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Hello! LUG in Chelmsford...
by Steve Purkiss 04 May '04

04 May '04

Hi, Firstly a big "Hello"! I joined up recently after conversations with MJR. I investigate the old Essex LUG but that seems to be dead and buried, so I was thinking of setting up a Chelmsford LUG (comedy name yet to be thought up) as I live near there (Gt. Waltham, grew up in Ford End, country boy really;) and am buying there soon. I'm having a meeting on Thursday at D-Place in Chelmsford from 6pm for the A12 business networking club which I run on Ecademy - feel free to join the online discussions/come along to the meeting at: http://www.open4.org/joinA12club (it's free) One of the other members has just started up a local mag "Parklife" being delivered to 10,000 residents of the new, mainly commuter estates of Chelmsford. We're having a feature on the club next month and organising a charity event for the summer, so I posted to the Linux Solution Providers list asking about installfests, and now I'm here. So, pointers please to setting a LUG up, offers of advice or help for the summer event - prob more of a demonstration of different systems (have MDK10 on my Tosh M30-604 laptop working /nearly/ fully now which looks good and impresses people), any other advice welcome. Thinking about handing out CDs of things like Knoppix, OpenCD, SUSE Live, etc. Hope you are all enjoying the long weekend hehe ;) Steve Purkiss Open for Organisations supporting open source software www.open4.org

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file size limits?
by Syd Hancock 03 May '04

03 May '04

What is the maximum size of an individual file on an ext3 formatted drive? Syd

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Thursday evening meeting in Norwich next week
by Syd Hancock 03 May '04

03 May '04

(I'm going to re-write and re-send from scratch and see what happens). The next 'second thursday' evening meeting in Norwich will be next week on Thursday the 13th of May at the City Gate, Derham Road, from about 8pm. Full details are on the ALUG website. The Norwich meetings and venues pages will be updated very soon. Syd

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test
by Syd Hancock 03 May '04

03 May '04

apologies. splodgeness abounds.

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Meeting in Norwich on 2nd May - brief report
by Syd Hancock 03 May '04

03 May '04

Excellent turn-out - AFAIR 14 people turned up, some for the first time, some from the first meeting five years ago. Lovely weather so we sat in the garden and made lots of noise. Many books were given away (thanks Steve aka 'brodders'), loads of old but useful kit was given away or sold very cheaply (thanks Laurie). Everyone seemed to have a great time and when I left at about half six it was still going. Adam, Bear, BJ, Brett, brodders, Doug (who needs some help with samba, slackware and XP), Eli (pronounced 'Ellie') James and Kaz (sp?) Jonathan 'noodles', Kirsten, Laurie, Mark, Syd. I think that's everyone accounted for. Syd

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 03 May '04

03 May '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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Who is coming on sunday?
by Syd Hancock 02 May '04

02 May '04

(I sent this on friday and only just noticed that it was not posted so I'm sending it again even though it is almost redundant now). So who is planning to come to the 5-year bash today? Also there was talk a few weeks ago of contacting original members to see if they could come, did anyone do that? Syd

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URI for today's meeting in Norwich
by Syd Hancock 02 May '04

02 May '04

http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/05-02Sun.html Syd

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irc.alug.org.uk DNS mapping
by Brett Parker 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

It appears that someone has changed the DNS mapping for irc.alug.org.uk to point at alug.org.uk rather than an OFTC server... Anyone know who, or why? I wouldn't have noticed but I use that to connect to oftc usually ;) Cheers, -- Brett Parker

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RE : USb web camera
by Robert Frusher 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

With regards to the webcam.... I have a Labtec USB webcam that costs 20 quid from PC world etc. After a little googling I managed to download a driver for a Logitech webcam which is basically the same. I can get a stream from the camera now using gmplayer, and camorama. But apart from that it is pretty useless in Linux. I want a plugin for Gaim to play with MSN video messenging.... Rob

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Listing?
by John Seago 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

I looked here, http://lugww.counter.li.org/addgroup.cms to see if we, (ALUG) were listed, under the heading East of England, only Bedfordshire appears. Perhaps someone with the necessary authority should consider listing us? -- John Seago

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Fwd: Re: Join ALUG
by Syd Hancock 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

