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Job open - PHP developer - East Cost
by James Green 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Hi all, Not exactly on-topic, but perhaps reaching an appropriate audience all the same -- my employers have a position open that might interest ALUGers. The position is as a PHP developer. If you're interested in the following areas we invite your CV in to us (details below): - templating technologies, perhaps smarty in particular - multi-lingual support - multi-country support - running several hundred websites from one backend pool of code - creating backend technologies that are highly flexible Examples of existing technology live and in action: http://polyphonic.ringtonezone.co.uk/en/uk/ringtones/ http://icecooltones.com/en/uk/polyringtones/ Successful candidate will work in a small tightly knit team to produce a re-write of this core company product through which we make considerable sales. MySQL traditionally used, however current research is turning towards Postgresql. Virtually all our production servers and developer workstations run Debian Linux. Ideally looking for two years commercial PHP experience. Company is StealthNET Ltd, one of the UK's fastest growing and most successful premium rate billing companies. We provide the technical platforms for thousands of resellers around the world, and are completely debt-free. From five people two years ago to 20+ today, and plenty of positions open. Complete chaos most of the time but extremely busy all of the time, plenty of room for gaining experience. I would also have had a Perl position open for our SMS platform, however that just got filled! Staff receive corporate gym membership for a small (rediculously small, believe me) heavily subsidised fee, pension contributions and a healthcare package on top. Any questions, or to throw your CV into the hat, please contact: Sheena Rimmer employment(a)stealthnet.net 0870 800 1777 Please mark it for the PHP role. Thanks, James

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A couple of interesting articles about working for yourself
by kpwatson＠pop3.ukfsn.org 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

This is a bit off-topic but from other conversations I've had with people on this list I think the links might be of interest. I found them fascinating; part 1 = http://homepage.mac.com/monickels/techjob.html part 2 = http://homepage.mac.com/monickels/techjob2.html Keith

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SpamAssassin False Positives
by Nick Heppleston 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Morning ALUGers! I've got an interesting one with false positives in SpamAssassin and I'm hoping someone here might have used or even had the same problem. I have a client who runs a precision instrument business for the scientific industry. They have a number of clients out in Japan and legitimate e-mails from them are being flagged as spam. Our default score for spam is 4 and these messages are coming in ranked at 4.495, hence they are being flagged as spam. I'd be happy to change the setting to mark all messages with a score higher than 5 as spam for this client, but that wouldn't stop a small number of spam messages (10) I've received today alone in my own Inbox. We have identified some phrases we believe might be causing the high ranking but I don't actually know how to train SA that these phrases are ok and shouldn't be marked as spam. Apart from increasing (or is it decreasing) the spam ranking for the clients domain to 5, I can't see a way around this. Any suggestions? Nick -- Nick Heppleston 07989 581766 | nickheppleston(a)gmx.co.uk

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Syleham Meeting Sunday 29th
by John Woodard 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hi all, Syleham and Wingfield Village Hall is booked for Sunday 29th from 2:00pm onwards although I'll be there from around 1:00pm. The planned screening of Revolution OS will go ahead. Other activities planned none but bring along your kit if you require assistance and someone may be able to help. Post to the list if you have any specific requests. Usual disclaimers apply, if you bring kit, it is your responsibility, label it etc. Venue Details at http://www.alug.org.uk/venues/syleham.html mail to the list if you need a lift or picking up from the nearest station `Diss'. Oh yes this time THE BAR WILL BE OPEN! I will make sure I have the keys. Cheers, BJ

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Freeserve problems
by Nick Daniels 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hi A bit of topic, but I think Freeserve have achieved the ultimate, any mail sent to me since Friday is apparently bounced with this message > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > nick(a)danielsn.freeserve.co.uk > SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: > host mail-in.freeserve.com [193.252.22.143]: 550 Error: > Message content rejected I can send mail, But the only thing I receive is Spam Regards Nick Daniels

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KL Meeting Postponed
by MJ Ray 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

There will be no King's Lynn meeting this week, unless someone steps forward pronto to take it over. The planned speakers haven't time. Next month's King's Lynn meeting will be cancelled, unless someone tells me they can take it over. We hope to run the web talks meeting on a weekend afternoon in late March, so that it's easier for people to travel to. Please email me off-list if you want to come and there are days that you can or can't do. As far as I know, the next ALUG meeting is at Syleham on Sunday 29th February, including a screening of Revolution OS and a bar. I am happy to give lifts from Lynn/A134/Thetford/A1066 area if wanted: please email me off-list. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '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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Backing Up and Restoring a Debian System
by kpwatson＠pop3.ukfsn.org 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

