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ALUG library online !!
by Wayne Stallwood 18 Dec '04

18 Dec '04

I have been experimenting with OpenDB tonight with a view to using it to manage the Alug library. As well as making the librarians life a bit easier it allows borrowers to check the loan status of books etc, post reservations and reviews/comments. You can check it out in my test area here http://cgi.digimatic.plus.com/opendb/login.php Use the "sign me up" link to request a login (may take some time as I have to respond to a mail to make the user active) There are still a few bugs to be ironed out (mainly because OpenDB is more geared towards lending entertainment media not books) and it still needs a general tidy up. I would appreciate some feedback as to whether this is useable by ALUG members, fedback on bugs etc. If deemed acceptable then I am happy to have a link on the ALUG site pointing to my hosting space, alternatively if MySQL and PHP are available wherever the ALUG main site is, it could be moved there when finished. Please note that the items currently in the database are merely samples to test the system with...booking one as a reservation does not mean that you will get it at present, in fact your reservations will probably get deleted so that others can play with it.

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For a bit of light hearted relief..
by Martyn Drake 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

http://rack911.com/149411289.swf (Requires sound) Indeed! Regards, Martyn

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Enumerating files with spaces
by Graham 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Probably a simple one, but I can't figure it... I want to do some conversions on a set of files in a directory, such as for file in * do do_something_with $file done However, I want to do the files in date order, not alphabetically, so I tried for file in $(ls -tr) etc. But this only works if the files don't have spaces in their names; "for" breaks them up into space-delimited tokens, which is no use at all. How do I do this (apparently) simple thing? -- GT

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RE: [ALUG] ALUG library online !!
by Keith Watson 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

> From: David Reynolds Sent: 16 December 2004 10:27 > > Looks good to me. Beware of the orange theme though. > Obviously a theme > for people with poor sight... Who said that? :o)

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RE: [ALUG] ALUG library online !!
by Keith Watson 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

> From: Wayne Stallwood Sent: 16 December 2004 01:55 > > I have been experimenting with OpenDB tonight with a view to using it to > manage the Alug library. As well as making the librarians life a bit easier > it allows borrowers to check the loan status of books etc, post reservations > and reviews/comments. > > You can check it out in my test area here > http://cgi.digimatic.plus.com/opendb/login.php Looks very good. Basic functionality seems to be there and the I/F is reasonably intuitive (oh, and the horizontal theme seems to work ok). > Use the "sign me up" link to request a login (may take some > time as I have to respond to a mail to make the user active) > > There are still a few bugs to be ironed out (mainly because OpenDB is more > geared towards lending entertainment media not books) and it still needs a > general tidy up. > > I would appreciate some feedback as to whether this is useable by ALUG > members, fedback on bugs etc. > > If deemed acceptable then I am happy to have a link on the ALUG site pointing > to my hosting space, alternatively if MySQL and PHP are available wherever > the ALUG main site is, it could be moved there when finished. Personally, I'd go for it. Regards, Keith ____________ There is only one thing certain and that is nothing is certain. - G.K. Chesterton

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RE: [ALUG] For a bit of light hearted relief..
by Keith Watson 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

> From: Martyn Drake Sent: 15 December 2004 22:16 > > http://rack911.com/149411289.swf > > (Requires sound) > > Indeed! > > Regards, > > Martyn Muhahahahahaha!!!!

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Re: [ALUG] Urgent - kind new home required!
by Keith Watson 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Only just caught up with this thread. Is it sorted now? or still unresolved? I'd like to help but can't for the next couple of months because of other commitments, but after that I'd be happy to take a stint. So that the task doesn't continually fall to one person maybe we can pass it around every 6 months or so? Incidentally does anyone know if other lugs operate their own library? and, if so, how they organize things? Be particularly interested to know if any of them have computerised it in any way or form. Regards, Keith ____________ Carpe Diem, quam minimum credula postero. - (Seize today, and put no trust in tomorrow.) - Horace

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ubuntu modem problem
by Nick Daniels 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Hi When I use the ubuntu live CD, I can set up my modem, using pppconfig, (a standard serial port 56k, detected by Suse, Mandrake , Debian etc). When I install Ubuntu, I get "no network devices detected" I have tried pppconfig with TTYS0 etc, but obviously this does not work. Any ideas please? Regards Nick Daniels

