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Software patents
by Joe Button 21 May '04

21 May '04

Hi Does anyone here actually understand what the situation is with software patents in Europe? As I understand it we've basically just been shafted by the Council of Ministers. Is there anything we should be doing at this point? Has anyone been in touch with Richard Howitt? Joe

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Export Outlook contacts to LDAP
by Chris Glover 21 May '04

21 May '04

Hi, Bit of a long one this... pay attention at the back :-) I've got he address book in my phone now syncronised with Outlook, what I want to do now, is convert Outlook contacts into something usefull... LDAP! I really don't like using Outlook at the best of times. Does anyone know a way of converting Outlook exported data, .pst. .csv etc into an ldif file. Ultimately I want to run Openldap on my linux machine, import the data, and hopefully do something fancy with Asterisk PBX. I'm currently bidding for a Cisco 7960 which can use LDAP. Many Thanks Chris -- Chris ---------------------------------- E Mail: chris(a)glovercc.clara.co.uk SIP: 84411389(a)voiptalk.org IAXTEL: 17003366726

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RE: [ALUG] mini usbdrive and permissions
by Jenny Hopkins 21 May '04

21 May '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Dye [mailto:jon@pecorous.co.uk] > Sent: 21 May 2004 10:51 > To: Jenny Hopkins > Cc: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: Re: [ALUG] mini usbdrive and permissions > > > Jenny Hopkins wrote: > > Morning, > > Does anyone know if I can do anything about my mini usbdrive and > > permissions? Because I have to mount it vfat, any linux > files I copy > > to and from end up with ownership and permissions > completely screwed. > > It's an Iomega somethingorother and I mount it thusly: > mount /dev/sda1 > > /mnt/usbdrive -t vfat > > You could mount it as umsdos rather than vfat. From the kernel > documentation: > > "Umsdos is not a file system per se, but a twist to make a > boring one into a useful one. > > It gives you: > > long file names > Permissions and owners > Links > Special files (devices, pipes...) > All that is needed to be a linux root fs." > > > The first time you mount the usb device you'll have to run > umssync /mnt/usbdrive to create the magic --linux-.--- files > which actually store the owner/group and permission stuff but > after that if you mount the drive as umsdos then everything > should just look unixy from then on. > > JD > This seems to have confused the device a bit. Below is a log of what I was attempting to do, starting with including the umsdos module in the running kernel. Now I can't mount the device umsdos without the process hanging and getting a D, or mounting elsewhere as vfat as it says /sda1 is already mounted (but if I try to umount it it says it isn't mounted) Thanks, jen <--SNIP--> if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.20; fi ducati:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive/ -t umsdos ducati:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20# umssync /mnt/usbdrive bash: umssync: command not found ducati:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20# apt-cache search umssync ducati:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20# apt-cache search umsdos umsdos - utilities for controlling a umsdos filesystem ducati:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20# apt-get install umsdos Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: umsdos 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 191 not upgraded. Need to get 18.7kB of archives. After unpacking 65.5kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main umsdos 1.13-2.1 [18.7kB] Fetched 18.7kB in 17s (1063B/s) Selecting previously deselected package umsdos. (Reading database ... 51207 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking umsdos (from .../umsdos_1.13-2.1_i386.deb) ... Setting up umsdos (1.13-2.1) ... Syncing UMSDOS filesystems ... ducati:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20# umssync /mnt/usbdrive This utility must operate on a directory of a umsdos mounted file system. Even an msdos file system won't do. If this is the case umount the file system and remount it as a umsdos one. ducati:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20# umount /mnt/usbdrive Segmentation fault ducati:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive/ -t umsdos ....and i was left hanging here. ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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RE: re. [ALUG] Neil just joined.
by Jenny Hopkins 21 May '04

21 May '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: Craig [mailto:c@wizball.co.uk] > Sent: 21 May 2004 11:26 > To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > Subject: Re: re. [ALUG] Neil just joined. > > > > On 21 May 2004, at 10:22, Jenny Hopkins wrote: > > > Wish someone at my daughter's school would teach this stuff! > > And then your daughter starts to submit kernel patches.......... > > C > It'll be great, I can just give her extra pocket money to be the household's network and sysadmin and I can go off and dig the garden or something. Jen ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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re. [ALUG] Neil just joined.
by Jenny Hopkins 21 May '04

