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Thursday pub meet
by Richard 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

How about Take 5 in tombland? Equal distance from bus and train station, it's a busier area at night than the reindeer, next to inner-city bus stops, taxi rank, and a cash machine. They do great food, plenty of Ale (YAY!). St. Andrews car park is very nearby. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=take+5,+tombl… Cheers Richard -- Richard Bensley - 07540878285

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Re: [ALUG] Google Phone (T-Mobile/HTC G1)
by Alex Scotton 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

Doh! Well trust T-Mobile, aye?.. it's pretty iritating, so there's no flash support in cupcake either?.. hmm I know (what I assume is version 2) the g2 has flash 10 support so it must be coming.. Just going to have either play the waiting game, or flash it with JesusFreke's copy, then begs the question do you trust a guy who calls himself jesusfreke haha On 17 Aug 2009, 1:43 PM, "samwise" <samwise(a)bagshot-row.org> wrote: Hi, Alex. I have a Vodafone HTC Magic Android phone. Fortunately, for me, it came with Cupcake (Android OS 1.5) by default, so I haven't had any of the problems you describe. Although I'm pretty sure I don't have Flash support - that's supposed to be on the way, but it's not in Cupcake out of the box. October was the last date, I remember reading ... I haven't hacked it much - I've installed some apps that weren't in the Android market but, so far, I haven't seen any real need to root it, tbh. Android is pretty flexible anyway, and does most things out of the box or with apps from the market place so I haven't felt a need to put Debian (or Ubuntu) on it. Peter. 2009/8/17 Alex Scotton <alex.scotton(a)gmail.com>: > Hi guys, > > I'm a relative new comer to the world of linux, I use Ubuntu when I > can, however ha... > _______________________________________________ > 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! > _______________________________________________ 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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Thursday pub meet
by Adam Bower 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hi all, We need to have a bit of discussion over where the 2nd Thursday Norwich pub meet is going to be held this month. We need a venue with good beer, plenty of seating, good accessibility for people using bus/train and nearby car parking. As I've not got any idea over city pubs does anyone else have any suggestions? or shall we just start by doing some investigative research in person starting over the next few days ;) Thanks Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li

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Re: [ALUG] Google Phone (T-Mobile/HTC G1)
by Alex Scotton 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Alex Scotton<alex.scotton(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> For the following reason: >> >> <head><style>body{font-family: >> Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: >> #ffffff;color: black;}p{margin:0px}</style></head><body >> id="compText">Helena >> Oakey wrote<br><<<<br><o:p></o:p> > > Fair enough, just going to have to wait until I get back to a PC to > email you guys then ha ha, how useless :-( > > Whilst I am emailing though, I posed a question a while back that I am > now about to search my emails for; it was regarding my Monitor and it > not "sleeping" correctly, and it was answered with something along the > lines of "DPMS 0 0 15", but after a quick google last night when I > suddenly remembered the words DPMS (at 3am in bed) haha, no such joy.. > Sent this to Ted by accident ha ha... i'm such a fool sometimes haha... Found the answer in my emails, gotta love archiving all the ALUG conversations hehe... the answer lies in "xset DPMS" but if i want these settings to persist past a restart of X, I need to set them in Xorg.conf, right?

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Why do these pipes report as empty files to 'file'?
by Chris G 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Using NFS it sets up what would *seem* to be some pipes in /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs, however some of these seem to have rather odd characteristics and they confuse rdiff-backup so it reports errors due to files apparently changing while it runs. The specific files in question are these:- chris$ ls -l /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt* /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt6: total 0 -r-------- 1 root root 0 2009-08-25 21:42 info /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt7: total 0 -r-------- 1 root root 0 2009-08-25 21:42 info /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt8: total 0 -r-------- 1 root root 0 2009-08-25 21:42 info Now note that these are reported as normal (but empty) files by 'ls'. Similarly 'file' reports them the same:- chris$ file /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt?/* /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt6/info: empty /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt7/info: empty /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt8/info: empty But they're not really empty, presumably because they're pipes or fifos or something:- root@chris:/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs# cat /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt6/info RPC server: garage.local service: nfs (100003) version 3 address: 192.168.1.88 protocol: tcp port: 0 root@chris:/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs# This is presumably what's confusing rdiff-backup because they *seem* to be empty ordinary files but they aren't. Is this normal for pipes/fifos or is there something special about these? -- Chris Green