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Unofficial Ubuntu 4.10 Starter Guide
by Keith Watson 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

<http://ubuntuguide.org> A most excellent piece of work, in fact could also be called the Unofficial Debian Starter Guide (or even the Unofficial GNU/Linux Starter Guide). Answers many of the questions that often seem to pop up on lists like this one. Regards, Keith ____________ CORSAIR, n. - A politician of the seas. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

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Urgent - kind new home required!
by Kirsten Naylor 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Hi, Who would like/would be willing/can be persuaded to take over the Alug library? Adam and I have been looking after the library for nearly two years now, but we don't have the space to hold onto it any more. It is a large-ish and heavy box of various interesting geek/computing/coding type books which gets taken to the bigger meetings (not usually pub nights). These are books which have been donated by members of Alug present and past. There is also a little notebook wherein is inscribed in letters of ballpoint the names of those borrowing any books, which books they borrowed, the date they borrowed them and a contact detail or two. There is ample scope for whoever takes over to put the whole thing on a web page, use software to organise it all, etc etc, we use the box and the notebook as it has been simplest that way for us. If you have space in a cupboard, room in the boot of your car, a tendency to go to the bigger meetings, and benevolence towards Alug in your heart, would you please consider giving the library a new home? Our storage space is now at a premium, so even a temporary home would be gratefully accepted. /Kirsten

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Nice levels and I/O
by Wayne Stallwood 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

Leading on from my previous question---- Say I wanted to run this backup on a live machine, how do I limit I/O so that the machine remains responsive. The copy operation itself only uses a small percentage of processor time, but hammers the living daylights out of the disk I/O so surely using nice to limit it wouldn't slow it down much. It's not important for this particular thing, but I am interested to know if it's even possible considering that the kernel doesn't even really know how busy the disks are. Or is nice clever enough to know that something else with a higher priority is wanting disk access ? My plan is that now I have made the initial copy I can use rsync to keep it up to date...or is there a better way ?

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RE: [ALUG] top
by Karl Foley 14 Dec '04

14 Dec '04

> hi = dunno Hard interrupts (Hardware IRQ Servicing) > si = dunno Soft interrupts (Software Interrupt driven routines)

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top
by Wayne Stallwood 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

Can somebody please provide an explanation (or point me in the direction of one) for the CPU(s) line in top. I get the percentages for us(er) and sy(stem) but what do ni,id,wa,hi and si relate to ? Looked in the man files for top and can't see any obvious mention of them.

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All-in-one Printer/Scanner/Copiers
by Keith Watson 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

As the price of these things seem to be dropping lately I've been googling round seeing how compatible they are with GNU/Linux. The Linux Printers site (http://www.linuxprinting.org/) seems to favour Epson (although HP gets favourable mentions). Anyone on the list use one of these devices with Linux? Regards, Keith ____________ When you boil rice, regard the cooking pot as your own head. - Zen Saying

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RE: [ALUG] Enumerating files with spaces
by Keith Watson 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

> From: Graham Sent: 12 December 2004 18:11 > > Probably a simple one, but I can't figure it... > > I want to do some conversions on a set of files in a > directory, such as > > for file in * > do > do_something_with $file > done > > However, I want to do the files in date order, not > alphabetically, so I tried > > for file in $(ls -tr) > etc. > > But this only works if the files don't have spaces in their > names; "for" > breaks them up into space-delimited tokens, which is no use > at all. How do I > do this (apparently) simple thing? > > -- GT Been there, done that :o) The problem is that bash sees space as a delimiter. You need to temporarily change this by setting the IFS variable. It's all in 'man bash' - somewhere. Regards, Keith ____________ You can't solve a problem on the same level you created it. - Albert Einstein

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

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.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 tkirc, bitchx, xchat 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://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Christmas meal?
by Jonathan McDowell 13 Dec '04

