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Thunderbird help?
by Anthony Anson 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

A fiend of mine is having prombles with Thunderbird (1.0 ISTR) I offered to ask for a howto? from the Shed, but I gooved I'd ask in zetnet.support while I was about it. Not having got a lot to pass on, I bethought me of the ALUG list... <Q> Yes please would you ask how to make the Junk empty to Trash automatically. I have ticked the box but it doesn't work :( Anna </Q> -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ The only way to tell when a Finn is in love with you is that they look at your feet instead of their own.

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External SATA drives
by Wayne Stallwood 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

At the kit meet I was talking to someone about the availability of external SATA enclosures and how we were frustrated that external SATA sockets are available but seemingly there is nothing to plug into them. I think it could have been Noodles but I am not sure Anyway such a device does exist and they are available from Scan (right device, wrong picture on their site) It's the Highpoint Rocketmate 1000, strangely it only supports traditional IDE ATA drives internally and price is not available on the Scan site but I have the product PDF's if whoever it was is interested.

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Setting windows workgroups from DHCP on Linux
by Stuart Bailey 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Hi, Does anyone know if it is possible to configure a DHCP server to automatically assign workgroups to windows clients? Many thanks, -- --------------------------------------- Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Proprietor) (01953) 601294 (07778) 383739 http://www.linusoft.co.uk ---------------------------------------- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please email postmaster(a)linusoft.co.uk immediately. You should not copy or use this email or attachments for any purpose nor disclose their contents to any other person. NO BINDING CONTRACT WILL RESULT FROM THIS E-MAIL UNTIL SUCH TIME AS A WRITTEN DOCUMENT IS SIGNED ON BEHALF OF LinuSoft. LinuSoft cannot accept any responsibility for the completeness or accuracy of this message as it has been transmitted over public networks. *************************************************************************

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nfs mounted directory ownerships
by Jenny Hopkins 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hi all, I have a central directory owned by user 'balloon' on my server. This can be nfs mounted onto serveral other computers, each with a user 'balloon'. However, the server UID for balloon is different from that of the clients. I'm reluctant to start changing things in /etc/passwd. Is there an elegant way to state the nfs mount with username permissions rather than number? Thanks, Jenny

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Max partition size
by beb 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

I've just put in a second harddrive (40GB) in my box (running Sarge on a (badly) customised 2.6.10 kernel). I deleted all the old partitions using fdisk and created a single new 40GB one (actually 39.something according to the partition table), but when mounted 'df' reports it as only 17GB. If I create two partitions of roughly 20GB each then 'df' reports the disk size correctly. Can anyone suggest what the problem is please? Also, during my googles about this I kept seeing pages stating that the maximum drive size in linux is 138GB. Was I just looking at old webpages or is that still the case in the latest kernels? Thanks, beb -- <Insert Bill Hicks quote here>

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Caption Competition
by Peter Onion 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

I think we need to put some words to this picture.... http://www.btinternet.com/~Peter.Onion/ALUG/caption.jpg >From sunflowerinrain's decription of the day.... "Mike's crimson machine which has refused installs of Redhat, Mandrake, etc. suffered various attempts to install Debian unstable which resulted in it booting into Win98. Brett re-partitioned and de-bootstrapped it and got almost all the way through the process of getting a working Debian before running out of time. " PeterO

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DemosOfferedDemosWanted page on web site
by Peter Onion 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

I just found the "DemosOfferedDemosWanted" page on the web site. http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/?DemosOfferedDemosWanted How "current" are those lists ? Without dates it's impossible to tell when the requests & offers were made. PeterO

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OT: SGI Access
by Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hi all, First, apologies for being off-topic, but I'm exploring all opportunities. When I complete my Ph.D. research a few years ago, I done all my work on an SGI. On reviewing my work recently, I discovered that most of animations I created are in SGIs movie format. I've tried some options including xanim to view them in linux, but because I created the movies with compression on each frame, I can't get them to play. Rather than recreating the original files, what I really want to do is convert these files from SGI format to quicktime, or extract the original frames. In fact, there is a command to do this on the SGI - dmconvert. Before I go ahead and buy an SGI via eBay or similar (which may or may not work), I was wondering whether anyone here has, or has access to an SGI which could do the movie conversion. I could supply the original movies on CD for you to convert, or we could work together to do this. I know this is a long shot, but can anyone help me? -- Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. http://www.ashleyhowes.com "May your spirit be renewed in earth's solitary places." - Native American Indian Blessing

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Re: [ALUG] Multi-card reader
by Chris Glover 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:49 +0000, Chris Walker wrote: > On Wed 23 Mar, Chris Glover wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:15 +0000, Chris Walker wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I've just removed a USB card reader from my Mandrake 10 system and added > > > a USB 2.0 card and connected up a new multi-card reader to it. But I > > > can't get the system to recognise the new hardware. Where am I going > > > wrong? > > > > > > I've tried googling for multi-card reader but nothing useful comes up. > > > > > > > Hi Chris, > > > > Have you loaded the ehci-hcd module? You need this for USB 2 to work. > > You'll have to talk me through that one. I don't know how to do that. > It's exactly as Brett said. You could try typing /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd /sbin/modprobe usb-storage You need to be logged in as root. > > Have you tried other devices on this card? Does lsusb show it is there? > > I get 'command not found' for that as I do for modprobe - suggested by Breet > Parker in the list. > What does the output of dmesg show you? To install lsusb on Gentoo, type emerge usbutils It's available on other distros as well, but it's been so long since I used Redhat I've forgotten what th epackage is called. -- Chris ---------------------------------- E Mail: chris(a)glovercc.clara.co.uk SIP: 84411389(a)voiptalk.org IAXTEL: 17003366726

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Re: [ALUG] New Member Intro
by Gareth 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

Hey Ben, sorry for the late post, yeah I've had a look at ubuntu but havn't tried the live cd yet. It's an old-world G3 thats been sucking most of my time, so i'm not sure it would work. I've got debian installed and working with a 2.4 kernel, but main problem now is getting X to work wiv an old fixed refresh rate monitor. Got the ati drivers going the other day, but still no joy. I had the machine working with an old copy of Yellowdog (RedHat) and tried just copying the xfree86.config file.. - If anyone thinks they can help lemme know and il'll send in specs. Gonna give debian/ubuntu a go on my powerbook once i have the money to hookup a new harddrive, i 'll need to dual boot as I need a mac partition for my work. As for airport extream, is it that the drivers are still closed source? I've been looking into getting an original airport card but the prices on ebay are mad!! Cheers -Gareth -- "All our knowledge past, present and future is nothing compared to what we will never know." >>Gareth Porteous wrote: >>I've been spending most of my time jostling with Debain getting it >>installed and working on some old world machines to give me something new >>to play with. >> >> >Welcome! >Have you seen the Ubuntu Linux Live CD for powerpc? >http://cdimage.ubuntulinux.org/releases/hoary/current/ >I tried it on my iBook at work and it looked very good, I've installed >Ubuntu on an iBook before with the "Warty Warthog" release. >Unfortunately the new wireless cards aren't supported because the specs >haven't been released but pretty much everything else works. I'd be >interested to hear how it copes on older kit but you might be right >sticking to Debian for those. > >-- >Ben "tola" Francis http://hippygeek.co.uk >---------------------------------------------------- >COMPUTER SUPPORT for small businesses and home users >http://tolatech.co.uk >----------------------------------------------------

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