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Stupid Company Policy of the week
by jg＠cyberstorm.demon.co.uk 22 Sep '99

22 Sep '99

Well, I'm going to let off some steam. I'm on Demon, using the CWC 50p offer. I'm getting Star Office weighing in at around 70Mb. There's not much competition in the office world so I guess this is going to have to do. So I start downloading from the Amsterdam mirror. It stalls more than it comes down. I abort and try the US East Coast; this one's fast without stalling. Whoops. Netscape crashes at 15%, 3hrs 30mins to go. I go back to the website and try grabbing it again. Oh no! The webserver to manage download accounts is down. In dispair, I find sun.co.uk, a lovely fast mirror. But oh no - the Star Office download goes back to the US. Why? I try once again, and his time I'm not getting any response at all. In fact, a 503 Server Not Responding comes up. I hit reload a few times and am finally presented with a response: Your Session Has Expired. I have now written to Sun blasting them for not keeping sun.co.uk in the UK. It's diabolically stupid to maintain a mirror when critical parts are left in one country susceptable to crashes and downtime. If any of you are put into the position when you're asked to setup mirrors or something similar, think of my tale of woe and think harder than the people in management - do the right thing and mirror in full. grrrr. -- 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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Linux@work
by Roberto Zicari 21 Sep '99

21 Sep '99

Hi! We would be happy to offer your Linux group (ALUG) 10 free tickets to attend Linux@work in London next Thursday (see below). If you wish to take this offer please contact Melanie Salm at salm(a)ltt.de, or tel.+49-6173-95 58 50 and simply tell her the names of the people. We will prepare the name badges. Best Regards Roberto Zicari LogOn --------------------------------------------- Linux@work Is Linux ready for business? Pan-European Tour `99: - Frankfurt, Sept. 27 - Zurich, Sept. 28 ----> London,Sept. 29 - Copenhaghen, Oct. 11 - Oslo, Oct. 12 - Stockholm, Oct.13 - Helsinki, Oct. 14 - Amsterdam. Oct. 15 Conference programs available at: http://www.ltt.de/linux.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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Triple booting
by John Woodard 19 Sep '99

19 Sep '99

Any ideas on how to or where to look for info on triple booting Linux, Win NT and Win 98? Win NT and 98 reside on a FAT16 partition on hda1. Linux has / on hdb1 with /home on hdc1 and a swap partition on hdc5. Lilo is on the first sector of the Linux boot partition hdb1 so I'm booting it with a floppy at the moment. I presume that the NT boot loader can be configured to point to the Linux boot partition but I'm not really conversant with NT so I need some help here. I don't really want to use a third party boot manager or a floppy so it's either the NT boot loader or possibly loadlin but again that's a root I'd like to steer clear of. It wood be nice to have the NT loader come up at boot and have it select Linux as default. :-) 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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Report on last meeting?
by Martyn B. Drake 19 Sep '99

19 Sep '99

As I had to sadly miss the last meeting - has anybody got any photos or reports to fill the void <grin>? As some people may have noticed, I may not quite qualify for the East Anglian Linux User Group at the moment :) Regards, Martyn -- Martyn B. Drake (work: martyn.d(a)netdirect.net.uk, play: martyn(a)drake.org.uk) Systems Administrator, NetDirect Limited (http://www.netdirect.net.uk) 161-165 Greenwich High Road, London, SE10 8JA [ 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]
by Raphael Mankin 14 Sep '99

14 Sep '99

On 14-Sep-99 bharat wrote: > > I am looking for info regarding running AIX, Siemens UNIX, HP_UX binaries on > Linux (SUSE 6.2 Dist). Could any of you point to the site where i can find > info. > I think that Siemens is handled by iBCS. The others I don't know about. -- Politics: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage Ambrose Bierce 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 ] [ 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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FreeAgent1.1/Wine 990815/Linux RH6.0 - invisible mouse pointer.
by michaelm＠ttfn35.freeserve.co.uk 14 Sep '99

14 Sep '99

Problem: Mouse pointer is white, as is FAgent's background. Both seem to be non-configurable. Have tried various command line parametes with wine, no effect. Using a drossy Matrix G100 video card. Suffering same problem with other MS software, eg Notepad. Is there a simple solution? [ 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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KDE-1.1.2 out
by jg＠cyberstorm.demon.co.uk 14 Sep '99

14 Sep '99

For those interested, KDE-1.1.2 is now out. I've seen the Press Release, but www.kde.org isn't yet updated, and ftp.mirror.ac.uk hasn't got a 1.1.2 directory yet. Expect rpms in the coming days. I believe this is the final release in the v1.x.x tree, and as such is suppost to be very stable. The next version should be v2, which is near alpha? -- 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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Window manager
by Andrew.Chandler＠ft.com 13 Sep '99

13 Sep '99

Speaking of which, is there a date and venue of the next meeting? Andi "John Woodard" <john(a)woodard.freeserve.co.uk> on 09/11/99 08:47:12 AM To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk cc: (bcc: Andrew Chandler/PSD/LONDON/FTI) Subject: [alug] Window manager Thanks everybody maybe I'll attempt that at the next meeting when I can get some help. That's if we are not trying to get a network running. :-) Cheers, BJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Brett Parker <iDunno(a)somethinweird.freeserve.co.uk> To: <alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 5:09 PM Subject: [alug] Window manager <snip> **************************************************************************************** *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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Window manager
by John Woodard 12 Sep '99

12 Sep '99

At last Sundays meeting one of you I think it was Brett was running a window manager which had transparent windows. What wm is it, where can I get it, how do I configure it to do that and do any other wms have this facility? Also I tried to load Debian to no avail (major hassles trying to get the x server working), I think I still need some hand holding as yet so it's back to RH6 which works a treat on my system. 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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Any chance of recovering a partition?
by Tatsuhiko Maekawa 12 Sep '99

12 Sep '99

Greeting from Japan (Hi all!) I migrated into Debian 2.1 Slink (with a tiny bit of Japanese environment), and it is cool to have it on my computer. That said, I also mistakenly configured lilo, my Windows 9x partition won't work -:) I know that there is a configuration problem in boot.0301. I don't have "boot.0301" in boot. I know myself that in order to boot Windows 98 on my first partition, I need a right "boot.0301" file, so that I can recover from that. Is there anyway I can recover boot.0301 without backup? I can't access to /dev/hda1, as the earliest part of the partition is messed Don't worry if I got to lose "that" partition. Though I'm gonna lose lots of pictures files and job hunting documents, I know I won't use Windows anyway. Yours - From a lone little island -- Tatsuhiko Maekawa tacchan(a)chachacha.ne.jp (Japan) tatsu(a)stu.uea.ac.uk (Europe) http://www3.chachacha.ne.jp/~taccchan [ 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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