I've received the following email from "brodders" <brodders(a)mcmail.com> >> I'm trying to dispose of about 60 Computer Science books from the 80's to 90's. These are engineering related rather then C++ etc, so we're into the world of Systems Analysis, Z, complete systems engineering, databases, networking, all sorts. Pretty old stuff nowadays but much relevant if you're into doing things professionally. Can I give them away?? Well, libraries & the uni don't want them so it's skipping time. ALUG people can take their pick, if they want... << Please reply directly to brodders for more info. He is intending to be at the meeting on sunday afternoon at The City Gate. Syd

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Linux Audio Developers Conference
by MJ Ray 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

This conference starts today and is available online as audio+webcam+IRC if you can't travel to Karlsruhe in time. There's an interesting-looking session at 12 noon tomorrow (assuming those are CET times) about debugging ALSA and Bob Ham talks at 15h. Maybe see you on IRC, if freenode doesn't free its nodes. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing

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Nelson Court - location and parking
by Syd Hancock 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

I've been editing some alug meetings web pages which should be on the main site within the next day or two. I'd like to put some information about finding Nelson Court and what parking is nearby. There is map of the campus available as a PDF file but I haven't found it very helpful. Pleae can anyone who knows their way around UEA send me - or post here - some directions for finding Nelson Court and also what parking is nearby? Thanks Syd

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Dont forget: Five years of ALUG - this sunday 2nd May 2pm
by Syd Hancock 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

Brief reminder to all: ALUG will be five on the 2nd May 2004. To mark the occasion a 'special' sunday afternoon get-together will take place at 2pm that day at the 'City Gate', Dereham Road. Full address, photo, link to map etc here: http://www.norwichpubs.info/norwichpubs/pubpages/citygate.htm Full details etc appearing on an ALUG website near you very soon... Syd

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Newbie and upgrade of RH7.2
by Iain Downie 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hi Folks, I'm a newbie to ALUG, and relatively new to Linux too, so excuse me if this is a trivial question. I web develop for a research charity in Thetford, and have inherited a legacy linux server which handles all our online data collection (Java etc. connected to Oracle on Unix). However, we face a bit of a problem in that we run Oracle 9i Application Server on Red Hat 7.2. When some small things went wrong (or at least we could not explain), we approached Oracle for support, only to be told that they had stopped supporting this combination. As we have Oracle Support for other elements, we decided that it would be worth it upgrading the Red Hat to RH Enterprise Linux ES (small to medium servers). This way we will get two types of support. Question: How easy is it to upgrade (or migrate) to this new version? Will it involve wiping drive and starting afresh? Will we need to re-install 9iAS and all our web apps? Or is it really easy and I'm getting flustered over nothing? Hope someone can provide some opinions/feedback. Cheers Iain

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Kernel 2.6 rpm
by Nick Daniels 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hi I cannot download Kernel 2.6 as it is too big for my two hour cut off on my isp.(no resume). I have downloaded Kernel 2.6 RPM from Suse on a spare machine and everything seemed to work O.K. Yast autodetected my hardware and reconfigured it, every thing worked except the sound, although it reconised the soundcards I tried it was unable to configure them, it suggested the IRQ may be wrong. This is my first attempt to install a new kernel System Suse 9.0 pro 1.6 Ghz AMD Regards Nick Daniels

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

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iptables & logs
by BenEBoy 24 Apr '04

24 Apr '04

Morning, I'm trying to track down an problem with my firewall (I'm trying to set up MASQ properly) and would like to log all traffic going through the firewall, whether it's dropped or not. Can someone tell me the appropriate command please? Secondly, I know it's simple, but I'll be damned if I can remember/find out how to do it. All the log entries from my firewall are going into /var/log/messages, but how can I set the 'puter up to put them in a file called /var/log/firewall? All the log entries start with 'FIREWALL'. cheers, BenE

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Re: Re: [ALUG] UEA (was: Another small hello...)
by syd＠toufol.com 24 Apr '04

24 Apr '04

> ATM, UEA is just one big, noisy building site! I don't what it'll be like at > the end of June.... Hmm, sounds interesting :-) Didn't know about that. What is being done to it? > What rooms do you normally use at UEA? Union House is fairly inaccessible ATM. No idea - don't know the place at all, sorry! Others do - where does ALUG usually meet? Syd

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Meetings page
by Kirsten Naylor 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

ALUG webmaster person/people: http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/ needs to be updated to reflect the current meeting plans. I assume Sunday 25th April has fallen by the wayside in favour of City Gate a week later. Also Sunday 27 June at UEA ought to be put in. /Kirsten

