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Have we got a loit boys? [Voice from the Fen]
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3353911.stm Radio boost for rural broadband Rural broadband has been given a boost by the UK Government's decision to free up a key radio frequency. Just before Christmas, the Department of Trade and Industry said it would let internet service providers and community groups use the 5.8Ghz Band C spectrum. [...] The three-month trials are taking place in Ballingry in Fife, Scotland, Pwllheli in Wales, Porthleven in Cornwall and Campsie in Northern Ireland. The technology being tested sends the internet signal using radio waves, without the need for wires, similar to wi-fi technology. The signal travels from a base station to a home computer through a low-power antenna. It is similar to a satellite dish, but is smaller and diamond-shaped and fits onto the side of a house. If successful, it could be used to take broadband to rural areas which cannot get it by cable or over the phone line. The trials are part of BT's pledge to offer broadband to all of UK by 2005. =================================================================== This could be a buutiful breakthrough. That's a long way from anywhere, where Oi live, and maybe lots of you too. Any chaance we could use our comboined muscle to set up a commuunity group that could offer to join in them troials in Anglia region? What dyou think then? Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 29-Dec-03 Time: 14:49:51 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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beginners scripting question
by Syd Hancock 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Hi all I want to do something that I am sure is very simple but I am frustrated because I am not sure where to start. Basically all I want to do is to feed all the files from a directory one by one into an application - i.e. using lame to encode wav files to mp3. Can this be done from a bash script or should I use perl or ??? Any advice or info much appreciated. Syd

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hypertec router
by Stan Fraser 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Has anyone got the Driver CD for a Hypertec HyperRoute ISDN/10T that they would be willing to burn a copy of, my is damaged so unreadable:( would reimburse cost. Thanks Stan

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Anyone in yarmouth...
by Ricky Bruce 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

got a copy of RH, Mandrake, Suse or maybe even slackware, mind lending it to me...the library here is sh*t and has only the one linux book that has no cd's, and no cd burners. Gotta wipe Windows, AOL et al off of my dads computer before i go crazy... not withstanding any problems with winmodems i might encounter, has anyone ever managed to run AOL using wine/x or crossover? not that i like it but my dad wont bandy up the cash for broadband no matter how persistant i am. _________________________________________________________________ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN Messenger http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

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Startup script - advice needed
by Nick Heppleston 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

I've written a small script that flashes my caps-lock LED when I get new mail as I run Evolution on a different desktop to my main working / browser desktop. I'm after having this script start when my system is booted and stops when the system shuts down. Apart from writing an init script, is there any other/better way to start the script? I did think of running it from the .bashrc file, but was unaware that this fires every time I open a new terminal window. Additionally, the script calls setleds, which needs to be run from the console (i.e. Ctrl+Alt+F1 etc...). Any help much appreciated. Nick -- Nick Heppleston 07989 581766 | nickheppleston(a)gmx.co.uk

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FW: High-Availability & Reliability Conference: Bournemouth, 25-26 Feb (UKUUG)
by Alasdair G Kergon 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

