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FOSS for Libraries HOWTO
by MJ Ray 25 Jan '04

25 Jan '04

You may have read about Bob Kerr's work in getting CDs of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) into libraries. Because he's moving on to other things, he has allowed me to take over maintenance of his guide and turn it into a HOWTO. I have made a small web page for this and put the latest copy (with source code) at http://www.affs.org.uk/~mjr/libraries/ ALUG is one of the first groups that I have mentioned this to. Please be gentle. Is it just me, or do you have to register to even look at the OO.org issue tracker now? I keep getting bounced to the login screen each session. I hate public bug trackers that do that. -- 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/

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Bash scripting
by Graham Trott 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

I have a requirement to process a folder full of files (converting .avi to .mp2 and .m1v, as it happens, en route to DVD authoring). To convert a single file I use the command line lav2wav +p foo.avi | mp2enc -V -o foo.mp2 I find the whole area of regular expressions etc confusing; is there a kind expert who could show how to get the above to work for all the files in a folder, such as for name in *.avi do (How would I do the above with each file?) done In particular, how do I match just the filename and leave off the extension? -- GT

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RE: [ALUG] I'm sure I've asked this before
by Ricky Bruce 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

im sure i remember alien as being very helpful when trying to deal with packages from other distros, but its been a while since i used it, check google. >From: beneboy <mail(a)psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk> >To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk >Subject: [ALUG] I'm sure I've asked this before >Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 23:19:20 +0000 > > >If so, then apologies... > >Does anyone know of an easy way to extract the files from a .deb or .rpm? I >want to play around with winex, but the version which gets around copy >protection is only available as a debian or rpm package, and since I'm >using >LFS that isn't much use ;) From the depths of my memory I seem to recall a >program called rpm2gz but google only throws up one result for that can't >be >it... > >anyone? please? > >BenE > >_______________________________________________ >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! _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo

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Sunday's meeting attendance
by Syd Hancock 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

Who is intending to be at the meeting in Norwich on sunday? BTW it is possible that I will not be able to attend and I will not know this until saturday morning. Many apologies if this is the case and I certainly hope to be there. Is there a volunteer to collect in and pay the fifteen pounds room hire charge? Thanks Syd

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I'm sure I've asked this before
by beneboy 24 Jan '04

24 Jan '04

If so, then apologies... Does anyone know of an easy way to extract the files from a .deb or .rpm? I want to play around with winex, but the version which gets around copy protection is only available as a debian or rpm package, and since I'm using LFS that isn't much use ;) From the depths of my memory I seem to recall a program called rpm2gz but google only throws up one result for that can't be it... anyone? please? BenE

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Norwich meeting on Sun.
by Jenny Hopkins 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

> On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 06:42, Syd Hancock wrote: > > Who is intending to be at the meeting in Norwich on sunday? I can't make this one, I'm afraid - I have a karate grading from noon onwards on that day. Jen

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Re: Sound (ALSA)
by MJ Ray 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

On 2004-01-22 13:54:03 +0000 Kevin Clarke <kg.clarke(a)virgin.net> wrote: > I am having no luck using ALSA and wondered if anyone could help? > Please let me know what you need to know and I will Email it to > you..... Distribution and version: Kernel version: (command "uname -a" should tell you if you don't know) Sound card model/type: Any error messages: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html may suggest other things that might be useful. Sent to ALUG and Kevin, as requested. -- 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/

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Wanted: short talks, posters and demos on web software
by MJ Ray 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

As discussed at the last meeting, next month's ALUG meeting in King's Lynn will be on Wed 18 Feb and have the theme: "How The Web Works on GNU/Linux" It will be an introduction to using and creating web sites with GNU/Linux. If you can talk about something related to this for 5-20 minutes, prepare an A2 display or bring a demonstration system, please email me directly. We have some speakers, but I think it's still all quite flexible. You don't need to be a guru, just be willing to share your experiences. Plenty of help is available. Also, if you know that you want to come to the meeting (or help organise it!), please email me. Announcements of this meeting will appear in the town's libraries and computer shops this week. It will also be announced to web sites, mailing lists and newsgroups as normal. -- 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/

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Sound (ALSA)
by David Templer 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Hi , I am having no luck using ALSA and wondered if anyone could help? Please let me know what you need to know and I will Email it to you..... K.Clarke Arch 0.6 KDE 3.1 Linux user Please CC any replies to me thank you you :-)

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RE: [ALUG] favourite URLs
by Richard Lewis 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

>The bookmarks.html file is valid html so at the very least you can >display the bookmarks in Konqueror as a web page. >-- >Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) >Konqueror keeps its bookmarks in ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml. > >The XML element for a bookmark is like this: > ><bookmark icon="/path/to/icon.png" href="http://www.coolsite.net/" > > <title>Cool Site</title> ></bookmark> So you could use XSL to transform the Netscape HTML to Konqueror XML. Let me know if you need to do this and want some help! Cheers, Richard