21 May '04

>My name is Neil. > >I'm a teacher. > >I teach many Computing and ICT topics but of possible interest to this group is the installation and use of Linux, Apache, >MySQL and PHP with FTP and SSH in there too. I'm keen to learn more as I'm fairly new to all these topics (especially >about security and SQL). Hi Neil, Where do you teach? Secondary/primary/college? Wish someone at my daughter's school would teach this stuff! Jenny ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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mini usbdrive and permissions
by Jenny Hopkins 21 May '04

21 May '04

Morning, Does anyone know if I can do anything about my mini usbdrive and permissions? Because I have to mount it vfat, any linux files I copy to and from end up with ownership and permissions completely screwed. It's an Iomega somethingorother and I mount it thusly: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive -t vfat Thanks Jenny ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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[Alug Announce][lugmaster] Richard Stallman and MEP candidates - patents meeting in London tomorrow (Friday)
by James Heald 21 May '04

21 May '04

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Following the vote in favour of software patents on Tuesday in the Council of Ministers, it is now especially important to make MEP candidates aware of how significant this is. It's a 300 seater lecture theatre, and this has had to be organised at the last minute, so please help us publicise it and get the word out. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Stallman will be giving a one hour talk tomorrow (Friday) on software patents in London at UCL. Following the talk, a panel of representatives from the political parties will comment, and lay out their party positions.* Richard Stallman "The Dangers of Software Patents" Friday 21 May, 6pm Cruciform Building, Lecture Theatre #1, University College London, Gower Street. The event is free, and all are welcome. Nearest tubes are: Euston Square (Circle line, Metropolitan line) Warren Street (Victoria line, Northern line) Map: http://www.bcsb.lon.ac.uk/map_mainsiteb&wcrucihighlighted.jpg * Green party, Lib Dems, and UKIP representatives now confirmed. Labour and Conservative participation pending. Organised by the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), in association with the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII). ------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ lugmaster mailing list lugmaster(a)mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lugmaster ----- 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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"5 years of ALUG" meeting report
by Syd Hancock 20 May '04

20 May '04

Brief report and photos of this meeting now on the website: http://www.alug.org.uk/articles/2004/05-02Sun-report.html Syd

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Knoppix AFU for hams
by Nick Daniels 18 May '04

18 May '04

Hi Someone has kindly downloaded a Knoppix CD for radio hams for me. http://www.afu-knoppix.de/ if anybody would like a copy could they please contact me off list. Can I install this to hard disc? I have come across a vague reference to KNX HDINSTALL Regards Nick Daniels

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When its easy its easy
by Sue Green 18 May '04

18 May '04

Phew, after taking three weeks to learn how to install and set up cygwin the first time round I managed it in under an hour today - suspect I forgot something important. But have tested it internally and it works, just waiting for firewall guys to adjust port forwarding and then hey presto watch the world arrive on my NT4 laptop. Suspicions are that SSH is eating NT4 memory and I cant afford to reboot the current ssh hosting machine every day as it also runs our teletext inserter equipment/software. So hopefully Ive got it running on a different machine which I can boot at will (insert boot + window comment) Sue Message: 2 Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:41:26 +0100 From: Brett Parker <iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk> To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Re: hello On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:31:14AM +0100, Sue Green wrote: > Brett/Chris > > Thanks for the warm welcome and introductions.. Ive just been using > Cygwin for a week or so. Took me about three weeks and the added > patience of a saint in respect of help from an IT guy who does our web site stuff for us. > In itself it proves to be pretty stable but the NT machine it is > running on is in the process of a nervous breakdown. Ahhh! It's not just our NT server that's having a nervous breakdown then! (Well, ours is having a little more of a strop than it really should be... it *CAN'T* see the outside world *except* through a local proxy, but there's no reason that it shouldn't be able to that we can see... It randomly decides to put all web sites in the stop state when ever it feels like it, *and* it won't install a critical update :/) Very very glad that my side of work is mostly on our nux boxen, much *much* easier to cope with :) Cheers, -- Brett Parker

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