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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. Historically, these used to be the only time a lot of us would be about, now the channel has some usual faces that are there most of the time (except at silly o'clock, when we might be sleeping, or on the second thursday of the month, where we might be drinking in the Reindeer), so don't feel limited to visit during this time, come visit us when ever you feel like it! The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include xchat, irssi and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://www.irssi.org/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Best tool for resizing Jpegs, preferably command line
by Chris Green 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

What's a quick and easy tool for resizing (as in changing the default screen size) of a Jpeg file? I have some scanned images that I want to display smaller on web pages and, although gimp will do it, it does seem a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut. It would be nice to be able to just say something like:- someProgram -x 400 -y 200 <old.jpg >new.jpg Going further, is it easy/possible to change the size of an image according to the size of the browser window being used? I use a 1600x1200 display at home so a 400x200 image will be quite small really but if anyone looks at the same page on (say) 800x600 it's going to be a bit on the large size. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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[ALUG Announce] 2nd Thursday Norwich Meet : Reindeer, Dereham Road
by Jonathan McDowell 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

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 "Second Thursday" ALUG Norwich Pub Meet is this Thursday, 8th December. It's at the Reindeer pub on the Dereham Road, just opposite the City Gate. We'll be there from 8pm-ish, though there may be a few people there earlier. Topics for discussion will no doubt be as varied as ever. The Reindeer has a reasonable selection of beer as well as decent coffee (with biscuits, if you're lucky). Directions to the Reindeer can be found at: http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/reindeer.html Pictures of some of the regulars, and irregulars, and, well, just some pictures of people that might or might not turn up are available from: http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2004-08-ALUG/ http://www.earth.li/~noodles/Photos/2005-01-ALUG-Xmas/ http://the.earth.li/~noodles/stilvoid-alug/mp20050811/ Which should hopefully aid those of you wondering who to look out for. We're /normally/ just to the left of the main entrance, though the last couple of times we've ended up at the far end of the pub beside the pool table. J. -- 101 things you can't have too much of : 41 - Tea. ----- 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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Changing Cursor Appearance in xterm
by rob page 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Well, see subject really.. my girlfriend wants her terminal cursor to more resemble the cursors seen everywhere else, ie: a line instead of a block.... I'm sure I saw a way to do this many moons ago, but maybe not....

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Re: [ALUG] Best tool for resizing Jpegs, preferably command line
by Anthony Anson 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

The message <43997F2A.2090301(a)quarella.co.uk> from Mark Rogers <mark(a)quarella.co.uk> contains these words: > Cheat! > It's not always appropriate to do it that way, eg if I'm importing > images into third party templates where I don't have access to the > templates, or if the printing behaviour matters. > But well done for spotting the workaround I currently use! :-) -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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Any warnings / recommendations on USB external hard disk?
by Jan T. Kim 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Dear all, I plan to get myself an external USB hard disk, mainly for storing digital photos, scanned stuff etc. and for backing up the internal hard disk of my notebook. Surfing around a little, I found this offer of Western Digital USB hard disks: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=46695&doy=7m11 The 320G offer seems quite reasonable to me. Do any of you have any recommendations / warnings / experience with this, or similar USB hard disks? Personally, I don't expect any difficult issues, I'd expect the HD to appear as an SCSI device (/dev/sda or whatever), just as a USB flash stick... is that right, or am I naive? Best regards & thanks in advance, Jan -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | email: jtk(a)cmp.uea.ac.uk | | WWW: http://www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/people/jtk | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----*

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Re: Best tool for resizing Jpegs, preferably command line
by tom potts 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

re resizing jpegs that old favourite(?) the Gimp if you want command line stuff http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/ it also has some perl scripting that should help - if you want to extend a menu so (perhaps) you can just point at a directory and click: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Perl/ ___________________________________________________________ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/

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Parsimony?
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

Hi Folks, The early Unix developers were parsimonious with keystrokes (and for good reason), so gave many commands very short names (like 'ls', 'mv'). So I thought I'd do a quick hunt for all 1- or 2-letter commands names on a Red Hat 9 system. Out of the 26 + 26*26 = 702 possible command names that could be made from 1 or 2 lower-case letters, I found only 55 (8%) in root's PATH: w ab ar as at bc cc ci co cp dc dd df dp du ed ex gs gv id ip jw ld ls ln lp ls lz mf mt mv nl nm od pb pm pr ps rb rm rx rz sb sg sh su sx sz tc tl tr ul uz vi wc Now that IS parsimonious! (I've added one or two of my own, like 'tl' for 'telnet', but have left these out of the above). Hmmm, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 07-Dec-05 Time: 00:08:23 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Ebay and Firefox
by Wayne Stallwood 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay. I can browse lists of items for sale with no problems but if I try and open the details of an item (usually I do this in a new tab with a middle click) it sits there loading perpetually. Eventually the page may load but more often than not results in a time out when contacting cgi.ebay.co.uk Another Ubuntu machine at the office is showing the same behaviour, and an Apple Powerbook on my home connection works fine using safari. So I don't think it's connectivity related. Tried disabling the Http pipelining as I have heard that this can cause problems with some sites and that made no difference. Is this an Ubuntu update that has broken Firefox or is ebay at fault, can someone else with Firefox confirm/deny that they can repeat this problem.. Ta muchly.

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RE: [ALUG] Ebay and Firefox
by Keith Watson 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

> From: Wayne Stallwood Sent: 05 December 2005 23:56 > > Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with > the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu > Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay. > > I can browse lists of items for sale with no problems but if > I try and open the details of an item (usually I do this in a > new tab with a middle click) it sits there loading > perpetually. Eventually the page may load but more often than > not results in a time out when contacting cgi.ebay.co.uk > > Another Ubuntu machine at the office is showing the same > behaviour, and an Apple Powerbook on my home connection works > fine using safari. So I don't think it's connectivity related. > > Tried disabling the Http pipelining as I have heard that this > can cause problems with some sites and that made no difference. > > Is this an Ubuntu update that has broken Firefox or is ebay > at fault, can someone else with Firefox confirm/deny that > they can repeat this problem.. > Just tried it and it works fine. Same distro - Ubuntu 5.10 (I have used Synaptic to ensure everythings at the latest version). Regards, Keith ____________ The first problem for all of us, is not to learn, but to unlearn. - Gloria Steinem

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