At the end of this next bit of inane rambling is a question. The inane rambling is there to try and put the question into some sort of context. <inane> By a somewhat circuitous route I've lately been thinking about the best ways to back up and restore my Debian based GNU/Linux system. It was prompted by a number of things one of which was showing someone at work how easy it was to set up a Debian system using Knoppix. I must admit even I was a bit impressed by how easy it was to boot from the CD, run the install to HD script, tweak the sources file, and then apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. Took about an hour to do the lot (including re-arranging the partitions of the existing disk so we could dual boot with Windows*). That included installing GRUB as a boot manager. But it got me thinking about how easy it would be to use Knoppix as a recovery tool if I should need to do a re-install from scratch. And that got me wondering about how I could get from the Knoppix configuration back to my preferred configuration. At the moment I just dump of whole chunks of various partitions using some pre-written backup scripts I got from somewhere (probably just Googled around the web and picked them up from there). But I've always thought that it was a bit of a sledgehammer approach and the there must be a more elegant way of doing this. There is some useful info about back-ups on the Linux documentation Project site (www.tldp.org); Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO, Ch.8 of Linux Administration Made Easy - Backup and Restore Procedures and Ch.12 of The Linux System Administrator's Guide - Backups. All together these give some pointers to which bits of the system you need to back up. </inane> <question> So say I have just done a complete re-install from Knoppix, and also recovered all the important config files into /etc (e.g. fstab, passwrd, XF86Config, etc). Could I then get enough info from the backed up apt config files to feed into apt and have it install any missing packages, remove any unwanted packages and update any out of date packages (and possibly downdate (is there such a word?) anything too recent)? Is this information something I'd need to generate via apt when I do my back-ups? </question> I you can do this there are some interesting possibilities, like taking regular snapshots of your setup and being able to roll-back to the earlier configurations. Has any one tried this? I've had a look with Google and can't find anything similar but it's entirely possible that I was using inappropriate search words. Regards, Keith * OK so I used PartitionMagic and not Parted but I couldn't find Parted on the Knoppix disk and we had a PM bootable CD to hand. But I've used Parted before and it worked just as well.

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Announce digest, Vol 3 #3 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." --------------.--------------------------------------------.------------ alug-announce | Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group | Weekly(ish) --------------'--------------------------------------------'------------ ** Please send articles for this letter to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk ** *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Topics: 1. [ALUG] Reminder: Norwich evening meeting tomorrow 12th Feb AND venue change (Syd Hancock) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: Syd Hancock <syd(a)toufol.com> To: alug <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:37:51 +0000 Subject: [Alug Announce][ALUG] Reminder: Norwich evening meeting tomorrow 12th Feb AND venue change The monthly Norwich 'second thursday' evening social meet will take=20 place tomorrow, 12th February from 8 pm. As previously discussed, we are going to try a different venue. The meeting will be in the 'City Gate' pub which is on Dereham road,=20 just off the inner ring road at the junction of Grapes Hill and=20 Barn Road. Dereham Road is the A1074 - take the Costessey junction on the A47=20 if coming from west of Norwich. Otherwise, when going clockwise around the inner ring road, Dereham=20 road is the left turn at the traffic lights at the bottom of Grapes=20 Hill (but see parking info below). There is a very large Cane Furniture shop on the corner and this is=20 probably the best landmark from either direction. The pub, which=20 has a large glass frontage (link to picture below), is next to the=20 cane furniture shop. There is ample parking on the other side of the ring road off St=20 Swithin's road. Coming down Grapes Hill turn right at the lights=20 (St Benedict's Street), bear right into the entrance to the ca=20 rpark. Pay-and-display, =A31.40. =46ull address, photo, link to map etc here: http://www.norwichpubs.info/norwichpubs/pubpages/citygate.htm Anything I've left out? Are the directions clear? Constructive=20 feedback always welcomed. As usual, I will probably not be there by 8pm, sorry, so whoever=20 turns up first, don't get lost and wait for reinforcements to=20 arrive :-) Regards Syd _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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Meeting on the 12th Feb, Norwich
by Syd Hancock 13 Feb '04

13 Feb '04

The new choice of venue - The City Gate, Dereham Road - was a great success and many thanks to Brett and Bryce for suggesting it. It has all the benefits of the Forum as well as a few more, which is pretty good going really. More comfortable, better beers and a good selection of food too. Although it is a large pub - a positive - it does not have the emptiness of the Forum which with its cavernous space feels almost like an airport or train station. There's even (unofficial) free parking next door. Kirsten, Adam, Jonathan, Bryce, Brett, Paul C., Ian, Graham and myself - not a bad turn out and chatter included the usual wide range of topics from programming environments to problems with playing DVDs to fine wine tasting. Till the next one... Syd

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