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Wireless card
by Chris & Barry 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Hi Anyone want a pcmcia-11 wireless card dont need it any more it worked ok with Ubuntu 6.10 it is a Edimax turbo EW-7108Pcg No charge, With Windows and linux driver disks Barry

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iTunes alternatives?
by James Elsey 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

What are you guys using for media players? Since getting an iPod, I've become fond of how iTunes manages music collections, and I haven't been able to find a good Linux alternative. Exaile comes close, but I'm still missing the following iTunes had a lovely way of storing compilation albums separately, so your main "list" of artists wasn't cluttered up by those on compilation CDs. Exaile/Amarok seem to list everything by artist > album, and when you have several compilations, this list becomes difficult to manage Audio books, iTunes has a nice way of storing those "out of the way", can't see anything in amarok to do this.. There's some other features I can't find good implementations of, but these are my two pet-hates at the moment. I haven't heard of any iTunes Linux versions on the horizon, and I don't think running under WINE would be ideal Any suggestions? James Elsey

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Re: [ALUG] Any experience of the "Fit PC 2" here?
by Alex Scotton 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

*(Sorry if this reposted; I keep getting mails about postponed posting because of "suspicious headers")* Putting all your eggs in one basket, aye? I want to do this too, currently running a media server, wow server, ftp server on my windows box (hides head in shame ha ha) and with 4 other pcs in the house all from time to time using bittorrent (especially me hehe).. would love to set up a buntu box as a server providing dns, possibly a few domain services (i.e. possibly storing user info etc.. people in the house log onto the server not their local account...) and in so doing provide an intranet possible of handling the bittorrent web ui, enabling peeps to upload their torrent file to the server and then leaving that to download the file and place it on a public drive when it's finished downloading.. would love to have a service that detects network load and adjusts bittorrent's bandwith allocation as appropriate... Would also love an app to sense new computers on the network and ask my permission for it's access etc.. Let me know how your venture goes chris Alex Scotton

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Anybody had experience of this?
by Chris Walker 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

http://maemo.nokia.com/ I've been tempted to trade in my old Nokia phone for a Nokia N97 but have been put off by the reviews - and the £500 price tag. I've thought about an Android phone and an iPhone but today I read about the Nokia N900. It has a Linux OS but having downloaded an SDK for the N97 and installed it on my Windows machine, am I likely to have problems trying write something for a Linux OS on a phone? I have to confess that my programming experience is limited to BBC Basic on a model B back in the 80's and now that I'm about to retire I thought I'd buy myself a new phone and do something useful with it. So 2 questions really. One is about the thoughts of the people here around Maemo. It's been used before on other devices but is the fact that it's based on Linux that important and is it any good? Second question concerns programming. Has anybody done any programming for a Linux phone, other than tweaking? I wouldn't be pestering you for advice so don't be afraid to answer ;-) Just in case you're wondering what sort of thing I'd be programming (more accurately trying to program), it would be a beer database. Just the sort of thing to show off at one of the monthly meets in a pub :-)

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First report on WD MyBook II box - and a question
by Chris G 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Well I have my WD MyBook World Edition II now and "it just works"! :-) To expand a little, I plugged in the power, connected the ethernet lead and turned on. Using 'arp' I discovered its IP address and then was able immediately to connect to its web configuration pages. I have enabled ssh and nfs and am now able to log in to the WD box's command line (seems a pretty standard Linux system) and can mount nfs shares from the box. What more could one want? (Well, a little, see below.... ) Now the question, I use dnsmasq on my desktop system (well that's where it is at present) to provide local DNS on our little network. It's set up so that DHCP clients can be accessed with just their host name or with the domain suffixes. E.g. I can access 'maxine' or 'maxine.isbd.net', or C475IP or C475IP.isbd.net. However the WD box registers with dnsmasq as 'garage.local' rather than just 'garage' (which is the host name I have given it). Can anyone suggest why this might be and/or how I can fix it? -- Chris Green

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