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Reminder: Norwich City Gate meeting this Thursday night.
by Jonathan McDowell 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

As per usual, this Thursday (12th August) we'll be congregating in the City Gate from around 8pm. At least myself, Brett and Eli should be there. 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 J. -- Barndoors. Barndoors. Barndoors. | .''`. Debian GNU/Linux Developer Profile. Profile. VARILITE! | : :' : Happy to accept PGP signed | `. `' or encrypted mail - RSA + | `- DSA keys on the keyservers.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '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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Linux Certification
by Stuart Bailey 08 Aug '04

08 Aug '04

Hi, Has anyone any experience of Linux certification. I started looking at Linux+ by compTIA, but couldn't find anyone running courses / exams in Norfolk. Looking at certification again, LPI (www.lpi.org) seems to be the best way to go, and the exams can be sat in a office on Prince of Wales Road. I'd be interested in any experiences / recommendations etc. Many thanks. Stuart. -- --------------------------------------- Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Proprietor) (01953) 601294 (07778) 383739 http://www.linusoft.co.uk ---------------------------------------- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please email postmaster(a)linusoft.co.uk immediately. You should not copy or use this email or attachments for any purpose nor disclose their contents to any other person. NO BINDING CONTRACT WILL RESULT FROM THIS E-MAIL UNTIL SUCH TIME AS A WRITTEN DOCUMENT IS SIGNED ON BEHALF OF LinuSoft. LinuSoft cannot accept any responsibility for the completeness or accuracy of this message as it has been transmitted over public networks. *************************************************************************

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Sound issue
by Wayne Stallwood 07 Aug '04

07 Aug '04

After jumping though a few hoops getting RTCW Enemy Territory to install on my AMD 64 machine I had one remaining problem...no sound I was getting the error "Could not mmap /dev/dsp" Anyway after finding the ALSA FAQ I discovered that running echo "et.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss Resolves this issue for me. However I want to make this change persistant, I can't add this the the et start up script as it requires root to set. What would be the "clean" way of making this a permanent change. Or do I just drop it in an init script.

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Linux in a CF card !
by Wayne Stallwood 07 Aug '04

07 Aug '04

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2844504302.html A UK firm is going to producing a linux based embedded system in CF format, they even make a tiny backplane allowing this card to interface with CF memory and device cards. Could be a handy tool for rapid prototype of embedded systems

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Sound issue
by Wayne Stallwood 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

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Formatting a CF card
by Graham 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Last week I bought a 256MB CF card in a PC shop in Brussels, having filled the one in my camera. It seemed to be OK but now the camera is reporting card errors. Can't take the card back so I'd like to try reformatting it. The camera refuses and my Sharp Zaurus sees it but can't read or write. I have a USB card reader that will take it, but how do I use that under Linux? -- GT

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Reference on CD writing?
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

Hi Folks, Does anyone know of an on-line reference which summarises the technical aspects of writing CDs (CD-R and CD-RW)? The reason is that CD-RW software tends to ask you to make choices, using terms which I don't think I understand well enough, and I'd like to have a little "bible" which tells ma all about it, at least in summary. With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 03-Aug-04 Time: 11:47:05 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Re: [ALUG] Formatting a CF card
by Brett Parker 04 Aug '04

04 Aug '04

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:07:31PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: > On Tue 03 Aug, Graham wrote: > > > > Last week I bought a 256MB CF card in a PC shop in Brussels, having filled > > the one in my camera. It seemed to be OK but now the camera is reporting > > card errors. Can't take the card back so I'd like to try reformatting it. > > The camera refuses and my Sharp Zaurus sees it but can't read or write. I > > have a USB card reader that will take it, but how do I use that under > > Linux? > > Are you aware that formatting a card on a camera lays down extra information > that formatting on a PC can destroy? > > I did the same thing on a CF card but fortunately the card was recovereable > in the camera. I did a web search and found lots of information about this > extra 'information'. Erm, the only extra info I've seen on one is the "dcim/cameramodel" directory, which will be created when you shove the card in the camera anyways. I don't know of any extra info that the camera sets (mine sets the SD card name, but never mind... It does that on any card you throw at it... so now I have lots of cards labelled "Concorde" which is, erm, handy. Specially on the one that only really has Palm software on it, and was only thrown in the camera to check that I could store data and piccies on it from 2 different devices). Cheers, -- Brett Parker

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Re: [ALUG] Formatting a CF card
by adam＠thebowery.co.uk 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:07:31PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: > > Are you aware that formatting a card on a camera lays down extra information > that formatting on a PC can destroy? What on earth cameras do this? I would feel that if a camera did have a problem like this it would be a bug in the camera, at least I have never had a problem with either of my Canon cameras or the other cameras I have used. I would be interested in reading some links on this if you have any handy. Thanks Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 02 Aug '04

