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A helping hand from a close group (fwd)
by Andrew Savory 26 Apr '99

26 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Just got this... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:05:51 +0100 From: Peter Bassill <peter.bassill(a)internal.dircon.net> To: "'info(a)anglian.lug.org.uk'" <info(a)anglian.lug.org.uk> Subject: A helping hand from a close group Hi Fellow Linuxers Welcome to the land of collective thought, help and co-operation. (I come in peace ;) ) An introduction from me; Peter Bassill, Cambridge Linux User Group Web Master. Looking forward to coming to your first meeting, meeting you all and finding out what you all do. Check out our web site, you might like it. www.cam-lug.org. Its still in its childhood but its getting bigger every day. If you need support with anything then please ask. We have an extensive library of distributions, data, libraries etc, all presses to cd or available from our FTP site. Drop me a mail and let me know if you need anything for Sunday. All the best! Peter Bassill Internet Systems Administrator Direct Connection *********************************************** To err is Human To rm -r * from / is luser [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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ADSL update
by Raphael Mankin 23 Apr '99

23 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Further to my note of the otehr day. If I use my 'spare' host IP that BT gave me, the oepration of the net is distinctly flaky. However, I find that I can use my Demon IP (158.152.9.237) over the ADSL network. It gets masqueraded in the normal way, but appears to be perfectly reliable. My main m/c now has three IPs. One for demon, one for ADSL and one for the internal network. I have also set up masquerading from the rest of my local net, but I have not checked my filter rules all that thoroughly yet. Also, my Win 3.1 machine (they do still exist) does not seem to fetch web pages ;-( ---------------------------------- 2 + 2 = 5 (for large values of 2) Raphael Mankin E-Mail: raph(a)panache.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 ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Using ADSL
by Raphael Mankin 23 Apr '99

23 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk BT's ADSL --------- What do you get? --------------- 1. A permanent internet connection. 2Mb/s download, 256Kb/s upload. 2. Static, masqueraded IP. The addresses used are in the 192.168.*.* range. 3. ADSL shares your phone line with voice traffic. You can use voice and data at the same time. 4. Two wall boxes, each about 10" square and about 1 1/2" deep. One is the analogue/data splitter, te other is a 'modem' that provides a utp connection to your network. BT also provide a PCI ethernet card (ne2000 clone, RealTek RTL8029 chip) and a cable. 5. Lots of BT 'constent servers' that no-one in his right mind would want to look at. 6. Access to the whole internet. BT provide web proxies that you can use. What do you not get? ------------------- 1. Mail services. You must register with some ISP for that. 2. Usenet. How do you get it? ----------------- 1. You have to live in the right area. 2. You *must* be running W95/W98. If not, BT won't even talk to you. 3. Connect your web browser to www.btinteractive.com/Registration/. For this site you will need Flash Graphics. BT *say* that you have to be running IE to use their site. I was totally unable to get it to work with IE, but Netscape worked fine. This web site is one of the worst designed and most annoying that I have seen in a long time. 4. Go through the rather long-winded registration process that will include, inter alia, downloading a program (W95/W98) that will examine your machine. You then mail the output of this program back to BT. 5. In due course BT will come and install the equipment in your premises. 6. Use the BT supplied floppies to configure your W95/W98. Donwload about 30Mb of other software and install it. You can now get at the BT content services. Apart from access to the BT servers you can ignore all their instructions. For Linux configuration, see below. Network Config -------------- You get a 2-bit (4 address) network allocated to you. BT tell you about two of the addresses, but not the other two. The address is of the form 192.168.x.y with a 30-bit netmask. 192.168.x.y+1 is the BT 'modem' 192.168.x.y+2 is the address BT tell you to use for your machine 192.168.x.y+3 is the broadcast address. 192.168.x.y is a spare host address and can be used if you have two machines on your network. BT's name servers are on 192.168.0.* and 192.168.1.*, so that rather rules out using the 192.168.*.* private address range on your home network. You just don't know who else might be using your addresses and causing conflicts. However you can still use 10.*.*.*. Routing ------- In /etc/networks create entries for your local network and for the BT network. loopback 127.0.0.0 localnet 10.0.0.0 BTnet 192.168.x.y In /etc/hosts create entries for the BT hosts, e.g. 192.168.0.18 dns1.BTInteractive.net alderney.BTInteractive.net 192.168.1.5 dns2.BTInteractive.net 12.168.x.y+1 gate.BTInteractive I assume that you have just one ethernet card in your machine. If you have two then it becomes easier to isolate your private network from the public one. At a suitable place in your rc scripts add: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 broadcast 10.255.255.255 netmask 10.0.0.0 /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.x.y+2 broadcast 192.168.x.y+3 netmask 192.168.x.y /sbin/route add -net localnet netmask 10.0.0.0 eth0 /sbin/route add -net BTnet netmask 192.168.x.y eth0:0 /sbin/route add default netmask 0.0.0.0 gw gate.BTInteractive eth0:0 With two ethernet cards replace eth0:0 by eth1, or vice versa. In /etc/resolve.conf put: nameserver 192.168.0.18 nameserver 192.168.1.5 Security -------- You are now directly connect to the internet, so security is a major issue. Make sure all user accounts have *good* passwords. Use shadow passwords. Run pwck and grpck regularly. Disable system accounts such as bin, sync, daemon etc. by putting an 'x' in the password field of /etc/shadow. In /etc/inetd.conf comment out the entries for chargen, finger, netstat, systat, bootps and tftp. Put sensible values in /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow. A good place to start is to put ALL:ALL in hosts.deny and then to enable just those services you want, e.g. smtp, in hosts.allow. When a connection is denied run a script to log the event; for instance, in hosts.deny put the line: ALL:ALL:spawn ( /usr/bin/logger -p auth.debug "%a %d %c %h %p %s")& Implement packet filtering to discard any packets that look suspicious, e.g. those trying to use your machine as a gateway. Also drop any packets to the local net that try to go out through the BT gateway; any packets from the gateway that purport to come from the local network. If you are running a private netowrk you may want to nominate one machine as a masquerading gateway so that you can control access more easily. Update your Samba config to allow connections only to/from the local network. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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RE:
by Peter Onion 21 Apr '99

