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Accented characters
by Syd Hancock 03 May '04

03 May '04

What is the easiest way to get accented characters, specifically French, in apps running under KDE? In Open Office I can access them from Insert->Special Character but it is a bit long-winded. No idea how to get them in things like Kmail. Is there an equivalent of ALT+NumericKeypad codes, for example? Thanks Syd

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Hello! LUG in Chelmsford...
by Steve Purkiss 03 May '04

03 May '04

Hi, Firstly a big "Hello"! I joined up recently after conversations with MJR. I investigate the old Essex LUG but that seems to be dead and buried, so I was thinking of setting up a Chelmsford LUG (comedy name yet to be thought up) as I live near there (Gt. Waltham, grew up in Ford End, country boy really;) and am buying there soon. I'm having a meeting on Thursday at D-Place in Chelmsford from 6pm for the A12 business networking club which I run on Ecademy - feel free to join the online discussions/come along to the meeting at: http://www.open4.org/joinA12club (it's free) One of the other members has just started up a local mag "Parklife" being delivered to 10,000 residents of the new, mainly commuter estates of Chelmsford. We're having a feature on the club next month and organising a charity event for the summer, so I posted to the Linux Solution Providers list asking about installfests, and now I'm here. So, pointers please to setting a LUG up, offers of advice or help for the summer event - prob more of a demonstration of different systems (have MDK10 on my Tosh M30-604 laptop working /nearly/ fully now which looks good and impresses people), any other advice welcome. Thinking about handing out CDs of things like Knoppix, OpenCD, SUSE Live, etc. Hope you are all enjoying the long weekend hehe ;) Steve Purkiss Open for Organisations supporting open source software www.open4.org

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file size limits?
by Syd Hancock 03 May '04

03 May '04

What is the maximum size of an individual file on an ext3 formatted drive? Syd

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Thursday evening meeting in Norwich next week
by Syd Hancock 03 May '04

03 May '04

(I'm going to re-write and re-send from scratch and see what happens). The next 'second thursday' evening meeting in Norwich will be next week on Thursday the 13th of May at the City Gate, Derham Road, from about 8pm. Full details are on the ALUG website. The Norwich meetings and venues pages will be updated very soon. Syd

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test
by Syd Hancock 03 May '04

03 May '04

apologies. splodgeness abounds.

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Meeting in Norwich on 2nd May - brief report
by Syd Hancock 03 May '04

03 May '04

Excellent turn-out - AFAIR 14 people turned up, some for the first time, some from the first meeting five years ago. Lovely weather so we sat in the garden and made lots of noise. Many books were given away (thanks Steve aka 'brodders'), loads of old but useful kit was given away or sold very cheaply (thanks Laurie). Everyone seemed to have a great time and when I left at about half six it was still going. Adam, Bear, BJ, Brett, brodders, Doug (who needs some help with samba, slackware and XP), Eli (pronounced 'Ellie') James and Kaz (sp?) Jonathan 'noodles', Kirsten, Laurie, Mark, Syd. I think that's everyone accounted for. Syd

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 03 May '04

03 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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Who is coming on sunday?
by Syd Hancock 02 May '04

02 May '04

(I sent this on friday and only just noticed that it was not posted so I'm sending it again even though it is almost redundant now). So who is planning to come to the 5-year bash today? Also there was talk a few weeks ago of contacting original members to see if they could come, did anyone do that? Syd

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URI for today's meeting in Norwich
by Syd Hancock 02 May '04

02 May '04

http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings/2004/05-02Sun.html Syd

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irc.alug.org.uk DNS mapping
by Brett Parker 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

It appears that someone has changed the DNS mapping for irc.alug.org.uk to point at alug.org.uk rather than an OFTC server... Anyone know who, or why? I wouldn't have noticed but I use that to connect to oftc usually ;) Cheers, -- Brett Parker

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