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Linux.com up and running :)
by Martyn B. Drake 20 May '99

20 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk After a bit of waiting, Linux.com is finally up and running, and jolly good it is too. There is even a section for LUGs as well. Only complaint is that some of the pages appear to be wider than 800x600, but that's me just nitpicking. Anybody try Netscape 4.6 under Linux as yet? Seems a bit faster at rendering pages under Windows but so far I've not gotten as far as installing it under Linux. Regards, Martyn [ 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] On-Line for FREE (NOT SPAM!)
by Ward, Paul 19 May '99

19 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk thought that was too good to be true -----Original Message----- From: Mark J Ray [mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 2:55 PM To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] On-Line for FREE (NOT SPAM!) * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk James Green <jmkgre(a)essex.ac.uk> writes: > Now ask 4 friends to join, and give them your referral ID. Your account > does not become activated until all four referrals are members. For the second time today: DO NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS! This is a pyramid email collection scam. Their site is poorly designed in a GUI tool and is hosted in the US (odd for a UK internet provider, don't you think?). A conservative estimate of the revenue that they need to generate to service the amount of 0800 calls they need is around the £200,000 mark, which is never going to be generated by 2 email adverts per week. See uk.telecom for more details and a *very* long thread about them, even by uk.telecom standards. Save your time and stop wasting bandwidth by telling others. Please tell whoever you heard it from about this and ask them to pass it on to all the others that they've told and who they heard it from. God, these hoaxes take a lot to stamp out. :( -- MJR Stats Postgrad mailto:h089@mth.uea.ac.uk http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/ UEA Norwich UK mailto:markj@stu.uea.ac.uk http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/ Improves CPU/video memory bandwidth by anything from 20 to 50%. [ 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' ] ____________________________________________________________ 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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RE: [ALUG] Good day excellent beer!
by James Green 15 May '99

15 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk On Fri, 14 May 1999, Ward, Paul wrote: > * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > > Hi there > > Just readng your e-mail bout the LUG - > I was given a copy of Red Hat 6 - but I am unable to load it - I cannot > create any boot disks either - can you help ? Paul, In the directory RedHat/images (IIRC) there is boot.img. In DOS: cd dosutils rawrite.exe When prompted, for a disk, for the boot image enter: .\images\boot.img Under *ix: dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=72k That's you boot image taken care of. Information curtesy RedHat 5.1 installation manual. FWIW, my recent mboard (Award BIOS) won't boot the cd either, even though it recognises their is one at boot time. I am currently still in the process of working through the changes in RH6 from 5.2. Some of the stuff they've done is quite amazingly odd and has caused a large number of frustrating hours in #linuxhelp, and I'm not through with it yet. I'll give you a tip: when you compile your own kernel, rm /boot/System.map - you'll get errors on reboot about modules having the wrong kernel version number otherwise, also cp the asm headers from the linux kernel source into /usr/include/asm/ (rm'ing the symlink first) else virtually nothing compiles. Gimp-1.1.5 still doesn't compile here, claiming libgimp/libgimp.h is non-existant (damn well does exist). Overall, progress is slow. At least I backed everything up to my windows HD. James Green [ 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] Good day excellent beer!
by Tatsuhiko Maekawa 14 May '99

14 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk "Ward, Paul" wrote: > I was given a copy of Red Hat 6 - but I am unable to load it - I cannot > create any boot disks either - can you help ? If possible - get the boot image file from hensa.unix.ac.uk. Red Hat 6 seems to install different way than RH5.x. Or else you can wait for next ALUG meeting -:) -- Tatsuhiko Maekawa - Member of UEA Student Website tatsu(a)stu.uea.ac.uk / T.Maekawa(a)uea.ac.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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RE: [ALUG] Good day excellent beer!
by Ward, Paul 14 May '99

14 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hi there Just readng your e-mail bout the LUG - I was given a copy of Red Hat 6 - but I am unable to load it - I cannot create any boot disks either - can you help ? Paul -----Original Message----- From: Adam Bower [mailto:a.bower@thebowery.force9.co.uk] Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 1:57 AM To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Good day excellent beer! * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk A very good day and looking forward to the next one, thanks for sorting the problem with my swap space and for the copy of Redhat 6.0, you know who you are!! I also found the inspiration to try and get linux on a network and have made some major progress, all down to a start up lug I now feel more enthusiastic about linux in general and will now try to make the effort to move from win98 to linux as my main os. Thanks all Adam [ 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' ] ____________________________________________________________ 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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[Fwd: [Fwd: FW: freaky !!!!]]
by Owen Synge 13 May '99

