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Syleham Sunday 22nd August IMPORTANT
by bj 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

ALUG meeting at Syleham CANCELLED! Due to a family crisis I am unable to host the meeting on Sunday. I do apologise especially to Eli who I know has made a personal sacrifice to ensure she could attend. I will reschedule it as soon as I can please accept my sincere apologies. Cheers, BJ

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 16 Aug '04

16 Aug '04

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. 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 tkirc, bitchx, xchat 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://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Changing subscription email address
by Ian bell 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

I want to change the email address to/from which I subscribe to the ALUG mailing list. However, the personal admin page only allows me to change my password. I could unsubscribe and resubscribe but I wondered if there were not a neater method? Ian Bell

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Loki Games
by Wayne Stallwood 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

Does anybody own a copy of Soldier of Fortune for Linux that they are bored with/wish to sell. I have checked with all the UK Loki resellers I can find and nobody has stock any longer. Unlike some of the earlier loki ports it is not possible (AFAIK) to simply use a combination of the linux demo binary and the Windows version maps with this game.

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Re: [ALUG] FTP/HTTP install of Mandrake 10
by Wayne Stallwood 15 Aug '04

15 Aug '04

On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:31 pm, Chris Walker wrote: > I beginning to think it won't be finished before it's time for my beauty > sleep. It's been saying 7:00 for some time now. I began to suspect that it > had the same sort of problems that Windows does when it's moving/copying > files but I can see by clicking 'details' that it is actually doing > something. Also from the fact network traffic on this machine has slowed to > a crawl. Hmm. Latest check now says 7:33! For future reference (and in case you ever need to access the installation RPMS and have lost internet access) this is how to do a loopback mount Create a mount point somewhere by creating an empty folder there. Personally with loopbacks I like to do it in my home directory, but it depends on what you are doing with it. For this example mkdir /home/wayne/mandrake mount -r -o loop whatever.iso /home/wayne/mandrake Now if you browse over to the mandrake folder you will see the contents of the iso If you require write access to the iso then simply omit the -r Don't forget to umount it when you are finished.

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Re: [ALUG] FTP/HTTP install of Mandrake 10
by Wayne Stallwood 14 Aug '04

14 Aug '04

On Saturday 14 August 2004 9:29 pm, Chris Walker wrote: > I wouldn't know *how* to do that ;-) > > But I did manage to find the file it was looking for following your > suggestion. I pointed it at the server having looked for it using this > machine - not a Linux or Windows box btw but that's where the iso images > are - and then found that it was looking for mdkinst_stage2.bz2 and so I > could then enter the path. It's currently 'Loading program into memory' as > I type this, so many thanks. Ahh good stuff, I hope you are patient. I did a SuSE box using the same method the other day and it took about half a day to install all the packages.

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Barbecue in Belstead, Saturday 14 August
by Elisabeth 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

My place, 4pm until Sunday morning. Email for directions. Bring food and drink. Then to Snetterton Sunday midday for the KRC Endurance racing. Eli (sunflowerinrain)

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Re: samba
by phil 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

> > From: Wayne Stallwood <ALUGlist(a)digimatic.plus.com> > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: Re: [ALUG] samba > Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:00:04 +0100 > > On Thursday 12 August 2004 6:23 pm, phil wrote: >> Anyone with any experience of connecting Linux and OSX? I have 2 linux >> boxes (SuSe 8.2 & 9.0) at work which seem to connect fine over Samba >> to >> Winders machines. The 8.2 doesn't connect to a Samba share on OSX >> (jaguar), whereas the 9.0 connects - but painfully slow. Any >> experiences with Samba working at completely different speeds? >> > Not experienced that particular problem, but there were a lot of fixes > applied > to samba in the Panther release (specifically when I upgraded OSX to > 10.3.3 > at a clients a lot of samba issues they had simply vanished) Ihave Panther on another machine - I'll try from that. > > You didn't mention, but I assume that the Windows machines connect to > the OSX > shares at a reasonable speed ? Yes, they connect fine. > > When you say painfully slow are to referring to the actual time to > connect or > data transfer to/from the share (or both) Both. > > How are you managing passwords, do you have a samba box running as a > PDC, a > Windows box doing that or are you not running a domain ? Not running a domain at the moment. > > Anything interesting happening in the Mac's logs when the 8.2 box > fails to > connect ? I'll have to check - at the moment it's off as I've run out of elec sockets, and the box with 9 on is plugged in there instead!

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samba
by phil 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Anyone with any experience of connecting Linux and OSX? I have 2 linux boxes (SuSe 8.2 & 9.0) at work which seem to connect fine over Samba to Winders machines. The 8.2 doesn't connect to a Samba share on OSX (jaguar), whereas the 9.0 connects - but painfully slow. Any experiences with Samba working at completely different speeds?

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Reminder: Norwich City Gate meeting this Thursday night.
by Stuart Bailey 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Could someone attending the meeting at City Gate this week please take a penguin for the table. I'm going to try and attend this month, but since I don't know anyone, it would be easier to identify the penguin. 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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