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Which printers? I won't buy Canon.
by MJ Ray 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

I was browsing around for a new printer for someone and found the following gem on Canon UK's support site: "Where can I find Linux or other OS drivers for my printer? Canon only develops drivers for Windows and Macintosh, not for Linux or other OS" Further, if you look for scanners: "The information for scanners is "classified" and will not be distributed, so there is no program for these products." As some of you may know, I have been the happy owner of Canon printers in the past (both with third-party drivers) but not any more. Time for them to wake up and support us. It took people a lot of hard work to support the 4-digit BJ series and there's little interest in Canon's current crop. What's the current best for supported colour inkjets? hp? My current printer is a Samsung that came with a penguin on the box and driver sources, by the way. -- 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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Syleham lifts from Norwich
by Syd Hancock 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

If anyone wants a lift to and from Sylehm from Norwich or anywhere reasonably in between, contact me off-list. Syd

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Norwich 2003-11-13 report
by Syd Hancock 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

We had a great evening! Twelve people turned up - myself, Graham, Ian, Brett, James Taylor and Karen, Jonathan - sporting a T shirt of tasteful design bearing vulgar content <g> - Adam, Kirsten, MJR and Sarah, Tarquin. I took some photos but had drunk too much coffee and every one was very blurred (no flash - horrid intrusive devices). There were too many people to know what everyone was talking about but subjects certainly included the design of the Dragon 32, obscure command line incantations, fast cars and rubbish repairers, and activities included not only beer coffee and diet coke but also comparing PDAs, swapping stuff via IR links and reading mp3/ogg playlists stored on CF cards in mobile phones. So, lots of gadgetry and geekery and general loud chat. The forum was full (opening of the ice rink) which probably helped the general lively vibe. Meanwhile Karen worked relentlessly writing an essay - I didn't dare ask how long ago the deadline was :-) Till next time... (thursday Dec 11th) Syd Not forgetting Syleham a week sunday - 23rd Nov

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Re: Wednesday Ely Meet
by Tim Green 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:25:08AM +0000, main-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk wrote: > Hi, > As we seemed to enjoy it last time, we're proposing another Ely > Wednesday evening meeting in the Fountain pub. Sorry, I'm already booked for The Wrestlers. Maybe _next_ time! Tim.

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Reminder: Norwich evening meet this week
by Syd Hancock 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Norwich "second thursday" evening meet this week: Thursday 13th November, 8pm in the Forum coffee bar. General chat and banter, all welcome. More info on the ALUG website http://www.alug.org.uk in the Meetings section Syd

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Re: [ALUG] Ely meeting report
by Kirsten Naylor 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 22:40, Daniel Silverstone wrote: > Thanks to Kirsten and Adam for turning up, and hopefully we'll see a few > more of you at what is turning into a nice regular pub going evening for > a bunch of geeks. I had a really nice time, and hopefully there'll be a bigger crowd next time :) /Kirsten

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Prozilla, FLTK, & FLUID
by Keith Watson 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Prozilla is an ncurses based download manager (has a GUI frontend called Prozgui) Prozgui uses the Fast Light Toolkit library FLTK and there's a UI builder called FLUID for FLTK. Anyone ever used any of the above? if so, care to comment? Keith

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Norwich evening meeting 8pm tonight
by Syd Hancock 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

Norwich evening meeting 8pm tonight, Forum Coffee bar. Syd

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New member
by Richard Fletcher 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

Why am I interested in Linux? Because the penguin is cute, of course! No, the real reason is that I want to get more out of my computers than Windows can offer. As a complete newbie to all this I am still having to run Windows XP along side SUSE 8.1 but I'm rapidly loosing the need to boot into windows and I think that when I can work out WINE then I'll be kissing it goodbye for ever! Still a newbie striving for more knowledge but with that, I've just popped my cherry feeling, that I got from installing my first driver correctly! Loving the challenge of Linux along with the look, feel and smell of the penguin! Richard Fletcher.

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Re: [ALUG] Ely meeting report
by Andrew Savory 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Chris Walker wrote: > You might be interested to know that there is an Ely branch of CAMRA [...] > a link between ALUG and the local branch, thus benefitting both parties. Ooh, do you reckon there might be Free Beer involved? ;-) A.

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