21 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Sadly I am busy on the 2nd :-( Peter Onion. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Peter Onion <Peter.Onion(a)btinternet.com> Date: 20-Apr-99 Time: 07:57:39 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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So, where now?
by Mark J Ray 20 Apr '99

20 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hiya, Since starting the mailing list about 10 days ago, we've got a meeting organised for 2nd May, the domain name, some web pages, listings in some of the LUG indices, started dialogue with neighbouring LUGs, publicised ourselves a bit with a press release and doubled (when I last looked) our subscribers. But we've only just begun. So I'm writing yet another "TO-DO" list, as far as I see it. Feel free to dispute or add to this list, but I don't think anyone can deny that if we get the first few done, then we'll gain people and have no problem with the later ones. So, here it is: * Announce the meeting to uk.comp.os.linux and u.l.e-a (Andrew?) Include details of how to join this list. Feel free to copy the posting to any other local groups at your Service Provider. * Any members posting there (eg Me!) add the ALUG web address to their signature block that they use to post to news (yeah, I know they're crowded already). I think ALUG members are becoming more visible on u.c.o.l (although I could probably incite a flamewar on any given topic :P). * Anyone keeping some Linux web pages stick an ALUG link-back logo on them and add them to the ALUG links on the main web site (Andrew, can you add a few more categories? Damn, I'm asking you to do a lot!) * Discuss who's going to bring what to the meeting. Andrew, could you keep a (basic) web page about the meeting, with links to Laurie's site and details of who's bringing what? * Produce a poster that we can all post around our local areas. (I know some kind souls have offered to do this.) * In a week or two, start trying to work out a venue and date for another meeting. * Keep up the good work! Publicise, invite people, etc. Food for thought? -- MJR Please use the address in the Reply-To line at the top, if set. http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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What's currently happening?
by Martyn B. Drake 20 Apr '99

20 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Anything new or interesting happening at the moment within the group? How are preparations for the meeting going, and how many people have confirmed that they will be coming so far? M. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] So, where now?
by Raphael Mankin 20 Apr '99

