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[ALUG Announce]Reminder: next meeting Thursday 9 December at the City Gate, 8pm
by Brett Parker 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Hi all! As is usual on the second Thursday of the month, this Thursday (9th December) we'll be congregating in the City Gate from around 8pm. We should have a penguin in attendance so you know who we are, sometimes we lurk at the far end of the building in the restaurant area. If you want to do gpg keysigning then at least a few of us should be there with sigs and id. Full details can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/all-NorThu.html Directions at: http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/citygate.html Pictures from August of people so you know who to look out for: http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2004-08-ALUG/ (Thanks to Kirsten for this e-mail) -- Brett Parker http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ (the obligatory boring website) iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk (jabber and email!) ----- 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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Personal branding article
by kpwatson＠pop3.ukfsn.org 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

<http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/07/0057206> :o) Keith

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Reminder - next meeting Thursday 9 December at the City Gate, 8pm
by Kirsten Naylor 06 Dec '04

06 Dec '04

Hi all! As is usual on the second Thursday of the month, this Thursday (9th December) we'll be congregating in the City Gate from around 8pm. We should have a penguin in attendance so you know who we are, sometimes we lurk at the far end of the building in the restaurant area. If you want to do gpg keysigning then at least a few of us should be there with sigs and id. Full details can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/all-NorThu.html Directions at: http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/citygate.html Pictures from August of people so you know who to look out for: http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2004-08-ALUG/ /Kirsten

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 06 Dec '04

06 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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Printing a book
by Ian Douglas 05 Dec '04

05 Dec '04

Hi Folks, I have been asked by a friend to print a book of his for Christmas. The book will have 40 A5 size pages. I have created a text file from his had-written manuscript and now want to print about 5 copies to pass to friends for proof reading and suggestions. My problem is that I would like to find a Linux Desk Top Publishing (or Word Processing) program into which I can import the text file and print it out on landscape orientation A4 sheets with the first sheet automatically having A5 page 40 on it's left half and A5 page 1 on it's right half, the second sheet having page 2 on it's left half and page 39 on it's right, the third sheet having page 38 on it's left and page 3 on it's right etc (those of you who have printed booklets will hopefully know the problem I am trying to explain)... Have any ALUG members had any experience of printing books like this, and if so what DTP package did you use? Ian.

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Linux: Watching satellite TV when from home via DSL on the laptop (fwd)
by MJ Ray 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

I know a couple of ALUGgers have DVB cards now, so I'm forwarding the following from alt.tv.satellite.europe - I assume this will work for cable connections and both satellite and DTT. I'd love to hear of success stories and maybe a demo if we're ever somewhere with fast enough internet access. Might have potential for home distribution too, if you're not in the room with your MythTV system. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2004-12-03 19:01:16 +0000 From: Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Linux: Watching satellite TV when from home via DSL on the laptop If you have a DVB card, a fast DSL connection, and run Linux, then it is possible to watch on a remote PC. For example you are far away for your work, and want to watch some TV station live (maybe game or anything). This is possible, with reasonable quality, I have put some scripts and an explanation on my site http://panteltje.com/panteltje/dvd/ just below the penguin picture. Basically the system (in real time) converts mpeg2 to mpeg4, reduces bitrate, and sends the compressed stream as TCP packets to where ever you are. It is a one to one secure link, with full control from you. Experiment, this was just the result of a few hours tinkering. JP -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and not of any group I know Creative copyleft computing - http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Unsolicited attachments to the pipex address deleted Will HLF fund tree-killings? http://www.thewalks.co.uk/

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RAM search
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

Hi Folks and Junkhoarders, To upgrade an old m/board, I'm looking for: Three 128MB DIMMS 66MHz 3.3v RAM sticks either non-ECC (64-bit) or ECC (72-bit) but all the same. (M/bd is Intel AL440LX). If anyone has any going spare, I'd be happy to contribute a few quid, and collect. Thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 [NB: New number!] Date: 04-Dec-04 Time: 17:27:01 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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RE: [ALUG] Ubuntu
by Keith Watson 04 Dec '04

