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Newbie Crunchbang Question
by Simon Royal 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi. Newbie question. Im giving Crunchbang another look. I used it before and it is pretty fast on older hardware like my ThinkPad 600. Crunchbang 9 is based Ubuntu however 10 is going to moved to Debian. Will that affect the hardware base. I use Ubuntu and its derivatives because it supports my hardware like my wireless card out of the box. Will moving to Debian affect this. Simon --- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum (sent using Sony Ericsson P990i)

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SFD2010 in East of England, round 2
by MJ Ray 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

OK, I've lost the plot again. Sorry about that. Three questions: 1. is the meet happening? 2. SFD is about getting new people into free software. What can be done to encourage that? While LUGgers love kit meets, it may need a bit more than tech and beer to attract new people out to Syleham. 3. Registration has just opened! http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html If you want the SFD materials, register in the next 10 days! Who'll do that? Thanks for any answers, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and developer for hire at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op

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256MB RAM Sticks
by Simon Royal 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi. Does anyone have any 256MB stick PC66/100 kicking around? I have a ThinkPad 600 at present and have just picked up a 600E which is missing drives and RAM. I am going to transplant all the bits from the 600 to the 600E. My 600 has 2x128MB sticks of RAM, the most it can take and some of the reason for switching to the 600E as the 600E can take 2x256MB sticks. Does anyone have any spare 256MB sticks of PC66/100 so I can max out this beauty? Simon -- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum (sent using Sony Ericsson P990i)

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OpenOffice Writer errors out when saving ODT files with error saving styles.xml
by Srdjan Todorovic 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi All, Got this nasty problem where OpenOffice 3.1.1 has stopped being able to save .odt files. Earlier this morning, things were saving fine, but now I get: Error saving the document $document_title: error in writing sub-document styles.xml I have googled for a bit and some other people have had similar problems, where it seems that some files are corrupted. I have tried this: 1) opened ODT file -> save to another dir = fail with same message 2) Opened ODT file -> save as .doc = success 3) open the saved .doc file -> save as .odt = fail with same message 4) close all openoffice instances, fire up soffice from command line, new Writer document, type a few words -> save as .odt = fail with same message 5) Open the ODT file I had originally created and saved earlier -> error message "Error reading file" 6) moved ~/.ooo3/ to a different location, start openoffice and save new file = error as before about styles.xml 7) find /usr -iname styles.xml returns nothing 8) Inspected the styles.xml file in the odt file and seems ok, but is too long for me to inspect properly. What to do now? Seems the original file is now borked, and no one in #Openoffice.org has been helpful. Can anyone please suggest something I can do? Or should I start using the Word format? Thanks, Srdjan

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JIRA on Ubuntu Server
by Paul Grenyer 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi All Is anyone else running JIRA on ubuntu? I've followed the instructions here: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Setting+up+JIRA+Standalone+and… but when I reboot the server (to check that JIRA starts with the server) mysql is prevented form starting. Any ideas? -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com t: pjgrenyer

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Re: [ALUG] Open source client for Exchange web interface
by Phil Ashby 17 Jul '10

17 Jul '10

On 13/07/10 16:53, Dan <vi5u0-alug(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Wayne Stallwood wrote: > > > But is there a reason you can't ask the admin to set up a server > > side rule or just simply redirect your mail to another address ? > > The sysadmins volunteered the answer to this without being asked. The > answer was that they won't countenance the use of the Exchange > equivalent of a .forward file under any circumstances whatever. And a > somewhat pointed offer of the opportunity to attend a training course > in the use of OWA. > > Thanks to all who replied. One or two of the leads sound promising. Dan, We have a very similar issue here in BT, the Exchange systems have forwarding disabled, so in order to read my email from a Debian desktop, I have used (in chronological order): Evolution: ok-ish with Exchange 2003 OWA using Ximian connector Outlook 2003 in a Qemu VM against Exchange 2007 (I was 'upgraded') Thunderbird or Evolution or any IMAP/CalDAV/LDAP client via DavMail to the Exchange 2007 OWA - works very nicely, is 100% FOSS and written in Java so runs anywhere (currently on my local mail server). I was so impressed I gave the guy a donation! http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ - it rocks :) P

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SSH Clients
by Paul Grenyer 17 Jul '10

17 Jul '10

Hi all Can anyone recommend an SSH tool? I've been using putty, but one of the limitations of the Linux version appears to be that you cannot past into it. -- Thanks Paul Paul Grenyer e: paul.grenyer(a)gmail.com b: paulgrenyer.blogspot.com t: pjgrenyer

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Re: [ALUG] Kit Meet - Was SFD2010 in East of England
by Anthony Anson 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

Adam Bower wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:32:45PM +0100, Anthony Anson wrote: >> First I've heard about a kit meet. > > Not sure if you meant that to go to the list, but see my email from this > thread on July 13th immediately in reply to MJR. Talks about a kit meet > :) Er, no. Doneitagain innit... I thought I'd trained myself not to just hit 'reply' I think I must have parked that thread in a local folder - sometimes I drag whole threads in my ALUG folder if the original subject is not in my immediate field of interest. I am interested in a kit meet, though like St Augustine, " ...but not yet." -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/

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Re: [ALUG] Open source client for Exchange web interface
by Phil Ashby 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

On 16/07/10 12:00, Dan <vi5u0-alug(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Are all components of this open source? I downloaded what's supposed > to be the source tarball and it contains (among other stuff) a bunch > of .class files - but I thought .class files were pre-compiled JVM > bytecode. Yes? No? They are - I guess you downloaded the pre-compiled installable version, try this source tarball from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail/files then get: davmail-src-3.6.6-1032.tgz This includes a pile of Apache libraries (eg: commons-httpclient), but no closed source that I can spot. Phil.

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Desktop Icons
by Peter Hunter 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

Hi everyone, I'm new to this list, and I haven't used Linux for many years, so I need some help please. I have 'clean' installed Ubuntu 10.04 and am using Firefox 3.6.6 I like to keep links to my regular websites on the desktop, so I drag the URL to it. Trouble is, every icon is the FF gold star. How do I get FF to use the websites own icon, so that I can easily recognise which one I want to click on? Always assuming I can do so of course. Also, is there a way of adjusting the size of the icon? These ones are so large they look ugly. My screen resolution is 1600 x 900 on an Acer 20" monitor. I'm not a novice, so you can be as technical as you like. Cheers in advance. Peter

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