20 Apr '99

Thank.s I'll look forward to seeing you there, but not till probably about 3pm. High tide is about mid-day and I shall be sailing until then. On 20-Apr-99 Mark J Ray wrote: >On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 04:59:00PM +0100, Raphael Mankin wrote: >> Would you care to remind me just where and what time this meeting is? I must >> have missed it in the flood of words ;-) > >Sunday May 2nd, Melton Grange Hotel (www.meltongrange.co.uk) >Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2pm. I think. > >-- >Mark. >Stats Postgrad mailto:M.J.Ray@UEA.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ >UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ >"People will pay BIG BUCKS for the luxury of ignorance."rickf(a)transpect.net ---------------------------------- 2 + 2 = 5 (for large values of 2) Raphael Mankin E-Mail: raph(a)panache.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------

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Re: [ALUG-DIGEST] Tue Apr 20 00:00:00 1999
by Andrew Savory 20 Apr '99

20 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hmm... is the main alug list still working? Andrew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Savory(a)uea.ac.uk - 01603 593473 - ITCS, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Press released...
by Andrew Savory 16 Apr '99

16 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hi all, Just to say that the press release went out today, to the newshounds listed below. If you have the FAX number of any other local media that aren't listed, please do email it to me, and I'll send the release to them, too. Papers: East Anglian Daily Times Eastern Daily Press Evening News Norwich Advertiser (!) Radio: BBC Radio Norfolk BBC Radio Suffolk Radio Broadland TV: BBC East Anglia TV Other: Press Association Regional Contact I'll tidy up the begging letter tomorrow, so names and addresses of prominent Anglian businesses that will want to throw us money would be helpful! Andrew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Consultant | Email: a.savory at uea.ac.uk IT and Computing Services | URL: http://www.uea.ac.uk/ University of East Anglia | All views are my own - Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK | who else would want them? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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LUIGUI
by James Green 16 Apr '99

16 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk As just seen on Slashdot: http://www.luigui.org/ I particularly like: http://www.luigui.org/resources/linux.html Which might come in handy I feel on a certain other site under construction ;) -- James Green 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 ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Newsgroups
by Mark J Ray 14 Apr '99

14 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hiya, Has anyone else found the (uk.)?comp.os.linux.* newsgroups a bit hostile? Are we better off asking questions here on the list? -- Mark. Stats Postgrad mailto:M.J.Ray@UEA.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ Is it Friday today? [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Experimenting
by Mark J Ray 13 Apr '99

13 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Apologies for excess bandwidth usage. I'm just running a small test on the listserver, in the best Linux traditions. -- Mark. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Website changes...
by Andrew Savory 13 Apr '99

13 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hi all, Coupla changes afoot. The web pages are now hosted at UEA to let us do horrible things with perl, php and databases etc. At the moment requests are redirected from www.anglian.org.uk, until the DNS catches up with us. Some links may not like this very much, but it should straighten out soon enough. New feature: the website's "ALUG related links" now takes you to a dynamic links page; anyone can add to it, just do a submission at: http://139.222.129.17/links.shtml (Beware - this is misbehaving occasionally, so if you see a Server Error, please be polite and ignore it!) Think that's it... Andrew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Consultant | Email: a.savory at uea.ac.uk IT and Computing Services | URL: http://www.uea.ac.uk/ University of East Anglia | All views are my own - Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK | who else would want them? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Handy hints number one
by Mark J Ray 13 Apr '99

13 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Just found the following today and thought some of you might find them useful: Compiling your own kernel? Already downloaded the sources for an older version in the same series (eg compiling 2.2.5 but already have 2.2.2). What you should do is patch your kernel tree. See http://linuxpower.org/display_item.phtml?id=101 Installing perl modules? Try "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and let perl take care of downloading, compiling and installing dependencies. (I found that one while installing EP - which seems similar to PHP.) -- Mark. Stats Postgrad mailto:M.J.Ray@UEA.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ Try a Cool Site UK : http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/cool/ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Mailing list fixed..
by alug＠stu.uea.ac.uk 13 Apr '99

