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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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Re: hello
by Sue Green 17 May '04

17 May '04

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. We run a Pervasive database tool on that machine as well as standard FTP server .. Sue Green -----Original Message----- From: main-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of main-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk Sent: 15 May 2004 06:26 To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk Subject: main digest, Vol 3 #151 - 3 msgs

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 17 May '04

17 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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by douglas.roberts＠lineone.net 16 May '04

16 May '04

Hi Everyone, I've just had NTL broadband installed and I'm racking my brains trying figure out how to get dhcpcd working (and there's been much rolling of eyes and nashing of teeth). I think the command is something like #dhclient or #dhcpcd -D -H eth0 Any advice greatly appreciated I'm running Slack 9.1 dmesg dhcpcd[1318]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response # ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 10Mb/s Duplex: Half Port: MII PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Current message level: 0x00000001 (1) Link detected: yes #lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8375 [KM266/KL266] Host Bridge Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0000 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 8 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff Memory behind bridge: dfe00000-dfefffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d7b00000-dfcfffff Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:08.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at dfffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 00:08.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 Memory at dfffd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 00:08.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 Memory at dfffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 00:08.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12 Memory at dfffff00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] #0a [2090] 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III] (rev 86) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0105 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at ec00 [size=256] Memory at dffffe00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0000 Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 255 I/O ports at fc00 [size=16] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at d800 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at dc00 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1b) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at e000 [size=32] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 30) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4161 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5 I/O ports at e400 [size=256] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Intel 537 [AC97 Modem] (rev 70) Subsystem: SILICON Laboratories: Unknown device 4c21 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5 I/O ports at e800 [size=256] Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 70) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine II] Embeded Ethernet Controller on VT8235 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12 I/O ports at d400 [size=256] Memory at dffffd00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: STMicroelectronics STG4000 [3D Prophet Kyro Series] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Hercules: Unknown device c028 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12 Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Memory at dfc80000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K] I/O ports at c800 [size=256] Expansion ROM at dfee0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [40] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Cheers Doug www.humorix.org -- Linux was made by foreign terrorists to steal money from true AMERICAN companies like Microsoft who invented computing as we know it, and are being punished for their success.

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meeting report - 13th May 2004
by Syd Hancock 16 May '04

16 May '04

Seven of us gathered at the City Gate this month. Brett, Bryce, Eli, Graham, MJR, noodles, Syd. Chat covered the usual diverse range of topics includingthe Debian development and distribution model, qualifying as a school teacher, video editing, the price of beer... etc. Next ALUG meeting: Syleham 30th May. Next Norwich meetings: thursday 10th June (evening) and sunday 27th June (afternoon). Sunday afternoon meeting in the Reindeer: whenever anyone wants to call one! Syd

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Norwich tomorrow night
by Syd Hancock 14 May '04

14 May '04

Don't forget, tomorrow evening in the City Gate, hopefully with penguins this time :-) From 8pm - full details on the ALUG website http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/all-NorThu.html Syd

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