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New Member
by Ian P. Christian 31 May '04

31 May '04

Good morning all. I have been living in Ipswich for 2 weeks now, and I thought I should join the local LUG, so here I am! I'm currently working for an ISP in Ipswich. My website about sums up what I konw, and what I do. http://www.pookey.co.uk. Hope everyone enjoys the long weekend :) Kind Regards, Ian P. Christian

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Software Patents ...again!
by John Seago 31 May '04

31 May '04

At yesterday's meeting at Syleham, Mark gave us an update on the battle against software patents. He also gave us a list of questions that need to be put to all candidates for European Elections. The questions can be found here: http://mjr.towers.org.uk/proj/eurovote/#questions (you may have to scroll down to find them). Time is getting very short, the election is on the 10th June, and Mark needs the information well before then. All ALUGer's should be lobbying their candidates, I'm telling you this as Mark is far too polite to nag at you, but I'm not! -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 31 May '04

31 May '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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Evening meetings in Norwich Internet Cafe?
by MJ Ray 29 May '04

29 May '04

In reply to the recent announce message, Lewis Allen offered the Norwich Internet Cafe as a venue for evening meetings. He's also happy to announce and promote them. What do you think? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 2004-05-28 10:47:15 +0100 From: Lewis Allen <lewis(a)norwichinternet.com> Subject: Norwich Internet Cafe If you would like a venue for monthly ALUG evening meetings perhaps you would like to meet in our Internet Cafe in Norwich Market? A central Norwich location with 20 broadband screens, wireless access and CD writer which your members would be welcome to use for free (yes, free). We would only charge for any printing, blank disks, drinks etc. See www.norwichinternet.com for more about us. Why would we do this? I am interested in Linux and will be starting to learn PHP and MySQL soon and would like to do my bit to promote it's use in Norwich. Let me know if this interests you. Regards Lewis Allen Norwich Internet Cafe www.norwichinternet.com -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing Help hack the EuroParl! http://mjr.towers.org.uk/proj/eurovote/

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Software Patents
by John Seago 29 May '04

29 May '04

I have had this reply from the English Democrats: "With regards to your specific question about English Democrats Party policy on Sofware Patents in Europe - then I must confess that our maniefesto does not go into this level of detail. What is the particular issue here ?" -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)

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Re: Boot partitions
by John Seago 29 May '04

29 May '04

The version I used was Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 Official i386 binary, I've had them some time, they came from the Linux Emporium, (when it was run by John Winter). Having got it running it just gave me a graphical log in and would only let me log-in as user, the only way I could get to root to reboot was to use a terminal from Gnome and su. Having got to there all I could do was reboot I tried <ls> nothing! Gnome was all that was available as KDE would only get as far as the second of its icons and then revert to the grey screen with the mouse pointer/cursor. I have no doubt whatsoever that all this was incompetence on my part, I'll bring a note book on Sunday for advice. I've also come up with a puzzling phenomena with the boot partition. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)

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Business Networking....
by Steve Purkiss 28 May '04

28 May '04

Off-topic but thought some of you may be interested - one of my other hats is running the A12 Club on www.ecademy.com - trying to bring a bit of the networking age to the countryside... so in case any of you are, please come along to our next meeting: The A12 Club is proud to present an evening of Tapas and Andrew Widgery featuring a splendid feast plus a talk on 'How Ecademy is working for so many and how you can make it work for you' by Andrew Widgery, National Development Director of Ecademy at D-Tapas, Chelmsford, Thursday 10th June at from 6pm Cost of the meal is £14.50 (excl. drinks of course) PLEASE NOTE NO-SHOWS WILL STILL HAVE TO PAY SO PLEASE ONLY REGISTER IF YOU ARE COMING We need 20 people for this to happen, please show your support (max. 42). There were 35 at Thomas Power's talk in Ipswich last year, so let's beat that! Register here: http://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=meeting&mid=5336 Look forward to meeting you all there, Steve Purkiss A12 Club -- Steve Purkiss Open for Organisations supporting open source software www.open4.org

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Slow Going For Linux In Iraq
by Craig 28 May '04

28 May '04

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,63638,00.html Thought I'll drop this article in ALUG to speed up today ;) C

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Re: Boot Partitions
by John Seago 28 May '04

28 May '04

I have tried a seperate experiment with the boot partitions which as far as I can tell has seemed to work. The installation of Debian however was an entirely different matter. Being armed with "Learning Debian GNU/Linux" published in 1999 was of dubious value. The installer presented me with a plethora of questions which I didn't understand, let alone know the answers to, still blundered on and succeded in getting a poor broken thing which it will be kinder to re-format. One problem being that my hardware seems to be too new for the version of X, perhaps I could have got round that but I sem to have borken it so that it won't let me log in as root on a console. Another try is in order, as I don't know what I did wrong I'll just have to blunder through until I get one I can mend after installation. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org)

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Temporary goodbye
by Syd Hancock 28 May '04

28 May '04

To all ALUGers: Unfortunately various events and commitments mean that I will be curtailing some of my extra activities for a while. These will have to include the amount of time I spend being involved with mailing lists etc and going to meetings of various types including ALUG. I hope that the evening meetings will continue regularly and that the meeting planned for the end of June at UEA is also very successful. Note that MJR will give a talk. More details on the website. Maybe one of the Norwich regulars could volunteer to announce the monthly meetings to the lists. I will probably not be reading the list for some time so if there are any comments that you want to be sure that I see, please direct them to my email address. Best wishes to all and many thanks for all the advice and support over the past three years. Hopefully I have contributed something useful in return. Syd

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