13 Apr '99

* From: "Martyn Drake" <martyn(a)drake.org.uk> Just to let everybody know that the new anglian(a)lists.lug.org.uk mailing list problem has now been resolved. As have the MX records for anglian.lug.org.uk and a few other odds and ends. If Mark Ray could either pass me a list of current subscribers to this list, I will ensure that everyone is currently subscribed to the new list. Otherwise to simply subscribe, send a message to majordomo(a)lists.lug.org.uk with "subscribe anglian" (without quotes) in the body of the message. I am the list moderator for anglian(a)lists.lug.org.uk, so any complaints, flames or otherwise should be addressed to me. Just a recap that that list is for discussion. I'm just wondering if it's worth asking lug.org.uk for an anglian-announce list as well.. M. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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More list fixes
by Mark J Ray 12 Apr '99

12 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Apologies for not properly updating my crontab to regenerate the mailing list archive. It has been fixed now. -- Mark, reading "man crontab" as we speak. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Stealing members...
by Mark J Ray 12 Apr '99

12 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:35:48AM +0100, Paul Ward wrote: > I may have got the treasurer and Webmaster of the cambridge LUG > interested in coming along to the meeting on 2nd May He says he's > thinking of defecting ) -if thats okay with u lot ;-) That's fine. I've been quite impressed with www.cam-lug.org ;) Seriously, there is no reason why we should detract from the LUGs which already exist in the area. It was my perception that Cambridge is the only place definitely in our area to consistently support a LUG, and that seems to be of the "a few people go down the pub" variety. Regrettably, we clash with one of their meetings, but with them holding meetings every weekend, it was going to be difficult not to. We cover a wide area, so that we can hopefully reach some sort of "critical mass" can be reached more quickly. We already seem well on the road to having a few meetings organised. And as Linux grows, hopefully we will too, but that's not the end of the story. I quite expect, that as time goes by, the larger towns and cities in East Anglia may form LUGs of their own. I would hope that we can work together, have joint meetings and so on, but you have to realise that in a mainly rural area such as this, we are never going to have 100% coverage of these "metropolitan" LUGs. I can't really see King's Lynn, where I live, supporting a LUG in the next few years. So for many people, ALUG will still be the most appropriate LUG. Finally, I hope we will be a different type of LUG, a more co-operative one. Anyone who wants to help can, as we're trying to keep the centralisation of power to a minimum. When the last two links on the website go active, any member will be able to link pages in (eh, Mr Savory? I hope that was what you were planning ;) ) and I hope everyone will have something to say. Also, I hope our events can be a bit larger scale than most of the metropolitan LUGs... -- Mark. Stats Postgrad mailto:M.J.Ray@UEA.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ Try a Cool Site UK : http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/cool/ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] Status of alug.lug.org.uk subdomain and mailing list..
by Paul Ward 12 Apr '99

12 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hi there I may have got the treasurer and Webmaster of the cambridge LUG interested in coming along to the meeting on 2nd May He says he's thinking of defecting ) -if thats okay with u lot ;-) Paul ____________________________________________________________ This message is confidential. It may also be privileged or otherwise protected by work product immunity or other legal rules. If you have received it by mistake please let us know by reply and then delete it from your system; you should not copy the message or disclose its contents to anyone. ____________________________________________________________ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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[kevin.taylor@ind.alstom.com: Re: Anglian LUG setting up]
by Mark J Ray 12 Apr '99

