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Hi
by Richard Bensley 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

Hey all, My name is Richard. I'm new (duh!). I am slowly moving my workflow over to linux. Currently I am using SUSE 8.2. I am trying to work my way towards Gentoo (If anyone has the CD's for gentoo, I'd really appreciate a copy, just a name a price for cd's etc). My main use for computers is 3D modelling and 2D image editing, in september I am starting a Games Design degree at the Norwich School of Art. Does anyone else at ALUG use any form of linux as part of their 2D/3D workflow?

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RE: [ALUG] Hi
by Richard Lewis 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

>Hey all, My name is Richard. I'm new (duh!). I am slowly moving my >workflow over to linux. Currently I am using SUSE 8.2. I am trying to work >my way towards Gentoo (If anyone has the CD's for gentoo, I'd really >appreciate a copy, just a name a price for cd's etc). I could d'load some ISOs for you (I'm on the UEA network!) >My main use for computers is 3D modelling and 2D image editing, in >september I am starting a Games Design degree at the Norwich School of >Art. Does anyone else at ALUG use any form of linux as part of their 2D/3D >workflow? You should have a look at http://www.blender3d.org. Unfortunately you've just missed an eleven month tutorial on Blender in LXF though the Blender foundation do publish a book. The download is only a few Mbs and its easy to install. Cheers, Richard

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Microsoft Addresses Security Concerns....
by Robert Tillyard 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

...with these posters. http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=SecurityPosters It's cheaper than fixing the problem. Regards, Rob.

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Suse 9.0 Disc 2
by Nick Daniels 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Hi Could anybody could make me a copy of Suse 9.0 disc 2 , mine seems to be giving package errors. I will reimburse media and postage, please contact me off list. at the moment there seems to be up to a two day delay with Freeserve's email Regards Nick Daniels

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 02 Feb '04

02 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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Re: [ALUG] Lucent hardware modem
by Richard Lewis 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Ah ha! I've got it! KPPP lists the devices /dev/modem, /dev/ttyS0-3 but these don't all exist on my machine. What I do have, however, is /dev/ttyS[0,1,4]. So I tried # ln -s /dev/ttys[0,1,4] /dev/modem and, finally, ttyS4 worked! (Without any drivers or anything; it definitely is a hardware modem!) Cheers for suggestions, Richard

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Does anyone recognise themselves here?
by Kirsten Naylor 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

I just received what is probably a copy of MyDoom. It looks like it might be somebody on Alug: Received: from cpc1-norw2-3-0-cust125.pete.cable.ntl.com (HELO mdmbill.com) (81.100.212.125) by tuschin.blackcatnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 31 Jan 2004 10:43:42 -0000 Note that mdmbill.com is not work-safe. If you recognise yourself as the sender, you probably want to clean up your computer and install some anti-virus software :) /Kirsten

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MySQL Hot Failover
by James Green 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Evening all, We have a requirement to turn some MySQL databases into something more rugged - specifically fully redundant. The best option I think would be a small cluster - with one single IP address to connect to (VRRP?), multiple hardware behind it, each node fully synchronised with its peers. Problem: how? MySQL Master/slave replication isn't what I'm looking for. Googling turns up a couple of commercial solutions: emicnetworks.com openminds.co.uk But they are proprietary and could cause problems by themselves. Has anyone here looked into this, or better solved the problem and if so how? Thanks, James P.S. Got my USB camera working - needed scsi disk support in the kernel - doh!

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wi-fi smugness :-)
by Syd Hancock 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Finally, after a lot of faffing about [1] - sending from Norwich station using the BTOpenzone free trial. It's great when things finally work, isn't it! [1] mainly because the username and password that was sent to me a few days ago proved not to work... ho hum. Good ol' BT... Fortunately I was able to connect to the BTOpenzone site and re-register to get a new trial ID online. Bit faster than Home Highway, too - pity the battery is running out - oh the joys of mobile computing:-) Syd

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a wi-fi question
by Syd Hancock 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Is 'Managed' mode the same as 'infrastructure' ? Syd

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