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Re: [ALUG-DIGEST] Sun Apr 2 22:59:02 2000
by Terry Filby 04 Apr '00

04 Apr '00

I've only just joined ALUG because I'm an absolute beginner in Linux and am having great difficulty, so it's disappointing to see ALUG is not exactly thriving. If individual help to me is possible somehow, please let me know. Thanks Terry alug-digest(a)stu.uea.ac.uk wrote: > This is a digest of the list alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily > those of UEA or UUEAS. > > 1 messages in this digest: > Alug 6 > > === MESSAGE 1 === > Subject: Alug 6 > From: Adam Bower <adamb(a)thebowery.co.uk> > Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 21:11:05 +0100 > > Hi all, > > I'm going to cancel the venue for Alug now due to a lack of enthusiasm. > > If I'm wrong then let me know asap, It's just only two people have muttered > anything to the effect that they are coming, Let me know though if its just > everyone going on holiday/home in their uni easter break. I'm sorry if I sound > pessimistic but it looks as though the current part of the mail archive is > broken and everything looks grim. > > Adam [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Trouble with gimp
by Doug Tulloch 17 Mar '00

17 Mar '00

Hi from another newbie! Does anyone know anything about gimp? I can't get it to do even the simplest transformations. Trying to rotate a selection, for example, produces no result other than a lot of hard disk activity which appears quite rapidly to fill up the partition in use, whether home or root; the only way out that I have found is to log off and start again. Is this a known problem? I'm using Linux-Mandrake 6.1, the Macmillan distribution, on a Dell which has an Nvidia TNT2 graphics card. -- Doug Tulloch [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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NT boot.ini
by Anthony_Sale＠proconassoc.co.uk 17 Mar '00

17 Mar '00

Stu I use the NT boot loader on my laptop. To boot Lilo from the NT boot loader you ned to do the following enter dd if=/dev/hd?? of=/ntdrive/linux.cnt bs=512 count=1 (where /dev/hd?? is the partition you installed lilo to and /ntdrive points to the nt C: drive) Edit your boot.ini file to look like the following (this configuration has linux as the default startup) [boot loader] timeout=30 default=c:\linux.cnt [operating systems] c:\linux.cnt="Linux" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos The boot/ini file has the system and readonly attributes so you will need to enter attrib -s -r c:\boot.ini before you edit the file. After wards enter attrib +s +r boot.ini to reset the file attributes. Hope this helps Regards Tony Sale "Stu" <stu(a)mgstu.co.uk> on 03/16/2000 10:29:58 PM Please respond to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Tony Sale/Technical Consultants/Procon) Subject: [alug] NT boot.ini Hi what would I put in nt boot.ini in order to get linux loaded, I put lilo in the partition, as opposed to MBR, as Id rather use the NT boot loader... ?? Thanks Stu.. I did search the redhat site but couldent find the answer, mind you we were pretty busy at good old freeserve today which distracted me from the important things Id have preffered to be doing.. :) [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] ********************************************************************** The information contained in this electronic mail message is confidential. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, copying, dissemination or disclosure of this information is strictly prohibited. **********************************************************************

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Linux Cobalt Raqs - bloomin' marvellous ;)
by Martyn Drake 14 Mar '00

14 Mar '00

I just want to say how darned nice these machines are. I've been playing with a demo machine we've got in the office to decide whether it's worth using these as part of a co-located/reseller solution. I want one for myself :) It's running Linux 2.2.12C3 with an 18Gb hard drive, along with 512Mb of memory. Suprisingly, it's only using IDE for it's hard drive interface. Everything is administered via the web interface, but you also have telnet access along with root privaledges (although they say you could invalidate your warranty by modifying system files). It looks like it's running a customised version of RedHat. It will also allow installation via the web of .pkg files. The web server supports sanboxed CGI, Frontpage extensions, and plenty of other goodies. Web stats and quota management are all handled via it's web interface which customers can access via their control panel. The biggest surprise was it supports the Arkeia backup client which we use with a massive tape library system. The user can backup their own data, or the ISP/host can do it for them. The unit itself it's tiny - we could get loads of these into our racks in Telehouse. Despite the IDE hard drive interface, I'd have to say this is a pretty darn excellent package for those that want to do things on the cheap and not bother about too much of the setting-up side and maintenance. 9/10 Regards, Martyn -- Martyn Drake | WEB http://www.ision.net.uk Systems Administrator | PHONE +44 (0)20 8293 7000 Ision Internet plc | FAX +44 (0)20 8293 6000 -- Martyn Drake | WEB http://www.ision.net.uk Systems Administrator | PHONE +44 (0)20 8293 7000 Ision Internet plc | FAX +44 (0)20 8293 6000 [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Cobalt Raqs .. bloody marvellous ;)
by Martyn Drake 14 Mar '00