02 Aug '04

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Card reader Suse 9.1
by Nick Daniels 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

Hi I have a 6 in card reader it works fine under SuSe 9.0 as Sdb1, and in Digicam as media/sdb1 On Suse 9.1 i get error message' error could not enter folder /media/usb-storage-9205291:0:0:1p1 and cannot get Digikam to reconise it Googling, tells me to install/remove hotplug patch but I cannot find any succesful results, and I have tried all suggestions I found. Regards Nick Daniels

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How much RAM can be grabbed?
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 01 Aug '04

01 Aug '04

Hi Folks, As we all know, the "free memory" reported by e.g. 'free' is usually very small. E.g. on this machine (endowed with "a massive 128MB RAM" (OK it's an oldish laptop and I'm cynically quoting typical ad material) I get > free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 126024 117952 8072 0 1476 50184 -/+ buffers/cache: 66292 59732 Swap: 400640 124092 276548 and of course the "free 8072" is illusory. In reality much more is available -- at least, I suppose, the 59732KB "free" in buffers/cache, though I;m not really sure about this since I don't know the underlying details of this report. My Question is: suppose I want to embark on a RAM-intensive task, e.g. a numerical computation with large objects, or maybe a CD burn, where I'd like to make the most use of RAM. I can tell the application how much RAM it can expect to use. So: How can I determine, by some system command, how much of the RAM is actually up for grabs. so that I can tell the program to use (e.g.) 64MB RAM? In other words, how could I find out that 64MB RAM would be available? And should I use 'nice' to make sure that the program can jump the queue? All advice appreciated! Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 27-Jul-04 Time: 19:18:28 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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How to Allocate Huge Amount of RAM to Process?
by Dan Hatton 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

I'll continue today's RAM usage theme... I understand from references around the web that, by default, Linux kernels will only allocate a maximum of 3GB of RAM+swap to a single process. I've been writing a program (in Perl) to perform some numerical calculations on very large data sets, and, by being very careful to do things in the order that minimizes the overlap between different pieces of original and calculated data being needed in RAM+swap, and making sure that, as soon as a given list of numbers is finished with, a block ends, so that Perl's garbage collector gets called, I've got the program to run within this limitation (it's now using just over 2GB at peak.) The trouble is, I've gone about as far as I can with this efficiency drive, and in a couple of weeks, I have to do the same thing, with even bigger data sets. Since I have plenty of physical space (1GB RAM+10GB swap,) I'd like to get the kernel to allocate more to my program. I know there are various patches with names involving "HIGHMEM." My current kernel is 2.6.6, with # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y Would setting CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y and recompiling the kernel help me, or do I need to do something tricksier, please? -- Thanks Dan Hatton <http://www.bib.hatton.btinternet.co.uk/dan/>

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Re: ALUG bits
by Syd Hancock 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

Oops... Syd

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Re: ALUG bits
by Syd Hancock 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

On Monday 12 Jul 2004 21:23, Keith Watson wrote: > At 05:47 on Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Syd Hancock wrote: > > Hi Keith > > > > Just been glancing through the archives and saw your message > > about demos etc. I still have some name tags and an A4 size > > ALUG sign that you made - send me you address and I'll post > > them back to you as I am unlikely to be at any meetings for a > > couple of months at the earliest. > > > > Syd > > Syd, > > hope you're keeping well and that we'll see you around > occasionally :o) > > Best to send things to my work address; Hi Keith Posted the ALUG bits on tuesday 2nd class - should arrive soon. All the best Syd

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Re: [ALUG] First LUGE meeting reminder for tonight...
by John Seago 29 Jul '04

29 Jul '04

On Thursday 29 Jul 2004 LUGE Admin <admin(a)luge.org.uk> wrote: > Hi all, > > For those in or around Chelmsford tonight there's a few of us going > along to The Plough (adjacent to the railway station) - I'll be there > from 6pm. > > All welcome. I'm going to pop into the APU uni too - see if they've got > places I could put up posters to generate some interest - I'm sure > there'll be some! > > See you there.... > > Steve You could also try having the LUGE details published in "Linux Format", and any other 'hard copy' publications that give publicity to LUG's and there is also http://www.lug.org.uk/ which may be able to give assistance and publicity. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)

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HELLLLLPPPPPPPPPP! I need a networking guru (or something)
by Brett Parker 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Right, here's the basic situation... We've got a FreeBSD 4.9 machine, origionally configured for NAT only and was doing a damned good job of it. Now, you see, we've got an evil windows box to go on the external network, so, ofcourse, my first thought was to throw a filtering bridge between on the firewall as well, now, this too works quite well... But... What appears to be shafted is connecting to the windows machine via the NAT. Any ideas? Basic setup is something like this... |Windows Machine| | FreeBSD Router | | | =========> |rl0 dc0 | x.x.x.49 ===> Interweb | x.x.x.58 | | vr0 | | | Internal Network Masqueraded 192.168.1.0/24 The internal network can see the Interweb (and our other hosts out there in x.x.x.x land ;) *EXCEPT* x.x.x.58, which it can't see, which is (to say the least) rather frustrating. If anyone has experience with this, I'd love to hear from you :) Cheers, -- Brett Parker

