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TechBookReport: Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!
by Keith Watson 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

http://www.techbookreport.com/tbr0050.html At last!!!! Keith

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MP3/Ogg
by Syd Hancock 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

What do people use for ripping/encoding and what bit rates? Do you use different bit rates for playing through the household stereo rather than a small portable player? Cheers and TIAs Syd

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Trigger Levels all round
by Edenyard 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

Michael Sage wrote: > > Try doing an ADSL check on your line, lets see if we can get a couple > more exchanges in "rural" England enabled! > Could you expand on that a little, Michael? I infer from it that somehow it's possible for the ordinary man in the street to influence the provision of ADSL in a particular area; if that's true, I'd like to know how. I've more or less given up on the idea of ever seeing ADSL available in a one-eyed comatose place like this (Martlesham Heath)... Cheers, Gerald.

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Subject: [ALUG] Re: Welcome to the "main" mailing list
by Stuart Hammond 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

I was told when joining this list I was supposed to write a short bit on why i'm interested in Linux, well I'm using it as a friend of mine said do you want to try this out whilst shoving a copy of RH9 under my nose and that was about 2 months ago. I use it for school work on a laptop at both school and work.Any way so far i've found it very stable and openoffice seems to be capable competition to MS office so that's all good so far, its lack of laptop and modem support seem to be the only real problems I've had with it (I will say that it seems a bit more complex to do simple things some times but when doing them you can do more). The ALUG group seems pretty enthusiastic about the subject, its just a shame you don't have meetings where I can get to them (around Ipswich would be good). Yours S Hammond

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Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server
by Nick Heppleston 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

Evening all, A copy of the PC World Business directory landed on the desk today and while having a look though, I came across MS ISA, their 'Internet and Security Acceleration' server. It retails at just over £1000 (you need a copy of Win2k Server too). Just a small bit of the marketing blurb states that: 'ISA Server includes an extensible, multi-layer enterprise firewall featuring dynamic packet filtering, SecureNAT for transparency, "smart" data-aware application filters, system hardening, and built-in intrusion detection.' it also goes on about: '...high-performance cache accelerates Web access while saving network bandwidth, and with Windows 2000 Advanced Server, scales for efficient, dynamic load balancing. ISA Server studies data usage patterns and actively caches popular content. Isn't MS ISA a cobbled together product that features apps that come with a standard Linux distribution? Or is that price tag the result of putting a few point-and-click dialog boxes together? Nick -- Nick Heppleston 07989 581766 | nickheppleston(a)gmx.co.uk The Funky PC - http://www.thefunkypc.biz

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ASDL
by Stan Fraser 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

We've had broadband for ages in Lowestoft. Unfortunately the copper is as old as the sewerage system so unless you live in town its a no go Regards Stan

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Trigger Levels all round
by Michael Sage 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

A bit off topic but, BT have just set the trigger level for 2300 exchanges including a number in East Anglia, where I live Freethorpe we have a trigger of 350, which isn't bad going. Try doing an ADSL check on your line, lets see if we can get a couple more exchanges in "rural" England enabled! Regards, Michael Sage

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new to linux
by Stan Fraser 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

Look at Linux as a challenge as it seems a lot more difficult to use than MS Win, so far have totally failed to install suse 9 on a computer. Mandrake installed no problem. Looking for help regarding installing suse ie how to i make a boot disk. Regards Stan

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Re: Welcome to the "main" mailing list
by Anthony Anson 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