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[Alug Announce]Summaries: Meeting dates, EU Software Patents
by MJ Ray 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '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 ----- ALUG: ---- 1. 5th Birthday Meeting at City Gate, Norwich, Sunday 2 May 2004 http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018432.html 2. Norwich UEA meeting, Sunday 27 June 2004 http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2004-April/018481.html National: -------- 1. NotCon '04, Sunday 6th June 2004, Imperial College Union, London http://www.notcon04.com/ Proposals due by: Friday 14th May 2004 2. The EU Irish Presidency text rejects all amendments made by the European Parliament and pushes for direct patentability of computer programs, data structures and process descriptions. The Patent Department at Nokia is collecting signatures from top company executives for a "Call for Action" in favour of the Presidency text. http://www.ffii.org.uk/ http://swpat.ffii.org/ 3. Rally in Brussels on 14 April under the slogan "No Software Patents -- Power to the Parliament" http://demo.ffii.org/ was covered by some tv channels. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ ----- 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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Hello
by Mark Nordhoff 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

HI all, iam new to LInux,having just installed Suse pro 9 on a dual boot with Win xp and i find it really good and much better than Windows and i just need more experience due to Bill Gates brainwashing!

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nVidia/Via AGP support not working
by Tristan Scott 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have a via motherboard (on loan from work, mine's broke) and a nV ti 4400. AGP simple won't work. I have tried: Latest Gentoo stable drivers: (4496) Latest nVidia stable drivers (5336) These were supposed to fix some issues with via and agp. I have tried AGP: agpgart built in, nvidia drivers using mode 3 (try aggart then nvAgp) agpgart not built, nvidia drivers set to NvAGP mode 1 (nvagp only) or 3 (try agp, then nvidia) agpgart built as module, trying nvidia only (nope) then mode 3 again (loaded agpgart fine) The host bridge claims it's supported by agpgart and nvagp. now, debugging outputs: - -------lspci------- 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Intel 537 [AC97 Modem] (rev 80) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4400] (rev a2) - -------proc------- ~ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Supported AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x Registers: 0x1f000217:0x00000000 cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge Host Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge Fast Writes: Not Supported SBA: Supported AGP Rates: 4x 2x 1x Registers: 0x1f000207:0x00000000 cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status Status: Disabled - -------XF86Config------- (clipped) Section "Device" ~ Identifier "ti" ~ Driver "nvidia" # Driver "nv" ~ #VideoRam 131072 # ---AGP--- # 0 = Off # 1 = NvAGP only # 2 = AGPGart only # 3 = Try AGPGart, then NvAGP - default Option "NvAGP" "1" # use AGPGart if poss. then use agpgart, if poss. Option "NoDDC" "false" Option "DPMS" Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "AGPMode" "4" #Option "AGPFastWrite" "true" Option "EnableDepthMoves" "true" Option "EnablePageFlip" "true" Option "HWCursor" "true" Option "CursorShadow" "true" Option "Xinerama" "on" Option "TwinView" Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-95" Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60-100" Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024,1280x1024; 1024x768,1024x768; NULL,1280x1024; NULL,800x600" Option "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf" Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, CRT" ~ # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection - -------lsmod------- Module Size Used by nvidia 2068168 12 via_agp 5184 1 agpgart 26408 1 via_agp - -------dmesg------- (agpgart as module) Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected VIA PM266/KM266 chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 690M agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xe0000000 eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1. smbfs: Unrecognized mount option umask smbfs: Unrecognized mount option umask smbfs: Unrecognized mount option umask smbfs: Unrecognized mount option umask smbfs: Unrecognized mount option umask atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly. atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly. nvidia: no version magic, tainting kernel. nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5336 Wed Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004 0: NVRM: not using NVAGP, AGPGART is loaded!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAgl5LZZ4UfnGVIG0RAu2kAJ4zxvZXBMt5obo4zVI1WDlwxFZERACgh8iy nToYzVuJ16UsGfywZNUcsRg= =Ykvj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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USB webcams
by Wayne Stallwood 23 Apr '04

23 Apr '04

Me and Charles Garcia-Tobin (also on this list) were wasting a Sunday afternoon mucking about with Gnome Meeting last weekend. It is mostly working quite well as far as Audio and Text go, but we now need to both get affordable USB webcams to complete the picture. Any other ALUG'ers out there running USB webcams on Linux ?, which ones have good compatability, we are not over concerned with performance (this is for Gnome Meeting after all) but something that is nice and easy to get working and currently available would be good. I did have a really nice 3Com Office Connect camera. But when I tried it a year ago it was no fun getting it to play with Linux (and anyway it seems to have gone missing now)

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