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by Chris Green 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Having got Open Office to run and the database connection working (which was non-trivial) I'm quite impressed. Setting up forms to enter data into a database is quite clever. Essentially you end up using the Open Office word processor as the forms designer which means that layout and so on is very easy and powerful. However I'm left with one question, you can specify actions for data entry fields as in 'Changed', 'Mouse Button Pressed', 'After Updating', etc. but I cant really see how to program these actions. When you click the '...' box beside an action an 'Assign Macro' window pops up with a whole load of what I assume are pre-defined actions which are called 'OpenOffice.org BASIC Macros' and there's also 'Untitled1 BASIC Macros' but I cant see how to actually use them. Firstly what do all the pre-defined macros do? Secondly how can I write something to do something useful to put in the Untitled1 position? Any ideas anyone? If I can get to understand this the OpenOffice database access looks very powerful indeed. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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More copyright issues - perhaps.
by Anthony Anson 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Apologies for the Shedspeak. ============ Start of forwarded message ============ From: "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <expunged.address> Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds Subject: Re: B.B.C. wibblefiles... On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 01:58:17 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades <creaking.gate(a)foobar.zetnet.co.uk> wrote in <313030303230303841F5A7B903(a)foobar.zetnet.co.uk>: > Do any Sheddi xabj whether you can download pogroms (I wanna file of > Hitler in Therapy - or simla title - a play from the Whirled Swervice > wot were boredcast ver recently.) rather than hfr the 'listen again' > thingy wot (I bleeve) jbexeth in reeltime? Or RealAudio even. Saw this yesterday, Look for Streambox VCR: http://www.eff.org/endangered/ -- Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, (rest of sig expunged) ============ End of forwarded message ============ -- 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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Job in Wymondham
by Keith Watson 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Casually browsing round jobserve.co.uk I came across this vacancy, http://www.jobserve.co.uk/W8418B30DC608043B.job , thought it might be of interest to one or more on the list. Regards, Keith ____________ 'I always use the word impossible with the greatest caution.' - - Wernher Von Braun

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Onspeed
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 23 Jan '05

23 Jan '05

Hi Folks, Luggers using dial-up in the Anglian sticks (and these are about as sticky as sticks get) may like to keep an eye on http://www.onspeed.com/ They claim to offer compression-based internet connections which are capable of increasing the throughput by a factor of about 10: 30kb/s->300kb/s. This is nudging broadband rates. And it's portable. At present, it is available for "PC" (= Windows) and Mac, for £24.96 a year. It involves installing some software on the machine that dials up and apparently routing the connection through onspeed. According to their website: http://www.onspeed.com/en/using.php#existing "Next year we expect to bring out software for Linux. Please email us here to let us know which platforms / browsers you are interested in and we will get in touch with you when available." and it looks as though that web page was written in 2004... Maybe if we follow their suggestion, and encourage them a bit, they might accelerate this a bit! If they've done it for Mac OSX they can't be a hundred miles from doing it for Linux. Any comments from people who are already familiar with Onspeed would be welcome. Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 [NB: New number!] Date: 23-Jan-05 Time: 20:48:01 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Open Office, how to run it?
by Chris Green 23 Jan '05

23 Jan '05

I have just downloaded and installed Open Office 1.1.4, it all went quite smoothly. However there is just one little problem, there's no clue anywhere on how to actually run it now I have installed it! Is some part of the installed Open Office hierarchy supposed to be on my PATH? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Hi there!
by Wai 23 Jan '05

23 Jan '05

Hello all, I'm Wai Ngai. There are several reasons I'm interested in Linux. I inherited a tacked together MS network on flaky machines at new work. I'm fed up of MS licencing, random reboots and losing clockcycles to scanning for viruses 24/7! I like the idea that as I get more used to Linux I can add to it, optimise it, contribute to the community. I've recently got a laptop off ebay purely for linux. FYI its a Toshiba 3480CT ultraportable. Its been two weeks of late nights trying to get Linux on there (docking station components, usb floppy emulation, second hand parts?). Finally Suse 9.0 pro is installing without too many problems. With any luck I will be on that machine when next writing. Hope everyone is good. Cheers, Wai __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Ubuntu and Powerpc Wireless
by Ben Francis 23 Jan '05

23 Jan '05

Quite a while back someone in the IRC channel expressed interest when I said I'd installed Ubuntu on my iBook and they wanted to know if you could use wireless networking. I can't remember who it was, sorry. The answer (after a very quick Google), is no. I'm very disappointed about that. Apparently the necessary specifications haven't been released. So, unless anyone knows otherwise, I guess the best we can do is pester Apple... -- Ben "tola" Francis http://hippygeek.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------- COMPUTER SUPPORT for small businesses and home users http://tolatech.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------

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Software patents on the march again!
by tom potts 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

Help - the EU's tring to rubberstamp software patents again http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050121034203123 Please protest and spread this far and wide Tom ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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RE: [ALUG] scp
by Keith Watson 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

Is rsnapshot <http://www.rsnapshot.org/> of any use to you? Regards, Keith ____________ Sushi - its not fresh, its raw!

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scp
by Richard Lewis 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

Hello ALUG, I'm trying to write a bash script to mirror some files on my server to another machine (to be run periodically, not a dynamic mirror). First it creates a file which contains the full path of all the files that need to be copied (they are in lots of different directories) separated by newlines (I'd like to keep this aspect of the script as it is also used to create an ISO to backup to DVD sometimes). Next I want to copy all the files in the list to the remote computer. (I've been reading up on scp and have managed to add my key the remote machine so that the script isn't interrupted by password prompts.) The problem I've got is that each item in the list is the name of a regular file including its path and scp won't allow me to copy to the remote machine into a path which doesn't exist: $ROOT=/var/server-mirror ..... for f in `cat FILES` do scp $f $USER@$HOST:$ROOT/$f done [where each $f will be the absolute path of the local file, e.g. '/var/www/index.html' which should copy to '/var/server-mirror/var/www/index.html' on the remote machine] The -r switch, of course, isn't the solution because that only applies to directories at the local end and still doesn't allow you to copy to non-existant directories at the remote end. I suppose what I need is a sort of 'rmkdir' with the -p switch: rmkdir -p $HOST:$ROOT/`dirname $f` Any ideas? Cheers, Richard PS. Theres no need to use scp if a solution exists using something else.... -- Richard Lewis richardlewis(a)fastmail.co.uk

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