12 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Kevin Taylor of the Northants LUG raises some interesting points, I think. He's OKd me sending this on to the list. I'm in touch with linuxuk.co.uk now, waiting to hear about "Linux Day". ----- Forwarded message from kevin.taylor(a)ind.alstom.com ----- From: kevin.taylor(a)ind.alstom.com Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:02:17 +0100 Subject: Re: Anglian LUG setting up > I'm emailing you to ask what you're up to, to solicit any > advice you may have to offer and to invite any of your members > willing to travel to come to our meeting. I would say the main thing is keep the momentum going. I started the Northants LUG with a meeting of 3 people, including myself and a collegue from work ... I think you need to decide very early on about when to meet, and how often. We have a main meeting every 2 months (we have had 3 so far) - where I arrange a 'talk' to kick things off. We have just got to the stage where the people that regularly turn up would like to meet more often, so we have started a more informal 'interim meeting' in the months in between. I think you need to set the dates and stick to them, even if you only get a few people. My typical attendance is from between 5 to 8 people at the moment - but I have a few regulars and many more people on the mailing list. We meet at my house in Northampton, as I have a large(ish) lounge. This seems to work really well. I would strongly advise against doing anything that is money related - I do not charge entry, do not rent a hall, do not charge for coffee or anything - it is just completely informal. The other thing to do is get a web site quickly, and send its address to any lists of 'lugs' that you can find. Obvious ones to use : www.ssc.com/glue www.linuxuk.co.uk www.uk.linux.org www.linux.ukuug.org www.skygate.co.uk/linux.html www.redhat.com www.nllgg.nl/lugww www.lug.org.uk The last one will set up a .lug.org.uk internet domain name for you if you wish - even if you have web pages elsewhere - then he can do redirection for you. One final note - personally I would stay away from 'installathons' and advocacy - I just provide the group for existing users to come together - we are not out to convert other users on our own (yet ...) By the way - are you aware of Linux Day 1999 ? Contact Jono Bacon (jb(a)linuxuk.co.uk) for details if you are interested in taking part. Hope this helps. Keep in touch. Kevin. kevin(a)northants.lug.org.uk -- +------------------------------------------+ Northants Linux Users Group internet : http://www.northants.lug.org.uk email : info(a)northants.lug.org.uk +------------------------------------------+ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Mark. Stats Postgrad mailto:M.J.Ray@UEA.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ Try a Cool Site UK : http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/cool/ [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Email forwarding at anglian.lug.org.uk
by Martyn B. Drake 12 Apr '99

12 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk . is now available. If anybody wants an @anglian.lug.org.uk forwarding address - please let me know via hostmaster(a)anglian.lug.org.uk and I'll get those up and running as soon as possible. M. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Everyone agree to nuke anglian@lists.lug.org.uk?
by Martyn B. Drake 12 Apr '99

12 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Due to the continuing problems with the Majordomo service, it seems the best thing to do is to nuke it and remain with the alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk list, now that it has the blessing from TPTB (the powers that be) in the UEA student union. I'm about to write to the lug.org.uk owners and will ask them to nuke the list. M. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] Mailing list fixed..
by Martyn B. Drake 12 Apr '99

12 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Sorry - didn't see the original message about Mark's manager okaying the list. It's going to be one of those days, I can feel it .. M. ----- Original Message ----- From: Martyn B. Drake <martyn(a)drake.org.uk> To: <alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 9:43 AM Subject: Re: [ALUG] Mailing list fixed.. * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hang on - I thought the whole purpose of moving the list in the first place was so that you didn't get reprimanded by the SU for using their systems? The onelist.com idea was only an idea, as I'm equally fed up with the Majordomo thing as everybody else is. So before I waste any more of my time - what is it to be? [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ] [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] begging letters / adverts / more meet qs
by Laurie Brown 12 Apr '99

12 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk wrote: > > * From: Paul Ward <pward(a)linklaters.com> > > I'll have go at designing some posters etc > > By the way I've got this "natty" or so I think it is !!! network kit from PC world to link 2 PC's together for file sharing etc - I haven't had time to set it up (it is two lengths of T Base 10 cable with a hub - perhaps if I bring that we could get it installed so I could then do it at home ? - just a thought. Do that. I have a spare W95 laptop we can use to play with too, in case you want to use that setup at home. My Linux box, which needs to stay in the office, is running Samba, so we can set some shares up on there for files. I have one of those HDD caddies, so if someone brings a disk (EIDE) that NT4 can see, I can pop it in, and make it available in our room via the network. That would make copying files around pretty easy, and only needs the NT box to be brought down to swap the disks over. Cheers, Laurie. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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begging letters / adverts / more meet qs
by alug＠stu.uea.ac.uk 12 Apr '99

