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Re: [alug] Next meetin
by david casal 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

Hey there, I've been following the list since its inception, in the background. I think its time I got involved, see if I can help at all. There's a couple of us at the Electroacoustic Music studios at UEA trying to run Linux boxes for synthesis and composition (nightmare). I run RedHat 6.0, and am about to try to install debian m68k on a mac powerbook 165c (THE nightmare). Willing to help organize meetings at UEA or elsewhere, although I have 0 strings to pull. If anyone is interested in jMax (IRCAM) or any other port for SG music software, get in touch. Glad to be in ALUG, finally.... D -----Original Message----- From: MJ Ray <M.J.Ray(a)uea.ac.uk> To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk <alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk> Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [alug] Next meetin >On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 12:31:28PM +0100, Toby Jaffey wrote: >> > Its getting *very* close to the time for another...and I haven't got >> > *any* strings to pull :-/ >> Well.... being fairly Norwich bound, I suggest Norwich somewhere. > >I guess I should speak up on this one now. We can probably >hold another meeting at Union House, UEA, but not before next >term (building and refurbishment works, etc, make getting a >room a bit tricky), which would be good for getting more people >there. > >So, anyone able to host a non-Norwich meeting in the next month? > >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' ] > [ 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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Path and Gnome launching
by John Woodard 28 Jul '99

28 Jul '99

Couple of small problems. Firstly could someone tell me how to add a location to my path every time that I boot. I need to know which configuration file buried somewhere in /etc I presume and what I need to add to it. Like adding a statement to the autoexec.bat file in dos (sorry I know it's a taboo word). I think file holding the path variable is /etc/profile but I'm unsure how to add to it. The file has the line PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin" is this my path or an addition to it? In dos each location in the path is separated by semicolons i.e. path=c:\;c:\dos;c:\windows;c:\windows\system ... etc. How do I do this in Linux? Secondly I want to create a launcher icon on the panel in Gnome to launch StarOffice, this launches from a script which can be achieved in a terminal window by ./<nameofscript>. What do I need for the properties of the launcher, like how do I specify a path for the script? I tried just entering the path of the script in but it doesn't work although double clicking the script in Gnome File Manager works a treat. Cheers, BJ Cheers [ 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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GTK Mozilla
by James Green 27 Jul '99

27 Jul '99

Hi all, I'm trying to make mozilla (nightly build) see libpixmap.so for the gtk+ themes engines. On startup, however, it just says that the file isn't found. I've tried symlinks from the cwd and /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib to the file/directory, to no avail. I've even run an strace on it but it doesn't mention getting that particular file. All other gtk apps work fine with the themes. Any ideas? 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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My three choices of books..
by Martyn B. Drake 22 Jul '99

22 Jul '99

With regards to the generous offer from SAMS Publishing, I'm going to recommend the following books for the group: 1) Linux: A Network Solution for Your Office (published July, 26th) - Sounds like a good book for those considering Linux in their business 2) Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours (published in June) - A good book for beginners and comes with the Caldera 2.2 distribution that includes a cut-down version of PartitionMagic and BootMagic 3) Linux Unleashed, Third Edition (published August 1998) - A good all-rounder and includes a copy of RedHat 5.1 Let me know what you're opinions of the above are, and if all is agreed, I'll relay these choices over to Don at SAMS Publishing. 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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Next Alug
by Brett Parker 19 Jul '99

19 Jul '99

So...whats happening...any one worked out if we can have cambridge...or should we just do the norwich thing again? Brett [ 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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Too funny to be true
by Malcolm Locke 19 Jul '99

19 Jul '99

Sorry guys, but this one just has to be shared, I spotted it on www.theregister.co.uk: [22:50:01][malc:malc]$> telnet homepages.msn.com 80 Trying 209.143.224.160... Connected to homepages.msn.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET /unfnky HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:47:50 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) Connection: close Content-Type: text/html <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE> </HEAD><BODY> <H1>Not Found</H1> The requested URL /unfnky was not found on this server.<P> <HR> <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.6 Server at homepages.msn.com Port 4890</ADDRESS> </BODY></HTML> Connection closed by foreign host. I think MS are finally getting the message :) Malc [ 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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Next Meeting
by Brett Parker 17 Jul '99

