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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : The Milestone, Woodbridge Road
by samwise 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting is back next week (Monday 17th December) at 20:00: The Milestone Beer House 5 Woodbridge Road IPSWICH IP4 2EA Tel: 01473 252425 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP4+2EA At 20:30, however, many of us will be going to Mr. Wing's for a Christmas buffet: Mr. Wing 7 St Helens Street IPSWICH Suffolk IP4 1HE Tel: 01473 212884 or 212885 Google Maps: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP4+1HE We'll return to The Milestone after we've eaten - probably at about half nine, but to be sure where we are, feel free to call one of our attendees. If you need a mobile no. for one of them, request it on the main mailing list. Both The Milestone pub and Mr. Wing's are in the centre of Ipswich, near the now-defunct Odeon cinema and not far from The Regent Theatre. There is more information on the venue, including car parking info, on the ALUG wiki: http://www.alug.org.uk/wiki/moin.cgi/Meetings All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Hopefully, it shouldn't be too hard to find the pack, look for those huddled around a laptop! Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. This month's meeting is the Xmas celebration. On top of that, I have some more games working under Linux, including both Simon the Sorcerer's in ScummVM, and American McGee's Alice and Road Rash in WINE. Finally, we've invited along a guest who we hope will be bringing along his OpenMoko phone - the Linux geek's equivalent to the iPhone (albeit it doesn't quite make calls yet!). Hope to see you there, Peter. ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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RTC Alarm Wakeup
by Barry Samuels 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

kernel 2.6.23 I want to be able to start one of my machines with RTC Wakeup Alarm but it isn't working and I've just found out why. If I cd into /sys/class/rtc/rtc0 and set the wakeup time as follows: echo $(( $(cat since_epoch) + 300 )) > wakealarm and then look to see what is there: cat wakealarm I get something like 2059580189 (which converts to a time in April) whereas from 'cat since_epoch' I get someting like 1204369402 (which converts to the current date/time. Any ideas as to what may be happening here? -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Any problem/issue with running apache as a different user?
by Chris G 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

Would running apache as myself cause any serious security or other issues? (apache 2.2 on Fedora 8 if it's of any significance) It's on my home system where I am really the only user and apache is used mainly for 'local' browsing though there is one directory which I have opened up the apache permissions on so it's visible from the outside world. The only major issue I can see is that someone else browsing using apache *might* be able to see some of 'my' files that they wouldn't be able to see if apache was running as apache. Alternatively can anyone suggest a scriptable way of allowing myself to become user apache so that I can create files, do fuse mounts, etc. as apache? -- Chris Green

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A question about the newgrp command
by Chris G 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

I need to change gid so that I can successfully execute a fusermount command (it's indirectly via encfs). If I don't do "newgroup fuse" then the mount fails with a permission denied error. However I want to wrap this up in a script and, as I have discovered when trying to do it, when you execute newgrp you get a new shell so the script that is running newgrp only continues when you exit from the newly created shell. While it may be inherently necessary for newgrp to execute a new shell I wish the man page had told me as it was rather confusing initially. So, how do I automate changing GID? All I actually want to do is:- newgrp fuse encfs /<encrypted directory> /<unencrypted mount> -- Chris Green

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Converting to PDF
by Barrys linux mail 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Hi I wonder if anyone knows of Linux software that works like Visage eXpert PDF converter. This works like a virtual printer as is puts the PDF printer in you printers folder and when selected will convert the file to PDF format. This is very handy when wanting to save Emails as you just print them to PDF eXpert and you have a saved PDF file. I could do with something like this for Ubuntu as i do not have a printer connected to my laptop. But would then be able to print out files saved from a Flash Drive on my Windows Desktop. Any Idea's? Barry

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rsync and ssh
by Barry Samuels 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Is it possible for me using a combination of rsync and ssh, on my computer, to copy files from a remote server which does have ssh access but doesn't have rsync or is it necessary to have rsync on both ends? -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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[ALUG Announce] ALUG Christmas Dinner / 2nd Thurs Pub Meet
by Richard Lewis 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Dear ALUG, The ALUG Christmas Dinner (2006, we think) will be held at * 19:30 on Thursday 13th March * at The Reindeer (10 Dereham Road, Norwich, NR2 4AY; tel. 01603 762223). It's very near the junction of Dereham Road and the Norwich inner ring road (Grapes Hill). This will coincide with the monthly 2nd Thursday Pub Meet. Anyone who would like to come for drinks later on will be more than welcome. If anyone would like to eat and hasn't yet booked, there a few places left so get in touch a.s.a.p. via the list! We look forward to seeing you there. Cheers, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ JID: ironchicken(a)jabber.earth.li -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +-------------------------------------------------------+ |Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.| |http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html | +-------------------------------------------------------+ ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Re: [ALUG] Debian screen problem
by paul 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

I am assuming you really do have an ADI GD-790 monitor ? > Either that or there is something going horribly wrong with the nv > driver. > >I thought modern X could read the monitor's EDID >which should have at >least one detailed video timing for the preferred >mode. This is >particularly important for LCD screens which expect >lower pixel clocks >than the traditional CRT timings for the same modes. Yes it is an ADI GD-790 monitor Adding 'HorizSync 30.0 - 100.0' to the Xorg.conf file did the trick. It boots fine now into Desktop and I can change resolution via Desktop - Prefences - Screen Resolution. thanks wayne & tim Before that fix the desktop resolution the 1600x1200 85Hz setting gave a sort of virtual desktop. i.e not all the desktop was shown on screen but when the mouse reached the screen edges the desktop scrolled to reveal more. that exact resolution option isn't available now. only 1600x1200 75Hz. Was that scrolling a bug or a separate feature of Gnome thats now turned off? Best wishes Paul A __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. The World's Favourite Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Perl
by Ruth Bygrave 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

I want to use the mobiperl library for creating/modifying Mobipocket ebooks, as there is no executable for this except for Windows. The mobiperl page asked me to download a number of modules from CPAN, including Palm::PDB, Image::Size and some XML stuff. Tried installing these as asked using install. These seem to run correctly up to the point where they ask to use make and then throw an error and cannot complete. What stupid thing am I doing? Perl version: Perl 5.8.8 (which is apparently the version I should use. OS version: Darwin (unix version for OS X) Regards, Ruth

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Debian starting problem - looking for help/advice
by paul 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Hi all I'm fairly new to Linux and am installing Debian as a desktop. However the system booting stops at black screen "input signal out of range". pressing 'crtl-alt- +' takes you to normal GUI desktop. I haven't been able to find the solution on the net. Is the system not loading my AGP driver properly or is it an X-org problem? If I try to change resolution from the desktop it reverts to black screen "input signal out of range again. the section of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file reads Section "Device" Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420]" Driver "nv" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "ADI GD-790T" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420]" Monitor "ADI GD-790T" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x450" "720x400" "640x640" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x450" "720x400" "640x640" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x450" "720x400" "640x640" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x450" "720x400" "640x640" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x450" "720x400" "640x640" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x450" "720x400" "640x640" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Best wishes Paul Adams PS I came along to the last ALUG meeting at the Reindeer. Paul, 40ish, brown hair ponytail, bit overweight, drinking diet Coke, didn't say much!! __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. The World's Favourite Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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