04 Dec '04

I've installed it twice on my spare box, from the CDs I picked up on Sunday, using various combinations of other OSs and it's loaded perfectly and set up a working multi-boot configuration each time. I like the fact that it gives the option of using grub. A colleague tried to install it on his WinXP laptop and it loaded perfectly and ran ok but WinXP objected. But we now think that was a grub + hardware issue and nothing to do with ubuntu. Regards, Keith ____________ CLAIRVOYANT, n. - Persons who have the power of seeing that which is invisible to their patrons, namely, that they are fools. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary > From: Elisabeth Sent: 02 December 2004 22:47 > > bjsamuels(a)beenthere-donethat.org.uk writ: > > > > Looking on usenet I see that some people have managed to install it. > > It's living happily on my pc. > > e

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Apologies
by John Seago 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

I do apologise for not making the subject specific to the question. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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Re: main digest, Vol 3 #373 - 13 msgs
by John Seago 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

On Friday 03 Dec 2004 18:06, main-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk wrote: > Have any ALUG members had any experience of printing books like this, > and if so what DTP package did you use? Disclaimer, I was a compositor/Graphic Designer in the days when we used to set lead type by hand, the printers were that long established we had five cases of swastika border, which for some reason didn't seem to be as popular as it was in 1920's when they bought it. As I understand it you want to print an 80 page (A5) book using 40 sheets of (A4) the formula for working out which sheets go together is each pair must add up to 1 more than the number of pages, 1-40 2-39 and so on and always an odd with an even alternating, middle pages will be 20-21. Also bear in mind that 1and 40 will need more space in the gutter, (the margin between the pages) = twice the margin at the outside edges plus an allowance for the fact that there will be 38 other sheets of paper between them, in my day that would have been about one > one and half leads. (Don't take this as gospel, I joined the Fire Service in 1974 and my memory is not what it was). I've still got my type scale some where if you need it, but, a lead was 3 points and a point was approximately one seventy-second of an inch, but not exactly one seventy-second. but I would have thought if you add half a mm to the gutter for every eight or so pages working out from the middle it will end up looking right. Of course Scribus or something similar may do that automatically for you. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/

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Ubuntu
by John Seago 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

For those unable to take up the offer of free Ubuntu CD's at next Sunday's, (28th) meeting, today I was given a two disk set at Ottakar's in Norwich, presumably they are available at all branches. From the Computer books dept. one to a customer. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS (http://www.affs.org.uk/)

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RE: [ALUG] Printing a book
by Keith Watson 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

> From: Ian Douglas Sent: 03 December 2004 14:25 > > I have been asked by a friend to print a book of his for Christmas. The > book will have 40 A5 size pages. I have created a text file from his > had-written manuscript and now want to print about 5 copies to pass to > friends for proof reading and suggestions. > > My problem is that I would like to find a Linux Desk Top Publishing (or Word > Processing) program into which I can import the text file and print it out > on landscape orientation A4 sheets with the first sheet automatically having > A5 page 40 on it's left half and A5 page 1 on it's right half, the second > sheet having page 2 on it's left half and page 39 on it's right, the third > sheet having page 38 on it's left and page 3 on it's right etc (those of you > who have printed booklets will hopefully know the problem I am trying to > explain)... > > Have any ALUG members had any experience of printing books like this, and if > so what DTP package did you use? > Ian, I haven't had to do this under Lunix but I would think the latest version of OpenOffice worth a look. Scribus <http://www.scribus.org.uk/> might be a better match for what you need. Again haven't used it myself but from what I've read it sounds the sort of thing you're after. Keith ____________ Each of us must journey through the dots, - beyond the dots, and to the truth, alone. - Russell Hoban

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RE: [ALUG] Ubuntu
by Elisabeth 03 Dec '04

03 Dec '04

bjsamuels(a)beenthere-donethat.org.uk writ: > > Looking on usenet I see that some people have managed to install it. It's living happily on my pc. e

