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Help! PostgreSQL corrupt system tables
by Mark Rogers 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

One of my customers has a corrupt postgreSQL system database. The error he's getting is: template1=# select * from pg_database; ERROR: invalid page header in block 1 of relation "pg_database" This happens at any point where postgres is trying to access the database catalog, not for invididual db access but (for example) trying to create / drop any databases. I can't help him as I know nearly nothing about Postgres (although its about time I learnt). -- Mark Rogers More Solutions Ltd

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Kernel 2.6, pcmcia SmartMedia and MTD
by Barry Samuels 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '05

My Thinkpad laptop used to run kernel 2.4 and my PCMCIA Adapter for SmartMedia worked. I have since had to change to kernel 2.6 to get the Thinkpad built-in Wireless networking to work. Now the PCMCIA SmartMedia adapter doesn't work. I've tried everything I could understand on the Web to get this working with no result. I think that I've enabled the appropriate settings in the kernel but I've no way of knowing for sure. Can anyone tell me what I have to do to get this to work? -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Brett Parker 24 Oct '05

24 Oct '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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Re: [ALUG] Kitmeets was: Re: Anyone got some old 500MB-2GB hard drives they no longer need
by sfr 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Chris Green wrote: > For me one of the main reasons is simply that it's a long way, I live > in Newbourne, near Felixstowe, which is a fair old way from Norwich. > I do also have other things to do like ride horses which, at this time > of the year, is a week-ends only activity. Chris, could you fix a meet in SE Suffolk (after winter, unless it included Horses)? Possibly at Adastral? Eli (ex-Martlemite)

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Science in schools
by Karamoon 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

The following makes very interesting reading, especially when one considers the governments plans for more faith schools in the UK: http://www.venganza.org/ Matthew __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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UNISCRIBE
by Douglas Rosher 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

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Kit-meet tomorrow
by Karamoon 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

I'm going to be at the kit meeting tomorrow. I'll bring a switch, some patch cables, some biscuits and my G4 Powerbook. I will also bring an old Toshiba T2130CS laptop. It doesn't have a cdrom drive so if anyuone has some floppy-based OS's, please bring them! In particular, does anyone have a 32-bit version of Menuet???? >From what has been posted so far it seems there'll be about 6 people in attendence... -Matthew ps. Any chance of net access at the meeting tomorrow? __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

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Sorry about the swearing...
by Anthony Anson 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Before you pass on to the next item, the Linux issue appears shortly... I've just put a box together (AMD 900, nine hundred and mumble mumble MB RAM). IDE Channel 1: HD0 (master) and CD/DVD-RW (slave), cable detect IDE Channel 2: HD1 and Zip100 - both slave - not cable-detect. UW SCSI card and 2 × UW SCSI HDs ATI Rage 128 AGP card Internal hardware modem, PCI (can't unforget which one) In addition to the onboard USB ports there is a twin-port USB PCI card and a four port USB hub (camera cable and scanner), the four port hub attached to an onboard port - I'm suspicious of all these, but they've been working OK until today - that is, for a bit less than a week. The OS in the HD0 caddy is (was?) Win 2000 Pro SP1, and noticing I hadn't done so, I fed it SP4. So it fell over, and after five or six minutes trying to boot, I get the BSOD. Recurring. So, I thought - feed it the Win 2000 CD and try a repair, or if it comes to it, a reformat and reinstall... It loads files, then falls over. Recurring. So, I thought, it's set to load from CD first so I can run Knoppix - I'll format C: with Knoppix and reload Win 2000. Oh yeah? Knoppix begins well enough, just as usual. It gets to 'Starting X11.....' and the screen goes dark and the pretty text winks on, then it goes dark again, then it winks again, and again, but only to four or five places - not recurring... We finish with: Retrying with Server Xfree86(vesa) . Retrying with Server Xfree86(fbdev) Error: No suitable X-Server found on your card. And the CD drive was dead so I had to power off, switch on again, remove CD and shut down again. Has anyone got any suggestions? Is there anything in the configuration which I might have got wrong? I need Win 2000 for beta-testing Zetnet's mail and news handling program. I'd also like the computer to work, as the one I'm on (PIII-450) I've built for a friend whose PI-90 is rather sick. -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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Re: [ALUG] 2nd Thursday Norwich Meet : Reindeer, Dereham Road
by sfr 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

David Reynolds wrote: > Those?! I think you'll find it was me who fixed it (sure I was told > what to do, but I was still the one who did all the work :P ) And beautifully done, too. The light has stayed on even when landing after roadhumps. and then James Taylor wrote: >Pah! You would have been useless without my superb back-seat directions... heh :) -- sfr

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[ALUG Announce] Conference: Open Source Choices and Resources for Schools
by MJ Ray 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '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 ----- Small reminder: ALUG meet at UEA on Sunday. See www.alug.org.uk Now a message that MK LUG asked us to pass on: Note that "services need to be clearly relevant to education." -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Open Source in Schools Event From: David Willington <david.willington(a)ntlworld.com> Dear All I've been asked by Hemel Hempstead School to help organise a conference putting together schools with an interest in Open Source software with businesses and individuals that can offer support and advice. I'm based in Sheffield where I've just organised one for schools up here. I called the event OSCARS (Open Source Choices and Resources for Schools) and it came about as a result of this year's FLOSSIE (Free, Libre and Open Source Software in Education) conference in Bolton where the view was that everyone there already know about FLOSS and what was needed was a conference to inform people who don't know about FLOSS. The reason for Hemel Hempstead is that I know the new Head there and she said that Sheffield was too far to come. This is the second OSCARS. I learned a few lessons from the first one. Firstly I'm going to try to keep a clear focus on education - the school's getting the schools together, and I'm approaching the Linux community. I'm keen to avoid a room full of Open Source converts, which is what happened at FLOSSIE. I'm planning to get about 10 businesses offering a range of solutions that are directly relevant to education and which are open source based, and ask the school to guarantee at least 25 schools. One of the companies that came to the first one was (as far as I can tell) offering Open Source on the back of a proprietary package. There's nothing wrong with this, but I'm eager to point out to schools that Open Source can come without ties. In other words, an exclusively Open Source event, although companies and businesses working with proprietary software are welcome along so long as they're demonstrating their open source options. From the businesses' point of view, experience in schools is good, but I don't think it's essential. However services need to be clearly relevant to education. If anyone would be interested in being involved I'd be delighted to hear from you. The proposed date is Fri 27 Jan 2006 and the venue is Hemel Hempstead School, Heath Lane, Hemel Hempstead. Thanks David Willington ----- 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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