14 Mar '00

I just want to say how darned nice these machines are. I've been playing with a demo machine we've got in the office to decide whether it's worth using these as part of a co-located/reseller solution. I want one for myself :) It's running Linux 2.2.12C3 with an 18Gb hard drive, along with 512Mb of memory. Suprisingly, it's only using IDE for it's hard drive interface. Everything is administered via the web interface, but you also have telnet access along with root privaledges (although they say you could invalidate your warranty by modifying system files). It looks like it's running a customised version of RedHat. It will also allow installation via the web of .pkg files. The web server supports sanboxed CGI, Frontpage extensions, and plenty of other goodies. Web stats and quota management are all handled via it's web interface which customers can access via their control panel. The biggest surprise was it supports the Arkeia backup client which we use with a massive tape library system. The user can backup their own data, or the ISP/host can do it for them. The unit itself it's tiny - we could get loads of these into our racks in Telehouse. Despite the IDE hard drive interface, I'd have to say this is a pretty darn excellent package for those that want to do things on the cheap and not bother about too much of the setting-up side and maintenance. 9/10 Regards, Martyn -- Martyn Drake | WEB http://www.ision.net.uk Systems Administrator | PHONE +44 (0)20 8293 7000 Ision Internet plc | FAX +44 (0)20 8293 6000 [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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High loads
by Dan Jones 10 Mar '00

10 Mar '00

Thought you guys might enjoy seeing the highest load ever for a single website on a dedicated server (well that I've seen anyway) 11:37am up 28 days, 1:17, 3 users, load average: 50.17, 35.08, 24.95 At lunchtimes, the average is higher. This site gets on average 20 hits/sec for reference, and a a intesnive CGI/MySQL beast. Heardware is dual PIII-550, with RAID 5 SCSI and is a HP Netserver costing approx 7,500 quid. It also has around 640Mb of RAM, and a triple redundant PSU. We've already said it needs a new box. And for client confidality reasons, I'm not permitted to say which site it is, sorry! Dan Jones Network Operations UK Solutions, a part of CAD Internet [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Experiences of Helix?
by Green J M K 09 Mar '00

09 Mar '00

OK so we were bombarded with news releases from HelixCode announcing their distribution of GNOME yesterday. It looks real nice, I just wondered if anyone had any experiences good or bad with it (the Helix download processes and the environment itself)? Also, anyone know if an gnome app written under this release/1.4 release will still work under October GNOME? James. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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New Web Host
by Laurie Brown 09 Mar '00

09 Mar '00

Folks, After many months of fruitless searching in the UK for a sensible (either) managed server or co-location deal for a box running Linux, we've given up, bitten the bullet and gone for a 2meg pipe of our own. We intend to offer domain hosting, web hosting using apache, email, php, MySQL, Perl, CGI etc. running on a SuSE 6.3 box for a basic price of a tenner-a-month. We want to use SuSE because a) we're familiar with it, and b) we want to do a trading partnership deal with SuSE. There are some complications, however! The principle one is lack of time on my part, and the fact that I'm out of the country. Another is that although we have a pretty good idea of what we need, and how to do it, some knowledgeable help would be appreciated. For instance, we will be going SCSI and RAID5 areas in which I have no experience on Linux. Lastly, this is a shoe-string start-up, and we can't afford to pay mega-bucks for an "expert". So, bottom-line: if an ALUG member near to Ipswich and willing to exchange some help and experience in exchange for beer and some free domain hosting or whatever is able to help, please shout. The kit will be here late next week, and it's a ground-up build. I have spare PCs to simulate dial-in, the DMZ and a network behind it for NAT and so on. I only have a short window to do this, as the pipe is scheduled to arrive at the main office in mid-April. Oh yeah, if anyone replies, please take this out of the list, to cut down the noise thereon. Cheers, Laurie. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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MS Word with Linux
by Green J M K 08 Mar '00

