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RE: [ALUG] Linux Newbie Book
by Jenny Hopkins 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Nick Daniels wrote: > They all ask me the same question . Where can I find a > basic book on using Linux? > Can anyone reccomend one please? > P.S. I promise never to ask about parallel port modems again. > Regards Hi Nick, "Running Linux" by O'Reilly is an excellent first book. Jen (parallel port modem expert extraordinaire :-)) ______________________________________________________________________ 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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Elliott 803B (pre-Linux)
by Christopher Dawkins 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

> Myself (BJ), John (with homemade biscuits, thanks) MJR, Adam, Kirty, Brett, > Peter Onion (with very interesting emulator of a very old mainframe... > something begining with E 800 which had very cool graphics and noises). > Elliott 803. Here is a picture of the machine I used to use when I was > at school. http://www.g6lvb.com/803.htm > More pictures at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jacksmth/ell803.htm > including a shot of the Calcomp 565 plotter Ah, these are names I recognise. An emulation of the 803, or just of the Calcomp plotter? Sounds exciting anyway: I'm most interested. If it might compile on FreeBSD and run in KDE? I have here various 803B parts, in particular a flexowriter and a Creed teleprinter that might soon have to go for scrap unless someone can find a good home. Not working, but not rusty - could work given a lot of TLC. All the bins around our Computer Centre are Elliot paper tape bins. I have core planes on my desk. There's not many other places you can point and say "There's a bit ... ". -- Christopher Dawkins, Felsted School, Dunmow, Essex CM6 3JG 01371-822698, mobile 07816 821659 cchd(a)felsted.essex.sch.uk

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Flexbackup
by bjsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

I discovered, a few weeks ago, a backup script called Flexbackup which I rather like. I can use it to backup a remote machine via ssh. Once ssh is setup to do a password-less login Flexbackup can do the rest. What it doesn't provide is an option to restore to a remote machine. Is there a way of retrieving a file or files from a tape on the local machine, using Afio, and passing it across directly to the remote machine via ssh rather than restoring locally and copying across? Any technical gems gratefully received. Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain

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Linux Newbie Book
by Nick Daniels 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

Hi I have been installing Linux f.o.c. for a number of people at their request, most of these people are just home computer users who are fed up with M$ , viruses, etc They only wish to use their computer for office, internet, Mp3s etc. and have little or no knowledge of computing They all ask me the same question . Where can I find a basic book on using Linux? Can anyone reccomend one please? P.S. I promise never to ask about parallel port modems again. Regards Nick Daniels

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Re: [ALUG] OT: e-mail accounts
by Tristan Scott 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

IanBell wrote: > On Thursday 26 Feb 2004 9:55 pm, Tristan Scott wrote: > >>MJ Ray wrote: >> >>>On 2004-02-15 10:27:57 +0000 Richard Lewis <richard.lewis(a)uea.ac.uk> > > wrote: > >>>>wandering if anyone knew of anyone who provides free e-mail accounts >>>>that would work well with a normal mail client (like KMail, Evolution >>>>etc.) >> >>Ive had no problems with geek.com, plus you get an email @geek.com, whoohoo >>anyway, their web mail client allows you to check up to 5 pop accounts >>too, which is cool (and handy when in weird places and unable to simply >>telnet). There was rumblings about having to pay to keep your account >>months ago, but my rarely-accessed 3 year old account's still there, and >>working. >> > > > Just been there and tried to sign in. I got the following message: > > Due to a business decision, Geek.com is no longer offering Geek.com e-mail > addresses. We apologise if this causes any distress. > > Ian > > oh. well, that explains why mine's still working i guess.

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What is Opne Source
by Vasko Tomanov 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

What is Open Source: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040226003735733 video vresion: http://jolt.law.harvard.edu./p.cgi/speakers.html

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Alternatives to hash and binary chop search - are there any others?
by Chris Green 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

This isn't really a Linux question but members of this list might have some ideas/answers. I have a little 68000 assembler project I'm doing for someone (paid!) and basically it consists of replacing a 'built on the fly' look-up table with a ready made one which is uploaded with the code. The existing code uses a rather messy hash look-up and one of the reasons for the re-write is to make it simpler and more reliable. A linear search of the table probably isn't a good idea as it would mean that there would be significant differences in look-up time for entries at the beginning and end of the table. I'm leaning towards a binary-chop search but wondered if anyone had any other ideas. Binary-chop is easy in principle but it's often quite difficult to implement in practice because one has to deal with messy boundary conditions. It's also a bit more difficult to create the sorted table necessary automatically and relying on the creator of the table to sort it might be a bit dodgy. The table looks up ATM addresses (16 bit values) given an IP address (32 bit values), maximum size is of the order of 400 entries. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk)

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RE: [ALUG] Linux Newbie Book
by Jenny Hopkins 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

Stan Fraser wrote: > only if you have a brain as big as a planet Jenny > > Hey, that's me! ;-) 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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Syleham Meeting Sunday 29th
by Peter Onion 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

I'm a bit of a "sleeping member" but I'm intending to come up to Syleham on Sunday. I'll bring my Mini-ITX SuSE 9.0 machine along. It's got images of the the SuSE 9.0 CDs on it for network (nfs) installs if anyone wants to do that. It'll run as a wireless access point as well if needs be. Peter Onion

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TV cards and DVD writers in Linux
by Chris Green 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Does anyone here have any experience of running TV cards and/or DVD writers under Linux? I have a Kworld V-Stream Xpert 883 card (Conexant CX2388x based) and wonder if there might be any Linux software to drive it, the windows software for it is generally pretty awful. Lots of "lets try and make it look like a TV/Video" and very little actual usability. In addition I'd quite like to record the captured video (presumably MPG2) to a DVD (in 'playable on a DVD player; format). I currently have a Liteon LDW811-S DVD writer in my Win2k system, I sort of can write captured MPG2 files to the DVD writer as DVDs but the whole process is distinctly flakey. Will I have all the same problems in Linux because the software is still in its infancy or are things more 'together' unde Linux? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk)

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