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Distributions
by MJ Ray 15 Nov '99

15 Nov '99

I read a comparative review of a few distributions the other day and Mandrake came out a long way ahead for the novice user. Do any ALUG members use it? If so, is it really that good? On another distributionish note, I'm starting to make Debian packages of some stuff I find useful. It's not that hard and I know there are quite a few debianised ALUG members, so maybe we should think about doing a alug-deb archive somewhere? 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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Installation screenshots
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 15 Nov '99

15 Nov '99

How about the classic - "Video Camera Pointing at the Screen Technique"? Andi Gareth Watts <gareth(a)omnipotent.net> on 11/12/99 10:58:05 PM To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: [alug] Installation screenshots As John Pulfer suggested at the last meet, vmware would probably provide a neat solution to this. Gareth Green J M K wrote: > > Hi all, > > Anyone know how to take screenshots of a linux distro *during* > installation? Like of RedHat's Diskdroid? > > Thanks, > > James Green > > [ 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' ] [ 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' ] ********************************************************************* * 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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ALUG 4
by Green, James M K 14 Nov '99

14 Nov '99

> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, MJ Ray wrote: > > > (Debian CDs sure to be present) > > I'll burn RH6.1 too. I have a possible three other people down here who might ask for one too. James Green [ 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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httpd:
by John Woodard 13 Nov '99

13 Nov '99

On boot I get the message 'Starting httpd: httpd: Cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually' then I get a [ FAILED ] message in a nice pretty red colour. Everything seems ok though but it's annoying me so... Anyone know how I can fix it? 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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Good old MS!
by Anthony_Sale＠proconassoc.co.uk 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

Working for company where I have to support W95, W98 and NT4 I would much rather every one had NT4. Yes it does not support the range of hardware, but then it also allows to me to say we will use this harwdware configuration and any thing else and your on your own. As an aside though I run NT on an IBM Thinkpad 770X and getting SuSE 6.2 running was a damn site easier than NT4. "John Woodard" <jwoodard(a)tesco.net> on 11/12/99 07:11:37 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] Good old MS! NT4 isn't much better IMHO. I'm sure that every time I walk past a machine running NT the screen goes blue. Last time I went into Suffolk College IT dept. I was asked politely to leave. <G> Cheers, BJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Laurie Brown <laurie(a)brownowl.com> To: <alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 12:12 PM Subject: [alug] Good old MS! > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/columns/0,4351,2386174,00.html > > ArfArf! > > 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' ] > > [ 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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Lost parallel ports? and DOJ judgement
by John Woodard 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

I upgraded to RH 6.1 after the last ALUG meeting (pretty impressed so far) and my lp ports have disappeared. I have twp parallel ports lp0 and lp1 RH's print tool fails to find them. Dos however has no problems with either lpt1 or lpt2. I have tried spp, epp and ecp ports in the BIOS to no avail. RH 6.0 had an option to set up your printer during the install routine which is no more in 6.1. This shouldn't be a problem for me because RH supply a nice graphical tool for the purpose (printtool) but as I said before printtool can't find my ports. Any ideas folks, is there something I should have done on install (yes I know I could/should have used the RH cd as a coaster and installed Debian but IMHO Debian's installer is not for the faint hearted). Any help appreciated. Changing the subject what impact do you think the DOJ judgement against MS will have on the Open Source community? 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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Good old MS!
by Laurie Brown 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/columns/0,4351,2386174,00.html ArfArf! 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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Good old MS!
by Green, James M K 12 Nov '99

12 Nov '99

These reports have been coming out for months now, but I am very worried that I haven't seen many 'good' reports of Win2k becoming reliable. The DoJ is reportedly pondering whether to make Windows open source. Quite what they call open source is open to debate, but if it means something like the GPL the title "The World Is Not Enough" springs to mind. Why? Because if programmers get their mits on the source code, it will branch off into hundreds of versions, none of which will work properly (I can do C, but I bet I could break the Linux source code by altering it - and Windows is far more complex) and the MS-official version will spread like wildfire. How many organisations/countries are deploying Linux because Windows is too expensive? Open Source Windows and all hell will break loose. Quite whether anyone would deploy any Windows version not officially MS-sanctioned is another matter... James Green > -----Original Message----- > From: Laurie Brown [mailto:laurie@brownowl.com] > Sent: 12 November 1999 12:12 > To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > Subject: [alug] Good old MS! > > > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/columns/0,4351,2386174,00.html > > ArfArf! > > 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' ] > [ 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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"70,000 Applications"
by MJ Ray 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

There's an excellent call to arms from the pragmatist point-of-view on osOpinion today. It alludes to religion, legal clauses, practical benefits, etc. I think everyone will learn something from reading it, although some of the phrases are tortured. http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/GaryMurphy/GaryMurphy2.html [ 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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Unsubscribe help please
by Tony 10 Nov '99

10 Nov '99

Hi people, I've tried 3 times a week to unsub for a while now. Is the unsub mechanism broken? I get a return reciept every time like this one: --------- User tony(a)consultant.idps.co.uk has successfully unsubscribed. Good bye! -- Sincerely, the Minimalist ---------- But I seem to continue recieving messages. Can someone do this manually Thanks Tony [ 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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