08 Mar '00

Hi there, OK so I need to produce a lengthy report with screenshots and diagrams. I need to write it on Linux and produce the final product in Word for printing on an NT network. I'm wondering here how stable Word97 is running with WINE? StarOffice cannot get full compatibility even with straightforward text/styles I've found, so that's not a reliable option. Options anyone? James. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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ALUG28?
by MJ Ray 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

While updating the mail archives, I realised just how long it was between ALUG4 (late October) and ALUG5 (early Feb). Shall we not leave it so long and have ALUG28 later this month? Adam, Aq, is that possible? MJR [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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What's your record for load average on a Linux box?
by Martyn Drake 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Mine is 60.91 after the Frontpage extensions running on a Debian box went haywire. We have now mounted the dump of 'top' on our wall as a record of the momentous occasion. Make sure you monitor, shtml.exe on any machine running FP to ensure it doesn't go tits up. Ruddy Microsoft crud :( Regards, Martyn [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Mail Archive Update
by MJ Ray 07 Mar '00

07 Mar '00

Hypermail.pl is now handling most of the mail archives. I'll not bother converting the first few unless someone can think of a really good reason. I'll now be adding to them monthly, I think. They remain at http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/~h089/alug/list/ while the main site is at http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ MJR [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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PC Answers Mandrake CD Cockup
by Justin Jonas 06 Mar '00

06 Mar '00

Has anybody heard anymore about this? They sent me a letter shortly after Christmas saying they were going to replace the cd but since then nothing Justin Jonas

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[ALUG-DIGEST] Sun Mar 5 23:59:02 2000
by alug-digest＠stu.uea.ac.uk 05 Mar '00

05 Mar '00

This is a digest of the list alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily those of UEA or UUEAS. 3 messages in this digest: Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... [alug] Dial up dilema... === MESSAGE 1 === Subject: Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... From: jg(a)cyberstorm.demon.co.uk Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 01:17:08 +0000 (GMT) On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Dermot Musgrove wrote: > Stu wrote: > > > > Got this from a friend can any one suggest a good place to look....??? > > Cheers Stu > > > > hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried > > millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the > > same error is coming up:- > > > > "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" > AFAIR this happens because you have a line in /etc/ppp/options with 'lock' > > kppp does its own locking, it used to be OK to have an empty options file. chmod uog+rwx /dev/modem does the trick here. -- James Green Site Manager james(a)linuxnewbie.com LinuxNewbie.com LNC === MESSAGE 2 === Subject: Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... From: Darrell Scott <scottie(a)linux.ca> Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 00:46:55 -0400 On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Stu wrote: > hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried > millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the > same error is coming up:- > > "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" > > The debug file reports the folowing:- > > "localhost pppd[625] The remote system is required to authenticate itself > but localhost pppd [625] counldnt find any secret (password) which would let > it use an IP address." Sounds like an authentication problem to me... maybe you're using the wrong userid/password combination? Capitalization? Maybe you're using PAP instead of CHAP, or vice-versa. It might be a good idea to try connecting to another account you have the username and password for - both on the same ISP and another ISP, if possible. That way you can isolate the problem. I've had trouble connecting to NT servers in the past; I had to recompile pppd for MS-CHAP authentication (all the instructions are with the source code). I don't think this is the error message that I got though. > I have tried a manual login script as well and the same error occurs. I This would remain consistent with an authentication problem. If you're manually editing stuff, edit /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and/or /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. Check out ISP-Hookup-HOWTO and PPP-HOWTO for more info. Good Luck! Darrell (A former East-Anglian living in Canada!) -- scottie(a)linux.ca === MESSAGE 3 === Subject: [alug] Dial up dilema... From: bsamuels(a)datamansys.co.uk Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 15:20:37 GMT ** Reply to note from "Stu" <stu(a)mgstu.co.uk> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 01:44:20 -0000 Stu > > Got this from a friend can any one suggest a good place to look....??? > Cheers Stu > > hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried > millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the > same error is coming up:- > > "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" > > The debug file reports the folowing:- > > "localhost pppd[625] The remote system is required to authenticate itself > but localhost pppd [625] counldnt find any secret (password) which would let > it use an IP address." I believe that the remote host should not be required to authenticate itself! from ppp options: # Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network # packets to be sent or received. auth If you have the above in your ppp options file try kppp after changing the 'auth' line to 'noauth'. > I have tried a manual login script as well and the same error occurs. I > also used the terminal button in the modem device setup and called the > speaking clock so I know the modem works. > > [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] > [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] > [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] > [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] Best wishes Barry Samuels