12 Apr '99

* From: Andrew Savory <A.Savory(a)uea.ac.uk> On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk wrote: > Maybe if they're local companies they ask "What's in it for me?" so we > could offer to place advertisements in position where people can see > them like "COME TO JOE BLOGGS COMPUTERS at etc etc" just for a bit of > free advertising, it may work it may not True. Banner ads on the website? Company logos on all our printed materials? I'm happy to sell my soul for a stack of free CD-Rs etc ;-) Another thing I keep forgetting to mention about the meeting - if several of us are planning on bringing machines, and some of you want to install linux etc, we need to decide on a type of network. I vote cheapernet (BNC style connections) over CAT-5, if only cos I've got three lengths of cable I can lay my hands on. It also means we don't need to worry about hubs etc... Anyone graphically-minded out there and willing to throw together a few posters? Posters need to include: Name of event: Anglian Linux User Group Meeting Date/Time: 2 or 3pm, 2nd May 1999 Venue: er, Laurie, what's the full address? Contact: http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ or me (details in press release) Details: perhaps a bit of blurb about it? Andrew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Savory(a)uea.ac.uk - 01603 593473 - ITCS, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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Re: [ALUG] Status of alug.lug.org.uk subdomain and mailing list..
by Laurie Brown 12 Apr '99

12 Apr '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk wrote: > > * From: Andrew Savory <A.Savory(a)uea.ac.uk> > > On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 Mark wrote: > > > Should I go away more often? ;) > > I'm quietly biting my tongue :-) > > > 3pm so we don't clash with the Jazz? > > Or we could make the Jazz the first thing on the agenda! A few drinks and > some good music would be a great way to kick things off... The Jazz is scheduled to finish at 2:30, but will almost certainly go on until 3pm. The room I've set aside for us is at the other end of the Hotel (I can't have geeks mixing with normal people ;^)) and is some 20 foot by 40 foot (should be big enough). If we do start during the Jazz, it won't interfere with us. > > I'd swap the troubleshoot and the demos, so that the open-ended > > item is the last one. Apart from the first bit, I take it > > we're going for an open-style meeting with bits of kit on > > tables around the room? Agreed, and yes, I expect bits of kit, so I think it needs to be pretty open-ended. Sometimes, I have no doubt that we'll have meetings where we won't be able to spread kit about, so let's make use of it while we can. > Yep, fair enough. Kinda depends on how many people want demos really, > although it would be good if we got some "not using linux, but wanting to > see what it's all about" types at the meet. Agreed. > On a side note, I'm thinking of writing to local computer companies to see > if we can scrounge some goodies from them. I was thinking PC World, > Software Warehouse, Time - any others in East Anglia worth hassling? Try paul(a)bentek.co.uk > I thought I'd say something like.... > > ================================ > > Dear _______, > > On Sunday 2nd May 1999 the Anglian Linux User Group will be holding its > inaugural meeting. We are expecting a good crowd of people from all walks > of life to attend what is sure to be an entertaining and informative > introduction to linux. > > As I'm sure you are aware, the free linux operating system has been > gaining huge amounts of support both from computing hobbyists and > professionals and the mainstream press. The Anglian Linux User Group is > just one sign of the growing support for the operating system in this > region. > > I am writing to you to ask if you would be able to support this event. > Sponsorship in whatever form of this event would be a very good way for > your company to show support for your customers, which in turn I'm sure > would encourage your customers to visit you more frequently. > > Particular areas where help would be appreciated include: > > * Software - copies of RedHat Linux or Applixware as sold by your company > would be extremely welcome during the "installation" part of our meeting; > > * Media - blank CDs would be useful, as we intend to provide visitors with > copies of other free software such as Netscape. > > * Financial - any donations to the Anglian Linux User Group would help us > to cover our overheads and would ensure a glowing recommendation of your > company! > > Thank you for your time, and if you wish to discuss any ways you can help > further, please do not hesitate to contact me. > > Yours, > > blah. > > ================================ > > What do you think? It's worth a go! Go for it! Cheers, Laurie. [ This email came to you via the Anglian Linux User Group list ] [ If you only wish to recieve event announcements, email the ] [ SUBJECT of "unsubscribe" to this list and "subscribe" to ] [ alug-announce(a)stu.uea.ac.uk -- We do need your support, tho' ]

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