17 Jul '99

Does any one think that it might be a good plan to start thinking about the next meeting yet ;-) Brett [ 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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Themes for E?
by John Woodard 17 Jul '99

17 Jul '99

I've downloaded some themes for E and have some obscure errors appear when I try to use them. I get messages like: ****************** Warning: unable to determine what to do with the following text in the middle of current Text Definition: (or WindowMatch) _FILL RULE _SCALE (this is sometimes blank) will ignore and continue... ****************** There are 3 choices ignore, exit, and restart window manager. Selecting ignore brings up similar errors and the theme tries to start but only partially loads? I'm stumped anybody know what is causing this? RH6.0, PII400, 128M, 17.5G-IDE ATI-RagePro 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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Book picking..
by Martyn B. Drake 16 Jul '99

16 Jul '99

Just to clarify folks, that the list given in the original message is that of books that are currently in production - i.e. they are not available yet. If you visit www.mcp.com and look under the Operating Systems -> Linux section, you'll see a list of published books - take your pick from that list. 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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Fwd: SAMs Publishing
by Martyn B. Drake 16 Jul '99

16 Jul '99

Hello folks, Some *very* interesting news here all the way from the USA :) SAMS publishing (who publish those meaty tomes on all sorts of computer-related stuff - I remember my SAMS HTML and CGI book with fond memories) have approached me with the offer of three free SAMS books as well as the opportunity for anybody here to become a technical editor or contributing author to their Linux series. As you can see below, there is quite some choice of titles they're working on :) If anyone is interesting in the group obtaining these books - and perhaps would like to offer suggestions of what we're going to do with them when (and if) we get them, then take a look a www.mcp.com and we'll take a vote on the most popular titles mentioned. I'll then ask Don about getting them and we'll take things from there. If anybody has a better plan, just let me know :) Anyway, on to the message:- >From: "Don Roche" <droche(a)integrityonline32.com> >To: <martyn(a)drake.org.uk> >Subject: SAMs Publishing >Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 19:12:20 -0500 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) >Importance: Normal >X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: martyn(a)drake.org.uk >X-Return-Path: droche(a)integrityonline32.com > >Hi Martyn, > > >I would like to send you 3 free Linux books for you to give away at your >next meeting. Our web site is mcp.com. Please send me a list of books >you would like. > >Also, I am looking for technical editors and contributing authors for the >following books: >Linux Network Programming Unleashed >SuSE System Administration Unleashed >Linux Server Unleashed >Linux Database Unleashed >KDE Programming Unleashed >GTK+ Programming Unleashed >SAMBA Unleashed >Python Unleashed >Apache Server Unleashed >SuSE Linux Unleashed >TurboLinux Unleashed >Linux Corba Programming >Linux Game Programming >Linux Protocols Handbook >KDE Unleashed. > > >I pay $600 a chapter for writing, with most chapters being about 25 >pages. The book will have a TOC, but the contributing author may make >changes to their chapter TOC as they see fit. >We will have 3 or 4 tech editors on each Unleashed book. The Unleashed >book is 1,000+ pages of int/adv information. The technical editor is >responsible for ensuring the technical accuracy of the book. They will >read every page and make sure the text is technically correct. I pay $3 a >page for technical editing. We will be working on the books mid-July - >October/November. > >Would anyone in your group be interested in tech editing or contributing >chapters to these books? > >We make all our Linux books available free on-line on our website >bookshelf. Our Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed, due in August, will be free >on-line at the Red Hat site. I have a Linux advisor on staff that ensures >that we are in sync with the needs and requirements of the Linux >community. > >I did not send this message to any members of your user group. > >Don Roche <mailto:droche@mcp.com>droche(a)mcp.com >Executive Editor, SAMs >317-581-4781 ><http://www.samspublishing.com/>www.samspublishing.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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