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Dial up dilema...
by bsamuels＠datamansys.co.uk 05 Mar '00

05 Mar '00

** Reply to note from "Stu" <stu(a)mgstu.co.uk> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 01:44:20 -0000 Stu > > Got this from a friend can any one suggest a good place to look....??? > Cheers Stu > > hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried > millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the > same error is coming up:- > > "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" > > The debug file reports the folowing:- > > "localhost pppd[625] The remote system is required to authenticate itself > but localhost pppd [625] counldnt find any secret (password) which would let > it use an IP address." I believe that the remote host should not be required to authenticate itself! from ppp options: # Require the peer to authenticate itself before allowing network # packets to be sent or received. auth If you have the above in your ppp options file try kppp after changing the 'auth' line to 'noauth'. > I have tried a manual login script as well and the same error occurs. I > also used the terminal button in the modem device setup and called the > speaking clock so I know the modem works. > > [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] > [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] > [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] > [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] Best wishes Barry Samuels [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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[ALUG-DIGEST] Sat Mar 4 23:59:03 2000
by alug-digest＠stu.uea.ac.uk 04 Mar '00

04 Mar '00

This is a digest of the list alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily those of UEA or UUEAS. 3 messages in this digest: Dial up dilema... Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... Re: [alug] PHP complile probs === MESSAGE 1 === Subject: Dial up dilema... From: "Stu" <stu(a)mgstu.co.uk> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 01:44:20 -0000 Got this from a friend can any one suggest a good place to look....??? Cheers Stu hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the same error is coming up:- "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" The debug file reports the folowing:- "localhost pppd[625] The remote system is required to authenticate itself but localhost pppd [625] counldnt find any secret (password) which would let it use an IP address." I have tried a manual login script as well and the same error occurs. I also used the terminal button in the modem device setup and called the speaking clock so I know the modem works. === MESSAGE 2 === Subject: Re: [alug] Dial up dilema... From: Dermot Musgrove <dermot(a)glade.perl.connectfree.co.uk> Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 01:52:30 +0000 Stu wrote: > > Got this from a friend can any one suggest a good place to look....??? > Cheers Stu > > hiya, and thanks for helping out I really appreciate it. I have tried > millions of combinations now for all the kppp settings in kde and still the > same error is coming up:- > > "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly" AFAIR this happens because you have a line in /etc/ppp/options with 'lock' kppp does its own locking, it used to be OK to have an empty options file. Regards, Dermot === MESSAGE 3 === Subject: Re: [alug] PHP complile probs From: "Dr. Ashley T. Howes PhD" <ashley_t_howes(a)dial.pipex.com> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:28:44 +0000 At 10:28 03/03/00 +0000, you wrote: > >I've just seen this: >http://www.PenguinMagazine.com/Magazine/This_Issue/0010 >which takes you through the Apache/PHP/MySQL install process. Good timing >that :-) > >James. > Thank-you, using the above it now works and I can now start to learn php/mysql. I'm still playing around with compiling php from source and found the argument to compile it as an apache module to be (on my Redhat 6.0 machine): ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs ... And i've just now got the php source code to compile correctly (with mysql, dbase, etc) database support and it's working with Apache. Yippee! Thanks again for your help. Ashley Dr. Ashley T. Howes PhD Email: ashley_t_howes(a)dial.pipex.com Web: http://www.ydu09.dial.pipex.com "When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"