The message <20031117101601.20618.79205.Mailman(a)terry.blackcatnetworks.co.uk> from main-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk contains these words: > Welcome to the main(a)lists.alug.org.uk mailing list! Welcome to ALUG! Too, too kind. > We welcome new members and we'd especially like you to send a short > description of why you're interested in Linux to the mailing list. Disclaimer: what you may consider typos may not be all they seem. qv uk.rec.sheds. Now read on. I used to use FT at my place of work, and liked it. However, I was only given simple tasks and I've pretty-well forgotten how to do those in the intervening years. I don't work there any longer so support from that quarter isn't available in quantity, though I sometimes pop in for a chinwag. After much wrangling in various newsgroups I've settled on Debian as my particular - er - sparring-partner. I tend to use keystrokes in Windows rather than the rodent for a variety of reasons: not the least of these is to show that nice Mr. Gates what fingers are for, so that OS seemed the logical choice. Not, of course, that I would dream of applying the same reason to Mr Linus T. (Whom God preserve.) > This is so that we can get some idea of how to cater for new members, > as they're the most important ones! <Preen> > Some general info should follow... Oh. I seem to have jumped the gun. General Info rose from the ranks by means of his intuitive grasp of the function of escalators, while bearing in mind the traditional insurance industry caveat that they can go down as well as up, he progressed through CP/M, Drapery, Haberdashery and Men's Wear, to DOS, Toys, Models and Restaurant and was dragged from thence, kicking and screaming into the clutches of Windows 3.0, because Someone Who Knew insisted that 'Everything was written for Windows these days'. As it happened, I used my first PC (DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0 for several years without ever needing to run the fenestral part.) Indeed, with half a metaphorical eye on the insurance industry, he noted that escalators promised to go down a good deal faster than the other way about, so he took great care to step onto escalators which were going in a generally upwards direction, thobut with a certain lateral shift. Are you still with me? You've not got on that escalator going down...... Hooter! He must have been listening too intently and not noticed where he was going. Ah well, I'll mumble to myself then. Never have to correct myself, what? As a result of all this upward mobility he is not as young as he used to be (FDVO young) and the escalators are becoming very thin on the ground. There's this one though, which promises to fend off the worst depradations of age, in that it exercises the brian, and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to get on. And it's fun: the top of it is receding rather fast, so I might have to climb rather than just stand there. That thing at the top, it's growing, and if I CBA to learn a little programming even I might be able to contribute something. The last loading of Win98 got up my nose from time to time. Well, that's hyperbole *AND* oxymoron, I guvax. It was one of those escalators I stepped on without noticing which way it was going. However, making the best of a bad job I lined up in my sights that bloody Orofice Assistant. *BLAM!* - followed in short order by condescending messages and Junior Mickey$oftie six-year-old approach to naming things *MY* computer, *MY* documents, *MY* briefcase, *MY* &@$*! In the end I discarded so much junk that Windows gave up and sulked, so I reloaded it and despite its plaintive cries and entreaties, Outlurk, Outpuke Depress and a lot of other Mucodross never even made it into the filesystem. But it's hard work, and without taking a hammer and a spanner into the codes there's not much that can be done to wipe off some of its evil habits. Besides, if I got in amongst the codes there wouldn't be much spanner about it. "Oops! It's borked! Where's the soopergloo?" would be the cry. So, I'm defecting. A foot in both camps to start with, as my internet software runs in Windows, and as a beta tester, a clean break would be painful even though I'm not an addict. (Don't they all say that?) That's not all bad, as I shall make it my aim to fire up ZIMACS in one of the emulators. Zetnet is not just Debian-tolerant, much of its software works under it, and one of the directors is a guru thereof. Enough? Had enough? Want some more? -- Tony http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

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Welcome to Rekall Revealed
by Keith Watson 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

<quote> Rekall is a database front-end, it is not itself a database. By this we mean that data is stored somewhere else in an SQL server, and Rekall is fundementaly just a too to extract, display and update that data (of course, it does lots more than that, it does forms and reports and scripting and .... you get the idea). It is database agnostic, and does not have any preferred database in the sense that Access® uses the Jet® database engine (although the Windows version can use the Jet&seg; database engine via an ODBC driver). Rekall can do lots of the things that you would expect of a database front-end (or if it can't, let us know!). You can design and use forms and reports, you can construct database queries, and you can import and export data (actually, you can copy data, import is just copy file to table, and export is just copy table to file). Rekall can be scripted using the the Python language. You can arrange that a script is executed when various events occur (for instance, when the user changes the value of a control). Scripts can be associated directly with the event, but you can also store scripts in script modules for more general use. And, of course, you have full access to all the modules that are available for Python. Plus, Rekall has an integrated Python debugger with syntax highlighting </quote> This is a KDE biased product (based on QT libs) but looks quite nice. <http://www.rekallrevealed.org> Keith _________________ "For a nation to love liberty it is only neccessary that they know it, for them to be free it is only necesary that they will it." Lafayette (qv The Rights of Man - Paine)

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