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Photo organiser and DVD authoring program
by Graham 01 Dec '04

01 Dec '04

For the past 12 months or so I've been working on a skunkworks project to organise my photographs, both digital and scanned from paper. Although far from complete it's now fairly stable and I've recently added a module to author DVD videos, having sampled a few other authoring programs and not been very impressed. I would welcome feedback from anyone able and willing to give it a try. Here's a brief feature list: 1 Photo organiser with 3-level assignable categories (to be extended to multi-way, multi-level categories). 2 Create captioned HTML slideshows from any selection of images, with optimal image sizing for Web use. 3 Screen capture module creates slideshows directly. 4 DVD authoring module acts as a front end to spumux, dvdauthor, etc. 5 Full GUI interface with Linux and Windows compatibility. 6 Built-in help documentation. 7 Open Source license - source available on request. Development assistance would be most welcome. And here's the URL: http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.html Please bear in mind that the software has only so far been used by three people, so don't expect commercial-standard robustness if you do unexpected things with it. Contact me with any questions, particularly if it won't run for you. -- GT

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Re: [ALUG] "Phone fraud"
by tom potts 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

Is it just me? Surely if someone steals money from my bank account by fraud the bank would not insist I pay it and their associated profits? If someone puts a dialler on my machine without my permission they're attempting to steal my money. Therefore BT are an associate to the fact if they try and make you cough up? They should be helping to prevent theft - or is this some leftover attitude problem from their monopoly days? ___________________________________________________________ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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"Phone fraud"
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 30 Nov '04

30 Nov '04

ALUGgers who watched this evening's "Look East" will have seen that dialup phone fraud is in the news again -- people getting phone bills for hundreds of pounds for internet calls to Vanuatu, Chile, etc. on premium rates. Some Linux-users may have seen it too! What I'd like to ask knowledgeable folk is: how does it in fact work? I've never seen more than a vague description of it, on the lines that when one is on line "the call is diverted to a premium rate number", apparently through some subversion of Internet Explorer. Well, just how does that happen? Does it disconnect and then immediately dial out to a new number, unnoiticed by the user? Does it change the dialup settings as originally stored in some system file and use these thereafter? By what mechanisms are these activities mediated? This is not really a question about IE, though I'm sure that some "feature" of IE has a lot to do with it. I'm also interested in the question of how "generalisable" this mechanism might be: is it a transferrable skill, so that what can be done to IE today could be done to Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, ... , tomorrow? (I find it reassuring that kppp throws up a window during the dialup process in which the dialog with the modem is shown, so that one can actually see what number is being dialled.) Thanks in advance for informed replies! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 [NB: New number!] Date: 25-Nov-04 Time: 19:11:57 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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SCO Site Cracked?
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

take a look at www.sco.com , if they haven't fixed it by now. Regards, Keith ____________ Since it is no part of the words we unthinkingly use, it leaves no trace in the things we say. - Dogen

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RE: [ALUG] Ubuntu Gotcha
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Just checked Ubuntu Bugzilla and it has been reported by others. Regards, Keith ____________ CONSERVATIVE, n. - A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary > -----Original Message----- > From: main-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk > [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Keith Watson > Sent: 29 November 2004 15:52 > To: ALUG Main (E-mail) > Subject: [ALUG] Ubuntu Gotcha > > > passed a copy of Ubuntu onto a work colleague who fell upon > it with glee and installed it on his Toshiba Tecra S2 laptop. > He wanted dual boot with Windows XP. All went well until he > found that on selecting Windows XP from the Grub menu he got > "NTLDR not found". > > After checking the grub menu.lst file on my system (I dual > boot between windows XP and Linux quite happily) and making > sure that they were the same, a quick google brought up this > little gem on the Fedora bug list; > > Bug 115980 - will not boot to windows partition using grub > menu > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=115980> > > Reading through the text it seems that this has more to do > with the BIOS settings rather than the distro used. > > Regards, > > Keith > ____________ > A bend in the road is not the end of the road... - unless > you fail to make the turn. > > _______________________________________________ > 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! >

