > ge-130.br01-200p.unitedlayer.com (207.7.159.130) > > Ashley > I hope you meant this for the list Ashley (leastways, nothing incriminating that I can see :o) ) Regards, Keith ____________ BAROMETER, n. - An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Apache Website Down?
by Keith Watson 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Can anyone get into the Apache website? (www.apache.org) Seems to be down but it may just be our corporate firewall. Regards, Keith ____________ AIR, n. - A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

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Best tool for resizing Jpegs, preferably command line
by Chris Green 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

What's a quick and easy tool for resizing (as in changing the default screen size) of a Jpeg file? I have some scanned images that I want to display smaller on web pages and, although gimp will do it, it does seem a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut. It would be nice to be able to just say something like:- someProgram -x 400 -y 200 <old.jpg >new.jpg Going further, is it easy/possible to change the size of an image according to the size of the browser window being used? I use a 1600x1200 display at home so a 400x200 image will be quite small really but if anyone looks at the same page on (say) 800x600 it's going to be a bit on the large size. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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[ALUG Announce] 2nd Thursday Norwich Meet : Reindeer, Dereham Road
by Jonathan McDowell 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

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 "Second Thursday" ALUG Norwich Pub Meet is this Thursday, 8th December. It's at the Reindeer pub on the Dereham Road, just opposite the City Gate. We'll be there from 8pm-ish, though there may be a few people there earlier. Topics for discussion will no doubt be as varied as ever. The Reindeer has a reasonable selection of beer as well as decent coffee (with biscuits, if you're lucky). Directions to the Reindeer can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/reindeer.html Pictures of some of the regulars, and irregulars, and, well, just some pictures of people that might or might not turn up are available from: http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2004-08-ALUG/ http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2005-01-ALUG-Xmas/ http://the.earth.li/~noodles/stilvoid-alug/mp20050811/ Which should hopefully aid those of you wondering who to look out for. We're /normally/ just to the left of the main entrance, though the last couple of times we've ended up at the far end of the pub beside the pool table. J. -- 101 things you can't have too much of : 41 - Tea. ----- 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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Changing Cursor Appearance in xterm
by rob page 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Well, see subject really.. my girlfriend wants her terminal cursor to more resemble the cursors seen everywhere else, ie: a line instead of a block.... I'm sure I saw a way to do this many moons ago, but maybe not....

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Re: [ALUG] Best tool for resizing Jpegs, preferably command line
by Anthony Anson 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

The message <43997F2A.2090301(a)quarella.co.uk> from Mark Rogers <mark(a)quarella.co.uk> contains these words: > Cheat! > It's not always appropriate to do it that way, eg if I'm importing > images into third party templates where I don't have access to the > templates, or if the printing behaviour matters. > But well done for spotting the workaround I currently use! :-) -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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Any warnings / recommendations on USB external hard disk?
by Jan T. Kim 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Dear all, I plan to get myself an external USB hard disk, mainly for storing digital photos, scanned stuff etc. and for backing up the internal hard disk of my notebook. Surfing around a little, I found this offer of Western Digital USB hard disks: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=46695&doy=7m11 The 320G offer seems quite reasonable to me. Do any of you have any recommendations / warnings / experience with this, or similar USB hard disks? Personally, I don't expect any difficult issues, I'd expect the HD to appear as an SCSI device (/dev/sda or whatever), just as a USB flash stick... is that right, or am I naive? Best regards & thanks in advance, Jan -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | email: jtk(a)cmp.uea.ac.uk | | WWW: http://www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/people/jtk | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----*

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Re: Best tool for resizing Jpegs, preferably command line
by tom potts 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

re resizing jpegs that old favourite(?) the Gimp if you want command line stuff http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/ it also has some perl scripting that should help - if you want to extend a menu so (perhaps) you can just point at a directory and click: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Perl/ ___________________________________________________________ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/

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Parsimony?
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hi Folks, The early Unix developers were parsimonious with keystrokes (and for good reason), so gave many commands very short names (like 'ls', 'mv'). So I thought I'd do a quick hunt for all 1- or 2-letter commands names on a Red Hat 9 system. Out of the 26 + 26*26 = 702 possible command names that could be made from 1 or 2 lower-case letters, I found only 55 (8%) in root's PATH: w ab ar as at bc cc ci co cp dc dd df dp du ed ex gs gv id ip jw ld ls ln lp ls lz mf mt mv nl nm od pb pm pr ps rb rm rx rz sb sg sh su sx sz tc tl tr ul uz vi wc Now that IS parsimonious! (I've added one or two of my own, like 'tl' for 'telnet', but have left these out of the above). Hmmm, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 07-Dec-05 Time: 00:08:23 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Ebay and Firefox
by Wayne Stallwood 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay. I can browse lists of items for sale with no problems but if I try and open the details of an item (usually I do this in a new tab with a middle click) it sits there loading perpetually. Eventually the page may load but more often than not results in a time out when contacting cgi.ebay.co.uk Another Ubuntu machine at the office is showing the same behaviour, and an Apple Powerbook on my home connection works fine using safari. So I don't think it's connectivity related. Tried disabling the Http pipelining as I have heard that this can cause problems with some sites and that made no difference. Is this an Ubuntu update that has broken Firefox or is ebay at fault, can someone else with Firefox confirm/deny that they can repeat this problem.. Ta muchly.

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RE: [ALUG] Ebay and Firefox
by Keith Watson 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

> From: Wayne Stallwood Sent: 05 December 2005 23:56 > > Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with > the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu > Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay. > > I can browse lists of items for sale with no problems but if > I try and open the details of an item (usually I do this in a > new tab with a middle click) it sits there loading > perpetually. Eventually the page may load but more often than > not results in a time out when contacting cgi.ebay.co.uk > > Another Ubuntu machine at the office is showing the same > behaviour, and an Apple Powerbook on my home connection works > fine using safari. So I don't think it's connectivity related. > > Tried disabling the Http pipelining as I have heard that this > can cause problems with some sites and that made no difference. > > Is this an Ubuntu update that has broken Firefox or is ebay > at fault, can someone else with Firefox confirm/deny that > they can repeat this problem.. > Just tried it and it works fine. Same distro - Ubuntu 5.10 (I have used Synaptic to ensure everythings at the latest version). Regards, Keith ____________ The first problem for all of us, is not to learn, but to unlearn. - Gloria Steinem

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Suse et al.
by Bob Dove 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Hi folks, So, there we have it - not a great deal of enthusiasm for Suse! Perhaps I should have gone for the Ubuntu 'free' distro! I must say that the 'desktop' is nice, but I can't get to grips with 'home.' From 'my computer' 'home shows a set of files, but from the task bar 'home' brings up a different menu with the same files plus my personal folder. Having copied some image files into a folder, Konqueror shows a set of 'thumbs' of which some are images and some are icons. having set up associations so that clicking a thumb in Konq opens and loads the image into Gimp works with first image selected, but to load the second, Gimp has to be closed and re-opened by clicking second image. Then there are images that bring up error messages that the resolution is not supported! What's that all about? And when Gimp fires up, only one of the two tool panels load. Gimp, excellent as it is as 'free' image editor would not make me give up Photoshop, and Scribus I can't install so I don't know if I can live without QuarkXPress. Obviously I have a lot to learn, the migration from 'doze is not easy - perhaps the creators of O/S like Suse et al should make the transition from one to 'tother easier, and let users install goodies on a simple 'install' file. TMP folder; should this be treat like a 'doze 'temp' folder and cleaned out on occasions? Cheers, BD. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.11/191 - Release Date: 02/12/2005

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