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OT: BT, ADSL, Cable Modems
by Green J M K 03 Mar '00

03 Mar '00

Refs: http://www.theregister.co.uk/000303-000009.html http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/8/ns-13811.html Number one BT has decided yet again to delay ADSL citing lack of demand causing insufficient testing. That's tech-speak for "we're gonna lose revenue here". Number two both Telewest and NTL are rolling our Cable modems over the next few months. Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to the differences between cable and adsl (other than the tv and telephony services cable also provides)? I might add that I signed up to BTInternet Wednesday upon their announcement of the free evening calls. Other than their dialup boxes going dead early Wed evening, I've not seen any problems yet. Sure, it's slower than Demon, but still acceptable (4k/sec web, 4-7/8k/sec news). I've not set mail up yet. I have had one or two disconnections, but nothing appalling. If only BT would allow full unmetered access *sigh*. s/BT: It's Good to Talk/BT: Taking the Piss/g James. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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lightwave
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

Don't drink more than 3 litres in one evening and break your laptop with you PhD on it!! (Sorry, Mike!!!) A friend of mine runs Office '97 under the latest stable version - it seems to be quite solid. Most apps I used to occasionally use under Wine, I now use native versions... sorry! Andi p.s. Sorry about the pseudo-indent-reply Notes is pretty useless!! ------------------------------------- does anybody have any advice on wine ? is it stable enough for 24/7 use ? I am considering using a linux box to render in lightwave under wine - does wine affect the fpu performace ? J ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * ********************************************************************* [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Wrox Press - Linux Books
by Rob Miller 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

Hi Does ALUG have a LUG library? Would you like to start one?:-) Wrox Press is a UK publisher (based in Birmingham)- We publish books on Linux and related technologies for professional programmers. I can send out free review copies of our books and it seems only right to me that some of these should got to the UK LUGs :-) I'd like to send you a copy of, "Beginning Linux Programming 2nd Edition" (with a foreword by Alan Cox)ISBN: 1861002971. If someone at ALUG could review the book and put a review up on your web site then that would be fair exchange :-) If you like the sound of my plan then send me your postal address and I'll send you a copy of the book. Cheers Rob Rob Miller Wrox Press Ltd GNU/Linux Marketing & Communications www.wrox.com Bang!Linux Conference and Expo - Bangalore 25-27 Feb 2000 www.linux-conferences.com [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Machine Lockups
by jg＠cyberstorm.demon.co.uk 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

Hi guys, I'm feeling a little out of my depth here on this one. This box was built two Autumns ago (1998) and has only had a monitor change since. Using RH6.0. Tonight, on two seperate occassions, between 30 seconds and one minute into my dialup Internet connection, my machine has totally locked up. The only commonality has been the dialup and corresponding disk activity (sendmail and fetchnews kicking in). I have had an in-between dialup connection that stayed up fine. The screen freezes. No mouse, no keyboard. The four consoles do not respond. No beeps occur on keyboard buffer overflow as you'd normally expect. The modem stays on-line, but Rx/Tx lights go dead. The hard disk stops rattling completely (I can normally hear it all the time). I have 64MB RAM, 128MB swap. gkrellm shows swap to be at or less than 1/4 used, RAM between half and 3/4 used. I run GNOME 1.0.53 and E 0.16 and on both occassions had two Eterms up. Absolutely nothing out of the normal, bar having 'daytime' uncommented in /etc/services (I was trying out a networking code sample from a book). I have now commented it back out. I was not accessing audio/cdrom devices, nor floppy (LS-120). I am using kernel 2.2.12, and have been for smoe time. The only thing that comes to mind is possibly swapfile corruption, but I don't even know if it's possible with Linux/ext2 or whatever. Unless the problem is an apparently random hardware fault. I must admit since using GNOME again this past few days memory has been a little lacking. Ideas? [jg@cyberstorm jg]$ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 2915904 2033150 731959 74% / /dev/hda6 2028098 770226 1153050 40% /home /dev/hda5 2096160 1995712 100448 95% /mnt/data /dev/hda1 2096160 1902592 193568 91% /mnt/windows [jg@cyberstorm jg]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 63320 61892 1428 52792 1960 31316 -/+ buffers/cache: 28616 34704 Swap: 128988 20 128968 [jg@cyberstorm jg]$ quota Disk quotas for user jg (uid 500): none -- James Green jg(a)cyberstorm.demon.co.uk Site Manager jg(a)linuxnewbie.com LinuxNewbie.com LNC http://www.cyberstorm.demon.co.uk/ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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New users distribution
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