UK Unix User Group LISA/Winter Conference and Tutorial: High-Availability and Reliability Bournemouth, UK, Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th February 2004 http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/ The main theme of the conference is High-Availability and Reliability, with topics including large-scale email services, High-Availability Linux, storage replication, MySQL, and choosing reliable hardware. The conference starts in the afternoon of Wednesday, 25 February and will be preceded by a half-day tutorial on High-Availability Linux clusters, and the Heartbeat cluster monitoring software. This is being given by Alan Robertson and Lars Marowsky-Bree, who will both also deliver talks in the main conference. Lars currently works as technical lead and developer for the SUSE Labs. His main areas of expertise are high-availability and cluster related topics, ranging from storage (multi-pathing, RAID, and replication) over network load balancing to cluster infrastructure service, resource management and administration. Alan, who is now based at IBM's Linux Technology Center, has been an active developer and project leader for High-Availability Linux for several years. He maintains the Linux-HA project web (www.linux-ha.org) and has been a key developer for the open source Heartbeat program. The technical talks of the conference run from the Wednesday afternoon and will finish late afternoon on the Thursday. The provisional programme includes: Matt Asay Open Source Capitalism: Innovation Business Models (Novell) for an Innovative Development Methodology David Axmark MySQL High-Availability Features (MySQL) Mark Baker and javaGMA: A lightweight implementation of Matthew Grove the Grid Monitoring Architecture (University of Portsmouth) Matthew Bloch Getting the best from your server with (Bytemark Hosting) User-Mode Linux Peter T. Breuer NetRAID (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Tim Chown IPv6 Deployment Status (University of Southampton) Julian Field MailScanner (University of Southampton) Tony Finch Scaling up Cambridge University's email service (University of Cambridge) Niall Mansfield Experiences with the Sobig worms and (UIT Cambridge Ltd) how we combatted them (and other Spam) Lars Marowsky-Bree High-Availability Cluster Design and (SUSE LINUX AG) Set-up Stephen Mayo Hardware for high-availability (Hewlett-Packard) Richard J. Moore Preparing Linux for the Enterprise (IBM Linux technology Centre) Philipp Reisner Storage Replication with DRBD (LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH) Alan Robertson Heartbeat (IBM Linux Technology Centre) Steve Whitehouse Cluster filesystems (ChyGwyn Ltd) The event is open to both members and non-members of the UKUUG. Bookings must be received by 18 February 2004, and a discounted early booking rate is available until 23 January 2004. A limited number of free and subsidised places is available for those who would otherwise be unable to attend. See <http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/> for booking information and full details of the programme including abstracts and speaker biographies. For further information, contact: Jane Morrison UKUUG Secretariat PO Box 37 Buntingford Herts SG9 9UQ Tel: 01763 273 475 Fax: 01763 273 255 office(a)ukuug.org www.ukuug.org The UKUUG was formed to represent users of UNIX and Open systems in the UK. It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area and is completely independent of specific hardware and software vendors. Any profits are used to further the activities of the organisation. Provisional dates for Linux 2004 conference in Leeds: 29th July - 1st August 2004

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Re: [ALUG] Anyone in yarmouth...
by Ricky Bruce 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

lol, sorry, came across a little over enthusiastic there:) no fear, i'll dual boot, the only reason im stuck using my dads pc is because i just got back into the country and had to leave mine behind. My dads elvis mp3 collection is safe...for now! >From: Syd Hancock <syd(a)toufol.com> >To: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk >Subject: Re: [ALUG] Anyone in yarmouth... >Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 20:06:36 +0000 > >On Wednesday 31 Dec 2003 6:56 pm, Ricky Bruce wrote: > > got a copy of RH, Mandrake, Suse or maybe even slackware, mind > > lending it to me...the library here is sh*t and has only the one > > linux book that has no cd's, and no cd burners. Gotta wipe > > Windows, AOL et al off of my dads computer before i go crazy... > >Errm, Ricky, unless you really know what you're doing, this would be >a very foolish move IMO. Slow down, take your time, maybe introduce >yourself to the list... > > > not withstanding any problems with winmodems i might encounter, > > has anyone ever managed to run AOL using wine/x or crossover? not > > that i like it but my dad wont bandy up the cash for broadband no > > matter how persistant i am. > >Like I say, you really need to know what you're doing first. You >don't want to get even more grief from your dad when his computer >won't work and you don't know how to get it going :-) > >Good luck! >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! _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

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I see trouble ahead....
by Wayne Stallwood 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

http://news.com.com/2100-7337_3-5131787.html?tag=nefd_lede Bios maybe replaced by EFI and Microsoft are helping to develop it. Poorly written article but neverless, the thought that MS might have a hand in something like that is pretty scary. Also the bit about low level 3rd party drivers being loaded before the OS worries me. Naturally this will all be closed source and if two of the drivers don't play nicely how the hell will you be able to troubleshoot it. I'm all for ditching the BIOS as it stands maybe moving to something like http://www.openfirmware.org/, if it works for Apple and Sun then why not. But the thought of a platforms firmware being designed by that platforms most aggressive software developer is something that fills me with dread.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 29 Dec '03

29 Dec '03

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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Linux support for CF card readers?
by Dennis Dryden 27 Dec '03

27 Dec '03

Anyone know if this: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X… ...is supported under Linux? I recently got given a cheap digital camera but it has no connection cable's so i'm planing to use an external CompactFlash Card reader. If anyone knows of any others that work that'll be nice to know =). I'm guessing it uses the standard USB mass storage interface but you never know. - Dennis Dryden

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