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Announce digest, Vol 3 #2 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 22 Jan '04

22 Jan '04

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." --------------.--------------------------------------------.------------ alug-announce | Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group | Weekly(ish) --------------'--------------------------------------------'------------ ** Please send articles for this letter to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk ** *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Topics: 1. ALUG meeting in Norwich on sunday (Syd Hancock) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: Syd Hancock <syd(a)toufol.com> To: ALUG <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:19:30 +0100 Cc: ALUG Announce <announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Subject: [Alug Announce]ALUG meeting in Norwich on sunday ALUG SUNDAY MEETING Next meeting in Norwich this coming weekend on sunday 25th=20 January. 2pm onwards in the Nelson Room at The Billy Blue Light=20 pub, Hall Road, Norwich.=20 The Billy is at the city end of Hall road and is not far from the=20 bus station, just off the inner ring road.=20 If coming north up the A140, Hall road is the first right just after=20 the first traffic lights off the A47. Keep going right to the end=20 as Hall Road is long. Detailed info including directions and a streetmap are on the=20 website here:=20 http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/bbl.html There is no specific topic or talk planned. Bring kit as this is a=20 general ALUG meet for installation, configuration and=20 sunday-afternoon-in-a-pub socialising :-) Bring extension leads etc if power is required as I don't yet know=20 what sockets etc are available. Room hire is =A315 so please bring a=20 bit of spare change towards the costs.=20 OTHER PLANNED MEETINGS Next Norwich sunday meeting is currently planned for the end of=20 April 2004. Current plans are to hold a full ALUG sunday meeting=20 every three months. Norwich monthly meetings continue on the second thursday of the=20 month and the current venue is the Forum coffee bar, 8pm. Next date=20 is 12th February. NOTE The webpages for meetings around the region have been extensively=20 reworked recently - many thanks, Mark.=20 Regards Syd --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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RE: [ALUG] favourite URLs
by Richard Lewis 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

>Can I somehow transfer all the favourite bookmarks I've set up in Netscape >7.1 and copy them all to a location so that they will appear ready to go in >Konqueror? I was thinking there may be a folder in Koquerer where I just need >to copy these URLs. I've tried finding them in Netscape without success, and >I also don't know where to place them in Konqueror to make them work. Konqueror keeps its bookmarks in ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/bookmarks.xml. The XML element for a bookmark is like this: <bookmark icon="/path/to/icon.png" href="http://www.coolsite.net/" > <title>Cool Site</title> </bookmark> It also has a <folder> element for defining folders in the favourites menu. That might be helpful?? Cheers, Richard

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favourite URLs
by Bryce Martin 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Can I somehow transfer all the favourite bookmarks I've set up in Netscape 7.1 and copy them all to a location so that they will appear ready to go in Konqueror? I was thinking there may be a folder in Koquerer where I just need to copy these URLs. I've tried finding them in Netscape without success, and I also don't know where to place them in Konqueror to make them work. -- Bye, Bryce.

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Free to a good home
by Wayne Stallwood 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

I am starting to have a clearout of some old junk. I think I have offered this to the group before, but this really is the last time before it goes in the skip. HP Deskjet 640c Old now but works fine under Linux using either the Parallel or USB interface, comes with a USB lead, but sorry I don't have a spare Parallel port one. No idea how much ink is in the cartridges, and a vague suspicion that the replacements will cost more than the printer is worth. But I just powered it up and it works fine. If anybody in the Bury St Edmunds area wants to come and take it off my hands I'll even make them a cup of tea.

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3d nvidia graphics support
by Bryce Martin 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

I'm using SuSE 9 and my PC has an nVidia MX400 graphics card. My system doesn't have 3d graphics hardware support. This is because SuSE has stopped shipping with this feature, but the manual says you can still download this feature. But I've been to the nvidia site and can't find a driver that will do the job. Does anyone know what to do to get 3d graphics support for SuSE 9? -- Bye, Bryce.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '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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Re: [ALUG] Re: Finesko & Firkin Pub
by MJ Ray 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

On 2004-01-18 14:51:44 +0000 Chris Walker <linux(a)wymondham.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Take a look at http://www.norwichpubs.info/norwichpubs/centpubf.htm > for info Does anyone have a way to contact the owner of that site without using a BraveNet address harvester? -- 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/

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ALUG meeting in Norwich on sunday
by Syd Hancock 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