13 Dec '04

As Mark has pointed out, we're a bit short of meetings - the regular 2nd Thursday meet in Norwich seems to be the only regular event. So, does anyone fancy a Christmas meal? I'm in Norwich, but am happy to travel and would consider driving (and thus being able to give a few lifts) if we could find a location that would help enable more people to come. J. -- Web [ Know Thy User. ] site: http:// [ ] Made by www.earth.li/~noodles/ [ ] HuggieTag 0.0.22

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Next meeting? and Christmas meal
by Kirsten Naylor 11 Dec '04

11 Dec '04

Looking at http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/, we seem to be without a single future meeting. We will be due for a City Gate meeting on Thursday 13th January (2nd Thursday of the month). This is not on any web page yet, however it is very close to one of our planned dates for our Christmas meal. Does this make Fri 14th January less appealing for a Christmas meal date? We should probably think ahead to having a kit meeting, sometime at the end of January perhaps. Any ideas? (None here, but I haven't thought about it as such.) /Kirsten

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If you can remember Dan Computers ...
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Hi Folks, I wonder if anyone with a long memory can help me out. I want to have a look at a neighbour's PC which has been giving a bit of trouble, and need to take the cover off the case to get inside (especially to clean out dust, dead insects and cobwebs... ). Superficially looks like a standard desktop box. However, it was made by Dan Technology in 1995 ... I can't see how to take the cover off the case: on the surface it looks as though you can slide the overall cover off backwards, *provided* you can work out which screws you need to remove in order to free it. It's the question of "which screws" that's vexing me. The cover itself has no screws obviously associated with holding it in place. There's what looks like a back-plate with a total of 15 screws in it, some of which may simply be fixing screws and some of which seem to be associated with mounting internal bits like fans, port sockets, etc. Maybe the solution is to remove all these, take off the backplate, and then see how to get at removing the cover. But the last thing I want to do is remove screws blindly and cause unwanted consequences! I've never seen a case quite like it. If anyone can remember opening up a Dan box like this and can advise on how to proceed I'd be very grateful. Thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 [NB: New number!] Date: 10-Dec-04 Time: 11:40:24 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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switching off
by Stan 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

Installed Agnula DeMuDi from Linux User & Developer Magazine but couldn't log off - shut down computer. Had it set up as full desktop. Is there a way to get out of the session without just switching the computer off. -- Regards Stan

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Re: [ALUG] Christmas meal?
by John Seago 10 Dec '04

10 Dec '04

On Friday 10 Dec 2004 06:25, Jonathan McDowell <noodles(a)earth.li>wrote: > If I buy the steel wool, can you knit me a BMW? If you can find stainless steel wool you could knit a DeLorean. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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Sax2 Problem Nested quantifiers
by Nick Daniels 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

Hi My monitor died this morning, a 19 inch Eizo I replaced it with a spare 14inch and without running Sax the screen appeared OK. this evening I decided to set it up correctly, however when I run Sax I get message Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/�<-- HERE so505/ at /usr/X1 I cannot set it up by Yast either. I wish to repace it by a 15 in TFT and think I may have problems Has anybody any ideas please. O/S Suse 9.1 Pro Regards Nick Daniels

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Re: gmail
by John Seago 09 Dec '04

09 Dec '04

On Thursday 09 Dec Jenny Hopkins wrote: > This is causing me great grief trying to set up fetchmail to get my > mail from gmail's new pop3 server:... Is it really a good idea to even consider using a mail system that allows Google to read your mail? -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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ports
by Stan 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

Have set up KMail and was looking at the setting for POP. It says Port 995. I thought that should be 110. When I changed it to 110 it said Unable to contact ISP. Any info or suggestions welcome. Am accessing the internet through a Belkin Wireless modem/router. Regards Stan

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Wireless AP selection?
by Dennis Dryden 08 Dec '04

08 Dec '04

This seems like it should be a really simple question but ive had a quick look at iwconfig and iwprivIf but i still cant work out the answer. If there is more then one wireless ap in the area how can i select between them? This is something thats quite simple in windows(as i saw when i gave my girlfriend a wireless card that doesn't work with Linux) and was hoping for just a command line tool or command but so far I've been out of luck :-(. As a side question does anyone know where i might be able to find some parts for an old dell laptop(Latitude CPi D266XT)? I've got 4 GMail accounts going free to good homes if anyone wants one? Thanks, Dennis Dryden

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