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Ubuntu Gotcha
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

passed a copy of Ubuntu onto a work colleague who fell upon it with glee and installed it on his Toshiba Tecra S2 laptop. He wanted dual boot with Windows XP. All went well until he found that on selecting Windows XP from the Grub menu he got "NTLDR not found". After checking the grub menu.lst file on my system (I dual boot between windows XP and Linux quite happily) and making sure that they were the same, a quick google brought up this little gem on the Fedora bug list; Bug 115980 - will not boot to windows partition using grub menu <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=115980> Reading through the text it seems that this has more to do with the BIOS settings rather than the distro used. Regards, Keith ____________ A bend in the road is not the end of the road... - unless you fail to make the turn.

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RE: [ALUG] SCO Site Cracked?
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

> From: Martyn Drake Sent: 29 November 2004 14:24 > > Keith Watson wrote on 29 November 2004 13:54: > > > take a look at www.sco.com , if they haven't fixed it by now. > > Love it! "SCO - We own your code - pay us all your money", > and it's been > cleverly integrated into the site design too. I think it's > an inside job, > that or they've suddenly got a sense of humour :) Or maybe it isn't a crack? Maybe the people in charge have decided that honesty is the best policy ;-) Keith ____________ 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, - and that has made all the difference.' - - Robert Frost

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RE: [ALUG] SCO Site Cracked?
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

> From: Craig Sent: 29 November 2004 14:14 > On 29 Nov 2004, at 13:54, Keith Watson wrote: > > > take a look at www.sco.com , if they haven't fixed it by now. > > They had something else on there last week and still they got > cracked. > Amusing. Makes you wonder if there's an insider involved?

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

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Session managers - driving me mad!
by Chris Green 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

This is beginning to drive me crazy, I can't get *any* of xdm, kdm or gdm to work sensibly for me. Of the three at the moment gdm is closest, it's fairly easy to configure to allow remote connections and to disable local ones. The only thing it lacks at the moment is that I can't make it default to xfce (as per my previous messages). kdm is the most frustrating program invented. It's effectively impossible (without arcane knowledge) to get it configured so that it allows remote connections. Since remote connections are just about the only point of running XDMCP this seems a bit silly. The KDE control centre configuration window for KDM allows all sorts of cosmetic changes but nothing useful. xdm used to work but for some odd reason the version that comes with slackware 10 is built for IPV6 and just falls over when run on my current slackware 10 system. (OK, rant over, I'll go away and cry for a while) -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Re: [ALUG] SSH secure login problem
by C Neil Bauers 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

>> I have been lurking here for a while wondering what this group is all >> about and suddenly I've got a problem where you might be able to help. >> >> I am trying to do passive ftp file transfers tunelled over an SSH >> secure login. > >Have you thought about scp? Secure copy. There is a windows app called >winscp (its on freshmeat.net) > >John winscp - That works really well and I didn't know about it. So I am up and running. Great. Thanks for the suggestion. Really useful. I'd still like to get dreamweaver working over ssh beacuse the files would upload automatically on saving. Neil.

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Printers problem
by Nick Daniels 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

On Friday 26 November 2004 10:13, Keith Watson wrote: > > From: Nick Daniels Sent: 25 November 2004 20:13 > > > > Hi > > I have a Canon BJC1000 running under Suse 9.1, > > this printer has worked O.K. on all Suse distros since > > Suse 7.0 (and other distros) However on Suse 9.1 > > the pages are being printed in "half width" A4. > > Have I overlooked anything obvious? > > Regards > > Nick Daniels > > I had something like this when I installed my Canon S600. IIRC I resolved > it by playing around with the dpi resolution in the printer config page in > CUPS. Which may or may not apply in your case but.... > > Regards, > > Keith Many thanks I got half way last night by playing with the dpi resolution, so it seems that is where the problem is. This morning I was offered an Epson someone was discarding and that works fine. Best Regards Nick Daniels

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