ALUG SUNDAY MEETING Next meeting in Norwich this coming weekend on sunday 25th January. 2pm onwards in the Nelson Room at The Billy Blue Light pub, Hall Road, Norwich. The Billy is at the city end of Hall road and is not far from the bus station, just off the inner ring road. If coming north up the A140, Hall road is the first right just after the first traffic lights off the A47. Keep going right to the end as Hall Road is long. Detailed info including directions and a streetmap are on the website here: http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/bbl.html There is no specific topic or talk planned. Bring kit as this is a general ALUG meet for installation, configuration and sunday-afternoon-in-a-pub socialising :-) Bring extension leads etc if power is required as I don't yet know what sockets etc are available. Room hire is £15 so please bring a bit of spare change towards the costs. OTHER PLANNED MEETINGS Next Norwich sunday meeting is currently planned for the end of April 2004. Current plans are to hold a full ALUG sunday meeting every three months. Norwich monthly meetings continue on the second thursday of the month and the current venue is the Forum coffee bar, 8pm. Next date is 12th February. NOTE The webpages for meetings around the region have been extensively reworked recently - many thanks, Mark. Regards Syd

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Re: [ALUG] Re: Finesko & Firkin Pub
by Matt Parker 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 14:51, Chris Walker wrote: > If you want a pub for a meal, take a look at the Kings Head on Hall Rd. You > can order a meal from the bar and they will have it delivered, a curry is not > available but a chinese or fish & chips are. The pub then provides cutlery, > plates and condiments. Curry is available now - there's a new Indian Takeaway opened just round the corner on Queen's Road - Saffron I think it's called. I was at the King's Arms just last night and I would definitely recommend it for a meeting (and not just because I live about 5 mins walk away!!) I should hopefully be able to make the 25th January meeting wherever it is. Matt -- http://www.mpcontracting.co.uk Experts in Java development and website design

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RPM resource for SuSE users
by Graham Trott 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

In case other SuSE users haven't seen it, there's a very good SuSE-only RPM resource at http://packman.links2linux.org/ I've found it particularly useful for multimedia applications and GUI front-ends. Such as dvd:rip and kino, the latter being a video editor I found impossible to compile from source. -- GT

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Re: Finesko & Firkin Pub
by Bryce Martin 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 11:26, Bryce Martin wrote: > Brett Parker and I visited the Reindeer (or Finesko & Firkin) pub on Thursday > evening this week to see what it was like as an alternative venue to the > Forum Bar. In our opinion the Reindeer is totally unsuitable and could not be > used to host a meeting of alug. > In our humble opinion it would be far better to continue using the Forum Bar. Just out of interest for what reasons was it not suitable? Adam ................ We thought it was unsuitable because of load music, very poor lighting (too dark), and finally poor or unsuitable seating and general layout of seating. I think it would be difficult to get everyone around one table, and you can't really bring tables together like you can at the Forum Bar to expand seating as more people arrive. But importantly the atmosphere was just completely wrong for a meeting (of alug). Just a thought. We left the Firkin pub pretty quickly and went across the road to the City Gate Weatherspoon pub. It has the right atmosphere for a meeting in my opinion. The seating and lighting are very good and tables can be brought together. There is no music but the place has a lively congenial atmosphere. As an added bonus you can get a curry if you're hungry. -- Bye, Bryce.

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Finding website owners
by Syd Hancock 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

Is it possible to find the name of the owner of a .com domain? I tried whois on internic but that only shows the registraar. The domain I'm interested in is 01508broadband.com which is apparently a campaign for our local exchange (which is great) but has no named contact (which is puzzling). BTW here is a site with a *lot* of info for anyone following the broadband saga - for example here is the page for our exchange: http://www.samknows.com/broadband/detail.php?exch=4553 Graphs, stats, links... and lots of good info on the opening page. Syd

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Thoughts on dial-up ISPs?
by Edenyard 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

Does anyone on here still use dial-up ISPs? I've been using Onetel but I'd like to give them the Big 'E', so I've been looking out for a replacement. Any ideas? I happened across an outfit called Highstream and they actually acknowledge the existence of Linux, which seems somewhat unusual. Has anyone ever heard of them? Thanks for any ideas! Gerald. P.S. Before anyone asks: I live in the half of the Martlesham Heath estate that CAN'T get broadband....

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Finesko & Firkin Pub
by Bryce Martin 17 Jan '04

17 Jan '04

Brett Parker and I visited the Reindeer (or Finesko & Firkin) pub on Thursday evening this week to see what it was like as an alternative venue to the Forum Bar. In our opinion the Reindeer is totally unsuitable and could not be used to host a meeting of alug. In our humble opinion it would be far better to continue using the Forum Bar. -- Bye, Bryce.

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Mozilla - two questions
by Chris Green 16 Jan '04

16 Jan '04

A couple of simple questions about mozilla (I'm running version 1.4 at the moment):- Is there a list of the 'about:*' things that you can enter as URLs anywhere? They are incredibly useful but I can't remember them. The only one I can remember is "about:plugins" Sort of follows on, where/how does mozilla decide what file type suffixes it recognises? My mozilla at work recognises .jfif files but my copy at home doesn't. I've searched Google for the above and I've looked at www.mozilla.org but haven't had much joy. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk)

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