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Laptop/UPS
by J.R. Seago 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Thanks to all who gave an opinion or advice on the above matter. I now have an UPS sitting between the mains and my computer. At £110·00, an awful lot cheaper than a laptop, and now I've found the right wires to go in the right sockets, its siting there with its green light on, no installation problems, hardware not liking software, or any other problems that setting up a new computer would have. -- J.R. Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/ () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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Wiki
by David Reynolds 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hi, I just looked at the wiki and noticed that it hadn't been updated for a while and thought I'd ask how everyone was finding it? Are people finding it useful? Are people finding it easy to use / easy to add things to it, etc? Cheers, Dave -- David Reynolds david(a)reynoldsfamily.org.uk

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Help! X connections being refused
by ted.harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Hi Folks (and sorry for anu cross postings) Following a mysterious mishap when something on a website crashed my Firefox. the machine I was using is now not accepting X connections from either of my other two machines. I can't get to the bottom of it, and would welcome any suggestions. The basic symptom is: >From machine A (compo, the screwed-up one) I log in to either of my other two (say brandy) from an xterm in Gnome. On the remote login, I then issue the command 'xterm' and hope to see an xterm open on compo (as normally happens). Instead, I get the following message from the remote (brandy): ted@brandy:~ > xterm Xlib: connection to "compo.fort.knox.uk:0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xterm Xt error: Can't open display: compo.fort.knox.uk:0.0 (Exactly the same message from the other remote machine) This situation arose immediately following the Firefox crash (Firefox running on compo, machine A). Connections which were already open continued to work. By now, though, I've tried (amongst other things) rebooting. and now there's no joy on any front. It makes no difference whether I'm root or an ordinary user eiher locally or remotely, nor whether I 'startx' as root or ordinary user/ (BTW, I can give some details of the remote web site which crashed Firefox if people think it may help, since I suspect it of monkey business. but will hold fire for the moment since it may not be relevant). With thanks (and I'm pretty pressed to get this working again!) Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 22-Apr-07 Time: 18:03:23 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Re: gparted
by Peter Alcibiades 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Is there anything else to resize partitions? I use Acronis, have for several years. Its not free (but its cheap), its not open source either, but it will do anything you want with partitions of any sort, and its always worked perfectly. Amazon is the cheapest, or was when I bought the last copy. I wouldn't be without it. Peter

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Re: [ALUG] dual booting probs
by J.R. Seago 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

On Sunday 22 April 2007 12:00, Wayne Stallwood <ALUGlist(a)digimatic.co.uk> wrote: > That's the second time on this thread that I have been halfway through > writing a reply when Paul has jumped in with a speedy response :-) Take the list as a digest, that way you can always give a considered answer. Mind you, unless you're careful, and read all the way through the digest, you can end up jumping in with the same answer that someone else has already given! -- J.R. Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments

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dual booting probs
by elc＠freeola.net 22 Apr '07

22 Apr '07

First, I'm about as new as a newbie can get. Second, thanks for your suggestion, but I have done every which way I know to do as you suggest, but no luck. What I've done is to boot with a live cd (and I've used both Ubuntu and Kubuntu original cd's) gone into install, installed as far as partition and chosen "manual", chose not to format, and got to desktop. Opened terminal and 1) typed "grub-install" - and got something about not finding something (I didn't keep notes). 2) tried another way, typed "grub" - got "grub >" and typed " root (hda,7)", (which is where I think my root is) and got similar answer - cannot find ... etc. Perhaps I'm not doing this correctly. I've also tried to locate on my live cd's the rescue option (which everyone is saying is there) - perhaps I'm doing something wrong here to. Any suggestions warmly received, but please in terms of one syllable so that I can follow - and learn. I like linux, I want to use it instead of win98, don't want to pay Bill for anything else, but the early learning curve is a bit steep. Thanks Eric On Wednesday 18 April 2007 23:07, elc(a)freeola.net wrote: > > I'm dual booting win98SE and Ubuntu, and have had a choice menu on > > bootup of either Ubuntu or windows, Ubuntu being the default. > > Due to a need of having to re-install win98SE, I have now lost this menu > > option and thus cannot access linux. > > How can I get this menu choice back. > Boot up from a Live CD and run grub-install. Regards, Paul.

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Hello
by Louis King 21 Apr '07

21 Apr '07

Just stumbled across ALUG and are quite interested in joining. My two colleagues Dewi Roberts and Craig Fordham and I would like to attend the next Ipswich social meeting on 3rd Monday of May. Just missed this months event yesterday. We work for a Linux centric software development company in Ipswich ( www.ipfour.co.uk) All of our server infrastructure and running Debian and Ubuntu, as well as all of our desktops and laptops. We are regular contributors to UbuntuGuide.org We have development skills involving PHP, Perl, Bash, Java, XML, XSLT, FOP, Apache Cocoon, Hibernate, Spring, Symfony etc Anyone else with similar interests and skills? -- LOUIS KING Research & Development Manager tel:// (0870) 9970304 fax:// (0870) 1306328 eml:// l.king(a)in-time.co.uk ================================= InTIME Timesheet Technology Fisons House 159 Princes Street Ipswich Suffolk IP1 1QH =================================

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IPLUG Meeting
by Yvonne Everett 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Meeting tonight? I'm a bit new to this mailing list so might have missed any talks about it. Would you be able to tell me where and when this meeting is, and if anyone can come along or is it by invite only? Thanks and regards Yvonne Everett Email: ye103910(a)googlemail.com

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Ubuntu/Debian and MySQL
by Mark Rogers 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

My understanding is that the standard MySQL startup scripts (for use in init.d) have the option of using mysqlmanager instead of mysqld_safe. The packaged versions for Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) do not have that option. Is anyone here running via mysqlmanager on a Debian-based system? How best should I go about it? NB: I have no experience of mysqlmanager but I need multiple mysqld instances and I think that's the way to go? I'm using MySQL version 5.0.22. mysqlmanager itself is installed. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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ADMIN : Reminder that Alug is (generally) a plain text only list
by Adam Bower 20 Apr '07

20 Apr '07

Hi, List admin hadn't been done for a while and I've let through quite a few posts that have an html part attached. Could I remind/ask everyone who does post to the list to try and make sure they try to configure their client to send in plain text only. Or, if that isn't possible could they use a different mail service to send to the list? Sending mail to the list in html creates extra work for the admins and isn't necessary. I will let some posts from new subscribers with an html part through to the list but if you continue to do so you will get a reminder and your post will be deleted and you will have to resend it. If after a couple of reminders you carry on doing it then your mail will eventually just be silently discarded. If you need help on configuring your mail client to send in plain text then this page has some hints/tips http://www.expita.com/nomime.html if you are still stuck then please send a mail to the list asking for help and I'll let your mail through so that everyone can provide help/advice. Thanks Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li

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