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Spare hardware sought!
by Ted.Harding＠wlandres.net 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Greetings Folks! Hoping you had a good Christmas, and wishing you a Happy New Year. I have an old desktop box whose PSU has blown. So I'm looking for a compatible box to which I can transfer the hard drives and PCI cards. Basic requirements: Working AT box with motherboard & CPU, 64MB RAM or more, space for 4 IDE hard drives, PCI slots (for monitor, parallel, ethernet, etc. cards), PS/2 mouse and KB ports. So if any of you shed-stackers has something suitable, I'd be very pleased to hear. Willing to pay a reasonable reward for a suitable box of tricks! Best wishes to all, Ted. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)wlandres.net> Date: 29-Dec-2011 Time: 11:24:50 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------

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Re: [ALUG] 2600 meeting at 18:00 on Friday the 6th January.
by Ben Bewick 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

oops, sorry about the double posting! script ran twice, fixed now though :-) On 3 January 2012 00:49, Viperfang <viperfang(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Quick heads up about this months Norwich 2600 meeting, > more info at http://www.norwich2600.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! >

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2600 meeting at 18:00 on Friday the 6th January.
by Viperfang 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Quick heads up about this months Norwich 2600 meeting, more info at http://www.norwich2600.co.uk

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2600 meeting at 18:00 on Friday the 6th January.
by Viperfang 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Quick heads up about this months Norwich 2600 meeting, more info at http://www.norwich2600.co.uk

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icalendar/vcalendar question - how to clear 'up to now' occurrences of a repeating event?
by Chris Green 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

I suspect that this can't be done within the iCalendar specification but maybe I'm not understanding all of it. I (and I'm sure *lots* of other people) need a way to remind myself about repeating events like having to do quarterly PAYE returns and quarterly VAT returns. I thus need a way to set up a repeating reminder of some sort, this is quite easy using an iCalender 'object', and then I need a way to say "I've done this month's one of these". As far as I can see there is no way in the iCalendar format to do this. The only reasonably practical approach I can see is to delete the EVENT completely and create a new one that starts at the next repeat date. Using a TODO instead doesn't seem to help much, you can sort of bodge together a way of doing it but it's so messy and liable to confusions with different length months and such that it doesn't really work. Am I right, is the best/only way to do it deletion and re-creation? -- Chris Green

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Anyone want a router?
by David Reynolds 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hi guys, I have a couple of Linksys routers that I do not need anymore. I have: * Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 * Linksys WRT54GS v1.1 Both have stock linksys firmware but both could run openwrt if desired. I would like £10 (or nearest offer) for each. Anyone interested? (Please note: these are *not* ADSL routers) -- David Reynolds david(a)reynoldsfamily.org.uk

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Synaptic with Debian
by Ted.Harding＠wlandres.net 26 Dec '11

26 Dec '11

Greetings All! Hoping you have been enjoying the long weekend, etc. (especially the "etc."). I have a problem starting synaptic on a Debian Lenny. When it starts up, no packages are reported, and then a window opens with the error message: An error occurred The following details are provided: E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ security.debian.org_dists_lenny_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. E: _cache->open() failed, please report. When I click to close this window, synaptic then closes. I have had a look at the named file in /var/lib/apt/lists/ which is certainly there, and cannot work out how to fix it. Any suggestions? (And, in case I don't write again in time, Happy New Year). Ted. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)wlandres.net> Date: 26-Dec-2011 Time: 18:41:15 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------

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DVD's
by Bev Nicolson 26 Dec '11

26 Dec '11

So I have two DVD's I'd like to watch. However, computer says: Error mounting: mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so dmesg | tail [ 22.650906] tg3 0000:03:00.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX [ 22.651116] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready [ 31.408759] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0 [ 32.768019] eth0: no IPv6 routers present [ 37.097846] kbd_keycode: 30 callbacks suppressed [ 37.097851] keyboard: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 240 [ 37.105836] keyboard: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 240 [ 1245.695843] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions [ 1921.458077] UDF-fs: No anchor found [ 1921.458083] UDF-fs: No partition found (1) Which I guess is because it's trying to boot from it. (Or is that a red herring?) So what do I do? I have googled and not got very far except installing xine which gets me the menu options but can't play the film which is all I wish to do.

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Internet Facing Linux
by Paul Grenyer 23 Dec '11

23 Dec '11

Hi All I want create a small virtual machine running linux with pretty much only Apache2 to serve some static web content and proxy on to other servers. The idea being this is the only internet facing instance I have. Any suggestions for a small easy to use linux distor? -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com t: pjgrenyer

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Snowboarding On New Year's Day
by Montmorency 23 Dec '11

23 Dec '11

The Norfolk Snowsports club is running an open day on New Years Day, from 2pm to 6pm. I'll be one of the snowboard instructors helping out and number of ALUGers have mentioned to me on IRC and in person that they're keen on the idea of coming down to do a snowboarding taster session. Other activities such as ski-taster sessions (spits) and tubing (rolls eyes) will be happening. Furthermore, the club bar is cheap and has wireless. Booking is unnecessary; cost is £10 for an hour. Spaces on the taster sessions are limited and it's first-come-first-served, so showing up early is sensible. You will want to be wearing long-trousers and long sleeves, and bring a pair of gloves. Details are here: http://www.norfolksnowsports.com/node/3113 And the Norfolk Ski Club is here: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Norfolk+Snowsports+Club&ll=52.614332,1.3212… Montmorency montmorency(a)ukfsn.org bellphegore(a)nerdshack.com

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