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First LUGE meeting reminder for tonight...
by LUGE Admin 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hi all, For those in or around Chelmsford tonight there's a few of us going along to The Plough (adjacent to the railway station) - I'll be there from 6pm. All welcome. I'm going to pop into the APU uni too - see if they've got places I could put up posters to generate some interest - I'm sure there'll be some! See you there.... Steve

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Re: VoIP & hardware
by phil 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

> >> I mentioned this to various people earlier, and they seemed >> interested, >> so I thought I'd vaguely float the idea here. >> >> Would people be interested in a VoIP (Voice over IP) talk? I've been >> playing with it this week and setting up a connection to the normal >> phone network using an ISDN line, with a hardware VoIP phone locally. >> I'm also planning to look at Linux based softphones over the next week >> and should have a magic PCI card coming which will let me hook up to a >> normal phone line, so hopefully should be able to come up with bits of >> interest to anyone who's curious about this stuff. >> >> Takers? Do we have any locations for talks were we could get a >> reasonable net connection for a live demonstration perhaps? >> >> J. >> Same here - interested in finding out a bit more about this. As for the Broadband hardware - I use aDraytek Vigor all in one router /modem at work - never had a problem in the past two years. At home an ethernet X-modem from ADSL nation, in conjunction with a Buffalo Airstation. This has worked fine with a combination of Yellowdog Linux, OSX and Mac os9 no problems. Still unplugged it last night though - anyone with experience of how ADSL modems handle lightning!? Phil

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2 HP 1097C Monitors for free
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Hi Folks, I have two old (getting on for 10 years) HP A1097C 21" monitors which I would be happy to deliver free to anyone who would like to have them. They give a very nice display (one of them is slightly less sharp then the other). The one thing you really need to know is that they have 3-cord RGB fixed-frequency input with Sync on Green. Therefore they needs a video card which supports this. XFree86 will support Sync on Green with a suitable card. I could supply the XF86Config file I used to use. There are also a couple of HP "xterm" boxes that they were originally used with. However, these are not a lot of use owing to very small RAM (and I think one of them doesn't work anyway). However, if you're interested I'll throw these in too. But they're really only tip-worthy these days. The other thing you need to know is that these monitors are very large and very heavy. So not much use if you're tight for space or have a dodgy back. Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 26-Jul-04 Time: 17:50:40 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Re: VoIP & hardware
by Zack Smith 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

I hear that Skype (www.skype.com) now has a release for linux. Maybe Easier using this :o) Zack

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N00b
by Lee Ellison 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Hello! First I guess I should introduce myself, my name's Lee Ellison and I don't wanna use Windows anymore! I posted a request for information about Linux on Livejournal about a month ago and after reviewing everyones opinions and doing a wee bit of research myself, I decided that Suse Linux 9.1 Personal would be the best thing for me (in my uneducated opinion!). A Livejournal user called 'Sunflowerinrain' sent me a link to you guys (ta! ;)) and i'd like to come along to your next meeting. I live in Norwich, Bowthorpe in fact, so The City Gate isn't far away at all. My computer is a Dell GX270 Optiplex with a 20Gb HD, 512Mb RAM and a 2.6GHz (can got to 3.2) Intel Pentium 4 processor. It doesn't, however, have a CD-R/W, only a CD-ROM. Nor does it have a floppy drive. I quickly discovered that the lack of CD-R/W was quite fundemental after I spent 12 hours downloading Suse 9.1........... But I digress. I wanna run Linux cos, quite frankly, i'm frightened about the security issues that dog Windows. I'm still relatively new to computers, but i'm learning very quickly. I'm already dabbling with HTML and learning how to use Macromedia Flash - I don't wanna be a web designer, every man and his dog wants to be a web designer! It just interests me and also, being new to Norwich and having no friends (i'm NOT sad by the way!) it keeps me entertained! I have another computer, some old Celeron thing that ran Win98SE. A friend who's coming over from Oz shortly is gonna help me get it running so I can use it's CD-R/W - she knows what she's doing, I don't have a scooby, so please don't ask! Not sure if this is what you wanted to know, but i'll be at the next meeting and you can ask me whatever you like then. TTFN Badseeds the Anti-Hero As i descend from grace, in arms of undertow.......i will take my place in the great below. _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

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Request for alug.org.uk to be taken off my hands!
by Martyn Drake 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Hi, Can somebody please take alug.org.uk off my hands? It's due to expire on the 29th July, so whoever ends with it (let me know your IPStag) will need to renew pretty sharpish. Regards, Martyn

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

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