SuSE is a solid distro. SuSE never seems to be mentioned in some circles, but its pretty damn good and worth at look at. It seems to be on par with Slackware in that lots of people use it for their server operating systems. Oh well... my two pence worth!! Andi -------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 09:46:23PM +0000, Aquarius wrote: > Which should I recommend? One that comes with a good book on it. (or equivalent online docs) Mandrake is based on RH, so uses RH's packaging system. Storm and Corel are based on Debian, but Storm seems to leave you abruptly post-install in my opinion and Corel has that root exploit. Stampede is too early in its life. Slackware is OK, but you really need a book. SuSE I've never given a fair trial. ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * ********************************************************************* [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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SuSE wms
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 25 Feb '00

25 Feb '00

Hey, I remember those Sun 3-60 machines. Classic!! Then we upgrade them to be Xterm's when the Sparc ELC's arrived!!! Eee, by heck! Those were the days! A> On 21-Feb-00 Green J M K wrote: > Hey all, > > Okay, I am stuck in this uni machine. It uses gdm to login, and presents > only KDE as the possible environment. But hark! /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker is > present! I tried killall -9 kwm && wmaker (as per a suggestion) but it > simply logged me out. > > Anyone got any bright ideas? You don't know a good think when you see it..... When I was an UG at essex we were using some crap in house 68000 box with no virtual memory or dma and a crap prot of SYS-V I think.... Then we moved to a network of Sun 3-60s :-) Peter. ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * ********************************************************************* [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Trouble with gimp
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 24 Feb '00

24 Feb '00

Is this your home directories and CVS repository? I can recommend StorageTec tape silos!! We back up 15PetaBytes of data on these!!! :-) Seriously, DAT's are fine. At home I back up (using BRU I must admit) across multiple DAT's. If you get a DAT drive with an Autochange it'll do this automagically for you during the night. Any half decent backup software will support the autochanger. Some of my FTP Server's here at work I backup to DLT's. These are fine for smallish file servers - well 40GB on one tape. Have fun... Andi eee bye eck, when I wer't lad ;)... I guess I better get this back on a linux related theme ;).. does anybody have any suggestions for a reasonable backup devices other than dat under linux ?? we need to back up about 15 gig, dosen't have to be than fast, (well overnight will do!).. it seems that dat's are now becomming a little small ;).. please, no suggestions of 15 jazz drives ;).. Sz ********************************************************************* * Please visit the web site of the Financial Times at: * * http://www.ft.com * * * * This E-Mail is intended for the use of the addressee only and may * * contain confidential information. If you are not the intended * * recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination * * of this communication is strictly prohibited. * * If you receive this transmission in error, please notify us * * immediately then delete this E-Mail. * * * * * postmaster(a)ft.com * ********************************************************************* [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Mandrake 7
by John Woodard 24 Feb '00

24 Feb '00

All you RedHatters out there check out Mandrake 7.0 very slick! Cheers, BJ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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SuSE wms
by Green J M K 22 Feb '00

22 Feb '00

Hey all, Okay, I am stuck in this uni machine. It uses gdm to login, and presents only KDE as the possible environment. But hark! /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker is present! I tried killall -9 kwm && wmaker (as per a suggestion) but it simply logged me out. Anyone got any bright ideas? (I have a related question for those who answer correctly.) James. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECTs of "unsubscribe alug" and "subscribe alug-announce" ] [ to listserver(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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