13 May '99

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Is Mozilla 5 safe to use?
by Tatsuhiko Maekawa 09 May '99

09 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Hi Am wondering if anybody out there already tested new Mozilla 5 on your Linux computer. They always say "use it with your own risk" ... and I refrain to take the risk to install it. yours -- Tatsuhiko Maekawa - Member of UEA Student Website tatsu(a)stu.uea.ac.uk / T.Maekawa(a)uea.ac.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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RE: [ALUG] Is Mozilla 5 safe to use?
by Ward, Paul 09 May '99

09 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk nope not yet tested SuSE linux 6.1 and a lot of it's new features though - -----Original Message----- From: Neill Newman [mailto:njnewm@essex.ac.uk] Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 3:52 PM To: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Is Mozilla 5 safe to use? * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk Tatsuhiko Maekawa wrote: > > * List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > > Hi > > Am wondering if anybody out there already tested new Mozilla 5 on your > Linux computer. They always say "use it with your own risk" ... and I > refrain to take the risk to install it. a friend tried Mozzila M4, it was kinda cute, but a bit sluggish probably due to a lot of debug code.... Unless you really want to play with it I don;t suggest trashing your version of nutscrape 4.51 just yet ;) Scoobz > > yours > > -- > Tatsuhiko Maekawa - Member of UEA Student Website > tatsu(a)stu.uea.ac.uk / T.Maekawa(a)uea.ac.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' ] -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neill Newman Tel: Mobile 07970 673722 Department of Electronics Systems Engineering Work 01206 873708 University of Essex Fax: Work 01206 872900 http://wearables.essex.ac.uk/index.html email: njnewm(a)essex.ac.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' ] ____________________________________________________________ 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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Re: [ALUG] Linux on an NT Network
by Raphael Mankin 06 May '99

06 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk On 06-May-99 Owen Synge wrote: >* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > > >> Beware: SP5 has poisonous aspects. It isd saidto kill your m/c performace (even >> more than naked NT). > >What do You mean? I dont understansd will it hert linux? I still >remember command.com wars, where your DR DOS bootable disks would be >eaten by MSDOS systems. > >If you know where this information is I may keep SP5 off our network. naah. Won't touch your Linux system! Just clobbers NT. There was a test recently in one of the PC mags. ---------------------------------- You beat your pate and fancy wit will come; Knock as you will, There's no-one at home -- Alexander Pope 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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ALUG2?
by Mark J Ray 06 May '99

06 May '99

* List: alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk ALUG1 was quite a success for an initial meeting, I think we can all agree. But, as discussion here and Tats's page about the meeting (which I hope we can link into the main site *hint*) says, I think we need to do something a bit more "organised" at the start of each meeting, a sort of headline talk. So, I suggest that for the next meeting we have one or more of the following: "Linux Games: The Final Barrier to the Mainstream?" which could demo the Q3 test and any other freebies that we can get and point at a few of the companies now producing games for Linux and some of the more interesting Free games (xblast remains a favourite of mine). Would also tie in nicely with some networked games later on. "Interoperability: Emulation and Viewers" which could demo vmware on a machine actually able to run it at a decent speed, VNC, Bochs and maybe a few micro emulators. "Replacing the Desktop" Ken Thompson's interview with Computer (http://computer.org/computer/thompson.htm) hints that he believes that overthrowing any established computer system involves thousands of man-years to replace the code. Linux appears to be approaching it. What apps do we have to replace the MS Office et al that we are used to? Other questions: Where? UEA is fairly settled, I think, but Union House appears not to have a room of a suitable size with a network connection. Is there another room available to us? When? Some of us think before the end of UEA's term so we can get a few undergrads to come along and take a look before they go out preaching the gospel of MS. Some think that we should wait 6-8 weeks between meetings to save us travelling too much, avoid saturation and stealing the smaller LUGs' thunder too much. Finally, anyone got a venue in Cambs/South Lincs that we can use for ALUG3? And I've moved the list archive (230-odd messages in the first month) to start a new section. I'll probably do that after each meeting. -- 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/ What's On? http://www.stu.uea.ac.uk/events/ [ 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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